English: Louisiana State Penitentiary Topographical Map Español: Mapa topográfico de la Louisiana State Penitentiary Français : Carte topographique du Louisiana State Penitentiary (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Point Lookout I, a prisoner cemetery - The memorial between the flagpoles is dedicated to the 'unkown' buried in the prison cemetery. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Inspire (magazine) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The world tree Yggdrasil with the assorted animals that live in it and on it. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Română: Casa unde a trăit scriitorul Mircea Eliade între 1934-1940 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Louisiana State Penitentiary entrance - The placard says "Louisiana State Penitentiary" and "Warden Burl Cain" Français : Entrée principale du Louisiana State Penitentiary - La plaque dit "Louisiana State Penitentiary" et "Warden Burl Cain" (Directeur Burl Cain) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Angola-1 (Photo credit: didkovskaya)
Mircea Eliade (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Angola - Sobrevoando (Photo credit: mariag.)BOSTON BOMBS AND THE CIA
Anon at aangirfan - 1 hour ago
*Department of Homeland Security 2010 warning on Pressure Cookers*
*Boston Marathon bombs:*
*Inspire magazine, said to be run by the CIA, taught pressure cooker
bomb-making techniques.*
Investigators say pressure cooker bombs were used in the Boston Marathon
attack.
"In fact, most analysts remain convinced the *Inspire* article was the
brainchild of X.... an American .... and was edited by Y..... another
American citizen...
"Last October Z .... accused of attempting to bomb a Federal Reserve Bank
building in New York, was said by prosecutors to have read *Inspire*..."
His car b... more »
Interviewed For Fareed Zakaria’s GPS on CNN
Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 1 hour ago
I was interviewed for this article by Afeef Nessouli “Can Iraq meet its oil
potential?” which appeared on Fareed Zakaria’s GPS on CNN.
A3 Newsletter: Four Score and One Too Many Years
angola3news at Angola 3 News - 1 hour ago
*(Artwork by Emory Douglas)*Today, April 17, 2013, marks 41 years that
Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace have been unjustly incarcerated in
solitary confinement in Louisiana. This is 41 years of living in concrete
and metal cages of 6 x 9 feet; 41 years of being separated from their
families and loved ones; 41 years of being wrongly accused of a murder they
did not commit.
Over 41 years ago, prison officials at the Louisiana State Penitentiary
(aka 'Angola'), an 18,000-acre former slave plantation, were first
confronted by the Angola 3's challenge to the obscene human rights
atroci... more »
Mircea Eliade On Going Down Into The Belly of A Monster
Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 hour ago
Related:
*Mircea Eliade On The Modern Man's Passion For Historiography*.
*Mircea Eliade On The Eleusinian Mysteries*.
*Mircea Eliade On The Fury of The Berserkers*.
Below is an excerpt from Mircea Eliade's book, *"Myths, Dreams and
Mysteries: The Encounter Between Contemporary Faiths and Archaic Realities."
* Harper & Row, Publishers: New York. 1960. Pg. 225.
What we have here is an initiatory adventure undertaken to gain an item of
secret knowledge. One goes down into the belly of a giant or a monster in
order to learn *science* or *wisdom*. That is why the Lapp shaman remai... more »
Drink up, and be happy
Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 2 hours ago
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Happiness is nowhere near as complex as you might have been led to believe.
For scientific research now confirms merely a taste of beer can trigger a
rush of chemical pleasure in the brain.
Proving again that beer didn’t just build our civilisation, it made it
happy too.
Or as Benjamin Franklin was supposed to have said,
*"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."*
Cheers! (Hic.)
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to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)
Suspected Faults Under Oi Nuclear Reactors in Japan: Court Rejects Shutdown Request
Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 2 hours ago
Reuters (2013, April 16) Court rejects request to shut down Oi nuclear
reactors, The Asahi Shimbun,
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201304160084
[Excerpted] A Japanese court rejected a petition to close down the
country's only two operating nuclear reactors, in the country's first legal
ruling on atomic power since the Fukushima disaster a little over two years
ago...
...The country's new nuclear regulator is still investigating whether the
suspected fault under the station is active. [end]
Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)
Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 2 hours ago
Welcome to Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)! If this is your first visit,
please click HERE for information and a complete list of all the challenges
we've taken on so far.
There's a lot of great information in this post and I encourage you to read
through it ... however, if you don't have the time right now, you might
find the following quick links helpful:
- The #CTWW Gang
- The Honor Society
- My Final Thoughts on Our Last Challenge
- This Week's Challenge
How did your Eco-friendly spring cleaning go last week? I made the switch
to natural cleansers quite some tim... more »
When Miss McConnell Passes Will "Ding Dong" Top The Charts?
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 2 hours ago
The British Establishment-- and the kind of American Tories who fought on
the British side against the Patriots during the American Revolution-- are
busy trying to make Margaret Thatcher a right-wing saint. Millions of
ordinary Britons don't feel that's merited and responded by driving the
1939 classic "Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead," from *The Wizard of Oz* up the
music charts. Tens of thousands of Brits rushed out to buy the single but
Conservatives warned the BBC, which plays chart songs, not to dare play it.
They played a 5-second version (once) with the network's new boss, Tony... more »
The Game
Sophia at AMERICAN KABUKI - 3 hours ago
This is about all that you have ever believed was real and true and how
all of that is about to change. You are not only what you see in the
mirror. Your worth comes from a place unseen by human eyes.
It is not so much what work you do in this physical world that you are
here doing. It *is* that, yes, for things that you came to experience and
to learn about. Yet while you sleep on this earthly plane, you are still
working and doing. Not so much learning; yet it is true that learning is
something you cannot escape – but DOING. It is in your ‘dream work” that
you are f... more »
Adrian Dix And Christy Clark, A Contrast In Leadership
Grant G at The Straight Goods - 3 hours ago
Today Adrian Dix showed what I call "real Leadership"...After accepting the
candidacy of Dayleen Van Ryswyk to run in the of Kelowna-Mission..
Clearly the vetting process failed, on the first day of the writ period it
was leaked that this woman has uttered some very racist slurs towards
French Canadians and Canada`s First Nations, there is no need to repeat
what she said, these statements in the form of comments on an internet site
were uttered in 2009...
Racism comes in all forms, Dayleen Van Tyswyk will have to live with those
statements, no doubt the locals will forgive her, I ... more »
"A Look to the Heavens"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
“One of the brightest galaxies in planet Earth's sky is similar in size to
our Milky Way Galaxy: big, beautiful M81. This grand spiral galaxy lies
11.8 million light-years away toward the northern constellation of the
Great Bear (Ursa Major).
*Click image for larger size.*
The deep image of the region reveals details in the bright yellow core,
but at the same time follows fainter features along the galaxy's gorgeous
blue spiral arms and sweeping dust lanes. It also follows the expansive,
arcing feature, known as Arp's loop, that seems to rise from the galaxy's
disk at the upper ... more »
Chet Raymo, “A Universal We?”
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
*
*
*“A Universal We?”*
by Chet Raymo
“I have a few words to say about Oxford anthropologist Harvey Whitehouse,
and his thoughts on ritual as "the glue that holds social groups together."
I was drawing on a story in the 24 January issue of “Nature.” He is quoted
further: "Emotionally intense rituals have bound us together and pitted us
against our enemies throughout the history of our species. It was only when
nomadic foragers began to settle down did we discover the possibilities for
establishing much larger societies based on frequently repeated creeds and
rituals." The big... more »
"After All..."
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
"A chain is no stronger than its weakest link,
and life is after all a chain."
- William James
"A Civilized Society..."
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago
"Before our white brothers arrived to make us civilized men, we didn't
have any kind of prison. Because of this, we had no delinquents. Without a
prison, there can be no delinquents. We had no locks nor keys and therefore
among us there were no thieves. When someone was so poor that he couldn't
afford a horse, a tent or a blanket, he would, in that case, receive it all
as a gift.
We were too uncivilized to give great importance to private property. We
didn't know any kind of money and consequently, the value of a human being
was not determined by his wealth. We had no written l... more »
Attack Ad Against Justin Trudeau
thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 4 hours ago
I'm really unhappy about Justin Trudeau. Seems to me that he's what stands
between the bankrupt Liberal Party of Canada (a "vision" for Canada that
appears to be some incoherent mish-mash of corporate inhumanity and vaguely
progressive rhetoric) and its eventual demise. With his name and his looks
he'll kindle enough interest to help spoil the NDP's chances of reducing
the harpercons to a minority.
Regardless of all that (and not that I have any high hopes for the NDP
under Mulcair) I find those harpercon attack ads against Trudeau to be
sickening. I'm tired of these asinine attac... more »
The Realist Report with John Friend
John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 4 hours ago
On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined by Scott Roberts
of *The Forbidden Truth*. Scott and I will be discussing a variety of
subjects, including his awakening to the problems facing our nation and
race, his thoughts on Christianity, religion, and spiritual matters, the
need to overcome our differences and work together productively, his
thoughts on the American Nationalist Association, and related matters. Be
sure to check out *Scott's TruTube.TV page*, where you can find a number of
videos he has produced. Calls will be taken throughout the conversation.
You c... more »
Will Thatchers Legacy Become the US's ALEC Led Reality???
2old2care at Because I Can - 4 hours ago
A little ALEC / Thatcher background to start.
