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Oregon Judge SLAPPS Self-proclaimed Guru - Landmark Victory for SOTT.net, Internet Free Speech

Seeded on Mon Dec 29, 2008 10:05 PM EST (SOTT.NET)

Portland, Oregon new age guru Eric Pepin's attempt to silence online critics was defeated Thursday (18 Dec.) as Portland based federal Judge Ancer Haggerty dismissed a defamation suit brought by Pepin's organization, Higher Balance Institute, against an Internet forum that had pu …

politics, internet, free-speech

At OpEdNews: Women Left for Dead and the Man Who's Saving Them

Seeded on Fri Aug 1, 2008 9:31 PM EDT (OpEdNews.Com Progressive)

Eve Ensler writes: "Before I went to the Congo, I'd spent the past 10 years working on V-Day, the global movement to end violence against women and girls.

women, health, congo, rape

Can Oxytocin Ease Shyness? - TIME

Seeded on Mon Jul 21, 2008 11:28 PM EDT (TIME)

Very Interesting, I just read about Oxytocin and how it affects women in love (especially when it pertains to psychopathic men!)

science, mood, hormones, relationships

Disaster Capitalism, State of Extortion

Seeded on Sat Jul 5, 2008 10:39 PM EDT (The Nation)

It's been ten months since the publication of my book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, in which I argue that today's preferred method of reshaping the world in the interest of multinational corporations is to systematically exploit the state of fear and disori …

oil, politics, monsanto, climate-change, biofuels, disaster-capitalism

Of Whales and Worms: The 2008 Elections -- Signs of the Times News

Seeded on Thu Jun 19, 2008 3:16 PM EDT (SOTT.NET)

For the well-meaning people who are feeling this way, I have this question: How can the same Democratic Party, and the same specific individuals, who have co-operated in, permitted and/or legalized the Bush regime's atrocities - including torture and war crimes - now tell us that …

elections, politics, war-crimes, obama, torture, democratic-party, citizen-action

New Age COINTELPRO and the Optimism Gestapo

Seeded on Mon Jun 16, 2008 4:34 PM EDT (SOTT.NET)

Why has there not been a mass transformation of consciousness, culminating in peace on earth, as so many promised back in the early days of the New Age movement? The answer is that there may be a metaphysical COINTELPRO at work, all under the cover of love and light.

politics, cointelpro, new-age-movement

The Corporate State and the Subversion of Democracy

Seeded on Tue Jun 10, 2008 3:32 AM EDT (Truthdig)

We have watched over the past few decades the rise of a powerful web of interlocking corporate entities, a network of arrangements within subsectors, industries or other partial jurisdictions to diminish and often abolish outside control and oversight.

politics

Why Spitzer was Bushwacked

Seeded on Mon May 19, 2008 6:47 PM EDT (atimes.com)

A useful rule of thumb in evaluating spectacular scandals around prominent public figures is to ask who might want to eliminate that person.

politics, wiretapping, blackmail, 4th-amendment, sub-prime-crises

My Debt, My Life

Seeded on Fri May 2, 2008 11:56 PM EDT (nea.org)

Funny thing about educators, they're good at math. Some of them even teach it.

education, student-loans, debt-teachers

Taking Responsibility -- Signs of the Times News

Seeded on Sun Apr 27, 2008 9:12 PM EDT (SOTT)

FROM THE ARTICLE: I suggest that things are so bad today that the "some future task" these pitiful creatures are holding out for today is nothing but an even greater subservience to their masters. And this state will continue until they are held to account by the people.

politics

Famous Are the Flowers: Hawaiian Resistance Then--and Now

Seeded on Sun Apr 27, 2008 6:01 PM EDT (The Nation)

The more I immersed myself in the story of Hawai'i, however, the more I saw that what was so compelling about it was not that these issues were settled but that they were not.

history

Connecting the Dots: Shortage of Food and Signs of War; the Future is Now -- Signs of the Times News

Seeded on Sun Apr 27, 2008 5:46 PM EDT (SOTT.NET)

Here in SOTT we try to think out of the box.

world, politics, crises

Tricks of the Psychopath's Trade: Blaming the victim -- Signs of the Times News

Seeded on Sat Apr 19, 2008 7:12 PM EDT (SOTT)

