Sunday, October 20, 2013

13-10-20 FUKUSHIMA

A global disaster is left for a failing Japanese corporation to handle. jz

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Occupy America

Groundwater radiation levels at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant have soared near a tank that leaked 300 tonnes of toxic water in August, struggling operator Tokyo Electric Power said. TEPCO said water samples collected from a well on Thursday…
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13-10-19 US:JP Morgan buying criminal impunity

The latest in a series of deals that permit ongoing criminality and robbing of the People by the large banks in the US. jz
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=JPMorgan Chase nears $13 billion deal with Justice Dept.=...See More
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13-10-19 US -Misc News of the Abuse: TX police shoot a mentally ill person

Because random acts of violence are most effective in keeping the People subdued. jz
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Dallas Police Shoot Mentally Ill Man Standing in the Street
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Photo: ===13-10-19 US -Misc News of the Abuse: TX police shoot a mentally ill person=== Because random acts of violence are most effective in keeping the People subdued. jz ___ Dallas Police Shoot Mentally Ill Man Standing in the Street In just the latest police shooting to reach headlines, a 59-year-old was reportedly shot while complying with cops. October 18, 2013 | Another day, another story of police trigger-happines; another mentally ill person struck by police gunfire. In Dallas this week, as Gawker noted, a 59-year-old man was behaving erratically and holding a knife when his mother called the cops. When the police arrived, as surveillance footage shows, they immediately draw there weapons. Bobby Gerald Bennett was shot four times while his hands were down by his sides. He is currently in intensive care. The Dallas Police Department is now conducting an internal review. An eyewitness neighbor, Maurice Bunch, told local media: “When the officers told him freeze, he complied.. He did not move an inch, in suspended animation; he just stood there, you know? Bobby was conscious, he knew exactly what he was doing because I had been talking to him prior.” READ MORE: http://www.alternet.org/dallas-police-shoot-mentally-ill-man-standing-street?akid=11060.1117888.jKA9uu&rd=1&src=newsletter912238&t=17
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13-10-19 CANADA: Paramilitaries clear anti-fracking protest

And in a true sign of the time, the video comes through Russia Today!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wO8K61i2tlQ


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13-10-19 PALESTINE: Life under Israeli rule

Below is review of a new book on the subject.
Most Israelis avoid going to the Palestinian territories and live in denial of reality. Some exceptions are groups of young Israelis like, "Breaking Silence", who lead tours to the territories, and Haaretz daily (English version available online), which routinely covers abuses in Palestine. A notable Israeli philosopher, the late Yeshayahu Leibowitz, predicted already in 1967 the termendous corrupting effect that would result from the holding of one nation hostage by another. jz
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===Exposing the Dark Underbelly of Israel: The Horrors Your Tax Dollars Support===
Max Blumenthal's new book "Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel" details the horrific reality Israel has created for the Palestinian people.
A Palestinian woman and boy walk among Israeli soldiers and military vehicles in the West Bank town of Nabi Samuel.
Photo Credit: Ryan Rodrick Beiler / Shutterstock.com
October 16, 2013 |
Drop the New York Times’ international section and pick up Max Blumenthal’s new book. If you want to peel back the layers of deception pro-Israel groups and the media have created, Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel is the perfect place to start. It’s the bluntest book you’ll read about the state of Israeli society, as it looks deep into the soul of an ethnocracy that dominates the lives of millions of Palestinians.
Blumenthal’s book, based on four years of on-the-ground reporting and research, takes the reader from the occupied West Bank to prisons for African refugees to Palestinian areas within Israel. Through a series of profiles and vignettes, he paints a devastating portrait of a country obsessed with demographics bent on permanently subjugating the non-Jews who live between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River.
http://www.alternet.org/world/interview-max-blumenthal-goliath-life-and-loathing-greater-israel?akid=11060.1117888.jKA9uu&rd=1&src=newsletter912238&t=5
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Saturday, October 19, 2013

13-10-19 LIBYA: death and chaos following a US "nation building" war

Photo: ===13-10-19 LIBYA: death and chaos following a US "nation building" war=== Assassination Pushes Libya Towards Civil War Two Years after Gaddafi Murder Fighting rages in Benghazi as Tripoli braces for fallout from the kidnapping of prime minister Ali Zaidan By Chris Stephen in Tripoli October 19, 2013 "Information Clearing House - "The Guardian"- Libya marks the second anniversary of the death of Muammar Gaddafi with the country on the brink of a new civil war and fighting raging in the eastern city of Benghazi, birthplace of its Arab spring revolution. READ MORE: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36579.htm Violence between radical militias and regular forces broke out on Friday night and continued yesterday, while the capital Tripoli is braced for fallout from the kidnapping earlier this month of prime minister Ali Zaidan. Federalists in Cyrenaica, home to most of Libya's oil, open their own independent parliament in Benghazi this week, in a step that may herald the breakup of the country.
Assassination Pushes Libya Towards Civil War Two Years after Gaddafi Murder
Fighting rages in Benghazi as Tripoli braces for fallout from the kidnapping of prime minister Ali Zaidan
By Chris Stephen in Tripoli
October 19, 2013 "Information Clearing House - "The Guardian"- Libya marks the second anniversary of the death of Muammar Gaddafi with the country on the brink of a new civil war and fighting raging in the eastern city of Benghazi, birthplace of its Arab spring revolution.
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36579.htm

Violence between radical militias and regular forces broke out on Friday night and continued yesterday, while the capital Tripoli is braced for fallout from the kidnapping earlier this month of prime minister Ali Zaidan. Federalists in Cyrenaica, home to most of Libya's oil, open their own independent parliament in Benghazi this week, in a step that may herald the breakup of the country.
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Friday, October 18, 2013

13-10-18 GRENADA: Another tiny nation standing up to the banksters?