*ALEC Policy Forum 2002*
Privatization as we know it began in the late 1960s, mainly practiced by
local governments. In the 1980s Ronald Reagan brought the idea to the
federal government at the same time Margaret Thatcher was revolutionizing
Britain through the same process.
*ALEC Atlantic Connection 2006*
Chris Heaton Harris (International ALEC Legislator)
It reminded me a lot of growing up in the late 1980´s in a confident Great
Britain that had been economically transformed by Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher.
*Inside ALEC 2007*... more »
Issue Estoppel
James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 4 hours ago
*Penner v. Niagara (Regional Police Services Board*) 2013 SCC 19 deals with
issue estoppel.
The legal framework governing the exercise of the discretion not to apply
issue estoppel is set out in *Danyluk v. Ainsworth Technologies*, 2001 SCC
44, [2001] 2 S.C.R. 460. This framework has not been overtaken by the
Court's subsequent jurisprudence.
While finality is important both to the parties and to the judicial system,
unfairness in applying issue estoppel may nonetheless arise.
First, the prior proceedings may have been unfair.
Second, even where the prior proceedings wer... more »
Glenn Greenwald and the Leveretts Talk Iran—and How Two Former Spear-Carriers for Empire Got “Radicalized”
Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 4 hours ago
*Glenn Greenwald and the Leveretts Talk Iran—and How Two Former
Spear-Carriers for Empire Got “Radicalized”*
*By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett *
*GoingToTehran.com *
*Published on April 10, 2013 *
Glenn Greenwald interviewed us for a “Podcast Discussion with Two of
America’s Leading Iran Experts: The Leveretts,” now published by the *Guardian
(*click on the podcast screen above or here). We admire Glenn deeply for
all he has done and continues to do to bring reality and principle back
into America’s ongoing debates about national security and about civil
liberties—and to... more »
Elizabeth May's Pipeline Warning to You Eastern Canadians.
The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 5 hours ago
Her e-mail is self-explanatory. When it comes to Stephen Harper and
bitumen pipelines, you can keep your opinions to yourself.
*Enbridge's Line 9 pipeline runs straight through major Canadian cities,
including Sarnia, the GTA and Montreal, passing 9.1 million people, and
nearly 100 towns and cities.*
**
*Installed in the mid-1970s, this aging pipe system is set to be modified.
A proposal is in place to reverse the flow of this pipeline and expand its
carrying capacity.*
**
*But if you are one of the millions of Canadians along its route who wish
to communicate legitimate concerns ab... more »
Alan Waldman : ‘A Touch of Frost’ Was Excellent, Clever British Cop Series
thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 5 hours ago
Waldman's
film and TV
treasures you may have missed:
Beloved comedy star David Jason achieved new and long-running acclaim as
crusty, amusing detective inspector Frost.
By Alan Waldman / The Rag Blog / April 16, 2013
[In his weekly column, Alan Waldman reviews some of his favorite films
and TV series that readers may have missed, including TV dramas,
mysteries, and comedies from Canada,
Bits'n'Pieces-- Guns And Religion
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 5 hours ago
*How Far Will McConnell Step Over The Line?*
You know with all the hubbub over the surreptitiously taped McConnell staff
meeting where they were planning a strategy for smearing Ashley Judd and
other potential opponents, one thing that seems to have gotten by our
watchdog media is the transcript itself. The McConnell camp used "3rd
party" to submit an open records request for Kentucky Secretary of State
Alison Lundergan Grimes. So who, exactly, was that "3rd party" referred to
by the McConnell mob? Was it a shady right-wing SuperPac McConnell was
illegally coordinating with? Or wa... more »
GAIA PORTAL: Activated Solar Gateway Connects to Enhanced Gaia Transforms
AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 6 hours ago
*Activated Solar Gateway Connects to Enhanced Gaia Transforms*
by ÉirePort
Activated solar gateway connects to enhanced Gaia transforms. This allows
(encourages) full awakenings for all humanity, on all stages of
consciousness.
"Brilliance" of human energy is increased rapidly via connection of
activated solar gateway with enhanced Gaia transforms.
Individual human grids connect enabling global humanity-to-Hue-manity
transformation.
ÉirePort | April 16, 2013 at 17:55
URL: http://wp.me/p2sFUY-kZ
Energy Econ 9: Blowin in the Wind Fooly
Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 6 hours ago
The mystique of wind, solar and other renewable energy sources keeps
floating, mainly to help 'save the planet". It's a mystique and paranoia at
the same time that drives certain energy policies in many countries to
irrational levels. Like pouring lots of taxpayers money to subsidize these
renewables, or jacking up the cost of electricity to households and
businesses.
Here is a good situationer on global energy consumption in 2010. After all
these years of pouring lots of taxpayers' and energy consumers' money to
wind and solar, they have contributed only 0.5 percent and 0.06 percen... more »
Kind (D-WI) Working for TurboTax???
2old2care at Because I Can - 6 hours ago
From Pro-Publica – my emphasis throughout – but let’s start with these two paragraphs
out of sync
The industry group behind the program boasts that almost all taxpayers can
use software like TurboTax or more primitive electronic forms for free. But
access to the more sophisticated software is limited by income. *Only about
3.5 million taxpayers used Free File last year, according to a Treasury
Department tally through the end of April*.
*The pact governing the partnership, which counts Intuit as a member,
includes a sweet deal for the industry:* *In return for the companies
offer... more »
GAIA PORTAL: Gaia Transforms Activated
AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 6 hours ago
*Gaia Transforms Activated*
by ÉirePort
Gaia transforms activated at this moment. These are global in nature, and
includes all levels of Beingness.
Such transforms are based upon the principle of healing, or rectification,
bringing awareness of Wholeness, Unity, of all humanity, of all Creation.
These Gaia transforms are able to activate now, as sufficient Hue-manity
(Rainbow humans) are present with Gaia at this time.
ÉirePort | April 16, 2013 at 17:29
URL: http://wp.me/p2sFUY-kX
Spirulina and LPS; and, Maybe Trans Fats are Not the Devil?
George Henderson at The High-fat Hep C Diet - 6 hours ago
One
of the very minor controversies in Paleo-land is whether algal foods or
supplements are healthful. For what it's worth, pond algae appeared in
the
Paleolithic menu (according to the 2008 book Feast: why humans share
foodby Martin Jones). Spirulina and Chlorella supplements have both been
used
in the treatment of Hepatitis C with interesting results:
(music - Free Kim Dotcom by The Puddle featuring Matthew Bannister)
*
* *Efficacy and safety of Chlorella supplementation in adults with
chronic
hepatitis C virus infection *
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3581996/*
*
Eight... more »
RAG RADIO / Thorne Dreyer : Anti-Gun Violence Activists John Woods & Claire Wilson James
thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 7 hours ago
Claire
Wilson James and John Woods at the KOOP studios in Austin, Texas, April
5, 2013. Photo by Thorne Dreyer / The Rag Blog.
Rag Radio podcast:
Anti-gun violence activists
John Woods and Claire Wilson James
John's girlfriend was killed at Virginia Tech in 2007 and Claire was
shot by UT tower sniper Charles Whitman in Austin in 1966, losing her
unborn child.
By Rag Radio / The Rag Blog /
Little or Nothing But Life
gail zawacki at Wit's End - 7 hours ago
Wit's End exists mostly to educate people - to curate the information -
about trees dying, everywhere, from pollution. There is no lack of new
research, articles, or evidence...but it is quite difficult to repeat it
with much frequency and besides, other terrible things are happening in the
world. The last post was about birds and bees and other insects, which
happen to have an intimate relationship with the plants that they
pollinate. Starting today, it is possible to watch a new release, The
Wings of Life, online. It will set you back about $15 to purchase it on
Amazon, but g... more »
GW Intimates - He Can Read
2old2care at Because I Can - 8 hours ago
The next question is - at what grade level.
George W. Bush: 'People are surprised I can even read'
By Justin Sink - 04/15/13 09:24 AM ET
Former President George W. Bush knows that his retirement hobby of painting
has surprised many, but he said in an interview published Sunday he takes
"great delight in bursting stereotypes."
“People are surprised,” Bush told the Dallas Morning News. “Of course, some
people are surprised I can even read.
Second grade level?????
George W. Bush had important business to attend to onSeptember 11th:reading a book, The Pet Goat, with second-graders ... more »
ALEC Corp Member Files Bankruptcy
2old2care at Because I Can - 8 hours ago
If you didn’t already know – as part of the failed re-branding attempt of
the American Legislative Exchange Council – they have renamed their private
sector BOARD to an ADVISORY COUNCIL.
Doesn’t matter what they call them, the Board/Advisory Council –
facilitates the private sector writing legislation and then handing it off
to ALEC state legislators to implement in YOUR state.
Anyhoo …..
Considering ALEC’s PUSH for privatization of everything – because the
private sector supposedly does such a damn good job – better, more
economically (according to ALEC) – here’s snip about ... more »
Stay tuned
risa bear at A Way to Live - 8 hours ago
The term "ethics" -- along with some of its synonyms and part synonyms --
has been in trouble with materialistic biologists for the last hundred
years or so. The website Resilience has recently taken a look at the
reputed problem: "The relevance of the lurking inconsistency to
conservation biology and steady-state economics should be evident —
conservation and sustainable scale are, after all, purposes that are ruled
out in a world governed only by chance."
