As I get older, I get more post-nasal drip, which is probably the worst part of it now.
2018-02-28
2018-02-27
2018-02-26
2018-02-25
2018-02-22
Looks who's back! The corruption of ALEC continues.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/cracking-down-on-pipeline-protests-wyoming-now-third-state-to-propose-alec-bill/5629951
Cracking Down on Pipeline Protests. Wyoming Now Third State to Propose ALEC Bill
2018-02-21
Can you imagine if this WASN'T bungled by the establishment media?
https://consortiumnews.com/2018/02/20/how-the-washington-post-missed-the-biggest-watergate-story-of-all/
Nixon would've been in jail for this -
"Woodward and Bernstein had been handed the skeleton key that would have unlocked the entire Watergate affair. The reporters had been told – by no less a figure than Nixon’s National Security Advisor, Henry Kissinger – about the real motive behind Nixon’s plan to burgle the Brookings Institute. It was to destroy the evidence that Nixon had conspired to prolong a war with an official enemy of the United States in order to win the presidency in 1968; after which he deliberately prolonged – even escalated – the Vietnam War. And – for reasons that might never be known – Woodward and Bernstein stayed silent."
Nixon would've been in jail for this -
"Woodward and Bernstein had been handed the skeleton key that would have unlocked the entire Watergate affair. The reporters had been told – by no less a figure than Nixon’s National Security Advisor, Henry Kissinger – about the real motive behind Nixon’s plan to burgle the Brookings Institute. It was to destroy the evidence that Nixon had conspired to prolong a war with an official enemy of the United States in order to win the presidency in 1968; after which he deliberately prolonged – even escalated – the Vietnam War. And – for reasons that might never be known – Woodward and Bernstein stayed silent."
2018-02-20
2018-02-17
Why 'Not Trump' is as bad as Trump.
"The most cynically brilliant outcome of the ‘blame Russia’ campaign has
been to neuter left activism by focusing the attack on Donald Trump
rather than the interests he represents. As evidence, the proportion of
Goldman Sachs alumni in Mr. Trump’s administration approximates that in
Mr. Obama’s and what was expected for Mrs. Clinton’s. If the problem is
Donald Trump, then the solution is ‘not Trump.’ However, if the problem
is that the rich substantially control American political outcomes, how would electing ‘not Trump’ bring about resolution?"
More here - https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/02/09/why-russian-meddling-is-a-trojan-horse/
More here - https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/02/09/why-russian-meddling-is-a-trojan-horse/
2018-02-15
Happy National Flag Day Canada.
Wish the country were in a better state.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Flag_of_Canada_Day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Flag_of_Canada_Day
2018-02-14
We certainly All are Ahed Tamimi.
What a courageous girl.
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/we-are-all-ahed-tamimi/
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/we-are-all-ahed-tamimi/
The Israel-Palestine conflict is a complicated issue that will continue as long as Palestinians are denied basic human rights. All people—no matter their race—are human beings. Only a small percentage are terrorists. Yet terror is what many governments and the media broadcast. That narrative is pure propaganda, meant to control people.
We need to change the narrative to regain control. Just as people have been taught to hate, they can be taught to love.
Let’s start with Ahed Tamimi, a hero in the struggle for justice and human rights. Each year, Israel prosecutes 500 to 700 Palestinian children in military court. Today, the Israeli army imprisons an estimated 350 children. Tamimi’s father, mother, uncle and brother all have been imprisoned for nonviolent resistance to the Israeli occupation.
2018-02-12
Or to put it another way ...
Gaslighting can be defined as the ultimate form of bullshitting.
http://21stcenturywire.com/2016/05/26/gaslighting-state-mind-control-and-abusive-narcissism/
(h/t from Consortium News)
http://21stcenturywire.com/2016/05/26/gaslighting-state-mind-control-and-abusive-narcissism/
(h/t from Consortium News)
Well look who's supporting the BDS movement.
