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[BillTottenWeblog] There Is a Way!

Bill Totten — 2012-05-26T12:33:22

Beyond the Big, Bad Corporation

by Tara Lohan

AlterNet (May 21 2012)

As our political system sputters, a wave of innovative thinking and bold experimentation is quietly sweeping away outmoded economic models. In New Economic Visions, a special five-part AlterNet series edited by economics editor Lynn Parramore in partnership with political economist Gar Alperovitz of the Democracy Collaborative, creative thinkers come together to explore the exciting ideas and projects that are shaping the philosophical and political vision of the movement that could take our economy back.

In September 2011, two Appalachian women traveled to Delaware to deliver a petition to the state's Attorney General Beau Biden. Betty Harrah and Lorelei Scarbro represented thousands who believed that the business charter for coal-mining company Massey Energy should be repealed. The company, mostly operating in Appalachia but incorporated in Delaware, has violated the Clean Water Act 60,000 times. An investigation commissioned by the g

Fwd: Imposing White "Eurocentric" Education on Mexican-American Students in Tucson: The Suppression of History

Suzanne de Kuyper — 2012-05-26T10:13:23

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This is a form of the genocidal erasure of the American Indian, the
Hawaiian chieftains and society, the erasure of a strong, proud African
American  culture beside the Anglo American one, not behind it. It is a
powerful form of genocide as if Mexican-American identity is one poisonous
to the world that must be eradicated!  Not unlike what the Third Reich and
French President Sarkozy have done to the Roma peoples. What the US, the EU
and Israel are doing to the two billion Islamists.  We are one human
species, Fascism is species instinct, not ethnic.  Fascism tied to nuclear
becomes extinction of the whole species.  The laws that the US is insisting
must be removed must be reinstated.  The US must be stopped. Arizona is as
good

Fwd: Mitt Romney May Place Top Oil Lobbyist in Charge of HisWhite House

Suzanne de Kuyper — 2012-05-26T09:24:18

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Remember the Gulf of Mexico below-sea cavern oil eruption, no spill, that
went on and on and on?  Remember the chemicals spread by US military
planes, Corex, banned in any E.U. ocean use as pure poison, dropped by the
ton to join with and force the oil to sink, often in the dead of night so
doing so could not be filmed with the tons of dead sea-life, such as whales
and porpoises, clogging the waters for miles?  How too, not to be filmed,
were the plane operations to lift the tons of dismembered sea-life into
wide body U.S. Navy planes to take to incinerators that burned the bodies
up for weeks? Also at the dead of night, fighter planes on guard to shoot
them down, in case an inquisitive camera or two came by? By Obama's order,
for sure, but what would Mitt do?  Ron

[BillTottenWeblog] It's a Rich Man's World

Bill Totten — 2012-05-26T01:41:47

How billionaire backers pick America's candidates

by Thomas Frank

Harper's Magazine Essay (April 2012)

While visiting Kansas City last December, I read a local newspaper story lamenting the gradual transformation of Missouri into a reliably Republican citadel - a red state, as we like to say. In the past, I read, Missouri had been different from its more partisan neighbors. It had been a "bellwether" state that "reflected national trends", rather than delivering votes for any particular party. But now all that was over, and I assumed the article would go on to mourn the death of judicious public reason - the tradition of giving rival arguments a hearing and testing them with that famous "Show Me" skepticism.

I was wrong. Forget the death of open-mindedness. What was actually being mourned that day in the Kansas City Star was a possible loss of advertising revenue by the state's TV stations. If Missouri was no longer a battleground state, then the two parties and their various backers would no longer figh

Fwd: The man with too many faces

Suzanne de Kuyper — 2012-05-25T17:22:41

Real power never has to ask, never.  Looks like he went too far and power
has been pulled.  Suzanne

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Well, well, no wonder Steve Jobs is no longer with us billions who loved
and lionised him.  Suzanne

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Suzanne,

There's President Obama, Candidate Obama, Obama the Author, even a
Rebellious Youth Obama, and more.

But these different personas don't demonstrate the evolution of a
man's character, they demonstrat

Re: Fwd: GE Apples Coming to Canada?