But Merkel, whose country is Europe's largest biofuel producer, said the rise in food prices was not mainly due to biofuels but to "inadequate agricultural policies in developing countries" as well as "insufficient forecasts of changes in nutritional habits" in emerging markets.

agriculture-biofuel-hunger

From the Fire Comes Light -- Signs of the Times News

Seeded on Mon Apr 14, 2008 1:41 AM EDT (Sot)

From the article Les Visible has made a profound observation about this: ...when you press a whole lot of people together, people move deep into a materialistic darkness, more and more heat, more fire occurs.

politics

Orwell Meets Vanunu and the Industrial Military Media Security/Surveillance Complex -- Signs of the Times News

Seeded on Sat Apr 12, 2008 3:26 PM EDT (SOTT.NET)

Mordechai Vanunu. Every email Vanunu has ever written, snail mail received, phone call conversation and walk he has ever taken through east Jerusalem, has potentially been monitored 24/7, since his release from an Israeli prison in 2004.

politics, military, industrial, complex

Destroying Public Education in America

Seeded on Wed Apr 9, 2008 5:16 PM EDT (sjledman.blogspot.com)

From the article: "Despite high-minded political posturing and programs like NCLB, the truth is these youngsters are forgotten and abused.

education

America's Silent Killing Feilds

Seeded on Mon Apr 7, 2008 4:06 PM EDT (OpEdNews.Com Progressive)

America's silent killers are deadly, and do not discriminate. They target babies, the elderly, teenagers, young adults, middle-age housewives, and businessmen alike. They poison livestock, pets, and wildlife, and the people behind them deny complicity in the carnage.

health, agriculture

Sanitizing The War On Terror - Part 2 -- Signs of the Times News

Seeded on Mon Apr 7, 2008 4:02 PM EDT (SOTT.NET)

Great Article, I suggest it to all who are concerned with the state of the US and the world! A quote from the article "Even if all life on this planet were soon extinguished in a nuclear war or a cometary bombardment, (evidence of cometary bombardment having been deliberately co …

politics

Worst. President. Ever

Seeded on Mon Apr 7, 2008 2:52 AM EDT (Harper's Magazine)

America's historians, it seems, don't think much of George W. Bush. "No individual president can compare to the second Bush," wrote one.

politics

The Psychopathology Of Male Psyche -- Signs of the Times News

Seeded on Thu Apr 3, 2008 5:57 PM EDT ()

From the article...the history of corporate-government relations...has been one of continuing pressure by corporate interests to expand corporate rights and to limit corporate obligations...corporations have emerged as the dominant governance institutions on the planet, with the …

business, corporations

Growing locally, legislating nationally: Rules hinder state's specialty farmers

Seeded on Tue Mar 25, 2008 7:27 PM EDT (The Minneapolis Star Tribune)

Growing locally, legislating nationally: Rules hinder state's specialty farmers...the expanding consumer movement for locally grown food finds itself at odds with federal farm policies that seek to balance the competing interests of regional agricultural sectors.

health, farming

Spotting Emotional Manipulation

Seeded on Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:46 PM EDT (cassiopaea.com)

"Eight Ways to spot emotional manipulation" Great resource for everyone interested in recognizing and dealing with manipulative people. A must for the world in which we live! 1. There is no use in trying to be honest with an emotional manipulator. 2.

science, psychology

Homeschoolers' setback sends shock waves through state

Seeded on Wed Mar 19, 2008 11:11 PM EDT (The San Francisco Chronicle)

"California courts have held that ... parents do not have a constitutional right to homeschool their children," Justice H. Walter Croskey said. This statement speaks volumes about the state of our country.

education

Breakdancing Drunks on the Edge of a Cliff -- Signs of the Times News

Seeded on Tue Mar 18, 2008 4:55 PM EDT ()

Go to any major news site and look at the news. There isn't any news, not really. They are just whistling by the wreckage. Yet there is, in fact, huge and disturbing news but it isn't important.

world, news, world-news

Kalo farmers support bill opposing GMO

Seeded on Tue Mar 18, 2008 3:42 PM EDT (Kaleo.org)

Hawaii has become one of the main breeding grounds for experimental genetically modified crops (GMO's). The people of the Hawaiian Islands are left out of the decision making process when it comes to the production of GMO crops in our state.

farming, world-news

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