........We preserve the so-called peace of our community by deeds of petty violence every day. Look at the policeman's billy and handcuffs! Look at the jail! Look at the gallows! Look at the chaplain of the regiment! We are hoping only to live safely on the outskirts of this provisional army. So we defend ourselves and our hen-roosts, and maintain slavery. I know that the mass of my countrymen think that the only righteous use that can be made of Sharp's rifles and revolvers is to fight duels with them, when we are insulted by other nations, or to hunt Indians, or shoot fugitive slaves with them, or the like. I think that for once the Sharp's rifles and the revolvers were employed in a righteous cause. The tools were in the hands of one who could use them. Thoreau
All that may be so and mankind is ready to agree with it, but it is not what was asked...Tolstoi
“People aren’t against you; they are for themselves.”
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| Democracy....American Style |
“I know you’ve come to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.”
You can kill the man but [they] cannot the Ideas left behind.......kos
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Posted: 20 Sep 2013 03:02 AM PDT
19 September 2013
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There is no place to hide from the ongoing global geoengineering
programs, no one is spared their toxic assault. We have been in
communication with individuals in South Africa that are passing along
ever more dire accounts of what is unfolding there:
As a farmer in the North West
Province of South Africa I have been deeply connected with the weather
and Nature for 20 years. The main topic amongs fellow farmers is always
the weather.
Our air is acrid and dry and my
crops have failed. My animals are on their last legs. We are being
forced to take out loans via the Landbank, thus enslaving us and also
forcing us to buy GMO seeds. The North West has been declared a Disaster
Area.
Posted: 20 Sep 2013 07:50 AM PDT
In
2007, at the UN climate negotiations in Bali, Norway’s Prime Minister
Jens Stoltenberg announced his ambitious plans to save tropical forests.
Six years later, Norway has disbursed more than US$1.4 billion but
almost half of that remains unspent. The magazine Development Today has
produced an overview of Norway’s climate forest portfolio. Rather than
paying [...] [...]
In
April a fertilizer plant exploded in West, Texas, killing fourteen
people and injuring hundreds. Since then, there have been at least six
other chemical accidents, including two that included fatalities.
But
instead of letting state inspectors in to figure out what is going
wrong, the five chemical plants have simply denied the inspectors entry
and gotten away with it. We can’t let this continue.
-- Gene
Here are some of the week's best posts from the FAIR Blog. Your sharing these stories via email and social media like Facebook and Twitter is vital to getting out a message that corporate media are never going to be eager to broadcast.
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NPR's New Boss: Financial Industry Lobbyist, GOP Donor, Right-Wing Think Tank Booster
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UN Report Provides Information, Not 'Intelligence'
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CNN's Left: Doing Syria Analysis or White House PR?
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Should Poor People Eat? Let's Hear From Both Sides!
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The Price of Twitter Is Based on the Cost of You
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Inform the Public? Not My Job, Says Chuck Todd
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Where Is the Discussion of Syria and International Law?
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New York Times Israel Correction Needs a Correction
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Is Oil Industry Funding of a Fracking Study a Problem? Let's Ask an Oil-Funded Expert
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NBC's News on Iran and Nukes Is Old News
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FAIR TV: Food Stamp 'Balance,' CNN's Conflicted Leftist and Chuck Todd vs. Chuck Todd
ACTIVIST POST FEATURED ARTICLES
Privacy Advocates Call On UN to End Mass Internet Spying Worldwide
Activist Post
The World’s Most Evil Corporation Issues A Dire Warning
Dave Hodges
Whistleblower: HSBC Still Laundering Money for Terrorists, Drug Cartels
Aaron Dykes
Too Big To Fail Is Now Bigger Than Ever Before
Michael Snyder
In Syria, There are no Moderates
Tony Cartalucci
Can’t Afford the Biometrically Enhanced iPhone 5? Try EyeVerify!
Another Farmer’s Field Tainted with GMO; Monsanto Says Levels ‘Permissible’
Melissa Melton
Don’t Blame Mental Health Or Pharmaceuticals, Blame The “Video Games”
Digby Jones
UK Government Bribes Hospitals to Vaccinate Staff
Christina England
5 Short Term Methods to Store Water
Tess Pennington
The 2013 Measles Outbreak: A Failing Vaccine, Not A Failure To Vaccinate
Sayer Ji
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Whistleblower: HSBC Still Laundering Money for Terrorists, Drug Cartels
Staging the Chemical Weapons Attack in Syria
Obama Denies Venezuelan President Travel Through US Airspace!
Solutions: Overcoming Stockholm Syndrome
Too Poor To Prepare?
