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Saudi Arabia: Four relatives executed for hashish possession amid surge in executions The Saudi Arabian authorities must halt all executions, Amnesty International said after four members of the same family were executed today as part of a “disturbing” recent surge in the use of the death penalty in the country....
Posted: Mon, Aug 18, 2014 10:24pm PDT
Mideast Migraines - Elie Wiesel is Morally Corrupt (audio/mpeg 129.6MB) Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, long known for his moral shortcomings in refusing to acknowledge Israeli atrocities, published a huge ad in the New York Times recently comparing Hamas to ancient Canaanite child-sacrificers.
Length: 1:53:15/ Date Recorded: 2014-08-11/ Location: Santa Cruz, CA/ File Info: 64Kbps mp3 (133MB), Mono...
Posted: Mon, Aug 18, 2014 5:40pm PDT
Facebook: Protest For Gaza Censored and Steven Argue Blocked From Posting 
Despite the attempts by Facebook to censor the Oakland block the Boat protest, the protest successfully blocked a ship of the Israeli Zim shipping line from unloading on August 16th, 2014. Still, the arrogance of Facebook in censoring the protest, the Revolutionary Tendency, and Steven Argue for this peaceful and legal action should be exposed....
Posted: Mon, Aug 18, 2014 11:09am PDT
Big Oil Permanently Poisons 2 Million Gallons of California Water Each Day LOS ANGELES – At City Hall on August 13, City Councilmember Paul Koretz, Los Angeles residents and California climate and water experts called on Big Oil to stop wasting California’s water. During the worst drought in the state’s recent history, the oil and gas industry is permanently destroying millions of gallons of water and drilling deeper into the earth, threatening dwindling groundwater supplies by using fracking and other water-intensive extraction processes....
Posted: Sun, Aug 17, 2014 3:29am PDT
Animal Legal Defense Fund Demands Investigation of Morro Bay Aquarium for Tax Fraud 
MORRO BAY, Calif. — On August 13, the national nonprofit Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) sent formal complaint letters to California Attorney General Kamala Harris and the Internal Revenue Service, alleging the Morro Bay Marine Rehabilitation Center, the nonprofit arm of the Morro Bay Aquarium, committed tax fraud when it claimed nonprofit tax status based on false claims that the facility provides rehabilitation services to distressed marine animals. However, the Morro Bay Aquarium has not ...
Posted: Sun, Aug 17, 2014 3:21am PDT
Mideast Migraines - DtSO, Subverting Academic Freedom, middle of chapter 8 (audio/mpeg 132.0MB) Continued reading of "They Dare to Speak Out", chapter 8 "Subverting Academic Freedom", Arab-American music.
Length: 1:55:18/ Date Recorded: 2014-08-09/ Location: Santa Cruz, CA/ File Info: 64Kbps, mp3 (135MB), Mono...
Posted: Mon, Aug 11, 2014 5:37pm PDT
Anonymous Operation Ferguson 
A little over 24 hours ago in Ferguson, Missouri - USA the Ferguson Police Department shot an un-armed teen 6 times and killed him. His body was left to lie in a pool of blood in the sweltering heat for hours while the police militarized the area against protesters and attempted to concoct a reasonable story as to why they snatched this innocent students life for no reason. The St. Louis County Sheriff Department even sealed the roads leading to Ferguson in a vain attempt to prevent protester...
Posted: Sun, Aug 10, 2014 1:19pm PDT
Feds Urged to Suspend Grand Canyon Uranium Mine to Protect Water, Wildlife and People 
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz.— Conservation groups have sent a letter (see PDF) urging federal regulators to suspend operations at a uranium mine near the Grand Canyon, where millions of gallons of uranium-laced groundwater threaten people and wildlife. Records from the U.S. Geological Survey show that the contaminated groundwater — 80 times the limit set to protect public health and the environment — have inundated the Pinenut uranium mine immediately north of Grand Canyon National Park....
Posted: Thu, Aug 7, 2014 2:07pm PDT
Recent Israeli, Palestinian Crisis Must Be ‘The Last Time’ Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, to the General Assembly on the situation in Gaza, in New York, 6 August:...
Posted: Wed, Aug 6, 2014 4:24pm PDT
Mideast Migraines - DtSO, Assault concluded (end of chapter 7) (audio/mpeg 134.7MB) Continued reading of "They Dare to Speak Out" by Paul Findley, finishing chapter 7, covering Israel's attack on the U.S. navy ship USS Liberty in 1967 and its aftermath, including cover-up of the details by our and the Israeli governments, and the immense difficulties encountered by a survivor's publication of the tell-all book on the incident, and its suppression; music by Stu Davis.
Length: 1:57:42/ Date Recorded: 2014-08-02/ Location: Santa Cruz, CA/ File Info: 64Kbps, mp3 (138MB), ...
