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Good News For Free Speech: Lars Hedegard Acquitted!
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Sitting in the heart of the stunningly beautiful Baiersbronn-Obertal countryside in the Black Forest (Schwarzwald), the Schwanen Hotel, without a doubt, is located in one of the most breath-taking places in all of Germany.
Every part of Germany has its own charm and attractions and Schwarzwald is no exception – its wonderful environment with dense forests, rivers, romantic mountain lakes, fresh air, and numerous mineral springs provides a variety of outdoor pursuits for all guests to enjoy, and attracts both Germans and tourists from other European countries.
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Like all of IKEA's products, the dark lager (which translates to the easy-to-pronounce Öl Mörk Lager) and regular brew (called Öl Ljus Lager) come at a reasonable price of £1.75, about $2.75 USD.
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President Obama used his bully pulpit from the White House Rose Garden on Thursday to press Congress to end tax breaks for oil companies, seeking to tap Americans' frustration with gas prices in a populist pitch that has become a centerpiece of his re-election strategy.
Obama told lawmakers who were scheduled to vote Thursday on legislation that would end oil industry subsidies that they could either "stand with big oil companies, or they can stand with the American people."
"Right now, the biggest oil companies are raking in record profits – profits that go up every time folks like these pull into a gas station," he said. "But on top of these record profits, oil companies are also getting billions a year in taxpayer subsidies – a subsidy they've enjoyed year after year for the last century."
Republicans immediately shot back at Obama and congressional Democrats, saying ending the tax breaks for the industry would only worsen pain at the pump for cash-strapped families.
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For five weeks each year area children are invited to take part in an adventure right in their back yards.
The hosts its River Rangers program each year for five weeks during the summer. The program gives students the chance to learn about the environment and enjoy what is so close yet for many remains little more than an impassable border, the Navesink River.
The program is open to students throughout the Two River area.
On Thursday, about a dozen children loaded into handmade flat-bottom canoes and pushed out onto the Navesink. For many, instructors Courtney Davis and Pierre Joseph said, this is the first opportunity they've had to head out on the water.
"It's a technology-based world," Joseph said. "Every kid after school hurries homes and hops on their computer or on Facebook or just sits in front of the television. Not everyone knows about the river that's sitting right in their back yard."
Activities for the River Rangers spread out over five weekdays during each program session. Students, with the help of instructors and a variety of guest speakers, are invited to learn about the Navesink and Swimming rivers while experiencing it first hand. Children paddle, swim, and explore the area with the help of those who know it best.
"A lot of these kids don't have the opportunity to go out in the water," Davis said. "Many of them don't know how to swim, many have never even held a paddle before."
The benefits of the River Rangers program, aside from the fun and the education, are the confidence and pride it builds among its participants.
What happens, Joseph said, is that kids tackle things they might otherwise not have. After that first time they take to the canoe, or hop off a dock into the river, they're hooked, he said, and their entire outlook changes thereafter.
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Get Lit: DIY Wine Bottle Torch
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Cheap-o tiki torches are fine and dandy but they don't hold up to the outdoor elements very long before they need to be chucked into the garbage. Try this fresh take on torches using old wine bottles and basic hardware supplies and you'll have outdoor torches for many moons.
This clever DIY torch project comes to us from J. Paris Designs. And since there are usually more than a couple empty wine bottles lying around my house (hey, don't judge), the concept appeals to me.
The torch is made with a pine 2x2 board, 3/8" copper base plate, 1" copper pipe clamp, 3/8" copper coupling wrapped in teflon tape, 2" piece of 3/8" threaded rod and, of course, a wine bottle. There's even a place drilled into the top of the 2x2 for holding the torch's cap.
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Molotov Cocktail on a stick.
I have made these and smaller bottles work much better. You can see that the wick does not go to the bottom of the bottle...leaving about 4 inches of oil that never gets used..that's a real waste to me..I was not able to find the copper pieces to use in the post (previously) but I found a 1/2"x3/4" coupling in the plumbing dept. at Lowe's that works great...it has a lip around it that sits/rests perfectly onto the top edge of the bottle..just my 2 cents.
it's like a beckon to let your lady friends know it's drinkin' night ;)
Re Taherold's comment -- I wonder if some pebbles in the bottom of the bottle would displace the otherwise wasted oil. Just a thought.
I made these a few months ago. Look really cool mounted to fence along my patio. A couple of things that are problematic:
-Teflon tape burns up after first use, which then allows water to get in the bottle during rain. The water does not float or sink in the oil, rather it infuses almost.
-Clear bottles do not work. I don't know if it's the UV light from teh sun or what, but the citronella oil/tiki oil gets cloudy and funky very fast and will not burn.
-The wicks do not touch the bottom nor do they get fully immersed in oil, which causes them to dry out and they must be flipped to be able to burn.
Next time I would use short bottles such as half bottle champagne or even (if I can get my hands on 5-6) hendricks gin bottles, so that the light doesnt cause a problem and the wick is fully immersed.
This is so beyond awesome. And I love how the comments always suggest subtle improvements. Onto my list of must makes for the summer.
A torch... attached to a wooden post... next to a tree.
What could go wrong?
That flame looks like it's getting blown back a liiiittle close to the wood. I think the setup would be a little safer if the clamp was mounted closer to the top of the pole so that the flame has some more clearance.
is it just me or does the flame look scary close to the top of the wood post?
Cue "Fiiii-yur!"
I made some of these a few weeks ago. I used a 3/4" split ring coupler. I found 1/2" was too small for most bottles so I can't imagine 3/8" would work for most people. Also, I cut the rod to about 4". That gives you plenty of distance from the flamable mounting surface (I just mount them to porch and fence posts). Also, I added glass marbles to the bottles to reduce the amount of oil below the wick.
Hehe Like the title of the post: "Get Lit"! Yes, let's.
Thank you for the morning giggle, Rusty Patina. I was thinking the exact same thing. :-X
All kidding aside... is this safe? 'Cause if it is, I am SOOOO in.
I just don't wanna turn my home into a funeral pyre.
Seems to me that you run the risk of the glass getting hot. I would worry about the danger that this might pose to children or drunk/ stupid people.
