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February 18, 2012

RayFltr --- Israel/Rogue - Immigration/Effects - Religious/Teachings/Freedom/Theocracy - Science/Anti-/Good - Yemen - Economy/PublicEmployees/Plutocrats/DoD

>>>>>>> 'news' you may have missed <<<<<<<
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Good story - fresh fruit, milk, and bread - flood area ---
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Incredible - Israel threatens to destroy Palestinian wind and solar cell installations - our SOB? - what a rogue nation ---
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Immigration law - bad effects - Alabama - multiplier effects ---
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Religious teachings - which ones? - selectivity!! - prez candidates - hypocrisy? - irony? - all over the place - a problem in my mind with all the rhetoric has been the lack of a more comprehensive presentation of the complete context of the issue - I think Juan Cole does the best job of providing that deeper context that I've seen - although maybe I just agree with his bias ---
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Obama's controversial birth-control rule has been 'law' for 10 yrs - why the outrage now? - political theater - advantage to the media incompetency ---
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Freedom of religion:
If a hospital owned by a Muslim charity insisted that its patients all sign arbitration agreements that were governed by Sharia law, I think the conservative view of freedom of religion would take a sudden turn for the worse.
--- Kevin Drum, Mother Jones
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Church/State - Christian Theocracy - where are the leaders like these earlier ones? - change? - not to the good - cutting all government funds to religious groups may be the best solution - including tax exemptions ---
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Anti-science - climate change deniers - evolution deniers -- intelligent design - education 'science' modules - 'teach controversy'? - huhhhh!!! - I liked the one comment - 'Stupidity IS a crime against humanity' ---
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"There will be opened a gateway and a road to a large and excellent science into which minds more piercing than mine shall penetrate to recesses still deeper."
--- Galileo Galilei (1564), prophesy, The Writer's Almanac, [HOPE]
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Public employees - to all you public workers - I know it's easy for me to say - keep the faith - but I have to believe that Americans in general aren't just stupid - they have to turn around - somehow we have to get back to knowledge and understanding - and - 'ignorance isn't good' ---
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Rights - security - Jim Hightower reviews ---
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Plutocrats - democracy - $2billion election? - Bill Moyers ---
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"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living in society, they create for themselves, in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."
--- Frederic Bastiat, French writer/economist
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Some really great charts about economic status - some you've seen before ---
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the daily zen
"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said."
--- Peter F. Drucker
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Cut DoD funding - Okinawa - now - wouldn't hurt security - be better neighbors ---
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Pessimistic billionaire - why has the emphasis been on technology and finance? - not energy or other science? - why did Kennedy's - going to the moon work? - would be unthinkable today - I thought it interesting ---
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Losing the world - Noam Chomsky again ---
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Israel/Iran - Israel and Republicans want to get the US involved in another MidEast war - and we're dumb enough to follow again - would kill long-time possibility of the Palestinian state - talk about a rogue nation ---
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More Chomsky - The Imperial Way - good commentary ---
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Yemen - truth? - once again - unanticipated results - once again - we give the so-called 'terrorists' the publicity and credibility they need - once again the 'people' have to carry the 'burden' - poverty, killings - reminds me of being there more than 30 yrs ago - both Yemen and Somalia seem worse off than they did then - and - Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria - who's next? - Iran? - Pakistan? - Mauritania? - Nigeria? ---
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Science - testing Einstein's theory ---
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Science - Brazilian rainforest - climate change - fresh water resources - fragile ---
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Snow? - where? - cold? - where? - carbon bubble? - here - beautiful satellite photo of NAmerica in Jan - 'clear' - McKibben explains - thanks P... ---
in this beautiful photo of North America from outer space, taken on Jan. 2 this year.
Bill McKibben has the answer and then some:
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Cartoons:
Biblical ---
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Be my valentine ---
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Business friendly ---
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Control ---
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Bad? - I'm good - Puritan? ---
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Horse race? - this pretty well says it all ---
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Trade? ---
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Republican 'hope' ---
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Tom the Dancing Bug ---
zzzzzzzzzzzzz
30s/40s/50s - nothing new - sunny - snow? - maybe Sunday - enjoy

