Social Cause 01 (Jul 08 - Jul 15)

[winston]

Hmmm.... why are they occupying the HSBC building and not Cheung Kong centre ? Maybe it's because the HSBC building provides very good shelter from the elements and is closer to Central ...

Classwarfare is heating up ?

Occupy Hong Kong Caps 100 Days as Protesters Leave for New Year By Lynn Thomasson

Jan. 22 (Bloomberg) -- The Occupy Central movement in Hong Kong capped 100 days as protesters outside the Asian headquarters of HSBC Holdings Plc headed home for Lunar New Year celebrations.

Many of the demonstrators will return later in the week, said Sum Ho, who works in the construction industry. About 10 people with the Occupy movement mingled around pitched tents, tables with food, and protest banners under the HSBC building.

“The gap between the rich and the poor is widening and the government is doing nothing,” Ho said. “I see the situation around the financial system getting worse.”

The Occupy Central movement began in October as part of demonstrations that started in New York and spread to Europe, Asia and Australia.

In New York, Occupy Wall Street protesters held marches and a candlelight vigil earlier this month to honor Martin Luther King Jr. In Melbourne, officials ordered members of the movement to remove their tents from a park in the city center in November.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-0 ... -year.html

[winston]

Batang Kali relatives edge closer to the truth about 'Britain's My Lai massacre'

Key Malayan Emergency notes have been handed to families of the 24 unarmed victims of the December 1948 shootings

Lawyers representing relatives of 24 unarmed victims who died at Batang Kali, Malaysia, in December 1948 have finally been provided with key Foreign Office correspondence about past investigations and Cabinet Office guidance on when inquiries should be held.

The Foreign Office and the Ministry of Defence have always insisted the villagers were shot while trying to escape detention. The incident has been described by some as the "British My Lai massacre", after the US troop killings in Vietnam.

The Malaysian relatives' hopes have been boosted by a group of Kenyan survivors, mostly now in their 80s, who won the right last summer to sue the British government for damages over claims of torture during the 1950s Mau Mau uprising.

Much of what occurred in Batang Kali is agreed. On 11 December 1948, a patrol of Scots Guards surrounded and entered the village, which lies north of the capital. The male villagers were separated. That evening, one of the men was shot by soldiers; the next day a further 23 died. None of the victims were armed and no weapons were found before the killings.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/ja ... sfeed=true

[iam802]

Something to think about.

[winston]

Even in your rightness about a subject, when you try to push your rightness toward another who disagrees, no matter how right you are, it causes more pushing against.

In other words, it isn't until you stop pushing that any real allowing of what you want can take place.

--- Abraham

Excerpted from the workshop in Boston, MA on Saturday, May 17th, 2003 # 388

www.abraham-hicks.com

[winston]

Anything you do to overcome or prevent, causes a spotlight on the very thing you are wanting to overcome and prevent.

You cannot take enough action to compensate for the Energy that you're flowing.

--- Abraham

Excerpted from the workshop in Philadelphia, PA on Tuesday, April 14th, 1998 # 395


www.abraham-hicks.com

[winston]

And will this affect the market ?


Dear Anonymous,

The purpose of this message is to inform you about the Revolution:

OCCUPY HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT IN LONDON ON NOVEMBER 5, 2012.
OCCUPY CONGRESS IN WASHINGTON D.C. ON NOVEMBER 11, 2012.

STOP WAR.
CANCEL ALL DEBT.
REDISTRIBUTE WEALTH.

Please, watch the "Nazi Banksters Crimes Ripple Effect" movie to find out why, how, and to have sound arguments to persuade others. The movie can be easily found with a search engine.

Please, print the flyers at 2012jubilee.info and distribute them.

Please, spread this message and the movie to everyone you know.

-Anonymous

[winston]

Next would be "No Smoking", "No Meat", "No Alcohol", "No Sex", "No Plastics", "No Gambling", "No Speculation", "No Gays", "No Leather" etc....


"No Shark Fins Singapore" campaign launched

SINGAPORE: A nationwide "No Sharks Fins Singapore" campaign has been launched, in a bid to make Singapore shark fin-free by 2013.

