• The US falsely imprisons Leonard Peltier for what ballistics tests show his rifle couldn't have done on Pine Ridge that one day in June 1975 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Peltier).

• The US executed Troy Davis, a man whose guilt was significantly in doubt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Davis_case).

• The US military has physically abused and will probably court martial Bradley Manning (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Manning), who, imho like former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, thought the whole world should know about crimes against humanity. The US obviously wants to extradite and doubtless drools at the thought of torturing Julian Assange (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange).

  Wikileaks has shown the world that what many feared was actually happening: people are being tortured and killed for sport under the smear of war (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikileaks). By and large the perps are US military and mercenaries. But other governments are complicit as well. And there are ever so many more documents to put online. We know now. We won't forget. Governments can continue posturing and pretending. To no avail. We know our government is comprised of con-men and swindlers, and we expect them to continue so acting as long as they can.

• The US Supreme Court decided that corporations are people and money, free speech (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood).

• The US Congress legislated away the "inalienable rights" of we the people as guaranteed by our Constitution--although corporations don't seem to have lost any of their judicially bestowed rights (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Authorization_Act).

• War criminals still walk free on most US streets (and hold positions at prestigious universities). These corporations that now have personhood grow fuel in a time of famine, a stain on their souls that no amount of money can erase.

• Half the US population is now classified as either poor or low income; the home foreclosure crisis continues (and is expected to escalate, soon); the ranks of those experiencing homelessness swell. Social services are being cut, with the frail elderly amongst the first affected. While the American people are in dire need, the US government devotes its limited resources on stupid stuff like ensuring our currency will continue saying* "one nation under god"--no one was suggesting a change--and trying to enforce SOPA, its new copyright law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act). And the too-big-to-fail banks demand more money.

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  * You may also see "Expect Us" on the outside margin of some bills.

• Carbon emissions are actually increasing: corporations of and the so-called 1% themselves leave enormous carbon footprints, jetting from country to country for this party or that (not to mention leaving jets idling on the tarmac), maintaining multiple well-lit mansions with heated floors and swimming pools, and the like. And then there are their corporations. The only good coming out of the disaster of Copenhagen was President Morales's invitation and the resulting "People's Agreement on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth," Cochabamba, April 2010 (http://ecosanity.org/content/lessons-bolivia-building-global-movement-climate-justice-teach-toronto).

I speak of the maladies of the US because I'm more familiar with the material, realizing full well that the US is the cause of much, perhaps most misery outside the US. Under the last two US presidents, the real economies worldwide have crashed--no jobs, no demand, no money ... The current US government could socialize or nationalize these too-big-to-fail banks that wrecked the world economy, could prosecute banks that made reckless bets with others' money, betting against their own clients. The US government could put a stop to this, but it won't (because it misconstrues enormous multinational corporations as the source of its power and authority).

Basic social justice compels us to act; the current distribution of wealth being corrosive to democracy compels us. That our planet is imperiled by behaviors of the 1% and their corporations should propel us into action.

Our planet can no longer wait, can no longer sustain the enormous carbon footprints of the 1% and their corporations, their utter disregard and disdain for the damages they've inflicted. The assault on our planet will not stop until we stop the 1% (we sure can't count on the 1% to police itself: the US President is, for example, now thinking about naming Larry Summers --"Africa is under-polluted;" "women can't be good scientists"--to head the World Bank!).

One people, one planet, one struggle.

We know that the current world violates all manner of civil and human rights (Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948, http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/). We know of the world's already tremendous and rapidly increasing wealth imbalance. We know that our governments are war criminals and profiteers. We know that our planet is imperiled.

We can take an enormous step towards rectifying these basic wrongs by stopping the 1%. All non-violent methods of stopping the 1% are appropriate (whether they're technically legal is irrelevant since to live in the US is to not live under the rule of law). People in denial can continue hoping that the US will--If you'll forgive the phrase, be occupied by democracy, and--nationalize the banks et al. (not that the problem is just in the US). I'd rather put faith in PERL programmers being able set the records straight. The 1% will not change voluntarily; they must be pushed back by eliminating the money they use to suck us and our planet dry. We cannot stop pushing, as know Egyptians who yesterday again filled Tahrir Square, honoring their dead and continuing their revolution (http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2012/01/egyptians_gather_in_tahrir_squ.html). But

I can but hope we are moving faster than the 1%'s new and yet newer ways of watching and attempting to control us. And fast enough to avoid planetary apocalypse.

 In case internet goes down in Egypt:
Have a laptop, modem or a phone that has bluetooth..
1-Connect the phone to the laptop via bluetooth then right click and choose "use as modem" if you didn't have modem.
2-Go to Network and choose "create new dial up connection"
3-When asked to enter a phone number, user name and password, use one of the following. They can't cut them off.

0	494923197844321
User:Telecomix
Pass:Telecomix

00597110844
User:freeisp@internet
Pass:internet

00537110844
User:isp@dialup
Pass:connect

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9.25.11. Possibility returns to the world.

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi will be welcomed by some of her legion of supporters when she is released by the myanmar generals this afternoon Friday, today, November 12. 2010 (http://www.irrawaddy.org/highlight.php?a rt_id=20054). Hallelujah. All blessings to the Lady--and to the democracy for which she stands.

A world clock map could help those of us not in Burma time our personal celebrations (http://24timezones.com). Let freedom ring. Paxvobiscum.

It is now July 1, 2011: time to stand behind Aung Sang Suu Kyi's demands that Burma's political prisoners be freed. And those rotting in U.S and other prisons everywhere as well. It is a source of shame that, on the eve of the U.S.'s celebration of its own historical independence, the voices of those demanding respect for individual human rights and a return to the rule of law are silenced.

It was good to read that Aung San Suu Kyi marked her birthday, a free woman, with her son. Blessings to all who do and dare so much, the most human amongst us.

Burma's Lady now speaks digitally (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003drl8), online (http://www.dassk.com/). That she is now online is a world-changing event. Possibility is flowing back into the world; the reality of the gates of the cast iron prison slamming shut no longer seems inevitable. There is much work ahead.