The Teflon tape isn't the only way water gets in, AC2008, water will actually travel down the wick and that's probably why your oil won't burn - it can't get past the water going down the wick. Our torches will eventually get waterlogged regardless of how they're mounted or sealed. Our solution has just been to put cups over the top of them when we're done to keep the rain off the wick. Not that classy, but very effective.
Hey Everyone! This is my project (thanks for the feature!!). After I wrote the blogpost, I did add pebbles to the bottom of each bottle because the oil was unusable past the wick. Now they work great!!
I will definitely try the pebbles/marbles trick and @meecee thanks for the cup idea!
I'm here to let everyone rest assured on the "safety features" of this project: for everyone who is worried about the "nearby" tree...it's actually about 8 feet behind the torch. As far as the glass getting hot, I haven't had any problems, and that is with the torch being lit all evening. The top of the 2x2 does get some black soot when the flame is near it, but has never appeared to be "catching on fire". Not sure that this would be any different if it were mounted to a wooden fence. I thought about making the threaded rod pieces longer, but since they are stuck in the ground, it would make them top heavy and I was more concerned with tipping over. As far as water getting in, I put a copper pipe cap over the wick when not in use. The teflon tape really isn't necessary in the long run because the coupling needs pulled out every now and then to refill the bottle. I've had these up for about 2 months and have used them at least a dozen times with zero problems. I encourage you to try it out (all supplies were purchased at Home Depot) :)
All for DIY, but really, tiki torches are pretty cheap. Why bother?
@JESS@JPARISDESIGNS, The top of the 2x2 does get some black soot when the flame is near it, but has never appeared to be "catching on fire".
If it's close enough to get soot-stained, then I'm pretty sure it's close enough to be dangerous. If the wood gets heated to a high enough temperature for a long enough period of time, it can still combust regardless of if the flames actually touched it or not.
This version from Design Sponge appears to have a much safer clearance -- 4.5" compared to your 2".
Yeah, was I the only one that thought about crediting Design Sponge?
This thing is such an eyesore.
Even worse than tiki torches, which are also hideous.
I can't see not thinking "Molotov Cocktail"


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Just back from this superb hotel, loved everything about it. Searched for weeks and months to find our 'Ideal ' hotel and eventually found it.
It lived up to all our expectaions after being bitterly disappointed in other hotels year after year.
Loved the hotel decor and the small things that mae it memorable- like on arrival my two children were given a soft toy momento of bibione, went to our room, a harmony suite which was great, pool towels in the wardrobe and safe card at the ready- no prepayment for either !
Everyday the maid came in with a wee bag of haribo sweets for the kids and chocolates for us and left them on our pillow with a good night card,.
Room and hotel spotless not a spot of dirt or cockroach in sight. Main Pool and kids pool excellant. Play park for kids with 2 trampolines, swings, slides and loads of other activities to keep them occupied. Mini club great with plenty of entertainers, my eldest loved the mini disco!
We stayed on the half board option and being very fussy about our food, it was excellant in every way. Dinner is only part buffet, as in salads ,some starters and desserts. Everything else chosen from the menu and served to you, Our little girl is Coeliac and they were fantastic at advising what she could have from the menu or making her gluten free pasta .
Plenty of bikes to see the area and pushchairs to use. Bibione itself is a great resort with plenty of life about it. Lots to see and do with a brillant beach that stretches for miles.
Don't know what hotel that other person was staying at that only gave the bibione palace 1 cause i disagree with everything he said. no problem with lifts either and we were there in high season.
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What do people think of those doors sold at Lowes that have children cartoons on one side and a solid color on the other? I wonder how hard it is to install and if worth it when my kids will probably grow out of it so fast ...
I saw a commercial on TV for those doors and thought at first ,Wow they are cool but than I thought the same thing what happens when they grow out of them. They probably could be primed and painted over.
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A few questions: Are these ready checks being written from a 10 man PoV? I understand you may put what the different abilities may be for the 25 vs 10 man encounters, but on this particular fight, Thorim 10 man is WAY different that 25 man. 25 man seems to have WAY more mobs in the arena and they seem to be WAY stronger, both hp and dmg wise. How are people handling these? We seem to be falling short in the arena every time and weve been working on this guy for weeks. When we just go aoe frenzy the tank whos tanking the commoners cant hold the new waves. When we go single target mode mobs dont seem to die fast enough. We usually have say 4-5 healers in the arena, our two tanks (DK and Warr) and 10-ish DPS with them. We send 1 tank, 2 healers and the rest of our dps to the tunnel. The tunnel team usually gets just past the first golem before the arena team dies. Weve tried putting more dps in the tunnel to speed it up, hell we even tried almost all dps in the tunnel and speed clearing it, but the arena team just gets over run! Do you see anything wrong with what we are doing? Is there any advice you can give up?
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We spent a long time on Thorim 25. We use 2 tanks in the arena, one stand beneath Thorim and the other in the center of the room. For the one under Thorim, there is a 4 tile square right next to the center circle. If he stands in the center there, he will get most of the aggro.
The tank outside the center is responsible for holding the champions, while the tank in the center pulls as much as he can to himself. This keeps the fight relatively controlled. We use a SP to MC one of the warbringers, but we've also done it without the shadow priest when they're unavailable.
As before, inside the arena is mostly melee. We focus evokers, then non-MC'd warbringers, and then finally AOE everything else. The damage from the champion tank and the AOE damage seems to keep the champions from piling up.
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We just downed him on 25 man tonight. We had out best geared tank (a DK) go in the gauntlet - that group had 10 people and I think only one healer. We ended up successfully completing the fight with 3, yes 3 tanks in the arena (DK[myself], Paladin, and a Druid). The druid would mostly tank the Warbringers (maybe it was champions) away from everyone else a bit while the pally and I spammed all our AoE abilities and took everything else. Still a very tough fight - we wiped a lot perfecting this (after using only the pally and myself as tanks in the arena for awhile).
Once phase 2 began, all the tanks stacked on Thorim in the middle circle and would taunt off each other when one had the Unbalancing Strike debuff.
Also of note is that the pally and I had DnD and Consecration up as much as possible in the middle circle of the arena as a kind of "safe" tanking zone where at least one of us would be pulling more threat than the dps/healers.
