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07:28:50 02/07/12
02/08/2012 - ONE LAST TIME - Hugs!
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February 2012: Chapter 62 - THE ECHO (In progress) * Revisit CHAPTER 61 (January): A NEW JOURNEY (31 X 15 sec) at: http://youtu.be/2PmS3va1aTw?list=PL66A0C668AFC7EE8E * Find ALL CHAPTERS since 2007 at: http://www.youtube.com/user/apoemaday/videos?view=pl * On Facebook: http://facebook.com/apoemaday See the latest, join the channel at: http://www.youtube.com/apoemaday From Canadian Poet Jean Mercier. Photos by Junichiro Kuniyoshi. - Enjoy!
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02:28:53 02/07/12
Leslie's Own Story
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A Bavarian doctor and dear friend first introduced me to Cura Romana some twenty years ago. One day, while visiting his clinic, I mentioned to him that since adolescence I had struggled with my weight. He smiled. 'How much do you know about Cura Romana?' he asked. 'Cura what?' 'Cura Romana -- the Roman Cure.' 'Nothing,' I replied. 'What is it?' Instead of telling me, he handed me a book written and privately published more than half a century ago by a British doctor -- A.T.W. Simeons. 'Read this,' he said. I read the book in less than two hours. I was fascinated. It was obvious that the physician who wrote it was highly intelligent and a deep thinker. He had a profound understanding of how the body works in all its complexities, including the all-encompassing interconnections between body and psyche. 'He claims to have discovered the cause and cure for obesity,' I said to my doctor friend. 'I find that hard to believe.' 'Why not try it? Find out for yourself,' he replied, smiling. He knew me well. He knew that I never take anything on faith, no matter how many so-called 'experts' tell me I should. I need to experience something first hand. I have to know it from within. I'd experienced no hunger. I had energy to spare. I was sleeping as deeply and peacefully as a child, yet I seemed to need only six hours a night. I would wake each morning full of excitement about the day ahead. I couldn't remember ever having felt so good. My skin glowed. And when I looked in the mirror I witnessed the true shape of my face emerging. I was overjoyed. By the end of three weeks, my weightloss was somewhere between 15 and 18 pounds -- I no longer remember exactly. Even more surprising, the fat had come off from all the right places, like my legs and waist. This was fat I had never been able to get rid of no matter how much I'd tried. I could see that the natural size and shape of my body was coming to birth. I was overjoyed.
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11:57:20 01/30/12
The Dalit Massacre of Paramakudi
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Tamil Nadu Police uses teargas, lathi and guns on unarmed dalit protesters. 11th September, 2011 was the day Paramakudi resident Valiswamy’s wife Gayatri gave birth to their first child. He was a dalit while she was from an upper caste family. In a caste sensitive area like Paramakuddi, inter-caste marriages are rare and they have to survive immense social pressure to come together. Valiswamy and Gayatri had fought hard and negotiated a truce with these forces. He was on his way to the hospital when he was caught in the Paramakudi firings, a widely reported incident in which the Tamil Nadu police opened fire on a group of unarmed dalits who were staging a peaceful protest. Valiswamy would not survive to see his newborn. “The families of the bereaved have received their compensations from the government but other than that, nothing has happened. The perpetrators are scot free. In fact, the chief minister has since been effusive in her praise for the state police. And the dalits are continuing to live in a stifling atmosphere of violence and fear. The incident has been a backlash to dalit morale in Tamil Nadu.” Dalit activist and IndiaUnheard Community Correspondent Mani M. aka Makkal Sevakan sounds angry and weary as he describes the situation in Paramakudi 5 months after the police’s attempts to disband a peaceful protest against the incarceration of popular dalit leader John Pandian resulted in the murder of 6 dalits and injuring many others. The incident caused uproar in the country. Dalit and Human Rights Organizations from across the nation condemned the attack and called for investigation. The media covered the incident extensively. The fact finding team set up to probe the incident made a strong case against the actions of the police but still as Mani puts it ‘nothing has happened.’ 54 years ago, Paramakudi was witness to one of the biggest caste riots in the country, a skirmish that cost the life of dalit iconoclast and leader, Immanuel Sekaran who was amongst the first Tamil Nadu dalits to advocate for dalit empowerment and rights against 3000 years of upper caste oppression. On 11th September, John Pandian was scheduled to arrive to pay his respects at Sekaran’s memorial. But using the sensitive atmosphere caused by recent murder of a dalit high school boy for allegedly writing offensive graffiti against the upper castes as a pretext, the police pre-emptively arrested him. When the crowd gathered to receive Pandian heard news of the arrest, they protested by peacefully occupying the road. The police’s diplomatic response was teargas and a lathi charge. The mood soured and the crowd turned unruly. A few protestors began pelting stones against the police. The police responded with gunfire. “It is not like the police could not handle the situation. There is an upper caste festival in Paramakudi each year that goes smoothly without the need to resort to pre-emptive arrests and lathi and gunfire. But the first time the dalits try to get together and organize a festival, it ends in tragedy,” says Mani. Mani was in Chennai on the fateful day when he heard of the Paramakudi firings. He immediately got on the first train. When he arrived, he saw a wasteland of police barricades, empty streets and burning vehicles. Some of Mani’s friends who had been part of the protest had managed to record footage of the police bashing in the heads of the people and shooting at unarmed civilians. The footage, which offers a birds eye view of the incident, justifies the statements of the fact finding group but there has been similar footage before and witness accounts and reports and photographs and yet, ‘nothing has happened.’ Of all the cases filed in the Tamil Nadu Courts under the Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribes Protection Act, 95% are acquitted. It is a disturbing figure that makes the atrocities seem insignificant or routine. In the 1969 Kilvenmani massacre, 44 landless dalit labourers were burnt alive for demanding better wages. In 1997, the dalit panchayat president and others were murdered in Melavalau. In September 2002, at Kaundampatti in Dindigul district, a dalit worker was forced to drink urine for having lodged a complaint of trespass with the police. In May 2002, two dalits were forced to eat human excreta in Thinniyam village in Tiruchi district. In 2011, on the 54th anniversary of a dalit massacre and the subsequent murder of Immanuel Sekaran, 6 dalits are killed in broad daylight by the state police. And not a single perpetrator has been brought to justice. Almost as if nothing had happened. ——————————————- For a brief account of the dalit struggle in Tamil Nadu, read http://www.pragoti.in/node/3947
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22:41:28 01/25/12
Mirel Wagner - "No Death": SXSW 2012 Showcasing Artist
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Mirel Wagner - "No Death": SXSW 2012 Showcasing Artist
The great Townes Van Zandt once said there are two kinds of music: "The blues and zip-a-dee-doo-dah." According to this, Mirel Wagner's self-titled debut falls solidly into the blues category. "Songwriting can hardly be more minimalistic, no-frills, more strict as Mirel Wagner's sparse music," according to German magazine Spex; we agree. Mirel Wagner was born in Ethiopia, and grew up in peaceful conditions in Espoo, the second-largest city in Finland. At age 7 she was given violin lessons, at 13 she switched to guitar and at 16 she wrote her first songs ("To The Bone", the opening song from her album, is one of those early tunes). Jean Ramsay, an American music journalist living in Finland, came across Mirel at an open mic session in Helsinki. He was particularly convinced of her talent, raved about her in an early article and recommended her to others. So, without producing a demo or contacting any record labels, Mirel found herself sitting in a real recording studio. Over two days she recorded 12 songs straight. Nine of them can be found on her debut, which was first released in Finland through the indie label Kioski Recs and mainland Europe through Bone Voyage, and is now seeing a wider release across North America through Friendly Fire Recordings. Whether in Finland, France or Germany, journalists who have listened closely are full of praise for this unique young talent who has appeared, seemingly out of the blue, with her otherworldly gloomy folk. This debut is quiet ... From: sxsw Views: 173 16 ratings Time: 03:10 More in Entertainment
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22:41:28 01/25/12
Mirel Wagner - "No Death": SXSW 2012 Showcasing Artist
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Mirel Wagner - "No Death": SXSW 2012 Showcasing Artist
The great Townes Van Zandt once said there are two kinds of music: "The blues and zip-a-dee-doo-dah." According to this, Mirel Wagner's self-titled debut falls solidly into the blues category. "Songwriting can hardly be more minimalistic, no-frills, more strict as Mirel Wagner's sparse music," according to German magazine Spex; we agree. Mirel Wagner was born in Ethiopia, and grew up in peaceful conditions in Espoo, the second-largest city in Finland. At age 7 she was given violin lessons, at 13 she switched to guitar and at 16 she wrote her first songs ("To The Bone", the opening song from her album, is one of those early tunes). Jean Ramsay, an American music journalist living in Finland, came across Mirel at an open mic session in Helsinki. He was particularly convinced of her talent, raved about her in an early article and recommended her to others. So, without producing a demo or contacting any record labels, Mirel found herself sitting in a real recording studio. Over two days she recorded 12 songs straight. Nine of them can be found on her debut, which was first released in Finland through the indie label Kioski Recs and mainland Europe through Bone Voyage, and is now seeing a wider release across North America through Friendly Fire Recordings. Whether in Finland, France or Germany, journalists who have listened closely are full of praise for this unique young talent who has appeared, seemingly out of the blue, with her otherworldly gloomy folk. This debut is quiet ... From: sxsw Views: 173 16 ratings Time: 03:10 More in Entertainment
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11:03:41 01/12/12
Haitian Earthquake Survivors Protest Over Slow Aid
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Haitian Earthquake Survivors Protest Over Slow Aid
For more news and videos visit ☛ english.ntdtv.com Follow us on Twitter ☛ http Add us on Facebook ☛ on.fb.me It's been two years since the devastating earthquake hit Haiti. But quake victims say government and aid agencies have not delivered on their promises to help with the recovery effort. Nearly six thousand Haitians marched on Wednesday to remember the earthquake and protest against what they say is a slow recovery process. They say the government and aid organizations have not done enough to ensure the donations go to those who need them. [Otelier Herman, Coordinator, Center of Respect and Promotion of Human Rights]: "Two years after, nothing has been done in the poorest neighborhoods. As a citizen within the poor neighborhoods, we have found that there was not a policy for housing and that's why so many people have died." One day before the two-year anniversary of the disaster, Haitians peacefully wound their way through the streets of Port-au-Prince, wearing white t-shirts and straw hats to symbolize unity among the poorest. Several NGOs came together to help organize Wednesday's march, saying that access to land and housing is a fundamental right that is not being met for Haiti's earthquake survivors. Haitians are also struggling to get access to education. [Marie Yolen Gefrard, School Director and Representative of Platform for a Cause]: "We've heard from a government official that there is free school for all and we haven't seen that yet. They don't pay the ... From: NTDTV Views: 166 2 ratings Time: 01:53 More in News & Politics
