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2.14.2014

LeftAction: Don't Let Oil Billionaire Koch Brothers Kill Wind Power. leftaction.com

Bryce Kuchik via Left Action
Tell Congress: "Don't let the Koch brothers kill wind power!"

http://leftaction.com/action/dont-let-oil-billionaire-koch-brothers-kill-wind-power

Wind power has been taking off in the US, helping to reduce carbon emissions, and creating thousands of jobs in the process....See More
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Billionaires’ Wealth Is At All-Time High, But They Aren’t Sharing It With Charities. iacknowledge.net


I Acknowledge Class Warfare Exists
America has worked hard to concentrate an astonishing amount of money in the hands of a few. Now that they have it, they don't feel like giving any of it back. So much for the benevolent rich.
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The World you'r giving our kids: Fake Blood and Bullets: Schools Stage Active Shooter Drills - NBC News nbcnews.com

All In with Chris Hayes
“One girl, who has fallen on her stomach after getting “shot,” doesn’t get up. Her body is trembling. It doesn’t take long to realize she is sobbing.”

Simulated school shootings: is this really the best way to get at the problem? A must-read.
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Marine Heatwaves Have Caused ‘Unprecedented’ Damage To Australian Coral thinkprogress.org

Climate Progress
Coral worldwide is at risk.
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Arctic Autumns On Track To Warm A Staggering 23°F, NOAA Warns. thinkprogress.or

Climate Progress
A hot, hot arctic.
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Climate change is here now and it could lead to global conflict. Nicholas Stern. theguardian.com

I Heart Climate Scientists
Warming Leads To Warfare http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/13/storms-floods-climate-change-upon-us-lord-stern
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2.13.2014

"STARVE THE BEAST." You KNOW this GOP strategy, right????

Let's expose the Republican Party's shameless strategy. Thanks to @[472422969486331:274:Armed Democrats].Bryce Kuchik shared Occupy Democrats's photo.
It's all about the ALEC agenda!
Let's expose the Republican Party's shameless strategy.

Thanks to Armed Democrats.
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Olympians speak out on climate change as Sochi warms up usatoday.com

I Heart Climate Scientists
Olympians are feeling the heat in Sochi!
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'No Country for Brave Journalists': US Plummets in Press Freedom Rankings. commondreams.org

CommonDreams.org
“Countries that pride themselves on being democracies and respecting the rule of law have not set an example.”
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Rationally Speaking, We Are All Apocalyptic. Now www.truth-out.org

Deep Green Resistance
'Rationally Speaking, We Are All Apocalyptic Now'

Great article by Robert Jensen
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2.12.2014

nd. Offline till Friday, maybe, due to snow and temporary wifi problems.

nd. Offline till Friday, maybe, due to snow and temporary wifi problems.
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Massive Pipeline Spill Kept Under Wraps For 5 Years. huffingtonpost.ca

Wild Idaho Rising Tide
No place is too far for TransCanada to secretly ravage, so close to the intriguingly intricate wetlands of the Hay-Zama Lake Wildland (http://goo.gl/maps/ZGTM8).
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***** pic. Fascism: Early Warning Signs.

via @[541885599232789:274:DemoNews.org]Conservatives Are Destroying Our Future shared Liberals on Parade's photo.
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2.11.2014

On: 1. Abe Maslow's Hierarchy; 2. Homosexuality. FB Dialog

AL: I know you to be a very intelligent man. What is your opinion of Mazlow's heirarchy?
I know you to have ignored the lower levels in favor of the higher for extended periods of time, but this is only after having had the lower levels fulfilled for a large portion of your life. Do you think that one is capable of doing the former without having had the latter?

L:  I am a huge respector of Maslow and his work. The hierarchy is among the best known, and least important parts of his work. I'd suggest reading all of his books. Your question is a very important one, on which I've thought, over the years. We know the answer - there are people born of extreme deprivation that seemingly from birth, operate at the higher levels. So, on that one point, I think Abe was very incorrect. I'd say it is 99% a matter of the culture, community, environment in which one is raised that determines what part of the hierarchy we operate at. For me, it was my dad. If the community lives self-centered, the child, and adult will strongly tend to operate as though the lower part of the hierarchy were THE ONLY PART. Conversely, a child raised among those operating at the highest levels, will live as though they don't know that the lower levels even exist. That is my experience, that is my observation.    By modern standards aboriginal tribes of today and 1000's of years ago, were massively deprived at the lower levels, but my understanding and view is that they tended to operate at the higher levels, as do near all other of the higher species. We've ADDICTED ourselves and our children to the lower levels, that's what we see. That's why it seems 'normal;' it is 'normal' to our sick culture, but not to our species epigenetic tendencies (maslow's term).

AL:  Thanks.  :-)

L:  What are your thoughts on homosexuality?

