Portrait of Samuel Barber Deutsch: Samuel Barber im Jahr 1944 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)"Defiance!"
"Action trumps depression. Confronted with a situation in which our
feelings of powerlessness are more than just feelings, we choose to fight
the odds, as an existential statement. We bellow our savage war cry in the
face of the Roman Legions. We swim against the tidal wave. We attack
Goliath with a slingshot, and throw stones at a Sherman tank, and ravage
ICBMs with our ball peen hammer. We actively reject the reality of our
helplessness; and as we assert defiance, we fan the embers of humanity
wherever they live within ourselves and our brothers and sisters."
- Josh Mitteldorf... more »
"How Do You Mourn..."
Kings College Choir, a cappela: Samuel Barber, “Agnus Dei”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWgjwTc3PUw
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Fukushima...
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How do you mourn a planet? I don't know...
God help us all.
What if "The New Yorker" gave you a caption and asked you to come up with the image for a cartoon?
*"We will always have Paris."*
*by Ken*
Finally I can suggest why I love *New Yorker* carton editor Bob Mankoff.
It's not because he does such a brilliant job as cartoon editor. Probably
he does, but how would I know? And even if it's so, that wouldn't give me
any strong feeling about him. But then he'll do stuff like declare the
magazine's cliché cartoon contest "such a rousing success, discounting, of
course, those who thought it was a rousing failure."
The context is Bob's announcement, in his latest weekly blogpost, "You'll
Always Hve Paris (If You Entger This Contest),." of a... more »
Sad anniversary
Exactly two years ago today, in the early hours of the morning, my Dad
unexpectedly and abruptly left us. I've learned to live with the loss, but
I don't think I'll ever get over it. Still aches every single day. Finally
have some time but just not feeling like blogging tonight.
Who are Freeman on the land
"*Freemen on the Land*" claim that all statute law is contractual, and that
such law is applicable only if an individual consents to be governed by it.
By avoiding such consent - often in refusing to acknowledge their name -
they believe themselves not bound by the ordinary laws of the state they
reside in.
While the view that all statute law requires consent of the individual is
arrant nonsense, the concept that jurisdiction over persons by the state
can be disputed has been adopted by some aboriginal groups.
Although not accepted by courts as yet the position that aboriginal gro... more »
While Boehner Surrenders To Far Right Extremists Inside The GOP, Greece Arrests Its Fascist Leaders
Obama and Boehner are both victims of the rise of far right populism in the
U.S. Boehner, much like the mainstream conservatives in Weimar Germany in
the 1930s, has buckled under to it. Obama hasn't. The same exact strain of
toxic right-wing populism-- whether you want to call it Tea Party, Nazi,
Fascist or Golden Dawn-- has catapulted to the third biggest party in
Greece, with 18 Deputies in Parliament. And over the weekend, Greek
anti-terrorism police arrested party fuehrer Nikos Michaloliakos and
rounded up many of his top lieutenants, including three sitting members of
Parlia... more »
America And Iran: Get The Niceties Out of The Way And Get Down To Business
*Raise your glasses. The leaders of America and Iran are on speaking terms
for the first time in over three decades.*
"The United States and Iran made diplomatic history Thursday as Secretary
of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif
talked for a half hour on the sidelines of a multilateral meeting on Iran’s
nuclear program.
The meeting, which Zarif described as “more than a chat,” took place at
the United Nations, and marked the highest-level and most-substantive
encounter between officials of the two sides since the 1979 Islamic
Revolution." - Ba... more »
Police State updates - September 28 , 2013 ... Drones used longer , far more often and by far more Agencies than folks have been told to date... NSA on a metadata hunt - social connections are the target ... and why has the Navy been mapping by air DC ( between 9/21 and ending on 10/5 ? )
Drones used back to 2006 by the FBI ?
FBI has been using drones since 2006, watchdog agency saysSeptember 28, 2013
Print Version
*Source:* LA Times
Operating with almost no public notice, the FBIhas spent more than $3
million to operate a fleet of small drone aircraft in domestic
investigations, according to a report released Thursday by a federal
watchdog agency.
The unmanned surveillance planes have helped FBI agents storm barricaded
buildings, track criminal suspects and examine crime scenes since 2006,
longer than previously known, according to the 35-page inspector genera... more »
COUPLE OF RADIO INTERVIEWS
- Here are links to a couple recent radio spots I was involved in. The
first was my talk, along with Shenna Bellows who just left the Maine ACLU
after 10 years of great work, at the University of Maine-Orono. We were
invited to speak about drones and organizing against drone surveillance and
weaponized drone testing in Maine. In particular I spent alot of time
talking about our upcoming Maine Drone Peace Walk. WERU radio is a great
alternative station north of where I live that covers many progressive
issues. Amy Browne from the station recorded our tal... more »
Secret Mysteries of Americas Beginnings Vol 1 - The New Atlantis
*If you know in your heart that something is not right with America, but
cannot put your finger on the problem, this video will enlighten you*
The Passion Within, The Resurrection
Hello friends, just wanted to give you a bit of an update on the progress
of our project.
New glass, home-crafted window trim, a whole lotta elbow grease, sanding
and oiling the middle window wood, that wood is old growth fir..
And let me say, painting fiberglass is such a chore....
I have maintained the colours Dad loved..
This boat was originally gold coloured, Canoe Cove(boat make) ...Canoe Cove
gloden fiberglass was their stock colour, Dad liked his grey, blue and
white...
Right now the sides and main colur is white, , the flying bridge stripe is
imperial blue...the walkway... more »
Agri Econ 10: On Rice Price Spikes
Recently, there was a big issue regarding the big jump in local rice
prices, between P2 to P5 per kilo jump in a matter of days and weeks. I
think this issue would surface every 3-5 years on average. In 2008, it was
a big issue too, like this article in the Inquirer on April 08, 2008.
Then I found this in my old emails. I composed this in and sang this with
my PDE (Program in Development Economics, UPSE) batchmates during the PDE
2008 Reunion, UPSE, Diliman, QC, May 7, 2008.
*Hot Legs*
By Rod Stewart, 1970s
*Hot Rice **
By Nonoy Oplas, 2008
Who's that knocking on my door
It's got... more »
GAIA PORTAL: Vibrational Attunements Reaching Peak Frequency and Intensity
*Vibrational Attunements Reaching Peak Frequency and Intensity*
by ÉirePort
*
* Vibrational attunements reaching peak frequency and intensity at this now
moment as Gaia fully accepts and embraces Higher Gaia intentions.
Peak frequency of attunement applies to all Gaia Hue-manity, yet is being
sensed by all of hu-manity as well.
Expect major dissolutions and collapses of outdated old paradigm systems,
on all dimensional levels.
Higher Gaia will provide assistance for all who accept and embrace Higher
Gaia intentions in harmony with Gaia.
All non-compliants (anharmonics) will be o... more »
...and they all fall down
source, published 2010I dreamt the other night that I looked out the window
in the morning and discovered we had an early snowstorm. Everything was
covered in glittering deep white drifts, and I was furious. This is the
year, of all the autumns I have documented since 2008, that I expected
people to have to face the fact that something is really, profoundly,
inescapably wrong with the trees, and now it was to be ruined by snow -
just as last year, everyone was distracted by the Sandy non-hurricane,
which was blamed for millions of falling, rotted trees and weeks of lost
electricit... more »
What Mattered This Week?
Yeah, yeah, the budget wars, but I'm going with US/Iran.
What didn't matter is fairly easy: while other things he did may have been
important, the Cruz fauxlibuster was pure, 100% meaningless hype.
What do you have? What do you think mattered this week?
september 28: global action for accessible, safe, and legal abortion
Today, September 28, women all over the world are taking action to demand
the right to accessible, safe, and legal abortion.
Women and our allies in more than 50 countries have formed a global
mobilization that seeks to decriminalize abortion, provide access to safe
and affordable abortion services, and end the stigma and discrimination
against women who choose to have an abortion.
