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November 15, 2016
Company Behind Dakota Access Pipeline Rounds Up Wild Buffaloes, Keeps Them Without Food Or Water
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Yesterday, Indigenous Rising Media released a video showing a large group of wild buffaloes being herded into an enclosure surrounded by 8 foot deep trenches and razor wire.
By Whitney Webb
Global Research, November 14, 2016
True Activist 13 November 2016
Though the recent protests in the US would have you think that the biggest crisis facing the United States is Donald Trump’s surprise win, Native Americans have gathered in historic numbers to defend native territory from the Dakota Access Pipeline. The pipeline, if completed, will span 1,170 miles at a cost of approximately $3.7 billion. The company behind the pipeline, Energy Transfer Partners, has pushed on with the project, despite covering up its dangers and circumventing the law.
Now, as the pipeline enters its final phase of construction in North Dakota, where most of the resistance to the pipeline is located, Energy Transfer Partners and its hired contractors have escalated tensions with protestors to protect the project as it enters its final phase. The State of North Dakota has also taken to protecting the pipeline.
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California officially becomes first state to ban plastic bags
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Plastic bags release numerous toxic chemicals when they degrade, including endocrine disruptors that cause cancer, infertility, and autoimmune and neurodevelopmental disease.
California just made history by becoming the first state in the Union to officially ban plastic bags. The California Plastic Bag Veto Referendum (Proposition 67) was approved by voters on Nov. 8 by a narrow margin of 51.97% in favor to 48.03% opposed. The narrow win came despite a $6 million campaign waged by the out-of-state plastic bag industry.
The Billionaires Who Helped Destroy Democracy
The Mayfair Set: Four Stories About the Rise of Business and the Decline of Political Power
Directed by Adam Curtis (1999)
Film Review
The Mayfair Set is a four part documentary series profiling the right wing financiers responsible for the financialization of the British-American economy in the seventies and eighties. It also explores the simultaneous transfer of real power away from elected representatives to banks and financial markets. “Mayfair Set” refers to a private London gambling club – the Clermont Club – where many of these future billionaires were members.
Part 1 – concerns British aristocrat Colonel David Sterling, founder of the British SAS (Special Air Service). In the sixties and seventies, Sterling created a series of private mercenary armies to fight independence movements in Africa and elsewhere. In addition to secretly fighting Egypt’s invasion of Yemen in 1962, he also set up numerous arms deals for Saudi Arabia,* with the assistance of notorious Saudi arms dealer, Adnan Khashoggi.** He also created the Saudi air force.
Part 2 – concerns two right wing Clermont Club members John Slater and Tiny Rollin. Slater was a corporate raider who almost singlehandedly wiped out Britain’s manufacturing sector in the seventies and eighties. He did so by targeting specific companies for hostile takeover, stripping their assets, sacking thousands of workers, and investing the proceeds in the share market. Rollin was responsible for bilking newly independent African nations of their mines, factories and plantations.
Part 3 – concerns Slater’s fellow corporate raider, Michael Goldsmith, who emigrated to the US in 1980 and paired up with junk bond guru Michael Milken to destroy America’s manufacturing base by initiating dozens of hostile takeovers of US companies. In 1990 Milken was sentenced to 3 ½ years prison on 94 counts of fraud, racketeering and insider trading.
Part 4 – concerns the rise to power of Clermont Club darling Margaret Thatcher and her (controversial) embrace of Egyptian businessman Mohamed Al-Fayed. Al-Fayed saved her government when currency speculator George Soros led a vicious attack on the British pound in 1992. Al-Fayed would subsequently blow the whistle to the Guardian on all the British MPs who accepted bribes from him. Al-Fayed was father to Dodi, the boyfriend killed in the car crash with Princess Diana.
*British arms sales to Saudi Arabia, which continue to the present day, have become extremely controversial owing to the Saudis’ carpet bombing of Yemen and the resulting humanitarian crisis. See Shelve UK arms sales to Saudis over Yemen, say two MPs’ committees
**Khashoggi first came to public attention for his role in the Iran-Contra scandal, in which George Herbert Walker Bush and other members of the Reagan administration illegally sold weapons to Iran to finance their illegal war against Nicaragua’s Sandinista government. Khashoggi also had direct links with the alleged 9-11 terrorists (see Spike the News) and was the uncle of Dodi Al Fayed, the boyfriend killed in the car crash with Princess Diana.
November 14, 2016
Trump Tackles Student Loans
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Trump has proposed capping student debt at 12.5% of their income and a debt forgiveness at 15 years.
YOUR PERCEPTION IS NOT REALITY
Trump has proposed capping student debt at 12.5% of their income and a debt forgiveness at 15 years. Yes this will cost something, but it is the only way to unwind the unfair practices of the Clintons, who made student loans non-dischargable in bankruptcy. But then the shifty bankers had often parents cosign the student loans so in effect they became collateralized and non-dischargable.
Trump’s plan is a major step in solving this problem. But to bring down the cost of education we must eliminate the free money and make schools competitive for the first time.
http://investmentwatchblog.com/trump-tackles-student-loans/
Who needs the Paris climate agreement? CO2 emissions are declining on their own
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As Gandhi taught, where people lead the leaders follow.
From the UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA
Low growth in global carbon emissions continues for third successive year
Global carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels did not grow in 2015 and are projected to rise only slightly in 2016, marking three years of almost no growth, according to researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and the Global Carbon Project.
