If the Second Amendment Was Meant for Genocide, Is It Sacred?

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s new book, Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment, could be criticized for how little it seems to focus on the Second Amendment, and how much on topics familiar from the author’s past writing. But the topics are radically unfamiliar to most U.S. Americans and extremely relevant to understanding what the Second Amendment was and is.

Toxic Copper Mine Tailings Ponds to be Located Upstream from the St Louis River and Lake Superior

Requesting honest information from the  Minnesota DNR, the Minnesota PCA and the US Forest Service regarding the latest PolyMet project permit application:

 

Please respond to the concerned folks to which this email has been cc’ed, all the details of the permit that the foreign corporation Glencore has submitted to the MNDNR, MNPCA, or US Forest Service concerning the establishment and manntainence of their enormously dangerous, potentially catastrophic, toxic tailings lagoon, an entity that seems to have been conveniently ignored by the media cheerleaders and even you regulatory entities.

 

I don’t recall seeing any permit application published for the eventual 250 foot high earthen dams that will hold back for eternity the tens of millions of cubic meters of poisonous liquid sludge that the copper/nickel/sulfuric acid mine will inevitably produce (and need to be stored).

 

Anybody with any awareness of the risks of the toxic metal and sulfuric acid recognizes that the tailings lagoon MUST be the center of discusion. So far it is rarely mentioned in the occasional news bulletins.

 

CANDIDE Opera Review

In the history of Western storytelling, along with Homer’s The Odyssey, Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz and Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, Voltaire’s 1759 Candide ranks as one of the greatest saga’s ever told about protagonists embarking upon great travels. This is what mythologist Joseph Campbell called The Hero’s Journey, and the 18th century title character Candide’s (Minnesota tenor Jack Swanson) epic gallivanting takes him from Westphalia, in what is now Germany, around much of Europe to the New World, where he experiences Uruguay and the legendary golden realm of El Dorado, and beyond.

 

What is being done versus what should be done with prisons

The United States is a global leader in putting people

Worshiping Power - a book talk by Peter Gelderloos

Cover of a book, the background is like a sun with rays spreading out but is black and gray. Words in white say Worshipping Power, an anarachist view of early state formation

Tuesday, Jan 30, 6-9pm
Northwood-High building, 2231 N. High St. room 100
Worshiping Power surveys a wide range of research responding to the question of where states came from, looking at the causes of politogenesis and tracing different pathways of state development. How did the State co-evolve with different models of the family, religion, warfare, commerce, and economic production?

Multiple theories of state formation are reviewed and contested in order to offer a multilineal framework in which emergent states may follow a variety of models depending on interpolity relations within regional systems, institutional "handles" that permit greater development of hierarchy within local religious and kinship systems, and the presence of interregional networks of material and spiritual commerce. 

The book also explores successive generations of state formation, as emergent states seek leverage over changing popular values that experience an "anti-authoritarian shift" in the course of rebellions against prior, despotic states, leading to the development of democratic or egalitarian states.

About the Author:

C.O.L.A. Fizzles Out

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Background: Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation is a petroleum, natural gas, and natural gas liquids exploration and production company based in Houston, Texas. Cabot is interested in drilling exploratory horizontal hydraulic wells in Holmes, Richland and Ashland counties. Cabot has entered into a sublease agreement with Columbia Gas Transmission L.L.C. to explore below the gas storage fields located in these areas. Cabot has contracted with Western Land Services to go door to door to convince landowners to lease their land to Cabot Oil & Gas to give them the ability  to drill extraction wells. Landowner groups like C.O.L.A. form to deal with the offers made by companies such as Western Land Services under the premise of obtaining the ‘best deal’.

Shadowbox show to honor ’60s struggles for freedom, equality

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It’s been nearly nine years since Shadowbox Live time-traveled to the 1960s with Back to the Garden. The music-filled re-creation of the Woodstock Festival was such a success that the troupe has restaged it multiple times in multiple locations.

Now the troupe is returning to the rebellious decade with a new show called The Dream. Though the name comes from Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech—excerpts from which will be heard throughout—the show itself is not based on a specific event. Instead, it will focus on 1960s efforts to advance the causes of freedom and equality for underprivileged segments of the population.

“The Dream celebrates the unsung heroes and the triumphant stories of those who stood up (for) African-Americans, women and the LGBTQ community,” Shadowbox executive director Stacie Boord explained during a Jan. 24 preview event.

Damn The Witch Siren: Let's Make Love

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If I were to give a Damn the Witch Siren a Rorschach test to enable my intro paragraph description; I might show them clips of Lady Gaga, a drag queen dancing, Grimes, and Tracy and the Plastics.

According to their social media: they are witch rock. Left to my devices they would end up either covering the Tucker Carlson “Eyes of Newt Conversation,” talking about Kendrick Lamar's “Damn” Album,  Aaron Hall and their current home Marion's haunted tourist sites.

However, people don't do interviews just so I can have conversations; they do interviews so humans can find their music.

Damn The Witch Siren has a new album called “Red Magic” which is having a release party at the Spacebar February 10th, and a subsequent tour. We discussed “Red Magic,” iTunes rejecting their initial album cover, the impact of participating in the boycott of R. Kelly's Fashion Meets Music Festival, and Z-Wolf's dad.

What is “Red Magic?”

Cheat Sheet: A Quick Update on Ohio’s Medical Marijuana Program

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You’re busy and don’t have time to look up the details on Ohio’s new medical marijuana program. We’re here to help with, well, a cheat sheet. You know, that quick fine print synopsis hidden under your sleeve. Destruct once done. Let’s apply the concept to a quick update of the program thus far. Just the facts, ma’am.

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