"Is
there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has
been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to
think?" - Peter Hitchens
"There
is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the
human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by
constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity." - Arthur Schopenhauer
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Posted: 19 Oct 2013 03:06 PM PDT
19 October 2013
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Remarkable and haunting, this is a documentary that strikes at the
heart of how dehumanized great swathes of humanity have become as
evidenced not just in our wonton abuse and butchering of each other, but
the unbelievable acts of cruelty and slaughter of billions of sentient
animals.
Anyone lacking empathy for animals no doubt lacks it for humanity as well. Just these short clips and the great OpEd piece below will affect you deeply. This has got to stop. Our planet is drenched in the blood of the innocents.
It can’t go on much longer.
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Remarkable and haunting, this is a documentary that strikes at the
heart of how dehumanized great swathes of humanity have become as
evidenced not just in our wonton abuse and butchering of each other, but
the unbelievable acts of cruelty and slaughter of billions of sentient
animals.Anyone lacking empathy for animals no doubt lacks it for humanity as well. Just these short clips and the great OpEd piece below will affect you deeply. This has got to stop. Our planet is drenched in the blood of the innocents.
It can’t go on much longer.
This
is BIG NEWS. We've just got official confirmation of something we've
long suspected: McDonald's is using billions of your tax dollars to
subsidize poverty wages.
In short: The biggest fast
food companies make billions of profits - but since they won't pay a
living wage for even their full-time employees, those employees need
taxpayer-funded public assistance programs to survive - to the tune of a
whopping $7 Billion. And in this economy, we're not talking about
teenagers - a two-thirds majority of McDonald's employees are full-grown
adults, many of them working full-time.1
How bad is it? Even
Businessweek admits it's a huge problem, writing "[Things] might have
been fine when those behind the counter were mostly teenagers living at
home. These days, though, 68 percent of fast-food workers are single or
married adults who aren’t in school—and 26 percent are raising
children." Now that's bad.2
Thank you for all you do to make this movement real.
Sincerely,
John Sellers, The Other 98%
Sources:
1. Forbes, “Reports: Fast Food Companies Outsource $7 Billion In Annual Labor Costs To Taxpayers.”
2. Bloomgberg Businessweek, “Fast-Food Wages Come With a $7 Billion Side of Public Assistance.“
Washington Post OKs Covering Your Spouse's PR Client
No conflict seen in Jerusalem reporter's husband representing Israel
10/15/13
The Washington Post (10/11/13) responded to FAIR's Action Alert (9/26/13) about the Post's
Jerusalem bureau reporter, Ruth Eglash, whose husband's links to the
Israeli government pose a major conflict of interest. The paper's
response, to the extent that it has any substance at all, seems to
misconstrue what a conflict of interest is.
As
the alert reported, Eglash's husband, Michael Eglash, is a top official
at the pro-Israel advocacy group Upstart Activist and its affiliated PR
consulting firm, Upstart Ideas. Both firms work regularly for the
Israeli government, "combating anti-Israel propaganda" of the sort that
supposedly appears in US news outlets like the Washington Post.
The Post
response appeared in a blog post from reader representative Doug
Feaver, headlined "Free of Conflict in Jerusalem." Feaver wrote that a
"well-organized e-mail campaign" inspired by FAIR targeted Ruth Eglash.
His observation that "none of the complaints address anything she has written for the Post"
seems to misunderstand what a conflict of interest is: Reporters face a
conflict whenever they have interests pulling them in two directions.
Having your family's income derived from a national government seeking
positive media coverage certainly conflicts with reporting in a neutral
fashion on that nation. Whether or not the conflict influences your
reporting, journalistic ethics mandate that you not be placed in a
position where you are forced to choose.
Post foreign
editor Douglas Jehl provided the only substantive response, and it
failed to address or refute any of FAIR's specific criticisms regarding
Eglash's entanglements. He simply dismissed the conflict by stating that
the matter has been looked into and no conflict was found:
Ruth Eglash is a professional journalist with experience at other publications, including the Jerusalem Post, and we have seen no reason for concern about her work. The Post
is committed to its stringent policy on avoiding conflict of interest,
which covers our entire news organization, including foreign bureaus and
contract employees who work for the foreign staff. We have thoroughly
examined the specific questions raised by readers about potential
conflicts involving the business activities of Ms. Eglash's husband.
After a detailed review of those activities, we have not found facts
that constitute an actual conflict.
