Sunday, January 31, 2021
The Gun Loophole in Temporary Restraining Orders
The Gun Loophole in Temporary Restraining Orders: Rosemarie Reilly knew her ex might hurt her. But when she sought a restraining order, a judge allowed him to keep his guns.
Saturday, January 30, 2021
Biden’s Faux Revolution: “Green Energy” Slated to Become World’s New Oil Industry
Biden’s Faux Revolution: “Green Energy” Slated to Become World’s New Oil Industry: Joe Biden's pledge to go green hides a darker reality as green energy relies heavily on destructive mineral mining and exploitive extraction.
Coronavirus map: Tracking cases in the U.S. and around the world - Washington Post
Coronavirus map: Tracking cases in the U.S. and around the world - Washington Post: In the months since the outbreak of a new coronavirus was first reported in China late last year, millions of people have contracted it globally, with cases reported in nearly every country in the world.
"We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s going to be just fine.”— President Trump, in an interview with CNBC, was asked about the first diagnosed U.S. case. He said he wasn’t worried about a pandemic.
"We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s going to be just fine.”— President Trump, in an interview with CNBC, was asked about the first diagnosed U.S. case. He said he wasn’t worried about a pandemic.
Friday, January 29, 2021
Six degrees of sedition: Was master trickster Roger Stone behind the Capitol riot? | Salon.com
Six degrees of sedition: Was master trickster Roger Stone behind the Capitol riot? | Salon.com: Stone was linked to several "Stop the Steal" events, and has ties to organizers behind the Jan. 6 rally and attack
Thursday, January 28, 2021
Home - FollowTheMoney.org
Home - FollowTheMoney.org: See comprehensive 50-state campaign contributions, independent spending, and lobbying details for candidates, political parties and ballot measures at FollowTheMoney.org.
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
UC Davis paid $175,000 or more to scrub police pepper spray incident from web searches | Boing Boing
UC Davis paid $175,000 or more to scrub police pepper spray incident from web searches | Boing Boing: Looks like the geniuses who run UC Davis never Googled the words “Streisand Effect.” After a police officer pepper-sprayed UC Davis students in a widely reported 2011 incident, the California university contracted with SEO consultants for $175,000 (or maybe more) to scrub unfavorable online items about the incident and boost online reputations of both the…
A highly relevant classic: How the Oregon Militia Acquittals Reflect the Influence of White Nationalist Agitators
Baltimore Nonviolence Center: How the Oregon Militia Acquittals Reflect the Influence of White Nationalist Agitators: The clamorous decision by a Portland jury to acquit the Bundy brothers, Ammon and Ryan, and five others on conspiracy and firearms charges on Thursday night marks the third time in 28 years that a high-profile federal case involving armed anti-government agitators has collapsed.
In each case, questions have arisen whether white nationalist agitators evoked sympathies among jurors that other defendants do not.
Four years ago, an attempt to charge members of the Hutaree Christian militia in Michigan with sedition ended in similar embarrassment for the government after the judge said there was no evidence the five defendants intended to attack anyone, much less murder a police officer and ambush his funeral as the prosecution alleged.
It Could Be So Much Worse | In the Moment
It Could Be So Much Worse | In the Moment: Pato Hebert and Alexandra Juhasz From: Patrick Hebert Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2020 2:29 PMTo: Alexandra JuhaszSubject: Re: some prompts Hi Alex, Sorry for slow reply. Schoo…
Current Time - 2021 - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Current Time - 2021 - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: It is 100 seconds to midnight.
Tuesday, January 26, 2021
January 5 Meeting at Trump International Hotel Could Hold the Key to the January 6 Insurrection - Proof
January 5 Meeting at Trump International Hotel Could Hold the Key to the January 6 Insurrection - Proof: The night before the insurrection, Trump and nine advisers held an urgent meeting.
