2011 NCAI Indian Country Leadership Awards Ceremony (Photo credit: NCAI)
English: Election poster for Yulia Tymoshenko next the the park, Dnipropetrovsk. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Ukrainian Presidential Election January 17, 2010 - Yulia Tymoshenko (First Round) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Yulia Tymoshenko (detail) Français : Ioulia Tymochenko (détail) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
10:39pm MST"In The End... No One Left..."
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“First they came for the Socialists,
and I did not speak out because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists,
and I did not speak out because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me.”
- Martin Niemöller
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"Qui tacet consentire videtur, ubi loqui debuit ac potuit."
("He who is silent is taken to agree; he ought to have spoken when he was
able to.")
- Latin proverb
Liberation Day 41st Anniversary Feb 27, 2014
Wounded Knee Feb. 27, 2014
It's The Last Week Of A Random Month-- Are You Ready For Tons Of Political Spam?
The DCCC and the other nefarious Beltway committees encourage their
candidates to burn their lists and wreck on-line fund-raising. They would
much rather go back to the old model that leaves out small donor grassroots
activists who they find way too independent of party bosses. One way of
doing this is to floor e-mail boxes with hundreds of annoying, contentless
communications that most people find offensive and depressing.
This week candidates from all over the country sent me an internal DCCC
memo urging them to get ready for their role in the end of February
spam-o-thon. "Here ... more »
Do you read the list of ingredients?
[image: Do you read the list of ingredients before purchasing?]*What's our
criteria for purchases?*This month's survey asked the question, "What's
your very first consideration when choosing a product to buy?" Most of us
factor in many things when shopping, but I was interested in the first
thing we look at, the thing which determines whether we give an item a
second thought or simply leave it on the market shelf.
Let's look at the results:
[image: What's your criteria for purchases?]
[image: What's your criteria for purchases?]
[image: What's your criteria for purchases?]
It turn... more »
Ukraine’s Sickness …and Europe’s Cure
[image: ukraine_europe_asia_415_267]*February 27, 2014* (Eric Draitser -
Stop Imperialism) - The situation in Ukraine is evolving by the hour. Right
wing ultranationalists and their “liberal” collaborators have taken control
of the Rada (Ukrainian parliament) and deposed the democratically elected,
though utterly corrupt and incompetent, President Yanukovich.
Former Prime Minister, and convicted criminal, Yulia Tymoshenko has been
freed, and is now making common cause with Right Sector, Svoboda, and the
other fascist elements, while the opposition’s nominal leaders such as
Arseny Ya... more »
The Nazi Coup in Ukraine
*February 27, 2014 *- Eric Draitser of StopImperialism.com appears on RT to
provide his analysis of the latest developments in Ukraine. Draitser
explains that the nominal leaders of the opposition have no real power as
they do not control the violent fascist groups on the ground. He outlines
how the situation has deteriorated, the importance of the timing of
developments, and what can be expected moving forward.
Media and United Nations skirting vital issues in Indian country
Media
and United Nations skirting vital issues in Indian country
By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
Censored News readers were asked to share their thoughts on the most
crucial issues in Indian country.
Questions: What are the most important issues that the national media is
failing to cover in Indian country? What issues is your local media
failing to cover? What issues should be a
The Daily "Near You?"
St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
Governor Jan turns thumbs down on Arizona's "Religious Right to Hate" bill
*Gov. Jan Brewer vetoes Arizona's "Religious Right to Hate" bill.*
*by Ken*
Last night I reported ("From Arizona to K Street: Profiles in courage, 2014
right-wing-loon-style") on the dilemma confronting Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer
concerning her state legislature's "Religious Right to Hate" bill, which
would have allowed Arizonans to hate homosexuals any way they like as long
as it's for religious reasons. In the end, Governor Jan has given in to the
pressure to veto the bill. From ThinkProgress this evening (links onsite):
*Facing Overwhelming Opposition, Arizona Governor Vetoes Anti-... more »
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*So much for peer review*
The publishers Springer and IEEE are removing more than 120 papers from
their subscription services after a French researcher discovered that the
works were computer-generated nonsense.
Over the past two years, computer scientist Cyril Labbé of Joseph Fourier
University in Grenoble, France, has catalogued computer-generated papers
that made it into more than 30 published conference proceedings between
2008 and 2013. Sixteen appeared in publications by Springer, which is
headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany, and more than 100 were published by
the Institut... more »
New Study: Social Media Posts About War In Syria Are Biased And Unreliable
An excerpt from, *"Study finds bias in Internet postings about Syria’s
civil war"* by Lauren Kirkwood, McClatchy, February 24:
YouTube videos and posts on Facebook and Twitter have made scenes from
Syria’s civil war accessible to audiences thousands of miles from the
conflict. But the version of events disseminated by social media is not a
completely accurate picture of the war, according to a report from the
congressionally funded U.S. Institute of Peace.
After reviewing more than 38 million Twitter posts about the Syrian
conflict, *a team of Middle East scholars from The George ... more »
Thanks to @MelissaGuion and @AOBFound for their visit.
If you’re in the DC area and you care at all about books, especially
children’s books, I’m sure you’ve been to Politics and Prose. Right? One of
the last, great independent bookstores. I’ve been going there for years.
When I walk into the children’s section, they always seem to be reading my
mind and I […]
Satire: “Mass Gay Migration Aims To Make Arizona Majority Gay”
*“Mass Gay Migration Aims To Make Arizona Majority Gay”*
by Andy Borowitz
PHOENIX (The Borowitz Report)— "Rejecting calls to boycott Arizona, a newly
formed gay organization is mobilizing its members to move to the state by
the millions in the hopes of transforming it into the nation’s first
majority gay state. The group, called Americans for a Gay Arizona, has
already received commitments from a million gay Americans to move to the
state within the next two months, with a target of enlisting over six
million gays to move there by the end of the year.
Harland Dorrinson, the executi... more »
Perkins House, by Richard Neutra
Artist Connie Perkins loved this aesthetically charged corner of her small
130m2 Richard Neutra home so much that she moved her bed into the lounge so
she could wake up with it every morning.