This campaign, which started more than 20 years ago in Latin America and
the Caribbean, has become a global day of action, as we recognize that
women are the world continue to be denied access to safe a... more »
The Republican Party Is Now Distilled Down To A Ransom Note To America
Suicide bomber vests strapped to their chests, congressional Republicans
have a message for the American people: "Give us our way, or we'll blow the
whole damn thing up!" And by their way, they're talking about a lot more
than defunding the Affordable Care Act. Yesterday, the *NY Times* Editorial
Board was aghast at the Republican demands-- and they called it what it is A
Republican Ransom Note.
We’ll refrain from deliberately sabotaging the global economy, Speaker John
Boehner and the other leaders said, if President Obama allows more oil
drilling on federal lands. And drops re... more »
Kenya/Somalia: The BBC Calls for the Reconquest of Africa - A New World Order
Kenya/Somalia: The BBC Calls for the Reconquest of Africa - A New World
Order from Spike1138 on Vimeo.
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"Afrika is under attack...."
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- Bro. Steve Cokely, 1993.
"After consulting with my advisers, with world leaders, and the
congressional leadership, I have today told Secretary-General Boutros-Ghali
that America will answer the call. I have given the order to Secretary
Cheney to move a substantial American force into Somalia.
As I speak, a Marine amphibious ready group, which we maintain at sea, is
offshore Mogadishu. These troops will be joined by elements of the 1st
Marin... more »
"Fukushima: Human Civilization On The Brink?"
*"Fukushima Reactor No. 4:*
*Human Civilization On The Brink?"*
by Mike Adams
"The news you are about to read puts everything else in the category of
"insignificant" by comparison. Worried about GMOs? Fluoride? Vaccines?
Secret prisons? None of that even matters if we don't solve the problem of
Fukushima, which is a catastrophic failure that could unleash enough
radiation to end human civilization on our planet. (See the numbers below.)
The resulting releasing of radiation would turn North America into a "dead
zone" for humans... mutated (and failed) crops, radioactive groundwa... more »
AMANDA RIPLEY’S BELIEVE IT BY LAW: Let them come to Tiistila!
*SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2013*
*Part 5—A truly appalling passage:* Are countries like Finland, Korea and
Poland staging educational miracles?
Pretty much no—they are not. Consider one example from Amanda Ripley’s
interesting new book, The Smartest Kids in the World.
In the talented Ripley’s scam-ridden book, “the Polish miracle” (Ripley’s
phrase) is said to be a miracle of *improvement.* But from 2003 to 2009,
American students showed more improvement on the PISA’s three tests than
Polish students did.
(Ripley ignores results from the TIMSS and the PIRLS, two other major
internati... more »
Dr. Thomas Daffern: Why We Need A Peace Policy For Syria
In the video below, Thomas Clough Daffern B.A. (Hons) D.Sc. (Hon) PGCE
Ph.D., director of the UK-based *International Institute of Peace Studies
and Global Philosophy*, talks about the need for a peace policy to resolve
the war in Syria.
*Video Tile: Why We Need A Peace Policy For Syria. Source: International
Institute of Peace Studies And Global Philosophy. Date Published: June 11,
2013. Description: *
Dr Thomas Daffern, Director of the Centre for Peace Policy Research calls
for the urgent necessity for an agreed peace policy in Syria.
The Centre for Peace Policy Research is a... more »
The Politics of the Marriage Tax Breaks
The Conservatives are a desperate party led by a desperate man. The stars
are not lining up for an election victory in 2015, despite a summer of
awful headlines for the Labour leader; and Dave finds himself with little
room for manoeuvre now Ed has pledged action on the issues that matter
outside the Westminster circus. To grab the headlines and the attentions of
the voters, this weekend's Conservative Party conference needed something
bold and something that would save people a packet of cash.
Hence the marriage tax break. Of course, not every married couple in the
land will qual... more »
Evo Morales asks for a transfer of UN Headquarters to a more neutral country
In today's *El Diario/La Prensa*, (p. 11) there appears an article about
Evo Morales asking that the location of the United Nations headquarters be
changed to a 'neutral nation.' Given the complicity of the UN in CIA
agression against Latin American countries, going back as far as 1954 when
United Fruit took over in Central America, this is a most reasonable
request. Switzerland, with its neutrality,
might be a far better choice. Morales then suggests that if they do not
change the location, at least rotate its meeting places, "maybe to Geneva
or somewhere in Austria is we're talkin... more »
Scientists create never-before-seen form of matter
Photons with strong mutual attraction in a quantum
nonlinear medium. Credit: Nature. *
* *Star Trek Replicators anyone? -Bill*
http://phys.org/news/2013-09-scientists-never-before-seen.html
Scientists create never-before-seen form of matter Sep 25, 2013
Harvard and MIT scientists are challenging the conventional wisdom about
light, and they didn't need to go to a galaxy far, far away to do it.
Working with colleagues at the Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms, a
group led by Harvard Professor of Physics Mikhail Lukin and MIT Professor
of Physics Vladan Vuletic have managed to... more »
Second Grade ELA Modules – It Keeps Getting Stupider
As I continue my ‘journey’ through Module 1 of NYSED’s scripted and paced
curriculum guide, I find things that just make me want to scream. First of
all, the pace is pretty much a 100 yard dash. I read to my students, they
are to listen and learn. In fact, this is the name of […]
My Beloved Forcast
I was born in 1958 in what is accurately described as the Great White
North. A big part of the winter diet was deer and moose slaughtered in the
fall without regard to liceing. Vegetables came from a can and tasted like
tin. TV was broadcast in black and white by the CBC and on radio we could
usually only get a signal at nite. There was a local Cinema that was
illuminated on weekends, and every Friday night most of the town was lined
up to view whatever vision they had on hand to portray.
In this Diaspora of culture hockey was the King, We played in barns,
literally. Some farmer wo... more »
US nuclear commander suspended over gambling, officials say ! WTF is going on this weekend ?
US nuclear commander suspended over gambling, officials say
Highly unusual action against Tim Giardina was made more than three weeks
ago in Omaha but not publicly announced
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Tim Giardina, suspended, Photograph: AP
The No 2 officer at the military command in charge of all US nuclear
war-fighting forces has been suspended and is under investigation by the
naval criminal inve... more »
Fukushima debacle updates - September 28 , 2013 ! ALPS and ICE Wall schemes last hope to deal with contaminated water problems ..... keep in mind , ALPS won'r solve tritium contamination as technology to remove tritium doesn't exist ! As for the Ice Wall - there hasn'r even been a feasibility test to determine if that can even work ! US finally banning fishery and agricultural products from 14 prefectures in Japan - who woke them up ? Additional news to worry about regarding Japan's ongoing nuclear disaster !
Greece has political turmoil with Golden Dawn political party decimated ,
Italy has seen its Coalition Government smashed as PDL has withdrawn its
Ministers from the Government ( and the Five Star Movement is unlikely to
form a Coalition Government , US shutdown essentially assured - now all we
need is to see the Fukushima debacle get stepped up !
Fukushima Diary ......
Multiple nuclide removing system ALPS stopped again 22 hours after test
operation restarted
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John Baird does not trust Iran
*Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said Canada remains 'skeptical' of
Iran despite *
*a historic telephone call between U.S. President Barack Obama and Iranian
President*
* Hassan Rouhani on Friday. (Jacques Boissinot/The Canadian Press)*
He only loves Israel. What about Israel’s over 200 nuclear warheads? Israel
used chemical weapons on Palestinians and Lebanese yet Baird only trusts
Israel. Iranian President said categorically that his country is not
interested in developing nuclear weapons.
