President Obama sings “Sweet Home Chicago” with Mick Jagger and B.B. King. Even Jason liked it.
Der Spiegel highlights what’s important:
That may make for good TV, but it’s the voters who pay. CNN moderator Wolf Blitzer tried to heighten the drama by asking absurd questions about US colonies on the moon, Swiss bank accounts, and Puerto Rican statehood, not to mention which of the four candidates’ wives would make the best first lady.
Lots of people in my town, Olympia, a state capitol are very involved in politics. Not a bad thing, and here is some encouragement from someone young, who is making it happen:
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania’s newly installed treasurer, John Campbell is a 23-year-old college student.
This is for you, Rob Richards.
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More to follow…
Imagine a World Without Free Knowledge
For over a decade, we have spent millions of hours building the largest encyclopedia in human history. Right now, the U.S. Congress is considering legislation that could fatally damage the free and open internet. For 24 hours, to raise awareness, we are blacking out Wikipedia.
Read the comments at the bottom of the article. It says what the article doesn’t.
Obviously managed by her campaign staff, but she’s there! Welcome.
Notes From a Guantánamo Survivor in the NYTimes:
Still, it is hard not to think about my time at Guantánamo and to wonder how it is possible that a democratic government can detain people in intolerable conditions and without a fair trial.
Killers aren’t diverted from their mission to destroy
Assigned to the demoralized
The course of dreamers hypnotized
Killer’s promiscuity infects his false security
When forced to use his intellect
To trace the path of righteousness
Lyrics by Saviour Machine.
My good friend Emmett taught me the word ‘metonymy‘ in respect to our home town which is the State Capital of Washington thus lots of political business is often referred to as “from Olympia”. Or Olympia gets blamed for this and that.
Here is another one : ‘Europe’. While referring to a political system Republicans are trying to distance themselves from in their own country in hopes for votes from people who can only vote of something if there is a strong enemy build up they are ‘fighting against’.
Right of America, it gets old. Wake up and grow up. There is no ‘stars and stripes’ in ‘world’.
The Obama Router Challenge:
Imagine how many people would see this anonymous promotion over the next year if One Million of us decided to spend 5 minutes changing our wireless router name to: OBAMA_2012
The Berlin Pirate Party used this idea as one of their campaign promotion tricks. Well, it got them elected!
“Anonymous” hackers have declared “Blitzkrieg” on neo-Nazis for the New Year, disabling a number of their websites and publishing lists of extreme-right supporters.
Using the internet in the best possible way.
Wow… Ron Paul ad on foreign policy. Love the message, so refreshing for an American politician.
He should become Secretary of State. As President I still wouldn’t trust him.
That’s why leadership is so crucial.
Canada is under fire for exiting the Kyoto Protocol just one day after UN climate talks ended with an agreement to extend the treaty. Putting financial interests ahead of environmental commitments is an affront to global climate protection efforts…
What will happen with Britain?
Every now and then I enjoy watching Europe, reading their news, it seems less bloated with political turmoil. But not anymore. The crises, and Europe’s seemingly inability to properly address it, feels like a cancer on a continent that is too beautiful, too rich in history, too amazing to ignore, yet increasingly feels like business as usual.
Europe on Friday awoke to a changed world. The European idea as we know it is in the process of dissolving into thin air. The monumental postwar project of a peacefully unified continent where all member states hold hands in friendship collapsed overnight.
No interesting in striving for a union.
The grass is definitely not greener on the other side. I’m staying here watching from afar.
But a fantastic article showing a great opportunity:
The euro crisis has exposed a kind of creative momentum that is in the process of creating something new. A new Europe. It is an entity which Chancellor Angela Merkel calls a “fiscal union.” But in reality, Europe is on the path toward becoming a federal country.
In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, two unions contend that Initiative 1183 is improper because it breaks rules that legislation cannot address more than one subject.
Blablablabla… That’s democracy of the new era. If I loose, I sue. Lovely.
But who counts?
GOP candidates think Africa is a country? And they are applying for the job of ‘Leader of the free world’?
You can say what you want, this matters to me.
Germany must get a handle on neo-nazi terrorism.
‘Wehret den Anfaengen’. It’s already way to late for that.
John Cheese on Cracked: 5 Ways We Ruined the Occupy Wall Street Generation:
#5. Making You Ashamed to Take Manual Labor Jobs:
… first we’re told that we’d be flipping burgers if we don’t go to college, then the same people tell us we’re entitled assholes if we refuse to flip burgers.
Great article.
An apology can be exactly what is needed to start the rebuilding of trust in society.
But according to the Global Environment Facility, incandescents still make up 50-70% of worldwide sales and China’s move forms a striking contrast to the US government’s backsliding on the issue. This summer Republicans drove a bill through the House of Representatives stripping all funding for government enforcement of improved lighting efficiency standards, which come into force next year.
Overall, China has pledged to cut energy consumption per unit of GDP by 16% and cut carbon emissions by 17% in the five years to 2015.
There is something so fundamentally wrong with Republicans, I don’t even know where to begin. This is why I hate living here sometimes. What a fucking backward country on issues like this.
And back from July:
‘Republicans declare victory for freedom after House votes on lightbulbs’
Under Tea Party pressure, the House of Representatives voted on Friday to cut federal government spending on the environment by more than $1bn.
Victory for Freedom. What a bunch of bullshit.