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iPod Day *
National Mole Day
TV Talk Show Host Day *
San Juan Capistrano Swallows Depart Day
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ON THIS DAY: October 23, 2018
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Tagged Adele, Ang Lee, Aravind Adiga, JacSue Kehoe, Lawren Harris, Lucy Stone, Maggi Hambling
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ON THIS DAY: October 22, 2018
October 22nd is
National Knee Day *
National Nut Day
National Color Day
National Smart is Cool Day
International Stuttering Awareness Day *
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Tagged Catherine Deneuve, Deepak Chopra, Doris Lessing, Edith Kawelohea McKinzie, Franz Liszt, N. C. Wyeth, Sarah Bernhardt
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TCS: The Moon – Taimane Playing for Change
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Well, it’s a marvelous night for a moondance
– Van Morrison
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J’Accuse Chinese food – an hour later you want to chokehold someone again
By ann summers
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We projected a picture of Jamal Khashoggi on the First amendment at the Newseum. He was killed by the Saudi Royal Family for speaking truth to power. They are being protected by our President who has taken bribes from their regime for his personal gain. We demand justice.
Saudi Arabia’s cascade of excuses for killing Jamal Khashoggi hinge on not making it seem like an official act, but a misadventure, performed by rogue elements somehow not related to the object of his media criticism, the Saudi Crown Prince.
Because making it sound like involuntary manslaughter and not murder won’t make it less a slaughter. Or an assassination attractive to a POTUS* who has proclaimed the press an “enemy of the people”, because as he has stated, Khashoggi’s status as a US permanent resident and “not a US citizen” apparently made him less important.
After denying any involvement in the 59-year-old’s disappearance for two weeks, Saudi Arabia on Saturday said Khashoggi, a critic of the crown prince, had died during a fight in the building.
An hour later, another Saudi official attributed the death to a chokehold.
A Saudi official has told ABC News that Jamal Khashoggi was killed when he was “placed in a chokehold position” to prevent him from leaving the country’s consulate in Turkey and calling for help.
After Khashoggi was reported missing, the Saudi government initially said Khashoggi had come out of the consulate the same day.
Two weeks later, on this past Friday, the country’s public prosecutor said an initial investigation revealed that discussions between Khashoggi and the individuals who met with him at the consulate led to an argument and a fistfight, which resulted in the journalist’s death, according to the Arabic report in the Saudi Press Agency. (The English version said “brawl,” but the Arabic version said “fistfight.”)
That Khashoggi story now has become further massaged by official Saudi sources as 18 have now been arrested and two officials fired. Apparently the Saudis know how to “Kavanugh” a cause of violence.
Except now there was no dismemberment of Khashoggi and rugs were involved, even as that rolled-up body has yet to be found.
Because Khashoggi was put in a chokehold and went over the top rope, after hitting his head on the turnbuckle?
Much like in the US, suspects die from police chokeholds because they were responsible for controlling their resistance, maybe Khashoggi caused his death from noncompliance with his rendition. “Stop resisting!” will be heard on Sideshow Ed Whelan’s version of the tape.
Pretty soon the Saudis could claim that helium and a plastic bag was involved. Plastic definitely because what self-respecting forensic pathologist is going to stand around dismembering a body on a stereotypic clue like a middle-eastern rug.
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Posted in Celebrity, Crime, Government, Government Propaganda, History, Media, Murder, News, Political Science, Politics, Propaganda, Saudi Arabia, Society, Turkey, Uncategorized
Tagged jamal Khashoggi, Journalism, News Media, Politics, Saudi Arabia, Turkey
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ON THIS DAY: October 21, 2018
October 21th is
Apple Day *
Babbling Day
Back to the Future Day *
Count Your Buttons Day
Celebration of the Mind Day *
Pumpkin Cheesecake Day
Reptile Awareness Day
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ON THIS DAY: October 20, 2018
October 20th is
American Rose Day
Brandied Fruit Day
International Sloth Day *
Youth Confidence Day
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MORE! Nellie McClung, Art Buchwald and Hilda Solis, click
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Tagged Art Buchwald, Arthur Rimbaud, Bobby Seale, Captain “Calico Jack” Rackham, Hilda Solis, Kamala Harris, Nellie McClung
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ON THIS DAY: October 19, 2018
October 19th is
Evaluate Your Life Day
Seafood Bisque Day
LGBT Center Awareness Day *
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Word Cloud: PHANTASM (revisited)
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD
Autumn days slide into long nights of winter-dark –shadows shifting on the bedroom wall, soft footfalls pacing the hallway, or dried leaves scratching on a windowpane – all subtly take on an ominous quality.
