Posts published in November 2011

Via Scoop.it – Demand TransformationI can’t see any legitimate basis for police action like what is shown here. Watch that first minute and think how we’d react if we saw it coming from some riot-control unit in China, or in Syria. The calm of the officer who walks up and in a leisurely way pepper-sprays unarmed and passive people right…

Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation“Love is the felt experience of connection to another being. An economist says ‘more for you is less for me.’ But the lover knows that more of you is more for me too. If you love somebody their happiness is your happiness. Their pain is your pain. Your sense of self expands to include other beings.…

Via Scoop.it – Demand TransformationThe Taliban ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001. Under its brutal rule there were public executions and amputations weekly. Music, television, dancing, and public laughter were banned.* (2, 3) Women could not go out in public unless they were completely covered with a burqa and escorted by a male relative. Women caught with finger polish had…

Via Scoop.it – Demand TransformationAnother example that the Obama Adminstration, just like the Cheney/Bush Administration works for the 1% and is at War with the 99% of the US Citizens.   The Department of Justice has stepped into the case of Jammie Thomas-Rasset, the first file-sharing defendant whose trial ended with a $1.92 million judgment against her. According to the…

Via Scoop.it – Creating the Future (PhysOrg.com) — Scientists at Chalmers University of Technology have succeeded in creating light from vacuum – observing an effect first predicted over 40 years ago. The results will be published tomorrow (Wednesday) in the journal Nature.Via www.physorg.com