I BEG YOU, WATCH & MAKE VIRAL. NOW. THIS INSTANT.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leQarSfzT6A

"Love is what you do for others in need, or it is not Love." SL

"Love is what you do for others in need, or it is not Love."  SL

"Secret of Life: For the Joy of it, keep your life on the line for the least of these our Family." SL

"Secret of Life:  For the Joy of it, keep your life on the line for the least of these our Family."  SL

Through my tears (thanks BuzzFlash.com): Get Off Obama's Back ...second thoughts from Michael Moore

[SL addition at end.]

Get Off Obama's Back ...second thoughts from Michael Moore

Saturday, October 10th, 2009

Friends,

Last night my wife asked me if I thought I was a little too hard on Obama in my letter yesterday congratulating him on his Nobel Prize. "No, I don't think so," I replied. I thought it was important to remind him he's now conducting the two wars he's inherited. "Yeah," she said, "but to tell him, 'Now earn it!'? Give the guy a break -- this is a great day for him and for all of us."

I went back and re-read what I had written. And I listened for far too long yesterday to the right wing hate machine who did what they could to crap all over Barack's big day. Did I -- and others on the left -- do the same?

We are weary, weary of war. The trillions that will have gone to these two wars have helped to bankrupt us as a nation -- financially and morally. To think of all the good we could have done with all that money! Two months of the War in Iraq would pay for all the wells that need to be dug in the Third World for drinking water! Obama is moving too slow for most of us -- but he needs to know we are with him and we stand beside him as he attempts to turn eight years of sheer madness around. Who could do that in nine months? Superman? Thor? Mitch McConnell?

Instead of waiting to see what the president is going to do, we all need to be pro-active and push the agenda that we want to see enacted. What keeps us from forming the same local groups we put together to get out the vote last November? C'mon! We're the majority now -- the majority by a significant margin! We call the shots -- and we need to tell this wimpy Congress to get busy and do what we say -- or else.

All I ask of those who voted for Obama is to not pile on him too quickly. Yes, make your voice heard (his phone number is 202-456-1414). But don't abandon the best hope we've had in our lifetime for change. And for God's sake, don't head to bummerville if he says or does something we don't like. Do you ever see Republicans behave that way? I mean, the Right had 20 years of Republican presidents and they still couldn't get prayer in the public schools, or outlaw abortion, or initiate a flat tax or put our Social Security into the stock market. They did a lot of damage, no doubt about that, but on the key issues that the Christian Right fought for, they came up nearly empty handed. No wonder they've been driven crazy lately. They'll never have it as good again as they've had it since Reagan took office.

But -- do you ever see them looking all gloomy and defeated? No! They keep on fighting! Every day. Our side? At the first sign of wavering, we just pack up our toys and go home.

So, at least for this weekend, let us celebrate what people elsewhere are celebrating -- that America now has a sane and smart man in the White House, a man who truly wants a world at peace for his two daughters.

Many, for the past couple days (yes, myself included), have grumbled, "What has he done to earn this prize?" How 'bout this:

The simple fact that he was elected was reason enough for him to be the recipient of this year's Nobel Peace Prize.

Because on that day the murderous actions of the Bush/Cheney years were totally and thoroughly rebuked. One man -- a man who opposed the War in Iraq from the beginning -- offered to end the insanity. The world has stood by in utter horror for the past eight years as they watched the descendants of Washington, Lincoln and Jefferson light the fuse of our own self-destruction. We flipped off the nations on this planet by abandoning Kyoto and then proceeded to melt eight more years worth of the polar ice caps. We invaded two nations that didn't attack us, failed to find the real terrorists and, in effect, ignited our own wave of terror. People all over the world wondered if we had gone mad.

And if all that wasn't enough, the outgoing Joker presided over the worst global financial collapse since the Great Depression.

So, yeah, at precisely 11:00pm ET on November 4, 2008, Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. And the 66 million people who voted for him won it, too. By the time he took the stage at midnight ET in the Grant Park Historic Hippie Battlefield in downtown Chicago, billions of people around the globe were already breathing a huge sigh of relief. It was as if, in that instant, one man did bring the promise of peace to the world -- and most were ready to go wherever he wanted to go to achieve that end. Never before had the election of one man made every other nation feel like they had won, too. When you've got billions of people ready, willing and able to join a cause like this, well, a prize in Oslo is the least that you deserve.

