Mar 01_31_2016
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Canada: The Trans-Pacific Agreement
Will Sap Whatever Is Left of Our Sovereignty
If you really think we live in a free and independent society, think again. What sovereignty are we left with, when we have already forfeited our birthright to multinationals?
What freedom are we talking about when a private company can challenge our laws in court, according to the various so-called free-trade agreements, negotiated by our governments in secret: NAFTA, the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement between Canada and the European Union (CETA) and now the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)?
Trade is the new euphemism for a Bill of Rights for Corporations.
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Restoring Global Soil Quality Is One Of The
Best Things We Can Do For Climate Change
Little known climate change fact: Just the first meter of soil contains as much carbon as the entire atmosphere. And there's potential to soak up much more.
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The alternative is so-called "carbon agriculture" which includes no-till farming (where you grow things year to year without disturbing the soil), cover crops (which help spur microbial activity in the soil) and "holistic management"—a grazing technique popularized by biologist Allan Savory. (Savory's TED talk, where he offers a solution to desertification and climate change, has been viewed 3.2 million times).
"If we took the subsidies that go to fossil fuels today and put that into the restoration of soil, we would deal with climate change within a generation. Easily," he says.
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From farm to pharmaceutical, diesel truck to dinner plate, pipeline to plastic product, it is impossible to think of an area of our modern-day lives that is not affected by the oil industry. The story of oil is the story of the modern world. And this is the story of those who helped shape that world, and how the oil-igarchy they created is on the verge of monopolizing life itself.
MUST-SEE DOCUMENTARY: How Big Oil Conquered the World
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The who, how & why of the JFK assassination. Taken from an historical perspective starting around world war 1 leading to present day. We hope after watching this video you will know more about what happened in the past and how the world is run today.
JFK to 911 Everything Is A Rich Man's Trick (3 hrs, 27 min)
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Exposing perceived fault lines in our banking and financial systems and explaining how unemployment could be cut in half in two years and worldwide prosperity restored, this book argues the existence of exotic energy sources to replace fossil fuels and consequently recommends an immediate end to fracking and offshore drilling for oil. It further urges an immediate worldwide mobilization to replace the energy source in every car, truck, tractor, ship, airplane, and house on Earth in seven years in a desperate effort to save the planet from further overheating
“The Money Mafia” by Paul Hellyer
A World in Crisis
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One (open source) platform, many vehicles
The versatility of the TABBY EVO Platform opens up infinite possibilities
for your next project: 2 Seats, 4 Seats, Urban vehicles, off-road,
convertible, hard top …and many more
And it’s available to everyone (try to buy one from Tesla or Volkswagen and let us know how they reply you)
An electric vehicle platform and design/engineering services that we sell to other companies
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You do realise that exposing the illegal things your government has been doing is illegal? (Cartoon, click to see)
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"… the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens,
who depend on the very system they attack … "
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The world is in the grip of a structural war against people, land, economies and ecosystems, writes Colin Todhunter. It is being waged by a quartet of organised criminal interests bent on monopolizing energy, money, food and violence across the globe. But a deep-rooted resistance against their ‘neoliberal’ doctrine of death and destruction is fighting back.
The US has about 5% of the world’s population but consumes 24% of global energy. On average, one person in the US consumes as much energy as two Japanese, six Mexicans, 13 Chinese, 31 Indians, 128 Bangladeshis, 307 Tanzanians and 370 Ethiopians.
It is able to consume at such a level because the dollar serves as the world reserve currency.
Arms, Agribusiness, Finance and Fossil Fuels: �The Four Horsemen of the Neoliberal Apocalypse
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Build an International Movement of the Working Class and Youth Against Imperialism!
Statement of the International Committee of the Fourth International
18 February 2016
Socialism and the Fight Against War
Twenty-five years of unending war, however, have failed either to counter the decline of American capitalism or create a new stable foundation for global relations. Rather, the United States—riven by intractable internal crises and armed to the teeth—has been transformed into the greatest source of international instability. The drive to create a “New World Order” has succeeded only in fomenting global disorder. Every war launched by the United States has resulted in unforeseen and disastrous complications.
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I support Dr. Jill Stein, who is running to be the Green Party candidate for president after having won her party’s nomination in 2012. I support Stein because she understands that this is primarily about building a global movement, not about participating in an election. She, unlike Bernie Sanders, knows that this movement will never be realized within the Democratic Party or by paying deference to the power elites, the Israel lobby or the arms industry and the military establishment. She grasps that until we name and destroy the evil of militarism and imperialism, genuine social and political reform, indeed democracy, is impossible. She does not want to work within the corporate establishment. She wants to dismantle it. And all the pundits who tell us not to waste our vote miss the point. It is time to stop playing the game.
Why I Support Dr. Jill Stein for President by Chris Hedges
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Former US Marine, political analyst and Palestinian advocate speaks with Steve Johnson on BBSradio.com
israel is a psycho state - Ken O'Keefe (53 min)
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As we've discussed before, the peer-to-peer economy is emerging in surprising and empowering ways, with sites like RipeNear.me connecting people to local food sources in ways never before possible. But as the eye of Sauron (aka JP Morgan) alights on this new phenomenon, it's important that we take stock of the P2P economy before it is co-opted and corrupted.
Join James for a new open source investigation into the P2P platforms that are helping to connect communities and empower individuals across the globe.
How To Get Free Food (And Other P2P Solutions) (9 min)
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Perkins’ book, ‘Confessions of an Economic Hitman’ caused a sensation. It showed that the United States’ attitude of helpfulness toward poorer countries was only a pretext for schemes to loot the countries. Perkins’ book sold more than a million copies and stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for 73 weeks.
Now the book has been reissued with the addition of 14 new chapters and a 30-page listing of Hit Man activity during the years 2004-2015.
Perkins shows that despite his revelations, the situation is worse than ever and has spread into the West itself. The populations of Ireland, Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy, and the United States itself are now being looted by Hit Man activity.
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Racing Extinction: The Film
In Racing Extinction, a team of artists and activists exposes the hidden world of extinction with never-before-seen images that will change the way we see the planet. Two worlds drive extinction across the globe, potentially resulting in the loss of half of all species. The international wildlife trade creates bogus markets at the expense of creatures that have survived on this planet for millions of years. And the other surrounds us, hiding in plain sight — a world that the oil and gas companies don’t want the rest of us to see. Using covert tactics and state-of-the-art technology, the Racing Extinction team exposes these two worlds in an inspiring affirmation to preserve life as we know it. From the Academy Award® Winning Filmmakers of "The Cove"
Racing Extinction (94 min)
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Published on Jun 1, 2014
Cable companies are trying to create an unequal playing field for internet speeds, but they're doing it so boringly that most news outlets aren't covering it.
John Oliver explains the controversy and lets viewers know how they can voice their displeasure to the FCC.
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Net Neutrality (13 min)
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Published on Apr 5, 2015
There are very few government checks on what America’s sweeping surveillance programs are capable of doing. John Oliver sits down with Edward Snowden to discuss the NSA, the balance between privacy and security, and dick-pics.
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Government Surveillance (33 min)
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Published on Feb 26, 2016
On May 13, 1985, one of the most shameful, horrific attacks ever by U.S. police took place in West Philadelphia. 11 people—including five children—were killed in a deliberate massacre and 61 houses burned to the ground. A racist and political attack on a radical community group known as the MOVE Organization, city and police officials were revealed to have intentionally set their home ablaze, let the fire rage, and violently kept escaping men, women and children trapped inside.
Featuring a harrowing first-hand account with the only adult survivor of the atrocity, Ramona Africa, Abby Martin documents an indispensable—but largely unheard of—moment in American history. From MOVE's formation, to the arrest of the MOVE 9 political prisoners, to the build-up to the infamous bombing, The Empire Files chronicles an act that cannot be forgotten.
The Empire Files: An Unparalleled Act of Police Terror
The 1985 Massacre by Philadelphia Police of the Move Organization (30 min)
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Bomb dropped by police on Move Organization House (May13, 1985)
61 homes left to burn to the ground
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To combat air pollution, Milan officials hope to pay commuters to bike instead of drive to work. The Guardian reports that the system will be based loosely on the French program tested in 2014, which paid employees 25 Euro cents for each mile they biked to work.
Milan’s air needs all the help it can get. Named the “pollution capital of Europe” in 2008, the city continues to struggle with dirty air. In December, Milan instituted a three-day ban on private cars due to heavy smog.
Milan wants to pay people to bicycle to work
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'We are not alone,' Jeremy Corbyn tells crowd. 'There are many people around the world...who have wanted a non-nuclear future for their country and their planet.'
In what was called "Britain’s biggest anti-nuclear weapons rally in a generation," tens of thousands took to the streets of London on Saturday to protest the UK's nuclear weapons system—Trident—and to call for global disarmament.
According to the Guardian, "Campaigners gathered from across the world: some said they had traveled from Australia to protest against the renewal of Trident. Others had come from the west coast of Scotland where Britain’s nuclear deterrent submarines are based."
Tens of Thousands Join UK Anti-Nuke Demo
Billed as Biggest in Generation
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New inventions, whether they’re gadgets or startups or biotech advancements, always come with some promise to “change the world.” Some do. Most don’t. A rare few find revolutionary uses that go far beyond what their creators initially envisioned.
The United Nations’ Gabo Arora would like virtual reality to be the latter—a technology meant to revolutionize gaming that has the potential to impact lives in ways far beyond Eve: Valkyrie.
VR Films Work Great for Charity. What About Changing Minds?
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'People have no idea that they’re being tracked and targeted'.
Billboards across the country will soon begin to spy on the behavior of passers-by and sell that data to advertisers.
Clear Channel Outdoor Americas, which owns tens of thousands of billboards nationwide, is on Monday announcing plans to use people's cell phones to allow its billboards to track the behavior of everyone who walks or drives past the ads.
'Incredibly Creepy' Billboards to Track Behavior of Passers-By
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5 Reasons Not to Vote for Hillary Clinton
1.Money
2. Force
3. Ambition
4. Mendacity
5. Personality
5 Reasons Not to Vote for Hillary Clinton
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WASHINGTON — Facing hundreds of millions of dollars in lawsuits, the giant biotechnology company Monsanto last year received a legislative gift from the House of Representatives, a one-paragraph addition to a sweeping chemical safety bill that could help shield it from legal liability for a toxic chemical only it made.
