Harness human energy into electricity. All 24 hour nautilus fitness centers should be hooked up to the energy grid. Members should get credit for the energy they create, and receive a discount on their membership. What if a person could ride an energy bike for an hour in a day, and get a credit or amount on an energy card for their efforts. Why not hook up those big bouncy enclosed air mattresses for kids, to the energy grid. What if a homeless and/or jobless person could get some money for generating electricity through an effort process. What if a jobless teenager could earn money by getting some exercise. What would that do for their health? Have stations that are hooked up to the energy grid, in which this can be done, in communities. I have a wind up LED flashlight, in which effort is required for light to come out. We can store this kind of energy in smaller compartments now. Certainly, we can have one in a home. Co-op apartments for discounted electrical bills.
REMEMBER, ENERGY CANNOT BE CREATED OR DESTROYED, BUT SIMPLY TRANSFERRED FROM ONE MEDIUM TO ANOTHER.
P.S. Some of these big talkers on the television can have electrodes hooked up to their jaws, and most cetainly, generate enough electricity, to run the United States for some time. Especially some of the shows that have 3 or 4 people all talking simultaneously.
Here is a copy of a response I posted to another blog discussing overpopulation.
Overpopulation is the biggest problem facing the world today. And I am deeply concerned that very few people seem to realize that this is such a huge problem. Today, there are about 200,000 more people on Earth than there were yesterday. 200,000 net gain, counting births and deaths. It took until about 1800 for the world human population to reach one billion. 123 years later, In 1927, it reached 2 billion. 47 years later, in 1974, we got up to 4 billion. In 1999, 25 years later, the population was at 6 billion. Our population is exploding at a ridiculous rate, and it all comes down to food. From what I have read, almost of the people who recognized this problem think it can be solved with some sort of birth control. This, I think, is very unreasonable as birth control could, at its best, be only a slight delay to our population's seemingly inexorable climb. Population is directly related to food availability. Few people would argue this point when talking about any animal species but we seem to think of humans as excluded from that category. After all, we must be vastly superior to any animal, we're the ones who rule the world. But we're also the ones who are systematically destroying the world, killing anything that gets in our way of complete domination of our environment. This way of life started around 10,000 years ago, with the start of the agricultural revolution. The problem of overpopulation was pretty much inevitable when we took control of our food supply, allowing us to outgrow the restrictions of our environment. Soon, tribes were wiped out and replaced by cities. Today, more than 30% of the world's land is being used to grow crops or raise cattle! There is almost no more room to grow food. But every year we increase our food supply and every year our population grows. By 2050 we are projected to have at least 9 billion people on Earth. It is very unlikely that the planet can support that much biomass as 1 species is already dying each day to support our growth. Im running out of room to type so I will just say this: if the food supply stops growing so will the population. I encourage anyone who reads this to do your own research and specifically, look up Daniel Quinn.
I think President Obama has all the humanistic qualities in the description of a true MAN by Rudyard Kipling in his poem "IF". I am so proud to be able to say that my president is the MAN of virtues to lift up the standards of humanistic values in our country and the world from now on... I dedicate this poem to President Barack Obama...
IF
If you can keep your head when all about youAre losing theirs and blaming it on you,If you can trust yourself when all men doubt youBut make allowance for their doubting too,If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,Or being hated, don't give way to hating,And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;If you can meet with Triumph and DisasterAnd treat those two impostors just the same;If you can bear to hear the truth you've spokenTwisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winningsAnd risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,And lose, and start again at your beginningsAnd never breath a word about your loss;If you can force your heart and nerve and sinewTo serve your turn long after they are gone,And so hold on when there is nothing in youExcept the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;If all men count with you, but none too much,If you can fill the unforgiving minuteWith sixty seconds' worth of distance run,Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!
