• MICHAEL MOORE: Well, remember, we were being led for eight years by a president who barely was a C-minus student. OK, so when you have stupid people in charge, sixty sounds like a majority of a hundred. “Yeah, I think that’s what we need, is sixty.” And they just—they somehow were able to convince the American people that sixty is fifty.
• I think, all kidding aside, that this is another example of the Democrats are essentially a bunch of wimps. They don’t have the guts. They don’t have the courage of their own convictions. They’re disgusting. I’m embarrassed. I want really nothing to do with them. And if they don’t find their spine, well, they’re in for a huge surprise in November.
As author of "Apocalypse 2012: An Investigation into Civilization's End" (Broadway/Random House, 2007) I am frequently asked what I thought of "2012," the Columbia Pictures film directed by Roland Emmerich. I enjoyed it. "2012" is a page-turner, less a message movie than a popcorn express of CGI thrills and chills -- down goes the Vatican, next stop, Vegas--plus some laughs, a tear or two, and hardly any blood. For the record, I do not believe, as portrayed in the movie, that the Earth's crust is going to melt, causing the Yellowstone supervolcano to erupt, tsunamis to inundate the Himalayas, all the continents to squish together and human civilization to go down the crapper. But it was all kind of fun to watch. What I do fear for 2012 or thereabouts is the collapse of our electrical power grid. According to the National Academy of Sciences , the power grid is gravely vulnerable to blasts emanating from the Sun, blasts which, by overwhelming scientific consensus, will next climax in frequency and ferocity late in 2012 or early 2013. Founded by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is the closest thing to a Supreme Court of scientific opinion for the United States and much of the rest of the world.
Their considered opinion is that UP TO 130 MILLION PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES ALONE MAY WELL BE FORCED TO GO WITHOUT ELECTRICITY FOR MONTHS OR YEARS if we are hit by a major blast, known as a coronal mass ejection (CME), from the Sun. Potable water distribution (would be) affected within several hours; perishable foods and medications lost in 12-24 hours; immediate or eventual loss of heating/air conditioning, sewage disposal, phone service, transportation, fuel resupply and so on. These outages would probably take months to fix, straining emergency services, banking and trade, and even command and control of the military and law enforcement, according to Severe Space Weather Events: Understanding Societal and Economic Impacts, a 152-page NAS report, December, 2008.
Over the past 150 years the Earth has been pummeled by at least two CME's, the Carrington event of 1859 and the Great Magnetic Storm of 1921, powerful enough to devastate our way of life were the equivalent to hit today . Those blasts caused no real problems back then because there was no real power grid. Even in 1921, most cities had their own generators; the grid was minuscule, used just for back-up where it existed it all. Nothing like the megavoltages that whizz around the continent today, begging to be derailed. What happens is that the CME literally shocks the Earth's surface. Some of that current comes back up from the ground and fuses the copper windings of the transformers that hold the grid together. This problem can't be fixed on site; usually the whole thing needs to be replaced. No one produces such
transformers in the United States any more; on the world market there's a one
to three year waiting list. Some scientists might tell you not to worry, that
solar activity is so low these days that the 2012-2013 climax will probably
be a dud. But while it's true that the deepest minimums, such as the one we
are now experiencing, produce fewer blasts, the CMEs that do escape can be enormous.
"A repeat of the [1859] Carrington
Event seems unlikely from our low vantage point in a deep solar minimum - but
don't let the quiet fool you. Strong flares can occur even during weak solar
cycles. Indeed, the Carrington Event itself occurred during a weak cycle similar
to the one expected to peak in 2012-2013." writes Tony Phillips, the NASA solar
scientist, in "Geomagnetic Megastorm". This is going to happen, if not in 2012,
then soon. With each passing year the power grid becomes more and more overloaded
and therefore more and more vulnerable to being shorted out by the Sun. We've already slept through two wakeup calls, a March, 1989 CME that knocked out power to a few million users in Quebec for several hours, and also one that hit on Halloween 2003 that whacked the region close to the South Pole, frying 14 transformers in South Africa, which has struggled horribly to rebuild its electrical infrastructure ever since. Normally, the Earth's magnetic field protects us from solar blasts,
either by repelling them entirely or at least diminishing the impact of monster CME's such as 1859 or 1921.