Monsanto insists it did not ask for the addition. House aides deny it is a gift at all. But the provision would benefit the only manufacturer in the United States of now-banned polychlorinated biphenyls, chemicals known as PCBs, a mainstay of Monsanto sales for decades. The PCB provision is one of several sticking points that negotiators must finesse before Congress can pass a law to revamp the way thousands of chemicals are regulated in the United States.
Chemical Safety Bill Could Help
Protect Monsanto Against Legal Claims
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What happens if the facial recognition cameras get it wrong? Or the "visual microphone" detects the wrong sound? Or the emotion-reading or crime-predicting technology of the near future is just quackery, designed to frame anyone the government wants to convict? Sadly, this isn't sci-fi fantasy; it's the present and we're already living through it. Just ask Steve Talley...
Meet the Bogus Technology the Government Will Use to Frame You
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Several weeks back, we featured for you Star Trek Continues, the critically-acclaimed, fan-made sequel to the original TV series, which tries to answer the questions: What if Star Trek had continued? How would the story have played out?
Others have tried to offer up answers to those questions too. And we’d be remiss, a reader reminded us, if we didn’t give a little airtime to Star Trek: New Voyages, “the longest-running, Star Trek original series fan production in the world.” Here’s a little more information about the production from the show’s web site:
Watch Star Trek: New Voyages:
The Original Fan-Made Sequel to the 1960s TV Series
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Want a round of RoundUp with your beer? The German beer industry is in shock after finding that 14 different popular beer brands have traces of the ‘probably’ carcinogenic herbicide, glyphosate – an ingredient found in Monsanto’s best-selling weed killer, Round Up. Germany’s Agricultural minster is playing down the risks in order to save one of the countries’ best-selling exports.
Glyphosate levels were as high as 30 micrograms per liter, even in beer that is supposed to be brewed from only water, malt, and hops. This finding by the Munich Environmental Institute calls into question the rampant spraying of Round Up on both GMO and non-GMO crops around the world, and casts doubt upon Germany’s 500-year-old beer purity law.
The EU Commission was looking to extend approval for the use of glyphosate in Germany, and other EU countries in April for another 15 years. The current license runs out this summer.
Monsanto Weed Killer Found in 14 Popular Beer Brands
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It's Cannabis? It's Honey? No, it's CannaHoney!
This brilliant 39 year old man from France, Nicolas Trainerbees, has done what no one else has been able to do. He has figured out how to train bees to make cannabis honey, and he calls it CannaHoney. A quick google search shows this is not a new idea as there are many links of people trying to infuse cannabis into honey, but nobody does it like this guy does!
Nicolas is an artisan, a locksmith & a beekeeper, along with being an all around nature lover and a strong advocate for medical marijuana.
BRILLIANT: Man Figures Out How To Train Bees
To Make Honey From Cannabis
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Subhashish Panigrahi talks to Eben Moglen and Sunil Mohan Adapa about FreedomBox and how it can easily bring internet to remote places.
Recently, while visiting Swecha, a non-profit in Hyderabad that is bringing social change with free and open source software and is part of the Free Software Movement of India, I came to know about FreedomBox. Maintained by the non-profit FreedomBox Foundation that runs on donations, the FreedomBox is a revolution in itself. This project's flagship product, costing just US$100, uses various open hardware components, runs on free operating system Debian OS and works as a secure personal server for distributed social networking, email and audio-visual communications.
This open source private server is as easy to use
as a smartphone and can ease your privacy concerns
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To continue the "political revolution" Bernie Sanders calls for, he should support the Green Party and its likely candidate for president, Jill Stein, if he loses the Democratic primary. He must reject the so-called "lesser-evil" of neoliberal Hillary Clinton and help us build an alternative political institution that can challenge the corporate Democrat and Republican Parties.
Break the Corporate Duopoly: Support Jill Stein and the Green Party
if You Lose the Democratic Nomination
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Cáceres, who was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for her opposition to one of Central America’s biggest hydropower projects, was shot at home.
Berta Cáceres, the Honduran indigenous and environmental rights campaigner, has been murdered, barely a week after she was threatened for opposing a hydroelectric project.
The co-founder of the Council of Indigenous Peoples of Honduras (Copinh) was shot dead by gunmen who entered her home in La Esperanza at around 1am on Thursday. Some reports say there were two killers; others suggest 11. They escaped without being identified, after also wounding her brother.
Police told local media the killings occurred during an attempted robbery, but the family said they had no doubt it was an assassination prompted by Cáceres’s high-profile campaigns against dams, illegal loggers and plantation owners.
Berta Cáceres, Honduran environment
and human rights activist, murdered
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In the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008 and the rapid downturn in the global economy that followed in 2009, various bourgeois economists and pundits put forward the notion that the so-called BRICS economies—Brazil, Russia, China, India and South Africa—could provide a new basis for the expansion of world capitalism.
The last remnants of this myth collapsed this week with reports that the Chinese government is planning to slash millions of jobs in basic industries amid vast overcapacity, and that Brazil has entered a recession, possibly the deepest contraction in its history.
China and Brazil: Two expressions
of the deepening capitalist breakdown
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Last week, Newsweek published Evelyn Farkas, the former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia/Ukraine/Eurasia (who vacated the post only last October). In her incredibly aggressive op-ed, Farkas explained ‘How We Can Defeat Putin’. The same Putin who is the popularly-elected president of Russia. The world’s second strongest military power.
Farkas is now an employee of the pro-NATO Atlantic Council, which the formerly venerable Newsweek appears to have partnered with. The Atlantic Council is funded by the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Army, the U.S. Air Force, the UAE & Bahraini governments and various other vested interests. None of them are particularly supportive of Russia. On the other hand, most would directly benefit from increased NATO spending.
U.S. defense establishment believes Putin must be ‘defeated’
U.S. General Philip Breedlove, top commander of NATO military alliance
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For anyone who has ever worked in a hostile corporate environment, the intense personalities of executives are all too familiar and far too scary. These peoples’ personalities can be described as devious, competitive and lacking empathy. They often can’t display any form of kindness and lack any type of remorseful thinking. Sometimes it stretches as far as agenda-plotting, displays of hardcore manipulation and extravagant posturing.
These people, who unfortunately often need such personality flaws in order to be successful leaders, can often torment employees’ lives, making their workplace a living hell. Either way you cut it, these people are often the very reason that employees shy away from working for big corporations and why they seek out jobs with smaller companies or self-employ.
Why Psychopaths Are Great “CEO Material”
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Published on Dec 9, 2015
"Haiti held its first round presidential and parliamentary elections in late October, and as with everything political in Haiti, there's much more going on there than meets the media eye here. Ezili Dantò is a New York City-based human rights attorney dedicated to "correcting the media lies and colonial narratives about Haiti." She's a performance poet, founder of the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network, and runs the ezilidanto.com website, listserve, and eyewitness project, FreeHaitiMovement, and the on-line journal, Haitian Perspectives, and author of 'Vodun Woman: A Performance Poetry Collection,' and the 'Kenbe La' books. Ezili Dantò and who the West is choosing for Haiti's future this time." -- Chris Cook, Gorilla Radio, November 11, 2015
Oil, Gold, Iridium are why United States
Pushes Fake Aid & Elections in Haiti (25 min)
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“Bill Maher’s latest repulsive comments.”
The nominally liberal comedian uses his weekly discussion show on HBO, Real Time With Bill Maher, to pretentiously preen to a reliably sycophantic audience and spread xenophobic hate speech, barely veiled racism, and dismissive misogyny. It’s a nasty piece of work that enjoys a substantial influence in mainstream liberal circles.
Maher’s base is expanding out of the liberal mainstream, though, thanks to his virulent hatred of Islam and its adherents. Much like evangelical atheist Richard Dawkins, whose views on Islam and the Global South have won him fans across the rising right wing in Europe, Maher is enjoying something of a career renaissance as he garners praise from the American hard right.
A Nasty Piece of Work: the Unreal Politics of Bill Maher
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In this episode of “Behind the Headline,” host and MintPress News Editor-in-Chief Mnar Muhawesh talks to Kevin Gosztola, editor of Shadowproof, about why some human rights groups don’t count Chelsea Manning as a political prisoner -- and why that matters.
MINNEAPOLIS — According to the American Civil Liberties Union, the Obama administration has prosecuted more whistleblowers than any other administration in U.S. history, making America one of the most dangerous place for those who expose government crimes.
Think of Edward Snowden and Julian Assange, who have gone to great lengths to avoid what fate may await them on U.S. soil.
Others, like Chelsea Manning, have not been so lucky to avoid that fate. She’s serving a 35-year sentence in a military prison facility for orchestrating the largest leak of classified information the world has ever seen.
Why Won’t Amnesty International Classify
Chelsea Manning As A Political Prisoner? (8 min)
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While visiting New Delhi this week, the head of the US Pacific Command, Admiral Harry Harris, publicly pressed India to take steps that would be tantamount to making it a “frontline state” in the US drive to strategically isolate, encircle and prepare for war against China.
Harris called for the Indian and US navies to mount joint patrols across the Indian and Pacific Oceans and for India to join the US and its two most important Asian-Pacific military allies, Japan and Australia, in a quadrilateral “security” dialogue.
Later the US admiral told a press conference that this year’s Malabar exercise, a trilateral naval exercise involving Indian, US and Japanese warships, will take place off the Philippines’s northeast coast, very close to the South China Sea.
US presses India to join anti-China alliance
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http://nsnbc.me/2016/03/06/obama-renews-assessment-of-venezuela-as-unusual-and-extraordinary-threat/
U.S. President Barack Obama renewed his executive order issued in March 2015, that assesses Venezuela as an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.
Obama renewed the controversial executive order for the duration of another year. The penning of the executive order was revealed in a letter from Obama to leaders of the U.S.’ Congress. In the letter, Obama notes that conditions in Venezuela had not changed since he signed the order last year.
The United States’ administration has been hostile to the socialist PSUV government in Venezuela and supported Venezuela’s opposition, the Roundtable of Democratic Union (MUD), that won a majority in Venezuela’s National Assembly. The U.S. has also been linked to support of Venezuelans who were implicated in an alleged attempt of a coup last year.
