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Posted by Jen Graves on Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 8:19 AM
9 AM Shooting Outside the Empire State Building: One person killed, eight wounded, and shooter killed by police. Why's still unknown.
Sacred Sioux Land: Won't be auctioned. Which is a reminder: National Geographic this month has a piece on Pine Ridge, accompanied by the do-not-miss-this launch of the Pine Ridge Storytelling Project by Seattle photographer Aaron Huey.
Police Brutalize Organizers in the Lowest Paid Labor Force in the World: The latest and the history in Bangladesh, where they make our clothes.
The Eye of the Storm: Is headed for Haiti.
War Games: U.S. and China.
Serious Syrian Refugee Crisis: Assad's plan to destabilize neighbors?
Norwegian Killer Sentenced to at Least 21 Years: Ruled sane.
House Fire in Crown Hill Last Night: 84-year-old man in critical condition.
Chinese Man Who Capitalized on the Bank's Mistake Jailed in New Zealand: "They put money in my bank account again, you know, I'll just give it back," he says.
If You Were A Betting Woman: You'd put your money on Haruki Murakami for this year's Nobel Prize.
Husband from Infamous Murder Case in Lewis County: No longer principal of an elementary school.
Fish Play Video Game: It's for research.
Only Eat Red Red Vines: The black licorice flavor has been recalled for lead.
Petition to Save the World's Worst Art Restoration: "She just wanted to give it a bit of colour."
Do You Know About Soos Creek Botanical Garden in Auburn?: The 22-acre life's work of a Tacoma Community College librarian. Open to visitors.
The Beatles, Bob Dylan, and the Rolling Stones all started 50 years ago this year. (Have you seen the exhibition of Jim Marshall's Stones photos at EMP?) My favorite underloved Beatles song:
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Actually, the "why" is known: He was fired from his job at a company in the building. The one person who died was the person he had a problem with. The latest reports also state that not all of the eight injured people had injuries from gunshot wounds.
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I don't care much for Josh Feit's work, either, but is there an embargo on him? Did anyone ever write about Cantwell challenger Michael Baumgartner's angry email to Josh earlier this week that included the Cheney phrase, "Go fuck yourself?"
And then after Baumgartner apologized, one of the local Seattle stations caught up with him and he retracted his apology.
And then after Baumgartner apologized, one of the local Seattle stations caught up with him and he retracted his apology.
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Re: the New York shootings: And no private citizen with a gun and a concealed carry permit was any damn good at all at preventing this shooting. As usual.
And what #2 said: Dear The Stranger, what's up with not reporting the Josh Feit / Michael Baumgartner story?
And what #2 said: Dear The Stranger, what's up with not reporting the Josh Feit / Michael Baumgartner story?
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Also, it was reportedly a New Zealand man who took that bank's money, not a Chinese man, though he does have a Chinese name. He gets 4 years for taking advantage of a bank error, but the guy who killed over 70 kids in Norway gets just 21 years.
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"The mission of the concealed deadly weapon is murder. To check it is the duty of every self-respecting, law-abiding man."
-James Hogg, Governer of Texas, 1893
-James Hogg, Governer of Texas, 1893
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For those who would like to donate to the Lakota campaign (still ongoing, as they have no assurance that the land won't be re-listed for auction), go here - http://igg.me/p/199667?a=1065433
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And, a Republican who's not Rob McKenna bars a reporter who's not Goldy. Guess it's SOP.
http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/romney-…
http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/romney-…
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@5,
That's not true. Guns are legal in all of New York State, including NY City. The restrictions in NYC are tough, but it's not illegal.
That's not true. Guns are legal in all of New York State, including NY City. The restrictions in NYC are tough, but it's not illegal.
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Oh, and @5:
Guns are not illegal in New York. I know several people in New York who own and carry guns.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in…
Guns are not illegal in New York. I know several people in New York who own and carry guns.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in…
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I know there must be some relative of one of Brevik's victims who has the will and the means to deliver real justice. I would gladly donate to their legal defense as I'm sure millions of others would as well.