*"I am concerned that there is a little bit too much enthusiasm as a result
of the di... more »
(Morally Unchallenged? Sociopaths Unite!) How Privatization (Theft) Has Picked Up Speed As Its Failures Manifest Everywhere (And How Financialization of Everything Enriches Administrators and Impoverishes Assets Owners) Goodbye, Friends
Feel any affinity (after reading the essay below) with those being blamed
for use of poison gas in Syria after discovering that the gassing came
courtesy of the CIA-Saudi-funded insurgents? . . . the idea that these
benefit packages are causing the fiscal crises in our states is almost
entirely a fabrication crafted by the very people who actually caused the
problem. It's like Voltaire's
House Follies
So the House is going to apparently pass, on another party-line vote,
another doomed CR -- this one delaying the ACA for a year.
Two quick points: I do wonder what that actually means, in legislative
language -- what happens to already-implemented items? Does implementation
preparation proceed? Obviously, it doesn't matter, since it's not going to
happen, but still presumably there will be a bill...
More to the point, though, is this gem from Robert Costa's reporting:
[F]or now, Boehner doesn’t have a plan beyond passing this resolution and
waiting to see what happens
Given that th... more »
"We don't ban any particular word"
This week's *Newswatch *began with this commentary by presenter Samira
Ahmed:
Last weekend saw an Islamist attack by terrorists, which left scores of
people dead. I'm talking about Sunday's suicide bombs in Pakistan, which
killed at least 80 people, but you'd be forgiven for thinking I was
referring to the four-day siege at a shopping mall in Nairobi. That was
much more widely covered in BBC News - a disparity which irked several
viewers, including Alan and Pat Pitt who wrote:
'I would be grateful if someone could explain why there was virtually no
coverage of the suicide bombing... more »
Italy Government in crisis - Berlusconi PDL Ministers resign ! Italy follows Greece is escalating political crisis !
Italy Government In Turmoil: Berlusconi's PDL Ministers Resign
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With everyone focused on the US government, and whether or not it would
remain open past Monday, the real stunner has once again emerged out of
left field, in this case Italy, where as Italian news agency Ansa reported
moments ago, the ministers in Berlusconi's PDL party have followed through
on their threats announced earlier this week, and have re... more »
Gather
Making sure the air and water are clean and the soil and oceans healthy,
and working for the betterment of all -- people, animals, plants -- is
certainly Right Doing, but eventually you yourself must sit down to a meal,
drink the water, build a shelter for yourself, and keep warm or cool as
dictated by circumstance. This is Right Livelihood. Perhaps your job
provides you an income -- say, at the farmer's market, the organic
local-foods wholesaler, or a social agency. Or perhaps you have acreage, or
a city lot, or an apartment patio and an allotment or community garden, or
just the... more »
Cixi
Nothing to do with BBC bias (again), but I've very much enjoyed Radio 4's *Book
of the Week* this week.
Written by Jung Chang (of *Wild Swans* fame - which I've never read), *Empress
Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China* has been a
fascinating and thoroughly revisionist take on the extraordinary woman who
(unofficially) ruled Imperial China for some fifty years (up until 1908).
Having listened to Jung Chang's highly sympathetic, admiring interpretation
(or re-interpretation) of Cixi (pronounced 'Sir' [as in Sir Elton John] and
'shi' [as in the word 'ship', withou... more »
Batten Down The Hatches-- It's The End Of The Quarter
Maybe you already started getting the desperate and pathetic e-mails
from
multimillionaire congressmen, like Scott Peters, begging for your money
to
finance his career-- which is all about supporting Wall Street corporate
special interests. Or maybe you got one of those ridiculous Steve Israel
e-mails telling you that [fill in the blank] is the most important race
of
the cycle and please give more money. My own personal favorite DCCC
e-mailsare about how they need money to fight the evil Republicans
trying to
defund Obamacare which never mention that the money goes straight into
th... more »
BBC (un)trust
According to OFCOM, more than half of the British people receive their news
from the BBC.
52% use the BBC website, as against 19% who use Facebook and 10% who use
Twitter. BBC One is the most popular news source (52%), followed by ITV
(13%), BBC News channel (6%), Sky News and the BBC website (both 5%).
However (in less good news for the Beeb), as regards bias and impartiality,
BBC TV was beaten by Sky, ITV and Channel 4.
Oh dear. So, the BBC may be Britain's dominant news outlet, yet the
corporation is regarded as more biased and less impartial than all of its
main broadcast ri... more »
The Bioregional State as "Constitution, Version Two:" Arguments For and Against Secession, and the Bioregional State's Middle Path (3 of 4)
*The Bioregional State's Middle Path: Re-Federated Bioregionalism*
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[Draft: I'll be back to add some links later.]
We get to the third point: is secession, nullification, and re-federation *
desirable*?
Below I provide arguments for secession, against secession, as well as
arguments *for the bioregional state's middle path*: re-*federated
bioregionalism*.
A federated bioregionalism as a political ideal means keeping two sides of
the same coin. First, it means getting clear how to make your bioregion
stronger institutionally, economically, and culturally. It means ... more »
MALL ATTACKERS HELPED BY MILITARY
*Nairobi attack VIDEO: The escape route tunnel used by terrorists*
*Apparently, some of the Kenyan security forces were on the side of the
attackers in the Mall.*
"A team from the *Recce General Service Unit* of the Kenya Police, early in
the rescue operation, made its way into the mall and secured most of it,
pinning down the terrorists at one end around Nakumatt Supermarket and
Barclays Bank.
*"However, the team pulled out after its commander was fatally shot in
‘friendly fire’ following the arrival of a KDF (army) unit.*
*"Also pulling out at the same time was a small group of ... more »
Lowdown on the Countdown to the Showdown
With government shutdown Armageddon only days away, is the stock market
freaking out? Will brokers be jumping out of windows if the contrived debt
ceiling isn't raised? Well, apparently not. Fear is only for the little
people. The Market is cool, calm, and collected.... and collecting,
extracting, counting and hoarding.
Despite the crisis atmosphere whipped up by the concentrated ownership
media conglomerates, those in power, those with all the wealth, those in
the know, are apparently not panicking -- either over a looming government
shutdown if Congress fails to pass a CR by Tue... more »
Five Points on the IPCC Report (Wonky, Long)
Here are two reactions to the IPCC:
"The good news is our understanding of the climate system and our impact on
it has improved immensely. The bad news is that the more we know, the more
precarious the future looks. There's a clear message to Governments here,
and the window for action is narrowing fast. If the last IPCC report was a
wake up call, this one is a screaming siren." (source)
and
"Consider the case closed on global warming." (source)
Both of these quotes come from reactions to the February 2007 release of
the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report (and specifically the Summar... more »
' The real villain of the period was not McBride. He was just the vicious little monkey. The organ grinder was Gordon Brown, the man who prated about his "moral compass" while allowing his smear merchant to trash the characters of colleagues. In the end, the reputation it most fouled was his own. Which is a sort of justice.'
I wish I could write as well as Andrew Rawmarsh.
' It was Brown who created and presided over the brutish, treacherous,
gangland culture in which his hitman operated. Even McBride laughs at his
former capo's "comically irrational outbursts" and propensity to "unleash a
tremendous volley of abuse, usually just a stream of unconnected swear
words". Then there is Brown's default response to things going wrong –
which is to blame someone else. "Blair!", roars Brown about a
self-inflicted blunder. "Blair made me give him the figures. Why has he
done this to me?"
The real villain of t... more »
The Consistency of Official Iranian Commentary:Are Rouhani's Statements Really a Huge Break from the Past?
Christiane
Amanpour and Hassan Rouhani (Photo: CNN)
While interviewing Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, Christiane Amanpour
declared, “One of the things your predecessor used to do from this very
platform was deny the Holocaust and pretend that it was a myth,” before
asking his his thoughts on the Holocaust.
Rouhani replied, though hedging a bit, “I can say that any crime that is
committed
Ten Per Cent
*Environment Canada*, in the wake of the latest IPCC report, says the horse
has already left the barn.
