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A challenge to the war on drugs and the war for oil, dedicated to the ones whose addiction is killing the people, the earth, and human integrity.
Donny Fix
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Record Number of Americans Lack Health Insurance - Forbes.com
Record Number of Americans Lack Health Insurance - Forbes.com
Take note how the mainstream media pretty unanimously paints this as a health "insurance" crisis, instead of the more correct health "care" crisis.
There are more ways to deliver health care to the population besides the health insurance industry. There is no such industry in many countries, like England, Canada and France, whose populations are all covered by national health care coverage. And at a fraction of the total costs of the American system.
It just makes sense that if a thing like health care, education, energy and other public needs are privatized, relegated to making a profit for investors, those costs will rise to help the investors realize their just profits.
In California, we have an opportunity to turn that around. Support for the Single-Payer health care legislation drafted by State Senator Sheila Kuehl and supported by a growing list of legislators would expand Medicaid, Medi-Cal, and other health delivery agencies, and consolidate them in to a plan much like that of Canada.
Legislators at the state and national level need to hear that it is not just about insurance. Other tools are available to fulfill the need for health care. If you need encouragement, go see Michael Moore's "SICKO".
Then, in California, support SB 840.
And in the nation, Medicaid for the masses!
Donny Fix
Take note how the mainstream media pretty unanimously paints this as a health "insurance" crisis, instead of the more correct health "care" crisis.
There are more ways to deliver health care to the population besides the health insurance industry. There is no such industry in many countries, like England, Canada and France, whose populations are all covered by national health care coverage. And at a fraction of the total costs of the American system.
It just makes sense that if a thing like health care, education, energy and other public needs are privatized, relegated to making a profit for investors, those costs will rise to help the investors realize their just profits.
In California, we have an opportunity to turn that around. Support for the Single-Payer health care legislation drafted by State Senator Sheila Kuehl and supported by a growing list of legislators would expand Medicaid, Medi-Cal, and other health delivery agencies, and consolidate them in to a plan much like that of Canada.
Legislators at the state and national level need to hear that it is not just about insurance. Other tools are available to fulfill the need for health care. If you need encouragement, go see Michael Moore's "SICKO".
Then, in California, support SB 840.
And in the nation, Medicaid for the masses!
Donny Fix
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
He's Brave (with other people's children)
I wrote this song too long ago, now, about the timne the hundredth US soldier died in Iraq. It's called "He's Brave (with other people's children)", and were the words of one mother told her son would not be returning home. That mother later became known to me to be Sandy Sheehan
We will all know who "He" is, if we remember some of our saddest history the day Bush landed on an aircraft carrier and declared, "Bring 'em on!"- At least he did a mea culpa on that, if only a superficial one.
But one role of folk music and blues has been to document a moment in time, and the feelings engendered, and this is one that needs to be remembered.
Donny Fix
Monday, August 27, 2007
Bangkok Post Breaking News
Bangkok Post Breaking News
Now, as much as ever, follow the money.
It is no surprise that Afghanistan is offering yet another parallel with Viet Nam. During that war, the Golden Triangle grew as an international economic force through heroin export. French Connection mafia, local warlords and the CIA were among the profiteers.
Later, Ollie North and Ronald Reagan tried the same out of the White House basement, this time negotiating guns for cocaine deals between Nicaragua and Iran.
Now, poppies from Afghanistan, and if history is any judge, look for American hands in the blood money.
We should also prepare for a major influx of heroin, especially in to poorer neighborhoods as happened during Viet Nam. As Alongopos and Saigon Cities materialize outside the permanent military bases being established, young soldiers (and maybe some old) will find ways to smoke opium, or worse. One try...it's free. And the cares float away, for a while.
For many years, I have heard many the story of men my age who experienced horror or boredom and fixed it, for a while.
Meanwhile, look out for where the money for this bumper Afghan crop is headed.
Now, as much as ever, follow the money.
It is no surprise that Afghanistan is offering yet another parallel with Viet Nam. During that war, the Golden Triangle grew as an international economic force through heroin export. French Connection mafia, local warlords and the CIA were among the profiteers.
Later, Ollie North and Ronald Reagan tried the same out of the White House basement, this time negotiating guns for cocaine deals between Nicaragua and Iran.
