Displaying 1,621 To 1,650 Of 18,974 Comments What Issues Are You Passionate About? Hello Aquarius 1027, it’s nice to finally speak with you too. I totally agree that our world is falling behind on many important issues such as World Hunger, Women’s Rights, Education, Modern Day Slavery and Human Trafficking, the renewable energy march forward just to name a few, but if profit-driven corrupt politicians and leaders keep being elected, the path to equality is longer and harder. The only thing we can do is stay concerned to make our world a better place. Vote out the vultures, and keep talking loud and often about the changes we need to see. Whether that comes in the form of actual street protests, or by signing endless petitions that often do make a huge difference in the outcome of certain issues, we have to keep fighting for equality and justice for all. Hope to see you again soon, and thank you for joining our community here at The Planet. » Posted By Kalima On April 12, 2014 @ 5:46 pm Oops, so I did. 🙂 Interesting that we share the same passion for issues, but then again, hardly surprising. » Posted By Kalima On April 7, 2014 @ 3:31 pm Thank you my friend but it is a labour of love. 😳 » Posted By Kalima On April 7, 2014 @ 3:29 pm Well done Nirek for addressing the things that will destroy us if we don’t act soon. The fracking issue is close to my heart because the conservative government in the U.K. want to open up 40% of the country to fracking. Not in their own back yard of course, but in places that are considered unimportant because the people who live there don’t vote for them anyway. It would take a decade before it would bring in any economic profit for the country, and in those 10 years more than 40% of the country would be ruined, the groundwater poisoned, and many people would be sick. On the other hand you hear they are fighting to stop the expansion of wind farms because they are “ugly”, and planning up to 20 new nuclear power plants. The wind farms produce too much energy so the oil companies are having hissy fits. Green energy has had their funding cuts while the greedy fat cats in the main energy groups grow fatter and overcharge the consumers. If I can find stories detailing the facts of this government fraud, so can the British public. The Fukushima crisis is a daily ongoing issue. Both TEPCO and the current government are guilty of spinning a web of lies. TEPCO is not on top of the situation and the government knows it but enable them to continue their endless incompetence. The only good thing to happen in the last three years is that the public awareness of the dangers of nuclear energy has finally resulted in many protests, and the loss of seats for politicians who continue to support it. In Japan that is quite something. Abe of course supports nuclear energy, a fact that I find mind boggling after all this country has been through since the 11th of March. The only way America can stop these profiteers is to do the same, and vote out the people who would destroy your country for a fast buck. Thanks for the shout out Nirek, it’s something I enjoy doing if it brings the truth and the facts to our doorstep. We have to keep talking about these issues because the worst thing we could do is to keep silent. What am I passionate about? Well it would fill up several pages, but here are just a few. The end to hunger everywhere. Healthcare for all. Education for everyone. Equality for women worldwide. Birth control for everyone who needs it . Stamping out racism. The end to human trafficking and modern day slavery. Keeping religion out of politics. Green energy. Animal Rights. Justice and equality for all. » Posted By Kalima On April 7, 2014 @ 3:19 pm True Story Of A Vietnam Veteran My Dear Nirek, no your post didn’t hurt or upset me, it’s just that I tend to feel suffering whether human or animal, very deeply, and think that it’s not a solution to anything. It’s stain on mankind. Yet as I type this, around the world people are doing the most awful things to each other, and for what? You told a story, and in a way I felt sorry for the man, he should have been given more help than he received. All those sent by governments to fight deserve to come home and be treated with respect. That they are not is what hurts me the most. I’m glad that you had your father to talk things over with. Peace, and goodnight from Tokyo. » Posted By Kalima On April 13, 2014 @ 5:28 am Thank you Nirek for sharing. For me the story is very sad, and six months in a mental health care facility obviously wasn’t enough. It’s a shame he didn’t get further help. As for killing for the sake of killing innocent animals because you have the upper hand, I couldn’t be more against hunting if I tried. Thanks again for the post Nirek. Peace. » Posted By Kalima On April 12, 2014 @ 5:24 pm Dr. Adlib Diagnoses Your Cable News As Having Alzheimer’s Disease Well that’s a shame Unca, hope you find what you are looking for somewhere else. Just to clear a few things up, most of those members you are talking about that no longer post here, were an influx of posters from HP a few years ago when the takeover happened, and recently last year when HP demanded you all get a Facebook account. The majority have never once posted here, and returned to HP. We are not a news site and have never claimed to be. We are an opinion site where people are free to give their point of view, and write articles without censorship. We are a community here, many people work or lead busy lives. They come when they find the time. FYI, we didn’t lose your