An Open Letter to the Community

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Wednesday March 23, 2011 · 8:44 AM PDT

2011/03/23 · 08:44

Dear Kosmos,

Sorry for this meta diary, but there's something that desperately needs the attention of the larger community as it doesn't appear either normal community moderation or admin is able to take care of this.

Every forum on this site should be freely accessible to those willing to engage in some form of productive conversation- we obviously have rules to ensure this. Forums covering Israel and Palestine should be no different and despite MB's constant efforts and attention this forum has fared little better and is now going straight to hell.

This forum is important to me in many ways and I certainly can't remake it on my own, nor, would I, as probably anyone, want to bother Meteor Blades on a constant basis to baby-sit these users and this forum.

Therefore, I'd desperately like your support in remaking this forum such that valuable voices and discussion can be heard by all and by reducing or eliminating the problems associated with the users who constantly trash it.

borkitekt

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Monday April 20, 2009 · 1:00 AM PDT

2009/04/20 · 01:00

Just a note, I don't have time to live blog this, but through the UN's website the Durban 2 conference is being webcast which opened at 9am gmt+1.

I'm not sure if Ahmadinejad has given the opening speech as of yet, but it seems as though it is an open panel discussion opening the conference. (Correction, not sure he'll be speaking at all...)

At present, a spokeswoman from an American NGO, Gay McDougal- is speaking generally on the topic... (recorded video link) and has now finished speaking.

10am

Stéphane Hessel, (video link) Holocaust survivor and a drafter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, is now speaking... talking about the genocide in Rwanda, now of the genocide of Indians (not American)...

Oh, now is saying that Obama is the denial of racism... wanting the US to get down to solving the problems...

borkitekt

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Wednesday January 07, 2009 · 1:13 AM PST

2009/01/07 · 01:13

In this mornings New York Times, a short must read, we get a somewhat behind the scenes description of media performance- through the lens of the media- with regard to the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

JERUSALEM — Three times in recent days, a small group of foreign correspondents was told to appear at the border crossing to Gaza. The reporters were to be permitted in to cover firsthand the Israeli war on Hamas in keeping with a Supreme Court ruling against the two-month-old Israeli ban on foreign journalists entering Gaza.

Each time, they were turned back on security grounds, even as relief workers and other foreign citizens were permitted to cross the border. On Tuesday the reporters were told to not even bother going to the border.

borkitekt

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Saturday May 31, 2008 · 6:00 AM PDT

2008/05/31 · 06:00

Good morning and welcome to another addition of the Saturday Morning Home Repair blog where we talk shop regarding all those broken odds and ends of things piling up around the house and/or improvements some actually endeavor to do by choice.

This week will be a bit special- most of the normal crew is out in the field (look for Spud1 to be live blogging from the Maine Democratic Convention) and I unfortunately can't stick around throughout the day, so, once again, this will be a community effort until we can jump in with whatever expertise is needed.

So, lets get started. I'll put on some of the old fair trade Swedish stuff I normally have, maybe even find some pastries since it is after all 6-10 hours ahead of ya'll in my part of Europe.

(Requisite Pandalicious pootie pic)

borkitekt

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Saturday April 12, 2008 · 1:43 PM PDT

2008/04/12 · 13:43

Both CNN and Al Jazeera are reporting an explosion at a mosque in Shiraz as of about 30 minutes ago, at 6 pm gmt+3.30.

Not a great deal of information is in at the moment, so updates will most likely follow.

UPDATE: It's now past midnight, GMT+1 in Stockholm, and at this point there is relatively no new information except a count of nine dead and 105 wounded.

I'll be turning in, but if anyone would like to monitor the situation further, perhaps one could begin an UPDATE comment and post beneath it.

borkitekt

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Saturday March 15, 2008 · 7:05 AM PDT

2008/03/15 · 07:05

Good morning Kossacks and welcome to the thirty-first addition of our weekly home repair blog. Our beloved Claude will be out this afternoon bluifying New Mexico and maybe he'll drop in now and again.

