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Messages from the Occupy Wall Street Protest - YouTube - 0 views

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    Occupy Wall Street: The Beginning Joe Rogan on Occupy Wallstreet:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjMcDXGkR8I Network -- Corporate Cosmology:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqEcLlp_Big THE CORPORATION [1/23] What is a Corporation?:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pin8fbdGV9Y What CNN doesn't want you see ever again:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_2aTzC_4kY Poll: Americans Distrust Governmenthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylEEnEp0Lbg Elizabeth Warren: Death of the Middle Classhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBf70qX1sBw Dylan Ratigan (rightfully) loses it on air:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIcqb9hHQ3E GREEN WAR:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ864ucbR_4 Network - Mad as hellhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90ELleCQvew In the House, In a Heartbeat - John Murphy:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST2H8FWDvEACategory:News & Politics
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The due-process-free assassination of U.S. citizens is now reality - Salon.com - 0 views

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    What amazes me most whenever I write about this topic is recalling how terribly upset so many Democrats pretended to be when Bush claimed the power merely to detain or even just eavesdrop on American citizens without due process.  Remember all that?  Yet now, here's Obama claiming the power not to detain or eavesdrop on citizens without due process, but to kill them; marvel at how the hardest-core White House loyalists now celebrate this and uncritically accept the same justifying rationale used by Bush/Cheney (this is war! the President says he was a Terrorist!) without even a moment of acknowledgment of the profound inconsistency or the deeply troubling implications of having a President - even Barack Obama - vested with the power to target U.S. citizens for murder with no due process. Also, during the Bush years, civil libertarians who tried to convince conservatives to oppose that administration's radical excesses would often ask things like this: would you be comfortable having Hillary Clinton wield the power to spy on your calls or imprison you with no judicial reivew or oversight?  So for you good progressives out there justifying this, I would ask this:  how would the power to assassinate U.S. citizens without due process look to you in the hands of, say, Rick Perry or Michele Bachmann?
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Left-Wing Icon Daniel Ellsberg: 'Obama Deceives the Public' - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - I... - 0 views

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    Daniel Ellsberg, legendary leaker of the "Pentagon Papers" in 1971, still has a bone to pick with the White House. In an interview with SPIEGEL ONLINE, the 79-year-old peace activist accuses President Obama of betraying his election promises -- in Iraq, in Afghanistan and on civil liberties.
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Google Cache of Haaretz.com's: Gaza residents: IDF troops posing as Hamas men - Haaretz... - 0 views

  • Gaza residents: IDF troops posing as Hamas men
  • In the past two days, Beit Lahia residents forced from their homes said soldiers were posing as members of Hamas' armed wing while advancing on the ground
  • .A Gaza radio station warned that troops posing as locals were driving a vehicle normally used by paramedics. Residents said the radio broadcaster listed the vehicle's license plate number and color .Haaretz has also learned that one of the army's methods for evacuating a home is to fire a missile toward its upper level. That is how B.'s house in Sajaiyeh was destroyed. It was bombed just a few minutes after a missile struck and 40 shell-shocked family members walked out of the house
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    Censored news story from Israelian newspaper Haaretz: "Gaza residents: IDF troops posing as Hamas men"
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Die Zeit - Brüsseler Auswüchse - 0 views

  • Raps wurde in der Europäischen Union zur Erfolgsstory, seit es den Pflanzenzüchtern – ganz ohne gentechnische Assistenz – gelang, erst den bitteren Beigeschmack des Speiseöls durch Erucasäure zu tilgen und dann gar noch jenen Überschuss an Glucosinolaten zu mindern, der dem lieben Vieh auf die Gesundheit schlägt. Mitte der achtziger Jahre war es so weit: »00-Raps«, erucasäurefrei und glucosinolatarm, avancierte zum Liebling der Landwirte.
  • Bis dahin hatte die Anbaufläche in der Zeit vom Kaiserreich bis zur Bundesrepublik irgendwo zwischen bescheidenen 100000 und 200000 Hektar gelegen, heute dagegen wird Raps auf über einer Million Hektar angebaut, immerhin zehn Prozent der gesamten Ackerfläche Deutschlands und knapp ein Drittel der EU-Rapsflächen.
  • Grund ist das Blair-House-Abkommen von 1992, das im Handelsstreit zwischen Washington und den Europäern Frieden stiften sollte und die Europäer auf Höchstflächen verpflichtete. Wo mehr bebaut wird, ist Strafe fällig. Nur bis zu einer bestimmten Rapsfläche gewährt darum die Europäische Union ihren Bauern Hilfen. Seit Ende der neunziger Jahre wird in der Gemeinschaft, vor allem in Deutschland, Frankreich und im Vereinigten Königreich, zu viel Raps angebaut.
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  • Weltweit wurde die Rapsproduktion seit den achtziger Jahren mehr als verdoppelt
  • Die größten Erzeuger sind China (etwa ein Drittel der Weltproduktion), die EU sowie Kanada.
  • Der zunehmende Appetit auf Fleisch hat vor allem in China und anderen Schwellenländern die Nachfrage nach Soja und Raps als Viehfutter belebt. Größter Abnehmer bleibt hier allerdings die EU.
  • Die Pflanze erlebt immer mehr Freisetzungsversuche nach gentechnischer Veränderung. Frankreich (mit 117 Experimenten), Großbritannien (103) und Deutschland (66) sind dabei führend. Sehr zum Verdruss der Gegner der grünen Gentechnik: Sie sehen in solchen Versuchen eine Aushöhlung der EU-Freisetzungsrichtlinie, die gentechnisch veränderten Raps zwar unter Aufsicht zulässt, alles manipulierte Saatgut im Handel freilich verbietet. Die Gentechnik soll vor allem die Herbizidresistenz erhöhen, denn praktisch überall, wo Winterraps ausgebracht wird, konkurrieren Klettenlabkraut oder Kamille mit dem Raps um Wasser, Licht und Nährstoffe.
  • Zwei britische Agrarökologen stuften darum unlängst in einer viel diskutierten Studie für die Europäische Umweltagentur (die der Brüsseler Kommission zuarbeitet) die Wahrscheinlichkeit einer »Auskreuzung durch Pollenflug in Mitteleuropa« als hoch ein. »Genpflanzen außer Kontrolle«, rief Greenpeace empört.
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Koch Brothers Now at Heart of GOP Power - 0 views

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    The billionaire brothers' influence is most visible in the makeup of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, where members have vowed to undo restrictions on greenhouse gases.
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Iraq Withdrawal? Don't Take It to the Bank | MichaelMoore.com - 0 views

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    The Washington Post brings the unsurprising news that Iraqi leaders have agreed to begin talks with the U.S. on allowing the foreign military occupation of their country to continue beyond this year - re-branded, naturally, as a mission of "training" and "support." The move comes after an increasingly public campaign by top White House and military officials to pressure Iraqi leaders into tearing up the Status of Forces Agreement they signed with the Bush administration, which mandates the removal of all foreign troops by the end of 2011.
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President Obama, Stand Up to the U.S. Chamber and Fight for Disclosure - 0 views

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    "We will fight it through all available means […] To quote what they say every day on Libya, all options are on the table." That's what the chief lobbyist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce told the New York Times after hearing the White House may issue an executive order requiring corporations that do business with the government to disclose their political spending. The Chamber's pledge to fight tooth and nail to keep the American people in the dark about conflicts of interest in government is appalling, but not surprising. If corporations and their executives are spending on politicians in an effort to "win" government contracts, the American people should know.  Urge President Obama to stand up to the U.S. Chamber and fight for disclosure. Sign the petition today!
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