CounterPunch: Deep Green Resistance – Confronting Industrialism

03 Economy, 03 Environmental Degradation, 07 Other Atrocities, 11 Society, Civil Society, Commerce, Ethics

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Confronting Industrialism

by DERRICK JENSEN

Q: What do you call someone who puts poison in the subways of Tokyo?  A: A terrorist.  Q: What do you call someone who puts poison (cyanide) into groundwater?  A: A capitalist: CEO of a gold mining corporation.  Read full article.

BOOK: Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet

Robert Steele: Electoral Reform Before Supreme Court (One Tiny Piece)

09 Justice, 11 Society, Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Officers Call
Robert Steele
Robert Steele

Election reform is on the line at the Supreme Court

SUPREME COURT observers focused on the Affordable Care Act case this week. But the justices heard arguments Monday in another case with potentially major implications for the country’s proper functioning: a dispute over whether voters can break the self-serving system in which state politicians manipulate voting districts to their own and their party’s benefit.

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SchwartzReport: America’s Electoral Nightmare — Global Laughingstock for Lack of Integrity

07 Other Atrocities, 11 Society, Civil Society, Corruption, Government
Stephan A. Schwartz
Stephan A. Schwartz

If we cannot tell ourselves the truth, corrective choices are not possible. Here is the truth about the integrity of America's electoral process. We come in 26th in the world, one step above Mexico. Nothing to be proud of.

America’s election nightmare: How voter ID, gerrymandering & fundraising made us a laughingstock

Here's what happens when you suppress votes, draw districts to favor incumbents and allow the rich to buy elections

EXTRACT

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Mongoose: A Domestic Black Site in Chicago?

07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Corruption, Law Enforcement, Officers Call
Mongoose
Mongoose

Brian Jacob Church spent the better part of a day shackled inside Chicago's Homan Square, denied access to an attorney, before police finally sent him to be booked and charged. Lawyers say the facility is the domestic equivalent of a CIA black site.

• The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden ‘black site'

• Homan Square ‘black site': surveillance, military-style vehicles and a metal cage

Video from The Guardian below the fold.

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Sepp Hasslberger: Free Online Movie (Until 1 March) –

01 Agriculture, 03 Economy, 06 Family, 07 Health, 11 Society, Commerce, Corruption, Earth Intelligence, Government
Sepp Hasslberger
Sepp Hasslberger

Good new documentary on vaccines and other health related things – free viewing until 6 March.

New BOUGHT Documentary reveals insidious truth behind Vaccines, GMO's & Big Pharma. The food, vaccine, drug, insurance and health industry are a multi-BILLION dollar enterprise… focused more on profits than human lives. The BOUGHT documentary takes viewers deep “inside the guts” of this despicable conspiracy… Featuring exclusive interviews with the world's most acclaimed experts in research, medicine, holistic care and natural health… Bought exposes the hidden (and deadly) story behind it all.

Note: At the website here, just let the into play, it goes into the free movie.

Chuck Spinney: Sheldon Adelson, US Gambling King, Owns Leadership of both Zionist Israel and Republican America

07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 11 Society, IO Deeds of War, Officers Call
Chuck Spinney
Chuck Spinney

The Casino Republic: WHO IS the ruler of Israel?

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, of course.  WRONG.

Uri Avnery, Gush Shalom, 14 Feb 201515

[The author is a former Irgun terrorist, a hero of the 1948 war, a former member of the Knesset, and Israel’s leading human rights advocate — read his amazing bio here.]

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Open Power – #BigIdeas #ElectoralReform #OpenSource

#Events, 11 Society, Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government, Officers Call
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Very few people know that I was accepted as a candidate for the Reform Party nomination for the presidency in 2012. I used that experience to seek out wizards across the country and consolidate their transpartisan wisdom (not to be confused with bi-partisan complicity) at one web site, We the People Reform Coalition.

On 28 February 2015 I will be facilitating a workshop on Open Power at the Economics of Happiness Conference, an event I recommend to one and all — Jerry Mander will be there, one reason I am personally excited about attending.

Below are the read-ahead documents I have just finished loading to the event post at Phi Beta Iota the Public Intelligence Blog, where I curate over 80 truth-telling editors from around the world, but most true-blue sons and daughters of the USA.

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