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Source: Boston Globe Posted on 08.03.10 by Steve Trinward “The Department of Defense is investigating whether 80 wounded American service members in Iraq were improperly used as subjects in a test of a possible treatment for brain injuries …. The study, sponsored by the United States Naval Medical Center in San Diego, was designed to test whether a drug made to treat Tylenol overdoses, among other uses, could also reduce the harmful effects of traumatic brain injury, such as balance loss and brain function problems, in service members who had been hit by explosions.” [editor’s note: Isn’t this the same Pentagon that callously used soldiers as guinea pigs during Nam, for everything from Agent Orange to psychedelics? - SAT] (08/03/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/26lnk8q Filed under: CANDi News and PND Events and RRND News | |
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Source: Salon Author: Dan Gillmor Posted on 07.26.10 by Thomas L. Knapp “Whatever our keepers of intelligence secrets do know, and whatever abuses they’ve done to our civil liberties to learn them, they must feel less sure today about keeping it all contained. When that many people have access to information, however compartmentalized their bosses may think they’ve made the system, some of it will get out, which leads to something else we should worry about. … The WikiLeaks war diary will absolutely spur our powerful institutions to look for increasingly draconian ways to clamp down on how we share information. What WikiLeaks represents is what governments and corporations fear: a threat to their cultures of secrecy and dominance in their domains.” (07/26/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2g7ugya Filed under: PND Events and RRND Commentary | |
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Source: Boston Globe Posted on 06.25.09 by Steve Trinward “Legislative leaders unveiled the most sweeping ethics overhaul in decades yesterday, as they attempted to move past a series of high-profile scandals on Beacon Hill and reach an accord with Governor Deval Patrick on a sales tax increase. The ethics bill — which strengthens enforcement, levies higher penalties for violations and bans nearly all gifts to public officials — is the final piece of legislation requested by the governor before he said he would consider asking Massachusetts residents to pay more at the register.” (06/25/09) Link: http://tinyurl.com/mfhng9 Filed under: CANDi News and PND Events and RRND News | |
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Source: Fox News Posted on 05.17.09 by Steve Trinward “Vice President Joe Biden, well-known for his verbal gaffes, may have finally outdone himself, divulging potentially classified information meant to save the life of a sitting vice president. According to a report, while recently attending the Gridiron Club dinner in Washington, an annual event where powerful politicians and media elite get a chance to cozy up to one another, Biden told his dinnermates about the existence of a secret bunker under the old U.S. Naval Observatory, which is now the home of the vice president. The bunker is believed to be the secure, undisclosed location former Vice President Dick Cheney remained under protection in secret after the 9/11 attacks.” (05/17/09) Link: http://tinyurl.com/qhgu78 Filed under: PND Events and RRND News | |
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Source: Associated Press Posted on 02.05.09 by Steve Trinward “Pressure from a dam, its reservoir’s heavy waters weighing on geologic fault lines, may have helped trigger China’s devastating earthquake last May, some scientists say, in a finding that suggests human activity played a role in the disaster. The magnitude-7.9 quake in Sichuan province was China’s worst in a generation, causing 70,000 deaths and leaving 5 million homeless. Just 550 yards from the fault line and 3.5 miles from the epicenter stands the 511-foot-high Zipingpu dam, the area’s largest. The quake cracked Zipingpu, forcing the reservoir to be drained. Fan Xiao, a chief engineer at the Sichuan Geology and Mineral Bureau, said Wednesday that the immense weight of Zipingpu’s waters — 315 million tons — likely affected the timing and magnitude of the quake.” (02/04/09) Link: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,487967,00.html Filed under: CANDi News and PND Events and RRND News | |
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Source: Associated Press Posted on 11.23.08 by Steve Trinward “The Albuquerque Police Department has turned to the want ads for snitches. An ad this week in the alternative newspaper The Alibi asks ‘people who hang out with crooks’ to do part-time work for the police. It reads in part: ‘Make some extra cash! Drug use and criminal record OK.’ Capt. Joe Hudson says police received more than 30 responses in two days. He says one tip was a ‘big one’ but wouldn’t elaborate. An informant whose tip helps officers arrest a drug dealer could earn $50. A tip about a murder suspect could bring up to $700.” (11/23/08) Link: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,456466,00.html Filed under: CANDi News and PND Events and RRND News | |
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Source: Mother Jones Author: Daphne Wysham Posted on 08.04.08 by Thomas L. Knapp “Bharati Chaturvedi, the director and cofounder of Chintan, a small Indian NGO that provides education to waste-pickers, claims that more than 1 percent of Delhi’s population sifts through garbage, recycling as much as 59 percent of the city’s waste. ‘These waste-pickers are providing a public service — for free,’ she says. That may soon change. A new waste incinerator that turns trash into electricity is slated to be built in Timarpur, a suburb of Delhi. Because it will reduce the amount of methane off-gassed by landfills, it will generate carbon credits under the Kyoto Protocol. But the incinerator will also emit cancer-causing dioxins, mercury, heavy metals, and fly ash. Are the carbon credits available under Kyoto’s Clean Development Mechanism worth putting thousands of impoverished waste-pickers out of business?” (07/08) Link: http://tinyurl.com/638ptj Filed under: PND Commentary and PND Events and RRND Commentary | |