Obama Renews Assessment of Venezuela
as Unusual and Extraordinary Threat
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In order to celebrate man’s most valuable freedom — the freedom to choose — Danish volunteers are now giving grocery shoppers the option of purchasing items seen as “unloved” by other major supermarkets in the nation.
According to TreeHugger.com, Denmark’s WeFood grocery store, located in Copenhagen, has a different proposal. Instead of wasting mislabeled products, ugly produce, or items that come in damaged packaging, the brand new grocer wants to offer consumers a choice — and everyone is cheering it.
Each year, TreeHugger reports, 163,000 tons of food are discarded by Danish grocers. In many cases, discarded products aren’t necessarily bad. Instead, consumers are wasting “treats for a holiday that happened last week, a ripped box of cornflakes, plain white rice mislabeled as basmati, or anything nearing its expiration date.”
New Grocery Store Sells Food
Other Stores Would’ve Trashed, Shelves Empty Daily
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Governmental control is nothing compared to what Google is up to. The company is creating a wholly new genus of capitalism, a systemic coherent new logic of accumulation we should call surveillance capitalism. Is there nothing we can do? surveillance capitalism
05.03.2016, von Shoshana Zuboff
Google surpassed Apple as the world’s most highly valued company in January for the first time since 2010. (Back then each company was worth less than 200 billion. Now each is valued at well over 500 billion.) While Google’s new lead lasted only a few days, the company’s success has implications for everyone who lives within the reach of the Internet. Why? Because Google is ground zero for a wholly new subspecies of capitalism in which profits derive from the unilateral surveillance and modification of human behavior. This is a new surveillance capitalism that is unimaginable outside the inscrutable high velocity circuits of Google’s digital universe, whose signature feature is the Internet and its successors.
The Secrets of Surveillance Capitalism
The assault we face is driven by the exceptional appetites of a wholly new genus of capitalism: surveillance capitalism.
Shoshana Zuboff is the Charles Edward Wilson Professor, Emerita, Harvard Business School. This essay was written for a 2016 address at Green Templeton College, Oxford. Her forthcoming book is Master or Slave: The Fight for the Soul of Our Information Civilization, to be published by Eichborn in Germany and Public Affairs in the U.S.
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The priceless George Carlin, telling it like it is. Miss you, man.
George Carlin - War is prick-waving
(The bigger dick foreign policy theory)
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F. William Engdahl (NEO) : Russia is making consequent its decision last fall to ban the commercial planting of Genetically Modified Organisms or GMO in its agriculture acreage. The latest decision, effective February 15, 2016 does not at all please Monsanto or the US Grain Cartel.
Russia Bans US GMO Imports
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Beached somewhere in the Scottish Highlands along a sea’s loch, 73-year-old Tom McClean stands ankle-deep aside his 20-metre steel whale, feeling out the water’s swell and waiting for the perfect moment to take her seaborne once more. Moby, the obvious name choice for a gargantuan motor-boat in the shape of a sperm whale, was built by McClean 20 years ago, who has funnelled about £100,000 into the project, which will soon carry him across the Atlantic.
This 73-year-old built a 60ft steel whale-home
to sail back and forth across the Atlantic
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Ninety-nine years ago, an American president committed to an internationalist foreign policy with messianic overtones, pledged to make the world “safe for democracy.” Times have changed. For although “democracy,” rights-based liberalism (including women’s rights), “freedom,” and the rule of law are still very much a part of the internationalist lexicon, these words have become little more than clichés mouthed to justify cynical policies and to win over or lull naïve progressives with whom such terms still resonate with genuine earnestness. They are the policy equivalent of slick Madison Avenue marketing to help make the world safe for plutocracy.
Keeping the World Safe for Plutocracy
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http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/08/fierce-love-and-conviction-women-take-stand-mother-earth
On International Women's Day, activists honor Berta Cáceres and other females fighting against oppression and global capitalism.
Indigenous women, environmentalists, and feminists across the globe on Tuesday marked International Women's Day with a renewed call to stand up against oppression and resist the intersecting attacks on women and Mother Earth—our Pachamama.
Falling just days after the high-profile assassination of Honduran peasant leader Berta Cáceres, many groups issued specific calls to honor the slayed activist, who dedicated her life to the causes of female and Indigenous sovereignty, and resisting environmental destruction.
With 'Fierce Love and Conviction,' Women Take Stand for Mother Earth
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"It is high time for a political initiative to challenge the threats towards the prizewinner, an initiative that should conclude with an offer of stay and protection."
Norway's chapter of the freedom of expression organization PEN on Monday announced it would award its Ossietzky Prize to whistleblower Edward Snowden for his role in exposing mass surveillance—and challenged the Norwegian government to allow him to come to Oslo to accept it without fear of extradition.
"It is high time for a political initiative to challenge the threats towards the prizewinner, an initiative that should conclude with an offer of stay and protection," the organization wrote in its press release announcing the prize. "A suitable start of such a process would be for the Norwegian government to guarantee him safe passage to receive the Ossietzky Prize for 2016."
PEN Norway Awards Snowden,
Calls on Government to Grant Safe Passage
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As the director accepted Sun Valley Film Festival's Lifetime Vision Award, he reflected on his life, work and the future.
Though he accepted the Sun Valley Film Festival's Lifetime Vision Award with humor on Saturday evening ("It's so small," he joked), filmmaker Oliver Stone sounded a more serious note, too — returning to the criticism of a failed system that's defined his career since the release of "Salvador" and "Platoon" in 1986. Introduced by Melissa Leo, who stars as filmmaker Laura Poitras in Stone's upcoming "Snowden," as "one of the United States of America's greatest living directors," he invited the assembled guests to join him in a prayer for peace.
"The clouds are darkening around the world," he remarked. "The danger is growing. The extremities are growing."
Oliver Stone Talks About Critical Responses, His Failed MLK Film and Why He's Not Excited for the American Future
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Published on Mar 4, 2016
Dr. Bergman shows the facts and research behind the Zika virus and explains why you shouldn't believe everything you hear on the media.
The Truth Behind the Zika Virus (27 min)
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Lugansk Archpriest Vladimir Moretskiy, recently freed from Ukrainian captivity, related the conditions that he and his companions endured in captivity. According to the priest, they were brutally tortured.
"To say that they beat us would be saying nothing. They killed us. They shot us. They hit us not just with hands and feet, but with rifle butts and with anything at hand," said the liberated priest.
He added that Nadezhda Savchenko, who is currently under arrest in Russian Voronezh,"especially distinguished herself." "She personally threatened to turn over all of our group for organ-harvesting for the money. When the others didn't agree to hand over our bodies for organ-harvesting, she threatened to shoot us, not to waste the expense of delivering us to the SBU.
Savchenko threatened prisoners with having their organs harvested
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NSA whistleblower says 'global technological consensus is against the FBI'
The FBI's claim that it cannot break into the iPhone of one of the suspected San Bernardino shooters without Apple's help is "bullshit," according to National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Speaking during a democracy conference via a live video feed from Moscow on Tuesday, Snowden said, "The FBI says Apple has the 'exclusive technical means' to unlock the phone. Respectfully, that's bullshit."
On Twitter, he added, "The global technological consensus is against the FBI," linking to a blog post by ACLU technology fellow Daniel Kahn Gillmor explaining how one of the bureau's biggest claims in the iPhone case—that Apple must disable the "auto-erase" feature, which wipes data from devices after 10 failed passcode attempts, before agents can try to break into it—is fraudulent.
Snowden Calls "Bullshit" on FBI's Claim
It Needs Apple to Unlock iPhone
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Court's ruling sends "a clear message that nuclear power has no place in Japan's energy future."
In a historic ruling described as a "wake-up call" for both the nuclear industry and the Japanese government, a district court on Wednesday ordered the shutdown of Takahaka Nuclear Plant in western Japan—a decision that was welcomed by residents and local officials who said the plant posed health and safety risks.
The order, coming just days before the fifth anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, will bring the number of operating nuclear reactors in Japan down to two. According to news outlets, it is the first injunction issued in Japan to halt a nuclear plant that is currently operational.
"It's a clear message that nuclear power has no place in Japan's energy future."
—Hisayo Takada, Greenpeace Japan
The Japan Times reports:
The lawsuit that sought the injunction was filed by Shiga residents who are fearful that an accident at the Takahama plant, which lies less than 30 kilometers from the northern part of Shiga Prefecture, would impact Lake Biwa, the nation’s largest freshwater body and the source of water for about 14 million people in the Kansai region, including Kyoto and Osaka.
In 'Landmark Victory,' Japanese Court Orders Nuke Plant Shutdown
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Ford Motor Company announced plans to manufacture 500,000 vehicles at its new factory in Mexico in 2018 — and the company isn’t alone in the move. The announcement came after delegates from 12 countries signed the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the massive treaty ironically called a ‘free trade deal,’ which analysts have predicted could cause the loss of nearly half a million U.S. jobs.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Ford’s Mexico operations, which should double its 2015 production, will originate from a new assembly facility in San Luis Potosí, as well as from the expansion of a factory in Mexico City. This plan “mirrors” a $5 billion investment by Ford rival, General Motors, to double its production capacity in Mexico by 2018.
While the TPP has been touted by politicians as an extraordinary benefit to the U.S., Mexico’s lower labor costs will instead help that country’s economy reap the rewards — already evidencing the enormous trade deal’s similarities to NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement), which many have come to view as a disaster for the U.S.
Ford Motors Just Showed Us What the TPP Will Do to the US Economy
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Back in 2011, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released a report on the threat overfishing poses to marine biodiversity.
The Darthmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science (DUJS) explained several years ago that it is the commercial fishing industry who is to blame for the extinction of certain types of fish, as well as the biggest threat to marine biodiversity to this day.
The DUJS wrote: “Today, however, small trawlers and fishing boats have been replaced by giant factory ships that can capture and process extremely large amounts of prey at a given time. These ships use sonar instruments and global positioning systems (GPS) to rapidly locate large schools of fish. Fishing lines are deployed with thousands of large hooks that can reach areas up to 120 kilometers deep. The trawling vessels and machines can even reach depths of 170 kilometers and can store an extraordinarily large volume of fish.”
