The "In-Between" Space

2010-01-06T12:12:00.001-08:00

If you seek social-political truth....Watch and Listen to this interview at Democracy Now.... Speak Truth to Power.

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/6/obama_has_kept_the_machine_set

“Obama Has Kept the Machine Set on Kill”–Journalist and Activist Allan Nairn Reviews Obama’s First Year in Office
In an extended interview, award-winning journalist and activist Allan Nairn looks back over the Obama administration’s foreign policy and national security decisions over the last twelve months. “I think Obama should be remembered as a great man because of the blow he struck against white racism,” Nairn says. “But once he became president…Obama became a murderer and a terrorist, because the US has a machine that spans the globe, that has the capacity to kill, and Obama has kept it set on kill. He could have flipped the switch and turned it off…but he chose not to do so.” He continues, “In fact, as far as one can tell, Obama seems to have killed more civilians during his first year than Bush did in his first year, and maybe even than Bush killed in his final year.”

Listen to this interview in 2008: http://www.democracynow.org/2008/1/3/vote_for_change_atrocity_linked_us

MOVE YOUR MONEY

2010-01-04T17:36:00.001-08:00

WOW....WE CAN ACTUALLY "DO SOMETHING" !!!
WHAT A GREAT IDEA...PASS IT ON...PAY IT FORWARD....TELL YOUR NEIGHBORS, BRING IT UP AT THE STAFF MEETINGS...LETS ROCK IT.

2009-12-18T06:37:00.000-08:00

listen to this interview.... The BS behind the Image. http://www.democracynow.org/2009/12/17/a_naked_form_of_blackmail_naomi

“A Naked Form of Blackmail”: Naomi Klein on Secretary of State Clinton’s Proposal to Set Up $100 Billion Climate Aid Fund for Developing Countries
Secretary Clinton said the US would consider contributing to an international $100 billion annual climate aid fund for poorer nations beginning in 2020 if the Copenhagen talks resulted in a comprehensive deal. It is unclear how much money the US would give to the fund. Aid groups say the $100 billion would be insufficient. We speak with journalist Naomi Klein.

Lieberman Socks

2009-12-18T05:08:00.001-08:00

Truth from the muppets.

Michael Rosen

2009-12-15T07:37:00.000-08:00

Michael Rosen
Following the lead of his racially color-blind son, Michael Rosen and his wife found themselves adopting a group of underprivileged African American boys within the context of their very privileged Caucasian world. What began as a kids' baseball game in the park, became a commitment that would bridge the racial and cultural divide, introducing the youngsters to Nintendo, their first dinner at a nice restaurant, a book store, and ultimately providing the guidance and support to get them into college. Not surprising, the Rosens gained as much as they gave, including an education in the real impact of racial and socioeconomic discrimination. Dr. Rosen explains, "I don't understand what needs to be done to change this massive level of oppression. But I do know that unless there are types of mentoring where people reach across those divides, then that very tragic aspect of our society is never going to change." This tender story of how one family grew to hold the dreams of young men, who might never have escaped that oppression, will bring you a new perspective on what's possible, when we live as though everyone really does deserve an equal chance to succeed.
"For Michael Rosen to have lived this story would've been sufficient. For him to be able to write about it with such beauty and grit, such delicacy and bluntness, seems like a gift of destiny. 'What Else But Home' renders our country's defining forces of race and class--and immigration--down to the society's molecular unit, the family, and shows us what we have become and might become, in all our heroic messiness. This is a valentine to America's diversity--and indeed to every enterprise of courage, chaos, and love that results in magic."