Romi Elnagar — 2012-05-25T11:20:52

Thanks for this, Suzanne, but you don't need to trouble yourself to forward anything from the R-G list to me.  I'm on it, but I've been preoccupied with family matters for a while.  I'll start to post again when things settle down here.

Best,
Romi

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Subject: [R-G] Fwd:  GE Apples Coming to Canada?

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Rejecting these GE seeds and seedlings is almost impossible to stop they
are so far along.  Draconian, universal, laws must be made to criminalise
the process by which they are made. Then create the forces needed to stop
them and reverse the present damage, although that may no longer be
possible. One of the things needed most is a free and open internet wo

Fwd: GE Apples Coming to Canada?

Suzanne de Kuyper — 2012-05-25T05:30:35

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Rejecting these GE seeds and seedlings is almost impossible to stop they
are so far along.  Draconian, universal, laws must be made to criminalise
the process by which they are made. Then create the forces needed to stop
them and reverse the present damage, although that may no longer be
possible. One of the things needed most is a free and open internet world
wide, which the US made ACTA, TPP, SOPA ect. will ensure does not remain
available just in order to sell those very seeds world wide!  Think that
one through, please. Suzanne

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Fwd: The largest demonstration in Canadian history

Suzanne de Kuyper — 2012-05-25T05:20:48

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This is the first serious challenge to the Israeli/Harper Government.  I
categorise this government Israeli as they have come out more than the US
to champion all Israeli wish lists that now dominate the US/EU world agenda
forcing the five hundred million of the EU and the 300 million of the US to
wage nuclear, regime change, genocidal, wars on the Middle East, Africa,
Russia, and China, or on an approximate total of 6 billion humans by less
than one billion humans.  A war that will only be won by species
extinction.  I think the Montreal students got that. Twenty-first century
empire means just this, no-one will survive.

Bhopal, The Gulf of Mexico BP oil eruption, Chernoble and Fukushima, large
drones, butterfly drones, the nuclear bombs dropped as normal munitions by
European Uni

Fwd: 'Non-polio' paralysis increases after polio vaccinations

Suzanne de Kuyper — 2012-05-25T04:39:51

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An example of the common and careless homicidal tendencies of the US
International Corporations.  Just as Westinghouse makes Nuclear reactors
just for export, more cheaply made with short cuts in making it to shave
expenses, like the defective ones they had built in Fukushima 40 years ago,
medical corporations do the same thing, with the same results, horrible
deaths.  They have never, ever, been held accountable. Just imagine what
our globe will look like after one thousand years of Corporate rule.
 Please.  Suzanne

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GE Apples Coming to Canada?

Richard Menec — 2012-05-25T00:58:39

http://climate-connections.org/2012/05/24/ge-apples-coming-to-canada-apples-that-wont-go-brown-coming-soon/

BY GLOBAL JUSTICE ECOLOGY PROJECT | MAY 24, 2012

GE Apples Coming to Canada?
Apples that won't go brown coming soon?

Note: A new movement against GMO foods, trees and other crops is emerging 
just in time to confront industry's attempts to shove more unlabeled 
engineered foods down our throats.  What will be the impact of these GE 
apples on children?  This is unknown.  The GE industry doesn't test for the 
risks and the government rarely requires them to, which is why citizen 
vigilance is crucial.  See the previous post about the town of Richmond, BC 
rejecting GMO foods and trees.

-The GJEP Team

Cross-Posted from the Toronto Sun, MAY 23, 2012

A new genetically engineered apple may be making its way to Canada. 
(Handout) Apples that won't go brown could be could be planted in Canada as 
early as 2014.

Canadian biotech company Okanagan Specialty Fruits Inc. has applied to the 
Canadian Food In

[BillTottenWeblog] False Choices

Bill Totten — 2012-05-24T23:51:58

by Damien Perrotin

A Breton's perspective on the world

The view from Brittany (March 10 2012)

It is election time in France. Five weeks from now, we will elect our president for the next five years and unless he does something really stupid, the socialist pretender, Francois Hollande, will win in a landslide - albeit not necessarily with the insane margin polls predict. The most striking feature of this election, however, is not the unpopularity of the incumbent president but the similarity of their worldview.

