...disaster capitalists….(no wonder Hillary Clinton supports Israel’s bombing innocent Gazans…she probably wants a piece of the action, too, to gain financially from the “rebuilding” of Gaza.)
…because you know, the poor are just “useless eaters” (Hillary Clinton supposedly said that although I haven’t been able to confirm it.)
I have a question–why isn’t Bill Clinton in jail for misappropriation of funds?
My other posts on Haiti:
Earthships in Haiti (this would be a big help to the poor)
Gene Logsdon has an interesting post up on pseudo cisterns. For those folks who cannot dig wells, it’s a good alternative to having water without electricity nor the bills that go with that…
Note in the comments that someone states it is illegal for someone to store rainwater…are you kidding me?? Looks like the utility companies are trying to interfere with one’s freedom of their own homes.
And someone else stated that the rainwater wasn’t safe to drink…and I had to think of all the chemicals, prescription drugs, untreated fecal matter, and probably heavy metals, too, in city water that is supposedly better for you? bwahahaha….
…minus the boobs, I like it. I like the idea of Earth being the Feminine that nurtures life. I like the reaching up to the sky in a posture of praise and wonderment. 🙂
I saw this photograph on Facebook, that modern font of all wisdom.
It is claimed to be a tree in Portugal, but it seemed to divide opinion. There were those pragmatic sorts who claimed it is fake. For fake read photoshopped. Then there were those who claimed it to be a natural phenomenon. Although some did permit the possibility of carving, citing the nipples as too perfectly placed. Plastic surgeons of the world take note.
The first group used words like ‘dumb’, and ‘gullible’. The last group used terms like ‘wood nymphs’ and ‘magic of nature’.
There was also an equal divide about the overall effect of the image. Some described it as beautiful, others derided it as creepy.
Personally I love it, but which camp are you in?
If I am reading between the lines correctly, Israel is now seeking to cash in on the destruction it caused to Gaza. My mind is just reeling. Disaster capitalism at the very worst. Holy crap.
Yair Lapid announced a “diplomatic initiative” to increase efforts to “demilitarise Gaza and the transfer of authority in the Gaza Strip to the Palestinian Authority (PA) while maintaining Israel’s strategic security interest.”
He called for Egypt to host a conference to be attended by the US, EU, Russia, Jordan, the PA and the Gulf States that would discuss Gaza reconstruction and establish “economic ties between Israel, the Palestinian Authority and the Arab world.”
“The initiative also calls for the involvement of states which will provide economic support for the rehabilitation of the Gaza Strip and the creation of projects which will lead to long term economic cooperation in the region,” the statement from Lapid’s media advisor said –
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So…we have a bully that bombs the hell out of a place, destroying homes, schools, hospitals…killing women, children, innocents sitting in a cafe listening to the World Cup…who now wants to greedily make a profit off of rebuilding that which they destroyed.
Michelle Rhee has failed as a test-driven education reformer.
Rhee taught for three years (1992-95) in Baltimore as part of Teach for America (TFA). By her own admission, her first year was terrible. She taped students’ mouths and made them bleed, and she dropped a student off after a filed trip at an unverified residence. For her second and third years, she taught as part of a team. Her students’ test scores were very low (Rhee’s first year: 20th percentile in reading and math on the Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills–CTBS; second year: reading, 15th percentile, and math, 38th percentile; third year, with notably fewer test taker than other district schools: reading, 45th percentile, and math, 55th percentile).
Contrast this to Rhee’s bragging that she raised 90 percent of student scores to the 90th percentile.
All of the above on Rhee is documented in chapter four of my book, A…
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Well, now. Voting with the pocketbook. Go us!!
Of course, there are those who see only $$$, and exclaim that “something needs to be done”. Um, yeah, the public has expressed their wishes through not buying tickets to see caged whales and dolphins entertain them…that “something that needs to be done” is taking Tillikum back to the waters he was stolen from and return him. Even if he only lasts a day, he will have died a free being…and I’m sure that would be priceless to him after being held in cages most of the day–only being allowed out to perform.
You would think Sea World would take heed and set them free. Nope.
This has got to be the worst that I’ve seen yet of ALEC. When people get wise to what is happening, ALEC has devised a way to thwart their efforts to take back control through local governments and regulations–removing your right to self-governing and autonomy. Their arrogance is mindboggling.
After years of trying to thwart local government, last week ALEC launched a new offshoot aimed at infiltrating it. The American City County Exchange (ACCE), had its first meeting last week, coinciding with ALEC’s Dallas meeting. ACCE’s goals, structure, and funding mirror those of its parent organization. According to The Guardian, the agenda for ACCE’s initial meeting focused on privatization and fighting public sector unions. Or, translated into ACCE doublespeak, “Effective Tools for Promoting Limited Government” and “Releasing Local Governments from the Grip of Collective Bargaining.”
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More here on workers fighting back. against low wages. And here on sick days.
PRWatch has this up on ALEC continuing its dirty campaigns against everything that is logical.
From the piece:
ALEC is even going after people who want to generate solar power for their homes. The boom in home solar energy generation—there has been a 60 percent increase in domestic solar installations in the past year—is a threat to ALEC’s dirty energy producing members, so they have a bill to amend so-called net metering laws that allow homeowners to sell excess electricity back to the grid. It is the ability to do this that makes solar an increasingly affordable possibility for homeowners. ALEC’s bill would charge homeowners additional fees, with ALEC environment task force director John Eick telling The Guardian that these users are “free riders on the system.”
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You know, it’s one thing to try to promote your heavy-metal containing pollution, but it’s a whole ‘nother thing to try to prevent people from taking a proactive stance against your dirty fuel. Unreal.
Solar energy has sooo many benefits–one of which is independence from the greedy energy producers whom have stripped our lands of trees, poisoned our water and soil, and then not paid for the land use nor taxes on top of that.
Sixty percent increase in solar energy use…just in the last year…this is a *huge* threat to them.
Mike Pence, doing ALEC’s bidding, along with the coal industry.
Not long ago, Indiana ranked in the top five for low cost of electricity. Now, thanks to an onslaught of regulations from Washington, Indiana ranks somewhere firmly in the middle of the pack.
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Reading between the lines, this is as much an admission of guilt for polluting our air, water, and soil with heavy metals (lead, mercury, arsenic) from coal. They were getting away with it until regulations prevented the free-for-all.
I keep thinking about that 17 million pounds of toxins put into our waterways every single year…and BP dumping mercury into Lake Michigan every single year, courtesy of Indiana Dept. of Environmental Mis-Management….and the lack of action when the toxic spill floated down the Ohio…
Note the blatant discrimination against women….paying them less than men in the same positions; pregnancy discrimination; not promoting them.
I try to avoid the place, but with limited access to other stores (that they elbowed out), it’s not easy. They have destroyed the right to choose, basically, so that folks like myself that don’t agree with their labor practices have limited choices.
I have actually paid more for products at other stores in order to avoid them. But I know that it is likely that those other options may be gone someday due to the Walmart octopus….but I’m not going down without a fight. This is another part of doing unto others as you would wish done to you–I want to support stores that pay their workers fairly.
My new article The Mystery of Karimeh Abbud: Lady photographer of Palestine is up on Muftah Magazine!
Karimeh Abbud (1896-1955), also known as the Lady Photographer, was the first female Palestinian professional photographer living and working in Lebanon and Palestine in the first half of the twentieth century. According to research, Abbud may have been the first female professional photographer in the entire Arab world.
Read it all on Muftah!
Karimeh Abbud (wikimedia)
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