AK47s belong

on the streets of other people's cities.
Obama, referring to Aurora Colorado

We need a national energy policy

Other than invade the Middle East.
And CFLs.

Commander-in-Chief

Q: What does the Constitution mean when it says the President is the Commander In Chief?
A: It means that he is in charge of the armed forces; that he is at the top of the chain of command by virtue of his office.

It does not mean he can do whatever crosses his mind.

Oaklahoma City

McVee says he was motivated by Waco.

Close Guantanamo

Simple demonstration in Buffalo.
The Peace Center joins Women in Black on Elmwood.

Overthrow the system in New York

Campaign finance reform (facebook) S7036

Overthrow the governmentby force and violence

See story

Global warming

The planet Mercury cools to -300F at night. But the earth, which is twice as far from the sun, is warm at night. The atmosphere acts like blanket, or a greenhouse. It scatters heat, making it harder for heat to escape, just as during the day it scatters sunlight, making the sky blue. In space, beyond the atmosphere, the sky is black.

Many molecules scatter heat. Water scatters heat as does carbon dioxide. Because of the burning of coal and oil, carbon dioxide concentrations have been increasing much faster than have concentrations of other compounds. One ton of coal creates three tons of CO2, and we have burned truckloads and trainloads and mountains of coal recently.

An increase of average temperature of a few degrees corresponds to a large increase in energy in the atmosphere.
I believe in global warming. Do you?

Obama, the Marxist

Marxism is the politics of hunger. So those who say Obama is a Marxist are at least right, that he ought to be a Marxist.

Von Braun was one military man we got

But we also snagged other Nazis, after the war.
The CIA got SS Sturmbanfuhrer Alois Brunner to help Egypt with interrogation methods, probably because the agency was then inexperienced in brutality and wanted men of expertise.
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Aldoph describer Alois as one of his best men.
A Kidnapping in Milan, Ch 5 Torment, p145, Steven Hendricks

The hour that the ship comes in

This is it.
And here is another.

The case of Jimmy Eagle and the Boots

On June 25 and 26, 1975, two FBI agents cruised the AIM headquarters near Pine Ridge in search of a pair of missing boots; one agent per boot. The murder of 60 indians was on the back burner until the boot caper was resolved. By 1PM on the 26th, after the death of indian number 61, hundreds of agents descended onto the Pine Ridge Reservation.

The boots were never recovered.
This is Leonard Peltier case.

Busy levelling the playing field

Making the world safe for ... something.

M&T Bank, scene of the crime

Indymedia

Committed to non-violence

Was Washington, was Andrew Jackson, was Polk, Lincoln?
Was Truman? Was Kennedy, Reagan, Bush? Is Obama?
William Henry Harrison did not start a war in his 80 days in office,
but he was at Tippecanoe, and killed lots of indians in Ohio.

Political prisoners

View Political Prisoners in a larger map
And if you are mentally ill, or get that way, it's not looking good..

What's wrong with Smart Meters

The purpose of the "smart meter" idea is to stabilize demand, and attempt to allow all power plants to run at close to capacity all the time, since plants are expensive to build, and the owners hate to see them idle.

The "smart" strategy, to achieve this goal, is to price electricity by the minute rather than by the month: have a rate plan under which the price of electricity goes up as demand goes up, and goes down as demand goes down. A rising price will tend shed demand and reduce peaking, while falling prices will tend to attract load and fill the valleys: crate a rate plan that enough customers will subscribe to to help match demand to the supply.

The customer modifies his usage in accordance with the minute-by-minute rate in his rate plan. One rate plan may be based on historical demand, and the customer may only need to avoid known peak periods. Another plan may set the price according to real-time demand. No one will know the rates in advance. These customers may use their computers to regulate their electric use.

For either type of rate plan, the meter needs to keep track of actual usage each minute, but that's all.

