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was ratified by Peru, and in December 2007 by the US Congress. On 19 December 2007, Peru's Congress gave full faculties to the government to legislate for six months, by decree, issues related to the FTA. Mandated by these powers, the executive drafted 99 legislative decrees that are at the root of the current conflict. On | February 2009, the agreement went into effect. US security contractors as well as countless other private American corporations cannot provide the safety that they are paid to offer. So US military contractors in Afghanistan pay suspected insurgents to protect the US supply routes they were contracted to protect. A war-torn country such as Afghanistan has plenty of impoverished citizens and, as a result, it is not hard for private contractors to find individuals willing to take money to protect supply 9. Human Rights Abuses Continue in Palestine find individuals willing to take money to protect supply The Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa routes. (HSRC) has released a study indicating that Israel is An estimated 10 per cent of the Pentagon's logistics practising both colonialism and apartheid in the contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars is paid occupied Palestinian territories. HSRC commissioned _ to insurgents as the US government funds the very an international team of scholars and practitioners of forces American troops are fighting. international public law from South Africa, the UK, Israel and the West Bank to conduct the study. Il. The HINI Swine Flu Pandemic: Manipulating Data to The team found that Israel's policy and practices —_ Enrich Drug Companies violate the prohibition on colonialism, which the The HINI virus has spawned widespread panic and international community fear throughout the world. developed in the 1960s in However, upon closer response to the great examination, many of the decolonisation struggles in In the meantime, the US claims made by the World Africa and Asia. Israel's policy ' Q Health Organization (WHO is demonstrably to fragment the taxpayer's dollar continues seem to be based on weak and West Bank and annex part of it to fund insurgents to incomplete data. The Atlanta- permanently to Israel. Through . based Centers for Disease hese measures, Israel has protect American troops so Control and Prevention (CDC denied the indigenous they can fight insurgents. has created and used data to population the right to self- grossly exaggerate the need for determination, and as an expensive and unnecessary indicated a clear intention to vaccine aimed at creating assume sovereignty over profits for the pharmaceutical portions of its land and natural resources. industry—and not protecting Americans. The team also found that Israel's laws and policies in The WHO claimed in 2009 that a worldwide public he Occupied Palestinian Territories fit the definition of | health emergency had unfolded on an unprecedented apartheid in the International Convention on the _ scale, and 4.9 billion doses of HIN1I swine flu vaccine Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid. | were needed to stop the spread. In some countries, the sraeli law conveys privileges to Jewish settlers and WHO recommended that HINI vaccination be disadvantages Palestinians in the same territory on the mandatory. However, the data used by the WHO was basis of their respective racial identities. aulty at best. In the US, both federal and state governments began 10. United States Funds and Supports the Taliban preparation for the pandemic. State governments are In a continuous flow of money, American tax dollars generally responsible for these preparations, in end up paying members of the Taliban and funding a coordination with federal agencies. President Obama's volatile environment in Afghanistan. Private contractors Council of Advisors on Science and Technology released pay insurgents in the hope of attaining the very safety a report that "considered the HIN1 pandemic ‘a serious they are contracted to provide. Concurrently, US soldiers ealth threat’ to the US—not as serious as the 1918 pay at checkpoints run by suspected insurgents in order Spanish flu pandemic but worse than the swine flu to get safe passage. In some cases, Afghan companies outbreak of 1976". Responding to such terrifying run by former Taliban members, like President Hamid anguage, legislation drawn up in Massachusetts Karzai's cousin, are protecting the passage of American _ introduced hefty fines and prison sentences for those soldiers. The funding of the insurgents, along with who refused to be vaccinated. The US military was rumours of American helicopters ferrying Taliban expected to have an active role in this health members in Afghanistan, has led to widespread distrust | emergency. of American forces. In the meantime, the US taxpayer's There was no uniform system for collecting data on dollar continues to fund insurgents to protect American _ suspected swine flu victims in the US, which led to troops so they can fight insurgents. confusion in the absence of accurate statistics. The CDC routes. An estimated 10 per cent of the Pentagon's logistics contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars is paid to insurgents as the US government funds the very forces American troops are fighting. to taxpayer's dollar continues to fund insurgents to protect American troops so they can fight insurgents. 10. United States Funds and Supports the Taliban In a continuous flow of money, American tax dollars end up paying members of the Taliban and funding a volatile environment in Afghanistan. Private contractors pay insurgents in the hope of attaining the very safety they are contracted to provide. Concurrently, US soldiers pay at checkpoints run by suspected insurgents in order to get safe passage. In some cases, Afghan companies run by former Taliban members, like President Hamid Karzai's cousin, are protecting the passage of American soldiers. The funding of the insurgents, along with rumours of American helicopters ferrying Taliban members in Afghanistan, has led to widespread distrust of American forces. In the meantime, the US taxpayer's dollar continues to fund insurgents to protect American troops so they can fight insurgents. NEXUS ¢ I5 In the meantime, the US DECEMBER 2010 - JANUARY 20II www.nexusmagazine.com