December 2008
52 posts
The Extermination of the Palestinian People →
Dec 31st
Israel’s Lie Machine is Working Flat Out →
Israel’s Lie Machine is Working Flat Out (Highlights) The core issue in this struggle is the illegality of Israel’s brutal occupation. Israel goes to great lengths to avoid and suppress all…
Dec 31st
“Just let me die” Palestinian Patient... →
“Just let me die” Palestinian Patient Quote (Highlights) Due to a lack of electricity, surgeries are being conducted by the light of cellular phones, and hospitals no longer have room to take…
Dec 31st
Shock, Awe and Lies: The Truth Behind the Israeli... →
Shock, Awe and Lies: The Truth Behind the Israeli Attack on Gaza (Highlights) Here is a simple, stone cold fact. You cannot read or hear the truth about what is happening in Gaza from any…
Dec 31st
Kucinich: UN should investigate Israeli Gaza... →
Kucinich: UN should investigate Israeli Gaza strikes (Highlights) Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) called for an independent investigation to be led by the United Nations into the recent eruption of…
Dec 31st
Lights Out in Gaza, News Blackout in US →
Lights Out in Gaza, News Blackout in US (Highlights) Amnesty International and other human rights organizations have decried Israel’s continued aerial bombing campaign as unlawful and denounced…
Dec 31st
Slaughter in Gaza: Another Chapter in the Global... →
Slaughter in Gaza: Another Chapter in the Global Elite Master Plan (Highlights) It should be noted that Hamas claimed 76 of the 132 parliamentary seats in 2006, as the Washington Post reported…
Dec 31st
Government Interference Only Makes The Problem... →
(Highlights) http://www.prisonplanet.com/schiff-government-interference-only-makes-the-problem-worse.html “The problem was in the 1920’s, the Federal Reserve blew up a stock market bubble,…
Dec 31st
U.S. Economy: The Philosopher’s Stone →
Dec 31st
Baltic Dry Index Falls 93% →
Baltic Dry Index Falls 93% Are We Heading into a Global Recession or Possibly a Worldwide Depression? (Highlights) The Baltic Dry Index which is a direct indicator of the health of vital…
Dec 31st
Fear Based Bailouts Constitute Economic Terrorism →
Fear Based Bailouts Constitute Economic Terrorism (Highlights) “Governments that want to take over, undermine our liberties and gain more power always use the fear factor. They did this leading…
Dec 31st
General Assembly [Flickr] →
Dan Patterson posted a photo:
Dec 30th
How the Shadow Money Lenders Effect You →
The Shadow Money Lenders: The Real Significance of The Fed’s Zero-Interest-Rate Policy (ZIRP) (Highlights) INTRODUCTION The disinformation by the global financial dailies in the last…
Dec 30th
Commentary on the News →
There are a couple of things that have happened since I last reported. It is clear that the economy is in the toilet. It seems that things have fallen apart. But there are two main stories which…
Dec 26th
My Button Eyes  →
Photo The site for the movie Coraline has a function where you can give yourself buttons for eyes just like the Other Mother in the book. Creepy and fun. Tagged with coraline …
Dec 23rd
Change, change, change: Sandman and the ’90s «... →
Link Link To Source Excellent essay on Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series and how it relates to postmodernism. Very astute and well worth a read. I have my own thoughts on this, but its a big…
Dec 21st
The Statesman vs. The Politician →
NOTE: My father always said that there was a difference….and I totally agree. The Statesman vs. The Politician
Dec 19th
Beer Is Tasty  →
Photo I really like this Rogue Mocha Porter. Dark and delicious. Tagged with beer me 
Dec 18th
Barack Obama: The Naked Emperor →
Barack Obama: The Naked Emperor (Highlight) INTRODUCTION ‘I’m hungry, mum, can I have some hope, please?’ ‘I’m so sorry, darling, you can’t have hope today, only tomorrow - hope is always…
Dec 17th
Will Wireless Technology Destroy the Human Race? →
Generation X’d Out: An end to the human race as we’ve known it? (Highlights) The term “Generation X-ray” refers to youth addicted to communicating and recreating with wireless devices—cell…
Dec 17th
Me and Cthulu: Working Together for the Greater... →
