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Please be positive. Let all light in.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger75125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-341108851310463079.post-52156883147962859082022-09-28T19:55:00.003-07:002022-09-30T13:50:00.916-07:00KPFK doesnt improve-- but stays secretive, hidden + thus not accountable to owner-funders? huh ?<p>Occasionally we get curious about what was our favorite Radio station - from 60's +70's when KPFK was at it's prime & being more relevant, useful, educational-</p><p> </p><p>but unfortunately has been deteriorating & failing every since...those prime 'anti-war' re Vietnam drafts & Iraq no-legit-war times ... and when teachers, lecturers from east Asia came to our western shores to teach us about their philosophies, beliefs, & customs - then it was not focusing on international foods nor consumption[s], </p><p> </p><p>or buying cheaply -- as is now - the main commercialized emphases -- and such displayed by most media: how low do we go ? as seen on TV, radio pgms, print media, etc. -</p><p>all are going only to lower <i>chakras </i>- in those over-strained but churning stomach, intestines - those over-filled up guts ! </p><p> </p><p>Go to KPFK's website for information - to learn & figure out maybe? how does it still operate besides the constant-continual-relentlessly-repeated-commercialized DEMANDS FOR MORE $$$$$$ - never enough, never stops, and still now same emphasis - continual crying <i>"help us as we are failing... again... more... stilll.. now..." <br /></i></p><p>who is the General Manager now? How /why is that such a revolving position ? What are their names, photos, accomplishments to merit this position ? </p><p><br /></p><p>Who are the staff there - who are paid or who are volunteers ? How long have they continued to 'work' there and for what benefits-advantage-payola-or $ earned?</p><p> </p><p>Why is the website so antiquated with old info only left there -not updated, not informative and obviously HIDING SECRETS or keeping hidden what is Happening at the station that many have 'invested' their earnings?</p><p> </p><p>Who is at the ship's helm ? plane's pilot seat? lectern's mic ? or getting undisclosed Benefits to keep those few left still operating the basic station's on-air programs ?</p><p> </p><p> <img alt="Words Cartoon Letter Block Stock Vector (Royalty Free) 116388454 | Shutterstock" class="rg_i Q4LuWd" data-ils="4" height="180" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTQ7dtOHmBerqgu02w7otwCj1ePNqoRALNQxQ&usqp=CAU" width="169" /> <br /></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"> [credited shutterstock. thanks for sharing ]</span> </p><p><br /></p><p></p><p>and why are the very same -same old words - same words -mostly heard there ? .... as if: no new programs nor hosts are joining KPFK ?... where are they going/appearing instead ? ...or where are those innovative + creative + forward-moving people ... doing radio ? <br /></p><p> </p><p>Instead of the repeat Not-hardly-any-changed 'programmers' who stay there ~ stuck ~ in as if cemented in station walls - for years !] - are there no others ? better ? and a wider variety of urgent topics? can't be found none there ? to be heard on- KPFK's-air either ? really ??????</p><p> </p><p> The same as were heard saying same words, same voices, same views/ slants/ bias & prejudices [tho un-admitted] on the airwaves OWNED BY 'The American Public' - used but not owned - by any radio stations ! </p><p> </p><p>and same taped commercials - tho not defined as Promos, P.R., advertisements - tho the messages are same as any profit-earning for investors organizations ... not holier, better, more honest, nor virtuous at all !</p><p> </p><p>so just learned a small bit: a new GM is now in charge? or acting as if he were ? Who is he? </p><p> how to find out more about his past, qualifications, intentions, accomplishments?</p><p> </p><p>name read: "<b>Moe Thomas" - </b>who is that ? why doesn't Google offer up a simple image, a bio, a story, credits ? - or do we have to join websites & do lots of work to find out ? -very little available for public confirmation :</p><p> </p><h3 class="LC20lb MBeuO DKV0Md"><a data-jsarwt="1" data-usg="AOvVaw0YdkQgU3iFE3o1aT4ANLYf" data-ved="2ahUKEwjG67u-6rj6AhVyATQIHazFDywQFnoECA8QAQ" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/moe-thomas-0842524"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Moe Thomas - Chief Engineer - WPFW - LinkedIn</span></span></a><span style="font-size: small;"><a data-jsarwt="1" data-usg="AOvVaw0YdkQgU3iFE3o1aT4ANLYf" data-ved="2ahUKEwjG67u-6rj6AhVyATQIHazFDywQFnoECA8QAQ" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/moe-thomas-0842524"><div aria-label="About this Result" class="iTPLzd GUHazd lUn2nc eY4mx" role="button" style="padding-bottom: 20px; padding-right: 5px; position: absolute;" tabindex="0"><cite class="iUh30 qLRx3b tjvcx" role="text">https://www.linkedin.com<span class="dyjrff qzEoUe" role="text"> › moe-thomas-0842524 + </span></cite></div></a></span></h3><p></p><div class="Z26q7c UK95Uc jGGQ5e" data-header-feature="0"><div class="yuRUbf"><div class="B6fmyf"><div class="csDOgf"><div data-isdesktop="true" data-ved="2ahUKEwjG67u-6rj6AhVyATQIHazFDywQ2esEegQIDxAE"><div><span data-ved="2ahUKEwjG67u-6rj6AhVyATQIHazFDywQh-4GegQIDxAF"></span></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="Z26q7c UK95Uc" data-content-feature="1"><div class="VwiC3b yXK7lf MUxGbd yDYNvb lyLwlc lEBKkf" style="-webkit-line-clamp: 2;">"For
42 years I was Technical Director and team lead for transmission
operations at the Washington News Bureau, serving all major national
broadcast coverage ..."</div><div class="VwiC3b yXK7lf MUxGbd yDYNvb lyLwlc lEBKkf" style="-webkit-line-clamp: 2;"> </div><div class="VwiC3b yXK7lf MUxGbd yDYNvb lyLwlc lEBKkf" style="-webkit-line-clamp: 2;">+ <br /></div><div class="VwiC3b yXK7lf MUxGbd yDYNvb lyLwlc lEBKkf" style="-webkit-line-clamp: 2;"> 1 image found ! - on image in "linkedin" by Google / which 1 is he of 3 men in pix ? </div><div class="VwiC3b yXK7lf MUxGbd yDYNvb lyLwlc lEBKkf" style="-webkit-line-clamp: 2;"> </div><div class="VwiC3b yXK7lf MUxGbd yDYNvb lyLwlc lEBKkf" style="-webkit-line-clamp: 2;"> </div></div><p> Why is there no further press releases to be found via google ? or especially presented to all stakeholders 'Contact's section is reviewed ? see what little spare info is given to public who are asked to Fund, Pay, Support but not allowed to know who works at this workplace? huh?</p><p></p><p>and who is being fired, re-hired, excluded, added on, doing what tasks - besides repeating same old political positions....</p><p> </p><p> while mainly: exhorting their own prejudiced-held-personal OPINIONS & VIEWS - </p><p> &: while this station continues claiming IT to be "only-1=Right"-- </p><p> </p><p>[ being righteous? and of course, promoting the far-left-liberals - Only] ... </p><p>with pro-1-race-selected as preferred ? [ which brings doubts of USA demographics - the emphases are other than whatever US Census claims are a majority or plurality... or able-to-pay - for KPFK's survival ? ]</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><img alt="US Census Bureau releases 2020 census: How to understand the data" class="rg_i Q4LuWd" data-ils="4" height="169" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTpzsPvjnxx9v7pxxeYTdPTHY8R3Knie9zm-Q&usqp=CAU" width="300" /> <img alt="How the U.S. census has measured race over 230 years | Science News" class="rg_i Q4LuWd" data-ils="4" height="169" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRboYdcUoW3h-hjhvXLhHCp4mutKat3Hczv9A&usqp=CAU" width="299" /> </p><p> <img alt="2020 Census shows how many people live in Lenoir County, North Carolina" class="rg_i Q4LuWd" data-ils="4" height="224" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS7s9ypze4k0SgEGTfUauQzQ2OWYv3Ah8F6og&usqp=CAU" width="224" /> <span style="font-size: x-small;">[credited : USA Today & ScienceNews. & Kinson.com ]</span></p><p><br /></p><p>What is considered 'proportional' or 'representing' realities ? - by what criteria & by whom ? </p><p>Who are authorized to claim they WANT more of their own voice, hosts, views, and claiming-priority of programming or staff positions there ? </p><p><br /></p><p> </p><p><img alt="Boss Cartoons, Cartoons About Bosses - Glasbergen Cartoon Service" class="rg_i Q4LuWd" data-ils="4" height="329" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRnIt2-uoMHDoRT78K682oA3ZdZ9mNzDA9eOA&usqp=CAU" width="421" /> <span style="font-size: x-small;">[credited: Glasbergen.com. Thanks for sharing]</span></p><p></p><p><br /></p><p>Who is the person supervising, insuring all 'paid donations-subscriptions' are in order, honestly credited & where the cash goes ? <br /></p><p>Who chooses which programs are kept - for 20-24-60 years or makes a change/shift ? Or how does <u>Local Station Board</u> [that has been more than merely dys-functional and not honoring it's own bylaws nor any rules ?</p><p> </p><p>[ Anyone ever go to an <u>LSB meeting</u> to see in person- real life ? </p><p>It is not as paper-computer read only - as when 'timed' speaker is allowed to go on & on & on tho time was up but by default rules are ignored & selected <i>influencers </i>can harangue & pressure further ... but - while others honor the rules set instead - as seen in person many times there]</p><p>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - <br /></p><p> </p><p>ahhhhh ...same critical points being repeated as nothing has been improved ...as seen only from 'the outside'- Here ... tho not inside any more - whew ! - inside the darkened clumped-cluttered-spaced interior of KPFK station property was & must still remain probably. </p><p> </p><p>Does anyone outside the programmers ['volunteers' w/ lots of benefits & advantages gained so never ever leave their sacred spots !] or fewer than ever staff -paid or not - CARE ?</p><p> </p><p>There are no other commenting sites found- even a prior informative re Pacifica's stations un-doings & schemes caught or leaving the whole organization paying for WBAI - NY 's intentionally not paying rent - then major court deciding that was wrong - so those debts remain - putting KPFK's property/ mortgage in danger... </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <br /></p><p><br /></p><p>or is KPFK still indebted to that ploy from another Pacifica radio station so far from LA CA ? or maybe better to ask: Who cares ? Who hides pertinent info that affects all that forceful demanding MORE PLEDGES $$$$!!! repeatedly endlessly.. ugh... </p><p> </p><p>& Who else cares but those gaining from 'being inside' and having on-air-precious-ACCESS ? maybe no one cares to know reality but prefers the fake image/ story sold by station's inhabitants? Who else is asking these questions ? Where ? Plse let us know if you know more than we can find via internet today. thanx </p><p> <br /></p><p> ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////</p><p>Receiving a bare bit of 'news' from Somethings Happening weekly schedule mailings,it reads this: </p><p style="margin: 0px;"><i>"BEHIND THE SCENES = While we are searching for a new General Manager,
<u>Moe Thomas</u> has been running things as a (terrific) GM at KPFK. But he
has been managing WPFW, Washington DC as his main position and also
helping KPFT in Texas. For one thing he saved “Something’s Happening!”
by refusing to fire me when ordered. And he let <u>Buzz</u> {Mansour} reappear as a
constant helper in many activities as a volunteer.</i></p><i>
</i><p style="margin: 0px;"><i><br /></i></p><i>
</i><p style="margin: 0px;"><i>But while the General Manager is being searched
for, we have hired <u>Michael Novick</u> as an Icting GM. He has been active
for years at KPFK in many ways as a board member and I think he has been
a temporary part-time GM before. ...</i><i> One immediate activity is to arrange the next fund drive since we failed to make our goal in the last ones...."</i></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><i> </i></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><i>//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// </i></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><i> </i></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><i> </i></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><i>If....</i> nothing notable nor magical nor improved occurs - no better TRANSPARENCY nor ACCOUNTABILITY = then that means KPFK - & by whomever is in charge or competent - must do more to stop being secreted in its dark abyss.... </p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;">But be Publicly Open & Clear about it's doings and failings & attempts to be as their regular <u>Mission </u>claims KPFK is suppose to be... doing. </p><p style="margin: 0px;">But is not, yet. </p><p style="margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px;">then no more questions nor observations need be reported from here either. </p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;">//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// <br /></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="margin: 0px;">Alternatively, there is NPR radio that provides news with the similar liberal slants expected</p><p style="margin: 0px;">and with more factual information and less personalized-by-program-host biases or emphases included there. </p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;">Tho NPR is not 'fair nor balanced nor sharing any 'other sides' than their preferred Democratic Party allied ones either. </p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;">But right across the dial- aisle is another radio station that barely, rarely puts out to public a 'fund $$$ raising' few days only. How do they do that so differently? </p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="margin: 0px;">While we stay away for mental-health safety - but remain: Observing - with an open mind and cleared receptive ears... </p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;"> & must continue asking the same questions / concerns / all that has been similarly present since this blog's inception... we wait ...still now.... but expect little now. <br /></p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px;">Sadly we refuse to collude with a failing...state... or a government / country or station... and<br /></p><p style="margin: 0px;">we too wonder and wait........ for a real life earth rainbow - that is not a flag or a PR - promoted icon....</p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;">but that continues to be the Real Life symbol of hope and beauty.</p><p style="margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px;"> <img alt="Momifesto: A Definition – CVI Momifesto" class="rg_i Q4LuWd" data-ils="4" height="192" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS8vTQ1Z2utAtlx8HaJtys_V9X_VOmKPdq75w&usqp=CAU" width="263" /> </p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <span style="color: #2b00fe;">[credited to Momifesto.thanks for sharing pix ] </span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">(c) mary & B.& others too -(2022) <br /></span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-341108851310463079.post-11824086724235217282010-12-15T09:32:00.000-08:002010-12-15T12:40:38.885-08:00Repost article re WIKILEAKS from la.indymedia.org here<h1 style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a name="243369"><strong class="heading"></strong></a></span></h1><h1 style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" >t<span style="font-family: verdana;">his is a REPOSTING for information contained in article, looking for reality and truth here too:<br /></span></span></h1><h1 style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-family: verdana;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" >w/o fully investigating the source--writing group. INFORMATION that has value can be written by anyone....regardless of their other affiliations tho these need to be taken into consideration and noted. Enemies, allies, strangers, friends and family can provide "kernels of truths" and "parts of the story" that have something to offer.</span></h1><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">This is not endorsement of the group writing the material below or its writers, beliefs, or other actions....this is reposting this article for the revealed information contained therein only.</span><br /></span><h1 style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-family: verdana;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" >even if not always 100% accurate, as "facts" are well known to be mostly mis-perceived and constructed by personal biases...</span></h1><h1 style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-family: verdana;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" >Please : see known research re court witnesses testimonies and psychological studies showing that most witness/ reporters Believe what they THINK saw or perceived...or say it was as 'honest & true" regardless of what other documentation may later display.</span></h1><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-family: verdana;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Even technology and documentation can be faulty, misused, and manipulated, so where are "facts" if not in what we AGREE to believe is True..for now...anyhow.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">so gather what may sound real or true enough for now, until more is revealed about the spokesman for Wikileaks, about the US government's over-reach and influence with other nation states, about all nations' self serving slants and propagandas, about the alliances of corporations, lobbyists and government elected/ selected officials that rule & reign over 'the rest of us folk'.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">and drop what seems unbelievable for now...until more is revealed, as it can be.</span><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></span><br /></span>comments above are <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">(<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">C) by Mary Janie 2010<br />_____________________________________________________________<br /></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">reposted below from: http://la.indymedia.org/news/hidden.php?id=243369</span><br />+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++repr<br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><h1><span style="font-size:85%;"><a name="243369"><strong class="heading">Free Julian Assange! Hands Off WikiLeaks!</strong></a></span></h1> by Internationalist Group <em>Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010 at 7:38 AM</em><br /><a href="mailto:internationalistgroup@msn.com">internationalistgroup@msn.com</a> 212-460-0983 Box 3321, Church Street Station, New York, NY 10008 USA <blockquote class="summary">The December 7 arrest in London of Julian Assange, the founder and editor-in-chief of the Internet investigative site WikiLeaks, is a threat to freedom of the press and an attempt to silence critics who expose the bloody deeds of imperialism.<br /><br />We are convinced, along with many others, that Assange is innocent of the trumped up accusations of the crimes of rape and sexual molestation that are being manipulated by Swedish authorities to request his detention and extradition. His main accuser is an anti-Communist social-democratic operative. It is clear that sinister forces are pushing the persecution of this courageous man, and his life could be in danger. The criminal forces who are behind this frame-up are first and foremost, the United States government of Barack Obama and its military and spy agencies.<br /><br />They seek to silence whistleblowers who have not only caused them diplomatic embarrassment but also lifted a corner of the veil on Washington’s Murder, Inc. We demand that Assange be freed, that all charges against him be dropped, including those now being prepared and that Private Bradley Manning, accused of leaking documents that incriminate the U.S., be freed as well. <span style="font-size:100%;"> December 2010<strong><br /></strong></span></blockquote> <div class="article troll1"> <h2><span style="font-size:85%;"> Sinister Attack on WikiLeaks to Cover Up Imperialist Crimes</span></h2> <h1><span style="font-size:85%;"> Free Julian Assange! Drop All Charges Assange, presenting WikiLeaks' release of files on Afghanistan war in London, July 2 2010 http://www.internationalist.org<br /></span></h1> <p align="justify"> The December 7 arrest in London of Julian Assange, the founder and editor-in-chief of the Internet investigative site WikiLeaks, is a threat to freedom of the press and an attempt to silence critics who expose the bloody deeds of imperialism. We are convinced, along with many others, that Assange is innocent of the trumped up accusations of the crimes of rape and sexual molestation that are being manipulated by Swedish authorities to request his detention and extradition. It is clear that sinister forces are pushing the persecution of this courageous man, and his life could be in danger.</p> <p align="justify"> We have no hesitation in naming the criminal forces who are behind this frame-up: first and foremost, the United States government of Barack Obama and its military and spy agencies. They have enlisted U.S. corporations such as Amazon, MasterCard, PayPal and others, Swiss banks and the complaisant Swedish, British and Australian governments in their war on WikiLeaks. They seek to silence whistleblowers who have not only caused them diplomatic embarrassment but also lifted a corner of the veil on Washington’s Murder, Inc. If the would-be masters of the world cannot stop the leakage of information through judicial/police methods, they will surely resort to other means.</p> <!--break--> <p align="justify"> Despite the arrest of its leader, the shutdown of some of its websites by service providers due to U.S. threats and cutoff of donations by payments companies, WikiLeaks has vowed to keep publishing. It is urgent that all defenders of civil liberties and opponents of imperialist war stand up in defense of Julian Assange, demanding that he be <em>immediately freed</em> and that <em>all charges against him be dropped</em>, including those that are in the work<em>s</em>. It is also necessary to defend his comrades who are at risk for their dedication to shining a light into the dark corners where the capitalist rulers hide their dirty secrets. And we must oppose all efforts by the U.S. and its allies to enact gag laws to enforce police-state controls. We demand: <em>Hands off WikiLeaks!</em></p> <p align="justify"> For the last nine months, U.S. imperialism has been smarting over a series of revelations of a small proportion of its crimes by WikiLeaks. The website won global fame and attention when it released the video “Collateral Murder” last April, showing the crews of U.S. helicopter gunships nonchalantly mowing down with machine-gun and rocket fire two reporters, several first aid responders and even children in Baghdad in 2007. Millions of viewers watched in horror as they saw the massacre unfold before their eyes.</p> <p align="justify"> The Pentagon, stung by the worldwide outrage, responded by arresting Private First Class Bradley Manning, a military intelligence analyst stationed in the Iraqi capital, charging him with leaking the incriminating footage. In our article, “<a href="http://www.internationalist.org/defendbradleymanning1007.html">Defend PFC Bradley Manning!</a>” (<em>The Internationalist</em> No. 31, Summer 2010), we wrote:</p> <blockquote> “If Bradley Manning did indeed help to uncover evidence of U.S. imperialism’s war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq, and if he did try to bring to light the secret dealings of U.S. diplomats and spies, these were justified acts evidencing rare moral courage. Class-conscious workers and all defenders of democratic rights should hail Manning as a hero. Exposing U.S. imperialism’s crimes and tearing the curtain of secrecy from its plots can save the lives of innocent people by helping to put an end to the Pentagon’s reign of terror in Afghanistan, Iraq and around the world.” </blockquote> <p align="justify"> We also warned that Julian Assange, the founder and editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, was at risk of arrest or even assassination: “Make no mistake, Julian Assange is in real danger from the same imperialist war criminals that have Bradley Manning in a military jail. <em>Hands off Julian Assange and WikiLeaks!</em>”</p> <p align="justify"> In July, WikiLeaks followed up by releasing over 90,000 documents from the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan spanning the six-year period from 2004 through 2009. The Afghanistan War Logs were provided in advance to several leading news media, including the <em>New York Times</em>, the London <em>Guardian </em>and the German newsmagazine <em>Der Spiegel</em>, which published excerpts. Naturally, the <em>Times</em> downplayed some of the most egregious war crimes – for example, suppressing a story by its correspondent on the hit squads of Task Force 373, professional assassins responsible for numerous massacres in Afghanistan – alleging lack of space and other implausible excuses. <em>Der Spiegel </em>(26 July), at least, put the story on its cover.</p> <p align="justify"> In October, Wikileaks released 350,000 documents about the Iraq war, showing, as Assange summarized them, that it was “a bloodbath on every corner.” It also documented 15,000 civilian deaths that the U.S. never publicly admitted. Then at the end of November, WikiLeaks began releasing documents from a trove of 251,000 secret State Department and CIA cables. As rad-lib journalist Alexander Cockburn noted in an article titled “Julian Assange: Wanted by the Empire, Dead or Alive” (<em>Counterpunch</em>, 3-5 December), the “communications released by WikiLeaks contain no earth-shaking disclosures that undermine the security of the American empire.” The latest stash of documents published so far mainly illustrate the prejudices and stupidities of the diplomatic corps. Most of the yelps are coming from the governments being reported on, not from the U.S. If anything, as a columnist for an Israeli liberal Zionist paper noted:</p> <blockquote> “They depict the fall of the American empire, the decline of a superpower that ruled the world by dint of its military and economic supremacy…. The days when American ambassadors were received in world capitals as ‘high commissioners’ are long since gone. The diplomats who wrote the WikiLeaks documents are tired bureaucrats: Nobody rises in their honor and clicks their heels when they enter a room. They spend their days listening wearily to their hosts’ talking points, never reminding them who is the superpower and who the client state that needs military or financial aid from America.”<br /><br />–Aluf Benn, “WikiLeaks Cables Tell the Story of An Empire in Decline,” <em>Haaretz</em>, 1 December</blockquote> <p align="justify"> That certainly describes Israel’s dismissal of any pressure from the Obama administration.</p> <p align="justify"> No doubt, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton felt put-upon to excuse U.S. envoys’ denigrating comments about their “allies,” and to explain why the Foreign Service and even ambassadors had been tasked with ferreting out the cellphone, credit card and frequent flier numbers of their counterparts. Or to explain about the list of facilities in other countries that the U.S. considers its own (“critical foreign dependencies”). Moscow was irate about a secret NATO treaty to defend Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. “Against whom else could such a defense be intended? Against Sweden, Finland, Greenland, Iceland? Against polar bears, or against the Russian bear?” asked the Russian ambassador to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin. Russian president Dmitry Medvedev suggested perhaps Assange should be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.</p> <p align="justify"> U.S.spokesmen keep repeating that the leaks will get their secret informants killed, for which there is not a shred of evidence. After getting heat for releasing the names of Afghan informers collaborating with the NATO occupiers (what about the identities of Nazi collaborators in occupied Europe?), WikiLeaks is so intent on appearing responsible that it has taken to excising the names of such covert operatives themselves. At least former CIA agent Philip Agee named names when he broke with “The Company” in the 1960s. Still, official Washington is fit to be tied. Democrats and Republicans alike fear that the U.S.’ ability to dictate to the world will be gravely compromised unless it clamps down on “unauthorized disclosures.” “The empire can’t exist without secrecy,” said Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers history of the Vietnam War, in defending Assange and WikiLeaks.</p> <p align="justify"> Democrat Diane Feinstein, head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, notorious for covering up CIA torture, called for Assange to be prosecuted under the 1917 Espionage Act. Democratic turncoat Joe Lieberman, head of the Senate’s Homeland Security Committee, wants to investigate the <em>New York Times</em> as well. And Attorney General Eric Holder vows to “close the gaps in current U.S. legislation” by enacting new laws infringing on freedom of speech. But that may take some time. They yearn for an Official Secrets Act like in Britain, so they could stop publication of anything by slapping a “D Notice”on it. They wish they were back in the post-9/11 days when they rammed through the U.S.A. PATRIOT Act with a near-unanimous vote before anyone bothered to read it.</p> <p align="justify"> For now, they want to defame the WikiLeaks founder, to take away Assange’s moral authority by smearing him so that he looks dirtier than they are – a pretty tall order. So we get this persecution on sex charges. Not prosecution yet, for curiously no charges have been filed. In fact, the allegations against him were not even described to Assange and his lawyers before he was arrested on an Interpol alert and held for deportation to Sweden. No evidence has ever been presented. Everything about this legal vendetta stinks to high heaven of state provocation. Briefly:</p> <ul><li align="justify"> Assange is supposedly being held only for questioning. Yet he stayed in Sweden for 40 days after the allegations were first made, seeking to speak to the prosecutor, who would not see him and finally let him leave the country legally. He offered to be questioned at the Swedish embassy in London, to no avail.</li><li align="justify"><br /></li><li align="justify"> The allegations were first made on August 20 by a prosecutor in Stockholm. But, as Assange’s attorney in London, Mark Stephens, said in an interview with Channel 4 News (7 December), “the most senior prosecutor in all of Sweden looked at them, and she said there is not a shred of evidence here that warrants an investigation” of rape or sexual harassment. So in less than a day, the main accusations against him were dropped.</li><li align="justify"> Weeks went by, and then “a politician got involved with these women and took them off to another prosecutor, in Gothenberg, and we’re now seeing these warrants coming out suspiciously close in time to the date of the release of the cables.” This kind of “witch-hunt,” Stephens said, suggests that this affair is “politically motivated, there are darker forces at work.”<span id="cke_bm_102E" style="display: none;"> </span></li></ul> <p align="justify"> Indeed there are. And what are those “darker forces?” the interviewer asks. Assange’s lawyer responds that “Sweden is one of those lickspittle states that allowed for ‘extraordinary rendition’ and torture flights to go through their country.” Good point. Not only did Sweden dispatch asylum seekers to Egypt where they were imprisoned, beaten and tortured, as well as allowing CIA “rendition” flights, under Prime Minister Göran Perrson of the Social-Democratic Labor Party (SAP), despite its professed neutrality, Sweden sent troops to join in the occupation of Afghanistan.</p> <p align="justify"> <strong><em>This points to the crucial social-democratic connection in this affair.</em></strong>Sweden’s social democracy has long been a handmaiden of U.S. intelligence agencies. During the 1980s, much of the CIA’s clandestine aid to the anti-Soviet Polish Solidarność was channeled through Sweden with the blessing of SAP prime minister Olaf Palme. This was hardly novel. The CIA financed social-democratic parties throughout Western Europe after World War II in order to break their wartime alliances with the pro-Moscow Communist parties. It is particularly significant in the case of Assange, because the politician/lawyer who contacted the prosecutor in Göteborg was Claes Börgstrom, who is the SAP’s chief spokesman on gender equality issues.