[LAAMN] Snowden leaves Hong Kong, on way to Moscow, then to Cuba
ABC News has confirmed reports that #Snowdenhttps://twitter.com/search?q=%23Snowdensrc=hashis booked on an Aeroflot flight to Cuba on Monday, accompanied by Wikileaks aide Sarah Harrison @wikileaks https://twitter.com/wikileaks: FLASH: Mr. Snowden is currently over Russian airspace accompanied by WikiLeaks legal advisors. 1. Yesterday's previous statement on #Snowdenhttps://twitter.com/search?q=%23Snowdensrc=hash http://wikileaks.org/Statement-by-Julian-Assange-after,249.html http://t.co/svGMShQLsn 2. [image: WikiLeaks]*WikiLeaks* @wikileakshttps://twitter.com/wikileaks 3m https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/348773063816519681 STATEMENT: WikiLeaks statement on Edward Snowden exit from Hong Kong http://wikileaks.org/WikiLeaks-Statement-On-Edward.html http://t.co/kYJCOQNEhh #snowden https://twitter.com/search?q=%23snowdensrc=hash #WikiLeakshttps://twitter.com/search?q=%23WikiLeakssrc=hash *WikiLeaks* @wikileaks https://twitter.com/wikileaks22mhttps://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/348767538567593984 WikiLeaks will release a statement on Edward Snowden's exit from Hong Kong in 10 minutes. Saturday, June 22, 2013 *This really is Big Brother: the leak nobody's noticed* by digby This McClatchy piecehttp://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/06/20/194513/obamas-crackdown-views-leaks-as.html#storylink=cpy (written by some of the same people who got the Iraq war run-up story so right while everyone else got it wrong) is as chilling to me as anything we've heard over the past few weeks about the NSA spying. In fact, it may be worse: Even before a former U.S. intelligence contractor exposed the secret collection of Americans phone records, the Obama administration was pressing a government-wide crackdown on security threats that requires federal employees to keep closer tabs on their co-workers and exhorts managers to punish those who fail to report their suspicions. President Barack Obamas unprecedented initiative, known as the Insider Threat Program, is sweeping in its reach. It has received scant public attention even though it extends beyond the U.S. national security bureaucracies to most federal departments and agencies nationwide, including the Peace Corps, the Social Security Administration and the Education and Agriculture departments. It emphasizes leaks of classified material, but catchall definitions of insider threat give agencies latitude to pursue and penalize a range of other conduct. Government documents reviewed by McClatchy illustrate how some agencies are using that latitude to pursue unauthorized disclosures of any information**, not just classified material. They also show how millions of federal employees and contractors must watch for high-risk persons or behaviors among co-workers and could face penalties, including criminal charges, for failing to report them. *Leaks to the media are equated with espionage.* Hammer this fact home . . . leaking is tantamount to aiding the enemies of the United States, says a June 1, 2012, Defense Department strategy for the program that was obtained by McClatchy. When the free free press, explicitly protected in the bill of rights becomes equivalent to an enemy of the United States something very, very bad is happening. The administration says it's doing this to protect national security and that it is willing to protect those who blow the whistle on waste, fraud and abuse. But that is not how the effect of this sort of program is going to be felt. After all, it's being implemented across the federal government, not just in national security: The program could make it easier for the government to stifle the flow of unclassified and potentially vital information to the public, while creating toxic work environments poisoned by unfounded suspicions and spurious investigations of loyal Americans, according to these current and former officials and experts. *Some non-intelligence agencies already are urging employees to watch their co-workers for indicators that include stress, divorce and financial problems. * It was just a matter of time before the Department of Agriculture or the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) started implementing, Hey, lets get people to snitch on their friends. The only thing they havent done here is reward it, said Kel McClanahan, a Washington lawyer who specializes in national security law. Im waiting for the time when you turn in a friend and you get a $50 reward. The Defense Department anti-leak strategy obtained by McClatchy spells out a zero-tolerance policy. Security managers, it says, must reprimand or revoke the security clearances a career-killing penalty of workers who commit a single severe infraction or multiple lesser breaches as an unavoidable negative personnel action. Employees must turn themselves and others in for failing to report breaches. Penalize clearly identifiable failures to report security infractions and violations, including any lack