Posted: Mon, Aug 4, 2014 2:17pm PDT
Mideast Migraines - Israeli kidnappings and murders (audio/mpeg 80.8MB) More on the Gaza invasion including "Responding to Common Arguments Supporting Israel’s Operation", "U.S. media ignore Israel’s abduction of Palestinian teens", and Israeli Journalist Gideon Levy on "What Does Hamas Really Want?", oud music by M. Kontanis.
Length: 1:57:37/ Date Recorded: 2014-07-28/ Location: Santa Cruz, CA/ File Info: 64Kbps, mp3 (83MB), Mono...
Posted: Sat, Aug 2, 2014 11:01am PDT
Study shows nontoxic ammunition widely available throughout California 
Availability of alternatives indicates that state can begin implementing law requiring use of nonlead ammunition without hindering hunting activities....
Posted: Wed, Jul 30, 2014 2:12pm PDT
Animal Protection Groups Stop Coyote Killing Contest BEND, Oregon – On July 25, the national nonprofit Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF), along with co-plaintiffs Project Coyote and an individual Oregon resident, settled a lawsuit against Duane Freilino, organizer of the annual JMK Coyote Hunting Contest in Crane, Harney County, Oregon. Freilino’s killing contest, held annually for eight seasons, required hunters to “buy in” to the contest by paying an entry fee of $100. Top teams won cash prizes totaling more than $10,000 for various kills, inc...
Posted: Wed, Jul 30, 2014 2:01pm PDT
Pa. Residents with Fracking-Related Health Complaints Urge Action from Attorney General Harrisburg, Pa. – On July 29, individuals from around Pennsylvania who had fracking-related health complaints ignored by the state’s Department of Health (DOH) shared their stories and called on Attorney General Kathleen Kane to launch an investigation into the apparent disregard for their complaints....
Posted: Wed, Jul 30, 2014 11:10am PDT
Mideast Migraines - TDtSO, The Assault On 'Assault' (audio/mpeg 137.2MB) Continued reading from "They Dare to Speak Out" - chapter 7, The Assault on 'Assault', exposing the facts about Israel's June 1967 attack on a U.S. navy surveillance ship in international waters off their coast, and the many instances of cover-up of the incident, and intimidation and suppression of the firsthand book written about the incident; a little music.
Length: 1:59:51/ Date Recorded: 2014-07-26/ Location: Santa Cruz, CA/ File Info: 64Kbps, mp3 (140MB), Mono...
Posted: Mon, Jul 28, 2014 3:23pm PDT
Down with the latest criminal abuses by the Israeli State! 
On Thursday, June 12 evening three youths; Gilad Shaar, Yifal Efrad and Naftali Frankel were abducted by two militants suspected to have links to Hamas, the Islamic political organization, while they were hitchhiking at a crossroads near Gush Etzion, an Israeli colonial settlement in Palestinian territory. From that moment, it took 18 days before the bodies of three young settlers were found. During these 18 days at least six Palestinians were killed in the West Bank (including a child), alon...
Posted: Sun, Jul 27, 2014 10:06am PDT
Mideast Migraines - Dare To Speak Out, ending chapter 6 (audio/mpeg 135.6MB) Continued reading of "They Dare to Speak Out" by congressman Paul Findley (1985), finishing up chapter six.
Length: 1:58:31/ Date Recorded: 2014-07-19/ Location: Santa Cruz, CA/ File Info: 64Kbps, mp3 (139MB), Mono...
Posted: Tue, Jul 22, 2014 6:28pm PDT
Mideast Migraines - Dare to Speak Out, begin chapter 6 (audio/mpeg 130.4MB) Continued reading of Paul Findley's "They Dare to Speak Out", begin chapter 6, interstitial music.
Length: 1:53:58/ Date Recorded: 2014-07-12/ Location: Santa Cruz, CA/ File Info: 64Kbps, mp3 (134MB), Mono...
Posted: Mon, Jul 21, 2014 2:48pm PDT
Mideast Migraines - Israeli Atrocities Vs. Killing 3 settlers (audio/mpeg 80.3MB) Some facts surrounding the murder of three young Zionist settlers and of a Palestinian youth in revenge, music.
Length: 1:56:54/ Date Recorded: 2014-07-07/ Location: Santa Cruz, CA/ File Info: 64Kbps, mp3 (82MB), Mono...
Posted: Sat, Jul 19, 2014 10:49am PDT
NLG Urges U.S. Government to Cease $3 Billion Annual Military Aid to Israel NEW YORK--The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) expresses its outrage about Israel’s ongoing indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks against Palestinian civilians and civilian objects in the Gaza Strip. Following a barrage of recent airstrikes, the Israeli military on July 17 began a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip....
Posted: Fri, Jul 18, 2014 8:04pm PDT
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