Sunday, January 19, 2014

19 Jan - Blogs I'm Following

English: With the new Council being a bit more...English: With the new Council being a bit more friendly to cycling, new-minted Auckland Mayor Len Brown arrives at the bike to work breakfast on a bicycle, in Auckland, New Zealand. While he doesn't exactly ride a lot, like say Boris Johnson, London's Mayor, at least Len didn't DRIVE to the thing like John Banks did the year before him! (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Pippa Coom arriving to a "bike t...English: Pippa Coom arriving to a "bike to work" breakfast event on Te Wero Island in Auckland, New Zealand. The press is ignoring her a bit, because Mayor Len Brown has also arrived on a bike, just behind her. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Ten Reasons Why Taichung is the Best City

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 3 minutes ago
[image: FTV_Jan_2014_195] *Processing pork.* I saw Ten Reasons Why Taipei is the Best City on Facebook. It lists ten reasons why Taipei is the best city: safety, shopping, food, 7-11s, the people, expenses, the sights, the events, transportation, and culture. To which I reply: Harumph! Taichung is clearly the better city. *1. The people.* People in Taipei aren't friendly, people in Taipei are cold -- compared to people in the rest of Taiwan. That includes Taichung, though in fairness, Tainan and Kaohsiung are even better. If you think people in Taipei are friendly, you need to get o... more »

Imágenes bonitas que puedes mirar para relajarte un poco

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FOTOFRONTERA - 6 minutes ago
[image: Aviones volando] [image: Barco en la isla] [image: Cabaña entre los árboles] [image: Castillo en el mar] [image: Mar congelado] [image: Gatitos con mensaje para facebook] [image: Mujer hada] [image: Paisaje de otoño] [image: Lago cubierto de hojas] [image: Mujer bonita] [image: Venado junto a las manzanas]

WOULD THE U.S. ENJOIN WITH ISRAEL IF ISRAEL LAUNCHED A UNILATERAL ATTACK AGAINST IRAN?

On Monday, 20 January 2014, the agreements entered into between Iran and the so-called P5+1 will come into effect that will relieve Iran of some of the sanctions against it and release billions of much needed dollars into the Iranian economy. On top of that, President Obama seems to have prevailed in his stoush with a large bipartisan group of Senators wanting to push a bill in the Senate that was pushing for increased sanctions against Iran that would be triggered at the slightest sign of faltering on the agreement by Iran. Also imbedded in that bill is a clause that gave Israel th... more »

Robert Reich on "David Brooks' Utter Ignorance About Inequality"

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 19 minutes ago
Occasionally David Brooks, who personifies the oxymoron "conservative thinker" better than anyone I know, displays such profound ignorance that a rejoinder is necessary lest his illogic permanently pollute public debate. Such is the case with his New York Times column last Friday, arguing that we should be focusing on the "interrelated social problems of the poor" rather than on inequality, and that the two are fundamentally distinct. *-- Robert Reich, in his blogpost* "David Brooks' Utter Ignorance About Inequality" *by Ken* Now Bob Reich is maybe the smartest person I've ever kn... more »

Drum Majors and Gatekeepers

Paul Coker at News Spike - 34 minutes ago
*"When I was a young boy, * *My father took me into the city, * *To see a marching band.* *He said, **'Son, when you grow up, * *Will you be the saviour of the broken? * *The beaten and the damned...?'* *He said, 'Will you defeat them?* *Your demons and and the non-believers?* *The plans that they've made....'"* Welcome to The Black Parade. The March on Washington represented a coalition of several civil rights organizations, all of which generally had different approaches and different agendas. The "Big Six" organizers were James Farmer, of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE... more »

“Aucklanders Give a Hoot – Len Brown Should Get the Boot”

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 42 minutes ago
*I still maintain that a lame duck Auckland mayor is the very best outcome for all Aucklanders – given what an Auckland mayor *could do* with the powers Rodney Hide gave him,* if* he thought he had popular support behind him. Stephen Berry from **Affordable Auckland** figures otherwise, however, this short Guest Post …* Auckland mayor Len Brown says Aucklanders generally "don't give much of a hoot" about his battles over the last few months. The people of Auckland do give a hoot about your disgraceful conduct Len. And in 34 days, The Len Brown Stand Down March will show you just h... more »

Selections from, comments on Ravitch, Everything you need to know about the common core

skrashen at Schools Matter - 1 hour ago
Excerpts from, and a few friendly comments on, Diane Ravitch's essay, Everything you need to know about the common core. (Comments marked with "SK"). My hope is that this very strong essay will turn the tide. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/01/18/everything-you-need-to-know-about-common-core-ravitch/ 1. "These two federal programs (NCLB and Race to the Top), which both rely heavily on standardized testing, has produced a massive demoralization of educators; an unprecedented exodus of experienced educators, who were replaced in many districts by young, i... more »

A World of Wounds

gail zawacki at Wit's End - 1 hour ago
“One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.” ~ Aldo Leopold, *A Sand County Almanac* After a trip back north for Christmas with the family, I returned to Palm Beach in good time to escape the Polar Vortex and consequentl... more »

"The Retail Death Rattle"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago
“I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest, to make money they don't want, to buy things they don't need, to impress people they don't like." - Emile Gauvreau You really need to read this post, unable to place it here: “The Retail Death Rattle” - http://www.theburningplatform.com/

A Tale of Two Protests: Ukraine and Thailand - Part III

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 2 hours ago
*Image: The US backs mobs in Kiev, Ukraine attacking police with clubs, sticks, and baseball bats - while it calls protesters in Bangkok, Thailand "anti-democratic militants" even as the US-backed regime there carries out nightly, and now daily terror attacks against them. * .... *January 20, 2014* (ATN) - When last looking at these two protests, one in Eastern Europe's Ukraine, and another in Southeast Asia's Thailand, it was concluded that: It is more than mere fascist ideology that attracts the West to Svoboda in Ukraine and the regime of Thaksin Shinawatra in Thailand - it is ... more »

UK Set to Sell Out it's Population's Medical Data and Records to Private Industry and Health Insurers

noreply@blogger.com (Christian Munthe) at Philosophical Comment - 2 hours ago
I posted almost a year back about a then apparently more restrictive, but to my eyes still outrageous, move of the UK government to frivolously open up a genomic database created out of the medical records and samples collected within the NHS in the course of normal health care (for diagnostics, safety and quality assurance purposes) for research not only by public research institutions, but also private companies in the pharmacological and medical technological area. Now, if this lengthy accountis to be belived, it transpires that, apparently, the data base, which is due to be launc... more »

Straw Dogs

What Is Sustainable at What Is Sustainable - 2 hours ago
When the philosopher John Gray looks out over the world, he sees a bloody madhouse, a hell broth of deranged magical thinking. In his bestselling book, *Straw Dogs*, he turns into a ruthless vigilante who tirelessly pounds the stuffing out of ridiculous ideas that condemn us to mindless self-destruction. What might happen if we ever succeeded at clearing the decks of loony whims? Would this make it easier to think clearly, and move onto a path with a future? By the time you get to the end of the book, not one sacred cow is left standing. He rubbishes our entire belief system. ... more »

sonder

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 3 hours ago

Capitalism and Nature

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 3 hours ago
It's not customary for me to do a reply to a reply, but Boffy made a couple of comments on this piece looking at the progressive creds of the Greens that begged replies requiring more elaboration than the character count in the comments boxes allow for. Boffy's first point replied to my observation that, "Wealth and power insulates the owners of capital from the consequences of climate change to a degree. As human beings their long-term interest lies in a post-capitalist future. But, in a society such as ours, while people own capital, in a very real sense capital owns people and t... more »

The One Side of the Argument Show

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 3 hours ago
There's a response from the BBC on their Complaints page about last Tuesday's edition of *The One Show* The One Show, BBC One, 14 January 2014 Complaint We have received complaints about Paul O'Grady's appearance on the One Show on 14 January. Some viewers felt that his views on benefit reform were not adequately challenged. BBC's Response The One Show is a topical magazine programme which occasionally reports on prominent news stories. Following media coverage of the debate around Channel Four's Benefits Street, The One Show asked members of the public for their views on the p... more »

When Should Aging Politicians Retire?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 4 hours ago
Texas Congressman Ralph Moody Hall was born a few weeks after Warren G. Harding died in office, Vice President Calvin Coolidge had been sworn in and the Republican Teapot Dome bribery scandal was shaking confidence in the Republican Party. He was ten when FDR was first elected and an adult when there was an President in office not named Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Other than John Dingell (age 87), Hall is the last living congressman who fought in World War II. An attorney, he was elected to the Texas state Senate in 1962 and then to Congress in 1980. He was an ultra-conservative D... more »

NZ housing now more unaffordable than everywhere but Hong Kong [updated]

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 4 hours ago
[image: image] *Every year since 2005, the **Demographia** organisation has been measuring housing affordability across the cities of the English-speaking world. As the planning virus continues with no abatement, the results have been increasingly horrific – especially for New Zealand house-buyers. * *This year, with even more cities included, is no exception, with New Zealand’s major urban markets more unaffordable as a whole than any place measured outside Hong Kong. * *Do you hear me, planners? More unaffordable than any place outside Hong Kong …* [image: clip_image002] MEDI... more »

The Birds of Hiroshima

Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 4 hours ago
Evening grosbeaks and Pine grosbeaks eeking out their existence in a nuclear winter.

