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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.

Monday, October 8, 2012

8 October - Reflections II

US Immigrant Protests BBC
US Immigrant Protests BBC (Photo credit: Chiva Congelado)
NO FOREIGN ENTANGLEMENTS anti-war protest sign...
NO FOREIGN ENTANGLEMENTS anti-war protest sign prior to U.S. entry into WWII. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
RAMALLAH, WEST BANK - OCTOBER 18:  A Palestini...
RAMALLAH, WEST BANK - OCTOBER 18: A Palestinian boy wearing a Hamas headband and armband sits in an area next to a checkpoint as people wait for the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli prisons next to Bitunian checkpoint on October 18, 2011 in Ramallah, West bank. A high-profile prisoner swap, which will see the release of captive Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit, began before dawn today. Shalit is to be freed after more than 5 years of captivity in Gaza in an exchange deal which will see the release of 477 Palestinian prisoners in an initial deal with another 550 to be freed after the return of Shalit. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
Gaza flotilla route
Gaza flotilla route (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Mavi Marmara
Mavi Marmara (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
IDF soldiers who boarded the Mavi Marmara ship...
IDF soldiers who boarded the Mavi Marmara ship in order to enforce the maritime closure on Gaza, were met with a violent mob armed with clubs, slingshots, saws, knives, and used live fire against the IDF soldiers. Pictured here: Knives, wrenches, and wooden clubs used to attack the soldiers during the operation. For more information: wp.me/ppbEs-qf (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
CHICAGO, IL - SEPTEMBER 17:  Striking Chicago ...
CHICAGO, IL - SEPTEMBER 17: Striking Chicago public school teachers picket outside of George Westinghouse College Prep high school on September 17, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois. More than 26,000 teachers and support staff walked off of their jobs on September 10 after the Chicago Teachers Union failed to reach an agreement with the city on compensation, benefits and job security. With about 350,000 students, the Chicago school district is the third largest in the United States. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
English: Thibodaux, LA November 14, 2005 - Eva...
English: Thibodaux, LA November 14, 2005 - Evan Smith posed in front of the FEMA Disaster Recovery Center he manages in south central Louisiana. Evan is a teacher who was working at Walter Cohen Senior High School in uptown New Orleans until Hurricane Katrina hit the city. Photo by Greg Henshall / FEMA (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The anti-US Protest in Tribal Region

The Pakistani armed forces blocked a convoy carrying thousands of Pakistanis and a small deputation of U.S. anti-war activists from incoming a lawless ethnic province along the border with Afghanistan on Sunday to objection American drone strikes. The group, led by cricket star twisted elected official Imran Khan and his opinionated party, was turned back just miles from the edge of South Waziristan.
After an hour of fruitless consultation, Khan announced that the caravan would back down to the city of Tank, about 15 kilometers (nine miles) away. There, he delivered a talking to the crowd of about 10,000

Russians Are Disappearing from Siberia


Footnotes on the Higher Education Bubble's Many Failures 

..Americans, as Malcolm Harris recently pointed out, now owe almost a trillion dollars in student loans, more than they owe in credit card debt. Student debt, he explained, “is an exceptionally punishing kind to have. Not only is it inescapable through bankruptcy, but student loans have no expiration date and collectors can garnish wages, social security payments, and even unemployment benefits.”

...All this to pay for an education that—as we have already seen—means little, intellectually, to many of those who are courting debtors’ prison to pay for it. The unkindest cut of all, of course, is that those who drop out must still carry the full burden of the loans that so many of them have taken out—even though they will, in all probability, earn less and fare worse in hard times than graduates. Yet even unemployment among graduates has been rising—as have rates of student loan default.

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New Orleans students walk out in support of their teachers - "But students at the school Friday expressed little trust in Dobard or his policies. Several of them questioned how he could hire an entirely new staff for this school year and then fire them six weeks later. Students said they had built relationships with teachers and staff members, and now that process has to start all over again. “The point we’re trying to make is that this is going to set us back,” senior Terrell Major said." For a list of student demands, please go to http://louisianajusticeinstitute.blogspot.com/2012/10/students-at-walter-l-cohen-high-school.html


USA: Bilateral sellout of social security


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Iranian Media Mocks Israel Over Drone Incident

Church Leaders Call for Congress to Investigate aid to Israel, not Palestinians

Israeli Air Force Strikes Terror Operatives in Gaza, 1 Dead

French President Hollande Promises Security Increase After Blanks Fired at Synagogue

Bill O’Reilly: Obama Should go on a Double Date With Netanyahu

After Drone Shot Down, Israeli Jets Roar Over Lebanon

Attack on Jewish Leader Praised on Hungarian Radio

Anti-Israel Protesters Riot at JNF Concert in Berlin

House Dems Pushing Extention of Iran Sanctions Exemption

Israeli Air Force Shoots Down Drone that Penetrated Deep Into Israeli Air Space (VIDEO) 

Why the Rabbis Taught Dream Manipulation

Families of Flotilla Dead Sue Israel
 Snapshot of footage from the MV Mavi Marmara by IDF sources, showing an Israeli soldier being beaten with iron pipes during the Gaza flotilla raid. Photo: IDF.

