Open Thread 08-02-15
Submitted by JtC on Sun, 08/02/2015 - 8:56amGood Sunday morning 99percenters!
Today we'll take a look at the 2016 Green Party Presidential Candidates.
Diaries
US Intel Agencies: ISIS No Weaker After Year of US Bombings
Submitted by gjohnsit on Sat, 08/01/2015 - 10:53pmOpen Sesame 08/01/15
Submitted by hecate on Sat, 08/01/2015 - 5:28amSo how was everybody's blue moon?
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cBIVabiuR0]
Shulamith Firestone was the sort of person who arrives but once in a blue moon. A rebel and a rowdy, an articulate and effective revolutionary, a frustrated-cum-far-seeing visionary, a bold and brash and truly gifted writer.
Evening Blues Preview 7-31-15
Submitted by joe shikspack on Fri, 07/31/2015 - 3:11pmThis evening's music features blues guitarist Larry McCray.
On Human Rights
Submitted by Martha Pearce-Smith on Fri, 07/31/2015 - 7:38am"No one is free when others are oppressed."
Anon
I wrote a diary in 2010 over at DKOS on Human Rights. It got little to no interest. What interest there was concerned a perceived slight against Transgendered persons. Two years later I re-wrote that diary, adding to, and subtracting from the first one in hopes that folks would finally hear me. It didn't fly then either.
I am going to try again here.
Open Thread - Friday, July 31, 2015
Submitted by NCTim on Fri, 07/31/2015 - 6:09amThe meaning of life is a philosophical and spiritual question concerning the significance of living or existence in general.
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus
Philosophers have believed for centuries that no intrinsic meaning exists in the universe. Here we will summarize three of the major responses to this belief.
Obama practices the fine art of betraying the Kurds yet again
Submitted by gjohnsit on Thu, 07/30/2015 - 4:29pmThere is an old Kurdish saying that goes, “The Kurds have no friends but the mountains.”
Evening Blues Preview 7-30-15
Submitted by joe shikspack on Thu, 07/30/2015 - 3:52pmThis evening's music features Texas blues singer and guitarist Mance Lipscomb.
Hahahah, Harper
Submitted by MarilynW on Thu, 07/30/2015 - 1:33pm
Open Thread 07-30-15
Submitted by JtC on Thu, 07/30/2015 - 8:44amGood morning 99percenters!
Morning news dump and music by Little Feat.
Revealed: The Private Firms Tracking Terror Targets at Heart of US Drone Wars
Corporate staff are reviewing top-secret data and helping uniformed colleagues decide whether people under surveillance are enemies or civiliansThe overstretched US military has hired hundreds of private sector contractors in the heart of its drone operations to analyse top secret video feeds and help track high value terror targets, an investigation has found.