But the shields are down, Scotty.
In mid December, 2008, THEMIS, a squadron of five NASA research satellites discovered an unbelievably large, pole-to-equator hole in the field. Scotty. The THEMIS discovery stood astrophysics on its head: "When I tell my colleagues, most react with skepticism, as if I'm trying to convince them that the sun rises in the west... This completely overturns our understanding of things... This could result in stronger geomagnetic storms than we have seen in many years," says THEMIS project scientist David Sibeck of the Goddard Space Flight Center in "Giant Breach in Earth's Magnetic Field Discovered." This ain't no joke. This
is an emergency, and a problem we can solve. Surge suppressors, placed between ground and transformer can keep the grid from shorting out.
The retrofit should take two to three
years and requires no dramatic technological advances, just several hundred washing machine-sized surge suppressors strategically placed throughout the grid. Costs should run between $300 million and $500 million (not "billion," not AIG bailout money). The greatest obstacle is the lack of political will. The power grid sprang up haphazardly, and today is a crazy patchwork of public and private utilities, and authorities that cross state and even national borders, as in upstate New York and Quebec. No one owns the grid, and there's no real
grid "czar" with anything like the power needed to mandate that level of change. To overcome the crazy political and legal logistics, we need leadership from the top and a groundswell from the rest of us to get those surge suppressors installed before the coming solar climax of 2012/2013.
I am a stroke survivor and deal daily with a speech disorder called Aphasia. This disorder is a result of my stroke in 2005. I am thankful God has given me the ability to express myself through my images and films." For more information, visit these websites: http://www.azimagery.com/stroke/
January 20th - Our thoughts and prayers today are with the people of Haiti who are facing a humanitarian crisis of unimaginable proportions. This earthquake threatens to erase much of the progress the country has made in the fight against poverty and economic injustice. In June 2009, Jubilee USA supporters and partners celebrated $1.2 billion in debt cancellation for Haiti, erasing most -- but not all -- of Haiti's debt. Now we need your voice to ensure a robust and just response to this crisis from the Obama administration.
Send a Letter to the Editor today The Obama administration has already begun to mobilize immediate emergency relief, which is vital in the coming weeks and days. But it is becoming clear that Haiti will need support for relief and reconstruction from the US and international community at unprecedented levels.
Jubilee USA has called on the Obama administration to take 3 specific steps as part of its comprehensive response to the Haiti earthquake: (1) Provide massive assistance for relief and reconstruction in the form of grants, not loans; (2) Cancel the rest of Haiti's debt; and(3) Provide Temporary Protective Status to Haitians living in the US. UPDATE: On Friday, January 15th, the US granted Haitians Temporary Protective Status
Thursday June 25th was Torture Acountability Action Day sponsored by a coalition of Progressive organizations to call attention to crimes committed by officials of the Bush administration as they implemented their broad and complex plan to initiate their program of extraordianry rendition (kidnapping) and torture.
Protesters gathered in Pasadena lead by Jodie Evans of CodePink and Dr. Dennis Loo of the World Can't Wait. On the steps of the 9th Circuit Federal Court of Appeals-Pasadena, they submitted a formal judicial misconduct complaint against 9th Circuit Judge Jay Bybee, former Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel. Bybee violated
international law and the Constitution by signing Bush administration memos authorizing torture.
To dramatize the violence ensuing from Bybees alleged criminal action, demonstrators wore orange jumpsuits (like those of Guantanamo Bay detainees), to provide visual reminders of the deplorable actions kept secret from a disapproving American public. In fact, a February USA Today/Gallup poll found that more than 40 percent of Americans agree that Americans who approved of or conducted torture should be prosecuted for their
crimes.