Daily Show Covers Monsanto & Seed Patent Laws
Other Key Articles From Around the Web
Attacks on Health Reporters and Their Readers Are Escalating
EFF: Media Shield Law Revised to Be Slightly Less Tyrannical
Criminalized poor are swelling Britain's ‘labor camps’
The Global Elite’s Crimes Against Humanity: The Subversion Of Happiness And Truth
Scientists Find Evidence of Life Coming to Earth from Space
Simulation suggests Musk's Hyperloop 'quite viable'
Homeless, Unemployed, and Surviving on Bitcoins
US nearly detonated atomic bomb over North Carolina – secret document
Human slave case against Saudi princess dismissed
Hong Kong braced for 'strongest storm on earth' as 180mph monster)
$4B Cut to Food Stamps, $3B in Aid to Israel
How Private Prison Companies Make Millions Even When Crime Rates Fall
BIS: The most powerful bank in the world announces the crash
Russia urges UN climate report to include geoengineering
RT News Admits it: 9/11 Was An Inside Job!
America's Afghan Victims
By Bob Dreyfuss and Nick Turse
When
an American soldier dies in Afghanistan, his death is not anonymous. -
But when an Afghan dies in the war-especially an Afghan civilian-her
death is rarely noticed by the outside world. Often, it's not even
recorded by Afghan hospitals or morgues.
Is the Sun Peeking Through the War Clouds?
By Pat Buchanan
To say
the War Party is apoplectic at Obama for blowing this chance to get us
into war with Syria, which held real promise of sucking us into a war
with Iran, is an understatement.
Syria: Al-Qaeda as the black operations wing of the US
By John Robles
If
the US Government were really engaged in a war on terror they would be
providing support for the government of Bashar Al-Assad and cutting
all ties with the Saudis.
Obama's Grotesque Hypocrisy over Cluster Munitions
By Dave Lindorff
Talk
about brazen hypocrisy! A child killed or injured by Sarin gas is an
atrocity, to be sure. But so is a child whose body is turned into
chopped meat, or who is painfully rendered limbless by an exploding
BLU-97 weapon.
Shameful Exceptionalism
By Paul Balles
It's high time for America to replace its shameful exceptionalism with exceptional behaviour it can be rightly proud of.
Look at 'Liberated' Libya and Despair
By Abdel Bari Atwan
Welcome
to the new Libya, a country 'liberated' by NATO which now finds itself
without the oil revenues which could make it rich, with no security,
no stability and assassinations and corruption at unprecedented levels.
Iran's President Rouhani: People Should be 'Completely Free'
By The Associated Press
"We
want the people in their private life to be completely free. In
today's world, having access to information and the right of free
dialogue and the right to think freely is the right of all people,
including the people of Iran," Rouhani said
The Crisis at Fukushima 4 Demands a Global Take-Over
By Harvey Wasserman
We are now within two months of what may be humankind's most dangerous moment since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Venezuela Say US Banned President Nicolas Maduro from Flying Through U.S. Airspace
By Reuters
Venezuela
said the United States banned President Nicolas Maduro's jet from
flying through U.S. airspace over Puerto Rico en route to a state visit
to China.
Bolivian President to Sue US Govt for Crimes Against Humanity
By RT
"I
would like to announce that we are preparing a lawsuit against Barack
Obama to condemn him for crimes against humanity," said President
Morales at a press conference in the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz. He
branded the US president as a "criminal" who violates international
law.
US Wars in Afghanistan, Iraq to Cost $6 trillion
By Sabir Shah
The
decade-long American wars in Afghanistan and Iraq would end up costing
as much as $6 trillion, the equivalent of $75,000 for every American
household,. Washington DC has ended up borrowing some $2 trillion to
finance the two wars, the bulk of it from foreign lenders.
'All you can do is pray': What poverty in America really looks like
By Barbara Raab
Camden,
N.J. Once the proud home to companies like RCA Victor, and the biggest
shipbuilding company in the world, Camden is now better known for
poverty, violence and blight. According to the new Census data, the
overall poverty rate in the city is 39.3 percent; more than half of
Camden's children, 53.3 percent, live below the poverty line.
Postcard from the End of America: Atlantic City
By Linh Dinh
We
must be among the loneliest, most alienated population ever. We watch
more TV than any other country, rank among the highest in porn
consumption, which also means, by implication, that we're among the
most vigorous of masturbators, and our divorce rate ranks third in the
entire world, behind only Maldives and Belarus.
Too Big To Fail Is Now Bigger Than Ever Before
By Michael Snyder
The
six largest banks in the United States have gotten 37 percent larger
over the past five years. Meanwhile, 1,400 smaller banks have
disappeared from the banking industry during that time.
In an Age of 'Realists' and Vigilantes, There is Cause for Optimism
By John Pilger
When
Israel, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Bahrain commit crimes with US
collusion and weapons, their impunity and Obama's hypocrisy are pure
Kissinger.
