Jeff Nguyen has a blog up featuring Eddie Vedder’s song “No More”.
God bless Phil Donahue— still fighting the good fight. I grew up watching Donahue and he opened my world. He talked about subjects that were taboo. He asked intelligent questions. I loved the “live” aspect of his shows where callers could call in to add to the story.
It was a sad day when his show was no more. And even sadder that he was fired from MSNBC for speaking out against the Iraq war.
I hope you’re sitting down, because this is going to blow you away.
An interactive graphic from Der Spiegel explains that this tool is a part of NSA’s ANT division that the agency developed so it can see and hear what is happening in a room “without having to actually install radio-signal-emitting bugging devices in them.”
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…and you thought that mercury poisoned folk like myself were crazy for saying that EMF’s bothered us greatly. When I was sicker, I could not talk on a cell phone for an hour, or I would become ill with a migraine. EMF’s from the classroom smartboard/computer/wand make me ill.
And as far as the radiated beams causing cancer…well, that is a stone in the gravel pit. The NSA is running amok with nobody reining them in or following anything that looks like our Constitution…
Oh, and in case you missed it–they’re also intercepting laptops bought online and installing spyware on them. Yep.
….because we got to get the boogeyman.
We got to get the boogeyman.
I wonder about this and those birds falling out of the sky. More here.
Granny Miller has a post up on the curious phenomenon of preppers.
I am positively revolted by the survivalist perception and belief that somehow there will not be enough food, water, clothing, shelter and goodness and humanity to go around when “the collapse” comes.
…wisdom from the elders….
( TEOTWAWKI = The end of the world as we know it. TSHTF= the sh*t hits the fan.)
Warrior Publications has this up on the curious fact that people opposing the Enbridge pipeline are not the radicals that the Oil industry and the politicos would like you to think.
Like I’ve said before, there are a lot more people in favor of protecting the environment but are afraid to be categorized as terrorists or radicals, so they remain silent. It really came home to me when I wrote an op-ed for my local paper talking about environmental concerns, including GMO labeling. I had people call me and talk to me in person (in a low voice, no doubt so no one else could hear the conversation) about how they agreed with me. But they didn’t take that next step and write their own op-ed on how they, too, wanted to protect the environment.
The oil industry and others have done a bang up job of portraying *all* environmentalists as radical, violent people….when only a small number of people have done things that are disagreeable to the rest. And I’m sure there were agent provocateurs amongst the violent ones.
The following isn’t related to the environmental protests, but it is helpful in understanding that it isn’t paranoia on the part of protestors:
…and other products with hydrochloric acid. You’ll have to use google translate to understand the post.
From what I can gather by the rough translation, there is some event connected with this warning and it involves the police. Perhaps someone poisoned coke and nestea products?
Time will tell. Stay tuned.
The opening quote is an understatement. (love the mural, too)
Of course, the people want peace–it’s the politicians and war profiteers who want war. Most of the people in the world just want to live in peace…raise their families…earn a living…follow their own paths….
…but then you get to the end of the article…<sigh>….well, baby steps towards Peace…but I’ll take it.
Break a woman’s head in three spaces? Hey, that’s okay…I’m sure you didn’t mean to hit her with such force that you broke the bone.
From the link on the sentencing:
Chief Deputy Yellowstone County attorney Juli M. Pierce said after the hearing that she respects the two sentences the judges gave Ferguson.
“We’ll continue to prosecute domestic violence cases no matter what the outcome is,” she said, shortly after Ferguson was taken into custody. “We’ll continue to fight that fight because that’s why we’re here – for the protection of the community.”
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You call *that* prosecution? God help the women of Yellowstone County.
DS Wright has this up on the pushback towards Robert Menendez for his efforts to destroy ongoing talks with Iran. It’s beyond comprehension.
Those of you not from the Midwest won’t get this post, but an icon of the 70s has passed–Larry Lujack who dominated the radio during the 70s, has passed. We lived three hours away from Chicago, but the powerful WLS reached our little town and much of northern Indiana. (There is a great youtube of Lujack broadcasting in May 1971. I don’t think it’s “official” , though, so I can’t link to it. But just listening to it is a great toss back to those days–the fun we had (describing oil cans as “beautiful” *snort* ) and the times–Vietnam updates /protestors are featured on the news and I’m not sure, but I think they are announcing officers being investigated for shooting Vietnamese, but I’m not sure if it’s related to the My Lai massacre.)
We loved listening to Lujack on our school bus as we made the trip into school, laughing at programs like the “Tooth Fairy”…complete with background noise like doors opening/closing, footsteps, and all that made radio great. I feel sorry for my kids’ generation, because they never got to experience that part of our culture.
I had the name “boogiecheck” for awhile as a log on name. People thought it was something dirty–it wasn’t. It was in reference to a program on WLS with John Records Landecker, where he made short bits of callers’ conversations into a hilarious soundbyte. The program was so popular that when Landecker went to a local high school to speak at a convocation, he was greeted with the crowd chanting: “Boogie Check, Boogie Check, ooh aah! Boogie Check, Boogie Check, ooh aah!” This was the intro to the program from that moment on.
Landecker once told a story of one Friday, a payday, in the olden days where they actually handed out paper checks that one took to the bank to deposit. He said he picked up his check, and started to walk towards the bank, and with each step, he felt more tired. His arm hurt. By the time he got to the bank, he could barely put one foot in front of another. When he got to the bank teller, he found the reason why: he was carrying Larry Lujack’s paycheck instead of his own. Haha. Must have been soooome big ole’ paycheck. 🙂
Peace and comfort to Larry’s family on his passing…
Elliott at firedoglake has this preview of a book salon today at 5:00 p.m. EST. Wow. Just listening to the short video just sends the mind reeling….if there were any reason for limiting the power of the defense dept, and especially defense contractors, this is IT. Dulles had entirely too much power to manipulate situations towards his own personal goals instead of what was best. And his warped view of what freedom means is just stunning….it’s all about the money.
A wiki entry on JFK and Allen Dulles here.
I’ve read a couple of blogs on JFK and the CIA theories, and Huffpost mentions Senator Hart, who was on the Church Committee to investigate. He put it on the press’ failure to follow up on the witnesses being shot and other leads. He also states that nobody wants to put this out there because whomever did it is still “out there”. Well, I don’t know about that particular person or persons, since it was 50 years ago….but yeah, there are still mercenaries born every minute who would just as soon shoot you as look at you. It’s called courage, Gary, when you speak out even though you’re scared.
Another Presbyterian, Maggie Kuhn, spoke the phrase: “Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.”
Funny that she and Allen Dulles could be of the same faith with such opposing views…
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