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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'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, 2017Here 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. Follow Rob on Twitter & Facebook. His quotes are here Join the conversation: On facebook at Rob Kall's Bottom-up The Connection Revolution and at Google Groups listserve Bottom-up Top-down conversation
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Friday, November 24, 2023
Why are U.S. courts afraid of the 14th Amendment? Because it's radical. By Sherrilyn Ifill SHARE 
Consider the recent ruling upholding former president Donald Trump’s appearance on Colorado’s 2024 presidential ballot. Here we have the latest entry in a dismaying 155-year tradition of American judges stripping that radical amendment to the U.S. Constitution of its intended power.
Section 3, of the 14th amendment bars any participant in a rebellion against the government of the United States from holding public office. But almost from its inception, all the amendment’s radical provisions have inspired fear and timidity in jurists of every stripe.
Yes,“radical.” The 14th Amendment was conceived of and pushed by the “Radical Republicans” in Congress after the Civil War, so named because of their commitment to eradicating slavery and they'd seen the threat that white supremacist ideology and the spirit of insurrection posed to the survival of the USA as a republic.
Monday, September 4, 2023
Why do we celebrate Labor Day and not May Day? Grover Cleveland. SHARE
Labor Day became a federal holiday because of politics under President Grover Cleveland.
This article offers a bit on the history of how Labor Day was started and how and why it came to be a federal holiday .
...someone suggested a parade and picnic to celebrate workers and unions at a meeting in New York in 1882. Though the event was planned mostly by Irish immigrants, ads were translated into German. Alcohol was banned.
It was scheduled for Sept. 5, a Tuesday, meaning most of the demonstrators were skipping work. Divisions came from Jersey City, Brooklyn, Harlem and other areas, and they gathered on Canal Street. More than 20,000 people marched up Broadway to Bryant Park, a little under three miles, holding banners and singing songs about the eight-hour workday and other union demands.
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Friday, September 1, 2023
Red Staters Live Shorter Lives; America's Partisan Divide on Life Expectancy SHARE
Centuries-old settlement patterns — and the attitudes they spawned about government — are to blame for differences in longevity between red southern states and bluer parts of the country.
The truth of life expectancy in America is that places with comparable profiles — similar advantages and similar problems — have widely different average life outcomes depending on what part of the country they belong to.
If you live pretty much anywhere in the contiguous U.S., you can expect to live more than 78 years, unless you’re in the Deep South or the sprawling region I call Greater Appalachia. Those two regions — which include all or parts of 16 deep red states and a majority of the House Republican caucus — have a life expectancy of 77, more than 4.5 years lower than on the blue-leaning Pacific coastal plain.
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Thursday, August 31, 2023
Give pee a chance: Why German men urinate sitting down SHARE
Are you a man who pees while sitting down? The Germans have a word for it: Sitzpinkler.
The trend is fairly recent but has swept Germany, thanks in part to the "Toilet Ghost," a device that instructs men to take a seat — in the voice of recent German chancellors for added authority.
The main reasons for the trend are hygiene and health — and perhaps also smartphones.
The article offers polling stats.
Thursday, July 20, 2023
How Many Indictments Does It Take to Bring Down a Cult Leader? SHARE
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY has devolved into a cult of personality, where every new piece of evidence of Trump's criminality becomes another reason for his followers to defend him. The group of whiners and weaklings who are running against Trump for 2024’s GOP nomination are so intimidated by his hold on the party’s base that they are afraid to publicly tell the truth, that Trump is a thug who should be in prison instead of the White House.
How many indictments will it take to wake Republicans from their fever dream?
None of the legal cases address Trump’s unrelenting racist demagoguery, his mentally unbalanced embrace of conspiracy theories, or his casual use of lies and disinformation to defend himself and attack his enemies. In 2021, the Washington Post’s fact-checking team concluded that Trump had made 30,573 false or misleading claims over the four years of his presidency.
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Tuesday, April 4, 2023
Brandon Johnson elected Chicago mayor in victory for progressives SHARE
Brandon Johnson, a union organizer and former teacher, was elected Chicago mayor on Tuesday, a major victory for the Democratic party’s progressive wing as the nation’s third-largest city grapples with high crime and financial challenges.
Johnson, a Cook County commissioner endorsed by the Chicago Teachers Union, won a close race over former Chicago schools CEO Paul Vallas, who was backed by the police union.
Among the biggest disputes between Johnson and Vallas was how to address crime.
Vallas, 69, said he would hire hundreds more police officers, while Johnson said he didn’t plan to cut the number of officers, but that the current system of policing isn’t working. Instead, he said, he planned to allocate more money to areas such as mental health treatment and youth jobs.
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Tuesday, April 4, 2023
Progressives Win a Majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court SHARE
Janet Protasiewicz’s victory gives Democrats an opening to reverse the state GOP’s onslaught on democracy.
