Monday, July 29, 2013

29 July - Blogs I'm Following II

10:47pm MDST

Say Goodbye To Hate Talk Radio? Not Quite Yet But... Limbaugh's Empire Of Mindless Bigotry Is Crumbling

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 26 minutes ago
There's no question that the intrepid StopRush and FlushRush activists deserve a lot of the credit for this, but Cumulus, America's second biggest radio chain announced that they can't make any money on Limbaugh's show any longer and that won't be renewing his contract at the end of the year-- making their 40 outlets that have carried him Limbaugh-free zones. And they're dumping Sean Hannity's GOP propaganda show at the same time. Radio Industry columnist Tim Taylor put the good news into perspective for his insider readers: “Negotiations broke down” between Clear Channel and Cum... more »

We're Doing A Lot!

Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 46 minutes ago
Feedback is important! It helps us make choices and determine our path in life. When it comes to green living, feedback is in short supply. We recycle and conserve, hoping that our efforts will make a difference. But, in reality, the results can take years to see. In our last survey, we asked readers to select all the Eco-friendly activities that they participate in. Twenty-four people responded. Here are the results: *ACTIVITYRESPONSESRecycling24Using Reusable Bags23Using Reusable Water Bottles21Walking17Upcycling16Washing Clothes in Cold Water16Eating Meatless Meals16Eating Beef-... more »

Tom Hayden : Secrecy Protests Split American Elites

thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 hour ago
Image from ElectronicFrontierFoundation / Flickr. Protests against secrecy drive elites into debate A virtual empire composed of distant and interconnected private and public elites contradicts representative democracy as virtually all Americans understand it. By Tom Hayden / The Rag Blog / July 29, 2013 Concerned citizens need to crack open the covers of C. Wright Mills' The Power Elite [

The IRS want to the ability to yank your passport

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 hour ago
A reader forwarded an essay by Joe Nagel from an offshore ex-pat newsletter which I will quote in brief. Its another brick in the ever increasing police state we find this country becoming... Recently, the United States Senate passed a piece of legislation called the "Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act." Essentially, this is a transportation bill. The main focus is on the construction of roads and bridges. Title III of the act is a revenue provision concerning gas-guzzling cars, leaking underground storage tanks, import duties, and a number of other fees, tax... more »

Important Question: WHY Does Canada Support Israel Right Or Wrong?

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 2 hours ago
Canada is Israeli occupied territory. It is so sad for me to make that statement, because it is absolutely true. When it comes to supporting the criminal and terrorist state of Israel, no matter how evil and sinister its actions may be, there is no more a staunch supporter of that horrible state than my country, Canada! I have long wondered about how this country, Canada, that used to, at one time, pride itself on being possibly the most peace loving and honest country on the face of planet Earth has now turned into nothing more than a Jewish controlled sock puppet that bends over... more »

Isidor Isaac Rabi (Born On July 29, 1898)

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 2 hours ago
"I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up, and they keep their curiosity." - *Isidor Isaac Rabi*. *Wikipedia: * Isidor Isaac Rabi (29 July 1898 – 11 January 1988) was a Galician-born American physicist and Nobel laureate, recognized in 1944 for his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance, which is used in magnetic resonance imaging. He was also involved in the development of the cavity magnetron, which is used in microwave radar and microwave ovens. . . During World War II he worked on radar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Radiation... more »

HISTORY / Bob Feldman : A People's History of Egypt, Part 4, 1849-1879

thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 2 hours ago
Building the Suez Canal. Image from Modern School. A people's history: The movement to democratize Egypt Part 4: 1849-1879 period -- From free trade and the Suez Canal to bankruptcy and austerity By Bob Feldman / The Rag Blog / July 29, 2013 [With all the dramatic activity in Egypt, Bob Feldman's Rag Blog "people's history" series, "The Movement to Democratize Egypt," could not be more

Project XIII Update and App Demo

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 3 hours ago
Caleb Skinner discusses the updated app (yes there was a bug in the pure cellular mode, now fixed) and gives a walk through of the Project XIII app on the Windows 8 Phone. The video can also be found HERE on the Project XII web site. -AK

Egyptian Journalist Yasser Rizq On Why The June 30 Revolution Was Not A Coup

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 3 hours ago
*"Opponents of ousted president Mohammed Morsi hold up a poster of the Egyptian defence minister, Gen Abdel Fattah El Sisi, with an Arabic caption that reads, ‘The lion of Egypt’. AP"* - Bradley Hope, *"Is Egypt's defence minister El Sisi its president in waiting?"* The National, July 22, 2013. *Egyptian Journalist Yasser Rizq On Why The June 30 Revolution Was Not A Coup. * The article below is by a high-level Egyptian journalist who had meetings with General Sisi and was in frequent contact with him prior to the dismissal of Morsi, so take his glowing portrayal with a g... more »

The Daily "Near You?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
Sacramento, California, USA. Thanks for stopping by.

THE BATTLES WITHIN ISLAM: ISLAMIC SECTARIANISM AND MODERNITY

It’s clear that the strain of secular modernity within the Arab and Islamic world, particularly in North Africa and through the Middle East, is finally being felt as it conflicts with the conservatism of Islamic law and its struggle for control of the state. It is polarising the peoples of many Arab and Islamic nations where the repercussions of the Arab Spring revolutions are now being felt in a myriad of ways as it ripples through the region. Islam will likely remain the dominant religion of these regions even among the secular modernists who would prefer to be free of the constra... more »

Chief Justice Roberts does everything he can to see that the FISA court remains a trusty tool of the national-security state

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
*So you think you have a right to know something, anything, about the workings of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court? Maybe we need to, um, discuss this at greater length in, you know, secret.* *"[The members of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court] all seem to have some type of a pretty conservative bent, I don't think that is what the Congress envisioned when giving the chief justice that authority. Maybe they didn't think about the ramifications of giving that much power to one person."* *-- TN Rep. Steve Cohen, to the NYT's Charlie Savage, in* "Roberts's Picks Re... more »

Musical Interlude: Liquid Mind, “Night Light”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
Liquid Mind, “Night Light” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5VzYAPBVJc

"How It Really Is"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago

Chet Raymo, “Speaking of Water…”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
* “Speaking of Water…”* by Chet Raymo “How many water molecules- H2O- are there in the world's oceans? This is the kind of time-wasting calculation I love doing, but I will leave it as an exercise for one of you. Look up the mass of a proton in grams. A water molecule has essentially the mass of 18 protons (hydrogen=1, oxygen=8 protons + 8 neutrons; remember, this is an order of magnitude calculation). A cubic centimeter of water has (by definition) a mass of one gram. Divide for the number of water molecules in a cubic centimeter of water. How many cubic centimeters in the oc... more »

Unitary Scam

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 3 hours ago
Readers might be interested to hear that Auckland Council’s coming Unitary Plan will “punish you,” in the words of the Deputy Mayoress, if your building doesn’t get a tick from the Green Building Council. They don’t seem to have noticed that "Green building" certification is a scam: What [Green Building] designers deliver is what most [Green Building] building owners want—namely, green publicity, not energy savings. Do they know it’s a scam? Or care? [Hat tip Robert Tracinski] Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at i... more »

Now that's a cough suppressant!

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 4 hours ago
This cough remedy contained codeine, chloroform and cannabis:

Saudi prince defects from Royal family - small wind of change in Saudi Arabia ?

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 4 hours ago
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/saudi-prince-defects-from-royal-family-report.aspx?pageID=238&nID=51544&NewsCatID=352 Saudi prince defects from royal family: Report RIYADH Print PageSend to friend » - - - - - Share Saudi Prince Khalid Bin Farhan al-Saud has announced his defection from the royal family, referring to his “suffering” under reign of al-Saud and called on other princes to break their silence. “With pride, I announce my defection from al-Saudi family in Saudi Arabia,” he wrote in his statement, according to a report from the Tehran-based Al-Alam news... more »

Bernanke forced to testify regarding Fed's AIG bailout..... JP Morgan fined 400 million by FERC for manipulating Power market.............. Steve Cohen still throws big party in the Hamptons despite SAC Capital Advisers is criminally indicted last week - the show must go on I guess........Meanwhile , the Fed has spent billions bailoing out foreign banks - guess we know whom the Fed serves - it's not main street folks ! .

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 4 hours ago
Fed's Bernanke Should Testify in AIG Bailout Lawsuit, Judge RulesJuly 29, 2013 Print Version *Source:* Money News  A U.S. judge said Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke should be required to testify in the lawsuit by the former chief of American International Group Inc., Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, against the United States over the insurer's 2008 bailout. Judge Thomas Wheeler of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims on Monday rejected the government's effort to keep Bernanke from being subjected to a deposition by Greenberg's Starr International Co. Wheeler called Bernanke a "key witn... more »

Holy Mesopotamia Batman: First Grade CCSS vocabulary.

Chris Cerrone at SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE - 4 hours ago
I have been giving the New York State Education Department’s new Common Core curriculum modules a study over the last few weeks. I see these modules as an insulting scripted curriculum that favors test preparation skills over learning. I teach middle school social studies so new reforms such as the Common Core have not had […]

INVENTION OF THE DAY: The device that makes wheelchairs obsolete

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 4 hours ago
Sorry, I don’t know the inventor, but isn’t this another great example of technology making human life better. It makes you wonder just who humanity’s real benefactors really are, don’t you think. [Hat tip Terry V.] Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)

DOWN TO THE DOCTOR’S: The Chan Ban & the Bill Banners

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 5 hours ago
*1. This week, Libertarianz leader Dr Richard McGrath wonders aloud about Labour’s worshipping of the ugly goddess Xenophobia.* David Shearer's call to restrict ownership of existing homes to New Zealand residents is another direct assault on the free market, and the death knell for Labour's hopes of attracting Asian voters. Unlike Labour’s kneejerk xenophobia, my party has actually thought things through. We have a better and much simpler solution to housing unaffordability which focuses on supply, and makes Shearer’s foreigner-hatred unnecessary. It looks like this: - dere... more »

Fast Food workers strke - demand 100 percent wage increase ! Wonder when Walmart workers get the same idea ?

