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9.06.2012

GWDF D14a Wiki- Self-Immolations since 1960 - US, WW

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"Whoever makes extreme unviolent action impossible, makes violence, misery, mass torture..., and now, extinction of all life on earth, inevitable (Book 3: NASAs Dr. Hansen - for...everyday citizens)."  Loving, informed by John Adams, and JFK (JFK, or was it Bobby, like MLK Jr, was deeply changed, and motivated by the the Buddhist self-immolations in Vietnam).

That we may no longer have humans like MLK Jr., with enough humanity/sanity to be inspired, does not change the relative strength of such weapons, but Death Fast is the right weapon for today; and/or wave upon wave of ceaseless, until victory is won, hunger strikes, to death's door but not through, regroup, recover, restart... till we win.  By way of analogy, everything else is the equivalent of spit-balls against Iran's deep nuclear labs.  The Pentagon would break the rank of, and discharge any such mental and intellectual lunatics that suggested such spit-balls. 

But against environmental armageddon?  Against the most highly financed mercenary army in world history, the $20 to 70 trillion fossil fuel industry?  Spitballs have been the order of the day (blogging, writing (to inflame, not to empower, or to generate commensurate action); hopeless, token, time-killing legislative bull shit like the Cap and Trade treason of 2 years ago; 4 hour jailings (what a desecration of history's real unviolent actions and actors) for what, 15 or 30 years now? 

And such deluded, left-wing-nut Deniers of history of change, and personal duty, show every sign of continuing doing the same thing another 15 - 30 years (Einstein's definition of insanity; Loving's definition of Denial and Delusion, well, yes, insanity); even though it may be just 15 or 30 weeks, or months at the most, that the next 200 billion kids have left.  My God. 

No God could have mercy on our Souls for such cowardice, failure of imagination, failure of humanity, failure of Heart, failure of Loving.

And NO God can undo what we are in the last stages of finalizing - Hell on earth.

Only we can.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_self-immolations 

I don't think that self-immolation is the right weapon for use in the US, or by me.  But we don't know what the right weapon is to defeat the WWIII, Terror War, Holocaust... being visited on the next 200 billion kids, either.  And, if there is anyone sane, or honest, we know that no one, maybe literally no one, is stepping up in any way that honestly, rationally, historically, psychologically... has a prayer of stopping our mass insanity of side-line sitting, blogging, talking, watching, talking, planning, talking, writing, planning, discussing... before all opportunity to save a future is gone, if indeed time still remains - Dr. Hansen (Book 3: NASAs Dr. Hansen - for...everyday citizens) - Someone(s) have got to give us a chance of beginning - SSSSSTTTTTTOOOOOPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!

Let it be me, but not by self-immolation, I expect.  Death Fast, or Death By Force Feeding in a mental ward for decades, not self-immolation, is the correct weapon for today, to begin a real, hopeful, meaningful, commensurate, historically rational... process of 'SSSSSSSSSTTTTTTTTTTTTOOOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!! In time.

1960s

Date Name Age Country Protesting Notes and references
June 11, 1963 Thich Quang Duc 66 South Vietnam Persecution of Buddhists by Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam Led to several other monks and nuns committing the same act before Diem was toppled
January 25, 1964 Chinnasami
India For preservation of the Tamil language Inspired 5 other self-immolations.[3]
March 16, 1965 Alice Herz 82 USA Vietnam War
November 2, 1965 Norman Morrison 31 USA Vietnam War [4]
November 9, 1965 Roger Allen LaPorte 22 USA Vietnam War [5]
May 16, 1967 Nhất Chi Mai 34 South Vietnam Vietnam War [6]
October 15, 1967 Florence Beaumont 55 USA Vietnam War [7]
September 8, 1968 Ryszard Siwiec 59 Poland Poland's participation in Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia (1968) Died in hospital four days later.
November 5, 1968 Vasyl Makukh 40 Ukraine Soviet rule in Ukraine [8]
January 16, 1969 Jan Palach 20 Czechoslovakia Communist rule in Czechoslovakia Student. Inspired a number of self-immolations in protest of Soviet satellite states.
January 20, 1969 Sándor Bauer 17 Hungary Communist rule in Hungary [9]
February 25, 1969 Jan Zajíc 19 Czechoslovakia Communist rule in Czechoslovakia Student.
April 2, 1969 Evžen Plocek 39 Czechoslovakia Communist rule in Czechoslovakia Businessman.
April 9, 1969 Eliyahu Rips 20 Latvia Communist rule in Czechoslovakia Survived, became professor of mathematics.