One other thought. The Peace Prize historically has been given to those who have worked to throw off the yoke of racial discrimination and segregation (Martin Luther King, Jr., Desmond Tutu). I think the Nobel committee, in awarding Obama the prize, was also rewarding the fact that something profound had happened in a nation that was founded on racial genocide, built on racist slavery, and held back for a hundred-plus years by vestiges of hateful bigotry (which can still be found on display at teabagger rallies and daily talk radio). The fact that this one man could cause this seismic historical event to occur -- and to do so with such grace and humility, never succumbing to the bait, but still not backing down (yes, he asked to be sworn in as "Barack Hussein Obama"!) -- is more than reason enough he should be in Oslo to meet the King on December 10. Maybe he could take us along with him. 'Cause I also suspect the Nobel committee was tipping its hat to all of us -- we, the American people, had conquered some of our racism and did the truly unexpected. After seeing searing images of our black fellow citizens left to drown in New Orleans -- and poor whites seeing their own treated no better than the black man they had been raised to hate -- we had all seen enough. It was time for change.

Thank you, Barack Obama, for giving us the opportunity to redeem ourselves. Now for the tasks ahead. We need you to do all that you promised to do. [AND WE NEED TO DO ALL WE, WE, WE THE PEOPLE PROMISED TO DO TO HELP YOU.] We need it. The world needs it. [AND WE'LL NOT GET ANOTHER CHANCE..]

My prediction for the future? You become the first *two-time* winner of the Nobel Peace Prize! Yeah!

Fred (that's Norwegian for "Peace"),

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Constructive Leadership ENCOURAGES Potential. Destructive Leadership Punishes Disappointments. And you?

Constructive Leadership ENCOURAGES Potential.
Destructive Leadership Punishes Disappointments.

And you?

And my excuse, and yours, is what? One Impressive Kid Gets Her Statue at Capitol Washington Post

One Impressive Kid Gets Her Statue at Capitol

Washington Post

'Hot Button' Climate Issue Spotlights How US Chamber Sets Policy New York Times

'Hot Button' Climate Issue Spotlights How US Chamber Sets Policy
New York Times

"Being what's Right is to Be the Blazing Torch; that can Light Others. There's NO other Light." SL

"Being what's Right is to Be the Blazing Torch; that can Light Others.  There's NO other Light."  SL

"She who would give light must endure burning."  Eleanor Roosevelt.

"Put your life on the line for others, for the Joy of it. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat...." SL

"Put your life on the line for others, for the Joy of it.  Repeat.  Repeat. Repeat...." SL

ps:  NOW would be a good time.

pps: And for those of you already doing so?  Thanks for giving us LIGHT.

pps:  That reminds me:

"Whoever would give light, must endure burning."  Eleanor Roosevelt.

UNLESS WE PROTECT HIM, PRES. OBAMA IS CRUCIFIED: Gold Futures Advance to Record in New York on Inflation, Dollar ... Bloomberg - Nicholas Larkin, Kim Kyoungwha - ‎53 minutes ago‎

UNLESS WE PROTECT HIM, PRES. OBAMA IS AS GOOD AS CRUCIFIED:

Gold Futures Advance to Record in New York on Inflation, Dollar ...

Bloomberg - Nicholas Larkin, Kim Kyoungwha - ‎53 minutes ago‎

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601091&sid=a_0KV3_1FIp4

Start L here: THE MOST IMPORTANT QUOTE OF 2009, AND THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY

Start L here:  THE MOST IMPORTANT QUOTE OF 2009, AND THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY -

"Sweeping positive changes have only come to America when there's been a progressive President,

pushed to do the right thing by large numbers of rowdy citizens. (Think FDR and the New Deal;

think LBJ and the Civil Rights movement.)  Today, we've got the progressive President. Now all we

need is to vote with our feet, and enable him to do what we elected him for." 

