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July 5, 2017
HIDDEN HISTORY: Hawaii Stolen for Benefit of Wealthy American Plantation Owners and Military Interests
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Hawaii’s government was overthrown on Jan. 17, 1893, by a relatively small group of men, most of them American by birth or heritage, who seized control of the Islands with the backing of American troops sent ashore from a warship in Honolulu Harbor.
Source – whatreallyhappened.com
– It is easy to find the courage necessary to support a moral position if that position benefits oneself. True moral courage, however, is proven when one chooses to support that which is morally and ethically right even when such a position is to one’s one detriment.
The people of the United States find themselves in such a position right now, forced to choose between a moral and ethical position that carries with it the potential for “inconvenience”, or supporting the status quo and having to admit to themselves that they are not the champions of justice they imagine themselves to be. By the end of this article, you will know for yourself which one you are.
Most folks have heard that Hawaii is a state, one of the United States of America. Most people, including those who live in Hawaii, accept that statement as a fact.
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Ham, sausages cause cancer, steak also suspect, according to UN
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The UN has finally come out with a verdict on meat, with a report indicating that processed meat like sausages, bacon and ham can cause cancer, with red meat also under suspicion.
Source – rt.com
– The UN has finally come out with a verdict on meat, with a report indicating that processed meat like sausages, bacon and ham can cause cancer, with red meat also under suspicion.
The Monday report issued by WHO is set to once again heat up the ongoing debate over the health dangers of a carnivorous diet. The document was released with data from the WHO-operated and France-based International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).
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Association between red meat & #cancer was observed mainly for colorectal cancer, but assoc were also seen for pancreatic & prostate cancer
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Experts concluded that each 50 gram portion of processed meat eaten daily increases the risk of colorectal #cancer by 18%
Its research now says there is “sufficient evidence” to include processed meat into group 1, the same as tobacco, asbestos and…
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The Inmate Behind the 2016 Prison Strike
The Prison Factory
Al Jazeera (2017)
Film Review
This remarkable Al Jazeera documentary is about an Alabama prisoner named Kinetik Justice who organized the September 2016 nationwide prison strike with a cellphone he smuggled into solitary confinement. The strike, which spread to 50 prisons in 24 states, also included guards in some prisons, owing to their abysmal working conditions.
Strike demands included an end the illegal use of solitary confinement and beatings by guards, overcrowding (most Alabama prisons exceed their capacity by 100%), inedible food, lack of access to health care and being forced to work without pay.
The escalating hunger strikes and work stoppages organized by Kinetik Justice and the Free Alabama Movement prompted the Department of Justice to launch a civil rights investigation into Alabama prisons (where the majority of prisoners are African American) in 2016.
Since Trump has taken office, Attorney General Jeff Sessions (who as governor reinstated chain gains in Alabama prisons in 1995) has announced the Department of Justice will “back off” this investigation.
In 1996, Sessions’ chain gangs were outlawed by federal court.
July 4, 2017
Industry Insiders Say Cancer Makes Too Much Money To Cure
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The cancer industry is truly big business in America, and this business cannot afford to allow anyone to find a cure. If any of the low cost, highly successful alternative cancer treatments were to be approved for use, then this entire business would come tumbling down.
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The cancer industry is truly big business in America, and this business cannot afford to allow anyone to find a cure. If any of the low cost, highly successful alternative cancer treatments were to be approved for use, then this entire business would come tumbling down.
The pharmaceutical cartel will not let that happen. Because of corporate greed, we are losing the war on cancer.
At the beginning of the last century, only one person in twenty would get cancer. In the 1940s it was just one out of every sixteen people. In the 1970s it was one person out of ten. Today? A staggering one person out of three develops cancer in the course of their life.
Health Impact News reports:
The cancer industry is probably the most prosperous business in the United States. In 2014, there will be an estimated 1,665,540 new cancer cases diagnosed and…
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London Grenfell Tower disaster survivors interviewed
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Hundreds have been forced to rely on makeshift and temporary accommodation in nearby hotels, churches and community centres and many were left homeless for days.
From the World Socialist Web Site, about London, England:
“There are people who died in there—and they’re not telling us who they are.”
Anger grows over Grenfell Tower inferno
By our reporters
4 July 2017
Nearly three weeks after the Grenfell Tower inferno, anger is growing in the surrounding Lancaster West housing estate in North Kensington. The callous treatment of survivors by [Conservative] council authorities and the Conservative government, the state’s cover-up of the death toll and its failure to press criminal charges against those responsible are fuelling protest and indignation.
Locals told a World Socialist Web Site reporting team that hundreds of residents in the low-rise council houses next to Grenfell Tower are still without gas and hot water. The boilers that supplied their homes with gas were located in the basement of Grenfell Tower and destroyed by the fire. Despite this, many residents—including…
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From 15 Million Acres to 1 Million: How Black People Lost Their Land*
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Over the years, Black people have lost their land through a number of circumstances, including government action, deception and a reign of domestic terror in the South that forced Black people from their homes through threats of violence and lynching.
