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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.

Friday, July 27, 2012

27 July - FB news

GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMGENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM (Photo credit: live w mcs)Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney delivers the ...Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney delivers the keynote address during the commissioning ceremony for the guided missile destroyer USS ARLEIGH BURKE (DDG-51), one of the few ships named after a living person. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Dick Cheney, Vice President of the United States.Dick Cheney, Vice President of the United States. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Dr. Joseph Mercola
I can’t emphasize enough how important the November 6th California Right To Know Ballot Initiative is. Known as “Proposition 37”, the Initiative seeks to label all foods containing GMO ingredients in California. If you support mandatory GMO labeling, I encourage you to LIKE the California Right To Know Facebook fan page and SHARE it to everyone you know. http://www.carighttoknow.org/

California Right To Know

To win the right to know what's in our food! Vote yes on Nov. 6 for the California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act of 2012
RT shared a link.

Almost half of Philadelphia voters might be banned from presidential election
rt.com
Under a new voter ID law that may primarily affect minorities and elderly Americans, 43 percent of Philadelphia

Real Coastal Warriors
Read the Economist article and learn how Dick Cheney's long-held dream of exploiting U.S. energy potential means abundant natural gas for China and pulverized infrastructure and irreparably fouled water for the U.S. And remember that U.S. energy companies never want the cost of energy to come down. Never. Ever.



What Everyone Should Know About Fracking and Natural Gas
www.huffingtonpost.com
What Everyone Should Know About Fracking and Natural Gas - The Huffington Post


Center for Media and Democracy
‎"Since 2001, Utah lawmakers copied ALEC model bills word-for-word and introduced them at least 17 times, and heavily relied on model ALEC legislation numerous other times, according to a report prepared by Common Cause, the Center for Media and Democracy, People for the American Way, ProgressNow and the Alliance for a Better Utah."


| The Salt Lake Tribune
www.sltrib.com
A national watchdog group says Utah legislators too often act as lapdogs for corporations that lobby with stealth through the conservative American Legislative Exchange 


CommonDreams.org
In the age of ALEC, "corporations have made government of the people obsolete."

So forget what you learned in School House Rock about how a bill becomes law. It's ALEC Rock these days.
Check out and share this video from Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Mark Fiore, the Center for Media and Democracy, the ALEC Exposed Project and Alliance for a Better Utah.


ALEC Rock
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"ALEC Rock" Produced by Mark Fiore (http://www.markfiore.com), The ALEC Exposed Project (http://www.alecexposed.org) and Alliance for a Better Utah (http://b...


Freethoughtblogs.com

How Ex-Politicians Get Rich
freethoughtblogs.com
When looking at the influence of corporate money in politics, we tend to focus on the billions of dollars spent on lobbying efforts and campaign contributions, but there’s another way that big business influences legislators — by promising them cushy positions on their boards of directors after...
Real Coastal Warriors
GULF SHORES, Alabama -- A $13.2 million beach restoration — dumping more sand on the shore — should start at Laguna Key on West Beach in early October and finish at the Alabama-Florida line in January, according to city officials.

Beach restoration project to begin in fall
blog.al.com
  Beach-goers at the Gulf State Park Pier in Gulf Shores. GULF SHORES, Alabama -- A $13.2 million beach restoration — dumping more sand on the shore — should

OpenMedia.ca
The TPP's Internet trap is expansive with its ability to control, criminalize and fine your everyday Internet use. Lori Wallach of Public Citizen helps to break down the multiple layers of Internet stipulations that are being included in TPP negotiations.

There is one thing that isn't being included in TPP negotiations: your opinion. Make it be heard - stand up for your Internet rights by joining our campaign at http://StopTheTrap.net/.


How the TPP threatens Internet freedom worldwide
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Visit http://StopTheTrap.net to stand against the TPP's Internet trap. Find the original video here: 


Real Coastal Warriors
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Environmentalists filed notice Wednesday that they plan to sue the six companies that co-own eastern Montana's Colstrip power plant over alleged pollution violations.

