]> http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/ Community News and Information Wed, 16 May 2012 09:56:03 PST en-us http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_64543.shtml Editor's Note: Last night I received a phone text mail message from a friend citing news that Bank of America Merrill Lynch recognized in an investment report that President Chavez will be re-elected and even if he cannot stand for re-election for health reasons, his substitute will win anyway. - LMB ... Wed, 16 May 2012 09:42:13 PST http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_64543.shtml http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_64542.shtml Editor's Comment: Please note that The Red River Integrated Border Enforcement Team (IBET) is being billed as a "binational partnership" to “enhance border integrity and security along the shared Canada/U.S. border." In reality, this move takes the next step in building a new police state in both countries. It also... Tue, 15 May 2012 23:18:48 PST http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_64542.shtml http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_64541.shtml When civilizations start to die they go insane. Let the ice sheets in the Arctic melt. Let the temperatures rise. Let the air, soil and water be poisoned. Let the forests die. Let the seas be emptied of life. Let one useless war after another be waged. Let the masses... Tue, 15 May 2012 11:51:25 PST http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_64541.shtml http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_64540.shtml On the 15th of May of every year, Palestinians and the whole world remember how it all started. How the Israelis' ethnic cleansing of a people and the destruction of a society - the Nakba - was met with global indifference. Many factors made it so, but among them was... Tue, 15 May 2012 11:08:24 PST http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_64540.shtml http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_64539.shtml Editorial comment: The article below, reproduced from BBC News, notes that Willard Mitt Romney opposes gay marriage. [Note to those who want to know: Mitt is his full middle name; it is not short for Mittens.] He does suggest they should have some limited rights, however. And here's where the... Mon, 14 May 2012 21:09:11 PST http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_64539.shtml http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_64538.shtml Editorial Comment: As a member of a self-regulating legal society, I can empathize entirely with Dr Levitt's concerns about bad actors in the medical system. While he is in the United States and I'm in Canada, he'll no doubt not be surprised to hear that medical outcomes here are similar... Mon, 14 May 2012 20:44:18 PST http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_64538.shtml http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_64537.shtml U.S. District Court Judge Robert Wilkins heard the arguments on Friday in Washington, D.C., and is deliberating now on the question of whether young people can sue to compel their government to take serious measures to stop global warming.  Judge Robert Wilkins is familiar with discrimination, having been the plaintiff... Mon, 14 May 2012 11:15:39 PST http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_64537.shtml http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_64535.shtml Here’s what happens when corporations begin to control education. "When I approached professors to discuss research projects addressing organic agriculture in farmer's markets, the first one told me that 'no one cares about people selling food in parking lots on the other side of the train tracks,’” said a PhD... Mon, 14 May 2012 07:40:04 PST http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_64535.shtml http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_64534.shtml Canada’s largest banks received $114 billion in liquidity support from the government of Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the United States Federal Reserve between 2008 and 2010, reveals a recent report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), a think tank with institutional backing from the trade unions.... Mon, 14 May 2012 07:35:17 PST http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_64534.shtml http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_64532.shtml ... Sun, 13 May 2012 15:55:03 PST http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_64532.shtml http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_64531.shtml 12 May 2012 Speculation by a derivatives trader in London has produced a $2 billion trading loss for the US financial services giant JP Morgan Chase, the bank acknowledged late Thursday. The loss is one of the largest since the financial collapse of 2008, when two major Wall Street institutions,... Sun, 13 May 2012 13:37:40 PST http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_64531.shtml http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_64530.shtml 12 May 2012 Senior officers at a top US war college have been instructed to prepare for “total war” against Muslims, including “taking war to a civilian population wherever necessary … the historical precedents of Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki being applicable,” according to leaked documents from course curriculum. The... Sun, 13 May 2012 13:31:15 PST http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_64530.shtml http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_64529.shtml Quite incredibly, the EPA issued a positive report on May 1, 2012 regarding the safety and toxicity of various dispersants used in the BP Gulf Oil Spill. Included in this assessment was the use of Corexit. This report “indicated that all eight dispersants had roughly the same toxicity," and all... Sun, 13 May 2012 13:18:19 PST http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_64529.shtml http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_64528.shtml Editor's Comment: Hillary Clinton's "confession" that the U.S. created Al Queda was anything but spontaneous and honest. In this videotaped announcement, she attempted to justify the decision to fund, train and employ Al Queda to defeat the Soviets in Afghanistan. In the same argument she tried to justify US aggression... Sun, 13 May 2012 12:24:49 PST http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_64528.shtml http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_64527.shtml 12 May 2012 “Our policy is to try to accelerate the arrival of that tipping point” at which the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad is toppled, Assistant Secretary of State Jeffrey Feltman explained last March to the US Senate’s foreign relations committee. Thursday saw the latest incarnation of this policy.... Sun, 13 May 2012 12:17:30 PST http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_64527.shtml http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_64526.shtml The shock results in Italy’s local elections have been variously dismissed by all major political parties – which is understandable, since the results for all of them ranged from bad to terrible. The main leftist Democratic Party (PD) more or less held, albeit wobbling amidst a crisis of legitimacy which... Sun, 13 May 2012 09:24:23 PST http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_64526.shtml http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_64525.shtml Know the truth about what is happening in Syria.... Sun, 13 May 2012 01:34:26 PST http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_64525.shtml http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_64524.shtml Editor's Note: Steve Rhode who runs the blog, Get Out of Debt shares the story of an aging, jobless grandmother, Janis. The story shows just how brutally the US government treats its citizens today with their new "austerity measures." - LMB I’m a Grandmother and Getting my Social Security Check... Sat, 12 May 2012 22:12:19 PST http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_64524.shtml http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_64515.shtml CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ........................................................ 2 INTRODUCTION ................................................................. 3 Methodology .................................................................... 4 What is a forest?............................................................... 4 Who are indigenous peoples? ............................................... 5 Who are forest peoples? ..................................................... 7 TABLE A: Forest peoples¡¦ numbers by region ......................... 8 Forest peoples¡¦ numbers by type of dependence .................... 8 TABLE B(1) ....................................................................... 8... Sat, 12 May 2012 19:35:03 PST http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_64515.shtml http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_64523.shtml The Social Security program…represents our commitment as a society to the belief that workers should not live in dread that a disability, death, or old age could leave them or their families destitute.   – President Jimmy Carter, December 20, 1977. [This law] assures the elderly that America will always... Sat, 12 May 2012 14:15:34 PST http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_64523.shtml