</p> <p align="justify"> This brings us to Anna Ardin, one of the two women who made the accusations against Assange. Ardin is a well-known feminist activist who was a gender equality officer for Uppsala University, the Harvard of Sweden. She is also the press secretary of the Christian Social Democratic Association, commonly referred to as the Brotherhood Movement. Former prime minister Persson is likewise a member of this association. Anna Ardin worked at the Swedish embassy in Buenos Aires for a time when the Social Democrats were in power, and also reportedly at the Swedish embassy in the U.S. But most particularly, Ardin has been active on the issue of Cuba, as a social-democratic operative keeping in touch with anti-Castro “dissidents” (see box on “Anna Ardin’s <em>Gusano</em> Connection”).</p> <p align="justify"> Anna Ardin was the person who invited Julian Assange to speak at the Stockholm meeting on August 14, hosted by the Christian Social Democrat Brotherhood organization. An article by Israel Shamir and Paul Bennett (“Assange Bersieged,” <em>Counterpunch</em>, 14 September) noted that while Assange went to Stockholm hoping to shield WikiLeaks from legal persecution, “the moment Julian sought the protection of Swedish media law, the CIA immediately threatened to discontinue intelligence sharing with SEPO, the Swedish Secret Service.” It turns out that Ardin has a brother who works in Swedish intelligence, and who was a liaison in Washington to U.S. spy agencies. Nothing but a strange coincidence?</p> <p align="justify"> Ardin offered to let Assange stay at her flat, and the night before the meeting they had sex. This sure smells like a classic intelligence agency “honey trap,” but with a Swedish twist. The usual pattern is to lure the target into bed with an attractive woman, photograph the tryst and then use the pictures to blackmail the mark into cooperating. In this case, after the sex come accusations of rape and howls about male chauvinism. At this point it’s sounding like the plot of a Stieg Larssen novel, perhaps “Wikileaks: The Man Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest,” as the London <em>Guardian</em> (8 December) titled its editorial.</p> <p align="justify"> Although no formal charges have been brought, or evidence presented, the content of the prosecution dossier against Assange were handed over to a major Swedish tabloid, <em>Aftonbladet</em>, which published a special supplement detailing the accusations. The affidavit read in court in London provided some detail of the allegations, but although it claimed to buttress accusations of a sexual assault, they could also be interpreted as “a frivolous case of miscommunication during consenting sex acts,” as the Toronto <em>Globe & Mail</em> (7 December) put it. There are numerous aspects that cast doubt on the claims by the two women.</p> <p align="justify"> Ardin now asserts that Assange has a “warped view of womanhood and can’t take no for an answer.” Yet by all accounts their sexual encounter was consensual, although apparently the condom split. Still, the two appeared to be on friendly terms at the meeting the next day. That same day Ardin twice posted “tweets” on her accounts gushing about “Julian” and a party she threw for him, telling the world at 2 a.m. that she was “with the world’s coolest smartest people, it’s amazing.” Later, when she went to the police she deleted the tweets from one account, but forgot another. In any case, cybersleuths retrieved them from the Google cache.<sup>1</sup></p> <p align="justify"> The second woman admits that she actively pursued Assange, landing an invitation to the meeting, sitting in the front row, hanging around afterward like a groupie to get invited to dinner, calling him repeatedly for two days, then taking him home where they had sex in the evening, and again in the morning, first with a condom then without. They parted amicably. She asked Assange if he would call again, he says he would. But two days later when he didn’t, she called Ardin to say she was worried about getting pregnant or a sexually transmitted disease. Earlier both women sent out text messages that police describe as “exculpatory” toward Assange. Now the two text each other about going to the scandal sheet <em>Expressen</em> to get back at him.</p> <p align="justify"> Then they go to the police. The second woman tells police that Assange “had sex with her against her wishes” while she was asleep. Ardin now tells the police that Assange “deliberately” ripped the condom during their sexual encounter. The police officer and prosecutor on duty classify the former as rape, the latter as sexual molestation, and open an investigation (only to have it dropped in 24 hours, and then suspiciously reopened weeks later). Details of the case are immediately leaked. Editors are tipped off, top reporters are called in the middle of the night to hop on the story. By the next morning it is splashed across the pages of Sweden’s tabloid press. Within a day the news is shot around the world via the Internet.</p> <p align="justify"> That there was calculation here seems clear. Ardin’s deletion of the “tweets” from her blogs looks like an effort to make her story more plausible. Call it cover-up. The fact that the women don’t make a formal complaint and let the police do it shows that the Uppsala gender equity officer knows how the law works. Is there more to it? On her blog, Ardin has posted a “Seven-Step Program for Getting Revenge,” for women whose boyfriends have been unfaithful. Step 7: “Ensure that your victim will suffer the same way he made you suffer.” That much they have achieved, whether it’s what they were after or not: Assange is certainly suffering now.</p> <p align="justify"> Assange is accused of (but not yet charged with) rape, sexual molestation, and molestation. Rape is an extremely serious crime, overwhelmingly against women, involving violence and coercion. For centuries, women have been intimidated from bringing charges of rape, fearing that they will be subjected to humiliation, or far worse persecution (as in U.S.-occupied Afghanistan, where a woman who has been raped can be stoned to death for her “sin”). However, under Swedish law, a complaint of sex without a condom can be the basis for a charge of rape – of the lowest of three categories, which is what is alleged against Assange (but which still carries a sentence of up to four years in jail). This trivializes the horrible nature of this crime. And as spokesman for the British group Woman Against Rape wrote to the <em>Guardian </em>(9 December):</p> <blockquote> “Many women in both Sweden and Britain will wonder at the unusual zeal with which Julian Assange is being pursued for rape allegations…. Though Sweden has the highest per capita number of reported rapes in Europe and these have quadrupled in the last 20 years, conviction rates have decreased…. In 2006 six people were convicted of rape though almost 4,000 people were reported….<br /><br />“There is a long tradition of the use of rape and sexual assault for political agendas that have nothing to do with women’s safety. In the south of the US, the lynching of black men was often justified on grounds that they had raped [the Scottsboro Boys] or even looked [Emmett Till] at a white woman. Women don't take kindly to our demand for safety being misused, while rape continues to be neglected at best or protected at worst.”</blockquote> <p align="justify"> Criminal cases involving sex are notoriously difficult and messy (often no witnesses, complex relations between the individuals). However, in this case it is evident that <em>there was no violence or coercion</em>. None has been alleged, and whatever they may have felt afterwards, indications are the sex was consensual at the time. Add to this the judicial mishandling of the case: immediately leaking it to the press, switching prosecutors in order to reinstate the investigation, refusing to meet with Assange, then demanding his extradition. Throw in a connection with intelligence agencies, and Cold War anti-Communist connections via Swedish social democracy. Plus the overriding determination of the U.S. empire to strike back at, and shut down, WikiLeaks.</p> <p align="justify"> The conclusion can only be that <em>Julian Assange is the victim of a political frame-up</em>. The purpose of that frame-up: to staunch the flow of information about imperialism’s crimes and machinations.</p> <p align="justify"> Was it a “honey trap”? Was it two women who felt they had been wronged getting “revenge”? We don’t know. At the very least, the two are being used by sinister forces who will use any excuse to nail the founder of WikiLeaks: start by defaming him, and go from there.</p> <p align="justify"> Julian Assange is not guilty of rape, but there is plenty of serious criminality here. There have been highly publicized death threats against the WikiLeaks founder. A former aide to Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper, Tom Flanagan, said on CBC Television that “Assange should be assassinated.” Former Nixon staffer and convicted Watergate criminal G. Gordon Liddy says that Assange should be put on a “kill list.” Conservative pundit William Kristol calls to “neutralize Assange and his collaborators.” Another, Jonah Goldberg, asks “Why isn’t Julian Assange dead?” A <em>Washington Times</em> columnist calls to “treat Mr Assange the same way as other high-value terrorist targets: Kill him.”</p> <p align="justify"> People who make such death threats should be behind bars. They would be if they made them against top capitalist politicians. But they won’t be when they are made against the man who is No. 1 on the Obama administration’s “enemies list.” Moreover, while liberal luminaries headed up by Noam Chomsky are circulating an open letter to Australian prime minister Julian Gillard citing these threats by vicariously murderous conservatives, <em>the real danger to Assange comes from the liberal Democrats now wielding state power in the U.S.</em> – and from their “lick-spittle” social-democratic allies, and partners in war crimes in Afghanistan, from Australian Labor Party to Swedish social democracy.</p> <p align="justify"> Assange is in potentially mortal danger. As the material published by WikiLeaks shows, and as he is well aware, the U.S. government is in the assassination business big time. It has multiple apparatuses to “terminate” opponents “with extreme prejudice,” as the Nixonians used to put it. Alexander Cockburn recently published excerpts from the CIA’s 1950s “how to” guide to pushing people out of windows. Then there was the Reagan administration’s illustrated Everyman’s Guide to “Selective Violence,” issued in Spanish for the Nicaraguan contras and subsequently translated into Arabic for use by Al Qaeda. Or the Bush administration’s secret Waterboarding for Dummies memos. One way or another, the masters of American imperialism would dearly like to “take out” the troublesome website’s founder and editor-in-chief.</p> <p align="justify"> The work that WikiLeaks has been doing has been useful in exposing a tiny proportion of the bloody crimes of U.S. rulers. But there should be no illusion that “leakers” from within the government will ever be able to show in all its horror what the imperialists are up to. For that, it will be necessary to carry out a revolution, as in October 1917 when the Russian workers seized power, and opened the archives and the dungeons of the tsarist autocracy. Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky was named Commissar for Foreign Affairs and proceeded to publish the secret treaties of the tsar and the other Great Powers. Only when U.S. imperialism is brought down by international socialist revolution will we be able to really delve into the vast secrets of Washington and Langley.</p> <p align="justify"> For now, it is urgent to demand that Assange be immediately freed and all charges against him be dropped, and that Bradley Manning be freed. They will be awarded their justly earned medals for uncommon valor, and the war criminals brought to justice, when the workers rule. ■</p> <hr align="left" size="1" width="33%"> <p align="justify"> <sup>1</sup> “Assange Case: Evidence Destroyed Over and Over Again,” <em>Radsoft</em>, 1 October.</p> <h2><span style="font-size:100%;"> Anna Ardin’s Gusano Connection</span></h2> <p align="justify"> It has been known for some time that Anna Ardin, one of the accusers against WikiLeaks founder Julian Asange, has been involved with counterrevolutionary anti-Castro dissidents in Cuba (see the article by Israel Shamir and Paul Bennett, “<a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/shamir09142010.html">Assange Besieged</a>,” <em>Counterpunch</em>, 14 September). Shamir and Bennett called attention to articles by Ardin denouncing the “dictator Fidel Castro,” which appeared on the website of the <em>Revista de Asignaturas Cubanas</em>,<sup>1</sup> a well-funded anti-Communist exile outfit based in Sweden which puts out a glossy magazine, <em>Misceláneas de Cuba</em>.</p> <p align="justify"> Ardin’s anti-Communist articles speculating about prospects for Cuba when the “dictator Fidel Castro” dies highlight the Corriente Socialista Democrática Cubana,<sup>2</sup> one of the numerous Cuban “dissident” groups bankrolled by the U.S. government. A main spokesman for the Corriente is Miami-based exile Orlando Patterson, who specializes is bashing the Cuban regime for racism.<sup>3</sup> The Corriente was founded in 1992 as an expression inside Cuba of the exile Cuban Democratic Platform (PDC) of Carlos Alberto Montaner<sup>4</sup>, a notorious CIA agent. In 2008, after several years of infighting in the tiny fragmented Cuban social-democrátic milieu, the Coordinadora founded the Acro Progresista.<sup>5</sup></p> <p align="justify"> Shamir and Bennet also report that:</p> <blockquote> “In Cuba she interacted with the feminist anti-Castro group <em>Las damas de blanco</em> (the Ladies in White). This group receives US government funds and the convicted anti-communist terrorist Luis Posada Carriles is a friend and supporter. Wikipedia quotes Hebe de Bonafini, president of the Argentine Madres de Plaza de Mayo as saying that ‘the so-called Ladies in White defend the terrorism of the United States’.”<sup>6</sup></blockquote> <p align="justify"> Now important new information has come to light. According to Juan Tamayo writing in the <em>Miami Herald</em> (8 December), “Ardin visited Cuba about four times between 2002 and 2006 as a representative of Swedish social democrats, said Manuel Cuesta Morua, head of Cuba's Arco Progresista, a social-democratic dissident group.” Her masters thesis, Tamayo reports, was on the subject, “The Cuban Multi-Party System. Is the democratic alternative really democratic and an alternative after the Castro regime?” What he doesn’t mention is that Ardin was expelled from Cuba for her activities with the pro-imperialist <em>gusanos</em> (worms).</p> <p align="justify"> While giving no political support to the Castro regime, which is introducing measures which greatly strengthen pro-capitalist tendencies, Trotskyists resolutely defend the bureaucratically deformed Cuban workers state against imperialism and internal counterrevolution, whether from such U.S.-funded “dissidents” or from within the bureaucracy. Cuban social democracy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the CIA, and those who aid it are doing the work of the Yankee imperialists.</p> <p align="justify"> Ardin is no babe in the woods. Four visits in four years, “as a representative of Sweish social democrats”: Ardin is up to her neck in the swamp of anti-Communist subversion in Cuba, and not just as a wide-eyed tourist. So much so that, according to the <em>Hearld </em>article, an annoyed Cuesta Morúa complained that she “wrongly alleged that some European funds for Cuban dissidents had been mishandled.” Question: How would she even know to make such an accusation, accurate or not? Answer: She was tasked to do so, she was acting as their control.</p> <p align="justify"> The main accuser of Julian Assange, is an anti-Communist social-democratic operative.</p> <hr align="left" size="1" width="33%"> <p> <sup>1</sup> For a Spanish translation of Ardin’s January 2005 articles, see <a href="http://www.miscelaneasdecuba.net/web/article.asp?artID=1277">http://www.miscelaneasdecuba.net/web/article.asp?artID=1277</a> and <a href="http://www.miscelaneasdecuba.net/web/article.asp?artID=1271">http://www.miscelaneasdecuba.net/web/article.asp?artID=1271</a>. </p> <p> <sup>2</sup> For information about the Corriente’s subversive activities in Cuba and ties to the U.S. embassy in Havana, see the book by Rosa Miriam Elizalde and Luis Báez, <em><a href="http://www.redandgreen.org/Cuba/Disidents/">The Dissidents</a></em> (Havana, 2003).</p> <p> <sup>3</sup> For a denunciation of U.S. government sponsorship of counterrevolutionary Cuban blacks, including Patterson and Carlos Moore, see the article by Esteban Morales Domínguez, “El tema racial y la subversión anticubana” in <em>La Jiribilla</em>, 8 September 2007.</p> <p> <sup>4</sup> Carlos Alberto Montaner, son of a major in the army of dictator Fulgencio Batista, was convicted in Cuba of terrorist action in 1962, and after escaping was selected by the CIA for training in Fort Benning, Georgia. He operates out of Madrid, posing as a “moderate” opposition to the Castro regime, more palatable to European social-democratic and liberal sensibilities. But his Cuban Democratic Platform (PDC) is bankrolled by the U.S. (via the National Endowment for Democracy) and he participates in various enterprises with the Cuban American National Foundation (FNCA) of hard-line <em>batistiano</em> exiles in Miami, including the RECE (Cuban Exile Representation). The notorious CIA terrorist Luis Posada Carriles is also part of the PDC.</p> <p> <sup>5</sup> In addition to the Corriente, the other main component of the Arco is the Coordinadora Social-Demócrata Cubana, an exile group even more closely associated with the CIA and one of the founding components of Montaner’s Democratic Platform.</p> <p> <sup>6</sup> Luis Posada Carriles is a Cuban-born terrorist and CIA agent who in 1963-64 was trained in sabotage and the use of explosives at the U.S. Army’s base at Fort Benning (the same period when Montaner was there). Operating out of Venezuela, he was responsible for – and convicted of – bombing a Cubana de Aviación airliner in October 1976, killing 73 people, including an entire sports team. After escaping from prison, in the 1980s, he was involved in the U.S.’ clandestine supply of arms to the Nicaraguan contras. In 1997 he organized a dozen bombings in Havana aimed at discouraging the tourist trade. In 2000, he was arrested in Panama with 200 pounds of explosives and convicted of attempting to assassinate Fidel Castro. Pardoned by Panama in 2004, he now lives comfortably, protected from deportation in the U.S., where he marches together with Cuban American pop singer Gloria Estefan in Miami demonstrations for the <em>damas de blanco</em>. The <em>damas</em> receive $1,500 a month from Rescate Jurídica [Legal Rescue], the foundation of Santiago Alvarez Fernández-Magriña, who is also Carillo Posadas’ financier (<em>Machetera</em>, 26 March 2010). Estefan’s father was a bodyguard for the dictator Batista.</p> <hr width="100%"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[snip]</span></span><a href="http://www.internationalist.org/"> from www.internationalist.org/</a></div> <p class="link"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">end of repost here</span></span><br /></span></p><p class="link"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-341108851310463079.post-76749855581577136052010-12-15T08:29:00.000-08:002010-12-15T09:29:39.509-08:00HURRAY for courageous Wikileakers and more coming !<div>see article as it appears also in<br /><br /><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://la.indymedia.org/news/2010/12/243343.php"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1292430576_0">http://la.indymedia.org/news/2010/12/243343.php</span></a></div> <div><br /><br /><a rel="nofollow" name="243343"><strong class="yiv1805984966heading"><span></span></strong></a>by MARY JANIE <em>Thursday, Dec. 09, 2010 at 4:12 PM</em><br /></div> <blockquote class="yiv1805984966summary">Wki-leaks has done what many of us wish we could...<br /><br />OPEN UP THE WORLD OF misinformation, lies, deceits, manipulations, fake diplomacy, propaganda and allllll that is spoken, written that is "not in our name" appropriate. Wow, some of us are very impressed and want these computer workers SUPPORTED, complimented, helped, and given any and every service or help we can each offer...<br /><br />to keep them doing the good work they have been so dedicated to providing to all "the people" including "the American People" too... good ! work ! help protect and increase Free Speech as exposure is not intended to harm but REVEAL what is being done for us that is hurtful and against most of us. </blockquote> <p class="yiv1805984966media"> </p><div class="yiv1805984966article troll0">This attempt at FREEING information from those who claim power because they can secret information, emails, disinformation and all manipulative propaganda pulls out my full admiration for all who work at WIKILEAKS.<br /><br />see <span style="font-weight: bold;">Reuters</span> article on this at :<br /><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.reuters.com/subjects/wikileaks"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1292430576_1">http://www.reuters.com/subjects/wikileaks</span></a><br />for example "Analysis: WikiLeaks battle a new amateur face of cyber war?"<br /><br />also see <span style="font-weight: bold;">Amy Goodma</span>n's website for transcripts of interview with Assange and updates<br /><br />see<span style="font-weight: bold;"> KPCC, KPFK, BBC</span> and other sites also for more updates as they keep shifting and turning and exposing the fears aroused in those who thought they were the only authorities !<br /><br /><br />The individual characters or personal motivations for rebelling against the opaque and guarded stories, the perpetual lies, the twisted talk, the never-answering- directly-nor-clearly...the people's own personal perfections is not what is important<br /><br />but the goal to <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">FREE </span>the truth from those who personally secretly benefit only themselves and their kin is commendable.<br /><br />The power to do whatever it takes w/o physical human/ animal/plant violence is a new twist in our 'current affairs' ...as the nation-state govts prefer "WAR" and killings, maimings, destruction to helping us all make choices over our own lives and futures.<br /><br />The cyber challenges are not "WAR" as it actually exists in so many places for so many eras...that is the name preferred by those who profit and gain by actual war tactics and the losses of others. Why do drama kings like to always use words like "battle" and "war" instead of more accurate meaningful words...just to get a rise that they cant get otherwise ? huh?<br /><br />The "amateur" label is diminishing but not accurate either. Professional is not by degrees, titles, wealth, purchases or length of knowledge but by ABILITY to perform well, with damaging others in the process.<br /><br />Professional is not a description "given" by another hoarding authority but by proof that anyone can perform well, as well as those who want to claim the only privileges of being top and competent only for themselves.<br /><br />The hackers [bad choice of words again,] are computer experts who are not employed by the usual corporations, tho some may be, and the people who KNOW HOW TO DO WHAT IS NECESSARY to share freedom of information and uncover the lies, deceits, cover-ups, withholding and mis-use of surveillance-gained private information are our heroes [male and female[.<br /><br />And those who have 'other' professional expertise, as in law, in writing skills, in advertising manipulations used for POSITIVE instead of profit gains 'for the public' are also included in those who have not joined ranks with Wikileaks.<br /><br />Finally an act of courage, a risk to face those who claim ownership of us all and our information [that is suppose to be 'ours' nit no longer so. Those who have the POWER to DEFINE or label us, anyone, can twist, turn, change or control those they word-over.<br /><br />They claim authority. But when more of the people, of any nation-state-tribe, can claim to KNOW their own names, terms, acts, and where their money is spent...aha...that is a new world, not a new 'order' but a clever chaos that can now provide more options and choices to all<br /><br />even those who cannot yet 'read' or get on 'internet' but are equally affected by what those who write can do to take from them too.<br /><br />welcome to a New World, with less of the Old Ordered by limited so-owned authorities who hoard so much for themselves alone, including information about us and that affects us alllllll...<br /><br />yeah !<br /><br />and P S how many fancy long-termed elected USA & other officials have been in 'sex' scandals and continued to keep their lobby-paid positions anyhow?<br /><br /></div> <p class="yiv1805984966link"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://maryjanie.wordpress.com/"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1292430576_2">maryjanie.wordpress.com/</span></a></p><p class="yiv1805984966link"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://maryjanie.wordpress.com/"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1292430576_2"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(C) maryjanie 2010</span></span></a></p><p class="yiv1805984966link"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://maryjanie.wordpress.com/"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1292430576_2"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span><br /></span></a> </p><div> </div> <div>and a serious COMMENT on another <span style="font-weight: bold;">Wikileaks </span>article there also:<br /></div> <div> </div> <h1><a rel="nofollow" name="243344"><strong class="yiv1805984966heading">terrific info ! thanks <span style="font-size:85%;">[for a listing of many cables and sites to access the revealed information made available by Wikileaks many cohorts/ workers/helpers]</span><br /></strong></a></h1> <div>by mary janie <em>Thursday, Dec. 09, 2010 at 4:30 PM</em><br /></div> <p class="yiv1805984966media"> </p><div class="yiv1805984966article troll0">More people need to stop being passive NOW<br />when courageous writers and supporters of FREE SPEECH<br /><br />take tactiction, tactics+action with daring and expertise<br />that encourages the rest of us humble writers to do something<br /><br />it could be anything helpful<br />BE SUPPORTIVE if you believe in what is claimed as free country with free speech as ideals not yet delivered...<br /><br />share whatever professional or work expertise you can do<br /><br />help the attorneys<br /><br />the computer experts<br /><br />the funders<br /><br />the media that elsewhere needs to hear your supportive Comments ON blogs, or in media articles on Wikileaks<br /><br />call your friends and tell them to learn more about what is changing [finally 1 more piece] of their old world [orders]<br /><br />help children do school assignments covering current news topic everyone else is talking about<br /><br />give articles and sites to friends in emails, by sending a nice helpful card reminding them that we are all in this together and no one gets out alive either !<br /><br />promote the parts you appreciate and discard the parts you dont, but share and contribute to the EXPOSURE that is now newly possible<br /><br />and whatever else DO NOT FEAR because the fear mongers are out in full force with threats, accusations, blaming, and twisting stories, even encouraging someone "else" to do murder and assassinations for them !<br /><br />what does this tell you about who and what we are now ??<br />yep<br /><br />e=volve<br />for a while<br />ex=pose<br />and stop pretending denial is so convenient and safe.<br />it no longer is<br />has not been for a long time<br /><br />LEARN<br />LISTEN<br />SHARE<br />SUPPORT<br />if you can or dare<br /><br /><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://maryjanie.wordpress.com/"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1292430576_2"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(C) maryjanie 2010</span></span></a><br /><br /></div> <div class="yiv1805984966article troll0">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div> <div class="yiv1805984966article troll0">and <strong>2nd comment</strong> at same site <strong><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);"><br /><br /></span></strong></div> <div class="yiv1805984966article troll0"> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://la.indymedia.org/comment.php?top_id=243323"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1292430576_3">http://la.indymedia.org/comment.php?top_id=243323</span></a></div> <div class="yiv1805984966article troll0"> <h1><a rel="nofollow" name="243358"><strong class="yiv1805984966heading"><span style="font-size:100%;">WHEN SUSPICION REIGNS nothing else can ever be done good enough...</span></strong></a></h1><span style="font-size:100%;">by <strong><span style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);">mary janie </span></strong><em><strong><span style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);">Friday, Dec. 10, 2010 </span></strong>at 3:09 PM</em></span><br /></div> <div class="yiv1805984966article troll0"> </div> <div class="yiv1805984966article troll0"> </div> <div class="yiv1805984966article troll0">While paranoid suspicious cynical thinking and comments sound like some 'superior</div> <div class="yiv1805984966article troll0">minded' person has all the dismal answers, and can find every reason to find fault in every action or attempt to improve anything in this world or another<br /><br /></div> <div class="yiv1805984966article troll0">these comments may be interesting, or even have a grain of truth but these comments are not the End of the Story nor the WHOLE TRUTH to be believed or relied upon either. </div> <div class="yiv1805984966article troll0"> </div> <div class="yiv1805984966article troll0">this "<em>it cant be done</em>" or "<em>it can never be improved</em>" or "<em>what is the use</em>, they already won / have control ...etc.etc.etc " =defeatist attitude are depressive's answer to their assumed POWER LESS NESS.<br /><br /></div> <div class="yiv1805984966article troll0"> </div> <div class="yiv1805984966article troll0">better to just die away than do anything is their solution WRONG...again...for others who want every change, every chaos, every action to count, no matter which "side" exerts the effort </div> <div class="yiv1805984966article troll0"> </div> <div class="yiv1805984966article troll0">such phenomena as "unintended consequences" , unpredictable experiments, trial and errors, and every action may have a unexpected re-action are daily occurrences that do not give "hope" but provide assurance than the plans of any human is highly flawed and many dont like to admit these facts of daily life.<br /><br /></div> <div class="yiv1805984966article troll0"> </div> <div class="yiv1805984966article troll0">so <strong>Wikileaks</strong> is maybe partly at attempt to CONFRONT powers that think <u>they</u> hold all the secrets, power, and ties and negotiations...or is also infiltrated by CIA types of any nation-state spies [too many movies contaminate clear thinking you know ] ....and everything anyone does may be surveiled and kept as nanodata somewhere but so what ?<br /><br /></div> <div class="yiv1805984966article troll0">Wikileaks did a commendable skill-full act and many are glad for this new opportunity to LEARN MORE.<br /><br /></div> <div class="yiv1805984966article troll0"> </div> <div class="yiv1805984966article troll0">most people are not "serious researchers" and do not or did not have access to review info .. wikileaks just provided 'the masses'..which is us,,,, and the above commenter too...superior tho <u>"Friday" [<span style="font-style: italic;">another negative comment writer there</span>]</u> likes to apparently think of him/ or her self...