The DUJS pointed out that “bottom trawling, a technique that uses extremely wide nets armed with heavy metal rollers, can crush everything in the path of the gear, destroying fragile corals, smashing rock formations, and killing several tons of fish and animals as bycatch.”
This method wreaks “havoc on delicate marine ecosystems”.
The Corporate Connection to Mass Extinctions of Fish & Marine Life
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U.S. Police kill citizens at over 70 times the rate of other first world countries
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Raimu Inc is the company responsible for the Satori Coin initiative, as the company took a vested interest in Bitcoin a few years ago. It is not uncommon to see Bitcoin enthusiasm in Japan, although there is hardly ever any news to report on in this region. But that is all coming to change, thanks to this new initiative.
Satori Coin acts as a physical Bitcoin, which may sound quite strange when talking about a digital currency that has no physical traits by nature. Introducing a tangible way to represent the concept of Bitcoin is an excellent way to raise awareness about digital currency, as well as boost the usage of Bitcoin in the country.
Rather than making these coins rather expensive – such as Casascius or Denarium counterparts – Satori Coin is introduced as an “entry level” physical Bitcoin. In fact, Raimu Inc wants to make these physical coins the cheapest iteration of Bitcoin in its physical form available today.
Every Satori Coin is loaded with 0.001 Bitcoin – worth roughly US$0.50 – which is a very tiny amount. But at the same time, these small amounts will prevent Satori Coin holders from spending the funds wrongfully, such as by paying for illegal goods or transactions. That being said, this tiny amount is representing something much bigger than just the monetary associated with the Satori Coin.
Raimu Inc Introduces Satori Coin In Japan
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A lot of reporters are gathering at South by Southwest this week. A lot. But the local Austin Fox affiliate isn’t taking chances. For this SXSW, the newsroom at KTBC will be experimenting with a service that lets them put out the call via smartphone for on-the-scene photos and videos when their own reporters aren’t available. And if they come through, these citizen stringers get paid. Yes, we’ll say it: it’s Uber for journalism.
Uber for Journalism
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The noted scholar, linguist, philosopher and activist declared that mainstream media is based in ‘institutions of power and domination’ that oppose the interests of humanity and the environment.
MUNICH — During an interview published last month, noted scholar, linguist, philosopher and activist Noam Chomsky spoke out against the corporate-controlled media.
Six multinational corporations control most of the mainstream media outlets in America, and Chomsky is perhaps one of the best-known media analysts to criticize the deleterious effect this has on democracy and freedom of speech.
“The Mainstream Media are an ideological instrument. They have owners,” he said in the video recorded at a Nov. 17 panel on Germany’s role in world affairs, hosted by independent media outlet acTVism Munich.
Chomsky: Mainstream Media Owned By
Those Who Would Destroy Civilization With War
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If one views modern economic history as a dialectical struggle between those who would preserve the commons as a resource shared by all and those who would enclose it for their own private benefit, the recent history of seed provides an object lesson. For generation upon generation, millennia upon millennia, through happenstance, observation and diligence, farmers, as keepers of the seed, saved the best and improved our food crops in a co-evolutionary dance with plants.
Because nature annually regenerates in multiples that would turn any corporate financier green with envy, at first glance seed would seem an unlikely candidate for privatization. Three mechanisms, however, one biological (hybridization), one engineered (genetic engineering) and one legal (patents), have been used to commodify the seed, take it out of farmers' hands and pass control rapidly to large corporations.
Unlike open-pollinated seeds, hybrid seeds that were developed from disparate inbred lines won't come true-to-type in the next generation and will require years of arduous re-selection to produce useful, stable varieties. Beginning with sweet corn in the 1930s, the seed industry adopted hybridization, largely because farmers had to repurchase hybrids from the seed company every year; so hybrids, by creating a near-captive market, delivered a larger return on investment for their developers.
At Last the Seed: Can the Open Source Seed Initiative
Be a Game-Changer?
Jack Kloppenburg, emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin, has devoted much of his life to seed work. In 1988 he wrote his seminal exposé of the seed business, “First the Seed.” Photo by Claire Luby
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Late Night Alumni - Empty Streets
Late Night Alumni is an American house group composed of Becky Jean Williams, John Hancock, Finn Bjarnson and Ryan Raddon. They are primarily known for mixing dance music with strings and soft trance-like vocals.
Music video: Late Night Alumni - Empty Streets Lyrics (5 min)
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As the news broke on March 7, 2016, that US drone strikes had killed 150 people in Somalia, the White House announced it will reveal, for the first time, the number of people killed by drones and manned airstrikes "outside areas of active hostilities" since 2009. The tallies will include civilian deaths. This is a critical first step toward much-needed transparency. But it will not go far enough.
The Obama administration has been lying for years about how many deaths result from its drone strikes and manned bombings. In 2011, John Brennan, the former counterterrorism adviser, now CIA director, falsely claimed that no civilians had been killed in drone strikes in nearly a year.
Marjorie Cohn | Who Is the US Killing With Drones?
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Proof that the NEW WORLD ORDER has been planned by the elite. Robert Welch, Founder of The John Birch Society, predicted today's problems with uncanny accuracy back in 1958 and prescribed solutions in 1974 that are very similar to Ron Paul's positions today. This is proof that there are plans in place by the elite to systemically disassemble US sovereignty. I wonder who those elite are.
Mind blowing speech by Robert Welch in 1958
predicting Insiders plans to destroy America (9 min)
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The FBI warns in the report that that “anarchist extremists” are no different that ISIS terrorists.
They further caution teachers against young people who are poor, as well as immigrants and others who travel to “suspicious” countries. These, they explain, are teens who are more likely to commit terrorism.
Sarah Lazare, writing for AlterNet, notes that “based on the widely unpopular British ‘anti-terror’ mass surveillance program, the FBI’s ‘Preventing Violent Extremism in Schools’ guidelines, released in January, are almost certainly designed to single out and target Muslim-American communities.”
Lazare notes that the FBI cautions teachers to “avoid the appearance of discrimination,” in carrying out the order to spy on students and report them to the Bureau.
FBI Orders Teachers To Report Students Who Question Government
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Disgusting beyond words!
As for Ray McGovern, I have the utmost respect for him. He is a *real* American patriot. I wish him all the best and a prompt recovery from his injuries.
The Saker
Peace Activist and Ex-CIA Analyst Ray McGovern Beaten,
Arrested for Silent Protest at Clinton Speech (5 min)
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A grandmother has raised thousands of pounds to build a family home by making masses of a traditional Scottish sweet. After hearing Elizabeth Charo and her four children had been sleeping on a Kenyan beach for five years, the retired social worker from Perth desperately wanted to help.
“I was determined to help this poor woman and her children who were living on a beach 20 minutes away from the school with no shelter,” she told STV.
Bayne, an avid baker, was able to put her skills to work immediately and began creating tons of traditional Scottish Tablet. The super-sweet snack made from sugar, condensed milk, and butter is a kind of crystallised fudge that, when made well, is rumoured to make grown Scots cry.
After Being Homeless for Five Years,
Single Mother of Four Finds Guardian Angel
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In a tale of Brussels corruption almost too crass to believe, the Commission of the European Union is ready to approve a new license for a proven carcinogen, glyphosate, despite international warnings from WHO and independent scientists that it is toxic to humans and animals. Only huge protest has forced the EU to make a surprise postponement of its planned vote to re-approve.
EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Vytenis Andriukaitis, postponed re-licensing of glyphosate this month not because of his taking a morally courageous stand by going against the corrupt EU Commission food safety advisory group, EFSA, and banning renewal of the license for the world’s most widely-used weed-killer, glyphosate. He’s fully ready to approve the substance. This, despite the fact that a scientific panel of the World Health Organization labeled glyphosate in 2015 as a probable human and animal carcinogen. He postponed only because four EU member states, unexpectedly, refused to approve renewal. Now Andriukaitis and the GMO weed-killer cartel are scheming to find a new way to ram the renewal through.
The Incredible Brussels Glyphosate Sheep Dip
by F. William Engdahl
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McGovern says he believes the president can’t hold either agency accountable for their violations of the law and human rights because of the power they hold over him.
MUNICH — A former CIA analyst believes the CIA and National Security Agency have become so powerful that the president is afraid to act against them when they break the law.
Ray McGovern retired from the CIA in 1990, following nearly 30 years of service to the agency. He was awarded the Intelligence Commendation Medal, which is given to agents who offer “especially commendable service” to the agency.
Outraged over the CIA’s open use of torture, he returned the medal in 2006 and became an antiwar activist. He was arrested in 2011 for a silent protest against a speech by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
In an interview published Monday by acTVism Munich, an independent media outlet, McGovern warned that U.S. intelligence agencies are too powerful to be held accountable, even by President Barack Obama. He explained:
Former CIA Analyst Ray McGovern:
Obama Is ‘Afraid’ Of The CIA And The NSA
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Industrialized Agriculture is addicted to chemistry in the form of pesticides. The addiction was marketed to the American People, along with other post World War Two miracles such as nylon stockings and the ball point pen. The pen and the nylons, of course, ultimately proved much less dangerous than the chemical fix for company profits.
Between 1947 and 1949, pesticide companies invested nearly $4 billion into expanding their production facilities, and made huge profits. By 1952-53, there were some 10,000 separate new pesticide products registered with the USDA, in what was labeled by journalists and historians as “The Golden Age of Pesticides.”
Today, well over 33 million pounds of fumigants are used in California agriculture each year with over 9 million of cancer-causing chloropicrin alone. For strawberries grown in the state, fumigants account for 87 percent of all pesticide use.
Dangers from Pesticides
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The media is supposed to tell us everything important: so why, after spending so long with it, are we generally so overloaded, confused and oddly unfocused on the stuff that really matters?
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What's wrong with the media (4 min)
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The traditional school structure has long been one of “textbook” learning rather than hands-on learning, where practical experience acts as the teacher. Paired with a societal shift towards convenience and technology, we have cut off some of our ties to the natural world. Are we really teaching our children about the world in which they live? In recent years, a number of programs have focused on teaching children where their food comes from by allowing them to grow and harvest their own produce. But now, thanks to an innovative new design, there could be an entire preschool devoted to sustainable farming and education.
