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Those Pictures from Facebook: The Olympics

• July 29, 2012 • Comments Off

Posted in African American History, American Foreign Policy, American History, American Politics, Barack and Michelle Obama, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Democrats, European History, Facebook, Jews, Love, People of Color, Protestant Denominations, Race, Sports, Television, The Beatles, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World, The Summer Olympics 2012, Women, World War II
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Christmas Songs: “Happy Xmas, War Is Over (If You Want It),” John Lennon, Yoko Ono, The Plastic Ono Band, and The Harlem Community Choir

• December 22, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in Alcoholism/Drug Abuse, American Foreign Policy, American Politics, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Crime, Cultural History, Documentary, Education, Film, Holidays, Love, Music, Music Videos, Spirituality, Television, The Beatles, The Rest of the World, Women, Yoko Ono
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Forty Years Since George Harrison’s “All Things Must Pass” Released; Nine Years Since George Left Us

• November 29, 2010 • Comments Off

Posted in Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Documentary, Education, Film, Love, Memoir, Music, Public Television, Religion, Spirituality, Television, The Beatles, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: "All Things Must Pass", "Rubber Soul", "The Concert for George", Anniversary, Assassination, Beatle, Britain, David Crosby, Death, George Harrison, High School, India, Indians, Jim Croce, John Lennon, Joni Mitchell, Knife Attack, Los Angeles California, Lung Cancer, Memorial, Music, Paul McCartney, PBS, Phase, Religion, Religion and Spirituality, Religious, Singer Songwriter, Sitar, Solo Album, Spiritual Rock, The Beatles, The Seventies, Tribute

The Real “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds,” Lucy O’Donnell Vodden, Dies at 46 of Lupus

• October 6, 2009 • 1 Comment

Posted in Art, Celebrities/Royals, Education, Music, The Beatles
Tags: "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", "It Was Twenty Years Ago Today", "Lucy in The Sky With Diamonds", "Puff the Magic Dragon", "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club", Altered Consciousness, Cynthia Lennon, Derek Taylor, Epilepsy, Hallucinatory Drugs, John Lennon, Julian Lennon, Kaleidoscope Eyes, King's Lynn, Lewis Carroll, Lucy, Lucy O'Donnell, Lucy O'Donnell Vodden, Lucy Vodden, Lupus, Michael O'Donnell, Migraines, Psoriasis, Psychedelics, Ross Vodden, The Beatles, Vodden

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A Fringe Conspiracy Theory, Fostered Online, Is Refashioned by the G.O.P. May 16, 2022
Replacement theory, espoused by the suspect in the Buffalo massacre, has been embraced by some right-wing politicians and commentators.
Yellen Looks to Get Global Tax Deal Back on Track During Europe Trip May 16, 2022
The Treasury secretary is traveling to Warsaw, Brussels and Bonn, Germany, this week at an uncertain time for the global economy.
How Buffalo Suspect’s Racist Writings Reveal Links to Other Attacks May 16, 2022
Filled with hate, the screed describes a mass shooting at a grocery store and connects it with a belief shared by gunmen in previous massacres.
The Lost Americans May 14, 2022
Nearly one million people have died from Covid in the United States. Many of the loved ones they left behind are grieving in a nation that wants to move on.
A Fracture in Idaho’s G.O.P. as the Far Right Seeks Control May 16, 2022
Ahead of a primary vote, traditional Republicans are raising alarm about the future of the party, warning about the growing strength of militia members, racists and the John Birch Society.
Thousands Gather at Marches for Abortion Rights May 15, 2022
Nearly two weeks after the leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, protesters gathered in Washington, New York and other cities.
Biden Approves Plan to Redeploy Several Hundred Ground Forces Into Somalia May 16, 2022
The president also signed off on targeting about a dozen Shabab leaders in the war-torn country, from which Donald J. Trump largely withdrew in his final weeks in office.
What to Know About the Orange County Church Shooting May 16, 2022
Congregants jumped in and subdued the attacker, believed to be an Asian man in his 60s.