--Diane McWhorter, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Carry Me Home"

2009-12-09T06:37:00.000-08:00

Welcome Solstice time....Welcome to the return of Light....

http://solsticeconcert.com/

Return of the Sun
Rebirth of the Sun
Thirty years ago, the Consort and I were invited to be artists-in-residence at New York’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine. We aspired to create music appropriate to this extraordinary acoustic space–two football fields long and tall enough to accommodate the Statue of Liberty.
I dreamed of presenting a musical celebration that could resonate with all people regardless of background or age. It occurred to me that the most universal milestone we could celebrate would be the winter solstice.
Over the years, this event has become a shared rite of passage through the longest night of the year. The Cathedral’s all-embracing vastness overwhelms our differences, and yet welcomes and affirms our diversity. Of all the places I’ve played in America, only two could host a concert on this scale: the Cathedral and the Grand Canyon.
Traditionally, Solstice has been a time of reflection, gratitude, forgiveness and renewal. My aspiration is that the audience will come away with their spirits awakened, and with a deepened sense of relatedness to the family of life, to the Earth, and perhaps even to the cosmos. As we approach our 30th annual production, I still have this sense of anticipation. Please join us, along with our special guests Russia’s Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble and New York’s Forces of Nature Dance Theatre Ensemble, as we celebrate the rebirth of the sunThirty years ago, the Consort and I were invited to be artists-in-residence at New York’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine. We aspired to create music appropriate to this extraordinary acoustic space–two football fields long and tall enough to accommodate the Statue of Liberty.
Thirty years ago, the Consort and I were invited to be artists-in-residence at New York’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine. We aspired to create music appropriate to this extraordinary acoustic space—two football fields long and tall enough to accommodate the Statue of Liberty.
I dreamed of presenting a musical celebration that could resonate with all people regardless of background or age. It occurred to me that the most universal milestone we could celebrate would be the winter solstice.
Over the years, this event has become a shared rite of passage through the longest night of the year. The Cathedral’s all-embracing vastness overwhelms our differences, and yet welcomes and affirms our diversity. Of all the places I’ve played in America, only two could host a concert on this scale: the Cathedral and the Grand Canyon.
Traditionally, Solstice has been a time of reflection, gratitude, forgiveness and renewal. My aspiration is that the audience will come away with their spirits awakened, and with a deepened sense of relatedness to the family of life, to the Earth, and perhaps even to the cosmos. Please join us, along with our special guests Russia’s Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble and New York’s Forces of Nature Dance Theatre, as we celebrate the rebirth of the sun.
For living music, Paul Winter

Messages to Obama: Escalation in the Afghanistan War

2009-12-06T23:42:00.001-08:00

http://rethinkafghanistan.com/?utm_source=tmpetition

make up your own mind......

2009-12-02T06:29:00.001-08:00

http://pjep.org/

the only ones who can stop the insanity of these WARS are the people....STAND UP . DEFEND ALL PEOPLES RIGHT TO EXIST.
STOP SUPPORTING WAR AND WAR MONGERS.
THERE IS A PROTEST IN YOUR AREA....FIND IT. BE IT.
http://pjep.org/
Emergency Response Protests to Afghanistan Escalation in Chicago, Carbondale, Rockford and Urbana
Posted on 2009-12-01 22:29:00 by
Five Emergency Response Protests to Obama's announcement of an escalation of the Afghanistan War are planned in Illinois (so far):Dec. 2 -- Chicago 5:00 pm Emergency Response to US Surge in Afghanistan Wednesday rally and march starts Federal Plaza, Dearborn and Adams Streets in Chicago. Co-sponsored by over 40 local organizations.Dec. 2 – Carbondale 4:00pm Peace Vigil to Protest Escalation, Wednesday afternoon Town Square Pavilion, 100 Main St , Carbondale, IL 62901 Sponsored by the Peace Coalition of Southern Illinois.Dec. 2 – Urbana 5:00 pm Stand Against Troop Increase * Demonstrate against war in Afghanistan/Pakistan: at the Alma Mater on Green & Wright, U of I Campus. Sponsored by AWARE, Campus Anti-War Network, ISO and IVAW. Dec. 2 -- Rockford 5:30 pm Rockford Afghanistan Escalation Protest Wednesday night vigil for peace. Sponsored by Rockford Peace and Justice Coalition.Dec. 5 -- Chicago 12:00 noon Emergency Response to US Surge in AfghanistanSaturday rally and march starts Federal Plaza, Dearborn and Adams Streets in Chicago. Co-sponsored by over 40 local organizations.For a listing of Afghanistan Anti-Escalation Protests nationwide (80 at last count) see the article on http://pjep.org/uploads/docs/actionsafghanistan.pdf from information gathered on the Peace Justice and Environment Project network websites.Please use Contact form on navigation bar at the top of this page if you know of other protests being planned.

