The picture here of the First Nations female Warrior is quite stirring….
The eagle feather she is holding is a sacred symbol of the indigenous. It is a powerful symbol of the connection between God and Earth.
Crooks and Liars has this up on the protest. It appears that it didn’t turn violent until the police began assaulting the protestors. They claim there was a shot fired from the protestors….um hmmm….they all claim it was a peaceful protest.
While I’m looking at this, I’m thinking–these folks’ salaries are paid by taxes….and the taxpayers do not want fracking, for the most part….why are they going against what the taxpayers want?
They weren’t doing anything. As the woman said, the female Warrior was praying–not bothering them at all.
Why they’re there:
Act of Sovereignty:
This is like Church to them– a gathering where they sing songs to God. They see the fight for the environment as a spiritual thing–the Earth is seen as a part of God and their “Mother”—so to pollute the Earth is seen as disrespectful towards God. Also –they see everything on Earth as connected, so one has to consider every action in how it will impact another.
Balance is always sought…if you take something, you must also give something in return.
“Just months after the Kazakh pact was finalized, Mr. Clinton’s charitable foundation received its own windfall: a $31.3 million donation from Mr. Giustra,” The Times further explained.
“The gift, combined with Mr. Giustra’s more recent and public pledge to give the William J. Clinton Foundation an additional $100 million, secured Mr. Giustra a place in Mr. Clinton’s inner circle…Giustra [also] co-produced a gala 60th birthday for Mr. Clinton that featured stars like Jon Bon Jovi and raised about $21 million for the Clinton Foundation.”
Seeing the artist drawing of her astride the pipeline brought a flashback to Jane Fonda on the Vietnam tank. I wish people were as outraged at Hillary “riding” the pipeline. And one has to wonder at the Clinton ties to the Kochs after reading the article. …
I put my two cents on Clinton in another blog here.
Meanwhile, Stephen Colbert, who otherwise is intelligent person who asks questions….has drunk the Clinton koolaid and continues to promote the creep. Why?? Yeah, he’s over in Uganda? Probably there to rape them for their resources….funny how nobody brings up the utter failure of his “help” in Haiti.
Two young girls have been raped in the town of Maryville, Missouri. Another high school football star, the grandson of a Missouri state official, has walked free. The people of Maryville turned their backs on these victims and one family has been forced to flee the town. Their house was later burned to the ground.
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On January 8th, a 14-year-old girl named Daisy Coleman and her 13-year-old friend were both raped in Maryville. Evidence of this assault was captured on film. Daisy’s unconscious body was later dumped into her family’s yard, left alone for hours in freezing weather. One of Daisy’s attackers was initially in police custody, where he admitted to having sex with her while she was under the influence. He claimed it was consensual. The hospital states the young girl’s blood alcohol level was almost twice the legal limit and they discovered three tears inside of her body, 2-4 inches in length. When asked if a crime occurred, the Sheriff told the press, “Hell yes, it occurred… And did these boys need to be punished for it? Absolutely.”
It goes on to say that evidence was captured on film. Good God, what depraved evil person would not only commit raping a woman, but then take glee in it by filming it? what the hell is wrong with our society that men hate women so much?
I’m sure she was blamed for drinking…as I posted before, it doesn’t give him the right to rape her. If she is intoxicated and cannot give her consent with a clear mind, he should take her home. What is wrong with our society that it is okay to take advantage of the situation? Why is she blamed and not his violence?
Even more appalling are the girls that participate in the hate:
At a dance competition, Melinda Coleman says, a girl arrived wearing a homemade shirt: Matt 1, Daisy 0.”
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No doubt Daisy was the target of a jealous girl who perhaps wanted to date Barnett. You can have him, lady.
Lastly, the comments section just left me sad—-especially about the ones on small towns. Um…Daisy and her family lived in a small town, too, and were products of that small town as well as the Neanderthals. I was raised in a small town. I was raised Republican. After going through my own metamorphosis, I realize some of what I was brought up to believe were not in keeping with my inner feelings and not in keeping with what Jesus taught. Yet, those comments lump all of us together as if we are all mean and hateful.
And it also ignores that these crimes happen in large towns, as well. It’s unfair and prejudiced thinking.
I was reading the comments on the previous survival site and someone put up a link to this. Really sobering talk by a nuclear scientist who tells it like it is.
He mentions the hubris of “it can’t happen here”…..which we all know is bullsh*t. A reminder of how hubris in government has led to disaster—- the “O” rings in the space shuttle Challenger. Engineers warned that there were issues, but because of the arrogance of those in charge, they were ignored….and we all know how that turned out.