And then there were two: can northern white rhinos be saved from extinction? | Environment | The Guardian
And then there were two: can northern white rhinos be saved from extinction? | Environment | The Guardian
1 in 6 species, over one million, are currently at risk of extinction. Hippos, a keystone species, have been devastated. We lose between 30,000 to 35,000 elephants EACH YEAR due to climate change. The loss of large mammals in Africa has also created a spike in rodent populations carrying diseases like flus and the bubonic plague to other animals, including humans.
Achieving Equality on a Livable Planet | Boston Review
Achieving Equality on a Livable Planet | Boston Review: Achieving Equality on a Livable Planet from Boston Review. Politics is the heart of the problem—and more lessons from Latin America.
Earth is losing ice faster today than in the mid-1990s, study suggests | Reuters
Earth is losing ice faster today than in the mid-1990s, study suggests | Reuters: Earth’s ice is melting faster today than in the mid-1990s, new research suggests, as climate change nudges global temperatures ever higher.
Coral Reefs and Marine Life
Today’s ocean is 30 percent more acidic than it was before the industrial revolution. If we stop carbon emissions today, it will take over 10,000 years for it to be healthy again.Though they make up less than 1% percent of the ocean floor, reefs support a quarter of all marine species. 85% of the corals in the Caribbean are gone, & around half the world’s corals have been killed. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/26/cooling-la-nina-may-not-save-great-barrier-reef-from-mass-coral-bleaching-experts-warn
Monday, January 25, 2021
Waking Up from the American Dream | The New Yorker
Waking Up from the American Dream | The New Yorker: The Dream, it turned out, needed to demonize others in order to help the chosen few. Our parents, too, would be sacrificed. The price of our innocence was the guilt of our loved ones. Jeff Sessions, while he was Attorney General, suggested that we had been trafficked against our will. People actually pitied me because my parents brought me to America. Without even consulting me.
The irony, of course, is that the Dream was our inheritance. We were Dreamers because our parents had dreams.
It’s painful to think about this. My mother, an aspiring interior designer, has gone twenty-eight years without a sick day. My dad, who loves problem-solving, has spent his life wanting a restaurant. He’s a talented cook and a brilliant manager, and he often did the work of his actual managers for them. But, without papers, he could advance only so far in a job. He needed to be paid in cash; he could never receive benefits.
He often used a soccer metaphor to describe our journey in America. Our family was a team, but I scored the goals. Everything my family did was, in some sense, a pass to me. Then the American Dream could be mine, and then we could start passing to my brother. That’s how my dad
Anti-vaxxers – fear, anxiety and the psychology of misinformation | Politics on the Couch
Anti-vaxxers – fear, anxiety and the psychology of misinformation | Politics on the Couch: Rafael Behr talks to Imran Ahmed the founder of the Centre for Countering Digital Hate about misinformation. | Politics on the Couch
Pandemic Earnings of World's 10 Wealthiest Men Could Buy COVID-19 Vaccines for All... AND have enough left over to pay our rent a& buy us all a family-size vegan pizza pie: Oxfam
Pandemic Earnings of World's 10 Wealthiest Men Could Buy COVID-19 Vaccines for All: Oxfam: Oxfam's new report reveals shocking global wealth inequality, with the 10 richest men seeing their net worth increase by $540 billion — enough to buy COVID-19 vaccines for all.
Years of Living Dangerously, Season 1 Episode 6: Winds of Change - video Dailymotion
Years of Living Dangerously, Season 1 Episode 6: Winds of Change - video Dailymotion: Years of Living Dangerously is an American documentary television series focusing on global warming. The first season was broadcast in the US in 2014 on Showtime. It won an Emmy Award as Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series. Executive producers included James Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger. This video isn't association football refereeing related but I decided to publish it anyway because the extreme environmental emergency needs urgent action. Spreading awareness is one of the things everyone can do to protect the planet. Other ways include but are not limited to: * visiting https://www.greenpeace.org/internatio... and signing the different petitions; * voting for candidates that are most environment friendly (never ever vote for Trump); * switching your search engine to Ecosia - every 45 searches means a tree is planted somewhere on the earth; 100% renewable energy used. Check out the 'The Referee' website for refereeing content - https://www.thefref.weebly.com !
