oldephartte(in training): 20 April - Blogs I'm Following II

ARE THEY CENSORING THE NEWS NOW OR WHAT? (Photo credit: roberthuffstutter)

Us and Them: Symphonic Pink Floyd (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The four members of Pink Floyd. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Pink Floyd Experience (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Poster for Pink Floyd at the CIA-UFO club, July 28, 1967, by Hapshash and the Coloured Coat (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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When the Soul Hits Home

AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 16 minutes ago

* When the Soul Hits Home * http://adaptingtograce.com/2013/04/20/when-the-soul-hits-home/ This is in honor of the OPPT and all who are awakening on Planet Earth. I wrote and recorded the vocals around an existing loop. I love Garageband.

Mark Smith, Democratic Candidate For Pennsylvania Lt Governor, Rocks... In More Ways Than One

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 30 minutes ago

I've only been to the Bahamas once; it was to visit the legendary, now shuttered, Compass Point Studios in Nassau, where one of our bands, the Ocean Blue, was recording *Beneath the Rhythm and Sound* late in the summer of 1993. It was a difficult time for the band, who came from a very conservative religious fundamentalist background and had been coming to grips that one of it's key members had decided to eschew the closet and embrace his homosexuality. He had written the band's only real hit and was the member most liked by the media. But the other band members-- who had once all... more »

Musical Interlude: Pink Floyd, “Shine On You Crazy Diamond”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 44 minutes ago

Pink Floyd, “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MDHv1xLnlM

The Maddening Sprint Towards "Justice" In Boston Diverts Global Attention From The Facts

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 hour ago

"The rhetoric of national emergency also supports the dominant ideology of the day which is counter-terrorism. The ideology of counter-terrorism cannot be maintained without the periodic announcement by the federal government that it "foiled a dangerous terrorist plot against America," or that, "the FBI captured a group of terrorists." This government tactic helps to keep alive the fear of terrorism and reinforces the popular belief in the ideology of counter-terrorism. False Flag Terrorism is the most fundamental government strategy in the West's war of terror. For the Anglo-Ame... more »

Photos: Honoring Warrior Carter Camp, Ponca

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 hour ago

Thank you Cat Carnes for sharing your photos with Censored News! Honoring Carter Camp at White Eagle, Oklahoma today, April 20, 2013. . www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com

Antarctic Ice Melting at Fastest Rate in 1,000 Years

Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 1 hour ago

Photo courtesy: Public domain/Public Domain Summer ice is melting at a faster rate in the Antarctic peninsula than at any time in the last 1,000 years, new research has shown. The evidence comes from a 364-metre ice core containing a record of freezing and melting over the previous millennium. Layers of ice in the core, drilled from James Ross Island near the northern tip of the peninsula, indicate periods when summer snow on the ice cap thawed and then refroze. By measuring the thickness of these layers, scientists were able to match the history of melting with changes in tempera... more »

CISPA Internet Blackout April 22nd | #CISPABlackout

2old2care at Because I Can - 1 hour ago

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GAIA PORTAL: Attunements to Higher Vision in Alignment with Gaia Higher Purposing Vision Occurs Rapidly

AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 hour ago

* * * * *Attunements to Higher Vision in Alignment with Gaia Higher Purposing Vision Occurs Rapidly* by ÉirePort Attunements to Higher Vision in alignment with Gaia Higher Purposing Vision occurs rapidly at this now moment. Those harmonized with Gaia Higher Purpose receive and are inspired to Be and act upon this Higher Vision. All such Gaia Harmonics collectively respond to Hue-Being involvement and Higher Intention, as given by Gaia, as received by individual Hue-Being. The collective Gaia Harmonics response via collective Hue-Being participation brings in an amplified effect fo... more »

MN Taxpayers Just Got Screwed for Corporate Profit

2old2care at Because I Can - 1 hour ago

So - if you don't have a checking account - or you don't want to give the state access to your checking account you're tax refund will be on a debit card. Just so that everyone out there realizes that this may impact you – this is from the Minnesota Property Tax Refund Booklet for 2012. Note: Tax year 2012 is the last year you will have the option to receive your refund by paper check. Refunds will be issued via debit card or through direct deposit. Debit Cards Replace Refund Checks In 2014 Starting with refunds issued in 2014, the department will replace paper refund checks wit... more »

Giant African Snail Invades Florida

Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 1 hour ago

Giant snail. Photo courtesy: Florida Department of Agriculture/Public Domain About a month ago, we covered a close call in Australia; a species of large invasive snails that can eat pretty much anything and reproduce quickly was found in a port. Thankfully, the snail was discovered and destroyed before it left the port, but who knows if more than one individual found its way to Australia... Having no predators there, they could wreck havoc. These snails, which are originally from Africa, are real globe-trotters, because they are also invading Florida. The snails, thought to have be... more »

Boston, you're our home

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 hour ago

Feel good video of the day is Big Papi at the Red Sox game today. In case you can't view it, he said, "This is our fuckin' city." Right on the TV set where the whole world could hear. Everybody loved it. Last I heard, the FCC is giving him a "heat of the moment" pass on it.

"How It Really Is"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago

Cancer Cases Down After Nuke Plant Closure

Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 2 hours ago

Cancer Cases Dropped After Nuke Plant Closed: Study April 2013 http://www.stjohnprovidence.org/HealthInfoLib/swarticle.aspx?type=6&id=674913 [excerpted] (HealthDay News) -- There were about 4,300 fewer than expected cases of cancer among people in Sacramento County, Calif., in the two decades after the closure of the Rancho Seco nuclear reactor, according to a new study. The researchers found declines in cancer incidence in 28 of 31 categories, including notable drops in cancer among women, children and Hispanics....

Not Enough Retirements In The House To Make Room For New Ideas And Energy?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago

McKeon (left) with his muse (right) Crooked Santa Clarita Republican Buck McKeon has been running around Capitol Hill and his district like a chicken without a head insisting he's not a lame duck. There were widespread reports last week that he's intent on retiring... or even resigning. Speculation that his shady dealings with China-agent/Vegas mobster Sheldon Adelson, an unending river of ethics scandals, a tough rematch looming with Lee Rogers, and a GOP rule that requires him to step down next session as House Armed Services Committee chairman-- the source of all his ready cash-- ... more »

Dinner with Bill Whittle...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 3 hours ago

*in Coeur d' Alene.* Taking camera. Burning question. How tall is Bill Whittle? Answer coming. See you all later...