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October 3, 2011
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On July 18, the world's largest publicly-traded tobacco company, Philip Morris International (NYSE: PM), reported its earnings for the second quarter. The company missed its earnings' estimates by $0.11, mainly due to currency fluctuations.
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According to the company, Europe's weak economy, unfavorable currency fluctuations and high excise taxes were the reasons behind a 6% decline in shipments. As Philip Morris only operates outside the U.S., a strong dollar compared to other currencies shrank company's revenues. China's slow economic growth also led to a lesser demand of cigarettes.
In Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa, shipments were down by 3.6%. In Canada and South America, total shipments decreased by 2.4%. Due to a recent tax increase in Philippines, volume fell 3.5% in Asia.
Revenue slipped 3.5% in the EU and 5.7% in Asia. However, South America and Eastern Europe saw a revenue jump of 1.1% and 1.4% respectively.
Costs associated with manufacturing and selling of cigarettes increased 1% to $2.7 billion. Cigarette shipments fell 4% to 228.9 billion cigarettes amid volume declines across the globe.
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After posting its second-quarter results, Philip Morris also lowered its full-year profit guidance. The company now expects to earn $5.43 to $5.53 per share, down from its April guidance of $5.55 to $5.65. In the next quarter, analysts expect Philip Morris to earn $1.45 a share on total revenue of $7.99 billion. For the full year, analysts' expectations stand at $5.46 per share on $31.55 billion revenue.
Going forward
The long term future of Philip Morris depends largely on global economic conditions and the U.S. dollar. With China reporting a second consecutive quarter of slow economic growth, cigarette demand is bound to remain low in the country. Just like China, Europe's economic downturn would result in meager revenues for the company. Further, more taxes and smoking bans across the EU won't help the cause either. As more and more people are getting health-conscious in East Asia, Philip Morris isn't expected to grow significantly over there. As there are no major smoking bans in Africa, South Asia, and Latin America, the company would be able to increase its volume in these regions.
During the last few months, the Australian dollar (AUD) has lost more than 10% of its value, relative to the U.S. dollar. As a result, Philip Morris has suffered a lot in the Australian region. As AUD keeps on losing its value, things don't look better for the company. A weak Yuan would further reduce Philip Morris's profits in China. The same is the case with South Asian and African currencies. However, a stronger Yen and Euro would enhance company's income to some extent. Thanks to a stable Canadian dollar, the North American region looks better.
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Recently, British American Tobacco (NYSEMKT: BTI) completed a joint venture with I.M.U Enterprise in Myanmar that would enable it to manufacture, distribute and market its products in the local market. The company has plans to invest $50 million in the project during the next five years. According to British American Tobacco, this project would help the company in regaining a significant market share in the country.
British American Tobacco is trading at a forward Price/Earnings (P/E) ratio of 14.40 and yields a high dividend of 5.40%. It has a Price/Earnings to Growth (PEG) rate of 1.71 and a Price Earnings to Growth for the Year (PEGY) of 1.1, making it one of the most undervalued stocks in its industry. A mean recommendation of 2 on the sell side reflects that it's one of the better buys in the tobacco industry.
On the other hand, the American holding company, Vector Group (NYSE: VGR) reported a 7% decline in its revenues during the first quarter, 2013. One of the main reasons behind this low revenue was a 10% decline in company's unit sales. However, its operating income increased 23% to $43.1 million. One of the hallmarks of Vector is its super high dividend yield of 9.70%. Further, its cash per share ($4.83) is almost three times its current annual dividend, depicting its strong liquidity. Therefore, it's a great buy for dividends.
Philip Morris International will be successful in increasing its volume across Africa, South Asia and Latin America. However, with the U.S. dollar going strong, Philip Morris won't be able to mint substantial incomes during the second half of 2013. In addition, weak economic conditions in Europe and China would further weaken its growth prospects. In short, I remain neutral on Philip Morris International.
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Sonatina (Prelude, Intermezzo, Coda)1 Reviews
It is four o'clock on a Wednesday afternoon in March, when Kyouya concludes that he is never, ever going to fall in love.
I. Prelude
Oh hungry days, in the footsteps of fools...
It is four o'clock on a Wednesday afternoon in March, when Kyouya concludes that he is never, ever going to fall in love.
He is drinking coffee with a girl from Class 3-A (Matsuhira Keiko, heiress to the Matsuhira Electronics empire), listening to her plans for a weekend trip to Lyon. A nasty headache is drilling in deep between his eyes, but his smile is affable, attentive, and if he can just bear it a little longer, he thinks he can talk her into a reservation for the Host Club's Wisteria Festival--an exclusive limited-appointment event, in May.
So far today, they've discussed books, fine art, fashion, and travel. He's learned that Keiko-san likes English poetry, adores Vermeer, prefers Italian shoes to any other, and is considering purchasing a French villa. He keeps up his end of the conversation more than adequately; entertaining her, drawing her out, while simultaneously overseeing the rest of the Club in his peripheral vision, and in the back of his mind thinking that if this is what courtship is like, dear God, he wants nothing to do with it.
His headache is a sharp-edged, persistent thing, burrowing mercilessly through his skull into the soft tissue of his brain. While Keiko-san debates the merits of a country cottage versus a townhouse, Kyouya clenches his fists under the table, so tight he can feel his nails cutting into his palms.
The smart thing to do, obviously, would be to call Tamaki over. Let him rhapsodize at the girl about France and country cottages, charm her until she couldn't see straight, until she was ready to make fifty reservations to the damned Wisteria Festival, while Kyouya went to lay in the storeroom with the drapes pulled tight, and a cold compress over his eyes.
But of course he can't call Tamaki, because Tamaki is currently out of commission, for all practical purposes. He's crouched on his knees again, peeking around the bottom edge of a loveseat, pale with inarticulate longing, watching Haruhi entertain Kasanoda Ritsu for the second day in a row.
Kasanoda is looking a bit pale himself these days, Kyouya notes; anyone but Haruhi would be terrified at the way he fixates on her, and just like that, Kyouya has his epiphany: Tamaki and Kasanoda are both idiots. And he, Ootori Kyouya, will not ever under any circumstances suffer this outrageous indignity people call love.
