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#Thinkwing: Mon,10/24/2016, 9PM @KPFTHouston FM 90.1. TOPICS: The HISD Prop 1 Question: Yes or no? Do you feel lucky??, The 4th Industrial Revolution, GOP Fracking, McCain Vows Supreme Court Blockade Will Continue Through Clinton’s Presidency, At odds over Brexit: UK nations hold talks on common stance, HISD looking for solution to empty shelves in middle school libraries, Lawmakers condemn Pentagon push to make California veterans pay back enlistment bonuses, more. Open Forum! [AUDIO]
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- You’re entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts;
- An educated electorate is a prerequisite for a democracy.
SIGNOFF QUOTE[s]:
The EU was formed to keep a united European continent at peace through the use of economic incentives. Peace is the main product of the EU. – Michael Honig, Oct 24, 2016
“An educated electorate is a prerequisite for a democracy.” ~ Michael R Honig, July 2000, The Newsletter of The North Texas Skeptics
For A Price, You Can Get Behind the Closed Doors of Fort Bend Business, by Steve Miller (Houston Press)
When you get to a certain level, this is how things ‘get done’. This Houston Press story is about the Greater Fort Bend Economic Development Council. At its root, that’s a local story, but roots are the invisible part. Replicate this story by the many thousands of counties, cities and miscellaneous business groups in the United States and you see on an escalating scale how, behind closed doors, things ‘get done’.
Mike
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For A Price, You Can Get Behind the Closed Doors of Fort Bend Business
Tuesday, October 11, 2016 at 6 a.m.(Houston Press)
At just after 7 a.m. on a mid-September day, a visitor made it no farther than just inside the glass doors of the development council. About 30 or so directors, mostly white, male, in their fifties, wearing dark suit coats and with the tops of their Men’s Wearhouse dress shirts open, wandered about inside a meeting room off the main office, sipping coffee from paper cups. On each high-backed leather chair, both around large tables and around the sides of the room, sat meeting agendas emblazoned with the Greater Fort Bend Economic Development Council’s logo.
“May I help you?” a woman asked in the tone of someone addressing a homeless person seeking a seat at Fleming’s. She summoned council CEO Jeff Wiley, a cool-headed, well-coiffed gentleman with a brunette shock of hair. “This is a private meeting,” Wiley advised, not unpleasantly. He is friendly but serious.
Why? Aren’t these people doing the work for the public? Some of the people in there are employed by the cities and the school districts and the county. “Yes, but they are business leaders,” Wiley said. Okay, but can’t we just hear what they’re talking about? After all, isn’t this to benefit the whole county? What is so secret? “There is nothing secret. It’s a private meeting,” Wiley said.
Millions of dollars are spent and generated by the Fort Bend economic development group, which draws up a legislative agenda and advises local municipalities and school districts on political stances and strategies. It is often the first group to greet prospective corporate leaders who may be looking to come to the county.
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Magical. Mystical. Comforting. Frightening. Is this how we should end? Would we prefer it!
FROM: https://twitter.com/verge/status/787654834614784000
Speak, Memory:When her best friend died, she rebuilt him using artificial intelligence
By Casey Newton (The Verge) (CA. Oct. 16, 2016)
When the engineers had at last finished their work, Eugenia Kuyda opened a console on her laptop and began to type.
“Roman,” she wrote. “This is your digital monument.”
It had been three months since Roman Mazurenko, Kuyda’s closest friend, had died. Kuyda had spent that time gathering up his old text messages, setting aside the ones that felt too personal, and feeding the rest into a neural network built by developers at her artificial intelligence startup. She had struggled with whether she was doing the right thing by bringing him back this way. At times it had even given her nightmares. But ever since Mazurenko’s death, Kuyda had wanted one more chance to speak with him.
A message blinked onto the screen. “You have one of the most interesting puzzles in the world in your hands,” it said. “Solve it.”
Kuyda promised herself that she would.
