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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Sunday, December 18, 2011

18 December - News Notes

Ocean Star Drilling RigImage by eschipul via Flickr
New Orleans. "BP Oil Flood" Protest,...Image via Wikipedia
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A Mobile Offshore Drilling UnitImage via Wikipedia

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ZURICH (Reuters) - U.S. officials are offering 11 Swiss banks, among them Credit Suisse , a deal that allows them to avoid criminal prosecution in exchange for revealing full details of their U.S. offshore business to Washington, a paper reported on Sunday.
 
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The government's bailout of banks may cost U.S. taxpayers nearly two times more than originally estimated, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
 
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New ‘Occupy’ tent camps are popping up as quickly as US authorities can dismantle them. But some encampments have been around for much longer, and the people there have felt abandoned for years.
 
 
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In a coordinated effort Pottstown Police cleaned up an area tent city after giving notice to its residents that the camp was illegal The Mercury reports the cleanup effort was put into place a month

Real Coastal Warriors
Oh, the wonderful nature lovers of the Republican party…. Going right back to the ideology that caused the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, “House Republicans are trying to sideline the role of the Environmental Protection Agency in overseeing offshore oil drilling, after Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA, RDSA.LN) complained about the amount of time it is taking the company to secure air-quality permits for drilling in the Arctic Ocean,”
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Greg Palast conducted a five-continent investigation of Big Oil for British TV's premier current affairs program, "Dispatches,"" and for BBC Worldwide. This report is based on the broadcast seen prime-time worldwide - but not yet in the USA.
 
 
GOP Trying to Strip EPA of Offshore Drilling Oversight
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Oh, the wonderful nature lovers of the Republican party.... Going right back to the ideology that caused the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico,

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the state's largest in history, struck 30 miles east of Oklahoma City on November 5. Oklahoma, a major location for hydraulic fracturing, experienced between 2 and 6 earthquakes a year between 1972 and 2008. In 2010 there were 1,047.' Noel Brinkerhoff and David Wallechinsky, AllGov
Here are the 10 most powerful and outspoken opponents of clean air, clean water, conservation and climate action" as per LA Times... Many more could b added.. read article to find out why.

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Republicans launched an unprecedented frontal assault against environmental protections and regulations this year, prompting Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) to call his chamber "the most anti-environment House in history." Here are the 10 most powerful and outspoken opponents of clean air,...
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Alabama's poorest residents live without running water in America's biggest municipal bankruptcy, which has been blamed on the greed and corruption of politicians and bankers, writes the BBC's Brian Wheeler.
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Thanks to our morally bankrupt political system and the Supreme Court's ruling on Citizens United, the fracking lobby's power of the purse is huge.


freakoutnation.comIf we don't speak out, we're part of the problem - Progressive blogging for the middle class, not corporate welfare.
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More than 40 million hectares of land has been acquired in developing countries for biofuel production in the past decade, reports a new study published by the International Land Coalition.

'Corporate control of our food system has led to the loss of millions of family farmers, destruction of our soil, pollution of our water and health epidemics of obesity and diabetes.
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We simply can't afford it. Our food system belongs in the hands of many family farmers, not under the control of a handful of corporations.' Willie Nelson, Reader Supported News
 
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Today in the United States, by the simple act of feeding ourselves, we unwittingly participate in the largest experiment ever conducted on human beings. Massive agro-chemical companies like Monsanto (Agent Orange) and Dow (Napalm) are feeding us genetically-modified...
 
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In the last several months -- as three different advisory groups have weighed in on how Boulder County should manage its croplands -- swarms of local activists, who believe genetically modified organisms should be banned on open space, have stolen the show.
 

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The 11th Hour is a new documentary from Leonardo DiCaprio about the state of humanity and the world. Join the action at www.11thhouraction.com
 
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readersupportednews.org‎'I think that denigrates the very foundations of this country. It denigrates the Bill of Rights. It denigrates what our Founders intended when they created a civilian, non-military justice system for trying and punishing people for crimes committed on U.S. soil. Our Founders were fearful of the mili...

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The National Defense Authorization Act for 2012 has been assailed by civil libertarians for its provisions which allow for the indefinite detention of American citizens without trial. Now the hacktivist collective Anonymous has joined the battle in its own distinctive manner, declaring war on the m...

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Famed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” resister and gay activist Dan Choi spoke in defense of U.S. Army Private Bradley Manning during a rally outside the gates of Fort Meade in Maryland.
Kids of New Libya

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Libya's record high 90 per cent literacy rate, one of the undeniable achievements of the ousted Colonel Gaddafi, is now being challenged by the controversial...

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Watch in HD / full screen - Rendered in true High Definition with 5.1 Dolby surround sound. Let's wake 'em all up !
 

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The Twitter disappearance isn't fun.
Top 10 op-eds of the week: Our no. 9 article is Paul Rosenberg's "Newt Gingrich's 'Heart of Darkness'" which exposes Gingrich's use of propaganda and what could happen if he is nominated.
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Behind the smokescreen, Gingrich's true accomplishment is being a master of propaganda

The Globalization of War: The “Military Roadmap” to World War III

The Pentagon’s global military design is one of world conquest.