Now, poppies from Afghanistan, and if history is any judge, look for American hands in the blood money.
We should also prepare for a major influx of heroin, especially in to poorer neighborhoods as happened during Viet Nam. As Alongopos and Saigon Cities materialize outside the permanent military bases being established, young soldiers (and maybe some old) will find ways to smoke opium, or worse. One try...it's free. And the cares float away, for a while.
For many years, I have heard many the story of men my age who experienced horror or boredom and fixed it, for a while.
Meanwhile, look out for where the money for this bumper Afghan crop is headed.
Saturday, August 11, 2007
Bill Moyers Journal . Tough Talk on Impeachment | PBS
Bill Moyers Journal . Tough Talk on Impeachment PBS
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other members of congress are complicit in the war crimes of the Bush-Cheney regime. We need to impeach them NOW, before another president is elected who believes that the tools Bush/Cheney have developed for themselves can continue to be used. Instead, Pelosi comtinues to call impeachment "off the table".
The American public will be increasingly estranged from this government as long as it continues to hold politics over statesmanship, as pointed out in this Moyer piece.
Everyone needs to pressure- and keep pressuring- their US Congressional representatives to hold this administration accountable for its deeds. Domestic spying, torture, intimidation of the media- these are not the things I consider American values.
IT MUST STOP NOW!
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other members of congress are complicit in the war crimes of the Bush-Cheney regime. We need to impeach them NOW, before another president is elected who believes that the tools Bush/Cheney have developed for themselves can continue to be used. Instead, Pelosi comtinues to call impeachment "off the table".
The American public will be increasingly estranged from this government as long as it continues to hold politics over statesmanship, as pointed out in this Moyer piece.
Everyone needs to pressure- and keep pressuring- their US Congressional representatives to hold this administration accountable for its deeds. Domestic spying, torture, intimidation of the media- these are not the things I consider American values.
IT MUST STOP NOW!
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Our unnecessary nuclear future - SFBG Politics Blog
Our unnecessary nuclear future - SFBG Politics Blog
More on effort to revive nuclear power as an answer to global warming.
Following is an article I wrote a couple of years ago warning of Bohemian Grove connections to the support for this lie:
More on effort to revive nuclear power as an answer to global warming.
Following is an article I wrote a couple of years ago warning of Bohemian Grove connections to the support for this lie:
Lynn Orr, Bohemian Behind the Rebirth of Nuclear Power
by Don Eichelberger
Lynn Orr, director of the Global Climate and Energy Project (G-CEP), at the
press
conference announcing the creation of the project, Nov. 20, 2002.
[photo]
In 2002,
and Energy Project, naming the interim head of the Stanford Earth Sciences
Dept, Lynn Orr, as director. His training as a hydraulics engineer has
focused on wringing more oil and gas deposits out of the earth's mantle,
and discovering ways of "sequestering" CO2 in deep geologic formations.
His conversations with Schlumberger (oil well drilling equipment and
technical support), ExxonMobil and General Electric helped develop the idea
for the project. DCEP has grown to include E.On, one of the world's
largest energy holding companies. E.On's holdings include natural gas and
oil wells, coal mines, electric production and distribution facilities,
including the newly acquired systems in
The stated goal of DCEP is to develop the means "to produce sufficient
energy to meet the needs of a growing world population in a way that
protects the environment..."
Orr's hope is to pull more students in to engineering careers and put them
to work solving the technical problems leading to plentiful energy and
fewer greenhouse gasses. He is a true believer that technology and
engineering will get us out of the problems we face. As a director of the
David and Lucille Packard Foundation with his wife, Susan Packard-Orr, he
has already endowed scholarships at Stanford.
Pulling together the massive resources of GE, ExxonMobil, E.On and
academia, he is also working to develop an integrated international energy
grid, drawing from all energy sources that do not produce greenhouse
gasses, or whose gasses can be sequestered. Prominently mentioned in his
speech announcing DCEP, Orr made it clear nuclear power has a welcome place
in the world's energy mix. GE is a founding member of DCEP, and proud
inventor of the boiling water reactor, work horse of the current nuclear
industry. They have developed a new generation of "safe" reactors they
make no secret of wanting to build. They predict that 4% of new generation
built in
GE is also diversifying, and has recently acquired offshore natural gas
leases near marine sanctuaries in the
in creating an infrastructure that will allow them to get the remaining
natural gas from sources that were too played out to bother with while gas
prices were low. Now....
