Thursday, May 17, 2018
Michael Diven and Wayne Fontana spent lots of money and paid plenty to printers and postmaster
Both Diven and Fontana ads were over the top.
Fwd: Volunteer with PUMP for OpenStreetsPGH - May 27th!
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Join with us as we "takeover" an intersection for the day!
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Executive Director of SKWIM USA, a 501(c)(3)
PPS Summer Dreamers' Swim & Water Polo Camp Executive Coach
PPS Summer Dreamers' Swim & Water Polo Camp Executive Coach
Middle School Swim Coach at The Ellis School
Former Varsity Boys Swim Coach, Pittsburgh Obama Academy
Recent Head Water Polo Coach, Carnegie Mellon University Women's Club Team
Pittsburgh Combined Water Polo Team
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Pittsburgh Combined Water Polo Team
http://CLOH.org
412 298 3432 = cell
Fwd: Panel discussion and good primer on neoliberalism
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From: John H
Attached is a very good and interesting panel discussion held at West Point involving a number of retired military personnel who are critical of the current state of endless war now engaged in by the United States all around the globe. The panel is chaired by Andrew J. Bacevich, a retired Army Lt. Col. And military historian teaching at Boston College. While the discussion is both interesting and important, it does fail to address what I believe is the core basis for this nation's otherwise inexplicable determination to wage war on just about every not already subservient to our military posture. It now appears that our military interventions are completely out of political control and essentially operating on automatic pilot because so much of the U.S. economy is dependent upon military and security contracts and the sale of military hardware to other nations and terrorist groups around the world. Furthermore, the areas of operation are largely determined by political submission to the will of Israeli Zionist radicals (including neocons here in the U.S.) who have essentially gained control of our political processes and are determined to have the U.S. wipe out any real or imagined adversaries in the Middle East and Northern Africa.
In this process the U.S. has intentionally created, supported and funneled weapons to a multitude of designated terrorist organizations which we simultaneously claim that we are determined to destroy. The end result is a proliferation of terror groups which regularly attack military and civilian targets, thus further justifying the need for ever increasing military activities on our part and on the part of our NATO allies. This results in an endless cycle of violence, mass casualties and refugees in those areas in which we intervene which quite naturally leads to the declared need for greater security measures and the concomitant loss of civil rights at home and abroad, as well as the rampant rise of right-wing nationalism in those nations (including ours) impacted by the refugee crisis.
What is also often missed in this horrific assault on some of the poorest nations on earth, is how much of it is stoked by the simultaneous rise of neoliberalism as a political and ideological movement in lock-step with the militarization and the severe limitations on previously granted rights. Neoliberalism, at its core, operates on the premise that only the "market" has rights; everyone is subject to market forces. This leads to policies which effectively tie corporations which, under neoliberalism can do no wrong, directly into government which is charged with protecting the rights of corporations and those who manage them. This leads to a situation where corporations become dependent upon government subsidies to prosper and survive and what better way to provide subsidies than through the Defense Department. This, combined with the neoliberal financialization of virtually all aspects of economic life, leads to a situation where only the interests of powerful international corporations can be taken into consideration by government policy makers. And so, war becomes the natural constraining force used to cow the populace into ultimate submission – because they convinced us that there is no alternative; or as Margaret Thatcher so cleverly put it, TINA.
This, as a result, is, almost without question, the single most dangerous time in human history… Or, as the old Chinese curse is reputed to have augured, may you live in interesting times. We surely seem to have found those times the curse referred to, and then some. When combined with man-made climate change humanity is on a downward spiral which may well not be survivable during the lifespan of those now alive.
John
Articles:
Fwd: Water
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From: John H
If you think that water depletion and contamination by pollutants is not a world-wide problem, you're not thinking – you're dreaming. Check out this article from today's Washington Post for some frightening information on depletion and then consider that a very high percentage of the water we drink, cook with and bathe in is being polluted by an unimaginable volume of pollutants, some visible and some not, injected legally and illegally by corporations and people on a daily basis. Many of these chemical pollutants are not even acknowledged or identified. But one strong indicator is the incredible spiking of the cancer rate in many areas of this nation. It's long past time to stop this flagrant abuse of this critical resource for life.
John
ARTILCLE: Humans are causing massive changes to the location of water all around the Earth
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Fwd: Pittsburgh should be aware . . . Amazon
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From: John H
From: John H
Pittsburghers should be very aware that becoming another Seattle could be incredibly damaging to the entire structure of the city and the region should they succeed in bribing Amazon to set up HQ2 in the 'burg. Watch out what you wish for, since you may get more than what you want.
John
Fwd: Why Tim Urban's talk became such an instant success
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From: Neil Gordon
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Fwd: Book Musial Moments for your summer program
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From: St. Louis Sports Commission's Sportsmanship Foundation
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