--Rudyard Kipling
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Internanational Human Rights Court Affirms A Failure TO Protect
Mother’s File International Complaint Against United States, violation human rights of abused www.StopFamilyViolence.org MOTHERS FILE INTERNATIONAL COMPLAINT AGAINST UNITED STATES Mother's day complaint claims United States courts violate human rights of abused women and children. NEW YORK, On May 11, just before Mother's Day weekend, ten mothers, one victimized child, now an adult, leading national and state organizations filed a complaint against the United States with the Inter American Commission on Human Rights. The case claims that U.S. courts, by frequently awarding child custody to abusers and child molesters, has failed to protect the life, liberties, security and other human rights of abused mothers and their children. "For more than 30 years U.S. judges have given custody or unsupervised visitation of children to abusers and molesters putting the children directly at risk," says Dianne Post, an international attorney who authored the petition. "These horrendous human rights violations have been brought to the attention of family court systems, and state and federal governments, to no avail. We turn now to international courts to protect the rights and safety of US children." The complaint details several cases with ..ed medical evidence of child sexual abuse, yet in each instance the abusing father was given full custody of the children he abused. Several of the mothers were jailed by the courts because of their persistent efforts to protect their children from abuse, several were ordered not to speak of the abuse and not to report abuse to authorities. Every mother was denied contact with her child for some period of time though none was ever proven to have harmed them. "My life was completely shattered apart on that day and my childhood was destroyed," said Jeff Hoverson, the adult child petitioner, about the day a family court judge ordered sheriff deputies to deliver him into the custody of his abuser. "It was as if I was just kidnapped. I was torn from everything I knew....I was made into a possession rather than a child." Hoverson endured years of trauma and fear living in his father's home before escaping and returning to his mother at age 17. He is haunted by years of feeling helpless to prevent his father's night-time visits to his sisters' bedrooms. "The cases in this petition represent the proverbial tip of the iceberg," says Irene Weiser, executive director of the online organization Stop Family Violence. "We are contacted by an average of three protective mothers each week who have lost custody to child abusing fathers. This is a nationwide crisis of enormous proportion." "The lives of thousands of children and mothers have been irreparably harmed by family courts across our nation," says Joyanna Silberg, Ph.D., executive vice-president of The Leadership Council on Child Abuse and Interpersonal Violence, another national organizations supporting the petition. "The years of trauma and psychological abuse because of the courts' failings result in lasting emotional damage to the children they are supposed to protect." Studies of gender bias in the courts, conducted in the 1980's and 90's, found disturbing trends of courts minimizing or excusing men's violence against women, and favoring the abusers. In 1990 the United States Congress passed a resolution recommending the prohibition of giving joint or sole custody to abusers. Seventeen years later, the practice continues unabated. Ten years ago today, leading national organizations were joined by members of Congress in a protest in Washington D.C. to again raise awareness about the problems in family courts. Today, petitioners say, the problem is systemic and widespread in family law courts across the nation. The petition seeks a finding from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that the U.S. has violated the Declaration of the Rights and Responsibilities of Man and the Charter of the Organization of American States and a statement of the steps that the U.S. must take to comply with its human rights obligations in regards to battered women and children in child custody cases. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights was created in 1959 and is expressly authorized to examine allegations of human rights violations by members of the Organization of American States, which include the United States. It also carries out on-site visits to observe the general human rights situations in all 35 member states of the Organization of American States and to investigate specific allegations of violations of Inter-American human rights treaties. Its charge is to promote the observance and the defense of human rights in the Americas. Dianne Post, a 1980 graduate of the University of Wisconsin law school, has worked on issues of gender based violence since 1976. In addition to private practice and legal aid, she has taught legal classes and been a consultant working or living in Russia, Cambodia, Hungary and some dozen other countries. She is currently in Vladivostok, Russia. In addition to The Leadership Council on Child Abuse and Interpersonal Violence, other national organizations supporting the international lawsuit include: National Organization for Women and the NOW Foundation, National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Justice For Children, National Family Court Watch Project, Legal Momentum, Family Violence Prevention Fund, National Alliance to End Sexual Violence, Domestic Violence Report, Sidran Traumatic Stress Institute, and the National Center on Sexual and Domestic Violence. The petition is supported by many state organizations as well. In December 2005, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a petition against the United States with the Inter American Commission on Human Rights for their failure to protect Jessica Gonzales' three children from their abusive father, who murdered them. Their petition, the first of its kind, asserted that domestic violence victims have the right to be protected by the state from the violent acts of their abusers. For additional information, contact: Irene Weiser, Stop Family Violence iw@stopfamilyviolence.org 607-539-6856 The petition and supporting ..action is available on the Stop Family Violence website on: www.StopFamilyViolence.org View the petition at: http://www.StopFamilyViolence.org/468
Tags: abuse, child, civil, constitutional, discrimination, domestic, human, rights, violence
Tags: abuse, abuses, child, civil, constitutional, discrimination, domestic, human, rights, violence
Climate protection and development aid
A great change is required- not only in Washington- but for the world.
