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Pocket Princesses 258: Spice Hoarde
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On a cold January day more than a century ago, U.S. troops massacred nearly 200 Piikani people on a Montana river bank. Most were women, children and old folks.
“It’s hard to imagine,” Chief Stanley Charles Grier of the Piikani Nation in Alberta, Canada said.
The people killed were his ancestors and accounts of the massacre are brutal. Soldiers killed a mother breastfeeding her baby. They shot sick people hiding under blankets.
“Survivors were basically executed by axes,” Grier says. “That’s pretty barbaric.”
The man who helped perpetrate this massacre was Army Lt. Gustavus Doane. He later went on to explore parts of Yellowstone and his compatriots named Mount Doane after him. The name stuck, and Grier wants to change it.
“Lieutenant Doane led that attack and fully implemented the massacre,” he says. “We feel that’s an atrocity to humanity and it’s essentially a war crime.”
Massacres like this were a major part of what some historians call a forgotten genocide during the colonization and settlement of the American West. The perpetrators of these massacres were sometimes honored with mountains, valleys and towns.
Native Americans Propose Change To Yellowstone Landmark Names
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1. Wherever possible there must be independent confirmation of the “facts.” 2. Encourage substantive debate on the evidence by knowledgeable proponents of all points of view.
Remember Carl Sagan, who became stardust 20 years ago today, with his Baloney Detection Kit – vital toolkit for our post-fact age, containing Sagan’s nine tenets of healthy skepticism (1 and 2 above) and the twenty most common mistakes in critical thinking. (via explore-blog)
She wears a lehnga, deep red, adorned with golden beads. And a chunni, the same deep red with an intricate golden design, placed over her head. A golden tikka is set on her forehead. Golden jhumke and a golden haar. Mehndi covers her hands and feet. A chooda covers her arms. This bride looks stunning on her wedding day - but wait, where is her smile? “I left it in my childhood home”, she said. “The man I loved was of a lower caste, so now I must marry a man I do not know.”
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“The Weeping Bride”
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11:29 PM // January 9, 2016 | Here’s a ‘Magic’ Trig Hexagon trick I found a while back when I really needed help learning my trig identities! Hopefully this helps you guys memorize them a bit better and add a trick up your sleeve for exams!
Age cannot manage to empty either sensual pleasure of its attractiveness or the whole world of its charm. On the contrary … at twenty … I was less satisfied with life. I embraced less boldly; I breathed less deeply; and I felt myself to be less loved. Perhaps also I longed to be melancholy; I had not yet understood the superior beauty of happiness.
André Gide on growing happier as we grow older and using death as a mobilizing force for creative work (via explore-blog)
American Cartel: How America’s Two Major Parties Helped Destroy Democracy
Cartel: An association of manufacturers or suppliers with the purpose of maintaining prices at a high level and restricting competition.
A little over two decades ago, on December 2, 1993, the principle engineer of Colombia’s infamous cocaine empire, Pablo Escobar, was killed while fleeing police on the barrio rooftops of his hometown, Medellin. Before he died he had amassed an organization of state-like power, challenging, in fact, the government of Columbia itself over the question of its extradition policies — and winning. Dubbed the Medellin drug cartel, his international cocaine operation grew to prominence functioning similarly to the corporations which dominate today’s global economy. Escobar knew, by controlling every possible link in the drug chain from production to retail, he could corral suppliers under a single umbrella, dictate the price of his product, and severely limit any would-be competitors from challenging his power.
Escobar was not alone in learning from the strategies of corporate giants. If anything he was late. Few organizations have pervasively and durably monopolized a market as well as America’s Republican and Democratic parties. The two dominant machines steering the U.S. electorate have consistently diminished the potential for a freer America. That’s because the reality is, rather than arch rivals, liberals and conservatives are two factions of the same team. Both are capitalist. Both are imperialist. Both are white supremacist surrogates. And both are controlled by a plutocratic elite who have discovered what Escobar learned in his early twenties, that competition is best neutralized by eliminating all possible outliers. We merely perceive the two parties as markedly different because of the degree to which the spectrum of possibilities has been narrowed.