Now that’s love.
Can you see where it appears in the house?
[Photo by Julius Shulman. Plan by Barbara Lamprecht.]
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Intersectionality and Postmodern Feminism
We left the last post having worked through the basic conceptualisation of
intersectionality. If you can't be bothered to trudge through its thousand
or so words, simply put it is the appreciation of how different oppressions
rooted in ostensibly discrete sets of violent (symbolically and physically)
social relations can *intersect* and condition the lives of whole groups of
people. Furthermore, activists involved in social struggles have to be
conscious of and fight against the replication of oppression within
discourses and movements committed to liberation. For example, feminism ... more »
"How It Really Is: Arizonastan!"
PHOENIX (CBS5) - "A bill allowing business owners with strongly held
religious beliefs to refuse service to gays and other individuals and
groups continues to draw fire from politicians, groups and businesses.The
Arizona Senate formally sent Senate Bill 1062 to Gov. Jan Brewer on Monday.
Monday's action starts a five-day clock for the Republican governor to act
on a proposed law she herself calls controversial.
Repercussions were already being felt. The Hispanic National Bar
Association in Washington, DC, on its website Wednesday announced it was
pulling its 2015 annual convention ... more »
War Pigs Squeal for More Military Intervention
Now that they are riding high over humiliating Russian leader Vladimir
Putin with a cluster bombing of disgraceful propaganda related to the Sochi
Olympics and feeling their oats after their meddling led to the toppling of
the democratically elected president of Ukraine the U.S. establishment war
freaks have once again set their sights on Syria. Putin was the fly in the
ointment that prevented Obama and Kerry from sending the bombers and cruise
missiles into Damascus back in September on the pretense that Syrian leader
Bashar al-Assad had “gassed his own people” – it worked to perf... more »
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*Photos: WWNO Launches Coastal Desk With Trip To Port Fourchon ~Eve Troeh,
WWNO*
*Judge denies BP's request to delay seafood claims payments ~Jennifer
Larino*
The length and breadth of it
Illustrating
on dimension of the Harper Regime, David Bruser at the Toronto Star
does a very good job of illustrating the impact of Afghanistan war on
some veterans of that war.
You know, it takes a particular wicked and sadistic mind to keep someone
in a trauma-inducing situation for no reason, and then deny them the
care when they afterward. The impact of industrial war on soldiers has
been
Cadillac Desert
Marc Reisner’s classic, *Cadillac Desert*, takes us for a walk on the wet
side, revealing far more than you ever wanted to know about dams, flood
control, irrigation, and municipal water systems — and the serious
long-term drawbacks that came along with building thousands of water
projects in the frenzied pursuit of short-term wealth and power. It’s a
brilliant, funny, and annoying expose of government corruption. It’s an
ecological horror story. It’s a collection of powerful lessons for our
society, lessons on how not to live, warning signs.
The western regions of the U.S. tend... more »
Corruption Among the Gay/Lesbian/Bi Money Mongers?
The Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund specializes in supporting conservative
gays. They refused to help openly gay progressive Democrats Ed Potosnak
(D-NJ) and Trevor Thomas (D-MI) when that support could have helped them
against their conservative opponents. Long ago, I pegged them as another
worse-than-useless insider suck-up outfit that was 90% about the career
aspirations of the
Do Businessmen Make Good Political Leaders?
Pete Aguilar, Steve Israel's idea of a successful "businessman"
All the corrupt, vehemently anti-democracy/anti-grassroots Beltway
committees -- on both sides of the partisan divide--revel in self-funders.
They live for millionaires candidates, although they tend to refer to them
as "businessmen," not multimillionaires. Before I retired and became a
full-time blogger, I was a businessman. I started my own record company and
eventually became president of one of the biggest international record
companies in the world. I know the business world and what makes someone a
successful busin... more »
Rich Coleman, The Habitual Liar Can`t Stop Lying, It`s In His BC Liberal Blood
Rich Coleman on February 22/2014 made this outrageous statement while
giving a 30 minute speech on LNG..
Read it carefully..
___________-
*"I get a kick out of some of the other folks out there saying: 'You're
behind schedule.' "No we're not. We're actually right on the time frame
that I established."*
*One thing that works in the government's favour is the scale of the
enterprise. The values are so vast that even delivering a fraction of the
potential could count as a win.*
*Coleman said: "They say: 'They can't all go ahead.' "I say: 'OK. Let's
have three.' That's $100 billi... more »
The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: US Navy Knew Fukushima Dangerously Contaminated The USS Ronald Reagan (CVN76)
The Fukushima disaster continues, and the coverup and lack of information
about how deadly this still ongoing disaster truly is, also sadly
continues.... I, like so many others, am totally disgusted by the inaction
of our governments, and the liars in our Jewish controlled media, in
warning everyone of the dangers associated with the radioactive fallout
from that horrendous explosion and meltdown that occurred almost 3 years
ago. It is pathetic...
Many people have heard by now about the US nuclear powered aircraft
carrier, the USS Ronald Reagan (CVN76) that was parked barely 2 miles... more »
Energy Development and Poor Nations
Dan Sarewitz (ASU) and I have an op-ed just out in the Financial Times.
Here is how it starts:
Having failed to stem carbon emissions in rich countries or in rapidly
industrialising ones, policy makers have focused their attention on the
only remaining target: poor countries that do not emit much carbon to begin
with.
My Twitter feed is aflutter with policy wonks debating the pluses and
minuses of multilateral energy development aid and investment. There are
good arguments to be had of course on all sides. The key difference as I
see it is that all of these wonks are benefiting fr... more »
UKRAINE: RUSSIA IS WEAK
*Russian corvette in Sevastopol in Ukraine.*
*Journalist Con Coughlin, of the UK's Telegraph, gives us some clues as to
MI6/CIA thinking on Ukraine.*
*Be wary of Vladimir Putin – not frightened of him*
Con Coughlin (above) is well connected to the spooks.
(Con Coughlin and MI6-Mossad propaganda?)
Coughlin thinks there is a possibility that Putin might order the
annexation of Sebastopol, "which is home to Russia's vast and *decaying *Black
Sea fleet."
