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[gwydion]

* There are a lot of complex issues around the protests and elections in Pakistan, and I honestly don't trust the sources I'm looking at. I'm seeing a lot of very divergent partisan explanations about what's going on and am not knowledgeable enough to sort the the sources as to bias and quality in order to distill something I feel comfortable posting. I apologize. I really do wish I knew more about modern politics in Pakistan (and Thailand and Bangladesh where interesting things have been happening over the last several years), but I can't know everything, much as I'd like to. Please take my silence as not being due to lack of interest, but rather an admission of ignorance.

* My best wishes to fast food workers striking for a living wage and the right to unionize today.

* The Federal Department of justice is launching an investigation into the Ferguson police department as a whole.

* "Digby on Tasers, Guns and the Next Wave of Police Militarization:" http://billmoyers.com/2014/09/02/digby-on-tasers-guns-and-the-next-wave-of-police-militarization/

* "Before They Left Africa, Early Modern Humans Were Already 'Culturally Diverse':" http://allafrica.com/stories/201408150001.html

* "Mummies in Egypt began long before Age of Pharoahs, study shows:" http://phys.org/news/2014-08-embalming-rewrites-key-chapter-egyptian.html

* "‘Significant’ human burial site uncovered by archaeologists in Cyprus:" http://cyprus-mail.com/2014/08/14/significant-human-burial-site-uncovered-by-archaeologists-in-cyprus/

* "'Evil Eye' Box and Other Ancient Treasures Found in Nile River Cemetery:" http://www.livescience.com/47306-nile-river-cemetery-discovered.html

* "Bronze Age sword recovered from River Shannon:" http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/bronze-age-sword-recovered-from-river-shannon-30508634.html

* "Human remains found in Roman mine:" http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-28755304

* "Archaeologists hail 'Warmian Pompeii':" http://www.thenews.pl/1/11/Artykul/178737,Archaeologists-hail-Warmian-Pompeii

* "Sin, fornication and drunkenness: secrets of early American settlers unearthed by historians:" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11001127/Sin-fornication-and-drunkenness-secrets-of-early-American-settlers-unearthed-by-historians.html

* "Work by 'finest-ever' carver found:" http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-28752928

* "Still 'Drinkable': 200-Year-Old Booze Found in Shipwreck:" http://www.livescience.com/47382-shipwreck-alcohol-bottle-discovered.html

* "European immigrants assimilated successfully, economist says:" http://phys.org/news/2014-08-european-immigrants-assimilated-successfully-economist.html

* "Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person...:" http://occupywallstreet.net/story/explaining-white-privilege-broke-white-person

* "The Great 2014 Celebrity Nude Photos Leak is only the beginning:" http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/01/celebrity-naked-photo-leak-2014-nude-women

* "Arguing While Trans: A Straight, Cis Man Tells a Trans Woman How to Behave :" http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2014/09/01/a_straight_cis_man_tells_a_trans_woman_to_take_the_night_bus.html?

* They started demolishing our exterior walls at 8 AM. Needless to say, what sleep there was was horrible. I dragged myself to do things needing doing though. I ended up going back to bed in the hopes of lots of sleep, but I have a birmen, so.... yeah. They haven't wrapped the drywall yet, so I can't move the plants back.

* Zombie Short Film. Bring tissues. "CARGO:"

"CARGO - Tropfest Australia 2013 Finalist (TSI "Balloon")" (Watch on YouTube)

* Fundraiser to pay insurance and back rent: http://djinni.livejournal.com/507872.html