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04:58:32 01/07/12
LIVE - You're Divine - OWN IT! Eyes-of-Heart Perspective Can Shock
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2012-01-05 2nd journal, Mayan day 4 Water or Offering Dimitri Halley – How You Attract Your Shadow 14:56 Complementary Text http://www.scribd.com/doc/77425923 Intro: Are you tired of life or down on life in any way? Any way at all? If so, I can guarantee you're not in heart. You're stuck in the mind's way of viewing things. Come on – admit it. If life has gone stale or become just too hard for you, do consider what's being said, here – and find your way into your heart, or into the heart of the now moment – same thing. Each and every one of us – minus the robots and clones, of course – is a cell in the body of the divine – of Source or God. We ARE That. Just as Christ said, “I Am the vine, and ye are the branches.” What part of the branch can't be said to be the vine? Are they not one and the same? Can we not see this? Surely, we can. It's just our programming that got in the way. Well, there's real beauty in that, even. How so? Because it is so amazingly easy to get out of that. There's no need to study the enemy, to out-wit him or gain strength and work out strategy for the battle. No need at all. Why not? It's so beautifully simple, I could practically shout it – there's no need to fight! All we need do is walk away. Literally, just turn your back on mind and walk out, and you win. It's your mind, after all – right? Well, take command of it. YOU tell it when to enter, what challenge to tackle, what to do. Don't put up with being bossed around by that tyrant that the mind has been programmed to become. Admit it- for all of us, the mind is a terrible task master. Many minds are also abusive, continually hamster-wheeling around through all of your faults and short-comings, just so you'll know, singing the litany of that. Yikes! No wonder we get depressed and want out...
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16:00:56 12/29/11
Mitt Romney's Big Promises - and Bigger Lies
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In the election of 1928, the Republican Party of Herbert Hoover promised voters "a chicken in every pot and a car in every backyard." (We all know how that turned out.) Now, Mitt Romney is pledging that "If I'm President" every college graduate will be guaranteed a job, Iran will have no nuclear weapons and the United States will dominate the 21st century. And when Romney isn't making fantastic promises about what he'll do when he gets to the White House, he's slandering the current occupant , Barack Obama.
"I Won't Let Iran Get Nukes"
Governor Romney's guarantees start with Iran and its nuclear program . In a November 10, 2011 op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Romney pledged, " I won't let Iran get nukes ." Or as he put it 10 days earlier during a GOP national security debate : >
"If we re-elect Barack Obama, Iran will have a nuclear weapon. If you elect me as president, Iran will not have a nuclear weapon."
As to how he'll ensure that outcome, Romney explained that "If you want peace, prepare for war." And despite occasionally acknowledging the complexity of a strike against Iran and even the questionable possibility of success, Romney told the Wall Street Journal this weekend how he would get it done: >
So what would he do about it? "I do not have a top secret security clearance at this stage to be able to define precisely what kinds of actions we could take." But he adds that "the range includes something of a blockade nature, to something of a surgical strike nature, to something of a decapitate the regime nature, to eliminate the military threat of Iran altogether."
No U.S. Decline in Romney's "American Century"
Romney's promise to "eliminate the military threat of Iran altogether" is just part of his larger assurance that the 21st century will be another " American Century ." Pretending that the rise of India, China and Brazil doesn't inevitably entail the relative loss of U.S. power and influence, Romney announced in his October address at The Citadel : >
"This century must be an American Century. In an American Century, America has the strongest economy and the strongest military in the world. In an American Century, America leads the free world and the free world leads the entire world...As President of the United States, I will devote myself to an American Century. And I will never, ever apologize for America."
Not content to rest there, Romney accused President Obama of "waving the white flag of surrender": >
"An eloquently justified surrender of world leadership is still surrender. >
I will not surrender America's role in the world. This is very simple: If you do not want America to be the strongest nation on Earth, I am not your President. >
You have that President today."
Two months later, Mitt Romney repackaged his promise and his slander at the December 15 Republican debate in Sioux City, Iowa: >
"Our president thinks America is in decline. It is if he's president. It's not if I'm president. This is going to be an American century."
As for Romney's charge that President Obama "went around the world and apologized for America," the Washington Post Fact Checker deemed it a Four-Pinocchio lie .
