4.02.2012
Us Support for Israel debated within the United States to a degree not seen for many years. upi
UPI.com -
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has warned his government needs higher taxes to help pay for anti-missile defense.
U.S. Hopes Latest Talks on Iran Nuclear Program Lead to New Diplomacy Daily Beast
Daily Beast -
Diplomacy
is getting the chance President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu gave when they toned down talk of war with Iran over its nuclear program. Obama and Netanyahu had met in Washington on March 5, and now, ...
Cuban Doctor Reinstated after 25-day Hunger Strike Havana Times
Havana Times -
HAVANA TIMES, April 2 - Cuban physician Jeovany Vega Jimenez ended his hunger strike on Sunday after being reauthorized by Cuban authorities to practice medicine, reported Cubaencuentro website.
UMich students Hunger Strike for Palestinian prisoner, EMU prof ... Heritage Newspapers
Heritage Newspapers -
(Photo
via EMU) On Wednesday, March 28, roughly two-dozen University of
Michigan students, members of Students Allied for Freedom and Equality,
or SAFE, held a hunger strike in honor of Palestinian prisoner Hana Shalabi, reported Haley Goldberg of The ...
Israel Frees Palestinian Detainee After Hunger Strike of Weeks New York Times
New York Times -
JERUSALEM - A Palestinian woman who spent more than 40 days on a hunger strike
to protest her detention by Israel without charge or trial was released
from an Israeli prison on Sunday and sent into temporary exile in Gaza
under a deal reached with the ...
If Humanity Survives, Women, Children will Lead: Poll of swing states shows shift toward Obama, fueled by women Detroit Free Press
Detroit Free Press -
President Barack Obama
walks out of the Oval Office of the White House in Washington,
Thursday, March 29, 2012, to the Rose Garden to urge Congress to
eliminate tax breaks for oil and gas companies.
Obama's insurance requirement not the only mandate CBS News
CBS News -
Health care is full of government dictates, some arguably more intrusive than President Barack Obama's overhaul law. It's a wrinkle that has caught the attention of the justices.
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- Yes, she'll be attacked. And YOU will what? 'If you don't believe in climate change you must be sick': Oregon professor ... Daily Mail
- GOD'S SAKE - READ - SHARE: Global Warming Denialism 'Just Foolishness,' Scientist Peter Raven Says ABC News
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- Reports link heat waves, deluges to climate change Washington Post
- Hot, crowded, and running out of fuel: Earth of 2050 a scary place Ars Technica
- And most, in slums: World Urban population will increase to 57.2 percent by 2015 Sunday Observer
- Water and Sanitation for the World: Not a Pipe Dream Huffington Post
- Global failures on Haitian epidemic Bend Bulletin
- Nobel scientists blame climate change, poverty; predict weather disasters Post-Tribune
- The real hunger games: How banks gamble on food prices – and the poor lose out The Independent
- Really? World poverty in retreat Chicago Tribune
- Can Better Data End Global Poverty? The Atlantic
- World Bank Nominee Kim: "In my small way, I've tried to make the world's troubles my troubles."