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 5 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/node/476974 US Fast Food Workers Strike, Demand 100% Pay Raise [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/29/2013 18:40 -0400 - Detroit - New York City *"It's noisy, it's really hot, fast, they rush you. Sometimes you don't even get breaks. All for $7.25? It's crazy,"* is how one worker described the conditions that have caused her and the rest of America's fast-food employees to go on strike today. They *demand the right to unionize and better pay - calling for a raise in the minimum wage from $7.25 to $15*. Workers chanted,... more »

Just because you saw it on Facebook doesn't make it true

Jody Paterson at A Closer Look: Jody Paterson - 6 hours ago
I love almost everything about Facebook, from the photo-sharing and the cute-animal videos to the free emoticons you can use in your chats. But God help us if Facebook ends up being a news source for people in a post-newspaper world. The potential power of a medium like Facebook can’t be overstated in this viral age. Anything I write on my page can be shared in a heartbeat by any of my 1,522 Facebook friends, whose own friends (and their friends’ friends, and their friends’ friends’ friends) can then spread the word even farther afield in a nano-second. No harm done if... more »

Israeli jets bomb Syria again? Another weapons convoy?

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 6 hours ago
*As of this moment, I find this quite dubious*. And, am looking for more info on this most recent alleged Israeli airstrike. The story comes via Israeli media from opposition sources. Very questionable sourcing, indeed! *Report: Israel Bombs Another Syrian Weapons Convoy* Israeli air force jets bombed trucks carrying Syrian missiles bound for Hizbullah's warehouses in Lebanon, according to Syrian opposition sources. The sources, were cited Sunday by* Voice of Israel *radio's Arabic-language service, which was quoted by *i24 News*. The *Friday night bombing* reportedly* targeted a Syri... more »

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 6 hours ago
*Oil and gas industry must pay for the damage it's caused ~Lt. General Russel L. Honore* *The Big Oil lawsuit and wetlands war ~Clancy Dubos, Gambit *

Sea Level Rise from Climate Central

gail zawacki at Wit's End - 7 hours ago
written by Ben Strauss (the entire article is here): We have two sea levels: the sea level of today, and the far higher sea level that is already being locked in for some distant tomorrow. In a new paper published Monday in the *Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences* (PNAS), I analyze the growth of the locked-in amount of sea level rise and other implications of Levermann and colleagues’ work. This article and its interactive map are based on this new PNAS paper, and they include extended results. To begin with, it appears that the amount of carbon pollution to date has ... more »

healthy slow-cooker recipe of the week: help me make delicious lentil soup

laura k at wmtc - 7 hours ago
The healthy slow-cooker recipe of the week - now running about every-other week - has hit a snag: lentil soup. I love lentil soup, but my own is turning out just OK, not really delicious. After the first try was too bland, Stephanie suggested using allspice and more bay leaves. Excellent idea! I upped the bay leaves from three to six, and added allspice. Result: big improvement, but still not great. If you make delicious lentil soup, can you share your secrets? (And if the secret is homemade stock, then I'm out of luck.) More below. * * * * I'm still using the hell out of my slow... more »

Go VIRAL!!!! The Avenging Uterus, Penis Havers, and Other Cartoons of Feminist Backlash

Best laugh ever. And it may be the only way to win over the forces of evil. Let's send it around the world. The Avenging Uterus and Other Cartoons of Feminist BacklashMonday, 29 July 2013 By Matt Bors CLAP! CLAP! CLAP! CLAP! CLAP! CLAP! CLAP! CLAP! CLAP!

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 7 hours ago
*FBI raids rescue 105 kids forced into prostitution* *Fugate-aboudit!: Landrieu, Vitter Tell Obama to Keep FEMA Head ~Stephen Babcock, NOLA DEFENDER*

Ducklings!

Charli Carpenter at Duck of Minerva - 7 hours ago
I am delighted to report that Steve Saideman, Robert Kelly and Megan MacKenzie will be joining the ranks of permanent Duck contributors as of today. This leaves room for new guest bloggers: Stacie Goddard, Johannes Urpelainen and Jillian Schwedler. Stacie Goddard joins us from Wellesley College where she teaches international conflict, specializing in diplomacy, security Continue reading

Icing can help back pain ...

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 7 hours ago

OKLAHOMA RIGHT & LEFT PROTEST US SYRIA POLICY

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 7 hours ago
I am very impressed to see this protest of folks from the right wing and left wing together in Oklahoma. They are taking on US Syria policy. We need more of this. When I was up in Augusta a couple of months ago for the drone hearings I met a bunch of guys from right wing groups there for gun control hearings. While we didn't agree on gun control we did find common ground on drone surveillance across Maine. One of them showed me a bumper sticker that read "Protect my 2nd amendment rights to shoot down drones." I told one of the guys on that occasion that the corporate oligarch... more »

Hawai'i Senate Race: Brian Schatz's Record On Choice Is Far Better Than Colleen Hanabusa's

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago
Another wise Brain Schatz supporter More often than not, EMILY's List backs conservative women but they claim they only back ones who are pro-Choice. And most of the conservative women they endorse are indeed pro-Choice... kinda, sorta. Sometimes they're far less pro-Choice than the progressive men EMILY's List is always on a jihad against. Almost every race pitting one of the EMILY'S List conservative women against a progressive male, shows the male to be the more pro-Choice. And that's certainly the case in the Hawai'i Senate race this cycle in which EMILY's List has encouraged con... more »

Another Secret CON Fetus Fetishist

noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 7 hours ago
From Lisa Kirbie, Warren Kinsella's gf, we learn that abortion has become an issue in at least one of the upcoming Ontario by-elections. Ali Chahbar, running for the Ontario PCs in London West, has garnered Campaign Life's highest rating. *Rating: Pro-life, pro-family* In a July 16th telco with a pro-life leader, Chahbar indicated that he is strongly pro-life and was raised with the value that human life is sacred. Otherwise pickings are slim for fetus fetishists in the five elections: only three candidates (Chahbar and two representing the Family Coalition Party, aka Christian Tal... more »

Let's Retire the "Once in a Hundred Years" Label

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 8 hours ago
Calgary had a "once in a hundred years" flood in 2005. Eight years later it had a "once in a hundred years" flood that was three times worse. There's something reassuring about bad events labelled "once in a hundred years" because you know that you've survived something you won't have to deal with again in your lifetime. You've dodged that bullet. Don't worry, be happy. But the two flooding events that hit Toronto this year and the 2008 and 2013 floods that devastated Calgary should be cause enough to ditch the "once in a century" assurance about anything. *The Atlantic Citie... more »

We Have to End Police Killings and Brutality.

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 8 hours ago
Indulge me for a minute. Watch closely the video of Saturday night's killing of a kid aboard a Toronto streetcar. The young man was apparently holding a knife with a 3-inch blade and had ignored a police command to drop it. Ignore the officer with the gun doing the shooting. Watch the other officers at the scene as they were before, during, and after the shooting. Ignore everybody except those 'bystander' officers. I count four officers near the front door of the bus before the shooting begins. Off camera there are several others who enter the frame as the shots were fired... more »

Rape Threats, Twitter, and Masculine Crisis

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 8 hours ago
So, Caroline Criado-Perez, wages a successful campaign to get Jane Austen onto the £10 note and a pledge that, in future, the Bank of England's designs will better reflect the actual look and shape of British society. A welcome happenstance for everyone who isn't white, male and posh. But not all. Unfortunately, the bigger story has been the rape and sexual assault threats she's been on the receiving end of. Caroline talks about some examples here. It goes without saying the volume of misogynistic abuse has generated a furious backlash, from folk bombarding key members of Twitter s... more »

“My Life in Circles: Why Metadata is Incredibly Intimate”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago
* * *“My Life in Circles: * *Why Metadata is Incredibly Intimate”* By Matthew Harwood “One of the most disingenuous arguments in the aftermath of the NSA spying revelations is that the American people shouldn't be concerned about the government hoovering up its sensitive information because it's only metadata- or a fancy way of saying data about the data. "This is just metadata," Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein assured the American people, referring to the NSA's bulk collection of Americans call records. "There is no content involved." President Obama an... more »

Confessions of an Economic Hitman A transcript of the Lew Rockwell Show episode 187 with John Perkins.

