Saturday, August 10, 2013

10 August - Blogs I'm Following

Tapestry (Star Trek: The Next Generation)Tapestry (Star Trek: The Next Generation) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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a kiss on the wrist: the absence of same-sex love on star trek as a measure of how far we've come

laura k at wmtc - 4 minutes ago
Earlier this year, I re-watched the original "Star Trek" series end-to-end on Netflix - a thoroughly entertaining experience - then decided to watch "Star Trek: The Next Generation" for the first time. It wasn't long before I was completely hooked. The show has a lot to recommend it: compelling story lines, mostly good writing, progressive politics, and the brilliant acting of Patrick Stewart meshed with the commanding character of Captain Jean-Luc Picard. I especially appreciate how Star Trek TNG improved on the worldview of Star Trek TOS. I remember reading about this when the sho... more »

more roku joy: post your pbs and nfb recommendations here

laura k at wmtc - 4 minutes ago
Roku has added an app for PBS! This means we watch music clips from Austin City Limits, and in the winter we'll binge on American Experience history documentaries and American Masters biographies. These documentaries are consistently worth watching, and often truly excellent. On American Masters, we've recently seen "There But For Fortune," about Phil Ochs, and will eventually see bios of Philip Roth, J. D. Salinger, Johnny Carson, Mel Brooks, Rosetta Tharpe, and James Baldwin. American Experience has a spate of docs we haven't seen, including "The Abolitionists," and films on the b... more »

This Is Insane: The US Department Of Homeland (In-)Security Says It Is Now Illegal To Freely Play Music In The USSA!

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 hour ago
I have been watching all of the news reports that I can over the last few years about the criminal actions taking place against the American people by both the criminals in the so called "Department Of Homeland Security" (DHS) as well as the NSA and other US Government groups. It has become increasingly clear that America truly is now a Police State that rivals the former USSR for brutality against its citizens. I have always been a music lover, and I have always enjoyed celebrations, parties, and get-togethers, where music is played in the background by a band for everyone's enjoy... more »

Dine' Leland Grass: Wild Horse Slaughter: Navajo Leaders Lost the Horse Song

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 hour ago
Leland Grass: Betatkin wild cow chase Why would the Navajo government support the slaughter of the sacred wild horse?  "The horseback riders should understand the prayer and song as to why there is such a horse." -- Leland Grass By Leland Grass, Dine' Censored News I don't understand why our own Navajo Nation government President Ben Shelly, Speaker of the Council Johnny Naize and  Dine

GOP jokesters

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 hour ago
I'm sure Maine's crackpot Gov. Paul LePage's expressed desire to blow up the local newspapers was meant to be taken as a joke, but it's not funny. While he was at photo op, manning a fighter jet simulator in the local Pratt & Whitney factory, he told the crowd, "I want to find the Portland Press Herald building and blow it up." And if it was meant as an offhand remark, one wonders why he repeated it twice: Later in the event, a television reporter from WMTW asked LePage again if he had any targets. The governor answered: "The Press Herald and the Bangor Daily News." This was aft... more »

Moscow Rejects Saudi Offer To Drop Assad For Huge Arms Deal!

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 hour ago
President Bashar Al-Assad is now at the point of total victory against the criminal bought and paid for mercenary "rebels" for control over Syria. The good guys, the Syrian government forces have these so called "rebels", who have proven to be nothing more than murderous maniacs, on the run, and the proud people of Syria are now almost free of these US/Israeli invaders of their nation. The result has seen the US Government at the point of pure desperation and looking for anything to get an invasion of Syria going.... The real thorn in the American side when it comes to Syria has ... more »

H. L. Mencken Interview (1948)

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 hour ago
H. L. Mencken Interview. Posted by YouTube channel Gottfried Leibniz on August 1. H. L. Mencken was interviewed by Donald H. Kirkley at the Library of Congress on June 30, 1948.

‘It’s an economic war’: How the Edward Snowden of banking is blowing the whistle on secret Swiss accounts

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 2 hours ago
Former French employee of HSBC Private Bank Herve Falciani collected data on at least 24,000 customers of HSBC's Swiss subsidiaries from 2006 to 2008, while he worked in the bank's information technology development unit in Geneva, which he then passed on to French authorities. The data is at the centre of a row between France and Switzerland over suspicions of tax evasion by French citizens using Swiss bank accounts. * * * * *‘It’s an economic war’: How the Edward Snowden of banking is blowing the whistle on secret Swiss accounts* The New York Times | 13/08/08 | Last Updated: 13/08... more »

Rothschild's get into the Weather Forecasting Business...

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 2 hours ago

Email from a #TFA school admin requesting a grade change. For.No.Reason.

Chalk Face, PhD at SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE - 2 hours ago
I have the email embedded for you below. The interesting item is the whole inspirational quote thing in the email signature. I blocked most of it out, but I wanted to leave the end, “No Excuses.” Indeed. Tagged: admin, grade change, TFA

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 2 hours ago
*Video: Hunt for BP disaster oil continues on La. coast ~Amy Wold, The Advocate*

GUEST POST from Robert Rendo on #commoncore.

Chalk Face, PhD at SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE - 2 hours ago
Common Core or no Common Core, standards for what children should know by a certain age (skills or content) have always been in flux and controverted. The CCSS is, I think, on an extreme part of that spectrum of flux. The consensus reality and research that more or less corroborates what, for example, a fifth […]

Po'pay, A True American Hero

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 hours ago
A promotional short for the documentary film, 'In the Spirit of Po'pay'. Native American hero, Po'pay was the leader of what is being called, "the First American Revolution", The Pueblo Revolt of 1680. 

Get outrageous with it!

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 2 hours ago
* * * * *Get outrageous with it! * – channeled by Ron Head August 8, 2013 Michael This Lion’s Gate portal is now open to its greatest extent, and the energies pouring into your world, and therefore into your bodies, physical, emotional mental and spiritual, are greater than any you have experienced so far. The resulting changes to yourselves, and therefore your societies and your planet will become more evident and greater, as well. This is how it works, you see. Watch ever more closely now for evidence, for trends, which will at last be obvious enough to encourage you, to bring... more »

Zapatistas Marcos: 'Votan IV. D-Day Minus 7'

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 hours ago
Votán IV. D-Day Minus 7. Votán IV. D-Day Minus 7. Revelations of what the Zapatista heart admires in others, announcement of some exemptions to the Zapatista Little School, and some pointless advice that no one is going to follow.   August of 2013. Okay so, there’s not much left now. I mean that there are not many days left until the Little School starts, not that we don’t have much more

South Dakota: 'Hot Water' exposes uranium mining contamination in water

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 hours ago
Filmmakers Liz Rogers and Kevin Flint go to South Dakota following a story about Uranium contamination only to discover that the problem flows much farther, and runs deeper than they could have imagined. Three years and thousands of miles later, "Hot Water" tells of those impacted by Uranium mining, atomic testing, nuclear energy and the contamination that runs through our air, soil and even