Should Biden declare a 'climate emergency'? 38 countries already have.
Should Biden declare a 'climate emergency'? 38 countries already have.: Even after dozens of declarations, there’s limited consensus on what a climate emergency really means — or whether it actually leads to cutting CO2 emissions.
Global ice loss accelerating at record rate, study finds | Environment | The Guardian
Global ice loss accelerating at record rate, study finds | Environment | The Guardian: Rate of loss now in line with worst-case scenarios of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Breaking Up With White Supremacy Was Always The End Game | by Tressie McMillan Cottom | Jan, 2021 | Medium
Breaking Up With White Supremacy Was Always The End Game | by Tressie McMillan Cottom | Jan, 2021 | Medium: Everywhere I look this week there is a story about how the recent Presidential contest slash white supremacist insurrection slash Trump legacy has torn apart many families. This one from Time…
@IndigenousRisingMedia | Linktree
@IndigenousRisingMedia | Linktree: Sign the Build Back Fossil Free Petition
Experts: New bill could put Indiana wetlands at risk, increase flooding
Experts: New bill could put Indiana wetlands at risk, increase flooding: Indiana has already lost as much as 85% of the wetlands it once had in the state. Opponents worry a new bill would put those that remain at risk.
Southern Ocean is warming quickly, threatening ice in Antarctica - The Washington Post
Southern Ocean is warming quickly, threatening ice in Antarctica - The Washington Post: Deep waters in the Southern Ocean are warming faster than previously known, which may speed the melting of parts of the Antarctica.
Most world leaders still silent on #ClimateEmergency
Most world leaders still silent on #ClimateEmergency
Sunday, January 24, 2021
Peter Gabriel - No Way Out (Subtitled)
The loving looks Peter sneaks in Melanie's direction are so very moving. What a great guy.
The Other Pandemic: Avian Flu Is Spreading Around the Globe
The Other Pandemic: Avian Flu Is Spreading Around the Globe: Mass cullings and lockdowns for farmed birds treat the symptoms and not the cause of avian flu.
Saturday, January 23, 2021
I'm going on a debt strike. The Biden administration must cancel student debt | Joe Biden | The Guardian
I'm going on a debt strike. The Biden administration must cancel student debt | Joe Biden | The Guardian: Americans owe $1.7tn in student debt. Even before the pandemic, a million people defaulted on their loans every year
INFLUENZA | Official Trailer on Vimeo
INFLUENZA | Official Trailer on Vimeo: Watch the complete short film by Bong Joon-ho (Parasite, Okja, Snowpiercer) at https://grasshopperfilm.com/film/influenza/
PARASITE is justly famous, but how great is INFLUENZA!
PARASITE is justly famous, but how great is INFLUENZA!
Friday, January 22, 2021
Grief’s Anatomy | Hanif Abdurraqib
Grief’s Anatomy | Hanif Abdurraqib: When I think about the grief of the past year, the thought I return to is what all of us organizing and fighting would be doing with ourselves if we had more time.
Thursday, January 21, 2021
President Trump’s legacy of corruption, four years and 3,700 conflicts of interest later - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
President Trump’s legacy of corruption, four years and 3,700 conflicts of interest later - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington: His brand has also expanded existing properties overseas while Trump was in office, raising the same types of conflicts concerns that new developments would. In the past four years Trump’s company continued to develop its overseas projects and sent its top executives to meet with foreign business partners and sell Trump properties, with American taxpayers footing the bill for nearly $100,000 in Secret Service costs incurred during the trip. In coming years, the Trump Organization is expected to revisit or pursue new projects in foreign countries such as India, China, Colombia, Brazil, and Turkey.