10 Activities for Earth Day and Creative Showcase Link-up

Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 4 hours ago

April has flown by around here. I wish it had brought more spring instead of more snow, but I live in Utah, so I can't be picky. Earth day is coming up, so I thought I would share 10 fun crafts that involve the Earth or recycled materials to make this week. Can you believe this darling wreath is made from egg cartons? This Egg Carton Wreath is from Homemade Serenity. I love this Upcycled Plastic Bottle Cap Mosaic from BluKatKraft. Seriously how creative! I absolutely love how simple these Toilet Paper Roll Bird Feeders from The Moffat Girls is. Recycle those plastic water... more »

Happy Birthday, Adolf Hitler

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 4 hours ago

*"He who would live must fight. He who does not wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist."* *- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf* Happy Birthday, Adolf Hitler. You were and remain the greatest leader in modern Western history, and offer unparalleled inspiration and guidance to us all. God bless you, and may you forever rest in peace. *Heil Hitler!* *American Nationalist Network Commemorates Adolf Hitler's Birthday* *Remembering Adolf Hitler* *Adolf Hitler - The Greatest Story NEVER Told!*

On U.S. Torture Apologetics, Media Humiliation, Boston Chechens, and Who Sent Townsend (Reporting Why Terrorism Sells)

Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 4 hours ago

At this point we still don’t know how much time Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the two brothers suspected of committing the Boston Marathon bombing, spent in Chechnya. . . . To find out more about the history of Chechnya and how its troubles may or may not have migrated to our shores, I spoke with Robert W. Schaefer, a U.S. Army Special Forces Green Beret with many years experience planning

US Turns Away 1000's of Cancer Patients, but has $123 Million for Terrorists in Syria

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 5 hours ago

*April 21, 2013* (LD) - The US has announced that it will provide militants in Syria, now openly admitted to being Al Qaeda terrorists, with $123 million in military aid - while thousands of cancer patients at home are being turned away from clinics because of budget cuts. Compounding the the criminal negligence of telling sick people to seek help elsewhere, is the fact that the military aid the US is providing terrorists in Syria will be used to perpetuate an already 2 year long, sectarian-driven humanitarian disaster. RT recently reported in their article, "US to give $123 milli... more »

State of confusion

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 5 hours ago

Public obsession number one is still Boston today. The internets tells me the TV newsers are down to interviewing the cousin of the brother-in-law who's a friend of a friend who knows somebody who once worked in the very same store where the bomber was once seen buying a bag of Doritos. Meanwhile there's a murmuration of post analysis on the print side. Wear your safety glasses if you wade into that one so you're not blinded by the sparks from all the grinding of axes. Most useful post I've seen all day was this interview with the Watertown police chief. It clears up one point of i... more »

“A Brief And Crucial History of the United States”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago

*“A Brief And Crucial History of the United States”* by Information Clearing House "Nightmare and insanity are akin: mysterious and involuntary states that skew and distort objective reality. One wakens from nightmare; from insanity there is no awakening. Whether Americans live in the one state or the other is the paramount question of this era. For two hundred years Americans have been indoctrinated with a mythology created, imposed and sustained by a manipulating cabal: the financial elite that built its absolute control on the muscle and blood, good will, ignorance and cred... more »

“America's New Math: 1 Wall Street Hour= 21 Years of Hard Work For the Rest of Us”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago

*“America's New Math: 1 Wall Street Hour=* * 21 Years of Hard Work For the Rest of Us”* By Les Leopold "The new Rich List is out- yet another example of financial pornography. While nearly 15 million Americans still can't find jobs due to the 2008 Wall Street-created crash, the top hedge manager, David Tepper, earned $1,057,692 an HOUR in 2012- that's as much as the average American family makes in 21 years! America's new math: 1 Wall Street hour = 21 years of hard work for the rest of us. Together the top 10 hedge fund managers waltzed off with $10.1 billion in 2012, whi... more »

NYT: FBI Hatches Terror Plots

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 6 hours ago

NYT reports in 2012 FBI's habit of fabricating terror attacks to make high-profile arrests - now Boston suspects' family claims sons were lead every step of the way by the FBI. *April 21, 2013* (LD) - In an April 2012 New York Times article titled, "Terrorist Plots, Hatched by the F.B.I.," it is revealed that many of the high-profile terror attacks foiled by the FBI, were in fact fabricated from start to finish by the FBI itself. The article states: The United States has been narrowly saved from lethal terrorist plots in recent years — or so it has seemed. A would-be suicide bom... more »

Arizona - Screwed Again - By Choices Made in the Voting Booth

2old2care at Because I Can - 6 hours ago

Holy crap! This is scary. When you talk about the fox guarding the hen house - this one may take the cake. Pro-corporate extremist members of the American Legislative Exchange Council in charge ofproviding protections for consumers - not a chance in hell. There are days when I feel so sorry for states like Arizona - where everywhere you turn is the extremist American Legislative Exchange Council running their state. But there are other days when it just pisses me off that people are so damn dumb that they keep re-electing ALEC members to government. Arizona Corporation Commissi... more »

Rep. Steve Southerland In For The Fight Of His Life

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago

Phony smiles aside, FL-02 will be one of the big battlegrounds for control of Congress It's not easy getting politicians to answer questions. They want to talk about what *they* want to talk about, not answer questions other people want to throw at them. Asking DCCC-backed candidates about Chained CPI-- the scheme Obama and Boehner are trying to perpetrate to reduce Social Security payments to the elderly and disabled veterans-- is a thankless task. As soon as you bring up the topic, it's like an automated Steve Israel chip kicks in and nothing but generalities comes through. This is... more »

Gaping holes in the BBC's reporting?

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 8 hours ago

You would, I hope, expect that a House of Lords report claiming that the scale of European Union fraud is massively more than than the European Commission has presently admitted would be widely reported - especially by any media organisation which claims to be a leading source of news. Most newspapers did indeed carry the story: The Times: *Real cost of fraud in EU could be £4.3bn, warns Lords report *April 18 2013 Billions of pounds are disappearing from the coffers of the EU because of gaping holes in attempts to tackle fraud, peers have warned. In an alarming assessment of the... more »

I Understand The Strategy, But Obama May Be Making Worst Mistake Of His Career

Manifesto Joe at Manifesto Joe's Texas Blues - 8 hours ago

By Manifesto Joe I've taken a lot of time to weigh the pros and cons of President Obama's proposal for a "chained CPI" to bring about cuts in Social Security, etc. I've read a piece in defense of it, from the Democratic perspective. And, of course, it's not hard to find plenty of excoriations from the left. I've decided that my sentiments are more with the left. I can appreciate that Obama is a practitioner of "real politics," but he's already tried that with the Republicans for over four years. They've made clear that they're not interested in actually governing. Obama now stands ... more »

Souls Tormented by Devils

gail zawacki at Wit's End - 8 hours ago

*It can truly be said: Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls.* ~ Arthur Schopenhauer Spring is really here, and the rain obligingly watered my garden last night. Thank you, rain! New birds are thronging around the feeder in the Japanese maple, whose pale delicate leaves are unfurling. How could a day with so many signs of life, a fragrant breeze, an azure sky, demand a quote as bleak as Schopenhauer's? The forsythia along the paddock fence is brilliantly golden. The quince is just opening its buds, with a promise of hard, round fruit in the fall,... more »

C is for clueless

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 8 hours ago

I make it point to avoid the right wing crackpots as much as possible so I'm not exactly sure what the genesis of this particular bit of cluelessness is about. I gather it has something to do with the general pants wetting that went on among the crowd that sees evil Mooslim terrorists in every shadow. When they heard the Boston bomb kids were born in Chechnya, they apparently started calling for immediate retribution against the evel furriners. The problem being they were confusing Chechnya with the Czech Republic, or more probably the now defunct Czechoslovakia. Which led the Czech... more »

Gotta Love the ALEC Fighting OKC Firefighters!!!!

