tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-98641612009-12-02T01:07:00.039-07:00Ok, I'll make another blog for the kids.jcrithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06159448039087909223noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864161.post-57788908100881886082007-01-14T15:46:00.000-07:002007-01-14T16:02:00.003-07:00

Bush and Co. continue to destroy basic democratic traditions in the US. One of the latest is the erosion of the public comment process. In the development of coal resources on publice and native lands in the desert Southwest, the tried-and-true town hall meeting is now quietly being replaced with the Orwellian-named "Open House" meeting. This travesty of democracy has just happened in Northern

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"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way."Doris LessingThere are still many factories in the US that have not dissolved away only to reappear in foreign lands. These factories, however, go by another, less mechanistic name: Public Schools. It could change, however, in the blink of an eye if we can agree to abandon the

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Who are the real Luddites of the world?First of all, the Luddites, 19th century followers of the mythical Ned Ludd were more interested in maintaining their jobs than they were in opposing technology. It was a case of one position being the result of the other. In this regard, today’s Luddites could very well be all those former workers in US manufacturing whose jobs went bye-bye as a result of

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(crossposted on Daily Kos) I guess it's my responsibility to remind people about the forgotten issues of mining the shit in the first place.The Colorado AIM (American Indian Movement) blog has a couple very timely posts now about the issue. One post is about an article in the Gallup Independent called,"Residents tell of mining's tragic impact". The other posting is about the threat to peoples'

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I still can't clearly define an opinion about the failues of the Democrats, but the idea of abandoning politicians who are Repubs in Democrat clothing has been with me since the days of Jimmy Carter, when MLKs', McGovernists' and other strongly liberal peoples' popular ideas were "appropriated"- nee commandeered- by mainstream party hacks, only to be so weakly supported during the Carter

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Thanks to Best of the Blogs for linking to this video of a speech by Harry Truman, in which Truman says, "Now I am going to tell you how we are not going to fight communism. We are not going to transform our fine FBI into a Gestapo secret police. That is what some people would like to do. We are not going to try to control what our people read and say and think. We are not going to turn the

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Here is a money quote from Paul Craig Roberts:What has become of the American people that they permit the despicable practices of tyrants to be practiced in their name? The Bush administration is in violation of the US Constitution, the rule of law, the Geneva Convention, the Nuremberg Standard, and basic humanity. It is a gang of criminals. The Republican Party is so terrified of losing power

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The Alternative Energy Blog had a great article back in July on the viability of ethanol as a substitute for gasoline. Clearly, there has been billions of taxpayer dollars spent on creating an ethanol industry, despite the fact that it is sustainable only with the addition of cheap oil inputs in ethanol's source and manufacture. Here is a portion of the discussion:The stickiest question about

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My only comment on this is the same one I have had ever since the beginning of the "end justifies the means" murdering began: What on Earth could have been so precious that it could allow these war criminals to say in the end, "It was worth it", for what they did?

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It appears that my concerns about the selloff of federal (as in common) property is now under consideration in Congress. These are Parks, Monuments, and other Historical sites. What madness, what mindless greed.

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We are witnessing the struggle by the Iraqis to write a good Constitution. While this effort was taking place these past few months, one of the best political things to occur this summer was the Statement of Conscience made regarding war crimes committed by President George Bush and others.The Conscience of Consciousness is coming!

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Thanks to the dedicated folks at the Environmental Education Outreach Program Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals, I learned that another tragedy is repeating itself: a Uranium mining rush. This horror- thousands of uranium workers and family members were sickened by the first rush; huge tailings contaminations, one of which is threatening the Colorado River in Moab, Utah, today;

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The book is Coyote Warriors, by Paul VanDevelder. There is not much more to say, except that is goes from deeply depressing to wonderfully uplifting. Tearful reading at each extreme. (Krugman) Thursday's statement from the People's Bank of China, announcing that the yuan is no longer pegged to the dollar, was terse and uninformative - you might say inscrutable. There's a good chance that this

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Last year, President War Criminal issued an executive order:President Bush's Executive Order on American Indian and Alaska Native Education (EO 13336).Although it is over a year old, my school district has yet to announce it, and I wonder if the administrators are even aware of it!In a nutshell, here is a list of the Order's salient points:The Executive Order supports Tribal traditions, languages

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Well, once again an obvious answer presents itself. It is possible to polish the bottom of an aluminum can and use it to make a small parabolic mirror to start a fire. This, and other wilderness survival topics may be found at Tracker Trail. This idea actually uses chocolate from a candy bar as the polishing agent!Thanks to BoingBoing for this and other neat connections.

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Faith is not the belief that God is on your side, it is the belief that you are on His side.

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WWIII and its outcome. Funny isn't it, how war is always reduced to hand-to-hand combat? But, like the 6-year old wise-child said, "If we all hold hands, then we can't fight." Amen.

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Take a look at the Executive Summary of last year's report from the National Women's Law Center. The report, which is still as fresh as the day it was published, is called, "Slip-Sliding Away: The Erosion of Hard-Won Gains for Women Under the Bush Administration and an Agenda for Moving Forward (April, 2004)". It pretty much shows how many hard-won gains in equality are not just eroding under

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Such good news! Much more to come, I'm sure.

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Calling NCLB a "flawed, convoluted and unconstitutional education reform initiative that had usurped state and local control of public schools", the National Council of State Legislators hit a home run.

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While reading this article, substitute the words, "Social Security" every time you see the words, "Individual Indian Money Trust Fund" (IIM). It may make you think about the reality facing working people in the US.Again, this is not welfare, but rather money owed. And it is redefining the meaning if the word, "trust", in the halls of the federal government.

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Here's a pdf file of the Navajo Tribal Council resolution banning uranium mining: uraniumminingend.pdf

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Click the title to see what will happen to your benefit if the privatized changes happen.Most non-politicized or non-ideological assessments of Social Security that I have read deplore privitization.

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"History is important. Those who believe they can turn history back should remember the origin of previous wars. The Germans didn't accept Versailles and that was the origin of Fascism." -Ricardo Alarcon Quesada, Cuba's Vice President and President of its National Assembly, January, 2005.My suspicion is that the bombing in Lebanon is a pretext, whether premeditated or via opportunism, to take

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This incident involving the use of the same photograph to show a nuclear plant in in Iran and North Korea is the end of whatever was left of CNN's credibility for me. How dare they perpetrate this deception of convenience? How many will die for this lie?Where is a good class-action lawsuit (for journalistic fraud over public airwaves) when you need one!?CNN = "Caught Nuking News"How

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