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12 Simple Steps for Gong Green in 2012

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:36:51 GMT

From World Watch Institute at Mother Earth News 12 Simple Steps for Going Green.

We are being buried in empty campaign rhetoric, divisive, delusional, and destructive. The simple fact is 1% has too much, wants more, and wants you to believe by letting them not pay their fair share they are helping you. Well, here there are buds on the rose bushes, on the Dawn Redwoods; the robins are back and we can take all the campaign rhetoric and throw it on the compost to enrich it with its dirge of "me first, you be quiet."

I am just out of the ICU and hospital. If I wasn't paying outrageous sumss for insurance, I would be dead. Just that simple. NO ONE SHOULD BE WITHOUT MEDICAL CARE. NO ONE SHOULD BE HUNGRY. NO ONE SHOULD BE HOMELESS WHILE OTHERS HAVE NUMBEROUS HOMES. That is not the American dream; living on the street, going hungry, not having medical care, being unable to find a job, NOT BEING ABLE TO CARE FOR YOUR CHILDREN: THOSE THINGS ARE NOT THE AMERICAN DREAM.

Platitudes, double speak, empty promises, are not helpful. The suits the prospective candidates are wearing could feed a family for a month in comparable cost.

We do not need a man older than me whose record is already unacceptable. We need new paradigms; we need to grow food in our fields, in our kitchens, on our patios and share it. We need to stand up and help each other with car repairs, health care, whatever it takes for us to make it.

We have to look around and ask what we have that we don't use that someone else can and give it to them.

We need to make these prospective candidates know that empty words, empty promises equal empty stomachs. Just that simple.

Our Constitution Itself Holds the Cure to Stop the Buying of Elections!

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 06:21:44 GMT

James Marc Leas at Truthout Constitutional Amendment Not Needed; Congress Already Has a Remedy.

If you are tired of billions of dollars making their votes more important than yours, tell your Congressman to read the Constitution and stand up for democracy. There is something more important than power and dollars, and that is freedom. Every day your rights are being infringed upon; every day your vote counts less, unless you say NO MORE!

Wayne Drash: Poor, but feeding the rich

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 05:34:27 GMT

From Wayne Drash, CNN, at RSN Poor, but feeding the rich.

Each time I go to the market the prices have gone up. We don't buy any prepared foods, make our own bread, and I just picked 5 oranges from my greenhouse where I am growing food. There is something so sadly and dangerously missing in our country and that is soul and heart and compassion on the part of the 1%. Can they not see that there is only so much that one needs, that others must eat, have a roof over their heads?

What are our soldiers coming home to? No jobs, foreclosed homes, post-traumatic stress to make re-adjustment just so much more difficult. Where are those who sent these men and women to war when it comes to them coming home and needing help?

Where are those who own these mega corporations to which they have managed to apply personhood when they fail to recognize that there are real hurting, breathing people around them that their greed has destroyed the lives of?

I am already tired of the campaigning, the outpour of platitudes, double speak, and endless requests for donations when the rest of us struggle to pay medical bills, the electric, the mortgage, the food. They want us to donate to the wealth they already have; to work they are not doing for us; to compassion that they don't have.
What is spent by Citizens United to buy elections would be better spent to create jobs and feed people.

These people are not giants, not heroes, they are insatiable power and wealth addicts.

Sonewhere we must in this coming year show the 1% that power with is life; power over is destruction, and destroyers do come to the day when the price for the destruction must be paid.
Call it 'what goes around, comes around'; call it karma; call it weighing the heart against a feather as the old Egyptian way, the bill must be paid. The bill will be oh so high. We are all one; we are responsible for each other as part of the whole; we can no longer permit rampant cells in the One to devour us. We don't need politicos, tried and true only to their own power and wealth, not ours, proven to be so many, many times over. To rid the One of these rampant cells we must set the example, live the compassionate life, help one another with love, with peace, with communication-real communication, not election blather that goes nowhere, says nothing, accomplishs nothing but division and pain.

We don't need or want that pipeline; we do need our Gulf, our levees, our roads, our dams, our bridges rebuilt.

We don't need endless war. We need real statesmen who don't us the "fists" of guns and drones and bombs, but responsible, construction action. We need them to understand that war is a failure of diplomacy, a horrid, insane thing that eats lives, eats dreams, eats hopes, eats possible accomplishments that will never be, and eats the earth herself.

