— from WhoWhatWhy (Posted by Ken Carman for LTS readers. From smirkingchimp.com) Written by Russ Baker Here’s something extraordinary: a big expansion by the controversial Church of Scientology, barely covered by the hometown LA Times.
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— from WhoWhatWhy (Posted by Ken Carman for LTS readers. From smirkingchimp.com) Written by Russ Baker Here’s something extraordinary: a big expansion by the controversial Church of Scientology, barely covered by the hometown LA Times.
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Posted by Ken Carman for LTS readers. Written by Bill Berkowitz Everything the Heritage Foundation has been seeking, thinking about, researching, promoting, marketing, writing about and fundraising for – from destroying unions to putting the kybosh on public education – is now on the table it may not leap out at you, but what’s going on in Wisconsin and several other states is a fusion of Koch-ist free-market fundamentalism, Tea Party swagger, and the Religious Right’s traditional values agenda; think the Heritage Foundation’s full-blown project coming home to roost.
…consider the state of life in this country today, it is bound to appear to reasonable people ……that in some way a great commonwealth has gone wrong. There are those among us who defend and rejoice in this miscarriage , saying we are more prosperous. They tell us – and we are ready to believe – that collectively we are possessed of enormous wealth and that this in itself is compensation for whatever has been lost. But when we, as individuals, set out to find and enjoy this wealth, it becomes elusive and its goods escape us. We then reflect, no matter how great it may be collectively, if individually we do not profit by it, we have lost by the exchange. This becomes more apparent with the realization that, as its benefits elude us, the labor and pains of its acquisition multiply. To be caught unwittingly in this unhappy condition is calamitous; but to make obeisance before it, after learning how barren is its rule, is to be eunuched. From: “The Hind Tit” 1930 Andrew Nelson Lytle
Obama has released the long-form birth certificate they’ve been demanding, but it won’t make any difference to the hard-core Birthers. After all, they don’t like Obama so they will never trust this evidence. Better to wallow in their paranoid conspiracy theory which also doubles as a nice front for their rampant racism. MSNBC reported the story this way: Obama releases detailed U.S. birth certificate President slams ‘silliness’ of birther issue; Trump claims credit for release From MSNBC.com staff and news service reports April 27, 2011 WASHINGTON — Responding to critics’ relentless claims, President Barack Obama on Wednesday produced a detailed Hawaii birth certificate in an extraordinary attempt to bury the issue of where he was born and confirm his legitimacy to hold office. He declared, “We do not have time for this kind of silliness.” By going on national TV from the White House, Obama portrayed himself as a voice of reason amid a loud, lingering debate on his birth status. Though his personal attention to the issue elevated it as never before, Obama said to Republican detractors and the media, it is time to move on to bigger issues. “Over the last two and a half years I have…
TOKYO – Angry farmers brought two cows to Tokyo where they shouted and punched the air Tuesday in a protest to demand compensation for products contaminated by radiation spewing from Japan’s crippled nuclear plant. The 200 farmers, mostly from northeastern Japan, wore green bandanas, held aloft cabbages they said they couldn’t sell and carried signs saying “Stop nuclear energy” outside the headquarters of Tokyo Electric Power Co., the operator of the plant damaged in the March 11 tsunami. “My patience has run out. The nuclear crisis is totally destroying our farming business,” said 72-year-old Katsuo Okazaki, who grows peaches and apples. Radiation leaking from Fukushima Dai-ichi plant — about 140 miles (220 kilometers) north of Tokyo — has been found in milk, water and vegetables such as spinach from around the plant. Authorities have banned the sale of raw milk from some towns near the plant, as well as spinach, cabbage, broccoli and several other leafy vegetables from throughout Fukushima prefecture, though most restrictions in nearby prefectures have been lifted. But even once restrictions are removed and produce is deemed safe, farmers throughout the northeast fear consumers will shun their products.
Maybe we should leave it there? MAUDE BARLOW: Well, at current rate of growth, the tar sands will become, in the quite soon foreseeable future, the worst site of greenhouse gas emissions in the world. Enormous amounts of water is being destroyed. They’ve taken down a forest, this boreal forest the size of Greece. And there are children in the downstream First Nations communities with bile duct cancer at the age of four. I mean, it is an absolute horror. And what Americans need to know is that it’s coming to a community near you in the form of this dirty oil, the bitumen actually being piped by pipeline over the Ogallala Aquifer to be refined in the Gulf, or there are other pipes now taking it and more to be built to take it to the American side of the Great Lakes. It is corrosive, it’s poison, and it will destroy the water systems if it leaks, which I promise it will.
