Sunday, December 22, 2013

22 Dec - Blogs I'm Following

English: The delegation at St. Michael's Cathe...English: The delegation at St. Michael's Cathedral. From left to right: Senator Richard Burr, Mrs. Brooke Burr, Senator Judd Gregg, Mrs. Kathleen Gregg, Mrs. Karyn Frist, and Senator Bill Frist. Kyiv, Ukraine. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: NORFOLK (March 29, 2010) West Virgini...English: NORFOLK (March 29, 2010) West Virginia Governor, Joe Manchin III stands with a custom-painted C-2A Greyhound from the Rawhides of Fleet Logistics Support Squadron (VRC) 40 before boarding the plane for a flight to the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75). The Governor is embarking Harry S. Truman as a distinguished visitor. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class William Weinert/Released) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Where are they Now? - A-Z of Bristol bands - S...Where are they Now? - A-Z of Bristol bands - Songwriters - Musicians (Photo credit: brizzle born and bred)
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Turkey & Ukraine afflicted with EU/ private banking/business parasites

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 56 minutes ago
Found some interesting articles... As usual I will highlight the interesting bits. Turkey is afflicted with the same bloodsucker trying to latch itself onto the Ukraine. *The parasitic EU wants to drain all life from both nations.* *THE EU NEEDS TURKEY* But, does Turkey need or want the EU? Does the Ukraine really want or need to be part of the EU? We have some interesting parallels here- ISTANBUL —* The Turks are increasingly hubristic, and not just in the Middle East. Having seen their total G.D.P. more than double in the past decade, many Turks do not feel that they need the Eu... more »

Summer Reading

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 hour ago
A few of you were distraught* that I hadn't yet posted my bookstack of holiday reading this year. So here it is, all ready for me to realise I'm going to need a bigger bag. [image: Posted with Blogsy]Posted with Blogsy Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)

The source of true friendship

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 1 hour ago
H/T to Oldpharte and Globallove Think Tank

Chariots of the Gods new revelations

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 1 hour ago
Any question this depicts spacecraft? These are Mayan disks found 8o years ago. I am not totally sold on extra terrestrial. Another plausible explanation is that earth has had one or more cycles where technology surpassed our own. Thus destroying that civilization so thoroughly we only have a few artifacts remaining. H/T to American Kabuki and oldephartte(in training)

Christmas less Christian, says survey

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 hour ago
Gus Van Horn spotted some more interesting polling data coming out of the States, summarised by him as "Half of Americans Have Ceased Injecting Faith into Christmas": [O]nly a little more than half [of Americans] actually regard the [Christmas] holiday primarily as a religious celebration. More than one-third say it's more a cultural holiday, a new poll from Pew Research's Religion & Public Life Policy found. This is great news from undeniably the most religious western country, and hopefully a growing cultural trend. As Gus says This calls to mind Leonard Peikoff's classic essay... more »

Fair warning!

Roobin at THROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 2 hours ago
For the next week, starting tomorrow, once again, Through the Scary door will be the world's BIGGEST blog. The odds are fairly good that this guy will make an appearance.

Is There Such A Thing As Too Extreme On The Right-- Or Does It Always Have To End In An Orgy Of Blood?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 2 hours ago
If you want to find out which Senate Republicans have the most reactionary and extreme right voting records, you can access that information at ProgressivePunch. You just scroll down past the most conservative Democrats-- like Joe Donnelly, Joe Manchin, Mark Warner and Mark Pryor-- and past then garden variety conservative Republicans who are getting primaries by teabaggers, like Susan Collins, Lamar Alexander, Thad Cochran and Lindsey Graham, and you get to a land of make-believe. Past right-wing sociopaths like Ron Johnson, Richard Burr, Marco Rubio, Richard Shelby, you find the... more »

PASTOR BUM-SEX AND OIL

Anon at aangirfan - 2 hours ago
*American pastor Rick Warren embraces a young man. American pastor Rick Warren has close ties to the "kill the gays" bill supporter pastor Martin Ssempa.* An American called *Caleb Lee Brundidge* admits to having a history of being GAY. *nytimes.com*. One might assume that he may still be GAY. One might speculate that Caleb Brundidge is paid by the CIA to promote a policy of 'divide and rule' in Uganda, which has oil wealth. Caleb Brundidge is one of the American evangelical Christians who went to Uganda to back the homophobes who want gay people to be executed. In March 2009,... more »

The Poet: William Butler Yeats, "The Second Coming"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago
*"The Second Coming"* *․ * "Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the... more »

The Axiom of the Abandoned: “I Am the Union”

Kris Nielsen at @ THE CHALK FACE - 2 hours ago
I am pro-union. Teachers need strong representation and advocacy. But it’s broken right now. Just when I thought that the speeches and editorials from Dennis Van Roekel and Randi Weingarten were showing a turn-around back to reality, and just when I thought those two were going to start fighting for public education and their members, […]

"What Can We Know?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
"What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instincts of beasts." - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

We Have A Moral Obligation To Fix US Inequality, Orwell Triumphs Regretted As Gov't Lies and Warrantless Wiretapping Continues, and More Cass Sunstein Legerdemain For the Unseeing Masses (Or Will It Ricochet)? Bankers Now Sitting In Barber Chair (Waiting for Trim?) Just A Quick Haircut As BoA Foreclosure Scams Revealed (Rape Victims Names Now A Commodity)

Robert Reich has a Christmas message for US. Ninety-five percent of economic gains since 2009 have gone to the 1 percent. We have a moral obligation to fix this. It’s the season to show concern for the less fortunate among us. We should also be concerned about the widening gap between the most fortunate and everyone else. the biggest lottery of all is what family we’re born into. Our life

NSA backlash hits US tech as foreign countries balk at doing businesses due to concerns of NSA spying aided by Big Tech complicity .....

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 4 hours ago
http://www.juancole.com/2013/12/encryption-companies-install.html NSA bribed Encryption Companies to Install Back Doors: Was the Law Broken? Did Obama Know? (By Juan Cole) Reuters gets the scoop: the National Security Agency gave internet security firm RSA some $10 million to use an NSA encryption formula in its BSafe software. RSA is now a subsidiary of the EMC corporation, and they have urged customers not to use BSafe since the revelations by Edward Snowden made clear that the NSA’s formula in fact allowed the agency access to all the information supposedly encrypted with it. T... more »

Nevando en Navidad

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FOTOFRONTERA - 5 hours ago
[image: Imagenes Gratis para Navidad y Año Nuevo 2014]Click aquí o sobre la imagen para ver toda la colección

Sovereignty 101: Installment 1 - Sea of Chains

Sophia Love at AMERICAN KABUKI - 5 hours ago
You are swimming in a sea of chains. There are so many and they are so thick, you cannot tell what yours are attached to – but yes, you are shackled. It is not as if your very life depends on what’s at the end of that shackle – *it is that you believe that it does. *It is that belief that keeps you bound. Keeps you moving to wherever it drags you. Keeps you asking to be released. It is your belief that holds you, your mind that binds you. The effort to control you focuses on a constant stream of programming as well as entertainment and food, to keep you fat and happy, mesmer... more »

ObamaCare update December 21 , 2013 - Did President Obama and HHS , by partially exempting millions from the Individual Mandate unilaterally , de facto repeal the Individual Mandate for everyone ? How can the act of Insurers following the law and canceling insurance plans that were not in accord with Obamacare ( rendering millions suddenly with out insurance plans ) , be deemed an " unexpected human caused event " ? In other words , is ObamaCare itself a " hardship " and if so , what other exemptions will be bestowed on random groups / subsets of citizens by HHS as ObamaCare continues to unravel ? As the economics fall apart , what subsidies will be unilaterally given to insurers ?