His headache eases off a notch, and he forces his hands to open, determined to make the most of his reprieve.
"Can I offer you more coffee, Keiko-san?" He pitches his voice low, adding a calculated hint of gleam to his smile. He's looking through her, to the goal he means to achieve in the next three minutes, but she needn't know that.
His attention flusters her briefly, and she has to catch her breath. "Y-yes, please."
His smile broadens, and he drops to an even quieter, more intimate tone. "When you've returned from your trip, perhaps you'll consider joining me again, for a special afternoon our Club is planning...."
II. Intermezzo
The end, oh the end
We live again
Oh, I grow weary of the end.
For all that she is a spendthrift, and occasionally scatterbrained, Hashima Takara is a decent, honest person. And so Kyouya is not outraged or angry when she tells him she cannot marry him after all, but he is surprised.
"I'm sorry," she says, and her regret is touching. "But I don't believe you really love me. Or that you ever will."
Her timing could be better. They're on their way to Opening Night at the Tokyo Opera, where he's reserved his family's box seats. And of course the entire point of going is not to see the Opera (he never cared for Puccini), but to be seen at this prestigious social engagement, in the company of his financee. So it takes a moment for Kyouya to get his bearings in this new predicament, to work out the ramifications of this sudden change in his options.
"It's too late to cancel the reservation," he thinks aloud. Then, "Do you wish me to escort you home?"
Takara smiles sadly at him, eyes glimmering in the car's dim light, matching the sparkle of the diamonds around her neck. Truly she is exquisite, and so well-bred. It's a pity she won't marry him.
"I'm talking about love, Kyouya. Not obligation," she says quietly. "I hope to be with someone who makes that distinction the same way I do."
He considers that, considers the ring on her finger, worth tens of millions, and the society columnists waiting at the Opera House.
"Perhaps I am old-fashioned after all," he suggests, and whether it's true or not, at least it gives her disappointment something to blame.
Neither his parents nor hers married for love; it was a known fact. And while he holds no particular opinion one way or another vis-a-vis arranged marriage, he has seen firsthand that love is not vital to a successful match. That it is possible to leave those pale fixated longings out of the equation, and still have something viable to both parties.
They go to the Opera anyway, avoiding the red carpet at the main entrance, entering quietly at the side door pointed out by his security detail. Kyouya mainly ignores the performance in favor of picking out faces he knows in the audience. Business moguls, celebrities, Prefecture officials, and a group from the Prime Minister's staff down in the Orchestra section.
When the curtain falls on the second act, he becomes aware of Takara's eyes on him, and turns.
"I am fond of you," he points out, figuring he may as well state this one fact in his favor.
"I know, Kyouya-kun." Smiling as always, but he can see in her eyes that she is already gone. The engagement ring sits heavy in his breast pocket, wrapped in his handkerchief. He wonders if it would be considered a sin of opportunism, or merely poor taste, if he made a profit on its resale. He can always donate it to a charity auction, and get the tax break.
Satisfied with that solution, he goes back to perusing the faces in the audience, choosing those few he will greet at intermission. There is a rustle of silk and a sigh next to him, as the curtain rises on Act Three. Really, it's not so very different from sitting alone, and Kyouya is used to that.
III. Coda
When will children learn to let their wildernesses burn?
And love will be new, never cold or vacant...
More years pass, and it is two o'clock on a Sunday morning in November, when Kyouya turns to the most terrifyingly honest person he knows, and says, "It's not that I'm afraid. I'm simply not convinced that love is indispensable to a satisfactory partnership."
They're seated on an old scrolled-iron bench, at the playground near Haruhi's home. He's still wearing the suit for his third engagement party, canceled at the last minute when his latest former fiancee called in tears, apologizing profusely; it wasn't him, it was her, stumbling over the words. He volunteered to contact the event planner; she sounded in no shape for the task. Between hiccuping sobs, the lady promised to return the ring by courier. Kyouya was tempted to tell her to just keep it.
Haruhi burrows deeper into the coat he loaned her, and gives him a skeptical eye. "If you really believed that, then you'd choose someone who thinks the same thing. Instead, it sounds like you only pick women who do want to marry for love, so really, the whole situation is doomed to failure from the beginning."
"Isn't that a tad cynical?" he asks reprovingly, and she stares at him.
"You dragged me out of bed in the middle of the night, out into the cold, to discuss something you claim not to believe in, for two hours, without listening to a single thing I've told you. And you think I sound cynical? Honestly, Senpai."
"I never claimed that....never mind." He isn't here to quibble with her, he's here in hopes that one of her startling practical insights might surface, and show him where he's gone wrong. It's a long shot, but really it's his last hope for understanding why every suitable woman he's encountered is disinclined, one way or another, to agree to a marriage contract with him.
"Did you ever think," she muses, "about being with someone because they make you happy?"
"Happy?" he scowls, disappointed. "Please tell me you're joking." What a naive, simplistic, impossible notion.
Haruhi juts her chin up from his coat lapels. "What's wrong with happiness? People make relationships with it all the time."
"Weak criteria." Kyouya shakes his head, and starts counting off points on his fingertips. "It's tenuous, subjective, completely unreliable for the long term--"
"And you were doing so well with your other standards," she interrupts dryly. "I'll bet you've never even considered what makes you happy before."
"Don't be absurd. Plenty of things make me happy."
"Really? Like what?"
It wasn't longing if you only watched, he'd reasoned all along. If you only checked in every so often to see how she was getting on, asked after her father, otherwise kept on with the life that was laid out for you. MBA degree, penthouse in Tokyo, high-rise corner office, cocktails with the heiresses, Puccini with ex-fiancees.....
"I'm not certain this is a wise digression," he murmurs, pushing his glasses up, pinching the bridge of his nose, contemplating behind his closed eyes a vast and complex equation which could've been made so much simpler, had he only used different variables at the outset. Variables he'd been keeping careful, quiet tabs on for years, and yet had never dared examine too closely, lest it interfere with the pact he'd made with himself back in another lifetime.
