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February 2012

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.”    A. Bartlett Giamatti



Greg Palast's Vultures' Picnic and Why We Occupy   -   Nomi Prins Book Review:  "Our world is warped, and the Vultures’ Picnic takes place on the carcasses of the human population – whether in financial terms by ripping off small towns, pension funds and mortgage holders, or through the slaughtering of forests, sea-life, animals, and village children. Why do we Occupy ? Because we can’t let the Vultures continue gorging themselves at our expense. " 

The "Growing"  Revolution





Occupy Live Stream




Alan Grayson Steals the Show on Real Time w/ Bill Maher

 


The Scientific Basis for Compassion What We Know Now & What We All Can Do. The Dalai Lama joined a panel of leading researchers to discuss the quantitative benefits of compassion. Powerful and moving.  Inspire yourself every day. 
Jon Stewart on an Energy- Independent Future - Comedy Central

Thank Your Military (4:37 minutes). When can we bring these young men and women home; Brave innocents...

Debt Clock - Many statistics including Unemployment & States




Drug Companies Increase Profits by Creating Fear of Diseases

Realtors: We Overcounted Home Sales for Five Years By Lucia Mutikani, Reuters 14 December 11


Washington Attorney General Sues Recon Trust for Illegal Foreclosure (also on Washington AG site)





Solid Ground - We believe that together, we can build a community free from poverty, prejudice and neglect in which all members stand on Solid Ground with the skills and confidence needed to achieve their dreams. Since 1974, Solid Ground (formerly the Fremont Public Association) has helped our most vulnerable community members overcome economic crises and develop the skills and resources they need to thrive, helping hundreds of thousands of people throughout King County break the cycle of poverty.


What Will It Take?






Community is the The Future

An Inspiring Permaculture Project - Building An Eco-Mound - Transition Snoqualmie Valley Community Working Together









Watching the Watchers - Accountability







"Robert Reich connects the dots on the economy, in less than 2 minutes and 15 seconds. Who knew he could draw"!?!






Mike Huckabee, interviews 90 year old Canadian Mayor Hurricane Hazel McCallion:





Building resilience: The new economy in the shell of the old






Just Sustainable Economy - We study our present economy, our environmental crises, and investigate alternative economies that further our values of peace, justice and environmental sustainability. Our goals are: 1) to inform ourselves and each other and then make changes in our own economic lives; 2) to share our discoveries with others; and 3) to build just and sustainable communities, in the interdependent context of our nation, and all nations – to help build a national and global movement for environmental sustainability and economic equity.


Real Family Values - 9 progressive policies to support our families. YES Magazine


Exclusive: IRS weighs tax penalties on mortgage securities  


Gov't orders 14 lenders to reimburse homeowners

A Scandal - A time when we have a 1.6 Trillion deficit, maybe we might want to ask the big corporations to pay sometime in taxes.

Bloomberg Interviews on the Federal Reserve - Foreign Banks Tapped Fed’s Secret Lifeline Most at Crisis Peak.  April 1, 2011 The central bank released about 29,000 pages of secret loan documents yesterday under court order, almost three years after Bloomberg LP first requested details.

 

Tax the Super Rich now or face a revolution   Commentary: A ‘Super-Rich Delusion’ is leading us to ruin





The Independent Project:  Kids Tap into Creativity to Learn:





Archive 2011


Recovery Leaves Women Behind - Of the 1.3 million jobs gained in the U.S. in the past year, 1.1 million — nearly 90 percent — went to men, Department of Labor statistics show.....  While women account for roughly half of the work force, a White House report released this month showed persistent pay gaps between men and women at all levels of education, with women earning about 75 percent as much as their male colleagues. Older female workers face greater pay disparity than their younger counterparts — as 25- to 34-year-olds earn 89 percent as much as men, according to the 2009 statistics.


The Sunshine in Government Initiative is a coalition of media groups committed to promoting policies that ensure the government is accessible, accountable and open.

 

Public oversight is the ultimate safeguard of democracy. This is not an issue just for the media. It is the inalienable right of citizens to examine and judge their government; and that right is served when news media act on behalf of the public to gain access to information.



