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Amanda Ripley, Believe Her or Not!
Since Amanda Ripley was assigned to do the Time story with Michelle Rhee on
her broom, she has been the darling of CorpEd. And with no study of
education (BA in Government, Cornell) and no schooling in Journalism (BA in
Government, Cornell), she is perfectly suited for the task of taking the
latest bullshit from […]
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*I Was Shot in New Orleans, But I’m Not Angry at My Shooter ~Deb Cotton,
Next City*
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*Judge refuses to suspend BP settlement payments ~WDSU*
TOURISTS - AVOID CYPRUS, TURKEY, JORDAN, ISRAEL, EGYPT...
*The King David Hotel, blown up by Jewish terrorists.*
Our advice to tourists is to stay well clear of *Cyprus, Turkey, Jordan *and
* Israel.*
Israel and its friends may well carry out false-flag attacks in these
countries and blame such attacks on Syria's Assad.
*Syria crisis: warplanes spotted in Cyprus as tensions rise in Damascus*
The Pentagon could sink one of its own ships and blame it on Assad, but,
these days there is little sympathy for the US military.
*THE US GOVERNMENT TRIED TO SINK THE USS LIBERTY*
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*If we look at other CIA-Mossad false flag attacks we see that hotel... more »
Syrian Smoking Gun Found - We're Told
Now who would be happier to see Syria's air force and army reduced to
rubble by the West - free of charge no less - than its neighbour and
longtime adversary, Israel?
And who in the Middle East has mastered pulling America's strings better
than Israel?
So it's Israel's very good luck that its intelligence types just happened
to intercept the "smoking gun" - calls between Syrian officials discussing
the use of chemical weapons.
The Pinterest Plot- Pretty Darn Funny
Did you catch last week's episode of Pretty Darn Funny? The comedy web
series, produced by Deseret Book that focuses on Gracie Moore, a mom to
three and a member of an all women comedy troop. This week's episode is
all about Pinterest.
Do you ever feel like Pinterest is one big plot to make you go a little
crazy trying to make the perfect craft or cake? Then you are going to love
this week's episode of Pretty Darn Funny. It is all about Pinterest fails
and the lengths people go to replicate things they see on Pinterest. It is
a recipe for hilarious antics.
Check out this w... more »
The Islamic Republic (of Iran) is a successful example of political Islam... Hezbollah is an expression of political Islam and a very good and successful one
'The Islamic Republic (of Iran) is a successful example of political
Islam... Hezbollah is an expression of political Islam and a very good and
successful one.'
So says George Galloway...
Well if you think that hanging homosexuals 'is a successful example of
political Islam' then I suppose Iran is a success but what does that say
about you?
If you think that bombing the US Embassy in Beirut killing 63, bombing
Beirut barracks killing over 300, bombing Israeli connected entities in
Argentina killing over a hundred, high jacking planes, firing rockets at
Israel, planning to blow... more »
50 Years Later - West Defiles Martin Luther King's Memory
Legendary equality, justice, and peace activist who championed character
over the color of one's skin is compared with warmongering corporate
servant Obama ... because of the color of his skin.
*August 28, 2013* (Tony Cartalucci) - The differences between Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr. and current US President Barack Obama could not be greater.
In fact, the only thing they have in common is that they are both black.
Yet somehow, Western media outlets have managed to draw parallels between
these diametrically opposed figures - presumably because they are indeed
both black. AP recently p... more »
Are Republicans Theocrats?
*by Len Hart, the Existentialist Cowboy *
Whether the immediate provocation be placement of the Ten Commandments
in a courthouse, Bible classes in public schools, school prayer, school
vouchers, public display of the crèche, tax exemptions for churches,
federal funds for faith-based initiatives, or judicial interdiction
against the phrase “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance, the new
theocrats seek to undermine the Establishment Clause of the First
Amendment. A favorite ploy is to attribute pious remarks to the first
U.S. presidents. The remarks, some spurious, are supposed to demons... more »
SPEAK OUT WHILE YOU STILL CAN
This is what an US attack on Syria will look like. Tomahawk cruise
missiles will be fired from Navy destroyers just like in 2003 when Bush's
"shock and awe" attack on Iraq began with the firing of cruise missiles
from these same ships.
Many innocent people, likely many hundreds, will be killed in Syria as
Obama "punishes" the already suffering Syrian people even more. For those
liberal Democrats out there that still apologize for Obama, who acts like
Bush more every day, this attack should be hard to swallow. But swallow it
they will.
We worked the polls yesterday (in a specia... more »
SYRIAN GOVERNMENT TAKEN BY SURPRISE - INTERCEPTED PHONE CALLS
Intercepted phone calls indicate that the Syrian government was taken by
surprise when the gas attack took place in Damascus.
*Intelligence Suggests Assad Not Behind Chemical Weapons Attack*
*Paul Joseph Watson, at Infowars.com, writes:*
Phone calls by the Syrian Ministry of Defense intercepted by Mossad and
passed to the US reveal that Syrian government officials, 'exchanged
panicked phone calls with a leader of a chemical weapons unit, demanding
answers for a nerve agent strike that killed more than 1,000 people,' in
the hours after last week’s attack.
*Why would the Syrian Mini... more »
dear war criminals: don't lecture us about morals as you prepare to bomb civilians
Let me be clear. The indiscriminate slaughter of civilians, the killing of
women and children and innocent bystanders by chemical weapons is a moral
obscenity.
- Secretary of State John Kerry
The slaughter of innocent civilians is a moral obscenity? I'm betting the
people of Iraq and Afghanistan* agree.
Or is only the slaughter of civilians *by chemical weapons* obscene? Is
slaughter by bombs - by house raids and checkpoints, by torture and endless
imprisonment - merely ordinary and banal?
Does white phosphorous, the US's chemical weapon of choice, constitute
moral obscenity?
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Denialism 2.0 - Even More Dangerous Than the Original
By and large, the pioneers of climate change denialism have moved on.
Those who used to lead the campaign claiming that the theory of
anthropogenic global warming is a hoax, a conspiracy, a fraud or
fundamentally flawed, have retrenched.
In his final column for *The Guardian*, Leo Hickman warns these veteran
denialists have morphed into something far more dangerous:
*What we are now seeing more of, though, are climate policy sceptics. Yes,
some of these are the same characters as before, but who have subtly,
artful repositioned themselves over recent years. So rather than claimi... more »
It's been a while...
*"Forgiveness is a not an occasional act it is a constant attitude." Martin
Luther King *
A good time to remember an important day in world, not just American,
history.
... I have not posted since late June. I can list the reasons: I am
revising my webpage (stay tuned for a new page) and I have been extremely
busy with assignments and projects. But frankly, the real reason is that I
let this blog of mine fall to the wayside because I didn't really think
that you all would miss it much. And that made me sad especially because
I've realized that is not the case. There are people who ... more »
American Experience: Remarkable people who once walked the earth!
*WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 2013*
*A program that’s hugely worth watching*: Last night, WHUT re-aired it. We
sat there and re-watched it.
You might want to watch it too. We refer to the 2011 American Experience
program, Freedom Riders.
Even the second time around, this has to be one of the best documentaries
we have ever seen. The program can be seen in full at this WGBH site.
We offer one word of warning:
There is a danger in watching this program. The danger is this:
Such programs may tend to make us think that we and our friends are The
Very Good People, while everyone who isn’t e... more »
Longest Walk 4 arrives in St Louis, Missouri
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Oglala Commemoration
Censored News
St. Louis Metro Area: The Longest Walk 4 Return to Alcatraz arrives
Wed., Aug 28, at Horseshoe State Park on Route 111. On Friday, Aug. 30,
there will be a meet and greet and presentation at Black Bear Bakery.
Around 4 pm, there's a pot luck and donations will be accepted. Come
meet the walkers and find out what this walk is about. A Sunset ceremony
Syrian Chemical Weapons False Flag Attack: Here We Go Again - New Report Of Another False Flag Chemical Weapons Attack In Damascus!
It definitely looks now that there is no stopping the criminals in the
Obama/Soetoro/Davis (or what ever his real name is) regime's push for
another war for Israel, against the innocent nation of Syria. The criminal
US Government is indeed "raising on a busted flush" in their attempts to
convince the American public that war is necessary based on nothing more
than pure lies. It is disgusting that the American people are willing to
sit by while their criminal government puts them on the precipice of World
War III !
Now it seems that the criminals in both the US and the terrorist ... more »
The War on Iran Begins...in Syria
Eric Draitser
RT
As the United States, along with its European and Israeli allies, prepares
to launch yet another illegal war of aggression in the Middle East, the
geopolitics of the US strategy could not be more apparent.
Despite the high-minded talk of humanitarianism, the US is advancing a
transparently neo-colonialist agenda aimed at securing hegemony in the
region by destroying what little opposition remains.
Lights…camera…war!
The images and videos flooding the internet since last week purport to show
*‘evidence’* of a chemical weapons attack perpetrated by the Assad regime.
T... more »
The Truth About World War 3
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More WMD Lies in Syria and The Coming Carnage
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How US Media Is Pushing For War With Syria
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"Why Doesn't Duff Just Resign?"
*And Up Yours, Too, Mr. Prime Minister*
Consider who's asking. He's a former Harper deputy chief of staff who now
sits comfortably installed as a Vice-President at Air Canada for government
affairs in 2012. Derek Vanstone says he'll take the word of Tkachuk over
Duffy any day.
"*It truly angers me to see Duffy trying to take honest people down with
him," *tweets Vanstone. Really Derek? They're honest because you say
so? You can't do any better than that?
It seems to me that all Duffy has ever called for is a full and open
enquiry. I'm pretty sure he didn't leak the initial e... more »
Sadrists Increasing Their Attacks Upon Iraq’ Prime Minister Maliki Once Again
Since the results of the 2013 provincial elections were announced, the Sadr
Trend has increased its rhetoric against Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
The Sadrists have played this double game before attacking the premier off
and on, while taking no substantive measures against him, and holding onto
the most ministries within the government. Now it appears the party is
increasing its criticism in preparation for the 2014 national vote. Moqtada
al-Sadr has always aspired to become the preeminent Shiite leader in Iraq,
and with his showing in the 2013 balloting, and the deteriorating s... more »
Stephen Harper's Nasty Little Senate Scandal About To Fall In On His Head ....
*Stephen Harper's lone gunman theory defence wobbles: Tim Harper*
*OTTAWA—In his bid to survive the Nigel Wright-Mike Duffy affair, Stephen
Harper has clung assiduously to the lone gunman theory.Harper has repeated
that mantra time and again — his former chief of staff cut a $90,000 cheque
to the disgraced former Conservative senator on his own, without the prime
minister’s knowledge.*
*The best way to destabilize the Harper argument is to involve as many
others players as possible, making it appear to be a conspiracy in the
Prime Minister’s Office and beyond, making it increasingly... more »
EPISTEMIC ENCLOSURES: Was Dr. King right?
*WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 2013*
*Part 3—Love of hate:* Friend, might we liberals be in the grip of some
epistemic enclosures?