The Guardian, UK

Rwanda president suggests UK extradite genocide suspects after asylum deal May 16, 2022
Exclusive: Comments raise concerns UK will find it difficult to refuse requests from Kigali on sensitive issuesPaul Kagame, the president of Rwanda, has suggested the UK extradite suspects wanted in the east African country for alleged roles in the 1994 genocide, after a controversial deal with the Home Office to process asylum seekers there.Speaking less th […]
Zimbabwe denies harbouring deceased Rwandan genocide fugitive May 15, 2022
DNA shows body exhumed in the country was Protais Mpiranya, Rwanda’s most wanted fugitiveZimbabwe has denied harbouring the Rwandan genocide fugitive Protais Mpiranya after it emerged that he died in 2006 and was buried in the country after living there for four years.The 20-year manhunt for one of the world’s most brutal killers came to a decisive end in an […]
Secret British ‘black propaganda’ campaign targeted cold war enemies May 14, 2022
Britain stirred up tensions, chaos and violence in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, according to declassified papersThe British government ran a secret “black propaganda” campaign for decades, targeting Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia with leaflets and reports from fake sources aimed at destabilising cold war enemies by encouraging racial tensions […]
Protests in Nigeria after arrests for ‘blasphemy’ killing of female student May 14, 2022
Demonstrators demand release of two students held after murder of Christian woman in SokotoHundreds of people in Nigeria’s north-western city of Sokoto demonstrated on Saturday over the arrest of two students after the murder of a Christian student accused of blasphemy, residents said.Africa’s most populous country is roughly divided between Muslims and Chri […]
Fifty people to be sent to Rwanda in a fortnight, says Boris Johnson May 14, 2022
PM says he will ‘dig in for the fight’ with ‘leftie lawyers’ challenging government’s plan for refugeesBoris Johnson said 50 people have been told they will be sent to Rwanda within the next fortnight, and that he was ready to fight with “leftie lawyers” seeking to challenge the government’s plans for refugees.Under the £120m scheme announced last month, peo […]
South Africa’s April floods made twice as likely by climate crisis, scientists say May 13, 2022
Brutal heatwave in India and Pakistan also certain to have been exacerbated by global heating, scientists sayThe massive and deadly floods that struck South Africa in April were made twice as likely and more intense by global heating, scientists have calculated. The research demonstrates that the climate emergency is resulting in devastation.Catastrophic flo […]
Rejection of Arctic mine expansion bid offers hope for narwhal population May 16, 2022
Conservationists and Inuit community relieved at decision on Canadian iron mine that threatened ‘extirpation’ of cetaceanThe expansion of an iron ore mine in the Arctic that would have increased shipping and led to the “complete extirpation of narwhal” from the region has been blocked.After four years of consultations and deliberations, the Nunavut Impact Re […]
Chile’s constitutional assembly rejects plans to nationalise parts of mining sector May 15, 2022
The proposal would have seen lithium and rare metal resources taken into state hands as part of the country’s wide-ranging political shakeup A constitutional assembly in Chile has rejected plans to nationalise parts of the crucial mining industry in a blow to progressive hopes of overhauling the neoliberal Pinochet-era political settlement.The proposal, know […]

The BBC

Buffalo shooting: Gunman deliberately sought black victims - mayor May 16, 2022
Questions are being asked about how the suspect carried out the attack when he was known to authorities.
Buffalo shooting: Joe Biden says US must address hate May 15, 2022
The US president says he and his wife are praying for the victims of a racially motivated shooting.
Ukraine: The children's camp that became an execution ground May 15, 2022
The BBC's Sarah Rainsford investigates the killing of civilians in a summer camp in Bucha, Ukraine.
Full lunar eclipse creates rare super blood Moon May 16, 2022
Its hue was created by sunlight being projected through the Earth's atmosphere onto the Moon.
North Korea: More than a million Covid cases feared May 16, 2022
The military has been ordered to intervene as a wave of Covid cases sweeps the unvaccinated country.
Matriarch accused of leading drug clan captured May 16, 2022
US prosecutors accuse Herlinda Bobadilla, 61, of smuggling tonnes of cocaine from Honduras to the US.
McDonald's to leave Russia for good after 30 years May 16, 2022
The chain opened in Moscow in 1990 as the Soviet Union was opening its economy to Western brands.
Kenya elections 2022: Raila Odinga picks Martha Karua as running mate May 16, 2022
Martha Karua, a former rival who once served as justice minister, joins the ticket of ex-PM Raila Odinga.