Afghanistan President Karzai escalates his demands toward the US ! The Afghanistan's president said on Sunday that the US must no longer carry out military operations or air strikes and must jump-start peace talks with the Taliban, before his country will sign a security deal to keep American troops in the country after 2014.

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 5 hours ago
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/19/karzai-us-afghanistan-air-strikes Karzai demands end to US air strikes as condition for Afghanistan security deal • President calls on US to arrange peace talks with Taliban • Karzai stalling on agreement for troops to stay beyond 2014 - Share3 - - - inShare0 - Email - Associated Press in Kabul - - theguardian.com, Sunday 19 January 2014 14.49 EST - Jump to comments (3) [image: Kabul restaurant memorial]An Afghan man lays flowers on Sunday outside the Lebanese restaurant attacked in a suicide bomb and gun at... more »

Christy Clark, Time To Make A Leader`s Decision

Grant G at The Straight Goods - 6 hours ago
What will it take before the media calls out the BC Liberal government and Christy Clark for acting like ignorant asses.. Jobs plan slogan is dead, failed propaganda, LNG won`t bring our province any money until at least 2019 if at all, endless reviews and phony public consultations on how to help the disabled, how to sell more booze, how to set speeding limits, how to expand gambling and gaming to every street corner and public gathering places.. Reviews on BC Hydro, on BC Ferries, on Translink, reviews into CLBC, now a review on why the ministry of justice is refusing to lay the... more »

And all shall be well and/ All manner of thing shall be well

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 6 hours ago
Whether we BBC critics like it or not, Radio 4 has a lot of devoted listeners who will defend it, it purely metaphorical terms of course, to the death. And if they keep on asking Jeremy Irons to read T.S. Eliot's *Four Quartets *I might well join them. A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless moments. So, while the light fails On a winter's afternoon, in a secluded chapel History is now and England. And, as the dark penetrates our windows on a winter's night, in a crowded house in Morecambe, blogging is now and England, and here are ... more »

On Friday President Obama gave a speech wherein he suggested new limitations on NSA's surveillance activities. In the first video below, NSA whistleblowers argue that his "limitations" don't even begin to restore our 4th Amendment rights and strongly suggested that a non-government group of hackers be appointed to determine and make public exactly what the NSA is and isn't doing. In the second video, Michael Ratner, President Emeritus, Center for Constitutional Rights, opens by saying "I sat there watching [Obama's speech] really astounded, because I didn't expect a lot, but I think we got almost nothing in what I call this national surveillance state."

David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 6 hours ago
------------------------------ Originals here and here *NSA Whistleblowers Criticize Obama's Proposed Reforms* Reforms must include independent oversight with unrestricted access to all intelligence databases, say whistleblowers - *January 18, 14* More at The Real News *Bio .* Jessica Desvarieux is a producer and correspondent for the Real News Network. She covers politics and foreign affairs. *Obama NSA Reforms Are "A Bouquet of Roses" to the Intelligence Agencies* Michael Ratner: By p... more »

Masashiro Tanaka bidding heats up with the finish line is sight ( January 24 , 2014 at 5pm ) .. Current state of play - The Yankees were among five teams to formally place a bid for Masahiro Tanaka this week with nearly all bids coming in around six years and more than $100 million. In addition to the Yankees, the Dodgers, White Sox, Cubs, and Diamondbacks have all reportedly made an offer for the Japanese right-hander with the deadline for bidding coming this Friday, January 24th, at 5:00 pm. .....Additionally , According to Nikkan, a daily sports newspaper in Japan, the Yankees and Dodgers have made "equivalent offers"..... The equivalent offers may or may not be on par with the purported Arizona Diamondbacks' six-year/$120 million offer.

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 6 hours ago
http://www.pinstripealley.com/yankees-rumors-offseason-hot-stove/2014/1/19/5325214/masahiro-tanaka-rumors-yankees-decision ( main contenders seem to be Arizona Diamondbacks , Yankees and Dodgers... ) Masahiro Tanaka rumors: Decision could come Tuesday or Wednesday By Caitlin Rogers on Jan 19 2014, 4:14p 14 Adam Pretty Tanaka could make his decision early this week so that teams can conduct more medical tests before Friday's deadline. TWEET (10) SHARE (4)  SHARE 14 COMMENTS If you've been paying attention, the deadline for teams to bid on Masahiro Tanaka is January 24th at 5:00 PM.... more »

Newsnight: 13-15 January 2014

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 6 hours ago
If Friday and Thursday's editions of *Newsnight *were brimming to the very top of the glass (plus added foam) with BBC bias, what of the remaining three days? Well, as the French president said to the actress (as he invited her to join him on his moped), 'Continuez tout droit' and let us see. Like Monet, I shall give my own impressions here. Minus the lilies. Oh, OK then, with lilies. Wednesday night's edition was the edition which provided the subject for an earlier post - the one called 'Bang, bang'. (Did you read it?) The first segment of the programme dealt with Labour's ban... more »

WY ALECers - Confuses Propaganda with Transparency

2old2care at Because I Can - 6 hours ago
Oh, my ..... Today - two pieces of pro-ALEC propaganda in the newspapers. One of the pieces interviews ALEC PR poobah in detail (to be covered tomorrow) notes: *Meierling said ALEC didn't have a public affairs office until he was hired a little more than a year ago. * Oh, my ........ That's what started off my day - more lying from ALEC When they lie so much - you can't help but question everything they say - bunch of psychopaths. BTW: they had plenty of PR people in the past 2011 "according to *ALEC* Senior Director of *Public Affairs* Raegan *Weber"* 2009* - "**For ... more »

Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, January 19th, 2014

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 6 hours ago
Yes, it is Sunday again, and time for my usual rant... I am one truly pissed off blogger this week... I have been absolutely disgusted by the actions of some of those who call themselves "truth seekers" and yet are not.... It all stems of course from the recent actions of a certain group of individuals that rather than look at the facts and all of the evidence of the fraud known as the Sandy Hook shooting, would rather spend the time trying to insult and slur those who have looked at all the evidence and have concluded that Sandy Hook was indeed a fraud and a massive deception perpe... more »

Germany attempt to repatriate its gold from the US ( New York Fed ) has been a stunning failure to date ! As a brief recap , The Bundesbank announced in January of 2013 , its decision to repatriate 674 tons of gold from the New York Fed and French Central Bank - this was to occur over a eight year period between 2013 and 2020 , with 300 tons comes from the New York Fed and 374 tons coming from the French Central Bank .... Approximately a year after the January 2013 announcement , the Bundesbank alleged managed to obtain 37 tons ( far below a 84 ton sum needed to ratably obtain 674 tons over the timeframe noted for the repatriation ) .... While intial news indicated all 37 tons came from the New York Fed , today's shocker reveals ( from Die Welt ) , that in actuality , 32 tons did come from France's Central Bank , while only 5 tons came from the New York Fed ! ! ! And look at the feeble excuse offered by the Bundesbank as it lamely tries to justify what appears unjustifiable - why hasn't more than 5 tons been obtained from the New York Fed if Germany's gold allegedly stored in New York actually is there ? And of course , there is the issue of the quality of gold which Germany received in the past from both the US and UK !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 6 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-19/germany-has-recovered-paltry-5-tons-gold-ny-fed-after-one-year ( Does anyone still believe there is any significant quantity of gold held by the New York Fed at this point in time ? And how long before other countries , that allegedly have gold held at the New York Fed , demand the immediate return of their gold held at the New York Fed - after all , if it is there , there is no reason why this gold held for the benefit of the various countries ironically for safe keeping ? ) Germany Has Recovered A Paltry 5 Tons Of Gold From The NY Fed A... more »

