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What a surprise-- there's a black site in Chicago, where American citizens are disappeared. Where did America go?
rob kall
The needlearts have belonged mostly to the mothers who patch us up when we are broken and to the grandmothers who are the weavers of life. Quilting has been woven into the very soul of America, since scarcity of goods and thrifty spirits inspired women to craft warmth from scraps. Now quilts are more often made for artistic value, and this feminine craft has blossomed with passion into its own art form. Here's a photographic album that'll lift your spirits and inspire creativity! Seduced by Quilts: An Album of Art-stitch-tic Inspiration
Meryl Ann Butler
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By John Whitehead
Forced Blood Draws, DNA Collection and Biometric Scans: What Country Is This? orced cavity searches, forced colonoscopies, forced blood draws, forced breath-alcohol tests, forced DNA extractions, forced eye scans, forced inclusion in biometric databases--these are just a few ways in which Americans are being forced to accept that we have no control over what happens to our bodies during an encounter with government officials.
The ultimate objectives of the US are to regain its lost influence in Argentina and redirect Argentinean trade relations and control its foreign policy. This includes ending the measures Buenos Aires has started taking to regain control of the Malvinas (Falklands) from the British, which is situated in an energy-rich area in the South Atlantic.
From the outside, you have to concentrate to realize Homan Square is a police facility. At first glance, it's an unremarkable red brick warehouse, one of a handful on Chicago's west side that used to belong to Sears Roebuck, complete with roll-up aluminum doors. No prominent signage tells outsiders it belongs to the police. The complex sits amidst fixtures in a struggling neighborhood: a medical clinic, takeout places, a movie theater, a charter school.
Bill O'Reilly has repeatedly claimed he personally "heard" a shotgun blast that killed a figure in the investigation into President John F. Kennedy's assassination while reporting for a Dallas television station in 1977. O'Reilly's claim is implausible and contradicted by his former newsroom colleagues who denied the tale in interviews with Media Matters. A police report, contemporaneous reporting, and a congressional investigator who was probing Kennedy's death further undermine O'Reilly's story.
The fiduciary rule's new allies are perhaps even more interesting than its opponents. While it was not originally one of her core causes, the White House has been able to bring Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on board as an advocate. The fact that the White House sought her support is a sign of her growing influence and visibility.
The deterioration in relations between Israel and the White House is now impossible to dismiss, as Benjamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama lock horns, over negotiations with Iran. The fallout is spreading to the US Congress, where for the first time Israel is becoming a partisan issue. Netanyahu's officials blame the crisis with Washington on Obama, implying that they will wait out his presidency for better times to return.
About our Founders, Jefferson, in particular and economist Adam Smith, disliked the idea that the rich should continue to 'past on their wealth', as at least, unhealthy.
By Rob Kall
Exclusive: The Military's Culture of Lying- A Top-down Problem? Intvw With Army War College Expert 
I interview the first author of the Army War College's report on Lying in the Military, focusing on how the top-down, hierarchical nature of the military is part of the problem
As pressure builds to make public 28 pages of a joint congressional inquiry on 9/11 which was classified by President George W. Bush, the Bush family's well-documented relationships to Saudi and other foreign terror suspects are again coming to the fore.
The needlearts have belonged mostly to the mothers who patch us up when we are broken and to the grandmothers who are the weavers of life. Quilting has been woven into the very soul of America, since scarcity of goods and thrifty spirits inspired women to craft warmth from scraps. Now quilts are more often made for artistic value, and this feminine craft has blossomed with passion into its own art form: a photographic album.
The brain is the most complex organ system of the human body. With an intricate communication system involving neuronal cells and multiple forms of chemical neurotransmitters, the brain efficiently transmits impulses guiding children as well as adults to achieve normal behavioral development. However, today's toxic environment is impeding normal behavioral development.
According to The New York Times, Bill O'Reilly threatened one of its reporters if they didn't report on him accurately. During a phone conversation, he told a reporter for The New York Times that there would be repercussions if he felt any of the reporter's coverage was inappropriate. "I am coming after you with everything I have," Mr. O'Reilly said. "You can take it as a threat."
This is the third installment, in "Part 1" of my proposals for a Third Direct Democracy Constitution for America.
Patriotism is for the oligarchy and the patriarchy and so is feminism. Matriotism is needed in the postmodern world?
CBS News today posted its reports from Buenos Aires at the end of the Falklands war, in response to a request from Fox News host Bill O'Reilly, who has been seeking to counter reports that he mischaracterized his wartime reporting experience. But rather than bolstering O'Reilly's description of the anti-government protest he says he covered as a "combat situation," the tape corroborates the accounts of other journalists who were there and who have described it as simply a chaotic, violent protest.