2old2care at Because I Can - 9 hours ago

Before I get started - is there anything planned for the Oklahoma City ALEC meeting? If anyone is planning a protest against ALEC in OKC they are doing a damn good job of keeping it secret If they keep the secret well enough no one will know the ALEC OKC protes is happening and no one will know to show up. OKC - ALEC protest should be all over the web - it is only two weeks away. *The first union ever to actually mobilize their members and march against ALEC.* *Hot diggity damn.* *ALEC is coming to OKC* Posted On: Apr 17, 2013 The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is h... more »

Thank You For Blowing Things Up: D.C. Lobbyists For Al-Qaeda Push For Intervention In Syria

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 9 hours ago

Al-Qaeda's lobbyists in Washington are pushing for a U.S. intervention in Syria. The move would further strengthen Al-Qaeda's grip on some of the northern cities in Syria and challenge Assad's rule. Al-Qaeda and other Islamic terrorist groups have received money and arms from the U.S. government and its Arab allies since the start of the conflict. Such support has come to light due to independent investigative reporting. So far, Washington has denied its role in propping up terrorist forces in Syria. The Obama administration has decided to act covertly, following in the fashio... more »

Media of Mephistopheles: State Journalists Trick The Public About Boston Bombings And Threat of Terrorism

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 9 hours ago

"Now, it's a great puzzler to well-trained Christians to come across the trickster hero because he's both a kind of devil and fool, and the creator of the world. He comes in as an upsetting factor. He breaks through. He even breaks through the notion of what a deity ought to be. Now, that trickster trait turns up in deities like Yahweh. Yahweh is a trickster. He lets people build a building and then because it gets to be three stories high and he's afraid it's going to wreck heaven, he comes down and floods the world. That's a trickster stunt. That's a ridiculous act. We think i... more »

5/2/13 - Rally AGainst ALEC Member Duke Energy- Charlotte NC

2old2care at Because I Can - 9 hours ago

Have Your Voice Heard! Duke Shareholder Meeting on May 2 nd Rally, Press Conference, and Ratepayers’ Stakeholder Meeting Download the announcement PDF *>>>HERE<<< *

Harman praises 'hero' immigrants who send welfare handouts home | Mail Online

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 9 hours ago

' Harriet Harman has praised 'heroic' immigrants who claim welfare payments in Britain and use the cash to support families living abroad. She said the Government should make it easier for them to send the money home and called for tax refunds to encourage more immigrants to follow suit, in particular those who paid for their children to be educated in the Third World. The Labour Deputy Leader, who is also the party's spokesman on International Development, derided 'those who say we should look after our own first' in the recession and vowed to fight any attempt to cut the £9.4 bil... more »

5/9/13 - Demonstration - ALEC Member RJ Reynolds - NC

2old2care at Because I Can - 10 hours ago

Source so you can send out to others: *GET THE PDF * *>>>>HERE<<<<* Info: May 9, 2013 RJR Shareholders Meeting Winston-Salem 9:30 meet at LLoyd Presbyterian Church 10:00 Demonstration at Reynolds Headquarters 11:00 March through Downtown Winston-Salem Could we get some ALEC protesters there?

Learning to Live Within Your Own Skin - Japan's Grand Experiment

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 10 hours ago

The Japanese have become perhaps the greyest of the greying nations of the developed world. This is discussed in *The World Today*, the public journal of *Chatham House*, perhaps the world's most venerable and certainly most prestigious think tank. *Everybody knows that Japan is ground zero for global ageing. The youngest of the developed countries as recently as the mid-1970s, it is now the oldest – and its age wave will continue to roll in for decades to come.* *By 2050, the proportion of Japanese who are 65 or older is on track to reach 39 per cent, up from 23 per cent in 201... more »

Watertown aftermath: What happened to the naked guy?

Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 10 hours ago

*American Scofflaw* This story gets weirder and weirder. The arrested suspect, seen in a CNN video, looked like Tamerlan and had a very muscular physique, which looks like Tamerlan with his short off as seen here. However, when I turned on the TV and one suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev is dead and the other, Dzhokhar A Tsarnaev, on the run, I asked, who’s the naked guy? They are from Kyrgyzstan, a (wait for it...) Muslim country. Obviously, no answers will be possible from Tamerlan, and I rather doubt that Dzhokhar will survive his encounter with the police, which means we will not be... more »

A Bleak Look at the West's Vision for Syria

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 10 hours ago

Terrorist controlled areas are scenes of sectarian brutality, fear, kidnappings, mass murder, collective punishment, and pillaging - the obvious end game of Western-backed regime change. *April 20, 2013* (LD) - Reports are starting to creep into Western media regarding sweeping atrocities committed by the so-called "Syrian rebels." Areas held by terrorists have become bleak landscapes both literally and socioeconomically - with sectarian extremists running the vast majority of civilians from towns and leaving whoever remains in perpetual fear for their lives, and in utter despair f... more »

Presenting the filibuster challenge!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 10 hours ago

*SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 2013* *What should the Post have written:* Kevin Drum almost always loses us when he starts talking semantics. This doesn’t mean he’s wrong. But so it was when he extended the recent discussion about last week’s gun bill votes. This is the question at issue: When Manchin-Toomey got 54 votes in the senate and failed, should that have been called a filibuster? Drum says yes, thanks to the “academic” definition of filibuster he offers in the second highlighted part of this passage: DRUM (4/19/13): The key question is a semantic one. What's the definition of a fil... more »

International support for Tsleil-Waututh Treaty to Protect Sacred from Tarsands

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 10 hours ago

National and International Indigenous Leaders Support Tsleil-Waututh Nation Signing International Treaty to Protect the Sacred from Tar Sands Projects Newswire Censored News TSLEIL-WAUTUTH/COAST SALISH TERRITORY, VANCOUVER, BC, April 19, 2013 /CNW/ - A group of influential Indigenous leaders joined Chief Maureen

First-past-the-post + divided opposition = harper win

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 10 hours ago

This sanctimonious, falsehood-filled, ethically bankrupt article is good for something. harper will probably win the next election if things continue as they are going. And, no. I don't want to go to a street corner somewhere and pointlessly protest something for an hour or so. I wish we spent more time working on getting power and less time bewailing the latest atrocities.

Yangtze porpoise down to 1,000 animals, with population cut in half in just 6 years – ‘The Yangtze River is one of the world’s most damaged, degraded habitats, and it is extremely depressing to carry out conservation projects there’

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 10 hours ago

[image: Neophocaena phocaenoides, Finless Porpoise, captive. A survey in late 2012 found that the Yangtze finless porpoise population has been cut in half in just six years. During a 44-day survey, experts estimated 1,000 river porpoises inhabited the river and adjoining lakes, down from around 2,000 in 2006. Research Centre for Aquatic Biodiversity and Resource Conservation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. Photo: WWF] By Jeremy Hance 16 April 2013 (mongabay.com) – A survey late last year found that the Yangtze finless porpoise (*Neophocaena asiae... more »

ALEC Seeks Support for XL Pipeline

2old2care at Because I Can - 10 hours ago

On ALEC’s blog site today you will find the following post by Karla Jones – From LinkedIn Karla Jones Director of International and Federal Relations at American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) Washington D.C. Metro Area | International Affairs *Comments of support for the Keystone XL Pipeline needed by Monday, April 22, 2013* Karla Jones | April 19, 2013 | Add a comment The U.S. Department of State will accept comments through Monday, April 22, 2013 on the Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for the Keystone XL Project. Comments of support for... more »

Happy 420

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours ago

It's 4/20, or 420 or 4:20 a day of celebration in downtown Vancouver at the Vancouver Art Gallery and other centres such as Haight-Ashbury, Parliament Hill and Major Hill's park in Ottawa. It's the day when people gather and celebrate marijuana and the cannabis culture. They sell it, they buy it, they smoke it, they eat it. We don't have any 4:20 celebrations in my geriatric town. We find it's not a good idea to let seniors have matches.