Chris Christie Bridgegate aka Bullygate scandal continues to roar along - articles of note January 19 , 2014 .... .... Has Chris christie decided to go on the offensive ? Christie spokesman lashes out at Hoboken mayor and MSNBC in wake of aid allegations .......Meanwhile , residents of Sandy swamped Hoboken wants answers from chris christie concerning Mayor Zimmer's Sandy funding allegations ...... Bridgegate aka Bullygate dogs Christie on his Florida swing ....... CHRISTIE, LEGISLATURE ON COLLISION COURSE FOR CONSTITUTIONAL SHOWDOWN

Catharsis Ours - 6 hours ago
Sandy relief funding spurs NJ protest January 18, 2014 7:30PM ET Occupy protesters plan to camp out at the New Jersey Statehouse as Gov. Chris Christie grapples with political scandals Topics: New Jersey Occupy Wall Street Chris Christie [image: New Jersey Sandy storm Occupy protest] A protester carries a sign near the Statehouse in Trenton, N.J.Mel Evans/AP Protesters in New Jersey who are upset with how the state is distributing relief funding forSuperstorm Sandy victims have taken their complaints to the capital city. The Occupy Sandy New Jersey group arrived in Trenton, N.J., on Sa... more »

SWANSON ON OBAMA'S 'NSA BONE'

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 7 hours ago
David Swanson will be speaking in Brunswick, Maine (public library) on Saturday, February 15 from 3:00-5:00 pm. He's one of the really good ones out there and you'll enjoy listening to him talk about the need to end war and other such corporate malfeasance's. Swanson writes: President Barack Obama gave a eulogy for the Fourth Amendment on Friday, and not even his fans are proclaiming victory. In this moment when Obama is actually doing one thing I agree with (talking to Iran), more and more people seem to be slowly, agonizingly slowly, finally, finally, finally, recognizing wha... more »

"How It Really Is"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago

Britain SUCKS - and that's OFFICIAL

Roobin at THROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 7 hours ago
UKIP cadre frequently spout ludicrous and offensive opinions, this week's revelation that gay marriage causes floods (and that homosexuality can be cured with prayer). Yet the UK Independence Party may be (at least for the moment) Britain's best regarded party. This is how low we've stooped. Thirty years of neoliberal public life and the political compass has been entirely abandoned. Little wonder facts have no place in current public debate, we just have recursive bile and bigotry. Now, we just need some way of getting all these people, crabbed nazi shitdust Little Englanders to fu... more »

Reggie Middleton discusses his proposal to recreate today's financial system ... Bitcoin 2.0, aka Ultra Coin: Bitcoin's Derivative Layer That Allows The Virtual To Control Real Things ...... More discussion on Ultracoin ( presented simply for consideration - this blog and blogger post should not be considered an endorsement of any product , cyber / crypto - currency of any type or any endorsement of the safety of any such product )

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 8 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2014-01-19/bitcoin-20-aka-ultra-coin-bitcoins-derivative-layer-allows-virtual-control-re ( Reggie is seeking to launch Zero Trust Currency Contracts, the first implementation of UltraCoin, to go into open public beta by the end of next week. That means individuals / traders / organizations will be able to short, leverage, go long and arbitrage BTC. So , we are seeing additional derivative development for bitcoin - ponder whether this is a good or bad development ? ) Bitcoin 2.0, aka Ultra Coin: Bitcoin's Derivative Layer That Allows The Virtua... more »

“The Myth of the Deserving Rich”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago
*“The Myth of the Deserving Rich”* by Paul Krugman “Many influential people have a hard time thinking straight about inequality. Partly, of course, this is because of Upton Sinclair’s dictum: it’s hard for a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it. Part of it is because even acknowledging that inequality is a real problem implicitly opens the door to taking progressive policies seriously. But there’s also a factor that, while not entirely independent of the other two, is somewhat distinct; I think of it as the urge to sociologize. I’ve writt... more »

"We are rats, deliberately starved and set against each other" (Ian Welsh)

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 8 hours ago
*"What I see is that we are rats, deliberately starved and set against each other. . . . When the rich are taking all of the winnings of the economy, and then some: we tear at each other like starved rats."* *-- Ian Welsh, in a new blogpost,* "Helping the most discriminated against" *by Ken* I mentioned recently, when I passed along Ian Welsh's post "The Death Bet" (in "'We're living the good life on "death bets,' says Ian Welsh, and the IOUs may come due sooner than we gamblers thought)," Ian has recently been doing a number of posts on and around the subject of economic inequalit... more »

Info Hotel dan Penginapan Jayakarta Bali Beach Resort, Residence di Bali

irfan ganteng at Yaya Blog's - 8 hours ago
Info Hotel dan Penginapan Jayakarta Bali Beach Resort, Residence di Bali - Melihat keindahan pulau bali enggak afdol jika kite-kite tidak bermalam di bali untuk menikmati jagat raya malam atau bisa disebut surga dunia malamnya di bali, dengan memperhatikan kehidupan malam bila anda sudah lelah tentunya anda bagaimanapun juga beristirahat di hotel atau penginapan, bagi sampean yang memiliki

“Money As Debt”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago
*“Money As Debt”* by paagleTV “Essential viewing on money and the banking system. “Money As Deb”t is a fast-paced and highly entertaining animated feature by artist & videographer, Paul Grignon. It explains today's magically perverse DEBT-MONEY SYSTEM in terms that are easy to understand. "When banks extend loans to their customers, they CREATE money by crediting their customers' accounts." - Sir Mervyn King, Speech to the South Wales Chamber of Commerce at The Millennium Centre, Cardiff on 23rd October 2012. For further evidence of this in the UK please visit the Bank of England we... more »

"Homeland Security": a Jewish racket

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 9 hours ago
An article recently appearing in the *Jewish Telegraph Agency* further underscores a point I've been making on this blog for quite some time now: *the entire "Homeland Security" paradigm is a Jewish contrived concept serving Jewish interests, first and foremost*. The *Jewish Telegraph Agency* reports: Congress budgeted *$13 million for a nonprofit security assistance program that mostly aids Jewish institutions*. The money was allocated in the $1.1 trillion budget passed this week by both houses of Congress. The program, which has existed since the mid-2000s, has so far disbursed *... more »

Contoh Model Desain Rumah Type 36 Minimalis modis Terbaru

irfan ganteng at Yaya Blog's - 9 hours ago
Contoh Model Desain Rumah Type 36 Minimalis modis Terbaru - mempunyai rumah adalah impian dari setiap umat akrena tempat tinggal adalah suatu kebutuhan bagi berbagai orang untuk tempat berlindung dari panas, hujan atau gangguan lain. Pada jam sekarang sudah banyak desain rumah yang bagus dan terlihat modern akibat tampilannya perkembangan jaman maka para arsitekturpun membentuk sejenis desain

California: Instead of rain or snow the state is getting wildfires in the dead of winter

LeDaro at LeDaro - 10 hours ago
California has a serious drought, it did not get such a weather in over a century. Drought is causing serious problems for farming besides other uses of water. Drought is affecting other states as well, but California is the worst hit. Drought is causing out of control wildfires and the state needs more firefighters. What climate change deniers have to say about this situation? Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

A Canadian Snow Job

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 10 hours ago
While Neil Young was reminding Harper and Co. that they had obligations to Canada's native peoples, John Baird was in Washington, trying to extract a promise from Barack Obama and John Kerry that the United States would build the Keystone XL pipeline. But Mr. Obama and Mr. Kerry were unmoved. They know that American opinion is turning against Keystone. And they know the real reason Baird was in Washington. Jane Kleeb, the founder of Bold Nebraska -- a network of American activists -- understands what's going on: "Canada and TransCanada made a really bad investment in tar sands, ... more »

