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Abby breaks down the TSA Bureaucracy: criminality, ineptitude and their
blatant violation of citizens' rights. She goes over the government
collusion with the industry, exposes body scanner flaws and asks: "why
is the TSA expanding beyond airports nationwide?
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On this episode of Breaking the Set, Abby talks about yet another
"apparent suicide" in Guantanamo prison, dryboarding, and how the only
way to ever leave is in a body-bag. Abby interviews former CIA Officer
Ray McGovern about CIA intelligence failures leading up to 9/11, the
presidential daily briefings, and the PNAC neocon strategy for war. Abby
talks to Afghan journalist and author of "Opium Wars" Fariba Nawa about
the opium trade, opium brides, and the heroin black market. 11 years
after the 9/11 Abby breaks down the systematic erosion of our civil
liberties through legislation passed in a post 9/11 America.
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Abby talks about yet another "apparent suicide" in Guantanamo prison,
dryboarding, and how the only way to ever leave is in a body-bag.
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11 years after the 9/11 Abby breaks down the systematic erosion of our
civil liberties through legislation passed in a post 9/11 America.
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Abby interviews former CIA Officer Ray McGovern about CIA intelligence
failures leading up to 9/11, the presidential daily briefings, and the
PNAC neocon strategy for war.
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Abby is joined by Fariba Nawa, Afghan American journalist and author, to
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drug war. Together they discuss the country's post 9/11 surge of opium
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On this episode of Breaking the Set Abby talks about a new program in
multiple states aimed to track children with RFID chips in their student
IDs, she speaks to independent journalist Tim Pool about live streaming
and the rise of new media, highlights Russell Simmons for defending the
message of the 99% as the hero, and calls out Pat Robertson for his
hateful rhetoric toward Muslims and women, talks to RT Producer Manuel
Rapalo regarding the political impact of Occupy Wall Street.
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Carbon Credit Company is the most recent carbon trading scam to be
exposed by Daily Mirror journalist Andrew Penman. According to London
Carbon Credit Company, “the future is bright for carbon trading”. But
not for the people who buy the carbon credits.Penman reports on Bob Wright, an investor who handed over [...]
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Reggie Clemons' stepfather explains the flaws in the case against his son on death row.
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Dear L.J.,
Next week is very important -- you see, it will help determine whether my son will live or die. My son's name is Reginald Clemons, but we call him Reggie. He has been on Missouri's death row for about 20 years now. On Monday the 17th, his case will be reviewed by a judge for what could be the last time. Chances like this don't happen often and we are grateful for this special opportunity. Before we reach that step, I want you to understand a few things about the case, my son and just how fatal the flaws of the death penalty system can be. Then I hope you'll send a letter of support to Reggie -- for strength, for compassion, for justice. I'll give it to him personally before the hearing. The state of Missouri has accused my son of killing two young women -- pushing them into the Mississippi River in April 1991. The pain the family of these two girls has suffered after such a staggering loss is unfathomable. But from the beginning, the case against Reggie has been riddled with grave and glaring problems. First, my sons' face was so swollen after his interrogation by St. Louis police that the judge arraigning him sent him to the emergency room. Second, not one, not two, but four federal judges have agreed that the prosecutor's conduct when cross-examining Reggie was "abusive and boorish". This prosecutor compared my son, who at 19 years old never even had a criminal record, to two convicted serial killers. Third, I wish race weren't a factor, but it is a fact that the single most reliable predictor of whether someone will be sentenced to death is the race of the victim. My son is a black man. The two young women who were killed were white. Add that to the disproportionate dismissal of blacks during jury selection and you get a perfect storm of racial discrimination. Fourth, and most troubling of all -- the state's only two eye-witnesses included a man who, at one point, confessed to police that he murdered the girls and another who took a plea in exchange for a lighter sentence! How can my son be about to lose his life when there is so much so clearly wrong with this case? Reggie could really use your support right about now. Please send a simple message to help give him strength and courage. The support we've received over the years from Amnesty International and its members has been such an inspiration. It's kept us strong, even when fighting a system that has, at times, made us feel weak. That's why I've invited Amnesty representatives to join me at Monday's special hearing in Missouri. We want to pack as much positive energy as we can into that courtroom! They'll bring your messages to me and I will deliver them directly to Reggie. I know it will mean a lot to him. My son has come within 12 days of execution by lethal injection before. No person should have to endure the cruelty of a looming death sentence. I'm praying that Monday's hearing will be our chance to lay all the evidence, facts and flaws out on the table once and for all. I'm praying that your messages of support give him the strength he needs to keep fighting. And most of all, I'm praying that justice is coming for my son, Reggie. Thank you for lending us your strength ,  Rev. Reynolds ThomasStepfather of Reggie Clemons | ||||
The Fed and the Crisis
Ex-Mormon Leader: "Mitt Romney Curses Christianity" His Mormon Problem Revealed
Dear friends,
Details are leaking of a top-secret, global corporate power grab of breathtaking scope -- attacking everything from a free Internet to health and environmental regulations, and we have just 4 days to stop it.
