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Wait A Minute! Do I Hear Bears Singing?
So I'm sitting here minding my own business this Sunday afternoon when suddenly I hear....Lennon? Yes. It was definitely Lennon. I looked up to see a team of polar bears, one wearing sunglasses, singing "Give Peace A Chance" on YouTube! It was incredible. They were in tune and everything!
See more at mimiwrites.blogspot.com
The current Governor has really close ties to private prison companies. What better way to up profits than by putting more people in detention. As usual - follow the money and you will find the stink. Race bait voters so you can get money from filling up private jails that are paid with your tax dollars!
Tucson Hearing Puts Spotlight on Private Prisons in Arizona
Tucson Hearing Puts Spotlight on Private Prisons in Arizona
From Mike Wilson of the Tohono O’odham Nation to Joe Glen of the Maricopa & Pima Juvenile Corrections Associations, the theme was the same: Companies such as Corrections Corporation of America, Management Training Corporation, and the GEO group consistently focus on profit over safety and rehabilitation of those who are incarcerated in their facilities.
Coming directly on the heels of the Tucson Hearing was a scathing report from National Public Radio exposing the influence that private prison corporations had in the development of Arizona’s controversial immigration law, SB1070. Corrections Corporation of America, which holds contracts with the federal government to incarcerate immigrants, was a key player in creating a law that would increase the number of immigrants in detention, thus representing the potential for tremendous corporate profits. The report describes how a shadowy organization called ALEC provided opportunities for corporations to meet with state legislators to draft model legislation, which those legislators later took back to their states.Read more at bsnorrell.blogspot.com
Shame and loyalty to California workers, voters, consumer - naw! Loyalty does not compute for Intel!
Intel opens its biggest plant
Intel Chief Executive Paul Otellini speaks during a news conference in Taipei. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
HANOI - US-BASED chip maker Intel on Friday opened in Vietnam US$1 billion (S$1.3 billion) assembly and test facility billed as the company's biggest.
Read more at www.straitstimes.com
Let's hope her brave poetry helps her and does not end up costing her, her life - as it could in her land.
Whenever…
Whenever the door of my heart begins to open
Something closes it with fear.
Whenever I try to fly free and high
Something covers my wings before I can try.
Whenever it is time to speak up
Something seizes my words.
Whenever the past is about to be forgotten
Something reminds me of it over and over.
Whenever I can take a step forward
Something pulls me in reverse.
Whenever I can try a new endeavor
Something draws me back to the old.
Whenever I have a new idea
Something destroys it to the marrow.
Whenever my accomplishments blossom
Something keeps them captured.
Whenever more can be written
Something prevents me to continue.
Whenever I say enough is enough
Something says it will never be enough.
When will I find out what this
Something is?
Not a good time for the truth to come out for him but maybe good for Alaska - but who knows; they may want to elect a good liar - it is their call.
Revelations that Joe Miller altered files on colleagues' computers put safe Republican seat in jeopardy
Miller, in personnel files released late on Tuesday, admitted lying about the computer scandal.
In a memo at the time to his then boss, another lawyer, Rene Broker, Miller said: "I lied about accessing all of the computers. I then admitted about accessing the computers, but lied about what I was doing. Finally, I admitted what I did."Read more at www.guardian.co.uk
Poems are like the blues - they let you get it all out and at the same time share it with others who feel the same and let them release their hurt as well. Well done.
No One…
No one knows how it feels to be so sad
No one knows how it hurts to live so alone
To walk on a dark path
No one sees when your heart is broken
No one cares if you have pain
When your dreams are taken
No one takes your hand when you are fallen
No one knows how you are
exhausted of living
or listens if you cry, “the world is selfish!”
No one loves a mad girl
No one wants a sad girl
No one cares if the cruelty doesn’t finishBy Shafiqa
She'll not be outdone, it seems, in slamming Latinos and anyone she can smear for thinking they are as human as Anglos.
Latest political ad by Nev. GOP Angle slanders all Latinos -- she should be sued!
One of the highly objectionable lines in the ad says that "waves of illegal aliens are streaming across our border joining violent gangs and forcing families to live in fear."
Every picture of these "illegal aliens" is one showing Latino youth. The family living in fear is Anglo.
The insinuations and implications made in this ad are not just highly insulting -- they're slanderous.
See more at www.latinalista.net
It was a strange time - one that some today would like to start again. Fear of others, is a great way to keep people's eyes off the fact that you are shipping their jobs overseas, or moving to make this or that group second-class citizens. Keep your eyes and ears open.
British Pathé archive: Ronald Reagan testifies at the House Un-American Activities Committee
Hollywood stars - including future president Ronald Reagan - give testimony before the anti-communist House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947. It was chaired by J Parnell Thomas, who would later be convicted for fraud
Read more at www.guardian.co.uk
To be fair Aussies are not the only environmental managers they mess up but you'd think with such a long history with it they get things right more often - Not!
Poison baits kill over 400 Macquarie Island birds
Two months ago Parks and Wildlife admitted 300 birds had been killed after being exposed to poison pellets.
The baits were laid as part of a $24 million bid to rid the island of rats, rabbits and mice.
Read more at www.abc.net.au
Really sickening, as it is everywhere. Love is the answer.
Ugandan hit list further confirms an age of rampant homophobia
If one needs more evidence beyond teen suicides and the uphill DADT battle to realize that the state of rampant, unchecked homophobia is at an all-time high, check out this recent issue of the Ugandan Rolling Stone Newspaper:
Anna Quindlen on young women and feminism
Woodruff asked Quindlen if she was concerned that young women today didn’t acknowledge the progress that had been made before them
“I don’t want to hear anyone talk about how young women today aren’t this or that. Millennial women are the coolest, most capable, most together women ever.”
