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January 2010 Blog Posts (200)

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

Russ Feingold - United States Senator

Richard,

I wanted to take a moment to wish you and yours a happy and safe New Year.

Last night we exceeded our goal of 2,000 online donors - and once again showed the strength of our grassroots campaign. Thank you for all that you did in 2009. I look forward to continuing our work together in the new year.

Sincerely,

Russ Signature

Russ Feingold

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Added by John Richard Clinton Maenpaa on January 2, 2010 at 9:39pm — No Comments

CIA base attacked in Afghanistan supported airstrikes against al-Qaeda, Taliban

CIA base attacked in Afghanistan supported airstrikes against al-Qaeda, Taliban

By Joby Warrick and Pamela Constable The CIA base attacked by a suicide bomber in ... CIA airstrikes against top al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders in the region. ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/31/AR2009123100541.html?hpid=topnews

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Whenever night falls, whenever day breaks...

Whenever night falls, whenever day breaks, search well into your dealings, so will your whole life be one Day of Atonement.

- Moses of Evreux, 1240

Added by John Richard Clinton Maenpaa on January 2, 2010 at 9:19pm — No Comments

Matthews and Walsh Slam Ron Christie for Cheney's Hackery

Matthews and Walsh Slam Ron Christie for Cheney's Hackery

Posted: 31 Dec 2009 06:00 PM PST

Looks like good Tweety was back today taking a whack at Dick Cheney's former aide Ron Christie along with Salon's Joan Walsh. True to form Christie defended Cheney's recent stenography session at The Politico. Ron Christie is one of the more annoying pundits out there so this didn't bother me one bit. I'll give him this as annoying as he is though. He's got more stones than his… Continue

Added by John Richard Clinton Maenpaa on January 2, 2010 at 9:13pm — No Comments

Crazy Heart

Crazy Heart

A brokedown, boozy c&w singer.

A great Jeff Bridges performance.

Some actors are blessed. Jeff Bridges is one of them. Ever since his breakthrough role in "The Last Picture Show" in 1971, he has, seemingly without effort, created a series of characters who we simply believe, even the alien "Starman." He doesn't do this with mannerisms but with their exclusion; his acting is as clear as running water. Look at him playing Bad Blake in "Crazy Heart." The notion… Continue

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Mayor seeks to block tankers Wants Yemen gas delivery offshore By Andrea Estes Globe Staff / January 1, 2010

Mayor seeks to block tankers

Wants Yemen gas delivery offshore

By Andrea Estes

Globe Staff / January 1, 2010

Mayor Thomas M. Menino said yesterday he will ask Boston’s lawyers to see whether the city can block Yemeni tankers from delivering liquefied natural gas into Boston Harbor, calling such deliveries “wrong.’’

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Judge Drops Charges From Blackwater Deaths in Iraq

Judge Drops Charges From Blackwater Deaths in Iraq
By CHARLIE SAVAGE
A federal judge has dismissed all charges against five Blackwater Worldwide security guards charged in a deadly Baghdad shooting.

Find the rest here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/01/us/01blackwater.html

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Right and Left Agree: Mandates are the Road to Neo-Feudalism

Right and Left Agree: Mandates are the Road to Neo-Feudalism

By: Jane Hamsher Wednesday December 30, 2009 10:40 am

Hmmm, feels limiting (photo: TheTruthAbout)

Hmmm, feels limiting (photo: TheTruthAbout)

There is tremendous fear rising on both the right and the left that the announced intention of Congress — to force every American to pay tribute to private corporations, with no government alternative — sets a dangerous and frightening precedent with… Continue

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Al Giordano’s Last Nag of the Zeroes

Al Giordano’s Last Nag of the Zeroes

Posted by Al Giordano - December 28, 2009 at 10:22 pm

By Al Giordano

Ten Years of Narco News: Before... and After

Kind Reader:

Ten years ago – at the beginning of this decade that will forevermore be known as “the zeroes” – in April of 2000, a marginalized ex-journalist waded back in to his craft and posted his new work onto the Internet via a dial-up connection from his bunker in a small indigenous town in… Continue

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2009: A year of Fox News political activism

2009: A year of Fox News political activism

With the inauguration of President Obama in 2009, Fox News transformed itself from a conservative media outlet into a partisan, right-wing political organization that openly viewed itself as the "voice of the opposition." Throughout the year, Fox News has declared war on the Obama administration, the Democratic Congress, and progressive organizations by, among other things, campaigning for the firing of various administration officials,… Continue

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Florence Biennale of Contemporary Art 2009.