#Thinkwing: Mon,10/17/2016, 9PM @KPFTHouston FM 90.1. TOPICS: The HISD Prop 1 Question: Yes or no? IT’S A TRAP!, NCGOP Bombing, GOP Fracking, Assange Cut Off by Ecuador, more. Open Forum! [AUDIO]
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- You’re entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts;
- An educated electorate is a prerequisite for a democracy.
SIGNOFF QUOTE[s]: Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Don’t be intimidated: VOTING IS YOUR RIGHT AS A CITIZEN!
Robert Andrews For any voters who are intimidated or blocked from voting by Trump’s brown shirts…er I mean election monitors:
100 yrs ago, Sunday: Oct. 16, 1916: My preface, plus “How Planned Parenthood Changed Everything”, from TIME.com
Contraception has only been entirely legal in all 50 States for less than 50 years. There are still people fighting to take us backwards.
I’ve said for several years now that a large fraction of the Anti-Choice/Anti-Abortion lobby isn’t so much against abortion per se, but against ‘illicit’ sex and ‘recreational’ sex, even among married couples. Until Pro-Choice and Pro-Birth Control advocates understand that, they will never be able to properly fight the so-called ‘Pro-Lifers’.
The so-far invisible fracture lines in the anti-Choice movement — Anti-abortion, anti-recreational sex, and anti-birth control — must be split apart in the public discourse. These are distinct groups even though there is obvious overlap, and they have made common cause.
Many Americans are sympathetic to some aspect of the Pro-Life argument, but most part company with the opponents of birth control and non-reproductive (i.e., ‘recreational’) sex. The vast majority of Americans want to manage their fertility and control the number of children they have. (the “planning” part of Planned Parenthood).
Once these distinct groups are exposed as individual interest groups that have made common cause, the Pro-Choice fight might be more successful.
– Mike
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“In 1965, the Supreme Court ruled in Griswold v. Connecticut that it was unconstitutional for the government to prohibit married couples from using birth control. In 1967 activist Bill Baird was arrested for distributing a contraceptive foam and a condom to a student during a lecture on birth control and abortion at Boston University. Baird’s appeal of his conviction resulted in the United States Supreme Court case Eisenstadt v. Baird (1972), which extended the Griswold holding to unmarried couples, and thereby legalized birth control for all Americans.” ~ Wikipedia
“When Sanger appeared before the judge, he waved a cervical cap from the bench and argued that no woman should have “the right to copulate with a feeling of security that there will be no resulting conception.” She went to jail for 30 days.” ~ @charlottealter, Oct. 14, 2016 (TIME.com)
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How Planned Parenthood Changed Everything
@charlottealter, Oct. 14, 2016 (TIME.com)
Underwood Archives / Getty Images Women and men sitting with baby carriages in front of the Sanger Clinic in Brooklyn, N.Y., October 1916.
The first birth-control clinic in the U.S. opened 100 years ago, on Oct. 16, 1916
More than one hundred years ago, Sadie Sachs tried to give herself an abortion. The 28-year-old mother of three knew she and her husband could not afford another child. So one hot July day in 1912, Sadie’s husband Jake came home from work to find her unconscious in their bed, their three children screaming. Jake called a doctor, who called a nurse, who was named Margaret Sanger.
Sanger and the doctor worked for three weeks to fight Sadie’s sepsis and nurse her back from the brink of death. When she was finally getting better, Sadie asked the doctor if there was anything she could do to prevent another pregnancy. In her memoir, Sanger later wrote that the doctor advised Sadie to resist “any more such capers,” and then this happened:
“I know, doctor,” she replied timidly, “but,” and she hesitated as though it took all her courage to say it, “what can I do to prevent it?”
The doctor was a kindly man, and he had worked hard to save her, but such incidents had become so familiar to him that he has long since lost whatever delicacy he might once have had. He laughed good-naturedly. “You want to have your cake and eat it too, do you? Well, it can’t be done.” Then picking up his hat and bag to depart he said, “Tell Jake to sleep on the roof.”
I glanced quickly at Mrs. Sachs. Even through my sudden tears I could see stamped on her face an expression of absolute despair. We simply looked at each other, saying no word until the door had closed behind the doctor. Then she lifted her thin, blue-veined hands and clasped them beseechingly. “He can’t understand. He’s only a man. But you do, don’t you? Please tell me the secret, and I’ll never breathe it to a soul. Please!”