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Source: San Jose Mercury News Posted on 06.18.08 by Thomas L. Knapp “A conservation group has sued the U.S. Coast Guard in an effort to protect whales from being struck by passing ships off the coast of California. The Center for Biological Diversity’s lawsuit, filed Wednesday in federal court here, seeks to force the Coast Guard to consult more closely with the National Marine Fisheries Service . The group wants the Coast Guard to adhere to Endangered Species Act rules and consult with the National Marine Fisheries Service on how best to protect endangered whales.” (06/18/08) Link: http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_9626820 Filed under: PND Events and RRND News | |
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Source: San Francisco Chronicle Posted on 05.11.08 by Steve Trinward “By declaring bankruptcy, Vallejo has thrust itself into the national spotlight as a test case for thousands of floundering cities desperate to unload their extravagant public employee contracts. ‘There’s a wave of this coming across the U.S.,’ said Sajan George, an adviser to struggling public entities who worked on restructuring Orange County after it declared bankruptcy in 1994. ‘What happens in Vallejo could definitely set a precedent.’ Battered by the plummeting housing market and skyrocketing public employee contracts, Vallejo made dubious history Tuesday night by becoming the largest California city to declare bankruptcy. The North Bay city of 117,000 was on track to start the fiscal year July 1 with a $16 million deficit and no money in reserve.” (05/11/08) Link: http://tinyurl.com/6bketo Filed under: CANDi News and PND Events and RRND News | |
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Source: Washington Post Posted on 02.20.08 by Thomas L. Knapp “Sen. Barack Obama won the Wisconsin Democratic primary and the Hawaii caucuses decisively last night, extending his winning streak to ten consecutive contests and dealing another significant blow to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, whose imperiled presidential candidacy now hangs on the outcome of showdowns in Ohio and Texas in two weeks. After a week of sparring that included the first negative ads of the campaign, Obama emerged victorious in the critical general-election battleground state of Wisconsin, and was treated to favorite son status with a lopsided win in Hawaii, where he was born. … In Wisconsin’s Republican primary, Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) won an easy victory over former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, moving him ever closer to clinching the party’s nomination.” (02/20/08) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2vpu3w Filed under: PND Events and RRND News | |
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Source: We The People Radio Network Event Date(s): 08/30/07 Posted on 08.30.07 by Steve Trinward Income tax activist Larken Rose on Michael Badnarik’s “Lighting the Fires of Liberty.” 7-9am CST on We The People Radio Network. [live stream] (08/30/07) Link: http://www.wtprn.com/listen.shtml Filed under: PND Events and RRND Audio and Video | |
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Source: AntiWar.Com Posted on 07.23.07 by Thomas L. Knapp “Daniel Ellsberg, heroic antiwar activist and the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers, compares and contrasts the Iraq and Vietnam wars and discusses the abdication by the cowardly Congress of their authority over the American government’s war powers, torture, his wish that more whistleblowers would come forward and David Petraeus’ dishonor.” [Flash audio or MP3] (07/20/07) Link: http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2007/07/20/daniel-ellsberg-2/ Filed under: PND Events and RRND Audio and Video | |
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Source: Filibuster for Peace Event Date(s): ongoing Posted on 03.08.07 by Mary Lou Seymour Petition calling on the U.S. Senate to filibuster and end the war in Iraq. (03/07) Link: http://www.filibusterforpeace.org/ Filed under: LAND Action Items and PND Events and RRND Events | |
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Source: Wikileaks Posted on 01.25.07 by Thomas L. Knapp “Wikileaks is developing an uncensorable Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis. Our primary interests are oppressive regimes in Asia, the former Soviet bloc, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, but we also expect to be of assistance to those in the west who wish to reveal unethical behavior in their own governments and corporations. We aim for maximum political impact; this means our interface is identical to Wikipedia and usable by non-technical people. We have received over 1.2 million documents so far from dissident communities and anonymous sources.” [A website for government whistleblowers] (01/07) Link: http://wikileaks.org/ Filed under: LAND Action Items and PND Events and RRND Events | |