<br /><br /></div> <div class="yiv1805984966article troll0">they are not...as worldly wiser than the rest of us...sorry to deflate that illusion. </div> <div class="yiv1805984966article troll0"> </div> <div class="yiv1805984966article troll0">to berate and find fault is so easy and critics have sprouted like fruit flies all having now SOMETHING TO SAY TO MAKE THEMSELVES IMPORTANT on the backs of those who courageously shared info that was not publicly available before.<br /><br /></div> <div class="yiv1805984966article troll0"> </div> <div class="yiv1805984966article troll0">I hate that...the plagerizers, users, manipulators who use Wikileaks now to <em>pretend</em> they know more and better than anyone by being "<u>critic</u>".. because they could not and did not DO ANYTHING of value themselves ...abuse of headline news to provide PR for themselves ! ugh.</div> <div class="yiv1805984966article troll0"> </div> <div class="yiv1805984966article troll0">and sooooo many are daily 'commenting' as if they owned the store and were doing valued inventory...huh?<br /><br />and improving nothing nor providing any further useful information either !!!</div> <div class="yiv1805984966article troll0">oh well, such is the world of public words, even these... Wikileaks started this conversation and they get the credit, not the commentators, critics, fault-finders after them.</div> <div class="yiv1805984966article troll0"><br />we are all using info put on the backs of those who went before us with doing an act of Public Courage and Risk<br /><br /></div> <div class="yiv1805984966article troll0">and they are attempting to be useful to transparentize the obfuscative...<br />how's that for clarity ? Thank you to all work who work for more Open Public Clarity in government, finances, corporations of any kind, businesses, institutions, etc. All use the </div> <div class="yiv1805984966article troll0">secrecy clause to further themselves at "others" expense with hiding info.<br /><br /></div> <div class="yiv1805984966article troll0"> </div> <div class="yiv1805984966article troll0">So dont be warned by dooms attituded writers who want to berate all actions as not vital and as betrayals. Take action and Do More with what we've Got, so far, no matter who is imperfect, not 100% altruistic but still serves a function of providing what we had not had before....leaked info, withheld from The American People by their own paid-for representatives.</div> <div class="yiv1805984966article troll0"><br /><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://maryjanie.wordpress.com/"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1292430576_2"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(C) maryjanie 2010</span></span></a><br />==================================================================<br /></div> <div> </div> <div><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">see these </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:180%;" >links </span><span style="font-size:180%;">for more actual revealed updated information </span>=<br /><br />www.KPFK.org<br />www.BBC.co.uk<br />www.democracynow.org<br />www.la.indymedia.org<br />www.KPCC.org<br />www.Guardian.co.uk<br /><span class="f"><cite>www.<b>guardian</b>.co.uk/news/blog/<br /></cite></span><span class="f"><cite>www.<b>newyorker</b>.com/reporting/2010/06/.../100607fa_fact_khatchadourian</cite></span><br /><span class="f"><cite>/<b>wikileaks</b>-us-embassy-cables-live-updates<br /></cite></span><span class="f"><cite>ca.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idCATRE6BD6CI20101214<br /></cite></span><span class="f"><cite>www.truthdig.com/.../<b>wikileaks</b>_and_the_end_of_us_diplomacy_20101130/<br /></cite></span><span class="f"><cite>www.democracynow.org/.../the_new_pentagon_papers_<b>wikileaks</b>_releases</cite> </span><span class="f"><cite></cite><br /></span><span class="f"><cite>www.democracynow.org/.../noam_chomsky_<b>wikileaks</b>_cables_reveal_<wbr>profound</cite></span><span class="f"><cite>www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_<b>greenwald</b>/2010/03/.../<b>wikileaks<br /></b></cite></span><span class="f"><cite>www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_<b>greenwald</b>/2010/04/05/iraq</cite></span><span class="f"><cite></cite><br /></span><span class="f"><cite>www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_<b>greenwald</b>/2010/11/.../<b>wikileaks<br /></b></cite></span><span class="f"><cite>www.nytimes.com/2010/12/08/world/.../08<b>assange</b>.html</cite> </span><br /><span class="gl"><cite>CBS News</cite> - <a href="http://news.google.com/news/story?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&q=greenwald+wikileaks&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ncl=dF80wIr5__vVnZMhn0dGtrkvl3_3M&ei=SfEITejZOI-8sQPspdGcDg&sa=X&oi=news_result&ct=more-results&resnum=4&ved=0CCMQqgIwAw">530 related articles</a></span><br /><!--n--><!--m--><a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1210/Greenwald_quits_CREW_over_WikiLeaks.html?showall" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','','5','AFQjCNEzwtvYp0ktAeFyGtUvGYeoLabLwQ','VCMjyqcVFQRWR63gHP9xjA','0CCUQqQIwBA')"><em>Greenwald</em> quits CREW over <em>WikiLeaks</em></a> - <span class="gl"><cite>Politico (blog)</cite> - <a href="http://news.google.com/news/story?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&q=greenwald+wikileaks&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ncl=d5yBXV57UyTXnlM&ei=SfEITejZOI-8sQPspdGcDg&sa=X&oi=news_result&ct=more-results&resnum=5&ved=0CCYQqgIwBA">2 related articles</a><br /></span><span class="f"><cite>www.fair.org/index.php?page=4210<br />http://la.indymedia.org/news/hidden.php?id=243369<br /><br /></cite><br />while these voices may be more forthright than most others blasting & blaring the governments' cover up slants and attempts by the Powerful-now to hide from "The American People" and thus people of the Globe entirely what they chose to spin to their advantage.<br /><br />It is imperative that the <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">NEED TO KNOW</span> the truth or as close to it as is honestly possible to be, that censorship by those who hold media purse-strings and by those whose alliances create hidden collusions intended to profit those rich-powered-people[groups-ONLY at the cost of lives lost in wars, lives cost in unemployments, lives lost in lies, and worse.<br /><br />Please keep our country as <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">FREE</span> as is possible, uncensored and true to the ideals of both the founders of a nation that has grown into a spin-factory instead of led by honorable-intentioned people, not sooo long ago. The current USA population assumes erroneously that all being advertised is actual neutral "news" instead of propaganda intended to keep the powered in their elite positions of dominance and greed.<br /><br />Let the truths, all of the varieties of <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">TRUTH-S</span> there actually are, come OUT, be <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">REVEALED</span>, discussed, disputed, analyzed, commented upon, reviewed some more and not revised to fit any selected point of view or specially selected few who want to Run This Show...being re-elected to reigning government[s] and back into "big business" profiteers.<br /><br />Let us help keep this nation as honest, free and truth-full as is possible, never 100% but with so little being allowed to "leak" out to our public viewing, <span style="font-weight: bold;">it is now TIME TO EXPOSE</span> what has been so carefully hidden, misused and advertised as "t<span style="font-style: italic;">he whole truth and nothing but the trut</span>h" when it has NOT BEEN SO for sooo too long.</span><span class="f"><cite></cite></span><br />VS.<br />the<span style="font-style: italic;"> mass media</span> who are continually making-up slanted corporate-profitable claims that are= dramatized, ,<br />exaggeratedly threatened accusations ,<br />making illegally & politically misinformed claims of revenge,<br />attempting to patronize the humiliated governments & their fake diplomats,<br /><br /><span class="f"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">(C) mary janie 2010 </span></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-341108851310463079.post-28864725355861631582010-08-12T13:50:00.000-07:002010-08-12T14:13:04.771-07:00How come banks are still overcharging while pretending to be 'reformed' ?<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:85%;">More news that needs to be repeated and seen, this one refers to only one MORE bank doing whatever they can for profits regardless of the costs in public confidence or trust of their customers, as they lose them to their greedy schemes to once more 'game' The American Public.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Must be that bank officials and owners think of the customer public as "stupid" enough and illiterate to keep on agreeing to their continual unethical maneuvers and newly created ways to CHARGE MORE in fees and take away prior promises of 'good services'.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><span style=";font-family:lucida grande;font-size:85%;" >Each bank or financial institution that plays these games AGAINST it's own earning-base, the customers that utilize their services instead of another businesses' [yes, banks and other financial groups are all just businesses with same frauds, fake promises, small print almost-illegal charges,and almost no regulation by what we hoped was OUR government agencies.<br /><br /><br />Here is another example, one of many that are more often now coming to light and into the news and awareness of us all:<br /></span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Heard on NPR = <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">KPCC</span></span> radio </span>on <span style="font-weight: bold;">8/12/2010,</span> but also can be heard or read in their archives: <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Pat Morrison's <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">KPCC</span></span> Guest: Leslie Parrish, Senior Researcher "Center for Responsible Lending" [see this non-profit's site below too]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">http://www.responsiblelending.org/about-us/mission-history/</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:85%;">re debit & overdraft fees their article in general:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> http://action.responsiblelending.org/site/PageServer?pagename=overdraft</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <span style=";font-family:lucida grande;font-size:85%;" >and this org. just <b>commended Bank of America</b> for stopping this unethical over charging customers that other banks do ...like Chase definitely does ! = see<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">http://www.responsiblelending.org/media-center/press-releases/archives/<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"> CRL</span></span>-Applauds-Bank-of-America-s- Decision-to-Stop.html<br /><br /><br /></span> [and yet....see a comment copied below about B of A doing this same charging anyhow from an individual writing <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">KPCC</span></span> blog ]and for more of<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"> KPCC's</span></span> other people's comments are also located on this page=<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">http://www.scpr.org/programs/patt-morrison/2010/08/11/well-well-well-<br />wells-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">fargo</span></span>-ordered-to-pay-203<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">milli</span></span>/</span><br /><br /><br /><i>[this is a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">reposting</span></span> of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">KPPC's</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">pgrm</span></span> description :]</i><br /><br />"Searching for another reason to hate banks? How about Wells Fargo racking in $1.8 billion in overdraft fees? Rather than charging for bounced checks, the bank allowed customers to overspend their funds and tacked on hundreds of dollars in fees by manipulating the transactions from largest to smallest. A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that Wells Fargo owes its <st1:state><st1:place>California</st1:place></st1:state> customers $203 million, spearheading the way for federal laws regulating overdraft fees. But what does this mean for the other banks being sued for playing this same dirty game?"<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">[a comment found on <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">KPCC</span></span> page]=<br /><br /></span> by Cara "My experience is most banks utilize this manipulative practice. It is certainly the case with <u>Bank of America</u> and I am wondering why Wells Fargo has been singled out regarding this illegal practice? As a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">B of</span> A customer, I utilize their on-line banking system and have had occasion to print the transaction page that includes your account balance with each transaction. Only to look on-line the following day (typically in the morning) to find each of the transactions from the previous day were re-ordered and paid differently - the final balance would be the same but the per transaction balance was different due to the re-ordering. If a customer has miscalculated at any point, the reordering of the transactions can create multiple overdrafts and the bank assesses fees accordingly. Why is only Wells penalized for this practice?"<br /><br /><br />[<span style="font-style: italic;">another comment says ]:<br /></span><u>"Because the bank enters debits before credits, I got hit with NSF charges</u> which takes an act of Congress to get reversed."<br /><br /><br />Lots of other comments commend the CREDIT UNIONS vs. big banks...or prefer smaller banks that treat them less egregiously.<br /><br />see <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">KPCC's</span></span> site for other people's comments later or listen in today at about <st1:time minute="0" hour="13">1 pm to </st1:time> 89.3 FM..my favorite radio station...<br /><br /><br />surely Well Fargo bank is not the only bank doing this almost-<span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">fraudulent</span> charging for what is not needed to prevent extra fees being charged.... and yes, other banks have "offered" and even pushed for getting consent to <u>overdraft protections</u> to better LINE THEIR POCKETS unnecessarily, as investigative reporters have now told us...because we <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">don't</span> even Understand the fine print...being as it is confusing and hard to read, most in <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">legalese</span> instead of plain English, done deliberating !!!<br /><br /><br /><b>"No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly. When we know this we become free. FEAR is always an anticipation of what has NOT yet come. GREED & FEAR are our national Pass-times.<br /><br /><br /></b></span><span style=";font-family:lucida grande;font-size:85%;" >(c) <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">maryjanie</span></span> 2010 </span><span style=";font-family:lucida grande;font-size:85%;" ><b> </b></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-341108851310463079.post-27889030319759652662010-07-30T10:42:00.000-07:002010-07-30T11:09:08.816-07:00Before "DEATH" it is time to plan, act, learn, help ....<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This information for <span style="font-family: lucida grande;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">those who may need to be more responsible and take control over the life they have left</span> </span>this information is a doctor who talks openly and describes <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">un-discussed</span> topics well. He is well interviewed by best NPR person - <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Terry Gross</span> and has written both an article in the New Yorker [august 2 2010] and a book too.<br /><br /> Here we have googled to get info, so select what you may <span style="font-weight: bold;">want to share</span> with anyone...even <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">if they</span> are not [yet] terminal but even with having any serious illness, cancer, old age.. No one ever knows how 'terminal' they are, or when their death-day emerges, suddenly sometimes, slowly at others.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />It is much better to be aware, be prepared and become in charge - as best one can be. Before guilty-fearful-conformist relatives or the state government takes control and then <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">it is</span> too late to make one's one choices. <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Choice </span>is our word for "<span style="font-weight: bold;">free will</span>" too. As much as can be had at any given moment....<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <br />Do others a Favor too ! Share this information as you see appropriate. The actions taken and<br />the rest is <span style="font-style: italic;">up to each individual to take </span>care of how they live or mess up the rest of what time is left<br /><br />see<br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> http://www.google.com/search?q=Dr.+Atul+</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Dr.+<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Atul</span>+<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Gawande</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-style: italic;">%3A+Make+End+Of+Life+More+<br />Humane+&start=0&<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">ie</span>=<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">utf</span>-8&<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">oe</span>=<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">utf</span>-8&client=<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">firefox</span>-a&<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">rls</span>=org.<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">mozilla</span>:en-US:official</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">and</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> http://www.scpr.org/news/2010/07/29/dr-atul-gawande-make-end-of-life-more-<br />humane/?<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">utm</span>_source=<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">feedburner</span>&<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">utm</span>_medium=feed&<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">utm</span>_campaign=Feed%3A+<br />893<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">KpccSouthernCaliforniaNews</span>+%28<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">KPCC</span>%3A+News%29<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">which describes the interview briefly in printed words<br /><br />and to see </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Dr. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">Atul</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">Gawande's</span> </span>words in an</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> article, which may be on-line later :"his article <span style="font-weight: bold;">"</span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/02/100802fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=all">Letting Go</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">" i</span>n the <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Aug. 2</span> <i><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">2010 New Yorker</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> magazine. </span> [You can also have your own hard copy by buying the magazine or a subscription]</i><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[a related but side issue was also noted on <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">KPCC</span> radio page:]<br /><a href="http://www.scpr.org/news/2010/01/01/montana-3rd-state-allow-doctor-assisted-suicide/">Montana 3rd state to allow doctor-assisted suicide (1/1/10) <br /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />Too bad CALIFORNIA was too scared though there were <span style="font-weight: bold;">45%</span> of voters who said <span style="font-style: italic;">yes </span>years ago when it was a proposition here..... but now we <span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22">don't</span> </span>allow assistance to those who want to end their suffering with rational legal help.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">They have to do it alone or lose control over the dignity of their own death. There is a site in Switzerland that was on PBS <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23">Frontline</span> called "<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24">Dignitas</span>" that considers and may assist a person who travels there for help in leaving this life with their own rational choices confirmed and honored.<br /><br />We all know people who need assistance from those COURAGEOUS enough to face and talk about life and death OPENLY....vs. the usual common social <span style="font-style: italic;">taboos </span>& fears and PC limitations to talking about what is so unwanted, feared, denied and made to seem and be much worse than need be...</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[you may want to also see Becker's "<span style="font-style: italic;">Denial of Death</span>" and the many books by Elizabeth <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25">Kubler</span>-Ross ....as well as books more recently written describing Hospice & Palliative care too...available at your local library, bookstore or on-line ....and become educated....to help those you love and care for and yourself as well.]<br /><br /> <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We presume you, READER, are also one of these who Dare to Know and Act Honestly too , of course !<br /> <!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--><br /> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p> <b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">"No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly.<br />When we kn ow this we become free. FEAR is always an anticipation of what has NOT yet come.<br />GREED & FEAR are our national Pass-times.<br /><br />(c) <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26">Maryjanie</span> 2010<br /></span></b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-341108851310463079.post-13128772205256711642010-07-29T14:59:00.000-07:002010-07-29T15:00:00.886-07:00WIKILEAKS needs every thinking person's SUPPORT pleaseTo hear more info than on mass-media-abbreviated-censored-News, you may want to listen on line elsewhere too, to hear more and more thorough info and details that are 'over-looked' elsewhere..... like at :<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.democracynow.org/"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280436265_0">http://www.democracynow.org/</span></a><br /></span><br />and see their transcript pages for slower-absorbing what has been said also<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Amy Goodman</span> interviews people we dint hear about elsewhere much like real hackers or other reporters from the Guardian and other 2 newspapers who agreed to expose <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">WIKILEAKS</span> info at same time all together to validate<br />or at least EXPOSE the info ...<br /><br />before other sources shut them down or try to invalidate all that is 'not relevant' or 'too dangerous ' or ' government-owned' aka censored and controlled general information that the American Public 'should not know" because we are too dumb, violent, stupid, and in debt over our heads so we cant think straight either.....duh<br /><br />and one of the hack experts on radio here spoke about their hacker magazine and conference, some of which info may be found on these websites, if you want to <span style="font-weight: bold;">know MORE.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.google.com/search?q=hackers+2600+conference&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280436265_1">http://www.google.com/search?q=hackers+2600+conference&start=0&<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">ie</span>=<span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">utf</span></span>-8&<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">oe</span>=<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">utf</span>-8&client=<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">firefox</span>-a&<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">rls</span>=org.<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">mozilla</span>:en-US:official</span></a></span></span><br /><br /></span>The interviewee was named after a "<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">1984 " </span><span style="font-style: italic;">character</span>' who was called "<span style="font-style: italic;"> an enemy of the people</span> but actually was a fictitious person = a creation of the government" instead. We may need to re-read that very old 'novel' so relevant in parts for today.<br /><br />there were key words mentioned that caught my attention : like<span style="font-style: italic;"> "I am not an informant but a witness"</span><br /><br />"<span style="font-style: italic;"> we <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">didnt</span> keep logs of sources or records, so cannot be reviewed or turned over when a legitimate warrant is issued for exposing those who contribute information and their <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">IP</span> addresses cannot be retrieved...</span>." while still researching the validity and legitimacy of the info rec'd, too.<br /><br />and that <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Wikileaks</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>" <span style="font-style: italic;">is not 1 person but an unknown number of people all around the globe... with servers all over the world.</span>.."<br /><br />[ and thus remain <span style="font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline;">out </span>of the hands of those who want to censor, control information, restrict "freedom" of speech or the Internet too, imprison those who dint obey all the establishment's created rules, and....more ...]<br /><br />so who is a <span style="text-decoration: underline;">whistle blower </span>?<br /><br />a person who 'follows their own conscience" over the norm, or established orders by political groups ?<br /><br />Who is a <span style="font-style: italic;">critical </span>thinker ? One who <span style="font-style: italic;">explores </span>and seeks other answers than the one most often easily given...for the general <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">public's</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">consumption</span>...?<br /><br />Who is to be <span style="text-decoration: underline;">trusted </span>with they say, repeatedly, "<span style="font-style: italic;">THE TRUTH is..."</span> whatever they want to present....or "<span style="font-style: italic;">THE REAL STORY is.</span>.." which is usually whatever benefits them more than others ?<br /><br />As if only 1 truth and 1 reality exists that they will tell us what it is and we must believe them because they claim that power ? huh?<br /><br />How do we find out what else we are not entitled to know ? Because we are <span style="font-style: italic;">dumbed down</span> and thus <span style="font-style: italic;">dangerous </span>....to...whom ? and why ?<br /><br />The <span style="font-weight: bold;">courage</span>, daring and rebellious behaviors of this latest "leak" of what may be unnecessarily kept as "sensitive information" or are denied as having any "new " relevance to reduce their impact is actually a way to CREATE MORE FEAR and simultaneously DENY the cover ups excessively kept and done when Freedom of Information Act requests are denied or blacked out repeatedly for years and years.<br /><br />for <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">politicians</span> to claim that it is "old information only" to them, means they have read it all already and dismissed or used it ? but that "us" does not include all those who also have a<br />vital interest or even a family member in the military.....and that "us" do not know or have ACCESS to information that is being passed-off as "old" to them.<br /><br />How haughty and arrogant to claim the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">government</span> "OF THE PEOPLE" can always hide any and everything inconvenient or <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">embarrassing</span> to some .<br /><br />To pretend that any information The People also NEED TO KNOW and should <span style="font-style: italic;">not be open, transparent, available, or accessible</span> except to those Top Secret Security Cleared ONLY...is obviously a decision and judgement that needs to be <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">QUESTIONNED</span>...<br />again....and again... and again....<br /><br />Secrets are a way to insure POWER and CORRUPTIONS, as without Transparency any acts and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">subversions</span> can be hidden and done with impunity.<br /><br />Why is the little public person - who votes, pays taxes, obeys the laws, etc. - is so invaded intrusively for data mining daily ....and their whereabouts monitored by cameras, face identification info, ...with their DNA and more personal data kept but hidden....and when the big mega-organizations want to keep their intrusive acts and biases and all done Under Cover... for their own profit and power-gaining purposes, of course .<br /><br />What makes <span style="font-style: italic;">any </span>politician think the American People still <span style="font-weight: bold;">TRUST </span>them and their machinations, corruptions, unethical acts [repeated and unpunished too] are just going to say, OK, you do it all for me without my input or feedback or knowledge of what is being done "in my name". huh ?<br /><br />So as the debates continue, hopefully, more will act 'in their own ethical consciences' and not out of fear, threat, intimidation and extortion that surrounds each person...with a job, or a home, or anything of value they must protect, even a family.<br /><br />How can WE EACH SUPPORT OR INFORM OTHERS that we want to KNOW MORE..? Can we each write or call someone else to Support these actions of <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">Wikipedia</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>and others who INFORM us openly and freely, as opposed to the rules of "<span style="font-weight: bold;">obey</span>" and "<span style="font-style: italic;">hide</span>" and "<span style="font-style: italic;">do not discuss</span>"....<br /><br />and can we all let those who have done everyone else a favor by penetrating the hidden agendas of big businesses, corporations, governments [all plural and multiple] , can we thank them for this "news" .... by writing on blogs, emails, chatting and telling others that we want more TRANSPARENT people with powers over our lives and use of our taxes....<br /><br />that we want <span style="font-weight: bold;">more PARTICIPATION </span>in our governments' decisions and actions too<br /><br />that we want more AGREEING to <span style="font-style: italic;">our </span>opinions and input, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">i.e.</span> what the majority said about bank <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">bail-outs</span>, and war expenditures, or the spending of our money for their elections, unreasonable salaries and compensations.... <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">et</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22">al</span>....