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Kid Berwyn
Kid Berwyn's Journal
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May 31, 2023
In March 2022, I toured the school / residence in Scottsdale when it housed a number of pieces by Dale Chihuly.
Wright's homes are where -- and how -- we should all live.
Taliesin for Everybody!
In March 2022, I toured the school / residence in Scottsdale when it housed a number of pieces by Dale Chihuly.
Wright's homes are where -- and how -- we should all live.
May 31, 2023
Maya Boddie
Alternet.org, May 27, 2023
Right-wing host and Turning Point USA Chief Executive Officer Charlie Kirk' second-annual Pastors Summit, held in Nashville, Tennessee, was sponsored by "a registered sex offender," Rolling Stone reports.
Rolling Stone notes Kirk has been outspoken amid conservative-led criticism of Target for selling transgender-inclusive youth apparel, alleging the corporation shows "support for grooming kids."
The publication reports:
CEO (of) Rightside Up — a "Christian 'lifestyle apparel' company" — Bergstrand is "a registered sex offender in North Dakota," after being "convicted in 2014 for attempted 'coercion and enticement.'"
CONTINUES (unfortunately for the nation and planet)...
https://www.alternet.org/registered-sex-offender-charlie-kirk/
Place must've been filled with "My Little NAZI" types.
Charlie Kirk's "Pastors Summit" Funded by Registered Sex Offender
'Beyond hypocritical': Charlie Kirk’s recent Pastors Summit was funded by a 'registered sex offender'Maya Boddie
Alternet.org, May 27, 2023
Right-wing host and Turning Point USA Chief Executive Officer Charlie Kirk' second-annual Pastors Summit, held in Nashville, Tennessee, was sponsored by "a registered sex offender," Rolling Stone reports.
Rolling Stone notes Kirk has been outspoken amid conservative-led criticism of Target for selling transgender-inclusive youth apparel, alleging the corporation shows "support for grooming kids."
The publication reports:
Rolling Stone has learned that one of the TPUSA summit's corporate sponsors is a Christian fashion company that is led by a registered sex offender, Shawn Bergstrand, who served time in federal prison for attempted 'coercion and enticement' after trying to persuade 'a minor female” to 'engage in sexual activity.'
CEO (of) Rightside Up — a "Christian 'lifestyle apparel' company" — Bergstrand is "a registered sex offender in North Dakota," after being "convicted in 2014 for attempted 'coercion and enticement.'"
CONTINUES (unfortunately for the nation and planet)...
https://www.alternet.org/registered-sex-offender-charlie-kirk/
Place must've been filled with "My Little NAZI" types.
May 31, 2023
By Joey Roulette and Steve Gorman
Reuters, May 31, 2023
WASHINGTON, May 31 (Reuters) - A NASA panel formed last year to study what the government calls "unidentified aerial phenomena," commonly termed UFOs, was due to hold its first public meeting on Wednesday, ahead of a report expected in coming weeks.
The 16-member body, assembling experts from fields ranging from physics to astrobiology, was formed last June to examine unclassified UFO sightings and other data collected from civilian government and commercial sectors.
The focus of Wednesday's four-hour public session "is to hold final deliberations before the agency's independent study team publishes a report this summer," NASA said in announcing the meeting.
The panel represents the first such inquiry ever conducted under the auspices of the U.S. space agency for a subject the government once consigned to the exclusive and secretive purview of military and national security officials.
CONTINUES...
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/nasa-panel-hold-first-public-meeting-ufo-study-ahead-report-2023-05-31/
The panel starts at 10:30 a.m. today: Wednesday, May 31.
LINK TO NASA WEBSTREAM:
https://www.nasa.gov/live
NASA Panel to Hold Public Hearing on UFO Study Today
NASA panel to hold first public meeting on UFO study ahead of reportBy Joey Roulette and Steve Gorman
Reuters, May 31, 2023
WASHINGTON, May 31 (Reuters) - A NASA panel formed last year to study what the government calls "unidentified aerial phenomena," commonly termed UFOs, was due to hold its first public meeting on Wednesday, ahead of a report expected in coming weeks.
The 16-member body, assembling experts from fields ranging from physics to astrobiology, was formed last June to examine unclassified UFO sightings and other data collected from civilian government and commercial sectors.
The focus of Wednesday's four-hour public session "is to hold final deliberations before the agency's independent study team publishes a report this summer," NASA said in announcing the meeting.
