tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65802443674451740482011-08-02T15:42:02.697-07:00The End of Money: a critique of paying, owing and working "for a living"Why must we pay to live on the planet we're born on?Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.comBlogger971100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-56008383187947661362010-03-26T13:29:00.000-07:002010-03-26T14:19:51.178-07:00Podcast Omega: Single Payer Health Care: An Hour-long SpecialThe 24th and last podcast of the Broadcaster At-Large series is a special on single-payer health care featuring Dr. Margaret Flowers of Physicians for a National Health Program (pnhp.org) and the Baucus 8. Although the Greater Health Insurance Industry Profits Act of 2010 has been passed, it should not be the final word in health care, so download and distribute this program widely. You will findKellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-84661453812412831532010-03-15T11:51:00.000-07:002010-03-15T11:51:30.347-07:00The Woman Who Just Might Save the Planet and Our Pocketbooks
By Fran Korten and Elinor Ostrom, YES! Magazine
Posted on March 14, 2010, Printed on March 15, 2010
http://www.alternet.org/story/145889/
For one thing, she is the first woman to receive the prize. Her Ph.D. is in political science, not economics (though she minored in economics, collaborates with many economists, and considers herself a political economist). But what makes this award Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-65851188529438518102010-02-20T11:57:00.000-08:002010-02-20T11:57:01.140-08:00Meria Heller on Broadcaster At-Large!Meria Heller, author, teacher, painter, business and life consultant and host of The Meria Show, the Internet's long running podcast (10 years) is the guest for the 02-19-10 podcast. It's on the left side of this page, Give it a listen and comeback next week for part 2.Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-32788071301935549792010-02-19T10:36:00.000-08:002010-02-19T10:37:17.360-08:00Results of Jan 30 "Water into Wine" Experimentby Lynne McTaggart
I’ve just heard back from psychologist Dr. Gary Schwartz, director of the Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Healing, and his chief lab technician Mark Boccuzzi, both at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. They have just finished analyzing the results of our historic January 30 Water into Wine Experiment, which I want to share with you.
Like all science, Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-67930181091213862872010-01-31T16:57:00.000-08:002010-01-31T16:57:14.545-08:00Corporate Personhood Should Be Banned, Once and For All Published on Thursday, January 21, 2010 by CommonDreams.org Outrageous SCOTUS Decision Should Reignite Most Necessary of Debatesby Ralph Nader
Today’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission shreds the fabric of our already weakened democracy by allowing corporations to more completely dominate our Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-73621978988853994812010-01-19T12:27:00.000-08:002010-01-19T12:27:16.631-08:00MLK wasn't an athlete, but he understood importance of sportsBy Dave ZirinPrint this article http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/dave_zirin/01/18/mlk/index.html?section=si_latest
One thing about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: the man understood sports.
I don't mean that King was any kind of a star athlete. The only sport that the young, roundish "Mike" King was known to excel at was pocket billiards, which isn't exactly a sport (the golden rule: Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-34619275081023400132010-01-19T12:10:00.000-08:002010-01-19T12:12:28.405-08:00Martin Luther King: We Are Not Interested in Being Integrated into This Value StructureBy Raj on 01/18/2010 in Uncategorized, featured
It’s Martin Luther King Day here in the US. We celebrate it by giving banks a holiday, and letting working people get overtime. The Martin Luther King who’ll be on our screens is a memory filtered of its radical light. Particularly in his later life, King had a sharp diagnosis about how the evils of militarism, racism and poverty had aKellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-72594469447831026722010-01-18T18:58:00.000-08:002010-01-18T18:58:38.961-08:00IMF to Haiti: Freeze Public Wagesposted by Richard Kim on 01/15/2010 @ 5:47pm
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Pilots for 9/11 Truth has reported that the data stream from the flight data recorder (FDR) for American Airlines flight 77, which allegedly struck the Pentagon on 9/11, shows that the cockpit door never opened during the entire 90 minute flight. The data was provided by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), which has refused to comment.
TheKellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-54983574164115776672010-01-18T18:31:00.000-08:002010-01-18T18:31:12.550-08:00Big Brother: Obama Calls for the Integration of State and Federal Military Forces Executive Order Seeks to "Synchronize and Integrate"
by Tom Burghardt
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Antifascist Calling... - Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-7627858560535646502010-01-18T18:20:00.000-08:002010-01-18T18:20:53.782-08:00Obama confidant's spine-chilling proposalObama confidant's spine-chilling proposal Glenn Greenwald
January 16, 2010
(updated below - Update II - Update III - Update IV)
Cass Sunstein has long been one of Barack Obama's closest confidants. Often mentioned as a likely Obama nominee to the Supreme Court, Sunstein is currently Obama's head of the Office of Information and Regulatory AffairsKellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-849231874586183372010-01-18T18:04:00.000-08:002010-01-18T18:04:20.485-08:00Blackwater before Drinking Water -- Greg Palast on Haiti- Greg Palast - http://www.gregpalast.com -
The Right Testicle of Hell:
History of a Haitian Holocaust
Posted By Greg Palast On January 17, 2010 @ 12:17 am In Articles | No Comments
Blackwater before drinking water
by Greg Palast for The Huffington Post
Just in!
Our plea to send medicine to a friend's father in Haiti was answered by Democracy Now! producer Sharif Abdel-Kouddous who will make theKellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-55445329126430703652010-01-06T17:05:00.000-08:002010-01-06T17:05:34.846-08:00Millions Against MandatesAs of this writing, the "Greater Profits for the Health Insurance Industry Act" has not yet passed. But already people are organizing against the mandate to buy private health insurance contained in both the Senate and House versions of the act. My radio news story on one such movement, Millions Against Mandates, can be found on the left sidebar.Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-34133673152255271322010-01-05T07:06:00.000-08:002010-01-05T07:06:48.115-08:00Squeaky Clean and... More Likely to Get Breast Cancer?Are you using personal-care and household products that are linked to breast cancer? While cancer experts estimate that 5% to 10% of breast cancers are hereditary (associated with the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes), the majority of women who get breast cancer have no family history and no known risk factors for the disease. In an effort to explain the breast cancer epidemic, health experts are looking Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-34453268201070450582010-01-04T22:37:00.000-08:002010-01-04T22:37:52.939-08:00US Attacks in Pakistan Killed 700 Civilians in 2009 By The Peninsula.