Catharsis Ours - 5 hours ago
View from right and Left on Obama individual mandate exemption tossed out Thursday evening Leftish view..... http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-obamacare-let-thirtysomethings-sign-up-for-medicare-20131220,0,5071725.story#axzz2o8H2TS6p A *real* Obamacare fix: Let thirtysomethings sign up for Medicare - [image: print] - Comments 14 - Email Share 8 - [image: Obamacare] Copies of the application and instructions for the government health insurance marketplace from the Department of Health and Human Services. (Andrew Harrer / Bloomberg... more »

"You Can Be Sure of It..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago
"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry." "If we win here we will win everywhere. The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it." - "A Farewell to Arms" ◆ Never, ever forget that nothing in this life is free. Life demands payment in some form for your "right" to express yourself, to condemn and ... more »

will you obey ?

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 5 hours ago
obey

Black Budget:: US Govt Clueless About Missing Pentagon $Trillions

noreply@blogger.com (Say No To Corporate America!) at Say No To Corporate America - 6 hours ago

Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, December 22nd, 2013

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 6 hours ago
Sunday, and honestly I did want to skip doing this rant for one week while I am trying to get some rest and relaxation, but what I found this last week has made me decide to absolutely not miss this one at all... First I do want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas.... And yes, it is still CHRISTMAS.. Not that garbage of "Happy Holidays" that the Jewish scumbags want to permanently put in its place...I have spent enough time over the last few weeks going shopping, and everywhere I go I have been wishing everyone a "Merry Christmas"... It is so amazing the dirty looks I have received f... more »

Predictably, the Washington Post releases a major CIA story during a week when no one is paying attention

Real History Lisa at Real History Blog - 6 hours ago
The best times to read the paper are Friday nights and holiday periods. That's when the more sensitive stories the CIA doesn't want you to read are often put out. It's happened over and over through history. This holiday season, the Washington Post released an important story (http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2013/12/21/covert-action-in-colombia/?wpisrc=al_national) on covert

Sunday Classics: It's "The Nutcracker" -- the whole deal! (again -- our last annual encore presentation)

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 6 hours ago
*With the "Nutcracker Suite" sequence of Disney's Fantasia now unavailable, I thought to kick off we'd just look at this little teaser from Helgi Tómasson's San Francisco Ballet staging.* *by Ken* [*To repeat, this is an "encore presentation" of last year's encore presentation of 2011's complete-Nutcracker post, which I thought came out pretty darned well. You probably think it's a huge labor-saver just running a post "rerun." Perhaps I thought so too, but it never works out that way.*] The plan is pretty simple. As promised in Friday night's preview, when we heard (once again) tw... more »

New York Times Doesn't Just Bury the Lead, They Bury the Story

freetoteach at Schools Matter - 6 hours ago
The Sunday *New York Times* has a front page story about ballooning class sizes with this headline: Subtract Teachers, Add Pupils: Math of Today’s Jammed Schools COATESVILLE, Pa. — The recession may have ended, but many of the nation’s school districts that laid off teachers and other employees to cut payrolls in leaner times have not yet replenished their ranks. Now, despite the recovery, many schools face unwieldy class sizes and a lack of specialists to help those students who struggle academically, are learning English as a second language or need extra emotional support. The ... more »

exit

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 6 hours ago
Exit Through The Gift Shop *by AceVideos*

A Smoothie Recipe From Kids For Kids

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 6 hours ago
Source: https://www.facebook.com/pages/KIDS-saying-NO-to-GMO-and-Monsanto/532725250123850

Quarter Four Local By-Election Results 2013

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 6 hours ago
Party Number of candidates Total vote % +/- Q3 Average/ contest +/- Q3 +/- Seats Conservative 72 25,133 20.3% -7.0% 349 -4 -3 Labour 63 42,668 34.5% +1.0% 677 +193 +6 LibDem 55 13,570 11% +0.6% 247 +30 0 UKIP 62 15,933 12.9% -4.0% 257 -11 0 SNP* 7 7,186 5.8% +5.8% 1,027 +1,027 -2 Plaid Cymru** 4 1,022 0.8% -0.5% 255 -290 0 Green 32 2,938 2.4% -1.5% 92 -80 0 BNP 7 348 0.3% +0.2% 50 -70 0 TUSC 13 570 0.5% -0.1% 44 -43 ... more »

Local Council By-Elections December 2013

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 6 hours ago
Party Number of candidates Total vote % +/- Nov Average/ contest +/- Nov +/- Seats Conservative 20 4,893 16.8% -3.7% 245 -124 -1 Labour 15 9,148 31.5% -2.7% 610 -66 0 LibDem 14 2,670 9.2% +0.0% 191 +0 0 UKIP 19 4,202 14.5% -0.3% 221 -101 0 SNP* 2 1,680 5.8% +4.5% 840 +294 0 Plaid Cymru** 2 786 2.7% +2.7% 393 +393 0 Green 8 855 2.9% +0.9% 107 +37 0 BNP 2 81 0.3% -0.1% 41 -35 0 TUSC 7 338 1.2% +0.7% 49 +7 0 Independent*** 12 3,425 11.8% +1.7% 311 -12 +1 Other***... more »

"Holocaust" satire

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 6 hours ago
*satire: the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.* You may have read in some obscure part of the internet that the Holocaust of six million Jews during WWII is a hoax - it didn't happen - and that all of the heroic survivors and eye witnesses of Nazis atrocities are actually embellishing or outright fabricating their entire experience during WWII. Some even go so far as to claim that much, if not all, of the infamous photographic and video i... more »

Teens & Kids On GMOs

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 6 hours ago
https://www.facebook.com/TeensAndKidsAgainstGmo

Y'know all those "made in BC" jobs Christy Clark promised ...

Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 7 hours ago
Well, the actual contract hasn't even been inked yet and Seaspan is looking offshore to fill the positions necessary for the vessels they will (supposedly) build. Seaspan is a Canadian shipbuilding firm which has recently been given a contract to build 17 ships for the Canadian Navy. Now they need skilled workers to move to Vancouver and help build the vessels – and they have got their eye on

TUDA victor go the spoils?

