tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72189217646131087852024-03-19T02:19:28.956-07:00Cecile Pineda's blog Random, day-to-day reflections of what it means to live as a member of the human race on a planet which has become as vulnerable as a human body.
Cecile Pineda's books are available from <a href="https://www.ipgbook.com/search-pages-21.php?search_term=Cecile+Pineda&advancedSearchSelect=&go=Search"> Independent Publishers Group.</a>Cecile Pinedahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06859495771889305391noreply@blogger.comBlogger299125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218921764613108785.post-1947756372929706922022-12-11T12:44:00.000-08:002022-12-11T12:44:14.697-08:00Cecile Pineda, "I'm in love with this planet 2"<iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/HVd-1pguR-c" width="480"></iframe>AA guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07657396177788699752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218921764613108785.post-36219665357054844012022-12-11T09:47:00.005-08:002023-01-11T20:18:52.575-08:00Cecile Pineda Memorial - October 1st 2022<p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">"</span></b><span face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Tombeaux and
Other Delights" for Cecile Pineda and Her
Friends </span></b><span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></p><p><span face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyDo5F6_cSULHoVocjKznhJXA20uChKRuMlQuSSL-tZLcQ8acDem7UQ7pKwp8i1oWmZyq6SdJqQcFlww4P2GP0VrkwaiKgmqfaoTIat-5vc-O5QHdHSESXXbYKVFYwI9Vimfcro61jRJIXkzSiRSI35_9J7LhYUZVguwUfgKXws4IcgMt6NlbykztIUQ/s1437/00%20cecile%20memorial.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1018" data-original-width="1437" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyDo5F6_cSULHoVocjKznhJXA20uChKRuMlQuSSL-tZLcQ8acDem7UQ7pKwp8i1oWmZyq6SdJqQcFlww4P2GP0VrkwaiKgmqfaoTIat-5vc-O5QHdHSESXXbYKVFYwI9Vimfcro61jRJIXkzSiRSI35_9J7LhYUZVguwUfgKXws4IcgMt6NlbykztIUQ/w400-h284/00%20cecile%20memorial.png" width="400" /></a></span></span></div><br />
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<div><span style="font-size: medium;">Date: October 1, 2022 at 3-5PM
Pacific Daylight Saving Time<br />
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<div><span style="font-size: medium;">Venue: 2550 Dana Street, Berkeley,
CA<br />
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<div><span style="font-size: medium;">Limited Zoom Event Included </span></div>
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<div><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Memorial Program</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
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<div><span style="font-size: medium;">3:00 Welcome: Roger Herried (</span><span style="font-size: large;">"Cecile's shared moment in
History"</span><span style="font-size: large;">)</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">3:15</span> </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">The
Barefoot All-Stars: V</span><span style="font-size: medium;">iol players </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Peter Hallifax and
Julie Jeffrey</span><span face="arial,sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<div><span style="font-size: medium;">4:05 Enjoy refreshments as you
relish Cecile's memories</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: medium;">4:50 Closing remarks: Pasqua
Jey </span></div>
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<div><b style="color: #202122;"><span style="font-family: garamond, times new roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Cecile Pineda:
Sept. 24 1932-Aug. 11 2022</span></b><br />
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<div><span><span style="font-size: medium;">Quotable Quotes:</span></span><br />
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<span face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>I am trying to
understand being born to the urge to
destroy, to rip mountains apart, to pour
thousand-year poison into the seas, to
belch soot into the sky, to kill
everything that lives. Where does it
start, this impulse? In what mind?
What axle drives this wheel<b>?</b>
<br />
—</i>Cecile<i> </i>Pineda. <i>Devil’s
Tango</i> </span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #202122; font-size: large;"><i>I
do not think anymore that writing—mine
or another’s—can change the </i><i>world... </i></span><i style="font-size: large;">Perhaps in their
small way, writers can answer for those
who are voiceless in their extreme
deprivation and suffering. But at best, in
the very smallest scheme, writing can
provide a moment of grace, both for her
who writes and him who reads, in a very
dark world. </i><span style="color: #202122; font-size: large;"><i> <br />
</i></span><i style="font-size: large;">
—</i><span style="color: #202122; font-size: large;">Cecile Pineda, </span><span style="color: #202122; font-size: large;"><i>The Bloomsbury Review</i>, </span><span style="font-size: medium;">2004. <br /></span></span><p> Following Roger's introduction a photo slideshow of Cecile was shown while the Barefoot All-stars performed. <br /></p>
<iframe frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/W_ifVPeUolI" style="background-image: url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/W_ifVPeUolI/hqdefault.jpg);" width="480"></iframe>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Below is Roger Herried's Introduction<br /></span></p>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">I first met
Cecile Pineda in December 2011 at an anti-nuclear conference
concerning the Fukushima meltdowns. I'm fortunate to have been
one of her many friends. She accomplished much with her books,
theatrical work, teaching, activism, and blogging. </span></p>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbJRexv6s6T7-D2BDDgowRX8fvq96GAmADcQlhOKRuhzP4l1_sFQIdOcPD72TA-x2HBIW7aKYyHX-Tyzlxf6uE8MywuvI24qiJsanGPQCBi6n-vaguZUtkwJRe7YQvzw_3DrKdlu7chelm905RaWNWRamvbDZwbSnNLEhx9DqJI6zkz6E6IHgfl0c3Uw/s6000/DSC_0915.JPG" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbJRexv6s6T7-D2BDDgowRX8fvq96GAmADcQlhOKRuhzP4l1_sFQIdOcPD72TA-x2HBIW7aKYyHX-Tyzlxf6uE8MywuvI24qiJsanGPQCBi6n-vaguZUtkwJRe7YQvzw_3DrKdlu7chelm905RaWNWRamvbDZwbSnNLEhx9DqJI6zkz6E6IHgfl0c3Uw/s320/DSC_0915.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of her favorite spots: Fern Ravine<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Back in 2013,
she started writing a regular blog with the help of a tech
person. After her tech friend moved away, Cecile asked if I
would take her place. I was more than happy to do this since it
included a wonderful lunch and a partner to talk with on
Sundays. We eventually added a weekly trip to the Redwoods in
the Oakland hills. </span><p></p>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br />
</p>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">She also saved
my life back in 2016 when I needed emergency surgery. She
obtained a referral for a surgeon after I lost my medical
insurance, getting into surgery in weeks rather than months. </span></p>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br />
</p>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Cecile had a
stroke in late February of 2022 just days after the US
government announced plans to withhold Afghanistan's assets,
endangering the country's struggling people. This broke her
heart as she <a href="https://devilstangobook.blogspot.com/2022/02/speaking-truth-to-power.html">sought
ways to help the Afghan people</a>. The stroke damaged her
ability to talk and write, but by June, she was back at the
computer and talking to us again. She even planned a trip to
Chaco Canyon in New Mexico. She also maintained her fierce
independence, living by herself, and doing gardening at the Dana
Street coop. Then she suffered a series of falls in July that
resulted in her rapid decline and passing on August 11th with
her sons at her side. </span></p>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br />
</p>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">I'd like to
share the story I told Cecile a fortnight before her passing.</span></p>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> We had just
finished lunch, and I was ready to leave when to my surprise,
she asked if I would tell her a story! </span></p>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">So I told her
about the life of a Chickasaw woman named Mary Francis Thompson,
based on a movie I'd seen. </span></p>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">In 1895, Mary
Francis was born in Oklahoma where she grew up exploring the
plains and traditional Chickasaw community. She adored listening
to her father's traditional native American stories. At the age
of ten, Mary Francis was finally allowed to go to a tribal
Chickasaw stomp dance. During the dance, she ran into the inner
circle of elders which wasn't allowed, so her dad Thomas had to
catch her and pull her back to the outer circle. While herding
her back to the outer circle, the medicine man spoke to him
briefly in Chickasaw, which I will share with you at the end of
this story. </span></p>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Mary Francis
would grow up wanting to be an actress, against her father's
wishes. She was the first Native American to attend Oklahoma's
women's college. Her drama professor and mentor, Frances
Dinsmore Davis, accidentally heard her perform a Chickasaw story
in Mary's dorm room at one point. She suggested that Mary
Francis do one of her tribe's stories rather than the usual
Shakespearean piece for her final graduation. It was a big hit
as most white people had never heard of or seen anything like it
before. Mary Frances performed her tribe's songs and danced
using both English and her own language. </span></p>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Upon
graduation, Ms. Davis gave Mary Francis a referral to the
country's top acting school (Carnegie acting school in
Pittsburgh) at that time and urged Mary Francis to seek a career
as an actress. She also referred her to </span><a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurlow_Lieurance" style="background: transparent; color: #4a6ee0; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;" target="_blank"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #4a6ee0; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Thurlow
Lieurance</span></a><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> who was in charge of a </span><a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chautauqua" style="background: transparent; color: #4a6ee0; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;" target="_blank"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #4a6ee0; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Chautauqua</span></a><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> tour across the Midwest. Thurlow
offered Mary Francis a paying job that covered the rest of her
college tuition! </span></p>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">After
graduating from the two-year college, she told her dad about
continuing with her education. Thomas demanded that she come
home and become a teacher. Mary Frances refused. When Thomas
realized he couldn't stop her, he suggested that she take a
stage name. The movie took a bit of license from the historic
account, with her father suggesting that she take the stage name
of Te Ata or bearer of the Morning. </span></p>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Mary France's
performances during the Chautauqua turned her into the event's
top draw. Tribal people from across the region came to watch and
asked if she might perform their songs and stories. After the
Chautauqua finished, to her father's delight, she was refused by
Carnegie. But she refused to accept their denial and instead
traveled to Pittsburgh and won admission after doing an audition
of her skills. After finishing her studies at Carnegie she went
to Broadway. </span></p>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Getting a
Broadway acting job wasn't easy as it took her over a year to
finally land a part. She started performing her traditional
stories at private parties to pay for room and board. During one
performance, she was introduced to Eleanor Roosevelt and Dr.
George Fisher. She and George, a New York City professor, struck
up a romantic relationship. </span></p>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br />
</p>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">He proposed to
her after Mary Francis' first successful stage play. She
informed George they'd have to travel back to Oklahoma to get
her father's blessing. </span></p>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Upon their
arrival back in Oklahoma, George requested Mary Francis's hand
to Thomas. But he refused to give his permission unless the two
of them came back to Oklahoma. Knowing that Mary Francis would
never accept such a demand, George prepared to go back to New
York. As word got out about her success, she agreed to perform
in her hometown before going back east. Her father refused to
attend. But he did sneak in near the very end and watched her
perform one of the stories he once told her as a child. He left
without her family seeing him, going back to bed as he wasn't
feeling well. </span></p>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Afterward, she
drove George to the train station, as he needed to get back to
New York. Just before hopping onto the train, he handed her a
batch of letters that he'd forgotten to give to her. To her
astonishment, one of the letters was from Eleanor Roosevelt who
asked if she would perform at FDR's 1933 inaugural white-house
celebration! </span></p>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">She
immediately went into her father's bedroom and told him that if
he wouldn't die (which she thought he was on his deathbed) that
she would instead stay home and take care of him as long as
necessary! </span></p>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">At this point,
her father opened up to her, telling her as she knew very well
that he had been opposed to her plan to go to college, become an
actress, or perform. He apologized for his behavior, claiming
that he was afraid that going out into the white man's world
might endanger her life. But then he divulged to her what the
Chickasaw elder told him back when she was ten. The elder told
him that she was destined to become a storyteller for her
people. It was this statement that had made him fearful,
resulting in his attempts to hold her back. </span></p>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">After telling
her this, Thomas gave permission to perform at the white-house
and marry George. </span></p>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Just as I
reached this point in telling the story, Cecile burst out crying
for many minutes. I was taken aback by her emotional response!
After regaining composure, she said this was her story and
helped her come to terms with her father. </span></p>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Te Ata was the
premiere First Nation storyteller of the 20th Century, receiving
many accolades. She passed away barely 25 days before her 100th
birthday, exactly what Cecile did before her 90th! </span></p>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">You can see
the movie "Te Ata" on Netflix or read </span><a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Te_Ata_(actress)" style="background: transparent; color: #4a6ee0; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;" target="_blank"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #4a6ee0; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">her biography
here</span></a><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">. </span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvR8SNR4SrvE8ZBeMI6HzgB2JLv-C27Lt9WJTn03W1Q4eZQIMQ8I6aiMu1vApIBgqi8gE1Z6RWmqZw5D7U1BIrOUUMcjH0FO4L1-SdCjgveJD-9qExjDYICMSV2OvrbaoVZSdVgIZ2voc-0ztnCNCTz3RhyJ8AGrUqV-3Kp51pqzC003IPKF365M0JFg/s1374/1_26_2020_003.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="912" data-original-width="1374" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvR8SNR4SrvE8ZBeMI6HzgB2JLv-C27Lt9WJTn03W1Q4eZQIMQ8I6aiMu1vApIBgqi8gE1Z6RWmqZw5D7U1BIrOUUMcjH0FO4L1-SdCjgveJD-9qExjDYICMSV2OvrbaoVZSdVgIZ2voc-0ztnCNCTz3RhyJ8AGrUqV-3Kp51pqzC003IPKF365M0JFg/s320/1_26_2020_003.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cecile hiking in the Redwoods<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> </span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><br /><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span><p></p><p> </p>AA guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07657396177788699752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218921764613108785.post-89597642190307289872022-12-11T08:54:00.001-08:002022-12-20T00:23:00.502-08:00In Memoriam: Cecile Pineda: 1932-2022<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDtuQgz-0GBHH_I-AYxupY-9qAftIuhIyA2UV4InMnzMPCgmK4pgta4J2YjpKUi4-N1Dtu-41hhEqJPH7HzTNSS7grKd6-1SSkybc0AWXhZY6UM40W04cAe67qj9EnvZrUY-hFpgUq49M1RF3JtcJ5aqKFt8EtBrkWSN9BrSF67JtprZJ6iI_3vaUxig/s1375/9_13_2022_002.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="917" data-original-width="1375" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDtuQgz-0GBHH_I-AYxupY-9qAftIuhIyA2UV4InMnzMPCgmK4pgta4J2YjpKUi4-N1Dtu-41hhEqJPH7HzTNSS7grKd6-1SSkybc0AWXhZY6UM40W04cAe67qj9EnvZrUY-hFpgUq49M1RF3JtcJ5aqKFt8EtBrkWSN9BrSF67JtprZJ6iI_3vaUxig/s320/9_13_2022_002.png" width="320" /></a></div> Our beloved Cecile passed peacefully away on August 11th, 2022 with her two son's David and Michael present.She will be missed by everyone she touched, except maybe for former Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates (who she raked over the coals when he presided over the ceremonial event for her)! <br /><p></p><p>Cecile received a number of prominent obituaries from the<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/17/books/cecile-pineda-dead.html" target="_blank"> NY Times</a> and the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/08/15/cecile-pineda-latina-literature-dead/" target="_blank">Washington Post </a>(papers she hated), besides many others including one in <a href="https://es-us.noticias.yahoo.com/cecile-pineda-escritora-latina-conocida-185037860.html" target="_blank">Spanish</a>. Cecile passed her political commentary work to Lisa Savage who <a href="https://went2thebridge.org/2022/08/14/cecile-pineda-presente/" target="_blank">wrote this memorial</a> for her. </p><p>For more about her, she has a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecile_Pineda" target="_blank">Wikipedia page</a>, besides <a href="http://cecilepineda.com/" target="_blank">her original webpage.</a> Or you can see some of her video's online, for example <a href="https://youtu.be/HVd-1pguR-c" target="_blank">this interview with Cecile that Anke Burger did in 2021</a>... There are other videos of her if you google her. </p><p>This blog is the best online source for her writings going back to 2013. The last few years are also mirrored over<a href="https://cecilepineda.medium.com/" target="_blank"> at Medium.com</a>. This blog has her extensive writings that go back nine years. Her papers are <a href="https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf787005pc/" target="_blank">housed at Stanford.</a> </p><p>Besides her books which are here on the sidebar that can still be purchased (please don't get them from Amazon but from the links here) </p><p>Cecile suffered a Stroke in late February 2022 which resulted in her ability to speak or work at the computer. She recovered in just a few months. Nearly two years prior, her doctor gave her a year to live following the horrific fires that impacted her heart. She made it nearly twice that. </p><p> <br /></p><p> <br /></p>AA guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07657396177788699752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218921764613108785.post-46587558942438000362022-12-11T08:49:00.001-08:002022-12-11T08:49:13.017-08:00Cecile's Passing and Memorial - Part 1 <p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYf4faUIOrbHDWhByFwJpx2cunVyek4kDng5c2eeXrFR0Vd9b1l-eGyPdLFMmIBFrZjYFGy4WiSsvtih_jQTIJMSIgqfYS7Ds51IfoUs5ZviIKRwsbbmzyfY7zPvWoyItiwulqthjYQ07TVkoFIESoyMLKYl5o1EFrAq3v0uxOvSHLshRrxxXdS3D0uQ/s1391/8_10_2022_001.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="909" data-original-width="1391" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYf4faUIOrbHDWhByFwJpx2cunVyek4kDng5c2eeXrFR0Vd9b1l-eGyPdLFMmIBFrZjYFGy4WiSsvtih_jQTIJMSIgqfYS7Ds51IfoUs5ZviIKRwsbbmzyfY7zPvWoyItiwulqthjYQ07TVkoFIESoyMLKYl5o1EFrAq3v0uxOvSHLshRrxxXdS3D0uQ/s320/8_10_2022_001.png" width="320" /></a></span></div><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">If you've not
heard, Cecile passed away on August 11th. Cecile's friends and
family held a memorial concert titled "Tombeaux and Other
Delights" for her on October 1st. The first half of the zoom
portion didn't turn out so well, but those in attendance had a
memorable time. </span><p></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Apologies to those of you who would like to have
attended, but it took this long to gain access to her mail chimp
account. I'm
hoping that you will join me for an extended memorial that will
go up on her blog. </span></p>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br />
</p>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Thanks to her
son David Leneman for letting me announce her passing to you.
Please note that her regular email account has been closed. </span></p>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br />
</p>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">I'm requesting
that you send me any photos of Cecile you would like to share. I will incorporate them into the
slideshow that was shown during the memorial. Please send them
to dwbrah "at" comcast "dot" net. </span></p>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">The slideshow
(or a link to it) will be posted on her blog, along with other
appropriate items and stories you are welcome to add. The
Slideshow will also include a number of Tombeaux that the
Barefoot All-Stars: Viol players Peter Hallifax and Julie
Jeffrey performed. </span></p>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br />
</p>
<p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">I saw her a
just a few more times but had the good fortune of taking the
last photos before she passed on. I'm hoping that you had the
best memories with her!</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p>Roger Herried<br /><p> </p>AA guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07657396177788699752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218921764613108785.post-1463605947586091312022-06-12T14:53:00.021-07:002022-06-26T11:36:11.168-07:00What India Can Teach Us About Homelessness <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">by Cecile Pineda</span></b>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">(</span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Fact checking by Srinivas Reddy</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">) </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">I arrived in India in 1988
after a 16-hour flight, my body so allergic to aniline dye, it had broken out
in hives. I was met at 2 AM by a turbaned taxist who attempted to take me to my
“hotel.” </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">I was not too tired, and my
body not too riddled with hives that I couldn’t keep my eyes open. We must have
travelled many miles on the approach to Bombay proper. They were all<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>lined with shanty towns, “towns”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>people had cobbled together from corrugated roofing
plastic, corrugated cardboard, and wooden planks that had seen much better
wear. I asked my taxist about them.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Welcome to India</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">My taxist replied that they
were bull dosed at regular intervals, turned to dust essentially, although
the people living there had nowhere<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>left
to go. Within less than a day, my well-meaning taxist assured me, they would be
rebuilt and life there would go on. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">By now it was close to 3 AM.
My “hotel”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(which turned out to be
something of a flop house although the people there would take good care of me,
as my friend Pearl, an actress with the Bombay Talkies, would assure me) was off
Ashoke Kumar in a little side street which for one block only had been
whimsically named Jump Rope Walk. After multiple tries not finding it, my
taxist took me to the middle class hotel district where at that
hour every doorman was sleeping on the threshold and didn’t want to be
disturbed. We tried several threshold-sleeping doormen before I began
wondering why I let myself be pushed about by this upstart taxist of 25. “Take
me to the Taj,” I said. Replied he, ”you can’t afford the Taj.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I summoned my most persuasive tone, “take me
to the Taj, there’s eight rupees in it for you.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Although by then it was
approaching 4 AM, at the Taj I knew there’d be a telephone. I phoned. “Oh,
Madam, we have been waiting for you. Just lift the corrugated iron door,” and
the voice described how Jump Rope Walk was to be found. “It’s just off Ashoke
Kumar.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">When I lifted that impossibly
heavy door, I found a dhoti- clad boy waiting for me. The foyer was<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>without light of any kind but he didn’t seem
to care.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He disdained carrying my bags
so, flashlight held securely in my mouth, we started the ascent of what turned
out to be seven floors of factories before reaching the “hotel.” On the first
riser, I felt the stair move. Someone was sleeping there. The “rent” was one
ana a night. Each sleeping person had paid one ana to sleep on those stairs,
all seven flights, every single riser occupied. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">While I waited for USIA to
make ready to have me read from my newly Viking-published novel, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Frieze</i>, I made the short trip to
Aurangabad (site of the Buddhist Ajanta caves, and the Hindu Ellora Caves). There
was only one train, and it left late at night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Arrived on the platform, I had to step<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>over hundreds<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>if not thousands of
sleeping bodies wrapped in burlap all huddled together as I imagine a Middle
Passage tight-pack to have been.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">The “Golden” Age of The Maharajas</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Even before the Age of the Maharajahs,
the 9<sup>th</sup> century Cholas of South India would think nothing of gifting
a human being who happened to be a skilled stone carver to the Sanjaya dynast to
decorate his harem in what is now known as Java. </span><a href="https://www.ipgbook.com/frieze-products-9780930324919.php?page_id=21"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Frieze</span></a><span style="font-size: 16pt;">, my
second published novel, chronicles the story of one such carver. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjZvHmOMG0hlQy_FI6C9o7bzLeDtMMcJsZnC5mhqG1gpVIqWael8ihoFn8_d6FIfndpzawwiZLorBzWmbQnNwWB0GT-S_NpbhawbAVXo11uKJs4w9dCy1Q4ukBw_rwsRVU4aIG66zevaI8hGG85aHnA4Bw0dEH6ysKAlvuB0v8nx9_8cgOSvB3-ZnK2" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img data-original-height="565" data-original-width="870" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjZvHmOMG0hlQy_FI6C9o7bzLeDtMMcJsZnC5mhqG1gpVIqWael8ihoFn8_d6FIfndpzawwiZLorBzWmbQnNwWB0GT-S_NpbhawbAVXo11uKJs4w9dCy1Q4ukBw_rwsRVU4aIG66zevaI8hGG85aHnA4Bw0dEH6ysKAlvuB0v8nx9_8cgOSvB3-ZnK2=w640-h416" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Regional Aristocractic Palaces Lining Holy River Ganga <br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">By the Age of the Maharajas
(17<sup>th</sup> century to the end of the Raj in 1947) with the collusion of the British
and Dutch East India Company, stealing from the common people had become
predictably<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>routine. Maharajas made war
against other Maharajahs for territorial gains, kept entire stables just for
housing war elephants, erected forts, temples and palaces, harems for wives and
concubines, sometimes as many as 1000 (according to rumor they kept them all satisfied,
each and every one) and established foundations to benefit widows and orphans. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjbeabcwO1pezn1mInP8AwySunCwbw9OgHt-ZjcQeP_5-4TYkKqHPpSkTCLPYABNPkG5l5I3oijTQfkVC8zJo7zbW78vz2iiwu9wgDGUPxnhcMfpkc1Zwe1hqWAIgowjG7_PdKLVI8c6FvecNh95yPy5kvJ4PMnFohjaRcmguKUgdZEUI18HPELtP2D" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img data-original-height="630" data-original-width="1133" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjbeabcwO1pezn1mInP8AwySunCwbw9OgHt-ZjcQeP_5-4TYkKqHPpSkTCLPYABNPkG5l5I3oijTQfkVC8zJo7zbW78vz2iiwu9wgDGUPxnhcMfpkc1Zwe1hqWAIgowjG7_PdKLVI8c6FvecNh95yPy5kvJ4PMnFohjaRcmguKUgdZEUI18HPELtP2D=w400-h223" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jantar Mantar Staircases in Jaipur <br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">In the 18<sup>th</sup>
century Rajput King Sawal Jai Singh even built the Jantar Mantar, an
observatory located in the Rajasthan city of Jaipur. Some Maharajas built multiple
royal cities. Akbar built Agra Fort and the royal city of Fatepur Sikri </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjKlQUUg379yYQxo88TKU22o8OnVK8wb-85RPYj_NSVJTboUmCUvkYS31r0hZDLTrKs8TjZ6PlWIKNxQ-JEzR7kH_M81h08Aph8OC-T_SA1Bgye60sDUNklXczvdu_X2DRTMMmA3zcq_jgG57XBO0A13QIfrfizX9dsIfZAm3E7hG-TSH0WWnO0D0Up" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img data-original-height="3563" data-original-width="3810" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjKlQUUg379yYQxo88TKU22o8OnVK8wb-85RPYj_NSVJTboUmCUvkYS31r0hZDLTrKs8TjZ6PlWIKNxQ-JEzR7kH_M81h08Aph8OC-T_SA1Bgye60sDUNklXczvdu_X2DRTMMmA3zcq_jgG57XBO0A13QIfrfizX9dsIfZAm3E7hG-TSH0WWnO0D0Up=w400-h374" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Inner Courtyard of Fatepur Sikri<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">based on
a saint’s guarantee that he would sire a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>desired male heir. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgatlxsEhTal1c4qUqgypb53QfjHHoDJDJoAdQkH61yX9e0E9SBeKzjlNxD2TRM37I1XKfQz1OJDSWmZhHRXQTOGZhSjR5E-Ns5fnw-w05kQaY2vY8i9R7JaMasvi-87keDR6xvsloiGCEcjqpKdgkTdG83WMyvABZvUl65OUsphJPjnUmf-Xskcaqd" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img data-original-height="702" data-original-width="532" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgatlxsEhTal1c4qUqgypb53QfjHHoDJDJoAdQkH61yX9e0E9SBeKzjlNxD2TRM37I1XKfQz1OJDSWmZhHRXQTOGZhSjR5E-Ns5fnw-w05kQaY2vY8i9R7JaMasvi-87keDR6xvsloiGCEcjqpKdgkTdG83WMyvABZvUl65OUsphJPjnUmf-Xskcaqd=w304-h400" width="304" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Inner Coridor at Fatepur Sikri<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />The city would run out of water ten years later, but
it was Akbar’s grandson, Shah Jahan, who took his erection complex to a whole
new level, but building the Taj beggared his treasury so Aurangzeb, s]shah Jahan son after
declaring his father incompetent, had him imprisoned in Agra Fort. He made sure
there would be no more erection complex as long as his father lived. On a clear
day Shah Jahan could still admire the Taj from its distant view across the
Yamuna River till eight years later when he died. <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEioBe62zuQ8okPWa_UyTzPx8qSzxKpwqkeOi71oqK2yGBry7RF3w8qQWWowQnmkpcDqfTFVles6u8-vVjuvzeZbTcN_vfn2TFeoTYBzY32BJBS-ypjTrYn0LeL-9iv8ERrANOuTmoBxh7JZ1s3wKgLEhyhgGE2yiLiSBR8BhiuUfmKoumgXfE2C6K6c" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="726" data-original-width="1300" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEioBe62zuQ8okPWa_UyTzPx8qSzxKpwqkeOi71oqK2yGBry7RF3w8qQWWowQnmkpcDqfTFVles6u8-vVjuvzeZbTcN_vfn2TFeoTYBzY32BJBS-ypjTrYn0LeL-9iv8ERrANOuTmoBxh7JZ1s3wKgLEhyhgGE2yiLiSBR8BhiuUfmKoumgXfE2C6K6c=w400-h224" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Paddeling along the Yamuma at dawn<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> <br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">By the 19<sup>th</sup>
century India had sunk into a state of gothic decay. When the Maharajah of Bangalore
built his palace, its walls were studded with precious stones and in vile
Trumpian style, he had it fitted it with solid gold furniture.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">In cahoots with the British,
all the wealth the Maharajas managed to accumulate they did by stealing from
the common people. Which is why after 300 years of stealing, you feel stairs
that move in the dark, you step over people wrapped in burlap sleeping in
tight-pack formation along railway station platforms, and you see miles and
miles of cobbled together shanty towns piling up along the highways in all of
India’s big cities, of which Bombay is but one example.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">What Three Hundred Years of Stealing from the American
Taxpayer by a Congress Held Captive by the Pentagon Will Look Like</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">The Pentagon is not
interested in building temples or palaces, some in far better taste than
Bangalore’s. It isn’t interested in founding institutions to benefit all the
widows and orphans it immiserates throughout the world. It’s only interested in
more silos from which to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>launch
intercontinental missiles, more bunker busters, more supersonic bombers, more
drones, more trident-armed nuclear submarines, more tanks, more weapons of mass
destruction, more nuclear bombs, more ordnance to use to contaminate Basra, Fallujah and other areas with nuclear dust in its covert
nuclear wars. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Which is why people stateside still
wait for state-subsidized child care, why people have yet to see the dawn of
state-subsidized Medicare-for-All, why the rights of women to make their own
decisions about the use of contraception and abortion is still being contested
(where else would the Pentagon get the cannon fodder manpower for operating all
that military hardware), why people are forced to live in tents all along
the highways and railway rights of way of the world’s Number One nation, why
incarcerated people are forced to work for slave wages for major corporations
(Victoria’s Secrets, Aunt Jemima, Tampax Tampons, Crest Toothpaste, and Angel
Soft Toilet Paper to name but a few of hundreds) and what in true slave patrol
style, mostly Black, Brown, Asian and trans people are routinely sacrificed by
municipal </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">police t</span>rained in Israel. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Just imagine what 300 more
years of stealing by a Congress held captive by the Pentagon might look like.
But as it stands immiseration and homelessness in the U. S. of A., despite their
swelling numbers, remain in their infancy.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="normal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Homelessness by the numbers</span></b></p>
<p class="normal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">By Lisa Savage</span></b></p>
<p class="normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">(Lisa was chosen by Cecile as her
successor blog writer.)</span></i></p>
<p class="normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
United States is believed to have more than </span><span lang="EN"><a href="https://endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/homelessness-statistics/state-of-homelessness-2021/"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">half a million
people</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">
unhoused. Accurately counting people experiencing homelessness is challenging,
and the most recent effort at the national level dates back to January 2020.