Early Whistle Blower Ex CIA John Stockwell @ Stop Watching Us Ralley

Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 10 hours ago
source: ForbiddenKnowledgeTV http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL7NpUy03h0 John Stockwell in 1989 John Stockwell - CIA's War on Humans Soliloquy Monologues http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3ioJGMCr-Y#t=227 _________________________ THE SECRET WARS OF THE CIA:by John Stockwell A lecture given in October, 1987 Part I - Part II John Stockwell is the highest-ranking CIA official ever to leave the agency and go public. He ran a CIA intelligence-gathering post in Vietnam, was the task-force commander of the CIA's secret war in Angola in 1975 and 1976, and was award... more »

Kālī

Bill Robertson at GlobaLove Think Tank - 11 hours ago
"There are many ways to calm a negative energy without suppressing or fighting it. You recognize it, you smile to it, and you invite something nicer to come up and replace it; you go somewhere in nature, or you do some walking meditation.” — Thich Nhat Hanh

Bob Geldof: "Russell Brand is right"

Roobin at THROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 11 hours ago
While Bob Geldof was never a major political actor he was indicative of something a bit important. Musical interventions into public life may have begun with the fight to Free the Strip in Los Angeles. The pioneering modern form though was Rock Against Racism. In the lesser days of the Miners Strike, when everything was VERY political, Bob Geldof saw another issue, famine in Africa, and demanded (rightly or wrongly) that all politics be put aside for the sake of immediate action. He took the RAR model and blew it up to gigantic proportions and in the process invented the big rock s... more »

Untitled

New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 11 hours ago
*Saints Superbowl alum, Darren Sharper, arrested on charges of rape, NOPD also investigating ~WVUE* *Glover family continues to seek justice ~Gina Swanson, WDSU* *Proposed changes in New Orleans noise ordinance are more significant than proponents let on ~Jarvis DeBerry* *City complains about NOPD monitor’s billing; judge says pleased with work ~Richard Thompson, New Orleans Advocate* *As New Orleans teachers get Unioned-Up,,, Orleans Parish School Board doubles-down ~WWNO* *As Carnival begins, large swath of lights off on St. Charles Avenue ~WWLTV *

Proof of anti-independence bias at the BBC?

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 11 hours ago
The pro-independence website *Newsnet Scotland* is reporting the findingsof a year-long study into TV news coverage of the Scottish independence debate. The research, conducted from September 2012 to September 2013, has been carried out by a team at the University of the West of Scotland headed by Dr John Robertson. Unlike the highly suspicious BBC-funded Cardiff University research published last year, which purported to find that the BBC was actually biased *towards* the Right, I can find no evidence of partisanship and political activism on Dr Robertson's part. And, unlike the ... more »

Egypt's Fascist Government Declares Victory-- Only 1.9% Oppose The Military Coup

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 12 hours ago
Democracy can be so messy… and sometimes even unpedictable. Why bother if you can get away with it? Last night we looked at how Republicans in our country are trying to replace democracy with plutocracy. Egypt has gone even further. When democracy didn't suit the military chiefs, they simply staged a coup, arrested the president, slaughtered his supporters and staged a phony election with a very predictable outcome-- 98.1% of voters backed the new fascist constitution the military presented. With a gratuitous slap at President Morsi-- Laura King and Amro Hassan referring to him a... more »

Change in Canada's position on Jerusalem?

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 12 hours ago
Prime Minister Harper is visiting the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Previous Canadian official visits avoided the Western Wall as Canada (officially) does not recognize Israel's claim to Jerusalem as capital (or sovereignty in general). It is also significant that Prime Minister Harper will be speaking to the Knesset. This action implicitly recognizes Jerusalem as the Israeli capital (although the Knesset is on territory held by Israel prior to 1967 it is located in Jerusalem as Israel's capital). Remember a previous Conservative Prime Minister, Joe Clark, planned to move Canada's e... more »

SUNDAY SONG

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 12 hours ago

A Colder Week Ahead + Snow Update + FREE Feb PDF Weather Forecast UK & Ireland

rss2009 at Global Cooling & New Ice Age UK - 13 hours ago
*A Colder Week Ahead + Snow Update* A much cooler theme will develop throughout the forthcoming week across many parts of the UK & Ireland. This will allow for the development of widespread frosts and some persistent fog patches. It will also be remaining unsettled and periods of rain and showers will develop from midweek after a somewhat dry start for many, especially in parts to the north of the country. Some of these showers are also likely to turn increasingly wintry in parts of the north throughout this period, in particular, across parts of Scotland from Tuesday onwards. As we... more »

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks' Erasmus Lecture

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 13 hours ago
http://vimeo.com/m/78011617 I'm not totally convinced but it certainly is worth a listen.

An Important Notice: Attributions

Inexplicata (IHU) at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 15 hours ago
We kindly request anyone making use of information from *INEXPLICATA* to *please* have the common courtesy to mention the source of the information (www.inexplicata.blogspot.com or just Inexplicata will do fine). We have endeavored for years to be scrupulous about giving proper credit where it is due, and we expect no less in return. Thank you. - *Scott Corrales, Editor, Inexplicata - The Journal of Hispanic Ufology* Inexplicata Podcasts covering items from UFO / paranormal history in Spain, Latin America and the Caribbean

Thailand: US-backed Regime Using Terrorism Against Occupy Bangkok Protesters

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 15 hours ago
Since TIME's report warning of regime's Hitleresque "red shirts" stockpiling weapons to assault protesters in Bangkok there have been 3 grenade attacks aimed at protest leaders and one shooting critically wounding a protest guard. *January 19, 2014* (ATN) - "Occupy Bangkok" protesters rising up against the US-backed dictator Thaksin Shinawatra and his proxy regime in Thailand are now the target of daily terrorist attacks carried out by the regime itself. TIME magazine on January 16 reported in their article, ""Bangkok Shutdown: Yingluck Supporters Prepare to Fight for Democracy," ... more »

Washington State Bill Would Turn Off Resources to NSA's Yakima Facility

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 15 hours ago
Thursday, January 16, 2014 *Washington State Bill Would Turn Off Resources to NSA's Yakima Facility* Activist Post The state level campaign to turn off power and electricity to the NSA got a big boost Wednesday. In a bipartisan effort, Washington became first state with a physical NSA location to consider the Fourth Amendment Protection Act, designed to make life extremely difficult for the massive spy agency. Rep. David Taylor (R-Moxee) and Rep Rep. Luis Moscoso (D- Mountlake Terrace) introduced HB2272 late Tuesday night. Based on model language drafted by the OffNow coalition... more »

DIANA DEATH - SAS BRIBED WITNESS

Anon at aangirfan - 16 hours ago
In 2013, it was reported that 'Soldier N', an officer in the UK's notorious SAS regiment, had boasted to his family that the SAS murdered Princess Diana. The former wife of 'Soldier N' claims that she was paid cash to buy her silence about the accusation. She says she was given a brown envelope filled with bank notes by an SAS officer who told her to 'keep quiet about Diana’. The SAS officer "warned her that she would end up dead like Lee Rigby" if she did not keep quiet. "The officer said that if I spoke out ... I might have cause to worry about my safety and my children’s safe... more »

Under Palestinian Law, Abbas is Subject to Death Penalty if He Signs Peace Deal With Israel | Jewish & Israel News Algemeiner.com

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 17 hours ago
Here's some facts that the anti Israel media won't report... ' The law of the right of return for Palestinian refugees No. (1) for the year 2008 The right of return for Palestinian refugees to their homes and property and compensation for their suffering is a sacred and inalienable right that cannot compromised or exchanged; it is beyond the scope of jurisprudence or interpretation or referendum. The right of return is the natural individual and collective civil and political right that moves from parents to children and does not disappear over time, by the signing of any agreem... more »

France’s Re-Emergence as a Major Power

Jeffrey Stacey at Duck of Minerva - 17 hours ago
If there is an Obama Doctrine in the realm of foreign affairs, it comprises robust multilateralism—being multilateral when the U.S. can, unilateral when it must. Subjected to scrutiny, however, the Obama Doctrine can only work if the U.S. has capable and willing partners. Yet under conditions of widespread fiscal austerity among western allies—and the political Continue reading

Savannah’s Gardasil Nightmare by Becky Goins

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 17 hours ago
Savannah Savannah’s Gardasil Nightmare By Becky Goins from Harrison, Tennessee Sane Vax, Inc 18 January 2014 *You never know how strong you are, until being strong is the only choice you have.* I wish our family had never heard the word Gardasil. I had no idea a ‘simple’ vaccine could take so much from my daughter. We have spent years trying to help her regain some semblance of her normal Life. Savannah was always energetic and outgoing. She was happy, positive and loved being with her family and friends. She was very athletic with soccer being her sport of choice. She won ... more »

Don’t drown in the education reform Sea.