Hard News
Nigeria: At least 87 people killed in Benisheik raid:
At
least 87 people have been killed in an attack by Boko Haram militants
in Nigeria's north-eastern Borno state, according to local officials.
Disguised in military uniforms, the militants set up checkpoints
outside the town of Benisheik and shot dead those trying to flee,
witnesses said.
Who are Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamists?:
Boko
Haram promotes a version of Islam which makes it "haram", or forbidden,
for Muslims to take part in any political or social activity
associated with Western society. This includes voting in elections,
wearing shirts and trousers or receiving a secular education.
56 killed in Yemen army camp attack:
Suspected
al-Qaeda militants killed at least 56 soldiers and policemen in three
simultaneous attacks in southern Yemen on Friday, military sources and
civilian officials said.
16 killed, 15 hurt in Iraq mosque attack:
The two
bombs exploded in the Musab bin Omair Mosque near the city of Samarra,
120 km north of the capital Baghdad, a police source told Xinhua on
condition of anonymity.
Syria: 14 Alawites killed in Homs blast:
A
roadside bomb killed at least 14 members of President Bashar Al Assad's
minority Alawite on Thursday in the central Syrian province of Homs,
an opposition monitoring group said.
Robert Fisk in Damascus: Assad's troops may be winning this war in Syria's capital - untouched by Obama's threats :
The killing fields remain, and truth is as rare as hope
Syria 'al-Qaeda fighters' agree to truce with Free Syrian Army:
Al-Qaeda affiliated fighters who have been battling Syrian rebels for control of border town have agreed to ceasefire.
Hundreds of Syria rebels pledge loyalty to Qaeda groups:
Not only
individual fighters, but entire units have joined the small but
powerful al Qaeda-linked groups - the Nusra Front and the Islamic State
of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) - in recent days, according to sources
inside Syria.
U.S.-backed Syrian rebels being shoved aside by radical Islamists:
On
Wednesday, extremists captured the north Syrian town of Azaz, killing
eight Free Syrian Army troops and support personnel and effectively
blocking a primary supply route from the nearby Turkish border to Free
Syrian Army forces in Aleppo. Turkey closed the border crossing
Thursday, while Free Syrian Army forces battled to regain control.
France suggests it is ready to give weapons to Syria rebels: -
French
President Francois Hollande suggested for the first time on Thursday
that Paris could arm Syrian rebels in a "controlled framework," given
that they were now caught between the Syrian government on one side and
radical Islamists on the other.
Syria's main arms suppliers among least generous aid donors, says Oxfam:
France,
the most vociferous supporter of the opposition in western Europe, has
given less than half its fair share, the Oxfam report found.
Fact or fiction?
Syria's government will call for a ceasefire: Exclusive:
Deputy PM says neither side is strong enough to win and government may call for ceasefire at Geneva talks
Syrian deputy prime minister suggests 'ceasefire' - audio:
Recording
of Qadri Jamil, Syria's deputy prime minister, suggesting in an
interview with the Guardian's Jonathan Steele that the Assad government
will call for a 'ceasefire' at the planned Geneva 2 peace conference
Jamil denies ceasefire comment:
Syria's
deputy prime minister Qadri Jamil has appeared on Russia Today's Arabic
channel to deny telling the Guardian that Syria would call for a
ceasefire at the planned Geneva 2 peace conference (thanks to Ramil
al-Lolah for spotting the interview).
Jamil's party clarifies ceasefire comments:
In a
letter to Guardian, a spokesman for the People-Want Party, claimed
Jamil was talking in his capacity as leader of the party, not as a
member of the Assad government when discussing the possible peace
negotiations.
Syria submits chemical weapons inventory:
Diplomatic
efforts to speed up the process are moving slowly. A meeting initially
scheduled for Sunday at which the organization's 41-nation executive
council was to have discussed a U.S.-Russian plan to swiftly rid Syria
of chemical weapons was postponed Friday and no new date was
immediately set.
Syria's main arms suppliers among least generous aid donors, says Oxfam:
Countries
in the forefront of arming either side in Syria's civil war have been
among the least generous when it comes to dealing with the resulting
humanitarian disaster, according to a new Oxfam report.
After U.S. failed to thwart vote : UN nuclear assembly rejects Arab resolution to single out Israel:
Fifty-one
countries voted against and 43 states for the resolution that calls on
Israel to join a global anti-nuclear weapons treaty.
White House hints Obama may meet with Iranian president over sanctions:
Obama administration praises 'welcome rhetoric' over nuclear weapons and says meeting is possible next week in New York
President Rouhani urges leaders to engage with Iran:
Iranian president publishes article in US newspaper in latest sign he wants to thaw relations with Western nations.
President Rouhani : Why Iran seeks constructive engagement: Op-Ed:
The world
has changed. International politics is no longer a zero-sum game but a
multi-dimensional arena where cooperation and competition often occur
simultaneously. Gone is the age of blood feuds. World leaders are
expected to lead in turning threats into opportunities.