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 8 hours ago
*Confessions of an Economic Hitman* *A transcript of the Lew Rockwell Show episode 187 with John Perkins.* July 29, 2013 *ANNOUNCER*: This is the Lew Rockwell Show. *ROCKWELL*: Well, what an honor it is to have as our guest today on the show, John Perkins. I think that if Hollywood weren’t so connected to the Pentagon, maybe there’d be a movie about him, staring George Clooney. But there’s not a movie because of the sorts of books he’s written, especially *Confessions of an Economic Hitman* that was on *The New York Times* best-seller list for a year and a half and tr... more »

“The American Surveillance State Is Here. Can It Be Evaded?”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago
* * * “The American Surveillance State Is Here.* * Can It Be Evaded?”* By John W. Whitehead “If, as it seems, we are in the process of becoming a totalitarian society in which the state apparatus is all-powerful, the ethics most important for the survival of the true, free, human individual would be: cheat, lie, evade, fake it, be elsewhere, forge documents, build improved electronic gadgets in your garage that’ll outwit the gadgets used by the authorities.” – Philip K. Dick, author of Minority Report On any given day, the average American going about his daily business will be ... more »

Kessler’s streak ends but Dowd’s continues!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 9 hours ago
*MONDAY, JULY 29, 2013* *Same as it ever was:* Your Daily Howler just keeps getting results! Yesterday, for the second straight week, Glenn Kessler, the Washington Post Fact-Checker, handed his vaunted Pinocchios to a Republican, thus bowing to our will. Joe DiMaggio’s streak is safe. Not so, perhaps, Maureen Dowd’s. Yesterday, Dowd extended her current "silly shit" streak with another column on Anthony’s Weiner. She may be targeting her own record streak for waste-of-time columns, a record she established in the summer of 1999. That April, Dowd was handed the Pulitzer Prize for h... more »

Snowden's Dad SCHOOLS Obama, Pelosi, and Holder in Open Letter

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 9 hours ago
Obama Swearing to Uphold the Constitution Dees Illustration Sunday, July 28, 2013 *Snowden's Dad SCHOOLS Obama, Pelosi, and Holder in Open Letter* *Re: Civil Disobedience, Edward J. Snowden, and the Constitution* Dear Mr. President: You are acutely aware that the history of liberty is a history of civil disobedience to unjust laws or practices. As Edmund Burke sermonized, “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” Civil disobedience is not the first, but the last option. Henry David Thoreau wrote with profound restraint in Civil Disobedience: “If... more »

Choosing your earth

Sophia Love at AMERICAN KABUKI - 9 hours ago
Every so often I stick my toe in the deep end of “popular” culture just to gauge its relevance. Feeling especially reckless, I may go as deep as to read the Reddit comments or listen to call in AM radio shows. In the midst of one such dip today, a sudden thought appeared “*We are already living on more than one earth*.” I’ve been holding out for one catalyzing event and a split. What I see today are many splits and multiple events. Perhaps we’ll all experience a singular, life altering moment, yet right now we are in the midst of a seamless, rapid, inescapable shift. I’v... more »

Trayvon/Zimmerman

Paul Coker at News Spike - 9 hours ago
Christopher Hitchens: Trayvon/Zimmerman from Spike1138 on Vimeo. Murder committed in the course of aggressively stalking a citizen by someone without a badge makes the case first, not second degree murder. This is a premeditated criminal act.

Colon

Paul Coker at News Spike - 9 hours ago
On the morning of 9/11, almost every senior or notable Zionist on the face of the Earth was in either New York, Washington or London, within minutes of a TV Studio, making themselves available to be interviewed about what they thought the days events might auger and what they should do next. (And none of them expressed surprise) The most senior black and powerful black man in America wasn't. He had been sent to Columbia at short notice and was far from the President and far from having his finger on the pulse of the National Security States of America Colin Powell's endorsem... more »

Corroboration absent and judgment set aside

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 9 hours ago
Anten v. Bhalerao, 2013 ONCA 499 uses the concept of corroboration to set aside a finding of incapacity. The testimony of a witness is said to be corroborated when it is shown to correspond with the representation of some other witness, or to comport with some facts otherwise known or established. Corroboration is seldom seen in modern Canadian law – this is an unusual case where it is key: [28] It was common ground that s. 14(1) of the Evidence Act applied in this case, and that, in order for the Board to uphold the respondent’s finding of incapacity, the respondent’s evide... more »

A lot of old fogeys are watching the news!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 9 hours ago
*MONDAY, JULY 29, 2013* *Two cable tribes, Old and Older:* Very little seems to have changed. People who watch cable news still tend to be old fogies. Bill Carter did the report last week. The basic take-away reads like this: MSNBC versus Fox represents Old versus Older: CARTER (7/23/13): Fox News continues to be near the top in cable television in terms of the number of viewers it attracts, but it is near the top in another category, too: the median age of its audience is among the oldest in television. For most of the television business—the segment that relies on advertising—t... more »

“Have Credit-Based Money, Will Fail”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago
* * *“Have Credit-Based Money, Will Fail”* by Bill Bonner “Over the last 10,000 years, humans have tried two different kinds of “money.” They began with exchanges based on credit — “You give me a chicken… I’ll pay you back later, maybe by helping you build a new wigwam.” Then, when society became too large and extensive, they switched to gold and silver. The advantage of this was obvious: You didn’t have to remember who owed what to whom. You could settle up right away. “You give me a chicken. I give you a little piece of silver. Done deal.” Periodically, governments were tempted... more »

HOME AND BACK TO WORK

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 10 hours ago
I made it home at 1:00 am this morning. I could barely make it up the stairs with my bags. I slept until 11:00 am and had to get to work doing some legal stuff for my most recent arrest at Hancock Field drone base in Syracuse, New York. As it is I am late on it anyway. When I came through passport control upon reentering the US at the Dallas airport yesterday the guy at the booth ran my passport into his computer, marked a big red "I" on my reentry form, and said, "Come with me." My first thought was here we go again. The same thing happened to me when I came back from our Glo... more »

Catch of the Day

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 10 hours ago
Great Ezra Klein item defending August recess. For Congress that is. As he points out, Congress for the most part is very much at work during what they try to call a "district work period." I'm not sure that all 535 Members of Congress are intense hard workers, but in my first and second hand experience (I've known a fair number of people who worked on the Hill), not to mention what more careful research has found, the overwhelming majority work hard at their jobs. Doesn't mean they are all great at it; we've all known people who work hard but don't get anything done! The one thing... more »

UHC 17: First, Second and Third Lines of UHC for the Poor

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 10 hours ago
Later today, I will attend a round table discussion on Health System Shapers (HSS), Patients and Consumers Sector, at the Department of Health (DOH) main office. The goal of this and related fora is to further fine tune the government’s universal health care (UHC) goal. Last week, I also attended the two-days (July 25-26) “Policy Dialogue on UHC and Access to Medicines “ held at the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) in Makati. Here are two of the definitions or presentations about UHC. This one is from DOH UnderSec. Madeleine “Madz” de Rosas Valera in her presentation, “The Philip... more »

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 10 hours ago
*We are the ones who knock ~Moosedenied* *~Life is a terminal disease, and while in the back of our minds we all know that sooner or later the other shoe will inevitably drop, that's no reason to be a simpering douchebag about it in the meantime. Because it damn sure ain't happening today. Not when there's so much cooking still to be done. Success to be achieved. Jerks to stick it to. Not sure when or why I lost track of that, but a big high five to AWD for bringing a little of that much-needed crystal blue persuasion and snapping me out of my apparent offseason funk. You, sir, are m... more »

Sharing Good Information

Paul Coker at News Spike - 11 hours ago
* * *"He who speaks the truth will be chased out of nine villages"* *- Turkish Proverb* * * * * *"...in your own community, you speak privately to your colleagues, some of whom certainly feel as you do; * *but what do they say?* * * * They say, * *‘It’s not so bad’ * *or ‘You’re seeing things’ * *or ‘You’re an alarmist.’* * * *"And you are an alarmist. * * * *You are saying that this must lead to this, and you can’t prove it. * * * *These are the beginnings, yes; * *but how do you know for sure when you don’t know the end, and how do you know, or even surmise, the end?* * * *On the one h... more »

If I use "ALEC" I can Get More Hits

2old2care at Because I Can - 11 hours ago
*Well....* evidently the broo-haha around ALEC has become mainstream enough that people think they can throw "ALEC" in the title for more exposure - more hits to their webpage. Take this for example - published on 7/27 ALEC Distracts Electorate From Economy, Jobs; Is It Too Late? ALEC Distracts Electorate From Economy, Jobs ALEC Distracts Electorate Really? REALLY? Hmmm - tell me more. After reading the whole article - FOUR page in Word single spaced - here's all he has to say about ALEC. *ALEC Distracts Electorate From Economy, Jobs; Is It Too Late?* July 27, 2013 By Harvey ... more »

Coming Soon, Your Eyes on the World

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours ago
Astronaut Chris Hadfield reconnected countless millions of people to the wonders of space. His space station performance of the David Bowie classic "Space Oddity" has racked up more than 17-million hits on YouTube since its release two months ago. Now two Vancouver brothers have come up with a venture to let you share something of the experience that crews of the space station enjoy. Their company has a deal to install and operate two cameras that will be attached to the space station and will stream real time video back to us on *terra firma*. One camera will be fixed. The ... more »

What's Old Is New Again. The Return of the Workhouse.

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours ago
Stephen Harper has a prison fetish. Despite steady declines in crime rates in Canada over the past four decades, Steve is hell bent on building new prisons. We like to mock him for this but maybe we shouldn't be so quick to dismiss it as the product of a whacked-out fundamentalist mind. Harper just might be introducing Canada to a project that's well underway in the United States - the return of the workhouse and the transformation of the poor into profitable slave labour. That, at least, is the way Chris Hedges sees it. *Poor people, especially those of color, are worth no... more »

The strange case of Alexei Navalny

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 11 hours ago
*American commentators apply an entirely different yardstick to Navalny, while their peer group back home casts Anthony Weiner as the original sinner. * MK Bhadrakumer @ Russia India Report *I am not putting this news up because of concern for Anthony Weiner. What this article shows, clearly, is that the NATO/corporate controlled western media is always on message for the imperial war/destabilization agenda. While Weiner is chastized, as he should be. Navalny is lionized and he should not be. What is the difference? Only the political agenda.* *The indiscretion of Anthony Weine... more »

Blue America Welcomes Barbara Buono

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago
Blue America primarily gets involved with congressional races, but after Digby, John and I met New Jersey state Senator Barbara Buono-- and reflected on the dangers of Chris Christie-- not just in the Garden State, but across America-- we opened this special new ActBlue page for progressive gubernatorial candidates. Earlier today Barbara announced her choice of Milly Silva to run for lieutenant governor, which adds a charismatic young Hispanic woman labor leader (an executive vice president of the SEIU) who shares her working class background to the Democratic ticket. And it pote... more »

What Religion Makes You Better? Answer Given By The Dali Lama

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 12 hours ago
Source: http://notesalongthepath.com/2013/07/28/what-religion-makes-me-better-from-the-dalai-lama/

Electricity Protests Spread To 5 Of Iraq’s Provinces

Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 12 hours ago
The summer months have brought about Iraq’s seasonal hot weather. That has also led to a new wave of protests over power shortages for the third time in four years. The demonstrations started in Nasiriyah in Dhi Qar in early June 2013, and have since spread to Basra, Muthanna, Maysan, and Wasit governorates. They have charged the government with incompetence and corruption, and asked for Deputy Premier Shahristani who is in charge of energy policy and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to step down. The growing protests have applied enough pressure on Baghdad that Maliki, Shahristani, ... more »

Saturday In The Park

Southern Man at Southern Man - 12 hours ago
Southern Man and a few friends drove an hour northwest to one of the state parks for a day of fun. The park entrance. There was a geocache hidden in those trees to the right. Girls cannot park. At the lodge. Photo by a friendly passer-by. Mini golf. The winner! Lunch. Another geocache was hidden near this mural. A good time was had by all.