Paulo Coelho, "The Wounded by Love Agreement, General Provisions"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
"The Wounded by Love Agreement, General Provisions" by Paulo Coelho A] Considering that it’s absolutely correct the saying that states that “all is fair in love and war”; B] Considering that in war we have the Geneva Convention, adopted in August 22nd of 1864, that determines the fate of the wounded in battlefields whereas there is no agreement that was promulgated until this day that deals with the wounded of love, who are much more populous; It is hereby declared that: Art. 1 – All lovers, male or female, are now being notified that love, besides being a blessing, is also s... more »

The Poet: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "My Purpose"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
“The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs; the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, ’Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars...” ~ from “Ulysses,” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"It Comes Then, To This..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
"It comes, then, to this: that to be "viable", livable, or merely practical, life must be lived as a game - and the "must" here expresses a condition, not a commandment. It must be lived in the spirit of play rather than work, and the conflicts which it involves must be carried on in the realization that no species, or party to a game, can survive without its natural antagonists, its beloved enemies, its indispensable opponents. For to "love your enemies" is to love them as enemies; it is not necessarily a clever device for winning them over to your side. The lion lies down with ... more »

"The Human Trouble..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
"Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death- ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life." - James Baldwin, “The Fire Next Time”

TV Watch preview: Larry David on apologies, plus (finally!) the final episodes of "Breaking Bad" begin

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
*A trailer for HBO's Clear History* *WILDLY ENHAIRIFIED LARRY DAVID CHARACTER*: I'm really sorry. *JON HAMM CHARACTER*: It doesn't matter if you apologize if it's not sincere. *WIDLY ENHAIRIFIED LARRY DAVID CHARACTER* [*exasperated*]: Apologies don't have to be *sincere*. *JON HAMM CHARACTER*: That is literally the *only* thing an apology has to be. I'm sorry it had to be like this. *WILDLY ENHAIRIFIED LARRY DAVID CHARACTER*: You see? You *apologized*, but *you didn't mean it!* *by Ken* I don't know much about this HBO film *Clear History* (written by David Mandel, Alec Berg, and ... more »

The Syriaization of Egypt: Washington Eyes Endless Arab Civil War, Puts Diplomatic Weight Behind Global Jihadism

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 4 hours ago
*John Kerry as Bin Laden: The Universe Has Come Full Circle. *(From A Sign In An Anti-Morsi Protest In Egypt).* **Photo Source*. "Where Ford goes, there the death squads go also. Ford is notorious as a disciple of John Negroponte, and it was said originally of Negroponte starting in Salvador in the 1980s that where Negroponte goes there the death squads also appear quite quickly. . . This is what passes for State Department Arabists. State Department Arabists used to be people who actually had some sympathy for the Arab nations and the Arab peoples, but now you can see we've go... more »

"How It Really Is"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago
• "Special scrutiny?" Nope, not a bit... *Click image for larger size. *

"A Ticket To The Freak Show..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago
“When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front-row seat.” - George Carlin That being said, and freely admitting that, yes, this country *really is*the biggest insane asylum in the history of the world, all I can do is completely agree with the words of James Baldwin when he says, “I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually." And so I will, and you should too. It could be *so* much better... - CP

What Mattered This Week?

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 4 hours ago
Since I'm on vacation, I'm just going to leave it open. What do you think mattered this week?

Verification of Renewed and Amplified Energetic Structures for Gaia Ascension Now in Progress

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 4 hours ago
* * *Verification of Renewed and Amplified Energetic Structures for Gaia Ascension Now in Progress* by ÉirePort Verification of renewed and amplified energetic structures for Gaia Ascension is now in progress. This final phase of Gaia preparation for Ascension occurs at this time as sufficient former paradigm structures have been removed and/or reset. Such verification requires no effort on the part of Hue-Beings at this time, as Gaia has complete administrative care of and responsibility for this phase. Hue-Beings will continue efforts at local levels as Guidance suggests. ... more »

Chicago: Police attack ALEC protesters!

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 5 hours ago
  Arrests happening now in Chicago as protesters gather at the posh hotel of ALEC's event. The right-wing infrastructure source of ALEC is a profit-driven agenda which includes "K-12 Inc" a private company seeking to legislatively take over public schools, and aligned with the tobacco industry, the oil industry, and the pharmaceutical industry. Privatization of schools is a $500B industry,

“America the Mesmerized”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago
* * *“America the Mesmerized”* by William C. Lewis “Welcome to America, where we have such lovely things as police brutality, arms factories, gigantic prisons, racism, liar politicians, propaganda news and pornography. Bomb-making is a favorite American past-time as little worker bees who sit in factories all day work a nice 9-5 job making spare parts that are assembled to blow off the limbs of other children in far-away distant lands. When not doing this, Americans love such leisures such as recreational dope smoking, prostitution, snitching off neighbors and cutting each other... more »

"Face It: You're Afraid (Why?)"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago
* * *"Face It: You're Afraid (Why?)"* by Karl Denninger "One simple question: Why? Why do you submit to mental control over your life, over your future, over you? You're afraid of dying. But death comes to all of us; it is inevitable. All that is alive will die. The question is whether you live well as you determine it and whether, when the time comes, you die well, not whether you will die. It is this fear that leads you to permit the irretrievably-screwed medical system we have in this country to exist. It is why you allow a hospital to charge $165,000 to replace a battery in... more »

Superintendent Rella: “If it sounds too bad to be true, it’s not!”

plthomasedd at SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE - 6 hours ago
Test scores in New York being released is having unintended consequences, such as the entire testing regime of the recent 30-year accountability era being systematically unmasked. I invite you to read the letter from Superintendent Joseph V. Rella to Senator Kenneth P. LaVelle, which offers near the end: If you believe that any of this […]

The Light Cometh...

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 6 hours ago
Sunrise at Isis Beach, Australia 8/11/2013 Photo by Muxi

So, What Would Change?

theozarker at The Conflicted Doomer - 6 hours ago
August 10, 2013 Tom Whipple, a retired CIA analyst who writes a good deal about peak oil and other energy issues for various publications, had an article on LENR (low energy nuclear reactions) again, this week, over at the Falls … Continue reading →

Iraq sectarian death dealing rocks Iraqi cities - up to 80 killed today . An ominous note is that the Urds from Iraq may intervene in Syria to protects Syrian Kurds from Islamist fighters......What will Turkey do under those circumstances if Iraqi Kurds fight in Syria - August 10 , 2013....

