So long as state officers and courts advocate for corporate privileges while nullifying local sustainability policies, and the right of the people to use their municipalities to protect the health, safety and welfare of human and natural communities, the right of the people to enact policies for sustainable agriculture, energy production, watershed protection, and environmental stewardship will remain marginalized, in fact “illegal and unconstitutional.”

Read More: http://www.sustainlv.org/index.cfm?organization_id=11&section_id=2147&page_id=9031

The tragedy of the Haitian earthquake continues to unfold, with slow delivery of aid, the horrific number of amputations performed out of desperate medical necessity, more than a million homeless, perhaps 240,000 dead, hunger, dehydration, the emergence of infections and waterborne diseases, and the approach of the rainy season, which will be followed by the hurricane season. Haiti has suffered a massive blow, an earthquake for which its infrastructure was not prepared, after decades—no, centuries—of military and economic manipulation by foreign governments, most notably the United States and France.

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As each moment arises,
Appreciate it aesthetically,
Contemplate it symbolically,
Like the expression of the greatest
Most profound artist composer Dramatist.
Ultimately, all events and Artifacts are Emanations of
One Cosmic Creative Force.

Follow the light of love
Back to the core of your being
And bring divine radiance
Into all of your expressions.

We are here to celebrate
A new alliance of creativity and spirituality.
As artists of our own lives,
We use the medium of our consciousness.
To appreciate living In the unfinished
Masterpiece of the Great Creation.
Look at anything until it becomes a
Sacred Mirror and you see God there.
Our world, our Cosmos,
Our relationship to others and to the world,
Is a holy co-creation.
Each of us is a living breathing miracle
Of the evolutionary creativity of the cosmos.

Love,

Alex and Allyson

the night is getting colder now
she says she can’t remain
under the guise of streetlights
and the endless wind of our age

i tell her there are some who care
who wish to keep her warm
but we are few in number
and we all are chained to the storm

and so she replies, without hindrance or cry,
“the only life worth living is the one where your father dies.”

” The first step, [Former PA Governor Tom] Ridge explained, was to “create nuclear power plants.” Combined with some waste coal and natural gas extraction, you would have an “innovation setter” that would “create jobs, create exports.”

As Ridge counseled the administration to “put that package together,” he sure seemed like an objective commentator. But what viewers weren’t told was that since 2005, Ridge has pocketed $530,659 in executive compensation for serving on the board of Exelon, the nation’s largest nuclear power company. As of March 2009, he also held an estimated $248,299 in Exelon stock, according to SEC filings.

Kalle Lasn was right; if we desire a true democracy, we need to stifle corporate and media power.

Read on: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100301/jones