another reduction in the burning of the fossil fuels worldwide may have been the result of the deaths and devastation caused by the Mongol invasions, which killed millions of people throughout Asia.
This does sound like an operation completely made up by the FBI.
On the other hand, in 2008 Onion anticipated the 2011 dust-up between Ahmadinejad's truther moment and Al Queda (in the Onion parody, the Al Queada operative complained about an American truther not giving Al Queada credit for the attacks, but the substance in the Onion story was the same) so maybe anything is possible these days.
As for Shalit, I can't help but notice that the numbers mentioned remind me of the "We are the 99%" protests, except that based on the ratios of the prisoner exchange (1000 Palestinians for one Israeli), the Israelis are not just the 1%, they appear to be the 0.1%.
I'm all for sending all prisoners home, including Shalit, but I support the 99% because I think safety, health, and security should be guaranteed to the extent we can for all and not just for the favored few.
"Instead of protesting that a handful of billionaires is scarfing up the lion’s share of the country’s increased wealth, Israelis would do better just to turn the right wing parties out of office in the next election."
wouldn't we all do better? You could replace "Israelis" with "americans" or "europeans" and this sentence would make the same amount of sense.
James, that's nonsense ... there are lots of cool innovations which will enable us to avoid a return to a Dickensian standard of living. All we need to do is to stop subsidizing fossil fuels, but I realize that is a big if, especially when the extent to which our political system is held hostage to the big corporate interests just got demonstrated by this ridiculous debt ceiling debacle.
also he told NYC's Janette Sadik-Khan that once *he* was mayor of NYC he'd preside over "ripping your f**king bike lanes out." Details on this particular instance of bad behavior are at Grist and NYC Streetsblog.
meanwhile an American lawyer is blogging from within Gaza. I'm sure people here know about this already, but it's still interesting:
http://notesfrombehindtheblockade.wordpress.com/
another reduction in the burning of the fossil fuels worldwide may have been the result of the deaths and devastation caused by the Mongol invasions, which killed millions of people throughout Asia.
This does sound like an operation completely made up by the FBI.
On the other hand, in 2008 Onion anticipated the 2011 dust-up between Ahmadinejad's truther moment and Al Queda (in the Onion parody, the Al Queada operative complained about an American truther not giving Al Queada credit for the attacks, but the substance in the Onion story was the same) so maybe anything is possible these days.
As for Shalit, I can't help but notice that the numbers mentioned remind me of the "We are the 99%" protests, except that based on the ratios of the prisoner exchange (1000 Palestinians for one Israeli), the Israelis are not just the 1%, they appear to be the 0.1%.
I'm all for sending all prisoners home, including Shalit, but I support the 99% because I think safety, health, and security should be guaranteed to the extent we can for all and not just for the favored few.
"Instead of protesting that a handful of billionaires is scarfing up the lion’s share of the country’s increased wealth, Israelis would do better just to turn the right wing parties out of office in the next election."
wouldn't we all do better? You could replace "Israelis" with "americans" or "europeans" and this sentence would make the same amount of sense.
James, that's nonsense ... there are lots of cool innovations which will enable us to avoid a return to a Dickensian standard of living. All we need to do is to stop subsidizing fossil fuels, but I realize that is a big if, especially when the extent to which our political system is held hostage to the big corporate interests just got demonstrated by this ridiculous debt ceiling debacle.
also he told NYC's Janette Sadik-Khan that once *he* was mayor of NYC he'd preside over "ripping your f**king bike lanes out." Details on this particular instance of bad behavior are at Grist and NYC Streetsblog.