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Bluegrass Blessing
Watch this brief video of the Josh Williams Band until at least the 1-minute and 30-second mark and you will see something unbelievable … and beautiful. This may be how the gods express their appreciation for a great performance.
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“A Universe from Nothing”
Richard Dawkins calls Lawrence Krauss “the Woody Allen of cosmology.” Here’s a video of Krauss talking about how the Universe emerged out of nothing, and how abundant nothing really is. This video is long (over and hour) and challenging, especially if you are attached to a traditional religious viewpoint....
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Jon Stewart’s Devastating Segment on Factories Where iPads Are Made
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Goodbye to The Union.
January 17, 2012 (4:28 AM) Today much of the online content of The Union has gone behind a paywall, even yesterday’s news and op-eds (although I notice that the publisher’s editorial from yesterday is still available online in full for free). Because I’ve stopped reading The Union regularly anyway,...
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How GOP Candidates’ Economic Plans “Screw the Middle Class”
The details are in the first four minutes of this video:
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Professor Juan Cole on the Iranian Scientist Murders
From Professor Juan Cole’s Informed Comment blog: The countries most eager to stop the Iranian program are Israel, the United States and Saudi Arabia. So they are the ones with motive. The means, a sticky bomb, is commonly used by radical militias in Iraq. The opportunity belonged to an Iranian who could move...
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National Day of Action Against Citizens United: January 21, 2012
Press Release by Occupy Nevada County: Saturday, January 21, is the second anniversary of the Supreme Court decision, Citizens United vs. the Federal Elections Commission, which overturned decades of campaign finance law and allows unlimited corporate funds to flood our election system. On Saturday, a coalition of...
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Who’s Systematically Murdering Iranian Nuclear Scientists?
Who’s bumping off Iranian nuclear scientists? Cui bono? (Who benefits?) Who, besides the U.S. and Israel, has been obsessing about the purported development of Iranian nuclear weapons? Glenn Greenwald comments: In January, 2010, a remote-controlled bomb attached to a motorcycle killed Masoud Ali Mohammadi, 50,...
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APPLE Center Slated to Close After 2 1/2 Years of Sustainability Education
Editor’s Note: The following press release was issued today by APPLE (Alliance for a Post-Petroleum Local Economy): Nevada City – In the coming weeks, there will be big changes for the Alliance for a Post-Petroleum Local Economy (APPLE), Nevada County’s leading sustainability education non-profit organization....
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What a Totally Honest Politician Would Say
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Articles
Gingrich (and Race-Baiting) Wins in South Carolina
By Adele M. Stan | Sourced from AlterNet Gingrich set about putting a black face on America’s poor, and was rewarded with 40% of South Carolina’s primary vote. Marking a triumph for the return of unvarnished racism on the American political...
Did the Feds Just Kill the Cloud Storage Model?
Reprinted from Washington’s Blog (January 21, 2012) Megaupload Type Shutdowns and Patriot Act Are Killing Cloud Storage The government’s takedown of the 800 pound gorilla online storage site Megaupload may have killed the cloud storage model. Many innocent...
How Local Governments Can Fight Back Against the Foreclosure Crisis
Reprinted from New Deal 2.0 (January 18, 2012) By Kristen Tullos Cities can use local housing codes and land banks to push back against banks’ reckless behavior. Since the beginning of the economic downturn, Congress has passed numerous pieces of legislation...
Special Nevada County Screening of Documentary, “THRIVE”
By Reinette Senum Click for Larger View The Special Nevada County Screening of the documentary, THRIVE, has just hit gold. The creators and hosts, Foster and Kimberly Gamble, of the riveting film have agreed to attend IN PERSON rather than via Skype as...
Op-Ed by Sharon Delgado: “Occupy Moves to Amend”
By Sharon Delgado In December, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow show featured a segment on Occupy Nevada County, which had held a rally to protest foreclosures and had successfully intervened to postpone an eviction. Since then several realtors and people facing...
