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Utah Bladderfern habitat (Photo credit: Tony Frates)He's Not OUR President (But You Already Figured That Out) And Whose President Is Getting Much Clearer As We Learn That He Favors the Centrist Liars' Positions - It Makes Him Feel Good! (The Year of the Great Redistribution)
I've been among the more reticent commenters (from the Left wing) about our President's actions since his winning of the White House. Sure, I've not been happy with many of his decisions and I've made my opinion well known in blogtopia about my feelings concerning his choices for financial advice which favored "change" schemes that enriched the banksters (again) and didn't do anything to
Teaching within a low SES school is bittersweet.
Teaching is a demanding profession. The average teacher, regardless of his or her assignment, overcomes many obstacles throughout the school year. With that said, teaching within an economically disadvantaged neighborhood school is physically, mentally and emotionally draining. For better or worse, teaching within low socio-economic status (SES) neighborhood school is bittersweet. Teaching within a low […]
Update to Collected Poems
collected poems By risa bear View this Author's Spotlight Paperback, 74 Pages [image: collected poems] Preview Price: $9.99 Ships in 3-5 business days These poems, collected for the first time, appeared in the books Desire for the Land and Lettuce in Winter, and in the journals Bellowing Ark, Sand River Journal, New Zoo Poetry Review, Lynx: Poetry from Bath, Aerious, Disquieting Muses, Ariga: Visions, Writtenmind, and Rockhurst Review. "Cityscape with Pink Rose" was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. By the author of 100 Poems, homecomings, iron buddhas, Starvation Ridge, and Viewing ... more »
In Canada
The rise of the Harper Government, means that it can now be said that "Canadian" spy agencies (CSIS, CSE, etc) work for private industry. Now, should Enbridge or some other corporation decides that a pipeline or a shopping mall would look good in your neighbourhood but you don't, the spies may well have a look-see at you, your life, and the people you associate with. The cooperation of the
Immigration and Class Politics
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Years of scaremongering by the press, successive governments and opportunist politicians have ensured immigration has become nothing more than a fetid, toxic swamp. Its rotten stink permeates politics as it competes to scapegoat and appear "tough" on people who come to live and work here. Basically, it's who can fall furthest, fastest into a bottomless pit of amorality and wilful ignorance. But, apparently, all they want is an open and honest debate about immigration *innocent face*. I'm sure you don't need me to tell you Nigel Farage is talking bollocks on immigration, but he is. ... more »
If Utah hunger-striking doodybrain Trestin Meacham croaks, how about we have a giant bonfire and wienie roast? (I'll bring the marshmallows)
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*What do you think? Do you suppose Utah far-far-far-right-wing whackjob Trestin Meacham is any relation to onetime Yankees shortstop Bobby Meacham? Bobby M had his moments in pinstripes, which is more than you can say for his maybe-cousin the nutjob buttwipe.* *"Trestin Meacham . . . is now drawing attention to himself by saying he will not eat until Utah’s legislature willingly disobeys the federal government by reinstating its ban on same-sex marriages."* -- *from ThinkProgress's Annie-Rose Strasser's* "Utah Politician Is Fasting to Stop Same-Sex Marriages" *by Ken* Who'd-a thunk... more »
"Major Fukushima Radiation Warning! LA Times Sounds Alarm: West Coast Update: Stop Eating Pacific Ocean Seafood Now!"
*"Major Fukushima Radiation Warning! LA Times Sounds Alarm:* * West Coast Update: Stop Eating Pacific Ocean Seafood Now!".* By Live Free or Die . "The newly released video below from Low Carb Cory sounds a warning that this story at ENENews via the LA Times emphasizes, STOP EATING Pacific Ocean seafood! Low Carb Cory generally covers health & nutrition subjects but voices a loud alarm to his viewers that Fukushima is out of control and the entire Pacific Ocean food chain is suffering as a result with warnings this is just the tip of the iceberg. The ENENews story shares this dire w... more »
Wake County Resegregationists' New Strategy: Charter Schools
It took a concerted effort by Wake County citizens to reclaim their school board after it was hijacked by anti-diversity candidates with money from the Koch Bros. Some of that history can be found here (reverse chronological order), and it speaks to the determination of local citizens who remained insistent on protecting one of the great school experiments in socioeconomic diversity. Even though Dems have reclaimed a majority of seats on the Board and significant portions of the diversity program have been preserved, the new resegregation threat now comes from the State level, whic... more »
Bob Feldman : A People's History of Egypt, Part 12, Section 2, 1947-1948
The movement to democratize Egypt: Except for their religious beliefs, Jews shared lifestyles with those of Muslim background. Jewish home in Egypt. Image from BBC Watch. By Bob Feldman | The Rag Blog | January 6, 2014 [With all the dramatic activity in Egypt, Bob Feldman's Rag Blog "people's history" series, "The Movement to Democratize Egypt," could not be more timely. Also see
Apocalyptic supervolcanoes ( like Yellowstone ) can suddenly explode ‘with no outside cause’ .... Yellowstone super volcano additional items of interest !
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Apocalyptic supervolcanoes can suddenly explode ‘with no outside cause’ Published time: January 06, 2014 19:22 Get short URL [image: Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.(AFP Photo / Karen Bleier)] Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.(AFP Photo / Karen Bleier) Share on tumblr Tags Natural disasters, Science Scientists have discovered what causes cataclysm-inducing supervolcanoes to erupt, and the answer offers little reassurance. Their eruptions are caused by magma buoyancy, which makes them less predictable and more frequent than previously thought. A team of geologists from the Swiss... more »
Thailand: More Throw-Away Propaganda From NYT
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*January 7, 2014* (ATN) - An unsigned "editorial" appearing in the New York Times titled, "Democracy in Peril in Asia," most likely written by the US National Endowment for Democracy (NED), reiterates the disingenuous narrative peddled by the West regarding "democracy" in Cambodia, Bangladesh, and Thailand. Regarding Cambodia, the editorial claims: In Cambodia, in recent days, military police officers have opened fire on protesters, killing several people. The protests started after Prime Minister Hun Sen, who has ruled Cambodia through intimidation and violence for nearly three ... more »
Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr issues stay on January 6 , 2014 regarding freezing pensions for Detroit workers as mediation continues ......... The stay delays for now Orr's prior move to freeze pensions of city workers / employees in the General Retirement System - which was set to go into effect as of December 31 , 2013 !
