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A brief conversation at King Soopers back in November
Some kid (early twenties, maybe 30) saith unto me “What a day! We’ve got a president who isn’t a politician and legalized pot!” He seemed to be under the affluence of incohol but that doesn’t mean much. The important bit … Continue reading
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Occupy v. Martinez (Plaza Protest Ban) 2016 US 10th Circuit Court of Appeals Decision AFFIRMING Prelim Injunction
Yesterday I published the federal judge’s order to grant the 2015 preliminary injunction against the Lindsey Flanigan Courthouse. Since that time the city motioned to dismiss, there were show cause hearings, and depositions, and an appeal to the 10th Circuit … Continue reading
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International StarWarz Day
May the 4th be with you… That started as an intellectual or at least nerd pun. The underlying fear slowly builds up. As does the deficit, the vast majority of which is subsidizing wars which in turn are a giveaway … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, History, News, Personal Notes, Perspective, Policy, Recollections, Semantics, To Dwell on the Obvious, War machine
Tagged 1%, 99%, Accomplices, ALF, America, American, Americana, Americans, artist, Axe, Banana Republic, Boeing, British, BUILDS, Bush, Cheney, Child Soldiers, CIA, Civilization, Clinton, Congress, Corn, Corporate, Corporation, corporations, Costa Rica, Deficit, DIA, Dictator, Dictators, dictatorship, Draft Dodgers, Economic Draft, freedom, General Electric, GM, God, Green Berets, Guatemala, Headlines, Intel, IRA, Killing, Left, Limbaugh, London, Love, Madrid, Media, Mexican, Monsanto, Murder, Native American, Native Americans, Nicaragua, NSA, O'Reilly, Pax Americana, Peace, Pirates, POW, power, Rally, reason, rebellion, Republic, Right Wing, Romney, SDI, soldier, Soviets, Star Wars, StratCom, SUV, SUVs, Tax, Taxes, Technology, terror, Terrorism, The The, Third World, Troy, Trump, Washington, Wealth, Working, Zapatistas
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Colo. Springs peaceniks, Unitarians and NAACP fall for latest Africom campaign
They fell for Darfur and Kony (and Obama!) and now the Colorado Springs social justice community confirms that the city’s national repution for dim-bulbedness doesn’t reflect just its conservatives. Even the dissenting voice in this belly of the US military-judeo-christian-racist … Continue reading
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Tagged AA, Africa, AFRICOM, AIG, ALF, America, American, Americana, Antiwar, Beast, Campaign, Christ, Christian, CIA, Colorado, Colorado Springs, Community, Conformity, Conservatives, Corporate, Darfur, DIA, Dissent, DNA, Imperial, Injustice, Intervention, Justice, Kidnap, Kony, Left, liberal, Libya, Media, Military, NAACP, Niger, Nigeria, Obama, pandering, Pax Americana, Peace, peacekeeping, peaceniks, PPJPC, President, racist, RICO, School, Science, Social Justice, Sudan, Syria, Unitarian, US Aggression, US military, Voice, War Machine, warmonger, White, White House
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Thomas Kinkade has died- What are all admirers of Americana kitsch going to do?
“A Kinkade painting was typically rendered in slightly surreal pastels,” Joan Didion wrote. “It typically featured a cottage or a house of such insistent coziness as to seem actually sinister, suggestive of a trap designed to attract Hansel and Gretel. … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Obituaries
Tagged America, American, Americana, artist, Fire, Joan Gidion, Kitsch, Painting, Rap, Thomas Kinkade
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Willie and Waylon and Some Other Guy: A story about weed, marriage, and Texas tall tales. Part I
I like telling the story of the time we went to Telluride with my brother David to catch the Bluegrass Festival there. Dave is a pretty dang famous fiddler, and this happened 13 or 14 years ago when his Freight … Continue reading
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Tagged AA, America, American, Americana, Ani DiFranco, ARN, Art, artist, ATF, Austin, BOA, Business, cattle, CIA, Colorado, Cowboys, Dance, David, DOT, EPA, Freight Hoppers, heroes, IRA, IRS, Kris Kristofferson, marijuana, Marriage, Math, Music, Nelly Furtado, perception, Politics, Pot, President, pseudo-statement, Rap, RAW, reality, reason, Religion, Respect, Rock, Rove, School, Smoking, spin, Tai Chi, TB, Telluride, Texas, Truth, USA, Weed, Willie Nelson, Working
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Navy Seals Death Squids
It does seem unfair to conclude, after the US special forces operation to hunt and kill Osama bin Laden, that all Navy SEAL teams are death squads, but is it a logical fallacy? No one is now pretending there was … Continue reading
Posted in Headlines
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Revolution_2.0
Seems the Fake Revolutionary TeaBags are up in “arms” (carried by other people) over some on the Left and the middle and even the right taking notice that they basically told the Tucson Kid to go and murder human beings, … Continue reading
Posted in Headlines, History, News, Perspective, Politics, Radio, Semantics
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ACLU defends Freedom of Speech: that of yours, mine, Nazis or corporations
COLORADO SPRINGS- The local Springs ACLU chapter is challenging the national office’s position on the recent Citizens United victory and I’m torn. I am as anti-corporate as the next rabid class-war insurgent, but the longstanding corporate personhood abomination is a … Continue reading
Posted in Local News
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Yanks overseas pretend to be Canadian but how do you do that in Vancouver?
