11-29-09 - Congratulations and may the force be with you to Sarah
Weintraub for her position as
new director of the BPF. You might be thinking, 'You mean the
British Property Federation?' Nope. 'Then it's the British Plastics
Federation! How wonderful!' Nope. 'Does it have anything to do with
Band Pass Filters to attenuate frequencies?' No no no. I'll give you a
hint. It's in Berkeley. 'Oh, she's the new director of the
Berkeley Packet Filter used by some Unix systems? But that's not the name
of an institution. It's a filter.' That's right and you're wrong. It's the
Buddhist Peace Fellowship.
The BPF just sent me an email stating, "We
are happy to endorse the
World March for Peace and Nonviolence, coming to San Francisco on
December 2!"
And this notice proudly goes to cuke's CurrentEvents\EngagedBuddhism
section - as does the next one.
11-30-09 - European Parliament passes
resolution:
Vietnam must curb human rights violations
12-05-09 - Best of luck to:
May your venture succeed.
11-27-09
-
Quick! Go out and
buy nothing!
filed in
CurrentEvents\EngagedBuddhism
11-26-09 - Common Dreams, for
the discriminating cuke-EngagedBuddhist.
11-25-09 - The Regressive
Antidote. This guy would have been fun to have as a political science
teacher.
Boy does he trash Obama. But I know he wishes Obama and all of us
well.
11-19-09 - Guilty until proven innocent? Where? Most places if the
government really wants to get you. We hear about China, but one place
that's overlooked is Japan. It's pretty extreme there. I remember a young
woman teacher who got arrested by accident but still had to sign a
confession before they'd let her go.
Read this.
11-07-09 - Roots of
Peace dot org - Founder Heidi Kühn and
her hubby
Gary (I think) are on their way to Afghanistan to do their mine-removing
thing. We wish them a safe and successful journey.
Let me take a moment to stick in a link to the Huff Post's post on
Gorbachev saying the US
should learn from Russia's experience and get out of Afghanistan
and US National Security Adviser James Jones
Skeptical about Troop Request.
- in Out of Afghan!
Afghanistan: Groundhog day - Guardian UK
- in Out of Afghan!
11-06-09 -
May the US Invasion of
Afghanistan Come to an End ASAP - in Out of
Afghan! - a new page
in the CurrentEvents\EngagedBuddhism
section.
10-28-09 - Keeping up with the
Clear View Project
and their
present fundraising drive.
10-27-09 -
Eric Arnow -
Letter to Barak
Obama
10-22-09 -
Shunryu Suzuki and the war. What did he do? It's a question that keeps
popping up so here's the latest exchange on the subject. - DC
10-17-09 -
Vietnam: Sharp Backsliding on Religious Freedom -
Harsh Crackdown on Followers of Buddhist Peace Activist Thich Nhat Hanh
10-16-09 -
Food day praise
for Brazil and China, New Zealand and the US on the bottom - of action
to meet the cry of world hunger. - Think of this fellow USAers... [more
by dc in dchadmisc]
10-15-09 -
American Drug War dot com
Ron Paul
strikes again - this time on the war on drugs, especially pot.
11-10-09 -
Time-lapse proof of extreme ice loss
-
thanks Steiner
10-09-09 -
Obama wins Nobel
Peace prize.
Wow. Rather than receiving this award for what he's
done, it's obviously encouragement for the direction
he's turned to - to eliminate nuclear weapons being the most significant,
but for more than that. They mentioned global warming attitude shift as
well. Maybe this is a proper approach in these times of
serious threats to the survival of our species. By this I mean that
it's not unreasonable to think there's not much time for action and why
not use the award to applaud promising intentions. Now I hope there's more movement toward holding his feet to the fire
to reduce the damage of our foreign policy and other threats to world
peace and species survival. - dc
10-04-09 -
Comparing health care
to fire care - thanks
10-03-09 - Frank Rich on
Obama
at the Precipice as Kennedy was with a pointless, futile, massively
deadly, destructive war.
10-02-09 -
On the
peaceful use of space
10-01-09 - Happy October
- In Germany anyway. It's yesterday evening in America still but I don't
know when I'll be able to post next so it's going up now.