According to Coughlin: "At the very least, we can expect Mr Putin to reduce
- or attempt to reduce - post-Yanukovych Ukraine to... more »
Thomas Frank wants you to know how to talk!
*WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2014*
*We recommend a key word:* Please ignore the silly headline on Thomas
Frank’s new piece at Salon.
(At the new Salon, headline writers rarely care about what the article
actually says. That’s how Paul Krugman gets snarked at in Frank’s headline,
even though he isn’t mentioned in Frank’s actual column.)
Ignore the headline, but focus on Frank’s ideas. Frank says progressives
have to learn how to talk about—well, we have to learn how to talk about
our current condition, whatever we decide to say that condition is.
According to Frank, liberals don’t know... more »
New Orleans Recovery School District *Choice*
The state-run Recovery School District (RSD) in New Orleans is about
appearance, not truth. It is about control, not choice. I have written
extensively on the “RSD success” illusion. It is an illusion that has come
to the New Orleans community at great cost. Below is a firsthand account of
life in the RSD written by […]
Laura Kuennsberg v Harriet Harman (Part Two)
As Sue said in the previous post, *Newsnight*'s Laura Kuennsberg gave
Harriet Harman such a forceful grilling that even many of those who had
been slating the BBC for refusing to report the swirl of
allegations/insinuations surrounding her (up till the point when Ms. Harman
denied the *Mail*'s allegations) found themselves having to applaud Laura
for her work.
It's certainly an interview that could be marked down in the 'evidence
against pro-Labour bias' column of a putative *Newsnight *bias audit sheet.
And it's only right and proper to point that out on a blog that monitors
BB... more »
Vigilant Citizen goes apeshit supernova on Pezzer's new 'Illuminati' video without saying PRIMARY
Vigilant Citizen properly goes apeshit supernova on this sassy new Pezzer
video without using the word *Primary* refering to a) colour, b) infants
and c) politics.
I love VC's use of the term *Sex Kitten*, which is exactly what you'all are
- consumerised MK Ultra fodder.
*It is rather hard to believe that all of this Illuminati symbolism was
packed into a video that only lasts 3 minutes and 40 seconds. It is even
harder to believe that some people still cannot see the obvious pattern of
symbols found in mass media that transcends artists, music genres and even
media outlets. Far... more »
The Economy: “Why the Crowd Is About to Get Destroyed in US Stocks”
*“Why the Crowd Is About to Get Destroyed in US Stocks”*
by Bill Bonner
Dow down a bit yesterday. Gold up a bit. The upward trend of US stocks –
and now gold – has not yet been broken. Looking broadly at major trends of
the last 50 years, debt was the name of the game from 1980 to 2007. Is it
still the most important thing?
From about 160% of GDP in 1980, total debt in the US rose to about 360%.
That was a big deal. Not the least because it meant that US businesses
availed trillions of dollars in income with no offsetting labor charge.
Stocks, earnings, GDP, employment – with all ... more »
KIDS THESE DAYS
Photos from some brilliant photographers.
Rubina, aged 11, lives in Dhaka,Bangladesh and works as a garbage
collector. Her mother died when she was 1 year old. Her father left her
when she was 7. Sometimes guys give her money for sex.
"I think it is severe Autism."
~~~~~
*THAILAND EXPLAINED*.
In a Democratic Canada the "Fair Elections Act" Would Have Produced Rioting by Now
It's pretty ridiculous. Canadians watching the news from Venezuela or the
Ukraine and believing they and the Canadian government have something to
say about "democracy" and "the people" in those countries, when our own
government is proposing to institutionalize election fraud and Canadians
are ignorant, indifferent or enthusiastic about it.
If I knew that there were a couple of dozen people in Toronto who would be
willing to trash some MP's office over this I'd be so there. But a rock
thrown through an HBC store window in futile rage against the waste of the
Vancouver Olympics wa... more »
The Sandy Hook HOAX!: Amazing Video By Sherrie Questioning All - "Keystone Cops" At Sandy Hook Did Not Know WHERE The School Was (!)
As promised, I am continuing my expose on the Sandy Hook fraud shooting to
show everyone that it was indeed a criminal operation where it now appears
that nobody died.... It is still troubling to myself and others that see
the truth about this scam that there are so many still who cannot, or
refuse to, see the reality of this hoax staring them right in their faces!
Sherrie, from "Sherrie Questioning All" at
www.sherriequestioningall.blogspot.com, has, like myself, been onto this
fraud and hoax almost from the beginning. Right now, I want to present
one of her latest articles that ... more »
Not that it matters, might as well post, and put to music I will rule
Its one flighty eight pm and I am still on the ground;
now I did my time and i never thought
to live ,my life I would have to drop the dime\
I like to smoke up
in no way do
I see it as a button
on my self destruct
no i can hit that bitch
with no femme harm
without recrimation
if I take a glock
with fifteen shots
as an extension
of my missing arm
everyone has disappointments
losing a limb without a
sweetheart to cauterize the wound
would rate really high
in my expectation
that no matter what
gifts we give you
no matter how many
virgins we confuse
the public will
with great enthusiasm co... more »
The Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund-- Even Worse Than EMILY's List… Or Just As Bad
Rep Carol Shea-Porter (D) and Dan Innis (R)
So far this year, Blue America has only backed two incumbents on a special
page designed for true-blue progressives who need electoral help this
cycle. Each of them is an independent-minded and stalwart fighter for
equality and for a shining progressive vision of America. Fortunately for
Mike Honda, his Republican-lite primary opponent, Ro Khanna, isn't a gay
guy who wants to cut Social Security. He's just a straight guy who wants to
cut Social Security. If he was a gay guy who was campaigning on cutting
Social Security, the self-styled Gay... more »
The same conduct may justify aggravated damages and substantial indemnity costs
*Pirani v. Esmail,* 2014 ONCA 145:
[73] In my view, the trial judge was entitled to rely on what she
considered to be highhanded and egregious conduct on the part of the
Esmails as the basis for both the award of aggravated damages and for the
award of costs on a substantial indemnity basis. The same conduct may
properly be the origin of both an award of aggravated damages and an award
of substantial indemnity costs: Leenen v. Canadian Broadcasting Corp., 54
O.R. (3d) 621 (C.A.); see also Hughes v. Gemini Food Corp. (1997), 97
O.A.C. 147, 27 C.C.E.L. (2d) 204 (Ont. C.A.). The ... more »
The Middle School Mess and How Reform Made It Worse
The Washington Post’s Emma Brown recently explained something that has been
lost on reformers in Washington D.C. and elsewhere. Teaching in
high-poverty middle schools has always been challenging. But, the extreme
proliferation of choice has created intense concentrations of children from
generational poverty who have endured extreme trauma. Now that less than a
quarter of […]
Disney on Ice Winners and Coupon Code
We have winners for the Disney on Ice Giveaway! Congratulations to Jennifer
M, for winning the family four pack of tickets, please respond to the
winner's e-mail to claim your prize! For everyone who didn't win, you will
find ticket information and a fantastic coupon code below. .
