December 2011
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Good Photos of London Today
Are they preparing to keep them in OR THE PEOPLE OUT???? | Sovereign IndependentThe tin blue line: Met unveil revolutionary police barrier to prevent anti-cuts demonstrators marching on the Houses of Parliament After a summer of discontent that saw hundreds of rioters roam the streets of the capital, the Metropolitan Police needed to take action. And it appears that this imposing 10foot high...
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Time for the next Target
Breaking news: Iran to be attacked - coupmedia.orgBritain announced the closure of the Iranian embassy in London, and informed the Iranian ambassador and his staff they have 48 hours to leave the country. Britain Foreign Secretary William Hague accused the Tehran government of supporting the invasion of UK’s embassy in the Iranian capital.
via Coupmedia
And “Germany and France...
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Remember What It is Like to be Alive
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Jedi training in the hundred-acre wood
The pivotal moment of my week-long wilderness survival class occurred a little more than halfway through the week.
We had gotten into nuances of stalking and camouflage - the art of movement and the skill of blending your form into the baseline pattern of the woods. Not only these, but almost every art and science that we’d...
“If your revolution doesn’t implicitly and explicitly include a rejection of...”
– Melissa McEwan (via cultureofresistance)
November 2011
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Senate Approves Bill that Allows Military to... →
bradicalmang:
The U.S. Senate voted Tuesday to maintain provisions in a bill that would allow the military to apprehend U.S. citizens, including those on U.S. soil, without charge, and hold them indefinitely if they are labeled as terrorists. President Obama has threatened a veto.
The vote comes after attempts by the American Civil Liberties Union and others to strip the massive National...
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Civilization Poisons Everything
Consumer Reports tests juices for arsenic and lead - Consumer Reports NewsFindings of a Consumer Reports investigation about arsenic and lead levels in apple juice and grape juice have prompted the organization to call for government standards to limit consumers’ exposure to these toxins.
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Support the Indigineous Everywhere
Sweden: Saami Communities Are Standing Up To British, Australian Mining CompaniesAt least four Indigenous Saami communities are standing up to Australian and British mining companies that want to exploit the Saami’s customary reindeer grazing lands in Northern Sweden. Late last week, the communities of Sirges and Jåhkågasska in Jokkmokk warned that the British mining company Beowulf is in...
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One of the many Fruits of Civilization
NPR News Investigation: Poisoned Places - Toxic Air, Neglected Communities
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Top 10 Most Censored Stories of 2011 →
anti-propaganda:
#10 Statistical Games with the Unemployment Rate. At Information Clearing House, Greg Hunter showed that instead of 9%, the real unemployment rate is over 22%. #9 Chemtrails. Atmospheric Geoengineering: Weather Manipulation, Contrails and Chemtrails, July 10, 2010. #8 The Truth on Nuclear Power. The Union of Concerned Scientists published a report describing 14 near-miss...
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"In Historic Move, Iceland Becomes First Western...
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On Tuesday, Iceland became the first Western European nation to pass a parliamentary motion recognizing Palestine as an independent state. The motion – symbolically passed on the United Nation’s annual day of solidarity with the Palestinian people – backs a Palestinian state on 1967 borders, calls on both Israel and Palestine to reject violence and notes the...
Capitalism Wins
Merck Pays a Pittance for Mass Deaths
by FRED GARDNER
Q: Who killed more Americans —al Qaeda crashing airplanes into the World Trade Center, or Merck pushing Vioxx?
A: Merck, by a factor of 18.
One of the most downplayed stories of our time ended with a whimper this week. “Merck has agreed to pay $950 million and has pleaded guilty to a criminal charge over the marketing and sales of the...
The Department Of Homeland Security Wants All The... →
They will never stop.
Senator Pushes For "Flag" Button to Report... →
In case you missed it.
“Sarkozy: I cannot stand him. He is a liar. Obama: You’re fed up with him but I...”
– An exchange between French President Nicolas Sarkozy and President Barack Obama about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The conversation was overheard by reporters at the G20 summit last week. The White House has declined to comment on the exchange. (h/t Mother Jones)
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"Pepper-Spray Creator Decries Use of Chemical...
We speak with Kamran Loghman, the expert who developed weapons-grade pepper-spray, who says he was shocked at how police have used the chemical agent on non-violent Occupy Wall Street protesters nationwide — including students at University of California, Davis, female protesters in New York City, and an 84-year old activist in Seattle. “I saw it and the first thing that came to my mind wasn’t...
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"In Modern America, Questioning War Is Considered...
Is Everyone Who Criticizes the Government a Terrorist?
Of course, anti-war protesters shouldnât take it too personally, since they are in good company:
According to Department of Defense training manuals, protest is considered âlow-level terrorismâ. And see this, this and this.
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The government is also using anti-terrorism laws to keep people from learning what pollutants are in...
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Gasland - Save the Water?