Eighty percent of the global waste water is being led unclearified into rivers and pollutes drinking water reservoirs.
This is a mayor problem, causing a variety of negative consequences for humanity and its enviroment. Literally thousends of kids die off like flies on a daily basis by deceases emerged from polluted water. In addition the sea´s pollution is a threat to the fundamentals of nutrition.
Now there is a bunch of well working and easy to handle options to approach these dangers. Even more importend these days: they are cheap!
As a main issue we promote the knowledge-transfer of these up-to-date methods providing shelter for the tired, the homeless and the poor.
So if you are excited about getting to know these methods, watch the projects by german engineer B. Schreiner on www.wasserunderde.info
If you are interrested in saving the world, watch the web side too, and join us on our projects.
http://religion.info/english/articles/article_385.shtml
Source: Religioscope
Author: Richard Cimino
While there have been allegations in the past of government investigation of mosques on issues relating to terrorism, the recent report, first featured in the San Diego Union-Tribune newspaper, is said to be the first confirmation that surveillance is taking place.
An article in the Los Angeles Times (May 29) reports that information about the alleged spying surfaced in a case about classified files concerning terrorism that were stolen from a secure office used by military and civilian law enforcement officials at Camp Pendleton. Some of these classified records referred to the surveillance of Muslim communities in Southern California, specifically, the Islamic Center of San Diego. The records alleged that the mosque had been monitored as part of a federal surveillance program targeting Muslim groups, according to the Union-Tribune article.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/07/10/muslim_profiling/index.html
Source: Salon
Author: Juan Cole
The U.S. Justice Department is considering a change in the grounds on which the FBI can investigate citizens and legal residents of the United States. Till now, DOJ guidelines have required the FBI to have some evidence of wrongdoing before it opens an investigation. The impending new rules, which would be implemented later this summer, allow bureau agents to establish a terrorist profile or pattern of behavior and attributes and, on the basis of that profile, start investigating an individual or group. Agents would be permitted to ask "open-ended questions" concerning the activities of Muslim Americans and Arab-Americans. A person's travel and occupation, as well as race or ethnicity, could be grounds for opening a national security investigation.
The rumored changes have provoked protests from Muslim American and Arab-American groups. The Council on American Islamic Relations, among the more effective lobbies for Muslim Americans' civil liberties, immediately denounced the plan, as did James Zogby, the president of the Arab-American Institute. Said Zogby, "There are millions of Americans who, under the reported new parameters, could become subject to arbitrary and subjective ethnic and religious profiling." Zogby, who noted that the Bush administration's history with profiling is not reassuring, warned that all Americans would suffer from a weakening of civil liberties.
There is a bond which connects all the human beings. lt is in the capacity which we have all to make more beautiful the life, and to make a marvellous adventure of it. Use your power to change, and let us unite for a new world
With our magnificent diversity of cultures and forms of life, we have the opportunity, today, of creating together an organization based on the common respect for our planet, the rights that unite us..
In front of the challenges which face humanity, it is time, today, that the Human feel united and make important decisions in a common way.
Become an integral part of a global movement working to promote the richness of the human world, and help us to create a more humane society.
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