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Friday, 03/07/2014
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Stunning Report: ship USS Reagan in SD irradiated
Friday, 03/07/2014
"A stunning new report indicates the U.S. Navy knew that sailors from the nuclear-powered USS Ronald Reagan took major radiation hits from the Fukushima atomic power plant after its meltdowns and explosions nearly three years ago. Many of the sailors are already suffering devastating health impacts, but are being stonewalled by Tepco and the Navy.
The $4.3 billion carrier is now docked in San Diego. Critics question whether it belongs there at all. Attempts to decontaminate U.S. ships irradiated during the Pacific nuclear bombs tests from 1946-1963 proved fruitless." (From DAILY KOS)
FRACK RALLY-$20 gets you from SD to Sacramento
Saturday, 03/15/2014
$20 will get your from San Diego or Encinitas (La Costa) to Sacrament by bus for the GIANT NO-FRACK RALLY on March 15th. On March 15, Californians Against Fracking along with our friends and allies from across the state will come together in Sacramento for Don't Frack California — a rally and march to tell Governor Brown to Stop Fracking Now! -- Buses will be leaving from across the state. We'll take you round trip to the Capitol in Sacramento to join thousands of other Californians demanding an end to fracking.
This 'N ThatAnger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it stands than to anything on which it is poured.
- AnonymousMurder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.
- George Bernard Shaw Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.
- Thomas Aquinas We do not inherit the earth from our fathers. We borrow it from our children.
- David Bower There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting.
- Unknown The destiny of humans cannot be separated from the destiny of earth.
- Thomas Berry Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.
- Leo Tolstoy You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
- Malcolm X The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.
- Heda Bejar Peace is a gift,
- It is a gift we give to ourselves, What all men fear, I too must fear - how barren and pointless a thought!
- Tao Te Ching Sports plays a societal role in engendering jingoist and chauvinist attitudes. They're designed to organize a community to be committed to their gladiators.
- Noam Chomsky There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
- Thomas Edison A large group of us were crowded into the Gestapo hall, and at that moment the circumstances of all our lives were the same. All of us occupied the same space, the men behind the desk no less than those about to be questioned. What distinguished each of us was only our inner attitude.
- Etty Hillesum (concentration camp victim) If we emphasize the life and works of our greatest contributors . . . people will come to realize that moral courage is bravery of the highest type, and America will be called the "Champion of Peace."
- Senator Spark Matsunaga The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.
- Baha'ullah The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
- Hannah Arendt, 20th-century German political philosopher and author To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience. Nonviolent actions does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences. Nor does it have to petition those in power to do something about a situation. It can face the authorities with a new fact and say: Accept this new situation which we have created.
- Barbara Deming It is in the shelter of each other that the people live.
- Irish Proverb Do your work as though you had a thousand years to live, & as if you were to die tomorrow.
- Mother Anna Lee, founder of the Shakers If we don't stop the bomb who will take care of the flowers?
- Neil J. Seattle, Age 9 When the rich make war, it's the poor that die.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.
- Dorothy Thompson We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate --- thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.
- Maya Angelou We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth.... We are not going to be able to operate our spaceship earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common.
- Buckminster Fuller Someday they'll give a war and nobody will come.
- Carl Sandburg Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.
- Leo Tolstoy Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
- Cesar Chavez No man is an island entire of itself ... any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
- John Donne Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more.
- Oscar Wilde Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.)
- Booker T. Washington They make a desert and call it peace.
- Tactitus If we could raise one generation with unconditional love, there would be no Hitlers. We need to teach the next generation of children from Day One that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear..
- Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross It is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.
- Albert Camus The absence of risk is a sure sign of mediocrity.
- Charles de Foucauld I am part and parcel of the whole and cannot find God apart from the rest of humanity.
- Mohandas Gandhi The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
- Alvin Toffler If you obey all the rules you will miss the fun.
- Katherine Hepburn If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.
- Thich Nhat Hanh At some ideas you stand perplexed, especially at the sight of human sins, uncertain whether to combat it by force or by human love. Always decide, "I will combat it with human love." If you make up your mind about that once and for all, you can conquer the whole world. Loving humility is a terrible force; it is the strongest of all things and there is nothing like it.
- Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazo Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.
- Matthew 5:3 We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
- Gladstone Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
- George Santayana Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.
- African Proverb The question is not, do we go to church; the question is, have we been converted. The crux of Christianity is not whether or not we give donations to popular charities but whether or not we are really committed to the poor.
- Joan Chittester, OSB When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.
- Pat Schroeder, American politician and feminist When someone steals another's clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same name to one who could clothe the naked and does not? The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry; the coat unused in your closet belongs to the one who needs it; the shoes rotting in your closet belong to the one who has no shoes; the money which you hoard up belongs to the poor.
