That Which Is Seen -- may I unerringly consider All to be imbued with Divine Presence
approvideo Categories: UncategorizedSend feedback » •link to many Appropriate and Sustainable Technology videos and documents
Another link that might work is http://wiki.edc-cu.org/blogs/index.php/videos
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EFF on social network monitoring issues Categories: Uncategorized1 feedback » •The EFF's post today is titled
EFF Posts Documents Detailing Law Enforcement Collection of Data From Social Media Sites
Consequences of 9/11 chart by Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth Categories: UncategorizedSend feedback » •
information slideshow selection link:
http://www.ae911truth.org/ppt_web/ppt_selection.php
re: surveillance of mobile phone GPS location Categories: Uncategorized, ShadySend feedback » •"Sprint received over 8 million requests for its customers' information in the past 13 months. That doesn't count requests for basic identification and billing information, or wiretapping requests, or requests to monitor who is calling who, or even requests for less-precise location data based on which cell phone towers a cell phone was in contact with. That's just GPS. And, that's not including legal requests from civil litigants, or from foreign intelligence investigators. That's just law enforcement. And, that's not counting the few other major cell phone carriers like AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile. That's just Sprint."
Read the entire article at eff.org
You may be interested in an earlier link I made to an article "FBI taps cell phone mic as eavesdropping tool" -- even when it's "powered off"
US, Alt. media, Report on the G20 Mobilization in Pittsburgh Categories: UncategorizedSend feedback » •...the link to this informative article is provided thanks to:
A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C E
By, For, and About AnarchistsAnd amongst many others, many thanks to Pittsburgh Indymedia, the Pittsburgh G-20 Resistance Project, Pittsburgh Organizing Group, and Pittsburgh Thomas Merton Center...
I think yinz did good
Check out some videos of the G20 events in Pittsburgh at the G-Infinity site ( currently at http://indypgh.org/g20/ )
nukulur issues propaganda continues to dominate the 'liberull media' - Media Lens Media Alert Categories: UncategorizedSend feedback » •MEDIA ALERT: IRAN - THE WAR DANCE
On September 19, the Irish Times reported:
“Israel has rejected the call by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and open up its atomic sites to international inspection.” (Mark Weiss, ‘Israel spurns nuclear watchdog's call to open atomic sites to inspection,’ Irish Times, September 19, 2009; http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2009/0919/1224254860406.html)
The IAEA, which met in Vienna on September 18, adopted a resolution expressing concern about “Israeli nuclear capabilities” and called on agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei to work on the issue. The motion was adopted by 49 votes to 45, with 16 abstentions.
Alice Walker, Gaza Categories: Uncategorized, People under attack Send feedback » •
Generic Invader Nonsense - Obama on Iraq (Media Lens Media Alert) Categories: UncategorizedSend feedback » •Here is an example of a recent Media Lens Media Alert
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 10:53:15 UT
From: Media Lens Media Alerts noreply@medialens.org
Subject: Generic Invader Nonsense - Obama on IraqMEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media
March 5, 2009
MEDIA ALERT: GENERIC INVADER NONSENSE - OBAMA ON IRAQ
As a presidential candidate, Barrack Obama described the war in Iraq as one that “should never have been authorised and never been wagedd”. (www.wsws.org/articles/2009/mar2009/pers-m02.shtml) On February 27, as president, Obama saw it differently. He told US troops at Camp Lejeune, a Marine Corps base in North Carolina:
“You have fought against tyranny and disorder. You have bled for your best friends and for unknown Iraqis. And you have borne an enormous burden for your fellow citizens, while extending a precious opportunity to the people of Iraq. Under tough circumstances, the men and women of the United States military have served with honor, and succeeded beyond any expectation..” ((’Obamaa’s Speech at Camp Lejeune, N.C.,,’ New York Times, February 27, 2009; http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/us/politics/27obama-text.html)
This might best be described as Generic Invader Nonsense (GIN). Much the same has been said by every war leader and general of every invasion in history. Did Goebbels not argue that Germany was fighting “tyrannyy” on the Eastern front in 1941? Were Indonesian armed forces not offering a “precious opportunityy” to the impoverished people of East Timor in 1975?