He wasn't going to fall in love. He wasn't going to wither and die just because she was three meters off pouring Kasanoda more tea from the Pitcairns set, and hadn't so much as looked his direction since 3:18pm yesterday afternoon....
"Senpai?" The soft query calls him back to the present; he feels her tentative hand on his shoulder, and remembers those old chronic headaches, how they had pounded away behind his eyes for days sometimes, because he stubbornly refused to admit the pain might belong anywhere else. Somewhere in the middle of his ribcage perhaps; fifteen centimeters or so below his collarbone, slightly left of center.
"Senpai, is something wrong?"
"No," he shakes his head, sighs heavily. It wasn't pining if he observed that every year she grew a little lovelier and seemed, (maybe on a crisp winter night, after a few glasses of wine in her small homey kitchen) a touch more melancholy than he remembered.
And really, strictly speaking, it still isn't pining if what he wants more than anything is just this; her friendly hand on his shoulder and her voice close by, telling him soothing, sensible things.
Things like, "Look, it can't be all that bad. Why not try finding someone you really like, and see what happens?"
All right then, perhaps not so soothing. Clearly he needs to quit seeking reassurances, and pull himself together.
"It isn't that simple, Haruhi." Fidgeting with his glasses. "You forget I've had personal bodyguards since I could walk. My position requires me to maintain advantageous relationships--"
"Forget about the abstractions," she waves him off impatiently. "I'm talking about what you want for yourself, something just for you, that you'd give anything to keep."
Her aim--as always--is sharp enough to make him wince, but he soldiers forward anyway.
"Those things have nothing to do with--"
"Kyouya." She halts his contradiction again, this time with one hand cupped against his cheek; the unexpected touch silencing him as completely and effectively as his name--his proper name--on her lips.
"You have to put your heart into it. That's how it works."
Her tone is so earnest, and her fingers so cold, and when he musters the nerve to open his eyes, it's the last straw. He glimpses her smile, and knows he's done for, as eight years of studiously repressed desire blaze up, like a brush fire given the breath of a strong wind.
He feels it break loose in him; a hot, ungovernable hunger set to consume all the years of hard intellectual labor required to maintain his illusions, every article of misdirected faith, every meticulously placed card in an Imperial city made of them.
Fine. Let it all burn, Kyouya thinks. He's aware that he must look fairly stricken, but Haruhi's smile remains steady, warm, just as it has all these years. And yet there's something new in there. Something he is startled to recognize.
Slowly he reaches up, touches the tender hand upon his cheek.
"How long have you waited?" His voice sounds tight and gravelly to his own ears, and he swallows, forces himself to hold her gaze, though it takes every bit of his courage.
Haruhi's fond, exasperated sigh suggests a considerable amount of time; that for whatever reason, she still puts up with him, and maybe never minded that much after all. It's not that her sighs are particularly eloquent; he just knows them so well by now. "You know it's silly to sit out here and freeze, when my perfectly comfortable kitchen is right across the street."
He calculates the distance in a quick glance, wonders if he's really up for crossing the street, in the aftermath of a life-changing epiphany. Wonders if he even dares let her out of his sight now.
"Come on. I'll make you coffee," she says.
Well. There's something to be said for that.


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No Indictment in Cop Killing of John Crawford III at Wal-Mart
Student leaders in Ohio plan further mobilizations in the wake of the failure of a Green County, Ohio, grand jury to indict the police who shot 22-year-old John Crawford III, on August 5. Crawford was killed while talking on his cell phone and handling a toy air rifle on display at the store. "I'm a direct reflection of John Crawford," said Jovan Webster, of the Ohio Student Association. "I'm around the same age, same color, same culture. Me holding a candy bar is threatening in America."
Change of Mayor in New York, but No Change in Police Behavior
Statistics show that New York City police arrested virtually the same number of Black and brown people on petty "quality of life" charges in 2014 as during the previous year, despite the intervening election of "liberal" mayor Bill de Blasio. "The current NYPD is continuing the same harsh, aggressive 'broken windows' type of policing that characterized the [Mayor Michael] Bloomberg years," said Robert Gangi, executive director of the Police Reform Organizing Project.
Bias Against Black Women and Girls Not a Priority
A new study released by the National Women's Law Center and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund says more attention needs to be paid to specific bias against Black females. The report is titled "Unlocking Opportunity for African American Girls: A Call to Action for Educational Equity." According to the law center's Fatima Goss Graves, "the suspension rate for African American girls is around 12 percent, which is far higher than any other group of girls and higher than most groups of boys." Black women are the only major group for whom joblessness has not declined, and 43 percent of Black women without a high school diploma live in poverty.
Palestine and Ferguson: The Parallels of Oppression
The Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz Center, formerly the Audubon Ballroom, hosts "The World Stands with Palestine" rally on October 11, in New York's Harlem. "There are so many parallels" between the plight of the Palestinian people and the oppression of Blacks in the U.S., said Dr. Robyn Spencer, professor of history at Lehman College and an organizer of the rally. "The reality of occupation; economic underdevelopment of Palestinian territories; the ways in which daily life is militarized; the cultural appropriation – the parallels are really strong," said Dr. Spencer. The lineup includes Mumia Abu Jamal, Rebel Diaz and a host of other speakers and cultural icons.
Don't Cheer Obama Just Because You Hate ISIS
Speaking to a teleconference of UNAC, the United National Anti-War Coalition, activist academic Dr. Vijay Prashad said peace forces must challenge those who think "imperialism is a hammer that can be used for the purposes of the Left." The same argument was made in 2011, when the U.S. and its allies bombed the government of Muammar Gaddafi out of existence, resulting in disaster for the people of Libya, said Prashad, a professor of history and international relations at Trinity College, in Hartford, Connecticut.
Obama Displays Phenomenal "Chutzpah" at UN
Paul Street, the author and activist who has followed Barack Obama's career since the early days in Chicago, says the president reached new heights of hypocrisy and "chutzpah" at the United Nations, last week. Obama claims to be "outraged at the brutality of ISIS," said Street, but the U.S. "killed 500,000 Iraqi children through economic sanctions in the 1990s." The president cites ISIS's "Network of Death," but "the U.S. maintains more than 1,000 military installations across more than 100 sovereign nations. Is that not a 'Network of Death?'" Street is author of The Empire's New Clothes: Barack Obama and the Real World of Power.