Angel Cintron Jr. at @ THE CHALK FACE - 7 hours ago
The recently published 2013 Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA) has received a great deal of attention, especially in regards to the District of Columbia Public Schools. Although leading education reform advocates express cautious optimism, they claim the results as “evidence” that the 2008 education reforms in D.C., vis-à-vis former DCPS Chancellor Michelle Rhee, were, not […]

Steve's year in review

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 7 hours ago
*Person of the Year* Edward Snowden by a long shot. Will his heroic truth telling save humanity from big brother and the Man? To soon to tell but sadly it seems no. Just like every other bad thing we are forced to live with, climate change, war, banksters and invisible hands, the surveillance society is here to stay. Maybe knowing all about it will raise the collective angst to unbearable levels. Ironically the bad guys now are fully informed, so the only people caught in the net will be joe six pack citizens and their advocates, especially the advocates. *Worst Person of the Year... more »

War watch December 22 , 2013 - Pakistan Aid tied to Nato supply Routes ... Iran Sanctions battle in US set for early January , key test for not just Obama and Congress , but also the Nuclear Talks viability and AIPAC ...... Iraq death dealing report....

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 7 hours ago
Pakistan related news ...... US bill links Pakistan aid to Nato supply routes ANWAR IQBAL — File photo Published 2013-12-21 07:19:05 Share Email 5 Comment(s) Print WASHINGTON: The US Congress has passed a $552 billion defence authorisation bill for 2014, which also calls for stopping reimbursements to Pakistan if ground supply routes to Afghanistan are interrupted. The bill provides $80.7bn for operations in Afghanistan and $1.5bn for reimbursements to Pakistan in 2014, when the United States plans to withdraw most of its combat troops from the region. The bill is now at the White ... more »

The Memphis Hopson Hustle

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 8 hours ago
Unless the public stops the corrupt capitulation by Memphis politicians to the Gates agenda for privatizing American schools, the children of Memphis will soon become the educational property of corporate charter schools that receive public money to subject the poorest children to their cultural and behavioral neutering programs. Here is a telling chunk of a piece on the developments in New Orleans, whose Recovery School District was the model used Tennessee's Tea Party hustlers: . . . . Of the 89 public schools in New Orleans, only five will not be charters next fall, all under th... more »

Our last show of 2013, DC mayoral candidate joins us At the Chalk Face

Shaun Johnson at @ THE CHALK FACE - 8 hours ago
I attended a forum sponsored by the Washington Teacher’s Union on December 9th, which was part of a larger national day of action for AFT affiliations to reclaim public education. Candidates for DC mayor showed up to answer some questions on education posed by the President of the WTU. I was particularly impressed by the […]

Kindergarten and the #commoncore @dianeravitch

Shaun Johnson at @ THE CHALK FACE - 8 hours ago
Some pretty emotional comments were posted to Diane Ravitch’s blog recently from Kindergarten teachers about how they’re teaching was forcefully changed by the Common Core. And by forcefully, I mean that new rounds of observation by new evaluators compel teachers to adjust their instruction in very negative ways. Two points. One, I do sympathize with […]

Battling Education Reform: In the End it must be a “calling.”

Timothy D. Slekar at @ THE CHALK FACE - 8 hours ago
I am the “new” Dean of a School of Education at a Catholic College in the Midwest. One of the major reasons I was attracted to this position was the prominence of the college’s Dominican values (Truth, Justice, Compassion, Partnership, and Community). Think about it. If a college was committed to these values what would […]

I Don’t Need Standards To Teach, I Need Students

plthomasedd at @ THE CHALK FACE - 8 hours ago
I Don\’t Need Standards To Teach, I Need Students. via I Don’t Need Standards To Teach, I Need Students.

Bloated Military Budget Passes-- Here's One The GOP Didn't Filibuster

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 9 hours ago
Thursday night, just before midnight, the Senate approved the Pentagon Budget 84-15. Disappointingly, only three Senate Democrats had the guts to vote NO, Bernie Sanders, Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden. In the video above, Bernie explains to his colleagues why had decided to vote against it. It's worth watching. The only Republicans who voted against it are just the regular extremists who oppose everything that Obama backs, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, Tom Coburn, etc. In his speech Bernie quoted from President Eisenhower's "Cross of Iron" speech on April 16... more »

Teachers of Conscience and the Common Core Scylla and Charybdis

plthomasedd at @ THE CHALK FACE - 9 hours ago
Teachers of Conscience and the Common Core Scylla and Charybdis. via Teachers of Conscience and the Common Core Scylla and Charybdis.

Musical Interlude: Mary Hopkins,"Those Were The Days"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago
*For you, little Turtle, and all the great things we would do...* *"Those Were The Days" * by Mary Hopkins "Once upon a time, there was a tavern Where we used to raise a glass or two Remember how we laughed away the hours, Think of all the great things we would do Those were the days, my friend We thought they'd never end We'd sing and dance forever and a day We'd live the life we'd choose We'd fight and never lose For we were young and sure to have our way Di di di di di di Di di di di di di Di di di di di di di di di di Then, the busy years went rushing by us We lost our starry noti... more »

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 9 hours ago
*James Gill: It’s official: Louisiana is a ‘hell-hole’ ~New Orleas Advocate* *New Orleans apartment market surges ~Daily Comet* *Employment, wages mostly flat in Louisiana ~AP* * Fats Domino named Honorary Grand Marshal of Krewe of Orpheus ~WVUE*

Review of the Basics: Everything You Need to Know about "money" & "governments"

Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 10 hours ago
Today my friends, we are doing a review of the basics of what we know about "Money" "Banking" "Currency" and "Value". None of what I'm posting here will come as a surprise to the regular readers of RTS- this is all information that I've been discussing for a long time now. I am putting out this review because as Maloney in this first video states, it is KNOWLEDGE and UNDERSTANDING that is the first step to kNOWing and CHANGING- not just the system itself, but changing OURSELVES and WAKING UP and BEing the Change we wish to see in this world..... and beyond. It is only by kNOWi... more »

Good morning!

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 10 hours ago

Links.... alas, too busy to blog

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 11 hours ago
*Had a lot of fun riding down to the Chiayi HSR today. We played follow the HSR line through the farm tracks in southern Yunlin county. Forgot that there are only a couple of bridges across the river into Chiayi. Ended up taking the new tourism bridge in Beigang...with that chilly north wind at our backs, riding was easy. * Too busy to blog today..... *Daily Links*: - Why doesn't anyone care about rising US-China tension? - Latest in the MaWangMess: lesser prosecutor falls victim to influence peddling accusations, which legislators from both major parties argues is t... more »

SUNDAY SONG

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 11 hours ago
Happy holidays to everyone.

Sunday Question for Everyone

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 11 hours ago
What's a gift you would like to give to a politician you like? This is for sincere, not sarcastic, gifts, but creative ones if you can think of them.

Chris Geo of Truth Frequency - amazing Ayahausca purging - meets the Holograph Maintainers!

Mike Philbin at PROGNOSIS II - 12 hours ago
This is labelled under 'big pharma' but it's more useful to think of this as a 'little pharma' experience. A couple of days ago, Chris Geo of Truth Frequency (who have featured put up with 'yours truly' on a couple of occassions) celebrated his first anniversary of marriage to wife Sheree by going on a massive Ayahuasca purging. Like, three times the standard dose, in the safe-ish hands of shaman William Whitecrow, to face his fears and confront his demons. It's a spectacular personal journey and one worth micro-quoting, thus: *“You asked for the truth Chris, this is the cold hard... more »

EXPECT DEFLATION FOLLOWED BY INFLATION?