New evidence has emerged suggesting three Guantánamo prisoners whom the US claims took their own lives in June 2006 died not from suicide, but torture. A six-month investigation by Harper’s Magazine indicates the three prisoners were suffocated and tortured during questioning at a secret black site facility at Guantánamo known as “Camp No.”
The article is based in part on testimony from a former staff sergeant who says the Obama administration has refused to investigate his claims.
I am a stroke survivor and deal daily with a speech disorder called Aphasia. This disorder is a result of my stroke in 2005. I am thankful God has given me the ability to express myself through my images and films." For more information, visit these websites: http://www.azimagery.com/stroke/
January 20th - Our thoughts and prayers today are with the people of Haiti who are facing a humanitarian crisis of unimaginable proportions. This earthquake threatens to erase much of the progress the country has made in the fight against poverty and economic injustice. In June 2009, Jubilee USA supporters and partners celebrated $1.2 billion in debt cancellation for Haiti, erasing most -- but not all -- of Haiti's debt. Now we need your voice to ensure a robust and just response to this crisis from the Obama administration.
Send a Letter to the Editor today The Obama administration has already begun to mobilize immediate emergency relief, which is vital in the coming weeks and days. But it is becoming clear that Haiti will need support for relief and reconstruction from the US and international community at unprecedented levels.
Jubilee USA has called on the Obama administration to take 3 specific steps as part of its comprehensive response to the Haiti earthquake: (1) Provide massive assistance for relief and reconstruction in the form of grants, not loans; (2) Cancel the rest of Haiti's debt; and(3) Provide Temporary Protective Status to Haitians living in the US. UPDATE: On Friday, January 15th, the US granted Haitians Temporary Protective Status
“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He, who accepts evil without protesting against it, is really cooperating with it.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am a stroke survivor and deal daily with a speech disorder called Aphasia. This disorder is a result of my stroke in 2005. I am thankful God has given me the ability to express myself through my images and films." For more information, visit these websites: http://www.azimagery.com/stroke/
The best way to end the bloody occupation is to target Israel with the kind of movement that ended apartheid in South Africa
It's time. Long past time. The best strategy to end the increasingly bloody occupation is for Israel to become the target of the kind of global movement that put an end to apartheid in South Africa. In July 2005 a huge coalition of Palestinian groups laid out plans to do just that. They called on "people of conscience all over the world to impose broad boycotts and implement divestment initiatives against Israel similar to those applied to South Africa in the apartheid era". The campaign Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions was born.
Every day that Israel pounds Gaza brings more converts to the BDS cause - even among Israeli Jews. In the midst of the assault roughly 500 Israelis, dozens of them well-known artists and scholars, sent a letter to foreign ambassadors in Israel. It calls for "the adoption of immediate restrictive measures and sanctions" and draws a clear parallel with the anti-apartheid struggle. "The boycott on South Africa was effective, but Israel is handled with kid gloves ... This international backing must stop."
Yet even in the face of these clear calls, many of us still can't go there. The reasons are complex, emotional and understandable. But they simply aren't good enough. Economic sanctions are the most effective tool in the non-violent arsenal: surrendering them verges on active complicity. Here are the top four objections to the BDS strategy, followed by counter-arguments.
Punitive measures will alienate rather than persuade Israelis.
The world has tried what used to be called "constructive engagement". It has failed utterly. Since 2006 Israel has been steadily escalating its criminality: expanding settlements, launching an outrageous war against Lebanon, and imposing collective punishment on Gaza through the brutal blockade. Despite this escalation, Israel has not faced punitive measures - quite the opposite. The weapons and $3bn in annual aid the US sends Israel are only the beginning. Throughout this key period, Israel has enjoyed a dramatic improvement in its diplomatic, cultural and trade relations with a variety of other allies. For instance, in 2007 Israel became the first country outside Latin America to sign a free-trade deal with the Mercosur bloc. In the first nine months of 2008, Israeli exports to Canada went up 45%. A new deal with the EU is set to double Israel's exports of processed food. And in December European ministers "upgraded" the EU-Israel association agreement, a reward long sought by Jerusalem.
