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Michael Franti on His Iraq Visit & DVD: “I Know I’m Not Alone: A Musician’s Search for the Human Cost of War”

[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=rF_H8-3ZgB4]Interview

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2wF32PfPyM]I Know I’m Not Alone DVD Preview

Related:

Michael Franti & Ron Paul on Iraq: “Do Unto Others” [great footage from the DVD]

Michael Franti & Spearhead: I Know I’m Not Alone [music video]

I Know I’m Not Alone Official Site

26,000 Pastors for Martial Law Continuity of Government

This is an expanded version of the video at Police State Clergy Response Teams.

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Also Related: Secret FEMA Plan To Use Pastors as Pacifiers in Preparation For Martial Law

Torture: A Battle for the Country’s Soul

September 11th was a sea change. Everybody says everything changed after that. And it did, but I think one of the most important changes that the country hasn’t really thought about is America became a country that, for the first time in its history, endorsed what is torture in all but name. And since then, it changed, I think, from a war for the country’s security, the war on terror, to a battle for the country’s soul.

From: Democracy Now!

The Dark Side: Jane Mayer on the Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals

We spend the hour with New Yorker magazine investigative journalist Jane Mayer about her new book, The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals. In the book, Mayer reveals a secret report by the International Red Cross warned the Bush administration last year that the CIA’s treatment of prisoners categorically constituted torture and could make Bush administration officials who approved the torture methods guilty of war crimes. Mayer also reveals that the Bush administration ignored warnings from the CIA six years ago that up to a third of the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay may have been imprisoned by mistake.

[…]

The name of Mayer’s book comes from a comment made by Vice President Dick Cheney on Meet the Press shortly after the September 11th attacks.

    VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY: We have to work the dark side, if you will. We’re going to spend time in the shadows in the intelligence world. A lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly, without any discussion, using sources and methods that are available to our intelligence agencies.

Coast to Coast AM 7/17 Recap: Alcohol-Based Fuels

From: Coast to Coast AM

Ecological biologist David Blume discussed the importance and benefits of alcohol-based fuels, and how the petroleum industry has suppressed their development. Some of the earliest cars such as the Model T were flex fuel (running on either gas or alcohol), and Henry Ford was an advocate for alcohol fuel. However, he was opposed by John D. Rockefeller who pushed for Prohibition, which stopped the manufacture of alcohol for any purpose, Blume detailed.

Cheaper than gas, alcohol is a superior fuel, as it leaves no carbon behind, engines last longer, and it can free us from foreign dependence….

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Michael Franti: Power to the Peaceful Festival at Golden Gate Park

I would love to see something like the Power to the Peaceful Festival happen even in Alaska. We need to stand up for what is right before it’s too late.

Headliner, Michael Franti said this about the event in the Power to the Peaceful Festival 2005 DVD, which is held annually on the 9/11 weekend in San Francisco:

“We want this day and the remembrance of those lives lost on September 11 not to be a call for vengeance, but to be a call for peace, and to be a call for social justice.”

See the trailer.

This is last year’s poster of the event. This year it will be held on the 6th:

Blessed are the Peacemakers, y’all!

Health Hazards From Jet Fumes Extend Many Miles From Airports

Both Articles From: Alliance of Residents Concerning O’Hare (AReCO)

Noise, as millions are all too aware, is a serious physiological and psychological health hazard. It is readily apparent when it intrudes on conversation, listening pleasure or interferes with sleep and education. Government-designated 24-four hour “average noise levels” ignore single, sudden events offering false measurement of actual impacts and grossly underestimating the number of people affected. Inaudible low-frequency and high frequency sound waves, about which little is known, also probably contribute to adverse health affects.

Harmful as noise may be, its effects may be minor when the products of jet engine exhaust and other airport sources are considered. I, and other members of the Alliance of Residents Concerning O’Hare (AReCO) and our recently organized national organization, US-Citizens Aviation Watch (US-CAW), with the Natural Resources Defense Council have come upon much interesting information about airport and aircraft operations, which produce massive amounts of hazardous and toxic emissions.

