24 February 2012
Contact:
Stephen M. Apatow
Founder,
Director of Research & Development
Humanitarian
Resource Institute (UN:NGO:DESA)
Humanitarian University
Consortium Graduate Studies
Center
for Medicine, Veterinary Medicine & Law
Phone:
203-668-0282
Email:
s.m.apatow@humanitarian.net
Internet:
www.humanitarian.net
HRI:UNArts:
Humanitarian Intervention Initiative
Url:
www.unarts.org/H-II
Syria: Russia/China
Complicity - Referral to ICC - Emergency Action
The OHCHR Report of
the independent international commission of inquiry on the Syrian Arab
Republic
has outlined the scope of the War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity
that are being perpetrated in Syria, facilitated by the Veto of the UN
Security Council Resolution by China and Russia. The scale of
this
humanitarian crisis, that now encompasses starvation of populations,
[1] emphasizes the need for (1)
Immediate Humanitarian Intervention to Protect Civilians and (2) the
International Criminal Court (ICC) to review Russia/China
Complicity, in regards to their role in obstructing humanitarian
intervention. The
contributory role of the UN Security Council in this Humanitarian
Emergency, has prompted the call for the UN to establish a new formal
mechanism for referral to the ICC, with determinations on War Crimes
and Crimes Against Humanity the responsibility of the Office
of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
See also: Appeal -
Syria: Office of the Prosecutor - International Criminal Court:
Humanitarian Resource Institute, 17 February 2012.
Oil/Food Crisis
Negligence in regards to speculative trading with emergency reserve
banks loans has pushed the global financial system once again to a
point of collapse. Protections that separated commercial and
investment banks were removed in 1999, with the repeal of the Glass-Steagall
Act, in conjunction with the projected global liquidity infusion
that was planed for Year 2000 Conversion remediation
efforts. [2] The damage caused by removal of these safeguards,
that
protected the global financial system for 70 years, included the market
crashes of 2001-02, 2008 and exploitation of emergency reserve bank
lending facilities following the 2008 global market crash (2008-2012).
Leaders have disregarded economic emergency contingency discussions [3]
that call for the separation of commercial and investment banks.
Global financial markets have evolved into a giant casino, funded by
low interest reserve bank loans, with infrastructure critical commodity
valuations that have no semblance to rational supply and demand
metrics. [4] The resultant suffering has been incomprehensible.
See also: OPSEC: Oil and
Terrorism - Prices Transform Oil into a Weapon: HRI:UNArts:H-II, 21
February 2012.
References:
- US
raises specter of 'additional measures' in Syria:
CNN, 21 February 2012.
- HRI:
International
Disaster Information Network: Global Infrastructure Analysis,
Contingency Planning and Response.
- UN Economic
Crisis Contingency Discussions: Referral: UN Human Rights
Commission, International Criminal Court, June 2011.
- H-II Appeal to Nobel Laureates
-
HRI: Humanitarian University Consortium: Humanitarian Resource
Institute, 9
July 2011. Confronting an International Economic/Humanitarian
Emergency.
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