An initiative by the Asia Dive Expo (ADEX) 2012, the organisers have the tall order of convincing all Chinese restaurants here to remove the dish from their menus and corporate events.

Through the campaign, ADEX also hopes to actively conduct outreach programmes to primary and secondary schools to educate students about shark conservation.

So far, non-profit organisations like WWF Singapore, Project FIN, Fauna and Flora International, IUCN, Shark Research Institute, and Humane Society International have shown support for this campaign, said a local news source.

http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BN ... 39692.html

[winston]

Revealed: how Britain tried to legitimise Batang Kali massacre

Diplomats introduced 'licence to kill' law over killing of 24 unarmed villagers in Malaysia, according to secret documents

The Observer, Sunday 6 May 2012

Senior British diplomats introduced an extraordinary "licence to kill" law in an attempt to legalise retrospectively the colonial-era killing of 24 villagers by UK troops in Malaysia, the Observer can reveal.

The Batang Kali massacre took place on 12 December 1948, as British troops carried out a counter-insurgency operation against Chinese Malayan communists. The shootings took place after a 16-man patrol group of Scots Guards surrounded a rubber estate at Sunga Rimoh by the Batang Kali river.

The bodies of several unarmed villagers were reportedly mutilated and the village was burned to the ground.

An informal investigation of the incident, carried out in 1949, exonerated all the soldiers involved. But claims of a cover-up by families of the victims have ensured that the killings in the village of Batang Kali remain one of the most contentious in British colonial history.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/ma ... sfeed=true

[winston]

Malaysia puts Bush, Cheney on ‘trial’ for war crimes… again by dandelionsalad

PressTVGlobalNews

For the second time, the Kuala Lumpur Foundation to Criminalize War is putting a former head of state and their administration before a peoples court to face charges of Torture and War Crimes.

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/201 ... mes-again/

[winston]

British soldiers admitted unlawful killings in Malaysia

Scots Guards soldiers admitted unlawfully shooting dead 24 Malaysian villagers then covering up the massacre, the high court has been told.

Calling for an official inquiry into the mass killing during anti-insurgency operations in 1948, lawyers for relatives of the victims disclosed for the first time the soldiers’ accounts given during police interviews.

The statements were taken in 1970, when the then Labour government ordered an investigation into the deaths.

Six of the eight soldiers interviewed under caution by detectives corroborated accounts that the villagers had been unlawfully killed, Michael Fordham QC, counsel for the Malaysian relatives, told the court.

One member of the Scots Guards platoon, Alan Tuppen, maintained that a sergeant had said beforehand: “The (villagers) were going to be shot and we could fall in or fall out.”

William Cootes, another soldier, told detectives he saw as another sergeant “motioned to (a) youth to run and then he shot him”.

George Kydd, also a member of the Scots Guards patrol, recalled in 1970 that: “The bandits were then shot but I’m sorry I must tell you the truth, they were not running away.

“There was an inquiry later on and I’ve got to go along with this, we were told before going in to tell the same story, that is that the bandits were running away when they were shot … I don’t remember who told us to tell this story but it was a member of the army.”

The police investigation was launched after a newspaper carried some of the soldiers’ accounts of what had happened 22 years earlier.

The probe was abruptly cancelled, however, in June 1970 after the Conservatives won the general election.

An internal police report by Detective Chief Superintendent Frank Williams, who led the police investigation, contradicted official explanations that there was insufficient evidence.

His report, disclosed to the high court, said: “At the outset this matter was politically flavoured and it is patently clear that the decision to terminate enquiries in the middle of the investigation was due to a political change of view when the new Conservative government came into office after the general election.”

Relatives of those killed in Batang Kali, who have twice petitioned the Queen, are challenging the government’s continued refusal to hold an inquiry into the incident.

Judicial review of the decision will continue until Wednesday.

Judgment is expected to be reserved.

The Ministry of Defence and Foreign Office maintain that it is too late for lessons to be learned from any inquiry and that most of the witnesses are no longer alive.

The Guardian

http://www.hizb.org.uk/news-watch/briti ... n-malaysia