Friday, June 21, 2013

21 June - Blogs I'm Following II

10:22pm MDST

Sunday Classics preview: You know who this famous tenor is, and what he's singing, right?

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 13 minutes ago
*There's a tear in your eye, and I'm wondering why, for it never should be there at all. With such pow'r in your smile, sure a stone you'd beguile, so there's never a teardrop should fall. When your sweet lilting laughter's like some fairy song, and your eyes twinkle bright as can be, you should laugh all the while and all other times smile, and now smile a smile for me. . . .* *by Ken* In the cruelly aborted audio clip above, everyone knows what's coming next, right? After all, it is perhaps the signature song of this great tenor. And a great tenor he indisputably was; we're goin... more »

Subcomandante Marcos 'First those who came first: The Disappeared'

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 hour ago
Classmates I. First those who came first: THE DISAPPEARED Photo by Brenda Norrell Classmates I. First those who came first: THE DISAPPEARED Reposted from Enlace Zapatista http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2013/06/21/classmates-i-first-those-who-came-first-the-disappeared/ June 2013. To the adherents of the Sixth in Mexico and in the world: To the students of the Zapatista Little

THE SUNNI-SHIA DIVIDE: A GAP NOW TOO WIDE TO BRIDGE?

Back in March 2007 I wrote here that the Israelis and the US were attempting to wedge the Sunni minority and the Shia majority in Iraq in order to project those differences throughout the region to create animosity between predominately Sunni nations in the hope of alienating the predominately Shia nation of Iran. Apart from the friction between Saddam Hussein’s minority Sunni led government and the rest of the Shia population in Iraq, most Sunni and Shia folk throughout the rest of the Middle East had lived in relatively peaceful coexistence. What trouble did bubble up between the... more »

Musical Interlude: Brulé, "Star People"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago
Brulé, "Star People" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OYBbDyORvs&html5=1

"A Look to the Heavens"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago
“Today, the solstice is at 05:04 Universal Time, the Sun reaching the northernmost declination in its yearly journey through planet Earth's sky. A June solstice marks the astronomical beginning of summer in the northern hemisphere and winter in the south. It also brings the north's longest day, the longest period between sunrise and sunset. *Click image for larger size.* This composite image follows the Sun's path toward the end of the June solstice day of 2012 as it approaches the western horizon in a colorful, clear sky. The scene looks north and west along the Tyrrhenian Se... more »

"Did You Ever Wonder?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago
"Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him?" ~ Calvin and Hobbes

Chet Raymo, "As Time Goes By"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago
* "As Time Goes By"* by Chet Raymo "Is time something that is defined by the ticking of a cosmic clock, God's wristwatch say? Time doesn't exist except for the current tick. The past is irretrievably gone. The future does not yet exist. Consciousness is awareness of a moment. Or is time a dimension like space? We move through time as we move through space. The past is still there; we're just not there anymore. The future exists; we'll get there. We experience time as we experience space, say, by looking out the window of a moving train. Or is time… Physicists and philosopher... more »

Free Download: Hermann Hesse, "Steppenwolf"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
"And even the unhappiest life has its sunny moments and its little flowers of happiness between sand and stone. So it was then with the Steppenwolf too. It cannot be denied that he was generally very unhappy; and he could make others unhappy also, that is, when he loved them or they him. For all who got to love him saw always only the one side of him. Many loved him as a refined and clever and interesting man, and were horrified and disappointed when they had come upon the wolf in him. And they had to because Harry wished, as every sentient being does, to be loved as a whole and... more »

US files charges against Edward Snowden - theft of government property , unauthorized communication of national defense secrets , willful communication of classified intelligence information to an unauthorized person ....... next steps would be seeking an indictment and then request for extradition....

fredw at Catharsis Ours - 3 hours ago
US files criminal charges against NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden Charges include theft of government property and unauthorised communication of national defence information - Share****140 - - - inShare0 - Email - Reuters in Washington DC - guardian.co.uk, Friday 21 June 2013 19.36 EDT [image: Woman walks past Edward Snowden banner in Hong Kong] A woman walks past a banner supporting Edward Snowden in Hong Kong. Photograph: Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty Images The US has filed charges against National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden in a sealed ... more »

Free Download: Charles Dickens, "A Tale of Two Cities"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative... more »

To reduce litter, you get rid of the trash receptacles, right?

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
*by Ken* Some time ago signs suddenly appeared in one of my frequently used subway stations, the Rector Street station of the no. 1 train, informing riders that, as part of a campaign to reduce litter in the subway, all the trash receptacles were going to be removed. Um, wait a sec, *removed*? Yes, removed. The thinking (for want of a better word) was that if people saw that they had no option but to carry their trash with them to . . . well, points unknown, then they would feel obliged to do so. This is based, of course, on the assumption that it's the option of using a trash ca... more »

"We Are All Alone..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
"We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and - in spite of "True Romance" magazines - we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely- at least, not all the time- but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness." - Hunter S. Thompson, “The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman”

Breaking: Jay Carney is good at his job

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 3 hours ago
Which is more than can be said for Yahoo!'s hit piece on the PressSec. Sure slow news cycles breed some lame non-stories to feed the insatiable maw of the 24/7 media beast, but this interactive compilation of Carney's verbal tics is dumber than the most inane BuzzFeed list ever posted. I'm down with Wonkette's critque. The interactive is pretty much just an excuse for unjustified mockery. It serves no useful informational purpose. A comparison between former PressSec "evasions" might have had some value, but not much. Every PressSec does this. It's in the job description. I would h... more »

Brian Kelly: A Journey Into the Sahara...

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 3 hours ago
(This is actually what the desert looked like) *A Journey Into the Sahara...* *by Brian Kelly* June 20, 2013 As I sit here at my computer, I find myself staring blindly at the screen, as if the words I'm looking for will start to scroll across the border, like a ticker tape broadcasting the latest news brief. I imagine putting words to this experience must be like trying to articulate what it feels like watching your baby being born, falling in love, or having a near death experience. Not the easiest thing to do, but I owe it to my readers to do the best I can. All I can offer i... more »

BC Liberals Play Voters As Fools, Energy Companies Play The BC Government As Fools

Grant G at The Straight Goods - 4 hours ago
Written by Grant G Natural Gas...Yes I am aware that many of you want me to discuss other issues, and I will, however right now everything in British Columbia, health, education, debts, deficits, Government spending, tolls, utilities and our entire future has been placed in this one basket by the BC Liberals.. So for now, we must fully explore the topic, I have been racking my brain on these LNG announcements coming fast and furious, for years we have been hearing about mergers and acquisitions, hearing about $trillions of dollars and the need to act fast, yet every announceme... more »

The Daily "Near You?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago
Brainerd, Minnesota, USA. Thanks for stopping by.

Weekend Fun 44: Cow Economics

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 5 hours ago
This revised "Cow Economics" is funny, got this from JB Baylon's facebook status, thanks JB. The photos, I got them from the web. A Lesson in Global Economics Traditional Economics: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Your herd multiplies and the economy grows. You retire on your income. Indian Economics: You have two cows. You worship them. Pakistani economics: You don't have any cows. You claim that the Indian cows belong to you. You ask the US for financial aid, China for military aid, Britain for warplanes, Italy for machines, Germany for technology, France for subm... more »

"Martial Law... No Ways Tired"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 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 an... more »

Friday Nerd Blogging: The Long Con

Steve Saideman at Duck of Minerva - 5 hours ago
H/T to Jacob Levy for pointing this out on twitter.

Cielo estrellado - Stars

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 6 hours ago
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Treasuries taken to the woodshed this week - worst week in 50 years ! Actually a woodshed week for High yield debt / commodities especially gold and silve but also oil - all asset classes tommy hammered with the exception of the USD within FX !

fredw at Catharsis Ours - 6 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-21/treasuries-worst-week-50-years-stocks-worst-week-2013 Treasuries' Worst Week In 50 Years; Stocks Worst Week In 2013 [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/21/2013 16:11 -0400 - Bond - Equity Markets - Exchange Traded Fund - Lehman - OpEx *5Y yields rose a stunning 37% this week - the most in the 50 year record of Bloomberg data*. The 38bps increase in yields is also among the worst absolute shifts over that period but off such low levels it is quite a shock. Credit markets saw hedge protection ... more »

"Rotting, Decaying And Bankrupt: If You Want To See The Future Of America Just Look At Detroit"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago
* * * "Rotting, Decaying And Bankrupt:* * If You Want To See The Future Of America Just Look At Detroit" * by Michael Snyder "If you want to know what the future of America is going to be like, just look at the city of Detroit. Once upon a time it was a symbol of everything that America was doing right, but today it has been transformed into a rotting, decaying, post-apocalyptic hellhole. Detroit was once the fourth-largest city in the United States, and in 1960 Detroit had the highest per-capita income in the entire nation. It was the greatest manufacturing city the world ha... more »

