This lively debunking of Occupy's most militant franchise is not a formal history. Rather, it's a contrarian critique meant to inform, entertain and provoke the reader. Calling Oakland "the Westboro Baptist Church of Occupy," independent author Alan Kurtz deftly chronicles the arrogance and paranoia of wannabe revolutionists using a troubled American city as their playground. From seizing public parks and endorsing Black Bloc smashy, to being courted by organized labor as a "rent-a mob" after having twice shut down the Port of Oakland, to threatening public officials and vowing to blockade the airport, Occupiers obeyed a stark exhortation by one of their speakers: "Now is the time to spread hate!" For half a year in 2012, Occupy Oakland owned downtown streets every Saturday night, marching on OPD headquarters, chanting "F*** THE POLICE," dragging and burning the American flag—all with constitutionally protected free speech impunity and all while loudly decrying life in a brutal police state. After six months, however, it was clear that this little revolution couldn't. Eviscerated through infighting, dumped by disillusioned supporters, Occupy Oakland desperately reduced quorum for its vaunted General Assembly from 100 to 70, yet still attracted only a handful of diehards. When its first anniversary rolled around, Occupy Oakland could—like an oldies station run by spent anarchists—do no more than reflect nostalgically on its Greatest Hits. Engagingly readable, Occupy Oakland: The Little Revolution That Couldn't will nevertheless withstand open-minded scrutiny. (You can't evict an idea from a closed mind.) Factual material is meticulously documented by citations to published sources, each accompanied by a URL for Internet verification, which is additionally facilitated via hyperlinks at http://LittleRevCuldnt.blogspot.com/ CAUTION: Contains graphic language. This is not a children's book. Finally, please bear in mind that when malicious non-customers post unspecific, intellectually dishonest 1-star "reviews" (usually their first and ONLY Amazon contribution) ignorantly trashing something they haven't read, it's the Internet equivalent of book burning. That's how Occupy Oakland rolls. Non-Anarchist Review "If the author unleashes heartfelt resentment equal to that on the other side, he also displays the precision of an ex-military man. The book shows some rigor and has historical value. Right now, it's the most complete non-anarchist treatment of Occupy Oakland and offers a refreshing counterpoint to 'autonomous' accounts." – Editor, NonAnarchist.org March 2013
It's Christmas time and there's a big problem in the forest! People from a nearby village want to chop down a special tree to use for their Christmas decorations. But this is the most beautiful tree in the whole forest! Wendy the Warbler, Wally the Woodlark, William the Woodpecker, and Sebastian the Squirrel all live in this old pine tree. Many other animals in the forest love to sit on the soft needles under the magical pine tree. All the animals have a plan to save the special tree and help the people from the village have a Merry Christmas!
It's summertime in the forest and it's time to have some fun. Sebastian the has just bought some camping equipment and a map. He and his friends decide to go on a hike and then camp at the top of Mount Evergreen. To get to the top of the mountain the friends must pass through some dangers like giant falling rocks, hungry vultures, and one very unhappy and angry mother bear! Join Wendy the Warbler, Sebastian the Squirrel, Wally the Woodlark, William the Woodpecker, and Cherry the Chipmunk as they go on their adventure and discover a beautiful waterfall on Mount Evergreen! Available in paperback, eBook and audiobook.
A complete guide to home uses for neutral spirits, from infusions and tinctures to cocktails and cleaning solutions. A bottle of rectified alcohol, like The Good Reverend’s Universal Spirit from Tamworth Distilling, is a bottle of possibilities. In these pages, you’ll discover over 100 recipes for infusions, tinctures, cocktails, cordials, elixirs, punches, and even household cleaners. This handbook will teach you to replicate famous liqueurs and classic cocktails, and help you prepare perfect garnishes and celebratory toasts. With step-by-step instructions and photos, you’ll learn processes culinary, scientific, and alchemical to improve everything from your parties to your health. You’ll learn the processes of osmosis and dissolution that create the perfect infusions. You’ll be given the secrets to prep for guests lists of 1 or 100. You’ll be guided through pairing your alcoholic creations with the rhythms of nature. Yes, with a bottle of purified spirits, you’ll be able to purify your own human spirit. These recipes explain not just the flavor benefits of their ingredients, but also the spiritual and supernatural. Discover the meanings of herbs, the ratio of the Fibonacci sequence, and the effects of moon phases, among so much more. Come for the drinks, but stay for the magic.
The Dragon, the Knight, and the Princess is a fun and entertaining adventure story set in a mythical kingdom a long time ago: When a giant fire-breathing dragon invades the kingdom, the king allows the knight to marry his daughter on the condition that he must first save the land by finding and killing the dangerous monster.
Har du sett bilder av flom på nyhetene? Flom er et naturfenomen som skjer overalt i verden, og faktisk ganske ofte mange steder i Norge. Her kan du lese om hva flom er og hva det kommer av.
Bli med ut i verdensrommet og lær om solsystemet vårt! I denne boken blir du kjent med planeten, Venus. Visste du at den er oppkalt etter en romersk gudinne?
