A Black woman who goes by “Eye Empress Sekhmet” was arrested in Clayton
County, Georgia on Thursday for making video-taped threats to kill white
people and police, reported WSB-TV. WSB reported she also called for activists to ‘take over’ police stations.
About movies - Personally, I think the
worst thing is giving the audience what they want to see, because in a
way it’s almost disrespectful. These people are here to give you their
precious time. You should really take them on an odyssey, and the best
way to do that is to give them what they don’t expect.
Nicolas Refn at wired.com
A
group of students and faculty members at Wesleyan University are
petitioning to defund the Connecticut campus’s newspaper, The Wesleyan
Argus, because “it neglects to provide a safe space for the voices of
students of color” ... The controversy was apparently sparked by an
opinion article in the Argus last week that criticized the Black Lives
Matter movement, suggesting that it may have sparked violence toward
police officers.
Orban
mobilizes Hungary's troops, prisoners, jobless to fence out migrants -
Hungary took matters into its own hands, shutting off the route with a
new fence along its entire 110 mile border with Serbia, topped with
razor wire and guarded by helmeted riot police... The government says it
put the military in charge of the construction so that it could act
more quickly.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) will be the next
target of conservatives frustrated with party leadership, according to
one of the conservative representatives who pressured House speaker John
Boehner in the weeks leading up to his resignation.
“Next guy in the crosshairs will probably be McConnell,” Representative
Matt Salmon (R., Ariz.) said in a text message to Senator Mike Lee (R.,
Utah), according to National Journal’s Sarah Mimms. Lee replied that he
doubts that will happen.
Immigrant-rights advocates scrambled Friday to plead with House Speaker John A. Boehner
to bring an immigration legalization bill to the floor before he leaves
office next month, fearing his replacement will show even more
antipathy toward their agenda.
Mr. Boehner
had long been pressing his party to tackle immigration, and in the days
after President Obama’s 2012 re-election the Ohio Republican set one
major goal: The House would pass a bill to legalize those in the country
without authorization.
The head of Saudi Arabia’s Hajj committee blamed the stampede that
has killed more than 700 pilgrims in the holy city of Mina on “some
pilgrims from African nationalities,” Saudi-owned television is reporting.
The comments have sparked recriminations online towards pilgrims from
the African continent, with one person calling for a “decrease in the
number of pilgrims from several countries such as Egypt and African countries,
with all due respect, and to increase the number of pilgrims from
Malaysia who are known for their order and rational behavior.”
I built this tiled roof hut in the bush using only primitive tools and
materials. The tools I used have been made in my previous videos. It
should be pointed out that I do not live in the wild and that this is
just a hobby. It should be obvious to most that this is not a survival
shelter but an experiment in primitive building technology.
The
wooden frame was built with a 2X2m floor plan and a 2m tall ridge line
with 1m tall side walls. 6 posts were put into the ground 0.25 m deep.
The 3 horizontal roof beams were attached to these using mortise and
tenon joints carved with a stone chisel. The rest of the frame was
lashed together with lawyer cane strips. The frame swayed a little when
pushed so later triangular bracing was added to stop this. Also when the
mud wall was built, it enveloped the posts and stopped them moving
altogether.
A small kiln was built of mud from the ground and a
perforated floor of clay from the creek bank. Tiles were made from clay
pressed into rectangular moulds made from strips of lawyer cane. 20
tiles were fired at a time. 450 flat tiles and 15 curved ridge tiles
were made with only a few breakages. 26 firings were done in all and the
average firing took about 4 hours. The fired tiles were then hooked
over the horizontal roof battens.
An underfloor heating system was
built into one side of the hut to act as a sitting/sleeping platform in
cold weather. This was inspired by the Korean Ondol or “hot stone”. A
trench was dug and covered with flat stones with a firebox at one end
and a chimney at the other for draft. The flames travelled beneath the
floor heating it. After firing it for a while the stones stay warm all
night with heat conducted directly to the sleeping occupant and
radiating into the room.
The wall was made of clayey mud and stone. A
stone footing was laid down and over this a wall of mud was built. To
save on mud, stones were included into later wall courses. The mud was
dug from a pit in front of the hut and left a large hole with a volume
of about 2.5 cubic metres.
The finished hut has a swinging door made
of sticks. The inside is dark so I made a torch from tree resin. A
broken tile with resin on it acts as a small lamp producing a lot of
light and little smoke. The end product was a solid little hut, that
should be fire and rot resistant. The whole project took 102 days but
would have taken 66 days were it not for unseasonal rain. For a more in
depth description see my blog (https://primitivetechnology.wordpress...).
A study released by the Cato Institute, in association with Canada’s Fraser Institute and Germany’s
Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom has found that America has fallen to Number 20 worldwide in
broad measurements of human freedom, understood as the absence of coercive constraint. The detailed
study uses 76 distinct indicators of personal and economic freedom in the areas on the right: