Tom Shannon’s gravity-defying sculpture

Dandelion Salad

TEDtalksDirector
May 06, 2009

http://www.ted.com Tom Shannon shows off his gravity-defying, otherworldly sculpture — made of simple, earthly materials — that floats and spins like planets on magnets and suspension wire. It’s science-inspired art at its most heavenly.

more about “Tom Shannon’s gravity-defying sculpture“, posted with vodpod

Australian Military Buildup And The Rise Of Asian NATO by Rick Rozoff

by Rick Rozoff
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Stop NATO
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopnato/message/39247
May 6, 2009

On March 2, 2009 the Australian Department of Defence released a 140-page white paper called Defending Australia in the Asia Pacific century: force 2030 (1), which announced $72 billion in new military spending for an island nation of barely 20 million inhabitants with no adversaries except those it chooses to make for itself.

The document details the Australian government’s plans to acquire and expand a full spectrum – air, sea and land – arsenal of advanced weaponry in the nation’s largest arms buildup since World War II. Canberra will replace six submarines with double that amount possessing greater range and longer mission capabilities, “hunter-killer submarines” [2], representing “a big new investment in anti-submarine warfare” [3] ; three new destroyers “specialising in air warfare” [4], which presumably be be Aegis class ones with missile killing capacity, and eight new frigates.

Michel Chossudovsky: Swine Flu Pandemic: Where Did It Come From?

Dandelion Salad

GlobalResearchTV

May 05, 2009

more about “Michel Chossudovsky: Swine Flu Pandem…“, posted with vodpod

***
Is it the “Mexican Flu”, the “Swine Flu” or the “Human Flu”?
What are the origins of the pandemic?

by Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, May 4, 2009

The WHO announced on May 1st that it will be dropping the designation of “swine flu”. The flu will henceforth be designated A H1N1, to be known more broadly as “the Mexican Flu”, intimating that the disease originated in Mexico through human to human transmission.

Swine influenza refers to “strains of influenza virus, that usually infect pigs”. The terminology, therefore, is important, because if the pandemic is labelled “Mexican flu”, the presumption is that Mexicans, namely humans, are the source of the disease.

The term “Swine Flu’, on the contrary, suggests that the pigs, at least initially, transmit the virus to humans, and, therefore, the issue of animal health must also be addressed.

The news reports have largely focussed on the transmission from humans to humans. They have failed to address the abysmal environmental and health conditions affecting the hog population in factory farms, which are central to an understanding of two fundamental processes:

Motherboard – Colombian Narcosubs + Dole sued over links to Colombian death squads

Dandelion Salad

http://www.vbs.tv

Like a Latin American Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote, except with millions of dollars and people’s lives hanging in the balance, narco-traffickers and the DEA have been locked in an ongoing chase scene carried out in a parade of increasingly ludicrous homemade drug-smuggling vehicles.

In the 80s it was small low-flying planes and secret landing strips. As radar technology improved the cartels switched to superpowered ships that somebody let a kindergarten class name “go-fast boats.” Every time the Feds get hep to the latest conveyance the smugglers head back to the drawing board, making the boats smaller and less detectable, then semi-submersible, and finally developing full-on submarines from old torpedo shells in the middle of the South American jungle. In this edition of Motherboard, we travel to Colombia to chat with the navy’s drug squad and a former trafficker about what kwazy konveyances are bringing us our drugs these days. Of course, given that this is what the authorities have already discovered, God only knows what those scamps have gotten up to in the interim.

For more on Colombia’s homemade narcosubs go to delllounge.com

more about “Motherboard – Colombian Narcosubs – P…“, posted with vodpod

Pts 2-5 at http://www.vbs.tv/

h/t: Rory

***

Dole sued over links to Colombian death squads

Press TV

Thu, 07 May 2009 01:17:27 GMT

Dole Food Company is being sued by the families of 57 people allegedly murdered by paramilitaries hired by the US firm at its banana plantations in Colombia.

A lawsuit filed in Los Angeles alleges that Dole hired the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) despite the fact that the group had been designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the US State Department.

[...]

via Dole sued over links to Colombian death squads.

h/t: CLG

People. People Who Don’t Need People By Walter Brasch

by Walter Brasch
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
www.walterbrasch.com
May 6, 2009

From a pool of about seven billion, those hard-working geniuses at People magazine have managed to find the 100 most beautiful people in the whole wide world. And-get ready for the surprise-almost all of those beautiful people are rich American celebrities.

