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Wednesday, February 27, 2013

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind....blake

"Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed." - Friedrich Nietzsche


"There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind." - Friedrich Nietzsche



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From Corporate Funders to Access for Donors, Does Obama Still Care About Campaign Finance Reform?  

 

 

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Julianna Forlano speaks with economist Richard Wolff about the myth of wealthy people being "Job Creators".

 

 



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Should Unions Tear a Page From Clicktivism Playbook?

Labor unions should be wary of the short-termism of many online activism sites.
February 27, 2013  |  
In the last half-decade a number of new online campaigning platforms have emerged, inspired in large part by MoveOn – the progressive American online campaigning group launched back in the Clinton era.
MoveOn, which now claims seven million supporters, has spun-off a number of similar platforms including Avaaz (a global version of MoveOn), SumOfUs (like Avaaz, but completely focussed on corporate misbehavior), 38 Degrees (a UK version of MoveOn), and GetUp (the Australian version).
In addition, there are commercial organizations like  Change.org, which charge fees to campaigners who wish to keep the email addresses of their supporters.
These organizations have become the subject of a vigorous debate in campaigning circles around the notion of “clicktivism”.
Some seasoned campaigners have argued that people taking a few seconds to click on a link in an email message hardly constitutes “activism” and is no substitute for more traditional forms of engagement.
Malcolm Gladwell, the acclaimed author of “The Tipping Point”, took on the clicktivists in a long article for “The New Yorker” in October 2010.
Online campaigning, he wrote, is “a form of organizing which favors the weak-tie connections that give us access to information over the strong-tie connections that help us persevere in the face of danger. It shifts our energies from organizations that promote strategic and disciplined activity and toward those which promote resilience and adaptability. It makes it easier for activists to express themselves, and harder for that expression to have any impact. The instruments of social media are well suited to making the existing social order more efficient. They are not a natural enemy of the status quo.”
Gladwell’s words – especially regarding “organizations that promote strategic and disciplined activity” – should resonate inside trade unions.
Unions are in it for the long haul and aspire to big changes – unlike the short-term, superficial approach of some of the clicktivists.   (more)






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Savaged by dogs, Electrocuted With Cattle Prods, Burned By Toxic Chemicals, Does such barbaric abuse inside U.S. jails explain the horrors that were committed in Iraq?
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Hard News  
   