Come join us for a night of fun with Belle, Rapunzel, Ariel and Merida! We
can't wait to see Merida's ice debut. It will be a magical night!
Tickets are currently on sale for all of the Salt Lake City shows, March
5-9th at the Energy Solutions Arena*. * You can buy tickets online at
Smithtix.com, by phon... more »
The Realist Report - Tom in CT: Media deception & programming
On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined once again by Tom
in CT. Tom and I will be discussing issues pertaining to media deception
and programming.
You can download the mp3 for this program *here*, or visit *The Realist
Report* on BlogTalkRadio to subscribe via iTunes and view past programs.
Below are relevant links for this program:
- *EXCLUSIVE: FBI had human source in contact with bin Laden as far back
as 1993 -* *The Washington Times*
- *The Routine Use of Fake Images and Video Footage by the Western Media
-* *Global Research*
- *"I think the i... more »
Leprechaun Rainbow Cupcakes
[image: Housewife Eclecitc: Leprechaun Rainbow Cupcakes, the perfect St.
Patrick's Day treat.]
There are few holidays with as many traditions in our house as St.
Patrick's Day. I know, a million traditions for St. Patrick's Day seems a
little crazy, but for some reason I can't get enough of this green holiday.
I have loved it ever since I was a child when I was painting one fingernail
green so I could pinch back anybody who pinched me for not wearing green.
As an adult, the holiday took more meaning when March 17th became the
anniversary of my first date with my husband, where he ... more »
The Middle School Mess that Reformers Made Worse
The Washington Post’s Emma Brown recently explained something that has been
lost on reformers in Washington D.C. and elsewhere. Teaching in
high-poverty middle schools has always been challenging. But, the extreme
proliferation of choice has created intense concentrations of children from
generational poverty who have endured extreme trauma. Now that less than a
quarter of […]
Good Clowns are working
God aside from my personal foibles which were not on fire, I know I went in
the wrong dirction and when I came back from that blashmapy I had nothing
left to redirect. I was a Euro clown shilling for peanuts. Even if I could
get a job I would not move the circus. So I rode this clown show to the
end. I woke up one day so afraid, so worried that maybe my place in life
was not a situation for which I was pre paid. Do no think do not do just
fleece the customer and you will get a paycheck after all the bullshit has
failed.
TAKING BACK DEMOCRACY ONE PERSON AT A TIME
The WE THE PEOPLE initiative in Maine is a formal request to amend the U.S.
Constitution to safeguard access to the political process for all US
citizens regardless of income by establishing that:
*Corporations Are Not People:* The rights of corporations and artificial
entities are subordinate to the rights of natural persons. Corporations and
artificial entities are the creation of government for the purpose of
promoting the life, health, and general welfare of the public and may be
regulated, modified or abolished by government to accomplish that purpose.
*Money Is Not Speec... more »
MORE FROM MOYERS
In a Web-exclusive interview, political scientist Adolph Reed Jr. talks
with Bill Moyers about his new article in the March issue of
*Harper’s*Magazine – a challenge to America’s progressives provocatively
titled,
“Nothing Left: The Long, Slow Surrender of American Liberals.”
In the piece, Reed writes that Democrats and liberals have become too
fixated on election results rather than aiming for long term goals that
address the issues of economic inequality, and that the administrations
of
Bill Clinton and Barack Obama too often acquiesced to the demands of
Wall
Street and the right... more »
Free Trade 34: ASEAN's Bilateral and Regional FTAs
There are a number of good trade data on Asia-Pacific free trade agreements
(FTAs), from an Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA),
Discussion Paper ERIA-DP-2013-02, “Taking ASEAN+1 FTAs towards the RCEP:
A Mapping Study” by Yoshifumi FUKUNAGA and Ikumo ISONO . Thanks to Aiken
Tafgar for the heads up.
One such data is this.
Where: FTA - free trade agreement;
CEP - comprehensive economic partnership
Thus, AANZFTA - ASEAN-Australia-NZ FTA
ACFTA - ASEAN-China FTA
AIFTA - ASEAN-India FTA
AJCEP - ASEAN-Japan CEP
AKFTA - ASEAN-Korea FTA
So aside from ASEAN + 3 (CJK)... more »
The latest fact about Maureen Dowd’s clan!
*WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2014*
*Yes, this actually matters:* Amazingly, this actually matters.
At the start of this morning’s column, Maureen Dowd offers the latest
fascinating fact about her family background:
DOWD (2/26/14): I have long been opposed to gays marching in the St.
Patrick’s Day Parade on Fifth Avenue.
*It isn’t because my father was a past national president of the Ancient
Order of Hibernians, which ran the parade for a century* and started the
rule that no gays need apply. Faith and begorrah, heaven knows I have
nothing against gays. I have something against Irish ... more »
CRISIS IN EDUCATION!
I hate to be the voice of bad news, but the U.S. must face a CRISIS IN
EDUCATION! When students in the U.S. are compared to students in other
countries, they simply do not measure up. U.S. teachers are central to
student achievement, but “a discouraging number of them are incompetents.”
The top students in […]
Why does Music bring us joy?