[LAAMN] many articles-Brazil: Unity in defense of freedom of expression of working-class and youth organisations
*Brazil - Esquerda Marxista http://www.marxismo.org.br/* Website of the Marxist left of the PT. *Brazil - Movimento Negro Socialista http://www.mns.org.br/* Website of the Brazilian Black Socialist Movement. http://www.marxist.com/brazil-unity-in-defence-of-freedom-of-expression.htm Brazil: Unity in defense of freedom of expression of working-class and youth organisationshttp://www.marxist.com/brazil-unity-in-defence-of-freedom-of-expression.htm Written by Esquerda Marxista (Brazil)Sunday, 23 June 2013 [image: Print]http://www.marxist.com/brazil-unity-in-defence-of-freedom-of-expression/print.htm[image: E-mail]http://www.marxist.com/component/option,com_mailto/link,33e79ee50cb1693b0b984efe2fc97f0d6cb48298/tmpl,component/ - - - The below statement was written by our Brazilian comrades organised around the Marxist journal Esquerda Marxista. [image: fist] http://www.marxist.com/images/stories/other/fist.jpgThe right wing is attempting to co-opt the huge demonstrations of the last few days by introducing a bias towards nationalism, against corruption, against PEC 37, etc. There have also been some placards against abortion, for a military coup, and for Joaquim Barbosa (President of the Supreme Court who condemned the PT leaders without evidence in Criminal Case 470) to become the new president of the republic. In this sense, another component could already be seen in the demonstration on June 18 in Sao Paulo, and in a much intense way on June 20 in several cities: the attack on the free expression of leftist organizations. The Marxist Left has been participating in the protests against the fare increase in Sao Paulo since the beginning, our members were also suppressed by riot police in the protests last week, our banners were taken by the police on the way to the June 13 protest. Now, some protesters also tried to take our banners and flags. On Tuesday (18/06), as we marched down Avenida Paulista, we received serious threats for holding up our banners in the demonstration, what began with shouts of lower that flag and parties out, passed into angry shouts from some bullies dressed in suits who were encouraging the others, they threatened to take our banners and warned us that it was best to lower them in order not to create confusion. We distanced ourselves from this group and continued with our banners held high. On the same day we heard that other militants of left groups were threatened, flags were taken from the hand of protesters and even militants expelled from the rally in Praça da Sé At the protest on June 20, in the face of previous threats, the left organisations marched in blocks seeking to protect themselves from attacks. But the other side was very well prepared. Neo-fascist elements armed with knives, provocateurs who seemed infiltrated police, pepper gas, all encouraging a layer of youth who has been awakened to political life, but is still influenced by the maneuvers of the mainstream media and the provocateurs, a group that throughout the whole march put pressure on the block formed by parties and leftist organizations, trade unions and student organizations. After about 2.5 km, with a united stewarding service which was poorly organised, the immense pressure expelled all those who had any hint of being left wing, as well as ourselves also militants from PSTU, PCO, PSOL, PT, UJS, UNE, CUT, Intersindical, Conlutas, etc.., all pushed out of Avenida Paulista. A most serious attack on democracy, the right to organize and fight. This did not happen only in São Paulo, militants who carried flags of CUT were attacked in Rio de Janeiro. In Belo Horizonte, activists were harassed and after an early clash they withdrew. In Florianópolis the demonstration was divided. We heard slogans not only against the PT, but against the Communists, against the Reds. To the website of the PCO (Workers' Cause Party) was also attacked. In this situation the leadership of the PT has a great responsibility, the policy of class collaboration distanced the party from the struggles of the people, the masses were left orphaned of a militant leadership, implementing in government a policy that benefits the powerful and not the people, such as the increase in the fares in São Paulo which was carried out by mayor Haddad (from the PT). This demoralized the party and the militants. On Thursday, the leadership called on the ranks to participate in the demonstrations in a Red Wave, but did nothing to mobilize, and the leaders were absent. They played with those that answered the call, especially the youth of the PT, who then suffered the assaults. This serious situation demands that all parties and all left organizations, trade unions, student organizations, social movements, all those who defend the democratic right of freedom of organization and expression of the left, all in one voice repudiate such repression and ORGANIZE the joint defense against these fascist attacks which only benefit the
