May 3, 2014
Odessa Massacre Pushes Ukraine to the Edge
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Read the original post: Illinois Madness Never Stops; House Committee Wants Taxpayers to Spend $100 Million on Barack Obama Library
Tweet Michael Oppenheimer summed it up, "We are all sitting ducks" The WGII Summary for Policy Makers is available. It can be downloaded , and is not very long (44 pages including figures, about 30 pages of print). If bunnies have been paying attention a fast skim can be done. It is a sobering read, no more so than expected, perhaps less than needed. The first sentence says it all Human interference with the climate system is occurring, and climate change poses risks for human and natural systems Human existence depends on those natural systems and humans are straining them to the breaking point and it is in the natural systems that the largest effects have been seen, seen, but mere harbingers of that to come. In recent decades, changes in climate have caused impacts on natural and human systems on all continents and across the oceans.
Original post: Thailand: Mass Mobilization This Saturday – March 29, 2014
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In August of 2013, businessman and outspoken Thaksin opponent  Ekkayuth Anchanbutr  was abducted and murdered . This does not include more recent events, which also includes attempted and successful assassinations  targeting Thaksin Shinawatra’s enemies, and a campaign of increasing terrorism  being employed against growing dissent in the streets railing against his regime symbolically led by his own sister, Yingluck Shinawatra. It is easy to see why the West, despite the unraveling of the regime in recent months, is still stalwartly defending it, particularly in the editorials and columns of their newspapers – the West has invested a decade propping it up and is unlikely to find another political machine as effective and as willing to divide, destroy, and attempt to wholesale handover the resources and sovereignty of Thailand to foreign interests. It is this that brings us articles like the New York Times’ recent piece titled, " Protesters Say They’ll End Blockades in Bangkok ," by the biased and wholly inaccurate Thomas Fuller. He claimed in the article that: In what appeared to be a major retreat by the movement to overthrow the Thai government, protesters on Friday said they were abandoning their campaign to shut down Bangkok and would dismantle their blockades of major intersections set up in January
Flash Forward March 2, 2014 : States Make End Run Around Food Stamp Cuts . Connecticut and New York have found a way around federal budget cuts that played a central role in the massive farm bill passed this month: bump up home heating assistance a few million bucks in return for preserving more than a half-billion dollars in food stamp benefits. The moves by Connecticut Gov
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February 2, 2014  ( ATN ) – In Thomas Fuller’s New York Times piece titled, " Gun Battle in Bangkok Escalates Election Protest ," he claims: At least six people were injured Saturday in a prolonged daylight gun battle between protesters seeking to block the distribution of ballots in Bangkok and would-be voters demanding that protesters cease their attempts to obstruct national elections on Sunday. After three months of a provocative campaign by protesters to overthrow the government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, the clash on Saturday appeared to crystallize the power struggle that has been playing out on the streets of Bangkok. Ignoring pleas by the United States and the European Union to respect the democratic process — and stoking the anger of many Thais eager to vote — the protesters have blocked the distribution of ballots in parts of Bangkok and southern Thailand, a stronghold of the opposition. Fuller would go on to repeat many other tired distortions and intentional omissions  regarding the ongoing Thai political crisis, never mentioning the 3 main facts that have truly led to it. 1.Both the Regime and Elections are Illegitimate : Featuring only one main party with opposition parties boycotting it, and carried out under an open campaign of terror  aimed at regime opponents as well as under a "state of emergency " granting the regime authoritarian powers in and around the capital of Bangkok – the elections could not be any further from "the democracy process" even if they were unfolding in Saddam’s Iraq , or Kim Jong Ill’s North Korea . The fact that Thaksin Shinawatra, an accused mass murderer, a convicted criminal, and a fugitive hiding abroad, is openly running the current ruling party ( according to Fuller himself ) ram-rodding through these elections alone makes both them and the regime itself illegal and illegitimate.