A Job for Every College Graduate
At an event in New Hampshire last week, Governor Romney's pandering went from the sublime to the ridiculous. There, Mitt pledged President Romney would deliver full-employment for all American college graduates: >
"What I can promise you is this -- when you get out of college, if I'm president you'll have a job. If President Obama is reelected, you will not be able to get a job. That's the reason I will hopefully get young people who are in college is to say, You know what, I understand what it takes to get jobs in America."
As the record shows , not so much. After all, as the Los Angeles Times recently documented, Romney's "Bain Capital often maximized profits in part by firing workers." That's why FactCheck.org , the Washington Post Fact Checker and Fortune all refused to vouch for Romney's claim that "In those hundreds of businesses we invested in, tens of thousands of jobs net-net were created."
Obama "Has Not Created Any New Jobs"
If Mitt Romney can't prove his boasts about his own job creation record, neither can he justify his blatant lie about President Obama's : >
"25 million people are out of work because of Barack Obama. And so I'll compare my experience in the private sector where, net-net, we created over 100,000 jobs." >
"I'll compare that record with his record, where he has not created any new jobs."
Sadly for Mitt Romney, the Bush recession began in December 2007. As ThinkProgress rightly noted, "The private sector has added 2.3 million new jobs since March 2010, and it took the Obama economy one year to create more jobs than the economy under President Bush did in eight." As The Economist explained earlier, the recession was not at its deepest just as Barack Obama was entering office, but far worse than official statistics revealed at the time. Romney might also want to check with former McCain economic adviser Mark Zandi as well as the non-partisan CBO , who concluded that the Obama stimulus program "added up to 0.9 million jobs in 2009, 3.3 million jobs in 2010 and 2.6 million jobs in 2011."
Obama's Debt Exceeds All Previous Presidents Combined
Mitt Romney didn't just lie about Barack Obama's jobs record. At the Sioux City debate, he got President Obama's contribution to the federal debt all wrong as well: >
"We all understand that the spending crisis is extraordinary, with $15 trillion now in debt, with a president that's racked up as much debt as almost all of the other presidents combined."
Of course, we don't all understand that, because it's not true . After Ronald Reagan tripled the gross national debt and George W. Bush doubled it again, Uncle Sam's red ink totaled almost $11 trillion when Barack Obama took the oath of office.
Obama is "Taking over 100 Percent" of Health Care
In his desperate quest to win over conservative Republican primary voters, Mitt Romney has turned his back on his signature achievement which he once boasted was a health care model for the nation. And to do it, Romney has been lying for months by telling voters "Obamacare is about taking over 100 percent of the people's insurance in this country."
In a September 15, 2011 interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer , Romney made the same charge: >
"The Massachusetts plan was crafted for Massachusetts, for the needs of 8 percent of our population that didn't have insurance, not for the 92 percent that did. Obamacare is a plan that takes over 100 percent of the people in the country and their health care, and that's one of the reasons why people don't want it."
Sadly for Mitt Romney, repetition of a lie doesn't make it any more true.
The Affordable Care Act passed by Congress and signed by President Obama in the spring of 2010 targets the 17 percent of people (over 50 million people) who are uninsured . As Politifact explained in deeming Romney's fraud another "Pants on Fire" lie: >
According to the Census Bureau, the percentage of Americans without health insurance nationally was slightly under 17 percent in 2009, the year Obama began pushing for the bill. According to a Congressional Budget Office estimate, the number was about the same in 2010, when the measure was signed into law. Other estimates have pegged the national number at about 15 percent.
As Henry Aaron, a senior fellow with the centrist-to-liberal Brookings Institution right noted, comparing 8 percent to 17 percent "would have been apples to apples" when it comes to the impact of the individual mandate at the center of both the Massachusetts and national plans. Sadly, Politifact concluded, Romney was guilty of "a felony case of comparing apples and oranges."
Romney "Will Reverse President Obama's Massive Defense Cuts"
During that same "American Century" speech in October, Governor Romney pledged: >
"I will reverse President Obama's massive defense cuts. Time and again, we have seen that attempts to balance the budget by weakening our military only lead to a far higher price, not only in treasure, but in blood."
Sadly for Romney, as Steve Benen pointed out, defense spending has not only gone up every year of the Obama presidency . It is higher than it ever was when George W. Bush sat in the Oval Office.
Of course, Romney's confusion over matters of war and peace are hardly new. In an April op-ed for the Manchester Union Leader, Mitt forgot about the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan as he denounced President Obama for "one of the biggest peacetime spending binges in American history."
Obama's "Equal Outcomes" and "Entitlement Society"
Last week, the Romney campaign rolled out what may well become the meta-theme and meta-lie for the 2012 general election race.
After President Obama declared in his Osawatomie, Kansas address that Republican trickle down economics "never worked," Romney struck back. Just not with the truth: >
"Just a couple of weeks ago in Kansas, President Obama lectured us about Teddy Roosevelt's philosophy of government. But he failed to mention the important difference between Teddy Roosevelt and Barack Obama. Roosevelt believed that government should level the playing field to create equal opportunities. President Obama believes that government should create equal outcomes. >
"In an entitlement society, everyone receives the same or similar rewards, regardless of education, effort, and willingness to take risk. That which is earned by some is redistributed to the others. And the only people who truly enjoy any real rewards are those who do the redistributing -- the government. >
"The truth is that everyone may get the same rewards, but virtually everyone will be worse off."
