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Hello This blog's been created in the hope that knowledge is power, and the certainty that ignorance is its antithesis. It's mainly a compilation of information and insight from various sources that I thought worth passing along. I'll be tossing in my grossly overvalued two cents, as well (denoted by asterisks). That said, I'd like to think I'm smart enough to know what I don't know, and that I'll make that clear when necessary. I'm happy to hear from folks. Disagreement is welcome ... but only if it's civil. You can be as vociferous as you wish ... but personal attacks will simply be flushed as soon as they're apparent. Let's do the mensch thing. Make sense? If so, you can reach me at unlikelysource@webtv.net. For easier navigation, links to groups of pages can be found here: http://community.webtv.net/unlikelysource And a note on DEMOCRACY NOW! posts: I may be stating the obvious, but it's a good idea to check the DN! Headlines every weekday. There's a link to them at the bottom of each segment I post ... and of course you can go to http://www.democracynow.org on the rare days when I don't have anything from the program. Thanks for visiting ... I hope you'll find it worth your while. * Do what your conscience demands and your courage allows, and never be satisfied with the limits of either *

11/20 Institute for Public Accuracy Economists Opposing Fed Audit "on Payroll" http://accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=2130 . DEMOCRACY NOW! As UC Regents Approve Major Tuition Hike, Students, Faculty Decry Erosion of Public Education in CA and Nationwide *Getting schooled on corporate colleges http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/20/students On 20th Anniversary of Killings of 6 Jesuit Priests by US-Backed Salvadoran Forces, Thousands to Protest "School of the Assassins" at Ft. Benning http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/20/blase Israel Under Widespread International Criticism for Settlement Expansion Plan *Makdisi is dead on that the only just solution is one state, isn't he? So why do he and other advocates, like Ali Abunimah, get so little exposure from "progressive" media? http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/20/israel_under_widespread_international_criticism_for 11/19 Activists to Peg Climate Actions to Science by Adam Groves OneClimate.net http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/19-0 . Public Citizen Former Government Officials, Including Members of Congress, Cashing in as Lobbyists for Financial Industry, Public Citizen Analysis Shows Lobbyist Ranks Filled With Former Federal Employees, Well-Connected Congressional Staffers http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/11/19-15 . DEMOCRACY NOW! Shunning Dissidents, Obama Leaves China Without Firm Pledges on Trade, Climate *Pretty amoral analysis of China, wouldn't you say? http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/19/shunning_dissidents_obama_leaves_china_without Iraq Vote in Limbo with Veto of Election Law *I can't speak to internal Iraqi machinations. I just think that the US isn't going to abandon the huge military infrastructure it's built up anytime soon, especially given the pressure it wants to put on Iran, do you? http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/19/iraqi_elections_in_limbo_as_vp 11/18 Rising CO2 Will Cause Catastrophic Sea Level Rise Finds Antarctic Study Sea levels could rise by up to six metres if the world fails to get pollution under control, according to the latest study in the Antarctic. by Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent The Telegraph/UK http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/18-6 . Iraqis Say British Army Used Guantánamo Interrogation Methods by David Brown The Times Online/UK http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/18 . The Trap of Green Consumerism by Raj Patel *Shopping green should be a subsidiary function of living green, not an amoral rationalization not to, right? http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/18-9 . The Architecture of Apartheid by Sarah Lazare & Clare Bayard http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/18-4 . Obama's Bad Case Against Single Payer Solidarity vs Individualism by Alan Nasser http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/18-5 . Institute for Public Accuracy China, U.S. and Global Warming http://accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=2127 . DEMOCRACY NOW! EXCLUSIVE: Civil Rights Attorney Lynne Stewart Responds to Court Ruling Upholding Conviction and Ordering Her to Prison http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/18/exclusive_civil_rights_attorney_lynne_stewart "The Card Game" - New Doc Investigates History of Credit Card Industry and Proposals for Reform http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/18/the_card_game_new_doc_investigates . FAIR Blog Israeli Settlement Isn't, Says Washington Post *Deadly serious word games http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/11/18/israeli-settlement-isnt-says-washington-post/ 11/17 Biotech Crops Cause Big Jump in Pesticide Use: Report by Carey Gillam Reuters http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/17-4 . Apocalypse Fatigue: Losing the Public on Climate Change Even as the climate science becomes more definitive, polls show that public concern in the United States about global warming has been declining. What will it take to rally Americans behind the need to take strong action on cutting carbon emissions? by Ted Nordhaus & Michael Shellenberger *Some interesting thoughts on the reasons for climate change 'tudes, but marred by the dissing of folks who don't mince words, and their own seeming diminution of the crisis at the end, don't you think? http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/17-4 . The Pledge of Allegiance is un-American Shouldn't the government pledge allegiance to the people rather than the other way around? by Michael Lind http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/17-8 . Buried Bonanza for Over-Builders by Laura Flanders http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/17 . Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) Massachusetts Physicians say Reform in Their State is No Model for The Nation Nearly 200 sign ad urging single-payer health care reform *Congress plays "Follow the bleeder" http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/11/17-11 . DEMOCRACY NOW! Why Are We Destroying Public Education? University of California Students and Staff Prepare for System-Wide Strike to Protest Cuts http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/17/why_are_we_destroying_public_education Obama Nominates Pesticide Executive to Be Chief Agricultural Negotiator in the Office of the US Trade Representative http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/17/obama_nominates_pesticide_executive_to_be Raj Patel on America's Growing Hunger Crisis and the UN Summit to Fight Hunger in Rome *Let them drink Obamade http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/17/raj_patel_on_americans_growing_hunger . Institute for Public Accuracy Hunger: * Record in U.S. * Global Meeting http://accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=2126 11/16 Texas Accounts for Half of Executions in US but Now Has Doubts Over Death Row Overturned convictions and growth of DNA forensic evidence shake state's rock-solid faith in capital punishment by Chris McGreal in Livingston The Guardian/UK http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/16-3 . Farmers Not Invited to Food Summit? by Sabina Zaccaro Inter Press Service http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/16-5 . Health Deform by Carol Miller *The devil's in the details, and the details are our hell http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/16-2 . The New State Solution by Chris Hedges http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/16 . Economic Lessons from the Playground by Steve Almond *"Share and share alike" Maoist indoctrination, I tells ya! http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/16-8 . Earthjustice Judge Approves Historic EPA Settlement: EPA and Florida Must Set Limits on Fertilizer and Animal Waste Pollution in State Waters Polluters' arguments rejected in favor of the environment http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/11/16-13 . FAIR Blog Obama (Still Definitely) Not Bipartisan Enough *Comment left at link http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/11/16/obama-still-definitely-not-bipartisan-enough/comment-page-1/ . Institute for Public Accuracy Washington as Wall Street's "Biggest Profit Center" *Money's money talks http://accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=2125 11/13 Invest in Nature Now, Save Trillions Later: Study by Marlowe Hood Agence France Presse http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/13-3 . UN Investigator Accuses US of Shameful Neglect of Homeless UN special rapporteur says wealthy US ignoring deepening homeless crisis while pumping billions into bank rescues by Chris McGreal in Los Angeles The Guardian/UK http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/13-0 . Canada's Tar Sands Are the Future of Oil Production: Oil Exec. by Michel Viatteau Agence France Presse http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/13-6 . Army Sends Infant to Protective Services, Mom to Afghanistan by Dahr Jamail Inter Press Service *What was that about this war being fought for "women's rights"? http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/13-7 . Obama's Pesticide-Pushing Nominee The president taps an exec from the pesticide lobby - which slammed Michelle Obama's organic garden - for a top agriculture post. by Kate Sheppard Mother Jones *More toxic sludge in Obama's field of corporate dreams http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/13-2 . Copenhagen: Seattle Grows Up by Naomi Klein http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/13 . Economics without Ecocide The G20 Framework vs. A Whole Earth Perspective by Peter Brown & Geoffrey Garver http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/13-0 . US Must Solve Its Own Economic Problems Pinning America's economic woes on China is too easy. The real villains are Wall Street bankers and their influence by Mark Weisbrot http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/13-3 . DEMOCRACY NOW! Eminent Domain Outrage in Connecticut: Pharmaceutical Giant Pfizer to Leave New London, Site of Major Housing Battle http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/13/eminent Alleged 9/11 Mastermind and 4 Other Gitmo Prisoners to Stand Trial in NY Federal Court http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/13/gitmo CAIR: US Seizure of 4 Mosques over Alleged Iran Ties Threatens Religious Freedom http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/13/mosques Alleging Unconstitutional Targeting, ACORN Sues US Gov't Over Defunding Vote *Van Jones and ACORN are on the "far left"? That's a mighty meager spectrum, innit? http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/13/acorn . Institute for Public Accuracy Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Prosecution http://accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=2124 Obama's Asia Trip Agenda http://accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=2123

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