We’re good at spotting the “epistemic closure” in the other tribe—and
without any question, it’s there. But are any mental habits penning *us*in? Possibly holding us back?
We’d have to go with yes. One such epistemic enclosure would be the love of
hate.
Are we liberals learning to hate the other tribe? Being encouraged to do
so?
On Sunday, Maureen Dowd penned the first column of her ongoing makeup tour.
She beat up on a no-name, accidental member of Congress ... more »
On the road again: Scenes from a car window
I've been searching for a way to describe the swervy, teeth-rattling
experience of travelling on a typical rural road in Honduras, but it's one
of those things that you really have to feel for yourself.
But yesterday on the drive back from Las Flores, where my co-workers
did a workshop on making organic fertilizer, it dawned on me that if I just
stuck the video camera out the window, I might be able to convey at least
some of the experience. The jouncing, the sharp turns, the speed bumps as
we pass through little towns - a hand-held video shot catches all of that.
So click... more »
The Dream and The March
Open Thread -- please share your thoughts and links. To get you started:
On this 50th anniversary of the rally for rights and jobs, let's
remember
that immediately after Martin Luther King's iconic *I Have* *a
Dream*speech, the USG went into full clinical paranoia mode, stepping up
their
surveillance of him. He was considered a "dangerous Negro," a
subversive,
back in the day. That radicalism cannot even be tolerated by the current
PTB, who've stepped up their surveillance of all the brothers and
sisters,
black and white alike. But the bowdlerization of MLK continues apace:
fr... more »
Floods in India: Ganges River
*STRANDED: men sat on the roof of a submerged house Monday in Salori,
India, after water from the Ganges River flooded the area amid monsoon
rains. (Rajesh Kumar Singh/Associated Press)WSJ.*
Zurich, Switzerland: Drive-in brothel opens its doors
What next? Drive-in spouse and marriage? I don't want to play the moralist
card here as it is the world's oldest profession. Brothels do exist in
every country legal or not legal. Switzerland made brothels legal a while
ago... but drive-in? Interesting!
*"Compound rules: Just one man per car, no bikes or motorcycles and of
course no littering”.*
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*Zurich's taxpayers approved the 2.5 million-franc ($2.7m; 2m euro; £1.8m)
sex-box facility in a referendum, and Ms Regula Rother (who runs a drop-in
centre for sex workers.) believes their support had more to do with their
annoyance at ... more »
Mohawk Nation News 'Tick Tock'
TICK
TOCK
Posted on August 27, 2013
MNN, AUG. 27, 2013. In today’s Postmedia News, Natural Resources
Minister Joe ‘the-clock-is-ticking’ Oliver said, of course, the “clock
is ticking”. Extractions and exports of Indigenous resources have to be
done asap before it’s too late [for what?]. It’s a “once-in-a-lifetime”
opportunity [said Oliver, following the used car salesman hard sell
approach
WotW: Organize Your Life with Mynd: the Calendar App That Knows Everything
My coworkers think I'm insane. For a number of reasons. But the one
eccentric feature that puzzles them most is my phone. It's an ordinary
iPhone by all accounts, but the thing that sets it apart is my
notifications.
You see, I have multiple calendar apps. So, when my phone decides to notify
me about an upcoming event, it beeps five different times for the same
event. This makes for a chaotic cacophony of panic every time an event
approaches, but it's important to me.
I'm not worried about missing an appointment or anything, I just have a
hard time narrowing down which calendar a... more »
Tom Hayden : Egypt is the Liberals' Slaughterhouse
Egyptian
military chief Gen Abdel Fattah al-Sisi speaks to the people after the
coup. Photo from AP. Image from The Telegraph.
Post-coup Egypt:
The liberals’ slaughterhouse
The Egyptian coup, for now, marks a dead end for political Islam, and a
vindication of those like Al Qaeda who reject the path of democratic
elections as a deadly trap.
By Tom Hayden / The Rag Blog / August 28, 2013
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to J. August Richards, 40.
Ah, yes, the good stuff:
1. Adam Serwer on one of the more awful reactions to the Obama years from
(some in) the conservative press.
2. Seth Masket: media coverage matters for making congressional elections
work well.
3. And Ben Lindbergh on Jeter's defense. Fascinating, on a subject I would
have thought was long since played out.
Paul Krassner : My Brother's Keeper
The
mad scientist as a young man. (Not George Krassner but, hey, it could
have been.) Image from Beveled.
Rocket science:
My brother's keeper
"At age 29, as head of the Astro-Electronics Division, I had the
civilian rank equal to a colonel, but I looked like a young kid. It was
embarrassing to take them to lunch and be carded by the waiter." --
George Krassner
By Paul Krassner /
The Rag
Meet Danielle Adams, A Progressive Champion Running In North Carolina
Howard Coble first won his North Carolina congressional seat in 1984,
narrowly beating a freshman Democrat by riding Ronald Reagan's formidable
coattails. The rematch in '86 was even tighter but Coble won, 72,329 to
72,250... 79 votes! Coble, a pretty mainstream conservative has never had a
close call again. The longest-serving congressmember in North Carolina
history, no opponent has ever reached 40% against him. But he's 84, not
well and in and out of hospitals for the last 4 years-- most recently last
month. There's been lots of speculation about Coble retiring, but he's
popula... more »
Fifty years ago today, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I have a dream" speech; here's the text
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the
greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand
today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as
a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been
seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak
to end the long night of their captivity.
But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years
later, the life of the Negro is still ... more »
US/UK/ Israel ally AQ ready to punish Assad for alleged chemical attack
*You might think this is satire.** It isn't. *
* AQ and all other brands of the Islamic NATO/IDF troops have always been
allied with the US/UK/Israel/NATO(France) global war machine. *
*So here we go yet again!*
Syria: Al-Qaeda vows 'volcano of revenge' for chemical attacks *Compare
this with:* France 'ready to *punish*' *Syria* over gas attack*Compare this
with:**US to punish Syria*, not push regime*Compare this with:*Britain has
a responsibility to take action to punish the “morally indefensible” use of
chemical weapons by the Syrian regime even without a UN mandateAnd then
the... more »
Making Energy Access Meaningful
In the current issue of *Issues in Science and Technology*, published by
the US National Academy of Sciences, Morgan Bazilian and I have a new paper
out on global energy access. Here is an excerpt from the introduction:
Our distinctly uncomfortable starting place is that the poorest
three-quarters of the global population still only use about ten percent of
global energy – a clear indicator of deep and persistent global inequity.
Because modern energy supply is foundational for economic development, the
international development and diplomatic community has rightly placed the
pr... more »
Quebec Values? No, just politics of separatism.
Newspaper reports suggest that planned legislation in Quebec will forbid
the wearing of religious garb in government facilities. It is unclear if
there would be exceptions for religious hospitals or schools. The expressed
purpose of the legislation is to protect Quebec values and traditions.
In Canada there is a constitutionally protected "freedom of conscience and
religion". That right is subject to reasonable limits - and the courts
have held those limits need to be narrow and focused on a significant and
proper governmental objective. It seems most unlikely that the protection ... more »
11-year-old quantum physicist enters a Texas college
Mr Carson Huey-You is a 11 years old boy who plays the piano and speaks
Mandarin fluently. On 9/11/2001, the 75-pound, 4-foot-7 boy who finds
calculus relaxing (basketball is OK, too) wasn't born yet but he wants to
become a quantum physicist.
And as Fox News, TCU 360, Statesman, and others reveal, he just made a
non-trivial step in order to become a quantum physicist.
He was just accepted to the Texas Christian University as a freshman
physics major.
This surely sounds like a part of the CV of his fellow Texan Dr Sheldon
Cooper, it's cool, so congratulations! ;-) My understan... more »
Separating The Parties
Quebec is a French island in an English ocean. That's undeniable. The
question has always been, "How should Quebecers react to that fact?" There
have always been those who have argued that, to survive, Quebecers must
look inward and erect political and cultural bunkers. Others have argued
that Quebec must look outward and embrace the world.
The Parti Quebecois has opened the isolationist argument again with its
proposed Charter of Quebec Values. That charter is not only separating
Quebecers; it's also separating each of the three federal political
parties. Tom Walkom writes:
Fede... more »
Civil contempt is the intentional doing of an act which is prohibited by court order
*Sabourin and Sun Group of Companies v. Laiken,* 2013 ONCA 530 holds that,
to constitute civil contempt, it is not necessary to show that an act was
deliberately contumacious; civil contempt is committed by the intentional
doing of an act which is in fact prohibited by court order:
[57] It is well-established that while the act that contravenes a
court order must be intentional to constitute civil contempt, it is not
necessary to show that the act was deliberately contumacious. This is not
a case of criminal contempt where public defiance of the court's authority
is an ... more »
New York Times Website-Suspected Hacking
*The New York Times website has gone offline for the second time this month
after what the corporation described as a hateful external attack.* A
technical trouble knocked NYTimes.com offline on 14 August. Analysts
supposed facts showed a group supporting Syrian president Bashar al-Assad
was behind Tuesday's assault.
The website was incompletely back online three hours later, though some
users still reported difficulties. During the postponement the New York
Times published new articles on its Facebook page as well as a reflect
site. According to Mr. Westin, media attacks seem to ... more »
Syria updates - August 28 , 2013 ....UK to present resolution on Syria later on Wednesday - condemnation of Assad Government and authorization of necessary measures to protect civilians to be part of resolution .....UN Syria envoy states international law requires a UN Security Council resolution for military action.... US and UK deploy warships ahead of syria missile strikes ( as soon as Friday ) , Israel allegedly captured incriminating conversations between Syrian Officials regarding the use of chemical weapons....UN Chief says give his inspection team time to do its job....Al Qaeda threatens reprisals against Assad for alleged chemical weapon attacks ( if the conversation exists , it should be played in full to the UN Security Council and Syria should be given the opportunity to respond ) ........
http://rt.com/news/syria-crisis-live-updates-047/
International pressure has been building for a military strike on Syria in
the wake of an alleged chemical weapons attack in a Damascus suburb. The
West has laid the blame at the feet of President Assad, as UN inspectors
probe the site of the attack.
Wednesday, August 28*
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*10:59 GMT:* German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle urged members of the
UN Security Council, including Russia, to back the UK resolution on Syria
expected to be proposed later Wednesday. The resolution will condemn the
chemical weapon attacks allegedly carried... more »
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*The quiet storm ~Library Chronicles*
*Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council to Meeting today *
*Environmental groups to respond to SLFPA-E Lawsuit with press conference
today *
*Family says Chauvin woman gets flesh-eating bacteria by handling live
crabs ~WVUE*
*St. John residents still recovering after Hurricane Isaac ~WDSU*
*Broussard asking to be removed from pump lawsuit ~Chad Caulder, New
Orleans Advocate*
*Architectural Testing, Inc. Opens Regional Office in New Orleans*
Read more here:
http://www.sacbee.com/2013/08/27/5685154/architectural-testing-inc-opens.html#storyl... more »
The Great Law of Peace by Black Elk
Black Elk (1863 - 1950) Lakota Sioux Holy Man
Ted Cruz, future candidate for US prez ...
will renounce his birthright to "soshalist" benefits and advantages that
his family members fully exploited when they lived in Canada, where little
Ted was born.
