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Tramp the Dirt Down
Post Date: 2013-04-10 08:42:33 by mcgowanjm
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The old saw that one shouldn’t speak ill of the recently dead cannot possibly apply to controversial figures in public life. It certainly didn’t apply to President Hugo Chavez who predeceased Margaret Thatcher amidst a blizzard of abuse. The main reason it must not preclude entering the lists amidst a wave of hagiographic sycophantic tosh of the kind that has engulfed Britain these last hours is that otherwise the hagiographers will have the field to themselves.
I got banned from this place....and then some
Post Date: 2013-04-02 01:24:40 by no gnu taxes
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I had to change my IP address AND switch browsers just to access this website. I guess Neil is back from Ecuuador
National Abortion Rates Highest Among African-American Teens, Twice National Average
Post Date: 2013-04-01 00:38:00 by A K A Stone
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Special to the NNPA from the Atlanta Daily World A new study conducted by the Guttmacher Institute shows that African American teen abortion rates are more than twice as high as the national average. According to the study, the national average is 18 abortions per 1,000 women among 15-19-year olds. The African-American abortion rate is 41 per 1,000 women among that age group, which is four times higher than non-Hispanic whites abortion rate at 10 per 1,000 and twice as high for Hispanics at 20 per 1,000. The Guttmacher Institute revealed in a recent study that black women account for 30 percent of all abortions and African Americans make up only 13 percent of the total U.S. population. ...
Amid Genocide Alert, Racist New Black Panthers Hit South Africa
Post Date: 2013-04-01 00:26:48 by A K A Stone
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(NNPA) Even as the world’s most prominent expert on genocidewarns that South Africa’s European-descent Afrikaner population is on the verge of government-linked extermination, the virulently racist U.S.-based “New Black Panther Party” has a delegation visiting the so-called “Rainbow nation” — a country now ruled by a president who openly sings about murdering whites. The NBPP and its leadership have regularly called for genocide against white South Africans as well, so critics of the visit are expressing alarm, concerned that the officially recognized hate group is agitating for further ethnic cleansing while collaborating with genocidal elements within ...
Six Days in China
Post Date: 2013-03-29 16:31:37 by jwpegler
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Its 3:35 am on Saturday morning. I’m about to jump into the shower and head to the airport after spending six days in the People’s Republic of China. I spent three days in Shanghai and three days in Beijing. I wanted to share a few a thoughts while they are still fresh in my mind. Shanghai is a surprisingly nice city with a bustling, prosperous, and consumer- oriented population. With 17 million people, it’s the largest city in the world. But because it’s so spread out, it doesn’t feel as crowded as Hong Kong. The people seem happy and are very friendly. They also always seem to be in a hurry -- image millions of people on the roads driving like New York cabbies. ...
South Africa: Hunger in a land of plenty
Post Date: 2013-03-25 00:58:07 by A K A Stone
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Amid the millions of hectares of prosperous farmland filled with lucrative maize crops, residents in the Free State town of Bothaville are going without jobs, and without food. Here, high production does not necessarily mean job creation. Cutting-edge technology and million-rand machinery have almost entirely removed the need for labour. Maize farming is big business in Bothaville, where grain producers supply between 600 000 and 700 000 tonnes of maize worth more than R1.4-billion to the market a year, accounting for more than 5% of South Africa's annual maize production. Bothaville falls under the Nala Local Municipality, where the unemployment rate is at 35% — ...
Buchanan: Goading Gullible America Into War
Post Date: 2013-03-23 10:13:35 by mininggold
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Buchanan: Goading Gullible America Into War As President Obama departed for Israel, there came a startling report. Bashar Assad’s regime had used poison gas on Syrian rebels. Two Israeli Cabinet members claimed credible evidence. Justice Minister Tzipi Livni said, “It’s clear for us that (gas is) being used. … This … should be on the table in the discussions.” Yet, 72 hours later, the United States still cannot confirm that gas was used, and Syria and Russia have called on U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to investigate whether it was used, and if so, by whom. What’s going on here? It does not require Inspector Clouseau to surmise this may be a ...
Number of dead pigs from China waters rises to 12,566
Post Date: 2013-03-18 01:07:46 by A K A Stone
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BEIJING — The number of dead pigs retrieved from waters in and near China's financial hub of Shanghai has reached 12,566.
Authorities in Shanghai plucked 611 dead pig carcasses Saturday from Huangpu river, which provides drinking water to the city's 23 million residents. In total, 8,965 dead pigs have been found in the river since March 8.
The swollen and rotting pigs are largely believed to be from the upstream city of Jiaxing in neighboring Zhejiang province, but Zhao Shumei, a deputy mayor, said it was inconclusive to say all the pigs were from her city.
Jiaxing — where small hog farms are prevalent — reported Friday night that it had recovered 3,601 dead pigs from its streams, ...