Big business has a new plan to fatten their pockets: a giant global pact, with an international tribunal to enforce it, that is kept top secret for years (even from our lawmakers!) and then brought down like a Death Star on our democracies. Big Tobacco, Big Oil, Big Pharma, Walmart and almost 600 other corporate lobbyists are all in on the draft -- including limits on smoking laws, affordable medicines and free speech on the Net.
The latest round of negotiations ends in just 4 days -- but outcries in each of our countries could shake the confidence of negotiators and scuttle the talks forever. Let's get to a million against the global corporate takeover. Sign below and forward widely. Avaaz will project our petition counter on the walls of the conference so negotiators can see the opposition to their plan exploding in real time:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_the_corporate_death_star/?bNxfadb&v=17855
The deal, called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), is written to protect investors from government regulation, even if that regulation is passed in the public interest. Leaked versions suggest the TPP would undermine protections for air and water safety and reintroduce measures from the US Internet freedom attack as well as steamrolling efforts to produce generic affordable medicines. Worse still, lawmakers who fail to conform to the TPP’s rules face sanctions in an international tribunal -- a place where corporations can sue us for deals previous governments signed in secret!
Negotiators say this is just a trade agreement, written to facilitate investment and profit for all. But the leaked draft imposes so many limits on citizen protections, it's clear this "trade" agreement is skewed to put corporate profit above people's needs -- that's not surprising since it's been drafted in secret with almost 600 corporate lobbyists.
But there is hope: Australia is bucking against the international tribunal system, and New Zealand is objecting to the takeover of its medicine-pricing protections that keep drugs affordable. Massive public opposition, casting doubt over each country's ability to sell TPP at home, could derail the talks for good. Sign the petition now, and forward widely -- the delegates and lobbyists are watching the wave of opposition grow in real time:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_the_corporate_death_star/?bNxfadb&v=17855
US Candidate for Senate, Elizabeth Warren in a recent speech said: “Corporations are not people. People have hearts, they have kids, they get jobs, they get sick, they cry, they dance. They live, they love, and they die. And that matters, because we don't run this country for corporations, we run it for people." Let’s reach one million to stop the corporate takeover of our governments.
With hope,
Iain, Pedro, Laura, Ari, Emma, Lisa, Luca, Ricken and the whole Avaaz team
PS - Avaaz has launched Community Petitions, an exciting new platform where it's quick and easy to create a campaign on any issue you care strongly about. Start your own by clicking here: http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/start_a_petition/?do.ps.tpp
MORE INFORMATION
The Nation: "NAFTA on Steroids"
http://www.thenation.com/article/168627/nafta-steroids
The Guardian: "The Pacific free trade deal that's anything but free"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/27/pacific-free-trade-deal
Huffington Post: "Leak Cracks Open Trans-Pacific Partnership Scandal"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ian-fletcher/leak-cracks-open-transpac_b_1594675.html
Reuters: "Lawmakers press for open Trans-Pacific trade talks"
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/27/us-usa-congress-trade-idUSBRE85Q1MK20120627
TechDirt: "Hollywood Gets To Party With TPP Negotiators; Public Interest Groups Get Thrown Out Of Hotel"
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120131/23161417605/hollywood-gets-to-party-with-tpp-negotiators-public-interest-groups-get-thrown-out-hotel.shtml
Electronic Frontier Foundation: "Background and analysis of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement"
https://www.eff.org/issues/tpp
We have four days to stop a top-secret global corporate power grab that attacks everything from a free Internet to environmental protections. This agreement is being negotiated right now by bureaucrats backed by corporate lobbyists. Click below to crash their secret meeting with our global call to kill the TPP deal:  |
Big business has a new plan to fatten their pockets: a giant global pact, with an international tribunal to enforce it, that is kept top secret for years (even from our lawmakers!) and then brought down like a Death Star on our democracies. Big Tobacco, Big Oil, Big Pharma, Walmart and almost 600 other corporate lobbyists are all in on the draft -- including limits on smoking laws, affordable medicines and free speech on the Net.
The latest round of negotiations ends in just 4 days -- but outcries in each of our countries could shake the confidence of negotiators and scuttle the talks forever. Let's get to a million against the global corporate takeover. Sign below and forward widely. Avaaz will project our petition counter on the walls of the conference so negotiators can see the opposition to their plan exploding in real time:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_the_corporate_death_star/?bNxfadb&v=17855
The deal, called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), is written to protect investors from government regulation, even if that regulation is passed in the public interest. Leaked versions suggest the TPP would undermine protections for air and water safety and reintroduce measures from the US Internet freedom attack as well as steamrolling efforts to produce generic affordable medicines. Worse still, lawmakers who fail to conform to the TPP’s rules face sanctions in an international tribunal -- a place where corporations can sue us for deals previous governments signed in secret!