<br /><br />that we are those "<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">the American People"</span> they talk about - but they hardly listen to - unless we bribe them.... or obey 'them' ..... or follow the rules set by other powerful men with their affiliates ....as in this USA creating and having more <span style="text-decoration: underline;">wars</span>, more <span style="font-style: italic;">killing</span>, continued <span style="font-style: italic;">lying</span>, increased <span style="font-style: italic;">stealing</span>, secret <span style="font-style: italic;">colluding</span>, deliberately attacking, and <span style="font-style: italic;">taking </span>from any 'others' , and more and more <span style="font-style: italic;">hurting</span> of all humans on this planet too,.......plus all the rest of the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">damages </span>done to all living beings here on earth.<br /><br />Do you want to help create and allow more Freedom of Speech and More free flow of information to everyone who lives in this globally-connected planet ?<br /><br />or do you prefer personal 'safety' and 'security' holding on to the old stuff accumulated, as promised by those who wield the guns now and claim they are 'only working in our behalf',...of course . do you ?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">(c) <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23">maryjanie</span> 2010</span><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><br />- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);">from the google site above, there are many more pages for your EXPOSE and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24">learnings</span> also:</span><br /><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.2600.com/" class="yiv749179339l"><em>2600</em>: The <em>Hacker</em> Quarterly</a></span><ol><li class="yiv749179339g w0"><div class="yiv749179339s"><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>2600</em>: The <em>Hacker</em> Quarterly. Current issue: Summer 2010. NOW ON STANDS <b>...</b><em>CONFERENCE</em> <b>...</b><br /><span class="yiv749179339f"><cite><a target="_blank" href="http://www.2600.com/"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280436265_2"><span>www</span>.<b>2600</b>.com/</span></a></cite> - </span></span> FINAL CALL FOR SPEAKERS FOR THE NEXT HOPE </div></li><li class="yiv749179339g w0"><h3 class="yiv749179339r"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2600:_The_Hacker_Quarterly" class="yiv749179339l"><em>2600</em>: The <em>Hacker</em> Quarterly - <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25">Wikipedia</span>, the free encyclopedia</a></span></h3><span style="font-size:78%;"><button class="yiv749179339ws" title=""></button></span><div class="yiv749179339s"><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>2600</em> has established the H.O.P.E. (<em>Hackers</em> On Planet Earth) <em>conferences</em> as well as monthly meetings in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, <b>...</b><br /><span class="yiv749179339f"><cite><a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2600:_The_Hacker_Quarterly"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280436265_3">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<b>2600</b>:_The_<b>Hacker</b>_Quarterly</span></a></cite> - </span></span></div></li><li class="yiv749179339g w0" style="margin-left: 16px;"><h3 class="yiv749179339r hcw"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_security_conference" class="yiv749179339l"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280436265_4">Computer security <em>conference</em> - <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26">Wikipedia</span>, the free encyclopedia</span></a></span></h3><span style="font-size:78%;"><button class="yiv749179339ws" title=""></button></span><div class="yiv749179339s hc" id="yiv749179339mbb3"><span style="font-size:78%;">A <em>Hacker conference</em>, also known as <em>hacker</em> cons, is a term that describes a <b>...</b> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27">ToorCon</span>, San Diego <em>hacker</em> convention that emerged from the <em>2600</em> user group <b>...</b><br /><span class="yiv749179339f"><cite><a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_security_conference"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280436265_5">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_security_<b>conference</b></span></a></cite> - </span></span><div class="yiv749179339mbl"><div class="yiv749179339bl"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span class="yiv749179339ch" id="yiv749179339mbl3" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.google.com/search?q=hackers+2600+conference&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official#" class="yiv749179339mblink"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280436265_6">Show more results from en.wikipedia.org</span></a></span></span></div></div></div></li><li class="yiv749179339g w0"><h3 class="yiv749179339r"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://thenexthope.org/" class="yiv749179339l"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280436265_7">The Next HOPE, July 16-18, 2010</span></a></span></h3><span style="font-size:78%;"><button class="yiv749179339ws" title=""></button></span><div class="yiv749179339s"><span style="font-size:78%;">The <em>Hackers</em> on Planet Earth (HOPE) Conferences. <b>...</b> Beyond The Welding Hour and The Next Hope posters available for $25 at the <em>2600</em> store on the 18<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_28">th</span> floor. <b>...</b> we can connect with you on-site at the <em>conference</em> if your topic is selected <b>...</b><br /></span><span class="yiv749179339f"><span style="font-size:78%;"><cite><a target="_blank" href="http://thenexthope.org/"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280436265_8"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_29">thenexthope</span>.org/</span></a></cite> </span><span class="yiv749179339gl"><br /></span></span></div></li></ol>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-341108851310463079.post-26432478362096834182010-07-29T13:46:00.000-07:002010-07-29T14:04:07.183-07:00WIKILEAKS needs every thinking person's SUPPORT please !To hear more info than on mass-media-abbreviated-censored-News, you may want to listen on line elsewhere too, to hear more and more thorough info and details that are 'over-looked' elsewhere..... like at :<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.democracynow.org/"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280436265_0">http://www.democracynow.org/</span></a> </span><br />and see their transcript pages for slower-absorbing what has been said also<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Amy Goodman</span> interviews people we dint hear about elsewhere much like real hackers or other reporters from the Guardian and other 2 newspapers who agreed to expose Wikileaks info at same time all together to validate<br />or at least EXPOSE the info ...<br /><br />before other sources shut them down or try to invalidate all that is<br />'not relevant' or 'too dangerous ' or ' government-owned' aka censored<br />and controlled general information that the American Public 'should not know" because we are too dumb, violent, stupid, and in debt over our heads so we cant think straight either.....duh<br /><br />and one of the hack experts on radio here spoke about their hacker magazine and conference, some of which info may be found on these websites, if you want to <span style="font-weight: bold;">know MORE.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.google.com/search?q=hackers+2600+conference&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280436265_1">http://www.google.com/search?q=hackers+2600+conference&start=0&ie=<span>utf</span>-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official</span></a></span></span><br /><br /></span>The interviewee was named after a "<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">1984 " </span><span style="font-style: italic;">character</span>' who was called "<span style="font-style: italic;"> an enemy of the people</span> but actually was a fictitious person = a creation of the government" instead. We may need to re-read that very old 'novel' so relevant in parts for today!<br /><br />there were key words mentioned that caught my attention : like<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"I am not an informant but a witness"</span><br /><br />"<span style="font-style: italic;"> we didnt keep logs of sources or records, so cannot be reviewed or turned over when a legitimate warrant is issued for exposing those who contribute information and their IP addresses cannot be retrieved...</span>." while still researching the validity and legitimacy of the info rec'd, too.<br /><br />and that Wikileaks " <span style="font-style: italic;">is not 1 person but an unknown number of people all around the globe... with servers all over the world.</span>.."<br /><br />[ and thus remain <span style="font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline;">out </span>of the hands of those who want to censor, control information, restrict "freedom" of speech or the Internet too, imprison those who dint obey all the establishment's created rules, and....more ...]<br /><br />so who is a <span style="text-decoration: underline;">whistle blower </span>?<br /><br />a person who 'follows their own conscience" over the norm, or established orders by political groups ? <br /><br />Who is a <span style="font-style: italic;">critical </span>thinker ? One who <span style="font-style: italic;">explores </span>and seeks other answers than the one most often easily given...for the general public's <span style="font-style: italic;">consumption</span>...?<br /><br />Who is to be <span style="text-decoration: underline;">trusted </span>with they say, repeatedly, "<span style="font-style: italic;">THE TRUTH is..."</span> whatever they want to present....or "<span style="font-style: italic;">THE REAL STORY is.</span>.." which is usually whatever benefits them more than others ?<br /><br />As if only 1 truth and 1 reality exists that they will tell us what it is and we must believe them because they claim that power ? huh?<br /><br />How do we find out what else we are not entitled to know ? Because we are <span style="font-style: italic;">dumbed down</span> and thus <span style="font-style: italic;">dangerous </span>....to...whom ? and why ?<br /><br />The <span style="font-weight: bold;">courage</span>, daring and rebellious behaviors of this latest "leak" of what may be unnecessarily kept as "sensitive information" or are denied as having any "new " relevance to reduce their impact is actually a way to CREATE MORE FEAR and simultaneously DENY the cover ups excessively kept and done when Freedom of Information Act requests are denied or blacked out repeatedly for years and years.<br /><br />for polititians to claim that it is "old information only" to them, means they have read it all already and dismissed or used it ? but that "us" does not include all those who also have a<br />vital interest or even a family member in the military.....and that "us" do not know or have ACCESS to information that is being passed-off as "old" to them. <br /><br />How haughty and arrogant to claim the goverment "OF THE PEOPLE" can always hide any and everything inconvenient or embarassing to some ! <br /><br />To pretend that any information The People also NEED TO KNOW and should <span style="font-style: italic;">not be open, transparent, available, or accessible</span> except to those Top Secret Security Cleared ONLY...is obviously a decision and judgement that needs to be QUESTIONNED...<br />again....and again... and again....<br /><br />Secrets are a way to insure POWER and CORRUPTIONS, as without Transparency any acts and subversions can be hidden and done with impunity.<br /><br />Why is the little public person - who votes, pays taxes, obeys the laws, etc. - is so invaded intrusively for data mining daily ....and their whereabouts monitored by cameras, face identification info, ...with their DNA and more personal data kept but hidden....and when the big mega-organizations want to keep their intrusive acts and biases amd all done Under Cover... for their own profit and power-gaining purposes, of course ! <br /><br />What makes <span style="font-style: italic;">any </span>politician think the American People still <span style="font-weight: bold;">TRUST </span>them and their machinations, corruptions, unethical acts [repeated and unpunished too] are just going to say, OK, you do it all for me without my input or feedback or knowledge of what is being done "in my name". huh ? <br /><br />So as the debates continue, hopefully, more will act 'in their own ethical consciences' and not out of fear, threat, intimidation and extortion that surrounds each person...with a job, or a home, or anything of value they must protect, even a family.<br /><br />How can WE EACH SUPPORT OR INFORM OTHERS that we want to KNOW MORE..? Can we each write or call someone else to Support these actions of Wikipedia and others who INFORM us openly and freely, as opposed to the rules of "<span style="font-weight: bold;">obey</span>" and "<span style="font-style: italic;">hide</span>" and "<span style="font-style: italic;">do not discuss</span>"....<br /><br />and can we all let those who have done everyone else a favor by penetrating the hidden agendas of big businesses, corporations, governments [all plural and multiple] , can we thank them for this "news" .... by writing on blogs, emails, chatting and telling others that we want more TRANSPARENT people with powers over our lives and use of our taxes....<br /><br />that we want <span style="font-weight: bold;">more PARTICIPATION </span>in our governments' decisions and actions too<br /><br />that we want more AGREEING to <span style="font-style: italic;">our </span>opinions and input, ie what the majority said about bank baillouts, and war expenditures, or the spending of our money for their elections, unreasonable salaries and compensations.... et al....<br /><br />that we are those "<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">the American People"</span> they talk about - but they hardly listen to - unless we bribe them.... or obey 'them' ..... or follow the rules set by other powerful men with their affiliates ....as in this USA creating and having more <span style="text-decoration: underline;">wars</span>, more <span style="font-style: italic;">killing</span>, continued <span style="font-style: italic;">lying</span>, increased <span style="font-style: italic;">stealing</span>, secret <span style="font-style: italic;">colluding</span>, deliberately attacking, and <span style="font-style: italic;">taking </span>from any 'others' , and more and more <span style="font-style: italic;">hurting</span> of all humans on this planet too,.......plus all the rest of the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">damages </span>done to all living beings here on earth.<br /><br />Do you want to help create and allow more Freedom of Speech and More free flow of information to everyone who lives in this globally-connected planet ?<br /><br />or do you prefer personal 'safety' and 'security' holding on to the old stuff accumulated, as promised by those who wield the guns now and claim they are 'only working in our behalf',...of course ! do you ?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">(c) maryjanie 2010</span><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><br />- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);">from the google site above, there are many more pages for your EXPOSE and learnings also:</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.2600.com/" class="yiv749179339l"><em>2600</em>: The <em>Hacker</em> Quarterly</a></span><ol><li class="yiv749179339g w0"><div class="yiv749179339s"><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>2600</em>: The <em>Hacker</em> Quarterly. Current issue: Summer 2010. NOW ON STANDS! <b>...</b><em>CONFERENCE</em> <b>...</b><br /><span class="yiv749179339f"><cite><a target="_blank" href="http://www.2600.com/"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280436265_2"><span>www</span>.<b>2600</b>.com/</span></a></cite> - <span class="yiv749179339gl"></span></span></span> FINAL CALL FOR SPEAKERS FOR THE NEXT HOPE </div></li><li class="yiv749179339g w0"><h3 class="yiv749179339r"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2600:_The_Hacker_Quarterly" class="yiv749179339l"><em>2600</em>: The <em>Hacker</em> Quarterly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a></span></h3><span style="font-size:78%;"><button class="yiv749179339ws" title=""></button></span><div class="yiv749179339s"><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>2600</em> has established the H.O.P.E. (<em>Hackers</em> On Planet Earth) <em>conferences</em> as well as monthly meetings in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, <b>...</b><br /><span class="yiv749179339f"><cite><a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2600:_The_Hacker_Quarterly"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280436265_3">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<b>2600</b>:_The_<b>Hacker</b>_Quarterly</span></a></cite> - <span class="yiv749179339gl"></span></span></span></div></li><li class="yiv749179339g w0" style="margin-left: 16px;"><h3 class="yiv749179339r hcw"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_security_conference" class="yiv749179339l"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280436265_4">Computer security <em>conference</em> - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</span></a></span></h3><span style="font-size:78%;"><button class="yiv749179339ws" title=""></button></span><div class="yiv749179339s hc" id="yiv749179339mbb3"><span style="font-size:78%;">A <em>Hacker conference</em>, also known as <em>hacker</em> cons, is a term that describes a <b>...</b> ToorCon, San Diego <em>hacker</em> convention that emerged from the <em>2600</em> user group <b>...</b><br /><span class="yiv749179339f"><cite><a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_security_conference"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280436265_5">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_security_<b>conference</b></span></a></cite> - <span class="yiv749179339gl"></span></span></span><div class="yiv749179339mbl"><div class="yiv749179339bl"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span class="yiv749179339ch" id="yiv749179339mbl3" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.google.com/search?q=hackers+2600+conference&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official#" class="yiv749179339mblink"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280436265_6">Show more results from en.wikipedia.org</span></a></span></span></div></div><div style="padding-top: 0px;" id="yiv749179339mbf3"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span></span></span></div></div></li><li class="yiv749179339g w0"><h3 class="yiv749179339r"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://thenexthope.org/" class="yiv749179339l"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280436265_7">The Next HOPE, July 16-18, 2010</span></a></span></h3><span style="font-size:78%;"><button class="yiv749179339ws" title=""></button></span><div class="yiv749179339s"><span style="font-size:78%;">The <em>Hackers</em> on Planet Earth (HOPE) Conferences. <b>...</b> Beyond The Welding Hour and The Next Hope posters available for $25 at the <em>2600</em> store on the 18th floor. <b>...</b> we can connect with you on-site at the <em>conference</em> if your topic is selected <b>...</b><br /></span><span class="yiv749179339f"><span style="font-size:78%;"><cite><a target="_blank" href="http://thenexthope.org/"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1280436265_8">thenexthope.org/</span></a></cite> </span><span class="yiv749179339gl"><br /></span></span></div></li></ol>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-341108851310463079.post-70199904970707326062010-07-03T11:13:00.000-07:002010-07-03T11:37:44.978-07:00USA corruptions galore, take your pick and then do something else....<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwCGvcdEtOqnT4FUakjv2dujgJ-9ZEKNqYgwttK1isTgn0_c7wiBu21nstR_zHwCvaXh4DHhgCC7DgDdAPuubt5cEvQ4wGk4KSxw1tHsHZ5gmDRI_c-Y2yIK_yOKU5L-V-vMhDHDhrZw/s1600/BBC_police_getty126.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 126px; height: 71px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwCGvcdEtOqnT4FUakjv2dujgJ-9ZEKNqYgwttK1isTgn0_c7wiBu21nstR_zHwCvaXh4DHhgCC7DgDdAPuubt5cEvQ4wGk4KSxw1tHsHZ5gmDRI_c-Y2yIK_yOKU5L-V-vMhDHDhrZw/s320/BBC_police_getty126.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5489748143047144754" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTyqOnzHRn6AKBlWvwmS3oGYRbx3WUtQcyZAdMTaNb9K3iHHbooyJdyBXhFjbhlrlxt-oFnVLQOFNN12QeqexCZw5Gx71MeLcgYdEm-xnlJXuNDYGdntKlHzUELCLqec14rrON1gwVYA/s1600/BBC_police_getty126.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 126px; height: 71px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTyqOnzHRn6AKBlWvwmS3oGYRbx3WUtQcyZAdMTaNb9K3iHHbooyJdyBXhFjbhlrlxt-oFnVLQOFNN12QeqexCZw5Gx71MeLcgYdEm-xnlJXuNDYGdntKlHzUELCLqec14rrON1gwVYA/s320/BBC_police_getty126.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5489747908222780642" border="0" /></a><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="">Have you read about these political corruptions done in The American<br />People's" name?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>[<span style="font-style: italic;"> from a Move On org mailing</span>]</o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">You might have heard this: BP is so well connected in <st1:state><st1:place>Washington</st1:place></st1:state> that even after being cited for <i>760 different safety and environmental violations</i>, the company still got environmental waivers for the Deepwater Horizon rig that's now destroying the Gulf.<sup>1</sup><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">But BP's not alone in using its DC influence. Check out the list below of other companies' outrages—then pass it along. And be sure to sign our new Fight Washington Corruption Pledge to support 3 key measures that will protect our democracy from corporate lobbyists!<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139);"><a href="http://fightwashingtoncorruption.org/?id=21534-9179597-VTRYGGx" target="_blank"><br /></a></span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139);"><a href="http://fightwashingtoncorruption.org/?id=21534-9179597-VTRYGGx" target="_blank">http://fightwashingtoncorruption.org/?id=21534-9179597-VTRYGGx</a></span></u><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">1. <b>Exxon Mobil</b> made billions in profits, and yet paid not one dime in federal income taxes in 2009.<sup>2</sup><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">2. The 2005 energy bill had a little known provision, commonly called the <b>Halliburton's </b>Loophole, which exempted natural gas drilling from the Clean Water Act. <span style=""> </span>The result? <span style=""> </span>Water so contaminated that you can light it on fire.<sup>3</sup><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">3. <b>Massey Energy</b> was cited more than 2400 times for safety violations in its mines, but chose not to fix potentially lethal problems because low penalties meant it was cheaper to simply keep paying the fines. This spring, 29 miners were killed in an underground explosion at a Massey mine in West Virginia.<sup>4</sup><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">4. Michael Taylor was the FDA official who approved the use of <b>Monsanto</b>'s Bovine Growth Hormone in dairy cows (even though it's banned in most countries and linked to cancer). After approving it, he left the FDA—to work for Monsanto. Until last year, when he moved back to the government—as President Obama's "Food Safety Czar." No joke.<sup>5</sup><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">5. Internal <st1:city><st1:place><b>Toyota</b></st1:place></st1:city><b> </b>documents outline how the company was successful in limiting regulators actions in the recalls last year—saving hundreds of millions while the death toll continued to climb.<sup>6</sup><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">6. <b>GE</b> and its lobbyists—including 33 former government employees—have successfully lobbied Congress to override Defense Department requests to cancel a GE contract to work on a new engine for the Joint Strike Fighter jet. GE will need $2.9 billion to finish the project.<sup>7</sup> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">7. Top executives at 9 top banks including <b>Citibank, Bank of </b><st1:country-region><st1:place><b>America</b></st1:place></st1:country-region><b>, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley</b> paid themselves over $20 billion dollars in bonuses just weeks after taxpayers bailed them out to the tune of 700 billion dollars.<sup>8</sup><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">8. During the waning days of the Bush administration, officials responded to a long-term lobbying campain by pre-empting product liability lawsuits for dozens of whole industries. They bypassed Congress entirely and <b>rewrote rules ranging from seatbelt manufacturing regulations to prescription drug safety.</b><sup>9</sup><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">9. <span style="">Sunscreen manufacturers including <b>Johnson & Johnson</b> and <b>Schering-Plough, </b>in the interest of profits, are opposing an FDA proposal requiring full reporting on sunscreen labels. The <i>New York Times </i>just confirmed that current SPF ratings don't even measure sun rays that cause cancer.</span><sup>10</sup><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">10. <b>BP</b>—a company with a record of 760 drilling safety and environmental violations—was granted safety waivers in order to operate the deepwater drilling rig that ultimately created the worst environmental disaster in US history.<sup>1</sup><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Mad yet? Sign the pledge here and we'll pass your name on to your member of Congress, and ask them to Fight Washington Corruption too.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.fightwashingtoncorruption.org/?id=21534-9179597-VTRYGGx" target="_blank"><br /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.fightwashingtoncorruption.org/?id=21534-9179597-VTRYGGx" target="_blank">http://www.fightwashingtoncorruption.org/?id=21534-9179597-VTRYGGx</a><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">++++++++++++++++++++++<br /><span style="color: rgb(191, 0, 95);">repeated msg but important please:<o:p></o:p> PLEASE !<br />if you like to pass this forward or you can COPY & PASTE - whatever you wish to send further <span style=""></span>And remember<span style=""> </span>it’s better to send using "BCC" if to more than 1 person rather than the "TO" which spreads other's addresses into spam .</span><span style="color: rgb(191, 0, 95);">.... Thanx.<span style=""> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: rgb(191, 0, 95);">Privacy is important !<br />++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-style: italic;">You can use the Move On link above</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><b><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">or write or call any govt representative [if they DO represent you, that is ]<span style=""> </span>or just pass on info so everyone else also knows again what is actually GOING DOWN, not "on"... we need to remember how powerless we have been leveled down to ground and maybe need a POLITICAL revolution,<br />a revolt,<br />stand UP,<br />protest,<br />Inform everyone about what YOU know and think and learn<br />just do something instead of being depressed and silent<br />SILENT NO MORE !<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 255);"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(96, 191, 0);">so ,,,,make your own label pin, placard, business-like cards to distribute, or sign put on your front door and your car window [removable or corrected any time ]<br />any size and your OWN statement personal and political<br />WITHOUT FEAR OF RETALIATION, no shame nor embarrassment<br />just SAY IT ...whatever...we don’t have to agree or like each other<br />just respect our individual free speech<br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);">make this 4th celebration to EMPOWER YOURSELF<br />not be afraid, anxious, worried, scared, depressed<br />instead be ANGRY appropriately [didnt JC thoow down those monied tables somewhere and shout a bit at those he didnt agree with too ? be more like that or take a popular model and use it to do what YOU think can help<span style=""> </span>and make any positive CHANGES.</span><span style="color: rgb(96, 191, 0);"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 191);">and oh yes, forget "hope' and do "active movement" of any kind instead.<span style=""> </span>Every little bit, every word, every intention manifested helps a tiny bit.<br /><br />Remeber, you are never alone in what you want or think or do, tho you may not know or like those who may be allies anyhow.<br /><br />[and PRIVACY COUNTS so keep my address out of your own exhortations. ]<br /><br /></span><span style="color:red;">Make your own statements and motions and feel worthy and valuable and purposeful by doing something, anything other than being passive and complacent. <!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><b><span style="color:red;">And also.. be my com-patriot....care about what is done in your name and with your money...and let me know what you do and how we all can work and help EACH OTHER TOGETHER in any way, even if it is just reassurances, acceptance, and thanks.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><b><span style="color:red;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><b><span style="color:red;">Be radical, be bold, be couragous, be alive and dont let them get us down.<br /><br />yeah !<br />that's the spirit and symbolism of this 4th of July.<br />for real changes<br />participate<br />make it your own way<br />you count<br />us together<br />yeah ! <!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--> <!--[endif]--></span><span style="color: rgb(191, 0, 95);"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; margin-bottom: 12pt; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b>"</b><b><span style="font-size:10;">No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly. When we know this we become free. FEAR is always an anticipation of what has NOT yet come. FEAR is our gross national product & export</span>.</b><b><span style="font-size:10;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(64, 160, 255);"><br />"wherever you are is home, and earth is a sacred place"</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; margin-bottom: 12pt; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">{c} maryjanie 2010</p><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; margin-bottom: 12pt; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; margin-bottom: 12pt; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><br /><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; margin-bottom: 12pt; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-341108851310463079.post-53289804979045258542010-06-29T14:23:00.000-07:002010-06-29T14:51:54.255-07:00Voting is not getting the results we expect ed...hmmm<p class="ecxecxMsoNormal" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b>"Information about Gonorrhea Lectim=<br /></b></span></p><p class="ecxecxMsoNormal" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">[read aloud to pronounced it correctly </span>]<br /><br />The Center for Disease Control has issued a warning about a new virulent strain of this old disease. The disease is called "Gonorrhea Lectim." It's pronounced "<span style="font-style: italic;">Gonna re-elect 'em,</span>" and it is a terrible obamanation.<br /><br />The disease is contracted through dangerous and high risk behavior involving putting your cranium up your rectum. Many victims contracted it in 2008...but now most people, after having been infected for the past 1-2 years, are starting to realize how destructive this sickness is.<br /><br />It's sad because Gonorrhea Lectim is easily cured with a new drug just coming on the market called Votemout. You take the first dose in 2010 and the second dose in 2012 and simply don't engage in such behavior again; otherwise, it could become permanent and eventually wipe out all life as we know it.<br /><br />Several states are already on top of this, like Virginia and New Jersey , and apparently now Massachusetts , with many more seeing the writing on the wall.