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Re: Profiles in Courage
By: AGelbert Date: September 19, 2015, 10:04 pm
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Re: Profiles in Courage
By: AGelbert Date: February 12, 2016, 8:47 pm
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[center]Sanders rakes in $5.2 million in post-primary appeal
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Feb. 11, 2016, 3:30 pm by Jasper Craven
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Re: Profiles in Courage
By: AGelbert Date: February 19, 2016, 5:59 pm
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[center]'El Viejito' for president: why Latinos in Nevada are
switching to Bernie Sanders [img width=100
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Re: Profiles in Courage
By: AGelbert Date: May 22, 2016, 6:22 pm
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[quote]The political revolution is not just about electing a
president. We need a Congress with members who believe, like
Bernie, that we cannot change a corrupt system by taking its
money.
So let me introduce you to Tim Canova, a progressive challenger
who is running against Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz in a
Democratic primary in Florida this year.
Tim endorsed Bernie’s presidential campaign, and was inspired to
run because of Wasserman Schultz’ support of the Trans-Pacific
Partnership. His campaign is funded like ours, by lots of people
giving small amounts of money.
Thank you for powering this political revolution.
All my best,
Jeff Weaver
Campaign Manager
Bernie 2016[/quote]
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Re: Profiles in Courage
By: AGelbert Date: July 27, 2016, 8:19 pm
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Global Research, July 27, 2016 Region: USA
In-depth Report: U.S. Elections
[center]Jill, not Hill! Activists in Philadelphia Shift Their
Support to Green Party Candidate Jill Stein[/center]
By Stephen Lendman
Green Party Candidate Jill Stein Announces Her Presidential Run
Activists in Philadelphia’s downtown plaza chanted “Jill, not
Hill.”
Jill Stein, presumptive Green Party presidential nominee, a
longtime physician/activist, a true populist, wanting her
professional skills used to heal a sick nation.
It desperately needs what she can provide, media-supported
corrupted duopoly power denying her the chance to become
president by virtually ignoring her candidacy, opposing what she
stands for.
She remains redoubtable and heroic, her progressive agenda what
the world needs now, genuinely supporting:
◾world peace and disarmament;
◾democratic values;
◾the inviolability of rule of law principles;
◾universal healthcare and education as fundamental human
rights;
◾living wages for all working Americans;
◾green, clean energy;
◾popular interests served over monied ones;
◾electoral reform free from today’s money-controlled
process; along with
◾real social justice and revolutionary change.
Seeking support in Philadelphia, she accurately accused Clinton
of “backstabbing” Sanders by now exposed electoral rigging,
urging his supporters to back her, saying “(m)y campaign is
here.”
She’s an advocate for progressive change. Perhaps “Never
Hillary” activists will give her enough votes to prevent a 2nd
Clinton co-presidency – the top political priority above all
others.
Her revolutionary spirit is real. Her message is “Americans
deserve real solutions for the economic, social and
environmental crises we face. But the broken political system is
only making things worse.”
“It’s time to build a people’s movement to end unemployment and
poverty; avert climate catastrophe; build a sustainable, just
economy; and recognize the dignity and human rights of every
person.”
“The power to create this new world is not in our hopes; it’s
not in our dreams – it’s in our hands.”
Jill is a longtime physician, a mother, activist and organizer,
a pioneer advocate for environmental health, a promoter of
healthy communities, a fighter for peace, equity and justice so
desperately needed.
Imagine America led by someone with her dedication for people
over profits, assuring enforcement of human and civil rights, a
distinguished woman of principle and honor – polar opposite
duopoly choices.
[quote][font=georgia]I’m proud to support an eminently qualified
candidate for president, a dedicated woman, saying “(w)e can
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Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at
lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.
His new book as editor and contributor is titled “Flashpoint in
Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III.”
HTML http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanIII.html
Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.
Listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on
the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio
Network.
The original source of this article is Global Research
Copyright © Stephen Lendman, Global Research, 2016
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Re: Profiles in Courage
By: AGelbert Date: July 27, 2016, 9:24 pm
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[center]Jill Stein: ‘The Floodgates Opened Into Our Campaign’
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Re: Profiles in Courage
By: AGelbert Date: October 28, 2016, 1:15 pm
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[move]Visualizing the U.S.-Mexico Border [img
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Josh Begley
October 26 2016, 12:57 p.m.
In partnership with FIELD OF VISION
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What does the southern border of the United States look like?
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For all the talk of “securing the border” and “building a wall,”
there is surprisingly little visual material that conveys just
how vast this stretch of space is.