http://www.freep.com/article/20140106/NEWS/301060055/Detroit-pension-freeze-Orr [image: Detroit emergency manager Kevyn Orr quietly issued an executive order freezing the pensions of city workers as of Dec. 31.] Purchase Image Detroit emergency manager Kevyn Orr quietly issued an executive order freezing the pensions of city workers as of Dec. 31. / Andre J. Jackson/Detroit Free Press By Matt Helms Detroit Free Press Staff Writer - FILED UNDER - Local News Related Links - PDF: Order approving pension freeze for city employees - Retirees' committee says Detroit ig... more »
THE BONUS REBELLION
A largely forgotten event in US history - the post-WW I bonus Army occupation of Washington. The government crushing of this veterans rebellion was brutal and unforgiving.This is a perfect historical illustration of just how this country chews up and spits out its war veterans who fought and died to the benefit of the capitalist oligarchy. I just finished reading a book about this WW I period called "Democracy's Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, The Great War, and The Right to Dissent". It's the moving story about the US government's repression of the Socialist Party candidate for presi... more »
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict at the XXVII Guadalajara International Book Fair
published on Tikkun Considered the most important Book Fair in the Spanish-speaking world, and second in the world only to the Frankfurt Book Fair, the Guadalajara International Book Fair in Guadalajara, Mexico, concluded this Sunday, December 8th, under heavy security. The unusually high level of security resulted from the guest of honor of this year’s book fair, the State of Israel. For the past 20 years, the book fair has honored a city, country, or region as its guest. No earlier guests, however, have been as controversial, or have aroused as much protest and dissent, as has the... more »
Wolf interview
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Prof. Diane Wolf *I posed the same questions I asked of Sunaina Maira to other faculty at UC Davis, including Professor Diane Wolf. What follows is a complete transcript of her response to my inquiry.* *Wolf:* Thank you for your questions which are very thorough and thoughtful. This is clearly a very complicated issue. I think that the ASA and the Association of Asian American Studies which was the first scholarly organization to vote on this have chosen the wrong institution to boycott and in that sense, they have mis-fired. Clearly there are other countries whose human rights ab... more »
Bitcoin news for January 2 , 2014 ! 56% of Bitcoiners Believe the Bitcoin Price Will Reach $10,000 in 2014 ...... Bitcoin makes further moves into main stream commerce ....... Paypal planning competition by way of " Virtual Tokens " , as per Ebay patent proposal ........ Lebanon Central Bank the latest issuing Bitcoin warnings........Singapore and Bitcoin - a discussion from guest poster at Zero Hedge Keith Hilden !
Catharsis Ours - 4 hours ago
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1/5 ....Someone is playing pump up the price of bitcoin games ....... again ! [image: Creative Commons License] [image: Creative Commons License] [image: Creative Commons License] 1/4/14 ........ Malaysian Central Bank Has No Plans To Regulate Bitcoin Jon Southurst (@southtopia) | Published on January 4, 2014 at 12:49 GMT | *Asia, News, Regulation* inShare3 Share 34 [image: shutterstock_124874587] Malaysia’s Central Bank, Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM), joined others by publishing its own statement on bitcoin this week. The statement was similar to those... more »
13 most popular posts for 2013
Stephen Hicks’s post highlighting his 13 most popular posts for 2013suggested to me I should do the same. So here’s what you, dear readers found most popular* here at Not PC – my lucky 13: 1. Remember the Bhopal disaster? 2. Twisting the Treaty: A Tribal Grab for Wealth and Power 3. You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money 4. Sorry Russel. you’re wrong 5. Why is this young couple subsidising the ‘Politicians Bankers Welfare Fund’? 6. One Law For All 7. The Complete Idiot’s Chart to Understanding the Middle East 8. Where’s the tar and feather... more »
"Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are"
A nice quotation but not from Ben Franklin (as usually attributed). First, the quotation does not appear to be referred to anywhere prior to 2000. Second the use of the word "outraged" is problematic. In the quotation it is used to describe the emotional state of an individual. But in the 18th century, the word "outraged" implied that something terrible had been done to someone (or something) without referring to how that made someone feel. The quotation doesn't come from Ben Franklin.
"Are Pope Francis, Bill De Blasio and Barack Obama Right About Capitalism?"
*"Are Pope Francis, Bill De Blasio and Barack Obama Right About Capitalism?"* by Bill Bonner “Pope Francis in the Eternal City... Bill De Blasio in the Big Apple... President Obama in the White House... From the pulpit to the Oval Office to City Hall – capitalism is coming under attack in 2014. Obama has made income inequality a central bugaboo for the last two years of his presidency. De Blasio is hot on the theme, too. "A Tale of Two Cities" was his campaign theme. De Blasio figured there were more votes in the poor city than in the rich city... and that the folks on the po' sid... more »
Here's what I said over two months ago...