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Breathe in the beauty

Breathe in the beauty that is around you

every day

Let not the winds of change confound you

on your way

The child within must have some toys

for play

For to create is just you breathing out

your way

Taking in and breathing out

(The artist is at work)

It comes so naturally on the breath

which heaves and hisses as it tries to articulate

Always with the understanding that he will be misunderstood

For it is the process that must… Continue

Added by Ravinn O. West on January 2, 2010 at 1:53pm — 3 Comments

Our Relation with Creation

Our Relation with Creation

The Fabric of Spirit is Woven

Into our very Being

Brought in Waves of Breath and Light

As we Embrace the Pure Energy of our Being

We use it to feed our thoughts and perceptions

And create our way of Life

You are the Conductor of your Song

You are the Artist choosing the palette

For your Masterpiece

Yet the energy of Creation is of Spirit

And Invokes the Universe

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Added by cindy paulos on January 2, 2010 at 9:05am — No Comments

THE EXCITING FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.

Thomas A. Edison US inventor (1847 - 1931)

THE EXCITING FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE

Responsibility, Focus, Choice, Collaboration, Thriving and Abundance.

It’s time for responsibility and healthy living for everyone. Our bodies are self-healing organisms-where did we go wrong? That is the most… Continue

Added by Janet StraightArrow on January 2, 2010 at 9:02am — No Comments

Season greetings from Aquaverde

Happy new year card to all architects of a new dawn from Aquaverde.

Season Greetings

Added by Thomas Pizer on January 2, 2010 at 8:40am — No Comments

This year, as Architects in 2010, let us Draw the Plans and Produce our New Dawn.

Happy 2010 to all Architects...Lets make it a good one! Having lived with the Spirituality and Aloha of Kauai for nearly 30yrs, I have experienced many futuristic visions of our Planet at Peace. I’ve come to realize that World Peace, as we dare envision, must soon be skillfully Designed and Produced less an alternative future consume us. We are the Architects; all tools are available to us; the path, the wisdom and the knowledge has always been.

At birth, the Beginning of each individual’s… Continue

Added by Craig Davies Metteauer on January 1, 2010 at 6:55pm — 2 Comments

New books echoes Pope's message - we all need to Take Care of Our Share of the Planet

New Book Stresses Message from Pope

VATICAN CITY (VIS): The Message of Pope Benedict XVI for the celebration of the forty-third World Day of Peace was made public today. the Day is due to be celebrated on 1 January 2010 and has as its theme: "If You Want To Cultivate Peace, Protect Creation".

Pope's Message for World Day of Peace

Man's inhumanity to man has given rise to numerous threats to peace and to authentic and integral… Continue

Added by Betsy S. Franz on January 1, 2010 at 5:28pm — No Comments

The Beat Goes On!

This is Blog 3 on the Rainbow Dreaming tour of the US, which started in Oct 2009 in New York and ended in San Francisco. Rainbow Dreaming is an exhibition on the alternative movement in the rainbow region of New South Wales. For more info see www.rainbowdreaming.org

Welcome Home!

“Smile, you are in San Francisco”, said the black baggage handler at the airport.

“Welcome home”, said Canyon, a native American activist,… Continue

Added by Harsha Prabhu on January 1, 2010 at 4:33pm — No Comments

Someone From The Streets Speaks

This article appear in the Inforum blog. Would love to know what you think about it.

Can Life Be Lived in Dignity by Every San Diegan?

BY Rocky Neptun

November 12, 2009.

East Village, San Diego……………

Bill Foster rolls his tattered sleeping bag up carefully, not to disturb the layers of newspaper underneath,… Continue

Added by Bob Ballard on January 1, 2010 at 2:47pm — No Comments

New Years Resolutions

The Understanding of Intent

Divine Intent is the Energy with Which

The tone of our action is set

When Making Resolutions

we are re- looking at Solutions

We are setting out on a new adventure

Into understanding and encountering our selves

We will also be calling upon others at times

So there could be interaction of how we relate

To others and seek their help

And we can also see how we are reflected through others

It… Continue

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