Nelson Mandela 1918 - 2013 (Photo credit: Debris2008)
Parliament Square - Mandela and Peel (Photo credit: ell brown)
Updates On Syria [12.7]: Observers Warn of An Exodus of Islamist Extremists To Turkey And Beyond, Top Iraqi Diplomat Warns A Jihadi Emirate Is Forming In Syria, Global Jihadists Find Home In Turkey
*1. An excerpt from, "Turkey should prepare itself for mass exodus of
fighters from Syria" by Lale Kemal, Today’s Zaman, November 25:*
Turkey, which has an approximately 900-kilometer border with Syria on its
south, is unfortunately among the losers of the Syrian war since it has
pursued an ill-conceived policy by purely backing the Syrian opposition,
while basing its strategies on the quick fall of the Assad regime. On the
contrary, Assad has appeared to have been regaining ground, while the
opposition lost its fighting edge. It is not surprising that we have been
seeing the beginn... more »
Quantum Computing Superpower
Mankind goes deep into God territory building things as large as can be
imagined and as small as can still be seen using a Quantum toolbox. With
any luck most of the Gods will live in Canada.
Being Old in Wintertime
December 7, 2013 We are getting old together – the cat, the dog and I. The
cat, who is thirteen, now, has turned gray around the head and tail, sleeps
a lot more and, although still curious, sometimes needs my … Continue
reading →
We Own You ...
At
least that is the tacit message that comes from the excerpted emails
from the PMO (Nigel Wright) to the Conservative house leader in the
senate. Although not subordinate in any way to the frat boys in the PMO,
senators are taking orders from Nigel Wright.
Now, I didn't do the heavy lifting so I will send you off to Creekside,
where Alison has done just that.
THE MURDEROUS MANDELAS
*Stompie*
Stompie was reportedly a Mandela victim.
*6'4" tall Mandela and his first wife Evelyn Mase in 1944*
It is as if there were two Mandelas.
The Mandela who went into prison was reportedly six foot, four inches tall.
The Mandela who came out of prison was reportedly about five foot, nine
inches.
I Believe Nelson Mandela Had Already Died - Godlike Productions
*Victim of Mandela*
Nelson Mandela's terrorists planted bombs in public places, thus killing
women and children.
*Victims of Mandela.*
Mandela's first wife was Evelyn.
Mandela flaunted his girl friends in front ... more »
Riding Greeener on the H2O Highway
Another case where being green is not only more profitable, but reduces
long term risk.
things i heard at the library # 10: weeding, the library's not-so-dirty, not-so-little secret
Wmtc readers have told me that they like the inner-workings-of-the-library
posts, so I'm going to let myself write those whenever an idea comes up.
That means the "things I heard at..." category becomes less literal... not
unlike the title of this blog.
Did you ever wonder how a library manages to keep its whole collection on
the shelves, when new books are coming out all the time? Where do all the
books go? How can it all fit?
The answer: it doesn't. Space is finite, and the number of books in any
collection, although also finite, is always expanding. That contradiction
is resolv... more »
An investigative documentary into the Common Core State Standards Initiative
*BUILDING THE MACHINE (2014) - Official Trailer [HQ]*
I want to use the same disclaimer here that I did the last time I posted
Common Core State Standards (CSSS) related materials from sources that I
disavow any connection with. The video is produced by, and also features,
individuals that are from fringe-right-wing groups. The last time I
published a disclaimer like this, I was subjected to a firestorm of
criticism from the right. That's fine, we will never be allies in any sense
other than shared opposition to the vile corporate CCSS curriculum being
foisted on students. That s... more »
Repost of Bang Bang Club from
The Bang Bang Club was a 2010 joint Canadian South African production. If
you never heard of it join the club, it was released in the US (2011) and
made a staggering $124,000 before the plug was pulled. Perhaps the key
reason it was not a big success is that was extremely politically
incorrect. Is there a more saintly figure in the world than Nelson Mandela?
Well Bang Bang pukes all over his carefully constructed story. It was an
excellent movie more documentary than drama. Two of the real life
photographers upon whom the movie is based won Pulitzer prizes, and two of
them died.... more »
RIP Nelson Mandela
I am going to write more, a great man, but as usual we are getting a very
distorted picture of what actually happened. The fact the no one can
explain what actually happened is a flashing red light to think aboot.
http://www.whiteoliphaunt.com/duckofminerva/2013/12/21212.html
Thoughts much like mine.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/12/06/nelson-mandela-was-as-clever-as-he-was-virtuous-as-cunning-as-he-was-bold/
Background follow the dots
http://suspendeddisbeliefsteve.blogspot.ca/2013/12/bang-bang-club-2010.html
What Mattered This Week?
I'm really not sure this week. There's the apparently promising budget
talks, but what's really going to matter is whether the radicals can once
again intimidate mainstream conservatives; I don't think we know that yet.
There's the presidents speech on the economy and inequality...that's
certainly not apt to have any direct immediate effects, but it surely might
signal the future direction of the Democrats. Even on health care, it's not
really clear how and whether successful and unsuccessful fixes on
Healthcare.gov will matter.
So I'm just going to leave it all to you. What do you ... more »
KOREAN CATHOLICS TAKE ON FASCIST PARK GOVERNMENT
On December 4 the Catholic Priests’ Association for Justice officially
states, ‘Out, Park Geun-Hye.’ Their statement reads:
*Whenever resisting to power, the history has demanded heavy price to the
churches. The history of martyr tainted with blood plainly proves. However,
Resistance is the pulse of faith. The Catholic Priests’ Association for
Justice, respecting the Jeonjoo Diocese that has denounced on unjust
Election and claimed on the resignation of President states [on Nov. 22]:
Even though inquiring on the responsibility of unjust election would bring
into sufferin... more »
Re-trending
As Sue alluded to in the previous post, poor Rod Liddle has felt the heat
from an 'outraged' Twittersphere (and the *Daily Mail*) over his criticism
of the BBC's OTT coverage of the death of Nelson Mandela.
Rod wrote:
But for Christ’s sake BBC, give it a bloody break for five minutes, will
you? It’s as if the poor bugger now has to bear your entire
self-flagellating white post-colonial *bien pensant* guilt; look! Famous
nice black man dies! Let’s re-run the entire history of South Africa.
That’s better than watching the country we’re in being flattened by a storm.
From the commen... more »
Behind the scenes of the Autumn/Winter 2013 Agent Provocateur video that I posted yesterday (NSFW) - A Rule 5 post
Behind the scenes on the making of my Christmas present concept...
Which ConservaDem will represent Obama’s birthplace? And does it even matter?
Is Hawaii about to elect a conservative anti-gay crusader disguised as a
Democrat to Congress?
President Obama won Hawai`i’s 1st Congressional District-- the urban
Honolulu district where he was born, went to high school and partied to the
tunes of both Stevie Nicks and Stevie Wonder-- last year with 70 percent of
the vote.
This is a solid-blue district. Over the last couple of decades, the only
time a Republican represented the district (briefly) was when there was a
special election, and two Democrats split the vote in a winner-take-all
format.
There are no prominent Republicans ... more »
War Watch December 4 - 5 , 2013 - In Afghanistan , has John Kerry been reduced to suggesting a potential unconstitutional work around to obtain a signature for the hotly desired Bilateral Security Agreement which President Karzai refuses to sign ( Desperation ) ..... Syria rebellion reduced to extortion rackets ( FSA ) and kidnapping Nuns ( Al Qaeda ) ...... Iran nuclear talks blockade led by Congress of US ( as dictated by Foreign powers such as Israel and Saudis ) ...... Tragedy of Forgotten Libya continues - apart from wondering who Senator John McCain secretly met with in Tripoli , another day of Militia thuggery , protests and deaths...........
Catharsis Ours - 3 hours ago
Afghanistan........
http://antiwar.com/blog/2013/12/04/the-zero-option-is-the-best-option-in-afghanistan/
The ‘Zero Option’ Is The Best Option in Afghanistan
John Glaser, December 04, 2013
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As the U.S. wrestles with the Karzai government to finalize a security
agreement that would govern thousands of U.S. troops in Afghanistan for
another decade, virtually everyone across every spectrum agrees that
pulling out completely – the so-called ‘zero option’ – would be reckless
and dangerous for America.
The U.S.-backed regime in... more »
The Progressivity of the Current Tax Code
Source: CBO. Click on graphic to enlarge.
Will freedom of expression come to Canada?
OCLA's
principled letter to the AG of Ontario...
By Denis G. Rancourt
Political agents across the left-right spectrum in the USA, including
left public intellectual Noam Chomsky, positively advance the USA as
being the modern society with the greatest protections for free speech.
