So who was the Fort Hood shooter, do we know? The media’s got the back story all lined up for it to be Nidal Malik Hasan, he has three name sound bite like all assassins, and now the Army is trotting out their witnesses to point their fingers at the Muslim Major. Addressing reports of multiple gunmen, the Army says “there was only one shooter.” Although five of the victims may have fallen to friendly fire. So there was a “friendly shooter?” Which one was Hasan?

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Good news, Colorado Spring’s main power plant is not among the world’s 200 biggest carbon offender power plants. But our neighbors are. One quarter of the world’s dirtiest power plants (53) are in the US. All in red states, because Crackers are the new black. Actually in the West many of these coal plants are foisted on the Indians, the enduring black. Colorado Springs is surrounded by:

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Stop U.S. Occupation and War inside U.S. and Abroad! We demand the end of U.S. support for the colonial government of Israel and recognition of all rights of the Palestinian people. We demand the immediate, unconditional withdrawal of all U.S. troops from the Middle East. We demand the removal of U.S. troops and contractors from Colombia and an end to counterinsurgent intervention in Venezuela and South America.

All 7 of Colorado’s US representatives voted to put their congressional stamp of approval on Israel’s war crimes in Gaza, joining 337 more yeas for House Resolution 867, Calling on the President and the Secretary of State to oppose unequivocally any endorsement or further consideration of the “Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict.”

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Reading more about the Tohono O’odham, I came across this speech by the EZLN’s masked leader Subcomandante Marcos, delivered at a 2006 tribal gathering of SW Native American insurgents. It’s about the other Mexico, in solidarity with the other Americas: “La Otra.”
 
Compared his words to President Obama today telling the tribal summit in DC: “You will not be forgotten.” Sounds like a eulogy.

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Says President Obama of the Fort Hood shooting that claimed 12 US soldiers: “It is horrifying that they should come under fire at an Army base on American soil.” Where does Obama think we are killing our adversaries? On their home soil, actually the majority of them in their own homes, with their family members.

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Sad to say, that the first real news I was able to obtain about today’s Fort Hood shootings was from al jazeera! They had the info that nobody else really seemed to want to give out, that it was a fragging by a soldier on the Texas military base that killed and/or injured about 40 of their comrades. A certain Major fragging at Fort Hood has now spoken spoke out loudly against more of Obama’s wars, but is anybody going to pay any attention?

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Hood. Texas. At a base theater and sports complex. Some of the News people are already speculating al Qa’eda. Sounds like horseshit to me. Three guys in uniform is all they’ve been told and it leaps to being a Terror Attack.

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I was watching Jacobs Ladder just now. Just a little bit intense. Definitely not your standard war flick. You know, the guy who recommended the film to me, he’d been there, in Nam. And in the VA outpatient clinics too. One of those from Louisiana-East Texas that I just slip right into jawin’ with, easy… we call each other Cousin even if we’ve never met before. God Damn this is a bad movie. Not bad scripting or acting or plot. The bad part of it is that it’s something real.

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In writing about the recent PPSBN Sustainability conference, I failed miserably to highlight the keynote speaker Nancy Tuor, who represented CH2M Hill as a model green corporate citizen. Ms Tuor, the “Group President and Executive Sponsor for Sustainability” at CH2M Hill, had headliner status at the conference because she is Program Manager on the MASDAR ‘Green’ City development in the United Arab Emirates, a smoke and mirrors project if ever there was, and it’s smoke from burning oil.

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……………………….. One thousand, nine hundred and forty one vessels that had entered Cuban ports between July of 2008 and 2009 were banned from entering any U.S. port for a period of 180 days.

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Gaza, Israel and The Goldstone Standard- The Hour by Leonard Fein

Attention! From the Army Times ‘Your online source for everything Army’ comes this report… Most U.S. youths unfit to serve, data show What do you want me to do now, Sargent Carter?

This is a picture of two Confederate flags, the one on the left, is called The Southern Cross. It has religious and Klan significance for people who believe that Christ commanded them to Hate other PEOPLE and, just incidentally, Kill them. This flag shows up more and more frequently at Tea Party rallies. There were a few hundred of them at the DC Tea-Bagging, the one that drew less than 60,000 but the Reich Wing claimed to be in the Millions. Klansmen are notorious for stupidity, and not being able to count is one of their strongest points.

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Finally the USS New York, famously built from the steel of the fallen twin towers, sails into NY for a photo-op near the site of the WTC, looking every bit to me like a fortified extension of the official 9/11 cover up.

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This must be disturbing news for the Centers of Disease Control and all of us, in fact. Cat in Iowa had H1N1; may be 1st case in dogs or cats

Local news on TV gets a scant few minutes of coverage, where the story of the day vies with weather to edge out everything else that isn’t fluff. In national news, interviewees can seldom get an answer in edgewise before they’re rushed off for the commercial break. “That’s all the time we have” ends every news story, yet the day’s sports story is paraded before sport desk after sport center. I used to envy the attention Americans gave to sports, until I saw the scrutiny was illusory. For example, Johnny Damon’s double stolen base in game four of the World Series.

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The author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma put together a list of eating rules for the New York Times. From 2,500 submissions made by his readers, Michael Pollan gleaned 20. If I lob cheap laughs off the top, like “Don’t eat egg salad from a vending machine” and other home-spun wisdoms which help NYT editors trivialize critiques of consumerism, I’m left with eight tips to spark constructive rethinking of our eating patterns. For starters: 1. If you are not hungry enough to eat an apple, then you’re not hungry.

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Yesterday the effort to raise more municipal taxes called Ballot measure 2C went down to total defeat more than 2 to 1. While many who voted against this measure had all the worst of motives, the measure needed to be defeated since it really was a ballot measure to try to continue to run the city the way it has been done, and entirely on behalf of the local business community tied totally into profiting from the gigantic military industrial welfare complex that dominates Colorado Springs. Now there is a new move afoot, to hold current local leaders responsible for the mess they are making of the city. These smug bosses should not be allowed to continue in office and cutback local services, all other than the bloated policing and administrative office positions that now suck the city budget dry and that the current crew in power wants to maintain.

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Doug Bruces fat smug lying face on the news this morning saying that City Council was rebuffed by his Prop 300. Bruce, you Lying Puke, the City Council for as long as I’ve been here, has at your bidding joined you in licking the BALLS of your Rich-Bitch Masters.

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The killing of one’s sibling. Specifically. On the other hand, DNA findings keep showing that all men are, indeed, brothers. I’ll address the religious issues of that directly, since one of the most hotly divisive wars plaguing our world now has both the Religious and the DNA negating the claims of the most belligerent parties.
It involves the three Mosaic religions, with among others, LOCAL Christians rooting for both sides because they feel that Israel being destroyed will bring on the Apocalypse.

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DENVER- Barkat Protest. Tony’s sign proved effective right out of the bag. Tony had no sooner pulled it out when a pro-Israel organizer saw “STOP JEWISH A-BOMB” and immediately scolded Tony for his sloppy choice of words. “Your sloppiness reveals the anti-Semite you are.” We chased after him, demanding why it’s alright to say “Muslims” mustn’t have nukes.

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Which isn’t the bullshit the Reich Wing have been beefing about, every time a road accident involves an undocumented worker.
Like a year and some change ago, when they were ready to lynch a guy for being involved in a fatal accident that he didn’t cause. The driver who died had banged a left turn from the right hand lane. That’s never any good. Really good way to have a front bumper forcibly inserted through your driver side door and right into the drivers seat. Which is what happened.

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COLORADO SPRINGS- At Rosamund Naylor’s CC lecture “Where’s the Beef?” about the basic unsustainability of beef, whether corn or grass fed, we discussed three facets of the sustainable equation: biophysical, economic and social. The Southern Colorado Sustainability Conference taking place today and tomorrow is more interested in a fourth: military sustainability, or how to sustain its mission. The PPSBN event is a green wash for area businesses, primarily weapons industry contractors, and Fort Carson, to claim for example, that setting aside land for a firing range will ameliorate urban growth. Their keynote speaker this year is Nancy Tuor of CH2M Hill, one of the top war profiteers in Iraq and Afghanistan, implicated among the disaster profiteers of Hurricane Katrina.

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… ‘Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, has said that his government is unwilling to negotiate on the status of Jerusalem as a joint Israel-Palestinian capital.’ See FOCUS: PLANNING FOR PEACE- Jerusalem’s myriad divisions

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