Mumia: The U.S. is the Architect of Destruction
Everything Washington touches turns to chaos and death, said Mumia Abu Jamal, the nation's best known political prisoner. Libya and Iraq "are horrific examples of U.S. interventions that have plunged both societies into deadly hell-scapes," said Abu Jamal, in a report for Prison Radio. Obama's war in Syria promises more suffering for the country's people, who Washington treats as "collateral damage."
Atlanta Hosts Celebration of Rwanda's Criminal Regime
"Rwanda Day" – a public relations event showcasing an economy fueled by the systematic plundering of neighboring Congo's resources and the slaughter of six million Congolese – was nevertheless a popular destination for some Black American notables, who registered their approval of Rwandan dictator Paul Kagame. The warlord's regime has amassed lots of loot, said Black Agenda Report managing editor Bruce Dixon, and the Black political class "wants a cut."
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Will America's Black Political Class Join In the Spoils of the Rape of Congo? Andy Young & Jesse Jackson Say It's OK.
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
The table set with the loot from 5 million dead in neighboring Congo, the largest genocide on earth since World War 2, Rwandan president Paul Kagame is inviting America's black political class to join him in the profitable spoils... contracts, careers and more, blessed by the likes of Andy Young and Rev. Jesse Jackson.
The Big Switch: Obama Preparing to Bomb His Way to Regime Change in Syria
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford
The U.S. bombing campaign over Syria has two objectives: (1) "ISIS must be punished, to reduce its appeal to the jihadist rank and file, who make up the bulk of effective fighters arrayed against the Syrian state; and (2), jihadists that remain loyal to their paymasters must be rewarded with victories on the battlefield, through U.S. air power. Obama will switch quickly to direct air aggression against the Syrian State.
The Black Caucus "Left" Wing Crumbles Before Obama's War Machine
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford
It took just three years for most Americans to conclude that George Bush's war in Iraq should come to an end. But, after three years of failure in Syria, Congress has given Barack Obama another shot. "The reason Obama's wars have such longer shelf-life, is that Democrats will not oppose him, including such luminaries of the Black Caucus left wing as John Conyers and Maxine Waters."
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Freedom Rider: An Evening with Nicolas Maduro
By BAR Editor and Senior Columnist Margaret Kimberley
Venezuelan President Maduro, in the spirit of his predecessor, Hugo Chavez, visited the Bronx on his way to the United Nations General Assembly opening session. Maduro is eager to speak to Americans about "social struggle," even as the U.S. government attempts to strangle his country's revolution. Heroic Venezuela, "whose only crime is to ... try to transcend capitalism."
My Wise Country Cousin on the Congressional Black Caucus
by BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
Dem Negroz par-tay livin' hi on de hog—
We's han to mouf, shot down lak a dog!
My Enemy's Enemy Is Not My Friend
by Dr. Wilmer J. Leon, III
The United States military doesn't scare ISIS, which welcomes a showdown. Even Muslim foes of ISIS know that U.S. policy in the Middle East is "about carving up continents like pieces of meat, installing compliant dictators, and violently removing them when they no longer serve a purpose."
The Democratic Party Should Lose its "Lesser Evil" Privileges
by Danny Haiphong
Desperate to keep control of the Senate, the Democrats are appealing to Blacks and others whose interests they have routinely betrayed. The political monopoly of the two business parties traps the non-rich classes in a dead end. "Workers and oppressed people must choose between the imperatives both Parties agree upon or accept prevailing social conditions." Whichever side wins, the people lose.
High Time to Build a Movement of Solidarity to End the UN's Occupation of Haiti
by Ajamu Nangwaya
For ten years the people of Haiti have been subjected to foreign rule and denial of their most basic human rights. Solidarity with Haiti must be expressed in action. "We need to be nimble and swift in putting together initiatives demanding an immediate withdrawal of the UN's army of occupation."
15 US Lawmakers Ask Haiti Senate to Make Way for Mock Elections
by Ezili Dantò
As if overthrowing Haiti's democratically elected government and stealing the country's sovereignty were not enough, a gaggle of U.S. congresspersons are attempting to intervene directly in Haiti's election processes. Haitian patriots totally reject their meddling. "The people of Haiti are LOUDLY and most democratically asking for an END to the US occupation of Haiti behind UN guns."
Why the U.S. Government Assassinated Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Reviewed by Roger Hollander
Roland Sheppard's classic book on the killing of the two giants of the Black Freedom Movement of the Sixties has been reissued. Sheppard witnessed Malcolm's assassination, and recognized the hit man later that day "walking freely" into an office in a Harlem police station. The government believed that, to preserve the system, Malcolm and King must die.
Ebola, Cholera and the Epidemiology of Anti-Blackness – Or, Black Lives Don't Matter
by BAR editors and columnists Peter James Hudson and Jemima Pierre
Mass Black death results from degrading diseases like cholera and ebola because the powerful white world believes Blacks deserve no better. "The response to cholera in Haiti and Ebola in West Africa has been strikingly similar": feigned concern but substantive neglect and contempt for people brought low by historical and cotemporary global white supremacy.
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Obama Plans "Rebel" Assault on Damascus Under U.S. Air Cover
The "real objective" of President Obama's latest mobilization in the Middle East is to deploy U.S. air power to support a renewed "rebel" assault on Damascus, the Syrian capital, from the south, said veteran human rights activist Ajamu Baraka. Washington's plan remains "to engage in regime change in Syria," which is why it gave ISIS and other jihadist groups "the green light" to ravage that nation for the last three years. The U.S. is "playing with forces that they think they can control, but history has already proven that those forces have agendas of their own" and are not controllable, said Baraka, an editor and columnist for Black Agenda Report.