Yes, well. I am a "neo-Darwinist" as the term is used by Herman Daly, the
author of the piece, though it is properly a "desig... more »
Elsewhere: Torture, Budget, OFA
Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 8 hours ago
Over at PP today, I brought back my argument for how to prevent another
round of torture: pardons plus Truth Commission.
And two new(ish) columns to link to. My Salon item over the weekend
suggested that people who want to support Barack Obama's agenda shouldn't
donate to OFA -- their money is better spent on candidates in the 2014
cycle.
While at TAP, I talked about what people think they're talking about when
they talk about balanced budgets.
Oh -- just a quick update for Watergate readers. There's been so much over
the last few days that I've fallen behind. I'm scheduled to work... more »
An Injustice Compounded: Amnesty International demands an end to the cruel and inhuman treatment of Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace
angola3news at Angola 3 News - 8 hours ago
*(Below, reprinted in full, is a new Amnesty International statement that
has just been released. --Reprinted by Angola 3 News)*
Herman Wallace (left) with Albert Woodfox (right)
*AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
PUBLIC STATEMENT
AI index: AMR 51/019/2013
16 April 2013
An Injustice Compounded
Amnesty International demands an end to the cruel and inhuman treatment of
Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace*
On the anniversary of the forty-first year since they were placed in
prolonged isolation in Louisiana prisons, Amnesty International demands
that Louisiana authorities immediately transfer Albe... more »
Margaret and Me
Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 8 hours ago
I'm in London on Wednesday. Not for Thatcher's funeral, but for reasons
more mundane. That said I cannot let the jamboree pass without saying
something, especially as I first became interested in politics under her
reign. But not as a critic or an activist that stood with the labour
movement. Quite the opposite, actually.
When I was 10, my junior school ran a parallel contest to the 1987 general
election. Obviously, before then I was aware of such a thing as politics -
of the blonde lady in Downing Street, of something called the 'Labour
Party'. I have hazy memories of the Falkland... more »
Boston
Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 9 hours ago
Some 24 hours on from the deeply inhumane bombings in Boston, we seem to be
no clearer as to the identity or the motivation of the perpetrators of this
hideous crime. The U.S. authorities are still investigating and are
remaining cautious in their statements.
As so often happens after such events, while the facts are unknown,
speculation begins to fill the airwaves and the internet. After the
massacre in Norway, there was something of a rush to blame the killings on
Muslim terrorists. After the massacre in Toulouse, there was something of a
rush to blame the killings on right-wing... more »
Musical Interlude: Liquid Mind, "Laguna Indigo II (Aurora)"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago
Chuck Wild, Liquid Mind, "Laguna Indigo II (Aurora)"
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfvKD_SaQdQ
Gold Sell-Off: There Is Only One Question That Matters
Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 9 hours ago
*[image: image]**Guest post by Detlev Schlicter*
Last Friday, I participated in a short debate on BBC Radio 4's Today
programon the future direction of gold. Tom Kendall, global head of
precious
metals research at Credit Suisse, argued that gold was in trouble. I
argued
that it wasn't. So yours truly is on record on national radio the
morning
of gold's two worst trading days in 30 years arguing that it was still a
good investment.
Is it?
I still think what I said on radio is correct. Even after two days of
brutal bloodletting in the gold market and two days of soul-searching
for
... more »
C.S. Lewis On The Lord of the Rings
Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 9 hours ago
*Sauron does not need no stinkin' Constitution.*
Related:
*The Cosmos Turned Upside Down: Tolkien, The Giant 9/11 Lie, And The Evil
War on Terror.*
*Ralph Wood - On Tolkien—The Lord of the Rings—A Book for our Time of
Terror*.
Below is an excerpt from C.S. Lewis's book, *"On Stories: And Other Essays
on Literature."* 1966. C.S. Lewis Pte Ltd. Pg. 161-63.
How far Treebeard can be regarded as a 'portrait of the artist' must remain
doubtful; but when he hears that some people want to identify the Ring with
the hydrogen bomb, and Mordor with Russia, I think he might call it a
'... more »
"It's All True..."
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago
“Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance. The truth, when you finally
chase
it down, is almost always far worse than your darkest visions and fears...”
"This is the Nineties, Bubba, and there is no such thing as Paranoia. It's
all true."
- Hunter S. Thompson
What is Europe? An update...
address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 9 hours ago
Link:
http://youtu.be/6od4eTMaN-g
Link: http://youtu.be/7Ri9fuEJe4w
Your conclusion? We are 5 years in a crisis with no trustworthy solution
near. Bankrupt "banks" still operating. The same (mostly incompetent)
peopleat the rudder daily talking the same
incomprehensible and contradictory rubbish. People no longer able to
buythings or not buying things at all keeping their money outside banks
to
prevent 'bail-ins'. People using pawnshops to get to some money. Price
inflation creeping up. Wages below levels payed in third world
countries.
Unemployment at astronomical heights. Establish... more »
Republican Party Civil War Roils Illinois And Alaska
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 9 hours ago
Joe Miller is back
Right wing extremists moved to take over the Republican Party apparatus in
Illinois and Alaska. They failed in Illinois and, predictably, succeeded in
Alaska-- just in time for the reemergence of neo-fascist politician Joe
Miller. And recently, teabaggers nearly succeeded in taking over the
Republican Party organization in Michigan and is angling to do just that in
Ohio. We'll come back to Alaska in a minute. First Illinois.
The state party chair, Pat Brady, an ally of lightly closeted Rep. Aaron
Schock (who is eager to run for governor), had told the state's Repu... more »
“The Boston Marathon Bombing And The Limits of Human Empathy”
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago
*“The Boston Marathon Bombing *
*And The Limits of Human Empathy”*
by Chauncey DeVega
"We can grieve and mourn the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing.
However, the ritual of loss- and of beginning a righteous search (as
opposed to a witch hunt where our Arab and Muslim brothers and sisters are
abused and harassed, while the White Right and the American militia crowd
is treated as de facto above suspicion) for those individual(s) who
committed this crime- should not interfere with critical thinking, national
introspection, or truth-telling.
Moreover, I would also suggest... more »
Counting our blessings after the Boston bombing
Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 10 hours ago
Every time there's a major attack of some kind in America, whether it be
9/11, or Newtown, or yesterday's bombing in Boston, we as a nation are
instantly traumatized. We personalize it, as if it had happened to us no
matter how remote our connection. Not to minimize the tragedy of the these
events, but these are small horrors in the greater world.
In the Middle East this sort of violence is part of their "normal" lives. I
mean, while we were all glued to the media yesterday, watching in
disbelief, this was happening in Iraq:
Officials said more than 30 bombings and a shooting hit ... more »
"American People Fight Obama’s Treacherous Cuts to Social Security and Medicare"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago
*"American People Fight Obama’s Treacherous *
*Cuts to Social Security and Medicare"*
By Lynn Stuart Parramore
"In a spin worthy of the Tasmanian Devil, the mainstream media are casting
the reaction to Obama’s proposed cuts to Social Security and Medicare as a
case of division among progressives. Actually, there is no division; not
among progressives, nor among the American people. The vast majority, left,
right and in-between, have repeatedly made it clear that they do not want
cuts to either of these vital programs. ACBS News poll conducted last month
shows that 80 percent... more »
Obama Approves New Exposure Guidelines for Nuclear Emergencies
Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 10 hours ago
Majia here: These new guidelines are alarming as they significantly
increase the levels of radiation that will be allowed in our food and
water
after nuclear emergencies.
Caldicott, Helen (2013) Obama Approves Raising Permissible Levels of
Nuclear Radiation in Drinking Water. Civilian Cancer Deaths Expected to
Skyrocket', Global Research,
http://www.globalresearch.ca/obama-approves-raising-permissible-levels-of-nuclear-radiation-in-drinking-water-civilian-cancer-deaths-expected-to-skyrocket/5331224
[Excerpted]
The White House has given final approval for dramatically
raising permis... more »
ECONOMICS FOR REAL PEOPLE: The Finance Professional - Villain or Saint?
Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 10 hours ago
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Here’s a note about their next Thursday evening session from our friends at
the Auckland Uni Economics Group:
There is probably no more demonised profession today than that of the
financier. Financiers, such as the greedy speculators of Wall Street, are
often painted as the real villains, the culprits that cause economic misery
for millions of people.
But is this criticism fair, or even accurate?
In this week’s seminar Julian will address this question, by examining
whether it is right to vilify the discipline of finance (finance being a... more »
Cost consequences for changing evidence from discovery without notice
James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 10 hours ago
*Malka v. Vasiliadis*, 2013 ONCA 239 is an example of the failure to give
notice that evidence given on discovery is no longer that to be given at
trial lead to cost consequences. Such examples are uncommon and that case
is useful:
[1] We are troubled by the fact that at trial the respondents
changed their evidence from what it had been at discovery without giving
proper notice.
[2] On discovery both Vasiliadis and Lugassy said that the key
events with respect to the termination of the lease took place on Friday,
February 19, 1999. At trial they changed their ... more »
Lists etc
Roobin at THROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 10 hours ago
Tallest mountains (base to peak) in the solar system according to
planet/moon/asteroid:
Mercury - Caloris Montes
Venus - Maxwell Montes
Earth - Mauna Kea
Moon - Mons Huygens
Mars - Olympus Mons
Vesta - Rheasivia
Io - Boosaule Montes
Mimas - Herschel Central Peak
Titan - Mithrim Montes
Iapetus - Equatorial Ridge
Oberon - Limb Mountain
Brian Kelly's Blog: Swissindo as I Understand It
AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 10 hours ago
Reblogged from
http://briankellysblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/swissindo-oppt-as-i-understand-it.html
*UN-SWISSINDO-OPPT As I Understand It*
April 16th, 2013
Ask and ye shall receive!
