The Black Panther Party’s battles for social justice and economic equality are the centerpiece of the Oscar-nominated film ‘Judas and The Black Messiah.’ In 1968, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover said the Black Panther Party “without question, represents the greatest threat to internal security of the country.” And with that declaration he used United States federal law enforcement to wage war on the group, But why did Hoover’s FBI target the Black Panther Party more severely than any other Black power organization? Historian Donna Murch says the answer lies in the Panthers’ political agenda and a strategy that challenged the very foundations of American society.
Ramsey Clark, the attorney general in the Johnson administration who became an outspoken activist for unpopular causes and a harsh critic of U.S. policy, has died. He was 93.
Clark, whose father, Tom Clark, was attorney general and U.S. Supreme Court justice, died Friday at his Manhattan home, a family member, Sharon Welch, announced to the media, including the New York Times, the Washington Post.
After serving in President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Cabinet in 1967 and ’68, Clark set up a private law practice in New York in which he championed civil rights, fought racism and the death penalty, and represented declared foes of the United States including former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman. He also defended former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
Hobbs Magaret is a regenerative cattle rancher in Central Oregon. Raised on the ranches of the Texas Panhandle and further educated at The University of Oregon, he has experienced two extremes of the contemporary American Experiment. Hobbs, his wife, and his daughter live in Sisters, Oregon, where they use regenerative and fossil fuel averse techniques to rehabilitate degraded ag land and sell beef directly to regional consumers. Visit his website at SistersCattleco.com and checkout his interesting videos at TikTok. The KunstlerCast theme music is the beautiful Two Rivers Waltz written and performed by Larry Unger.
While I certainly thought James Howard Kunstler’s analysis of the election that was is kind of assine, the man is kind of critic our world needs as we plunge into the climate crisis while the politicians debate assine things as people keep dying from the COVID.
On Roman calendar, the Ides occur on the 13th for most months, but it falls on 15th in March, May, July, and October. The Nones are 9 days before the Ides, and the Calends are first date of every month. Roman calendars count the days until the next Nones, Ides or Calends.
While going to work or school in the darkness would kind of a drag, I wonder if it would reduce carbon emissions to go to year round daylight savings time ? 🌅
Right now, power demand is very low in early morning hours, but there is a lot of generation, especially from wind coming on top of all the base-load plants that can’t be shutdown when demand is low. An earlier start would mean that people would be turning their lights on earlier and ramping up heating and air conditioning earlier in the morning, when there is typically more of a surplus of electricity on the grid, especially in areas with a lot of wind power. It might be a good way to tame the evening ramp, when they most have to fire up the really dirty power plants to meet demand.
In 1974, they implemented national year-round daylight savings time. They weren’t wrong with year round daylight savings time when it came to regions with energy shortages in 1970s — at least from an energy conservation perspective. Maybe the 1965 black out wouldn’t have occurred, had it still been daylight savings time — and grid not heavily loaded when things started to go wildly out of control.
The 1965 black out occurred at 5:16 PM, at the peak of rush hour. It was a cold November evening, and with the time change, people had turned on their lights across New York, cranked up their electric heat, and the subways were going full-blast, all loading grid heavily compared to a few hours earlier. Had the sun still been out at 5:16 PM, the lighting load and heating load would have been a fair bit lower and fewer subway cars running, especially back then when more people worked 9-5 PM.