Following are key passages from Lynn Orr's speech announcing formation of
DCEP in 2002:
"Imagine a set of global energy systems that will meet society's
requirements for energy with low greenhouse emissions. What will the
primary energy sources be: solar, wind, nuclear power, biomass, fossil fuels?
"In this project, we will build a research portfolio that seeks
opportunities across the full range of primary energy sources, and we will
carry out pre-commercial research that will add innovative technologies and
systems to the global energy mix. We will concentrate on the technology
research, and we will consider safety, environmental impacts, market
acceptance, social responsibility and cost as we build the research effort.
"The mix of future energy technologies will interact in complex ways. Let
me give you an example. Suppose for the moment, that hydrogen becomes the
preferred transportation fuel of the future. We will need to find ways to
generate H2 on a large scale and at reasonable cost. The development of an
advanced infrastructure for hydrogen distribution could favor generation of
the hydrogen at central facilities, while the absence of such an
infrastructure would favor distributed generation.
"If hydrogen were made centrally from methane, coal or other fossil fuel
sources, then CO2 would also be generated as a by-product, and it would be
necessary to separate, capture and store the CO2 generated (perhaps in
depleted oil and gas reservoirs, or unmineable coal beds, for example). On
the other hand, if sufficient electricity could be generated by solar, wind
or nuclear power to make hydrogen from water, no CO2 would be created in
the hydrogen generation step, and CO2 sequestration methods would be less
important."
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Daily Kos: An O'Reilly-Free Post
Daily Kos: An O'Reilly-Free Post
Everything you never wanted to know about O'Reilly and his factor.
Donny
Everything you never wanted to know about O'Reilly and his factor.
Donny
Monbiot.com » Eco-junk
Monbiot.com » Eco-junk
George Monbiot affirms once again that "green consumerism" will not get us out of the environmental quagmire we are moving toward, and that the message is not a popular one. Only necessary.
George Monbiot affirms once again that "green consumerism" will not get us out of the environmental quagmire we are moving toward, and that the message is not a popular one. Only necessary.
Friday, July 27, 2007
EVERYTHING BURNS » ZEITGEIST the movie
EVERYTHING BURNS » ZEITGEIST the movie
This is a series of three interesting and disturbing movies that everyone should watch. They will entertain, inform, confuse and probably anger many. But sometimes, social change begins with getting pissed off.
Enjoy,
Donny
This is a series of three interesting and disturbing movies that everyone should watch. They will entertain, inform, confuse and probably anger many. But sometimes, social change begins with getting pissed off.
Enjoy,
Donny
Pakistan Issues Nuclear Threat to US
WhatDoesItMean.Com
Here is a cautionary tale about how nuclear war can be just one incident away in a Middle East increasingly aware that Americans hold little control over their President. They fear he will do as he damn well pleases, and they feel the need to prepare for it.
We have to move soon on impeachment so the rest of the world knows all Americans are not complicit in the crimes being committed.
Donny
Here is a cautionary tale about how nuclear war can be just one incident away in a Middle East increasingly aware that Americans hold little control over their President. They fear he will do as he damn well pleases, and they feel the need to prepare for it.
We have to move soon on impeachment so the rest of the world knows all Americans are not complicit in the crimes being committed.
Donny
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Society 'needs the right chemistry'
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Society 'needs the right chemistry'
Interesting take on remaking society more carbon-free, starting, of course, with less use of fossil fuels, but also finding scientific solutions that reduce the amount of energy it takes to produce what we need .
Interesting take on remaking society more carbon-free, starting, of course, with less use of fossil fuels, but also finding scientific solutions that reduce the amount of energy it takes to produce what we need .
Friday, July 20, 2007
Olbermann: Go to Iraq and fight, Mr. President - Countdown with Keith Olbermann - MSNBC.com
Olbermann: Go to Iraq and fight, Mr. President - Countdown with Keith Olbermann - MSNBC.com
In this 7 plus minutes of vitriol, MSNBS's Keith Olbermann tells it like it is. Wonder if any of this is getting through to "The Dub"?