The example often given with the "smart meter" presentation is that the electric company can turn off your electric water heater during peak demand, and "you will never even notice". This assumes that you have an electric hot water heater, which you don't. Possibly there will be a program to get everyone to use electric hot water heaters...
This is what is wrong with smart meters.

Arab Spring: You're next, Assad

Kids were saying that in school last March, "You're next Assad",
the mindless ones were. The teachers were agast.
When they went outside, they wrote it on the walls. Hahaha.
Somehow Bashar found out.
He arrested some kids, and pulled out their fingernails.
This bothered the parents.They wanted their kids back.
He didn't want to give them back. He shot some parents.
Then things began to go downhill.
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He said "Children? Forget you have children."
Go home and make more.
Call us if you need help.

Freedom is not free

If you are poor, you cannot afford it. But in the works: freedom stamps.

the whole truth, so help me God

I am not so worried about people who do not believe in God,
as I am about people who do not believe in truth, in reality.
Who say - let's be practical.

The culture of poverty

They have only themselves to blame;
they have only themselves.
To blame.
If you give them a marshmello, do they not eat it?
The poor are different. Not really human. Not really.
And they are wrecking it for everyone.
If there were no poor, we could all be rich.

Self possessed

Rid of delusion.
Except covered in gold. Somewhat toxic. Questionable choice.

The Cliff Dwellers of Kabul

Occupy Buffalo - Winter 2012

A nice winter day for the Buffalo.

A photo from the old days. Familiar?

Omagh

August 15, 1998 14:50 BST
A few minutes before the bomb, in the car there,
goes off. Looks like plenty of parking.

Stepford Wife

Glenn Greenwald on Fran Townsend. Salon.
This time you've gone too far.

And the Mau Mau?

War as a last resort

Force is a last resort only if it fixes the problem, if it is the final solution. Otherwise you have to try something else.

What does Rick Santorum have

that Noam Chomsky does not have?
I'm asking.

The Green Economy

Lettuce join.

Democracy Now

Is there Democracy in the dark?
Say you don't know what is behind each door.
Or you know it's a box, but not what's in the box.

The new checks and balances

Where merchants rule, freedom is free trade,
and sanctity is the sanctity of contract.

Killing innocent women and children

And men. Don't forget killing innocent men.

The War on Drugs

Smuggler, president

What about the wall of separation between

the press and the state?

Jessica Radack and other heroes

Dave Lindorf
Jane Mayer
Bradley Manning
Julian Assange
John Kiriakou
Thomas Drake, pictured
Ray McGovern
Daniel Ellsberg
Sibel Edmonds
Coleen Rowley
Julie Sirrs
*

Seven die during protest over Koran burning

The Afghan Interior Ministry says seven people have died in the turmoil related to the Muslim holy books.

The ministry says in a statement the deaths occurred Wednesday in the Afghan capital of Kabul, in the eastern city of Jalalabad, and in the provinces of Logar and Parwan. Four of the dead were killed during a protest in Parwan. The ministry said security guards at a U.S. base outside Kabul killed one man, and another isolated shooting occurred at Jalalabad and at Logar.

"The Embassy is on lockdown; all travel suspended," the embassy announced on its Twitter page Wednesday. "Please, everyone, be safe out there."

Is this all?

With Betty Friedan, with the Feminine Mystique, which begins: "The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the 20th century in the United States. Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night — she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question — 'Is this all?'"

Half empty

You're worried your house is under water?

Boston Power

Side by side comparison of heat loss.

Enjoy yourself

It's later than you think.

We are down with the coup

in the Maldives.
We support the drive for climate change.
We are developing plans for a strategic submarine base.

Democracy

falling from the sky *

The fox's teeth are in the bunny

and nothing can remove them, honey.
Gavin Ewart

Bomb size

"atomic" bombs are in the range of 15 KT.
Hydrogen bombs are in the range of 15 MT, 1000 times bigger.

Markets will eliminate world hunger

The mechanism: starvation.

What does this flag mean?

It means the Congressman has a lot of veterans in his district.

