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"At the end of the day, if you could deliver votes to politicians much more cheaply and effectively, in fact close to free,the problems wouldn't go away, but they'd be less severe. We may have a window of opportunity to change the system." [Sean]Parker said

Today

A forum prompted by the Christian Peacemakers Teams’ weeklong delegation against depleted uranium usage at Aerojet Ordnance was held at East Tennessee State University Tuesday.

Several individuals spoke out against DU and the harmful side effects suffered by those who come in contact with it. There also was talk about the soil and water samples released by CPT earlier this week, which showed traces of DU in Limestone Creek downstream of Aerojet Ordnance, as well as in the soil of non-residential and residential areas near the facility.

The CPT is planning an occupation of Aerojet, 1367 Old State Route 34, on Saturday beginning at 11 a.m.

“It can pierce the armor on tanks and take out underground bunkers, but it doesn’t treat the human body very nicely and that’s its handicap,” said Cliff Kindy, coordinator for the CPT depleted uranium campaign. “If anything’s going to change in Iraq, we’ve got to do the work here. What would it take to stop the production of depleted uranium weapons?”

Gathering support while educating others about DU was part of the forum’s focus. Ann Harris, executive director of whistleblower support group We The People, discussed the complex stages involved before DU munitions can be made.

“When they (the military) eject depleted uranium out of any Abrams tank or out of any facility, 70 percent of it goes into a big cloud of dust and you’re breathing it in.”

Another speaker, John Paul Hasko, said contact with DU has taken the life of at least one of his former co-workers at Aerojet. With the health of locals, especially children, on his mind, Hasko called for Aerojet to pay for an epidemiological study of the graduating classes of David Crockett High School from 1977 to 1997.

“Do you know what the real problem is with DU? We humans don’t have a four and a half billion year half life, we only have this life to make it right for the children,” Hasko said.

During Kindy’s talk, he mentioned that Aerojet was invited to the Uranium Weapons Production in Our Own Backyard forum, but didn’t not attend.

“Why wouldn’t they talk about what they’re doing?” he said. “If they’re selling a good product, certainly the community would be happy to know what they’re doing.”

Retired Army Maj. Doug Rokke was originally scheduled as the keynote speaker, but severe health issues kept him from making the trip from Illinois. He served as the former director of the Army’s DU project and says interaction with it has given him upper respiratory problems, cataracts, fibromyalgia and osteoporosis.

Robbie and Somer Seaton of Afton attended the forum in order to learn more about DU and possibly join the CPT and its delegation against Aerojet. Since their 9-year-old son Memphis died of an adult brain tumor five months ago, the couple is searching to figure out why he developed the tumor as well as why Robbie’s father suffered lung cancer and why many of their livestock and pets have developed cancer.

“Our whole cause is to find answers and protect other children,” Somer said. “And so everything we went through wasn’t in vain.”

At the occupation of Aerojet on Saturday, the CPT will look at alternatives for the facility and listen to stories from veterans.

“I think we need to begin to put this together and to understand it in ways that we don’t at this point,” Kindy said. “You’re going to be the people that make those changes, it’s not going to happen without you.”

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The Truth

Get out the history books, this is Howard Zinns 'History as a weapon'

Chapter 1: Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress

Arawak men and women, naked, tawny, and full of wonder, emerged from their villages onto the island's beaches and swam out to get a closer look at the strange big boat. When Columbus and his sailors came ashore, carrying swords, speaking oddly, the Arawaks ran to greet them, brought them food, water, gifts. He later wrote of this in his log:

They ... brought us parrots and balls of cotton and spears and many other things, which they exchanged for the glass beads and hawks' bells. They willingly traded everything they owned... . They were well-built, with good bodies and handsome features.... They do not bear arms, and do not know them, for I showed them a sword, they took it by the edge and cut themselves out of ignorance. They have no iron. Their spears are made of cane... . They would make fine servants.... With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.

These Arawaks of the Bahama Islands were much like Indians on the mainland, who were remarkable (European observers were to say again and again) for their hospitality, their belief in sharing. These traits did not stand out in the Europe of the Renaissance, dominated as it was by the religion of popes, the government of kings, the frenzy for money that marked Western civilization and its first messenger to the Americas, Christopher Columbus.

Columbus wrote:

As soon as I arrived in the Indies, on the first Island which I found, I took some of the natives by force in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts.

Today our people are united with the Occupy Wall Street around the country and this is their statement;

  The indigenous platform calls for recognition of Indigenous Peoples right to self-determination, the repeal of the papal bull Inter Caetera (1493), and the repeal of the Columbus Day holiday among other items.

