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Being on the right side of neoliberal Water
“Well, art is art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb … Continue reading
Posted in Countries, Economics, Energy Policy, environment, European Union, France, Government, Immigrants, Immigration, Media, Neoliberals, Political Science, Politics, Uncategorized, United Kingdom, United States
Tagged Brexit, commoditfication, commodities, commons, EU, European Union, Public Policy, Water
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Owls and Lemmings – shared last meals
By ann summers It is of course a first-world conceit and problematic to talk about last meals on earth when some have trouble getting daily meals at all. OTOH don’t we all like to speculate about penultimate pleasure, except … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Cooking, environment, Health Care, Mental Health, Philosophy, Uncategorized
Tagged last meals, lemmings, Malcolm Gladwell, Nature, owls, Suicide
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The Coffee Shop -It’s tornado season, time to flirt with death?
The Coffee Shop is an open thread-style discussion forum for human interest news of the day. Having been raised mostly in the south, I am no stranger to the destructive power of tornadoes and hurricanes. Many of my younger years … Continue reading
The Coffee Shop – Salween Spring: the Tao of fighting a losing battle
The Coffee Shop is an open thread-style discussion forum for human interest news of the day. From NRS Films: An American outfitter in China and the Tao of fighting a losing battle. Meet Travis Winn, an American who traveled to … Continue reading
Morning Open Thread – Tickle the dragon’s tail or leave it alone?
Morning Open Thread is an open discussion forum for human interest news of the day, hobby and fun things, what you did on your vacation, and your local weather phenomena. Sometimes the unanswered question of the day has no answer. … Continue reading
Posted in England, environment, History, US Military, World War II
Tagged Liberty Ships, Merchant Marine, SS Richard Montgomery
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Slow Food is not a fast answer
By ann summers The need for better tools to analyze capitalism makes it important to look at the larger systemic pathologies that have brought us to a place where we tend to think less of Bread and Puppets and more … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Austerity, Economics, environment, FDA, History, Industrial Revolution, Investing, Media, Society, Stock Market, Uncategorized
Tagged agriculture, food, natural resources
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A Balkanization too far: taking back The United Counties of America
By ann summers Malheur Wildlife Refuge’s standoff even with its indicted malingerers demonstrates the abject FAIL of the Bundystani attempt to create a county-level bantustan near Burns, Oregon. However, chances are the armed farces now cruising Burns in their flag-flying pickup trucks have nothing … Continue reading
Posted in California, Civil Liberties, Conservatives, DHS, DOJ, environment, Fascism, Fascists/Corporatists, FBI, Federal Courts, Free Speech, Fundamentalism, Green, History, Humor, Law Enforcement, Liberals, Libertarians, Local Government, Media, Nazis, Nazis/Nazism, Oregon, Police, Progressives, Racism, Tea Party, Terrorism, Terrorists, Treason, Uncategorized, United States
Tagged Bureau of Land Management, Cliven Bundy, Guns, Law Enforcement, police, Terrorism
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The beginning of Turner Diaries II(I) or the end of the Bundy insurgency
By ann summers “Avenge me…” the Red Dawn protagonists’ father cries out, and with his passing, will LaVoy Finicum’s legacy be a 2015 novel that could become The Turner Diaries for a new generation of RWNJ. Finicum’s 241-page apocalyptic cowboy thriller … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Breaking News, Conservatives, Conspiracy, Courts, Crime, DHS, DOJ, environment, Fascism, Fascists/Corporatists, FBI, FFS Update(s), Free Speech, Fundamentalism, Green, Justice, Law Enforcement, Liberals, Libertarians, Literature, Local Government, Media, Nazis/Nazism, Oregon, Police, Political Science, Politics, Progressives, Propaganda, Racism, State Government, Tea Party, Terrorism, Terrorists, Uncategorized, United States, War
Tagged Cliven Bundy, Guns, Law Enforcement, Officer Involved Shootings, police, Racism, Terrorism
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Bundystani Barbarism – Going Medieval, new materialism & land jumping piracy
By ann summers The prototypical crypto-fascists terrorizing Eastern Oregon in the USA represent largely symbolic, yet armed, direct actions performed with the occupation of federal land and structures in order to promote issues of anti-governmental resistance on the behalf of land-owning individuals and their … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, American History, Conservatives, Conspiracy, Courts, DHS, DOJ, Economics, environment, Fascists/Corporatists, FBI, Federal Courts, Free Speech, Fundamentalism, Green, History, Law Enforcement, Legal Analysis, Liberals, Libertarians, Local Government, Media, Nazis/Nazism, Neoconservatives, Oregon, Police, Progressives, Propaganda, State Courts, Terrorism, Terrorists, Theodore Roosevelt, Treason, Uncategorized, United States
Tagged Bureau of Land Management, Cliven Bundy, Guns, Law Enforcement, Oregon, Racism, Racism in the United States, Republicans, Terrorism
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