Democrat Summit/East (Photo credit: ylg-backup)Haslam Fiddles with Vouchers and More Tests While Tennesseans Go Without Health Care
Is school privatization really more important than keeping the most
vulnerable citizens from having access to health care? What would it cost
the State of Tennessee to say Yes to expanded Medicaid under the Affordable
Care Act? Nothing, except the wrath of the billionaires.
*The Daily Show*
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New Dem Colleen Hanabusa-- Fighting On The Wrong Side Of The Minimum Wage Battle… As Usual
I have no idea why, but corrupt conservative New Dem Colleen Hanabusa has
me on her mailing list. Usually I just delete all the EMILY's
List-generated spam she sends out, but this morning I opened one because
"minimum wage" was in the subject line. A consistent shill for Big Business
and K Street lobbyists, I wanted to see if she was using Republican talking
points in her argument. As it turned out, she claimed to be in favor of
raising the minimum wage-- just not as much as any other Democrats!
President Obama and the Senate Dems are willing to settle for $10.10 an
hour, which i... more »
17 Tips For Spring
[image: Eco-friendly tips for spring.]*Spring is HERE!*Welcome to the first
day of Spring!! I'll bet that you thought it would never get here, right? I
had my doubts! But it's here and it's time for our annual spring tips and
ideas.
*If you're moving into Autumn instead of Spring, you might be interested in
Eco-Friendly Tips For Autumn.*
Eco-Friendly Tips for Spring
1. Spring is traditionally a time to tackle those big cleaning jobs.
Instead of using toxic chemicals, opt for more earth-friendly cleansers.
Check out How to Make a Non-Toxic Cleaning Kit for ideas and recipe... more »
Lamar W. Hankins : Both Democrats and Republicans have it wrong
Once the Republicans tried to wrest back welfare reform as a political
issue from Clinton, it was a race to see who could pander most successfully
to the electorate. By Lamar W. Hankins | The Rag Blog | March 19, …
finish reading Lamar W. Hankins :
Both Democrats and Republicans have it wrong
NATO's "Mystery Gunmen" Seek to Strengthen Kiev Regime's Hand
*Image: Provoking a confrontation with Russia allows the West to furtherarm
and aid the regime in Kiev - not against a military conflict it has nohope
of winning against Moscow, but against the inevitable uprising itfaces from
the Ukrainian people. Nazi thugs were able to blitz theelected government
out of power, but will not be able to hold on withoutextensive Western
aid. **March 20, 2014 *(Tony Cartalucci-NEO) - In yet another attempt to
widen the confrontation between Russia, Crimea, and the Western-backed
regime in Kiev, snipers have opened fire on both Ukrainian and Crimea... more »
march 19, 2003: don't call it a failure. it was a huge success for so many.
Eleven years ago today, the US invaded Iraq.
This unprovoked invasion of another country that had not threatened the
United States was justified by the pretense of finding weapons of mass
destruction (which the US knew did not exist), and as payback for 9/11
(which the US knew Iraq had no part in), and by of ridding the world of
Saddam Hussein (who was trained and financed by the US). Many such
rationales were advanced, including a Christian crusade against Muslims.
None of the stated rationales for the invasion mentioned the massive
profiteering that would reap trillions in profits... more »
Lowongan Kerja Apoteker Di Surabaya April 2014 Terbaru
Lowongan
Kerja Apoteker Di Surabaya April 2014 Terbaru - mungkin anda adalah
salah satu orang yang telah bekerja tapi anda inginkan adalah pekerjaan
di perusahaan baru karena perusahaan anda yang sekarang sudah anda rasa
tidak cocok atau habis masa kerja, anda bisa mencoba melamar kerja ke pt
UNITED DICO CITAS jika anda sudah berpengalaman kerja sebagai apoteker
penanggung jawab minimal 1 tahun
China update March 19 , 2014 -- The Chinese Yuan Is Collapsing and the wealthy are cashing out offshore luxury homes for cash .....
The Chinese Yuan Is Collapsing
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/19/2014 21:57 -0400
- Bond
- China
- Copper
- default
- Hong Kong
- Morgan Stanley
- Price Action
- Real estate
- Shadow Banking
- Yuan
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*The Yuan has weakened over 250 pips in early China trading.* Trading at
almost 6.22, we are now deeply into the significant-loss-realizing region
of the world's carry-traders and Chinese over-hedgers. Morgan Stanley
estimates a minimum *$4.8bn loss for each 100 pip move*. However, the
bigger pictu... more »
Government Agency Warns If 9 Substations Are Destroyed, The Power Grid Could Be Down For 18 Months .......