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 7 hours ago
Deadly car bombs rock Iraqi cities At least 67 dead in string of explosions in Baghdad and other cities during Eid al-Fitr celebrations. Last Modified: 10 Aug 2013 20:10 [image: Listen to this page using ReadSpeaker] [image: Email Article] [image: Print Article] [image: Share article] [image: Send Feedback] Bomb damage in the city of Nasiriyah, where four people were killed [Reuters] At least 67 people have been killed and hundreds injured in a series of car bombs that rocked Baghdad and other Iraqi cities amid Eid al-Fitr celebrations. Al Jazeera's Imran Khan, reporting from the... more »

"That Lawless Crowd..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago
"I can't run no more with that lawless crowd, While the killers in high places say their prayers out loud. But they've summoned, they've summoned up a thundercloud, And they're going to hear from me..." - Leonard Cohen, "Anthem"

Teabaggers, Their Tiny Brains Filled With Hate Talk Radio Nonsense, Are Now Coming After Republican Congressmen

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago
From the beginning of the Republic, the kind of conservative assholes who now call themselves Tea Partiers-- but were originally known as Loyalists or Tories and took up arms against the Patriots who fought the Revolutionary War-- were not just willing, but eager to see democratic government die. And they still are today. In the video above between mainstream conservative Aaron Schock and his constituents, including more than a few brainless teabaggers, the 'baggers demand that Schock commit to voting against any bill that includes funding for the Affordable Care Act. They insist... more »

CIA special delivery, Afganistan

Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 7 hours ago
Now this is what you call, !!!Having a few strings, let me make a call!! What do you think the cost for fuel to the copter cost? "I'll ask the general a favor he owes me one." Seed Newsvine

Maybe What Vancouver Island Needs Isn't Provincehood but Sovereignty Association

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 8 hours ago
There's been some talk lately about why Vancouver Island isn't a Canadian province in its own right. The argument is that, if you look at the maritime provinces, we're bigger, more populous, even more affluent so why not? It's the sort of discussion that flares up and then simmers along for ten or twelve years sort of like a coal seam fire. I read something in today's *Times Colonist* that got me thinking maybe my island should forget about winning province status and instead look at sovereignty association. Now here's the deal. We know that Canadians generally support reform ... more »

It's First Nations, Surfers & Loggers Versus Those Damned Dirty Hippies

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 8 hours ago
A confrontation is brewing on the north island where remote Raft Cove Provincial Park is bracing for a flash mob of 2,000 hippies planning to stay there for up to a month. It's called the "World Rainbow Gathering", an annual event that's been going on since 1972 at different spots around the world. This year's gathering was planned for the Kootenays but had to be relocated due to a jet fuel spill. Unfortunately they didn't bother telling anybody much less seek permission. The Quatsino First Nation is pissed. Loggers working in that vicinity are pissed. Surfers who frequent... more »

DISINFORMATION - PACEPA

Anon at aangirfan - 8 hours ago
Former *Romanian spy chief* General Ion Mihai Pacepa, and University of Mississippi law professor Ronald Rychlak, have written *'Disinformation'. * * * *Supposedly, "the book reveals secret strategies for attacking religion, undermining freedom and promoting terrorism."* * http://www.ncregister.com/* The book is CIA disinformation. Pacepa blames the KGB for plotting the assassination of President Kennedy and for organising the rise of Islamic extremism. General Ion Mihai Pacepa (right) months before he defected to the U.S. in 1978. In 2007, General Pacepa described how he helped... more »

Fukushima contaminated water and " hundreds of tons per day " Ocean pollution - by way of heavily contaminated ground water has finally snapped free of TEPCO Lies and BS ! And note their latest desperate proposal would make things even worse ! Kamikaze time for Japan ?

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 8 hours ago
Radioactive Water Spills Over Fukushima Barrier, Freely Leaking Into Surroundings [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/10/2013 14:37 -0400 - Japan - LBO - Nuclear Power It was only last week that yet another conspiracy theory became fact when we learned, for the first time after nearly three years of lies, that Tepco had been deceitful and wrong with its "all clear" message about Fukushima, and that instead some 300 tons of contaminated, irradiated water had been flowing into the Pacific ocean every day. So now that the opportunity cost o... more »

Is the White House and Administration Orwellian , inept , bold face liars , idiots thinking we're idiots , cracking up around the edges under the pressure .... ...... All of the above ?

Catharsis Ours - 8 hours ago
Is the pressure of recent mishaps , geopolitical stress fractures throughout the Middle East , the global NSA ongoing clusterfuck causing folks in the Administration and in particular , the white house to lose it , to be kind ? http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/wp/2013/08/09/obama-putins-a-sloucher/ During Friday’s news conference, President Obama described Russian President Vladmir Putin as having a “slouch…looking like that bored schoolboy in the back of the classroom.” Perhaps the president was trying to infer something about Putin’s intentions or public p... more »

The DNA Nanobots Have Arrived

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 9 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] *Columbia University creates DNA robots that find and target cells for medication.* Nicholas West The Human Body Version 2.0 project features none other than arch-Transhumanist Ray Kurzweil as its main proponent. The goals have been openly stated for some time: In the coming decades, a radical upgrading of our body’s physical and mental systems, already underway, will use nanobots to augment and ultimately replace our organs. We already know how to prevent most degenerative disease through nutrition and supplementation; thi... more »

The War On Americans' Rights, Privacy, Dignity, & Due Process

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 9 hours ago
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Privatized Spying DOMINATES the Surveillance-Industrial Complex

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 9 hours ago
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The Turner Diaries

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 9 hours ago
If you're not a reader of the *Hollywood Reporter* you probably missed Thursday's brilliant OpEd by actress and activist Kathleen Turner: I've Had Enough. I serve with Kathleen on the board of People For the American Way and have found her to be an inspiration for many years. Her passion for equality is infectious and uplifting. Oh, please. I would have thought by now that I wouldn’t be reading news stories about a "who’s who of the next generation of Republican Party leaders"-- all men-- running around trying to enact a national ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. I ... more »

Your moment of Zen

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 9 hours ago
A hand drawn goodbye card for a departing employee at Persephone Books with a charming backstory.

Jeff Nichols on Mud Interview

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 10 hours ago
Jeff Nichols on Mud Interview. Source: FSinterviews. (April 2013). DP/30: Mud, writer/director Jeff Nichols. Source: TheHotButton. (April 2013).