2009-12-01T05:07:00.000-08:00

http://storyofstuff.com/capandtrade/

November 30th, 2009, posted by Annie Leonard
If you’re like me, an increasing amount of your worries these days focus on the rising levels of CO2 in the atmosphere and the resulting potential for devastating climate chaos.
Years ago, when I first heard about climate change, I figured someone else would work all that out while I kept plodding away with my work on consumption, pollution and waste. Well, guess what? They didn’t work it out; in fact, the climate situation is far worse today than even recent scientific predictions. And guess what else? It turns out that climate and consumption are actually the same issue.
You see, most of the greenhouse gases countries emit come from our materials economy: the way we make, use, transport, and throw away all the stuff in our lives. As Boston College professor (and one of my favorite authors) Juliet Schor said “Global consumerism devours resources like there’s no tomorrow. And unless we address how much we consume, we won’t succeed in averting disastrous climate change.”
A majority of scientists now say we need to significantly reduce carbon levels in the atmosphere if we want the planet to resemble something close to what it is like today, supporting the kind of life that it does today. To do this, we simply have to use less Stuff – especially oil and coal. We have to rethink, redesign and rebuild a lot of things. We have to figure out different modes of transportation, growing food, building buildings, and having fun that don’t require endless new Stuff. It’s very possible to make these changes, but they won’t happen on their own. We need to get started.
Unfortunately, most of the world’s leaders and big businesses are instead promoting policy approaches that don’t bring us anywhere near the level of change that climate scientists say is needed—let’s call these “false solutions.” And there’s another problem with these policy approaches: the details are so technical and policy wonkish that it’s often hard to figure out what they are even talking about.
I wondered if it would be possible to explain the leading false solution, Cap and Trade, in a clear compelling way so that more of us are inspired to join the conversation. Working with Climate Justice Now!, the Durban Group for Climate Justice and Free Range Studios, we produced our new short film, The Story of Cap and Trade, to do just that.
We hope you like it. And more importantly, we hope it inspires you to get involved in the most important conversation of our lives.

2009-11-30T10:30:00.000-08:00

An open letter to President Obama....

from Michael Moore....this sayes it all !!! Thanks for the link Evelyn.