In the USA, expression of opinion is absolutely protected, as is all
expression except in limited areas (LINK):
Delbert Newhouse and the Utah Movie
There are two things that have happened recently that impact this blog.
First is a statement, again, by someone who should actually know better,
that there is no evidence that UFOs are alien craft. He asks, demands
really, just one example of a solid case for the UFO. Ignoring the fact
that the debunkers have worked wonders in marginalizing UFO reports by
throwing all sorts of ridiculous explanations for the sightings out there,
some of which are contradictory, there are some very good cases that have
multiple chains of evidence and some very good research attached to them.
Any exp... more »
Bangkok, Thailand: Mass Mobilization Against Wall Street-Backed Regime
*December 7, 2013* (Tony Cartalucci) - For the second time during recent
anti-regime protests, a mass mobilization is planned to begin this Monday,
December 9, 2013 at 9:39am at Democracy Monument. Universities across
Bangkok are setting times and locations for pre-rally staging. Protesters
who individually attended the last mobilization, the largest in modern
history, are better organized for this coming Monday - gathering their own
smaller groups to join larger staging areas for a mass march across the
city.
According to even the Western press, who has thus far attempted to shelt... more »
The gap that just keeps growing
Something about being in the capital of Honduras in the runup to
Christmas has really brought the income disparity issue home to me. I was
in one of the big malls this week looking for books to take back to the
Angelitos Felices kids as a gift, and seeing all those shiny $25 children's
books that rich Hondurans are buying for their own kids just made me really
sad.
The gap between the rich and the poor exists everywhere, of course. In
Canada, the average income for the top 20 per cent of the population is 5.5
times as much as the bottom 20 per cent. But in Honduras, the to... more »
Trending
Have you noticed the trend whereby an increasing number of people emphasize
the ‘K’ in words ending with “k”? It’s quite annoying once you notice it.
Even Giles Fraser does it, li*K*e.
If the great and the good can start an answer with ‘so’, so can I. So Bari
Atwan was on Dateline again. I didn’t see it but I’m told he was. Still, if
Russell Brand can bounce bac*K*, I guess “‘ari Batwan” can too.
Who’s suffering from Nigella overkill? Me. Momentarily reflecting on
Nigella’s false eyelashes, the rolling banner slid across the bottom of the
screen, and as you do, I misread “false al... more »
BARRY SEAL AND THE JFK ASSASSINATION
*Barry Seal of the CIA*
The key to 9 11 is the CIA-connected airfield in Venice Florida and *the
key to the JFK assassination is the CIA-connected Redbird airfield in
Dallas*.
Reportedly, the CIA's Barry Seal flew a 'get-away plane' out of Dallas
after the Kennedy assassination.
*Redbird airfield, Dallas.*
Barry Seal was born in Baton Rouge in Louisiana.
*Barry Seal flew covert flights for the CIA and for the Medellín Drugs
Cartel.*
Barry Seal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
*FIDEL CASTRO OF THE CIA.*
*In 1958 Seal began ferrying weapons to Fidel Castro who was supported ... more »
CONtempt™: it's the Harper CONservative party brand.
Another day, another cpc Senator in the news.
This particularly repulsive Con — Jean-Guy Dagenais — has also been a
useful idiot for the Harper regime. As a former cop and past president of
the police officers' association of Québec, Dagenais was a keen supporter
of the federal long-gun registry. Once tactically appointed to the Senate
by PMSHithead, he CONveniently started spewing the anti-registry propagandaand speaking points supplied by the PMO.
*Il a changé son fusil d'épaule*. And now, this:
In a letter sent to all parliamentarians, Dagenais referred to Charmaine
Borg’s... more »
Faith, hope and charity
The BBC aired a programme that seems critical of Islam, then for balance,
they aired an episode of Health Check, a BBC World service programme
fronted by Claudia Hammond featuring a charity that was supposedly set up
to comfort parents whose babies or children had died. All well and good,
you’d think, a much-needed service, like the Samaritans, Childline or the
NHS Direct.(I jest) A support group, then.
But this is not just any old support group. It’s an M for Muslim Support
group. Why was there a need for such a specialised service?
It’s because “Muslims” (mustn’t tar them all w... more »
The ex factor
I didn’t hear the programme ‘Leaving the Faith’ last Wednesday when it was
first broadcast, but a thread about it on Harry’s Place tempted me to
‘listen again’.
Sarfraz Manzoor’s programme illustrates that leaving the faith is a
delicate and problematic issue within Muslim communities in the UK.
Extricating yourself from the stifling Islamic religious lifestyle
literally puts your life in danger, and the dreaded curse of a family
member’s apostasy tears families asunder in a brutal and unnatural fashion.
You’d think the BBC, which is notoriously obsessed with Islamic affairs,
woul... more »
Petition Works: 37-Year Hispanic Scholarship Fund Dream Policy Overturned
Friday, 06 December 2013 11:04 By Roberto Cintli Rodriguez, Truthout |
Opinion
Thanks to all who signed the petition, inspired by the DREAM 9 and
Scholarship A-Z.
Petition Works: 37-Year Hispanic Scholarship Fund Dream Policy Overturned Something
remarkable happened last month during the nation's immigration debate;
while the president and Congress continued their prolonged stalemate, the
board of directors of the national Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF) voted to
reverse its 37-year-old policy of excluding DREAM students from its
scholarship programs.
This reversal is actually... more »
NSA Spying December 7 , 2013 - domestic and foreign spying items of the day .... Highlight of the Day - Obama: My Overseas Spying Not Constrained by the Law I Passed as Senator !
NSA fables from the Grand Fable teller.....
Obama: My Overseas Spying Not Constrained by the Law I Passed as Senator
Posted on December 6, 2013 by emptywheel
In a democracy in which separation of powers still functioned as intended,
this would be a deliberate provocation (my transcription):
The Snowden disclosures have identified areas of legitimate concern. Some
of it has also been highly sensationalized and has been painted in a way
that’s not accurate. I’ve said before and I will say again: the NSA
actually does a very good job about not engaging in domestic surveillance.
Not r... more »
Michael Cannon of the Cato Institute warns President Obama's failure to follow ObamaCare law as actually written could lead to armed revolt against the US Government - Cato Institute giving Obama warning or giving folks a heads up ? How long might it be before violence spews forth in Cities like Detroit ? US Watch List - 700 , 000 in Hotel California type situation ?
Catharsis Ours - 6 hours ago
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/expert-testifies-to-congress-that-obamas-ignoring-laws-could-lead-to-overthrow-of-government/
During a congressional committee hearing about the constitutional limits
imposed on the presidency and the implications of President *Barack Obama*’s
disregard for implementing the Affordable Care Act as written, one expert
testified that the consequences of the president’s behavior were
potentially grave. He said that the precedent set by Obama could eventually
lead to an armed revolt against the federal government.
On Tuesday, *Michael Cannon*, Cato Institute’s ... more »
War Watch December 7 , 2013 - Afghanistan and Pakistan in focus.... Karzai still refuses to fold to US and NATO demands that he sign the Bilateral Security Agreement by the end of December or else..... Pakistan still dealing with anti- drone protests as Pakistan's PM plans to crackdown on anti - drone protests....
Afghanistan.....
http://news.antiwar.com/2013/12/06/karzai-aide-afghans-wont-bow-to-us-pressure-on-pact/
Karzai Aide: Afghans Won’t Bow to US Pressure on PactUS Ultimatum 'Will Not
Achieve Anything'
by Jason Ditz, December 06, 2013
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US officials continue to make regular warnings of a full scale withdrawal
from Afghanistan if President Karzai doesn’t sign the Bilateral Security
Agreement (BSA) by the end of the month. It’s not getting anywhere.
That’s the message from key Karzai aide Aimal Fox, who in a statement today
insisted that the US “will not achieve a... more »
OUTSCORING FINLAND: Outscoring ourselves!
*SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2013*
*Epilogue—The meaning of the gaps:* Yesterday, we said some data concerning
the PISA aren’t available yet.
As it turns out, they are. If you want to disaggregate the new PISA scores
by race/ethnicity, that can be done for all three subjects tested—reading,
math and science.
Yesterday, we showed you those data for math. If you want to see them for
science and reading, click here, scroll to pages 34 and 46.
Those data help you contemplate the size of our nation’s gaps. What’s the
overall meaning of our nation’s very *large* gaps?