The panel represents the first such inquiry ever conducted under the auspices of the U.S. space agency for a subject the government once consigned to the exclusive and secretive purview of military and national security officials.
CONTINUES...
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/nasa-panel-hold-first-public-meeting-ufo-study-ahead-report-2023-05-31/
The panel starts at 10:30 a.m. today: Wednesday, May 31.
LINK TO NASA WEBSTREAM:
https://www.nasa.gov/live
May 29, 2023
"A man of integrity," he was my grandfather's best friend, machine gunned in a NAZI ambush as he led his men in France. My grandfather, who also was in the Army, and grandmother threw him a going-away party in Panama, where they had been stationed before Capt. Espada shipped out overseas. My father remembered the occasion and the generosity of Capt. Espada, who gave my then-7-year-old dad a basketball as a gift. Decades later, my dad recalled the moment. It was the first time I had seen my father cry.
Some background info on Capt. Espada from University of Puerto Rico - Mayagüez, where he had served as an educator -- what we today call an Athletic Director:
"He exercised his vocation as a teacher, day by day in an intimate dialogue with his pupils and colleagues, making them buy into in his idea that scientific knowledge is a way of penetrating human reality," highlighted the profile read by the rector of the UPRM, Dr. Jorge Iván Vélez Arocho, during the unveiling ceremony organized by the Secretary of the Academic Senate, Joanne R. Savino. He added that “as a teacher and as a friend he was an example of humanity, teaching his sports techniques to many schoolchildren. His intellectual and moral attitude had a lot to do with the roots in which his vocation as a physical educator grew."
More in Spanish: https://www.uprm.edu/news/articles/as2006067.html
I look forward to viewing a new documentary about the 65th Infantry Regiment, a unit Puerto Ricans who served together in World War 2 and the Korean War, "The Borinqueneers": https://borinqueneers.com/en_US/soldier/cpt-angel-f-espada/
Captain Angel F. Espada, U.S. Army, Killed In Action 12 November 1944
"A man of integrity," he was my grandfather's best friend, machine gunned in a NAZI ambush as he led his men in France. My grandfather, who also was in the Army, and grandmother threw him a going-away party in Panama, where they had been stationed before Capt. Espada shipped out overseas. My father remembered the occasion and the generosity of Capt. Espada, who gave my then-7-year-old dad a basketball as a gift. Decades later, my dad recalled the moment. It was the first time I had seen my father cry.
Some background info on Capt. Espada from University of Puerto Rico - Mayagüez, where he had served as an educator -- what we today call an Athletic Director:
"He exercised his vocation as a teacher, day by day in an intimate dialogue with his pupils and colleagues, making them buy into in his idea that scientific knowledge is a way of penetrating human reality," highlighted the profile read by the rector of the UPRM, Dr. Jorge Iván Vélez Arocho, during the unveiling ceremony organized by the Secretary of the Academic Senate, Joanne R. Savino. He added that “as a teacher and as a friend he was an example of humanity, teaching his sports techniques to many schoolchildren. His intellectual and moral attitude had a lot to do with the roots in which his vocation as a physical educator grew."
More in Spanish: https://www.uprm.edu/news/articles/as2006067.html
I look forward to viewing a new documentary about the 65th Infantry Regiment, a unit Puerto Ricans who served together in World War 2 and the Korean War, "The Borinqueneers": https://borinqueneers.com/en_US/soldier/cpt-angel-f-espada/
May 28, 2023
Which is, real. So the Bush Family Evil Empire hires liars to lie in order to keep attention from their own sundry treasons and insider criminal operations. Ask Clarence Thomas, shown above with George Herbert Walker Bush, just after he was tapped to join SCOTUS almost 32 years ago.
It's not a thing, like the BFEE.
Which is, real. So the Bush Family Evil Empire hires liars to lie in order to keep attention from their own sundry treasons and insider criminal operations. Ask Clarence Thomas, shown above with George Herbert Walker Bush, just after he was tapped to join SCOTUS almost 32 years ago.
May 22, 2023
Each second we live in a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that never was before and will never be again.
And what do we teach our children in school? We teach them that two and two makes four, and that Paris is the capital of France.
When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them:
You must cherish one another. You must work — we all must work — to make this world worthy of its children.
— Pablo Casals
Imagine what the nation would be like today if liberals ran the airwaves?
Cellist Pablo Casals greets first lady Jacqueline Kennedy after a concert given in the White House in November 1961.Each second we live in a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that never was before and will never be again.