In Harper and CON universe, bullies rule. (Part 2)

noreply@blogger.com (deBeauxOs) at DAMMIT JANET! - 11 hours ago

The opposition has raised questions about former RCMP Bruno Saccomani's qualification given this, another Harper patronage appointment, as the Canadian ambassador to Jordan. *[...] NDP international development critic Helene Laverdiere, herself a former diplomat, said there is no reason to believe Saccomani has the skills required to fill such an important ambassadorial position.* * * *“At the moment it is one of the hottest region in the world,” she told reporters in French. “We have specialists, professionals who have been in the diplomatic service for years who know the issues... more »

The Land After Time: American Hero Alex Jones Gets Under The Skin of The Dinosaur Media

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 11 hours ago

Time Magazine = Slime Magazine. The age of the mainstream press is over, and, naturally, they can't handle it. Online media outlets and commentators are teaching failing media enterprises such as CNN a lesson in journalism. They know that they no longer have the ability to lie to the public, defend government crimes, and cover up government brutality. The public is being successfully de-brainwashed. More and more people are turning to alternative Internet sites to get their news. They know the corporate and government media is channeling a fantasy world to the viewer and th... more »

What Mattered This Week?

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 11 hours ago

Ugh. What didn't matter this week? I suppose a lot of this is in the we-don't-know-yet category. Of course, the events in Boston and in Texas certainly mattered to the people involved. Whether they matter beyond that...well, we'll be getting tighter security at sports events for a long while, at least. But we're yet to know any larger importance for the marathon bombings. As for the Texas explosion, was it a sign of lax regulation and more to come unless there are changes? Or was it a freak event? And then there was everything else that happened this week. To tell the truth, I'm st... more »

Lindsey Graham, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Drones, Constitutional Guarantees

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago

Lindsey Graham seems to think the U.S. Constitution begins and ends with a very crimped interpretation of the Second Amendment. In his view it mandates that anyone can, willy-nilly buy any weapon he wants without any kind of government regulation. Most people not in thrall to the NRA do not interpret the Second Amendment that way. And to Graham, the rest of the Constitution just doesn't seem all that important. Friday, for example, he let loose with the above tweet. If the authorities fail to read the suspect, no matter how heinous the crimes he's accused of, his Miranda Rights-- ... more »

‘Skull is removed, brains eaten alive’: Like the drug trade, wildlife trafficking is big business in Asia

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours ago

[image: 'Chhouk' the amputee elephant. Abandoned as a baby in the Cambodian forest, his mother was taken by poachers, Chhouk was rescued by Wildlife Alliance and given a prosthetic leg. Photo: Jerrie Demasi] By Jerrie Demasi 19 April 2013 (Sydney Morning Herald) – Would you purchase an endangered tiger's tooth as a cure for acne? Perhaps not, but in many Asian countries, you could. The fact that the animal may be critically endangered can actually make the purchase more lucrative, as the rarer the animal, the more potent it's good fortune and healing properties. Like the drug t... more »

Christy Clark Lies On CKNW RADIO, Forced To Retract

Grant G at The Straight Goods - 11 hours ago

(A reposted story, the real story on BC Ferries, Christy Clark lies on radio, forced to retract, Christy Clark`s defense of the $million dollar man David Hahn, Christy Clark blathers lies on air without any facts, the Christy Clark pattern, dumb as a sack of hammers..Grant G.April 20th/2013) _____________ In 2001 Gordon Campbell took power in BC.....He immediately announced a massive cut in corporate taxes and income taxes, Gordon Campbell quickly squandered the $1.6 billion dollar surplus the ndp Government left him... The surplus was gone, the deficit for Campbell`s first year... more »

RNA interference Modified Food to Hit Markets

Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 11 hours ago

Frankenapple: Bad News No Matter How You Slice It By Katherine Paul and Ronnie Cummins, Organic Consumers Association 20 April 13 http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/448-farm-and-food-policy/17032-frankenapple-bad-news-no-matter-how-you-slice-it [Excerpted] Thanks to the biotech industry's relentless quest to control our food, McDonald's, Burger King and even school cafeterias will soon be able to serve up apples that won't turn brown when they're sliced or bitten into. A new, almost entirely untested genetic modification technology, called RNA interference, or double strand RN... more »

Climate inaction likely to deepen EU divisions - paper

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours ago

[image: Aerial view of El Atazar reservoir, 16 March 2012. A lack of rain in Spain has caused the El Atazar reservoir to drop precipitously. El Atazar is the largest reservoir in Madrid and Spain is under severe drought conditions which have parched farmland with the driest winter in seven decades. Photo: hungeree.com] By Barbara Lewis, with additional reporting by Charlie Dunmore; editing by Jane Baird 19 April 2013 BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union must take measures to prevent the destruction of crops and property by extreme weather or face instability and deeper social ... more »

Did Obama really say this?...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 11 hours ago

*apparently so. * I was at work when the capture of "suspect 2" happened. Obama proceeded to make a statement warning us not to jump to conclusions. Avoidance of the sound of his voice is a high priority for me, so the first time I read what he said was just a few moments ago via* Laughing Conservative *who linked to *The Tea Party News Network. * Tea Party News: *Robotic, Emotionless President Obama Gets Boston Victim’s Name Wrong* Seriously? He has a gazillion handlers, speech writers, and advisers and he *gets a victim's name wrong*? Not just a little bit wrong - but, re... more »

Dear fellow Americans, Stop believing everything you are told by the corporate-owned mainstream media and pay more attention to the news that they suppress. Orwell's "1984" will soon become reality if we fail to recognize and oppose it...

David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 12 hours ago

------------------------------ *Boston Marathon Bombing* ------------------------------ April 19, 2013 | *Original Here* Boston Marathon Bombing Dear Readers, A number of you have asked me my take on the Boston Marathon Bombing and subsequent events. I am flattered that so many look to me for leadership on so many issues. However, I have not followed closely the Boston event. My website hasn’t the resources to field an investigative team, and in my opinion the TV and print news is part of the misinformation or disinformation. While driving (April 19) I listened to a NPR program... more »

New EPA Rules on Waterways Waste from Powerplants

Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 12 hours ago

The Sierra Club sued the EPA over power-plant waste. The details of the new rules haven't yet been decided. EPA proposes rules to curb power-plant waste in waterways, Washington Post, http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/epa-proposes-rules-to-curb-power-plant-waste-in-waterways/2013/04/19/a99aaad6-a961-11e2-b029-8fb7e977ef71_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines

Southern California marching toward fourth-driest year since 1877, firefighters deploying early – ‘People are going crazy now. When you’re a farmer in Central California, you watch the water as much as you watch your kids.’