http://www.truthout.org/topstories/113009sg01

Dear President Obama,

Do you really want to be the new "war president"? If you go to West Point tomorrow night (Tuesday, 8pm) and announce that you are increasing, rather than withdrawing, the troops in Afghanistan, you are the new war president. Pure and simple. And with that you will do the worst possible thing you could do -- destroy the hopes and dreams so many millions have placed in you. With just one speech tomorrow night you will turn a multitude of young people who were the backbone of your campaign into disillusioned cynics. You will teach them what they've always heard is true -- that all politicians are alike. I simply can't believe you're about to do what they say you are going to do. Please say it isn't so.It is not your job to do what the generals tell you to do. We are a civilian-run government. WE tell the Joint Chiefs what to do, not the other way around. That's the way General Washington insisted it must be. That's what President Truman told General MacArthur when MacArthur wanted to invade China. "You're fired!," said Truman, and that was that. And you should have fired Gen. McChrystal when he went to the press to preempt you, telling the press what YOU had to do. Let me be blunt: We love our kids in the armed services, but we f*#&in' hate these generals, from Westmoreland in Vietnam to, yes, even Colin Powell for lying to the UN with his made-up drawings of WMD (he has since sought redemption).So now you feel backed into a corner. 30 years ago this past Thursday (Thanksgiving) the Soviet generals had a cool idea -- "Let's invade Afghanistan!" Well, that turned out to be the final nail in the USSR coffin.There's a reason they don't call Afghanistan the "Garden State" (though they probably should, seeing how the corrupt President Karzai, whom we back, has his brother in the heroin trade raising poppies). Afghanistan's nickname is the "Graveyard of Empires." If you don't believe it, give the British a call. I'd have you call Genghis Khan but I lost his number. I do have Gorbachev's number though. It's + 41 22 789 1662. I'm sure he could give you an earful about the historic blunder you're about to commit.With our economic collapse still in full swing and our precious young men and women being sacrificed on the altar of arrogance and greed, the breakdown of this great civilization we call America will head, full throttle, into oblivion if you become the "war president." Empires never think the end is near, until the end is here. Empires think that more evil will force the heathens to toe the line -- and yet it never works. The heathens usually tear them to shreds.Choose carefully, President Obama. You of all people know that it doesn't have to be this way. You still have a few hours to listen to your heart, and your own clear thinking. You know that nothing good can come from sending more troops halfway around the world to a place neither you nor they understand, to achieve an objective that neither you nor they understand, in a country that does not want us there. You can feel it in your bones.I know you know that there are LESS than a hundred al-Qaeda left in Afghanistan! A hundred thousand troops trying to crush a hundred guys living in caves? Are you serious? Have you drunk Bush's Kool-Aid? I refuse to believe it.Your potential decision to expand the war (while saying that you're doing it so you can "end the war") will do more to set your legacy in stone than any of the great things you've said and done in your first year. One more throwing a bone from you to the Republicans and the coalition of the hopeful and the hopeless may be gone -- and this nation will be back in the hands of the haters quicker than you can shout "tea bag!"Choose carefully, Mr. President. Your corporate backers are going to abandon you as soon as it is clear you are a one-term president and that the nation will be safely back in the hands of the usual idiots who do their bidding. That could be Wednesday morning.We the people still love you. We the people still have a sliver of hope. But we the people can't take it anymore. We can't take your caving in, over and over, when we elected you by a big, wide margin of millions to get in there and get the job done. What part of "landslide victory" don't you understand?Don't be deceived into thinking that sending a few more troops into Afghanistan will make a difference, or earn you the respect of the haters. They will not stop until this country is torn asunder and every last dollar is extracted from the poor and soon-to-be poor. You could send a million troops over there and the crazy Right still wouldn't be happy. You would still be the victim of their incessant venom on hate radio and television because no matter what you do, you can't change the one thing about yourself that sends them over the edge.The haters were not the ones who elected you, and they can't be won over by abandoning the rest of us.President Obama, it's time to come home. Ask your neighbors in Chicago and the parents of the young men and women doing the fighting and dying if they want more billions and more troops sent to Afghanistan. Do you think they will say, "No, we don't need health care, we don't need jobs, we don't need homes. You go on ahead, Mr. President, and send our wealth and our sons and daughters overseas, 'cause we don't need them, either."What would Martin Luther King, Jr. do? What would your grandmother do? Not send more poor people to kill other poor people who pose no threat to them, that's what they'd do. Not spend billions and trillions to wage war while American children are sleeping on the streets and standing in bread lines.All of us that voted and prayed for you and cried the night of your victory have endured an Orwellian hell of eight years of crimes committed in our name: torture, rendition, suspension of the bill of rights, invading nations who had not attacked us, blowing up neighborhoods that Saddam "might" be in (but never was), slaughtering wedding parties in Afghanistan. We watched as hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians were slaughtered and tens of thousands of our brave young men and women were killed, maimed, or endured mental anguish -- the full terror of which we scarcely know.When we elected you we didn't expect miracles. We didn't even expect much change. But we expected some. We thought you would stop the madness. Stop the killing. Stop the insane idea that men with guns can reorganize a nation that doesn't even function as a nation and never, ever has.Stop, stop, stop! For the sake of the lives of young Americans and Afghan civilians, stop. For the sake of your presidency, hope, and the future of our nation, stop. For God's sake, stop.Tonight we still have hope.Tomorrow, we shall see. The ball is in your court. You DON'T have to do this. You can be a profile in courage. You can be your mother's son.We're counting on you.

Yours,Michael Moore

2009-11-25T05:48:00.000-08:00

Happy Thanksgiving....let us Re-member.....

