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In Memoriam: Helen Thomas, 1920 - 2013
HELEN THOMAS, 1920 - 2013
Her career, as a White House correspondent, entailed hard-hitting
journalism and the aggressive questioning of every U.S. President from
Dwight D. Eisenhower to Barack Obama. Her service as part of the White
House press corps began in January 1961 and abruptly ended in June 2010
when the reporter with an Arab-American background dared touch what has
become a third rail i
Weekend Unthreaded
Will an election be called this week, or will Rudd wait… ? ….
Update: See MV #10 — the man who knows the details. Rating: 7.6/10 (33
votes cast)Rating: 7.6/10 (33 votes cast)
You Might Have Missed: Were Early Humans Warlike?, U.S.-Pakistan Relations, and Opinion Polls
Donald Fry and Patrik Soderberg, “Lethal Aggression in Mobile
Forager Bands and Implications for the Origins of War,” Science, July
19, 2003, pp. 270-273.
A controversy exists regarding mobile forager band societies (MFBS)
and warfare…We extracted a subsample of purely MFBS (n = 21) from the
standard cross-cultural sample (SCCS)…The 21 MFBS produced a total of
148 lethal aggression events. The med
Birthday. Boy.
My fundraising pleas have not been very successful of late. Not
sure what to do about that frankly, nor how we're gonna make it around
here at this rate. This has been a problem for some time, actually, but
perhaps that's more my problem than yours.
While I take some time to try and figure it out, I'll just mention
today's my birthday, in case anyone feels like helping us out with a
birthday gift,
New Trial Ordered for Clay County, KY Election Officials Found Guilty in
Massive Election Fraud Conspiracy, Previously Sentenced to 156 Years
Eight top election officials from Clay County, KY previously
found guilty in a massive vote buying and selling conspiracy --- which
prosecutors charged had been run over several decades and included the
manipulation of electronic voting machines in 2006 --- have had their
convictions overturned and a new trial ordered by a panel on the U.S.
6th Circuit Court of appeals.
The eight co-conspirators -
Transparency - is it so hard to understand?
Variety, the news-zine of the entertainment biz, just ran a pair
of articles on the pro vs con aspects of Google Glass. Space was
limited, but I conveyed the "pro" side -- or rather "It's inevitable so
let's embrace the good aspects and use them to limit the bad." Sarah
Downey wrote about the potential dangers to privacy. Alas, without
offering any solutions.No law or regulation could possibly
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Actual Journalists Ask U.S. State Dept. Official If Snowden Has Lost His Free Speech Rights [VIDEO]
    
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I wish I had seen this on US TV. I wish I had heard about it from a US media outlet.
The grilling seen here, as given to woeful U.S. State Dept. spokesperson Jen Psaki during a daily press briefing earlier this week, came largely from AP's Matthew Lee and CNN's Elise Labott. They, and the others who were not identified in the RT (formerly "Russia Today") YouTube posting description, deserve credit for their persistence... |
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