Mathimatoscs is the common language we all share. There is no accent, no
prejudice we must build into our equations, it all ones an zeros and adding
up sums. Right now right here we could build a beautiful society based upon
mathematics or a permanent life style based upon errors.
One plus one equals two. This is a fact you can agrue against in this
dimension.
So let the facts bleed as they may, in this enviroment you will get good
goverment.
So what is the plug on this most human desire of expounding the excellent.
It is all about trust and power. No leader who has lead his people to... more »
Security for costs and merits of proceeding
*Ataliotis v. Assiniboine Credit Union Ltd.*, 2014 MBCA 16:
Consideration of Merits of Action
[15] One of many factors a Master or motion judge is
entitled to consider in exercising their discretion whether to order
security for costs is the merits of a proceeding (DeBono v. Smith et al.
reflex, (1989), 62 Man.R. (2d) 98 at paras. 3-4 (Q.B.); Shore-Kalo at para.
4; Matic et al. v. Waldner et al., 2013 MBQB 134 (CanLII), 2013 MBQB 134 at
para. 7, 292 Man.R. (2d) 259).
[16] Consideration of the merits of a proceeding in a
motion for security for ... more »
WHO IS RACHEL MADDOW: Bill Maher objects!
*WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2014*
*Part 3—His guest’s latest howler:* Last Friday, on Real Time with Bill
Maher, something unusual happened:
Rachel Maddow’s journalism was challenged, from two different directions.
At Mediaite, Josh Feldman offered a reasonably accurate summary of events:
FELDMAN (2/21/14): *Bill Maher confronted Rachel Maddow on his show Friday
night about MSNBC’s obsession with BridgeGate,* following up on his blog
post last week calling it MSNBC’s Benghazi, telling Maddow it’s just too
much now and really needs to stop being a “top story” on almost every
single sho... more »
Massive sun flare
It is amazing.
*The sun fired off a major solar flare late Feb. 24, making it the most
powerful sun eruption of the year so far and one of the strongest in recent
years. *
*Earth isn't in danger from the latest eruption of space weather activity,
according to officials with Spaceweather.com, which tracks space weather
and stargazing events. Sunspot AR1990 (previously named AR1967) is located
on the southeastern limb of the sun, pointed away from Earth. This is the
third time this sunspot has rotated onto the Earth-facing side of the sun.*
CBC
Iraq’s Oil Exports Remain At 23-Month Plateau
Iraq’s oil exports and revenue dropped in January 2014. The averages
however remained in line with what they had been for almost two years
straight now. Some new infrastructure is supposed to be completed this
quarter that will boost capacity in the south. Until then Iraq’s output
will remain flat-lined.
Iraq’s foreign oil sales were down in January. Last month the country
averaged 2.228 million barrels a day. That was down from December’s 2.341
million barrels. 2.036 million barrels were shipped through the southern
line to Basra, while 192,000 barrels flowed through the northe... more »
“Hunting Scapegoats”: WWII Literacy Crisis and Current Education Reform
“Hunting Scapegoats”: WWII Literacy Crisis and Current Education Reform.
via “Hunting Scapegoats”: WWII Literacy Crisis and Current Education
Reform.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical
"Perhaps if the Kiev students had listened to the Hungarian rock group instead of to Washington's NGOs, they would understand what it means to be looted by the West, and Ukraine would not be in turmoil and headed toward destruction." "As Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland made clear in her speech last December and in the leaked recording of her telephone conversation with the US ambassador in Kiev, Washington spent $5 billion of US taxpayer dollars engineering a coup in Ukraine that overthrew the elected democratic government." "The entire world should be alarmed at the reckless and irresponsible interference by Washington in Ukraine. By bringing a direct strategic threat to Russia, the crazed Washington hegemon has engineered a Great Power confrontation and created the risk of world destruction." -- Paul Craig Roberts
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*OpEdNews Op Eds 2/25/2014 at 14:03:31*
The Crisis In Ukraine *By Paul Craig Roberts (about the author)*
*Permalink*
opednews.com
Source: Paul Craig Roberts
Opposition leaders, whose power base is among protesters massing in the
square whose name evokes
the independence Ukraine gained in 1991, continued to press for concessions
including early elections
and the repeal of an anti-protest law.(image by Reuters)
In 2004, Hungary joined the EU, expecting streets of gold. Instead, four
years later in 2008 Hungary became indebted to... more »
How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations
Glenn Greenwald
[image: Featured photo - How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to
Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations]A page from a GCHQ top secret
document prepared by its secretive JTRIG unit
One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden
archive is how western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate
and control online discourse with extreme tactics of deception and
reputation-destruction. It’s time to tell a chunk of that story, complete
with the relevant documents.
Over the last several weeks, I worked with *NBC News* to publi... more »
At Work in the Fields of the Lord
Without a trace of irony*,* President Obama last night urged his unpaid
health insurance sales force to also keep fighting for a federal minimum
wage:
“We’re going to make a big push these last few weeks,” Obama told OFA
volunteers and officials. “I can talk, my team can talk here in Washington,
but it’s not going to make as much of a difference as if you are out there
making the case. The work you’re doing is God’s work. It is hard work.”
Work that neither needs nor deserves a paycheck or a stipend, apparently.
Working for the Big Guy is its own reward. As you go door-to-door, sel... more »
Justin's Main Stream Economic Vision
The details are lacking, Tom Walkom writes, but Justin Trudeau's economic
vision is becoming clear. First, there is his focus on the middle class:
Trudeau’s argument here is that both poor and rich gain when the middle
class prospers.
For the poor, a strong middle class represents a “ladder to stability and
security.” Put simply, this means that a minimum-wage retail worker, while
unlikely to become a corporate CEO, has a fair chance at getting a
well-paid factory job — but only if such jobs exist.
