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July 12, 2017
Cities With Large Black Populations More Likely to Use Fines for Revenue
There’s new evidence to support what many in the Black community have long suspected: that vulnerable populations are disproportionately targeted for citations. Vox reports that a study found that cities with large Black populations are more likely to use fines to increase revenue. Political science researchers Michael Sances, of the University of Memphis, and Vanderbilt University’s Hye Young You based their findings on data from over 9,000 cities.
“The average collection was about $8 per person for all cities that get at least some revenue from fines and fees, but that rose to as much as $20 per person in the cities with the highest Black populations,” Vox reported.
via Cities With Higher Black Populations More Likely to Use Fines For Revenue — News One
July 11, 2017
Here’s Why Most of the Meat Americans Eat is Banned in Other Industrialized Countries*
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How many people have heard of Elanco, Eli Lilly’s animal drug division, and Bayer HealthCare Animal Health? Most big Pharma companies, including Pfizer, Merck, Boehringer Ingolheim, Sanofi and Novartis operate similar lucrative animal divisions. Unlike “people” Pharma, Animal Pharma largely exists under the public’s radar: drug ads do not appear on TV nor do safety or marketing scandals reach Capitol Hill.
Here’s Why Most of the Meat Americans Eat is Banned in Other Industrialized Countries*
By Martha Rosenberg
Recently, Organic Consumers Association, along with Friends of the Earth and Center for Food Safetyfiled suit against chicken giant Sanderson Farms for falsely marketing its products as “100% Natural” even though they contain many unnatural and even prohibited substances.
Specifically, Sanderson chicken products tested positive for the antibiotic chloramphenical, banned in food animals, and amoxicillin, not approved for use in poultry production. Sanderson Farms products also tested positive for residues of steroids, hormones, anti-inflammatory drugs—even ketamine, a drug with hallucinogenic effects.
This is far from the first time unlabeled human drugs have been found in U.S. meat. The New York Times reported that most chicken feather-meal samples examined in one study contained Tylenol, one-third contained the antihistamine Benadryl, and samples from China actually contained Prozac. The FDA has caught hatcheries
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“You Have no Right to Talk About Syria’s Future!” Putin Slaps-Down the US Secretary of State
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“The US Secretary of State is not a citizen of Syria and has no right to talk about its future and the fate of its president. This shall only be decided by the Syrian people”
“You Have no Right to Talk About Syria’s
Future!” Putin Slaps the US Secretary of
State
translated by Samer Hussein –
Russian President Vladimir Putin stressed that the future of Syria and its president lies in the hands of the Syrian people, not the US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
“The US Secretary of State is not a citizen of Syria and has no right to talk about its future and the fate of its president. This shall only be decided by the Syrian people”, Putin was heard saying during a press conference of the G20 summit in Hamburg.
He stressed that the US stance towards Syria has not drastically changed, although it has become more pragmatic, adding that the United States also played a certain role in decline of violence in the country.
He then spoke about a positive understanding on the issue of reaching a ceasefire agreement in…
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How the CIA Helped Greenpeace Get Its Start
How to Change the World
Directed by Jerry Rothwell (2015)
Film Review
Māori TV showed How to Change the World last night. It relates the story of the 1971 founding of the international environmental group Greenpeace. Based on archival Greenpeace footage and retrospective interviews with its founders, the documentary makes it appear as if the organization founded itself by accident out of Vancouver’s strong anti-Vietnam war movement. During the late sixties and early seventies, the Canadian city was a magnet for young American expatriates fleeing the draft.
The accidental pairing of eco-freaks with antiwar activists in a sea protest to block a nuclear test on the Aleutian island of Amitchitka led them to coin a name – Greenpeace – representing both camps.
Bob Hunter, an environmental reporter for the Vancouver Sun, went along on that first protest in his journalistic role. When the popular uproar generated by that first protest resulted in the shutdown of the Amitchka nuclear test site, he resigned from his newspaper job to spearhead the Greenpeace Save the Whales campaign. His genius lay in creating media “mind bombs” with spectacular footage that instantly riveted popular attention.
The documentary replays the original footage from a confrontation with a Soviet whaling ship off the California coast. It’s graphically cruel and bloody and definitely unsuitable for children’s viewing.
The founders allowed the name Greenpeace to be freely borrowed by environmental groups all over the world. Which, as with most grassroots organizations, led to significant growing pains. Hunter made a number of unpopular decisions without consulting the rest of the group. One of the most contentious was his decision to accept the CIA ‘s offer of free fuel and intelligence an the location of Soviet whaling vessels.
The film can be viewed for free for the next few weeks at the Māori TV website:
July 10, 2017
Amazon has a death grip on the US economy capturing nearly $1 of every $2 Americans spend online
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Americans already spend nearly half of their online dollars at Amazon, even though the multinational corporation is hardly the most cost-effective option for purchasing consumer products.
NaturalNews.com
by: Ethan Huff
July 08, 2017
(Natural News) It’s not just that the e-commerce monopoly known as Amazon wants to control every element of the retail market, both online and off. The true aim of Jeff Bezos’ digital Frankenstein is to control every element of the entire economy, a sinister aspiration that, if consumers don’t start taking a stand with their wallets – and politicians with enforcing antitrust laws – could soon result in Amazon controlling virtually every transaction involving the buying and selling of goods.
