Marvelous read: A Beginner’s Guide to the European Debt Crisis & why it effects US.

Fascinating.....High-speed animated map of global protests since 1980

the counter is at bottom right of screen.
Gives a marvelous perspective of how global protests are spreading, esp. towards the end of the animation.

http://johnbeieler.org/protest_mapping/

L.A. plumbers turn family's pipe dream into reality ( very moving story)

What started it all:
"In April, Dave — the older of the 44-year-old twins by five minutes — responded to an urgent call from a condominium's homeowners association in Burbank. There was a leak in the building's garage that other plumbers couldn't trace to its source.

Dave arrived on-site and began checking the pipes in the three-story building's various units. He eventually arrived at a condo belonging to Dorothy and John Cothran.

Dorothy, 77, showed him in. In the middle of the living room, Dave saw her son Steve, 50, propped up in a hospital bed. His right leg had been amputated below the knee because of diabetes. In the nearby bedroom was her husband, John, 78, who has Parkinson's disease.

Recalling the moment, Dave told me that he "immediately felt and saw the life stripped out of Dorothy" because of the pressures she faced.

He proceeded with his inspection of the Cothrans' bathroom. He saw an old tub unsuitable for a person with Steve's disability. He saw fixtures that made the room impossible to move about in with a wheelchair or walker."

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lazarus-20130730,0,4880705,full.column

We droned 4 more "Al-Qiada militants" in Yemen last night. Notice the designation.

Omnicide..........is human extinction as a result of human action.

Most commonly it refers to extinction through nuclear warfare or biological warfare, but it can also apply to extinction through means such as global anthropogenic ecological catastrophe.

Omnicide can be considered a subcategory of genocide.
Using the concept in this way, one can argue, for example, that:
“ The arms race is genocidal in intent given the fact that the United States and the Soviet Union are knowingly preparing to destroy each other as viable national and political groups.”
As this claim illustrates, the concept of omnicide raises issues of human agency and, hence, of moral responsibility in discussions about large-scale social processes like the nuclear arms race or ecologically destructive industrial production.
That is, part of the point of describing a human extinction scenario as 'omnicidal' is to note that, if it were to happen, it would result not just from natural, uncontrollable evolutionary forces, or from some random catastrophe like an asteroid impact, but from deliberate choices made by human beings.
This implies that such scenarios are preventable, and that the people whose choices make them more likely to happen should be held morally accountable for such choices. In this context, the label 'omnicide' also works to de-normalize the course of action it is applied to.

I found this cheerful definition on :
http://www.fukushimafacts.com/Default.aspx?PID=43

Why would Obama send these 2 clowns on a mission to Egypt???????

Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and John McCain (R-Ari.) will travel to Egypt to urge the country to hold new elections and reinstall a democracy after the military succeeded in overthrowing the elected Muslim Brotherhood government.
The South Carolina Republican said President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry called him and McCain and asked them to make the trip to urge the Egyptian military to hold new Democratic elections.
http://thehill.com/blogs/global-affairs/middle-east-north-africa/315417-mccain-and-graham-going-to-egypt-to-push-for-democracy

Radioactive Fukushima groundwater rises above barrier being built to contain it

Egypt General to US: "You turned your back on the Egyptians, and they won’t forget that"