In this 7 plus minutes of vitriol, MSNBS's Keith Olbermann tells it like it is. Wonder if any of this is getting through to "The Dub"?
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Endangered Species Decisions Re-Examined - Forbes.com
Endangered Species Decisions Re-Examined - Forbes.com
Scary what an assistant secretary of fish and wildlife can get away with! Good riddance to her.
Evolution, one bureaucrat at a time.
Scary what an assistant secretary of fish and wildlife can get away with! Good riddance to her.
Evolution, one bureaucrat at a time.
Friday, July 13, 2007
YouTube - More on Energy Density
YouTube - More on Energy Density
David Fridley, staff scientist for Lawrence Berkeley Labs, continues his presentation on "The Myths of Biofuels". In brief: 1/2 rail car of coal holds energy equal to 16 cars of corn. So, unless biofuel crops are grown close to processing plants, transportation of biomass and fuels will undercut gains while driving up the price of competing food crops, including animal feed.
David Fridley, staff scientist for Lawrence Berkeley Labs, continues his presentation on "The Myths of Biofuels". In brief: 1/2 rail car of coal holds energy equal to 16 cars of corn. So, unless biofuel crops are grown close to processing plants, transportation of biomass and fuels will undercut gains while driving up the price of competing food crops, including animal feed.
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Bush says no Iraq shift; criticism rises - Yahoo! News
Bush says no Iraq shift; criticism rises - Yahoo! News
The most astute comment I have heard on our lack of strategy for getting out of Iraq after the invasion came from a CIA analyst in the excellent documentary "Why We Fight". There was no exit strategy, he said, because we never intended to leave.
We are there for the oil. We are in a situation where the public in Iraq knows that, and many oppose the taking of their resources as recompense for "ridding them of a tyrant".
During our American Revolution, whose birthday we just celebrated, buckskin clad revolutionaries shot at the "red coats" out of trees, and were accused of being the "terrorists" of their day by Britain's King George III.
We are caught in a guerrilla warfare with people willing to "die a martyr" to oppose satanic imperialism. Meanwhile, the American public's young future is martyred for a cause few Americans fully understand, let alone support.
The only government that will have legitimacy with the Iraqis will be one that can kick our (U.S.) butts out of the country and demand sovereignty over its oil, and maybe even the Palestinian people, in general.
Maybe that's General Petraeus' plan: President al-Miliki declares Iraqi forces at war with U.S., "forcing" us to redeploy- to Iran.
At this point, nothing surprises me,
Donny Fix
The most astute comment I have heard on our lack of strategy for getting out of Iraq after the invasion came from a CIA analyst in the excellent documentary "Why We Fight". There was no exit strategy, he said, because we never intended to leave.
We are there for the oil. We are in a situation where the public in Iraq knows that, and many oppose the taking of their resources as recompense for "ridding them of a tyrant".
During our American Revolution, whose birthday we just celebrated, buckskin clad revolutionaries shot at the "red coats" out of trees, and were accused of being the "terrorists" of their day by Britain's King George III.
We are caught in a guerrilla warfare with people willing to "die a martyr" to oppose satanic imperialism. Meanwhile, the American public's young future is martyred for a cause few Americans fully understand, let alone support.
The only government that will have legitimacy with the Iraqis will be one that can kick our (U.S.) butts out of the country and demand sovereignty over its oil, and maybe even the Palestinian people, in general.
Maybe that's General Petraeus' plan: President al-Miliki declares Iraqi forces at war with U.S., "forcing" us to redeploy- to Iran.
At this point, nothing surprises me,
Donny Fix
Sunday, July 8, 2007
More on the myths of biofuels
New at You Tube
David Fridley, staff scientist for Lawrence Berkeley Labs, continues his presentation on "The Myths of Biofuels". In brief: 1/2 rail car of coal holds energy equal to 16 cars of corn. So, unless biofuel crops are grown close to processing plants, transportation of biomass and fuels will undercut gains while driving up the price of competing food crops, including animal feed.