AL:  Well, unimportantly, it is so foreign to my nature that I am uncomfortable with it. But importantly: 1. It is biological; 2. It is a type of sexuality, just as heterosexuality is; 3. To our earlier discussion, there is nothing that dooms your world, you are young, to operating as tho the joyless lower 'needs' are all there is... than our obsession, sick addiction, to recreational sex (my #1 addiction for so many decades) - singularly depriving us of the infinite Joy of the higher level needs - yes, sex is Lust, with virtually no exceptions.. not Love (Lust is me about gratifying me; Love is me about tending to the neediest of my human family). I'm not moralizing, any more than Abe did; I can be disagreed with, but I am not moralizing. So, #3. My sad objection to homosexual sex and heterosexual is the same - recreational sex which we've (especially we males) put at the center of our being in this society, well, there may be no greater tragedy - it robs individuals of meaningful service for their lives; and it robs humanity of the selfless, dedicated sisters and brothers that a healthy planet utterly depends on. 

 
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MLK Jr. "We all too often have socialism for the rich, and rugged, free market captialism for the poor."

I Acknowledge Class Warfare Exists's photo.I Acknowledge Class Warfare Exists added a new photo.
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Scenes from a militarized America: Iowa family ‘terrorized’ washingtonpost.com An Iowa family gets the full-on SWAT treatment for suspected credit card fraud.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2014/02/04/scenes-from-a-militarized-america-iowa-family-terrorized/
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Climatologist: When Souped-Up Ocean Warming Ends, ‘Global Temperatures Look Set To Rise Rapidly’ thinkprogress.org

Climate Progress
Oceans can't bear the brunt forever.
Climatologist: When Souped-Up Ocean Warming Ends, ‘Global Temperatures Look Set To Rise Rapidly’
thinkprogress.org
Recently, surface temperatures haven't appear to warm as fast as expected — although the oceans have, while Arctic sea ice, Greenland and Antarctica have melted faster than expected. New research finds the slowdown is due to
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***** WOW. JUST WOW. vid. 'Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.'

Knowledge of Today
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” -Albert Einstein
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***** MUST SEE: R. REICH - GOP WAR ON WORKERS - MAKING ARMIES OF COMPLIANT SERFS - TRULY

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2.10.2014

Loving, here: I spent the night in the ER - Chest Pain radiating down my arm...

Went to bed early, awoke 10:30 with great pain in my arm and chest.  Went to the sister hospital of Georgetown - closer and better cardiac - via ambulance. 

'Probably angina, but didn't convert into a heart attack.  All tests (CT scan, 2 ekg's, 2 blood work ups) came out negative.  YES you should have come in with those symptoms.  GET A STRESS TEST, SOON.'  Said the hospital team.

Pain lasted till about 5am.
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2.08.2014

pic. Aren’t we raised to revere Ancient Rome, the Pyramids, Ancient Greece, the great Cities, the great Cathedrals, the US Economy, $100 CELL PHONES, $600 IPADS, $3/GAL GAS, $3 BURGERS, FANCY CARS, the American Dream...? I was. We are. Take away the 90% of the world’s poor, the destitute, population at the time any of these were / are created, TAKE THEM AWAY, and none of these things exist. FACT. They ALL are the measure, the product, of brutal exploitation of the poorest by we rich. FACT.

Aren’t we raised to revere
Ancient Rome, the Pyramids,
Ancient Greece, the great Cities, the great Cathedrals, the US
Economy, $100 CELL PHONES, $600 IPADS, $3/GAL GAS,
$3 BURGERS, FANCY CARS, the American Dream...?  I was. We are.

Take away the 90% of the world’s poor, the destitute, population at the time any of these were / are created, TAKE THEM AWAY, and none of these things exist.  FACT.

They ALL are the measure, the product, of brutal exploitation of the poorest by we rich.  FACT.
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photo. Loving, here: “Why am I entitled to a home, property, comforts... when, millions, billions, of my brothers and sisters have none? This never has made sense to me.” S. Loving

“Why am I
entitled to a home,
property, comforts... when,
millions,
billions, of my brothers and sisters have none?

This never has made sense to me.”

S. Loving
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A Fredericton-area man (New Brunswick Canada) says his heating bills are decreasing thanks to a solar furnace that cost him $300 to build. Randy Buchanan, of Lower St. Mary's, modified plans he found online to build the heating unit from soda cans,...

Living Off The Grid
It looks like sharing all this good information is paying off! I'm proud to say that these good ideas are being made better, and saving people money! Check this out!
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MUST SEE PIC. WOW. If Food Products Were Honestly Labeled.

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New solar grill develped at MIT cooks with the sun day or night. link.

A solar grill developed by Professor David Wilson at MIT allows users to cook emissions-free day or night. The grill uses a Fresnel lens and solar energy to melt down a container of Lithium Nitrate, which acts as a battery storing thermal energy for up to 25 hours. The stored heat can be used to cook at temperatures above 450ºF. http://tinyurl.com/mf8x2o9Carolyn Scott shared EARTH-The Operators' Manual's photo.
a miracle of the SUN!
A solar grill developed by Professor David Wilson at MIT allows users to cook emissions-free day or night. The grill uses a Fresnel lens and solar energy to melt down a container of Lithium Nitrate, which acts as a battery storing thermal energy for up to 25 hours. The stored heat can be used to cook at temperatures above 450ºF.
http://tinyurl.com/mf8x2o9
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Florida Ordinance Makes It Illegal For Homeless To Use Blankets. thelibertarianrepublic.com

Marliese Roth via William Miniutti
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Florida Ordinance Makes It Illegal For Homeless To Use Blankets. thelibertarianrepublic.com

Marliese Roth via William Miniutti
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Florida Ordinance Makes It Illegal For Homeless To Use Blankets. thelibertarianrepublic.com

Marliese Roth via William Miniutti
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2.06.2014

Teresa of Calcutta: "Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty."

