The Evening Blues 9-4-15
Submitted by joe shikspack on Fri, 09/04/2015 - 1:58pmThis evening's music features Chicago blues guitarist J.B. Hutto. Enjoy!
J.B. Hutto - Got My Mojo Workin'
Diaries
Open Thread - Friday, September 4, 2015
Submitted by NCTim on Fri, 09/04/2015 - 6:43amTime Has Come
Submitted by hecate on Fri, 09/04/2015 - 4:00amWe, now, are in the days of darkness.
All: of lost. No: anywhere: light. Stasis: uber alles. Limbo: all. Of consciousness: complete cessation. Stopped. Nothing: nothing. At all. Even time: ceased to be.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqZE9WAYND0]
For we are in the days between September 3rd and September 14th.
You don't have to be on a computer to get hacked
Submitted by gjohnsit on Thu, 09/03/2015 - 4:32pmComputer-like devices are everywhere these days. We often don't even realize that they are computers, and that's why computer security isn't all that important to us. More importantly, security isn't important to the large corporations making those products either.
For instance, luxury cars:
The Evening Blues 9-3-15
Submitted by joe shikspack on Thu, 09/03/2015 - 1:30pmThis evening's music features r&b saxophone player and singer Big Jay McNeely. Enjoy!
Big Jay McNeely - Jay Walkin
Lessons from a forgotten American Occupation
Submitted by gjohnsit on Thu, 09/03/2015 - 11:21amOT 9-3-15 - Outright lying by the Government and the Press
Submitted by Shahryar on Thu, 09/03/2015 - 6:00amMy very first disillusionment came in 1973 when the U.S. backed the Pinochet coup in Chile. Reading the New York Times article the next day was irritating. It was so obvious that the U.S. was involved and that Allende was murdered yet the Times absolutely ignored those facts. They didn't even speculate that what had happened *might* have happened. I had grown up thinking that the Times printed the truth. Naive, eh?
The hazard of backing the Kurds
Submitted by gjohnsit on Wed, 09/02/2015 - 4:22pmOf all the belligerents in the current middle east conflict, the Kurds are the easiest to sympathize with and understand.
Their political parties are usually the most progressive of the region, sometimes dramatically more progressive.
So what's the harm in backing them? Simple put, all of the neighboring countries distrust the Kurds.
The Evening Blues 9-2-15
Submitted by joe shikspack on Wed, 09/02/2015 - 2:40pmThis evening's music features jazz composer Duke Ellington. Enjoy!
Duke Ellington - Blues In Orbit
When the barrier of color was broken down
Submitted by gjohnsit on Wed, 09/02/2015 - 9:55am"Never in the history of the world was such an exhibition, where with all the prejudices existing against the black man, when the white wage-earners of New Orleans would sacrifice their means of livelihood to defend and protect their colored fellow workers. With one fell swoop the economic barrier of color was broken down."
- AFL leader Samuel Gompers
