"Many states whose sovereignty is threatened are now finally waking up to the danger. But is it perhaps already too late to do anything about the seemingly over-mighty corporations?"
Category: Meaningful Labor
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Capital Destroys All It Touches
"What's our death toll up to in this week's boutique pay lots of money and die fashionably sweepstakes? 19?"
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Where Are the Bodies? We Have an App for That.
"The information presented is stark and perhaps unsettling."
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No Slope, No False Equivalency. Just the Same. Damn. Thing.
Immoral, indecent, inhumane. ... We are running concentration camps and human beings are dying.
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The Wages of Sin, America, is …
"It is impossible to engage in intellectual discourse with National Socialist Philosophy. For if there were such an entity, one would have to try by means of analysis and discussion either to prove its validity or to combat it. ..."
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Random American Notes
"An American gentleman . . . likewise stuck his hands deep into his pockets, and walked the deck with his nostrils dilated, as already inhaling the air of Freedom which carries death to all tyrants, and can never (under any circumstances worth mentioning) be breathed by slaves."
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Movie Night: Conquest
"The film itself is fairly representative of the period and shows how far ahead of her time Garbo was ... that she could shine in spite of rather stilted dialogue, in a non-native language shows just how great an actor she was at the height of her career. It wasn't bad, and I might have another look under certain conditions, but I probably wouldn't buy it for the DVD collection, unless Criterion gets hold of it."
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Kit Marlowe is a Naughty Nellie and Probably a Witch
I just caught this from two years ago on The Guardian‘s website. Two years behind, that’s about my speed. But it is a fascinating document of Elizabethan paranoia and skulduggery. “A controversial document in which the playwright Christopher Marlowe reportedly declared that Christ was gay, that the only purpose of religion was to intimidate people, and...
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Another Anniversary
It’s been TWELVE (12)!!! years??! Holy cow. In spite of all the special dogs (Feargal, Fergus, Fred, Roux, Sascha, Bosco, Goose, Tessa and now Charlie) we’ve had since Bayley crossed the Rainbow Bridge, the first dog who enters your life always leaves the most special imprint on your heart. And Bayley was indeed a special...
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Sieg …
"DEEPLY OFFENDED that a child refused to say the Pledge of Allegiance bc freedom is all about mandatory loyalty oaths."
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Does a blog post look better with a featured image?
Authoritatively pontificate synergistic total linkage and pandemic metrics. Assertively initiate interactive architectures with end-to-end meta-services. Conveniently build standardized schemas without technically sound architectures. Intrinsicly reinvent principle-centered value with top-line information. Conveniently harness functional schemas rather than.
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Don’t let fear stop you from having great adventures
Interactively enable intermandated platforms before adaptive human capital. Enthusiastically leverage existing low-risk high-yield core competencies with installed base relationships. Rapidiously enhance functional experiences via interdependent metrics. Globally pontificate innovative expertise via competitive manufactured products. Rapidiously restore.
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Australia is the ultimate place in the world for kangaroo lovers
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5 reasons why you should definitely go on a safary
Professionally develop user-centric methods of empowerment without installed base internal or "organic" sources. Phosfluorescently aggregate pandemic leadership skills and distinctive paradigms. Proactively evolve backend processes and vertical meta-services. Rapidiously aggregate frictionless strategic theme areas through holistic.
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The simplest ways to choose the best beach resorts
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The top 10 traveling taboos you should break right now
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Top 5 places to travel to if you love rocks
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Why do people think cornfields are so interesting?
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Take your pineapples with you wherever you go
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5 ways to experience foreign cities like a local
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Stupor Bowl Sunday As It Happens Happened
"19:56: We popped over to the Puppy Bowl in time for some nauseating exploitation. But I hope it helps some puppies.
"19:57: Fourth first down? They're showing signs of life? And Romo is a totally sarcastic smartass. And the Rams get one more first down.
"20:02: Suddenly Rams show a spark. But McCordy smacks the ball outta the hands of the Rams receiver in the end zone. Frustration on the sidelines." | Read more after the jump:
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Try looking at a beautiful photo of a mountain peak
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His Majesty Objects
"After some interminably loud defending the walls of the castle, HIM the Roux comes inside and complains for 15 minutes to us churls about Townes very existence in the Royal Orbit. Part of the Complaint revolves around the undisputed Treasonous Conduct of us churls in Divers Huggings and Walkings and Flauntings of the Dangerous Interloper ..." | Read more after the jump ...
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New York City Municipal Archives
The city of New York photographed every building in the five boroughs for property tax assessment purposes. The city's photographers took more than 700,000 pics as a result.
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Finally Entering the Public Domain
We're finally getting some « spectacular stuff » released into the public domain on New Year's Day (screw you Disney!).
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WWI Collides with D&D and Memes
It’s two years old, but I’m just seeing it for the first time. It’s « one of the best visual “explainers” » I’ve seen that describes the spark which ignited World War I. It tells the story of that horrible June day in 1914 via a series of memes and the lens of a Dungeons...
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Why Do All New Apartment Buildings Look the Same?
The « bland, boxy apartment boom is a design issue, and a housing policy problem. » | Curbed.
