The world in 2015 review: a year of living dangerously We look back at the global spread of jihadi ideology and terror, tensions in international relations and a glimpse of hope in efforts to tackle climate change Simon Tisdall Wednesday 30 December 2015 05.21 GMT Good things did happen. Iran and the western powers reached a …
December 2015 archive
Dec 29 2015
Holiday Rave 2
In the late 80s my friend and I got into the DJ thing, mostly to advance our political careers with the club we were in. He had some new Bose 901s he was going to buy anyway and added a Soundcraftsman 500 W Amp and a really nice mixer board that crapped out after about …
Dec 29 2015
Stopped Clocks and Revolutionary Times
Cracks in the Liberal Order Ross Douthat, The New York Times DEC. 26, 2015 In the twenty-five years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the architecture of liberal modernity has looked relatively stable. Not flawless or wonderful or ideal, to be sure; not free of discontents and decadence. But it’s been hard to imagine …
Dec 29 2015
A License To Kill
Is anyone surprised at the decision by a Cleveland, Ohio grand jury’s vote not to indict the white police officer who fatally shot Tamir Rice, an African American 12-year-old? A grand jury declined to indict officer Timothy Loehmann, who opened fire on Tamir less than two seconds after arriving at a park where the 12-year-old …
Dec 29 2015
The Breakfast Club (Sunshine)
Welcome to The Breakfast Club! We’re a disorganized group of rebel lefties who hang out and chat if and when we’re not too hungover we’ve been bailed out we’re not too exhausted from last night’s (CENSORED) the caffeine kicks in. Join us every weekday morning at 9am (ET) and weekend morning at 10:30am (ET) to …
Dec 29 2015
Six In The Morning Tuesday December 29
Tamir Rice shooting: ‘Until cops start being jailed for killing black children like Tamir, they will continue killing us and hiding behind the legal system’ Tamir Rice was a 12-year-old boy playing with a toy gun. It also so happened he was black Terrell Starr New York Listening to Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy J McGinty explain why a …
Dec 28 2015
Holiday Rave 1
Used to do the DJ thing. Tusk Letters from the Garden of Stone Only It’s No Good The Killing Moon
Dec 28 2015
The Death of HAMP
Good riddance to bad rubbish. Obama Program That Hurt Homeowners and Helped Big Banks Is Ending by David Dayen, The Intercept Dec. 28 2015, 12:07 p.m. Perhaps no program of the Obama era did more significant — and possibly irreparable — damage to the promise of an activist government that can help solve the country’s …