Arnie Gunderson is saying the same hubris is present in the nuclear industry and disaster is just waiting to happen. He touches on Indian Point and Vermont Yankee. I wish he had gone into more depth on Yankee, but alas…
He makes very good points that the people running these plants are not stupid and they care about these plants because they live with their families in the surrounding area….but all it takes is one bad day.
Stoning of women by a group continues in many countries. Be sure to click on the link to the Independent–many countries and religions practiced this barbaric ritual–not just followers of Islam.
Again, the culture is the problem–women not seen as equals, but sub-human. And while I’m reading these stories, I’m wondering why the men who also “committed adultery” are not also stoned?? The article goes on to say that men are stoned, but are buried up to their waists, to allow them to escape, while women are buried up to their chests.
And just because women are not stoned in other cultures does not relieve them of other ways of “stoning” a woman–by words and actions of derogatory nature.
The Cyrus/Thicke misogyny comes to mind. I admire Gloria Steinem for her work on women’s equality, but disagree with her sentiments on Cyrus. As she speaks in the video, saying that it’s too bad that we have to be nearly naked to be noticed, I’m wondering WTH? Gloria knows what it feels like to be degraded as a Playboy bunny. She says we need to change the culture….and I’m thinking the misogyny in the media is a huge part of the problem!! Therefore, Cyrus and Thicke are reinforcing misogyny.
Center for Media and Democracy has this up on what the Koch Brothers and Pete Petersen and their toady Paul Ryan are really after–what they’ve been after all along—Social Security and other “entitlement” programs. I still hate that term”entitlement” as it alludes to a giveaway when folks pay into these programs all their lives.
Here’s the video by Mark Fiore:
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Also from CMD–
Profiting off the poor. With Indiana being All Republican, All the Time in the Legislature, I rather doubt that they have slayed this dragon. I suspect that privatization will be back…probably by backdoor deals.
Also, Indiana will be dropping ISTEP (Indiana Statewide Testing Educational Progress)next year BY FEDERAL REQUIREMENT.
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…and profiting off of our children-–and ultimately, our Democracy. (Just a refresher of the Charter school scams and hedge fund managers/Wall Street making a profit off of schools.)
From the report:
In recent years, there has been an explosion of full-time “virtual” charter schools paid for by the taxpayer. From 2008 to 2012, 157 bills passed in 39 states and territories (including the District of Columbia) that expand online schooling or modify existing regulations. Many of these bills are attributable to American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) politicians.
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I was thinking about this other day while teaching–online is such a ripoff in that you don’t get human interaction. Granted, the Wall St. types probably loathe human interaction…but I really wonder if they’re human to begin with….the rest of us,however, actually want to be around other humans.
Anyway, a teacher can often pick up on cues to help a student “get” a subject that a stupid computer could never do.
A teacher can give encouragement when a student wants to give up. This is especially important for students who are having difficulty–I thought of myself and my daughter being dyslexic. If I hadn’t tried to teach my daughter through Phonics and patiently sitting down with her every night to read, she most likely would not have reached her potential. Again–computers cannot help when there is a learning disability.
Lastly, a teacher is going to lay the hammer down if a student comes in without homework done or starts goofing off during class instead of doing the work they’re supposed to be doing…online courses cannot do that, either. And a teacher is also a sounding board for a student who may be dealing with issues at home…
As I’ve noted before, there is something lost when the classroom lacks discussion and interchange of ideas or more in-depth on the subject.
And, of course, a computer can’t teach art or music the way that it should be done.
The article makes note that the virtual schools enroll kids that never take courses, never answer emails, and so on, but still take tax dollars for them. One had to reimburse the state $800k for “ghost” students. This is a huge red flag in that while the neocons are so very worried about voter ID to “prove” who someone is so they don’t vote twice….well, I don’t see the same concern with these “ghost” students who may or may not even be real persons. Who is checking on them?
And this just made my heart sing:
Affidavits from former K12 Inc. teachers that were incorporated into the complaint paint a devastating picture of an enrollment-driven, profit-driven corporate culture that leaves kids in the dust. (Note to Wall Street: If you want to exploit children, don’t hire a bunch of teachers who actually care about kids.)
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Sadly, I think Wall St. will actually take that advice and will screen teachers who don’t give a rip. Or Wall Streeters will make a construct that they “can’t find any good teachers” so they will be “forced” to plead for the ability to hire non-teachers to….teach.
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