It's disturbing that the Post's foreign editor would dismiss the conflict issue so cavalierly. It is highly unlikely that the Post
would hire a reporter to cover the Washington Nationals whose spouse
ran a PR firm representing the team--or an environmental reporter whose
spouse lobbied for Greenpeace or Exxon Mobil. In the Middle East, where
the stakes are very high, there is even less excuse for tolerating such
conflicts. And less still for the evasive way that the Post has addressed the issue.
Feaver,
the reader representative, was hired when the paper eliminated the
position of ombud. "The world has changed, and we at the Post must change with it," publisher Katharine Weymouth (Washington Post, 3/1/13) asserted at the time. Feaver (Poynter, 4/23/13)
explained the difference between an ombud and a reader representative
was that "holding the newsroom accountable" was not a reader
representative's job.
German bishops : Church tax in shifted gray Checkout
(Deutsche Bischöfe: Kirchensteuer in graue Kasse verschoben
Hamburg - Germany's Catholic dioceses have to search through the MIRROR significantly higher capacity than previously known . Despite the transparency initiative in the past week conceal bishops hundreds of millions more , as separate assets in households or in households wealth of cathedral chapters .
In the diocese of Limburg are therefore tax revenues since 1948 church was moved from an estimated 300 million euros in a gray box office. They were not recorded in the Episcopal chair , but in a hitherto little-known capital budget of the diocese.
In Hamburg, a church spokesman puts the " corporation reserves the Archdiocese of Hamburg " on request of the MIRROR to around " 156 million euros " . In the previous week, the diocese had given the property of their Archbishop's chair with 35 million euros .
ACTIVIST POST FEATURED ARTICLES
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Brandon Turbeville
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Daisy Luther
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Dave Hodges
School Makes Example Out of Autistic Child: Bomb Drawing Results in
“responsible removal”
Kimberly Paxton
The Coming Food Stamp Riots
Michael Snyder
7 Ways to Overcome the Insanity of Modern Life
Dylan Charles
Ten Things to Expect from Obamacare in 2014
Elizabeth Lee Vliet
Increasing Data Collection and Surveillance in the North American Homeland
Dana Gabriel
Glenn Greenwald leaving the Guardian in pursuit of something new
Paul Lawrance
Nestle: Global Water Predator
Stephen Lendman
IMF Proposal to Tax Bank Deposits
James Hall
Non-Participation As An Effective Weapon Against Tyranny
Brandon Smith
Brazil Is Going To Block The NSA
Jeff Berwick
California Bar Assoc. — US leaders, courts stop breaking the law
Ruth Hull
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Scientists Try to Maximize Broccoli's Cancer-fighting Potential
Surprise: Phony Crisis Averted, Senate Reaches Debt Deal
Music Makes Physical Exertion Easier: Study
Underwater wi-fi given test run to create 'deep-sea internet'
Chinese Internet Giant Baidu Now Accepts Bitcoin
5-yr update on guy who cured his stage IV prostate cancer with baking soda
Chase Bank Limits Cash Withdrawals, Bans International Wire Transfers
Sustainable Development’ The Evil Facing America
GMO Safety Debate Makes Washington State Voters’ Pamphlet
Biotech's Dark Promise: Involuntary Cannibalism for All
Scientists discover new super toxin so dangerous, they’re keeping it secret
13 of The Most Effective Mood Stabilizers in Natural Medicine
Ready to detonate: Saudi-backed rebels strap bombs to Geneva-2 talks
Sudden disappearance of sardines has serious economic & ecological effects
Breaking: Iran, US Hold Direct Talks in Geneva
By Al-Monitor
The
U.S. and Iranian nuclear negotiating teams met for one on one talks
for one hour this evening, Iranian and American officials confirmed.
How Obama Should Handle the Crisis In Syria
By Oliver Stone, Peter Kuznick
One
shouldn't forget that the neocon interest in toppling Assad had long
predated legitimate concerns over the Syrian bloodbath.
Dear President Obama, What Have You Fixed By Meeting Malala?
By Humna Bhojani
While the
world celebrates this beautiful moment strategically captured by your
photographer (who deserves a raise), I hope you will excuse me for not
patting you on the back.
Empire Under Obama
Barack Obama's Global Terror Campaign
By Andrew Gavin Marshall
America
is waging a global terror campaign through the use of drones, killing
thousands of people, committing endless war crimes, creating fear and
terror in a program expected to last several more decades.
If Hitler Didn't Exist The Pentagon Would Have To Invent Him
By David Swanson
For 68 years, wars on poor countries have been justified by the pretended discovery of Hitler's reincarnation.
Where Journalism Collides With State 'Security
BBC News, MI5 And The Mantra Of 'Keeping People Safe'
By David Cromwell
How the state, and a compliant media, relentlessly raise fears of the 'shadows and threats' that supposedly assail us.
