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An important recent article in the Mainstream media is that by Dana Nuccitelli “The 5 stages of climate denial are on display ahead of he IPCC Report”, The Guardian (Australia), 16 September 2013: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/sep/16/climate-change-contrarians-5-stages-denial .
QUOTE: “Climate contrarians appear to be running damage control in the media before the next IPCC report is published. [Photograph of Rupert Murdoch] Rupert Murdoch’s (…)

When something goes right Oh, it’s likely to lose me It’s apt to confuse me It’s such an unusual sight —Paul Simon
Larry Summers has proven unacceptable to oversee the continued destruction of the U.S. economy. The U.S. public has successfully rejected proposed missile strikes on Syria. My Congressman was among the majority who listened. Today was beautiful. The Orioles won. The Cowboys lost. The University of Virginia avoided losing by not playing. My family is expecting a new (…)

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Questions for UN General Secretary Ban Ki Moon as he prepares to release UN report on the Ghouta Incident 1) Mr. Moon , Why did you prepare to present a UN prize lauding Libyan President Gadhafi’s sterling human rights record ,only to visciously turn on him when the Obama/Netanyahu combine decided it was time for him to go ? 2) Are you employing the same modus operandi against the very popular regime of Syrian President Basher el-Assad ?........... Yesterday you (…)

Thousands demonstrate in Athens after supporters of neo-Nazi party leave nine seriously injured amid fears of civil war
Thousands of Greeks took to the streets of Athens on Friday to protest against a violent attack on Communist party members by black-shirted supporters of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party which left nine people in hospital with serious injuries.
In what was described as a murderous attack – and the most serious violence since the extremist group was elected to the (…)

Pinkerton Academy Refuses To Settle Civil Claim Over Teacher-Student Sex Abuse
School says victim cannot prove Pinkerton knew about sex abuse
Against what many would describe as an untenable position, Pinkerton Academy has decided not to settle a civil claim made against the institution, short of a court hearing.
Fallout from the publicity the school received after details of the grooming and sexual abuse of at least one of the school’s students by a former teacher was reported in the (…)

Please read, sign and help others sign the petition for the liberation of Andrey Pshenichnikov, Palestine solidarity activist condemned in Egypt to two years imprisonment.
We, friends of Andrey in Brazil and in France have not had any news from here since last April.
Please find enclosed the links to the petition (below), which is accompanied by a resume of Andrey, with emphasis on recent events.
Following these, I add material related to Andrey in different languages.
Thanks for (…)

AMERICA’S RIDICULOUS POSITION ON SYRIA
John Chuckman
I read that an American Senator, Bob Menendez, wanted “to vomit” when he was supplied with a copy of Vladimir Putin’s New York Times’ op-ed piece about Syria.
Well, I’m sure it wasn’t just a matter of Sen. Menendez’s delicate stomach: there have been many times in the past I wanted to vomit over something in The New York Times.
It is, after all, an impossibly pretentious, often-dishonest publication faithfully serving America’s (…)

No Place On Earth to Escape the Rad
(San Francisco) I received this Email with some Fukushima questions about a week ago. Now we have the Death of a Nation on 9/11 and the Death of the Earth on 3/11/11. Hmm, some bookends for us.
A good friend said:
“I won’t allow nuclear power to stop me from the right to go outside, to walk or hike, to travel or to breathe. I witnessed the activities of members of a Japanese community who dissolved radiation through the process of giving light. I (…)

By Nicola Nasser*
Because “defensive alliances which have fixed and limited objectives are often more durable,” the “Syria-Iran alliance has survived” more than three decades of unwavering and insistent US – led military, economic, diplomatic and media campaign to dismantle it, but it is still enduring “because it has been primarily defensive in nature” and “aimed largely at neutralizing … Israeli capabilities and preventing American encroachment in the Middle East.”
This was the (…)