January 03, 2010 "The Peninsula" -- PESHAWAR: Of the 44 Predator strikes carried out by the American drones in the tribal areas of Pakistan in 12 months of 2009, only five were able to hit their actual targets, killing five key Al Qaeda and Taliban leaders, but at the cost of around 700 innocent civilian lives.
According to the figures compiled by the Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-58643135098703534842010-01-04T22:31:00.000-08:002010-01-04T22:31:59.553-08:005 Myths about Keeping America Safe from Terrorism
By Stephen Flynn
January 3, 2010 "Washington Post" -- With President Obama declaring a "systemic failure" of our security system in the wake of the attempted Christmas bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner, familiar arguments about what can and should be done to reduce America's vulnerabilities are again filling the airwaves, editorial pages and blogosphere. Several of these arguments are based Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-91323597533109208922010-01-04T22:21:00.000-08:002010-01-04T22:40:23.590-08:00Are planned airport scanners just a scam?New technology that Gordon Brown relies on for his response to the Christmas Day bomb attack has been tested – and found wanting
By Jane Merrick
Sunday, 3 January 2010
The explosive device smuggled in the clothing of the Detroit bomb suspect would not have been detected by body-scanners set to be introduced in British airports, an expert on the technology warned last night.
The claim severelyKellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-38261374953140668912009-12-28T14:17:00.000-08:002009-12-28T14:20:12.080-08:00White House's Ties to Health Care Industry Deeper Than Visitor Records ShowBy Daniela Perdomo, AlterNet
Posted on November 26, 2009, Printed on December 28, 2009
In August, the Associated Press asked the Obama White House -- which has promised to be the most transparent administration 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue has ever seen -- to release information on all communications between top staff and health care industry bigwigs. The call went unanswered, so in SeptemberKellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-85026446156541057212009-12-28T14:03:00.000-08:002009-12-28T14:11:01.738-08:00First Commercial 3D Bio-Printer Makes Human Tissues and OrgansInvetech, an innovator in new product development and custom automation for the biomedical, industrial and consumer markets, today announced that it has delivered the world's first production model 3D bio-printer to Organovo, developers of the proprietary NovoGen bioprinting technology. Organovo will supply the units to research institutions investigating human tissue repair and organ replacementKellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-9758664753492247842009-12-28T13:49:00.001-08:002009-12-28T13:57:40.967-08:00One Day We’ll All Be TerroristsBy Chris Hedges
December 28, 2009 "Truthdig" -- Syed Fahad Hashmi can tell you about the dark heart of America. He knows that our First Amendment rights have become a joke, that habeas corpus no longer exists and that we torture, not only in black sites such as those at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan or at Guantánamo Bay, but also at the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in Lower Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-55204151097037236512009-12-24T11:28:00.000-08:002009-12-24T11:29:35.870-08:00Energy, Politics and the US Role in Uganda’s Culture War http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/284407 Uganda's oil, and gay death penalty, may rival Saudi Arabia's Posted Dec 24, 2009 by ■ Ann Garrison Reprinted with the author’s permission. Oil reserves as large as Saudi Arabia's may soon embolden Ugandan officials who've been threatening to punish homosexuals with death, just as independently oil wealthy Saudi Arabia does. U.S. Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-31499312477863951402009-12-22T17:09:00.001-08:002009-12-22T17:09:20.248-08:00Katy Perry’s Trailer Trash Talk…Again Katy Perry First Offended the Lesbians, Then it was the Gays, Now it’s Time to Offend the Transgender Community. Mmm-yeah. This bitc…um…person again. Katy Perry. Pop star, big breasts, plasticine features, bigot. What’s she done now? Well, click on the link above and find out for yourself just how trashy this white trash singer truly is. I first heard of Katy Perry with the Evonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-60507515576701133132009-12-20T18:56:00.000-08:002009-12-20T18:59:11.467-08:00Cost Overruns at Lawrence Livermore National LabAccording to an internal US Department of Energy study, Managers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory shifted costs to understate total spending on the controversial National Ignition Facility mega-laser, The previously secret document, leaked to Trivalley CAREs, a nuclear watchdog group in Livermore CA, pegs the current hidden costs of NIF at $80 million dollars annually.
My news storyKellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-73236981420070902812009-12-20T17:32:00.001-08:002009-12-28T14:21:12.379-08:00Industrial Waste in my Mountain Dew?No, the title of this blog entry isn’t alarmist, nor is it a conspiracy theory.
Let’s talk a moment about…FD&C Yellow #5. We’ve all heard of it, but what is it, really? And why is it that everywhere you turn, you find it in…something that you typically use, or would like to use?
FD&C (Federal Dye & Coloring) Yellow #5 is also known as tartrazine – this is a substance that is a coal-tarEvonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-90185660849313511482009-12-18T20:41:00.000-08:002009-12-18T20:45:13.158-08:00Arts Podcasts HereOccasionally, I interview artists for my podcast series, Broadcaster At-Large. I have decided to place them on this page rather than to create an arts page. This is because the future, as I conceive it to be, eliminates working "for a living" and thus allows everyone to work at their calling,which is my definition of "right livelihood", and not at whatever some "market" will pay for today, even Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-14912289847464573712009-12-17T20:31:00.000-08:002009-12-17T20:33:15.982-08:00AP INVESTIGATION: Monsanto seed biz role revealedBy CHRISTOPHER LEONARD
ST. LOUIS
Confidential contracts detailing Monsanto Co.'s business practices reveal how the world's biggest seed developer is squeezing competitors, controlling smaller seed companies and protecting its dominance over the multibillion-dollar market for genetically altered crops, an Associated Press investigation has found.