For the wealthy, Trudeau says, a satisfied middle class diminishes the
threat of ... more »
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*Mardi Gras parade weather looks cold and wet for krewes of Nyx and Druids*
[image: http://www.wwltv.com/weather/maps?radar=64217522&img=1&c=y]
*Parade Planner: Weather, Route for Krewes of Druids, Nyx ~NOLA DEFENDER*
*Saints ahead of the game in drafting the new model tight end ~Nick
Rothschild, Cover 32*
*~He may still be realizing his potential, but there is no doubt in my mind
that Jimmy Graham is the best all time Saints’ draft pick at tight end.*
*The numbers speak for themselves; in four years with the Saints Graham has
been over 1,200 yards and 11 touchdowns in two seasons. Rem... more »
Georgia Challenges Arizona To The All-Time Most Bigoted State Title
By now everybody nows what happened among the far right of the Arizona
Republican Party over the last few days. The state legislature passed some
crackpot anti-LGBT bill that lets anyone make up some religionist excuse
for discrimination against gays-- or anyone else they don't like. They
passed the same crap last session but Governor Brewer vetoed it. This time
Senators Flake and McCain immediately called on Brewer to veto it again--
and so did the Arizona business community. And then several Republicans in
the legislature said, basically, "Oops, we screwed up. Can we get a
do-o... more »
US wrong to confront Russia over Ukraine
Interesting oped-
The crisis in Ukraine has implications for Europe and beyond. *Before the
situation gets out of hand, it must be settled equitably through diplomatic
and political means.*
A Western confrontation with Russia over Ukraine serves no useful purpose,
and can only lead to revival of Cold War tensions. China's New Silk Road
concept, which extends into Eastern Europe, can be undermined by
Western-provoked instability in the region.
*Should major power cooperation with Russia be set back by Washington's
improper interference in Ukraine, it will inevitably become difficul... more »
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*Taking paracetamol during pregnancy 'may raise the risk of a child
developing ADHD'*
*Another bit of the conventional wisdom crumbles. Paracetamol/Tylenol was
always promoted as a "safe" alternative to aspirin. It never was but that
is increasingly becoming known*
Using paracetamol during pregnancy may raise the risk of children
developing ADHD, warn researchers.
Around half of women take over-the-counter painkillers during pregnancy,
usually for headaches.
Researchers found that taking paracetamol (know as acetaminophen in the
U.S. and the main ingredient in Tylenol) increase... more »
“Howard Beale”, “Network - Mad as Hell”
“Howard Beale”, “Network - Mad as Hell”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WINDtlPXmmE
Gold and precious metal news February 26 , 2014 - lead article -- Here Is The FT's Gold Price Manipulation Article That Was Removed ( Zero Hedge h/t ) .... additional news and views on gold / silver including offerings from GATA and Jesse's Cafe Americain
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-25/here-fts-gold-price-manipulation-article-was-removed
Here Is The FT's Gold Price Manipulation Article That Was Removed
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/25/2014 23:35 -0500
- Bank of England
- Barclays
- Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- Deutsche Bank
- Exchange Traded Fund
- LIBOR
- Precious Metals
- Price Action
- United Kingdom
inShare13
Two days ago the FT released a clear, informative and fact-based article,
titled simply enough "Gold price rigging fears put i... more »
Proud to be an American - Really?
Subscribe to *The Realist Report on YouTube*
Many thanks to Dave Mansfield of *MindWideOpen.net*
Gun Confiscation Letters Sent Out in Connecticut!
February 25 2014 by Conservative Daily
Since last year’s tragic Sandy Hook shooting, Connecticut lawmakers have
“led” the nation in violating their citizens’ second amendment rights!
In Connecticut, the state legislature passed a bill banning so-called “high
capacity” magazines (anything above 10 rounds) and semi-automatic rifles
with certain prohibited cosmetic attachments.
Anyone who owned a magazine or rifle before the law was passed was
grandfathered in, but they were also forced to register these “dangerous
weapons” with the state before January 1, 2014. Well, the registratio... more »
Ukraine Updates - February 26 , 2014 --New Ukraine Government Delayed Amid Coalition Infighting Opposition Factions Split Over 'Interim Government ..... Interim Ukraine Leader Vows to Punish Pro-Secession Crimeans Terms Them 'Threats to Ukraine's Territorial Integrity'
Ukraine......
http://rt.com/news/kiev-clashes-rioters-police-571/
Wednesday, February 26
10:47 GMT:
Crimean Tatars and supporters of pro-Russian organizations are trying to
approach the building of the peninsula’s parliament. All in all, there are
up to 5,000 Tatars and 700 pro-Russian demonstrators gathered at the scene.
10:36 GMT:
An ex-MP, pro-Russian politician Igor Markov, has been released from
detention by a southwestern Odessa court.
*“It’s one of the hardest episodes in our history, and it all ended very
well,”* Markov said.
*“The words of condolences – to the families o... more »
Mt. Gox turmoil ..... first the suspension of withdrawals on 2/7/14 , the bitcoin withdrawal halt on 2/10/14 , various updates to their update without setting a date when their site would allow fiat and bitcoin withdrawals or even when the transaction malleability problem would be fixed , then the curious change of address last week - for security reasons unexplained , the halting of protests by japanese police , the twitter post erasures , japanese regulators such as the FSA , Bank of Japan saying in essence bitcoin isn't our problem and we aren't getting involved , Goldman issuing a second critical report in a matter of days -- then CEO Mark Karpeles Resigns from Bitcoin Foundation Board - and regarding withdrawals being resumed , nothing but the sound of silence from Mt Gox ! The common theme is unsettling moves by Mt Gox while very little substantive information was provided.... And now the appearance that Mt Gox is in the midst of beating a retreat / dropping the cone of silence / becoming even more inaccessible - while customer monies and bitcoin are frozen...... Note the toll is even being felt at Bitstamp and BTC- e !
Catharsis Ours - 18 hours ago
New JPMorgan Report Weighs in on Bitcoin’s Mt. Gox Problem
Pete Rizzo (@pete_rizzo_) | Published on February 24, 2014 at 17:53 GMT | *Exchanges, Mt.
Gox, News*
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The Recall Sword Used Against Those that Violate the U.S. Constitution!