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* and people are just now waking up to this? (repost below) * * But first:* Do you realize that children of a family of four making 92K a year qualifies for Medicaid? That's right. A child in New York state, for example, may be eligible for government-funded health care if his family’s household income is less than four times the federal poverty level, or $92,200 for a family of four. Source: Slate (the chart above shows 4X poverty level to be $94,200.00) *Read the rest and see the charts* And we also know now that your *assets will be seized upon your death* to pay back al... more »
Omushkegowuk walking to Ottawa: Reclaiming our steps
Photo Credit: Rodney Hookimaw (Rod Neezy) Reclaiming Our Steps Past, Present and FutureWe, the grassroots People, are walking to Ottawa from the traditional territories of the Omushkegowuk (People) to deliver a message to the leaders of both levels of Government and to our respective Chiefs that the time to honour our Treaties is now! The time to address and reconcile Aboriginal issues is now
“Life in the Electronic Concentration Camp"
*“Life in the Electronic Concentration Camp:* * The Many Ways That You’re Being Tracked, Catalogued and Controlled”* By John W. Whitehead “[A security camera] doesn’t respond to complaint, threats, or insults. Instead, it just watches you in a forbidding manner. Today, the surveillance state is so deeply enmeshed in our data devices that we don’t even scream back because technology companies have convinced us that we need to be connected to them to be happy.”—Pratap Chatterjee, journalist "What is most striking about the American police state is not the mega-corporations running amo... more »
Satire: “Polar Vortex Causes Hundreds of Injuries as People Making Snide Remarks About Climate Change Are Punched in Face”
*“Polar Vortex Causes Hundreds of Injuries as People Making * *Snide Remarks About Climate Change Are Punched in Face”* by Andy Borowitz MINNEAPOLIS (The Borowitz Report)— “The so-called polar vortex caused hundreds of injuries across the Midwest today, as people who said “so much for global warming” and similar comments were punched in the face. Authorities in several states said that residents who had made ignorant comments erroneously citing the brutally cold temperatures as proof that climate change did not exist were reporting a sharp increase in injuries to the face and head r... more »
What Works Better-- America's War On Poverty Or The GOP's War On Poor People?
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Conservatives always ignore history and always want to reargue their issues. Today we're hearing the same tired, discredited arguments for why the rich should be the focus of government largesse and why helping the poor is a waste of money. When you hear today's crop of ignorant teabaggers and erudite think tank loons arguing against the minimum wage, they are trying the same nonsense they tried-- and failed with-- for decades. Today the far right Club for Growth, predictably, demanded that all the senators they own vote against extending unemployment benefits. Overturning FDR's N... more »
NEWS FLASH - LIBERATOR (free planet novel #2) - first draft complete.
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*out already...* I've been at it since Tandem (a G3 whistleblower novel) was released in late September, writing and updating book two of the *free planet trilogy * LIBERATOR. I was 66,000 words in. I had the two final chapters to tidy up. I also had 'four assigned military/civilian chapter slots' to fill before I got there. And one more part-written chapter before that lot. Then suddenly, I realised, "It's done." I deleted those four empty chapter slots, lifted my hands from the keyboard, then shared the news with a good friend of mine, "It's done," I grinned. And she said what ... more »
A Game of Chess
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A few BBC interviews really stood out for me over the past week - and none of them were by the BBC's regular interviewers. The first was Dominic Lawson's *Across the Board *interview with former Soviet dissident/Israeli deputy prime minister Natan Sharansky. Mr Sharansky's chilling description of his experiences of solitary confinement in the Soviet Union were a reminder of something we very rarely hear discussed on the BBC - the sheer viciousness of the Soviet Union, even after the days of Stalin. His conditions of imprisonment sounded uncannily like those experienced by the host... more »
Immigration’ and ‘The Truth’
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The BBC trailer gives us a quick impression of what we’re going to see. *“BBC Political Editor Nick Robinson reveals the full impact of the extraordinary demographic change Britain has undergone.” * He’s going to talk to some politicians, Labour and Conservative, and: *“untangle the truth about immigration from the political rhetoric.”* So you see, the BBC plays down Nick’s criticism of the corporation and their trailer concentrates on the demographics and the politics he’s about to highlight in his documentary. *“In Southampton, Nick visits a school where 42 languages are spoke... more »
Video Bill Means AIM West 2013 Part 4
. Bill Means, Lakota, speaking at AIM West 2013. Part 4. Indigenous Peoples seeking observer status at United Nations By Brenda Norrell Censored News SAN FRANCISCO -- Lakota Bill Means describes the long struggle for recognition of Indigenous Peoples rights at the United Nations, in this video recorded live at AIM West Conference in November of 2013. Means describes how four
The power of dark money
Not much new in this Koch Brothers rehash. They raised 400 million from undisclosed donors and they *had* to hide the donors because, all these obscenely wealthy people are deathly afraid of hate mail. Or something. We'll leave aside that you can't get near a Koch Brothers confab with an army of angry citizens. I suspect between the few hundred oligarchs that pretty much run the world, they probably employ the equivalent of the entire Blackwater corporation, or whatever it calls itself these days. As always, Charlie pinpoints the cause of this corruption. It is of course, Citizens ... more »
“I don’t want to sail with this Ship of Fools…”
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[image: File:Narrenschiff (1549).jpg] The Ship of Fools was a popular medieval allegory depicting “a vessel populated by human inhabitants who are deranged, frivolous, or oblivious; passengers aboard a ship without a pilot, and seemingly ignorant of their own direction.” The allegory could not be a more apt description of the band of sorry deluded sad sacks who have entertained our southern hemisphere summer by sitting trapped in Antarctic pack ice while all their climate science tells them it’s fine and sunny outside. (And while all half the northern hemisphere is buried under s... more »
CALL TO ACTION IN SPRING
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*Call for Local Spring Asia-Pacific Events* *Around the World* After twelve years of war in the Middle East and Central Asia, the Obama Administration is “pivoting” to the Asia-Pacific. Sixty percent of the U.S. military forces are being deployed in the region to “contain” China. The popular phrase in Washington to describe this process is a “re-balancing” of US forces. The increased militarization of the US’s Asia-Pacific policies is anything but benign. It is fueling region-wide arms races, increasing the dangers of war, as we have seen in the territorial dispute over the... more »
Digital Media = Surge in Partisanship?
