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January 4, 2006

Comments from The Latest Newsletter; Alito, Site Upgrades, K

By Rob Kall

Reject Sam the Fascist COrporate/Mafia Toadie Alito

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Now we know that Bush and his fellow criminals (cronies is no longer an operative word... even calling these worthless pieces of detritus neanderthals is an insult to our evolutionary predecessors) are drooling to have Alito-the-democracy-sellout on the supreme court, so he'll be their get-out-of-jail-free card. We're getting to see what a scheming, foul, anti-democratic, anti-we-the-people person Samuel Alito is. There is no way that he can be approved for the Supreme Court. We must show all the members of the senate that his approval will set up a level of protest that has not been seen before since the Boston Tea party. And we need to show it before he has been approved. That same intensity of conviction must also be shown regarding the voting integrity issue. On that front, the flames are starting to be fanned. More and more states have local action groups. Find yours and sign up to help with volunteer support and money. We have to get paper ballot and open source software laws passed. Here at OpEdNews, Joan Brunwasser is off to a great start as voting integrity editor. We've always covered this subject as an essential issue. But you'll be seeing even more regular and in-depth coverage than before. Or I should say, you already are getting more. A Huge Step for A News Website You don't see it yet, but we've started a major, major new function on OpEdNews-- the first step in building a site that is unparallelled on the planet. Whew. That may sound a bit grandiose, but we're adding a second feature that is not performed by any other news and opinion site, anywhere. By mid February, we'll add over 150 new "inside pages" covering topics ranging from abortion, activism, aging, corruption, impeachment the middle east, revolution, the arts, business, science... and we'll be looking for volunteer editors, co-editors and assistant editors for each of those pages. Interested? Let me know if you have an area of interest you have expertise and or passion in supporting. At the same time the inside subject pages "go live" we'll also be starting inside "local pages" to support local activism. These will be progressive, but non-partisan. Again, we're looking for volunteer editors for local pages at the state, county, city, area and neighborhood levels. Each page will have sections for op-eds, links to news and announcements and local op-eds, ads, links to organizations, Here's the subject list so far. It is growing quickly as new articles are submitted. Abortion, Activism, AdministrativeIssues, Adoption, Advertising/Marketing, Aging/Anti-aging/Longevity, Agriculture, Alt Culture, Animal Rights, Animations, Appointments, Arts, Banking, Blogging/Netroots, Books/Magazines, Buddhism, Budgets/Funding, Bush, G.W., Business/Industry, Cartoons/Graphics, Casework, Charity, Children/Teens, Christianity, Church-State Issues/Theocracy, Civil Rights, College, Communications, Community/Tribal, Congress, Consciousness, Consumer Affairs, Corporate Accountability, Corruption, Crime, Criminal Justice, DLC Republicrats, Death Penalty, Defense, Democracy, Democrats, Design, Disasters, Drug Companies, Marketing, Drug Policy/Culture/Laws, Earth/Gaia, Economy/Economics, Education, Egypt, Election/Voting Issues, Electronic Voting, Energy, Environment/Ecology, Espionage, Spygate, FBI, NSC, Ethics, European, Evolution, Exercise, FEMA, Families, Fascism/Cant Happen Here, Fashion, Federal Employees, Feminine/Feminism, Food/Drink/Dining, Foreign Affairs/Policy, Founders of America, Freedom, Fundamentalism, GLBT/Gay Issues, Gadgets, Games, Globalization/WTO/WB/NAFTA/etc, God, Good News/Success, Government Affairs, Grant Requests/Funding, GrassRoots, Gun Control, HIV/AIDS, Hate/Discrimination, Health Care Universal, Health/Medicine/Wellness, Heartwarming, Homeland Security, Housing, Human Rights, Humor, Humor/Jokes, Immigration, Impeachment, Indigenous Peoples, Inspirational, Interior/National Parks, International Criminal Court, Internet, Iraq, Iraq, Islam, Israel/Palestine, Jobs/Outsourcing, Jordan, Judiasm, Judiciary/Judicial Nominations, Justice Dept, Karl Rove, Kurd, Labor/Unions, Law/Legal/Torts, Lebanon, Living, Love, Media, Medicare/Medicaid, Mens Issues, Mental Health/Therapy, Middle East, Military, Mind/Body/Heart/Spirit, Movies/Film, Music, Native Americans, Nature, Obituaries, Oil, PSI/Parapsychology, Patriot Act, Peace, Pensions, People/Gossip, Personal, Photography/Images, Plamegate Investigation, Poetry, Politicians, Pollution, Pop Culture, Post Office, Poverty, Privacy, Progressive Media, Progressive Values and Issues, Protest/ Civil Disobedience, Psychology/MentalHealth, Quotations, Race/Racism, Relationships, Religion, Republicans, Retirement/Seniors/Elders/, Revolution, Right Wing Media, Rove, Karl, Satire, Saudi Arabia, Scandals/Bush/GOP, Science, Self Help, Personal Growth, Shia, Small Business, Social Security, Software, Space/Aerospace, Spirituality, Sports, Story, Students/Youth, Sunni, Supreme Court, Taxes, Technology, Television, Terrorists/Terrorism, Therapy, Think Tanks/Advocacy Orgs, Torture, Trade, Traitor/Criminal Right Wingers, Transportation, Travel, Union/Worker Issues/Labor, United Nations, Veterans, Welfare, White House, Womens Issues, World Issues, Writing So... being at the cutting edge takes YOUR support-- volunteer editors, readers who support us by telling other favorite sites to link to or reprint our articles, readers who send us tips for articles to link to, writers we should be featuring or inviting to join our team (80+ and growing) and... financial support. The right wing has think tanks that put out articles. They are funded to the tune of tens of millions of dollars a year. Many see more than $25 million a year. Last month we published over 300 articles. We did it on under $2000. We are reaching legislators. Supporting candidates and activism organizations. Imagine what we could do if we had ten times that much. That's still just one hundredth what one of the average big right wing think tanks get. Yet, if each reader gave us just ten cents... a month!!!... we'd have it. Or, if just one out of 100 readers gave us $10, we'd be there. Think about making a commitment, at the start of this year to an automatic monthly contribution to OpEdNews-- even $5 makes a huge difference, and a $10 or $25 monthly contribution takes us that much closer to reaching a financial situation that would allow us to take our activism and policy advocacy and outreach to the next degree. If you can't commit to a monthly contribution, please start off the year with some contribution-- $1000, $5, $10 $25. We're still waiting for a reader to break our previous record of $250. We're going to double our readership in the next six months. That means reaching more people, turning ideas into action and CHANGE. It won't happen if you don't do something to help us. Contribute NOW Media Wasteland-- Airtime Pollution As I write this, CNN is spending all it's time resources on the Miners trapped underground. It's newsworthy, but when they commit all or most of their airtime to one news story, they fail us. They fail to cover the biggest corruption story in US history. I'm sorry. I don't want to know that much about the mine rescue details. I switch to MSNBC and there's country music on the Don Imus show, with his his idiot patter partners. Give me a break. Click. CBS is doing a demonstration on food that hydrates your skin.NBC is doing a feature on spider phobia-- arachnophobia, ABC is doing a feature on a woman who grew up a fundamentalist, who had a crush on Moses. Now she's married to Jew and seems to have awakened from the cult-hypnotization she was immersed in as a child. At least this interview is on an intelligent topic. But overall, hardly any discussion of anything substantive, of the crisis of democracy-- the mainstream media should have their free licenses at least evaluated for the level of crap they are putting on the airwaves. Kabbalah OpEdNews tries to explore the intersection of religion and politics and other areas of life. Todays articles include a contribution from Rabbi Mindy Ribner, giving a Kabbalistic perspective on the Hebrew month of Tevet. OpEdNews would like to see progressive, spiritual, transpersonal perspectives from all religious and spiritual perspectives, from Atheism to Zoroastrianism and invites well written articles. The more we know about each other, the more we will understand and the less likely we will miscommunicate.