*Reached by telephone in Sweden where he contributed to the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, senior Environment Canada scientist
Greg Flato said that even in the best-case scenarios for limiting growth of
heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions, his federal department’s computer
models show average global warming of about two degrees Celsius above
pre-industrial levels by 2050.*
*“Our (Environment Canada) model, in isolation, produces results that are
in ro... more »
Chomsky Drones On
Noam Chomsky has got a drone in his bonnet. He sees the evolution of drone
technology as the instrument by which we lose not merely our privacy but
the very foundations of our liberty.
Chomsky contends that Obama has become addicted to remote control
assassination, drone warfare, to the point where he's unraveling *Magna
Carta* itself:
*And questions did come up about what happened to due process, which is
supposedly the foundation of American law—it actually goes back to Magna
Carta, 800 years ago—what about that? And the justice department responded. Attorney
General Holder sa... more »
Greece wakes up to see leadership of golden Dawn Party arrested ! Reuters reports that the party's leader Nikolaos Mihaloliakos, spokesman Ilias Kassidiaris, two other lawmakers and 10 members were arrested on charges of founding a criminal organisation ! How will the people in Greece react to its third most popular political party being dismantled - how do the police and military respond as Golden Dawn has many supporters in both organizations ?
Live Blogging: Greece’s Golden Dawn Leader Michaloliakos, several MPs
arrested
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Politics
In a huge operation launched by judicial authorities and police, Golden
Dawn leader Nikos Michaloliakos, party spokesman Ilias Kasidiaris and
several other MPs have been arrested on Saturday morning. Greek media
report that a total of 36 arrest warrants against MPs and local branches
officials have been issued.
The operation started in the early morning hours of Saturday with the
arrest of Michaloliakos, the arrest of Kasidiaris followed. Operation is
continuing.... more »
Republican Base Loves Ted Cruz-- Party Leaders... Not So Much
This week, PPP found that Ted Cruz is now the number one choice of
Republican voters to be their 2016 nominee. With 20%, he tops the
libertarian choice, Rand Paul (17%), the Old Eastern Establishment choice,
Chris Christie (14%), the less old Southern Establishment choice, Jeb Bush
(11%) and all the also-rans like Paul Ryan (10%), Marco Rubio (10%), Bobby
Jindal (4%), Rick Santorum (3%) and Scott Walker (3%). Cruz is up 8 points
in a month.
He's made himself the face of a government shutdown over Obamacare, and the
Republican base supports that by a 64/20 margin. It's not surpris... more »
Scott Neigh's "Talking Radical: Gender & Sexuality"
So, a while ago, I reviewed my friend Scott Neigh's book *Talking Radical:
Resisting the State*. Now I'm working on the other volume in the series (I
believe they might be the first two in a larger series): *Talking Radical:
Gender & Sexuality*.
I believe that this is the more powerful of the two. And I don't know why.
Maybe because I'm acclimatized to the structure of the books more or what.
But I thought the account by the First Nations woman, Doreen Spence, who as
a nurse in a Catholic hospital, spoke out against the involuntary
sterilization of a First Nations girl (remarking ho... more »
#commoncore poem by Jed Hopkins
Common core standards.Standards that are held in common.Standards that will
form the core of our education system.Standards that will ensure the
quality of the field of public schooling.Standards that will create a level
playing field.A measuring stick.A rational tool.A no-nonsense tool.The
source of important criteria.A communication tool for clarifying how
teachers are doing,how students are […]
U.N. International Panel on climate change
*"The Panel says we are hurtling toward the day when climate change could
be irreversible with catastrophic consequences, they say. This group is now
95% sure that humans are responsible, and it's only going to get worse if
we don't take drastic measures."*
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
What deniers have to say about that? These deniers, corporationists, Repugs
and others of the ilk are sleep-walking through life. It is time to wake-up
and pay attention to these scientists. Catastrophe is around the corner.
Inequality For All Canadians
As the Robert Reich film, *Inequality for All*, hits theatres this weekend,
Jordan Brennan and Jim Stanford write that what has happened in the United
States has also happened in Canada:
Now Statistics Canada has turned its attention to the problem, too. The
agency’s National Household Survey has documented the stark differences in
personal income between the richest 1 per cent and the rest of us. The data
are less precise than would have been attained from the former long-form
census (which was cancelled by the data-phobic Conservative government).
But despite its flaws, the rep... more »
MaWangMess: Wiretapping Scandal Expands and other goodies
*Pigeon cage outside Dongshih*.
The papers were reported today that DPP Whip Ker Chien-ming said that the SID
was tapping the legislature's switchboard number....
Earlier in the day Legislator Ker Chien-ming, a caucus whip of the
opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), told the press he had
received notice from the court that the wiretapping of his phones had been
discontinued, following his acquittal in a breach of trust case.
The notice listed several numbers that had been under surveillance,
including his cell phone number and the Legislative Yuan's switchboard
number 0... more »
This is why the Tea Party can shove their anti #commoncore sentiment #tcot
Update: I was told this was parody. Ah well. It happens. I snicker at the
folks tricked by the Onion, and here I go, snookered just the same. Tea
Party zealots have been rather late to the party, actually. In only the
last few months or so have they sought fit to propose anything related […]
I am “outing” myself… sort of, with the Kinder Chronicles, Part One.
Close friends and associates know me by name, Shaun Johnson. No, I’m not
the gymnast. I tried as best as I could to go by a pseudonym because, well,
I caught a lot of flak from my former supervisors in higher education
because of my views. That is, skeptical and largely against Common Core,
critical […]
Daddy Bush the Illuminati Wizard of Oz
The Alien Brain/ Illuminati Connection-
By Stew Webb
[image: George_HW_Bush_Illuminati_Baphomet_Hat]
Bush with his Baphomet the Goat Headed Demon Hat
It’s important that the reader first get some basic understanding of the
Illuminati Alien connection. Many in the UFO field are not aware that
Aliens are the Fallen Angels as described in the Bible. These Aliens and
their helpers are demonic in nature and fear Jesus Christ. This has been
proven by MUFON investigator Joe Jordan through his own research. Joe now
has well over 400 fully documented cases where an alien abduction was
i... more »
Untitled
*Billions in penalties at stake for BP in estimates of oil discharged into
Gulf *
*New seismic activity around the Texas Brine Sinkhole *
*Battle of New Orleans Memorial design selected*
*Rodrigue Foundation set to create more art-infused schools in Louisiana*
*Where Y’Eat: A New Coffee Culture Perks Up*
*Best of the Bayou Festival*
*WWOZ to live-broadcast Bogalusa Blues Festival*
*5th Annual St Aug Hamp Fest*
Seymour Hersh on Death of Osama bin Laden: ‘It’s one big lie, not one word of it is true’
*By Lisa O'Carroll*
* *
September 27, 2013 "Information Clearing House - "The Guardian" - Seymour
Hersh has got some extreme ideas on how to fix journalism – close down the
news bureaus of NBC and ABC, sack 90% of editors in publishing and get back
to the fundamental job of journalists which, he says, is to be an outsider.
It doesn’t take much to fire up Hersh, the investigative journalist who has
been the nemesis of US presidents since the 1960s and who was once
described by the Republican party as “the closest thing American journalism
has to a terrorist”.
He is angry about th... more »
Quarter Three Local By-Election Results 2013
Party
Number of candidates
Total Vote
% Vote
Share
+/- Quarter Two
Average/
contest
+/- Quarter Two
+/-
Seats
Conservative
65
22,955
27.3%
-2.8%
353
-147
-1
Labour
58
28,089
33.5%
+3.7%
484
-70
+4
LibDem
40
8,697
10.4%
-2.0%
217
-86
-1
UKIP
53
14,211
16.9%
+1.5%
268
-198
+1
SNP*
0
Plaid Cymru**
2
1,091
1.3%
+1.2%
545
+469
n/c
Green
19
3,263
3.9%
+0.4%
172
-14
n/c
BNP
1
120
0.1%
+0.5%
120
+49
n/c
TUSC
... more »
New Jersey's Gubernatorial Election Is Just Over A Month Away... And Chris Christie Is Still A Disaster
Let me say that Blue America has enthusiastically endorsed state Senator
Barbara Buono for governor of New Jersey. We've seen what a terrible
governor Chris Christie has been and what a consistent and independent
voice for progressive policies Barbara has been and it was really a no
brainer. And we're glad Barbara has put his polling lead in half. It's
still quite the climb to catch up with him after he endeared himself by
hugging Obama in a post-Sandy photo-op. Christie's record is something,
apparently, going unstudied by many low-info voters in the Garden State.