1970s

Date Name Age Country Protesting Notes and references
February 13, 1970 Marton Moyses 28 Romania Communist rule in Romania
May 10, 1970 George Winne, Jr. 23 USA Vietnam War Student at the University of California, San Diego. Died the next day.[10]
September 19, 1970 Kostas Georgakis 22 Greece Greek military junta of 1967–1974 Student at the University of Genoa
September 19, 1970 Joseba Elosegi 54 Spain Bombing of Guernica in 1937 Survived
November 21, 1970 Jeon Tae-il 22 South Korea For more robust labour laws and the government's opposition to reform
May 14, 1972 Romas Kalanta 19 USSR Communist rule in Lithuania Inspired largest post-war riots in occupied Lithuania and USSR, and 13 other self-immolations
June 6, 1972 Huguette Gaulin 28 Canada
[11]
August 10, 1976 Antanas Kalinauskas 19 USSR Communist rule in Lithuania In Soviet Army barracks in Gulbene, Latvia. Died next day.
August 22, 1976 Oskar Brüsewitz 46 East Germany Communist rule in East Germany Lutheran pastor
February 10, 1977 Alain Escoffier 27 France Communism
November 16, 1977 Hartmut Gründler 37 West Germany Atomic policy
January 21, 1978 Oleksa Hirnyk 65 USSR Communist rule in Ukraine
June 23, 1978 Musa Mamut 46 USSR Persecution of Crimean Tatars Died after five days[12]

1980s

Date Name Age Country Protesting Notes and references
March 21, 1981 Per-Axel Arosenius 60 Sweden Taxes
August 10, 1982 Artin Penik 61 Turkey ASALA attack at Esenboğa International Airport
November 2, 1983 Sebastián Acevedo
Chile Kidnapping of his children by the Chilean police during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet [13]
April 7, 1989 Cheng Nan-jung 41 Taiwan For Taiwan independence [14]
May 19, 1989 Chan I-hua
Taiwan Blocking of funeral procession of Cheng Nan-jung [15]
March 2, 1989 Liviu Cornel Babeş 47 Romania Communist rule in Romania [16] Set himself on fire on ski slope, died at hospital after 2 hours
March 2, 1989 Vytautas Vičiulis 37 USSR Communist rule in Lithuania
March 24, 1989 Kailash Pawar
India To draw attention to plight of Bhopal gas victims and protest public indifference [17] Original story published in the Hindu, March 26, 1990

1990s

Date Name Age Country Protesting Notes and references
April 26, 1990 Stanislovas Žemaitis 52 USSR Communist rule in Lithuania Protesting Soviet economic blockade of Lithuania. Died next day in Moscow hospital.
May 9, 1990 Rimantas Daugintis 55 USSR Communist rule in Lithuania Lithuanian sculptor self-immolated on Hungarian-Soviet border. Died after a few days.
September 19, 1990 Rajiv Goswami 19 India Reservation in India Survived, but inspired some 150 other self-immolations[18]
February 18, 1991 Gregory Levey 30 USA First Gulf War Amherst Common, MA. Particularly unremarked upon in press, as with other Gulf War protest self-immolations in US, even though Levey's father was married to nationally syndicated columnist Ellen Goodman[19][20]
September 21, 1991 Giorgi Abesadze 35 Republic of Georgia Looming civil war in Georgia Physician[21]
February 21, 1994 Homa Darabi 54 Iran Women's rights after the Iranian Revolution Biography Rage Against the Veil written by sister Parvin Darabi
April 25, 1995 Reinhold Elstner 75 Germany Demonization of German soldiers after World War II
September 3, 1995 Sabine Kratze 25 Vietnam Trial of six Buddhist monks
October 22, 1996 Kathy Change 46 USA For directly democratic community-based self-government
January 13, 1998 Alfredo Ormando 29 Italy Roman Catholic Church's condemnation of homosexuality
April 27, 1998 Thupten Ngodup 60 India Political situation in Tibet Ex-monk. In protest of police interference with unto-death hunger-strike in Delhi. Died two days later in hospital after visit by the Dalai Lama.[22][23][24]
February 16, 1999 Necla Coşkun 14 UK Arrest of Abdullah Öcalan Survived.[25]