| Posted: 01 Apr 2012 03:52 PM PDT START LOVING - INSHE WARRIORS, WE'RE DEAD TILL WE ARE ONE. GOD'S SAKE - READ - SHARE: Global Warming Denialism 'Just Foolishness,' Scientist Peter Raven Says ABC News Swing States poll: A shift by women puts Obama in lead USA TODAY God fearing? Really? THOU SHALT NOT LIE: Paul Ryan says he 'misspoke' on military budget Washington Post !!! Loving, here. Your Help  |
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| Posted: 01 Apr 2012 01:18 PM PDT Michael Mann 'Disappointed' In Obama's Global Warming Record Huffington Post - Mar 31, 2012 But he never once mentioned the single greatest consequence of America's reliance on oil and gas: global warming. He wasn't the only one curiously silent on the issue. NOTE: YES, MANN IS A HERO, SCIENTIST, NOT AN UNVIOLENT LEADER BY TRAINING. Intellectual rubbish, none the less.  |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2012 01:12 PM PDT 'If you don't believe in climate change you must be sick': Oregon professor ... Daily Mail - Mar 31, 2012 The professor, who holds a BS in biology and a master's and PhD in sociology, argued that 'cultural resistance' to accepting humans as being responsible for climate change 'must be recognised and treated' as an aberrant sociological behaviour.  |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2012 01:23 PM PDT Global Warming Denialism 'Just Foolishness,' Scientist Peter Raven Says ABC News (blog) - 3 hours ago US prestige falling as world has 'pretty well given up' on any American leadership facing climate change. One of the world's most widely known and respected senior scientists tells ABC News that current denial about the basic daunting realities of ... READ ENTIRE ARTICLE. This was my  |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2012 12:23 PM PDT Over 200000 Miles of Natural Gas Lines Are UnregulatedHybrid Cars News  |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2012 12:13 PM PDT Snapshots of the Devolution of West Antarctica's Glaciers StateImpact Texas - Mar 30, 2012 Photos taken as part of NASA's 2009 mission to study Antarctic ice sheets  |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2012 12:09 PM PDT Russia rescues 675 anglers off drifting ice sheet Zee News - 5 hours ago Moscow: Russian authorities on Sunday rescued 675 fishing enthusiasts from a sheet of ice that had broken free off the far eastern Sakhalin Island, setting them adrift.  |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2012 12:06 PM PDT Fossil fuels: We're nowhere close to paying the true cost Pueblo Chieftain - 12 hours ago There are unconventional "oil" resources, such as the oil shales of northwestern Colorado and the tar sands of Canada. Neither oil shale nor tar sands contain oil. Oil shale holds kerogen, a solid mixture of organic compounds. Tar sands, sometimes  |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2012 12:03 PM PDT TransCanada identifies proposed corridor for Keystone XL ... The Republic - 8 hours ago The developer of the Keystone XL  |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2012 11:38 AM PDT Human harm to oceans comes with staggering price tag Vancouver Sun - 1 hour ago A Canadian researcher is at the centre of a provocative new international study that puts an eye-popping price tag on the damage being done to the world's oceans and fisheries - a costthat could reach $2 trillion a year by 2100 - from carbon emissions  |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2012 10:33 AM PDT 'Nigeria's rich heritage is going into extinction' Nigerian Tribune - 18 hours ago ... Director of Administration and Supplies, Alhaji Abdulsalami Alhassan, stated that heritage management had not been given recognition considering its role in human development, a step which, he said, was pushing the nation's heritage to extinction  |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2012 10:29 AM PDT Fed Court Okays Worst Mountaintop Removal Project in History Fly Rod & Reel Magazine (blog) - Mar 31, 2012 Late last week, siding with the coal industry, a federal court overturned the US Environmental Protection Agency's veto of one of the worst mountaintop removal mines permits ever issued in US history, the Spruce No. 1 Mine in Logan County,  |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2012 09:06 AM PDT Solar installations doubled last year, with California leading the way Mercury News Staff  |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2012 09:07 AM PDT http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-epas-very-small-step-on-carbon-emissions/2012/03/31/gIQAm6hpnS_allComments.html?ctab=all_&#comments I've of late seen a very powerful way to serve humanity - commenting on major Plan A-rmageddon related articles in only the most major, main-stream of publications - LA Times, Wash Post, Guardian.... Today, as in recent weekends, I'll  |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2012 06:38 AM PDT Reports link heat waves, deluges to climate change Washington Post - Mar 28, 2012 Scientists are increasingly confident that the uptick in heat waves and heavier rainfall is linked to human-caused greenhouse-gas emissions, posing a heightened risk to the world's population, according to two reports issued in the past week. Climate Change Report: Natural Disasters In The Future  |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2012 06:37 AM PDT Hot, crowded, and running out of fuel: Earth of 2050 a scary place Ars Technica - Mar 28, 2012 By James Holloway | Published March 28, 2012 4:10 PM A new report published by the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development paints a grim picture of the world in 2050 based on current global trends. India to be the largest economy of the world by 2050Moneycontrol.com  |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2012 06:33 AM PDT Urban population will increase to 57.2 percent by 2015 Sunday Observer - 17 hours ago At present 32.2 percent of the global population live in urban areas while it is predicted to increase to 57.2 percent by 2015 and most of them live in slums.  |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2012 06:27 AM PDT Water and Sanitation for the World: Not a Pipe Dream Huffington Post (blog) - Mar 29, 2012 Unfortunately, 783 million people -- 11 percent of the global population -- still have no access to clean water. For context, that is more than two and a half times the population of the United States.  |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2012 06:24 AM PDT Global failures on Haitian epidemic Bend Bulletin - 1 hour ago While the world has dedicated $230 million so far to combating the unexpected epidemic, the United Nations is now pleading for an additional $53.9 million just to get the vulnerable displaced population through the rainy months ahead.  |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2012 06:03 AM PDT Nobel scientists blame climate change, poverty; predict weather disasters Post-Tribune - Mar 28, 2012 Extreme storms, droughts and heat waves are getting so much worse because global warming that the world has to prepare for an unprecedented onslaught of deadly and costly weather disaster, an international panel of experts says.  |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2012 06:00 AM PDT The real hunger games: How banks gamble on food prices – and the poor lose out The Independent - 13 hours ago Speculation by large investment banks is driving up food prices for the world's poorest people, tipping millions into hunger and poverty. Investment in food commodities by banks and hedge funds has risen from $65bn to $126bn (£41bn to £79bn) in the ...  |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2012 05:58 AM PDT World poverty in retreat Chicago Tribune - Mar 28, 2012 Among the most vicious enemies of human welfare is poverty. In a world plagued with limited resources, bad governments and unsound economic policies, it often appears to be an inescapable scourge.  |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2012 05:57 AM PDT Can Better Data End Global Poverty? The Atlantic - Mar 28, 2012 The use of RCTs to address global poverty is a phenomenon of the last decade, but it has caught on with the force of a paradigm shift in economics, public policy, and other disciplines. Rich pickings in cure for povertyNational Business Review Five steps to beat povertygulfnews.com  |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2012 05:45 AM PDT Kim can reverse World Bank's poverty of ideas The National - Mar 29, 2012 That is how it ended up with several inappropriate leaders, including a number of bankers and political insiders who lacked the knowledge and interest to lead the fight against poverty. Mr Kim is one of the world's great leaders in public health. WORLD BANK PRESIDENT NOMINEE KIM: It's Clear We Can Eradicate  |
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4.01.2012
GOD'S SAKE - READ - SHARE: Global Warming Denialism 'Just Foolishness,' Scientist Peter Raven Says ABC News
ABC News (blog) -
US prestige falling as world has 'pretty well given up' on any American leadership facing climate change.
One of the world's most widely known and respected senior scientists
tells ABC News that current denial about the basic daunting realities of
...
Swing States poll: A shift by women puts Obama in lead USA TODAY
USA TODAY -
By Susan Page, USA TODAY MILWAUKEE - President Obama
has opened the first significant lead of the 2012 campaign in the
nation's dozen top battleground states, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds,
boosted by a huge shift of women to his side.
God fearing? Really? THOU SHALT NOT LIE: Paul Ryan says he 'misspoke' on military budget Washington Post
Washington Post (blog) -
By Ed O'Keefe House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.). (Joshua Roberts - BLOOMBERG) House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.
!!! Loving, here. Your Help Needed this morning, all day today, Sun. Please consider.
I've of late seen a very powerful way to serve humanity - commenting on major
Plan A-rmageddon related articles in only the most major, main-stream of publications -
LA Times, Wash Post, Guardian....
Today, as in recent weekends, I'll play whack-a-mole FOR THE ONLOOKERS.
JOIN ME, UNLESS YOU HAVE SOME WAY BETTER WAY TO SERVE THIS SUNDAY.
Just as my brothers and sisters on the left in this country have a criminally insane aversion
to putting their bodies where their mouths and brains are, my criminally insane (I
don't say this lightly) brothers and sisters on the right like barbarians throughout
history live the lie that might (standing, forcing, controlling, dominating) trumps the
Truth, Doing what is Right (odd paradox). See Chris Mooney's "The Republican (and Dem)
Brain(s)."