[LAAMN] Snowden lands in Moscow, statement, US wants him deported, Ecuador asylum request
Edward #Snowden https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Snowdensrc=hash has just now landed in Moscow on flight SU 213 http://www. ourairports.com/airports/UUEE/flights.html http://t.co/Lyvcno0upo http://wikileaks.org/WikiLeaks-Statement-On-Edward.html http://t.co/kYJCOQNEhh http://wikileaks.org/Statement-by-Julian-Assange-after,249.html http://t.co/svGMShQLsn WikiLeaks Statement on Edward Snowden political asylum flight http:// wikileaks.org/WikiLeaks-Statement-On-Edward,253.html?updated http://t.co/6cSiljOD7H #Russia https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Russiasrc=hash notified by U.S. embassy in Moscow that Snowden no longer has a valid U.S. passport that U.S. desires to have him deported #NSAhttps://twitter.com/search?q=%23NSAsrc=hash #Snowden https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Snowdensrc=hash's US passport revoked on Saturday 6/22. Senior US official tells @ABChttps://twitter.com/ABC: We have little idea how he left Hong Kong The Government of Ecuador has received an asylum request from Edward J. # Snowden https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Snowdensrc=hash ** [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Ecuador Foreign Minister - The Government of Ecuador has received an asylum request from Edward J. #Snowden
BREAKING NEWS / Russian airline Aeroflot confirms #*Snowden*https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Snowdensrc=hashhas bought ticket from Moscow to Havana 1. [image: Hands Off Venezuela]*Hands Off Venezuela* @HOVcampaignhttps://twitter.com/HOVcampaign 26m https://twitter.com/HOVcampaign/status/348852850002124801 RT @wikileaks https://twitter.com/wikileaks WikiLeaks Statement on Edward Snowden political asylum flight http:// wikileaks.org/WikiLeaks-Statement-On-Edward,253.html?updated http://t.co/PHk6sCVtFCbound for Ecuador through a safe route Expand https://twitter.com/HOVcampaign/status/348852850002124801 - Reply https://twitter.com/HOVcampaign# - Retweet https://twitter.com/HOVcampaign# - Favorite https://twitter.com/HOVcampaign# - ** More 2. [image: Hands Off Venezuela]*Hands Off Venezuela* @HOVcampaignhttps://twitter.com/HOVcampaign 29m https://twitter.com/HOVcampaign/status/348852160370442240 Ecuador Foreign Minister RT @RicardoPatinoEChttps://twitter.com/RicardoPatinoECThe Government of Ecuador has received an asylum request from Edward J. #Snowden https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Snowdensrc=hash Expand https://twitter.com/HOVcampaign/status/348852160370442240 3. [image: Hands Off Venezuela]*Hands Off Venezuela* @HOVcampaignhttps://twitter.com/HOVcampaign 3h https://twitter.com/HOVcampaign/status/348806596043866113 Russian agency Interfax: Snowden will stay at Venezuelan embassy overnight before boarding flight to Venezuela via Cuba on Monday Expand https://twitter.com/HOVcampaign/status/348806596043866113 4. [image: Hands Off Venezuela]*Hands Off Venezuela* @HOVcampaignhttps://twitter.com/HOVcampaign 3h https://twitter.com/HOVcampaign/status/348805901794308097 2 Ecuadorean embassy cars, with ambassador medical team greet Snowden in Moscow http://bit.ly/14qIdTa http://t.co/BGETELnOyI *Eva Golinger* @evagolinger https://twitter.com/evagolinger2mhttps://twitter.com/evagolinger/status/348857450264420352 Ecuador's Foreign Minister confirms RT @RicardoPatinoEChttps://twitter.com/RicardoPatinoECThe Government of Ecuador has received an asylum request from Edward J. #*Snowden* https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Snowdensrc=hash 1. *RT en Español* @ActualidadRT https://twitter.com/ActualidadRT48mhttps://twitter.com/ActualidadRT/status/348845233540300801 AMPLIAMOS: El canciller de #Ecuadorhttps://twitter.com/search?q=%23Ecuadorsrc=hashconfirmó que su país ha recibido una solicitud de asilo de parte de #*Snowden* https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Snowdensrc=hash http:// es.rt.com/pxC http://t.co/5iR7Yc9SRf 2. [image: CNN en Español]*CNN en Español* @CNNEEhttps://twitter.com/CNNEE 51m https://twitter.com/CNNEE/status/348844481136709632 Estados Unidos pide a Cuba, Ecuador y Venezuela no recibir a Edward #* Snowden* https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Snowdensrc=hash. http:// bit.ly/1a47E2P http://t.co/qLGTysnLPA Followed by El Roquero https://twitter.com/ciebatormentaand 2 others ** View summary https://twitter.com/CNNEE/status/348844481136709632 3. [image: RT en Español]*RT en Español* @ActualidadRThttps://twitter.com/ActualidadRT 1h https://twitter.com/ActualidadRT/status/348840325181210624 URGENTE: El gobierno del Ecuador ha recibido solicitud de asilo de parte de Edward #*Snowden* https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Snowdensrc=hash. Más información en breve http://es.rt.com/px6 http://t.co/4fvabJe5qL [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com