With Monsanto's patented genes being Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-29121093735473536452009-12-17T18:44:00.000-08:002009-12-17T18:44:34.366-08:00House passes $636B defense bill; Obama says health costs poised to bankrupt the Fed Gov't.From UPI.COM
The U.S. House passed a $636 billion defense spending bill that also would extend jobless benefits and healthcare for out-of-work Americans another few months. [Thrown in to attract votes to the military spending--K.R.]
The bill also would provide a 3.4 percent military pay increase but did not include funding to send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan as President Obama Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-31800176137747476512009-12-16T06:48:00.000-08:002009-12-16T06:49:40.178-08:00Not Another Sports ShowAs of today, Broadcaster At-Large welcomes "Not Another Sports Show" to its sports page. NASS is intended to be a weekly audio podcast produced by Damian, Neil, Lori and Caroline. The first episode is about college sports and school priorities. The second episode is about the NFL concussion problem and other health issues.
These first two episodes are 70 minutes each. Please give them a listenKellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-55911813161292090182009-12-16T06:00:00.001-08:002009-12-16T06:05:39.207-08:00The End (of Dollar Hegemony) Is Near!
UPDATED ON:
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
21:35 Mecca time, 18:35 GMT
News Middle East
Gulf nations sign monetary pact
Two GCC members declined to ratify the pact despite Kuwait's optimism that it 'has come into effect' [EPA]
A Gulf monetary union pact has been agreed by four of the six nations in the Gulf Co-operation Council at a summit in Kuwait, the country's finance minister has saidKellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-40860719483278658182009-12-14T13:49:00.000-08:002009-12-14T13:55:04.050-08:00Why Are We Drugging Our Kids?
Why Are We Drugging Our Kids?By Evelyn Pringle, TruthOut.org
Posted on December 14, 2009, Printed on December 14, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/story/144538/Prescriptions for psychiatric drugs increased 50 percent with children in the US, and 73 percent among adults, from 1996 to 2006, according to a study in the May/June 2009 issue of the journal Health Affairs. Another study in the same Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-69445090339558392152009-12-14T13:15:00.000-08:002009-12-14T13:16:54.749-08:00Poor Children Likelier to Get Antipsychotics December 12, 2009 Poor Children Likelier to Get Antipsychotics By DUFF WILSON New federally financed drug research reveals a stark disparity: children covered by Medicaid are given powerful antipsychotic medicines at a rate four times higher than children whose parents have private insurance. And the Medicaid children are more likely to receive the drugs for less severe conditions Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-19690602875877461902009-12-14T12:19:00.001-08:002009-12-14T12:22:22.065-08:00End the Fed? Or End the Market Economy?Original Content at OpEdNews
December 11, 2009
End the Fed? Or End the Market Economy?
By shamus cooke
When Republican Congressman Ron Paul recently introduced legislation to audit the Federal Reserve, diverse sections of the political spectrum applauded. And rightfully so. The Fed's role in the still-developing bank bailouts is one of utter secrecy; the total cost of which -- as estimated by Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-42349214804298315332009-12-10T06:42:00.000-08:002009-12-16T19:26:44.490-08:00The Self-Sufficiency Fetish“No man is an island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."
-- John Donne, Meditation XVII
Self-sufficiency, a.k.a. self-reliance or rugged individualism, is one of the great fetishes of American culture. To the self-sufficiency fetishists, being able to take care of Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-38522598950748088142009-12-09T12:19:00.001-08:002009-12-09T12:21:28.328-08:00Rachel Maddow on “Curing” HomosexualityRachel Maddow takes on Richard Cohen, an alleged “ex-gay” who uses his self-professed “expertise” as a “sexual reorientation specialist” to promote the myth that homosexuality is a choice, and whose books touting a “cure” have been used as promotional material in the criminilization of homosexuality in Uganda. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy To this, Evonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-41228695866302906702009-12-07T21:35:00.000-08:002009-12-07T21:37:30.665-08:00American Atheists sue Hardesty, Oklahoma Public Schools and the Texas County, Oklahoma Sheriff’s Department.American Atheists filed suit in federal court today on behalf of an Oklahoma family who say their civil rights were violated by the Hardesty, Oklahoma Public Schools and the Texas County, Oklahoma Sheriff’s Department. The daughter of Chester Smalkowski wanted to play basketball for the Hardesty Public Schools. She was forced from the team when she, an Atheist, refused to recite the Lord’s Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-87671702037236385942009-12-04T15:33:00.000-08:002009-12-04T15:36:26.352-08:00Kucinich to Congress: War is a Threat to our National Security(December 3, 2009) - Congressman Dennis Kucinich delivered an alternative approach to National Security in a speech to Congress - National Security starts at home in America. The war is a threat to our National Security.
Congressman Kucinich stated:
"America is in the fight of its life and that fight is not in Afghanistan - it's here. We are deeply in debt. Our GDP is down. Our manufacturing Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-25536383002233629892009-12-03T09:05:00.000-08:002009-12-03T10:07:17.806-08:00Bernie Sanders Blocks Bernanke Confirmation... With Bi-Partisan Support. The First Step in Ending the Monetary System?Press Release: WASHINGTON, December 2 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today placed a hold on the nomination of Ben Bernanke for a second term as chairman of the Federal Reserve.
“The American people overwhelmingly voted last year for a change in our national priorities to put the interests of ordinary people ahead of the greed of Wall Street and the wealthy few,” Sanders said. “What Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-78726108538793604232009-11-30T19:29:00.000-08:002009-12-16T19:41:21.728-08:00Healthcare or Warfare?November 30, 2009, 7:03 pm
Millions of Jobless Lose Insurance Aid
By KATHARINE Q. SEELYEThe changes that the health-care bills in Congress envision are years away — not soon enough to help the millions of unemployed people who, on Monday, lost their temporary federal subsidies for health insurance.