By raising the mythical red menace of communism and falsely attributing it to Barack Obama, Romney in the words of Paul Krugman had introduced " The Big Lie " into his " Post-Truth Campaign ." While Andrew Sullivan announced "Mitt Romney is a big, fat liar," Steve Benen lamented that "Romney, allegedly the responsible one in the Republican field, has been reduced to lying uncontrollably." And while Greg Sargent in the past had expressed amazement at "Mitt Romney's casual, effortless falsehoods," New York Magazine's Jonathan Chait explained that Romney's red scare rose to a whole new level of duplicity: >
"This isn't just a casual line. In eight sentences, Romney asserts over and over again that Obama wants to create "equal outcomes" and give everybody the "same rewards." This is nuts, Glenn Beck-level insane. Restoring Clinton-era taxes is not a plan to equalize outcomes, or even close. It's not even a plan to stop rising inequality. Obama's America will continue to be the most unequal society in the advanced world -- only slightly less so. The alternative proposals accelerate inequality even further."
Of course, as the proliferating profiles from the Wall Street Journal , the New York Times , the Washington Post and others show, Mitt Romney is no stranger to inequality. Legendarily cheap and analytical , as a Harvard Business School student Romney gave a presentation to his classmates that "proved the value of family time based not on emotion but on yield." Two Romney quotes - " I love business " and " I love data " - seem to sum up the man.
As for loving the truth, that for Mitt Romney is apparently another matter altogether.
(This piece also appears at Perrspectives .)
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03:04:14 12/28/11
LIVE - The Secret About Joy - Spilling the Beans
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2011-12-23 2nd journal, Mayan day 4 Cib/Wisdom Complementary Text (which is quite different, hint hint) http://www.scribd.com/doc/76625249 Intro: Doing something different with this one – another experiment. The LIVE journal was done days ago, and I've forgotten what it said – so I'm just going to go on the title, and see what comes thru, here. They're not really connected that well, these days, anyhow. So, what the heck. Joy, deep internal, accessible joy, is indeed a well kept secret. Most of us are so well conditioned (read that “programmed”) that we don't even feel we deserve to have ever-present joy. It's even a bizarre idea to some. I find that rather sad. So, how about you? Do you feel you deserve joy? What do you think is your lot in life? What sense of “fair” or fairness do you go around with? Do you look down on humans, in general – or do you love them? Some are actually brought up to believe the race deserves to be wiped out – that it's a blot on the galaxy, and unworthy of continuance. Well, that sort of tune will be piped into 2012, I'm certain. For many, that's the unknown (subconscious) rationale that makes them ready for some sort of “prophesied” disaster coming along, quite naturally, to blow us up. Look inside, there. How much of that sort of programming did you pick up? Joy is your natural state. Left alone, unbothered by any sort of outside or alien influence, mankind is actually a wonderful bunch. We naturally gravitate toward peace and joy – and getting along – giving self and others respect. Now, there are few of us on the planet, these days, who are aware of that. Mankind has been controlled, contorted, and tampered with for many thousands of years. We don't know what we're like, left to our own devices simply because we haven't been for such a long time...
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07:35:08 12/19/11
Nobel Winners Meet Gov't Leaders at European Development Days in Warsaw
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Nobel Winners Meet Gov't Leaders at European Development Days in Warsaw
For more news and videos visit ☛ english.ntdtv.com Follow us on Twitter ☛ http Add us on Facebook ☛ on.fb.me European leaders and development experts convene at this year's edition of European Development Days in Warsaw, Poland. This forum on international affairs and development cooperation is organised by the European Commission and the Presidency of the European Council. Nobel laureates, Heads of State and world-renowned authorities on development are among the 6000 participants and 1500 organisations taking part in this year's European Development Days in Warsaw, Poland. [Bronislaw Komorowski, President, Republic of Poland]: "The fact that the European Development Days are taking place here in Poland has symbolic significance. 30 years ago, the state of martial law was imposed in Poland. And those who dreamed of freedom and democracy ended up behind bars or in detention camps." Former President of Poland and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Lech Walesa says that transformation in regions which lack democratic power-sharing could be explosive. [Lech Walesa, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate]: "I would like to be one of the last great revolutionaries. But I worry that this won't be the case. How do workers, when united, behave? They will rise up for justice and order in this world." Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Professor Shirin Ebadi, urged EU leaders to recognise that doing business with oppressive regimes finances repression of human rights. [Professor Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace ... From: NTDTV Views: 19 0 ratings Time: 02:28 More in News & Politics
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18:00:05 12/09/11
Patrick Meighan, Writer for Family Guy Arrested at Occupy LA
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Every police officer should remember this video .
Patrick Meighan, writer for the animated sitcom, Family Guy (See the clip above) was one of the arrested Occupy LA protesters during the eviction of the occupiers in the wee morning hours of December 1st. He's very um..."unhappy" about that whole debacle, and as such a creative writer he's very good at putting the details into words.