My point? I WILL NOT BE ADDRESSING MYSELF TO THE RIGHT-WING-SOCIOPATHS,
WHO WILL COMMENT UNOPPOSED!!!!!!!! (UNLESS YOU JOIN ME). However, I refuse,
and you should too, to let them take up all the ink space. WHAT OF THE ONLOOKER,
THE CONFUSED, THE UNKNOWING IN THE ALL-IMPORTANT CENTER? Am I, are YOU
to let them think the Deniers are the only group?
Join the fight, today. Please consider. Now.
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For GOP - Competence is Irrelevant. Winning, Power, Control is ALL philainquirer
Philadelphia Inquirer -
By
Steve Peoples AP , the front-runner in the GOP presidential contest,
meets with former President George HW Bush to receive his endorsement.
'BUT IF NOT' - Loving's 'Faith,' 'Beliefs,' 'Religion,' 'Creed'
From a note to a Beloved Sister who has been a profound Gift in my Life of late:
He, and you, gave this to me late last night, so it only seems right that I share.
He, and you, gave this to me late last night, so it only seems right that I share.
Hours after I sent my reply to you last evening, lying on my granite mattress, entirely unforeseen - 'But if not.' There are probably very few things written or spoken by Dr. King that I haven't studied deeply many many times over the years, including that. But I find his insights into the Truth so profound that every time I read or hear again, it is almost as though it is for the first time. Thank you for directing me to 'But if not' the other day.
It came ringing back into my ears last night invoked by our
dialog of yesterday, yours and mine. Maybe way too briefly I outlined in yesterday's note, my Beliefs, my understandings, that are the Core to me, that which is God for me - the basis of my Life, the basis of all that I do, including the foundation of partnershps. As often I have and do with folks, I acknowledged that I Recognize there maybe more to the Truth than what I value - Heart, Loving, Compassion, Conscience, Humanity, Courage, SERVING OUR LEAST OF THESE, but that if there is, I don't care, I'm not interested, it is not my Business, it wouldn't change me or what I do if I came to 'See' these other things as absolute Truth.
This is what Dr. King was saying, too. 'If you are doing right because you believe in
Heaven, that's not Faith (paraphrasing).' 'If you do right to avoid what traditional theologians (MLK doesn't believe in a physical Heaven or Hell he makes pretty clear here, tho that isn't his point, at all) describe as Hell, that isn't Faith.' I think he could have gone on, or at least, not objected to me doing so - 'If you do right (Living from Heart, Conscience, Serving Our Global Neediest...) because of God, or Jesus, or any other reason, that isn't Faith. If you do right, because you believe that thousands of years ago Miracles were performed, that's not Faith.....'
'But if not.' 'But if you came to see that not one of these things were true, or all ceased to be True in your Heart, if you still do Right, That's Faith,' is a True expansion of what he was saying to me, and what my Heart, Our Father says to me, and Jesus, and Christ, ever since I can remember.
I'm sure it could and would be wildly debated, my understanding of the scripture, 'Let your yes be your yes, and your no be your no.' It finally came clear to me the meaning not many months ago. Probably it came to me after the umpteenth time of hearing from someone, 'Oh, I'm on a mission trip to show Jesus' Love.' Huh, I though? Huh? Is it Jesus' air? Is it Jesus' water? Is Jesus so insecure He wants us to think of 'His' air, 'His' water, 'His' Love? If so, I want no part
of Him, so small, petty, self-centered. BUT I'M SURE NOT! Maybe Love is a sentient God, that does Miracles, that has folks living in physical Heaven or Hell for eternity, but for me, and I think for MLK Jr, Gandhi... 'BUT IF NOT,' God is still Love, His Kingdom, the Heart, His Path of Infinite Joy for us - Serving Our Global Neediest. 'But if not,' I'll do That for the Joy of it, with my last breath.
That is my Faith. That is what MLK Jr, thanks to you, reminded me of, clarified for me, late late last night.
3.31.2012
Huh? Christlikeness: 'Getting ahead,' or 'rising others up?: In Romney's California Mansion, Cars Get Their Own Elevator ThinkProgress
ThinkProgress -
By Joe Romm
on Mar 27, 2012 at 12:21 pm For Mitt Romney, who's in the 1% of the 1%,
that means a “four-car fantasy home,” as Politico put it after seeing
the amazing blueprints for Romney's proposed California beach house.