Twenty Afghan Police Officers Killed in Two Attacks:
Suspected Taliban infiltrators killed 20 Afghan policemen in two attacks on Wednesday, including a mass poisoning, in southeastern Afghanistan.
Afghans demand inquiry into US special forces: Video report:
The US special forces, and Afghans working with them, have been accused of torture, theft and even murder in the province directly west of Kabul.
Syrian troops kill dozens of gunmen on outskirts of Damascus:
A number of gunmen were killed during intense clashes with Syrian troops in the town of Daraya, located 8 kilometers (5 miles) southwest of Damascus, on Tuesday, the state-run SANA news agency reported.
Syrian troops secure vicinity of Aleppo's airport:
The troops have advanced into the surrounding of the airport at a depth of seven kilometers, a pace sufficient for ensuring the resumption of air trafficking soon, al-Watan said, quoting Syrian Airline officials as saying flights to the airport are expected to resume by mid March.
Syrian rebels claim to kill Hezbollah deputy chief:
 Hezbollah's deputy chief was killed Tuesday when Syrian rebels bombed a convoy consisting of high-ranking Syrian government officers near the Lebanon border, news portal Now Lebanon quoted the Free Syria Army as saying on Wednesday.
Syria: Rebels 'shoot down military helicopter in north':
The rebels shot down the helicopter near the Minnigh airbase, which rebels have been trying to seize for months, the London-based Syrian Human Rights Observatory said.
Syria rebels bolstered by new arms:
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US considers aid and training of Syrian rebels:
Body armour, armoured vehicles and military training may be provided to rebels, according to US newspaper.
Turkey's support to Syrian rebels is a declaration of war against Iraq, minister says:
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Iran nuclear talks end without breakthrough:
Saeed Jalili, Iran's chief nuclear negotiator said on Wednesday all sides agreed to meet in the same city on April 5-6 after first gathering their nuclear experts for consultations in Istanbul in March.
No offer made to Iran on oil, financial sanctions: U.S. official:
Six world powers did not offer to suspend oil or financial sanctions during talks with Iran on its nuclear program in the Kazakh city of Almaty, a senior U.S. administration official said on Wednesday.
U.S. moves to expand economic sanctions on Iran as nuclear talks end:
U.S. lawmakers will introduce a bill on Wednesday that expands economic penalties against Iran and is designed to force countries like China to buy less Iranian crude oil, according to a copy of the legislation obtained by Reuters on Tuesday.
Former Hostages Urge Diplomacy With Iran:
Two of the diplomats held during the 444-day Iranian Hostage Crisis are speaking out in favor of stronger diplomatic overtures between the United States and Iran.
EU report recommends economic sanctions on Israeli settlements:
The European Union (EU) consuls in Jerusalem and Ramallah issued a report calling for imposing economic sanctions against Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem
EU report slams Israeli settlements:
The report referred to Israel's settlement construction in east Jerusalem as "systematic, deliberate and provocative" and stated that Jewish settlement construction was "the biggest single threat to the two state solution."
Israel 'secretly deports' 1,000 Sudanese who may face persecution at home:
The UN Refugee agency said it was not informed of the move, and that the deportees were forced to return to Sudan where visiting or living in Israel is a crime.
Hagel takes charge as defense secretary after bitter Senate fight over his nomination:
Hagel promised to work closely with Congress, but he faces lingering reservations about his ability to handle the responsibilities. Shortly after the vote, Sen. Lindsey Graham said he still has serious questions about Hagel and his qualifications.
Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK): Links Hagel To Holocaust Denial:
Video -
AIPAC takes on the latest threat to Israel - sequestration:
There is a palpable fear that the aid spigot to Israel is about to turn off, or at least slow down, given the budget face off taking place in Washington
Biden to headline AIPAC conference:
At the conference, AIPAC officials plan to unveil a new "strategic concept" related to the US-Israel relationship, one official told The Times of Israel Tuesday: "Introducing legislation in the Senate and House that will designate Israel as a major strategic partner of the United States."
Egypt court orders Gaza lifeline destroyed:
Ruling will remove routes between Egypt and the Gaza Strip for smuggled weapons, but also a lifeline for Palestinians.
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1000 + days without trial and
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How much data can police swipe from suspects' phones without a warrant?:
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ISPs Now Monitoring for Copyright Infringement:
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Proposed ordinance sparks controversy:
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Indiana House Approves Welfare Drug Test Bill:
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The School Security America Doesn't Need:
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Defend Martin Luther King's Dream Act:
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94 percent of Americans don't know the deficit is falling.: There is no deficit problem.
The deficit is down 50 percent as a share of gross domestic product just since President Bush's fiscal year 2009 deficit and is falling at the fastest rate since the end of World War II. Yet the Washington debate is about how and where to cut us back into recession. Why?
Wall Street cash bonuses seen higher in 2012: :
The securities industry's bonus pool was expected to total $20 billion, Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said, up 8 percent from 2011
UK: Students turn to sex trade to pay off debts :
Payday loan companies have been banned from a London university amid fears that students are resorting to desperate measures to pay off debts.
Food giants take over the industry:
Small producers face poverty as ever more commodities are controlled by a coterie of multinationals.








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Thursday, November 29, 2012

Stories at the intersection of tech and life from a boldly connected city.

"They sell us the president the same way
They sell us our clothes and our cars
They sell us every thing from youth to religion
The same time they sell us our wars"
Jackson Browne  - Lives In The Balance - http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11924.htm


"The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil."   - Albert Einstein 

"Man can find meaning in life, short and perilous as it is, only through devoting himself to society"   - Albert Einstein
 

Hey you dreamers, rebels and wildcats out there,
Are you ready to welcome in the Year of the Snake? In Chinese astrology, the snake represents a deep, sensual philosopher ... one who is willing to sacrifice all his possessions, who is capable of shedding the past in one fell swoop.
If you renew your subscription to Adbusters before Christmas, we'll send you a complimentary copy of our Year of the Snake calendar – an empowering force on your wall to help you renew yourself through 2013. Call Ben at 1-800-663-1243 or visit our culture shop to subscribe.
The Year of the Snake will be a time of soul-searching – for Adbusters, and for all of us who call this blue-green planet earth home. Let's shed our skins and nudge this human experiment of ours back onto a sane, sustainable path.
Cheers, Kanpai, Sante, Prosit, L'chayim – here's to all the things that could happen in 2013!