Protasiewicz won a critical seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, giving progressives their first majority on the court since 2008 and a pathway to challenging the GOP’s decade-plus stranglehold on power in the Badger State.
Protasiewicz’s victory over former conservative justice Daniel Kelly has huge state and national significance. A new progressive majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court could strike down the heavily gerrymandered maps that have locked in enormous Republican majorities in the legislature and a series of laws that have made it harder to vote. A shift in the court removes the threat that conservatives could use their majority to overturn the 2024 election; Donald Trump’s attempt to nullify Joe Biden’s victory in the state failed by just one vote.
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Thursday, March 23, 2023
The FBI Used an Undercover Cop With Pink Hair to Spy on Activists and Manufacture Crimes SHARE
In the summer of 2020, federal law enforcement launched a broad, and until now, secret strategy to infiltrate racial justice groups and try to entrap activists in crimes.
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., told The Intercept. “It is a clear abuse of authority for the FBI to use undercover agents, informants, and local law enforcement to spy on and entrap people engaged in peaceful First Amendment-protected activities without any evidence of criminal activity or violent intent.”
The probe in Colorado Springs also raises questions about FBI priorities and the bureau’s perceptions of threats. As federal agents investigated political activists there, they also launched, and promptly dropped, an investigation of a man running a neo-Nazi website — a decision that would have deadly consequences.
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Sunday, January 22, 2023
The Lawsuit That Could Freeze Speech Against Billionaires SHARE
A gas mogul’s case against Beto O’Rourke could deter candidates from ever talking about money in politics.
In a Texas court, a lawsuit could send an intimidating message to political candidates across the country: If you suggest billionaire donors buy political influence, you could face severe punishment.
At issue is a suit brought by Texas oil and gas billionaire Kelcy Warren. It accuses former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke of defamation for slamming Warren’s $1 million donation to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) in 2021.
Free speech and first amendment advocates have criticized Warren’s suit as an attempt to use the court system to try to intimidate and silence critics, regardless of the case’s lack of merit.
These types of lawsuits are typically referred to as strategic lawsuits against public participation, or “SLAPP” suits.
Monday, December 12, 2022
Sanders says Sinema 'helped sabotage' some of Congress's key legislations SHARE
Bernie Sanders would consider supporting any Democrat who might mount a challenge against his chamber colleague Kyrsten Sinema, arguing that she has “helped sabotage” some of Congress’s most important legislation.
Sanders’s comments on Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union added to the chorus of detractors against the Arizona lawmaker who has undermined the agenda of the Joe Biden White House and other progressives, including by voting down raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour and reforming the Senate filibuster so that voting rights legislation can pass.
Sanders told the show host, Dana Bash, that the leftwing party’s members in Arizona were “not all that enthusiastic about somebody who helped sabotage some of the most important legislation that protects the interests of working families and voting rights and so forth”.
Thursday, August 11, 2022
Trump Made It A Felony To Mishandle Classified Documents In 2018 SHARE
Few details have been made public as to why, exactly, the FBI and Department of Justice felt the urgent need to raid former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort on Monday.
Reports indicate Trump had been holding onto materials that were supposed to have been turned over to the National Archives. But officials have not commented on what was contained in those records ― and whether there are implications for U.S. national security.
The lack of information leaves only speculation about what sort of potential criminal activity the Department of Justice is looking into.
Oddly enough, one of the multiple laws covering the mishandling of government information is one that Trump himself amended during his tenure in the Oval Office, as pointed out by Tennessee state Sen. Jeff Yarbro (D) on Twitter.
Wednesday, July 27, 2022
Right Wing MAGS Spewing OAN Faces a 'Death Blow' SHARE
The future of One America News, which established itself as a powerful voice in conservative media by promoting some of the most outlandish falsehoods about the 2020 election, is in serious doubt as major carriers drop it from their lineups and defamation lawsuits threaten to drain its finances.
In the past year OAN has, lost 20 million viewers.
After Verizon drops the network at the end of this week, OAN’s cable TV audience will shrink dramatically. It has also been dropped by AT&T.
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Monday, July 25, 2022
Quit, Joe, Quit! Biden could save the midterms with a one-term pledge. SHARE
President Biden should announce now that he will not run for reelection in 2024. He should not ask the Democratic Party, or the nation, to assume the risk of a second four-year term.
Such an announcement would remove electoral distractions and allow Biden to focus on governing for the next two years.
The conventional calculus argues that a president would be a fool to reveal such a plan before he has to, because it would instantly undercut his ability, as a lame duck, to get anything of real significance accomplished. But in Biden’s case the argument is exactly wrong. Here’s why the decision not to run should come promptly.
First, the midterm elections this Fall would become about key issues and the quality of individual House and Senate candidates rather than the merits of Biden’s presidency and he would become entirely a man for the urgent present.
