December 2009
148 posts
Fed Judge Gives Blackwater Huge New Year's Gift,...
jeremyscahill:
By Jeremy Scahill
A federal judge in Washington DC has given Erik Prince’s Blackwater mercenaries a huge New Year’s gift. Judge Ricardo Urbina dismissed all charges against the five Blackwater operatives accused of gunning down 14 innocent Iraqis in Baghdad’s Nisour Square in September 2007. Judge Urbina’s order, issued late in the afternoon on New Year’s Eve is a stunning blow...
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Albums
1. Vic Chesnutt- At the Cut
2. Dan Deacon - Bromst
3. Animal Collective - Merriwweather Post Pavilion
4. Antony & the Johnsons - The Crying Light
5. Isis - Wavering Radiant
6. Black Dice - Repo
7. Land of Kush - Against the Day
8. Former Ghosts - Fleurs
9. Laura Gibson - Beast of Seasons
10. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
my favorite films of 2009
1. A Serious Man
2. Antichrist
3. Avatar
4. Crude
5. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
6. The Hurt Locker
7. Moon
8. Bruno
9. Empires of Tin
10. Drag me to Hell
Movies I still need to see: Ponyo, Me and Orson Welles, District 9, The Road, Precious.
my favorite songs of 2009
1. Vic Chesnutt - Granny
2. Antony & the Johnsons - Aeon
3. Animal Collective - My Girls
4. Vic Chesnutt - Flirted with you all my life
5. Fever Ray - When I Grow Up
6. Why? - Eskimo Snow
7. Dan Deacon - Build Voice
8. XX - Islands
9. Julian Casablancas - Out of the Blue
10. Four Tet - Love Cry
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““We have lost one of our great ones. His songs and his story remain.”
Michael...”
– Vic Chesnutt’s friends
Constellation: About
“The most important story to report now is not Vic’s death but a life and work...”
– Jem Cohen on his friend Vic Chesnutt
What this man was capable of was superhuman. Vic was brilliant, hilarious and necessary; his songs messages from the ether, uncensored. He developed a guitar style that allowed him to play bass, rhythm and lead in the same song — this with the movement of only two fingers. His fluid timing was inimitable, his poetry untainted by influences. He was my best friend. I never saw the wheelchair—it was...
“A Noiseless Flash” is how journalist John Hersey titled the first chapter...”
– 3quarksdaily
“Physicians for a National Health Program is calling on the Senate to reject the...”
– Democracy Now! | Headlines for December 23, 2009
“Men charge around on earth, in air,
smashing Death to smithereens,
and yet...”
– Men and Death by Luann Landon
“Mexico City has become the first city in Latin America to legalize same-sex...”
– Democracy Now! | Headlines for December 22, 2009
“A group of sixteen human rights and humanitarian organizations have accused the...”
– Democracy Now! | Headlines for December 22, 2009
“Wall Street has reacted favorably to the Senate bill. Stock prices of health...”
– Democracy Now! | Headlines for December 22, 2009
“But before we cede the entire moral penthouse to “committed vegetarians” and...”
– Sure, all living things “want” to go on living (actually I would argue only humans and a few other mammals do, but anyway), but so far as anyone knows, plants do not feel pain. In the absence of evidence that plants feel things, any attempt to blur the ethical lines between hurting...
“On Capitol Hill, the Senate has approved a $636 billion military spending bill...”
– Somehow we can always find the money for war.
Democracy Now! | Headlines for December 21, 2009
“he UN climate talks in Copenhagen have ended in failure as world leaders...”
– Democracy Now! | Headlines for December 21, 2009
“Even marriage between a man and a woman, Rigali continued, was grounded not just...”
– Robert P. George, the Conservative-Christian Big Thinker - NYTimes.com
a fun thing to do: spot the flaws in this reasoning. infinite lols abound.
Obama Wins Approval for Torture
soupsoup:
ryking:
This week the Obama Administration won a court ruling that allows it to torture political prisoners and shields the Bush Junta from war crimes prosecution in America.
How’s that “change you can believe in” working for you, Obama fans?
“Discarded Idea Three: Climate debt. The rich world has been responsible for 70...”
– 3quarksdaily
Palin vs. Gore Climate Showdown | FactCheck.org →