Lockheed Martin Throws More Dirt on Malthus’ Grave
Post Date: 2013-03-17 23:41:14 by A K A Stone
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Cheap, clean water may soon be available for the whole planet. According to Reuters, defense contractor Lockheed Martin has developed a filter that will hugely reduce the amount of energy necessary to turn sea water into fresh water. The filter, which is five hundred times thinner then others currently available, lets water pass through but blocks all salt molecules. It will use almost 100 times less energy than other methods for making salt water drinkable, giving third world countries another way of expanding access to drinking water without having to create costly pumping stations. As the article points out, this impressive tech is coming just in time: Access to clean drinking water is ...
Did Venezuela's Chavez nudge Christ to pick South American pope?
Post Date: 2013-03-15 06:54:43 by CZ82
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Did Venezuela's Chavez nudge Christ to pick South American pope? By Ana Isabel Martinez | Reuters – Wed, Mar 13, 2013.. . CARACAS (Reuters) - Late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez's influence may have stretched into the afterlife and had a hand in Christ's decision to opt for a Latin American Pope, acting President Nicolas Maduro said on Wednesday. "We know that our commander ascended to the heights and is face-to-face with Christ," Maduro said at a Caracas book fair. "Something influenced the choice of a South American pope, someone new arrived at Christ's side and said to him: 'Well, it seems to us South America's time has come.'" ...
Russia: Activists Supporting Band Are Detained After Demonstration
Post Date: 2013-03-09 00:42:55 by The Blue Cat
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ussian police temporarily detained six activists protesting on Friday against the incarceration of members of the punk rock band Pussy Riot and charged them with holding a demonstration of more than one person without a permit. In front of the Federal Penitentiary Service building, activists, actors and writers took turns holding posters demanding freedom for the jailed musicians, Maria Alyokhina, 24, and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 23. According to Russian media reports, the police made the arrests when more than one person at a time held the posters. The six were charged with administrative misdemeanors, released and handed orders for court hearings on Monday. The jailed women are serving ...
Alvin Lee, Ten Years After guitarist and Woodstock standout, dead at 68
Post Date: 2013-03-07 08:28:03 by sneakypete
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Alvin Lee, one of the major guitar virtuosos from the 1960s British school of blues-and-rock purism, died Wednesday of "complications from a routine surgical procedure." He was 68. Lee was best known as the lead guitarist of the band Ten Years After, whose 11-minute version of "I'm Going Home" at Woodstock in 1969 became one of the memorable musical segments of the subsequent concert film. Woodstock propelled Ten Years After into the forefront of the second-wave British Invasion, whose emphasis often was on flashy guitar playing with extensive solos. Lee told the BBC in 2012 that he still had the 335 he played at Woodstock, but that he didn't use it much any ...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez dead
Post Date: 2013-03-05 17:22:25 by calcon
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CARACAS, Venezuela – President Hugo Chavez, the fiery populist who declared a socialist revolution in Venezuela, crusaded against U.S. influence and championed a leftist revival across Latin America, died Tuesday at age 58 after a nearly two-year bout with cancer. Vice President Nicolas Maduro, surrounded by other government officials, announced the death in a national television broadcast. He said Chavez died at 4:25 p.m. local time. During more than 14 years in office, Chavez routinely challenged the status quo at home and internationally. He polarized Venezuelans with his confrontational and domineering style, yet was also a masterful communicator and strategist who tapped into ...
Bradley Manning Nobel Peace Prize Nomination 2013
Post Date: 2013-03-04 21:00:40 by Ferret Mike
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February 1st 2013 the entire parliamentary group of The Movement in the Icelandic Parliament, the Pirates of the EU; representatives from the Swedish Pirate Party, the former Secretary of State in Tunisia for Sport & Youth nominated Private Bradley Manning for the Nobel Peace Prize. Following is the reasoning we sent to the committee explaining why we felt compelled to nominate Private Bradley Manning for this important recognition of an individual effort to have an impact for peace in our world. The lengthy personal statement to the pre-trial hearing February 28th by Bradley Manning in his own words validate that his motives were for the greater good of humankind. Read his full ...
Lech Walesa accused of hate speech after gay rights criticism
Post Date: 2013-03-03 10:49:22 by A K A Stone
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A national committee devoted to fighting hate speech and other crimes in Poland has filed a complaint with prosecutors in Gdansk accusing Lech Walesa of promoting a "propaganda of hate against a sexual minority", after the Nobel peace prize-winner said gay people had no right to a prominent role in politics. Walesa said in a television interview on Friday that he believed gay people had no right to sit on the front benches in parliament and, if there at all, should sit in the back "or even behind a wall". "They have to know that they are a minority and adjust to smaller things, and not rise to the greatest heights," he told the private broadcaster TVN ...
NATO apologises for killing boys
Post Date: 2013-03-03 09:36:23 by A K A Stone
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The U.S.-led coalition says its forces accidentally killed two Afghan boys during an operation in southern Afghanistan.
Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford, the commander of U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan, offered his "personal apology and condolences to the family of the boys who were killed" and said the coalition takes full responsibility for the deaths.