David Fridley, staff scientist for Lawrence Berkeley Labs, continues his presentation on "The Myths of Biofuels". In brief: 1/2 rail car of coal holds energy equal to 16 cars of corn. So, unless biofuel crops are grown close to processing plants, transportation of biomass and fuels will undercut gains while driving up the price of competing food crops, including animal feed.
Armitage: Cheney Cabal Scapegoat - by Gordon Prather
Armitage: Cheney Cabal Scapegoat - by Gordon Prather
Reasoning that his numbers were thought the floor, anyway, this prez cut Scooter loose from jail time. Covered his end of the bargain, what's wrong with that?? Oh, right.
This link gives a lot of the back story behind the Valerie Plame outing. This cabal could almost as well be called the Bohemian cabal- Bush, Cheney, Armatage, many of the main players go to Bohemian Grove each year to cremate "Dull Care" and take refuge with their kind.
They all must be held accountable.
None Impeached until All are Impeached!
Donny Fix
Reasoning that his numbers were thought the floor, anyway, this prez cut Scooter loose from jail time. Covered his end of the bargain, what's wrong with that?? Oh, right.
This link gives a lot of the back story behind the Valerie Plame outing. This cabal could almost as well be called the Bohemian cabal- Bush, Cheney, Armatage, many of the main players go to Bohemian Grove each year to cremate "Dull Care" and take refuge with their kind.
They all must be held accountable.
None Impeached until All are Impeached!
Donny Fix
Daily Kos: Must-Read Update! Plame Leak Exposed Brewster Jennings Asset on Oil, WMD
Daily Kos: Must-Read Update! Plame Leak Exposed Brewster Jennings Asset on Oil, WMD
Here, lest we forget, is a summary of one effect of the outing by the Bush administration of Valerie Plame as a CIA operative, and of the company she worked for as a CIA front playing tug-o-war with China over most of Saudi Arabia's reserves.
It does not seem important WHO in the administration did the outing, this time, Scooter got the pardon.
What ever faith people might still have had in government is down the shit hole now! Now that all the crud this administration has been allowed to get away with has led to record low opinion poll ratings, Bush figures why even try to keep up a facade?
He's getting bold, and before long, I predict we'll really see him trying to really strut his stuff.
You'll know it when you see it.
Donny
Here, lest we forget, is a summary of one effect of the outing by the Bush administration of Valerie Plame as a CIA operative, and of the company she worked for as a CIA front playing tug-o-war with China over most of Saudi Arabia's reserves.
It does not seem important WHO in the administration did the outing, this time, Scooter got the pardon.
What ever faith people might still have had in government is down the shit hole now! Now that all the crud this administration has been allowed to get away with has led to record low opinion poll ratings, Bush figures why even try to keep up a facade?
He's getting bold, and before long, I predict we'll really see him trying to really strut his stuff.
You'll know it when you see it.
Donny
United Press International - Energy - Analysis
United Press International - Energy - Analysis
Notice how nuclear power is defined as "renewable", with only the promise that it does not emit greenhouse gasses. Readers of this blog will recall that this claim is questionable when the whole nuclear fuel chain; minimg, milling. processing, transportation and reprocessing, are taken in to account.
All that aside, nuclear power is a bad idea if only for the weapons proliferation. The most efficient way to produce energy is to save it. It may be necessary to save the power we will not be getting from 500 megawatt nuclear reactors.
Of course, conservation is considered bad for business- cuts in to the bottom line.
So the frame can go from, "what can I do to conserve more?" to "what can I do to screw up the mottom line of a giant energy company?"
Now, doesn't that feel better?
Donny Fix
Notice how nuclear power is defined as "renewable", with only the promise that it does not emit greenhouse gasses. Readers of this blog will recall that this claim is questionable when the whole nuclear fuel chain; minimg, milling. processing, transportation and reprocessing, are taken in to account.
All that aside, nuclear power is a bad idea if only for the weapons proliferation. The most efficient way to produce energy is to save it. It may be necessary to save the power we will not be getting from 500 megawatt nuclear reactors.
Of course, conservation is considered bad for business- cuts in to the bottom line.
So the frame can go from, "what can I do to conserve more?" to "what can I do to screw up the mottom line of a giant energy company?"
Now, doesn't that feel better?
Donny Fix
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