[LAAMN] Century City march and riot
In todays, Sunday Los Angeles Times, edition, the second page is dedicated to the 1967 Century Plaza anti-war demonstration and riot. I was there and in front of the March. As we got in front of the Hotel where President Johnson was , I urged folks to stop and have a rally (they were going to march back to the park). I was joined by a few others then the Progressive Labor Party formed a line.. Since there were close to 20,000 folks there it got very crowded. Except for loud anti-war chanting folks were peaceful. But the cops decided it was an unlawful action and just attacked us with billy clubs and more. I was in a group that got push into a construction site. I was getting hit by the police. I got down to Pico and was in between to rows of cops who started to beat people, One guy sit down and got the crap beat out of him. As I was getting surrounded by cops, a car came though the crowd and it was a girlfriend and I hopped into her car, just in time from getting the crap beat out of me. Ah memories. --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Salvadoran Military List of Victims a Smoking Gun
William Brownfield ( and many others) the former political officer (CIA) at the US embassy should be on that list for war crimes, not just for El Salvador but what he did in Venezuela also. Cort http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/06/salvadoran-military-list-of-victims-a-smoking-gun/ Salvadoran Military List of Victims a Smoking Gun By Edgardo Ayal http://www.ipsnews.net/author/edgardo-ayala/a [image: Carlos Santos and Fabricio Santín alongside a papier-mâché sculpture representing a torture victim of the security forces during El Salvadors civil war. Credit: Edgardo Ayala/IPS] Carlos Santos and Fabricio Santín alongside a papier-mâché sculpture representing a torture victim of the security forces during El Salvadors civil war. Credit: Edgardo Ayala/IPS SAN SALVADOR, Jun 20 2013 (IPS) - The Salvadoran army kept a detailed list of names and photographs of leftists detained or sought during El Salvadors 1980-1992 civil war. The report is the first official military document proving the armed forces direct involvement in forced disappearances and other abuses. Activists told IPS that, besides serving as evidence of human rights crimes, the document confirms the links between the army and the death squads, since a number of the detainees on the list were later forcibly disappeared by the far-right paramilitaries. The title on the cover of the list of 1,975 people described as terrorist criminals is Yellow Book. It was apparently written by the joint chiefs of staff of the armed forces, whose initials EMCFA for Estado Mayor Conjunto de la Fuerza Armada can be seen clearly printed on each of its 270 pages. The book proves that all of our denunciations were true that the security forces and army were behind the forced disappearances, operating as death squads, Guadalupe Mejía, the president of CODEFAM, an association of families of victims of human rights violations, told IPS. Related IPS Articles - Salvadoran Civil War Survivors Demand Restorative Justicehttp://www.ipsnews.net/2012/03/salvadoran-civil-war-survivors-demand-restorative-justice/ - Former Combatants in El Salvador Demand a Place in Societyhttp://www.ipsnews.net/2012/02/former-combatants-in-el-salvador-demand-a-place-in-society/ - Torture Victims in El Salvador Speak Outhttp://www.ipsnews.net/2013/03/torture-victims-in-el-salvador-speak-out/ - RIGHTS-EL SALVADOR: Amnesty a Monument to Impunity Say Activistshttp://www.ipsnews.net/2007/10/rights-el-salvador-amnesty-a-lsquomonument-to-impunityrsquo-say-activists/ - RIGHTS-EL SALVADOR: Exhuming Memoryhttp://www.ipsnews.net/2008/05/rights-el-salvador-exhuming-memory/ The Yellow Book was found three years ago, hidden in a cranny in a house in San Salvador by someone who was moving house. IPS and the Mexican daily La Jornada have a copy of the report. Carlos Santos, president of the Salvadoran Association of Torture Survivors (ASST), said the fact that some 250 victims of forced disappearance, whose cases were documented by the United Nations truth commission, are on the list confirms that at some point they were detained by the military or police. This provides new evidence that it was members of the army who seized the victims of forced disappearance. Everyone knew it was them, but the evidence (from the military) was lacking, Santos told IPS. The report, marked