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Don’t Ignore How Others See Us – by Ralph Nader

Don’t Ignore How Others See Us – by Ralph Nader

In watching the massive media coverage and the reaction to the brutal bombing at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, the wise poem “To A Louse…” composed in 1785 by the Scottish poet Robert Burns came to me:

“O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us/ To see oursels as ithers see us!”

English translation:
“And would some Power the small gift give us/To see ourselves as others see us!”

What must the “ithers” in the Middle East theatre of the American Empire think of a great city in total lockdown from an attack by primitive explosives when Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis and Yemenis experience far greater casualties and terror attacks several times a week? Including what they believe are terror attacks by U.S. drones, soldiers, aircraft and artillery that have directly killed many thousands of innocent children, women and men in their homes, during funeral processions and wedding parties, or while they’re working in their fields.

Here’s what they are thinking: that America is very vulnerable and ready to shake itself upside down to rid itself and protect itself from any terror attacks. The Bush regime, after 9/11, sacrificed U.S. soldiers and millions of innocents in the broader Middle East, drained our economy, so as to ignore the necessities of saving lives and health here at home, and metastasized al-Qaeda into numerous countries, spilling havoc into Iraq and now Syria. We have paid a tremendous price in blowback, because of Mr. Bush’s rush to war.

Why is the reaction to the events in Boston viewed by some as bizarre? Our president said “We will finish the race.” Do we really think that the attackers are doing this to disrupt our pleasure in foot racing?

The Orwellian Warfare State of Carnage and Doublethink

The Orwellian Warfare State of Carnage and Doublethink

People react as an explosion goes off near the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013. Two explosions went off at the Boston Marathon finish line on Monday, sending authorities out on the course to carry off the injured while the stragglers were rerouted away from the smoking site of the blasts. (AP Photo/The Boston Globe, David L Ryan) After the bombings that killed and maimed so horribly at the Boston Marathon, our country’s politics and mass media are awash in heartfelt compassion — and reflexive “doublethink,” which George Orwell described as willingness “to forget any fact that has become inconvenient.”

In sync with media outlets across the country, the New York Times put a chilling headline on Wednesday’s front page: “Boston Bombs Were Loaded to Maim, Officials Say.” The story reported that nails and ball bearings were stuffed into pressure cookers, “rigged to shoot sharp bits of shrapnel into anyone within reach of their blast.”

Much less crude and weighing in at 1,000 pounds, CBU-87/B warheads were in the category of “combined effects munitions” when put to use 14 years ago by a bomber named Uncle Sam. The U.S. media coverage was brief and fleeting.

One Friday, at noontime, U.S.-led NATO forces dropped cluster bombs on the city of Nis, in the vicinity of a vegetable market. “The bombs struck next to the hospital complex and near the market, bringing death and destruction, peppering the streets of Serbia’s third-largest city with shrapnel,” a dispatch in the San Francisco Chronicle reported on May 8, 1999.
And: “In a street leading from the market, dismembered bodies were strewn among carrots and other vegetables in pools of blood. A dead woman, her body covered with a sheet, was still clutching a shopping bag filled with carrots.”

Fourth Radioactive Water Leak Found at Disaster-Plagued Fukushima Plant

Fourth Radioactive Water Leak Found at Disaster-Plagued Fukushima Plant

Newest leak follows TEPCO admission that the “underground tanks are not reliable”

A fourth leak has been detected at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, its operator TEPCO announced Thursday, and is the latest in a string of failures at the disaster-stricken facility still struggling with the aftermath of the meltdowns following the 2011 massive earthquake and tsunami.

“This time about 22 liters of radioactive water has leaked from a junction of the piping. The liquid has seeped into the soil,” Kyodo news reports TEPCO as saying.

On Wednesday, Nuclear Regulation Authority Chairman Shunichi Tanaka acknowledged that “Fukushima No. 1 is still in an extremely unstable condition. There is no mistake about that.” Foreshadowing the new leak announcement, Tanaka added, “We cannot rule out the possibility that similar problems might occur again.”

And Masayuki Ono, TEPCO general manager, had told a news conference, “We admit that the underground tanks are not reliable,” and said “our faith in the underwater tanks is being lost.”

On the integrity of the existing storage tanks, the New York Times reported:

… as outside experts have discovered with horror, the company had lined the pits for the underground pools with only two layers of plastic each 1.5 millimeters thick, and a third, clay-based layer just 6.5 millimeters thick. And because the pools require many sheets hemmed together, leaks could be springing at the seams, Tepco has said.

On Wednesday, TEPCO President Naomi Hirose told a news conference that the underwater storage tanks would no longer be used, and that TEPCO would be moving 7,100 tons of the radioactive water to surface storage tanks, and would build 38 new steel tanks for the rest of the radioactive water, The Asahi Shimbun reported.

The decommissioning of the Fukushima plant is expected to take at least four decades.