This will officially be the first time anyone from the I U/V Exchange
(formerly OPPT) Ground Crew has published any of the SWISSINDO information.
Let me preface what I have to share today with a Skype chat I just sent to
Heather a few minutes ago.
9:25 AM
Got a quick minute?
9:26 AM
This just came through:
UN email from Mr. Sino.AS
9:27 AM
My thought is to publish solely for the ... more »
Breaking: Reinhart/Rogoff Shot Full of Holes UPDATED X2
Kenneth Thomas at Middle Class Political Economist - 10 hours ago
This story is rapidly making the rounds in the blogosphere today, and it is
indeed a big deal. One of the most significant economics papers underlying
the argument for why high government debt (especially over 90% of gross
domestic product) is bad for growth was published in 2010 by Carmen
Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, "Growth in a Time of Debt" (ungated version
here).
The basic finding of this paper was that if debt exceeds 90% of GDP, then
on average growth turns negative. But as Thomas Herndon, Michael Ash, and
Robert Pollin report in a new paper (via Mike Konczal at Rortybomb), ... more »
What ought to be done with the Gosnell flap!
bob somerby at the daily howler - 10 hours ago
*TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 2013*
*Ought to be done, but won’t be:* Jonathan Capehart brought a touch of
comic relief to the flap about Kermit Gosnell.
Gosnell is the Philadelphia doctor who is on trial for a wide range of
abuses at his abortion clinic. How crazy was Dr. Gosnell?
*This* crazy: According to the grand jury report, “The clinic reeked of
animal urine, courtesy of the cats that were allowed to roam (and defecate)
freely.” Gosnell is charged with more serious crimes, but that helps paint
the picture.
Starting on April 11, conservatives began to complain that the mainstream
pr... more »
Duncan Celebrates Three Decades of Failed Testing and Accountability Policies
Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 11 hours ago
On April 16, it will have been 30 years since the publication of *A Nation
at Risk* (ANAR), the discredited scare document produced by the Reaganites
in 1983 to introduce the beginning of the end of public education in
America.
Now here is your quiz to test your capacity to predict outcomes based on
past history.
To acknowledge the beginning of fourth decade of failed education policies
inspired by *ANAR*, Duncan will meet with
a) public school parents
b) public school teachers and students
c) public policymakers from local to federal levels
d) CEOs from the Business Roundtable... more »
Also Qaeda called for attacks on sporting events
Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 11 hours ago
'Although no group has claimed responsibility for Monday's deadly bomb
blasts at the Boston Marathon, a leading al-Qaeda ideologue last year
recommended that jihadists in America include sporting events in their list
of prospective terror targets.
Writing in the online magazine of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
(AQAP),Inspire, the terrorist known as Abu Musab al-Suri listed what he
called "the most important enemy targets."
...
"This is done by targeting human crowds in order to inflict maximum human
losses," he wrote. "This is very easy since there are numerous such targets ... more »
Catch of the Day
Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 11 hours ago
Well, some days, you don't have much of a choice, do you? The catch has to
go to economists Thomas Herndon, Michael Ash, and Robert Pollin, who have a
new paper out demolishing Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff on the effect
of high government debt on the economy -- with a big assist to Mike
Konczal, who wrote a clear and readable blog post explaining the conflict
nicely.
The headline here is that Reinhart and Rogoff apparently made a simple
computation error, but the Herndon-Ash-Pollin critique goes well beyond
that -- as do other critiques previously aired (disclaimer: I haven't ... more »
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT SOCIAL MISERY
Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 11 hours ago
Abby Martin talks to activist, author and Princeton professor, Cornel West
about class warfare, race issues, corporate greed, and the American empire.
This is an excellent interview and gets down to the nub of some of the key
questions of our time. Highly recommend watching it.
Saudi in Boston Bombing is a "devout Muslim from Medina" - Atlas Shrugs
Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 11 hours ago
'Neighbors of the Saudi student who was detained for 'acting
suspiciously'
at the marathon finish line said they were shocked to hear he had any
involvement in the bombing as he is a 'quiet, devout Muslim who is a
huge
soccer fan'.'
Another terrorist who completely Coincidentally is a devout follower of
'the religion of peace'?
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2013/04/saudi-in-boston-bombing-he-described-him-as-a-devout-muslim-from-medina-.html
"Now Is The Time..."
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours ago
“The old world is dying away, and the new world struggles to come forth:
now is the time of monsters.”
- Antonio Gramsci
"As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both
instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged.
And it is in such twilight that we all must be aware of any change in the
air, however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness."
- Justice William O. Douglas
Kierkegaard On The Difference Between "Popular" And "Philosophical"
Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 12 hours ago
Related: * *
*Kierkegaard On Socratic Ignorance*.
*Kierkegaard On "Man."** *
*Kierkegaard On Socrates And The Immortality of The Soul.*
*Kierkegaard On God's Love.*
*Kierkegaard On Passion.*
* Kierkegaard On Martyrs of Truth.*
*Kierkegaard On Truth*.
Below is an excerpt from, *"The Soul of Kierkegaard: Selections from His
Journals."* Edited by Alexander Dru. Dover Publications, Inc: Mineola, New
York. 2003. Pg. 191-192.
The difference between "popular" and "philosophical" is the amount of time
a thing takes. Ask a man: do you know this, or do you not know it---if he
answers... more »
Why I’m not Blogging about 4/15
Daniel Nexon at Duck of Minerva - 12 hours ago
Because we don’t know enough to engage in anything resembling responsible
commentary. And those things that we can say something worthwhile
about–including comparisons with other terrorist attacks past and present,
such as what happened on the same day in Iraq; and the socio-political
dynamics of the US response so far–don’t exactly demand my input. That’s
Continue reading
Oh, I'm Going to Hate This In About Four Years
Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 12 hours ago
After Hoover was defeated in 1932, the next incumbent to lose in a general
election was Ford, in 1976, followed in short order by Carter in 1980 and
Bush in 1992. Add in Johnson in 1968, and incumbents are beaten all the
time!
But now, with a run of three presidents who were successfully re-elected,
get ready for it: you're going to be hearing a lot about how incumbent
presidents can't lose under today's conditions. Here's a preview from Tom
Edsall, who attributes this effect to campaign finance:
The ability of an unchallenged incumbent president to flood the airwaves
during the su... more »
Lamar W. Hankins : Fear and the NRA
thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 12 hours ago
Political
cartoon by Mike Luckovich / Atlanta Journal-Constitution /
SECFanatics.com.
The NRA:
Perpetrator of 'fear itself'
McClatchy reports that for the last 40 years the NRA has succeeded in
limiting and now even preventing research into the effects of gun use,
sales, and crime.
By Lamar W. Hankins / The Rag Blog / April 16, 2013
For most of my life, the NRA (National Rifle Association)
Arizona Wilder - Bizarre Experiences Of A Mind Control Slave
Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 13 hours ago
"I'm not a speaker. I have a very busy life." sneers *MK Ultra* ritual
abuse and mind control slave Arizona Wilder. And it's like there's
something UTTERLY FASCINATING behind that little lip curl. Arizona has
EXACTLY THE SAME self-effacing solemn voice and blank dead desperate look
on her face as Cathy O'Brien and Bryce Taylor and all the others who have
suffered in the name of Corporate War...
"I knew about Alice In The Wonderland PROGRAMMING," she adds, showing some
drawings of the state of her mind during what she calls 'vivisections of
alien-human hybrids' without anaesthetic, a... more »
The Boston Marathon Murders were Probably Domestic Terrorism
The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 13 hours ago
I'm pretty sure that American authorities are trying to hunt down whoever
detonated Claymore mines at the finish-line of the Boston Marathon
yesterday.
One Indian paper had an account yesterday from an Indo-American special
forces vet who ran the race and was at the scene shortly after the
bombs/mines went off/detonated. He described multiple amputations, severed
legs everywhere, and how he had personally placed tourniquets on six or
seven wounded runners.
Another account described small ball-bearings littering the blast site.
These are the hallmarks of the U.S. military's Claymor... more »
Michelle Rhee's Situational Ethics
John Thompson at Schools Matter - 13 hours ago
The immediate takeaway of "Michelle Rhee's Reign of Error" is that PBS's
John Merrow found “the smoking gun,” or the confidential memo warning
Michelle Rhee of the extent of cheating that may have occurred in
Washington D.C. schools in response to her draconian “reforms.” He
concludes with the question that merits a real federal investigation, “What
did Michelle know, and when did she know it?” In the long run, that
is Merrow's third most important revelation.
Merrow has been reporting on D.C. schools since 2007 and, even now,
his prime expose is the ongoing story about the nonsto... more »
In the incessant rains ...
risa bear at A Way to Live - 13 hours ago
... new posts are hard to come by. So it goes.
March above, April below. As you can see, not much has changed. The
Lacinato kale is in bloom. Potatoes coming up, some of which have been
knocked back by frost damage. Greens actually are doing well in the middle
far bed, beyond the held-over leeks and peasbrush. Raspberry canes look
pretty good. The orchard is blooming on schedule but sees few bees in this
weather. Buckwheat has sprouted in the fallow bed but is languishing, while
weeds grow apace. I've tried to mow the pasture, but as it never dries, it
stays ahead of me.
