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Checkmate: Has vetting gone too far? (Part Four)
Vetting is damaging community life. This short podcast was filmed at the Manifesto Club’s debate on the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act. The Act will mean that any adult working or volunteering with children will be subject to continuous criminal-records vetting. Listen to the fourth speaker Josie Appleton founder of Manifesto Club and join the debate. For more information about the Campaign against vetting go to http://www.manifestoclub.com/hubs/vetting Vetting is damaging community life. This short podcast was filmed at the Manifesto Club’s debate on the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups... more
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Checkmate: Has vetting gone too far? (Part Three)
Vetting is damaging community life. This short podcast was filmed at the Manifesto Club’s debate on the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act. The Act will mean that any adult working or volunteering with children will be subject to continuous criminal-records vetting. Listen to the third speaker Tony Jeffs, Community Youth Work Studies, University of Durham and join the debate. For more information about the Campaign against vetting go to http://www.manifestoclub.com/hubs/vetting Vetting is damaging community life. This short podcast was filmed at the Manifesto Club’s debate on the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups... more
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We Feed The World
Ok this photo is pretty much the opposite of what is going on in this movie. But this is a MUST watch.
The film is about the people who are feeding our world currently. It gives the perspective of some of the people who are running industrial large-scale farms. Very interesting. Shows what has happened to the agricultural system in the EU and how many small farms have been lost because of that process.
This in part has to do with the Codex Alimentarius laws that are eager to become the universal laws governing our food, but also brings up the responsibility that the consumer has for fueling the degradation of our food system. They say that consumers have done this by lonly ooking at the appearance of the food they buy, and wanting it cheap. As we know this sort of consumer is a highly manipulated capitalist robot, missing vital connection to their senses.
We have become so tied up with appearance that we have lost flavor.
This is why the homegrown revolution is also called the delicious revolution: follow your tastebuds to freedom!
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Checkmate: Has vetting gone too far? (Part Two)
Vetting is damaging community life. This short podcast was filmed at the Manifesto Club’s debate on the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act. The Act will mean that any adult working or volunteering with children will be subject to continuous criminal-records vetting. Listen to the second speaker Viv Regan volunteer at WORLDwrite and join the debate. For more information about the Campaign against vetting go to http://www.manifestoclub.com/hubs/vetting Vetting is damaging community life. This short podcast was filmed at the Manifesto Club’s debate on the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups... more
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Checkmate: Has vetting gone too far? (Part One)
Vetting is damaging community life. This short podcast was filmed at the Manifesto Club’s debate on the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act. The Act will mean that any adult working or volunteering with children will be subject to continuous criminal-records vetting. Listen to the first speaker Mervyn Barrett, Communications manager, NACRO and join the debate. For more information about the Campaign against vetting go to http://www.manifestoclub.com/hubs/vetting Vetting is damaging community life. This short podcast was filmed at the Manifesto Club’s debate on the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups... more
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Monitoring Sexual Orientation
Monitoring of volunteers' sexual orientation is becoming as accepted a method of promoting "good practice" in the voluntary sector as asking people their age or ethnicity. Kyle Duncan, a WORLDwrite volunteer, argues here that it is not only an invasion of people's privacy but actually does nothing to combat real discrimination. Instead, it presumes the vulnerability of LGBT people and does damage to serious campaigning for equality. Monitoring of volunteers' sexual orientation is becoming as accepted a method of promoting "good practice" in the voluntary sector as ... more
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Declaration of Independence
This is a rarely seen dramatic reading performed by a group of famous actors.
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Live Free Or Die
Penn Jillette tackles the tough topics of Guns and Freedom. These are his views, not mine. How free should we be?
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WORLDwrite Newsreel: Who’s watching us?
The third WORLDwrite newsreel is jam-packed, starting with a sneak preview of a controversial, hard-hitting documentary, Corruptababble. This film challenges the assumption that corruption is everywhere in Africa. Next WORLDwrite looks behind the CCTV cameras and hears from a lawyer who argues against our growing surveillance society. This is followed by a short piece that takes a tongue-in-cheek look at what our lives would be like if we lost our presumption of trust. Lastly, WORLDwrite debates further the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act at a public event. The third WORLDwrite newsreel is jam-packed, starting with a sneak preview of a controversial, hard-hitting documentary, Corruptababbl... more
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Provocateurs Planning Violence At DNC
TruthAlliance.net | July 2, 2008
We Are Change Colorado has now become aware that another group, Unconventional Action, is planning on being violent at the DNC protests. Violence is a broad term. Some argue that property damage is violent, others might tell you it sends a message. To most of the Truth Alliance and We Are Change Colorado activists, there is no message to property damage and is in fact, a form of violent behavior. In the eyes of the law, property damage is completely, without debate, illegal.
