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12.01.2013

***** Heroic Diplomacy: How Barack Obama Finally Earned That Peace Prize: Robert Scheer truthdig.com




Heroic Diplomacy: How Barack Obama Finally Earned That Peace Prize: Robert Scheer
truthdig.com
The deal with Iran is potentially an international game changer comparable to Richard Nixon’s opening to Mao’s Red China and Ronald Reagan’s overtures to Soviet leader

Done U? Stand with Bernie Sanders: Pass the "End Polluter Welfare Act" now! leftaction.com

With House and Senate negotiators locked in a fierce debate over how to cut the deficit, along comes an eminently sensible idea from Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Keith Ellison: ***Stop using our tax dollars to subsidize pollution.***

Tell Congress: Pass the "End Polluter Welfare Act" now!

http://leftaction.com/action/end-polluter-welfare

article. Robert Reich - As technology and globalization take over the economy, the U.S. has no national strategy for creating more good jobs in America.

The most important website this weekend and in weeks to come -- on which the hopes and fears of countless Americans are focused (and the President's poll-ratings depend) -- isn't HealthCare.gov. It's Amazon.com. Even if HealthCare.gov works perfectly, only 5 percent of Americans are in the private health-insurance market to begin with. But almost half of the 140 million Americans now shopping for holiday deals are doing so online, up 20 percent from last year.

The irony is most of what's being sold this holiday season is coming from Asia, which leaves retail jobs as the largest and fastest-growing segment of the U.S. workforce. Yet as online shopping takes over, where will Americans find jobs in the future? The biggest reason holiday deal-shopping is especially frenzied is so many Americans are already stretched to the breaking point (65 percent are now living paycheck-to-paycheck, up from 61 percent last year) that they're more desperate than ever for bargains. And the main reason the President's poll-ratings are falling isn't because of HealthCare.gov. It's because the economy remains lousy for most people. It will likely remain that way: As technology and globalization take over the economy, the U.S. has no national strategy for creating more good jobs in America.

How Does Meat in the Diet Take an Environmental Toll?: Scientific American scientificamerican.com

How Does Meat in the Diet Take an Environmental Toll?: Scientific American
scientificamerican.com
Dear EarthTalk : I heard that the less meat one eats, the better it is for the environment. How so?
-- Jason K., Sarasota, FL
Our meat consumption habits take a serious toll on the environment. According to the Environmental

***** Los Angeles to join New York and 50 other U.S. cities with ban on feeding homeless people -- Sott.net

Los Angeles to join New York and 50 other U.S. cities with ban on feeding homeless people -- Sott.net
Laurie Natter likes a link on SOTT.NET.
Los Angeles to join New York and 50 other U.S. cities with ban on feeding homeless people -- Sott.net
SOTT.NET
As the number of homeless people in Los Angeles County continues to rise, the City Council is weighing a ban on feeding homeless people in

Over Ethnic Clensing in Isreal - real Jews confront the fakes. vid

Zionists, a shame to humanity

pic. Of the entire world's prison population, 1 in 4 is in the US.

(M) This is what happens when you privatize prisons...

pic. White men tell the children that their ancestors 'settled' here. When the truth is that they 'invaded' us, they murdered us, and they raped us until we barely existed. Happy Thanksgiving.

The People's Uprising's photo.The People's Uprising added a new photo.
 
pic. White men tell the children that their ancestors 'settled' here.  When the truth is that they 'invaded' us, they murdered us, and they raped us until we barely existed.  Happy Thanksgiving.

pic. Morality is doing what is right regardless of what you are told. Obedience is doing what you are told regardless of what is right.

The People's Uprising's photo.The People's Uprising added a new photo.

link. US - Firm with a history of spill cover-ups hired to clean up North Dakota oil spill

US - Firm with a history of spill cover-ups hired to clean up North Dakota oil spill

AUSTRALIA - 'Knitting Nannas' face court because they sat peacefully for one day in a forest to protest logging

AUSTRALIA - 'Knitting Nannas' face court because they sat peacefully for one day in a forest to protest logging

Atrocious - Free Mike Roselle From Jail … Free Appalachia From Mountaintop Removal ecowatch.com

US - Will Gov. Tomblin be held accountable for this fiasco over a call to end mountaintop removal? “Ask him why is it that he doesn’t want to simply analyze this dust,” said Goldman Prize winner and Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition community organizer Maria Gunnoe. “Why put a man in jail because he delivered the toxic dust and ask to have it analyzed?”

pic. We are in a situation where we have not been since the late 1920's, before the great depression, where the top 1 percent owns 38% of the wealth, while the bottom 60% owns 2.3% of the wealth. That is obscene beyond belief. Bernie Sanders

Sanders 2016!

Thanks to Miss R•EVOLutionaries for this one.

pic. Let's stop using words that don't make sense. You're not 'Pro-Life,' you're 'Pro-Unborn,' you don't give a sh*t about anyone after they're born.'

(Kerry) True story.
(M) Let's be clear about this.