To acknowledge our ancestors
Means we are aware
That we did not make ourselves,
That the line stretches all the way back,
Perhaps to God; or to Gods. (goddess)
We remember them because
It is an easy thing to forget:
That we are not the first
To suffer, rebel, fight, love and die.
The grace with which we embrace life,
In spite of the pain, the sorrows,
Is always a measure of what has gone before.
Alice Walker

James Arthur Ray Books Are Cancelled: The Empire Builder on Money and Spirituality

2009-11-23T00:46:00.001-08:00

James Arthur Ray Books Are Cancelled: The Empire Builder on Money and Spirituality

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The spiritual leader who played games.....whenever someone tells you spirtuality can increase your financial status......RUN.

2009-11-20T15:12:00.000-08:00

the energy of this time.....

"This cosmic dance of Shiva is called 'Anandatandava,' meaning the Dance of Bliss, and symbolizes the cosmic cycles of creation and destruction, as well as the daily rhythm of birth and death. The dance is a pictorial allegory of the five principle manifestations of eternal energy — creation, destruction, preservation, salvation, and illusion. "

A Scientific Metaphor:
"Fritzof Capra in his article "The Dance of Shiva: The Hindu View of Matter in the Light of Modern Physics," and later in the The Tao of Physics beautifully relates Nataraj's dance with modern physics. He says that "every subatomic particle not only performs an energy dance, but also is an energy dance; a pulsating process of creation and destruction…without end…For the modern physicists, then Shiva's dance is the dance of subatomic matter. As in Hindu mythology, it is a continual dance of creation and destruction involving the whole cosmos; the basis of all existence and of all natural phenomena." http://hinduism.about.com/od/lordshiva/p/nataraj.htm

Tea Party Express II: Rise Of The Tea Bags (Part 1 of 2)

2009-11-17T07:19:00.001-08:00

It is only compassion that keeps me from losing my mind.....
how pathetic...this is what happens with tunnel vision, narrow views and ONE news source....

2009-11-17T05:33:00.000-08:00

This is a real moving piece.....watch with a tissue.

Days With My Father by Phillip Toledano
I don't know if any of you have seen this absolutely beautiful and touching tribute to this man's father recently posted online.
http://www.dayswithmyfather.com/

THE YELLOW MONSTER (trailer)

2009-11-15T20:29:00.001-08:00

Check out this website:
http://earthgroup.viviti.com/environmental-issues-blog

"William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe" - California Documentary Festival Opening Night

2009-11-13T08:11:00.001-08:00

Timing is everything.....and this documentary is timely.
peace

2009-11-13T08:04:00.000-08:00

This is such an awesome piece....watch the interview...and feel something ..something real.

“William Kunstler: "Disturbing the Universe”:

Listen to the Interview at Democracy Now...here:

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/12/william_kunstler_disturbing_the_universe

New Documentary Examines Life, Legacy of Famed Radical Attorney
A new documentary looks at a man once described as the most hated and most loved lawyer in America: the late William Kunstler. We play excerpts of William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe and speak to the film’s co-directors, Kunstler’s daughters Emily and Sarah Kunstler.

Go to the website here....http://www.disturbingtheuniverse.com/Press.html

2009-11-13T07:13:00.000-08:00

Hoodwinked: Former Economic Hit Man John Perkins Reveals Why the World Financial Markets Imploded—and How to Remake Them

CHECK OUT HIS WEBSITE: http://www.johnperkins.org/
LISTEN TO THE INTERVIEW http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/10/hoodwinked_former_economic_hit_man_john

John Perkins calls himself a former economic hit man. He has seen the signs of today’s financial meltdown before. The subprime mortgage fiasco, the collapse of the banking industry, the rising unemployment rate—these are all familiar to him. Perkins was on the front lines of monitoring and helping create these very events that were once just confined to the Third World. From 1971 to 1981, he worked for the international consulting firm of Chas T. Main, where he was a self-described “economic hit man.” He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Confessions of An Economic Hit Man and The Secret History of the American Empire. [includes rush transcript]

2009-11-11T14:10:00.000-08:00

this is a excellent interview....gives information and possibilites....Listen.........