Indian traders in China, hunger strike, threaten suicideDeccan Chronicle
Economic Times -
BEIJING: Two Indians, who were freed from illegal custody of Chinese traders three months ago, today went on a hunger strike in Shanghai, demanding that they be allowed to go home within a week failing which they will commit suicide.
Inspired by Anna, 70-year-old on hunger strike to make his village liquor-free Times of India
Times of India -
SAMBALPUR: Inspired by the anti-corruption movement of Anna Hazare, a 70-year-old man, Janardan Sahu, has begun a hunger strike in front of the Sambalpur collector's office on Friday demanding removal of liquor shops from his village, Laida.
Palestinian Journalist detained by PA goes on hunger strike Jerusalem Post
Jerusalem Post -
By
REUTERS/Benoit Tessier The Palestinian reporter who was arrested this
week by PA security forces for reporting about corruption in its
diplomatic mission in France has gone on a hunger strike, Palestinian journalists said Thursday.
Palestinian prisoner Wins Demands, ends 44-day hunger strike CNN International
CNN International -
Jerusalem (CNN) -- A Palestinian woman held by Israel for alleged terrorist activity ended her 44-day hunger strike Thursday after agreeing to be deported to Gaza, her lawyer said.
GOP War on all Creation: Brzezinski Assails Romney for Lacking 'Grasp' of Foreign Policy San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle -
No evidence of an Iraqi nuclear weapons program was found after the US invaded Iraq in 2003. Romney's comments on Iran,
Brzezinski said, "are just so casual, and at the same time so militant,
that one has to wonder whether he'll feel bound by what he ...
Isreal's, Your Rape spree continues: Palestinian killed as thousands protest on 'Land Day' Hometownlife.com
Hometownlife.com -
Palestinian
protesters throw stones at Israeli soldiers during a demonstration
Friday to mark the anniversary of "Land Day" in the village of Kafr
Qaddum, near Nablus in the occupied West Bank.
China pulls plug on web over Coup rumors Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning Herald -
CHINA
has closed a dozen websites, penalised two popular social media sites
and detained six people for circulating rumours of a coup that rattled
Beijing in the middle of its worst high-level political crisis in years.
Why Gas Prices Are Out of Any President's Control New York Times
New York Times -
EVERYONE
knows it's dangerous to ingest gasoline or to inhale its fumes. But I
am starting to believe that merely thinking about the price of gasoline
can damage cognitive processing.
NYT Krugman: How is Mandate to buy More Intrusive than Tax? Huh?
Atlanta Journal Constitution -
By
MARK SHERMAN AP WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court left little doubt during
last week's marathon arguments over President Barack Obama's health
care overhaul that it has scant faith in Congress' ability to get
anything done.
Loving, here: I won the Lottery Last Night. Here's my plan.
Seriously, in my mind, I won the lottery last evening. I recall never purchasing a lottery ticket nor thinking of doing so, but yesterday I realized, pushed by a Barrista friend, I owe it to those I'm serving to buy a ticket, or two.
Hours after I realized it myself, I saw a headline to the effect that, 'The Lottery Lets People Dream.' It had that effect on me, and it is not over.
Some of the valuable insights this has give me, reinforced:
1. We don't have a money problem, we have people problem. Without people of Heart, Christlikes by whatever name, 100 trillion dollars won't save Creation unless we create more Christlikes, fast.
2. The notion of spending 1cent of the winnings on myself was deeply revolting - made me want to scream in horror. The only 'personal' things that I'd want are:
A. Use the fact that I had the money to get meetings with fewer than 10 folks I thought of - Jim Hansen, Pr. Obama, Mr. Kim the prospective World Bank head, Lester Brown to pick their brains and influence their direction, to try and get them to step into and totally commit to All-out, Unviolent War to Defeat Plan A-rmageddon... AND AMY GOODMAN to try to encourage / fund her to end her unspeakable cowardice, and start writing of the criminal cowardice, apathy, unilateral surrender of the Lip Service Left.
B. Travel at way below economy class to try to find and empower the 1 in a million, the hero(s) in appalachia risking life, limb, treasure to stop MTR, and their counterparts in Idaho fighting Keystone, in W Canada protecting Great Bear Rainforest, Diane Wilson fighting from her $100 trailer to save the world, see if I could fund just the handful in Greenpeace that risk their lives in demonstrations, Sea Shepherds....
