Monday, March 26, 2018

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Following the Footsteps of My Father


 

Here’s how Stephen Hawking predicted the world will end


 

Stephen Hawking, one of the world’s great physicists, has died: The groundbreaking physicist was 76


 

"Pirate Radio" - Official Trailer [HD]


 

Howard Zinn: A People's History of the United States (1999)


 

What is ultimate reality?


 

Samarkand has proven to be the best Uzbeki kitchen in the Philadelphia region. Samarkand is a destination restaurant. Once you try Uzbek food, you'll be going back a second time. Great energy. Great service. Amazing food. BYOB and you are welcome to stay as long as you would like on the weekends to enjoy the live music, even if you are done eating.


 

gabriel


 

Notes from the Photocopier, Resistance in the Days Before the Internet


 

Johnny Cash Remains a Hero


 

The Best of All Philosophical Operettas


 

The Eagles’ Super Bowl Win Shows That Having a Conscience Does Not Distract From Winning the Game: But the NFL got what they needed: a great game without Trump or player protest getting in the way.


 

The Parting Glass


 

The Irish Brigade: Heroes of The Civil War


 

Watch Buddy Guy Perform Jimi Hendrix's 'Red House' on 'Kimmel': Billy Cox and the Experience Hendrix Band also played on bluesy 'Are You Experienced?' track


 

Get To Know Songwriter Paul Kelly


 

Thoreau on Knowing vs. Seeing and What It Takes to Apprehend Reality Unblinded by Our Preconceptions


 

Dashcam video surfaces of Miami bridge collapse from view of driver who witnessed it


 

Pediatricians Call For Universal Depression Screening For Teens


 

Review: 'What Are We Doing Here?' by Marilynne Robinson.  NONFICTION: Marilynne Robinson's essays are sprinkled with a sense of the divine.


 

‘What Are We Doing Here? Essays,’ by Marilynne Robinson


 

A Mind to Know God. Review: 'What Are We Doing Here' by Marilynne Robinson


 

Sly & The Family Stone - Everyday People (Audio)


 

The Rolling Stones - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (Official Lyric Video)


 

Jackson Browne - Before The Deluge


 

Jackson Browne with Crosby, Stills and Nash - The Pretender - Madison Square Garden - 2009/10/29&30


 

Moody Blues - Nights in White Satin


 

How to Survive a Cringe Attack


 

How To Stop Thinking About Past Mistakes & Awkward Moments


 

Night Vision: The forgotten theory of dreams that inspired Vladimir Nabokov


 

People who think about leaving religion but don’t are more likely to feel depressed and hopeless


 

Virtual Reality and Empathy


 

Enlightenment Wow: The Humanist Interview with Steven Pinker


 

Finding Clara Barton


 

What Will Be Human in the Future?


 

How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life


 

An Organized Panic


 

Enigma - Goodbye Milky way (Unofficial Video)(dodese)


 

Power To Love (Live) (1997 Digital Remaster)


 

Rules, Discipline, and the Paradox of Creativity


 

Teaching Guide: Respecting Others for grades 5-9


 

The House I Live In


 

Frank Sinatra -- WHO KNEW?


 

Van Morrison - Listen to the Lion (full version)


 

Helen Reddy: You and Me Against the World ◊ 1975


 

"Forever Young" Beautiful version. Bob Dylan at his Nobel Prize Winning Best


 

MARTY BALIN "VOLUNTEERS" with Jorma Kaukonen & Jack Casady


 

The Times They Are A Changin' - Tracy Chapman


 

A Seattle Woodworker Is Turning Bathtubs Into Works of Art: Award-winning Seattle design studio NK Woodworking crafts one-of-a-kind bathtubs from domestic and exotic hardwoods, finished with a durable marine varnish.


 

The Week Magazine March 30, 2018

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Military related links 032618



Recognizing the Importance of Leadership: A Recent Graduate Develops a Corpsman


 

Psychiatric History, Deployments, and Potential Impacts of Mental Health Care in a Combat Theater


 

False Alarms and Nuclear Realism


 

Policy Roundtable: The Trump Administration’s Nuclear Posture Review


 

U.S. Nuclear Weapons Modernization: U.S. strategic and tactical nuclear weapons on land, in the air, and at sea, will undergo costly and extensive modernization in the coming years.


 

No, Trump Nuke Strategy Doesn’t Doom Planet: DUSD Policy


 

Beyond Crackpot Realism


 

The Nuclear Posture Review Signals a New Arms Race: We need to revive momentum for reducing nuclear weapons, not for “modernizing” them.


 

Navy’s new attack submarine named Colorado to join the fleet


 

Don’t Buy Putin’s Missile Hype: If the Russians want to waste their money on fancy new nukes, let them.