Bail-out Bombshell: Fed “Emergency” Bank Rescue Totaled $29 Trillion Over Three Years
Reprinted from Alternet (December 15, 2011) While the 99% suffered hardship, a new study shows that the Fed propped up buddies in the banking industry and a vast shadow banking system far beyond what anyone has guessed. By J. Andrew Felkerson Speculation...
Feds Falsely Censor Popular Blog For Over A Year, Deny All Due Process, Hide All Details
Reprinted from Techdirt (December 8, 2011) By Mike Masnick from the copyright-as-censorship department Imagine if the US government, with no notice or warning, raided a small but popular magazine’s offices over a Thanksgiving weekend, seized the...
Reprinted from http://myoccupylaarrest.blogspot.com/ (December 6, 2011) By Patrick Meighan My name is Patrick Meighan, and I’m a husband, a father, a writer on the Fox animated sitcom “Family Guy”, and a member of the Unitarian Universalist Community...
Why is the U.S. Trying to Block Climate Progress in Durban?
Reprinted from Yes! Magazine (December 8, 2011) World leaders are stalling on climate action at the 2011 Climate Summit in Durban, South Africa. What needs to happen to get things moving and make a change before it’s too late? By Jamie Henn The...
American Life in Poetry: Column 350 BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006 The persons we are when we are young are probably buried somewhere within us when we’ve grown old. Denise Low, who was the Kansas poet laureate, takes a look at a younger...
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Reviews
Free Book: “The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive”
By Dean Baker Progressives need a fundamentally new approach to politics. They have been losing not just because conservatives have so much more money and power, but also because they have accepted the conservatives’ framing of political debates. They...
Richard Tuttle A day or so ago I received this email from our friend, Dave Comstock, publisher of Comstock Bonanza Press, concerning a “book launch” on October 15th in the Nevada City Council Chamber … of judge Richard E. Tuttle’s...
Devastating New Ron Susskind Book on Obama and his Dysfunctional Economic Team
Larry Summers Napping In excerpts below from their discussion, Frank Rich and Adam Moss talk about Ron Susskind’s new book Confidence Men — published tomorrow — about president-elect Obama’s choice of his economic team in 2008,...
GOP Rule is More Dangerous to Our Health, Study Proves (100 Years of Data)
Professor James Gillligan has spent his professional life studying violence. In his latest book, “Why Some Politicians Are More Dangerous Than Others,” he summarizes his study of a whole century of data, proving that all forms of violence...
Yes, the Latest Right-Wing Paean to Sociopath Ayn Rand Is Really, Really Awful
by Brad Reed Take Lisa Simpson and combine her with Gordon Gekko and the obnoxious child-android from “Small Wonder,” and you get the perfect Rand hero. The year is 2016. Eight years of Obammunism have transformed the former capitalist paradise known...
Simplicity Bistro: Excellent New Restaurant in Grass Valley
I learned something from our three meals at Simplicity Bistro over the last week: I learned that I have a burgundy beef need that can apparently only be satisfied by recurring dinners at Simplicity Bistro. I’m a bit worried, though, because...
Rich People Things: Ayn Rand, La Dolce Vita Redubbed and the Plutocrapocalypse!
Who’s suffered most in the Great Recession? Why, it’s the rich, the affluent, the meritocracy, of course! So says — satirically — Chris Lehmann in his new book, Rich People Things. From the publisher’s description: It’s...
Farming Was His Life, Until the CAFOs Came
I heard Thom Hartmann interview David Kirby, author of Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environment. This could be one of those watershed environmental books, like Rachel Carson’s...
Corporations Have Become More Dangerous to Democracy Since Reagan
Barry Lynn, Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, talks about his book, Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction. According to Lynn (speaking in the video below), “in 1981 the Reagan administration changed...
Amazing Buzz on New Book: Eating Animals
I’ve never seen this kind of buzz on a new book before, and since I’m a sucker for book buzz and hype, and I haven’t actually read the book yet, I’ll just pass on some of the buzz and hype about Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran...
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