Torontonians gather at police HQ to condemn abuses + Police State Canada Testimonies

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Torontonians gather at police HQ to condemn abuses

TheRealNews | July 01, 2010

Unmarked vans snatching journalists and organizers denounced as one example of the real G20 violence

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the Stimulator: The Revolution is NOW! + We started the riot

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subMedia.TV’s final report from the G20 rebellions in three parts:

Who are we? – Report 5 of the weeklong resistance coverage of the G20 rebellions

stimulator | July 01, 2010

http://subMedia.TV ‘s the stimulator reports from the “Justice for our communities” action on June 25th.

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The change in Turkish-Israeli relations By Jerry Mazza

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By Jerry Mazza
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
www.jerrymazza.com
July 1, 2010

Turkey, one of Israel’s closest allies, friendly to it in a rare pact between a Middle East state, albeit secular Muslim, yet whose predecessors, the Ottoman rulers, welcomed oppressed Jews as far back as 1501, leading the way for the betterment of Jewish life in Anatolia and a historical friendship long before the Turkish Republic was one of the first countries to recognize Israel.

This same Turkey, the New York Times reports, Is Now Barring Israeli Military Flights From its Airspace, so incensed is it over Israel’s brutal attack on the Freedom Flotilla’s lead ship, the Mavi Marmara, carrying peaceful activists and supplies of building materials, medicines, water and food to starving Gazans. The Israeli attack resulted in eight Turkish and one Turkish-American activists’ deaths, a number in execution style, plus 30 casualties and the undiminished enmity of most of the world.

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“The 15% Solution,” Serialization, 6th Installment: Chapter Five 2003: Anderson v. Board of Education

by Jonathan Westminster, Ph.D. aka Steven Jonas, MD, MPH
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
crossposted on Buzzflash,com
July 1, 2010

This is the sixth installment of a project that is likely to extend over a two-year-period from January, 2010.  It is the serialization of a book entitled The 15% Solution: A Political History of American Fascism, 2001-2022.  Under the pseudonym Jonathan Westminster, it is purportedly published in the year 2048 on the 25th Anniversary of the Restoration of Constitutional Democracy in the Re-United States. It was actually published in 1996 by the Thomas Jefferson Press, located in Port Jefferson, NY. The copyright is held by the Press.  Herein you will find Chapter 5.

Note that in it, a firmly right-wing court decides that the Executive and Legislative branches, with their control firmly in the hands of the successor to the old Republican Party with no indication that that state of affairs will ever change, decides to remove themselves from any review of the actions of the other two branches.

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Hammering the Poor and Vulnerable by Ralph Nader

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by Ralph Nader
The Nader Page
July 1, 2010

There is a reason why, so many centuries ago, every major religion warned its adherents not to give too much power to the “merchant class.” That reason is still here – the commercial drive knows few self-imposed boundaries, especially when it resides in large corporations.

A cruel manifestation of this singular drive for maximizing profit is how companies treat those who are most powerless, most vulnerable or most preoccupied.

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Americans are Hanging on by their Fingertips by Dennis Kucinich

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by Congressman Dennis Kucinich
Washington, Jul 1, 2010

Today Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) made the following statement on the floor of the House in support of legislation to extend emergency unemployment benefits:

“In Cleveland, where I come from, unemployment is devastating our community. People are demanding that their government, our government, recognize the suffering of families who have lost jobs and can’t find work.”

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Running on empty?

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AlJazeeraEnglish | July 01, 2010

What happens when the world runs out of oil? Who and what will be the dominant power in the 21st century?

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After the Oil Rush

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by Alex Smith
www.ecoshock.org
July 1, 2010

Shortly, I’ll get to the latest scandals and horrors in the BP Gulf of Mexico blunder.  But first, let’s go straight to an interview with scientist John Kessler, just back from a research mission at Ground Zero where the Deepwater Horizon drill ship sank. Continue reading