A Billion Bullets

gail zawacki at Wit's End - 12 hours ago
I don't have television, so I found these compilations of news reports quite entertaining. There is a strange confluence of far right and far left - neither trusts the government, with good reason. The difference is the crackpot right thinks the government is militarizing the police and stripping away legal protections because there is a conspiracy to enslave the citizens and impose a "New World Order" - whereas the left is (or so I imagine) more concerned that the government is anticipating civil unrest because the climate is dangerously destabilized which will lead to empty shel... more »

Reza Aslan and the nearly hilarious disassembly of Fox-News presenter Lauren Green

address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 12 hours ago
Link: http://youtu.be/YY92TV4_Wc0 - click in picture to start this film! Reza Aslan's new book: 'Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth' made him appear in Rupert Murdock's "Fox News" trying to outfox Aslan in an item called "Spirited Debate", presented by Lauren Green. She will remember! Rightwing and/or neo-conservative (Christian) journalism are living "a race to the bottom" of news-presenting these days. Their associated printed media aren't precisely flourishing anymore. People are getting sick and tired of often unsubstantiated, biased quasi-'news facts' where they can... more »

Dubliners: What happens as the bogus tale spreads!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 12 hours ago
*MONDAY, JULY 29, 2013* *To us, this smells like sadism:* There is no perfect set of rules explaining how best to raise a child. What should you tell a child about the dangers the world presents? *When *should he or she be told about those dangers? How *much* should a child be told? In how much detail? There is no perfect set of rules to answer such questions for parents. That said, we thought Slate’s recent account of child-reading in liberal brainiac Cambridge was extremely sad and carried an obvious smell. To us, there was a scent of sadism in the air as we read the first-pers... more »

Obama Is Complicit in Nation's Violent, Discriminatory Behavior, Laws

Roberto Rodriguez at Dr Cintli - 13 hours ago
The president and the attorney general of the United States want to re-examine the nation's "stand your ground" laws. That should have been last year's news. As a result of the George Zimmerman verdict, the president also wants all of us to have a conversation, not necessarily a national conversation but conversations within our own families and churches and, most especially, with ourselves about our own biases. We should all be able all do that, but not at the expense of a national conversation that leads to a change in - not simply in attitudes or biases - but in discriminatory ... more »

Time to play?

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

Deference to findings of fact

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 13 hours ago
Barclays Bank PLC v. Devonshire Trust, 2013 ONCA 494: [90] Second, findings of fact by the trial judge attract deference on appeal and are only reviewable by this court if they reveal palpable and overriding error: *Waxman v. Waxman* (2004), 186 O.A.C. 201 (C.A.), at para. 291. This standard applies to all factual findings, whether based on credibility assessments, the weighing of competing evidence, expert evidence, or the drawing of inferences from primary facts: see *Waxman*, at paras. 359-60. Findings of fact grounded in credibility assessments are particularly difficult t... more »

"Astronomical" Lughnasadh

Paul Coker at News Spike - 13 hours ago
I quote The Enemy: In the cross-quarter reckoning of former NASA scientist Robert Gillespie, Northern Lughnasadh occurs when the Sun's ecliptic longitude/Earth's heliocentric longitude reaches 135 degrees. In 2013 this will occur at *8:21 UTC on August 7.* *WARNING: * *The following footage is quoted from "Charles Manson: Superstar", a documentary prepared by self-described Satanists and members of the Church of Satan * * * (though not Acquino's Temple of Set NATO/NSA/CIA/Processean offshoot* (I don't think)*) * * *It may contain disinformation, for that reason, but I sus... more »

MEET VFP

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 13 hours ago
Searching for Occupy met up with Veterans for Peace all across the country. They had plenty to say about War and Peace as well as the War on Mother Earth and all humanity.

Israel Matzav: What a 'Palestinian negotiator's Facebook page says about the chances for peace

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 13 hours ago
If Dr. Mohammed Shtayyeh, one of the two 'negotiators' representing 'Moderate' 'Palestinian' President Abbas doesn't want a two state solution why should Israel take negotiations seriously? More here http://israelmatzav.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/what-palestinian-negotiators-facebook.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&m=1

Housekeeping

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 13 hours ago
Not sure how much I'll post today and tomorrow because Greg is taking a couple days off, so I'll be over there more than usual. Meanwhile, over the weekend we here at Plain Blog celebrated a birthday; I've been doing this four years, now. Woo! Easy slogan for the occasion: Four More Years! Thanks are due: to Greg, to the other folks at the Post and at Salon and TAP; to John and the other political science bloggers; to all the great commenters here; and especially to those who have supported Plain Blog with kind words and links. Thank you! I suppose I should thank all the politician... more »

The Day the Earth Stood Still

Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 13 hours ago
*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* I just watched –again –the Keanu Reeves version of 'The Day the Earth Stood Still', a high tech re-write/re-make of the original with Michael Rennie as Klaato. Both versions are allegorical, high-tech “scripture” in which a “being” from “the heavens” comes to earth where he is presumed to have “died” for our sins. Does this sound familiar? Klaato arrives on earth with a message: people of Earth, get a clue, resolve your differences, shut up, get your shit together! In the original, Klaato (Michael Rennie) assumes the name “Carpenter”. Again ... more »

What if guys and girls switched roles at the gym?

CM at LILITH NEWS - 13 hours ago
What if guys and girls switched roles at the gym? Below is an amusing video that takes punches at the different things men and women do at the gym. Looking for a personal trainer in Toronto for training in your condo or local park? Look no further than Cardio Trek?

Psychosis in the Sky?

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 13 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] *How police helicopter madness became the norm in L.A.* click to enlarge Bernie Suarez For those who live in Los Angeles, you wake up in the morning and perhaps think to yourself all the things you want to accomplish today or this week. You are ready for the day and then all is interrupted by a police helicopter flying right over your house. That’s right, it’s that familiar sound: the annoying sound of the helicopter draws a strong sense of weariness, maybe a little paranoia. Deep down you are thinking: what are the police u... more »

EPA to Raise Allowable Glyphosate Pesticide Levels in Food Crops by 3,000%!

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 14 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] *Another win for biotech giant Monsanto equals another loss for humanity.* Melissa Melton Just days ago, RT.com reported that the U.S. Environmental “Protection” Agency is set to raise the allowable limits of Monsanto’s best-selling glyphosate pesticide Roundup in our nation’s food crops to ridiculously high levels: Through the EPA’s new standards, the amount of allowable glyphosate in oilseed crops such as flax, soybeans and canola will be increased from 20 parts per million (ppm) to 40 ppm, which GM Watch acknowledged is o... more »

How Do We Control Our Police?

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 14 hours ago
The needless, cowardly shooting of a young man with a 3-inch knife (he was alone in a stopped streetcar and all the police were outside on the street) by the Toronto Police Service has prompted some to call for bringing our police under control. The Robert Dziekanski murder. The abuse of Stacey Bonds. The Toronto G20. There are so many other abuses, too many to mention. Often, these actions are performed in the presence of their own surveillance cameras, either in their stations or their squad cars. The perpetrators and their fellow officers are all acting as if their brutality co... more »

Explosion à Lac-Mégantic: j’accuse! - Lettre à M. Stephen Harper, premier ministre du Canada

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 14 hours ago
Source: http://www.ledevoir.com/galeries-photos/explosions-a-lac-megantic-il-y-aura-d-autres-victimes/114556 Explosion à Lac-Mégantic: j’accuse!Lettre à M. Stephen Harper, premier ministre du Canada Par Rodolphe De Koninck Mondialisation.ca, 26 juillet 2013 La tragédie survenue à Lac-Mégantic le 6 juillet 2013 n’a pas fini de susciter tristesse, indignation et interrogations. Comme l’ont affirmé plusieurs dirigeants et administrateurs politiques, dont quelques-uns proches de vous, Monsieur le Premier Ministre, les enquêtes devant permettre d’identifier responsables et ... more »

Oakland moves forward with citywide surveillance center despite data collection, privacy controversy

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 14 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] image credit: jean-louis zimmermann/Flickr Madison Ruppert Ignoring the concerns surrounding data collection and privacy, Oakland continues to push forward with their federally funded, citywide surveillance project known as the Domain Awareness Center. Other cities have launched “Domain Awareness”programs, including New York City, where Mayor Bloomberg said that New Yorkers will “never know where our cameras are.” The project in Oakland will link everything from ever-controversial license plate scanners to surveillance came... more »

So Monsanto Says Its GMO Pollen Can’t Drift…

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 14 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton *Pro Tip:* Pollen drifts … *that is how pollen works*. So wildfire embers can travel over a mile, huh? Interesting tidbit. Here’s another. Back in 2002, in the midst of Monsanto carrying on trials for its Roundup Ready GMO wheat in 16 states across the nation, Danny Gigax, Monsanto’s representative for wheat research partner relationships, claimed in an interview that, “Outcropping or pollen drift is less than .01 percent because the pollen is relatively heavy.” (Source: OrganicConsumers.org) ... more »

Now the Bankers Will Steal 47.5% from Cyprus Savers

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 14 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Dees Illustration *Activist Post* Failed European banks are now demanding the seizure of 47.5 percent of funds in private savings accounts in Cyprus. This new form of bank bailout referred to as a "bail-in" or recapitalization, no matter how they label it, is nothing more than a theft of private savers. According to Reuters: Cyprus and its international lenders have agreed to convert 47.5 percent of deposits exceeding 100,000 euros in Bank of Cyprus to equity to recapitalize it, banking sources said on Sunday. Under a... more »

Snowden's Dad SCHOOLS Obama, Pelosi, and Holder in Open Letter

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 14 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Dees Illustration *Activist Post* Re: Civil Disobedience, Edward J. Snowden, and the Constitution Dear Mr. President: You are acutely aware that the history of liberty is a history of civil disobedience to unjust laws or practices. As Edmund Burke sermonized, “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” Civil disobedience is not the first, but the last option. Henry David Thoreau wrote with profound restraint in Civil Disobedience: “If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the ma... more »

Playtime . . .

Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 14 hours ago
Outdoor Wildlife Cam Captures a Veritable Bear Hoedown. Really. Click on the link to check out Glenn Naylor's video, and enjoy.

DUBLINERS TOO: A moral history of his country!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 14 hours ago
*MONDAY, JULY 29, 2013* *Part 1—Few episodes have matched this one:* In 1913, Joyce Kilmer wrote “Trees.” That’s not what we’re talking about. In 1907, James Joyce published Dubliners, a famous set of fifteen stories which isn’t set in Ohio. The fellow was 25 at the time. One year earlier, he had explained his purposes in a frequently-quoted letter. For fuller text, see below. This was Joyce, with our emphasis added: *“My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to be the center of paralysis.* I... more »

The World We Want To Live In (Video Project)

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 14 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] *Youtube* Subscribe to WeAreChange's Channel WeAreChange.org Enter your email address to subscribe to our newsletter: Delivered by FeedBurner Be the Change! Share this using the tools below.

Social Contract Part II: The Loss of Checks and Balances

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 14 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Anthony Freda Art Susan Boskey The House of Representatives on July 24, 2013 rejected by a 12-point margin an amendment to limit NSA surveillance via data collection on Americans. The rejection allows the NSA with unlimited access to spy on American’s private information. How exactly, you might ask, does this jive with the social contract that assumes the people will hold up their end of the bargain because government exists only to serve the “general will?” One is left to wonder. Earlier this month prior to the NSA amendmen... more »

City Pushing for Quicker Oil Cleanup

By: Nathan Lamb Leaks from an old oil field are causing health concerns in California, and officials are hoping to spur quicker cleanup, according to this story from the Los Angeles Times. The contamination—which includes the carcinogen benzene—was discovered in 2008 beneath Carson city's Carousel tract, which is now a residential area with 285 homes. Cleanup is being handled jointly by state officials and the Shell Oil Company, and is not expected to get underway until next year. The declaration of emergency was recently suggested by Carson's mayor, in an effort to spur more imme... more »

Overwhelmed: Leading Ammo Manufacturer Temporarily Suspends Production

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 14 hours ago
*“There Is No Conspiracy To Shut Us Down”* Mac Slavo Citing extreme demand over the last year the Hornady Manufacturing company, one of the leading producers of ammunition globally, has temporarily suspended production of over 150 bullet and ammunition types in order to focus their productive capacity on more popular products. In a statement posted on the Hornady web site the firm explains that though they have increased capacity and shipments over the last year, their efforts have been overshadowed by an increase in demand of over 200%. Effective immediately, Hornady will focus it... more »

The Coming Shortage Of Physical Gold That Will Change Everything

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 14 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Michael Snyder Is the paper gold scam about to be brutally crushed by a crippling shortage of physical gold? If so, what will that do to global financial markets? According to the Reserve Bank of India, “the traded amount of ‘paper linked to gold’ exceeds by far the actual supply of physical gold: the volume on the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) OTC market and the major Futures and Options Exchanges was OVER 92 TIMES that of the underlying Physical Market.” In other words, there is a massive amount of paper out t... more »

Hey… hey power? Meet truth. Watch this exchange. Amazing.

Chalk Face, PhD at SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE - 14 hours ago
Former school employee, not sure if she was a teacher or not, but she’s absolutely right: middling class individuals are held to a standard such that private or public errors in judgment have the potential for long-lasting consequences. Then you have this guy, blasts his junk all over the Internet, and he wants the highest […]

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 15 hours ago
*How can Ahlittia North die so young with such a long story to tell? ~Danny Monteverde, New Orleans Advocate*

Execute Order 66

Paul Coker at News Spike - 15 hours ago
"You think I didn't see your lil' movie.... ? *Bitch*, I had undercover FBI send *Booty-calls* to all those Mormon fools o' your family's on their government-issue Blackberries... They *gone*, Honey! Have some fruit punch an' enjoy yo'self. It's a celebration, bitches...!!! Second Term, Baby!!

Republican "Terrorist" Trash-talk has to STOP

2old2care at Because I Can - 15 hours ago
This has been sitting in my craw bugging me all night - not much sleep. Another example of Republican extremist trash-talk. Another example where moderate politicians need to step up and tell Republicans to SHUT UP - before someone is hurt. Consider this: Amendment I Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. Then consider this: If you don't understand... more »

Wall Street Licking It's Chops As It Sees Christie And Booker Ahead In Their New Jersey Races

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago
By now you're probably well aware that GOP presidential rivals Chris Christie and Rand Paul are already slugging it out-- over national security and governing philosophy. It looks to be pretty ugly, as anything Christie gets involved in always turns out to be. But their disputes aren't just a matter of two ambitious Republicans trying to knock each other out of presidential contention. Christie, in fact, sounds exactly like *Democratic*Wall Street shill Corey Booker. They're like the Jersey Bobbsey Twins. Christie, at a forum in Colorado on Thursday, pointed to a “strain of liber... more »

Announcing a Project to Modify or Replace the US Monetary System

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 15 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] image source David Redick The US Dollar (USD) has been the world’s primary reserve currency (used for most international transactions, even when the US is not a party, and for bank reserves in all nations) since 1920, which has helped support its value due to high demand. The use of the USD for most oil sales since 1973 (the ‘Petrodollar’) has also brought helpful demand, but that is fading. Due to excessive creation of new money (‘traditional’ monetary inflation, plus the Bernanke ‘spike’ in 2008 and recent QE activity), *t... more »

UK Internet Porn Censor to Also Block Conspiracy Theories

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 15 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] *Big Brother Weds the Nanny Who's Pregnant with Internet Censorship.* Here is the *real *problem with the Internet Dees Illustration Eric Blair The totalitarian tip-toe is tap dancing to tyranny with the proposed Internet censorship bill in the United Kingdom. In the name of keeping children safe from porn, the UK law will impose Internet filters on far more than just porn. According to Wired: As well as pornography, users may automatically be opted in to blocks on "violent material", "extremist related content", "anorexia... more »

Read Stuff, You Should

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 15 hours ago
Happy Birthday to Danger Mouse, 36. Recovering from a brutal Giants weekend; at least there's still good stuff: Elizabeth Saunders on Al Gore and Iraq -- plus links to plenty more. I've only read the post, and not the full article, but I suspect I agree entirely (mostly because it sounds pretty similar to what I've said about Gore/Iraq). While Philip Klein is a skeptic on a GOP shift to a less McCain-like foreign policy. Perhaps a cheap shot, but fun: Paul Krugman goes all Lincoln on the Republicans. And Dan Hopkins on messaging and health care reform.

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 15 hours ago
*Gauging health of Louisiana fisheries is a complex task ~Amy Wold, Advocate * ~A few months ago, John Lopez was looking for blue crabs for a boil he was planning at the New Canal Lighthouse in New Orleans, but the pickings were scarce. When he finally found some, he cleared out the last the store had and then bought some crawfish to make up the difference. It was an indication of what he’d been hearing. The number of crabs being caught in Lake Pontchartrain seemed to be down this year, said Lopez, executive director of the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation. *Gulf 'Dead Zone' Above... more »

29 Nettle Tea Benefits: Sipping on Nettle Tea for Better Health by Christina Sarich

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 15 hours ago
Source: http://pinterest.com/pin/545005992375981520/ 29 Nettle Tea Benefits: Sipping on Nettle Tea for Better Health by Christina Sarich Natural Society, 29 July 2013 Milarepa, the Tibetan saint, was said to have lived on nothing but nettles for decades of meditation. Yet another weed that most of us pull and throw out, like dandelions, nettle is a wonderful health-boosting herb that should never be dowsed with weed-killer, but plucked and dried to make into an herbal panacea that could make the local pharmacy go bankrupt. Nettle, from the flowering plant genus *Urtica* in the fa... more »

Will The Elderly, Conflicted, Beleagured McConnell Crack Up Under All The Stress?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago
Predictably, over the weekend the Louisville *Courier-Journal* columnists were all buzzing over Kentucky's mega-high profile Senate campaign. Old, steeped in corruption and wily, Mitch McConnell, is facing a mainstream Democrat, Alison Lundergan Grimes, and, in the GOP primary, a very credible Tea Party candidate, Matt Bevin. Al Cross made the point that McConnell failed his first test for reelection-- keeping Bevin from running against him. Bevin’s campaign is likely to help the campaign of McConnell’s likely Democratic challenger, Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Gri... more »

Rockefeller and Ruckelshaus – New Economy Rising

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 15 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Julie Beal Putting a price tag on the services provided by nature, and human beings, was first proposed by ecological economists some 40 years ago, as a way to protect biodiversity, and to give a truer figure for the GDP of a nation. This is done by monitoring all resources (natural capital), and the well-being of the people, and the services they provide ‘for free’, such as caring for elderly relatives. The GDP would then reflect the ‘true wealth’ of the country – essential knowledge for globalist investors. The idea fles... more »

Syria retakes Homs. The fall of Homs follows the fall of Al Qusayr about three months ago . Next target for the Syria Government will be the city of Aleppo - if Alepp falls , the civil war will be all over but for the pontificating and blame gaming .....