Angel Cintron Jr. at @ THE CHALK FACE - 18 hours ago
Do you show up to your classroom, every single day, ready to influence the lives of your students? Do you arrive at your school building, every single day, ready to change the trajectory of your students’ lives? Do you wish to become a teacher that some student…someday…somewhere will always remember? If so, be careful not to […]

Spot the Difference Competition

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 18 hours ago
This morning's news running orders on the various media website make for interesting comparative reading. See what differences you can spot. *ITV News * 1, 'Rosdeep Kular charged' in connection with son's death 2, British man killed in St Lucia after attack on a boat 3. Leaked inquiry: BBC 'turned a blind eye' to Savile abuse 4. Former aide to Nick Clegg quits Lib Dems over Lord Rennard row 5. Two Brits among 21 killed in Kabul suicide bomb blast 6. Ukip 'now Britain's favourite party' 7. Syrian political opposition agrees to peace talks 8. Two Britons among family of five killed in Uta... more »

Republicans Want To Replace Democracy With Plutocracy-- It's Their Only Shared Core Value

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 21 hours ago
I think my health has actually improved since Satanic religionist right extremist Bryan Fischer blocked me from his deranged, anti-American twitter feed. (Maybe ignoring Steve Stockman's equally psychotic feed would be like discovering the fountain of youth.) I still hear what kind of idiocy is brewing on Fischer's fringe of the Republican Party by following People for the American Way's awesome Right Wing Watch and I recommend you do as well. Last week they were the first to report on the move on the extreme of the GOP to take a giant step backwards into the 18th century by disen... more »

Your moment of Zen

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 23 hours ago
The Japanese Garden in Portland, Oregon. [photo via]

Christie's crony corruption throws up another roadblock to 2016

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 23 hours ago
Still not writing Gov. Blowhard off as a 2016 candidate, but I'm pretty sure Christie has lost Hoboken. Two senior members of Gov. Chris Christie’s administration warned a New Jersey mayor earlier this year that her town would be starved of hurricane relief money unless she approved a lucrative redevelopment plan favored by the governor, according to the mayor and emails and personal notes she shared with msnbc. Longer at the link. Shorter version: Port Authority hired "a reputable firm" to do a study on redeveloping some prime real estate in lovely Hoboken. It took time to cond... more »

Bob Mankoff pays tribute to surrealists René Magritte and Salvador Dali -- "New Yorker"-cartoon-style

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
*Magrittte's "Son of Man"* *by Ken* In his e-newsletter/blogpost this week, "Ce n'est pas un newsletter," *New Yorker* cartoon editor pays tribute to the surrealists on the occasion of an exhibition of the work of René Magritte at the Museum of Modern Art. There’s a René Magritte retrospective at MOMA called "The Mystery of the Ordinary," which covers the artist’'s work from 1926 to 1938, the golden era of surrealism, during which Magritte and Salvador Dalí helped establish that art form in the public mind. And, in the public's mind, at least as reflected in the mind of *New Yorke... more »

Fogged in

risa bear at A Way to Live - 1 day ago
The neighbor's sheep.Fog for the last two weeks, fog predicted for the next two, hovering around the freezing mark. I feel as if I've retired from farming and am spend my time, as you may have noticed, bringing my titles up to date at Stony Run Press, to meet the requirements for Amazon distribution. The ducks have been banished from the garden, to their great dismay, and the chickens have been let in. There is some overlap but also some divergence in their dietary interests, so it pays to run both groups through, as it stirs and levels everything in preparation for building up the... more »

REMEMBERING A GREAT PROTEST AT THE SPACE CENTER

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago
*Bobbie Heinrich was arrested on January 17, 1987 at Cape Canaveral and was one of the leaders of the Florida Coalition for Peace & Justice. She got arrested several times at the space center and was an important activist in her Ft. Myers community. Bobbie and her husband were avid gardeners who were pioneers in the idea of localization. They had lived in Africa for many years.* *Dr. Benjamin Spock spoke at the January 17 protest at Cape Canaveral. In his book "Spock on Spock" he ended the autobiography with a photo of him climbing over the base gates. He wrote, "Every effort m... more »

Raven in Arctic Bay

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago

Let’s Help NEA’s Dennis Van Roekel Forsake His Common Core “Guessing”

deutsch29 at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
It seems that National Education Association (NEA) President Dennis Van Roekel is willing to ignore the “forest” of the spectrum of top-down, punitive, privatizer-friendly, anti-democratic, community-school-destroying reforms in favor of the “tree” of his narrow focus on issues regarding concerns over specific items in the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). In this January 14, 2014, Education Week article, Van Roekel maintains […]

The AQ franchise get's a rebrand because it is 'diffuse'

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 day ago
Diffuse, conveniently means- lacking conciseness- Which tells us that this new 'diffuse' AQ will be what ever it is needed to be The product will remain the same. Saw some articles promoting the meme over the past couple days. Something has got to be up! *Who Are You Calling “al-Qaida”?* *The label “obscures a much more complicated reality than the one conjured by the brand name ‘Al Qaeda.’* *Brand name* Al Qaeda?- I thought I was the only one using the lingo of sales. So dam accurate. Then another one!* With al-Qaeda, what’s in a name?* *Usually, a 'name' means a great deal. It... more »

Analysts question US intelligence chemical attack in Syria- to late

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 day ago
* Experts agree that the chemical weapons attack in the Syrian capital of Damascus could not have happened the way the US government contends* I come across stuff like this and think to myself, duh. But also so what? All these months later and some 'analysts' question US intelligence? Where were these analysts in the immediate aftermath of the chemical attack? Sitting quietly on the sidelines? Wallflowers? Afraid to hit the dance floor? We witness this stuff time and time again. The state lies, media complies, academia hides and then everyone comes out to wring their hands afterwar... more »

Climate Tricks 25: Demonizing CO2 as a Toxic, Pollutant Gas

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 1 day ago
Carbon dioxide or CO2, is a gas composed of one molecules of carbon and two molecules of oxygen. It's not a harmful gas, it is not an evil gas. But with the UN, Al Gore, and various campaigners of more environmental and energy regulations, more government, CO2 has been demonized. Here's a chart, global air temperaturem UAH and RSS average (blue) and their trend line (red) vs. CO2 concentration in the atmosphere (green), January 2002 to December 2013. There is "causality"? Source: http://friendsofscience.org/ A friend, Dr. Tony Leachon, posted yesterday in his facebook wall, "Global ... more »

Newsnight: 16 January 2014

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 1 day ago
Onto Thursday's edition of *Newsnight. * This began with the subject of the Abortion Act. As we know, this is an issue that arouses considerable feeling, and divides public opinion. According to YouGov, 47% favour keeping the legal limit at 24 weeks, 10% think it should be cut to 18 weeks, 8% think it should be cut to 12 weeks and 6% believe abortion should be banned altogether. The 4% figure in the survey is divided between those who think it should be lowered below 12 weeks and those at the opposite end of the spectrum who think it should be increased above 24 weeks. From tho... more »

This World IS My Home

theozarker at The Conflicted Doomer - 1 day ago
January 18, 2014 I have no real blog post today. I am too tired and frustrated with the endless warnings that business as usual can’t continue and the constant propaganda that it can/will/must. A few weeks ago, I put up … Continue reading →

Whatever Happened to Stoke BNP?