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@8 what kind of "better world" would that be? One that consider it the states right to murder its own citizens?
I prefer this sollution - the one that most of the victims consider fair and good. The people here consider being the best.
So your state-controlled murder would be done without the consent of the victims or those near Breiviks terrorist act.
The grea thing about it is that he wasn't considered insane - which means that AT LAST we can take his murder and terrorism for what it is - right-wing terrorism and not the preferred "insane loner" that always crops up as an excuse when non-arabs kill people.
I prefer this sollution - the one that most of the victims consider fair and good. The people here consider being the best.
So your state-controlled murder would be done without the consent of the victims or those near Breiviks terrorist act.
The grea thing about it is that he wasn't considered insane - which means that AT LAST we can take his murder and terrorism for what it is - right-wing terrorism and not the preferred "insane loner" that always crops up as an excuse when non-arabs kill people.
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Also: everyone wanted to gut Breivik. Kill him personally. But thats lust for revenge. When we heard people from our own organisation was on the island (The Swedish organisation Ung Vänsters Ali Esbati for example) everyone wanted to kill the bastard. But as I said, thats a humans job - the lust for revenge. A state cannot afford itself to pretend to be human. It has to look beyond that and try to figure out what to do and how it will best benefit society.
Since in Norweigian law his sentence can be made longer with five years, indefinetly, he will most probably sit off his entire life in prison.
Since in Norweigian law his sentence can be made longer with five years, indefinetly, he will most probably sit off his entire life in prison.
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Romney win, University of Colorado study says
According to their analysis, President Barack Obama will win 218 votes in the Electoral College, short of the 270 he needs. And though they chiefly focus on the Electoral College, the political scientists predict Romney will win 52.9 percent of the popular vote to Obama’s 47.1 percent, when considering only the two major political parties.
“For the last eight presidential elections, this model has correctly predicted the winner,” said Berry. “The economy has seen some improvement since President Obama took office. What remains to be seen is whether voters will consider the economy in relative or absolute terms. If it’s the former, the president may receive credit for the economy’s trajectory and win a second term. In the latter case, Romney should pick up a number of states Obama won in 2008.”
http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/20…
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Man, gonna get buried in the gun debate here, but that crazy old woman's hilarious attempt at art restoration should be celebrated & preserved for the unique, once-in-a-generation "masterpiece" that it now is. No amount of un-restoration is going to un-do what she did (and could conceivably ruin it further) and I can't think of a piece with a more fascinating contemporary meets historic story to tell.
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21 years is the maximum sentence in Norge. after that's up, he can be held as a danger to society for 5 + 5: 5 years, a review, and then another 5. then he can be held for 5 + 5 again & again, until the fucker's dead.
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From 2007 to 2009, American households lost $17 trillion in value, wealth and savings, when the same amount was pumped out to banks, private banks and corporations throughout the planet by the Federal Reserve and the US Treasury.
So guess who got that money?
Evidently Martha Stewart was to blame?
Evidently Barry Bonds was to blame?
The subprime meltdown, which most severely impacted lower-income Americans, especially Black-American and Hispanic-American households, produced great wealth for the Wall Street investment firms and banks.
Evidently Don Siegelman was to blame? (Gov. Siegelman was unjustly railroaded into jail by Karl Rove’s gang in Alabama.)
Evidently Lance Armstrong was to blame? (Armstrong never, I repeat NEVER, tested positively for doping.)
Martha Stewart (and I’m not excusing her insider trading) may have lied to the FBI, which itself has a solid history of hiding the truth. How many times have members of the FBI labs retired and then blasted their former employer for tampering with the evidence?
How many depositions taken by the FBI were later found to have been falsified by the FBI? (Just review the JFK assassination details!)