2000s

Date Name Age Country Protesting Notes and references
January 21, 2001 various China See Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident [26]
April 2, 2001 Shahraz Kayani 48 Australia Government refusal to grant entry to his wife and daughters Pakistani refugee[27]
July 21, 2004 Mordehai (Hamimo) Cohen 30 Israel Rejection of work license Set himself on fire during a cityhall assembly[28]
August 17, 2005 Yelena Businov 54 Israel Protest against Israel's unilateral disengagement plan [29]
August 31, 2005 Baruch Ben Menahem 21 Israel Protest against Israel's unilateral disengagement plan [30]
March 28, 2006 Eleftheriya Fortulaki
Greece Treatment of Kurds in Turkey [31]
November 3, 2006 Malachi Ritscher 52 USA War in Iraq Died at the spot.[32]
June 11, 2006 Pravin Joshi 30 India Screening of Fanaa Died 9 days later.[33]
March 7, 2007 Uddhav Bhandari 40 UK Asylum policy Nepali asylum seeker[34]
April 1, 2007 Heo Se-uk 54 South Korea South Korea – United States Free Trade Agreement [35]
October 1, 2008 Ramiro Guillén Tapia 65 Mexico Local government in the city of Xalapa [36]
November 10, 2008 Rosen Markov - Bulgaria Broadcasting of Turkish news on Bulgarian National Television [37]
January 29, 2009 Kumar Muthukumar 26 India Killing of Sri Lankan Tamils Inspired several other self-immolations[38]
February 12, 2009 Murugathasan Varnakulasingham 26 Switzerland Sri Lankan Government Killing of the Sri Lankan Tamils Inspired several other self-immolations[39]
February 21, 2010 Subram Yadaiah 19 India For re-creating the state of Telengana in present-day Andhra Pradesh Died in hospital.[40]
February 27, 2009 Tapey mid-20s Tibet Political situation in Tibet Monk, Kirti Monastery, Ngaba. Shot[41] by Chinese police while on fire, and then taken away by them. Status unknown.[41]