And now
for a statement of personal conviction. I think there is a dangerous
amount of hysteria in the US of A at the present - I guess it could be
called political hysteria. I think that it is important for each of us, at
least me, to do what we can to help to cool it off, to counter it or
redirect it, to stand up and be counted, write letters to the editor, talk
to neighbors, encourage media not to stir it up,
pray, meditate, visualize, practice loving kindness, crack jokes,
etc. Or maybe you think that doing nothing is best cause whatever one
tries to do will just add to the problem - sort of a Taoist approach I
guess. I'm packing to go on a trip right now (see yesterday's entry) but
will get back to this as soon as I can. In the meantime, I'll remember the
helpful mantra from my childhood (as mentioned in Thank You and OK!):
When in trouble
When in doubt
Run in circles
Scream and shout
Peace,
DC
9-23-09 -
Bija: the Seeds of Freedom from Willem Malten's blog.
9-22-09 - The
2010 Project Censored book
is out.
9-09-09 - Sane (to DC) comments and links
on the current health care debate going on in the US.
9-02-09 -
Krugman's article on where economists went wrong remind me of the
importance of not taking our assumptions too seriously in other fields as
well - like Buddhism etc.
9-01-09 - Willem Malten sends
thoughts on food and climate change.
8-27-09 - US Campaign for Burma
- don't forget.
8-19-09 - Buddhist Peace
Fellowship - lot's of new stuff to keep up with.
1-23-09 - A message from Green Gulch
We are celebrating the cease fire and the hope that our new President will
increase the chances for peace. Obama’s first phone call was to Mahmud
Abbas. The article in Time acknowledges Eric’s unflagging intention…..
and here again his blog link.
With gratitude and love, emila
Article
in Time Magazine
Link
to Eric’s blog
8-10-09 -
The Wrong Diagnosis
Andrew Weil on the current health care debate.
8-02-09 -
Sri Lanka
in a bad state. Thanks John Steiner
7-31-09 -
Crooks and Liars is not only a
great site for short videos of and links to what's happening in the news
like
this cool move from the house floor and
this clip from my fave, Thom Hartmann, there's an occasional far out
flick like
this. it's also got a great selection of music videos usually put on
at the end of the day. And there's the Late Night Music Club with a
wonderful array of music at the end of the day - like
this great piece by Cab Calloway and two great dancers.
7-29-09 - Sarah
Robinson writes on our future.
7-25-09 -
The Ubiquitous Matrix of Lies
6-30-09 -
Congratulations Al Franken! and condolences to Buddhists and Other
Spiritual Seekers Opposed to Progressive Comedian Politicians.
6-28-09 -
Clear View Project & Adopt a Monk - Clear View has taken
responsibility for BPF's (Buddhist
Peace Fellowship) Burma Project
6-26-09 - UN INTERNATIONAL DAY IN
SUPPORT OF VICTIMS OF TORTURE
5-30-09 -
Why
torture has failed.
3-19-09 - Homelahttp://www.homelandgitmo.com/nd
Guantanamos - immigrant detention in the US
3-10-09 -
Maine Town Passes
Ordinance Asserting Local Self-Governance and Stripping Corporate
Personhood
3-06-09 -
Sarah Weintraub writes about
The Dar Papaya Project - Documenting Youth for Peace
2-05-09 -
ClubOrlov: Social Collapse, Best Practices - a talk to the
Long Now Foundation by Dmitry Orlov
- thanks Willem Malten
1-22-09
- From
this article in UK Guardian - it's all off the new White House
website.
Filed in Species Threat/nuclear war
The other notable shift in
US foreign
policy announced today was a strategic decision to move towards a
"nuclear free world", through bilateral and multilateral disarmament. "Obama
and [Vice President Joe] Biden will set a goal of a world without nuclear
weapons, and pursue it," according to the agenda. It is a long term goal.
The US will maintain a "strong deterrent as long as nuclear weapons
exist", but begin to take steps on the "long road towards eliminating
nuclear weapons".
The development of new nuclear weapons will be stopped,
a sharp change from the Bush administration that pushed for a new
generation of warheads, and the new administration will work with Moscow
to take US and Russian missiles off their current hair trigger alert,
while seeking "dramatic reductions in US and Russian stockpiles of nuclear
weapons and material".