Here is just a partial, astonishing list of constituent compounds: Freon 11; Freon 12; Methyl Bromide; Dichloromethane; cis-l,2-Dichloroethylene; 1,1,1-Trichloroethane; Carbon Tetrachloride; Benzene; Trichloroethylene; Toluene; Tetrachloroethene; Ethylbenzene; m,p-Xylene; o-Xylene; Styrene; 1,3,5-Trimethylbenzene; 1,2,4-Trimethylbenzene; o-Dichlorobenzene; Formaldehyde; Acetaldehyde; Acrolein; Acetone; Propinaldehyde; Crotonaldehyde; Isobutylaldehyde; Methyl Ethyl Ketone; Benzaldehyde; Veraldehyde; Hexanaldehyde; Ethyl Alcohol; Acetone; Isopropyl Alcohol; Methyl Ethyl Ketone; Butane; Isopentane; Pentane; Hexane; Butyl Alcohol; Methyl Isobutyl Ketone; n,n-Dimethyl Acetamide; Dimethyl Disulfide; m-Cresol; 4-Ethyl Toulene; n- Heptaldehyde; Octanal; 1,4-Dioxane; Methyl Phenyl Ketone; Vinyl Acetate; Heptane; Phenol; Octane; Anthracene; Dimethylnapthalene(isomers); Flouranthene; 1-methylnaphthalene; 2-methylnaphthalene; Naphthalene; Phenanthrene; Pyrene; Benzo(a)pyrene; 1-nitropyrene; 1,8-dinitropyrene; 1,3-Butadiene; sulfites; nitrites; nitrogen oxide; nitrogen monoxide; nitrogen dioxide; nitrogen trioxide; nitric acid; sulfur oxides; sulfur dioxide; sulfuric acid; urea; ammonia; carbon monoxide; ozone; particulate matter (PM10, PM2.5); and finally this compound; 3-nitrobenzanthrone.*

According to chemist Hitomi Suzuki of Kyoto University, the last compound, 3-nitrobenzanthrone, may be the most hazardous compound ever to be tested for carcinogenicity….

Think, too, you do not have to be an immediate airport neighbor. That pollution is shed over an enormous area surrounding a busy airport, diminishing, of course, in a radius of at least 24 miles and from an elevation of about 3500 feet to the ground.

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What symptoms can occur with prolonged exposure to these chemicals?

ASPHYXIATION
ASTHMA
BRAIN CANCER
CANCER
CONJUNCTIVE IRRITATION
COUGHING
DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY
DISTORTED PERCEPTIONS
DROWSINESS
DYSPNEA HEADACHE
EEG CHANGES
EMPHYSEMA
FLUSHING
HALLUCINATIONS
HEART DISEASE
HODGKIN’S DISEASE
KIDNEY DAMAGE
LACRIMATION
LIVER DAMAGE
LUNG DISEASE
LUNG STRUCTURE DAMAGE
LUNG TIGHTNESS
LYMPHOMA
MENTAL DEPRESSION
MULTIPLE ORGAN INVOLVEMENT
MUSCLE WEAKNESS
MUTATIONS
MYELOID LEUKEMIA
NASAL EFFECTS
NAUSEA, VOMITING
PULSE RATE DECREASE
PULMONARY IRRITATION
RESPIRATORY SYSTEM DAMAGE
SKIN AND EYE IRRITATION
SYSTEMIC IRRITATION
TUMORS
WHEEZING

Click here for a list of research material cited above.

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Alaska births are at much higher risk. Vitamin D isn’t even mentioned!

Officials are at a loss to explain why,” the article says. And they don’t even mention vitamin D. Why? What’s up? Is it because it’s not in Big Pharma’s interest because they can’t patent vitamin D?

A Google search for “birth defects” and “vitamin D” results in 300,000 hits!

And it should be common knowledge that most Alaskans have pitiful low vitamin D levels in winter. My hygienist says Alaskans’ teeth are horrendous, compared to Texans’, where she moved from. And all it takes are simple blood tests to find out. The sun doesn’t get high enough in the sky during much of the winter, so the atmosphere shields out the vitamin-D-producing rays.

And wasn’t the traditional diet of Alaska natives high in vitamin D, but now many eat a more Americanized diet, even with fast-foods?