C. Purchase a 4 year wifi contract to get that off Ellen's back, and so I wouldn't have to worry about that any more.
3. In hours in my sleeping bag I couldn't think of 20, and possibly not 10 folks, or organizations, that would increase hope in the world with money in their pockets to spend. No creature of Heart, no hope. And of the Pure Hearts that could be Trusted to War Unviolently, risking everything for humanity, probably half currently aren't doing so - business people I've met over the decades with Pure, but misguided Hearts. Folks that lacked Vision, as I did, but by God, when they SAW A MISSION, NO EXCUSES, GET OUT OF MY WAY, FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION, I'LL PUT AND KEEP EVERYTHING ON THE LINE, yes, breaking all of the sacred code of the Lefties, the 'activists.' Would they rise? I don't know. But I'd ask.
4. I think Pr. Obama understands this last part, 3, and that is why he is fighting Plan A-rmageddon with all the funding into technology for wind, solar, efficiency... that he can. We Know how to harness our Head and Flesh in that way, and it could be way better than nothing environmentally.
5. I realized that finding and getting funds to the 1 in a million was the entirety of what I'd focus on - trying to increase their effectiveness, their reach, 2 fold, 4 fold, 10 fold...
6. I realized that all hope lies in finding, raising, empowering the 1 in a million, that it becomes 2 in a million, then 3....
Hours after I realized it myself, I saw a headline to the effect that, 'The Lottery Lets People Dream.' It had that effect on me, and it is not over.
Some of the valuable insights this has give me, reinforced:
1. We don't have a money problem, we have people problem. Without people of Heart, Christlikes by whatever name, 100 trillion dollars won't save Creation unless we create more Christlikes, fast.
2. The notion of spending 1cent of the winnings on myself was deeply revolting - made me want to scream in horror. The only 'personal' things that I'd want are:
A. Use the fact that I had the money to get meetings with fewer than 10 folks I thought of - Jim Hansen, Pr. Obama, Mr. Kim the prospective World Bank head, Lester Brown to pick their brains and influence their direction, to try and get them to step into and totally commit to All-out, Unviolent War to Defeat Plan A-rmageddon... AND AMY GOODMAN to try to encourage / fund her to end her unspeakable cowardice, and start writing of the criminal cowardice, apathy, unilateral surrender of the Lip Service Left.
B. Travel at way below economy class to try to find and empower the 1 in a million, the hero(s) in appalachia risking life, limb, treasure to stop MTR, and their counterparts in Idaho fighting Keystone, in W Canada protecting Great Bear Rainforest, Diane Wilson fighting from her $100 trailer to save the world, see if I could fund just the handful in Greenpeace that risk their lives in demonstrations, Sea Shepherds....
C. Purchase a 4 year wifi contract to get that off Ellen's back, and so I wouldn't have to worry about that any more.
3. In hours in my sleeping bag I couldn't think of 20, and possibly not 10 folks, or organizations, that would increase hope in the world with money in their pockets to spend. No creature of Heart, no hope. And of the Pure Hearts that could be Trusted to War Unviolently, risking everything for humanity, probably half currently aren't doing so - business people I've met over the decades with Pure, but misguided Hearts. Folks that lacked Vision, as I did, but by God, when they SAW A MISSION, NO EXCUSES, GET OUT OF MY WAY, FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION, I'LL PUT AND KEEP EVERYTHING ON THE LINE, yes, breaking all of the sacred code of the Lefties, the 'activists.' Would they rise? I don't know. But I'd ask.
4. I think Pr. Obama understands this last part, 3, and that is why he is fighting Plan A-rmageddon with all the funding into technology for wind, solar, efficiency... that he can. We Know how to harness our Head and Flesh in that way, and it could be way better than nothing environmentally.
5. I realized that finding and getting funds to the 1 in a million was the entirety of what I'd focus on - trying to increase their effectiveness, their reach, 2 fold, 4 fold, 10 fold...
6. I realized that all hope lies in finding, raising, empowering the 1 in a million, that it becomes 2 in a million, then 3....
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