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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Friday, May 25, 2012

25 May - Blogs I'm Following II

The bar chart presented on the National Debt A...The bar chart presented on the National Debt Awareness Center home page is based on U.S. Senate Appropriations Bills and the Monthly Treasury Statement. The data was published by the U. S. Treasury Department into a spreadsheet and generate the bar chart from that spreadsheet. The "estimate bar" in the "Debt Total" box for the next Fiscal Year (FY) is generated by analysists from data published by the Congressional Budget Office and several other sources. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
FYI .. Elementary school teacher, 39, jailed f...FYI .. Elementary school teacher, 39, jailed for FORTY years for her affair with boy of 14 -- Coweta County, Georgia (17th February 2012) ... (Photo credit: marsmet526)
Diagram of US Federal Government and American ...Diagram of US Federal Government and American Union. Published: 1862, July 15. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
(Old) Shorter Alabama Post Office 36075(Old) Shorter Alabama Post Office 36075 (Photo credit: jimmywayne)
Ottawa moves to limit foreign investment reviews
Federal government to start limiting its reviews of foreign investment over next four years

Canada beating deficit target

How Phantom Accounting Is Destroying The Post Office ( U.S. )

The massive post office deficit that is driving management to commit institutional suicide by ending six-day delivery, closing half of the nation's 30,000 or so post offices and half its 500 mail-processing centers, and laying off more than 200,000 workers, is make-believe.

The House and Senate held 11 hearings on postal reform between 2003 and 2006. Sen. Susan Collins, Chair of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee commented, "two issues ... united every single witness who has testified before our committee ... a desire to see the escrow account repealed and the return of the military pension obligation to the Treasury Department."

...... this all began because the post office discovered it had surplus funds. Unified budget accounting made sure it could never tap into this surplus unless at the same time it assumed new liabilities of an equal magnitude. The solution to the post office financial deficit is simple. Give it back the money, Congress, as a result of pressure from the CBO, has stolen from it over the past years. 

The postal crisis is contrived. 

 

BERLIN - At least 20,000 people held a major rally of the local Occupy movement in Frankfurt on Saturday to decry austerity measures affecting much of Europe, the dominance of banks, and what they call untamed capitalism.

"The German police took off their helmets and marched with the protest clearing the way for them."

http://www.globalwinnipeg.com/world/20000+people+march+at+a+frankfurt+occupy+protest+german+police/6442644693/story.html


 

 

Public Safety Minister Vic Toews still intends to ram his unpopular warrantless online spying bill through Parliament. But thanks to you, the video we launched to push back is starting to go viral, with 10,000+ views yesterday alone. Watch it athttp://openmedia.ca/stand and use this link to share it on Facebook:http://on.fb.me/KfQz8N 

The more we share and educate those around us, the louder our voices will be in Parliament.

 

DID YOU KNOW…that caffeine can help lessen sugar addiction? Caffeine is an opioid receptor antagonist – it binds with opioid receptors and prevents you from being addicted to sugar. When you drink coffee, only drink dark, organic coffee without any sugar or artificial sweeteners.

 

 

Mongabay.com launches forest web site in Indonesian

http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0523-mongabay-in-indonesian-pr.html

Mongabay.com is pleased to announce the launch of Mongabay-Indonesia (mongabay.co.id), an environmental news web site published in Indonesian. The site was officially unveiled Saturday, May 19 at an event in Jakarta.

Mongabay-Indonesia is run independently of mongabay.com by a team of Indonesians based in three cities on the island of Java. The site will soon begin to build out a network of up to 50 corespondents across Indonesia. Mongabay-Indonesia will also have a weekly radio show on Green Radio FM.


 Indonesia's deforestation rate falls, says Ministry of Forestry

http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0526-deforestation-indonesia-map.html

Indonesia's deforestation rate fell from 830,000 hectares per year between 2006-2009 to 450,000 hectares per year between 2009–2011, said the Ministry of Forestry Thursday during the unveiling of its revision of a map that defines the country's moratorium on new logging and plantation concessions in primary forests and peatlands.

KFC linked to destruction of Indonesia's rainforests

http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0523-kfc-app.html

Fast food giant Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) is linked to the destruction of Indonesia's rainforests through its packaging sourcing practices, alleges a new report published today by Greenpeace.

An investigation by the environmental activist group found traces of mixed tropical hardwood fiber (MTH) in KFC's drink cups, food boxes, napkins and chicken buckets. The fiber comes from Asia Pulp & Paper.

 


RESERVE YOUR SEAT for the exclusive premiere of my new full-length documentary film, WAR ON HEALTH.

While the FDA marches on with their plans to take away your right to health and nutrition, this documentary will threaten to blow their tyrannical rule apart. Never before seen footage, and never before heard evidence that will SHOCK you into action.

The event will take place at New York Society for Ethical Culture, June 15, 2012 at 7pm, with a Q&A with Gary Null, victims of the FDA's failures, and special guests at the forefront of exposing this bureaucratic monstrosity.

Call 877-627-5065 and reserve your seat NOW!
 
Wind energy and Wind Farms – are they a solution to renewable energy -- or a scam?

Find out on today's Gary Null Show at Noon ET, with guest Dr John Etherington, author of “The Wind Farm Scam: An Ecologist’s Evaluation”

Listen at http://prn.fm/listen-live
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LAFITTE, La. (AP) — Gloom infects the hard-working shrimp and crab docks of thisgritty fishing town as the second full year of fishing since BP's catastrophic oil spill kicks into high gear. Usually folks are upbeat and busy in May, when shrimpers get back to work in Louisiana's rich waters. This spring, though, catches are down, docks are idle and anxiety is growing that the ill effects of the massive BP oil spill may be far from over. An Associated Press examination of catch data from last year's commercial harvest along the Gulf — the first full year of fishing since the 2010 spill — reveals merit in the fishermen's complaints. According to the analysis of figures obtained through public records requests, seafood crops hit rock bottom in the Barataria estuary, the same place where some of the thickest waves of oil washed in when a BP well exploded in the Gulf of Mexico.



6 world powers open talks with Iran to curb nuclear program

This is the spectacle of known WMD developers harassing a promoter of nuclear disarmament over the particulars of its undertaking to expose its vulnerability and inability to retaliate in kind to nuclear attack. To do this means requiring it be forced to disregard the agreed terms of its undertaking to 140 nations by unilaterally varying the treaty and disabling its ability to finance independent review by cashiering/stealing its monetary deposits of payment for oil.
All this over technology, fuel, and development controlled,supplied by and guaranteed by a competitor for nuclear power market share much closer at hand : Russia.
Russia has so proprietary an interest as to state it regards Iranian nuclear development as its own for purposes of defence from outside aggression. That is quite obvious WMD unmentioned as a threat in common 'analysis'.
opit May 25, 2012 - 11:41pm

 

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