Anon at aangirfan - 13 hours ago
*Steen Jacobson* Last year, Steen Jakobsen, the chief economist at the Danish Saxo Bank, predicted that gold would drop in price to $1,200 an ounce and that shares in the USA would rise sharply in price. Those predictions were correct. *Some of his other predictions were wrong.* *Here are his predictions for what MIGHT just happen in 2014:* *1.* The global recovery will falter. *2.* There will be deflation. The oil price will fall to $80 a barrel. *3. *Technology stocks (shares in such companies as such as Amazon, Netflix, Twitter, Pandora Media and Yelp) will fall greatly in ... more »

Volunteers Needed For A GMO Free Ohio

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 14 hours ago
OHIO is working on a Constitutional Amendment that will put GMO Labeling on the ballot in 2014. Volunteers needed - sign up at www.labelthetruth.org. Signature gathering will begin soon - 600,000 signatures are required so much help is need...ed. OHIO, COLORADO & OREGON take it to the people to vote in 2014. WE NEED TO KNOW IF IT'S GMO! *#Ohio* *#labelthetruth* *#gmo* *#labelgmos* *#freedom2chooz* *#boycottGMOs* *#gmofreeusa* *#Colorado* *#Oregon* *Source:* *GMO Free USA*

Elixir of youth: nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 14 hours ago
Alchemists were hired and transferred to Prague by our leader, Austrian Emperor Rudolph II (reign in Bohemia 1576—1611), and one of their tasks was to develop the elixir of youth for the monarch who was aging, despite his blue blood. He was aging so quickly that at night, "they" were clearly hearing how "their" arteries are hardening with calcium and other waste products (arteriosclerosis). Days ago, the research project funded by Rudolph II was finally completed. Well, maybe, if we believe the optimistic reports. Anti-ageing compound set for human trials after turning clock back ... more »

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Paul Coker at News Spike - 15 hours ago
*Professional journalists and Federal Agents have been killed for telling you the story I am about to tell you.* *"The crash was covered decently and modestly by the medias. The Lockerbie-people saw and felt a somehow stronger version: I am very familiar with Lockerbie, both the locality and the circumstances surrounding PA103.* *My family spoke of that dreadful night with a horror that is hard to describe. Of course newspapers and television use discretion when publishing photographs of crash-sites. They usually publish photographs of a teddy-bear or a broken doll to s... more »

And you think you have it rough ...

Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 16 hours ago
Journalist Michelle Stewart can probably put those feelings to rest. All the best, Michelle. All any of us can do is hope this is a Christmas that brings you some joy. You deserve it.

We received one billion dollars

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 16 hours ago
I was pleased to learn that along with Dick Lindzen, Anthony Watts, Marc Morano, and a few other pals, we have received one billion dollars just in 2013! Conservative groups spend up to $1bn a year to fight action on climate change (Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian) Congratulations to all of us. A possible problem – one pointed out to me by the Galileo Movement via Twitter – is that I may find out that we just "may have received" the billion instead of the phrase "did receive" it. Meanwhile, if you send a few tens of dollars via PayPal, it will be noticed and appreciated. ;-) Just ... more »

Weekend Fun 53: Mayor Days be Merry and Binays

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 16 hours ago
*Mayor days be merry and bright* *and Mayor all Christmas be white.* *Binays (be nice), be not naughty* *Santa Claus is coming to town.* *Mayor Christmas always Binays.* *Mayor dreams in Malacanang not come true. :-)* These are some of the revised Christmas carols here in Manila after Makati Mayor Junjun Binay's Dasma gate. Typical Pinoy humor. On the famous umbrella at night and it was not raining, here are some comments in facebook... *may iba nagpayong at gabi pa... mainit ba buwan?* *Oo nga, bakit pinapayungan sa gabi? Nilalamig ang bumbunan!?!* *I can understand Imelda Marco... more »

Exercise of right to silence not evidence of guilt

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 16 hours ago
R. v. Snelson, 2013 BCCA 550 (CanLII): [56] If an accused person has a right to silence, it is an empty right if the Crown is permitted to seek an inference of guilt from the exercise of this right. An accused person also has a right to consult with a lawyer and no inference of guilt can be drawn against Mr. Snelson for the exercise of that right. See *R. v. Belowitz*, (1990), 56 C.C.C. (3d) 402 at 412-13 (Ont. C.A.).

Your moment of Zen

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 17 hours ago
Snow Queen, one of the largest snow sculptures in the world, measuring 35m high and 200m long.

White Elephant

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 17 hours ago
If I had won that big Megabucks lottery a few days ago, I would have funded this project myself. Brilliant. And how cool is it that you can make a living at origami? Backstory: Now the 33-year-old artist is appealing to Indiegogo’s crowdfunding angels to help him realize his ambition of folding a life-size elephant out of a single sheet of 50 x 50 meter (164 x 164 foot) paper. (So far he’s raised $13,843 of his $24,000 goal with 3 weeks to go.) Mabona says his aim is to show what a single sheet of paper can do by using it to create a replica of one of the world’s most imposing... more »

BATTLE TO COVER-UP CHILD ABUSE AND MURDER

Anon at aangirfan - 17 hours ago
On 22 December 2013, we read, yet again, that a top UK Conservative Party politician, a former Thatcher Cabinet minister, is facing arrest in connection with child abuse. Police investigate former Thatcher Cabinet minister over child sex abuse -Herald Scotland The politician is being investigated by detectives leading Operation Fernbridge, which is investigating claims that politicians and others sexually abused boys at various places in the UK. The police say that the charges relate to seven victims aged between nine and 15, with the alleged offences taking place in the 1970s an... more »

PEDOPHILE RING IN ISRAEL?

Anon at aangirfan - 18 hours ago
*'Eyal Golan'* In late November 2013, it was reported that the popular Israeli recording artist Eyal Golan had been detained for questioning at Tel Aviv Police Headquarters, in connection with allegations that he engaged in unlawful sexual intercourse with a 15-year-old minor. Reportedly, Golan was at the center of pedophile a ring that included his father, his manager and other associates who sought out teenage female fans during concerts for post-show sex and drug parties. Israel's Eyal Golan Center of Sex Scandal Two famous Israeli singers were said to be involved, plus a med... more »

The #ChristmasMyths #5: So, What’s With All That Frankincense?