Obama next directed his GIN to the people of Iraq:
“Our nations have known difficult times together. But ours is a bond forged by shared bloodshed, and countless friendships among our people. We Americans have offered our most precious resource – our young men and women – to work with you to rebuild what was destroyed by despotism; to root out our common enemies; and to seek peace and prosperity for our children and grandchildren, and for yours..”The precise moment when the illegal invasion demolishing Iraq - the attack that "should never have been authorised and never been waged" - became a selfless act of friendship in pursuit of peace and prosperity was not identified. Did this happen half-way through 2003? Perhaps early 2004?
link to Essay: The Politics of Self-Emancipation by Steve D'Arcy Categories: UncategorizedSend feedback » •"Anarchists and Marxists have not always agreed on very much. Indeed, Karl Marx and his anarchist contemporary and rival, Mikhail Bakunin, were especially prone to disagree with one another. But there was one key political judgment of which they both became convinced: that "the emancipation of the working class must be the act of workers themselves." This principle of self-emancipation was enshrined in the Rules of the organization to which they both belonged in the late 19th century, the "International," as it was then called, or the "First International," as it came to be known. Today, it is perhaps best known through the song dedicated to it, The Internationale."
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who says it's "A Just War" Categories: UncategorizedSend feedback » •A Just War? Hardly
May, 20 2006
By Noam ChomskySpurred by these times of invasions and evasions, discussion of "just war" has had a renaissance among scholars and even among policy-makers.
Concepts aside, actions in the real world all too often reinforce the maxim of Thucydides that "The strong do as they can, while the weak suffer what they must" - which is not only indisputably unjust, but at the present stage of human civilisation, a literal threat to the survival of the species.
In his highly praised reflections on just war, Michael Walzer describes the invasion of Afghanistan as "a triumph of just war theory," standing alongside Kosovo as a "just war." Unfortunately, in these two cases, as throughout, his arguments rely crucially on premises like "seems to me entirely justified," or "I believe" or "no doubt."
Facts are ignored, even the most obvious ones. Consider Afghanistan. As the bombing began in October 2001, President Bush warned Afghans that it would continue until they handed over people that the US suspected of terrorism.
The word "suspected" is important. Eight months later, FBI head Robert S. Mueller III told editors at The Washington Post that after what must have been the most intense manhunt in history, "We think the masterminds of (the Sept. 11 attacks) were in Afghanistan, high in the al-Qaida leadership. Plotters and others - the principals - came together in Germany and perhaps elsewhere."
What was still unclear in June 2002 could not have been known definitively the preceding October, though few doubted at once that it was true. Nor did I, for what it's worth, but surmise and evidence are two different things. At least it seems fair to say that the circumstances raise a question about whether bombing Afghans was a transparent example of "just war."
Walzer's arguments are directed to unnamed targets - for example, campus opponents who are "pacifists." He adds that their "pacifism" is a "bad argument," because he thinks violence is sometimes legitimate. We may well agree that violence is sometimes legitimate (I do), but "I think" is hardly an overwhelming argument in the real-world cases that he discusses.
By "just war," counterterrorism or some other rationale, the US exempts itself from the fundamental principles of world order that it played the primary role in formulating and enacting.
After World War II, a new regime of international law was instituted. Its provisions on laws of war are codified in the UN Charter, the Geneva Conventions and the Nuremberg principles, adopted by the General Assembly. The Charter bars the threat or use of force unless authorized by the Security Council or, under Article 51, in self-defense against armed attack until the Security Council acts.
In 2004, a high level UN panel, including, among others, former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft, concluded that "Article 51 needs neither extension nor restriction of its long-understood scope ... In a world full of perceived potential threats, the risk to the global order and the norm of nonintervention on which it continues to be based is simply too great for the legality of unilateral preventive action, as distinct from collectively endorsed action, to be accepted. Allowing one to so act is to allow all."