Environmentalists To Sue Coal Power Plant Over Pollution
www.huffingtonpost.com
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Environmentalists filed notice Wednesday that they plan to sue the six companies that 
Center for Media and Democracy
‎"Thousands of “fracktivists” are traveling to Washington, D.C. this week for Stop the Frack Attack, the first national protest to stop dirty and dangerous fracking. The three-day summit that began on July 26 will culminate in a rally on the West Lawn of the Capitol on Saturday, July 28 at 2 p.m., followed by a march at 3:30 p.m. to the headquarters of America’s Natural Gas Alliance and the American Petroleum Institute."


Thousands to Protest Fracking in D.C. on Saturday « EcoWatch: Uniting the Voice of the Grassroots En
ecowatch.org
NaturalNews.com
What can homeopathic remedies do for ADHD and ADD? Homeopathic medicine is a welcome alternative providing safe and effective treatment that supports both management and healing.
Media

Glenn Greenwald: That the NYT's Tom Friedman Is Considered One of the US's 'Foreign Policy Experts' Is a National Embarrassment

 

Protect your child from the dangers of Ritalin - Four Homeopathic remedies to treat ADHD and ADD
www.naturalnews.com
Protect your child from the dangers of Ritalin - Four 

Inactive, Fat Rats Help to Understand Childhood Obesity | ALN
www.alnmag.com
ALN Magazine is a publication of resources, products, and information to design, build, and equip today’s research animal facilities. Animal Lab News
Center for Media and Democracy
‎"Some of the most controversial bills introduced recently in the Florida Legislature were thought up by out-of-state corporate interests with financial motives, according to a report released Thursday by a two national watchdog groups and Progress Florida. The report says the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, is a shadowy force exerting an uncanny amount of power over Florida’s lawmaking process."

Report: Shadowy corporate group behind many laws passed in Florida | Florida politics blog: The Buzz
www.tampabay.com
For Florida political news today, the Buzz blog is your can't-

AlterNet
Cutting ties!

ALEC Down 30 Corporations: General Motors and Walgreens Cut Ties | Alternet
www.alternet.org
Two more large American companies, headquartered in the Midwest, have responded to their customers and cut ties
Real Coastal Warriors via Michelle Higgins
Look what Wikileaks is posting! Way to go RCW...

The Mysterious Deaths of Nine Gulf Oil Spill Whistleblowers
laudyms.wordpress.com
In the past year, nine vocal critics or potential whistleblowers of the Gulf oil spill all died in extremely 
  rhrealitycheck's picture In Maryland, Free Speech Protects the Right of Crisis Pregnancy Centers to Lie to Women: An Analysis of the Baltimore CPC Case
NaturalNews.com
GSK openly admitted to engaging in a longstanding, organized criminal enterprise that likely cost thousands of people their lives -- does a measly $3 billion fine and a phony apology really serve justice in light of this?

GSK whistleblower says Glaxo Marketing VP 'Sir' Andrew Witty was deeply involved in massive criminal
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GSK whistleblower says Glaxo Marketing VP 'Sir' Andrew
Disinformation
Occupy Monsanto
Have you started your fall garden yet? Here are some links to organic and heirloom seed companies that are not owned by or in business with Monsanto or its affiliates. Which one is your favorite?

Occupy Monsanto | Monsanto-Free Seed Companies
www.occupymonsanto360.org
All Good Things OrganicAmishland SeedsAnnapolis Valley Heritage Seed Company canadaBaker Creek Seed Co.Botanical InterestsBountiful GardensDiane’s Flower 
Mile-Deep Valley Discovered Beneath Antarctica

Mile-Deep Valley Discovered Beneath Antarctica | Disinformation
www.disinfo.com
Via ScienceDaily: The West Antarctic Ice Sheet has been melting faster than any other place on the continent, and  
Real Coastal Warriors shared Bk Lim's photo.

