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yallerdawg's JournalNew report shows 1,728 Confederate symbols remain in U.S., 110 removed since 2015
Source: AL.com, by John Sharp
State and local governments have removed at least 110 publicly-supported monuments and other Confederate tributes since the 2015 massacre of nine black parishioners by a white supremacist in Charleston, S.C.
But 1,728 Confederate symbols - monuments, school and city names, bridges, holidays, etc. - remain. Of those, 121 are in Alabama, according to an analysis released Monday by the Montgomery-based Southern Poverty Law Center.
"We've seen a remarkable effort to remove Confederate monuments from the public square, yet the impact has been limited by a strong backlash among many white Southerners who still cling to the myth of the 'Lost Cause' and the revisionist history that these monuments represent," said Heidi Beirich, director of the SPLC's Intelligence Project.
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The SPLC doesn't advocate for the destruction of the monuments, but would prefer seeing them moving into a state archives or someplace else where they need to be taught in context.
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Read it all at: https://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2018/06/1728_confederate_symbols_remai.html
FX's 'Pose' turns '80s gay and trans culture into a heartfelt celebration of found families
TV super-producer Ryan Murphy finds a new definition of family values in this warm drama.Source: Vox, by Todd VanDerWerff
Pose is a family drama that imagines the underprivileged and underloved of a whole city as its family.
Its tenderness makes up for any flaws, to the degree that I know I should tell you about the flaws, but I almost want to lie and say they arent there, because it carries itself with the confidence of a show that knows its good, and if you cant recognize that, well, thats your problem.
The new FX series, the last produced for FX by super-producer Ryan Murphy as part of his deal with 20th Century Fox (hell soon move to Netflix), never tightens when it can sprawl. That expansion sits close to the heart of everything good and bad about the series. Why tell one story when you can tell seven, especially when theyre all about the sorts of characters we almost never see depicted in fiction? Conversely, why tell a story in 45 minutes when you could in 75?
So no, Pose isnt perfect. It occasionally becomes too enamored of its freedom to explore all of this territory television has so rarely opened itself up to. But its true, in that way that helps you ignore its less successful pieces in favor of celebrating its best qualities.
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Read it all at: https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/6/1/17415634/pose-review-fx-ryan-murphy-paris-is-burning
June Premieres and Returning Favorites
Be sure to add your notable favorites!C.B. Strike Cinemax, June 1, Friday, 10-9CT Set of stories by J.K. Rowling!
Pose FX, June 3, Sunday, 9-8CT Ryan Murphy's latest!
Succession HBO, June 3, Sunday, 10-9CT NOT the Rupert Murdoch story!
Dietland AMC, June 4, Monday, 9-8CT "Feminist Revenge Fantasy" -- One hour talk show following broadcasts!
Humans AMC, June 5, Tuesday, 10-9CT Season 3 of this pleasing sci-fi drama!
Deep State Epix, June 17, Sunday, 9-8CT
Yellowstone Paramount Network, June 20, Wednesday, 9-8CT
Preacher AMC, June 24, Sunday, 10-9CT Season 3 of psychotic graphic-novel mayhem!
True story about the Founder of Jet Propulsion Lab, Aleister Crowley, and L. Ron Hubbard
"Some people" say a portal to Hell (Devil's Gate) was opened, and California has been suffering ever since.Really strange and mesmerizing true story!
"Strange Angel" coming to CBS All Access in June
Go down the rabbit hole: Jack Parsons and the Occult Roots of JPL
U.S. Sen. Doug Jones visits Alabama mosque
Source: AL.com, by Greg Garrison
U.S. Sen. Doug Jones visited the Hoover Crescent Islamic Center on Saturday night, giving a speech to about 200 Muslims before they broke their daytime fasting with an evening meal after sunset in observance of their holy month of Ramadan.
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More than 20,000 Muslim voters - about the margin of victory for Jones - turned out and voted in December almost without exception for Jones, said Khaula Hadeed, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Alabama.
Khaula Hadeed
Hadeed said Moore had called Islam a "false religion" and made other disparaging remarks about Muslims and their faith. Muslims invited Moore to visit a mosque last year but did not receive a response, she said.
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Jones, a longtime member of Canterbury United Methodist Church in Mountain Brook, said it was the first time he has been inside a mosque. Officials with CAIR of Alabama said they were not aware of any Alabama senator having previously ever visited a mosque in the state.
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Read it all at: https://www.al.com/living/index.ssf/2018/05/us_sen_doug_jones_visits_alaba.html
(Republican Governor Kay) Ivey sending Alabama National Guard troops to Mexican border
Proving soundbites for campaign ads are very important.Source: AL.com, by Jeremy Gray
Gov. Kay Ivey today announced that five members of the Alabama National Guard and a guard helicopter will be deployed to the Mexican border.