On July 30, 2013, U.S. Army soldier Bradley E. Manning was convicted of violating the Espionage Act, stealing government property, and miscellaneous offenses, all related to unlawfully passing 734,885 official documents to WikiLeaks. He was sentenced to reduction in rank to the lowest grade, forfeiture of pay and allowances, confinement for 35 years and a dishonorable discharge. The morning after sentencing, Manning's lawyer appeared on NBC's Today show to convey his client's gender-morphing message, "I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female." This is the first book to thoroughly examine Manning's 12-week trial, and the first to retrace the step-by-step revelations of the soldier's conflicted gender identity, from the earliest media reports, continuing through the court-martial's pretrial and trial phases, and culminating with the sensationalistic self-outing on network TV. Manning: The Soldier Who Leaked on His/Her Country is also a first in another way: the first book by a heretic in the cathedral of Manning hero worshippers, daring to reveal their idol's feet of clay. Though neither biography nor formal history, this work is meant to withstand academic scrutiny. The author's research included all 515 pretrial and 209 trial documents available at the Army's Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room; all 7,197 pages of unofficial trial transcripts published by Freedom of the Press Foundation; and selected pretrial legal filings, court rulings and partial transcripts from the online database maintained by independent journalist Alexa O'Brien. The author further relied on contemporaneous reports by reputable news organizations, as well as colorful postings at Twitter and Facebook. Factual material is meticulously documented by citations to published sources, each accompanied by a URL for Internet verification. Hyperlinked notes are fully functional in the Kindle edition and are also independently available free online at http://manningtrial.blogspot.com/
There has been no rain in the forest for a long time and it is starting to be a problem. Rivers like Big River and Raging River are drying up and the forest animals don't know what to do. They ask the advice of Olivia the Owl, the wisest animal in the forest. They all go to the nearby village and ask the people there for help. As the animals and the people are talking, lightning suddenly strikes the heart of the forest, and the result is both shocking and dangerous. Join Wendy the Warbler, Sebastian the Squirrel, Wally the Woodlark, William the Woodpecker, and Olivia the Owl as they join forces with the people from the village to save the forest and the old pine tree!
Stereotypes have forever polluted the relationship between blacks and whites in America, and nowhere more conspicuously than in the entertainment field. Here, artists are often judged not only by the color of their skin but by the content of their caricature. In particular, the persistence of racially negative portrayals in African-American music, despite increasing control exercised by blacks, reflects the extent to which both races cling to outmoded concepts. By any measure except ethics, crossover music (made by blacks, consumed by whites) has been spectacularly successful at spreading pernicious icons. Stereotypes in Black Music aims to put these avatars into a pop-cultural context in a way that is informative, provocative and necessarily corrosive. This is not an indictment of African Americans as a whole or of their music generally. It is rather a critical look at one microscopic slice of black culture, examining the screwy symbiosis by which whites have patronized the most demeaning caricatures while blacks have kept the marketplace freshly supplied with toxic divertissements. Within these pages you'll find Louis Armstrong dressed like Fred Flintstone, a tuxedoed Duke Ellington presiding over fantasy jungles in Depression-era Harlem, R&B voodoo men putting a hex on postwar teenagers, rock 'n' roll guitar-slingers in purple Cadillacs transporting underage girls across state lines for immoral purposes, freaky funksters sporting spacesuits and platform shoes, pushbutton-orgasmic disco queens, and of course gangsta rappers in all their gun-blazing, bitch-slapping, X-rated glory. (It's impossible to adequately treat this subject using sanitized excerpts, so expect offensive language.) Stereotypes in Black Music is bound to rankle. But a debate on this volatile subject is long overdue. Let fly the sparks.
Mental illness is very common in our society, but it's also very misunderstood. Many view those with mental illnesses as being weak, but there is a great deal of strength in those that must battle their own minds on a regular basis. Disharmony of the Spheres focuses on characters with mental illnesses that are still able to be successful. They may not completely overcome their illnesses, but they are able to beat them back and succeed. In this volume, you will find the fiction of Ian Brazee Cannon, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, MH Bonham, David Lee Summers, Nicole Givens Kurtz, Kate Runnels, Michael Morgan, L.J. Bonham, Carol Hightshoe, Francis W. Alexander, and Terrie Leigh Relf. This book is dedicated to all of the science fiction fans and writers that must battle their own personal demons every day, and half of all of the profits from this book will go to The Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prevention Organization, a group that battles teen suicide.
Jaures's liberal socialist theory of radical reform speaks to contemporary debates about the liberal tradition and the idea of radical democracy. Jaures points contemporary political thinkers toward a new engagement with the theory-practice question, toward a revaluation the place of social movements in political theory, and toward a reconsideration of the problem of hope.
What could be the outcome of a marriage of convenience between unregenerate Nazis and Arab terrorists if one of the wedding gifts was a pair of Soviet nuclear devices? If the honeymoon site was an ODESSA-controlled installation in the Congo? If the best man was an American President with a weak moral spine? CIA case officer Hank Ingalls asked himself these questions before he went missing. Powerful government elements want him written off.Furious, the DCI orders a clandestine rescue operation. The CIA resurrects Sean Brogan, an operative forced into retirement because of direct, often violent, problem-solving techniques. Brogan, working with a beautiful Mossad agent, uncovers terrible truths that could destroy the moral leadership of the U.S. among the nations of the world. With enemies threatening to destroy him after he leaves the White House, the President believes the nuclear destruction of Israel is a reasonable price to pay for self-preservation.
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