The protests, which simultaneously focused on the American company's tax dodging and austerity cuts to women's and children's programs, saw activists turn cafes into women's shelters, day cares, homeless shelters and temporary libraries.They're the "nones" — that's the Pew Research Center's shorthand for the growing number of American voters who don't have a specific religious affiliation. Some are agnostic, some atheist, but more than half define themselves as either "religious" or "spiritual but not religious," Pew found in a recent survey.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/12/09/166753248/add-this-group-to-obamas-winning-coalition-religiously-unaffiliated?ft=3&f=1001&sc=nl&cc=nh-20121209
Israel...Initiates Settlement Project That Would Render Two-State Solution Impossible
AlterNet Radio speaks with the influential legal scholar.
Can people be hypnotically programmed to kill?
Experts say: "Yes"
What Does the NDAA Really Authorize?
n Tuesday, the Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, a yearly military spending bill. Last year, the bill affirmed the U.S.'s authority to hold suspected terrorists indefinitely and without charges. The provision had generated plenty of controversy, particularly about whether U.S. citizens could be detained indefinitely. This year, the Senate bill says that citizens can't be detained in the U.S. - but concerns remain about the scope of detention powers.http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/294-159/14929-what-does-the-ndaa-really-authorizeWe fight Zionism – Not Judaism.
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Former US president slams drone attacks
WASHINGTON: Former US President Jimmy Carter has slammed American assassination drone strikes in other countries, saying that killing civilians in such attacks would in fact nurture terrorism.
Roots of the Zionist Genocide of Palestinians
How Atheist Voters Could Change American Politics Forever
Analysis of the exit polls from the last presidential election shows that these ‘nones’ played a key role in President Obama’s victory in November — and demographic data suggests their influence will only grow from here. This could have a major impact on American politics, and maybe even restore the separation that’s supposed to exist between church and state.
Obama Gives OK For Black Box Data Recorders to Be Installed in All Cars
The NHTSA says that by September 2014 all car and light trucks will be equipped with EDRs that will silently “record the actions of drivers and the responses of their vehicles in a continuous information loop.”
The American Worship of Empire
The Republicans who subscribe to Christianity actually think that the man called the Prince of Peace would condone all that they stand for. Duh, like the worship of greed at the expense of 99.5% of us. Yet, when it comes to other foreign policy issues, both of those political parties think they own the cross and the memory of the Christ.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33271.htm
American Nuclear Hypocrisy
http://www.countercurrents.org/akleh101212.htm
Western Powers Have Lost All Sense Of Morality
http://www.countercurrents.org/ziabari101212.htm
The Condition Of Human Rights At The International Setting
http://www.countercurrents.org/boyle101212.htm
Climate Change and the Unrestrained Elite
umankind's greatest crisis coincides with the rise of an ideology that makes it impossible to address. By the late 1980s, when it became clear that manmade climate change endangered the living planet and its people, the world was in the grip of an extreme political doctrine, whose tenets forbid the kind of intervention required to arrest it.
Whistleblowers lead to $3.3 billion in US recovery
Justice Department rewards whistleblowers with $439 million in 2012
http://www.koat.com/news/project-economy/Whistleblowers-lead-to-3-3-billion-in-US-recovery/-/9153566/17651806/-/12q7s2nz/-/index.html
reports on a wave of organizing by low-wage workers in New York City.Striking the fast-food giants
reports from New York City on a day of walkouts at fast-food restaurants--another step in what organizers call the largest union drive in fast-food history.
http://socialistworker.org/2012/12/03/striking-the-fast-food-giants
Why the Bible doesn’t give Israel a claim to the West Bank
Having a passport stamped with the names Judea and Samaria reminds me of a trip my family made to Disneyworld, where I got a passport stamped Neverland. That day I met Peter Pan and Wendy. Getting my passport stamped for the West Bank these days, I can hope to stand before the graves of Biblical characters in Samaria and Judea.
How credible are reports of Syrian WMDs?
Doha deal extends Kyoto Protocol
Documentary targets family courts and custody evaluators
Antibiotics in chicken causing new infections