<br /><br />Please pass this important message on to all those bright folk you really care about" </span></p> <span style="font-size:100%;">- - - - - --<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">and these thoughts follow after what happens when we do vote or hope: </span><br /><br />Let us try not to catch the dis-ease called [<span style="font-style: italic;">illusionary</span>] "hope" with the continual cliches made as "promises" of cures - that then do not occur in real life & time, as they are </span><span style="font-size:100%;">only self-serving</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> words .<br /><br />There is no research to prove that "<span style="font-weight: bold;">hope</span>" provides any real actual events -<br />though it is known to be a pacifier that <span style="font-style: italic;">falsely reassures</span> all publics to "do nothing"- thus nothing is actually done to prevent another repeat of prior thievery, corruptions, lies, and more frauds. Including bailouts of the same people who create financial chaos for the many and profits for them few.<br /><br />If USA TODAY reports that 70-80% of American public is against bailouts and some of these have written their congress and govt, and yet....the bailouts sail right on thru with the secret consent of those who previously worked for those same money-rich-power-full corporations, what kind of OLIGARCHY are we denying we are in ?<br /><br />"Hope" as defined by politicians and thieves, is intended to pacify, to lull and to keep inert all dissent, revolt, or live actions. That means everyone with a differing opinion than they one that profits those few who OWN us all . This helps create the proper environment for more proliferation of more fraudulent acts that impoverish many and profit the powerful few. Again.<br /><br />and Again.<br /><br />and More.<br /><br />Again.<br /><br />what is going on here ? in this republic, democracy, voting with honest resolve .... what ?<br /><br /><br />Sorry, but the CDC and other health authorities have no information on how to discern all the political fake fronts with their dis-eases and 'agricultural policies' made by giant corporations- the fear mongering created by body diseases that again profit corporations, drug companies, animal feed and animal prison farms.<br /><br />The media helpfully disseminate all of their flapping faxes of P.R. to keep us in FEAR and afraid, and waiting for someone to tell us when and what we can eat, drink, think, and buy. Of course.<br /><br />The advertising from the same corporations that sell us stuff is used to sell us FEAR and anxiety and pills to quell those tremors. Most Media is owned and obligated to those who pay them to advertise and thus pay salaries. Reporting is repeating PR material faxed hourly everywhere.<br /><br />And excuses are made about any future disasters and more thefts. There is inadequate funding for more research in the area of voter acquiescence, pubic conformity, American dulled minds, and how USA politics interacts with those believing in <span style="font-style: italic;">hopeful </span>lies, once again.<br /><br />What is wrong here, in the "freest country in the whole world" ? hmmmm ?<br /><br />We 'the American People' vote and yet an 'electoral college' decides what we want ? Only 2 same-old same-ones choices allowed, more of the same only permitted.<br /><br />Political campaigns now more easily paid for by inhuman-like Corporations, that own us in all other ways as well ? Corporations are just humans in powered moneyed forms ? But they pay taxes at different than human rates and often are 'overseas' based so not even here at all ?<br /><br />Hope?<br /><br />for change that comes in tiny increments if at all, but promises repeat the same words we voters think we want. We want "hope" instead of truth. We demand illusions instead of actions. We are powerless and depressed already and realize we vote for nothing more than the same we had when we thought we had "hope" before.<br /><br />Sad.<br /><br />Sorry.<br /><br />Futile.<br /><br />Vote.<br /><br />and wonder....what went wrong when ?<br />hmmm....<br /><br />[c] 2010 maryjanie<br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-341108851310463079.post-1528192113777581902010-06-04T16:50:00.000-07:002010-06-04T17:01:03.607-07:00CA Assembley Passed Bill to eliminate free plastic bags<b style=""><span style="">CA Assembley Passed Bill to eliminate free plastic bags<o:p></o:p></span></b> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="">see latest article from LA Times online: <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style=""><span style="font-style: italic;">http://mobile.latimes.com/inf/infomo?view=page7&feed:a=latimes_1min&feed:c=localnews&feed:i=54078612</span><br /><br /><br />"Californians would no longer get plastic bags at supermarket check-out stands ...[snip]</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style=""> ....The hottest debate Wednesday was in the state Assembly, which voted 41 to 27 to pass a bill that would ban single-use plastic grocery bags — the first of its kind in the nation, according to lawmakers and environmentalists.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style=""> Shoppers would have to bring reusable bags to the store or pay at least 5 cents each for recycled paper bags at the checkout counter.</span><span style="">[snip]</span><br /><span style=""><br />Schwarzenegger has indicated<b> t</b>hat he would sign the bill, <span style="font-weight: bold;">AB 1998</span> by Assemblywoman <u>Julia Brownley (D-Santa Monica), </u>if it passes the Senate as expected. [snip]<br /><br />The measure was sponsored by </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="">Santa Monica</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style=""> group Heal the Bay.<br /><br />Cities including </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="">San Francisco</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style="">, </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="">Palo Alto</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style="">, </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="">Malibu</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style=""> and others across the country have already instituted such bans. "It's easier to have a statewide ban than it is to have to figure out how to operate city to city," said<u> Assembly Speaker John Pérez (D- </u></span><st1:city><st1:place><u><span style="">Los Angeles</span></u></st1:place></st1:City><u><span style="">).</span></u><span style=""><br /><br />The California Grocers Assn. has endorsed the ban [snip ] "<br /><br /><br />- - - - - - - - -</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style=""><span style="font-style: italic;">commentary:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="">[of course ! saves stores' money and they gain from paper bag sales now too ] </span><span style=""><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style=""> anything 'free' is called a luxury we cannot afford to get, so now pay 5c for paper bag or bring your own ?? huh? <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style=""> because some people think they are saving the environment from our REUSING plastic for leaky wet garbage in cans too ?<br /><br />The rest of the world is still free to smoke or use plastic bags, but not in </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="">California</span></st1:place></st1:State><span style=""> ...huh ?<br />Free choice to choke ourselves or recycle our products is removed by a govt paid for by whom?<br /><br />We may wonder who also PROFITS and gains from these 'bans'..even transfat oils...<br />good to label all foods, good to give information, teach people to read, help people to decide but NOT to decide FOR THEM...by govt decree...</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style=""> and some of us who thought we were 'liberal' before cannot agree to have others liberally remove OUR FREEDOM OF CHOICE as in small consumer items... and it is hard to liberally agree to have our liberty removed by those who do NOT represent us, when we vote regularly.<br /><br />what do you think of this ?<br />= = = = = = = = = = = = =<br /><br /><b><span style="color: red;">please WRITE your state senator and Assemblyperson too </span></b>and <b>just in 1 sentence </b>give your opinion, whatever it is YOU chose it to be. Or write them all, because Assembly is not the Senate tho the Gov wants this to pass for his own political reasons, not for our good, for His mostly.<br /><br />Some Points you may want to add:<br /><br />Remind them that we need waterproof plastic bags to RECYCLE for other uses, or purchasing them is another basic-living cost...<br /><br />that those who disregard & discard are probably the 10% for whom the 90% responsible recyclers are being asked to pay for now.<br /><br />Without input from voters, the Assembly has decided for us from lobbyists, even do-gooders, but those in richer </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="">Santa Monica</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style=""> that are NOT representative of </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="">California</span></st1:place></st1:State><span style=""> as a whole<br /><br />That we need proofs and surveys that show they asked the general public before taking this act and they do Not Represent US when they act on their own biases.<br /><br />With our common basic living is not lowered while our salaries & savings have diminished, every penny counts, even if govt officials have well-paying jobs and it is 'nothing' to them.<br /><br />Carrying bags everywhere is inconvenient & often insufficient when doing a full shopping trip. It is an additional burden to carry bags around all the time.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="">Those who manufacture those bags are winners, the consumers are losers now.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="">It's like another fee/ tax on us.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style=""><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> WRITE or CALL:<br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style=""><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span><span style="">CA Senators from wiki page:<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Senate#Senators scroll 2/3 way down and click on a familiar name<br /><br />CA Assembley-people from wiki page:<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Assembly scroll down to any one you want to contact on their page or get their email<br /><br />CA governor to contact: [see "email" which includes 1 page, goes to page 2 for content ]<br />http://www.gov.ca.gov/</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <br /> <!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--><br /> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><br /><b><span style="color: red;">EVERY LITTLE ACT BRINGS ON ENERGY AND WILLINGNESS TO DO EVEN MORE AS NEEDED.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><b><span style="color: red;"> DO A LITTLE.<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>LEARN A </span></b><st1:place><b><span style="color: red;">LOT</span></b></st1:place><b><span style="color: red;">.<span style=""> </span>BE MORE<span style=""> </span>POWERFUL.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /> <!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - -- <br /> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Tahoma; color: fuchsia;">our email written to Gov Schwartznegger re plastic ban bill passed: at his website: </span></b><st1:date year="2010" day="3" month="6"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Tahoma; color: fuchsia;">6/3/10</span></b></st1:date><b style=""><span style="font-family: Tahoma; color: fuchsia;"> at <span style=""> </span><a href="http://govnews.ca.gov/govmail/webmail.php">http://govnews.ca.gov/govmail/webmail.php</a><span style=""> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br /><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">"<span style="font-style: italic;">Because most of Californians RECYCLE and reuse these plastic bags for many uses, including leaky garbage, and other daily uses/needs, the charging or substitution for paper bags or cloth is not suitable and becomes costly.</span><o:p style="font-style: italic;"></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">Easy for govt officials on high salaries to dismiss 'pennies' as if they can be discarded, as are the penny-saving people in this state. To have 10% who misuse and are irresponsible is not a reason to ban or punish the 90% who are thrifty, cautious, re-using plastic items of all kinds, and who are being 'banned' out of their own free choices and rights.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">To not have adequate surveys or input to the bill the Assembly just passed that YOU seem to like for your own political reasons [image and alliances] is not a way to to make a good choice to make for the 'rest of us'. We were not asked for our choices. We were informed that those claiming to represent us have "passed" a bill...for their own reasons [exaggerations & platitudes<span style=""> </span>dont count as actual facts].<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">We are disappointed in your acting not for the common people but for the few who you like and may benefit from. We do not benefit from these interferences in our personal lifestyles, livelihood, and<span style=""> </span>good clean decent habits.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Please stick to what you have been elected to do and stay out of making consumer choices that are not protective nor financially helpful to 'the American people'.</span></span></p><p>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -<br /><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; margin-bottom: 12pt; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b><span style="">"</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly. When we know this we become free. FEAR is always an anticipation of what has NOT yet come. FEAR is our gross national product & export</span></b><b><span style="">."</span><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><span style="color: rgb(64, 160, 255);"><a href="http://www.photosbyalexandria.com/" target="_blank"></a><br />"wherever you are is home, and earth is a sacred place"</span></b><span style=""><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; margin-bottom: 12pt; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style=""><o:p>(C) maryjanie 2010 </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-341108851310463079.post-64168380736031960002010-05-25T10:18:00.000-07:002010-05-25T10:26:36.949-07:00Rent Control in LA still rises, not to worry renters can pay more still .....<p class="heading" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="heading" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt;"><st1:date year="2010" day="16" month="5"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">Also see a comment on </span></st1:date><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">LA Rents article which contains this COMMENT<span style="color: fuchsia;">: <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">original</span> <b style=""><o:p></o:p></b></span></span>article:<br /></p><p class="heading" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt;"><br /></p><p class="heading" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt;"> <a name="239243"></a><st1:city><st1:place><span style=""><strong><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">Los Angeles</span></strong></span></st1:place></st1:City><span style=""><strong><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"> Right to Housing Collective Fights for Tenant Rights</span></strong></span><span style=""></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />by </span><st1:city><st1:place><u><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">Los Angeles</span></u></st1:place></st1:City><u><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"> Community Action Network</span></u><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"> <a href="http://la.indymedia.org/news/2010/05/239243.php">http://la.indymedia.org/news/2010/05/239243.php</a><br /></span></p><p class="heading" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br /></span></p><p class="heading" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">The lies that "rents have gone down" does not include anyone who has been a renter in 1 location ...because no landowner has ever lowered the rent previously required.<br /></span></p><p class="heading" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br /></span></p><p class="heading" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">Maybe a few places new renters are paying less than those who leased on before, where rents were raised higher and higher by greedy landowner BUSINESSmen, maybe. If over-priced and then lowered to what renters can afford to pay, then only have rents been lowered in any way...from dream rents to real rents...<span style=""> </span><br /></span></p><p class="heading" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br /></span></p><p class="heading" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">but anyone who lives in a rental, has not paid less than any month before to retain them...especially<span style=""> </span>if responsible, decent renter is there, maybe a smile or a<span style=""> </span>'hello , maybe not even that, but the CUMULATIVE RISE adding up each year makes the doubling of rents in the last 20 years... tho no one has had their actual earnings rise like that w/o being criminal...like landowners are legally being.<span style=""> </span><br /></span></p><p class="heading" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br /></span></p><p class="heading" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">The ceiling with Rent Control is to keep even the greediest from sending everyone out of </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">Los Angeles</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"> because they cant find work here and cant pay exorbitant rents.<span style=""> </span><br /></span></p><p class="heading" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br /></span></p><p class="heading" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">Elders, seniors, disabled are paying 80% of their income or 100% on rent alone, no counting utilities. I am. Food banks are saviors and do not increase their fees yearly.<span style=""> </span>The old lie that 'dont pay more than 30% of income on shelter/ home/ rent" has long ago been found to not be realistic.<span style=""> </span><br /></span></p><p class="heading" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br /></span></p><p class="heading" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">The homeowners apartment owners<span style=""> </span>associations with their attorneys and PR depts<span style=""> </span>sell our politicians convenient lies like "they need to spend time monitoring the interests on the security deposits collected from renters' which is Work they have to recompensed for. Read the Rent Control reasons for why they keep increasing the same old same OLD falling apart apartments, with minimum repairs legally required done only.<span style=""> </span><br /></span></p><p class="heading" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br /></span></p><p class="heading" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">And apt owners are IMPROVING THEIR OWN PROPERTIES when repairs are made, which increases or keeps their values for themselves, yet want to charge renters for these repairs in any and every way.<span style=""> </span><br /></span></p><p class="heading" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br /></span></p><p class="heading" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">who are these same old greedy un-compassionate and uncaring BUSINESS OWNERS claiming they<span style=""> </span>need to increase their profits every single year ? yep. apt owners....<span style=""> <br /></span></span></p><p class="heading" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style=""><br /></span></span></p><p class="heading" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style=""> </span>and on Pat Morrison KPCC show, they framed themselves as "mom and pop businesses"...how many of those poor ole folk own buildings worth at least over $500,000 now ?<span style=""> </span>huh?<span style=""> <br /></span></span></p><p class="heading" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt;"><br /><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style=""></span></span></p><p class="heading" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style=""></span>such liars, greedy people with no 'customer service' skills and who hide behind voice mail only and post office box addresses to boot !<span style=""> <br /></span></span></p><p class="heading" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt;"><br /><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style=""></span></span></p><p class="heading" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style=""></span>no requirement to be reachable directly in Rent Control laws either.<span style=""> </span>What is fair in LA ? only in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">Pomona</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">, the animals on display."</span></p><p class="heading" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt;"><br /><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"></span></p><p class="heading" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">Please write / call / communicate your needs and concerns to LA RENT CONTROL office and to your Los Angeles City Councilperson any time of year, and express your outrage or worry or suggestion or comment directly. They need to hear more than from apt. bldg owners and their lawyers and hired guns.<br /></span></p><br /><p class="heading" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt;"><br /></p><p class="heading" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">{c} </span>maryjanie<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> 2010 </span><br /><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-341108851310463079.post-40909344139098517382010-04-08T15:30:00.000-07:002010-04-08T15:41:21.068-07:00Wikileaks needs every thinking person's SUPPORT please !<dl><dt>bookmark this one :</dt></dl><br /><a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 255);" target="_blank" href="http://wikileaks.org/"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1270765838_0">http://wikileaks.org/</span></a><br /><br />and if anyone has an extra $10 or more to donate, this looks like a good place to put your moneytoo ..and they also say you can support them "technically" see bottom of the page for info.....<br /><br />one sample story as I peruse their findings is this:<br /><dl><dt>__________________________________<span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:courier new;" >________________________</span><br /></dt><dt style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-family: courier new;"> 24. Feb. 2010: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://file.wikileaks.org/file/microsoft-spy.pdf"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1270765838_1">Cryptome.org takedown: Microsoft Global Criminal Compliance Handbook, 24 Feb 2010</span></a> </dt><dd style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> <a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: courier new;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://cryptomeorg.siteprotect.net/"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1270765838_2">Cryptome.org</span></a><span style="font-family:courier new;"> is a venerable New York based anti-secrecy site that has been publishing since 1999. On Feb 24, 2010, the site was forcibly taken down following its publication Microsoft's "Global Criminal Compliance Handbook", a confidential 22 page booklet designed for police and intelligence services. The guide provides a "menu" of information Microsoft collects on the users of its online services. Microsoft lawyers threatened Cryptome and its "printer", internet hosting provider giant Network Solutions under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The DMCA was designed to protect the legitimate rights of publishers, not to conceal scandalous internal documents that were never intended for sale. Although the action is a clear abuse of the DMCA, Network Solutions, a company with extensive connections to U.S. intelligence contractors, gagged the site in its entirety. Such actions are a serious problem in the United States, where although in theory the First Amendment protects the freedom of the press, in practice, censorship has been privatized via abuse of the judicial system and corporate patronage networks.</span> <hr /> </dd><dt> in case you want to share some info from me to others, since I like to Exp[ose and Share and get others helpfully involved in <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 191, 191);">CHANGING </span>our world to whatever is better than it is now...<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 191, 191);">more transparency, less secret hidings, more choices possible, etc.</span></dt></dl>= = = = = == = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =<br /><br />from <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 204, 204);">Wikipedia </span>: <span style="font-style: italic;"> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikileaks</span><br /><p>Wikileaks went public in January 2007, when it first appeared on the web.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikileaks#cite_note-11"><span></span><span></span></a></sup>The site states that it was "founded by Chinese dissidents, journalists, mathematicians and start-up company technologists, from the US, Taiwan, Europe, Australia and South Africa".<sup id="cite_ref-aboutwikileaks_3-1" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikileaks#cite_note-aboutwikileaks-3"><span></span><span></span></a></sup>The creators of Wikileaks were unidentified as of January 2007<sup class="plainlinks noprint asof-tag update" style="display: none;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikileaks&action=edit" class="external text" rel="nofollow">[update]</a></sup>,<sup id="cite_ref-NewScientist1_12-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikileaks#cite_note-NewScientist1-12"><span></span><span></span></a></sup> although it has been represented in public since January 2007 by non-anonymous speakers such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange" title="Julian Assange">Julian Assange</a>, who had described himself as a member of Wikileaks' advisory board<sup id="cite_ref-afp07_13-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikileaks#cite_note-afp07-13"><span> </span><span></span></a></sup>and was later referred to as the "founder of Wikileaks".<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikileaks#cite_note-14"><span></span><span></span></a></sup> As of June 2009<sup class="plainlinks noprint asof-tag update" style="display: none;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikileaks&action=edit" class="external text" rel="nofollow">[update]</a></sup>, the site had over 1,200 registered volunteers <sup id="cite_ref-aboutwikileaks_3-2" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikileaks#cite_note-aboutwikileaks-3"><span></span><span></span></a></sup>and listed its advisory board as consisting of Assange, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_Adams" title="Phillip Adams">Phillip Adams</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Dan" title="Wang Dan">Wang Dan</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=CJ_Hinke&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="CJ Hinke (page does not exist)">CJ Hinke</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Laurie" title="Ben Laurie">Ben Laurie</a>, Tashi Namgyal Khamsitsang, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiao_Qiang" title="Xiao Qiang">Xiao Qiang</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chico_Whitaker" title="Chico Whitaker">Chico Whitaker</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Youcai" title="Wang Youcai">Wang Youcai</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikileaks#cite_note-15"><span></span><span></span></a></sup> However, when contacted by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Jones_%28magazine%29" title="Mother Jones (magazine)">Mother Jones magazine</a> in 2010 several of the supposed advisory board members said they were listed without their consent or knowledge.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikileaks#cite_note-16"><span></span><span></span></a></sup></p> <p>Wikileaks states that its "primary interest is in exposing oppressive regimes in Asia, the former Soviet bloc, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, but we also expect to be of assistance to people of all regions who wish to reveal unethical behavior in their governments and corporations."<sup id="cite_ref-aboutwikileaks_3-3" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikileaks#cite_note-aboutwikileaks-3"><span></span><span></span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikileaks#cite_note-17"><span></span><span></span></a></sup></p> <p>In January 2007, the website stated that it had over 1.2 million leaked documents that it was preparing to publish.<sup id="cite_ref-NowPublic1_18-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikileaks#cite_note-NowPublic1-18"><span></span><span></span></a></sup> The group has subsequently released a number of other significant documents which have become front-page news items, ranging from documentation of equipment expenditures and holdings in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_%282001%E2%80%93present%29" title="War in Afghanistan (2001–present)">Afghanistan war</a> to corruption in Kenya.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikileaks#cite_note-19"><span></span><span></span></a></sup></p> <p>Their stated goal is to ensure that whistle-blowers and journalists are not jailed for emailing sensitive or classified documents, as happened to Chinese journalist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shi_Tao" title="Shi Tao">Shi Tao</a>, who was sentenced to 10 years in 2005 after publicising an email from Chinese officials about the anniversary of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_massacre" title="Tiananmen Square massacre" class="mw-redirect">Tiananmen Square massacre</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Scenta-coUK1_20-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikileaks#cite_note-Scenta-coUK1-20"><span></span><span></span></a></sup></p> <p>The project has drawn comparisons to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg" title="Daniel Ellsberg">Daniel Ellsberg</a>'s leaking of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_Papers" title="Pentagon Papers">Pentagon Papers</a> in 1971.<sup id="cite_ref-LinuxworldWikileaks1_21-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikileaks#cite_note-LinuxworldWikileaks1-21"><span></span><span></span></a></sup> In the United States, the leaking of some documents may be legally protected. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Supreme_Court" title="U.S. Supreme Court" class="mw-redirect">U.S. Supreme Court</a> has ruled that the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution" title="United States Constitution">Constitution</a> guarantees anonymity, at least in the area of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_discourse" title="Political discourse" class="mw-redirect">political discourse</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-LinuxworldWikileaks1_21-1" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikileaks#cite_note-LinuxworldWikileaks1-21"><span></span><span></span></a></sup> Author and journalist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitley_Strieber" title="Whitley Strieber">Whitley Strieber</a> has spoken about the benefits of the Wikileaks project, noting that "Leaking a government document can mean jail, but jail sentences for this can be fairly short. However, there are many places where it means long incarceration or even death, such as China and parts of Africa and the Middle East."