Our Inauguration in DC.

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In a matter of hours the 2 am crowd went from a couple hundred to a couple thousand-and that was just on 3rd street waiting for them to open the gates. Freezing temperatures. Taken with my Helio phone.

Media taking mug shots — foreign, familiar — to bank

Magazine mug shots go for $1, feed public desireForget obit pictures that are 15 years old and look nothing like the recently departed. And nix the glamour shots accompanying engagement announcements. Mug shots are “in” for people scanning newspapers, Web sites and magazines. Apparently readers like the idea of being frightened without any real danger. And pictures of criminals, both popular and obscure, give viewers just the right amount of thrill. full story

By Eliott C. McLaughlin
CNN

(CNN) — Newspaper, magazines, Web sites and a few book publishers are tapping into a curious American fascination: mug shots.

Publications like Local MugSHOTS run nothing but photos of recent arrestees in a community.

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You don’t have to commit a violent crime; you don’t have to be convicted; you don’t even have to be a celebrity (though for some publications, it helps).

Just get arrested — no charge is too small — and your mug could grace the pages of a local magazine or Web site.

But why are we drawn to these unbecoming images of our fellow residents? Are Americans simply voyeurs? Or in their eternal vigilance, do Americans seek to learn whether their neighbors are pederasts, thieves, drunk drivers or loiterers?

John Watson, associate professor of journalism at American University in Washington, said, “We like being frightened without being in actual peril.” full story

Sir Ben Kingsley announces teaming up with Latino husband and wife team for new film.

New film:

Ben Kingsley’s SBK announces slate

U.K.-based production co. readies six projects

By TATIANA SIEGEL

Ben Kingsley

Ben Kingsley’s fledgling U.K.-based production shingle SBK Pictures is ramping up its slate, putting five films and one made-for-TV miniseries into development.

Kingsley is attached to star in several of the projects, including the WWI drama “Jutland 1916,” based on the book by Peter Hart about the epic naval battle. Kingsley has committed to star as Admiral John Jellicoe.   

Nick Willing, who directed Kingsley in the 1999 NBC TV movie “Alice in Wonderland,” will adapt the screenplay.

Kingsley, who recently attended the Abu Dhabi confab to raise coin for the slate, is also moving forward with the romantic fantasy “Duncan,” written by Barton Randall. Story centers on a woman who reconnects with her childhood toy, an elephant. Kingsley will voice the elephant.

Emily Mortimer is in talks to star in “Cousin Bazilio,” a six-part miniseries set in Lisbon circa 1870 and written by Powell Jones and Zadoque Lopes. Willing will direct the pic, which Kingsley will produce.

These are the other three projects being developed for the bigscreen:

n ”Whispers Like Thunder,” written by Fuller “Trip” Brooks and Luis Moro, which chronicles the true story of three Native American sisters who fought a 65-year legal battle against the U.S. government to protect the Wyandot Indian sacred burial ground in Kansas. Kingsley will play Charles Curtis, the only part-Native American to serve as vice president of the U.S. Film will be co-produced with Luis Moro Prods.

n ”Quixote,” which focuses on the relationship between author Miguel de Cervantes and his creation, Don Quixote. Rusty Lemorande wrote the screenplay.

n ”I Know a Place,” a British comedy written by Randall, who also will direct.

SBK Pictures was formed in 2007 by Kingsley and his producing partners Simone Sheffield and Valerie Hoffman. The shingle also is producing “Will,” based on Christopher Rush’s novel of the same name, which depicts the deathbed meeting between William Shakespeare and his lawyer to hash out his last will and testament. Charles Wood is penning the screenplay.

Aside from SBK, Kingsley has several films in the can, including Martin Scorsese’s period drama “Shutter Island.”

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117996028.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

Filmmakers Luis Moro Productions

Filmmaker Bobbi Miller-Moro

Filmmaker Luis Moro

Whispers Like Thunder

the movie

 

 

 

 The true story of three Native American sisters who fought the government with guns, axes and the law to protect their ancestors burial grounds.The Conley sisters gave punches, swung axes, fired guns, and used the law to fight off U.S. troops, police, construction workers, mob thugs, corrupt business men and crooked politicians for several decades to defend their Native American sacred burial ground.