The Economy: "All Hell Breaks Loose!"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago
* * *"All Hell Breaks Loose!"* by Bill Bonner "Yesterday, it felt like all hell was breaking loose. It was the kind of day when each man looked to his own. He checked his bank balance and his margin account. He counted his gold coins and looked in his liquor cabinet. He wondered what would happen next... The Dow fell -353 points. Gold lost $87 an ounce. What does this tell us? It shouts a warning: Ben Bernanke is losing control. He desperately wants inflation. He's getting deflation instead. He wants low interest rates; yet rates are rising. Bernanke is now getting the worst kind... more »

MT Gox suspends US Dollar withdrawals for 14 days effective immediately - when the pro-offered reason is that rising volumes of deposits and withdrawals has impacted processing of transactions , it funny deposits and transfers TO Bitcoin accounts are still going to be allowed ! Is there a US dollar shortage at Bitcoin ? BTW , what hidden role has NSA or for that matter CIA have with Bitcoin ?

fredw at Catharsis Ours - 6 hours ago
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Is_the_National_Security_Agency_behind_Bitcoin%3F/26829/0/38/38/Y/M.html ( Perhaps the attacks on Bitcoin stem from NSA or other government entities who want to establish their preferred cyber currency unit that they can control and eliminate any competition... ) Is the National Security Agency behind Bitcoin?June 21, 2013 Print Version *Source:* Anthony Migchels [image: Bitcoin NSA] *Recently a 1996 NSA report surfaced, ‘predicting’ a crypto-cyber unit eerily close to Bitcoin. So eerily close, that, knowing their M.O., the question arises whether this... more »

Power to the people

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 6 hours ago
Love this. Crackpot conservatives have been trying to railroad through a really odious anti-abortion bill. In response, people organized to block the vote by using the legal process. Texas lawmakers are currently rushing an omnibus anti-abortion bill through a special session, after each of its provisions failed to advance separately during the regular legislative session. But not without being met with a fight. Over 700 Texans traveled to Austin on Thursday to testify against the anti-abortion measure before it could come to a vote in the House — and their “people’s filibuster” su... more »

EAST COUNTY PEER TO PEER BAND OF BROTHERS / A DREAM BECOMES REALITY

Allen L Roland, Ph.D at Allen L Roland's Weblog - 6 hours ago
*Click on photo to enlarge* *Blue Star mother Josie Monaghan surrounded by her all era veteran brothers and sisters*. *Blue Star mother Josie Monaghan's dream of creating a veterans resource center as well as an all era veterans peer-to-peer group which meets and breaks bread with each other every Wednesday, with commonality, camaraderie and mutual sharing being the empowering agenda, has become a reality in Antioch, California: Allen L Roland* *Heart felt authenticity, commonality and camaraderie are the bedrock of veterans rehabilitation.* As an active duty Navy veteran, a... more »

In 10 Days The Republicans Will Force Student Loan Rates To Double

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago
This week, PPP released a survey showing that Republicans-- plus 4 New Dems who voted with them (Jared Polis, Dan Maffei, Joe Garcia and multimillionaire Scott Peters)-- are *way* on the wrong side of public opinion when it comes to education. (Rumors have been floating that Obama's backward and overly corporate Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, actually encouraged the 4 New Dems to cross the aisle and vote with the Republicans against the best interests of education policy-- which would be par for the course for Duncan.) The national poll shows that an overwhelming 83% of Amer... more »

Do You See Where This is Headed? Tennesseeans Warned Complaining May Be Terrorism.

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 7 hours ago
Hats off to Sherwin Smith, deputy director of the Tennessee Division of Water Resources for warning his fellow citizens to watch what they say, especially when complaining about their water. "*We take water quality very seriously. Very, very seriously. But you need to make sure that when you make water quality complaints you have a basis, because federally, if there's no water quality issues, that can be considered under Homeland Security an act of terrorism."*

Perros jugando bajo el agua

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 7 hours ago
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Cascadas color neón - Waterfalls

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 7 hours ago
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Miley Cyrus - "We can't stop" - Oddest video of the week and certainly the one with most gratuitous tight trousers - A rule 5 Friday post

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 8 hours ago
Miley Cyrus - "We can't stop" - Oddest video of the week and certainly the one with most gratuitous tight trousers Hmmm

Sometimes It's Art That Imitates Life

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 8 hours ago
Remember Bobby de Niro's performance in *Goodfellas? *You should, it's being aired on various networks roughly three times every week - every week. In the movie, de Niro's character was loosely based on "*Jimmy the Gent*" Burke, this guy: Jimmy's New York home from those days is still in the Burke family (he died in prison of stomach cancer). The cops showed up to do a little work on the place this week. The cops went at the place with jackhammers and shovels, tore up the driveway and the backyard and left with unspecified "organic material." There's speculation the cops... more »

Chris Hayes says he is seething with anger!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 8 hours ago
*FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 2013* *The suits may be getting involved:* We don’t know Chris Hayes. Personally, we weren’t thrilled with his book, but it was well-received elsewhere. That said, Hayes made his name on cable by conducting long, discursive, intelligent discussions during a two-hour program on weekend mornings. A lot of people liked him, and the suits moved him to weekday nights. In that spot, his ratings have been very poor. Presumably, that explains the way he opened last night’s program. As he started, Chris Hayes said he was seething with anger: HAYES (6/20/13): Good evening... more »

Say cheese

Roobin at THROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 8 hours ago
I was sitting on the bus this morning, going to work, when my attention was drawn to the new Derren Brown show, about to start in the theatre on Cambridge Circus. The pictures advertising the show feature him and only him. If modesty were there it wouldn’t be needed, Derren Brown is the star. He is so famous you don’t need to be told what he’s famous for. The biggest picture by far, looming over the box office shows him sitting, staring into the camera with his hands clasped together: he is looking into you, into your mind, he is thinking. Brown has also shaved his head. The head is... more »

trouble maker

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 8 hours ago
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. Mahatma Gandhi

On Owning Canadians - You Could Be Next

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 8 hours ago
A friend sent this along and I thought it too good not to share *On her radio show, Dr Laura Schlesinger said that, as an observant Orthodox Jew, homosexuality is an abomination according to Leviticus 18:22, and cannot be condoned under any circumstance. The following response is an open letter to Dr. Laura, written by a U.S. man, and posted on the Internet. It's funny, as well as informative: Dear Dr. Laura: Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding God's Law. I have learned a great deal from your show, and try to share that knowledge with as many people as I can. ... more »

Niagara Falls + the Niagara Wine Region

CM at LILITH NEWS - 9 hours ago
There was a time when Niagara Falls was the primary reason to travel to the Niagara region of Ontario. There was a time when Niagara Falls ranked above Las Vegas, Hollywood, New York and other tourist locations in North America - It was even considered to be an ideal location to get married. Tourism to Niagara Falls has dropped significantly in the last 30 years - but tourism to the Niagara region is up in recent years, not because of the waterfalls itself, but due to two factors. 1. Gambling casinos. 2. Winery and vineyard tours. Today the biggest draws for people to visit Nia... more »

Lightning Round--Heat Repeat, Exit Edoxus, Brazil Protests, McConnell Lashes Out, Postal Service on Colbert, Barry and Levon's Vine Reunion

Jay Allbritton at Jay Allbritton - 9 hours ago
*Mashable*: Relive The NBA Finals with a great collection of GIFs. My ears are still ringing from watching the game at a sports bar that decided it would be a good idea to have a DJ playing EDM *and* country music at ear splitting levels during Game 7. Special thanks to my friends who came out to watch the game with me. I am an irrationally insane Heat fan and I agonized through every second of the best playoff series I have ever seen. Having Twitter along for the ride was also a lot of fun. Heat haters @JoeMande, @kumailn, and @SamuelLJackson and Heat fan @BillBellamy and many othe... more »

rtod

laura k at wmtc - 9 hours ago
Revolutionary thought of the day: This war is murder, this conquest is robbery... If this war be called patriotism then blessed be treason. Clarence Darrow, 1898, on the Spanish-American war

When You See Him on TV, Is It Obama1 or Obama2? (There May Be Others?)

Scary, isn't it? You thought only you had made this diagnosis. Wonder what a doctor (psychologist) would say is the prognosis? The deep-thinking moralist that we were told was in the White House might look at this and worry that in fighting terrorism we have resorted to engaging in terrorism. After all, deliberately killing people without regard for their identity seems like an effort to

Coyne- Have Tories Lost Their Way or Have They Simply Lost Their Minds?