Yes Men

>>>>>>>>>>>  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE <<<<<<<<<<<<<

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-yes-men/emthe-yes-men-fix-the-wor_b_310513.html

[I wish I'd thought of it.]

Evey in V FOR VENDETTA BEFORE she found Life:

Evey in V for Vendetta BEFORE she found Life:

MLK Jr. Paraphrase:

'A person is lifeless, worthless,
until they are laying down their life for others.'

["A man is not fit to live until
he knows what he would die for." Martin Luther King Jr.]

(Evey in V for Vendetta Before she found Life.)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-yes-men/emthe-yes-men-fix-the-wor_b_310513.html

"Cowardice - that which is less than the Humanity / Universal Love that a person should display given the suffering of others." SL

"Cowardice - that which is less than the Humanity / Universal Love
that a person should display given the suffering of others."  SL

Disgraceful BF headline. Pitiful article: Protestors Arrested in Front of White House of the "Crime" of Advocating for Single Payer Healthcare. Shameful President Obama, Shameful. 10/6

BuzzFlash.com:  Protestors Arrested in Front of White House of the "Crime" of Advocating for Single Payer Healthcare. Shameful President Obama, Shameful. 10/6

This is utterly disgusting.  The article is intellectual rubbish.  The rules they broke are
entirely constitutional.  The problem is the Police, that the police wouldn't listen?  I'd
take those police over most of these activists any day of the week.  So would Gandhi.

The problem is these wimpy protesters that come sanctimoniously out for an
afternoon and posture as though they've done something important, consequential,
heroic - rubbish.  Spitballs.  Chump change.  Crumbs.

And GOD DAMN IT, BF GIVES THEM A FREEKING STAGE AS THOUGH THEY'VE JUST
EXECUTED A 2009 VERSION OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS BUS BOYCOTT, OR SELMA MARCH.

What the flock does BuzzFlash.com stand for????  NO STANDARDS (for itself, or the
Left roots.  UNACHIEVABLE STANDARDS for Pres. Obama!!!!!!!!)

And that BF headline - YES SHAME PRES. OBAMA - SHAME FOR WORKING YOUR BUTT
OFF, ALONE, ABANDONED BY THE WHINING LIP SERVICE LEFT, DOING MORE, RISKING,
MORE, CONTRIBUTING MORE IN AN HOUR THAN WE DO IN A YEAR.  SHAME, SHAME, SHAME.

THIS IS HORRIFYING BF.  HORRIFYING.

I THOUGHT YOU WERE SERIOUS PLAYERS.

OBVIOUSLY NOT. 

I GUESS ALL YOU CARE ABOUT IS GETTING ENOUGH $$$ FROM YOUR
WORLD CHANGING BUMPER STICKERS (PITIFUL) SO YOU CAN CONTINUE TO
PONTIFICATE, THROW YOUR MUD FROM THE SAFETY OF YOUR
COMFORTABLE ARM CHAIRS.

DISGUSTING.

DISGUSTING.

We're # 13 HEY! We're # 13 HEY! ReThugs want us to be LAST, the parasites!!!

We're # 13 HEY!  We're # 13 HEY!  ReThugs want us to be LAST, the parasites!!!

Norway enjoys the world's highest quality of life, according to the annual Human Development Index. Canada was listed fourth and the U.S. was 13th. Niger finished last. 10/6

Thanks for the catch BuzzFlash.com !

"The Prime Directive of us all in 2009: Be what a Human should be in THIS world." SL

"The Prime Directive of Life/Love/Peace of Heart:

Be what a Human should be in THIS world."  SL

I've been searching for these words, the words that grasp what my
body's been lurching toward doing in ever
more radical lurches, well, most of my adult life.  You too?

"Be what a skier should be on this mountain,"  SL, in an earlier, infinitely
more selfish, profoundly ignorant period of my life.

Gandhi, who commanded of us that we go beyond what he learned and
taught, is smiling at this, I am sure, as the evolution of his idea -

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world." Gandhi

"Be what a Human should be in THIS world."  SL

If I thought this was the prime directive for just SL, I'd have no interest.

