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GLOBAL NEWS BLUE STREET LIGHTS MAY PREVENT CRIME, SUICIDE STUDY CONFIRMS THAT GENES DON'T CAUSE CANCER THE FACTS ABOUT HAMAS AND THE WAR ON GAZA by Norman G. Finkelstein lhe record is clear. You can find it on the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs website. Israel broke the ceasefire by going into Gaza and killing six or seven Palestinian militants. At that point—to quote the official Israeli website —Hamas, in retaliation for the Israeli attack, then launched the missiles. According to Ha'aretz, Defence Minister Barak began plans for this invasion in March 2008 —which is before the ceasefire even began. The reasons for the invasion, I think, are twofold: (1) to enhance what Israel calls its "deterrence capacity" (after the Israelis' defeat in July 2006 in Lebanon, they felt it important to transmit the message that Israel is still a fighting force); (2) because Hamas was signalling that it wanted a diplomatic settlement of the conflict along the June 1967 border. Israel, faced with what Israelis call a "Palestinian peace offensive", sought to dismantle Hamas. The problem all along has been that Israel doesn't want Gaza to develop and doesn’t want to resolve the conflict diplomatically, whereas the leaderships in Damascus and in Gaza have repeatedly made statements that they're willing to settle the conflict on the June 1967 border. Every year, the UN General Assembly votes on a resolution entitled "Peaceful Settlement of the Palestine Question". And every year the vote is the same: it's the whole world on one side, and Israel, the USA, Nauru, Palau, Micronesia, the Marshall Islands and Australia on the other side. All 22 members of the Arab League favour a two-state settlement on the June 1967 border. The Palestinian Authority favours a_ two-state settlement on the June 1967 border. We now have Hamas favouring that two-state settlement on the June 1967 border. The record shows that Hamas wanted to continue the ceasefire, but only on lue street lights are believed to be useful in preventing suicides and street crime, a finding that is encouraging an increasing number of railway companies to install blue- light-emitting apparatus at stations to prevent people from committing suicide by jumping in front of trains. Glasgow, Scotland, introduced blue street lighting to improve the city's landscape in 2000. Afterward, the number of crimes in areas illuminated in blue noticeably decreased. The Nara, Japan, prefectural police set up blue street lights in the prefecture in 2005, and found the number of crimes decreased by about nine per cent in blue-illuminated neighbourhoods. Many other areas nationwide have followed suit. West Japan Railway Co. introduced blue lighting at its facilities when it became concerned by cars attempting to traverse railway crossings despite the approach of trains. A spokesman for the company said: "We're confident that blue lighting is effective to a certain extent in preventing suicide." (Source: Physorg.com, 10 December 2008, http://www.physorg. com/news 148153021 html) study completed at the Ioannina School of Medicine in Greece analysed hundreds of studies that claimed to have "discovered" genes that cause cancer, and it found that, out of 240 claimed associations between genes and cancer risk, only two genes actually had any significant correlation at all. Put another way, over 99 per cent of the claims about genes causing cancer don't hold up to scientific scrutiny. By blaming genes for disease, doctors can disempower patients and convince them that they have no control over their own health. The truth is that you can be free of cancer regardless of your genetic code, because it is the expression of those genes that matters. And guess what controls the expression of your genes? Your nutrition, diet, lifestyle choices and avoidance of cancer- causing chemicals in foods, drugs, cosmetics and personal care products. In other words, you have probably 99 per cent control over whether you get cancer or not. But the corrupt cancer industry wants you to think you actually have zero control. (Source: Mike Adams, NaturalNews.com, 30 December 2008, http://tinyurl.com/8vugfc) 10 semerville 8 ¢ NEXUS =F www.nexusmagazine.com FEBRUARY — MARCH 2009