Oklahoma isn't the only state where Republicans are waging war on high school history class.
Is there a fixed reality apart from our various observations of it? Or is reality nothing more than a kaleidoscope of infinite possibilities? Experiments on elementary particles have upended the classical paradigm of a causal, deterministic universe. Consider the double-slit experiment. The electron appears to be a strange hybrid of a wave and a particle that's neither here and there nor here or there. Like a well-trained actor, it plays the role it's been called to perform. It's as though it has resolved to prove the famous maxim "to be is to be perceived." I suggest that we regard the paradoxes of quantum physics as a metaphor for the unknown infinite possibilities of our own existence. This is expressed in the Vedas: "As is the atom, so is the universe; as is the microcosm, so is the macrocosm; as is the human body, so is the cosmic body; as is the human mind, so is the cosmic mind."
To effectively organize in a nation where most people get their information from a media heavily influenced by the intelligence apparatus of the state, we have to get the facts out in traditional as well as alternative media.
America's mainstream intellectuals and journalists refuse to accept the most prevalent truth about the roots of the current crisis; that military intervention is not a virtue, that war begets chaos and violence, that military invasion is not a harbinger of a stable democracy, but invites desperately violent polices predicated on winning, regardless of the cost.
We now know that, according to the reporters who were with him at the time, some of Bill O'Reilly's war stories from Argentina don't appear to be true. We also know that at least one of Brian Williams' war stories wasn't true. Does it matter? Should it matter?
On the weekend, the DNC gave its unanimous endorsement to a constitutional amendment that explicitly states voting is an individual right.
In a rare move, Washington DC's Federal U.S. Court of Appeals will hear a landmark challenge to their continued operation.
NEPC: Separating Fact and Fiction About Charter Schools; BY DIANE RAVITCH
So how does the public find the truth about Charter Schools. This Ravitch blog shows how misleading 'reports' can be. The National Education Policy Center regularly reviews reports from think tanks and advocacy groups. In this report, its scholars review an effort by charter school advocates to defend charter schools against critics. "The conclusion: charters promote privatization and segregation. "National Charter School Report IS Misleading and Superficial."Read and see an academic review of the report finds that it perpetuated its own myths and fictions about charter schools rather than adding to the discourse surrounding school choice." et, the reviewers found that the report's main purpose appears to be the "repetition or 'spinning' of claims voiced by advocacy groups and think tanks that promote privatization and school choice." Furthermore, the reviewers found... GET THE TRUTH.
Right-to-work laws require unions to represent all workers covered by a union contract, but lets those workers opt out of paying dues to the union. The idea is to weaken or even bankrupt the union. The union is required by the contract to provide services to the workers, including rent and employees for the union office, representation in disciplinary hearings and contract negotiators.
By Herbert Salit
What is 'the US Economy?' Where will it be Tomorrow? - Herbert Salit Author notes that 'the US Economy' is a 'Potemkin,' fake, a top-down distribution-scheme, where the 'money' is just created in a vast electronic 'printing-press' by The Federal Reserve, thanks to the absurd holdover fact that The Yankee Dollar remains the world's international reserve currency - i.e. the whole world remains 'The-Dollar-Zone.'
Idaho Rep. Vito Barbieri is a dumb little spud. Unless you live in a cave, by now you've heard the story of this anti-choice Neocon's gross misunderstanding of gross anatomy. Not since Bill O'Reilly sexually harassed a female co-worker by threatening to soap her up with a felafel has a male Neocon so missed the mark on female anatomy.
How else to put it; collective insouciance-w/out a care-seems to reign in America. As to the problems, issues & events in America & the world most seem oblivious while texting away furiously on their smart phones they're immersed in. They seem in an insular cocoon where the reality happening around them, to say nothing of the world has no place in their insular world.
By Tom Engelhardt
Alfred W. McCoy: The Unwritten American Rules of the Road "The sovereign is he who decides on the exception," said conservative thinker Carl Schmitt in 1922, meaning that a nation's leader can defy the law to serve the greater good. Though Schmitt's service as Nazi Germany's chief jurist and his unwavering support for Hitler from the night of the long knives to Kristallnacht and beyond damaged his reputation for decades, today his ideas have achieved unimagined influence. Latest Articles
Satiric take on the question of whether or not Rudy G loves America.
TB Alliance advances next-generation TB drug candidate into clinical testing
The Global Alliance for TB Drug Development (TB Alliance) announced on February 19, 2015 the start of the first human study of a new TB drug candidate TBA-354--the first new potential TB drug to begin a Phase 1 clinical study in 6 years since 2009.