French Presidents are chosen in a two-round runoff election, with the candidates falling into four categories. First you have the two or three contenders, who have a realistic chance of being elected. Generally those are the candidate of the Socialist Party and whoever dominates the moderate right at that particular moment. This time it will be Francois Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy.

Then you have the outsiders who most probably won't make it to the second round, but might under the right circumsta

[BillTottenWeblog] The Twilight of Protest

Bill Totten — 2012-05-24T13:24:13

by John Michael Greer

The Archdruid Report (May 16 2012)

Over the last four months or so, as this blog has sketched out the trajectory of empires in general, and then traced the intricate history of America's empire in particular, I've been avoiding a specific issue. That avoidance hasn't come from any lack of awareness on my part, and if it had been, comments and emails from readers asking when I was going to get around to discussing the issue would have taken care of that in short order. No, it's simply a natural reluctance to bring up a subject that has to be discussed sooner or later, but is guaranteed to generate far more heat than light.

The subject? The role of protest movements in the decline and fall of the American empire.

That's an issue sufficiently burdened with tangled emotions and unstated agendas that even finding a good starting place for the discussion is a challenge. Fortunately I have some assistance, courtesy of Owen Lloyd, who is involved with an organization called Deep Green Resis

Fwd: James F. Tracy: FRAMEWORK FOR SUPPRESSING INFORMATION: Public Opinion in America's 21st Century Police State

Suzanne de Kuyper — 2012-05-24T06:36:31

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That framework, set up through the constant Wall Street, Goldman Sachs
fiscal manipulation, for suppressing information in Europe depends on
actively removing from view and hearing, EU, BBC news programs and
newspapers that give balanced actual news.  In Netherlands the careful
efficiency with which this has been done since 9/11 is fully on view.
Euronews is a fine television program covering world news from the EU
perspective. It gives regular information on how to access International
Human Rights law that each EU citizens is eligible for. For instance, it
was shown in gyms on the running and bicycling machines in 2008, 2009, 2010
and before...but in 2011, as the US induced  fiscal crisis intensified,
Greece's best fleeing t

Fwd: suzannedk< at >yahoo.com has shared: Israeli Military Leaders Speak Out Against Iran Strike

Suzanne de Kuyper — 2012-05-23T23:13:27

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*The men, august in their own country, flatly state that neither Netanyahu
nor his military leader are responsible, trustworthy leaders!  So my gut
instinct has been right after all!  How is it, why is it, the US House and
Senate are so easily bought, and by insane men?*
*What has America become?   Suzanne
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 Source: therealnews.com

Retired and ou

Fwd: Hip and cool, the President on drugs

Suzanne de Kuyper — 2012-05-23T16:37:28

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Powerful!  Looks like Obama has a serious OOPs factor.   Several in fact.
Steve Jobs told him in a private interview that he is a one term US
President. Unless the US Corporations buy him his next four years, one of
the other jokers may take over.   They, all but one, want to please Israel
then pulverise the Middle East and Africa so the Pentagon should not mind
the change of faces too much.
Suzanne

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Fwd: [BillTottenWeblog] A History of the world, BRIC by BRIC

Suzanne de Kuyper — 2012-05-22T10:29:34

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Seeing as the "paralysis of the European Continent' is the doing of the US
and Goldman Sachs Wall Street, this might contribute substantially to the
considerable and increasing loss of the importance of the US dollar world
wide. The suicides from sudden poverty
in Greece have moved on to Italy and Spain.  As was probably planned by the
US, Greece may default and leave the Euro, beginning the actual shattering
of the block.  The blowback on the population of the world could be
astronomical.  One possible bright spot might be that as the EU reforms in
order to strengthen the block, looming structural poverty may force the
NATO vassal countries to pull out of that military, war making group as too
expensive in lives, military hardware, philosophy and sovereign civil
humanita

[BillTottenWeblog] Copyright and the TPP

Bill Totten — 2012-05-21T23:33:03

The Big Picture

by Jodie Griffin, Public Knowledge Staff Attorney

Public Knowledge (May 12 2012)

As Public Knowledge dives into the Trans-Pacific Partnership’s (TPP) secret negotiation process and the details of its copyright provisions, it is useful to periodically step back and consider how the intellectual property chapter of the TPP fits into the framework of the TPP as a whole. The copyright provisions of the TPP, as based on the text proposed by the US {*} that was leaked in February 2011, would contradict the TPP’s overall goal of creating a seamless Pacific market and would chill innovation to the detriment of both consumers and businesses.

