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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 *

11/6 Indoor Plants Could Save Your Life Indoor plants do not only look and smell nice, they could save your life, claim scientists. by Richard Alleyne The Telegraph/UK http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/06-5 . Would We Listen to Nature if Our Lives Depended on It? by Derrick Jensen http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/06-3 , Co-Authors Question Stand Alone Vote on National Single Payer by Dennis Kucinich & John Conyers http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/06-8 . President Obama Comes to School (And It Is Not Good News) by Ruth Conniff http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/06-10 . Center for Biological Diversity Statement on Senate Climate Bill http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/11/06-9 . Institute for Public Accuracy Fort Hood Shooting http://accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=2115 Healthcare and Unemployment http://accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=2116 . FAIR Media Advisory Failing the Midterms Press overplays election results http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3939 FAIR Blog The Election Lesson: Hoover Was Right! http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/11/06/the-election-lesson-hoover-was-right/ Bill O'Reilly and Cuban-Style Tax Rates *Do you wonder how many persons taxed at the top rate "honestly earn" their income? And honestly pay what relatively little they owe? http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/11/06/bill-oreilly-and-cuban-style-tax-rates/ . DEMOCRACY NOW! In Worst-Ever Shooting of Its Kind, 13 Dead, 30 Wounded at Ft. Hood Military Base; Suspect Had Reportedly Complained of Anti-Muslim Bias http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/6/in_worst_ever_shooting_of_its Breaking with Former Employer, Actor and Self-Described Insurance Industry "Spokesjerk" Andy Cobb Calls for Public Healthcare *Shilling and killing http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/6/breaking_with_former_employer_actor_and 11/5 Coke to Bring You Advice About Health and Soft Drinks Family doctors group loses members over Coke deal by Lindsey Tanner the Associated Press *Things go better with Coke (For Coke, that is) http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/05-4 . Friends of the Earth Attacks Carbon Trading An FoE report says 'cap and trade' carbon markets have done little to reduce emissions but have been plagued by corruption and inefficiency by Ashley Seager The Guardian/UK http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/05-2 . Spokane Considers Community Bill of Rights Thousands of people voted to protect nine basic rights, ranging from the right of the environment to exist and flourish to the rights of residents to have a locally based economy and to determine the future of their neighborhoods. by Mari Margil YES! Magazine http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/05-8 . The Next Phase of Healthcare Apartheid by Norman Solomon *The ultimate sick joke http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/05 . Clash on Investment: Global Trade and an Opportunity for Civil Society by Sarah Anderson http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/05-6 . Localization Is Way to Redefine Globalization by Michael Shuman http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/05-9 . Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) Most Exhaustive Set of Marijuana Arrest Data Ever Shows No Relation Between Arrests and Use Rates; Penalty Structure Boosts Illicit Market Florida Has Toughest Penalties, Arrest Rate Highest in D.C, Black Arrest Rate 3 Times That of Whites http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/11/05-3 . No More Guantánamos Amherst (MA) Special Town Meeting Approves Resolution to Welcome Cleared Guantánamo Detainees *Humanity trumps hypocrisy http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/11/05 . Institute for Public Accuracy Italian Court Convicts Operatives: What About the Higher-Ups? http://accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=2114 . DEMOCRACY NOW! Italian Prosecutor in Case Against CIA Operatives Hails Convictions for '03 Kidnapping of Egyptian Cleric http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/5/italian_prosecutor_in_case_against_cia As Massey Energy Blasts West Virginia's Coal River Mountain, a Debate on Mountaintop Removal Mining *Biggers seems to be making a distinction between surface and underground mining. If so, I'd like to be clearer on why that is, wouldn't you? Mountaintop removal may be worse from a production standpoint, but the coal's dirty wherever it comes from, isn't it? http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/5/as_massey_energy_blasts_west_virginias GM's Money Trees": Displacement of Rural Brazilians Highlights Consequences of "Cap and Trade" System *I don't think the actions of the Green Police will make it into one of Chevron's "Human Energy" ads, do you? http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/5/gms_money_trees_displacement_of_rural . FAIR Blog 'Pansy' John Stossel and Bill 'Man of the People' O'Reilly *I guess by "the folks" he means the servants? Um ... I mean "domestic contractors". http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/11/05/pansy-john-stossel-and-bill-man-of-the-people-oreilly/ 11/4 It's a Dirty Business - The New Gold Rush That Is Blackening Canada's Name by Ben Webster The Times Online (UK) http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/04-8 . The Swine Flu Vaccine Screw-up Optimism as a Public Health Problem by Barbara Ehrenreich http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/04-10 . DEMOCRACY NOW! Election Day 2009: GOPers Sweep Governor Races; Bloomberg Wins Tight NYC Mayoral Race; Dems Take House Seats; Maine Repeals Gay Marriage http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/4/election_day_2009_gopers_sweep_governor