“The weak can never forgive.
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
Author: Jeff Fenske Page 603 of 612
Sean Penn’s intro: “The Who never did sell out. Unlike certain music channels.” [This was broacast on VH1, which certainly has.]
Related: THE WHO: Love Reign O’er Me!!!
[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=2vwq4fdugU4]Pukkelpop-Festival Hasselt in Belgium, 18 Aug 2006
Related: Michael Franti & Spearhead | Children: “Hello Bonjour”
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“My goal has not ever been to change minds.
My goal is to open minds.
So when people see my film or come to a show,
I want them to say: “Well, that’s a different way of looking at things,
and I’m maybe going to find out more.
I also want people to feel inspired,
so I try to make art that is uplifting.”
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“After 9/11,
when we were in our moment of greatest sadness as a nation,
when we were mourning those deaths,
and all of us were in pain,
this small group of neoconservatives used our pain
in order to set their agenda on its course.”
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‘Til I let go of a broken heart
I let go to an open heart
I let go of my broken dreams
I let go to the mystery
And I believe in the miracle
I believe in the spiritual
I believe in the One above
I believe in the one I love
Even when I’ve fallen down
My heart says follow through
I take one step closer to you
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[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
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]
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
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.
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….
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!
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.
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 |
“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.
Read Entire Article With Chart
Related:
Low Vitamin D Levels Associated With Death—Majority Deficient
Burka-Wearing Prompts The Return Of In Rickets In Birmingham
It takes two to speak truth:
one to speak
and another to hear.
– Henry David Thoreau
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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
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.
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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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)
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I was going to add “Banished From the USA” to the title, but apparently The Peace Train has been thankfully, at least partially unbanished.
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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
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Come take me home, again
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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.
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Footage from Cry Freedom—absolutely one of my all-time-favorite movies! Denzel Washington plays Stephen Biko.
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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.
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