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29 November 2011
Anonymously Explaining Pakistan Deaths
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting Today at 17:34
A New York Times piece today (11/29/11) about the U.S. airstrikes that apparently killed 24 Pakistani soldiers opens with Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani speaking publicly about the incident, as does Pakistani military spokesperson Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas.
29 November 2011 — williambowles.info
UK embassy stormed in Tehran, British flag burned, Iranian raised
Russiatoday.ru Today at 12:55
Several dozen Iranian students have stormed the UK embassy in Tehran, chanting ‘death to England’ and bringing down the British flag.
26 November 2011 — Global Research
The name “Arab Spring” is a catch phrase concocted in distant offices in Washington, London, Paris, and Brussels by individuals and groups who, other than having some superficial knowledge of the region, know very little about the Arabs. What is unfolding amongst the Arab peoples is naturally a mixed package. Insurgency is part of this package as is opportunism. Where there is revolution, there is always counter-revolution.
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29 November 2011 — williambowles.info
WikiLeaks awarded at Walkleys
SBS
Julian Assange has launched a broadside against Prime Minister Julia Gilard while accepting WikiLeaks’ award for Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism at the 2011 Walkleys. Assange’s pre-recorded speech was played at the award ceremony, …
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1608279/WikiLeaks-awarded-at-Walkleys
28 November 2011 — COHA
This analysis was prepared by COHA Research Associate Courtney Frantz
29 November 2011 — Stop NATO
29 November 2011 — williambowles.info
29 November 2011
BREAKING: Military Confrontation between Washington and Moscow? Russian Warships head for Syria
GlobalResearch.ca Tomorrow at 04:22
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29 November 2011 — 600 Libyans ‘already fighting in Syria’ — RT
The Libyan government apparently wants to share its successful experience of overthrowing the Gaddafi regime with like-minded Syrians. It has sent 600 of its troops to support local militants against the Assad regime, according to media reports.
28 November 2011 — Bikya Masr
Document of importation of tear gas
CAIRO: The arrival of 7 and half tons of tear gas to Egypt’s Suez port created conflict after the responsible officials at the port refused to sign and accept it for fear it would be used to crackdown on Egyptian protesters.
Local news sites published documents regarding the shipment shows that the cargo that arrived in 479 barrels from the United States was scheduled to be delivered to the ministry of interior.
29 November 2011 — Update from the Electronic Intifada
Bono must ditch Belgian maker of warplane parts for Israel
By David Cronin, 27 November 2011
The firm that installed screens and lightning on U2′s stage for its world tour also supplies components to Israel’s war industry.
http://electronicintifada.net/blog/david/bono-must-ditch-belgian-maker-warplane-parts-israel
28 November 2011 — VTJP
News
International Middle East Media Center
Four Katyusha Rockets Reportedly Fired Into Northern Israel
IMEMC – Israeli daily, Haaretz, reported that four Katyusha rockets were fired from Lebanon into an area in northern Israel on Monday at night, causing damage and fire to a building but no injuries. …
18 October 2011 — Nikolay Starikov
A week ago I wrote that the “Arab Spring” broke down, and its sponsors from special services in USA and Great Britain found out they were having huge problems in implementing their “revolutionary projects”. Continue reading this post...
28 November, 2011 — Frugal Dad
Four food giants had total sales of $240 billion in 2010, more than the GDPs of 148 countries
From Frugal Dad: Take a look at this infographic from the Frugal Dad team. I’ve said it a million times – you get what you pay for, and cheap food is no exception. The amount of consolidation in the industry is shocking, and it’s not getting better any time soon.
28 November, 2011 — Climate and Capitalism
“this timely work methodically reviews and demolishes the pseudo-science of Populationism … reinforcing humanist and internationalist arguments exposing the methods and politics and pseudo-statistics of populationist organisations”
jason 00:08 on December 10, 2011 Permalink |
Can’t handle the truth, eh?
jason 07:06 on December 9, 2011 Permalink |
So the Earth can support 700 trillion people? Oh, it can’t? Then there are limits to how many people it can support? Oh.
To say that our overconsumption of the planet’s resources is caused only by per-person consumption and has nothing to do with our ever-multiplying numbers is pseudo-science at its worst and so ridiculous, it’s amazing that anyone but rightwing nut jobs would take the idea seriously. The science of carrying capacity is the rockbed of sustainability. And anyone with a brain the size of a pea should know that it is not possible for a population to grow indefinitely without also increasing its total consumption and severe negative impacts on people and planet.
Carrying capacity is also social as well as biophysical in scope. Just because it may be possible to crowd more people into one place doesn’t mean that it is wise or compassionate to do so. What happens to quality of life when solitude, quiet, elbow room, and sensitive connections to unconfined nature are taken away? What other kinds of losses in quality of life transpire as more and more people take up less and less limited space, piling up higher and higher away from solid organic ground?
Quoting Betsy Harmon is like quoting a braying donkey, for few people write with as much hatred in their tone as she. It’s like a person who keeps their dog tied up in their yard all day barking constantly and doesn’t ever take it out for walks, and when a neighbor complains, the owner says, “you’re complaining because you don’t like dogs.” No, the owner is the one who doesn’t like dogs, in particular her own dog.
So why is it okay and compassionate to suggest to people that they reduce their per-person consumption but it’s not okay and hateful to suggest to people that it’s okay not to have kids if they don’t want them or to only have two or fewer? Maybe you hate people because you don’t want them to enjoy being able to have nice things and to play with their toys or to have more leisure time with their friends and family. Maybe you hate people because you want to see more and more of them imprisoned, miserable and dying off under increasingly crowded and desertifying conditions.
What is the cause of overpopulation? The dominator style economic and political system. Whenever communities live free of such systems, they naturally keep their populations in check because their continuance is dependent upon staying within the limits of local natural resources. The dominator style systems disrupt the co-relationship that communities have with these limits and thus they start overpopulating and overconsuming unaware that they are not only depleting their own local resources but also depleting resources in other regions and thereby causing hardship and suffering abroad.
To suggest tacitly or otherwise, then, that our population can and should keep growing unchecked is not only boneheaded, but cruel.