2010s

Date Name Age Country Protesting Notes and references
February 20, 2010 Siripur Yadaiah 19 India Provincial Statehood demand for Telangana Student. Later died in hospital.[42]
July 31, 2010 Eshan Reddy 20's India Provincial Statehood demand for Telangana student sets himself alight as an offering for a deity pleading Statehood.[43]
December 17, 2010 Mohamed Bouazizi 26 Tunisia Corruption in government Inspired the 2010–2011 Tunisian protests leading to oust of President Ben Ali and "copycat" incidents in the Arab world.[44]
January 16, 2011 Venugopala Reddy 20's India Provincial Statehood demand for Telangana MCA student immolated himself near his university auditorium,died on the spot.[45]
January 16, 2011 Mohsen Bouterfif Algeria Unemployment and housing Inspired by Bouazizi's self-immolation in Tunisia.[46]
January 17, 2011 Yacoub Ould Dahoud 43 Mauritania Political situation in Mauritania Same as above[47]
March 16, 2011 Rigzin Phuntsog 21 Tibet Political situation in Tibet Monk of Kirti Monastery. In Ngaba, Amdo. Beaten by police before they extinguished the flames. Died in hospital.[48][49][50][51]
August 15, 2011 Tsewang Norbu 29 Tibet Political situation in Tibet Monk of Nyitso monastery in Kham Tawu. In Tawu. Died soon afterwards.[48][51][52][53]
September 26, 2011 Lobsang Kunchok 18 Tibet Political situation in Tibet Monk of Kirti Monastery. In Ngaba, Amdo. Set fire to self together with Lobsang Kelsang.[51][54][55]
September 26, 2011 Lobsang Kelsang 18 Tibet Political situation in Tibet Monk of Kirti Monastery. In Ngaba, Amdo. Set fire to self together with Lobsang Kunchok.[51][56]
January 16, 2011 Bhavani 18 India Provincial Statehood demand for Telangana [57]
February 21, 2011 Mohd Mustafa 40 India Provincial Statehood demand for Telangana [58]
October 3, 2011 Kelsang Wangchuk 17 Tibet Political situation in Tibet Monk of Kirti Monastery. In Ngaba, Amdo. Beaten and taken away by security personnel. [59]
October 7, 2011 Kayang 17 Tibet Political situation in Tibet Former monk of Kirti Monastery. In Ngaba, Amdo. Clasped hands with Choepel; died.[51][60]
October 7, 2011 Choepel 19 Tibet Political situation in Tibet Former monk of Kirti Monastery. In Ngaba, Amdo. Clasped hands with Kayang; died.[51][61] China Daily reported they were "slightly injured".[62]
October 15, 2011 Norbu Damdrul 19 Tibet Political situation in Tibet Former monk of Kirti Monastery. In Ngaba, Amdo. Kicked and removed from scene by authorities. Current status unknown.[51][63]
October 17, 2011 Tenzin Wangmo 20 Tibet Political situation in Tibet Nun of Mame Dechen Chokorling. In Ngaba, Amdo. Died.[51][64]
October 21, 2011 Wang 42 China Legal inequalities in China At Tiananmen Square, Beijing. Taken to hospital by police; evidence at scene erased immediately.[51][65]
October 25, 2011 Dawa Tsering 38 Tibet Political situation in Tibet Monk of Kardze Monastery. In Kardze, Amdo. Current status unknown.[51][66]
November 3, 2011 Palden Choetso 35 Tibet Political situation in Tibet Nun in Tawu, Kardze. Reported died by Xinhua.[51][67][68]
November 4, 2011 Sherab Tsedor 25 India Political situation in Tibet Layperson. Outside Chinese embassy in New Delhi. Overpowered by police and hospitalized with minor burns.[69][70][71]
November 11, 2011 Yenesew Gebre 29 Ethiopia Corruption of dictatorship government Inspired by Bouazizi's self-immolation in Tunisia.[72]
December 1, 2011 Tenzin Phuntsok 46[73] Tibet Political situation in Tibet Ex-monk, Karma Monastery, Chamdo.[74][75] Died on December 6 in Chamdo Hospital in Tibet[73] Reported in China Daily, as a "farmer" who "is considered eccentric".[76]
December 7, 2011 Sondang Hutagalung 22 Indonesia Disputed [77]
January 6, 2012 Tennyi Around 20 Tibet Political situation in Tibet [78]
January 6, 2012 Tsultrim Around 20 Tibet Political situation in Tibet [79]
January 8, 2012 Sopa Tulku / Sonam Wangyal 42 Tibet Political situation in Tibet [80][81]
January 14, 2012 Jamyang Losang 20s Tibet Political situation in Tibet Former monk of Andu monastery. In Ngaba, Amdo. Deceased.[82]
February 3, 2012 Tsaptai Tsering, Kyarel, and unknown name 60, 30, unknown Tibet Political situation in Tibet Three laypersons. In Serthar. Incident published in several places, but unconfirmed.[83][84]
February 8, 2012 Rigzin Dorje (Rinzin) Around 18 Tibet Political situation in Tibet Former monk of Kirti Monastery. In Ngaba, Amdo. Died Feb 21 in hospital.[85]
February 9, 2012 Sonam Rabyang 30s Tibet Political situation in Tibet Monk of Lab Monastery. In Tridu town, Yushu County, Kham. Taken to hospital; condition unclear.[86]
February 11, 2012 Tenzin Choedron 18 Tibet Political situation in Tibet Nun of Mame Dechen Chokorling. In Ngaba, Amdo. Taken away by soldiers and police, and died soon afterwards.[87][88]
February 13, 2012 Lobsang Gyatso 19 Tibet Political situation in Tibet Monk of Kirti Monastery. In Ngaba, Amdo. Current status unknown.[89][90]
February 17, 2012 Damchoe Sangpo 40 Tibet Political situation in Tibet Monastic official of Bongthak monastery. In Themchen, Tsonub, Amdo. Died on the spot.[91]
February 19, 2012 Nangdrol 18 Tibet Political situation in Tibet Layperson. In Dzamthang, Amdo. Died on the spot.[92]
March 3, 2012 Tsering Kyi 19 Tibet Political situation in Tibet Girl from Tibetan middle school. In the vegetable market at Maqu County, Kanlho, Gansu. Died on the spot.[93][94]
March 4, 2012 Rinchen 32 Tibet Political situation in Tibet Occupation unknown. In Ngaba, Amdo. Died on the spot.[93]
March 5, 2012 Dorje (Dorjee) 18 Tibet Political situation in Tibet Occupation unknown. In Ngaba, Amdo. Deceased.[95]
March 10, 2012 Gapey (Gepey) 18 Tibet Political situation in Tibet Monk of Kirti Monastery. In Ngaba, Amdo. Died on the spot.[96]
March 13, 2012 Jamyang Palden 30s Tibet Political situation in Tibet Monk of Rongpo monastery. In Rebkong, Amdo. Current status unknown.[97]
March 16, 2012 Lobsang Tsultrim 20 Tibet Political situation in Tibet Monk of Kirti Monastery. In Ngaba, Amdo. Died in custody.[98]
March 17, 2012 Sonam Thargyal (Dargye, Dhargay) 44 Tibet Political situation in Tibet Farmer in Rebkong, Amdo. Died on the spot.[99][100]
March 24, 2012 L Bhoja Naik 21 India For the creation of the state of Telangana MBA student set himself on fire in front of his college. Died on the spot.[101]
March 26, 2012 Jamphel Yeshi 20 India Political situation in Tibet Layperson in Delhi. Died 2 days later in hospital.[102][103]
March 26, 2012 Rajmouli 40 India Telangana For separate statehood to Telangana[104][105]
March 26, 2012 BR Goud n/a India Telangana For separate statehood to Telangana[106]
March 27, 2012 Pallavi 17 India For creation of state of Telangana Later died in hospital.[107]
March 28, 2012 K Uppalaiah 30 India For creation of state of Telangana [108]
March 28, 2012 Lobsang Sherab 20 Tibet Political situation in Tibet Monk of Kirti Monastery.[109] In Ngaba, Amdo. Died on the spot.[110][111]
March 24, 2012 S Srikanth 23 India For creation of state of Telangana Died in the hospital.[112]
March 27, 2012 Kalakanchi Ilaiah 30 India Provincial Statehood demand for Telangana Scrap dealer.[113]
March 30, 2012 Tenpa Dhargyal (Darjey) 22 Tibet Political situation in Tibet Monk of Tsodun monastery. In Barkham, Amdo. Forcibly removed to hospital by Chinese security forces. Current status unknown.[114][115]
March 30, 2012 Chimey Palden (Chime) 21 Tibet Political situation in Tibet Monk of Tsodun monastery. In Barkham, Amdo. Forcibly removed to hospital by Chinese security forces.[115][116] Died later that day around midnight.[117]
March 30, 2012 Shyamapuri Shankar 24 India Provincial Statehood demand for Telangana [118]
March 30, 2012 Bandavath Suresh 25 India Provincial Statehood demand for Telangana suffered 50% burns.[119]
July 14, 2012 Moshe Silman 57 Israel Social justice march in Tel Aviv Social justice activist, suffered 90% burns.[120] Died of his wounds on July 20 in a hospital.[121]
July 15, 2012 Classified 30 Israel social injustice protest Protested his debts.[122]
July 16, 2012 Zion Vaknin[123] 46 Israel social injustice protest In the Beersheba city hall, in protest of debts.[124]
July 20, 2012 Akiva Mafi 45 Israel social injustice protest Akiva Mafi[125] (45) Disabled IDF veteran sets himself on fire in Yehud, on behalf of wounded veterans.[126][127] Died on Aug 1, 2012.[128] New agency established to prevent more cases.
July 18, 2012 Valentina Gerasimovna 57 Russia
A woman attempted self-immolation at the public reception center of the ruling United Russia party in Novosibirsk. She earlier addressed the party's public reception center for legal advice as an apartment buyer.[129][130] Died in the hospital.[131]
July 31, 2012 Ta Phong Tan's mother
Vietnam
Protest against 2011 crackdown on Vietnamese youth activists[132] Died in the hospital.