Senator Cruz is leading a crusade to repeal Obamacare because it smacks of
socialism even though it expands health-care insurance coverage to millions
of Americans.
The petition on his website reads: “I do NOT support socializing health
care in America. I understand that, in every other nation that has
socialized health care, the result has predictably been poorer quality
health care, a crushing tax burden, scarcity and ra... more »
Million migrants who don't even have a British passport could decide next election | UK | News | Daily Express
Labour's plan clear yet?
'Commonwealth migrants from 54 states including Australia, Canada, India,
Pakistan and Nigeria can join the electoral roll on arrival in the UK as
long as they have an address here.'
More here
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/425124/Million-migrants-who-don-t-even-have-a-British-passport-could-decide-next-election
The Wisdom Of Edgar Cayce
"*Actually, we have no problems-we have opportunities for which we should
give thanks... An error we refuse to correct has many lives. It takes
courage to face one's own shortcomings and wisdom to do something about
them."*
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*"All souls were created in the beginning and are finding their way back to
whence they came."*
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*"He who understands nature walks close with God."*
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*"In each atom, in each corpuscle, is life. Life is that which you worship
as God."*
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*“Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.”*
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*“Tips for a long life: Keep sweet, keep f... more »
DAYS OF RECKONING AND MAD DOGS
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So here we have it.
Another war for Israel.
Founded on lies.
It is pointless making obvious observations. Why would Syria use chemical
weapons against cornered rebels in Damascus (of all places) when they were
clearly winning the war? Why would Syria invite weapons inspectors into
Syria before attacking rebels 15 miles from where inspectors were to stay?
The truth matters not.
Assad's forces were winning and that cannot be allowed to happen.
Iran must be destroyed as a regional challenger to Israel. Iran must be
brought under the globalists' thumb.
Iran and Hezbolla in Lebano... more »
CHILDREN KIDNAPPED AND MURDERED BY THE REBELS IN SYRIA
Above, we see a Syrian child who was raped and killed by the rebels.
The rebels are supported by the US government.
www.facebook.com
*Unidentified victims of the 'gas attack' in Syria. Were they kidnapped by
the rebels and then murdered?*
*brian* reports:
Arabi Souri posted that people in the region recognised some of the kids in
the photos from Ghouta, the scene of the alleged gas attack.
The belief is that some of the kids in the 'gas attack' photos were kids
who had been kidnapped and murdered by the rebels.
*Child victim of the rebels. **Latakia Massacres*
The rebels ha... more »
Sad that an Israeli designer felt the need to create a 'bomb-proof' backpack for kids
' With the start of the new school year, and amid the backdrop of
increasing security tensions in the region, an Israeli designer has created
a backpack that can also function as a protective vest against explosions.'
More here http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=11611
The BBC and troublesome foreign laws
The BBC report that:
'British holidaymakers have faced fines or worse for feeding pigeons,
playing bingo or eating while sitting on a monument, the Foreign Office has
said.
It warned that Britons booking foreign holidays without researching their
destination risk being caught out by unfamiliar laws.'
The list of countries and odd laws that the BBC/Foreign Office use to
illustrate this report is odd:
- In the Italian city of Venice it is against the law to feed pigeons,
while in Florence it is an offence to eat or drink in the immediate
vicinity of churches and public bui... more »
Libya Prime Minister sums up Libya situation nicely - Libya has many problems , one of which is the non - existence of the State ! Stateless or not , Libya gears up to give Said al - Islam , Abdullah al - Senoussi and Al Baghdadi al - Mahoudi - along with 26 other former regime members fair trials in prompt executions next month ! In other " de facto Stateless States - Afghanistan sees NATO tankers torched ( 25 this time ) as the Taliban continue their war season , Iraq death dealing continues.....
Afghanistan news.....
25 NATO fuel tankers attacked, destroyed in west Afghanistan
Wed Aug 28, 2013 7:19AM GMT
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Taliban militants have attacked and destroyed 25 fuel tankers belonging to
the US-led foreign forces in Afghanistan’s western province of Farah.
Afghan President Extends Pakistan Visit
Karzai Condemns Afghan Attacks
Taliban Kill 12 Afghan Civilians
Six Afghan Development Workers Executed by Taliban
Iraq.....
Car bomb attacks kill 29 people in Iraqi capital
Wed Aug 28, 2013 6:16AM GMT
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Bombing of Syria Will Not Be That Subtle (H/T to the Rude One) And When Did Syria (Like Iraq) Attack U.S.?
The Rude Pundit makes some telling points about those running the White
House under the Bush junta. Remember back that far? Funny how it all seems
so familiar again. Almost like an exact rerun (but who will play Rove this
time?). 8/19/2013 Rude Pundit: At Least Now They Use a Scalpel and Not a
Shiv The detention of Guardian reporter and columnist Glenn Greenwald's
partner for questioning in
CIA VIDEO ON SYRIA
*Child actor working for the CIA*
A heartbreaking video shows the moment an actor working for the CIA
pretends to collapse in tears "as he is reunited with young son he thought
had been killed" in the CIA-organised chemical attack
The 7-minute footage allegedly recorded in the Zamalka area of Damascus was
posted on YouTube by Syrian activists in the pay of the CIA.
*http://www.dailymail.cia.uk/*
The young parent is "so distraught" that his minders are forced to take
the child actor away from him
*http://www.dailymail.cia.uk/*
Zamalka is the Damascus suburb where the video w... more »
French Bank Soc Gen puts a " Syria War World " forecast range for Brent at 125 ( base case for start of attacks / anticipation thereof ) to 150 if a wider regional war breaks out - this forecast is for what could jump off over the next week or so ....... Needless to say , Asia markets are getting tommy hammered again - India ruppe pummeled ( 30 percent loss of value of currency since March ) , Gold is spiking ( look at gold in rupee ) , world FX , bonds and equities a sea of blood red ( Shanghai not participating in tonight's blood bath though ) !
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-27/socgens-shocking-oil-forecast-150-upside-125-base-case-following-syrian-attack-withi
SocGen's Shocking Oil Forecast: $150 Upside; $125 Base Case Following
Syrian Attack "Within A Week"
[image: Tyler Durden's picture]
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/27/2013 22:32 -0400
- Afghanistan
- China
- Crude
- ETC
- France
- Germany
- Global Economy
- Gross Domestic Product
- headlines
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- Lehman
- Lehman Brothers
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Wednesday Addams Linkage
I guess most folks are on the way to APSA. Have fun in Chicago if you’re
going–and if you’re a member of the APSA council, please consider moving
the convention to some weekend besides the first week of school. (Also,
#SeattleEveryYear. Just saying! Especially if it’s going to be in August.)
Here’s some links: Dani
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Light dark matter in NMSSM and non-diagonalization of BH evolution matrices
I want to mention two new papers today.
First, Jonathan Kozaczuk and Stefano Profumo of Santa Cruz discuss the
possibility to embed the very light, sub-\(10\GeV\) dark matter particle
(indicated by some of the direct search experiments) to the Next to Minimal
Supersymmetric Standard Model (NMSSM: it's the MSSM in which the Higgs
bilinear coefficient \(\mu\) is promoted a chiral superfield \(S\) which
is, according to many criteria and physicists, more natural than the MSSM
itself):
Light NMSSM Neutralino Dark Matter in the Wake of CDMS II and a \(126\GeV\)
Higgs
They find out that... more »
Musical Interlude: 2002, "Free To Fly"
2002, "Free To Fly"
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI1WnY30nJo
"A Look to the Heavens"
"Star clusters are among the most visually alluring and astrophysically
fascinating objects in the sky. One of the most spectacular nestles deep in
the southern skies near the Southern Cross in the constellation of Crux.
The Kappa Crucis Cluster, also known as NGC 4755 or simply the "Jewel Box"
is just bright enough to be seen with the unaided eye. It was given its
nickname by the English astronomer John Herschel in the 1830s because the
striking color contrasts of its pale blue and orange stars seen through a
telescope reminded Herschel of a piece of exotic jewelry.
IMAGE: The FOR... more »
"No Remedy..."
"Science may have found a cure for most evils,
but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all-
the apathy of human beings."
- Author Unknown
"5 Emotional Vampires and How to Combat Them"
"5 Emotional Vampires and How to Combat Them"
by Therese J. Borchard
"In her book, "Emotional Freedom," UCLA psychiatrist Judith Orloff
identifies five kinds of vampires that are lurking around and can zap our
energy if we're not careful. Here is an excerpt adapted from her book:
'Emotional vampires are lurking everywhere and wear many different
disguises - from needy relatives to workplace bullies. Whether they do so
intentionally or not, these people can make us feel overwhelmed, depressed,
defensive, angry, and wiped out. Without the self-defense strategies to
fend them o... more »
"Think, Hope..."
"Think for yourself, question authority."
- Timothy Leary
"The Gates of Hope"
*"The Gates of Hope"*
by Victoria Safford
"In his book "On the Rez," Ian Frazier tells a story about South Dakota's
Pine Ridge Reservation. In the fall of 1988 the Pine Ridge girls'
basketball team played an away game in Lead, South Dakota. It was one of
those times when the host gym was dense with anti-Indian hostility. Lead
fans waved food stamps, yelling fake Indian war cries and epithets like
"squaw" and "gut-eater." Usually, the Pine Ridge girls made their entrances
according to height, led by the tallest seniors. When they hesitated to
face the hostile crowd, a 14-year-ol... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Ile-de-france, France. Thanks for stopping by.
"Why Are You Here?"
* "Why Are You Here?"*
by Robert Lanza, M.D.
"Why do you happen to be alive on this lush little planet with its warm
sun and coconut trees? And at just the right time in the history of the
universe? The surface of the molten earth has cooled, but it's not too
cold. And it's not too hot; the sun hasn't expanded enough to melt the
Earth's surface with its searing gas yet. Even setting aside the issue of
being here and now, the probability of random physical laws and events
leading to this point is less than 1 out of 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000... more »
Kahlil Gibran, "Pain"
"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the
sun,
so must you know pain.
And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your
life,
your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy."
-Kahlil Gibran, "The Prophet"
"I Had An Experience..."
"I had an experience... *I can't prove it, I can't even explain it, but
everything that I know as a human being, everything that I am tells me that
it was real! *I was given something wonderful, something that changed me
forever... A vision of the universe that tells us, undeniably, how tiny,
and insignificant and how... rare, and precious we all are! A vision that
tells us that we belong to something that is greater than ourselves, that
we are *not — that none of us — are alone!* I wish I could share that. I
wish, that everyone, if only for one moment, could feel that awe, and
h... more »
"Psychopathic Relationships: The Boomerang Effect"
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*"Psychopathic Relationships: The Boomerang Effect"*
by Claudia Moscovici
"Relationships with a psychopath are usually like a boomerang. Even after
you toss him as far away as possible, he may still swing back into your
life. Years after they break up with a psychopath, women commonly report
that they're still cyber-stalked or somehow harassed by him, or that he's
still testing the waters to see if he can worm his way back into their
lives. So the question is: Why is it so hard to get rid of a psychopath?
