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Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire: The Ultimate Fan Guide [Kindle] $0.99.
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Georgiana is the subject of the movie "The Duchess" (currently on Netflix) and a relative of the young Prince and Princess of Cambridge. Get the Ultimate Fan Guide -- with plot points, history, and what happened to the historical characters -- for only 99 cents!
Green Party Peace Sign Bumper Sticker
The Green Party has continually opposed entry into war and has consistently called for the immediate return of our troops, in stark contrast to the Democratic and Republican parties.
Today we march, tomorrow we vote Green Party.
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Reflections on Occupy Wall Street, with photos, fun, and good wishes for the future. eBook, Occupy Wall Street: What Just Happened? (Only $.99 !) In the eBook, the Occupy movement is explored through original reporting, photographs, cartoons, poetry, essays, and reviews.The collection of essays and blog posts records the unfolding of Occupy into the culture from September 2011 to the present. Authors Kimberly Wilder and Ian Wilder were early supporters of Occupy, using their internet platforms to communicate the changes being created by the American Autumn.
The eBook is currently available on Amazon for Kindle; Barnes & Noble Nook ; Smashwords independent eBook seller; and a Kobo for 99 cents and anyone can read it using their Kindle/Nook Reader, smart phone, or computer.
John Schindler & Cynthya BrianKate
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Ralph Nader
from Ralph Nader Was Right About Barack Obama
We owe Ralph Nader and Cynthia McKinney an apology. They were right about Barack Obama. They were right about the corporate state. They had the courage of their convictions and they stood fast despite wholesale defections and ridicule by liberals and progressives.
Obama lies as cravenly, if not as crudely, as George W. Bush. He promised us that the transfer of $12.8 trillion in taxpayer money to Wall Street would open up credit and lending to the average consumer. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC), however, admitted last week that banks have reduced lending at the sharpest pace since 1942. As a senator, Obama promised he would filibuster amendments to the FISA Reform Act that retroactively made legal the wiretapping and monitoring of millions of American citizens without warrant; instead he supported passage of the loathsome legislation. He told us he would withdraw American troops from Iraq, close the detention facility at Guantánamo, end torture, restore civil liberties such as habeas corpus and create new jobs. None of this has happened.
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A shift to the Green Party, McKinney and Nader, along with genuine grass-roots movements, will not be a quick fix. It will require years in the wilderness. We will again be told by the Democrats that the least-worse candidate they select for office is better than the Republican troll trotted out as an alternative. We will be bombarded with slick commercials about hope and change and spoken to in a cloying feel-your-pain language. We will be made afraid. But if we again acquiesce we will be reduced to sad and pathetic footnotes in our accelerating transformation from a democracy to a totalitarian corporate state. Isolation and ridicule-ask Nader or McKinney-is the cost of defying power, speaking truth and building movements. Anger at injustice, as Martin Luther King wrote, is the political expression of love. And it is vital that this anger become our own. We have historical precedents to fall back upon. [emphasis added. – IW]
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The next PeaceSmiths Topical, A-Typical, Music, Poetry and Whatever Coffeehouse will be…
Music by Jazzbone
Jazz..straight from Freeport. They have a new self-titled live album.
Poetry by Ana Bozicevec
A poet with a mastery of language and a world view. Her new book is: “Stars of the Night Commute”
and Open Mic (maybe you!) with Host “RV”
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Adrienne Esposito
Newsday OPINION: Look to renewables for LI’s future
by ADRIENNE ESPOSITO. AND KYLE RABIN /
Proactively creating our renewable energy future will create high-tech jobs, keep energy dollars in the local economy, improve our health and protect natural resources. Long Island is already home to highly skilled professional solar and wind-system installers who are ready to get to work constructing the region’s new energy future. We should aim to expand this sector with business incentives for manufacturers of solar cells and systems, wind turbine blades, generators and other manufactured parts.
The environmental and economic benefits of renewable energy are widely known and supported by policymakers, officials and residents on Long Island . We all benefit from improved air quality, reduced rates of respiratory ailments and fewer sick days and hospital visits. Phasing out our fossil-fuel power plants will also improve the health of coastal ecosystems that are damaged every day by the antiquated cooling intake systems currently used at National Grid’s power plants.
The transition to 100 percent renewable generation will, of course, take time. And there is the daunting dilemma of determining the future of the five National Grid power plants. Their ownership, repowering and operation need to be determined in the context of a plan that leads to their retirement – not a recommitment to using them for the next 30 years. Repowering these plants is the greatest idea of the 20th century. [emphasis added.] Now we need a plan for the 21st. Repowering shouldn’t take precedence over advancing renewable options.