In total, the U.S.-Mexico border spans 1,954 miles. According to
Google Maps, it would take 34 hours to drive its entire length.
In places, there already is a border fence — more than 650 miles
of it. Pushed and pulled by various forces, some 1 million
people are estimated to pass through the official ports of entry
every day.
But what does the geography of this landscape look like? Is it
industrial? Desolate? Populated? All of the above?
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Using the geographic coordinates of the international boundary
line, in addition to location data for the existing border fence
(which has been mapped by journalists at NPR and the Center for
Investigative Reporting), I wrote a small computer script to
download satellite imagery for the entire border.
I ended up with about 200,000 images. :o
Using a command-line tool called ffmpeg, I programmatically
stitched the images together, and then worked with Laura Poitras
and her team at Field of Vision to edit them into a short film.
Jace Clayton, the artist and author known as DJ /rupture,
developed an original score for the piece.
Rivers of Data
Borders begin as fictions. They are performed. They are lines
drawn in the sand, spaces that bend and break and make
exceptions for certain kinds of bodies.
But borders are made real by the policies built around them. The
fact that borders are performed does not make them any less
real. The border is quite literally what gives the nation its
shape.
One way the border is performed — particularly the southern
border of the United States — can be understood through the lens
of data collection. In the border region, along the Rio Grande
and westward through the desert Southwest, Customs and Border
Protection (CBP) deploys radar blimps, drones, fixed-wing
aircraft, helicopters, seismic sensors, ground radar, face
recognition software, license-plate readers, and high-definition
infrared video cameras. Increasingly, they all feed data back
into something called “The Big Pipe.”
As my colleague Roger Hodge reported in 2012, the Big Pipe is “a
surveillance network developed by Kenneth Knight, the deputy
executive director of national air-security operations for the
Office of Air and Marine (OAM), a lesser-known division of CBP
that operates the largest law-enforcement air force in the
world.”
He continues:
CBP, which encompasses the Border Patrol, has in turn deployed
increasingly advanced means not only to scrutinize, search out,
and seize an immense stream of drugs and bodies (to use CBP
parlance), but also to channel a concomitant river of data —
electronic manifests, lists of travelers’ names, dates of entry,
and untold terabytes of video footage — all of which must be
analyzed, quantified, indexed, and stored.
In thinking about rivers of data, and untold terabytes of video
footage, I found myself returning to Rebecca Solnit’s “River of
Shadows” — and an idea Trevor Paglen introduced in a series of
essays about what he calls “seeing machines.”
Seeing Machines
In his 2014 essay “Geographies of Photography,” Paglen sketched
out the role of seeing machines in creating relational
geographies capable of collapsing space and time.
Seeing machines create noncontiguous spatial and temporal
geometries. They collapse the near into the distant, and the
present into the past and future. To illustrate these “relative”
geographies of seeing machines, I’ll use the example of a Reaper
drone. What exactly is a Reaper drone? In essence, it’s a camera
attached to a remote-controlled airplane. Sometimes it carries
missiles. What’s particular about a Reaper drone (and other
drones in its larger family, including the Predator and the
Sentinel) is that airplane, pilot, navigator, analysts, and
commander don’t have to be in the same place. The aircraft might
be flying a combat mission in Yemen by a pilot based in Nevada,
overseen by a manager in Virginia, and supported by intelligence
officers in Tampa (geographer Derek Gregory has written about
what he calls “Drone Geographies.”) The drone creates its own
“relative” geographies, folding several noncontiguous spaces
around the globe into a single, distributed, “battlefield.” The
folding of space-time that the Reaper drone system enables is a
contemporary version of what Marx famously called the
“annihilation of space with time,” i.e. the ability to
capitalize on the speed of new transportation and communications
technologies to bring disparate spaces “closer” together,
relatively speaking. Photography has been a part of this
space-time annihilation from the start.
Although seeing machines have played a part in the “annihilation
of space with time” since the 19th century origins of the
phrase, they are increasingly playing a role in creating new
relative temporal geographies, perhaps something akin to an
“annihilation of time with space.” … There’s every reason to
suspect that if the 19th Century saw the annihilation of space
with communication and transport technologies, then the 21st
Century may see a similarly dramatic reconfiguration of time
through persistent monitoring, storage, and analytic
technologies that can “reach into the past” in unprecedented
ways.
Most of the technologies used to enforce the border, or perform
the border, can be understood as “seeing machines.” This film is
an attempt to linger on that idea for a moment, and to explore
ways of using those technologies — in this case satellites — to
better visualize some of the spaces they are enforcing.