Jewish Voice for Peace.
Why?
https://www.globalresearch.ca/an-exodus-of-jewish-settlers-from-palestine-is-inevitable/5629042
And then there's this -
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/02/12/on-resistance-bds-and-israels-declining-support-among-diaspora-jews/
Why?
https://www.globalresearch.ca/an-exodus-of-jewish-settlers-from-palestine-is-inevitable/5629042
Their boldest campaign to date has been the campaign to convince young US Jews not to participate in the Birthright trips Israel sponsors for Jews around the world.
This JVP campaign is very significant because it delegitimizes Israel as a Jewish state, as a birthright of Jews worldwide. It is also directed at a Jewish demographic that, by all accounts, is moving away from Israel’s hasbara and is likely open to transformative change.
Israel cannot survive as a Jewish state without a constant influx of Jews as immigrants to keep the Jewish majority it created by denying Palestinian right of return and blocking Palestinian aspirations to self-determination in their own homeland.
And then there's this -
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/02/12/on-resistance-bds-and-israels-declining-support-among-diaspora-jews/
In the internet age, it is simply no longer possible to suppress or recast the horror of Palestinian life under the brutal control of an Israeli state that has long since held itself out as beyond the reach of international or humanitarian law in its drive to cleanse Palestine of its entire indigenous population. Today, this reality moves a generation of young Diaspora Jews in ways over fundamental human rights and social justice long ignored or rationalized away by their parents and grandparents.
Good advice when writing about the rich, powerful and new.
https://medium.com/@Boringstein/a-style-guide-for-writing-about-the-rich-11d3c6c9ca19
1: Do not broadly attribute a company’s work to their owner/CEO.
2: It is always relevant to note how people have accumulated wealth, and who they have harmed to do so. Never omit it.
3: Be skeptical and don’t just publish a wealthy person’s claims or without doing due diligence or offering a critical corollary.
4: Don’t trip over yourself to humanize a rich person and make them look good — you’re a journalist, not a PR person.
5: Don’t let it all be about them.
6: It’s not fucking news if a rich person likes Rick and Morty or whatever.
7: If you’re writing from a place of personal perspective, you should write about them with the same bilious contempt they have for human life.
Fucking brilliant and obvious.
1: Do not broadly attribute a company’s work to their owner/CEO.
2: It is always relevant to note how people have accumulated wealth, and who they have harmed to do so. Never omit it.
3: Be skeptical and don’t just publish a wealthy person’s claims or without doing due diligence or offering a critical corollary.
4: Don’t trip over yourself to humanize a rich person and make them look good — you’re a journalist, not a PR person.
5: Don’t let it all be about them.
6: It’s not fucking news if a rich person likes Rick and Morty or whatever.
7: If you’re writing from a place of personal perspective, you should write about them with the same bilious contempt they have for human life.
Fucking brilliant and obvious.
2018-02-11
2018-02-10
America's Stupidest Mayor - who'll it be?
Taxpayers will lose to Scamazon - no uncertainty.
https://www.alternet.org/labor/amazons-jeff-bezos-quest-find-americas-stupidest-mayor
https://www.alternet.org/labor/amazons-jeff-bezos-quest-find-americas-stupidest-mayor
2018-02-07
What an amazing discovery!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Biosphere_Reserve#Archaeology
"On 1 February 2018, Guatemalan, U.S., and European archaeologists announced that they had used LIDAR to discover about 60,000 additional individual Mayan structures in the reserve.[10] The structures, hidden under dense foliage, include four major Mayan ceremonial centers with plazas and pyramids.[10]"
"On 1 February 2018, Guatemalan, U.S., and European archaeologists announced that they had used LIDAR to discover about 60,000 additional individual Mayan structures in the reserve.[10] The structures, hidden under dense foliage, include four major Mayan ceremonial centers with plazas and pyramids.[10]"
2018-02-05
2018-02-02
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)