confidential, is dated July 1987. But it has names of people who were detained, killed or disappeared in the late 1970s and even earlier, which indicates that the date refers to the last time it was updated. Death squads and the security forces are blamed for the majority of the 75,000 killings and 8,000 forced disappearances committed during the 12-year armed conflict, which ended when a peace agreement was signed by the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) and the right-wing government of Alfredo Cristianihttp://www.ipsnews.net/2008/11/rights-el-salvador-ex-president-cristiani-faces-charges-in-spain/ . Many of the photos in the report were clearly taken in military or police installations, with the dishevelled and sometimes bruised detainees standing against a wall with an anguished look on their faces. Other photos were apparently taken from the detainees identity documents, obtained by military intelligence from municipal civil registries. Yet others are surveillance photos taken by cameras with zoom. Some of the people in the report were senior FMLN leaders, listed as most wanted. Others were leftwing intellectuals, trade unionists, rural community leaders and social activists, considered subversives during El Salvadors civil war. The book is evidence that these people were captured by the security forces and then tortured, Miguel Montenegro, director of the NGO Human Rights Commission of El Salvador, told IPS. Files on them were compiled, and they were later disappeared in other words, killed. Santos said after they were captured, their photos were taken to put in
[LAAMN] LUV News Sun 23 June 2013
Lisa makes a good comment in today's LUV News, about what I at times refer to as Bi Partisan Hero's, my party good yours bad, it is necessary or at lest I'll remain quiet when my guys does it but scream bloody murder if the 'opposition' party does the same. The Corporate Mains Stream Media sells this as your only political choices. So we all need to cut the drama, vote for the people of this nation and the world, or vote Corporate and the Police State that protects them from the people. -Scott Though I'm glad to see Robert Scheer writing stuff like this, I can't forget that he was one of the ones banging the drum the loudest for the re-election of Obama. He ignored the fact that Obama has not only continued, but expanded, the worst abuses of the Bush administration. Scheer was as blinkered and benighted as the hordes of voters who could chant only one mantra: Democrats good, Republicans bad! (Or the reverse; both mantras are equally stunted.)... -- *UNHAPPY ANNIVERSARY* * * [image: Julian Assange] *One year*http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2013/06/22/statement-by-julian-assange-after-one-year-in-ecuadorian-embassy/. That's how long Julian Assange has spent holed up in the Ecuadoran Embassy in London, thanks to the paranoid power-mongering of the US and UK. Fact: *if Assange had been active during the Bush administration, every single so-called liberal out there would be defending him right now. But because his revelations came during the Obama administration, those same people have done an about-face and are screaming for his blood. * *Don't shoot the messenger. Fess up. And change. Quit trying to defend the indefensible.* Meanwhile, Edward Snowden has left Hong Kong for Moscowhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/23/edward-snowden-leaves-hong-kong-moscow. Our country, hounding down and chasing away good people to beat the band. -LS -- *I KEEP TELLING YOU GUYS YOU'RE ALL TERRORISTS* [image: Warning: In Case of Terrorist attack, do not discard bra]http://landofthefreeish.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/warning-in-case-of-terrorist-attack.png We take water quality very seriously. Very, very seriously, said Sherwin Smith, deputy director of TDEC's Division of Water Resources, according to audio recorded by attendees. *But you need to make sure that when you make water quality complaints you have a basis, because federally, if there's no water quality issues, that can be considered under Homeland Security an act of terrorism.