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End of Year Retrospectives: 75 Book Covers
"There are some gems among the 75 Best Book Covers of 2018."
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Deadly Chinese Fentanyl is Creating a New Era of Drug Kingpins
"Fentanyl's potency has « transformed the global trafficking — and policing — of narcotics."
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11:00 | 11-November-1918
100 years ago today, at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918, the guns along the 440-mile line stretching from Switzerland to the North Sea fell silent. The war started 1 August 1914 just as German Chancellor Otto von Bismark once famously predicted around 1884, by "some damned fool thing in the Balkans;" in this case, the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, a city of agony in the 20th century). But on 11 November 1918, it was finally "all quiet on the Western Front."
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9 November: Schicksalstag
In the next few days, there will be much remembrance of the events of 100 years ago—the end of World War I. Not as much in the U.S., where World War I is like the Korean War, a largely forgotten conflict, even though 115,516 Americans died between 1917-1918, along with over 320,000 sickened, most in the influenza epidemic of 1918.
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Robicheaux by James Lee Burke
It's absorbing, it sometimes makes you flinch, and it's always about the bottom feeders and sharks of the dark underbelly of the American aquarium, and it always makes for fun reading.
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World War II After World War II
"There are obviously many websites on WWII weapons, and many on post-war weapons, but I have always been fascinated with WWII weapons being used after the war."
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Tragically Brilliant
Steve Bell’s ‘toons for The Guardian are always brilliant. But «in this one», he’s surpassed himself.
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Beery Originalist Quotables
Here are a few Original Originalist quotes worth Originally quoting, from a few of our first Original Founders:
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Every Building
"On this page you will find maps showing almost every building in the United States. Why did we make such a thing? We did it as an opportunity for you to connect with the country’s cities and explore them in detail."
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German Roofer Finds Message from Grandfather
A message in a bottle on the roof of a Goslar, Germany, cathedral was found by the grandson of the writer. An authentic lesson from history: “On March 26, 1930, four roofers in this small west German town inscribed a message to the future. “Difficult times of war lie behind us,” they wrote. After describing...
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Squeezed to Death
"On every airline flight, a crew member talks to passengers in the exit rows to see whether they can, as Federal Aviation Administration regulations specify, “pass expeditiously through the emergency exit” if needed. Given how passengers have grown in inverse proportion to the spaciousness of airliner seats, anything like “expeditious” evacuation of an entire airliner seems doubtful."
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Of Manifestoes and Buildings and Truman and Stuff
[Edited two days later to fix some typos and unclear, stream-of-consciousness-type unclear phrases.] During the recent effort to rename the Russell Senate Office Building, it would have been nice to remember that both Richard Russell, the building’s current namesake, and John McCain, the proposed replacement namesake, (while useful tools to poke the likes of President...
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Atomic Poetry
On 1-Jun-1945, six weeks after the death of Franklin Roosevelt, new U.S. President Harry Truman convened a meeting to update the status on and debate the use of the soon-to-be-born atomic bomb. But first, at the Pentagon, a group consisting of James Byrnes (soon to be Secretary of State), generals George C. Marshall and Leslie...
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The Conscience Stirs
I pretty much wish I had remained disconnected from FB while also being innovative enough to stay connected to the real people in my life without Facebook's corrupting middle man kleptocracy. I sense that there is another housecleaning coming; my involvement will need to be further curtailed. I'm thinking of what we can do next ... there are far better possibilities, surely, than this unholy mess of greed and venality.
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TCM Tonight: Summer Under the Stars – Joan Crawford
Of COURSE we had to watch some Joan tonight. Not taking time to behold the wonder that is our patron saint, Lucille LeSueur, would be anathema, blasphemy, time wasted! First up was 1952’s Sudden Fear — Joan with Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame, Bruce Bennett, Virginia Hudson and Mike “Touch” / “Mannix” Connors. David Miller directed. Playwright...
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‘Splaining Things to the Kids
A Democratic Socialist explains «what Democratic Socialism actually is»: Not just a return to the halcyon days of the New Deal. “I’m a staff writer at the socialist magazine Jacobin and a member of DSA, and here’s the truth: In the long run, democratic socialists want to end capitalism. And we want to do that...
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Remembering the Past
Remembering Bill Schock on his 100th birthday … and the 52nd anniversary of Braniff 250 in Falls City. Also … feeling old from … time flying and stuff. Since the AM2431 crash in Durango a few days ago appears to be from weather-related causes, never forgetting the lessons of BN250, as well as CO426, OZ809,...
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Treading a Careful Path in Post-Castro Cuba
"There is a discrete left-opportunist trend that seeks to throw all developments in Cuba post-1959 into the dustbin and forget about it. This does as little for us as the right-opportunist line; both fail to grasp the full reality of revisionist corrosion and capitalist restoration in Cuba, although one cloaks itself in stultified theory."
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Warm Summer Night
Is there anything better than a warm summer night playing in – er, rather sitting near the lawn sprinkler under a street light while watching the 21:00 evening arrivals at KBNA? Well, maybe if I was still 10 …
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For Bill
Back in 2014, I included a chapter in my book detailing Bill Schock's war experiences as they related to his reporting on the crash of Braniff International flight 250 in 1966.