It is in this context that Israeli leaders started their latest war: confident they would face no meaningful costs. It is remarkable that over seven days of wartime trading, the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange's flagship index actually went up 10.7%. When carrots don't work, sticks are needed.
Israel is not South Africa.
Of course it isn't. The relevance of the South African model is that it proves BDS tactics can be effective when weaker measures (protests, petitions, backroom lobbying) fail. And there are deeply distressing echoes of apartheid in the occupied territories: the colour-coded IDs and travel permits, the bulldozed homes and forced displacement, the settler-only roads. Ronnie Kasrils, a prominent South African politician, said the architecture of segregation he saw in the West Bank and Gaza was "infinitely worse than apartheid". That was in 2007, before Israel began its full-scale war against the open-air prison that is Gaza.
Why single out Israel when the US, Britain and other western countries do the same things in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Boycott is not a dogma; it is a tactic. The reason the strategy should be tried is practical: in a country so small and trade-dependent, it could actually work.
Boycotts sever communication; we need more dialogue, not less.
This one I'll answer with a personal story. For eight years, my books have been published in Israel by a commercial house called Babel. But when I published The Shock Doctrine, I wanted to respect the boycott. On the advice of BDS activists, including the wonderful writer John Berger, I contacted a small publisher called Andalus. Andalus is an activist press, deeply involved in the anti-occupation movement and the only Israeli
publisher devoted exclusively to translating Arabic writing into Hebrew. We drafted a contract that guarantees that all proceeds go to Andalus's work, and none to me. I am boycotting the Israeli economy but not Israelis.
Our modest publishing plan required dozens of phone calls, emails and instant messages, stretching between Tel Aviv, Ramallah, Paris, Toronto and Gaza City. My point is this: as soon as you start a boycott strategy, dialogue grows dramatically. The argument that boycotts will cut us off from one another is particularly specious given the array of cheap information technologies at our fingertips. We are drowning in ways to rant at each other across national boundaries. No boycott can stop us.
Just about now, many a proud Zionist is gearing up for major point-scoring: don't I know that many of these very hi-tech toys come from Israeli research parks, world leaders in infotech? True enough, but not all of them. Several days into Israel's Gaza assault, Richard Ramsey, managing director of a British telecom specialising in voice-over-internet services, sent an email to the Israeli tech firm MobileMax: "As a result of the Israeli government action in the last few days we will no longer be in a position to consider doing business with yourself or any other Israeli company."
Ramsey says his decision wasn't political; he just didn't want to lose customers. "We can't afford to lose any of our clients," he explains, "so it was purely commercially defensive."
It was this kind of cold business calculation that led many companies to pull out of South Africa two decades ago. And it's precisely the kind of calculation that is our most realistic hope of bringing justice, so long denied, to Palestine.
A version of this column was published in the Nation (thenation.com)
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1209/p16s01-wmgn.html Afraid that Arab nations might use their oil clout again, the US set up a Strategic Petroleum Reserve. That has since cost, conservatively, $134 billion, Stauffer reckons. Other US
help includes: • US Jewish charities and organizations have remitted grants or bought Israel bonds worth $50 billion to $60 billion. Though private in origin, the money is "a net drain" on the United States economy, says Stauffer.
• The US has already guaranteed $10 billion in commercial loans to Israel, and $600 million in "housing loans." (See editor's note below.) Stauffer expects the US Treasury to cover these.
• The US has given $2.5 billion to support Israel's Lavi fighter and Arrow missile
projects.
• Israel buys discounted, serviceable "excess" US military equipment. Stauffer says these discounts amount to "several billion dollars" over recent years.