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago

[image: A crew from the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation cuts foliage, on 9 April 2013, to help contain a wind-driven brush fire that broke out near Fillmore, forcing evacuations and threatening homes. Southern California is marching toward its fourth-driest year since 1877, and that has firefighters increasingly girded for battle. Photo: Al Seib / Los Angeles Times] By Hector Becerra 19 April 2013 (Los Angeles Times) – Southern California is marching toward its fourth-driest year since 1877, and that has firefighters increasingly girded for battle. In the hills of L... more »

Not Your Typical 5K, Run The Color Run (Coupon Code)

Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 12 hours ago

It has been years since I have run a 5K, bad health has always stopped me, but not this year. I am feeling great and I finally in condition to run again. What better 5K to make my running re-debut than The Color Run complete with colorful chalk to change your white shirt into something much more fun! The Color Run 5K event is coming to Salt Lake City, UT on August 24th of this year. What I love so much about this race, is that it is less about how fast you can run the race and more about having a great time with all of the other runners. Runners are covered in different colors at ... more »

ALEC Legislators Manipulating the Market for ALEC Corporations

2old2care at Because I Can - 12 hours ago

*PLEASE * * * *Read the whole article* This is important for you to know. I am going to rinse and repeat during this one – cause the rinse and repeat is important. This article is important!!! *Susan Crawford: Let cities build better Internet access networks* Print Email 3 hours ago • SUSAN CRAWFORD | Bloomberg View columnist and law professor Last month, a majority of the Georgia House of Representatives voted against a proposal that would have barred cities from investing in their own Internet access networks. The bill failed because Georgia municipalities, businesses and m... more »

Photo gallery: Three years after the BP oil spill, tar balls and oil sheen blight Gulf Coast

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago

[image: Billy Nungesser, president of Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, stands on what remains of Cat Island, holding pelican bones, 18 April 2013. Three years after the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, tar balls and oil sheen blight Gulf Coast. Photo: Julie Dermansky / The Atlantic] Julie Dermansky 20 April 2013 (The Atlantic) – April 20 marks the three-year anniversary of the *Deepwater Horizon* disaster, which took the lives of 11 men and resulted in the largest oil spill in American history. BP, along with Transocean and Halliburton, are still in the midst of a civil trial held in ... more »

Guest Post - The Breakdown on Vinyl by Nathan Lucas

Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 12 hours ago

You have probably heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which is the result of non-biodegradable plastic waste. Since it’s already larger than the size of Texas (a state that takes at least twelve hours to drive across) wouldn’t it make sense to reduce the use of non-biodegradable plastic? Decreasing use of anything from disposable silverware and soda bottles to sheets of vinyl used for advertising and industrial grade PVC could help slow down the growth of waste accumulated in the environment. Fortunately, there are already companies taking action to reduce the amount of non-b... more »

Bill Maher's Anti-Islam Smear

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 12 hours ago

On his *RealTime* programme last night, Bill Maher couldn't wait to get into his shopworn, anti-Islam theme about the Muslim faith being unique in promoting violence. As I listened to his diatribe I so wished I could ask him just one question. *Since the turn of this century, how many innocent Muslims have died at the hands of Christian forces and how many innocent Christians have perished at Muslim hands?* My guess is that the ratio would be at least several hundred to one and would utterly reduce Maher's endless rant.* * The fact is we've been putting the boots to the Muslim w... more »

handiwork

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 12 hours ago

"Such a great Man is he... behold His handiwork."

CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES VIDEO: Statemen's Forum: Iraqi National Security Adviser Faleh al-Fayadh

Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 12 hours ago

girl, virgin, mother, wife, lady, maid, and widow

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 12 hours ago

"From woman, man is born; within woman, man is conceived; to woman he is engaged and married. Woman becomes his friend; through woman, the future generations come. When his woman dies, he seeks another woman; to woman he is bound. So why call her bad? From her, kings are born. From woman, woman is born; without woman, there would be no one at all. O Nanak, only the True Lord is without a woman" ......Guru Nanak......

Patriotic Anti-Terror Cult Rises Again

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 13 hours ago

Our long five-day national nightmare isn't over till it's over. Now begins Part Two of the long national nightmare of media frenzy, political pablum, the noblesse oblige honorifics from the austerian ruling class to the brave first responders whose wages and ranks they're freezing and whose pensions they're raiding, mindless flag-waving, obsessive-compulsive quoting of biblical scripture. It won't stop, until we all lose interest and it stops. The stoppage will be sudden and as if by mutual consent of all the players. But do look for non-stop non-stoppage throughout this slow-news ... more »

JOURNEY INSIDE IRAQ TODAY

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 13 hours ago

A deeply touching and outrage-inducing documentary about contemporary Iraq from the perspective of a taxi trip through the country. Along the way the film maker and taxi driver speak to many ordinary people who share stories of Iraq past and present. One man said, "They [Americans] are still here....their aim is to create disorder in Iraq". The order "to kill our best people" by death squads and militias "comes from outside the country." In Falluja the film maker interviews a hospital administrator who reports, "In 2005 we noticed a spectacular increase in genetic malformations ... more »

Untitled

New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 14 hours ago

*Saints to open Dirty Birds in Superdome!* *Plaintiffs unsure if levee breach lawsuit is worth it* *State will contribute to Terrebonne floodgate * *Floodwaters rising after storms deluge heartland * *How to Dine on a Train* *Bucket Brigade Brings Earth Day by the Bayou* *Crawfish boils, Fortier Fest, Family Day!*

Judges presumed to know the law

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 14 hours ago

*Cook v. Podgorski*, 2013 NSCA 47 holds: [43] The fact that the judge does not refer to the* Halliday* case does not mean that he made an error of law. *Halliday* was argued before the judge. He is presumed to know the law and there is no need for him to recite the case or to explicitly set out the principles in it. The real question is whether correct principles were applied:*Lawrence v. Toronto Humane Society*, 212 O.A.C. 263 at ¶ 59; *Hug v Bliss*, 112 B.C.A.C. 242 at ¶ 12.

CLA deplores LSUC in its decision against Joseph Groia

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 15 hours ago

April 19, 2013 – *The Criminal Lawyers' Association (Ontario) "CLA" deplores the decision of the Law Society of Upper Canada in its decision released today against Joseph Peter Paul Groia.* The Law Society of Upper Canada today released its decision with respect to penalty in regards to its discipline proceedings involving Joseph Groia. The Law Society imposed a sanction a two-month suspension and costs of almost $250,000. The alleged misconduct occurred in Court and the Trial Judge himself never expressed any concern that the conduct of Mr. Groia was deserving of sanction. ... more »

EtTu MSNBC?

Capt. Fogg at The Impolitic - 15 hours ago

By Capt. Fogg I had MSNBC on most of yesterday. I can't stand the sight of Wolf the Weasel and what other choice is possible? I'm disappointed. When the evening network news came on I began to learn facts the cable guys never mentioned, That the FBI had investigated these boys, for instance and they managed to give us the facts without the constant theme of "*you can see that it's been worth it to give up our privacy*." Cowards! Is this what it means to be a Liberal today? Sacrificing freedom for some imagined and miniscule increase in safety? Needless to say, I don't think s... more »

Pervez Musharraf Returns To Pakistan, Declares He's Running For President And Is Arrested For Crimes Committed Last Time He Was In Office

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago

Well liked by the American popular media for his anti-Taliban militancy, Pervez Musharraf was a brutal military dictator who originally seized power in Pakistan in a 1999 military coup d'état. Since being forced to retire in 2008, he's been living in luxurious exile in London and Dubai until returning to Pakistan March 24 to run for president. There were arrest warrants pending when he returned including one for his involvement in the assasinations of Benazir Bhutto and Baloch nationalist leader Akbar Bugti. Police arrested him and took him into custody Friday to face charges in r... more »

Your moment of Zen

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 15 hours ago

Like a bird on a wire...

Removing All Doubt

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 16 hours ago

At Margaret Thatcher's funeral this week, Stephen Harper couldn't resist the opportunity to attack Justin Trudeau. Even though the reporter who asked the question made no mention of Trudeau's comment that we should try to understand the "root causes" of terrorism, Harper said: “When you see this type of violent act, you do not sit around trying to rationalize it or make excuses for it or figure out its root causes. You condemn it categorically, and to the extent you can deal with the perpetrators, you deal with them as harshly as possible." It was vintage Harper -- the same kind... more »

Failed ALEC Policy - Costs Milw/Racine Schools $75 Million per Year

2old2care at Because I Can - 16 hours ago

Private school vouchers from WEAC on Vimeo. *From ALEC Exposed* *Through ALEC, corporations, ideologues, and their politician allies voted to spend public tax dollars to subsidize private K-12 education and attack professional teachers and teachers' unions by: * - Promoting voucher programs that drain public schools of resources by using taxpayer dollars to subsidize private school profits, and specifying that those schools must remain unregulated. Voucher programs have been pushed in the following ways: - Offering private school vouchers with "universal eligibi... more »

The Paradigm Paradox

Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 16 hours ago

*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* 'It is difficult to understand why so-called "progressive", "liberals", and "leftists," who so vehemently opposed the Vietnam War, now belong to the Council on Foreign Relations. If you have read this blog before, you must know then that I have serious problems with 'so-called' liberals/progressives not the least of which is that too many lack the courage of their convictions; too many have tried to bargain with Satan. Too many are uncommitted, to be sure. But, more importantly, to what --precisely --should we be committed? Clinton's 'tria... more »

In Memoriam

BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else; A Curated Green Rights Collection - 16 hours ago

The Paradigm Paradox

Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 16 hours ago

Links to scrape by with

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 16 hours ago

*A couple at the Lungteng Broken Bridge in Miaoli.* Too tired to blog. Have some links. Sorry about the light blogging this week... just too damn busy. ________________________ *Daily Links*: - Counties promote Visit the Tropic of Cancer! Whatever for? - Chen Shui-bian moved from prison in Taipei to prison hospital in Taichung in the dead of night. - Richard Bush on Ma's video conference at Stanford where he lays out Taiwan's foreign policy program. Ma said: "The first part involves institutionalization of the rapprochement with mainland China so that neith... more »

EU demands access to British police files: Forces will be ordered to hand over documents on investigations or face fines | Mail Online

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 17 hours ago

EU trying to get more power... ' Tory MP Dominic Raab said: 'This plan lays bare the federalist ambition of moving towards a single European criminal justice system, shorn of proper national democratic control.' More here http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2311412/EU-demands-access-British-police-files-Forces-ordered-hand-documents-investigations-face-fines.html

ISON may cause meteor-storm end of this year

address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 17 hours ago

Link: http://youtu.be/LNgLIZRjkPo We'll wait to see... John

BOSTON FAKE

Anon at aangirfan - 17 hours ago

Allegedly this is Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Although it could be any 'body' used by US government agents to act as their 'patsy'. The same body in an ambulance. Allegedly this is Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Although it could be the missing Sunil Tripathi. Sunil Tripathi Amutee actors? Americans rejoice at the success of another CIA false flag operation. "With a bomb strapped to his chest, one of the Boston Marathon suspects was killed early Friday after he and his accomplice brother robbed a 7-Eleven... *Boston Marathon suspect is killed, second on loose after extraordinary firefig... more »

Jam Sutton - Azealia Banks Yung Rapunxel - Ke$ha-level promotional naivete

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 19 hours ago

Ke$ha's innate promotional naivete (as exemplified by her literally embarrassing Illuminati-suck-job video Die young) has always annoyed me, then I discovered this Illuminati-deep-throating of Azealia Banks' new release Yung Rapunxel, directed by photographer Jam Sutton. I mean, *TRULY naive* on a Ke$ha level; or what? *WARNING TO YOUNG POP STARS:* DON'T LET THESE PUPPETEERS ANYWHERE NEAR YOUR CAREER. ...and (finally) for those who 'dig this kinda Δ shit' here's a link to a Mary Whitehouse-styled Vigilent Citizen article on the BBC's own Jessie J, about her PRICE TAG.

Massive Protest To Stop CISPA - Spring 2013

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 19 hours ago

CISPA passed the House, but this isn't over yet. The U.S. Government wants to turn the Internet into a private surveillance system. It's called CISPA, and this Spring we're organizing the largest online privacy protest in history to stop it for good. Are you in? *For more information:* ** *http://www.sitesnotspies.org/* What's wrong with CISPA? (in as few words as possible) As it's written, CISPA won't protect us from cyber threats, but it *will*violate our 4th Amendment right to privacy. - It lets the government spy on you without a warrant. (read more) - It makes it so you... more »

Boston Marathon Bombing was a staged inside job

Jason Leewig at Our Manmade Disasters - 20 hours ago

First of all, we offer our deepest heartfelt condolences and sympathies to all those who had suffered immeasurable pains and sorrow not only from the Boston Marathon Bombing tragedy but also the recent Texas fertiliser plant and pipeline oil spills. We have been warning against such waves of orchestrated false flags inside jobs. The Russian meteor strikes on 15 Feb, Apache Gas leaks, the turned-on "oily gas-water geyser" on the Swift Energy abandoned well, Pegasus oil pipeline burst on the anniversary of the Exxon Valdez (another orchestrated accident) were all not accidental or na... more »

Illegal Pangolin Meat Found on Chinese Boat That Crashed in The Tubbataha Reef

Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 20 hours ago

Photo courtesy: Wikipedia It was already bad enough that a Chinese boat crashed into the Tubbataha reef, a protected coral reef off the coast of the Philippines, but what the coast guard found inside increased massively the size of the environmental disaster: 400 boxes containing around 10,000 kg of frozen Pangolin meat, an endangered scaly anteater. All trade in the four Asian species of pangolin has been illegal since 2002 but the appetite of Chinese consumers for its meat, prized as a delicacy, and its scales, believed to benefit breast-feeding mothers, has virtually wiped out t... more »

