Dec 01 2009
The girl who silenced the world for 5 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…
Severn Suzuki representing ECO, the Environmental Children’s Organization
addresses the UN regard the environmental issues of great concern, to her generation.
The people who will inherit the global decisions made at Copenhagen, this week …
Dec 01 2009
I’ve always loved the little-known Maurice Hinchey, from New York State.
Back in 2005, I wrote about him in one of my very first Dailykos essays. Here’s what he said then:
New York congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) delivered a fiery critique of the Bush Administration’s drive to war in Iraq, labeling the push part of a “conspiracy” to deceive Congress and occupy the country.(snip)
Speaking of the four protesters who spilled their own blood at a military recruiting center, Hinchey said “what they were protesting was the conspiracy of the Administration of George W. Bush to bring about an attack and then an occupation of the country of Iraq, and as a result making the world a much more dangerous and difficult place than it was prior to those actions.”
“It is that conspiracy,” he added, “that conspiracy which has now been documented by among other things official British documents called the Downing Street Memo which are communications between the highest ranking officials of the British government – the head of the British Intelligence, the foreign officer, the prime minister himself.”
Hinchley’s remarks break ranks with most Democrats in Congress, who have been critical of the leadup and operations surrounding the Iraq war, but who have been loath to deliver stinging perorations. The New York Democrat said he saw the trial as somewhat Orwellian — a move towards curtailing speech.
“We do not want to see an end to this democratic republic,” Hinchey quipped. “We want it to be strengthened. We want it to go on forever. We don’t want it to be ended by people who are telling us, or who would like to tell us, what we can do and say and even think. But that’s what this Administration is engaged in.”
No wonder this guy doesn’t get any press.
But check out what he said today:
Dec 01 2009
Jed Lewison’s front page article says it all — Democratic supporters are unimpressed with the Democratic Party. How else do you explain the fact that only 56% of Democrats say they will vote in 2010?
Two in five Democratic voters either consider themselves unlikely to vote at this point in time, or have already made the firm decision to remove themselves from the 2010 electorate pool. Indeed, Democrats were three times more likely to say that they will “definitely not vote” in 2010 than are Republicans.
I’m not surprised. You shouldn’t be, either.
(crossposted at Daily Kos)
Dec 01 2009
Original article, by Dave Lindorff and subtitled Hope Deflated, via counterpuhttp://counterpunch.comnch.com:
Dec 01 2009
Maybe the Internet is the only way to get the ear of a banking corporation so deaf and so greedy that it cannot hear my screaming and thinks it can do whatever it wants with my money. Maybe even this diary won’t work to open their ears and pierce their conscience and cause them to release the money. Maybe Bank of America pwns all of us. I hope it doesn’t, but I suspect it does.
This diary is about my interaction today with B of A. And it’s about why my son cannot get my hands on $4,019 of his own money until after 5 pm on December 7. This diary is being written because, guess what, he needs the $$ before then. It’s his, isn’t it? Well, maybe not. Not until after 5 pm on 12/7.
Join me in the drive through.