<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikileaks#cite_note-22"><span></span><span></span></a></sup></p> <p>The site has won a number of significant awards, including the 2008 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economist_%28magazine%29" title="Economist (magazine)" class="mw-redirect"><i>Economist</i> magazine</a> New Media Award,<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikileaks#cite_note-23"><span></span><span></span></a></sup> and in June 2009, Wikileaks and Julian Assange won <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesty_International" title="Amnesty International">Amnesty International</a> UK's Media Award 2009 (in the category "New Media") for the 2008 publication of "Kenya: The Cry of Blood - Extra Judicial Killings and Disappearances",<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikileaks#cite_note-24"><span></span><span></span></a></sup>a report by the Kenyan National Commission on Human Rights about police killings in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenya" title="Kenya">Kenya</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikileaks#cite_note-25"><span> [snip]</span><span></span></a></sup></p><p>= = = = = = == = = = = = = = = = == = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =<br /></p><br /><p><br /></p><p>(c) 2010 maryjanie<br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-341108851310463079.post-24959674849012146142010-04-06T14:41:00.000-07:002010-04-06T14:57:02.343-07:00do you know anything about the latest 'tea party' ?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6ODLwuy07QcVGgjWueG1q8420oGvkxN4H1Mb9JKhIvx-wMXSGi_2TirhQibnphEcrtxIt3DwfIHY22NjBEtFXMfrEvBnSMQTBEobwJWlALOV13WQFco0284MKl0Fr6DXnmf4b32-3kQ/s1600/teacup.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 125px; height: 94px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6ODLwuy07QcVGgjWueG1q8420oGvkxN4H1Mb9JKhIvx-wMXSGi_2TirhQibnphEcrtxIt3DwfIHY22NjBEtFXMfrEvBnSMQTBEobwJWlALOV13WQFco0284MKl0Fr6DXnmf4b32-3kQ/s320/teacup.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457146840283463250" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="center"><span style=";font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:100%;" ><u><a style="font-style: italic;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.teaparty.org/"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1270589915_0">copied from </span></a><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.teaparty.org/"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1270589915_0"> http://www.teaparty.org/</span></a><br /><br /></u></span></div> <div align="center"><span style="font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><u>[our] " Non-Negotiable Core Beliefs</u><br /><br /></span></span></div> <div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><strong></strong></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span style="font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:Arial;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">Illegal Aliens Are Here illegally.<br /><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:Arial;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">Pro-Domestic Employment Is Indispensable.<br /><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:Arial;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">Stronger Military Is Essential.<br /><br />Special Interests Eliminated.<br /><br />Gun Ownership Is Sacred.<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:Arial;" >Government Must Be Downsized.<br /><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:Arial;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">National Budget Must Be Balanced.<br /><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:Arial;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">Deficit Spending Will End.<br /><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:Arial;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">Bail-out And Stimulus Plans Are Illegal.<br /><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:Arial;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">Reduce Personal Income Taxes A Must.<br /><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:Arial;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">Reduce Business Income Taxes Is Mandatory.<br /><br />Political Offices Available To Average Citizens.<br /><br />Intrusive Government Stopped.<br /><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:Arial;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">English As Core Language Is Required.<br /><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:Arial;" >Traditional Family Values Are Encouraged.<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:Arial;" >Common Sense Constitutional Conservative Self-Governance is our mode of operation."</span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:78%;" ><br /><br /><br /><br /></span> </span></div> <div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);">----------------------------- then listen to KPFK archives soon, at :<br /><br /></span></div> <div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td align="right" valign="top"><br /></td> <td colspan="3" valign="top">Eben Rey, 'Radio Alchymy' <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" onclick="return theMainWindow.showLinkWarning(this)" href="http://64.27.15.184/parchive/pls.php?mp3fil=26003"><img alt="Play" src="http://www.virtuallybaroque.com/roh/2010/stereo.gif" border="0" height="15" /></a> and <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" onclick="return theMainWindow.showLinkWarning(this)" href="http://64.27.15.184/parchive/pls.php?mp3fil=26004"><img alt="Play" src="http://www.virtuallybaroque.com/roh/2010/stereo.gif" border="1" height="13" /><br /> Hour 1: Dale Robertson, tea party founder. </a><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.teaparty.org/"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1270589915_1">www.teaparty.org</span></a><br /> Hour 2: Open phone conversation<br /><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div> <div> and<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"> listen to this....a different topic but where else do you get such info ??????<br /><br /></span></div> <div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"> and this re: aliens are here already<br /><br /></span></div> <div>Eben Rey, 'Radio Alchymy' <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" onclick="return theMainWindow.showLinkWarning(this)" href="http://64.27.15.184/parchivehttp://64.27.15.184/parchive/m3u.php?mp3fil=26307"><img alt="Play" src="http://www.virtuallybaroque.com/roh/2010/stereo.gif" border="0" height="15" /></a> and <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" onclick="return theMainWindow.showLinkWarning(this)" href="http://64.27.15.184/parchivehttp://64.27.15.184/parchive/m3u.php?mp3fil=26308"><img alt="Play" src="http://www.virtuallybaroque.com/roh/2010/stereo.gif" border="1" height="13" /></a><br /></div> <div>Guest Dr. Fred Bell, author of <i>The Inside Track: The Complete History of Science, How It Became Deadly on the Watch of the One World Order and How to Sidestep Their Activities</i> Contact: 1 (800) 729-2603 <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.pyradyne.com/"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1270589915_2">http://www.pyradyne.com/</span></a><br /></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);">--------------------------<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">now can you read and listen to what you DONT ALREADY AGREE ?</span><br /><br />are you as "liberal" ~<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"> open minded</span> ~ <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">curious </span>~ <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">aware </span>~<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 204, 51);">alert </span>as you <span style="font-style: italic;">claim </span>to be or <span style="font-style: italic;">want </span>to be ? or as you prefer to <span style="font-style: italic;">imagine </span>yourself to be ? huh ?<br /><br />are you just a put-'em-downer only or are you an inquisitor [enquirer] or investigator ?<br /><br />are you really <span style="font-weight: bold;">"in the know"</span> or just limit yourself stuck in the parts you WANT to know to stay hopeful and believe....as in the prior "<span style="font-style: italic;">hope for change</span>" that did not occur after all ?<br /><br />why not find out <span style="font-weight: bold;">MORE </span>and as it always changes anyhow, stay Present, Alert, Know-ledge-able.<br />and be a truly current and informed person<br /><br />for a change<br /><br />any change<br /><br />especially <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">NOW</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">why not ?<br /><br />(C) 2010 maryjanie<br /></span></span></div> <div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-341108851310463079.post-40858549672097409752010-04-06T14:35:00.001-07:002010-04-06T14:36:14.031-07:00Do you know this man ?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj78tJ1h_OhPo8Omp_QvD976Ao2Ts1nX4PFMCuWjgTQ5qzlatt6y1eo_ZxHnzXtnmYq6n5ZwqIxWSirPhgGyY7vQT6Bd5s1AqwrYEVT1lXBPfWYU7zUjN1Fs9W5RNLf1ms-QgsYN3LgRW8/s1600/CartooonBankster.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj78tJ1h_OhPo8Omp_QvD976Ao2Ts1nX4PFMCuWjgTQ5qzlatt6y1eo_ZxHnzXtnmYq6n5ZwqIxWSirPhgGyY7vQT6Bd5s1AqwrYEVT1lXBPfWYU7zUjN1Fs9W5RNLf1ms-QgsYN3LgRW8/s400/CartooonBankster.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457137860665135522" /></a><br /><br />this is someone who is hiding behind your CASH and bank account and credit card company. Do you recognize him ?<br /><br />Please add him to the "WANTED FOR PUBLIC HARM GLOBALLY EVERYWHERE" list.<br /><br />He is your neighbor or in your adjacent neighborhood driving fancy cars, hiding behind tinted windows, behind the 'normal guy' facade, in the fanciest restaurants and bars, frequenting 'call girls and upscale whorehouses' anonymously and his kids go to schools that you envy and can't afford.<br /><br />Called <span style="font-weight:bold;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">BANKSTERS</span></span>, short for "<span style="font-style:italic;">gangsters</span>" or "mafia" <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">facsimiles</span>, these most men, are ambitious, ruthless, greedy and getting it all by bribing and colluding with your favorite <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">politicians</span>.<br /><br />Do you know him ? sometimes he looks like a girl, but is really manly in ambitions and game-playing-selfishly.<br /><br />Turn him in to the.....'<span style="font-style:italic;">regulators</span>' ?<br />or they one and the same in-group ?<br /><br />WATCH OUT FOR THIS GUY.<br />He already has your numbers, all of them...social security #, your password, ATM, bank and credit card [shared information amongst business associates as listed in the <span style="font-style:italic;">small print you sign </span>in to get an account or card ]<br /><br />In fact, you may never see him alive or in person.<br /><br />But for sure you have already...and will continue to feel his influence constantly ... to see his workings on your money...your earnings...your savings...your government...your mortgage or home-owner...your store owner, etc. etc.<br /><br /><br />(C) 2010 <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">maryjanie<br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-341108851310463079.post-65986220158978717462010-03-06T15:18:00.000-08:002010-03-06T15:19:47.864-08:00Sneaky cameras at red lights need monitoring and identifying...let's start right HERE !dear fellow drivers and fee-payers all:<br /><br /><br />I saw a letter to editor and went onliine to find the article, then even wrote a comment #45 at end too....interesting stuff...<br /><br /><br />I have also recently paid $60 street parking 5 min over time listed on my street, and $50 for parking over the white line in Rose parking lot in Venice, tho handicapped cant fit and open a door in those tight spaces, and almost been run over 2x by a taxi running rapidly THRU a red light w/o looking at Wilshire & Westwood, but the cameras are a threatening robot ready to pounce w/o a human face or mind.<br /><br /><br />Attached is the <span style="font-weight:bold;">LA Weekly</span> article, FYI. If you cant open it, here is the link:<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">http://www.laweekly.com/2009-12-31/news/los-angeles-red-light-ticket-ripoff/</span><br /><br />"The city’s 32 red-light cameras are placed at traffic choke points like Sepulveda and National, Sepulveda and Victory, Western and Washington, Manchester and Airport, Alvarado and Temple, Sunset and Cahuenga and Pico and Bundy. (For a map of all 32 camera-rigged corners, go to <span style="font-weight:bold;">lapdonline.org/home/pdf_view/34638</span>"<br /><br />good to know<br /><br /><br />(c) 2010 maryjanieUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-341108851310463079.post-52352374638122961792010-02-26T14:20:00.000-08:002010-02-26T15:16:11.497-08:00The "millennials" are surveyed by Pew and makes many people wonder...<em>This information has been selected from the sites below to disseminate the information openly.</em><br /><em>Please refer to the full report for more</em> <em>details.</em><br />- - - - - - - - --- - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - -- - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- -- - -<br /><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>Source:</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><a href="http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1501/millennials-new-survey-generational-personality-upbeat-open-new-ideas-technology-bound" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1501/millennials-new-survey-generational-personality-upbeat-open-new-ideas-technology-bound</a> [<em>site</em> <em>containis graphs but not all of these can be copied ]</em><br /><em></em><br /><em></em><br />"the American teens and twenty-somethings who are making the passage into adulthood at the start of a new millennium -- have begun to forge theirs: confident, self-expressive, liberal, upbeat and open to change.[snip]...<br /><br /><br /><br />They are more ethnically and racially diverse than older adults. They're less religious, less likely to have served in the military, and are on track to become the most educated generation in American history.<br />[snip]...<br /><br /><br /><br />Their entry into careers and first jobs has been badly set back by the Great Recession, but they are more upbeat than their elders about their own economic futures as well as about the overall state of the nation<br /><em></em><br /><em></em><br /><em>See chapter 4 in the </em><a href="http://pewsocialtrends.org/assets/pdf/millennials-confident-connected-open-to-change.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><em>full report</em></a>) [[ it's <em>149 pp on PDF file</em>]] ...[snip]...<br /><br /><br /><br /><img style="FLOAT: right" height="366" alt="" src="http://pewresearch.org/assets/publications/1501-3b.gif" width="364" />Only about six-in-ten were raised by both parents -- a smaller share than was the case with older generations. In weighing their own life priorities, Millennials (like older adults) place parenthood and marriage far above career and financial success. But they aren't rushing to the altar.<br /><br /><br /><br />Just one-in-five Millennials (21%) are married now, half the share of their parents' generation at the same stage of life. About a third (34%) are parents, according to the Pew Research survey.<br /><br /><br /><br />We estimate that, in 2006, more than a third of 18 to 29 year old women who gave birth were unmarried. This is a far higher share than was the case in earlier generations.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />(<em>See chapters 2 and 3 in the <a href="http://pewsocialtrends.org/assets/pdf/millennials-confident-connected-open-to-change.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">full report</a></em>) .[snip]...<br /><br /><br /><br />[snip].....Among 18 to 24 year olds a record share -- 39.6% -- was enrolled in college as of 2008 ...<br /><br /><br /><br />And now, hard times have kept a significant share of adult Millennials and their parents under the same roof. About one-in-eight older Millennials (ages 22 and older) say they've "boomeranged" back to a parent's home because of the recession. (<em>See chapters 3 and 5 in the </em><br /><em><a href="http://pewsocialtrends.org/assets/pdf/millennials-confident-connected-open-to-change.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">full report</a></em>)...... [snip]...<br /><br /><br /><br />...relatively few Millennials -- just 2% of males -- are military veterans. At a comparable stage of their life cycle, 6% of Gen Xer men, 13% of Baby Boomer men and 24% of Silent men were veterans. (<em>See chapter 2 in the <a href="http://pewsocialtrends.org/assets/pdf/millennials-confident-connected-open-to-change.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">full report</a></em>)......[snip]...<br /><br /><br /><br />...About half of Millennials say the president has failed to change the way Washington works, which had been the central promise of his candidacy. Of those who say this, three-in-ten blame Obama himself, while more than half blame his political opponents and special interests......[snip]..<br /><br /><br /><br />They are still more likely than any other age group to identify as Democrats. Yet by early 2010, their support for Obama and the Democrats had receded, as evidenced both by survey data and by their low level of participation in recent off-year and special elections. (<em>See chapter 8 in the </em><em></em><br /><a href="http://pewsocialtrends.org/assets/pdf/millennials-confident-connected-open-to-change.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><em>full report</em></a><em>)...</em>...[snip]...<br /><br /><em><strong></strong></em><br /><em><strong></strong></em><br /><em><strong>AND MORE HERE:</strong></em><br /><strong><em></em></strong><br /><br /><strong>Source: December 2009 Current Population Survey (CPS)</strong><br /><br /><a href="http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1437/millennials-profile" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><strong>http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1437/</strong>millennials-profile</a><br /><br /><br /><br />"... we focus on Millennials who are at least 18 years old.... roughly 50 million Millennials who currently span the ages of 18 to 29 ...[y.o.]... [ this report ] <em>profiles</em> the roughly 50 million Millennials ......[snip]...<br /><br /><br /><br />...Most of the findings in this report are based on a new survey of a national cross-section of 2,020 adults (including an oversample of Millennials), conducted by landline and cellular telephone from Jan. 14 to 27, 2010; this survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.0 percentage points for the full sample...[SNIP] .... we also know this is not an exact science....<br /><br /><br />Most Millennials (61%) in our January 2010 survey <strong>say their generation has </strong><strong>a unique and distinctive identity.</strong> That doesn't make them unusual, however. Roughly two-thirds of Silents, nearly six-in-ten Boomers and about half of Xers feel the same way about their generation...[snip]...24% say it's because of their use of technology......[snip]...<br /><br /><br /><br />Boomers' feelings of distinctiveness coalesce mainly around work ethic, which 17% cite as their most prominent identity badge. For Silents, it's the shared experience of the Depression and World War II, which 14% cite as the biggest reason their generation stands apart.<br /><br /><br /><br />..Millennials are the only one that doesn't cite "work ethic" as one of their principal claims to distinctiveness...Asked who has the better work ethic, about three-fourths of respondents said that older people do....[snip]<br /><br /><br /><br />Likewise, Millennials are more receptive to immigrants than are their elders.. .[snip] The same pattern holds on a range of attitudes about nontraditional family arrangements, from mothers of young children working outside the home, to adults living together without being married, to more people of different races marrying each other....[snip]<br /><br /><br /><br />Some 41% of Millennials say they are satisfied with the way things are going in the country, compared with just 26% of those ages 30 and older......[snip]<br /><br /><br />see [<a href="http://pewsocialtrends.org/assets/pdf/millennials-confident-connected-open-to-change.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Download Complete Report [PDF ]</a><br /><br /><br /><br />They are the most <strong>ethnically and racially diverse</strong> cohort of youth in the nation's history.<br /><br />Among those ages 13 to 29:<br /><br /><br />18.5% are Hispanic;<br /><br /><br />14.2% are black;<br /><br /><br />4.3% are Asian;<br /><br /><br />3.2% are mixed race or other; and<br /><br /><br />59.8%, a record low, are white<br /><br /><br /><br />They are the <strong>least religiously observant</strong> youths since survey research began charting religious behavior.<br /><br /><br /><br />They are <strong>more inclined toward <u>trust</u> in ins</strong>titutions than were either of their two predecessor generations -- Gen Xers (who are now ages 30 to 45) and Baby Boomers (now ages 46 to 64) when they were coming of age<br /><br /><span style="color:#c00000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#c00000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#c00000;">[[<em>why this trust...trust is what ? trust how ? huh ? bailouts is not in their vocabulary nor is bankrupcy yet ? huh ?]]</em></span><br /><em><span style="color:#c00000;"></span></em><br /><br />also:<br /><br /><br /><br />One is the <em><u>life cycle effect</u></em>. The biological impact of aging and the changing roles that people play as they grow older typically produce changes in attitudes and scial behaviors over time. In short, young people may be different from older people today, but they may well become more like them tomorrow, once they themselves age.<br /><br /><br /><br />The second is the <u><em>cohort effect</em>.</u> Generation differences can be the byproduct of the unique historical circumstances that members of an age cohort experience during adolescence and young adulthood, when awareness of the wider world deepens and personal identities and values systems are being strongly shaped. The unique nature of the times imprints itself on each successive age cohort, producing differences that persist even as a cohort ages and moves through the life cycle.<br /><br /><br />In addition to life cycle and cohort effects, there are also <em><u>period effects</u></em>. These are major events (wars, social movements, scientific or technological breakthroughs) that are likely to have a simultaneous impact on all age groups, though, again, their impact is often greatest among the young because their values and habits are less fixed than those of other age groups.<br /><br /><br /><br />The most common approach to trying to understand how each of these processes plays out ...at different times to track changes in the attitudes and behavior of cohorts as they age. [<em>snip</em>]<br /><br /><br /><br />...that there is an upward trend in acceptance of <strong>interracial dating</strong> in most cohorts as time passes. For instance, just 36% of the "Silent" generation (born before 1946) approved in the first interviews in 1987, but by 2009, 67% of members of this cohort approved .. [snip]<br /><br /><br />....the <u>continuing cultural forces</u> also persuaded some individuals to change their views on this topic at some point during adulthood.It is also possible that the growing racial and ethnic diversity of the U.S. population over this period contributes to the trend, since blacks and Hispanics are more supportive of interracial dating than are whites ...<br /><br /><span style="color:#c00000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#c00000;">[[ <em>what creates changes of attitudes and behaviors is not part of survey, only</em></span> <span style="color:#c00000;"><em>surmises of other cultural, political, religious and practices in arenas such as </em></span><span style="color:#c00000;"><em>immigration, transportation, technological invovations make a difference....</em></span> <span style="color:#c00000;"><em>change does not 'just occur' in any vacuum</em>. ]]</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#c00000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#c00000;"></span><br /><strong><span style="color:#c00000;">so decide for yourself what this survey tells us about our decendants and the future they will 'hold' for us and the earth itself....how caring, </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#c00000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#c00000;">how active,</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#c00000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#c00000;">how independent,</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#c00000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#c00000;">how non-militaristic, </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#c00000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#c00000;">if not-passive, </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#c00000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#c00000;">how critical thinking </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#c00000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#c00000;">and how benevolent and generous these 'new' folks are and will be.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#c00000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#c00000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#c00000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#c00000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#c00000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#c00000;">The future is not dependent upon them, neither mostly nor alone</span></strong> <strong><span style="color:#c00000;">as a group,</span></strong> <strong><span style="color:#c00000;">but they in this USA will have a say and act as a model, </span></strong><strong><span style="color:#c00000;">as shown in </span></strong><strong><span style="color:#c00000;">movies, in social technology, in advertising the USA </span></strong><strong><span style="color:#c00000;">ways of life.</span></strong> <strong><span style="color:#c00000;">What have we taught them, or what has been taken out </span></strong><strong><span style="color:#c00000;">of parental family hands</span></strong> <strong><span style="color:#c00000;">and handed to the governments, states, </span></strong><strong><span style="color:#c00000;">privatized-contractors for the states and local institutions and </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#c00000;">out of actual ancestestral influence.</span></strong><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#c00000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#c00000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#c00000;">ill millenialls be more followers than leaders ? more self-absorbed </span></strong><strong><span style="color:#c00000;">in their </span></strong><strong><span style="color:#c00000;">electronic toys than in their human humane contact ? more </span></strong><strong><span style="color:#c00000;">reliant on things-ready-made-and-purchased ? more led by instant </span></strong><strong><span style="color:#c00000;">media and thus with less time and inclination to think for themselves? </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#c00000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#c00000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#c00000;">and then what ? </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#c00000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#c00000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#c00000;">will the changes that must occur be beneficial ? </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#c00000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#c00000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#c00000;">for them ? </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#c00000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#c00000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#c00000;">for the sentient beings on this planet ? </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#c00000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#c00000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#c00000;">for the future of this biosphere ? </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#c00000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#c00000;">what then ? </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#c00000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#c00000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#c00000;">what then ? </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#c00000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#c00000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#c00000;">what now ? </span></strong><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-family:comic sans ms;" ><span style="font-family:tahoma, new york, times, serif;font-size:100%;"></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-family:comic sans ms;" ><span style="font-family:tahoma, new york, times, serif;font-size:100%;"></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-family:comic sans ms;" ><span style="font-family:tahoma, new york, times, serif;font-size:100%;"></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-family:comic sans ms;" ><span style="font-family:tahoma, new york, times, serif;font-size:100%;"></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-family:comic sans ms;" ><span style="font-family:tahoma, new york, times, serif;font-size:100%;">"<span style="font-size:85%;">No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly. When we know this we become free. </span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-family:comic sans ms;" ><span style="font-family:tahoma, new york, times, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">FEAR is always an anticipation of what has NOT yet come.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-family:comic sans ms;" ><span style="font-family:tahoma, new york, times, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">FEAR is our gross national product & export.</span></span><br /><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-family:comic sans ms;" ></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-family:comic sans ms;" ></span></span><div style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:78%;color:#bf00bf;"><b><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:12;"><br />"wherever you are is home, and earth is a sacred place"<br /><br /></span></b></span></div><div style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:12;"><span style="color:#007f40;"></span><strong><span style="font-size:100%;">(c) maryjanie 2010<br /></span></strong><br /></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-341108851310463079.post-82541553981619762512010-01-06T17:23:00.000-08:002010-01-06T17:29:03.433-08:00Child-Free by Choice, a novel idea or is it ?<p style="font-family: courier new;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: fuchsia; font-style: italic;"><span style=""> </span>Larry Mantle's pgrm on KPPC 1/5/2010 was about not having kids</span><span style=""><span style="font-style: italic;"> discussing a book entitled : </span></span><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: courier new;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"> <a href="http://www.childlessbychoiceproject.com/Childless_by_choice_book.html">"Two is Enough: A Couple's Guide to Living Childless by Choice"</a><span style=""> <br /></span>Childless by Choice Project, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Laura Scott</span>, author.