* (someone in Connecticut needs to start recall petitions . . this can be
very effective . . the templates are free & ready . . )*
*VETERANS TODAY*
Thursday, September 12th, 2013
[image: recall-giron-can-you-hear-us-now-big]The Colorado Recalls – Can You
Hear Us Now?By Stew Webb and Glenn Canady Founders Recall Petitions.com
*We had some very good news today in the fight for the Republic when we
woke to discover that two Colorado Democrats who voted in favor of
Colorado’s recent unconstitutional gun control laws were removed from
office in a special recall election!*
History was ma... more »
"In The Time of Your Life..."
"In the time of your life, live — so that in good time there shall be no
ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches. Seek
goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place
and let it be free and unashamed. Place in matter and in flesh the least of
the values, for these are things that hold death and must pass away.
Discover in all things that which shines and is beyond corruption.
Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and
sorrow by the shame and terror of the world. Ignore the obvious, for it is
unwor... more »
"Forgiveness..."
"It’s forgiveness that makes us what we are. Without forgiveness, our
species would’ve annihilated itself in endless retributions. Without
forgiveness, there would be no history. Without that hope, there would be
no art, for every work of art is in some way an act of forgiveness. Without
that dream, there would be no love, for every act of love is in some way a
promise to forgive. We live on because we can love, and we love because we
can forgive."
- Gregory David Roberts, "Shantaram"
Godzilla trailer - not Pacific tests - they were trying to kill it.
Goddy's a little big to 'hide' but you gotta applaud the LIBERTY DIS-ARMED
cynicism, right?
Surprise! Most Subsidies Go to Big Business
A new Good Jobs First study confirms what many of us have long suspected:
Most subsidies go to big companies. For the first time, though, we have an
estimate of just how much of this government largesse goes to the biggest
firms: 75%. $110 billion, to put it in dollar terms. The Fortune 500 alone
have received $63 billion of that.
This report is based on recently completed work on the Subsidy Tracker
database, connecting data for parent and subsidiary companies. This
revealed that 965 parent firms received that $110 billion, some 3/4 of the
total amounts disclosed in the database. I... more »
"Time..."
"Someone once told me that time is a predator that stalked us all our lives.
But I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the
journey,
that reminds us to cherish every moment because they'll never come again.
What we leave behind is not as important as how we live it.
After all, Number One, we're only mortal."
- Jean-Luc Picard
"A Buddhist Prayer of Forgiveness"
"If I have harmed anyone in any way, either knowingly or unknowingly
through my own confusions, I ask their forgiveness.
If anyone has harmed me in any way, either knowingly or unknowingly
through their own confusions, I forgive them.
And if there is a situation I am not yet ready to forgive
I forgive myself for that.
For all the ways that I harm myself, negate, doubt, belittle myself,
judge or be unkind to myself through my own confusions,
I forgive myself."
"A Buddhist Prayer of Forgiveness"
THAILAND EXPLAINED
In Thailand, in 1980, one third of the rural population lived in absolute
poverty.
This could mean one meal a day and no money to buy shoes or typhoid
medicine.
In 1980, a child working 11 hours a day, in a workshop in Bangkok, would
earn £36 per year!
Great for the Americans getting their cheap shoes and clothes made by child
labour.
*King Bhumibol Adulyadej*
The King of Thailand is worth at least US$30 billion [1]
In 1946 King Ananda was found shot in his bedroom in the Grand Palace in
Bangkok.
This ensured that the teenage Bhumibol became king.
And it ensured that pro... more »
Denis Kucinich and the Left-Hand Path
"The impeachment movement against Bush and Cheney has bite*, *has *traction**,
if *you make the Misprision of Treason on 9-11 the first item on the
articles of impeachment;
This cuts directly into their base - if you make Iraq the first item, that
*solidifies* their base.
You have to attack the 9-11 Myth.
Don't attack the front - attack the flank.
Attack the side - Attack the rear.
But not the front."
*Webster G. Tarpley, 2006*
*"The main obstacle to 9-11 Truth is the Left-Liberal Intelligencia"*
*Tarpley, '06.*
18 U.S. Code § 2382 - Misprision of treason
Whoever, owing allegi... more »
Smart fitness bands to supersede smart watches
Smart watches haven't been greeted with too much enthusiasm but the freshly
presented (in Barcelona, along with two old-fashioned smartwatch models)
Samsung Gear Fit seems to be different – an instant leader in the industry
of wearables according to many tech pundits.
Here it is pretended that the configuration of the background image for
your watch so that it fits your outfit is the most important functionality
of this $150 gadget. See also another hand-on video, other videos, CNET
review, Google News.
For $150, this fitness band plus watch would be sort of OK. But I think
th... more »
Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE)
*Published on December 28, 2013*
Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE)
*http://twitter.com/PortlandH*
*http://facebook.com/PortlandHelmich*
Thanks to Black Dog Yoga:
*http://www.blackdogyoga.net*
When Science Is Corrupted by Greed by Dr. Thiery Vrain
Please read, *"When science is corrupted by corporate greed"* and a bit
about Dr. Thierry Vrain. The Footprint Press, is a published non-profit
free community newspaper. Articles are submitted by dedicated residents
wishing to share their vis...ion of a more just and informed society, and
who seek to live harmoniously with nature, in a shared environment.
Circulation is 2000+. (Issue 11, 2014)
*PLEASE READ:*
*http://www.footprintpress.ca/pdf/FootprintPressIssue11.pdf*
#Farmland #DrTheirryVrain #Scienceandcorporategreed #Science #CorporateGreed
#GEProducts #GEFoods #GMOs #Ba... more »
IsThe Health Of Americans in Decline Due To Poisons In Their Environment & Food?
[image: Foto: Americans are sick and getting sicker. Researchers were
surprised to find a "strikingly consistent and pervasive" pattern of poorer
health at all stages of life, from infancy to childhood to adolescence to
young adulthood to middle and old age. Compared to people in other
developed nations, Americans endure some of the worst rates of heart
disease, lung disease, obesity, and diabetes. What do Americans have in
common? Could it be that 80% of the food we eat has been polluted with
genetically modified organisms that have foreign genes forced into their
DNA to allow them... more »
Eireport:Current planetary energies have reversed direction…
Not where I live they haven't! LOL! I've never felt more energies! -AK
*Current planetary energies have reversed direction…*
26 Feb 2014
Current planetary energies have reversed direction, following a period of
fluctuations, then stillness.
