http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Mon, 20 May 2013 17:50:36 Mon, 20 May 2013 17:50:36 I'm with you, it's like going from a flourishing tropical garden, bursting and bulging with information,
to the surface of the moon. Or at least a landscape as bleak and spare as a frozen polar ice cap.

There are a few scattered shoots and leaflets poking their heads through the snow, giving you... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/mojowork_n/152 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:45:26 From out here in Wisconsin, the one thing I've learned is that voting is correctly described when it's referred to as a "[u]process[/u]."

That means ALL of the duties and actions of the county clerk of elections, or whoever is in charge of the vote, have to be transparent.

And more important t... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/mojowork_n/151 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:08:36 Eight years ago, Thanksgiving week 2003, I remember there was a JFK-fest on cable TV.

I think I watched 5 or 6 hour-long documentaries in a row. The same block of programs
were repeated the next day. I caught the highlights of a couple of shows I'd watched
the night before.

It was all new t... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/mojowork_n/150 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:18:47 Back in the day, a hundred years ago, when the miners were striking or workers were trying to organize,
the mine owners and the money bags knew that local police were the neighbors, and sometimes the friends
or relatives of some of the protesters.

So they imported goons from the Pinkerton Agen... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/mojowork_n/149 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 23:12:01 "....Goldman Sachs is about to take over Europe, but you wouldn’t know it by reading the papers.

On Tuesday, G-Sax alum, Mario Draghi, will take the helm at the European Central Bank replacing retiring ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet. The appointment has slipped by the media virtually unnoticed... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/mojowork_n/148 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:49:00 ...According to the right wing Gospel of Wealth, we'd all be much richer if the Wall Street Banksters
were to have an unlimited [i]carte blanche[/i] to immediately cancel all social security and medicare
benefits, and deposit the money directly into their own professionally managed investment acco... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/mojowork_n/147 Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:28:38 But when you're flipping channels between Monday Night Football, and the cool
graphics in this space documentary on the Science Channel, still thinking
about what you'd heard during the interview an hour earlier with Michael Moore
on "Democracy Now," while wondering what else there is to do befo... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/mojowork_n/146 Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:40:48 ...skills of the voter base in the entire state of Wisconsin.

Same thing they're trying to do with public education, on the local elementary and high school level.

They don't want an educational system that might dare to introduce concepts like "community good," or
"making informed choices," ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/mojowork_n/145 Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:42:06 "Gub-mint BAD, Bid-ness GOOD," [i]en espanol?[/i]

That's all they ever say, no matter what the language.

Is it even wishful thinking to wonder if some free-thinking sub-Vizier
or Viceroy (the Vast Machine's [i]Iberian[/i] man-in-charge) has had the authority,
or the temerity, to impart some ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/mojowork_n/144 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:20:37 Here's the story...

...and the back story.

On the one hand, Republican leaders have been pushing a "legislative compromise" list, looking for bi-partisan support, that includes much stiffer penalties for
first-time drunken driver offenders:

http://www.superiortelegram.com/event/article/id... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/mojowork_n/143 Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:58:24 This is going to come down like a ton of bricks on the poorest neighborhoods,
the most vulnerable, those with the fewest resources.

And it will dovetail so nicely with the larger plan to
lard the profit line of Republican contributors and supporters.

No matter what the cost, to the rest of... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/mojowork_n/142 Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:02:07 ....Self-sufficient, independent resistance to...

whatever you want to call it, the ...global oligarchy,
...the New World Order (?), "business as usual" (???)

http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/09/06/natos-war-on-libya-is-an-attack-on-african-development/

[div class="excerpt"]Four years ago,... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/mojowork_n/141 Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:57:48 From today's [i][b]Counterpunch[/i][/b]

September 12, 2011

Big Brothers Buy in at Big Media
The Koch Whisperers

by PAM MARTENS

A CounterPunch Special Report

http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/09/12/the-koch-whisperers/

[div class="excerpt"]"...according to tax records obtained throu... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/mojowork_n/140 Mon, 12 Sep 2011 18:10:43 ...the homeless veteran living under the bridge.

The “Defense” Department is very effective when it comes to “paying” for all of our military expenses, for all of our undeclared wars...

...and somehow they just miss being able to meet their responsibilities, when it comes to the once-fresh-fac... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/mojowork_n/139 Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:01:21 ...rewards a banker for kicking someone out of a house...?


It's like the mirror dystopia of all those big, failed communist building projects.

When the overlords were so mighty, great and terrible, and the local folks so small,
insignificant and overlooked, there was no incentive -- or hope... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/mojowork_n/138 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:33:59 I was pointing out that ONE of the SAC guys was being allowed to "cooperate with the investigation" (NOT one of the two principals)
and the other -- who made a deal outside of SAC -- was not.

That's not "a deadline," it's a detail that may be a bit ambiguous, in evaluating the attitude toward S... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/mojowork_n/137 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 09:59:43 If "industrial" was translated from the German to include "production of porcelain crockery, dinnerware and tea sets" then yes, those vital military production facilities had to be destroyed.
Along with all of the civilians living nearby, lest they pass on the sensitive, technical details of proper... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/mojowork_n/135 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 17:33:40 How about calling it what it was, a target with NO military importance?

That nearby military targets (bridge over the Elbe) were ignored makes the circumstances even more damning.

Your claim that "German radio propaganda was broadcast claiming the death toll was four times its actually count..... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/mojowork_n/136 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 13:32:10 The American Navy had provoked an international crisis when they intercepted a Royal Navy ship, the HMS Trent, in 1861. Two Confederate diplomats were on board, would-be Dixie Benjamin Franklins' hoping to get European recognition for the south.

It was just a small mail boat, but a hundred years ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/mojowork_n/134 Mon, 18 Jul 2011 21:30:10 Imagine the whole population of the United States on a football field,
arranged according to annual family income.

At the 50 yard line, the statistical mean is very close to 40K/yr.

You could represent that income -- as literally as possible -- with a
stack of 100 dollar bills not quite 1 a... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/mojowork_n/133 Wed, 06 Jul 2011 17:22:38 [b]Michael Tomasky, writing in the Daily Beast:[/b]

[div class="Excerpt"]Now Minnesota joins the list of states being gutted by the Republican Party. The government in the state famous for being nice has shut down, because Democratic Governor Mark Dayton wanted to impose a higher income tax on Mi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/mojowork_n/132 Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:39:31 I spent an hour last night watching a TV re-broadcast of a local school board sub-committee meeting.

There was a resolution that our local Public School system should boycott Arizona -- to whatever extent is possible, practical, and won't drain resources away from the education budget.

People... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/mojowork_n/131 Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:34:09 I've never known any Tibetans, Pashtuns, Hazari, Tajiks, Basques or Kurds. The only close friend from the Appalachian's I ever had was hardly typical -- 1/2 North Carolina Cherokee and 1/2 African American (with a healthy genetic dollop of "Scots and Irish," she always insisted), but as far as [i]C... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/mojowork_n/130 Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:04:05 I remember once being told that after some initial acceptance of the idea of an independent Kurdistan, Woodrow Wilson and other allied leaders were disabused of the notion. Giving the Kurds sovereign borders would be too helpful to the small (but economically powerful) minority among them, who happe... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/mojowork_n/129 Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:07:39 Even though it was during the regime of Bush the First, the same conditions highlighted in the U.N. reports pretty much prevailed, back then, too:


From the 2006 report, page 3 of 62:

http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/pdfid/41249bdd4.pdf

"...the March 2004 civil unrest saw violent attacks agai... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/mojowork_n/128 Sat, 22 May 2010 19:45:53