Mitchell Zuckoff on Larry King Now

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Of course Fr. Z went to see 13 Hours; I will post some thoughts about the movie when I have some time...

In Hindsight: What the Marketing of '13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi' Got Wrong

Has there been much marketing to middle Americans? I haven't seen much of it around here, though admittedly I don't watch much TV or go to the theaters that often. I find it hard to believe that the low ticket sales is due to its being marketed to conservatives mainly.

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Protecting the Official Narrative

CIA Spox: ’13 Hours’ Benghazi Movie a ‘Shameful’ ‘Distortion of the Events’
'13 Hours’ Author Fires Back at CIA: ‘The Movie and Book Got it Right’

Do you think we're stupid?

Libya attack was ‘terrorist’ strike, but not planned, says U.S. official

The head of the U.S. National Counter-Terrorism Center told lawmakers on Wednesday that the deadly attack on Sept. 11 that claimed the lives of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three aides was a "terrorist" strike. But the official, Matt Olsen, said evidence so far suggests it was not planned in advance.

It all depends on what you mean by "in advance." There was planning and coordination involved; no attackers just showed up at the protest and spontaneously decided that they would join together to assault the compound. They may have decided to use the protests as cover once the opportunity presented itself, but that doesn't put the administration in the clear. It still supports the claim that intervening in Libya has made things worse and allowed for such elements to be in the country to carry out such activities.

Items of Interest, 24 October 2011

Full Text: Note on financial reform from the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace
Vatican Radio
Peter Daniel Haworth, Prudential Questions About the Vatican’s Call for New International Authority Over Financial Institutions and Policy
Fr. Z, The new “white paper” from the Pont. Council Justice and Peace. Fr. Z rants like loon.
Richard Spencer, The Vatican Calls for Global Usury
Marc DeGirolami
Rod Dreher
CHT

Relocalization:
Distributist Review: Mondragon Revisited
Local residents galvanize around agricultural issue
By Matthew Renda
Kitchen Table Talks: A Food Activist’s Guide to Growing the Movement
Economic Solutions Worth Spreading
Slow Money: Sign the Principles

Farming:

Rodale Institute: The Farming Systems Trial
Eric Herm:


The Shocking, Graphic Data That Shows Exactly What Motivates the Occupy Movement
Robbing Us Blind by David S. D'Amato
The Occupation Movement Reader by Brad Spangler


Peak Oil:
Commentary: Oil and the economy by Chris Martenson (EB)
Special call with Chris Martenson, Tues. 10/25
Richard Heinberg on "The End of Growth: Adapting to our New Economic Reality (mp3)
A Peak Oil Primer AKA Why Daniel Yergin is a Dumbass Corporate Whore for Big Oil (EB)
Daniel Yergin massively reduced his energy estimates by Jeffrey J. Brown
The Olduvai Theory
Paul Ehrlich Global Collapse Warning

Water:
California: So cities can have water, farmers are paid if they don’t plant

Counterpunch:
PATRICK COCKBURN, Fury Mounts Among Greek People
MARSHALL AUERBACK, The Myth of Greek Profligacy
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS, Totally Corrupt America
DEEPAK TRIPATHI, Killing Gaddafi
ANTHONY DIMAGGIO, What the Establishment Isn’t Telling You About Libya


NPR: Deadly Monopolies; Patenting the Human Body

The Gaddafi I Knew
Daniel Larison, Follies of Self-Determination

The Decline of American Intellectual Conservatism by Claes G. Ryn
Pat Buchanan, What is it We Wish to Conserve
Yet another “progressive” argument for an unlimited Commerce Power doesn’t add up

Catholic:
Rome Reports:


Zenit: Pope Explains Basis for Vatican Dialogue
ZENIT Leaders Look to Future
Q-and-A With Faces From Behind the Scenes
And Notes the Choices That Should Be Discouraged

Order of Malta: Grand Prior of England Installed

What is the Holy Rosary?


FBI Says Gangs Infiltrating the US Military
A post by John Robb.

US Army: Uniform Traditions

Items of Interest, 21 October 2011

Vandana Shiva: "People should see that corporations have abandoned them long ago."


Rob Hopkins, Does Transition build happiness? An article from the latest Resurgence magazine. (pdf)
Economic Solutions Worth Spreading
The Empowerment Manual
A Conversation with Helena Norberg-Hodge, Part II
How Can We Rouse Police and Other Protectors of the Corporatocracy -- "Guards" of the Status Quo -- to Join the OWS Rebellion?

Tom Engelhardt, Bailing out the Complex

PJB, Is America Disintegrating?