While Trump Organization executives traveled around the world, Trump had foreign leaders in countries where he does business come to him. Late last year, an Indonesian official came to Washington, D.C. for an unannounced, closed-door meeting at the White House with Trump, Ivanka, and Jared Kushner. While Indonesian press reported that the meeting was in regards to the U.S. investing in Indonesia’s sovereign wealth fund, neither the Indonesian government nor the White House published detailed notes from the meeting. Over the past few years the Indonesian conglomerate MNC Group has been dev
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Monday, January 18, 2021
Sunday, January 17, 2021
Living Colour - Cult of Personality (Lyrics)
Still a big Living Colour fan. This was the first cut I heard by them, when it was first released(!) & it's as relevant today..... Cult of Personality (Lyrics) https://youtu.be/7FKv5QLa8q8 via @YouTube #livingcolour
How can America heal from the Trump era? Lessons from Germany's transformation into a prosperous democracy after Nazi rule
How can America heal from the Trump era? Lessons from Germany's transformation into a prosperous democracy after Nazi rule: The US faces many of the same problems Germans faced after World War II: how to reject, punish and delegitimize the enemies of democracy. There are lessons in how Germany handled that challenge.
Saturday, January 16, 2021
Surprise, surprise: Flynn, Bannon, and Stone helped promote the rally-turned-riot at the Capitol
Surprise, surprise: Flynn, Bannon, and Stone helped promote the rally-turned-riot at the Capitol
Well well... Sometimes a neofascist conspiracy is not a theory. Surprise, surprise: Flynn, Bannon, and Stone helped promote the rally-turned-riot at the Capitol #MakeAmericaNotADeadlyAutocracyAgain
Well well... Sometimes a neofascist conspiracy is not a theory. Surprise, surprise: Flynn, Bannon, and Stone helped promote the rally-turned-riot at the Capitol #MakeAmericaNotADeadlyAutocracyAgain
Lewis Warsh: Part of His History – The Brooklyn Rail
Lewis Warsh: Part of His History – The Brooklyn Rail: Steve Clay is the publisher of Granary Books, as well as an editor, curator, archivist, and writer specializing in literature and art of the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s. He is the author or editor of several volumes including, most recently, Intermedia, Fluxus, and the Something Else Press: Selected Writings by Dick Higgins.
Understanding White Supremacy
Understanding White Supremacy: Far from a thing of the past or the strict purview of Neo-Nazi and white power groups, white supremacy is part of the very fabric of U.S. society.
More than 1,000 Extinction Rebellion activists taken to court | Extinction Rebellion | The Guardian
More than 1,000 Extinction Rebellion activists taken to court | Extinction Rebellion | The Guardian: People may have to travel to London despite pandemic in one of biggest protest crackdowns in UK legal history
Friday, January 15, 2021
The Fine Old English Gentleman
The good old times for cutting throats that cried out in their need,
The good old times for hunting men who held their fathers' creed,
The good old times when William Pitt, as all good men agreed,
Came down direct from Paradise at more than railroad speed …
Oh the fine old English Tory times;
When will they come again!
The good old times for hunting men who held their fathers' creed,
The good old times when William Pitt, as all good men agreed,
Came down direct from Paradise at more than railroad speed …
Oh the fine old English Tory times;
When will they come again!
#ToryLies #TroyCorruption
Thursday, January 14, 2021
ACTION ALERT: What Can ‘Now Be Told’ by NYT About Pentagon Papers Isn’t Actually True — FAIR
ACTION ALERT: What Can ‘Now Be Told’ by NYT About Pentagon Papers Isn’t Actually True — FAIR: Please tell the New York Times to correct its story to note that Daniel Ellsberg did in fact give the Pentagon Papers to the Times.
Cats, sort of
"Deliciously sweet & firm" is a true description. My sweetheart picked these up from the global supermarket & they are superb!