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 1 day ago
Three local comrades are sat in a McDonald's. In come eight men who, before occupying their seats directly behind them, each buy a Happy Meal. So who were these oddballs? They were the eight remaining members of Stoke-on-Trent's British National Party. Yes, remember them? It was only a few short years ago that the party - along with Stoke City FC and Robbie Williams - were counted among the city's three biggest claims to fame. Over the last decade, it had picked up nine councillors. It came within a whisker of taking the elected mayoralty. They were barely off the front page of the... more »

SATURDAY NIGHT

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago

Why Alan Grayson's Big Brother Is Not Watching You Act Is The Way To Go After Obama's Disappointing Speech Yesterday

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
After Obama's speech defending the incompetent and corrupt U.S. spy agencies, Democrats who disapprove of the way he has continued the Cheney NSA agenda that completely guts the Constitution, were in an awkward position. How to disagree with his bullshit authoritarian stand without completely trashing him. Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley gave it a try: “It is unacceptable that our government has indiscriminately swept up millions of cell phone records of law-abiding citizens. This is an outrageous abuse of Americans’ privacy. I’m glad the President has acknowledged the concerns with... more »

Newsnight: 17 January 2014

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 1 day ago
Friday's edition's coverage of the Edward Snowden/NSA story took the *Guardian*'s line on the story - hook, line and sinker: Today, *even* as President Obama ordered new limits to U.S. surveillance practices, he was *still *defending the National Security Agency. Is it now time to give an amnesty to the man who triggered all of this, Edward Snowden? Alan Rusbridger could hardly have framed the story better. Zoe Conway's report was similarly sympathetic to the *Guardian *line, though her report balanced out that initial (slight) scepticism about President Obama by featuring the a... more »

Newsnight, Week Two: Introduction (that title will wow the punters!)

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 1 day ago
It's about this time of the year that people's New Year's resolutions start being broken. My only New Year's resolution was related to this blog, and it was a commitment to monitor an entire year's worth of *Newsnight, *and I started thinking about breaking it before the end of the first week. My resolve wasn't helped either by reading a comment at *Biased BBC *which said, not unreasonably, "I would not make to big a song and dance about *Newsnight*. After all its audience has shrunk dramatically and it is on its way to irrelevance." Still, I'll stick at it...for the time being. ... more »

US' Creeping Front Against Thailand

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 day ago
*Image: According to the Thai regime USCongressman Michael Turner sent a letterto US President Barack Obama condemn-ing ongoing protests as "antidemocratic"and implored the president to publiclysupport upcoming Thai elections featuringa party openly run by a convicted criminal,who so happens to have close ties to WallStreet.**January 18, 2014* (ATN) - What began as just biased, slanted reporting is now taking shape as a concerted and focused campaign to back the regime of unelected, exiled dictator Thaksin Shinawatra and his proxy regime run by his own sister, Yingluck Shin... more »

Ineffably Stupid

Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 1 day ago
That is how an analyst once described the writing of Rex Murphy. Murphy, in his latest pronouncement on Neil Young's position on the tar sands, proves nothing has changed. In the immortal words of Homer Simpson: Rock stars, is there anything they don't know? That's just the start of Murphy's diatribe and you could probably quit reading right there. Murphy, who regularly expounds on topics on

Stephen Harper and Benjamin Netanyahu: Love Affair

LeDaro at LeDaro - 1 day ago
Both Harper and Netanyahu are singing songs for each other. I could not find the video where Netanyahu talks about his love for Stephen Harper and Canada. Below is a video about Harper's love affair with Zionism and Israel. According to CBC News Harper is taking some 200 business people with him to Israel on taxpayers' expense. *The Middle East is a particularly troubled region of the world, and this is where Harper’s most egregious double standards come to the fore. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which lies at the heart of the broader Middle East crisis, is an issue where ... more »

LOOK UP

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago

Fukushima Doomsdayers

Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day ago
A Mr. Nicholas Wright left a pointed argument to my ‘Fukushima doomsdaying’: *Nicholas Wright*January 17, 2014 at 11:50 AM OK, here are a few facts that need to be considered by Fukushima doomsayers, and which I haven’t seen front and centre in the debate as yet…. (here). Majia here: I decided to post my response here for everyone to read: I wish I had the time to engage with you fully because I adore a lively debate and I think I can win this one. Unfortunately, I can only make a quick rebuttal and reference you to my book, *Fukushima and the Privatization of Risk*. Chapter Four ... more »

For my French friends and relatives: Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman hadn't "...paid much attention to François Hollande, the president of France, since it became clear that he wasn’t going to break with Europe’s destructive, austerity-minded policy orthodoxy. But now he has done something truly scandalous."

David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day ago
------------------------------ The Opinion Pages | OP-ED COLUMNIST *Scandal in France* ------------------------------ JAN. 16, 2014 I haven’t paid much attention to François Hollande, the president of France, since it became clear that he wasn’t going to break with Europe’s destructive, austerity-minded policy orthodoxy. But now he has done something truly scandalous. I am not, of course, talking about his alleged affair with an actress, which, even if true, is neither surprising (hey, it’s France) nor disturbing. No, what’s shocking is his embrace of discredited right-wing econ... more »

Failing Upwards Unmasked Elites Bring Destruction To Taxpaying Non-Elites (Rich White Guys Feel Need For Richer White Guy Club) Papers of Record? Not So Much (Anymore) Rethug Forward Motion BLOCKED In NC

I'm sure none of the following can be true. After all, us white guys stick together. Right? January 15, 2014 FAILING ELITES? The elites claim to be worried about the people's rage. In the Financial Times, on 15 January 2014, Martin Wolf writes that failing elites threaten our future. According to Martin Wolf: 1. The elites got us into the disastrous World War I. "This calamity

An Appeal To Those Who Are Truly Wanting A Better World, And Not Those Driven By Self-Interests

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day ago
For this article, I want to discuss the recent "activities" and actions by those in what I have always known to be the fraud "truth movement"..... I have long said that there is no real "truth movement" and that a full 90% of those involved in this effort to expose the truths about our world and the machinations of the Jewish elite that wants to enslave us all, are actually working for this evil, and are in it for their own personal self interests and greed... Recently, the entire "truth movement" was turned upside down by the actions of some individuals to try to slander those see... more »

Special alert ! Russian Police Hunt For Alleged Suicide Bomber On The Loose in Sochi ...... Putin's hands are full ahead of the Olympics !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/terror-surprise-sochi-olympics-purported-suicide-bombers-threat/story?id=21589469 Terror 'Surprise' for Sochi Olympics? Purported Suicide Bombers' New Threat Jan. 19, 2014 By BRIAN ROSS and JAMES GORDON MEEK BRIAN ROSSMore From Brian » ABC News Chief Investigative Correspondent JAMES GORDON MEEKMore From James » Investigative Producer [image: PHOTO: A video published on a Russian extremist website claims to show two would-be suicide bombers responsible for twin attacks in Volgograd, Russia in December 2013.] A video published on a Russian extremist webs... more »

Don't choose sides in the false rivalry of Judaism and Islam: Reject BOTH.

Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 1 day ago
In Europe today we are faced with a pincer-style assault on all that we hold dear. From the top we have the fully Judaised Establishment's legal obliteration of our culture, traditions, freedom to speak the truth and - which is the worst of all - freedom to have pride in ourselves and our kin. From the bottom we have the Islamic colonisation of our towns and cities, with its destructive use of rape, heroin and all manner of barbarity to destroy our people; especially our children. This dual attack has had the effect of polarising those who are prepared to defy the legal silencing of ... more »

Smiling Brown: Gente de Bronce – People the Color of the Earth

Roberto Rodriguez at Dr Cintli - 1 day ago
Re the Smiling Brown: Gente de Bronce – People the Color of the Earth Project: A draft of a preliminary article appears in Truthout.org: http://www.truth-out.org/speakout/item/17461-smiling-brown-people-the-color-of-the-earth It has been reworked and updated and submitted as an academic article for the spring of 2014. It is slated to become a book, play and videologues. This week, I’ve received about ten more contributions, adding to the 75 or so previously received. This is an ongoing project, so feel free to contribute at any time. Looking for vignettes re color consciousness, ... more »

Who had weapons Tesla September 11, 2001? Study elements of the global ekotsidno-genocidal program

