Crossposted at Thomas Paine’s Corner thanks, Jason.
Steve Best speaking to a group of anti-vivisection activists before the UK implemented its own version of the Iron Curtain
By Steve Best
Thomas Paine’s Corner
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Day: April 18, 2009
Mosaic News – 4/17/09: World News From The Middle East
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The criminalisation of political dissent in Britain + G20 Death was NO “Heart Attack”
by Julie Hyland
http://www.wsws.org/
18 April 2009
“From foul deeds endless tragedy arises,” the World Socialist Web Site wrote, commenting on the state execution of innocent Brazilian worker, Jean Charles de Menezes, by plainclothes policemen on a London subway train on July 22, 2005.
Events have tragically confirmed that warning. In the years since Menezes’ killing, for which no one has ever been held to account, the legal framework of a police state has been enacted in Britain.
The implications of this have been made clear over the last weeks.
Since the start of April, some 300 people have been arrested and detained in just three police operations. The vast majority of these were rounded up in two of these operations, both focusing on a supposed threat to “public order”.
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G20 Death was NO “Heart Attack”: Manslaughter charges to follow!
April 17, 2009
A second autopsy on Ian Tomlinson reveals he died of Internal Bleeding NOT a Heart Attack as was broadcast before. The officer who struck Tomlinson has now been questoned under caution and Manslaughter charges may be layed.
An initial postmortem, by the Home Office pathologist Freddy Patel, found that Tomlinson died after suffering a heart attack. But Nat Cary, the pathologist who carried out a second postmortem at the request of the I.P.C.C. and Tomlinsons family, concluded that while there was evidence Tomlinson suffered hardening of the arteries in his heart, it was not serious enough to kill him.
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Man dies during G20 protests in London (video link; updated again)
Stephen Tan: The Question of Rights and Wrongs of the American Farm
Talk by Stephen Tan of the Cascadia Law Group on “The Question of Rights and Wrongs of the American Farm” given March 13, 2009 at the Law of the Commons Conference at Seattle University and sponsored by the Seattle Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild.
Preparing for a Post Peak Life Video (must-see)
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So what are you waiting for? Start your garden now. For urban dwellers, try container gardening, rooftop gardening, community gardens, and guerrilla gardening. It’s also time to learn new skills. ~ DS
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The International Monetary System’s Breakdown is Underway
by GEAB
Global Research, April 16, 2009
GlobalEurope Anticipation Bulletin GEAB N°34, Summer 2009
The next stage of the crisis will result from a Chinese dream. Indeed, what on earth can China be dreaming of, caught – if we listen to Washington – in the “dollar trap” of its 1,400-billion worth of USD-denominated debt (1)? If we believe US leaders and their scores of media experts, China is only dreaming of remaining a prisoner, and even of intensifying the severity of its prison conditions by buying always more US T-Bonds and Dollars (2).
In fact, everyone knows what prisoners dream of? They dream of escaping of course, of getting out of prison. LEAP/E2020 has therefore no doubt that Beijing is now (3) constantly striving to find the means of disposing of, as early as possible, the mountain of « toxic » assets which US Treasuries and Dollars have become, keeping the wealth of 1,300 billion Chinese citizens (4) prisoner. In this issue of the GEAB (N°34), our team describes the “tunnels and galleries” Beijing has secretively begun to dig in the global financial and economic system in order to escape the « dollar trap » by the end of summer 2009. Once the US has defaulted on its debt, it will be time for the « everyman for himself » rule to prevail in the international system, in line with the final statement of the London G20 Summit which reads as a « chronicle of a geopolitical dislocation », as explained by LEAP/E2020 in this issue of the Global Europe Anticipation Bulletin.
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via The International Monetary System’s Breakdown is Underway
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Financial Crisis: Sustaining Unsustainability by Prof. Michael Hudson
Noam Chomsky on the Global Economic Crisis and Resistance to American Empire
Capitalism versus Socialism – Poll confirms massive anti-capitalist shift in US public opinion by Eric Sommer
by Eric Sommer
Global Research, April 17, 2009
New Poll Finds American Workers Turning Massively Towards Socialism: Unbelievable but True
In periods of intense economic crisis, transformations which normally require years or decades can take place in weeks or months. A new U.S. poll taken in early April astonishingly shows that U.S. adults under 30 are approximately evenly divided on the question of socialism-versus-capitalism. According to a telephone poll by Rasmussen 33 per cent of the under-30’s prefer socialism, 37 percent prefer capitalism, and 30 per cent are undecided.
A Lexicon of Disappointment By Naomi Klein
By Naomi Klein
This article appeared in the May 4, 2009 edition of The Nation.
April 15, 2009
Lookout
All is not well in Obamafanland. It’s not clear exactly what accounts for the change of mood. Maybe it was the rancid smell emanating from Treasury’s latest bank bailout. Or the news that the president’s chief economic adviser, Larry Summers, earned millions from the very Wall Street banks and hedge funds he is protecting from reregulation now. Or perhaps it began earlier, with Obama’s silence during Israel’s Gaza attack.
Whatever the last straw, a growing number of Obama enthusiasts are starting to entertain the possibility that their man is not, in fact, going to save the world if we all just hope really hard.
