Sunday, April 21, 2013

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Balochistan, PakistanBalochistan, Pakistan (Photo credit: 350.org)
Kirani, Balochistan (Pakistan)Kirani, Balochistan (Pakistan) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Port AinéPort Ainé (Photo credit: David Domingo)
English: A Hut frame near City of Awaran, in B...English: A Hut frame near City of Awaran, in Balochistan, Pakistan. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Landscape of Beautiful Balochistan, P...English: Landscape of Beautiful Balochistan, Pakistan (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Buzi PassBuzi Pass (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Districts of Balochistan (Pakistan) a...English: Districts of Balochistan (Pakistan) as of October 2010 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Pakistan's unending battle over Balochistan

While attention focuses on the restive northwest, southwest Balochistan has been a bloody battleground since 2005.


6h
Lynn White, Jr.: The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis (1967, .pdf)

7h
"I am doing this because the river is still full of oil." Protestors @ Kalamazoo spill site

7h
Most Christian pastors still deny global climate change

6h
Video: US high schoolers defy dance segregation


6h
LIVE: Italy restreaming Power to People (live at
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6h
Hundreds of alterations and potential drug targets to starve cancer tumors identified

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Media discussions I heard today on TV: everything we do is captured by the Surveillance State now. Isn't that awesome!
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If someone tells you they don't care about privacy, ask to put a video camera in their bedroom & to give you their email passwords

19 Apr
Somewhere, there is a drone lobby PR rep whispering this question in every reporter's ear: "Could drones have found Boston suspects sooner?"

4h
The Blue Girl Daily is out!
▸ Top stories today via

http://blog.showmeprogress.com/diary/8363/cheney-the-interrogator brought forth a must read comment by Charles P. Pierce. Last sentence : Seeing Dzhokhar Tsarnaev walk into an ordinary courtroom in an ordinary courthouse on as ordinary as day as possible would be worth a hundred healing services, and a thousand well-sung National Anthems, and a million waving flags in terms of restating who and what we are....


http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/04/21/can-tsarnaev-be-ruled-an-enemy-combatent/

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/04/the-russian-connection-what-can-moscows-tip-tell-us-about-the-boston-bombings.php

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/21/us-syria-crisis-lebanon-idUSBRE93K0DN20130421
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hundreds dead/injured as blowback bolsters heavily armed Al Qaeda in ...
( What's wrong with this picture ? Oh right - al Qaeda is a CIA/black ops front )

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propaganda alert: after massive defeat of Al Qaeda terrorists near - West cries "massacre," using tag

  1. 8h
    Al Qaeda claim 85 killed in Jdiadet al-Fadl, - admit 250 "rebels" were in area - sounds like SAA just doing their job

4h
Chart of the Day: Why Global Recovery Has Been So Slow



http://www.npr.org/2013/04/21/178181779/thirsty-states-take-water-battle-to-supreme-court


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RT : Sichuan earthquake leaves devastation - in pictures | guardian
by


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Video: Illegal infant trade thrives in Philippines

6h
How to build a Zero-Energy Consumption Home
A home that creates & then uses its own energy....


5h
New Private Rocket Launches Into Orbit On Maiden Voyage

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Lufthansa cancels all but 30 of its 1,700 Monday flights due to strike -

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With 90% of Americans on his side, he could get only 54 votes in the Senate...No one on Capitol Hill is scared of him

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-abortion-rights/2013/04/18/bd53c884-a5e5-11e2-b029-8fb7e977ef71_story.html

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HOMEFRONT – DHS Secretly Engaging In AR-15 Urban Close Combat Training, Buying Prisons, Prepping For ...


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Boston lockdown: The new normal?
Wish more people were worried about this.

7h
Can u confirm?: Miranda rights exist, despite bng read or not. Only "enemy combatant" declaration removes them?

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Brilliant, humane comment on week that was/Boston, West, Newtown: For Whom the Bells Toll, For Whom the Alarms Ring/

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One take way of this amazing piece. Pretty clear Dzhokar was the one who killed his older brother


1h
Tamerlan Tsarnaev called his mom as the police chased him: "The police, they have started shooting at us."

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    Clearly without reddit these malefactors wld still be at large. So lets give credit where credit is due.

6h
Boston And The Right-Wing Media's Collapse


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Gun control is about the state controlling all the

5h
The Scalia/Stevens argument against holding US citizens as "enemy combatants" was cited here by

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Our costly, liberties-compromising Surveillance State failed to prevent the Boston bombing -- or capture the suspects

4h
Fox News guest who will NOT be returning soon (terrorism expert P. Mudd): "This looks more to me like Columbine than it does like Al Qaeda"


  1. 1h
    Student charged after refusing to remove NRA shirt

4h
Conservative opposition to immigration reform driven by lack of trust
( Follow the money )

(If, like a corporation, it can't walk  or talk, what sort of individual social presence can it have to preserve  via anti 'murder' law?  Anybody want to take that energy towards abolishing nuclear weapons...real ones rather than the potential to make them ? Obviously such would be - judging by the demonization of NPT signatories - treasonous. One day I'm going to have to watch Peter Sellers' classic again ; Dr. Strangelove : Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb )  )
1h
This is where fetal "personhood" inevitably leads
excerpt The 22-year-old mother of one, identified only as Beatriz, is four-and-a-half months pregnant, but her doctors have confirmed that the fetus has anencephaly (developing without a brain and certain parts of the skull) and that the pregnancy is nonviable. In addition to the fetal diagnosis, Beatriz is experiencing critical health complications related to her lupus and kidney disease.