A statement issued by the coalition says the boys were killed Thursday when coalition forces fired at what they thought were insurgent forces in the Shahid-e Hasas district of Uruzgan province. It says a joint Afghan-NATO investigation team visited the location Saturday and met with local leaders.
The killing of civilians by ...
Hunter-gatherer master chefs
Post Date: 2013-03-03 00:28:13 by A K A Stone
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Would you cut the head off a chicken in front of your children? Survive only on what you can grow? What about needing a licence to eat meat? The harsh realities of food production that have all but disappeared from daily life are being reintroduced with vigour by a new flock of radical chefs. The farmer and Whole Larder Love blogger Rohan Anderson has been called a chicken murderer on Twitter and been forced to defend teaching his young daughters the bloody realities of the meat they eat. "Killing is considered so offensive because it's hidden from view of most people who consume meat," Anderson said. Four years ago he quit the rat race to live sustainably off a small ...
Paraded, then executed
Post Date: 2013-03-03 00:22:41 by A K A Stone
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During a two-hour television broadcast that was part morality play, part propaganda tour de force, the Chinese government sent four foreign drug traffickers to their deaths. They were convicted of killing 13 Chinese sailors two years ago as they sailed down the Mekong River through Burma. Although Friday's live program ended shortly before the men were executed by lethal injection, it became instantly polarising, with viewers divided on whether the broadcast was a crass exercise in bloodlust or a long-awaited catharsis for a nation outraged by the killings in October 2011. Some critics said the program recalled an era not long ago when condemned prisoners were paraded through the ...
Syrian army, rebel clashes bring conflict to Iraq doorstep
Post Date: 2013-03-03 00:15:26 by A K A Stone
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Clashes between the Syrian army and rebels at a border post brought the civil war close to neighbouring Iraq, where troops fired warning shots into the air, residents, officials and a Reuters reporter said. Insurgents seized control of half of the northeastern Syrian town of Yaarabiya, including a border post with Iraq, in a battle with forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad on Friday and early Saturday, the pro-opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group, said. The fighting on Iraq's doorstep shows how Syria's near-two-year conflict could spill over its borders, threatening to drag in neighbouring countries and further destabilise the region. Iraqi ...
Chad says soldiers in Mali kill al Qaeda's Belmokhtar
Post Date: 2013-03-03 00:12:47 by A K A Stone
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Chadian soldiers in Mali have killed Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the al Qaeda mastermind of a bloody hostage-taking at an Algerian gas plant in January, Chad's military said today. The death of one of the world's most wanted jihadists would be a major blow to al Qaeda in the region and to the Islamist rebels forced to flee towns they had seized in northern Mali by an offensive by French and African troops. "On Saturday, March 2, at noon, Chadian armed forces operating in northern Mali completely destroyed a terrorist base (...) The toll included several dead terrorists, including their leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar," Chad's armed forces said in a statement read on national ...
The Holocaust Just Got More Shocking
Post Date: 2013-03-02 10:19:28 by A K A Stone
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THIRTEEN years ago, researchers at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum began the grim task of documenting all the ghettos, slave labor sites, concentration camps and killing factories that the Nazis set up throughout Europe. What they have found so far has shocked even scholars steeped in the history of the Holocaust. The researchers have cataloged some 42,500 Nazi ghettos and camps throughout Europe, spanning German-controlled areas from France to Russia and Germany itself, during Hitler’s reign of brutality from 1933 to 1945. The figure is so staggering that even fellow Holocaust scholars had to make sure they had heard it correctly when the lead researchers previewed ...
One Brick At A Time Good old fashion hard work
Post Date: 2013-03-02 09:48:23 by A K A Stone
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John Kerry: Turkish prime minister's Zionism remarks "objectionable"
Post Date: 2013-03-01 16:35:13 by Ferret Mike
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday waded into the controversy over comments by Turkey's prime minister equating Zionism to a crime against humanity, rebuking the leader of the NATO ally by saying such remarks complicate efforts to find peace in the Middle East. Kerry said the Obama administration found the statements by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan "objectionable" and he stressed the "urgent need to promote a spirit of tolerance, and that includes all of the public statements made by all leaders" at a news conference in Ankara with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu. "We not only disagree with it; we found it objectionable," Kerry ...
No One Can Take Issue with DPRK's Just Step for Self-Defence: Rodong Sinmun
Post Date: 2013-02-26 00:33:29 by A K A Stone
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Pyongyang, February 25 (KCNA) -- The underground nuclear test of the DPRK is a product of the high-handed moves of the U.S. and other hostile forces to stifle it and part of its just step for self-defence to cope with the U.S. imperialists' undisguised nuclear threat and blackmail, Rodong Sinmun Monday says in a bylined article. In the new century the U.S. imperialists have more persistently resorted to the nuclear blackmail against the DPRK since they put it on the list of targets of their nuclear attacks, the article says, and goes on: This compelled the DPRK to have access to nuclear deterrence to foil the U.S. imperialists' scenario for a nuclear war. Had the DPRK failed to ...
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