American Cartel
Politics, at its barest, is a market characterized by power — and the struggle for how power will be distributed. As CrimethInc illustrated some time ago, in this market ideas function similar to currency. Delineated by ideas which can build capital enough for the acquisition of more power, and those which might unbind power, political parties are tethered to the same basic operating principles of any capitalist enterprise. They must solidify market share in the realm of ideas and grow, wherever and whenever possible, or go bankrupt. Incubated within this constant power play, self-preservation becomes the party’s central priority; and it does not matter if the ideas which accomplish this outcome are beneficial to the electorate or detrimental, so long as it achieves the imperative to survive.
Political organizations which maintain growth long enough to survive often do so by normalizing their ideological framework. When they have obtained a disproportionate amount of influence over their immediate surroundings, they can metastasize into monopolies and control large swaths of the idea-economy. New ideas about how society ought to function can enter the market to contest old ideas, but usually encapsulated within reforms incapable of unseating the dominant paradigm. Characteristic of any capitalist system, once market monopolies are established “power tends to flow upward to the top of a hierarchy, from which the masters, the ones qualified to employ it, decide matters for everyone else.”
Remember the age-old question, what do all those with power want? More power. As such, two monopolies have dominated American politics for over 150 years — the Democratic Party, founded in 1828, and the Republican Party, founded in 1854. Together, they form a political cartel, or an association of political parties with the purpose of maintaining concentrated power and restricting or repressing competition. Throughout the past century its loosely managed agreements, often wholly unofficial, but embedded deep within its standard operation, have been the quasi-coordinated production, distribution, and enforcement of a set of normalized choices which reflect only the range of needs of private corporate power.
Essentially, to solidify and gain greater control, the two parties staked out a set of positions within a predetermined and standardized framework which express the basic ideas of the status quo. This way any “new” solutions about what might be possible tend toward ideas which pose no serious danger to the framework itself, which produce reforms only capable of gutting radical resistance while leaving the underlying problems intact. Any outliers are assimilated or positioned to enhance the strength of current institutions. In other words, all ideas must first be filtered through the umbrella of the Democrat-Republican cartel, which dictates the pedigree of ideas both old and new, and therefore severely limiting any competition from threatening its hegemony.
American Sicarios
Central to the project of any cartel is control. And within most drug cartels there is an armed group responsible for carrying out violence in an effort to maintain it. In Colombia they were called sicarios. Though the violence is systematically different, American sicarios are most accurately found in state institutions like the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
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Angry People
There are several compilations of angry people flipping out on YouTube. Sometimes these people are clearly either mentally ill or on some drug but many of them, most actually, are just regular people at the end of their rope. They are frustrated in some way. They don’t get something they want or they get something they don’t want. Then like a boiling pot they overflow into violent outbursts.
Usually these outbursts take the form of yelling, cursing or even physical attacks. Sometimes it is uncontrollable tears. When you watch these people you notice that anger is a temporary intoxication. Their inhibitions are lowered, their judgement impaired and their adrenalin is pumping. See their contorted facial features and aggressive body language. They look for all the world like chimpanzees in aggressive posture.
The Karma of Anger
When we watch them we will feel our own emotions change. Maybe we will get angry too. Maybe we will feel disgust or contempt. Maybe we will just see them as ridiculous as well they are. I will sometimes watch these videos as an anthropologist might. I find the interaction of people who are in this temporary state of madness fascinating. I practice my compassion. I try to see the suffering rather than the outrageous behavior. I ask myself how I would respond to a verbal attack by one of these people. What would diffuse the situation?
It is a useful exercise for one on our path.
Stressed Out -- Twenty One Pilots
I was told when I get older all my fears would shrink, But now I’m insecure and I care what people think.
"In Your Arms" -- Medina
It’s my mother’s birthday today.
This is an illustration for a Tamil short story she wrote in the 60s (in her teens, she stopped writing in her 20s). Three quarter sleeve blouse - very early to mid 60s!
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Australian researchers have come up with a non-invasive ultrasound technology that clears the brain of neurotoxic amyloid plaques - structures that are responsible for memory loss and a decline in cognitive function in Alzheimer’s patients.