To make the long story short, Unconventional Action seems to be open about their plans for the DNC. Their website, which can be found here: http://www.unconventionalaction.org/ has one link which is pretty disturbing.
Under the link, “The Strategies: How We Win,” a section titled: Denver: Disrupt the DNC, clearly outlines for “Anarchists and Anti-Authoritarians” to “join (them) in Denver, Colorado, August 24th-28th as (they) engage in coordinated Direct Actions against the Democratic National Convention, its corporate sponsors, and the military/police occupation of public space.”
Direct Action is further defined on their website as getting directly involved rather than relying on a representative to do the framework. Their website goes on to further state that they are:
“currently organizing meetings, propaganda, and consultas in our communities and encourage those in other regions to do the same.
(They) aim to organize militant direct action that manifests opposition to both the Democratic and Republican Parties. As anti-authoritarians, (They) oppose so-called representational politics, but even those who still believe in it must understand that we can only have leverage over our rulers by showing our own power, that we must back our demands by demonstrating that we can interfere with their business as effectively as they interfere with our lives”
This can all be found on their website at the top link titled, What Is Unconventional Action?
Unconventional Action was attending the Alliance for Real Democracy meeting which is a new group that has formed in light of the information that was presented here on Truth Alliance about Re-Create 68. Many members of Re-Create 68 have broken away from the group and saw that the intentions of R-68’s demonstrations held no message and potentially could get protesters arrested, agitated and/or violent, aside from the fact that Truth Alliance got direct verbal confirmation that there is violence in the planning of some of the demonstrations. Read both of the articles of information about Re-Create 68 at these links:
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WORLDwrite Newsreel: Who should we trust?
This is the second WORLDwrite newsreel. It examines the new vetting laws coming into force in August 2008, which may impact seriously on volunteering in the UK. Also, it introduces WORLDwrite's latest film Carry on up the NGO, soon to be released on DVD, and gives you a sneak preview of the film. This is the second WORLDwrite newsreel. It examines the new vetting laws coming into force in August 2008, which may impact seriously ... more
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Our Founding Fathers On Liberty and Tyranny
To me this is what the Fourth of July is all about. Remembering the men who sacrificed all they had to take the journey to a more perfect union... a free union. We don't truly have that today, and the main reason why is because we as a people have to really want it. I question now if we really do, and that is sad. These words of wisdom and warning from men who though flawed were brilliant and who knew something themselves about slavery of the mind and soul are words to be reflected on. As John Adams said, "Liberty once lost, is lost forever." We as a people are allowing liberty to slip away as we distract ourselves and lose our focus on these words. How I wish we had men of such courage and brilliance as these to once again point us in the right direction. However, their words can be the inspiration we need to now do that. The question is: will we?
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The More the Merrier
The More the Merrier, set in St. Katherine’s Docks, examines the impact of immigration. Through inspired argument and the story of one young Indian woman’s desire to stay in the UK, the film lyrically interweaves historical archive with shanty sea songs. It presents a uniquely pro-immigration case, and call to us all, to open our minds and our borders. Get the full film on DVD from the WORLDwrite website and start some serious debate with friends, your school, college or university. The More the Merrier, set in St. Katherine’s Docks, examines the impact of immigration. Through inspired argument and the story of one... more
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'Free speech zones' to make comeback Denver Democratic Convention
And you thought it was just Republicans that wanted to stifle free speech.
"The infamous "free speech zone," set to make a comeback at Denver's upcoming Democratic National Convention, needs to be within earshot of delegates, a coalition of civil liberties advocates backed by the ACLU said Monday.
Chain link fencing or chicken wire at the end of the parade route, about 700 feet away from the Pepsi Center under the current plan, would separate demonstrators and protesters from other convention attendees, the Rocky Mountain News reported. The coalition have amended their pending lawsuit against the United States Secret Service and the City and County of Denver, filed in May, saying that the plan could violate the visitors' First Amendment rights, echoing the corralling and effective silencing of protesters at the 2004 gala in Boston. A judge in that case had ruled the "free speech zones" unconstitutional, but said that the suit was filed too late to order that plans be changed.
"No human voice, or any other sound," ACLU counsel said in Monday's amended complaint, "can ever hope to reach a person at the entrance."
The case will go to trial on July 29.