Counterpunch:
VIJAY PRASHAD, Qaddafi, From Beginning to End
PAUL IMISON, The Drug War in Mexico
GARETH PORTER, Was the Iranian Plot a Plan for Retaliation?
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS, America’s New African Empire
ALEXANDER COCKBURN, Imperial Massacres

Why Do Men and Women Talk Differently

The Endless Courtship Fantasy

Risky “Sexual Marketplace”: Beware Loathsome STDs

Catholic:
Good news for the Eastern province: Dominican Rite Instruction in Washington DC
Reform of the Reform beginning with the Ordinariates?...
Oxford Oratory Ordination
John Zmirak, Heresy Gets Things Done
Halo Shapes: Round or Triangular?
Healey Willan Society Established by Canons Regular of St. John Cantius
Baldichin by Baldichin

Items of Interest, 2 September 2011

Iconography: David Clayton, Should Theology Govern the Process of Painting as well the Product?

The Augustinian Canons come to America: Canons Offer New Way of Life for American Priests, Part One

Political Issues:
Martin reviews Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt by Paul Edward Gottfried

I Voted for Obama, Now I'm Voting for Ron Paul



His forthcoming book: Folks, This Ain't Normal


Economics and Economy:
The Great Bank Robbery - Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Mark Spitznagel - Project Syndicate

Michael Shedlock, Global Recession, Right Here, Right Now: Japan's Capital Spending Plummets; Eurozone PMI, UK PMI, US ISM ex-Inventory, China Exports in Contraction

North Dakota’s Economic “Miracle”—It’s Not Oil

Food insecurity and the conflict trap by Mark Notaras (EB)

A report on Prince Charles's speech at Georgetown: Princely Advice by Chad Hellwinckel (EB)

Coming round the dark mountain part 2: the shaman and the village by Charlotte Du Cann (EB)

California:
Bruce S. Thorton, The Other California
How the San Joaquin Valley makes modern life possible

California AB 889 — the State climbs further into your home

Libya:
Bored UCLA Student Joins Libyan Rebels
It's a TOTAL war, monsieur by Pepe Escobar
WILLIAM BLUM, Libya and the World We Live In


Sports:
Rugby World Cup to make US network TV debut

Health and Diet:
Hank's Journey: Chris Masterjohn Interview | LCJ Podcast #38 (mp3)
The LLVLC Show (Episode 493): The LCHF Revolution Led By Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt In Sweden And Dr. Sofie Hexeberg In Norway (mp3)

High LDL on Paleo Revisited: Low Carb & the Thyroid

Someone has created minimalist sandals:
Branca Barefoot Running Sandals Review (Minimalist Sandals)

Movies:
NPR:   A Graceful Search For 'Higher Ground' by David Edelstein
"Vera Farmiga's Higher Ground centers on a woman who joins and, after a decade, flees a fundamentalist religious order, but the tone isn't irreverent."

What is a fundamentalist religious order? How about sect?

Apple

Clothing: A new product from TAD: Spartan Pant

Items of Interest, 31 August 2011

Joel Salatin: How to Prepare for A Future Increasingly Defined By Localized Food & Energy (mp3)

City Forest Farming
Gene Logsdon, The Contrary Farmer, Mulligan Books

Monsanto’s cotton strategy wears thin (EB)
April Davila, Our World 2.0

Facing the new reality (EB)
Various contributors including Sharon Astyk, Nate Hagens, Richard Heinberg, Dmitry Orlov..., Community Action Partnership
The full report (pdf).

Review: Life Without Oil by Steve Hallett With John Wright (EB)
Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press

Carson Rejoinder to Gregory

Lloyd Kramer: Why the History of Nationalism Matters in a Global Age, Part 1
Lloyd Kramer: Why the History of Nationalism Matters in a Global Age, Part 2

What about the problem of scale in relation to identity-formation? He does not seem to address this. (A proper scale enables one to make judgments about how much consolidation is necessary.)

Kelley B. Vlahos, Who Says Obama’s Bad for Business?

Lew Rockwell interviews Donald W. Miller, Jr. MD: Government Is Sending Us to Early Graves

The Paleo Solution – Episode 95 (mp3) - (an interview with William Davis MD, author of Wheat Belly)

The LLVLC Show (Episode 492): Dr. Ernest Curtis Exposes The ‘Cholesterol Delusion’ And Low-Carb Physician Dr. Steven Horvitz (mp3)

Counterpunch:
MAXIMILIAN C. FORTE, The Top Ten Myths in the War Against Libya
DIANA JOHNSTONE, Gaddafi’s Libya as Demon
PATRICK COCKBURN, Islamists at the Heart of the Libyan Rebellion

Items of Interest, 29 August 2011

Discretion Is Advised by W. James Antle, III

How al-Qaeda got to rule in Tripoli By Pepe Escobar

The Economics of Happiness by Jeffrey D. Sachs

Commentary: When technical feasibility doesn’t matter by Sharon Astyk (EB)

The Seneca effect: why decline is faster than growth by Ugo Bardi (EB)

"Learning Styles" Debunked (Again) by Catherine Gewertz

Jimmy Moore, Thanks To #AHS11, I’ve Shifted My Diet To A Low-Carb Paleo Approach

New Sustainable Butcher Shop From a Chez Panisse Alum Opens in Berkeley

Preaching Friars

The Subdeacon in the Dominican Rite from Jesson, The Urban Monk on Vimeo.