From "My Occupy LA Arrest, by Patrick Meighan," here's a look: >
When the LAPD finally began arresting those of us interlocked around the symbolic tent, we were all ordered by the LAPD to unlink from each other (in order to facilitate the arrests). Each seated, nonviolent protester beside me who refused to cooperate by unlinking his arms had the following done to him: an LAPD officer would forcibly extend the protestor’s legs, grab his left foot, twist it all the way around and then stomp his boot on the insole, pinning the protestor’s left foot to the pavement, twisted backwards. Then the LAPD officer would grab the protestor’s right foot and twist it all the way the other direction until the non-violent protestor, in incredible agony, would shriek in pain and unlink from his neighbor. >
It was horrible to watch, and apparently designed to terrorize the rest of us. At least I was sufficiently terrorized. I unlinked my arms voluntarily and informed the LAPD officers that I would go peacefully and cooperatively. I stood as instructed, and then I had my arms wrenched behind my back, and an officer hyperextended my wrists into my inner arms. It was super violent, it hurt really really bad, and he was doing it on purpose. When I involuntarily recoiled from the pain, the LAPD officer threw me face-first to the pavement. He had my hands behind my back, so I landed right on my face. The officer dropped with his knee on my back and ground my face into the pavement. It really, really hurt and my face started bleeding and I was very scared. I begged for mercy and I promised that I was honestly not resisting and would not resist. >
My hands were then zipcuffed very tightly behind my back, where they turned blue. I am now suffering nerve damage in my right thumb and palm. >
I was put on a paddywagon with other nonviolent protestors and taken to a parking garage in Parker Center. They forced us to kneel on the hard pavement of that parking garage for seven straight hours with our hands still tightly zipcuffed behind our backs. Some began to pass out. One man rolled to the ground and vomited for a long, long time before falling unconscious. The LAPD officers watched and did nothing. >
At 9 a.m. we were finally taken from the pavement into the station to be processed. The charge was sitting in the park after the police said not to. It’s a misdemeanor. Almost always, for a misdemeanor, the police just give you a ticket and let you go. It costs you a couple hundred dollars. Apparently, that’s what happened with most every other misdemeanor arrest in LA that day. >
With us Occupy LA protestors, however, they set bail at $5,000 and booked us into jail. Almost none of the protesters could afford to bail themselves out. I’m lucky and I could afford it, except the LAPD spent all day refusing to actually *accept* the bail they set. If you were an accused murderer or a rapist in LAPD custody that day, you could bail yourself right out and be back on the street, no problem. But if you were a nonviolent Occupy LA protestor with bail money in hand, you were held long into the following morning, with absolutely no access to a lawyer. >
I spent most of my day and night crammed into an eight-man jail cell, along with sixteen other Occupy LA protesters. My sleeping spot was on the floor next to the toilet. >
Finally, at 2:30 the next morning, after twenty-five hours in custody, I was released on bail. But there were at least 200 Occupy LA protestors who couldn’t afford the bail. The LAPD chose to keep those peaceful, non-violent protesters in prison for two full days… the absolute legal maximum that the LAPD is allowed to detain someone on misdemeanor charges.
Meighan reminds us that LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has referred to all of this as “the LAPD’s finest hour.” He also reminds us that not arrested on Dec. 1st, was former Citigroup CEO Charles Prince, nor was he arrested on any other date for that matter.
Be sure to read Patrick Meighan's entire account of the Occupy LA raid here , and thank-you, Patrick, for sharing your anger with us. Looking forward to a very special episode of the Family Guy .
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09:49:24 12/07/11
Ai Weiwei's Film on Sichuan Quake: New York Debut
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Ai Weiwei's Film on Sichuan Quake: New York Debut