Recently, Rome-based designers aut- -aut proposed “Nursery Fields Forever,” a part farm, part school, with three unique approaches to learning: from nature, technique, and practice. The idea was awarded first prize at this year’s AWR International Ideas Competition.
This new preschool design will teach kids to grow their own food
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France has ratcheted up its draconian repression of free speech about Palestine with the arrest of a woman for wearing a T-shirt supporting the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement.
The activist was taking part in a march for International Women’s Day in Paris last Sunday when undercover police swooped in and detained her for wearing a piece of clothing with the words “Boycott Apartheid Israel” printed on it.
According to the newspaper L’Humanité, officers from the Renseignements Généraux, the intelligence service of the French police, were involved in monitoring the demonstration in which numerous social justice and leftist groups took part.
France remains under the state of emergency severely limiting public freedoms that was declared after last November’s atrocities by suspected Islamic State extremists who killed 130 people in Paris.
NEW DRESS CODE IN FRANCE ~~ IF YOUR T-SHIRT CRITICIZES ISRAEL, IT’S ILLEGAL
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Published on Dec 21, 2014
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Antonio and Rosario Marciano administrators of the Italian website TANKER ENEMY produced the film : “ Chemtrails the secret war ”. This HD documentary film is the first Italian professional film on illegal geo-engineering aka chemtrails. It has been realized thanks to many friends and collaborators. For years this issue has been denied and mocked but the chemical spraying of our sky is still going on !
This documentary analyses, in a scientific and rigorous approach the main characteristics of this issue. The weather manipulation is only a collateral aspect of the phenomenon.
Speakers :
Giorgio Pattera - biologist
Corrado Penna - physicist
Rosario Marciano - film maker
Chemtrails the Secret War (60 min) Italian with English subtitles
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The neoliberal ideology that is the engine of corporate capitalism spews its poison around the globe. Constitutions are rewritten by judicial fiat in a mockery of democracy. Laws and regulations that impede corporate exploitation are abolished. Corporations orchestrate legally sanctioned tax boycotts. Free-trade deals destroy small farmers and businesses along with labor unions and government agencies designed to protect the public from contaminated air, water and food and from usurious creditors and lenders. The press is transformed into an echo chamber for the corporate elites. Wages stagnate or decline. Unemployment and underemployment soar. Social services are curtailed or abolished in the name of austerity. The political system becomes a charade. Dissent is criminalized. The ecocide by the fossil fuel industry accelerates. State enterprises and utilities are sold to corporations. The educational system mutates into vocational training. Culture and the arts are replaced by sexual commodification, banal entertainment and graphic depictions of violence. Infrastructures crumble.
The Mexicanization of the United States by Chris Hedges
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Published on Mar 13, 2016
Strong encryption poses problems for law enforcement, is weakening it worth the risks it presents? It’s…complicated.
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Encryption (18 min)
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For a very long time there was a colloquial saying about the weather, e.g., everyone talks about the weather, but no one can do anything about it. Well, not anymore! One just has to look overhead to see all the weather geoengineering that’s taking place, and being sprayed out of contracted airplanes, for that very purpose.
As far back as the 1960s, we have documentation that controlling the weather was a priority quest.
Who OWNS the Weather? By Catherine J. Frompovich
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New sanctions, and once again, new US-ROK military exercises right next door; new intimidations and new insults. For no other reason than because the country that never attacked anyone, is still determined to defend itself against appalling military, economic and propaganda provocations.
How much more can one country endure?
Why Does the West Hate North Korea?
by André Vltchek
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If you are in some way critical of genetically modified food and agriculture or have some concerns that remain unaddressed, here is a brief interpretive (satirical) guide for navigating the seedy world of pro-GMO spin.
1) We are pro-science and objective.
Meaning: We are industry supported and dismiss out of hand this type of anti-GM nonsense that suggests our science is somehow tainted.
2) Our critics are anti-science Luddites.
Meaning: Unlike us, they rely on ‘pseudo science’, labelled as such because it is not funded by the industry and its conclusions challenge the commercial interests of it.
3) Our critics are human haters because they deny GM food to the hungry.
Meaning: We learned to say this in our seminars about ‘dealing with anti-GMO campaigners’.
And more...
The Seeds of Spin: Decoding Pro-GMO Lies and Falsehoods
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Despite worldwide concern about the overuse of antibiotics, their use in agriculture is due to increase by two-thirds by 2030.
In light of the public health risks associated with increasing antibiotic resistance, activists in 60 countries are celebrating World Consumer Rights Day by calling on fast-food companies to get antibiotics "off the menu."
The worldwide actions, organized by the London-headquartered Consumers International (CI), call specifically on McDonald's, Subway, and KFC to make "global, time bound commitments to stop serving meat from animals routinely given antibiotics that are classed as important for human medicine by the World Health Organization."
Global Actions Demand Fast Food Giants Get Antibiotics 'Off the Menu'
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The city of Flint, Michigan, is in the midst of a terrible and rightly shocking lead poisoning crisis. The number of kids testing positive for elevated lead levels in their bloodstreams has doubled in the past few years, after the city switched to a new, cheaper water source.
This is an extreme case, but the problem of lead exposure among children is not a local Flint story. If you look at public health data, you begin to realize two things. The first is that it's actually really hard to get good data on which kids do and don't experience lead exposure, and which parents should worry about the issue.
Second: The data that is available shows that lead exposure is a pervasive issue in the United States. In some places outside of Flint, more than half of children test positive for lead poisoning.
America's lead poisoning problem isn't just in Flint. It’s everywhere.
The map above uses CDC data to show lead poisoning rates across the country. The reason so many of the counties are light gray is that most counties simply don't report this information — nor are they required to.
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Isn’t it rather odd that America’s largest single public expenditure scheduled for the coming decades has received no attention in the 2015-2016 presidential debates?
The expenditure is for a 30-year program to “modernize” the U.S. nuclear arsenal and production facilities. Although President Obama began his administration with a dramatic public commitment to build a nuclear weapons-free world, that commitment has long ago dwindled and died. It has been replaced by an administration plan to build a new generation of U.S. nuclear weapons and nuclear production facilities to last the nation well into the second half of the twenty-first century. This plan, which has received almost no attention by the mass media, includes redesigned nuclear warheads, as well as new nuclear bombers, submarines, land-based missiles, weapons labs, and production plants. The estimated cost? $1,000,000,000,000.00—or, for those readers unfamiliar with such lofty figures, $1 trillion.
The Trillion Dollar Question
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American corporations are making a killing off of exploiting inmates instead of giving jobs to unemployed Americans.
If you see a “Made in USA” tag on something, it’s likely that it was made in an American prison rather than by citizens that aren’t incarcerated. While it’s great that these inmates are learning valuable skills that could help them once they’re released, to say that companies are exploiting these prisoners and making a huge profit at the expense of all American citizens would be an understatement.
These 7 Popular Companies Are Exploiting Prisoners
And Ruining The Economy
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He may just be a Silver-stein. But “Lucky Larry” sets the gold standard for chutzpah.
Latest example: In the above video, Silverstein says of the new WTC-7, which replaced the one he famously confessed to demolishing on 9/11/01:
We got the designs. And the first design meeting was in April of 2000. And construction began shortly thereafter, in 2002.
One slight problem: If he hadn’t been planning the illegal, un-permitted, homicidal demolitions of WTC-7 and the entire World Trade Center complex that took place on September 11th, 2001, there would have been no point to any such design meeting back in April, 2000 … and no opportunity for beginning construction of a new WTC-7 in 2002.
BOMBSHELL! Larry Silverstein designed NEW WTC-7 in April of 2000
Larry had the new WTC-7 designed and ready-to-go 17 months before he “pulled” the old one
According to Larry they started planning for a new wtc7 in April 2000; excerpt taken from www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUvLCzk7nh4 approx 59:00.
In the same interview he also reiterates his 911 excuse/cover story script verbatim, and asserts that the north tower attenna sliced through wtc7 facade, even though there's clear evidence it fell to the south.
One minute excerpt:
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Published on Mar 14, 2016 @nirsnet
12 week launch of ‘Nukes are Dirty’ Campaign
http://nuclearisdirty.nirs.org/
Nuclear power is dirty--from cradle to grave. At the beginning of the fuel chain, uranium mining, milling, processing and enrichment cause widespread environmental devastation and produces enormous quantities of radioactive and toxic waste. Nuclear reactor operation results in routine releases of dangerous radioactivity into our air and water, and, as shown at Chernobyl and Fukushima, major reactor accidents can make areas of our planet permanently uninhabitable. The radioactive waste generated by reactors is nearly instantly lethal, and will remain hazardous for millenia. And, to date, there is no scientifically-defensible, publicly-acceptable solution for radioactive waste storage.
Nukes are Dirty Campaign (3 min)
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Music Video By Bob Marley Performing Get Up, Stand Up
Single By Bob Marley & The Wailers
From The Album (Burnin')
Bob Marley - Get Up, Stand Up (Official Music Video) (3 min)
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For an increasing number of people from around the world, Monsanto today is the symbol of industrial agriculture. This chemical-intensive form of production pollutes the environment, accelerates biodiversity loss, and massively contributes to global warming.
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, Monsanto, a US-based company, has developed a number of highly toxic products, which have permanently damaged the environment and caused illness or death for thousands of people. These products include: ...Why a tribunal? link...
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The ruling institutions of this world are quite comfortable with a virus.
First with SARS, then H1N1, then ebola and now the Zika virus, mainstream media and official organizations have been quick to recognize and counter the threat with travel advisories, quarantines, research funding, vaccine development, and heightened levels of vigilance. Yet information about other kinds of threats that are just as deadly, such as pharmaceutical residues in drinking water, pesticide contamination, or heavy metal poisoning from air and water pollution, are usually relegated to alternative media, ignored, or even actively suppressed by public health authorities. Why is this?
The ready answer that comes to mind is economic. The manmade threats listed above are byproducts of profitable activities by corporations who have tremendous political influence. If we were to thoroughly address toxic contamination of our biosphere, our entire economic, industrial, medical, and agricultural system would have to change.
