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

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

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.

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)

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....

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)

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

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

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

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

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]

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

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

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!!

She calls it likes she sees it.

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

SOME PINCH ME>?

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

FOOD FOR THOUGHT.....

http://citizensforethics.org/

Thank you Melanie Sloan & company for your tireless efforts......!!!!!!!!

Outrageous.
Today, CREW called on Health and Human Service (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to investigate why the Center for Disease Control (CDC) approved the distribution of the H1NI vaccine to Wall Street firms at a time when the vaccine is unavailable to most Americans.
Recent news reports indicate 13 companies, including Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase and Time Warner, have been cleared to receive the vaccine.
The CDC is distributing the much sought-after vaccine to Wall Street firms despite reports of vast shortages. In fact, just yesterday CDC Director Thomas Frieden informed Congress that only 32.3 million doses are available, far less than the 159 million needed to cover those at the highest risk. Given the scarce supply, the CDC has recommended the vaccine be directed only to those at highest risk: pregnant women, infants and children and those up to 24 years, those who care for infants, health and emergency services personnel, and adults with compromised immune systems or other chronic health problems.
Melanie Sloan, CREW’s executive director, said,
Although CREW has been unable to uncover the demographic makeup of Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and JP Morgan Chase, it seems safe to assume the vast majority of their employees are not pregnant women, infants and children, young adults up to 24 years old, and healthcare workers.
State officials are also concerned about the shortages:
The head of Alabama’s Department of Public Health testified that 62% of the vaccines ordered by the state will not be available until after December 1, 2009
The director of Minnesota’s St. Paul Ramsey County Department of Public Health said he is expecting only 7,800 doses for more than 20,000 children
Los Angeles County’s three public hospitals ordered 110,000 vaccines, but have received only about 18,000 doses, and UCLA’s two hospitals received 1,000 doses for 10,000 staff and 35,000 patients
This situation is echoed around the country, leaving most of those seeking the vaccine unable to receive it with no remedy in sight. Frieden admitted, “It is quite likely the current wave of influenza will peak, crest and begin to decline before there are ample supplies of the vaccine.”
And Wall Street firms are getting preferential treatment.
Sloan continued,
In what world do Wall Street employees deserve to be vaccinated ahead of high-risk children, pregnant women and health care workers? Unfortunately, for the thousands being turned away in clinics across America, the CDC has decided to prioritize the millionaires over the masses. The public has a right to know how and why this has happened and when it will stop. First, the bailout, then the bonuses, now the vaccine. When will Washington start putting the needs of Main Street above those of Wall Street?”

Click here to read the letter from CREW to Secretary Sebelius: http://www.citizensforethics.org/files/20091105%20-%20CREWLetterToHHS.pdf

Lauren's November post (below) ties in with Bronwen's class, Ties in with the Wild Womyn current state of affairs..the Shadow Effect and the healing of wounds.the dark walk coming soon..the Full Moon in Taurus...and just yesterday I was pondering how the Crone Aspect prepares the fertile soil...a most signifcant essential role..... slowly being Re-membered.

Amazing how all this connects...how the web touches each of us and reminds us to do our work!Amazing how it all comes together .. Isnt it??? I have deep regard for "The Mystery".
Bronwen's upcoming class:
Four twilight sessions, Sundays 6 – 8:30 pm.
A time for sacred play and sacred work; song and story, and Grandmother Soup. We will call on the Ancestors – some whom we call Goddesses, some Archetypes, some beloved Grandmothers of living memory, but whatever names we use, their wisdom and guidance is available to us for inspiration and compassion as we traverse this time of deep transformation. We will call on Hecate as guide – she who sits at the crossroads and assists with wise choice; she who sits in witness and contemplation; she who can access through her wisdom and compassion all the corners of the Universe. We will use Jean Shinoda Bolen’s Goddesses in Older Women as touchstone to remind us of the rich resource of the Crone aspect of the triple goddess energy, and to connect to the old mythic stories and the new myths that are arising.
Sundays 6 – 8:30 pm. November 15, 22 and 29; December 6. $81 in advance includes Grandmother soup and all materials for class.

threads of the spiderwoman
SPIDER WOMAN is the "Great Weaver" of Native American myth. To pursue her trail is to seek a unitive aesthetic - a "Webbed Vision" that imagines and names the links....this journal is my attempt.

Check out this awesome post from Lauren Raines.......thanks for the tip Elaine/.........http://threadsofspiderwoman.blogspot.com/2009/11/few-new-works.html

http://powerpaths.org/index.html

What are Power Paths?
The "hard energy path" defined by physicist Amory Lovins is marked by fossil fuel production. The legacy of this hard path for Native Americans includes coal and uranium mines on reservation lands, air pollution, depletion of ground water, and forced relocation of entire villages.
Indian Tribes are now fighting back by turning to the soft path--energy production by renewable means. As they build solar utilities on Navajo land, erect large turbines on wind-blown Lakota reservations, harvest agro-fuels and overcome dinosaur-age power interests along the way - Power Paths reveals the compelling inside stories and experiences of Native Americans who struggle to develop new energy systems that honor their ancient tradition of reverence for the natural world.
Around the West, the soft path-of decentralized energy production by renewable means- is now being pursued by these Native Americans with support from a host of urban planners and global environmental groups to university researchers and local community foundations.
Ultimately, Power Paths reveals how the fate of our air, water, and wild places are linked to decisions our nation makes about our future energy paths.. while Native cultures and the sustainability of our society itself are caught in the balance.

Watch the trailer......http://powerpaths.org/play.html