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Thursday, May 6, 2010
Roosevelt Island, New York City | Nelson in the Selkirks BC. Canada

Image - Roy Eaton, Pianist of Orchard Hill, Manhattan and Roosevelt Island Happy 80th Birthday, Roy
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Breaking News

Manhattan - In Orchard Hill, A Street Nurtured Black Talent When the World Wouldn't
The New York Times - By David Gonzales -january 22, 2010
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A Note for Roy Eaton, Pianist of orchard Hill, Manhattan | Happy 80th Birthday from Homosapiens.ki.
What better way to celebrate his birthday than performing his favorites -- Chopin and Joplin on Barge Music under the Brooklyn Bridge. Roy in concert Friday, May 14, 2010, 8 pm. More >
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Opinion | Commentary | Editorials | Op-Eds | Polls

Wisdom of the Common Man | A Black Panther and a Goldman Sachs Banker Walk Into a Bakery ...
Truthout - By Andrew Birnbaum - Wednesday 28 April 2010
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Black Panther George Jackson wrote about black men imprisoned for "some form of food getting." If these men were seeking a necessity, what were the Goldman Sachs bankers seeking when they contributed to the economy's collapse?

The Securities and Exchange Commission (where I once worked) is prosecuting some form of civil charges against Goldman Sachs. But will any bankers face criminal charges? There is an old saying to the effect that a single murder is awful, but a thousand murders is completely acceptable (if you call it "war"). Similarly, stealing a loaf of bread from a bakery will get you thrown in jail, but bankrupting a thousand bakers will not.

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United States Government

"In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress." -- John Adams

"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself." -- Mark Twain
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog." -- Mark Twain

Obama Administration Warned by NOAA It Was Underestimating Offshore Drilling Risks-- To Be Expected Given Big Money
Op-Ed News - By Rob Kall - May 4< 2010
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Editorial | New York Governor: A Reminder About American Values
The New York Times - May 4, 2010
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Gov. David Paterson of New York made a brave — and startling — move on Monday to create a board to consider pardons for immigrant New Yorkers who are on a fast-track to deportation because of old or minor criminal convictions. He said he wanted to inject fairness into an “embarrassingly and wrongly inflexible” system that expels immigrants without discretion, without considering the circumstances of a person’s life or family, or even holding hearings to consider the possibility that deportation might be unwise or unjust.

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Activism at the Ground Level

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US | Urge Your Senators to Support Strong Climate and Energy Bill Now
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US - Stop Racial Profiling - Tell Arizona's Governor that SB 1070 is wrong
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US | Urge Your Reps to Support a Timetable for Withdrawal from Afghanistan
Just Foreign Policy - Current
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Arts & Culture

Dance Video | MICA | "Blame It On The Girls"
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Musical Group Video | Neville Brothers - Yellow Moon
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Out of the Hills | Jesus Is Coming Soon -The Oak Ridge Boys
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Musicians mix Coldplay and Taylor Swift together - Enjoy
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Music Video | "Democracy Is Coming to the USA" - Leonard Cohen
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Corruption, Criminality and Questional Practices in the Corpocracy
The Toxic Relationship Between Government and Corporate America . . . and Beyond

What Is "White Collar Crime"?
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Economy and Finance

"I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle." -- Winston Churchill

"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." -- Ronald Reagan (1986)

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Environment

Water Pollution | Pharma Invades Water Supplies
Consortium News - By Gary G, Kohis, MD - April 20, 2010
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Consortium News Editor’s Note: Though the pharmaceutical industry and some government officials have downplayed the risks, there remains a growing public concern about the impact of trace amounts of various drugs and chemicals entering the water supply and being ingested by unsuspecting people.

In this guest essay, Dr. Gary G. Kohls, who practiced mental health care without drugs, warns that the risks from this pharmaceutical stew are growing: For over a decade now environmental toxicologists have been doing chemical analyses on the water of lakes, streams and aquifers that are the sources of public drinking water, especially the waters that are downstream from wastewater treatment facilities. The results have been alarming.