avatar, there must be a problem where you signed on for it. Please check your settings there. Thanks. » Posted By Kalima On May 5, 2014 @ 4:52 pm Hello kes. I was saving the story for the next updates but when I saw that you had mentioned their tragedy, I thought it was appropriate to post it. Yes amazing and courageous women who deserve the name of journalist. » Posted By Kalima On April 4, 2014 @ 6:17 pm Well said kes! Remembering My Sisters in Danger, The AP’s Anja Niedringhaus and Kathy Gannon Two AP journalists, victims of a violent attack on Friday, took risks in Afghanistan that almost no one else covering the war was willing to take. » Posted By Kalima On April 4, 2014 @ 4:06 pm Dear Dr. AdLib, your diagnosis is so perfectly on target, that I can’t help wondering how the fate of your three patients affected you on that day? Were you sad, glad or mad? So what now? Do we watch them with the sound off? Do we pat our tv screens while saying “There, there”? Or do we get all our news from The Planet now, as I hear that the folks there have been accused of telling the truth, and even making sense. 😯 Your medal for an enlightening and truthful synopsis is in the mail. Well done Dr. Ad. May I call you Ad? » Posted By Kalima On April 3, 2014 @ 6:52 pm Under New Texas Law, Pregnant Women To Be Highly Regulated Exactly AdLib, from anyone with a social conscience, it seems normal, and yet they go on and on trying to pass these crazy and invasive bills. They also passed a “religious freedom” bill dubbed as “turn away the gays” similar to the one in Arizona. Taking away the freedom of millions has nothing to do with their faux “religious freedom” and the courts who uphold it are biased. Why they continue to pass bills that are struck down in other states is beyond me. It’s like putting your hand in an open flame more than once expecting it not to hurt the next time you try it. It’s a form of insanity and desperation combined. —- 20-week abortion ban heads to gov. http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20140401/NEWS010504/304010069 » Posted By Kalima On April 2, 2014 @ 5:32 pm “We love Obamacare!” “We just adore the President”. “We are giving away millions when we volunteer in the Soup Kitchens around America, and opening up our homes to the homeless”. “We love the poor. If we didn’t steal all their/your money for our rich pimps, we would be poor too”. “We were just teasing about Benghazi”. “We can’t stand the Koch brothers, they smell funny, and believe in climate change”. It would be endless » Posted By Kalima On April 2, 2014 @ 1:46 am You naughty AdLib, you!! Being as we are already well into the 2nd, I had forgotten all about April Fools Day. There I was frothing at the mouth like an old fashioned expresso machine because this is exactly what some chinless GOP twit in Texas might try. Then I find your last sentence and was too exhausted to laugh. I’m back now so, 😆 and well done. I sincerely hope we are not being read by a bunch of RW extremists, because you just made their day. » Posted By Kalima On April 1, 2014 @ 8:57 pm The Weekend Music Thread-Afro-American Influence I grew up listening to him too, there will never be anyone like him. Hope you don’t mind that I added the same video from youtube, it displays easier here. » Posted By Kalima On March 29, 2014 @ 4:46 pm Thank you for those very kind words and I’ll try to never disappoint you. Just noticed that your son has left a comment, and thought that was wonderful. Peace. » Posted By Kalima On March 31, 2014 @ 4:15 pm Hello Nirek, and thank you for sharing your experience here with us. It is an amazing story but I’m sorry that young people ever have to go through this. My own father rarely spoke about the war he fought in, especially the landing on Gold Beach in Normandy on D-Day. What he did say was that war was wrong, he had seen some terrible things, and that he did what he had to do. The only thing he shared was that they had captured two German soldiers, they looked no older than 15, were scared to death, and that my father shared his cigarettes with them in the trenches. Later as I became older, I didn’t ask him about it again. So thank you again for your firsthand account that gives a wonderful perspective of what it was like to be a draftee, and actually go to fight. Well done Nirek for so many things. Peace. » Posted By Kalima On March 31, 2014 @ 3:20 pm Chris Christie Cleared on Bridgegate by Wife Great, that will be your Sunday afternoon as I’m in Tokyo. Will have the tea and coffee ready. Have a peaceful day, and it’s goodnight from me. » Posted By Kalima On March 28, 2014 @ 5:33 am My pleasure. I try to do it as often as the paywalls allow, but every day as I used to has become a problem. Will post updates on your Sunday morning, so if you are interested it would be great to see you there. Thanks for asking and welcome back to The Planet. 🙂 » Posted By Kalima On March 28, 2014 @ 5:20 am Hi monicaangela. To watch YouTube videos here, you just add a “v” to http like this, https:// then the videos will play. Just fixed them for you. » Posted By Kalima On March 28, 2014 @ 4:57 am Exactly, and it’s going to be quite a show to watch the layers of lies and conspiracy to deceive the public, peel way like an onion skin. He’s toast with anyone who has a conscience or possesses any integrity. Very bad move on his part. Very stupid too. » Posted By Kalima On March 27, 2014 @ 7:00 pm Right!! Hard to fathom that he thinks the public will now forget it and let him campaign for presidency. He’s dumber than I thought he was. 😯 Bwahahaha!!!