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 9 hours ago
Andrew Coyne sums up what won't but should be on the delegates' minds at next week's Conservative Party convention: *Do they get it? Do the delegates understand what a fix the party is in, and why? And are they prepared to push the party to mend its ways?* *It has become a commonplace of late to say the Tories have “lost their way.” That’s not about their navigational skills but their state of mind: an acute lack of self-awareness that blinds them to what they have become, a blinkered conviction of their own superior cleverness, a closed loop of defensiveness that interprets every... more »

Catch of the Day

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 9 hours ago
Kevin Drum's correspondent asked: So, I'm just waiting for the inevitable piece from Ron Fournier asking why and how Obama and the Democrats could have let the Farm Bill debacle in the House occur. Or, how this demonstrates a lack of leadership in Washington, particularly by Obama. Or, how the leaderlessness of the White House is infusing into the House through some osmosis-like process and corrupting John Boehner. And the winner is...NBC's First Read: "Leaderless in Washington: [...] Bottom line: Nobody is really running Washington right now, and the public is noticing." So I go... more »

The Relational Sociology of Rational-Choice Theory

Daniel Nexon at Duck of Minerva - 10 hours ago
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Eric Grynaviski, who is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University. There has been a debate on the Duck lately about the meaning of rational choice theory and game theory, and how it’s different from varied alternative approaches (here, here, and here). I wanted to offer Continue reading

USA drone bases

Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 10 hours ago
WE the People of the united states one nation under GUARD... Special thanks to *Dangeroom* and *Cryptome*... Here is map of 64 bases inside USA allegedly used to control military and CIA drone usage around the world.[7] Here are just the military ones, with list of names of bases involved.[8] Here are links to 110 coming. They also talk about 88 actually operating right now (88-64=24 not on earlier list.). [9] Here is info about CIA bases for drones around the world.[10] All this info is as of when it was found out. Reality is constantly evolving. Here is map of US cities, where vari... more »

Aftermath of the Failed Ag Bill

2old2care at Because I Can - 10 hours ago
*And this is what happened on the RepubliCON side of the aisle after the vote.*

healthy slow-cooker recipe of the week: beef, barley, and mushroom stew

laura k at wmtc - 10 hours ago
This week's healthy slow-cooker recipe features barley, a yummy and healthy grain. I especially love the chewy texture. Barley is one of the four oldest grains to be cultivated by humans.* Unfortunately, whole-grain barley is difficult to find. The more common pearl barley is not a whole grain. I haven't found a convenient place to buy whole-grain barley, so I reluctantly use the pearl version. It's just as tasty and contains fibre, but lacks the full-impact health benefits of whole grains. I don't know if it's cultural predisposition, being raised on mushroom-barley soup as I was... more »

wmtc rebooted

laura k at wmtc - 10 hours ago
I was in the middle of writing a post about my plan to get back into an exercise routine... when I broke my foot. Doing almost nothing. Walking along in the mall, on my way to get my hair cut and then go to work, my ankle turned over sharply. I was horrified, thinking it was yet another ankle sprain. But no... turns out it's a three-part fracture in my foot. I was worried at first: if I could break a bone just by walking, is there a problem with my bone density? Are my bones becoming fragile? But I've learned that fractured foot bones are very common among people who have a histor... more »

Worth watching -- Andy Griffith on privacy rights and solicitor-client privilege

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 10 hours ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wL9Li0f1Po

Fixing A War Crime From 1885 - The Bell Of Batoche Coming Back To Saskatchewan

leftdog at Buckdog - 11 hours ago
** ** [image: Progressive Bloggers] * * *"It's been rumoured all week and now confirmed — the long-missing bell of Batoche will be returned. The bell will be given to the bishop of the diocese of Prince Albert, Sask., during a mass at the annual Back to Batoche Days festival on July 20 (in Batoche, Saskatchewan).* * **The announcement of the historical event for Canada's Metis nation was made on Friday — National Aboriginal Day — in Winnipeg.* ***And it comes far enough ahead of time that it gives Metis people from across the country "time to organize their journey home," stated a... more »

seeds of death

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 11 hours ago

June, Alaska, 96 Degrees

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours ago
NASA apparently hit a nerve when it released a remarkable satellite photoof the state of Alaska taken June 17. What made the picture stand out is that there are almost no clouds in a state that has the cloudiest areas in the U.S. From *SFGate.com:* *At first glance, it’s just a great photo of nearly the entire state of Alaska on an exceptionally clear day. What could be the problem?* ** *Well, turns out that photo shows an anomaly that some are fretting signifies yet another big shift in global climate – a shift toward the hot.* ** *NASA writes (without saying “global warming”):* ... more »

Billy Piper acts like a dirty goat and sheep and quite a few other farmyard animals - Probably NSFW - Friday Night Rule 5

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 11 hours ago
Billy Piper from Secret Diary of a Call Girl Series 3 Episode 3

Progressives Break With The Clinton-Bush-Obama Trade Policy Nightmare

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago
Great minds think alike but, alas, we don't have many of those in Congress. Thank God we do have Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders in the Senate and Alan Grayson in the House. All three are skeptical-- very skeptical-- about the latest and most atrocious trade bill Corporate America is trying to shove down our throats, with the help of many of their colleagues and... el Presidente. Thursday all those Republicans who obstruct every Obama nomination were stumbling all over each other to vote to confirm the conservative American jobs killer Obama named as U.S. Trade Rep, Michael F... more »

Moving Beyond Tilly

Daniel Nexon at Duck of Minerva - 11 hours ago
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Michael Martoccio, who is a PhD candidate of Early Modern History with a minor specialization in IR Theory at Northwestern University. His research broadly examines the role of cooperation in shaping political change in Europe, c. 1300-1700. His projects include a study of cooperation-building institutions in Central Continue reading

"CIA-MOSSAD ORGANIZA DISTÚRBIOS NO BRASIL '

Anon at aangirfan - 11 hours ago
A CIA e seus amigos parecem ser organizar os tumultos no Brasil, usando o termo 'Gigante Acordou' - os Awakes gigantes. *Presidente do Brasil Dilma Rousseff * * * Brasil está sob ataque porque é amigo de Rússia e porque tem uma economia moderadamente bem sucedido? Os tumultos no Brasil pode ter um link para a Diageo. Alegadamente, a empresa de bebidas Diageo tem ligações com a CIA. Diageo ajuda a financiar AmeriCares que é declaradamente a CIA-front organização. facção cia de 'cristão'; americares, redes de pedofilia ... - Aangirfan *Illuminati, israelense Mossad e Diageo es... more »

Good friend “Teacher Nicole” from WI explains common in #commoncore

Chalk Face, PhD at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 11 hours ago
Here’s her post on CCSS, as an actual educator for ELL/ESL students. We’ve interviewed her on At the Chalk Face, I need to dig those up. Look back here later. She’s great. Tagged: at the chalk face, common core, nicole, WI

Weekend Fun 43: Tales from Narra Dorm, UP Diliman

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 12 hours ago
Narra Residence Hall in UP Diliman was the only dormitory for boys. There are three dormitories for girls -- Kamia, Sampaguita and Ilang-Ilang, the rest are co-eds. And of those dormitories, Narra is gone, since several years ago. First it was neglected, then a portion got burned, and finally it was demolished to house the UP Integrated School (UPIS) as the original UPIS campus has been bought by the Ayalas for another real estate project. I was a resident of Narra dorm from 1983-85. Before that I stayed in Molave (my 2nd year in UP) then Yakal dorms (my 3rd year). Many memories of ... more »

Settlement privilege applies to the quantum of settlement

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 12 hours ago
*Sable Offshore Energy Inc. v. Ameron International Corp*., 2013 SCC 37, released today, holds the quantum of a settlement is subject to settlement privilege. The case also repeats the established law that "without prejudice" are not magic words and settlement privilege attaches to discussions intended towards settlement and that failed discussions are also subject to privilege: [14] Rush & Tompkins confirmed that settlement privilege extends beyond documents and communications expressly designated to be "without prejudice". In that case, a contracto... more »

education activists gather, talk, strategize: reclaim the conversation

Barbara Madeloni at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 12 hours ago
On May 4, 2013 a group of educators, parents, students, and community activists gathered at Barnard College to share their experiences within the assault on public education, draw connections of understanding, strengthen ties, and plan actions. One of our first actions was to create the video linked below. In it organizers and participants talk about […]

Bill Cunningham and Tamara Holder (liberal stooge) go at each other on Hannity...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 12 hours ago
*listen to Tamara Holder (no relation to Eric Holder) defend attorney general Eric Holder. This, my dear readers, is a peek inside the pretzel logic, equivocating, and sheer insanity of a liberal's mind. Can this woman not hear herself? * * *Radio host Bill Cunningham,* *who was* *Assistant Attorney General from 1978 to 1986 in Ohio, presents facts - Tamara presents excuses. Note to Tamara: Ditch the ugly glasses and get a big girl hairdo. Neither one is doing you any favors.

Five Points on Farm Bill/Immigration

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 12 hours ago
Yesterday, I wrote over at PP about "What the Farm Bill says about immigration in the House." I've already linked to Greg, who had a similar view, and there were others, too. But Ezra Klein has a bit of a counterintuitive view this morning: I’ll admit it: I don’t know what the collapse of the farm bill portends for immigration reform. But I suspect the answer is: not much. [...] Will immigration go the same way? Perhaps. But it’s not a sure thing, either. There’s not going to be an immigration bill that all House Republicans are happy with. And they’re not going to pass an immigrati... more »

Did Arne Duncan Give “Reformers” Enough Rope to Hang Themselves?