Mongabay.com
Dozens of elephants massacred in Chad

http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0726-elephants-chad-neme.html

Poachers killed at least 30 elephants in southwestern Chad during the early hours of Tuesday, July 24. During the night, Stephanie Vergniault, president of the organization SOS Elephants, described on her Facebook page how a group of armed horsemen chased a herd of elephants with “war weapons near the SOS Elephants camp in the Chari Baguirmi area. After daybreak, the SOS Elephants team counted 28 carcasses, most with missing tusks. The exact number of carcasses with missing tusks is unclear because the team was afraid to stay and investigate further due to the presence of the poachers hiding on the other side of the Chari River.

Real Coastal Warriors
Shell is scaling back plans to drill up to five wells in Arctic waters this summer amid a series of setbacks, including stubborn sea ice still clinging to Alaska’s shores and delays in construction of an emergency oil spill containment barge.


Shell scales back Arctic drilling plans
fuelfix.com
Shell is scaling back plans to drill up to five wells in Arctic waters this summer amid a series of setbacks, including stubborn sea ice still clinging to Alaska’s shores and delays in construction of an emergency oil spill containment barge. 


Real Coastal Warriors
‎"We have facilities that are being threatened," Collier said. "And the ecosystem of the freshwater habitat and maritime forest would be forever changed if we get a breach from the Gulf. ... The shoreline has been diminished. A hurricane of any magnitude could breach the freshwater lake at the (bird) sanctuary. We want to make sure that doesn’t happen."

Dauphin Island $5 million grant to be used for wider east end beach
blog.al.com
Mayor Jeff Collier got word this week that Dauphin Island will receive $5 million for shoreline restoration and 
Real Coastal Warriors
For the first time, scientists are finding tropical and subtropical species of marine protozoa in the Arctic Ocean that apparently traveled thousands of miles northward on Atlantic currents. While the researchers do not attribute it directly to climate change, they say that such pulsing currents could become more common as climate change causes shifts in long-distance currents.

On Our Radar: Tropical Cells in the Arctic?
green.blogs.nytimes.com
Researchers say the invaders were apparently swept up in the warm Gulf Stream, which travels from the Caribbean to the north Atlantic but usually peters out somewhere 

Are We Headed Back to the Dust Bowl? Blame the Banks

Record-breaking weather, farmers losing crops, banks repossessing land from the poor, a president scorned by his opponents for socialism. We've seen this before.
If you're wondering whether the US drought will create a global food crisis, the answer's easy. It's yes, because there's a food crisis already.
Bill Moyers and Chris Hedges: How Whole Regions of America Have Been Destroyed in the Name of Quarterly Profits 

How Millennials Are Driving the Great Migration of the 21st Century

Suburbs are so 20th century. Here's why so many of us are moving back downtown.
Sahara Reporters
‎"The budgets’ analysis therefore showed that most states in [Nigeria] are not viable economic entities."

States’ Budgets: Wrong Priorities, Pathetic Outcomes By Nasir ElRufai |...
bit.ly
Our aim today is to draw some stylized conclusions from our analysis of the budgets of ten state governments. The states covered are representative...
Mathaba News Network

Putin`s Geopolitical Chess Game With Washington In Syria And The Eurasia

Since reassuming his post as Russia`s President, Vladimir Putin has lost no minute in addressing the most urgent geopolitical threats to Russia internationally. Not surprisingly, at the center of his agenda is the explosive situation in the Middle East, above all Syria. ...read more: MEMBERS | FREE
source: mathaba
link: Full Article...
 One Woman's Account of How Abuse, Corruption and Silence at Penn State Perpetuate a Poisonous Culture

Center for Media and Democracy
‎"Exactly one year after activist Tim Dechristopher was sentenced to prison the group he co-founded is protesting the American Legislative Exchange Council in Salt Lake City."


ALEC protestors outside Grand America
fox13now.com
SALT LAKE CITY — Exactly one year after activist Tim Dechristopher was sentenced to prison the group he co-founded is...

