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40 years after Stonewall, still a long way to go
Mary Shaw
I am writing this on June 28, 2009 -- the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York's Greenwich Village in 1969, which marked the beginning of the LGBT rights movement here in the U.S.
While some progress has certainly been made, we as a society still have a long way to go in this newest civil rights movement.
First, the good news:
DIGITIZED MEDICAL RECORDS WOULD SAVE LIVES
by Mary Pitt
Many Americans are up in arms about a possible threat to "privacy" if the Obama plan to digitize medical records, making them available on secured sites and accessible by physicians and hospitals, should be implemented. Looking at the situation more deeply would lead one to believe that the reverse may be true and we could lose something more important than our privacy if it is not.
First, one must admit that when your life is at stake, the last concern you have is whether your body or its internal workings are exposed to any or all of the people who are fighting to save you. Secondly, if there are any known facts about your medical history or ideopathic propensities, you certainly want the people who hold your life in their hands to know it. Have you ever reacted adversely to any medication? Are you, perhaps, allergic to any mixture or compound that may contain the offending substance? May your life be in danger if someone in an emergency situation and following "customary medical practices" should introduce a sizeable dosage of that medication into your system?
America’s Funeral
By Shawn Connors
The damage to America is so bad at this point; even if Americans revolted today, it would take decades to undo the damage that’s been wreaked upon the people. Citizens and elected officials are waking up daily, but it’s quickly becoming too late. The warnings have been ignored for too long. The Constitution has been subverted so badly, power has been transferred to Bankers, Corporations and Globalists in plain sight. Our lives are wrecked. America will never be the same again. Few seem to care.
‘Armchair’ killing: a US-Israeli trade-mark
Stuart Littlewood
Reports of prisoner abuse at the US prison at Bagram air force base in Afghanistan come as no surprise. They are just the latest example of the world’s biggest bully behaving badly as usual.
As if that weren't enough, I'm reading how some 83 people, mostly civilians, were killed and over 50 injured in three drone attacks within 12 hours in Lataka, South Waziristan.
The first strike killed several suspected Taliban. Later, a second drone fired three missiles into a crowd of funeral mourners.
One of the wounded commented: "If the Taliban are bombing the mosques and America is bombing the funerals, what is the difference between them? We are stuck between Taliban and US attacks and when we are killed, not only no one cries for us, but also we are dubbed militants."
The Mother of Innovation
Andrew Lehman
In the February 27, 2009, issue of Science on page 1164 begins an article on Chinese government attempts to adjust the male/female birth ratio. At this time, there are 120 boys born for every 100 girls. Female foeticide has replaced female infanticide as the technique best designed to dispose of unwanted females. Still, many baby girls are not taken to the doctor when they grow ill. There are still quasilegal ways to dispose of children.
I hypothesize that female infanticide and foeticide are patrifocal societal tools used to maintain a patrifocal frame. Males that don't fit the male patrifocal ideal don't achieve a wife and don't pass on ideal genes. Maintaining a high male/female birth ratio goes a long way toward encouraging long-term patrifocal societal stability.
BANK OF CHINA OFFICIAL TAKES BRITISH BAIT
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Bank of China
Zhou Xiaochuan hooked by British:
LPAC, June 26, 2009 - -A Friday, June 26th slug published by the BBC, credits the clearly misinformed People’s Bank of China’s Zhou Xiaochuan with proposing that “An international monetary system dominated by a single currency has intensified the concentration of risk and the spread of the crisis.” The result of such an action would be the worst thing which China could do its itself and its people.
That terrible mistake, fortunately only proposed by the PBOC, but not yet implemented, is to be understood as a result of manipulation of relevant officials in China, Russia, and other nations by British sources. As a result of a lack of Eurasian and other nation’s ignorance of the character of the present, London-centered imperial monetarist system, the present generation of leading relevant officials throughout most of the world, they have been misled into a scheme designed to bring about the ruin of those duped into supporting such a scheme.
Appeal to religious leaders to embrace women and gay rights
Roland Michel Tremblay
At the forefront of all human rights in the world today, before we could even be scandalised by how blatantly religious leaders speak against and bully gays, lesbians and transgenders, would be women rights. In a way these battles for recognition of the most basic human rights are very similar. The first step to address the issue is for religious leaders to change their discourse and embrace all human beings for who they are on an equal basis. Pope Benedict XVI, please lead the rest of Christianity into the new millennium, embrace all human rights! After all, Jesus Christ never talked against a third gender.
AHMADINEJAD WON INDEED AND THE REAL SOURCE OF INTERFERENCE IN IRAN’S ELECTION IS LIKELY THE UNITED STATES
John Chuckman
A recent article called “Ahmadinejad Won, Get Over It” by Flynt and Hillary Leverett is not the only source with serious credentials offering reasonable, non-sensational explanations for events around Iran’s presidential election.
Kaveh Afrasiabi, a scholar who once taught at Tehran University and is the author of several books, says many of the same things.
The situation in Iran is an equation with more than two sides
By Vahab
The situation in Iran is an equation with more than two sides:
1- Iranian people, fighting for their right.
2- Government, trying to push people back.
3- Reformists, trying to gain power in government. Aligned with people.
Rafsanjani, the representative of the pragmatist faction of the theocracy, trying to overthrow the supreme leader (aligned with people).
Tarnished Shields: The Morally Bankrupt 'Family Values' Republican Leadership
by Walter Brasch
Mark Sanford
Some columns are easier to write than others.
This is one of them.
Providing all of my research were the "family values" Republicans.
This week, second term Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina disappeared for six days, leaving the state without a chief executive who could make decisions in an emergency. His Republican lieutenant governor didn't know where he was, and had not been given any authority to make decisions in his absence. The state police said they had not been informed. His wife told the Associated Press she didn't know where he was, wasn't worried about him, and thought he was "writing something and wanted some space to get away from the kids" over the Father's Day weekend. His senior aides said he was walking along the Appalachian Trail to "clear his head."
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