On 7 July 2013 a series of ten bombs exploded in and around the Mahabodhi Temple complex, a UNESCO World heritage site in Bodh Gaya, India. Five people, including two monks, were injured by the blasts. Three other devices were defused by bomb disposal squads at various locations in Gaya.
The Mahavihara and the holy Bodhi Tree where Gautama Buddha is believed to have attained enlightenment were undamaged. \However Archaeological Survey of India confirmed damage in new structures of Mahavihara. While arrests have been made, no party has publicly claimed responsibility for the attack. International figures including the Dalai Lama and Aung San Suu Kyi have expressed their concern.
"When good does evil in its struggle against evil, it becomes indistinguishable from its enemy." T.S. Elliot
"Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens" : Plato : Ancient Greek philosopher (428/427-348/347 B.C.)
"God
forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The
people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is
wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the
facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions,
it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ... And
what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not warned
from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance?
Let them take arms.": Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of
Independence, 3rd US President - Source: November 13, 1787, letter to
William S. Smith, quoted in Padover's Jefferson On Democracy
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(got to catch up on my current programming'.....been remise since the psydo-independence-day celrbratory mass distractions sent me side-ways, well, i did get caught on the zimmerman drama X two weeks...hope journalist had a well deserved respite ) the dead ones,for sure got a needed break..kos
The hits just keep coming. After we learned that the IRS has been
targeting dozens of groups for abusive scrutiny and blatantly using the
force of government to endlessly delay tax exempt status for what
appears to be political purposes, we find this week that our federal tax collectors “exposed” thousands of taxpayers’ Social Security numbers on the Internet.
And this is the agency that is going to be entrusted with our health
records and data under President Obama’s Affordable Care Act.
At the same time, we are discovering more and more about the massive
surveillance activities of the NSA and other agencies -- and none of
what we are learning is good. It turns out that so-called FISA (secret)
Courts created by Congress are not just approving warrants in secret. They are actually approving entire policies by which the government is gathering personal information about ALL of us -- with or without cause.
It is no wonder that thousands of Americans turned out around the country
over the Independence Day holiday for “Restore the 4th” events. The bad
news, of course, is that I’m not seeing any indication that the
politicians in Washington are paying any attention. Rather, from the
White House to Congress, all we are hearing is: “Trust us.”
Well...I don’t know about you, but I’m not ready to trust either the politicians or the bureaucracies they have created.
I have what I think are better ideas. Instead
of trusting the IRS, how about replacing the special-interest monster
we call the tax code with a system so simple and straightforward that we
don’t need a 100,000 employee federal tax collection agency?
And the NSA and the secret courts that are obviously rubber-stamping
requests to spy on us? We can probably all agree that there are
legitimate instances and situations where secrecy is appropriate.
Keeping us safe from external threats is, after all, one of government’s
actual responsibilities.
But, can’t we also agree that the very idea of a “secret court” making
secret rulings runs counter to everything America stands for? Going
back to the Revolution, we have fought wars and sacrificed millions of
lives to preserve the very freedoms our own government today seems
intent on destroying.
Friends, we have to fight back. We can’t just sit on the couch and let the
politicians take our liberty away, bankrupt us financially, and continue
to abuse the power we have given them. I’m ready for the fight -- that is what the Our America Initiative is all about. But I need your help.
Millions of Americans WANT their 4th Amendment protections restored. But actually doing it requires organization, mobilization and the resources to have the national debate these issues deserve. The same applies to abuses by the IRS. For decades, the special interests have controlled the insane way we are taxed. It’s time to take that control out of the back rooms and into the public square. America is ready, but the politicians aren’t.
The Our America Initiative was founded precisely for the purpose of giving voice to Americans who aren’t willing to simply “trust” the federal government to protect our liberty and freedom.
Never before has the need -- or motivation -- been greater for us to
stand up to the politicians. We’re ready -- and I want you to help.
Please go to Our America today and make a contribution that will help us spread our message, mobilize our activists, and have a very real impact on the policies and
abuses we are seeing each and every day.
Thank you!