Preparations for the upcoming convention, for which Denver has been federally granted $50 million, may include military choppers, as seen during a mid-June Department of Justice drill, details of which could not be revealed by the Denver Police Department. Lt. Nathan Potter, a military spokesperson with Special Operations Command, called the exercise "routine preparation for the global war on terrorism."
Denver Sheriff division chief Marie Kielar also told Colorado Confidential in May that her department is preparing for convention-related arrests to top 1,200. The City and County of Denver will not make publicly available detention plans, such as where those arrested will be held, before the convention. In addition to the May suit, the ACLU has demanded that the City and County make publicly available the procedures it plans to follow in processing those arrested at its downtown jail.
The Monday complaint called not only for a protest zone closer to the Pepsi Center, but also that it large enough to host all demonstrators, and for searches to be conducted only when there is probable cause.
"Simply put, we are going to abide by the Constitution," Denver city attorney David Fine said Monday. And you thought it was just Republicans that wanted to stifle free speech. ... more -
Urban Agriculture
In the first installment of a monthly series, seed activist Clifton Middleton reveals the significance of the Urban Agriculture Project. In the first installment of a monthly series, seed activist Clifton Middleton reveals the significance of the Urban Agriculture Projec... more
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Long Trip: Magic Mushrooms' Transcendent Effect Lingers: Scientific American
People who took magic mushrooms were still feeling the love more than a year later, and one might say they were on cloud nine about it, scientists report in the Journal of Psychopharmacology.
"Most of the volunteers looked back on their experience up to 14 months later and rated it as the most, or one of the five most, personally meaningful and spiritually significant of their lives," comparing it with the birth of a child or the death of a parent, says neuroscientist Roland Griffiths of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, who lead the research. "It's one thing to have a dramatic experience you say is impressive. It's another thing to say you consider it as meaningful 14 months later. There's something about the saliency of these experiences that's stunning."
Griffiths gave 36 specially screened volunteers psilocybin, the active ingredient in so-called magic mushrooms. The compound is believed to affect perception and cognition by acting on the same receptors in the brain that respond to serotonin, a neurotransmitting chemical tied to mood.
Afterward, about two thirds of the group reported having a "full mystical experience," characterized by a feeling of "oneness" with the universe. When Griffiths asked them how they were doing 14 months later, the same proportion gave the experience high marks for transcendental satisfaction, and credited it with increasing their well-being since then.
But some scientists noted that this psilocybin study was just the first trip on a long journey of understanding. "We don't know how far we can generalize these results," cautions neuroscientist Charles Schuster of Loyola University Chicago and a former director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. "To attribute all of this to the drug, I think, is a mistake and to expect the same effects from simply taking the drug without this careful preparation in these kinds of people would be a mistake."
Herbert Kleber, who directs the division of substance abuse at Columbia University also notes that it is difficult to assess the mushroom's impact without detailed information on how individual lives were changed. For example, it remains unclear from the study whether volunteers really were more altruistic or simply claimed to be.
But the findings do seem to support reports of recreational users and what LSD guru and 1960s counterculture icon Timothy Leary made famous in his psychedelic lab at Harvard University.
Griffiths and Schuster are proponents of future research on psilocybin to determine whether it has long-term influence on the brain—and whether the reported mystical effects affect memory alone or stem from other physiological changes. This study is among the first of so-called "shrooms" in four decades, coming after the widespread, illegal use of hallucinogens as recreational drugs in the 1960s, which turned off corporate and academic researchers.
"I don't think the evidence is sufficiently strong for any beneficial effect in general for us to consider changing the legality of these substances until a great deal more research is done," Schuster says. "But the illegality should not interfere with this research."
For his part, Griffiths is now recruiting terminally ill cancer patients for a trial that will test whether psilocybin mitigates the existential anxiety that comes with facing death. Strangely enough, he says, it may also be a salve for alcoholism and drug addiction.
"It does sound counterintuitive," Griffiths says. But, "six of the 12 AA [Alcoholics Anonymous] steps are related to a higher power and surrendering to it. Many people don't engage fully into the 12-step program because they don't have a connection to a higher power. One can't help but wonder whether an experience like this might be useful." People who took magic mushrooms were still feeling the love more than a year later, and one might say they were on cloud nine about it... more -
Ground Zero rebuild plan scrapped
The owner of the World Trade Center has abandoned the timetable for rebuilding work at the site of the 9/11 attacks, saying it was "not realistic".
New dates for the completion of a memorial, skyscrapers and a transit hub are expected to be issued in September.