Louis Kelley, Robert Hartz, etc., one could go on all day about questionable FBI agents in the past, and then there was their COINTELPRO program and that assistant director of the FBI who was demoted for lying about Ruby Ridge.
If everything alleged about Barry Bonds was true --- then he was just trying to improve his game, a game he had worshipped from the time he was a young lad --- but he never sought to destroy lives and hide and obfuscate the national truths the way the FBI routinely does!
And that recent and most bizarre unconstitutional arrest and psychiatric internment of that young former Marine combat veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan --- for Facebook comments about 9/11.*** (Immediately overturned by an honest judge!)
Do Americans really cower at the thought of Martha Stewart, Barry Bonds, Lance Armstrong and that most honest and honorable Gov. Don Siegelman walking the public streets?
No, no and Hell, no!
Why do they persecute Bradley Manning?
Because of that alleged revealing of Iraqi war crimes? ("Collateral Murder" -- see Youtube)
Did they persecute the brave men who valiantly revealed the My Lai massacre of an earlier war?
Hell no!
That alleged dump of US State Department cables revealed the multinationals’ capture and control of the US government --- that is the cause for their persecution of Bradley Manning!
Gov. Don Siegelman is about to face re-sentencing, please sign the petition below for his release.
http://www.change.org/petitions/presiden…
And please do pay attention to the persecution of Bradley Manning, a real American hero.
***On 9/11: any American who still doesn’t grasp the obvious connection between the Pentagon’s comptroller announcing the results of a DoD audit on 9/10/01, stating that $2.3 trillion was unaccounted for, and the very next morning Flight 77 crashing dead center into the Pentagon’s west wall, killing most of that auditing team and severely injuring the rest (DIA’s Financial Management staff), is a complete and total idiot!
[Financial breakdown: a freedom-of-information request revealed that the Federal Reserve pumped out $6.1 trillion to banks, private banks and corporations around the world between 2007 to 2009. Adding in those monies set aside for US Treasury TARP bailout funds, and the fees paid to manage those TARP bailout funds to BlackRock, Morgan Stanley, Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, and the same select Wall Street law firms specializing in derivatives which promoted the deregulation of those derivatives, equal $ .9 trillion, for a total of $17 trillion.]
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From 2007 to 2009, American households lost $17 trillion in value, wealth and savings, when the same amount was pumped out to banks, private banks and corporations throughout the planet by the Federal Reserve and the US Treasury.
So guess who got that money?
Evidently Martha Stewart was to blame?
Evidently Barry Bonds was to blame?
The subprime meltdown, which most severely impacted lower-income Americans, especially Black-American and Hispanic-American households, produced great wealth for the Wall Street investment firms and banks.
Evidently Don Siegelman was to blame? (Gov. Siegelman was unjustly railroaded into jail by Karl Rove’s gang in Alabama.)
Evidently Lance Armstrong was to blame? (Armstrong never, I repeat NEVER, tested positively for doping.)
Martha Stewart (and I’m not excusing her insider trading) may have lied to the FBI, which itself has a solid history of hiding the truth. How many times have members of the FBI labs retired and then blasted their former employer for tampering with the evidence?
How many depositions taken by the FBI were later found to have been falsified by the FBI? (Just review the JFK assassination details!)
Louis Kelley, Robert Hartz, etc., one could go on all day about questionable FBI agents in the past, and then there was their COINTELPRO program and that assistant director of the FBI who was demoted for lying about Ruby Ridge.
If everything alleged about Barry Bonds was true --- then he was just trying to improve his game, a game he had worshipped from the time he was a young lad --- but he never sought to destroy lives and hide and obfuscate the national truths the way the FBI routinely does!
And that recent and most bizarre unconstitutional arrest and psychiatric internment of that young former Marine combat veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan --- for Facebook comments about 9/11.*** (Immediately overturned by an honest judge!)
Do Americans really cower at the thought of Martha Stewart, Barry Bonds, Lance Armstrong and that most honest and honorable Gov. Don Siegelman walking the public streets?