{*} http://keionline.org/sites/default/files/tpp-10feb2011-us-text-ipr-chapter.pdf

The TPP generally is an ambitious effort to open trade and encourage investment among the countries that border the Pacific Ocean. That is why the TPP covers so many different areas of the economy, like agriculture, textiles, environmental protections, and intellectual prop

[BillTottenWeblog] Before and After SOPA

Bill Totten — 2012-05-21T11:10:55

by Glyn Moody

Computerworld UK Open Enterprise Blog (May 14 2012)

A few weeks ago, I gave a talk at the Reykjavik Digital Freedoms Conference {1} with the title "Before and After SOPA". Much of it will be familiar to readers of this blog, since it was reviewing the events around the extraordinary anti-SOPA Internet Blackout Day on January 18, which has now emerged as a turning-point in Net activism, and exploring what might happen now. As usual, I've embedded my slides below, and they may also be viewed online {2} and downloaded {3}.

The defeat, even if only temporary, of SOPA and PIPA was surely one key factor in the sudden upswelling of protests against ACTA, which until that point had seemed almost certain to be ratified in the EU. The actions against SOPA and ACTA have led to renewed analysis of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP), currently being negotiated behind closed doors in Dallas. It's too early to hope that a similar victory may result there, too, but it's certainly the case that mo

[BillTottenWeblog] A History of the world, BRIC by BRIC

Bill Totten — 2012-05-21T01:12:38

Neoliberal dragons, eurasian wet dreams, and robocop fantasies

by Pepe Escobar

Le Monde diplomatique (May 08 2012)

Goldman Sachs - via economist Jim O'Neill - invented the concept of a rising new bloc on the planet: BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa). Some cynics couldn't help calling it the "Bloody Ridiculous Investment Concept".

Not really. Goldman now expects the BRICS countries to account for almost forty percent of global gross domestic product (GDP) by 2050, and to include four of the world's top five economies.

Soon, in fact, that acronym may have to expand to include Turkey, Indonesia, South Korea and, yes, nuclear Iran: BRIIICTSS? Despite its well-known problems as a nation under economic siege, Iran is also motoring along as part of the N-11, yet another distilled concept. (It stands for the next eleven emerging economies.)

The multitrillion-dollar global question remains: Is the emergence of BRICS a signal that we have truly entered a new multipolar world?

Yale's canny histo

Fwd: Washington's Blog: The Truth About JP Morgan's $2Billion Loss

Suzanne de Kuyper — 2012-05-20T12:54:49

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The solution here, at the end of this article is what the experts under US
President Roosevelt inthe 1930s recommended and he mandated but for the
rule that conglomerate monopolies are criminal.   I saw the beginning of
the end when in the 60's and the 70's the banks were all merging.   Both
the US Pentagon and the US State Department are hand in glove with Timothy
Geithner, formerly the top thief from Goldman Sachs and with the many top
Goldman employees, are throughout the steering departments of the Obama
White House.
Common sense protests by removing funds from all regular banks depositing
in the main healthy one in Dakota would spread alarm to the obese banks
that their end days are nigh. I am sure there are better ideas out there.
 Since the obese banks can no longe

[BillTottenWeblog] The US Department of Double Standards

Bill Totten — 2012-05-20T11:56:52

Corporate criminals go free while the Justice Department targets those without expensive lawyers and lobbyists.

by Leonard C Goodman

In These Times (May 16 2012)

On April 21, The New York Times reported that Wal-Mart de Mexico paid $24 million in bribes to local land use officials in exchange for allowing the company to build stores in virtually every corner of the country, and to make environmental objections vanish. Although its top executives apparently approved of and helped conceal the bribery scheme - in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act - the chances that any of them will face criminal prosecution is remote.

It's not that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) doesn't criminally prosecute people who pay bribes to avoid land-use restrictions on their property. Rather, the feds prefer to bring such cases against people who don't have access to corporate lobbyists - or even to private lawyers. According to Bureau of Justice statistics, just one in five felony defendants has private counsel.