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Solar Power Revolution – Here Comes The Sun — Documentary

This documentary is about the solar power revolution that is happening. There are a number of interviews, the best being Herman Scheer..”Hermann Scheer achieved a great deal in his lifetime. Thanks to him, exemplary progress has been made worldwide towards a green energy supply from renewable sources rather than coal and nuclear power. His unwavering aim of accelerating the transformation of energy systems is becoming reality because his wealth of knowledge, his logical analysis and his ability to inspire others enabled him to convince and win over many people.”

He says investment in oil and coal will be “stranded” investment within ten years.

“The argument is over” He is very persuasive.

very inspiring documentary, which I learned of, from “Informed Comment”

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Robert Glasper Experiment featuring Erykah Badhu

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military madness

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Nate Jackson’s ‘Shelter in Place’

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TPP News and Overviews

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Occupy American Autumn, Parallel Movements and Alternatives to The Oligarchs’ Machine

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Baracka Flacka Flames: Head of State and the Coup: Guillotine

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American Gulags: Solitary Confinement, a National Shame

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My Name Is Tariq Aziz; May I Please Speak to You?

It is important to me that I tell you my side of the story of my death before the lies that the American CIA will tell about it become written in stone.  Their lies would dishonor my family and my village, and perhaps even cause more deaths if enough people were to believe them.  It is my hope that if you hear the truth, you will share it with others…and help us to stop the evil murders of innocents in Pakistan and Afghanistan.  Whether you hear my message through the air while you sit quietly, or in your nighttime dreams, please listen carefully.

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Art Under Oppression Is Vital

To wit: notice how the following video allows you to feel, to imagine that war could have been…put back into the box (Pandora’s Box?).  Inspired by Kurt Vonnegut’s Billy Pilgrim who saw war…in reverse.

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How to Learn to Love the March of Jackboots or… Hear Music Instead

Upending_TrendsJournal_AcmeIlloz_THUMBIt was a dark and stormy night-before-last, and I’d headed downtown to the Librul Latte Internet Café in Bumfuck, Colorado seeking the warmth and security of the ambient glow of laptop screens.  Early that morning, a friend had emailed me a NY Times piece about the staggering new compilation of Third Reich holocaust ghettos and camps completed by the Holocaust Museum over the past ten years, some 42,500 across Europe.  At the end of the piece, one of the researchers was quoted about his virtual certainty that, given their ubiquity, citizens had to have known about the camps.

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God…in Pencil

When I listen to Martin Luther King, Jr. speak, I can believe in God. There may be other times I have, but I can’t remember them specifically. In discussions about belief or not, I’ve heard people say that their personal stories have been determinant. A lot of them include hitting some emotional or spiritual bottom, and hearing a message from God, then being reborn in some state that exemplifies grace, along with which comes both a knowledge of, and a belief in, God; sort of a personal relationship.

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The Children of Fallujah: The Nightmares Never End

You may not really want to read this; I didn’t really want to write it, but I needed to.  I think it’s arguably our moral duty as Americans to bear some small witness to the atrocities done to others in our names.  As painful as it is for us, it’s a mere mote in our eyes compared to the endless suffering, now proving likely to be multi-generational, to those we’ve waged war upon.  As TarheelDem put it so succinctly, as the US and NATO are soon to be ostensibly ‘between wars’, other enemies are being sought to justify that alliance’s expansion and goals.  These hideous deeds will continue apace unless our citizenry rallies sufficiently to put a stop to the madness that is war without end, hidden in lies, but cynically waged covertly in the name of Empire and Profit.

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Let Your Life Be a Friction to Stop the Machine: A Brief and Crucial History of the US

This film by Class War films is a potent and unsparing critique of the mythological version of American history that has for too long stood in the way of our fighting the plutocracy in order to become a nation that might have actually deserved to be called ‘Exceptional’.

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I’ve Been VanJonesed and DemocRatted, ProgressiveCauCussed and LibrulFatcatted Till I’m Blind

Well, I’ve paid all the dues I wanna pay…  I learned the truth from Carlin and Zinn …and I just discovered some DemocRats have tapped my phone!

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Seven O’Clock News, Silent Night Vol. III

Good evening; this is the early edition of the news.

In what Republican lawmakers described as ‘an easy vote’, the House today moved a step closer to avoiding a year-end government shutdown when it passed a one trillion dollar omnibus spending bill.  The Senate expects a floor vote on the compromise bill soon, and rhetoric from both parties suggested that Senate Democrats are increasingly flexible, probably due to the new leverage Republicans have gained by passing their own version of the payroll-tax-holiday extension.

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Light One Candle; It’s Enough for Tonight

Today is the eighth and final day of Chanukah, the celebration of the successful revolt of the Maccabees over Antiochus IV’s Syrian-Greek armies and the subsequent re-dedication of the Temple in Jerusalem, which they believed had been profaned by the occupiers.   The stories say that upon entering the Temple, the Maccabees discovered that there was only one remaining flask of ‘uncontaminated’ oil for the menorah, yet it miraculously lasted for the eight nights needed to purify more oil.

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These Are Dark Days. We Can Get to the Light…Together

(for sadavis, with love on his birthday)

John Trudell seems intuitively to understand quantum physics and genetic memory of our ancestors contained within us; you might want to listen to the video as you read.  He is an amazing example of turning poison to medicine, and rising from the ashes as a Phoenix Poet Truthteller.

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Never Move in a Tactical Fashion, plus Scahill on Yemen: It’s the Drones, Ya Morons

I’ve been avoiding writing about the eight boys killed by NATO forces in Kapisa province of eastern Afghanistan on Feb. 8., but as it so often happens, we end up writing…what we can’t avoid writing. The admonition from the diary title came from Chris Floyd at Empire Burlesque,  and has haunted me since I read it.  But first, some background.

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GMO Crop Likely Tipping Point: Obama USDA to Fast-Track Zombie Crops and Okay Agent Orange 2,4-D Resistant Crops

If you believe, as I do, that genetically-engineered/modified food crops are threatening the planet’s entire agricultural food supply, our health, and creating a monstrous multinational super-control of all agriculture, food products, available seed, these new stories are hideous, and may prove unstoppable and irreversible.  I’m sorry that this turned out to be so long, but it is crucial to know what’s happening as you read this, and as the wags repeat: I didn’t have time to write anything shorter; nor does the world have the time.  Time’s a tickin’.

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