References

I 2nd that: Kerry urges Democrats to elect Elizabeth Warren to be part of 'the team'Boston.com

Kerry urges Democrats to elect Elizabeth Warren to be part of 'the team'

GWDF2 D14a Nov 2012, 2-3 day Book Slowdown. Being 'Schooled' by the DNC convention -

GWDF2 D14a Nov 2012, 2-3 day Book Slowdown.  Being 'Schooled' by the DNC convention -

I sure didn't anticipate this, but I'm allowing myself to divert several days now to being 'schooled' but what I'm finding to be brilliant, humane, scholarly, substantial speeches at the DNC, on:
  • Humanity
  • America
  • Values
  • Economics
  • Good vs Evil
I don't know that we've had such a collection of serious citizens, patriots, intellectual and moral power, so intensely and seriously focussed... since the founding of the Republic -
  • Michelle
  • Cory Booker
  • Castro
  • Clinton (Soul-less, but utterly brilliant; savant-like)
  • Elizabeth Warren
  • Fluke...
  • ... and tonight Pr. Obama
Were I expecting to live, or if I had more simultaneous lives, I'd spend days or weeks internalizing the immense wisdom on display here in the videos and transcripts.  But having only this one, and not expecting to live through the year, I still find that this is such an immense educational opportunity on so many levels, I'm diverting at least several days to the convention, and cspan replays of key speeches.