John Thompson at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 12 hours ago
The Huffington Post’s Joy Resmovits reports that Secretary of Education Duncan announced a voluntary pause in using test scores in teacher evaluations during the transition to Common Core. She explains that the new policy is seen by some as a “tacit recognition of the Obama administration’s overreach into nitty-gritty management of America’s schools.” Of course, I […]

SILLY SEASON: Who gets attacked!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 12 hours ago
*FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 2013* *Part 4—Miss Utah yes, Maddow no:* First, they came for Miss South Carolina Teen. That was 2007. Two years later, they came for Miss California. On the One True Liberal Channel, Keith Olbermann and his smutty pal mauled the offending pageant contestant in ways which were plainly misogynistic. Everybody knew not to say so. At least, not to say so out loud! In these ways, a new type of seasonal shark attack was born—and this week, they came for Miss Utah. At one point, they begged Miss Utah to take their advice, and to take the advice of NeNe Leakes, a person ... more »

A REAL IRISH WELCOME FOR OBAMA

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 12 hours ago
"This man is a war criminal."

Judge must raise concept of reasonable doubt and W.(D.) when credibility findings required on a "vital issue" even without accused testifying

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 13 hours ago
*R. v. King*, 2013 ONCA 417 holds: [11] In *W.(D.)*, at pp. 757-758, Cory J. set out what is now the commonly-used jury instruction on reasonable doubt: A trial judge might well instruct the jury on the question of credibility along these lines: · First, if you believe the evidence of the accused, obviously you must acquit. · Second, if you do not believe the testimony of the accused but you are left in a reasonable doubt by it, you must acquit. · Third, even if you are not left in doubt by the evidence of the accused, you must ask yourself whether, on the ba... more »

TGIF!!!

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 13 hours ago

Kate Upton topless on a horse - Unfortunately NNSFW - A Rule 5 Friday post

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 13 hours ago
TMZ of course ruined this moment with their gratuitous nipple stars.

MILITARIZING SPACE BLOCKS DISARMAMENT TALKS

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 13 hours ago
- Early this morning the phone rang but I was still in bed so I let the message machine pick it up. When I finally listened to the message it was from a woman politician in Norway calling about the Global Network 21st annual space conference in Kiruna, Sweden on June 27-29. She wants to come and needed more information. - I did a radio interview on Voice of Russia two nights ago about the conference - they were particularly interested in discussing how the US radar facilities in Vardo, Norway and Thule, Greenland are key instruments in the Pentagon's... more »

Wrap Up: Battle Aleppo. Kosovo/Serbia. US & Russia to meet and way more...

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 13 hours ago
Summarizing: The G-8 meeting. No concessions to the NATO tyranny. Russia held the line they have for so long now.*G- 8 Declaration WILL NOT mention the fate of Syrian leader Assad & Updates!* The NATO world army, cared not, because they expect to up the ante:* Obama, Syria and the Aspin doctrine: Plans for a "limited" strike on Syria?** And* *Turkey, US cooperate on arms (aid ) to terrorists in Syria (rebels) Doha lurks* *Certainly, Russia is aware of that.* *Russia to fulfill Syria missile systems contract * *Language?* * **"We respect all our contracts and are honoring all our co... more »

The Left on Just Deserts

Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 13 hours ago
I just got an email from the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute regarding their work on inequality. I was struck by this passage: Since the 1970s, the United States has become increasingly unequal in terms of income, wages, wealth and opportunity. Today, 1 percent of Americans are taking home nearly 20 percent of the country's total income and own nearly 35 percent of the country's wealth. This means that you (yes, you!) are probably making less money than you deserve to.* Notice the emphasis on what "you deserve." They aren't following the logic of the conventional Mirrlees m... more »

Obama's Berlin Moment

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 14 hours ago
image source Stephen Lendman Obama's unwelcome in Berlin. He's not wanted. Many Berliners aren't pleased he came. His rhetoric fell short. Doublespeak duplicity is hollow. It doesn't sell well. On July 29, 2008, 200,000 Germans cheered him. They did so in central Berlin's Tiergarten. They hoped he'd change Bush/Cheney policies. He promised. He lied. He exceeds the worst of his predecessors. On June 19, Obama chose the Brandenburg Gate. It was hermetically sealed off to protect him. He spoke behind thick bullet-proof glass. About 4,000 got to attend. They were handpicked to avoid... more »

Obama's Nuclear Arms Reduction Hoax

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 14 hours ago
Missing Peace Anthony Freda Art Stephen Lendman Jack Kennedy was America's last peace president. He underwent a spiritual transformation. He changed from cold warrior to peacemaker. He wanted nuclear weapons abolished. He urged "general and complete disarmament." He wanted force-fed Pax Americana ended. He assumed great risk. Nearly all his top advisors disapproved. Pentagon commanders opposed him. So did most congressional members. CIA officials weren't pleased. Kennedy was vulnerable. He knew it. He accepted the risk. It cost him his life. He was assassinated weeks after signi... more »

The “Fear” Factor in “Killer Robot” Campaigning

Charli Carpenter at Duck of Minerva - 14 hours ago
One of the more specious criticisms of the “stopkillerrobots” campaign is that it is using sensationalist language and imagery to whip up a climate of fear around autonomous weapons. So the argument goes, by referring to autonomous weapons as “killer robots” and treating them as a threat to “human” security, campaigners manipulate an unwitting public Continue reading

The Rational Market Myth

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 14 hours ago
*armageddon without nukes* * *Paul Craig Roberts One of the myths of economics is that markets are rational. Theories are based on this assumption, and the belief that markets are rational fuels the argument against regulation. The market response to the Federal Reserve’s June 19 statement that it will taper off its bond purchases if its forecast comes true is unequivocal proof that markets are irrational. The Federal Reserve’s statement that it “currently anticipates that it would be appropriate to moderate the monthly pace of purchases [of bonds] later this year” depends on a ver... more »

Big Brother Writ Large in America

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 14 hours ago
Stephen Lendman Spying on its citizenry reflects one of the most defining police state characteristics. Post-9/11, America crossed the line. Unconstitutional mass surveillance became official US policy. Bush began it. Obama accelerated it. He did so straightaway as president. He promised otherwise. He pledged transparency and openness. He promised no more Bush/Cheney lawlessness. He lied. He exceeded the worst of his predecessors. Free societies don't tolerate these practices. Obama authorized them secretly. He subverted constitutional law. He violated the public trust. He brok... more »

Fast-Tracking Toward War on Syria

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 14 hours ago
Anthony Freda Art Stephen Lendman America's run by sociopaths. They're out-of-control criminals. They're traitors. They menace humanity. They violate their sacred oaths of office. Presidents "do solemnly swear (or affirm to) faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of (their) Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." Congressional members "do solemnly swear (or affirm to) support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; (to) bear true faith and allegi... more »

20 Items to Kick Start Your Food Storage Plan

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 14 hours ago
Gaye Levy No matter how many times I write about food, there is always something new to consider or a new and different way to present the same old information in a more useful manner. With that in mind, today I would like to share a method for getting started with your food storage program in an easy, step by step, and cost effective manner. To be truthful, my initial goal with this article was to respond to readers who were just getting started and wanted a shopping list of things to buy for their food storage pantry. I also wanted to compile a checklist that more experienced ... more »

Free Download: Charles Dickens, "A Tale of Two Cities"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative... more »

A New Direction?

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 14 hours ago
There's a question mark there not because I'm asking anyone's opinion, but only whether I'm too distracted and lazy and sloppy to stick to it. But, anyway, ... I think instead of having this blog serve as a source of criticism of the system and an occasional call to arms for the left, what with my criticism being useless and the left's idea of "resistance" appears to be useless rallies and online carping. Instead, I thought that I'd make this blog a place to reflect about the reasons why the left succeeded at one time and why we fail today. I'll also be attempting to write more des... more »

"How It Really Is"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago

Mining = Money, To Hell with the Commons

2old2care at Because I Can - 14 hours ago
Pennsylvania seems to be getting hit particularly hard with fossil fuel company damage. Here is another story that I think folks should be aware of. Mining - money - revenues - profits That's all the fossil fuel corporations care about. And yet our legislators keep giving them more and more access to our commons - destroying our way of life - and potentially killing not only destroying the environment - but killing the people. Stockpiles of any type of fossil fuel isn't necessary if you end up dead from lack of water/food or polluted air/water caused by the decimation of our commons... more »

Free Download: Charles Dickens, "A Tale of Two Cities"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative... more »

FedEx Pilot Narrowly Misses 2 Chemtrail Planes Because They Aren't on Radar

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 14 hours ago
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Obama’s Plan to Depopulate the Suburbs

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 14 hours ago
Dave Hodges If you live in the suburbs, you might be wise to advise your children on how to live, work and survive in America’s inner cities because that is where they are likely to be living in the near future in a Warsaw ghetto-type of scenario. The mass migration from the suburbs back into densely populated urban areas is not a next week thing, or a next month thing or even next year proposition, but the groundwork is happening right now. If you are not a Baby Boomer, you will not likely be retiring in the suburbs. In Part one of this series, I detailed how the Chinese are for... more »

