Vote Socialist in 2016! La Riva / Banks they're on my ballot thank goodness, I didn't even know a socialist was running. Someone to vote for is great. Meet Gloria

Our 10-Point Program

1. For the earth to live, capitalism must end

Global warming, environmental racism polluting our neighborhoods, acidified and depleted oceans, fracking, critical drought, plastics choking the seas, nuclear weapons and waste, it is clear that capitalism and production for profit are destroying the planet and threatening all life. Using truly sustainable energy and seizing the oil and coal companies to stop fossil fuel pollution, are urgent steps needed to reverse climate change. Ultimately, only the socialist reorganization of society can assure the future of the people and the planet.
2. Make a job a Constitutional right

Tens of millions are jobless and under-employed because the capitalists control employment. A decent-paying job must be a legal, guaranteed right. The minimum wage should be raised to $20 per hour and a living income must be guaranteed for those who cannot work.
3. Make free health care, free education & affordable housing Constitutional rights

These are essentials of life and should not be run for profit. Create a completely free and public health­care system. Make education free—cancel all student debt. Fully fund rebuilding of the infrastructure in transport, water and utility systems. Stop all foreclosures and evictions—end all mortgage interest payments to the banks.
4. Shut down all U.S. military bases around the world—bring all the troops, planes & ships home

U.S. foreign policy uses the pretext of national security to enforce the imperialist interests of the biggest banks and corporations. That is what is behind the endless wars and occupations. Use the $1 trillion military budget instead to provide for people’s needs here and around the world. Abolish nuclear weapons. Stop U.S. aid to Israel. Self-determination for the Palestinian people, including the right to return. End the U.S. blockade of Cuba. Independence for Puerto Rico and cancel the debt!
5. End racism. Stop police brutality and mass incarceration

More than 2.2 million people are behind bars in the largest prison complex in the world. End mass incarceration of oppressed and all working class people -- the real crime. Fully prosecute all acts of police brutality and violence. Honor Native treaties. Free Leonard Peltier, Mumia Abu-Jamal and all political prisoners.
6. Defend our unions

Support the right of all workers to have a union. Fight back against the attacks on collective bargaining. Repeal the Taft-Hartley Act. In the spirit of the Fight for 15 and low-wage worker organizing, rebuild a fighting—and striking—labor movement.
7. Equality for women and free, safe, legal abortion on demand

Stop the attack on women’s reproductive rights and defend Roe v. Wade. Women must have the fundamental right to choose & control their own bodies. Women still earn 22 percent less than men, and the gap is even more severe for Black and Latina women. Close the wage gap and end the gender division of labor.
8. Full rights for all immigrants

Abolish all anti-immigrant laws. Stop the raids and deportations. The government’s war on immigrants must end. The border wall must be dismantled.
9. Full federal equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people

Fight anti-LGBTQ discrimination and violence. Full federal equality in all matters governed by civil law.
10. Seize the banks—Jail Wall Street criminals

The banks’ vast wealth came from the people’s labor and tax-dollar bailout. Capitalist banking is a form of organized crime, rewarding greed and fraud with obscene bonuses. These billionaires looted and destroyed the economy. It is time to seize their assets and use those resources in the interests of the vast majority. Power must be taken out of the hands of the super rich, and the Wall Street criminals must be held accountable.

That is my kind of program, simple and full of common sense fixes. Here she is, first describing the shite waiting on the shelf for Trump to sign in to law, then on to destroy any thoughts of surviving another round of the Clintons. The audio is tinny and auto-captions suck, sorry about that brothers and sisters, they are the best words.

Thanks

I wasn't sure how that song goes, so I looked it up and found this.

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Some climate change items today:

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Arctic methane gas emission 'significantly increased since 2014'
http://siberiantimes.com/ecology/others/news/n0760-arctic-methane-gas-em...

The findings come from an expedition now underway led by Professor Igor Semiletov, of Tomsk Polytechnic University, on the research vessel 'Academic M.A. Lavrentyev' which left Tiksi on 24 September on a 40 day mission.

The seeping of methane from the sea floor is greater than in previous research in the same area, notably carried out between 2011 and 2014.

'The area of spread of methane mega-emissions has significantly increased in comparison with the data obtained in the period from 2011 to 2014,' he said. 'These observations may indicate that the rate of degradation of underwater permafrost has increased.'

The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction tells us:
http://www.unisdr.org/archive/50437

It is deeply disturbing to learn that global levels of 400 parts per million have now been reached in September for the first time. The last time CO2 levels were this high was 15 to 20 million years ago. September is traditionally when the lowest levels are recorded. This means that we are unlikely to see levels below 400 parts per million for the foreseeable future. We know that the safe level is well below this.