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I just read somewhere that digital media (mainly the internet) is responsible for the increasely partisan nature of political debate in North America. I think there's some truth to that. But I also think it's best to avoid thinking there was ever a "good old days" when society wasn't polarized by something. Weren't the Second-Wave Feminists accused of being "shrill" and "confrontational"? Were gays in the age of AIDS in the 1980s thought to be an angry, disreputable bunch? Wasn't US society polarized by the Black Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War? Was the FLQ a more polariz... more »
Preconceived Delusions
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I think part of the reason for the failure of the left to adequately respond to harper is that new ideas bounce-off of preconceived delusions that people have. "A big rally would bring harper down" is probably flitting through people's minds. So they imagine that a hard struggle involving permanent occupations is a waste of time. Or "the police will shoot us in the street like dogs" keeps Canadian leftists from remembering that (for the time being anyway) Canada is not a total despotism with absolutely no legal protections for basic human rights. (How someone could simultaneously th... more »
Radio program of the year!
*MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 2014* *We salute The Nation for saluting Marc Steiner:* Lustily, we salute The Nation for saluting our friend, Marc Steiner. In The Nation’s current edition, John Nichols presents a feature called “The Progressive Honor Roll of 2013.” Along the way, he wisely cites Steiner’s radio program: *MOST VALUABLE RADIO PROGRAM: The Marc Steiner Show* No one who has listened to veteran activist Marc Steiner’s morning show on Morgan State University’s WEAA can figure out why this guy hasn’t gone national. Yet Steiner is so into his hometown of Baltimore that it’s hard to ... more »
ERDOGAN PROTECTS 'AL QAEDA FINANCIER' AL QADI
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*Dick Cheney's friend Yasin al-Qadi, believed to be linked to 9 11, the Mumbai attacks and the CIA.* Links have been discovered between al Qaeda and Turkey's prime minister Recep Erdogan. *Yasin al-Qadi, who is an associate of al Qaeda, has entered Turkey multiple times escorted by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's protective detail and without a passport or visa.* *Yasin al-Qadi escorted by PM's security detail*, Al Qadi is a businessman believed to have funneled millions of dollars to al Qaeda. *Chicago, where al Qadi met Osama bin Laden in 1979. Le Monde reported that th... more »
Geneva II, the Kurds and an irrevocable right. Affecting Syria/Turkey and Iraq
*Geneva II and the Kurds* The Kurds have been mentioned here, concerning Syria, on numerous occasions. And, most recently with regard to the pressure being put on Turkey and Erdogan. *“Is Erdogan not wanting to see Turkey balkanized for a Kurdish state?”* ANKARA,— ANF spoke to Middle East specialist Prof. Dr. Haluk Gerger regarding potential developments in *Syrian Kurdistan *[Rojava] and in a new democratic Syria. Gerger drew attention to some striking points. *Prof. Dr. Haluk Gerger* says the Rojava Kurds face being under siege before the Geneva II conference, adding:* "The Kurd... more »
Weingarten Is A Sham
Randi Weingarten told Politico today that she is beginning a national campaign called “VAM is a Sham.” *NEW TACTIC ON TEACHER EVALUATIONS: *Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, is launching a campaign against using value-added metrics to evaluate teacher effectiveness. Her mantra: “VAM is a sham.” That’s a notable shift for the AFT and its affiliates, which have previously ratified contracts and endorsed evaluation systems that rely on VAM. Weingarten tells Morning Education that she has always been leery of value-added “but we rolled up our sleeves,... more »
Radio 4 Comedians Bingo: The Rules
This evening's *The Unbelievable Truth *wasn't exactly a laugh a minute, or even every ten minutes. (I managed about two laughs in total.) Even the studio audience seemed underwhelmed by the humour on offer tonight. (There were even a few tumbleweed moments.) Still, it gave me the chance to play '*Radio 4 Comedians Bingo*' - a delightful game where you always use the same card marked with the words* 'Daily Mail', 'bankers', 'Gove', 'Osborne', 'Cameron', 'Old Etonians', 'Bullingdon', 'UKIP', 'Farage', 'Daily Mail', 'NHS', 'xenophobia/racism', 'Putin', 'Palin/Bush/U.S. Republicans', ... more »
NC State Dept of Archives destroys priceless documents
This is absolutely criminal and completely senseless. Full story at the link but here's the short version: - This summer a new Clerk of Court in Franklin County discovered a trove (an entire roomful) of documents, some dating back to 1840, in a previously sealed room in the Franklin County, North Carolina Court House. - The Local historical group enthusiastically poured themselves into the project, mobilizing volunteers and the whole community – securing space to work, materials, and finances – in order to catalog and preserve the bounty of record books, photographs, deeds, chatte... more »
Coffee and Geocaching
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A clear and bright (if cool) Saturday began with our monthly gathering for breakfast and coffee and fellowship... Looks like the Christmas stockings are still up... In The Kitchen... A lovely couple... The Boys... After breakfast Southern Man and the son of one of the guests slipped out to do a little geocaching. Signing the log... Southern Man then dropped by the Ancestral Manor for lunch and laundry and a shower and a bit of running round with Southern Son and by the time we were done the expected cold front had moved in so Southern Man went home and turned on all the h... more »
A Minor Setback
So Southern Man was getting along well enough without the rental crutches that he turned them in late last week. Then today he reported to the Bone Doc this morning for a checkup and to have the staples from the incision removed. Which hurt, a lot. Sadly Southern Man was unable to get a copy of the new x-rays, which are pretty cool as they show the plate and screws, five short ones in the fibula and two long ones that go all the way through the fibula and into the tibia. And then we had the following conversation: Bone Doc: Where are your crutches? Southern Man: I didn't think I nee... more »
ALEC - Throws Mud at the Wall, Calls it Legislation
The 1996 voucher program in Cleveland led to a lawsuit over vouchers and religious freedom heard by Supreme Court in 2002 U.S.Court Finds Ohio Vouchers Unconstitutional December 12, 2000|From Associated Press CINCINNATI — Setting the stage for a possible Supreme Court ruling on the separation of church and state, a federal appeals court Monday declared Cleveland's school voucher program unconstitutional because it uses tax money to send students to religious schools. America was not awake – we didn’t see the damage this would cause and it ended up in front of SCOTUS which chose to ... more »
REVOLT IS IN THE AIR AGAIN
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*WW I Veterans Bonus March on Washington,1932* *Here's a blast from the past that clearly shows that the public can be mobilized for a cause as it once was in 1932 ~ when thousands of WW1 veterans marched for their promised bonus* *electrif**ying** the country in the process** ~ but now, with the Internet, true revolution and change is possible**: Allen L Roland* *Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it: Mark Twain* *It's hard to believe that this happened over 80 years ago but this exceptionally rare 7 minute film fr... more »
Behind Assad's Comeback a Mismatch in Commitments??