The National Security Strategy of September 2002, just largely reiterated in March, grants the US the right to carry out what it calls "pre-emptive war," which means not pre-emptive, but "preventive war." That's the right to commit aggression, plain and simple.
In the wording of the Nuremberg Tribunal, aggression is "the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole" - all the evil in the tortured land of Iraq that flowed from the US-UK invasion, for example.
The concept of aggression was defined clearly enough by US Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, who was chief prosecutor for the United States at Nuremberg. The concept was restated in an authoritative General Assembly resolution. An "aggressor," Jackson proposed to the tribunal, is a state that is the first to commit such actions as "invasion of its armed forces, with or without a declaration of war, of the territory of another State."
That applies to the invasion of Iraq. Also relevant are Justice Jackson's eloquent words at Nuremberg: "If certain acts of violation of treaties are crimes, they are crimes whether the United States does them or whether Germany does them, and we are not prepared to lay down a rule of criminal conduct against others which we would not be willing to have invoked against us." And elsewhere: "We must never forget that the record on which we judge these defendants is the record on which history will judge us tomorrow. To pass these defendants a poisoned chalice is to put it to our own lips as well."
For the political leadership, the threat of adherence to these principles - and to the rule of law in general - is serious indeed. Or it would be, if anyone dared to defy "the single ruthless superpower whose leadership intends to shape the world according to its own forceful world view," as Reuven Pedatzur wrote in Haaretz last May.
Let me state a couple of simple truths. The first is that actions are evaluated in terms of the range of likely consequences. A second is the principle of universality; we apply to ourselves the same standards we apply to others, if not more stringent ones.
Apart from being the merest truisms, these principles are also the foundation of just war theory, at least any version of it that deserves to be taken seriously.
Conversations Between Michael Albert and Noam Chomsky Categories: UncategorizedSend feedback » •These are interviews from Jan 1993.
There is a 'part two' and 'part three' linked below:
http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/20037
http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/20038
Utilities cut off to 1 in 20 US households in 2007 Categories: UncategorizedSend feedback » •
Intelligence is not enough Categories: Uncategorized, Uncategorized, Uncategorized, Ayurveda, quoteSend feedback » •"We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character -- that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate."
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Seizing Cell Phone Location Records Categories: Uncategorized, ShadySend feedback » •New Court Decision Affirms that 4th Amendment Protects Location Information
Government Must Get a Warrant Before Seizing Cell Phone Location Records
San Francisco - In an unprecedented victory for cell phone privacy, a federal court has affirmed that cell phone location information stored by a mobile phone provider is protected by the Fourth Amendment and that the government must obtain a warrant based on probable cause before seizing such records.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) had asked the federal court in the Western District of Pennsylvania to overturn a magistrate judge's decision requiring the government to obtain a warrant for stored location data, arguing that the government could obtain such information without probable cause. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), at the invitation of the court, filed a friend-of-the-court brief opposing the government's appeal and arguing that the magistrate was correct to require a warrant. Wednesday, the court agreed with EFF and issued an order affirming the magistrate's decision.
Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth Categories: UncategorizedSend feedback » •
information slideshow selection link:
http://www.ae911truth.org/ppt_web/ppt_selection.php
Voting systems, wikipedia entry Categories: Uncategorized, ElectionsSend feedback » •
Media Lens on the Georgian conflict media coverage etc. Categories: UncategorizedSend feedback » •WHEN NEWS IS NOISE - GEORGIA, SOUTH OSSETIA AND THE POLITICAL PIPELINE
A Los Angeles Times editorial observed last month that China had persuaded world leaders to attend the Olympic Games "despite their misgivings about Beijing's horrific human rights record both domestically and abroad". The horror, the editors noted, could not be entirely suppressed:
"What planners in Beijing miscalculated is that no matter how well you teach performers to smile, the strain behind the lips is still detectable." ( http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-olympics26-2008aug26,0,5033807.story )
Needless to say, no mainstream British or American journalist referred to the host nation's "horrific human rights record" at the time of the US Games in Atlanta in 1996, or of the Los Angeles Games in 1984. And of course no media outlet has discussed "misgivings" about the awarding of the 2012 Games to Britain. But why on earth would they? Historian Mark Curtis explains:
"Since 1945, rather than occasionally deviating from the promotion of peace, democracy, human rights and economic development in the Third World, British (and US) foreign policy has been systematically opposed to them, whether the Conservatives or Labour (or Republicans or Democrats) have been in power. This has had grave consequences for those on the receiving end of Western policies abroad." (Curtis, The Ambiguities of Power, Zed Books, 1995, p.3)... More...