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Health and Fitness

US | H1N1 vaccine study investigating hints of complications from vaccine
The Washington Post - By Rob Stein, Washington Post Staff Writer - April 24, 2010
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The latest analysis of data has detected what could be a somewhat elevated rate of Guillain-Barré syndrome, which can cause paralysis and death; Bell's palsy, a temporary facial paralysis; and thrombocytopenia, which is a low level of blood platelets, officials reported Friday. The data is being collected through five of the networks the government is using to monitor people who were inoculated against the swine flu.

Australia | Little girl died in cot after flu jab
The Australian - By Jamie Walker - April 26, 2010
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THE bereaved father of a toddler who died within a day of receiving the seasonal flu vaccine said last night that he could not believe this was coincidental. Mr Epapara told The Australian yesterday that both children had been "perfectly fine" until they received the combined jab for seasonal flu and swine flu.

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Media and Journalism

"If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed." -- Mark Twain

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Political Issues

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." -- P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian

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The Revolution Will Be Commercialized
Sarah Palin is already president of right-wing America—and it’s a position with a very big salary.
New York Magazine - By Gabriel Sherman - April 25, 2010
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The Printed Page
Book by Ralph Nader | Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us
What problems do you think the Super-Rich should unite to solve?
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This extraordinary story, written by the author who knows the most about citizen action, returns us to the literature of American social movements—to Edward Bellamy, to Upton Sinclair, to John Steinbeck, to Stephen Crane—reminding us in the process that changing the body politic of America starts with imagination.

How Christianity Lost Jesus
Consortium News - By the Reverend Howard Best - April 10, 2010
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Consortium News Editor’s Note: It is one of the conundrums of religious history: How did Christianity, a religion based on the teachings of a pacifist who said love your enemy and who defended the poor and vulnerable, become so twisted into nearly its opposite? Why did dominant Christian institutions, like the Vatican, amass obscene wealth and immense power? How could individuals – the likes of George W. Bush – who claim to be devout followers of Jesus unleash the fearsome might of modern military technologies to slaughter peoples in faraway lands?

In this guest essay, Rev. Howard Bess traces this Christian mystery to the chronology of when the books of the New Testament were committed to writing and to whether the apostle Paul was even aware of Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount: We call Chapters 5, 6 and 7 of the Matthew Gospel the Sermon on the Mount. It is without question our finest summary of the teachings of Jesus.

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Religion and Philosophy

Essay | How Authoritarianism Hurts Religion
Consortium News - By the Rev. Howard Bess - April 25, 2010
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Consortium News Editor’s Note: The Roman Catholic Church is in crisis over its failure to address the problem of abusive priests in part because the church's hierarchical structure stops laymen from questioning the ecclesiastical judgments of the Pope and other senior clergy. In this guest essay, the Rev. Howard Bess suggests that the Vatican is not alone among Christian churches in discouraging questions and thus driving many Christians away from organized religion:

The drain of young adults from churches has been verified by surveys and studies – and as one who cares deeply about the health of Christian churches, I ask the question: “Why are people leaving our churches in such great numbers?”

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Science and Technology

Bloomberg Index of Current Science News
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Apple Sued Over Touchpad Technology at ITC
Legal Times Blog - April 26, 2010
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Apple Inc. products - including the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch - are targets of a patent infringement suit that got a green light today from the U.S. International Trade Commission.

The ITC commissioners voted to institute an investigation under section 337 of the Tariff Act against Apple based on a complaint filed by Taiwan’s Elan Microelectronics Corp. Elan alleges that Apple is infringing its patent covering electronic devices with multi-touch pads and touchscreens, and has asked the ITC to ban the import of all infringing products

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Social Issues

"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else." -- Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)

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Book Review | Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life
Publishers Weekly - By former labor secretary Robert Reich - Current
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In this compelling and important analysis of the triumph of capitalism and the decline of democracy, former labor secretary Reich urges us to rebalance the roles of business and government. Power, he writes, has shifted away from us in our capacities as citizens and toward us as consumers and investors. While praising the spread of global capitalism, he laments that supercapitalism has brought with it alienation from politics and community.

As in 2004's Reason, Reich exhibits perhaps too much confidence in Americans' ability to think and act in their own best interests. But he refuses to shift blame for corporations' dominance to the usual suspects, instead pointing a finger at consumers like you and me who want better deals, and from investors like us who want better returns, he writes. Provocatively argued, this book could help begin a necessary national conversation. (Sept. 6)

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