January 17, 2014

TRIGGER WARNING. ONE body wrapped in a sheet. A view of human misery in NOLA:

DO NOT WATCH if from NOLA.

January 17, 2014

Song and lyrics about the victims of Katrina:

What will satisfy the pathologically powerful and privileged?

Nothing.

Not the death of a city, a culture or an innocent people.

Because they are sick unto death themselves.

January 17, 2014

Considering posting this in GD. I've posted it in the BOG. This is the truth. This explains America

and it explains the hypocrisy of the Teapots and Libertarians. If one would just consider what he says here inside their hearts and minds, they would see a different world. it's sorely needed.

It doesn't appear to be getting much attention, and I wonder if it would be spamming to post it in the BOG, here and GD. But here goes:

Between Barack and a Hard Place: Challenging Racism, Privilege and Denial in the Age of Obama



Uploaded on Apr 7, 2010

Celebrated anti-racism activist Tim Wise, author of Between Barack and a Hard Place: Challenging Racism, Privilege and Denial in the Age of Obama, will appear at Villanova University March 29 to share his insights and wit, and to issue challenging calls to action.

I urge anyone who reads this thread to consider taking time to listen to Tim Wise's version of American history. He doesn't miss one detail. Many of us know this, have always known it. The talking points may be useful in other discussions.

January 17, 2014

Between Barack and a Hard Place: Challenging Racism, Privilege and Denial in the Age of Obama

Uploaded on Apr 7, 2010

Celebrated anti-racism activist Tim Wise, author of Between Barack and a Hard Place: Challenging Racism, Privilege and Denial in the Age of Obama, will appear at Villanova University March 29 to share his insights and wit, and to issue challenging calls to action.

I also posted another video with Tim Wise in V&MM and AA:

White Privilege, Racism, White Denial & The Cost of Inequality



...Tim Wise 'gets it.' I've posted his words several times at DU with mixed responses. I don't know how anyone could disagree with him. The facts are so obvious...

I saw reports that communities of color are the ones doing worst in the water crisis in West Virginia. This has been going on for so long, so much that environmental justice advocates always find it in play.

The cause of troubles in the AA community is systematic, I've seen it all my life. It was blatant and in the past it was discussed in the media, but now nothing is said.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/11874904#op

January 17, 2014

White Privilege, Racism, White Denial & The Cost of Inequality

Cross posted from my reply on a Video & MultiMedia thread by ReasonableToo as requested by seabeyond:

Requested video of Tim Wise on White Priviledge

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017169931

This may not have been what RT intended to add in the OP, but I posted it just in case.

Tim Wise 'gets it.' I've posted his words several times at DU with mixed responses. I don't know how anyone could disagree with him. The facts are so obvious.

This certainly is not news to anyone at this group. This needs to be said unitl it sinks in.

I saw reports that communities of color are the ones doing worst in the water crisis in West Virginia. This has been going on for so long, so much that environmental justice advocates always find it in play.

The cause of troubles in the AA community is systematic, I've seen it all my life. It was blatant and in the past it was discussed in the media, but now nothing is said.

Hope this belongs here, and that people who don't usually post in the group will see it and think.

January 17, 2014

Excellent! Example posted here today:

Skylar Murphy didn't plan to use pipe bomb on plane, RCMP say

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014699467

January 16, 2014

Nope, wrong venue. They love to carry grotesque, full color posters to clinics.

There are plenty of the same that could be mass produced, and each one shoiuld have a scripture to shame them for what they are doing right now - make them admit it's not abour doing God's will, but about their conservative politics:

The Inquisition and the methods of torture employed AND the reason, religious intoleerance, forturing people lie about their faith to increase the power of the church, and ti enforce only one doctrine, which is what they are doing. Did they approve of what was done in Jesus' name, the same way they approve of abortion clinic bombs and killind doctors in their homes?

The burnings of witches, cats, and other crimes that came from lack of knowledge, mob mentailty, a love of cruelty and social power. What spirit are they condoning as they refuse women having babies or not getting health care to save their lives, or better still, to get pregnant for wanted children?

The stoning of women in the Middle East, and the example of Jesus saving the woman caught in the act of adultery. Who are they to cast the first stone, when they do not know the people involved? Are they without sin? If they claim to be so, Jesus said their sin remains on them, so why are they claiming to do it for God? They aren't, they are poltiically motivated.

The cruxification, torture, slaughter, muliation and selling children, both male and female, toddlers and babies, into the European sex slavery by Columbus of the native people, in the Name of God.

Go into all the details. Ask them if they truly believe those people deserved that - not letting anyone off the hook for being 'saved' - own what they are, just as tney have condemned, mocked and harrassed those they don't like.

Hand them out the news stories of the indian children in mass graves in Canada, Ireland, etc. Hand them the stories of the young boys who were molested by priests in Europe who complained are were castrated surgically to make them girls. Is this the kind of direct action they want taken, where things get physicial or do they claim to be blind? Jesus did not give anyone a pass for that.