• Israel uses roughly 40 percent of its $1.8 billion per year in military aid, ostensibly earmarked for purchase of US weapons, to buy Israeli-made hardware. It also has won the right to require the Defense Department or US defense contractors to buy Israeli-made equipment or subsystems, paying 50 to 60 cents on every defense dollar
the US gives to Israel. US help, financial and technical, has enabled Israel to become a major weapons supplier. Weapons make up almost half of Israel's manufactured exports. US defense contractors often resent the buy-Israel requirements and the extra competition subsidized by US taxpayers.
• US policy and trade sanctions reduce US exports to the Middle East about $5 billion a year, costing 70,000 or so American jobs, Stauffer estimates. Not requiring Israel to use its US aid to buy American goods, as is usual in foreign aid, costs another 125,000 jobs.
• Israel has blocked some major US arms sales, such as F-15 fighter aircraft to Saudi Arabia in the mid-1980s. That cost $40 billion over 10 years, says Stauffer. Stauffer's list will be controversial. He's been assisted in this research by
a number of mostly retired military or diplomatic officials who do not go public for fear of being labeled anti-Semitic if they criticize America's policies toward Israel.
I am a stroke survivor and deal daily with a speech disorder called Aphasia. This disorder is a result of my stroke in 2005. I am thankful God has given me the ability to express myself through my images and films." For more information, visit these websites: http://www.azimagery.com/stroke/
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces.
Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams Ashley Smith
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THE BUCKMINSTER FULLER CHALLENGE 2008 -You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. Directed and Produced by Joao Amorim Directed and Produced by Joao Amorim Bucky had it right. http://www.bfi.org/
http://www.t-ryx.com/velocimobiles.htm Hi, everyone. Long message, but a lot of information. Sorry. If you're not interested in our group ride, you can just delete this message.
I had a computer virus and lost a lot of data from my computer, including most email addresses and other contact information. I'm sorry for any duplicate information or inconvenience. If you know of someone else who would be interested in this information and/or this ride, please forward the email to them. Also, I apologize if I've listed your email more than once for this message.
We've decided that, since the announcement for our inaugural ride has been so well received, and the potential exists for many riders of all ages and abilities to ride with us, we should try to accommodate everyone and offer several options. I rode around the San Diego Bay Bike Route (aka Bay Shore Bike Path) on New Year's
Day myself. It was a nice ride, and there are many places to turn around for those not wanting to ride the full loop or further. Riders and friends experienced in riding that loop have made several suggestions also. So we've come up with a primary starting place and time, and a couple of alternates:
1. The primary starting point will be the Broadway Pier at 1050 N. Harbor Drive at Broadway at 9:00 AM on Saturday, January 16, 2010. (Note time change.) Check out http://www.sdhe.com/san-diego-bay-ferry.html for more information about Broadway Pier, including a link to a Google map to the Pier. We'll head south on Harbor Drive to meet the group starting at the J Street park in Chula Vista, before continuing on around the Bay. Riders who want to stay local and not make the entire SD Bay loop ride may want to take the ferry across the Bay to Coronado's Ferry Landing Marketplace. It's actually a pretty nice, 15-minute "mini-cruise", and would be especially nice for anyone bringing kids. Riders making the entire 26-mile loop would also take the Ferry from Coronado back to the Broadway Pier. Alternatively, you can simply stay around the downtown area. The waterfront is a nice area to just cruise around casually, visit the Maritime Museum (Star of India, Russian Sub, etc., and you can go as far south as the Convention Center before you have to get onto Harbor Drive.
