As I’m writing these days about the underhanded suppression of Cleveland’s electric system by the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co., it appears that some of the same shameful acts are now pursued on the part of the city’s electric system against public reaction to the building of a coal powered facility. Bill Callahan in his blog, Callahan’s Cleveland Diary (http://www.callahansclevelanddiary.com/?p=772)tells us about it. The issue also is detailed here also in the Ohio Citizen Action report (http://www.ohiocitizen.org/campaigns/coal/saxbe/saxbe.html).

“The Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co. has been caught so red-handed in its predatory anti-competitive activities that a CEI lawyer had to admit guilt in the hope he could bamboozle the jury enough to avoid losing up to $150 million in damages,” I wrote as the city pursued its anti-trust case against CEI in 1980.

Squire, Sanders & Dempsey lead lawyer John Lansdale admitted this deception in his opening address to the jury.

... volunteer at last night?  Or was it Bill Stevens....I lose track.

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

To really understand 20th century American and the
trajectory of the US is still on, you need to understand
the Kennedy assassination.

Until the House Select Committee on Assassinations
concluded that Kennedy was killed by "some sort"
of conspiracy, Lee Harvey Oswald was loudly declared
to be the "lone assassin" in the murder of JFK.

Here's what the "news media" and "law enforcement"
had to overlook to come to this conclusion.

Details:

Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter

February 11, 2009

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"Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for,
being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk
everything, you risk even more."

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Last Thursday evening I headed east to State College, Pennsylvania for the PASA Conference - Farming for the Future: The Worldwide Search for Food Sovereignty: Finding Your Foodshed. PASA stands for Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture and this was their 18th Annual Conference.

It's really hard to parody someone when they prove your point in everything they do. 

I've got a call in to David Moss of Fox8 to find out why he's calling around to real estate agents offering to pimp their unsold mansions on the air at 5x the avg sale price.  Seems like Moss is either (a) handing out freebies so potential ad clients will contract for ads, or (b) has the most tin ear in Cleveland TV.  UPDATE after the jump.

In the Fall of 2008, I proposed to Cuyahoga County Commissioner Peter Lawson Jones that the local foods sector offers the people of Northeast Ohio $ billions in economic development opportunities that may be distributed to a huge percentage of our 1,000,000s of residents in very socially equitably ways. I also proposed similar opportunities are available in open source information and social computing. And I pointed out regional organizational, strategic, social and operational barriers to success and proposed specific solutions to maximize workforce and infrastructure development, massive scaling, and social equity.

Secret shots given to US Soldiers - deadly experiments - lab rats - for who

Below is a heartfelt appeal to those to reach out with their social networks to demand inclusion of key legislation that would curtail regional and state funded programming and could have many negative consequences as a result.  This particular piece of legislation, still up for debate is the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund.  The importance of this particular element is elucidated here for your perusal. 

By REBECCA SMITH

A substantial increase in the amount of electricity produced from renewable energy would require building a transmission system that would carry a price tag of up to $100 billion, according to a new study. The new system would be needed because the existing eastern grid couldn't handle the volume of power coming from the wind-producing states.

At 10 A.M. in the Cleveland council chamber on Wed. Feb. 11 there will be a meeting about the innerbelt bridge/access ramp.  Representatives will be there from ODOT, the City and city council as well as many interested citizens from the Tremont neighborhood. I believe that State Senator Shirley Smith will also be in attendance.  If you would like to be brought up to date on this important issue, please attend.  If you need a ride, at least a couple of cars with available seats will be at TWDC on Professor St. leaving at about 9:30 A.M.

Deane M.

Could we do this here in Cleveland???

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As of today we have had 13 Tremont Residents 10 of which were in attendance at the TWDC Annual Meeting that paid into a retainer for the attached letters sent to the offices of TWDC and the local media.

We also have 5 Interested parties that have also contributed to the retainer that are not Tremont Residents but were in attendance also at the TWDC annual meeting.

Statement sent to local media covering the Story.

Please Review the attached letters.

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Cross posted at my blog. Does anyone know anything about this practice?  Does Howard Hanna pay for the Moss Man to tour unsold mansions?

Concerts at the Crossroads, the performing arts series at Christ Episcopal Church in Shaker Heights, announces this Spring's Midday Music Mosaic lineup.  Midday Music Mosaics are brownbag lunch concerts, the only such series in the Heights, that are free to the public, and present the best of local Cleveland musicians.  Full schedule below.

All concerts are free, on Wednesdays at 12:15 pm in Christ Episcopal Church, 3445 Warrensville Center Road, Shaker Heights, OH, 44122.  The church is unmistakably located on the corner of Warrensville Center Road and Chagrin Blvd. 

I have attached a file with a few pictures of C.E. Van Duzer working on the Estonian Cultural Gardens Monument.

Last night I listened to Dick Feagler and his Friends on WVIZ discuss Governor Strickland's education plan for the state of Ohio, slated to be piloted in the Cleveland Municipal Schools. When Mr Feagler asked his panel's opinion of the proposed 200 day school year, all of his highly educated guests nodded in agreement. "Of course it is a GREAT idea!" "Some other countries have school years even longer than 200 days." "Another month of school makes sense. We need to prepare Ohio's children to compete in a global economy." "It's about time.

FALLEN HERO'S

BY

SERGIO MUNQUIA

"I HAVE BEEN WHERE YOU FEAR TO GO...

I HAVE SEEN WHAT YOU FEAR TO SEE...