Lisa Montgomery's Attorney Slams 'Craven Bloodlust' of 'Failed' Trump Administration
Lisa Montgomery's Attorney Slams 'Craven Bloodlust' of 'Failed' Trump Administration: Montgomery, 52, was executed by lethal injection at the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, in the early hours of January 13.
The previous woman federally executed was Ethel Rosenberg, murdered in 1953 for crimes of “espionage” she did not commit. Say her name: #EthelRosenberg! Lisa Montgomery's Attorney Slams 'Craven Bloodlust' of 'Failed' Trump Administration https://www.newsweek.com/lisa-montgomery-attorney-slams-craven-bloodlust-trump-admin-1561106
The previous woman federally executed was Ethel Rosenberg, murdered in 1953 for crimes of “espionage” she did not commit. Say her name: #EthelRosenberg! Lisa Montgomery's Attorney Slams 'Craven Bloodlust' of 'Failed' Trump Administration https://www.newsweek.com/lisa-montgomery-attorney-slams-craven-bloodlust-trump-admin-1561106
A New Watchdog Report Reveals Just How Obsessed Trump Officials Were With Family Separation – Mother Jones
A New Watchdog Report Reveals Just How Obsessed Trump Officials Were With Family Separation – Mother Jones: Jeff Sessions was the driving force behind the policy, but there's plenty of blame to go around.
#CloseTheConcentrationCamps #MakeAmericaNotADeadlyAutocracyAgain
#CloseTheConcentrationCamps #MakeAmericaNotADeadlyAutocracyAgain
Wednesday, January 13, 2021
Bifo: "What Abyss Are We Talking About?" - Frontpage - e-flux conversations
Bifo: "What Abyss Are We Talking About?" - Frontpage - e-flux conversations: by Franco “Bifo” Berardi
The essay published by Timothy Snyder in the New York Times Magazine on January 9 has a beautiful title, even if it is not very original.1 Reading the text, however, has been a little disappoi…
Sponsors of the Pre-Attack Rally Have Taken Down Their Websites. Don’t Forget Who They Were. – Mother Jones
Sponsors of the Pre-Attack Rally Have Taken Down Their Websites. Don’t Forget Who They Were. – Mother Jones: Here are the organizers of the event that led to the assault on the Capitol.
Opinion: The Capitol attack was White supremacy, plain and simple - CNN
Opinion: The Capitol attack was White supremacy, plain and simple - CNN: Daniel Black writes that "there is no damn way" Black people could have smashed their way into the Capitol without losing their lives en masse. How in the world do scores of seditious rioters simply waltz into the United States Capitol, so casually that many of them record their invasion on their phones and take selfies with cops? Only with White privilege does such reprehensible behavior not meet deadly reprisals.
We Should Be Very Worried About Joe Biden’s “Domestic Terrorism” Bill
We Should Be Very Worried About Joe Biden’s “Domestic Terrorism” Bill: Joe Biden used to brag that he practically wrote the Patriot Act, the Bush-era law that massively increased government surveillance powers. Now he’s hoping to pass a further “domestic terrorism” law once in office. The danger is real that the January 6 Capitol attack will be used as an excuse to severely curtail our civil liberties.
The data is in. People of color are punished more harshly for Covid violations in the US | US policing | The Guardian
The data is in. People of color are punished more harshly for Covid violations in the US | US policing | The Guardian: People of color and immigrants who bear the brunt of Covid-19 are also subject to the most punitive enforcement of public health orders
The Storming of the Capitol – Part One: Trump’s Red Guards – Byline Times
The Storming of the Capitol – Part One: Trump’s Red Guards – Byline Times: In the first part of a series of analyses, Anthony Barnett looks at how the Chinese Communist Party is weaponising the Washington insurrection to defend its suppression of Hong Kong
Tuesday, January 12, 2021
Monday, January 11, 2021
AMAZON WATCH » Munduruku Demand That Anglo American Commit to Not Mine on Indigenous Lands
AMAZON WATCH » Munduruku Demand That Anglo American Commit to Not Mine on Indigenous Lands: Indigenous lands are protected by the Brazilian Constitution, and current attempts to change this regulatory framework represent a major threat to the rights of Indigenous peoples, to the integrity of their territories – which remain barriers against deforestation and the degradation of Brazilian biomes – and to the ecological and climatic balance resulting from the protection of Indigenous lands, particularly in the Amazon. The Munduruku have spoken: no mining in our lands!