Political motivations were at the heart of a plan by allies of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to spark a mass traffic jam on the George Washington Bridge, according to an internal report conducted by lawyers on behalf of Christie. The governor’s internal review of the bridge scandal clears the N.J. governor of wrongdoing.. » Posted By Kalima On March 27, 2014 @ 6:23 pm Race-Based Research: A History Lesson for Mr. Ryan Good Morning J.M., and you are welcome. Btw, I didn’t find any typos though, maybe it helps that I’m as blind as a bat. 😉 » Posted By Kalima On March 27, 2014 @ 7:19 am Wonderful article J.M. And it tears apart Ryan’s feeble argument superbly with undeniable facts. The GOP are weak-kneed cowards who hide behind disproven studies and proven lies, and a man who professes to admire someone like Ayn Rand, can never be trusted to tell the truth because by that admission, we know exactly who he is and where he is coming from. Thoroughly enjoyed your well informed slap-down of him and the rest of the rabid racists who do this frequently to enrage their base of fools, and thank you for posting it here. P.S. » Posted By Kalima On March 26, 2014 @ 5:49 pm The Weekend Music Thread-Spring Has Sprung Hi Nirek. She probably wants to be a doctor when she grows up, and with those hands she could be a terrific surgeon. » Posted By Kalima On March 23, 2014 @ 3:29 pm This is not really about spring but it was so amazing that I had to share it, and it made me smile. 🙂 RACER X “Scarified” Cover / Li-sa-X (Japanese 8 year old girl https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5YXpfcZy2Sk » Posted By Kalima On March 23, 2014 @ 3:09 pm Happy St. Patrick’s Day…Unless You’re Gay The message came across loud and clear. » Posted By Kalima On March 20, 2014 @ 11:29 pm Self Evident Truths https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XJkivljbvQE » Posted By Kalima On March 20, 2014 @ 6:34 am I trust your judgment on this AdLib and have known you long enough to know hat you never take on an issue unless you have the facts. My opinion is still that it is prejudice by a few calling the shots, and that it’s wrong. » Posted By Kalima On March 18, 2014 @ 5:34 pm Fingers tighty crossed that this will all be over for you soon. I’m up and down so far this year, with the downs beating the ups, but life goes on and Spring is on the way so there is that to look forward to. Thanks for asking. Left a greeting for all of our Irish friends on MB on Sunday. Take care and feel better soon. » Posted By Kalima On March 17, 2014 @ 11:57 pm Hello Fergie, nice to see you again, and I hope you are feeling better? I haven’t followed this story as closely as some but believe that banning the LGBT community because you presume they will do something to embarrass the parade is exactly like banning AA because you presume that they will carry guns and shoot someone. Therefore it’s a presumption that they will all be punished for collectively, and I believe it’s wrong and is indeed prejudice whether they realise it or not. As a 9 year old German girl being beaten up at a U.K. school and on the way home from school almost every week, I know at lot about discrimination and phobias too. » Posted By Kalima On March 17, 2014 @ 11:30 pmComments Posted By Kalima
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