2019-06-10 For your selection, June 10. Peer through the haze, what do you see ahead?

THE LAST EMAIL SENT OUT:   For your selection, May 20, All Monsanto-Bayer Roundup.

FOR YOUR SELECTION, TODAY,  JUNE 10, Peer through the haze, what do you see ahead?

CLIMATE CHANGE

2019-05 A tribute to Greta Thunberg and all the kids who have joined her.  Action.

A set of postings – – an amazing kid, an amazing story.

If you only have time for a 2-minute video you will be rewarded.

PEACE versus WAR AND DESTRUCTION

When mainstream media is putting out good historical content and connecting it to today’s world,  I am happy!    Netflix uses celebrity musicians John Lennon and Johnny Cash.

2018   Two documentaries. War is over! if you want it – “Imagine” (conceptualizing) Lennon   & ReMastered: Tricky Dick & The Man in Black

http://sandrafinley.ca/?p=24600

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The Graphic History Collective uses the Winnipeg Strike in 1919.

The history presented through graphics (think:  comic books) of the Winnipeg Strike and applied to today, seems too radical.

But look at the articles in this posting.  They cover a few topics but only a fraction of what people in many different places have been tackling for a long time.  Strikes, uprisings, don’t just happen.  They are the consequence of long festering.

Theatre will put contemporary language into the mouths of actors and clothe them to look like us in performances of classical drama.  . . .  I adjusted my thinking.  The Graphic History doesn’t look too radical!:

2019-01 1919 A Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike By Graphic History Collective and David Lester

http: //sandrafinley.ca/?p=24611

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  . . .  Peer through the haze, what do you see ahead?

TAX HAVENS, OFFSHORING

Uplifting:  the knowledge that so many people are working on so many fronts,  AND,  they are working internationally.  (Same as with Greta Thunberg and the kids on climate change):

2019-05-30 Tax Fairness Weekly

http://sandrafinley.ca/?p=24585

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And from the U.S.,  LEGISLATION!   With thanks to author Paul Rowan:

Make America Great Again by Cracking Down on Tax Havens

The U.S. has a lower rating on financial secrecy than even the Cayman Islands—and far too many politicians are benefitting.

EXCERPT:

The United States has earned a place alongside Switzerland and Panama as one of the world’s most lucrative tax havens and money laundering hotspots—a shameful situation that policymakers are finally trying to address. Several bipartisan bills are trekking through Congress that aim at halting money laundering, tax avoidance, and the use of anonymous shell companies for potentially nefarious purposes. One of the bills, the Corporate Transparency Act of 2019, has been in the works for more than a decade, and would require full disclosure of company owners’ true names and addresses to the Treasury Department.   . . .  

(Remind myself to look at Canadians for Tax Fairness to see if progress is being made in Canada.)

more:      (Link takes you off this blog.)

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/make-america-great-again-by-cracking-down-on-tax-havens/

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JULIAN ASSANGE & CHELSEA MANNING,

most recent:

2019-06-04 Julian Assange Scores Legal Victory as Swedish Court Denies Detention Request, CNN

http://sandrafinley.ca/?p=24593

  Main stream media in support – New York Times, Washington Post, etc.

2019-05-23  ‘Frightening’: Charges Against Julian Assange Alarm Press Advocates,  from NY Times

http://sandrafinley.ca/?p=24516

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2019-05-28 “Glenn Greenwald makes an important point, that as a First Amendment question, it does not matter whether Assange is a journalist.” An important understanding re “TO WHOM” does the First Amendment apply?

Washington Post article at source

http://sandrafinley.ca/?p=24554

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2019-05-29 Julian Assange: What happened to the freedom of speech? from the Washington Times.

http://sandrafinley.ca/?p=24581

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2019-05-27 Tide of Public Opinion is Turning in Assange’s Favor, Consortium News

http://sandrafinley.ca/?p=24551

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2019-05-21 (Pre-empt): Battle breaks out for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s computers,  from AP

http://sandrafinley.ca/?p=24508

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BAYER-MONSANTO ROUNDUP,  FOLLOW-UPS

Determination to stop the poisoning of the Planet.

I disparaged CBC, The Current‘s coverage of the issue.  That was Before seeing this new CBC VIDEO.

2019-04-26  The Monsanto papers: The Canadian Connection.  from Radio-Canada

http://sandrafinley.ca/?p=24526

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And lo!  ABC News Australia put out an excellent video.   Note:  it is rare to see the role of CropLife mentioned;  it is a very large factor.   Good on ABC News Australia!

2018-10-08  Recommend: Australian video, The secret tactics Monsanto used to protect Roundup, its star product. Includes interviews of IARC, CropLife and Regulators. | ABC News (Australia)

http://sandrafinley.ca/?p=24510

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In my view,  some basic knowledge of IARC is important to understanding the Roundup issue.  (IARC is not perfect;  it is not without scientists who flip-flop on issues, depending on the audience.)

2015-03 What is IARC? IARC 2015 “classified glyphosate as “probably carcinogenic to humans” . . . and “strong” evidence for genotoxicity.

http://sandrafinley.ca/?p=24532

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2019-05-24 Quebec woman seeks to file class action against makers of herbicide Roundup, Bayer-Monsanto. from CTV News

http://sandrafinley.ca/?p=24524

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U.S. Right to Know has a Monsanto “Trial Tracker” – –  https://usrtk.org/monsanto-roundup-trial-tracker-index/)

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In case you missed May 20,  this email was in response to flawed CBC coverage:

2019-05-17 Response to CBC, Roundup Court Awards: “Disclosure” in the trial process – – the documents that condemned Monsanto came from Monsanto itself.

http://sandrafinley.ca/?p=24450

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Also from May 20:

2019-02-18 Email to some female Canadian Senators: Ag Colleges and Programs are TEACHING young people that it’s okay to poison the planet. Whereas it is wrong and not to be tolerated.  If for no other reason: Plummeting insect numbers ‘threaten collapse of nature’

http://sandrafinley.ca/?p=24484

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BIG PHARMA – MERCK

I have too many family and friends with pre-teens in their families, not to pass this along:

2019-05-15 RFK, Jr.: Gardasil “The Science” Video and Other Facts

http://sandrafinley.ca/?p=24443

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BANKSTERS

2018-12-05 Bonus pools at Canadian banks climb 6.5% in a ‘polarizing’ year, Bloomberg

http://sandrafinley.ca/?p=24448

The posting above is in follow-up to this one that reinforces memory of the huge indebtedness of Canadian Banks, notably the TD, to Tar Sands Corporations.

2019-04-28   How is it possible to talk about climate change in Canada, and not address corruption of our institutions, the petro-state, the deep state? Some corporate mapping. Billionaires, Tar sands, Mining, Banks and a University.

http://sandrafinley.ca/?p=24379