Dawes:
Happy Hour: Cannonball Adderley Quintet – “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy” …
6 tips for protecting your communications from prying eyes
This is the latest in a series we’ve done about how to protect your privacy. This post is based on a tip sheet that I prepared for a panel discussion about how journalists can communicate securely with sources at the 2015 Investigative Reporters and Editors Conference. It’s easy to feel hopeless about privacy these days. In… Continue reading “6 tips for protecting your communications from prying eyes”
Panhandle Slim… Art for Folk…
‘Phones will ring for dead children’
The advent of religious Jewish terrorism
The Aftermath of Arson at the Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes at Tabgha, on the Sea of Galilee. The Launch of Religious Jewish Terrorism Once again, a Church is vandalized by Jewish extremists. This time, however, the religious motive is more overt. Instead of “price tag”, the graffiti quotes a passage from… Continue reading “The advent of religious Jewish terrorism”
Corporate media and the dangerous right-wing elephant in the room
Imagine, if you will, a movement that was spreading through a country, fueled by lies, hate and conspiracy theories, resulting in armed standoffs with authorities and mass shootings. Imagine a mass media that never, ever, EVER reports on the ideological agenda behind that violence, let alone dares to challenge it.
We don’t have to imagine it. It happens every day!
While the Fox News talking heads, talk radio and the Alex Joneses of this world are obvious influences, more insidious is the resolute silence on the part of the corporate “mainstream” media. How much did we hear about the Boston bombers? What books they read, who their friends were, what they looked at on the internet. Plenty, ad nauseum.
How much will we hear about the influences on the architect of this latest atrocity?
No, the shooter’s just another “troubled young soul.” (I just heard a black reporter say that on MSNBC, shaking his head and saying there was “no political solution” for people like that.)
Yes, troubled by a constant drumbeat of extreme, right-wing, racist insanity and conspiracy theories. Dear sweet Jesus.
Even token black Republican Michael Steele pointed out these are influences nobody wants to talk about.
All you media types need to grow up and start talking about the big, fat, racist, violent, right-wing elephant in the room. You have special protection under the Constitution for a reason: You’re supposed to be the watchdogs of the Republic. Do your frickin’ jobs for a change.
You provide no context for right-wing garbage. You rarely talk back, or call a lie a lie. You treat crazy people as if they’re sane, and worthy of support.
No wonder no one respects you. Your idea of “courage” is criticizing somebody’s hairdo on the red carpet.
‘We’ll never understand why it happened’
Said a tearful Nikki Halley, the S.C. governor who fought to preserve the flying of the Confederate flag over the state capitol. The shooter wanted to start a civil war, as a result of your party’s crazy rhetoric. Fuck you.
Will any of these Republicans ever stop playing dumb?
https://youtu.be/w7elw5ewEzw
Blaming the victim
Wish I was surprised, but I’m not:
NRA board member Charles Cotton blamed Clementa Pinckney, a victim of the shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, for his own death. He also blamed Pinckney, the pastor of Emanuel AME and a state senator, for the deaths of the other eight people killed.
As a state senator, Pinckney supported tougher gun regulations and opposed a bill that would have allowed people to carry concealed guns in churches. On TexasCHLForum.com, a message board, Cotton wrote that “Eight of his church members who might be alive if he had expressly allowed members to carry handguns in church are dead. Innocent people died because of his position on a political issue.”
Shooter ‘wanted to start a civil war’
You’d think he would have, I don’t know, mentioned it to somebody:
The roommate of the white, 21-year old man who allegedly massacred nine people at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina said Thursday that he thought the suspect had been planning the attack for about six months.
Dalton Tyler told ABC News that he’d known Dylann Storm Roof for about seven months to a year. Tyler told the news outlet that he last saw Roof about a week ago and knew he’d been planning something like the Charleston church attack “for six months.”
“He was big into segregation and other stuff,” Tyler told ABC News. “He said he wanted to start a civil war. He said he was going to do something like that and then kill himself.”