Links March 5, 2013

The wisdom of crowds
http://www.countercurrents.org/cc010313A.htm

Clean nuclear
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201303010084
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2013/02/24/obama-s-clean-green-fukushima-plumegate-

Remembering Che
http://rt.com/op-edge/che-guevara-united-latin-america-464/

Comments from a great old man
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/cuba-i/25feb-disc-fidel.html

About the BBC and news reporting
http://www.medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/alerts-2013/723-down-the-barrel-of-a-gun.html

USA
http://www.workers.org/2013/03/01/obamas-energy-choice-shill-for-shale-gas-industry/
http://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20110123/us-has-7th-highest-cancer-rate-in-the-world
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/02/cycle-fear-assault-weapon-sales
http://blackcommentator.com/505/505_kir_calling_out.html
US education
http://nextcity.org/daily/entry/report-poor-us-students-receive-developing-world-educations
http://news.firedoglake.com/2013/03/01/school-employee-accidentally-shot-during-district-sponsored-gun-training/

An interesting take on Islamic culture
http://www.countercurrents.org/hussain280213.htm

Palestine
http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2013/03/palestine-spring-in-the-making/
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2013/02/25/israeli-murder-by-torture
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2013/02/28/understanding-israeli-settlements
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2013/02/28/washington-whitewashes-israeli-murder
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2013/03/02/plight-of-palestinians-in-israeli-prison
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2013/02/20/west-bank-village-struggles-to-survive
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2013/02/20/israeli-lawlessness-in-issawiya
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2013/02/19/disappearing-prisoners-official-israeli-
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2013/02/13/creative-resistance-israeli-intransigenc

Egypt
http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/65819.aspx

Syria
http://www.brookings.edu/research/opinions/2013/02/28-us-syria-congo-ohanlon
http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2013/03/the-oft-predicted-fickle-syrian-tipping-point-has-tipped/
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/03/03/291683/russia-faces-war-in-arms-sales-to-syria/
http://en.rian.ru/world/20130303/179789001/US-Army-Commandos-Train-Armed-Rebels-in-Syria–Sana.html

Africa
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/03/01/neo-imperialism-and-the-arrogance-of-ignorance/
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2013/02/18/the-future-of-africa-looks-bleak-here-is

Sharing? You mean file-sharing, intellectual property theft, SOPA, CISPA? Or sharing the burden of austerity? Sharing the losses of banks and corporations, who are too big to fail? Sorry about the confusion, but this is normally not a word in the vocabulary of free market economics, consumerism, and globalization.
http://www.stwr.org/poverty-inequality/extreme-wealth-vs-global-sharing.html

Here as an antidote the usual pictures from the cat family. There’s a lighter and brighter side of life? Scary!

Wendy fits even into the biggest chairs. She easily makes up in personality, what she lacks in size.

Gandhi explores the home library. If he would be a longhair ginger cat, he could become famous as Dewey Readmore Books’ incarnation.

Always take care, that the kitchen furniture fits to the cat.

Seems to be a dead end. Never mind — the journey is the destination.