U.S. bombing of Afghanistan hits all-time high
Submitted by gjohnsit on Sun, 12/02/2018 - 3:14pmSeventeen years, going on eighteen, we've doubled down on the same failed strategy for the umpteenth time.
Seventeen years, going on eighteen, we've doubled down on the same failed strategy for the umpteenth time.
When the government is owned and controlled by corporate oligarchs (like some sort of feudal lord and master), how can politics offer a path to social and economic reclamation and restoration of the ecosystem? Add in the distortion of corporate media and it seems like checkmate.
What I'm listening to...
We have listed many of George Bush's crimes against humanity that he committed over the pond, but let's talk about his crime against humanity here at home. This was how his administration ignored the AIDS epidemic while thousands of people were dying every year.
It’s a Disgrace to Celebrate George H.W. Bush on World AIDS Day
At the presidential debate Bush was asked:
The theory goes that militarizing the police saves lives. They say that an overwhelming police response will deter resistance, and thus cut down on the number of police shootings.
That has been proven to be a lie.
Like Soviet rocketry, Russian sci fi movies were way ahead of anything Hollywood was putting out in the 50's. There were some very good movies that were quite well done and had better production values than found in the west.
Russian sci fi was about exploring our universe and about science and what was possible. Everytime that Hollywood stole a Russian sci fi movie, they turned it into monsters invading or threatening mankind.
How very fascist of us.
Some of you are young enough not to remember the days before the internet. In those days, the media could muffle public outcries, turn a blind eye to protests. Movements like we see nowadays were not possible because it was easier to keep them compartmentalized. Outrage didn't go viral. People as a whole didn't get woke. An insidious form of censorship existed back then. It was censorship through ignorance.
What happens when a self-driving (autonomous) vehicle breaks the law? Good question. Law governing self-driving vehicles is lagging behind the development of the vehicles but some portions of settled law can be readily applied to the new circumstances.
Sit-a-while
on swinging porch
where tin-dippers and
sweet water
in cool touches
meet lips
from hand dug wells.
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George H. W. Bush: No Hero