</span></p><span style="font-family: courier new;font-size:100%;" >My responses are :<br /><br /></span><p style="font-family: courier new;" class="MsoNormal"></p><span style="font-family: courier new;font-size:100%;" >” I am old enough to know better....made a clear and definite choice in early 1960's to have children with husband after deep deliberation, just after pill came out to be 'safe'...and they grew up to decide on their very own to NOT have children, each one chose this separately. Delighted to not have-to-be a grandmother, to take care of children,<span style=""> </span><br /><br />and<span style=""> <br /><br /></span>yes, there are normal happy people who Do Not Like Children as a generality... and there is nothing WRONG or BAD about that attitude...contrary to ordinary average socialized opinions.. voiced so easily that everyone 'should, must, naturally' Love Children.<span style=""> </span>children<span style=""> </span>are ok to observe, talk to briefly when not too close or too long, and it is not SELFISHNESS as in 'not ok' ...but a life choice, freely & intelligently made based on life path and life style too perhaps.<span style=""> </span><br /><br /><br />children are not all cute, adorable, sweet, nice, pleasant, fun, et al.<span style=""> <br /><br /></span>they are also mean, cruel, spiteful, moody, self-centered, with different personalities that may or not match compatibly with any adult.<span style=""> </span>some people like to have someone depend on them, too feel needed, to want to "be helpful" and to re create themselves thru someone else. others dont.<span style=""> <br /><br /></span>we are very pleased with our socially conscious lives and have nothing missing at all...<span style=""> </span>and with the way the world is 'turning'....we are grateful we made these choices so long ago...all 3 of us, my kids and me too... this ends our family line on both my husbands and my side. great !<br /><br /><br /></span> <p style="font-family: courier new;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><i>someone else wrote:” We are not childless, we are child-free!”</i></span></p><p style="font-family: courier new;" class="MsoNormal">I agree !</p><br /><p style="font-family: courier new;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-family: courier new;" class="MsoNormal">(c) maryjanie 2010<br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-341108851310463079.post-52222428555991641872010-01-06T17:10:00.000-08:002010-01-06T17:22:59.244-08:00HEALTH COST INCREASES...shhhhh...dont talk about that hardly, not truthfully ..shhhhhh<pre><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:100%;"><span style=""></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Larry Mantle on KPCC </span>on 1/5/10 <span style="font-style: italic;">discussed opinions and reactions to health care as it is being congressionally </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">voted and promoted. My comments could not get in on time but...here they are anyhow !<br /><br /><br /></span><br />“ Why is the actual Increase -<span style=""> </span>yearly - in health costs, stated as supposedly "necessary<span style=""> </span>and unavoidable:..<br />un huh...but that is not continually discussed, investigated, explored, exposed to do direct actions to keep<br />COSTS DOWN instead of just agreeing to keep spending more and more again,<span style=""> </span>in just another way to<br />the benefit of those who provide medical services [mostly writing prescriptions by # of services provided]<span style=""><br /> </span>... and then<span style=""> </span>passing andtransferring all costs that still keep on RISING continually every single year to<br />the average American.<br /><br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:100%;">note that Kaiser- which is a non-profit<span style=""> </span>- has yet again for 2010<span style=""> </span>the premium has increased by 10%<br />...and they claimno profits ....yet have that increase every single year ? cumulatively it becomes double<br /> or more in a short span of time. And this is not discussed. Why is this so ?<br /><br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:100%;">Why does the AMA, and all the medical doctors & health staff who<span style=""> </span>not get reductions in their high fees<br />and salaries-their benefits mostly that<span style=""> </span>provides only another increase in costs...and this is with or w/o<span style=""><br /></span>the usual general public<span style=""> </span>yearly CPI<span style=""> </span>inflation ?<br /><br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:100%;">Why is the discussion about whether it is govt [= all of us who earn anything at all paying it ] or private plans<br />[some pay more, others dont, and it is 'privatized' as most businesses are too ]...why is the discussion stuck in<br />one place ...? rather than<span style=""> </span>explore and admit why the costs are so extremely elevated...<span style=""> </span>and why most<br />people dont get much healthier from Medical treatment..<span style=""> </span>We stay the same or improve, from ::::<br /><br />1- improved and cheaper hygiene, and appliances and chemicals that keep our waters, foods, safe<span style=""> </span>[sometimes]<span style=""> <br /><br /></span>2 -better work conditions & safety concerns<br /><br />3-<span style=""> </span>technology and machines taking over body movements work<br /><br />4- and no longer do many chores that could injure or cause body harm, poorer health<span style=""><br /> </span><br />5- we have<span style=""> </span>job losses, especially the manual work [mfg] ones, vs office 'sitting'<span style=""> </span>in the so-called "service" sector<span style=""><br /> </span><br />6-<span style=""> </span>dangerous manual labor has been diminishing in USA and has been outsourced 'over there'<span style=""><br /> </span><br />7- and medical treatment<span style=""> </span>outsourcing when our medical prices are prohibitive and other places like<br />India, Indonesia, etc do it as well, cheaper<span style=""> </span>but with similar results ?<br /><br />8- and other factors that can be pulled up and looked at, reviewed, improved, negotiated, shifted too....<span style=""> </span>huh ?<br /><br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></pre><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family: verdana;">why is all the talk continually about one aspect only - as if that was the Only and most Important part of why and what</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">we need to VOTE on, to change How we do which </span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">medicine ...and how / why we pay for it and why we pay so much for ....oh, whatever?</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">That is the real problem as I look at it.</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Most news and commentators and then the </span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">public too just repeat the 1 2-sided issue, as if that is all the problem entailed...</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <br /> <br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">while some of us then just dismiss the repetitious arguments about a closed minded </span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Dem-Rep 2-party ltd stuck country...that does not allow any alternate voices or questions either. but yet,</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">I still chose to live in this USA and</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">then use it's medical system as rarely </span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">as is possible.</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <br /><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">please DISCUSS THE ACTUAL $$$ COSTS AND WHY THEY ARE AS HIGH AS THEY ARE, even if the reparations and improvements that could reduce the cost, to individuals, </span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">groups, even companies</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">are then ultimately ignored with "we can't do thaaaaaat !"</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">it is not the right questions being repeated, thus limiting any good answers.<br /><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">(c) MARYJANIE 2010</span><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-341108851310463079.post-38213605305061332092010-01-06T17:02:00.001-08:002010-01-06T17:09:36.028-08:00FEAR ! no no no ! let's not !<p><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Pat Morrison on KPCC radio on Jan 5, 2010 did an interview with this author =</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"><strong><span style=""> </span></strong><b>Barry Glassner, author "The Culture of Fear</b>".<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">She wrote on KPCC website:<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">"<span style="font-style: italic;">our day to day lives are defined by fear. Three out of four Americans say that they are more fearful now than they were 20 years ago. How dangerous is it? discuss if our fear is justified, or have we been manipulated into being paralyzed, by fear itself…"</span></span><span style=""> </span></p> <p><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span></p><p><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >My response to the validity discussed about how Fear is excessively promoted and elicited currently is:<br /></span></p><p><br /></p><p>“<span style="font-family:Tahoma;">So glad you are both speaking and exposing this falacy and contagious stress inducing PR scheme. thanks Pat<span style=""> </span>& Barry. I agree, fear is not helpful to make safer our daily lives in this USA we actually live within.<span style=""> </span>Violence exists. Worse elsewhere, Publicized more here. Made visible daily, repetitiously here. why is this ?<span style=""> </span>FEAR IS OUR MAJOR EXPORT AND IMPORT and so profitable<span style=""> </span>too...why do advertisers buy media space next to these stories and emphases ?<span style=""> </span>It is not what we fear but how we are pushed and elicited to be aroused to watch / listen to "news" to be more fearful. Those aroused are better consumers and will buy stuff to reassure themselves too. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <pre><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Fear is a profitable PR marketing tactic. <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">It is not just bleeding that is what wakes the tired populous up, but a lot of sexual arousal and titillation will bring<br />attention to the over-worked,<span style=""> </span>depressed,<span style=""> </span>angry,<span style=""> </span>bored,<span style=""> </span>withdrawn, and or dependent on external stimulation<br />American.<span style=""> </span>we seem to love it and expose it even more than other cultures, tho not all others. We dismiss<br />'superstitions' while engaging in the same behavior and we<span style=""> </span>think we are superior by using different 'solutions' for<br />the fears that we too absorb and project further.<span style=""> <br /><br /></span><br />Why is every described as "worST, moST, wildEST" all described in extremes as if unique and truly to be noted ?<span style=""><br /> </span><br /><br />Why is fear more useful to an over-saturated media-absorbing public than it's so-called-positive images that<br />may be just as fake and fantasized ? <span style=""> </span><br /><br /><br />Why is there so much agreement to promote FEAR by media people, by professionals who want to make a name<br />fame for themselves, by government public relations people to accumulate more POWER in those institutional bodies ?<br /><br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Why is FEAR the preferred mode of being in the USA?<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">In this day and age, when no nuclear anything has 'gone off'... when no famine has occurred in USA....when disasters<br />are actually rare and minor but blown up to be given Attention and thus advertising will pay for that media space<br />when people are fearing and watching / listening too ...<br /><br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">And the reporter who do NOT explore further, investigate, or cant afford to do more than say the same outlandish<br />attention- grabbing terrible whatever, so it reverberates until by repetition it is believed and discussed and agreed<br />to be 'real' and accurate ?<br /><br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">They only work for pay, so why spend too much time doing anything that is not paid for by their salaries/ commissions<br />?<span style=""> </span>I agree with Barry, that is why my email has this signature to be seen by anyone I write to and by me too every<br />time I use email:<br /><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">"No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly. When we know this we become free. FEAR is always an anticipation<br />of what has NOT yet come. FEAR is our gross national product & export."<span style=""> "<br /><br /><br /></span><o:p></o:p></span></pre><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">{c} Maryjanie 2008 </span><span style=""> </span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-341108851310463079.post-68706428689506117732010-01-06T16:52:00.000-08:002010-01-06T16:58:55.941-08:00UCLA raises fees everywhere on everyone<p class="heading" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;" ><span style=""> this was posted also in </span><a href="http://la.indymedia.org/news/2010/01/233728.php">http://la.indymedia.org/news/2010/01/233728.php </a></span><a href="http://la.indymedia.org/news/2010/01/233728.php"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"><em><b><br /><span style="color:fuchsia;"><br /></span></b></em></span></a></p><br /><p class="heading" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br /><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;" > <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="heading" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">UCLA increases parking fees some more</span></strong></p><p class="heading" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"></span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"><br /><b><span style="color:red;"></span></b> <em><b><span style="color:fuchsia;"></span></b> </em></span><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="heading" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;" ><i>UCLA has instituted a $3/ parking fee on Disabled Placard holders everywhere on campus after years of following Calif State free parking for legitimate blue zoned areas, starts Jan 1, 2010, but</i>.....</span></p><p class="heading" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br /><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="heading"><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;" >Sad news of the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">UC</span> system taking from the less- employable and indigent handicapped-disabled folks now. <span style=""> <br /></span></span></p><p class="heading"><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;" ><span style=""><br /></span></span></p><p class="heading"><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;" ><span style=""> </span>After years of following the California code for allowing those who are often not able to be fully employed and earning like 'ordinary folks', like those with legitimate disabilities, even those not visible medical conditions... i.e. not stumbling in wheel chair or drooping on a cane... but still limited in their abilities to move and be fully mobile, Now those few spots where there was disabled parking was at no cost, is no more.<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><br /></span></p><p class="heading"><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;" ><br /></span></p><p class="heading"><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;" >But big signs went up<span style=""> </span>everywhere to only announcing that<span style=""> </span>as of Jan 1,2010 a $3 visitor fee for Disabled Parking will apply to all who enter these sacred grounds.<span style=""> </span><br /></span></p><p class="heading"><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;" ><br /></span></p><p class="heading"><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;" >Why complain ? Because the University of California, i.e. UCLA,<span style=""> </span>system is trying to increase it's income on the backs of<span style=""> </span>all those who enter the university premises<span style=""> </span>- even who can ill afford these increases.<span style=""> </span>Yes. but yet, the $3 is less than the ordinary $10 entry daily fees for sure !<span style=""> <br /></span></span></p><p class="heading"><br /><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;" ><span style=""></span></span></p><p class="heading"><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;" ><span style=""></span>The lack of adequate or clear &<span style=""> </span>presentable communications to it's loyal public has led to many disabled non-students, and<span style=""> </span>non-staff<span style=""> </span>folks,to react with<span style=""> </span>ill-will.<span style=""> <br /></span></span></p><p class="heading"><br /><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;" ><span style=""></span></span></p><p class="heading"><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;" ><span style=""></span>Lack of acceptance of these increases in the cost of visiting OUR university,<span style=""> </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">sp</span> that even alumni, the elderly, or those actually often unable to earn equally or fairly in the work world,<span style=""> </span>and<span style=""> </span>also those who do not use their dead grandma's handicap plaques are jolted into surprise thus dismay at<span style=""> </span>this sudden<span style=""> </span>decree.<span style=""> </span><br /></span></p><p class="heading"><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;" ><br /></span></p><p class="heading"><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;" >The sidewalk signs are all that tell the public of what comes without any adequate advance notices nor any<span style=""> </span>explanations. Just pay up or else..... No questions allowed.<span style=""> </span><br /></span></p><p class="heading"><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;" ><br /></span></p><p class="heading"><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;" >This is poor public relations - creating ill will and resentments -<span style=""> </span>not just because of the cash now required but more so because there is no consideration for the visiting public in giving<span style=""> </span>clear<span style=""> </span>and courteous notice of what is happening,. "Why ?" is not a question obviously, and this immediate change is made without<span style=""> </span>even a mild pretense of<span style=""> </span>an apology for the sudden rise in rates. Not a glimmer of caring about public reactions, and no place for public comments either.<span style=""> </span><br /></span></p><p class="heading"><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;" ><br /></span></p><p class="heading"><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;" >To communicate with the Transportation / Parking<span style=""> </span>Dept of UCLA that handles all parking is very<span style=""> </span>convoluted, difficult and requires much effort, patience, perseverance and wasted personal time. There is no one to ask questions of what is going on. There is no answer if one tries. And even tho their employees are salary-paid-still<span style=""> </span>also to answer questions and handle responses to their sudden actions, apparently they are not paid well enough to have a Q&A response system. Just pay up...or else !<span style=""> </span>Because we said so..... <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">hmmmmmmm</span><span style=""> </span><br /></span></p><p class="heading"><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;" ><br /></span></p><p class="heading"><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;" >The set-up<span style=""> </span>street signs announcing the $3 Handicap Parking<span style=""> </span>went up in December 2009 and for the 3 weeks the Univ. was<span style=""> </span>fully shut down for the holidays is assumed to be time-enough for 'everyone' to be informed, conform and silently agree. But no one was around to see these signs before Jan 4, when UCLA opened up again.<span style=""> </span>And the student parking workers know hardly anything when asked.<span style=""> <br /></span></span></p><p class="heading"><br /><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;" ><span style=""></span></span></p><p class="heading"><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;" ><span style=""></span>Oh well, let them take the guff and be <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">frontline</span> casualties.<span style=""> </span><br /></span></p><p class="heading"><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;" ><br /></span></p><p class="heading"><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;" >The Parking dept can sit in offices further away and be safe from public reactions and opinions and questions. <span style=""> </span><br /></span></p><p class="heading"><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;" ><br /></span></p><p class="heading"><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;" >However, there are no <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">flyers</span> are handed out at parking kiosks, so the poor student workers there have no information other than "you have to pay now" and they will be getting the ire and fury of those<span style=""> </span>visitors daily that suddenly are confronted with an unexplained cost increase Is this the way to "do business".<br />By our state-paid<span style=""> </span>employees at UCLA ?<span style=""> </span><br /></span></p><p class="heading"><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;" >This is a sign of the times, but not just economic ones. It is the times of<span style=""> </span>the "We <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Dont</span> Care because We Have Power to Do as We wish",<span style=""> </span>acted out by those who are paid by the California STATE funds, which are taxpayer supplied, of course.<span style=""> </span>Instead of helping the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">UC</span> system show consideration and caring to all concerned<span style=""> </span>in times when good-will is hard to come by<span style=""> </span>anyway - e.g.<span style=""> </span>with the recent announcement of fee increases for students whose families earn over $70,000,<span style=""> </span>now the Transportation Dept did not think ahead or do proper PR.<span style=""> </span><span style=""> <br /></span></span></p><p class="heading"><br /><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;" ><span style=""></span></span></p><p class="heading"><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;" ><span style=""></span>It was not planned well enough<span style=""> </span>to make<span style=""> </span>ADVANCE information available,<span style=""> </span>with more than the easy demand and set up of a New Rule. "Pay UP or get an expensive parking ticket !" is the abrupt message. We <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">dont</span> care about anyone but getting our money. From any every one who comes near here....our campuses.</span></p><p class="heading"><br /><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;" > <o:p></o:p></span></p> <span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;" >The Jan 4, 2010 issue of the New Yorker Magazine has an excellent article about the recent <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">UC</span> systems' problems and reactions to the student fee increases announced last fall. Check it out online or at library copy. <span style=""> </span><br /><br /><br />Reading of this well-written story brought<span style=""> </span>up other questions of why<span style=""> </span>the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">UC</span> students -<span style=""> </span>who are trying to re-enact the motions of rebellions of the 1960's Anti War protests, tho they do not apply<span style=""> </span>now - when these youth are reacting not to war...not to death of Americans and Vietnamese and others... who are not to being drafted, maimed and maybe killed in far off wars as young men/ women ...who are not concerned<span style=""> </span>as a social movement that cares about what the government does 'not in our name'... no, not these protests....these are different times and different students than what they model their chants and parades and graffiti on....<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><br /><br /><br />The students currently at the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">UC</span> systems<span style=""> </span>have feebly enacted scenes - trying to look powerful<span style=""> </span>-but<span style=""> </span>for their own MONETARY SELF-INTERESTS. That is not a social good, not a government public policy issue, not about caring about the world and others, but<span style=""> </span>these apparently are only concerned about their own money, costs and their entitlements.<span style=""> </span>About 1/3 of grants & aid<span style=""> </span>are paid for by those same student fees, so the poorer students and those incoming ones will lose out because fees should not be shifted up. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">IWho</span> wants to pay more even if some portion<span style=""> </span>of that cost goes to help<span style=""> </span>less-able-others also get into<span style=""> </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">UC</span> also ? No free rides for anyone but the ones that want to get<span style=""> </span>for their own only. Who wants to pay more anywhere anyhow ?<span style=""> </span><br /><br /><br />Strange world that has emerged<span style=""> </span>-when what is important is one's self only and not more social-public-citizens' welfare and their good too. But, that's where 2009 has come to from the times when more socially-conscious students and faculty of the Vietnam anti-war days were doing here.<span style=""> <br /><br /><br /><br /></span>Nothing similar to ANTI WAR protests<span style=""> </span>was anywhere visible at UCLA campus for years now, no one showed up when a protest was announced .... about Iraq or Afghanistan... nor will it be attended if about Yemen, Russia, Bolivia or anywhere<span style=""> </span>else way-over-there - where it is not the students' own money and lifestyle that is directly involved. The era of selfish individualism <span style=""> </span>is on full display. oh well... "me. me, me and mine is all that is important now." <span style=""> <br /><br /><br /><br /></span>oh well..... <span style=""> </span>So if anyone cares besides those whose<span style=""> </span>own costs go up calling, writing, contacting the sources of cost increases would be a good idea.<span style=""> </span>Whether it is the student tuition costs, the Disabled Persons Parking, whether it is the cost of daily living as inflation soon will emerge in other areas without decent jobs to pay for all these increases, take action in some way. Or tell others you will, then do it !<span style=""><br /><br />(c) <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">Maryjanie</span> 2010<br /></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-341108851310463079.post-909041193271722262009-12-24T15:20:00.000-08:002009-12-24T16:03:35.398-08:00Xmas still remains an old-styled story of kindness<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAYIEokLiY2M9ncl3CMQQgUDHOQdSOShQBFbevdXRdGQ2ame-sD3-gH4bLxMGzbEX3wf3-8IOEZdpmcfPvR9dG2n-F1ha8X0_a6XRkBaelri77NLMf7C5m_9NSbthBbN36UaQBTybuiw/s1600-h/XmasSantaOld.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 314px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAYIEokLiY2M9ncl3CMQQgUDHOQdSOShQBFbevdXRdGQ2ame-sD3-gH4bLxMGzbEX3wf3-8IOEZdpmcfPvR9dG2n-F1ha8X0_a6XRkBaelri77NLMf7C5m_9NSbthBbN36UaQBTybuiw/s320/XmasSantaOld.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418947727638407346" border="0" /></a>X-mas is not X defined, but one time to remind us that the <span style="font-weight: bold;">December 21st winter's solstice</span> has been shifted into human form and decorations to symbolize the giving in the colder weather's CHANGE of seasons.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">CHANGE </span>and <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">IMPERMANENCE </span>and the <span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;">joy </span>shared<br />with what stuff can be saved, shined, eaten, and enjoyed remains. Or then to be luxuriously decorated and admired by those who have-less to envy. The benevolent smile of an elder male saint-like, who has accrued more and he might be willing to share, if the others act as if "good" family.<br /><br />The times when racy and sexy forms were <span style="font-style: italic;">not </span>the norm and where stores did not have cheaper-sales as their reason for existing. Times when images and hopes of<br />older wiser men might lead the seasons and nations into more <span style="font-weight: bold;">benevolent </span>spheres. Times when stories told could not actually exist - but be pretended to be - with <span style="font-weight: bold;">imagination </span>providing what real life could not. Times when we were all not yet born or not 'operational' in this economic technological chaos of 2009. <br /><br />Times when wishes were heart-felt, and not on the internet or TV, and when wishes were personal and shared in real-live persons. Times when those who had-more were very separate and segregated, without media to make them available as 'friends to fans'. Times when envy was less lecherous or malicious but part of the imaginative hope for being more like the elite. Times that are <span style="font-style: italic;">not </span>here now.<br /><br />Santa. The image. This is not christian or actually religious so much as representing those who-have and who- <span style="font-weight: bold;">share. willingly.</span> The sumptuous velvet and white furs, the expesive musical instruments and ornaments, the colorful shine in otherwise gray, dulled hard lives was the <span style="font-weight: bold;">image</span>-present, then given with pictures, cards and memories of what hopefully could be, but was <span style="font-style: italic;">not </span>in most-lives possible. That imagination that titillated and glowed in all who had-less to spend on purchased gifts or materials. That <span style="font-weight: bold;">love </span>that was transmitted by hand-work, <span style="font-style: italic;">recycled </span>materials renovated, and the <span style="font-weight: bold;">time </span>with <span style="font-weight: bold;">effort </span>each person dedicated to only the <span style="font-style: italic;">few </span>to whom they could afford to give gifts. Sweet foods for those to whom they could give value but less.<br /><br />Nostalgia means wishing for the past to re-emerge as it was before. Not now. Remembering what may have existed before... that we can now revive and rekindle as a delight image of what the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Winter Solstice Season</span> can provide in <span style="font-style: italic;">meaning </span>and <span style="font-style: italic;">sharings</span>. The tree symbolic of nature, decorations the fruit of nature, candles shining as sky lights, et al.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Let us remember</span> that we can share - without buying more, spending too much, or expecting to get another object for our crowded spaces. <br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Let us remember</span> that the coming together in warmth when the cold outside is darker and just as the en-lightening days begin lengthening is the physical meaning of this sharing time, words, feelings, love, together, again.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Let us be here</span> in other ways, in this store-filled, media-exaggerated, mis-aligned, and politically-dangerous world that has scared so many of us into retreat and realizations - remembering too that the '<span style="font-style: italic;">old</span>' still carries <span style="font-weight: bold;">positive </span>reminders of meaning. And that we are still just barely human. And this prior-time Santa elicits images that can give kinder, deeper thoughts of each to one another - than the buy-buy-buy ones promoted all around our media-saturated minds now.