 

Their Native American fight for honor and respect of the law continues today.

WHISPERS LIKE THUNDER

a film by

In association with

Luis Moro Productions

 

Producers

Sir Ben Kingsley

Simone Sheffield

Valerie Hoffman

Luis Moro

Wyandot Nation of Kansas

Janith K. English

Principle Chief

 

Screenplay by

Trip Brooks

Luis Moro

Story by

Trip Brooks

Shelly Young

 

Wyandot Language

Translations by

John Steckley

 

LYDA CONLEY

1902 graduation from Kansas City College of Law. Since no man would represent the sisters against the U.S. Government, Lyda took it upon herself to prepare for legal action by mastering the law to defend the burial grounds.

FORT CONLEY

While Lyda fought her battle in the courts, her sister Helena, guarded the fort because of the intrusions. Helena wired the cemetery gates together and put up a sign:

“You Trespass at Your Own Peril.”

The sisters took up their vigil over the graves after learning the land was about to be sold. They built a 6 x 8 foot frame structure and placed a fence of iron spikes around it. Helena stood armed with their father’s double barreled shotgun, an axe and the American Flag. She used them without fear. Instantly, their new home became known as “Fort Conley.”

Go to  www.MoroFilms.com COMING SOON
Wyandot Nation links, gallery, archives and more.
Huron Indian Cemetery Chronology
Wyandots in Kansas Territory 1844

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Little Sarah’s story

Butterball’s House of Horrors

Butterball workers were documented punching and stomping on live turkeys, slamming them against walls, and worse during an undercover investigation at a Butterball slaughterhouse in Ozark, Arkansas.

One Butterball employee stomped on a bird’s head until her skull exploded, another swung a turkey against a metal handrail so hard that her spine popped out, and another was seen inserting his finger into a turkey’s cloaca (vagina).

One worker told an investigator: “If you jump on their stomachs right, they’ll pop … or their insides will come out of their [rectums],” and other Butterball workers frequently bragged about kicking and tormenting birds. Read morein the investigators’ log notes.

PETA’s investigators discovered these horrors between April and July, 2006, during an undercover investigation at a Butterball plant that slaughters approximately 50,000 birds each day.

Why Does This Abuse Happen?

Butterball turkeys are killed using a process that involves hanging live birds by their legs, shocking them in an electrified bath of water so that they become paralyzed (though they still feel pain), slitting their throats, and then running them through a tank of scalding-hot water for defeathering.

Because Butterball’s current slaughter method gives workers access to live birds, the animals often suffer when workers become frustrated or bored and desensitized, as was the case at this Butterball plant and the other poultry plants that PETA has investigated.

Even though they constitute more than 98 percent of the land animals eaten in the United States, birds are excluded from coverage under the only federal law designed to protect animals during slaughter, the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act (HMSA).

You Can Help Stop This!

• Automatically send a letter to your member of Congress, asking him or her to ensure that birds are covered by the HMSA. This is a simple form that just takes a minute to fill out.
• Go vegetarian today! Not eating animals is the best way to help them. Order PETA’s vegetarian starter kit full of recipes and health and shopping information today.
• Help spread the word! Send PETA’s undercover footage to your friends, family members, and coworkers.

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How Divorce Wars Take A Toll On Kids

Children Are Often Caught In The Middle Between Feuding Parents

(CBS) Children often get caught up in their parents’ divorce battles, forced to take sides. As Tracy Smithreports, “parental alienation” can take a serious toll on kids. 

Experts tell Smith that a child easily picks up the hostile cues of one parent toward another. And whether those cues are subtle or intentional, either way the child suffers and can carry that burden into adulthood. 

One girl who loved both parents very much but got caught in divorce crossfire is Victoria Peters. 

Her parents also loved her — so much that they spent hundreds of thousands of dollars and five years battling in court to win custody. 

“It was gut wrenching,” remembers Victoria’s father, Kevin Peters. “The whole thing was strange.” 

Franny Carney, Victoria’s mom, says, “It’s hell. It’s like living in hell.” 

It was not an ordinary custody case. 

Victoria’s father claims that for years, while his ex-wife had full custody, she led a campaign to turn his daughter against him, what some experts refer to as “parental alienation.” 