1-21-09 - Check out WhiteHouse.gov - stuff worth looking
at. Read
A National Day of Renewal and Reconciliation - Obama's first
proclamation. It's a bizarre twist of events in our
CurrentEvents\EngagedBuddhism
section.
Snopes in
direct contradiction of fervent anti-Obama cuke readers' assertion that
Obama is the anti-christ.
1-20-09
- The whole staff at cuke.com welcomes our new president. We look forward
to opposing his policies when they promote the continuation of war,
imperialism, corporatism, and the destruction of the planet, and hope our
hope proves true - that he will do much less harm and encourage our higher
angles a bit. Saw the inaugural with son Clay and fellow students and
teachers and parents on wide screen TV followed by pancakes. What a day.
Now enjoy Obama Girl
and Obama Duet and Li'l Yani rapping
Obama
Made Me Proud (thanks Gene DS).
1-19-09 -
One of the great liabilities of
history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great
periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of the status
quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping
through revolutions. But today our very survival depends on our ability to
stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the
challenge of change." -
Martin Luther
King Jr.
(thanks Barry Vesser)
And let us remember today what
the mainstream tends to conveniently ignore about Martin Luther King -
that toward the end of his life he was marginalized for his emphasis on,
his passion for peace, for ending the war in Vietnam. - dc
1-17-09 - The National
Religious Campaign Against Torture reminds us that torture is a moral
issue, enlists religious organizations to join in opposing torture and
works toward a change of policy by the US government.
1-15-09 - The informative
Free Speech
TV
12-14-08 -
Thom Hartmann on Countdown - a great commentator on the political,
social scene - and he goes deeper.
See his website.
11-22-08 -
Massive imprisonments underway in Burma and what to do
11-05-08 - hallelujah!
Barak Obama speaks to a crowd of over 100,000 on October 18th
If you look in the distance there, you can see a building with a greenish-copper
dome. That's the Old St. Louis Courthouse. For years and years, slaves were
auctioned on the steps of that courthouse. The Old Courthouse used to be called
the St. Louis State and Federal Courthouse.
Back in 1850, two escaped slaves named Dred and Harriett Scott had their petition
for freedom overturned in a case there. Montgomery Blair took the case to the US
Supreme Court on Scott's behalf and had Chief Justice Roger Taney throw it out
because, as he wrote, the Scotts were 'beings of an inferior order, and altogether
unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations, and
so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.
Text from unknown source - thanks to
Jane Bay for passing it on and for a hallelujah email as well.
On
Obama's Victory Speech, a note from elder son:
This is one
of those moments I was born too late to experience………..until now, 35 years in.
The delivery of sincerity, hope, vision, depth, transformation and eloquence is
so powerful it transcends whether or not our species’ terminal direction can be
changed. It speaks to our soul, to the higher elements of existence. It reminds
us of the divine in humanity.
Love to you all,
Kelly Chadwick
The whole cuke.com staff sends its condolences to Buddhists
for McCain Palin, Zennists for Nader, and Mahayanists for Barr.
11-04-08 - It's a big day in the USA. How's the betting going?
11-03-08 - Cuke picks
Talking Points Memo as the best
site to follow polling and election results. Bill Moyers says he starts his day
with TPM.
Huffington Post's
Voting Problems
section is excellent.
10-25-05 - Obama or McCain? Cuke.com presents both sides -
you decide.
Zennies for Obama submit these videos:
Ron Howard's dynamite
Obama ad (with Andy Griffith and Henry Winkler)
Yes We Can -
traditional version
Kelly Chadwick's email
to his conservative friends
Buddhists for McCain present their case:
Why
women should vote for McCain/Palin
Comparing Obama with McCain
Why I'm Voting Republican - reasons from many sources
10-24-08 -
Doctor Laments Brush-off of Iraqi War Dead - Tom Paulson of Hearst
Newspapers on the research of Dr. Les Roberts.
Here's another article by Paulson on Roberts from last year.
10-17-08 - Thanks to Shunryu Suzuki disciple Ron
Browning for sending the latest on
election
fraud.