Last week, the ... more »
The Islamist plan to mount a major terrorist operation in London
From the Long War Journal:
'A document found after Somali troops killed Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, al
Qaeda's former leader in East Africa and a senior Shabaab commander,
details a plot to conduct multiple Mumbai-like attacks that target
civilians in London. The plot highlights how al Qaeda and Shabaab seek to
strike civilian targets outside Somalia, and foreshadowed Shabaab's attack
on the Eastgate Mall in Kenya this week.
The document and several others found in Fazul's possession after he was killed
by Somali troops at a checkpoint in Mogadishu in June 2011 were obtained by
the *... more »
Senate GOPers revolt
Harry Reid could have couched this better (or possibly The Hill truncated
his statement). He should have made the point the impending government
shutdown being engineered by the Crackpot Caucus in John Boehner's House of
Dysfunction is on them even as they desperately try to spin their
harebrained plots to pin the blame on Obama. However, it's probably a good
sign that Senate Republicans mutinied, leaping off the crackpots' ship of
fools in droves.
Reid thanked Senate Republicans and Democrats for voting to end debate on
the bill today. Twenty-five Republicans joined every Senate D... more »
How Bill Gates Views the World (And Why It’s a Problem)
Money is power.
Power is money.
Bill Gates has too much of both.
Valerie Strauss gets it—that Bill Gates is not what education needs:
“Education reform should not be driven by private philanthropists with
their own agendas, however well-intentioned.”
Ultimately, the problem is Gates’s view of the world. And there is no
better way to express that view than the chess scene in Mel Brooks’s *History
of the World Part I*:
To Gates, this is a game; he has no real consequences before him.
To students, parents, and teachers, this is our lives.
It isn’t funny, and it isn’t justifiable.
How Bill Gates Views the World (And Why It’s a Problem)
Money is power. Power is money. Bill Gates has too much of both. Valerie
Strauss gets it—that Bill Gates is not what education needs: “Education
reform should not be driven by private philanthropists with their own
agendas, however well-intentioned.” Ultimately, the problem is Gates’s view
of the world. And there is no better way to express […]
"Alarming IPCC Prognosis: 9°F Warming For U.S., Faster Sea Rise, More Extreme Weather, Permafrost Collapse"
*"Alarming IPCC Prognosis: 9°F Warming For U.S., *
*Faster Sea Rise, More Extreme Weather, Permafrost Collapse"*
By Joe Romm
"The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) now says we are
as certain that humans are dramatically changing the planet’s climate as we
are that smoking causes cancer. So perhaps the best way to think about the
IPCC, which has issued a summary of its latest report reviewing the state
of climate science, is as a super-cautious team of brilliant diagnosticians
and specialists (who, like many doctors, aren’t the greatest
communicators). They are t... more »
The Awakening - Author Unknow
The Awakening
A time comes in your life when you finally get…when, in the midst of all
your fears and insanity, you stop dead in your tracks and somewhere the
voice inside your head cries out…ENOUGH1 Enough fighting and crying and
blaming and struggling to hold on. Then, like a child quieting down after a
tantrum, you blink back your tears and begin to look at the world through
new eyes.
This is your awakening.
You realize it’s time to stop hoping and waiting for something to change,
or for happiness, safety and security to magically appear over the next
horizon.
You realize t... more »
Support The Citizens Of Brazil - Hands Of Marco Civil
https://www.accessnow.org/
Hands Off the Marco Civil!**
*Join us in telling members of the Brazilian Congress to stand up for
digital freedom and protect the Marco Civil, a groundbreaking piece of
digital rights legislation, by speaking out against harmful amendments.*
**
In her address to the UN General Assembly this week, Brazilian President
Dilma Rousseff called for *global respect for net neutrality and human
rights online.* She announced plans for Brazil to propose an international
framework governing internet use and communications using five guiding
principles: free speech, tra... more »
"Compassion"
"The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize.
It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater burden can be
borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands."
- H. Stainback
The Poet: David Whyte, "One Day"
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*"One Day"*
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"One day I will say
the gift I once had has been taken.
The place I have made for myself
belongs to another.
The words I have sung
are being sung by the ones
I would want.
Then I will be ready
for that voice
and the still silence in which it arrives.
And if my faith is good
then we'll meet again
on the road,
and we'll be thirsty,
and stop
and laugh
and drink together again
from the deep well of things as they are."
- David Whyte
"Where Many Rivers Meet"
"The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.
And in the end, the poem is not a thing... more »
Musical Interlude: David Gates, “Suite, Clouds & Rain”
David Gates, “Suite, Clouds & Rain”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUwUKi9ouEc&html5=1
Musical Interlude: David Gates, “Suite, Clouds & Rain”
David Gates, “Suite, Clouds & Rain”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUwUKi9ouEc&html5=1
Who's to blame for increased energy bills?
So British Gas profits account for some 4.1% of the bill but the cost of
government environmental policies, as introduced by Ed Miliband during the
last Labour government accounts for some 9.4%. Now where could we make the
largest savings?
Arctic Ice Cap Growing at Tremendous Rate
Putting the truth of climate change into the public arena.
'Six years ago, the BBC reported that the Arctic, due to global warming,
would be ice-free by this summer. That, clearly, has not happened. What has
happened, instead, is that the Arctic ice cap has grown at a tremendous
rate, by almost a million square miles. In other words, it has grown by a
whopping 60%, due to constantly repeating periodic ocean cycles.
What explains the rapid growth of the Arctic ice cap?
The Arctic summer has been a chillier than usual one, which has helped the
ice cap rebound from its record low just... more »
Kenya mall attack torture claims emerge from soldiers: 'Eyes gouged out, bodies on hooks, fingers removed' | Mail Online
'Soldiers told of the horrific torture meted out by terrorists in the
Nairobi mall massacre yesterday with claims hostages were dismembered, had
their eyes gouged out and were left hanging from hooks in the ceiling.
Men were said to have been castrated and had fingers removed with pliers
before being blinded and hanged.
Children were found dead in the food court fridges with knives still
embedded in their bodies, it was claimed.'
Words all but fail me as to the way these Islamist terrorists acted. What's
scarier is that there are people who'll excuse their actions because of
pe... more »
Real ethnic cleansing
'Last Sunday, September 22, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Islamic suicide bombers
entered the All Saints Church compound right after Sunday mass and blew
themselves up in the midst of some 550 congregants, killing, according to
the latest count, nearly 90 worshippers, including many Sunday school
children, women, and choir members, and injuring at least another 120.
The now destroyed Protestant church was built in Peshawar some 130 years
ago. The Taliban claimed the attacks.
According to Margrette, a parishioner who survived (though her sister's
status was unknown), "I heard two explosio... more »
Come Together And Celebrate - A Poem by M.N. Hopkins
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*Come together*
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*Yes*
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*Come together*
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*And *
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*Celebrate*
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*That you are alive*
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*Celebrate*
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*All that can be sensed*
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*With our human senses*
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*And*
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*All that is unsensable*
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*Be in the mmoment*
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*And*
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*Open to all around you*
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*Feel the pain*
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*Feel the darkness*
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*Deny nothing*
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*As you embrace all*
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*As you embrace the*
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*Light Divine*
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*That filthers through your senses*
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*That brings with It*
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*A multitude of colors*
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*A multitude of sounds*
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*A multitude of tastes*
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*A multitude of feelings*
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*To be experienced*
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*To ... more »
CiF Watch prompts Guardian correction #2: Evidently, Jewish ‘extremists’ didn’t enter the mosque | CiF Watch
Another example of Cifwatch managing to get The Guardian to correct an
incorrect, and anti Israel, article. Well worth reading but what caught my
eye was this:
'Whilst non-Muslims are permitted to walk around the mosque compound (The
Temple Mount, which is the holiest place in Judaism), all non-Muslims
(including Jews) are forbidden from entering inside the mosque.'