Zika and the Mentality of Control
by Charles Eisenstein
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Dawn’s book, Drug War Capitalism (AK Press 2014), provides a provocative thesis. The drug war is not about crime nor security. Rather, it enables global capitalist expansion through enclosure. In our hour-long interview we discuss how this understanding comes from a sense of justice and activism, from the periphery, from below. Dawn elaborates on how elites collude across borders for their own benefit at the expense of their populations. She describes the consequences of this collusion as militarism, human rights abuses, and insecurity. As the interview develops, Dawn brings optimism back into the equation, with a discussion of resistance in everyday life, activism, and grassroot, peoples’ movements.
This in-depth analysis is crucial for anyone who wants to understand and resist one of US foreign policy’s (and the transnational elites who execute it) greatest, ongoing failures and crimes against humanity.
Drug War Capitalism: An Interview with Dawn Paley
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We need your help to make a monument to courage. There is no room for compromise today and art is called upon to make choices and show a direction. I want to create a life-size bronze statue of Assange, Manning and Snowden standing on three chairs with an empty fourth chair next to them. It is not a simple homage to individuals, but to courage and to the importance of freedom of expression and information.
This is the reason for the empty chair. Each of us can climb onto it, however uncomfortable and vulnerable, and change our point of view. The work of art will travel from country to country and offer the opportunity for us to hear each other out and to think.
To be free, we need to be courageous. And courage is contagious.
Anything to say? a public art project for freedom (1 min)
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[This piece has been adapted from Adam Hochschild's new book, Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939.]
“Merchants have no country,” wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1814. “The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.” The former president was ruing the way New England traders and shipowners, fearing the loss of lucrative transatlantic commerce, failed to rally to their country in the War of 1812.
Today, with the places from which “merchants” draw their gains spread across the planet, corporations are even less likely to feel loyalty to any country in particular. Some of them have found it profitable to reincorporate in tax havens overseas. Giant multinationals, sometimes with annual earnings greater than the combined total gross national products of several dozen of the world’s poorer countries, are often more powerful than national governments, while their CEOs wield the kind of political clout many prime ministers and presidents only dream of.
The Oilman Who Loved Dictators
Or How Texaco Supported Fascism
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"Donald Trump wants to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexican border, and based on his tone, he also wants to f*ck that wall," begins John Oliver on his latest tirade against the presidential candidate — and of course, things only get harsher from there.
SEE ALSO: John Oliver finally goes all in on Donald Trump — and it's glorious to behold
Oliver compares the proposed wall to a dental damn and a pet walrus. He shoots down one of Trump's explanations with "that's literally not how anything works." The money shot comes, though, when he plays a clip of an old woman dismissing the idea of a fence increasing security. "No," she replies. "Stupid."
"I think that woman just said in two words what I'm taking 20 minutes to say in this piece," Oliver followed, barely containing his glee.
John Oliver explains exactly why Donald Trump's
Mexican wall is a terrible idea
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Don’t confuse military service with protecting your freedoms.
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Reality imitating art
La realidad imita al arte
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You are being watched. Private and state-sponsored organizations are monitoring and recording your online activities. privacytools.io provides knowledge and tools to protect your privacy against global mass surveillance.
Privacy? I don’t have anything to hide.
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The Hand of the Refugee
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“On December 2, 2015, 14 people were killed and more than 20 wounded in a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California. Mass shootings have become routine in the United States and speak to a society that both lives by violence and uses it as tool to feed the coffers of the merchants of death. Violence runs through American society like an electric current offering instant pleasure from all sources of the culture, whether it be the nightly news and Hollywood fanfare or television series that glorify serial killers. At a policy level, violence drives an arms industry, a militaristic foreign policy, and is increasingly the punishing state’s major tool to enforce its hyped-up brand of domestic terrorism, especially against Black youth. The United States is utterly wedded to a neoliberal culture in which cruelty is viewed as virtue, mass incarceration the default welfare program and chief mechanism to ‘institutionalize obedience’…”
Henry Giroux And “America’s Addiction To Violence” (53 min)
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Four of the five candidates for the Democratic and Republican presidential nominations sought to outdo one another in pledging unqualified support for Israel and issuing threats against Iran and its allies in appearances Monday before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the most powerful pro-Israel lobby in the US.
All three Republican candidates spoke at the Washington DC event, as well as the Democratic front-runner, Hillary Clinton. Her Democratic opponent, Bernie Sanders, skipped the event to campaign in western states holding primary contests on Tuesday.
US presidential candidates give warmongering speeches
backing Israel at AIPAC conference
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It’s something that all the major presidential candidates — on both sides of the aisle — can agree on: The United States should not ratify the TransPacific Partnership trade agreement. Even Hillary Clinton, who was Secretary of State during the bulk of the agreement’s confidential negotiations, doesn’t think the TPP is a good idea anymore.
Now, a group of environmental advocates is pressuring Congress to reject ratification of the 12-nation agreement, which they say would allow 9,000 companies operating on U.S. soil to sue the government for imposing environmental regulations.
Environmental Advocates Tell Congress: Reject The TPP
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Palestinian and human rights advocates were aghast over remarks made by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) convention on Monday, saying that her speech represented "everything that is bad" with U.S. imperialism and policy in the Middle East.
During the address, Clinton vowed to take the U.S.-Israel relationship to "the next level"—a level which seemingly includes more war and imperialism, few, if any, rights for Palestinians, and definitely no economic boycotts of Israel.
"Has even one single Clinton supporter denounced the disgusting speech she gave today?"
—Striking a hawkish tone, Clinton warned the powerful lobby group against rival candidates who want to "outsource Middle East security to dictators" and "cede the mantle of leadership for global peace and security," and instead vowed even more "security and intelligence cooperation."
Critics Aghast at 'Disgusting Speech' Clinton Just Gave to AIPAC
Democratic presidential candidate speech praises "everything that is bad about Israeli policy and U.S. imperialism"
"Has even one single Clinton supporter denounced the disgusting speech she gave today?"
—Glenn Greenwald
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Syria Needs Democracy
We are so consistent in choosing our allies, because we stand for democracy.
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No country can equal this systemic record of violence. Most of America’s wars (almost all of them against defenseless countries) have been launched not by Republican presidents but by liberal Democrats: Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, Clinton, Obama.
In 1947, a series of National Security Council directives described the paramount aim of American foreign policy as “a world substantially made over in [America’s] own image.” The ideology was messianic Americanism. We were all Americans. Or else. Heretics would be converted, subverted, bribed, smeared or crushed.
Donald Trump is a symptom of this, but he is also a maverick. He says the invasion of Iraq was a crime; he doesn’t want to go to war with Russia and China. The danger to the rest of us is not Trump, but Hillary Clinton. She is no maverick. She embodies the resilience and violence of a system whose vaunted “exceptionalism” is totalitarian with an occasional liberal face.
As presidential Election Day draws near, Clinton will be hailed as the first female president, regardless of her crimes and lies – just as Barack Obama was lauded as the first black president and liberals swallowed his nonsense about “hope.” And the drool goes on.
Start of a New World War
by John Pilger
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Michel Chossudovsky (CRG) : Brussels News media Dernière Heure at dhnet.be as well as La Libre reported on the terror attacks by providing a CC Camera Airport Surveillance Video of the terror attacks. The published video footage was fake as documented by a blog posting on Media Part.
Fake Video Used in News Coverage of Brussels Terror Attacks
And here is the January 2011 terror attack at Moscow’s Domodedova International Airport published on youtube in November 2013
The report of DHnet.be on the Brussels airport attack used the video of the Moscow 2011 attack with the date of the Brussels attack: (22/03/2016) pasted onto the Russian video.
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What is the reason Fed’s HAVE NOT and probably WILL NOT sell any of the $4.5 trillion assets currently on its balance sheet? They’re too afraid that investors will see it as a sign that the Fed is ending its support for the markets, which will trigger a vicious round of panic selling. In other words, the Fed’s going to be stuck with a bloated balance sheet until Judgment Day if not longer.
But let’s get back to our original question: Why have stocks continued to edge higher when the Fed stopped its money-pumping operations back in 2014?
Answer: Stock buybacks.
Check out this chart I found at David Stockman’s Contra Corner. It helps to illustrate how stocks are rising, not because of strong fundamentals, but because bigshot CEOs have borrowed heavily from the bond market to buyback their own shares. That’s right, corporate bosses have been piling on the debt to goose their stock prices so they can cream hefty profits in the form of executive compensation. It’s blatant manipulation, but it’s all perfectly legal. Check it out:
Can You Figure Out What This Chart Means?
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The European Commission today publishes further documents from the ongoing negotiations on a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), in line with its commitment to enhanced transparency in the ongoing trade negotiations with the United States.
The EU Commission publishes further TTIP & CETA documents
The documents made public today include the recent EU proposal on regulatory cooperation which the Commission submitted to the United States during the last round of talks in February.
(…)Explanatory documents about this key aspect of the talks are available online. Other published documents include EU proposals on trade in goods, agriculture and Customs and Trade Facilitation.
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European bison went extinct in the wild in 1919, but now a few thousand are back, grazing in forests and on plains in a handful of countries. The first four of a group of 11 animals—Europe’s largest living land animal—were reintroduced into state forest land in the Netherlands earlier this month.
The Dutch government hopes the carefully bred and selected animals—three bulls and eight cows—will multiply.
Fenced inside an area about 1,500 hectares in the southeastern province of Noord-Brabant, the European bison (Bison bonasus) herd will eventually serve as a breeding stock to supply efforts to “rewild” other parts of the continent, says Frans Schepers, the managing director of the Netherlands-based nonprofit Rewilding Europe. The group oversees breeding of the bison, based on animals that lived on in zoos after they were wiped out in the wild.
Wild Bison Reintroduced to Netherlands
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The court’s guilty verdict against a former Congolese commander marks a milestone
FOR the first time since it started to function in 2002, the International Criminal Court at The Hague has passed a guilty verdict on a warlord for perpetrating, among other things, rape as an act of war. It is also the first time that the court has secured a conviction for “command responsibility”, meaning that a commander can be found guilty even if he did not himself take direct part in such crimes as rape, murder and pillage but allowed them to be committed.
Jean-Pierre Bemba (pictured), the head of the Movement for the Liberation of the Congo—and a former vice-president of the Democratic Republic of Congo—was found guilty of crimes against humanity, including rape and pillage.
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May 11, 2014: Speaking at a debate in April, former intelligence boss and retired Gen. Michael Hayden admitted the NSA uses metadata to "kill people." Video courtesy Johns Hopkins University.