Scores dead after US strike in Afghanistan + Democracy at Gunpoint Guarantees U.S. Defeat

Dandelion Salad

Updated: May 7, 2009 see below

Warning

This video may contain images depicting the reality and horror of war/violence and should only be viewed by a mature audience.

AlJazeeraEnglish

The Afghan president is in Washington DC for high level talks, but back in Afghanistan a deadly airstrike has once again killed scores of civilians.

The local governor of a small community in Western Afghanistan claims that more than 100 civilians have been killed in a US led airstrike.

The Red Cross confirmed the attack, saying its representatives have seen dozens of bodies. Al Jazeera has filmed exclusive pictures from Farah Province and Nick Clark reports from Kabul.

more about “Scores dead after US strike in Afghan…“, posted with vodpod

***

US Afghan Strikes Kill 100, ‘Mostly Civilians’

By AFP

HERAT, Afghanistan AFP — Police in Afghanistan said Wednesday that US-led air strikes against insurgents had killed 100 people, most of them civilians, in one of the deadliest such attacks in nearly eight years.

The US military opened an investigation into the operation overnight Monday into Tuesday in the remote western province of Farah, as Afghan President Hamid Karzai ordered his government to probe reports of high civilian casualties.

[...]

via US Afghan strikes kill 100, ‘mostly civilians’

***

Democracy at Gunpoint Guarantees U.S. Defeat

Mosaic News – 5/5/09: World News From The Middle East

Dandelion Salad

Warning

This video may contain images depicting the reality and horror of war/violence and should only be viewed by a mature audience.

linktv

Mosaic needs your help! Donate here: http://linktv.org/contribute

Headlines coming soon. Produced for Link TV by Jamal Dajani.

more about “Mosaic News – 5/5/09: World News From…“, posted with vodpod

Urgency of the American Monetary Act by Richard C. Cook

by Richard C. Cook
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
richardccook.com
May 6, 2009

On Thursday, April 23, 2009, Stephen Zarlenga, director of the American Monetary Institute (AMI), delivered two briefings on Capitol Hill on the American Monetary Act that AMI drafted and that may be introduced as legislation during the current congressional session. This single measure has the potential of bringing together the tens of millions of people who have realized it’s our bank-run debt-based monetary system that lies at the center of the financial rot that is destroying our republic and its values.

Attending the briefings were congressional staffers and members of the public. Zarlenga was introduced by Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who has spoken in favor of wholesale reform of the monetary system on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. Kucinich is also sponsor of H.R. 7260, the “Transparency in the Creation of Wealth Act of 2008.” This act would require the Federal Reserve to resume reporting on the quantity of M3 in the economy (mega-money accessible only to large financial institutions), along with several other economic indicators it now keeps to itself, such as total credit market debt and the holding of Federal Reserve notes by foreign interests.

A Peace of the Anarchy: Ammon Hennacy and Other Angelic Troublemakers

Dandelion Salad

replaced video Jan. 10, 2013

Michael Iafrate·May 12, 2012

w/Ammon Hennacy, Dorothy Day, John Dear, Kathy Kelly, Tom Cornell, Daniel Berrigan, Phillip Berrigan, etc.

Mosaic News – 5/4/09: World News From The Middle East

Dandelion Salad

Warning

This video may contain images depicting the reality and horror of war/violence and should only be viewed by a mature audience.

linktv

Mosaic needs your help! Donate here: http://linktv.org/contribute

“Is the US military proselytizing in Afghanistan?” Al Jazeera TV, Qatar
“Fighting Al Qaeda in Iraq,” Al Arabiya TV, UAE
“Iraqi Christians Under Attack,” Alsumaria TV, Iraq
“Rice: Bush wouldn’t approve illegal interrogations,” Al Jazeera English, Qatar
“Arabs Examine Obama’s First 100 Days,” Abu Dhabi TV, UAE
“Buying Votes in Kuwait,” Dubai TV, UAE
“At AIPAC, Peres Says Israel is Ready for Peace,” IBA TV, Israel
“Excitement Over Egypt’s Film Festival,” Nile TV, Egypt
Produced for Link TV by Jamal Dajani.

more about “Mosaic News – 5/4/09: World News From…“, posted with vodpod

Ron Paul On The Rachel Maddow Show

Dandelion Salad

VOTERSTHINKdotORG

http://earth2obama.org/

May 05, 2009 MSNBC

more about “Ron Paul On The Rachel Maddow Show“, posted with vodpod

see

Dr Ron Paul: Swine Flu Just An Attempt For Government To Scare The People!

Ron Paul: Obama won’t fulfill his promises

Paul-Ron-MD