“It’s easy to teach a child to hate. Courts are now recognizing this is a serious problem,” explains author Richard Warshak. “The children’s affections are being poisoned against the other parent.” 

Kevin says the alienation campaign began with last-minute changes to his scheduled visits with Victoria. 

“It was always an excuse that, on my weekend, there was some reason she couldn’t come,” Kevin says. 

But Franny says she did not deny him visits. 

“My daughter was locked in a closet when I called,” Kevin tells Smith. Her mother would say, ‘Lets go get in the closet. It’s your dad.’ ” 

Months went by. Kevin lost his temper. The police were called. His visits then had to be supervised. But even then, he says, his ex-wife continued to prevent him from seeing Victoria. 

Franny contends that Kevin, who suffers from chronic depression, was emotionally unstable. 

“I was frightened of him, ya know? When he was out of line, me and my daughter hid in the back of the bathroom,” Franny says. 

As charges mounted against Kevin, a court-appointed evaluator had to decide: Were these charges real or was there a concerted effort by Franny to turn Victoria against her father? 

“Parental alienation is one of the common dynamics that occurs in high-conflict cases,” says Daniel Stockley, a parental evaluator. 

“The mother had difficulty, in this case, of letting go of, almost like an obsessive thought, that the child was at risk,” says Stockley. 
(CBS) At 8 years old, Victoria is skilled in the language of diplomacy. “I like living with my mom and I like living with my dad, so …” she tells Smith. 

But sometimes children are forced to take sides. 

“I couldn’t love my mom and my dad at the same time. I felt bad,” says Michelle Martin, an adult child of divorce. Michelle says she was alienated from her father as a child. 

“It shocked me how quickly and dramatically I changed my opinion of him. I would have nothing to do with him,” she recalls. 

According to experts, Michelle’s case is typical because, when pressed, she couldn’t tell anyone why she was so angry. 

“He hadn’t done anything to hurt me. And so, when I was asked for details, I didn’t have them,” she says. “I still, to this day, have to live with the mean things I said to him. The letters that I wrote to him. There are things I did purposely to hurt him.” 

Victoria, who was caught in a similar crossfire, had been in therapy since she was 3, frequently accompanied by her mother. It wasn’t until the therapist’s notes were finally subpoenaed that a disturbing pattern emerged that turned Kevin’s case around. 

“The telltale one is ‘My mom says there’s a side of my dad that I’ve never seen before, real mean.’ And the therapist says, ‘Have you ever seen that side?’ ‘No.’ ‘Do you believe it’s there?’ ‘Yeah, I always believe my mom,’ ” says Kevin’s attorney, Robert Fry. 

Page after page of citations documented Victoria’s growing fear and distress. 

“The evidence was overwhelming that the relationship with the father was beginning to suffer,” says Stockley. 

In April 2005, in a startling decision, the court found that “an immediate change of custody appears to be in the best interest of the child” and Kevin was awarded full custody of Victoria. 

“I was excited and stunned a little bit at the same time,” Kevin remembers. 

Ironically, it is Franny Carney, who now, because of what the court saw as alienating behavior, cannot see her daughter without a supervisor. 

“I raised her for seven and a half years. I was involved in every area of her life,” Franny says. 

The court did not deny that she was a conscientious parent but the ruling made clear Victoria needed to see both her parents. The daughter Franny fought so hard to protect is living with her father 

“I just come in to the house and I sit down and I cry,” says Franny. 

Victoria is reluctant to talk about any of it now. “I just mind my own business. 
I love them both. It doesn’t matter whose side I am on,” she says. 

As for Kevin, he’s just happy for every moment he has with his daughter. 

“I don’t want her to think I’m a Superman or a hero or anything. I just want her to, you know, say ‘My dad did what he was supposed to do,’ ” Kevin tells Smith, crying. 

Experts say alienation can happen with both moms and dads. But this concept is still very controversial because charges of parental alienation have been used falsely in the past to defend fathers who really are abusive. And if the courts believe them, the abusive dads can get their children back. 

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On Friday, Smith will report on what decades of research have taught us about how to have a happier marriage.