<br /><br />Let this aged image be just what good feelings and thoughts emerge from the <span style="font-style: italic;">assumptions, wishes, </span>that times-were-better-then, even if not so to most people.<br /><br />Let the images that brought kindness and sharing as the themes of giving prevail and uphold the cold and dark outside.<br /><br />Let the inside light up and smile benevolently on you too, and you on others and sweetness refresh our cynical ways and views of these automated fear-full days.<br /><br />Let this be a reminder that we are still who we and our families were before, regardless of religion, region, wealth or hard-work-options of a while ago. We are still <span style="font-style: italic;">family</span>, in a more strained but still close way. Human family.<br /><br />Merry X-mas on any X day to you.<br /><img src="file:///C:/My%20Documents/XmasSantaOld.jpg" alt="" /><br /><br /><img src="file:///C:/WINDOWS/TEMP/moz-screenshot-3.jpg" alt="" /><img src="file:///C:/WINDOWS/TEMP/moz-screenshot-4.jpg" alt="" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-341108851310463079.post-62261138321364497032009-11-28T09:29:00.000-08:002009-11-28T09:34:26.910-08:00there is no stopping Thanks and Giving, even the day after<p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">The day after</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">with most of us remembering the food gifts of yesterday</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">in this USA</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">where most people were given special foods</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">and then feasted to overload and more</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">because we are still filled with our food baskets</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">as even the homeless - in Venice CA and elsewhere</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">ate 3 platefulls and still came back for More again</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">and smiled or groaned</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">even if without a room in which to sleep</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">but eat plenty we all did </span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">TOGETHER.</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">Here, on the beachfront, a generous benefit provided</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">by many volunteers bringing MORE & more...</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">home-cooked delicacies nutritious goodies </span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">to fill <i>their own hearts</i> with their giving</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">and knowing</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">that both giving and getting are at least</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">equal in filling life purposes, bodies, <span> </span>and self-esteem[s].</span></p><span style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);font-size:130%;" ><br /></span> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">The day after</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">is just the same as the other one</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">without the filling of stomachs.</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">The remaining memories,</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">the left-over sensations in tummy, and some still have food stored</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">in plates hidden under benches</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">or deep recesses of refrigerators [“iceboxes”, of before].</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">And the rememberance that “<i>Yes ! someone cares</i>” </span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">for “<b>me</b>” too and shares with me, too</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">and we are still plentiful even in these harder economic times</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">even with scary stories around each of us, yet still</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">we wont give up our treasured</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">traditions created to EAT and <span> </span>eat more -</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">to also share, that pleasure, be it small or huge,</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">with one <b>ANOTHER</b>.</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">The day after</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">to maybe even carry on these fulfilled ruminations -</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">keeping the positive alive</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">and the propaganda-fears so pushed on us, in remission.</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">The day after</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">we need to <b>INTEND</b> to continue</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">those good-will greetings, feedings, smiles, and openness</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">that emerge mostly when good food is given</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">yet that can continue when it is all digested and gone</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">and we can still be <b>FAMILY with strangers</b>,</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">the less-washed, the drunks, the crazies, the silent ones.</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">We can continue</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">to <b>stay open</b> in hearts and greetings</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">even without food-filled bodies</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">but still keep <b>filled hearts and willing minds to be receptive</b></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b>to any one</b></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">human or animal or insect or plant or <b>any being</b> <span> </span>in-on our earth</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">to keep <b>CONNECTED</b>, <span> </span>to stay attentive to more than just ‘me’,</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">to be alert and even sometimes</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">LOVING-like, courteous, cautiously-friendly-stlll, honoring any being.</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span> <!--[endif]--></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">The day after</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">is not different</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">not too late</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">to continue the feasting of friendship</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">at any level, be it light or more intense</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">not too late</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">to continue to honoring of all souls.</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">not to late</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">to remember who we really are:</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">all this is together.</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">even the day after</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">and the day after that one</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">and on and on and on</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">Delight also in <b>This DAY AFTER</b> that cycles on in <b>impermanence</b> forever.</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">delight in change</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">delight in strangeness</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">delight in <i>playing</i> with your fears</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">delight in nature’s tiny surprises</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">delight in your next food experience</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">delight in being here with me too.</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">[or just check your swarming-filled-with-thoughts-mind out to see what <i>is</i> cycling therein. ]</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="color: rgb(191, 0, 191);" class="MsoNormal">plus......below<br /></p><span style="font-size:130%;"></span> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal">[image of animals enjoying the feastings are at <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.photosbyalexandria.com/"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1259429253_1">www.photosbyalexandria.com</span></a>. go see....]</p><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornucopia"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1259429253_2">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornucopia</span></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/cornucopia"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1259429253_3">http://www.answers.com/topic/cornucopia</span></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://paganismwicca.suite101.com/article.cfm/cornucopia_pagan_symbol_of_abundance"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1259429253_4">http://paganismwicca.suite101.com/article.cfm/cornucopia_pagan_symbol_of_abundance</span></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br />(c) maryjanie 2009<br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-341108851310463079.post-70644161587601516562009-11-18T14:09:00.000-08:002009-11-18T14:35:14.351-08:00Did I really steal your jacket that cold night, friend ?<em>a real story that may ...or not..incriminate or embarrass me. I had to admit it and write to my friend that I had ...well read on and find out if you like story-telling....</em><br /><br /><br /><div>Caught !</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>but by mistake...of course... I would never do this to YOU, especially after telling you how COLD IT IS OUTSIDE last night...<br />BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR......rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr</div><br /><br />so I was saying...<br />how cold it was last night<br />how I did not bring a warm enough jacket when they switched me from indoors to parking monitor and then I saw you, and and you looked SO GOOD IN YOUR JACKET<br />that<br />later<br />I put my emergency 2nd jacket on what I THOUGHT, honestly !, assumed<br />was MY OTHER OLD JACKET ON MY WHITE HANGER in that tight closet<br />but since the thin coat I wore earlier was not there<br />[oh, I had cleverly put it in my car when I got the wild giraffe B&W not-thick-enough jacket out]<br />and since I had brought some of my own white plastic hangers when we were low of these in the fitting room that we all inhabit together...<br />and when I took MY to-use-in-an-emergency-only B&W jacket, assuming it was my other old thin black jacket under it,<br />and went to my car<br />and drove home<br />and then or until...the next morning<br />I found this thinnner-than-even-my-thin jacket<br />humped and wilted and crushed and dying<br />under<br />my fancy animal-like NEW B&W jacket.<br />and I smoked all the cigarettes you had saved and asked about - as I had not investigated the pockets for loose change<br />knowing I had little money, much less loose change<br />[and did you see that documentary, by the way ? wow, did you see the 9-11 towers go down ? ]<br />and so not having pilfered the pockets carefully, even now, I thought it might be good to take up smoking, tho I never have all these years prior to this opportunity.<br /><br />oh, and there is more !!!!<br /><br />I am scheduled to work there again, so I walked that thin jacket you seem to think so highly of and want back, all the way to the work closet we share at work.<br />No one home.<br />I went tumbling down to basement and rang bell persistently , knocked, rang dulled bell again, and yet no one answered down in the managers' office.<br />so I had to carefully WALK BACK UP STEEP STAIRS all by myself, with the stolen, <em>ahem</em>, I mean lifted, or rather taken, by mistake of course ! , that skinny black jacket with all it's contents intact<br />to my car again...<br /><br />look up if you might be working tomorrow cuz I thought to maybe leave it outside the doors or in closet for you tomorrow, but NO,<br />you did it wrong<br />by not working tomorrow, the result is that you will freeze w/o your silly black jacket.<br />There is no work tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow either<br />so where I sit here now ...dejectedly..afraid to reveal my real name...<br />knowing you cannot decipher who I am by my story or my clever emails,<br />oh, I forgot to change my "psuedo-name" on top of email heading, oh well....<br />the story is<br />I will bring that old torn and ugly jacket back to you in a few weeks....even if I am not working,<br />because I come for other friends and coffee and visiting near there anyhow<br />and then<br />you can get your stupid jacket !<br /><br />is this clear ?<br /><br />my long story is <em>not</em> an apology, of course, because I did nothing wrong<br />except to write a very very very long accurate to every detail, almost, of what has happened so far, so when you inspect your jacket, then you will know it's true story - a real story - an honest story.....and you will treasure how many places and adventures it has been through without YOU.<br /><br />anyhow,<br />if there is another way to get that rag to you, like if you are near here, let me know cuz I can bring it to somewhere, if it's not too far from wherever I am at that time and since I am coiming to an event there soon enough, I mean a few weeks is nothing to get upset about, right ? Not like I stole your cheap nylon top to keep it for some other purposes or to give to Joe instead ...<br /><br />I may be no friend of yours, but I am friendly with that that that ....jacket<br />now<br /><br />PS....I hope you have more than 1 jacket, even if it is not your favorite or a best-black-one either.<br /><br /><br /><br />(c) maryjanie 2009Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-341108851310463079.post-62920311963284746482009-10-09T15:41:00.000-07:002009-10-09T15:42:56.515-07:00Pacifica and iED has been maligned so easily on Indymedia. What is going on here ?<p class="heading"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);" name="230978"><strong class="heading">"Wow, some [ article <span style="font-size:100%;">of which this is a comment to </span>] tinged with angry<br />words [t]here ...but where are the substantiating sources for that info ?"<br /></strong></a></span></p><p class="heading"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);" name="230978"><strong class="heading">[= <span style="font-size:100%;">no references, no apparent fact checking noted in article, so is th is just another smear campaign? And why is this written anyhow ? & why now ? </span>]<br /></strong></a></span></p><p class="heading"><a style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);" name="230978"><strong class="heading"></strong></a><br /><em>Thursday, Oct. 08, 2009 <br /></em></p><p class="heading"><em>reposted here from http://la.indymedia.org/news/2009/10/230955_comment.php#230978</em></p><p class="heading"><em></em><br /> </p> these are some quotes of much written above to address here : <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">[snipped from much more malignments and claims that remain unsubstantiated in that article ] </span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> "Under the revised governance structure and byelaw changes, a small number of listener-subscribers and staff elect biannually a 25 member Local Station Board. The logic of such “democracy” entails a tiny fraction of listeners electing a board with a great deal of power." </span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> "...led by an unwilling reject of the Church of Scientology," </span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> "Since Aaron’s cabal has come to power, the financial situation has markedly deteriorated." </span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> "...these positions have mostly gone to board cronies without even a pro forma gesture towards open hiring" </span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> "Notwithstanding elements of farce and a descent into snake oil peddling, there is an enormous amount at stake in the struggle for the soul of Pacifica." </span><br /><br /><br />So here are our Questions and concerns from that article [too long to be reproduced here, but can seen on link above - that also contains others' comments as well ] :<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> " electing a board with a great deal of power.</span>"<br /><br /><br />There has been a big to-do about the LSB, getting voted on, or who gets to represent [no one anyone can name as] a legitimate KPFK group, and hoping to affect the programming or get a program of one's very own...<br /><br /><br />but it has also been questioned just how much "power" is given or available to the whole LSB, and how ineffective that group is, maybe mostly because of the intense factionalization, continual distractions, the rebellious outbursts that often interrupt any work presented. And all theo bstructions that keep it's own members from provoking dramas for their own image making rather than dedicating their energies to producing benefits for the station and it's management.<br /><br /><br />So the question of how "<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">powerful</span>" other than in name is to be explored, investigated and surely questioned seriously.<br /><br /><br />Then repeated references to the <span style="font-weight: bold;">iED Aaron</span> attempting to malign her by some extraneous label and describe her work as "led by an unwilling reject of the Church of Scientology". Does this mean she is not even qualified for that unpopular organization and it's believers ? Or that if she is a Scientologist, she certainly cannot belong or be rational and effective working for the stations ?<br /><br /><br />Or what does that reference intend anyhow ? And who is going to verify that this is current, or what the prior circumstances of her life was that now makes her unqualified or inept ?<br /><br /><br />Another great declaration: "<span style="font-style: italic;"> Since Aaron’s cabal has come to power, the financial situation has markedly deteriorated."<br /><br /><br /></span> Who has determined that she is in any way a cause or contributor to <span style="font-weight: bold;">Pacifica</span>'s continual money troubles and not a solver or working to improve that forever-impoverished condition ? And is the word "<span style="font-style: italic;">cabal</span>" a negative implication or a description of whom and what ? It appears to be another attempt to demean, discredit and allude to Ms. Aaron's person and colleagues also.<br /><br /><br />Is that statement verified somewhere that was not included in the historical article above ? Does the public information of the financial condition mean it is to be kept secret from it's stakeholders and those concerned about the stations' stability ?<br /><br /><br />Or does this big implication only mean that the iED has so much power now, more than any ED just prior to her becoming a temporary one, that she alone can make and break Pacifica's banks? Huh ? Explain please, with actual direct causal facts, not just hearsay and rumor or deliberate malignments.<br /><br /><br />Let's get real here. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Indymedia </span>is hopefully not just a place to vent and rant and rage and hope someone else might agree and then act in your behalf.<br /><br /><br />Another statement : "<span style="font-style: italic;">these positions have mostly gone to board cronies without even a pro forma gesture towards open hiring</span>"<br />Can this be shown, proved, verified ?<br />What are the rules for open-hiring at Pacifica ?<br />What does a manager do when there is no one yet visible who is qualified or hire-able permantly and the work needs to be done ?<br />Use a temp agency maybe ?<br />Or put up an ad on Monster Board ?<br />Or find someone to fill in until all can be done properly, knowing everyone who is not "in" will accuse and complain for sure, and loudly so.<br /><br /><br />The competition for any of these stressful positions is strong, and the in-fighting with accompanying stress must surely deter many qualified individuals from joining such wildly buffeted organizations.<br /><br /><br />And while there is much more to question and answer for above, this quote : <span style="font-style: italic;">"notwithstanding elements of farce and a descent into snake oil peddling, there is an enormous amount at stake in the struggle for the soul of Pacifica." </span><br /><br /><br />So where can one find the "<span style="font-weight: bold;">soul</span>" of a non-profit NGO like Pacifica ?<br /><br />How did a soul [however defined even in Wiki if need be] ever get into such a changing of leadership corporation ?<br /><br />And how did it then evaporate or escape from it's cubby hole?<br /><br /><br />And the farce that is an eternal Pacifica drama - yes, that many enjoy without even paying their pledges to support this theater of the absurd- continues.<br /><br /><br />Here some of us agree that "f<span style="font-style: italic;">arce.... struggle</span>... " are more useful descriptions, meaning there is more drama and theatrics than actual working towards a goal in LSB and maybe other board or committee meetings. Many love and make provocations and shout-matches to produce these intense and involving theatrical experience.<br /><br /><br />Just like the old Greek dramas but in an odder modern version with ' any minority defined as victim to get an immediate defense' and so the next power-struggle for poorest victim to be saved' forms the basis for the next diversion from managing business that must get done.<br /><br /><br />To be sure, the battle for Pacifica is being fought on a ground not of our own choosing. The entire landscape of internal communications , in Pacifica and it's station, and from the author above, needs to be clarified, and made more factual. Or else everything said and written must be contested and questioned.<br /><br /><br />Some phrases above are well said and there is some agreement about the concerns of how and by whom all is handled.<br /><br /><br />Oh, yes, and thanks to author for not being hidden behind a pseudo-name, tho some of us who live locally and try to help affect and improve our local Pacifica station do NOT TRUST the individuals who fractionalize and vent and act-out in some angry ways those who do not just 'agree' and defer to their righteous views. [self-righteous to enhance some demanding very smart people who dedicate enormous amounts of time and energy to doing something for or against their preferred station<br /><br /><br />(c) 2009 akpfkerUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-341108851310463079.post-91698421494601862492009-10-09T15:15:00.000-07:002009-10-09T15:35:25.589-07:00Pacifica and iED has been maligned so easily on Indymedia. What is going on here ?<p class="heading"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);" name="230978"><strong class="heading">"Wow, some [ article <span style="font-size:100%;">of which this is a comment to </span>] tinged with angry<br /></strong></a></span></p><p class="heading"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);" name="230978"><strong class="heading">words [t]here ...but where are the substantiating sources for that info ?"<br /></strong></a></span></p><p class="heading"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);" name="230978"><strong class="heading">[= <span style="font-size:100%;">no references, no apparent fact checking noted in article, so is th is just another smear campaign? And why is this written anyhow ? & why now ? </span>]<br /></strong></a></span></p><p class="heading"><a style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);" name="230978"><strong class="heading"></strong></a><br /><em>Thursday, Oct. 08, 2009 <br /></em></p><p class="heading"><em>reposted here from http://la.indymedia.org/news/2009/10/230955_comment.php#230978</em></p><p class="heading"><em></em><br /> </p> these are some quotes of much written above to address here : <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">[snipped from much more malignments and claims that remain unsubstantiated in that article ] </span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> "Under the revised governance structure and byelaw changes, a small number of listener-subscribers and staff elect biannually a 25 member Local Station Board. The logic of such “democracy” entails a tiny fraction of listeners electing a board with a great deal of power." </span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> "...led by an unwilling reject of the Church of Scientology," </span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> "Since Aaron’s cabal has come to power, the financial situation has markedly deteriorated." </span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> "...these positions have mostly gone to board cronies without even a pro forma gesture towards open hiring" </span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> "Notwithstanding elements of farce and a descent into snake oil peddling, there is an enormous amount at stake in the struggle for the soul of Pacifica." </span><br /><br /><br />So here are our Questions and concerns from that article [too long to be reproduced here, but can seen on link above - that also contains others' comments as well ] :<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> " electing a board with a great deal of power.</span>"<br /><br /><br />There has been a big to-do about the LSB, getting voted on, or who gets to represent [no one anyone can name as] a legitimate KPFK group, and hoping to affect the programming or get a program of one's very own...<br /><br /><br />but it has also been questioned just how much "power" is given or available to the whole LSB, and how ineffective that group is, maybe mostly because of the intense factionalization, continual distractions, the rebellious outbursts that often interrupt any work presented. And all theo bstructions that keep it's own members from provoking dramas for their own image making rather than dedicating their energies to producing benefits for the station and it's management.<br /><br /><br />So the question of how "<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">powerful</span>" other than in name is to be explored, investigated and surely questioned seriously.<br /><br /><br />Then repeated references to the <span style="font-weight: bold;">iED Aaron</span> attempting to malign her by some extraneous label and describe her work as "led by an unwilling reject of the Church of Scientology". Does this mean she is not even qualified for that unpopular organization and it's believers ? Or that if she is a Scientologist, she certainly cannot belong or be rational and effective working for the stations ?<br /><br /><br />Or what does that reference intend anyhow ? And who is going to verify that this is current, or what the prior circumstances of her life was that now makes her unqualified or inept ?<br /><br /><br />Another great declaration: "<span style="font-style: italic;"> Since Aaron’s cabal has come to power, the financial situation has markedly deteriorated."<br /><br /><br /></span> Who has determined that she is in any way a cause or contributor to <span style="font-weight: bold;">Pacifica</span>'s continual money troubles and not a solver or working to improve that forever-impoverished condition ? And is the word "<span style="font-style: italic;">cabal</span>" a negative implication or a description of whom and what ? It appears to be another attempt to demean, discredit and allude to Ms. Aaron's person and colleagues also.<br /><br /><br />Is that statement verified somewhere that was not included in the historical article above ? Does the public information of the financial condition mean it is to be kept secret from it's stakeholders and those concerned about the stations' stability ? <br /><br /><br />Or does this big implication only mean that the iED has so much power now, more than any ED just prior to her becoming a temporary one, that she alone can make and break Pacifica's banks? Huh ? Explain please, with actual direct causal facts, not just hearsay and rumor or deliberate malignments.<br /><br /><br />Let's get real here. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Indymedia </span>is hopefully not just a place to vent and rant and rage and hope someone else might agree and then act in your behalf.<br /><br /><br />Another statement : "<span style="font-style: italic;">these positions have mostly gone to board cronies without even a pro forma gesture towards open hiring</span>"<br />Can this be shown, proved, verified ?<br />What are the rules for open-hiring at Pacifica ?<br />What does a manager do when there is no one yet visible who is qualified or hire-able permantly and the work needs to be done ?<br />Use a temp agency maybe ?<br />Or put up an ad on Monster Board ?<br />Or find someone to fill in until all can be done properly, knowing everyone who is not "in" will accuse and complain for sure, and loudly so.<br /><br /><br />The competition for any of these stressful positions is strong, and the in-fighting with accompanying stress must surely deter many qualified individuals from joining such wildly buffeted organizations.<br /><br /><br />And while there is much more to question and answer for above, this quote : <span style="font-style: italic;">"notwithstanding elements of farce and a descent into snake oil peddling, there is an enormous amount at stake in the struggle for the soul of Pacifica." </span><br /><br /><br />So where can one find the "<span style="font-weight: bold;">soul</span>" of a non-profit NGO like Pacifica ?<br /><br />How did a soul [however defined even in Wiki if need be] ever get into such a changing of leadership corporation ?<br /><br />And how did it then evaporate or escape from it's cubby hole?<br /><br /><br />And the farce that is an eternal Pacifica drama - yes, that many enjoy without even paying their pledges to support this theater of the absurd- continues.<br /><br /><br />Here some of us agree that "f<span style="font-style: italic;">arce.... struggle</span>... " are more useful descriptions, meaning there is more drama and theatrics than actual working towards a goal in LSB and maybe other board or committee meetings. Many love and make provocations and shout-matches to produce these intense and involving theatrical experience.<br /><br /><br />Just like the old Greek dramas but in an odder modern version with ' any minority defined as victim to get an immediate defense' and so the next power-struggle for poorest victim to be saved' forms the basis for the next diversion from managing business that must get done.<br /><br /><br />To be sure, the battle for Pacifica is being fought on a ground not of our own choosing. The entire landscape of internal communications , in Pacifica and it's station, and from the author above, needs to be clarified, and made more factual. Or else everything said and written must be contested and questioned.<br /><br /><br />Some phrases above are well said and there is some agreement about the concerns of how and by whom all is handled.<br /><br /><br />Oh, yes, and thanks to author for not being hidden behind a pseudo-name, tho some of us who live locally and try to help affect and improve our local Pacifica station do NOT TRUST the individuals who fractionalize and vent and act-out in some angry ways those who do not just 'agree' and defer to their righteous views. [self-righteous to enhance some demanding very smart people who dedicate enormous amounts of time and energy to doing something for or against their preferred station<br /><br /><br />(c) 2009 akpfkerUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0