By Iris Vander Pluym - 05.11.14
So this is a thing that is happening:
Thieves in UK Are Using Drones to Locate and Steal From Cannabis Farms
The burglars seek out cannabis operations in order to burglarize or extort them.
Miscreant techies in the United Kingdom are following in the footsteps of law enforcement, adopting the use of heat-seeking drones to locate...
Read Moreby Loren Adams, 5.11.14
In the wildly popular NETFLIX series, House of Cards, President Garrett Walker is fraudulently persuaded to invite Francis Underwood as his Vice-President after conveniently dismissing his initial running mate, Jim Matthews. Of course, Frank Underwood (played by Kevin Spacey) is the lead-character: a deceitful, villainous politician willing to commit murder twice for power.
But the Garrett Walker character strikes me as a typical Democratic leader, unable to discern good from evil, friend from foe. He anoints the devil incarnate a heartbeat away...
Read MoreBy Donald B. Ardell - 05.11.14
No man standing where the horizon of a life has touched a grave has any right to prophesy a future filled with pain and tears. It may be that death gives all there is of worth to life. If those who press and strain against our hearts could never die, perhaps that love would wither from the earth. Maybe a common faith treads from out the paths between our hearts the weeds of selfishness, and I should rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. - Robert Green Ingersoll, Oration at a Child's Grave, 1882
Read MoreBy Steven JOnas, MD, MPH - 05.11.2014
Racism in the United States and its predecessor colonies has a long history, dating back virtually to the original founding of those colonies. In the North, it began in the Massachusetts Bay Colony with paternalistic attitudes towards Native Americans, which quickly degenerated into military aggression, forced removal/eviction, and eventually genocide. In the South of course, it began with the importation of the first slaves. During the course of the 17th century, slavery was justified by the artificially developed dogma of white supremacy, which quickly bred the twin dogma of racism.
Read MoreBy Mickey Walker-May 11, 2014
So if we Americans 6. Give up on America and 7. Embrace Apathy we have established a good base for a toppling of democracy in the future. But there is even more damage that can be inflicted by not being attentive to the important things. “What kind of government did you give us, Ben?” a citizen asked of Benjamin Franklin as he was walking to his carriage from having been a part of establishing the kind of government us Americans would have. “A Republic, if...
Read MoreBy Harry Targ - 05.11.4
Marge Piercy wrote poetically in a recent issue of Monthly Review, Who has little, let them have less. “The hatred of the poor, is it guilt gone rancid? That the rich have so much and still conspire to steal a baby’s medicine, a woman’s life, a man’s heart and kidney….If they could push a button, if they could war on the poor here at home as they do abroad directly with bombs instead of legislation, think they’d hesitate?”
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