Engineering Consent For Attack On Iran:
No time left for negotiations with Iran:
Israeli
minister: Iran is on course to develop a nuclear bomb within six months
and time has run out for further negotiations, a senior Israeli
minister said.
Rouhani's Jewish MP escort to UN has blasted 'inhuman' Israel:
The
Jewish parliament member set to accompany Iranian President Hasan
Rouhani to a UN summit in New York next week is a critic of Israel who
has dubbed its treatment of Palestinians "inhuman."
Israel: IDF seizes EU diplomats' West Bank aid supply:
Reuters
reporter sees soldiers throw sound grenades at group of EU diplomats,
aid workers, locals in West Bank. IDF reportedly seizes aid supply
Israeli soldiers manhandle European diplomats seeking to aid demolished Palestinian village:
"They
dragged me out of the truck and forced me to the ground with no regard
for my diplomatic immunity," French diplomat Marion Castaing said.
Taliban kill 18 Afghan police in northeast:
Taliban
militants in northeast Afghanistan killed 18 police in an ambush, the
government said Friday, as security forces struggle against the rebels
with decreasing assistance from international troops.
Philippine troops kill eight Muslim rebels in city battles:
Heavy
clashes broke out in parts of Zamboanga city on Thursday and eight
rebels were killed and 15 surrendered in one district, said an army
spokesman.
U.K. Spy Agency Hacked Belgian Phone Company in "Op Socialist" Spy Mission, Snowden Reveals:
Secret
files, disclosed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and published
by Der Spiegel Friday, show how the British spy agency GCHQ hatched a
plot to infiltrate Belgacom, a partly state-owned Belgian telecom
company. Belgacom's customers, according to Der Spiegel, include
institutions like the European Commission, the European Council, and
the European Parliament.
No place to hide:
Calls grow for City University of New York to drop David Petraeus following police attack on protest:
Video -
Six protesters were arrested Wednesday while peacefully protesting the
City University of New York's newest adjunct professor - ex-general and
C.I.A. chief David Petraeus
US nearly detonated atomic bomb over North Carolina - secret document:
Journalist uses Freedom of Information Act to disclose 1961 accident in which one switch averted catastrophe
US denies Maduro airspace access for China trip: Venezuela:
The
United States has refused permission for President Nicolas Maduro's
plane to fly through its airspace when the Venezuelan leader travels to
China this weekend, Caracas said Thursday.
Venezuela 'ends' bid to restore full US ties:
Venezuela
says it has "ended" steps towards restoring diplomatic ties with the
US, after comments by the woman nominated as the next envoy to the UN.
Samantha Power said this week she would seek to combat what she called
the "crackdown on civil society" in countries including Venezuela.
DOJ Still Can't Do Math: Terrorist Statistics Inflated, Double Counted And Badly Organized:
Of
all the unsurprising news of inflated numbers and double-counting
contained in the Office of Inspector General's (OIG) audit of the DOJ's
reported terrorism statistics, this sentence from the introduction of
the report is the least surprising -- and by extension, the most
damning.
Navy Yard: Swat team 'stood down' at mass shooting scene:
One
of the first teams of heavily armed police to respond to Monday's
shooting in Washington DC was ordered to stand down by superiors, the
BBC can reveal. A tactical response team of the Capitol Police, a force
that guards the US Capitol complex, was told to leave the scene by a
supervisor instead of aiding municipal officers.
JPMorgan receives wrist slap fine for hiding derivatives loss:
JPMorgan
Chase, the largest US bank, settled charges related to its
multi-billion dollar 2012 trading loss Thursday with four regulators,
paying a total of $920 million in fines. Separately, the bank paid $80
million to regulators in a settlement over fraudulent credit card fees.
5 Years After the Financial Crisis, The Big Banks Are Still Committing Massive Crimes:
Here are
just some of the improprieties by big banks over the last century
(you'll see that many shenanigans are continuing today):
Druckenmiller: Fed robbing poor to pay rich: Video -
The
Federal Reserve isn't just inflating markets but is shifting a massive
amount of wealth from the middle class and poor to the rich, according
to billionaire hedge fund manager Stanley Druckenmiller.
Obama to nominate Goldman Sachs partner as new ambassador to Canada:
U.S.
President Barack Obama says he will nominate Bruce Heyman, a former
fundraiser for the Democrats and partner at Goldman Sachs, as the new
ambassador to Canada.
7 in 10 Americans Think Government Is For The Banks And Big Corps (Not The People):
72% of
the poor and 71% of the middle-class believe government policies
(fiscal and monetary) have done little or nothing to help them.
The NEW republicans do it to their selves and want to blame others....who's fault is this really?
Very bad choices oblivious to what is going on around.
Total disconnect.
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