Another tiny nation standing up to the international banksters. Needless to say, Grenada is remembered as the site of another forgotten US war...
jz
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Grenada’s IMF Sunday School

Saturday, 12 October 2013 01:45By Eric LeCompte, Inter Press Service | Op-Ed
Granada.(Photo: Nick Myers / Flickr)As the International Monetary Fund shares initial proposals for Grenada’s debt restructuring during the Washington DC meetings this week, the Caribbean island could gain a reputation for more than nutmeg, calypso, beaches and the 2012 gold medal sprinter Kirani James.
Because Grenada is listening to the nation’s religious leaders, it may become famous for a debt resolution deal that includes the participation of its citizens, protects the most vulnerable from austerity programmes and keeps current employment on the island intact.
Part of what could make possible protecting jobs and the island’s social safety net is curbing corporate and professional tax avoidance in Grenada.
The most interesting part of what propelled this debt deal is that the churches of this tiny island have staked a place at the negotiating table. On this island nation of 100,000 people, where most people on the street are debating any debt deal, religious institutions have taught or served a significant portion of the island’s government leaders.
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13-10-18 US: Uninformed public - a threart to civilized society

The blame is not on the public, but on corporate media that deliberately keep the public in a deceptive information bubble - not only regarding Obamacare, but even more so regarding US economic policy and foreign policy in general.  It is the hallmark of totalitarian regimes.  And that is where the Clintons were concerned about "loosing the information war" through the Internet... Such "information war" used to be called propaganda in the good old days... jz
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Justin Doolittle, Truthout: If the public is as dramatically uninformed as polls show about an array of critical issues, including the Affordable Care Act, democracy is seriously threatened, argues Doolittle.
http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=zzPYEXb1q73PhcDIzdGKtl0RRB%2BhGare
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13-10-18 UK: British MPs set to investigate Guardian's involvement in Snowden leaks:

Following the US in restricting Freedom of the Press? jz
   
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British MPs set to investigate Guardian's involvement in Snowden leaks:
Keith Vaz says home affairs committee to look at newspaper's activities as part of inquiry into counter-terrorism
 
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13-10-18 US - Misc news of the Abuse: In Texas Prisons, 14 People Have Died After Being Forced to Endure 120 Degree Heat


News from the American Gulag!
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In Texas Prisons, 14 People Have Died After Being Forced to Endure 120 Degree Heat

Woman sues Texas Department of Criminal Justice for inhumane prison temperatures.
http://www.alternet.org/investigations/texas-prisons-14-people-have-died-after-being-forced-endure-120-degree-heat?akid=11055.1117888.bls6vX&rd=1&src=newsletter912036&t=14
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13-10-18 US: Misc News of the Abuse - Georgia Cops Pepper-Sprayed Visiting HS Football Team After Victory

Beyond belief! jz
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Jodie Gummow, AlterNet
Visiting coach claims in court that the officers used pepper spray to root for the home team! 
http://act.alternet.org/go/38905?t=8&akid=11055.1117888.bls6vX
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13-10-18 US: March Against Corruption - Saint Paul, MN

In the best tradition of Direct Action from the school of Civil Disobedience! jz
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This Nov. 2nd we are calling for a worldwide march on your city hall, capitol, courthouse or anywhere else corruption exists!

Remember, Facebook is suppressing political/activist speech and those who cannot afford to pay to share. Our only way of overcoming this is with your help TAGGING, LIKING, COMMENTING and SHARING!

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MISSION:

The Minnesota #MarchAgainstCorruption will take place in St. Paul, MN. -The route is still being planned at this moment, we are also discussing the planning of a rally and other events with different groups at this time.

We would like to invite all groups to come out and represent! Corruption within our government is not limited to one issue, but rather, the arms of corruption reach far and wide!

If you are a member of any local collectives or organizations and would like to work to get your advocates to the march, we would *LOVE* to list you on the event! Simply let us know that you're organizing for your group to be present!

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#MarchAgainstCorruption PAGES:

-Official Parent Page: March Against Corruption
-Local Advocacy Page: MN March Against Corruption

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MINNESOTA EVENT:
https://www.facebook.com/events/624651060880701/

GLOBAL EVENT:
https://www.facebook.com/events/413904625374273/

EVENT LISTING (UPDATED):
https://www.facebook.com/notes/march-against-corruption/march-against-corruption-november-2nd-everywhere/336631606467564

Don't see an event near you?

Feel free to create your own event page for your local march using this event as a template. Then send us the link so we can add it to our growing list of events.

For more information or if you are interested in organizing a march in your city email info@marchagainstcorruption.com or contact one of our hosts.

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GROUPS CURRENTLY HELPING TO PROMOTE THIS EVENT:

-People Over Politics
-Occupy Black Friday
-The United Police State of America
-OccupyMN
-March Against Monsanto
-St. Paul Area Move to Amend : end corporate personhood
-Idle No More-Minnesota*


*pending organizational consensus.
(We'll gladly post your group to this list upon request.)

ALSO:

Click Here to Add Your Name in Support of the American Anti-Corruption Act:http://act.unitedrepublic.org/event/cosponsor/3717
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13-10-18 13-10-18 ICELAND: The only nation that successfully stood up to the US/Banksters complex

A short, must read article.  It is amazing that the People of such a small nation succeeded, where the People of the United States and Eurpean nations fail.  jz
   
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13-10-18 Happy Eid!


Just before Eid, Moslem clerics issued a ruling that premitted the eating of cats, dogs, donkeys, in view of the widespread hunger in Syria!
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