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*Behind Assad's Comeback, a Mismatch in Commitments* *There has been NO mismatch in commitments * This article makes me thing we are witnessing the implantation of a new meme "Mismatch in commitments" Regime's Survival Seen as Example of America's Inability to Steer Events From a Distance *Spin- America has been able to steer events from a distance with little or no problem. * *Plenty of allies in the area willing to assist in the task.* In the early days of the Syrian rebellion, U.S. intelligence agencies made a prediction: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's days were numbered, an ... more »
Travel First Aid Kits and Easy Medication Refills with Walgreens
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I am a member of the Collective Bias® Social Fabric® Community. This shop has been compensated as part of a social shopper amplification for Collective Bias and its advertiser. Figuring out the medical needs on my family can be stressful. We have three different doctors for three people in our house, so our prescription history, immunization records, patient histories and medication refills are all over the place. Luckily, Walgreens keeps them all together for me and easily accessible online. We may all have different, but having the same pharmacy really helps keep me organized. I... more »
Trinary star won't disprove the equivalence principle
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Today, science writers were busy to write about the newest death of a pillar of modern physics, in this case Einstein's theory of relativity: Google News, Physics World, BBC, dozens of others... Your browser does not support the video tag. *Video by Anne M. Archibald, a PhD student and a co-author of the discovery* All this buzz is based on a newly published article, A millisecond pulsar in a stellar triple system by Scott Ransom and 20 co-authors (Nature) ------------------------------ arXiv copy of the paper (free PDF) which reports some observations of a star system called PS... more »
HANCOCK DRONE TRIAL
There have been a series of protests at Hancock Air National Guard base outside of Syracuse, New York. As a result several trials have taken place during the past couple of years. The base switched four years ago from flying F-16 fighter jets to operating drones from Hancock Field. The drones operated from the Syracuse base support military operations in Afghanistan. This video includes openings by James Ricks, Ed Kinane, Clare Grady, and a short one by the prosecutor in the Dewitt town court January 3. The trial went until shortly after midnight, but the prosecution had yet ... more »
Finally a picture emerges of the system by which the Kochs moved and obscured the sources of a bare minimum $407M outside the campaign-finance system in the 2012 election cycle
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*Efforts to trace the movement of money contributed, raised, and funneled by the Koch Brothers'"network" during the 2012 electoral cycle have so far produced this org chart. No wait, this is a diagram of the London Underground, which is much, much easier to understand.* *"It is a very sophisticated and complicated structure. It's designed to make it opaque as to where the money is coming from and where the money is going. No layperson thought this up. It would only be worth it if you were spending the kind of dollars the Koch brothers are, because this was not cheap."* -- *Notre ... more »
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What Was the "War on Poverty"?
This week marks the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson declaring a "war on poverty." The NYT reports: Half a century after Mr. Johnson’s now-famed State of the Union address, the debate over the government’s role in creating opportunity and ending deprivation has flared anew, with inequality as acute as it was in the Roaring Twenties and the ranks of the poor and near-poor at record highs. Here is what President Johnson said in that inaugural address: This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America. I urge this Congress and all ... more »
Rob Ford running again
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For the mayor of Toronto. He is confident he will win. :)
Frank Luntz throws a pity party
I suppose this piece is supposed make us feel sorry for that evil pudgy putz, Frank Luntz who's having a crisis of faith because his slick sloganery isn't doing the job anymore. Damn the little people for failing to kowtow to his superior powers of persuasion. But in the end, the whole interview boils down to this: Luntz's populism has turned on itself and become its opposite: fear and loathing of the masses. "I am grateful that Occupy Wall Street turned out to be a bunch of crazy, disgusting, rude, horrible people, because they were onto something," he says. "Limbaugh made fun of ... more »
Not thought Control
It was a stupid tale that was told to keep the children silent for a while then the next thing blew that reality to otherworlds A man would rise from the dead he would lead all humanity in a quest that all would come to dread People please be serious we live on a planet not on the garden of Eden this planet is under attack not from alien but from the humans who can not keep a majority off smack or some other pleasure drug to make them so numb they can reject a theory that say all you enjoy does not come from Gods love. So what should we do when we realize that gay straight and transgend... more »
government destruction of environmental archives: the harper govt's war on facts marches on
At year's end, *The Tyee* reported that a memo - marked "secret" and first reported on OCanada.com - cast grave doubts on the Harper Government's claim that environmental archives were destroyed only after they had been preserved digitally. In other words, the memo proves what progressive and concerned Canadians have long known and suspected to be true. A federal document marked "secret" obtained by Postmedia News indicates the closure or destruction of more than half a dozen world famous science libraries has little if anything to do with digitizing books as claimed by the Harper ... more »
From the Laboratories of the Plutocracy
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*"Nothing Exceeds Like Excess"* On the off-chance that some of you think that the Democrats are really, really sincere this time about helping poor jobless people, and that Barack Obama really, really means it when he says he will make income inequality the defining issue of his second term, permit me to gently burst your balloon. Just because Obama has stopped vocally espousing cutting the safety net as part of his Grand Bargain of deficit reduction with his GOP frenemies doesn't mean that his deeply ingrained desire for austerity for the masses isn't still merrily simmering on t... more »