It is unclear if the centrepiece Freedom Tower, will now be scaled back.
The tower, intended as a replacement for the destroyed Twin Towers, had been scheduled for completion in 2006 and then 2011, but the latest estimate is 2013.
At 1,776ft (541m) it would be the tallest building in the US.
Maybe we should reconsider the giant crystal spiral airplane target now. The owner of the World Trade Center has abandoned the timetable for rebuilding work at the site of the 9/11 attacks, saying it was "no... more -
Lakotah Nation: Black Hills sovereignty
The United States is now occupying Lakota country illegally, in violation of the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie, which granted the Lakota control of the Black Hills in western South Dakota. The treaty was repealed by Congress in 1877, and the Lakota have struggled ever since. "We are the poorest people in America," said Russell Means, "and we have the shortest life span in America, too. The life expectancy for Lakota women is 47; for a man, it's 44. After 155 years of genocide, our way of life is on the brink of extinction. We have finally decided to withdraw from the United States and save our people and our lands. The United States is now occupying Lakota country illegally, in violation of the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie, which granted the Lakota... more
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Severn Suzuki - Another Reminder
This speech is the most powerful speech the world has ever seen. It has not had the kind of airtime it deserves in the world and I am putting it back out there for it to be seen, as a reminder to us all. We should watch this video every single day to remind us of what each and every one of us are doing. This speech is the most powerful speech the world has ever seen. It has not had the kind of airtime it deserves in the world and I am ... more
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Religious Discrimination
How Would you feel when you imagine you are Brown( Dust Colored ) , American and white Christian media consider you 21st-Century Slave (untouchable) and it’s not important for American Media to report torture on minorities unless you are member of Christianity ?
Please Save American Freedom , Media and Justice System .
My name is N J Shah (American). I live in Bristol CT USA. My husband name is Ajmal Mehdi (American).
We were (Human Faith) married in New York cut off from our families because of religious conflict moved to Bristol Connecticut USA.
We were very happy have two kids after married thought America is safe for us after 911 everything changed.
1. 1996 I N J Shah went to Pakistan to drop our daughter there for four years so we could improve our education and financial condition here and decide not to go on welfare in USA was patriot Act.
2. 2000 I N J Shah Was held in Pakistan for three days when I went to bring our daughter back just because I was Indian Born. Human right Geneva office helped us get back here in Connecticut USA. That day we thanked God and blessed American justice system and freedom.
3. July 2003 Hudson United Bank called and said Mr.Mehdi you need to sign Patriot Act for one second you will think what did I do wrong then you will sing it because you have no choice. But you think what did you do wrong just wrote two Letter to editor one for New York Time and Other one to Hartford Currants about How freedom can change life. Or applying for police jobs.
4. June 30 2004 he pass Citizenship test but his Oath is held need background investigation almost four years no Oath yet.
5. Next someone write 187 K-town Dr. on the Building which mean Homicide by local police department which started mental problem cannot sleep up all night doing Homeland Security thinking every minute of life what’s really going on is it psychological torture or real torture.
6. Lost his job because customer wanted to rearrange his face when he complained to his boss was fired from work.
7. Started losing my small business here in our town because we love Bristol and America Business name (Bristol Fashions) due to my Husband Health. Ajmal was held without charge in a Local Hospital for five days.
He like to stay in bed don’t go out no one to talk to he thinks everyone is spying on him no more Mosque, Church, Munder and Cinagag.
How would you feel when every minute of your life you just think why I’m Victim of Name Discrimination, Victim of religious Discrimination, Civil liberties and Racial profiling ?
How would you feel when you are driving and you feel every one driving behind you just following you ?
How would you feel when Customer Walks in to you store look at you and you feel they are spying on you ?
How would you feel when every day same issue when you talk to your family and end up with argument ?
How would you feel when you tell your kids if something happen to me please help your mom and be good ?
How would you feel when you tell your wife in case I die please move back to India ?
We asked news media all over USA no one willing to report this issue, My question is who should we trust or ask for Help ? Psychological torture on minorities should be consider Code Red or worst crime and terror on Human Being. Torture of the mind can create permanent brain damage and force people to change their names and religious enrollment due to fear. Major issue with Psychological torture is creating alienation of minorities which is causing personality disorder and daily function of disturb brain. I hope we won’t see that day when American Dreams will turn into Nightmares. It is time to make sure Matrix Database is not just collecting names of certain minorities .Sense of urgency is needed to stop Psychological torture on Human being.
IN GOD WE TRUST WE HAVE FAITH IN HUMANITY
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