Permaculture in Action - Earth/People/Share






Eco-farming can double food output by poor: U.N. - Many farmers in developing nations can double food production within a decade by shifting to ecological agriculture from use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, a U.N. report showed on Tuesday.


A Model For Change - Vermont - In Vermont, we have created a model: the Vermont Progressive Party, independent of the two corporate owned parties, engaged in grass roots organizing.


Legal Intern reveals what she's learned about the legal system:  




Michael Pawlyn on positive, exciting sustainable designs.  Wow! 



Organic cheater brands exposed at Expo West trade show








Tapped - The largest food company starts selling your local water; the public was never notified, and they get it for free!  Companies who come in with their large battery of legal resources to get control over a local water supply are setting a dangerous precedent. Documentary 1hr 15min.


The Wall Street Pentagon Papers: Biggest Scam In World History Exposed – Are The Federal Reserve’s Crimes Too Big To Comprehend?


U.S Headed for Fiscal Crisis?  - David Walker, comptroller general of the U.S., totaled up our government's income, liabilities and future obligations. He concluded the numbers don't add up. Steve Kroft reports for 60 Minutes.  (CBS) This segment was originally broadcast on March 4, 2007. It was updated on July 8, 2007.




E-mails Suggest Bear Stearns Cheated Clients Out of Billions

Teen Transformation at Challenge Day - 15 minute version

Full Documentary - Challenge Day: This powerful, Emmy award-winning documentary has transformed many lives (90 min)



Contaminants in Bath Products - Baby products


The Tyranny of Defense Inc. Jan 8. Conclusion:  “Thanks to its allies and abettors, the military-industrial-legislative war complex remains stubbornly resistant to change­—a fact President Barack Obama himself learned during his first year in office. While reviewing his administration’s policy in Afghanistan, the president repeatedly asked for a range of policy alternatives. He wanted choices. According to Bob Woodward of The Washington Post, however, the Pentagon offered Obama a single path—the so-called McChrystal “surge” of additional troops. As recounted in Woodward’s book Obama’s Wars, the president complained: “So what’s my option? You’ve given me only one option.” The military’s own preferred option was all he was going to get. (Just months before, Woodward himself had helpfully promoted that very option, courtesy of a well-timed leak.)

 

No doubt Dwight Eisenhower would sympathize with President Obama, having himself struggled to exercise the prerogatives ostensibly reserved to the chief executive. Yet Ike would hardly be surprised. He would reserve his surprise—and his disappointment—for the American people. A half century after he summoned us to shoulder the responsibilities of citizenship, we still refuse to do so. In Washington, military metaphysics remains sacrosanct. No wonder we continue to get our pockets picked.”


Whistleblowers: The Untold Stories (Official Trailer 2011)




Insurer claims it was misled by Goldman Sachs on mortgage-backed investment Jan 6. The fraud is unbelievable.  "First, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Goldman with civil fraud for creating and marketing Abacus, a complex mortgage investment that the agency said the Wall Street bank had secretly designed to fail.

 

Next, lawmakers published a bruising report centered on Abacus that accused Goldman of acting against the interests of its clients and held a hearing to castigate the firm's executives.

 

And on Thursday, one of Goldman's clients announced it had sued the bank seeking $120 million in damages, alleging it had been misled and defrauded in connection with Abacus. Goldman declined to comment....."


!0 Modern Methods of Mind Control










TSA - Shocking video: 





Israeli citizens protest



(People don't want war, governments do) 



Healing from Empire: Anti-War Veterans Redefine Veterans Day- "Today we asking for more than a moment of silence. We are demanding justice."  This statement, published in a Veterans' Day open letter from the Central Illinois chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW), explains the spark lit in cities across the country for Veterans Day this year.




"the country's 24-hour politico pundit perpetual panic conflictinator"

 
Jon Stewart Rallies for Sanity



CBS Video with Jon's Summary - "the country's 24-hour politico pundit perpetual panic conflictinator"




"The pyramid supports are giving out. Quick. Everybody throw your bodies under Goldman Sachs to cushion its fall. 

Children first.  They're the softest."