Freedom!

Jeff Fenske

From: Anchorage Daily News

Alaska infants are twice as likely to be born with major birth defects as infants in the U.S. as a whole, according to a new study by the state Department of Health and Social Services — and officials are at a loss to explain why.

All races of Alaskans exceed national rates for “major congenital anomalies,” according to the review of seven years of data (from 1996 through 2002) drawn from the Alaska Birth Defect Registry.

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Related:

Low Vitamin D Levels Associated With Death—Majority Deficient

Burka-Wearing Prompts The Return Of In Rickets In Birmingham

HeartQuotes: Truth

It takes two to speak truth:
one to speak
and another to hear.

– Henry David Thoreau

Click for Yosemite Valley Version

Michael Franti: Everyone Deserves Music — Even Our Worst Enemies

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Everyone deserves music, sweet music
Everyone deserves music, sweet music
Even our worst enemies, Lord, they deserves music, sweet music
Even the quiet ones in our family, they deserve music

So I pray for them and I’ll play for them
So I pray for them and I’ll play for them

Related:

Michael Franti: Bomb the World (”Power to the Peaceful!”)

Michael Franti: Light Up Ya Lighter

Michael Franti & Spearhead | Children: Hello Bonjour

Greg Boyd: In the kingdom of God, we are not allowed to have any enemies

Greg Boyd’s Prayer: Teach us to be free, forgiving even our worst enemy

Wolfowitz: U.S. Confidence Hinges on Another ‘Crisis’

From: InfoWars

In a response to PNAC associate Robert Kagan, former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz has suggested that a ‘compelling crisis’ such as Pearl Harbor or 9/11 may help bolster America’s stature in the world, which, Wolfowitz clearly hints, has been damaged by the Bush administration:

America’s future leadership role may depend even more on how threatening the world appears. Historically, that leadership role has often emerged out of a compelling crisis: Pearl Harbour, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the Iran hostage crisis, Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, or the attacks of 9/11.

Such a role would imply even more U.S. troops around the world and the need to maintain and even expand the state of crisis. In other words, it would be a continuation of the so-called ‘Wolfowitz Doctrine,’ a military-first approach to world dominance where the U.S. would function unilaterally as a pre-emptive security arm for world conflicts. However, despite Wolfowitz’s pre-war boast that Iraqis would “greet us as liberators,” the phony WMDs episode has likely soured public support for such pre-emptive action.

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CT Scans Causing Cancer: Radiation Dose 50 to 100 Times Larger Than Conventional X-Ray

From: Natural News

A surge in the use of CT scans in the last 25 years has led to millions of patients per year being unnecessarily exposed to dangerous radiation that increases their risk of cancer, according to a paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

“It has been estimated that about 0.4 percent of all cancers in the United States may be attributable to the radiation from CT studies,” the authors wrote. Because cancer can take a decade to appear, “this estimate might now be in the range of 1.5 to 2.0 percent” when adjusted for the current level of CT use.

A CT or CAT scan, which stands for computerized axial tomography, is a three-dimensional body scan acquired by means of an exceptionally high X-ray dose. CT scans have become popular because they provide more detail than normal X-ray scans. But according to co-author David Brenner, “The radiation dose from a CT scan is far larger than from a conventional X-ray. It’s 50 times to 100 times larger.”

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O’Jays: Love Train

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People all over the world (Sisters and brothers)

Join hands (join, come on)

Start a love train (ride this train, y’all)

love train (Come on)

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9luQ-yerVc]

Cat Stevens > Yusuf Islam: Peace Train

I was going to add “Banished From the USA” to the title, but apparently The Peace Train has been thankfully, at least partially unbanished.

