Video of the Iraqi Parliament Bombing.
On Democracy Now! An MP was giving a TV interview at the time of the bombing. The footage comes from U.S. Government financed Al-hurra. Sourcewatch, a wiki-hosted project of the Center for Media and Democracy has a fairly extensive Al Hurra page [with stuff not on Wikipedia], and an apparently orphaned Alhurra page.
Ken Burns is finishing up a 14 hour documentary about WWII for PBS. It mentions AEA1‘s, AJA2‘s AAII3‘s but not AHA4‘s or AAI5‘s. There is a protest movement growing.
This weekend will be major protests about global warming. Sponsored by Step It Up, there will be about 1350+ demonstrations across the country. Several are in metro Boston. Juan and Amy gave a preview and a long piece about the movie “Who Killed the Electric Car?“
1African-European-American. Prior to the Human Genome Projecta, we were known as “white people”. I have no idea how we got to be so pale.
2African-Japanese-Americans. There are probably a few more hyphens that belong in there.
3African-American Population II: The second major migration of African people to “America.” It was much belated and involuntary.
4African-Hispanic-American. Known pre-HGP Latinas/Latinos.
5African-American Population I. Known pre-HGP as Native Americans, they are the first arrivals in “America,” so they are more native than anybody else, but their DNA shows African roots.
aThe Chimpanzee Genome, our nearest neighbors in the evolutionary tree, was sequenced a while ago. Our next nearest neighbors have just been sequenced.