I've spen... more »
Steven Lendman is a self-educated retired small business man. He publishes two columns daily on OpEdNews treating worldwide political and economic issues. His writing is kind of choppy, but in a way that engages the reader. From my own knowledge of things, he messages have consistantly been bang on. I suggest that you go to the original and subscribe to his email notifications. Otherwise note that I have posted yesterday the column Lendman that cites by the highly educated and experienced economist Paul Craig Roberts.
David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 13 hours ago
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*Headlined to H3 4/16/13*
*Gold Drops Most in 30 Years*
*By Stephen Lendman (about the author)*
Permalink
opednews.com
*Gold Drops Most in 30 Years*
by Stephen Lendman
Market manipulation bears full responsibility.
It's getting hammered. In August 2011, it rose above $1,900 an ounce. It
was an all-time high. At midday April 15, it was $1,364. It's a 28%+
decline.
Silver's also hit hard. In 2011, it exceeded $48 an ounce. It plunged to
its midday April 15 $23.45 level. It's more than a 50% decline.
What'... more »
Cristiano Tinazzi: A spook that ties Libya to Syria and arms from Italy via Croatia
Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 13 hours ago
Recall this news? :* 4 Italian Journos kidnapped in Northern Syria: Who did
they get photos of ?*
Way, way more to this news then initially met the eye. Not a surprise,
really. Is anything ever as it seems?
A most interesting commenter stopped by named Nikola. Nikola is obviously
Italian and I have had to use the translate to sort through most of this
stuff. But, Dammit! It has been worth it! What a saga.
Real life dramatics and intrigue. I am not kidding!
Euronews spoke to Cristiano Tinazzi regarding the 4 journalists. "a
journalist who has worked i... more »
dream - weird spongy landscape - snow scene
Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 13 hours ago
don't ask me what this is about but it was one of those various 'walking in
the countryside and/or trying to find a way back home' dreams, but there
was something VERY ODD about this one.
At first, I thought it was a snowy scene, you know ice here, snow there,
melt water running between the two states, bit of boggy ground underfoot
leaking into the boot.
In fact, it was a really familiar scene or landscape I'd often found myself
traversing or having adventures in during other dreams, in what I
considered to be three of the other four seasons of the dreaming year.
I didn't quite be... more »
Judges are to listen; not to intervene in the fray
James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 13 hours ago
R. v. Huang, 2013 ONCA 240 holds:
[32] We make a final observation. This is the second time in less
than one year that this court has allowed appeals relating to judgments of
this trial judge on the basis of reasonable apprehension of bias. In both
instances, the perception of bias arose because of improper and unwarranted
interventions by the trial judge during the examination of witnesses: see *Lloyd
v. Bush*, 2012 ONCA 349. In both instances, public resources were wasted,
great inconvenience to the parties resulted and the integrity of the
administration of justice was... more »
"Free" Trade-- Another Way For Conservatives To Undermine Democracy
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 13 hours ago
In the closing to his brilliant book, The Fifteen Biggest Lies About The
Economy, Joshua Holland takes on the misleading notion of 'free trade' by
pointing out that "Just because politicians say they believe in open
markets and free trade between nations doesn’t make it true. In reality,
they believe in 'free trade' until someone else gets a comparative
advantage, and then their hypocrisy emerges and they become fierce
protectionists."
Most people still believe that discussions of “free trade” are about ships
full of bananas or ball bearings or whatever, crisscrossing the high se... more »
Struggling to force the Sahara back as climate change wreaks havoc in Senegal – ‘If this goes on, the village will have to move’
Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago
[image: Passkot market in Senegal: aid projects aim to help through
reforestation and the provision of money or vouchers so families don't have
to sell their animals. Photo: Jenny Mattews]
By Paul Cullen
15 April 2013
(Irish Times) – At first viewing here in the remote interior of Senegal,
there are just three problems with the Great Green Wall, sub-Saharan
Africa’s attempt to stop the continuing advance of the Sahara in its
tracks. It isn’t great. It isn’t green. And for now, it doesn’t amount to
much of a wall capable of blocking the desert.
Far from tarmacadamed roads and pow... more »
Coal and cattle are most damaging businesses to nature
Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago
[image: Aerial view of an area deforested for cattle ranching within the
'Legal Amazon', the name given to the area originally covered by the
rainforest, seen on 2 September 2009 in the northern region of Mato Grosso
state, Brazil. Deforestation and forest fires are responsible for 75
percent of the carbon dioxide emissions in Brazil. Photo: Rodrigo Baleia /
LatinContent / Getty Images]
15 April 2013 (Reuters) – Coal-fired power generation in Asia and cattle
ranching in South America are the most damaging businesses for nature with
hidden costs that exceed the value of their produ... more »
Did Patriots' Day provide motivation?
bob somerby at the daily howler - 14 hours ago
*TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 2013*
*Past journalism concerning this topic:* Patriots’ Day has always been fun
in Boston, in part because of the annual 11 AM start to the Red Sox game. We're
fairly sure we remember this outing from 1968.
Having mentioned this fact yesterday, we’ll offer a musing today:
Obviously, we have no idea about the motivation for yesterday’s bombings.
But yesterday, as some people assumed that the bombings must have come from
a foreign source, we found ourselves wondering about a famous domestic
bomber. To wit:
In the past, haven’t some journalists said that Timothy ... more »
I hope cooler heads prevail, for once.
Eric Whitney at Reality Pimp - 14 hours ago
Everybody should (please!) just shut up about the Boston Marathon Bombing
until something concrete is known. Stupid speculation about who did the
bombing and why is going to hurt innocent people.
And no, Obama and Congress, this is not a reason to further restrict civil
liberties in the United States, although that may be your immediate spastic
reaction. But the government has quite enough power already. Let's not
have another reprise of the awful Patriot Act that gutted Americans'
freedoms.
Let's not go of half-cocked against anyone. The results of doing so are
never pretty an... more »
The American People and Conservative Republicans Agree - Legalizing Pot Is a State Right
The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 15 hours ago
Some of the most conservative Republicans in Congress are leading the
charge to end their federal government's war on pot. They introduced a
bill, the Respect State Marijuana Laws Act, in the House last week. The
legislation would mean the feds would have to accept state laws that
legalize or decriminalize production or possession of marijuana.
*Depending on the state, the legislation would cover both medical marijuana
and recreational pot, and would protect not only the users of state-legal
cannabis, but also the businesses that cultivate, process, distribute and
sell marijuana i... more »
Rat-sized stucco-eating snails invade Florida – ‘The snails attack over 500 known species of plants, pretty much anything that’s in their path and green’
Jim at Desdemona Despair - 15 hours ago
[image: A giant African land snail, which can grow as big as a rat and gnaw
through stucco and plaster. South Florida is fighting a growing infestation
of the snail, which one of the world's most destructive invasive species.
Photo: MSN]
ORLANDO, Florida (MSN) – South Florida is fighting a growing infestation of
one of the world's most destructive invasive species: the giant African
land snail, which can grow as big as a rat and gnaw through stucco and
plaster.
More than 1,000 of the mollusks are being caught each week in Miami-Dade
and 117,000 in total since the first snail was ... more »
Foreign Workers Program
thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 15 hours ago
The purpose of the foreign workers program was to drag down wages in Canada.
Full stop.
Barack Obama (the great hope of so many deluded pwogwessives) believes that
wages in the USA also need to go down.
European corporats and their political henchpersons (what is a "hench"
anyway?) want to do the same thing to the European working class.
The thing is, you see, is that these are mostly insane people, in control
of an insane system. Environmentalists say that there should be less
consumption. Zero growth. But the nutbars like Obama and whatever
mediocrity is currently the president o... more »
...and John Singleton Copley Wept
jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 15 hours ago
(By *American Zen*'s Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari.)
“*We still do not know who did this or why, and people shouldn’t jump to
conclusions before we have all the facts. But make no mistake, we will get
to the bottom of this. We will find out who did this, we will find out why
they did this. Any responsible individuals, any responsible groups, will
feel the full weight of justice.*” - President Barack Obama, April 15, 2013
What makes terrorism so effective is in its invariably hideous timing,
its genius in fully exploiting the element of surprise. It's a Pamplona
that suddenl... more »
10 Books I Recommend Over and Over
Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 15 hours ago
It is not secret that I absolutely love to read. I am currently in the
middle of my 50th book of 2013 and I usually read between 1 and 18 books a
week depending on time and if I am in the middle of a great series. I, like
any avid reader, get asked to recommend books all the time. It honestly
makes me so nervous. You never know what while offend somebody and so I
tend to never recommend books. These are 10 that I love so much that I
can't hardly keep from gushing about.
1. Grave Mercy- Nun Assassins. Need I say more? Oh how I love these books,
they are captivating, interesting and... more »
Putting Bieber in Perspective
The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 15 hours ago
Justin Bieber is prudently laying low after leaving a boneheaded remark in
the guestbook of the Anne Frank house proving that kids do really stupid
things and so he does.