Once again, let’s review... more »
For The Birds
The irony is of epic proportions. The Jewish National Fund plans to put
Stephen Harper's name on a bird sanctuary. It shall be called The Stephen
J. Harper Hula Valley Bird Sanctuary Visitor and Education Centre. Michael
Harris writes that naming a bird sanctuary after Stephen Harper is like
naming a kids' summer camp after Rob Ford. Consider what is happening in
Northern Alberta:
Bloomberg Businessweek [reports] that by 2020 wastewater from the Canadian
tar sands will cover 62,000 acres of Northern Alberta and possibly spread
through the boreal forest ecosystem.
Big players l... more »
SUPREME COURT HEARS VANDENBERG PROTEST CASE
*Dennis Apel, 2nd from left, appeared at the US Supreme Court this week
defending the right to protest at Vandenberg AFB in California*
This past Wednesday Dennis Apel was sitting inside the US Supreme Court.
After 14 years of vigiling, and often being arrested, at Vandenberg AFB,
California his case challenging the legal line for base property has hit
the high court.
The Washington Post covered the story and here is just a bit of it:
The federal government owns the land on both sides of the road, which runs
through this sprawling air base north of Santa Barbara. On one side of t... more »
Gov't says it will shut down illegal guesthouses at Qingjing. No, seriously.
*Guesthouses just above the last 7-11 at Qingjing.*
The movie Beyond Beauty apparently has had some effect in dramatically
portraying the destruction of Taiwan's environment. The public was moved.
And so the government responded to this social demand by moving against illegal
gravel operations illegal farming in the mountains illegal occupation and
development of public land pollution by factories deforestation overdevelopment
of highways and roads guesthouses.
*Only four of the 134 inns and guesthouses in Qingjing are operating
legally, the interior ministry said Thursday*, vowing... more »
Deta Elis – Star Trek Medicine – Bioresonance
Posted by Dr Sircus on December 4, 2013
[image:
http://alt.coxnewsweb.com/cnishared/tools/shared/mediahub/06/69/06/slideshow_1066968_mckoyold.JPG]
Thought doctor McCoy had it good with his equipment on the Starship
Enterprise? Wait until you get a load of what is coming to revolutionize
the world of medicine. Medicine just got exciting thanks to Russian
scientists and over 17 years of in-depth research. The future has arrived
and just as three-dimensional printing will revolutionize manufacturing,
this technology will revolutionize the practice of medicine.
This groundbreaking m... more »
Right Wing Revolution Eating Its Children-- And Parents… GOP Needs A Time Out
It's nothing new to hear progressives bloggers-- particularly this one--
try to persuade donors, and even Members of Congress, to defund the DCCC,
particularly while Steve Israel is recruiting fellow corrupt conservatives
to serve in the interests of Big Business and undercut ordinary working
families. The Democratic Establishment, Beltway "professional Democrats,"
don't care for us either. You might have caught Wall Street whore Chuck
Schumer's hissy fit about liberal bloggers the other day. He was bitching
to Isaac Chotiner about how misunderstood his Wall Street financiers are:... more »
Utter threats
R. *v.* McRae, 2013 SCC 68 clarifies the elements of uttering threats. It
is now clear the threats need not be communicated to the person threatened.
The *actus reus* of the offence of uttering threats will be made out if a
reasonable person fully aware of the circumstances in which the words were
uttered or conveyed would have perceived them to be a threat of death or
bodily harm. The Crown need not prove that the intended recipient of the
threat was made aware of it, or if aware of it, that he or she was
intimidated by it or took it seriously. Nor must the words be directed
t... more »
Ex Pearson "Female" Exec Joins Twitter Board
My my, you never know what you will find by reading the business news.
Pearson and Twitter, imagine the possibilities. Wall Street is all aflutter
with a "woman" on the board of Twitter, how progressive.
By Jessica Guynn
December 5, 2013, 9:16 a.m.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Twitter has added a female media veteran to its all-male
board of directors.
Marjorie Scardino, 66, former chief executive of publishing company
Pearson, joined the Twitter board Thursday after a deafening wave of
criticism that it lacked diversity in its upper ranks.
The absence of a woman on Twitter’s board was “a joke,”... more »
"Standardized" Documentary: How Testing Is Ruining Public Education
“Standardized: Lies, Money and Civil Rights: How Testing Is Ruining Public
Education”
*"We think this film is going to give more parents **the guts to say, 'Our
kids don't have to take these tests,'"**Hornberger said. **"They prove
nothing.*
To watch it, go to www.youtube.com and search on “Standardized.”
*By the way:* After its theatrical run, Hornberger intends to post
“Standardized” at www.vimeo.com, charging $5 per viewing and donating $1
from each purchase to the United Opt Out movement. The official trailer for
“Standardized” has received more than 3,600 views on YouTube. T... more »
Taiwan Communique 144
*Temple, Taiping, Taichung city.*
FAPA sent this around (click on READ MORE to see full info):
To: Friends in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia
From: Formosan Association for Public Affairs
We are pleased to let you know that the new issue of Taiwan Communiqué is
hot off the press (attached). This issue starts with a summary of the very
recent declaration by China of an Air Defense Identification Zone, covering
a wide area of the East China Sea, including the Senkaku / Diaoyutai
island. This increased tension and prompted immediate protests from the US,
Japan and South Korea.
The... more »
Weingarten's Day of Inaction December 9
In October AFT launched its Principles that Unite Us (PUU), a piece of
foamy rhetoric that offers the impression of resistance to corporate ed
reform while providing a rubber stamp to CorpEd's status quo assault on
public education.
PUU is full of fuzzy talk that offers plenty of corporate space to 1)
continue the education genocide based on high stakes testing, 2) the
implementation of the Corporate Common Core, 3) the continuing use of test
scores to evaluate teachers, 4), the continuation of alt-cert schemes like
TFA, 5) the continuing resegregation of schools, and 7) the contin... more »
Video Umatilla at Halted Tar Sands Megaload Oregon
Article
at Censored News:
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2013/12/umatilla-and-activists-block-tar-sands.html
Video:
December 3 2013: Members of the Confederated Tribes of Umatilla Indian
Reservation and friends gathered tonight in Pendleton, Oregon to hold
ceremony at the site where the Omega Morgan "mega load" remains.
Oregon Department of Transportation confirmed that freezing weather
Untitled
*Our New Orleans Saints seek to break loudest crowd roar at an indoor
sports stadium*
*Retired chef chosen by NBC Sports to tweet as Fan of the Week ~Ian
McNulty, N.O. Advocate*
*Allen Toussaint, Hot 8 Brass Band among local Grammy nominees ~Dominic
Massa, WWLTV*
***
Terrance Nelson urges Aljazeera to voice truth about US gas exploitation
By
Terrance Nelson
Anishinaabe Roseau River
Censored News
Jorge;
I have reviewed the story put together by Wab Kinew on Elsipogtog.The
link you sent me is as follows
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m0N-lDcq1PQ&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dm0N-lDcq1PQ
I
am sorry to say that I view the story as told by Wab Kinew as lacking
focus and context. I understand that in order to be an objective
VAT On Bitcoin, UK Tax Authority HMRC Changes Mind
*Prediction: Bitcoin is already controlled by central banking system and an
attempt will be made to replace the Federal Reserve system with it.
Canada, Australia and the UK are already involved with it, and the reason
for dropping the VAT is because they don't want to tax themselves. China
is also buying huge quantities of Bitcoin. -Bill*
VAT On Bitcoin, UK Tax Authority HMRC Changes MindDecember 06, 2013
21:48
http://bitcoinblogger.com/vat-on-bitcoin/
Back in November, UK tax authority HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) announced
they intended to classify bitcoins as vouchers, mea... more »
Now Let's talk about SEX
So we talked about "LOVE", now let's talk about SEX. ..... ok, not exactly
"SEX" per se, but Sexual Desire. Like the "LOVE" article, I do not have
answers, but I think that speaking about it openly may help a lot of people
perhaps come to their own answers. But this is just my personal opinion.
The topic of Sex is taboo in most circles of society, showing the
castrating influence of Religion to warp something that has nothing to do
with Religion. To control Sex, is to control human desire and to control
the exchange of energy that is part of the physical act of sexual union.
R... more »
THE FAMOUS PROSTITUTE
*Lord Lambton, a UK defence minister; and prostitute Nora Russell, aka **Norma
Levy, who was married to a man linked to US intelligence.*
Nora Russell was born into a devout Roman Catholic family in Ireland.
Nora had an aunt who was the mother superior of a convent; and an uncle who
was a monk.
Nora married Colin Levy and became world famous as prostitute.