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 19 hours ago
*Part of a continuing series looking at the pagan origins of the Christmas Myths,* one day at a time. Today, the story and pagan origins of the Divine Child being recognised and presented with gifts…* *So the Magi arrive at the house (if you’re reading Luke’s story of the Nativity) – or the shepherds arrive at the stable (if you’re Matthew’s story of the Nativity) – or no one arrives anywhere at all (if you’re reading Mark or John’s story of the Nativity, because they didn’t see or hear or dream up of any events they considered important enough to write down) – so they arrive at t... more »

Want To Help Rickie Lee Jones Record Her New Album?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 19 hours ago
In 2006, Blue America worked with a group of various artists to promote several dozen little known challengers to Republican House incumbents. The video above, which we did for Kirsten Gillibrand in her first run for Congress against powerful, entrenched incumbent John Sweeney, may have helped her win her 53.1- 46.9% victory. She's now a U.S. Senator and someone on the list of future potential national leaders. That same year we did similar videos and songs for John Yarmuth (D-KY) and now Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT). All three have music that was contributed by the key members of... more »

Another BigMedia fail

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 20 hours ago
While I've been offline for a few days President Obama held a presser. I didn't see it but Betty Cracker did and reports: UPDATE: Conference underway. PBO started off talking up the economy, deficit reduction and healthcare enrollment. Noted that a budget passed. Called for an extension of unemployment benefits, saying GOP should have passed it before they left town. She runs down the questions our prima donnas of the insider media asked POTUS. Of course almost none of them addressed the substance of his remarks. My personal favorite: What is your New Year’s resolution? Notably... more »

The Way Forward for 2014 .......JIM WILLIE: IN 2014 THE FAILURE BEGINS ! The Hidden Motives Behind The Federal Reserve Taper Strange things afoot involving gold ?

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 21 hours ago
http://www.silverdoctors.com/jim-willie-in-2014-the-failure-begins/ By Jim Willie, GoldenJackass.com The year 2013 will go down in history as the year of great transition, tremendous disruption, numerous financial breakdowns, widely adopted hyper monetary inflation, exposure of hidden devices, panorama of popular awakening, and indisputable evidence of a systemic failure. The following titles of significant events, organized by topical theme, are mindboggling and comprehensive so as to attest to the global failures. The breakdown touches almost every part of global life. The Ameri... more »

You don't mean to say you fell for this "royal baby" hoax?

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 22 hours ago
*by Ken* The woman in the alleged photo above is alleged to be a certain "Duchess of Cambridge," aka "Princess Kate," who is alleged to have given birth to a royal prince just 89 days before this photo was allegedly snapped. As gazillions of women all over the world will tell you, "No way, José." Next they'll be telling us that men have walked on the moon. And Hillary Clinton didn't have all those people murdered. Naturally the alleged British press is all over the alleged story. For all those who were wondering whether Kate has snapped back into shape following the birth o... more »

The Project Mogul Double Standard

KRandle at A Different Perspective - 23 hours ago
Here’s an interesting question that is generated by the recent discussions of Delbert Newhouse and his UFO footage. There are those on the skeptical side of the fence who reject his close up description of objects that were gunmetal-colored disks because that description doesn’t appear in the written record until nearly two years after the fact. One debunker seemed to be outraged that I had mentioned that this was what Newhouse told me because I didn’t talk to him until 1976. Of course, I was merely pointing out that I had talked to him and that this description of the UFOs had come... more »

Nova Gaia Energetics have Taken Flight”

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 23 hours ago
*Nova Gaia Energetics have Taken Flight”* by ÉirePort Nova Gaia Energetics have "taken flight", as former paradigm energy grids have closed, and necessary Nova Gaia portals have opened. Energetics are now fully aligned with Ascendant Gaia. Timelines are now integrated into a single stream, and all discrepancies healed. Nova Gaia has been boarded, and Hue-manity has accepted fully invitation for the "Higher Ride". ÉirePort | December 21, 2013 at 23:30 URL: http://wp.me/p2sFUY-qU

Cocaine - by Aleister Crowley

Paul Coker at News Spike - 1 day ago
Aleister Crowley Cocaine In its original publication, in The International XI(10) for October 1917 EV, this article carried this editorial note: ` `We disagree with our gifted con- tributing editor on some points, but nevertheless we regard this article as one of the most important studies of the deleterious effects of a drug that, according to police statistics, is beginning to be a serious menace to our youth.'' Now, some sixty years later, it is more relevant than ever, especially to Americans, since Crowley was residing in, and largely... more »

How many American Weddings would have to get hit by Drones before they were Banned ? Examining US drone death dealing policy in Yemen .....

Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
After Yemen Wedding Strike, US Drone Policy Comes Under New ScrutinyUS Claims More Care in Drone Strikes Not Holding Water by Jason Ditz, December 20, 2013 Print This | Share This The Obama Administration’s claims on its global drone assassination policy have rarely been internally consistent, arguing regularly that the strikes were incredibly accurate and that they were going to exercise more care in the future. Then a wedding happened in rural Yemen, and US drones were quick with a “signature strike” against the procession, killing at least 12 civilians. Carloads of civilians were... more »

Winter Solstice

theozarker at The Conflicted Doomer - 1 day ago
December 21, 2013 We had rain last night. As the temperature dropped below freezing, it froze on the tree branches turning them to crystal by the time I woke up this morning. Lovely. As the temperature rises above … Continue reading →

Your moment of Zen

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 day ago
And the sun begins to win again against the darkness. Stonehenge on Solstice day.

Conservative Unions Backs Conservative Candidates-- Let's Look At Hawaii's Senate Race

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
*Hanabusa with her longtime friend, anti-gay legislator Sam Slom (the only GOP State Senator in Hawai`i). She calls him "Sammy" during their frequent joint appearances on conservative talk radio in Honolulu. * Historically, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union has always prided itself on being among the most progressive labor unions. For four decades, starting with its founding in 1937, the ILWU was led by radical Harry Bridges. Opposing FDR because the New Deal didn’t go far enough, Bridges was always skeptical of labor partnerships with mainstream politicians. He regarde... more »

Education policy “wonks” + pop culture = train wreck

Angel Cintron Jr. at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
Michael Petrilli, the executive vice president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute in Washington, D.C., and, according to his profile, “one of the nation’s most trusted education analysts,” apparently has a lot of time on his hands. I’m not against having fun at work, and I even applaud these so-called policy wonks’ attempt at creating […]

JP Morgan Chase limits debit card use for customers at risk in Target breach ! 2 Million Chase customers could be impacted by 100 buck limit in daily cash withdrawals and 300 buck total purchases daily limit ( does this remind you of Cyprus ? ) Time limit fo restriction ( not immediately given ??? ) ..... some help at Chase branches available but how many folks will find out about these restrictions while shopping ? And how many banks will follow Chas with these de facto capital controls , which look like they will last until debit cards are canceled and replaced for Chase customers ? !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
WTF ? Capital controls imposed by Chase on customers who used debit cards at Target between Thanksgiving and mid - December ? http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/21/21998899-chase-limits-debit-card-use-for-customers-at-risk-in-target-breach?lite Chase limits debit card use for customers at risk in Target breach By Erin McClam, Staff Writer, NBC News JPMorgan Chase, the largest bank in the United States, told customers Saturday that they would be limited to $100 in cash withdrawals and $300 in total purchases per day if they used Chase debit cards at Target during a recent sec... more »

Why Is Blackstone Gobbling Up Homes? (Source: Bloomberg)