Micro Battery Breakthrough

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 20 hours ago

This appears to be super important, After all, ideally we want to engineer our battery into our housings in quite the same way we put in our circuits into our silica base. This item tells us that we have a way forward and that the battery problem has just hit the tipping point. Recall that a successful battery paradigm will energize our civilization with scant need to add additional power sources simply because batteries eliminate the bulk of our power wastage. I do think we are less than several years out or about 2020 for mass delivery and a true tipping point for en... more »

Old Faithful Mapped

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 20 hours ago

We always knew what it should look like underground. The tube idea made little sense while a nice fat reservoir pretty well sets it up. Now we are locating them. Yet they are quite properly little more that natural curiosities that give us pleasure as a reminder of natures real power. It is all good *Old Faithful's underground cavern discovered* *Tourists watch the 'Old Faithful' geyser which erupts on average every 90 minutes in the Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming on June 1, 2011.* * http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/12/17724575-old-faithfuls-underg... more »

Novel Trait Transfer in Plants

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 20 hours ago

Genetics just got a lot more complicated but also a lot more exciting. It sounds as if it will become possible to even design traits and cause them to happen. A long ways to go yet but I think this will also make plant breeding much more efficient. At least that is k the sense I am getting out of this story. At this point the great controversy regarding Lamarckian genetics that played itself out eight decades ago look misplaced. The science was not good enough to produce much but it was surely led by the type of anomaly producing effects we are now working out. Perhaps... more »

Constructive Collisions

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 20 hours ago

However you get there, it is clear that the high country of the West is one strip of volcanic rock after another and that similar geology trends in a north south direction. We already knew that of course as you could hardly not know that, but it does inform us that EW geological change must come often and radically as is hinted at by experience and strong mineral regimes that often extend hugely along trend. A great example is the Idaho silver rich mineral regime which can be traced into Mexico and deep into Canada. Step outside to east or west and silver is not important anymor... more »

The John Barnes rap - A League Of Their Own style

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 20 hours ago

I can't embed it but this is well worth a watch... Here

Who's a racist?

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 20 hours ago

Question: Who’s a racist? Answer: Anyone who’s winning an argument with a lefty.

Boston Bombing: Trying to figure it all out

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 20 hours ago

Everyone has by now heard about the bombing that took place shortly after the Boston Marathon concluded. I have no reason to believe this bombing did not actually take place, but I do think there are a lot of very weird things going on, especially as of late. Since we know the Jewish-controlled United States government and media have the ability to literally fake events using the mainstream media, scripted actors, and controlled or compromised governmental officials, we have to be extremely suspect every time an event like this takes place. The Sandy Hook "shooting" hoax is a pri... more »

Sugarman on Yaqui land: Carrying the soul of a generation

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 20 hours ago

Sugarman, carrying the soul and heartbreaks of a generation Sugarman on Yaqui land tonight By Brenda Norrell Censored News www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Friday, April 19, 2013 PASCUA YAQUI -- Beneath the Yaqui skies tonight, Sugarman brought his special measure of medicine, carrying the soul and heartbreaks of a generation. Sugarman sang with the tenderness and love that is within the movie

TSAEROVS WORKED FOR THE CIA?

Anon at aangirfan - 21 hours ago

*Tamerlan Tsarnaev, above, was killed. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the other Boston marathon bombs suspect, was captured* *Did the Boston Bombers work for the CIA in Chechnya?* In 2011, the FBI reportedly interviewed Tamerlan Tsaerov, the elder brother. The FBI conducted the inquiry at the request of a Russian security agency, officials said. *Boston Bombing Suspects Echo Home-Grown Terrorists in Madrid, London Attacks* "Yes he was interviewed," a U.S. law enforcement official said. "Nothing derogatory came of it." The brothers had traveled in recent years to Russia, officials said. Ta... more »

Boston Marathon Bombings and The Punisher Logo Contractors

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 21 hours ago

see, I can be patient when being hammered (*as we all were yesterday and the day before*) by the hissing well-greased Steam Punk of M3 or Mass Media Machinery. I can wait and see what transpires, patiently, feelers out on the web for any 'real twitch'. You know, rather than closing down A WHOLE CITY (i.e. Boston) to perform *Public Executions* on two (innocent until proven guilty in a court of law) Chechen citizens living in the *Land Of The Free, Home Of The Brave* for over ten years and (apparently) good people, nice people, strivers. *Anzor Tsarnaev *(the Tsarnaev brothers' fat... more »

FBI Casting Set Stage for Boston Marathon Bombing, Shootout, Charade

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 22 hours ago

*Update: CBS reveals in their report, "CBS News: FBI Interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev 2 Years Ago," that the FBI initially attempted to deny any contact prior to the Boston bombings with slain suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev. It was only after Russia's RT publicly pursued the story that the FBI finally admitted officially it had. * *The implications are that the FBI knows Russia both possesses information on the case and is prepared to go public with it. For those involved in America's terror racket, now would be a good time to divest. For those involved specifically in the Boston Marathon b... more »

Chechnyan terrorist's favorite videos

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 22 hours ago

*An insane combination of ignorance of geography and PC* The hunt for the Boston Marathon terrorists turned out to be faster, more efficient, and more dramatic than I expected. One of the results of the developments is that most Americans want my country to be bombed. ;-) *The Huffington Post offers some helpful graphics to help Twitter to remind itself that Czechia isn't Chechnya. Even the Czech ambassador to the U.S. had to publish a special press release LOL.* What I find characteristic is the symbiosis of this breathtaking yet proverbial ignorance of geography with the politic... more »

April 17, 1973

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 22 hours ago

Today was another major Watergate day. This time super-major. -- That's how Bob Haldeman begins his diary entry for Tuesday, April 17, the day that Richard Nixon publicly launched the cover-up of the cover-up. Haldeman's note early in the day: -- Dean is the one who surprises and to some extent disappoints him [Nixon]. I found the latter rather shocking, considering that Dean has turned total traitor, and he shouldn't be surprised and disappointed. He should be shocked and furious. -- The question for them now is whether to work to get immunity for Dean or not. Colson calls to... more »

Kierkegaard On Religion And Doubt

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 23 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*. *Kierkegaard On The Difference Between "Popular" And "Philosophical."* 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. 209. "Official preaching has falsely represented religion, Christianity, as nothing but c... more »

Sunday Classics preview: There's something about the opening of Act II of Donizetti's "Elixir of Love"

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago

*Leo Nucci (Sgt. Belcore), Ildebrando d'Arcangelo (Dr. Dulcamara), Inna Los (Giannetta), and Anna Netrebko (Adina) in the opening of Act II of Donizetti's L'Elisir d'amore, conducted by Alfred Eschwé and directed by Otto Schenk, at the Vienna State Opera, April 2005 (we have Italian-English texts below)* *by Ken* Donizetti's magical *Elixir of Love* would be amply worth our attention even if it didn't contain one of the most memorable of tenor arias. We already heard a bunch of fine performances of "*Una furtiva lagrima* in the December 2011 post "The old minor-to-major switcheroo... more »

The Geek Filibuster

Batocchio at Vagabond Scholar - 1 day ago

See the opening credits scroll for an explanation. This is why the term "nerdgasm" was invented. The actual episode (which only showed about 30 seconds of this tour de force) was also pretty good.