Mónica Guzmán

Stories at the intersection of tech and life from a boldly connected city.
November 9, 2012 at 5:10 PM

Have you seen the wizard? Searching for a street-art curiosity

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About 900 of these “Compassion Wizards” have been posted on telephone poles in the Seattle area over the past year. (Design: Ryan Henry Ward)
I saw it when I stopped at a red light at the intersection of Lake City Way and 95th Street: an old, bearded man — was he a wizard? — staring down at the street from a sign on a telephone pole. I smiled. How weird.
Before the light turned green, I took a picture. “Fun things out in the world for no apparent reason,” I posted on Instagram. “Love those.”
An Instagramer named Ericka clued me in within minutes. “The compassion wizard!” she wrote. “Look him up :) ”
So I did.
As it turns out, this quirky character is the work of none other than Ryan Henry Ward, the 37-year-old Seattle artist who’s made a name for himself with the 127 bold and whimsical murals he’s put up around the city over the last five years. But it’s like nothing he’s done before. The Compassion Wizard is small, black and white and unclaimed, missing Ward’s familiar “henry” signature. But he’s got a more central place in Ward’s artistic vision than most of his other characters. Plus, he’s everywhere. Ward put up the last of 900 wizard signs last month, and tattooed him on his right arm earlier this year.
Of course, you’d know none of this meeting the bearded character’s wise, confident gaze on a street corner, and that’s part of the point. When everything’s tracked and mapped and scheduled, it’s nice to collide with a little magic.
And even better when you learn that magic has a pretty cool message.


Seattle artist Ryan Henry Ward tattooed the character in his street-art project, the Compassion Wizard, on his right arm. (Photo: Chuck Moody)
The Compassion Wizard means something to Ward. A lot, actually. But since he began installing the signs last year, Ward hasn’t been in a rush to explain them. He sort of let it go into the world, implicitly trusting that someone would notice it, then someone else, and someone else, and that through the connections actual and virtual it would spark a casual, collaborative kind of discovery.
That’s what’s possible. And ever since Ward put up the first wizards along with a simple Facebook page about a year ago, it’s exactly what’s happened.
The first thing I wanted from Ward when we met under his canvases at Fremont’s Short Stop Coffee this week was an explanation. I’d found random Flickr photos of the wizard, a YouTube video asking what he’s all about and the Google map where people are plotting their sightings.
On the Facebook page, posts about love and imagination accompany images of Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama. But what does a wizard have to do with compassion?
Ward put it to me this way. His art, with its mermaids, monsters and big, colorful animals, reflects the magical world he believes kids all live in. He calls it the Golden Realm.
As we grow, we let go of our sense that all things are possible so we can live in a world where it seems a lot of things are not. On a trip to India in 2000, Ward realized that it’s hard to help a sick man you see on the side of the street if you think that’s just the way things are.

What’s this? I spotted the wizard on Lake City Way and 95th Street. (Image: @moniguzman on Instagram)
“Compassion is born from the imagination,” he explained. “To have the desire to be compassionate, you have to imagine a world that’s better than the one you live in.”
If the creatures in Ward’s murals are characters in this world, the Compassion Wizard is its gatekeeper.
Ward considers himself a children’s artist in a big sense. His motivation, he said, is to make art that inspires or keeps people’s innocence.
He guesses that about 35 percent of the signs he’s put up on telephone poles from here to Bellingham and beyond are still up. Some disappear soon after he posts them. Others linger then leave. Ward is OK with that. He didn’t do it for recognition, and he knew he’d have no control. He wanted to see how far he could take one image, and where it could go from there.
The wizards are, as he put it, a gift to the city.
Cops approached Ward a few times as he hauled a ladder out of his former painted car onto a telephone pole. A cop on Capitol Hill once asked what he was doing. When Ward explained, the officer smiled and told him, “I wish more people would do this kind of stuff.”
So do I.......................



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Manning spent nine months at Quantico - three times the maximum Choike thought appropriate. The soldier's treatment there prompted international protests from the UN, Amnesty International and other organisations that likened it to torture.
http://is.gd/wsiBmq



Suit Planned Over Death of Man C.I.A. Drugged: Nearly 60 years after the death of a government scientist who had been given LSD by the Central Intelligence Agency without his knowledge, his family says it plans to sue the government, alleging that he was murdered and did not commit suicide as the C.I.A. has long maintained.
http://is.gd/ejTqG8



Big Tobacco ordered to issue big apology: A US federal judge has ordered tobacco firms to publicly admit to deceiving the public. An advertising campaign to be paid for by the industry is required. It will force firms to adopt specially-chosen 'slogans' that spell out the dangers of smoking.
https://rt.com/usa/news/us-judge-forces-tobacco-confession-758/



$3.4B Indian lawsuit ends, disbursements to begin: After nearly 17 years of courtroom arguments, congressional negotiations and Indian Country bickering, hundreds of thousands of Native Americans could see the first payments of a $3.4 billion U.S. government settlement by the end of the year, plaintiffs' attorneys said Monday.
http://is.gd/NoTJHl

 

 

 

 

 

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