Solstice: Mithras and the Older Gods

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Saturday December 21, 2013 · 5:45 AM PST

2013/12/21 · 05:45

It's that time of year, what my friend John Barratt calls, 'Mithrastide': the time of consumerism and consumptionism where affluenza strikes the entire western world promulgated in the name of a child who was never born, in a place that didn't exist, who grew to be a non-man who preached poverty and compassion and whose followers have spent the past two thousand years feeding instead the god behind the facade with a steady diet of blood, sweat and tears (generally other people's, but ,if necessary, their own).

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Sunday April 25, 2010 · 1:55 PM PDT

2010/04/25 · 13:55

I'm from the UK. I'm a citizen of the UK, which means a citizen of the world and, in 2008, it seemed that the leadership of the free world was heading Republican again, I came to this site and listened and learned and joined in the discussions where it seemed sensible (and sometimes when it wasn't - language is a weird thing - I learned most how differently we use it on both sides of the Atlantic) - and I did everything I reasonably could to support Barack Obama's election - no funding, but sending videos to all my friends to raise their popularity, sending minor news items to major news outlets, sending snippets from small blogs (which sometimes became big blogs later) to the already-big blogs, arguing with bloggers who could see reason...

and Obama won.

Now we need your help. This is your mission should you choose to accept it:

Airmid

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Tuesday November 03, 2009 · 8:34 AM PST

2009/11/03 · 08:34

George Monbiot has written an astonishing piecein the UK's Guardian under the byline,

Why the sudden surge in climate change denial? Could it be about something else altogether?

His arguments would seem to fit my own experience - that it's the older, whiter, more technocratic individuals who succumb to the insanity and inanity of climate change denial.

He, of course, puts it far better than I ever could. Join me over the fold for his analysis and my analysis of his analysis

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Thursday September 10, 2009 · 7:11 AM PDT

2009/09/10 · 07:11

Last night we saw the President of the United States give a coherent, intelligent, thoughtful, intellectually sound speech.

And what did we get from the GOP? Signs waved, shouts of 'Lies' and later spinning that sinks so low it's hard to know where they'll hit the bottom, if ever.

It may be that they're scared or they've simply lost the plot - or it may be that this is a deliberate attempt to change the nature of the game. Follow the flip for thoughts on why.

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Thursday August 13, 2009 · 2:20 PM PDT

2009/08/13 · 14:20

Back in the dark days of this time last year (or thereabouts) when McCain had just put Palin on the ticket and it seemed like she was an asset, not the lead weight she turned out to be, I remember that quote circulating from Michelle Obama. I remember too, the image of Obama, saying, 'Chill the fuck out. I got this.' And he was right.

But he doesn't have this one. The MSM, the medical insurance companies and the raving right have it at this moment - and if they win this one, they'll have a template to win the next one, and the next, whatever that may be. Follow me below the fold for why it's necessary to regain the momentum, and how to do it.

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Monday August 10, 2009 · 2:49 AM PDT

2009/08/10 · 02:49

Energy is the next big confrontation - and the wingnuts are gearing up - this from Think Progress and Climate Progress

Coal lobby hires top GOP voter-fraud company to run massive "grassroots" efforts to undermine climate and clean energy action

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Thursday April 23, 2009 · 3:45 PM PDT

2009/04/23 · 15:45

It's late here in the UK and all the talk of torture is immensely depressing.

so this is an old joke re-modelled, and for those who blinked and missed it, the Royal Bank of Scotland is the one that was 'too big to fail' here in the UK and will probably yet see us bankrupt (while its CEO walks off with millions in a 'retirement package' that the Government claims to know nothing about, despite having signed it off).

anyway, the joke's about cows. You'll have seen most of it before.

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Friday March 13, 2009 · 10:16 AM PDT

2009/03/13 · 10:16

The Emperor Nero didn't fiddle while Rome burned on the night of 18th July AD 64 - partly because fiddles hadn't been invented yet, but mainly because he was 32 miles away in Actium when the fire started, had himself driven back at speed and then ordered his palace and its gardens opened for the refugees and organised that they be given food and water.

But the GOP, having spent the past 8 years stacking up the dry wood, pouring on the gasoline and then hurling on a lighted brand last September, seem now to be forming a ring fence around the conflagration, keeping out the firefighters on the pretext that the third button down on the uniform isn't quite polished to perfection.

Surely it's time for concerted action to ensure that the best and brightest minds in the country are dealing with this?

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Wednesday February 25, 2009 · 3:29 PM PST

2009/02/25 · 15:29

Remember back in the nail-biting days of summer when POTUS Obama was mere Senator and Candidate Obama, and he made a comment along the lines of 'if you put lipstick on a pig, it's still a pig'?

Of course, McCain had said it first, but that was only about Hillary and long before Sarah Guanoloco became his VP pick then, so it didn't count.

When Obama said it, the media went crazy with accusations of sexism - because they had no other mud to sling that day.

But now, the GOP wants it back.

Jump with me over the bar painted on the floor to find out how they're reclaiming it...

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Sunday February 22, 2009 · 7:11 AM PST

2009/02/22 · 07:11

So Bagram air base is to be the Obama's Guantanamo and he's appointed his biggest donor, a man with no previous diplomatic experience, as his Ambassador to the Court of St James.
I so, so wanted this man to be different, to be real, to be honest, above board, open, transparent, all the things he said he would be. And instead, Guatanamo closes, but Bagram expands, and the glad-handing of buddies continues.

So very sad.

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Thursday February 19, 2009 · 3:04 AM PST

2009/02/19 · 03:04

Which means anyone who didn't spend too much on their house.

Much as I can see why it was done, this is, as Chris Martneson says, the equivalent of blaming the car for the drunk driving wreck and then offering to buy a new car for every drunk who drives off the road.

More below the fold

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Thursday November 13, 2008 · 3:29 AM PST

2008/11/13 · 03:29

One of the more interesting things to come out of the selection of Sarah Palin was the You Tube clip showing her being prayed over by Thomas Muthee, the Kenyan Witch Hunter.

(details here at HuffPo)

While this provided hours of harmless entertainment for all the Democratic family, and almost certainly stopped McCain from using any of the material from Wright against Obama, the true nature of the witch hunters has not been fully explored.

Until last night, when Dispatches on Channel 4 in the UK aired this: 'Saving Africa's Witch Children'

In some of the poorest parts of Nigeria, where evangelical religious fervour is combined with a belief in sorcery and black magic, many thousands of children are being blamed for catastrophes, death and famine - and branded witches by powerful pastors. These children are then abandoned, tortured, starved and murdered - all in the name of Jesus Christ.

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