“We kill people based on metadata”
-- Michael Hayden Former director of the CIA (4 min)
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Bernie Sanders choosing to endorse whomever the democratic nominee is will have a tremendous effect on young voters, many of whom will undoubtedly feel disgust and become increasingly cynical which may thereby hurt voter turnout. Nader suggests that followers of Bernie Sanders express themselves, telling him not to endorse Clinton “until she endorse your agenda specifically, not with vague rhetoric”.
Ralph Nader Slams Bernie Sanders for Endorsing Hillary Clinton (3 min)
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Newly disclosed emails show that Libya’s plan to create a gold-backed currency to compete with the euro and dollar was a motive for NATO’s intervention.
The New Year’s Eve release of over 3,000 new Hillary Clinton emails from the State Department has CNN abuzz over gossipy text messages, the “who gets to ride with Hillary” selection process set up by her staff, and how a “cute” Hillary photo fared on Facebook.
But historians of the 2011 NATO war in Libya will be sure to notice a few of the truly explosive confirmations contained in the new emails: admissions of rebel war crimes, special ops trainers inside Libya from nearly the start of protests, Al Qaeda embedded in the U.S. backed opposition, Western nations jockeying for access to Libyan oil, the nefarious origins of the absurd Viagra mass rape claim, and concern over Gaddafi’s gold and silver reserves threatening European currency.
Hillary Emails Reveal True Motive for Libya Intervention
Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi, murdered by Western-backed rebels on October 20, 2011, planned to create a gold-backed African currency to compete with the dollar and euro. (Photo: Jesse B. Awalt/US Navy)
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Around 30,000 people disappeared between 1976 and 1983, when Argentina was ruled by a U.S.-backed military dictatorship.
President Obama flew overnight back to Washington, arriving Friday, having said his farewells to Argentina's President Macri in the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires. The visit consolidated relations between the U.S. and the right-of-centre Argentine president, who many have seen as the U.S.' best hope of advancing its interests in a region dominated by the so-called "Pink Tide" of left government over the past decade.
Protesters Tell Obama, Macri: We Will Not Forget Dictatorship
Protesters in Argentina Remind the Military Dictatorship That it Didn't Defeat Them
Demonstrators poured through the streets of Buenos Aires today, commemorating the 40th anniversary of the U.S.-backed coup that placed a military junta in power.
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Sibel Edmonds of Newsbud.com joins us to discuss the Brussels attacks. We discuss Belgium's central role as the base of NATO/EU/Gladio headquarters and how the script of this event follows the script of previous false flags almost precisely. We also talk about the public's reaction to these events and how both the mainstream and alternative media are being divided and conquered to keep people from questioning the true roots of these events.
James Corbett: Sibel Edmonds Shines A Light on the Brussels Attacks (21 min)
Backgrounder: Operation Gladio/B
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ANTIMEDIA) Palestine — An Israeli soldier has been arrested after video footage emerged of him shooting a Palestinian in the head while he was wounded and immobilised on the ground. The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) has opened an investigation into the assassination, which took place after two Palestinians were accused of carrying out a knife attack in the city of Hebron.
The damning video footage was captured by cameraman, Emad abu-Shamsiyeh and his wife, Fayzeh, from activist group Human Rights Defenders. The couple were having coffee in Tel Rumeida around 8:30am on Thursday when they heard shots. Taking their cameras, they rushed to the street to find out what was going on. Abu-Shamsiyeh’s footage shows al-Sharif lying on the road injured while Israeli soldiers and medics ignore him. No one attempts to give him first aid. Suddenly, the soldier aims his weapon and fires a single shot at point-blank range into al-Sharif’s head, killing him. This happens in plain view of the other soldiers, who don’t take any notice — despite blood pouring from his lifeless body.
Exclusive: Activist Who Filmed Execution of Dying Man
by Israeli Soldier Speaks Out
Assassination of wounded al-Sharif in broad daylight in in plain view of the other soldiers, who don’t take any notice.
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‘In the wake of the recent #Brussels Attacks this week, readers should be aware of Europe’s very real and sordid #history of NATO intelligence carrying out terror attacks on European soil – against its own citizens.’
Operation Gladio - Full 1992 documentary BBC
This BBC series is about a far-right secret army, operated by the CIA and MI6 through NATO, which killed hundreds of innocent Europeans and attempted to blame the deaths on Baader Meinhof, Red Brigades and other left wing groups. Known as 'stay-behinds' these armies were given access to military equipment which was supposed to be used for sabotage after a Soviet invasion. Instead it was used in massacres across mainland Europe as part of a CIA Strategy of Tension. Gladio killing sprees in Belgium and Italy were carried out for the purpose of frightening the national political classes into adopting U.S. policies.
Backgrounder: Operation Gladio/B
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While you’re biting the heads off your chocolate bunnies this weekend, you might wonder how cartoon rabbits became so central to our Easter celebrations. It’s tempting to assume that because there’s no biblical basis for the Easter Bunny, rabbits and hares have no religious significance – but that’s just not the case.
In Christian art, the hare is regularly associated with rebirth and resurrection.
In fact, the symbol of a circle of three hares joined by their ears has been found in a number of churches in Devon. Like much of our cultural “bunny” symbolism, the meaning of this image remains mysterious – and The Three Hares Project has been set up to research and document occurrences of the ancient symbol, examples of which have been found as far away as China. Read on….
The very strange history of the Easter Bunny
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It’s no secret that anarchists don’t like states. In fact, we anarchists are generally defined by our rejection of, and opposition to state institutions, such as governments, police, and prisons. But while opposing these physical manifestations of the state is certainly an important part of anarchist practice, anarchist critiques of the state go much further, and include the underlying social relationships and ideologies that have historically been used to create states, and to uphold their authority. One of the most important of these concepts is nationalism. So what is it, exactly, and what do anarchists have against it?
What is Nationalism? (6 min)
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Recently, product design student Ari Jonsson showcased his new project at this year’s DesignMarch, Reykjavik’s annual design festival. His project combined red algae powder with water to create a biodegradable water bottle.
“Why are we using materials that take hundreds of years to break down in nature to drink from once and then throw away?” Jonsson expressed to Dezeen. He feels this new water bottle could be an answer to the staggering amount of plastic waste produced every single day.
Water bottle made from algae could save
50 billion plastic bottles a year from our landfills
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Vaccines: an ideal covert op to genetically re-engineer humans. Why is the government so maniacal about injecting vaccines?
Vaccines: an ideal covert op to genetically re-engineer humans
by Jon Rappoport
The reference is the New York Times, 3/15/15, “Protection Without a Vaccine.” It describes the frontier of research. Here are key quotes that illustrate the use of synthetic genes to “protect against disease,” while changing the genetic makeup of humans. This is not science fiction:
“By delivering synthetic genes into the muscles of the [experimental] monkeys, the scientists are essentially re-engineering the animals to resist disease.”
“’The sky’s the limit,’ said Michael Farzan, an immunologist at Scripps and lead author of the new study.”
“The first human trial based on this strategy — called immunoprophylaxis by gene transfer, or I.G.T. — is underway, and several new ones are planned.”
“I.G.T. is altogether different from traditional vaccination. It is instead a form of gene therapy. Scientists isolate the genes that produce powerful antibodies against certain diseases and then synthesize artificial versions. The genes are placed into viruses and injected into human tissue, usually muscle.”
Here is the punchline: “The viruses invade human cells with their DNA payloads, and the synthetic gene is incorporated into the recipient’s own DNA. If all goes well, the new genes instruct the cells to begin manufacturing powerful antibodies.”
Read that again: “the synthetic gene is incorporated into the recipient’s own DNA.” Alteration of the human genetic makeup. Not just a “visit.” “Permanent residence.”
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The journalist Florence Hartmann, a former correspondent for Le Monde, has been jailed at the war crimes tribunal in The Hague, the body established to try the criminals she devoted her life to exposing. (…)
Hartmann was convicted of contempt of court in 2009 for revealing in a book that the tribunal had withheld crucial information on the Srebrenica massacre of 1995 from the nearby international court of justice. The conviction was later upheld on appeal. (…)
After working for Le Monde in Bosnia, Hartmann served at the tribunal as spokeswoman for and adviser to its prosecutor’s office. In her 2007 book, Paix et châtiment (Peace and Punishment), she revealed that documents that proved Serbian complicity in the Srebrenica massacre had been sealed by the tribunal.
Hartmann, who did not reveal the contents of the documents, insisted that those who had survived or were bereaved by the massacre had the right to know of the tribunal’s decision to keep them secret. (…)
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French journalist Florence Hartmann jailed by war crimes tribunal
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With the Republican establishment attempting to stop real estate mogul Donald Trump from receiving the GOP nomination, a new anti-Trump ad produced by the Emergency Committee for Israel alleges that the Republican frontrunner supports dictators.
But what about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s record on dictators?
Earlier this week, the former Secretary of State addressed the annual AIPAC conference, seeking to cast herself as a stronger ally to Israel than Donald Trump.
We examine her record on Israel and U.S. foreign relations at large with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald, co-founder of The Intercept.
Glenn Greenwald: Hillary Clinton Has Embraced Some of the
Most Brutal Dictators in the World (VIDEO)
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The two-party system suffocates independent challengers. I would know.
During a recent town hall in Columbus, Ohio, Sen. Bernie Sanders said the unthinkable. At least, you would have thought he did, judging by the response of several Democratic operatives. Sanders was deemed “extremely disgraceful” by Donna Brazile, vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, and “a political calculating fraud” by Brad Woodhouse, a former DNC communications director.
What was his crime? The old-fashioned Rooseveltian New Dealer had answered a question about why he is running as a Democrat, instead of as an independent, with typical candor: “In terms of media coverage, you had to run within the Democratic Party,” he observed, adding that he couldn’t raise money outside the major two-party process.
Ralph Nader: Why Bernie Sanders was right to run as a Democrat
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To answer the question that is the title, we have to know of what the US consists. Is it an ethnic group, a collection of buildings and resources, a land mass with boundaries, or is it the Constitution. Clearly what differentiates the US from other countries is the US Constitution. The Constitution defines us as a people. Without the Constitution we would be a different country. Therefore, to lose the Constitution is to lose the country.