The SARS-COV-2 pandemic that followed complicated counting, resulted in
innovative shelter arrangements using vacant hotel rooms, and </span><span lang="EN"><a href="https://assets-global.website-files.com/59f07e67422cdf0001904c14/623db6e695e2c41a94eeeab4_CHI.IPPO.Pandemic.pdf"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">may have lowered
the actual number unhoused</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> in part due to a moratorium on evictions,
increased unemployment compensation, and limited cash subsidies. </span></p>
<p class="normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="normal"><span lang="EN" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #3b3a3d; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-highlight: white;">“Over a period lasting more
than a decade, the nation has not made any real progress in reducing the number
of Americans at risk of homelessness.” </span></p>
<p class="normal"><span lang="EN"><a href="https://endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/homelessness-statistics/state-of-homelessness-2021/"><span style="background: rgb(243, 243, 243) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #1155cc; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">State
of Homelessness: 2021 Edition</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></p>
<p class="normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">But
it’s likely that the dip in total numbers unhoused was temporary. Evictions and
foreclosures resumed and cash subsidies dried up under the Biden
administration, and medical debt in the absence of universal health care
continues as the leading cause of default on homeowner mortgages. Housing
costs, both rent and purchase prices, are now skyrocketing, pricing people out
of housing they have relied upon for years. As of March 2020 home prices in the
U.S. had </span><span lang="EN"><a href="https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/indices/indicators/sp-corelogic-case-shiller-us-national-home-price-nsa-index/#overview"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">risen 21% over the
previous year</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">.</span></p>
<p class="normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“A
clear question is whether or not it should take a public health emergency to
galvanise governments and support systems into making an intense effort to end
street homelessness.”</span></p>
<p class="normal"><span lang="EN"><a href="https://assets-global.website-files.com/59f07e67422cdf0001904c14/623db6e695e2c41a94eeeab4_CHI.IPPO.Pandemic.pdf"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Homelessness and
the pandemic</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> (March 2022)</span></p>
<p class="normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Now
that inflation is galloping while wages fail to keep up, we can expect even
more people will be unable to obtain housing they can afford in the coming
years.</span></p>
<p class="normal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="normal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Who can afford housing?</span></b></p>
<p class="normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
uber wealthy and those who serve them in government seem to have no difficulty
supporting several mansions in different locations.</span></p>
<p class="normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p><p class="normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGlTEMCmruCUJ7L1idHUZck824hxGUcaaoDtGo0NZlawkJl9iHmsS4YUg1Fgm8de0MiU5CONlASzJuEMV8HWWOukTOxdCocvittcMywjI1es01bLbSYA3yanxyLCPwo2JuHNi8l2JPK_mpTswMyr0qS8WhBBdkl0nNkaWS3FtoYF3ADQqZDiGOEtZf" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img data-original-height="1172" data-original-width="1563" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGlTEMCmruCUJ7L1idHUZck824hxGUcaaoDtGo0NZlawkJl9iHmsS4YUg1Fgm8de0MiU5CONlASzJuEMV8HWWOukTOxdCocvittcMywjI1es01bLbSYA3yanxyLCPwo2JuHNi8l2JPK_mpTswMyr0qS8WhBBdkl0nNkaWS3FtoYF3ADQqZDiGOEtZf=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Obama's </span></i></span></span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">$12 million </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Home </span></i></span></span></i></span>on Martha’s
Vineyard</span></i></span></span></i></span></span></i>
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<p class="normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
increase in net worth of the 1% has skyrocketed during the pandemic. </span></p>
<p class="normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="normal"><span lang="EN" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #111111; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-highlight: white;">“As the U.S. crosses the
grim milestone of 1 million deaths from Covid-19, U.S. billionaires have seen
their combined wealth rise over $1.7 trillion, a gain of over 58 percent during
the pandemic.”</span></p>
<p class="normal"><span lang="EN"><a href="https://inequality.org/great-divide/updates-billionaire-pandemic/"><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #1155cc; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-highlight: white;">Inequality.org (May 2022)</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #111111; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-highlight: white;"></span></p>
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<p class="normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">And
specifically the war in Ukraine has proven </span><span lang="EN"><a href="https://quincyinst.org/2022/04/17/how-pentagon-contractors-are-cashing-in-on-the-ukraine-crisis/"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">highly profitable
for big weapons manufacturers</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">, with most posting record profits. This
should surprise no one paying attention to their having been called to the
White House for a classified planning session and the U.S. sending roughly $53
billion of U.S. public funds for “aid” to Ukraine, i.e. mostly weapon systems.</span></p>
<p class="normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Meanwhile
President Biden tweets every day that the U.S. economy has never been better
(and is ratioed daily on Twitter for these absurd claims).</span></p><p class="normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Most
of us have anecdotal experience of the burgeoning tents and encampments of
people who are unhoused<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in cities across
the nation. From Oakland, California to Portland, Maine those who work with the
unhoused say their numbers are increasing rapidly.</span></p>
<p class="normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Much
has been made of Russian oligarchs and, particularly, their yachts. What of
U.S. oligarchs? Senator Joe Manchin has a houseboat so lavish it might
reasonably be considered a home, and it’s hard to determine how many other
mansions Manchin owns.</span></p>
<p class="normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Will
the oligarchs of the U.S. go the way of the Maharajas of India? Stay tuned.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span>
</p><p class="Body"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;">Housing
the Houseless</span></b></p><p class="Body"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;">by Mimi German</span></p><p class="Body"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;">(<i>I first met Mimi at an anti-nuclear conference in San Lius Obispo, the site of the Diablo Canyon NPP bordering the Pacific.</i> <i>Her recently published chapbook,</i> <i></i></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"><i><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #0069d9; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">https://thepoetrybox.com/bookstore/beneath-stars</span> Beneath the Gavel Weight of Stars,</i> <i>is dedicated to restoring dignity to the persons she helps on the steet.</i>) <br /></span></p>
<p class="Body"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="Body"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;">As a
volunteer advocate for unhoused people and a co-founder of Jason Barns Landing,
a transitional community for unhoused people, I think we can help the “homeless two ways: first, house people, second <i>love
more</i>. </span></p>
<p class="Body"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="Body"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;">We
know that we can house people if we choose to house people. Inventory is
available if you know where to look and you understand how to use money in a
way that actually benefits those who are its intended population. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="Body"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="Body"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;">We
can do even better by placing people “in already-built motels and existing housing,
which can be quickly converted into the supported <a href="https://3000challengepdx.org/" target="_blank">permanent housing that people need and want.</a>” </span></p>
<p class="Body"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="Body"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;">Many
people think that building more shelters is the answer. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;">Shelters do
absolutely nothing about getting people into housing and off the streets. </span>They are overcrowded, </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;">prey to theft, </span></span></span>have addiction barriers, are dangerous places for
women, lack support services, have
rules about leavng from early morning to late at night, and
open-and-close times that do not work for everyone. </span></span> </span></p><p class="Body"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p class="Body"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"><a href="https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/homeless/activists-tarpees-homeless-camps-send-message-portland-housing-crisis/283-a787ae3b-c2f5-4fe2-ac53-028cc01b4e97" target="_blank">Support the Efforts of the Unhoused</a> Instead of Disrupting or Ignoring Them</span></b> </span></p><p class="Body"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;">A further response is to “recognize the leadership of
autonomous villages governed by people experiencing homelessness,” outreach to
organized villages and camps working on their autonomous structure to facilitate
toilets, dumpsters and trash hauling, food support, and medical services along
with housing advocacy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><br /></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;">In the recent past</span>, we've built "tarpees" for
folks to live in. Designed by Paul Paul Cheyok'ten Wagner — a member of the
Saanich First Nations of Vancouver Island, an artist and inventor whom we met at Standing Rock—he has designed a contemporary teepee that costs
thousands of dollars less than a traditional teepee and uses materials found in
any hardware store. </span></p><p class="Default" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p class="Default" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;">Because we deeply respected the Sioux and other First Nations people who were there, we </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;">first </span>discussed the tarpee idea with them. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;">We agreed that no money would ever be exchanged for the
tarpees and that we would make every concerted effort to <a href="https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/homeless/activists-tarpees-homeless-camps-send-message-portland-housing-crisis/283-a787ae3b-c2f5-4fe2-ac53-028cc01b4e97" target="_blank">house BIPOC houseless people first. Under those conditions</a></span> they agreed to let us build them </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;">where </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;">back home </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;">in Portland </span>where </span>I live. </span> <br /></span></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></span></p><p class="Default" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;">It is because the HIC</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"> makes so much money off the unhoused that <i>we have homeless folks still living on the street. </i></span>It’s cheaper to let the unhoused live in the street and simply pay for emergency room visits when people get sick. </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="Default" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></span></p><p class="Default" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;">In Portland, Rapid Response is
the largest contractor conducting "sweeps" <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;">within the city.</span></span> It employs people
who have just been released from the Prison Industrial Complex to do the dirty
work of "sweeping" people and stealing their meager belongings. </span>But without the existence of the unhoused, the "sweeps" companies
would be <i>out of hundreds of millions of dollars. </i></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;">The </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;">Houseless Industrial C</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;">omplex </span></span>(HIC) needs<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"> to be stomped and booted from having anything to do with the homeless. </span></span></span></p><p class="Default" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p class="Default" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;">The Joint Office of Houseless </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;">Services (</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;">JOHS)</span>, the parnership pairing
the County and City ‘efforts’ to house people </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;">makes billions of dollars <i>to make sure houseless people
continue to be homeless instead of housing them. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;">It </span>exists <i>only if houseless people
exist</i>. <br /></span></p><p class="Default" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;">Mitigation starts with love and a true understanding of what
is needed by unhoused people. How do we get to that understanding? By listening
to the people who are in need of housing. We can house everyone over a
relatively short period of time. From there, we can bring in the support
needed. We need transitional housing that leads directly to permanent housing.
The steps are clear. The money is there and has been voted on, at least in
Portland, Oregon where I live. We can move forward with the 3000 Challenge or
just follow its guidelines. Or we can do nothing and perpetuate the inhumanity
of local and State governments across the U.S. Which is it going to be? I choose
housing. I choose love. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><style>@font-face
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Cecile Pinedahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06859495771889305391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218921764613108785.post-27500175591007892842022-04-13T15:11:00.508-07:002022-04-18T06:45:56.103-07:00Retirement and Passing the Baton<p><span style="font-size: x-small;"> "<i>Here's the awful truth: even if every person, every automobile, and every factory suddenly emitted zero emissions, the Earth would still be headen full speed towards total disaster for one major reason: The military produces enough greenhouse gases, by itself, to place the entire globe, with all of its inhabitants large and small, in the most imminent danger of extinction." </i>Barry Saunders, The Green Zone</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhke0IR4deQe06ry4Uj0Y1iQmd0q0zNyf84XXiFUH_rPmfzSo0Sw9AZlbjdNxdkFvA2cKFbWnS-DCYOj0b92NU3H9NyaQy-j3d7oZhnsGR0CPWMejQB1JgTrY40SNhVkJ85Lp0mYn4hzA0xNGfCDphP_A06PvY4qQD7PM9Khz0dUHFE8WW-a2W7PJHN" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img data-original-height="1806" data-original-width="3194" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhke0IR4deQe06ry4Uj0Y1iQmd0q0zNyf84XXiFUH_rPmfzSo0Sw9AZlbjdNxdkFvA2cKFbWnS-DCYOj0b92NU3H9NyaQy-j3d7oZhnsGR0CPWMejQB1JgTrY40SNhVkJ85Lp0mYn4hzA0xNGfCDphP_A06PvY4qQD7PM9Khz0dUHFE8WW-a2W7PJHN=w400-h226" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The author forest graziing<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></div><p></p>For some time I have wanted to retire. My take on human affairs has becomes more distanced with the passing of time, although you can tell from the line up of articles cited below, I still keep a close watch. And part of me always will, but at 90 (I am not quite there, give me a few more months) the time to retire from writing anything but personal messages to friends all around the globe takes precedence.<br /><br /><br />Here to take my place is Lisa Savage. Lisa Savage is a retired educator, <a href="https://bookshopofbeverlyfarms.com/browse/filter/t/ever%20heard%20of%20her?/k/keyword" target="_blank">published author</a>, and antiwar activist. She led the national Bring Our War $$ Home campaign during the Obama administration, and subsequently founded the <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/mainenaturalguard/" target="_blank">Maine Natural Guard</a> to connect the dots between climate crisis and the Pentagon's enormous carbon bootprint. In 2020 <a href="https://www.c-span.org/person/?127595/LisaSavage" target="_blank">she ran for the U.S. Senate</a> under ranked choice voting in Maine and earned 5% of votes cast. She describes the purpose of her popular blog <a href="https://went2thebridge.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Went 2 the Bridge</a>, as: Organizing and actions to resist the moral, environmental, and financial bankrupting of the U.S. through wars against the poor, at home and abroad.<br /><br /><b><br />ARTICLES on THE WAR In UKRAINE<br /><br />ESSENTIAL READING</b><br /><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgyUFQePxibvPW6A9T3IWBS50j8FMduTE1jwO-OwDHztlD-lw1xOnnu8wVBDH8gZLxnAI1jO0by63cumSu00GKpR4Sw2cYTivVq5UKYFu0hmG2wiJ5hhuGqo0HqzJXXToxoFPhRPau6xqo2-mr1t_Cy0lKLWx67soRznjgK7KtmeYGkmPUuMWmJSMjO" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="370" data-original-width="554" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgyUFQePxibvPW6A9T3IWBS50j8FMduTE1jwO-OwDHztlD-lw1xOnnu8wVBDH8gZLxnAI1jO0by63cumSu00GKpR4Sw2cYTivVq5UKYFu0hmG2wiJ5hhuGqo0HqzJXXToxoFPhRPau6xqo2-mr1t_Cy0lKLWx67soRznjgK7KtmeYGkmPUuMWmJSMjO=w400-h268" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><a href="https://fair.org/home/what-you-should-really-know-about-ukraine/?link_id=4&amp;can_id=655968a96e1bce05c463b2f640bf633c&amp;source=email-national-elist&amp;email_referrer=email_1493446&amp;email_subject=both-are-worse" target="_blank">What You Should You Really Know About Ukaine</a><br /><br /><a href="https://popularresistance.org/ukraine-a-conversation-with-scott-ritter/" target="_blank">A Conversation with Scott Ritter</a><br /><a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/23/pentagon-drops-truth-bombs-to-stave-off-war-with-russia/" target="_blank"><br />The Pentagon Drops Truth Bombs</a><br /><br /><a href="https://scheerpost.com/2022/04/09/former-nato-military-analyst-blows-the-w" target="_blank">Former NATO Military Analyst Blows the Whistle on West’s Ukraine Invasion Narrative </a><br /><br /><a href="https://space4peace.blogspot.com/2022/04/interview-war-in-ukraine-is-really.html" target="_blank">Organizing Notes: Interview: War in Urkaine is Really About U.S. Pursuing Regime Change in Russia </a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/14/more-900-your-tax-dollars-went-corporate-military-contractors?vgo_ee=7fvz6OtC92WFtfnbc3Zx6KEQRDA3MX%2FpEanpAS%2Bpt3s%3D" target="_blank">Average U.S. Taxpayer Gave $900 to Military Contractors Last Year</a><br /><br /><br /><b>FUTURE READING</b><br /><br /><a href="https://popularresistance.org/siding-with-ukraines-far-right-us-sabotaged-zelenskys-historic-mandate-for-peace/" target="_blank">Siding with Ukraine's far right, U.S.sabotaged Zelenskys historic mandate for peace</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.pressenza.com/2022/04/the-red-scare/" target="_blank">The Red Scare</a><br /><a href="https://portside.org/2022-04-04/delusions-and-united-states-foreign-policy-fantasies-continue" target="_blank"><br />Portside: Delusion and The U.S. Foreign Polic</a>y<br /><br /><a href="https://masspeaceaction.org/is-the-us-fighting-for-democracy-in-ukraine/" target="_blank">Is the U.S Fighting for Democracy in Ukraine</a><br /><a href="https://www.workers.org/2022/04/63075/" target="_blank"><br />NATO's Global History of Reaction</a><br /><br /><a href="https://popularresistance.org/russian-peace-initiative-and-natos-s-300-delivery-to-ukraine/" target="_blank">NATO's 300 Delivery to Ukraine</a><br /><br /><b>MILITARY SPENDING and PROFIT</b><br /><br /><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/13/pentagon-convenes-top-us-weapons-makers-increase-supply-ukraine-war" target="_blank">Pentagon Convenes U.S. Weapons Makers to Increase Supply for Urkaine War</a><br /><br /><a href="https://scheerpost.com/2022/04/14/biden-answers-zelenskyys-plea-to-arm-ukraine-now-with-800-million-in-weapons/" target="_blank">Biden Answers Zelensky's Plea to Arm Ukraine Now with $800 Millions in Weapons</a><br /><br /><a href="https://portside.org/2022-04-06/what-would-it-take-military-spending-am" target="_blank">What Would it Take for Military Spending to Do Down</a><br /><br /><a href="https://portside.org/2022-04-10/us-hindering-much-needed-diplomatic-e" target="_blank">Is the U.S. Hindering Much Needed Diplomatic Efforts</a><br /><br /><br /><b>THE MAIN STREAM MEDIA REPORTING</b><br /><br /><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/nonstop-corporate-news-on-ukraine-is-fueling-support-for-unchecked-us-militarism/" target="_blank">Nonstop Corporate News of Ukraine is Fueling Support for Unchecked U.S. Militarism</a><br /><br /><a href="https://popularresistance.org/the-weapons-industry-sees-the-war-in-ukraine-as-a-goldmine/" target="_blank">The Weapons Industry Sees the War in Ukraine as a Goldmine</a><br /><br />“I do think this is a very protracted conflict and I think it’s at least measured in years. I don’t know about decades, but at least years for sure,” said Milley. “I think that NATO, the United States, Ukraine and all of the allies and partners that are supporting Ukraine are going to be involved in this for quite some time.”<br /><a href="https://www.laprogressive.com/the-media-in-the-united-states/mainstream-media-and-war" target="_blank"><br />LA Progressive: The Media in the U.S. Mainstream Media and War</a><br /><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/12/new-reporting-details-corporate-medias-war-industry-pundits?vgo_ee=cd%2BXUsZiFuwMG458FlHVQg%3D%3D" target="_blank"><br />New Reporting Details Corporate Media's War Industry Pundits</a><br /><br /><a href="https://uc.web.ox.ac.uk/article/the-ukraine-crisis-a-clash-of-narratives" target="_blank">The West Ukraine Invasion Narrative</a><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9_9iwv76mU" target="_blank">United States Admits To Spreading Lies About Ukraine War</a> -<p>
<iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/C9_9iwv76mU" width="480"></iframe><br /><br /><b>ATROCITIES: WHOSE SIDE ARE WE ON?</b><br /><br /><a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/04/questions-abound-about-bucha-massacre/?fbclid=IwAR10BxmRtyvJCP5j5PnQP_fbDV3UPgWyK-A_-nOFT9HblgG13cfV_yhC_Iw" target="_blank">Questions Abound About the Bucha Massacre</a><br /><br /><a href="https://popularresistance.org/ukrainian-tochka-u-missile-killed-dozens-at-kramatorsk-train-station/" target="_blank">Ukriane tochka-U Missile killed Dozens at Kramatorsk Train Station</a><br /><a href="https://popularresistance.org/new-witness-testimony-about-mariupol-maternity-hospital-airstrike/" target="_blank"><br />New Witness Testimony About Mariupol Maternity Hopistal "Airstrike"</a><br /><br />Eva Bartlett in Ukraine Tells A Very Different Factual Story that is Opposite from the Official Narrative - Mark Taliano<br /> <br /><b>PEACE MOVEMENT IN SERIOUS TROUBLE</b><br /><br /><a href="https://portside.org/2022-04-04/ukraine-crisis-splitting-peace-movement-when-its-needed-most" target="_blank">Ukraine Crisis Splitting the Peace Movement When It's Needed Most</a><br /><br /><b>PEACE</b><br /><br /><a href="https://went2thebridge.blogspot.com/2022/03/us-peace-council-statement-on-russias.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">U.S. PEACE COUNCIL STATEMENT ON RUSSIA'S WAR IN UKRAINE</span></a></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><br /><b>AND AT HOME: </b><br /><br /><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/why-is-merrick-garland-throttling-the-trump-investigation/" target="_blank">Merrrick Garland Doesn"t want to bring criminal charges against #45. Why Not?</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/13/insidious-effort-to-undermine-us-democracy-report" target="_blank">"A Plot to Destroy Demacracy": Civil Rights Group Raises Alarm at Threats to U.S. Elections</a><br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0i_Ps1I4Mrp1h_hdyFEa3T6rXi_MLDnftiSB4krTqlC7Vn8wT85F0RLrPELuq4T_sR_JTuO5xpHdk1Lwqdadp0lzBKOK9qXVloMAcOsLSkHP6MEeo61IhyZ-3apQRb8sz8B2woE2L39M7vqvoZSUGLXh8MZvTNEowD3dU-X3KKob_TVZx_SJAKDuD" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="182" data-original-width="617" height="94" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0i_Ps1I4Mrp1h_hdyFEa3T6rXi_MLDnftiSB4krTqlC7Vn8wT85F0RLrPELuq4T_sR_JTuO5xpHdk1Lwqdadp0lzBKOK9qXVloMAcOsLSkHP6MEeo61IhyZ-3apQRb8sz8B2woE2L39M7vqvoZSUGLXh8MZvTNEowD3dU-X3KKob_TVZx_SJAKDuD" width="320" /></a></div><a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-lockheed-martin-to-begin-conversion-to-peaceful-industries?clear_id=true" target="_blank"><br /><b>TELL </b>congress war is not green: </a><br /><a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-lockheed-martin-to-begin-conversion-to-peaceful-industries?clear_id=true" target="_blank"><br /><b>TELL</b> Lockheed Martin to begin conversion to peaceful industries.</a><br /><br /><b><a href="https://secure.actblue.com/donate/intercept_contribute?akid=5994.182511.FQd3H3&amp;rd=1&amp;refcode=em_intercept_20220412_mem_ukrainebigtech&amp;refcode2=5994_182511_FQd3H3&amp;t=1" target="_blank">DONATE</a> </b>to help the intercept uncover how companies llke Facebook and Google are controlling what people around the world see and hear about the war in Ukraine.<br /><br /><a href="https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/usps0411_dp_sbs?akid=29043.2548204.sSjqhE&amp;amount=40&amp;rd=1&amp;refcode=29040&amp;refcode2=29043_2548204_sSjqhE&amp;t=20" target="_blank">STOP</a> #45 from interfering in future elections: Louis Dejoy must go. Demand Progress is helping make that possible.<br /><br /><a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/stop-war-profiteering-ban-members-of-congress-from-trading-defense-contractor-stocks-now?source=direct_link&amp;referrer=group-progressive-reform-network&amp;redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fsecure.actblue.com%2Fdonate%2Fpl_prn%3Famount%3D10%26noskip%3Dtrue%26refcode%3Dpl_20220415_01&amp;link_id=0&amp;can_id=447ac5b0d7a5124338b20f2bb702d0f8&amp;email_referrer=email_1513437&amp;email_subject=sign-the-petition-ban-lawmakers-from-trading-defense-stock-now&amp;refcodeEmailReferrer=email_1513437" target="_blank"><b>Stop</b></a> war proteers by banning members of Congress from Trading Defense Contractor stock now.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.change.org/p/do-not-dump-radioactive-contaminated-water-into-the-ocean?lang=en-US" target="_blank"><b>DO NOT DUMP</b></a> Radioactive Water Into the Ocean<br /><br /><b>LISTEN</b>: April 21, 5 PM Pacific Time<br /><br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img data-original-height="630" data-original-width="1200" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0cjAaz2LAuLSAK5Knw84il-31wMQzFExC6gawAyVx7JM_6DT9v83b4yVb2OKP-ANmq1JBj092hGYtYsgCkzhX1uW9lmD-q_CfO112i5WN9ItNAgUMtrXpRwfocwHSFbN0vg1JfEDy9Hhr5jfuX7wVfah5ILbBYE4VwO40NosE5ELGYLsKn6Gxr8oH=w640-h336" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">When she protested drone <br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>warfare at Creech AFB the author got to know Garett <br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEggfsGicQ2mCAS0Fjg9yUtbemqDt7yq_CO5c-DS3jtI6GMGkZL-mehPEFBse-mWxkQKPNusksbm714tEBwABni08UJMcsRWsM_B1upn8g5Pb4t8b0YAr8c5vQcwkkqQ6wjsfkRu51qerihT37qU8U6BWxi_msunnZKXY21H_uAbz8v8PqkrLUB3S_9t" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="467" data-original-width="935" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEggfsGicQ2mCAS0Fjg9yUtbemqDt7yq_CO5c-DS3jtI6GMGkZL-mehPEFBse-mWxkQKPNusksbm714tEBwABni08UJMcsRWsM_B1upn8g5Pb4t8b0YAr8c5vQcwkkqQ6wjsfkRu51qerihT37qU8U6BWxi_msunnZKXY21H_uAbz8v8PqkrLUB3S_9t=w400-h200" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><p><br />At last: some rare good news in a ravaged world: a truce in Yemen <br /><br />Ecuador grants wild animals legal rights in a world first<br /><br />Texas DA Gocha Allen Ramirez has elected to release Lizette Herrera and drop the criminal charges against her-including murder-after she was accused of preforming a self-induced abortion<br /><br />Venezuela's great housing mission achieves major milestone with the four millionth house<br /><br />Democrats introduce bill guaranteeing workers paid time off to vote<br /><br />U.S’s flaunting of diplomatic immunity challenged in court in the trial of Alex Saab, Venezuela‘s diplomat<br /><br />In the UK, Palestine Action Activists Deface and Blockade London HQ of Elbit Systems</p><p><br />Confrontng the Israeli Service Servce, 76 Israeli Anti-Aparthied activists declare refusal to cooperate wth the Israeli legal system, in solidarity with Palestinian administative detainees.</p><p> <br />Activists celebrate after Biden grants TPS ststatus to Cameroonian immigrants.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0wlUPGTnKFD6z6wrPEBvMQXFxZrmtcHqWQ54K1HW225_gtnGx_jFhxHfVjB2nlPXAIDw8ZyJaYsxeDaQHH6GazmyM0GsyOcig28l1SmPbbwLqe--AyGivIFGvAV99uABv0fyFUDCY4RA5SjzYapufEPicSFM7ZmoGteenhFRD8AcmdSsJfazFfhOV" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="184" data-original-width="274" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0wlUPGTnKFD6z6wrPEBvMQXFxZrmtcHqWQ54K1HW225_gtnGx_jFhxHfVjB2nlPXAIDw8ZyJaYsxeDaQHH6GazmyM0GsyOcig28l1SmPbbwLqe--AyGivIFGvAV99uABv0fyFUDCY4RA5SjzYapufEPicSFM7ZmoGteenhFRD8AcmdSsJfazFfhOV=w400-h269" width="400" /></a></div><br />Top signs you could be a Repubican at a passover dinner<br /><br />1. They refuse to answer the four questions without a subpoena.<br /><br />2. They demand a recount of the ten plagues.<br /><br />3. They defend not increasing the minimum wage on the grounds that according to Chad Gadya it still costs only two zuzzim to buy a goat.<br /><br />4. The afikomen is hidden in the Cayman Islands.<br /><br />5. They refuse to open the door for Elijah until they see his immigration papers.<br /><br />6. They attack Moses for negotiating a deal with Pharoah because why would we negotiate with our enemies?<br /><br />7. They don't understand why the Egyptians didn’t cure the plagues with hydroxychloroquine.<br /><br />8. They omit the parts about slavery from the Haggadah because it reminds them of Critical Race Theory.<br /><br />9. They keep saying “when do we get to the miracle<br />of the Jewish space lasers?”<br /><br />10. They end the Passover Dinner by singing "Next year in Mar-a-Lago."<br /><br /><p></p>Cecile Pinedahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06859495771889305391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218921764613108785.post-82440299370814631852022-02-19T18:27:00.001-08:002022-02-19T18:27:31.162-08:00Speaking Truth to Power<p class="MsoNormal">This week's newsletter is the expression of my deep grief and outrage at
my country’s continuing piracy. First, the text of paragraph one of Mr. Biden’s
letter to me from the White House: </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Times; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thank you for writing. The United States went to
Afghanistan two decades ago with clear goals: to take out the terrorists
who attacked us on September 11, 2001, to deliver justice to Osama bin Laden,
and to keep Afghanistan from being used again as a base for attacks against the
United States. We eliminated bin Laden a decade ago, and al Qaeda has
been severely diminished. Our only vital national security interest in
Afghanistan remains today what it has always been: preventing another
terrorist attack on American homeland. That mission is enduring, and we
will continue to monitor and disrupt terrorist threats emanating from
Afghanistan with our over-the-horizon capability, just as we do to meet the
terrorist threat in countries all around the world. </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh257RQcxptKqaGoceAqsIbgSVNO7Y6Ui2YbDM3DAZFMT5aiQRuCKanKNbeigzYKd0Yh3VPiTVEgUBAhTyem0J7aNB9gfYomFH2vK1LDMbVHPLeBIi2StxvI-DsMTgADhefJlA7QCU1kY7DnhdT4-FizYuE1LU89Eq8AIg7RFWx1a80AT5fEgTai7rT" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh257RQcxptKqaGoceAqsIbgSVNO7Y6Ui2YbDM3DAZFMT5aiQRuCKanKNbeigzYKd0Yh3VPiTVEgUBAhTyem0J7aNB9gfYomFH2vK1LDMbVHPLeBIi2StxvI-DsMTgADhefJlA7QCU1kY7DnhdT4-FizYuE1LU89Eq8AIg7RFWx1a80AT5fEgTai7rT" width="320" /></a> <br /></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">What follows is my response:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Pres. Joseph Biden</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">The White House</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">1600 Pennsylvania Avenue</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Washington, D.C. 20500</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Mr. President:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">I am taking the liberty of
returning your letter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am not sure who
may have written this letter, whether it comes directly from you, or an
official letter writer, or a speech writer, but it is written over your
signature, suggesting my response needs to be addressed to you.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Regardless, whoever is its
author needs to be set straight: by now too many U.S. citizens know the facts
as outlined in your paragraph one to be entirely otherwise viz. </span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-field-code: " HYPERLINK \0022https\:\/\/us-browse\.startpage\.com\/av\/proxy?ep=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&ek=49326442636o4n545n54776p6530786o526q4267&ekdata=6df365e392ded9fe45a95c71577aa2b1\0022 \\t \0022_blank\0022 ";"><span class="MsoHyperlink"></span></span></span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-field-code: " HYPERLINK \0022https\:\/\/www\.unz\.com\/article\/911-was-an-israeli-job\/\0022 \\t \0022_blank\0022 ";"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">https://www.unz.com/article/911-was-an-israeli-job/
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">This poor country was NOT
attacked by Afghanistan on 9/11.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All but
two of those so-called “box cutters” were Saudis, not Afghans. 50% of New
Yorkers knew the day of 9/11 that something was amiss, and the official
narrative of the United States about the demise of bin Laden does not align
with what really happened either viz. Seymour Hersh: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3COsYaJ47o"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3COsYaJ47o</span></a><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Quite frankly, to receive a
letter under the seal of the White House, containing such a web of fabrication
is an embarrassment and an insult to the intelligence of the citizens of this
country, and a sure fire way of ushering in Mr. Trumpster for another x<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>years, (because 4 will not contain him). </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">I am perhaps naïve to insist
on love of my country’s people, and to receive a letter containing such
egregious falsehoods betrays my faith in my own country. I believe I am within
my rights as a citizen to insist upon a public retraction. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgq0OKo8j4PgTVLEIm6qV9ttWa2MUmJ2AhMuYavnhXuzTNvD5y-EcwdGSM9qu6rSh6_4xnMHsPhd_GP--cD15Jzt3J9i-MXspMCyVGjUH2KA3D4X2jq-88cl5Of5WJ-UwPkCk8aVm-d1QA4xJKml6xzyeZkDdkD9RTGS3LUTmNKJYu3n3AlQtj224iU" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="243" data-original-width="324" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgq0OKo8j4PgTVLEIm6qV9ttWa2MUmJ2AhMuYavnhXuzTNvD5y-EcwdGSM9qu6rSh6_4xnMHsPhd_GP--cD15Jzt3J9i-MXspMCyVGjUH2KA3D4X2jq-88cl5Of5WJ-UwPkCk8aVm-d1QA4xJKml6xzyeZkDdkD9RTGS3LUTmNKJYu3n3AlQtj224iU" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...and to the U.S. people as well. (courtesy Paki Wieland)<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Collective punishment as
visited on the Afghan people by impounding their treasury is an act of piracy
and an outrage against humanity: their treasury remains theirs no matter how it
is divied up between squabbling lawyers and lobbyists (viz, </span><a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/02/16/afghanistan-funds-biden-september-11-lawyers-lobbyists/"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">https://theintercept.com/2022/02/16/afghanistan-funds-biden-september-11-lawyers-lobbyists/</span></a><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">) the victims of 9/11, and the U.S. government. That my
country is the agent of nation-wide Afghani starvation, of people needing to
sell their own children and their kidneys to stay alive and that such
criminality happened on your watch is beyond shamefully unconscionable. For
anyone who has ever known hunger, such collective punishment is beyond
unthinkable: it’s a towering crime against humanity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgDSl6pt-ZpSOyEj9CydrdN26vsFy2uJQkPti-v9vABEYRFOnzJYjJoZLxYKbItK8NPY4XEkjdODUCOSW7CL6BCFED5nmJVJgKE4huTQYMWF49Dlmk3n_FBXiYALQEpbKiu5_n1xjqqbbn6wfC35uBPXa0Y_sl9wBXQJRb7fJuwfQtOoL0W_ch4W-d7" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="1178" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgDSl6pt-ZpSOyEj9CydrdN26vsFy2uJQkPti-v9vABEYRFOnzJYjJoZLxYKbItK8NPY4XEkjdODUCOSW7CL6BCFED5nmJVJgKE4huTQYMWF49Dlmk3n_FBXiYALQEpbKiu5_n1xjqqbbn6wfC35uBPXa0Y_sl9wBXQJRb7fJuwfQtOoL0W_ch4W-d7=w640-h234" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> "Biden: world thief of 2022." Kabul Feb. 15<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br />May the United States never see such
days of destitution and desperation visited upon its people, with the exception
of 41% of our children now cast into poverty with the expiration of the Child
Tax Credit and the official half million of us who now have to make our homes
in tents along the railway rights of way and byways of this country.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://actionnetwork.org/letters/sign-the-petition-to-congress-and-president-biden-economic-and-humanitarian-relief-for-afghans?source=direct_link&referrer=group-world-beyond-war&link_id=3&can_id=438b89ea63c299137ec80f405e1a4d53&email_referrer=email_1447783&email_subject=follow-up-from-valentines-day-webinar"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">TELL</span></a><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> U.S.