Ohio Students Press for Federal Intervention in Police Killing of John Crawford III
Twenty-three year-old John Crawford III was shopping at a local Wal-Mart in Green County, Ohio, examining a toy air rifle on display and talking on his cell phone, when police shot him dead, August 5. The Ohio Students Association and two other young people's organizations, fearing a whitewash by an "old boys network," have launched an extended campaign to compel the U.S. Justice Department to enter the case. The state attorney general was a prosecutor in Green County, as is his daughter, and the officer that shot Crawford killed another man in 2010, but was never indicted, said student organizer James Hayes. "Young people are coming of age at a time where this violence is so common, it's predictable," said Hayes. "We're in this for the long haul; we've got our eyes on the prize."
U.S. Prison Population on the Rise Again
The nation's prison population increased slightly in 2013, after a three-year downward trend. Marc Mauer, executive director of The Sentencing Project, points out that the recent period of decline "only happened after nearly 40 years of record historic rises in the inmate population to more than two million people behind bars." Three states – New Jersey, New York and California – were responsible for much of the previous decreases, with California under court order to reduce its prison population. Those who thought mass incarceration could be cured by "tinkering around the edges" of the system, were wrong, said Mauer. "This is the result of centuries of a racist history, particularly in the justice system."
"Rwanda Day": Propaganda Based on Lies
Thousands flocked to Atlanta to celebrate – or protest against – "Rwanda Day," a yearly public relations event staged by the Rwandan government of dictator and warlord Paul Kagame. The minority, Tutsi-dominated regime and its western backers claim Kagame's military stopped the Rwandan genocide in 1994, and then brought prosperity to the country. But the truth is far different, said Claude Gatebuke, a genocide survivor and executive director of the African Great Lakes Action Network. Rwanda's relative prosperity is based on "billions of dollars in diamonds and coltan and other minerals stolen from" the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo, where Rwandan and Ugandan troops unleashed a genocide that has claimed six million lives.
Aristide Under House Arrest in Haiti
Former Haitian president Jean Bertrand Aristide, who was overthrown by the U.S. in 2004, is under house arrest on orders of a judge allied with the U.S.-backed current president, Michel "Sweet Mickey" Martelly. The vague charges against Aristide – of stealing public funds while in office – are "completely bogus" and create a climate reminiscent of "the bad old days" under the Duvalier dictatorship, said Pierre Labossiere, co-founder of the Haiti Action Committee. Labossiere said it's all part of a scheme to "smear Fanmi Lavalas," Aristide's political party, and once again "banish them from elections" – or to cancel elections altogether and allow Martelly to rule by decree.
Mumia: The Lures of War
The 2008 version of Barack Obama looked to many "like the antidote to the bellicosity of George W. Bush," said Mumia Abu Jamal, the nation's best known political prisoner. But, once in office, "the lures of war have been almost impossible to resist." The U.S. has reportedly launched 94,000 drone strikes in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Libya, Somalia and Yemen. How many people have died? "We don't know," said Abu Jamal – and most Americans "don't care."
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Naming-and-Shaming the Black Caucus
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Silence implies assent, which is why activists in Washington, DC, will loudly and clearly denounce the Congressional Black Caucus for its collective crimes against Black people, social justice and the cause of world peace. The "Shame on the Congressional Black Caucus" will give the Black lawmakers the credit they deserve for supporting Apartheid Israel, working to end Net Neutrality, and militarizing local police.
The Black Political Class? The Congressional Black Caucus? These Joes Ain't Loyal
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Why does the Congressional Black Caucus endorse Israeli apartheid? Why do our black mayors embrace gentrification, our civil rights organizations side with their funders, and our black generals and diplomats orchestrate genocide in Africa? Whoever, whatever they're loyal to, it's not the interests of African American or African people. What can we do about it?
Freedom Rider: Theodore Roosevelt and American Racism
By BAR Editor and Senior Columnist Margaret Kimberley
As a settler state built with stolen labor on stolen land, the US has found it necessary to invent a fake history sanitizing and justifying its genocidal wars of conquest and empire. The currently airing PBS series Roosevelts: an Intimate History fulfills this need by mostly ignoring Teddy Roosevelt's venal and vicious racism and the pervasive criminality of his family and class.
Who's Your Daddy, ISIS?
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Poor little ISIS, the orphan with so many fathers. President Obama is trying to assemble a coalition of parents to kill the wayward child, but some of the other baby-daddies are busy fighting among themselves over who is going to bring up the next generation of jihadists. Where did it all go so very, very wrong?
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Red Salute to Cousin, Comrade Wayne Pharr
by BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
Living on 81st and 83rd Streets between Avalon and
Central we learned the Devil wore dark blue, not red,
Delivered hell up South, out South in black and white
"Celebrating Hispanic Heritage" is Latino For "No Democrat Is Safe"
by Roberto Lovato
Candidate Barack Obama promised Latino voters an accessible road to citizenship for the undocumented. He has delivered 2 million deportations, and with his Latino enablers, nearly as many excuses. Will Hispanic Heritage Month be the time to call out the Latino political class for being just about as venal, slavish and useless as the black political class?
Sign the Petition! We Demand the Congressional Black Caucus Denounce Apartheid in Israel & Endorse Network Neutrality
Despite its constant and relentless celebrations of our people's historic Freedom Movement, the CBC's claim to stand for the interests of African Americans is an empty brand, for lease to whichever corporate donor willing to pay the price. Demand that the CBC revoke its deal with the devil and stand against apartheid and ethnocracy in Israel, and side with the people over the telecoms by embracing network neutrality, the reclassification of broadband internet to a public utility available to all without corporate toll booths, or so-called fast and slow "lanes".
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And Then Came Sharpton: Helping Keep Blacks in Their Place
by Paul Street
Al Sharpton polluted the air of Ferguson, Missouri, on a mission to restore peace and tranquility, i.e., the racist order. He castigated Blacks for indulging in self-pity, "as if engaging in days and nights of street battle with the forces of white supremacist order and marching in the street under the banner 'No Justice, No Peace' is 'sitting around feeling sorry for ourselves.'"
Cities of Opportunity? When Walmart and a Mayor Meet
by Seth Sandronsky
The Black mayor of Sacramento, California, claims he runs an Opportunity City. But Kevin Johnson solicits big dollars from Wal-Mart, the anti-union megacorp, which is also a sponsor of his wife, Michelle Rhee, the fire-breathing hit-woman for school privatization. Opportunities for whom?