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February 12, 2012

RayFltr --- FedWorkers - War/Women - CitizenRights - VoterFraud - Taxes - Earmarks - Conscience - Ag/Monsanto/Monopoly - Mining - ExtrajudicialKilling - Whistleblowers - Iran - Israel

>>>>>>> 'news' you may have missed <<<<<<<
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Good story - Americorps - federal workers? - citation from Missouri for their 579k hrs of help in Joplin tornado effects ---
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'War' against women - won't renew the Violence Against Women Act - must be their 'religious conscience' - women are lesser - what @#$%^&%$ ---
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Don't put too much faith in your supposed US citizenship rights - no fly list - secret - 'security' - you can't know ---
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Citizen rights? - NYPD - another close range murder of an unarmed black youth in his parents' apartment - we have to get back to policing and not a 'hit squad' military approach - where is the outrage? ---
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Voter fraud? - maybe there is a problem - but from whom? - Indiana Sec'y of State - irony? - just too deep - will it affect the drive for voter ID? - nope - got to keep those poor folks maybe born in another state and without a birth cert from voting ---
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Corporate taxes - lowest in 40 years - let's return to the Reagan years ---
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Earmarking? - banned? - of course - but - more than one way to skin an 'earmark' ---
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Conscience? - whose conscience? - Obama vs. Bishops - I thought this a good reasoned commentary - remember Native Americans and Peyote as a religious issue? ---
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Most of the birth control aspects have been law since 2000 with little controversy - why the reaction today? - political theater ---
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daily zen
"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
---Shakespeare
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Monsanto - Ag giant - monopoly on seeds - sues organic farmers if their fields are contaminated by Monsanto products - three guesses on who has the deep pockets ---
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Mining - environmental damage - or - economic benefits - or - on backs of the poor - water resources - Colombia ---
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Just when you thought it couldn't get worse - is the US now purposefully killing rescuers and mourners? - investigative journalism says yes ---
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German citizen - El-Masri - CIA rendition - no charges - finally at European Court of Human Rights - also an Open Society Justice Initiative - sad - where is that beacon on a hill? ---
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Transparency? - accountability? - no! no! - 'get' the messenger - war against whistleblowers ---
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I'm afraid most of the lessons of Nuremberg have passed, unfortunately. The world has accepted them, but the U.S. seems reluctant to do so. The principal lesson we learned from Nuremberg is that a war of aggression -- that means, a war in violation of international law, in violation of the UN charter, and not in self-defense -- is the supreme international crime, because all the other crimes happen in war. And every leader who is responsible for planning and perpetrating that crime should be held to account in a court of law, and the law applies equally to everyone.
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These lessons were hailed throughout the world -- I hailed them, I was involved in them -- and it saddens me to no end when Americans are asked: why don't you support the Nuremberg principles on aggression? And the response is: Nuremberg? That was then, this is now. Forget it.
--- Benjamin Ferencz is a 92-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen, American combat soldier during World War II, and a prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials,
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Parenting - French - American - is the difference? - the difficulty to 'educate' rather than discipline? - now if we could only 'educate' Congress..... ---
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Iran - this says what I thought of Clapper's statement that Iran is now more willing to attack inside the US - wouldn't that be a given? ---
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Israel supports terrorist group - and the US response? - I guess it's only worth charges if it's some person contributing to a charity which happens to have some link to a 'terrorist' group ---
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A video on the pharmaceutical industry - are they interested in curing you? - or maintaining symptoms for pharms? - how do we educate ourselves and make good choices? - thanks V... ---
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Cartoons:
I think this says it all ---
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50s? ---
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Fireworks? - rocket ---
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A question Professor ---
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zzzzzzzzzzzzz
30s/40s/50s - nothing new - sunny - enjoy
 

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