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 14 hours ago
*Riders say ferry's severe cutbacks will create hardships ~Carolyn Scofield, WVUE* *Update: Algiers ferry service to continue past July 1, but not for cars ~Della Hasselle, The Lens* *Who Dat? New Orleans Saints Back With a Vengeance ~BlackandGold.com* *"I'm from the Nine and you ain't taking Mine" Holy Cross neighbors protest new development ~WDSU* *The Lens named finalist for 6 Press Club of New Orleans awards* *RED MARKS THE SPOT: Bad bridges in Mississippi may be closer than you think ~Wally Northway, MBJ* *States with the worst bridges ~Winqien Zho* *Pie company, destroyed b... more »

DCCC-- No Shame Whatsoever In Exploiting Women

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 14 hours ago
A good case can be made-- should be made-- that conservatives are waging a relentless war against American women and that it has to be stopped by voters at the polls by defeating the Republican Party. The GOP anti-women jihad is out of control in every state where they've seized power and in the U.S. House of Representatives. But the DCCC isn't the organization to make the point, not if anyone is expected to believe it. Here's the e-mail the DCCC sent out to tens of thousands of Democrats this week: Last night, Republicans rammed through an extreme and unconstitutional bill that... more »

Project Chess: Skype’s secret program aimed at making calls readily available to intelligence agencies

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 15 hours ago
image credit: Spinstah/Flickr Madison Ruppert In yet another instance of a report indicating that tech giants worked directly with intelligence agencies to enable government surveillance, it is now being reported that Skype began a secret program called Project Chess to enable intelligence agencies and law enforcement to easily get a hold of calls. This comes after it was revealed that Skype was part of the massive National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance program known as PRISM. The latest revelation about Skype’s secret program is quite interesting given the controversy surro... more »

Read Stuff, You Should

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 15 hours ago
Happy Birthday to Mariette Hartley, 73. Much loved (as far as I know) by my generation; don't think I could explain why to anyone. Her Star Trek appearance was OK, but I especially loved her two Columbo episodes. The good stuff: A Dean Baker takedown of Niall Ferguson. Excellent substantive analysis of the farm bill fiasco from Jonathan Chait. While Greg Sargent talks to Norm Ornstein about that fiasco. Sarah Binder on the history of the Fed and the structure of the FOMC. Ornstein, again, on contracting out government. And I know I had this yesterday, but more detail from Reid Wils... more »

Food, Guns, Gold: “The Record is Rather Clear On the Side of Commodity Money”

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 15 hours ago
Mac Slavo If you’ve been watching U.S. financial markets the last few weeks you may have come to the conclusion that something is amiss and that there exists a major disconnect between what’s happening on Wall Street and what average Americans are experiencing on Main Street. While analysts and experts point to the stock market as a sign of economic stability, today’s massive downswing should make it clear that the system is anything but stable. The economy, the financial markets, and the U.S. monetary system are in uncharted waters and, as was noted yesterday after the Fed’s FOM... more »

'CIA-MOSSAD ORGANISES RIOTS IN BRAZIL'

Anon at aangirfan - 15 hours ago
The CIA and its friends seem to be organising the riots in Brazil, using the term 'Gigante Acordou' - the Giant Awakes. *Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff * * * Brazil is under attack because it is friends with Russia and because it has a moderately successful economy? The riots in Brazil may have a link to Diageo. Reportedly, the drinks company Diageo has links to the CIA. Diageo helps to fund AmeriCares which is reportedly a CIA-front organisation. cia's 'christian' faction; americares, pedophile rings ... - Aangirfan *Illuminati, Israeli Mossad, and Diageo are behind "pro... more »

Your Rights Regarding Pre-employment Credit Checks

Donna Ballman at Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home - 15 hours ago
Nevada has just joined the ranks of 9 other states that have outlawed the use of credit history to discriminate against potential employees. However, they're still a minority. Still, there’s a clear trend in the states. According to the National Conference of State Legislators, “42 bills in 24 states and the District of Columbia have been introduced or are pending in the 2013 legislative session relating to the use the credit information in employment decisions. Out of the total 42 bills, 39 address restrictions on the use of credit information in employment decisions.” In most sta... more »

20 Signs That The Pharmaceutical Companies Are Running A 280 Billion Dollar Money Making Scam

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 15 hours ago
Michael Snyder If you could get 70 percent of Americans addicted to your drugs and rake in $280 billion a year in the process, would you do it? If you could come up with a “pill for every problem” and charge Americans twice as much for those pills as people in other countries pay, would you do it? If you could make more money than you ever dreamed possible by turning the American people into the most doped up people in the history of the planet, would you do it? In America today, the number of people hooked on legal drugs absolutely dwarfs the number of people hooked on illegal d... more »

Why Won’t The FBI Tell the Public About its Drone Program?

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 15 hours ago
Jennifer Lynch *EFF* Today we’re publishing—for the first time—the FBI’s drone licenses and supporting records for the last several years. Unfortunately, to say that the FBI has been less than forthcoming with these records would be a gross understatement. Just yesterday, Wired broke the story that the FBI has been using drones to surveil Americans. Wired noted that, during an FBI oversight hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, FBI Director Robert Mueller let slip that the FBI flies surveillance drones on American soil. Mueller tried to reassure the senators that FBI’s d... more »

With Friends Like Harper, You Don't Need Enemies

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 16 hours ago
Rob Moore The Grace Foundation, the New Brunswick charity which complained last week about Justin Trudeau's speaking fee, now says it's "deeply distressed" by the way things have turned out. Ian Webster, chairman of the foundation's board, is upset. Supposedly private correspondence was made public: "There was never any intention for this matter to become a political topic of discussion on the floor of the House of Commons." But local MP Rob Moore -- and the Prime Minister's Office -- made Trudeau's fee a *caus... more »

Next Phase of Syrian Invasion Begins -- The Central Bank Connection

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 16 hours ago
Freda Art Brandon Turbeville As the secular Syrian government continues to mop up the mobs of death squads made up of mercenaries, religious fanatics, and the criminally insane (as well as cannibals), the second phase of destabilization is quickly taking shape - that is, the establishment of “no-fly zones” and the arming of the death squads by the West with even heavier weapons than they have previously been given. The destruction of Syria is thus apparently scheduled to take exactly the same form as that of Libya. It is important to remember that, in the case of the latter count... more »

Global markets stabilize - there are no markets , just manipulations ! Greece may be the day's exception though.....

fredw at Catharsis Ours - 16 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-21/global-markets-stabilize-following-thursday-meltdown Global Markets Stabilize Following Thursday Meltdown [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/21/2013 07:08 -0400 - Australia - Bank of Japan - Bond - Borrowing Costs - Brazil - Carry Trade - CDS - China - Copper - CPI - Crude - Equity Markets - Greece - headlines - Initial Jobless Claims - International Monetary Fund - Japan - LatAm - LTRO - Meltdown - Mexico - Monetary... more »

Crafting Tip: A Glue Gun Plate

Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 16 hours ago
Today's post is more a tip than a tutorial. This simple trick changed the way I craft. I have spent years resting my glue gun on whatever was handy, a piece of a paper, a napkin, whatever was closest to my current project. It worked fine, but not great. One day when I was in one of my favorite thrift stores, I found this darling plate. I loved the plate, but I had no use for it. For 50 cents I decided it was going to come home with me anyway. Later that night I was working on a project and the plate happened to be the closet thing to me. It dawned on me that this plate was per... more »

Welcome summer

Sandra Guzman at Sandra Guzman - 16 hours ago
The Northern Hemisphere celebrates Summer Solstice today, the longest day of the year. Welcome change! Celebrate the star that gives us life. What are you doing to celebrate today's change in seasons? Spend a moment giving thanks, welcoming change and celebrating that which gives us life, el sol. Every year I mark the beginning of summer, the day when the northern hemisphere is tilted most toward the sun, with something special and always in community. One year I celebrated with 99 drummers. Last year I participated in the largest yoga class in the world -- 4,000 people -- in the... more »

Mass Carnage: Stocks, Bonds, Gold, Silver, Europe And Japan All Get Pummeled

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 16 hours ago
Michael Snyder Can you smell that? It is the smell of panic in the air. As I have noted before, when financial markets catch up to economic reality they tend to do so very rapidly. Normally we don't see virtually all asset classes get slammed at the same time, but the bucket of cold water that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke threw on global financial markets on Wednesday has set off an epic temper tantrum. On Thursday, U.S. stocks, European stocks, Asian stocks, gold, silver and government bonds all over the planet all got absolutely shredded. This is not normal market ac... more »

Rand Paul Introduces Amendment to Block National Biometric IDs

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 16 hours ago
*Activist Post* Sen. Rand Paul today announced the introduction of the Protect Our Privacy Act as amendment to the Senate's Immigration Reform Bill. This amendment would prohibit the issuance of a national identification card system. In the wake of the IRS scandal and NSA wiretapping revelations, Sen. Paul believes that his amendment is necessary to protect the privacy of all citizens. "A National ID card violates our right to privacy by helping to consolidate data and facilitate the government in the tracking of individuals. President Ronald Reagan opposed this idea, as did Pres... more »

Measurement Problem - Reality is an Illusion

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 16 hours ago
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'WAR CRIMINAL' VISITS DUBLIN; Ireland pimped out like prostitutes