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 15 hours ago
http://www.debka.com/article/23154/Syrian-army-and-Hizballah-capture-Homs---opening-way-to-Aleppo-and-decisive-Assad-victory Three months after winning the strategic town of Al Qusayr, the combined Syrian and Hizballah armies have captured the historic Muslim Brotherhood city of Homs, 162 kilometers northeast of the capital Damascus. DEBKAfile’s military and intelligence sources report that Sunday, July 28, jeeps with recoilless guns, pick-up trucks with anti air guns - all loaded with defeated rebel Farouq Brigades fighters were to be seen fleeing the city. As they fled, Syrian an... more »

Monday Morning Linkage

Vikash Yadav at Duck of Minerva - 16 hours ago
Good morning! Here’s your linkage… Atul Gawande asks why do some medical ideas (i.e. norms) spread quickly and others slowly? Thomas Rutig re-examines whether lessons can be learnt between the conflicts in Afghanistan and Mali. Udai Bhanu Singh assesses the Bodh Gaya terrorist attack. If you thought Bangladesh’s garment industry had problems, perhaps you ought Continue reading

A House Divided Over NSA Spying on Americans

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 16 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] By Dr. Ron Paul Last week’s House debate on the Defense Appropriations bill for 2014 produced a bit more drama than usual. After hearing that House leadership would do away with the traditional “open rule” allowing for debate on any funding limitation amendment, it was surprising to see that Rep. Justin Amash’s (R-MI) amendment was allowed on the Floor. In the wake of National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden’s revelations about the extent of US government spying on American citizens, Amash’s amendment sou... more »

Secret DARPA Mind Control Project Revealed: Leaked Document

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 16 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] *Whistleblower Reveals Military Mind Control Project At Major University* image source *Activist Post* What if the government could change people's moral beliefs or stop political dissent through remote control of people's brains? Sounds like science fiction, right? Well, a leaked document reveals that the US government, through DARPA research, is very close to accomplishing this. Activist Post was recently contacted by an anonymous whistleblower who worked on a secret ongoing mind-control project for DARPA. The aim of the ... more »

It's In The Hands Of The Young

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 16 hours ago
Frank Graves has been tracking public opinion for a long time. In his most recent survey, he asked Canadians four broad questions: 1) Do you favour more or less immigration? 2) Should Canada focus on domestic production or international trade? 3) Should we build our economy on carbon based energy or green energy? and 4) Do you favour more or less government? In only one of these four areas do Canadians appear to support Harper government policy. We are not as welcoming of immigrants as we used to be. But, interestingly, on the question of active or laissez faire government, Canad... more »

Forget the campaign manager quitting , forget the cringe worthy pressers with wife Huma and cringe worthy meet and greets on the campaign trail..... what is going to shut down Anthony Weiner's mayoral bid is when his campaign interferes with Hillary 2016 ! Meanwhile , watch Detroit and then other cities , local municipalities and States dump retirees and any othe workers they can on the insurance exchanges pursuant to the Affordable Care Act - and watch the cost for the plan skyrocket as the extent of this dumping was not factored into expense calculations.....

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 16 hours ago
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/clintons_mad_as_hill_over_huma_tactic_DreEqQum5fMMD4SiXeWSLJ Bill and Hillary Clinton are 'livid' at comparisons to Weiners' sexcapades and forgiveness - By FREDRIC U. DICKER - Last Updated: 5:42 AM, July 29, 2013 - Posted: 1:40 AM, July 29, 2013 [image: headshot] Fredric U. Dicker EXCLUSIVE Bill and Hillary Clinton are angry with efforts by mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner and his campaign to compare his Internet sexcapades — and his wife Huma Abedin’s incredible forgiveness — to the Clintons’ notorious White House saga, The Post has lea... more »

The Bad Seed: The Health Risks of Genetically Modified Corn by Caitlin Shetterly

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 16 hours ago
The Bad Seed: The Health Risks of Genetically Modified Corn by Caitlin Shetterly Elle Magazine, July 24, 2013 *With symptoms including headaches, nausea, rashes, and fatigue, Caitlin Shetterly visited doctor after doctor searching for a cure for what ailed her. What she found, after years of misery and bafflement, was as unlikely as it was utterly common.* ** The office of allergist Paris Mansmann, MD, sits on a grassy slope overlooking the Royal River, a wide waterway that originates in inland Maine and winds down across farmland and under train tracks until it hits the c... more »

Contemplating

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 17 hours ago

Isidor Isaac Rabi: 115th birthday

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 19 hours ago
Isidor Isaac Rabi was born on July 29th, 1898, to an orthodox Jewish family in Galicia, Northeastern Austria-Hungary. The town of Rymanów, sometimes shared with Ukraine, belongs to Poland these days (it's about 20 km from the Slovak borders). He died of cancer (after doctors would monitor him via magnetic resonance imaging) in New York about 25 years ago, in 1988. Soon after he was born, his family moved to the New York City where his dad ran a grocery store in Brooklyn. Books about heliocentrism turned Izzy into an atheist. He asked: "Who ordered God?" if I improve his question a li... more »

After the weekend massacre of more than 100 civilians in Egypt , the White House holds its tongue concerning Egypt and says " No Comment " , as comments only come forth when a non ally commits atrocities.... Of course , under the circumstances , no comment is tacit approval as the US , West and UN look the other way , expect more massacres to occur by the military and police......As expect comments from Turkey's Prime minister Erdogan and Syria's President Assad pointing out the inconsistencies in US foreign policy and the cynical hypocritical nature displayed .....

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 20 hours ago
http://news.antiwar.com/2013/07/28/white-house-on-egypt-massacre-no-comment/ White House on Egypt Massacre: No CommentCongress Expresses 'Concern' While Obama Desperately Tries to Avoid Issue by Jason Ditz, July 28, 2013 Print This | Share This Egypt has become something of an information black hole as far as the Obama Administration is concerned. $1.5 billion in military aid goes there annually, but what happens there is never officially recognized, and by design. So when Egyptian police killed over 100 civilian protesters on the streets of Cairo and wounded thousands of others in t... more »

SAVILE, MARINES, MASONS, MANDARINS, MISSING FILES, MIRTH...

Anon at aangirfan - 20 hours ago
*Masons and Royal Marines at Sir Jimmy Savile's funeral.* In the UK, the police have received FOUR complaints that Sir Jimmy Savile sexually abused children while visiting the elite Royal Marines Commando Training Centre at Lympstone, near Exeter. Savile was a regular visitor to the base over 40 years and was awarded an honorary Commando Green Beret. *Masons and Royal Marines at Sir Jimmy Savile's funeral.* * *Seven Royal Marines acted as pall bearers at Savile's funeral in November 2011 *Masons and Royal Marines at Sir Jimmy Savile's funeral.* *The first record linking Savile ... more »

Are bad derivative trades making Detroit's fiscal woes even worse than commonly reported ? Stated another way , regarding the 1.4 billion borrowed in 2005 to fill the gap of Detroit's pension shortfall at that time , translating into a a 2.7 billion hole ( once interest payments of 502 million and the potential cost of said derivatives of another 770 million are added to the principal of 1.4 billion ) ? How may other cities , local governments and states have made similar derivative blunders which are presently hidden from sight ?

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 20 hours ago
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/07/bad-derivatives-trades-added-to-detroits-woes.html MONDAY, JULY 29, 2013 Bad Derivatives Trades Added to Detroit’s Woes Only now that the narrative around Detroit is pretty well established – city in long-term decline whose distress was intensified by a series of corrupt city governments, compounded by state governments that were opposed to Detroit’s interests – does an important additional factor come to light, that of derivatives losses. While the bad derivatives bets were far from large enough to have changed the outcome (one commentator call... more »

Video game war mechanism honors young player's memory

Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 21 hours ago
*Wander into any gaming forum thread, chat room or multiplayer-action communications and you rapidly discover that gamers can be an insensible lot.* But there are also instances where the hardcore, win-at-all-costs trash talking goes silent and they band together to do well. Such was the case lately when players and game developers turned heartbreak over the death of a young compatriot into cash to fight cancer. MechWarrior Online is a game that lets players control powerful war machines and fight each other for dominance on the battleground. The amusement is still in beta testin... more »

How long before we find out what Draghi's infamous " whatever it takes " statement really means ? Some say after the German Elections , we shall see the French ask for ECB bond buying support - and that is when we shall see what Draghi does rather than just says.... And of course , that assumes the Italians and Spaniards aren't beating down Draghi's door fro bond buying support at the same time.......

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 21 hours ago
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2013/07/former-ecb-chief-economist-warns-ecb.html Former ECB Chief Economist Warns "ECB Will Soon Have to Support France with Bond Purchases" Juergen Stark, former ECB chief economist (who resigned in 2011 over a dispute regarding bond purchases), says in an interview in *Handelsblatt* "The Euro crisis will worsen in late autumn" Via Google Translate A year ago, ECB chief Draghi announced plans to do anything to save the euro. The former ECB chief economist Juergen Stark considers this fatal. He fears that the ECB will soon have to suppo... more »

Shmoits face a German competitor

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 22 hours ago
*Book market flooded with garden-variety cranks* In 2010, a German conspiracy theorist and high school teacher named Alexander Unzicker released his anti-physics tirade that was reformatted as a book. The title was "Vom Urknall zum Durchknall" which I would translate as "From the Big Bang to Their Big Butts' Being Banged" but that was translated as "Bankrupting Physics" by the unimaginative translator. The English translation will appear tomorrow. You may pre-order it. Most of the 21 chapters have titles saying things like "something is rotten in the state of physics", "why cosmolog... more »

Vera Bradley Handbag and Wallet Set Giveaway!

Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 22 hours ago
Welcome to the Vera Bradley Handbag and Wallet Set Giveaway! One lucky winner will receive a brand new, authentic *Vera Bradley Squared Away Handbag and Euro Wallet Set* courtesy of Giveaway Promote ------------------------------ Vera Bradley Squared Away Handbag Attention all handbag fans… have we got a bag for you! With rounded corners, a zip-around closure and a large interior, this is everything you love in a bowler with longer straps, a larger base and bigger pockets. Squared Away is the perfect bag for the modern, organized woman. Measures 15¼" x 9¾" x 4½" with 12" strap dr... more »

News from the Jews

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 22 hours ago
*Jewish sex scandals, promotion of transgenderism, and anti-White immigration agenda* In the past few years, an array of Jewish politicians have been involved in sex scandals which have been publicized in the mainstream mass media. Anthony Weiner, a former New York Congressman and current candidate for mayor of New York City, and Bob Filner, the current mayor of San Diego, presently find themselves in the spotlight, with *the accusations leveled against Filner particularly egregious*. The *Jewish Telegraph Agency* ran a piece this week discussing these Jewish sex scandals: The cl... more »

UK Porn Filter: Censorship Extends Beyond Pornography, But One ISP Is Fighting Back

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 23 hours ago
*Ever notice how totalitarian control always comes under the cloak of protecting the women and children? These people always use the same control templates over and over, they have virtually no creativity. There are already packages parents can buy if they want to filter the Internet for their children. Unfortunately those run by WEBROOT block blogs like mine as being malware. Its backdoor censorship plain and simple via Internet black lists that are more opaque (and harder to get removed from) than the no-fly lists of the TSA. - AK* * * *UK Porn Filter: Censorship Extends Be... more »

Monasterio de Monserrat, Bages, Barcelona, España.

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 1 day ago
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Guacamayos enamorados - Birds in love

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Un día con neblina en el lago...

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 1 day ago
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Meet & Greet Monday (#MtaGt) - I Thought I Knew Mama

Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 1 day ago
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If you didn't send Bob Mankoff your favorite "New Yorker" cartoon, you won't find it among the 74 he's put in his slide show

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
*One of the 74 New Yorker cartoons that appear in cartoon editor Bob Mankoff's slide-show response to his call for readers to name their all-time favorite cartoon.* *by Ken* We eavesdropped a couple of weeks ago when *New Yorker* cartoon editor Bob Mankoff named his 11 favorite *New Yorker* cartoons. At the same time, Bob issued a call to readers to e-mail him their favorites, offering up the resources of The Cartoon Bank to enable readers to search out that favorite cartoon. He promised to make a slide show of the submissions, and this week he posted it. Bob specifies that the 7... more »

America's Imaginary Lavish Social Welfare Safety Net That Exists Only in GOP's Mind

Marc McDonald at BeggarsCanBeChoosers.com - 1 day ago
*By MARC McDONALD* In America, we hate the poor. We really, really hate the poor. We are indoctrinated from birth to hate the poor. Jesus may have said, *"Blessed are you who are poor."* But America has no time for that Jesus. Our motto is "Screw the poor." As a result, America has never been big on social welfare programs for the poor. Even during the peak years of U.S. social program spending (during LBJ's "Great Society" years), America had a skimpy social safety net, compared to other industrialized nations. Compared to generous European social safety nets, America these days m... more »

please answer one question about housing costs

laura k at wmtc - 1 day ago
Will you take a moment to answer one question? I may use it for something I write. *Click here to take the survey.* Please use net (take-home) income, and housing costs only, not utilities. (These questions were asked on Facebook.) Thanks in advance.

nyc action alert: join striking fast-food workers on monday, july 29

laura k at wmtc - 1 day ago
If you live in New York City, you have an opportunity to stand beside working people in their struggle for a better life and healthier communities. 84% of New York fast food workers reported experiencing wage theft at some point in the past year and the New York Attorney General and New York City Council have taken note of the rampant wage theft in the industry. McDonald’s workers, forced to work in a hot kitchen without air conditioning in the middle of a heat wave, walked off the job until their safety was ensured. And on top of all of this, living on $7.25 in New York City isn... more »

what i'm reading: the fault in our stars, a truly great novel for youth and not-youth

laura k at wmtc - 1 day ago
I am in the middle of reading *The Fault In Our Stars* by John Green, a book almost too painful to read but impossible to put down. It's achingly funny, profoundly insightful, and utterly heartbreaking, all at the same time. *The Fault In Our Stars* is supposedly a youth novel, but please don't let that stop you from reading it. It is simply a wonderful book. Hazel has cancer, and her life expectancy is short. Augustus is a cancer survivor, and has the prosthetic leg to prove it. Hazel and Augustus, two smart, funny, and otherwise ordinary teenagers, fall in love. How do you cope wi... more »

“Free at last!”

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago
Stephen Spielberg’s recent film on *Lincoln* dramatised the passing of his 1863 Emancipation Proclamation—justifiably famous for freeing around 4 million slaves in North America, and beginning the removal of the stain of slavery from American law. This, with the subsequent constitutional amendment outlawing slavery across the continent, was the culmination of an anti-slavery movement that swept the west in the nineteenth century, following on the heels of the movement for individual rights that swept the west in the eighteenth century. Freeing the slaves was a necessary righting ... more »

"The Champ"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
* * *"The Champ"* by CoyotePrime Ding, ding, ding... you hear the bell for the start of the fight, hear the crowd, noisy, excited to see this rematch between you and Life. You’re here, and still the Champ, right? Fought this guy many times before, always beat him, too, though you took many a beating yourself in the process, each fight a little tougher, taking a little more out of you each time. You meet in the center of the ring... damn, has this guy grown somehow? He looks bigger, more muscled, and has a real confident look in his eye. So what? You’re the Champ, still standin... more »

Meghan's Bday!

Lori Anne Haskell at Adventures with Kurt and Lori - 1 day ago
This weekend was fun! Meghan's 12th bday was celebrating on Saturday night at Ron's house. It was a really fun night. Kurt could not make it until 1130 PM though as after we worked on Saturday, he had to take Vito to London, Ontario,to a vet who does MRIs on dogs. Their machines are better than what vets in the USA have, so our surgeon wanted Vito taken there. They want to treat him without another surgery, but need a better MRI to determine what is going on. So, Kurt took him there. Long day for Kurt. Today was great. I had a massage scheduled, with a gift card the office... more »

NSA OPS IN NEW ZEALAND

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago
Kim Dotcom speaks at the GCSB Rally in Auckland to a crowd of several thousand citizens in Aotea Square. The people are NOT happy about the government's spying and want it STOPPED! Protests were held all over New Zealand in recent days about their nation's role in facilitating NSA surveillance.

STUDY WAR NO MORE

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago
On Saturday at the protest in downtown Sydney, Australia.

How to help Kiri Campbell

Sophia Love at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago
*As a response to the request of some readers, an easy to use petition on behalf of Kiri Campbell has been placed here: * * It can be sent BCC to all listed email addresses, and must include your name (lower case) and address to have the desired effect. Kiri’s scheduled court appearance is Tuesday, July 30, 2013 so these need to be sent immediately. This is a moment of clarity and self definition. This is no longer about a separate being in a far away country; this concerns a vital component for each of us; our value as sovereign beings. As you send these petitions as well... more »

MARCH AROUND JEJU ISLAND BEGINS

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago

A Parents Worst Nightmare: 6 Young Teens Die In Saskatchewan Car Crash

leftdog at Buckdog - 1 day ago
*Who amongst us did not cram a whole bunch of our friends into a car when we were teenagers ... just having fun ... laughing and going for a drive? Sometimes the absolute worst happens .. * * **"The names of the six teens who died in a crash with a semi-tanker at a rural Saskatchewan intersection early Saturday morning have now been released by RCMP.* *Three males and three females died following a crash about six kilometres southeast of Lloydminster, a city on the Saskatchewan/Alberta border.* ***Police have identified the victims as:* - *Aimie Hurley, 14, from Lloydminster* ... more »

Sunday Classics: Fleshing out our sound picture of Leon Fleisher

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
*RAVEL: Sonatine i. Modéré ii. Mouvement de menuet iii. Animé* *Leon Fleisher, piano. Epic-Sony, recorded July 14-16, 1958* *by Ken* In Friday night's "Leon Fleisher postscript" -- a "postscript," that is, to the previous week's post on "Schubert's mighty *Wanderer* Fantasy," in which Fleisher had been featured -- we heard a bit of perhaps unexpected repertory from Fleisher, Debussy's "*Clair de lune*," from a 1958 Debussy-Ravel LP. I suggested we might hear the complete *Suite bergamasque*, from which "*Clair de lune*" derives, but I thought instead we'd hear Ravel's *Sonatine*. ... more »

SUNDAY SONG

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago

In ignored Iraq and Forgotten Libya - death dealing continues despite the mainstream Western media having moved on .........

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
Breaking news: massive explosion outside Benghazi courthouse *By Ahmed Elumami.* The scene outside the courthouse tonight, after the explosion *Benghazi, 28 July 2013*: There has been a massive explosion this evening in central Benghazi, outside the city’s north courthouse. The blast occurred immediately after sunset prayers while people were preparing for Iftar, the breaking of the Ramadan fast. The explosion could be heard across the city. The incident took place in a cul-de-sac between the Maydan Al-Tahrir courthouse and the former internal security building of the old regime, spok... more »

Central Bank watch ECB , PBOC and the Fed in focus.....