Low Road to High Finance: McClatchy Expose Reveals How Goldman Sachs Sold Off Billions in Mortgage Securities After Anticipating Housing Collapse http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/4/sachs Blueberry Farming Giant Found to Use Child Labor at Michigan Fields *Don't you think Wal-Mart and other companies have a policy of "Don't ask, don't tell, don't care" when it comes to child labor? http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/4/blueberry_farming_giant_found_to_use 11/3 One in Five Mammals Threatened With Extinction by Mark Henderson The Times Online (UK) http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/03-7 . We Only Have Months, Not Years, to Save Civilization from Climate Change International agreements take too long, we need a swift mobilisation not seen since the second world war by Lester Brown http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/03-9 . Climate Change Deniers Are Not Skeptics - They're Suckers My fiercest opponents on global warming tend to be in their 60s and 70s. This offers a fascinating, if chilling, insight into human psychology by George Monbiot *What fools these "immortals" be http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/03-1 . Noam Chomsky: No Change in US 'Mafia Principle' by Mamoon Alabbasi *No Obamade served here http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/03-2 . The Obama Administration and Food, Year One by Paula Crossfield *Included for the intel. Crossfield's a fool about Obama's "good intentions" - and she has tons of company, doesn't she? http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/03-4 . Tests Find Wide Range of Bisphenol A in Canned Soups, Juice, and More by Naomi Starkman http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/03-5 . Congressmember Dennis Kucinich Kucinich Continues Fight to Restore State Single Payer Amendment http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/11/03-9 . Americans United for Separation of Church and State Americans United Urges IRS To Take Necessary Steps To Limit Partisan Activity By Churches http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/11/03-3 . School of the Americas Watch Mass Mobilization to Shut Down the School of the America; November 20-22, 2009, Fort Benning, Georgia http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/11/03-1 . Institute for Public Accuracy Making Elections Better *Taking the democratic exit off the American Way http://accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=2112 . DEMOCRACY NOW! Appeals Court Rules in Maher Arar Case: Innocent Victims of Extraordinary Rendition Cannot Sue in US Courts http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/3/appeals_court_rules_in_maher_arar Israeli Activists Criticize US House for Considering Resolution Condemning Goldstone Report on Israeli War Crimes in Gaza http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/3/israeli_activists_criticize_us_house_for 11/2 Toxic Contaminants: The Other Scourge by Neena Bhandari Inter Press Service http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/02-2 . Berlin, Israel, Mexico: Walls Across the World by Jon Wiener The Nation http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/02-8 . The New Faces of Day Labor U.S. citizens are joining immigrants in store parking lots by Timothy Pratt the Las Vegas Sun http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/02-5 . Justice Denied: Voices from Guantanamo by ACLU http://www.commondreams.org/video/2009/11/02-0 . Opium, Rape and the American Way by Chris Hedges http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/02 . Renewing the News by Naomi Wolf http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/02-8 . Breaking Up the Banks is Hard to Do Remember US banks that were 'too big to fail'? If Congress gets its way, they will be bigger and less accountable than ever by Dean Baker http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/02-12 . Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) Secret California Park Give-Away Back Door Proposal to Transfer Lands from Tolowa Dunes State Park http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/11/02-6 . FAIR Blog Comparing Fox and CNN Through a Funhouse Mirror *Comment left at link http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/11/02/comparing-fox-and-cnn-through-a-funhouse-mirror/ . DEMOCRACY NOW! How Wall Street and Its Backers on Capitol Hill Silenced a Critic Calling for Greater Regulation of Derivatives http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/2/how_wall_street_and_its_backers Shannon Brownlee: Does the Vaccine Matter? http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/2/shannon_brownlee_does_the_vaccine_matter . Institute for Public Accuracy Healthcare: Key Democrats Undermining Their Own? *The audacity of "Nope" http://accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=2110 Congress to Condemn Goldstone Report on Gaza? http://accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=2111 11/1 Activist's Message at USF: End Needless Waste of Food The Herald-News (Illinois) http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/10/31-0 . Chomsky: Far-Right Threat Is No Joke by Rob Brown the Herald Scotland http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/01 . What Lies Beneath the Rainforest You want the Amazon to survive? Then pay us not to pump the oil, says Ecuador. by Huw Hennessy in Quito The Independent/UK http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/01-1 . Torn Apart by Color Lines http://www.commondreams.org/video/2009/10/31 . The Heart of India Is Under Attack To justify enforcing a corporate land grab, the state needs an enemy - and it has chosen the Maoists by Arundhati Roy *Very long, and very worth reading - if you're as ignorant of the situation in India as I am http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/10/31-0

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