Pres. Biden & Congress to provide economic and humanitarian relief for
Afghans.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://secure.givelively.org/donate/alliance-of-community-trainers/earth-activists-emergency-fund-for-afghan-relief?link_id=4&can_id=438b89ea63c299137ec80f405e1a4d53&source=email-follow-up-from-valentines-day-webinar&email_referrer=email_1447783&email_subject=follow-up-from-valentines-day-webinar"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">DONATE</span></a><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> to
the Earth Activists Emergency Fund for Afghan Relief.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/11/death-sentence-untold-numbers-civilians-biden-permanently-seize-afghan-assets?link_id=5&can_id=438b89ea63c299137ec80f405e1a4d53&source=email-follow-up-from-valentines-day-webinar&email_referrer=email_1447783&email_subject=follow-up-from-valentines-day-webinar"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">READ</span></a><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> “Death Sentence for Untold civilians: Biden to permanently seize Afghan assets.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-n-millions-afghanistan-bank-231752378.html?link_id=6&can_id=438b89ea63c299137ec80f405e1a4d53&source=email-follow-up-from-valentines-day-webinar&email_referrer=email_1447783&email_subject=follow-up-from-valentines-day-webinar&guccounter=1">READ</a>
“UN has millions<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in Afghanistan bank,
but cannot use it.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/02/12/americans-must-recognize-pain-they-are-causing-afghan-people?link_id=7&can_id=438b89ea63c299137ec80f405e1a4d53&source=email-follow-up-from-valentines-day-webinar&email_referrer=email_1447783&email_subject=follow-up-from-valentines-day-webinar">READ</a>
Kathy Kelly on “Americans Must Realize the Pain They are Causing the Afghan
People.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/world/washington-afghanistan-taliban-women/?link_id=8&can_id=438b89ea63c299137ec80f405e1a4d53&source=email-follow-up-from-valentines-day-webinar&email_referrer=email_1447783&email_subject=follow-up-from-valentines-day-webinar">READ</a>
Phyllis Bennis on: “Washington’s War in Afghanistan is Over, What Happens Now?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://popularresistance.org/democrats-the-more-effective-evil/">READ</a>
Hedges on “Democrats, the More Effective Evil.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87jiAL4McpU">WATCH</a> the National
Priorities Project ‘Trade-Offs’ 2 min. video showing how military dollars could
be redirected to human needs.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://bankillerdrones.org/?link_id=11&can_id=438b89ea63c299137ec80f405e1a4d53&source=email-follow-up-from-valentines-day-webinar&email_referrer=email_1447783&email_subject=follow-up-from-valentines-day-webinar">LEARN</a>
about the Ban Killer drones campaign and taking action.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></p>
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bee-killing neonics.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Four scientists, a few small nations making unthinkable
climate action possible.</p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Cecile Pinedahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06859495771889305391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218921764613108785.post-59458967687387593722022-02-12T23:01:00.032-08:002022-02-13T08:10:26.847-08:00A BANNER YEAR FOR KILLING – Maybe Not<p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal">The week Greg Hayes, the CEO of Raytheon Weapons
Manufacturer had this to say ”We are seeing, I would say, opportunities for
international sales. We just have to look to last week where we saw the drone
attack in the UAE And of course, the tensions in Eastern Europe, the tensions
in the South China Sea…. So I fully expect we’re going to see some benefit from
it.” </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For the 80 Yemenis that won’t be coming home to supper any
time soon, rest in peace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tough for the
over 200 Yemenis wounded, death and mayhem is good for business, according to
Greg Hayes. We are not saying what’s good for him. Not in a free country. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi8ftTeFGPmZOXz19PB9XJvVR2Lq4NSh59ssYc2a7AV-G0ZErRjiLdfgmaGFlu9tDW1DSaPcxtAmk5CInm4tvQboDiOaSRNgnfz5mMzS4xGDvfwT3n5cmjQs0WoxLf1Yg00YAengrnGaJYGuiwX3yxNNTZUhHavZOqn-H9Wl2cl8XAYL6e56HblIuFO" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="765" data-original-width="1360" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi8ftTeFGPmZOXz19PB9XJvVR2Lq4NSh59ssYc2a7AV-G0ZErRjiLdfgmaGFlu9tDW1DSaPcxtAmk5CInm4tvQboDiOaSRNgnfz5mMzS4xGDvfwT3n5cmjQs0WoxLf1Yg00YAengrnGaJYGuiwX3yxNNTZUhHavZOqn-H9Wl2cl8XAYL6e56HblIuFO" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sea water boils as methane is discharged in Russia Arctic<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">War may be great for business, but Mother Earth is in acute
pain. You can feel that pain with every footstep as you walk on her skin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>War is not good for her climate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Imagine what the transport of 3,000 troops
from U.S. bases to the Ukraine does to foul the air we breathe, as U.S. media
fans the flames of war hysteria, and our government does everything <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/world/ukraine-russia-nuclear-threat/">it
can to get us into a nuclear war.</a> Elsewhere, Germany has refused to send
weapons in support of this latest murderous NATO adventure, and Pres. Macron of
France has initiated diplomacy in face-to face meetings with Pres. Putin of
Russia. <a href="https://johnmenadue.com/russian-congress-of-intellectuals-an-open-letter-to-the-russian-leadership-february-4-2022/">The
Russian people don’t want war</a>, any more than 76% of Americans who are sick
of war. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhrxHy9lihahJuFhOW9KfKcpcaDvpTvU5VJ1haO_2VH774wt6Q6tX5rUzWa5i7JyAksO3tDJ1qdz0mJEFNX1mNNSZk0OXn9MpNO9QNiZEXX6LdjzkVMCAFazFa3S8RDFaaQ0ydmaazFAUx9FulNHthIiyC19-ABIDFSP7Xsk1R0DiCLiSlGVI4ox4Xh" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhrxHy9lihahJuFhOW9KfKcpcaDvpTvU5VJ1haO_2VH774wt6Q6tX5rUzWa5i7JyAksO3tDJ1qdz0mJEFNX1mNNSZk0OXn9MpNO9QNiZEXX6LdjzkVMCAFazFa3S8RDFaaQ0ydmaazFAUx9FulNHthIiyC19-ABIDFSP7Xsk1R0DiCLiSlGVI4ox4Xh" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ukrainians protesting before Kiev US embassy against war<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<p class="MsoNormal">We like to say there’s no Planet B, but there’s no
atmosphere B, and we are breathing the exhaust from all that jet military transport.
Just yesterday, Common Dreams published this headline: <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/09/scientists-fear-soaring-methane-levels-show-climate-feedback-loop-has-arrived">Scientists
Fear Soaring Methane Levels Show Climate Feedback Loop Has Arrived</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you know anything about feedback loops,
they are irreversible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/12/climate/texas-methane-super-emitters.html">Read
Climate Collapse.</a> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Meanwhile in this week’s other news, we read that for the
past five years, the death rate among the homeless, the so-called “unhoused” <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/07/homelessness-is-lethal-deaths-have-risen-dramatically">has
increased by 76%.</a> Why are the “unhoused” not placed in concentration
camps?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because it’s cheaper to let them
die on the streets. The mean age for death on the streets in present-day United
States of Anguish is 48, just like the death rate in<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Europe in the 12th, 13<sup>th</sup> and 14<sup>th</sup>
Centuries. Why our government has returned us to the Middle Ages!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhQRshMMthueQu2v3PfJrYfp8bSO7fVcm3fo4FT4NzH4w-iSm8Cq9yONint9OYxkXVsDZUHljTy8IRQSppreIC6Ksr6y2U6ziWAnnsspna4dLp6DARupqWRLrBPd7r5XTN3KtIlFMVzftbvW98e_LzuCwtONEvguRxvJsMTFuNARW19vINHZ5jd1YiM" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="713" data-original-width="552" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhQRshMMthueQu2v3PfJrYfp8bSO7fVcm3fo4FT4NzH4w-iSm8Cq9yONint9OYxkXVsDZUHljTy8IRQSppreIC6Ksr6y2U6ziWAnnsspna4dLp6DARupqWRLrBPd7r5XTN3KtIlFMVzftbvW98e_LzuCwtONEvguRxvJsMTFuNARW19vINHZ5jd1YiM=w248-h320" width="248" /></a></div><br />
<p class="MsoNormal">And to add to its very own quaint Medievalism, in a move
that sidles right up next to the diktats of such enlightened potentates as
Ghengis Khan, <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220211-biden-seeks-to-split-afghan-assets-between-aid-and-9-11-victims">the
White House is scheming to grab 7 Billion of Afghani assets that the U.S. has
frozen to settle 9/11 victims claims,</a> reserving <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/11/death-sentence-untold-numbers-civilians-biden-permanently-seize-afghan-assets">only
half of that for starving, beyond desperate</a> Afghani families who, to
survive Afghanistan’s fierce winter, must resort to selling their kidneys and
their children so that they can buy food. Those of us who have never known a
day of hunger ought to be out in the street, day and night, raising Cain in support
of our sisters and brothers—and children—against starvation. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If there is any uplifting news this week, it comes from
Holland where the Dutch promise to ‘egg’ the Bezos yachtzila<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>if, once it’s built in a Rotterdam shipyard,
a bridge gets dismantled to let it through to the open seas. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">When will we ‘egg’ our very own democratically ‘elected’ <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mediaeval government?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://act.berniesanders.com/signup/fobs-ukraine/?source=em220208-1-15&refcode2=9059.4220277.m27dcj&t=4&akid=9059%2E4220277%2Em27dcj">SIGN</a>
Bernie’s petition: Prevent what could be the worst European war in over 75
years between nuclear armed opponents.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">CALL on the Biden administration and key Congressmemebers to unfreeze Afghan funds to pay salaries of Afghan techers and health workers and allow people to buy food at <br /></p><blockquote class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" type="cite"><div class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="" dir="ltr"><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 33px; margin-bottom: 1.8rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="color: black;"><a class="" href="https://www.codepink.org/payafghanwomen">https://www.codepink.org/payafghanwomen</a></span></span></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://secure.everyaction.com/7oKnKzwjnk2pvQygZvkk6g2?contactdata=eMpnhuWvQrAoCizfeC7PgaOWkG%2fJO5HMV8BjIN8jT5iL0OK%2fGWisEFIbJ1Hj5FTGO7pn1SSvvRN7ElL6xfZ1ESgAcPYZUqh6%2fAeIJQ9BR%2fYaIh6iC4a3q4nkF3%2f7HkpTibQSAYTF%2bPeDwWPljT2KRHoIGK%2f%2b5QuXiY%2fKJBE0AI51xRFVrDTHbDRge9S8oqrwkeWCPNvrO0rX8Wo7QuFvFQ%3d%3d&emci=732e3d51-f389-ec11-a507-281878b83d8a&emdi=63f242cc-f789-ec11-a507-281878b83d8a&ceid=95767">DEMAND</a>
Congress get off their sorry duffs to take climate action now.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://action.foe.org/page/38122/action/1?ea.tracking.id=Email&ea.url.id=1164625&forwarded=true">DEFEND</a>
Planet A against climate catastrophe and make Wall St. protect our planet.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/biden_houthi_designation?source=MO20220211">URGE</a>
somnambulist Joe to drop #45’s policies in Yemen.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://act.boldprogressives.org/survey/signon-2022-congressional-stock-ban/?source=e220209_2031-fin-don&amount=25&tandembox=show&t=17&akid=81962%2E333928%2EYrw4y3">BAN</a>
Congress from trading stock while in office</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ecuador’s Constitutional Court publishes ruling in favor of
Indigenous people’s right to decide the future of their lands in the Amazon.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">France’s Macron flies to meet Putin in risky bid to avert
war.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Peace Boat docks in San Diego in observance of the one-year
anniversary of he UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Xi and Putin<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>issue
statement.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Argentina proposes ending debt dependency on U.S. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mexico GM workers vote in an independent union.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A bridge too low: Dutch vow to egg Bezos $500 million
yachtzila if bridge is dismantled to let it pass.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Colombia announces huge victory against aerial crop
eradication.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Scathing Amnesty Apartheid report may lead to change in
Israel’s criminal practices. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Wet’suwet’en approach UN over militarization and rights
violations.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Snoqualmie Tribe acquires 12.000 acres of ancestral
forestland.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">South Africa scientists reproduce Moderna’s COVID vaccine
such that patents must now be shared.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Stock ban proposed for Congress to stop insider trading
among lawmakers.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Experts detail deadly consequences of U.S. drone strikes to
Senate.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Antiwar groups nationwide rally to stop U.S. from being lied
into war with Russia.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ilhan Omar blasts ‘unconscionable’ Biden plan to seize
Afghan assets.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Montana plaintiffs announce first children’s climate trial
in U.S. history.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">To avert ’full blown war’ coalition<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>urges Biden to rejoin Iran deal.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Biden administration sides with tribes over North Dakota in
mineral dispute.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Biden reinvents migrant detention (using home confinement
and curfew) with the aim of curbing for-profit detention spaces.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Biden must nominate justice beholden to people not corporate
power and that’s Ketanji Brown Jackson.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">White House considers expanding limits on ‘no-knock’
warrants following murderbycop of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amir
Locke.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Senate finally to move to renew Violence Against Women Act.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thousands of students from various Minneapolis high schools
protest fatal police shooting of Amir Locke.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Journalists win $825,000 settlement and ban on police
attack.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Progressives call on Democrats to endorse 21<sup>st</sup>
century economic bill of rights.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">USDA offers $1 Billion to help farmers and ranchers fight
climate change.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Bipartisan infrastructure bill helps plug some of off-coast
35,000 abandoned wells.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Katie Porter introduces legislation raising fees of
polluters extracting from U.S. public lands, protecting the environment, and
saving taxpayers money.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Despite Dejoy’s mandate to fossil fueling new fleet, House
passes bill to repeal ‘debilitating’ USPS refunding retirement mandate.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">IRS abandons plans to subject website users to facial recognition.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Judge orders U.S. to pay $230 million to victims of 2017
church massacre.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On the basis of
climate Federal court rules against Oil Lease Sale #257. the largest
sale of public waters for offshore oil drilling in U.S. history.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Big week for oil wins as Mountain Valley Pipeline approvals
are revoked, new oil wells banned in LA, and in the Gulf of Mexico.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sen. Capito, Rep Rodgers ask GAO to assess NRC’s review
process for advanced nuclear reactors.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Appalachians build Green New Deal for themselves.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">North Carolina elections board assert power to bar Cawthorn
from 2022 ballot.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">New Hampshire House Committee on Science, technology and
energy<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>votes unanimously to uphold 500
meter setbacks from cell towers and antennas. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Drug decriminalization works in Oregon.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">After months of CPUC debate, solar energy and storage
issues, a judge on commission rules matter is suspended, meaning rooftop and
small-scale solar are safe for now in California.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Solar panels to be installed above California canals.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Immigrant communities breathe sigh of relief after Georgia
sheriffs terminate ICE agreements. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Teachers in Puerto Rico strike for wages, benefits.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Construction stalls as concrete workers strike for wages,
health care.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Lobstermen form a union co-op to claw back fair prices.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Capitol Hill staffers organize unions.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jericho Movement, Boston, United American Indians of New
England, and Boston BDS call for standout in front of Boston’s Federal Building
to call attention to freeing Leonard Peltier, the U.S. longest incarcerated
political prisoner.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Zuck could face jail time under new law.</p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style> <br /></p>Cecile Pinedahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06859495771889305391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218921764613108785.post-31393807028688134742022-02-04T11:21:00.010-08:002022-02-06T07:22:27.952-08:00 What’s It Take To Unstick a Dysfunctional Congress?<p class="MsoNormal">Supposing you were a U.S. congress person. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And supposing you were raking in the pay offs
from things like private prisons and weapons-manufacturing corporations to stay
in office.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And supposing the scene was just
so juicy, you had to stay in office to make sure it lasted. Why, you’d keep on
raking it in from all those corporations manufacturing bullets, shells, bombs,
drones, war planes, submarines, tanks, and nuclear tipped ordnance, and piling
up dough to get re-elected. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">But supposing all your people, blue and red, just got fed up
with your suits and your faces. Supposing some figured out that you were just greedy
butcher puppets, while others resented being left out while other folks who-don’t-look-like-you
keep getting ahead. But ALL of them got tired of hearing you say the same old things
over and over while twiddling your thumbs. Now if you wanted to stay in office,
wouldn’t you want to make sure the red and blue people never talked to one
another, or traded ideas, or discovered that the ONE THING they couldn’t stand
was your suits and your faces? You’d put up a fence to separate them, and call
that fence polarization, but no matter how “polarized” you made sure to call
them, over 50% of those people don’t trust you any more. And why should they? <a href="https://www.salon.com/2022/01/30/the-center-cannot-hold-manchin-and-sinema-are-wrecking-america--heres-how-to-beat-them/">although
84% to 89%<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>wanted background checks,
70%-73% wanted paid family leave, and 83% wanted<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Medicare to be able to negotiate drug prices</a>,
you ignored them because you were too busy raising boodle 80% of the time. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">To imagine that the Senate majority is Democratic is pure
illusion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Senate majority vote makes
sure to doom any chance of addressing the U.S. dizzying decline in quality of life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The U.S. has not revised its treatment of
immigrants, not even those asking for asylum. U.S. deaths from COVID far exceed
that of any other industrialized country. Of all these industrialized
countries, the U.S. is the only one still lacking universal healthcare. Even
progressive California has had to shelve its plans for CalCARE because there
just aren’t enough votes for it. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Can these omissions point to something far more sinister? If
we make the connection here we find a disturbing pattern. Those most vulnerable
to death-by COVID are those who lack healthcare, and who are forced to work
during a pandemic, often without protections. That demography is made up of the
poor, mostly black and brown minorities and when they vote, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">notice how this group does not vote
Republican. </i>The big question we must ask ourselves here: is this apparent
lack of healthcare, and of a humane approach to immigration, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">actual policy?</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">And is that policy supporting genocide-by-default? </i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As someone deeply distressed seeing the poverty and
desperation of so many living around me, there’s no doubt in my mind that no
matter what their political beliefs, too many American’s are entitled to their
own deep feelings of helplessness. Frances Moore Lappé writing in a Portside
article titled “Is all this ‘Polarization’ a cause or a symptom,” cautions us not
to blame society for its polarization because it “skirts the truth that many
(most) Americans live in daily distress, especially those “living from paycheck
to paycheck because it fuels their fear and distrust of government.” Polarization
is “the result of a system guaranteeing the extreme accumulation of wealth,
along with deepening daily insecurities and indignities for the non-wealthy.” She
points to this economic unfairness as the root of poor Whites feeling “left
behind.” For a vivid account of those left behind, I recommend <a href="https://www.friendsjournal.org/book/strangers-land-anger-mourning-american-right/"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Strangers Living in their own Land</i></a>, Arlie
Hochschild’s study of poor folks living in LA’s “cancer alley.” </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Historically, that feeling stems from the mighty expectations
Americans learned to entertain in the FDR years when they began to see
government as a real safety net capable of leading their lives out of a Great
Depression.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now the Depression we have
is far far worse than 1929 because besides being the outcome of vast economic
inequities, it is compounded by a pandemic with no end in sight, a congress
that has never wanted folks to benefit from a national health scheme and total
absence of a caring government. The list is as vast as society itself, from endless
wars, suppression of voting rights, to the cruelties of the border, to the NRC
knowing there’s no way of safely storing nuclear waste with a half life of half
a million years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Lappé writes “When our people suffer widespread economic
insecurity due to the extreme unfairness of our economy and legalized
corruption built into our governance—along with media profiting on inflammatory
content—widespread despair, anger, and a need to punish become understandable.”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Purpling, a new verb</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We must begin to purple, to find ways of talking to one
another, of mixing red and blue, finding that pathway away from punishment <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to the kind of solidarity that comes from
recognizing that that old “divide and conquer” trope used by those presuming to
rule over us is at work again, especially since our government doesn’t seem to
be listening. How many small conversations between blue and red, how much
purpling will it take to turn the monumentally creaky, leaking “ship of state”
around, slowly, increment by increment. Who will have the imagination to
begin?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And what does it take to reach that
shared moment of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Oh, yes, wait a
minute…..Where have we heard that one before….?” Purpling has the potential of
creating a better life quality<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for everyone.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=14504">PEACE</a>
– Everyone out for peace in Ukraine</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfC-mhBh40GNJPQL7jJfAGRoDjdX74vlkGrqMC4Z-D6fGqyXg/viewform">SIGN</a>
to prevent war with Russia</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://secure.actblue.com/donate/atfdcstatehood">SUPPORT</a>
representation for 670,000 folks in D.C. and gain Dem congressional seats</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://secure.actblue.com/donate/pccc_dass?akid=81911.1814141.RIub5N&amount=10&rd=1&refcode=e220118_1503-fin-all&refcode2=81911_1814141_RIub5N&t=16&tandembox=show">PROTECT</a>
voting rights by donating to Democratic Assn. of Secys of State</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.citizensforethics.org/legal-action/legal-complaints/crew-to-pelosi-end-congressional-stock-trading/?link_id=1&can_id=655968a96e1bce05c463b2f640bf633c&source=email-friendly-reminder-for-donald-trump-3&email_referrer=email_1422275&email_subject=we-sent-speaker-pelosi-a-letter">END</a>
Congressional stock trading</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://publiccitizen.salsalabs.org/senate-must-reverse-failure-to-protect-democracy/index.html?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=dc645b62-0b3f-44f6-beee-17e57f4d490e#2">INSIST</a>
on the Freedom to Vote Act and John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Peace organizations including Code Pink gather in front of
White House to express opposition to extremely dangerous possibility of war in
Ukraine.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">100 + anti-war groups demand Biden end brinksmanship with
Russia.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Poll shows majority in U.S. want diplomacy, not war with
Russia over Ukraine.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Germany refuses to funnel more weapons into Ukraine.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Alternative press begins to write about obscene profits made
by warmakers Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and General dynamics among others.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mexico fights back against U.S. gunmakers in $10 billion
suit<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>with 12 U.S. states supporting the
suit.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Judge blocks Biden’s massive Gulf of Mexico oil lease sale over
climate crisis.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ecuador court rejects oil drilling in Indigenous protected
area. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">U.S. climate activists call on Senate to confirm key
federal nominees.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Federal court deals blow to ‘noxious fracked gas’ pipeline.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Lawsuit forces nuclear regulator to turn over records of San
Onofre near-miss incident.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Southern Australia goes full week on 100% solar, and wind.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Court upholds California net neutrality law.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">California sets $15 an hour wage for large employers, $14
for smaller ones, with many counties and municipalities establishing even
higher wages.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mexico auto workers choose new union in landmark vote.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In a U.S. first Pittsfield, MA Board of Health unanimously
votes to issue cease and desist order against Verizon cell tower.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Holocaust book Maus hits bestseller list after Tennessee
school board ban.</p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Cecile Pinedahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06859495771889305391noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218921764613108785.post-88136621422298173102022-01-07T03:42:00.044-08:002022-01-09T09:39:42.363-08:00ELECTION PROTECTION FOR DUMMIES<p>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal">In case you might wonder what dummies I refer to, I confess to being the
dummy here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Concerned with comfort zone
things like pre-history, anthropology, and paleontology, last night I was reminded by
Bruce Hahne<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that, with 34 vote
suppression bills already law in 19 states, we are no longer there. In a <a href="https://indivisiblesouthpeninsula.weebly.com">Peninsula chapter of
Indivisibles</a> webinar he gave a rushed presentation of his slide show (why
rushed? because the warm and fuzzies occupied entirely too much time. He ought
to have had the whole hour. ) For <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">full
details</i>, and they are important, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>see
the slide show
<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VD6iwuJbcMfHLRDc9Hi15flMEWasladB/view">here.</a> </span>
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<p class="MsoNormal">U.S. elections are not what I naively liked to imagine:
people vote, a winning candidate is identified and voila! he’s elected. No.
Bruce Hahne’s presentation made it clear that the U.S. election process is a
CHAIN consisting of 5 steps. They are: </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1. wining the vote; 2 wining the count; 3. winning
certification; winning the electoral college; 5. winning in congress; then comes
6. assuming power (the period between certification in Congress and taking
office). That chain is only as strong as the weakest link. Voting is only the
first step. The ultimate threat to “assuming power” is of course a military coup,
or Supreme Court judicial <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“bloodless
coup” between November 2024, and Jan. 20, 2025.
</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If January 6 was just a rehearsal as many<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>journalists believe it was, last time insurgents
went for certification, link #5 (see orange), with the deaths and suicides of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>some 7 capitol police to show for it. But
Bruce Hahne gives us the ultimate gift: what to do about it <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">now</i> going forward. That’s where I hope to advance the remedies he proposed. The first consists in non-remedies, either because it’s already too late (attacking federal anti
gerrymandering laws for example) or too far ahead. Expanding the Supreme Court, (1. on the
list) for example because its goals will be a long time coming, with little bearing for 2022
– 24. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For election subversion, which must be where our attention
focuses now, the list continues: 2. legislative remedies, 3. electoral remedies
(for 2022) 4. grassroots and relational remedies, and 5. on-going litigation.
(a subject all to itself which he lacks time to cover).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2. Expanding to <u>legislative defensive remedies</u>, GOP
laws that enable election subversion must be blocked (see multiple efforts by
FairFight.com). Under <u>offensive remedies</u> he sites such laws actually in
play now that protect the entire election process such as the John Lewis Voting
Rights Advancement Act, the Freedom to Vote Act, the Protecting Our Democracy Act,
and, with no legislation pending yet, Electoral College Act overhaul. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">3. At the federal level, <u>electoral remedies</u> include strong
efforts to hold both Houses in 2022, and insuring that Democratic governorships
in swing states be maintained at the state level. Special emphasis must be placed on defending pro-Democracy
Republicans in critical primaries. You can find which candidates are running to
ease voting on NPR’s website.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People can
get involved in the Republican primary to support such candidates, either by phone
banking, texting, and/or postcarding. Info at GOTV. Key states are GA, AZ,
& MI.
</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">4.<u> Grassroots and other relational remedies</u> include
promoting strong awareness when speaking with others that U.S. “Democracy” is
at risk. (I use quote marks here for obvious reasons). People can build on
pro-democracy relationships and coalitions with many organizations, not only
left and progressive groups. If we are to defend democracy, people must build alliances
of convenience with GOP pro-democracy groups and individuals. Liz Cheney is one
example he sites.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Individuals, </u>working on defending democracy, had best
start from the standpoint that a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">better
world is possible, </i>and accept that this struggle will last for the very
long haul with many set backs along the way. The next step is to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">become involved with</i> a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">partisan political organization </i>such as
Indivisible, FieldTeam6.org, FairFight.com, etc. or a can-do Democratic club.
Take a look at articles listed on the bonhoffer.tv/democracy website and share your fave
with friends and neighbors. Cheer folks on who make pro-democracy statements,
even if personally you can’t stand them. Get hip with best practices for civil
resistance by reading <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Why Civil
Resistance Works</i> by Erica Chenoweth and watching the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">On Tyranny </i>series videos by Yale professor Tim Snyder. Watch the
Jan 30 webinar <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Resist: The Relentless
Attack on American Democracy and How We Fight Back </i>with speaker David
Pepper, former Democratic party chair for the state of Ohio.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For important e-mail notifications sign up at
demVolCtr.org/subscribe. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hahne’s slides conclude with an ominous “coup-o-meter” showing
that we are already in the next-to-the-worst orange zone, something called
“attempted<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>coup,” (and that the worst,
the red zone, represents a not-yet U.S. coup – others like JFK’s assassination,
9-11 being some of the earlier ones). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
succeeds a rather impressive chain last culminating with the Jan. 6 2021 coup.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For me, the main take-aways are that alliances must be forged
across the aisle with pro-Democracy Republicans (Liz Cheney is one example) and
that insuring a Democracy plurality in both Houses in 2022 and 24 is absolutely
essential. </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Senator Schumer has said the Senate will bring a vote on the
John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act with a target date of MLK’s birthday,
November 17. Between now and then, supportive calls must be made, if at all
possible every day; if not, every other day, or at least once a week by
everyone in this country concerned about real elections, opposed to gerrymandered
sham. All Senators can be reached at 1-833-345-2551. The White House can be
reached at 202 456-1111 Tuesdays through Thursdays, 8 AM to Noon. Presumably that’s on DC time.