♥ 'Love Ninja': Mom shares one teacher's amazing strategy to combat bullying, loneliness A few weeks ago, I went into Chase’s class for tutoring. I’d emailed Chase’s teacher one evening and said, “Chase keeps telling me that this stuff you’re sending home is math – but I’m not sure I believe him. Help, please.” She emailed right back and said, “No problem! I can tutor Chase after school anytime.” And I said, “No, not him. Me. He gets it. Help me.” And that’s how I ended up standing at a chalkboard in an empty fifth grade classroom staring at rows of shapes that Chase’s teacher kept referring to as “numbers.” I stood a little shakily at the chalkboard while Chase’s teacher sat behind me, perched on her desk, using a soothing voice to try to help me understand the “new way we teach long division.” Luckily for me, I didn’t have to unlearn much because I never really understood the “old way we taught long division.” It took me a solid hour to complete one problem, but l could tell that Chase’s teacher liked me anyway. She used to work with NASA, so obviously we have a whole lot in common. Afterwards, we sat for a few minutes and talked about teaching children and what a sacred trust and responsibility it is. We agreed that subjects like math and reading are the least important things that are learned in a classroom. We talked about shaping little hearts to become contributors to a larger community – and we discussed our mutual dream that those communities might be made up of individuals who are Kind and Brave above all. And then she told me this. Every Friday afternoon Chase’s teacher asks her students to take out a piece of paper and write down the names of four children with whom they’d like to sit the following week. The children know that these requests may or may not be honored. She also asks the students to nominate one student whom they believe has been an exceptional classroom citizen that week. All ballots are privately submitted to her. And every single Friday afternoon, after the students go home, Chase’s teacher takes out those slips of paper, places them in front of her and studies them. She looks for patterns. Who is not getting requested by anyone else? Who doesn’t even know who to request? Who never gets noticed enough to be nominated? Who had a million friends last week and none this week? You see, Chase’s teacher is not looking for a new seating chart or “exceptional citizens.” Chase’s teacher is looking for lonely children. She’s looking for children who are struggling to connect with other children. She’s identifying the little ones who are falling through the cracks of the class’s social life. She is discovering whose gifts are going unnoticed by their peers. And she’s pinning down — right away — who’s being bullied and who is doing the bullying. As a teacher, parent, and lover of all children — I think that this is the most brilliant Love Ninja strategy I have ever encountered. It’s like taking an X-ray of a classroom to see beneath the surface of things and into the hearts of students. It is like mining for gold — the gold being those little ones who need a little help — who need adults to step in and TEACH them how to make friends, how to ask others to play, how to join a group, or how to share their gifts with others. And it’s a bully deterrent because every teacher knows that bullying usually happens outside of her eyeshot — and that often kids being bullied are too intimidated to share. But as she said — the truth comes out on those safe, private, little sheets of paper. As Chase’s teacher explained this simple, ingenious idea, I stared at her with my mouth hanging open. “How long have you been using this system?” I said. Ever since Columbine, she said. Every single Friday afternoon since Columbine. Good Lord. This brilliant woman watched Columbine knowing that ALL VIOLENCE BEGINS WITH DISCONNECTION. All outward violence begins as inner loneliness. She watched that tragedy KNOWING that children who aren’t being noticed will eventually resort to being noticed by any means necessary. And so she decided to start fighting violence early and often, and with the world within her reach. What Chase’s teacher is doing when she sits in her empty classroom studying those lists written with shaky 11 year old hands — is SAVING LIVES. I am convinced of it. She is saving lives. And what this mathematician has learned while using this system is something she really already knew: that everything — even love, even belonging — has a pattern to it. And she finds those patterns through those lists — she breaks the codes of disconnection. And then she gets lonely kids the help they need. It’s math to her. It’s MATH. All is love — even math. Amazing. Chase’s teacher retires this year — after decades of saving lives. What a way to spend a life: looking for patterns of love and loneliness. Stepping in, every single day, and altering the trajectory of our world. TEACH ON, WARRIORS. You are the first responders, the front line, the disconnection detectives, and the best and ONLY hope we’ve got for a better world. What you do in those classrooms when no one is watching — it’s our best hope. Teachers, you’ve got a million parents behind you whispering together: “We don’t care about the damn standardized tests. We only care that you teach our children to be Brave and Kind. And we thank you. We thank you for saving lives.” http://www.today.com/moms/love-ninja-one-teachers-amazing-strategy-stop-bullying-fight-loneliness-2D12035654 Shared by Amanda.Klear Ly shared Ripple Kindness Project's photo.
Good story
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2.05.2014

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." - Mark Twain

Something to consider?Start Loving shared Intellectual Takeout's photo.
Wonderful !
Something to consider?
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