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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Drones or Boys and Their Toys: The USA's Latest Strategy for Unending War SHARE
The work of the US military is to kill, its pretext -- defense of the homeland. It has succeeded in training soldiers, mostly young men, to kill without remorse, that is until they leave the military with flare-ups of psychological trauma or PTSD.
Monday, May 14, 2012
The dark side of Dubai, by Johann Hari at The Independent SHARE
The wide, smiling face of Sheikh Mohammed -- the absolute ruler of Dubai -- beams down on his creation. His image is displayed on every other building, sandwiched between the more familiar corporate rictuses of Ronald McDonald and Colonel Sanders. This man has sold Dubai to the world as the city of One Thousand and One Arabian Lights, a Shangri-La in the Middle East insulated from the dust-storms blasting across the region. He dominates the Manhattan-manque skyline, beaming out from row after row of glass pyramids and hotels smelted into the shape of piles of golden coins. And there he stands on the tallest building in the world -- a skinny spike, jabbing farther into the sky than any other human construction in history.
Sunday, May 13, 2012
The Financialization of Education and Sonoma State University, Part II. SHARE
{Part I: click here.
Friday, May 11, 2012
Why Nuclear Experts Are Calling Fukushima a Ticking Time-Bomb SHARE
More than a year after the triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, the Japanese government, Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) present similar assurances of the site's current state: challenges remain but everything is under control. The worst is over.
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Monday, May 7, 2012
The Spirit of the So-Called Liberal Media: Race-Baiting, War-drumming News for the White Elite Class SHARE
A new book on news history explores why we have a non-democratic and exclusionary Press.
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Who Bloody IS John Carlos? SHARE
In the summer of 1968, I was 26 and moving on, set to be 27 and not draftable in October. Traveling a lot, and changing a lot.
Saturday, May 5, 2012
London 2012: Olympic Stadium is officially opened. SHARE
Thousands braved the rain and cold at the Olympic Park in London for the official opening.
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Wednesday, May 2, 2012
In an Epidemic of Pedophilia and Judicial Abuse, U.S. Courts Are Sacrificing Mothers and Children. SHARE
An Urgent Report from Investigative Journalist Keith Harmon Snow:
Monday, April 30, 2012
One World Trade Center becomes New York's tallest building SHARE
Oh yeah. And it's moniker is The Freedom Tower. I prefer and always did prefer The Empire State Building:
Sunday, April 29, 2012
World Celebrates Alec Baldwin's Return to Twitter SHARE
NEW YORK -- Hollywood superstar Alec Baldwin reactivated his Twitter account Wednesday after being away for over a month, sparking a celebratory wave of relief around the world.
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Mayday is Just Around the Corner SHARE
And there's a rally on the steps of the Vallejo (California) City Hall from 10:30AM to 11:30AM, at 555 Santa Clara St., this Monday, May 1.
Friday, April 27, 2012
Stop. Look. And Listen. Boycott Israeli Products in American Stores. SHARE
Is Israel's intransigence getting you DOWN?
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Thursday, April 26, 2012
God Has Left the Building, by Sheila Samples at D.V. in 2009 SHARE
"If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia." - Thomas Szasz.
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
The War on Black Women and Children, by BAR's Margaret Kimbereley SHARE
White supremacy is on the offensive, especially against Black women. "Black people are punished for driving, for walking down the street, for having children, for putting their children in school, for acting the way children act, and even for having children who are killed by other people." There is only one option: "Restart the freedom movement and never let it end."
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Starling Murmurations SHARE
No one knows why they do it. Yet each fall, thousands of starlings dance in the twilight above England and Scotland. The birds gather in shape-shifting flocks called murmurations, having migrated in the millions from Russia and Scandinavia to escape winter's frigid bite.
Friday, April 20, 2012
100 Days to 2010 Olympics, by David Trifunov, on April 18, 2012 SHARE
Protesters (are) also limbering up for their time in the global spotlight.
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Friday, April 20, 2012
'Huge' Water Resources Exist Under Africa, by Matt McGrath of BBC News SHARE
Scientists say the notoriously dry continent of Africa is sitting on a vast reservoir of groundwater. {And} the total volume of water in aquifers underground is 100 times the amount found on the surface.
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Thursday, April 19, 2012
It's National Holocaust Remembrance Day. SHARE
I was accepted by and matriculated at an elite Ivy League college in 1959, and subsequently I learned that 25% of my entering class was Jewish. But so it was, and in a sense the Admissions Department at the college had discriminated against Jews by admitting only 25%, because there was a larger percentage of Jews qualified to attend the college than non-Jews in certain areas throughout the United States, and qualified non-Jews had been admitted from those areas in preference to more qualified Jews to promote "geographical diversity" in the class. I hailed from San Antonio, and almost certainly was one of those "geographical diversity admits," but I hardly knew what a Jew was in 1959. And when I was accepted, and took to college life like a seal to water, I was unaware that 25% of my fellow seals were Jewish.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Tear Down U.S. Prison Gualg, by Glen Ford of B.A.R. SHARE
"It's a counterinsurgency before there is an insurgency."
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Breaking: Taliban strike across Afghanistan in 'spring offensive' SHARE
Militants have been carrying out what they say are co-ordinated attacks on the Afghan capital Kabul and other targets in Afghanistan. The "spring offensive" targeted foreign embassies, Nato's HQ and the Afghan parliament in the first major attack on Kabul in more than six months.
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Who Said Mathematicians Don't Believe in Eternity? SHARE
Eternity is a puzzle devised by Christopher Monckton and consisting of 209 pieces, each of which is a 12-polydrafter (i.e., a compound of 30-60-90 triangles). The puzzle was introduced in Britain in June 1999. The goal of the puzzle is to arrange the pieces in the shape of a slightly nonregular dodecagon. A one-million-pound award was offered for the first solution to the puzzle, which was found by Alex Selby and Oliver Riordan on May 15, 2000. Their solution is illustrated (below, courtesy of MathWorld and Christopher Monckton). A second solution was subsequently found by Guenter Stertenbrink. Interestingly, neither of these solutions matches the six clues given by the puzzle's creator Christopher Monckton for his solution, which remains unknown.
Sunday, June 6, 2010
An Appreciation of Capitalism: A Love Story by Michael Moore SHARE
I just got this movie from Netflix and watched it last night.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Disaster On Disaster: Israeli Terrorism Silences Environmental Outrage For a Day SHARE
See this Diary's tags: Ehud Barak, Ehud Olmert, Murder, Protest; Oil Disaster, Oil Spills and Environmental Disaster.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
The NYT: PB Says Leak May Be Closer to a Solution SHARE
After days of deepening gloom, BP and two Obama administration officials suggested on Wednesday that the company was closer to a solution that might halt the seemingly uncontrollable oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Monday, October 19, 2009
An Appreciation of the Movie "Master and Commander" SHARE
The is the best movie for 13 year-olds I've ever seen. It stars Russell Crowe, James D.Arcy, and Paul Bettany, and it's set in 1804 on the high seas, with Britishhhh Captain "Lucky" Jack Aubrey pursuing a French Privateer from the Atlantic into the Pacific.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Excerpts - From a Cat's Diary, and From A Dog's Diary SHARE
I found this in a long-forgotten folder, yesterday.
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