So there you have it, young feminists and young, supposedly complacent women: Anna Quindlen’s got your back.
Read more at feministing.com
Parents - stop trusting toy manufacturers to care about your kids before their profits.
Bathtub Toys Recalled by Munchkin Due to Risk of Injury
Incidents/Injuries: CPSC and the company are aware of 19 incidents of lacerations to boys' genital area. One of the incidents required medical attention.
'Food Empires Creating Agricultural Crisis'
UTRECHT, The Netherlands, Oct 18, 2010 (IPS) - Forget speculators, forget biofuel farmers. The real cause behind the permanent
food and agricultural crisis is the imperial food regime, squeezing money out of
agriculture, a Dutch professor says.
Where does the difference go to? "To food empires," Van der Ploeg says. "The
market is more and more dominated by industrial trade conglomerates, like
Ahold, Nestle, Cargill, and many more, governing production, processing,
distribution and consumption of food. Those empires are able to manipulate
markets and squeeze wealth out of agriculture. In this regime, small
disequilibria in the markets translate into huge price fluctuations."
Read more at ipsnews.net
Additional Injuries
Spa Factory™ Aromatherapy Kits Due to Explosion and Projectile Hazards
recall of 516,000 Spa Factory™ Aromatherapy Fountain & Bath Benefits Kits.
13 injuries to children. Since that time, CPSC has received 12 additional reports of exploding unvented jars of JAKKS� Bath Bombs/Balls or Bath Fizzies, including 13 additional reported injuries.
Not falling in love but falling on butt - grin. Just had to share it.
Bench
Recalled Due to Fall Hazard
Hazard: The bench may tip over when only one person is seated on it. This could pose a fall hazard to consumers.
Incidents/Injuries: Ross has received two reports of the bench tipping over. No injuries have been reported.Read more at www.cpsc.gov
Ever wonder how low things can get when you start race and ethnic cleansing raids.
Arpaio continues to push the bounds of law versus lawlessness
Yesterday, Arpaio conducted a work site raid where he arrested 14 people at the Prime Cut Meat & Seafood Co., a Phoenix meat packing business. Five of those people were accused of using false IDs.
According to Arpaio, the undocumented immigrants he arrested were taking jobs U.S. citizens could have. In other words, he's implying that he's doing a favor for the city's unemployed.
Yet, in the hours after the raid, about 80 people showed up to fill the vacancies -- the vast majority of them were Latino according to Poppen.
Read more at www.latinalista.net
Video: Paladino Says "Fuck 'Em" To Having NYC Terror Trial
According to National Journal, the questioner says, "If you were the chief executive of New York, what would your response be to the attorney general of the United States deciding to hold terrorist trials in Manhattan?" Paladino answered, "Fuck him. Fuck him." WAtch the video—the question is at about the 2:10 mark.
Read more at gothamist.com
Hiding what/who you are can kill the spirit, or it can inspire you to a most powerful revolutionary way of life - as this woman has chosen in Afghanistan.
Read My Poems on the Reddish Stream of My Blood
What does it mean to be an Afghan woman?
Hmm, I know you can’t provide me with an elegant answer so
Just give me the pen, the hidden pen
So that I can write, that is all I am asking for!
My eyes will read my environment; my brain will save the details,
and I will write with the hidden pen on the chambers of my heart,
so that when I am caught and executed,
By Emaan
Read more at www.awwproject.org
Mobile X-ray trucks deployed for anti-terror use and then tested at random and used to find drugs is dumb and a boys-with-toys approach to what ought to be serious work. The headline designed to feed fear and conspiracy nuts is just sort of unbelievable by the Christian Science Monitor. Shows how much do/say anything to get noticed has infect American culture. Shame enough to go around here - don't you think?
'Feds radiating Americans'? Mobile X-ray vans hit US streets
As an antiterror measure, the US government has deployed mobile X-ray technology to randomly scan cars and trucks. But the measure is riling privacy proponents.
On Tuesday, a counterterror operation snarled truck traffic on I-20 near Atlanta, where Department of Homeland Security teams used mobile X-ray technology to check the contents of truck trailers. Authorities said the inspections weren't prompted by any specific threat.
Read more at www.csmonitor.com
Leslie, I met during a project of hers called The Robe. Using burgeoning e-mail networks in 1987, she gathered together people to submit bits of cloth and clothing and the stories that went with them for a 10 meter tall "robe" that people could enter into and experience the spirit of those who contributed to it. A "real" story board - grin. The Hut is a project follwing similar thoughts and based on her experience with Namibia, I believe. I don't read German, so our German speakers will have to help out here if it will help and they are interested.
The herero hut
Während des internationalen Workshops in Okakarara habe ich eine weitere Version von ‚Home sweet home‘ in einer alten Lehmhütte umsetzen können. Hierbei habe ich den Küchentrakt unseres Aufenthaltsortes gezeichnet und auf die Innenwand der Hütte malerisch übertragen und dabei mehrere Personen schemenhaft eingebunden. Über den Köpfen der Personen schweben Worte in Oshi-Herero, die deren Hoffnungen, Ängste,
Wünsche und Erfahrungen widerspiegeln. Am Boden in der Mitte der Hütte war ein Video einer Autofahrt zum Waterberg zu sehen und des Weiteren das Melken einer Kuh. Beide Elemente sind sehr wichtig für die Herero.