Musical Interlude: Logos, “Cheminement”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago

Logos, “Cheminement” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOuXP8aVWHU

"A Look to the Heavens"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago

“This skyscape finds an esthetic balance of interstellar dust and gas residing in the suburbs of the nebula rich constellation of Orion. Reflecting the light of bright star Rigel, Beta Orionis, the jutting, bluish chin of the Witch Head Nebula is at the upper left. Whiskers tracing the red glow of hydrogen gas ionized by ultraviolet starlight seem to connect that infamous visage with smaller nebulae, like dusty reflection nebula NGC 1788 at the right. *Click image for larger size.* Strong winds from Orion's bright stars have also shaped NGC 1788, and likely triggered the formatio... more »

Chet Raymo, “All Night, In The Dark”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago

*“All Night, In The Dark”* by Chet Raymo “Why do we so admire the poetry of Mary Oliver? She is not the most technically proficient poet around, and there is a disquieting sameness to her work. But we come back to her again and again. My volumes of Oliver's collected poems are the most dog-eared of any on my shelf. I think it is something about the way Oliver is able to get out of her body and into the skin of a hummingbird, a swan, a snake, or a black bear. She is a shape-shifter, a shaman. When she describes a grasshopper moving its jaws this way and that, we almost feel it ... more »

The Daily "Near You?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago

Grass Valley, California, USA. Thanks for stopping by.

“'People's History' of Gulf Oil Disaster Reveals Deadly Truth Behind Dispersant Corexit”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago

*“'People's History' of Gulf Oil Disaster Reveals * *Deadly Truth Behind Dispersant Corexit”* Report released on eve of Deepwater Horizon anniversary tells of BP lies and government collusion in oil 'clean-up'. by Jacob Chamberlain A dispersant plane passed over an oil skimmer in the Gulf of Mexico ten days after Deepwater Horizon explosion (Patrick Semansky/AP) "Not only is the chemical dispersant that was used to "clean up" the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster of 2010 extremely dangerous, it was knowingly used to make the gushing oil merely "appear invisible" all the while... more »

Sleeps

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago

The Arctic Circle replica in Repulse Bay

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago

Financial Media Outlets pull Stories regarding Reuters Killing Soros

Scott Ryan Anderson at Table Of Wisdom.com - 1 day ago

It is pretty telling how Marketwatch.com and other major financial websites felt they had to disable the comments and/or outright remove the freshly posted stories about the Reuters false death report of George "Schwartz" Soros. The epitaphs coming in were getting too embarrassing for the Soros media sycophants. I can keep this short and leave it to the imagination. For those of you who missed it before the story was removed, let's just say that the news of his death "being greatly exaggerated" wasn't met with much joy or relief by Marketwatch readers who often take the opportunit... more »

Graph of the Day: Oil production declines for top five oil companies, 2004-2012

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago

[image: Oil production declines for top five oil companies, 2004-2012. Oil majors' output peaked in 2004 and has decline 25.8% since. Graphic: Matthieu Auzanneau] By Matthieu Auzanneau 19 April 2013 (The Oil Drum) – The combined crude oil production of the five main international oil companies (Exxon, BP, Shell, Chevron and Total) hit an historic high in 2004. Since then, it has fallen by 25.8%, despite large increases in investments. Total crude oil produced by the majors was 10.760 million barrels per day (MB/D) in 2004. In 2012, it reached only 7.981 MB/D. It has decreased by... more »

MAINE PAPER COVERS JEJU NAVY BASE FIGHT

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago

Here is the full-page coverage last Monday in our local Times Record (midcoast Maine) newspaper about the Jeju Island Navy base fight. Fellow Maine activist Carolyn Coe went to Gangjeong village for three weeks and did this great report. I am amazed and happy that the paper covered this considering that the Navy Aegis destroyers, outfitted with so-called missile defense systems, are made here in Bath. It's a really good thing for the community to have to see this. Thank you Times Record.

They Took Suspect 2 Alive - What a Relief

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day ago

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is in police custody, hours after his brother, Tamerlan died following a gun battle with his pursuers. I had feared the 19-year old Dzhokhar would either be brought down by police or take his own life which might have left many questions unanswered. Now at least the authorities will have a slim chance to interrogate young Tsarnaev. Given that this appears to have been a political act, Tsarnaev may be willing to make a statement. Of course, given that he is a recent immigrant of the Muslim faith from central Asia coupled with the fact that today's America is a ... more »

Good police work in Boston

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago

It seems the marathon bombers have been found and killed in a gun flight with police or captured. Since the bombing was this week and there were no obvious clues except video that is a remarkable accomplishment. The police did good! The deserve recognition for that!

The Lamest Ducks In The House-- A Beltway-Eyed View

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago

Accidental Congressman Gary Miller, California's Confederate sympathizer This week, *Roll Call* points to California Republican Gary Miller and Tennessee date rape drug doctor Scott DesJarlais as being the two incumbents most likely to lose their seats in 2014. Close behind are detestable Blue Dog reactionaries Jim Matheson (UT) and Mike McIntyre (NC), New Dem Ron Barber (AZ) and GOP fringe loon Mike Coffman (CO). The retirements of these four characters by their constituents who be steps in the right direction for making Capitol Hill a better place-- even if we would need 2-300 ret... more »

“Evading Suspicion and Shirking Responsibility”: The Politics of Official Discord in Qing Taiwan, 1725-1726

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 1 day ago

*Don't come any closer!* The Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies hosted an interesting journal article on the complexities of 18th century Qing Administration in Taiwan..... That is, when Chanjibu impeached Magistrate Zhou Zhongxuan 周鐘瑄 for illegally accepting seven hundred taels of silver from a defendant in a criminal case. Ordinarily, this “crime” would hardly even have aroused the attention of the prefect, much less that of the emperor, particularly when the sum involved was so small. Nevertheless, the case would embroil bureaucracies in Taiwan, Fujian, and beyond, make and... more »

GAIA PORTAL: “Galactic Body” Alignments Accompany Increasing Frequencies of Transformation

AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago

* * *“Galactic Body” Alignments Accompany Increasing Frequencies of Transformation* April 19, 2013 Frequencies of transformation among up-grading Hue-mans are increasing, and currently have reached 11-fold from time of prior post. The frequency increase varies from individual to individual, yet the 11-fold number signifies transmittance of new 4-7D codes into the consciousness bodies of each. Indications of frequency increase include sense of dissonance with all prior life pathways, release of all internal energetic “packages” which no longer support the increasing frequencies,... more »

Vulture Capitalism is Alive and Well

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day ago

For all the lofty reports lately of a capitalist reformation and new age economics that recognize natural and social capital in addition to financial capital, there's this. In the U.S., five states are poised to begin actively poaching California companies. What is the weakness they're lining up to exploit? Why it's an insidious, voter-approved initiative to raise income taxes to finance education. That's driven knowledge-based companies such as Google, Apple and SolarCity to make tracks for backward, low-tax states like Texas, Arizona, Virginia and Nevada. They want highly... more »