That means that people like Linda Rasor, 56, who lives in Haslett, near East Lansing, Mich., andKellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-86421735122420589742009-11-30T13:13:00.000-08:002009-11-30T15:06:04.180-08:00Open Source as a Model for Business Is ElusiveNovember 30, 2009
Open Source as a Model for Business Is Elusive By ASHLEE VANCE
SAN FRANCISCO — In many ways, MySQL embodies the ideals of the populist software movement known as open source, in which a program’s creator releases it to the world free of charge, and legions of volunteers contribute improvements that are also freely shared.
The start-up company came out of nowhere, building a Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-48682866114420247712009-11-29T11:57:00.001-08:002009-11-29T12:02:11.238-08:00On the Morality of Eating Animal FleshAs we finish the last of the Thanksgiving feast leftovers, let us revisit the issue of the morality of eating animals. No, this isn’t going to be a holiday lecture on the virtues of veganism. Actually, I have been thinking about this for a few weeks, ever since I was told that a group of vegans were protesting in front of KPFA-FM in Berkeley, CA. I’m a member of the news department there, so I Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-63852710334019591672009-11-29T11:09:00.001-08:002009-11-29T11:09:00.076-08:00Mark Pittman, Reporter Who Foresaw Subprime Crisis, Dies at 52Mark Pittman, Reporter Who Foresaw Subprime Crisis, Dies at 52 By Bob Ivry Nov. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Mark Pittman, the award-winning investigative reporter whose fight to open the Federal Reserve to more scrutiny led Bloomberg News to sue the central bank and win, died Nov. 25 in Yonkers, New York. He was 52. Pittman suffered from heart-related illnesses. The precise cause of his death wasn’tKellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-86542540232267274372009-11-28T12:19:00.000-08:002009-12-16T19:40:34.907-08:00Medicare in Crisis: The Devastating Impacts of a Corporate Health Care BillMedicare in Crisis: The Devastating Impacts of a Corporate Health Care Bill
By Shamus Cooke
Global Research, November 27, 2009; Reprinted by permission of the author.
Wading through the endless debate over health care has exhausted the patience of most Americans — the zigzags, obscure language, and long-winded discussion is inherently repulsive.
But now the dust is starting to settle, and the Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-91750959346300907922009-11-28T12:06:00.000-08:002009-12-16T19:42:11.004-08:00Rejecting the Narrative for Health Reform in America, Believing in a Better WayOpEdNews
Original Content at http://www.opednews.com/articles/Rejecting-the-Narrative-fo-by-Kevin-Gosztola-091123-711.html
Reprinted by permission of the author.
November 23, 2009
Rejecting the Narrative for Health Reform in America, Believing in a Better Way
By Kevin Gosztola
Flickr photo by Truthout.org
To the extent that politicians in Washington, D.C. have not attempted reform of this Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-35078153116273904642009-11-27T10:28:00.000-08:002009-11-27T10:36:30.402-08:00Native Blood: The Myth of Thanksgivingby Mike Ely
Puritan settlers massacre Pequot people.
It is a deep thing that people still celebrate the survival of the early colonists at Plymouth — by giving thanks to the Christian God who supposedly protected and championed the European invasion. The real meaning of all that, then and now, needs to be continually excavated. The myths and lies that surround the past are constantly draped Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-7132449824544084852009-11-25T12:04:00.001-08:002009-11-25T12:10:47.623-08:00Feds Want Rehearing of MLB Drug List RulingNews Item-- SAN FRANCISCO Tuesday, November 24, 2009 (AP) — Federal officials are asking for a rehearing of an appeals court decision that said the government illegally seized a list of Major League Baseball players who tested positive for steroids.
Officials say their investigations have been hampered by the ruling, which established new rules for digital searches.
In a court filing Tuesday, Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-14808255115585221442009-11-22T16:08:00.000-08:002009-11-22T16:08:24.457-08:00Kennedy's Executive Order 11110 was never rescinded. So, the E.O. still stands.Originally posted by Jack on the End the Fed Network.
Kennedy issued his US Notes for much the same reason. On June 4, 1963, Kennedy signed Executive Order 11110, which authorized the US Treasury to issue a new form of silver certificate.
Kennedy issued $4,292,893,825 of cash money; free of debt and free of interest. It was a sufficient amount to allow the nation to operate without the Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-71281580052446265292009-11-22T11:23:00.001-08:002009-11-22T11:23:55.202-08:00Paul/Grayson Amendment to audit Fed passes committeeThe Paul/Grayson amendment to have a genuine and probing audit of the Fed passed the House financial services committee 43-26, with 15 Democrats defying Chmn. Barney Frank (D-MA), the Democractic Leadership and the banking industry to support the amendment whose chief sponsor is Ron Paul (R-TX). Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-71959348118121104262009-11-22T10:18:00.000-08:002009-11-22T10:18:24.405-08:00Now in Under-Reported ReportsA link to the report: Factors Effecting Efforts to Limit Payments to AIG Counterparties.
