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Bailout deal allows Greek oligarchs to maintain grip – The Guardian
Originally posted on Yanis Varoufakis:
The Guardian summed up my annotated version of Greece’s Third MoU with this title. Click here for the Guardian’s webpage or read on… Greece’s former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis has accused European leaders of allowing…
Posted in Countries, European Union
Tagged Alexis Tsipras, Greece, Greek Crisis, Yanis Varoufakis
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Losing it at the movies is now so much 19th Century Security Theatre
New literal forms of Security Theater make going to the movies so 19th Century where life is a panopti-diorama, old chum. By ann summers From the theatrical large-scale hand-cranked diorama giving urbanized music hall culture new life to the post-WWII … Continue reading
Posted in Animation, Art, Capitalism, Celebrity, Civil Liberties, Constitutional Law, Democracy
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Question of the Week: August 18, 2015
In countries with socialized health care, one price a society has to usually pay for such a valuable social service is accepting some limitations on torts related to medical malpractice. This protection for doctors in all but the most egregious … Continue reading
Posted in Polls, Question of the Week
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Back-Rank Checkmate of Hillary Clinton
by Bob Stone 18 U.S.C. 1924 reads: (a) Whoever, being an officer, employee, contractor, or consultant of the United States, and, by virtue of his office, employment, position, or contract, becomes possessed of documents or materials containing classified information of … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election
Tagged 2016 Presidential Candidates, Email security, Hillary Clinton
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How posse comitatus or Commadus’s posse is already here
by ann summers Regardless of the degree of derangement, lone gunmen are always the decentralized form of terror, whether domestic manslaughter or random carnage. The problem despite some neologistic tendencies by the MIC to organize fear or procurement of weapons … Continue reading
Word Cloud: CHORTLE
by Nona Blyth Cloud As an antidote to all the preliminary Primary Screaming dominating the news, I highly recommend Sarah Vowell’s wonderful books, which are a combination of Tours of Historical Sites, Vowell’s Interactions with her Family and Others, and … Continue reading
Instant Poll: Grand Juries
The Sacramento Bee is reporting that California Governor Jerry Brown has signed SB 277 into law. Those of you outside California might not have heard of SB 277 but that is likely to change. SB 277 bans the use of … Continue reading
Posted in Instant Poll
Tagged California Governor Jerry Brown, grand jury process, police shootings
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Question of the Week, August 11, 2015
Over the last decade, SCOTUS and in some ways Congress have expanded the notion of corporate personality well beyond that originally intended for the corporate form. This is reflected in cases like Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, No. , … Continue reading
Posted in Polls, Question of the Week
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Word Cloud: WRATH
by Nona Blyth Cloud There are some poets who have a universal appeal, whose hauntingly beautiful words we turn to again and again for succor and an uplifting of spirit. Then there’s Diane Wakoski. “This book is dedicated to all … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Anais Nin, Diane Wakoski, Edward Abbey, Emerald Ice, Robinson Jeffers, The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems, Wrath
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