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The bitter and blessed truth is out. Sean recollects the rise and fall of THRU Media as it connects to the closing party last December. http://www.thru.media/thru-media-salon-finale-post/
Death and the First of Spring Sitting at a family dining table on this first day of Spring, 2018, with the nourishing Tucson sun at my back, recalling the December night when [See More]
Our final posts are coming out now. Here is a brief intro into the career of comedian artist songwriter Jason Traeger and his new campaign. http://www.thru.media/jason-traeger-traegermethod-november-2017/
Introducing In November 2017, THRU Media hosted its penultimate art opening at the company studio and gallery in northwest Portland. Comedian Jason Traeger was featured in the latter half of the [See More]
Party tonight! Farewell party and art salon, celebrating the brief life of THRU Media with a big event in a small space. http://mailchi.mp/6390b048c60b/youre-invited-to-777-drawings-at-thru-gallery-2788829
If you think free press, speech, and media isn’t deeply threatened today then you’re wrong. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-internet-exclusive/fcc-chief-plans-to-ditch-u-s-net-neutrality-rules-idUSKBN1DL21A
The head of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission unveiled plans on Tuesday to repeal landmark 2015 rules that prohibited internet service...
"my lips are sparkling and salt flecked
my eyes wide awake from sleep
in a myriad of visions these sea colors
all my days, swum in a variance of blues
oceans deep and streaked in silver shoals"
New poems from our friend Cyd Guilfoyle, out of Tucson.
http://www.thru.media/when-i-was-wild-and-other-poems-ca-guilfoyle/
Ocean Home Living on the ocean as I do, I hunt fish and mollusks my kin are otters and whales, wide eyed we dive the night waves, soft in lullabies...
The US-backed war in Yemen is losing all semblance of its mission. http://aje.io/ftdun
Reports of Saudi keeping Yemen's president under house arrest raise questions over the coalition's aims in the war.
Even Houthi rebels need to go to the markets. Doesn’t mean you can air strike it. This is US-backed terrorism. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-saudi-yemen/saudi-led-coalition-says-strike-hit-a-legitimate-target-in-yemen-idUSKBN1D40OE
A Saudi-led military coalition said on Saturday an air strike that hit a market in Yemen's northern Saadah province was a legitimate military targe...
This could very easily happen in Portland where progressive segregation is alive and well. http://publicsource.org/a-noose-hanging-from-a-tree-outside-our-pittsburgh-home-is-tied-to-a-much-larger-problem/
Last week, we received a death threat in the “most livable city in America.” It hung wrapped around a tree in front of our Regent Square home, visi...
THRU Media is reopening for three more art shows this year, and then closing shop in 2018. We hope you'll celebrate our efforts and join us for a last hurrah.
For two years, we've tried to build THRU in Portland, but the time has come to change course. Before we go, however, we have three art shows left for 2017.
THRU Media is back! That is, backing off.... BUT FOR NOW THREE MORE ART SHOWS! http://www.thru.media/reopening-mccall-and-jason-traeger/
Will relaxed rules for TV, newspapers benefit the right people and companies? http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fcc-media/fcc-to-loosen-tv-newspaper-ownership-rules-idUSKBN1CU2TD
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission wants to rollback landmark media ownership regulations that prohibit owning a television station and...
What is worth posting on social media?
“... these securities are determined purely by demand which, in turn, is determined largely by sentiment.” http://www.reuters.com/article/us-markets-bitcoin-institutional/big-money-stays-away-from-booming-bitcoin-idUSKBN1CS0EB
Bitcoin is booming, digital currency hedge funds are sprouting at the rate of two a week and the value of all cryptocurrencies has surged tenfold...
Jewish gay white supremacist takes full turn against hate. https://www.channel4.com/news/neo-nazi-national-front-organiser-quits-movement-comes-out-as-gay-kevin-wilshaw-jewish-heritage
A white supremacist active as recently as the start of this year says today he is publicly renouncing 40 years of hate. Speaking on Channel 4 News...
The latest THRUPoint Podcast came out on Lenny Bruce's birthday. It's not too late to celebrate. http://www.thru.media/happy-birthday-lenny-bruce/
Heidi Schwegler's June exhibit archived at THRU.Media in photos, video, and audio. http://www.thru.media/satisfactual-heidi-schwegler/
Could voice emulation technology be at work here? Or is a very talented impersonator using their skill for evil? http://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-fraud-branson/billionaire-branson-targeted-in-5-million-scam-straight-out-of-le-carre-idUSKBN1CN1AC
Richard Branson, billionaire founder of the Virgin group, has revealed he was targeted by a fraudster posing as Britain's defense minister who...
