L.A. lion and the News of the World

Ashley Wells, Xochitl, Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly; SCPR.org; DemocracyNow.org

VIDEO: Health improving for mountain lion P-22 (Jed Kim) Famous LA mountain lion was diagnosed with mange from rat poisoning when scientists captured him in March. Treatment provided seems to have helped (Griffith Park Connectivity Study).

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“Reminds me of the current company culture where everyone is expected to be super happy all day at work...No thanks, I am human, and I have my ups and downs in life, and I don't live my life on social media.” - Are you working for a corporate cult? 

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Democracy Now!

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The CIA took down young Mandela (video)

Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly; DemocracyNow.org, Dec. 13, 2013

"One of Our Greatest Coups": The CIA and the capture of Mandela

CIA capitalists could not stand for a communist success in Africa: life sentence for Mandela

 

Young communist freedom fighter

As South Africa prepares to hold a state funeral for beloved Nelson Mandela, Democracy Now! looks at how the CIA helped the South African government track down and capture Mandela in 1962.

In 1990, the Cox News Service quoted a former U.S. official saying that hours after Mandela’s arrest, a senior CIA operative named Paul Eckel admitted the agency’s involvement. 

Eckel was reported as having told the official, "We have turned Mandela over to the South African security branch. We gave them every detail, what he would be wearing, the time of day, just where he would be. They have picked him up. It is one of our greatest coups." Several news outlets have reported the actual source of the tip that led to the arrest of Mandela was a CIA official named Donald Rickard. 

On Thursday, Democracy Now! attempted to reach Rickard at his home in Colorado. On two occasions, a man who picked up the phone hung up when we asked to speak with Donald Rickard.

The activist group RootsAction has launched a campaign to urge the CIA to open its files on Mandela and South Africa, and the media watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting has questioned why corporate media outlets have largely ignored the story. Democarcy Now! speaks to journalist Andrew Cockburn, who first reported on the CIA link to Mandela’s arrest in 1986 in The New York Times. VIDEO 

Do WP readers deserve FULL disclosure in CIA coverage?

The Washington Post should be honest with readers about a big conflict of interest: The newspaper's new owner Jeff Bezos is the founder and CEO of Amazon -- which recently landed a $600 million contract with the CIA. Drone delivery, anyone?

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Where's Pussy Riot's Nadya?

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Pussy Riot member Nadya (Nadezhda Tolokonnikova) in defendant's cage during court appearance in April (Maksim Blinov/AFP/Getty Images)

  

Good, hope they burn her at the stake

(UPDATE: Nov. 4, 2013): The Russian prison service has announced through the Interfax News Agency (via The Guardian, 11-02-13) that Nadya (Nadezhda Tolokonnikova has been sent to another penal colony, although she has yet to be heard from or seen since the transfer more than ten days ago.

Power to the people (willworth.co.uk)

The saga of all-female Russian punk band Pussy Riot has taken a chilling turn as the band member has been missing for the past 10 days, according to relatives.

Tolokonnikova’s disappearance can be traced back to when the 23-year-old musician was being transferred from a prison colony in Mordovia.

“There’s no proof she’s alive, we don’t know the state of her health,” Tolokonnikova’s father told Buzzfeed. “Is she sick? Has she been beaten?” More