Reversal of direction is “temporary” and is required for next steps in the
planetary “liberation” process.
Fibrous energetic “streams of entanglement” currently accompany planetary
energies, intended to collect all those encountered of “lower than
necessary for planetary ‘liberation’” vibration.
All is in readiness for the resultant chaotic “N... more »
Zion
What is Zionism? from Spike EP on Vimeo.
*Like Bush, Hitler Also Offered a New World Order of Peace *
*Don McGillivray Vancouver Sun Monday, January 21, 1991 *
*Ottawa -* The Gulf War is being fought for a bright and shining Utopia.
People who back it as a necessary war believe victory for the U.S. over
Iraq would usher in a golden age called the New world Order.
U.S. President George Bush, addressing a joint session of Congress on Sept.
11, said the Persian Gulf crisis "offers a rare opportunity to move toward
an historic period of cooperation.
"A New World Order c... more »
Lens on the Land: Defending sacred land from Rosemont copper mine
.
Ofelia Rivas, O'odham, photo by Josh Schachter
Defending Santa Ritas from Rosemont copper mining
Photos above by Josh Schachter
"I am pleased to see in these images the high spirit of Ophelia, who
never rests, fighting for the spirit of the people and a living natural
world. Great effort and the way we walk." Alejandro, Sonora, Mexico
Me da mucho gusto ver en estas imágenes el alto
UK Plan to Sell Out NHS Medical Records Hits Another Bump: Data Prematurely Given to Insurance Industry – MP's Concerned
So, when I posted just the other day on the embarrassing setbacks and
"tactical withdrawal" of the, to my eyes indefensible (my arguments have
been presented here, here and here), plan of the UK national health service
to start a system (called care.data) for giving access to partly
identifiable patient data (in view of recent demonstrations, I would say
wholly identifiable if there's some genetic data in there) not only for
public research institutions, but also private companies, some with obvious
vested interests to use said sort of data against individual people, I
frankly thoug... more »
John Batchelor: Ukraine is "fragmented, lawless, beggared, fear-racked"
* Soros: Fascism's Financier.*
*"My sources have told me that the Kremlin holds that Rice has been in
contact with the investor George Soros, who has used his wealth and
influence openly to unsettle affairs in Ukraine at least since the Orange
Revolution of 2005." - John Batchelor.*
*Wikipedia:*
John Calvin Batchelor (born 1948) is an author and host of The John
Batchelor Show radio news magazine. Based at WABC radio in New York for
five years from early 2001 to September, 2006, the show was syndicated
nationally on the ABC radio network.
When John Batchelor occasionally took a b... more »
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*Climate Alarmists Never Called Out For Spreading Fear*
Al Gore was at it again over the weekend, scaring people unnecessarily
about global warming. He, and others like him, should be held accountable
for constantly trying to terrify the public. Will they ever be?
Preaching Saturday in Kansas City, the former vice president and current
hysteric in chief declared while prattling on about the California drought
that "the Dust Bowl is coming back, quickly, unless we act."
About that first Dust Bowl, the one in the 1930s: Was that also caused by
man-made global warming, during a time w... more »
A wise man’s heart inclines him to the right, but a fool’s heart to the left.
'A wise man’s heart inclines him to the right, but a fool’s heart to the
left.'
Ecclesiastes 10:2
As true today as it's always been...
John Kane, Mohawk 'Remove the Dust for our Survival'
Remove
the Dust for our Survival
By John Karhiio Kane, Mohawk
Censored News
I really like the expression, "Remove the Dust." Its most basic meaning
evokes the image of sweeping away the dust accumulated over years of
neglect from our wampum belts or any other reminders of our shelved
knowledge. We use it as an expression that is generally associated with
maintaining our culture. But at
The Crisis In Ukraine
Like everyone else, I am truly alarmed by the ongoing crisis in Ukraine....
I know for a fact that the criminal Jewish Rothschild empire, also known as
the "European Union" has been eying Ukraine for several decades now as
another slave nation to be permanently enslaved by criminal Jewish banking
usury... There is also the fact that Ukraine sits right on the border of
Russia, and the criminal Jews have also been wanting to control both
Ukraine's mineral wealth and the fact that the majority of oil and natural
gas pipelines between Russia and European customers run right through
Ukra... more »
Lowongan Kerja Rumah Sakit di Jakarta Maret 2014 Maintenance Medis
Lowongan
Kerja Rumah Sakit di Jakarta Maret 2014 Maintenance Medis - Hari ini
hari yang menyenangkan dan saatnya bagi anda bergerak untuk mendapatkan
hal yang lebih baik contohnya sekarang mungkin anda masih menganggur
padahal anda itu telah menempuh pendidikan min D3 / D4 Teknik
Elektromedik dan telah berpengalaman di bidang kesehatan pada
Maintenance Medis. Ada peluang baru untuk anda jika
The Blue Dogs Are Mining The Republican Wing Of The Democratic Party For The Worst Candidates They Can Find-- They Just Found 3 Today
Here we go again-- because losing once is never enough for a discredited
strategy
The demise of the furthest right faction of Republican wing of the Democrat
Party, the anti-Choice, gay-hating, gun-loving, Austerity champions know as
the Blue Dogs, has been widely exaggerated. And as long as so-called "ex"
Blue Dog, Steve Israel is allowed to run the DCCC, the Blue Dogs will
always be a factor in position inside the Democratic Caucus to undermine
progressive values and wreck progressive legislation with GOP ideas, as
they did to the Affordable Care Act and Wall Street financial refor... more »
Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW) - Aerators
Welcome to Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)!
Wondering how to live greener? You've come to the right place. Each week we
challenge ourselves to try a new task ... or "amp up" something we're
already doing. We raise our awareness, learn from each other and develop
Eco-friendly skills which will improve our lives and protect our planet.
Doing so together gives us power ... the power to Change The World!
If this is your first visit, please click HERE for information and a
complete list of all the challenges we've taken on so far.
This post contains great information and I encourage ... more »
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