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Armed toddlers must be annihilated!

The dangers of the TPP

Erik Loomis of Lawyers, Guns & Money:

I have written a lot about the Investor State Dispute Settlement courts that make up a central tenet of the Trans Pacific Partnership and other trade agreements. These extra-national courts effectively give corporations a new legal system to protect their interests that has no accountability to nations or peoples, no access for those peoples to defend themselves, and no system so that citizens can even know what is going on in them. Corporations can use them to protect their profits so that if a nation passes a law that could affect future profits, the companies can use the ISDS courts to sue for future profits lost. That could mean that minimum wage laws, anti-mining regulations, protections for forests, pollution regulations, etc., could be effectively overturned. And given the power dynamics involved in the world, it’s going to be western companies going after developing world nation laws more often than not. These courts have been around for a long time, but they are growing more powerful today. There are two recent pieces of journalism exploring the many problems with the ISDS courts.

It's called hate speech and we've seen it throughout history.

Will people and the press recognize it now?

Josh Marshall explains.

Canada, the good guys of the north

 From here.

Even animals are getting the love.

California's seasons: Flood, Fire, Earthquakes, and Summer.

Southern California is flammable. Please extinguish all matches, lighters, candles, bbqs, fireplaces, campfires,and flamethrowers. Bring water.

Couldn't say it better myself

From feminism, Fukushima, reading to exploding manure. Which reminds me... and Trump.

What you read matters more than you think.

One way to identify potential mass killers: domestic violence and grievances against women.

Women activists around the world.

My new hero, Mary Beard.

A doctor who sees how climate change is affecting our health.  Records shattered.

Climate change in a nutshell: Heatwave leads to ice cream theft, flying cockroaches and exploding manure

Radiation Along Fukushima Rivers Up to 200 Times Higher Than Pacific Ocean Seabed

Pakistani doctor saves a Christian patient and has to flee for his life to the US.  Where Muslims are hated. Welcome to America.

Are we in a rerun of the 1930s?

What forced-birthers are like.

The making of Donald Trump.

Most Muslims think this

The Islamic religion attracts all sorts, just like being a "Christian" covers the Westboro Baptists and the KKK to the Puritans and Catholics.

Because strong men get all the attention