 JTA – JERUSALEM – Relatives of nine Turkish citizens killed in the raid aboard the Mavi Marmara ship filed a lawsuit against Israel, according to Turkish reports. The lawsuit was filed last Friday in a Turkish court by more than 30 relatives of Turkish citizens killed in the May 31, 2010 raid, as well as 30 others injured in the attack, according to the Hurriyet Daily News and the Anatolia...
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Big Wind Energy: A Green Fantasy of Destruction 

‎"Peterson's views are subtly infiltrating the Washington debate — which is why Americans should start getting worried about him.

He isn't content merely to express concern about the federal deficit. His particular targets are Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, which he calls "entitlement" programs and which he wants to cut back in a manner that would strike deeply at the middle class."
Anti-Muslim Ads Going Up In Metrorail Stations
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WASHINGTON -- The agency that operates the D.C. Metrorail system has until the end of Monday to post a set of controversial anti-Muslim advertisements that it fought in court to delay. A judge on Friday ordered the Washington
 
freethoughtblogs.com
You might think that given the realization that the US was taken to war under false pretenses and the subsequent revelation of all the abuses that occurred during that war, the US public might have at least some second thoughts about the wisdom of the many abhorrent practices that were adopted as...
 
Ever wonder why the political elite REFUSE to eat GMO? They won't eat it, but they want YOU to eat it! http://www.naturalnews.com/037466_GM_food_global_elite_organic_gardens.html
Political and corporate elite shun GM food on their own plate
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Political and corporate elite shun GM food on their own plate
 
 
In 2007, France officially banned Monsanto's Lasso weedkiller formula from use in the country in accordance with a European Union (EU) directive enacted in 2006 prohibiting the chemical from further use on crops in any member countries. Don't you think the U.S. should also ban such chemicals to protect our health?
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Homeowners, advocates want bank reps jailed for foreclosure fraud
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Homeowners and anti-foreclosure advocates are calling for bank officials and attorneys to be criminally investigated

 

 

Do you think we need 42 days of dangerous, dolphin-killing underwater blasting off the coast of California to determine if a nuclear plant on a fault line is safe?!? We don't!!!

Stop the seismic testing, and protect marine life, by taking 3 easy actions:

* Contact Congresswoman Lois Capps & tell her to withdrawal support, or she'll be voted out of office: https://capps.house.gov/contact-me

* Urge CA Coastal Commissioners to reject the plan: http://bit.ly/UNQ6fy

* Share this video: http://youtu.be/4XPAg_1n9ys
Surfing For Change: Underwater Explosions on Central Coast
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Human Spaceflight shared a link.

Cambodia drops case of murdered forest activist, Chut Wutty

http://news.mongabay.com/2012/1008-hance-chut-wutty-case-dismissed.html


An investigation into the mysterious death of Cambodian forest activist, Chut Wutty, has been dismissed by the courts, which critics allege is apart of an ongoing cover up. The court decided that since the suspect in Wutty's death, In Rattana, was also dead there was no need to proceed. Chut Witty was shot to death while escorting two journalists to a logging site run by Timbergreen. Wutty, whose death made international news, was a prominent activist against illegal logging in Cambodia.

Occupy Monsanto shared a link.

Congratulations Hawaii!

Unfortunately, mainstream medicine doesn't think the balance of beneficial and pathogenic gut bacteria is a big deal for your health. They prescribe antibiotics that destroy all types of bacteria indiscriminately, much like chemo destroys all types of cells.



One of the more persistent economic ideas rattling through the intelligentsia is that the last 250 years of amazing innovation, productivity and growth —from the steam-engine birth of the first industrial revolution in the 1700s to last month’s launch of the iPhone 5 — have come to an end. The nations of the developed world, especially the United States, have seen their best centuries. Growth has peaked. The future is flatlined.

http://opinion.financialpost.com/2012/10/08/end-of-u-s-growth-it-really-is-indeed-a-provocative-fantasy-says-u-s-economist-roger-pielke-jr/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
opinion.financialpost.com
The hot idea that the United States may be at the beginning of a prolonged perio
d of slow or even zero growth gets a thorough trashing from Roger Pielke Jr. of the University of Colorado.  Several pillars of a recent version of end-of-growth theory come tumbling down in Prof. Pieke's review, includi...
 

By Daniel Bases | NEW YORK Oct 8 (Reuters) - Investors marked Venezuelan sovereign debt prices lower on Monday in a muted reaction to the convincing victory of President Hugo Chavez and the extension of his self-styled socialist revolution.
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