Institute for Southern Studies
‎"I was upset because the political consultants and staff were talking about voter suppression and keeping blacks from voting." - Former Florida GOP chairman Jim Greer


Fla. Republican: We wanted to suppress black votes
www.salon.com
The state's former GOP chairman says the party had meetings about "keeping blacks from voting"

Reader Supported News shared a link.


FOCUS | Karl Rove: He's Back, Big Time
readersupportednews.org
'The bespectacled 61-year-old, once known as Bush's Brain is back - big time.' Paul M. Barrett, Business Week

Disinformation
Are Climate Skeptics More Likely To Be Conspiracy Theorists?

Are Climate Skeptics More Likely To Be Conspiracy Theorists? | Disinformation
www.disinfo.com
The Guardian reports on new research finding that climate skeptics also tend to support conspiracy theories such as 
     
Project Syndicate
‎"For years, climate scientists have been warning the world that the heavy use of fossil fuels would warm the planet and change rainfall and storm patterns and raise sea levels. Now those changes are hitting in every direction, even as powerful corporate lobbies and media propagandists like Rupert Murdoch try to deny the truth."
(Illustration by Paul Lachine)

"Our Summer of Climate Truth" by Jeffrey D. Sachs
www.project-syndicate.org
For years, climate scientists have been warning the world that the heavy use of fossil fuels threatens the world with 
 ( Biased BBC said the BBC had been flogging junk science for over 3 decades )

Bridge the Gulf
The story of the Oystermen of Pointe a la Hache and their struggle to survive after the BP oil disaster.

"When you're talking about Louisiana paradise, this is it....and to look at this place, Plaquemines Parish, and knowing what it can be, is sad."

Vanishing Pearls Trailer
www.youtube.com
This is the story of the Oystermen of Pointe a la Hache, Louisiana and their struggle to survive in the aftermath of the BP Oil Spill that left their oyster ...
Mathaba News Network

Big Win for Predatory Healthcare Giants

...read more: MEMBERS | FREE version.


CORZINE CRONYISM BOMBSHELL - High Ranking DOJ Lawyers And AG Eric Holder Were Partners In Firm That.
dailybail.com
What do Jon Corzine, Eric Holder and MF Global all have i

Open and Transparent Review of Nexen Takeover Needed | Canadian Labour Congress
www.canadianlabour.ca
The Canadian Labour Congress calls on the government to launch an open and transparent review of the proposed takeover of Nexen by the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC).
 
Thrive and Institute for Responsible Technology shared a link.


GMO sugar beets get the green light
grist.org
Last week the USDA fully deregulated herbicide resistant sugar beets. And while the shift isn't a surprise to most advocates, it does hint at larger problems within the  


Disinformation
Bad timing: Print-on-Demand Assault Rifle

Print-on-Demand Assault Rifle | Disinformation
www.disinfo.com
Via PopSci: An amateur gunsmith known only as HaveBlue has earned the dubious distinction of ushering in the age of print-on-demand weapons. With only
 Watch: Violent Stop-and-Frisk Video Reveals Dark Side of "Anti-Gun" Tactic

NaturalNews.com
Breaking news: On the record - Mark McAfee explains the bounty hunter arrest of James Stewart, the California raw milk man. Remember, this is all escalated from selling RAW MILK! How did this get so crazy? http://www.naturalnews.com/036613_Mark_McAfee_James_Stewart_arrest.html


Mark McAfee explains last night's bounty hunter arrest of James Stewart in Ventura county
www.naturalnews.com
Mark McAfee explains last night's bounty hunter arrest of James Stewart in Ventura county
Mathaba News Network

Spurious Terrorism Indictments

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Mongabay.com
Brazil decree opens tribal lands to mining, dams in 'national interest'; freezes demarcation of new indigenous territories
http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0726-brazil-indigenous-directive.html

A directive signed Monday by Brazil’s Solicitor-General could hamper the efforts of indigenous tribes to win government recognition of their traditional lands, reports Survival International, a human rights group focused on native peoples.