For more news visit ☛ english.ntdtv.com Follow us on Twitter ☛ http Follow us on Facebook ☛ me.lt Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is still under house arrest, but one of his films was screened for the first time in New York City over the weekend. The film deals with Ai Weiwei's attempt to testify at the trial of a rights activist in 2009. "Disturbing the Peace," a film by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, was shown on Saturday at the Downtown Community Television Center in New York City. It was part of a film series called "Contemporary China-ism Showtime." The series opened with two award-nominated films about the aftermath of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake that killed about 70 thousand people. Ai Weiwei and his team were not able to join the panel. Earlier this year, the Chinese regime detained him for 81 days and has since put him under house arrest. The documentary follows Ai Weiwei's unsuccessful attempt to testify in the trial of Tan Zuoren. Tan was an activist who tried to investigate why schools collapsed, killing thousands of children, during the Sichuan earthquake. In 2009, he was sentenced to 5 years in prison. The film opens as Ai Weiwei talks with police who are breaking into his hotel room, at 3 am in the morning. [Ai Weiwei, Artist]: "You brought all these cops to beat me? He hit me." [Policeman]: "Who hit you? Who saw it?" [Ai Weiwei, Artist]: "Is this how police behave?" [Policeman]: "Prove it." [Ai Weiwei, Artist]: "Is your job to hit people?" [Jon Alpert, Co-Director ... From: NTDTV Views: 4 0 ratings Time: 03:05 More in News & Politics
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21:36:26 12/01/11
On CelebTV's Radar: Viral Video Edition
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On CelebTV's Radar: Viral Video Edition
VIDEO: A flash mob in Mumbai's packed train terminal, a baby on a cell phone and kittens watching ice skating! JUST AN ORDINARY DAY AT THE MUMBAI TRAIN STATION TURNED ANYTHING BUT NORMAL WHEN A FLASH MOB ERUPTED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PACKED TERMINAL! MORE THAN 200 PEOPLE AGES 4 TO 60 TURNED OUT FOR THE CITY'S LARGEST FLASH MOB, WHICH WENT DOWN ALMOST THREE YEARS TO THE DAY THAT A MASS SHOOTING AT THE STATION KILLED 166 PEOPLE. ORGANIZERS SAY THE DANCE IS MEANT AS A MESSAGE OF PEACE AND HOPE OVER TERRORISM. WOAH CHECK OUT THIS CHATTER BOX...ROB JULES, A YOUTUBE USER IN CONNECTICUT, POSTED THIS VID OF HIS NEPHEW, LUCIAN, HAVING A VERY ANIMATED CONVERSATION ON HIS DROID... WHAT CAN HE POSSIBLY BE SAYING? WE CAN ONLY IMAGINE...AND WE'RE IMAGINING HE THINKS HE'S TALKIN TO SANTA... "I WANT THE DVD BOX SET OF THE TWILIGHT SAGA...MY MOM'S BEEN VERY GOOD THIS YEAR, SO SHE WANTS SOMETHING IN ONE OF THOSE PRETTY BLUE BOXES...AND I WANT...I WANT THE IPHONE 5. WE KNOW FIGURE SKATING'S BIG IN JAPAN... BUT WHO KNEW CATS FOLLOWED THE SPORT TOO! CHECK OUT THESE FELINE FANS -- THEY CAN'T TAKE THEIR EYES OR THEIR PAWS OFF THEIR HERO DAISUKE TAKAHASHI! LET THE WINTER GAMES BEGIN! SO DO YOU HAVE A FAVORITE VIRAL VIDEO THIS WEEK? WE WANNA SEE IT! TWEET AT US OR HIT US UP ON FACEBOOK! FOR CELEBTV, I'M KZ. From: CelebTV Views: 2255 14 ratings Time: 02:03 More in Entertainment
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21:36:26 12/01/11
On CelebTV's Radar: Viral Video Edition
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On CelebTV's Radar: Viral Video Edition
VIDEO: A flash mob in Mumbai's packed train terminal, a baby on a cell phone and kittens watching ice skating! JUST AN ORDINARY DAY AT THE MUMBAI TRAIN STATION TURNED ANYTHING BUT NORMAL WHEN A FLASH MOB ERUPTED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PACKED TERMINAL! MORE THAN 200 PEOPLE AGES 4 TO 60 TURNED OUT FOR THE CITY'S LARGEST FLASH MOB, WHICH WENT DOWN ALMOST THREE YEARS TO THE DAY THAT A MASS SHOOTING AT THE STATION KILLED 166 PEOPLE. ORGANIZERS SAY THE DANCE IS MEANT AS A MESSAGE OF PEACE AND HOPE OVER TERRORISM. WOAH CHECK OUT THIS CHATTER BOX...ROB JULES, A YOUTUBE USER IN CONNECTICUT, POSTED THIS VID OF HIS NEPHEW, LUCIAN, HAVING A VERY ANIMATED CONVERSATION ON HIS DROID... WHAT CAN HE POSSIBLY BE SAYING? WE CAN ONLY IMAGINE...AND WE'RE IMAGINING HE THINKS HE'S TALKIN TO SANTA... "I WANT THE DVD BOX SET OF THE TWILIGHT SAGA...MY MOM'S BEEN VERY GOOD THIS YEAR, SO SHE WANTS SOMETHING IN ONE OF THOSE PRETTY BLUE BOXES...AND I WANT...I WANT THE IPHONE 5. WE KNOW FIGURE SKATING'S BIG IN JAPAN... BUT WHO KNEW CATS FOLLOWED THE SPORT TOO! CHECK OUT THESE FELINE FANS -- THEY CAN'T TAKE THEIR EYES OR THEIR PAWS OFF THEIR HERO DAISUKE TAKAHASHI! LET THE WINTER GAMES BEGIN! SO DO YOU HAVE A FAVORITE VIRAL VIDEO THIS WEEK? WE WANNA SEE IT! TWEET AT US OR HIT US UP ON FACEBOOK! FOR CELEBTV, I'M KZ. From: CelebTV Views: 2255 14 ratings Time: 02:03 More in Entertainment
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19:00:06 11/30/11
Scott Olsen Interviewed After Hospital Release. Last Day to Donate! Scott Olsen Funder
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Scott Olsen, the Iraq War veteran injured at the Occupy Oakland encampment on Oct. 25th has since been released from the hospital and gave his first interview yesterday.