*Colin Levy was reportedly linked to the US intelligence services.*
*Colin Levy*
Norma has related that her clients included:
The Shah of Iran, the head of a Middle Eastern state, a fraudster who
funded Richard Nixon's presid... more »
Salaries and wages since 1932-1934: uniform 30-fold increase
*Some data suggest "almost no progress"*
I was looking at some reality of the life in the U.S. of the "dirty 1930s":
Incomes and prices in 1932-1934
What I was amazed by is that there seems to be no progress in a vast
majority of the entries here. If you just multiply all the prices and wages
by a factor of 30 (30 per 80 years corresponds to 300.0125=1.043 i.e.
4.3-percent average annual inflation rate), almost all the entries seem to
coincide with the values now, 80 years later!
(Dow Jones went from 50 or so to 16,000, i.e. by the factor of 300+, or the
average 7.5% growth in thes... more »
Defining "LOVE"
The word "LOVE" is used in so many ways to describe so many things. To
define it- in english- is to discover the inadequacy of the English
language itself.
Below is the dictionary definition of "LOVE"
love
lʌv/
*noun*
noun: *love*; plural noun: *loves*
1. *1*.
a strong feeling of affection.
"babies fill parents with intense feelings of love"
synonyms:deep affection, fondness, tenderness, warmth, intimacy,
attachment, endearment; More
devotion, adoration, doting, idolization, worship;
passion, ardour, desire, lust, yearning, infatuation, adulation,
besotted... more »
Friday Baseball Post
I know there's a lot going on in baseball, but just Giants today, folks.
I was okay with Lincecum. I was happy with Hudson. But I'm really not happy
at all with bringing Ryan Vogelsong back.
To begin with: he was awful in 2013. He was just fine in 2012, and quite
good in 2011. So we're talking about a pitcher who will be 36 next year
and, really, has very little chance of being better than league average.
Granted: a low-priced league-average starting pitcher isn't a bad idea.
Take a team with four solid starters and a hole, and adding a cheap starter
-- even one with a low ceiling -... more »
Mother Agnes Mariam - Americans Misled by False Mainstream Media Reports on Syria
Mother Agnes Mariam is standing up to Obama and challenging his
administration's policy of war and aggression towards Syria. How will the
Obama administration respond to her vocal resistance to the hijacking and
destruction of Syria? Send their Al-Qaeda agents to kidnap or kill her.
They would be happy if Jihadist terrorists take her life.
To label her as *"Assad's nun"* as some have ignorantly done is wrong. It
is an attack on her nobility and courage, and this attack on her character
is futile. She is serving the cause of peace, not any political ruler.
Sunday Classics preview 1: Feel free to identify the music -- and, if you can, identify the conductor!
[*This post originally appeared in somewhat different form on January 8,
2010. By Sunday it should be clear why I've resurrected it.*]
*by Ken*
Yes, this audio clip is in mono -- and we'll have another one in a second
preview tomorrow at 6pm PT/9pm ET, but Sunday's main-post offerings will be
all stereo, and for this music, it does matter. For tonight's clip, it was
necessary to return to mono years in order to represent this conductor.
That might give you a clue as to his identity. (Yes, I'll give you that
much: It *is *a man.)
Many of you will recognize the music, of course. I... more »
Regarding Carolyn Yeager
This past Monday, Carolyn Yeager, one of the leading voices in the
pro-White and WWII revisionist community, dedicated the entire second hour
of her radio program *The Heretics' Hour* to criticize and attack me
following *the "debate" I participated in with Mike Delaney and Scott
Roberts*, and Andrew Anglin's subsequent commentary on it at the *Daily
Stormer*. I'd like to respond to what she had to say, and what it reveals
about her character.
Yeager begins by saying that she has always had a problem with me, viewing
my *"agreeableness"* and behavior as extremely suspect. She also s... more »
Israel's Assassination Policy: Hit or Miss?
An excerpt from, *"Israel's Kill List"* by Ronen Bergman, Foreign Policy,
December 4:
"Hezbollah was quick to point the finger at Israel; Israel was quick to
deny the attack. If indeed the assassins belong to some elite intelligence
organization, by now they are most likely to be out of Lebanon, away from
Hezbollah's grasp. *But this tactical success -- if you can call it that --
is not necessarily a strategic one in the Middle Eastern political arena. *
To play assassin is to challenge history outright. Some hit jobs proved
effective in changing reality, but not all changed it i... more »
Knoxville Teachers Call for Jim McIntyre's Ouster
Many thanks to Mike Donila from Screams from the Porch for this fact sheet
on McIntyre and TN superintendents (that's McIntryre below with his
gold-stamped Broad Center plaque just behind him--ah, symbolism):
Superintendent Jim McIntyre
*FACT:* McIntyre is in charge of the county’s more than $400 million
educational budget, its 89 schools and a 7,500-person workforce that
includes 4,800 teachers.
*FACT:* Of the state’s 15 largest school districts, 13 superintendents
spent between seven and 33 years as a teacher, assistant principal, and
principal.
*FACT:* Only two superintendent... more »
Untitled
*Poppy Tooker, food journalist and radio host, recovering from illness*
"A special committee that will have the right Senators on board"
Yesterday in the House, Stephen Harper publicly backed the Senate's
decision not to hear testimony from Michael Runia, the Deloitte auditor who allegedly
intervened in the audit into Mike Duffy’s expenses at the behest of ConFund
Senator Irving Gerstein and the Prime Minister’s Office.
I doubt there's anyone left who imagines the Senate's decision on Wedneday
was achieved independently of Steve's input and there's two excellent
columns from Tim Harper and Murray Dobbin on that below.
But there's one email from Nigel Wright to PMO *Manager of Parliamentary
Affairs* Patrick Rogers I h... more »
Blu-ray Watch: Pick a James Bond film, any James Bond film
*Luscious Luciana Paluzzi, seen here as the evil Fiona with Sean Connery as
James Bond, was honored that Thunderball director Terence Young schlepped
from Rome to give her away at her second wedding.*
*by Ken*
And the answer is: *Thunderball* (1965). Okay, there are 22 other Bond
films you could have picked. I'm just telling you that the answer is
*Thunderball*.
You probably saw that Amazon Gold Box offer last week: all 23 Bond films on
Blu-ray for $100. Once I pressed the "order" button on that, I had to man
up to the fact that now I had to buy a Blu-ray player. The Bond box arri... more »
Untitled
*Jindal appointees trash SLFPA-E Levee Authority with divisive tea-bagger
tactics*
CECI Email Reveals Charter School Chains: Or What Mike Pence and the Jonas Brothers Have in Common
by Doug Martin
Besides seeking to dethrone Indiana supt. of public education Glenda Ritz
from the state board of education, Mike Pence and his Center for Education
and Career Innovation (CECI)–in the recently leaked emailfrom James Betley
to Claire Fiddian-Green—reveal the government/theocratic/corporate school
complex's plan to allow Carpe Diem, Rocketship, and Christel House to
“pool or share funds” and set up a public-private entity to quickly hand
empty school buildings to charter schools.
By lending a helping hand to networks of Walmart-type for-profit charter
schools in In... more »
Ed Steer's Gold and Silver Report - December 3 , 2013 - Pertinent data for gold and silver , an overview of Monday precious metals raid , pertinent news focusing on the Financial Sphere and Central Bankers , Bubble Insights From The Roaring Twenties - Doug Noland missive , key points of view touching on the precious metals , key articles relating to World gold and Ed's Wrap for the day !
Catharsis Ours - 20 hours ago
http://www.caseyresearch.com/gsd/edition/the-silence-of-the-blockheads-maybe-soon-to-be-dead-silence
¤ YESTERDAY IN GOLD & SILVER
JPMorgan *et al* started off the December Christmas season with another
bear raid in all four precious metal starting right at the New York open on
Sunday evening EST.
In gold, half the day's losses were in by the 10 a.m. EST London p.m. gold
fix. Then the HFT boyz hit the bid stack again, and the sell of continued,
with the low tick coming a hair before 3 p.m. in electronic trading. After
that gold traded flat into the close.
The CME recorded the high a... more »
Iran updates December 6 , 2013.......Iran nuclear talks hitting snags in US Congress ! Democrats threatening to blow up either the Interim or any Final Deal with Iran ? Saudis and Israel plotting their own way to stop Iran ?
Uh oh: House Democrats ready to blow up Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran?
POSTED AT 6:01 PM ON DECEMBER 6, 2013 BY ALLAHPUNDIT
The problem with O asking them to eat one crap sandwich after another on
ObamaCare is that eventually there’s no room for dessert.
They abandoned him when he asked for congressional approval to bomb Assad.
