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*CREEPING TOWARD WORLD WAR? * ** *"Russia has warned against any unilateral action on Syria a day after US President Barack Obama threatened 'enormous consequences' in the event the government in Damascus uses chemical or biological arms or moves them in a menacing way," begins a piece at /al Jazeera/ <http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2012/08/2012821153541872310.html> this morning. Sergei Lavrov, Russian foreign minister, speaking on Tuesday after meeting China's ambassador, said Moscow and Beijing were committed to 'the need to strictly adhere to the norms of international law ... and not to allow their violation.'" * ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *HIDING WHAT'S IN OUR FOOD * ** */Truth-out/ has a piece <http://truth-out.org/news/item/11014-monsanto-dupont-spend-millions-to-defeat-california-genetically-engineered-food-labeling-initiative> this morning showing that Monsanto and DuPont are spending millions of dollars to oppose the attempt in California to let consumers know if products contain frankenfoods. Is it possible to create a more corrupt system and still have the mass media refer to it as "democracy?" Americans grow up learning that "toxic sludge is good for you." Not one of the mass media "journalists" notices anything amiss, which is what makes it all work as it does. * ** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *LUV NEWS NOW HAS A FACEBOOK GROUP * ** *Jodda Mitchell, past /LUV News/ editor, has created a Facebook group for /LUV News/ <https://www.facebook.com/groups/461619557192964/>, and anyone may join. We also have a Yahoo group called LUV Talk Group <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/libertyundergroundtalk/>. These groups are for those who understand what's happening and, as so many tell us, feel lonely as those around them stumble about like zombies, unaware of the mass media slant. Here's a place where you are welcome to share facts which go around the stifling propaganda. * ** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **This morning, Glenn Greenwald points out <http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/21/human-rights-critics-russia-ecuador> that our corporate media and corporate government are on the attack against those who do not eagerly support the Empire and its client states, slanting information to keep the masses confused, using Pussy Riot and the government of Ecuador as examples of the distorted reality to which Americans are led by their mass media. Anything of importance to the masses is now hidden by our increasingly secretive government, or twisted to support the current propaganda. The last step is immunity from the laws of nation states for the ruling transnational corporations. Such a move would not be popular with the unwashed masses, so they are being kept from finding out about it, until it is too late --Jack Balkwill ** *Let's Help WikiLeaks Liberate the Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiating Text <http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11019-lets-help-wikileaks-liberate-the-trans-pacific-partnership-negotiating-text> * * * *by Robert Naiman* *On September 6, negotiators will go to Leesburg, Virginia, for the latest round of secretive talks on the "Trans-Pacific Partnership" (TPP) agreement. This proposed agreement threatens access to essential medicines in developing countries <http://aids2012.msf.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/TPP-Issue-Brief-IAC-July2012.pdf>, threatens environmental regulations <http://www.sierraclub.org/trade/downloads/TPP-Factsheet.pdf> and threatens Internet freedom <https://www.eff.org/issues/tpp>. Even members of Congress and their staff <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/25/trans-pacific-partnership-documents-sherrod-brown-jeff-merkley-ron-wyden-robert-menendez_n_1624956.html> have been blocked from seeing the draft text, while corporate representatives have been allowed to see it.* *Americans - and citizens of the other countries that would be covered by the agreement - have a right to see what our governments are proposing to do. Parts of the draft negotiating text have been leaked. But don't we have a right to see the whole text before the agreement is signed? After the agreement is signed, if there's anything in it we don't like, we'll be told that it's too late to change it.* *Just Foreign Policy is issuing a reward <http://www.freetpp.org> if WikiLeaks publishes the TPP negotiating text. Instead of getting one rich person to put up the money, we're "crowdsourcing" the reward. We figure, if many people pledge a little bit, that will not only potentially raise a helpful sum of money for WikiLeaks, it will show that the opposition to this secretive agreement is widespread.* *If WikiLeaks publishes the TPP negotiating text, it will show that WikiLeaks is still relevant to citizen demands for government transparency, that publishing US diplomatic cables wasn't the end of WikiLeaks' contribution to public knowledge of government misdeeds. And it will show that the WikiLeaks campaign for government transparency isn't just about issues related to war, but extends to every area where secretive government action threatens the public interest.* *This week, Ecuador granted political asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from the threat of political persecution by the United States - as thousands of Americans had urged Ecuador to do <http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/assange-asylum>. But the UK authorities have refused to grant Assange safe passage to Ecuador, and he remains trapped in Ecuador's Embassy. Meanwhile, the corporate financial blockade of WikiLeaks has starved WikiLeaks of resources, while the legal fight to protect Assange from the threat of extradition to the United States has drained resources.* *Protecting Assange's civil liberties is crucial because it's a test case for all future whistleblowers. But it's also crucial to protect and sustain WikiLeaks, for exactly the same reason: the US government and its allies are trying to set a precedent of successful intimidation, to deter future whistleblowers. We cannot allow this precedent to stand.* *By making a pledge <http://www.freetpp.org> to our reward for WikiLeaks if it publishes the TPP negotiating text, you can vote twice with one ballot: once to support WikiLeaks, and once against a secret attack <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/25/trans-pacific-partnership-documents-sherrod-brown-jeff-merkley-ron-wyden-robert-menendez_n_1624956.html> on access to essential medicines <http://aids2012.msf.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/TPP-Issue-Brief-IAC-July2012.pdf>, the environment <http://www.sierraclub.org/trade/downloads/TPP-Factsheet.pdf> and Internet freedom <https://www.eff.org/issues/tpp>.* http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11019-lets-help-wikileaks-liberate-the-trans-pacific-partnership-negotiating-text ** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *If you wish to be removed from this list, please let us know* ** *To join the Liberty Underground news service email [email protected] "join" for a subject* ** *You may also join our talk group athttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/libertyundergroundtalk/ <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/libertyundergroundtalk/>if you would like to participate* ** *email: [email protected]* ** *Tell your friends about /LUV News/ because some people just don't get it* [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! 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