 

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Obama’s green jobs revolution

Obama’s green jobs revolution

Democrat will lead effort to curb world’s dependence on oil; Plans to create five million new posts in clean energy projects

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Obama has pledged to create five million new ‘green collar jobs’ if elected

•  ENLARGE

• Barack Obama is promising a $150bn “Apollo project” to bring jobs and energy security to the US through a new alternative energy economy, if his final push for votes brings victory in the presidential election on Tuesday.

“That’s going to be my number one priority when I get into office,” Mr Obama has said of his “green recovery” plans. Making his arguments in a radio address yesterday, the Democratic favourite promised: “If you give me your vote on Tuesday, we won’t just win this election. Together, we will change this country and change the world.”

The election has come during the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s, but he declared: “We’ll invest $15bn a year over the next decade in renewable energy, creating five million new green jobs that pay well, can’t be outsourced and help end our dependence on foreign oil.” The appeal of the idea that clean energy could help to kick-start the economy is such that Mr Obama’s Republican opponent, John McCain, has also promised “millions” of green jobs if he wins.

That was looking less likely yesterday, despite Republican strategists predicting a historic upset victory as they pointed to polls showing Mr Obama’s lead narrowing in “must-win” states such as Ohio. Despite the growing confidence of the Obama campaign, Mr McCain’s forces are now engaged in a massive final effort, making 17 million phone calls or door knocks at the homes of carefully targeted voters in the dying hours of the election.

Mr McCain’s final blitz will see him make stops in seven states tomorrow. As he told a small crowd of voters at the weekend: “The pundits, my friends, have written us off as they’ve done before. But we’re closing… and we’re going to win Ohio.” A major handicap he faces, however, is a surge in early voting by Democrats – a reversal of the pattern that delivered George Bush his 2004 victory. In Florida alone, 200,000 more Democrats have already voted than Republicans, and a high turnout – predictions are that 130 million Americans will vote, the largest number since 1960 – is thought to favour Mr Obama.

In the mayhem of the election campaign, Mr Obama has yet to deliver a major speech about his renewable energy plans. But he has pledged to create five million new “green collar jobs”, largely by greatly expanding the use of renewable energy, which should supply a tenth of America’s electricity within four years, insulating a million homes a year and to put a million rechargeable “plug-in hybrid cars” on the road by 2015.

He also wants the US motor industry to take a lead in producing environmentally friendly vehicles rather than 4x4s. He promises to invest in clean engine technology, to increase America’s hitherto lax car fuel economy standards by 4 per cent a year, and to boost sales of green cars by giving a $7,000 tax credit to people who buy them. And he has pledged to convert the White House fleet to plug-in hybrids within a year of taking office.

There is growing acceptance from economists in the US that a Green “New Deal” should be a fundamental part of the solution to the financial crisis and to America’s long-term security concerns.

At the same time, British ministers are planning a huge increase in environmentally friendly investment as a central part of its economic rescue plan. Japan’s Prime Minister, Taro Aso, has called the green economy “a great opportunity for new growth”. And plans are being laid in the Australian treasury for a 3,000 per cent growth in green jobs over the next decades.

But it is the American plans that could have the greatest effect in dragging the world economy out of crisis. Mr Obama believes that a new clean-energy economy “can be the engine that drives us into the future in the same way the computer was the engine for economic growth over the last couple of decades”.

The head of Mr Obama’s transition team, John Podesta, has called for “a new vision for the economic revitalisation of the nation and a restoration of America’s leadership in the world”, adding: “We must seize this precious opportunity to mobilise the country and the international community towards a brighter and more prosperous future.”

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/obamas-green-jobs-revolution-984631.html

Ben Kingsley’s new slate of films announced

Plenty for Ben Kingsley to do in the next few years. See what he’s doing now, including his portrayal of Vice President Charles Curtis. 

Watch Jenny McCarthy talk about her son’s autism.

In light of the recent Hannah Poling decision, in which the federal court conceded that vaccines could have contributed to her autism, we think the tide is finally turning in the direction of parents like us who have been shouting concerns from our rooftops for years.

Autism is a debilitating disorder, which according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is suffered by 1 in 150 kids, making it more common than childhood cancer, diabetes and AIDS combined.

Recently, England and Ireland reported that autism is affecting one in 58 individuals. 

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/02/mccarthy.autsimtreatment/index.html#cnnSTCVideo

My personal story:

I have five children. With my first three children I followed the Government issued schedule of vaccines from the first day, in the clusters they suggest. I was young, and I was trying to ‘be a good parent’ and do the right thing for my children.