The kid's stupid remark has been a feast for critics around the world but,
of the lot, the best must be *The New Statesman's* Eleanor Margolis who
writes, "*Bieber is a glorified Furby. Why do we expect him to have views
on the Holocaust."*
*"We need much more of a Henry VIII-style attitude to celebrities - less
adulation, and more 'amuse me minstrels and if you're very, very good I
might not have you executed.... more »
At Least One Person Thinks Highly of George w. Bush - Of Course It's George w. Bush
The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 15 hours ago
Former president George w. Bush isn't plagued with regrets over his bungled
years in the White House. On the 10th anniversary of his spectacular
failed war in Iraq and with Afghanistan heading in the same direction,
Bushie says, "*I'm comfortable with what I did*."
*Breaking a silence that he maintained through the costly war's 10th
anniversary, Mr Bush said it was ''easy to forget what life was like when
the decision was made'' to invade.*
* **Shrugging off sharp criticism of his legacy from his successor, Barack
Obama, Mr Bush also urged Republicans to return to ''the principles ... more »
MEDIOCRITY ALL THE WAY UP: Our nation’s ongoing statistical gong-shows!
bob somerby at the daily howler - 15 hours ago
*TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 2013*
*Part 2—What does it take to get fired:* Given our clownish intellectual
culture, our greatest newspapers strive to spread bogus claims all around.
Consider two letters in today’s New York Times about a recent disgraceful
column concerning American schools. Today’s letters present a pair of
Standard Familiar Dueling Claims—standard familiar dueling claims, each of
which seems to be bogus.
One of these familiar letters propounds a Standard *Gloomy* Assessment.
That recent column, by Harvard’s Jal Mehta, began in standard fashion with
the gloomy 1983 report... more »
The Beatings Will Continue.....
Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 15 hours ago
There's only one thing wrong with today's *New York Times* headline, "U.S.
Engaged in Torture After 9/11, Report Shows." It's written in the past
tense. It insinuates that the war crimes have stopped under the Obama
Administration.
If anything, they have only gotten worse. Torture is still ongoing at
Guantanamo, as evidenced by yesterday's powerful oral history of an
editorial dictated by a hunger-striking unindicted inmate chained to a bed
and undergoing forced feeding. It's still being outsourced to so-called
black site prisons.* *Worst of all, waterboarding and other "harsh
int... more »
Scientists find Antarctic ice is melting faster – Summer ice melt has been 10 times more intense over the past 50 years compared with 600 years ago
Jim at Desdemona Despair - 16 hours ago
[image: Red represents areas where temperatures have increased the most
during the last 50 years, particularly in West Antarctica, while dark blue
represents areas with a lesser degree of warming. Temperature changes are
measured in degrees Celsius. Photo: NASA / GSFC Scientific Visualization
Studio]
By James Grubel; Editing by Paul Tait
15 April 2013
CANBERRA (Reuters) – The summer ice melt in parts of Antarctica is at its
highest level in 1,000 years, Australian and British researchers reported
on Monday, adding new evidence of the impact of global warming on sensitive
Antarcti... more »
Boston Marathon False Flag Attack: Why Were People Told To "Stay Calm" BEFORE The Bombs Went Off (?)
Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 16 hours ago
I for one knew right after the initial reports yesterday that something
indeed did not seem right with this bombing at yesterday's Boston
Marathon. Everything has so far pointed towards this being a "false flag"
attack on America, and I have found little in what we have seen so far that
points it in any other direction!
Well, I want to present to all of my readers the following Youtube video
that should have everyone saying: "What the Hell???". It is entitled:
"Boston Busted! Why Were People Told To Stay Calm Before The Bombs Went
Off?", and clearly shows evidence that we have ... more »
VIDEO: Cross-Border Smuggling Iran-Iraq Border Documentary
Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 16 hours ago
How North Korea Tipped Its Hand
arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 16 hours ago
This is of course extremely bad news. Think dirty bomb dumped on Seoul.
These chaps do not understand anything except complete submission and their
behavior the first time around will curl your hair.
As I have posted before, all this noise about the USA is a smoke screen to
cover their true intent. That must be an attack on South Korea. And how
better than to flip a bomb or bombs on the strongest military
concentrations and on the city of Seoul itself just before you launch an
assault on the South.
Stopping them is an immediate and real problem that can be solved by o... more »
All US Reactors Flawed
arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 16 hours ago
Yes we have a problem. The good news is that energy technology is on the
road to make all reactors obsolete everywhere even if we are still building
them. This means that in time they will come out of the system.
Unfortunately that will be a long time.
The flaw is that we simply opted for too large systems that we have been
unable to properly shut down and dismantle when hit with an accident or
even decommissioned.
I think that the best available solution is to produce small thorium based
liquid salt reactors and deploy as many as the market can absorb even as
heat engines... more »
Decadal Climate Change Driven by South Polar Sea?
arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 16 hours ago
This is intriguing. As I have posted before, my preferred candidate for
sharp temperature drops come from a cyclic adjustment in the Southern
Ocean. Here we have specific evidence of changes acting on the required
time scales of millennia. Of course I am looking for something nice and
orderly but that is unlikely to be true.
Changes could easily precipitously notch back and forth over a few
centuries here to a few centuries there and be almost random but be still
clearly decisive. Because of our short data streams, we cannot predict much
but it is important to understand ... more »
Ebike Revolution Underway
arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 16 hours ago
This is something that we in North America are quite blind to. The bicycle
is the anchor to improved human mobility everywhere else and the advent of
the electric version has enhanced that.
Improving battery technology has provided sufficient range for the ebike
to be practical and you would not wish to travel further on a bicycle
anyway.
Our human future will consist of ecars with ample range and all bicycles
using the same advanced battery technology as the best ecars. There will
then be no weight penalty. Rather obviously, there will then be little need
to produc... more »
Tuesday Morning Linkage Club
PM at Duck of Minerva - 16 hours ago
Via Marginal Revolution, the always-interesting Xavier Marquez writes about
Randall Collins’ sociology. [Abandoned Footnotes] Obama staffers find jobs
in white-shoe Washington. It turns out that the new boss is much the same
as the old boss [The New Republic] Phil Schrodt talks about GDELT: Global
Data on Events, Location, and Tone, a global events database
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Panspermia follows from Moore's law
Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 16 hours ago
Just several years ago, when this blog already existed, I got converted to
the idea of panspermia which says that the earliest forms of life were born
somewhere in outer space before the Earth was formed – and they just found
Earth to be a particularly hospitable destination where they could further
evolve and flourish.
Now, the Physics arXiv Blog discusses the preprint
Life Before Earth
by two biologists, Alexei Sharov and Richard Gordon, who aren't affiliated
with any "top theoretical universities" that brings us a cool new argument
in favor of the panspermia paradigm.
The... more »
As Arctic ice melts, it’s a free-for-all for oil … and mammoth tusks
Jim at Desdemona Despair - 16 hours ago
[image: After being frozen for thousands of years in a Siberian riverbed,
this pristine mammoth tusk is a financial boon to the hunter who found it.
Photo: Evgenia Arbugaeva / National Geographic Magazine]
14 April 2013 (NPR) – It's widely known that the world's icecaps are
melting. While most people are focused on what we're losing, some have
considered what might be gained by the disappearance of all that ice.
In 2008, the U.S. Geological Survey released a report estimating that 13
percent of the world's remaining undiscovered oil and 30 percent of the
remaining undiscovered nat... more »
Evaluations Based on Test Scores Goes to Court in Florida
Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 16 hours ago
Take heart, teachers. Be brave. Emulate your colleagues in Florida. Go
to Court! By the way, Randi and Dennis, you could be using some of those
high-priced AFT/NEA lawyers who protect your 400 thousand dollar benefit
packages to help these teachers bring this craziness to a halt.
See teacher below who won Teacher of the Year holding up her
"unsatisfactory" sign.
*Story by Valerie Strauss:*
[image: Teacher Kim Cook ((By Brian Kuger)]
Teacher Kim Cook (By Brian Kuger)
A group of teachers and their unions are filing a lawsuit against Florida
officials that challenges the state’s ... more »
Photo gallery: Kiribati enters the end game against climate change
Jim at Desdemona Despair - 16 hours ago
[image: Father Martin, parish priest on the island of Abaiang walks through
the wasteland that used to be the village of Tebunginako garden. Rising sea
water made the soils heavily saline and unable to support the Bannanas and
Taro vital to the villagers' survival Photo: Mike Bowers / The Global Mail]
By Mike Bowers and Bernard Lagan for the Global Mail
16 April 2013
(guardian.co.uk) – The waves are slowly seeping over the islands of the
Pacific nation, which is at the frontline of the climate change-induced
rise in sea levels striking low-lying nations all over the world
Kiriba... more »
Your moment of Zen
Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 17 hours ago
Sacred spiral created by Kim Harwood Stonework
Sabotaging The Public Service
Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 17 hours ago
Natalie Brender writes in the *Toronto Star* that two former Clerks of the
Privy Council, Mel Capp and Alex Himelfarb, recently spoke out about the
Harper Government's concerted efforts to sabotage the public service:
Befitting the nonpartisan role they previously held, Cappe and Himelfarb
each delivered strong but not overtly political speeches. A subtext running
through their remarks, however, delivers an undeniably political message.
Taken together, their comments suggest that the risks the public service
should be grappling with today are not the ones the Harper government is
... more »
Marco Rubio: "Keep On Dreamin'"
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 17 hours ago
Sunday, Florida Tea Party favorite Marco Rubio, was on all 5 big TV gab
fests plus Telemundo and Univision. What a joke! Have members of Congress
with positive, substantive agendas ever been on all five? Elizabeth Warren?