Because our highly progressive Senator Feinstein seems to have missed many
recent votes, I include her e-mail: </p>https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-me/
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Originally I had planned to devote this newsletter issue to summarizing
the dire warnings of the many* <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/bonhoffertv/democracy">articles appearing
now</a> (see “Three Retired Generals: The Military Must Prepare Now for a 2024
Insurrection”) mapping threats to democracy, in particular a military coup, one
that might occur at that point in the chain, between the elections of November
2024, and Jan. 20, 2025 when the winning candidate takes office. This last period
is the one most vulnerable to a military coup, one of many possible, which might result
from political divisions within the Pentagon. But emphasizing <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">what we can do</i> about our fragile
“democracy” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">right now </i>seems even more
to the point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">*Resources in democracy’s defense <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/bonhoffertv/democracy">https://sites.google.com/site/bonhoffertv/democracy</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>TAKE ACTION<br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A barrage this week,
but the occasion calls for this and much, much more.)</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://progressivehub.net/jan-6-insurrectionists-cannot-be-allowed-to-run-for-office/">ELIMINATE</a>
the filibuster so John Lewis Voting Rights ACT can pass. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.climaterealityproject.org/freedomtovote?utm_source=advocacy&ms=FreedomToVoteEmail10122&utm_campaign=freedomtovote&utm_medium=email&utm_content=FreedomToVote-email-1&emci=457c6157-1d6f-ec11-94f6-c896650d923c&emdi=05238da8-256f-ec11-94f6-c896650d923c&ceid=1531763">SEND</a>
a message to your Senators demanding they stop voter suppression bills in their
tracks by passing the Freedom to Vote Act.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://act.cbcpac.org/survey/Expel-Jan-6-Congress-Members?source=MS_EM_PET_2022.01.03_B4_jan-6_X__F1_S1_C1__main-30_RS&t=5&akid=8089%2E1769578%2Eu0Vooq">ADD</a>
your name to demand Congress expel the members who helped plan the January 6
insurrection.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://publiccitizen.salsalabs.org/justice-department-investigate-trump-january-6-insurrection/index.html?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=e06b892b-f888-4778-b9d1-5ae9ec599ece#1">TELL</a>
AG Merrick Garland at the DOJ to investigate and prosecute #45 for any crimes
he committed related to the Jan. 6 insurrection.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://act.demandjustice.org/survey/PET_Investigate-Trump-for-January-6th?source=MS_EM_PET_2022.01.05_B2_Investigate-Trump-for-January-6th_X__F1_S1_C1__main-30_RS&t=4&akid=1912%2E34647%2EvZGRva">HOLD</a>
#45 responsible for Jan. 6. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-wall-street-stop-funding-insurrectionist-republicans?source=direct_link&?source=group-afr-advocacy-fund-c4&referrer=group-afr-advocacy-fund-c4&redirect=https://secure.actblue.com/donate/wallstgop&link_id=2&refcodeEmailReferrer=email_1399147&can_id=447ac5b0d7a5124338b20f2bb702d0f8&email_referrer=email_1399147&email_subject=tell-wall-street-stop-funding-insurrectionist-republicans-now">TELL</a>
Wall Street to quit funding insurrectionists.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://action.turnoutpac.org/survey/pet-support-jan-6-investigation/?source=MS_EM_PET_2022.01.05_B2_jan-6-investigation_X__F1_S1_C1__main-15&t=5&akid=38466%2E22322%2Ew02GxF">SIGN</a>
to support the Jan. 6 committee’s investigation.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://leftaction.salsalabs.org/acluvote-dec/index.html?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=b361da12-332d-40a3-917c-a12b45250e46">STOP</a>
the 350 voter suppression bills introduced across 47 different states.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/the-corporate-insurrection-how-companies-have-broken-promises-and-funded-seditionists/?link_id=1&can_id=655968a96e1bce05c463b2f640bf633c&source=email-what-weve-been-up-to-19&email_referrer=email_1398481&email_subject=18-million-for-sedition">READ</a>
which corporations are funding Jan. 6 seditionists, and make sure to boycott as
many as you can, and when you do be sure to tell them why.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2021/05/27/rundown-new-pac-targets/">READ</a>
and consider donating to the neveragain PAC. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Super Rose</u>: Texas team applauded for giving What Big
Pharma refuses: an unpatented, open-source COVID vaccine (Cobervax) to share
with the world <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">without personal profit</i>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Smaller roses</u>:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>U.S., Russia, China, UK, and France issue rare joint statement ‘No
winners in a nuclear war.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In presidential polls, Brazil’s Lula leads judge who locked
him up.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In Venezuela, social program meets goal of delivering 3
million homes. (Tell more then half a million homeless persons that the U.S.
doesn‘t need socialism.)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Petition to strip war criminal Tony Blair of knighthood
passes the 250,000 mark.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thousands rally in Baghdad to mark 2020 killing of General
Soleimani by the U.S.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Winnemucca Indian colony defends against bulldozing of their
homes (shades of Palestine?)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">France bans plastic packaging for most fruit and vegetables.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Leaders at Transportation and the FAA raise concerns about
5-G C-band’s interference with air travel safety. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">U.S. telecom operators agree to 5 G delay (two weeks?) in
U-turn decision.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In victory for Democracy and blow to #45-ism, FDIC chair
resigns.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">U.S. close to ending buried nuke waste cleanup in Idaho.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Republicans hastily come out in favor of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">modest </i>election reform after Manchin
opens door to filibuster changes.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Occupy Biden event calls for Biden to act now on climate
change. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Bernie’s new year’s resolution for all progressives: fight
like hell in 2022.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Campaign aims to bar all Jan. 6 insurrectionists (tourists!)
including #45—from future public office.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Biden administration unveils first-ever anti-corruption plan
. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jayapal leads 50+ Democrats in urging Biden to end #45-era
assault on Medicare.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Boston Globe endorses Pressley’s bill to transform broken
clemency process and combat mass incarceration (the new slavery?) </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Boston-based Winn Companies—which manages approximately $14
billion worth of largely affordable and military housing in 550 developments
across 22 states—learns to try mediation to prevent evictions. (What a
concept!)</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Clusterfrog</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLl0trtJ-SBqlh2y50Lw5bsqxbX9vGdGAd259CFtfjAP2Ra_i6Ekd0IMCDG0l0UkWZnmZUVb9059uk264wlOOwcP-n7PxQ4qAnGjekbDFjT8VDdtEgsb2HNSHXSKfK3EzNiNmTthPPYqg/" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="751" data-original-width="1215" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLl0trtJ-SBqlh2y50Lw5bsqxbX9vGdGAd259CFtfjAP2Ra_i6Ekd0IMCDG0l0UkWZnmZUVb9059uk264wlOOwcP-n7PxQ4qAnGjekbDFjT8VDdtEgsb2HNSHXSKfK3EzNiNmTthPPYqg/" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Legislative, judicial, and executive frogs</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style> <br /></p>Cecile Pinedahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06859495771889305391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218921764613108785.post-26124794960979979002021-12-25T13:36:00.006-08:002021-12-25T13:44:50.589-08:00NOT SO FAR BABY<p class="MsoNormal"> <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1942 was the first time I started to think something was
wrong. That year, my godmother lived next door to a single mother who served as
a WAVE during the war years. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(That was
WWII, not any of the endless wars since the munitions industry captured our
government). My godmother told me that every day her neighbor had to be away
from home, she chained her child to the bed during the entire time of her
absence, leaving the door to her apartment slightly ajar. My godmother was not
one to intervene in any way that would cause family separation, but she sang so
that the child would at least know there was anther human being within calling
distance. The child never called. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE7gZuG3CDI08tHUpogxm97jItzTyfr1tBoR9A024-FErDR-iYEZR9TPSTN4R2P8qyuAcTLAMSt3R0gV5Zf3uWyv-1gVVafLPGp_zVVykdvVBY-ZuBUXNJeQf3EyPXLNsFbAIotnd_Ltg/"><img alt="" data-original-height="256" data-original-width="197" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE7gZuG3CDI08tHUpogxm97jItzTyfr1tBoR9A024-FErDR-iYEZR9TPSTN4R2P8qyuAcTLAMSt3R0gV5Zf3uWyv-1gVVafLPGp_zVVykdvVBY-ZuBUXNJeQf3EyPXLNsFbAIotnd_Ltg/w493-h640/along+way.jpg" width="493" /></a></div><br />It is now going on 2022, 80 years later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Americans still don’t have universal
childcare for working mothers. If a single mother is caught leaving a child
alone in a car while she hunts for work, she is certain to be charged with a
criminal offence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But who is the
criminal here?<p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">During the Middle Ages, numerous hapless souls were burned
at the stake, among them, a great number of women. Although <a href="https://www.thegreatcoursesdaily.com/the-status-of-women-in-medieval-europe/">most
were accused of witchcraft</a>, many were <a href="https://ugapress.org/book/9780820323817/women-and-power-in-the-middle-ages/">women
of means</a> who lived economically self-sufficient lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore, they lived beyond the reach of
male control, whether of husbands, or civic authorities. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the present day, the pattern seems to replicate
itself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By the time I established my own
experimental theater company in 1969, I already knew of at least two women in
the San Francisco Bay Area who had started non-profit businesses in very modest
circumstances only to be replaced by male dominated board trustees when their
budgets reached a figure of one million or more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For that same reason, when it became clear,
if my company were to qualify for the 501c3 non profit status that would allow
us to raise funds with a tax write-off <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for the donor, I made sure that mine would
always remain a rubber stamp board.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">White, male supremacy has its roots way back in 3000 BC
when<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Yamnaya herders (sometimes called
Kurgans)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>from the Russian steppe (the
area between the Caspian and Black Seas) invaded Europe, massacring what had
been a <a href="https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1351&context=ccr">peaceful,
egalitarian civilization</a>, bringing with them weapons, warfare, hierarchy,
misogyny, sky gods, a notion of the life cycle ending in death, and worst of
all (because <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/psychology/sapir-whorf-hypothesis">language
is the generation-to-generation vessel of culture</a>) the proto-Indo-European
which is the root of all but 4 of Europe’s languages. Sweeping across the face
of Europe in less than 1000 years, the Kurgans either killed or castrated men,
and enslaved women, forcing them to bear their children, corroborated today by
the science of genetics. To this day, the chromosomes of all <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_We_Are_and_How_We_Got_Here">white,
European males carry the Y chromosome of the Kurgans</a>. Navigational
technology would allow white Europeans to extend their genocide to the New World
only much later, in 1492. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8A-vNhS9ti4LiuUB6OJ1iwiCb30asF72UwaGb1fDGLNDFlwxkSEBUyIGz4e5RlpTGdubgKYSNhGBtdOodUHO5FoXDx2_RSt6_ZYGBWa_qFjeo0PJ7LuQdtXAf34fiLN7OD92PGTfcCtw/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="598" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8A-vNhS9ti4LiuUB6OJ1iwiCb30asF72UwaGb1fDGLNDFlwxkSEBUyIGz4e5RlpTGdubgKYSNhGBtdOodUHO5FoXDx2_RSt6_ZYGBWa_qFjeo0PJ7LuQdtXAf34fiLN7OD92PGTfcCtw/w477-h640/you%2527ve+come.jpg" width="477" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">In the present political era, women’s bodies are still under
male control.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Texas, with the recent
6-week abortion cut-off law, the state sees to it that women’s bodies are still
up for grabs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although the Supreme Court
left the law in <a href="https://www.webmd.com/women/news/20211210/supreme-court-texas-abortion">place</a>,
it allowed <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2021/11/05/texas-abortion-law-supreme-court/">a
legal challenge</a> to proceed. Notwithstanding, already <a href="https://www.guttmacher.org/article/2021/10/26-states-are-certain-or-likely-ban-abortion-without-roe-heres-which-ones-and-why">a
likely 26 states</a> are<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>planning on copy-cat
laws. One member of Congress even referred, handmaiden style, to women as
“vessels.”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In Manhattan, the Ghislaine Maxwell trial has made public
the achievements of a 21<sup>st</sup> Century bawd: young girls procured and
deflowered as young as 13 for the delectation of middle aged men of power, one
of them a British <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_We_Are_and_How_We_Got_Here">crown
prince</a>, two of them U.S. presidents eager to parade their genitalia before
admiring voters. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Vessels” indeed.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">To say that<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>women
have come a long way, baby, is at best a way to dull our perceptions that
matters have not advanced very much since the Kurgan invasion of 3000 B.C. or
that a thing called “progress” is at best a self-congratulatory bromide dangled
before our still enslaved eyes by the chieftainship of the powerful, and greedy.
And it sells cancer-causing cigarettes. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://demandjustice.org/contactyourmoc-2/?link_id=0&can_id=447ac5b0d7a5124338b20f2bb702d0f8&source=email-firstname-default-its-clear-trumps-court-will-not-protect-our-right-to-reproductive-liberty-3&email_referrer=email_1385252___body_1826118&email_subject=roe-v-wades-days-could-be-numbered">PROTECT</a>
our right to reproductive liberty.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.plannedparenthood.org/planned-parenthood-center-for-choice/texas-abortion-laws">DONATE</a>
to planned parenthood to fight Texas abortion law.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://act.berniesanders.com/signup/fobs-bbb/?source=em211219-1-15&refcode2=9009.378231.Z2tAbU&akid=9009%2E378231%2EZ2tAbU">URGE</a>
Manchin to rethink Build Back Better before tanking the economy. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Belgium to close all existing nuclear power plants.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">European supermarkets pull beef products linked to Brazil
deforestation.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Europe finally recognizes platform workers are not self
employed.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Peru ratifies UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear
Weapons. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Lawsuit filed in Peru with indigenous ownership of millions
of acres on the line.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Canada’s Wet’suwet’en retake checkpoint a month after police
crackdown.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Stoney Nakoda language resources launched to preserve
language.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Despite refusal by China, Russia and India, 100 nations ledge
to cut 30% of methane emissions by 2030.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Egypt<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to build $20K
electric vehicles with Chinese firms.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">China to help build 1,000 schools in US war-torn Iraq</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">China and Nicaragua to collaborate in New multipolar world. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">South Korea declares multilateral agreement to end Korean
war. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In UK Assange appeals his extradition to US. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Australian Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce says Assange
should not be extradited to the US.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Change is coming to UK schools taking up the racist schools
system and adding Black history to the curriculum.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">UK’s Boorish Johnson suffers massive Shropshire by-election
upset.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">300 doctors implore Australia to bring Assange home.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In Glasgow Extinction Rebellion blocks Home Office to
protest nationality and borders bill.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Anti-Nazi, Israel critic Gabriel Boric vows to be president
of all Chileans as Nazi Kast concedes defeat by wide margin. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Latin America hails Boric’s victory in Chilean elections</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Honduras defeats US-backed narco-dictatorship of Juan
Orlando Fernandez at the ballot box, electing Xiomara Castro, its first female
president. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">At its meeting in Cuba, Bolivarian Alliance – People’s Trade Treaty renews its commitment to strengthen political coordination based on
solidarity, social justice, cooperation and economic complementarity. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Corbyn receives award for supporting Palestinians amid UK
Labor debate on BDS.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Prior to Brazil elections Lula returns in broad alliance.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">More than 120 nations with 90% of world’s forests<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>agreed to halt and reverse deforestation by
2030; 450 financial institutions overseeing $130 trillion in assets align
portfolios seeking net zero emissions by 2050.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ethiopian TPLF announces retreat to “give peace<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a chance.”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ethiopians, Eritreans hold #NoMore march outside U.S. State
Department.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Palestine hails UN resolutions against illegal Israeli
settlements. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Venezuelan envoy, Alex Saab’s diplomatic immunity freezes
his court case.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Three UK activists defacing Israeli drones engines factory
acquitted.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">U.S. fully prepared to lift Iran sanctions, allowing Iran to
receive economic benefits of the 2015 nuclear deal. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Iran threatens sanctions against US over treatment of Black
Americans.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Biden commits federal government to 100% zero emission
vehicle purchases by 2035.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Biden demures sending US troops to the Ukraine. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">CIA chief says intelligence (?) agencies haven’t concluded
Russia will invade Ukraine.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Biden blasts Kellogg’s plan to replace striking workers. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Biden endorses filibuster carve-out for voting rights and
election reform.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Biden extends pause on student loan payments through May 1.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">After blocking idea, Biden administration<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to distribute 500 million free COVID tests.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Giving finger to anti-choicers, Biden administration FDA allows abortion pills by mail. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Senate told to act on voting rights bills after Biden backs
filibuster exception. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">House passes Protecting Our Democracy Act to prevent
presidential abuse of power.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Progressive Caucus urges Biden to wield executive action as
agenda stalls</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">AOC leads demand for Biden to work on ending Saudi blockade
of Yemen airport</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Warren endorses Judiciary Act.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">114 Reps sign letter urging<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Biden to engage with Cuba.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">US issues ‘broad authorization’ to enable aid to
Afghanistan. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Garland sues Texas Republicans for redistricting maps
discriminating against Black and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Latino
voters.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Poor People’s Campaign target corporate Dems at DC rally
‘this is Manchin against us.’</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Whistle blower Daniel Hale receives award for drone leak. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Federal class-action suit filed over Haitian migrants’
abused and dehumanized at US border. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Slavery by another name: Court rejects GEO Group’s efforts
to reduce settlement won by immigrants forced to work for $1 a day.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Erie PA cement workers strike for better raises, and a
dental plan.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Kellogg workers reject temporary agreement.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Amazon warehouse workers in Chicago walk off job.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Amazon workers organize for cellphone access.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Unions, workers call out backroom deal to sneak Amazon into
Newark airport.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Pharmacists walkout in early unionization effort to restore -hour day and appropriate breaks.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In solidarity with trucker accused of manslaughter, no
trucks enter Colorado.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Buffalo Starbucks workers vote to form chain’s first union
in U.S. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">N.Y. AG seeks #45’s testimony in civil frau probe.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Oregon plans to build natural gas export facility have
been<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>cancelled. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Grape pickers crash lavish Sonoma winery banquet demanding
better wildfire protections.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Apple workers organize Christmas Eve walkout, demanding<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>respectful workplace, frontline protection,
and mental health care.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">New York City’s Home care workers protest 24-hour work day.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Oregon decriminalizes personal use of all illicit drugs with
impressive results.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Louisiana’s Midwest energy company Tallgrass cancels plans
to build massive oil terminal off Louisiana’s coast. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Progressives sweep 2021 municipal elections across Georgia.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Auto workers vote to move to direct voting system for
choosing leadership.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Kentucky candle factory workers sue<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>company, alleging ‘flagrant indifference’ to
their safety.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Workers at Activision<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Blizzard lead week-long work stoppage.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Penn East cancels New Jersey pipeline. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Yurok tribe uses California carbon offset to buy back its
land.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>Central California’s Tribal communities to stop Sites Reservoir.
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Soledad prisoners sue prison system following targeted raid
against Black people.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Innocence Project petitions Court allowing Rodney Reed to
file new petition based on evidence disproving states theory and demonstrating
prosecutorial misconduct that sent innocent man to death row.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">U. C. recognizes student researchers united union of 17,000
workers.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Columbia University student workers defy university’s
strikebreaking threats.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Indiana University <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>graduate
workers submit cards, seek union election.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Smith College students rally to support prison moratorium. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">California’s Gov. Newsom won’t order Diablo Canyon nuclear
plant to stay open.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Washington<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>State’s
governor pushes big state EV credit.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">San Francisco’s Bayview Hunters Point activists take<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>air pollution monitoring into their own
hands.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Fun news:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>bugs eat
plastic.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Cecile Pinedahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06859495771889305391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218921764613108785.post-45589866753484551392021-12-04T16:30:00.003-08:002021-12-04T16:30:40.356-08:00There's More to Vax Than Meets the Eye<p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal">We’ve been immersed in our COVID<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>world now for nearly two years, with a new
“variant,” Omicron, raising its spikey head, fomenting press and panic in the
Big Pharma racket, and causing a new wave of pain emblemized for me by seeing another
man sleeping on the same sloped lawn outside the university student housing, that
I first saw more than a year ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Somewhat removed from the American vaxxer vs. anti vaxxer tug
of war, I still receive screeds from a few colleagues who pepper my inbox with
their cries of outrage, outrage mostly at finding their personal liberty
infringed upon. But just yesterday, one whose mind I have found sound and
reliable sent a barrage of articles and youtubes, including a transcript of an <a href="https://lenabloch.medium.com/giorgio-agambens-speech-to-the-commission-on-constitutional-affairs-of-the-senate-october-7-2021-15ba7ddf2955">address</a>
Giorgio Agamben gave before an Italian parliamentary body as recently as last
month. Giorgio Agamben is a noted Italian philosopher whose name is typical of
the Veneto, one of Italy’s northern regions. He first came to my attention
through the work of Mau, a Polynesian dance company whose high concept
production, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tempest Without a Body, </i>probably
the most profound piece of theater I will ever have viewed in a long life-time
of theater viewing<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">, </i>was grounded in
his work. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7HQZO4dP-jk6tumiA7h_fvWJFIBf3YmyBOk8SoBIm22UGMfHcXgZCPnp2txVWh8BvFyA-ncTVKdhatj0GaH_bxs4FSvK7WMqHWn1IslZjh9WAy_RxL3WmTe8IvqZfCEeigWHI351CozI/" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="693" data-original-width="924" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7HQZO4dP-jk6tumiA7h_fvWJFIBf3YmyBOk8SoBIm22UGMfHcXgZCPnp2txVWh8BvFyA-ncTVKdhatj0GaH_bxs4FSvK7WMqHWn1IslZjh9WAy_RxL3WmTe8IvqZfCEeigWHI351CozI/" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Giorgio Agamben<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">His address is devoid of fluff, a scant few paragraphs
really, entirely lazer focused on its two points The first addresses the proposed
Italian Parliamentary Decree that all citizens must now be obliged to carry a
“green pass” (the Italian equivalent of our vaccination card) which implies
that the government accepts no responsibility for any damage brought about by
Big Pharma’s un-fully-tested vaccine. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">His second point addresses the political problem of the
“green pass,” which forces people to get vaccinated if they want to eat, have a
social life, work a job, or generally try surviving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The over-all picture he paints is of a
society based on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">control</i>-as-the-accepted
norm. He further elaborates his point by drawing parallels with the Soviet and
the Italian Fascist models. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Now imagine the U.S. congress inviting a philosopher to
address one of its august bodies. What public intellectual might be considered
worthy of such a summons let alone listened to? What hoodlum of greed, of
financially stratospheric kleptitude would have to fit the bill?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In other pandemic news, one headline reads “Moderna<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>refuses to share vaccine recipe with all of
Africa as Omicron rises.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another reads “First
U.S. case confirmed as WHO chief decries failure to share vaccines globally.” Profits
for Big Pharma come first over kicking the pandemic habit; greed will guarantee
that people of the world continue to suffer until the entire world is immunized—which
at the rate we are going will take the next forty years.. The other very
significant article reports publication of <a href="https://www.viralnigeria.com.ng/fauci-as-darth-vader-of-the-covid-wars">Robert
Kennedy’s new book</a>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Real Anthony
Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public
Health</i>. The link worth a read. A brief précis for folks with shorter
attention spans can be found <a href="https://staronos.com/the-real-anthony-fauci.html">here</a>. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Kennedy has chosen to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>expose the Byzantine machinations undergirding the U.S. approach to
immunology.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has this to say: “For <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">five
decades Tony Fauci has been essentially a Big Pharma agent, nurturing a complex
web of financial entanglements among pharmaceutical companies and the National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and its employees that
have transformed NIAID into a seamless subsidiary of the pharmaceutical
industry…. [He] does not do public health; he is a businessman, who has used
his office to enrich his pharmaceutical partners and expand the reach of
influence that has made him the most powerful – and despotic – doctor in human
history.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Prior to all publication, the book
industry in the U.S. makes sure to review all copy with a fine-toothed comb to
guard against any liable suit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can
be sure that Kennedy’s book is vermin-free. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hope from the ground up</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In all the dithering and delay by the WTO which postponed
their latest scheduled meeting—a meeting which to consider a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">temporary</i> waiver— owing to the emergence
the Omicron variant. Some time ago, Senator Paulo Paim of Brazil proposed a <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/12/03/does-brazil-proposal-hold-key-ending-big-pharmas-stranglehold-covid-19-vaccines">bill</a>
that allows Brazil to bypass the barriers originally erected by TRIPS
(Agreement of Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) which
according to its Article 73 allows each government to take whatever action it
considers necessary to address the pandemic, including <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">suspending</i> property rights. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Paim‘s
bill, which passed both Brazil’s House and Senate, provides<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a permanent provision for overriding IP
monopolies on essential technologies needed to address such health emergencies
as the current pandemic.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This development had the potential of providing the entire
Third World with a viable alternative model, had not Bolsonaro vetoed many of
its provisions, resulting in the Senate charging him with “crimes against
humanity.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At present, because the
Senate missed is deadlines restoring the bill’s original provisions following
Bolsonaro’s mangling, it must now act quickly to eliminate Bolsonaro’s cuts.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tune in next week.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://networklobby.org/sign-on-wto-ministerial-faith-letter">SCROLL
DOWN</a> to sign demanding global access to COVID vaccines and treatment.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.afsc.org/blogs/news-and-commentary/to-end-pandemic-we-must-put-human-lives-over-pharma-profits?utm_campaign=weekendreading&utm_source=weekendreading1204&utm_medium=email&ms=EMA22WR1204&emci=a1f40023-9653-ec11-94f6-0050f2e65e9b&emdi=3f2c4545-0655-ec11-94f6-0050f2e65e9b&ceid=951504">DONATE</a>
to put human lives over Big Pharma profits.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://publiccitizen.salsalabs.org/tell-senate-no-25-billion-more-for-military-than-requested/index.html?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=6e230789-208a-48fa-92c8-ff93e703f2b7#1">DEMAND</a>
the extra $25 billion Congress wants to allocate to the Pentagon go to
producing COVID vaccine to end the pandemic worldwide.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">WHO chief urges pandemic treaty to avoid another ‘crisis of
sharing and solidarity.’</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2.5 million nurses demand UN probe into ‘COVID criminals’
blocking patent waiver.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Xi announces supplying Africa with additional 1 billion
COVID vaccine doses. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">UNESCO members adopt first global AI ethics agreement ‘to
benefit humanity.’</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">NATO parliamentarians send letter to Biden for no firth-use
policies. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Germany to get Green Ministry of Economy, Energy, and
Climate in boost for President Biden. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">‘Triumph for Democracy as socialist candidate takes
commanding lead in Honduran election.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Massive turnout in favor of leftists in Honduras repudiate
U.S. backed coup.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Honduras National Party recognizes Xiomara Castro’s win. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Honduras set for first female president as Castro holds wide
lead.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Castro’s victory spells end of U.S. backed ‘narco-politics,
neoliberalism.”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">International community recognizes victory of Xiomara
Castro.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Venezuela’s socialists win election in landslide as U.S.
tries to discredit them.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Venezuela’s mega-elections: despite U.S. sanctions, COVID,
an d economic crisis, Chavismo wins majority of states. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">What a concept department: Despite over 60 year old U.S.
blockade, Cuba develops its own two highly effective vaccines, immunizes 80% of
its population and is on the verge of sharing its vaccines with impoverished
nations abandoned by Big Parma and wealthy countries. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In Nicaragua, Sandinistas win landslide victory because they
uplifted the poor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Seven-day march of over a million people in defense of
democracy concludes in La Paz, Bolivia.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mexico increases workers’ minimum wage by 22 percent. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In Argentina Macri indicted and banned from leaving country.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Indonesian unions celebrate critical omnibus law victory
regaining rights, entitlements, as well as environmental protections. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Majority of world’s oil and gas workers want to seek
employment in renewable energy industry. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Shell slammed for plan to last South African coastline for
oil and gas during whale mating season.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For the sake of peace, anti war groups demand Biden return
to nuclear deal with Iran. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Informal group of Northwest indigenous tribes announce
they’ll join Southern California march to demand release of indigenous children
from immigration detention facilities, signaling hemispheric indigenous
solidarity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Biden commits to North Korea peace as U.S. and South Korea
talk end-of-war declaration. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping agree that nuclear-armed
countries should not be able to gain decisive advantage over one another.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Protests demanding affordable housing surge in the
Netherlands. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Massive protests in Niger, Burkina Faso demand French
military get out.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Putin calls for release of Afghan financial assets.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Amnesty’s General Secretary calls for Assange’s immediate
release because is detention is arbitrary. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Norway calls on<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NATO
to stay away from its border with Russia.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In Winnipeg, free bus rides offer environmentally sound
transportation model.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Battle over Canada’s Jordan Cove Energy Project is over
after developers pull plug. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Nearly 300 artists, celebrities demand Hollywood end
‘disturbing’ support for Big Pharma’s vaccine monopolies. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Extractive Industries everywhere are watching as 9 Democrats
urge DOJ to free Steven Donziger.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Biden to create panel to study expanding “Supreme”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Court.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Durbin introduces amendment to end ‘legacy of cruelty’ by
closing Guantanamo.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">‘Congress must act’: Sanders demands end of filibuster to
codify abortion rights. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">New report urges Biden to stop arms sales fueling Saudi
‘devastation’ of Yemen. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">47 groups urge Congress to avert ‘human rights failure’ by
blocking Biden’s Saudi arms sale. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Shutdown averted as Congress passes short-term funding bill.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">200+ groups to Democrats in Congress: No holiday recess
until you pass voting rights. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Amid overdose<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>crisis,
public health groups urge Congress to pass live-saving bills. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Activists make last-minute bid to stop blasting in whale
breeding grounds. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">‘For profit healthcare hurts all of us”: Sacramento, CA
approves single-payer resolution. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">SCOTUS upholds Oklahoma’s McGirt Decision guaranteeing
tribal sovereignty as Governor and big oil lose. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Nevada’s Democratic governor apologizes for state’s abuses
of Native Americans. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Stacey Abrams runs for governor of Georgia.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Union<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and Kellogg
reach tentative deal to end strike.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Win for Alabama Amazon workers after NLRB orders new union
vote after corporation ‘s misconduct. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Chicago tortilla workers walk out and win day off work.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">After Long Island farmworkers unionize, organizers hope to
see others follow.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">N.Y.C. opens nation’s first overdose prevention centers.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dozens more N.Y.C. convictions tossed because of three dirty
former ‘top’ cops. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Food banks distributed 1.1 billion pounds of food in the
first quarter of 2020. By fall, 2020, they were handing out 1/7 billion pounds.