- Basil the Great I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.
- Bayard Rustin Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
- Martin Luther (1483-1546) The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
- Dante Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller Joy is the most infallible sign of the presence of God.
- Leon Bloy The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
- Pablo Casals I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln If we just worry about the big picture, we are powerless. So my secret is to start right away doing whatever little work I can do. I try to give joy to one person in the morning, and remove the suffering of one person in the afternoon. If you and your friends do not despise the small work, a million people will remove a lot of suffering. That is the secret. Start right now.
- Sister Chän Khöng The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made.
- Aristide Briand, French statesman, Nobel Peace Prize, 1926 To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
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Articles & News:  Welcome to the Racial Profiling of the Future
Article
"Across the country, large police departments have been developing their ability to track where crime will happen next using predictive software. Known as "predictive policing," the practice has made waves in the media over the last few years, capturing the imagination of futurists and tough-on-crime zealots, while offending the sensibilities of basically everyone else." ( By Aaron Cantú, Alternet.org)
Best Op-eds on the Ukraine Crisis
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Here are some of the best Op-eds and commentary on the highly controversial Ukraine crisis, with special attention to alternative opinion, geared toward peace and informed rationality:
Viral proposal to skewer Citizens United
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Ever since Citizens United, the 1% have used unlimited political spending to dominate elections and drown out the voices of ordinary people. But now, we have a chance to change the game. And we need your voice to make it happen. On the first day over 100 members of Congress and 250,000 citizens became sponsors of this remarkable legislation. Join the movement.
Release demanded on Report on deadly force
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Border Groups Demand Release of Report On Use of Deadly Force by Border Patrol -- Southern border communities continue to call for transparency from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) after the Los Angeles Times published a story on a report critiquing the agency's use of force policy. The story indicated that reporters have reviewed a copy of the Police Executive Review Forum's report, a document that has been withheld from the public. According to the LA Times, the report mentioned cases where officers resorted to use of force when it was not needed, or where they simply could have gotten out of the way.
More Solar Workers in U.S than Coal Miners
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The great energy transition to renewables is unstoppable: There are now more solar workers in the US than coal miners, and solar doesn't poison our drinking water. "By the end of 2013, the number of workers in the solar energy industry in the US had grown to 143,000. About a third of them are in California, followed by Arizona, New Jersey, and Massachusetts." By prof Juan Cole
9-yr old Dutch girl has voice of great opera diva
When 9-year-old Amira Willighagen from Nijmegen, Netherlands, stepped onto the "Holland's Got Talent" stage, no one was expecting such a big voice to come out of such a very little girl. -- Her incredible rendition of Puccini's "O Mio Babbino Caro" from the opera "Gianni Schicchi" earned her a Golden Ticket from the judges that would take her straight to the live show. This child has an old soul
It's hard to believe how young Amira is, but even more surprising to learn that she is completely self-taught, and used only YouTube tutorials to learn how to sing. Adorable little Russian boy conducts choir
A little boy so infused with the beauty of a singing choir, spontaneously starts conducting. The old soul of Toscanini incarnate?
Richmond, CA advances on Big Banks
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"Gayle McLaughlin, the bold mayor of Richmond, California, has gone where no woman dared go before, threatening to take underwater mortgages by eminent domain from Wall Street banks and renegotiate them on behalf of beleaguered homeowners. A member of the Green Party, which takes no corporate campaign money, she proved her mettle standing up to Chevron, which dominates the Richmond landscape." [McLaughlin has Wall Street running scared.] (By Ellen Brown)
Mass corruption, bribery in TPP trade dealings
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"Officials tapped by the Obama administration to lead the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations have received multimillion dollar bonuses from CitiGroup and Bank of America, financial disclosures obtained by Republic Report show. -- Stefan Selig, a Bank of America investment banker nominated to become the Under Secretary for International Trade at the Department of Commerce, received more than $9 million in bonus pay as he was nominated to join the administration in November."By Lee Fang
PORK: You have NO IDEA what you are eating
You may never eat pork or sausage again after seeing this graphic, disturbing video. An undercover exposé of Iron Maiden Farms in Owensboro, Kentucky revealed that sows confined in cramped cages known as gestation crates were fed intestines from ground up piglets who had recently succumbed to a highly contagious diarrheal disease.
Being gay in football locker room a heinous crime?
Award winning Dallas sports anchor gives the best commentary yet on star college football player Michael Sam coming out as gay. "You kill people while driving drunk, and that's OK." But being gay in a man's locker room? NO WAY. Not OK!