New Rules

Glenn Greenwald
(1) If you are a high-ranking government official who commits war crimes, you will receive full-scale immunity, both civil and criminal, and will have the American President demand that all citizens Look Forward, Not Backward.
(2) If you are a low-ranking member of the military, you will receive relatively trivial punishments in order to protect higher-ranking officials and cast the appearance of accountability.
(3) If you are a victim of American war crimes, you are a non-person with no legal rights or even any entitlement to see the inside of a courtroom.
(4) If you talk publicly about any of these war crimes, you have committed the Gravest Crime — you are guilty of espionage – and will have the full weight of the American criminal justice system come crashing down upon you.

Kabul

Afghanistan

Houston, we have a problem...

That is what House Resolution 3131 is all about. It is titled, in part, “To direct the secretary of state to submit a report on whether any support organization that participated in the planning or execution of the recent Gaza flotilla attempt should be designated as a foreign terrorist organization….”

Looks like war was not the last resort

Looks like negotiated settlement was the last resort.

You and who else

Possibly to be replaced by George Washington Harkins.
Supreme Court Justice John Marshall said "I order you to leave the Cherokee in possession of their traditional tribal lands".
To which Jackson replied "You, and who else ..."

Let's get this criminal off the $20.

Black Bush

we don't need no
checks and balances.
we it, mofo

Bethany Matta

in front of the destroyed Presidential Palace in Kabul

Two Tablets

Separation of Church and State

Three generations of imbeciles are enough

George Jr wanted to drill in the Caribou calving grounds.
Buck v. Bell(1927)

Funny

Quick Memes

Today's Geography

Iran is close to many US military outposts.
We have a base in Herat? Ahh, Shindad Airbase.
I see the base in Kandahar

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In Dog We Trust

Georgia adds a motto to its license plate.
It's not "Mmmm, peaches".

There comes a time when

the opposition is not to be reasoned with,
but to be reckoned with.
That time is a bleak time.

MF - radical fundamentalist

Everybody has a price.

The Pipeline

will create thousands of jobs,
good paying jobs.

Me and the Hancock 38

December 1st in DeWitt town court

Another world is possible

Another US is necessary
EastBay Social Forum 2012

Intelligence failure

PDB: Bin Laden determined to strike in the US
OK. You've covered your ass.

Garrison Keilor, William Blake

And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green?
And was the holy Lamb of God
On England's pleasant pastures seen?

And did the Countenance Divine
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here,
Among those dark Satanic mills?

Bring me my Bow of burning gold,
Bring me my Arrows of desire,
Bring me my Spear; O clouds unfold!
Bring me my Chariot of fire!

I will not cease from Mental Fight,
Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand,
Till we have build Jerusalem
In England's green & pleasant Land.

Elizabeth Warren

on healthcare
You think if you have health insurance, you are safe.
No.

Truth, Justice, theAmericanWay

Status update on the never ending battle.

Godspeed You Black Emperor

lift your skinny fist

Too big to jail

Glenn Greenwald
and the rule of lawlessness.
Nader remembers 9/11.

Bill of Attainder

Why are the laws that restrict the releasing of the Guantanamo prisoners who are cleared for release not unconstitutional as bills of attainder?

People Are Prisoners

remember Troy Davis

Bloomberg shuts down OWS

but the cat is out of the bag.

The Levellers at the Putney Debates: 1647

Thus Thomas Rainsborough argued:
For really I think that the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live, as the greatest he; and therefore truly, Sr, I think it clear, that every Man that is to live under a Government ought first by his own Consent to put himself under that Government; and I do think that the poorest man in England is not at all bound in a strict sense to that Government that he hath not had a voice to put Himself under.

The Last Refuge of Scoundrels - the flag

Too Big To Fail is Too Big.
Q: What did Wall Street get for donating to Obama in 2008?
A: Geithner as Secretary of the Treasury rather than Stiglitz,
and Larry Summers, and JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon's bonus.