Facebook agrees to run marijuana legalization ads

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“Facebook has agreed to run marijuana legalization ads after being confronted by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the ACLU of Northern California. The social networking giant had refused to run the ads of multiple organizations because they showed marijuana leaves.” [Who’s afraid of a big bad plant?]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/13/facebook-agrees-to-run-marijuana-legalization-ads/

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Mexican drug war claims innocent victims

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“According to the Department of Homeland Security, 4,400 Mexican nationals have applied for US asylum in 2012. That number already exceeds the 4,000 requests filed in 2011, and is more than three times the 1,200 made in 2005, before the drug war began. These people represent a fraction of the displaced, of course. And only a fraction of them will see their requests granted. Over the past six years, only 11% of asylum cases from Mexican nationals were granted.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/13/mexican-drug-war-claims-innocent-victims/

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Paul Ryan describes Israel as issue of ‘Homeland Security’

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“How far do politicians conflate US and Israeli interests? Well Romney’s choice for veep, Paul Ryan, puts the issue ‘Israel’ under the category ‘Homeland Security’ on his Congressional website. Homeland Security also includes, Iraq, Afghanistan, Support Our Troops, and Defense Appropriations. Ryan’s website statement on Israel is typical of the Republican right, and Democratic left for that matter: the only ‘fully functioning democracy’ in the Middle East, shared values, and Hamas is a terrorist organization.”

http://mondoweiss.net/2012/08/paul-ryan-describes-israel-as-issue-of-homeland-security.html

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Romney’s Paul Ryan VP Pick Pleases War Hawks

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“Ryan has been receiving briefings from Elliot Abrams, George W. Bush’s former Middle East director at the National Security Council. Fred Kagan, a leading neoconservative and one of the architects of the military surges in Iraq and Afghanistan, has also been meeting with Ryan to coach him on foreign policy. Paul Ryan has also been praised by Jamie Fly, executive director of the uber-hawkish Foreign Policy Initiative, a neoconservative think tank that has advocated regime change in Iran, military action in Syria to depose the regime there, and criticized the US withdrawal from Iraq.”

http://news.antiwar.com/2012/08/11/romneys-paul-ryan-vp-pick-pleases-war-hawks/

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Bank of Israel governor: Iran strike spells economic crisis

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“Governor of the Bank of Israel Stanley Fischer said that the BOI has formed a special task force to deal with the economic crisis that is likely to follow an Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. ‘A strike would have dire effects… We are gearing for such a situation,’ he told Channel 2 news over the weekend.”

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4267139,00.html

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Iranian-Canadians fume as TD closes accounts

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“Several Iranian-Canadians are crying foul after the TD Bank abruptly closed their accounts with little explanation other than to say it had to comply with federal economic sanctions against Iran. TD began sending letters to some of its clients in May informing them it would no longer be offering them banking services so as to abide with changes made last November to the Special Economic Measures (Iran) Regulations, which prohibit banks from providing financial services that benefit Iran or anyone in Iran.”

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2012/07/11/iranian-canadian-td-accounts269.html

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Sanctions Will Kill Tens of Thousands of Iranians

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“Officially, the sanctions are supposed to be ‘smart’ and ‘targeted,’ aiming only to hurt the Iranian government, particularly the Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, the most powerful part of Iran’s military. But in reality, the most vulnerable members of Iranian society, namely, millions of ordinary Iranians, have suffered the most. Not only have they been hurt badly by the sanctions, but tens of thousands of them, if not more, will also lose their lives if the sanctions continue, even without being tightened further. The emerging catastrophe will be an ethical and moral problem for the West for decades to come.”

http://original.antiwar.com/sahimi/2012/08/08/sanctions-will-kill-tens-of-thousands-of-iranians/

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U.S. offers help to Iran after earthquake

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“The United States on Sunday offered help and condolences to the people of Iran over a double earthquake that claimed 227 lives and injured more than 1,000 others. The statement was notably addressed to the ‘Iranian people’ and made no mention of the government of Iran. The United States and Iran have no diplomatic relations and have been involved in a tense diplomatic standoff for decades.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/12/u-s-offers-help-to-iran-after-earthquake/

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14 Questions People Ask About How To Prepare For The Collapse Of The Economy

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“A key characteristic that we will all need in the years ahead is flexibility. Anyone that has spent any time in the military knows that very few plans ever work out perfectly. As the global economy breaks down and the world becomes increasingly unstable, conditions are going to change rapidly. What might work really well in one situation might be the exact wrong thing to do 6 months later. If you are not willing or able to adapt to dramatic change then you are going to have a lot of difficulty in the years ahead.”

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/14-questions-people-ask-about-how-to-prepare-for-the-collapse-of-the-economy

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Meredith Whitney: Municipal Finances Reaching an ‘Inflection Point’

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“‘You haven’t seen state and local governments cut to the degree they have. Now you reach a point where it’s an inflection point: At what cost am I going to honor my pension obligations?’ the founder of the Meredith Whitney Advisory Group said. ‘How much am I going to cut into basic social services to honor obligations that I just can’t commit for the long term?’ she continued. ‘Precedents are being set now and you’re going to see more and more cities adopt’ cost-cutting measures.” [Or revenue-raising]

http://www.cnbc.com/id/48565803

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Monthly Archives: August 2012

Facebook agrees to run marijuana legalization ads

Mexican drug war claims innocent victims

Paul Ryan describes Israel as issue of ‘Homeland Security’

Romney’s Paul Ryan VP Pick Pleases War Hawks

Bank of Israel governor: Iran strike spells economic crisis

Iranian-Canadians fume as TD closes accounts

Sanctions Will Kill Tens of Thousands of Iranians

U.S. offers help to Iran after earthquake

14 Questions People Ask About How To Prepare For The Collapse Of The Economy

Meredith Whitney: Municipal Finances Reaching an ‘Inflection Point’