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Good Morning, 99 Percenters!

Today's Open Thread is about my yearly addiction. Bear with me.

and a second cup of coffee to get us going...

Good morning 99percenters!
Morning news dump and music by Paul Butterfield's Better Days

4 minutes of video: metaphor of human metamorphosis: becoming something unimaginably beautiful

Hello, I am off to one of my favorite places and will not be around to make smart ass comments. My Sweetie and I spent our first forty odd years around Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh is a wonderful mid-western city that far exceeds it's reputation. It was at the core of industrialization, then shed it's smoke stacks and revitalized as a university, medical and engineering center. Wish you were here.

I have been a vagabond for the last two weeks, some of which were spent on a wonderful vacation up in the land of our own dk, Michigan. To get there from North Carolina, we drove to Florida and then I went to my mother's in the central part of the state. We flew out of Tampa, which still has to be one of the most customer friendly airports in the US.

Push play.

Good Morning 99percenters!
Morning news dump and music for Father's Day.

Where does one go to find some uplifting news, is there any?

The Dangers of Religious Primitivism
By stirring up the Middle East – from Western exploitation of oil to Zionist expulsion of Palestinians – Christians and Jews set in motion today’s “clash of civilizations” with Islam and launched all three religions on a path toward dangerous primitivism, a threat to humanity’s future, writes Lawrence Davidson.

I am on vacation this week and will not be able to participate in this Open Thread so I decided to keep this Open thread very benign.

Good morning 99percenters!
Morning news dump and music by The Temptations

UK under pressure to respond to latest Edward Snowden claims
Sunday Times says Downing Street believes Russia and China have hacked into American whistleblower’s files, endangering US and British agents

Downing Street and the Home Office are being challenged to answer in public claims that Russia and China have broken into the secret cache of Edward Snowden files and that British agents have had to be withdrawn from live operations as a consequence.