Governor Gary Johnson
Honorary Chairman
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watch how this thing plays out
Who Owns The Earth? — Noam Chomsky July 10, 2013 | Categories: Guest Contributions | Tags: Noam Chomsky, | Print This Article Print This Article Guest Column Noam Chomsky Who Owns The Earth? http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/17402-who-owns-the-earth Introduced by Paul Craig Roberts
In my latest book, The Failure Of Laissez Faire Capitalism And Economic Dissolution of The West: Towards A New Economics For A Full World (Clarity Press, 2013), I emphasize that nature’s capital, not man-made capital, is the limiting factor for life on earth. I learned from ecological economist Herman Daly and others who were able to escape dogma and to think independently that the measure used by economists to measure economic success–the growth of GDP–does not include the most important costs. What this means is that economics as presently understood is defective and is leading humanity to its destruction. Noam Chomsky has a brilliant mind and the courage to use it. As a critic of Israel’s inhumane policies toward the Palestinians, Chomsky has been branded by the Israel Lobby as an anti-semite and a “self-hating Jew.” See for example: http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/articles/Is%20Noam%20Chomsky%20an%20Anti.htm There is an entire industry that demonizes Chomsky. See, for example, http://chomskywatch.blogspot.com and http://www.masada2000.org/selfhate2.html Jews who make constructive criticisms of Israeli policies in attempts to protect Israel from the follies and mendacity of its government are branded “self-hating Jews.” Gentiles who provide constructive criticisms are branded “anti-semites” and “holocaust deniers,” even though they have never denounced Jews or denied the holocaust. The Israel Lobby has worked overtime to establish that any criticism of Israeli government policy reeks of total evil and is an indication that the writer intends a new holocaust. Absurd denunciations by the Israel Lobby of Israel’s critics have deprived “anti-semite” of its traditional meaning and given it a new meaning–possessor of a moral conscience. Chomsky, a MIT professor who is the father of modern linguistics, has a moral conscience, and he turned his astute mind to the horrors of our time. Now that Chomsky is 85 years old, I am unsure what we will do without him. No human can take on every issue. Chomsky is often criticized for not exceeding the labors of Heracles and taking on 9/11. But as I have learned in life, one person can only do so much. Chomsky has done a lot for truth, and a lot is a lot. The people who condemn Chomsky should first try to measure themselves by him. Few, if any, will measure up. In his commencement address at the American University of Beirut on June 14, 2013, Chomsky makes the point that our planet is our common possession. It does not belong to Monsanto, or to the military/security complex, or to Wall Street, or to the oil, mining, and timber industries. It belongs to life. If we don’t defend it, short-term profit greed will destroy it. Unbridled capitalism means the destruction of the Earth. The amount of profits that can be made depends on how much of the cost can be imposed on nature. Therefore, in the world economy where unchecked greed operates, humans with their short-term thinking impose huge costs on nature in order to provide profits for executive bonuses, shareholders, and Wall Street. Chomsky’s statement is true that “the Earth now desperately needs defense from impending environmental catastrophe.” The question is: are there sufficient rational and literate persons to save Earth? And if such astute people do exist, do they have the power to save Earth from capitalist greed and Washington’s desire for hegemony? The question humanity faces is: In the race to destroy the earth, will Washington’s drive for world hegemony result in World War III before capitalist greed pollutes the planet to death?
Op-Ed Articles
NSA Blackmailing Obama?
Interview with Whistleblower Russ Tice
Video
Abby
Martin talks to Russell Tice, former intelligence analyst and original
NSA whistleblower, about how he saw spying orders for including former
senators Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama.
Denouncing NSA Surveillance Isn't Enough -- We Need the Power to Stop It
By Norman Solomon
At
the core of the surveillance state is the hollowness of its democratic
pretenses. Only with authentic democracy can we save ourselves from
devastating evisceration of the First, Fourth and Fifth Amendments.
Russian Inquiry to UN:
Rebels, not Army, Behind Syria Aleppo Sarin Attack
By RT
Samples
taken at the site where the chemical weapons were allegedly used
indicate that it was rebels - not the Syrian army - behind the attack,
Russia's UN envoy Vladimir Churkin has said.
Syria: Nobel Peace Laureate Gives Her Account of What She Witnessed In Syria
Video
Nobel
Peace Prize laurete, Mairead Maguire discovered that the people the
U.S. are funding are violent groups and do not want peace in Syria.
Exclusive: US Bankrolled Anti-Morsi Activists
By Emad Mekay
Documents reveal US money trail to Egyptian groups that pressed for president's removal.