Texas executes Mexican and Honduran nationals Categories: UncategorizedSend feedback » •US Supreme Court rejects appeals despite international protests
Mexican-born Jose Ernesto Medellin died by lethal injection Tuesday night, ignoring a ruling by the International Court of Justice (World Court) that his execution be stayed, as well as protests by the Mexican government.
See "World Court orders US to stay execution of Mexicans in Texas"
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/jul2008/texa-j18.shtmlSee Also:
"US: Executions in Texas and Mississippi"
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/jul2008/exec-j24.shtml
The lies of Hiroshima are the lies of today Categories: UncategorizedSend feedback » •"In an article for the Guardian on the anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, John Pilger describes the 'progression of lies' from the dust of that detonated city, to the wars of today - and the threatened attack on Iran."
Znet Categories: UncategorizedSend feedback » •Znet is a great resource for finding alternative media.
Israel’s Illegal Assault On The Gaza ‘Prison’ [Media Lens Media Alert] Categories: Uncategorized, People under attackSend feedback » •Subject: Israel’s Illegal Assault On The Gaza ‘Prison’
From: "Media Lens Media Alerts" noreply@medialens.org
Date: Mon, March 3, 2008 8:42 amMEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media
March 3, 2008
MEDIA ALERT: Israel’s Illegal Assault On The Gaza ‘Prison’
Attacking The Prisoners
Israel has drawn international criticism for its latest series of onslaughts against the ‘prison’ of Gaza, the crowded home to 1.4 million Palestinians. Since last Wednesday (February 27), 112 Palestinians have died under Israeli air attacks and ‘incursions’ by Israeli troops. The dead include many women and children, such as four boys who had been out playing football and even babies killed in their homes. Last Saturday alone saw the deaths of 60 Palestinians under Israeli attacks. Three Israelis have died - one a civilian killed during a rocket attack by Hamas last Wednesday and, since then, two Israeli soldiers.
On February 29, Ron Prosor, Israel's ambassador to the UK, said on the BBC Today programme that:
“We've been restraining ourselves for a very, very long time. But we have a responsibility to defend our citizens. This is the context.” (BBC Radio 4 Today interview with Edward Stourton, Friday, February 29, 2008, 7.30 am; http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/ram/today3_israel_20080229.ram
The same day, a senior Israeli source threatened a “holocaust” in Gaza.
ambiguous language to categorize people exercising First Amendment rights and people in targeted communities as "homegrown terrorists". Categories: Uncategorized, ShadySend feedback » •Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007
From the Bill of Rights Defense Committee (http://bordc.org)
"Thought Crime" Bill Still Threatens in Senate
The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act (H.R. 1955) passed by an overwhelming 404-6 in the House last October, and is currently in the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. Critics say the bill uses ambiguous language to categorize people exercising First Amendment rights and people in targeted communities as "homegrown terrorists".
Center for Constitutional Rights factsheet:
National Lawyers Guild opposes along with the Society of American Law Teachers
The National Lawyers Guild and the Society of American Law Teachers strongly oppose this legislation because it will likely lead to the criminalization of beliefs, dissent and protest, and invite more draconian surveillance of Internet communications.
Lakota secession from the U.S. Categories: Uncategorized
http://www.republicoflakotah.com/
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