Yet my Twitter timeline is still infested with idiots calling Israel an
'apartheid state'.
Read more here
http://cifwatch.com/2013/09/27/cif-watch-prompts-guardian-correction-2-evidently-jewish-extremists-didnt-enter-th... more »
MALL ATTACK WHISTLEBLOWERS
*Kenya mall victim*
According to whistleblowers within the Kenyan intelligence service:
*1.* The mall terrorists are suspected of having escaped through a tunnel.
*2. *The Kenyan security forces apparently did not kill any terrorists.
*DAILY POST: SHOCKING: AL SHABAAB may have escaped* ...
*Protecting the terrorists.*
*According to documents leaked from the Kenyan intelligence service, the
Kenyan authorities were expecting an attack.*
"An unprecedented leak of Intelligence briefings covering the past year
paint the picture of a government fully informed of an impending Al Shabaab ... more »
State Department issues a new worldwide alert - aftermath of West Gate Mall terror event in Kenya , but issuing a worldwide alert seems over the top .... It's a nice way to crowd out focus on other news folks really should focus upon !
Catharsis Ours - 20 hours ago
Terror alert - another distraction from " other events " ?
Navy Sea Command Center shootings
CONGRESSMAN: SWAT TOLD 'STAND DOWN' AT NAVY YARDRescue team could have
responded immediately to mass shootingPublished: 1 day ago
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A congressman has confirmed a “stand down” order was given to a rescue team
that could have responded almost immediately to the shooter... more »
Accelerator inside a bumblebee
*Californian and Colorado experts finally began to build it: early successes
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Particle accelerators at the energy frontier are large and expensive.
Yesterday, Google Maps revealed its StreetView visualization of the LHC
tunnels and detectors. Those readers who have walked through the whole
27-kilometer tunnel by clicking their mouse are surely proud to be achieved
e-tourists.
These devices are also expensive; the total cost of the LHC exceeded the
annual budget deficit of the Czech Republic. We often think that things
have to stay this way – and this belief also shapes our expect... more »
1976
*A slice of life frozen moment of history, trapped in aspic, from the
golden years that fell between the exposure of COINTELPRO and the formal
imposition of NOINTELPRO*
By Richard Sprague,
To dramatize what might happen and probably did happen in 1976, this
chapter has been prepared by assuming the attitude typical of today's
innocent Americans. A new disease is sweeping America. No, it's not the
flu; it's conspiracy fever.
People afflicted by the disease imagine conspiracies everywhere. They
believe, for example, that the CIA arranged for the takeover in Chile and
the assassi... more »
Are Americans reading less?
Sent to the New York Daily News, Sept. 27, 2013
The Daily News reported that "Less than half of Americans read for fun last
year, National Endowment for the Arts survey shows" (Sept. 26).
This is not quite accurate.
The NEA reported that 54.5% of those surveyed said they read at least one
book last year, nearly identical to the results of the 2008 survey. About
47% said they read at least one work of "literature" (novels, poetry,
plays) last year, about a 3% dip from 2008; much of this was a decline in
reading poetry.
It is not clear in the NEA study if "book" reading included e-boo... more »
Old Dog, Old Trick: US, Saudis, Qatar Attempt "Arab Spring" Retread in Sudan
Protests are smokescreen for unfolding US-Saudi-Qatari backed violence
seeking regime change in Sudan.
*September 28, 2013* (Tony Cartalucci) - The Associated Press reveals that
recent and ongoing "Arab Spring-style" unrest in Sudan's capital of
Khartoum is led by Sudan's Western-backed opposition, the National Umma
Party, and the various faux-NGO's and "independent media" organizations
created by the West to prop it up. This reveals yet another
Western-engineered uprising designed for regime change in favor of a new,
Western friendly client regime.
The AP article, "Sudanese prot... more »
Fukushima nuclear debacle updates - September 25 -26 , 2013 - Typhoon Pabuk approaches on September 26 , 2013..... daily plant issues and 30,000 foot view of the ongoing nuclear debacle at Fukushima .....
Catharsis Ours - 21 hours ago
September 26 , 2013....
Seawater fence for reactor5&6 cut off / Can’t fix it due to the high waves
for the Typhoon
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[image: Seawater fence for reactor5&6 cut off / Can't fix it due to the
high waves for the Typhoon]
[image: 2 Seawater fence for reactor5&6 cut off / Can't fix it due to the
high waves for the Typhoon]
On 9/25/2013, Fukushima Diary reported the next typhoon was approaching
Fukushima nuclear plant area.
(cf, [Next typhoon approach... more »
Syrian Rebels fighters disavow US and West Selected Coalition leadership en masse as thirty rebel factions have now officially broke ranks with the Syrian National Coalition. ( viewed as ineffectual with no clout on the ground ) .. apart from disavowing the SNC , the islamists are killing moderate and neutral Syrians as they push for a Shariah guided Syria ...... With the chemical weapon tempest in a teapot fading off into the sunset , so goes the dreams of a West led air campaign to dislodge Assad - thus the Syrian Rebels have turned on killing whom they can kill ( each other )
Rebel Yell.....
Syrian Rebel Factions Disavowing US-Backed Coalition En MasseCoalition
Leader: They're Stealing Revolution
by Jason Ditz, September 27, 2013
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A Wednesday statement disavowing the rebel Syrian National Coalition (SNC)
as a failed attempt at an umbrella group and calling for a new organization
of rebels seems to be taking hold, with more than 30 rebel factions now
officially on board in disavowing the faction.
The statement was backed by a number of al-Qaeda groups, including Jabhat
al-Nusra, but seems to be gaining currency across the rebellion,... more »
Liberal Strategist Finally Admits That Creation Of The Gun Registry Was Intended As A Wedge Issue By The Liberals To Split Eastern / Western Canada
[image: Progressive Bloggers] * *
*An amazing admission by Liberal strategist David Herle at the 8:03 mark of
this CBC panel discussion ... the Gun Registry was introduced as a
calculated wedge issue intended to separate western from eastern Canada ...
*
*(Apologies for the commercials inserted by the CBC (!!) at the front of
the video ... sheesh!) *
Your moment of Zen
Stage two of this moment of Zen. The chrysalis.
Barack H. Obama and The Unspeakable
*“...at a meeting of the Soviet leadership [Kruschev] made this
unprecedented statement:*
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*"We have to help Kennedy."*
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"What* *kind of peace do I mean, and what kind of peace do we seek?"
Sergei Khrushchev (1935–), son of Nikita Khrushchev, writes in his book
Nikita Khrushchev: Creation of a Super- power,
*“When Father argued at a meeting of the Soviet leadership in favor of
withdrawing the missiles, he made this unprecedented statement:*
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*’We have to help Kennedy withstand pressure from the hawks [supporters of
war]. They are demanding an immediate military invasio... more »
Seymour Hersh of the New Yorker: Team 6/Bin Laden Story Is ONE BIG LIE, not a word of it is true
*Finally: a great mainstream news reporter breaks the "code of silence" on
government FALSE FLAGS!!!*
*Seymour Hersh on Obama, NSA and the 'pathetic' American media: Pulitzer
Prize winner explains how to fix journalism, saying press should 'fire 90%
of editors and promote ones you can't control'*
*Osama Bin Laden raid exposed as a complete lie by Pakistani National TV*
*New Yorker’s Seymour Hersh: Bin Laden Raid ‘One Big Lie’*
That's nice, Seymour, that you said what us 5th estate truthtellers already
knew. I said the Team 6/Bin Laden story was BULLSHIT *THE SAME DAY* (not 2
years... more »
Especially For You!