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Read the rest at: https://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2018/05/ivey_sending_alabama_national.html
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Booker and Warren fuse faith and politics in appeal to mainline preachers
Two prominent Democratic U.S. senators, both possible presidential hopefuls, addressed a gathering of pastors this week, pairing religion with politics in an unusually direct appeal to left-leaning Christians.Source: Religious News Service, by Jack Jenkins
What Jesse was saying, at least to me, is that there is God in every one of us, she said. Whether we are rich or poor, black or white, tall or short, young or old, gay or straight, male or female, there is God in every one of us.
Read it all at: https://religionnews.com/2018/05/24/democratic-senators-fuse-faith-and-politics-in-appeal-to-mainline-preachers/
Trump Jeopardizes Reporters By Canceling Summit While They Are In N. Korea
Source: PoliticusUSA, by Jason Easley
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The White House could have waited to release the letter until after the journalists had safely gotten out of North Korea.
In 2016, a BBC crew was detained and expelled from North Korea. In 2017, the regime sentenced South Korean journalists and their publishers to death in absentia because they wrote a book about North Korea.
North Korea is not a safe country for journalists. Trump risked the safety of journalists because he had to throw a tantrum because Kim Jong-un insulted Mike Pence. This is not how foreign relations should ever be conducted, but as usual, Trump shows a total disregard for anyones life but his own.
Trump isnt just failing. His failures are jeopardizing innocent lives.
Read it all at: https://www.politicususa.com/2018/05/24/trump-jeopardizes-reporters-by-canceling-summit-while-they-are-in-n-korea.html
How can a scientist believe in God?
Are religion and science always at odds? Here are three scientists that don't think soSource: ABC News, by Anna Salleh
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Some argue that being religious is incompatible with being a scientist but do they realize the father of the Big Bang theory was actually a Catholic priest, the pioneer of modern genetics was an Augustinian monk, or the decoder of the human genome converted from atheism to Christianity in his 20s?
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Dr. Jennifer Wiseman: A Christian astrophysicist.
"When I talk to people I find that most people really realise that there are deeper questions of life that science can't fully address, and they don't really see why there should be any conflict."
Dr. Andrew Harman: A Buddhist immunologist
"The Buddha was very clear that you follow a system of practice and only when you've experienced those things for yourself is your faith then justified because it's a faith that is based on experience."
Fahad Ali: A Muslim geneticist
"I think it's a testament to God more than anything that we can bring about all life on earth from a single origin."
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Read it all at: http://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2018-05-24/three-scientists-talk-about-how-their-faith-fits-with-their-work/9543772
Over 50 per cent of US scientists surveyed in 2009 said they believed in a deity or higher power.
The 'Monsters, Inc.' Argument for Unconditional Basic Income
"We didnt abolish slavery as an institution. We simply went from one form of slavery (chattel slavery), to another form of slavery (wage slavery)."Source: Medium, by Scott Santens
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'Monsters, Inc.' takes place in a universe that literally runs on fear. Monsters enter the human world at night through bedroom closets to scare children for the purpose of energy production. You see, whereas the world we know mostly runs on fossil fuels, hydropower, nuclear, and increasingly solar and wind, the world of monsters runs on the emotion of fear. When kids scream, their screams are harvested as energy. That energy powers a world of monsters. And so every night, monsters enter the world of humans, to make children scream, to mine their fear.
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Believe it or not, we live in that same kind of world. We discovered something monstrous that works, and we use it to drive our economy. Weve done it for so long, we dont even question it, and we never even tested a far more powerful alternative. What works we discovered is an economy based on the fear of death by poverty, where fear of death is used to compel people into working, and what we never tested (until recently that is) is an economy where there is no fear of death by poverty, where all work is thus fully voluntary.
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Think of it this way. One method of forcing someone to do something is to physically choke them. If they do what you want, you stop choking them. If they dont do what you want, you keep choking them until they do. The other method involves gaining control over all the air, and then telling people that if they do what you want, youll give them pieces of paper that they can use to pay for air. If they dont do what you want, you dont give them any access to air until they do. Both involve the restricting of air supplies. Both are based on the fear of death by asphyxiation. Both involve choices where the choice is life or death, which isnt really a choice at all. Both are forms of domination, but one is direct, and the other is indirect.
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We can create a world that runs on joy instead of fear. We can choose to do that. We can choose to remove the guns pointed at everyones heads, and in so doing liberate everyone with the freedom to voluntarily pursue whatever pursuits they find most meaningful. All thats required is to abolish the fear of death by poverty. Unconditional basic income does that.
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Read it all at: https://medium.com/basic-income/the-monsters-inc-argument-for-unconditional-basic-income-3b22b63eed3e
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