And what do we teach our children in school? We teach them that two and two makes four, and that Paris is the capital of France.
When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them:
Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all of the world there is no other child exactly like you. In the millions of years that have passed there has never been another child like you.
And look at your body — what a wonder it is! Your legs, your arms, your cunning fingers, the way you move! You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven.
You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel.
And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel?
You must cherish one another. You must work — we all must work — to make this world worthy of its children.
— Pablo Casals
May 21, 2023
One NAZI Gasbag Got 40 Years to Divide America in Two
Then, the rotten GOP gave him a Presidential Medal of Freedom for a life misspent.
Still, even with all his lying and propaganda, Flushbo deserves a medal all right.
From Vladimir Putin.
Making that clear will help reunite the country.
May 19, 2023
Feels like just the other day...
It was a time of genius. And every day we remember just how much our nation and world were robbed of greatness.
One who survived to Reagan’s day was Abbie Hoffman. He wrote about the October Surprise in the October, 1988 Playboy — where the Ayatollah did Casey and Poppy Bush a major — and was suicided six months later. Just the other day, we have new confirmation from Ben Barnes (D-Texas), the same guy who arranged for Smirko Bush to jump to the top of the Texas Air National Guard waiting list. Such survive and thrive.
Thank Goodness for Justice and History. Both are on our side. Today, because of Dimdonnie the Traitor’s incompetence and criminality, we have a darn good chance to end their warmongering days and lock more than a few of them up.
May 18, 2023
Kansas is full of great people.
Why do they listen to GOP crapola?
Because for 40 years, pretty much all they heard broadcast were variants of…
May 15, 2023
Brian Stelter’s very popular and commerically successful show was axed. The reason? Follow the money
by Robert Reich
The Guardian, August 24, 2022
Excerpt...
CNN’s new corporate overseer is Warner Brothers Discovery Inc, which now owns what used to be Time Warner, including CNN. The CEO of Warner Brothers Discovery is David Zaslav.
Zaslav has been prodding Licht to reposition CNN to the center, and be a network preferred by “everybody … Republicans, Democrats”.
Snip...
The anti-democracy movement in America (as elsewhere) is among the biggest issues confronting us today. Is reporting on it considered “straight news” or “opinion”? Wouldn’t failing to report on it in a way that sounded alarms be a gross dereliction of duty?
Snip...
The leading shareholder in Warner Brothers Discovery is John Malone, a multibillionaire cable magnate. (Malone was a chief architect in the merger of Discovery and CNN.)
Malone describes himself as a “libertarian” although he travels in rightwing Republican circles. In 2005, he held 32% of the shares of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation. He is on the board of directors of the Cato Institute. In 2017, he donated $250,000 to Trump’s inauguration.
Malone has said he wants CNN to be more like Fox News because, in his view, Fox News has “actual journalism”. Malone also wants the “news” portion of CNN to be “more centrist”.
Continues...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/24/the-changes-at-cnn-look-politically-motivated-that-should-concern-us-all
Current CNN issues foretold by Robert Reich last year.
The changes at CNN look politically motivated. That should concern us allBrian Stelter’s very popular and commerically successful show was axed. The reason? Follow the money
by Robert Reich
The Guardian, August 24, 2022
Excerpt...
CNN’s new corporate overseer is Warner Brothers Discovery Inc, which now owns what used to be Time Warner, including CNN. The CEO of Warner Brothers Discovery is David Zaslav.
Zaslav has been prodding Licht to reposition CNN to the center, and be a network preferred by “everybody … Republicans, Democrats”.
Snip...
The anti-democracy movement in America (as elsewhere) is among the biggest issues confronting us today. Is reporting on it considered “straight news” or “opinion”? Wouldn’t failing to report on it in a way that sounded alarms be a gross dereliction of duty?
Snip...
The leading shareholder in Warner Brothers Discovery is John Malone, a multibillionaire cable magnate. (Malone was a chief architect in the merger of Discovery and CNN.)
Malone describes himself as a “libertarian” although he travels in rightwing Republican circles. In 2005, he held 32% of the shares of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation. He is on the board of directors of the Cato Institute. In 2017, he donated $250,000 to Trump’s inauguration.
Malone has said he wants CNN to be more like Fox News because, in his view, Fox News has “actual journalism”. Malone also wants the “news” portion of CNN to be “more centrist”.
Continues...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/24/the-changes-at-cnn-look-politically-motivated-that-should-concern-us-all
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