Schedules
Friday 17 May 2013
Photo, above: Father Daniel Berrigan is arrested for civil disobedience outside the U.S. Mission to the U.N. in 2006. See: Hour 3, Block D, Jake Olzen of The Catholic Worker, concerning The Catonsville Nine's May 17, 1968, burning of draft files in Catonsville, Md., “. . . arguably the single...
Thursday 16 May 2013
Photo, above:The P-800 Oniks (Russian: П-800 Оникс; English: Onyx), also known in export markets as Yakhont (Russian: Яхонт; English: ruby or sapphire), is aRussian/Soviet supersonic anti-ship cruise missile developed by NPO Mashinostroyeniya as a ramjet version of P-80 Zubr. Its GRAU designation...
Wednesday 15 May 2013
Photo, above: Rohingya people banished from their homes by violent Buddhists. See Hour 2, Block C, Jason Szep, SE Asian bureau chief for Reuters, in Bangkok, on the Buddhist Rakhine state in Burma, mass killings of Rohingya people, an impoverished Muslim people in Western Burma, the poorest of...
Tuesday 14 May 2013
Photo, above: Paraphernalia said to belong to Ryan Fogle, an American diplomat arrested on Monday night or Tuesday morning by the FSB, who allege he's a CIA spy trying to recruit Russian citizens. Confiscated during his arrest were a dagger, a karaoke-style microphone, a hand compass, a map of...
Monday 13 May 2013
Photo, above: Concerning Benghazi, Adm Mike Mullen and Thomas Pickering pinned the blame on the Secretary for Diplomatic Security – who was under Patrick Kennedy, who reported directly to Clinton. See: Kissinger, Nixon, and the Destruction of Cambodia. See also: Hour 2, Block C: Larry Johnson,...
Sunday 12 May 2013
Photo, above: The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, commonly known as the Cultural Revolution (Gwo yu: Wénhuà Dàgémìng), was a socio-political movement that took place in the People’s Republic of China from 1966 through 1976. Set into motion by Mao Tse-tung, the Revolution was launched in May...
Saturday 11 May 2013
Photo, above: William Tecumseh Sherman (seated, center) and staff. Standing, left to right: Oliver Otis Howard, William Babcock Hazen, Jefferson Columbus Davis, Joseph Anthony Mower; seated, left to right: John Alexander Logan, William Tecumseh Sherman, Henry Warner Slocum. See: Hour 1, Block A:...
Friday 10 May 2013
Photo, above: Gravity Lows Mark Burial Sites of Ancient Tectonic Plates. See: Hour 3, Block C: Sid Perkins, Science magazine, on ancient tectonics and mass extinctions. Nature News on the rate of recycling within Earth’s mantle of ancient tectonic plates: Ancient crust rises from the deep. JOHN...