FRY, SPIES AND GAY RUSSIA

Anon at aangirfan - 10 hours ago
*Mysterious Stephen Fry.* Stephen Fry, the famous Jewish TV personality and author, wants a boycott of the Winter Olympics in Russia because of Russia's alleged homophobia. Fry knows a lot about the security services and has written a novel on the subject - *The Stars' Tennis Balls.* Was Fry recruited by the spooks while he was in prison for fraud? *Russia has always been pretty gay. Diaghilev, 1872-1929, (right) and lover Serge Lifar (1905 – 1986)* * * *Fry is wrong about Russia.* * * "The age of consent in Russia is 16 years of age, regardless of sexual orientation." *In Russia... more »

things to do

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 10 hours ago

Documents Aug 10, 2013: Navajo Shadow Government by Non-Navajos

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 11 hours ago
Navajo Generating Station poisoning Navajoland and Grand Canyon Documents reveal theft of Navajo water rights and secret government by non-Navajos in key Navajo Nation positions -- working in collusion with dirty coal "This is all evidence of the 'shadow government' at work. The non-Navajo controlled 'secret government' that ultimately rules us." Ed Becenti, grassroots Dine' By Ed

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 11 hours ago
*What the levee authority really wants for Louisiana's coast: John M. Barry* ~The Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority East -- the levee board responsible for protecting metropolitan New Orleans east of the Mississippi River -- filed suit July 24 against Exxon Mobil, BP, Shell and 94 other oil, gas and pipeline companies for destroying the land and marsh buffer that once provided natural protection to New Orleans from hurricanes. As most readers know, approximately 1,900 square miles of Louisiana's coastal lands have disappeared in the past 80 years. This land loss is contin... more »

News from the Jews

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 11 hours ago
*Hypocritical Jewish identity politics, anti-Iranian hysteria, the futility of "peace talks" & Jewish ownership of the media revealed* One of the most noteworthy characteristics of the organized Jewish community is its outrageous double standards and hypocrisy, particularly as it relates to identity politics. The vast majority of Jews strongly identify as Jews, work in the interests of the organized Jewish community and the Jewish state of Israel, network with other Jews to advance economically, politically, and socially, and concern themselves with the well-being and future prosper... more »

"The Greatest Water Grab in History"

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours ago
Across south and east Asia, water is power. If you want to know why China invaded and seized Tibet, it was the water. *New academic research shows that India, Nepal, Bhutan and Pakistan are engaged in a huge "water grab" in the Himalayas, as they seek new sources of electricity to power their economies. Taken together, the countries have plans for more than 400 hydro dams which, if built, could together provide more than 160,000MW of electricity – three times more than the UK uses.* *In addition, China has plans for around 100 dams to generate a similar amount of power from majo... more »

Is that a politician in your pocket?

noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 11 hours ago
So, Jabba the Mayor got wasted last night and wandered around Taste of the Danforth, where he was caught on video. NOW has the story with links to videos here. I may blog on this later, but for now I want to focus on another story about Ford that broke yesterday. First, though, consider this photo that Edward Keenan wrote about last week under the title, 'The photo that gets more incriminating all the time'. Anyhow, forget the video for at least a moment. Think about the photograph. In the picture above, there are four men. One is dead, two are under arrest, and one is the mayor... more »

Gun, Check. Point at Head, Check. Squeeze the Trigger?

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 12 hours ago
Think we're on the cusp of a "clean energy revolution" that will sweep the world and rescue our grandkids from environmental catastrophe? Think again. A report from the Our World 2.0 project of the United Nations University warns that coal, that accounts for almost half of energy-sector greenhouse gas emissions and was thought to be on the way out, is actually staging a comeback and faces a bright future. *the world is using coal for energy generation like never before, and projections are for consumption to grow by at least a third by 2040, possibly by a half if the worst case sce... more »

New NY Scores Prompt Increased Interest in Opting Out of Next State Tests

Chalk Face, PhD at SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE - 12 hours ago
Reblogged from Diane Ravitch's blog: Long Island's Newsday has a story about growing interest by parents in opting out of state testing. It says that the terrible scores will increase the number of parents who don't let the schools test their children. William Johnson, the superintendent of Rockville Center district, says the scores are essentially […]

Philadelphia School District crisis continues - approximately 30 days before schools open and not certainty that they will..... The State , The City of Philadelphia , City Council and the Teachers Union are miles apart as compared with where they need to be and brinksmanship seems to be the order of the day !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 12 hours ago
http://articles.philly.com/2013-08-09/news/41242049_1_philly-schools-deputy-superintendent-paul-kihn-new-funding With schools on the brink, Nutter and Clarke diverge Ads by Google BY SEAN COLLINS WALSH, JAN RANSOM & REGINA MEDINA, Daily News Staff Writers walshSE@phillynews.com, 215-854-4172POSTED: August 09, 2013 IF YOU'RE CONFUSED about what's going on with Philadelphia's school-funding crisis, look no further than the news conferences and posturing yesterday that provided a microcosm for why Philly's schools are on the brink only 31 days before school begins. It began with Superin... more »

I recommend you all take this #TFA internal survey and give ‘em your thoughts

Chalk Face, PhD at SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE - 12 hours ago
Here’s the link to a Google survey. Let the record reflect! Tagged: survey, testing, TFA

Letter from a NY Superintendent to Sen. Lavalle on #commoncore testing

Chalk Face, PhD at SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE - 12 hours ago
Embedded for your reading pleasure, followed by the empty condolences of Mr. King. Tagged: ccss, common core, king, letter, new york, superintendent

My Father and the LFTR

Charles Barton at The Nuclear Green Revolution - 12 hours ago
A number of years ago I wrote several posts about my father's ORNL career, including his contributions to Molten Salt Reactor chemistry. My father, Dr. C.J. Barton, Sr., worked at ORNL from 1950 until his retirement in 1977. He also worked at Y-12 where he made an important contribution to nuclear technology, namely the development of an industrial process for separating Zirconium from Hafnium. Zirconium plays a major role in all conventional reactors. My study of my father's career lead me to an appreciation of his skills as a scientist. This in turn has helped me have a better ... more »

Shut Up, He Explained

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 13 hours ago
 "Lucy, I don't like that tone. You're thinking again." (*graphic by Kat Garcia*) President Obama attempted one last desperate time yesterday to pull another fast one on the American people. But his combination of wheedling, bullying, cynical mendacity, fear-mongering, and 50s sitcom-style drollery all failed. They failed dismally, completely and irrevocably. He used all the propaganda tools in his oratorical toolbox, trying to sell people on the rationale for the massive surveillance apparatus targeting every man, woman and child not only in the United States, but throu... more »

How blacks view weiner, plus alleged drops in scores!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago
*SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 2013* *The end to a very poor week:* In our view, the New York Times had a very poor week. Two final observations: Apparently, fifteen op-ed columns about Anthony Weiner weren’t quite enough. On Friday, the Times published this front-page news report about the man who won’t be mayor. Subject: How do *black* voters feel about weiner? Kate Taylor was called in to thrash this question, on the paper's front page. The inanity of this coverage ought to be obvious. Have any actual issues emerged from the mayoral race? Not that we’re aware of! But then, we read the T... more »

Into Paradise

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 13 hours ago

PRAYING FOR GILCHUN

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 13 hours ago
The wonderful Jeju Island artist Koh Gilchun has fallen down with a cerebral hemorrhage on the last day of March for Life and Peace on August 3. I was shocked to learn this news and my heart is heavy. We all should pray for him. I briefly met Gilchun while on Jeju but really had the chance to get to know him better last year at the end of my month long west coast trip that ended in Seattle. On my last day there Leonard Eiger organized a protest at the South Korean consulate in downtown Seattle and Gilchun was there. He had been doing an art show at a gallery in Seattle. A mor... more »