Bernie Sanders? Alan Grayson? Barbara Lee? Raul Grijalva? No, I must have
missed those weeks too.
Rubio's role in the Senate's "Gang of Eight" has been to water down
comprehensive immigration reform as severely as possible. They're unveiling
their proposals today. Sunday, he told *Fox News Sunday* "This is not
'amnesty.' 'Amnesty' is the forgiveness of something.... more »
"Martial Law... No Ways Tired"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago
Benito Mussolini defined Fascism as the "merger of government and
corporatism." We've witnessed the financial rape of this country by the
banksters and their co-conspirators in the government, who have failed to
prosecute a single case against any of the Too Big To Fail swine, despite
outright theft of trillions of dollars. We've all seen, and many have
experienced, job loss from offshoring companies to third world countries
for cheap labor and tax avoidance. We know of the totally pervasive
spying/surveillance on Americans by the NSA and every other alphabet
agency, recording... more »
Read Stuff, You Should
Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 17 hours ago
Happy Birthday to Sean Maher, 38.
I don't have much good stuff, but here goes:
1. Erica Chenoweth on Boston.
2. Bruce Scheier on Boston.
3. And torture after September 11.
Bombs at the Boston Marathon: Bomb sniffing dogs present pre-race.
Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 18 hours ago
*Round and round it goes. Where it will stop*? *Nobody knows?*
European official: Boston Marathon attacks unlikely the work of suicide
bombers
A European security official with knowledge of the investigation into *twin
bombing*s (buzz word) at the finish line of the Boston Marathon says
initial evidence indicates they were not detonated by suicide bombers.
The official spoke from the United States on condition of anonymity because
he was not authorized to speak about the U.S. investigation. He says,
“investigators believe it was not the work of suicide bombers” but it’s
still too ... more »
Considerable deference given to Ontario Review Board decisions
James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 18 hours ago
Hassan (Re), 2013 ONCA 236 holds, consistent with prior case law, that
considerable deference will be given to ORB decisions:
[9] We note that the specialized expertise of the ORB attracts
considerable deference to their dispositions when they are reviewed for
reasonableness: see*Winko v. British Columbia (Forensic Psychiatric
Institute)*, [1999] 2 S.C.R. 625 at para. 61. In our view, this deference
is particularly appropriate in a context, as here, where there is very
little difference between the actual disposition (detention in a secure
unit) and the competing disposi... more »
Boston Bombing Searches
James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 19 hours ago
... law-enforcement officers were searching an apartment in the Boston
suburb of
Revere. Massachusetts State Police confirmed that a search warrant related
to
the investigation into the explosions was served Monday night in Revere but
provided no further details.
Story
The BBC at it again
Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 19 hours ago
'Before the offensive, Israel had repeatedly carried out air strikes on
Gaza as Palestinian militants fired rockets across the border.'
This is the last line of this BBC article about the Dalou family deaths.
Isn't it lovely how the BBC put Israel's actions before those of the
'Palestinian militants', subtly suggesting that Israel initiated the
exchanges. It also suggests that whilst the action from the Palestinian
side is taken by only 'militants', the whole of Israel is participating in
the Israeli action.
The BBC are despicably and institutionally biased against Israel.
Untitled
New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 19 hours ago
*Federal judge blasts Army Corps of Engineers for failing to protect New
Orleanians during Katrina ~Mark Schleifstein*
~In his Friday ruling, Duval pointed out that he had presided "over this
hydra-like 'Katrina Umbrella' litigation for almost eight years. One
central theme has been painfully obvious throughout this entire process,"
he wrote. "Many of the levees protecting New Orleans and the surrounding
area were tragically flawed. "However, lamentably, there has been no
judicial relief for the hundreds of thousands of people and tens of
thousands of businesses impacted," he said. "... more »
PhilHealth 16: Financial Engineering to Subsidize NCDs Treatment
Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 20 hours ago
In a presentation during the MeTA Forum last April 10, 2013 at the Asian
Institute of Management (AIM) in Makati, Dr. Rizza Herrera and Dr. Liezel
Lagrada of PhilHealth showed some 50 slides about the Primary Care Benefit
(PCB) packages, showing only some of those slides here. PCB are outpatient
services for the poor, a form of preventive healthcare to minimize
incidence of the poor going to hospitals more often. I support more
preventive healthcare, but I do not support the view that it's the
government that should provide it for all.
PCB1 is one year old now, started in April 2012... more »
BREAKING: Two Detained in HSR Bombing
Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 21 hours ago
Two detained in Guangdong.
Taipei police chief Wang Cho-chun said the suspects were arrested by police
in southern China's Guangdong province and repatriated to Taiwan Tuesday.
He says police are questioning the suspects.
On Friday, Taiwanese police found two pieces of luggage each containing gas
cans and timing devices on the high-speed train, and two other pieces of
luggage containing similar devices at a lawmaker's office.
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sidebars for events, links to previous posts and picture posts, a... more »
What if US/Japan Try to Shoot Down a North Korean Missile & They Miss?
Robert Kelly at Duck of Minerva - 21 hours ago
If the Japanese miss but take out MTV & Jersey Shore instead, that would
still be ok I think my toaster has more computing power than that guidance
system… I thought the North Koreans would launch a test missile on the
‘Day of the Sun’ – that would be Kim Il Sung’s birthday for
Continue reading
Dr Michael Maloney - alien autopsy - Disney film footage REAL.
Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 21 hours ago
Dr Michael Maloney (now Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society)
claims to have witnessed THE REAL ALIEN AUTOPSY footage at a Disney meeting
house in L.A. in 1978 upon which the Ray Santilli debunked i.e.
reconstructed, 1995 'alien autopsy' footage was based.
But it wasn't exactly the same footage, "On the floor, in the corner was an
IDENTICAL ALIEN, and it was moving," Maloney embellishes enthusiastically.
invitation to be spirit hacked - part two - the multidimensional experiment
Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 21 hours ago
*chaaange this image, multi-dimensional hackers*I did a post last month
called invitation to be spirit hacked and, of course, NOTHING HAPPENED.
So.... I'm going to broaden the hack-request out to ALL MULTIDIMENSIONAL
BEINGS who may be monitoring Earth's digital personality; shouldn't be such
a big job for someone who can manipulate time and space to travel immense
distances from distant galactic realms/dimensions.
If you can (because blogger is well protected), CHANGE THIS COVER IMAGE
(right) to something related to your mission here on Earth.
*
**Even better, ABDUCT ME.*
*
**Go on,... more »
THATCHER'S FATHER LIKE JIMMY SAVILE?
Anon at aangirfan - 21 hours ago
*'Groper'
Alfred Roberts and his favourite daughter, who became Margaret
Thatcher.*
Margaret Thatcher's father may have been like Jimmy Savile.
There are reports that Thatcher's father sexually abused young girls.
In 1997 the magazine Punch published an article by Professor Bernard
Crickfeaturing allegations, including one from an alleged victim, that
Alfred
Roberts had been involved in several sexual assaults on young women.
The article claimed that Roberts was the inspiration for a lecherous
character who was a local councillor and grocer in the 1937 satire of
Grantham, Rotten Bo... more »
Boston Marathon blasts
Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 21 hours ago
The video below shows one of the blasts a few meters from the camera (that
starts to swing); the other blast is heard elsewhere 13 seconds later.
Think twice whether you want to watch it at all.
It's a special negative feeling to see people murdered at a place that I
know so well as the place above. There's the Old South Church on the left
side of the video above (Google Maps); the Copley Square with the Trinity
Church (and the Hancock Tower next to it) would be seen just 100 meters
further on the right side.
I've been in downtown Boston approximately (at least) every other weeken... more »
May God Be With America
Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 21 hours ago
Obviously, Islam is not the religion to look to for comfort in the wake of
tragedies like the one that occurred yesterday in Boston due to the current
climate of opinion towards Islam in the United States, but there is much
value to be found in Sufi literature if you are willing to look with eyes
open.
*Muslim extremists in the Middle East* are celebrating the deaths of
innocent Americans in the name of divine justice, particularly Salafists,
but they are deluded and don't know the first thing about justice.
It is important to remember that the same radical Islamic terrorist groups... more »
Mahmud Shabistari - The Difference Between Partial and Real Truth
Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 22 hours ago
*Mahmud Shabistari - The Secret Garden, or Rose Garden Of Secrets*.
*Wikipedia:* Mahmūd Shabistarī (1288 – 1340) is one of the most celebrated
Persian Sufi poets of the 14th century.
Below is an excerpt from Mahmud Shabistari's 1311 book, *"The Secret
Garden."* Translated by Johnson Pasha in 1879. Octagon Press: London. Pg.
23-32. [It was first published in English in Cairo in 1903. This edition
was published in London in 1969.]
*The Difference Between Partial and Real Truth*
QUESTION
How then may mortal thought the path of truth
pursue?
Why may the thought be sin t... more »
Why do so many Palestinians (and others) think they should kill Jews?
Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 22 hours ago
Why do so many Palestinians (and others) think they should kill Jews?
'Palestinian Media Watch has found that the PA teaches an ideology of
virulent hatred of Jews
and Israel that mandates the killing of Jews solely because they are Jews.
The murder of Jews
is presented not only as beneficial to Muslims and Arabs, but as necessary
for all humankind.
