Who Can Set Us Free? U n Me!

Music and video of artist's view of last ...years and who can really set us free.
Spot on!

clipped from www.youtube.com Fox Elipsus - Set Us Free

World March for Peace and Nonviolence - New York City

Nov. 30, 2009
Thanks to New Zealand the stating point. time for the world to dance and march to a different drummer!

Americans on Healthcare Reform - Yes!

Polls reported by the Century Foundation

clipped from www.tcf.org The public was asked whether the president and Congress passing health care reform would make “the country as a whole” worse off or better off. By 53-28, the public thought the country would be better off, rather than worse off.

There ought to be a law! Gotta stop this! Start Petition

Not the only petition site but a good one that I have found can get results for you as an individual or for not-for-profit groups.

clipped from www.change.org Free and easy to create in 3 steps. Integrated social networking and sharing tools with Twitter and Facebook. Petitions on Change.org have won dozens of campaigns: Convinced the Dept. of Labor to release a confidential report on slave labor

Climate Justice: The Copenhagen Moment

There are some moments, some times, some days when you have to act because there may be no second chance. Are you will to let our leaders take the chance that there will be a second chance?

When (if) the sea takes back major parts of Holland, covers Miami, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Tokyo... and you realize that we had a chance to act but did not - what will you say to those born after that moment who have friends and relatives in those cities?

No wearing white after Labor Day and no clean laundry blowing in the wind

Simply unbelievable in an era when conserving energy and using the power of the sun and wind is on page one. But those who want everything neat and tidy look down their noses at hanging out your laundry and it is illegal is some place - really!

clipped from www.commondreams.org US Residents Fight for the Right to Hang Laundry PERKASIE, Pennsylvania - Carin Froehlich pegs her laundry to three clotheslines strung between trees outside her 18th-century farmhouse, knowing that her actions annoy local officials who have asked her to stop. Carin Froehlich has help from her granddaughter Ava as they hang some laundry in the front yard of her residence in Perkasie, Pennsylvania, November 12, 2009. (REUTERS/Tim Shaffer) Froehlich is among the growing number of people across America fighting for the right to dry their laundry outside against a rising tide of housing associations who oppose the practice despite its energy-saving green appeal.

500 years of domination - we're still standing

Down on "our" border between Arizona and Mexico, the O'odham say: This is still our land, even if it takes another 500 years to get it back from the Anglos and the Spanish/Mexicans.

clipped from bsnorrell.blogspot.com O'odham: Surviving apartheid on the illegal border By Brenda Norrell Censored News Ofelia Rivas said O’odham were never included in the dialogue determining the delineation of the US/Mexico border in the 1800s or the construction of the border wall. “We were not at that table when they made that international border. We were not considered human,” she told the crowd of several hundred people. During the event, the crowd enjoyed traditional O'odham tepary beans, baked squash and fry bread, cooked by Ramon and her family. The event was a fundraiser for the O'odham Solidarity Project. http://www.solidarity-project.org/

Ojibwa Grandmother recounts walk around the Great Lakes

Wonderful talk abot a journey around the Great Lakes

Casualty Records from Afghan War

As you may have guessed, I try to get as close to straight sources. Other than finding reporting cites for each nation and service, this seems pretty good for tracking what counts - not the spin but how many and who is getting killed or wounded.

clipped from www.icasualties.org iCasualties.org: Operation Enduring Freedom

New Form of Swine Flu? Straight from Lab Source

While the Washington Post may be a good newspaper - on issues as intense as this, I think it best to go straight to the source - which this is.

clipped from www.fhi.no Mutation of pandemic influenza A(H1N1) in Norway The Norwegian Institute of Public Health announced today to have found a mutated version of the influenza A(H1N1) virus in three patients in Norway who had tested positive for the new flu. Based on what we know so far, it seems that the mutated virus does not circulate in the population, but might be a result of spontaneous changes which have occurred in these three patients.� - There is no indication that this change in the virus is of any importance for the effect of the vaccine or the effect of antiviral treatment, concludes�Stene-Larsen.

TubePetition #2 - Please sign this video petition

Support climate change actions with new use of YouTube - you on the eath and in the video!

A Jug, Some Bungee, a Chair Back - You Got Wi-Fi!

Amazing! Create two miles of Wi-Fi with hardware supplies. The possibilities are endless for those who want to bypass the big companies. Reminds me of crystal radios made out of Oatmeal boxes, some wire and a quartz crystal.

clipped from blog.techsoup.org Fab Lab and Do-It-Yourself Infrastructure Building Here's a photo of a directional antenna that can transmit Wi-Fi Internet several miles. Anyone can build one with materials from a hardware store; you can even download the blueprint online for free. The organization behind the antennas is Fab Lab, an international network of community workshops. Fab Lab helps residents install the antennas and, even more importantly, learn how to use them. These may not be the most sophisticated antennas, but they work. They're inexpensive and easy to repair, qualities more important in Afghanistan than a good warranty.

Quality Goes In (not) Before Product Is Shipped

Sorry for those injured but sometimes the way these recalls are unintentionally ironic. A gas grill that causes fires.