</p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style> <br /></p>Cecile Pinedahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06859495771889305391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218921764613108785.post-49634653662578047672021-11-21T11:10:00.004-08:002021-11-21T11:12:08.020-08:00LEARNING BY DOING: an alternative to COPOUT <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">for Ana Perez</i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“The fossil fuel industry was more represented at COP26 the
UN’s climate summit than any country.” So reads the headline at
#Care2Alerts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well yes,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>if the dog catchers outnumber all others, you
can’t expect such a conference to lead to the Republic of Dogs. Not by a long
snout.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Images of Glasgow courtesy of Carol Davies.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0V2-TbkVrBfpg991oFkVPwrDgTkJYKDwGJuGb3d3dP9EXL9pgRwbgYyRbDltS82vFzUhJCF4JCS1nska9D0iu7UUGnacj5fr__ez9En4_K4JX-quRDZk42qBQluP-TynD3yGlclcPKxk/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0V2-TbkVrBfpg991oFkVPwrDgTkJYKDwGJuGb3d3dP9EXL9pgRwbgYyRbDltS82vFzUhJCF4JCS1nska9D0iu7UUGnacj5fr__ez9En4_K4JX-quRDZk42qBQluP-TynD3yGlclcPKxk/" width="320" /></a></div><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr_wfjf7k5fVqsaWrbXhp9HZvgDJwUck8Pu7XYlPwusQQUVHWDa7mH5MyxbhScx5IscV2FYYRMjDrMpypOGe9PPgy0o0xapsjUzmH1ksOLB5wYHD75OWOfwsUzP4a4SiRV3yvK1-8qWCE/" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr_wfjf7k5fVqsaWrbXhp9HZvgDJwUck8Pu7XYlPwusQQUVHWDa7mH5MyxbhScx5IscV2FYYRMjDrMpypOGe9PPgy0o0xapsjUzmH1ksOLB5wYHD75OWOfwsUzP4a4SiRV3yvK1-8qWCE/w400-h225/reds.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Why do Reds stike fear in the heart of the establishment?<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii0bffaDzkGiFqhoe-FPC1crURRFfr401lYG0AgQ6zKAR_DxcmDyBSoHh4Q4aM50KuxDej05AvNRkwZQ4iSgM9SqvGngSPuh4p4EzDgzOroRUN-81nviyPDcUtSaPpYfuNJPAytpkQngo/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1152" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii0bffaDzkGiFqhoe-FPC1crURRFfr401lYG0AgQ6zKAR_DxcmDyBSoHh4Q4aM50KuxDej05AvNRkwZQ4iSgM9SqvGngSPuh4p4EzDgzOroRUN-81nviyPDcUtSaPpYfuNJPAytpkQngo/w225-h400/burning.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">All of the people who really count, climate activists and
all the indigenous people risking arrest on the front lines, all were excluded
from COP26. To hear her tell it, activist Ta’Kaiya Blaney from western Canada’s
Tia A’min Nation: “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">COP26 is a
performance. It is an illusion constructed to save the capitalist economy
rooted in resource extraction and colonialism.</b>” <s><span style="color: red;"></span></s></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3BReIR0V4sFs409TPEp3AHpmMdrXupgQOWzAKIsL_dDKog1nPxUHaI2MoRQnss2pmenx3e_ATH9leziE220ZcHhjes5xQg4JVaqTkMMNNZUy91_NN2NHKIRO993N5o37-ofuK7mE-_Ls/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="460" data-original-width="1260" height="146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3BReIR0V4sFs409TPEp3AHpmMdrXupgQOWzAKIsL_dDKog1nPxUHaI2MoRQnss2pmenx3e_ATH9leziE220ZcHhjes5xQg4JVaqTkMMNNZUy91_NN2NHKIRO993N5o37-ofuK7mE-_Ls/w400-h146/indigenous.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This week, overcome with hopelessness about the token
too-little-too-late<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>window dressing pretenses
by the West and by the Global North to overcome their greed, and their seeming
inability to recognize the planetary severity of the 2.4 degree of warming<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>actually projected for the end of this
century, I began to speculate what this planet might look like to aliens
discovering it millions of years hence. What would they make of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazca_Lines">Nasca Lines.</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCwakZl3wRPSCFSmGItHrTFbBVLJuwCVOd0obmU3sCRIm3W3mJjNFRRI4kE0mCyAX6SGCd_rusABUbST3Zf_CwsiZjaodPbtOje6NDAUHwbYmypSeRboxLzwEexFL0NPrh5q4vPir2yp0/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="270" data-original-width="330" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCwakZl3wRPSCFSmGItHrTFbBVLJuwCVOd0obmU3sCRIm3W3mJjNFRRI4kE0mCyAX6SGCd_rusABUbST3Zf_CwsiZjaodPbtOje6NDAUHwbYmypSeRboxLzwEexFL0NPrh5q4vPir2yp0/w320-h262/the+spider.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Since they were first discovered much controversy has ensued
as to what their purposes may have been. Did they mark the routes of caravans? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are some of them oriented to mark the
solstices? Do some of them represent constellations in the night sky? Were they
supplications for rains that never came?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Located on the Pacific shores of Peru, these gigantic geoglyphs may date
from as early as<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>500 B.C. Their creation
ranged over the next thousand years to 500 A.D. Many are zoomorphic, that is
they represent such animals as humming birds, spiders, fish, monkeys and
lizards. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Greta Thunberg summed COP26 up: “Blah, Blah, Blah. But,” she
said, “the real work continues outside these halls.” </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3TkSPtmAiov8qa4-_Ec2mVcw5YXma6KwbY3hyiCe98hwau6sA5mX4_F1UTSEM7LwzYPIrpaTpnuzTODx3t6nvKHY1CmfK-fmvoglnLuK8tLCEa8nEM6yt6l_X7ruL3mMFOd-xaQSwGWo/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1152" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3TkSPtmAiov8qa4-_Ec2mVcw5YXma6KwbY3hyiCe98hwau6sA5mX4_F1UTSEM7LwzYPIrpaTpnuzTODx3t6nvKHY1CmfK-fmvoglnLuK8tLCEa8nEM6yt6l_X7ruL3mMFOd-xaQSwGWo/w180-h320/blah+blah+blah.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><br />COP26 just about leaves me
hopeless that many meaningful initiatives can ever come from this body. Just as
I flirted with succumbing to despair, I discovered what non-Western,
non-“Global North” <a href="https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/fort-severin-the-worlds-northernmost-first-nation-installs-solar-power-station/">First
Nations are up to in Northern Canada</a>. Among them is the <a href="https://thenarwhal.ca/how-solar-power-helping-redefine-alberta-first-nation/">Beaver
Lake Cree Nation </a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>which has insisted,
given the growing disaffection of its youth, that it participate in the entire
solar arrays project development as a way to re-engage its youth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wondered how many U.S. based tribes had
done the same to discover that so far at least <a href="https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2017/08/native-american-tribes-solar/">8
tribes</a> have installed solar on their reservations, the Navajo at Window
Rock; the Sokaogon Chippewa at Crandon, WI; the Southern Ute in Ignacio, CO;
the Washoe in Gardnerville, NV; the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, in Cass Lake,
MN; and in Nevada, the Moapa Band of Paiutes and the Washoe in
Gardnerville,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and in California, the
Hoopa Valley tribe in Hoopa, and the Chemehuevi in Havasu Lake. If readers
can’t travel to help with these installations, they can donate in support. Each
tribe has a website with contact information<s>. </s><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">How can these small initiatives teach the rest of us in the
U.S. what we need to know to move from blah blah blah to doing? </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">•First Nations are small governing entities within a much
larger governing entity. Effectively, they break down the problem, addressing it in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">bite-sized pieces</b>.
</p><p class="MsoNormal">•Culturally, they do not identify with the over-arching settler
colonialist culture. In fact, they have a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>long and tortuous historic relationship with the Canadian
government.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If there is any doubt, a
reading of Farley Mowat’s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_of_the_Deer"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">People of the Deer</i></a> can set readers straight. Which suggests that
it is high time those of us who want a planet to live on for ourselves and our
generations, must allow ourselves to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">cease
identifying with the settler, colonialist, resource extracting culture. </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">•</b>As our demography
transitions away from that of the dominant culture, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the potential of an alternative world view gives us the collective power
to think differently.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>•Government Agencies in the U.S. such as the </b><a href="https://www.bia.gov/service/grants/emdp"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Department of Energy and Mineral Development</b></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>and the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://www.allpointsnorthfoundation.org/?utm_source=Social&utm_medium=GRID&utm_campaign=Tribal%20Program%20Brings%20Opportunities%20to%20Rosebud%20Sioux%20Tribe">All
Points North Foundation</a> </b>must be encouraged to support more such
initiatives. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Which would make you feel <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>more positive? pounding nails one at a time with
your fellow beings, donating, or more blah blah blah?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">AND ON THE HOME FRONT:<br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">DONATE to the tribe of your choice or to the <a href="https://www.allpointsnorthfoundation.org/?utm_source=Social&utm_medium=GRID&utm_campaign=Tribal%20Program%20Brings%20Opportunities%20to%20Rosebud%20Sioux%20Tribe">All
Points North Foundation</a> earmarked for solar development for Native people. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.thepetitionsite.com/160/160/171/?z00m=32900596&redirectID=3161023694">OUST</a>
fossil fuel lobbyists from any future COPs.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://nirs.salsalabs.org/bbbasenatealert/index.html?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=6c2b1383-0917-42a7-b852-de683e92eed9">HALT</a>
the nuclear bailout in the Senate.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://actionnetwork.org/letters/drop-the-charges?clear_id=true&source=email-will-you-stand-with-the-water-protectors">DROP</a>
all charges against the nearly 100 water protectors at Line 3.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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the Build Back Better Act through the Senate and onto Biden’s desk.</p>
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to climate imperiled countries of he “Global South.”</p>
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the farm bill to plant more trees.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Around the world, new ICAN and PAX report shows number of
banks, pension funds, asset managers, and insurance companies investing in
nuclear weapons has gone down.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Eighty cities worldwide express solidarity with Cuba.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Black Alliance for Peace’s Haiti/Americas Committee
condemns U.S. sponsorship of anti-government protests against Cuba.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Palestinian Miqdad Qawasmeh released after 113-day hunger
strike protesting his detention without trial.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Toronto explores idea of giving homeless one year free rent.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Resistance pays: After 700 deaths, and farmers striking over
a year, India’s Modi will repeal farm laws.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Nicaragua leaves OAS.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“They weren’t hearing what we were saying, so we had to get
a little bit louder:’ Wet’suwet’en land defenders say inaction prompted
enforcement of coastal GasLink eviction. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Indigenous leaders hail Biden’s proposed Chaco Canyon drilling
ban.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Two!! climate activists halt operations at world’s largest
coal port.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Biden signs executive order to address “crisis of violence”
against Native Americans.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">White House hosts Tribal Nations Summit.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Biden backs global treaty for plastic pollution.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Biden replaces two postal service board members.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dem lawmakers, climate groups urge Biden administration to
support kids’ climate case. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">GOP Representative introduces bill to federally
decriminalize marijuana.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Elizabeth Warren releases blueprint to end ‘free ride’ for
tax-dodging U.S. billionaires</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Metro and the City of Portland have partnered with tribes to
promote Native American land access and cultivation of first foods.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Delaware judge allows testimony on impacts of climate change
and role of banks.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Boston City Council votes to divest from fossil fuels.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Twenty attorneys sue Postmaster General Louis Dejoy.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">New administration takes helm of he 1.3 member teamsters
union in a slate which swept to victory 2 to 1.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The IWW reaches tentative agreement with Fast Food
Burgerville in Portland, OR.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">‘Sacrifice and solidarity’ pay off as striking John Deere
workers win bigger wage hike. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">U.S. School bus drivers in nationwide strikes over poor pay
and COVID risk.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">NRA loss federal appeal over New York gun store closures.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">New York cabbies win over predatory lenders, obtaining debt
relief.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Cecile Pinedahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06859495771889305391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218921764613108785.post-41525656435644289302021-11-10T14:35:00.003-08:002021-11-10T14:38:04.171-08:00WHICH WORLD WOULD YOU LIKE<p class="MsoNormal">On my regular morning walk, along the half mile stretch to
my favorite redwood groves, I usually encounter one or sometimes as many as
three drivers, their cars parked at the curb, their motors running, practicing
finger exercises on their electronic toys.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Courteously, I knock at their rolled up windows. “Good morning,” I say.
“I hope you won’t take it badly if I ask you please to turn your motor off
unless you plan on taking off right away.“ I follow my ask with this somewhat
lame explanation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“The arctic is melting
and all of us are<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>going to suffer a
great deal.”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And usually my politeness yields the desired results.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some good but oblivious people actually thank
me. But yesterday, after listening to me, a truck driver rolled his window back up
in response.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He continued his finger
exercises while his motor purred.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Most of us wear clothes and observe the niceties, but although
we have joined the urban minuet, as a species, I don’t tend to think homo saps
is terribly advanced, although we may like to think so. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Recently my reading has taken me to works dealing with
pre-contact America, books like <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">1491</i>
(by Chas. Mann) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Braiding Sweet Grass</i> (by
R.W. Kimmerer). Of the latter, one section in particular caught my attention.
In it the author contrasts<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Pledge of
Allegiance which every school child, hand on heart, mutters throughout his
years of schooling with the Thanksgiving Address of the Haudenosaunee People. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">These are the People whose languages the U.S. and Canadian
Governments tried to suppress by kidnapping their children and sending them to
institutions euphemistically called <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2021/08/28/1031398120/native-boarding-schools-repatriation-remains-carlisle">Indian
Schools</a> where they were beaten if they tried to speak their languages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Recent revelations disclosed the hundreds of
children’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/10/canada-residential-schools-unmarked-graves-mohawk-institute">graves</a>
surrounding these institutions, attributing some of those deaths to nutritional
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5555756/">experiments</a> to
see how little food Indian school children could live on and yet survive.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Which would you like: the Pledge, or the Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving
address? </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Which of the two would you prefer your children recited
every morning?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What kind of a society,
what kind of a polity do you think might result if they recited the latter?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I quote it here in its entirety.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">TODAY we have gathered and
when we look upon the faces around us, we see that the cycles of life continue.
We have been given the duty to live in balance and harmony with each other and
all living things. So now let us bring our minds together as one as we give
greetings and thanks to each other as People. Now our minds are one.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">We are thankful to our Mother
the Earth for she gives us everything that we need<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for life. She supports our feet as we walk
about on her. It gives us joy that she still continues to care for us, just as
she has from the beginning of time. To our Mother, we send thanksgiving, love
and respect. Now are minds are one.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">We give thanks to all of the
waters of the world for quenching our thirst, for providing strength and nurturing
life for all beings. We know its power in many forms, waterfalls and rain,
mists, and streams, rivers and oceans, snow and ice. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">We are grateful that the
waters are still here and meeting their responsibility to the rest of Creation.
Can we agree that water is important to our lives and being. We put<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>our minds together as one to send greetings
and thanks to the Water? Now our minds are one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">We turn our thoughts to all
of the Fish life in the water. They were instructed to cleanse and purify the
water. They also give themselves to us as food. We are grateful that they
continue to do their duties and we send to the Fish our greetings and our
thanks<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now our minds are one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Now we turn toward the vast
fields of Plant life. As far as the eye can see, the Plants grow, working many
wonders. They sustain many life forms. With our minds gathered together, we
give thanks and look forward to seeing Plant life for many generations to come.
Now our minds are one.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">When we look about us, we see
that the berries are still here, providing us with delicious foods. The leader
of the berries is the strawberry, the first to open in the spring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can we agree that we are grateful that the
berries are with us in the world, and send our thanksgiving, love, and respect
to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the berries?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now our minds are one.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">With one mind,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>we honor and thank all the Food Plants we
harvest from the garden, especially the Three Sisters who fed the people with
such abundance. Since the beginning of time, the grains, vegetables, beans and fruit
have helped the people survive. Many other living things draw strength from
them as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We gather together in our
minds all the Plant food and send them a greeting and thanks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now our minds are one. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Now we turn to the Medicine
Herbs of the world. From the beginning they were instructed to take away
sickness. They are always waiting and ready to heal us. We are so happy that
there are still among us those special few who remember how to use them for
healing. With one mind, we send thanksgiving, love and respect to the Medicines
and the keepers of the Medicines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now
our minds are one.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Standing around us we see all
the Trees. The Earth has many families of Trees who each have their own
instructions and uses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some provide
shelter and shade, others fruit and beauty and many useful gifts. The Maple is
the leader of the Trees. To recognize its gift of sugar when the People need it
most.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many peoples of the world
recognize a Tree as a symbol of peace and strength. With one mind we greet and
thank the Tree Life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now our minds are
one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">We gather our minds together
to send our greetings and thanks to all the beautiful animals living in the
world, who walk about with us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have
many things to teach us as people. We are grateful that they continue to share
their lives with us and hope that it will always be so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let us put our minds together as one and send
our thanks to the Animals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now our kinds
are one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">We put our minds together as
one and thank all the Birds who move and fly about over our heads. The Creator
gave them the gift of beautiful songs. Each morning they greet the day and with
their songs remind us to enjoy and appreciate life. The Eagle was chosen to be
their leader and to watch over the world. To all the Birds from the smallest
to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the largest we<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>send our joyful greeting<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and thanks. Now our minds are one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>`</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">We are all thankful for the
power we know as<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Four Winds. We hear
their voices in the moving air as they refresh us and purify<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the air we breathe, They help to bring the
change of seasons. From the four directions they come, bringing us messages and
giving us strength. With one mind we send our greeting and thanks to the Four
Winds. Now our minds are once. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Now we turn to the west where
our grandfathers the Thunder beings live. With lightning and thundering voices
they bring with them the water that renews life. We bring our minds together as
one to send greetings and thanks to our Grandfathers, the Thunderers. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">We send greeting and thanks
to the eldest brother the Sun. Each day without fail he travels the sky from
east to west, bringing the light of a new day. He is the source of all the
fires<span style="color: red;"> </span>of life. With one mind, we send our
greetings and thanks to our Brother the Sun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Now our minds are one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">We put our mind together an
give thanks to our oldest Grandmother, the Moon, who lights the nighttime sky.
She is the leader of women all over the world, and she governs the movements of
the ocean tides. By her changing face we measure the time,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and it is the Moon who watches over the
arrival of children here on Earth, Let us gather our thanks for Grandmother
Moon<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>together in a pile. layer upon
layer of gratitude and then joyfully fling that pile of thanks high into the
night sky that she will know. With one mind, we send greeting and thanks to our
Grandmother the Moon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">We give thanks to the Stars
who are spread across the sky like jewels. We see them at night, helping<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Moon<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>to lift the darkness and bring dew to the gardens and growing things.
When<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>we travel at night, they guide us
home. With our minds gathered as one, we send greetings and thanks to all the
Stars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now our minds are one.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">We gather our minds to greet
and thank the enlightened Teachers who come to help throughout the ages. When
we forget how to live in harmony, they remind us of the way we were instructed
to live as people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With one mind, we
send greetings and thanks to these caring Teachers. Now our minds are one.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">We now turn out thoughts to
the Creator, the Great Sprit, and send greetings and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>thanks for all the gifts of Creation,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everything we need to live<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>good lives here on Mother Earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For all the love that is still around us, we
gather our minds together as one and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>send our choicest words of greetings and thanks to the Creator.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now our minds are one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">We have now arrived at the
place where we end our words. Of all the things we have named, it is not our
intention to leave anything out. If something was forgotten, we leave it to
each individual to send such greeting and thanks in their own way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And now our minds are one.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Would you like your child to
recite this pledge of allegiance to the planet every single day?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">What kind of a society do you
think we’d have if we heard these words throughout the days of our schooling?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Do you think it would be
different from what we have here today?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Climate activists confront blah blah blah world leaders at
lavish COP26 dinner.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Climate activists to target UK airports to protest
expansion.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thousands march in Glasgow for action against climate
change. and end to blah blah blah.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Greta Thunberg accuses world leaders of pure madness for
climate failures at COP26.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Petition from 14 youth leaders says UN must declare a system-wide
climate emergency. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Decrying greenwashing at COP26, youth climate leaders join
tens of thousands at Glasgow march. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Human Rights coalition petitions UN to probe discriminatory
vaccine hoarding by rich nations </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Bolivian organizations reject opposition’s<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>call for strike and destabilization. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In light of campus multi layered problems, U. of Puerto Rico
students declare <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>indefinite strike.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Students push colleges to sever military-industrial complex
ties.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">China opens fist clinic in support of transgender youth in
Shanghai.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Fort Foundation<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to
divest endowment from fossil fuel companies.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">U.S. sees surge in wind energy from Texas panhandle to half
dozen coastal states. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">New York rejects two new gas power plants as inconsistent
with climate law.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">US Peace Prize awarded to World Beyond War.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Fossil Free Finance Act tells the fed to keep up on climate
risk.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Climate coalition demands Biden halt outrageous offshore
drilling auction.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ilhan Omar works to stop unacceptable $50 million weapons
sale to Saudi Arabia. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Markey-Merkley bill would stop big banks from throwing money
at dirty fossil fuel projects. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Greenpeace USA activists who blocked fossil fuel
thoroughfare will be cleared of all charges. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">U.S. GAO releases report<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>saying the federal response to missing/murdered indigenous women crisis
needs improvement. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Yakima Nation acquired Inaba Produce arms.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Interior Department takes steps to restore tribal homelands.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Solid NO as progressives reject Capitalist Pelosi push to
pass bipartisan bill without Build Back Better.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">N.J. Gov. Murphy issues climate pollutant mandate reducing
emissions 50% by 2030.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">LA city council votes unanimously to ban new drilling and
phase out existing drilling in unincorporated areas of the county. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">U.S. ‘Justice’ dismisses 7 of 8 charges against Venezuelan
diplomat Alex Saab,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Minneapolis voters could change how the city approaches
public safety. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Indira Shuemaker, a BLM activist who campaigned on defunding
the police<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>beat out incumbent on Des Moines
City Council.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">San Francisco DA charges police officer with manslaughter
for 2017 shooting. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Detroit voters OK launching reparations commission.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">New fund helps black farmers in Detroit purchase land. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Kansas City tenants union organizes for permanently
affordable housing. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ashville, NC begins eviction resistance to combat wave of
displacement. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Three Starbucks set for vote on union. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Kellogg workers still on strike in Memphis and across<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the country.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">John Deere workers hold the line and vote down second
contract offer.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Fast food workers strike across California.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">New York’s cabbies win debt forgiveness concessions.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Unprecedented shareholder resolutions call on Pfizer,
Moderna to share vaccine<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>tech.</p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Cecile Pinedahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06859495771889305391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218921764613108785.post-43747092362006112472021-11-01T17:14:00.013-07:002021-11-01T17:18:06.484-07:00COULD IT BE WE HAVE A TAPEWORM?<p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This morning Michael Moore reminds us that everyone of the EU
countries enjoys: : </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">•Universal free health care.<br />
•Free or nearly-free college. <br />
•Paid Family Leave for at least four months.<br />
•Complete care of all elderly. <br />
•Robust funding of schools. <br />
•All sorts of help for the jobless and the poor. <br />
•Workers enjoy mandatory paid vacation with a <i>minimum</i> of four
weeks off (some countries are almost double that).<br />
•Women having full equal rights. Abortion and birth control is free and easily
available in all but two E.U. countries (Malta and Poland). Most of their
constitutions have what we don’t have — an equal rights clause for all
women. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But we are told the United States is too poor to afford any of
those “fringes.” </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If this is not a feel-good morning, Michael Moore may not be
entirely to blame. For one thing, Americans still suffer from an historic
attachment to the Romantic Gone With the Wind notion that people ought to work
for free. Originally this urge was called slavery, but with the Civil
War, slavery became a no-no. Except for the small loophole which allowed
incarceration-for-free to take its place. Which is why our prisons bulge with
people working for free or nearly free whose skins happen to be of darker hues.
Their prison demography far exceeds their proportion in the general population
because they do better working under the hot sun. It has nothing to do with
racism.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This week, an article I first saw published by Information
Clearing House, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/israel-to-attack-iran-washington-gives-the-green-light-to-the-military-option/"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">“Israel to Attack Iran? Washington Gives the Green
Light to the 'Military Option,'”</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> by
Phillip Giraldi caught my eye. (Recovering it through Google is a fruitless
pursuit, Google favors disinformation, which is how it makes its money.)