Government Agency Warns If 9 Substations Are Destroyed, The Power Grid
Could Be Down For 18 Months
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- New York Stock Exchange
- Reality
- Wall Street Journal
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*Submitted by Michael Snyder of The Economic Collapse blog,*
What would you do if the Internet or the power grid went down for over a
year? Our key infrastructure, including the Internet and the power grid,
is far more vulnerable than most people would dare to imagine. These days,
most people simply take for granted th... more »
The Sandy Hook HOAX! A Great List Of Sandy Hook "Oddities"
As I have said many times, as more important information presents itself
that exposes the fraud of the Sandy Hook "shooting" I would present it here
at this blog for everyone to see.... It is a fact now that most people are
finally waking up to the fact that Sandy Hook was indeed a criminal
operation, which has both the criminals behind the operation, and the
disinformation agents out there trying to discredit any researchers,
reeling!
I came across the following article from a fellow real truth seeker,
"SoldierofYah" that writes the great blog, Truthseeker Archive, at
www.truthsee... more »
More kudos for Bryan Cranston's portrayal of LBJ -- but the "Edith Bunker"-ing of Lady Bird J is no sale
*No shrinking violet she*: *Al Kamen reports that former LBJ chief of staff
Jim Jones "said there was a scene where Johnson dismissed [Lady Bird] with
a curse -- which he said 'would never happen.' "*
*by Ken*
Since I devoted a post last week ("Bryan Cranston as LBJ, according to
people who worked with him") to Al Kamen's WaPo "In the Loop" item "Bryan
Cranston gets two thumbs up from LBJ staffers" ("Like Walter White’s epic
transformation from meek family man to unrepentant meth lord, Bryan
Cranston transforms so completely into President Lyndon B. Johnson that for
those who actu... more »
Costa Rican Car
What an exhausting day.
Got up super early to drive to Cuyahoga Falls, OH, to buy our new car for
Costa Rica. Had to go to the bank there first to get a cashiers check and
deposit money to get this check. A simply transaction ended up taking an
hour as they could not figure out the transaction since I was getting a
check made out from me and not the business to the dealership. Super
frustrating. We then got to the dealership (finally) and that transaction
seemed to take much longer than necessary as well, but finally, drove off
with our new Nissan Xterra. Stopped for lunch at a... more »
HOW TO AVOID COLLAPSE?
According to a new scientific study funded by NASA, modern civilization is
heading for collapse within a matter of decades. In the study,
mathematicians used theoretical models to predict what will happen to the
industrialized world over the course of the next century. And they found
that even with conservative estimates, the Earth is headed down a very
tumultuous path. RT's Ameera David reports.
Not Just Another Word (for nothing left to lose)
Note: The following is a guest post from Mlada Bukovansky, Professor of
Government at Smith College. The word freedom has to come into it, when
speaking of the Ukraine crisis. It has become exceptionally difficult to
use that term without wincing in the post-Bush era, but still I think it
needs to be said. I
Continue reading
Libya updates March 19 , 2014 -- UN imposes sanctions on vessels involved in illegal oil exports .... Former Interior Ministry Undersecretary kidnapped ...... Air Force chief says he is still in post ...... Thinni holds first cabinet meeting in Ghat ..... Sebha camp handover claimed – and disputed
UN imposes sanctions on vessels involved in
illegal oil exports
*Tripoli, 19 March 2014*:
The UN Security Council today voted unanimously to adopt a resolution
condemning attempts to illicitly export oil from Libya and imposing
sanctions on any vessels attempting to do so.
The move came after the tanker *Morning Glory* successfully loaded a
shipment of crude oil from Sidra oil export terminal, which has been under
the control of a group of federalists operating under Ibrahim Jadhran since
August last year. The tanker escaped a naval blockade to sail into
international waters but, w... more »
China items of note - March 17 , 2013 ..... Yuan Tumbles To 11-Month Lows As China Home Price Growth Slows ..... "Putin Did The Right Thing" Says Marc Faber, But Fears China Implications More ...... China and gold related news items !