Here's information regarding the ferry to and from Coronado: From downtown San
Diego to Coronado: Ferry leaves downtown every hour on the hour beginning at 9 a.m., departing from Broadway Pier (1050 N. Harbor Drive) and arriving at Coronado's Ferry Landing Marketplace shopping center (First Street and B Ave.), continuing until 9 p.m . (10 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays). From Coronado to downtown: Ferry leaves Coronado every hour on the half hour beginning at 9:30 a.m., departing from Ferry Landing Marketplace and arriving at Broadway Pier, continuing until 9:30 p.m. (10:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays). Ferry Rates: One Way: $3 per person, $3.50 with bicycle. Round Trip: $6 per person, $7 with bicycle. Tickets may be purchased at San Diego Harbor Excursion ticket booth at Broadway and Harbor Drive, or the Coronado Ferry Landing Gift Shop. For more information, call (619) 234-4111. last modified October 31, 2009 Note 1: City Parking in Downtown San Diego is metered just about everywhere, and has a 2 hour limit at each meter. We need longer than that. I'm working on getting a permit for group parking at the San Diego County Administration Building, which is on the east side of Harbor Drive. I'll provide information for anyone considering the Broadway Pier as a starting point as soon as I know for sure if that parking lot is approved for our group.
Note 2. There is an approximately 5 mile stretch of the route from Downtown San Diego to 32nd Street that is on surface roads including Harbor Drive in the Bike Lane before we pick up the separated Bike Route path again heading toward the J Street park. Please take this into consideration if you have kids with you or are concerned about riding on the roads.
2. An alternate starting point will be the park at J Street in Chula Vista. Some riders have said they'll be starting at around 7:00 AM from this location, but can meet us here when the rest of us arrive. If you're planning on starting at this location, take I-5 to the J Street exit. Turn west on J Street/Marina Road and go about ? mile (past a couple of marina parking lots) and the park is on your left. The starting time for this location will be 9:45 AM to give riders time to get there from the Broadway Pier staging area. The park provides free parking, and public restrooms. From here you can:
a. Make the entire SD Bay loop (~26 miles) b. Ride to Glorietta Bay via the Silver Strand and return the same route to the J Street park (~10 miles or more each way) c. Ride to the Coronado Ferry Landing to visit the waterfront shops (~16 miles each way) and the same route to the J Street park d. Ride as far as you want and turn around at any location. There are many opportunities to turn around and avoid interrupting anyone else on the Bike Route.
2. A third option, suggested by some of the more experienced riders who are familiar with the area, is to start on the Silver Stand itself at Glorietta Bay Park (see map and directions, at the link below):
Since it'll take about an hour or so for riders to get to Glorietta Bay Park from
the second starting point, if anyone wants to meet up with the rest of the group after starting at Glorietta Bay Park, the starting time at that location will be 11:15 AM. This will allow time for slower riders to reach the park, and for everyone to rest and recuperate, and to gather at the site.
Remember, this is not a race, so ride at your own pace. Some riders will want to ride fast. Others will want to ride for longer distances, which is fine also. Still others may want to just ride at a leisurely pace and enjoy the scenery and the local shops.
I'll have route maps and other information at the beginning of the ride. Don't forget to bring supplies with you:
* Your trike/bike, velomobile * Helmet * Water * Energy bar or drink * ID * Water * Money for Ferry fare, lunch, etc. (minimum: $3.50 per person, each way, on the Ferry) * Basic bike tools, including spare tube(s), patch kit, tire levers, multi-tool * Sunscreen * Water * Water Please also bring your cell phone and provide numbers to at least several riders in case of emergency or so we can locate you if we get separated. This will help if anyone is running late for any of the starting points too.
Note: keep valuables in a zippered pocket or pouch on your trike/bike. Especially when you're in the recumbent position, stuff likes to crawl out of your open pocket.