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Sunday, July 24, 2022
The Cult of Donald Trump; James Risen SHARE
DONALD TRUMP IS a murderous cult leader who incited the mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, hoping that his supporters would kill his own vice president, Mike Pence, and as many members of Congress as possible so that he could become a dictator.
That was the inescapable conclusion from Thursday night’s chilling prime-time, nationally televised hearing of the House January 6 committee. The committee combined a wide range of evidence and testimony to reveal a timeline of the insurrection, showing how Trump eagerly sent his mob to the Capitol and then refused for hours to call them off when they broke into the building. Instead, he wanted to join and lead them.
On January 6, Trump was not much different from Jim Jones at Jonestown, as he urged his rabid followers to kill American democracy.
Thursday, May 26, 2022
Billions in Gun Violence Intervention Could Pass the Senate Under Reconciliation SHARE
“Reconciliation clearly can be used for anti-gun violence programming,” Murphy said. “And Senator Manchin … cares deeply about the issue of gun violence.”
...while Manchin has ruled out altering the filibuster rule to allow an up-or-down vote on gun-related legislation, some elements of gun violence prevention agenda would be eligible to move through the upper chamber under the rules of budget reconciliation, which only requires a simple majority vote.
Wednesday, May 18, 2022
Operation Surprise: leaked emails expose secret intelligence coup to install Boris Johnson SHARE
Leaked emails reviewed by The Grayzone reveal possibly criminal plot by pro-Leave elites to sabotage Theresa May’s Brexit deal, infiltrate government, spy on campaign groups, and replace May with Boris Johnson.
Intelligence cabal infiltrated UK civil service thanks to “centrally placed mole”
Ex-MI6 chief Richard Dearlove pitched espionage operations targeting civil service and campaign groups
Fake Democratic Party fronts run by CIA veterans were proposed to infiltrate pro-Remain groups
Cabal sought to spy on and disrupt Prime Minister’s top Brexit negotiator
Shadowy billionaires funded effort in total secret
Dearlove claimed credit for influencing government policy on Huawei
Cabal now seeking to remove Boris Johnson
These efforts could amount to charges of TREASON
Tuesday, May 3, 2022
It's now possible to "count on one hand the big media brands that aren't owned by an oligarch or other billionaire". SHARE
Elon Musk joins a list of men to use their wealth in the hope of extending their political influence
“It’s another sign that the super-wealthy wish to control assets that give them an extra level of power,” Claire Enders, founder of Enders Analysis, said. “Whatever they may say, that’s the reason why they buy them.
“It is now unusual for major news media not to be owned by a billionaire, and that is why the Guardian [owned by the independent Scott Trust], the Financial Times [owned by the employee-owned Japanese media group Nikkei] and the BBC are consistently shown to be the most trusted news brands.”
The billionaires who now control vast swathes of the media landscape include:
Monday, April 25, 2022
Two Russian oligarchs and families found dead within 24 hours SHARE
Two Russian oligarchs, their wives, and their children were found dead just a day apart, prompting police investigations into whether the incidents were suicides or a result of foul play.
Vladislav Avayev, the former vice president of Gazprombank, a privately owned Russian bank, was found dead in his Moscow apartment Monday, according to TASS. The oligarch, his wife, and his daughter were all found with gunshot wounds, prompting police to investigate a theory Avayev shot his family members and then himself.
Just a day later and more than 2,000 miles away, Sergey Protosenya was found hanged in his apartment, according to Spanish TV channel Telecinco. His wife and daughter were also found fatally stabbed, authorities reported. Protosenya’s body was found with a bloodstained knife and ax at his side.
Monday, April 25, 2022
Greenwald: Former Intelligence Officials, Citing Russia, Say Big Tech Monopoly Power is Vital to National Security SHARE
When the U.S. security state announces that Big Tech's centralized censorship power must be preserved, we should ask what this reveals about whom this regime serves.
A group of former intelligence and national security officials on Monday issued a jointly signed letter warning that pending legislative attempts to restrict or break up the power of Big Tech monopolies — Facebook, Google, and Amazon — would jeopardize national security because, they argue, their centralized censorship power is crucial to advancing U.S. foreign policy.
Tuesday, April 19, 2022
We Have a Creativity Problem - The New York Times SHARE
Outwardly, we praise innovation. Inwardly, we harbor a visceral aversion to it, studies have found.
Creativity is lauded as vital, and seen as the lifeblood of great entertainment, innovation, progress and forward-thinking ideas.
But the emerging science of implicit bias has revealed that what people say about creativity isn’t necessarily how they feel about it. Research has found that we actually harbor an aversion to creators and creativity; subconsciously, we see creativity as noxious and disruptive, and as a recent study demonstrated, this bias can potentially discourage us from undertaking an innovative project or hiring a creative employee.
“People actually have strong associations between the concept of creativity and other negative associations like vomit and poison and agony,” said Jack Goncalo, a business prof at the U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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