New DNA testing methods and database cross-referencing is releasing innocent people from prison. http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2017/10/oregon_murder_case_shows_obsta.html
Raqqa is destroyed, or “liberated from ISIL,” and now the civilian factions fight over control of the city. http://aje.io/m9trr
"When Bannon mentioned the 25th Amendment, Trump said, 'What’s that?'"
Only the most efficient route to removal.
https://personalliberty.com/bannon-theres-70-percent-chance-trump-ouster/
Conservative firebrand Steve Bannon reportedly believes that President Donald Trump has a paltry 30 percent chance of finishing his term in the...
Market forces with government subsidies means the natural decline of coal. Let it happen, Trump. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-solar-trumpcountry-insight/the-u-s-solar-industrys-new-growth-region-trump-country-idUSKBN1CH1HG
President Donald Trump's administration has vowed to revive the coal industry, challenged climate-change science and blasted renewable energy as...
Privatization of Puerto Rico is the seemingly inevitable outcome of Maria. http://inthesetimes.com/article/20601/elon-musk-puerto-rico-privatization-utility-climate-solar-rossello
The island needs a revamped electric grid and fast, but privatization is not the answer.
Trump’s illegal birth control siege may catch up with fertility clinics outside the health insurance complex. https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/wjxazy/the-new-birth-control-rule-is-all-kinds-of-illegal
According to multiple legal experts.
500 ISIL fighters defend Raqqa ahead of final SDF push to retake it. 400K dead from the Syrian Civil War. http://aje.io/sg2wn
US-backed rebels tell Al Jazeera they will launch their campaign on Sunday to capture northern Syrian city from ISIL.
Swedish journalist Kim Wall was evidently murdered and brutally decapitated by a Danish submarine inventor. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-denmark-submarine/danish-divers-find-missing-body-parts-of-swedish-journalist-idUSKBN1CC07E
Danish police said on Saturday divers had found the head and the legs of Swedish journalist Kim Wall, who died in mysterious circumstances on an...
ICAN surprises many and wins the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-nobel-prize-peace/anti-nuclear-campaign-group-wins-2017-nobel-peace-prize-idUSKBN1CB0XR
A campaign group seeking a global ban on nuclear arms won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, given the award by a Nobel Committee that cited the...
If your employer is opposed to birth control then you can’t have it, regardless of your beliefs. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-religion/u-s-exempts-more-employers-from-covering-birth-control-idUSKBN1CB1XZ
The U.S. government on Friday made several targeted moves to circumvent the mandate under Obamacare that health insurance provide birth control.
98.4% of Liberians have no electricity. This American-educated refugee wants to fix the many problems with Liberia. https://impact.vice.com/en_us/article/wjxa5b/this-mother-and-former-refugee-is-liberias-youngest-presidential-candidate-ever
If MacDella Cooper wins the October 10 election, she'll be Liberia's second female president.
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HEATWEAVER Remixes will be released on Alpha Pup Records on Friday, October 13th. Pre-order the album here: JawGems.lnk.to/HeatweaverRemixes NEST HQ Premiere: http://nesthq.com/premiere-jaw-gems-hea
https://soundcloud.com/noorden/ltd25
»Four tracks between experimental Electronica, Dub influenced Microhouse and Leftfield leaning Clicks’n’Cuts.« Buy cassette or digital release at Bandcamp: www.bit.ly/ltd25-bc :: TRACKLIST :: A1 WiF
Las Vegas shooting has never occurred before and may never occur again, but security is again the hot topic. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-lasvegas-casinos/las-vegas-rampage-could-prompt-casinos-to-re-think-security-experts-idUSKCN1C8094
A year ago casino magnate Steve Wynn warned that Las Vegas was a "target city" and disclosed a raft of new security measures, including invisible...
Missouri’s Republican legislators required St. Louis to drop its minimum wage from $10 back to $7.70. https://video.vice.com/en_us/video/missouri-republicans-just-took-away-raises-from-minimum-wage-workers/599f13db0ea82ff37ebbb48f
VICE News travels to St. Louis to talk to workers and business owners about what it's like to feel the whiplash of labor laws.
An elderly man unleashed hundreds of rounds onto a Las Vegas country music festival from his hotel window. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-lasvegas-shooting/at-least-50-dead-more-than-400-hurt-in-las-vegas-concert-attack-idUSKCN1C70FU
Some 50 people died and more than 400 were hurt when a 64-year-old gunman with an arsenal of at least 10 rifles fired on a Las Vegas country music...
Open casket memorials are annual events in Indonesia. Reuters.com http://reut.tv/2fvfrhY
In Indonesia, relationships with loved ones don't end with death. Ancient rituals in which people exhume the remains of their loved ones and...
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