Talk to them about the way women and girls desiring eduation or health care have been treated by the Taliban in Afghanistan, running through a guantlet of ogling, yelling, hateful men. Is this the spirit in which women should be treated here? Do they know that the same spirit infects them?

The misery of slums, children sold into slavery, beaten, raped and killed because of poverty. Are they going to those homes to save those people, usually of color, perhaps all involved in things they never knew in their own lives? Do each of them adopt not only children to save them from abotion, but their mothers and fathers?

If not, what provision are they making for them? Do they support illegal immigrant children being cared for pre-natally and post-birth, healhcare and all of that - or do they want to keep their money to themslves? You cannot serve both God and Mammon.

Show us your bank account, Mr. And Mrs. Pharisee, let us see how you treat the least of these - the ones you don't want to know. Not on a whim out of charity, but paying your taxes as the Hebrews did the Temple, to provide for the poor, the widows and the orphans. Otherwise, a herd of camels will enter Heaven long before you.

I could go on with other atrocities that have been commtitted in the Name of God and Jesus. None of them were done through the Gift of the Holy Spirit, or Forgiveness and Love and neither are they bullying others. With the very same hand that they use to point and accuse, they are undone..

For the women who attend these mass shaming exercises, full of pride and fury, tell the the story of the Cows of Bashan. If they don't know, it, tell them to look it up, or give it to them.

It's not pretty, and it's about well-off women living off the oppression of the poor, and God's judgment on them. They will be judged more harshly than women going for healthcare or birth control or abortion. They could have helped them long before, but they loved their leisure and their earthly pleasures too much. This, too, in their belief system is being written down.

AFAIK, they are each and every one of them going straight to Hell for taking the Name of the Lord in vain and enjoying self-righteousness to scheme to get ahead of others. The 'sin' of the women which they suspect, but do not know, lays on them because that is where their own Hearts are corrupted.

Anyway, you get my drift.

January 16, 2014

The solution is in the last paragraphs:

There are sensible, sane ways to do things. (A mile and a half upstream from a water intake facility, for fuck's sake. Upstream.) It's essential for state and federal governments to consult with scientists -- actual, real scientists, in spite of this area's long and fierce tradition of anti-intellectualism when it comes to public policy -- and provide a regulatory apparatus for maintaining safety standards and making sure things are up to code, and that there's a protocol in place for when systems fail. That's what a society does to protect the people who live in it. Or the people who live in it will -- should, anyway -- naturally come to the conclusion that their health and safety mean zero in the calculus of industry and politics.
Over the past couple of decades, the resource manufacturing industries have been leaving the state in a slow trickle -- of their own volition, though, and not, as might have been hoped, at the end of a pike -- and gradually, the state is going to have to move to a post-coal, post-chemical economy. That's a good development, to my mind. But the history of sellout politicians and cheapjack business interests in this region keeps me on watch for the next plague of locusts.
Having been made to endure fucked up Air, Earth, and Water, we ought to be mindful of that history, and make sure that history goes with us, always, into the voting booth, into the streets, into the home, into the wider world.
Otherwise, to steal a line from the old hymn -- and don't we love our Jesus, our stories of noble suffering around here -- we'll all of us, residents and politicians and operators alike, find ourselves standing in the Fire Next Time.

January 16, 2014

+1. Answer to question, though, only if they understand this from the link:

...To hell with all of my fellow West Virginians who bought so deeply into the idea of avoidable personal risk and constant sacrifice as an honorable condition under which to live, that they turned that condition into a culture of perverted, twisted pride and self-righteousness, to be celebrated and defended against outsiders.

To hell with that insular, xenophobic pathology. To hell with everyone whose only take-away from every story about every explosion, every leak, every mine collapse, is some vague and idiotic vanity in the continued endurance of West Virginians under adverse, sometimes killing circumstances.

To hell with everyone everywhere who ever mistook suffering for honor, and who ever taught that to their kids. There's nothing honorable about suffering. Nothing.

I've found this to be the stubborn wall of resistance to working for change to save the planet and each other. It burns brightly inside all the fundies and teabaggers who vote for corruption and cruelty.

January 15, 2014

Obama asked to end the AUMF, see his words last year at 0:50 mark:

The GOP did their usual thing:

Republicans criticize Obama over call for repeal of 2001 use of force law

Sorry for link, yes, it's...

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05/24/republicans-criticize-obama-over-call-for-repeal-2001-use-force-law/

It is essential that it be ended now to continue Obama's intention to make peace with Iran because the neo-cons demand their WW3:

The President Should Ask Congress for an AUMF Against Iran's Nuclear Program, says FPI's William Kristol and Jamie Fly

http://www.foreignpolicyi.org/content/obama-administration-should-ask-congress-aumf-against-irans-nuclear-program-says-fpis-william-kristol

He ain't gonna do it, he's not a warmonger:



to EarlG

I still piss on Rand with his national right-to-work and personhood laws, pushing free enterprise zones, applauding mountain top removal, deregulation, ending social security, medicare, medicaid, food stamps, the ACA, public education and all the other evil he does. Naturally, he will get all the credit for this!