Breaking: Glenn Greenwald Will Leave Guardian To Create New News Organization
By Ben Smith
The
reporter who broke the NSA story promises "a momentous new venture." A
"very substantial new media outlet" with serious backing, he says.
NSA Collects Millions Of E-mail Address Books Globally
By Barton Gellman and Ashkan Soltani
The
National Security Agency is harvesting hundreds of millions of contact
lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging accounts around the
world, many of them belonging to Americans.
Do Not Allow Thought Police to Take Away Our Freedoms
By Iain Macwhirter
No system
of justice should allow the police, armed with search engines, to go
on fishing expeditions through our private communications looking for
things that might incriminate. That is the very definition of a police
state.
Edward Snowden's Brave Integrity
By Ray McGovern
We all stand on the shoulders of patriots who have gone before and pointed the way.
Republicans are Delusional About US Spending and Deficits
By Dean Baker
The story of out-of-control debts and deficits is just plain wrong. Less polite people would call it a lie.
What You Learn About Humanity From Living on the Streets
By Mary, homeless in New York
Many people assume that the homeless are all drug addicts, criminals or prostitutes. I am none of these things.
To Protect And Harass
Smartphones Are a Bully Cop's Worst Nightmare.
Video
Disturbing video shows aggressive stop and frisk in Philly that ACLU calls 'abusive'.
Hard News
Bomb targeting Eid worshippers kills 12 in Iraq:
A
bomb ripped through a crowd of worshippers as they left a Sunni mosque
in Iraq Tuesday, killing 12 people, as they marked the start of the
Eid al-Adha holiday.
Militants kill 3 soldiers in southern Yemen:
Three
Yemeni security forces have been killed and five others wounded in an
attack by al-Qaeda-linked militants on a security base in the southern
province of Lahij, APA reports quoting Press TV.
Starving Syrians 'can eat dogs':
A group
of Syrian clerics have issued a ruling - or fatwa - allowing people
living in besieged suburbs of Damascus to eat meat that is normally
forbidden. In a video, the Muslim clerics said people could eat cats,
dogs and donkeys to stave off hunger.
Syrian opposition totally dependent on foreign sponsors - senior Russian MP:
The
Syrian opposition's refusal to attend the peace conference in Geneva is
a result of the desire of its foreign sponsors to thwart the peace
process, claims the head of State Duma's Foreign Relations Committee.
Iran nuclear talks in Geneva to continue into second day:
Iran gives hour-long presentation on proposals to end deadlock, and detailed technical discussions take place in afternoon
Propaganda alert:
Kerry tells AIPAC to have Netanyahu's back on peace talks:
He also
asked AIPAC members to make their "voices heard" in support of
Netanyahu's "courageous choice" to enter into peace talks with the
Palestinians, according to The Jerusalem Post.
Arafat was poisoned with radioactive polonium, Swiss radiation experts say:
This almost confirms that the Palestinian leader was poisoned to death in 2004 while in France.
Russia denies issuing conclusions over Arafat's death:
The
Russian agency involved in studying the remains of Yasser Arafat on
Tuesday denied issuing any conclusions about the death of the
Palestinian leader, after a report cited its chief as saying he could
not have died from polonium poisoning.
Rights groups urge probe into 1985 US bombing:
At the
time of the attack, the FBI said they believed the bombing was the
responsibility of the Jewish Defence League. A lawyer for the group
denied the allegations and asked for a retraction.
Cautious optimisim over Iran nuclear offer:
An EU official describes the Iranian presentation at Geneva talks as "very useful".
7 Al-Qaida affiliated militia men killed in Libya:
Seven
members of the al-Qaida- affiliated militia Ansar al-Sharia died in
Libya's Sirte in an explosion on Monday, Libyan Deputy Defense Minister
Khaled al- Sharif said Tuesday.
What If Abu Anas al-Liby Had Nothing to Do With the Embassy Bombings?:
al-Liby,
whose real name is Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, may not be the dangerous
al Qaeda terrorist the United States government believes he happens to
be.
Deadly blast in Ethiopia's capital may have been accidental detonation by militants:
Sunday's
blast at a home in Addis Ababa killed two people, both Somalis, state
TV reported. The explosion affected a home used by personnel of the
U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa, an FBI document said. There did not appear
to be any American casualties from the blast.
Hundreds dying in detention in Nigeria - Amnesty International:
Some people are shot outright, some starve and others suffocate, it said.
Blast kills Afghan provincial governor:
Bomb placed inside mosque in capital of eastern Logar province went off as Arsalah Jamal was giving speech to mark Eid.