Does the Constitution still exist? Let us examine the document and come to a conclusion.
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Journalists of the website "Golos Pravdy" have published a video in which one of the activists of the Maidan, Vitalij Ustimenko confessed to intentionally burning the inhabitants of Odessa on May 2, 2014. This was reported by "Golos Pravdy".
In the shared photos, Vitalij Ustimenko (left) along with his supporters. Right side of photo - Victoria Siberia, also took an active part on May 2nd, 2014 on the side of the maidan activists.
Maidan Activist Confesses to Mass Murder in Odessa on 2nd May
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Panel discussion challenges the rhetoric that national security requires that governments can access individual communications.
What is privacy and what is an individual's right to it?
That is the question that renowned linguist and MIT professor Noam Chomsky, National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden, and Intercept co-founding editor Glenn Greenwald sought to answer on Friday evening as the three (virtually) shared a stage for a panel discussion at the University of Arizona in Tuscon.
Coming amid the FBI's public battle against Apple as well as days after the bombings in Brussels last week, which have spurred another round of calls for heightened security and surveillance, the conversation challenged the rhetoric that national security requires that governments can access individual communications.
Chomsky, Snowden, Greenwald on Privacy in the Age of Surveillance
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We don’t need the empire to give us anything. Our efforts will be legal and peaceful, because our commitment is to peace and fraternity among all human beings who live on this planet.
Brother Obama
An article by Fidel addressed to Obama
Obama made a speech in which he uses the most sweetened words to express: “It is time, now, to forget the past, leave the past behind, let us look to the future together, a future of hope. And it won’t be easy, there will be challenges and we must give it time; but my stay here gives me more hope in what we can do together as friends, as family, as neighbors, together.”
I suppose all of us were at risk of a heart attack upon hearing these words from the President of the United States. After a ruthless blockade that has lasted almost 60 years, and what about those who have died in the mercenary attacks on Cuban ships and ports, an airliner full of passengers blown up in midair, mercenary invasions, multiple acts of violence and coercion?
Nobody should be under the illusion that the people of this dignified and selfless country will renounce the glory, the rights, or the spiritual wealth they have gained with the development of education, science and culture.
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Monsanto manufactured over 1 billion pounds of PCBs and the company’s own documents show they continued to sell the man-made chemicals after becoming aware of the dangers to both humans as well as the environment, according to Reeve.
The city council in Portland, Oregon has unanimously voted to authorize a lawsuit against Monsanto for contaminating its waterways with cancer-causing chemicals. Six other West Coast cities are also suing the bio-agricultural corporation in federal court.
City Attorney Tracy Reeve claims that Portland has already spent a significant amount of public money cleaning up contamination in the Willamette River as well as Columbia Slough. Over a billion dollars has been spent cleaning up just the river, Mayor Charlie Hales told Oregon Public Broadcasting.
Portland To Sue Monsanto For Contaminating Waterway With PCBs
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Check out the video below. This video made by the German TV channel ARD enraged Erdogan so badly that he summoned the German Ambassador to Turkey and read him the riot act for several hours. Make sure to press the ‘cc’ button to see the English captions.
Erdogan is enraged by a German music video about him
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This is our third episode in our coverage of the recent Belgium Bombing as another synthetic terror event carried out under Operation Gladio B. In this episode we’ll begin looking at reactions, events and actions that are taking place since the execution of this recent plot, and the ones that took place before that. We’ll look at objectives that are being pursued and pushed, and who benefits from it all.
We look at the chain of events following a synthetically created terror action. And with that we see the needed juice that expands our wars, and expands our police and surveillance practices. The existence and expansion of the Military and Intelligence industrial Complexes depend on terrorism. And what wouldn’t they do to ensure that we have plenty of that?
Probable Cause with Sibel Edmonds- False Flag Ops,
the Morning After & the Profiteers
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Despite a concerted effort by the U.S. Empire to snuff out the ideology, a 2016 poll found young Americans have a much more favorable view of socialism than capitalism.
Though he died 133 years ago, the analysis put forward by one of the world’s most influential thinkers, Karl Marx, remains extremely relevant today. The Empire’s recent rigged presidential election has been disrupted by the support of an avowed socialist, Bernie Sanders, by millions of voters.
To find out why Marx’s popularity has stood the test of time, Abby Martin interviews renowned Marxist economist Richard Wolff, Professor Emeritus of Economics at UMass - Amherst, and visiting professor at the New School in New York.
Prof. Wolff gives an introduction suited for both beginners and seasoned Marxists, with comprehensive explanations of key tenets of Marxism including dialectical and historical materialism, surplus value, crises of overproduction, capitalism's internal contradictions, and more.
Marxism 101: How Capitalism is Killing Itself
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Soon, most likely, there will be new brutal sanctions imposed against North Korea. And there will be massive provocative military exercises held, involving the US and South Korean (ROK). In brief, it is all ‘business as usual’: the West continues to torture DPRK; it is provoking it, isolating, demonizing and dehumanizing it, making sure that it wouldn’t function normally, let alone thrive.
North Korea Punished for Helping to Liberate Africa
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New report issues dire warning to global leaders after hottest-ever year ends...and new one begins.
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the climate arm of the United Nations, said on Monday that climate change is occurring at an "alarming rate" and that world leaders must act to curb greenhouse gases now, "before we pass the point of no return."
After 2015 broke all previous global average surface temperature records, WMO is releasing its State of the Climate report with the dire warning that the year "will stand out in the historical record of the global climate in many ways."
"The alarming rate of change we are witnessing in our climate as a result of greenhouse gases is unprecedented in modern record," WMO secretary-general Petteri Taalas wrote in the report. "Our planet is sending a powerful message to world leaders to sign and implement the Paris agreement on climate change and curb greenhouse gases now before we pass the point of no return."
After 'Unprecedented' Year of Warming,
UN Warns We Must Curb Emissions Now
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United Kingdom — On Wednesday, a major archive containing over 30,000 of Hillary Clinton’s emails was released. Though the State Department began releasing the emails in May last year — after a Freedom of Information Act request — it is the first time the messages have been made easily available in a searchable format, courtesy of WikiLeaks. Before the launch, the FBI was investigating the Democratic candidate’s use of a private server during her tenure as Secretary of State. The archive contains over 7,000 emails written by Clinton herself.
Wikileaks Drops Hillary Email Bomb
That Could End Her Campaign but FB Censored It
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Palestinians whose livelihoods are forcibly enmeshed in Israel’s economic system are often used as human shields against the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement.
The frequent accusation made by critics is that boycotts of Israeli businesses, especially settlement businesses, will hurt the very Palestinians that BDS activists say they support.
At times, settlement advocates even deploy Palestinian spokespersons to speak positively about the higher wages they receive working for settlement businesses.
A new report released by UK-based Corporate Watch brings the voices of the Palestinian farmers and agricultural workers to the debate over how the BDS movement can best resist Israeli exploitation of their land and labor.
Corporate Watch’s report, titled, “Apartheid in the Fields: From Occupied Palestine to UK Supermarkets,” focuses on two of the most vulnerable segments of Palestinian society: residents of the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank’s Jordan Valley.
How Israel makes money from blockading Gaza
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A group known to be a “dark money ally” of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has filed ethics complaints with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) against her opponent, Bernie Sanders.
Clinton’s ally specifically alleges Sanders failed to disclose who paid for a “sponsored” advertisement, which appeared on Facebook after the New Hampshire Democratic primary. It filed a complaint against Sanders campaign treasurer, Susan Jackson, for allegedly accepting “excessive contributions” from individuals. Most strikingly, a complaint against National Nurses United and “People for Bernie” was filed as well.
The complaints were made by the American Democracy Legal Fund (ADLF), which was founded by David Brock, whose fingerprints have been on many of the dishonest attacks against Sanders during the 2016 election.
The latest Clinton campaign has pioneered what Bloomberg described as “the outsourcing of routine campaign functions to outside groups that are permitted to raise money in unlimited amounts.” This kind of unprecedented coordination has unfolded between the Clinton campaign and another one of Brock’s super political action committees, Correct the Record.
Leader of Clinton’s Dark Money Alliance
Files Ethics Complaints Against Sanders
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Published on Mar 27, 2016
This is the full UNCUT interview that ABC World News conducted with Del Bigtree of the "VAXXED" documentary now censored by Robert De Niro and the Tribeca Film Festival.
VAXXED: the ABC News interview
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The Dammed of the Earth: The Deadly Impact of Mega Hydroelectric Projects in Latin America
Photo: COPINH participating in a march agains a US military base in Palmerola, Honduras, 2011. Source: Felipe Canova on Flickr.
Early in the morning of March 3, Berta Cáceres was assassinated as she slept.
A world-renowned environmental activist, Berta had been a driving force in protecting the lands and waters of rural communities in Honduras. Among the many victories of the organization she founded was the delay of a megadam project on the Gualcarque River that could be disastrous for the indigenous Lenca people living there.
Berta is not alone, nor is her story unique to Honduras. Across the Global South, mega hydroelectric projects are expanding — driven by governments and multinationals as a source of cheap energy, and branded by international institutions as a solution to poverty and the climate crisis.
But despite claims that they create clean energy, dams often have devastating impacts. They can displace communities, destroy the local social fabric and spiritual ties to land, lead to privatization of land and water, and generate food insecurity. Often used to power mining and fossil fuel extraction, they’re part of a system that damages the ecosystem and advances climate change.
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Seattle police descended on the Queen Anne condo of two outspoken privacy activists with a search warrant early this morning, leaving them shaken and upset.
Jan Bultmann and David Robinson, a married couple and co-founders of the Seattle Privacy Coalition, said they were awakened at 6:15 a.m. by a team of six detectives from the SPD knocking on the door. Bultmann said were made to sit outside as the officers, who had a search warrant, examined their equipment. They claimed to be looking for child pornography.
The SPD acknowledged this morning that no child porn was found, no assets were seized, and no arrests were made.
But Bultmann said many "hints and comments [were] made about our cars, our jobs, our histories... revealing that we were thoroughly researched."
Police Go on Fishing Expedition, Search the Home of Seattle Privacy Activists Who Maintain Tor Network
by Ansel Herz • Mar 30, 2016
The activists run a node that maintains the Tor network, which allows users to browse the web anonymously.
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