* *No, I am not making this up.http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/06/21/official-says-water-complaints-act-of-terrorism/2445071/ *-LS -- * * *GUANTANAMO DOC NURSES THINK TORTURE IS OK* **I've said it before and I'll say it again: force-feeding is torture. Force-feeding is torture. If you don't believe it, not only haven't you been keeping up with the past, oh, few hundred years, you obviously don't remember *this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO70ZjZ0wrw*, from our own history. It's torture. Yet it continues at Guantanamohttp://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/guantanamo_doctors_untroubled_by_force-feeding_prisoners_20130621/?ln . Some day, there will be a reckoning. For those of you in the DC area, protest demonstration at the White House this coming Wednesday, June 26th, at 12 Noon, sponsored by several groups from around the country, including Veterans for Peace. Info *here*http://closegitmo.net . -- *R.I.P., FRANCA RAME* ** [image: dario-fo-e-franca-rame]http://www.fascioemartello.it/images/stories/2013/05/dario-fo-e-franca-rame.jpg I found out about the death of this great artist two weeks ago after I had already sent out LUV News, so I couldn't do a tribute to her then. Therefore, I'm doing it now. I had the honor of seeing *Franca Rame* and her equally phenomenal artist husband *Dario Fo* perform 30 years ago. And I've never forgotten them. How could I? How can you forget that kind of beauty, power, humor, insight, and talent? How can you forget being moved to the core of your being? How can you forget that there are still a few people in the world who stand up for what they believe in, for justice, for truth, for what is right? Who do it no matter the consequences? And who even make art out of it? That was *Franca Rame*http://theater.nytimes.com/2013/05/31/theater/franca-rame-italian-actress-and-playwright-dies-at-83.html?pagewanted=all. That is Dario Fo. They were and are world treasures. -LS * * ** -- Though I'm glad to see Robert Scheer writing stuff like this, I can't forget that he was one of the ones banging the drum the loudest for the re-election of Obama. He ignored the fact that Obama has not only continued, but expanded, the worst abuses of the Bush administration. Scheer was as blinkered and benighted as the hordes of voters who could chant
[LAAMN] Fukushima- the big lie
Original Message Subject: Fukushima- the big lie From:Carol Wolman cwol...@mcn.org Date:Sun, 23 June, 2013 4:45 pm To: eastbayimpe...@yahoogroups.com fukushimarespo...@yahoogroups.com fukushimafalloutfo...@yahoogroups.com -- http://www.change.org/petitions/west-coast-senators-investigate-the-ongoing-danger-from-the-fukushima-nuclear-reactors Dear Friends, The worldwide nuclear village is intent on downplaying the health risks from the disaster at Fukushima Daiichi. Two UN agencies- the World Health Organization and the UN Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) have issued reports that there are no ill health effects at all- no deaths, no increased cancers. Robert Stone, maker of a new movie, Pandora's Promise, says the same, and claims that the neurotic fear of radiation is the worst effect of the disaster. So does a recent Forbes article. The Big Lie is aimed at convincing the world public to tolerate more and more nuclear disasters and nuclear waste production, by licensing and operating more and more nuclear reactors. This is an obvious attempt to counter the citizen's movement worldwide, that recently shut down San Onofre for good, and has led the Germans to phase out their nukes, the Japanese people to oppose reopening all their reactors, etc. An independent investigation is urgently needed to bring the truth to light. Please continue to circulate the petition http://www.change.org/petitions/west-coast-senators-investigate-the-ongoing-danger-from-the-fukushima-nuclear-reactors Peace, Carol Wolman, MD http://enenews.com/shock-cnn-to-air-nuclear-power-propaganda-irrational-fears-of-nukes-systematically-debunks-the-myths-and-misinformation Title: CNN Films Announces Acquisition of 'Pandora's Promise' for Fall 2013 Broadcast Source: CNN Date: April 30th, 2013 CNN Films has acquired the domestic television rights for PANDORA'S PROMISE [...] The film will premiere on CNN/U.S. in November 2013 [...] The atomic bomb and accidents at Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Fukushima bring to mind apocalyptic disasters, but the science and experience since suggest that long-held fears about nuclear power may be wrong. [...] PANDORA'S PROMISE examines how irrational fears of nukes may have extended the era of fossil fuels [...] http://enenews.com/cnns-nuclear-propaganda-film-is-dishonest-to-its-core-pandoras-promise-is-actually-an-infomercial Published: June 12th, 2013 at 10:19 am ET http://phys.org/news/2013-05-health-fukushima.html No health risk from Fukushima radiation, UN says May 31, 2013 Radiation leaked after Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011 is unlikely to cause any ill health effects in the future, a UN scientific committee drawing up a major new report said Friday. Radiation exposure following the nuclear accident at Fukushima-Daiichi... did not cause any immediate health effects, the UN Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) said. It is unlikely to be able to attribute any health effects in the future among the general public and the vast majority of workers for which dose histories have been assessed http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2013/01/11/like-weve-been-saying-radiation-is-not-a-big-deal/ 