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Dirty tricks: Bolivia vote on 4th Morales term leans towards no


RT
Tue, 23 Feb 2016 19:14 UTC
Evo Morales
© David Mercado / ReutersEvo Morales is currently serving his third term of president.
Bolivian President Evo Morales remains hopeful for a "Yes" result in the referendum that could extend his presidency another term, even though the "No" side is leading by 8.4 percent with more than 80 percent of the votes counted.

Morales said he is waiting to hear the results of Sunday's vote from rural areas, which is thought to be a stronghold for the country's first indigenous president.

"They don't like us much in the city, but the first results give me hope," he said.

His third term is set to end in 2020, but if the referendum finishes in his favor, he would be able to run for re-election, and potentially take his presidency to 2025.

Comment: Uncle Sam is his name and dirty tricks is his game. The US government has just got to meddle in the affairs of every sovereign country on the planet.

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Books

Wussification of America: Instead of providing 'safe spaces' this university teaches survival skills

Daisy Luther
The Organic Prepper
Mon, 22 Feb 2016 19:25 UTC
Classroom picture
Once upon a time, the goal of higher education was to prepare kids for life, but in past decades they've gotten further and further from that path. Now, in an era of crybabies and safe spaces, one university teaches survival skills and is completely bucking the status quo.
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Cow Skull

North Texas methane leak bigger than Porter Ranch

Claire Bernish
Activist Post
Tue, 23 Feb 2016 18:49 UTC
poison texas
After the mammoth methane gas leak that spewed uncontrollably from a damaged well in California's Aliso Canyon was finally capped last week, residents of nearby Porter Ranch began trepidatiously returning to their homes. Lingering doubts over whether Southern California Gas Company will continue using the underground storage field have left many wondering if concerns for their safety are being considered at all — particularly considering the company has, so far, only been charged with misdemeanor violations.

All told, the Aliso Canyon leak thrust an estimated 96,000 metric tons of potent methane — not to mention benzene, nitrogen oxides, and other noxious substances — into the atmosphere over a period of months. So vast was the impact of the leak, it has been likened in impactful scope to BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

California, however, isn't the only state dealing with mammoth methane leakage.
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Stock Down

Recession 2016: For seven states, a very deep economic downturn has already arrived

Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse
Mon, 22 Feb 2016 18:46 UTC
Old homeless man
Did you know that there are some U.S. states that have already officially fallen into recession? Economic activity all over the planet is in the process of slowing down, and there are some areas of the country that are really starting to feel the pain. In particular, any state that is heavily dependent on the energy industry is hurting right now. During the years immediately following the last recession, the energy industry was the primary engine for the growth of good paying jobs in America, but now that process is completely reversing. All over the U.S. energy companies are going under, and thousands upon thousands of good jobs are being lost.

On Sunday evening, Bloomberg published an article entitled "The U.S. States Where Recession Is Already a Reality". The following is an excerpt from that article...
As economists size up the chances of the first nationwide slump since 2009, pockets of the country are already contracting. Four states — Alaska, North Dakota, West Virginia and Wyoming — are in a recession, and three others are at risk of prolonged declines, according to indexes of state economic performance tracked by Moody's Analytics.

Comment: Yup, the economy is not healthy:

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Take 2

Beyond the grave: Conservatives think deceased jurist Scalia should decide cases

Travis Gettys
Raw Story
Tue, 23 Feb 2016 17:33 UTC
Hans von Spakovsky
© YouTube
Another conservative lawyer is suggesting that Antonin Scalia should be allowed to decide U.S. Supreme Court cases from beyond the grave.

Hans von Spakovsky, a senior fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation and a former Bush administration official, argued that Scalia's votes on some pending cases should be counted even after his Feb 13 death, reported Right Wing Watch.

The conservative legal activist said the late justice had already heard oral arguments in some cases before the court, including Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, which could hobble public sector unions.
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Bulb

Thinking outside the cookie box: Girl scout sells cookies outside Oregon pot dispensary


RT
Tue, 23 Feb 2016 15:19 UTC
Foster buds cookie sale
© fosterbudspdx/Instagram
A girl scout in the US city of Portland, Oregon showed some "business savvy" this week by selling her group's iconic cookies outside a legal cannabis dispensary.

The girl was accompanied by her aunt who may have tipped her off to a condition known as"the munchies".

Normally, her actions could have earned her a "pioneer" or "hospitality" badge, but the organization didn't seem to support her.

"The Girl Scouts organization said they don't condone this, but it's not against the rules,"said the girl's aunt to KATU.


A spokesperson from the Girl Scouts of Oregon and Southwest Washington said in a statement they recommend that a minor does not sell cookies outside a premises they cannot enter without being accompanied by an adult.

Still, we do have to admire her for thinking outside the (cookie) box.
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Nuke

No bliss in this ignorance: Fukushima the great nuclear cover-up

Linda Pentz Gunter
The Ecologist
Sat, 20 Feb 2016 16:09 UTC
fukushima
© Greg Webb / IAEA Imagebank via Flickr (CC BY-SA)IAEA fact-finding team leader Mike Weightman visits the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant on 27 May 2011 to assess tsunami damage.
The Japanese were kept in the dark from the start of the Fukushima disaster about high radiation levels and their dangers to health, writes Linda Pentz Gunter. In order to proclaim the Fukushima area 'safe', the Government increased exposure limits to twenty times the international norm. Soon, many Fukushima refugees will be forced to return home to endure damaging levels of radiation.