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US Senate To Vote On Bill That Will Allow The...
Since Occupy Wall Street began, American police officers have arrested thousands of people for exercising their constitutionally protected right to protest. On Monday or Tuesday, the US Senate will vote on a bill that would give the President the ability to order the military to arrest and imprison American citizens anywhere in the world for an indefinite period of time.
A provision of S. 1867,...
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"While consumers shop, U.S. descends into planned...
(NaturalNews) We live in interesting times. Even as our own civilization hangs on the precipice of financial solvency, the priorities of the uninformed masses as so distorted that many will actually camp out in front of a Best Buy store in order to be the first in line to save $100 on a big-screen TV. In a time when the very problems of society are rooted in over-consumption and too much...
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Obamanation Part II
Even better than the first.
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Health Care Equals Money Tree
U.S. ranks 28th in life expectancy while we pay the MOST for health careStudy shows Americans pay more than $7,900 per person for healthcare each year, while life expectancy of ranks well below the average among other nations.
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An ‘underdeveloped’ U.S. primary care system is plagued by shortages of family doctors and high rates of avoidable hospital admissions...
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Thanks Giving
As a white male, thanks for giving me the privilege that goes with my race and gender. Thanks for protecting me from all the non-white people.
As an American, thanks for giving me a land, government and religion that (practically) wiped out the former residents of the land with a mandate from God. Thanks for giving me a continuing evolving government that goes from blatant killing and...
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"Fighting in the New Terrain"
CWC Texts : Recent Features : Fighting in the New TerrainOnce, the basic building block of patriarchy was the nuclear family, and calling for its abolition was a radical demand. Now families are increasingly fragmented-yet has this fundamentally expanded women’s power or children’s autonomy? Once, the mainstream media consisted of only a few television and radio channels.
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Think You Have the Real Story?
Source: Frugal dad
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More Police Abuse
Video of Champaign Police Choking Black Youth while in Handcuffs | Urbana Champaign Independent Media CenterOn June 5, 2011 Champaign police choked a 20 year old African-American man in the back seat of a squad car while he was in handcuffs. His crime? Asking why he had been stopped, roughed up, and pepper sprayed while walking in campus town.
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Cops Do It Again
Halifax County man dies after being shot with stun gun :: WRAL.comScotland Neck, N.C. - A 61-year-old Halifax County man died Tuesday, a day after police shocked him with a stun gun while he was riding his bike, family members said. Scotland Neck Police Chief Joe Williams said they received a call Monday night about a man who fell off of his bicycle and injured himself in the parking lot of the...
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"Radiation covers 8pc of Japan"
Let’s have more technology! It’s so good for us and makes our lives so pleasant.
Amplify’d from www.abc.net.au
Japan’s science ministry says 8 per cent of the country’s surface area has been contaminated by radiation from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.
It says more than 30,000 square kilometres of the country has been blanketed by radioactive...
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"The Bloodshed in Honduras: Obama’s Disgrace"
It’s not Obama; it’s the USA.
Amplify’d from www.counterpunch.org
Imagine that an opposition organizer were murdered in broad daylight in Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador or Venezuela by masked gunmen, or kidnapped and murdered by armed guards of a well-known supporter of the government. It would be front page news in the New York Times, and all over the TV news. The U.S....
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"What price the new democracy? Goldman Sachs...
Take this with my previous post and it should be crystal clear as to the efficacy of government.
Amplify’d from www.independent.co.uk
Even before the upheaval in Italy, there was no sign of Goldman Sachs living down its nickname as “the Vampire Squid”, and now that its tentacles reach to the top of the eurozone, sceptical voices are raising questions over its influence....
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"Exposing the One Percent: Freeport McMoRan...
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As the Occupy Movement emerges across the US and around the world, a prime example of greed and exploitation is occurring with very little coverage in the global corporate media. Members of the global top one percent are killing striking workers and using raw military power to protect their billions of dollors of annual profits. And the highest levels of US...
“What we’re talking about [in decolonization] is overturning all of those systems...”
– Waziyatawin (via cuntymint
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“David Hume was intrigued by “the easiness with which the many are governed by...”
– Profit Over People - Noam Chomsky (via cultureofresistance)
“Who feeds you?
What is the source of life?
To whom do you owe your life?
If...”
– Derrick Jensen, Endgame (via cultureofresistance)
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"THE REAL STORY OF THANKSGIVING"
We all need to face the truth.
Amplify’d from www.manataka.org
Most of us associate the holiday with happy Pilgrims and Indians sitting down to a big feast. And that did happen - once.
The story began in 1614 when a band of English explorers sailed home to England with a ship full of Patuxet Indians bound for slavery. They left behind smallpox which virtually wiped out those who...
“We were talking about justice. Today, as we speak, the army of the United States...”
– Arundhati Roy on the Occupy movement. (via mehreenkasana) 