THIS IS THE CLOSEST I'VE COME TO WHAT OUR DNA-GIVEN PRIME
DIRECTIVE IS, AND THE CLOSEST I'VE COME TO THE PRIME DIRECTIVE
FOR US ALL OF THIS MOST PIVOTAL YEAR IN HUMAN HISTORY - 2009.

THAT is where Joy, Love, Peace-of-heart, LIFE are to be found,
and nowhere else.

"It's the greatest job in the world. You get to save lives every day," [the firefighter] said.

Other fire hero talks about New York rescue

CNN -

 ‎18 minutes ago‎

I'm Learning now; Growing. That is Central why I had to leave the Matrix.

I'm Learning now; Growing.  That is Central why I had to leave the Matrix.

Early in my career in industry I BEGAN to learn the Lesson that ESSENTIAL
in life is to learn FROM WHAT YOU DO.  As I began to take charge of my
career this, in my better moments, became my #2 selection criterion
from among what ever alternatives I could generate, #1 being
ethics - would it Help others (as I badly understood it then).

Central to why I had to leave Industry, the Matrix, was because so much
of my time was diverted from what Humanity needed me to learn!

I am learning so much now, these days, weeks, years... - that is of consequence,
that is of Hope, that can matter to Humanity. 
From my interactions, from my freedom of time to devote my attention to the
central issues OF Humanity now, every waking second.

LIFE.  LOVE.  JOY.  PEACE OF HEART.

Spotlights on we sheeple. We'll NEVER have better than the Obamas. EVER. Sooooo...

Spotlights on we sheeple, EACH of us. We'll NEVER have better than the Obamas. EVER.  Sooooo...

If we can't make the US work NOW, IT IS A CERTAINTY THAT WE WILL NEVER
MAKE IT WORK.

Ending apartheid did NOT depend on "the right government," but on
the right
CITIZEN ACTION.

Civil Rights in US did NOT depend on "the right government," but on
the right
CITIZEN ACTION.

Women's Suffrage did NOT depend on "the right government," but on
the right
CITIZEN ACTION.

Ending the Vietnam War did NOT depend on "the right government," but on
the right
CITIZEN ACTION.

If Strong HC Reform fails WE THE PEOPLE FAILED.

If Strong Climate Change Legislation Fails  WE THE PEOPLE FAILED.

If the Afghanistan policy is wrong WE THE PEOPLE FAILED.

If Jobs Don't Materialize WE THE PEOPLE FAILED.

If Wall Street BLEEDING OF US CONTINUES WE THE PEOPLE FAILED.

80 yrs ago the Nazis were not stopped. We'll stop the FOXies. Right? RIGHT?

Do you always consult with Terrorists, Traitors? Your News Source Does.

EVERY "reputable" news source - NY Times, Wash Post.... - DOES
consult the Faux Republicans (hijackers of Republican party
and Conservative cause) - Boehner, McConnel and the other ReTHUGlicans
on the Hill?  Traitors.  Terrorists.  Fascists.  The Wrecking Crew.
HIJACKERS of America - IF WE LET THEM.

Yes, the FEW exceptions include DemocracyNow.org, BuzzFlash.com,
Rachel Maddow Show.

"Died" is much less useful than "Passed On."

If people really died, well, our life would be unimaginable, unlivable.

The character of each of us is in large part bits and pieces of the Spirit
of others that now reside in us; out of which we are constructed.

Our culture, technology... is entirely woven out of the immortal impact
of those that have passed on into, and now comprise these things.

Our hate groups / shock jocks / Zionists of today are repositories,
reincanations of Hitler, Nazis, McCarthy.... and our Limbaughs,
Becks, Hannitys, O'Reilly's... will pass on into us to immortality, if
we let them.

Gandhi, King, were truly in significant part reincarnations of Jesus.

It matters what we are, and what we become, and who we allow to
"Pass on" into us - comprising us, constituting us.  We do not die.  We
live on strengthening, giving life to, or weakening, killing - the body of
Humanity.

This is inescapable.

Who will we manifest?

Who will we give Life to?

Who will we pass on?