Psychopaths are hoarders of women, even those they tired of and tossed ... more »
"Preparing To Be Happy..."
“We do not rest satisfied with the present. We anticipate the future as
too slow in coming, as if in order to hasten its course; or we recall the
past, to stop its too rapid flight. So imprudent are we that we wander in
the times which are not ours and do not think of the only one which belongs
to us; and so idle are we that we dream of those times which are no more
and thoughtlessly overlook that which alone exists. For the present is
generally painful to us. We conceal it from our sight, because it troubles
us; and, if it be delightful to us, we regret to see it pass away. We tr... more »
Chet Raymo, “Seeing”
* *
* “Seeing”*
by Chet Raymo
“Elizabeth Bishop has a poem about a sandpiper, a tiny shore bird scurrying
forward and reverse with the lick and ebb of the tide. It was not the
sandpiper I thought of today as I walked the beach, but the sand with which
the Bishop's bird is seemingly obsessed. The last two lines of the poem:
"The millions of grains are black, white, tan, and gray,
mixed with quartz grains, rose and amethyst."
Everyone sees the sandpiper. Who could not? Those fluttering feet. The
delicate engine of its controlled frenzy. But who sees what the sandpiper
sees... more »
CONFIRMED: US Claims Against Syria - There is no Evidence
*August 28, 2013* (Tony Cartalucci) - The Wall Street Journal has confirmed
what many suspected, that the West's so-called "evidence" of the latest
alleged "chemical attacks" in Syria, pinned on the Syrian government are
fabrications spun up from the West's own dubious intelligence agencies.
The Wall Street Journal reveals that the US is citing claims from Israel's
Mossad intelligence agency fed to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), a
repeat of the fabrications that led up to the Iraq War, the Libyan War, and
have been used now for 3 years to justify continued support of extremi... more »
Syria: The Path to Hell
The path to hell is paved with good intentions. And to take most people at
face value who favour military intervention in Syria, they appear to
sincerely favour "doing something" - anything - for the best of reasons.
The chemical attack on a rebel-held suburb of Damascus is utterly
reprehensible, no doubt about that. After repeated massacres of civilians *by
all sides* and the infamous flesh-eating episode that went viral, this
signals a new, barbarous low. Not even the Nazis used biological or
chemical weapons on the battlefield - that was something reserved solely
for helpless in... more »
Expensive Salt Water
You gotta read this: How to Charge $546 for Six Liters of Saltwater
http://t.co/xtNRTt7j9F
— John A. Carroll (@haitianhearts) August 28, 2013
5D Media Network Global Meditation Event
*5D Media Network Global Meditation Event*
August 27, 2013
PLEASE HELP MAKE THIS VIRAL!! ~BK
Please join us in a Collective DO'ing as we gather together from all
corners of the world. In ONENESS of intent we will send a wave of
compassion, activation, and transformation to usher in the NEW REALITY of
our choosing. All are invited to take part in this historic and momentous
occasion as we exercise our creative power and take charge of our
collective destiny for the highest good of all.
Join us in RELAXING INTO the NEW PARADIGM.
Immediately following The Remembering Show. Will sta... more »
It's more "New Yorker" readers' cartoon favorites
*"I have an imaginary friend. He's a real
person -- he just isn't really my friend."*
*by Ken*
I had the graphics files all prepared, and *New Yorker* cartoon editor Bob
Mankoff's introduction styled for our format awaiting discreet abrdigment,
when I left the office for my second annual Brooklyn Cyclones' home game at
MCU Park in Coney Island, figuring that even with the long trip home from
Coney Island to Washington Heights, I would have more than enough time to
pull this post together after the game.
But I wasn't expecting still to be in my seat at the end of the 9th inning
-- ... more »
Remember Curveball: Dangerous, Familiar Twaddle Precedes US Military Assault on Syria
*Update*: Indeed - just as was suspected, according to the Wall Street
Journal's piece, "U.S., Allies Prepare to Act as Syria Intelligence Mounts,"
citing US administration sources, the UN has been urged to end their
investigation and withdraw, and both the discredited CIA and their Israeli
counterparts claim to have the "intelligence" needed to proceed with
military strikes - a verbatim repeat of the fabrications used to rush the
world into war with Iraq upon intentionally false pretenses.
The CIA and Israel's Mossad are neither impartial nor objective, and exist
solely to support ... more »
Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW) - Food Waste Audit
Welcome to Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)!
Wondering how to live greener? You've come to the right place. Each week we
challenge ourselves to try a new task ... or "amp up" something we're
already doing. We raise our awareness, learn from each other and develop
Eco-friendly skills which will improve our lives and protect our planet.
Doing so together gives us power ... the power to Change The World!
If this is your first visit, please click HERE for information and a
complete list of all the challenges we've taken on so far.
This post contains great information and I encourage ... more »
A Victory For Humanity: The American People Have Not Been Brainwashed By Pro-War/Anti-Assad Propaganda
*Source: Latuff Cartoons*.
"As Secretary of State John Kerry made the Obama administration’s most
forceful statement yet on Syria’s alleged use of chemical weapons, *a new
Reuters/Ipsos poll finds just 9 percent of Americans supporting
intervention in Syria, with about 60 percent opposed."* - Joshua Keating, *"Least
Popular War Ever?"* Slate, August 26, 2013.
A lot more needs to be said about the fact that the most powerful state
media in the world, and in all of human history, has not been able to
successfully indoctrinate its people in the mad push for an aggressive war
agai... more »
On Syria And Politician’s Logic
As a callow undergraduate, I kind of supported the Iraq War for all of the
normal reasons; see The Republic of Fear and The Threatening Storm. (I say
“kind of” because I was in college and, frankly, tuned out in favor of
studying.) A little while ago, it struck me in one of those blinding
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Patshit Crazy Robertson Rides Again
Homophobe extraordinaire Pat Robertson explains how "the gays" have a ring
they use to spread AIDS to the unwary. Careful, you could be next.
"...Of The People, For The People and By The People."
*"Without debate, without criticism, no Administration and no country can
succeed-and no republic can survive. *
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*That is why the Athenian law-maker Solon decreed it a crime for any
citizen to shrink from controversy. "*
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*President John F. Kennedy,*
*"The President and The Press"*
Well, this is fairly depressing....
I have to admit, my expectations were not all that high....
But I can't honestly say this isn't rather disappointing...
Ass: The Movie from Spike1138 on Vimeo.
It won 8 Oscars that year.
Including, Best Screenplay....
*"Without debate, without criticism,... more »
this thursday, august 29: national strike of low-wage workers
If you are a fast-food worker, go here for more information on the national
strike to say: Low Pay Is Not OK.
For the rest of us, *on August 29, visit a picket line*, send an email, sign
a petition. In New York City, join rallying low-wage workers at Union
Square at 2:30. *All* our communities will be stronger we *all* earn a
living wage!
the standard double-standard: prison for war resisters, immunity for war criminals
Abby Zimet reports on Common Dreams:
Days before Bradley - now Chelsea - Manning was sentenced to 35 years in
prison for helping expose U.S. war crimes in Iraq, the Obama Department of
Justice filed a petition in federal court arguing that the perpetrators of
those crimes - Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al - enjoy “absolute immunity”
against criminal charges or civil liability. The filing came in a suit
brought by Sundus Shaker Saleh, an Iraqi single mother and refugee now
living in Jordan, who alleges that the planning and waging of the Iraq war
under false pretenses constituted a "cri... more »
Obama Embraces Neocons' War Against Syria, While Ron Paul Makes The Neocons Look Silly [Article From June 16]
*Obama Embraces Neocons' War Against Syria, While Ron Paul Makes The
Neocons Look Silly *[originally published on June 16, 2013].
President Obama is up in arms about the non-existent reality that Assad
used chemical weapons against his own people. He has become the biggest
mouthpiece for Neocon propaganda.
Obama has also *replaced Osama as the key man* in Al-Qaeda's success in the
Arab world. Without the funding provided by the Obama administration, the
Al-Qaeda terrorists in Syria would not be able to create so much needless
harm and bloodshed.
Obama is turning out to be a more ... more »
Bashar al-Assad To Barack Hussein Obama: Tread Lightly [Preview From Upcoming TV Show Breaking Syria]
*Barack Hussein Obama:* Have the U.N. team investigate the site.
*Bashar al-Assad:* That is not going to happen.
*Obama:* You are guilty of using chemical weapons on your people, we know
who you are and what you did.
*Assad:* If that's true, if you believe I am monstrous enough to use
chemical weapons on my own people, then maybe your best course would be to
tread lightly.
Martin Luther King’s dream: how are we doing after half a century?
So as of today it’s now exactly half a century since Martin Luther King expressed
his dream that his four children would one day live in a world where they
would be judged not by the colour of their skin but by the content of their
character.
Half a century since he expressed the idea that character is all; that skin
colour is just something you're born with; that recognition of that fact
should not be just a Dream.
So how are we doing after half a century? Have we reached that day?
Looking around me just in this country—looking around at race-based law,
race-based preference, ra... more »
Johnny Hazard : Militant Teachers Block Mexico City Airport
Teachers
shut down airport in Mexico City. Photos by Jesús Villaseca for The Rag
Blog
Protesting radical education 'reforms':
Militant teachers block Mexico City airport
The action was part of a series of escalating protests against the
passage, without discussion, of an education 'reform' package in the
Congress in the first day of the term of new president Enrique Peña
Nieto.
By Johnny
Republicans Are Lucky Steve Israel Won't Allow The DCCC To Take Advantage Of Their Increasingly Savage Civil War
I honestly never understood why the Beltway media-- all of it-- insists on
calling far right extremists "conservatives," when they are obviously
reactionaries and not conservative at all. John McCain, Susan Collins, Joe
Manchin, Lamar Alexander and Lisa Murkowski are mainstream conservatives.
Mike Lee, Ron Johnson, Jim Inhofe and Ted Cruz-- not to mention some of the
GOP candidates like Paul Broun, Ken Buck and Joe Miller-- are extremists
looking to turn back the hands of time. It becomes increasingly difficult
for corporate media to explain the intense civil war between conservati... more »
John Kerry Gets His Information About Syria From . . . YouTube Videos
*John Kerry Says To The People And Nations of The World: Look Into Your
Hearts. But** The World Sees Through John Kerry's False Moral Mask. And The
World Rightly Responds: Look Into Your Own Cold Heart, You Conniving, Evil,
Bloodthirsty, Lying Son of a Bitch! **Source of Photo.*
In his public statement on Syria yesterday, Secretary of State John Kerry
cited online videos as evidence for his version of events in Syria.
Is he watching the same videos that we are? The ones that show fanatics and
lunatics in the FSA eating human organs, and Al-Qaeda terrorists executing
Syrian teenag... more »
Too hot for our babies in Chicago, amateurism in #CPS continues
In just two days of teaching Kindergarteners in 90 degree heat, it would be
unimaginable for me, at the very least, to work in the summer without air
conditioning, like students and teachers this week did in Chicago. Yes. I
get it. I’m sure you trudged five miles in the snow, or ten miles in […]
A note to readers
Hello everyone! I'd like to take a moment and update regular readers here
on some important developments and to ask for your support.