British occupation force soldier killed while on patrol in Afghanistan:
THE MoD
said the soldier, from 14 Signals Regiment (Electronic Warfare), was
killed as a result of enemy fire while on a patrol in the area of
Kakaran, north east of Lashkar Gah.
Videos appear to contradict Medal of Honor winner's account of Afghan battle:
An
ongoing McClatchy investigation found that those videos, which were
shot by Army medevac crewmen as they flew into the Ganjgal Valley, add
to evidence that suggests many of the events reported by Marine Sgt.
Dakota Meyer in his memoir were "untrue, unsubstantiated or
exaggerated."
Votes sell for about $5 in Afghanistan as presidential race begins:
Gul left a
routine job - in his case, repairing cars in Marco, a small town in
the east - to join a thriving industry selling the outcome of next
year's presidential elections.
NSA harvesting hundreds of millions of personal email contact lists - report:
The NSA
is capable of collecting approximately 500,000 so-called buddy lists
from live-chat services and the "in-box" displays from web-based email
services, according to the Post.
To Get Around US Law, The NSA Collects Email Address Books And Chat Buddy Lists From Foreign Locations:
If the
NSA won't respect the constraints that are put in place on its actions
for a reason, and will instead shirk its responsibilities and find a
way to get all the data it could ever desire, then we have even less
reason to trust its constant petitions that it follows the law
The NSA's problem? Too much data.:
The
National Security Agency's Special Source Operations branch manages
"partnerships" in which U.S. and foreign telecommunications companies
allow the NSA to use their facilities to intercept phone calls, e-mails
and other data.
NSA Claims It Doesn't Do Online Attacks;
That's A Different Organization... Run By The NSA
Malay fund managers move servers to Russia amid 'dodge NSA' tech-trend:
Internet
companies are feeling the need, based on customer demand and common
sense, to move their servers out of the reach of the NSA and the United
States' partners in global surveillance, Australia, Canada, New
Zealand and the UK - the "Five Eyes."
Brazil plans secure email service to thwart cyber-spies:
Brazil
has confirmed plans to create a secure email service, following
revelations of cyber-surveillance techniques used by the US and UK.
Julian Assange: my life in the embassy:
He lives
in a small office room converted into living quarters, equipped with a
bed, telephone, sun lamp, computer with internet connections, shower,
treadmill and a small kitchenette.
Another U.S. Whistleblower Behind Bars? :
In a
Democracy Now! exclusive, we look at the case of multimillionaire
American businessman and philanthropist Rick Bourke, who blew the
whistle on a fraudulent scheme by international criminals to gain
control of the oil riches of the former Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan
Top websites use device fingerprinting to secretly track users:
A new
study by KU Leuven-iMinds researchers has uncovered that 145 of the
Internet's 10,000 top websites track users without their knowledge or
consent. The websites use hidden scripts to extract a device
fingerprint from users' browsers
How to Keep Google from Using Your Face in Ads:
Google is
getting ready to utilize Google+ profiles to shill stuff, by placing
your face and your reviews in ads aimed at your friends. According to a
notice the firm posted about the changes to its privacy policy:
In Big Win for Defense Industry, Obama Rolls Back Limits on Arms Exports:
The
United States is loosening controls over military exports, in a shift
that former U.S. officials and human rights advocates say could
increase the flow of American-made military parts to the world's
conflicts and make it harder to enforce arms sanctions.
Naked Florida man fatally shot by passing motorist after having clothes stolen: shooter not charged:
The
family of a Florida man is searching for answers after he was shot by a
passing motorist while running home naked because his clothes had been
stolen while at the beach.
Plan B: Central banks getting ready for financial Armageddon:
The
European Central Bank and the People's Bank of China (PBC) have struck a
deal that moves both banks farther from the dollar orbit. The two
banks agreed to 'swap' $56 billion worth of yuan for $60.8 billion
worth of euros.
Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson Reach New Heights of Hypocrisy in "Fix the Debt" Ad:
The
Campaign to Fix the Debt, the $40 million dollar astroturf "supergroup"
that CMD exposed on the cover of the Nation magazine, has shifted into
high gear in an effort to leverage the debt ceiling crisis into cuts
to Social Security and Medicare.
Paying Till It Hurts: The Soaring Cost of Health Care In The USA:
"The
one that really blew my mind was the nasal spray," said Robin Levi,
Hannah and Abby's mother, referring to her $80 co-payment for Rhinocort
Aqua, a prescription drug that was selling for more than $250 a month
in Oakland pharmacies last year but costs under $7 in Europe, where it
is available over the counter.
Carrie stunt terrifies New York cafe customers - video
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