Three months later, Jake Sachs called Sanger again. This time, Sadie died ten minutes after Sanger arrived. That’s when Sanger decided: “I was finished with palliatives and superficial cures; I was resolved to seek out the root of the evil, to do something to change the destiny of mothers whose miseries were vast as the sky.”
[See full article HERE.]
Here’s the Video Donald Trump Worried Would Be Used in a Campaign Ad (TIME Magazine)
The thing that struck me when I watched this was how much Trump rambled.
I’ve had to testify under oath. Paraphrasing, the best advice I ever got was, “Answer the question honestly. Answer what was asked. No more and no less.”
Trump’s lawyer jumps in once at the Serta question and cautions Trump about confidential information (I guess she can’t tell him not to talk so much), and for a few seconds Trump confines himself to yes and no answers, but then he returns to unnecessary embellishment and self-aggrandizement in his answers.
He Just. Can’t. Resist.
The full videos are at BUZZFEED.com. Click here for that article with complete videos.
Mike
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Here’s the Video Donald Trump Worried Would Be Used in a Campaign Ad
(@tcberenson),Sept. 30, 2016
“Trump gave [this June 16, 2016] deposition in … connection with a lawsuit he filed in 2015 after chef Geoffrey Zakarian pulled out of plans to open a restaurant in Trump’s new D.C. hotel.” ~ Tessa Berenson (Video from POLITICO.COM) CLICK ON THE ARTICLE TO SEE THE VIDEO.
A video was released Friday of Donald Trump testifying under oath about his inflammatory rhetoric about Hispanics and immigrants, despite his lawyers’ arguments that it could be used in a campaign ad.
Trump gave the deposition in June in connection with a lawsuit he filed in 2015 after chef Geoffrey Zakarian pulled out of plans to open a restaurant in Trump’s new D.C. hotel. A D.C. Superior Court judge ruled the release of the video Thursday after Trump’s lawyers requested it stayed sealed over fears the content could be subject to “partisan editing,” Politico reports.
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Explainer: Why do Muslim women wear a burka, niqab or hijab?, by James Vyver [666 ABC Canberra]
Explainer: Why do Muslim women wear a burka, niqab or hijab?
[666 ABC Canberra] by James Vyver Updated (Thu Oct 02, 2014) 14:19:13 EST
PHOTO – Explained: The differences between the burka, niqab, hijab, chador and dupatta. (ABC News: Lucy Fahey)
It has been called a security risk and a “flag of fundamentalism”, there have been calls to ban it and it has been associated with terrorism.
So what exactly is the burka? And why do some Muslim women wear it?
Raihan Ismail is a lecturer in Middle East Politics and Islamic Studies at the Australian National University.
Dr Ismail spoke with 666 ABC Canberra to answer some common questions about the burka.
Why do some Muslim women wear burkas?
The Koran calls for both men and women to ‘cover and be modest’.
The terrorist inside my husband’s brain, by Susan Schneider Williams, BFA
The article below was written by Susan Schneider Williams, who is the widow of Robin Williams.
Robin Williams was reported to have committed suicide on August 11, 2014. News reports talked about this act being the culmination of a long bout with chronic depression. In fact, his depression was a complication of a neurological disease called Lewy body disease (LBD).
I encourage you to read the article below for a fuller understanding of this obscure (to most people) disease and what it can mean to you or a loved one.
Mike
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ORIGINAL LINK: http://neurology.org/content/87/13/1308.full
Special Editorial | Neurology September 27, 2016, 87:13 1308–1311
The terrorist inside my husband’s brain
- Correspondence to S. Schneider Williams: susan@susanschneiderfineart.com
- Research Support, Foundations and Societies: Serving on the board of directors for the American Brain Foundation
This is a personal story, sadly tragic and heartbreaking, but by sharing this information with you I know that you can help make a difference in the lives of others.