First, to review...
Many of you are already aware that I was *fired from my job* back in
January of this year as a result of what I do here on this blog and on my
radio program. Let's just say that some of the topics I write about and
discuss are not appreciated by a certain group of people... so, obviously,
there are very real risks associated with exposing Jewish power and
criminality, the truth about Adolf Hitler and WWII, Israel's central role
in... more »
ANOTHER WAR FOR ISRAEL
Britain’s parliament is being recalled to debate the Syria crisis though
the outcome is a foregone conclusion since the opposition has already
indicated that it would conditionally support an attack. Already the UK has
deployed naval assets to the eastern Mediterranean together with strike
aircraft that have flown into Cyprus.
Across the Channel, France too is ready to go while across the Atlantic US
President Obama is just waiting on the formality of a go ahead after
Britain’s parliament has voted. Meanwhile, Britain’s Prime Minister David
Cameron has said that intervention in Syr... more »
Gold and Silver Report for August 27 , 2013 - Harvey Organ highlights .... data , news impacting the PMs and interesting views to consider.....
http://harveyorgan.blogspot.com/2013/08/august-27gld-increases-gold.html
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
august 27/GLD increases gold inventory/Comex dealer gold inventory remains
constant/total dealer and customer inventory remain constant/gold rises to
$1417.90 and silver to $24.65
Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen; (august 27.2013)
Gold closed up $24.90 to $1417.90. (comex closing time ). Silver was up
65 cents to $24.65 (comex closing time).
In the access market today at 5:15 pm tonight here are the final prices:
gold: $1415.60
silver: $24.50
Today was options expiry on ... more »
How to admire a cat’s arse, by Chris Trotter [corrected + updated]
Chris Trotter is once again banging the drum for the man with a face like a
cat’s arse to be Labour leader. “The Happy Warrior” he calls David
Cunliffe—the man his own caucus colleagues call, but not to his cat’s arse,
“Silent T.”
Why Trotter would want to saddle Silent T with a nickname previously
associated with Democratic time-servers Al Smith, Ted Kennedy and Joe Biden
is a question you would have to ask him yourself (perhaps because it’s
better than ‘Silent T’?), but he is so all-fired* out* for Cunliffe you
wonder what he’s been taking.
This is a man, says a Trotter on his... more »
Mike Klonsky : Drive-By Teachers and the Great Charter School Scam
Drive-by
teachers: The Wal-Mart model. Image from Gawker.
Drive-by teachers:
The great TFA/charter school scam
'Short careers by choice' translates into teachers being reduced to
low-wage information-age delivery clerks while most 'learning' is done
by students sitting in front of a computer screen.
By Mike Klonsky / The Rag Blog / August 27, 2013
Educator, activist, former SDS leader, and
Any US strike against Syria likely to last hours not days??
Consider this an update on the earlier post from today.* Syrian strikes
sooner rather then later: Israeli intel lights the way. Iran?* To get up to
speed you might want to read there first
If this latest report is accurate, what has changed?
Was it the NATO non assistance?
Fox News and there is a video there you may wish to take in
Any U.S. strike against Syria is *“likely to last hours not days”* and
probably would not come before the British Parliament votes on military
action Thursday, a senior U.S. defense official told Fox News.
Sources tell Fox that a strike would be led by the ... more »
Caballos y Pegasos de cerámica y porcelana en colores bonitos
Artista: *FriesianFury*
“I’m guilty of gross violation of equality of opportunity, racism and possibly sexism.”
Professor Walter Williams admits he is guilty of gross violation of
equality of opportunity, racism and possibly sexism, as charged by his
university's Office of Equity and Diversity Services who require him to
“complete the in-person Equal Opportunity and Prevention of Sexual
Harassment Policies and Procedures training.”
He won’t be going. He won’t be going because people discriminate all the
time. Because “George Mason’s Office of Equity and Diversity Services has
far more challenging equity and diversity work than worrying about the
re-education of Professor Williams.” And bec... more »
Miley and modern journalism
So why was Miley Cyrus all over the world news yesterday for a dance at an
awards show?
*The Onion* asked the Managing Editor Of CNN.Com to explain.
It’s a good question. And the answer is pretty simple. It was an attempt to
get you to click on CNN.com so that we could drive up our web traffic,
which in turn would allow us to increase our advertising revenue.
There was nothing, and I mean *nothing*, about that story that related
to the important news of the day, the chronicling of significant human
events, or the idea that journalism itself can be a force for positive
change ... more »
‘Largest hack’ in Chinese history has Beijing stumped
‘Largest hack’ in Chinese history has Beijing stumped
http://rt.com/news/china-biggest-cyber-attack-history-034/
A massive section of the Chinese Internet was knocked out Sunday in what
authorities are calling the “largest hack in China’s history.” The attack
has security experts at a loss and unable to determine the origins of the
cyber-assault.
The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) reported the outages
Sunday. The government institution said they were the result of twin
denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks occurring in close succession, starting at
2:00am local time... more »
DoD training manual suggests Founding Fathers followed 'extremist ideology'
A man is arrested during the Occupy Wall Street protest September 17,
2012 on the one year anniversary of the movement in New York.(AFP Photo /
Stan Honda) *
DoD training manual suggests Founding Fathers followed 'extremist ideology'*
http://rt.com/usa/us-military-extremism-terrorism-right-963/
A Department of Defense training manual obtained by a conservative watchdog
group pointed to the original American colonists as examples of an
extremist movement, comments that have sparked fear of a broader crackdown
on dissent in America.
The training manual provides information that de... more »
Finally, Milbank starts to explain!
*TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2013*
*Also featuring, Who is Amy Chozick:* Thanks in part to our tireless
efforts, the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank has begun to explain.
What explains the values of the modern upper-end “press corps?” In a recent
column, Milbank described the values of his parents’ generation—and also,
alas, of his own:
MILBANK (8/24/13): *The weakest generation?*
*I was born five years after the March on Washington and three weeks after
King’s assassination. My mother told me that in those grim days of April
1968, she wondered whether she had done the right thing in bringi... more »
Let fall body and mind
"身心脱落!" T'ien-t'ung Ju-ching shouted,
finding a sitting monk half asleep.
He meant it kindly, but his urgency
cracked the air, a thundernote. "You must
*let fall* body and mind!" the old
man pleaded. What effect this might have had
on the sleeping monk, we are not told;
Dogen, sitting nearby, moved from a stuck place
toward a resolution he had sought.
He then traveled home again, determined
to teach his people the simplest way of letting
go. "Sit," he told his students, "just sit.
In doing so you are already Buddha;
there is nothing further to obtain."
It is misleading, perhaps, to t... more »
Is Carolyn Stewart-Olsen a Duffy in the Shadows?
She's ostensibly a senator for New Brunswick but Carolyn Stewart-Olsen been
a denizen of Ottawa since the mid-80s.
According to her *Wiki* entry, Stewart-Olsen served as head nurse of
ambulatory care at Ottawa's Grace Hospital in 1986 before moving on to work
as nursing manager at Carleton Place hospital. She hooked up with the
Reform Party in 1993 when it became established in Ottawa. She worked for
Preston Manning and Deborah Grey before becoming Harper's press secretary
in 2002 when he deposed Stockwell Day. Harper brought Stewart-Olsen into
his PMO in 2006. Three years late... more »
Not All Interventions are the Same.
It now looks almost certain that we will see a US military strike of some
sort in Syria. There is a lot of angst out there about such a strike — what
are its goals? What will it accomplish? and, Where will it all end? Many
are asking “what the hell is the Obama administration
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The Real False Flag?
Got call from a contact with a past in the military. He was quite upset
about the situation in Syria. I have never heard him so upset before. He
said "the false flag isn't the poison gas attacks, its the 4 unescorted
Navy destroyers sitting offshore that are easy pickings for Syria's
Russian-built anti-ship missiles that fly at mach 7 for which we have no
defense...". There are no US Navy Carrier groups in the mediterranean
right now.
He also said "the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has offered Putin a sweet oil
deal in OPEC if they don't come to Syria's aid". This also cuts the USA... more »
Do You Enjoy Reading? Economic Inequality-- (Almost) The Whole Story
Over the weekend, CNN published a crowd-sourced list of the 99-- like in
the 99%-- must-reads on income inequality. The titles that are linked are
available online or are avilable in the *DWT* online book store.
1. "The Price of Inequality," by Joseph Stiglitz
2. "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man," by John Perkins
3. "Player Piano," by Kurt Vonnegut (Vonnegut's first novel; according to
the back cover, it's a "chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must
find a way to live in a world dominated by a super computer and run
completely by machines.")
4. "Economic Growth and I... more »
Claire
NPR review of Claire by the Sea by Edwidge Danticat.
Failing Trial Balloon 101?
I have to say: if Barack Obama really does wind up nominating Larry Summers
for Fed Chair, it's got to be some sort of record-breaking performance for
Worst Use of Trial Balloons.
We've been hearing about the possibility for months. As far as I can tell,
the reactions -- I think from both parties and all ideologies, issue
positions, and experience with the potential nominees -- fall into
basically three baskets:
1. Larry Summers is the World's Greatest Monster. Having him at the Fed
would be an abomination (includes subgroup: Bob Rubin is the World's
Greatest Monster, and Summers i... more »
The March to War in Syria
*Eric Draitser appears on Press TV on August 25th, 2013 to discuss the
drive toward war with Syria. He explains the importance of the US
timetable for action, noting that the speed with which hostilities might be
initiated tells us much about the veracity of the chemical weapons claims
and US intentions. Additionally, Eric points out the competing factions
within the US political establishment and what this tells us about the
internal politics behind this push for war. *
GAIA PORTAL:Mortal Constitution of Gaia Energetic Constructs have Transmuted into Higher Vibrational Grids
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* *Mortal Constitution of Gaia Energetic Constructs have Transmuted into
Higher Vibrational Grids*
by ÉirePort
Mortal constitution of Gaia energetic constructs have transmuted into
Higher Vibrational grids. Such Higher Vibrational grids now allow inclusion
of what some term 'Angelic' entities into the full Gaia presence.
Aspects of Inner Gaia previously hidden from human view now become visible.
This allows complete integration of the Gaia Being with Inner Gaia.
[Êireport comment: the definition of the word 'mortal' is below.
1. subject to death; having a transitory life...... more »
Andromedan Love Symbol Decoded?
I've been pondering the Andromeda symbol for love trying to figure out
what it might be an abstraction of, this came to me this morning. It feels
right... -Bill
Will America Debut the F-22 Over Syria?
It's been in service for years and surely it's about time the U.S.
introduced its F-22 Raptor, stealth fighter, into combat. And where better
than in the skies over Syria?
Operating out of an RAF base in Cyprus just a hundred miles distant from
Syria, the F-22 would have no significant fuel problems. It could dominate
the airspace over Syria, protecting the strike force, taking out any Syrian
fighters that rose against the attackers and proving itself invulnerable to
Syrian air defences.
