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Jane Stillwater

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    Jane Stillwater commented on the diary post America: The place where Israeli neo-cons get their Big Ideas! by Jane Stillwater.

    2013-05-20 10:06:06View | Delete

    Thank you for this information and further illumination. And I hope you can come up with a better-drawn map than mine when you write your diary on this subject.

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    Jane Stillwater wrote a new diary post: Getting used to the future: Why I’m going camping this weekend

    2013-05-20 09:59:32View | Delete

    Consider this message in your inbox to be like a vacation e-mail response.  “I’m going camping this weekend — roughing it, so to speak.  No electricity.  No automobiles.  No computers!  No heating and cooling units, no public library, no TV and no Berkeley Bowl Marketplace for food.” Just me and a tent and the great [...]

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    Jane Stillwater wrote a new diary post: America: The place where Israeli neo-cons get their Big Ideas!

    2013-05-15 11:08:02View | Delete

    Some people are always unjustly accusing Israeli neo-cons of learning their rather barbaric occupation strategies (of torturing, killing, harassing, stealing from and jailing Palestinians) from the Nazis — but that’s just not true!  Israeli neo-cons actually stole their barbaric, inhumane and uncivilized methods and ideas from America!  And I have the maps to prove it [...]

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    Jane Stillwater wrote a new diary post: Stuck in history: Mother’s Day, Niles, Bikers & Charlie Chapman

    2013-05-06 16:23:06View | Delete

    “Would you like to play Charlie Chaplin’s mother in my new movie?” a film student at UC Berkeley asked me recently.  Of course I would.  Yeah.  Sure! Did you know that Charlie Chaplin’s mother suffered from and finally died of tertiary syphilis, which she contracted while being forced into prostitution in the gold fields of [...]

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    Jane Stillwater wrote a new diary post: The U.S. Supreme Court, tax laws & insanity: What I learned at three rubber-chicken lunches recently

    2013-04-24 08:05:47View | Delete

    The Berkeley-Albany Bar Association has been on a huge roll this year.  First we had a local expert on the U.S. Supreme Court speak at our January monthly luncheon, giving us the complete 411 regarding what the court had been up to this past year.  Not a pretty picture.  It’s really hard to eat rubber [...]

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    Jane Stillwater wrote a new diary post: Living & dying on the streets: Being homeless is HARD WORK!

    2013-04-18 10:41:15View | Delete

    While my apartment was busy being renovated, re-habbed and fixed up for most of last month and a good chunk of this one, I had been forced to find “alternative housing” — staying with relatives, living in cheap motels, house-sitting for strangers, sleeping on various couches and futons, renting rooms-by-the-night in other peoples’ homes, staying [...]

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    Jane Stillwater wrote a new diary post: America: Always searching for new and better ways to kill people

    2013-04-10 13:45:26View | Delete

    It’s not at all hard to believe that our most popular national priority right now is to see how many more new and effective weapons of death we can supply our troops with, supply foreign dictators with, supply our cities’ paramilitary police with, supply every rabid gun-nut and gangsta in the country with and/or also [...]

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    Jane Stillwater wrote a new diary post: Purple Haze: Putting the ghosts of Savo Island to rest

    2013-04-01 14:26:55View | Delete

    Did you know that one of the first American naval battles fought in the South Pacific against the Japanese imperial fleet during World War II took place in the Solomon Sea, off the shore of some god-forsaken volcanic outcropping called Savo Island — and right next to another god-forsaken rocky island called Guadalcanal? And that [...]

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    Jane Stillwater wrote a new diary post: Kristallnacht in slow motion: Palestinians as the new Jews

    2013-03-25 09:27:31View | Delete
         Every time I write something unflattering about Israeli neo-cons, I always get a burst of anonymous phone calls for a few days.  But this never happens when I write about American neo-cons.  What’s with that? Perhaps it’s because almost every progressive on the internet today writes unflattering things about American neo-cons and it would take [...]
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    Jane Stillwater wrote a new diary post: Mexico: America’s on-the-job construction apprenticeship training program

    2013-03-17 21:48:48View | Delete

    Been anywhere near an active construction site lately? I have. And the first thing that you will probably notice on almost any construction site in America these days is that almost everyone there is both skilled and hard-working. And the second thing that you might notice at each construction site in America is that almost [...]

