WPR (World Politics Review) - 10/18/13, Andrew MacDowall

They are the biggest demonstrations Romania has seen this century. Across the country and beyond, tens of thousands have taken to the streets in protests that have included a human chain around Bucharest’s massive parliament, one of the world’s largest buildings, and a rally of several hundred Romanians in London’s Trafalgar Square.

If the demonstrations have gained momentum in part due to economic hardship and especially disillusionment with the political elite, they were initially triggered by a highly controversial mining project and the ecological and cultural damage that it might cause. Though environmental issues have for a long time been seen as marginal in Southeastern European politics, it would not be the first time that environmental protests have snowballed into anti-establishment movements in the region.

William Henry ~ It's Time

Detail of Washington on a rainbow and surrounded by stars.
Photo: Wm. Henry

The United States Capitol, rising atop Capitol Hill in the monument city of Washington, D.C. may well be the most famous building in the world. 

To Americans the cast-iron, Capitol dome, dressed in pure white sandstone, is a symbol of strength and democracy. Radiant. Luminous. Shining. Freedom rings from this beautiful bell. How many recognize the Capitol is a temple?

Thomas Jefferson called it “The first temple dedicated to the sovereignty of the people.”

An anonymous essay of 1795 described the Capitol building as a ‘temple erected to Liberty’.

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Source: Silicon Angle - 10/10/13, John Casaretto

If you weren’t aware, November 5th is Guy Fawkes Day, and as one of the symbols of the Anonymous movement, the hacktivist collective is planning a massive march in Washington DC on the National Mall.  The march has been labeled “the Million Mask March” and it is being put together to protest a laundry list of causes, so if you’re with the Anonymous movement, you have a variety of choices to get behind.

Here’s the statement and the list -

Please read event description below for details mission statement and videos
This event and page is NOT associated with millionmaskmarch.org site as well as wiki poet or pollymath poet due to theor association with the great american revolt page as well as their actions.

East Bay Express, By: David Downs, 10/15/2013

The photo looks like something out of a horror film. A long, thin animal lays dissected on a white table. Metal tools pull the animal's skin back to reveal its jellied, maroon-colored insides — all soupy, slick, and lumpy. It's the remains of a Pacific Fisher, an eight-pound member of the weasel family that's now hovering near extinction, thanks in part to illegal pot farming in the vast forests of California.

Fishers eat forest mice, and forest mice nibble the green stalks of still-maturing cannabis plants. So illicit growers who toil deep inside California's forests spread powerful rodenticides — rat poison — on the ground near their marijuana crops. The mice eat the poisonous anti-coagulants, get sick, and then the fishers eat the mice. Soon after, the furry forest weasels are melting from the inside out.

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