Those three children suffered these side effects. I have one child who has mild Asperger Syndrome, a form of Autism. I have another child who suffered Selective Mutism and severe Asthma until the 8th grade, where she did not speak in public. And my third child suffered severe Eczema and where she scratched until she bled, hives, and childhood Anemia. Plus, they were always sick, always with colds, it seemed they had a low immune system.

I did not link the two, I thought it was genetic. However, in looking at both sides of the family, I saw no correlation. When I decided to have children again after 9 years, I studied, read and researched everything I could about vaccines. What I found out scared me to death. The cover-ups, the pharmaceutical kick-backs to the medical community, doctor and pediatric lies, the public schools with their kick backs and rewards. I could not believe what I discovered. The Mercury in the vaccinations (which causes causes neurotoxicity in humans, especially in fetuses and small infants and is illegal in CA now), the Mercury from thimerosal in vaccines is linked to increase in autism in a confidential CDC study. It is used for preserving the vaccination when it is made in the laboratories in large vats. You could link all non-independent studies-which shows that there is no Mercury in vaccinations, and that it has no correlation to Autism directly to Pharmaceutical companies who paid for the study. 

Story after story from parents who saw their normal child go in to get a series of shots in one visit, and ‘lose’ their child to the horrific side effect of Autism. This is no joke, and I was taking no chances. My last two children are healthy, smart and vibrant. No Autistic symptoms, and no side effects. My older children are almost fully recovered, but still have traces of the disorders. Here’s what I did differently. I demanded no shots when my babies were born, and I signed a waiver. Their little 7 lb bodies should not be subjected to early vaccination. I waited almost a year before they had their first shots. I chose the shots (Polio, Rubella, Measles, Mumps). They did not get the DTP until over 18 months. (The DTP shot is a combination inoculation against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis. It is given at 2, 4, 6, and 15 to 18 months of age-This vaccine is recommended for immunizing children 6 weeks of age through 6 years of age). I never took them in within a month of being sick or with a cold. I refuse the chicken pox vaccine, and still have yet to get caught ‘up to date’ on the Government schedule. And I am thankful. 

I have gotten into heated arguments with pediatricians, nurses, and doctors. I have questioned them, I have presented facts, I have demanded them to break up the shots and not give so many clusters of vaccines in one ‘series’ or ‘clump’. And I am glad I did. They fought me every step of the way. (However, I have discovered pediatricians who do not believe in scheduled vaccines).

I know I saved my children by a healthy diet, being educated and refusing to be following blindly what pediatricians, doctors and nurses say to me about anything. I have turned down antibiotics when they are sick, and in any high fever emergencies, which they almost rarely get, I grill the doctor that wants to administer a shot, and ask  what are the ingredients, what are the side effects, what are the preservatives? I even have them give me the information pamphlet that was included with the drug when sold to the doctor.

I tell the preschools I have chosen, that I follow  A Parent’s Right to Choose. We have a right to say no to vaccines.

Be weary if you hear from a nurse or doctor, “No, she needs ALL of her 15 and 18 month vaccines at the next appointment.” Survey: 98% Say Parents Should Have Right to Refuse Vaccination. If you hear a parent defend the vaccination schedule, ask where they received their information from. If you read a pro vaccination article, read the fine print. Follow the yellow brick road, see who wrote it, who was quoted and do research. It all goes back to the laboratories, a huge $58.8 billion industry that is very powerful.

I hope this story has helped a mother or father to encourage you to study, be informed, know what people are putting into your children’s bodies.

Follow your heart, and do what is best for your child, you could be saving their life.

Recommended reading: Jenny McCarthy’s new book:  Mother Warriors  will force America to wake up. * I strongly believe critics of Jenny McCarthy’s outspoken, and public views are protecting the CDC, and are not educated in the reality of Autism, or are in denial.

Bobbi Miller-Moro

http://www.BobbiMillerMoro.com

List of Powerful Mothers

These women are brazen They are tough, independent and smart. They waited for no one. Someone needed to compile a list of
POWERFUL MOTHERS. The time has come.

There are many more mothers to be added.
The list keeps getting longer, so it will be divided into parts.