And a link to a related New York Times article that said: "It’s must reading for any taxpayer hoping to understand why the $182 billion “rescue” of what was once the world’s largest insurer still ranks as the most troubling episode of the financial disaster."Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-25456943634652315912009-11-22T09:57:00.001-08:002009-11-22T09:59:48.958-08:00Factors Affecting Efforts to Limit Payments to AIG CounterpartiesFrom the Objectives section of the introduction: Twenty-seven members of Congress asked SIGTARP (Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program) to review the basis for these counterparty payments, whether they were in the best interests of the taxpayers, and whether they needed to be made at 100% of par value. SIGTARP also sought to determine to what extent AIG continues to Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-76244678608169510092009-11-19T16:29:00.000-08:002009-11-19T16:33:44.031-08:00END THE FED!!!Ron Paul’s bill to audit the Federal Reserve has 298 co-sponsors (69%) in the House. The Senate version, sponsored by Bernie Sanders, has 31 co-sponsors (31%). But in a last-minute power-play by the banks, Rep. Mel Watt wants to gut a proposal for a complete audit of the Federal Reserve. If you don’t think the Fed needs to be audited, go to the video box on the left sidebar and watch the first Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-23006113723540587832009-11-17T19:05:00.000-08:002009-11-17T19:11:44.864-08:00Open Letter to the House Progressive Caucus (Except Kucinich and Massa)I am deeply disappointed in you for voting for the “Greater Health Insurance Industry Profits Act” a.k.a. H.R. 3962, and especially for voting for it with the Stupak anti-abortion amendment attached, after your voting against the amendment's being attached in the first place. Stupak goes beyond even the Hyde Amendment, in that it forbids women from buying insurance coverage for abortion services Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-43824621675321730222009-11-14T11:26:00.001-08:002009-11-14T11:26:53.893-08:00Baseball VideosI have begun the videos on this page with footage from baseball's dead ball era. All of the footage was taken from You Tube, some of it coming from clips of Ken Burns' great documentary "Baseball." I wanted to include Negro League players, so I looked up Satchel Paige. I found a two-part documentary, just over 10 minutes long, created for National History Day 2009 by one Thomas Gunn, aged 15, ofKellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-75418746769700394532009-11-10T11:30:00.000-08:002009-11-10T11:31:04.101-08:00Kucinich: Why I Voted NOOpEdNews Original Content at November 8, 2009 Kucinich: Why I Voted NO By Dennis Kucinich Washington D.C. (November 7, 2009) – After voting against H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement: “We have been led to believe that we must make our health care choices only within the current structure of a predatoryKellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-58428042411114606422009-11-10T10:50:00.000-08:002009-11-10T11:17:17.398-08:00Who Were the Witches? - Patriarchal Terror and the Creation of CapitalismOpEdNews
Original Content
Reprinted by Permission.
November 6, 2009
Who Were the Witches? - Patriarchal Terror and the Creation of Capitalism
By Alex Knight
Order this important book through our links to Amazon.comCaliban and the Witch: Women, The Body, and Primitive Accumulation
This Halloween season, there is no book I could recommend more highly than Silvia Federici's brilliant Caliban and Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-19128755781291623012009-11-08T10:32:00.000-08:002009-11-08T10:46:49.092-08:00Kucinich: Why is it we have Finite Resources for Health Care but Unlimited Money for War? Washington, Nov 6 - Following a statement on the Floor of the House of Representative, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement: “Why is it we have finite resources for health care but unlimited money for war? “The inequities in our economy are piling up: trillions for war, trillions for Wall Street and tens of billions for the insurance companies. Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-91652136247250280622009-11-07T09:38:00.000-08:002009-11-07T09:38:47.129-08:00Coal Company Destroys Last Intact Mountain in Coal River Valley (WVa)Nov 6, 2009, 00:10
For Immediate Release
Contact: Tierra Curry, Center for Biological Diversity, (928) 522-3681
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- A subsidiary of Massey Energy has begun mountaintop-removal coal-mining operations on Coal River Mountain in West Virginia, the only peak in Coal River Valley that hasn’t been blasted away for mining. Blasting for the mine is taking place 200 yards from the Brushy Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-63440254756346486402009-11-04T16:34:00.001-08:002009-11-04T20:19:53.771-08:00The Dangers of Voting on Civil RightsNEWS ITEM – Portland, ME (AP) -- In an election that had been billed for weeks as too close to call, Maine's often unpredictable voters repealed a state law Tuesday that would have allowed same-sex couples to wed. Gay marriage has now lost in all 31 states in which it has been put to a popular vote — a trend that the gay-rights movement had believed it could end in Maine.
_______________________Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-55790890910368551452009-11-03T10:57:00.000-08:002009-11-03T10:59:55.972-08:00On Patenting LifeNews item: Wired Magazine -- November 2, 2009 -- Judge OKs challenge to human-gene patents.
A federal judge ruled Monday that a lawsuit can move forward against the Patent and Trademark Office and the research company that was awarded exclusive rights to human genes known to detect early signs of breast and ovarian cancer.
US Judge Robert W. Sweet of New York, in ruling that the case may Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-35792787751365151912009-11-02T10:30:00.000-08:002009-11-02T10:30:33.797-08:00The M.O. of The Social Contract RenewedThe modus operandi (M.O.) of the book is the same one stated in the subtitle of this blog: Challenging the Assumptions We Live By. Kellia believes we can form any kind of society we will, because human beings are capable of change. But we can only change if we are willing to stop resting on our assumptions. Take, for example, the existence of money. Most of the world's problems stem from either Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-82118671646352870802009-11-01T10:14:00.001-08:002009-11-01T10:18:26.080-08:00Home of the Brave?By John Steinsvold
[A thought-provoking "utopian" article, entitled "Home of the Brave?" which appeared in the American Daily which was published in Phoenix, Arizona on March 14, 2006. It was then republished on a website called The Athenaeum Library of Philosophy. ]
Economists concede that economics is an inexact science. What does that mean? Perhaps it means their economic forecastKellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-36564684557292791232009-10-31T16:20:00.000-07:002009-10-31T16:21:19.157-07:00Bioagents and Bioweapons:High- Containment Laboratories: National Strategy for Oversight is NeededHigh-Containment Laboratories: National Strategy for Oversight is Needed
From the GAO Highlights page for this report:
GAO was asked to determine (1) to what extent, and in what areas, the number of high-containment laboratories has increased in the United States, (2) which federal agency is responsible for tracking this expansion and determining the associated aggregate risks, and (3) Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-91063322140399515212009-10-31T16:14:00.000-07:002009-11-22T10:19:52.559-08:00Communications: Wireless Crisis Foretold: The Gathering Spectrum Storm...and Looming spectrum DroughtWireless Crisis Foretold: The Gathering Spectrum Storm…and Looming Spectrum Drought
This is more a letter to the FCC than a report per se. But the bottomline is that Big Telecom wants Uncle Sam to turn over more of the public spectrum to the private profiteers.
