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Not a blog, but rather an historical archive of news reports focusing mainly on subjects ‘underserved’ by the MSM.
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Humor and Quotes.
Good Quotes:
Silence is the language of God. Everything else is just a bad translation.
I don’t want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.
Greta Thunberg
The politics of fear have brought us everything we were most afraid of.
Dr. Jill Stein
“In this period of national crisis, hatred of the government is the surest path to self-destruction.”
“There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”
“To protest injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.”
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but it is morally treasonable to the American public.”
Teddy Roosevelt
The war parties do not represent us. Their wars are not for us. They take our wealth to serve war profiteers & global elites while our communities crumble. The time is now to build a party that puts people, planet & PEACE over profit.
@GreenPartyUS
Always the eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, working or eating, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or in bed -- no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull.
1984 - George Orwell
“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
Muhammad Ali
Capitalism has outlived its usefulness. It has brought about a system that takes necessities from the masses to give luxury to the classes. Call it what you may, call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all of God’s children.
Martin Luther King
Silence is betrayal.
MLK
I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today—my own government.
—Martin Luther King, Jr., April 4, 1967 speech at Riverside Church, New York City
I have seen many demonstrations in the South, but I have never seen anything so hostile and so hateful as I’ve seen here today.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
after getting hit by a brick, rocks and bottles thrown by a white mob at a demonstration in Chicago, August 5, 1966
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
It’s not pessimism, brother, because this is the blues. We are blues people. The blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark. That’s different.
There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels…upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!
12/2/64
Sproul Hall
"Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy or that anyone who embarks on that strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events… incompetent or arrogant commanders, untrustworthy allies, hostile neutrals, malignant fortune, ugly surprise, awful miscalculations."
Winston Churchill
"Any people with contempt for their heritage have lost faith in themselves and no nation can long survive without pride in its traditions."
Winston Churchill
The problem with man is that we have Paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology.
E. O. Wilson
Peace requires the establishment of Justice.
Reconciliation requires the discernment of Truth.
Church of the Saviour
Washington, D. C.
You’re apt to find what you seek.
Peace Pilgrim
Never cooperate with evil.
Gandhi
Obama vs. Romney feels like a contest between two calculating centrists, fighting for the right to serve as figurehead atop a bloated state apparatus that will operate according to the same demented imperial logic irrespective of who wins the White House. - Glenn Greenwald
Power concedes nothing without a demand.
Frederick Douglass
The arc of history does not bend toward justice through capitulation cast as compromise.
Drew Westen
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Begin Howard Zinn:
You can't be neutral on a moving train.
People who seem to have no power, working people, people of color, women; once they organize and protest and create national movements, then they have a power that no government can suppress.
We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.
Voting is marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.
End Howard Zinn
Socialism is a scare word they’ve hurled at every advance the people have made. Socialism is what they called public power, social security, deposit insurance, and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for anything that helps all people.
Harry Truman 1952
I may die as one, but I will come back as millions.
Tupac Katari
Information is power. Information is life and death.
Amy Goodman
What is Life?
It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.
It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
Last words of Crowfoot
All life has a dimension of the unknown
It is a thing forever unfolding
It is important to consider the possibility that science may have defined life too small.
Anon
In a decaying society,
Art, if it is to be truthful,
Must also reflect decay.
Art must show the world as changeable
And help it to change.
Art is not some optional form of entertainment, or pleasant luxury of civilized life.
It is an essential part of human consciousness and social being.
Ernest Fischer
In modern day abstract art, as in all things, there is always a superficial level of comprehension, and there is a deeper level.
Only those who can truly look within themselves are able to scratch the surface of, and begin to recognize, the underlying meanings of other people and objects.
It takes courage to confront the not necessarily resolvable tension between the obvious and the hidden, elemental level. Most people don’t have it.
Me
The story of life is quicker
Than the blink of an eye.
The story of love is hello and goodbye.
Until we meet again.
Jimi Hendrix
Humor/Entertainment:
SOB - Watch if you dare.
Lady Gaga Does National Anthem at Super Bowl 50 - Pretty amazing! It’s doubtful that anyone could ever do it better.
Andy Griffith vs. Patriot Act - Andy and Opie clarify the issue in one minute. Too bad George and Barack couldn’t handle this concept.
Smile (link temporarily broken) - Whatever Happens. Composed by Charlie Chaplin, performed by Michael Jackson.
They Were Wrong - None of us have an excuse now.
Don’t Let It Bring You Down - Annie Lennox
Creedo Comics - Updated every Wednesday.
The Courage to Say What Needs To Be Said - “A courage little seen in this day and age.”
No side-windin’, bush-whackin’, horn-swogglin’, cracker croakers allowed!
Democratic Party Apology Handbook
George Carlin: You Aren’t In The Club - What those in the club don’t want: A population of well-educated, well-informed people capable of critical thinking. Caution: X-Rated language.
Rev. Billy - Humor sometimes speaks the truth better than a wise old sage.
AlterNet: Sarah Palin on Paul Revere’s Midnight Ride - He was a-ridin’ and a-ringin’ and a-shootin’ it up. She’s not smarter than a 5th grader...and Republicans wanted to make her the VP.
CDC Emergency Preparedness: Zombie Apocalypse - Will you be ready?
Psychology Today: Humans Have a Fatal Biology - Why we have reached the end of our evolution as a species, and will now self-destruct.
Rachel Maddow’s Silliest Segment Ever Note: This segment has been removed by MSNBC. I guess even they were too embarrassed to leave it out there. - ...in defense of Obama’s Libya intervention. When you go to the dictionary and look up the word ‘sycophant’ the link to this segment should be there. The most convoluted logic of all time to ‘justify’ more war, Obama’s war. She emotionally argues that Republican wars are ‘bad’ wars and Democratic wars are ‘good’. At about 11:55 into this segment, needing some sort of ‘expert corroborating testimony,’ she asks a leading question of Richard Engle of NBC News: “Do you see a strong difference between the character of this intervention and those other ones?” Engle seemingly perplexed at the question, can’t directly answer. Oops! All he can say is that it was a total surprise, but no corroboration other than to emphasize that the people of Tobruk are relieved. “The Character of the Intervention?” Please! I would expect to hear something like that on Fox, but not until this segment on MSNBC. “Days not weeks.” So now we know how that went. The bombing was supposed to be for ‘humanitarian’ purposes at the time. But Libyan rebels are now slitting the throats of anyone suspected of being a loyalist. Oh yeah, this was a good Obama war. Libya has gone from the highest standard of living in Africa to the lowest and it will take decades to recover. But the bottom line is that Big Oil now has its hands on that Libyan Sweet Crude. I have to chuckle every time I listen to this segment. She is truly just another celebrity fueled by an infinite ego - with quite a few sycophants of her own. I used to be one of her fans, but this segment was an awakening for me; as well as great entertainment.