Anon at aangirfan - 16 hours ago
In the Irish parliament, Clare Daly tells the truth about Ireland being pimped out like prostitutes for the Obama visit. *Iraq, Libya, Syria, Extensive US-NATO War Crimes. How the Media Buries “The Evidence”:* *Senior NSW police officer shredded documents from meetings with Catholic Church officials.*

When the deaths of Palestinians in a refugee camp is of no interest to the BBC

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 16 hours ago
Imagine that an Israeli tank shell hit an UNRWA school accommodating 260 Palestine refugees. Imagine that at least five of these Palestine refugees, including two children and two women, were killed inside the school by that shell and that eleven more sustained serious injuries including an UNRWA staff member. What would the BBC coverage be like? How many Palestinian spokespersons would be put on the air to scream about Israeli aggression? How many BBC reporters would walk with a doleful expression and tears in their eyes through that camp? How many images of the wailing relatives... more »

BANKS OUT OF CONTROL

Anon at aangirfan - 16 hours ago
*Our banks* *Joris Luyendijk* writes: "I spent many years researching Islam and Muslims. "I set out with images in my mind of angry bearded men burning American flags, but as the years went by I became more and more optimistic: beyond the frightening rhetoric and sensationalist television footage, ordinary Muslim people go about their day like all other human beings. "The problem of radical Islam is smaller and more containable than Islamophobes believe. "With bankers I have experienced an opposite trajectory. "I started with the reassuring images in my mind of well-dressed ... more »

"Don't give weapons to people who want to kill us" - Sensibe advice for Barack Hussein Obama from Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas)

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 17 hours ago
It would seem that Ted Cruz has a better handle on what's really happening in Syria than Barack Hussein Obama, or does Obama really know just what he's doing...

Facebook / NSA Connection

2old2care at Because I Can - 17 hours ago
From the New Times Coincidence? You actually believe in coincidences? Too bad. Web’s Reach Binds N.S.A. and Silicon Valley Leaders By JAMES RISEN and NICK WINGFIELD WASHINGTON — When Max Kelly, the chief security officer for Facebook, left the social media company in 2010, he did not go to Google, Twitter or a similar Silicon Valley concern. Instead the man who was responsible for protecting the personal information of Facebook’s more than one billion users from outside attacks went to work for another giant institution that manages and analyzes large pools of data: the National ... more »

Cruz (TX) GOP Immigration Hypocrisy

2old2care at Because I Can - 17 hours ago
Does anyone else see the damn hypocrisy in this post from Talking Points Memo (in it's entirety): In a report Thursday on NPR about *how Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) father shaped his vision on immigration,* his father, Rafael Bienvenido Cruz, an immigrant from Cuba, said that while he “came to this country legally,” he basically bribed an official to get to the United States. “A friend of the family -- a lawyer friend of my father basically *bribed a Batista official *to stamp my passport with an exit permit,” the elder Cruz said. Son Ted Cruz, who is critical of the ‘Gang of 8' immig... more »

"Evidence Indicates Michael Hastings Was Assassinated"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago
* "Evidence Indicates Michael Hastings Was Assassinated"* Rolling Stone journalist made enemies in FBI, CIA by Paul Joseph Watson "The revelation that Rolling Stone journalist Michael Hastings was working on a story about the CIA before his death and had contacted a Wikileaks lawyer about being under investigation by the FBI hours before his car exploded into flames has bolstered increasingly valid claims that the 33-year-old was assassinated. Hastings died early Tuesday morning in Hollywood when his car allegedly hit a tree at high speed. The Los Angeles Coroner’s office has not y... more »

Greg Hunter, "Weekly News Wrap-Up 6.21.13"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago
*"Weekly News Wrap-Up 6.21.13"* Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com The Middle East, namely Syria, continues to dominate the news in my world. It is because the threat of a wider war is increasing and not decreasing. President Obama met with Russian President Vladimir Putin about Syria and the civil war that has taken the lives of more than 90,000 Syrians. How did the meeting go? In a word, bad. No agreement was reached to end the war, and Russia will not agree to anything that removes the Assad regime. So, it appears to be “game on” in the war front as the U.S. arms the rebels w... more »

Banking Crisis in China

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 18 hours ago
This is obviously a major crisis and possibly it is been deliberately produced to crush off balance sheet fraud. We can hope that it is a plan. Otherwise, we have to accept that we are at the beginnings of a huge financial break. China's export business is doing fine. The real problem is that internally it has been building white elephants that produce mountains of bad debt. This eventually chokes out the good business and distorts the capital markets. It is really a natural failure of the imagination caused by a top down decision system that is unable to empower in... more »

Bigfoot Finally Captured on Trail Cam

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 18 hours ago
We finally got a trail-cam image of Bigfoot that appears to be authentic by way of Dale Drinnon's blog. I have been expecting to have this for the past three years, but it stills needs someone to set up it up properly with intent. The best way is to set up plenty of cameras on obvious game trails and be patient. Lacking that we need to get lucky. This guy got lucky. As should now be blindingly obvious, establishing a lot of trail-cams will soon provide us with ample pictures. This sounds like something that a grad student can handle. The sooner the better, of course. I am g... more »

Official Chinese Culpability on Organ Harvesting

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 18 hours ago
Just how one of the biggest stories ever reported can be kept from the western press as well as it has, escapes me. Epoch has been going the lone wolf on this and yet it really needs the mass market treatment to haul it out into the light. We are getting real admissions both direct and indirect as to what is going on. Imagine Hitler’s Henchmen babbling away to the media. This stuff must be kept secret, yet we are seeing continuing disclosure leak out. The investigations have also forced folks to find ways to distance themselves before the boot drops as it must. *Chi... more »

Eurozone Economic Failings

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 18 hours ago
I have plenty of issues with USA macroeconomic policy, or more properly its lack thereof. This recession lasted four unnecessary years and the criminals who brought it on have not been charged with treason. That is beef enough I think. The Europeans have done worse. None yet understands that macroeconomic policy must be distributed to be properly effective. The best way is to distribute those powers downstream to smaller political entities. This might well include the cities of Berlin, Frankfurt, Paris, Chicago, etc. In the USA, we best have the States themselves with a co... more »

Vancouver Sun Omits Pertinent Facts on Exxon Mobile LNG Proposal and Adds Christy Clark Spin and Bluster

Grant G at The Straight Goods - 19 hours ago
The Vancouver sun omitted the most important paragraph from an LNG article tonight...June 20th/2013.. The article, originally written by Jeff Lewis and posted in the National post.. His article included this paragraph... "*Exxon, which has optioned land from the B.C. government at Grassy Point, north of Prince Rupert, said the project would initially produce 10 million to 15 million tonnes of chilled fuel per year, beginning in the 2021-to-2023 time frame. At full capacity, the facility would include six processing units. It would draw gas from fields owned by Exxon and Imperial ... more »

Vancouver Sun Omits Pertinent Facts on Exxon Mobile LNG Proposal and Adds Christy Clark Spin and Bluster

Grant G at The Straight Goods - 19 hours ago
The below story appeared in the Vancouver Sun tonight, June 20/2013...here`s the link. http://www.vancouversun.com/business/energy/Exxon+joins+race/8556764/story.html?__lsa=8979-acce Below I have cut n pasted several excerpts from that story, and a little further on I`ll tell you about the excerpt that was omitted from the article and the excerpts that were added to the article.. This afternoon a similar story appeared in the Vancouver sun, almost identical, the story this afternoon told a similar story, except it was very short, no quotes from Christy Clark, no information about... more »

Current Account, Foreign Reserves and Philippine Economic Growth

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 19 hours ago
* This is my article today in the online magazine, thelobbyist.biz. ----------- Three weeks ago, I made an analysis of the breakdown of the Philippines’ 7.8 percent growth in 1Q 2013 and showed how the services and industry sectors, and the construction and financial intermediation sub-sectors in particular have contributed the most to such stunning growth rate. It also showed comparative growth rates of other Asian economies and the industrial economies of the US and Europe. This column will now look at some international aspects and contributors of such growth, and how the Philipp... more »

The Wall of Sound

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 19 hours ago
Phil Spector is a weird dude and a murderous one. He was also a musical genius, giving us his "Wall of Sound" which by most accounts comprised getting great sessions musicians and packing as many of them as possible into the existing studio space. Spector and his talent gave us songs like "Da Doo Ron Ron" Obviously the Crystals were performing to recorded music but the power of the Wall of Sound is inescapable. And if you think this is geezer music, here's a classic performed as none other by a brilliant, extremely talented dead chick. Oddly enough, it seems like Amy is alread... more »

THE BUSH FAMILY

Anon at aangirfan - 19 hours ago
*Bush Family - Slavery and sex slaves.* George W. Bush's great-great-great-great-grandfather, Thomas Walker, was a slave trader. *"There could not possibly have been a more inhuman monster than this Walker. "Many a poor seaman has been brought by him to an untimely end."* *In 1797, his own crew mutinied, shot him dead and threw him overboard.* Read more: *http://www.dailymail.co.uk/* *Brice Taylor, in her book, writes that George H W Bush was a child abuser.* Brice says that her daughter Kelly was abused by George H W Bush. Brice writes: "Over the years, Kelly was closely tied... more »