From BuzzFlash -

Life's, Love's, Joy's DNA

I keep this on the lefthand side of http://www.youtube.com/StartLoving2

"Stay with God (Universal Love / Conscience) and all will be Good." SL

"Love is Universal, or it is not Love. Love is Joyful, or it is not Love. Love
is entirely about the-least-of-these, or it is not Love. Love involves Courage,
or it is not Love." SL

"I adore Jesus, and you, far too much to be "a Christian."" SL

'My problem is not the violent racists. My problem is the Good folks that say -
this is terrible, but we can't fix it yet, not in this way, not so fast, I'm not quite
ready to put MY life on the line, I can't devote myself now because....'
MLK Jr paraphrase

"The Perfect (and only) Solution for Joy and eliminating all needless suffering
both personal and interpersonal, individual and global IS UNIVERSAL LOVE
(total and complete devotion to the least-of-these our Family in the world).
To BE this Solution is why our genes have us here. Entertaining ourselves is
NOT why were created, and can never satisfy us; but it will destroy us." SL

"God (Universal Love) with certainty thrusts us INTO "life's storms," to save
the Life of the drowning, for the Joy of it." SL

"You have chosen one of two possible lives - Family with ALL or Family with
some. Family with ALL IS Joy, Life, Love, Peace-of-Heart, Heaven. Family with
some is Cancer - the Death of your Humanity and our death as Humanity." SL

"WAR IS INESCAPABLE; Hostility, Blood and Killing are NOT; only Heroic, Loving
Self Sacrifice is the alternative." SL

"Leadership is clawing yourself, and therefore maybe others, away from
cowardice, off of the sidelines and into the good fight." SL

"Good IS God. They are identical. IDENTICAL. Period." SL

"We're born to work for Humanity; NEVER for money." SL

"Live for Joy; never for pleasure." SL

"There is but one True Religion - that practiced by Jesus, Badshah Kahn,
Eleanor Roosevelt, Teresa, Rabbi Heschel, Gandhi, Romero... - Universal
Love. There are no True Organized Religions today, but there are individuals
OF the True Religion - Universal Love - including some of you!" SL

"Life is found [only] in total devotion to the-least-of-these. Run there,
and Live!" SL

"Ask not what Pres. Obama can do for you. Ask what YOU can do for your
brothers and sisters in need." SL

YouTube just DELETED my StartLoving1 Chan along with my 230 Friends and
650 Subscribers. Please RE-Subscribe, Friend, and PROMOTE.

"If you value pleasure then you believe what you Please. If you value Love,
Life, Joy, Peace-of-Heart then you value Truth of what serves the least of
these. No 3rd option is available." SL

"Live for JOY, never for pleasure." SL

"Wealth of Life, Joy, Love and Peace-of-Heart are found in the service of the
least of these. If not there, not Joy, Life, etc, but rather pleasure." SL

"Love is the greedily taking of responsibility for the-least-of-these, or it is not
Love. Love is Universal, or it is not Love. Love involves Courage, or it is not
Love." SL

"Do unto the least of these all that you would have them do unto you." JC
Repeat, Sleep, Repeat, Sleep....

"Golden Rule - if it is more or less than your share, don't take it."
Gandhi paraphrase.

"Example is not the major thing in influencing people; it is the only thing."
Albert Schweitzer

"If you see another man he is either your brother in religion, or your brother in
humanity." Muslim Cleric Imam Ali

"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves."

Works of Love:
http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay....
http://prop1.org
http://HomeEarthSecurity.bl...
http://facebook.com/StartLo...
http://LovingUSActivists.bl...

"Leadership is the unleashing and focusing of energy." SL

"Leadership is going and standing where others need to arrive." SL

"It is not WHAT you do. It is THAT you do with Universal Love / Total Commitment /
Complete Devotion, Period." SL

"This is your "Freedom:" Choosing existence IN The Matrix, or Life outside The Matrix.
No 3rd choice exists." SL

"VISION is EVERYTHING. Our eyes as a 6 year old are different than those at 25,
right? We need to reclaim those of 6. Hurry." SL

Vision is EVERYTHING. Our eyes as a 6 year old are different than those at 25, right? We need to reclaim those of 10. Hurry.

