. . . a treaty that would let rapacious companies subvert our laws, rights and national sovereignty CETA: The trade deal between Canada & Europe is the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (Ref http://www.canadians.org/search/node/CETA) TTIP: The equivalent deal, but between US & Europe is the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (Wish I had time […]
Hi Everyone, We can lend a hand here: Pandora’s Promise is a slick piece of propaganda for the nuclear industry, airing on CNN. The Atomic States of America (bless good people) tells a different story. I watched it – it’s well done, worth your time, and free on-line for the next 2 days. Please pass […]
I joined numerous peace groups on-line. Skimming the comments, there is a common thread of people’s optimism. Maria from Italy: ” a new awarenes among common people that is encouraging and make us hope that together we really can”. Nima from Libya makes a valiant effort to communicate in English. Run down her postings in hieroglyphics […]
http://www.nationofchange.org/nsa-spying-really-about-blackmail-1383294652 I POSTED A RESPONSE TO THE ABOVE ARTICLE: (changed from the original) RE: the spying .. to target up-and-coming potential leaders of so-called “friendly states.” AND your suggestion that the NSA might represent “the heads of key corporate interests“. I am a citizen of a “friendly state” (Canada). There is an overlooked point […]
http://www.nationofchange.org/rising-resistance-obama-s-drone-wars-1383294498 “I wasn’t scared of drones before, but now when they fly overhead I wonder, ‘Will I be next?’” That is the question asked by 9-year-old Nabila Rehman, from northwest Pakistan. She was injured in a drone attack a year ago, in her small village of Ghundi Kala. She saw her grandmother, Mamana Bibi, blown […]
ILLUSION IS THE FIRST OF ALL PLEASURES (VOLTAIRE). THE WORLD WANTS TO BE DECEIVED (HITLER) I wish to make one point: Historically, people deny that the invader is coming. They are caught off-guard. Two examples Ardennes woods in World War Two and more recently, the experience of Sarajevo. Please! I do not want Canada […]
With most people, unbelief in one thing is founded on blind belief in another. –Lichtenberg Unbelief in Islam, Blind belief in ourselves. A police state WILL come to be, as it did in Nazi Germany, if we are unable to deal with the complexity of putting our collective ego aside. If we are blinded by […]
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(1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6AMR65l2hE&fb_source=message Photos from around the world, Marches Against Monsanto, alphabetically by place name, set to music. Patience was rewarded! I didn’t like the beginning, but hung in. This is an exciting statement of the mobilization. The March is every 6 months, each one bigger than the one before. “Someone” will likely do a photo record for the […]
#surveillance http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/30/us-usa-security-google-idUSBRE99T18S20131030 Reuters The National Security Agency has tapped directly into communications links used by Google and Yahoo to move huge amounts of email and other user information among overseas data centres, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday. It was unclear how the NSA accessed the links. The report, based on secret NSA documents leaked […]