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How do we meet up with local people who want volunteer for Bernie Sanders?
I know it will be awhile before this gets going but I want to be in on the ground floor in my area.
Any advice about how to meet other people who are looking to do the same would be appreciated.
It's let's humiliate women day :-)
Let's Talk About Kim Novak
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So let’s say — just as a hypothetical for-instance — you are an 81-year-old star whose last movie was in 1991 and who hasn’t been to the Oscars in many a long year. Not that you were ever nominated for one in the first place; you were, after all, a sex symbol for most of your career. As the evening approaches, the anxiety sets in. Harsh lights, you think. High-definition cameras. And a public that remembers you chiefly as the ice goddess whose beauty once drove James Stewart to the brink of madness.
And even back then, when you were 25 years old, you worried constantly that no matter how you looked, it wasn’t good enough.
So a few weeks before the ceremony, you go to a doctor, and he says, “Relax honey. I have just the thing to make you fresh and dewy for the cameras.”
And you go to the Oscars, so nervous you clutch your fellow presenter’s hand. And the next day, you wake up to a bunch of cheap goddamn shots about your face.
Nice system we got here, isn’t it.
More: http://selfstyledsiren.blogspot.com/2014/03/lets-talk-about-kim-novak.html
I thought [Al Jazeera] was... maybe a little anti-semitic
Al Jazeera Mel Brooks interview:
http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/the-stream/the-stream-officialblog/2014/2/27/show-highlights-melbrooksjoinsthestream.html
Putin's daring abroad masks high risks at home
By Helen Womack
Sydney Morning Herald
March 03, 2014
Moscow: As Russia tightens its grip on Crimea and threatens other regions of Ukraine, it seems Western leaders can do little but wring their hands over the Kremlin’s neo-Soviet handling of its own “back yard”.
But President Vladimir Putin’s military response to the pro-European uprising in Kiev is a high-stakes gamble that could have massive repercussions for Russia itself and the man who has ruled without fair elections since 2000.
Analysts are comparing Russia’s intervention in Ukraine with the dirty little war it fought with Georgia in 2008, but on a geopolitical scale the current stand-off is much more serious. Civil war in Ukraine or war between Ukraine and Russia would make the conflicts in Yugoslavia in the 1990s pale and plunge the world into a new Cold War.
In The Moscow Times on Monday, commentator Victor Davidoff spoke of “Putin’s Crimean Anschluss”, comparing the Russian leader’s move into Ukraine to Hitler’s annexation of Austria and the Sudetenland prior to World War II. And all the West had done was to appease Putin, he said, noting that after Russia had prised the regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia from Georgia, it had been rewarded with membership of the World Trade Organisation.
More: http://www.smh.com.au/world/putins-daring-abroad-masks-high-risks-at-home-20140303-hvfxr.html
Putin's daring abroad masks high risks at home
By Helen Womack
Sydney Morning Herald
March 03, 2014
Moscow: As Russia tightens its grip on Crimea and threatens other regions of Ukraine, it seems Western leaders can do little but wring their hands over the Kremlin’s neo-Soviet handling of its own “back yard”.
But President Vladimir Putin’s military response to the pro-European uprising in Kiev is a high-stakes gamble that could have massive repercussions for Russia itself and the man who has ruled without fair elections since 2000.
Analysts are comparing Russia’s intervention in Ukraine with the dirty little war it fought with Georgia in 2008, but on a geopolitical scale the current stand-off is much more serious. Civil war in Ukraine or war between Ukraine and Russia would make the conflicts in Yugoslavia in the 1990s pale and plunge the world into a new Cold War.
In The Moscow Times on Monday, commentator Victor Davidoff spoke of “Putin’s Crimean Anschluss”, comparing the Russian leader’s move into Ukraine to Hitler’s annexation of Austria and the Sudetenland prior to World War II. And all the West had done was to appease Putin, he said, noting that after Russia had prised the regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia from Georgia, it had been rewarded with membership of the World Trade Organisation.
More: http://www.smh.com.au/world/putins-daring-abroad-masks-high-risks-at-home-20140303-hvfxr.html
A level headed article about Russia and the Ukraine
Many Ukrainians Want Russia To InvadeBy Simon Shuster
Time
March 01, 2014
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For the most part, what drove so many people to renounce their allegiance to Ukraine was a mix of pride and fear, the latter fueled in part by misinformation from Moscow. The most apparent deception came on Saturday morning, when the Russian Foreign Ministry put out a statement accusing the new government in Kiev of staging a “treacherous provocation” on the Crimean peninsula. It claimed that “unidentified armed men” had been sent from Kiev to seize the headquarters of the Interior Ministry police in Crimea. But thanks to the “decisive actions of self-defense battalions,” the statement said, the attack had been averted with just a few casualties. This statement turned out to be without any basis in fact.
Igor Avrutsky, who was the acting Interior Minister of Crimea during the alleged assault, told TIME the following afternoon that it never happened. “Everything was calm,” he says. Throughout the night, pro-Russian militiamen armed with sticks and shields had been defending the Crimean Interior Ministry against the revolutionaries, and one of the militia leaders, Oleg Krivoruchenko, also says there was no assault on the building. “People were coming and going as normal,” he says.
But the claims coming from Moscow were still enough to spread panic in eastern and southern Ukraine. On Saturday, pro-Russian activists in the Crimean capital of Simferopol staged a massive demonstration in the city, calling on residents to rally against the “Nazi authorities” who had come to power in Kiev. “What’s happening in Ukraine is terrifying,” says one of the organizers of the march, Evgenia Dobrynya. “We’re in a situation now where the country is ruled by terrorists and radicals.”
That is the picture of Ukraine’s new government propagated in the Russian media, the main source of information for millions of people in eastern and southern Ukraine. For months, Russian officials and television networks have painted the revolutionaries as a fascist cabal intent on stripping ethnic Russians of their rights. Much of the coverage has amounted to blatant scaremongering. The key posts in the new government, including the interim President and Prime Minister, have gone to pro-Western liberals and moderates, and they have pledged to guarantee the rights of all ethnic minorities. But some of their actions have given Russia plenty of excuses to accuse them of doing the opposite.
More: http://world.time.com/2014/03/01/many-ukrainians-want-russia-to-invade/
We're Running Out of Antibiotics
By Nicole Allan
The Atlantic
Feb 19, 2014
It’s difficult to imagine a world without antibiotics. They cure diseases that killed our forebears in droves, and enable any number of medical procedures and treatments that we now take for granted. Yet in 1945, while accepting a Nobel Prize for discovering penicillin, Alexander Fleming warned of a future in which antibiotics had been used with abandon and bacteria had grown resistant to them. Today, this future is imminent. Speaking to reporters last fall, Tom Frieden, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, sounded a similar alarm: “If we’re not careful, we will soon be in a post-antibiotic era. In fact, for some patients and some microbes, we are already there.”
More: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/03/were-running-out-of-antibiotics/357573/
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