Still No Free Speech At Work: Response To Your Comments on Phil Robertson and Duck Dynasty
Wow! I had no idea so many of my readers loved *Duck Dynasty*. With almost 2000 comments, I can't possibly respond to them all. When I wrote last weekthat A&E was probably within its rights to suspend Phil Robertson for making racist (yes, it's racist to say blacks were better off under Jim Crow) and homophobic comments (and I didn't even know then about the sexist and disturbing comments he made about marrying 15-year-old girls), you had lots to say. Some of you talked about religious discrimination. Some wanted to know more about his contract with A&E. I'll talk about those issues i... more »
Killing Canada
Years ago I blogged here about the motivation behind Harper being one of absolute loathing for the country he happened to exist in. I can't seem to locate that post now, but I still think I have a point. Harper's goal is to destroy the Canada that you and I know and love, which is to say he aims to destroy Canada. Piece by piece, like some twisted Dark Age torturer with his victim. Think of the
A Reality-Based Review of 2013 Market-Driven Research
Teachers unions exist to protect teachers and to do so they must work collaboratively within the system so it will better serve all stakeholders. The Shanker Istitute's Matt DiCarlo exemplifies our unions' willingness to listen to all sides. But, where is the Matt DiCarlo of corporate reform? Where is a reformer who is will break ranks, for instance, on Washington D.C.'s IMPACT? There are plenty of individual reformers who have open minds. Are there any who are allowed to be like DiCarlo and acknowledge the strengths of evidence on the teachers' side? In a strategy known as "conve... more »
Violence In Iraq’s Anbar Highlights Divided Tribes There
As fighting continues in Iraq’s western Anbar province, the various tribes there have found themselves in a precarious situation. Some have aligned themselves with the central government against insurgents, some are opposed to both the federal forces and the militants, while still others have joined the gunmen. Anbar was always a very divisive place in part because of the deep-seated tribal rivalries. Those are all being exasperated by the current rebellion in the governorate. Anbar’s various sheikhs are taking sides in the brewing conflict in their governorate. The two brothers... more »
DUMBNIFICATION STUDIES: Announcing our media trend of the year!
*MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 2014* *Part 1—Two different forms of poverty:* We were struck by something on the front page of yesterday’s New York Times. In a “Washington Memo” analysis piece, economics reporter Annie Lowrey discussed the War on Poverty, which is now 50 years old. Headline included, this is the way she started: LOWREY (1/5/14): *50 Years Later, War on Poverty Is a Mixed Bag* To many Americans, the war on poverty declared 50 years ago by President Lyndon B. Johnson has largely failed. *The poverty rate has fallen only to 15 percent from 19 percent in two generations,* and 46... more »
GMO foods
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I am not categorically opposed to GMO foods. I am all for better living through chemistry. IMHO GMO foods are not proven safe. I read yesterday about a scientist who in 1957 said trans fats are deadly. Today we believe him. We have been lied to repeatedly about the benefits of scientific advance. Nuclear power is another case in point. If done perfectly light water reactors make perfect sense. Then you have Fukushima. This makes perfect sense look ridiculous. What went wrong: built in an earthquake zone, but I expect we can engineer around that. The problem is they did not. Secon... more »
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*Carnival season kicks off in New Orleans ~WWL* *Phunny Phorty Phellows, Krewe of Joan of Arc, Broadway star Alice Ripley at NOCCA and more! ~NOLA DEFENDER* *Hundreds of fans welcome the New Orleans Saints at the airport early Sunday morning * *Louisiana’s profitable prisons ~Maxim Robin, Le Monde diplomatique* *Gulf Wild Sets Sail in New Direction ~Jason Delacruz, GSI* *Residents Await The Return Of The Circle Food Store ~Land Kaplan-Levenson WWNO* *George Rodrigue gallery to reopen; Wendy Rodrigue bids farewell ~Doug MacCash*
Liz Cheney Slinking Off Back To Virginia-- Ends Wyoming Senate Bid
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Once Liz Cheney's dismal initial polling numbers started sinking even further as Wyoming voters came in contact with her, I became hopeful that if she stayed in the race, her role in Cheney's take-over of the U.S. government in the first weeks of the Bush administration would come to the fore and help American understand how catastrophic the Cheney family has already been for this country. But last night it became clear that that is an exposé for another time. Liz Cheney called it quits to her ill-fated primary challenge to Mike Enzi. There's going to be an official announcement t... more »
How to talk to the POlice
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Police are important. Police have a very difficult job and deserve your up most respect. Police are all that separate a city from Toronto from a city like Kabul. However the Police are also the sharp end of the spear for the MAN. The police do what they are told. Your only defence is your legal rights, do not give them away. Never submit, never surrender. Use your rights or watch as your children lose them. Like everything else in life you must read the fine print or in this case a readable version. Americans got rights at birth, Canada got them with the Charter of Rights which wil... more »
The Triumph Of Mean
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Michael den Tandt writes that, if you're wondering why you keep getting those fund raising emails from political parties, blame Jean Chretien and Stephen Harper. Chretien brought in public financing for elections, but limited contributions. Harper eliminated public funding but kept the small contributions: Chretien never intended for things to go in the direction they’ve gone. His reform, Bill C-24, limited corporate and union donations to $1,000. Corporations without operations in Canada were banned from giving, as were Crown corporations. Individuals were limited to contributin... more »
More Fun with Geoengineering