We need to grow beyond where we are quagmired in endless words that say and do nothing from our leaders.

And one other thing. Why ask people what $40 today means to them; what food it puts on the table, what shoes it buys, what tiny bit of a medical bill it pays, and then send out a mailing asking for donations STARTING at $50? The gap there in reality, in compassion, is so blatant.

Cities and States Take on Citizens United to Say Democracy is NOT for Sale

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 06:33:30 GMT

From Brooke Jarvis, YES! at RSN Sticking It To Citizens United.
From the Louisville Triple Crown.com by Kim Jong Paul Rep. Yarmuth proposes Constitutional Amendment to Combat Citizens United Decision.

MONEY TO INFLUENCE ELECTIONS ON A COLOSSAL SCALE IS NOT FREE SPEECH, IT IS ABUSE OF THE DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM. AS CORPORATIONS DO NOT BREATHE, EAT, LAUGH, CRY, MAKE LOVE, GET SICK, DIE THEY ARE NOT PEOPLE. ENOUGH DOUBLE SPEAK. PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE, JUST THAT SIMPLE. ONE PERSON, ONE VOTE, NOT MILLIONS TO BUY VOTES.

Who does the US belong to? The People or Big Oil?

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 14:44:25 GMT

From the Guardian at RSN XL Pipeline Oil Chief Threatens Obama.

Does the environment mean nothing to these people?
Guess we know the answer to that.

Have you asked yourself why...

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:57:42 GMT

there are 35 million homeless Americans?

Have you asked yourself who is REALLY responsible for that?

Have you asked yourself who of the above are running for office?

If you haven't, it is time you did.

Tanuka Loha: American Paradox

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:47:32 GMT

Human Rights Now at RSN American Paradox: 18.5 million vacant homes and 35 million homeless.

Alan Cohen: What you make of it.

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 03:22:44 GMT

It is 2012 and I am still not used to the 2000 numbering, a child of the last century who came of age in the tumultous 60's. There was a dream, a vision there that today seems more challenged than ever; but a dream, an idea, a word that is placed into the air does come to term.

We face great challenges: war, famine, climate change, water shortages, robber barons, unemployment, Constitutional integrity. What the outcome of these things and all other is, well, is, as always, up to us to choose.

From Alan Cohen at Innerself.com What you make of it.

Blessings for peace, abundance, health, and joy.
Miz' Remy

Norman Lear: Fighting the Good Fight

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 07:26:24 GMT

At RSN Fighting the Good Fight.

It is New Year's Eve. Tomorrow we wake with a clean slate for the way of life we make. We can choose to continue be exploited by an insatiable few, or we can build a sense of local, national, or international community. As one dear friend of mine, Former Sgt. Christopher Gaynor tells me: Act locally, think globally.

Monte L. Witcher: Cleared Hot: A Story of the Battle of Observation Post 4

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 02:43:57 GMT

Dear Ms. Benoit,
It is with great pleasure and honor, that I present to you the book " Cleared Hot" a story of the battle of Observation Post 4. This epic story of the brave Marines of Delta Co. 3rd. light armored infantry is a story about a true incident that occurred during the first gulf war. On January 29, 1991, Delta Company was surprise attacked by an over whelming superior in numbers force of Iraqi main battle tanks, reinforced with infantry. Twenty one LAV 25's supported by 8 LAV tow variants engaged this tank force, head on outnumbered Delta Co. went toe to toe at point blank range to repulse the attack into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. At stake as well was a trapped platoon of reconnaissance Marines which had been over run at the "Berm entry Gates" of Observation Post 4.

Heroic action by Marines and the commanders on the ground at OP-4 won the day, after an all night fire fight, and air attack, Delta Company was eventually able to save all the trapped platoon of Marines on the berm, but not without the loss of 11 US Marines from Delta Company. The morning of January 30, 1991, reveled the intensity of the most incredible exchange of fire between the 2 forces. I was a driver on one of the LAV 25's that night, my vehicle gunner expired all rounds but save 10 from the gun magazine from our 25 mm chain gun. It was an unbelievable battle, of which I was able to record on tape while fighting this battle. Readers will be privy to this tape through my web site Cleared Hot.. They will receive login and passwords to the battle audio in their book.

