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Our electric company, Southern California Edison, has installed new digital electric meters.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akm3nYN8aG8

TRANSCRIPT of veteran Mike Prysner:

I tried hard to be proud of my service, but all I could feel was shame. Racism ("superiority") could no longer mask the reality of the occupation. These were people, these were human beings.
I've since been claimed by guilt anytime I see an elderly man like the one who couldn't walk and we rolled out on a stretcher and told the Iraqi police to take him away.

Fast on the heels of the Libyan revolution comes a calamity in Japan that will redouble the upward pressure on oil prices.

For many years now people like me are suspicious of the American weather weapon HAARP every time there is a natural catastrophe like a flood or an earthquake in a country the US is targeting. Way back in 2001 I wrote an article about the floods and earthquakes in Taliban-held Afghanistan.

I recently watched The Mayfair Set by Adam Curtis -
"Four Stories about the Rise of Business and the Decline of Political Power"
(not to say. corporatism or fascism:)
It's about how "market forces" (speculators) have taken the power over countries away from politicians, and increasingly so with globalization.
Thinking about the Middle East revolts in this light, and seeing Soros' hand in it, it's increasingly doubtful if there will be any betterment for common people from toppling a national ruler.

I wish to congratulate the brave people of Wisconsin for standing up to the tyrant and are now engaged in a fight of their life. I also wish to extend this to people in other states and to urge my fellow countrymen across the nation to take to the streets and stand up for our basic rights. Make no mistake the people in Wisconsin know this isn’t just a fight for wages or benefits. They know the issue extends beyond the state line and that the governor’s bill is an assault on their basic rights and freedoms.

Gene Sharp, the modern Mazzini, will be a familiar figure to anyone who has read Tarpley's Obama the Postmodern Coup.

Now the New York Times has shared clues about the soft power pioneer with their readers. Richard Cottrell sent us the article.

What we need now is someone to adapt Sharp's ideas for bringing down dictators to the task facing us: bringing down the oligarchy and realizing democracy in the USA and its colonies.

Two Progressive Press authors, Engdahl and Tarpley, have made a case in interviews on Russia Today that the recent events in Tunisia and Egypt are Color Revolutions.  [1] This thesis has raised a number of eyebrows and objections, chiefly that

* The revolt arises out of real grievances of oppression.
* Rising food prices are what spontaneously triggered the uprising at this time.
* Why would the US topple a leader who has been so useful to them, and whom they have been funding with over a billion a year in aid?

Since the dramatic release of a US military film of a US airborne shooting of unarmed journalists in Iraq, WikiLeaks has gained global notoriety and credibility as a daring website that releases sensitive material to the public from whistleblowers within various governments. Their latest "coup" involved the alleged leak of thousands of pages of supposedly sensitive documents regarding US informers within the Taliban in Afghanistan, and their ties to senior people linked to Pakistan's ISI military intelligence.

Guardian Caught off Guard by Classic Sting Op against Targets of US.

Can you say "Dezinformatsionnaya Operatsiya?"
I'd heard a lot about the greatest intelligence leak of all time. 90,000 secret documents, with tons of damaging information about the US war on Afghanistan. So I downloaded the famous Wikileak Excel file, and started looking for some choice bits of anti-war propaganda.

What can Muslims do to help Islam become better accepted in today’s Western world?
Top priority: Show that Muslims are not terrorists, but just trying to fit in and be good citizens.

Scare headlines about Islamic terrorism constantly reinforce the image problem for Muslims in the West. Anti-Muslim feelings from 9/11 or the London July 7th tube bombings won't just fade away. Can Muslims and their media counter this bad publicity?