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Friends, Fans and Folkies,
If you would like to receive this list of live music on Long Island, please send an email to LIConcertNotes@optonline.net
Here’s some great Live Music on Long Island. Venue addresses/phones/URLs at end of all listings. Please scroll down. orrections and Comments are welcome. Support Live Music on Long Island. For more information about great live music on LI and elsewhere Please also visit Michael Kornfeld’s excellent website www.acousticmusicscene.com
Gary Schoenberger
Sun 2/28 3:00 Wes Houston Band Fuzzy’s Pub, Bellerose
Wed 3/3 8:00 Myra Flynn + John Hampson Acoustic LI, St. James
Fri 3/5 7:30 Beatles Tribute-Glen Roethel w/John Redgate (of Beatlemania) Garden Stage (UUCCN), Garden City
JazzBone
Fri 3/5 8:00 Jazzbone+Ana Bozicevec+Jay Mankita Peacesmiths, Amityville
Fri 3/5 7:00 First Friday Open Mic w/ Liza Coppola Custer Observatory, Southold
Sat 3/6 7:30 Tom Kimmel / Tom Pacheco FMSH, Congregational Church, Centerport
Sat 3/6 6:00 Vitamin D + 10 others (Breast Cancer Fund Raiser) Bartini Bar, Babylon
sat 3/6 7:00 Denise Romas LI’s Best Desserts, Port Jefferson
Sun 3/7 2:00 Garnet Rogers University Café, Stony Brook
Sun 3/7 4:00 Lucky 13 (Interfaith Nutrition Network Fund Raiser) Garden Stage (UUCCN), Garden City
Sun 3/7 4:00 Grand Folk Railroad Village Lanterne, Lindenhurst Read more »
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[IW: I think they are making a mistake in not asking for a ban on nuclear power plants Also. I see nuclear power plants as a gateway drug to nuclear weapons. and the plants are dangerous for the same reasons that the weapons must be banned.]
On today’s seventh anniversary of the largest peace demonstration in world history—the historic February 15, 2003 mobilization against the US-led war on Iraq that saw 12 million people around the world march for peace– an international network of more than 250 organizations publicly launched a campaign to press US President Barack Obama and other world leaders to initiate negotiations to abolish nuclear weapons worldwide. Read more »
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This is an excerpt from the Wednesday, October 7, 2009 Babylon Green Party Gathering http://www.babylongreens.org which featured Sister Jeanne Clark speaking about the World March for Peace and Nonviolence activities. http://www.theworldmarch.org/
Nonviolence (Peace) is one of the four pillars of the Green Party.
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from CounterPunch
First of all, the Green Party authentically represents the values the progressive Democrats ostensibly espouse–peace, justice, small d democracy–so it’s not as if these stranded Democrats would have some kind of political heart attack over changing registration. After all, their party is the historic party of segregation, and Franklin D Roosevelt couldn’t even get an anti-lynching law passed by his Democratic Congress. Seventy years later, this same party continues to approve the over-bloated imperial war budget at the expense of critical assistance to economically destroyed non-white cities like New Orleans and Detroit. Also, for all the recent Democratic Party moaning about the Supreme Court decision to legally install the corporate state, let’s not forget that 22 of their senators voted to confirm Chief Justice Roberts.
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Tonight was not a full moon. A scan of internet sites tells me that the full moon will be on Sunday. (Sun. Feb 28, 2010 at 16:38). Though, tonight’s moon was beautiful and powerful. Read more »
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KW: Voters in the West Babylon School District should watch this case carefully. It’s funny, I recall seeing a report on line that said that the school district was refusing to identify the contractor, and that reporters felt that was a wrong position, and that the NY State Committee on Open Government had said it was a wrong position. But, really, I just can’t find that statement. So, not sure if it was modified, taken down, or just hard to find.
For what it is worth, the community should keep an eye on the situation and what reports coming out say. And, if the contractor’s negligence was a cause of the fire, people should investigate the bidding process and any relationships with the contractor and school officials or staff.
(excerpt from) Newsday
Marshal: Painting materials started school fire
By Joie Tyreel / February 25, 2010 Read more »
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Green tea leaves steeping in an uncovered zhong by Wikimol
IW: Green Tea Party. It’s Good for You.
Green Party leaders and candidates said that many Tea Party activists might be in the wrong party and urged them to consider going Green.
Carl Romanelli
Carl Romanelli, former Green candidate for the US Senate and a member of Health Care for All Pennsylvania (http://healthcare4allpa.org) said:
Not all Tea Party members are befuddled rightwingers screeching that President Obama is a socialist, fascist, pro-terrorist, or all of the above. Many Tea Partiers have legitimate concerns about how the Democratic Party’s health care reform plans will reduce Medicare and about trillion-dollar taxpayer-funded giveaways to Wall Street firms. They are as outraged as Greens are about how both Democrats and Republicans are coddling CEOs, major stockholders, and other wealthy elites while preaching sacrifice for the rest of us.
Greens said corporate royalists like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Sarah Palin who pose as populist leaders have hijacked the Tea Party movement. Read more »
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