Might simply looking at a place that has been so heavily
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texture and meaning to a phrase like “build that wall”? ;)
The southern border is a space that has been almost entirely
reduced to metaphor.
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geography.
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By focusing on the physical landscape, I hope viewers might gain
a sense of the enormity of it all, and perhaps imagine what it
would mean to be a political subject of that terrain.
Agelbert NOTE: 6 MINUTES of high speed pass over border at link.
ANYONE that talks about building a "wall", either electronically
or physically, is full of RIGHT WING MENDACITY, DUPLICITY AND
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Re: Profiles in Courage
By: AGelbert Date: December 5, 2016, 12:14 pm
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Energy| Dec. 04, 2016 05:59PM EST
[center]Standing Rock Celebrates as Army Corps Denies Key
Permit, Halts Project
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Stefanie Spear
SNIPPET: ;D
The Obama Administration and the Army Corps of Engineers
officially denied the easement to cross under Lake Oahe in North
Dakota after a many months-long campaign by the Standing Rock
Sioux Tribe and allies against the Dakota Access Pipeline. The
Army Corps will undertake an environmental impact statement
(EIS) to look at potential alternative routes for the pipeline.
Agelbert NOTE: MUST SEE video of 13 year old courageous Standing
Rock Organizer.
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Agelbert NOTE: Trump will react accordingly to the news (SEE
BELOW). Don't let evil filled people destroy our biosphere.
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Re: Profiles in Courage
By: AGelbert Date: December 5, 2016, 5:32 pm
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I
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By CHRISTOPHER SUPRUN DEC. 5, 2016
SNIPPET:
DALLAS — I am a Republican presidential elector, one of the 538
people asked to choose officially the president of the United
States. Since the election, people have asked me to change my
vote based on policy disagreements with Donald J. Trump. In some
cases, they cite the popular vote difference. I do not think
president-elects should be disqualified for policy
disagreements. I do not think they should be disqualified
because they won the Electoral College instead of the popular
vote. However, now I am asked to cast a vote on Dec. 19 for
someone who shows daily he is not qualified for the office.
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Fifteen years ago, as a firefighter, I was part of the response
to the Sept. 11 attacks against our nation. That attack and this
year’s election may seem unrelated, but for me the relationship
becomes clearer every day.
George W. Bush is an imperfect man, but he led us through the
tragic days following the attacks. His leadership showed that
America was a great nation. That was also the last time I
remember the nation united. I watch Mr. Trump fail to unite
America and drive a wedge between us.
Mr. Trump goes out of his way to attack the cast of “Saturday
Night Live” for bias. He tweets day and night, but waited two
days to offer sympathy to the Ohio State community after an
attack there. He does not encourage civil discourse, but chooses
to stoke fear and create outrage.
This is unacceptable.
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Re: Profiles in Courage
By: AGelbert Date: December 5, 2016, 5:45 pm
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[center]Trump’s Threat to the Constitution[/center]
By EVAN McMULLIN DEC. 5, 2016
SNIPPET:
Last week, Mr. Trump commented on Twitter that flag-burning
should be punished by jailing and revocation of citizenship. As
someone who has served this country, I carry no brief for
flag-burners, but I defend their free-speech right to protest —
a right guaranteed under the First Amendment. Although I suspect
that Mr. Trump’s chief purpose was to provoke his opponents, his
action was consistent with the authoritarian playbook he uses.
Mr. Trump also recently inflated his election performance,
claiming — without evidence — that he “won the popular vote if
you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.” This,
too, is nothing new. Authoritarians often exaggerate their
popular support to increase the perception of their legitimacy.
But the deeper objective is to weaken the democratic
institutions that limit their power. Eroding confidence in
voting, elections and representative bodies gives them a freer
hand to wield more power.
As a C.I.A. officer, I saw firsthand authoritarians’ use of
these tactics around the world. Their profound appetite for
absolute power drives their intolerance for any restraint —
whether by people, organizations, the law, cultural norms,
principles or even the expectation of consistency. For a despot,
all of these checks on power must be ignored, undermined or
destroyed so that he is all that matters.
Mr. Trump has said that he prefers to be unpredictable because
it maximizes his power. During his recent interview with The New
York Times, he casually abandoned his fiery calls during the
campaign for torture, prosecuting Hillary Clinton and changing
libel laws. Mr. Trump’s inconsistencies and provocative
proposals are a strategy; they are intended to elevate his
importance above all else — and to place him beyond democratic
norms, beyond even the Constitution.
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