Kissinger gets Freedom Award. ‘Ironic’ doesn’t begin to describe it

Kissinger gets Freedom Award. ‘Ironic’ doesn’t begin to describe it

Today aboard a ship in the New York City area, a disgusting excuse for a human being will be treated like a freakin’ hero. Today Henry Alfred Kissinger will receive the Intrepid Freedom Award. A ceremony at the Intrepid Sea, [...]

Breasts

Breasts

A lot of people are talking about how brave Angelina Jolie is for announcing her preemptive double mastectomy strike due to being BRCA1 positive. And, yes, she is. So is Christina Applegate, who did the same.  Famous women who “come out” [...]

Rise of the Machines: High Frequency Trading, ALGOBOTS, and Flash Crashes

Rise of the Machines: High Frequency Trading, ALGOBOTS, and Flash Crashes

In two minutes more, at 2:47, the market had lost 998.5 points. Estimated market value over 1 trillion dollars. Needless to say, loss at a rate of 2.84 billion dollars per second caused a panic.

Bangladesh Presents a Lesson for May Day

Bangladesh Presents a Lesson for May Day

Occurring precisely one week before International Workers’ Day (May Day), the horrific collapse of a large factory building in Bangladesh came as a timely and tragic reminder of how crucial labor unions are to the welfare of workers. The executive [...]

Indigenous Life

Indigenous Life

A stunning post from the FB feed:   There is a tribe in Africa where the birth date of a child is counted not from when they were born, nor from when they are conceived but from the day that [...]


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Kissinger gets Freedom Award. ‘Ironic’ doesn’t begin to describe it

Kissinger gets Freedom Award. ‘Ironic’ doesn’t begin to describe it

Today aboard a ship in the New York City area, a disgusting excuse for a human being will be treated like a freakin’ hero. Today Henry Alfred Kissinger will receive the Intrepid Freedom Award. A ceremony at the Intrepid Sea, [...]

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Indigenous Life

Indigenous Life

A stunning post from the FB feed:   There is a tribe in Africa where the birth date of a child is counted not from when they were born, nor from when they are conceived but from the day that [...]

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Earth Day Haikus and Music

Earth Day Haikus and Music

For Earth Day, I’ve decided to share some original poetry and a little music. First, there’s this haiku cycle I wrote and posted a few years ago at another location on the web: Green and blue planet Chokes, and feels [...]

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Welcome to the New Age

Welcome to the New Age

The current energy policies, not only of this country, but the world…. What will we do to continue our course of petroleum dependencies? What actions will we justify to continue our addiction? The slippery slope of morality for continued power [...]

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Kissinger gets Freedom Award. ‘Ironic’ doesn’t begin to describe it

Kissinger gets Freedom Award. ‘Ironic’ doesn’t begin to describe it

Today aboard a ship in the New York City area, a disgusting excuse for a human being will be treated like a freakin’ hero. Today Henry Alfred Kissinger will receive the Intrepid Freedom Award. A ceremony at the Intrepid Sea, [...]

read more

Breasts

Breasts

A lot of people are talking about how brave Angelina Jolie is for announcing her preemptive double mastectomy strike due to being BRCA1 positive. And, yes, she is. So is Christina Applegate, who did the same.  Famous women who “come out” [...]

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Rise of the Machines: High Frequency Trading, ALGOBOTS, and Flash Crashes

Rise of the Machines: High Frequency Trading, ALGOBOTS, and Flash Crashes

In two minutes more, at 2:47, the market had lost 998.5 points. Estimated market value over 1 trillion dollars. Needless to say, loss at a rate of 2.84 billion dollars per second caused a panic.

read more

Bangladesh Presents a Lesson for May Day

Bangladesh Presents a Lesson for May Day

Occurring precisely one week before International Workers’ Day (May Day), the horrific collapse of a large factory building in Bangladesh came as a timely and tragic reminder of how crucial labor unions are to the welfare of workers. The executive [...]

read more

Indigenous Life

Indigenous Life

A stunning post from the FB feed:   There is a tribe in Africa where the birth date of a child is counted not from when they were born, nor from when they are conceived but from the day that [...]

read more

Earth Day Haikus and Music

Earth Day Haikus and Music

For Earth Day, I’ve decided to share some original poetry and a little music. First, there’s this haiku cycle I wrote and posted a few years ago at another location on the web: Green and blue planet Chokes, and feels [...]

read more

GREAT PROGRESSIVE VOICES (Part IX)!

GREAT PROGRESSIVE VOICES (Part IX)!

April 18, 2013  By Jack Jodell.  It has been some time since I have added a post to this series, which has highlighted a wide array of people from a great many walks of life. Each has, through progressive ideals and [...]

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Meadow

Meadow

It won’t start nice How will it end? I thought I lost this poem these words noted down rolling towards Vegas in the darkness The rumbling lingers the hidden, grotesque highway Invisible in the dark I heard a deep voice [...]

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Requiem

Requiem

A blue butterfly had alit upon the hallowed ground, its wings moving up and down as if a tiny engine idled within. It was unusual to see one in that part of San Francisco during the winter, and her friend [...]

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Welcome to the Most Toxic Place in America

Welcome to the Most Toxic Place in America

Picher Oklahoma The EPA has officially designated it as the most toxic place in America. Once one of the most productive lead and zinc mining areas in the world, providing jobs and money for the residents. But in 1967 mining [...]

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