As you may know, my husband Robin Williams had the little-known but deadly Lewy body disease (LBD). He died from suicide in 2014 at the end of an intense, confusing, and relatively swift persecution at the hand of this disease’s symptoms and pathology. He was not alone in his traumatic experience with this neurologic disease. As you may know, almost 1.5 million nationwide are suffering similarly right now.
Although not alone, his case was extreme. Not until the coroner’s report, 3 months after his death, would I learn that it was diffuse LBD that took him. All 4 of the doctors I met with afterwards and who had reviewed his records indicated his was one of the worst pathologies they had seen. He had about 40% loss of dopamine neurons and almost no neurons were free of Lewy bodies throughout the entire brain and brainstem.
…… [The complete article can be read here: ORIGINAL LINK: http://neurology.org/content/87/13/1308.full
#Thinkwing: Mon,10/10/2016, 9PM @KPFTHouston FM 90.1. TOPICS: Presidential & VP Debates, GOP Fracking, Ana Navarro, Columbus Day, more. Open Forum! [AUDIO]
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Houston Mayor Annise Parker [L] with Mike (Dec. 7, 2015)
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- You’re entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts;
- An educated electorate is a prerequisite for a democracy.
SIGNOFF QUOTE[s]:
“You know, comrades, that I think in regard to this: I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this — who will count the votes, and how.” ~ Joseph Stalin (A historical source has been found for one version of this quote. The source is Boris Bazhanov’s Memoirs of Stalin’s Former Secretary, published in 1992 and only available, so far as I know, in Russian. The pertinent passage, which appears near the end of chapter five, reads as follows (loosely translated with the help of Google)
POSSIBLE TOPICS: Presidential & VP Debates, GOP Fracking, Ana Navarro, Columbus Day, more.
- TEXAS: REGISTER TO VOTE FOR THE GENERAL ELECTION
- To vote in November 8th’s presidential elections, you have to be registered by TUESDAY, October 11th – TOMORROW! Make sure YOU are registered!
- Go to HarrisVotes.com or VoteTexas.gov.
- To vote in November 8th’s presidential elections, you have to be registered by TUESDAY, October 11th – TOMORROW! Make sure YOU are registered!
Women’s Suffrage: 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution – Women’s Right to Vote.
19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Women’s Right to Vote. Joint Resolution of Congress proposing a constitutional amendment extending the right of suffrage to women, May 19, 1919; Ratified Amendments, 1795-1992; General Records of the United States Government; Record Group 11; National Archives. ~ National Archives and Records Administration
Birthright Voting: The 14th Amendment to the US Constitution – Which States Ratified It, and When
The 14th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified on July 9, 1868, and granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed. ~ 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Primary Documents of
Abolishing Slavery: The 13th Amendment to the US Constitution – Which States Ratified It, and When
Cited and Quoted From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
Ratification by the states
Ratified amendment, 1865
Ratified amendment post-enactment, 1865–1870
Ratified amendment after first rejecting amendment, 1866–1995
Territories of the United States in 1865, not yet states
#Thinkwing: Mon,10/3/2016, 9PM @KPFTHouston FM 90.1. TOPICS: Barack Obama & Hillary Clinton: Two Consecutive presidents who needed Constitutional Amendments to vote!, Trump Foundation Problems, US/Russia talks on Syria suspended, [Harris] County OKs initial funding for $105M Astrodome redevelopment, Republican and Democratic Doctors, Sabotage of SpaceX Rocket Test?, more. Open Forum! [AUDIO]
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Houston Mayor Annise Parker [L] with Mike (Dec. 14, 2015)
Listen live on the radio or on the internet from anywhere in the world! When the show is live, we take calls at 713-526-5738. (Long distance charges may apply.)
For the purposes of this show, I operate on two mottoes:
- You’re entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts;
- An educated electorate is a prerequisite for a democracy.