They’re not going to abandon him on this too. *Are they?*
The worry is that Dem Rep. Steny Hoyer, the number two House Dem, may join
with GOP Rep. Eric Cantor on a resolution or bill that will either
criticize the current temporary deal with Iran, or call fo... more »
Updates On Syria [12.6]: Turkey's Policy of Aiding Al-Qaeda Is Under Review (Or So It Says), OPCW Confirms It Has Destroyed Syria's Chemical Weapons Munitions, Pope Francis Calls For Release of Nuns Taken Hostage By Jihadist Terrorists
*1. An excerpt from, "Turkey recasts approach to armed groups in Syria" by
Fehim Taştekin, Al Monitor, December 5: *
Will Turkey’s cutting off logistical support to al-Qaeda in Syria,
and discriminating between al-Qaeda-affiliated organizations and moderate
groups under the Free Syrian Army banner, be enough to extricate the
country from the Syrian morass? Reports leaked from the Turkish National
Intelligence Service and other security agencies are instilling fears of a
boomerang effect in Turkey, which is trying to give the impression that it
has intensified border security. *Illeg... more »
Wall Street watchdog, Greg Hunter, interviews attorney, journalist, and banking expert Ellen Brown on the subject of what will happen the next time the big banks crash, as they inevitably must in a year or so. Answer: When this day comes they will legally confiscate all our bank deposits. Ellen's solution, which will be long in coming, is public banking.
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On USAWatchdog with Greg Hunter
Posted on December 3, 2013 by Ellen
Brown Original Here
http://youtu.be/Vtv6RBo3Pzo
Greg Hunter
Ellen Brown on Bail-ins (the Big Disaster Coming), GMO Foods, Trans Pacific
Partnership (TPP)
Published on YouTube on Dec 1, 2013
http://usawatchdog.com/gmo-food-laced-with-weed-killer-and-bail-ins-ellen-brown/
Ellen Brown, founder of WebofDebt.com, thinks so-called 'bail-ins' are
coming. Depositors' money will be legally taken. Brown says, "That's the
big disast... more »
Canada And Alberta Put An End To Journalism And The Media(Breaking)
*Canada: Legislation limits free speech for journalists *
*Canadian journalists will face fines for commenting on the striking action
of trade unionists under new legislation passed in the state of Alberta.*
*By Alice Kirkland / 6 December, 2013..*
http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2013/12/canada-legislation-limits-free-speech-journalists/
*Canadian journalists will face fines for commenting on the striking action
of trade unionists under new legislation passed in the state of Alberta. As
reported by Index on Censorship earlier this week Bill 45 and Bill 46 will
see heavy sancti... more »
Warm Fuzzies Department
The logo of the NRO's Launch 39. A recon sat.
This does not give me warm fuzzies about the corporate culture there now.
In times not so long ago, something more like this was used by similar
organisations. I know, I have the coffee mugs.
Syria War Watch December 6 , 2013 - updates on chemical weapon destruction and state of military play on the ground
Syria.......
Al-Qaeda Kidnaps 51 Kurds in Northern SyriaCivilians Were Captured During
Fighting Over Aleppo Towns
by Jason Ditz, December 05, 2013
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According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, al-Qaeda in Iraq
(AQI) fighters have kidnapped 51 Kurdish civilians in Aleppo Province,
including nine children.
The Kurds were taken during three days of AQI fighting against the Kurdish
towns of Minbej and Jarablus, and it is unclear where the abductees have
been taken.
Though Kurdish militias have ousted AQI and other Islamist factions from
more or less all ... more »
Deep Tweets
Posted without comment.
ok, i better go put on my face. see you in 14 minutes on @OutFrontCNN i
hope -- got an engaging and fun show planned
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 6, 2013
Bad Bear's Photos Long Walk 4 Lake Tahoe California Border
Michael Lane said, "Benny Riley, Shoshone elder from Ely, 70 years old and making everyone catch up." Lake Tahoe, Calif. border
.
Walking in the high Sierras late Friday, Nevada California border.
Near sacred Cave Rock on Friday morning.
Supai Waters and Emilio in Lake Tahoe/Photo by Long walker Terri
Sharing from Morning Star upcoming events in
Off World Update
In the last 3 days we've received the following Off World Update:
Here is the first video he wants us to see:
Here is the conversation:
*December 4, 2013, December 5, 2013 and December 6, 2013*
*Hi. I saw this today: Click here Do you know anything about this? Much
love, Sophia*
*Good Day Sophia! Yes Sophia, NASA and US government's infrastructure
agencies are occasionally editing sky images and space images, starting
from beginning of space age and continuing on. As they officially declared
comet ISON dead, they went quiet for 2 Earth cycles (days) and then
retur... more »
What Nelson Mandela Couldn't Teach Us
So, Nelson Mandela is a rotting corpse and Dick Cheney isn't. God,
apparently, has kicked the bucket, too.
The world is now mourning the loss of Nelson Mandela, who died
yesterday at 95. In our grief as a species, we mourn someone who was
indisputably a more effective spiritual and human rights leader than he was
South Africa's first black president. Mandela, through his tiny prison
cell, and his countless millions of supporters, had shed a harsh, pitiless
light on the apartheid South African government, surely one of the most
brutal, repressive and fascist in the late 20t... more »
For no raisin
Some Oblique Strategies for you:
Decorate.
The consistency principle.
Look at the order in which you do things.
Do the last thing first.
Do the words need changing?
Cascades.
Voice nagging suspicions.
Change ambiguities to specifics.
Make a blank valuable by putting it in an exquisite frame.
Mute and continue.
Magnify the most difficult details.
What would your best friend do?
You are an engineer.
Reverse.
Once a search is in progress something will be found.
Faced with a choice do both.
Use your own ideas.
Retrace your steps.
Emphasise differences.
Destroy nothing/the most important thing... more »
Who Were The Craziest Republicans In 2013-- Lots Of Texans, Of Course, Thought None In The Top 10
Garden variety GOP racist Ted Cruz couldn't even make it into the Top 10
December-- time for *Rolling Stone* to make lists of the 50 greatest
albums, 50 coolest videos and 50 greatest drummers, right. Sure… and the 50
dumbest things right-wingers said in 2013. Tim Dickinson put the list
together, although there are weeks left for some of these crackpots to say
even dumber stuff. Some of the *DWT* faves on his list:
At number 50, the Republican who conspired with the domestic terrorists who
blew up the Oklahoma City Federal Building, Steve Stockman (R-TX), a
supposedly-recovered drug ... more »
Dream of the Big Black Bipedal War Horse
It's a dream that came to me the night after watching the Joshua Patrick
dual-video interview from Miles Johnston and I'm not sure if it has
ANYTHING to do with the concepts in that amazing interview, and I don't
care.
*In the latter part of the dream, the bit I remember vivdily, I was
carrying an orange plastic bowl of 'material' (don't remember what it was)
but it attracted the attention of all the animals along a tight hedge-lined
passageway I was on, with other people, walking, as if from a war;
refugees. *
*It was all muddy, thorny; the landscape ravaged. A huge pig tried to... more »
A Little Observation About This Rob Ford Nonsense
So, the radio's going at work. Talk radio. Some guy, John Oakley, who, it
seems, has his tongue so far up Rob Ford's ass-crack that he can almost
reach the hole, is conducting yet another attempt at a defense of his hero.
He has Ford's lawyer on, letting the guy talk about how his client is being
tried in the media.
Time for the callers. And this one right-wing, whining baby, starts going
on about how Ford's predicament is the intended product of a deliberate
campaign of left-wing intimidation and smears. You just better believe that
all those leftist politicians are just as dirty... more »
The Philadelphia Story, or The Revolution that Tom Corbett Made
Our Schools Are Not For Sale from Media Mobilizing Project TV on Vimeo.
Friday Nerd Blogging: Solving 21st Century Defense Procurement Challenges
The effort to develop a single 5th generation fighter plane has been a
challenge for the US and its allies. The F-35 is very expensive and may
underperform. The quality of debate about this plane has varied. So, we
turn to the experts for a reasoned discussion of the F-35 and an
alternative: Does that
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Star Trek medicine a reality – bioresonance
All is Energy. Every. Single. Thing.
All energy has a frequency. Bacteria has a Frequency, Viruses have a
Frequency, Cancer has a Frequency.....
Have you ever seen an opera singer shatter a crystal glass with their
voice? They are hitting the exact note, sounding the frequency of that
glass, and therefore it breaks.....
Using frequencies isn't just for destroying something- it can also heal.
Please go to the link below to watch several amazing videos.
http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2013/12/06/deta-elis-groundbreaking-star-trek-medicine-a-reality-bioresonance/
Deta Elis, grou... more »
The last true freedom fighter of his generation
Nelson Mandella is dead. He was among us for longer than most of our
present day heroes. His body wasn't even cold before his former critics and
enemies leapt to co-opt Mandela's legend to score cheap political points.