This is the inaugural ride for Trikes Treks, so we may have some bugs to work out before our next ride. We may need to break into two or more sub- groups to accommodate riders of all abilities and categories. Although the rides are intended to focus on trikes, the intent is to get folks out there riding as a group. Several
people are already planning on riding recumbent or "upwrong" bikes. Some riders have limited use of arms and legs, and may not be able to keep the pace of racing enthusiasts. Some just want to ride fast while others just want to enjoy the ride. This inaugural ride will be a litmus test to see what needs to be "fixed" for future rides. The group name may change so as not to drive non-trike pilots away from the group. Additionally, since T. Ryx is now expanded to sell "upwrong"
bikes under the Bike Vault business name, we may start another riding group for MTB, Road Bikes, or both. My son, Jeremiah, is the Bike Vault guy, so any of those types of group rides will be his forte, when and if they occur. And finally, we may eventually start a group specifically for velomobiles, once those vehicles
become more common.
Although several people have already confirmed that they will be riding, please reply to this email to confirm your participation or non- participation no later than Wednesday, January 13, so we can have a head- count and not leave anyone
behind. Please let me know how many in your party will be joining us (e.g., a husband, wife, and child will be 3, not one, even if the child is being towed or a tandem is used). Also, please let me know where you plan to start the ride: Broadway Pier, J Street Park, or Glorietta Bay Park.
Many of us would like to make this group ride at least a monthly event. We might even ride together more than once a month after we work out logistics. Please be patient as we figure out what went wrong and what went right. If you have suggestions for rides and routes, or for making this work out better, or anything else, please contact me directly. If you can't make it for the first ride, or for any given ride, please feel free to join us for any ride you can make. This is not, repeat NOT, intended to be an exclusive group. If you're not comfortable riding with high energy performance type riders, still come ride with us. I'm
not a competitive rider by any means, and many others are not either. Ditto for you who are not comfortable with non-racers. Our group is intended for riders of all ages, needs, abilities, experience levels. We may break into sub-groups based on riding style, domicile, etc. But the main thing we want to do is get
out there and ride. That's why we buy trikes and bikes. It's what we do.
I look forward to seeing as many of you as possible on Saturday, January 16, 2010. Remember, if the weather is too bad, we'll move the ride to the FOLLOWING Saturday,
January 23, 2010. If you're not sure, give us a call. hoppy
Terry "Hoppy" Dean (President & CEO) Cell: 760.500.8418 Email: Hoppy@T-Ryx.com T. Ryx Recumbent Trikes PterraSoar Cyclery Velocimobiles Divisions of Tyrannosaurus, Inc. 316 West Mission Avenue, Suite 117 Escondido, California 92025 USA Tel: 760.741.0411 Fax: 760.741.0243 http//www.T-Ryx.com
I am a stroke survivor and deal daily with a speech disorder called Aphasia. This disorder is a result of my stroke in 2005. I am thankful God has given me the ability to express myself through my images and films." For more information, visit these websites: http://www.azimagery.com/stroke/
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces.
Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams Ashley Smith
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http://steetsblog.blogspot.com/ Kyoto Protocol entered into force on 16 February 2005. global warming , global emission reduction, climate-friendly future. • Carbon dioxide (CO2); • Methane (CH4); • Nitrous oxide (N2O); • Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs); • Perfluorocarbons (PFCs); and • Sulphur hexafluoride (SF6) Sea level rise and storms: Northeastern states could face costs of up to $5 billion from a single weather event Protecting the coast from San Francisco Bay to Santa Barbara from a 3 ? foot sea level rise would cost an initial $1.5 billion. Rising temperatures and drought:
The San Antonio Texas Edwards Aquifer region could face agricultural losses of up to $6.5 billion by 2030. New York State's agricultural sector could lose up to $1.2 billion annually. The Great Plains region may see demand for water increase by 50% by 2090. This area currently uses 40% of its total water supply. 90% of its land is used for agriculture. Energy use: Higher temperatures mean more energy needed for cooling purposes. Preparing for warmer weather nationwide is projected to cost $300 billion by 2050. Illness: Historically, increased hospital visits, disease and even death have been associated with unusually high temperatures. Outbreaks of tropical diseases are expected to increase. Kyoto Protocol 16 February 2005 is real and it's here. There are no longer excuses for inaction. Buckminster Fuller
THE BUCKMINSTER FULLER CHALLENGE 2008 -You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. Directed and Produced by Joao Amorim Directed and Produced by Joao Amorim Bucky had it right. http://www.bfi.org/
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." That's why we're awarding a $100,000 prize each year for comprehensive solutions that radically advance human well-being and ecosystem health. The 2008 prize will be conferred June 23rd in NYC.