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*"He put his little vibrator in his coat-pocket and went out to hunt a half-erected steel building. Down in the Wall Street district, he found one&endash;ten stories of steel framework without a brick or a stone laid around it. He clamped the vibrator to one of the beams, and fussed with the adjustment until he got it.* Tesla said finally the structure began to creak and weave and the steel-workers came to the ground panic-stricken, believing that there had been an earthquake. Police were called out. Tesla put the vibrator in his pocket and went away. Ten minutes more and he could h... more »
The Manning Spy Watchdog Centre for Building Northern Gateway
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The Vancouver Observer is reporting that last month former Reform/Alliance/Con MP Chuck Strahl added Enbridge "Northern Gateway Pipeline lobbyist" to the list of other part-time jobs he has accrued since leaving Harper's cabinet two years ago: - Chair of SIRC, the Security Intelligence Review Committee watchdog which oversees CSIS, for five years starting in June 2012 - Chair of the Manning Centre for Building Conservatives since April 2013 - two year election campaigner for Christy Clark, according to her, until the obvious conflict of interest went public a month be... more »
October Surprise and the Rockefellers - by Robert Parry
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I*n 1974, the Shah of Iran was diagnosed with cancer.* *In 1975, former CIA director, and the U.S. Ambassador to Iran, Richard Helms learned of the Shah's cancer through the Shah's closest confidant, General Hossein Fardoust. * *The Shah, Helms and Fardoust had been close personal friends since their school days together in Switzerland during the 1930s.* *On November 4, 1976, concurrent with Jimmy Carter's election as President, CIA Director George Bush issued a secret memo to the U.S. Ambassador in Iran, Richard Helms, asking:* *"Have there been any changes in the personality patt... more »
Trickle-Down Administration: Education Reform in a Culture of Distracting Outrage
Trickle-Down Administration: Education Reform in a Culture of Distracting Outrage. via Trickle-Down Administration: Education Reform in a Culture of Distracting Outrage.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical
CES 2014: Samsung aims to connect devices
Samsung has announced a system to connect together a household's various gadgets, appliances, and utility controls. It said one way the Smart Home service could be used would be to turn off a home's lights and TV if the owner said going out into a smart watch app. Samsung supposed the service would originally be limited to its own products and planned to support third parties devices in time. Samsung said its new service would initially offer three features such as device control, home view and customer service. The firm said its Smart Home app would primarily run on selected Sam... more »
Puppies poop in the direction of the magnetic field
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The Christian Science Monitor and lots of other news outlets inform about a seemingly crackpot-sounding yet fascinating Czech-German (well, mostly, 10:2, Czech) research published in Frontiers in Zoology, Dogs are sensitive to small variations of the Earth's magnetic field (PDF full) Incidentally, do you agree that the "mainstream" media on the Internet prefer not to link to the original papers even though they're freely accessible and it's easy to link? Readers who are gullible sheep that have to rely upon "interpreters" are apparently more attractive for the journalists. But bac... more »
Thailand: Regime Threatens Covert Violence Against Protesters
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Beware of agent provocateurs and staged confrontations with "regime supporters" for January 13, 2014 rally. Be prepared, and the regime will crumble. *January 6, 2014* (ATN) - Thailand's current regime led by unelected defacto dictator Thaksin Shianwatra and his nepotist-appointed proxy and sister Yingluck Shinawatra has issued a threat to protesters regarding an upcoming January 13, 2014 mass mobilization. Bangkok's English paper "The Nation" reported in its article, "Justice minister warns people against joining Bangkok Shutdown protest," that: Caretaker Justice Minister Chaikas... more »
Monday Morning Linkage
Hi, Ducks! Happy New Year! I’m back after a semester wandering across northern India. Did you miss me? Well, here are your links anyway… Professor Ole Wæver argues for “open science to fight big threats.” Senator Bernie Sanders has asked the NSA a simple question that may finally make a difference. (Okay, probably not.) This year Continue reading
Finding Hope after a Gardasil Disaster by Tracie Toler Moorman
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MaddieFinding Hope after a Gardasil Disaster By Tracie Toler Moorman, Overland Park, Kansas Sane Vax, Inc, 19 September 2013 *For the sake of your child, please do your research. Education conquers fear, and knowledge is power.* It is difficult to know where to begin when charting the 19-month journey my daughter and family have traveled since she was injured by the Gardasil vaccine in 2012. Maddie, my girl, as I like to call her, was a 15-year old happy, healthy, straight-A, honors/AP high school student. It was easy being her mother; it was a joy to be with her. S... more »
Fighting man made climate change or redistributing wealth?
"The climate summit in Cancun at the end of the month is not a climate conference, but one of the largest economic conferences since the Second World War...one must say clearly that de facto we distribute the world's wealth by climate policy.... One has to rid oneself of the illusion that international climate politics have anything to do with environmental concerns." Otto Edenhofer, IPCC Working Group III co-chair, Nov. 14, 2010.
“If the phenomenon only appears after heavy data manipulation, perhaps manipulation of the data is the only phenomenon.” — Maurizio Morabito
“If the phenomenon only appears after heavy data manipulation, perhaps manipulation of the data is the only phenomenon.” — Maurizio Morabito
FAMOUS 'JEWS'
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Dana International, aka Sharon Cohen, is a Yemeni Jew. *Joseph Dhu Nuwas.* *Joseph* Dhu Nuwas, c 517–525, was Jewish. He was the king of the Jewish kingdom of Yemen. He is famous for killing many thousands of Christians. Spotlight on Dhu Nuwas / Dhu Nuwas / Юсуф Зу-Нувас — Циклопедия When Yemen eventually became Moslem, many Yemenis only pretended to convert to Islam. *Salem, who died in a plane crash.* *Salem* is a Yemeni who helped the CIA at the time of Iran-Contra. Salem is believed to be a crypto-Jew. Salem attended Millfield, the expensive English boarding school. *Pla... more »
Epiphany...
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*He is revealed.*
His Immenseness will come out of his hole in ... Mill Bay, B.C.
