Claire Provost and Felicity Lawrence Three huge agribusinesses dominate $1bn US food aid policy, Guardian study reveals, with lobby groups ensuring agricultural surpluses are exported despite cost to developing countries • Get the data • Interactive: The business of US food aid Sacks of American wheat destined for Afghanistan being unloaded in Peshawar, Pakistan. […]
A large part of “mental illness” is depression (see article below). Mercury is a neuro-toxin, it causes depression. (Dentists have the highest suicide rate among the professions.) Health insurers, employers and workers are alarmed by COSTS of mental illness. From June 28 article below: “The steady rise of disability claims related to mental illness in […]
Crash just ONE F-35 = more than $600 million dollars down the toilet. . . . – – it passes for SANITY!! . . I am laughing out loud! ” . . . The program’s projected “life cycle cost” — including development since 1994, production of 2,443 jets and 55 years of support — increased to $1.51 […]
(I am sorry, I don’t know why I didn’t record the URL’s from which the following was assembled. Arendt’s ideas about the relationship between freedom and action appear nearer the bottom.) Arendt’s essay On Violence distinguishes between the concepts of violence and power. Arendt maintains that although theorists of both the left and right […]
This took place in 2009. I didn’t get it posted earlier. It is an important part of the historical record. It is why Canadians should refuse to pay for Lockheed Martin and Stephen Harper’s F-35 stealth bombers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6hp8HMstkE&feature=related Powerful testimony Number of views, July 5, 2012: 958,238
http://www.parl.gc.ca/About/Parliament/LegislativeSummaries/bills_ls.asp?lang=E&ls=c60&Parl=40&Ses=2&source=library_prb Contents Background A. “Shiprider” Agreement Description and Analysis A. Definitions, Purpose and General Provisions (Clauses 2 to 4) B. General Implementing Provisions (Clauses 5 to 15) C. Public Complaints Commission Provisions (Clauses 16 to 25) D. Consequential Amendments to Statutes (Clauses 26 to 32) E. Coming into Force (Clause 33) Endnotes Background Bill C-60, […]
http://podcast.yorku.ca:8080/itc/2011/EVENTS/Commercialization_of_the_University_Fou305_April25_2012.mp4
Also the Yes Men, see: http://sandrafinley.ca/?p=6218 CONTENTS (1) THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD (2) A HUFFY CANADA SHUTS DOWN ‘YES MEN’ = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = (1) THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD In my estimation Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonnano are low-key brilliant and this […]
Is there a bigger “David versus Goliath” story than Julian Assange (Wikileaks) versus the American Military Empire? What a cliff-hanger! Will he be extradited to Sweden, or will Ecuador come through? For Assange, it is the difference between death and life (the Swedes will turn him over to the Americans. Ecuador, into whose custody he […]
Julian Assange’s Wikileaks published leaked diplomatic cables Related Stories: Q&A: Julian Assange and asylum Assange’s ties with Ecuador Is it legal to hide in an embassy? Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been served with an extradition notice by the Metropolitan Police. Officers from the extradition unit delivered a note to Mr Assange at Ecuador’s London embassy. […]