The hospital treating Beatriz requested legal permission to perform the abortion more than a month ago, but authorities have still not agreed to let them proceed. Now, if government policy and religious ideology interfering with a woman’s right to access abortion care or a doctor’s ability to exercise medical judgment and save a woman’s life sounds familiar, it should.

3h
How The NRA Impeded The Bomber Investigation


24m
Natural gas storage facility explodes and burns.
Valves malfunction all the time

  1. 2h
    LOL Of The Week Explosion Illuminates Glaring Hypocrisy Of Rick Perry And Ted Cruz



  1. 35m
    Almost half of NYC's population is poor or near-poor, raising concerns about cutbacks in federal programs.


City Report Shows a Growing Number Are Near Poverty


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1h
Koch Brothers plan to buy up 8 major newspapers:
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    "Wal-Mart’s business model runs on the art of delusion."

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In the Atlantic, : Falsely Accused in Boston: 3 Examples and What They Should Teach Us

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Enemy Combatants in Boston
  1. 1h
    : Worse than the Patriot Act | Interview with Michelle Richardson:
    via
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End Overseas Tax Loopholes For US Corporations

3h
We must reduce the deficit, but not on the backs of some of the most vulnerable people in this country.
( What ? Tax the people with the ability to pay ? Either that's communist...or good business...and standard policy in the courts )

8h
NYT says welfare state makes Danes not want to work, but Denmark has a higher share of workers than America:
( Matter of fact, anyone who has been bailed out of crisis by welfare will tell you getting you back to work is Job 1 )

34m
I love that the GOP would consider Scott Walker who took WI from 11th to 44th in job creation as their 2016 nominee.

  1. 1h
    The right: Sick fascist monsters from hell.

1h
OP-ED COLUMNIST; The Jobless Trap

3h
VA says it will expedite benefits claims older than a year:
That applies to 244,000 veterans:

4h
American citizen Andrew George Blake, English teacher, beaten & detained in left w/o embassy support for 3 days (via )

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Re-reading book "Fear: The History of a Political Idea" Corey's writing is always rewarding, but especially so this week.


Meanwhile in America's terrorist prison camp

by digby

This is happening.  Right now.
A week after a raid that put Guantanamo Bay's largest and most communal prison camp under lockdown, the number of detainees the U.S. military says are participating in a 10-week-long hunger strike has grown to 63 of the 166 men held at the camp -- more than one-third of the men incarcerated there, according to the Defense Department.

Just a week ago, the Pentagon's official tally was 42 men on hunger strike at the prison camp.

Fifteen of the hunger strikers are currently being force-fed liquid nutrients, "to preserve life or prevent serious self-harm," said Guantanamo spokesman Capt. Robert Durand. The process involves a detainee being strapped to a chair and having Ensure poured into a plastic tube that runs down his nose and throat.

In the past eight days, Durand said two detainees had tried to commit suicide by hanging themselves. 
Newman and other detainee attorneys say, besides discontent over more invasive cell inspections, the underlying cause of the hunger strike is indefinite detention without charges coupled with the knowledge that half the detainees have been approved for transfer but are not leaving.

"I have no reason to believe that I will ever leave this prison alive," Madhwani stated in a written declaration. "Indefinite detention is the worst form of torture. I am an innocent man. I have never done anything against the United States, and I never would." 
By the end of September 2003, the official number of suicide attempts by inmates was 32, but the rate has declined recently-not because the detainees have stopped trying to hang themselves but because their attempts have been reclassified. Gitmo has apparently spawned numerous cases of a rare condition: "manipulative self-injurious behavior," or S.I.B. That, says chief surgeon Captain Stephen Edmondson, means "the individual's state of mind is such that they did not sincerely want to end their own life." Instead, they supposedly thought they could get better treatment, perhaps even obtain release. In the last six months, there have been 40 such incidents.
Article 5 of the 1975 World Medical Association Tokyo Declaration, which US doctors are legally bound to observe through their membership of the American Medical Association, states that doctors must not undertake force-feeding under any circumstances.


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Why Listening to Music Makes Us Feel So Good

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This tool pairs Rotten Tomatoes rankings with Netflix to help you make better picks. -

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RT : Attention documentary-lovers: You'll love the top 5 investigative videos of the week
via


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    Gunmen storm the premises of a critical Tamil newspaper. takes a look |

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Want to see this? Look up tonight. Lyrid meteor shower peaks tonight. More:


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    Fight with us against the Internet's newest threat, Let's stop this terrible bill.
    via

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A turn to religion split the Boston bomb suspects' home and put their family in turmoil.




Bomb Suspects' Home Split Over Religion


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How The NRA Prevents Law Enforcement From Catching Violent Terrorists



  1. 1h
    Police perform house-to-house raids in Watertown MA ripping innocent families from their homes


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