Negotiators say this is just a trade agreement, written to facilitate investment and profit for all. But the leaked draft imposes so many limits on citizen protections, it's clear this "trade" agreement is skewed to put corporate profit above people's needs -- that's not surprising since it's been drafted in secret with almost 600 corporate lobbyists.
But there is hope: Australia is bucking against the international tribunal system, and New Zealand is objecting to the takeover of its medicine-pricing protections that keep drugs affordable. Massive public opposition, casting doubt over each country's ability to sell TPP at home, could derail the talks for good. Sign the petition now, and forward widely -- the delegates and lobbyists are watching the wave of opposition grow in real time:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_the_corporate_death_star/?bNxfadb&v=17855
US Candidate for Senate, Elizabeth Warren in a recent speech said: “Corporations are not people. People have hearts, they have kids, they get jobs, they get sick, they cry, they dance. They live, they love, and they die. And that matters, because we don't run this country for corporations, we run it for people." Let’s reach one million to stop the corporate takeover of our governments.
With hope,
Iain, Pedro, Laura, Ari, Emma, Lisa, Luca, Ricken and the whole Avaaz team
PS - Avaaz has launched Community Petitions, an exciting new platform where it's quick and easy to create a campaign on any issue you care strongly about. Start your own by clicking here: http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/start_a_petition/?do.ps.tpp
MORE INFORMATION
The Nation: "NAFTA on Steroids"
http://www.thenation.com/article/168627/nafta-steroids
The Guardian: "The Pacific free trade deal that's anything but free"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/27/pacific-free-trade-deal
Huffington Post: "Leak Cracks Open Trans-Pacific Partnership Scandal"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ian-fletcher/leak-cracks-open-transpac_b_1594675.html
Reuters: "Lawmakers press for open Trans-Pacific trade talks"
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/27/us-usa-congress-trade-idUSBRE85Q1MK20120627
TechDirt: "Hollywood Gets To Party With TPP Negotiators; Public Interest Groups Get Thrown Out Of Hotel"
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120131/23161417605/hollywood-gets-to-party-with-tpp-negotiators-public-interest-groups-get-thrown-out-hotel.shtml
Electronic Frontier Foundation: "Background and analysis of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement"
https://www.eff.org/issues/tpp
Dear kosmicdebris Your weekly storage newsletter from theregister.co.uk for the week ending 12th September 2012 The Economic Evolution of Enterprise Storage http://whitepapers.theregister.co.uk/paper/view/1997/?td=m-srg *** Data Storage Hardware *** WD to parade flash-disk mutant for Wall St moneybags this week Thinner, 'extreme' capacities promised http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/11/wd_investor_conf/ Top dog EMC crushes whimpering rivals in storage pack Is server storage cramping array sales? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/10/idc_storage_tracker_q2_2012/ Tape makers strap on skis, glide down slope to oblivion $169m sales in a quarter - are you taking the piste? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/06/tape_market_chart/ SanDisk flogs strap-on to speed up your lazy Windows 7 PC Retrofit SSD plus caching software http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/05/sandisk_readycache/ *** Block Storage *** HP tempts EVA punters with low-end 3PAR array honeypot EVA replacement gives them a 50% boost http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/10/hp_3par_eva/ EMC's big kahuna Tucci threatens to cling on until 2015 Who will prise the CEO from his desk? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/10/emc_tucci_ferb_2015/ QLogic drops veil on new flashy adapter technology HBA flash caching http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/06/qlogic_flash_hbas/ Dell makes unexpected grab for the PAYG storage cloud Using Nirvanix cloud storage service http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/06/dell_nirvanix/ *** File Storage *** Array biz Nimble: Quick, lob us $40m before storage giants wallop us Hybrid racker needs VC cash http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/11/nimble_forty_million/ Speaking in Tech: Lawyers are the enemy of the cloud Plus: VMware still hard at work on the Death Star http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/05/speaking_in_tech_episode_24/ *** Data Protection and Management *** Shuttleworth drops one million cluster bucks on Ceph upstart Linux moneybags funds Um Bongo's cloudy file system http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/11/shuttleworth_ceph_investment/ AMD previews Piledriver, Ivy Bridge SeaMicro microservers Stretches Freedom interconnect fabric out to storage http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/11/amd_seamicro_microserver_upgrade_storage/ Riverbed sucks in more data for cloud gateway deluge Four times bigger gut too http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/10/riverbed_whiteware_3010/ STORServer backup beast heads list of top tools Analyst's guide http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/07/storserver_dcig/ The Economic Evolution of Enterprise Storage http://whitepapers.theregister.co.uk/paper/view/1997/?td=m-srg
...................keep fighting the good fight, with your minds as weapons....................
...................kosmicdebris.....................
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