Jason Leewig at Our Manmade Disasters - 1 day ago
*The search for truth is not done with joy, and with the excitement and anxiety, but still need to look for it because without finding the truth and not love it, you will die.* *Blaise Pascal , French mathematician, physicist and philosopher ( 1623-1662 ).* *Opening Keely would lead to the acquisition of one of the most occult secrets, secrets that can never be given to the disposal of the masses.* *EP Blavatsky . Secret Doctrine , etc. 1, Part 3, p. 63 , 1888* *Our world is immersed in a vast ocean of energy [...] Before us is a daunting task - to find ways of making this energy.T... more »

Bipartisanship Isn't Always A Dirty Word-- Take Carol Shea-Porter (D-NH) And Michael Burgess (R-TX) For Example

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
All too often "bipartisan" has come to mean Democrats being led down the path to slaughter by transpartisan conservatives. It's not just Republicans who are screwing working families… it's also the Republican wing of the Democratic Party-- the Blue Dogs, New Dems and their fellow travelers, like Steny Hoyer and Steve Israel. New Hampshire's two congresswomen offer a stunning contrast. As we've explained before (like here and here), Ann Kuster is in a far bluer district (D+3) than Carol Shea-Porter (R+1), but it is Shea-Porter who sticks to progressive values and principles in def... more »

BBC scum just cannot help themselves

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day ago
When Nelson Mandela died nary a word about his terrorist background was allowed to be mentioned. When Ariel Sharon died, his obituary included: '... after Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982 he was found to have been responsible by an Israeli inquiry of failing to prevent the massacre of Palestinians by Christian Phalangist militia in Beirut's Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.' When Nelson Mandela died, there was no similar mention of Nelson Mandela's failure to prevent his wife and her associates from 'necklacing' other South Africans. So when I heard that Lord McAlpine had died, ... more »

Obama: "Where Congress isn't acting, I'll act on my own"...(video)

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 1 day ago
*no, really - he said it.* And what's with the creepy teleprompter flicking eyes? Are the techies at the White House too stupid to know how to set up a televised address so that doesn't happen? I know, I know - I keep asking stupid questions. Meantime in New York, the new commie mayor's ex-lesbian wife *wants her very own office in city hall and a staff so she can pursue her "issues." * and Governor Cuomo (you know - the guy who lives with his mistress) *thinks conservatives, defined as those who believe in not killing babies, marriage between and man and a women is the way it s... more »

Doug Noland January 17 , 2014 Missive : " Historic Year 2014 Thesis " ..... JIM WILLIE: A FAILED STATE LIES BEFORE US!

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
Must read quality items for the weekend.... http://www.prudentbear.com/2014/01/historic-year-2014-thesis.html Historic Year 2014 ThesisJanuary 17, 2014 posted by Doug Noland EM trades poorly and more China Credit developments, while the Fed hawks build their case. I’m proceeding with the view that 2014 is poised to be a key year in economic/financial history. Actually, I suspect future historians will look back at 2013 as a critical juncture. Last year saw the Fed and Bank of Japan combine for almost $2 TN of QE. Of significant consequence, an over-liquefied and increasingly s... more »

Rachel Maddow’s a real piece of work!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago
*SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 2014* *The silly dissembling rolls on:* Rachel Maddow’s a real piece of work. We don’t mean that as a compliment. Her ridiculous clowning on TV never seems to stop. Based on appearances, she dissembles in much the way chimpanzees breathe—without giving the process a thought. Consider something she said last night in her dramatic opening segment concerning the Fort Lee mess. As usual, Maddow was helping her viewers see that the other tribe—the tribe to which they *don’t* belong—is a nest of dimwits and liars. Quite routinely, Maddow dissembles in order to se... more »

Sovereignty 101:Installment 13 - Will you judge?

Sophia Love at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago
This journey we are on, called life, is one of the most spectacular trips available. The experience of physical existence has within it every possibility. This planet is filled with over 7 billion humans – there are many who choose to visit here. To be clear, all facets of this life are known as possibilities before birth. There are no tricks played or secrets kept. In full awareness we incarnate, happy for the chance to live again. This talk of an “experiment” may have led you to think otherwise – to think that you’d been duped and your plan to be here at all was made... more »

Unreasonable fanatics

sue at Is the BBC biased? - 1 day ago
Oh dear. There’s a spat - or maybe just a spat*ette* - between BBCWatch and the BBC’s Berlin correspondent Steve Evans - it revolves around a pause. No - two pauses to be precise. Largely responsible for all the fuss are the two commas that BBCWatch employed to denote two specific pauses, arguably to clarify a point. Here’s the sentence: *“It was a time when Jews,* *who displeased the Nazis*, *risked their lives* .” That was from BBCWatch’s transcription of a broadcast; the commas were there to denote pauses in Steve Evans’s delivery. Having listened to the item, which occurred ... more »

Photos Rights of Nature Tribunal Ecuador 2014

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
Photos by Pennie Opal Plant . Photos by Pennie Opal Plant, thank you for sharing your photos with Censored News! Rights of Nature Summit and Tribunal in Ecuador this week! 2014. By Censored News Bolivia's Pablo Solon, among those instrumental in the Mother Earth Conference in Cochabamba, Bolivia, in 2010, was at the gathering in Ecuador this week. Solon

My first exposure to the DC IMPACT evaluation system

Shaun Johnson at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
From the very beginning, I’ve noticed that the DCPS teacher evaluation system fosters a mood of suspicion, confrontation, and anxiety. It doesn’t have to be that way. A lot of things don’t have to be that way. But they are, and it is. First, let me do a little math. So far this school year, […]

Zionist global Imperial journey - summary

Jason Leewig at Our Manmade Disasters - 1 day ago
by BK Lim, FASEI, et al (Dec 14, 2013). *Note & forward*: (Dec 31, 2013) We apologise for the delayed publication of this series of articles. Our original investigation into BPGOD (BP Gulf Oil Disaster) led us into a rabbit hole much deeper and wider than we had originally thought. When it became abundantly clear in 2011 that BPGOD was a planned mega disaster (PMD), almost all of our insider friends scratched their heads with disbelief. PMDs do not occur out of the blues, in isolation with no rhyme or reason. The insurance frauds, insider trading of B... more »

BAD Science in a (Twitter) Nutshell

noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 1 day ago
The brouhaha over recent "explosive" data from Asia absotively proving the Abortion = Breast Cancer (ABC) link continues. The Chinese study, eviscerated by Joyce Arthur here, fatally flawed by many scientific sins, but most egregiously (and obviously even to a lay-person) is Joel Brind's bland dismissal of the fundamental contradiction in it. (See Joyce's article for details.) So what do lying liars do when challenged? Brind, the grandaddy of the ABC lie, doubles down. The Bhadoria study of 320 breast cancer patients and 320 age and socio-economic status-matched healthy control wo... more »

" Targeting " Target ( as well as other Retailers ) Krebs on Security looks at the Target Hack attack and Malware..... how wide is the impact ? Russian Security Firm Group IB published an analysis of it ( the crimeware involved ) stating that “customers of major US banks, such as such as Chase (Newark, Delaware), Capital One (Virginia, Richmond), Citibank (South Dakota), Union Bank of California (California, San Diego), Nordstrom FSB Debit (Scottsdale, Arizona), were compromised by this malware.”

Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
Something else to ponder....... *Was "Metadata" leaked in the Target breach?*Posted by Sean @ 13:43 GMT ------------------------------ The Target data breach has been big news ever since Brian Krebs broke the story several weeks ago. And our analysts have been investigating the related malware samples, all very interesting, but one thing I'd like to know is this: if Target knows you're pregnant… do the hackers now know, too? Back in February of 2012, the New York Times published an article by Charles Duhigg based on his book, The Power of Habit. And one of the more interesting thi... more »

Sloppy Seconds

jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 1 day ago
These are some of my better tweets for the month thus far. I'm in the middle of a struggle with publisher Create Space and their sudden problematic conversions from .docx to .pdf formats. Anime revealed as French word meaning, "Pornographic Japanese cartoons." 11 million fanboys at once commit suicide by dumping inhalers. — Robert Crawford (@jurassicpork59) January 18, 2014 I went to a diner for my birthday today. The TV was set to the ObamaCare/Benghazi Network, aka Fox "News". #RWNJs #p2 #p21 #tlot #UniteBlue — Robert Crawford (@jurassicpork59) January 16, 2014 If our gov... more »

How much is a Lars Hansen autographed reprint worth?

Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 1 day ago
A student is trying to find out. He emails me: I'm a 1st year MBA student at Chicago Booth -- where even the Marketing Professors have a PhD in Economics. I'm taking a class this quarter called Entrepreneurial Selling (more info here). One of the coolest assignments is a bartering challenge: Prof. Wortmann gives everybody a simple Chicago Booth pen and we need to barter it for something with larger monetary value, and then keep bartering once a week until the end of the quarter. I did my first trade with Prof. Lars Peter Hansen (Economics Nobel Prize 2013). In exchange for my pe... more »

Inuit Customary Adoption

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago
The Inuktuitut word describing adoption means, "the one we took" or "my adopted," Inuit do not use words such as "give up" or "give away" to describe adoption. Rather, the word describes the practice from the perspective of the adoptive parent-choosing and wanting the child. In Inuit society, there is no stigma attached to being adopted. It is a practice that is open and flexible, in which a child knows his or her birth parents and family members. If an adopted child lives in the same community as her or his biological parents and family, the child will know them and visit with th... more »

Sum of integers and oversold common sense

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day ago
P.Z. "Pharyngula" Myers, a self-described randomly ejaculating biological godless liberal (can't this disorder be cured?), decided to write a blog post – well, something like eight sentences – about mathematics: The sum of all natural numbers is not \(-1/12\) It's not hard to see that the title is in some "tension" with at least one of the titles of older TRF blog posts about this issue, Zeta-function regularization (2007) Why is the sum of integers equal to \(-1/12\) (2011) These texts of mine were actually linked to by some Pharyngula's readers who are my semi-fans – folks who wou... more »

An Information Holocaust

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 1 day ago
Andrew Nikiforuk has been documenting the closure of government libraries and the wholesale destruction of their contents. The process has been chaotic and blind: "The fact that many materials were thrown away or given away [most of the books at Saint Andrews Biological Station] is heartbreaking to those of us who are dedicated to marine science and the history of science in Canada," said ocean pollution expert and former federal researcher Peter Wells. The dismantling of the libraries was so chaotic that no attempt was made to retrieve books on loan. At some of the closed librar... more »

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago
*Judge Marullo subpoenas Sheriff Gusman over easy treatment of contemptuous DA spokesman ~Dan Lawton, special to The Advocate* *Reports: Ex-Saint Darren Sharper arrested on rape charges ~WWLTV* *Advocate reporter Michelle Millhollon named one of the top statehouse reporters in the country* *Disaster Psychiatry Emerges as DOD Field of Study ~DisasterMap.net* *Drones made at NASA Michoud & Stennis ~It's New Orleans, Out to Lunch* *Louisiana strawberries scarce but plenty for Ponchatoula fest* *Sound Ordinance Protest Gathers Hundreds Together Outside City Hall ~Frank Ethridge, offBeat*

Would YOU Touch Chris Christie With A Ten Foot Pole?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
"Expanding Nationwide in 2016?" It doesn't look that way any longer Today, New Jersey's embattled corrupt governor, Chris Christie, isn't in icy New Jersey. He's in sunny Florida… raising money for one of the few governors even worse than himself: Rick Scott. But even Scott is steering clear. In fact no Florida GOP elected officials want to be seen-- let alone photographed with Christie, who was the Republican presidential frontrunner when this fundraising trip was put together. Now he's been forced too do all his fundraising behind closed doors, meeting furtively with the GOP high r... more »

'Bang, bang'

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 1 day ago
This Wednesday's edition of *Newsnight *reported on the findings of an academic study which claims to have shown that viewers' empathy with/sympathy for the victims of foreign disasters is diminishing. The academics from the University of East Anglia studied the viewing patterns of a hundred viewers over three months and found that those who watch short news reports are particularly indifferent to suffering in other countries. One of the authors, Dr Martin Scott, commented that such short news reports come and go, often over no more than a few days, and fail to reach the depths o... more »

A Few More Dots: Corporate School Indiana Update

Doug Martin at Schools Matter - 1 day ago
By Doug Martin Since I’m busy preparing my book *Hoosier School Heist*for the printers, I've decided to note a few things not in the book and several recent happening in the corporate school movement in the Hoosier state. 1. The Friedman Foundation, which gave out free t-shirts of Milton to anyone who left comments on its site responding to Diane Ravitch's take on the group's new "research," has flung its corporate school tentacles wider in Indianapolis. Ben Hunter’s wife Keri Jo is now employed by the group. Ben is District 21’s representative to the Indianapolis City-County Co... more »

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        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago

Common Ground is not so Common

Angel Cintron Jr. at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
Reblogged from Ward 8 DC Teacher: In the words of Mark Twain, “We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.” Finding common ground is difficult, yet it’s often necessary for […]

Why is he 'reluctant'?

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day ago
The Times front page has an article entitled 'Police fear inner cities take law into own hands' which includes this passage: 'Chief Inspector of Constabulary... Tom Windsor... said "There are some communities born under other skies who will not involve the police at all. I am reluctant to name the communities in question, but there are communities from other cultures who would prefer to police themselves. There are cities in the Midlands where the police never go because they are never called. They never hear of any trouble because the community deals with that on its own."' The ... more »

Foreign Exchange Reseve Data.......China is in a league of its own !

Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-15/china-s-treasury-holdings-rose-to-record-in-november-data-show.html China’s holdings of U.S. Treasuries increased $12.2 billion to a record$1.317 trillion in November, data released on the Treasury Department’s website showed. The figures, scheduled for release at 9 a.m. tomorrow in Washington, were inadvertently posted on the Treasury’s website. Japan’s holdings rose $12 billion to $1.186 trillion, the figures showed. China’s swelling foreign-exchange reserves, reported today to have reached a world record $3.82 trillion at the end of Decembe... more »

UK MEP NIGEL FARAGE TO GREECE: Call your NEW DEMOCRACY party what is is, NO DEMOCRACY party. Greece is occupied!

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago
*Dear friends* *In case you are interested in the grand experiment that is underway in Greece nowadays, you might be willing to watch the short video you can find through the link below.* *http://www.toxwni.gr/ellada/item/10651-binteo-o-faratz-ta-exose-ston-samara-na-onomasete-to-komma-sas-mi-dimokratia-i-ellada-brisketai-ipo-katoxi#.Uta3jvtbFEP* *The Greek text, that accompanies the video, is essentially of no significance; it is just a comment about the incident for the Greek readers. You can find more about the case at* *http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/01/16/ukip-nigel-fara... more »

Breaking news...

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 1 day ago
Compare and contrast Sky and the BBC's reporting of the breaking news of the death of Lord McAlpine: *BBC News*: *Tory grandee Lord McAlpine dies in home in Italy* *Lord McAlpine died at his home in Italy* Lord McAlpine, the former UK Conservative Party deputy chairman has died, his family has announced. The 71-year-old, who was an aide to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, died last night in Italy, his family said. In a statement, they said: "It is with great sadness that the family of Lord McAlpine announce his peaceful death last night at his home in Italy." As well as a politic... more »

Bears

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago

King Lear, his Daughters and the "non-violent" Islamist

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 1 day ago
Another interesting Radio 4 documentary on Thursday was *Crossing Continents*, which reported on the rise and (apparent) fall of Gulnara Karimova - the powerful, glamorous, pop-singer daughter of ruthless Uzbek strongman Islam Karimov. BBC reporter Natalia Antelava had a personal angle on the story, having been long engaged in a Twitter 'discussion' with Gulnara. Having subsequently decided to visit Uzkekistan, Natalia was surprise to cause a considerable stir at Tashkent airport when staff there recognised her name and realised who she was. She was sent packing. The programme ... more »

The Parti Québécois has lost touch with reality

CM at LILITH NEWS - 1 day ago
The first week of hearings into the Parti Québécois’ new "charter of values" concluded Thursday - and it is self evident that the Parti Québécois has lost touch with reality. Why? Because they are making up fictional scenarios to justify the implementation of the charter. The charter is a proposed ban on public-sector workers in Quebec wearing religious symbols - specifically kippas, yamakas, burkas, niqabs, kufi hats, turbans, and any overly large crosses or other symbols. (No precise size has been determined for what is considered "overt".) The ban would be a clear violation of th... more »
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