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A Peaceful Solution Kathy
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Kathy contributes her beautiful a cappella version of “A Peaceful Solution” recorded in her kitchen sound stage. Her simple, sincere and sweet expression of peace offers us a glimpse into the rewards of an authentic down home musician singing about something she believes in.
She also demonstrates an example of the power and honesty of modestly doing what she loves. Kathy shows us what any of us could do if we would just follow the same straight forward instinct.
In the face of Exxon Mobil achieving not only its own record profit making but the biggest profit ever made by any U.S. corporation perhaps we should all consider staying in our kitchens. Consider the fact that British Petroleum, BP, also reported a record earning report for the same time period.
Together just these two oil corporations made $24.83 billion in the past third quarter. It seems to me that appears to be just plain old obscene given what everyone else is going through these days.
Maybe having a fuel efficient car is not enough. Maybe leaving it parked and taking the bus or at least riding with someone else would be a good thing to do.
Not only reducing carbon-dioxide emissions that contribute to global warming but also reducing the profits of those who triumph on our suffering and hardships would be something worth doing. Certainly none of the candidates would suggest this but that is not the only thing we are not hearing from them.
No candidate is talking about ending the counter productive and unsuccessful so-called war on drugs that has lead the U.S. to imprison more of its citizens than any other country in history since Stalin’s U.S.S.R.
No candidate is talking about ending the so-called war on terror that has only terrorized U.S. citizens and stripped us of many important rights and freedoms.
No candidate is talking about stopping all domestic spying including those operations and programs in cooperation with foreign governments that spy on Americans and bypass the law.
No candidate is talking about repealing the Patriot Acts.
No candidate is talking about repealing the Military Commissions Act.
No candidate is talking about stopping the criminalizing of dissent and the harassment of journalists.
No candidate is talking about publicly investigating 9/11 and revealing all the facts and evidence already uncovered by many citizen investigators then hunting down all those responsible including Americans.
No candidate is talking about stopping the sale of armaments and weapons to other countries.
No candidate is talking about stopping killing people needlessly.
No candidate is talking about convicting Blackwater of murders and assassinations in Iraq and Afghanistan and dismantling this private mercenary army.
No candidate is talking about disabling the so-called defense industry, the American war machine and stopping all torture and rendition programs and activities.
No candidate is talking about returning all overseas military personnel, except perhaps those guarding embassies, to the United States.
No candidate is talking about real job training in providing real services to Americans in health care and community services and repair and maintenance of the nation’s infrastructure.
No candidate is talking about re-localizing the entire country in production, manufacturing, food production and all other essential services.
No candidate is talking about becoming a model nation on population control, sustainable living, localized living, healthy living practices, lowering the carbon footprint and reducing the energy demands of U.S. citizens.
No candidate is talking about enforcing minimum mileage standards on all new transportation.
No candidate is talking about ending new freeway construction that makes no sense in the face of peak oil.
No candidate is talking about ending all corporate welfare and special protections, subsidies and privileges.
No candidate is talking about punishing offenders along with industry and corporate transgressions in violation of strict air, water and soil contamination standards with prison time, not just fines.
No candidate is talking about abolishing factory farming of animals.
No candidate is talking about abolishing animal testing.
No candidate is talking about ending all trawling, overfishing and enforcing strict limits.
No candidate is talking about ending ocean dumping.
No candidate is talking about respecting the sovereignty and international rights of nations to be self-governing and self-protecting.
No candidate is talking about stopping the sanctions and restrictions that are starving and killing civilians in foreign countries.
No candidate is talking about ending all federal presence from sovereign Native American lands.
No candidate is talking about recognizing the sovereignty of the Hawaiian people.
No candidate is talking about restoring the Palestinian homeland.
No candidate is talking about restoring the Tibetan homeland.
No candidate is talking about removing all Presidential signing statements and Executive Orders while abolishing this practice and illegal behavior forever.
No candidate is talking about removing all Congressional and Senate perks and special privileges and exemptions including the practice of voting themselves pay raises.
No candidate is talking about abolishing the Federal Reserve and arresting Henry Paulson and Alan Greenspan for high crimes and misdemeanors.
No candidate is talking about abolishing the Electoral College and enabling direct democracy requiring paper ballots that can be trusted and accounted for accurately.
I know there is more, a lot more, but perhaps you get the sense of what I’m talking about.
Maybe Kathy has the right idea.
Maybe it is time that we all retired to our kitchens, sing some songs and start talking among ourselves using the technologies we already have.
Maybe it is time to take back America.
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November 11th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Hate to tell you too late, But Cynthia McKinney is talking about most of these things, and i’ll bet she supports them all. The bulk of your suggestions are to be found in the Green party US platform, and in many cases we advocate going beyond them. Abolishing executive orders is one i will discuss adding as a member of the platform committee, thanks for this and some other good ideas. In most cases Cynthia advocates going well beyond our platform, which is frozen in 2004 for now, as we had some items that were too contentious for the recent convention to want to sign off on, notably acceptance of temporary workers visas. i think if we had a chance to ask her you would find that the few of these things she hasn’t talked about she would either support outright or at least want to look into before refining.
So, there ARE many Green Party candidates who talked about a lot of these things, apparently you were not able to hear them. As we take no corporate donations we are seldom able to put our views before the casual observer, but i feel as more and more people use the internet to find out about what they are interested in that voters will have that problem less and less.
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