Truthout Daily Digest Tuesday, 7 October 2014

Watching Our Health Go Up in Smoke

Brian Moench, Truthout: Medical waste incineration never made any public health or economic sense, but now that the science overwhelmingly demonstrates its noxiousness, capitalist ideology prevents it from dying a necessary death.

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San Fernando Migrant Massacre: How US, Mexican and Latin American Governments Share Responsibility

Camilo Perez Bustillo and Azadeh N. Shahshahani, Truthout: On the fourth anniversary of the massacre, an international tribunal concludes that the United States, Mexico and several Latin American countries are responsible for state terror against migrants from combined effects of failed development and migration policies, free trade and the drug war.

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Mayor de Blasio’s “Living Wage” Increase Is Too Little for Too Few

James Hoff, Truthout: Minimum wage activists across the country are abuzz over the announcement that New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has signed an executive order to increase the city’s living wage. While it’s a good start, all of New York’s minimum wage workers deserve a raise.

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Heavy Metal Songs: Contaminated Songbirds Sing the Wrong Tunes

Helen Fields and Alanna Mitchell, Environmental Health News: After extensive research in Virginia, scientists have shown that mercury alters the very things that many birds are known for – their songs. Understanding why mercury-contaminated songbirds can’t sing their songs could help scientists learn more about how human brains are damaged, too.

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Justices in Walker Criminal Probe Face Conflicts of Interest

Brendan Fischer, PR Watch: The Wisconsin Supreme Court could decide the future of the criminal investigation of Gov. Scott Walker, but some of the justices are faced with a significant conflict of interest: Two of the groups under investigation have been the dominant spenders in Wisconsin Supreme Court elections.

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ISIS in Washington: The United States’ Soundtrack of Hysteria

Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch: Terror-phobia leaves you feeling helpless and in need of protection. The only reasonable response to it is support for whatever actions your government takes to keep you “safe.”

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Laura Flanders | Demanding Local Power From Hong Kong to New York

Laura Flanders, GRITtv: “Decentralized power, electoral transparency and local decision-making about local concerns: Are those Hong Kong’s demands or ours? You tell me. Direct democracy: If it’s a good demand for Hong Kong, it’s a good demand in the United States too.”

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Not All of the Black Freedom Fighters Are Men: Black Women on the Front Line in Ferguson

Kristin Braswell, The Feminist Wire: Since the moment Michael Brown was murdered on August 9, women in Ferguson have played a critical role in mobilizing their communities to convict officer Darren Wilson. Like the women of the civil rights movement, their strategies, passion and relentless pursuit for justice has not stopped.

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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Global Inequality Keeps Getting Worse, and More

In today‘s On the News segment: Global inequality just keeps getting worse; Walmart decides to go into banking; three judges stand up for voting rights in North Carolina; and more.

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Michael Brown Had a Father

Janine Jackson, Extra!: My Brother’s Keeper, an initiative announced by President Obama in February, was received benignly by the corporate press. Any effort to improve the lives of black men that meets with the hearty approval of Bill O’Reilly ought to set off a few alarm bells.

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BuzzFlash

Richest Are Reducing Percentage Given to Charity as the Middle Class Gives More

Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: The economic trend of increased wealth for a few and a declining percentage of giving among the rich resurrects the infamous, plutocratic mantra that “greed is good.”

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ISIS, Ebola and Why Fear of the Unknown Makes Us Stupid

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William Greider | Why Threats Against Obama Speak Volumes on Race in the US

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Stealth Evangelism 3.0: The Remarkable Resilience of the Religious Right

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Endless Flow of Weapons Fuels Endless War in Iraq and Syria

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Charles P. Pierce | Not Everyone Is Happy and Gay

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My Day at the Gun Nuts’ Confab: Blunt Talk, High Drama and Mass Paranoia

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How Fracking Just Got Worse for Your Health

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Oslo Radhus~

Thank you Cindy! I love seeing the beautiful possibilities where people focus on what’s good instead of what is wrong. I would love it if our capital in Washington, D.C. had more colourful art, murals and beauty and less of the gridlock and unkindness that seems to “colour” it now.;-)

Cindy Knoke

Oslo’s radhus or town hall is covered with phenomenal artwork and murals.

The artwork decorating the inside and outside of the radhus depict scenes from Norwegian legends and history.

The murals were painted by Henrik Sorensons.

The hall is famous for hosting the annual Nobel Prize ceremony each December 10.

In addition to the murals, there are wood-carvings, ceramic art, and quilts.

Quilt detail.

The hall also has mosaics and gorgeous marble.

One of the many painted, carved-wood pieces waving and sending you cheers from Oslo’s glorious radhus~.

