http://www.nationofchange.org/ows-summer-disobedience-school-prepares-black-monday-1338736228 Is Digg defining a new direction for the curation economy? And could the new site help us cope with information overload? Last Saturday saw the kickoff of Occupy Wall Street’s Summer Disobedience School (OWSDS), described in its “Curriculum” as a “twelve-week training program that will empower us to map, target, and disrupt sites of […]
Somehow we have to help more Canadians “get it”. Talk to our neighbours. Understand WHY Canadians are protesting – get out and help them. This brief note drives the point home. BY ELIZABETH MAY It always struck me as a bit odd, from when I first heard it heralded in the 2011 Speech from the Throne, […]
Franke James’ work gives me such a high, I think I must be on drugs! Try this: What is Harper Afraid of? – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – When I read that Harper put a stop to Franke’s European tour last year, I was going […]
(For a listing of the Assange postings, click on Julian Assange, Wikileaks, and scroll down.) Is there a bigger “David versus Goliath” story than Julian Assange (Wikileaks) versus the American military-industrial-congressional complex?! What a cliff-hanger, and for democracy! May 30, 2012: The UK Supreme Court says . . oops! see Assange gets surprise chance […]
Assange is a citizen of Australia. He has been fighting extradiction to Sweden from the U.K. The last paragraphs of the article below provide reason why Assange believes if he ends up in Sweden, the Swedes will simply hand him over to the Americans to face charges of espionage. The article is from the Christian Science Monitor, a reasonably good account, […]
Bowling for Columbine [Part 3 of 12] (10 minutes) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=865Onxt9H2M I remember leaving the theatre shaking my head. No one should be surprised by the massacre of students at Columbine High School in 1999. Michael Moore does a very good job of showing the conditioning to violence in the American culture. In this excerpt he […]
Click on short video: http://www.ted.com/talks/julia_bacha.html Thanks to TED – Ideas worth spreading. Julia Bacha: “. . I believe that what’s mostly missing for non-violence to grow is not for Palestinians to START adopting non-violence, but for us to start paying attention to those who already are . . “. (I relate this to Julian Assange’s […]
By Agence France-Presse Friday, May 4, 2012 21:00 EDT WASHINGTON — Two F-22 pilots say they have stopped flying the US Air Force’s most advanced fighter jet because of safety fears over the aircraft’s oxygen system, according to a CBS television “60 Minutes” report. The F-22 Raptor was grounded last year after a spate of […]
The Court decision below arises out of – – see 2012-04-12 (Charge #2) Bush & Associates, Kuala Lumpur. There is excellent discussion of Charge #1, the trial held in Kuala Lumpur last year: 2011-11-28 Legal Weight of Bush & Blair Guilty decision, by Princeton University Professor (Al Jazeera) 2011-11-23 Bush and Blair found guilty of […]
By Andrew Duffy, The Ottawa Citizen May 25, 2012 Comment 37 Eric Stone, 48, said he opened the door Thursday to an Ontario Provincial Police officer, who politely informed him he was being arrested for failing to fill out the 2011 short-form census. OTTAWA — A dyslexic Pembroke man is outraged that he’s been charged […]