Why Labels on Genetically Engineered Foods Won’t Cost Consumers a Dime

Why Labels on Genetically Engineered Foods Won’t Cost Consumers a Dime

Trader Joe’s performs random audits of items with suspect ingredients, using an outside, third-party lab to perform the testing, the company said. Trader Joe’s system is not unlike that of the USDA, which requires sworn statements from food producers to certify organic foods. The agency requires test samples from approximately 5 percent of products, all of which must be GMO-free in order to be certified organic. For the other 95 percent, the agency relies solely on sworn statements.

Clif Bar & Co. also requires affidavits from ingredient suppliers demonstrating they can meet the company’s stringent non-GMO requirements.

Monsanto would have you believe that verifying and labeling for non-GMO ingredients is a costly and burdensome affair, but the fact that Trader Joe’s, known for its discount prices, can provide GMO-free private label products, which reportedly account for over two-thirds of the company’s estimated annual $9 billion in sales, takes the wind out of the “burdensome” argument. That leaves the cost of adding another line of ink to a label. Trader Joe’s doesn’t yet label its private label products as GMO- free, but the company cites a lack of clear labeling guidelines from U.S. governmental agencies as the reason it doesn’t label, not cost.

Megan Westgate, Executive Director of the Non-GMO Project confirmed what retailers who use the affidavit system said: “An affidavit system like what’s proposed in I-522 is a powerful way to have a significant impact on the food supply with minimal cost.”

Holding Their Ground: Mexican Farmers Fight Back Against Monsanto

Holding Their Ground: Mexican Farmers Fight Back Against Monsanto

As huge American Biotech companies Monsanto, DuPont, and ConAgra await imminent approval of their requests for permits to plant more than six million acres (an area larger than the size of El Salvador) in Mexico with GMO corn, resistance by peasant and indigenous organizations and their allies is mounting. If approved, this will be the first time commercial planting of GMOs has been allowed in the center of biodiversity of any crop. Although the stakes at this moment could not be higher, this is not a new battle. When Cortez conquered Mexico in the 1500s, the Spaniards began an offensive against what they viewed as lowly corn, trying to force indigenous farmers to grow wheat instead. Their efforts failed, as have countless attempts throughout Mexico’s history to eradicate a “corn culture” in which corn is more than a livelihood, more than a food, but also an identity, a basis of religion, and a part of the family.

At stake today are indigenous and campesino (peasant) cultural rights; Mexico’s food sovereignty; Mexico’s enormous biodiversity of corn adapted for countless climates, soils, and conditions; and the nation’s health (one of the types of corn they wish to grow, MON603, caused tumors-and other maladies-in rats in a recent peer-reviewed study by French scientist Gilles-Eric Séralini published in the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology).

Best air-filtering houseplants, according to NASA

Best air-filtering houseplants, according to NASA

If these plants are good enough to filter the air of the space station, surely they’re good enough for your home.
Having good indoor air quality is very important, especially since many of us spend so much time inside. NASA did a study to find out which plants were best to filter the air of the space station, and the agency’s findings are available to all.
Read online to see which houseplants are best to filter the air (not only producing oxygen from CO2, but also absorbing benzene, formaldehyde and/or trichloroethylene.)

5 ways to help save the bees

5 ways to help save the bees

Honey bees are an important part of our ecological fabric, but their population is dwindling. See what you can do to help save the bees.
By Care2.com

Pollinators like bees are critical to our world’s food supply, and their numbers are dwindling. What can we do to help save the bees? We rely on bees to pollinate over 30 percent of our food crops, but Colony Collapse Disorder threatens the world bee population and the future of our food supply. Plants like apples, avocados, squash, cucumbers, and many other food plants that we commonly eat need pollinators in order to grow.

Luckily, it’s not all gloom and doom! Here are some ways that you can take action right now to help the dwindling bee population.

Read this article for five ways you can help the bees.

NASA’s James Hansen, Leaving Post to Fight Climate Change Full Time

NASA’s James Hansen, Leaving Post to Fight Climate Change Full Time

James Hansen, the NASA scientist credited with raising the earliest and most consistent alarm over the dangers of human-caused global warming and climate change has announced that he’s leaving his government job so that he can put his full energies into the climate movement he helped spur.

After almost half a century working for the government, he told the New York Times on Tuesday he now considered it appropriate to step outside so he could more fully join the political and legal fight to limit greenhouse gases and runaway climate change.

“As a government employee, you can’t testify against the government,” he told the Times in an interview.

Exxon Tar Sands Spill Continues to Devastate Arkansas Community

Exxon Tar Sands Spill Continues to Devastate Arkansas Community

Estimates of spilled oil “growing exponentially every day” Published April 1, 2013 by Common Dreams – Lauren McCauley, staff writer The thousands of barrels of tar sands oil which poured from a ruptured crude oil pipeline on Friday continue to devastate both man and beast alike in the community of Mayflower, Arkansas. Though the exact [...]

The University of Maryland Center for Integrative Medicine Health and Wellness Conference 2013

The University of Maryland Center for Integrative Medicine Health and Wellness Conference 2013

A one day symposium for physicians, allied health professionals and the lay public. The goal of the conference is to provide attendees with an understanding of integrative medicine and how different evidence based modalities, many practiced in different cultures and medical systems, promote health and well-being and can be incorporated into conventional health care. Visit [...]

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