Treatment of Palestinians is Apartheid by Any Other Name
By Jonathan Cook
Israel
is carrying out a systematic and intentional policy to drive
Palestinians off their land to replace them with Jewish communities.
The Decline Of Breadwinner Jobs Has Resulted In The Longest Bread Lines In American History
By Michael Snyder
As
the number of good jobs continues to decline, the number of Americans
that cannot take care of themselves without government assistance
continues to explode.
How Unchecked Capitalism Has Brought the World to the Brink of Apocalypse -- and What We Must Do Now
By Robert Jensen
We have both a moral obligation and practical reasons to work for justice and sustainability.
Can We Really Walk Away From Empire?
By Carolyn Baker
Welcome to the real world that empire never told you about.
Almost 30,000 California Prison Inmates On Hunger Strike
By M. Alex Johnson,
The
inmates comprise almost a quarter of the state's 120,000 prisoners,
said that they are out of options to end indefinite solitary
confinement for inmates with ties to prison gangs, which they call
state-sanctioned torture.
In Case You Missed It
I Thought Solitary Confinement in Iran Was Bad -- Then I Went Inside America's Prisons
By Shane Bauer
We throw thousands of people in prison for the books they read, the company they keep, the beliefs they hold. Here's why.
In Case You Missed It
Torture Inc. Americas Brutal Prisons
Video
Savaged
by dogs, Electrocuted With Cattle Prods, Burned By Toxic Chemicals,
Does such barbaric abuse inside U.S. jails explain the horrors that
were committed in Iraq?
"You Have Radicalized Hundreds of Thousands of Us"
Model Citizen Bravely Blasts Lawmakers at Texas Abortion Bill Hearing
Must Watch - Video
Texas
resident Sarah Slamen brought down the hammer of citizen justice on
the Senate Health and Human Services Committee's anti-choice members
with an excoriation for the ages.
Atheists Are the Most Feared Group in America - But Why?
By Chris Finocchio
The
percentage of American adults not identifying with any religion in Pew
Research polls has grown from barely 15% to nearly 20% in the last
five years.
From The Archives
Mos Def and Bill Maher on 9/11
Video
Mos Def stands up for himself and breaks the criticism and propaganda that Bill Maher throws at him.
Hard News
17 killed in Afghan bombing:
At least
17 people, including 12 women and four children, were killed Tuesday
when their vehicle was struck by a bomb planted on the roadside in the
western Afghan province of Herat, officials said.
Afghanistan: UK forces in Helmand 'made matters worse', says report:
Study says 'ignorant' troops alienated local people and the Taliban are likely to try to retake the Afghanistan province
Pakistan: President's security officer among three killed in Karachi blast:
President
Asif Ali Zardari's chief security officer, Bilal Sheikh and two others
(Sheikh's driver, fruit vendor) were killed in a suicide blast
targeting his double cabin vehicle near the Binoria Town Mosque in the
Gurumandir area of the city on Wednesday.
Twelve Killed Across Iraq, including four women in Mosul:
In Mosul,
two soldiers were killed and two more were wounded in an I.E.D. blast.
Three women were killed during a home invasion. Gunmen killed a woman.
Syrian rebels disperse food protest with gunfire:
Syrian
rebels fired into the air to disperse a protest by civilians in a
rebel-held district of Aleppo against a blockade preventing food and
medicine reaching government-held areas of the northern city, residents
said on Wednesday.
Syrian rebel blockade in Aleppo leaves thousands hungry: activists: -
Syrian
rebels have intensified their blockade of government-held areas in the
northern city of Aleppo, where residents now face severe food
shortages, opposition activists said on Tuesday.
Syrian rebels lose hope on promised US military aid:
Members
of the Syrian opposition said on Tuesday that they had given up hope
that the United States would deliver promised military aid to rebels as
war planes and artillery smashed the central city of Homs.
Saudi arms will arrive soon: Syria rebel chief:
The new
president of the main Syrian opposition group says he expected advanced
Saudi weapons will arrive in the country soon and change their
military situation, which he described as weak
Russia says Syrian rebels made sarin nerve gas used in Aleppo attack:
Russia's
UN ambassador said Tuesday that Russian experts determined that Syrian
rebels made sarin nerve gas and used it in a deadly chemical weapon
attack outside Aleppo in March.