Americans already spend nearly half of their online dollars at Amazon, even though the multinational corporation is hardly the most cost-effective option for purchasing consumer products. Apparently too lazy and/or shortsighted to consider the impact this is having on…
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Nevada running out of weed, ‘state of emergency’ declared
Nevada’s governor has endorsed a state of emergency declared for recreational marijuana regulations, after the state’s tax authority declared that many stores are running out of weed. The Nevada Tax Commission said in a statement it will consider emergency regulations on July 13 to provide a structure for marijuana distribution to retailers. It would allow for liquor wholesalers to get in on the marijuana business.
“Based on reports of adult-use marijuana sales already far exceeding the industry’s expectations at the state’s 47 licensed retail marijuana stores, and the reality that many stores are running out of inventory, the Department must address the lack of distributors immediately,” the statement said. “Some establishments report the need for delivery within the next several days.”
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Source: Nevada running out of weed, ‘state of emergency’ declared
French spy who helped bomb Rainbow Warrior tracked down 32 years later
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July 10, 2017 by Joseph Fitsanakis
A French spy who infiltrated the environmentalist group Greenpeace and in 1985 helped bomb the organization’s flagship, the Rainbow Warrior, has spoken to the media for the first time. The British-based activist organization had purchased the trawler from the British government in 1977 and used it to carry out maritime research and other operations. In July 1985, the Rainbow Warrior, captained by the American environmental activist Peter Wilcox, was docked at the port of Auckland, New Zealand. It was being prepared to lead a flotilla of vessels to the French Polynesian atoll of Mororoa, in order to try to stop a planned nuclear test by the French military.
But on the night of July 10, 1985, two large explosions nearly split the ship in two, causing it to sink in less than five minutes. . .
Source: French spy who helped bomb Rainbow Warrior tracked down 32 years later
America the Only Developed Country Without Universal Healthcare
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The cost of medical care in America (thanks to the big cut taken by private health insurance companies) is double the annual per capita amount in other developed countries, why it’s the leading cause of personal bankruptcies.
By Stephen Lendman
Global Research, July 09, 2017
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Nations providing universal coverage offer one of three forms for their people:
1. government provided single-payer;
2. two-tier providing basic care, along with secondary coverage offering more services based on the ability to pay; and
3. mandate insurance from an employer or individually purchased, supplementing national coverage.
Countries offering universal coverage by date established and type system are the following:
Norway, 1912, single payer
New Zealand, 1938, two tier
Japan, 1938, single payer
Germany, 1941, insurance mandate
Belgium,1945, insurance mandate
Britain, 1948, single payer
Kuwait, 1950, single payer
Sweden, 1955, single payer
Bahrain, 1957, single payer
Brunei,1958, single payer
Cuba, 1959, single payer (constitutionally mandated)
Canada, 1966, single payer
The Netherlands…
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July 9, 2017
Syrians Return Home as the Terrorists are Pushed Out
After six years of fighting a brutal and long war against foreign-backed terrorist proxy forces, the Syrian army – and its allies – have made significant gains in recent months. The Syrian army’s recent triumphs include liberating many areas in the Homs province, reaching the Iraqi border in what was described as a “strategic turning point in the war,” in addition to securing the Aleppo province from ISIS. It is clear that the Syrian army has the upper hand in the conflict, a fact that the hawks in Washington, London, Brussels, Riyadh and Tel Aviv find too difficult to stomach.
As the Syrian army prevails on the ground, capturing territory from the militants in the process, hundreds of thousands of Syrians are returning to their homes. As Andrej Mahecic, the spokesperson for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the UN Refugee Agency, said in a press briefing at the end of June, many Syrians are returning “to their homes” partly due to a “real or perceived improvement in security conditions” in many regions recently liberated:
“[The] UNHC is seeing a notable trend of spontaneous returns to and within Syria in 2017. Aid agencies estimate that more than 440,000 internally displaced people have returned to their homes in Syria during the first six months of this year. In parallel, UNHCR has monitored over 31,000 Syrian refugees returning from neighbouring countries so far in 2017.
The main factors influencing decisions for refugees to return self-assisted mostly to Aleppo, Hama, Homs, Damascus and to other governorates are primarily linked to seeking out family members, checking on property, and, in some cases, a real or perceived improvement in security conditions in parts of the country.”
Although the conflict is far from over, and the rebuilding of Syria will likely cost hundreds of billions of dollars, many Syrians can now see the light at the end of the tunnel. The defeat of foreign-backed mercenaries and the stabilization of Syria has always been of central importance to help solve part of the refugee/migrant crisis that has gripped Europe in recent years.
Short of any extremely reckless action by the West and its allies, the Syrian army will continue to liberate large parts of the country from the foreign-backed militants, paving the way for more internally and externally displaced Syrians to return to their homes. In their desperation however, the enemies of Syria may again stage a false flag chemical weapons attack and blame it on the Syrian government, in an attempt to justify a major military intervention to turn the tide. . .
Source: Syrians Return Home as the Terrorists are Pushed Out
Book Review – New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
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A review of John Perkins latest book about the large private corporations of America that rule the world.
BLOT – A MUST READ BOOK.
This is probably amongst the most important books I have EVER read and anyone will EVER read ! I say this because John Perkins has managed to open the secret door marked “US of A corporatocracy”. We have seen different types of government in the last 100 years and before that the autocracies or monarchies, but the emergence of large private corporations as the new imperialists has gone largely unnoticed. The large private corporations of America rule the world – that’s the simple one line summary of this book. And no corporation is really without its hand in this new empire. The first fallout of reading this book has been my loss of respect for most of the American corporations, huge organisations that I had come to respect for their systems and processes – all gone. :(:(
I read this book just after reading
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