I'm not reading any of cheap potshots and vile conservative commentary. For
myself, I choose to reflect on my good fortune to have lived to witness so
much of his life and work. Many have already spoken of his legacy so I'll
spare you my inadequate thoughts and simply outsource to Charlie Pierce's
eulogy.
Nelson Mandela died yesterday, and he was the last of them, t... more »
NATO/Canada's hired killers trying to take back Canadian Hospital in Aleppo, Syria
Yup! A Canadian hospital in Aleppo, Syria. A hospital for the hired killers.
A brief rant and then we will get to that news.
While the Canadian Government steals money from hardworking Canadians.....
*Via taxes extracted.*
*And the public servants all lie*. To us, the citizens. The humans resident
in Canada.
The taxpayer fed and fattened public servants say -* these taxes are going
to support the services you depend on everyday.....*........... Even though
these services are being reduced. Or gotten rid of entirely.
The talking heads and lying public servants call some of our services... more »
Global Tropical Cyclone Landfalls 2013
Last year Jessica Weinkle, Ryan Maue and I published a paper in the *Journal
of Climate* on trends in global landfalling hurricanes (the paper and data
can be found here). At the global level, our paper concludes that the data
is good from 1970. Our analysis went through 2010.
Weinkle, J, R Maue and R Pielke (2012), Historical Global Tropical Cyclone
Landfalls. *J. Clim.* *25:*4729-4735
With 2013 almost in the books I asked Ryan if he could provide a
preliminary tabulation of the 2013 data (note that the data could be
revised from these initial estimates, and 2013 is still not quit... more »
Oven Baked Kale Chips and Giveaway
I was given a product to review in conjunction with this post. All opinions
are my own.
We love to eat junk. Who doesn't? Cupcakes, brownies, they are all
delicious, but we know we shouldn't be eating them. My biggest weakness,
since finding out that I am pregnant is chips. Crispy, yummy potato chips.
On more than one occasion I have finished an entire bag in one sitting.
Considering all the health problems I have faced with this pregnancy, I
knew I needed to take steps to get myself back to where I was before I was
pregnant. No more midnight snacks and no more bags of potato chips.... more »
FIRST NATO GLOBAL HAWK DRONE
Chicago-based activist Rick Rozoff is a gold mine of information about
NATO. He sends out daily reports sharing how the military industrial
complex, working through a cancerous NATO, is pushing their military
madness up to the doorway of Russia and China. You can see his Stop NATO
site *here*
I would venture a guess that most people who work in the military
industrial complex, and their associated sticky web of weapons production
facilities, have no real clue how the systems they build fit into this
high-tech space directed first-strike attack program now under development.
The... more »
Reply to RealClimate's attack against the IPCC
*Rasmus Benestad and similar hardcore green Marxists are dreaming about the
past that will never return again*
Since its initial fabrication in 2004, RealClimate.ORG was one of the most
notorious websites of the climate propaganda, at least among those that
attempted to look like an official arm of the scientists.
Because I wrote an essay about the IPCC report for the Václav Klaus
Institute two months ago and the title was Fifth IPCC report: a blow of
glasnost into the climate panic (where I compared the ongoing sizzling of
the climate panic to the reforms in USSR under Gorbachev), ... more »
Thieving charter charlatan-scoundrel Juan Rangel steps down from UNO! He was a darling of the AEI
Thieving charter charlatan-scoundrel @JuanRangel steps down from #UNO! He
was a darling of @AEIeducation http://t.co/svdm81drB5
— Robert D. Skeels (@rdsathene) December 6, 2013
Via Professor Diane Ravitch: Powerful Chicago Charter Leader Resigns in
Wake of Financial Scandal
My commentary: Thieving charter charlatan-scoundrel Juan Rangel was a
darling of the fringe-right American Enterprise Institute (AEI). In
addition to their loving his stuffing of public money into his private
pockets, AEI gushed about Rangel and UNO's systematic program of right-wing
indoctrination.
ER-EPR and distortions in the media
Lots of news outlets wrote stories about the link between the entanglement
and wormholes, an insight that I find important, fascinating, and almost
certainly true: TRF June 2013. But my excitement about the insight doesn't
imply a satisfaction with the newspaper articles because they're just way
too misleading.
The first question you should ask is: Why now? Why didn't they write a lot
about the ER-EPR correspondence when it was first published? The answer is
that the Maldacena-Susskind preprint from June 2013 hasn't appeared in any
classical journal. The journalists aren't able to f... more »
MANDELA THE SPOOK
*Above, we see the CIA's Charles Taylor and MI6's Nelson Mandela.*
Mandela, or his double, was an agent of MI6, according to "MI6: Fifty Years
of Special Operations", by the 'acclaimed' intelligence expert Stephen
Dorril.
MI6 used Mandela to spy on its enemies in Libya, in South Africa and in the
United Kingdom.
Nelson Mandela persuaded Gaddafi to hand over the two Libyans to the
Scottish Court in the Netherlands, where they faced trial in 1999.
Mandela allowed MI6 to operate in South Africa.
*Is this the original Nelson Mandela?*
According to Dorril's book:
"Another MI6 catch ... more »
British Columbia`s LNG Nightmare, The Devil Is In The Details
I receive daily LNG stories and analysis from around the world...
Here is a little something..
____________
*Several LNG projects are currently under development in British Columbia,
a western province of Canada. Canada is one of Japan’s most important
partner countries in terms of advancing diversification of energy supply
sources in order to secure a competitive and stable supply of LNG.*
*To import LNG from Canada, some issues, including the development of
infrastructure, such as LNG terminals and pipelines, expeditious processing
of permits and licensing, and LNG tax needs to... more »
Nelson Mandela, Rest In Peace
He was 95 and in ill-health, but it is still hard to come to grips with the
reality that he is gone. He was a leading figure of our times, a historical
figure, a living legend who played a leading role in the fight against the
injustice of Apartheid in South Africa.
It has been written a lot on already, but it is worth noting that his
emphasis on forgiveness, forgiving those who jailed him for 27 years, is
remarkable. He may not have been a saint - by his own admission - but
Mandela was a remarkable person, a remarkable leader in the fight against
Apartheid whose suffering made hi... more »
Is Equality Of Opportunity A Salient Campaign Issue? You Bet It Is… At Least In California's Inland Empire
Last night I was at a fundraiser for Eloise Reyes thrown by the Mexican
American Bar Association PAC. It was wonderful watching the candidate speak
from her heart to a roomful of successful attorneys about preserving Social
Security by raising the cap and preventing any president-- be it a
Republican or a Democrat-- from imposing Chained CPI. This wasn't a union
crowd; this was a crowd of wealthy lawyers and her proposal for raising or
eliminating the cap, would take money right out of their own pockets. The
applause was thunderous and this was a smart, sophisticated crowd that kne... more »
I think I've found what I want for Christmas (NSFW) - A Rule 5 Friday video post
Glasses that see through outer clothing revealing the lingerie beneath...
It's another top drawer (pun intended) Agent Provocateur video, this one
for Autumn/Winter 2013and directed by Penelope Cruz.
Your moment of Zen
Lighting of the tree at Rockefeller Center. [More photos here]
Madiba
"In a way I had never quite comprehended before,
I realized the role I could play in court
and the possibilities before me as a defendant.
I was the symbol of justice in the court of the oppressor,
the representative of the great ideals of freedom, fairness
and democracy in a society that dishonoured those virtues.
I realized then and there that I could carry on
the fight even in the fortress of the enemy."
Mandela, 1994
nelson mandela, 1918-2013
"The time comes in the life of any nation when there remain only two
choices – submit or fight.
That time has now come to South Africa.
We shall not submit and we have no choice but to hit back by all means in
our power in defence of our people, our future, and our freedom.
Firstly, we believed that as a result of Government policy, violence by the
African people had become inevitable, and that unless responsible
leadership was given to canalise and control the feelings of our people,
there would be outbreaks of terrorism which would produce an intensity of
bitterness and hosti... more »
Cyber Arms Proliferation and Arms Races
With the assumption of an ongoing global cyber arms race, Western
governments signed an agreement to limit the sharing and selling of
dangerous cyber technologies. David Livingstone notes, “[Cyber security
technology] is a lot like the arms race. What you want to do is slow down
how fast your foe develops equivalent technologies.” This is
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The 2014 World Cup Draw - First with the news (well second or third!) - England in with Uruguay, Costa Rica & Italy, opening match against Italy at 2am in the humid jungle of Manaus
Group A
1. Brazil
2. Croatia
3. Mexico
4. Cameroon
Group B
1. Spain
2. Netherlands
3. Chile
4. Australia
Group C
1. Colombia
2. Greece
3. Ivory Coast
4. Japan
Group D
1. Uruguay
2. Costa Rica
3. England
4. Italy
Group E
1. Switzerland
2. Ecuador
3. France
4. Honduras
Group F
1. Argentina
2. Bosnia and Herzegovina
3. Iran
4. Nigeria
Group G
1. Germany
2. Portugal
3. Ghana
4. USA
Group H
1. Belgium
2. Algeria
3. Russia
4. South Korea
Krugman dreams of a better day!
*FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2013*
*McDonough makes progress unlikely:* In today’s column, Paul Krugman dreams
of a better day. Let’s examine three key passages.
Even as he starts his column, Krugman starts breaking the rules:
KRUGMAN (12/6/13): Much of the media commentary on President Obama’s big
inequality speech was cynical. You know the drill: it’s yet another
“reboot” that will go nowhere; none of it will have any effect on policy,
and so on. But *before we talk about the speech’s possible political impact
or lack thereof, shouldn’t we look at the substance?* Was what the
president ... more »
Nelson Mandela, David Cameron and the Unarmed Struggle
*Thursday 11 August 2011Public Disorder 11.35 am - The Prime Minister (Mr
David Cameron):*
"What we have seen on the streets of London and in other cities across our
country is completely unacceptable, and I am sure that the whole House will
join me in condemning it. Keeping people safe is the first duty of
Government. The whole country has been shocked by the most appalling scenes
of people looting, violence, vandalising and thieving.
It is criminality, pure and simple—and there is absolutely no excuse for it.
We will not put up with this in our country.
We will not allow a c... more »
Winnie Mandela - Hero of the Revolutionary Struggle
Sculpting the Public Myth of the historical figure of Nelson Mandela in
real time
- As crafted courtesy of PBS Fontline
*"Together, hand in hand, with that stick of matches, with our necklace, we
shall liberate this country. "*
Winnie Mandela (b. 1934), South African political leader. Speech in black
townships. Quoted in Guardian (London, April 15, 1986).
*"The years of imprisonment hardened me.... *
*Perhaps if you have been given a moment to hold back and wait for the next
blow, your emotions wouldn't be blunted as they have been in my case. *
*When it happens every day ... more »
OUTSCORING FINLAND: Ignore the gaps!
*FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2013*
*Part 4—The skill of averting one’s gaze:* It has been a clownish display,
carried on for the past twelve years.
Again and again, our intellectual leaders have flown off to Finland. They
hoped to define the miraculous practices in that nation’s schools.
Upon their return, these teams of “blind men” described different parts of
the miraculous Finnish pachyderm.
Some pointed to the fact that Finland *does* have teachers unions. Others
note the relative lack of standardized tests.
Others read the *most* standard script:
Finland’s miraculous teachers are d... more »
Ignore Those Polls!
The "Millenials" poll out earlier this week showing (among other things)
younger people unenthusiastic about the ACA has sparked a fair amount of
discussion, but there's one particular point I haven't seen made. I'm
highly suspicious of the reported finding that only a third of the
uninsured from ages 18 through 29 intend to enroll through the exchanges.
There are just too many things out there for me to believe that there's any
kind of predictable relationship between what they tell a pollster and what
they'll actually do.
Let's see...first of all, I'm pretty skeptical about asking... more »
Nelson Mandela, 1918 - 2013
As
countless obituaries, eulogies, elegies, panegyrics, and encomia pour
in following the death of Nelson Mandela, who died Thursday December 5,
2013 at the age of 95, the sanitization and mythologizing of his
principles and legacy is already in full swing across the political
spectrum.
We will hear little of the fact that in his courageous and unfaltering
stand for freedom and justice, he
The Destructive Engagement & Youthful Indiscretion of ABC News' Jon Karl
Jonathan
Karl
So, y'know ABC News White House Chief Correspondent Jonathan Karl? The
guy who lied about seeing that oh-so-revealing (not actually revealing)
White House email that allegedly authorized (but didn't actually) a
cover-up of Benghazi and was taken to task for his bad journalism by
Stephen Colbert?
Well, he's apparently had some questionable ethics for quite some time.
In
Homemade Natural Spicy Cider Decongestant and Expectorant
Homemade Natural Spicy Cider Decongestant and Expectorant
When we’re sick, our body ramps things up to protect us. An increase in
mucus brings an increase in antiseptic enzymes and antibodies. Our noses
run to wash out some of the germs, and make it harder for others to enter.
This increase in mucous, coupled with narrowed inflamed nasal passages that
accompany some colds and general bugs; can make for some truly
uncomfortable days and nights. If you are suffering from an illness such as
a cold or sinusitis and not just allergies, chances are your chest is
congested with extra muco... more »
Memphis Politicians Wring Hands About Reading Scores as They Create More Corporate Charter Schools Without Libraries
Having handed over 29 public schools to charter reform schools without
libraries or librarians, and with 8 more on the way by 2015, Superintendent
Dorsey Hopson and the Shelby County School Board all of sudden have noticed
that these children are far behind in reading. Since poor children get
their books more often from libraries, and since the research has
demonstrated over the past 25 years that schools with library programs and
librarians have more proficient readers than school that don't (go
figure!), it should not come as a surprise to anyone that Shelby County's
plan to cut ... more »
Grasping at Straws and the Impending Value-Added Trainwreck
We are just beginning to implement value-added evaluations, but it is
already becoming clear that a trainwreck is coming. Already, we are reading
stories about good teachers being fired for failing to meet their test
score growth targets. We are also reading about surrealistic cases, such as
the New York Teacher of the Year who earned 60 of 60 points on the
observation component of her evaluation, but only 6 of twenty points on its
made-up quantitative component. Tom Kane’s “Presumed Averageness” makes it
seem like he is already grasping at straws defending his contribution to
the f... more »
Irony: NRCC Backing Gay Candidates While Steve Israel's DCCC Gives A Big Push To A Virulent Homophobe
LGBT activists in Ohio were shocked when they heard Steve Israel was recruiting
virulent homophobe Jennifer Garrison to run for Congress. Israel is now
pressuring pro-equality Democrats in Congress-- including gay members-- to
contribute money to Garrison's campaign. She isn't a garden variety
anti-gay politician. She built her entire political career on intense
homophobia. It's how she was first elected to the state legislature (where
she was able to kill a workplace anti-discrimination law and where she
stopped an anti-bullying law). This is literally the most contemptible
huma... more »
Nelson Mandela
For Nelson Mandela, greatness was not the province of a few. For him, every
man and woman who walked the earth had the potential to be great. "We ask
ourselves," he said, "who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented,
fabulous?"
Actually, who are we not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small
does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so
that other people won't feel unsure around you. We were born to make
manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us;
it is in everyone. As we let our own light shine, we unconscio... more »
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to David Lovering, 52. I'm more of a Kim Deal fan than I am
a Pixies fan, I suppose. Still, good band. Good drummer.
Right to the good stuff:
Henry Farrell on Iran sanctions and negotiations.
Steve Kornacki goes back to 1992 to talk Cuomo/Clinton -- a five part
series.
And a fine rant from Alyssa Rosenberg.
Attack of the giant Octopii!!!!
You just gotta love this transparency, ROFLMFAO!!!!!
*"You may want to downplay the massive dragnet spying thing right now. This
logo isn't helping."......*
...... No, not helping, but definitely transparent!!!!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/05/nro-satellite-logo_n_4394577.html
America Is Launching A Giant, World-Sucking Octopus Into Space
*The Huffington Post* | By Matt Sledge Posted: 12/05/2013 7:05 pm EST
[image: Share on Google+]
[image: nro satellite logo]
One of the National Security Agency's partners is launching a spy satellite
with a classified pay... more »
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*Levee authority reaffirms support for lawsuit against oil, gas companies
~Jeff Adelson, New Orleans Advocate*
*Saints morning report: The 50,000 club ~Mike Triplett, ESPN*
*Gulf gets more restoration projects from BP fund ~Janet McConnaughey, AP*
*Shell Backs Off Natural Gas Plant Plans ~NOLA DEFENDER*
*Stacey Pickering in Defcon 5 Damage Control Mode ~Phillip Thomas *
*N.O. Office of Inspector General: Review of the NOPD Early Warning Program
*
*Air sex championship? It's in New Orleans*
*Louisiana Music Factory Moves To Frenchmen Street ~Jan Ramsey, offBeat*
Stunning Chart: Today’s Stock Market is Eerily Reminiscent of 1929…
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Mac Slavo
With the holiday shopping season off to a slow start according to
preliminary retail sales numbers and with the stock market sitting near all
time highs, one can’t help but wonder what will happen when investors
realize the economy isn’t really doing as well as we’ve been told by the
experts.
