A sad day in history

This Day in Labor History: May 30, 1937

An employer and the police join forces in putting down a strike. It's on film. To quote the author of the web page "If you ever wanted to watch the police kill strikers, now is your opportunity."

The history of people's attempts to get justice, equality and human treatment from the 1% is littered with incidents like this...

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Sure. Just a joke.

I wonder if he'd consider it a joke if someone on another program said the same thing about people who star on 'live topical programs'? I suspect he wouldn't consider it a joke at all...

Jeremy Clarkson apologises over strike comments

"Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson has apologised for saying striking public sector workers should be shot, after his remarks were widely condemned."

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It seems to come down to

the usual academic bickering and worry about liability and money.

What Happened Between David Protess and Medill?

The university seems to be more concerned about their possible liability and image than about the lives of people wrongly convicted. It's not surprising.

Universities are run by lawyers and accountants now, and have been for some time. Intellectual honesty and courage are things of the past except for a few individuals, who the new establishment perceive as risks...

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The only problem with churches today

is that they're still comprised of people...

Schuller ousted from Crystal Cathedral board

People who can't get along, people who fight, families who squabble, people who need huge church monuments and ministries, people who can't agree on choirs let alone the truth and reality of Jesus Christ. Of course, without people churches wouldn't be necessary. It's a problem with human nature...

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With between 500,000

and 1,200,000 Christians in Nepal...

Nepal's Christians demonstrate for burial grounds

...they'll have to do something for them.

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Here's a pastor

who doesn't get on with his congregation very well...

Pastor Accused of Denying Communion to Churchgoers Who Didn't Give Tax Refunds

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So much for fighting

Disputed Bay of Bengal island 'vanishes' say scientists

"A tiny island claimed for years by India and Bangladesh in the Bay of Bengal has disappeared beneath the rising seas, scientists in India say."

'Problem solved,' says Mother Nature.

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Just another day,

November 23, 1997, in the lives of the Capitalist robber barons who try by any means to prevent labour from organizing...

The Thibodaux Massacre of 1887

...including murder. Sadly, because those with money get what they want for the most part, descendents of these business people and people like them now run the business sector and the governments of the West (and no, I'm not a conspiracy theorist)...

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Antiquities

as 'political weapons'...

A Case in Antiquities for ‘Finders Keepers’

Alas, in many cases, given the instability of the areas that these things were discovered, many of them would no longer exist if they hadn't been removed from the countries in which they were discovered...

Determining ownership is fraught with difficulties.

"Dr. Hawass may consider the Rosetta Stone to be the property of his government agency, but the modern state of Egypt didn’t even exist when it was discovered in 1799 (much less when it was inscribed in 196 B.C., during the Hellenistic era). The land was under the rule of the Ottoman Empire, and the local historians were most interested in studying their Islamic heritage. "

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Splitters!

Dawkins et al bring us into disrepute

"There's a schism alright, and I seem to find myself on the unfashionable side of it"

'Tis the way of the world - every group has its splitters...

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Alas,

this is too often the response by Islamists...

UK: Christian minister beaten, cross ripped off, after he argues with Muslims on his TV show

Argue with a Christian, a Jew or even a Mormon, and you get an argument. Argue with a Muslim and you might not live to see another day. That's the response that's so worrisome - the resorting to violence to stifle criticism or discussion. Our sad, sad world...