This is a good thing. If the superfan culture that brought Obama to power is going to transform itself into an independent political movement, one fierce enough to produce programs capable of meeting the current crises, we are all going to have to stop hoping and start demanding.
The first stage, however, is to understand fully the awkward in-between space in which many US progressive movements find themselves. To do that, we need a new language, one specific to the Obama moment. Here is a start.
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Obama Takes Bush Position On Habeas Corpus
Miriam Pemberton: Obama’s military budget
No End In Sight By Mike Whitney
Zinn: Send a message to Obama + A reinvigorated labor movement needed for social upheaval
Bill Moyers Journal: David Simon on inner-city crime and politics, storytelling and the future of journalism
Bill Moyers Journal
4.17.09
David Simon
From crime beat reporter for the BALTIMORE SUN to award-winning screenwriter of HBO’s critically-acclaimed The Wire, David Simon talks with Bill Moyers about inner-city crime and politics, storytelling and the future of journalism today.
via Bill Moyers Journal . Watch & Listen | PBS
Pt 2 Bill Moyers Journal . Watch & Listen | PBS
STOPPING THE PRESSES
The newspaper morgue is no longer just back issues — it’s holds growing number of defunct papers around the nation. Get the stats on the changing media landscape. And, Bill Moyers and David Simon reflect on what happened to the news business.THE STATE OF THE CITIES
How are America’s downtowns faring up in the downturn?PRISON NATION
The U.S. has five percent of the world’s population and 25 percent of the world’s prisoners — how did we get here?
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Ron Paul On Legalizing Marijuana: Drug War Is A Horrible Failure
Financial Crisis: Sustaining Unsustainability by Prof. Michael Hudson
Bill Moyers Journal: Glenn Greenwald & Amy Goodman + William K. Black on Fraud
US-NATO Military Agenda: The Destabilization of Pakistan by Michel Chossudovsky
by Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, April 17, 2009
Author’s note:
In an article published in December 2007, following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, I suggested that the US-NATO course for Pakistan consisted “in fomenting social, ethnic and factional divisions and political fragmentation, including the territorial breakup of Pakistan.”
Recent developments (including the aerial bombardments of Pakistani villages under the auspices of the “war on terrorism”) indelibly point to a broadening of the Afghan war theater, which now encompasses parts of Pakistan. The underlying tendency is towards an Afghan-Pakistani war.
Michel Chossudovsky, April 17, 2009
Excerpts of the December 2007 Article
Already in 2005, a report by the US National Intelligence Council and the CIA forecast a “Yugoslav-like fate” for Pakistan “in a decade with the country riven by civil war, bloodshed and inter-provincial rivalries, as seen recently in Balochistan.” (Energy Compass, 2 March 2005). According to the NIC-CIA, Pakistan is slated to become a “failed state” by 2015, “as it would be affected by civil war, complete Talibanisation and struggle for control of its nuclear weapons”. (Quoted by former Pakistan High Commissioner to UK, Wajid Shamsul Hasan, Times of India, 13 February 2005):
“Nascent democratic reforms will produce little change in the face of opposition from an entrenched political elite and radical Islamic parties. In a climate of continuing domestic turmoil, the Central government’s control probably will be reduced to the Punjabi heartland and the economic hub of Karachi,” the former diplomat quoted the NIC-CIA report as saying.
Expressing apprehension, Hasan asked, “are our military rulers working on a similar agenda or something that has been laid out for them in the various assessment reports over the years by the National Intelligence Council in joint collaboration with CIA?” (Ibid)
Continuity, characterized by the dominant role of the Pakistani military and intelligence has been scrapped in favor of political breakup and balkanization. According to the NIC-CIA scenario, which Washington intends to carry out: “Pakistan will not recover easily from decades of political and economic mismanagement, divisive policies, lawlessness, corruption and ethnic friction,” (Ibid) .
This US agenda for Pakistan is similar to that applied throughout the broader Middle East Central Asian region. US strategy, supported by covert intelligence operations, consists in triggering ethnic and religious strife, abetting and financing secessionist movements while also weakening the institutions of the central government.
The broader objective is to fracture the Nation State and redraw the borders of Iraq, Iran, Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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The Destabilization of Pakistan by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky
© Copyright Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, 2009
The url address of this article is: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13228
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Genocides are no surprise in a world built on hate By Roland Michel Tremblay
Revised April 21, 2009 from previously titled post “War is all about hating thy neighbour”
By Roland Michel Tremblay
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The Marginal
21 April, 2009
I hate anyone who is not like me. I hate anyone who is not white, who is not a capitalist, who is not a Christian, who does not live in my country, who is not of the same social class as I am, who does not share exactly all my ideologies and who is not a homosexual man. I could not possibly love anyone, so I hate you! Don’t despair, you’re just the same, you just won’t admit it. And now, let’s go to war!
Hate is such a satisfying emotion, it is even highly encouraged by just about everyone around you, your parents, teachers, friends, religious preachers and government officials. Hating what goes against the party line, the main ideology of the country, is unthinkable. Hating that neighbour is as normal as enjoying the Sun in the summer sky. And hating those Muslims, those Chinese, those Russians, those Communists, those Africans and just about everyone else in the world, is perfectly normal! Let’s face it, who could possibly love them? Not I! I have been taught better. I hate everyone, even myself!
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