... And then he'll make sure he's securely insulated from anything British Columbia by hiding behind the locked gates of a conservative bastion for the wealthy, Brentwood College School. Prime Minister Harper visits Cowichan on Tuesday for a private Tory party event at Brentwood College School. The 1 p.m. gathering, hosted by members and donors of the Conservative Party of Canada, promises to
Updates On Syria [1.6]: Geneva II Presents An Opportunity For A Ceasefire Agreement, Syrians Keep Up Morale With Live Theater, Media Tries To Sell "Moderate Rebels" Storyline Once Again
*1. An excerpt from, "The Saudi challenge to US Syria policy" Al-Monitor, January 5:* *The priority for Geneva II, especially given the terrorism in Iraq and Lebanon, let alone the devastating humanitarian tragedy in Syria, should be a cease-fire and discussions of a transition to internationally supervised elections in Syria*, as advocated by former US President Jimmy Carter, among others, including this column. The US does not have an interest in supporting a continuation of the war until Assad is overthrown. There is no strategic rationale or moral high ground in fighting Assad... more »
This Isn't About The Tom Dooley Who Hung Down His Head-- This Is The Other Tom Dooley
Growing up, CBS' weekly game show *What's My Line?* was one of the most popular shows on the relatively new television machine. It ran from 1950 to 1967 and won a bunch of Emmys and Golden Globes. By the time the above episode ran in 1959, the guest, Tom Dooley, had already had his major impact on the word stage, although in a role that certainly never came up on the show. To John Daley, Arlene Francis, Bennett Cerf, Dorothy Kilgallen-- and their audience-- young Dr. Dooley was a crusading physician running hospitals in the war-torn Laotian jungle. When I was very young, Dooley h... more »
A Country For The Old
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Stephen Harper has always been up front about one of his political objectives -- the destruction of the Liberal Party. Recent polls suggest that he hasn't succeeded on that front. But, if Frank Graves' latest numbersare correct, he may well have gone along way to obtaining his second objective -- the destruction of the middle class. Harper bought into the touchstone of the American Right -- Ayn Rand's dictum that selfishness is a virtue. Graves writes that, in both countries, the results have been the same. The middle class is in decline: A comparison of poll tracking in Canada and... more »
Time to get my genes re-tested.
Identification of de novo copy number variants associated with human disorders of sexual development. Tannour-Louet et al *PLoS One*. 2010 Oct 26;5(10):e15392. Disorders of sexual development (DSD), ranging in severity from genital abnormalities to complete sex reversal, are among the most common human birth defects with *incidence rates reaching almost 3%*. Although causative alterations in key genes controlling gonad development have been identified, *the majority of DSD cases remain unexplained*. To improve the diagnosis, we screened 116 children born with idiopathic DSD using a ... more »
A New Era for Intersex Rights : The New Yorker
A New Era for Intersex Rights : The New Yorker People are starting to notice. My comment : I find it amazing that so many non-Intersex people are so vehement in asserting that only *they* know who or what we *really* are. That their opinion trumps our experienced narrative. That might not be so bad if you could all agree with one another, but you can't. Then there's the overt homophobia - confusing us with gays. The overt trans- and intersex-phobia, (often from gays ironically enough, who object to being associated with us). They have a point - the only things we have in common i... more »
Thought For Today
Heinlein – Specialization is for Insects | Not Always On A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -Robert A. Heinlein I prefer to live rather than die gallantly though. That's a last resort. Instead, I try to fight so efficiently t... more »
Joanne Yatvin: The Common Core Standards May Be Harmful to Children
The following article was written by Dr. Joanne Yatvin, who does a great job of pointing out problems with specific standards, and how easy it is to tell that the Common Core Standards were not created by educators or child learning specialists. Such specialists, such as Dr. Yatvin, have determined that they are harmful to […]
The Founder of the Nation of Islam...... Looks Kinda White...
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Wallace Fard Muhammad *"Allah came to us from the Holy City Mecca, Arabia, in 1930. He used the name Wallace D. Fard, often signing it W. D. Fard, in the third year (1933). He signed his name W. F. Muhammad which stands for Wallace Fard Muhammad. He came alone. He began teaching us the knowledge of ourselves, of God and the devil, of the measurement of the earth, of other planets, and of the civilizations of some of the planets other than earth."* *The Hon. Elijah Muhammad,* *Message to the Black Man, 1966* I quote The Enemy: *"Historians have used public records to identify Fard... more »
Collectable and eventually playable education activism game cards, courtesy of UOO
The activist organization United Opt Out, that little gaggle always does things a little differently. Well, in advance of their annual spring event, taking place in Denver, CO March 28th-30th, 2014, UOO is releasing a collection of activist game cards that will include the organizers and the guests who will be in attendance. Now, these […]
Another warm welcome to a new author, Dr. Denisha Jones (@denisha_jones)
Denisha and I go back a few years. We were both graduate students at Indiana University. And oddly enough, we found our way there from DC, and now back again. Denisha’s at Howard University. Great institution with a Dean who’s said some very hopeful things about education reform. Dr. Jones is in this fight with […]
Censored Native poet, filmmaker and resisters, and a note from Noam Chomsky
While searching for my articles of travels with the Zapatistas, I stumbled across one of my most censored articles written in December of 2001. At the time, I had shared the article with Noam Chomsky, and had since forgotten about the note he sent back. Noam Chomsky wrote, “Interesting and eloquent. Thanks for sending." Simon Ortiz I'm sharing this again, because of the eloquence and powerRelated articles
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Utah man fasting to stop same sex marriages(4utah.com) - Image may be NSFW.
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Utah is spending $2 Million of taxpayer $ to fight marriage equality(thatssogay.co) - Image may be NSFW.
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Sessions blasted out-of-control spending, amnesty during whopping 33 hours at the Senate mic in 2013(yellowhammernews.com) - Image may be NSFW.
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Illegal Immigration - A Benefit or Burden in Utah(4utah.com) - Image may be NSFW.
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Biological Hazard - State of Utah, [Utah-wide] : Mass Die Off (Bald Eagles) UPDATE - Experts not convinced that West Nile Virus is to blame for Bald Eagle Deaths(familysurvivalprotocol.com) - Image may be NSFW.
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Utah marriage equality You-Tube video gains popularity(4utah.com) - Image may be NSFW.
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Deep freeze grips United States, disrupting travel, business - Reuters(reuters.com) - Image may be NSFW.
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Senate confirms Yellen as Fed Chair - CNN(money.cnn.com) - Image may be NSFW.
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Judge: Chicago's Ban on Gun Sales Unconstitutional - ABC News(abcnews.go.com) - Image may be NSFW.
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The Al-Qaida-linked group that's reshuffling the deck in Iraq and in Syria - Haaretz(haaretz.com)