The pre-election Biden seems to have promised to do what he could to distance
the U.S. from Israel’s depredations, but he was quickly set straight by a
recent DC visit from a contingent of Israeli heavy weights, including
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Prime Minister
Naftali Bennett himself to remind Biden and his top officials that Israel
“has the right to defend itself” against the Iranian threat. Biden who
has surrounded himself with Zionists like Blinken, Wendy Sherman and Victoria
Nuland who fill the three top slots at the State Department evidently caught
the drift. “Nuland is a leading neocon. And pending is the </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/19/cruz-hold-biden-middle-east-state-department-516240?fbclid=IwAR0DTlgcWJG9pPetRCDIoa5caw7bUN5b-Ew0Nu40maF3lF2-fQ3I7gRdrBE" title="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/19/cruz-hold-biden-middle-east-state-department-516240?fbclid=IwAR0DTlgcWJG9pPetRCDIoa5caw7bUN5b-Ew0Nu40maF3lF2-fQ3I7gRdrBE"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">appointment of Barbara Leaf</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, who has been nominated Assistant Secretary to head the State
Department’s Near East region. She is currently the Ruth and Sid Lapidus Fellow
at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), which is an AIPAC
spin off and a major component in the Israel Lobby,” to quote Phillip Giraldi.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Perhaps my recent readings into the prehistory of Latin and
Central America had something to do with my urge to take a closer
look. In a book which recently fell my way, <i>1491 </i>by
Charles C. Mann, the author turns his attention to the kinds of intertribal
conflicts vying for power and control that characterize shifting political
alliances in areas of pre-contact Bolivia and the Yucatan. He describes these
conquests as being of two kinds: military occupations; and hegemonic
colonization, the latter characterized by post-battle troop withdrawal with the
understanding that kings would now become subject vassals, and that tribute in
the form of taxes such as percentages of crop or trade goods would need
forfeiting to the controlling conquerors who would withdraw on condition of
that understanding. In other words, the defeated entity would now
become host to a tribute-extracting tapeworm. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hegemonic colonization of the United States by Israel</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The United States cannot afford to educate its people, attend to
their health, care for its elderly, concern itself with its poor and
unemployed, cater to its workers or stoop to succoring its women because it has
superseding commitments to warfare (the Pentagon) and to the <i>de facto</i> colonizer,
hegemonic colonizer Israel. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy5nnzQDAfas0bdZriXFhN6iAKDAyjaF4BVsQWXu3HySx9xD7VJll10PsvATctpGMwaSRJW24Z-sP_xEDgNTlFko2Q9xrxrOFslrzgyrYkpYC7NnobaZII_dBwwa0aIsAOuLzloiBaAj4/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="313" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy5nnzQDAfas0bdZriXFhN6iAKDAyjaF4BVsQWXu3HySx9xD7VJll10PsvATctpGMwaSRJW24Z-sP_xEDgNTlFko2Q9xrxrOFslrzgyrYkpYC7NnobaZII_dBwwa0aIsAOuLzloiBaAj4/w400-h640/high+priests+of+war.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">A look at a 26-page
2018 article published by UNZ Review </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"><a href="https://www.unz.com/article/911-was-an-israeli-job/"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">“9/11 Was an Israeli Job: How America was neoconned
into World War IV”</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> by Laurent Guyénot, citing a bibliography of 8 books,* lays
it out. Focusing on the events of 9-11 Guyénot points out the material evidence
linking to Israeli-American neocons, many having dual U.S. - Israeli
citizenship. He makes the very important point that the theory “9-11 was an
inside job” was deliberately designed to draw American attention away from
noticing the persuasive evidence linking Israel to the events of that
day, <i>and of course to weaken their trust in their own government. </i></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">But Guyénot saves
the best for last in a follow-the-money subsection titled <b>The Missing
$23 trillion</b>. I quote: “There is, for example, the <a href="http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/evidence/gold.html" title="http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/evidence/gold.html">missing gold in the
WTC basement</a> : $200 million were recovered from the estimated $1
billion stored: who took the [other 800] million? But that is nothing compared
to the <i>$2.3 trillion</i> that were missing from the accounts of
the Department of Defense for the year 2000, in addition to <i>$1.1
trillion</i> missing for 1999, [<i>totaling $3.4 trillion missing</i>]
according to a televised declaration made on September 10<sup>th</sup>, 2001,
the day before the attacks, by Donald Rumsfeld…. In 2001, the man who was
tasked to help track down the missing trillions was Under Secretary of Defense
(Comptroller) Dov Zakheim, a member of PNAC [Project for the New American
Century]…. Practically, the mystery had to be resolved by financial analysts at
Resource Services Washington (RSW). Unfortunately, their offices were
destroyed…the following morning. The “hijackers” of Flight AA77.., chose to
attempt a theoretically impossible downward spiral at 180 degrees in order to
hit the <i>west side</i> of the [Pentagon] building precisely at the
location of the accounting offices. The 34 experts at RSW perished in their
offices, together with 12 other financial analysts… </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">"By an incredible
coincidence, one of the financial experts trying to make sense of the Pentagon
financial loss, Bryan Jack…, died…on Flight AA77. In the words of the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/specials/attacked/victims/v_235.html" title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/specials/attacked/victims/v_235.html"><i>Washington
Post</i> database</a>: ‘Bryan C. Jack was responsible for crunching
America’s defense budget. He was a passenger on American Airlines Flight 77,
bound for official business in California when his plane struck the Pentagon,
where, on any other day, Jack would have been at work at his computer’. Yahweh
must have a sense of chutzpah!”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">And the United
States </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">cannot afford to educate its people, attend to
their health, care for its elderly, concern itself with its poor and unemployed,
cater to its workers or stoop to succoring its women because it has </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">a tapeworm.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">*•Thierry Meyssan <i>9/11 The Big Lie</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">•Geo W and Douglas B Ball: <i>The passionate attachments:
america’s involvement with Israel, 1947 to the Present</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Christopher Bollyn:<i> •Solving 9-11: the deception that
changed the world</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">•</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Michael Corliss
Piper: <i>The High Priests of war: The secret history of how
America’s “Neo-conservative” Trotskyites came to power and orchestrated the war
against Iraq as the First Step in their drive for global; empire.”</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">•</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> John J. Mearsheimerr
and Stephen m. Wait: <i>The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">•</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Stephen J. Sniegoski:<i> The
Transparent Cabal: The Neoconservative agenda, war in the Middle East, and the
national Inerest of Israel</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">•</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Laurent Guyénot<i> JFK
– 9/11: 50 Years of deep state</i> by </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">•9-11 <i>Made In Israel</i> by Victor Thorn </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz4Mnffj4-vY4JD1XyDqe_BFgc1UI1SgEp1qaGKRieZVi0sMewGN59Rk4rJKua50mvI1bM7AC0SZ-ESg3FL1yjGydhPzehUoZA1K5GJ5z2k6hek_VclXUUfdU5IDvdC_RScX8a9y4MNl0/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="182" data-original-width="617" height="94" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz4Mnffj4-vY4JD1XyDqe_BFgc1UI1SgEp1qaGKRieZVi0sMewGN59Rk4rJKua50mvI1bM7AC0SZ-ESg3FL1yjGydhPzehUoZA1K5GJ5z2k6hek_VclXUUfdU5IDvdC_RScX8a9y4MNl0/" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://bdsmovement.net/tags/petition">CALL FOR</a>
military embargo on Israel. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/climate_action_now_loc/?bTwoQeb&signup=1&cl=18748590478&v=136260&_checksum=28357302989118245d4d5136a858cbbf76d1c424255576260bdd05ba17ce61c1">SPEAK
TRUTH</a> to power: Join Greta Thunberg.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://nirs.salsalabs.org/alertonnrcejpolicy/index.html">BLAST</a>
the Nuclear “Regulatory” Commission.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXHjRNH8TPWqxSy4pPBTxKCBewShFaBXYKF6GSL67P33kwTs_iz8PFjtiSQrsNSmdu5rolcSCwiR1fpj_SnSniAcRhPvQCaCw-XMxAlKUPDeNbwKiw47UyPbeDqKQuLzFXMFxMDW2Kwnk/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="935" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXHjRNH8TPWqxSy4pPBTxKCBewShFaBXYKF6GSL67P33kwTs_iz8PFjtiSQrsNSmdu5rolcSCwiR1fpj_SnSniAcRhPvQCaCw-XMxAlKUPDeNbwKiw47UyPbeDqKQuLzFXMFxMDW2Kwnk/" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">288 organizations demand Biden administration condemn Israel’s
crackdown on human rights groups.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">OPEC & members shun Biden’s calls to boost oil output.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In change of tone, Brazil pledges 50% emissions cuts by 2030.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mexico to create state-owned company for lithium production.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Over 700 groups demand ‘real climate solutions.’ not net-zero
promises.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Letter accusing world “leaders” of climate betrayal signed by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">one million </i>people.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ahead of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>COP 26, worldwide
mobilizations launched demanding big banks end fossil fuel destruction.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Street murals to Glasgow: “Defund Climate Chaos!” </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvwPuQpfLeWTzBAS4D0syWLQtE3xx_hDzYb25AZLJ0-HB9JXyGrKUdHtIqWmwUMc6cTITgWbgh_cLDKl2wAaafz5aYfEf2dmpAno_wr-NzCzK62UWbuKXZTrhAIq_59_KfJjO2kJ6y2pk/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvwPuQpfLeWTzBAS4D0syWLQtE3xx_hDzYb25AZLJ0-HB9JXyGrKUdHtIqWmwUMc6cTITgWbgh_cLDKl2wAaafz5aYfEf2dmpAno_wr-NzCzK62UWbuKXZTrhAIq_59_KfJjO2kJ6y2pk/w400-h266/climate+chaos.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thousands demand the U.S. federal reserve account for climate
risk. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In world first, New Zealand Law forces banks to disclose climate
impacts of investments. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Climate activists block construction of fracking-based energy
plant. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Warren introduces bill to levy 15% minimum tax on corporate
profits.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Repeated violations’: California lawmakers call on DHS to end ICE
contracts in state. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Seattle teaches country about fixing “our democracy.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In N.Y.C. hundreds call on Federal Reserve to dump Powell, demand
Citigroup divest from fossil fuels. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Public<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Citizen applauds
Interior Department for considering climate change impacts of oil
drilling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">250 millionaires to Congress: ‘Now is the time to tax
billionaires.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Musk offers $6 billion if UN shows how it will solve world hunger.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gitmo jurors liken CIA torture to acts by ‘most abusive regimes in
modern history.’ </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tenth Circuit court issues stays of execution for John Grant and
Julius Jones. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Protesting budget cuts, teachers to go on strike in Scranton.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">‘Stakes could not be higher’: with Roe in danger, coalition
demands Supreme Court expansion. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style> <br /></p>Cecile Pinedahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06859495771889305391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218921764613108785.post-71998722447098897352021-10-27T09:11:00.000-07:002021-10-27T09:11:00.983-07:00DESPAIR<p class="MsoNormal">What are the challenges faced by a writer when she sees her
country committing suicide and a great part of the rest of the world following
like lemmings leaping off a cliff. For one thing, it requires staying a few
footfalls away from the bog of despair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In this weeks news<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://popularresistance.org/chief-justice-of-england-wales-joins-bench-for-assange-hearing/">Lord
High Judge of England and Wales Ian<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Duncan Burnet, will now share the bench<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>with lesser Judge Timothy Holyroyde</a> to hear the U.S. case for
extradition of Julian Assange.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why is
that significant?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The case itself
received a black eye when revelations exposed the CIA plot to assassinate
Assange, and because Judge Burnet has adjudicated similar high profile cases, informed
by a sense of greater humanity. That seems to indicate that in Very High
Places, the UK government may privilege humanitarianism over state conflict. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL-YbeljXzxeThFoJQaCmDuhN3ToM0y4xT0l_xLW_TjT6FoGp9YyByFA_fnwpqZsUjA7kJdvsTL9pVnr75mNVRYsMokPVFksLOP-IY8FL9gvru7P8vB78T9jL249sppixRtpbGYrXeof0/" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="174" data-original-width="290" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL-YbeljXzxeThFoJQaCmDuhN3ToM0y4xT0l_xLW_TjT6FoGp9YyByFA_fnwpqZsUjA7kJdvsTL9pVnr75mNVRYsMokPVFksLOP-IY8FL9gvru7P8vB78T9jL249sppixRtpbGYrXeof0/" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Judge Ian Burnet<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/10/24/how-manchin-just-positioned-china-dominate-green-energy-21st-century">Common<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dreams</a> reports that in an ironic twist of
coal-baron-Manchin fate, China is now positioned to become the champion of
solar energy with one desert site that by 2015 will produce more electricity
than twice of all U.S. solar combined. But recently we have learned that 5133
acres are being leased for the “<a href="https://solarenergyzones.com/claims/nvn----100224">Indian Springs Solar
Right of Way</a>” in the Nevada Desert. The principal is registered as “<a href="https://solarenergyzones.com/claims/nvn----100224">Bonanza Solar LLC</a>”
located in Dan Diego. Other solar energy concerns are housed at the same
location, a fact which has piqued this writer’s curiosity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can it be that a shadow entity is saving the
U.S. from itself?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Collaboration by the U.S. with Saudi Arabia, one of the
principle agents in the events of 9-11, has probably produced the worst
humanitarian catastrophe on Earth now with famine seriously threatening the
people of Yemen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Compounding the danger,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a recent New Yorker article, <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/11/the-ship-that-became-a-bomb">“The
Dead Ship” </a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>chronicles the decay of an
floating oil tanker terminal parked on Yemen‘s coast only a few miles south of Hodeidah,
the sole port through which humanitarian food supplies to Yemen can enter the
country. A spill would effectively close the port of Hodeidah and block the
narrow Bab el Mandeb straight through which most of the Middle East’s shipping
must pass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And a spill is inevitable. The
only question is when. Meantime the U.S. has sided with Tigray in the current
war in Ethiopia. More money for insatiable munitions makers, Lockheed Martin
and the rest of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the pack, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">more yummy</b> for Congressional
portfolios.. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Our good Congress is all too happy to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/10/19/corporate-dems-belly-ache-over-social-investments-senate-panel-approves-extra-29">pass
the Pentagon another shady $29 billion,</a> committing grand larceny against
American citizens, and the 500,000 unhoused of them forced to live in tents
along highways and railroad rights of ways during a pandemic while the state
police continues to dump their meager belongings into trucks to be hauled away
to the city dumps as they “clear” the area of human detritus. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFUOqMWJSUppCXbcDtQ1testDokDZmY-FskkjdShVvzGvn8BXeXeaV-KyuxexnibbswTyjiSLhLQE6ZPrY8wjMpOtxJrpoHDDD-tUzyRk8aBopmXXxVhqhA3nBgbFTB0YB7vIoNgiZkHY/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="667" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFUOqMWJSUppCXbcDtQ1testDokDZmY-FskkjdShVvzGvn8BXeXeaV-KyuxexnibbswTyjiSLhLQE6ZPrY8wjMpOtxJrpoHDDD-tUzyRk8aBopmXXxVhqhA3nBgbFTB0YB7vIoNgiZkHY/w392-h400/pentagon+spending.jpg" width="392" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And it was very these homeless, this writer was planning to cover
this week, all the more so because as of now, the Bay Area is several hours
into a winter rain and wind storm guaranteed to soak, freeze, and demoralize
these shelterless souls, many of them children, some of them sometimes working
two or more jobs, but unable to afford landlord and real estate shysters’
inflated rents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Against the juggernaut
of State indifference, I juxtaposed the efforts of a few home-(non-government) based
projects: in Portland, fed up with the do-nothing blather of her City Council,
Mimi German is one of a number of souls who builds tarpees for unhoused
people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A tarpee is a teepee made of
tarpaulins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It saw it first light of day
at Standing Rock (where AOC got the dawning idea that she could run for
Congress). As a housing solution, tarpees first hit Seattle as a temporary
solution to homelessness, and from there migrated to Portland where Mimi German
takes some credit for putting them up, one by one, each at a cost of some $127.
Each has a chimney which allows its occupant to cook. Although the parks have
not “allowed” them, a handful of them have appeared in one city park and, so
far at least, they have eluded police sweeps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On the West Coast we are seeing Enclosures as part of the State’s
response. The police sweep a homeless camp void of its occupants and
impound their meager possessions, and the grass is shaved. Such sweeps are followed by Enclosures,
sturdy cyclone-fenced-in areas, constructed, unlike most jails, to keep people out. (The
tradition of Enclosure harks back to 17<sup>th</sup> and 18<sup>th</sup>
century England, where bit by bit the public commons grazing lands were taken
back from the common people by the gentry.)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But this sad state of affairs is not part of the East Coast
landscape, at least not in New York which still can't properly house 10% of the
nation’s homeless, the minimal 50,000 homeless human beings identified by the
current body count because,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>according to
<a href="https://www.iahh.org/2009-convocation/witnesses/marc-g">Marc Greenberg
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of the Interfaith Assembly on
Homelessness and Housing</a> who has been doing advocacy work for the homeless
for the past 40 years,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>half of New York’s
shelters are substandard. He describes the moment when the subject of homelessness actually entered the
conversation as his big triumph.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Recently it was my good fortune to run into <a href="https://www.oaklandandtheworld.org/who-we-are">Deborah Matthews</a>,
Secretary of Oakland and the World Enterprizes, a 79 unit housing project slated
to break ground this fall on land purchased in 2014 by Elaine Brown, former
Black Panther, and present CEO.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://www.oaklandandtheworld.org/">Their mission</a> is to offer
housing and jobs to formerly incarcerated and other people facing extreme
barriers to economic survival. This they plan to do with a constellation of
profitable businesses linked to the project, such business as a food truck in a
grocery ghetto, an urban farm, a tech center, and a fitness center.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What drew my interest to this project is the inclusion
of voices of the very people it is designed to help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They speak for themselves<a href="https://www.oaklandandtheworld.org/press"> here</a>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is all too rare to hear the voices of
people such good intentions are actually meant to serve. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In suicide-bent societies, we hear the continued blather of
politicians who try to convince their electorate their intentions are exactly
the opposite of what they really want as this <a href="https://www.jsturniolo.com/blog/545-vs-300000000-people-charley-reeses-final-column-for-the-orlando-s">last
column<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of Charley Reese</a> describes. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Finally, this week saw the funeral of Megan Rice,
91-year-old anti-nuclear weapons activist who at the age of 84 was condemned to
serve three years hard time for trespass at Y-12, the Tennessee locus of
U.S.’s. plutonium stockpile. Sentencing a fragile 84-year-old woman with heart
disease to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>three years for trespass is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Court Misconduct</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finally<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>we have allowed “police misconduct” to enter the conversation. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This week over 600 people were arrested demanding
of their government appropriate response to catastrophic global warming, a
stunning example of police misconduct. It’s high time, the dam gates opened to allow conversation about the flood of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“Court Misconduct.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And to cheer you up,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://www.michaelmoore.com/p/insurrectionist-envy">here’s</a> the
column I wish I’d written<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>this morning. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">To my readers:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
colleague has offered to help me sift through ten years of newsletters with a
view to creating a collection of posts worthy of publication. To that end I
want to enlist my readers’ help by asking you<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>if one or more issues come to mind which in your view either may have
sharpened or changed your way of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>thinking. Please let me have their titles and date of publication. Use
the “contact” button on my web site: cecilepineda.com, or e-mail me at cecilep@sonic.net.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">While I am engaged by this new project, I will be publishing
irregularly. I propose sharing my subscriber list with my colleague Lisa
Savage, who ran on the Green ticket for U.S. Senate from Maine in 2020; and who
publishes an extremely well written and well-researched blog, Went 2 the
Bridge. Once you have had a chance to become its recipient if you find her
newsletter inappropriate,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>you may
unsubscribe directly or if you prefer, please let me know you object. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Cecile Pineda</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>MORE ACTIONS</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">DEMAND the Department of “Justice” drop extradition and
prosecution of journalist Julian Assange at 202 353-1555.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Call as often as you can. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/6503/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=14408">URGE</a>
your Senators and Representatives to read “Why reducing risk of nuclear war is
hidden in plain sight.” </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.peaceaction.org/get-involved/action-alert-cut-increases-to-the-pentagon-2/?emci=9484a2be-8132-ec11-9820-c896653b26c8&emdi=b25dcfea-8432-ec11-9820-c896653b26c8&ceid=219145">PUNCTURE</a>
Pentagon bloat.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/letters/sign-and-send-to-your-us-senators-guarantee-the-right-to-abortion-pass-the-womens-health-protection-act?detail=emailaction&link_id=1&can_id=447ac5b0d7a5124338b20f2bb702d0f8&source=email-re-sign-and-send-if-you-agree-we-need-federal-abortion-protections-now&email_referrer=email_1333162&email_subject=re-sign-and-send-if-you-agree-we-need-federal-abortion-protections-now">DEFEND</a>
women’s rights to own their own bodies.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://stopthemoneypipeline.com/bny-mellon-adani/?link_id=0&can_id=655968a96e1bce05c463b2f640bf633c&source=email-tell-bank-of-new-york-mellon-do-not-fund-the-carmichael-coal-mine&email_referrer=email_1334724&email_subject=tell-bank-of-new-york-mellon-do-not-fund-the-carmichael-coal-mine">EXPRESS</a>
your outrage that Bank of New York Mellon is funding Carmichael Coal Mine. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/broad-public-support-for-strikes/?link_id=4&can_id=447ac5b0d7a5124338b20f2bb702d0f8&source=email-74-of-americans-support-workers-on-strikeare-you-one-of-them&email_referrer=email_1336364&email_subject=74-of-americans-support-workers-on-strike-are-you-one-of-them">JOIN</a>
74% of Americans who support striking workers. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Chief Justice of England and Wales joins bench for Assange
hearing.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">24 rights groups call on Garland to #freeAssange.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Europe’s largest pension fund announces fuel divestment. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Over 30 countries agree to cut methane by 30%. Why can‘t we?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Climate movement hails mind-blowing $40 trillion in fossil
fuel divestment pledges. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Australian research team devises cheap and scalable way to
break up CO<span style="color: black; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">2 into C and O2</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Chile at dawn<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of new
political era with death of neoliberalism. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Brazilian Senate commission accuses Bolsonaro of crimes
against humanity<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for COVID
recklessness.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Nicaragua the exception as journalist reports a government
actually looking after ordinary people! </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Quebec declares end to fossil fuel extraction<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in province. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Irish writer Sally Rooney shuns apartheid<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Israel<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>after recent human rights reports </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Palestinians protest in support of prisoners on hunger
strike.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Half a million Korean workers walk off job in general
strike. Why can ‘t we?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Finland’s public childcare system<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>puts Britain (and U.S.) to shame. </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">International Tribunal seeks to charge U.S. govt. with
crimes against humanity.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">‘March of million’ in Sudan revives spirit of December
revolution.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">New study finds that indigenous<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>U.S. and Canadian activists stop and delay
greenhouse gas pollution equivalent to at least one –quarter of annual U.S. and
Canadian emissions. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">U.S. donates 3.6 million<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>doses of Pfizer vaccine to Nigeria. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Supreme Court commission<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>signals support for term limits.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Guantanamo: U.S. court rules inmate’s detention ‘unlawful.’</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">People vs. fossil fuels mobilization ends with youth-led
civil disobedience and over 655 arrests.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Biden Administration ramps up offshore wind plans. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">House intelligence (oxymron) committee seeks answers from
CIA on plot to assassinate Assange. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Arizona groups demand Sinema ‘stop obstructing’ on Medicare
expansion. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Postal Banking now reality in DC, Baltimore, Falls Church
and the Bronx. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Small business organizations call for filibuster
carveout<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to start debate on Freedom to
Vote Act.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ultraviolet slams Senate after failing to pass Freedom to
Vote Act, says results will directly harm women<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>of color. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">House Progressives call on Biden to declare a climate
emergency – Now.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">House panel votes to hold #45 adviser Bannon in criminal
contempt.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">‘We’re appalled by your failure’: 5 vets resign from Sen.
Sinema’s advisory council. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">‘And maybe more’: Biden says he’s open<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to reforming filibuster to win voting rights.
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">‘Like it never happened’: federal judge tosses #45 attack
on<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>clean water rule.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dartmouth College formally announces plan<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to divest from fossil fuels.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Enbridge Line 5 shut down in accordance with Michigan
governor’s order. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Forest defenders continue to block destruction of rare
forest habitat within Humboldt Redwoods State Park. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Diné organization files petition against the U.S. citing
human<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>rights violations.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tulalip fishermen to appear in Skagit court defending treaty
rights. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mi’kmaq grandmothers and water protectors celebrate Alton
Gas decommissioning. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">SEPTA workers in So. Philly votes to authorize strike.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Taxi drivers plan<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>hunger strike for debt relief. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Amazon workers in Staten Island to file for union vote.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Workers at beverage giant Refresco defeat notorious
union<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>buster.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Michigan expands maternal and post-partum care for people in
prison .</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Reno transit workers holding form in second strike since August.
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">John<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Deere strike
shows tight labor market ready to pop.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Low age workers take power back in ‘Great Resignation .’</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A ‘shoot to incapacitate’ policy puts Lagrange,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Georgia chief and town in spotlight.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Former Black Panther Russell Maroon Shoatz freed from prison
after 49 years. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Man jailed in solitary for over a year fist to due private
prison<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>company under recent state law. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Facebook papers spur more calls to “break them up.”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Advocates say they hope new California law protecting
unaccompanied kids gets duplicated nationwide. </p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Cecile Pinedahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06859495771889305391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218921764613108785.post-44155782894198050602021-10-11T19:27:00.001-07:002021-10-17T11:24:32.159-07:00Megan Rice (1930 – 2021)<p class="MsoNormal">My friend Megan Rice is dead at 91 years of age after a life
time of helping others, part of it protesting nuclear weapons—weapons of mass
destruction.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The account of her life can be read in this <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/megan-rice-dead/2021/10/11/f11ef0d0-28cc-11ec-9de8-156fed3e81bf_story.html">Washington
Post</a> article,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a canned obit that
manages to keep the truth of what went on at Y-12, the U.S. nuclear facility in
Oakridge, TN, away from the eyes and minds of its readers.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I first met Megan in Nevada, the first year I went to
protest the horror of drone warfare, and its destruction, not only of
civilians, but of the entire social fabric of the many countries (Afghanistan,
Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, Libya, Yemen among them) drones target to this day.
One of many protesters offering court support that day in 2010 at the trial of
what came to be known as <a href="https://www.nukeresister.org/2010/09/16/vegas-drone-trial-">The Creech
Fourteen</a>, I witnessed the trial judge sentencing all fourteen resisters for
time already served.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Judge William
Jansen had called for a recess of one month prior to that sentencing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During that time, despite the enormous
pressure he must have felt from many government entities, he limited his sentencing
to time served. Then he made a fatal mistake. He asked the defendants, many of
whom are nationally prominent figures, all of them highly articulate
people,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>if any of them had statements to
make! </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5wFtoOY-BDn8eH8PrhQpGhsTljeiReHKgZM32Cte8JdlSc9TW8zsx6wP_o-jkNj9R_qF3vsUCem8QSr-A8_dbkdJMjgWCJ79KlPfI1vbwezb8HJW3rR9SLySNuJvox0PW0IInh-MmUnI/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="540" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5wFtoOY-BDn8eH8PrhQpGhsTljeiReHKgZM32Cte8JdlSc9TW8zsx6wP_o-jkNj9R_qF3vsUCem8QSr-A8_dbkdJMjgWCJ79KlPfI1vbwezb8HJW3rR9SLySNuJvox0PW0IInh-MmUnI/" width="320" /></a></div> Megan Rice flanked by her compatriots, Boertje-Obed
and Walli <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <br />
</p><p class="MsoNormal">Megan Rice spoke first.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We had been given a list of the fourteen, and brief biographies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From that list I knew Megan was a nun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knew nothing more about her. But the fiery
vigor by which she leaned in toward the judge and affirmed her belief that the
use of drones by the U.S. government amounted to war crimes, overawed me. Who
was this woman, I wondered?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had to
find out.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Later that day, at lunch at the Nevada Desert Experience,
Megan was one of many still sitting at table. I horned my way in next to
her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knew I had only the briefest
time. I got right to the point. “I was educated by nuns.” “What Mother House?”
Megan asked me. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mother House?</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knew nothing of Mother House, so I said “I
went to school with George Carlin.” “So did I,” said Megan, which is how we
discovered we had been schoolmates two years apart at Corpus Christi elementary
school, a progressive Manhattan grammar school, based on the learn-by-doing,
collaborative ideas of John Dewey and the brain child of Father George B. Ford.
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">From that time on, Megan greeted the appearance of various
of my newsletters with “How proud Father Ford would be that Corpus Christi
graduated such a voice of resistance!” </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I got to know more of Megan’s life when I took her to
breakfast one time when she made a brief visit to Oakland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She told me of her 40 years in Africa,
teaching children math and science. Meantime, morning traffic swarmed outside
us.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Slow down, slow down!” cried Megan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Over those 40 years she had done much more
than teach, she had learned African time!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnNQEPohcQQDe6bVdKZjBoNM8kKaO1RtONmVdEQKKIhGiOdEVLMy2t6NTLENSr7FCUy7ae6DJfY-QRdwg2w3_zDJk_2kH7LvqkrLPhrMUW8RPlMFNpTMj0nG49AhHYsnu3mhPzFZDRd9U/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="540" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnNQEPohcQQDe6bVdKZjBoNM8kKaO1RtONmVdEQKKIhGiOdEVLMy2t6NTLENSr7FCUy7ae6DJfY-QRdwg2w3_zDJk_2kH7LvqkrLPhrMUW8RPlMFNpTMj0nG49AhHYsnu3mhPzFZDRd9U/w400-h296/Rice+with+Obed+%2526+Walli+.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">After much prayer, with her two compatriots, Greg
Boertje-Obed (r) and Michael Walli (l), and despite her growing heart problems,
all three determined to break through four of Y-12 security perimeters, and
pour blood on the unre-enforced, earthquake-vulnerable brick building housing
the uranium stockpile of the U.S. government as an act of civil disobedience
against war, nuclear weapons, and the criminal diversion of enormous resources
to support its war making technology. To quote the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/megan-rice-dead/2021/10/11/f11ef0d0-28cc-11ec-9de8-156fed3e81bf_story.html">Post</a>,
“the United States is currently spending over $1 trillion to modernize its
nuclear forces.” (A full analysis of the <a href="http://trivalleycares.org/new/TVC-budget-analysis-part-one.pdf">U.S.
Nuclear Budget</a> can be found on the <a href="http://trivalleycares.org/new/TVC-budget-analysis-part-one.pdf">Tri-Valley
Cares website</a>.) It is a government that, even despite a pandemic, still
refuses either to house, feed, or offer a universal health plan to its
citizens, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/03/18/978244891/hud-growth-of-homelessness-during-2020-was-devastating-even-before-the-pandemic">more
than half a million</a> of whom are <a href="https://policyadvice.net/insurance/insights/homelessness-statistics/">now
homeless</a>—many of them veterans, 17 of whom commit suicide every day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Post says nothing of that.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6g9bNRTMdpIZ1rYDydyGQAz2OSf5FQw_ZYIpdrnu697lVcsGIdFmug4GlhYoVK8TUcBXjhh_vJt4mRYH2XxV6kh8arf_ArifoP8R1pVZN2RTIDxxRy-DAyYcUJ51L4Kelrj8sTQKIPQc/" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="203" data-original-width="320" height="406" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6g9bNRTMdpIZ1rYDydyGQAz2OSf5FQw_ZYIpdrnu697lVcsGIdFmug4GlhYoVK8TUcBXjhh_vJt4mRYH2XxV6kh8arf_ArifoP8R1pVZN2RTIDxxRy-DAyYcUJ51L4Kelrj8sTQKIPQc/w640-h406/homelessness+by+state.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Numbers of homeless in the U.S.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Megan was 85 when she was condemned to serve three years
time, part of that in Ocilla, GA, one of the United States most notorious prisons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When she was transported to the Manhattan
House of Detention, her warm underwear was taken from her. She had to endure
the van trip from Georgia to New York in freezing conditions, without the
protection of the underwear her loving friends had joined together to provide
her. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But no matter what, Megan’s great grace was her never-ending
smile, and her twinkling blue eyes. No matter what, with her faith, she had so
much to be thankful for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.icanw.org/">Sign</a> the International
Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapaons.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://oneclickpolitics.global.ssl.fastly.net/messages/edit?promo_id=14187">Oppose</a>
war and the war making that speeds global warming,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.change.org/p/city-of-san-francisco-county-of-marin-suspend-military-jet-demonstrations-during-fleet-week?recruiter=338476&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_message&recruited_by_id=1ab25c90-dfed-012f-d03b-40406f61fb41&share_bandit_exp=message-17647509-en-US&share_bandit_var=v0">Nix</a>
the “Blue Angels” war making publicity stunt.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Global religious leaders issue joint call for ‘radical’
climate action.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">House passes amendment to cut U.S. complicity in Saudi
bombing of Yemen.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Veterans for Peace organize a march and rally to protest
Japan’s planned release of million of gallons of radioactive water from the
crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific.</p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Cecile Pinedahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06859495771889305391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218921764613108785.post-2222682246329243582021-09-12T09:48:00.006-07:002021-10-17T11:28:40.719-07:00TITUS’ FEAST:<p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>how we wasted 20 years fighting the “Global
War on Terror” instead of climate change.</i></p><i>
</i><p class="MsoNormal"><i> </i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Among the rash of 9/11 articles, this one from the<a href="https://theintercept.com/2021/09/08/afghanistan-iraq-generals-soldiers-disciplined-911/">
Intercept</a> caught my eye. “General Failure: How the U.S. Military Lied About
the 9/11 Wars” by Peter Maas purports to line up the culprit chain of command:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">•The generals Lloyd Austin, now Secretary of Defense, and
David Petraeus who both lied to Congress about how well the war was going;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">•Politicians complicit with the generals sustaining overseas
bloodshed.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So far so bad. What about the people who elect those
politicians and who, along with lobbyists given a free hand with Citizens
United, back them with obscene PAC bribes? What about the lobbyists and war
profiteers? For the most part, from presidents on down, Americans love war, the
Ur-baseball of the culture where all is staked on “winning.” But Peter Maas is
not a cultural writer. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The military also happens to be the biggest burner of fossil
fuel in the world, far outstripping even nations. From the start of the
grandiosely titled "Global War on Terror,” from 2001 to the present, the U.S.
military’s emissions amount to ½ billion metric tons of greenhouse gasses
related directly to war-generated fuel consumption. To better grasp the scope of
the miasma produced, below is a graphic<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>from Brown University’s Cost of War Project: </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjelI-OS7YkKOA0Iebdwp6g_wRylEy-Dh201Pr7G3J7LJglxhVVS7DAPdMTfoc_VR-4qTdW1ZUc1a0187MpqmxoWiGh6zG-zrqr8F7JLQXdFPRDF457NCPpT_Y3_K25jqGYk3f3g7SiTzY/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="779" data-original-width="1280" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjelI-OS7YkKOA0Iebdwp6g_wRylEy-Dh201Pr7G3J7LJglxhVVS7DAPdMTfoc_VR-4qTdW1ZUc1a0187MpqmxoWiGh6zG-zrqr8F7JLQXdFPRDF457NCPpT_Y3_K25jqGYk3f3g7SiTzY/w640-h390/military+metric+tons.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But because Peter Mass is not an environmental writer he overlooks
addressing<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Ur-Crime of the Anthropocene
which results in the inability of our planet to continue sustaining life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The criminal chain of command from the generals on down to
the war profiteers and the people who elect U.S. politicians, aided by the oil
and gas corporations with their oiligarch CEOs, the Talking Heads, the satraps like
Bremer and Wolfowitz, all are responsible for bringing us the fires in the
West, Southwest, and Mediterranean Europe; the floods in Germany and Tennessee
and Iowa, the walls of water in New York and New Jersey, the hurricane that
destroyed the energy grid in New Orleans, snows that burst the pipes in Mighty
Texas where nothing ever goes wrong, displacement of millions of the world’s
populations through drought, and now famine and starvation in Madagascar. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Proportionality</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If we were bent on retribution, what form might it take?
What commensurate punishment might we fix for the loss of our planetary
habitat? Such a scene was set some 450 years ago by Shakespeare in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Titus Andronicus</i>. (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Why, they are…baked in that pie whereof their mother daintily hath fed.</i>
- Titus Andronicus, V. 3)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Picture a cosmic banquet to which all miscreants are
invited. The vengeful cooks have spent days baking pies. It’s evening now. The
table is set. Generals sit at the head, the politicians and oiligarchs sit
within reach of the salt, the war profiteers have a table all their own, all
the little people sit at the low tables. The banqueters chow down. The meat is
tough, half raw; it cries in pain. In the sauce, little arms and legs appear. The
banqueters eat undeterred. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Heaving and retching begin when they find the limbs of their
own children.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As for the peacemakers, they have had the taste of this
banquet in their mouths for a very long time.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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to stop Line 3.</p>
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of U.S. politics</p>
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two California climate bills.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioRHvbjZygECh_KtD62WhDKO4C2TBpMNSfn2KzkSVqeh8gwGDmicDNPQ4iLz4QRi1r41h3S3RFjKkWiOkuxZIc6U6JVeYijY94y5q_lLLkP7YY-3zAg8lIaS8jTn9ux2BRseshsswKALw/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="935" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioRHvbjZygECh_KtD62WhDKO4C2TBpMNSfn2KzkSVqeh8gwGDmicDNPQ4iLz4QRi1r41h3S3RFjKkWiOkuxZIc6U6JVeYijY94y5q_lLLkP7YY-3zAg8lIaS8jTn9ux2BRseshsswKALw/w400-h200/roses.jpg..jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Momentous moratorium on deep sea mining adopted at Global
Biodiversity Summit.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Indian farmers stage huge rally against agricultural laws.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In London, continued Extinction Rebellion protests include
animal rights protesters and more than with 500 arrests. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Australian union calls for boycott of General Mills
products. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Calls for impeachment as Bolsonaro incites far-right rallies
in Brazil.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In unanimous ruling, Mexican Supreme Court decriminalizes
abortion.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Groups call on Trudeau and RCMP to protect Secwepemc
activists calling on Canada to halt construction of the TransMouuntian
pipeline. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Applause as Australia backs COVID vaccine patent waiver. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">With the escape of six high-profile Palestinians, Israel’s
prison break has Palestinians celebrating.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">More than 200 health journals call for urgent action on
climate crisis.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Climate activists rally outside Biden’s Queens visit.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Climate groups tell Dems: Don’t fuel hydrogen hype. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sunrise movement responds to Biden’s comments at press
briefing in N. Jersey.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">110 groups across 4 states tell key senators; Pass
clean<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>electricity program through
reconciliation now.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">300+ groups demand clean electricity payment program exclude
fossil fuels and false solutions. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Water protectors shut down major U.S.-Canadian tar sands
terminal.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Biden administration to re-examine #45’s plan for more
Western Arctic oil leasing. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Campaigners urge Dems to exclude ‘false solutions’ from U.S.
clean energy standard. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Reps. Mondaire Jones, and Jasmine Crocket<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>together with MOVE Texas tell Biden: end
filibuster and pass voting rights & court expansion legislation.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Anger mounts over Dems refusal to address jobless
crisis.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Judge temporarily blocks one of the largest forced-birth
groups and vigilante pals from sing the nation’s largest provider of
reproductive healthcare. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Some corporations stand up to Texas abortion law. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">New Mexicans fight for abortion access and win.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Biden offers possible path against Texas abortion bounty
law. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">AG Garland dues Texas over unconstitutional abortion law.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Greg Abbotts’ approval rating sinks to all-time low as COVID
rages across Texas. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As Biden tours Ida damage, protesters demand end to fossil
fuels.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">After Hurricane Ida, mutual aid provides safety and survival.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <br /></p>Globally politicians call on Biden to drop prosecution
against Assange.
