The Weekend Off – News You Missed
Alaska
ADN – Of moose and men: A brief history of domesticated moose in Alaska
Long before Jack Carr was noticed for raising two pet moose, he was already famous. An Alaska mail carrier at the turn of the 20th century, Carr spent his days crisscrossing the territory by dog sled, delivering mail between the Last Frontier and the contiguous United States.
AP – Family spokeswoman: Alaska plane crash was a suicide
The death of a man whose plane clipped one building before smashing into another in the heart of downtown Anchorage was a suicide, a spokeswoman for his family said. There’s no reason to think that Doug Demarest was trying to harm anyone but himself, Jahna Lindemuth said on Friday.
KTVA – 2015: A year of quiet reforms for the Alaska National Guard
The 2015 elections brought shocking revelations about the Alaska National Guard. Allegations of sexual assault and other corruption grabbed the headlines during the race for governor, after victims and whistleblowers said their complaints had been ignored for years. Since the election and the appointment of Laurie Hummel as Adjutant General — the first female commander of the Alaska National Guard — the issue has been dormant in the news.
National
The Oregonian – Militia takes over Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters [This is what terrorism looks like -ZR]
The Bundy family of Nevada joined with hard-core militiamen Saturday to take over the headquarters of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, vowing to occupy the remote federal outpost 50 miles southeast of Burns for years.
NY Times – For Donald Trump, Lessons From a Brother’s Suffering
One evening in the 1960s, Donald J. Trump, still in college but eager to make it big, met his older brother, Freddy, for dinner in a Queens apartment complex built by their father. Things went bad fast.
NY Times – Sheldon Adelson’s Purchase of Las Vegas Paper Seen as a Power Play
Two days after Sheldon Adelson’s lawyers lost in their attempts to have a judge removed from a contentious lawsuit that threatens his gambling empire, a call went out to the publisher of this city’s most prominent newspaper.
Almost immediately, journalists were summoned to a meeting and told they must monitor the courtroom actions of the judge and two others in the city. When the journalists protested, they were told there was no choice in the matter.
International
BBC – US warns Saudi execution of Shia cleric Nimr could fuel tensions
The United States has expressed concern that Saudi Arabia’s execution of prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr could further exacerbate sectarian rivalry in the Middle East.
The US State Department urged leaders throughout the region to redouble efforts to lower tensions.
Vice – This Was the Year Yemen Was Destroyed
On April 21, Saudi Arabia officially ended a military intervention in Yemen dubbed “Operation Decisive Storm.” Reacting to a rapid expansion of rebel Houthi militias and their allies, who had effectively toppled the government of Yemeni President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi, the government in Riyadh had less than four weeks earlier launched a blistering Western-aided aerial assault on opposition lines. On that Tuesday in April, the Saudi government released a statement declaring that the operation had “achieved its goals… removing the threat to Saudi Arabia and neighboring countries.”
BBC – What will happen in 2016?
Never make predictions, especially about the future. So said Mark Twain, Yogi Berra or Niels Bohr – or possibly all three.
But if you must, there are really only two options: play safe and go for the obvious, or come up with forecasts so giddily optimistic that no one will take you seriously.
Make no martyrs. (At least one of the pirates is ramping up martyr language- with I-came-here-to-die crap)
Starve em out or ignore em but make no martyrs.
No violence.
‘Cepting maybe a lot of really bad words said very loud, no violence.
These sorry sacks of spuds love to portray themselves as David against Goliath,
Pfft. Just a bunch of pirates wanting to get at our land held in common for all .
Paiutes want the land back, we could talk.
These pirates want it?
Pfft!
Federal Bureau of Intimidation is running the Bundyesque Circus now. Hammonds served their original sentences but a judge decided they were too short according to federal minimum sentencing guidelines. Both Hammonds are on their way to serve four years each and don’t want the occupation or any violnce done in their cause.
These right wing groups need to be taught a lesson in civics and how to play nice. Rethuglicans who have have egged these groups on need to be charged and jailed with facilitating domestic terror.
Any bets how long these thugs would last if they were Black or Muslims?
47seconds…
That is almost as good as a pffftttt. 🙂
Feckin Pfft! on the phony militia folks in Oregon.
Sick and tired of their dingbat unhinged crap.
Get em outta there cops- do not kill em, do not hurt them, but get their sorry buns outta there.
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“Some of the same armed “militia” involved in the Cliven Bundy affair in Nevada have occupied federal land in Oregon formerly reserved for the Northern Paiute. Ironically, the “legal” basis for starting a fight with the federal government is that sovereignty “really” belongs to Oregon rather than the Paiutes, who have seen their federal trust land shrink from over one and a half million acres to a tiny remnant of 760 acres in Burns, Oregon, where this current armed standoff began.”
Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/01/03/bundy-militia-musters-again-over-paiute-land-162939
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1- Dinglefritzes don’t know what sovereignty is nor what its limits could be said to be at personal, local, state, or federal levels. Pffft! Paiutes before pirates I say. And those phony militia”patriot” folks are pirates.
2-Stupenagles missed the Constitution changed the failed Articles of Confederation because all that vaunted state sovereignty resulted in a buncha get-nothing-done, going-nowhere states?
They’re protesting ARSONISTS going to jail, no less.
What a bunch of (bleep)!
The Hammonds seem to be trying to distance themselves from these doofs- heckuva a note .
Prison in California isn’t enough distance from Oregon. Fake Noise was claiming these staunch defenders of the constipation were land owners protecting their land from Obama over reach. None of them defenders live in Oregon,let alone own any land there. They come from all across America to overthrow Obama’s USA. None of them seem to have jobs or brains. Who knew?