Manning Video:American troops slaughter civilians
Video depicts a US Apache attack helicopter killing 12 civilians and wounding two children on the ground in Baghdad in 2007. The helicopter then fired on and killed the people trying to rescue the wounded. Finally, a US tank drove over one of the bodies, cutting the man in half. These acts constitute three separate war crimes. All with calloused video-game contempt for human life. - Manning fulfilled his legal duty to report war crimes. He complied with his legal duty to obey lawful orders but also his legal duty to disobey unlawful orders. -- The Army covered up the evidence and declared the war crime "justified". Now they say that exposing the massacre is criminal.
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Cartoons of the Week
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Right wing approach to Science
Marijuana - the Killer Weed !
Separate drinking fountains for Gays?
The making of a Living room Monster
Smog from China reaches California
"How to get FOX news to cover the homeless"
Christie's bridge to nowhere:
Maybe they deserve to keep their old health plan
Dr. Strangelove takes a dangerous ride
GOP ethics: Rob them of clothing, take their food
Pope Francis and the War on Christmas
OBAMA-NSA
Latinos' love for Arizona!
Obama, the negotiator
TEA Party Loonies
Unions & the Middle Class
Obama plays poker with GOP
UC Davis Protestors Pepper Sprayed (raw footage)
You must not ever forget this incident at U.C. Davis: Police pepper spraying and arresting students at UC Davis. The militarization of our local police, the War on our Youth, the fascist oppression of peaceful assembly, protest and free speech in America. During peacefully Occupy Movement,(Nov. 2011) police came in to tear down tents and proceeded to arrest students who stood in their way. Once students peacefully demanded the release of the arrested, a police officer unnecessarily pepper sprays the students to open a path for the rest of the officers. -- The officer who sprayed the students was UC Davis Police Lt. John Pike. -- Notice all the other police just standing around watching, as if nothing abnormal or outrageous is happening. This is a day that will forever live in ignominy in America.
You may never eat sausage again ...
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A new video pulls back the curtain on the banal brutality of a huge hog operation in Kentucky called Iron Maiden Farms. The video shows barns filled with hogs jammed so tightly into tiny individual pens that they can't move, chewing forlornly on the bars that restrain them. --
It also shows workers gutting dead piglets and turning their intestines into a purée that is then fed back to the mother pigs, or sows. From THE NEW YORK TIMES
Intelligence chief in bald-faced lie to Congress
HE LIED to the nation! -- James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) LIED to congress. Let me repeat that for you - he didn't "mislead" -- he LIED! Why he isn't under the jail? Congress impeached Pres. Bill Clinton for equivocating about a sexual dalliance, but Congress sucked up to James Clapper who outright lied about a grave criminal and unconstitutional policy.
Why nobody believes Pres. Obama any more ...
Obama: 'Nobody Is Listening to Your Phone Calls'. June 7, 2013. Either Mr. Obama is terribly deluded, or terribly dumb, but we all know the spooks are listening to our phone calls -- reading our email -- and manipulating the markets and stealing our money. (very short video)
Intelligence chief in bald-faced lie to Congress
HE LIED to the nation! -- James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) LIED to congress. Let me repeat that for you - he didn't "mislead" -- he LIED! Why he isn't under the jail? Congress impeached Pres. Bill Clinton for equivocating about a sexual dalliance, but Congress sucked up to James Clapper who outright lied about a grave criminal and unconstitutional policy.
Hillary's deeply flawed, calloused character
The deeply flawed character of Hillary Clinton -- cold, calculating, indifferent -- is not what we need in the White House. While she gave a speech at Geo. Washington University, Vet for Peace Ray McGovern stood silently and turned his back on Hillary. For this McGovern, age 70, was violently dragged from the auditorium, bruised and beaten. During all this, Hillary did not break her stride on iota, and very coldly ignored the brutal silencing of a peaceful voice of protest. McGovern is a veteran CIA officer and staunch opponent of war and government mega surveillance of law abiding citizens.
K-XL More Dangerous Than an Iranian Atomic Bomb
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By Juan Cole to Pres. Obama: -- "But while you seem to put a great deal of emphasis on Iran's nuclear enrichment program and the danger it might be weaponized, and while you say you want nuclear disarmament in general, you seem to take a longer view on a much, much more extreme threat to the earth than a few thousand atomic bombs. ...The greater threat than atomic bombs is carbon emissions and the likelihood that tar sands extraction of petroleum will greatly increase them. This coming on line of massive new amounts of extremely dirty tar sands petroleum would be much abetted by the Keystone XL pipeline.
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EASTER: Celestial voice of Andrea Bocelli
The most celestial Andrea Bocelli song EVER. Listen as he joins the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in Salt Lake City, Utah for an unforgettable rendition of "The Lord's Prayer." -- David Foster sets the stage for the music in this beautiful PBS performance. A song about Christ's prayer to His Father in Heaven.
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