[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=WlHOV5DOI80]Peace Train Tribute

Oh I’ve been smiling lately,
dreaming about the world as one

And I believe it could be,
something good has begun

Oh peace train sounding louder
Glide on the peace train
Come on now peace train
Yes, peace train holy roller

Everyone jump upon the peace train
Come on now peace train

[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=Q7iLPnDCQ1g]Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, Norway – 11 december 2006

Now I’ve been crying lately,
thinking about the world as it is
Why must we go on hating,
why can’t we live in bliss

Cause out on the edge of darkness,
there rides a peace train

Oh peace train take this country,
come take me home again

[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=U7wEctHyuc0]

Come take me home, again

Cat Stevens: Hard Headed Woman

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsJqfG97J3o]

Cat Stevens: Wild World

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHXpnZi9Hzs]

Cat Stevens: Father and Son

[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=6TzJfsBB3mQ]

Switchfoot: Dare You To Move

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHIC3U84lk0]

Sinead O’Connor: This is a Rebel Song

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I love you my hard Irishman
Your rage is like a fist in my womb
Can’t you forgive
what you think I’ve done
And love me, I’m your woman. …

How come you’ve never said you love me
In all the time you’ve known me
How come you never say you’re sorry
And I do
… I do.

Sinead O’Connor: Fire on Babylon

[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=FfIF5tThR3Q]

[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=JRrJU6RbMw4]

Biko (1946-77): Manu Dibango, Peter Gabriel, Ladysmith Black Mamba

Footage from Cry Freedom—absolutely one of my all-time-favorite movies! Denzel Washington plays Stephen Biko.

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Canon Walk-Around Camera Outfits Compared: EOS 5D + EF 24-105/4L vs. EOS 40D + EF-S 17-85/4-5.6

Note: the camera that so clearly wins here, the 5D, is a 3-year-old model that is hopefully to be soon updated.

The difference between the $500, cropped-sensor lens (EF-S 17-85) and the $1,000 L lens (EF 24-105) is probably the greatest factor.

If one is mainly going to do portraits or photograph art, for example, great results would probably be achieved with the 40D (or a late-model Rebel) with the $90, EF 50mm f/1.8 lens.

– jeff

From: BobAtkins.com

In this test I thought I’d compare two “walking around” outfits. By “walking around” I mean using a single lens that covers the wide to short telephoto range, preferably with Image Stabilization. It’s the sort of lens you might carry with you on the camera if you didn’t quite know what you wanted to shoot, for example while walking around a city on vacation or taking a walk along the seashore.

With the Canon EOS 5D, the obvious choice is the EF 24-105/4L IS. It covers a good range of focal lengths, it’s fairly fast at a constant f4, it’s an “L” series lens so its quality should match the EOS 5D and it has image stabilization.

For the EOS 40D, the obvious choice was the EF-S 17-85/3-5.6IS. This gives the same angular field of view coverage as a 27-136mm lens would on a full frame camera like the EOS 5D, so it doesn’t give quite such as wide field of view as the 24-105 on the 5D, but it has a longer telephoto reach. Again it’s a lens you might carry around when you weren’t quite sure what you’d be photographing but wanted to cover a fairly wide range of focal lengths.

See Entire Comparison Test

Scott Ritter: Fools would BOMB Iran—It could look like this

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The Moody Blues: No More Lies

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j_IuCN00ac]

Chuck Baldwin: THE RON PAUL FREEDOM MARCH

From: News with Views, July 15, 2008

I was privileged to be invited to speak at Congressman Ron Paul’s Freedom March this past Saturday on the Mall in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. In fact, I spoke immediately preceding Dr. Paul and helped introduce the ten-term congressman.

I gauged the crowd to number in excess of five thousand people. All the participants I observed were very respectful, well mannered, and polite. The crowd was about as diverse an audience as I have ever spoken to. They came from all walks of life and from all points across the country. I was able to spend an hour or more mingling with the crowd and was delighted to meet many scores of people who already knew of me. A large number indicated that they were readers of this column.

Participants in the Freedom March all seemed to have this in common: a love and desire for liberty, and a deep respect and admiration for Congressman Ron Paul. I count it an honor to have been asked to speak to such a wonderful group. Dr. Paul said some extremely kind words about me in his remarks, as did the man who introduced me, Ernest Hancock, the great patriot from Phoenix, Arizona.

I was also honored to meet several great Americans whom I have come to love and respect over the years: people such as retired police officer, Jack McLamb. It was also good to share the podium with my good friend, Howard Phillips, who was extremely complimentary of me during his address, as was Officer McLamb.

