Just a few more pages on SB 510 (also, if you aren't on my flist so couldn't see the last post on it, the original links I posted). This bill stands to ruin small farms and seriously undermine the small, local, and organic food markets

The original links:
www.capitalpress.com/oregon/West-ml-food-safety-040910 (the Bill)
www.cornucopia.org/2010/04/ ( Read more... )

Five Iranian protestors were sentenced to death: http://www.rferl.org/content/Iranian_Death_Sentences_Seen_As_Intimidation_Move_Over_Postelection_Unrest/1881487.html

And one student was sentenced to eight years in prison (not as terrible as the death sentences but still insane): http://www.rferl.org/content/ ( Read more... )

Accusations of election fraud in Afghanistan: http://www.rferl.org/content/Postelection_Crisis_Complicates_Afghan_Quest_For_Stability/1819013.html (yet no mass-arrests or trials like a certain nation I could mention)

Calls for a new transitional government until the election disputes can be resolved: http://www.rferl.org/content/ ( Read more... )

Accusations of vote fraud in Afghanistan and, of course, this election has to be perceived as legitimate if it’s to mean a damned thing: http://www.rferl.org/content/ ( Read more... )

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations has condemned the imprisonment of Aung San Suu Kyi but, if you'd like them to take stronger action, you can say so via Amnesty International: Read more... )

Musavi says the conditions of prisons in Iran prove how fundamentally the country needs to change:  http://www.rferl.org/content/Musavi_Says_Iran_Needs_Deep_Change/1798420.html

The UN has gone from being merely spineless and ineffectual like always to actually congratulating Ahmadinejad:  http://www.rferl.org/content/ ( Read more... )

So the House passed Resolution 2749 on 31 July and I was so busy moving that it didn't even register with me. This thing is made of fail for various reasons. The big ones are that it'll seriously undermine small farms and, oh yeah, it'll completely fail to clean up big producers. Here's the breakdown from naturalnews.com (I added in the emphasis ( Read more... )

http://www.rferl.org/content/Could_Ahmadinejads_Mix_Of_Mysticism_And_Politics_Lead_To_A_Power_Grab/1793312.html freaky sick, freaky, and spooky shit


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Okay, just one story this time: http://www.rferl.org/content/Journalists_Association_Shut_Down_In_Tehran/1794235.html


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The Iranian government has begun a mass-trial of dissidents, over a hundred when they'd officially stated it would be around 20. Lots of prominent men and women, including a former Iranian VP and a reporter for Newsweek. Videotaped "confessions", accusations of Western interference, all the same old good shit: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/ ( Read more... )