War, it's all fun and games until somebody gets hurt.
Decapitation of prisoner in Korean War.
Margaret Bourke-White
Sunday, January 8, 2012
prisoner
descent into madness
If you don't already know, there is a controversial bill President Obama signed into law on New Year's Eve. Provisions within the NDAA allow for the indefinite detention of American citizens on US soil, without access to a trial or attorney. It's a disgrace to the founding fathers, to our nation's rule of law, and to every soldier who has given his or her life to protect our way of life. Many, even liberal Democrats, are now calling for Obama's impeachment, and the recall of Congressional leaders who crammed this bill through.
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Saturday, January 7, 2012
Friday, January 6, 2012
Thursday, January 5, 2012
whats up: Nukespeak is a classic! | Karl Grossman
Nukespeak is a classic!
Award-winning investigative journalist Karl Grossman interviews Nukespeak co-author Rory O’Connor on Grossman’s nationally-aired TV program, Enviro-Close-Up. Grossman has been a journalist for more than 40 years, and is a professor of journalism at the State University of New York/College at Old Westbury. He is also the chief investigative reporter for WVVH-TV.
Grossman said he was happy to be talking about the 30th anniversary updated edition of Nukespeak: “Of the books written about nuclear technology through the years, Nukespeak is a classic. The new edition of Nukespeak has been updated — with four new chapters — and added to its title is: The Selling of Nuclear Technology from the Manhattan Project to Fukushima. It tells how nuclear promoters have been — and continue — using Orwellian language to try to hide the truth about the deadly dangers of nuclear technology.”
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
The End of the Iraq War
The Iraq War is officially at an end – the troops have come
home. Is there any intention on the part
of government and its people to seriously assess the significance of this
prolonged conflict and to ascertain whether the enormous cost inflicted both on
ourselves and our alleged enemies was worth it? I think not; similar to the aftermath of the
Vietnam War, it will quickly be forgotten by those who did not directly
participate in it. Political pundits and
those running for office will, of course, distort the reality of this war in
whatever way necessary to achieve personal satisfaction and gain.
In fact, nothing of lasting importance has been achieved in
spite of the one trillion dollar drain on the national treasury; the more than
four thousand American lives lost and the tens of thousands grievously injured
Americans and the death of what well may be one million Iraqis. Quite to the contrary, sectarian rivalries
have been greatly exacerbated and the physical infrastructure of the country
has still not been restored to the state they were in prior to the First Gulf
War – electricity and reliably clean drinking water are still not readily
available to the Iraqi population, for example.
The Iraq War represents, in my mind, a reprehensible and
failed attempt to establish economic hegemony in the region. It is true that the energy and weapons
industries may have profited immensely from the conflict, but these are
ephemeral gains. The depraved
indifference to human life that this unprovoked and brutal war on the people of
Iraq represents has not only diminished the financial and human resources of
the United States, but also, has wrecked havoc on the moral character of the
nation. It is another senseless war
along with the wretched litany of past conflicts perpetrated against
essentially defenseless peoples around the globe.
Is there no end to what the American people will tolerate in
regards to the militaristic behavior of our nation towards other governments
and their citizens? There is now about
one and one-half million men and women who have served in Iraq and
Afghanistan. They have been badly used
and exploited by those in power who remain remote from any possibility of harm. What kind of treatment should they expect to
find on their return home? The evidence
is clear in regards to the answer to this question – they can expect little
help or understanding. They are, in
fact, expected to suffer in silence.
If we, as a people, do not look honestly and with
unflinching clarity at our own behavior, we are doomed to repeat it.
Monday, January 2, 2012
Sunday, January 1, 2012
end time
2012 (MMXII) is a leap year that started on a Sunday in the Gregorian calendar, and it is the current year. It is the 2012th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 12th year of the 3rd millennium and of the 21st century, and the 3rd of the 2010s.
The United Nations General Assembly designated 2012 as the International Year of Cooperatives, highlighting the contribution of cooperatives to socio-economic development, in particular recognizing their impact on poverty reduction, employment generation and social integration; it is also designated as the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All.
It has also been designated Alan Turing Year, commemorating the mathematician, computer pioneer, and code-breaker on the centennial of Turing's birth.