Students stand in support of indigenous in British Columbia

"Students from the UBC Social Justice Centre are calling on EVERYONE to stand in solidarity with the land defenders in Elsipogtog. An injunction has been issued by the New Brunswick provincial court which effectively denies Elsipogtog and their supporters their right as Canadian citizens to protest. The RCMP are being used to protect private interests, using force to silence peaceful protests".
Shannon Hecker's photo.
Monday, December 2 at 5:00pm in PST
165 people are going

pic. We let Reagan make US Of, By and For the Rich

Reaganomics doesn't help anyone except the rich. Reagan was one of the worst presidents in our history.

Thnks to Meme GOP for this.
Econ 101 - Part II of III Reagan lowered the top tax rate from 70% to 28% A full 70% of the tax cuts went towards making the rich richer... much richer and tripled the debt. The problem with Reagan's tax cuts is he didn't pull out soon enough, but that wasn't his plan, increasing the debt was. ‪#‎memegop‬

pic. If you want to cut wasteful government spending, might we suggest you start by cuttig: Corporate Welfare, For-profit prisons, Excess Military Spendinng?

Go Left added a new photo.

pic. A view of fracked Texas from the air.

US - View of fracked Texas from the air

Twilight Zone: Imagine if you will, a world run by psychpaths. pic.

(Kerry) Or teapublicans. Or Romneys.
We don't have to try hard to imagine this.

pic. We're not racist. It's just we don't think government should function when an African American is president.

What other explanation is there? Never forget that the very people in this photo voted for ALL of Bush's budget-busting proposals (remember the stimulus checks?) and only discovered fiscal purity and hatred for the federal government the day Pres. Obama was sworn in. It's truly reproachable. Image by Occupy Democrats.

link. Gazprom - nearly 2000 pipeline leaks a year

GAZPROM - The most irresponsible company of the year?
With is track record of oil spills Gazprom deserves an award of shame! Vote for it and expose it as the most irresponsible company of the year: http://goo.gl/Lompo2 Stand with the Arctic 30 who took a stand against Gazprom's plans to start oil drilling in the icy offshore Arctic waters: www.greenpeace.org/freethearctic30/?fbgpi29nov3

pic. Turns out Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh are right. Someone has been influencing the Pope's ideas about caring for the poor and the evil of idolitry.

pic. "Once the well has been poisoned with hydralic-fracturing chemestry you can't un-poison it."

Storm is Coming's photo.Storm is Coming added a new photo.

Pope Francis speaks out against fracking and environmental devastation - Blue and Green Tomorrow. blueandgreentomorrow.com

ROME - Pope Francis speaks out against fracking and environmental devastation

***** Depression Update: I'm facing this morning that my lifelong fight for a Good World has been a fools errand. It will not happen, not in thousands of generations. I may be able to make a life fighting for whatever shreds of Good I can. They are profoundly different goals, but maybe I can adjust.

I'm facing this morning that my lifelong fight for a Good World has
been a fools errand.  It will not happen, not in thousands of generations.

I may be able to make a life fighting for whatever shreds of Good I can.  They are
profoundly different goals, but maybe I can adjust.

pic. Declaration to fight for the Good

November 30, 2013
"For possibly the first time in Canadian history, middle class households were talking about the same kinds of concerns that the Indigenous people of the land have been discussing for literally centuries."

http://www.aaronpaquette.net/?p=3164CANADA - First Nations artist Aaron Paquette discusses the future of the Idle No More movement - http://www.aaronpaquette.net/?p=3164 
 
November 30, 2013 "For possibly the first time in Canadian history, middle class households were talking about the same kinds of concerns that the Indigenous people of the land have been discussing for literally centuries." http://www.aaronpaquette.net/?p=3164

pic. TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP - Great for GMOs, Dangerous for small farmers and the environment

TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP - Dangerous for small farmers and the environment   
 
SAVE THE DATE: TPP TWITTER STORM: Tuesday at 6pm PST, 9pm EST. Help us get the word out! Email your Representative and tell them NO TO TPP FAST TRACK: http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12285 LEARN MORE about how TPP will affect your food. Print out this PDF and hand it out!: http://wetlands-preserve.org/phpUpload/uploads/Monsanto_Flier_Oct_2012.pdf ‪#‎TPP‬ ‪#‎StopTheTPP‬ ‪#‎StopFastTrack‬ ‪#‎NOFASTTRACK‬ ‪#‎NOTPPFASTTRACK‬ ‪#‎gmo‬ ‪#‎StopMonsanto‬ ‪#‎labelgmos‬ ‪#‎freedom2chooz‬ ‪#‎gmofreecanada‬ ‪#‎gmofreeusa‬

TPP - Pacific Rim trade talks' secrecy doesn't help chances for a deal The Seattle Times

Pacific Rim trade talks' secrecy doesn't help chances for a deal

The Seattle Times 

For institutional investors, no ditching fossil fuels yet. Washington Post

For institutional investors, no ditching fossil fuels yet

Washington Post

Israel's Bedouin Resolve to Defy Government's Resettlement Plan. Bloomberg

Israel's Bedouin Resolve to Defy Government's Resettlement Plan

Bloomberg