Globalization Advocates Were Wrong: The US-NATO Alliance is the Heart of Imperialism
by Danny Haiphong
"Globalism" was a cute term coined as a cover for worldwide corporate expansion and penetration. With the U.S. has the sole superpower, globalism shows its true face: imperialism, a system that "is in permanent crisis and can only be maintained by the war-making capabilities of nation-state alliances." Washington's "coalitions of the willing" now wreak chaos, war and destitution around the globe.
Ethiopia: Desalegn's distraction?
by FikreJesus Amahazion
Ethiopian strongman Hailemariam Desalegn, like the late dictator (and darling of Washington) Meles Zenawi before him, threatens to overthrow the government of neighboring Eritrea. The regime in Addis Ababa has plenty of reasons to divert attention from its internal problems: ethnic rebellions, grinding poverty, scandalous land giveaways and forced relocations, and upcoming elections that few will regard as fair and legitimate.
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"Shame on the Congressional Black Caucus" Rally
The Israeli bombing of Gaza "was the straw that broke the proverbial camel's back," said Asantawaa Nkrumuah Ture, an organizer of a "Shame on the CBC" rally set for September 24 in front of the Washington Convention Center, where the Black Caucus opens its annual legislative conference and gala. "It's well past time for us to hold them accountable." The protesters want to "start a conversation, nationally," said Nkrumah Ture, "not only regarding the Black Caucus' support of apartheid Israel, about also their position on Internet neutrality, their ties with corporate America," and the CBC's overwhelming vote, in June, to continue militarization of local police forces.
Motive: Black. Penalty: Death
When Duane Buck faced sentencing on a murder conviction in a Houston courtroom, the judge allowed "expert" testimony that Blacks were inherently more dangerous than whites. On August 29, a federal judge called the testimony "repugnant and dangerous," but upheld the death sentence, anyway. "It is absolutely shocking, it is stunning, it is appalling and it sets a terrifying precedent," said Christina Swarns, litigation director for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, which is handling Buck's appeal. "This is asking a jury to rely on race to impose a death sentence."
New York City Needs Justice, Not More Police Training
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton defended his "Broken Windows" policing policies before the New York City Council, claiming there's nothing wrong with the NYPD that $30 million in training and 1,000 more cops can't cure. Josmar Trujillo, of New Yorkers Against Bratton, disagrees. "The police department is one of the most trained in the world," said Trujillo. "Training isn't the issue. The systemic culture of brutality, which is reinforced by institutional racism, is really the conversation we need to be having."
Obama Targets Syria, Not ISIS
President Obama's bombing offensive in Iraq and Syria "brings humanity closer to world war than we have been, maybe, in 80 years," said scholar and activist Dr. Anthony Monteiro. Although purportedly aimed at ISIS, Washington is actually targeting the Syrian government, Iran and, ultimately, Russia. Obama's arming of so-called "moderate" Syrian rebels is a farce, said Monteiro. "There is no 'moderate' opposition to the Assad government. It is all extreme, gangster, thuggish militants who are funded by some of the very nations that are part of the 'coalition of the willing.'" Dr. Monterio is fighting his termination from the African American Studies department at Temple University, in Philadelphia.
U.S. Proxy Wars Empower Jihadists and Nazis
"The United States is essentially contracting out its wars" in Libya, Syria and Ukraine, said Eric Draitser, an independent political analyst and publisher of StopImperialism.com. "The proxy wars that the United States has begun all over the world are part and parcel of a larger imperial agenda" dating from U.S. involvement in Afghanistan and Central America. The Islamic State "is a by-product of U.S. foreign policy, just as the Nazis in Ukraine are a by-product of U.S. foreign policy," said Draitser.
September Surge in EEOC Case Dismissals
Every year about this time, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission dismisses tens of thousands of discrimination cases, citing "lack of evidence" and a perennial backlog. "There is no backlog," said Ricardo Jones, a former chief investigator for the EEOC in New York. "There's been 15 years of not paying overtime" to deal with legitimate complaints, while the money "has basically gone to managers."
Black President Doesn't Respect Black Culture or History
Dr. Donald Smith, a founder of the National Alliance of Black School Educators, will be honored at a conference on Education for Liberation in the African American Tradition, in New York, October 10. Dr. Smith said Black history and culture is disappearing from classrooms around the country. "The major challenge begins in the White House, with a president who does not believe in Black culture as being essential to the education, not only of children of African descent, but of all American children," said Smith.
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The Treasonous 32: Four-Fifths of Black Caucus Help Cops Murder Their Constituents
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Fully 80 percent of the 40 voting members of the Congressional Black Caucus refused to defund the Pentagon's militarization of local police departments. That means, 32 Black lawmakers are "conscious collaborators with the Mass Black Incarceration State that dehumanizes, frames, imprisons, humiliates, tortures, maims and kills Black people for a living."
Low Voter Turnout Didn't Kill Michael Brown
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by Bruce A. Dixon
If you believe our black political class, low voter turnout killed Michael Brown. But then it's past Labor Day in an even numbered year, a time when the only discussion, the only question, the only answer our black political class entertains is how to ratify their privileged status with a big black vote. Do their concerns match our needs, or do they meet only their own?
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Freedom Rider: NATO Loses Ukraine
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
President Obama provokes one world crisis after another, most of which wind up leaving the U.S. weaker and more isolated than before. "The United States and its allies won't give up the failing strategy because they have no other plan for keeping the leaking ship afloat."
Obama and His Head-Chopping Friends
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford
Choose your head-chopper. Obama favors the Saudis, the world's leading beheaders, and rails against ISIS, the wayward spawn of decades of U.S.-Saudi collaboration. The U.S. would prefer that ISIS confine itself to chopping off Syrian heads, but "ISIS has even bigger plans for regime change in the Arab world."
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CODE BLACK: Murder, Mass Incarceration, Militarization and Genocide in Progress
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo and Kevin Berends
America has escalated to Code Black, signifying "the occupier's terror campaign against blacks and browns." Legally speaking, the tripwires to genocide have already been sprung. We demand that this president "declare a permanent cease-fire in all hostilities toward African-American communities including the withdrawal of all military personnel and equipment from urban centers.