And this will divert me from Book 2, that I've been crawling toward for years now - bringing the Carbon portion of the brilliant, cursed, convoluted, inspired - Plan B 3.0 by Dr. Lester Brown to the same 'Actionable Essentials' treatment I just gave Dr. Hansen's work.

If I had 10,000 more lives, seriously, I know how to get this big stuff fixed.  But with just this one?  Not looking good. 

But I'll keep doing my best.

“Corporations are not people,” Warren said...

“Corporations are not people,” Warren said, speaking rhetorically and directly to Romney. “People have hearts, they have kids, they get jobs, they get sick, they cry, they dance.”

Michelle: This election "is about how we want our democracy to function for decades to come."

"More than any other in history is about how we want our democracy to function for decades to come."

9/6 Tracking Plan B - War Room

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NASA images reveal rapid loss of Indonesia's glaciers Mongabay.com - ‎12 hours ago‎ The images, captured by the Thematic Mapper (TM) on Landsat 4 and Landsat 5, show glaciers on Puncak Jaya, a 4,884-meter (16,020-foot) mountain peak in Indonesian New Guinea, in 1989 and 2009.
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GWDF2 D14b Abdominal pain fully returned. Huh?

What is going on?  For 2 or 3 days it was in remission for the first time in months.

Now it is fully back, tho not like that night that sent me to the ER, yet.

Damn.  I'll not go back to the doc because it seems too likely that she's sending shrinks after me, as a matter of protocol, I suspect, for being on Death Fast and refusing the tests that are indicated.

Doc Cardile is a dear, and the shrinks aren't bad, but, heck, how could they be better than the rest of our societal Matrix?  I'm just street person.  I'm someone that has rejected the Matrix and has to be 'helped' back into it.  "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," all over again.

Uh, no.  Not on my watch.

I'll just deal with the pain. 
Not much longer now.

Report: About 30 cents of every health care dollar wasted; US can cut costs ... Washington Post

Washington Post

VID: Obama's theme for tonight: 'Promises Kept'

Obama's theme for tonight: 'Promises Kept'

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2012/09/obamas-theme-promises-kept/1#.UEi-MZbheQI

Tar Sands Blockade chain themselves to equipment in protestKTRE

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Hong Kong hunger strikers take on 'brainwashing' in schools GlobalPost

Hong Kong hunger strikers take on 'brainwashing' in schools

GlobalPost - ‎3 hours ago‎
“The government ignores our feelings, so we need to use our bodies,” says Tak-Wan Chan, a 23-year-old university student who has been on hunger strike for 87 hours. At stake, he says, is Hong Kong's special status as the most independent city in the ...

9.05.2012

nd GWDF2 D14a 'John Q's son was dead cept John saw when he had ENOUGH info to act.' Loving

nd GWDF2 D14a 'John Q's son was dead cept John saw when he had ENOUGH info to act.'  Loving

nd GWDF2 D14a 'Much abdominal pain today. Discouraging.'

nd GWDF2 D14a 'Much abdominal pain today.  Discouraging.'

9/5 Tracking Plan B - War Room

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Book 3: The Actionable Essentials of NASA's Dr. Hansen Full title:   "The Actionable Essentials Series (1): NASAs Dr. Hansen - for fathers, mothers, older siblings, children, normal citizens - victims all. From “Storms of my Grandchildren.”" DRAFT
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Global Warming May Double UN Goal Without More Carbon Pledges Businessweek - ‎5 hours ago‎ International pledges to reduce greenhouse gases may fail to stop global warming from rising to twice the level deemed safe by United Nations scientists, Climate Action Tracker said.
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U Kentucky students rally against coal-industry funding The Courier-Journal

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US accuses BP of gross negligence over spill Financial Times

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Michelle Obama's speech may well change history. cnn

http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/05/opinion/stewart-michelle-obama/index.html

vid "For Barack, success isn't about how much money you make. It's about the difference you make in people's lives." Michelle

"For Barack, success isn't about how much money you make.  It's about the difference you make in people's lives."  Michelle Obama  (min 15:30)

"For Barack, success isn't about how much money you make. It's about the difference you make in people's lives." Michelle