Yo can go to this web site and sign up for a variety of email notifications on product, food, and healthcare/drug recalls.
http://www.recalls.gov/

clipped from www.cpsc.gov Fire and Burn Hazards Prompt Recall of Gas Grills Sold at Lowe’s Stores a voluntary recall Perfect Flame SLG Series Gas Grills Units: About 663,000 in the United States and about 1,700 in Canada Lucas Innovation Inc., of China The firm has received about 40 reports of fires from the burners deteriorating and about 23 reports of the lids catching fire. The firm is aware of one report of an eye injury requiring surgery and 21 incidents of minor burns to the hands, arms or face.

Time is measured differently among the Pueblo

Being driven out of New Mexico in the 1680's is just like yesterday and now they are welcomed home!

clipped from www.elpasotimes.com Tiguas rejoin Pueblo Council after centuries EL PASO -- The Tiguas of the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo officially joined the All Indian Pueblo Council in a traditional ceremony held Monday on Tigua land in El Paso. However, Tigua councilmen say that the tribe was originally part of the New Mexico Pueblo Indians and was driven into Texas by the Spaniards during the Pueblo Rebellion of 1680.

The Geezer Flu Advantage - Finally an advantage of being a boomer geezer!

Recent studies find that baby boomers over 55 who had earlier flus may/probably have some immunity to current H1N1.

Smile - all they needed ot do was do a survey in the age group and ask who got the big Hong Kong or Asian flu in 1957-58, or 1967-68. Then ask those who said yes, how often they ever got the flu afterward.

When you survive 3-6 weeks of fevers, dry heaves, etc, its seems you get a boat load of anitbodies and antibody memory.

My bet is that those who survived the 1917-1918 flu had the same immunities.

However... I still get the flu shots because when you get millions upon millions of ducks. geese, chickens and pigs together in live markets leading up to Lunar New Year (Jan/Feb) in China, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Korea - you have a live lab to create an entirely new version of flu.

And now that there is a truly global poultry market, new versions of flu will no longer be limited to Asian starts. That is what was most novel about H1N1, it started in Northern H

clipped from afludiary.blogspot.com Study: Protective Immune Memory In Healthy Adults One of the ongoing mysteries surrounding the H1N1 pandemic is why some older adults seem to have limited immunity to this virus, while many younger adults and children do not.

Are your fresh tomatoes still exploiting farm laborers? Yes!

Drop off a letter to your store manager and let him or her know - you're not buying their greed and insensitivity?

clipped from sfalliance.org National Supermarket Week of Action Wednesday, Nov. 18th to Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 26th This Thanksgiving, when you shop for your turkey, cranberry sauce, and stuffing, drop a Campaign for Fair Food letter off to the store manager! While the transition to a more just Florida tomato industry is well underway, much remains to be done to ensure this future. This Thanksgiving season, remember farmworkers and honor the dignity of their labor by urging Stop & Shop, Giant, Publix, Ralph’s, Kroger and other Kroger-owned grocery chains to address the sub-poverty wages and human rights abuses faced by farmworkers who harvest their tomatoes.

Being a Mother a Precondition for Abuse by Army?

Seems that way. Threaten to woman with a court-martial, take her child away and put in custody!? This is the US Army? Someone needs to get a hold on reality and treat her and her child right. The dumbest part is how well do they think she will perform in Afghanistan after this type of treatment? Sounds like old East German military not the US Army that usually does us proud without thinking about it. Fit it now!

clipped from www.ipsnews.net U.S.: Army Sends Infant to Protective Services, Mom to Afghanistan VENTURA, California, Nov 13 (IPS) - U.S. Army Specialist Alexis Hutchinson, a single mother, is being threatened with a military court-martial if she does not agree to deploy to Afghanistan, despite having been told she would be granted extra time to find someone to care for her 11-month-old son while she is overseas. Hutchinson, of Oakland, California, is currently being confined at Hunter Army Airfield near Savannah, Georgia, after being arrested. Her son was placed into a county foster care system.

Upbeat Friday Entry - grin - Pistolera canta Policia!

Wish I was a Hussong's Cantina in Baja listening to this!

clipped from www.youtube.com Pistolera Music Video For "POLICIA" Directed by Haroun Ibn-Mock and filmed in Brooklyn, NY, "Policia" is the first music video for Pistolera's sophomore album "En Este Camino".

Good Friday to All - One of my Favorite Videos and Song!

God is Alive, Magic is Afoot. beautiful video as well!

clipped from www.youtube.com God Is Alive Magic Is Afoot Buffy Sainte-Marie "God Is Alive, Magic Is Afoot" Song: Buffy Sainte-Marie Video by gewajega@yahoo.com Lyrics by Leonard Cohen: " God is alive; Magic is afoot God is alive; Magic is afoot God is afoot; Magic is alive...

Help Save The World with Your Computer - Interested?

Long ago, I participated in a global network doing computations for the genome project. Now you can lend your down time on your computer to fight AIDS, MS and work on clean energy. IBM is hosting. Window, Linux and Mac systems welcome!

clipped from www.worldcommunitygrid.org We're helping develop new AIDS treatments. What are you doing? Why not donate your unused computer time to World Community Grid and the FightAIDS@Home project to find better treatments for AIDS? Currently there is no cure, but together we can find better treatments faster.�� Learn More Donate the power of your computer when it is turned on, but is idle, to projects that benefit humanity! We provide the secure software and system that does it all for free, and you become part of a community that is helping to change the world. Once you install the software, you will be participating in World Community Grid. How You Can Help