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Good story - Xmass present - new EPA standards for power plants - IF - they aren't changed by the know-nothing Congress ---
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Rebecca Solnit - intrepid purveyor of hope - What matters? Who matters? Who decides? On what principles? - 'beloved community' ---
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"We are all children of society, but we are also mothers. We have to nourish society. If we are uprooted from society, we cannot transform it into a more livable place for us and for our children."
--- Thich Nhat Hanh, Sojourner's
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Hope - truth - the greatest shortage today - moral leadership - Jeff Sachs - Vaclav Havel - I liked this - but - Pvt Bradley Manning? - truth? ---
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With a commitment to truth – scientific, ethical, and personal – a society can overcome the many crises of poverty, disease, hunger, and instability that confront us.
--- Jeffrey Sachs, Project Syndicate
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Truth - Manning - a former CIA person laments not having had the courage to expose lies of Generals in Saigon in 1967 - I think this is an important perspective ---
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“an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust,” and risks jail in order “to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.”
--- Martin Luther King, Letter from Birmingham Jail
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The Economy - charts - these are great - what's happening - employment - investment - etc. ---
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Climate change anyone? - permafrost melting - Russia - methane plumes - 20x worse than CO2 - free energy? - yeah sure ---
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What is happpening in our country? - police acting like Riot Swat Teams with school teenagers ---
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And again - mother kills children - herself - when will this madness end? - is there no connection between easy availability of guns and these stories? ---
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The most uncaring nation in in the industrial world? - the US - how did the US become a selfish, greedy nation - a clinical psychologist suggests - Ayn Rand helped by seducing generations of young men to making 'I/me' their god ---
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To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.
— Gore Vidal, 1961
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"It would lead us to become a banana republic, in which administrations would become regimes and each regime would feel it perfectly appropriate to disregard decisions of courts staffed by previous regimes. That's not what we are."
--- MICHAEL B. MUKASEY, President George W. Bush's attorney general, on Newt Gingrich's statement that the elected branches should be free to ignore judicial decisions. NYT
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Another piece on the inequity - this recession is different - companies aren't buckling down to compete more - but are cutting labor - mainaining their profits - paying bonuses ---
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Don't tax the rich - tax inequality - I thought this a reasonable approach - but it probably makes too much sense ---
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Dalai Lama
To bring about a better world, let us all strive together with vision, with courage, and with optimism.
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Cartoons:
Against errr 'for' - women's health ---
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War - over - returning Vets ---
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Credibility ---
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Santa ---
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Capitalism - prisons ---
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I couldn't pass this ---
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Non-lobby ---
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