In the interview Scott talks about the challenges he faces after being hit in the head by a projectile at Occupy Oakland, specifically the traumatic brain injury he sustained and the weeks of therapy it took for him to regain his speech. In the video it is evident that he still struggles a bit with speaking. But Olsen states that he is doing much better than he was.
Olsen also addresses the city of Oakland and the Oakland Police Department who are investigating the incident, stating that he is waiting to see what they are going to say about themselves in their own investigations. He has not been interviewed by anyone investigating for the police department, nor has he heard anything at all from the District Attorney's office.
Olsen also conveys at end of the interview that the Occupy Movement was intended to be peaceful and should remain that way, that by working together and being open with one another would solve most of the problems that the movement faces with bureaucracy.
Scott looks great, and it's obvious that he has worked very hard to regain his speech. He also has scars that are hidden underneath a bandana in the video. We wish him all the best, and a speedy, complete recovery.
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00:00:46 11/30/11
UC Berkeley Police Defend Response to 'Occupy Cal' Protests
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The video above was the scene as police in riot gear viciously beat peaceful student activists with their batons in front of Sproul Hall on the University of California at Berkeley campus Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011, in Berkeley, CA.
What follows here is an open letter from the UC Berkeley Police Officers’ Association, addressed to the campus community and to the UC Board of Regents in response to the events of Nov. 9 and the criticism their actions that day elicited. >
An Open Letter to UC Berkeley Students, Faculty, Administration & Regents from the UC Berkeley Police Officers’ Association
It is our hope that this letter will help open the door to a better understanding between UC Berkeley police and the University community.
The UC Berkeley Police Officers’ Association, representing approximately 64 campus police officers, understands your frustration over massive tuition hikes and budget cuts, and we fully support your right to peacefully protest to bring about change.
It was not our decision to engage campus protesters on November 9th. We are now faced with “managing” the results of years of poor budget planning. Please know we are not your enemy.
A video clip gone viral does not depict the full story or the facts leading up to an actual incident. Multiple dispersal requests were given in the days and hours before the tent removal operation. Not caught on most videos were scenes of protesters hitting, pushing, grabbing officers’ batons, fighting back with backpacks and skateboards.
The UC Berkeley Police Officers’ Association supports a full investigation of the events that took place on November 9th, as well as a full review of University policing policies. That being said, we do not abrogate responsibility for the events on November 9th.
UC Berkeley police officers want to better serve students and faculty members and we welcome ideas for how we can have a better discourse to avoid future confrontations. We are open to all suggestions on ways we can improve our ability to better protect and serve the UC Berkeley community.
As your campus police, we also have safety concerns that we ask you to consider.
Society has changed significantly since 1964 when peaceful UC Berkeley student protesters organized a 10-hour sit-in in Sproul Hall and 10,000 students held a police car at bay – spawning change and the birth of our nation’s Free Speech Movement.
However proud we can all be of UC Berkeley’s contribution to free speech in America, no one can deny this: Our society in 2011 has become an extremely more violent place to live and to protect. No one understands the effects of this violence more than those of us in law enforcement.
Disgruntled citizens in this day and age express their frustrations in far more violent ways – with knives, with guns and sometimes by killing innocent bystanders. Peaceful protests can, in an instant, turn into violent rioting, ending in destruction of property or worse – the loss of lives. Police officers and innocent citizens everywhere are being injured, and in some instances, killed.
In the back of every police officer’s mind is this: How can I control this incident so it does not escalate into a seriously violent, potentially life-threatening event for all involved? >
While students were calling the protest “non-violent,” the events on November 9th were anything but nonviolent. In previous student Occupy protests, protesters hit police officers with chairs, bricks, spitting, and using homemade plywood shields as weapons – with documented injuries to officers.
At a moment’s notice, the November 9th protest at UC Berkeley could have turned even more violent than it did, much like the Occupy protests in neighboring Oakland.
Please understand that by no means are we interested in making excuses. We are only hoping that you will understand and consider the frustrations we experience daily as public safety officers sworn to uphold the law. It is our job to keep protests from escalating into violent events where lives could be endangered.
We sincerely ask for your help in doing this.
Like you, we have been victims to budget cuts that affect our children and our families in real ways. We, too, hold on to the dream of being able to afford to send our children and grandchildren to a four-year university. Like you, we understand and fully support the need for change and a redirection of priorities.
To students and faculty: As 10,000 students surrounded a police car on campus in 1964, protesters passed the hat to help pay for repairs to the police car as a show of respect. Please peacefully respect the rules we are required to enforce – for all our safety and protection. Please respect the requests of our officers as we try to do our jobs.
To the University Administration and Regents: Please don’t ask us to enforce your policies then refuse to stand by us when we do. Your students, your faculty and your police – we need you to provide real leadership.
We openly and honestly ask the UC Berkeley community for the opportunity to move forward together, peacefully and without further incident – in better understanding of one another. Thank you for listening.
In short, the brutal beating suffered by the UC Berkeley students weren't the fault of the officers involved because the protesters could have used lethal force .
One huge problem here is the lack of any evidence to back up the claims of the UC Davis police that the students were on the verge of using lethal force. The students, however, have plenty of video footage and photographs of the officers beating the crap out of them with batons - you know - evidence .