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    Jane Stillwater wrote a new diary post: No fun at all: Homeless in Berkeley and poor in Jakarta

    2013-03-10 15:05:26View | Delete

    My friend Gordon Lau works for a charitable foundation in Jakarta that tries to help the poorest of the poor — and so he decided to see exactly what his clients are going through by being “Poor for a Day” himself http://www.grameenfoundation.org/ I wanna be poor for a day too — and have just been given [...]

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    Jane Stillwater wrote a new diary post: Haiti, Baby Doc, GWB & Obama: Let the punishment fit the crime?

    2013-03-05 08:28:34View | Delete

    David Pratt, my favorite war correspondent (besides myself, of course), just wrote an excellent article describing the BBC’s recent interview with Tony Blair — wherein Blair repeatedly made embarrassingly ineffective attempts to excuse and defend his indefensible and inexcusable actions regarding the illegal invasion of Iraq ten years ago. But one particular thing that Pratt [...]

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    Jane Stillwater wrote a new diary post: Baby Boomers: Four funerals and a wedding…

    2013-02-27 11:04:22View | Delete

    A good friend of mine just passed away — and he was a Baby Boomer.  Plus I know of at least three other Baby Boomers who have died during the last few months. This whole Baby Boomer generation may be historically unique.  They were all born at the same time, got jobs at the same [...]

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    Jane Stillwater wrote a new diary post: AIPAC: Israel’s Santa Claus or just another wing-nut fringe group?

    2013-02-21 11:28:51View | Delete

    Have you ever found yourself in the following awkward situation?  There you are, hanging out at a peace rally or something, chit-chatting with some perfectly sane left-wing progressive who hates war and loves democracy — and you both are happily nodding your heads in agreement regarding how mega-corporations, greedy neo-cons, avaricious war mongers and all [...]

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    Jane Stillwater wrote a new diary post: Wall Street & War Street: Why we have trouble liking Obama

    2013-02-13 09:51:51View | Delete

    What’s not to like about Barack Obama?  He’s educated, erudite — and even cute.  He gave a dynamite State of the Union speech. His family is perfect.  Michelle is intelligent, suave, beautiful and compassionate, and Sasha and Malia look like an African-American version of the Brady Bunch.  Plus every racist, wing-nut, fanatic, truther, birther and [...]

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    Jane Stillwater wrote a new diary post: “Beasts of the Southern Wild”: Learning how to stand up to aurochs

    2013-02-07 09:51:55View | Delete

    Me and my son Joe and my granddaughter Mena finally got a chance to go see “Beasts of the Southern Wild” the other day.  That whole freaking movie deserves an Oscar.  It’s definitely got my vote.  Wow! And the movie’s main plot-line (which involved people idealistically working together to save their small town) reminded me [...]

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    Jane Stillwater wrote a new diary post: Spoiled brats: How neo-con kiddies demand their Second Amendment rights but refuse to obey the rest of the Constitution

    2013-01-30 19:00:05View | Delete

    How come so many right-wingers, neo-cons, corporate RepubliDems, NRA lobbyists, Fox News commentators and radical-extremist talk-show hosts are currently getting all up in our faces about how wonderful the Second Amendment is?  “Second Amendment!  Second Amendment!” they cry night and day.  That’s all we ever hear from these guys.  You would think that they might [...]

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    Jane Stillwater commented on the diary post In your face: Homelessness in America by Jane Stillwater.

    2013-01-21 16:01:40View | Delete

    St Louis is an especially horrific example of what people will do for money.

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    Jane Stillwater wrote a new diary post: Django Unchained & Zero Dark 30: 160 years later, they’re still torturing colored folks

    2013-01-21 15:58:17View | Delete

    In honor of Martin Luther King’s birthday this year, I treated myself to a movie marathon, watching “Django Unchained” and “Zero Dark 30″ back-to-back.  And it was like a cold slap in the face. “Django Unchained” allegedly took place in 1858 — and here we are now, 160 years later, where things have apparently changed [...]

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    Jane Stillwater wrote a new diary post: In your face: Homelessness in America

    2013-01-17 20:02:36View | Delete

    And what are YOU doing about the vast new epidemic of homeless people flooding the streets of America right now? America’s wealthiest 1% are doing something about it — they’re creating even more homeless men and women just as fast as they possibly can! The Department of Defense is doing something about this problem too, [...]

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