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By Patrick Miller, David Daw, PCWorld, Jan 28, 2011
May 272013
Obama’s War on Free Expression
ABOMINATIONS, ALERTS, AMERICAN STUDIES, ANTI-NEOLIBERALISM, ANTIWAR, ASSHOLES, BASTARDS & CRIMINALS, BOUGHT POLITICIANS & PHONIES, CORPORATE CRIMINALITY, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, FALSE DEMOCRACY, GOVERNMENT CRIMES, GREAT HYPOCRISY, HUMBUG CENTRAL, IDIOTIZED PUBLICS, IMPERIAL APOLOGISTS & COLLABOS
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May 222013
by Stephen Lendman
It’s the most fundamental right. Without it all others are endangered. Obama’s waging war to destroy it. He’s done so throughout his tenure. He targeted AP. He did so unjustifiably. A previous article discussed it. Continue reading »
May 122013
Exposing the faux left in Europe
By Johannes Stern, wsws.org
The “Marx Is Muss” [“Marx is a must”] congress taking place this weekend in Berlin is a shabby operation organised by the Marx 21 group aimed at promoting right-wing and imperialist policy under a pseudo-left garb. Marx 21 is a faction inside the German Left Party, with links to the International Socialist Tendency. Continue reading »
May 082013
Climate Progress [1] / By Joe Romm [2], John Cook [3]
Progressives should know the disinformers’ most commonly used arguments — and how to answer them crisply. Those arguments have been repeated so many times by the fossil-fuel-funded disinformation campaign that almost everyone has heard them — and that means you’ll have to deal with them in almost any setting, from a public talk to a dinner party. Continue reading »
Apr 202013
By People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
Every day, countless animals are used for target practice, stolen for experimentation, used as bait for dogfighting and worse after being left outside alone for “just a few minutes.” Protect your animals: Keep them indoors. Continue reading »
Apr 102013
By Mark Kinver
Environment reporter, BBC News
Researchers were surprised how quickly the mites evolved as a result of environmental changes
Changes to their surroundings can trigger “rapid evolution” in species as they adopt traits to help them survive in the new conditions, a study shows. Continue reading »
Apr 072013
What DNA Tests on Lasagne Can’t Reveal
When you count just the physical/economic costs without their pervasive and ugly externalities, let alone the moral costs, the price paid by humanity for meat today is an illusion.
A chunk of sanitized-looking meat denies the connection with its once living source, and gives no idea about its real cost to the planet.
by AGNES STIENNE / Monde Diplomatique/Counterpunch
Nothing changes — whatever familiar measures are announced after every food scandal, once the politicians, manufacturers and retailers have made their claims and counterclaims, and after we’ve gone through the ritual demands for transparency, traceability and labelling. What we really need to do is widen our focus from the contents of “beef” lasagne to the intersecting routes of the current global agricultural system. Continue reading »
Mar 292013
TAKE ACTION HERE—> Fill out a very short form—2 minutes tops—and you’re done.
Also, consider writing your local media, and contacting the local television channel(s).
Black bears are vastly harmless animals, once brought to the brink of extinction by human excess but the depraved hunting lobby, a fungus that will not die, is clamoring again for their blood, in conjunction with their pals in the supposedly impartial wildlife administration bureaucracy. Don’t let it happen this time, or any time again. Say enough! to this criminal nonsense..—PG
Multiply Your Impact
- Petition by Rachel Gary,
Middletown, CT
Turn your signature into dozens more by sharing this petition and recruiting people you know to sign. The black bear population in Connecticut became virtually extinct in the 19th century due to human activities and habitat destruction. The black bear has, only very recently, begun to repopulate its once native habitat. Now, the State of Connecticut is considering providing licenses to hunters to kill black bears in order to reduce the number of bears in the state. The State justifies this consideration based uponpurely unscientific evidence that there has been a recent increase bear sightings and human interactions – however, this information is simply hearsay (i.e. the sightings could have all been the same bear, or a small number of bears sighted often). But the high-priced lottery for these hunting licenses would bring in revenue for the DEEP – essentially, they will be selling the lives of our precious bears for a couple hundred bucks a piece. Continue reading »
ALERTS: Say NO to the “Grand Swindle” on Social Security and Medicare
ABOMINATIONS, ALERTS, CORPORATE CRIMINALITY, CORPORATE MENTALITY, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES
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Mar 192013
The Center for Media and Democracy is circulating the following alert:
March 19, 2012
CONTACT: Nikolina Lazic at nikolina@prwatch.org
Say No to a “Grand Swindle” on Social Security and Medicare!
Dear Friend of CMD,
If the job-killing sequester wasn’t bad enough, Washington is buzzing about the possibility that the President and Congress might replace the sequester with something infinitely worse — the Grand Swindle — brought to you by Wall Street billionaire Pete Peterson and his “Fix the Debt” gang, who we exposed in a recent report and cover story in The Nation magazine. Continue reading »
Feb 152013
15 February 2013
Horrendous crimes like these are routine in factory farming, where animals, protestations aside, are not even seen as living beings worthy of the most elementary consideration. Each of us must look into his or he heart and ask: where is our compassion? How far are we gone into this ocean of cold indifference and self-inflicted ignorance that we fail to react at all to such massive suffering? —Eds.
In February 2012, a company called A&L Poultry near Turlock, CA abandoned 50,000 battery-caged hens to starve to death. Most of the birds died in their cages or were “euthanized” – “killed by state authorities using carbon dioxide gas chambers.”*
Animal Place Sanctuary in Grass Valley did a huge rescue. They saved 4,100 hens from starvation. They found good homes for most of the hens and kept those who could not be adopted in their Vacaville sanctuary. Continue reading »