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Eddie Ray Routh, the man who killed "American Sniper" Chris Kyle and his friend in a rifle range rampage, will spend the rest of his life in prison. Routh, 27, was convicted Tuesday night of first-degree murder in the Feb. 2, 2013, killings of former Navy SEAL Kyle, 38, and Chad Littlefield, 35. The case drew international attention, and unfolded as the bestselling memoir by Kyle, often called the most deadly sniper in U.S. military history, was made into a blockbuster movie that has grossed more than $300 million.
Over half (57 percent) of basic research is paid for by our tax dollars. Corporations don't want to pay for this. It's easier for them to allow public money to do the startup work, and then, when profit potential is evident, to take over with applied R&D, often with patents that take the rights away from the rest of us. All the technology in our phones and computers started this way, and continues to the present day. Pharmaceutical companies have depended on the National Institute of Health. The quadrillion-dollar trading capacity of the financial industry was made possible by government-funded Internet technology, and the big banks survived because of a $7 trillion public bailout. A particularly outrageous example of a company turning public research into a patent-protected private monopoly is the sordid tale (here) of the drug company Gilead Sciences.
LAUSD- THE BUCK STOPS WHERE? AND WHEN? - Lenny Isenberg, Perdaily
It has been a little over 5 years(LAUSD) Superintendent Ramon Cortines boasted his plan to get rid of "weak teachers." He and his subsequent replacement- and now predecessor- John Deasy have had more than enough time to accomplish. And yet, even though the ranks of these "expensive" and supposedly "weak teachers" have been decimated by approximately 14,000 teachers, things are no better at LAUSD- in fact they continue to get worse. Might it just be that the problem never was the teachers, but rather an entrenched and incestuous bureaucracy, where questioning clearly failed policy continues to be something that can get you fired as an administrator. In other words, do what you are told, no matter how stupid you think it is.
The Fox News host Bill O'Reilly on Monday stepped up his defense against reports that he embellished stories about his war reporting earlier in his career, while some former colleagues continued to say he had exaggerated his experiences. O'Reilly's efforts to refute the claims by Mother Jones and some former CBS News colleagues occurred both on the air and off on Monday. During a phone conversation, he told a reporter for The New York Times that there would be repercussions if he felt any of the reporter's coverage was inappropriate. "I am coming after you with everything I have," Mr. O'Reilly said. "You can take it as a threat." David Corn, one of the reporters on the Mother Jones piece, said that the issue was not whether Mr. O'Reilly had reported on a violent protest, but whether Mr. O'Reilly had reported from a war zone.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced Monday night that he would not pursue threats to effectively shut down the Department of Homeland Security. Instead, he said he planned to introduce a bill that would block President Obama's executive orders on immigration, separate from the DHS's funding, which is set to run out Friday. The Kentucky Republican's announcement comes after the Senate failed for a fourth time on Monday to push through a House-passed bill to both fund the DHS and prevent Obama's immigration orders. If Congress is unable to pass legislation to fund DHS, the department is scheduled to shut down at midnight Friday. It's unclear how McConnell's new bill will be received, but Democrats have said they'll only sign a DHS funding bill if it's "clean," or unrelated to immigration.
President Obama on Tuesday vetoed a bill to approve construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, rejecting an effort by Republicans and some Democrats to force his administration to let the highly contested energy project move forward. By saying no to the legislation, Mr. Obama retains the authority to make a final judgment on the pipeline on his own timeline. The White House has said the president would decide whether to allow the pipeline when all of the environmental and regulatory reviews are complete.
The Justice Department on Tuesday closed its investigation into the shooting death three years ago of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed black teenager in a hoodie who became a symbol of racial profiling and expansive self-defense laws, without filing hate-crime charges against the gunman George Zimmerman. Zimmerman was acquitted in a state court of second-degree murder in 2013; some jurors said they believed that Zimmerman had shot Martin, 17, in self-defense.
"Children do die," says Rep. Christy Perry. And it's fine with her if Idaho children die in the name of God. Perry's district includes many followers of a religious cult, Followers of Christ, that eschews medicine. She says that the sect's members are more comfortable confronting death when it happens to their children. "I'm not trying to sound callous, but [people calling for reform] want to act as if death is an anomaly. But it's not. It's a way of life," she says.
There are few people in the media more thin-skinned than Fox News host Bill O'Reilly. Mother Jones recently published a report calling out O'Reilly for exaggerating stories about his reporting during the Falklands war in 1982. In response, O'Reilly seemingly wished bodily harm on one of the piece's authors, David Corn, saying, "I expect David Corn to be in the kill zone. Where he deserves to be." O'Reilly also lashed out at a New York Times reporter covering the controversy. "I am coming after you with everything I have," he said. "You can take it as a threat."
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