Re: Written Ex Parte Communication, GN Docket No. 09-51.
Dear Chairman Genachowski, and Commissioners Copps, McDowell, Clyburn, and Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-71402454550393783122009-10-31T16:07:00.000-07:002009-10-31T16:07:26.889-07:00Education: Oklahoma HS Students Wouldn't Pass Citizenship TestOklahoma HS Students wouldn't pass citizenship test
From Article by Matthew Ladner:
In order to pass the citizenship test, an applicant must answer six of the 10 questions correctly. As you can see in Table 2, only 2.8 percent of Oklahoma high-school students attending public schools answered six or more questions correctly, and thus pass the citizenship test. Out of the sample of 1,000 Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-85327637793037264592009-10-31T13:25:00.000-07:002009-10-31T13:25:45.148-07:00Health: Abortion Worldwide: A Decade of Uneven ProgressAbortion Worldwide: A Decade of Uneven Progress
Beginning of Executive Summary:
This report assesses progress over the past decade regarding the legality, safety and accessibility of abortion services worldwide. It summarizes developments
in policy and documents recent trends in abortion incidence, with a focus on unsafe abortion. It also examines the relationship between unintended pregnancyKellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-14172105138259349012009-10-31T13:19:00.000-07:002009-10-31T13:19:47.622-07:00Health: Health Insurance and Mortality in US AdultsHealth Insurance and Mortality in US Adults
Beginning of Executive Summary:
Objectives. A 1993 study found a 25% higher risk of death among uninsured
compared with privately insured adults. We analyzed the relationship between
uninsurance and death with more recent data.
Methods. We conducted a survival analysis with data from the Third National
Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. We Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-25226757751344108542009-10-31T13:14:00.000-07:002009-10-31T13:14:16.215-07:00Health: The "Massachusetts Plan": A Failed Model for Health Care ReformThe "Massachusetts' Plan" A Failed Model for Health Care Reform"
Beginning of Executive Summary:
The Massachusetts Health Reform Law of 2006 expanded Medicaid coverage for the poor and made available subsidized, Medicaid-like coverage for additional poor and near-poor residents of the state. It also mandated that middle-income uninsured people either purchase private health insurance or pay a Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-60401016563682898192009-10-31T12:45:00.000-07:002009-10-31T12:52:31.537-07:00Labor: California’s Forgotten Middle-Skill JobsCalifornia's Forgotten Middle Skill Jobs
Beginning of Executive Summary:
With a gross state product of $1.8 trillion dollars, California is the eighth
largest economy in the world, ahead of global powerhouses like Russia, Canada,
India and Mexico. Our diverse state economy encompasses internet startups in
Silicon Valley, the agricultural fields of the Central Valley and the bright Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-47602954723021372702009-10-31T12:23:00.000-07:002009-10-31T13:26:56.625-07:00Labor: Broken Laws, Unprotected Workers: Violations of Employment Laws Broken Laws, Unprotected Workers: Violations of Employment and Labor Laws in America's Cities
Beginning of Executive Summary: This report exposes a world of work in which the core protections that many Americans take for granted—the right to be paid at least the minimum wage, the right to be paid for overtime hours, the right to take meal breaks, access to workers’ compensation when injured, Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-71371948870650063362009-10-30T20:00:00.000-07:002009-10-31T18:12:12.061-07:00Mountaintop Removal Mining (MTR) -- Nothing Less than Rape!Oct 30 was a national day of protest to urge the EPA to end mountaintop removal mining. Early in the afternoon, protest organizer Scott Parkin reported back on Facebook:
"hey all-- we're having a really successful day. but we need your reportbacks. please send us your reportbacks and pics so that we can post them in the blogosphere.
so far,
- 13 activists did a 4 hour sit-in at the EPA HQ in Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-9725406270220071862009-10-27T16:21:00.000-07:002009-10-27T16:53:36.282-07:00A Full-Time Job Ain’t What It Used To BeNews item: October 27, 2009 -- San Francisco Chronicle -- The California State Employment Development Department estimates that the underemployment rate hit 21.9 percent in September. The underemployment rate includes people who could get only part-time work as well as those who want jobs but were too discouraged to look, in addition to the jobless who are actively looking for work.
It is good Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-16290551825436606302009-10-26T15:53:00.000-07:002009-10-26T15:56:48.909-07:00ARCHIVE: MLB + DRM = foul ball!by Kellia Ramares
[Originally published on my baseball blog on January 6, 2008]
I downloaded the Tony Gwynn documentary from MLB.com last night. I have yet to watch it, but I have made an important discovery about MLB downloads: You are not downloading a file to keep and play as much as you want, you are only renting the file for a limited number of viewings, or in my case, attempts to view.
IKellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-6730065503877902232009-10-26T15:23:00.001-07:002009-10-26T15:37:24.815-07:00ARCHIVE: Welcome to airline pricing at the ballpark (YUCK!)by Kellia Ramares
[Originally published on my baseball blog on January 5, 2009]
News Item from MLB.com:
The Giants ... will become the first Major League team to use a "dynamic" pricing structure, in which the team adjusts ticket prices up to the morning of a game based on market demand. [The Rockies do some price adjustment the day of the game but the Giants program is more full-out Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-29559984271439855972009-10-26T15:13:00.000-07:002009-10-26T15:18:16.598-07:00ARCHIVE: The Beauty of BaseballBy Kellia Ramares
[Originally published on by baseball blog on April 24, 2009]
Danny Haren pitched seven innings of shutout ball for the Arizona Diamondbacks against the Colorado Rockies, Wednesday, striking out nine along the way. But the score at the seventh inning stretch was 0-0. So unless the Diamondbacks scored in their half of the seventh, it looked as though the best Haren would do Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-85929588997661027332009-10-26T14:31:00.000-07:002009-10-26T14:38:18.582-07:00ARCHIVE: Thoughts on the Creative Process 5: Why Susan Boyle Makes Us Cryby Kellia Ramares
[N.B.] Essays 1-4 are available on Machini-mations.