Pork Barrel 3: The Silent Idealists, the GFO-NGOs

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 13 hours ago
The pork barrel scam and robbery continues, we should keep the pressure until a big investigation will yield some of those corrupt legislators in jail. Asking for the abolition of pork barrel I think is next to impossible now. But asking for the heads of those who have been implicated so far, past and present, is not impossible, so long as political pressure from the public is sustained. Also, when many NGOs have become government-funded organizations (GFOs), this is one indicator that corruption has become pervasive. So-called non-governments have become part of government, pasimpl... more »

Enrico Betti: an anniversary

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 13 hours ago
Enrico Betti was an Italian mathematician and politician who was born in October 1823, i.e. 190 years ago, and died on August 11th, 1892 – we will have an anniversary tomorrow. He is most famous for a 1871 paper on topology that explained the Betti numbers – a term that was later coined by Henri Poincaré – which I used in my fairy-tale about the Euler characteristic. While Betti was a one-hit wonder of a sort, his life was pretty interesting. He was born in Pistoia, Tuscany, in 1823 and his father died when he was a baby. His mother may really be credited for all of his early edu... more »

Untitled

New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 13 hours ago
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Judge Napolitano:The 4th Amendment Was Written Specifically to Prevent NSA Spying

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 13 hours ago
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Update: Austin Terror Threat Confirmed, Why Weren’t We Warned?

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 13 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] *Things that make you go “hmm”.* Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton In a follow up to our previous report on the law enforcement terror advisory for Austin, Texas, we have confirmed both that the terrorism threat is real and that there is a simultaneous multi-agency terror drill going down in Austin right now. We want to know why the press release on the Homeland Security drill wasn’t sent to the media until August 7th — the day before the actual terror threat — and why press coverage about the threat advisory – appearing on l... more »

Jim DeMint: Defund Obamacare Now - what should you do?...(video)

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 13 hours ago
*“It’s going to be no joke when ObamaCare fully takes effect, and Americans begin to experience its disastrous results."* via *Freedom's Lighthouse *- and we thank them. *Defund Obamacare Town Hall Tour*

Legal loophole allows NSA to conduct warrantless searches for Americans’ emails and phone calls

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 14 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] image credit: EFF/Flickr Madison Ruppert Thanks to a legal loophole, the National Security Agency (NSA) has a secret backdoor allowing the agency to search their massive databases for American citizens’ emails and phone calls without a warrant, according to a secret document released today. While some officials anonymously admitted that the NSA collects communications sent or related to overseas targets, the latest document leaked by Edward Snowden reveals that the surveillance of Americans goes far beyond what was previous... more »

Andy Burnham on the Westminster Bubble

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 14 hours ago
This about sums it up for me: We're the professional politician generation, aren't we? I was schooled in this, kind of, how do we make a press release today that embarrasses the opposition? That's the kind of politics that everyone was doing, and the kind of culture developed where you're scrabbling over a bit of the centre ground with micro-policies that are designed to just create a little couple of days' headlines and create a feeling, but not change much else. I think Andy has come the furthest and has grown increasingly in stature since the Labour leadership election three year... more »

Top 5 GMO Myths Debunked

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 14 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Heather Callaghan What do you say to your friends and family who want to know why you are passionate about growing your own, buying local organic, and refusing genetically modified ingredients? What do you say to the increasing amount of pro-GMO activists who call anti-GMOers dumb, heartless, and lacking real information? Author Chris Kanthan of San Francisco has covered the five most common myths surrounding the propagation of GMO foods. This interesting video brings up some arguments we never thought of: read more about th... more »

A Quadrillion Yen And Counting – The Japanese Debt Bomb Could Set Off Global Panic At Any Moment

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 14 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Michael Snyder How much is 1,000,000,000,000,000 yen worth? Well, a quadrillion yen is worth approximately 10.5 trillion dollars. It is an amount of money that is larger than the "the economies of Germany, France and the U.K. combined". It is such an astounding amount of debt that it is hard to even get your mind around it. The government debt to GDP ratio in Japan will reach 247 percent this year, and the Japanese currently spend about 50 percent of all central government tax revenue on debt service. Realistically, ther... more »

WE ARE BULLIES......

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 14 hours ago
In Japan Oliver Stone lays the truth down.....half way through the video he talks about Jeju Island Navy base as well.

What could make the Louisiana sinkhole in Assumption Parish look like a mud puddle ? That would be a collapse of natural gas storage caverns at Lake Peigner.....

Catharsis Ours - 14 hours ago
http://www.katc.com/news/sheriff-ackal-says-lake-peigneur-could-be-worse-than-assumption-sinkhole/#_ Sheriff Ackal says Lake Peigneur Could be Worse than Assumption Sinkhole Posted: Mar 19, 2013 6:13 PM by *Chris Welty* *Updated: Mar 19, 2013 6:22 PM* [image: Sheriff Ackal says Lake Peigneur Could be Worse than Assumption Sinkhole] - [image: Sheriff Ackal says Lake Peigneur Could be Worse than Assumption Sinkhole] - [image: Sheriff Ackal says Lake Peigneur Could be Worse than Assumption Sinkhole] [image: Bookmark and Share] Rating: 1 2 3 4 5 4.0 (3 votes) "If we have a... more »

Russia takes the US ( and UN Security Council ) to school on Kurd massacre , Putin's spokesman degloves Obama and White House for two-faced reaction on denial of Snowden extradition request ( as a basis for shunting an Obama and Putin meeting at September's G- 20 , while pretending that wasn't the reason) - when the US has dodged entering into an extradition treaty with Russia , as well having " invariably refused " Russia's past extradition requests ..... Who is the grown up here - US or Russia ?

Catharsis Ours - 15 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-07/russias-responds-obama-snub-we-are-disappointed-snowden-situation-wasnt-created-us ( Eating our lunch - that would be Russia , lunched served by US.. ) Russia Responds To Obama Snub: "We Are Disappointed... But The Snowden Situation Wasn't Created By Us" [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/07/2013 22:09 -0400 - China Earlier we reported that in an act of embarassing political ineptitude not to mention detente reminiscent of the Cold War's worst days, the US president did his best Freudian transferrance a... more »

Is Buck McKeon A Racist Pig... Even When He Tries Not To Be?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago
Simi Valley makes up almost a third of Buck McKeon's congressional district (CA-25) but it was added to the district in the last cycle and McKeon-- the former mayor of Santa Clarita who has long since become a creature of Washington-- virtually never bothers going there. Preparing for a possible reelection challenge-- he's told the media he's running again and confided to local Republican politicians he's going to retire-- he ventured in Republican-friendly Simi Valley this week. Speaking on immigration reform at Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 10049 Wednesday, he asserted that terr... more »

The harpercon spirit can NEVER be vanquished!