“A Question For All Americans”
*“A Question For All Americans”*
by Karl Denninger
“From the Washington Post: “A new Reuters/Ipsos poll has finally found
something that Americans like even less than Congress: the possibility of
U.S. military intervention in Syria. Only 9 percent of respondents said
that the Obama administration should intervene militarily in Syria; a
RealClearPolitics poll average finds Congress has a 15 percent approval
rating, making the country’s most hated political body almost twice as
popular”. I will note that about 40% of the population supported the King
of England in 1776.
*Click im... more »
Tkachuk and Stewart Olsen Succumb to Denialism, Senate-Style
Senate scandal - it's not just for the rookies any more. Veteran Tory
senators, Dave Tkachuk and Carolyn Stewart Olsen, have issued statements
denying they knew anything about the backroom deal between Harper chief of
staff, Nigel Wright, and the beleaguered Cavendish Cottager, Mike Duffy, to
cover Duffy's Senate tab.
Tkachuk and Stewart Olsen deny that PMO deal had anything to do with their
laundering of the Senate
report into Duffy's expense problems - even if that might have been part of
the deal between Duffy and Wright.
*"It was all a coincidence, ya see - a pure coincidence.... more »
It's Time for a Showdown at Washington's OK Corral
Watch for radical Republicans (they're not *all* that way, honest) to shut
down the U.S. government in October. GOP House leader John Boehner may
emerge looking like an idiot who couldn't control the nutjobs in his
party's ranks and the Republicans may pay dearly for that.
As for Obama, he knows not to trust the Repugs and sees no reason to try -
again.
*...there's really nothing Obama wants from Republicans. They had their
chance at a serious debt-reduction deal and turned it down, and Obama
obviously has no desire to waste his time with that again. Besides, with
the deficit al... more »
Power Struggle: Putin, Russia and the West
I watched a documentary last night on "Putin, Russia and the West." It is
an amazing story of power struggle between Russia and America. It revealed
that how these two nations are trying to control the world politics, regime
changes etc. Here is a small clip from the documentary:
* ***
**
*"Even after eight years as President of Russia and four more as Prime
Minister, Vladimir Putin ran for office again and in March 2012 won the
Presidency in elections that are widely seen as fraudulent. Thousands have
taken to the streets in protest. Putin, Russia and the West tells the
inside stor... more »
Because I only cared just now...
Regards this Miley Cyrus thing, she has, retwerked at the VMA, which I
believe must stand for Video Music Awards, after doing the dance in a music
video of hers, highlighting her new, edgy, non-Disnified look and sound.
I’d say who gives a flying fuck, but at the moment everybody does. Is it an
example of racist cultural appropriation or a nasty outbreak of slutshaming?
Either way it’s a terrifically sensitive social intersection, hence, one
would suppose, the great torrent of controversy. As far as I’m concerned...
1) Quite frequently people who have grown up in the entertainment i... more »
Spain: A Terrible Night in August (1973)
*Spain: A Terrible Night in August (1973)*
*Researchers: Joaquín Mateos Nogales, Manuel Filpo Cabana, Gloria Andreu de
los Santos and Antonio Moya Cerpa
Report and Drawing: Antonio Moya Cerpa*
*The Beginning*
We heard about this case 5 years after it occurred. But it doesn’t matter.
As someone said quite wisely, “Ufologists aren’t news reporters” and a case
can be very interesting regardless of the date it took place.
As in most investigations we have performed, it has been our dear friend
and colleague Joaquín Mateos who learned of the event, got in touch with
the witnesses and ar... more »
Spain: UFO Chased By Two Jet Fighters (1977)
*Spain: UFO Chased By Two Jet Fighters (1977)*
*The Witness*
Name: Jose Chavez Jimenez
Age: 28
Marital Status: Single
Profession: Welder. Works at the Astilleros Españoles company in Seville
Address: Calle Comandante Castejón, 1- Gerena (Seville)
We had the impression that the witness was a very well-balanced person.
He’s a countryman, rough, tied to the soil, who told us what happened in
short, simple phrases, entirely sure about what he was saying, or in other
words, he told us exactly what he saw as if it hadn’t the slightest bit of
importance. He could’ve been telling us any comm... more »
INTERVIEW / Jonah Raskin : The Quest of Cannabis King Jorge Cervantes
Jorge
Cervantes with some of his queenly Cannabis plants. Photos special to
The Rag Blog.
An Interview with Jorge Cervantes:
The king of marijuana cultivators and
his quest for the 'Queens of Cannabis'Marijuana will keep its
underground character for a while, but it will eventually become legal.
The wind is blowing in that direction. Politicians like to be on the
winning side and cannabis is
Homage to Lucien Freud - Ipad brushes
by Cristina Homem de Melo
Untitled
*Environmental groups respond to the SLFPA-E Lawsuit *
Dear Editilla,
Please join me today and find out the real reason that Governor Jindal
opposes the lawsuit against 97 oil, gas and pipeline companies.
What: press conference (20 min)
When: 10:30a Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Where: 1100 Poydras Street, Suite 2900, New Orleans, LA
Who: Levees.org, the League of Women Voters, the Louisiana Bucket Brigade,
the Sierra Club, the Gulf Coast Restoration Network, Global Green USA,
VAYLA New Orleans and the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice at
Dillard University
More info:
Last mo... more »
Obamacare: Don't Fund It...
*have you signed the petition yet?*
I've signed and my Idaho Senators have pledged to defund - and we thank
them.
*Don'tFundObamacare.com*
* *
Who does the BBC use as an ‘expert’ on Syria? | Trending Central
A Hamas supporter of course
http://www.trendingcentral.com/who-does-the-bbc-use-as-an-expert-on-syria/
Miley Cyrus twerking becomes an internet sensation/meme
Miley Cyrus twerking thusly has become an internet sensation, even I covered
it earlier today
But then I found Miley Cyrus twerks on famous paintings at Buzz Feed .
There are some truly brilliant pieces there, go take a look, but here's my
favourite three:
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte with apologies to Georges
Seurat
The Persistence of Memory with apologies to Salvador Dali (actually he'd
probably have approved)
The son of man with apologies to René Magritte
I do love a good Internet meme.
Late August blackberries
I'm canning tomatoes and blackberries today. Zukes, hops, and tomatoes are
also in the dehydrators. With luck, we'll make 83F, though the morning
seemed quite cold to me.
You can see from all the fallen leaves from the young cottonwoods behind me
that we are still feeling the effects of the drought. less than a third of
the blackberry bushes are worth the effort but they are enough to keep me
busy. You can also see the effects of old age here; I'm looking more and
more like Andy Rooney. So it goes.
Not being very patient when I'm harvesting, I've taken to carrying the
pitcher f... more »
Ted Cruz on Syria and defunding Obamacare...
"the only justifiable reason for US military forces to be engaged is to
protect our national security"
Upcoming "Law & Order" Episode - Paula Deen Kills Trayvon Martin.
Oh dear. The upcoming season of *Law & Order* is said to include an
episode in which a "*high profile, celebrity woman chef*" thinks she is
being pursued by a rapist, turns and shoots what then proves to be an
innocent, black teenager. Word of the episode has sent the rightwing
media into a frenzy.
*The chef is a fictionalized version of Paula Deen, the Savannah,
Georgia-based cooking personality and author who was recently embroiled in
a racial discrimination and sexual harassment lawsuit. The minor she
fatally shoots is clearly inspired by Trayvon Martin.*
* It's no secret th... more »
Monkey With A Grenade
*Source of picture*.
"The West behaves towards the Islamic world like a monkey with a grenade."
- *Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin.*
This is too respectful. Monkeys "have a sense of morality and the
rudimentary ability to tell right from wrong, according to new research" (*
Source*). The pedophiles who run Western governments and countries like
America, England, and France are lower than monkeys.
Hombre controla y mueve mano de otro via el NET
Lo que esto significa, es que una persona que tiene un ser querido puede
offreserce como voluntaria/o y que la persona paralitica pueda sentir y
compartir emociones y pensamientos...
Wow que diablos...igualito que la pelicula avatar...
27 De agosto de 2013 , los investigadores de la Universidad de Washington
han realizado lo que creen es la primera interfaz cerebral no invasiva de
humano a humano, con un investigador capaz de enviar una señal del cerebro
a través de Internet para controlar los movimientos de la mano de la
investigadora.
Usando grabaciones eléctrica cerebral y una fo... more »
Gordo in Exile
Most senators don't get mug shots and fingerprints until after they're
appointed.
It looks like Gordo Campbell may be stuck in Trafalgar Square for a while.
*The Georgia Strait *reports that the current Senate scandals and High
Commish Campbell's high-flying London lifestyle have all but ruled out his
chances to fill British Columbia's Senate vacancy.
*There's a vacancy for a sixth senator from B.C.*
*Under normal circumstances, former premier Gordon Campbell would be a
strong contender, given his rapport with Prime Minister Stephen Harper.*
*However, Campbell's surprisingly co... more »
"Fukushima: Your Days of Eating Pacific Ocean Fish Are Over At the Very Least"
*"Fukushima: Your Days of Eating Pacific Ocean*
* Fish Are Over At the Very Least" *
by Gary Stamper
"The heart-breaking news from Fukushima just keeps getting worse…a LOT
worse. It is, quite simply, an out-of-control flow of death and
destruction. TEPCO is finally admitting that radiation has been leaking to
the Pacific Ocean all along. and it’s NOT over….
I find myself moving between the emotions of sorrow and anger.
It now appears that anywhere from 300 to possibly over 450 tons of
contaminated water that contains radioactive iodone, cesium, and
strontium-89 and 90, is floodin... more »
Blue America Has A New Candidate... In Oklahoma!
Reactionary Blue Dogs Jim Matheson, Mike McIntyre and John Barrow are often
excused for voting consistently when the Republicans even on the most basic
and crucial Democratic principles, because of the right-wing nature of
their districts. Nick Rahall isn't as anti-worker as the other three, nor
as much of a corporate whore as they are, but he gets the same pass for
voting with the GOP and for the same reasons. Matheson has the reddest
district in the country held by a Democrat-- a PVI of R+16-- and Obama only
managed to win 30% of the vote in his brainwashed Utah district. Rahall... more »
“Return to Zombieland”
* *
* “Return to Zombieland”*
by Bill Bonner
“Yes, it’s back to school. Back to work. And back to Zombieland. The Dow
dropped 64 points yesterday. Gold rose above $1,400 an ounce. What’s next?
We’ll wait and see. But we’ll wait and see from a safe distance.
Last night, we drove into the heart of darkness to celebrate a birthday.
The party was held in Georgetown – the richest enclave in the richest city
in the richest country in the world. How did Georgetown get so rich? It’s
always a culture shock for us. Coming from Baltimore, we meet a different
kind of person in Washington. Ri... more »
Syria - A Cautionary Message from Gwynne Dyer
Yeah, okay, we get it. Chemical weapons were unleashed against civilians
in Syria. That seems, just as John Kerry claims, undeniable. But, as
Gwynne Dyer, warns we have to tread very carefully past that point.