Marchers had spent six hours in the blazing, 90-degree sun before my turn to speak arrived. And both Congressman Paul and myself had to catch flights out of DC soon after our speeches, so I cut my remarks short so as to give Dr. Paul maximum opportunity to deliver his remarks. Therefore, my speech lasted only about 5 minutes.

Below is a link to my speech at Ron Paul’s Freedom March (albeit the opening remarks of the address were inadvertently omitted. Perhaps another video will surface soon. When it does, we will post it to my web site at chuckbaldwinlive.com.

See my speech at the Ron Paul Freedom March in Washington, D.C. by clicking here.

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Related:

Media Ignores Ron Paul March For Liberty

Chuck Baldwin 2008

Alaska: Father Forgives Son’s Murderer — “We love you; we do”

From: Anchorage Daily News

At Murderer’s Sentencing, Grieving Fathers Find Unlikely Bond
A story of addiction, death and forgiveness

In a downtown courtroom Friday, Rob Kagel didn’t know what to feel as he looked for the first time on Osaiasi Saafi, the man who’d shot and killed his son.

[…]

Then it was Saafi’s turn. He accepted the decision of the jury, he said quietly. He prayed every day for the family to forgive him. He was sorry for the heartache his actions had caused.

From his seat in the gallery, Kagel believed Saafi was sincere, believed he would be burdened for life by what he’d done.

Suddenly, locking Saafi up for most of his life seemed a waste. Then two young men would be destroyed, Kagel explained later. He knew Josh wouldn’t have wanted it.

Judge Michael Wolverton called a recess. When court reconvened, Kagel asked if he could make one last statement.

He’d changed his mind, he told the judge. Please give Saafi the minimum sentence, he said.

“We do forgive you,” Kagel said to Saafi. “For reasons we don’t understand, we love you; we do.”

Saafi nodded. Behind him, his father Henry Saafi wept.

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Mellencamps Cursed for Questioning the War

From: Vanity Fair

If Mellencamp has become inured to the chilly treatment that he sometimes gets from the music industry, he and his family were caught off guard by the undercurrent of hostility that rolled their way in Bloomington when he began to voice his anti-war feelings in 2003. Not long before the official start of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Mellencamp wrote new lyrics for “Baltimore to Washington,” Woody Guthrie’s version of a traditional tune first popularized by the Carter family, and renamed it “To Washington.” Using pretty much the same plainspoken language found on Freedom’s Road, he sang about the tainted 2000 election and the roll-up to the war, including this verse:

And he wants to fight with many
And he says it’s not for oil
He sent out the National Guard
To police the world
From Baghdad to Washington.

The song, which was included on Mellencamp’s May 2003 album of reworked blues and folk standards, Trouble No More, made news even before it was released. In the fall Mellencamp and his wife, the supermodel and photographer Elaine Irwin-Mellencamp, landed in the headlines again when they posted an open letter on his Web site, mellencamp.com, titled, in part, “It’s Time to Take Back Our Country.” The Mellencamps called for an end to what they described as the “political ‘hijacking’ of Iraq” and the chilling effect on free speech that had crept into the national discourse. Though they were spared the kind of public thrashing that the Dixie Chicks got that March when lead singer Natalie Maines told a London concert audience that she was “ashamed the president of the United States” is from Texas, the Mellencamp family’s politics did not go unnoticed on their home turf. Elaine Irwin-Mellencamp recalls the time that she, her husband, and their sons, Hud, 12, and Speck, 11, were driving in town when a local radio station played “To Washington” and invited listeners to comment, prompting one man to call up and say, “I don’t know who I hate worse, John Mellencamp or Saddam Hussein.” Mostly, the criticism was implied in the cold stares and whispers of some of the locals whom the Mellencamps encountered on a regular basis.

A few times, the rocker’s clan found themselves on the wrong end of some drive-by mudslinging. Because their 60-acre compound, with its stucco mansion, sits on the serene Lake Monroe, Irwin-Mellencamp says a number of boaters floated near their banks and shouted obscenity-laced tirades at the house. Irwin-Mellencamp won’t forget the time that a boat carrying a profanity-spewing….

