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From around the blogosphere, The Big Picture today at the Boston Globe has a wonderful photo essay of everyday life around the world.  Click to have your heart moved.

Blogs: My news and political blog is at South by Southwest. My general purpose/southwest focus blog is at Southwest Progressive. My creative blog is at Making Good Mondays. And Carol Gee - Online Universe is the all-in-one home page for my websites.

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Are you active or are you passive?

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 Surfing around the World Wide Web - Today I discovered a number of interesting sites that are part of the activist movements now getting coverage in the national news.  Here are a few links to the online efforts, movements and organizations about which you may have heard:

•  Occupy Wall Street - Since the middle of September demonstrators, growing into the thousands, have been staging a protest on Wall Street in New York City.

1.   Occupy Together - Includes a list of all the other "Occupy" movements beyond Wall Street.
2. The NYC General Assembly at #Occupy Wall Street: Needs of the Occupiers are spelled out in this interesting post.
3. AnonOps Communications -  Includes a good Michael Moore video from the Wall Street protest.

• Get Money Out - learn about an idea for cleaning up corporate influence in Washington and sign the petition.  Almost 125,000 have so far signed.

1. Dylan Ratigan organized a petition drive that could free America from the influence of unlimited campaign contributions via a Constitutional amendment.
2. Ratigan explains at Huffington Post.

• Rebuild the Dream - A large number of Progressive organizations joined together this summer to fight to restore the American dream for the 99% of us who are not rich.

1. Founder Van Jones organized this week's Take back the American Dream Conference.
2. About the Partners in the American Dream Movement - participating organizations listed at the bottom. 

[Post date: 10/6/11]

Technorati tags: [Occupy Wall Street], [Rebuild the Dream], [Take Back America]

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This and that from the recent past:

From my regular contributor, Jon:

Just Amazing!
NY-born twin friars die on same day at age 92 - Yahoo! News (6/5/11).
Study: Man's Best Friend Is Also a Mind Reader - Yahoo! News (6/13/11).

Speaking of Excess . . .
What Does a $500 Million Golf Course Look Like? - Yahoo! Travel (6/19/11).
The American Police State is the 'New Normal' - Yahoo! News (6/26/11).

Texas tidbits:
The Cracks in Rick Perry’s Job-Growth Record - Swampland at Time (6/27/11).
Texas debt growing at faster rate than Federal government's - Ft. Worth Star-Telegram (7/13/11)

Jon adds, "I would like to hear little Ricky explain this."

And from Diane of Nevada:
 Growing vegetables in your yard against the law? - Natural News Alert (6/17/11).

Thanks, as always.

This month's little gems from my regular contributor, Jon.

Texas' Headlines -

Texas Governor Rick Perry says he will consider running for president (5/27/11), is from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

A Texas Log Cabin for $4 Million is from Yahoo! Real Estate (4/25/11).

Guest column from the Texas Tribune: Don't mess with my district, (4/25/11).

Pier 1 and Radio Shack: Which is on better footing for the future? (4/23/11) is from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

Headlines from elsewhere -

Blackbeard's anchor is recovered off the North Carolina coast (5/27/11), is from Yahoo! News.

Activist Post: 10 Indications the United States Is a Dictatorship, (5/10/11).

War Dog - A Photo Essay by Rebecca Frankel, from Foreign Policy Magazine (5/4/11).

Officials: A popular cop in Alaska is an illegal immigrant (4/23/11) is from Yahoo! News.

Poll: Americans strongly oppose some deficit proposals (4/20/11) is from the Washington Post.

The super rich see their federal taxes drop dramatically (4/18/11), from Yahoo! News.

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More dibs and dabs to digest

An article that should disgust you -- A California Orange County (tea party activist) Republican allegedly sent an offensive Obama email (depicting the President as an ape) - from Yahoo! News.  The County Republican Chairman, Scott Baugh was quoted as saying,

. . . that he wants an ethics investigation into the incident.

"It's just highly inappropriate, it's a despicable message, it drips with racism and I think she should step down from the committee," said Baugh.

If you live in an area where there is a lot of drilling for natural gas, this recent study found that fracking for natural gas is more hazardous than burning coal - according to Yahoo! News.

And finally, you will be amazed by the following three items:

1. Safes, cash washed up on Japan shores after the tsunami -according to an April 10 story from Yahoo! News. 
2.  We learn of a World War Two era German Dornier 17 bomber that was found intact underwater - from Yahoo! News Photos.
3. "The Little Things In Life" is the title of a set of 20 amazing photos from Live Science.  Immense magnification is the secret technique.

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