There are a variety of popular beliefs about the year 2012. These beliefs range from the spiritually transformative to the apocalyptic, and center upon various interpretations of the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar. Contemporary scientists have disputed the apocalyptic versions.
The 2012 phenomenon comprises a range of eschatological beliefs according to which cataclysmic or transformative events will occur on December 21, 2012. This date is regarded as the end-date of a 5,125-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar. Various astronomical alignments and numerological formulae have been proposed as pertaining to this date, though none have been accepted by mainstream scholarship.
A New Age interpretation of this transition is that this date marks the start of time in which Earth and its inhabitants may undergo a positive physical or spiritual transformation, and that 2012 may mark the beginning of a new era. Others suggest that the 2012 date marks the end of the world or a similar catastrophe. Scenarios suggested for the end of the world include the arrival of the next solar maximum, or Earth's collision with a black hole, passing asteroid or a planet called "Nibiru". (read more)
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Friday, December 30, 2011
Ufo's: 50 Years of Denial
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction.
Fiction has to make sense...Mark Twain.
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Nymphs and Satyr
Nymphs and Satyr
William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1873
Nymphs and Satyr (Nymphes et Satires) is a painting, oil on canvas, created by artist William-Adolphe Bouguereau in 1873.
Nymphs and Satyr was exhibited in Paris in 1873, a year before the Impressionists mounted their first exhibition, in a style radically different from that of Bouguereau.
Sterling Clark discovered the painting near the end of the 19th century, displayed in the bar of the Hoffman House Hotel, New York City. Clark rediscovered the piece in storage at the Hoffman during the 1930s, acquiring the piece in 1943. The piece is currently on display at the Clark Art Institute located in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Set in a secluded pond, the painting depicts a cluster of bathing nymphs who have captured a lascivious satyr spying on them; four are tugging him toward a dunking, and one of them is using only one hand, the other beckoning other nymphs, in the background, to join the fun.
Monday, December 26, 2011
Sunday, December 25, 2011
Romans 12
19 Revenge not yourselves, my dearly beloved; but give place unto wrath, for it is written: Revenge is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord.
20 But if thy enemy be hungry, give him to eat; if he thirst, give him to drink. For, doing this, thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head.
21 Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil by good.
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Friday, December 23, 2011
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
The Best Congress Money Can Buy
This is getting scary: whatever happened to representative government by the people? If corporations are people (thanks supreme court) how can we even hope to compete with their goals and aims, and money?
It is looking more and more like democracy is a failed system, taken over by gross profits and advertising.
I for one am glad I won't be on this planet much longer -- at least in this form . . .
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Dharma Flix & Dharma Punx
Dharma Flix
Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth. What is the truth? There is no spoon.
DharmaFlix is a collaborative effort to list, review, rate, and provide clips of films with Buddhist Dharma content for the benefit of all.
DharmaFlix.com Main Page - DharmaflixWiki
What is Dharma? - DharmaflixWiki
Your world and everything in it, including you, is a simulacrum, illusory like a dream, a video game, or the Matrix. It arises from that which is called by many many names, but "your awakened mind" will work as well as any.
When your awakened mind illumines itself in the full glare of its own light, and penetrates the purported solidity of the material world, there is enlightenment, and the path is walked. Speaking Dharma, hearing Dharma, does not make it clear for you, so it is said that the Dharma cannot be spoken. Also, upon realization of Dharma, all statements are immediately seen to be part of the illusory world. Can there be a true statement in a dream?
Films seem real because we suspend our disbelief in them. Likewise, we live out our lives with our disbelief suspended in the 3-D illusory world we call "Reality". This is called "ignorance". Dharmaflix has films which may, if we remain aware, help us to regain our suspicion of Reality. When this suspicion of Reality, through meditation, becomes experience of the illusoriness of Reality, there is Dharma.
Dharma Punx
This is the story of a young man and a generation of angry youths who rebelled against their parents and the unfulfilled promise of the sixties.
As with many self-destructive kids, Noah Levine's search for meaning led him first to punk rock, drugs, drinking, and dissatisfaction. But the search didn't end there. Having clearly seen the uselessness of drugs and violence, Noah looked for positive ways to channel his rebellion against what he saw as the lies of society...
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