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Related: An Open Letter to America: It’s Time to Take Back Our Country
by John & Elaine Mellencamp

Armchair Pilots ‘Zap & Maim’ By Remote Control From Las Vegas — Roger Waters: “The Bravery of Being Out of Range”

And we wonder why the world hates US.

From: CNN

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Pilots direct remote-control aircraft from Nevada base in combat 7,500 miles away
  • New drone, “the Reaper,” carries the same bomb load as an F-16 fighter plane
  • Reapers have been flying round-the-clock patrols over Afghanistan since 2007
  • Air Force sees unmanned aircraft as the future of aerial combat

CREECH AIR FORCE BASE, Nevada (CNN) — From a desert outpost [35 miles] northwest of Las Vegas, elite fighter pilots journey to a war zone in Afghanistan, some 7,500 miles away.

It might be the world’s longest commute, except that these armchair pilots at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada never leave the air-conditioned comfort of their command center.

Air Force pilots are employing remotely controlled fighter-bomber aircraft — known in military parlance as unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs — to fly combat missions over Afghanistan, hunting for insurgents bent on undermining Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s fragile government.

This is the future of aerial combat.

Sitting in a virtual cockpit is not as exciting as flying a fighter jet, but unmanned attack-plane pilots can enjoy a normal workday schedule — more or less. Video Watch the Reaper at work »

Seeing bad guys on the screen and watching them possibly get dispatched, and then going down to the Taco Bell for lunch, it’s kind of surreal,” says Captain Matt Dean.

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Roger Waters, 1991

The Bravery of Being Out of Range

… Hey bartender over here
Two more shots
And two more beers
Sir turn up the TV sound
The war has started on the ground
Just love those laser guided bombs
They’re really great
For righting wrongs
You hit the target
And win the game
From bars 3,000 miles away
3,000 miles away
We play the game
With the bravery of being out of range
We zap and maim
With the bravery of being out of range
We strafe the train
With the bravery of being out of range
We gain terrain
With the bravery of being out of range

Related:

Scott Ridder: Our Murderers in the Sky

Why they hate US: How would you like one of these flying over your head?

[‘why they hate US’ — Listen to his voice] Gen. Hamid Gul: We’ve slaughtered ~3,500 innocent men, women and children in Pakistan through remote control drones — “But this particular attack was the final nail in the coffin. Why did they do that?” Pakistan may now unite with China against US

We killed almost 700 Pakistan civilians in 44 REMOTE-CONTROL drone strikes in 2009. How would we like it if a country did this to US?

All of my Why They Hate US posts (It’s not “because we’re free”)

Alaska: It’s summer, but you sure can’t tell by the weather

From: Anchorage Daily News

The Wrangell Mountains had fresh snow Sunday. Friends just back from a couple weeks hiking in Lake Clark National Park and Preserve reported they were snowed on.

Snow left from last winter still blocks the Resurrection Pass Trail in Chugach National Forest. And I have to pull on the fleece in order to sit on my southwest-facing deck and enjoy evening sunshine.

The summer sun, admittedly, feels as good and warm as ever. But the air, well, something is wrong with the air.

The air is cold. As soon as the sun disappears behind a cloud, the temperature starts falling as if it were nighttime in the desert.

A bright sun warming the deck one evening last week actually encouraged to me engage in the foolishness of pulling on shorts and a short-sleeved jersey for an evening mountain bike ride.

After 10 minutes, the sun went under a cloud, the wind started blowing, and I had to beat a retreat toward home to ward off hypothermia.

The weather this summer may even be worse than the skyrocketing price of fuel. After nine months of winter, we’re entitled to a little respite, and then we get this?

Anchorage, according to National Weather Service records, didn’t have a day that hit 70 in June, and the weather service record station is in a warm spot.

There were more days in the 50s than in the 60s. It’s been so cold, the midnight-sun days even feel darker.

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Related: Anchorage sets new record for latest high temp day – still waiting for 70

HeartQuotes: Risk > Discovery/Aha!

Man cannot discover new oceans
unless he has the courage
to lose sight of the shore.

– Andre Gide

Click for the Art-Print Version

HeartQuotes: Tiny Steps

The man who removes a mountain
begins by carrying away small stones.

– William Faulkner

Click for Stonescape Version

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