Catharsis Ours - 4 hours ago
Yuan Tumbles To 11-Month Lows As China Home Price Growth Slows
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/17/2014 22:21 -0400
- Bond
- Capital Markets
- Carry Trade
- China
- Copper
- Hong Kong
- Morgan Stanley
- Price Action
- Real estate
- Shadow Banking
- Volatility
- Yuan
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It would appear that the widening of the daily trading bands (we discussed
last night) are having a directional effect on USDCNY as the devaluation
continues on the back of forced carry-trade unwinds. *At 6.19, CNY is its
wea... more »
A Defence of #NoMakeUpSelfieForCancer
Another good cause. Another charity stunt exploiting social media. If
you're unfamiliar with #NoMakeUpSelfieForCancer, it's pretty
self-explanatory. Post a "bare" selfie of your face to the social media
platform of your choice and make a donation to Cancer Research UK.
Theoretically, friends in your timeline/feed will see it, do the same, and
so on. As viral campaigns go, it's been a success with the charity reporting
a surge in donations. It's very clever and raised a bag of cash. Great
stuff, right?
Not a few Twitter celebs have written about the problematic character of
the ini... more »
Who Can Tolerate Bill Gates and His Ignorance and Apathy for Another Minute???
http://theindignantteacher.wordpress.com/2014/03/19/the-indignant-teacher-can-no-longer-tolerate-bill-gates-ignorance-and-apathy/Filed
under: SHAUN JOHNSON, PHD: Musings from the Chalk Face
KavKaz confirms the death of Dokku Umarov
*Caucasus Emirate's Emir Dokku Abu Usman martyred, Insha'Allah. Obituary*
Dokku Abu Usman (Dokku Umarov) went to jihad in 1994, as soon as he learned
about the invasion of Chechnya by Russian troops. He gave up his lucrative
business in Russia and returned home.
Since then, Dokku Abu Usman was forced to leave Chechnya for several months
only once, at the beginning of 2000 due to a severe wound. After treatment,
he returned home and continued the Jihad.
After the first Russian-Chechen war of 1994-96, Ichkerian President Aslan
Maskhadov appointed Dokku Umarov Secretary of the Securit... more »
Somebody Had to Punch the Bully
Barack Obama is going to Europe and America is going to Hell. Still
smarting over the audacity of the newest devil of *The Homeland* Russian
leader Vladimir Putin's pretty much telling Barry and the boys to go and
fuck themselves and annexing Crimea despite the empty threats and howls of
protestation from the political class El Presidente is soon to be on his
way across the pond to meet with the heads of US client states over the
next move. You have to give it to the man, he never gives up and never
learns from his mistakes, January 2017 cannot possibly get here soon enough
provid... more »
Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit Summary - July 22, 1947
The other night as I was cursing the cable I blundered into another of
those UFO programs filled with hysterical narration and a belief that
nearly every outrageous claim is based in reality. In this case they were
talking about the Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit as if the documentation
existed to prove that the Army had, at one time, investigated UFOs under
that unit title. They flashed some documentation but in today’s world with
nearly everyone and her brother creating UFO documents for fun and profit
you would think that a little caution would be called for. But there was
reall... more »
Ukraine: Chess Piece For Global Power
Source: THElNFOWARRlOR.
Timber!!
[image: Courtesy of Michael Green Architecture]
*Courtesy of Michael Green Architecture*
Sure, you can build a multi-story timber building if you want to. That’s
two concepts above. And here’s a design for one in Stockholm:
[image: C. F. Møller designs world's tallest wooden skyscraper]
Here’s another concept, for somewhere in the US, by architect Michael
Charters:
You can even head here to watch time-lapse videos of the construction of
this one, in Prince George, Canada.
In 2011, this was the world’s largest timber apartment block, Bridport
House in
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*Louisiana to have more than $2 billion in coastal restoration work built
or under construction by 2015, official says ~Mark Schleifstein*
*New Orleans by Streetlight ~David Gonzalez*
Alan Grayson: GutsPAC
This week, Alan Grayson opened a leadership PAC, GutsPAC. You can contribute
to it here, but let me warn you, it cannot accept more than $5,000 per year
from any individual. He plans to use it to help elect other progressives to
Congress. I asked him a couple of quick questions:
Q: What will you be doing with that leadership PAC, donating to Steve
Israel so you can rise in the House leadership?