Items of Interest, 23 August 2011

Vivat Latinitas! My lively summer speaking a dead language. by Ted Scheinman (Paideia Institute)

Interview: Gordon Ramsay talks stress, smoking and getting his ass kicked

Interview with Sally Fallon (in which she talks about the Rawesome Foods raid)

Lindsay Curran, Economics has failed us...but there is life after growth! (EB) - a review of Richard Heinberg's latest book.

Sharon Astyk, On Settling Down (EB)

More about community in a post that hasn't been finished yet. Community is important, and a solution must through a concerted effort, but is community in itself enough? What of identity and core values?

Patrick Cockburn, Qaddafi Has Lost; But Who Has Won?

David S. D'Amato, Real Welfare Reform

Asian Americans In California To Benefit From Redistricting

This could not be true, unless ethnic communities existed. Is that a good sign? And, Asians(-Americans) are not a homogeneous voting bloc, though they generally do favor making money?

Items of Interest, 22 August 2011

Photos: 2011 Napa Institute (Napa Institute)

Can We Stay Healthy in a Toxic World? by McKay Jenkins

Srjda Trifkovic, The Libyan Endgame

Cape Breton Island’s Homegrown Musical Talent is Unparalleled

Dominican Liturgy Conference in Hungary, August 2011

Eastern Churches Review: On the Origins of the Iconostasis (Part 2 of 3)

Items of Interest, 16 August 2011

Transition Voice: No shirt, no shoes, no problem. Interview: Dmitry Orlov

Brendan O'Neill, Starkey racism row: It is the political elite's ceaseless denigration of white working-class culture that has 'turned kids black'

Jean Bricmont / Diana Johnstone, Who Will Save Libya From Its Western Saviours?

Christopher Hellman, The Pentagon's Wild Spending Spree

"How to win an argument with a vegetarian," by Denise Minger

What on earth is all this Paleo/Primal talk anyway?

Nora Jane Struthers

Do-it-yourself battlefield medicine saves lives By LINDSEY TANNER

Some sense in the House

AP: House rejects measure to continue US role in Libya

Counterpunch:
Patrick Cockburn, Amnesty Questions Claim That Gaddafi Ordered Rape as Weapon of War

Gareth Porter, The Open Door in Afghanistan

Strange Definitions of War and Peace by Rep. Ron Paul

10 In Congress Sue To Stop Illegal Libya war

NYT: 2 Top Lawyers Lost to Obama in Libya War Policy Debate By CHARLIE SAVAGE

Obama turns to drones for his Libyan kinetic military action

Pakistanizing the Libyan War By FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY
Obama Takes the Cape

Andrew Bacevich: Not Why, But How (mp3) - via AmConMag  and the Western Confucian

Items of Interest, 1 April 2011

Scott Richert, Fool for the Truth
Thomas Fleming, Ancien Régime III, 1-3 and Book Diary

Paul Craig Roberts, The New Colonialism
Alexander Cockburn, Battling the Beast
NYT: C.I.A. Agents in Libya Aid Airstrikes and Meet Rebels

Kevin Carson, To Solve the Problem of Money in Politics, Just Get Rid of the Politics — and the Money

Obama tries to explain himself

Paul Craig Roberts, Obama Raises American Hypocrisy to Higher Level
Andrew Levine, On Libya, Who Does Obama Think He is Fooling?

The president also appeared on a live "townhall meeting" on Univision last night. More kissing up to one of his constituencies.

Items of interest, 28 March 2011

A successful defense of the Puritans?  A City upon a Hill, by Mark A. Signorelli


More on Fukushima:
Chris Busby, Deconstructing Nuclear Experts

Mike Whitney, Is Fukushima About to Blow?

Dr. Helen Caldicott on the nuclear disaster in Japan (EB)
Alex Smith, Radio Ecoshock (mp3)

Libya:
Curtis Doebbler, Why the Attack on Libya is Illegal

PJB, How Killing Libyans Became a Moral Imperative and Obama Goes to War

Naturally, Daniel Larison has written much on the topic.

Other:
Unpacking for a disaster: What you need to survive the unexpected by Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch (EB)

Rob Hopkins, Film review: "The Economics of Happiness" (EB)

Commentary: Restrictions on world oil production by Robert L. Hirsch

Plastics now and forever! by Daniel Pargman, Life After Oil (EB)