Dr. Tetsunari Iida is the founder and executive director of the Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies (ISEP) in Japan.

As such, one might have expected a recent presentation he gave in the UK within the hallowed halls of the House of Commons, to have focused on Japan's capacity to replace the electricity once generated by its now mainly shuttered nuclear power plants, with renewable energy.
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Attention

Best of the Web: Over 120 dead in Homs/Damascus terror attacks - Western media not interested

Eva Bartlett
In Gaza
Sun, 21 Feb 2016 15:50 UTC
damascus homs attack
The terror-ravaged neighbourhood of al-Zahra'a, in Homs, has again mercilessly been hit by Western&Saudi-backed terrorists' bombings. Local journalists put the number of murdered at 57 now, some hours after the double-vehicle bombing earlier today.

Khashoof
© Homs News NetworkSaed Mutanus al-Khashoof, from the Christian village of Sadad but living in al-Zahra’a, killed in today’s terrorist explosions.
Russia Today reports:
The explosions at a traffic light at al-Siteen Street in the al-Zahra neighborhood happened within minutes of each other, witnesses said. ...Witnesses said at least one of the two blasts was triggered by a suicide bomber driving a car.

A follow-up bombing after an initial blast is a common terrorist tactic, which allows them to hit first responders, who rush to help victims....
Al-Zahra'a has been repeatedly targeted by western-backed terrorists, with almost no condemnation from the same leaders who cried for Paris.

Comment: 130 people died on a single day in Paris, prompting worldwide outrage, sympathy, military action, new laws, arrests, raids, and more. In coordinated terror attacks in Syria, this happened yesterday. But where is the outrage? Where is the support for official Damascus, for the Syrian people? Nowhere to be found - it's just another day in Syria... And who's to blame? The U.S., Western nations in general. Maybe that's why there is so little response. They don't want to look the devil in the eye, because they fear what they'll really see: themselves.

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Dominoes

North Dakota: First state to legalize weaponized drones for cops...create jobs, investment opportunities

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 25 Aug 2015 00:00 UTC
police drone
© www.exposingtruth.comN. Dakota law allows weaponized police drones.
Nothing says "police state" quite like unmanned aerial vehicles patrolling the sky ready to deploy 80,000 volts to the nearest protester or dose entire crowds with chemical weapons. The idea of weaponized drones has long been a dystopian, yet fictional idea. However, thanks to House Bill 1328, in North Dakota, this police state hell from above is now a horrid reality. Thanks to a police union lobbyist, the idea of police using drones for "less than lethal" weapons is now written into North Dakota law.

According to the Daily Beast, The bill's stated intent was to require police to obtain a search warrant from a judge in order to use a drone to search for criminal evidence. In fact, the original draft of Rep. Rick Becker's bill would have banned all weapons on police drones. Then Bruce Burkett of North Dakota Peace Officer's Association was allowed by the state house committee to amend HB 1328 and limit the prohibition only to lethal weapons. "Less than lethal" weapons like rubber bullets, pepper spray, tear gas, sound cannons, and Tasers are therefore permitted on police drones.

The term "less than lethal" is thrown around to make tasers, which have been responsible for hundreds of deaths since 2001, seem like they are okay to be deployed on infants. The reality is that "less than lethal" weapons are only slightly less lethal than the real thing. Now that these weapons will be put on drones, entire new safety concerns arise, such as accuracy and the simple issue of a drone falling into a crowd.

After being duped by the police lobby into passing a bill allowing cops to equip drones with weapons, Rep Becker is worried. He spoke up about police deploying these weapons when they aren't near the intended target. "When you're not on the ground, and you're making decisions, you're sort of separate," Becker said. "Depersonalized." One needs only look at the Middle East and the thousands of innocent women and children who've been slaughtered by US drones to imagine the grim reality of such legislation.

Comment: Who is standing up for citizen rights and liberties? Certainly not the politicians, the investors, nor the so-called protectors of the public! There is something so fundamentally wrong, in fact downright predatory, with the making of profits and the ultra-control agencies out-ranking the basic welfare and constitutional rights of the people. "Nothing to hide, nothing to fear"...couldn't be farther from the truth.

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Pirates

Professor who exposed Flint water crisis says academic research and scientists no longer deserve public trust

Christina Sarich
Natural Society
Tue, 23 Feb 2016 15:45 UTC
Marc Edwards
"I grew up worshiping at the altar of science, and in my wildest dreams I never thought scientists would behave this way," said Virginia Tech professor, Marc Edwards, whose research helped expose the high levels of lead in municipal waters in both Flint, Michigan, and Washington, D.C.

Marc Edwards is the Virginia Tech civil engineer and professor who helped expose the Flint water crisis, all while Governor Snyder was colluding to keep that information hidden, as shown by the governor's emails.

When interviewed in February by the Chronicle of Higher Education, Edwards said that both Michigan and Washington authorities knew they were poisoning residents with lead-contaminated water.

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