*After that, however, we run out of facts. The rebels claim that the
Baathist regime was responsible, while the Syrian government says that the
rebels did it themselves in the hope of triggering foreign military
intervention. *
*Sending United Nations inspectors will not settle that argument: if nerve
gas was actually used, it must have come from government stocks, but tha... more »
How a Nation Is Exploited – The British Empire in Burma (May 1929)
Map showing the growth of British Bengal and British Burma (1907)
Le Progrès Civique, 4 May 1929. Translated into English by Janet Percival
and Ian Willison.
Following the recent troubles in India, we have asked our contributor, Mr
E. A. Blair, whose investigations on ‘The Plight of the British Worker’
have already appeared in these pages, to tell us something of the unrest
which has been fermenting in the sub-continent for some years, and which is
threatening to spread to English Indo-China.
Mr E. A. Blair, who lived in Burma for some years, has written the
following int... more »
Snowden: What is Glen Greenwald REALLY up to in Brazil...?
Glen Greenwald: La CIA y la NSA espiaron mediante satélites desde Brasil &
Slides from Spike1138 on Vimeo.
"An indication that the global financial elite favored regime change in
Brazil came in the form of a *Financial Times* article in 2010 which
described José Serra, the ultra-right wing opposition candidate to Dilma
Rousseff in the 2010 presidential election campaign, as “by far the better
candidate”."
http://www.globalresearch.ca/brazils-vinegar-revolution-neoliberalism-and-the-economic-elites/5346938
NSA Whistleblower Russ Tice Alleges NSA Wiretapped Barack Obama as... more »
The trier of fact should not consider the accused’s evidence in isolation
*R. v. Menow*, 2013 MBCA 72 is a good source for the proposition that an
accused’s evidence at trial is not to be considered in isolation:
[16] Every person is presumed to be innocent until the
Crown has proven his or her guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. In *W.(D.)*,
the Supreme Court warned that verdicts of guilt should not be based on
“whether [triers of fact] believe the defence evidence or the Crown’s
evidence” (at p. 757). Rather, the paramount question is whether, on the
whole of the evidence, the trier of fact is left with a reasonable doubt
about the gu... more »
India Bursts Her First Bubble
To the extent we paid attention to India's economic miracle at all, it was
mainly to see its ascendancy as unstoppable. What we read were tales of
new moguls and an emerging, high tech, sophisticated middle class.
Unfortunately that's pretty much the vision that Indians also held and it
was as much an illusion for them as it was for us except they're now on the
receiving end of a bursting bubble.
The rupee has slid to its lowest ever rate and the country is teetering on
a currency crisis. *The Guardian's* Jayati Ghosh says it was a building crisis
in plain view that no one wan... more »
Huge demand for Baby-free Zones on Planes
YouGov report that:
'Four in ten (79%) British adults, including a majority of those with young
kids, think it would be a 'good idea' for airlines to reserve areas for
passengers aged 12 and up. Only 13% think the move would be a bad idea.'
More here
http://yougov.co.uk/news/2013/08/27/four-five-want-child-free-zone-planes/
Of course it's a popular idea, flying is bad enough without having a
screaming baby assaulting your eardrums. Flying is uncomfortable enough
without having a five year old kicking the back of your seat for 4 hours.
Flying is nasty enough without having the baby ... more »
Part II: The Glass Half Full: Gendered Progress in Academic Networking
This is a guest post by Sara McLaughlin Mitchell, Professor and Department
Chair of Political Science at the University of Iowa. In my previous post,
I discussed some problems women face when networking in political science.
Here I focus on the progress we have made. As a quantitative conflict
scholar, I spend a great deal of
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Jesse Loves George
Jesse Loves George from Spike1138 on Vimeo.
Bush & Jackson News Conference
Nov 30, 1988
This is 3 weeks after the Willie Horton Election.
Note the mention of James Earl Ray, furloughs and parole; James Earl Ray is
a demonstrably innocent man who never had a trial.
What's more, Jesse Jackson (and his 'fro) visited with Ray in 1978 and
stated to the Press Conference assembled outside (clearly and
unequivocally, for the record) "I have severe DOUBT [as to Ray's guilt]"
Anthony Weiner Caught in Public 3-Way
No, he wasn't sexting at the wheel either but I thought the title would get
plenty of attention. It was just a 3-car fender bender on Manhattan's
Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive. Weiner was a backseat passenger. Nobody
hurt.
If your (BIG) bank fails, the U.S., Canada, England, and European governments are prepared take part of your deposits ...and any help from the FDIC will be miniscule. This is called a bail-IN (as opposed to a bail-out). The large global and Wall Street banks are at the greatest risk because they have been gambling depositor money in risky derivatives and other speculative devices. Derivatives enjoy special status in bankruptsy, effectively making drivative counterparties senior to almost all other claimants, especially bank depositors. What a pity that only 842 people are following this blog, when due to their ignorance millions of people will surely lose much of their bank deposits in this way. The big banks are now gobbling up much of the wealth on earth before their bubbles burst, at which point they will steal even more. Do your friends a favor by telling them to follow Ellen Brown.
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*PublicBankingTV : Your Money Is Not Safe in the Big Banks*
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Posted on August 25, 2013 by Ellen Brown
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*The **Leveraged Buyout of America*
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Posted on August 26, 2013 by Ellen Brown
*Giant bank holding companies now own airports, toll roads, and ports;
control power plants; and store and hoard vast quantities of commodities of
all sorts. They are systematically buying up or gaining control of the
essential lifelines of the economy. How... more »
Obama’s Failed Hope and Change: “Forget the politicians. They are irrelevant” | the becoming radical
About three decades later, I joined the majority of voters in the U.S.,
electing the first bi-racial (often called simply African American)
president in the country’s history. At the time, however, I voted for
Barack Obama primarily because I believed his election was an important
symbolic moment for the U.S.; I did not buy his […]
The Case of the Case-Making Secretary
From your Secretary of State of Rage, John Kerry, came the opening salvo in yet
another front in the Everywhere War. He strove in vain to move the
public bellicosity appetite scale all the way from Nine to Ten Percent. It
was a heroic effort, replete with two centuries of American jingoism and
bathos. He had to have reached into the very depths of his tepid core to
come up with so much feigned outrage. (italicized bits are just my own
mutterings*.)*
**
*Text of John Kerry's Getting Ready for War speech*:
Well, for the last several days President Obama and his entire national
securit... more »
"You Are Being Deceived"
TUESDAY, 27 AUGUST 2013
*"You Are Being Deceived"*
http://removingtheshackles.blogspot.com/2013/08/you-are-being-deceived.html
For all of you awesome people out there who have spent hours and hours, if
not days and days and weeks and week, trying to explain to your family and
friends and co-workers that their entire perception of "Government",
"Finance" and "the authority" has been built on lies and deception of the
highest order.... this pdf below is for you.
While it might not have every single aspect of the corruption of power on
this planet laid out completely, it comes pre... more »
PETITIONING AT THE POLLS
I spent two hours this morning gathering petition signatures at the voting
polls here in Bath. We have a petition calling on the City of Bath to
reject the upcoming request from Bath Iron Works (BIW) for another round of
tax breaks for their shipyard expansion. (BIW builds Navy Aegis destroyers
which are outfitted with 'missile defense' systems and are being used to
surround Russia and China.) BIW is owned by General Dynamics whose top
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) last year made $18 million in compensation.
The municipal budget of our city is less than $15 million a year.
Since... more »
A horrible front-page report by the Post!
*TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2013*
*As we should have stated:* Yesterday, we praised the Washington Post for a
front-page report from Sunday’s hard-copy paper. To read that post, click
this.
We should have noted the truly horrible front-page report which ran
directly above it, right at the top of the Sunday Post’s front page.
Jonathan Chait called this other report “one of the weirdest, and most
weirdly biased, news articles I’ve ever read in my life.” We can’t disagree
with that assessment, and the report concerned a topic which lies at the
center of the national discourse.
Such as it i... more »
Tiwesdæg: the Left-hand of Linkage
Justice in Syria? The Maritime Labor Convention and the United States.
This really isn’t a matter of the United States, per se, but the
unrelenting hostility of the bulk of the Senate GOP caucus to multilateral
treaties. Kupchan and Trubowitz remain, unfortunately, vindicated. Frank
Beer discusses the past and present of NATO at e-International Relations.
Peter
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"You Are Being Deceived"
For all of you awesome people out there who have spent hours and hours, if
not days and days and weeks and week, trying to explain to your family and
friends and co-workers that their entire perception of "Government",
"Finance" and "the authority" has been built on lies and deception of the
highest order.... this pdf below is for you.
While it might not have every single aspect of the corruption of power on
this planet laid out completely, it comes pretty damn close to being the
best, most succinct run down of the basics that I have read in a long long
time. The author doesn't ge... more »
Getting ready for a war against Syria
*...robust Czechoslovak weapons unlikely to resist for too long...*
The civil war in Syria sucks, like most civil wars. The rebels aren't
saints (and Russia accused them of using sarin gas a month ago) but it's
the Syrian government that may be expected to behave more responsibly.
Given the strong indications that chemical weapons have been used, it's not
surprising that the U.S. forces and allies are thinking about an attack
that may begin as early as on Thursday.
*Photo from syrianhistory.com*
Such a reaction of the West is understandable but needless to say, the West
may be pl... more »
Cross-border Right Wing Nut Job Gathering ...
to be held in Niagara Falls, Ontario in early September.
This. Warning: mute sound on your laptop or device unless glurge-y music
and a sermon about the Virgin Mary is your thing.
It appears that Roméo Dallaire's staff didn't bother to google "Fatima:
the path to peace" when the invitation for the senator to speak came into
the office.
Had someone done that, they would have discovered the deeply gynophobic,
racist, homophobic and anti-semitic ideology this organization promotes.
From here:
*Beyond the obvious, what do a far-right Italian politician, the president
of the John B... more »
Rain and Floods - International Dilemma
The southeastern U.S has had unusual floods this year. Too much rain and
floods have also hit other parts of the world. Here is a picture of floods
in Sudan.
MAKING DO: A woman collected water from the ground Sunday in Khartoum,
Sudan,
after a flood hit the area. (Abd Raouf/Associated Press) WSJ.
Calvin Johnson: Navajo Rehabilitation Trust Fund being misused to build casino city
Navajo
Trust Fund being misused to build casino city
by Calvin Johnson, Dine'
Censored News
Our Dine’ people funds whether it’s General Funds or the Navajo
Rehabilitation Trust Fund are being mismanaged by our elected leaders
including the President’s Office and the Council Delegates.
The Navajo Nation has been assigned a taskforce and their goal to is
“develop the area of (Twin
EPISTEMIC ENCLOSURES: The toy of race!
*TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2013*
*Part 2—Conned by our favorite toy:* For several years, we liberals have
battered The Rival Tribe for its “epistemic closure.”
(For an account by Paul Krugman, click here.)
