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Climate Change Needs a Strong National Leader

This is a wonderful thing happening. The youth are  the inheritors of the earth and will be involved in the saving of it. The earth needs  this energy, resolve, involvement and ethics in every facet of life no matter what job, career or location individuals find themselves. But we need a national leader who is committed to saving the earth.

Right now is the time. ..the tipping point for change. Register to vote. Volunteer in the presidential campaigns that show a history of support for turning around global warming. Show your support for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney who are guilty of high crimes against the U.S. Constitution and International Law. No law is useful unless it is enforced. We are bucking corporate greed, Washington lobbyers, and dirty tricks to maintain the status quo which is all about money in the pockets of the fat cats and pollution their greed causes. We must own this problem and take on the responsibility for turning it around. Every single individual is important and capable of making a difference.

Noteworthy is how corporate media has blocked out the Dennis Kucinich (Koo-sin-itch) presidential debate participation in New Hampshire and Iowa, as he is the single biggest advocate for holding Bush and Cheney accountable for their crimes against the environment. War pollutes more than any other single activity on earth. Could it be that the media fears an impeachment investigation will reveal their complicity in the prewar press coverage and make them culpable?  Kucinich also has it ALL right. Kucinich has a platform policy for what he will do when he is elected president that environmentalist need to get squarely behind. His ideas are holistic, all encompassing and in my opinion is the only way to go. He actually has ideas and knows how he will implement and finance them. Go to dennis4president.com. John Edwards also strongly supports the environment.

To what young people need be alert is that the media has become the deciders. This is an insult. In order for Democracy to work, the voters must have access to all the candidates and all the information in order to make an informed vote. The blocking out of any candidate is an atrocious, criminal affront to the American people; and the one person one vote concept upon which our election system operates.  This needs to be responded to with outrage.

The problem started when President Ronald Reagan sold our, built with tax payer money, communications satellite to private enterpirse. It was wrong then and the control of information which was feared is complete. When a few for profit corporations control what we read, hear and see...that is mind control. As the senator from Ohio Dennis Kucinich said: "The air waves are not owned by the media but by the people." The next take over will be the free internet which allows us to share all information and exchange ideas freely. The press is sopposed to serve the people and the nation so that our freedoms and liberties can be maintained. But now it only serves to direct our thinking to support the status quo dappled with just enough diversity of reporting to appear to be legitimate.

After the first presidential debate ABC polls showed Dennis Kucinich with an overwhelming percentage of votes above all others. ABC squashed the poll results. Another poll showed the same...ABC ignored it. The independentvoice.com straw poll showed Dennis Kucinich with 77% of the vote! The Virgina poll shows him a winner.  You have not read or seen these results in any corporate media reports. Kucinich is feared by the media because he will fix things and give the power back to the people.

Disney owns ABC and I am now boycotting them. We can talk back. Turn them off. The people have the power. I just read that Cable t.v. is now going back on a agreement to provide local access programming: college bowls, commission meeting, etc. Now they are bumping those channels into the high number range to where people will not receive them unless they buy the more expensive cable offerings and later on they will start charging for access to these channels. Cable is a communication company that exists because of agreements they would serve the public. This is one of those agreements they are violating.

Let's pick a month and across the nation drop our cable contracts for one month to flex our power as the "deciders". Instead, discuss with friends over coffee. Remind media that Communication serves democracy first and corporations second. Our brothers and sisters have died in wars to obtain our freedoms; corporations and American stock holders, can give a little to reduce the bottom line to maintain these freedoms. It is all connected.

When the media reports half truths, it is a lie.  Right now the nation is being lied to every day. If we have not tuned out, we listen or read the lie pundits carry on a discussion amongst themselves and call this programming.

We have a lot of work to do. Get your information from as many sources as possible then hold it up to the light.

Go Vote.On The youth climate movement proves itself at Power Shift posted 1 year, 10 months ago 8 Responses