I wanted a page which offers you something different ... something in
addition to the posts I share on this blog. So, I created one! It includes
daily green tips ... easy things like *Water boils faster with the lid ON
... cover up and save energy!*
It's also a place where I can share great content from other sources. For
example, I discovered a site called "Stagetecture" and a post entitled *Easy
Ways to Grow Vegetables in Containers this Fall*.
I also wanted to offer you special deals ... discounts, freebies, etc. on
Eco-friendly products. No, I'm not part of an affiliate program ... more »
Sunday Classics preview: Finally we hear two-minute samples from Nedda's encounters with the two baritones of "I Pagliacci"
*Lawrence Tibbett sings the Pagliacci Prologue from the 1935 film
Metropolitan.*
*LEONCAVALLO: I Pagliacci: Prologue: conclusion*
And you, rather than our poor
actors' costumes, consider
our souls, because we are people,
of flesh and bone, and since in this orphan
world, just like you, we breathe the air!
I've told you the concept.
Now hear how it worked out.
Let's go -- begin!
*Leonard Warren (b), Tonio; RCA Victor Orchestra, Renato Cellini, cond.
RCA-EMI, recorded 1953*
*Tito Gobbi (b), Tonio; La Scala, Tullio Serafin, cond. EMI, recorded June
12-17, 1954*
*Giuseppe Taddei (b),... more »
MORALES: OBAMA SHOULD BE PUT ON TRIAL
RT reports:
In his dramatic speech in New York, Bolivian President Evo Morales called
for the UN to be moved out of the US and for Barack Obama to be tried for
crimes against humanity. Speaking to RT, Morales explained his
controversial proposals.
In his most controversial demand, Morales said that Obama should face an
international trial with human rights watchdogs among the judges. The
Bolivian president accused his US counterpart of instigating conflicts in
the Middle East to make the region more volatile and to increase the US's
grip on the natural resources it abounds in. He... more »
Power Up
The second Permaculture Principle is called "Catch and Store Energy." As
with most of the Principles, if you look for it in the Eightfold Path, it
pretty much falls under Right Doing and Right Livelihood. Livelihood is not
necessarily a *job*; if your house warms in the sunshine during the winter
day and keeps you warm for at least part of the night, that captured
sunshine is income to you, and therefore part of your livelihood. Designing
the house to do that is acting according to both Buddhist and Permaculture
ideals, since sunshine is not stolen from anyone (unlike petroleum, qu... more »
RENOWNED JOURNALIST: 'THE REPUBLIC'S IN TROUBLE, WE LIE ABOUT EVERYTHING'
Seymour Hersh on Obama, NSA and the 'pathetic' American media
*Pulitzer Prize winner explains how to fix journalism, saying press should
'fire 90% of editors and promote ones you can't control'*
The Guardian (UK)* *
Seymour Hersh has got some extreme ideas on how to fix journalism – close
down the news bureaus of NBC and ABC, sack 90% of editors in publishing and
get back to the fundamental job of journalists which, he says, is to be an
outsider.
It doesn't take much to fire up Hersh, the investigative journalist who has
been the nemesis of US presidents since the 1960s and who was... more »
SHOCKING NEWS
We learned this morning that our newest Global Network board member Luis
Gutiérrez-Esparza from Mexico City has unexpectedly passed away. This is
sad and shocking news for us.
Luis had been on our email list for several years and came to our Sweden
space conference last June. His humble and open personality quickly
endeared him to many of us. We enjoyed his quick wit and were thrilled to
have him agree to join our board of advisers - our first board member from
Latin America.
Luis was a journalist and an academic and as soon as he got back to Mexico
he wrote an article for a n... more »
News from the Jews
*Israelis hysterically claim Iran "already has a nuclear bomb" & more
war-mongering from AIPAC*
Israel and the organized international Jewish community have been screaming
for years now about the alleged "threat" Iran poses to Israel specifically
and the entire world generally, along with Iran's supposed attempts at
acquiring or developing a nuclear weapon. For decades now, Israel and
Jewish propagandists have been insisting Iran is developing a nuclear
weapon, which could either be used by the Iranians against Israel or other
Middle Eastern adversaries, destabilizing the region in ... more »
Iranian-Western Peace Philosophy and Poetry Seminar
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*"Towards One World: Ancient Persia and the West"* by Warwick Ball
(Published in September 2010).
This is a very informative and insightful discussion about Iran and the
West that is led by Thomas Clough Daffern B.A. (Hons) D.Sc. (Hon) PGCE
Ph.D., director of the UK-based International Institute of Peace Studies
And Global Philosophy. *Visit their website*. The video is over 2 hours and
20 minutes so it's hard to watch it all in one sitting, but you should
watch all of it. Don't skip over any part.
*Video Tile: Iranian-Western Peace Philosophy and Poetry Seminar. Source:
Inter... more »
Stephen Maher interviews Del Mastro on his elections violations
Fifteen months ago, Stephen Harper's Parliamentary Secretary and robocalls
pointman Dean Del Mastro made an unscheduled surprise visit to CBC's Power
and Politics panel to defend himself against a breaking McMaher story that*
*he was being investigated by Elections Canada for allegedly incurring
costs that breached the spending limit for his 2008 election campaign. EC
laid charges against him yesterday.
Stephen Maher was on that June 2012 panel and this is a rare opportunity to
hear DM using his indoor voice.
Excerpted from above :
*Maher*: If you look at the campaign statements,... more »
Corbett exposes IPCC "climate" report(s)
address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 1 day ago
Link: http://youtu.be/LOyBfihjQvI
The IPCC is a downright disgrace for scientific research, yet apparently
unstoppable in their costly but *useless* (worthless?) activities. For
those interested: ever more 'real time' scientific data websites close at
this moment, so it becomes harder to see or find out what changes take
place on and nearby Earth. Let alone conclude whether we have (already)
entered a slide into a new 'Ice Age' (small like 'Dalton' or bigger like
'Maunder' or even worse) since 2008. Furthermore I am concerned about the
content and validity of this message. James C... more »
K-12NN Founder's Open letter to the President, entreating him to read Professor Ravitch
*You would come to allow — or steer — some of the worst policies to
undermine, weaken, and privatize public education through your appointee,
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.*
*Those babies and toddlers you kissed grew up some, and are now entering
kindergarten and first grade. In some states, children as young as first
grade might be taking tests on art instead of actually creating art, or
doing worksheets for "homework". — Dr. Cynthia Liu*
[image: Dr. Cynthia Liu of K-12 NN]Dr. Cynthia Liu is one of the Los
Angeles region's best kept secrets. It's not that her K-12 News Netwo... more »
A conspicuous target of ex-Pope Cardinal Ratguts says, "It's fun to be Catholic again"
*"It is clear to [Father Tom] Reese," writes Sally Quinn, "that Francis
would not have been Benedict's choice to succeed him."*
*"I was running a journal of opinion and they only wanted one opinion. They
wanted an echo chamber of what was coming out of the Vatican."*
*-- Father Tom Reese, quoted by Sally Quinn*
*by Ken*
"I've got a very good feeling about this new Catholic Pope Francis I,"
Howie wrote on Saturday ("What Does Santorum Think Of The Pope Now?"), "and
have since the day he was chosen to replace the Nazi Pope someone seems to
have made resign."
When it comes to stuff ... more »
"How It Really Is"
We should be so lucky...
- CP
Adverse inference from failure to call witness
R. *v*. Jolivet, [2000] 1 S.C.R. 751 holds:
28 One must also be precise about the exact
nature of the "adverse inference" sought to be drawn. In J. Sopinka, S. N.