The directive "opens up all indigenous areas to mineral, dams, roads, military bases and other developments of 'national interest' without the need to consult with or address concerns of indigenous peoples", according to an expert familiar with the directive who asked to remain anonymous. It also restricts demarcation of new indigenous territories.

Sahara Reporters
PHOTONEWS: Nigeria As A Nation Of The Unemployed | Sahara Reporters

PHOTONEWS: Nigeria As A Nation Of The Unemployed | Sahara Reporters
saharareporters.com
An army of unemployed Nigerian youths scrambled to write an aptitude test for employment into Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB) at Chams City in Abuja on

Write A Letter To Hamid

Canadian citizen Hamid Ghassemi-Shall Imminent Execution
www.amnesty.ca
Canadian Citizen Hamid Ghassemi-Shall wrongful detention, death sentence
Disinformation
Can you remember what happened after you popped that E...?


Scientific Study Reveals That Ecstasy Damages Memory | Disinformation
www.disinfo.com
Via LiveScience: A study conducted by German scientists has revealed that using the popular party drug Ecstasy (MDMA) can cause deterioration of
Dr. Joseph Mercola
DID YOU KNOW… that today’s laundry detergents are filled with chemicals that are harmful not only to your health, but also to the environment? These chemicals contaminate waterways and often reach aquatic wildlife. A study shows that fish now absorb double the amount of chemicals they would ordinarily absorb. http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/12/21/are-you-slowly-killing-your-family-with-hidden-dioxane-in-your-laundry-detergent.aspx?np=true

DID YOU KNOW… that today’s laundry detergents are filled with chemicals that are harmful not only to your health, but also to the environment? These chemicals contaminate waterways and often reach aquatic wildlife. A study shows that fish now absorb double the amount of chemicals they would ordinarily absorb. http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/12/21/are-you-slowly-killing-your-family-with-hidden-dioxane-in-your-laundry-detergent.aspx?np=true


Why Is Everyone on the Internet So Angry?
www.lifeslittlemysteries.com
The anger and hatred spewed in Internet comment threads damages society, as well as people's health, psychologists say.


Occupy Monsanto via Millions Against Monsanto by OrganicConsumers.org
‎2,4D can't be produced without resulting in some dioxin being created accidentally. We don't need to cover our farms and our food with any more chemicals than we already do, especially ones that have the potential for such danger!



Take Action to Stop Dow's Agent Orange Soy!
www.organicconsumers.org
Take Action to Stop Dow's Agent Orange Soy! 


Gary Null
Rats being fed genetically modified food eat more and grow fatter

Rats being fed genetically modified food eat more and grow fatter

Since genetically modified (GM) food started to appear in shops in the early nineties, large quantities have been sold for human consumption – without any harmful effects, as far as we know. But is there a risk of a long-term impact? An international research project is exploring the effects of …
Source: http://prn.fm/
d a link.

One Act of Remembering Can Influence Future Acts
prn.fm
Can the simple act of recognizing a face as you walk down the street change the way we think? Or can taking the time 
AlterNet
Talk about power dynamics.

How Will the 99% Deal with the Psychopaths in the 1%? | Alternet
www.alternet.org
Did you know that roughly one person in a hundred is clinically a psychopath? These individuals are either born 

Project Syndicate
‎"We would be better off getting rid of genocide as a crime altogether. The legal concept of genocide is so incoherent, so harmful to the purposes that international law serves, that it would be better if we had never invented it."

(Illustration by Pedro Molina)

"Never Again to Genocide Trials" by Timothy W. Waters
www.project-syndicate.org
In late June, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia handed down an encouraging decision: it

RT shared a link.

Ecua-doors Open: New hope for Assange in embassy diplomatic shift
www.youtube.com
There's a glimmer of hope for whistleblower Julian Assange as Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he's currently taking refuge, says Swedish

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