Block the Vote by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. & Greg Palast in the
current issue (#1064) of Rolling Stone.
The Kennedy-Palast
revelations go far beyond the sum of questionably purged voters recently
reported by the New York Times. Read
more about this and how to get the comic book in the cuke.com Election
Fraud department.
10-12-08 -
Love
Naomi Wolf, warning about America's slide into fascism
End of America -
the movie from Wolf's book
10-11-08 -
Why the GOP Is Nuts About ACORN
ACORN home page
Here's the CBS report on registration purging
Ten
ways the McCain/Palin GOP is now stealing the Ohio vote
These reports filed in the
Election Fraud
department
10-10-08 -
BBC-TV: "Set up to steal it again."
Is 2008 already fixed? - Greg Palast
"A lot of Europeans
wonder: Why are Americans so crazy, they keep reelecting this guy?” Well
the answer is, we don’t! They keep stealing these elections! And they
stole it in 2000, they stole it in 2004, and they’re all set up to steal
it again!" - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on BBC Television Newsnight
Read about ACORN which
registers voters and the phony voter fraud case against them so their
registrations can be thrown out. Here's a
follow up on how the media is
buying into it.
Deregulation sank
the Titanic.
10-09-08 - New York
Times -
States’ Actions to Block Voters Appear Illegal (and
they're talking swing states) - Filed in the
Election Fraud section.
10-03-08 -
Some links to
articles on lose your house lose your vote and other election fraud
10-01-08 - the conspiracy worth your time - election
fraud. Tonight's CBS evening news covers this under-reported
subject that most Democrats have been shying away from even though it is
costing them elections, like for instance the last two presidential
elections. Take a
look at:
New Study Details Massive Voter Roll Purges Underway in At Least 19 States
Brennan Center for Justice
Report on Voter Purges (released today).
Look at past links in the
cuke election fraud section.
tomorrow - something Buddhist I promise
- dc
9-23-08 -
A new book
on the sham of political polls by an insider.
9-20-08 -
An Open Letter From a Former Religious Right Activist
9-16-08 - NRCAT -
Torture is a Moral Issue - a reminder
9-15-08 -
Greg Palast on voter suppression
Listen to the report on the Air America Radio's Thom Hartmann
filed under
election
fraud
8-06-08 - Hiroshima Day -
ICAN -
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.
One article on the threat of accidental nuclear war with Russia,
possibly the #1 threat to the human race even today. Filed in
Species Threats under
#!.
6-26-08 - Thanks to
John
Cusack and Keith Olbermann for doing their bit to remind us that we're
in a war, a war we forget and which
networks are neglecting - check out
2 minutes a week. Remember - it's not just those bad crooks running
the US, it's all of us allowing this to happen - forgetting the
human toll of Iraq and,
oh yes, that other war.
6-13-08 - If you haven't seen this
slide show on Dubai you might be interested - filed in
CurrentEvents\EngagedBuddhism
(thanks Kelly).
Compare
the Green Mega City
of the future - if we survive (thanks JR).
5-07-08 -
UN - Myanmar a Major, Major Disaster
Campaign for Burma
BBC -
aid arriving
5-03-08 -
Free-floating Mainstream Madness. Thinking about
Steve Tipton's new book and
reflecting on the confused state of awareness in our country these days, I
get carried away with another
pinched
image short, this one political. - dc
4-30-08 - Cenk Uygur
is a bright and humorous commentator on today's political scene. Here he
reframes the debate on patriotism.
4-24-08-
From Truthout ---
Bomb Bomb Iran
by summer's end? - thanks
Taigen - added
to the
Iran attack department.
4-23-08 - The Story of Stuff - thanks Ron Browning
4-22-08 - Happy Earth Day!
4-20-08 - End the war on people called the war on drugs, stop our addiction to filling
our jails and prisons this way - bring on harm reduction and sanity.
Today we feature Drug War Facts -
marijuana on the
new Harm Reduction Page
Also, see in today's dchad misc -
Shunryu Suzuki on
drugs and alcohol
4-14-08 -
Who Hijacked the
Justice Department to Swing Elections? See Election Fraud.