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found at Huffington Post .... Of the 1,714 Americans nationwide surveyed by the Waco, Texas-based Baptist university, 40.9 percent said they "strongly agree" that "God has a plan for me," while 32.2 percent "agree," 12.3 percent "disagree" and 14.6 percent "strongly disagree." Those who strongly agree that God has a plan were more than twice as likely as those who strongly disagree that God has a plan to say that "the government does too much" -- 52.6 percent to 21 percent.

Similarly, the strong believers in God's plan were more than twice as likely as the strong disbelievers to say that healthy people should not receive unemployment benefits -- 52.6 percent to 21.1 percent.

Generally, "people who believe in government deregulation believe in God's plan," said Baylor researcher Paul Froese. "Economic perspectives are intricately linked with different cosmologies."

The survey also showed a relation between income and belief in God's plan, with the strong disbelievers being more than twice as likely as the strong believers to make $100,000 or more a year. A similar, albeit somewhat weaker, connection was found between education level and religious belief. While 42.6 percent of the strong disbelievers had earned a college degree, just 32.8 percent of the strong believers had.

The Baylor survey appears amidst a debate on what lessons politicians should draw from religion to address issues such as the nation's deficit. On the one hand, religious voices such as Sojourners, a Washington, D.C.-based evangelical organization, have called for "shared sacrifice" among Americans to help the "least of these," a phrase drawn from Matthew 25:45. At the same time, others have advocated what's called the "prosperity gospel," which includes the belief that God will provide and financially bless those who believe.

Native Peoples take on The Tar Sands

Labor Day in Song

Then
The Rolling Stones, “Salt of the Earth”


Bruce Springsteen, “Youngstown”


Phil Ochs, “The Ballad of Joe Hill”


Woody Guthrie, “Union Burying Ground”


Dolly Parton, “9 to 5”


Joan Baez and Mimi Farina, “Bread and Roses”


Tennessee Ernie Ford, “Sixteen Tons”


Billy Bragg, “There is Power in a Union”


John Lennon, “Working Class Hero”


Pete Seeger, “Solidarity Forever”


Now

The Nightwatchmen "The Union Song"

The use of a religious label when referencing a group of people, in an area or region even continent is to me like reference labels of race to associate with a typical social behavior. But when within certain boarders define to the world when the reference points to you and yours. When strife is plumped and spiced with strife again, marinated so as to mellow the wild rarely heard click of the Iraqi Oil meter that counts the drops that drain, as with blood.

I believe in things, I have faith for example that using combinations of methods of science will tell us clues and answers to mysterious natural phenomenon. In analysis of energy in our own forces of nature we found to be true, intelligible applications of science and technology for an apatite to digest for the common knowledge. Apply these combinations of sciences to for example to the appearance of the mysterious hexagon shape and how the dynamics of Saturn's rotation, weather and magnetic fields play and form a geometric correct hexagon. Then again what determines the elliptical or spherical or wobbly shapes to stellar bodies. Through the chaos of interaction of these natural forces there is logical expressions or results. What better argument for a logical analytical creator, the natural order to storm is prime and with twice the reason, to create a visible real result from changing or maintaining of all the variables. There is the math, the physics, and geology that can define to almost certainty if the magnetic fields invisible expanding outward from stellar bodies that illustrate our gravitational fields mapped do revel spirals with ridges like conch shells form. perhaps hollow like tubes, perhaps much more. perhaps you want only to accept the simpler explanation instead of learning such advanced math as 'combinatorics' or nuclear science much less can you grasp basic geology, so you go with creationist but wait this is morphing into something other, fast like too. I also believe flower pedals illustrate the math of nature, or even better just signal in the symmetry that there is logic in chaos, that there is rule of kingdom after all, but it is very presumptuous that we would even pretend that it is driven by emotion. Storms form the anger of. Science can define this storm in much further detail and with no emotional blurs. Observance and study are actions of witness to. When the sciences and technology define even to to the point of recreation, the power exhibits and resembles that claimed only of gods. Like cloning, smaller natural structures than entire planets and solar systems. But the power and ability to create is possessed by man. In cultures around the world today these methods to define our world around us is frown on by many religious folk who just don't want to bother with learning the language and probably do not want to come off dumb, an emotion guides this desire. They leave it short, and feel perfectly comfortable taking a stubborn foothold, a strike to think no more for themselves than that. 'Won't be bothered' is a hell of world away from 'you can't either' emotional expression. Even the next sentence they may express sometimes with great pride of signature, seek and you shall find and it ain't simple or easy to follow.