Austin: 1-inch accelerator gets electrons to \(2\GeV\)

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 20 hours ago
PopSci, Science Recorder, The Guardian Express, and The Hindu Business Linedescribe a new accelerator developed at the University of Texas in Austin that is really, really small. Half a billion of electrons may be accelerated to \(2\GeV\) on a square inch. A similar gadget is planned to become a part of the most powerful lasers at very high, X-ray frequencies. Upgrades to \(10\GeV\) (a few inches) are waiting in the pipeline, too. A \(20\GeV\) accelerator may arrive in a decade. Chemists and biologists are mentioned as potential consumers of similar gadgets. But of course, ... more »

Vancouver Sun Pimps LNG By Omitting Entire Paragraphs and Replacing Facts With Spin, Yellow Journalism

Grant G at The Straight Goods - 20 hours ago
The below story appeared in the Vancouver Sun tonight, June 20/2013...here`s the link. http://www.vancouversun.com/business/energy/Exxon+joins+race/8556764/story.html?__lsa=8979-acce Below I have cut n pasted several excerpts from that story, and a little further on I`ll tell you about the excerpt that was omitted from the article and the excerpts that were added to the article.. This afternoon a similar story appeared in the Vancouver sun, almost identical, the story this afternoon told a similar story, except it was very short, no quotes from Christy Clark, no information about... more »

Pentagon Top Dog Admits F-35 Edge Lost to Hacking

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 20 hours ago
When you've got a super-secret technology, it's a good idea to keep it under wraps at least until you're ready to deploy the device. It's a really bad idea for you to let your prospective adversary steal your secrets, especially early in the game. *“A lot of that is being stolen right now and it’s a major problem for us,” [U.S. defense acquisitions chief Frank] Kendall told a Senate hearing on development of the Lockheed Martin fighter, a so-called fifth generation aircraft capable of evading radar and integrated air defense systems.* *Chinese J-20**“What it does is reduce the cost... more »

George Galloway attacks SNP's hatred of other opinions - BBC Question Time

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 21 hours ago
'Gorgeous George Galloway attacks the way the SNP have a hatred of views that are not the same as theirs, in particular backing up Nigel Farage's recent visit to Scotland, and how he was attacked by SNP activists, bringing shame to Scotland, especially as the SNP leader Alex Salmond backed the protesters. Recorded from BBC Question Time, 13 June 2013.' Oh my word, I agree with George Galloway on something, I feel dirty. Of course our reasons are different...and there's nothong 'gorgeous' about George Galloway.SNP

The best Twitter feed ever?

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 21 hours ago
Short but descriptive of events...

Turkish film translation "erases" Israel from Brad Pitt epic from The Commentator

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 21 hours ago
'Turkey's version of World War Z starring Brad Pitt is reported to have removed references to Israel, instead labelling the Jewish state, "Middle East"' More here http://www.thecommentator.com/article/3819/turkish_film_translation_erases_israel_from_brad_pitt_epic Interesting that Turkey have managed to erase any references to Israel from that film, meanwhile all over the Muslim world people would love for Israel itself to be erased.

Hey, It's Not Even July, Yet Arctic Ice Levels are Nearing All-Time Record Lows.

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 21 hours ago
Arctic sea ice is currently receding at about 100,000 sq. kms. a day. Because of it, we'll not only be breaking a record for sea ice loss this year but we'll be breaking it really soon, perhaps just next week. *"Unless something really unusual happens we will see the record broken in the next few days. It might happen this weekend, almost certainly next week," Julienne Stroeve, a scientist at the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colorado, told the Guardian.* *"In the last few days it has been losing 100,000 sq km a day, a record in itself for August. A storm... more »

Java's last synagogue demolished as U.S. students visit on religious pluralism tour from Washington Times

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 22 hours ago
'Beth Shalom, Java's only synagogue, was demolished in May after being sealed off by Islamic hard-liners since 2009, Freddy Istanto, the director of the Surabaya Heritage Society (SHS), told the Jakarta Globe on Saturday. He said it was uncertain who destroyed the building.' But Israel is an apartheid state? All over the Islamic world, non Muslims & the wrong kind of Muslims are being discriminated against and even killed, meanwhile the world says & does nothing for fear of being labelled Islamophobic. More on the plight of Jews here in The Washington Times but definitely not ... more »

Obama's new obsession with the global warming myth

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 22 hours ago
Barack Obama was visiting Berlin and at the Brandenburg Gate (which looked so ordinary to me a few years ago – relatively to my childhood – because no one is waiting there to shoot you anymore), he gave a speech urging the world to reduce nuclear weapons and... to combat climate change. *Our leaders before 1989 would surely be jealous if they saw how enthusiastically and uncritically the attendants of the rally were waving their parade sticks. But the reasons behind the difference are understandable: Obama is more charismatic and he probably more genuinely believes some of these l... more »

"The Rules"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago

Your moment of Zen

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 23 hours ago
By the sea. [graphic via]

Threats Of Primaries By GOP Racists Make It Harder For Non-Southerners To Back Popular Mainstream Positions

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 23 hours ago
As soon as Jim DeMint took over the already right-wing Heritage Foundation, he made sure it would be even more extreme and, especially, more racist. Their first big effort under his regime was to put out a phony "study" claiming immigration would cost American taxpayers gazillions of dollars-- or, to be more "exact," 6 trillion dollars. No doubt, South Carolina's former KKK senator brought the figure with him and asked the propagandists at Heritage to write a justification of it. The KKK senator from Alabama, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III was so sold on the Heritage nonsense, h... more »

"The Contemporary Relevance of the Iliad"

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 23 hours ago
"The *Iliad*," said the Emperor, "is, like Genesis and the whole Bible, the symbol and token of its age. In composing it, Homer was poet, orator, historian, legislator, geographer, theologian: he was the encyclopedist of his era." - Napoleon, 1816. Related: *Emperor Julian On The Social Value of Reading The Classics*. *Caroline Alexander: The Iliad's Lessons of War*. *Professor Stanley Lombardo reads from his translation of the Iliad*. *Napoleon On Homer*. Title: "The Contemporary Relevance of the Iliad." Source: Trinity University. Date Published: May 6, 2013. Description: ... more »

Morsi Picks Former Terrorist Whose Group Killed Tourists In Luxor To Be Governor of Luxor

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 23 hours ago
*Temple of Hatshepsut, Valley of the Kings, Luxor: Site of the 1997 terrorist attack on tourists by the Sunni Islamist group Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya.* This week, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi shocked both the Egyptian people and international observers when he picked Adel Asaad Al-Khayat, from the Islamist terrorist group/movement Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, to be the new governor of Luxor. The group targeted a famous tourist attraction in Luxor on November 17, 1997, killing 62 people. Their motive was to damage the tourist economy, and, by extension, destroy the credibility of t... more »

Syria updates June 20 , 2013..... How do you arm rebels which will inevitably turn against you at the first opportunity ? And is the rebel " cure " worse than the Assad " disease " ?

fredw at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Next_Phase_of_Syrian_Invasion_Begins_--_The_Central_Bank_Connection/26817/0/38/38/Y/M.html Next Phase of Syrian Invasion Begins -- The Central Bank ConnectionJune 20, 2013 Print Version *Brandon Turbeville* Activist Post As the secular Syrian government continues to mop up the mobs of death squads made up of mercenaries, religious fanatics, and the criminally insane (as well as cannibals), the second phase of destabilization is quickly taking shape - that is, the establishment of “no-fly zones”and the arming of the death squads by the West with even h... more »

How does your income affect green living?

Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 1 day ago
Many people, myself included, feel that green living walks hand-in-hand with frugal living. Reducing, reusing and recycling save us money. With today's world economy, conserving our income motivates us to walk gently on the earth. But what if money were no issue? [image: Gold bars representing all the money in the world.] Would we live as consciously? That's the subject of this month's survey. Please choose a response and then click the box labeled "Please Explain" and elaborate on your answer. Create your free online surveys with SurveyMonkey , the world's leading questionnaire... more »

"A Look to the Heavens"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
“Sharp telescopic views of magnificent edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 3628 show a puffy galactic disk divided by dark dust lanes. Of course, this deep galactic portrait puts some astronomers in mind of its popular moniker, The Hamburger Galaxy. *Click image for larger size.* The tantalizing island universe is about 100,000 light-years across and 35 million light-years away in the northern springtime constellation Leo. NGC 3628 shares its neighborhood in the local Universe with two other large spirals M65 and M66 in a grouping otherwise known as the Leo Triplet. Gravitational inter... more »

"In Search of the Soul"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
* "In Search of the Soul"* by Chet Raymo "The philosopher Rene Descartes insisted that body and soul are separate things. "I think, therefore I am," he famously said. His "am" was not flesh and bone. Science overwhelmingly refutes Descartes. "I am, therefore I think," is closer to the modern view. The soul as a thing separate from the body has been hunted to its lair. The lair is empty. Biology and neuroscience have not found the slightest evidence that a human self can exist independently of the body- not even a glimmer of body-soul dualism. Whatever the soul is, it is inext... more »

"If My Answers Frighten You..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
"If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions." - Samuel L. Jackson as Jules Winnfield, "Pulp Fiction"

The Daily "Near You?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
Aliso Viejo, California, USA. Thanks for stopping by.