Best... episode... ever! Reading Rainbow, w/ Run-DMC and Pete Seeger.
Reading Rainbow - Abiyoyo - YouTube: Reading Rainbow Season 4 Episode 10 - Abiyoyo
In a non-subjunctive mood
In a non-subjunctive mood
If
i had
a hundred quid
for every
person infected
each day
in the UK,
i'd be
Serco
Global cyber-espionage campaign linked to Russian spying tools | World news | The Guardian
Global cyber-espionage campaign linked to Russian spying tools | World news | The Guardian: Group behind attack on US software firm used malware tied to hackers with FSB security service links
Here are the members of several well-known hate groups that were identified at the Capitol - Alternet.org
Here are the members of several well-known hate groups that were identified at the Capitol - Alternet.org: ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox.
Members of the ultranationalist street gang known as the Proud Boys were easy to spot at the protests that flared across the United States throug...
Peter Hammill - Evidently Goldfish
Check the honesty of what's on offer,
True detective or a fake fakir?
All the evidence is circumstantial –
As mud the evidence is clear.
Paranormal the investigation –
Where do things go when they disappear?
All the evidence has been trumped up...
True detective or a fake fakir?
All the evidence is circumstantial –
As mud the evidence is clear.
Paranormal the investigation –
Where do things go when they disappear?
All the evidence has been trumped up...
Sunday, January 10, 2021
Saturday, January 9, 2021
Friday, January 8, 2021
LittleSis - Profiling the powers that be
LittleSis - Profiling the powers that be: LittleSis is a free database of who-knows-who at the heights of business and government
If Trump Is Impeached and Convicted, He’ll Lose His Post-Presidency Perks – Mother Jones
If Trump Is Impeached and Convicted, He’ll Lose His Post-Presidency Perks – Mother Jones: That means no more billing taxpayers when the Secret Service stays at his resorts.
Thursday, January 7, 2021
‘Have you had enough?’: Stephen Colbert reacts to Capitol riot | Watch News Videos Online
‘Have you had enough?’: Stephen Colbert reacts to Capitol riot | Watch News Videos Online: Watch ‘Have you had enough?’: Stephen Colbert reacts to Capitol riot Video Online, on GlobalNews.ca
Wednesday, January 6, 2021
time is running out
Civilization will not survive the melting of the glaciers at the poles. The essential Greenland ice cap has already melted beyond any safe amount. No matter what we do, we are now set for a 5 to 9 metre rise in global sea levels. #timeisrunningout
Monday, January 4, 2021
Trump and His Cronies Must Face the Music for Their Crimes | The Nation
Trump and His Cronies Must Face the Music for Their Crimes | The Nation: This is about more than just reforming a broken process. A steady focus on accountability isolates and diminishes the critics.
Sunday, January 3, 2021
The Insult | Official US Trailer | Academy Award Nominee
Wonderful film. Reminded me a little of the also-excellent A Separation.
Saturday, January 2, 2021
Friday, January 1, 2021
Rest in Power -- MF DOOM, Illusive Bard of Hip-Hop, Dead at 49 - Rolling Stone
MF DOOM, Illusive Bard of Hip-Hop, Dead at 49 - Rolling Stone: Music, Film, TV and Political News Coverage
How the World Will Look if We Don't Address Climate Change | Time
How the World Will Look if We Don't Address Climate Change | Time: THE FUTURE WE CHOOSE: Surviving the Climate Crisis by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac
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