Since the overt militarization of Pax Americana, US citizens traveling the world are advised to pretend they’re Canadians. It only took this week’s unexpected team USA victory over Canada in men’s Olympic hockey, to ignite anti-American feelings. Even before the … Continue reading
Posted in Travel
Tagged America, American, Americana, Americans, anti-American, ARN, Art, Athletes, Canada, CIA, Coal, coalition, Cult, Culture, DIA, Fashion, Games, Hockey, Homeland, Hospital, Imperial, Levis, Love, McDonalds, Militarism, Militarization, Nationalism, Obama, Olympics, Pax Americana, PLO, Precious, Security, soldier, Team USA, Television, toxic, Travel, US soldier, USA, USO, Vancouver, Vancouver 2010, War, War Machine, Wealth, White, Winter Olympics, Wounded, Wounded Warrior
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We give thanks for what we take
“THANKSTAKING” From Shubel Morgan, via our friends at RAIM (Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist Movement), it’s a double-take on Norman Rockwell Americana infused with color correction.
Posted in Found Art
Tagged America, American, Americana, Evolution, Imperial, Imperialism, Norman, Revolution, Rock, Thanksgiving
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Starbucks customers know their coffee
Okay this is the obligatory coffee house post. Starbucks is betting its customers can’t tell fresh brewed from instant. Choose X or Y — the two are separated by gender apparently. Results could prove V, their space-age “VIA” instant product … Continue reading
Greg Mortenson US occupation pitchman
Greg Mortenson, stealth poster boy for the GWOT Pax Americana, nominated for the same Nobel suggested for Henry Kissinger, will be in Denver this Sunday at Red Rocks, to emcee JOURNEY OF HOPE, to collect “Pennies For Peace” to build … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, America, American, Americana, camps, Colorado, Denver, Education, Global War on Terror, Greg Mortenson, Henry Kissinger, Islam, Kissinger, Military, Nobel, Occupation, Pax Americana, Peace, prayer, Red Rocks, Rock, Settlements, US military, War on Islam, Western
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Pax Americana on a necklace
There’s the rub. An iconic photograph from the Vietnam War shows an American GI wearing a peace symbol necklace between a bandoleer of machine gun bullets. Which is it soldier? Nonviolence or destruction? Peace or war? Many Americans cannot make … Continue reading
Posted in History
Tagged America, American, Americana, Americans, Headlines, KLA, Nonviolence, Pax Americana, Peace, Peace Symbol, Photo, Photojournalism, Rap, soldier, Vietnam, Vietnam War, Violence, War
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You know you’re in Texas when
–when the bas relief of the Dumas TX motel waffle iron is oddly asymmetric. You study the strange edges in the dim light of the breakfast area with a growing suspicion, but flipping the heated iron over, following the instructions, … Continue reading
From whence shines that Bat Signal?
It’s a droll cartoon, calling Twitter to the rescue. But I believe MARSDEN got the metropolis wrong. It’s Paris, London or Amsterdam, and French and English diplomats are in an Iranian court today because Tehran suspects the Green Revolutionists are … Continue reading
Posted in News
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Peace flows from the end of a gunboat
WASHINGTON DC- It’s not the “Department of Peace,” to contrast with the Department of Defense, although some detractors point out that we have the State Department for that, but visitors to DC will find in the NW corner of the … Continue reading
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Tagged 2004, America, American, Americana, Art, BOA, Contras, Corn, Defense, Department, Department of Defense, Department of Peace, DOT, Education, EPA, Gunboat Diplomacy, IRA, Iraq, Lincoln, memorial, National Mall, Navy, Opera, Pax Americana, Peace, peacekeeping, PLO, public education, Real Estate, State Department, The Nation, U.S., US Institute of Peace, US Navy, Violence, Washington, Washington DC, Website, Working
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Ward Churchill: Some People Push Back
Here is Ward Churchill’s notorious 9/11 “Little Eichmanns” essay, published online September 12, 2001, presented here for archival purposes lest critics think they can silence one of our nation’s strongest dissenting voices. Churchill later expanded this piece into a book … Continue reading
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Big Rock Candy Mountain unsafe for kids
Here was a true bit of American folk wisdom, Harry McClintock’s everyman philosophy whose context was whitewashed for the sake of children and the Protestant work ethic. The original lyrics of the hobo’s nirvana, Big Rock Candy Mountain, where omitted … Continue reading
Posted in Info Virus
Tagged Alcohol, America, American, Americana, ARN, Axe, Bees, Big Rock Candy Mountain, Bush, candy, Cars, children, cops, eggs, Fire, fires, Folklore, Fruit, Harry McClintock, Hiking, Hobos, jail, jails, Lyrics, Mining, Music, NSA, Origin, philosophy, Protest, reform, Rock, Sandy, Snow, Socks, Trees, White, work ethic
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Media coverage of Denver Churchill Trial
DENVER- NMT to the rescue. So far we’ve noticed a strange media dyslexia about the Churchill vs CU trial. When we’ve attended, the proceedings look like a rout for truth and the historical record. When we haven’t made it to … Continue reading →