VISION is EVERYTHING.  Our eyes as a 6 year old are different than those at 25, right? 
We need to reclaim those of 6.  Hurry.

Before lust.

Before hate.

Before greed.

Before fear.

Before division.

Before "foreigner."

Before "enemy."

Before "kill."

Before "bomb."

Before "other."

They are totally different eyes, aren't they?

We need the original ones.  These new ("adult") ones are wrong, distorted, blind. 
They are deeply UN-civilized, profoujdly DE-humanized.

'The Kingdom of God (Universal Love) is within you;
be like a Child and enter in.'  JC

God (Universal Love) with certainty thrusts us INTO "life's storms," to save the Life of the drowning, for the Joy of it. SL

"God (Universal Love) has not promised to keep us from life's storms but He will keep us through them."  (thanks Nancy!)

Actually, God (Universal Love) with certainty thrusts us INTO "life's storms," to save the Life of the drowning, for the Joy of it.  SL

WAR IS INEVITABLE; Hostility, Blood and Killing are NOT; only Heroic, Loving Self Sacrifice is the alternative.

WAR IS INEVITABLE; Hostility, Blood and Killing are NOT; only Heroic, Loving Self Sacrifice is the alternative.

What's your choice - war of Destruction or war of Construction?

Your life announces your choice.

Maddow: GOP TREASON. And you'll allow this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iscw3NP28BY

DON'T MISS THIS!!!! Proposition One In 2010 Campaign

Ellen Thomas (et@prop1.org) is wrapping up an arduous cross country campaign to spark
Nuclear Disarmament "Cells"  (my word) in the states that support the
legal process called - Citizen's Initiative.  PLEASE:

*  Enjoy her most recent post (below)
*  Explore her site (Link below)
*  ENCOURAGE AND SUPPORT THEIR EFFORTS.

We win the war of words and legislation today,
or we die in the war of blood and murder - tomorrow.