Inquiry on Aleppo chemical attack met international standards, unlike West's - Lavrov:
Russia's
inquiry into the use of chemical weapons on Syrian territory was
carried out in full accordance with international standards, unlike a
similar evaluation by Western countries, says Russian Foreign Minister
Sergey Lavrov.
Al-Qaida in Syria is most serious terrorist threat to UK, says report:
Intelligence and security committee report warns of catastrophic consequences should militants get hold of chemical weapons
Two dead after militants attack security checkpoint in Sinai:
The
official says the gunmen stormed the post in an area called Sadr Haitan
in central Sinai early Wednesday. He says six people were wounded in
the attack. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was
not authorized to brief the press.
Egypt: interim presidency appoints PM and vice-president:
Egypt's
military-backed interim presidency appointed the economist Hazem
el-Beblawi as prime minister and the internationally known opposition
leader, Mohamed ElBaradei, as vice-president.
Egypt's Brotherhood rejects cabinet offer:
The
Muslim Brotherhood has rejected an offer to join Egypt's transitional
cabinet, as new interim Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi announced he
would start work on forming an interim government once he meets liberal
leaders.
Egypt orders Brotherhood chief held, Mursi in 'safe place':
Egypt on
Wednesday ordered the arrest of the Muslim Brotherhood's supreme leader
Mohammed Badie over violence in Cairo that left dozens dead while
charging another 200 people over the bloodshed, judicial sources said.
Amnesty slams Egypt army's 'disproportionate' use of force:
Amnesty
International said on Wednesday it had evidence pointing to the
"disproportionate" use of lethal force by Egyptian security forces, and
called for them to be reined in to avoid "disaster".
In talking about Egypt, Obama officials won't even mention the word 'coup' :
U.S.
officials went to great lengths Monday to avoid calling Egypt's abrupt
regime change a coup, a label that could force a suspension of aid to
the stalwart Arab ally at a time when the U.S. appears to be losing
leverage in conflicts across the Middle East.
Israel urged U.S. not to halt aid to Egypt, says top American official:
During
intensive Washington-Jerusalem coordination talks, Israeli leadership
warned U.S. officials military aid cut to Egypt would likely impact
negatively on Israel's security.
Rival groups in Egypt reject transition plan:
Muslim Brotherhood says proposed timetable would take country "back to zero" while opposition bloc NSF denounces decree.
Saudi Arabia and UAE to lend Egypt up to $8 billion:
The
United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia will give Egypt money in the
wake of its political and economic crisis. The UAE will provide Cairo
with $1 billion and lend it a further $2 billion, while Saudi Arabia
will give Egypt a $5 billion aid package.
The Egyptian army and Palestinian Authority join forces to punish Gaza:
Since
being installed into power through a military coup, anti-Morsi elements
have stepped up their campaign of scapegoating, baselessly accusing
Palestinians of serving as armed mercenaries for the Muslim
Brotherhood.
Egypt's coup does not bode well for Palestinians:
Hamas
is indeed in trouble. In a very short time, it has lost major regional
allies. Iran, Syria and Hezbollah no longer support the group, because
of its position on Syria. The Muslim Brotherhood, which lifted Hamas's
years-long international isolation, is gone from electoral politics.
Amnesty accuses Israel of judicial bullying:
Rights group issues scathing attack on trial of Palestinian women over weekly protests against West Bank settlement.
Iran claims to have mobile S-200 SAMs:
Iran
has produced a mobile version of the S-200 (SA-5 'Gammon')
surface-to-air missile (SAM) and upgraded the system to shorten its
reaction time and improve its performance against individual fighters,
air defence chief Brigadier General Farzad Esmaili has told Iranian
media organisations.
Senate Set to Confirm New FBI Head Who OK'd Waterboarding, Defends Mass Spying, Indefinite Detention:
Former
Bush administration Deputy Attorney General James Comey refused to
criticize the broad, ongoing collection of the phone records of
Americans and defended the indefinite detention of U.S. citizens deemed
to be enemy combatants.
The NSA Has Inserted Its Code Into Android OS, Or Three Quarters Of All Smartphones:
Over
a decade ago, it was discovered that the NSA embedded backdoor access
into Windows 95, and likely into virtually all other subsequent
internet connected, desktop-based operating systems.
