No Pipelines graffiti in East Vancouver.
By Brian Morton, Vancouver Sun,
Opposition to Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion has risen since the beginning of the year, a poll suggests. Opposition has grown by six points since January (from 42 per cent to 49 per cent opposed) with women and young people (18 to 34) most opposed, according to a the Insights West poll released Wednesday.
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– George Schmidt publishes Substance News.
It’s actually worse about the 2012 strike. SEIU members were told by their union they had to cross CTU picket lines. As you remember, CPS opened more than 100 schools, claiming that the children would starve if the schools were not opened. After the first day of the strike, most of the kids refused to cross the picket lines, and instead joined their teachers outside on the lines that were set up at the various schools where CPS told people to go. On the first day of the strike, my sons (Sam and Josh) joined their teachers on the picket line at O.A. Thorp on the northwest side. By the strike’s second day, Thorp was shut down completely and pickets were gathering at the scab schools CPS had announced.
The main result of the position taken by Christine Boardman and the Local 73 leadership…
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Iraq Veterans Against the War has this up on the republican-wrap-themselves-in-a-flag manipulative political game they’re playing.
When that stunt didn’t work the GOP blocked the passage of a bill that would have opened up 27 new VA health clinics, strengthened one of many health programs like sexual trauma care and gone far in reducing the benefits backlog. These are just a few of the many opportunities to improve the lives of veterans that political gamesmanship squandered.
“Why would Congressional members put Iran sanctions into a bill meant to care for so many veterans? The answer is that in the end members of Congress like Mitch McConnell don’t actually care about healing veterans.” said Matt Howard, Marine veteran and Communications Director of IVAW.
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Sickening, isn’t it?
And from the not-too-distant past, George W. Bush speaking out both sides of his mouth towards Veterans healthcare.
We have never gone to war without taxing the rich to support the war….so one has to ask why they were not taxed?
Joe Donnelly was once again on our local radio (to be fair, Walorski also gets plenty of free air time). Now he is pushing mandatory annual psychological testing on military. He says there are way too many suicides in the military, and he wants to get this to “zero”. He traveled to Israel last month to see how they were dealing with military suicides…he named the number, but I forget their record.
I’m sure the trip was at Senator Donnelly’s own expense because he’s not going to charge the American taxpayer for something he could have done at home. /dripping sarcasm, folks
Where do I begin?
All during the interview, Donnelly never mentions the fact that the reason there are so many suicides in the military is because war is soul destroying. Incredibly, he even stated that these soldiers had been to “tour after tour after tour”…just totally clueless on how his own governmental policies were the cause of the problem. He seems to be unwilling to even consider the cause of the mental distress and why soldiers would lose their love of life. As they kill another human being, they must ask themselves…why?
Why were we there, Senator Donnelly? Can you even answer that question–with brutal honesty?
Why is Israel being consulted? They force their people to join the military…is Senator Donnelly going to suggest that, too? How is Israel able to convince their soldiers that killing the Palestinians, who just want to live in their on land, is okay? I don’t call that psychological help, but more likely brainwashing and propaganda to create an enemy–the Palestinians.
The next aspect of Donnelly’s “solution” is the belief that somehow psychological treatment will end all suicides. Really? Just like Common Core and No Child Left a Mind will “make” children 100% proficient?
Psychology has been blown up to be a greater asset than it is. All the drugs and talk therapy cannot erase the devastating effects of war on a person’s psych.
How about we just get rid of war, Senator Donnelly?
No, the military industrial complex can’t function without war. If we don’t have an enemy, they’ll create one…got to keep those war profits rolling in…
Members of Congress have paid attention to the orca documentary, Blackfish, and are now asking Secretary Vilsack for updated guidelines on marine mammals in captivity.
Well…it’s a start…but I would much rather see the whole practice abandoned entirely. It is inhumane to take these animals from their natural habitat for our entertainment.
It’s sad to see that the Sea World employee lashing out at people speaking out against Sea World. It was troubling to see Dawn Brancheau’s family speaking out against them, too. Mindboggling.
My other posts on Blackfish and orcas.
Puget Sound group helping orcas.
No….not this again….
Bishop Tutu “gets” it–God is not separated from all that is here.
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