Lederman and A. W. Bryant, *The Law of Evidence in Canada* (2nd ed. 1999),
at p. 297, § 6.321, it is pointed out that the failure to call evidence
may, depending on the circumstances, amount "to an implied admission that
the evidence of the absent witness would be contrary to the party's case, *or
at least would not support it*" (emphasis added), as stated in the civil
case of *Murray v. Sa... more »
Iran - Told You So
Has anyone ever got two Nobel Peace Prizes....?
" and I cannot forget that the *Nobel Peace Prize* was also a *commission*,
a *commission* to work harder than I had ever worked before for *"the
brotherhood of man." *
This is a calling that takes me *beyond national allegiances*, but even if
it were not present I would yet have to live with the meaning of my
commitment to the ministry of Jesus Christ.
*Martin Luther King, Jr.*
*Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence*
*Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City*
Well, I know that made at least one guy's day...
... more »
Scientific consensus fetishism in climate politics
By
Denis G. Rancourt
It pains me to have to write this. It would pain me more to let it go
without some kind of a fight.
I recently read an article published in Nature Climate Change, entitled
"The relationship between personal experience and belief in the reality
of global warming" [1]. The authors of the paper lament:
Moreover, despite widespread agreement among climate scientists
“How Much Time Is Left?”
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*“How Much Time Is Left?”*
by Karl Denninger
“There is an old truism: Revolution is a game for the young. It's true.
Look at the people who rose up in the Middle East. Or anywhere else for
that matter. It is rare to find a grizzled old man in the crowd, and women
(of any age) are rare too. No, these sorts of things tend to require a fair
bit of testosterone or, if you prefer a bit raunchier language, young and
full of cum. The same dynamic is why military forces don't draft 40 or 50
year old men. It's not, in the world of technology, all about being able to
hump a pack with ... more »
enlightenment
Make no mistake about it...
enlightenment is a destructive process...
it has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier...
enlightenment is the crumbling away of truth...
it's seeing through the facade of pretense...
it's the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true...
adyashanti
IMF proposes a United States of Europe ( which of course means Germany ) with a Eurozone Fiscal Union , Banking Union , Harmonized Employment , Common employment Scheme and " Firewall Tax " ..... Separately , the European Commission may seek an EU bank bailout facility ( boy you can tell the German election is over with all of this stuff being rolled out days later ! )
Friday, September 27, 2013 1:28 PM
IMF Proposes Eurozone Fiscal Union, Banking Union, Harmonized Employment,
Common Unemployment Scheme, Firewall Tax
In the biggest nannycrat proposal ever, the IMF announced it's vision for
the United States of Europe (without using that name to describe the
proposal).
Via translation from El Pais, please consider IMF suggests common
unemployment benefits for the eurozone.
The IMF proposes more discipline, more fiscal integration, and the
creation of a common unemployment benefit and risk sharing scheme to help
the club of countries that have ex... more »
Iran's President and President Obama speak today ( September 27 , 2013 ) - which is the first such conversation between US and Iran Presidents in 30 years ! As we hear more optimistic tones from the Iran and 5 + 1 participants , a look at what Iran may possess by way of nuclear facilities and resources ...
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-09-27/mapping-irans-nuclear-new-normal
Mapping Iran's Nuclear New Normal
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/27/2013 18:40 -0400
- Barack Obama
- Germany
- Iran
- New Normal
- President Obama
- White House
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With President *Obama now on closer talking terms with Iran's President
Rouhani than the Republicans*, we thought the "major geopolitical shift,"
that this is supposed to be should be offset with a glance at the 'known'
nuclear facilities that Iran possesses as the White House p... more »
Peak Oil Is Finally Here (Hint: Its a Peak of Demand)
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* *Peak Oil Is Finally Here*
By Morgan House
August 5, 2013
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/08/05/peak-oil-is-finally-here.aspx
Peak oil is here, writes *The Economist*.
But not the peak oil you're thinking of, where supplies dwindle and prices
march inevitably higher. That's so 2008. This is peak oil demand, and it
could hit in the next few years.
It writes:
We believe that demand, not supply, could decline. In the rich world oil
demand has already peaked: it has fallen since 2005. Even allowing for all
those new drivers in Beijing and Delhi, two revolutions ... more »
Government Shutdown countdown - with 4 days to go ( September 27 , 2014 ) , The senate has passed its continuing spending resolution today ( funding Obamacare ) and has sent the Bill to the House ( which has said it will not pass the Senate Bill in advance ) ..... Open thread to follow the events and political kabuki through the weekend .....
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-09-27/t-minus-4-days-till-government-shutdown-latest-summary
T-Minus 4 Days Till Government Shutdown: The Latest Summary
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/27/2013 16:55 -0400
- Debt Ceiling
- Obamacare
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With government shutdown day (now in 3-D IMAX) just four days away, some
are unsure what the latest developments are in the fluid and rapidly
shifting landscape of Capitol Hill. For their benefit, here is a pithy but
comprehensive summary of where we stand currently.
- Latest news about the deba... more »
The Week God's Had
From *The Tweet of God:*
*America, you were settled by the extermination of one race and the
enslavement of another. But please, lecture us more about freedom.*
*Hot flashes. Increased irritability. Dryness. Congratulations,
humanity, you've given the Earth menopause.*
*It's the total lack of self-awareness that separates the professional
asshole from the amateur.*
*If, while arguing, you are able to cite a verse in a chapter of an old
book that seems to support your position, then you win.*
*For the last time, mankind, I don't need your help killing people.*
*Don't let any... more »
“Fox News: Obama in Plot to Force Americans to Live Longer”
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*“Fox News: Obama in Plot to Force Americans to Live Longer”*
by Andy Borowitz
NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)— "In a blockbuster documentary to be
broadcast tonight, the Fox News Channel alleges that Obamacare is “little
more than a thinly veiled scheme to force Americans to live longer.” The
documentary, called “The Ugly Truth About Obamacare,” claims that President
Obama “is cynically using the health-care law to achieve his true
objective: raising the life expectancy of Americans without their consent.”
“In America, how long you live has always been your own business,” say... more »
The National Bank of Panama suspends all services from September 27 , 2013 until September 30 , 2013 .... The reason for this previously unannounced bank holiday " was a computer system upgrade - which one would expect to have been planned in advance ( so why weren't the customers of the Bank given more notice ? )
http://news.goldseek.com/GoldSeek/1380224271.php
*Banking Holiday in Panama Announced!*
-- Posted Thursday, 26 September 2013 | Share this article | 18 Comments
By Randy Hilarski
This morning the National Bank of Panama announced that it was suspending
all services until Tuesday the 1st of October. The National Bank of Panama says
that the reason is to upgrade systems. The Banking Holiday in Panama was
announced this am.
This system wide shutdown has country wide implications. The National Bank
of Panama did not warn the people before making the announcement and
shutting down the... more »
Agnew
"On September 19, I received some welcome encouragement from an unexpected
source. The Governor of Georgia, Jimmy Carter, telephoned me and expressed
his sympathy over the abuse I was suffering from the prosecutors and my own
administration. Although he is a Democrat and I am a Republican, Carter and
I had become friends through my work as a link between the White House and
the governors.
I told Carter I felt as if I was "fighting a division with a platoon." He
urged me to keep up the battle, and not to resign under fire. When he told
the incredulous press corps in Atlanta about ... more »
Do America And Iran Seek A New Beginning? Or Are We Seeing PR Showmanship From Both Sides?
*"Let us talk now, so that we do not become mad animals!" - Psychologist
Joost A. M. Meerloo, from "Conversation and Communication."*
Related:
*End of The Great Satan Narrative: Why An American-Iranian Truce Is Not So
Far-Fetched.*
*Iran's Soft Power Strategy: Why Iran Does Not Want A Nuclear Weapon. *
*America And Iran Have Two Clear Choices: Rapprochement or War. *
*Talks Between America And Iran: There Are No Downsides. *
*Ayatollah Khamenei's Positive Words For Western Culture.*
"A Dutch psychologist, Joost A. M. Meerloo, caught the apocalyptic tone in
a New York Times ... more »
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