These findings are based on a thorough study and analysis of eight years of
official PA
television and PA-controlled daily newspapers. This report documents how
this hate ideology
has been taught for years, well before the war started in... more »
Converting dirty Oil workers to Clean Energy workers
Jason Leewig at Our Manmade Disasters - 23 hours ago
by Bk Lim (Notes) on Thursday, May 3, 2012 at 10:27pm
There will always be pockets of heaven among the devastation. We have some
of the hottest and driest spells here. Higher water content in the
atmosphere is the main cause strangely because it prevents heat transfer
and increase volatility; making some places very wet and others very dry.
Extreme weather is the result of atmospheric insulation of heat and
moisture giving rise to extremes in high and low atmospheric pressures.
There are obvious slow evolving global trends with interacting with short
term spikes. It is the invisibl... more »
BOSTON BOMBS - INSIDE JOB - FALSE FLAG
Anon at aangirfan - 23 hours ago
Family Guy Episode Predicts Boston Marathon Bombing?
*Boston Bomb - Reuters*
Reportedly, during a Boston Police Department press conference, Dan Bidondi,
of InfoWars, asked if the Boston bombing was a "false flag" attack.
Bidondi asked why, moments before the bombs went off, the loud speakers
told people in the audience to be calm.
Alex Jones, of InfoWars, notes that Boston has special significance in
American history, and it’s from where two of the planes took off on 9/11.
What is a 'False Flag' Attack?
According to Local 15, a news station in Mobile, Alabama, the University ... more »
Will you hold my cobra? I'll just be a minute.....
Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 1 day ago
So there I was, writing away, when my neighbor calls. She's speaking
rapidly and totally incoherent, but obviously wants me to come over. I
quickly grabbed these historic pictures (note thumb in corner for
authenticity) of the neighbor's pack of dogs keeping a wary distance.
Yes, my neighbor's neighbor had caught a cobra. The thing had crawled into
her house and hissed at her, so she nailed it with some kind of grabbing
tool. I think every home should have one. Or maybe three. But this amazon
was getting tired and the fire department was a long time coming to pick up
the snake. So ... more »
April 14, 1973 (part two)
Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day ago
John Ehrlichman was supposed to have confronted John Mitchell and basically
told him to take responsibility for the Watergate break-ins -- given that
it was clear, at this point, that Mitchell is going to be indicted and
probably convicted anyway.
But when Ehrlichman reports back to Nixon and Haldeman, he has to tell him
that none of that happened. Mitchell claims to be innocent -- claims not
even to have been at key meetings -- and says that it was all Bob
Haldeman's plan to begin with, anyway:
--
EHRLICHMAN: ...Says it comes --the origin of that, of course, was in the
White H... more »
Christy Clark, No Longer a Conservative, Now Christy Is A Federal Liberal "Grit"
Grant G at The Straight Goods - 1 day ago
Christy Clark Liberal`s election platform, am I missing something, do the
Liberals really think the people are that stupid, that we all just fell off
of a turnip truck...
Vaughn Palmer has written a "rare" good article..Well worth the read, shows
Christy Clark lying her face off, again!
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Vaughn+Palmer+road+debt+free+Clark+piles+ever+more+debt/8246543/story.html
These "Gritty" Liberals are proposing reducing the small business tax from
its current rate of 2.5% to 0.00 %...Only one problem, their timeline they
announced is by 2017, meaning not onl... more »
The "Constructive Engagement" of Liberal Zionists
Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 1 day ago
(Credit:
BDS South Africa)
"We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of
the Palestinians."
- South African President Nelson Mandela, December 4, 1997
"The issue of a principled commitment to justice lies at the heart of
responses to the suffering of the Palestinian people and it is the
absence of such a commitment that enables many to turn a blind eye to
it."
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How Badly Will Obama's Chained CPI Error Hurt Democrats In The Midterms?
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
Social Security has long been the third rail of American politics. It has
generally kept Republican predators, fearful of losing their careers, at
bay. By introducing the Republicans' plan for Chained CPI, Obama has
weakened the power of the third rail. It's the worst thing he's done since
taking office. In the long run, it could well permanently tarnish the
Democratic Party brand. And in the short run, many Democrats worry it will
destroy the party in the midterms.
Although Boehner and Miss McConnell demanded that Obama include Chained CPI
in his budget proposal, the GOP immedia... more »
The Realist Report with John Friend
John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 1 day ago
On this edition of *The Realist Report*, John will be discussing his recent
essay *The 20th Century: Talmudic triumph over Western civilization* and
the alleged Jewish "Holocaust" during WWII. "Holocaust Remembrance Day"
began the evening of Sunday, April 7th and ended on the evening of Monday,
April 8th. Why is it important to think critically about the alleged Jewish
"Holocaust"? Why should we question this event that is constantly talked
about and promoted in the mainstream media and entertainment industry?
Calls will be taken throughout the conversation.
You can download the e... more »
Boston Marathon False Flag Attack: Boston Black Flag!
Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day ago
I just finished spending this evening visiting my mother in her new digs...
During the time of that visit, we had the talmudvision on in the
background, and again and again we saw reports of the bombs that went off
during the 112th running of the famed Boston Marathon. I only needed to
take one look at what the Jewish controlled media was claiming about this
bombing to see it clearly as another false flag attack on America!
To help summarize what we are seeing so far in this latest horrendous
attack on America, I want to turn to a fellow researcher, Kenny, who writes
"Kenny's Side... more »
God Whisperer
Sophia at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago
I hesitate to share this, as I do not normally speak like this. Yet, it
is me and I have been sharing my understanding out loud right along. I
have accessed my eternal essence and speak here as God. This is not
channeled. It was whispered. I share it here because this is a journey we
are taking together, as One. The language is uncomfortable yet it was and
is mine. I have been transparent with you all along and this discomfort
will not stop the transparency.
At the end I share a song sung by Joan Osborne “What if God was One of us?”
GOD *IS* ONE OF US. GOD I... more »
Updates
Lori Anne Haskell at Adventures with Kurt and Lori - 1 day ago
I am so behind on posting....Boo.
I will try and recall recent life events.
*Mom's Easter Late Bday Weekend in Grand Rapids*
First, weekend with my Mom. Over Easter weekend, we met in Grand Rapids,
MI, to have a late bday celebration. I wanted to take my Mom someplace
really awesome for her 60th bday, like the Florida Keys or the Virgin
Islands (she does not have a passport). She chose Grand Rapids. LOL.
Cheaper, yet not as exciting. But, we had a blast. I booked us a room
using her military discount (thanks Ronnie for being a veteran) at the
Holiday Inn in downtown GR. I g... more »
"Boston"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
Our deepest sympathy and prayers are for
the victims and loved ones of this horror.
- CP
Dave McArtney, legend
Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago
[image: David McArtney]
Today’s sadness continues. I’ve just heard news that Hello Sailor’s Dave
McArtney died last night.
Shit!
Dave was one of music’s gentlemen, and one of my very favourite live musos.
Dave must have got sick of hearing this story, of how he turned me onto
music. He got it every time I saw him, if I’d had two beers or more. (That
makes it a lot of times.)
I remember once someone saying what it meant to them when Bob Marley died.
He said, “It means no more records from Bob, man.” Dave’s dead, and that
means no more records from Dave, nor gigs, chats, drink... more »
Boston Marathon bombing: One runner's story
Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 day ago
I have to step away from the horror. I can't deal anymore but one last link
from Charlie's place to Jon Marcus who was there when the bombs exploded in
Boston. It's a somber but inspiring story.
It turns out the race was already won long before the bombs exploded. But
it's a big race. The rest of the runners would be coming in for a long time
yet. Boston Marathon isn't about winning. As Jon Marcus tells us:
For runners from around the world, the marathon is a life goal. They train
not for months, but years, to meet the daunting qualifying times. Crossing
that small strip of paveme... more »
New & Noteworthy-- If Not News And Newsworthy
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
When you see a Republican elected official with a cigar in his mouth...
hide your underage sons
Ken is out this week, getting some new bits and pieces installed, so his
nightly slot will be devoted to... what else?... bits and pieces.
*Who Will Protect Us From The Boehner-Obama Plan To Wreck Social Security?*
Wondering who signed the Grayson Takano No Cuts letter, the one that says
"We will vote against any and every cut to Medicare, Medicaid, or Social
Security benefits-- including raising the retirement age or cutting the
cost of living adjustments that our constituents earned and ... more »
What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been
What Is Sustainable at What Is Sustainable - 1 day ago
I’ve been living like a hermit for 19 months now, reading dozens of
powerful books, and writing weekly blogs. I’m not the same person I was
when I started. My perception of reality has gone through some changes. I’ve
been sharing what I learned with the world. I hope that seekers will find
it, and I hope that my work will be helpful to them. I’ll be publishing
this material in book form shortly.
Genuine sustainability, of course, is the holy destination — a way of life
that is healthy, satisfying, and has a long-term future. Getting there, of
course, will be an enormous chall... more »
Meanwhile, in Christchurch, nothing happened
Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago
It’s now 784 days since the February 2011 earthquake.
Winter is coming.
And nothing is happening.
It didn’t have to be this way.
“We have a great big mess of interconnected problems. The root of most of
them is a fundamental lack of respect for individual property rights.”
Read Eric Crampton’s “Oh Christchurch” for the litany of what’s happening
in Christchurch (short summary: bugger all), and why not (short summary:
regime uncertainty).
Here’s Tall Dwarfs:
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