http://www.puente http://www.youtube.com/user/Puenteaz/ ******************** ORDER TO APPEAR January 16th, 2010 Before the National Human Rights Commission of the United States And the diverse public constituencies of Maricopa County, Arizona The Spirit of Justice, the True Light of Law
Essay by Mumia Abu-Jamal http://prisonradio.org http://freemumia.com May Day Rally Protest footage Los Angeles California MacArthur Park 5/01/07 ------------------------------ http://www.brasscheck.com/seattle/guns.html 1. The attacks by the LAPD on peaceful demonstrators were planned out and even trained for weeks in advance. It's apparent by the formations and equipment the police used. Nothing improvised or spontaneous about it. 2. The order for the preparations came from the top, the Chief of Police and his boss, the Mayor of Los Angeles. That's the ONLY way such an operation can take place. No field commander is going to do this on his own and no Police Chief is going to risk his career to so something like this on a whim. 3. The two lying scum-bags responsible (The Mayor and Chief) are only expressing "shock" now because their actions were caught on video. 4. The same things happens at virtually EVERY peaceful political protest of any size in the US: a) fake "anarchists" throw a few bottles at police and/or vandalize private property b) the "anarchists" are never caught or even assaulted c) the police use the "provocation" as a justification to attack the crowd d) the police try to antagonize the crowd into retaliating (which rarely works by the way) so they can justify mass arrests in order to discredit the demonstrators and their cause. Normally, the venal, spineless, lazy US news media covers up the reality of these "episodes." This time the idiot LAPD shoved some reporters around (heavens to Betsy!) and what really happened made the news.
From an oversea's show, spliced to view the message from one elder (Floyd Red Crow Westerman)...how america has come and is destined to go.
From an oversea's show, spliced to view the message from another elder. Oren R. Lyons ... talks about the 7th generation and america's forgotten responciblity.
Indigenous Native American Prophecy from another 2 elders.
In front of the Capitol Building Washington D.C. on July 2008: Nowa Cuming (Dennis Banks) Longestwalk.org Co-Founder of the American Indian Movement (AIM)
Tar Sands protest outside Canadian Embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark, during the COP15 Climate Conference.
The protest was led by the Indigenous Environmental Network.
Speakers: Mother & daughter Susan and Eriel Deranger from the Athabasca Chipewan First Nation, just downriver from the Tar Sands oil projects in Alberta, Canada.
Indigenous Peoples of Canada March on Canadian Embassy in Copenhagen to Protest Tar Sands Canada is the largest supplier of oil to the United States, and most of it comes from the Alberta tar sand.
Denny Carr, MFA
Photographer and Video Artist
BIKE !!!! hase lepus trike (stroke-paralysis)
age 61 eco-friendly no-car
"I am a stroke survivor and deal daily with a speech disorder called Aphasia. This disorder is a result of my stroke in 2005. I am thankful God has given me the ability to express myself through my images and films." For more information, visit these websites: http://www.azimagery.com/
Ferry leaves Coronado every hour on the half hour beginning at 9:30 a.m., departing from Ferry Landing Marketplace and arriving at Broadway Pier, continuing until 9:30 p.m. (10:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays). Ferry Rates: One Way: $3 per person, $3.50 with bicycle. Round Trip: $6 per person, $7 with bicycle.
Remember, this is not a race, so ride at your own pace. Some riders will want to ride fast. Others will want to ride for longer distances, which is fine also. Still others may want to just ride at a leisurely pace and enjoy the scenery and the local shops.
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