The projected rise of only 0.2% for 2016 marks a clear break from the rapid emissions growth of 2.3% per year in the decade to 2013, with just 0.7 per cent growth seen in 2014.
The new data is published in the journal Earth System Science Data. It shows emissions growth remained below 1 per cent despite GDP growth exceeding 3 per cent.
Decreased use of coal in China is the main reason behind the 3-year slowdown.
Prof Corinne Le Quéré, Director of the Tyndall Centre at UEA who…
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Trump to Withdraw Support for Moderate Syrian Terrorists
According to the Independent, president-elect Donald Trump has confirmed campaign promises to withdraw US support for “moderate” terrorist groups in Syria.
He maintains that his administration will focus on defeating the Islamic State, and find common ground with the Syrians and their Russian backers.
Acknowledging strong dislike for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Trump asserts that shoring up his regime is the best way to stem the extremism that has flourished in the chaos of the civil war and threatens the US.
“I’ve had an opposite view of many people regarding Syria,” he said in interview with the Wall Street Journal. “My attitude was you’re fighting Syria, Syria is fighting ISIS, and you have to get rid of ISIS. Russia is now totally aligned with Syria, and now you have Iran, which is becoming powerful, because of us, is aligned with Syria.”
How strangely logical.
Read more here
November 13, 2016
2016 Election Turnout: Nearly Half of Eligible Voters Effectively Voted For No President- Americans waking to election illusion??
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Trump selected by 25.5% of eligible voters due to low turnout.
Finding Truth In an Illusory World
November 12, 2016
Nearly half of all eligible voters did not vote, according to The United States Election Project. Out of 231,556,622 in the Voting-Eligible Population (VEP), there were only 131,018,000 ballots counted.
When compared with the 2008 and 2012 elections, we see almost 9 million less people voting in 2016:
Turnout
2012 Obama: 65.9m
2016 Clinton: 59.1m = -6.8m
2012 Romney: 60.9m
2016 Trump: 59m = -1.9m
You tell me what happened
— Domenico Montanaro (@DomenicoNPR) November 9, 2016
If you count minors and mentally handicapped people, a majority of people in this country effectively voted for no president. If there were anything remotely democratic about this system, we should not see any president elected at all.
Of course, this begs the question, what could possibly grant a person the so-called right to rule others?
Can a majority create the right to rule…
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Maine Becomes First State in US to Pass Ranked Choice Voting | Boston Globe
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Hurray for Maine. At the moment 50% of the US electorate is “independent,” which means they have no voice at all. Both ranked choice voting and proportional representation (common everywhere except the US, UK and Canada) are an essential step in turning that around.
Amidst shock waves following the 2016 Election, take note of the huge win for Democracy in Maine, which was the first state to pass Rank Choice Voting.
Maine Became the First State in the Country Tuesday to Pass Ranked Choice Voting
“Supporters [of Ranked Choice Voting] say this system solves a number of election problems faced across the nation…
First, they say it resolves the conundrum of strategic voting, in which residents worry that their ballot may have a “spoiler effect” if they cast it for a third-party candidate… There is also research that shows ranked choice voting results in more civil campaigns…
~ Nik DeCosta-Klipa, Boston Globe
Old Pirates Yes They Rob I
Modern Times: The Way of All Flesh
Directed by Adam Curtis (1997)
Film Review
“Old pirates, yes, they rob I, sold I to the merchant ships” – Bob Marley (Redemption Song)
The Way of All Flesh is an early Adam Curtis documentary about an African American woman named Henrietta Lacks. While being treated for cancer in 1951, Lacks had her unique genetic material stolen without the knowledge or permission of her family. Copied and distributed around the world, her cells were referred to as HeLA cells. Unique for their ability to reproduce in a test tube, they were the source of obscene profits for several biotech and cosmetic companies.
Her children only found out after scientists approached them in the 1960s to to request samples of their genetic material. Outraged at the outright theft of their mother’s cells, they tried to sue some of the companies and were told the statute of limitations had expired.
The documentary also examines the ability of the cancer research community to shamelessly blackmail Congress and nonprofit foundations into funding research boondoggles that have no evidence base. In the 1960s they milked the unsubstantiated claim that viruses cause cancer for hundreds of millions of dollars. In the 1990s they would do the same with claims that cancer has a genetic basis.
All this, I might add despite unequivocal historical and anthropological evidence that cancer was virtually unknown before 1900 and the introduction of hundreds of toxic chemicals into our air, water and food chain.
November 12, 2016
The Joker (Trump) will reform or eliminate corrupt US Institutions?
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Good question – what are the odds of Trump abolishing the CIA?
We have Trump as the winner of the “Consenting to the lesser evil” election.
Will the drug dealing, regime changing CIA be abolished?
How about the NSA, who or what does it serve, certainly not the US people?
Will Trump audit the Federal Reserve or even abolish it?
Will Trump prosecute all executives and traders that were involved in fraud – simple financial deceits?
The joker will still rely on the inherently deceitful BAR members of the legal profession. Oh, have I gone to far? Then reader why does this profession obfuscate its assumptions, procedures, principles and maxims?
Why do BAR members continue the deceit that law can and only be practised by their licensed members?
How about Trump prosecutes fraud or collusion in the following bodies:
CDC – deceiving public about vaccine safety
FCC – hiding wireless risks to health
FDA – collusion with GMO producers
Why do we…
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