Freedom
"Men and women can never be truly free until they have plenty to eat, and time and ability to read and think and talk things over."
- Henry A. Wallace[Click] (October 7, 1888 – November 18, 1965)
- Henry A. Wallace[Click] (October 7, 1888 – November 18, 1965)
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ReplyDeleteThanks, Catreona! 😊
Nice read about Wallace; thanks, Cat
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I was 12 years old in 1948. The meme I got at the time was that Wallace didn't think Truman was progressive enough -- although, in retrospect, Harry was a shade to the left of Bernie. But from the article it appears that the split was more about foreign policy than anything ese.
DeleteSpaceX loses Starship rocket eight minutes after second launch [Click] Garrett Reisman, a former Nasa astronaut, SpaceX consultant, and professor of astronautical engineering at the University of Southern California:
ReplyDelete"I think the benefit of this rapid development approach is even though things don't look good at first, when things are blowing up - you learn so much and so quickly that you actually do converge on the correct solution much faster than if you try to get something 100% perfect the first time," he told BBC News.
"SpaceX does seem to get there in the end."
—Alan
Yes.
DeleteIncreasingly use defamation law to ward off US election subversion [Click] “Rudy Giuliani and MyPillow’s Mike Lindell are among election deniers sued for defamatory statements regarding 2020 election.”
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Should have read:
Delete"Increasing use of defamation law to ward off US election subversion"
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As always, HCR says it best. Here's her synopsis of the Middle East mess
ReplyDeleteIf there is any good way out, it eludes me.
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US Hate Crimes Surge
ReplyDeleteThe articles don't mention Sikhs, who in view of past events have good reason to be apprehensive.
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[video] Judge Engoron slams Trump’s frivolous filing for a mistrial, dismisses it out of hand. [Click]
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A long read with some very difficult photographs, but important:
ReplyDeleteAt a Gaza hospital, a midwife brings new life and volunteers tend to the dead - Click
Another piece from Reuters:
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Dozens of migrants wait at Finland-Russia border after Helsinki blocks crossings - Click
ReplyDeleteI thought crossings had been nearly eliminated quite some time ago, but evidently not.
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Yestermorn I got up too quickly from bed and set off an episode of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo [BPPV]. [Fortunately I had kept a cane by the headboard in case of such need.] The conventional treatment, the Epley Maneuver, hadn’t ever done me much good, but I tried it again, and had the same minor result. Last night I found an alternative [Click] which I tried this morning; it is very promising, although a single try wasn’t enough.
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Anton Petrov [video] 76 Minute Long [Radio] Pulses Coming From the [Milky Way’s] Central Black Hole...Why, Though? [Click]
ReplyDeleteThanks for the video note! He's always so informative.
Deletehttps://www.mahablog.com/2023/11/17/todays-news-bits-6/#comments
ReplyDeleteThis lady is the first blogger I found after I got a computer, in 2003. She was part of a group of bloggers who blogged at The Atlantic, I followed. Shortly after, The Atlantic blog was disbursed, I followed her to her own blog and have been following ever since. She has her own group of commenters.
several years ago, a new one showed up. A FINE FINE FINE COMMENTER. His name was Doug. His picture, Yoda. This is who he was. . . . https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/15/gyrocopter-us-capitol-lawn-florida-mailman-campaign-finance-protest
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Hughes_(activist)
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