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  • Members of the Icelandic Parliament nominate Bradley Manning for the Nobel Peace Prize

    Read my post from last week about who Bradley Manning is

    From globalresearch.ca:
    February 1 2012 the entire parliamentary group of The Movement of the Icelandic Parliament nominated Private Bradley Manning for the Nobel Peace Prize. Following is the reasoning we sent to the committee explaining why we felt compelled to nominate Private Bradley Manning for this important recognition of an individual effort to have an impact for peace in our world.
    Our letter to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee:
    We have the great honor of nominating Private First Class Bradley Manning for the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize. Manning is a soldier in the United States army who stands accused of releasing hundreds of thousands of documents to the whistleblower website WikiLeaks. The leaked documents pointed to a long history of corruption, war crimes, and imperialism by the United States government in international dealings. These revelations have fueled democratic uprising around the world, including a democratic revolution in Tunisia. According to journalists, his alleged actions helped motivate the democratic Arab Spring movements, shed light on secret corporate influence on our foreign policies, and most recently contributed to the Obama Administration agreeing to withdraw all U.S.troops from the occupation in Iraq.
    Bradley Manning has been incarcerated for well over a year by the U.S. government without a trial. He spent over ten months of that time period in solitary confinement, conditions which experts worldwide have criticized as torturous. Juan Mendez, the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on Torture and Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment, has repeatedly requested and been denied a private meeting with Manning to assess his conditions.
    The documents made public by WikiLeaks should never have been kept from public scrutiny. The revelations – including video documentation of an incident in which American soldiers gunned down Reuters journalists in Iraq – have helped to fuel a worldwide discussion about America’s overseas engagements, civilian casualties of war, imperialistic manipulations, and rules of engagement. Citizens worldwide owe a great debt to the WikiLeaks whistleblower for shedding light on these issues, and so I urge the Committee to award this prestigious prize to accused whistleblower Bradley Manning.
    Sincerely,
    Birgitta Jónsdóttir
    Margrét Tryggvadóttir
    Þór Saari
    Members of the Icelandic Parliament for The Movement

  • Nuclear mom slow cooker recipe: Cranberry Roast

    Easy, delicious, hearty, and filling! Not even slightly vegetarian, this recipe is best if you can get a beef roast that hasn’t traveled thousands of miles. It’ll be more delicious!

    In a slow cooker:
    -a pack of onion soup mix (on the bottom)
    -a beef roast
    -a can of whole cranberry sauce (pour over the roast)
    Cook on low for 8 hours.
    When you get home from work, steam some green beans or asparagus.
    Remove roast, and wisk in a couple teaspoons of melted butter and flour to thicken the gravy. Oh man.

    sooooo goooooood.

  • Meat & Dairy: Forks Over Knives

    Meat & Dairy: Forks Over Knives

    One of those movies that does a good job of changing your mind ever so slightly for the better. (more…)

  • Healthy slow cooker recipe: Indian Goulash

    With a slow cooker, anything that comes out of it at the end of the day will taste good as long as all the flavours make sense.  This one is the easiest, most nutritious, yummiest, cheapest, and most convenient!

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  • Cops who stage riots. Who’s burning the cars and smashing windows?

    Undercover cops do it to attract bad press to peaceful protests! INsanity!!  I posted a link last week to a great Canadian documentary called Capitalism is the Crisis in which attention is called toward the G20 Summit in Toronto a couple summers ago. (more…)

  • The story of Bradley Manning & Wikileaks

    The story of Bradley Manning & Wikileaks

    So you know the war, right? Well, the United States did/is doing some major major major damage over there while no one benefits whatsoever. Well, no one outside of the really wealthy class.  I’m talking like (on average?) worse than a 9/11 every day or something. Here’s an old post explaining how I feel about it all:

    How I see things….

    The official story: Ten years ago, some brown guy hated America so bad, that he orchestrated the hijacking of two planes, flew them into a highly populated city in America and killed 3000 human beings. America declares war, solicits the poorest of their citizens to join the army, goes over, makes everything nice and democratic (?), and then declares victory. The US army gets to come home more than ten years later, and they all live happily ever after.

    The true story: Ten years ago, someone flew two planes into a highly populated city in America that killed 3000 human beings. Much factual evidence points to the American government having done it themselves, or helped it along in some way. One declaration of war and less than a month later, thousands of American contractors begin the ~long anticipated~ construction of ~permanent~ oil extraction compounds in the middle east. American soldiers kill an average of 3000 people PER DAY, the equivalent to one 9/11 every time the sun goes down. More than ten years later….they declare “victory”, and the US army gets to come home, only now they are poorer than when they left.

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