The military deployment of US-NATO forces is occurring in several regions of the world simultaneously.
The concept of the “Long War” has characterized US military doctrine since the end of World War II. The broader objective of global military dominance in support of an imperial project was first formulated under the Truman administration in the late 1940s at the outset of the Cold War.
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We are dealing with a global military agenda, namely “Global Warfare”. Far from a world of peaceful cooperation, we are living in a dystopian world of permanent wars – wars that are being waged in flagrant contravention of international law and against public opinion and interest.
Far from a “new era more secure in the quest for peace” we may see a world more akin to George Orwell’s 1984, dominated by perpetual conflict, insecurity, authoritarian surveillance, doublethink and public mind control.

The anciens regimes in various guises keep trying to play by the old rules, expecting the people to fold, yet the people - tens and hundreds of thousands of them - keep pushing back.
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To state this fact is not to romanticize the revolutionary moment, but rather to begin appreciating it as something different in scope and kind from anything that has come before.' Christopher Dickey, Newsweek

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The events in this video happened today, December 17th, 2011, at roughly 3:45 PM as protesters and clergy members attempted to liberate the unused, fenced of...

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Despite the US's declared withdrawal of its military personnel and contractors out of Iraq, Washington has prepared to control the country's rich oil reserve...
 
... from Afghanistan to the Arab Spring, from China to counterterrorism, the lessons of [the Iraq] war still hang over the administration's foreign policy - shaping, and sometimes limiting, how the president projects American power in the world.
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The war that Mr. Obama never wanted to fight has weighed on internal debates, dictated priorities and often narrowed options for the United States ...' Mark Landler, The New York Times
 

9/11 verdict is US propaganda for waging war on Iran

“There is absolutely no evidence that Iran aided the 9/11 attacks. There is ample evidence after collection that there was conspiracy and the complicity of the US government…There is absolutely no evidence that Al Qaeda or the Taliban were involved in the 9/11 attacks. In fact, if there is anyone behind Al Qaeda, it was the Central Intelligence Agency, going back to the Soviet Afghan war”

California State University professor Paul Sheldon Foote told RT that the verdict is actually part of a campaign to demonize Iran. “This is what we call a kangaroo court here in America. This is outrageous. Iran has no involvement in this whatsoever  

( Sibel Edmonds of Boiling Frogs leads one to detailed questioning of the drug syndicate, Turkey,  and perhaps even MI6, NATO and Mossad )

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THE VIDEO EVERYONE NEEDS TO SEE, BUT FOR DIFFERENT REASONS... THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD BANK, JAMES WOLFENSOHN, MAKES STUNNING CONFESSIONS AS HE ADDR...
 
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Before NATO and the U.S. started bombing Libya, the United Nations was preparing to bestow an award on Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, and the Libyan Jamahiriya, for its achievements in the area of human ...
 
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This publication marks the 25th anniversary of the Third World War, called the "Quiet War", being conducted using subjective biological warfare, fought with "silent weapons." An Introduction Programming Manual that compares economics with electronics and outlines the New World Order (NWO) plan for w...
 

Israel Foreign Min.

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Top 10 op-eds of the week: Coming in at No. 2 is "America, Israel and Iran - no way out", by CIA veteran Robert Grenier. According to him, Obama "is now hostage to the whims of Israel and Iran, foreign countries neither of which he can control." Do you agree?

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If Obama can't stand up to Iran and Israel, he will set the US on a direct path to another Middle East war.
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Social Justice | Politics | Occupy! | LGBT | Environment | Energy | Economic Justice Rocky Anderson a progressive alternative to Obama Former Salt Lake mayor says Democrats, Republicans sustain corrupt system by Steven Higgs December 14, 2011 Americans

People across the world devoured the information Bradley Manning revealed, and it was used by movements in Egypt, Spain, and eventually Occupy Wall Street to bolster what we already thought was true. Except here were the goods - the evidence that was needed to prove it all true.
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And then a democracy movement spread around the globe so fast and so deep - and in just a year's time! When anyone asks me, 'Who started Occupy Wall Street?' sometimes I say 'Goldman Sachs' or 'Chase' but mostly I just say, 'Bradley Manning.' Michael Moore, Open Mike Blog
Václav Havel was President of the Czech Republic.
  1. The Neuroeconomics Revolution
  2. Is Modern Capitalism Sustainable?
  3. The Anatomy of Global Economic Uncertainty
  4. What Can Save the Euro?
  5. A Summit to the Death

Romney’s Truthiness

Kevin Drum erupts in justified outrage over Romney’s statement that
This is a president who fundamentally believes that the next century is the post-American century. Perhaps it will be the Chinese century. He is wrong.
As Drum says, Obama has never said anything like that. And Romney has surely already established some kind of new record: with all the bad things that have happened in American politics over the centuries, I can’t think of any candidate who has lied so freely, with so little compunction.

Send In the Clueless
By PAUL KRUGMAN
The Republican Party is getting the candidates it deserves.
All the G.O.P.’s Gekkos
By PAUL KRUGMAN
In getting to the truth about those wealthy “job creators” the Republicans aim to protect, the ’80s film “Wall Street” seems more relevant than ever.

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I was taking photographs of the police arresting Occupy Wall Street demonstrators at the December 12 Winter Garden flash mob, which had been organized in solidarity with the port shutdowns on the west coast, when I found myself targeted. "That one," I heard a voice say in a brutal "New Yawk" acc...
My advice to developers who seek partnerships with Twitter is to spread your bets out. Sure, Twitter may buy one or two of you, but what if they buy your competitor? Would you like to have some hope for the future if that should happen?  #
If you get a knock on the door from someone who's too small to put you out of business on a whim, don't think about how small they are, think about how small you are. You're much more likely to be able to trust someone who has to work with you rather than someone who doesn't. 



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