SIGNOFF QUOTE[s]:
- “I recently heard [Newt Gingrich] say that Obama is a ‘Robyn Hood socialist’. How far off the path of decency do you have to wander to read the Robin Hood legend and identify with the Sheriff?” ~ Dylan Brody, from “Chronological Disorder” [Played on KPFT (10:30PM, June 7, 2012) PLAY HERE at about the 12:50 mark]
- “You can tell Monopoly is an old game because there is a ‘Luxury Tax’, ‘Community Chest’ and the Banker can still get thrown in jail.” ~ Jeb Brovsky (@JebBrovsky), September 3, 2012
POSSIBLE TOPICS: Barack Obama & Hillary Clinton: Two Consecutive presidents who needed Constitutional Amendments to vote!, Trump Foundation Problems, US/Russia talks on Syria suspended, [Harris] County OKs initial funding for $105M Astrodome redevelopment, Republican and Democratic Doctors, Sabotage of SpaceX Rocket Test?, more.
- TEXAS: REGISTER TO VOTE FOR THE GENERAL ELECTION
- To vote in November 8th’s presidential elections, you have to be registered by October 8th — LESS THAN 30 DAYS! It will be here before you know it, so make sure YOU are registered!
- Go to HarrisVotes.com or VoteTexas.gov.
🎊 The EPA’s Decision is a Tremendous Victory for San Jacinto River! 🎊 (TexansTogether.org)
Texans Together‘s mission is to develop grassroots leaders in Texas and to engage and empower their communities.
The EPA’s Decision is a Tremendous Victory for San Jacinto River!
On September 28th, there was a huge victory for the Highlands and the San Jacinto River communities when the EPA announced their decision to remove the waste from the San Jacinto River Waste Pits.
The Highlands area community residents have been struggling with toxic waste in the San Jacinto River for a long time. In 2010, Texans Together joined the fight with local residents who created the San Jacinto River Coalition (SJRC). From the start, we knew it was and was going to continue to be a long hard fight and it did not disappoint.
The SJRC’s main goal was to have the waste from the Superfund Site called the San Jacinto River Waste Pits removed from the river. The site was called “a loaded gun” pointed at the “most vulnerable of sites.” The polluting companies wanted to leave the waste in the river under an “Armored Cap.” Their studies showed it would be safer and, of course, cheaper.
Through the outreach efforts of the SJRC, it went from a few individuals in a parking lot educating the community to monthly packed community meetings. The Environmental Protection Agency, the Harris County District Attorney’s Office, Harris County Public Health and Environmental Services, Media Organization, and other Environmental Groups have attended and presented at the meetings.
There were long days with volunteers speaking with seriously ill residents that were skeptical or outright hostile to their efforts. Canvassers told stories of skeptics recounting terrible illnesses that affected them and their neighbors, but denying there was a problem. It had become normal for the community to see so many cases of illnesses, rare cancers, and diseases. They thought that was “just the way it was” and were hostile to people who might stir up trouble for them.
In 2010, Jackie Young began volunteering with the SJRC. After her and her family’s serious health problems, she began to research what was happening and it brought her to a degree in Environmental Geology and Texans Together.
As a volunteer, she told her story to the community and explained exactly how abnormal things really were. In 2013, she was hired by Texans Together to lead the coalition. She brought firsthand knowledge, passion, and a dedication to get justice for her community.
Jackie used her contacts in academia to get an independent study done of the site, and brought in an environmental activist, Lois Gibbs of Love Canal fame, to bring attention to the cause. Jackie’s work was featured on Fox News, and Al Jazeera America, and in Texas Monthly, Houston Press and the Houston Chronicle. She testified in front of the Harris County Commissioner’s Court, and the Texas Legislature. She led the SJRC to work with public officials to petition for health studies, to bring a lawsuit against the companies responsible for the waste, and to remove the waste. The persistent effort of the community with Jackie’s leadership led to the SJRC moving to her new organization, Texas Health and Environmental Alliance (THEA).
For more information about this decisive victory for environmental justice follow this link: http://txhea.org/
Congratulations to the Highlands Community, Jackie Young, and dedicated volunteers in the SJRC. You made change happen!
If you are interested in volunteering or becoming a leader helping your community to become healthier, please contact Texans Together at 713-782-8833 or info@texanstogether.org
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