Derrick Jensen, “Love Does Not Imply Pacifism.”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
*“Love Does Not Imply Pacifism.”* by Derrick Jensen “The people in power will not disappear voluntarily; giving flowers to the cops just isn’t going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.” - William S. Burroughs “Many hundreds of pages ago, and now for me many years ago, I wrote that this book was originally going to be an exploration of when counterviolence is an appropriate response to the violence of the system. In fact... more »

Sen. Ted Cruz: "Don't give weapons to people who want to kill us" (video)

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 1 day ago
*is Ted Cruz the only sane person (for now) in DC?*

Fernando Pessoa, "Follow Your Destiny"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
* * *"Follow Your Destiny" * "Follow your destiny, Water your plants, Love your roses. The rest is shadow Of unknown trees. Reality is always More or less Than what we want. Only we are always Equal to ourselves. It’s good to live alone, And noble and great Always to live simply. Leave pain on the altar As an offering to the gods. See life from a distance. Never question it. There’s nothing it can Tell you. The answer Lies beyond the Gods. But quietly imitate Olympus in your heart. The gods are gods Because they don’t think About what they are." - Fernando Pessoa

"O How Incomprehensible Everything Was..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
“O how incomprehensible everything was, and actually sad, although it was beautiful. One knew nothing. One lived and ran about the earth and rode through forests, and certain things looked so challenging and promising and nostalgic: a star in the evening, a blue harebell, a reed-green pond, the eye of a person or a cow. And sometimes it seemed that something never seen yet long desired was about to happen, that a veil would drop from it all, but then it passed, nothing happened, the riddle remained unsolved, the secret spell unbroken, and in the end one grew old and looked cunnin... more »

Remembering A True Warrior In This War Against Jewish Domination: My Struggle Against The Jews, By Eustace Mullins

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day ago
It has now been over three years since the world lost a true patriot and warrior against the Jewish supremacists bent on world domination.... I am of course talking about Eustace Mullins. Few people know that it was the works of Eustace Mullins, and a few others, that opened my own eyes to the criminality of the Jews, which helped propel me into writing this blog. For this article, I want to present the following article that comes from Lasha Darkmoon's website, at www.darkmoon.me. It was originally an article from Eustace Mullins himself, posted by the "Christian Vanguard" back i... more »

Important Health News; A New Giant Vaccine Scandal Exposes Government Lies And Psyops!

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day ago
For years now, I have been advocating in this blog for everyone to absolutely NOT take any vaccines, and in particular so called "flu vaccines"..... The facts are simple... These vaccines absolutely do NOT work, and having them injected into our bodies actually weakens the body's own immune system making it susceptible to other more dangerous diseases! It has been very shocking to me to watch people line up like gullible sheep, rolling up their arms, and taking poisons into their bodies... But now I want to present the following article, from the Activist Post website, at www.acti... more »

NSA totally out of control , alleged to spy and blackmail top government officials and military officers - and also President ( then Senator ) Obama ! ! ! BTW , did Obama hint he's been threatened with death like MLK ? And they are doing that to those folks , imagine what they are doing to everyone else who gets in their sights ?

fredw at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-06-20/nsa-whistleblower-nsa-spying-%E2%80%93-and-blackmailing-%E2%80%93-top-government-officials-an NSA Whistleblower: NSA Spying On – and Blackmailing – Top Government Officials and Military Officers NSA whistleblower Russel Tice – a key source in the 2005 New York Times report that blew the lid off the Bush administration’s use of warrantless wiretapping – told Peter B. Collins on Boiling Frog Post News (the website of high-level FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds): Tice: Okay. *They went after–and I know this because I had my hands literal... more »

"Why America Still Needs Affirmative Action" (John Cassidy)

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
*"The University of Texas's admission policies have enabled it to increase diversity. '[T]his is what the policy was intended to do,' says John Cassidy, 'and that's why the Roberts Court might well strike it down.' "* *"Having lived in the United States for almost thirty years, I am always amazed that Americans persist in believing that this is a land of unparalleled opportunity and social mobility."* *-- John Cassidy, in a newyorker.com blogpost,* "Why America Still Needs Affirmative Action" *by Ken* It appears that affirmative action is safe for this week. But as John Cassidy ma... more »

Which chinese banks have the biggest default risk ? CITIC , Minsheng and Industrial Bank seem to be the answer ....

fredw at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-20/which-chinese-banks-have-biggest-default-risk Which Chinese Banks Have The Biggest Default Risk? [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/20/2013 20:43 -0400 - Barclays - Bond - Carry Trade - default - Equity Markets - Excess Reserves - fixed - Reverse Repo - Volatility With China’s credit-to-GDP ratio over 200%, it appears, as Barclays notes, that the PBoC is acting in line with the government’s efforts to deleverage, rebalance and position the economy towards a path for susta... more »

mystery of the moon

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 1 day ago
moon rising sgt. karl wolf pioneers of space

Friday Morning Ramble: The ‘Orwell was Right’ Edition

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago
/ Battle lines have been drawn, on the housing front, to be the country’s most racist party. Taxpayer-funded houses for Maori only, says Hone’s racist Mana party. No, no, says Tariana and Pita’s racist Maori Party, that’s *our *policy. John Key, meanwhile, is “relaxed.” What does he care? *Mana Party unveils policy for Maori first-time home buyers that would see the state provide low interest, no-deposit loans, with 10,000 new state houses a year* – INTEREST.CO.NZ The reaction against stone-age wailing in classrooms has finally begun. *Teachers against karakia* – NZ HERALD Lin... more »

NEOCON ‘MAD MAX’ BOOT: WAR AGAINST AL-ASSAD IS PART OF U.S. ‘CONFLICT’ AGAINST IRAN

If there’s one thing neocon commentator ‘Mad Max’ Boot can be relied upon it’s his inability to even pretend – despite his efforts – that intervention in the Syrian war is for any reason other than an opportunity to weaken Israel’s arch enemy Iran who Boot says, ‘whether we like it or not, we are in conflict with’. Boot’s latest piece in *Commentary* exposes his real interests in getting Obama to use airpower against al-Assad. He ignores the reality that the Jihadi extremists within the rebel ranks have the upper hand as far as the opposition is concerned and that the downfall of al... more »

Greek Coalition about to collapse - will Samaras and Pasok attempt to soldier on ? Can Greece fill the gap that may or may not exist ( do you believe Eurogroup or IMF view of Greece ) ?

fredw at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
*PM: We will continue with or without DIMAR for another three years* Prime Minister Antonis Samaras declared late on Thursday night that his government would continue on its way toward reforms and sustained funding of the country from its creditors, with or without the support of the Democratic Left (DIMAR) which on Friday morning is expected to announce its secession from the coalition government. Samaras also confirmed he has backed down on the issue of the state broadcaster by agreeing to the hiring of as many as 2,000 of the 2,656 old ERT employees and for broadcasting to restar... more »

Harvey Organ's Gold and Silver Report - June 18 , 2013 .... Data , News and Views...

Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://harveyorgan.blogspot.com/2013/06/good-evening-ladies-and-gentlemen-gold.html Tuesday, June 18, 2013 GLD declines again/Comex inventories remain constant/another gold/silver raid Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen: Gold closed down by $16.20 to $1366.00 (comex closing time). Silver fell by 8 cents to $21.67 (comex closing time) In the access market at 5:00 pm, gold and silver finished trading at the following prices : gold: 1367.10 silver: $21.67 At the Comex, the open interest in silver rose by a rather large 2408 contracts to 150,968 contracts despite silver's fall in ... more »

"How It Really Is"

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

U.S. Median Wealth Falls by 1/4 in One Year (Maybe)

Kenneth Thomas at Middle Class Political Economist - 1 day ago
Les Leopold's report on Alternet that the United States is only 27th in median wealth per adult (h/t @papicek) is getting lots of well-deserved notice. But his article, based on the October 2012 Credit Suisse Global Wealth Databook, missed a big point. (I missed it, too, when the 2012 edition came out.) As I reported last July, the 2011 Global Wealth Databook estimated that U.S. median wealth per adult was $52,752. But by 2012, the figure had fallen to $38,786, a decline of 26.5%. This is, obviously, a huge number. Moreover, mean wealth per adult had grown by 1.0%, from $259,796 in ... more »

"The True Ruling Power of Our Country"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
* * *"The True Ruling Power of Our Country"* by James Quinn “When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.” – Thomas Jefferson "There are weeks that change the course of human history. There are weeks when people must choose sides. There are weeks that expose the real American traitors. There is no middle ground in this debate. You are either on the side of freedom, liberty, truth, transparency and the U.S. Constitution or you are on the side of mindless obedience, oppression, deception, corruption and tyranny... more »

Untitled

New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago
*Mayor Landrieu, City Council propose updated mobile food vending ordinance* *Geismar Residents Report Health Impacts from Explosion ~Louisiana Bucket Bridgade*
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