It is also yet another gray day in Stockholm, the 625th or so this fall/winter/spring-ish season and we still have not had any significant snowfall in a long time. Though, my weather widget predict some snow today and this coming week, it's predictability is often off by a bit, still perhaps better than our local weathermen and women- still utilizing those silly cartoonish maps. Correction, I see a few snowflakes outside now.

At any rate, welcome to the virtual table where we gather and chat about home repair Q and A, meta, or whatever is on your mind. By the dictates of tradition, the fair trade coffee is waiting, with fair trade sugar too, some ultra lefty organic Swedish milk too, (mea gulpa- I forgot to by either soy or wheat milk, well not really, I'm back on the cow, for a while at least.)

borkitekt

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Friday March 14, 2008 · 5:48 AM PDT

2008/03/14 · 05:48

Morning Kossaks,

While searching around online, I just found that Noam Chomsky's Massey Lecture titled Necessary Illusions is now online as an mp3.

This piece has been an invaluable work with regard to understanding the world as we know it, on how it is presented to us through media, by the MSM, propaganda and persuasion. And while we endeavor to make sense of the intentions of the MSM and engrain another instance into our cerebral cortex where we have been either misled or lied to, trying to make sense of it all- that work has already been done. Please listen, save, bookmark, send to friends and family, and spread the word to other Kossaks- it is that important and offers more understanding than we will ever get from our media.

borkitekt

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Saturday December 22, 2007 · 5:59 AM PST

2007/12/22 · 05:59

Good morning guys and gals, it is time, once again, for our weekly installment of home repair talk!

(disclaimer, this is what Stockholm would look like today if global warming wasn't here. I did take the image a few years ago on a luckily clear day. notice people walking on the ice.)

borkitekt

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Saturday July 21, 2007 · 6:06 AM PDT

2007/07/21 · 06:06

G'morn all!

Looks like a great morning on this wonderful planet, which has not fully yet been tainted by Bush, or nuked by temporary prez Nutzi Cheney...

The usual gang is out and about, as will I from time to time as I get ready for a summer trip to the Swedish countryside. So, as always, this is a community effort and we'll rely our collective grey cells to solve whatever home repair issue you have, want to have, or...

I'll put the coffee on- some really good stuff I bought in Paris last week, so, please join us below the fold.

borkitekt

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Saturday June 23, 2007 · 6:04 AM PDT

2007/06/23 · 06:04

Good Morning Kossacks, I'll be hosting this edition of the SMHRB as your much loved host is away.

And, seeing as how this weeks addition's is coming to you live from Sweden, I thought I'd add to this week's blog by showing ya'll a little bit of the local color as Midsummer was celebrated in Europe yesterday.

As usual, this is where we gather to discuss home repair, community, and whatever ~~floats, sinks, leaks~~ your ~~boat, viking ship, home~~ is on your mind. Välkommen!!!

borkitekt

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Thursday June 21, 2007 · 1:29 AM PDT

2007/06/21 · 01:29

In an historic vote late in the evening on Tuesday, June 19, the New York State Assembly approved legislation guaranteeing marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples.

The measure was approved by a vote of 85 to 61 after a floor debate that lasted more than three hours. Four Republicans joined 81 Democrats in supporting the bill. The nays included 38 Republicans and 23 Democrats.

The marriage equality legislation was introduced by Democratic Governor Eliot Spitzer on April 27, and sponsored in the Assembly by Daniel O'Donnell, an Upper West Side Democrat. O'Donnell and his partner John Banta were among the plaintiffs denied marriage rights in a ruling last July by New York's highest court.

borkitekt

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Monday March 12, 2007 · 3:50 PM PDT

2007/03/12 · 15:50

Get ready to laugh...

The Swedish Press is reporting tonight that Israel has recalled its ambassador to El Salvador after being found tied up in his own garden, with "a number of sex toys around him. The man was noticably drunk and found with a muzzle." the article states.

It continues with the 'this isn't consistent with a diplomat's mission' b.s. from a spokesman and a bit of history on other unflattering Israeli diplomatic behavior like a 2000 incident where the ambassador to France died of a heart attack in a Paris hotel with a woman who was not his wife.

Other incidents included a change in diplomats to Australia following some condescending remarks regarding Asians and an apointee who had been downloading porn while stationed in Brazil.

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