From 15 Million Acres to 1 Million: How Black People Lost Their Land*
By David Love
Slave Quarters at the Hermitage plantation,Chatham County, Georgia
At its height, Black land ownership was impressive. At the turn of the 20th century, formerly enslaved Black people and their heirs owned 15 million acres of land, primarily in the South, mostly used for farming. In 1920, the 925,000 African-American farms represented 14% of the farms in America.
Sadly, things turned for the worse, as 600,000 Black farmers were forced off their land, with only 45,000 Black farms remaining in 1975. Now, Black folks are only 1% of rural landowners in the U.S., and under 2% of farmers. Of the 1 billion acres of arable land in America, Black people today own a little more than 1 million acres, according to AP.
During the Obama administration, the U.S. Department of Agriculture settled with Black farmers…
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July 3, 2017
CIA Officials Testify About Torture For The First Time In History
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Both of these men are former U.S. military psychologists who are regarded has the pioneers and architects of the CIA’s torture program.
June 28, 2017 by Daniel Newton
CIA officials have testified about the torture practices of the agency for the first time in a newly released deposition video. The video reveals two senior CIA officials discussing their involvement in the torture. The ACLU had originally filed a lawsuit against James Mitchell and John Bruce Jessen accusing them of operating a “joint criminal enterprise” through their promotion of violent torture methods. Both of the men are former U.S. military psychologists who are regarded has the pioneers and architects of the CIA’s torture program.
Read more at: http://www.neonnettle.com/videos/708-cia-officials-testify-about-torture-for-the-first-time-in-history
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China Will Do to Battery Prices what They Did to Solar Prices
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While Tesla may be building the biggest and splashiest factory, the Chinese government has launched a sweeping effort to increase the country’s dominant market share.
Climate Denial Crock of the Week
History.
In early 2000s, Germany adopted policies encouraging adoption of solar/renewable energy.
Policies were much more successful than imagined, sparking demand bigger than German industry could fill.
China, seeing opportunity, ramped up production.
Solar PV prices crashed globally. Leading to current explosion in deployment and near-monthly new low-cost records.
Same about to happen with Li-On batteries.
Actually, I think Elon will be fine with this.
As Elon Musk races to finish building the world’s biggest battery factory in the Nevada desert, China is poised to leave him in the dust.
Chinese companies have plans for additional factories with the capacity to pump out more than 120 gigawatt-hours a year by 2021, according to a report published this week by Bloomberg Intelligence. That’s enough to supply batteries for around 1.5 million Tesla Model S vehicles or 13.7 million Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrids per year, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
By comparison…
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Australia’s Battery Powered Solar Revolution
Battery Powered Homes
Catalyst (2016)
This is a short made-for-TV documentary promoting Australia’s preeminence in the uptake of battery based solar systems. Because solar panels don’t produce electricity at night, homeowners with solar panels must either have large enough batteries to supply their evening energy needs or purchase power from the grid to cover these periods. In 2016, thanks to major technological advances, the price of lithium solar batteries dropped from $15,000 to $10,000.
The popularity of solar batteries in Australia seems to mainly relate to the high price of grid-based power.* However there are clearly other factors. In parts of Australia, some local councils pay residents a rebate covering half the cost of their solar battery. This is because solar batteries can be crucial in fighting a severe bush fire that causes the grid to go down.
What impressed me most about the documentary was all the innovative ways battery manufacturers use to increase the uptake of their product. For example, a home owner has a number of different options in selecting a solar battery package. For $10,000 they can purchase a battery that makes them totally independent from the grid. For considerably less, they can purchase a smaller battery that stores enough electricity to get them through peak evening hours when power company charge the highest rates.
In Perth, where one out of five private homes have solar panels, battery manufacturers are collaborating with developers to construct apartment buildings with solar batteries large enough to supply all the units. In this case, the landlord will ultimately own the battery and tenants will pay their power bill to her.
Other communities with high solar panel penetration are investing in enormous batteries that supply entire neighborhoods. All surrounding solar homes feed into the battery during the day and draw from it at night.
*Typically power companies by power during the day from solar-powered homes for 7 cents a kilowatt hour and sell it back at night for 28 cents a kilowatt hour.
July 2, 2017
The Economic Motive for America’s Current Wars
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The economic reasons behind the US coup in Ukraine and current efforts to topple Assad in Syria.
Russia has long been the chief seller of energy — mainly gas and oil — in the world’s largest energy-market: the EU, or Europe. This means that U.S.-based energy companies, such as Exxon and Halliburton, aren’t the ones who dominate in supplying oil, gas, pipelines, and other energy-supplying needs, to the consumers and businesses in the world’s largest energy-market: Europe.
Around half of Russia’s gas and oil into the EU is transported there via pipelines that traverse Ukraine, and this is a major reason why the Obama Administration (which was in service to the owners of the U.S.-based international corporations and even to the Koch brothers who heavily fund the Republican Party against Obama’s Democratic Party) started, by no later than 2011, its preparations for a coup in Ukraine, which occurred in February 2014, to overthrow the democratically elected President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, who, as had been…
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