"Vultures' Picnic" - Greg Palast (video)

Wisdom Quarterly

On April 20, 2010, British Petroleum's Deepwater Horizon exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 men and spilling countless barrels of crude oil into the sea.

Days later a confidential cable from a terrified insider arrived on investigative reporter Greg Palast's desk. He had the real, hushed-up facts of the disaster -- facts that can only be found buried in the files of a Central Asian dictatorship.

Vultures' Picnic charts the course of Palast's quest to bring the truth of the BP disaster to light as he and his team of journalist-detectives go from the streets of Baku, where Palast searches for a brown valise full of... More



(KnewWorldNoing) Libya a victim of the giant US investment bank Goldman Sachs? The bank is being investigated for its part in the financial crisis. It lost a billion dollar investment made by Libya three years ago.

12,000 protesters surround White House

Protesters unite, President responds
(treehugger.com/HuffingtonPost.com)

Obama delays Tar Sands oil pipeline decision until 2013

(Democracy Now!) Environmental activists are claiming victory after the Obama administration announced Thursday it will postpone any decision on the proposed 1,700-mile Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline until 2013.

The announcement was made just days after more than 10,000 people encircled the White House calling on Pres. Obama to reject the project. This was the second major action against the project organized by Bill McKibben’s 350.org and Tar Sands Action.

(thinkprogrees.org)

In late August and early September, some 1,200 people were arrested in Washington, D.C., in a two-week campaign of civil disobedience.

"We believe that this delay will kill the pipeline," says the Canadian author and activist Naomi Klein. "If it doesn’t, if this pipeline reemerges after the election, people have signed pledges saying they will put their bodies on the line to stop it." More

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Sunday protest: Keystone Tar Sands Pipeline

PROTEST SUNDAY, NOV. 6, 2011 D.C. AND L.A.
Washington Post ad: Obama, say no to tyranny; reject Keystone

• We will return to DC to encircle the White House asking Obama to reject the tar sands pipeline.

This is a call to action. It was issued by a diverse group of movement leaders. The goal is to bring together a massive rally on November 6th in Washington DC. To join the rally, sign up.

We need your help. People got out of jail in DC after two weeks of civil disobedience that led to 1,253 brave people ending up in handcuffs to stop the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.

It was the largest such action in decades. And because of their leadership, lots has begun to happen:

The Dalai Lama and Archbishop Tutu along with seven other Nobel Peace Prize winners wrote a letter to the president asking that he block the pipeline. They acknowledged the actions of those in DC:

“These brave individuals have spoken movingly about experiencing the power of nonviolence in that time. They represent millions of people whose lives and livelihoods will be affected by construction and operation of the pipeline.”

At Pres. Obama’s first public speech since the sit-ins ended, a hardy bunch of University of Richmond students unfurled a huge banner demanding that the president veto the pipeline -- followed by similar actions in Columbus, Ohio, Raleigh North Carolina, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Wilmington, Delaware, and many others.

Meeting on the Rosebud Sioux reservation last week, Native tribal leaders from both sides of the border and private land owners from South Dakota and Nebraska signed a "Mother Earth Accord" opposing Keystone XL and the tar sands.

These are the people who started this fight, and they’re being joined by everyone right down to Nebraska Cornhusker football fans who booed lustily when a Keystone ad showed up on the Jumbotron at a recent game. The next day the university ended their sponsorship deal with Trans-Canada Pipeline.

(Amy Dewan/HuffingtonPost.com)

Even as we issue this letter, Canadian activists by the hundreds are risking arrest on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. And brave protesters are trying to block shipments of heavy equipment to Alberta from Idaho and Montana.

These are remarkable signs of continent-wide protest.

Huge wildfires driven by the worst drought in Texas history have destroyed towns and killed people; the biggest rainfalls ever recorded have done similar damage in New Jersey, New York, and Vermont. There is real momentum for action and real need.

We have less than 90 days to convince the president not to approve the pipeline. We need to keep using our creativity and bodies as a part of this struggle -- to struggle even though there is no guarantee of victory. Here’s the plan in three stages... More

Do you think I enjoy lying and being the spokesman for the military-industrial complex?

Killing humans for "sport"

US troops train for planned authoritarian society

Soldiers kill civilians and develop a taste for it. Police departments hire them.

US soldiers killed civilians, collected trophies
Twelve American soldiers face charges over a secret "kill team" that allegedly blew up and shot Afghan civilians at random and collected their fingers as trophies. Their secret serial "kill team" collected fingers as trophies. More

Soldiers plotted to kill Afghan civilians for "sport" -- Andrew Holmes, Michael Wagnon, Jeremy Morlock, and Adam Winfield face murder charges (Guardian.co.uk).

US soldiers in court for killing civilians for sport

TheAustralian.com.au

The unit was "out of control," prosecutors said as the ringleader of the so-called "kill team" faced court martial.

Military prosecutor Dan Mazzone said Staff Sergeant Calvin Gibbs, 26, took such pride in his murderous behavior that he had his soldiers pose for photos with the dead. He also cut off fingers of his victims and kept them as souvenirs [a behavior common to serial killers and US War on Vietnam soldiers seeking "trophies"].

Gibbs faces a maximum sentence of life in prison over charges including three counts of premeditated murder, in a scandal that has threatened Abu Ghraib-style embarrassment for the US military.