In case you haven't seen it yet, here's a link to a tape of Susan Boyle's bravura performance in "Britain's Got Talent." I didn't watch it at the first opportunity. Reality shows and talent shows are not my cup of tea. To me, they seem to be yet another fad in the drive to lower costs of TV production. But I kept seeing news Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-26663137727853667842009-10-26T14:12:00.000-07:002009-10-26T14:14:56.240-07:00ARCHIVE: As Bush threatens Iraq with nukes, US ramps up its own biowarfare researchIt was originally published on the Center for Research on Globalisation on December 26, 2002.
When I booted up my AOL account on the morning of December 11th, I was greeted by the picture of someone in a gas mask and the headline: "You gas us; We'll nuke you!" Bad as that was, the headline on West County Times was worse: "Pre-emptive nuke strike a possibility." The San Francisco Chronicle bannerKellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-86778909637705045862009-10-26T13:45:00.000-07:002009-10-26T13:46:40.114-07:00ARCHIVE: Making a killing by threatening to make a killingBy Kéllia Ramares
Online Journal Associate Editor
April 25, 2005—I really thought I had my finger on the pulse of Internet, or at least Blue State Internet, humor when I started offering products in my online store that said, Necons, Inc. Killing for the Culture of LifeSM. When sales of my audio documentary, "Peak Oil," started moving a bit in February, I figured word-of-mouth advertising, Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-26887249344069187552009-10-26T13:07:00.000-07:002009-10-26T13:19:04.150-07:00ARCHIVE: Your Religion is NOT My Law: Unscrupulous American Theocrats aim to destroy our Constitution[Originally published on Online Journal on April 29, 2005]
by Kellia Ramares
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.
But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It
neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1785.
April 29, 2005--America is NOT a Christian nation.Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-16567374771516619872009-10-26T12:19:00.000-07:002009-11-03T13:07:25.771-08:00ARCHIVE: Corporations: Do you love them more than you’ll admit?By Kéllia Ramares
Online Journal Associate Editor
March 5, 2005—In late February, KPFA-FM, part of the Pacifica Radio Network, finished a successful fundraiser that garnered over a million dollars in pledges. If they run true to form, they’ll actually collect about 85 percent of the money. KPFA, the first listener-sponsored radio station, will be back for more in May, August and October. Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-62920632633582987312009-10-26T12:12:00.000-07:002009-10-30T22:25:47.657-07:00ARCHIVE: Book Review: Oil, Power & Empire: Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda[Originally published in December, 2004 in Online Journal]
Oil, Power & Empire: Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda
By Larry Everest
Common Courage Press; ISBN 1-56751-246-1
392 Pages, $19.95USD
Review by Kellia Ramares
The U.S. government has mustered a dizzying and often shifting assortment of
“reasons” for invading and occupying Iraq. At one time or another—sometimes in the
Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-33862774605207274932009-10-25T20:51:00.000-07:002009-10-29T23:37:02.858-07:00ARCHIVE: Book Review: War and Globalisation: The Truth Behind September 11War and Globalisation: The Truth Behind September 11
By Michel Chossudovsky
Global Outlook ISBN: 0-9731109-0-2
158 Pages. List Price US $14.95
Reviewed by Kéllia Ramares
Online Journal Associate Editor
What were Rep. Porter Goss and Senator Bob Graham and other members of the Senate and House intelligence committees doing, together with the alleged money-man behind 9-11, at breakfast on CapitolKellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-59066726285109593242009-10-24T10:35:00.000-07:002009-10-26T13:55:57.146-07:00Some inconvenient truths about competitionby Kellia Ramares
Here is an excerpts of a story that appeared in the New York Times on October 21, 2009. The title of the story was “$13 an hour? 500 sign-up, 1 wins a job”.
"The 34-year-old recruiter decided the fairest approach was simply to start at the beginning, reviewing resumes in the order in which they came in. When she found a desirable candidate, she called to ask a few Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-30663616646484014192009-10-19T21:39:00.000-07:002009-10-29T23:38:35.919-07:00ARCHIVE: My Experience with Retro-Intention[Originally published on my page at The Living The Field Community on April 3, 2009].
Of course, I didn't know what I was doing or even that I was doing it at the time. In the late 1980s, I sang with a local community chorus. We were all amateurs. But late in my tenure there, a woman who had been a professional singer I'll call S. joined us. She was older than most of us and more used to being a Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-39383894736796033632009-10-19T21:27:00.000-07:002009-10-29T23:40:27.801-07:00ARCHIVE: Intention and Very Sick Babies[Originally published on my page of The Living The Field Community on January 19, 2009].
by Kellia Ramares
In the middle 80's, I had a roommate named Karen who was studying to be a labor coach. As part of her training, she worked for a time in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). There she met a male nurse. I don't recall if she ever mentioned his name, so I will call him Manuel. He was MexicanKellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-2093520640486919152009-10-19T21:18:00.001-07:002009-10-29T23:41:19.738-07:00ARCHIVE: Nuclear and Bioweapons Research in Livermore, CAby Kellia Ramares
[Originally published in Sprol on February 26, 2007. Pictures from that site have been omitted, but the citations have been left in so that you can find them if you wish].
The Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL), a premier nuclear weapons research facility, is unique among America’s national labs in that it is in an urban area. It is in Livermore, California, cheek-by-jowl Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-33118166186636042552009-10-19T21:04:00.001-07:002009-10-29T23:41:58.640-07:00ARCHIVE: Pete Rose[Originally published on my baseball blog on July 30, 2009]
We have just had inductions to the Hall of Fame and the ritual would not be complete without a mention of Pete Rose.
ROSE SHOULD BE IN THE HALL OF FAME. Yeah, he bet in baseball, but unlike the 1919 Black Sox, there is no evidence that he bet against himself or his team or otherwise did anything to throw a game.