A: Well, here are some things I won’t be doing: spending 145 times as much
on legal fees as on candidate support, as Rep. Michele Bachmann did in the
first half of 2013. Paying my spouse ov... more »
Robert Sharlet : Jim Retherford, the ‘Man in a Red Devil Suit’
Jim has been a fearless New Left editor, a political performance artist,
part of a guerrilla theater troupe, and has worked with some of the
legendary figures of the ’60s. By Robert Sharlet | The Rag Blog | February
19, … finish reading Robert Sharlet :
Jim Retherford, the ‘Man in a Red Devil Suit’
True Torah Jews Runs Radio Ads Against Israeli Draft
True Torah Jews March 18, 2014
March 12, 2014 will unfortunately go down in history as a black day for
Orthodox Jewry, the day when the Israeli government finally passed their
law to forcibly draft Orthodox youth into their army. Starting in 2017,
Jews refusing the draft for religious reasons will be sent to jail. But
this is no time to sit and mourn. We must wake up from our shock and shake
up the world with an outcry of protest. Orthodox Jewry has already shown in
the case of the law mandating the drafting of girls (in 1954) that even
after the decree passed the Knesset, it rem... more »
iBookstore Sans Nipples
Some will say that a picture paints a thousand words, and that book jackets
sell books.
The Deric Longden ebooks we have published which feature cute kittens on
their covers have sold better than those without the cats and with just
Deric on their jackets. This is despite these some of these catless books
having won film and writing awards. We now actually fear that we have made
the mistake on his latest jacket, ‘Radio Times: Take 1.’ in that we haven't
put a cute kitten on the jacket.
Apple belief that a jacket image can also be offensive, inappropriate and
they continue to impo... more »
A misleading statement on 'Newsnight'
*Newsnight *reported from the Central African Republic last night.
The conflict there had a pretty clear trajectory in its early days - a
trajectory most news organisations reported at the time. It was summed up
by the *Telegraph*'s Mike Pflanz last November:
*Who is fighting whom now, and why?*
Armed Muslim units drawn from the Seleka rebel alliance that seized power
in March have defied the new president’s demands that they disarm, and have
continued the rampage they began before their successful coup. They have
targeted mostly Christian civilians, murdering, raping, torturing an... more »
“Democracy? Forget About It...”
*“Democracy? Forget About It...” *
by Bill Bonner
“They say we have violated international law. At least they remember about
international law – better late than never.” – Vladimir Putin, talking
about US and the West.
“Once again, world politics dominate the news. The Crimea drama is over...
finished... done. The Russians did what you would expect. So did the
Crimeans. Crimea has voted overwhelmingly to join Russia. And the markets
seem to be celebrating. The US stock market, as measured by the Dow, rose
88 points yesterday. Gold – the antidote to crises of all sorts – dropped
$... more »
Christy Cluck Cluck Clark Versus Jack Mintz And The LNG Energy Companies(who made who)
*Written by Grant G*
In the run-up to British Columbia`s 2013 provincial election Christy Clark
told the electorate, told the world and told the foxes(multi-national
energy companies) that LNG was a $trillion dollar golden egg that would fix
all of BC`s fiscal and economic woes, Christy was quite specific, a dozen
LNG plants, BC would receive 5 times the North American price(Henry Hub
pricing) from Japan..
My how times change...
If British Columbia who owns our natural gas resources wants to get 4 to 5
times the North American price for natural gas we must build our own
Briti... more »
O’Reilly and Maddow go Malaysian!
*WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 2014*
*Not all that slowly they turn:* On Monday night, Bill O’Reilly was saying
he just couldn’t do it.
Despite the high ratings the topic produces, he wasn’t going to spend his
time speculating about the Malaysian airplane mystery.
“As far as I'm concerned, I can't do it. I just can't,” he told Bernie
Goldberg, after noting the high degree of speculation involved in ongoing
cable coverage of the missing airplane.
“I told a bunch of people,” O’Reilly said. “I said, I can only do stories
grounded in reality. I cannot do, ‘Well, maybe this happened,’ you know... more »
The truth is out: money is just an IOU
THIS is a must read article!!! The Truth IS out!!!! This is transparency
in it's finest moment in the financial world and in the eyes of the general
public: Money is just an IOU.
The following is an article by The Guardian News Paper, and a pdf copy of
the original document that this article is based upon.
This is a revelation of epic proportions coming directly from withIN the
banking industry, from the Bank of England itself. Of course, this isn't
the "whole" truth, and really it is just barely scratching the surface, BUT
is is a huge piece of the puzzle. WE know all of thi... more »
How Many Anti-Pelosi Candidates Has Steve Israel Recruited This Year?
It's a dirty little secret that Hoyer and his corrupt, conservative allies
in the House Democratic caucus forced Nancy Pelosi to appoint Long Island
"ex"-Blue Dog and model of Wall Street corruption, Steve Israel as DCCC
chairman. We've mentioned a few times how Israel's "strategy" mathematically
guarantees that the Republicans can never lose the majority in the House,
or at least not while he is DCCC Chair. Aside from only naming 16
Red-to-Blue candidates (when the Dems need a net of 17 red-to-blue wins),
Israel has made a deal with the NRCC to not target any senior Republicans, ... more »
His Highness Stephen Harper does not answer questions
Inconsiderate reporters waste the time of His Majesty Stephen Harper.