The evidence suggests that we can expect devastating global economic changes in
2014 as a result of our national debt, further impoverishment of the
working class, and massive new tax burdens resulting from President Obama’s
... more »
Nelson Mandela - Rot In Perpetuity
When is a racist murdering terrorist not a racist murdering terrorist?
When that killer of children, motivated by hatred of them solely for the
colour of their skin, is a non-European, and his victims are White. Nelson
Mandela was a foul murderer. He preached racist hatred against Europeans,
and bombed an entire nation into submission to his Marxist tyranny. To be
fair to those who would proclaim Mandela to not be racist, it is true that
he murdered Africans as well as Europeans, although the former were
murdered for political or financial reasons, whilst the latter were
murdere... more »
SaLuSa 8. 11. 2013
SaLuSa 8. 11. 2013
Your Sun is sending you very intense energy patterns that are about to
finish your basic transformational process into the beings of Light. Once
you have absorbed these energies within, your bodies will be ready to
receive and accept all that your consciousness will experience. Sun is the
gateway to other dimensions of reality and that what you see as sun flares
are powerful energy transfers from higher frequencies sent to your planet
and to all of her inhabitants. You can feel this pure energy of the Sun
when you stand quietly without movement on the sunshine... more »
Two Random Things That Made Me Smile
On New England frugality:
Bostonians still tell the story of the respectable society matron who was
crossing the Common one day and ran into an old college chum she hadn’t
seen for years. The matron was dismayed to see that her friend was
obviously engaged in the world’s oldest profession. “My dear,” she said,
“whatever has happened to you?” “Well,” said her friend, “it was either
this or dip into capital.”
On a child's view of marriage:
How can a stranger tell if two people are married?
You might have to guess, based on whether they seem to be yelling at the
same kids. - Derric... more »
Thieves of cobalt-60 in Mexico likely to die
Thanks for all the wishes, everyone! Yes, a celebration is a part of it but
yes, I do think it's a day just like any other day – perhaps a better one
than the average. ;-)
Today, 1/3 of the TRF visitors are Hungarians who came from this Hungarian
server, index.hu, to my 2011 page about the radioactive source found in
Prague's playground which was medically related.
The reason for the new Hungarian report – and many others in the whole world(e.g.
Time) – is that some thieves stole a truck in Mexico. Stealing is wrong and
these thieves are likely to learn it in the hard way becaus... more »
PTSD Service Dog Trainer Academy + How Dogs Help Veterans Cope with PTSD (Videos)
*Related: Treating PTSD With Service Dogs*.
Video Title: PTSD Service Dog Trainer Academy. Source: This Able Veteran.
Date Published: February 2, 2013. Description:
This Able Veteran PTSD Service Dog Trainer Academy. To apply or for more
information: servicedog@thisableveteran.org or www.thisableveteran.org
How Dogs Help Veterans Cope with PTSD. Source: SuperAnimalComedy. Date
Published: May 25, 2013.
Updated: America Is Launching A Giant, World-Sucking Octopus Into Space
*America Is Launching A Giant, World-Sucking Octopus Into Space*
The Huffington Post | By Matt Sledge
Posted: 12/05/2013 7:05 pm EST
*14:14 GMT: D.'s comments: Attack of the giant Octopii!!!!*
*You just gotta love this transparency, ROFLMFAO!!!!!*
*"You may want to downplay the massive dragnet spying thing right now. This
logo isn't helping."......*
*...... No, not helping, but definitely transparent!!!!*
One of the National Security Agency's partners is launching a spy satellite
with a classified payload into space on Thursday night -- and its logo is
an angry, globe-gripping ... more »
Thailand's Regime & The Cambodian Connection
Trail of slime from regime's thugs leads back to ally and
dictator-for-life, Hun Sen of Cambodia.
*December 6, 2013* (Tony Cartalucci) - Late last night, after Thais across
the nation celebrated Father's Day, armed thugs attacked several
anti-regime protesters near the currently occupied Ministry of Finance.
They rode motorcycles, fired guns, and threw explosives. There were several
injuries, including one protester losing his arm. Protest leaders demanded
the regime investigate the incident, and have only been met by silent
complicity.
*Image: Cambodian dictator-for-life Hun Sen... more »
Doubly protected Higgs is naturally natural
Nathaniel Craig (now Rutgers) and Kiel Howe (Stanford) released an
interesting preprint
Doubling down on naturalness with a supersymmetric twin Higgs
which provides a very nice explicit example why one should never be too
ambitious when deducing consequences of naturalness – why "small
unnaturalness" is never a problem or a problem that may be solved by a
better model.
They consider an extension of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model
which protects the Higgs boson by two protection mechanisms. One of them is
the supersymmetry, in the usual sense, and the other protection mech... more »
Fun with Ison: The moment to BE
When is a "comet" not a comet?
When is it apparent that the "Powers that Were" know something that they
don't want us to know?
When is it glaringly in your face that NASA et al are desperately
scrambling to hide what their own cameras and satellites show?
When it is TIME to look up with our own eyes and SEE that when the moon is
radically altering it's position, and "STARS" move in opposite directions
from the rest of the pin points of light, and the SUN dances in strange
harmony, that maybe, just maybe.... all is NOT what we have been TOLD it IS.
When is it the moment to just B... more »
Remembering Mandela and the Movement Against Apartheid
In 1987, I was a high school sophomore and somehow, no doubt through rock
music, became aware of the anti-apartheid struggle. As it was for President
Obama, the movement to end apartheid was my political baptism. It’s what
got me engaged and interested in global politics. I remember going to the
Texas A&M campus and
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Stand for Children Louisiana: Teachers “Like” Common Core
It is very important to privatizing interests to promote the Common Core
State Standards (CCSS). After all, there is a lot of money to be made in
attendant curriculum development, and assessments, and data collection. Of
course, those pushing CCSS cannot state as much directly. So, they offer
lies, such as CCSS’s preparing students for future employment […]
Putting Together A Progressive Election Team
There are a lot of reasons I've grown to admire Alan Grayson over the
years. He's an intrepid world traveler (and gave me the exact right tips
for where to stay in Bandiagara and Sangha in Mali); he's a Joni Mitchell
fanatic; he's as compassionate as he is brilliant; he never finches from a
tough fight; and, most of all, of course, because of what he stands for in
terms of the ordinary working families who can't go out and hire lobbyists
to get their needs met in Washington. He's also the most astute political
strategist I've ever met.
Blue America is trying to help Keith Ellison ... more »
Leonard Peltier on the passing of Nelson Mandela
On
the Passing of Nelson Mandela from Leonard Peltier
December 5, 2013 6:30 PM
By Leonard Peltier
Censored News
Greeting my relatives, friends, and supporters:
It saddens me to hear that a great man like Nelson Mandela has departed
from this lifetime. He was a man who was truly inspirational and showed
us the possibilities of how a continued struggle by indigenous people
could
Nelson Mandela, Time For Canada To Pick Up His Torch, Again
I invite all of you to join me in celebration of Nelson Mandela`s life,
there are no words to describe his accomplishments, and remember what the
man lived for, remember what Canada once was..
I am not sad, today we celebrate.
We are hopeful the transference of his spirit and soul into the light of
twinkling stars will once again remind the world of what the man actually
stood for..
Equality, acceptance, inclusion of others and of course....An end to
violence..
Seems to me that over the last decade corporations and advanced western
democracies, to me politicos have engaged in a... more »
Nelson Mandela, the AIDS Crisis and the Ethnic Weapons Program
*Dr. Larry Ford worked for Project Coast—an apartheid-era South African
assassination program using chemical and biological weapons.*
(It is important to remember that Ford had worked with, among other
elements, the CIA. This makes his association with ultra-right
antigovernment and terrorist groups all the more ominous. The possibility
of a “national security coverup” is not one to be too readily discarded.
His links to elements of the US intelligence community may be used to
obscure some of his other activities from public view. It is also worth
noting that other countries ap... more »
Israel Assassinates Hezbollah Commander, Seeks To Provoke A Sunni-Shiite War In Lebanon
Just days after meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican, presenting him
with his father's book about the Church's crimes in medieval Europe,
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government assassinated Hassan
al-Laqqis, a commander in the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah.
So far, the world's reaction has been silence. Luckily for Israel, everyone
is talking about Nelson Mandela's death, and will continue to do so in the
coming days. Could this be a small sign that the gods are on its side? Who
knows.
Even without news of Mandela's death, this assassination of a high-l... more »
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