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 15 hours ago
Never say die! That's what keeps these "conservatives" going you know. Too insane and stupid to know they're beat. They're like the resourceful heroes in an implausible Hollywood adventure. Except that they're assholes who most audiences would hate. If your average North American was watching these puss-balls on the silver screen, they'd groan with dismay at the resourcefulness of these criminal scum. They're more like a virus. Changing themselves or their environment to continue to spread and grow. Case-in-point: The recent CRTC ruling denying the loathsome SUN News channel the ... more »

If Obama REALLY wanted to take a stance on either the Snowden issues with Russia or the Russia law that pillories gay rights , he should pull the Olympic plug...... the fact that he won't , means he's just puffing. money talks , BS walks and not wanting ( or being allowed to harm the commercial interests of the Corporations who stand to make Billions from the Winter Olympics tells all you need to know about Obama's " outrage " over anything Russia !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 15 hours ago
Editorial cartoons lambast the President....... http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/09/barack-obama-us-putin-russia ( When Obama tells whoopers , he has a shameful child's liar look written all over his face ! ) [image: President Barack Obama speaks at a news conference at the White House] President Barack Obama speaks at a news conference at the White House. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters President Barack Obama said on Friday it was appropriate for the US to pause and reassess its relationship with Russia, in the face of anti-America rheto... more »

Juan Cole clinically dissects Obama press conference and his arrogant false reassurances , blatant lies and failures to totally address the numerous revelations brought forth from Edward Snowden's whistle blowing breakthroughs ...... With Obama , the questions are : is it so meek that he doesn't seek the truth as to what the hell is going on around him ; is he completely complicit and just the best paid liar the PTBs could plug in after George W Bush ; has he been black mailed by NSA snooping ( with his background and other issues which could make Obama vulnerable to blackmail ) and thereafter a virtual organ grinder side kick , dancing to whatever tune is played by the organ grinder ? Regardless , lesson learned by NSA : don't trust humans , trust robots and computers ; press faster to get those emails and calls and keep the lies going full blast - the more ridiculous the better !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 15 hours ago
Obama’s Reassurances about Domestic Surveillance are not Reassuring Posted on 08/10/2013 by Juan Cole President Obama gave a news conference on Friday in which he addressed the controversy over Edward Snowden’s revelations regarding NSA spying on the American people. This issue is a very difficult one for Mr. Obama, given that he came to it from civil libertarian position as a senator, but now is president. When you are president, you are president of the nearly one million NSA employees and contractors, who become your constituency– not to mention the CIA, the Defense Intelligence A... more »

Brain Injured Immigration

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 16 hours ago
The Harper government is presently "consulting" Canadians on what kind of immigration policy Canada should promote. Debbie Douglas and Avvy Yao-Yao Go write that the government looks at immigration -- as it looks at all things -- through an economic lens. However, there is more to immigration than economics: For a national consultation on immigration planning to be meaningful, Canadians need to know all the relevant facts and consider the multi-purpose roles of immigration policy — a notion captured by the concept of nation-building. Immigration planning must not simply be under... more »

Putin's War with NATO

Paul Coker at News Spike - 17 hours ago
During 1990, Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbochev was only persuaded to allow German Reunification on the strict proviso that no further NATO expansion, not *"one inch to the East"*, into the former Warsaw Pact nations be undertaken or attempted. The New World Order did not honour this commitment. On *12th March 1999*, *Hungary*, *Poland* and the *Czech Republic* Ascended to full NATO Membership. On *23rd March 1999*, NATO launched the first war in it's history. To "initiate air operations in the *Federal Republic of Yugoslavia*" The Kosovo War, 1999 from Spike1138 on Vimeo. *"... more »

'The worst batman ever'?

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 17 hours ago
A little old and it wasn't 'the franchise killer' but it was seriously dire.

Nixon Was Right

Paul Coker at News Spike - 17 hours ago
"Over the past months I had talked about resignation with my family with a few close friends, and with Haig and Ziegler. But the idea was anathema to me. I believed that my resignation under pressure would change our whole form of government. The change might not be apparent for many years; but once the first President had resigned under fire and thereby established a precedent, the opponents of future Presidents would have a formidable new leverage. It was not hard to visualize a situation in which Congress, confronted with a President it did not like could paralyze him by block... more »

Wisdom from Raghu Rajan

Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 18 hours ago
"For economists who actively engage the public, it is hard to influence hearts and minds by qualifying one’s analysis and hedging one’s prescriptions. Better to assert one’s knowledge unequivocally, especially if past academic honors certify one’s claims of expertise. This is not an entirely bad approach if it results in sharper public debate. "The dark side of such certitude, however, is the way it influences how these economists engage contrary opinions. How do you convince your passionate followers if other, equally credentialed, economists take the opposite view? All too often, t... more »

The legacy of US war crimes against Vietnamese civilians

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 18 hours ago
Marjorie Cohn & Jeanne Mirer Global Research Today marks the 52nd anniversary of the start of the chemical warfare program in Vietnam, a long time with NO without sufficient remedial action by the U.S. government. One of the most shameful legacies of the American War against Vietnam, Agent Orange continues to poison Vietnam and the people exposed to the chemicals, as well as their offspring. For over 10 years, from 1961 to 1975, in order to deny food and protection to those deemed to be “the enemy,” the United States defoliated the land and forests of Vietnam with the chemicals kno... more »

SMUGGLING OF NUCLEAR MATERIALS - DEATH OF SPY

Anon at aangirfan - 20 hours ago
*Litvinenko, who reportedly had links to the Israel-based Russian mafia and the smuggling of radioactive materials. * * *In 2006, in London, former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko was killed by polonium-210. *Radioactive Russian spy killed by MI6?* - *dailymail/news * * * *Naples* * *It is believed that Litvinenko is linked to a "* Russian-Israeli-Italian-British-US* *private intelligence network of former intelligence agents and billionaire mobsters"* involved in smuggling radioactive materials. * *"The investigators are wise to pursue the links to U.S. security firms and former CI... more »

Musical Interlude: Leonard Cohen, "Anthem"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago
Leonard Cohen, "Anthem" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ma5tF6TJpA

Beaten to it

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 20 hours ago
Lest you were eagerly awaiting them (as if!), there won't be any predictions this week about which stories will or won't feature on tomorrow's *Sunday* (Radio 4, 7.10 am). The reason? The programme's website has already listed them, and I've already read them. So in that light, I confidently predict there'll be: An interview with political commentator Charlie Woolf [do they mean Charlie Wolf?] about whether politicians should 'do God'; an interview with a Coptic newspaper editor about anti-Christian attacks in Egypt; a report over divisions in the Jewish community over the Manch... more »

Detonation of the Sun

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 21 hours ago
A frequent source of links has sent me the coordinates of a page Explosion of Sun introducing a paper by Alexander Bolonkin and Joseph Friedlander urging all the physicists to think about the possibility that a malicious regime will send a thermonuclear weapon into the Sun and speed up the reactions inside the Sun – effectively converting all of our beloved star to a giant H-bomb long before our main source of useful energy is expected to go red giant around the year 7.5 billion AD. *This picture contains just a real-world eruption! Via IO9.* In the authors' opinion, physicists a... more »