And from the "Oh, goody, more carbon" department:
http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/texas-oil-company-announces-big...

Texas oil company announces big offshore Alaska discovery

...announced a find of 6 billion barrels of light oil on its state leases in the Arctic Ocean waters of Smith Bay about 450 miles northwest of Fairbanks...could deliver 200,000 barrels per day of light oil to the trans-Alaska pipeline, increasing volume and reducing the average viscosity of oil, which would help extend its viability...The wells were less than 2 miles offshore in water just 4 to 6 feet deep.

when the Union of Concerned Scientists will set the Doomsday Clock forward to where it ought to be (I'm thinking 70 seconds before midnight would be about right), only Tom Lehrer comes to mind.

Oh, and with respect to 17: a number of surveys have made the determination that 17 is the random number, when subjects are asked to pick a random number between 1 and 20. http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2007/02/05/is-17-the-most-random-... . Thus, the logo for the residents of Random Hall at MIT: http://mitadmissions.org/images/mit-blogs/ship(1).jpg . The link paster apparently doesn't do parenthesis, so you'll have to manually cut and paste to see it...

my older Brother's music, taught me to have considerable appreciation of the Motown sound and artists--so, I especially enjoyed The Four Tops' videos.

Mollie

“I believe in the redemptive powers of a dog’s love. It is in recognition of each dog’s potential to lift the human spirit and therefore– to change society for the better, that I fight to make sure every street dog has its day.”
--Stasha Wong, Secretary, Save Our Street Dogs (SOSD)

The SOSD Fantastic Four

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"Journalist Amy Goodman Shouldn't Be Arrested for Covering Dakota Pipeline Story":

The journalism business is designed to make telling the truth difficult. There are a lot of obstacles.

In return for access to high-ranking politicians, the government typically charges a little bit of your honesty.

In return for the large sums of money advertisers pay to major network news operations, you have to give up a little bit more.

Then there's audience. In order to secure a big one, you sometimes need to give up still a little bit more of your soul.

The easiest route to a big audience is a commercial network operation that piggybacks on the popularity of its other programming, like sports and sitcoms. Go that route and you are beholden not only to your own advertisers, but those supporting those other programs.

The other route to a big audience is designing a program that tells people what they want to hear, which usually ends in not challenging your viewers/readers at crucial moments.

So if your primary interest is in doing this job correctly, you usually have to give up the access, the money and the audience.

You can go without the first two and still do a good enough job. But to have an impact, you have to reach people. So you have to find another way.

Amy Goodman found another way. She insisted on her complete independence throughout her entire career.

Moreover she was never satisfied with merely doing the job and not having an impact. She essentially built her own large television news operation, and she did it precisely for moments like the Standing Rock protest.

The whole point of fighting to be independent for your whole career, and building your own news network instead of working at someone else's existing, corporate-funded one, is so that you can cover something like the Dakota Pipeline story whenever you feel like it.

So not only was Amy Goodman doing journalism when she was at those protests, the only kind of journalist who would even be there almost by definition would have to be one like Amy Goodman.

That's not to say more commercial-minded outlets can't or don't cover pipeline controversies, or the misdeeds of powerful energy companies. They just tend not to, for some reason.

And more famous folks using their platform to call attention to the injustices of Dakota Access Pipeline and the illegal and rank mistreatment of peaceful protesters and journalists.

"Neil Young, Mark Ruffalo Rally for Arrested Pipeline Journalist"

Singer Neil Young, actor Mark Ruffalo and other celebrities on Thursday joined in calling for charges to be dropped against a documentary maker arrested while filming protesters who shut down oil pipelines from Canada to the United States, saying that she was acting as a journalist.

Deia Schlosberg, producer of the 2016 documentary "How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can't Change", was taken into custody at a TransCanada Corp's Keystone Pipeline site in Pembina County, North Dakota.

She was charged along with activists Samuel Jessup and Michael Foster on Thursday with three counts of conspiracy, charges which carry a maximum penalty of 45 years in prison.

Foster was also charged with trespassing and criminal mischief.

Oscar-nominated director Josh Fox, who produced "How to Let Go of the World" with Schlosberg, said in an open letter to President Barack Obama and North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple that the charges against her were "unfair, unjust and illegal."

The letter was signed by more than 30 artists, filmmakers, writers and journalists, including Young, Ruffalo, actors Daryl Hannah and Frances Fisher and singer Alex Ebert of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros.