Excerpt: "Every once in a while an opportunity comes along for all of us to be the solution. This is one of those times. We're collecting a half million messages to stop the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline in the next 24 hours."
Actor and environmental activist Robert Redford. (photo: Contour/Getty Images)
24 Hours to Stop the Pipeline
13 February 12
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very once in a while an opportunity comes along for all of us to be the solution. This is one of those times. We're collecting a half million messages to stop the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline in the next 24 hours.
This dirty, dangerous tar sands pipeline is not in the national interest. It's that simple. And the United States Senate, officials of both parties, need to hear that message loud and clear and fast because some of them are threatening to push a bill as soon as Tuesday, to approve it.
Go to www.stoptar.org and send a message. Then turn up the volume and send it to everyone you know....tweet it, Facebook it, blog it...urging everyone you know to become part of the solution in the next 24 hours. Go to www.stoptar.org, please, and send a message.
This U.S. Senate has to stop looking towards the past and move into the new century. If only some of these politicians showed the same level of passion for creating new markets around cleaner forms of energy, as they're showing for crippling a sitting president with a dirty, potentially highly dangerous, old-school Canadian tar sands pipeline.
This struggle is about every parent's fears for our children's future. And this struggle is about every young person's hope for their immediate future. It should be every parent's worst nightmare that these people we sent to Washington to lead us into the future, will continue to embrace the flawed philosophical case for doing nothing.
This do nothing option is the same flawed recommendation that economists made in the 1960's and 1970's to the automobile industry. Imagine something like seat belts being seen as the jobs killer of that day. We should not make the same mistake around energy.
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Irving Krystol ONLY cosseted and cajoled the two most clueless, inward-looking and in Dimwits' case at least, vapidly-incurio us -plus Reagan's accelerating Alzheimer's, was the ideal breeding ground for the coven of brain-damaged patsies listed in the article and their spawn, still pushing endless war!
What an achievement!
As long as people continue to believe that 9/11 was perpetrated by Osama Bin Laden and al Qaida, the world will continue on its path to its own self-destruction.
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I first noticed Viggo Mortensen when he was interviewed by Charlie Rose in 2002 on his upcoming debut of "Lord of the Ring - The Two Towers." Reference the following URL:
http://www.brego.net/viggo/viggo-politics.php
I don't remember how I caught this program since I generally don't watch Charlie Rose, but I did. It's one of the things that sticks out in my mind, almost like September 11th, 2001. He wore a T-shirt on which he wrote using a sharpie, "No More Blood for Oil." This was a year before Bush illegally invaded Iraq. Viggo already knew at the time of this interview that Bush was planning on invading Iraq in 2003. If you watch Democracy Now, Amy plays a portion of the video from that interview.
I especially liked the ending of his movie entitled "Hidalgo" because of his support for the wild mustangs which are being systematically destroyed by the U.S. government via the BLM.
In any case, Radscal, I would suggest that you watch his interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3vbTuo47VQ&list=PLFCF256772039511C&index=33
He was under constant attack by Charlie Rose for his wearing of the T-shirt. I wonder how Charlie Rose feels today about what he did in 2002 when he interviewed Viggo Mortensen?
You're right. That was an incredible interview with Mortensen. I haven't seen any of the Rings/Hobbit flicks, and so was unaware of this actor, but I'm really impressed with him as a human being.
Thanks.
The title of the movie, "Hidalgo," is actually the name of his horse which is a wild mustang which together run many cross-country races.
The main plot of the movie which is supposed to be a true story was that he signed up to run a cross-country race in Arabia across the ocean in which the prize money was $100,000, a lot of money at that time. Until the very end of the movie, no one viewing the film really knows why he did this. I like to protect the wild animals that roam the open areas of our nation, and one of them is the wild mustang who are quickly becoming an endangered species if the BLM can get its way.
The race was long and hard, but, in the end he won the money. The scene then turns to his return to the U.S. at a remote location where the U.S. calvary is about to slaughter thousands upon thousands of wild mustangs that they had corralled. Mortensen rides up to the officer in charge and hands him a note in which he paid the U.S. government to allow these horses to run free. He and two Indians open all the gates and let all the mustangs run free including his own horse, Hildago.
Could you give a specific example of such "libel", Mr. Weismann?
If any other country but Israel has profited from 9/11 and the resulting War on Terror, could you please name that country, Mr. Weismann?
Please write/educate US more.
https://books.google.com/books?id=DD8oNl63gBEC&dq=Perle+Reagan&source=gbs_navlinks_s
This book which will come as a surprise to many educated observers and historians suggests that Jews and Jewish intellectuals have played a considerable role in the development and shaping of modern American conservatism. The focus is on the rise of a group of Jewish intellectuals and activists known as neoconservative s who began to impact on American public policy during the Cold War with the Soviet Union and most recently in the lead up to and invasion of Iraq. It presents a portrait of the life and work of the original and small group of neocons including Irving Kristol, Norman Podhoretz, and Sidney Hook. This group has grown into a new generation who operate as columnists in conservative think tanks like The Heritage and The American Enterprise Institute, at colleges and universities, and in government in the second Bush Administration including such lightning rod figures as Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle and Elliot Abrams. The book suggests the neo cons have been so significant in reshaping modern American conservatism and public policy that they constitute a Neoconservative Revolution."
I agree with you and Weissman - putting ANY label on Jews (blacks, Muslims) nationalism is simplistic/xeno phobic. Not all Germans were Nazis, not all Russians were/are communists etc.
The liberal imperialists, as they are better classified, also come from the Cold War Truman/CIA crowd -- that is their common root. Brzezinski, his spawn Albright, and the lying twins, Susan Rice and Power, are just as obsessively bent on achieving the goals of PNAC as the neo-cons, and are fully allied with them, e.g., with the Libyan intervention, Ukraine, and the anti-Assad mantra.
Sadly, other than a tease, Weissman gave them a pass in his article. Perhaps he will pick this up in a future article.
"Big Money and the Corporate State: How Global Banks, Corporations, and Speculators Rule and How to Nonviolently Break Their Hold."
Gotta read that one. First time I couldn't find anything to disagree with!