October is a month abounding with myths and legends: witches, ghosts, werewolves, faery-folk, and most terrifying of all – the unknown.
Imaginary – what realms of rapture and terror wait for each of us, “all in our heads.”
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Witch stories cover a broad spectrum, from the white witch whose magic heals to the black witch whose magic destroys, and somewhere in between there are women feared for the revenge they take on men who wrong them. The tales of October are the dark ones.
. . …Witchcraft has not a pedigree
by Emily Dickinson
Witchcraft has not a pedigree,
‘Tis early as our breath,
And mourners meet it going out
The moment of our death.
The Three Witches
by Ernest Dowson
All the moon-shed nights are over,
And the days of gray and dun;
There is neither may nor clover,
And the day and night are one.
Not an hamlet, not a city
Meets our strained and tearless eyes;
In the plain without a pity,
Where the wan grass droops and dies.
We shall wander through the meaning
Of a day and see no light,
For our lichened arms are leaning
On the ends of endless night.
We, the children of Astarte,
Dear abortions of the moon,
In a gay and silent party,
We are riding to you soon.
Burning ramparts, ever burning!
To the flame which never dies
We are yearning, yearning, yearning,
With our gay and tearless eyes.
In the plain without a pity,
(Not an hamlet, not a city)
Where the wan grass droops and dies.
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Trump gaslights-up fake news
By ann summers
Trump’s gaslight will power an entire nation.
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Trump’s still emitting Bill Shiney objects because having one media empire (Murdoch’s) as his personal press agent, driving memes to its media brethren, is not enough. There should be only one tiny hand on the gaslight, and that hand guides the bone saw.
Trump tells AP he won’t accept blame if GOP loses House
Trump was asked yesterday if he would accept any responsibility in the event that Republicans lose the House of Representatives in the midterm elections.
“No, I think I’m helping people,” Trump responded. “They would say that in the old days that if you got the support of a president or if you’ve got the support of somebody it would be nice to have, but it meant nothing, zero. Like literally zero. Some of the people I’ve endorsed have gone up 40 and 50 points just on the endorsement.”
A gaslight monopoly can happen here, especially as Trump and his de facto Saudi ambassador, Kushner, think they can buy their way out of trouble (remember how Jarvanka wanted to bribe Planned Parenthood into giving up abortion procedures).
Throttling Net Neutrality also throttles speech, if not public safety, and if throttling won’t suppress speech, decapitation and dismemberment certainly will, however terminally.
Jamal Khashoggi’s last editorial piece applies not just to the Arab world, the tactics have that family resemblance to the land of Bill Shiney objects. It can happen here.
The Arab world was ripe with hope during the spring of 2011. Journalists, academics and the general population were brimming with expectations of a bright and free Arab society within their respective countries. They expected to be emancipated from the hegemony of their governments and the consistent interventions and censorship of information. These expectations were quickly shattered; these societies either fell back to the old status quo or faced even harsher conditions than before.
My dear friend, the prominent Saudi writer Saleh al-Shehi, wrote one of the most famous columns ever published in the Saudi press. He unfortunately is now serving an unwarranted five-year prison sentence for supposed comments contrary to the Saudi establishment. The Egyptian government’s seizure of the entire print run of a newspaper, al-Masry al Youm, did not enrage or provoke a reaction from colleagues. These actions no longer carry the consequence of a backlash from the international community. Instead, these actions may trigger condemnation quickly followed by silence.
As a result, Arab governments have been given free rein to continue silencing the media at an increasing rate. There was a time when journalists believed the Internet would liberate information from the censorship and control associated with print media. But these governments, whose very existence relies on the control of information, have aggressively blocked the Internet. They have also arrested local reporters and pressured advertisers to harm the revenue of specific publications.
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Tagged Donald Trump, gaslighting, Journalism, Media, Politics
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ON THIS DAY: October 18, 2018
October 18th is
Alaska Day *
Chocolate Cupcake Day
No Beard Day
Hard-Boiled Detective Day *
Rocky Horror Picture Show Day *
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