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago
An excerpt from, *"Meet Wall Street: Your New Landlord"* Zero Hedge, December 20: Blackstone Group appears to be trying to oligopolize the business of renting single-family homes in the U.S.. As Bloomberg reports, after the housing crash left more than 7 million foreclosed homes in its wake, the investment firm has spent more than $7.8 billion purchasing about 41,000 single-family homes for rental conversion. The world's largest private equity firm has quickly become the largest landlord (of rental homes) in the U.S. and in October, Blackstone offered the first-ever "rental-home-ba... more »

SILENCE OVER THE SECRET BLACK BUDGET

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago
The Pentagon has secured a $630 billion budget for next year, even though it's failed to even account for the money it's received since 1996. A whopping $8.5 trillion of taxpayer cash have gone to Pentagon programmes - none of which has been audited. This black budget has sparked concerns over potential fraud, as Gayane Chichakyan reports. Some years ago a journalist who writes for Jane's Defense Weekly studied the US black budget to try to determine where this secret budget architecture came from. He came to the conclusion that the Nazi operatives smuggled into the US after WW I... more »

Pandemic watch December 21 , 2013 - Scientists Angry over work to make H5N1 bird-flu virus MORE dangerous to humans ...... Does the possibility of a release ( accidental or otherwise concern scientists ) Reminds me of the start of 28 Days Later , just not the " Rage " virus ..... When you consider the continuing dangerous releases from Fukushima debacle - impacting not just Japan and the countries in that region , but the West Coast of North America ( and let's not forget the sailors on US ships at the time of Fukushima debacle on March 11 , 2011 ) , contaminated foods , Mystery illnesses , insecticides in the food chain ........ Is there a conspiracy to cause mass deaths ?

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
Scientists Angry over work to make H5N1 bird-flu virus MORE dangerous to humans - [image: The Alex Jones Channel][image: Alex Jones Show podcast][image: Prison Planet TV][image: Infowars.com Twitter][image: Alex Jones' Facebook][image: Infowars store] *Steve Connor* Independent.co.uk December 21, 2013 [image: Coalition of leading scientists claim ferret experiments could lead to a pandemic / via independent.co.uk] Coalition of leading scientists claim ferret experiments could lead to a pandemic / via independent.co.uk Some of the world’s most eminent scientists have severe... more »

China Rejects Over 1 Million Pounds Of U.S. GM Corn As Unsafe

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago
http://blogs.naturalnews.com/china-rejects-over-1-million-pounds-of-u-s-gm-corn-as-unsafe/ *China Rejects Over 1 Million Pounds Of U.S. GM Corn As Unsafe* By Paul A. Lauto, Esq. Posted Friday, December 20, 2013 at 03:39pm EST Keywords: China, corn, Exports, GM Food, GMO Label Law by Long Island Attorney Paul A. Lauto, Esq. http://www.liattorney.com Over 60 countries around the world either prohibit, restrict or require genetically modified (GM) food to be labelled, excluding the United States. In fact, one thing the U.S. government and the government of China have in common, is th... more »

Morocco Diary #2 Unusually calm sea in spite of the winds...

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago
By American Kabuki Thought you might be interested in the unusually calm Mediterranean Sea near us, despite the howling winds. This has been going on for several days. The sea has been like glass... you could water ski on it. I've lowered the sound volume some as there's a lot of wind noise on this iPhone made video. Below are some lion tracks I found on the beach the day after Heather's encounter with the dolphin. Seems like a lot of animal life is showing up... my foot is on the right I wear a size US size 12 shoe (Euro size 45 cm).

Interesting stuff

Roobin at THROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 1 day ago
You've heard about peak oil, and the debate about said concept, but we may also be reaching peak agriculture. Global crop yields are struggling, and there needs to be a 60% increase in the amount of food produced (by 2050) to keep pace with demand. Projections of food production were based upon "one time innovations" such as breeds of wheat, artificial fertilizers or pesticides. There is, of course, the problem of soil exhaustion, and let's not forget global climate change (agriculture has a huge effect on the climate). Any civilisation, let alone one dedicated to competitive accum... more »

Alberto Juantorena's World Record breaking 1976 Olympic 800 gold medal run - commentator David Coleman

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day ago
David Coleman RIP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBTG-QwbNsE&feature=youtube_gdata_player This isn't the "opens his legs and shows his class" commentary. That was from the same Olympics but in an earlier race I think...

What Mattered This Week?

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day ago
Sure, why not do this one? Let's see...I'll go with the nominations that made it through the Senate. Yes, there was some foot-dragging that successfully delayed others, but nothing that's really a big deal, and the ones that got through are now done. Plus there were new judicial nominations this week. Both the number of judicial vacancies and vacancies without nominees -- most of them blue slip issues -- remain stubbornly high, but things are better than they were. Obviously this week's silliness -- Pajama Boy, White Santa Claus, Duck Dynasty, whatever else -- didn't matter, and onc... more »

Is California “Common Core Unrest State #23″?

deutsch29 at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
In response to my post, UPDATE: Common Core Unrest in 22 States, I received the following comment: You should include California. It is the sleeping giant that no one is paying attention to and here is why: First, this past summer, California Republican Party overwhelmingly passed a resolution condemning Common Core. Based on your above analysis, this […]

JB Campbell on The Realist Report

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 1 day ago
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Ducking the Truth: The Real American Dynasty

jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 1 day ago
(By *American Zen*'s Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari.) "*Start with homosexual behavior and just morph from there. Bestiality, sleeping around with this woman and that woman and that woman and those men.*" - Phil Robertson, GQ "*Free speech is an endangered species: Those 'intolerants' hatin' & taking on Duck Dynasty patriarch for voicing personal opinion take on us all.*" -Sarah Palin from her Mooselini Twitter balcony There are many things that do not subscribe to common sense in the Phil Robertson storm raging across the internet. The first that comes to mind is w... more »

Why It Makes No Sense To Travel With A Conservative, Even A Nice One

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
When I was 13-- and all my friends were studying for their bar mitzvahs-- I was making my first big hitch-hiking excursion. My grandparents were in South Beach, which was very grandparent-friendly back then, for Easter and I decided to see what hitching would be like. Brooklyn to Florida with $20 and a toothbrush in my pocket. I got as far as the New Jersey Turnpike and got arrested. They made my father come pick me up. He gave me the dough for a Greyhound. But it wasn't about the destination. I wanted to try out hitchhiking. I had plans. A couple years later-- having sent farmin... more »

priceless !

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 1 day ago
the three stooges

Thailand: Protesters Must Stay Out of the Gutter

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 day ago
Key to winning the nations back is winning the hearts of those who disagree with you most. *December 21, 2013* (Tony Cartalucci) - The regime of Thaksin Shinawatrabuilt itself upon a foundation of corruption, deceit, fear, intimidation, bigotry, violence, and mass murder. Its followers, the "red shirts," are notorious thugs, having barricaded schools threatening teachers and parents, slapping university lecturers, and even going as far as hacking their opponents to pieces, committing massive city-wide arson, and armed insurrection. Though they only represent at most 7% of the popula... more »

The Ed-ventures of Edysseus

Angel Cintron Jr. at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
Edysseus lived on the island of Paideia with his wife, Sophia, and son, Foiti̱tí̱s. Far away, on the island of Columbia, the “war of the pedagogues” threatened to spread to the peaceful island of Paideia. Although Edysseus tried to avoid entering the war, it was no use, as he had sworn to the gods of […]

Ted Cruz speaks...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 1 day ago
*we should be listening.* It's up to us...