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Biden: Republican governors vowing to sue over vaccine rules
“cavalier” about constituent’s health.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Public health experts praise Biden’s new vaccination
requirements.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Federal judge blocks Florida GOP’s anti-protest law.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ex-prosecutor indicted for misconduct in Ahmaud Arbery
death.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Missouri teacher resigns after school district orders him to
remove pride flag from class.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Largest Confederate statue left in U.S. to be removed this
week in Richmond</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">10,000 UAW members gear up for strike vote at john Deere.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">McDonald’s employees walk out in Bradford, PA. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Farmworkers invite all 100 Senators to work alongside them
for one day: two, Cory Booker and Alex Padilla accept. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Prison abolitionists target architectural firm in St. Louis
Park, MN. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style> <br /></p>Cecile Pinedahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06859495771889305391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218921764613108785.post-86983173423882334022021-09-04T10:05:00.015-07:002021-10-17T11:33:56.622-07:00SANCTIONS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">sanctions, n. - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sanctions can be either comprehensive or selective, using the blocking
of assets and trade restrictions to accomplish foreign policy and national
security goals.</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This week we look at three dates: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Labor Day –<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sept 7 when 35 million Americans are slated
to lose their unemployment benefits.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Oct. 3 – when national eviction
moratorium officially ends. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Aug. 27 – when Supreme Court ends Biden’s eviction
moratorium.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In theory, sanctions are supposed to reduce a population to
such dire straights that it will rise up, and overthrow its government, thereby
producing the regime change that will allow a foreign government the
opportunity to replace it with a compliant dictatorship which will stand by
while it plunders its treasury, and seizes its natural resources. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As of June, 2021, <a href="https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0410/countries-sanctioned-by-the-u.s.---and-why.aspx">countries
subject to U. S. sanctions</a> include the Balkans, Belarus, Burma, Burundi,
Central African Republic, Cuba, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine/Russia,
Venezuela, Yemen, and Zimbabwe.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Now, what might sanctions look like when they come home to
roost?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">At present, the U.S. government is controlled under the
Democratic leadership of Joe Biden. If we wanted to replace that government
with an authoritarian government, would we throw an additional 35 million more
citizens out on the streets to live in tents, while simultaneously tossing them
out of the money economy?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">With what authoritarian government might we be planning to
replace the present administration?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Does a duck look like a duck to you?</p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Cecile Pinedahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06859495771889305391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218921764613108785.post-15151970569157888362021-08-24T15:55:00.006-07:002021-10-17T11:35:18.314-07:00EXTRA: WAR = CLIMATE COLLAPSE <p> <span style="font-size: 24pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Imagine an EXTRA edition of
the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New York Times</i>, where the font
size takes up the ENTIRE TOP FOLD of the FRONT PAGE screaming: </span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;">WAR = HUMAN EXTINCTION</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 24pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">The above <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>equation is the MAIN ISSUE, the ONLY<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ISSUE.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 24pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;">Fossil fuel consumption added up:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Afghanistan</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">:
fossil fuel providing air transport of all war materiel, including army
battalions, airplanes. Countless on-the-ground forays of gasoline-powered half
tracks and tanks, armored vehicles and drones operated remotely from half-way
around the globe. And all the burning<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>toxic waste fire pits.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Iraq</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">: All
the oil fields around Basra set on fire burning for weeks (Gulf I). Fossil fuel
providing air transport of all war materiel, countless forays on-the-ground of airplanes,
armed personnel vehicles, half tracks and tanks and drones operated remotely
from half-way around the globe. And all the burning toxic waste fire pits.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Add to that colossal fossil
fuel consumption behind military operations in Libya, Yemen, Syria, Turkey, Lebanon,
Pakistan; and satellite operations in Ukraine and secret wars in Somalia and
others the American public doesn’t even hear about. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Add to that all the fossil
fuel consumption in the nearly 1,000 U.S. Military bases worldwide, many
engaged in support services of the Middle Eastern conflicts. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;">WAR = EXTINCTION OF <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ALL</i> LIFE</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 24pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Against total military
pollution weigh: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 24pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">•Katrina, and all subsequent
hurricanes and typhoons exceeding “normal” wind velocities; </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">•catastrophic floods in
China, Germany, Iowa, lower Manhattan, Tennessee</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">•fires in California, the
South West, and Southern Mediterranean, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">•the imminent failure of the
Gulf Stream current, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">•melting of the Polar
Icecaps, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">•displacement of whole
populations affected by climate collapse,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">•drought,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">•famine,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">•pandemics,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">•Technical remediation
failing under stress of climate collapse</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">•OTHER: all else overlooked
here. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;">EITHER/OR</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 24pt;">EITHER it's war OR climate
that supports life and happiness on Earth. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 24pt;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;">YOU CANNOT HAVE BOTH.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 24pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">The rest is DISTRACTION: last-minute
Kabul airport scrambling, petty discussion of who to pin blame on, hand
wringing following yet another defeat of the Empire’s mighty armies by farmers
with guns (who haven’t yet lost their connection to the Earth). </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">More distraction</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Project for the New American
Century (<a href="https://www.e-ir.info/2020/02/01/new-american-century-1997-2006-and-the-post-cold-war-neoconservative-moment/">PNAC</a>)
has mostly been scrubbed from the internet. It advanced the plan that 7 Middle
Eastern countries in 7 years ought to be the next U.S. foreign policy
objective.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is those 7 Middle
Eastern countries that could be destabilized to failed states, all to become
part of an American Empire, governed by U.S. appointed satraps, in that short span
of time. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxxstFHPKZCO2Shr7MU94sujUhCMxpYs_pqP0_ZM05JEq_UrdNvyM8YkrsBmQ9M1h6IvzXefWTrUe7z3sOVuvHYrPhUVieLeV8zn3B5OnTiRFL7SEFouXO8b8gQABZNknZWStJTnwzJcc/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="258" data-original-width="460" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxxstFHPKZCO2Shr7MU94sujUhCMxpYs_pqP0_ZM05JEq_UrdNvyM8YkrsBmQ9M1h6IvzXefWTrUe7z3sOVuvHYrPhUVieLeV8zn3B5OnTiRFL7SEFouXO8b8gQABZNknZWStJTnwzJcc/w400-h224/new+world+order.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century">One
section</a> especially reads: “Further, the process of transformation, even if
it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some
catastrophic and catalyzing event—<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">like a
new Pearl Harbor.” </i>(from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rebuilding
America’s Defenses, </i>“Creating Tomorrow’s Dominant Force”). </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">None of its related websites
points out that a goodly number of its signatories hold dual U.S.-Israeli
citizenship. Notice how a politically disempowered cordon of failed states
surrounding Israel might be of benefit to preserving its own chancy U.S.-
taxpayer-supported hegemony? </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Still wanna pin the donkey
tail of blame? Take a look at that PNAC rogues gallery of some 25 tiny little
men, and two or three non-female-identified women, one hiding under the name
Thomas, later changed to Giselle. Even PNAC hides under a new name: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Foreign Policy Institute. </i>‘Nuff
said.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;">War = <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Project of
the New American Century </i>= Climate Collapse</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> brought to you by hard
working U.S. taxpayer money. Still wanna contribute?</span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 24pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh775_lYKyR7S0x6kP_myDVobuR_lsupOwwB_wWBsHFKBr8Nxd0WKe1RMw8HpmJsr_bbcIAd-9MuU5QHoC1KCK1tBej-B-0gm3Szr3XQ6lXNa5ynor5aCF_QrAvlcF1cwoFrP_C_E_-N3c/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="182" data-original-width="617" height="94" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh775_lYKyR7S0x6kP_myDVobuR_lsupOwwB_wWBsHFKBr8Nxd0WKe1RMw8HpmJsr_bbcIAd-9MuU5QHoC1KCK1tBej-B-0gm3Szr3XQ6lXNa5ynor5aCF_QrAvlcF1cwoFrP_C_E_-N3c/" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: 24pt;"></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6YrcOHps0Cztz0tKkO4hsTUrZJFIWxSlmLPplRk_wnGoCeKk1Juh1-AP7V07lMm9-H1ev_WY6cYkokKDgZ9xDIU9ELxKRAm879tZWTNClIXhuD-cbUhYwKiBM7BjUYCwX38pPsv_F3j4/s1500/cop26.png">STOP</a>
excluding military pollution from climate agreements</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><a href="https://action.foe.org/page/32499/action/1?ea.tracking.id=Email&ea.url.id=952345">PROTECT</a>
planet from lead pollution</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><a href="https://www.stopline3.org/biden?ss_source=sscampaigns&ss_campaign_id=611bbc3e6acf134b76802297&ss_email_id=611bc36b460f5e0dc605620c&ss_campaign_name=Spread+the+word+to+Stop+Line+3+%5B%2B+Join+Bon+Iver+in+Concert%5D&ss_campaign_sent_date=2021-08-17T14%3A13%3A07Z">BLOCK</a>
Line 3</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/letters/sign-and-send-a-petition-to-your-democratic-us-senators-support-the-polluters-pay-climate-fund-act?detail=emailaction&link_id=2&can_id=447ac5b0d7a5124338b20f2bb702d0f8&source=email-senate-democrats-unveil-plan-to-tax-shell-exxonmobil-chevron-and-other-big-polluters-take-action-2&email_referrer=email_1261604&email_subject=re-senate-democrats-unveil-plan-to-tax-shell-exxonmobil-chevron-and-other-big-polluters-take-action">TAX</a>
Big Oil polluters</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><a href="https://actionnetwork.org/letters/pass-the-stop-arming-human-rights-abusers-act?source=RA202005&referrer=group-rootsactionorg&redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fact.rootsaction.org%2Fp%2Fsalsa%2Fweb%2Ftellafriend%2Fpublic%2F%3Ftell_a_friend_KEY%3D10797">STOP</a>
arming human rights abusers</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><a href="The%20U.S.%20Must%20Stop%20Threatening%20Nuclear%20War%20(everyaction.com)">END</a>
threats of nuclear war</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><a href="Cut%20the%20New%20Navy%20Nuke%20from%20the%20Pentagon%20Budget!%20%257C%20Win%20Without%20War">CUT</a>
Navy nuke from Pentagon budget</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Extinction Rebellion London
erects giant pink table blocking intersection which media calls “stunt.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">India bans long list of
single-use plastics starting next July</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">25 national and local
organizations launch extreme weather ads calling for end to fossil fuel
subsidies</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Extreme weather ads target
Dems defending fossil fuel subsidies</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Climate activists target
banks greenwashing in nationwide #DefundLine3 Protests</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Defying war hawks, Biden
plans to stick with Afghan exit deadline</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Supreme Court halts
reinstating ‘remain in Mexico’ policy</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">New bill proposes cutting
Pentagon spending to fund vaccines for poor nations</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Biden administration
announces rule that could speed u asylum process for some vulnerable people</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Federal Trade Commission launches
investigation into Bezos and Amazon $8.45 billion acquisition of MGM studios</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Pelosi runs over right-wing
Dems as House approves $3.5 trillion budget blueprint</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Right-wing Dems begin caving
as progressives hold their own on reconciliation vote.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Professional athletes and
climate activists call for climate finance action from mountaintop.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">63 percent of U.S. vets
support Afghanistan withdrawal.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">240+ organizations sign
letter opposing subsidies for nuclear power in infrastructure bills. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Key milestone in pandemic
fight as FDA rants full approval to Pfizer’s Covid vaccine. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Israel report shows booster
shots significantly lower infection risk</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Federal judge Jorgenson rules
that Dept. of Homeland Security and U.S. Customs and Border Protection violated
federal law by failing to analyze potential environmental harms from escalating
militarization along<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the U.S.-Mex.
border. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Human Rights Watch declares
Israel bombing of Gaza high rises possible war crimes. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Incredible news as NC court
restores voting rights to 55,000 formerl incarcerated people.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">A victory for gig workers as
California rules Uber can’t hack labor laws to call them contractors. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Russia’s atomic agency,
Rosatom to protect African rhinos from poachers by making their horns
radioactive</span></p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Cecile Pinedahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06859495771889305391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218921764613108785.post-426093559353624632021-08-21T08:53:00.022-07:002021-10-10T13:59:45.255-07:00Why Investors Need to Divest from Corporations Backing Jan 6 Insurrection<p class="MsoNormal">Many of my readers do not know—yet—that major U.S.
corporations are still giving to RAGA, The Republican Attorney’s General of
America. Why does that matter? Because RAGA linked to the January 6 coalition that stormed
the Capitol. You can read about it <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/major-companies-donate-to-republican-group-despite-its-role-in-jan-6/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=a025c326-3580-4a07-8e14-e9e3c7890cbe">here.</a>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">My readers may find it hard to boycott a corporation, but if
you are an investor, you can make sure to divest any of these corporations from
your portfolio, no matter now small your position may be.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Here’s the list with contribution amounts:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Concord Fund</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$2,500,350</span></p>
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 2;">
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rule
of Law Defense Fund</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$228,464</span></p>
</td>
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<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gray,
C. Boyden Amb.</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$200,000</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 4;">
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Americans
For Prosperity</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$130,000</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 5;">
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">AT&T
Services, Inc.</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$125,000</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 6;">
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Koch
Industries, Inc.</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$125,000</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 7;">
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Las
Vegas Sands Corp</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$125,000</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 8;">
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">MBX
Capital LLC</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$110,000</span></p>
</td>
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 9;">
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Anheuser-Busch
Cos., Inc.</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$105,265</span></p>
</td>
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 10;">
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Anschutz Corporation</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$100,000</span></p>
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<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Schumacher
Auto Group Inc.</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$75,000</span></p>
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<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Blue
Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$62,500</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 13;">
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">National
Rifle Association of America</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$60,000</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 14;">
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pfizer
Inc</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$51,225</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 15;">
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1-800
Contacts Inc</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$50,615</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 16;">
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Consovoy
McCarthy PLLC</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$50,265</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 17;">
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Continental</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$50,265</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 18;">
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Amer.
Property Casualty Insurers Assoc. Pol</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$50,000</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 19;">
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">American
Bail Coalition Inc</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$50,000</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 20;">
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">American
Petroleum Institute</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$50,000</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 21;">
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Association
of Dental Support Organizations</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$50,000</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 22;">
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Astellas
Pharma US Inc</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$50,000</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 23;">
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">AWL,
Inc.</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$50,000</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 24;">
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cameron,
Ronald Mr. (Mountaire Corp.)</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$50,000</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 25;">
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">David
Nutt and Assoc PC</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$50,000</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 26;">
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Elevate
Credit Service LLC</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$50,000</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 27;">
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">HCA
Management Services</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$50,000</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 28;">
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Iacovelli,
Karen (PI Holdings)</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$50,000</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 29;">
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Orexo
US Inc.</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$50,000</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 30;">
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pharmaceutical
Care Management Association</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$50,000</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 31;">
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rent-a-Center</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$50,000</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 32;">
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Smith
and Wesson</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$50,000</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 33;">
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Starpoint
Resort Group</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$50,000</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 34;">
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Capital Corporation</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$50,000</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 35;">
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><br /></td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 36;">
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Willoughby
and Hoefer P.A</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$50,000</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 37;">
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Postmates</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$40,000</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 38;">
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Community
Choice Financial</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$31,250</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 39;">
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Husch
Blackwell LLP</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$30,665</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 40;">
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Daniel
Defense Inc</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$30,350</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 41;">
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Global
Teen Challenge Sober Peer</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$30,000</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 42;">
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jones
Day</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$25,700</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 43;">
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Holland
and Knight LLP</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$25,350</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 44;">
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Abbott
Laboratories</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$25,000</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 45;">
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ADT
</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$25,000</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 46;">
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Alticor,
Inc.</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$25,000</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 47;">
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">American
Electric Power Service Corporation</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$25,000</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 48;">
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Boeing
Company Political Action Committee</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$25,000</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 49;">
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Brownells</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$25,000</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 50;">
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Charter
Communications</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$25,000</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 51;">
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dentons
US LLP</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$25,000</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 52;">
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Foley
and Lardner LLP</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$25,000</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 53;">
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Grant
and Eisenhofer P.A.</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$25,000</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 54;">
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Herbalife
International of America, Inc.</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$25,000</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 55;">
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Holland
and Knight LLP</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$25,000</span></p>
</td>
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<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">HPUL
Project Operations</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$25,000</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
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<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">MasterCard
International, Inc.</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$25,000</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
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<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">National
Shooting Sports Foundation, Inc.</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$25,000</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
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<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nationwide
Mutual Insurance Company</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$25,000</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nucor
Corporation</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$25,000</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
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<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Schaerr
Jaffe LLP</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$25,000</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Services
Group of America</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$25,000</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sig
Sauer</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$25,000</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
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<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">TC
Energy</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$25,000</span></p>
</td>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Teladoc
Health Inc</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$25,000</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
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<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
GEO Group, Inc.</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$25,000</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
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<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">TitleMax</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$25,000</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
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<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Venable
LLP</span></p>
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<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$25,000</span></p>
</td>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Vistra
Corporate Services Company</span></p>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">$25,000</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It is within your power to write the CEOs of these
corporations to let them know why you are divesting. You will have to look up
their CEOs names and addresses on the internet. What might you care to tell
them?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A sample letter is provided below:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Albert Bourla CEO</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Pfizer Corporation</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">235 East 42<sup>nd</sup>
Street</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">New York, N.Y. 10017</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Mr. Bourla,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I have divested my portfolio
of a Pfizer position recently.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have
also divested from other companies. And I will urge the thousands of investors
on my mailing lists to do likewise. I need to tell you why.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to these articles, “Major Companies
Donate to Republican Group Despite Its Role in Jan. 6” published by Truthout
August 4, 2021,</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> and “These Companies Still
Donate to Jan. 6 seditionists in Congress”</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> published
by AOL July 27, 2021. (links below) </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Pfizer
Corporation continues to donate to RAGA, the Republican Attorneys General
Association named as a coalition “partner” on the website of the Jan. 6
insurrection that preceded the riots at the Capitol. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Mr. Bourla, I suggest you
take a serious look at your company’s donation policies. While Pfizer benefits
from the infrastructure of this country, it needs to act like a better civic
citizen upholding its Democratic values.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Sincerely,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/major-companies-donate-to-republican-group-despite-its-role-in-jan-6/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=a025c326-3580-4a07-8e14-e9e3c7890cbe__;!!F9svGWnIaVPGSwU!4W2QsOpCHadIRyMzpclZxS7D0Wg5oUdIGRy1BCtU7RPL4hR8vw46L--6wI7PkEMv1P8nIDES$"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/major-companies-donate-to-republican-group-despite-its-role-in-jan-6/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=a025c326-3580-4a07-8e14-e9e3c7890cbe__;!!F9svGWnIaVPGSwU!4W2QsOpCHadIRyMzpclZxS7D0Wg5oUdIGRy1BCtU7RPL4hR8vw46L--6wI7PkEMv1P8nIDES$</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.aol.com/news/companies-still-donate-jan-6-202108738.html"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">https://www.aol.com/news/companies-still-donate-jan-6-202108738.html</span></a><u><span style="color: #0069d9; font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></u></p>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal">UN climate report could be a game changers for climate
lawsuits. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Activists block UK drone factory in Braunstone Town, 3
arrested.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Protesters topple statue of Canada’s First Prime Minister
for horrendous crimes against First Nations. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Indian mining community shifts from coal to frits and
flowers.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Guatemalans back on streets demanding presidents Alejandro
Giammattei, and Genrl. of the Public Ministry Maria Consuelo Porras.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Council of Haida Nation, Feds, and Canadian province sign
historic agreement recognizing Haida inherent land title and rights. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Group of doctors and nurses launch aggressive bill board
campaign targeting British Columbia ferries for burning liquefied natural gas.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Diplomacy, not bombs: anti-war voices say Afghanistan shows
need to stop any further march to war.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Caitlin Johnstone: Afghanistan proves U.S. military needs
its budget slashed to ribbons. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In stunning victory for public interest groups, the U.S.
D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals finds that the FCC 2019 decision to retain its 1996
safety limits for human exposure to wireless radiation was “arbitrary and
capricious.,” </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">‘Victory for Environmental Justice’: Review ordered for
Formosa, proposed Cancer Ally plastics complex. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Appalachian defenders of homes, hills, and heritage unite
against Mountain Valley Pipeline. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Lawsuit seeks to regulate plastic as hazardous waste.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Resounding climate win as judge blocks Alaska drilling
project defended by Biden.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Climate activists target bank’s greenwashing in nationwide
#DefundLine3 protests.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Biden reverses Rump-era policy, bans pesticide linked to
child illness. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Biden Education Dept. threatens GOP leaders with legal
action, federal probes over mask mandate bans.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Biden administration announces largest increase to food
stamps in program’s history. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Progressives say ‘Do this for everyone’ as Biden erases
student debt for people with severe disabilities. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Round one of Dem child tax credit payments slashed hunger
rates, U.S. data shows.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Interior Department announces federal coal review, first
step toward ending federal leasing program. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">‘DeJoy and Bloom are bandits’: top Dem calls for removal of
postal service chiefs</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jayapal slams conservative Dems over threats to
reconciliation bill.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sanders, and Barbara Lee call for opening U.S. to refugees
from Afghanistan.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sanders travels to Indiana and Iowa to pitch $3.5 trillion
spending plan to working Americans.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">New bill proposes cutting Pentagon Spending to fund vaccines
for poor nations. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Voting rights groups file federal lawsuit challenging AZ’s
new voter suppression laws. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Nabisco workers in Oregon, Colorado and Virginia strike for
8 normal working hours (not the 12-16 hours demanded of them during the
pandemic).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Gov. Abbott (TX) caves, drops mask mandate ban enforcement
in public schools.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">AZ schools suing state government over classroom mask
mandate ban.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tens of thousands sign petition calling for Gov DeSantis to
be recalled.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">U.S. PIRG supports FTC antitrust case vs. Facebook.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Chicago passes union-backed bill for civilian oversight of violent
cops.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Santa Fe will send some parents $400/month, New Mexico may
follow.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">124 organizations demand Home Depot and Lowe’s immediately
pull cancer-linked weed killer following Bayer’s announcement that glyphosate
will remain in Roundup until 2023. </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ooops: while locked in a contentious battle of tech staffers
unionizing, Times management’s counsel mistakenly sent its game plan to the
union. </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Boise taps into free, sustainable geothermal energy and
other cities could follow.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Solar powered refrigeration trucks will cut pollution. </p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Cecile Pinedahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06859495771889305391noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218921764613108785.post-49418298678294271532021-08-15T11:18:00.005-07:002021-10-17T11:37:56.184-07:00Home away from House<p class="MsoNormal">Downstairs Seabreeze, Cob on Wood. Say their names.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like the names of so many of our dead, they
are the names of two California Bay Area homeless encampments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But to say their names is to remember their
history.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Downstairs Seabreeze</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Last<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Monday morning I
received this SOS:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Live from the eviction happening NOW at Downstairs Seabreeze.
There is an abundance of COPs but no one from the #CityofBerkeley. No one from
#MentalHealth. No one from the new shelter in #HorizonTransitionalVillage.
There is no one here offering hope, options, or shelter.” You can watch what
happened Monday at University and 2<sup>nd</sup> in Berkeley.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/Copwatch411/status/1424775528444137475">https://twitter.com/Copwatch411/status/1424775528444137475</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> <i> </i></span><i>Say
their name. </i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Cob On Wood</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">End of July one of many articles appeared describing Cob on
Wood, the homeless encampment at the intersection of Wood Street near Beech St.
under the 880 freeway. It is state owned land, but it is the place where cops
bulldozing other encampments tell homeless people to go so they can be left
alone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cob on Wood is an indigenous type
of construction. The encampment was started by a local activist whose
organization Essential Food and Medicine teamed up with a tiny home building
group, Artists Building Communities, and a local construction business called
Living Earth Structures who began building Cob on Wood on a former junk yard
piled high with torched abandoned cars, illegally dumped building materials and
trash. It housed its own medical clinic, shower, kitchen, free store, garden
and pizza ovens. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It restored dignity and will to live to countless homeless
people. You can read about it here: </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/oakland-homelessness-cob-on-wood-b1881628.html">https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/oakland-homelessness-cob-on-wood-b1881628.html</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdQLMYP0t0Rl_C4uo97qN3i7-EbiOz1cT-kQq8ox18CgbJSsIcI6pj2hVQ2ifvc76sf_XLTgVpvZBinZSO7RrDUsRjrgHfe4vjNzyV__dgZDV0UCSz6hElIO2UhrtDksQyKHWkkk_iOqo/" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="628" data-original-width="1013" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdQLMYP0t0Rl_C4uo97qN3i7-EbiOz1cT-kQq8ox18CgbJSsIcI6pj2hVQ2ifvc76sf_XLTgVpvZBinZSO7RrDUsRjrgHfe4vjNzyV__dgZDV0UCSz6hElIO2UhrtDksQyKHWkkk_iOqo/w400-h248/Screen+Shot+2021-08-12+at+7.20.15+PM.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cob on Wood<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But the land is the property of the State. The State saw no
reason to clean up when it was a dump, and now that people were on it, the
State in its mighty wisdom<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>came to tear
it down. No one sent me an SOS. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> <i> </i></span><i>Say
their name.</i></p><i>
</i><p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On August 4, WaPo reported Cori Bush slept on the wind whipped
steps of the U.S. Capitol as rain fell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After three nights during which she was joined by activists and fellow
Democratic lawmakers, the White House suddenly remembered that, altho Congress was
happy to award the Pentagon trillions of “defense” dollars to kill more people
and thereby hasten planetary climate collapse the IPCC has just described as
close to the tipping point, it would adjourn having done nothing to extend the
eviction moratorium, putting millions of Americans at risk of homelessness
during a pandemic. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Everyone in Congress needs to live homeless for a month to begin
to understand why a nation that can allocate trillions for war and weaponry
must manage to house its people, feed and clothe them, and restore their
dignity and will to live, and provide them with living wage jobs. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgindlaYCEMQlTK22auyafR1znYEXry2eXglp-J0nzJJMsUsEev67hBy9WT3FBQeVIgtHQ3Q0hPdWSNjL_DH9MTHMSxBdFhFjlsL-TlCa1hCAL-_qZuxBlAUufcH028SL2uhdrTSNnSftk/" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgindlaYCEMQlTK22auyafR1znYEXry2eXglp-J0nzJJMsUsEev67hBy9WT3FBQeVIgtHQ3Q0hPdWSNjL_DH9MTHMSxBdFhFjlsL-TlCa1hCAL-_qZuxBlAUufcH028SL2uhdrTSNnSftk/w400-h224/CORI+BUSH.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Cori Bush<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Cori Bush describes her time living homeless with her
children: “When I was living out of my car, I did not know where we were going
to eat, use the bathroom, rest or enjoy a quiet moment. I used McDonald’s
bathrooms to mix baby formula and wash my body because I had no other options.
I received food from food pantries, but I could not eat the items that had to
be refrigerated or cooked. This never ending instability, combined with the
constant fear of interacting with the police, losing custody of my children,
having my car impounded—even losing my life—left me stressed, traumatized and
exhausted.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Now imagine Nancy Pelosi with her 2 gelato-full freezers writing
that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If you could write to Cori Bush, what would you want to say
to her? See sample letter provided below:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Rep. Cori Bush</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">563 Cannon House Office Bldg.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Washington D.C. 20515</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p><p class="MsoNormal">Dear Cori,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you for doing what I could not join you doing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not everyone—and almost no one in
Congress—who would choose to sleep on the Capitol steps in the wind and rain,
inside a soaked-through sleeping bag to make a point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thank you for representing us, the millions
of Americans at risk of homelessness during a pandemic and for those millions
more living in encampments along the railroad rights of way throughout the
United States. Homelessness is very much a part of California life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The attitudes of housed people ranges from
“call the police” to genuine grief to see our fellow beings reduced to lives
that challenge their very existence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To
my own way of thinking, our entire society suffers from the misery of its few.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you for breaking the Congressional tradition of suits
and red ties and pearls to get right to the point: impoverished Americans have
had only a tiny minority representing us since the Democratic party chose to
become a second business party aping the old Republican party, which seems to
have morphed into a separatist movement.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As long as money and politics are linked, as long as
Congresspersons can move their investment money providing they make their
financial maneuvers public, as long as they are beholden to corporations for
moneys that allow them to conduct the campaigns that keep them in office,
impoverished Americans will never again have the representation we had under
the old Democratic party before it discovered greed. I hope that you and the
other members of the Progressive Caucus will fight to get money out of
politics, and to restore some sense of balance where CEO pay does not exceed
1000% of ordinary worker’s wages.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I hope that you and the Progressive Caucus will motivate our
government to allocate some of the trillions it invests in militarism, war, and
the consumption of fossil fuel that military activities entail in caring for
its people, housing, clothing, feeding and educating them.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you for your good example in getting right to the
point. Camping out is worth hours of empty rhetoric.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sincerely,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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multinational insurers to drop their policy on Trans Mountain pipeline. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Water protectors headed for Minnesota Capitol to protest
Line 3. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Housing memorandum provides much needed understanding to
uphold federal fair housing policies during pandemic.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Patriotic millionaires launch ‘tax the rich” mobile
billboard campaign in Philadelphia for Can’t Wait live concert. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Va State U. unveils student debt cancellation plan. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">AZ schools sue state government over classroom mask mandate
ban.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ACLU sues DC, cops over attacks on journalists at 2020
racial justice protests. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Brooklyn billboard calls for Sen. Schumer to end Big Oil
handouts. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Five Miami Beach officers charged after police swarm, attack
suspect and bystander who recorded it.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Activists protest project for new jail costing an estimated
$28 million in Winona City, MN. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Renters call for direct cash assistance as evictions loom. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Solar-powered refrigeration trucks to cut pollution.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUyrdWnnVAopamG3zzPLV2vu3KbmHElof5z9g8xCtcwDJ1PfdTRgE91ZW7k_bO2fZ0U710DMzWXNLbrZibaOc_6waODFNtD4b14Zo6OqjhRGapbKSrUPkJGj1MZFLfR8jHv9puOv_ssKI/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="184" data-original-width="274" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUyrdWnnVAopamG3zzPLV2vu3KbmHElof5z9g8xCtcwDJ1PfdTRgE91ZW7k_bO2fZ0U710DMzWXNLbrZibaOc_6waODFNtD4b14Zo6OqjhRGapbKSrUPkJGj1MZFLfR8jHv9puOv_ssKI/" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPpbWzXUvIk1YKhVp593jwdCrnEkR4-DiwTI4QPcRcDkxeCh3Sh_yTygkisy5-flM-mageS-yUyJTTi9xvsVNvSobsqzxJu1Isx4_ZzNUQwuLklb-Xt6Xa2tofFdkEY75n_iHCi1dKHW4/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="398" data-original-width="400" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPpbWzXUvIk1YKhVp593jwdCrnEkR4-DiwTI4QPcRcDkxeCh3Sh_yTygkisy5-flM-mageS-yUyJTTi9xvsVNvSobsqzxJu1Isx4_ZzNUQwuLklb-Xt6Xa2tofFdkEY75n_iHCi1dKHW4/w400-h398/bridge.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Cecile Pinedahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06859495771889305391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218921764613108785.post-20410226885540228912021-08-11T17:02:00.004-07:002021-10-10T14:01:49.963-07:00Something New<p class="MsoNormal">Dear readers: Our most recent issue was devoted to
encapsulating the startling development that #45 enlisted Jeffrey Clark of the
DOJ to be his water carrier during the 2020 election cycle to suggest that
voting results in Georgia could be overturned. I asked my readers to compose
their own letters of concern to their congress persons, and other people in high office. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Since then as a result of valuable feedback from a number of
readers, I hope to try something new: I offer you the sample letter below.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It may not necessarily be the best sample letter, but if, like me, you
are squeezed for time, such sample letters may make things lots easier. From
now on whenever possible the newsletter will offer sample letters. I hope you
may find them useful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The one you read
below went to the following:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">POTUS </b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1600 Pennsylvania
Ave, N.W. D.C. 20500</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rep. Nancy Pelosi
1236<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Longworth H.O.B D.C. 20515</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rep. Barbara Lee 2470
Rayburn House Office bldg., D.C. 20515</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sen. Alex Padilla BO3
Russell Senate Office bldg.., D.C. 20510</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sen. Diane Feinstein
331 Hart Senate Office bldg.. D.C. 20510</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">V. Pres. Kamala Harris<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1600 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W. D.C. 20500</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Your sample letter can also be addressed to The New York
Times editorial; and to other papers of record. Be sure to include your address
and telephone.)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Dear (your congresspersons of choice):</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I am writing because I am very alarmed about efforts
on the part of Republican lawmakers to hijack the next presidential election. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Already over 400 voter-suppression laws have been
passed in state legislatures under Republican control. This week facts have
emerged about #45 selecting Clark as his water carrier to try influence the
vote count in Georgia, and 6 other states, and his threats to fire Rosen and
replace him with Clark when Clark’s first efforts failed.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Two decades later, SCOTUS radical reading of the
Constitution in Bush vs. Gore, undergirds many of the court changes on behalf
of [#45]….At that time the Justices argued that state legislatures have the
plenary power to run elections and can even pass laws giving themselves the
right to appoint electors. Today the so-called Independent Legislature Doctrine
has informed #45 and the Right’s attempts to use Republican-dominated state
legislatures to overrule the poplar will. It gives intellectual respectability
to an otherwise insane, anti-democratic argument.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Attention must be paid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Clark’s letter to Gov. Kemp suggesting that
the legislature could refuse to accept the outcome of the election and select
electors for #45 instead, </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">is a blue print for GOP plans to overturn the national
election of 2024. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">John Stoehr writing for the Editorial Board </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://www.editorialboard.com/p/the-next-time-the-gop-attempts-a"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">https://www.editorialboard.com/p/the-next-time-the-gop-attempts-a</span></a></span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">points out that Republicans already have a plan for
stealing the next election. Reviewing the background of Clark’s letter to Gov.
