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1/25/12
Global Democratic Revolution Should Be American Foreign Policy
World Report 2012: Strengthen Support for ‘Arab Spring’ | Human Rights Watch: "(Cairo) – Many democracies have allowed their ties with repressive allies to temper their support for human rights in the Arab Spring protests, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2012. For reasons of principle and long-term interest, governments should stand firm with the people of the Middle East and North Africa when they demand their basic rights and work to ensure the transition to genuine democracies."
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A double dislike for Romney
But nobody says why the recession will last so long
Fed to Maintain Rates Near Zero Through Late 2014 - NYTimes.com:
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Because the great contradiction, and the reason we must redefine the American dream, is that transportation and construction are closer to 1900 than to where they need to be. We cannot reform anythiung without tackling housing and transportation. We cannot build a society on sprawl and interstates. On oil and McMansions. On the American Dream of having a private suburban lot and cars for everyone. We need to evolve to multi-zoned car-free modular communities that unite all elements of a city and are largely car-free.We need to build new employment around the notion of a cyber-community of up to 10,000 persons that has, on no more than four stair-less levels, the makings of a well-rounded life that is global in scope and face-to face via the reversal of public-private notions. These are premises of this blog complex. Few come here. I have few who agree with me. I feel I am right. I am not trying to win an argument but to state the wave of an evolving truth.
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Lynn Sweet Agrees With Me and Says It Better
Newt Gingrich takes page from Saul Alinsky playbook - Lynn Sweet: "With his anti-elitist, anti-establishment populist rhetoric--on display Saturday night in his South Carolina victory speech in which he slammed "elites" in Washington and New York -- Gingrich seems as if he is taking a page from the Alinsky playbook.
"Newt's anti-elitism is so much what Alinsky really was about," Alinsky biographer Sanford D. Horwitt told me Sunday. "Alinsky was about organizing ordinary people so they could get a seat at the table rather than getting crumbs or no crumbs at all when public policies were decided," said Horwitt, the author of Let Them Call Me Rebel: Saul Alinsky: His Life and Legacy."
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K. A. Doxiadis A Man of The Future
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NYPD Cannot Cover Up Hideous Training Practices
In Police Training, a Dark Film on U.S. Muslims - NYTimes.com: "In January 2011, when news broke that the department had used the film in training, a top police official denied it, then said it had been mistakenly screened “a couple of times” for a few officers.
A year later, police documents obtained under the state’s Freedom of Information Law reveal a different reality: “The Third Jihad,” which includes an interview with Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly, was shown, according to internal police reports, “on a continuous loop” for between three months and one year of training.
During that time, at least 1,489 police officers, from lieutenants to detectives to patrol officers, saw the film"
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A year later, police documents obtained under the state’s Freedom of Information Law reveal a different reality: “The Third Jihad,” which includes an interview with Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly, was shown, according to internal police reports, “on a continuous loop” for between three months and one year of training.
During that time, at least 1,489 police officers, from lieutenants to detectives to patrol officers, saw the film"
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The underside of life in America is marked by bile directed at American Muslims. No one is more anxious to see thatAmerican values are practiced in their community than ... American muslims. So indoctrinating new cops to look at Muslims through biased eyes is indeed hideous and fearsome and mindless.
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Given the GOP Change Will Be A Miracle Voters Must Make
The State of the Union in 2012 - NYTimes.com: "He sounded many of the same themes as last year, but his tone was sharper and he was far more willing to apportion blame, particularly singling out the financial industry for its excesses and politicians who are still determined to defend tax cuts for the rich and undo desperately needed financial regulations. “We can either settle for a country where a shrinking number of people do really well, while a growing number of Americans barely get by,” he said, “or we can restore an economy where everyone gets a fair shot, everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules.”"
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To exegete the headline, if Congress remains obdurate, we the voters must turn out the McConnell and Cantor and Boehner sorts and either elect fraud-resistant Democrats or Republicans who pledge to support the President. The President has gained ground every week of late and will continue to do so as the fates wait upon the electorate to finish the job. It would be lovely to defeat these folk.
If Jesus did not intend to create an institution
In relation to government Jesus is eternally quixotic
Jesus seems to accept institutions
Movements are sometimes spontaneous
As I read history things become relatively simple
I persist in saying I am a generalist and proud of it
The web of specialization
The right to get the hell out of a bad and harmful situation
Mitch McConnell Has Betrayed the People's Trust
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