1/11/2013 @ 5:30PM |116,599 views Like We've Been Saying -- Radiation Is Not A Big Deal ...UNSCEAR's chair Wolfgang Weiss stated that no radiation health effects had been observed in Japan among the public, workers or children in the area of the damaged nuclear power plants, in keeping with studies already published by the World Health Organization and Tokyo University. Doses of radiation received by people near the damaged power plant were so low that no discernible health effect could be expected... tens of thousands of Japanese (are) living in fear of radiation levels so low that the fear itself is the only thing that is hurting them,.. http://enenews.com/asahi-unexpectedly-high-number-of-thyroid-cancers-in-fukushima-children-experts-premature-to-say-fukushima-nuclear-disaster-played-no-role Title: Experts: More data needed to assess radiation's role in cancer among Fukushima kids Source: THE ASAHI SHIMBUN Author: Yuri Oiwa and Teruhiko Nose Date: June 6, 2013 Health experts are at odds on whether radiation from the Fukushima nuclear accident led to an unexpectedly high occurrence rate of thyroid gland cancer among children in Fukushima Prefecture. [...] Twelve of the 174,000 children who have undergone the comprehensive checkups have been found with thyroid gland cancer, with an additional 16 suspected of having the disease. A majority of radiologists, as well as the prefectural government, have dismissed speculation that radiation from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant had any role in the numbers. But others said it is
[LAAMN] Video on CBS-Study: 30-somethings worse off than their parents' generation
(JAI-Just saw this. Says people are worse off than they were 30 years ago. Why? Capitalism. But they don't say that. See (Video) . http://www.cbsnews.com/2102-18563_162-57590632.html ) June 23, 2013 7:34 PM Study: 30-somethings worse off than their parents' generation By Terrell Brownhttp://www.cbsnews.com/2102-18563_162-57590632.html?contributor=10471250 (CBS News) WELLFLEET, Mass. - Americans in their 30s are the only age group in this country worse off than their counterparts three decades ago. A recent study http://www.urban.org/publications/412766.html by the Urban Institute shows the net worth of today's 30-somethings -- adjusted for inflation -- is down 21 percent from what 30-somethings enjoyed in 1983. [image: Myya Beck, 33, has her own business and a baby on the way, but debt and bills are making it difficult for her to live a comfortable life.] Myya Beck, 33, has her own business and a baby on the way, but debt and bills are making it difficult for her to live a comfortable life. / CBS News At 33, Myya Beck is doing what she loves: Running her own fitness studio in Wellfleet, Mass. She works morning and night, six to seven days a week, and still struggles just to get by. Ask her if she has any savings, and she laughs. Forty dollars, she said. Much of the money she earns is go to bills, college loans, a car payment and rent for her house. Beck's entire generation is facing this struggle, and economists believe part of the reason is because the traditional means of building wealth are disappearing. Buying a home has been a historic source of wealth, but since 1990, there's been a significant drop in home ownership for people under age 39, according to the U.S. Census. U.S. regains wealth from recession, but not equallyhttp://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505144_162-57588237/u.s-regains-wealth-from-recession-but-not-equally/ Lawmakers try to save student loan dealhttp://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505145_162-57590373/lawmakers-try-to-save-student-loan-deal/ Is now the time to buy a home?http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505145_162-57590129/is-now-the-time-to-buy-a-home/ And then there's college debt, which, according the Federal Reserve of New York, has more than tripled in just the last 10 years. Beck still owes over $15,000 for her college education. CBS It's stressful, very stressful, she said. It weighs on me as a person that I'm not doing something right, that I'm not doing enough. She's also just learned some really big news. Now we also have a baby on the way, she said. I mean, this is everything that I've ever wanted. I've always wanted to own my own business. I've wanted to be a mom and have a family most importantly, of my own, so I've gotten those things, but financially how do I do it? She said the uncertainty scares the living dickens out of me. My glass is always half full. I'm still day by day trying to something more. What else is there? she said. Beck is just one of a generation that if things don't change, will be poorer than their parents. It's the first time that's happened in America since the Great Depression. -- JAI RAC-LA [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
