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Adbusters: Farewell and Good Luck, Zuck! Will his latest moves mark the beginning of the end of Facebook?
the mighty Adb ..Zuckerberg, who turns 29 today [5/14], is using his Facebook fortune to create and promote advertisements for fracking companies, the Keystone XL tar-sands pipeline, and for oil companies that want to drill in such delicate places as the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge! And of course, his success as an entrepreneur has always been contentious, since we know that he's stepped over a lot of people, including his friends, stealing ideas and playing hardball, to get where he is today – one of the world's youngest billionaires .. Zuckerberg is moving boldly into the political arena. The new lobbying group that he co-founded with other technology executives in the Silicon Valley is called FWD.US. "Their first moves," writes Steven Rosenfeld for AlterNet, mark a resurrection of "old-school libertarian values: [] trashing health care reform and backing the Keystone XL pipeline.".. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Saturday, May 18, 2013
Mountain of Petroleum Coke From Oil Sands Rises in Detroit – NYTimes.com
Posted by Harry Sifton, Saturday, May 18, 2013Even in the best-case scenario, climate change will kick our asses | Grist
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, May 17, 2013Four Easy Fixes for Corporate Taxation
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, May 17, 2013Japan: Abe’s master plan | The Economist
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, May 17, 2013Breaking Through Mainstream Media Lies | Global Research
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, May 17, 2013Increasing Solar Activity And Disturbances In Earth’s Magnetic Field Affect Our Behavior And Increase Our Health
Health and consiousness increases with solar activity and this is beginning now. It increases the energy available to individuals, both physically and psychically per the article. Interesting postulates, using public data, that could bode well for our future. Basically trust your intuition and your ability to achieve it will be increasing for the next several years. As Al Gore said about the chemtrail's, all 90 million tons daily [for how long now], were to block the sun from the people. This causes me to question why would anyone use chemtrail's to block the sun, knowing this information? To protect us? b.a.Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, May 17, 2013
Emptywheel: Dzhokhar’s Sharpie Manifesto
wheel ..[on Boston PD refusing to give up their cell phones to the FBI at the boat scene] there’s something funny about the story. Why would cell phone pictures of the manifesto matter if the FBI had properly documented photos taken immediately after the arrest when the chain of custody was intact? I mean, I could see worrying about tainting the jury pool, but the leaked content of the interrogations already said all this stuff anyway ... [and then this from the comments] "It’s like they’re testing public credulity: scenery-chewing ham actor[s]; victims stomping around with their clothes blown off like a Sid Ceasar skit; stories changing with laugh-out-loud contradictions. They're making it cornier and cornier, but the media is just too gullible for them. They should reveal that Osama bin Laden is alive, and he did it, and let him escape on a jetpack with his evil laughter enchoing triple-tracked over Faneuil Hall".. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Friday, May 17, 2013
Gangster State America — Paul Craig Roberts – PaulCraigRoberts.org
Posted by Harry Sifton, Thursday, May 16, 2013‘Follow the Money’: How Rainforest Action Network Is Beating the Corporate Giants
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, May 16, 2013Imperialism, The Cold War, and the Contradictions of Decolonization | Global Research
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, May 16, 2013Senator Warren Wants Banks to Admit Guilt
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, May 16, 2013Cutting Social Security and Not Taxing Wall Street
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, May 16, 2013What’s at Stake When the Department of Justice Seizes AP Phone Records | Politics News | Rolling Stone
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, May 16, 2013Commentary: Pakistan: Geopolitical conundrum written by Arnaud de Borchgrave
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, May 16, 2013Glenn Greenwald: The major sea change in media discussions of Obama and civil liberties
Glenzilla ..it is remarkable how media reactions to civil liberties assaults are shaped almost entirely by who the victims are. For years, the Obama administration has been engaged in pervasive spying on American Muslim communities and dissident groups. It demanded a reform-free renewal of the Patriot Act and the Fisa Amendments Act of 2008, both of which codify immense powers of warrantless eavesdropping, including ones that can be used against journalists. It has prosecuted double the number of whistleblowers under espionage statutes as all previous administrations combined, threatened to criminalize WikiLeaks, and abused Bradley Manning to the point that a formal UN investigation denounced his treatment as "cruel and inhuman". But, with a few noble exceptions, most major media outlets said little about any of this, except in those cases when they supported it. It took a direct and blatant attack on them for them to really get worked up, denounce these assaults, and acknowledge this administration's true character.. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Thursday, May 16, 2013
Markos Moulitsas: Tesla at War with Sleazy Car Dealers
Kos ..My next car will be a Tesla. It'll be a while. They're really expensive, though a lower-cost mass-market sedan is in the company's longer-term plans. But who wouldn't want a car that dispenses with messy fossil fuels (especially if recharged with solar, as I would), cleaned up all the major 2012 automobile awards [], and got a near-perfect rating (99 out of 100) by Consumer Reports .. Of course, conservatives hate anything that helps the environment, even if it's good despite the fact it helps the environment. So naturally, they hate Tesla[]. But the company is now profitable, and supply is so constrained that the waiting list to receive a car is about eight months. But Tesla is fascinating for another reason—it is a disruptive technology, and we know how the fossil-fuel and auto industry have worked hard to squelch any challenge to their dominance. And there is certainly an entire national infrastructure in place that is dependent on dirty, gas-guzzling vehicles. And that infrastructure is a definite barrier to change.. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Thursday, May 16, 2013
Ocean Conservancy: Top 10 Items Found
Posted by Harry Sifton, Thursday, May 16, 2013FOCUS | The Triumph of Progressivism
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, May 15, 2013FOCUS | Elizabeth Warren, a Great Investment | Robert Scheer
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, May 15, 2013America is Losing its Covert Syria War: US Sponsored Al Nusra Rebels Defeated by Syrian Armed Forces | Global Research
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, May 15, 2013Time to Abolish Left vs. Right
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, May 15, 2013Sen. Warren Continues Campaign Against ‘Too Big To Jail’ Banks | Common Dreams
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, May 15, 2013If the Fed Knows Banks Are Too Big, Why Doesn’t It Make Them Smaller?
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, May 15, 2013New Study Links GMO Food To Leukemia
This study disproves all of the things Monsanto has been saying , about the safety of their products. It accumulates, it alters physiology, it creates disease, and that it is premature to believe they are safe for humans! No wonder they do not want anyone studying their seeds! Is it time to ban them rather than label them? Is labeling them a political move to prevent them from being banned as the are in 10 countries? b.a.Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, May 15, 2013