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Source: The Libertarian Enterprise Author: Mike Rster Event Date(s): 01/30/07 Posted on 01.07.07 by Mary Lou Seymour “The Libertarian Solutions (LS) Network is proud to announce its first round of prizes. We are offering a one-ounce coin of pure silver for the ten best ideas submitted. We are searching for actions that would serve as stepping-stones to a libertarian society in the United States of America! Time limit: 1/30/07.” (01/07/07) Link: http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2007/tle400-20070107-05.html Filed under: LAND Action Items and PND Events and RRND Events | |
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Source: Out Now Posted on 01.02.07 by Mary Lou Seymour Signable online petition. (01/07) Link: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/OutNow/ Filed under: LAND Action Items and PND Events and RRND Events | |
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Source: VOTE NOW Event Date(s): thru 11/07/06 Posted on 10.18.06 by Thomas L. Knapp “1. Download the PDF Poster 2. Print it, and post it around town and in your cubicle. 3. Tell your friends. Send it to your mom. Email them the link: votenow.pbwiki.com/f/votenow.pdf 4. On Tuesday, November 7, 2006: grab a group of friends. Get your ID. Go VOTE. BE HEARD.” Link: http://votenow.pbwiki.com/ Filed under: LAND Action Items and PND Events and RRND Events | |
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Source: Drug Policy Alliance Event Date(s): ongoing Posted on 05.22.06 by Steve Trinward “Tell Congress to stop wasting your tax money on those stupid anti-marijuana commercials. You know the ones that compare marijuana smokers to terrorists and claim marijuana will make you crazy, get you raped, cause you to shoot your neighbor and give you bird flu. Ok, we made that last one up. But, doesn’t it sound like something the government would say? Take action today.” (05/22/06) Link: http://tinyurl.com/sxeyr Filed under: LAND Action Items and PND Events | |
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Source: Strike the Root Event Date(s): ongoing Posted on 05.12.06 by Mary Lou Seymour Strike the Root is putting together a list of corporations that freedom-minded people should boycott. If you’d like to suggest a company, e-mail the name and a link that explains why. (05/12/06) Link: http://www.strike-the-root.com/boycott.html Filed under: LAND Action Items and PND Events | |
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Source: TV Turnoff Event Date(s): April 24-30 Posted on 04.27.06 by Mary Lou Seymour “Empowering people to take control of technology and not letting technology take control of them so they can live healthier lives.” Link: http://www.tvturnoff.org/ Filed under: LAND Action Items and PND Events | |
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Source: Get Human Event Date(s): ongoing Posted on 03.19.06 by Mary Lou Seymour “Our goal is to improve the quality of customer service and phone support in the US. This free website is run by volunteers and is powered by over one million consumers who demand high quality phone support from the companies that they use. The most popular part of the gethuman website is the gethuman database of secret phone numbers and codes to get to a human when calling a company for customer service. Please help us grow our customer support ratings database by taking a moment to rate the quality of support you receive when calling a consumer company you use.” [editor’s note: OK, this is a really useful service! Spread the word, particularly to your elderly friends/relatives who really really HATE talking to machines - MLS] Link: http://www.gethuman.com/us/ Filed under: 2AM Events and LAND Action Items and PND Events | |
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Source: BartCop Event Date(s): 06/14/06 Posted on 03.19.06 by Mary Lou Seymour “I’m 61 years old and have been active in progressive politics since my teens. I’ve marched for civil rights and against war. I vote and volunteer in almost every election. I write and call my Senators and Congressmen. I’ve published a newspaper and books. I’ve served in the military and paid my taxes and nothing seems to help. Now my beloved America is in the hands of fa[s]cists. And doing what I’ve been doing all these years isn’t going to change that, so there is only one option left. I’m not going to work on Maggies Farm anymore. I’m asking everybody in America that is sick of how things are going, sick of watching our kids die in an illegal war, sick of watching our environment being sold to the highest bidder and raped, sick of nothaving our votes counted, sick of watching right-wing zealots take a woman’s right to controll her own body away, sick of watching the Constitution being ripped to shreads, sick of how long this list would have to be to cover all of the things that we are sick and tired of seeing happen to our country, to join me in calling in sick on Flag Day June 14th 2006.” (03/18/06) Link: http://www.bartcop.com/billy-legal.htm Filed under: LAND Action Items and PND Events | |
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Source: Graphix4Change Event Date(s): ongoing Posted on 03.19.06 by Mary Lou Seymour “Graphix4change is not an organization but an ongoing artistic and educational project designed to promote social and political change through the use of design and satire. The goal of graphix4change is to subvert everyday consumer images into a commentary on the current state of politics in America and the world. … Current products include Updates to the Patriot Act: The Home Version game. The game that is being played across America and around the world now includes updates on GITMO, NSA wiretaps, and the renewal of the Patriot Act. Download the new cards NOW! New design spoofing the NSA Domestic Spying is available through CafePress and ready for mass consumption!” (03/06) Link: http://www.graphix4change.com/ Filed under: 2AM Events and LAND Action Items and PND Events | |