No, no and Hell, no!
Why do they persecute Bradley Manning?
Because of that alleged revealing of Iraqi war crimes? ("Collateral Murder" -- see Youtube)
Did they persecute the brave men who valiantly revealed the My Lai massacre of an earlier war?
Hell no!
That alleged dump of US State Department cables revealed the multinationals’ capture and control of the US government --- that is the cause for their persecution of Bradley Manning!
Gov. Don Siegelman is about to face re-sentencing, please sign the petition below for his release.
http://www.change.org/petitions/presiden…
And please do pay attention to the persecution of Bradley Manning, a real American hero.
***On 9/11: any American who still doesn’t grasp the obvious connection between the Pentagon’s comptroller announcing the results of a DoD audit on 9/10/01, stating that $2.3 trillion was unaccounted for, and the very next morning Flight 77 crashing dead center into the Pentagon’s west wall, killing most of that auditing team and severely injuring the rest (DIA’s Financial Management staff), is a complete and total idiot!
[Financial breakdown: a freedom-of-information request revealed that the Federal Reserve pumped out $6.1 trillion to banks, private banks and corporations around the world between 2007 to 2009. Adding in those monies set aside for US Treasury TARP bailout funds, and the fees paid to manage those TARP bailout funds to BlackRock, Morgan Stanley, Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, and the same select Wall Street law firms specializing in derivatives which promoted the deregulation of those derivatives, equal $ .9 trillion, for a total of $17 trillion.]
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@16, 17, and 20: He'll serve his term. Then, every 5 years, he'll have a platform. Then, every 5 years, we'll get a reminder of how old the children he killed on that island would have been. I, too, am glad that he was ruled sane, because then we don't have to worry about punishing someone who wasn't in their right faculties. He's been adjudicated to be nothing more than an evil person, and the fact that he gets to sit around being fed for the rest of his life is far more abhorrent to me than the death penalty.
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In what possible sense of the word did the Beatles and the Rolling Stones "begin" in 1962? The Beatles first recorded in that year, but they were a well established live act by then, playing a stunning 351 gigs that year, and an unbelievable 850 for the three year period 1960-62. The Stones didn't play their first gig until after the Beatles's first recording session; the Stones's first record came out in 1963 (and their first halfway decent one the year after).
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@24: Don't worry Doom, no one is reading your posts, much less taking your numbers seriously. You could have said "16.1 bajillion majillion dollars" and no one would have said shit.
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All I have to say for myself is that some mistakes have been made, and then some oversights, and none of it was intentional, and your corrections are appreciated, and links should be added by any of you here. And thank you for understanding my humanity.
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@ Fnarf, bands may be in existence for years, but we pretty routinely say that they "began" the year their first record drops. The bands must be okay with that because they usually do "anniversary" tours that celebrate those "first" years.
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Although point taken regarding the Stones. I've been under the impression that they debuted in 1962 forever.
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@18: That is based overwhelmingly on the state of the economy. Frankly, I think Romney's extreme unlikability and refusal to reveal any details of his budget plan are going to trump a sluggish job market.
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I read "fish play video game" and thought "videogame that simulates putting a trout on your dick"
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My favorite underloved Beatles songs are "Old Brown Shoe" and "Hey Bulldog," but it might be because of the memories I associate with them, not the songs themselves.
Also, doesn't the story about Bangladesh make you nostalgic for America's good old days, back in the 1910s, 20s, and 30s? When workers knew their place? Before unions ruined everything? Thank heaven globalization is giving that country back to us so quickly and effectively. Hey, I think I'm going to watch Matewan again, so I can root for the coal company...
Also, doesn't the story about Bangladesh make you nostalgic for America's good old days, back in the 1910s, 20s, and 30s? When workers knew their place? Before unions ruined everything? Thank heaven globalization is giving that country back to us so quickly and effectively. Hey, I think I'm going to watch Matewan again, so I can root for the coal company...
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