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-07-28/europe-passes-inflection-point-or-why-ltro3-inevitable Europe Passes The Inflection Point (Or Why LTRO3 Is Inevitable) [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/28/2013 18:05 -0400 - Counterparties - CRAP - European Central Bank - Excess Reserves - LTRO - Market Conditions - Repo Market - Unemployment - Volatility One year on from the "whatever it takes" speech and all appearances suggest Draghi's all-in move with the imaginary OMT 'worked. European sovereign spreads have compres... more »

Patrick Byrne , CEO of Overstock enjoys vindication over the criminal indictment of SAC Capital and civil prosecution of the Sith Lord aka Steven Cohen....

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
vindication........ http://www.businessinsider.com/overstockcom-ceo-explains-anti-sac-ad-2013-7 * * * Meanwhile, since 2005 Byrne has been saying that powerful market actors have been working to destroy his company. In 2010 he identified them as Michael Milken and SAC's Steven Cohen. Two years later, emails accidentally leaked by lawyers representing a number of Wall Street banks described how the banks were allegedly naked short-selling Overstock.com stock and advising their hedge fund clients on how to do the same. SAC Capital, as you know, is one massive hedge fund client. "Eigh... more »

Fat, Sick And Nearly Dead Documentary - Free Viewing Only Available In The States

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 1 day ago
*Here is an uplifting movie about a man who decides to radically change his dietary and lifestyle choices in an effort to deal with his declining health and increasing waistline. Overweight, taking a daily cocktail of drugs and having been told that there was nothing more conventional medicine could do for him, Australian Joe Cross decided to tackle his problems in his own way. He chose to use nutrition, physical activity and his mental and emotional state to do what our bodies are programmed to do – and that’s to self-heal.* I will give you the reader, two links for more infor... more »

Towering economic separation erodes the effectiveness of public opinion activism

Denis Rancourt at Activist Teacher - 1 day ago
By Denis Rancourt A good street demonstration is not what it use to be, in terms of its impact. Likewise, petitions and letters to politicians just don't cut it any more. A YouTube video can, in rare cases, get a cop investigated and put on paid leave, but that is about as far as it goes. Don't think about systemic changes. There is tremendous opinion opposition to injustices of all kinds but

Declare Detroit a Free City

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago
* Guest post by Patrick Barron* Detroit is bankrupt, and its problems appear to be unsolvable. Its population peaked in 1950 at 1,850,000 only to fall to 706,000 in 2011, surely representative of people voting with their feet. As British politician Daniel Hannan has written, the Detroit disease may be well advanced in the rest of American cities and perhaps in all of America as well. Before the disease can kill the rest of America we have the opportunity to give free market reforms a chance in a fairly controlled setting — the bankrupt and dysfunctional city of Detroit. The decad... more »

Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, July 28th, 2013

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day ago
Sunday... And again time for my usual rant about what I perceive is truly wrong and sometimes right in this world.. First, for those who have been wondering... My friend, Whitewraithe, is alive and well... She has not posted any new material in a while over at her Pragmatic Witness website (www.pragmaticwitnessii.wordpress.com) because she told me honestly that writing has not been on her mind over the last while... Getting some employment has been her #1 goal for quite sometime, and now I can let everyone know that she finally landed a decent job!... She says that once she gets som... more »

Festival of Faiths - Nuclear Weapons and the Future of Civilization

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago
*"Unending Crisis: National Security Policy after 9/11"* by Thomas Graham Jr. (2012). *Wikipedia:* Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr. is one of the world's leading experts in nuclear non-proliferation. He is a senior U.S. diplomat involved in the negotiation of every single international arms control and non-proliferation agreement from 1970 to 1997. This includes the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT Treaties), the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaties (START Treaties), the Anti-ballistic missile (ABM) Treaty, Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) Treaty, Treaty on the No... more »

If The GOP Gives Up Its "Get Off My Lawn" Attitude, Will It Still Be The GOP?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
Republican There's a mirror image in the GOP to the ConservaDems who embrace Choice and equality and other social issues but are nearly as conservative and anti-working family as Republicans. We've talked a lot lately, for example, about gay Democrats who get into Congress and are great on LGBT issues but vote with the GOP on their destructive economic agenda. New Dem freshmen Kyrsten Sinema (AZ) and Sean Patrick Maloney (NY) are both gay and each has a breathtakingly horrible voting record on issues important to ordinary working families. They're among the most consistent supporter... more »

Sunday Question for Liberals

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day ago
One year from today: How is "Obamacare" polling? How do experts believe ACA implementation is going? How is health care playing in competitive 2014 elections?

The Department of Homeland Security says its illegal to freely play music the United States

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago
* * *I am not sure the context of this, but perhaps Homeland Security has confused its mandate with that of ASCAP? If anyone else knows what this is about let me know... -AK* July 20, 2013 Posted by Michael Martin http://eightentertainmentgroup.com/the-depa rtment-of-homeland-security-says-it-is-illegal-to-freely-play-music-in-the-united-states/ The Department of Homeland Security (An agency enacted through the Patriot Act) is now demanding through enforcement from The State Fire Marshalls that ALL LIVE MUSIC PLAYED IN THE UNITED STATES MUST HAVE A PERMIT FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HO... more »

Six Wall Street Banks Made $23 Billion in Three Months - Thank A Bankster for a Job Well Done (What? You Already Did!)

Money Rules – But in Congress, People Are Supposed to Rule By Leo Gerard Wall Street held itself a big fat profit party last week. The nation’s six largest banks reported $23 billion in profits. That’s for one quarter – three months. Pop the Champagne. Buy another Lamborghini. Well, if you’re a Wall Street banker, that is. Not if you’re a college student looking for a loan. ‘Cause bankers

Sunday Question for Conservatives

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day ago
Chris Christie: solid conservative for the most part, and certainly an acceptable presidential nominee -- or really just another Eastern Establishment moderate?

MANUEL DIAZ HERNANDEZ

Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago
In Mexico, 10-year-old Manuel planned to spend the summer selling goods on the street. Manuel, a 10-year-old Indian boy, wanted to save money for school. But, Manuel was humiliated by 'a city inspector'. The inspector, Juan Diego Lopez, caught Manuel Diaz Hernandez illegally selling cigarettes, sweets and snacks from his wooden basket. In a video made by a passer-by, the inspector is seen grabbing the basket and making the boy throw out all the sweets. The inspector then grabbed the cigarettes for himself. Read more: *http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ */ *Mexicans outraged by humil... more »

Filling space - killing time - tapping out shit on a keyboard

Roobin at THROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 1 day ago
With revolutionary socialism the treasure of decades of insight and inspiration often comes combined with the burden of dogma. In the SWP one of the things you learn is to not be a programme polisher but be active, the needs of the movement (such as you might define it) will provide the programme. You might want to argue just how much of the SWP’s activity is non-programmatic. You might also want to debate just how much of the SWP’s notional, unwritten programme is actually understood by its cadre. SWP members are subjectively revolutionary. Yet it is becoming clear from various d... more »

Life gets complicated . . .

Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 1 day ago
REMEMBER WHEN the DA in Perry Mason just had to worry about who cut the brake lines? Well, according to AutoWeek's article, “Hackers compromise Prius, seize control of wheel, brakes and more” hackers can really do a number on a Prius — at highway speeds, that could ruin your day. Drive-by-wire has its potential risks.

Injustice, The ‘For Profit’ Court System

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago
The fifth version of the Injustice Society. Art by Joe Bennett. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) *Injustice, the ‘for profit’ court system* *Posted at: * http://veneratedivineyou.wordpress.com/2013/07/28/injustice-the-for-profit-court-system/ Look familiar? Look closely, the characters should remind you of recent Hollywood theatrics. Apparently it matters little what country or jurisdiction the injustice stems. It is pervasive. It is the paradigm of a broken system and the catalyst for change. The alphabet soup trolls trashed the momentum of change like The Occupy movement, Egypt, Arab S... more »

Cro-Magnon

What Is Sustainable at What Is Sustainable - 1 day ago
Once upon a time, long, long ago, musicians Stephen Stills and Judy Collins enjoyed a romance. Then, Judy sailed away and broke his heart. Stephen wrote *Suite: Judy Blue Eyes*, which I recently heard again. One line made my head spin: “Don’t let the past remind us of what we are not now.” Why not? Remembering the past sounds like an excellent idea. What we are not now is wild and free human beings — normal & authentic. I just finished Brian Fagan’s book, *Cro-Magnon*, which describes an important segment of my family history. The happy news is that there have been three stud... more »

Are Muslims being demonised?

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 1 day ago
Watching *Sunday Morning Live *in full, with my impartiality-bound '*Is the BBC Biased?'* hat on, *did* the programme demonstrate BBC bias as regards the 'Muslim question'? Well, presenter Samira Ahmed's initial framing of the question *'Are Muslims being demonised?' *certainly gave a fair wind to one particular side of the argument: Bombs are being placed in mosques and a major Islamic organisation says British Muslims are living in fear. Is that because of an unfair portrayal of Muslims in the media? Are Muslims being demonised? Still, in contrast to that, the programme's gues... more »

"Luminarium"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
*"Luminarium" * by Anniina Jokinen “This site combines several sites first created in 1996 to provide a starting point for students and enthusiasts of English Literature. Nothing replaces a quality library, but hopefully this site will help fill the needs of those who have not access to one. Many works from Medieval, Renaissance, Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries can be found here. The site started in early 1996. I remember looking for essays to spark an idea for a survey class I was taking at the time. It seemed that finding study materials online was prohibitively difficul... more »

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