There is no doubt, the other tribe can be tremendously dumb. Obama *wasn’t*born in Kenya. And the Clintons
*didn’t* commit a string of murders, despite what Falwell (and Gennifer
Flowers) said.
With the stewardship of Cronkite gone, we the people have been freed to be
just as dumb as we want! Obvious crackpots get TV shows now—and we're free
to believe all the twaddle they are quite ea... more »
July 2013 Mixed Bag For Iraq’s Oil Industry
July 2013 had its ups and downs for Iraq’s oil industry. For the fourth
month, overall exports were down. The main reason was continued problems
with leaks and maintenance on the northern pipeline to Turkey. On the
positive side, prices rebounded for crude due to unrest and output
decreases in the Middle East, helping Iraq to earn more than June. Overall,
Iraq’s exports are at a 17-month plateau, but that has not had any negative
consequences for the oil dependent country yet.
Iraq’s exports dropped in July. There was an average of 2.32 million
barrels of day last month. That was... more »
Reuters: US to Strike Syria Before UN Evidence Collected
And the real meaning of "limited strikes"
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*August 27, 2013* (Tony Cartalucci) - The US has accused the Syrian
government of delaying UN inspectors from accessing the site of an alleged
chemical weapons attack in Damascus. But now, according to Reuters, the US
appears to be preparing to strike Syria militarily before the UN's now
ongoing investigation is concluded and evidence revealed to either support
or conflict with the West's so far baseless allegations.
Reuters' article, "Syria strik... more »
Gaza Strip: Is it a concentration camp?
*FROM THE INSIDE: Palestinian schoolchildren looked out the window of their
United Nations-run classroom in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Sunday.
(Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters)*
U.K. Jewish MP Gerald Kaufman: "Israel acting like Nazis in Gaza."
*"I would describe Palestinians as a persecuted ethnic group with
restricted mobility rights. Gazans are surrounded by walls lined with razor
wire and mines. Guard towers watch kill zones and no one can leave except
through a few controlled access points and only with Israeli permission....
Sure sounds like a concentration camp. How would you d... more »
Hong Kong: Polluted skyline
If we keep burning fossil fuels at the current level this kind of smog may
spread worldwide.
*SOUPY: An eagle flew over Hong Kong’s polluted skyline Monday.
Off-the-charts *
*air pollution in Beijing in the past few months has shown signs of
drifting to Hong Kong. *
*(Lam Yik Fei/Getty Images)*
Julian Assange of WikiLeaks wigs out: sings soft rock parody
It is good and funny. Enjoy!
*"LONDON -- Dressed as an 1980s rocker and donning a fake mullet, WikiLeaks
founder Julian Assange has made a bizarre bid for votes by starring in a
YouTube music video.*
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*The spoof ends with Assange singing rocker John Farnham’s 1986 hit “You’re
the Voice."*
Read the story at NBC News.
Macroprudential Regulation
A wise column from John Cochrane.
Miley Cyrus MTV MVA-2013
Long-time readers of this site know about my utter fascination for the
cultural enigma that is Miley Cyrus. Well, all I could say about the Pop
Princess's performance at this year's Music Video Awards is said here at
The Onion:
So, as managing editor of CNN.com, I want our readers to know this: All you
are to us, and all you will ever be to us, are eyeballs. The more eyeballs
on our content, the more cash we can ask for. Period. And if we’re able to
get more eyeballs, that means I’ve done my job, which gets me
congratulations from my bosses, which encourages me to put up even more
... more »
GAS ROCKETS FIRED FROM REBEL AREA OF DAMASCUS
*Top journalist Pepe Escobar, of Asia Times, reports:*
pepe.escobar.77377/posts/10151840247251678 / via brian
"Khalil Harb, of Lebanese paper As-Safir, confirmed a few minutes ago to my
great friend Claudio Gallo an article published in Arabic two days ago,
quoting a Russian source.
*"According to the source, Russia's ambassador in the UN Security Council,
Vitaly Churkin, presented conclusive evidence - based on documents and
Russian satellite images - of two rockets carrying toxic chemicals, fired
from Douma, controlled by the Syrian "rebels", and landing on East Ghouta. *
"Hund... more »
What was Miley Cyrus thinking?
I'd initially missed the fuss over Miley Cyrus's 'performance' with Robin
Thicke at the MTV Awards. 'Twerking' was the phrase I've seen mentioned the
most, I'd stick with embarrassing. Watching the first part of the video I
was wondering what Miley Cyrus was wearing under her bear themed romper
suit, she seems a little young to suffer from incontinence after all. The
strip at 3:03 explained that. The 'twerking' at 3:53 raises other question,
but more importantly what is up with Miley Cyrus's tongue, can't she keep
it in her mouth?
Here's some stills...
Miley Cyrus in her odd bea... more »
It Must Suck To Be Lindsey Graham
Those blue counties all went for Obama last year
Lindsey's dream job probably would have been Secretary of State for
President John McCain. But, no, that was never to be. And now he has to
spend his time upcountry, groveling to a bunch of racist teabaggers and
morons in Greenville and in remote redneck bastions of Hate Talk Radio
conventional wisdom like backward Oconee, Pickens and Cherokee counties.
The South Carolina Republican primary is a bitch if you're not Strom
Thurmond.
Conservatives in South Carolina are eager to oust Mr. Graham, who has
enraged the far right for, among o... more »
Syrian strikes sooner rather then later: Israeli intel lights the way. Iran?
* UPDATED BELOW*:
I have been thinking about Syria in terms of the the situation with Iran
especially the attack that Israel so urgently wants to make against Iran.
Of course, this is also on the minds of Israeli leaders.
Would Israel take the opportunity, under cover of the strikes from the
US/UK etc, to strike at Iran? I kind of doubt it myself, but, it is worth
considering.
So will Israel strike Iran? We have talked that subject on a number of
occasions.
*For Israel, US response on Syria may be harbinger for Iran*
In Jerusalem, Washington’s resolve in Syria is see... more »
He's Got To Be Kidding
Peter MacKay has accused Justin Trudeau of committing a criminal offence by
smoking pot. But Althia Raj, of *The Huffington Post*, writes:
While it is illegal to grow, traffic or possess marijuana, smoking weed is
not a criminal offence.
University of Ottawa professor Amir Attaran has written to the Nova Scotia
Barristers' Society asking that they investigate MacKay, a former
provincial Crown prosecutor and, as the current Attorney General of Canada,
the person charged with enforcing the rules of the land, for unprofessional
conduct as a lawyer.
It's an important distinction w... more »
Ed Milliband = Neil Kinnock
Apparently the Conservatives are to launch a campaign comparing the current
Labour leader Ed 'in the unions pocket' Miliband with Neil 'snout firmly
and deeply in the trough' Kinnock.
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Jim Thome, 43.
Right to the good stuff:
1. Dahlia Lithwick on Ginsburg and Scalia.
2. Good catch on Ted Cruz, from Juliet Lapidos.
3. I sort of wonder if we'll hit the point of some Republican Member of
Congress refusing his or her salary -- and trying to get away with refusing
staff salaries. Until then, we have this. Brian Beutler reports.
Ed Balls - economic genius?
Only a few months ago, Ed Balls was attacking the Conservative lead
Coalition government's economic record.
'Your experiment with austerity economics has failed on living standards,
jobs and growth and on deficit reduction too – and the British people are
paying the price for this failure.'
Today I note that that left wing economic commentator Paul Mason in The
Guardian writes:
'The argument that fiscal austerity would lead to deep recession or
permanent stagnation has proved false. In part, this is because the
austerity is back-loaded, with the heaviest cuts starting now. But the ... more »
Majestic thievery Auto 5 leak sparks Sony apology to Rockstar
*Sony has issued a confession to developer Rockstar after audio from
forthcoming title Grand Theft Auto 5 was leaked online.* Customers who had
pre-ordered the excitedly awaited game were allowed to download a locked
version ahead of the game's release. However some people were able to take
out audio from the game - details of which were posted on forums.
Unluckily some people who downloaded the digital pre-order of Grand Theft
Auto 5 through the PlayStation Store in Europe were able to access certain
GTA5 possessions leading to leaked information and media from the game
appear... more »
A Moment Of Liberation - A Poem by M.N. Hopkins
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*Let not the outside*
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*Distract you *
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*No more*
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*Rather*
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*Feel that joy within*
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*Which bubbles up*
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*From an undefined*
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*Source*
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*Bubbles up naturally*
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*As a spring from*
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*Deep within the Earth*
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*Yet*
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*This joy is not just of this Earth*
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*But*
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*A joy*
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*That comes from a place *
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*Deep within yourself*
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*A place unguarded*
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*Fully accessable*
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*The watchman has left*
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*Due to the billance*
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*Of a Light*
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*Now*
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*The cells of the human body*
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*Sing with joy*
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*The heart awakens*
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*And*
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*Is enlivened*
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*Peace is at h... more »
Questions about Syria
The US and UK are apparently preparing for air strikes against the Syrian
Assad regime, claiming there is little doubt that it is responsible for
horrific chemical weapons attacks. Syria has allegedly crossed President
Obama’s ‘red line.’ Britain’s Foreign Secretary William Hague claims that
“We can not in the twenty first century allow the idea
Continue reading
Thiel-Kasparov debates
If you have 52 minutes, you may want to watch this video full of
intelligent enough debates between the renowned chess player Garry Kasparov
(a chronic world ex-champion and a sort of a political activist in Russia)
and the renowned venture capitalist Peter Thiel (the founder of PayPal, the
first major Facebook investor, a libertarian, and the supporter of
world-changing projects, especially by college dropouts):
*Video posted via Kasparov's YouTube channel*
The topics include Google and its vision for the world, the replacement of
humans by machines, the bad consequences of any l... more »
Larry Summers set to get the nod as Federal Reserve Chief ? So says John Harwood .....Emerging market rout overnight , Asian and europe following suit last night and today ... currencies , PMs , non US debt being hit today ...... War concerns start to weigh as US indicates some type of military actions loom against Syria...
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-27/futures-tumble-pre-war-jitters-emerging-market-rout
Futures Tumble On Pre-War Jitters, Emerging Market Rout, More Summers Rumors
[image: Tyler Durden's picture]
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/27/2013 06:48 -0400
- Barclays
- Bond
- British Pound
- China
- Consumer Confidence
- Copper
- Crude
- Dubai
- Germany
- Gilts
- Greece
- Gross Domestic Product
- India
- International Monetary Fund
- Larry Summers
- Mexico
- Middle East
- Nikkei
- RANSquawk
- RBS ... more »
Untitled
*Open houses on controversial flood maps continue Tuesday *
*Many JP residents in newly drawn flood zones according to FEMA *
*La. community is 'a ghost town' a year after Isaac *
*Before and after pictures dramatize rapid loss of Louisiana island*
*Pontchartrain Express ferry project fading*
*A renewed call to place breach sites on register*
Read more here:
http://www.adn.com/2013/08/27/3044493/a-renewed-call-to-place-breach.html#storylink=cpy
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*Tujague’s historic French Quarter restaurant reopens ~Ian McNulty, New
Orleans Advocate*
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