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Chuck Spinney: Syria, Regional War, and Turkey — Let the Ethnic Cleansing Begin!

This email builds on the information in my 8 May email entitled, The Real Scare in Syria Is Not Chemical Weapons.”  Attached below is a post from Joshua Landis’s Syria Comment blog.  Landis is a professor at the University of Oklahoma and a specialist on Syria — his blog often provides useful, insightful information. Particularly …

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Mini-Me: Former Leader of Guatemala Is Guilty of Genocide Against Mayan Group – US Leaders Should Note….

Huh? Former Leader of Guatemala Is Guilty of Genocide Against Mayan Group GUATEMALA CITY — A Guatemalan court on Friday found Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt, the former dictator who ruled Guatemala during one of the bloodiest periods of its long civil war, guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity. Judge Yasmín Barrios sentenced General Ríos …

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John Steiner: Fukushima Update — Worse, Uglier, Worry More…. + Fukushima & US Nuclear RECAP

Subject: Fukushima update http://www.change.org/petitions/west-coast-senators-investigate-the-ongoing-danger-from-the-fukushima-nuclear-reactors Dear Friends, Bad news continues to pour out of Fukushima-Daiichi.  The first article below discusses the impact of F-D radiation on Canadian flora and fauna.  The second details the involvement of the Japanese Mafia, the Yakuza, in the containment/cleanup process.  The third describes TEPCO’s mounting financial losses, as they struggle to …

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Neal Rauhauser: Drowning IndoChina

Drowning Indochina Yesterday’s Visualizing 400ppm Carbon Dioxide showed before/after coastline maps of what we can expect given the carbon we have already put into the atmosphere. All of Delaware and Maryland’s eastern shore disappear, Florida south of Gainesville goes for a swim, and the San Francisco Bay reaches Sacramento. The effects in Indochina and neighboring Bangladesh …

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Worth a Look: Wavy Gravy Movie – Saint Misbehavin’ and His Books

Born in 1936, Hugh Romney was an improvisational actor and standup comic who befriended Lenny Bruce and Bob Dylan when he settled in New York’s Greenwich Village in the early ’60s. Romney’s career took him to the West Coast in the mid-’60s, where he fell in with Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters and became a key …

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