Authors Bio:

Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.


Check out his platform at RobKall.com


He is the author of The Bottom-up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity


He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and pioneered
first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and
Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful
people on his Bottom Up Radio Show,
and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and
opinion sites, OpEdNews.com


more detailed bio:


Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, debillionairizing the planet and the Psychopathy Defense and Optimization Project.


Rob Kall Wikipedia Page


Rob Kall's Bottom Up Radio Show: Over 400 podcasts are archived for downloading here, or can be accessed from iTunes. Or check out my Youtube Channel


Rob Kall/OpEdNews Bottom Up YouTube video channel


Rob was published regularly on the Huffingtonpost.com for several years.


Rob is, with Opednews.com the first media winner of the Pillar Award for supporting Whistleblowers and the first amendment.


To learn more about Rob and OpEdNews.com, check out A Voice For Truth - ROB KALL | OM Times Magazine and this article.


For Rob's work in non-political realms mostly before 2000, see his C.V.. and here's an article on the Storycon Summit Meeting he founded and organized for eight years.


Press coverage in the Wall Street Journal: Party's Left Pushes for a Seat at the Table

Talk Nation Radio interview by David Swanson: Rob Kall on Bottom-Up Governance June, 2017

Here is a one hour radio interview where Rob was a guest- on Envision This, and here is the transcript..


To watch Rob having a lively conversation with John Conyers, then Chair of the House Judiciary committee, click here. Watch Rob speaking on Bottom up economics at the Occupy G8 Economic Summit, here.


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