Hamas 'to publicly execute two men in Gaza'

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 21 hours ago
When even Harriet Sherwood of The Guardian manages to report Hamas's inhumanity but the BBC doesn't then the full extent of the BBC's anti Israel bias is clear. Harriet Sherwood reports that: 'Hamas plans to publicly execute two prisoners in Gaza next week as a "lesson" to others, according to Amnesty International, which has described the move as "deeply disturbing". The human rights organisation said a 23-year-old man had been sentenced to death for "collaboration with an enemy entity". He told his lawyer he had been beaten during interrogation, Amnesty reported. ... The se... more »

To Team Contrast

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 21 hours ago
To Team Contrast We felt your moment of despair today. Your services are no longer required. The experiment has concluded. You excelled at [the] role you played. Bravo! Job well done. Time to repurpose your being and doing. Love and protection awaits those who stand down and operate in complete transparency and truth to bring resolution and completion to the experiment on Earth and other realms. Eternal Essence will enforce against the inbodiments who choose otherwise. Choose wisely. We love you! Come home to the love of the Prime Creator Source. You have ... more »

The Poet: Mary Oliver, "Can You Imagine?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago
* * *"Can You Imagine?" * "For example, what the trees do not only in lightning storms or the watery dark of a summer's night or under the white nets of winter but now, and now, and now - whenever we're not looking. Surely you can't imagine they don't dance, from the root up, wishing to travel a little, not cramped so much as wanting a better view, or more sun, or just as avidly more shade - surely you can't imagine they just stand there loving every minute of it, the birds or the emptiness, the dark rings of the years slowly and without a sound thickening, and nothing different unless ... more »

Friday Baseball Post

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 23 hours ago
From John Shea, in an item on Bonds/A Rod: Both are despised by a commissioner who believes Hank Aaron's homers are sacred. Yup. The commissioner of baseball not only actively plays favorites, but basically has an active vendetta against anyone who threatens the record (well, now, ex-record) of his favorite. By contrast -- Hank Aaron himself was a class act throughout the Bonds record chase. Despite all kinds of pressure from reporters to be a jerk...well, the reporters didn't see it that way, but the reporters were jerks and wanted Aaron to lead the parade. He didn't. But back t... more »

The Detroit Bail-In Template: Fleecing Pensioners to Save the Banks

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 23 hours ago
Ellen Brown Web of Debt The Detroit bankruptcy is looking suspiciously like the bail-in template originated by the G20’s Financial Stability Board in 2011, which exploded on the scene in Cyprus in 2013 and is now becoming the model globally. In Cyprus, the depositors were “bailed in” (stripped of a major portion of their deposits) to re-capitalize the banks. In Detroit, it is the municipal workers who are being bailed in, stripped of a major portion of their pensions to save the banks. Bank of America Corp. and UBS AG have been given priority over other bankruptcy claimants, meani... more »

Sunday Classics preview: G&S's "republican" kings vow, "For everyone who feels inclined, some post we undertake to find"

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
Pittsburgh Savoyards *MARCO and GIUSEPPE (alternating bars)*: Replying, we sing as one individual. As I find I'm a king, to my kingdom I bid you all. I'm aware you object to pavilions and palaces, but you'll find I'll respect your republican fallacies. You'll find I respect your republican fallacies. *CONTADINE and GONDOLIERI*: They're aware we object to pavilions and palaces. How can they respect our republican fallacies? *MARCO*: For every one who feels inclined, some post we undertake to find congenial with his frame of mind -- and all shall equal be. *GIUSEPPE*: The Chancellor in h... more »

What the left could love about the NSA Presser

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 day ago
Time was when President Obama's forceful style at today's presser would have had "teh left" exploding with approval on the social nets. Those days are over. Opening with the appointment of a blue ribbon commission to study the NSA didn't thrill the spectators. We've seen that movie many times before and it rarely has a satisfactory ending. That's not to say there wasn't a couple of (largely ignored) satisfying moments hidden in the Q & A. The two standout quotes for me came first in answer to Major Garrett's question on appointing a new head for the Federal Reserve. Obama answered ... more »

Long Walk 4 Photos with Irene Bedard

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
Photos at Antioch College, Ohio, by Long walker Aki Zaagi, than you for sharing with Censored News! . Antioch College Photo by Nargees Zinab Jumakhan, thank you! Share the love, with a camping spot, food or cold water for the Long Walkers! Walkers are headed to Indiana, and then Illinois. Upcoming walk schedule: INDIANA August 10 - Brookville to Richmond, IN 25.9 miles

The Daily "Near You?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Thanks for stopping by.

Night Four: Nez Perce Blockade of the Tarsands Megaload

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
By Brooklyn Baptiste, Nez Perce Censored News Everyone was hungry but still chipper after things died down early this morning near Fish Creek on the Lochsa River. I am so grateful for all the Nez Perce tribal members & non-tribal individuals that showed how courageous they were by continued efforts to protest. No matter what some might say about this past week, we created awareness and

Paul Krugman asks if we should be surprised that "Republican assertions about what ails the economy are pure fantasy"

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
*"I can't think of a time when a party's economic doctrine has been so completely divorced from reality."* *-- Paul Krugman, in his NYT column today,* "Phony Fear Factor" *by Ken* "So Republican assertions about what ails the economy are pure fantasy," Paul writes in his column, "at odds with all the evidence. Should we be surprised?" Well, no, of course this isn't a surprise, he says -- at least "at one level." Politicians who always cater to wealthy business interests say that economic recovery requires catering to wealthy business interests. Who could have imagined it? But i... more »

Fukushima debacle updates - August 9 , 2013.... Mission Impossible ?

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
[Column] Is Japan discharging contaminated water or can’t stop the leakage ? Posted by *Mochizuki* on August 9th, 2013 · 3 Comments Share on facebookShare on twitterShare on emailShare on printMore Sharing Services There’s a huge difference between discharge and leakage. However when it comes to Fukushima contamination to the Pacific, the border becomes quite blur. I think this is because even the press is not familiar with the situation because they haven’t been closely following Fukushima situation. Not to mention, discharge is way less serious than leakage. They can stop discharge ... more »

"The Fukushima Nightmare Gets Worse"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
* "The Fukushima Nightmare Gets Worse"* by Harvey Wasserman "Just when it seemed things might be under control at Fukushima, we find they are worse than ever. Immeasurably worse. Massive quantities of radioactive liquids are now flowing through the shattered reactor site into the Pacific Ocean. And their make-up is far more lethal than the “mere” tritium that has dominated the headlines to date. Tepco, the owner/operator- and one of the world's biggest and most technologically advanced electric utilities- has all but admitted it cannot control the situation. Its shoddy perfo... more »

The criminal big banks have run up $600-plus Trillion (about 40 times the US GDP) in gambling debts to one another. Because of myriad undecipherable claims, the first bank to fail will likely bring them all down -- a "systemic risk" that the US government has decided to prevent at all costs. Adding this to the fact that the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 now forbids additional taxpayer bailouts implies that when the big banks finally do fail, as they must, expect that they will stay alive by bailing-IN (confiscating their depositors' money a la Cyprus). Here Ellen Brown proposes “a safer, saner, more equitable model.” I sure hope struggling cities adopt it.