 

An American marine’s eloquent memoir: Matt Young conveys the boredom and horror of life on the front line


 

'Eat The Apple' Is A Brilliant And Barbed Memoir Of The Iraq War


 

About Eat the Apple: "The Iliad of the Iraq war" (Tim Weiner)--a gut-wrenching, beautiful memoir of the consequences of war on the psyche of a young man.


 

‘Eat the Apple’: a Marine’s jarring eyes-on-the-ground view of war.  This isn’t a soft pedaled version of wartime service but a cold, devastating self-examination of the decidedly personal costs of war. It is creative, exhausting and illuminating, all at once. Author Matt Young will be at Elliott Bay Book Co. on Feb. 28.


 

Women and the U.S. Navy: A Look Back


 

Pence secretly drafted Trump’s latest transgender military ban: Junk science informed the new order, not military readiness.


 

'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds'. The story of Oppenheimer's infamous quote: The line, from the Hindu sacred text the Bhagavad-Gita, has come to define Robert Oppenheimer, but its meaning is more complex than many realise

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Terrorism related links 032618



Immigrants Are Getting the Right to Vote in Cities Across America


 

Ben Carson open to military drone strikes at US-Mexico border


 

Trump administration sues California over laws protecting immigrants


 

Times are changing


 

Syrian Kurds allied with US stream into Afrin, Rally against Turkish Offensive


 

Bright Voices Speaking Out of the Darkness


 

The Gatekeepers (film)


 

The Age of Total War in Syria


 

What If Trump's North Korea Bluster Actually Worked?


 

How Trump should test North Korea's peace talk sincerity


 

Trump wants to get the U.S. out of Syria’s war, so he asked the Saudi king for $4 billion


 

US CENTCOM Chief Comes Clean: General's Three Stunning Admissions In The Mid-East


 

Summary: The Department of Homeland Security Authorization Act of 2017


 

North Korea is the ultimate test of Trump’s dealmaking: Trump says he’s a master dealmaker. The talks with Kim Jong Un will show if he’s telling the truth.


 

The Madman Summit: Donald Trump. Kim Jong-un. What could go wrong?


 

Who’s the Fearless Leader Now? What the Pyeongchang Olympics tell us about political theater in the era of Trump and Kim


 

The Trump-Kim Summit Won’t End Well: This is no way to run nuclear diplomacy.


 

Trump’s Perversion: He rewards America’s enemies and punishes its friends.


 

Trump And Kim Jong Un’s Planned Meeting Is A Huge Diplomatic Win For The President: Whether or not talks ultimately succeed, the development represents a huge success for Trump's unorthodox approach to Kim.


 

The Biggest Danger of North Korea Talks: Kim Jong Un is offering a deal at a price that could be way too high—and that the president could easily accept.


 

The Promise and Peril of the North Korea Meeting: Let's hope they know what they're doing.


 

You can fight for liberal values without being liberal on immigration


 

Jeff Sessions’s Wrongheaded War on California: The U.S. attorney general is suing the "lawless" state over its immigration laws, but his legal case is unconvincing.


 

Jeff Sessions' 'problem' with California is bogus


 

California dreaming in going too far to shield immigrants


 

How an Obama-Administration Precedent May Doom California’s Effort to Make Itself a ‘Sanctuary State’


 

Jeff Sessions’s lawsuit against California’s “sanctuary” laws, explained: California tried to make it harder for ICE to round up immigrants. So the federal government is suing the state.


 

This Route Doesn't Exist on a Map


 

NJ Mom Sues School for Islam Indoctrination


N.J. Mom Says Classes Are Too Islamic


 

Will The Ban Stand?


 

Around The World: Movie Sparks Furor From Hindus In India


 

Why 55 U.S. Senators Voted for Genocide in Yemen: A vote against one war is never just a vote against one war. It’s a vote to challenge, if ever so slightly, the power of the war machine. Some Senators are paid not to do that.


 

Fact check: Trump says spending bill starts work on his border wall. It doesn't.  The money earmarked for border security can be used only to repair and build previously approved fencing.


 

Mattis praises Saudis, $1B arms sale to be approved


 

Army Corps faces questions about vetting border wall company: Lawmakers want to know why a firm involved in work on Trump's border wall was hired after it had been flagged for potential fraud.


 

White Americans are the biggest terror threat in the United States


 

Russia denies aiding Afghan Taliban in wake of U.S. general's comments


 

Congressman: Bombing suspect called himself a 'psychopath'


 

The International Criminal Court: Why Is the United States Not a Member?
https://thehumanist.com/news/international/the-international-criminal-court-why-is-the-united-states-not-a-member
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