NSA spied on Latin America for energy and military intel:
Colombia
is a top priority for the US, registering the most spy activity, with
Mexico, Venezuela and Brazil following closely behind. In addition,
Argentina, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Paraguay,
Chile, Peru and El Salvador are under surveillance, though to a lesser
degree.
Mexico demands information on US spying operations:
Mexico
has demanded Washington to provide "broad information" about a leaked
report that it was among Latin American nations monitored by US spy
agencies.
Glenn Greenwald: Snowden: I never gave any information to Chinese or Russian governments:
As a new poll shows widespread American approval for him, the NSA whistleblower vehemently denies media claims
Poll: Most Americans call Snowden a whistle-blower, not a traitor:
In
a Quinnipiac University poll released this week, a majority of
respondents - 55 percent - say Snowden, the computer analyst who leaked
top-secret National Security Agency documents, is a whistle-blower.
Just 34 percent sided with numerous members of Congress calling
Snowden's actions treasonous.
Key witness in Bradley Manning trial: Guantánamo files just 'baseball cards':
Former chief prosecutor Colonel Morris Davis says WikiLeaks detainee files contained information already available publicly
Experts: Obama's plan to predict future leakers unproven, unlikely to work:
President
Barack Obama has ordered federal employees to report suspicious
actions of their colleagues based on behavioral profiling techniques
that are not scientifically proven to work, according to experts and
government documents.
Man arrested after crashing car into U.S. embassy in Australia:
Emergency
services, including a bomb disposal squad, were at the scene as a
precaution after the incident occurred at about 6 p.m. (0700 GMT)
Detectives were talking to the 30-year-old arrested man, a police
spokesman said. No injuries were reported.
Unapproved GM rice found in US exports to over 30 countries:
A
new report has revealed that the rice supply in at least 30 countries
may have already been contaminated with genetically modified strains
from US exports, thereby threatening worldwide contamination.
Wal-Mart Will Not Open D.C. Stores if Forced to Pay Living Wages, Claims 'Business Discrimination':
Poor
giant Wal-Mart is threatening to abandon plans to open three locations
in Washington, D.C. if the city enacts a living wage bill targeting
The
conservative myth about "liberal media bias" only makes sense if you
don't pay any attention to what's actually in the media.
If
you turned on the network chat shows this past Sunday, you saw ABC
lobbing softballs to George W. Bush. On CBS you saw--who else!--John
McCain explaining Egypt. And on NBC, Meet the Press host David Gregory
claimed that "anybody who gets a paycheck in this country" is "paying more taxes for Obamacare... It makes a lot of people mad."
But that's false--the tax in question is only paid by people who make over $200,000.
FAIR's job is to watch these people--and catch them when they spin, distort the facts or just flat out lie.
To keep doing this, we need your help.
The
conservative myth about "liberal media bias" only makes sense if you
don't pay any attention to what's actually in the media.
If
you turned on the network chat shows this past Sunday, you saw ABC
lobbing softballs to George W. Bush. On CBS you saw--who else!--John
McCain explaining Egypt. And on NBC, Meet the Press host David Gregory
claimed that "anybody who gets a paycheck in this country" is "paying more taxes for Obamacare... It makes a lot of people mad."
But that's false--the tax in question is only paid by people who make over $200,000.
FAIR's job is to watch these people--and catch them when they spin, distort the facts or just flat out lie.
Why
do people like David Gregory fail to grasp the basic facts about major
policies? We can't say for sure, but the fact that Gregory is a
multi-millionaire insider journalist probably doesn't help. As we
reported recently in FAIR's magazine Extra!,
TV stars and pundits like Gregory live in a world that almost none of
us are a part of. And that makes it hard for them to relate to the rest
of us.
When you turn on your TV, you see millionaires working for billionaires. We work for you.
Why
do people like David Gregory fail to grasp the basic facts about major
policies? We can't say for sure, but the fact that Gregory is a
multi-millionaire insider journalist probably doesn't help. As we
reported recently in FAIR's magazine Extra!,
TV stars and pundits like Gregory live in a world that almost none of
us are a part of. And that makes it hard for them to relate to the rest
of us.
When you turn on your TV, you see millionaires working for billionaires. We work for you.
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