"You're going to learn that this platoon (was) out of control," Mr. Mazzone said in an opening statement to Gibbs' court martial, which began on Friday with jury selection.

Gibbs is accused of staging the killings between January and March 2010 to make them look like legitimate combat casualties. If convicted he faces a maximum punishment of life in prison without parole. More

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The Planned Authoritarian Society

(TheAlexJonesChannel) Alan Watt talks to InfoWars.com about the
New World Order and its globalist agenda for world enslavement.
Cuttingthroughthematrix.com

Kaddafi is alive; Western media hoax (video)

The official reports coming over the Western media are false. Gaddafi (Kaddafi, Qaddafi) is alive -- injured or not, RT was told by Stephen Lendman, an American radio host, author, and blogger, who got the news from the independent Mathaba News agency.

­“I’m very skeptical of the so-called official reports,” at least media from NATO countries taking part in the Libyan campaign should be distrusted.

The blogger also does not believe the latest news that one of Gaddafi's sons, Mutasim, has also reportedly just been killed in Sirte.

“Western media reports are absolutely falsified -- Sirte is not controlled by the NTC, neither is Bani Walid, and as a matter of fact, Tripoli as well,” states Stephen Lendman, saying he admires the loyalist forces who, after seven months of hard stand-off against the world’s most advanced military powers, have the ability to continue fight against Western-led mercenaries.

“Western media is lying, the official reports are lying -- the balance is going back and force,” he claims.

Stephen Lendman informs that as far as he knows, most of the Libyan cities -- including that of Benghazi -- are under loyalist control. More

"GasHole" - alternative fuels vs. oil (trailer)

(DocumentaryTrailers)

"GasHole" is a documentary film about the history of petroleum prices and the future of alternative fuels. The film is a wide yet detailed examination of US dependence on foreign oil supplies. What are the causes that turned America from a leading exporter to the world's largest importer? What are the forces that contributed to that change and that impede its solution?

There are many potential solutions to our oil dependence. Starting with claims of buried technology that easily and dramatically improves gas mileage right now, to navigating bureaucratic and industry roadblocks, to evaluating different fuels available, to questioning the American consumer's reluctance to embrace alternatives. If you buy gasoline, see this movie! Directed by Scott Roberts and Jeremy Wagener.

An optimistic (and witty) discovery of what we do, could do, and
might do to prevent this climate crisis. Directed by Peter Byck.

Living Electric Universe (Not Dying Nuclear)

(77GSlinger)

Simple facts obliterate several of the pillars of egghead "mythematical psyence." While scientific method is a wonder, it is not allowed to work. Popular pseudo-science is owned by energy barons, corporate warmongers, and the central banks that fund the corporations.

"Quackademic" theories are forced on school systems, which do not allow their own teachers to instruct according to conscience or studies that contradict the issued textbook. The result is a kind of mind control limiting what is "acceptable" discourse. Contradictory science is ignored. Teaching falsehoods enslaves us with limiting ideas for decades. But even future generations do not get the truth that eventually comes out. Instead, they get a new party line to toe.

For example, explosion-based technologies (nuclear, coal, gas, oil) that burn fuels that multinational companies harvest and sell at top dollar are the only technologies we are taught. The history we are taught glorifies conquest and illegal resource acquisition.

Why are we not taught about free energy technologies?

Fuels and distribution-systems for fuels that have been built on the backs of millions of innocent and exploited people in oil producing lands are relentlessly promoted. Who owns the world, and who controls the system that enslaves us, pollutes us, and ruins the world while not even having the decency to fund the clean up? More

To Delight in (Osama bin Laden's) Killing

Wisdom Quarterly
(upi.com)

The Karma
Staged gathering to incense Muslims around the world (like burning a Koran, making sure Afghans know it and riot about it to justify a subsequent backlash against them) or the youthful and spontaneous bad karma of schadenfreude masked as "patriotism"? To delight in killing or to call for killing means one approves of it. This is the mental and verbal karma of "taking the lives of living beings." Almost as bad is the delusion that killing is a solution and does not cause retaliation by those insulted.

Thankfully, this is all over, right? We can now all live in peace!

Except that Osama bin Laden was killed long ago, according to Pakistan's assassinated leader, not in a US drone strike like many others but in a plot and coup attempt. It was never Christians against Muslims, so there are no hard feelings, right? Killing solves problems, right? Hanging Saddam Hussein. Murdering Gaddafi's children.

Pres. Obama knew of this before the comedic press dinner yesterday. Why would he plan to break the news late on a Sunday night in Washington, D.C.? It is morning in the Arab world. Is it an act of provocation on the part of the US military? An odd choice for an exquisitely organized public relations-savvy administration.

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Because we go to war for oil -- to serve multinational energy companies, the "industrial" in military-industrial complex -- Yemen will be brought down then Saudi Arabia.

That is not the way one would predict. It was revealed by a corporate insider. An oil executive revealed that the goal is to bring gas prices up to a pre-planned level.

Egypt's leader did not step down, but was told to stand down. And when he refused, reneging on an agreement, he was taken down through illness and is now being held for trial (in a kangaroo court of sorts).

Yemen's leader agreed to step down. But when he reneged and said he would rather call out the police state military to kill protesters if necessary, he will be deposed by the US through subterfuge and force. Naturally, if things were as they are reported, one would not think that Saudi Arabia was in line for upheaval.