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A 10/10 Like No Other | Denise le Fey | HighHeartLife

New post on HighHeartLife A 10/10 Like No Other by Denise 10/10, 11/11, 12/12: Three Big Leap-points to the Difficult 2014 “Labors” All of 2014 I’ve had that symbolic visual message in my Heartmind I received at the start of this year about the 12 Labors (of Hercules). As each week and month of this year passes it’s become increasingly obvious that we’re each going through […] Read more of this post Denise | October 8, 2014 at 12:35 PM | Tags: animals and people exiting the physical, Ascension Process stair steps,death of the old patriarchy, December 2014 12/12, Embodying more of greater Self, entering and exiting the physical dimension, expanding consciousness,expanding NEW earth reality,implementation of the NEW Light Codes,multidimensional transitions, November 2014 11/11, October 2014 10/10 | Categories: NEW Consciousness NEW Worlds | URL: http://wp.me/p3TaTL-Gk

The Oracle Report | Wednesday, October 8, 2014

LUNAR ECLIPSE TAKEN BY B DAVIS POSTED AT SPACEWEATHER.COM

Oracle Report Wednesday, October 8, 2014

“Galactic Connection Radio” with Alexandra Meadors

“Galactic Connection” September 30, 2014

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Full Moon Phase/Total Lunar Eclipse: illumination

Moon in Aries

Skills: embrace life; watch

Negative Imprint: guilt, self-delusion, suppression, operating solely from base instincts, mistrust, selfishness, fear, tension, loss

Positive Imprint: transcendence, change, new perception, discovery, unseen assistance, attraction, resonance, passion, endurance, self-reliance, mysticism, magic

Welcome to the dance of life today. The dawn of the Blood Moon reveals a very special change.

Today marks the time when the energetic wave that values freedom, life, and love (natural world order) overpowers the energetic wave that values control, death, and fear (unnatural world order).

The Mahavidya Kali joins us today, leading the dance. She shows us that rebirth comes from the churning chaos. So today we will watch the lunacy of the Total Lunar Eclipse/Full Moon with a different understanding. We see destiny in the changes. We see the structures of the control paradigm turning to sand. It’s happening right before wise owls’ eyes. The matrix is falling down from under itself.

It does not appear this way on the surface. But it is true.

On the individual level today, the Blood Moon brings fiery emotions with the activation of planets in fire signs and aspects of Pluto and Uranus. Storms of emotional “wild-fires” can rage. Most of this is the projection of the shadow side clashing with the full light of clarity. We see our own and other’s delusions. If the truth hurts today, understand that all that is being revealed is taking you to another level – a place that is better suited to you. Destiny is unfolding and it asks you to join the dance that transcends limitations.

Even when we are taking the perspective of viewing the energy as a shift to a better way, it can be draining. Shifts can be quite taxing. Physical energy levels tend to be lower under today’s astrological conditions. So don’t push yourself too hard. Feel yourself merged with the rhythm of the Gaia Sophia, a strong and steady beat that ensconces us.

A new day dawns today, but no matter what transpires for each of us, we will embrace it with the knowledge of the Sabian symbol for the Full Moon: spirits dancing in the setting Sun. It’s our dance now.

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Instead of writing ticket, Michigan cop buys booster seat for girl (+video) – CSMonitor.com

To watch the video, or read the rest of this article, please click the link below the text. I wanted to share this because we see the opposite so much more in the news-and of course we *should* see it until it is changed.

But it does no one any good to demonize or prejudge any group of people. We have to stay open to the positive possibilities inherent in the humanity of those who are in positions of power. We have to keep the positive examples in mind alongside of the monsters to keep our own hearts open.

I have personally met plenty of jerks from police officers to politicians and every power level in between-but I have met a lot MORE of all professions who were like this officer.

Love is our natural state. Cruelty, racism, violence are all dysfunctional. They only arise in broken people.

When we no longer have to protest the insane violence at all levels of our society because THIS behavior has become standard; then the Shift will be evident to all.

Bless this man and everyone like him who continues to act from love in spite of the cultural programming toward fear.
ohnwentsya

Instead of writing ticket, Michigan cop buys booster seat for girl (+video)

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By Jacob Axelrad, Staff writer / October 7, 2014

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“The easiest 50 bucks I ever spent.”

That’s what the Michigan police officer said after purchasing a booster seat for a 5-year-old girl who was riding without a car seat.

This instance of gift-giving began as an ordinary traffic stop. Last Friday, Emmett Township Department of Public Safety Officer Ben Hall stopped a vehicle in the southwest Michigan community after someone reported there was a young child riding without a car seat. Alexis DeLorenzo and her daughter weredriving in the car of a friend who was at the wheel.

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When they were stopped, Ms. DeLorenzo grew worried. She thought they were going to get a ticket. She told the officer she had recently fallen on hard times and could not afford a seat for her daughter. Her car had been repossessed with her daughter’s booster seat still inside, Fox 17 News reports.

“We’re living paycheck to paycheck, hand to mouth, borrowing money from friends,” she said.

Instead of writing the woman a ticket, Officer Hall told her to meet him at a Walmart in 15 minutes. There, he bought a booster seat for her daughter. The act “changed my life,” DeLorenzo said. “I’m never going to forget him. And neither will my daughter.”

In an interview, Hall explained how it felt natural to go beyond the call of duty and make a difference in these people’s lives. His words also expressed humility – anybody in his same position would have done what he did, he said.

“A ticket doesn’t solve the situation,” Hall told Fox 17 News. “What solves it is the child being in the booster seat like she should be.”

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http://m.csmonitor.com/USA/USA-Update/2014/1007/Instead-of-writing-ticket-Michigan-cop-buys-booster-seat-for-girl-video?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Daily&utm_campaign=20141007_Newsletter%3ADaily_Sailthru&cmpid=ema%3Anws%3ADaily%2520Newsletter%2520%2810-07-2014%29 )