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Source: Black Shamrock Event Date(s): ongoing Posted on 03.17.06 by Mary Lou Seymour “Welcome to the Black Shamrock dot org, the website of the Black Shamrock Campaign, where people are invited to post photographs of the Black Shamrock at various locations in Ireland and throughout the world. The Black Shamrock symbolises our mourning for all those who died as a result of Irish collaboration in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, for which the airports at Shannon, Aldergrove and Baldonnel have become pit-stops. It also symbolises our mourning for the loss of Irish Neutrality. … The Black Shamrock is also, of course, a symbol of resistance. In wearing it, all of those who do declare their opposition to any Irish involvement, be it economic, strategic or logistical, in the unjust and illegal wars.” (03/17/06) Link: http://blackshamrock.org/ Filed under: LAND Action Items and PND Events | |
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Source: United for Peace and Justice Event Date(s): 03/15/06-03/22/06 Posted on 03.15.06 by Mary Lou Seymour “March 19th will mark the third anniversary of a war that never should have happened — a war based on lies that continues to devastate the lives of thousands, both in Iraq and the United States. United for Peace and Justice joins our partners in the global antiwar movement in calling for a massive outpouring of opposition to the war in Iraq. We are urging opponents of the war to organize a wide array of events in their hometowns for the entire week surrounding this anniversary. … Find an event in your state.” (03/14/06) Link: http://tinyurl.com/kguty Filed under: LAND Action Items and PND Events | |
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Source: What is Liberalism? Event Date(s): ongoing Posted on 02.09.06 by Mary Lou Seymour “The law has been misapplied to Cory Maye. If an unidentified intruder were to burst into our home in the middle of the night, we would be within our rights to defend ourselves and our children. Given the law of Mississippi, Cory Maye acted within his right on the night of December 26th, 2001. It is a great tragedy that a police officer lost his life in this encounter. The execution of Cory Maye would magnify the tragedy, killing an innocent citizen because of the death of an officer. Haley Barbour, the governor of Mississippi, should grant an unconditional pardon to Cory Maye.” Link: http://www.whatisliberalism.com/index.php?pageId=87667 Filed under: 2AM Events and LAND Action Items and PND Events | |
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Source: Progress Now Event Date(s): ongoing Posted on 01.31.06 by Mary Lou Seymour “If you have found little to laugh about over President Bush’s domestic spying program, well, it’s your lucky day. We here at ProgressTV decided to have some fun. So, we produced a little video for your enjoyment. However, illegal spying on U.S. citizens is not funny. That is why we are asking everyone across the nation to sign the ‘No-Spy’ list. If you don’t want the government eavesdropping on your phone calls, emails, and internet searches, Sign the No-Spy List.” (01/31/06) Link: http://tinyurl.com/dmwf9 Filed under: LAND Action Items and PND Events | |
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Source: American Civil Liberties Union Posted on 12.22.05 by Mary Lou Seymour “When President Bush secretly authorized the National Security Agency to spy on Americans, he may [sic] have violated the Constitution and his oath of office. No American is beneath the law’s protection. And no one — not even a U.S. president — is above the law’s limits. Our system of checks and balances must be maintained if American democracy is to be preserved. Send an email to your senators telling them to insist that the Department of Justice appoint a special counsel .” (12/22/05) Link: http://tinyurl.com/8oba8 Filed under: LAND Action Items and PND Events | |
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Source: NationalPriorities.org Event Date(s): ongoing Posted on 12.10.05 by Steve Trinward Below is a running total of the U.S. taxpayer cost of the Iraq War. The number is based on Congressional appropriations. Or compare to the cost of: PRE-SCHOOL … KIDS’ HEALTH … PUBLIC EDUCATION … COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS … PUBLIC HOUSING … WORLD HUNGER … AIDS EPIDEMIC … WORLD IMMUNIZATION … Link: http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182 Filed under: PND Events | |
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Source: American Civil Liberties Union Event Date(s): ongoing Posted on 08.27.05 by Mary Lou Seymour “Though we cannot say more because of an FBI gag order, the ACLU recently disclosed the existence of a sealed suit on behalf of a member of the American Library Association challenging the constitutionality of ‘national security letter’ authority, which was expanded by the Patriot Act. Our client, which maintains records about books borrowed by library patrons and about their Internet usage, was ordered to produce records without any judicial review. If you think secret searches and the powers of the Patriot Act are too overreaching, take action today! Our client wants to tell the American public about the dangers of allowing the FBI to demand library records without court approval. But the Patriot Act is gagging them from participating in the crucial public debate about the Patriot Act. If our client could speak, he could explain why Congress needs to reform the Patriot Act to protect our privacy and civil liberties. We’ve gone to Court to get the gag lifted before Congress votes. Right now we need you to tell Congress what our client can’t tell them.” (08/26/05) Link: http://tinyurl.com/9pez8 Filed under: LAND Action Items and PND Events | |