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From Idaho to Utah to Colorado, with a side trip to Wyoming and Montana.... Posted: 01 Oct 2009 11:36 AM PDT So, now, it's two weeks later already, and again we're going to have to encapsule the multitude of experiences.  Traveling takes so much TIME! Idaho was beautiful, and so were the activists in Boise, where we had two great events.  Liz Woodruff of Snake River Alliance did an incredible job of planning, promoting and hosting the "Dinner For Disarmament" at the Shangri-La Tea Room (a wonderful event!). She also kindly included us in the "Peace Corner" at Boise's annual  Hyde Park Street Fair at Camel's Back Park, combining forces of SRA, Vets for Peace, the Idaho Peace Coalition & Prop1 to hold down the peace vibe in a blue corner of red Idaho.  And Liz's family provided us elegant hospitality (Thanks, Dr. & Mrs. Briggs!). After Boise, we went to West Yellowstone and spent the night with the Buffalo Field Campaign folks before heading through Yellowstone National Park. The Buffalo Field Campaign was established to protect the buffalo from cattle ranchers who want them killed when they leave the Park.  People come from all over the country in the dead of winter to go into the park and not only keep watch, but respectfully (with head lowered and body in a non-threatening pose) turn buffalo around if they're headed in the wrong direction.  The young people at the lodge were incredibly healthy!  They spent the summer cutting, hauling, and splitting wood to heat the lodge all winter. During our day-long drive through Yellowstone, we saw bubbling mud pits, spouting geysers, elk, antelope, and numerous buffalo.  We had a profound experience with one old bull who chose to walk across the road right in front of the van.  On the way out of Yellowstone on the last day of summer, it snowed! We spent the night in Bozeman, Montana, with Jim MacDonald and Genevieve Calmes, and their boy River, hiked up to a waterfall, then took off for Pocatello, Idaho, where (former DC teacher and Statehood activist) Tom Briggs arranged a room at the university and hosted us in his home. Early the next morning we went to the Idaho National Labs, where (thanks to Beatrice Brailsford of Snake River Alliance) we were given a VIP tour of the cleanup currently underway.  We'll post separately about that experience. We then rejoined allies Snake River Alliance and  HEAL Utah in Salt Lake City for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission "workshop" (hearings) about re-classifying depleted uranium (DU) as a waste stream, affecting whether DU should be brought in massive quantities into Utah.  (Vanessa Pierce and Chris Carpenter of HEAL Utah, and Beatrice of the SRA, were at the table for the good guys!) Then, with the public allowed only 15 minutes of testimony at the very end of two full days of hearings, Jay managed a quote in the Salt Lake Tribune with his testimony: "Activist Jay Marx of the Washington-based Proposition 1 Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament likewise told officials he questioned the need to increase production of the waste. Nuclear energy is history and renewables are the future, he said, so there's no reason to expect the quantities that the NRC foresees."  Before we left, we got a glimpse of HEAL's downtown offices as they were busy preparing a follow-up press conference on the Utah state capitol steps, and caught an interview with their newest staff member, brought on specifically to focus the public (and Utah's two red senators) on ratifying the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) when it comes up in the spring.  Go, HEAL! From Salt Lake City we drove to Colorado, by way of Canyonlands and Arches national parks, incredibly beautiful places to wake up in the morning.   We drove through Moab, Utah, and visited the site where uranium mine tailings are finally being cleaned up from where they've been resting beside and polluting the Colorado River for the past 50 years, 2 miles from downtown. It was disturbing to see that the only thing keeping the dust from flying as they dig was a sprinkler.  At Idaho National Labs, the contractor has built a structure around where they're working so none of the dust escapes.   In Colorado Jay gave a great talk at the University in Boulder (thanks to Duke Austin of Students for Peace & Justice). Meanwhile Ellen videotaped a presentation by Rocky Mountain Peace & Justice Center which was happening simultaneously in another building across campus.  Leroy Moore, a co-founder of RMP&J, passed around a petition asking that Rocky Flats not be opened to the public as a nature preserve, as currently planned. We also visited RMP&J offices and heard about their work.  They have a wonderful photograph of some of the 16,000 people who linked hands and surrounded Rocky Flats in 1983, one of the many citizen actions which ultimately led to the temporary shutdown of that plutonium pit four years later, and final shutdown in 1992. We visited Rocky Flats, and were surprised to discover that there's virtually no security, and perhaps a dozen construction firms have offices right beside or on Rocky Flats. So now, as the leaves are turning yellow and red and the nights are turning cold, we're on our way home, and ready to be back. Today we leave for Oklahoma, where we'll be speaking in Oklahoma City (on the 4th) and Norman (Oct 3rd), where we came through early on our tour back in June. Then we'll be going to Kansas City, where we have a series of events the 5th - 7th, Columbia (the 8th), and St. Louis, Missouri.  In St. Louis we'll be at St. Louis Public Library, Carpenter branch,  3309 S. Grand Ave., on October 10th at 3 pm. From there we drive to The Farm in Tennessee on the 11th, then to Aiken, South Carolina, then back home to DC. Ellen will be going on to North Carolina and Florida, Jay will stay in DC. Meanwhile we're planning our next tours.  Ellen will be in Vermont for town hall meetings in February, and hopes to connect with folks who have already expressed interest in Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York.  Jay may go to support the Los Alamos Blockade over spring break (proposed at Think Outside the Bomb by Lisa Fithian), and will join Ellen in New York the first week in May for the NPT review at the UN.  Then we'll head north and west and try to get to all the other states we weren't able to visit on this tour. Please let us know if you want us to visit your town & group! Ellen, Jay, Troy and Sophia the Peace Dog

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Another stunning catch by BuzzFlash.com: Robert Parry: U.S. Press Corps Fails Again on Iran 10/2

Robert Parry: U.S. Press Corps Fails Again on Iran 10/2

Bear with Buzz's habit of slamming the president and congress, and going
murderously easy on we sheeple.  They've not fully regrouped from their
heroic work to stop Bush/Cheney.  But BuzzFlash.com seems finally to be
adjusting, learning to become constructive and in the process is again becoming
indispensable (I pray) .  Pls support them, encourage them, READ THEM.
http://www.buzzflash.com

ps:  At the upper right of their page, down just a little, is a wonderful little
tool that lets you filter the articles - last 2 hours, last 6 hours.... TRY IT!