Photo He whispers his dreams to me and I write them down. Tagged with cthulu me 
Dec 16th
al-Qaeda Presence in Iraq Now: ‘So what!’ says... →
Bush on the invasion of Iraq leading to al-Qaeda presence: ‘So what?’ (Highlights) In an interview with a reporter following a shoe being thrown at his head, President George W. Bush had a…
Dec 16th
Greece-Style Riots Coming To U.S. →
Greece-Style Riots Coming To U.S. (Highlights) Frighteningly accurate trends forecaster Gerald Celente says that America will see riots similar to those currently ongoing in Greece and that the…
Dec 16th
Go - Jon, game three [Flickr] →
Dan Patterson posted a photo:
Dec 15th
The Second Bookgeeks SF and Fantasy Author Panel... →
Link Link To Source This is an interesting panel discussion that deals primarily with the role of science/magic in world building for science fiction and fantasy. Panelists are Stephen…
Dec 15th
Um…  →
Photo Poor choice in product name. Tagged with fail marketing weird 
Dec 15th
Go - jon, game one [Flickr] →
Dan Patterson posted a photo:
Dec 14th
Go - Jon, game two [Flickr] →
Dan Patterson posted a photo:
Dec 14th
Bush Gets Attacked by Smelly Shoes! →
Bush Gets Attacked by Smelly Shoes! (Highlights) “There is still more work to be done,” Bush said after his meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. It was at…
Dec 14th
Defying Classification: ETags And Modification... →
Link Link To Source Great tutorial and explanation on using ETags in Django for more efficient request processing. Part of an ongoing series on advanced HTTP concepts in Django by…
Dec 13th
Georgia Guide Stones Vandalized →
Georgia Guide Stones Vandalized
Dec 13th
CFR Warns Of United States Collapse By Summer,... →
CFR Warns Of United States Collapse By Summer, 2009 (Highlights) To the worst aspects of this report however, is that the plans being implemented by the Council On Foreign Relations (CFR) and…
Dec 13th
Obama Vows US Military Rule Over Planet →
Obama Vows US Military Rule Over Planet (Highlights) The corridors of the Kremlin are reported to be in shock today after President-Elect Barack Obama in announcing his National Security Team…
Dec 13th
The Election Of The Greatest Con-Man In Recent... →
The Election Of The Greatest Con-Man In Recent History (Highlights) What makes Obama a much more audacious militarist and Wall Streeter than Bush is that he intends to pursue military policies,…
Dec 12th
Obama Next To Be Indicted? →
Obama Next To Be Indicted? (Highlights) The US and state governments are composed of Executive, Legislative and Judicials branches. This is designed to provide a system of checks and balances…
Dec 12th
Abc news radio [Flickr] →
Dan Patterson posted a photo:
Dec 12th
Jeff and Brian in abc news radio news room... →
Dan Patterson posted a photo:
Dec 11th
The International CBS Tendency →
LMAO I was in my car the other day, and flipped on my local talk radio station WHMP.  They host Air America, some local stuff like the Bill Dwight show, and a few other…
Dec 10th
Dave Winer, aka programmer [Flickr] →
Dan Patterson posted a photo:
Dec 10th
The New ‘bin Ladin’ Is Being Set Up →
The New ‘bin Ladin’ Is Being Set Up
Dec 8th
Homemade tortillas →
I am desperately trying (and failing) to finish my prospectus, and write a paper for a conference in January.  Instead of doing that, I’m surfing the internet, reading recipe blogs.  In…
Dec 7th
Workers occupy a factory… →
…in 1936, 2008. Looks like the economic crisis isn’t going to be as free from labor unrest as folks have been saying. This will be the tip of the iceberg, I guarantee.  This occupation is…
Dec 7th
Happiness is Contagious: Medical Study :) →
Happiness is Contagious: Medical Study Happiness is Contagious, Research Finds
Dec 6th
UN dinner programme [Flickr] →
Dan Patterson posted a photo:
Dec 5th
Widad and Dan at the UN Dinner [Flickr] →
Dan Patterson posted a photo:
Dec 5th
Richard at UNCA dinner [Flickr] →
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Dec 5th
Tuyet at UNCA dinner [Flickr] →
Dan Patterson posted a photo:
Dec 5th
Secretary General Ban Ki Moon at UNCA dinner... →
Dan Patterson posted a photo:
Dec 5th
DSCF0008 [Flickr] →
Dan Patterson posted a photo:
Dec 4th
P1060400 [Flickr] →
Dan Patterson posted a photo:
Dec 4th