Of course, it would have Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-69432286081709648852009-10-19T20:59:00.001-07:002009-10-29T23:42:28.588-07:00ARCHIVE: Greening MLB[Originally published on my baseball blog on August 8, 2009]
I just got a notice on my Facebook page that there was article talk about how the sports world was looking to be more clean and green. Here is my response:
Speaking as a baseball fan, I think MLB could be more green by going retro at the park. Manually operated scoreboards instead of these monster electronic jobs that use so much Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-53359240193322660702009-10-19T20:40:00.000-07:002009-10-30T22:29:16.760-07:00ARCHIVE: Book Review: Eating Fossil Fuels: Oil, Food and the Coming Crisis in AgricultureEating Fossil Fuels: Oil, Food and the Coming Crisis in Agriculture
By Dale Allen Pfeiffer
New Society Press
ISBN 0865715653
125 Pages, Paperback
by Kellia Ramares
[This review was originally published in Online Journal on December 1, 2006]
At just the point when agriculture was running out of unexploited tillable lands, technological breakthroughs in the 1950s and 1960s allowed itKellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-28314626394238613762009-10-19T20:30:00.000-07:002009-10-30T22:30:46.308-07:00ARCHIVE: Book Review: Crude: The Story of Oilby Kellia Ramares
[This review was originally published in Online Journal on April 2, 2007]
Crude: The Story of Oil
By Sonia Shah
Seven Stories Press
ISBN 1-58322-625-7
232 Pages, Hardback
Crude is the tenth book related to oil that I’ve read and reviewed. As you can expect, a certain amount of material in these books is old hat to me by now; the names of some of the experts cited, andKellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-40629431408360565362009-10-19T18:25:00.000-07:002009-10-29T23:44:20.294-07:00ARCHIVE: Book Review: Spychips: How major corporations and government plan to track your every move with RFIDReview by Kellia Ramares
[This review was originally published on Online Journal on January 17, 2006]
Spychips: How major corporations
and government plan to track your
every move with RFID
By Katherine Albrecht & Liz McIntyre
Foreward by Bruce Sterling, Wired.com
ISBN: 1595550208
Hardcover, 270 pp
Nelson Current, 2005
Marketers want to tag data to identify you Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-90686023439629558772009-10-19T18:03:00.001-07:002009-10-30T22:17:03.172-07:00ARCHIVE: Book Review: Low-Wage Capitalismby Kellia Ramares
[This review was first published on Online Journal on July 28, 2009]
Low-Wage Capitalism
What the new globalized,
high-tech imperialism means
for the class struggle in the US
By Fred Goldstein
World View Forum
ISBN 0-89567-151-4
312 Pages, Softcover
$19.95 USD or available free online
With the corporate capitalist economy falling apart Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-30211926918436935012009-10-19T17:50:00.001-07:002009-10-30T23:14:41.399-07:00ARCHIVE: The Revolution will not be medicalized: The real reason we don’t have single-payer universal health careby Kellia Ramares
[This essay was originally published on Cyrano’s Journal Online on July 9, 2009]
THERE SHOULD NOT EVEN BE A DEBATE OVER SINGLE PAYER. All of the objections to it are a bunch of baloney.
Waiting times: I remember my dying grandmother stooped over her cane in agony while waiting hours for Montefiore Hospital, a prestigious private hospital in the Bronx, to find a bed for her – Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-88514165999498297152009-10-19T17:01:00.000-07:002009-10-29T23:45:39.936-07:00The Trouble with Moneyby Kéllia Ramares
The current economic crisis is bringing monetary reform movements such as End The Fed, to the fore. These movements bring to light what is wrong with our current monetary system, i.e., it is the instrument by which people are held in debt slavery.
But these movements often call for a return to the backing of paper money with gold and silver. In other words, that we should be Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-53964218531655646572009-10-11T13:00:00.000-07:002009-11-02T09:55:23.093-08:00About the WritersKellia Ramares, of Oakland, CA, has been a member of the KPFA News Department since 1999. She turned 54 on July 31, 2009. She has a BA in Economics from Fordham University in the Bronx, NY, and a law degree from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. She did not become a lawyer, going instead into legal publishing and then into journalism. She views legal education as good training for Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-36921185026834377452009-10-11T12:24:00.000-07:002009-12-24T17:12:44.289-08:00What’s with the orc, and why is he pointing a sword at me?Hello, my name is Tokkar, and I…I play World of Warcraft (breaks down in tears, receives a lot of pats on the back and “Hello, Tokkar” from the others sitting in the circle).
Okay, go on, groan…but World of Warcraft, while a fun game and a great time-waster (not to mention a wonderful release of pent-up frustrations after a day gone otherwise sour…just picture your boss being that big, evil…Evonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-3816085150490778712009-10-07T21:17:00.001-07:002009-10-18T16:17:59.784-07:00Handling the Hate Shirley Phelps-Roper leads a terrible existence, filled with anger and rage. Her absolute, unadulterated hatred consumes her. Indeed, it has become the very fabric of her existence.
This is a woman who does not have any love for anyone in her heart, and she demonstrates this every single day with her words and her message:
God Hates (fill in the blank).
As children, we are Evonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-22119026326126756422009-10-03T21:06:00.001-07:002009-10-30T22:02:15.106-07:00Legislating Hatred?The “Stand for Marriage: Maine” group is fighting to preserve their right to hate homosexuals. How else can you explain why they have spent nearly $1 million to rescind the same-sex marriage laws that were put into place in Maine?
And just how much money did they spend in California? Oh, yes…they’re the same group that pushed Proposition 8 through. I bet you didn’t know that, did you? And they’Evonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-12230008221573357902009-09-29T15:05:00.001-07:002009-10-29T23:47:46.606-07:00ARCHIVE: Sign of a Sick CivilizationHere is a photo posted to the Live Video bulletins by JDProductions.
The ad on the truck is irrelevant. The issue is the truck itself!
In my neck of the woods, these trucks are black and the company that runs them is called Bubble Media. In an era of rising gas prices, in which we need to stop depending so much on fossil fuels that contribute to global climate change, there are companies Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0