4-13-08 -
Are We Ready For a Minority Report Made Real? - more on this
later.
4-10-08 -
National Religious Campaign Against Torture has a new
Banners Across America Campaign.
The
Torture Drawings the Pentagon Doesn't Want You to See
A Torture Debate
Among Healers by
Amy Goodman
A conversation with the director of new documentary on torture, Taxi
to the Dark Side
4-09-08 - Nothing posted today because Clay and some of
his fellow students and I went to SF to see the torch go by which we
didn't see and which we didn't think we were going to see because we
already knew the route was being changed but we did have a great time
watching pro Tibet protesters chanting "Free Tibet!" in the face of pro
China protesters chanting "One China!" in their faces and people arguing
but all in a rather civilized tone. I thought that the plight of
persecuted Tibetans in China was not going to be addressed this way but I
just watched.
4-08-08 -
Al Gore: New thinking on
the climate crisis
4-06-08 -
View the BPF (Buddhist Peace Fellowship) page on Tibet and statements
on Tibet, Burma, and Darfur.
The Dhamma Brothers
(from Freedom Behind Bars Producutions) - thanks to dharma bro Ron
Browning
4-05-08
- Say no
to a new generation of nuclear weapons.
4-04-08 -
Martin Luther King
Is Still Silenced - In his last year of life King condemned American
militarism and was taunted not by racist whites but by the MSM (mainstream
media). But we don't see that in retrospectives. - in AlterNet
3-28-08 -
A news item
I find interesting because I was affected by so many older Japanese
telling me their experiences and thoughts about WWII, memories many would
deny. Sort of like in the US. - dc
3-27-08
-
Meditative Peace Walk Across the Golden Gate Bridge in support of the
monks in Burma - Wednesday, April 9, 2008
3-26-08 - Andrew Main writes
on the current issue concerning China and
Tibet.
3-25-08 -
Free Countries Must
Defy Chinese Blackmail and Greet the Dalai Lama
3-24-08 -
Comment on the Current Tibetan/Chinese Conflict
- Excerpted from Gelek Rimpoche’s
Sunday Talk, March 16, 2008 - thanks Howie
It Is Happening Here
3-21-08 -
Petition to end violence in Tibet - thanks
to a few of you.
An
additional
request concerning the violence in Tibet from Barrie Mason - I am
asking my friends and aquaintences to take a minute and speak up in behalf
of Tibet. Since the 1950's China has been repressing the Tibetan culture
which had flourished undisdisturbed for hundreds of years. The Dalai
Lama's incredible patience and wisdom in dealing with his people's
situation is testament to the teaching that the Tibetan culture could
share with all of us. There are many ways to take action, saying a prayer
might be one. You can call the San Francisco Chinese Consulate at
415-674-2900 and ask that China refrain from violence against the
Tibetans. Take care, Barrie
A request concerning the violence in
Israel from Emila Palmers at Green Gulch Farm - My son, Eric and three grandchildren live in Sderot, the
border town to Gaza which gets all the rockets. He and a Palestinian
friend from Gaza have a website.
Please look at it.
They write about their daily life in the war zone. They are circulating a
petition they initiated and I am trying to get as many people to sign it.
4-20-10
- Today's the big day for pot.
Why?--that's right - kids from around here (Marin County, CA)
started it. May people
be persecuted for using pot no more. See NORML
and Legalization of
Marijuana dot com and MPP. I
don't use it or anything but caffienated tea - but I don't use persecution
either--that most harmful and addictive drug. That's why cuke dot com
enthusiastically supports harm reduction - reducing the harm from drugs
and the war on drugs (read war on people).
9-25-07 -
Read Taigen Dan Leighton's brief 
Friday
August 10 - Welcome to the
Monday,
August 6, 2007 - It is most appropriate on this day to have received
7-04-07
- Happy Fourth of July from
cuke.com!
Left:
cuke.com staff at work
4-24-07 - 
4-05-07
- Anyone who's following the news knows that it's no longer "Free Josh
Wolf!" Now it's Josh Wolf's Free! 
2-10-07
- More on the US coming ever closer to acting on the long held Bush
administration plan to attack Iran. See the new