WEATHER CHANGES

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago
MB and I are on Cape Cod, Massachusetts to attend a wedding. We went for a walk this morning along the ocean. The weather here is quite mild for this time of year. When we left Maine yesterday there was almost two feet of snow on the ground. After nearly a six hour drive south we found no snow here when we arrived last night. And much higher temperatures. We return home tomorrow and the weather report calls for an ice storm in Maine as we head back north. It's quite amazing how just a few hours difference can usher in such huge changes in weather conditions.

The Big Chill

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 1 day ago
Why, asks Lewis Lapham, are there no 21st century Mark Twains around to lambast the malefactors of great wealth and the corrupt politicians enabling them, making us collapse with laughter as we revel in the skewering? Part of the reason is that independent newspapers, for which Twain once wrote, have been subsumed by six media conglomerates controlling 90% of everything we see, hear and read. And so, Lapham observes, We have today a second Gilded Age more magnificent than the first, but our contemporary brigade of satirists doesn’t play with fire. The marketing directors who produc... more »

Libya disaster just keeps getting worse every day......Colonel Fethallah al-Gaziri, newly appointed head of military intelligence in Benghazi, shot dead during a family visit..... Just three 4x4s to patrol 120 Jufra desert weapons stores ...... UN Security Council Concerned At Worsening Security, Political Divisions in Libya

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
Libyan military colonel assassinated Colonel Fethallah al-Gaziri, newly appointed head of military intelligence in Benghazi, shot dead during a family visit. Last updated: 20 Dec 2013 22:05 [image: Listen to this page using ReadSpeaker] [image: Email Article] [image: Print Article] [image: Share article] [image: Send Feedback] Libya has been plagued by growing lawlessness since the 2011 war that toppled Muammar Gaddafi [File: EPA] Colonel Fethallah al-Gaziri, the newly appointed chief of military intelligence in Benghazi, has been assassinated during a visit to his family in the e... more »

Liberalism: A Mental-Developmental Disorder

Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 1 day ago
What is Liberalism? Is it a political, economic or social ideology? Is it a faith? No. Liberalism is a Mental Disorder; a disorder resulting from a failure to develop from a child to an adult. When one debates with a liberal, one is not debating with another adult; one is debating with a person who has the outward appearance of an adult, but inwardly has the mentality of a child - and a spoilt child at that. Liberals will not listen to reason. This is because they are incapable of seeing the world from any perspective other than their own; in exactly the same manner as children... more »

With Syria and Iran becoming yesterday's news ( from the view of where will the next limited kinetic action occur ) , is Africa the new " hotness for 2014 ? US Aircraft, UN Helicopter Attacked In South Sudan ....... ‘Humanitarian Intervention’ in Central African Republic

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-21/us-aircraft-un-helicopter-attacked-south-sudan US Aircraft, UN Helicopter Attacked In South Sudan [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/21/2013 11:31 -0500 - China - France - goldman sachs - Goldman Sachs - Iran - Middle East - Reuters inShare With a wave of detente spilling over the Middle East, following the surprising US overture to calm relations with Syria and Iran just months after it nearly launched an offensive war in the country over a few fabricated YouTube clops Looks li... more »

Gold and Silver report - December 19 - 20 , 2013 - P.M. Kitco Roundup: Gold Slumps To 6-Month Low Post-FOMC, And Amid Stronger U.S. Dollar ........Comex registered gold slumps to new multi-year lows ( 490 , 000 ounces ) , JPM takes deliveries as Customer or Eligible gold rises notably ( Turd Ferguson wonders if JP Morgan is buying for China in an interesting post ) ..... Meanwhile London's gold vault' virtually empty .... What gives is the question that should be asked ?That question and how broadly are those chinese buyers smiling as gold price suppression continues unabated along with chinese buying of physical gold ? Additional news , data and views on Gold primarily.......

Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
December 20 , 2013...... http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2013/12/jp-morgan-takes-on-more-gold-61790.html 20 DECEMBER 2013 JP Morgan Takes On More Gold, 61,790 Ounces Come Out of Mocatta The big stopper JPM added about two tonnes of gold, and 61,790 ounces of bullion came out of the Scotia Mocatta registered inventory. This brings the total deliverable (registered) ounces of gold down to 432,612 which is a number that we have not seen in this inventory category since the early 1990's, well before the gold bull market. Supposedly Simon Weeks of Scotia Mocatta, who is also t... more »

Wild Bill: Dancing with Ducks...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 1 day ago
*"If you want to make a liberal mad, tell him the truth."*

​Major computer security firm RSA took $10 million from NSA to weaken encryption

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago
*​* *Amazing... they sold their company's future reputation down the drain for only $10 million? -Bill* *Major computer security firm RSA took $10 mln from NSA to weaken encryption* Published time: December 20, 2013 23:48 Get short URL RSA SecureID electronic keys (Reuters / Michael Caronna)RSA SecureID electronic keys (Reuters / Michael Caronna) The National Security Agency arranged a clandestine US$10 million contract with computer security power RSA that allowed the spy agency to embed encryption software it could use to infiltrate the company’s widely used products, Reuters r... more »

ObamaCare updates December 19 , 2013 - As Many Uninsured Oppose Obamacare as Favor It , which is not what the expectation would have been ! In other news , note the shocker of the day -- Surprise: Insurers extend deadline to pay first month of ObamaCare plan premiums until January 10th ....... And on the new head of Healthcare.gov.......

Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://www.infowars.com/boehner-calls-for-one-year-obamacare-delay/ Boehner Calls for One Year Obamacare Delay - [image: The Alex Jones Channel][image: Alex Jones Show podcast][image: Prison Planet TV][image: Infowars.com Twitter][image: Alex Jones' Facebook][image: Infowars store] *Kurt Nimmo* Infowars.com December 20, 2013 House Speaker and Ohio Republican John Boehner has called for a one year delay in the individual mandate under the Obamacare bill. Boehner made the suggestion on Friday following the Obama administration’s announcement it would exempt people who had ... more »

Has the GOP Inspired Prejudice about Texas?

Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 1 day ago
*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* For some reason, millions of people who have never been to Texas persist in spreading lies, and misconceptions about the state, "dissing it" though they have never bothered to confirm their prejudices by actually visiting the state. Nevertheless --they are convinced or have convinced themselves that Texas is a horrible and backward place. How much blame must be directed at Bush for having destroyed the reputation of a state that had been Democratic/progressive for over one hundred years The fact is, Texas is not a 'backwater'. Second only to ... more »

Meaningless Sentence of the Day

Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 1 day ago
This *NY Times* story on the middle class's struggle with the new healthcare law is generally pretty good, but this sentence struck me as comically meaningless: Experts consider health insurance unaffordable once it exceeds 10 percent of annual income. What the heck does this mean? The typical American spends more than a third of income on housing. Does that make housing unaffordable? Presumably not. What makes 10 percent the magic threshold for health insurance but not for other categories of crucial spending? Who are these experts, and what criterion do they use to determin... more »

New York Times bungles test scores again!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago
*SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2013* *The era of living incompetently:* On Thursday morning, the New York Times reported, or tried to report, the new NAEP scores for New York City. For reasons you can review, we described the news report as the work of functional illiterates. That was *before* we fact-checked the newspaper’s factual claims. Yesterday, we fact-checked their claims. Truly, we are all trapped in the era of living incompetently! What did Al Baker and Motoko Rich claim in their multiply bungled report? As you can recall at the link we’ve provided, this was the passage we fo... more »

Hypocrisy Squared

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 1 day ago
There was something a little hollow about Stephen Harper's praise for Nelson Mandela. Murray Dobbin writes: In 1989 Harper was a member of the Northern Foundation (NF) about the same time that he became policy chief of the Reform Party. The exclusive mandate of the NF was to counter the serious efforts of the Canadian government of Brian Mulroney to pressure the South African government to release Nelson Mandela from prison and to end apartheid. Certainly, when it comes to the matter of justice, the two men live on different planets. Steve Sullivan delineates their differences:... more »

LGBT Equality In The Enchantment State-- New Mexico Democrats Are Jubilant While DCCC Hack Is Mum

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
“Denying same-gender couples the right to marry and thus depriving them and their families of the rights, protections, and responsibilities of civil marriage violates the equality demanded by the Equal Protection Clause of the New Mexico Constitution,” Justice Edward Chavez wrote for the five-member court, which ruled unanimously Thursday, making New Mexico the 17th state jun the Union to back marriage equality for LGBT citizens. New Mexico is a pretty live-and-let-live kind of state. Bigots and haterstend, like everywhere, to gravitate towards the Republican Party, which now has j... more »

The lawyer, the wife and the boobs

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day ago
The lawyer is Cameron Diaz, the wife is Leslie Mann and the boobs is Kate 'sweet smelling sweat' Upton. Joblow.com have examined, very closely, the above video and created their highlights only version...

Untitled

New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago
*How much will Saints, Panthers tweak? ~Mike Triplett, ESPN*

And What Is Everyone Doing About Toronto's TTC Fare Increase?

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 1 day ago
Just to bring non-Torontonians up to speed: Toronto has gone from having what was widely regarded to be a good public transit system to having what is widely regarded as being a bad transit system. Bus service in the outer city is deplorable. Long waits to get on over-crowded buses, or to watch over-crowded buses pass your stop. Streetcar service that can mean it's faster to walk from Yonge to Bathurst than it is to wait for a streetcar. An over-crowded subway system prone to signals breakdowns and other interruptions. This has happened because for the past few decades, neo-liberals... more »

Supporting Common Core Is Supporting Entire Reform Machine

plthomasedd at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
Supporting Common Core Is Supporting Entire Reform Machine. via Supporting Common Core Is Supporting Entire Reform Machine.

Pearson's $300 Toll Road to Teaching

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 1 day ago
If you need some extra holiday cash, you might consider working part-time from home to help Pearson decide who will become teachers and who won't. It's easy--just complete a few online tutorials, and Pearson will send you a bunch of student teaching portfolios, complete with video clips of student teachers and classes with students whose parents have no idea that Pearson now has in their permanent libraries. All to become part of Big Data. In working for Pearson, you will help universities to decide the curriculum for teacher candidates, for remember, what gets tested gets taught. ... more »

War watch December 21 , 2013 - Syria Peace Talks crumbling as the Syrian rebels crumble , coupled with Iran not attending ....... Pakistan passes symbolic reolution against US drone death dealing , while Pakistan Civilian leadership passively agrees with US drone death dealing policy - and the Government still wants that 1.6 billion in US blood money .... Iran nuclear talks continue even as the US Senate tries its best to derail the nuclear talks with ever more sanctions against Iran...

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
Syria......Geneva Peace Talks D.O.A Geneva Peace Talks Crumbling: Syria Rebels, Iran May Not AttendUS Is Still Trying to Keep Iran From Being Invited by Jason Ditz, December 20, 2013 Print This | Share This The Geneva II peace talks were initially scheduled for June, and after months were finally set up for January 22, with a watchmakers’ convention forcing the talks to Montreaux. Even though these talks have been “set” for weeks there remains doubt over whether they’ll actually happen. That’s because as the Syrian National Coalition (SNC) loses what little credibility it had among t... more »

Delivering

Paul Coker at News Spike - 1 day ago
"The health care website problems were a source of great frustration.... I now have a couple million people, maybe more, who are going to have health care on Jan. 1. And that is a big deal. That's why I ran for this office,"

Provocative thoughts and thinking - December 17 , 2013 ....Obama Allows Great Lakes Water To Be Sold To China As Half The U.S. Faces Extreme Water Crisis ........ Nukes on the Loose...... The Most Dangerous Woman In America

Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://beforeitsnews.com/economy/2013/12/obama-allows-great-lakes-water-to-be-sold-to-china-as-half-the-u-s-faces-extreme-water-crisiss-2579664.html Obama Allows Great Lakes Water To Be Sold To China As Half The U.S. Faces Extreme Water Crisis Monday, December 16, 2013 17:17 0 (Before It's News) [image: Drought Monitor December 2013]What in the world is Barack Obama thinking? At a time when the United States is facing the greatest water crisis that it has ever known, Obama is allowing water from the Great Lakes to be drained, bottled and shipped to China and other countries around t... more »

Lost your corkscrew? All is not lost.

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day ago
A nifty way of opening a bottle of wine if you're minus a corkscrew.

Quatermass

Paul Coker at News Spike - 1 day ago
*"I wish Bernard were here..."* *"Chance'd be a fine thing - British Rocket Group's got it's own problems..."* The Quatermass Experiment - Episode 1 - "Contact Has Been Established..." (Tx.18 July 1953) from unpersonal on Vimeo. One morning, two hours after dawn, the first manned rocket in the history of the world takes off from the Tarooma Range, Australia. The three observers see on their scanning screens a quickly receding Earth. The rocket is guided from the ground by remote control as they rise through the ozone layer, the stratosphere, the ionosphere, beyond the air. ... more »

The #ChristmasMyths #4: The Birthplace and Surroundings of the Little Baby Jesus

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago
*Part of a continuing series looking at the pagan origins of the Christmas Myths, one day at a time.* Today, the story and pagan origins of where Jesus was said to be born…* [image: image] Jesus was born in a manger and visited by shepherds, say the authors of *Luke*.** No, say the authors of *Matthew*, he was born in a house in which he and Mary were visited by an unconfirmed number of Magi from the East ( *three* being a later gloss). There were no little drummer boys. The authors of *Mark* and *John *don’t bother with any of this carry on. To them, it clearly doesn’t matter a... more »
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