Attorney: FBI Is Targeting Social Justice Advocates in Terrorism Raids

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/attorney-fbi-targeting-social-justice-advocates/ Attorney: FBI Is Targeting Social Justice Advocates in Terrorism Raids CHICAGO (AP) — A lawyer for a Chicago man says her client’s home was among those raided by FBI agents as part of a terrorism investigation. Agents searched eight addresses in Minneapolis and Chicago on Friday. Warrants suggest they’re looking for connections between local [...]

Accept Me As I Am

ACCEPT ME Accept me as I am, I have no guarantee. A claim to perfection I have not. Perfect I cannot be. I, like you, am human. Prone to make mistakes. Failure is not a character flaw, just a part of the human makeup. I live, I laugh and I also learn. My knowledge is incomplete. [...]

If A Child Lives With Criticism

IF A CHILD LIVES WITH CRITICISM Author Unknown If children live with criticism, they learn to condemn If children live with hostility, they learn to fight If children live with fear, they learn to be apprehensive If children live with pity, they learn to feel sorry for themselves If children live with ridicule, they learn [...]

The Power of One

One song can spark a moment, One flower can wake the dream. One tree can start a forest, One bird can herald spring. One smile begins a friendship, One handclasp lifts a soul. One star can guide a ship at sea, One word can frame the goal. One vote can change a nation, One sunbeam [...]

Arabs Harass Female ‘Peace’ Activists; Left Silences Victims

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/139738 Arabs Harass Female ‘Peace’ Activists; Left Silences Victims by Gil Ronen Two activists have exposed a disturbing phenomenon that they say is an open secret within the “peace camp”: female “peace” activists are routinely harassed and raped by the Arabs of Judea and Samaria with whom they have come to identify. They say the [...]

UN Asks for Action on Nature Loss, Citing Poverty

Published on Wednesday, September 22, 2010 by BBC News UN Asks for Action on Nature Loss, Citing Poverty by Richard Black Governments must protect nature better in order to safeguard their countries’ wealth, says the UN, as ministers meet for a day of talks on biodiversity. The Bonobo chimpanzee is threatened by deforestation and human [...]

Corporate Lobbying Is Blocking Food Reforms, Senior UN Official Warns

Published on Wednesday, September 22, 2010 by The Guardian/UK Corporate Lobbying Is Blocking Food Reforms, Senior UN Official Warns Farming summit told of delaying tactics by large agri-business and food producers on decisions that would improve human health and the environment by Juliette Jowit Lobbying by “powerful” big food companies is blocking reforms which would [...]

Genetically Engineered Salmon: Coming to a Plate Near You?

Published on Tuesday, September 21, 2010 by Civil Eats Genetically Engineered Salmon: Coming to a Plate Near You? by Paula Crossfield The genetically modified salmon called AquAdvantage was discussed on Monday in front of the Veterinary Medicine Advisory Committee, which will help the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) decide whether or not to approve the [...]

Virginia Set to Execute First Woman in Nearly a Century

Published on Monday, September 20, 2010 by The Guardian/UK Virginia Set to Execute First Woman in Nearly a Century Teresa Lewis will die by lethal injection on Thursday unless an appeal to the supreme court can save her by Chris McGreal in Washington The state of Virginia this week plans to carry out its first [...]

China, Energy, and Global Power: Twenty-First Century Energy Superpower

Published on Monday, September 20, 2010 by TomDispatch.comby Michael T. Klare  If you want to know which way the global wind is blowing (or the sun shining or the coal burning), watch China.  That’s the news for our energy future and for the future of great-power politics on planet Earth.  Washington is already watching — [...]