The Evening Blues - 2-16-16
Submitted by joe shikspack on Tue, 02/16/2016 - 1:06pm
Hey! Good Evening!
This evening's music features jazz singer Jimmy Rushing. Enjoy!
Jimmy Rushing - Going To Chicago
Diaries
Hellraisers Journal: Twenty-One Men Caught in Burning Mine in Butte, Montana. "No Hope Entertained."
Submitted by JayRaye on Tue, 02/16/2016 - 12:56pmPray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
-Mother Jones
-Mother Jones
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Wednesday February 16, 1916
Butte, Montana - Hope Faded for Twelve Missing Men in Pennsylvania Mine Fire
Hope is faded, and, by some accounts, lost for the miners who remain missing in the Pennsylvania Mine. This latest disaster follows, by only four months, the disaster in the Granite Mountain shaft of the Speculator Mine. On October 16th of last year, a mine car filled with 500 pounds of dynamite ignited in a massive explosion which instantly blew seventeen miners into eternity.
From The Omaha Daily Bee:
TWENTY-ONE CAUGHT IN BURNING MINE
-----Nine Bodies Recovered from Blazing Copper Workings
at Butte by Rescue Crew.
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TWELVE MORE MEN MISSING
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Til Tuesday 02/16/16
Submitted by hecate on Tue, 02/16/2016 - 4:04amMarianne Faithfull: once, she was of the Immortals.
She had to be—all that time she spent with Keith Richards.
Like Richards, Faithfull had the constitution of a mule. Nothing could fell her. Sure, sometimes there were the comas. But she always pulled out. So, too, when she would break her jaw, or her heart would stop, or her lover would leap out a 14th-story window, and become a stain. She always came through.
"Kissinger is a friend"
Submitted by ek hornbeck on Mon, 02/15/2016 - 6:50pmAt least by body count, Henry Kissinger is the United States' biggest living War Criminal, fully comparable to Hitler and Stalin.
The Evening Blues - 2-15-16
Submitted by joe shikspack on Mon, 02/15/2016 - 2:35pm
Hey! Good Evening!
This evening's music features jump blues and r&b singer Wynonie Harris. Enjoy!
Wynonie Harris - Good Rockin' Tonight
Human Rights Watch calls for legal gender recognition to be fundamental right
Submitted by Robyn on Mon, 02/15/2016 - 2:18pmKyle Knight and Neela Goshal have written an interesting essay on the rights...or lack of same...of transgender people around the world.
The process is as universal as it gets: when a baby is born, a doctor, parent, or birth attendant announces the arrival of a “girl” or “boy.” That split-second assignment dictates multiple aspects of our lives. It is also something that most of us never question.
But some people’s gender evolves differently, and might not fit rigid traditional notions of female or male.
That should have no bearing on whether someone can enjoy fundamental rights. But for transgender people it does—to a humiliating, violent, and sometimes lethal degree.
Hellraisers Journal: "Penned In By Fire!" Mine Disaster at Butte, Montana-10 Dead, 12 Missing
Submitted by JayRaye on Mon, 02/15/2016 - 12:54pmPray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
-Mother Jones
-Mother Jones
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Tuesday February 15, 1916
Butte, Montana - Miners Trapped by Fire, Rescue Attempts Ongoing
Newspapers across the nation this morning are reporting on the fire which erupted last night in the Pennsylvania Mine at Butte, Montana. We offer a few examples:
From Salina, Kansas:
PENNED IN BY FIRE
-----Flames In Airshaft of Anaconda Mine
Imprisoned Miners At Butte.
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TEN VICTIMS KNOWN DEAD
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Other Workmen Have Not Been Heard From
Since the Disaster.
-----Butte, Mont., Feb. 15.-At least ten miners lost their lives in a fire which started last night in the air shaft on the 12,000 [1200] foot level of a mine of the Anaconda copper Mining Company and which still was burning early today....
Pennsylvania Mine, about 1900
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President's Day Open Thread: Monday, February 15, 2016
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 02/15/2016 - 7:00am| It's Presidents' Day Woo Hoo! Celebrate one, or two, or 5, or something |
Today's number is Fifteen
From Working in These Times: Bill and Hillary Crossed a Picket Line on Their First Date
Submitted by JayRaye on Sun, 02/14/2016 - 8:35pmFrom Working in These Times of Feb 9, 2016-
“On Bill and Hillary Clinton’s First Date in 1971, They Crossed a Picket Line”
by Zach Schwartz-Weinstein
According to the above article, Hillary Rodham and Bill Clinton, young law students at Yale, were members of the student’s Committee for Local 35 and their signatures were on a statement of support for the union a week before the strike.
Syrian war about to get catastrophically worse
Submitted by gjohnsit on Sun, 02/14/2016 - 4:17pmIf you thought the political and humanitarian situation in Syria couldn't be any worse, you are about to be proven horribly wrong.
Unless several nation pull back from the brink right now, the Syrian Civil War is about to turn into a region-wide war that could plunge much of the Muslim world into open warfare, and could possibly even lead to a military confrontation between Russia and NATO.
Yes, it really is that dangerous.
