Ansel Herz: How to write about Haiti

Source (Huffington Post)

Actor Sean Penn, who is helping manage a camp of displaced earthquake victims in Haiti, is making pointed criticisms of journalists for dropping the ball on coverage of Haiti. He's wrong. I've been on the ground in Port-au-Prince working as an independent journalist for the past ten months. I'm an earthquake survivor who's seen the big-time reporters come and go. They're doing such a stellar job and I want to help out, so I've written this handy guide for when they come back on the one-year anniversary of the January quake!

HaitiAnalysis.com Ansel Herz: How to write about Haiti

Israel jails Arab for 'deceit rape'

An Arab living in Israel has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for having consensual sex with an Israeli woman who apparently believed he was Jewish.
Sabbar Kashur was sentenced on Monday after being convicted of "rape by deception".

Israel jails Arab for 'deceit rape' - Middle East - Al Jazeera English

A hidden world, growing beyond control

A major 2 year investigation of the 'security world' created after 9/11 in the U.S. by the Washington Post

The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs exist within it or exactly how many agencies do the same work.
A hidden world, growing beyond control | washingtonpost.com

Big Oil makes war on earth

By Ellen Cantarow

If you live on the Gulf Coast, welcome to the real world of oil - and just know that you're not alone. In the Niger Delta and the Ecuadorian Amazon, among other places, your emerging hell has been the living hell of local populations for decades.

Asia Times Online :: Asian news and current affairs

What was Washington’s role in the coup against Australian prime minister Rudd? | Australia |Axisoflogic.com

By James Cogan

As more information drips out, the role of Washington in the June 24 political coup against former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd looms ever larger. It is increasingly apparent that the Obama administration had become concerned that Rudd was wavering in his support for the crisis-wracked US-led occupation of Afghanistan, and that one of the driving forces for his political assassination may well have been US insistence that the Australian government—a key US ally—align itself unconditionally with Obama’s intensification of the criminal war.
What was Washington’s role in the coup against Australian prime minister Rudd? | Australia |Axisoflogic.com

Pambazuka - Africa's market-led development: Pro-corporation, anti-farmer

Richard Jonasse
 As evidenced by USAID administrator Rajiv Shah's recent speech to the US Global Leadership Coalition (USGLC), the US and the Green Revolution's 'solutions' for African agriculture remain more of the same, rooted in a corporate-funded, GMO-oriented and market-based system designed entirely in the interests of Western business. While US development aid fasts becomes simply 'an investment subsidised by US taxpayers with high returns for US corporations', African farmers' groups such as COPAGEN, LEISA and PELUM continue to organise in defence of self-determination and genetic biodiversity, writes Richard Jonasse.

Pambazuka - Africa's market-led development: Pro-corporation, anti-farmer

G20 Toronto - Summary Report: Police State Canada (Video)

Here is an excellent video summary report of the G20 weekend police state.
In this report, you will see:

• police shielding some black block individuals and letting them through their lines
• a report that the police cars left as "bait" were left with the gas caps removed!
• police standing and watching as police cars burn, while they have every opportunity to get them extinguished
• police standing by watching the vandalism without intervening
• unwarranted police brutality and arrests
• police charging on horseback and trampling a girl
• report of threats of gang rape by police of a woman in detention
• report of a woman strip-searched and cavity searched by male police officers

Correction: during the video it states that the opposition leaders are not calling for a public inquiry. In actual fact they did and are now working towards an inquiry while the Conservatives do everything in their power to block an inquiry.

Police State Canada | Global Research TV

Al Jazeera reports "West still undermining Haiti." CNN tells a different story.

This Al Jazeera report confirms Dady Chery's analysis in May and updated several times since, Bill Clinton's Dictatorship in Haiti. The indomitable Haitian people have been fighting off foreign domination all their lives and they will not sell their sovereignty now for a mess of pottage. Given their choices, they choose to clear the rubble with shovels, shunning heavy equipment and rebuild their houses themselves. Why? Because they refuse to use bulldozers and foreign contractors that carry the pricetag of their independence.

Al Jazeera reports "West still undermining Haiti." CNN tells a different story. | Haiti |Axisoflogic.com

Arrested at G20 summet for blowing bubbles

Cary in the Sky with Diamonds

This year, the FDA has allowed experimentation with LSD after 50 years. Before Leary, the hippie phenomenon, et all, interesting results were being had at the Beverley Hills Clinic.

Before Timothy Leary and the Beatles, LSD was largely unknown and unregulated. But in the 1950s, as many as 100 Hollywood luminaries—Cary Grant and Esther Williams among them—began taking the drug as part of psychotherapy. With LSD research beginning a comeback, the authors recount how two Beverly Hills doctors promoted a new “wonder drug,” at $100 a session, profoundly altering the lives of their glamorous patients, Balaban included.

Cary in the Sky with Diamonds | Vanity Fair

Econopocalypse: the Marxist animated whiteboard explanation

happy 4th, u.s.a.! alan ginsberg & piano of tom waits

China's launches global English TV channel

China's state news agency Xinhua has launched a 24-hour global news channel in English.
Officials said CNC World would present "an international vision with a China perspective".

China's Xinhua launches global English TV channel | World News |Axisoflogic.com

Secret Ingredient In Honey That Kills Bacteria

Ultimately, researchers isolated the defensin-1 protein, which is part of the honey bee immune system and is added by bees to honey. After analysis, the scientists concluded that the vast majority of honey's antibacterial properties come from that protein.

Secret Ingredient In Honey That Kills Bacteria | World News |Axisoflogic.com