LIVE AT NOON: Our Future: What Can We Do?
By: GRITtv Wednesday November 11, 2009 11:30 am

http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2009/11/11/live-at-noon-our-future-what-can-we-do/

How much control does the President really have, anyway? Americans voted for change and are getting frustrated with the lack of it, but our guests have both written about the powerful forces holding the status quo in place. John Perkins is the author of Hoodwinked and Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, and has written about how corporations push politicians around and even threaten them with violence. Russ Baker, meanwhile, is the author of Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put It in the White House, and What Their Influence Means for America and has written extensively about the military-industrial complex.
In the new film Collapse, filmmaker Chris Smith follows Michael Ruppert as he raises the alarm again and again on the financial crisis, energy, the environment, and more. Is he a genius, or just paranoid? And with all this scary information out there, what can citizen activists do?

Kermit and Elmo LOUD and QUIET - Classic Sesame Street

2009-11-11T09:02:00.001-08:00

Kermit the frog here.......i love these skits.....

2009-11-11T06:17:00.001-08:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY FAVORITE PROGRAMMING OF ALL TIME....I WISH BACK TO A TIME WHEN PEOPLE MATTERED MORE THAN MONEY...WHEN CHILDREN MATTERED MORE THAN FAME....WHEN LIFE WAS REAL AND SIMPLE....I HONOR THE ROAD PAVED BY THE PEOPLE AND ENERGY THAT BROUGHT US SESAME STREET.... "come and play..everything is a-ok". and a big thank you to Google...who also honored this wonderful amazing superb idea and energy.

the history as provided by Wikopedia ... "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame_Street

Up until the late 1960s, the use of television as an educational tool in the US was "unproven" and "a revolutionary concept".[2] In 1966, the Carnegie Institute hired Joan Ganz Cooney to study how the media could be used to help young children, especially those from low-income families, learn and prepare for school.[3][4] Cooney proposed using television's "most engaging traits",[5] including high production values, sophisticated writing, and quality film and animation, to reach the largest audience possible.[5] Cooney suggested creating a program that would spread prolearning values to both viewers and nonviewers (including their parents) that would affect them for many years after they stopped watching it.[6]

Sesame Street custom Children's Television Workshop logo used in seasons 1-13.
As a result of Cooney's initial proposal, the Carnegie Institute awarded her an $8 million grant to establish, in collaboration with Carnegie Institute vice-president Lloyd Morrisett, the Children’s Television Workshop (CTW) and create a new children's television program.[4][7] In 1968, millions more were invested by the Ford Foundation, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and the US federal government. Cooney began to assemble a team of producers: Jon Stone, Dave Connell and Sam Gibbon.[4] That summer, five three-day curriculum planning seminars, led by Harvard University professor Gerald S. Lesser, were conducted in Boston.[4][8] The seminars marked the beginning of Jim Henson's involvement in Sesame Street,[4] and provided the show's producers and writers with a "crash course in child development, psychology, and preschool education".[9] The new show, called the "Preschool Educational Television Show" in promotional materials, was built around an inner-city street, a choice that was "unprecedented".[10] The producers and writers could not come up with a name they liked "up until the last moment".[11] They finally settled upon the name they least disliked: Sesame Street, although they initially feared that it would be too difficult for young children to pronounce.[11]
Two days before the premiere of Sesame Street, a thirty-minute preview entitled This Way to Sesame Street was shown on NBC. The show was financed by a $50,000 grant from Xerox. Written by Stone and produced by CTW publicist Bob Hatch, it was taped the day before it aired.[12] Newsday called the preview "a unique display of cooperation between commercial and noncommercial broadcasters".[12] Sesame Street premiered on PBS on November 10, 1969.[13] The new show was praised from the start. As writer Michael Davis states, "...It became the rare children's show stamped with parental approval"

Swine Flu Hoax!! Former Health Minister Speaks Out!!

2009-11-10T16:01:00.001-08:00

She calls it likes she sees it.

THE SMOKING GUN- Novartis recalled H1N1 vaccine two months before outbreak in Mexico

2009-11-10T15:26:00.001-08:00

SOME PINCH ME>?

H1N1-Swine Flu-Made in a Pharmaceutical Bio Lab-Don't take the JAB

2009-11-10T15:15:00.001-08:00

FOOD FOR THOUGHT.....