Kemp he states “in the coup-to-come, the letter will become the roadmap for
overthrowing the will of the voters. From what I understand,” he<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>continues, “they have all made arrangements
for the state legislators to step in when state election authorities are not
producing desirable results.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Trump’s call to Rosen to “leave it to me…” ought to
trigger section 3 of the 14<sup>th</sup> amendment, which bars anyone from
holding office ‘who engaged in insurrection’ against the United States….</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Signature</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Address</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Phone</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUEeUx1JPMIVBp-RCm3qoJVAA81oxbD2ddVj4x_C-SDTISIlfbyPM9Xnd8Ot44rBA09UTNyHVppubSbb2p1YwzrvnfHnfsRz2jx4cYQx25_Xnw2__-TfRo96Ca4UuPK-zVd9h6sU89bYU/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="494" data-original-width="863" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUEeUx1JPMIVBp-RCm3qoJVAA81oxbD2ddVj4x_C-SDTISIlfbyPM9Xnd8Ot44rBA09UTNyHVppubSbb2p1YwzrvnfHnfsRz2jx4cYQx25_Xnw2__-TfRo96Ca4UuPK-zVd9h6sU89bYU/" width="320" /></a></i></div><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><br /> </i><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Voting rights <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>will not die. Today’s news offers updates.
Congress failed again to pass the For the People Act, (now S. 2093) as well as
the Districting Reform Act (S. 2670) and the DISCLOSE Act (S. 2671)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>before going on recess. Obstruction came from
the usual suspects who used the filibuster to impede constructive legislation on
this issue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can read the full details
at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/08/11/five-alarm-voting-rights-fire-senate-urged-fight-back-after-gop-blocks-people-act</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And should you wish to see
the magnitude of 2021 election enactments state by state, go to </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"><br />
</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/2021-election-enactments.aspx"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/2021-election-enactments.aspx</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Cecile Pinedahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06859495771889305391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218921764613108785.post-72721790087006336132021-08-08T18:51:00.007-07:002021-10-10T14:02:55.171-07:00Back to School<p class="MsoNormal">We Americans are about to crash into that little red school
house brick wall, learning our three Rs.: reading, ‘rithmetic and
Righting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here’s why: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Democratic controlled states number 15;
Republican controlled states number 28, and divided states number 13.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Translated into electoral college votes, that
guarantees Democrats just 188 votes out of a 538 total. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZaYEHti-hgt5F5w96mWVM_9eXvuyWIYI5zAeq_YyOn9TiMuU6jAu17bd0a4N_iQDnNsc6HBARN-IdXYgamebMRNjGhXxLRHX45MoOvNpop3Sl_0g0N4vJyAM5m8EOsD6yojWLAmpkl1U/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="203" data-original-width="320" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZaYEHti-hgt5F5w96mWVM_9eXvuyWIYI5zAeq_YyOn9TiMuU6jAu17bd0a4N_iQDnNsc6HBARN-IdXYgamebMRNjGhXxLRHX45MoOvNpop3Sl_0g0N4vJyAM5m8EOsD6yojWLAmpkl1U/w400-h254/red+states.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Why is that important? Because Jan. 6, we experienced a coup
that showed all the finesse and subtlety of a wad of chewing gum stuck under a
school house chair, but the next coup is gonna be a silent, stealthy one, and
here’s how that’s going to happen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You
may have read (and ignored) that over 400 anti-voting rights bills have already
been passed in state legislatures. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">To better understand the implications, some serious background is needed. According to Heather
Digby Parton writing for Salon, as early as 2020, #45 pressured AG Jeffrey
Rosen to declare that the “election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and
Republican Congressmen.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Despite both
Barr and Rosen telling him there was no fraud, #45 wanted the DOJ to back him
in his Big Lie. On that very same day, a faceless GOP lawyer named Clark who
had worked in the Bush administration and had been head of the DOJ civil
division since Sept. 2020, circulated a letter addressed to Gov. Brian Kemp,
notorious of Georgia, (as well as six other states) dishonestly claiming that
the DOJ had “identified significant concerns that may have impacted the outcome
of the election.” The letter went further: it recommended that the Georgia
legislature “convene in special session so that its legislators are in a
position to take additional testimony, receive new evidence, and deliberate on
the matter.” He further suggested that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the
legislature could refuse to accept the outcome of the election and select
electors for #45 instead</i>. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Rosen and his deputy took notes and turned them over to
Congress. Rosen rejected Clark’s maneuvers to overturn the election. At which point
Clark went directly to #45 who threatened to replace Rosen with Clark! Only the
counter threat that the entire top leadership of the DOJ would resign if #45
tried such a gambit prevented #45 from replacing Rosen. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The NYT’s Jane Mayer writes “in Bush v. Gore, Chief Justice
Rehnquist along with Scalia and Thomas, hinted at a radical reading of the Constitution
that, two decades later, undergirds many of the court changes on behalf of
[#45]….The Justices argued that state legislatures have the plenary power to
run elections and can even pass laws giving themselves the right to appoint
electors. Today the so-called Independent Legislature Doctrine has informed
[#45] and the Right’s attempts to use Republican-dominated state legislatures
to overrule the poplar will.” They gave intellectual respectability to an
otherwise insane, anti-democratic argument.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Concludes Parton: “Jeffrey Clark was no rogue. He was doing
a dry run for a coup long in the making.” <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Writing for the Editorial Board, John Stoehr amplifies Parton’s message. Stoehr points out
that Republicans already have a plan for stealing the next election. Reviewing
the background of Clark’s letter to Gov. Kemp claiming the legislature could
simply call itself into session to make a determination contrary to the will of
the people, he states that in the coup-to-come, the letter will become the
“roadmap for overthrowing the will of the voters. From what I understand,” he <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>continues, “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">they have all made arrangements for the state legislators to step in
when state election authorities are not producing desirable results.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Seeing the danger posed by a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Republican Party that acts more like a
separatist movement than a good faith bargaining partner,” he concludes,
“citizens themselves might not be as alarmed as they should be about a
separatist movement that is, as we speak, threatening to rend the world’s
oldest federation of free states.” </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Not to forget that after #45 attempted unsuccessfully to
sway Rosen, he told Brad Raffensperget, Georgia’s Secy of state, to “find”
votes to change the election outcome. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Robert Reich in RawStory writes: #45’s call to Rosen in which he pleads ‘Just say the
election was corrupt, and leave the rest to me’ should trigger section 3 of the
14<sup>th</sup> amendment, which bars anyone from holding office ‘who engaged
in insurrection’ against the United States….#45’s proto-fascism poses the largest
internal threat to American democracy since the civil war." </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Brett Wilkins writing in Common Dreams offers some respite: “The Right to Vote Act, introduced
by<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-N.Y.) and
Sens. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) and Padilla (D-Calif.) would establish for the first
time a statutory right to vote in federal elections, shielding Americans from
laws making it harder to cast ballots.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But will it also prohibit state legislatures from making their own
voting laws to skew the results. </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh72riQrtfBPSbrAxPONJfLNG-ux5plogcyieqVt-3z-9neTvVk-OAjWNzPqiWVLIgE3g8KmU3gx21hx4t4dQwLeQhlIgj5z4RpRcWYCAXgbCmpU7OXhBT-ggz_nd3r4BqKl3IAoUiE8UA/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="182" data-original-width="617" height="94" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh72riQrtfBPSbrAxPONJfLNG-ux5plogcyieqVt-3z-9neTvVk-OAjWNzPqiWVLIgE3g8KmU3gx21hx4t4dQwLeQhlIgj5z4RpRcWYCAXgbCmpU7OXhBT-ggz_nd3r4BqKl3IAoUiE8UA/" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">COMPOSE<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a letter to
your Congresspersons summarizing this newsletter to bring this issue to their
attention. This writer intends doing the same. Bring it to the attention of
POTUS as well: <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Climate activists demand
COP26 reduce military carbon emissions. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Chinese
government announces it has abolished extreme poverty among its 1.4 billion
people, that is to say<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>70% of the
world’s poor. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">‘We
are owners’: Palestinians refuse to conceded land rights to Israelis in Sheikh
Jarrah.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">14
African states agree to reject Israel’s membership in th African Union.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Israel’s
standing in America is now far weaker than it seems.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mexico
files historic lawsuit against U.S. gun companies fueling cartel carnage.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bolivia
and Peru open ‘binational cabinet’ with social movements. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In
Japan, nuclear-contaminated ‘black rain’ victims finally win in court.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Colombia’s
ex-army chief to be charged over extrajudicial killings.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Families
of 9/11 victims tell Biden to release classified info or stay away from
memorials. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Democrats
introduce Right to Vote act to beat GOP voter suppression blitz.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">100+
state lawmakers join Texas Dems in DC to demand passage of For the People Act.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">MLK’s
family and civil rights leaders call for voting rights march on Washington. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hundreds
protest in DC, demanding voting rights, end to poverty, and death of
filibuster.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Alaska
court upholds new top-four primary and ranked choice general election. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For
the first time in 40 years, the House eliminated the racist and discriminatory
Hyde Amendment denying abortion access to Medicaid patients, from the federal
budget. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Peace:
After decades-long grassroots push, key Senate panel votes to repeal Iraq War
Authorization. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Peace,
religious and community groups call for ‘No first use of nuclear weapons’
policy. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">100+
state lawmakers join Texas Dems in DC to demand passage of For the People Act.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Activists
demand N.Y. close groups backing settler genocide in Palestine.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Block-the-Boat
hits New Jersey. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">218
organizations say no to water privatization.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">After
100 years, Nez Perce People celebrate reclaimed land. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Coal
miners hit NYC streets to protest corporate greed.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Job
recovery is happening far more quickly than it did after Great Depression.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">D.N.C.
staff to join union, in a milestone for..</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ACLU
dues over ‘illegal and inhuman’ migrant transportation order in Texas. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Citing
‘irreparable injury to the United States, judge temporarily halts Texas Gov.
Abbott’s order targeting migrants. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Amid
allegations of child endangerment, HHS inspector general to probe Fort “Bliss”
Detention facility. </span></span><span class="linkify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Lawsuit initiated against #45
for ‘illegal’ deportations resumes under Biden.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Groups welcome Biden’s review
but demand Congress permanently protect Arctic Refuge from drilling.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Nearly 100 grassroots
organizations across the country push for community investments in lead pipe
removal, public transit, and EV charging.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Congressional Democrats are
seeking to tax roughly two dozen oil, gas, and coal corporations to ensure that
the carbon polluters most responsible for fossil-fuel-driven climate emergency
pay for some of the destruction. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">California cites technical
reasons for denying 42 more fracking applications. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Cori Bush and progressive lawmakers
and activists hailed for new CDC eviction Moratorium affecting 11 million
Americans. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Related: ‘Give the money
back,’ demands Tlaib after revelation of $1 million donation to House Dems from
real estate titan. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Tlaib unveils bill to cancel
$40 billion in utility debt to stop ‘life-threatening injustice of shutoffs.’</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">More than two-third of U.S.
adults support mask mandates as variants spread.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Despite funding threat,
Florida Schools defy DeSantis’s ban on mask mandates</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">NYC becomes first U.S. city
to mandate proof of vaccination for certain indoor activities. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Poll: Seniors would cross
party lines to back candidates who support medicare negotiating drug prices.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Hundreds of protesters
gathered at Westlake Park in Seattle for the Healthcare Equity March, a protest
centered around Kaloni Bolton, a 12-year-old Black girl who died tragically as
a result of medical negligence. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Nancy Pelosi swallows her pearls and backtracks on student debt cancellation after urging by Swig billionaire power couple. <br /></span></p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Cecile Pinedahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06859495771889305391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218921764613108785.post-75343098653660683032021-08-03T17:01:00.003-07:002021-10-11T08:52:03.635-07:00This is Your Climate on Fossil Fuel<p class="MsoNormal">Mother Nature is taking the planet on a roller coaster ride
lately. For any remaining skeptics who like to imagine that global warming is a
hoax,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKXp6fP-_X0j143kkxDm0_kkMn2h_RwL25krehdgiUAlrSZWOzJZIBaAB-54FQVvR2aQIXQirAdI5nzl9xPI-D1JklV4vLaNvOOdE-y50EOmrrhb-quBMP9Lf0MNwySVTWy6GtYv5Hhmc/" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="132" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKXp6fP-_X0j143kkxDm0_kkMn2h_RwL25krehdgiUAlrSZWOzJZIBaAB-54FQVvR2aQIXQirAdI5nzl9xPI-D1JklV4vLaNvOOdE-y50EOmrrhb-quBMP9Lf0MNwySVTWy6GtYv5Hhmc/" width="132" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Germany</span></td></tr></tbody></table></span>the list starts with a freeze and
snow storm in Texas midwinter, it proliferates with a giant fire from a
ruptured pipeline igniting the sea in the Gulf of Mexico; a huge <a href="https://flipboard.com/@huffingtonpost/oregon-workers-feared-for-their-lives-during-heat-wave-osha-complaints-show/a-JG8m3ZlgSbasdhTSzTxSjg%3Aa%3A52948404-78a8ebbeb0%2Fhuffpost.com">heat
dome</a> caused dangerously high temperatures in the Pacific Northwest, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the <a href="https://popularresistance.org/amazon-rainforest-is-releasing-more-carbon-than-it-stores/">Amazon
rainforest</a> released <a href="https://popularresistance.org/amazon-rainforest-is-releasing-more-carbon-than-it-stores/">more
carbon than it stores</a>, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>at least <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/international/world-news-politics/from-china-to-germany-floods-expose-climate-vulnerability-1011428.html">191
people died</a> in flash floods in Hunan Province, China,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and parts of Germany and Belgium, shocking
even the climate experts, <a href="https://progressivepartyusa.com/progressive-news/near-record-temps-and-deadly-fires-engulf-southern-europe/">deadly
fires in southern Europe</a>. And Exxon’s leaked video showed use of political
lobbying to undercut remedial legislation. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK1ioMUscZfCbwt5EQhO9oqoAFEWLJXUBryi1xnu7KIodX9WawFsGxEipKIXl22QIJJ_NLBjQncWP3QsEaEReS-pEaK_etSPery6rZtivEMo-KEGpfLPgBj-N3fp87bvIVseuSozupU3U/" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="177" data-original-width="284" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK1ioMUscZfCbwt5EQhO9oqoAFEWLJXUBryi1xnu7KIodX9WawFsGxEipKIXl22QIJJ_NLBjQncWP3QsEaEReS-pEaK_etSPery6rZtivEMo-KEGpfLPgBj-N3fp87bvIVseuSozupU3U/" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Gulf of Mexico on fire</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Since the 60s, scientists have been warning the world’s
population of <a href="https://portside.org/2021-07-28/critical-measures-global-heating-reach-tipping-point-study-finds">freak
weather events</a> to be expected if humankind can’t radically change its
fossil consuming ways, but human imagination is underwhelming <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/07/27/past-reveals-climate-breakdown-we-are-headed-towards">compared
to that of Mother Nature</a>, and quite nakedly she is pissed. She shows this
with fires in the American West and Southwest, and in the 100-year drought
desiccating California and elsewhere. No one seems to take much note that excavation
of California’s native shell mounds shows long periods of disuse, perhaps <a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/140213-california-drought-record-agriculture-pdo-climate">as
long as a hundred year cycle</a>, suggesting that California’s native
inhabitants may have had to migrate elsewhere in search of water sustaining
life. A recent drive behind the coastal hills, revealed reservoirs reduced to a
trickle so bare they might be identified as creeks, or even brooks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As this warming process intensifies globally,
long periods elapse without any good news with which to allay the deep fears
and assuage the mourning of my readers. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Given
such distressing news, I am finding it increasingly difficult to write. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRD4dp3YMibwwIN00Esn54Y6vfZeZh1-DeiCGMXd5e0ghLsltpyrzBy251IL-GOu0NVvpHHMVHO0ey7Iv0K3pW33dcmb8fp4n84mSVKJDkdFpIS780yXlSuw0OHH6SnSYGej9jQVsnAsA/" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="368" data-original-width="1185" height="124" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRD4dp3YMibwwIN00Esn54Y6vfZeZh1-DeiCGMXd5e0ghLsltpyrzBy251IL-GOu0NVvpHHMVHO0ey7Iv0K3pW33dcmb8fp4n84mSVKJDkdFpIS780yXlSuw0OHH6SnSYGej9jQVsnAsA/w400-h124/Screen+Shot+2021-08-01+at+10.39.50+AM.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">"Lake" Oroville</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Just yesterday, Common Dreams points out that for the <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/07/31/first-time-record-us-renewables-generated-more-electricity-either-coal-or-nuclear">very
first time on record, U.S. renewables generated more power than either coal or
nuclear</a>. And when we read that renewables exceed even oil and gas, we can
relax somewhat, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/07/29/eliminating-carbon-emissions-2050-would-save-74-million-lives-century-study">but
not breathe any easier</a>, because the effects of anthropologically induced
global warming, even if it were to come to a complete halt today, will last at
least another 200 years, longer than 3 human life spans, a world in which one
can’t imagine raising children any longer.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFjbyclHVFTxBHLnstUr5fJlspkSsEgpyR2z7CzB1bxOH-y1fGH1mKFEdz9C4DkEn896s9ULcgQ9HkXttn1QAef0Jjhi-1_P67SM6O0TrBvSs08MvOlDP5USYdXAGwuVWFnHL5yzS7vmU/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="478" data-original-width="490" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFjbyclHVFTxBHLnstUr5fJlspkSsEgpyR2z7CzB1bxOH-y1fGH1mKFEdz9C4DkEn896s9ULcgQ9HkXttn1QAef0Jjhi-1_P67SM6O0TrBvSs08MvOlDP5USYdXAGwuVWFnHL5yzS7vmU/w400-h390/global+heat+wave.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Sierra Club recently announced that their 13-year-long
campaign to stop Keystone XL in its tracks has paid off with TransCanada’s
announcement that it was finally cancelling its plans. Indigenous water
protectors and supporting activists rallied last week to halt construction on
Line 3—to be brutally arrested by police. <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/07/28/washington-countys-new-rules-against-fossil-fuel-expansion-celebrated-blueprint">Whatcom
County, Washington</a> announced new rules against fossil fuel expansion, a
possible blueprint for the entire U.S.,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>and the government of Greenland decided to suspend all oil exploration,
although no oil has yet been found in Greenland. Despite COVID’s persistence,
the roads are filled with traffic, suggesting that humankind is in no way
inclined to kick carbon, and despite militarism and war being more carbon
intensive than many nations, Congress approved trillions for the military, indicating
that the U.S. shows no signs of kicking its saber rattling habits, its latest
target being China.
</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlGwjCD9MJfTt7GgvfJ9mR1dUycpmv1bZqZtdqVChWpm4RCIl188L4FJVV2pwW2DfU6bN_NKQpLKsrFwo1mtFaKMqSwZp5VUdqJ6t4Vqh1QlT5oouFzYwfo85tMgfjkUbbn2mKeIwYUZQ/"><img alt="" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlGwjCD9MJfTt7GgvfJ9mR1dUycpmv1bZqZtdqVChWpm4RCIl188L4FJVV2pwW2DfU6bN_NKQpLKsrFwo1mtFaKMqSwZp5VUdqJ6t4Vqh1QlT5oouFzYwfo85tMgfjkUbbn2mKeIwYUZQ/w400-h300/pentagon+climate+crime.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">No one in power seems to pay attention to our nation’s lone Tiresias,
Noam Chomsky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His latest <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/chomsky-we-need-genuine-international-cooperation-to-tackle-the-climate-crisis/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=9861b37f-79b5-49cb-a7e2-b197e4d84e47">interview,</a>
published by Truthout. is a plea for “genuine international cooperation to
tackle the climate crisis” as it edges towards the tipping point. In it he
points to “the wobbling of the jet stream which effects heating of the
atmosphere hitherto unconsidered in climate studies.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He reads this as a “good side” because he
speculates that it<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> may </i>awaken global
“leaders to recognize the horrors they are creating.”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Criticism or denial of science on the part of so many
conservative higher authorities who seem not to understand that the fate of
life on the planet is at stake, condemns the quest to understand the world in
which we live. On a grass roots level, <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-02/climate-activists-occupy-heart-of-zurich-financial-district/100343848">many
people world over</a> are awake to the impending catastrophes of global warming
and are doing what they can, but an effort on a global scale for a universally concerted
program to reverse warming’s ominous consequences requires global leaders throughout
the world to step up to the plate. NOW.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Nominations are open.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikWf2e2CYG4Z9szt39TMnLNVi43guFf0oAPJSJTm6OuBdPb1TaLTVu46Se4L0-NbYaaiVgOS0U9XwR9fZBRZLnQy9jZQQbIjBOfudVAh5jyzaVWU2xOEt1TkAEQ-uWXpUKGxWEyihgaCQ/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="182" data-original-width="617" height="94" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikWf2e2CYG4Z9szt39TMnLNVi43guFf0oAPJSJTm6OuBdPb1TaLTVu46Se4L0-NbYaaiVgOS0U9XwR9fZBRZLnQy9jZQQbIjBOfudVAh5jyzaVWU2xOEt1TkAEQ-uWXpUKGxWEyihgaCQ/" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(<i>Many actions—all about climate change— since June
newsletter.</i>) </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.envirosagainstwar.org/2021/07/13/breaking-news-a-stunning-speech-from-brussels-us-imperialism-is-the-greatest-danger-to-world-peace/">LISTEN</a>
to a Belgian Parliamentarian tell it like it is.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://peacetaxfund.org/petition/">SUPPORT</a> the
peace tax fund bill.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.climaterealityproject.org/noclimatenodeal?utm_campaign=climateinajp&utm_medium=email&utm_source=advocacy&utm_content=climateinAJP-email-4&ms=climateinAJPEmail40721&emci=44607f1d-efeb-eb11-a7ad-501ac57b8fa7&emdi=314ca700-ecee-eb11-a7ad-501ac57b8fa7&ceid=1318380">ENCOURAGE</a>
Congress to think big about climate.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.codepink.org/eagleact?utm_campaign=china_eagle_act_july_2021&utm_medium=email&utm_source=codepink">OPPOSE</a>
the $7 billion anti-China bill.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/sign-now-end-fossil-fuel-ads-on-social-media/?source=group-the-zero-hour&referrer=group-the-zero-hour&link_id=0&can_id=447ac5b0d7a5124338b20f2bb702d0f8&email_referrer=email_1247978&email_subject=tell-big-tech-stop-the-fossil-fuel-ads">DEMAND</a>
big tech stop the fossil fuel ads.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://secure.actblue.com/donate/intercept_join?akid=4870.182511.nZIRJe&rd=1&refcode=em_intercept_20210727_nm_extremeweather&refcode2=4870_182511_nZIRJe&t=16">HELP</a>
The Intercept identify the big fossil fuel polluters. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/megadrought_sus_rb_21/?bTwoQeb&v=134608&lang=en&cid=44339&_checksum=031f9cb7788da84787c6ce0ed7333a95e36d38886bf212ebad3c46207ccf9e1d&c=USD&a=5&p=28">DONATE</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to Avaaz to combat climate change.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX_bX7OHap5m5WUhXtlraJle91UobAY3Eg7dXfBwX1-D9A1vK6lJdh1agbdbt1HMcHkbcKx2suPMp7fxCNv5DMw3lLe-VP9kQmpof5wQgvQP0caknSy0risnAXfkLYskoqA5GKnEzJ-rg/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="935" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX_bX7OHap5m5WUhXtlraJle91UobAY3Eg7dXfBwX1-D9A1vK6lJdh1agbdbt1HMcHkbcKx2suPMp7fxCNv5DMw3lLe-VP9kQmpof5wQgvQP0caknSy0risnAXfkLYskoqA5GKnEzJ-rg/" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">(<i>Roses filtered for climate change.</i>)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Global leadership groups urged permanent embers of the
Security Council to affirm that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be
fought. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Global Alliance for a green new deal launches visionary
campaign for the world. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Globally banks are called to stop financing fossil fuels.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">‘Civil disobedience our duty’: Swiss climate campaigners
occupy Zurich Financial Center. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Protesters urge Boris Johnson to take climate seriously. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Climate campaigners and Extinction Rebellion (XR) hold tug
of war in front of Leinster House, home of the Dail.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Warning of climate chaos, new 350.org campaign demands Fed
‘stop fossil fuel finance.’</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">‘A false solution’: 500+ groups urge U.S. & Canadian
leaders to reject carbon capture. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">‘Future belongs to renewable energy’: Greenland ditches all
oil drilling.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">World’s poorest nations to wealthiest: ‘no more excuses’ on
urgent climate action. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">70+ groups urge Ireland to introduce UN resolution for
fracking ban,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">U.S. peace activists in Germany join call for withdrawal of
nuclear weapons. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sunrise launches green new deal jobs website to celebrate
future of climate-friendly work.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Morongo tribe now owner of the power grid.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Whatcom County, WA.’s new rules against fossil fuel
extraction permanently banning new refineries, shipping terminals, or
coal-fired plants, and imposing tougher regulations on expansion of area’s
existing facilities, celebrated as ‘blueprint’ for nation.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Biden mileage rule to exceed Obama climate goal.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Biden reverses #45 rule, tightens limits on coal plant waste
water. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Biden to restore protections for Tongass National Forest.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Defenders applauds Biden administration’s move to protect
roadless areas in Tongass NF.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Forest “service’ to end logging, restore protections in
Tongass NF. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Biden administration’s drone strike in Somalia draws fire
from Senators Sanders, Lee, and Murphy and Rep. Ilhan Omar.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In first application of Supreme Courts “maul” clean water
act test, environmental protection prevails. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Schumer commits to creating civilian climate corps. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">84 Dems sign letter demanding civilian climate corps in
reconciliation bill.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Senators introduce legislation to curb endless U.S. wars,
lethal arms sales.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Civil society calls on Congress to end war and blockade on
Yemen.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jamaal Bowman unveils $1.4 trillion green new deal for pubic
schools. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Groups demand ‘not a single dollar more to Pentagon’ in
infrastructure package.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Victory for advocates: Company drops plans for Byhalia
pipeline which would have run through mostly black Memphis neighborhoods as
activists continue to mobilize <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>against
risks to water, land, climate and community remains.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">45+ groups say ‘future of our planet depends on ending new
cold war’ between U.S. and China.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Rally to stop SoCalGas in Ventura unites 250+ frontline
community embers, elected officials, and public health advocates. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Northwest Mississippi celebrates grassroots victory after
plans pipeline running through wetlands are scrapped.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Black residents in Coastal Georgia hold polluters
accountable.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Barbara Lee introduces legislation to allocate $350 billion
of Pentagon budget to healthcare, education and green jobs. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Minneapolis City Council joins opposition to pipeline.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Over 200 activists, celebrities and Democratic donors demand
Biden reject Line 3. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Grandparents protest Chase and pressure Biden on climate.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tara Houska and Winona LaDuke representing EarthRights
International and other organizations filed a restraining order against Hubbard
Co. Sheriff Cory Aukes for blocking access to an indigenous-led organizing
camp.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Just out of jail, Winona LaDuke decries militarized
crackdown on Line 3 protestors.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">‘Huge legal win’: court stops police from blockading Line 3
protestor camp. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Anonymous Automous Antifascists blockade blocks Enbridge
Line 3 easement to the Willow River.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Animal extinction protesters blockade McDonalds factory. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Climate Power and LCV announce $10 million July paid media
campaign in support of Congress delivering clean energy and climate investments
necessary to meet the moment. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Civil rights leaders in Reading PA. one of nation’s poorest
cities, launch environmental justice ecosystem rights ballot initiative. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">NCR halts pursuit of 40-year license nuclear power plant
extensions.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Japanese victims of radioactive black rain finally
vindicated.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Chester, PA. battles to shut down toxic waste-to-energy
plant. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">U. of Southern California pilots project to ascertain
what<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>tress could be planted to cool
temperatures that might thrive in LA’s poor Latino and Asian neighborhoods.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Unsustainable farming: Family Farm Action Alliance releases
report to ‘counter Big Ag’s deception.’</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hemp, nature’s own fuel, could save planet from greenhouse
effect.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Power plant of the future is right in your home.</p>
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