David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day ago
------------------------------ The Detroit Bail-In Template: Fleecing Pensioners to Save the Banks Posted on August 5, 2013 by Ellen Brown Original here The Detroit bankruptcy is looking suspiciously like the bail-in template originated by the G20’s Financial Stability Board in 2011, which exploded on the scene in Cyprus in 2013 and is now becoming the model globally. In Cyprus, the depositors were “bailed in” (stripped of a major portion of their deposits) to re-capitalize the banks. ... more »

Tarzancíto

What Is Sustainable at What Is Sustainable - 1 day ago
The naked wild boy lived on his own, scampering around the jungle between Ahuachápan and Sonsonate, in El Salvador. Villagers had been aware of him for a couple years, but efforts to catch him always failed. He was a superb runner, swimmer, and tree climber. Folks called him Tarzancíto (Little Tarzan). The lad lived on a diet of wild fruit and raw fish. He slept up in the branches to avoid becoming a warm meal for hungry predators. When a woodcutter finally captured him in 1933, the boy was about five years old. You must understand that Tarzancíto was not, in any way, delight... more »

Whose Point of View is it Anyway? (Part II)

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 1 day ago
Well, it's been a very long time coming but...put out the flags, because tonight's edition of Radio 4's weekly audio essay *A Point of View *featured a speaker who comes from a *right*-of-centre political perspective, as Professor Roger Scruton began his four-week series of talks about democracy. BBC Radio 4 listeners went through the entirety of 2010, 2011 and 2012 without a single right-wing speaker and, up till tonight, this year had been going exactly the same way. Throughout this period there had, of course, been many regular speakers from a *left*-of-centre political persp... more »

War watch - August 7 , 2013 ..... Iraq daily death dealing and the Great Abu Gharib breakout ......Taliban biding their time in Afghanistan....... Yemen instability bodes poorly for stability in neighbor Saudia Arabia , do the Saudis believe by funding Al Qaeda influenced groups in syria that that gives them immunity from insurrection at home after the syrian battles are over ? Syria in focus as a huge massacre of Kurds by Al Qaeda influenced foreign mercenaries doesn't merit media attention for some reason.... ?

Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
Iraq...... http://www.businessinsider.com/us-selling-weapons-to-civil-war-iraq-2013-8 ( Pentagon wants to sell 2.7 billion in weapons to Iraq - this despite Iraq's PM Maliki being aligned with Iran and therefore aligned with government of Syria - strange....) The Pentagon is looking to bolster its military options for Syria's civil war by sending $2.7 billion in weapons to Iraq, despite the country being on the verge of civil war. The weapons deal would include 681 Stinger anti-aircraft missiles and 40 truck-mounted launchers, as well as three Hawk anti-aircraft batteries with 216... more »

"7 Reasons You Aren't As Smart As You Think You Are"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
* * *"7 Reasons You Aren't As Smart As You Think You Are"* by David McRaney "Owning and operating a brain is hard. You are issued one at birth, a model that comes riddled with delusions and biases, prone to logical fallacies, and built to create stories to help explain the difficult and messy business of being a person. It also comes with something else, a powerful overconfidence module that works around the clock to keep you from noticing all those shortcomings. Sure, you are capable of logic and reason and rationality, but when you fall short of those ideals, you tend not to no... more »

"No Drama Obama" Is Stressing Out! (And Why) The SCOOP!

Wonder how easy it is to still control the news? We're witnessing it daily, bubbies. Minutely. Talk about out of his depth? This is even embarrassing me. And Bradley Mannings' convictions? Heck, you'd have thought he got off if you read the "papers of record." Ha! I love Danny and he is always right on top of the story. Wherever he's located. 8/8/2013 Obama Gets "Personal" As Rift

Swiss Inmates Going to Pot

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day ago
Swiss prisons have a marijuana problem and Swiss prison guards like it that way. *A recent study published in the International Journal of Drug Policy estimates that 50 to 80 percent of inmates in Swiss prisons use marijuana. Prison staff told researchers they found marijuana to be a relatively safe drug and that cracking down on consumption would have more negative effects than positive ones.* * **Surveys of detainees and guards revealed similar opinions on marijuana use, with both groups describing the effects of marijuana as analgesic, calming and a way to decrease the traumatic... more »

NSA Funnies

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day ago
Found at TruthDig:

Debbie Wasserman Schultz-- Sugar And Spice And... Nothing Nice

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
First Jewish Speaker? How about one who isn't steeped in corruption? Want to know if your physician is competent? Has he asked you about your sugar consumption? If he hasn't, find another doctor. Sugar contributes to many of the maladies that most effect mankind, from cancer, diabetes and heart disease to tooth decay and dementia. But the powerful sugar industry is as willing to fight regulation as the tobacco industry was. And, like the tobacco industry did, the sugar barons have plenty of powerful allies (or, more accurately, bought-and-paid-for minions). Worst of the lot is the he... more »

Michael Voris: "Obama holds nothing sacred except that which is evil"...(video)

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 1 day ago
*brought to my attention by my blogger friend Dr. Jay Boyd who has much more to say on this subject and some other good videos. Thanks, Dr Jay. * From the following video: But the same people who pretend to be the moralists and the high-minded with regard to poverty and social justice are the same ones who were working tirelessly to elect and advance Obama. Since the Church has sadly found itself so closely wedded to the culture, who can doubt that as the culture disintegrates, it will not impact the Church as well. The Church upholds the family – the traditional family. Yet m... more »

"How It Really Is"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
• No joke, kid... *Click image for larger size.*

Of Meteors and UFOs

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day ago
I saw a UFO last night, maybe a pair of them. Vancouver Island has two seasons; wet (9 to 10-months) and, dry (2-3 months). The Pacific night sky holds a lot of fascination for me because it's a virtual stranger for so much of the year. Before turning in, I like to sit outside in my backyard for a stretch and gaze upward into the night sky observing constellations, spotting satellites and the occasional meteor. A couple of helpful apps make deciphering the stars even easier. Most satellites seem to travel on a south to north axis. Just before packing it in last night I spott... more »

California Climate Changed

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day ago
The California Environmental Protection Agency has released a report documenting how the state has already been "climate changed" and warning of plenty more change on the way. *The study, written by 51 scientists, tracked a variety of indicators and found widespread evidence of the toll climate change is taking across the across the state, including more frequent and intense wildfires, rising sea levels, shrinking glaciers, warmer lakes and oceans, and hotter temperatures. These ripple effects of these changes threaten communities, industry, public health, and the state’s prized nat... more »
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