I wrote this book as to let this story be told, and not to simply slip away in time. The events,and the Marines, as well as the huge loss of men on the Iraqi's side, should be remembered in the annals of history. I have been moved by the memory of this day, and following morning to find the discipline to write about it. Now it is here for all to study and reflect.

On February 24, 1991, 1 month later the ground invasion would take place. My company, drew the nickname "Tip of the Spear" I was there in the lead element of the 100 hour blitz into downtown Kuwait. I am writing my second book entitled "WolfPack, Invaders of Kuwait" about this invasion. I also made a descriptive tape of the entire invasion, this to will be included with my next book.

This is real history Ms. Benoit, at a bulls eye level. I'm proud to share my story with you. I am grateful for your help more than words can express. This is a tale of remembrance of the brave US Marines that were my brothers, we lost.

Thank you,
Monte L. Witcher

Bernie Sanders: 2012 Where do we go from here?

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 06:36:47 GMT

At RSN 2012 Where do we go from here?.

What can you do to help others? Ask your market manager to put up a food donation box to be distributed through a local group to those who can't afford food. Take donations to a local thrift shop of clothing, books, household items you no longer use. Make sure a neighbor has food and heat; adopt a stray animal. Help a neighbor fix a car, shovel a driveway of snow; develop a sense of local and national community.

How many of our towns are literally ghost towns due to businesses being undercut price wise by
huge corporations? How can those empty shops be
opened to seed exchanges, book stores, health and dental clinics, music shops, art and antique shops, further education? Chaperone a dance for teenagers; create a cross-generational event for letting us elder folk share experiences and give guidance and love to the young ones.

What needs doing in your neighborhood? Is there a little park for kids? Is there vacant ground for a victory garden to help cancel out hunger?

The world we live in is the world we make.

Carl Gibson: Occupy the Dinner Table

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 07:34:40 GMT

At RSN Occupy the Dinner Table.

Welcome Home

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 10:10:51 GMT

To all of you just coming home from Iraq, welcome home, blessings for you and your families.

To those of you serving abroad, be safe, know you are in our prayers.

Something to look forward to....

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:43:37 GMT

Just about a year from now The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

Michael Moore: Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:38:54 GMT

From Michael Moore Here Comes Trouble.

What can you do for peace?

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:48:48 GMT

Peace is a way of life; it is following the true dictates of each religion-love thy neighbor. Forgive; feed the hungry; help thy neighbor

Would you rather plant a seed to feed the hungry or pay taxes to build bombs to tear the planet and all the life forms on it?

Kindness is so much easier than hate. It is also much, much healthier for you and for others.

When we use weapons of war we not only kill the enemy, we tear the earth, kill multitudes of other life forms and suffer the butterfly effect of all of it.

When we mistreat the earth, we kill ourselves, our planet.

Kindness is easier. Watching fruit and vegetables grow is so good for us; watching homes blow up, children starve is not good for anyone.

What can you do for peace this holiday season?
Be peace, spread it, grow it, nourish it, and learn compassion. Compassion breeds more peace.
Peace with each other, with the planet should be the basis of every political platform; not greed, not hate, not nature destructive, people destructive negativity. Demand truth, not political double speak. Seek out war profiteers for expsoure and responsibility. Demand lobbyists leave D.C. Demand no insider trading for Congress.
Demand health care for all. Thy neighbor as thyself love.

We simply don't have the time to not learn at this point. Just that simple.

Peace is not an answer, it is the answer, at home, abroad, and even into space.

Share your milk and cookies, share your love.
Demand that those who sap your energy, profit from your work, leave you without homes, without jobs pay for their avarice.

Grow life rather than spreading planetary death.

U.S. Troops Leave Iraq

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 14:14:45 GMT

At CNN Deadly Iraq War Ends With Exit of Last U.S. Troops.

And now we should be asking what this war cost in terms of lives, injuries, post-traumatic stress and perhaps be more cautious when we accept "evidence" for what exists, or doesn't.

To those of us who served, thank you, welcome home, and prayers stay with you.
Taps.

Jim Garrison: Obama's Most Fateful Decision

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:38:58 GMT

At Huffington Post Obama's Most Fateful Decision.

William J. Astore: Fighting 1% Wars

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:52:55 GMT

Fron Tom Dispatch at RSN Fighting 1% Wars.

Military Brain Testing for Injuries

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:42:05 GMT

At NPR Military Brain Testing a Debacle.