Marcellus Earth First! Anti-fracking Activists Take On the Police and Shutdown Drilling

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http://earthfirstnews.wordpress.com
July 8, 2012

Aug 5, 2012 by alexhiggins732

Full Story: http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2012/08/06/momentum-builds-fracking-truth-da…

As anti-fracking momentum grows nationwide with word being spread the practice permanently destroys water sheds, PA activists shutdown a planned operation.

The Science of Genocide by Chris Hedges

by Chris Hedges
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Truthdig
August 6, 2012

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On this day in 1945 the United States demonstrated that it was as morally bankrupt as the Nazi machine it had recently vanquished and the Soviet regime with which it was allied. Over Hiroshima, and three days later over Nagasaki, it exploded an atomic device that was the most efficient weapon of genocide in human history. The blast killed tens of thousands of men, women and children. It was an act of mass annihilation that was strategically and militarily indefensible. The Japanese had been on the verge of surrender. Hiroshima and Nagasaki had no military significance. It was a war crime for which no one was ever tried. The explosions, which marked the culmination of three centuries of physics, signaled the ascendancy of the technician and scientist as our most potent agents of death.

Elation At Mission Control As Mars Rover Curiosity Successfully Lands On The Red Planet

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Congratulations to NASA!

Note: replaced first video Aug. 8, 2012

Aug 6, 2012 by RussiaToday

(Touchdown! 0:40) Robotic rover Curiosity has successfully landed in Mars’ Gale Crater. The landing, described by NASA as “seven minutes of terror,” proceeded smoothly – READ MORE http://on.rt.com/d0rbeb

Financial Predators v. Labor, Industry and Democracy by Michael Hudson

by Michael Hudson
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http://michael-hudson.com
August 2, 2012

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Europe’s sovereign debt crisis in historical perspective
Sankt Georgen University, Frankfurt, June 22, 2012

The Eurozone lacks a central bank to do what most central banks are supposed to do: finance government deficits. To make matters worse, the Lisbon Agreement limits these deficits to 3% – too small to pull economies out of depression by offsetting private-sector debt deflation.

Fighting the frack attack by Peter Rugh

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Peter Rugh, a facilitator for Occupy Wall Street Environmental Solidarity, reports on a recent conference of anti-fracking activists that gathered in Washington, D.C.
SocialistWorker.org
August 2, 2012

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THE WAR came home at the end of July when thousands of people whose land has been under siege by the U.S. government and corporate interests gathered in Washington, D.C. No, they weren’t victims of drone attacks or 10-plus years of fighting in Afghanistan. They were ordinary Americans, whose neighborhoods, townships and states have been struggling to put an end to fracking, a destructive form of natural gas drilling.

Shooting live pigeons in a confined area isn’t a sport by Walter Brasch

by Walter Brasch
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www.walterbrasch.com
August 2, 2012

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Shortly before the Pennsylvania House of Representatives was scheduled to vote on an amendment last December that would ban pigeon shoots, the Pennsylvania Flyers Association sent out a bulletin it marked as “urgent.”

“We must act now to preserve our sport,” the Flyers screeched. In a separate letter, the Flyers told its members they “should be very proud that your association has been able to keep the sport alive in PA [sic] for the last 27 years.” For added support, the notice referred to an NRA release, which called pigeon shooting a “Pennsylvania Sporting Tradition.”