Following video speaks volumes about Harper's attitude. He is accountable
to no one. It is a shame. Who would have thought that we will have
dictatorship in Canada.
The Realist Report - Eric Hunt: Jewish Gas Chamber Hoax
On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined by Eric Hunt. Eric
and I will be discussing his films *The Last Days of the Big Lie* and *The
Jewish Gas Chamber Hoax*.
You can download the mp3 for this program *here*, or visit *The Realist
Report* on BlogTalkRadio to subscribe via iTunes and view past programs.
Below are relevant links for this program:
- *The Jewish Gas Chamber Hoax*
- *The Last Days of the Big Lie*
- *One Third of the Holocaust*
- *What is the "Holocaust" story really all about? - John Friend*
- *1.2m killed at Auschwitz in just one day - ... more »
One Woman Blockade: Cheyenne River Hero Halts Megaload
Joye
Braun: NO! to fat takers, halts megaload to oilfields
By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
Courtesy photo published with permission
EAGLE BUTTE, S.D. -- A Cheyenne River Lakota woman turned a megaload
around today, saying "No!" to fat takers and megaloads" headed to the
oil fields, adding that "you have to be the change you want."
Joye Braun told Censored News, "There were two trucks that
Vindication For Edward Herman
Just a little footnote in history. But yesterday I read a columnist (can't
remember who) saying an former Iranian official has admitted that it was
his country that blew up Lockerbie, Pan Am Flight 103, and not Libya. The
Libyan guy convicted of the bombing was mysteriously given an early release
on the grounds that he had three months to live before his cancer killed
him, but he lived another three years. The deal to get him out of prison
was dodgy to say the least.
Aha! It was Gwynne Dyer!
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, a Libyan airline official who was convicted of
placing the bomb aboa... more »
TALKING TO OURSELVES: Salon says Ryan is worse than he looks!
*WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 2014*
*Part 3—Talk like a South Ossetian:* On Monday morning, Salon’s Brian
Beutler broke our hearts again.
His piece appeared beneath a set of Salonistic headlines. You can’t fully
blame Beutler for this. But prepare to be scared, really scared:
*Paul Ryan’s race flap even worse than it looks*
The notion that Ryan was dog-whistling to racists is actually the best-case
scenario. Here’s the scary alternative.
What makes those headlines Salonistic? Easy:
According to Hard Salon Tribal Law, every “flap” involving race has to be
“even worse than it looks.” Also, p... more »
Reading Out of Context: “But there was something missing,” Walter Dean Myers
Reading Out of Context: “But there was something missing,” Walter Dean
Myers. via Reading Out of Context: “But there was something missing,”
Walter Dean Myers.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical
Stemming STEM Will Help Everyone Except the Billionaires
I have been railing for a number of years about the corporate socialism at
work in the creation of an oversupply of scientists, technocrats, and
engineers. Follow the links.
So here is a clip from a very thoughtful piece from the Atlantic today,
which concludes that the creation of an oversupply of workers in science,
tech, and engineering could, in fact, make these fields of endeavor so
unattractive as career fields that the phony shortage may, indeed, become
real.
So the short term goal of creating an oversupply to drive down wages serves
no one except Bill Gates and Billionaire... more »
The extraordinary deeds of ordinary men
By Capt. Fogg
I won't comment on the proposition that the men who were honored with the
Congressional Medal of Honor yesterday had been overlooked because they had
been identified with some less favored ethnic group. It takes away from
their individual stories and suggests that by honoring them we're doing
them some sort of favor by elevating them to the level of "regular"
Americans.
Having listened yesterday to the long recitation of the deeds of these
medal recipients, I don't doubt that they all earned the long delayed
distinction in full. In fact I felt that although I had o... more »
Anbar Before And After The Awakening Pt. XII General Nouri al-Fahadawi
General Nouri al-Din Abdul al-Karim Muhlif al-Fahadawi was appointed the
head of intelligence in Anbar in May 2007. Before that he worked with the
local police in Anbar, and then the Defense Ministry in Baghdad. In 2009
the U.S. Marine Corps interviewed him about his experiences in the
province. He talked about how the Americans initially mishandled the
security situation in Anbar, but then how Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) lost its
support as a result of its own mistreatment of the population.
In April 2003 U.S. forces entered Anbar without a fight, but in less than a
year the provinc... more »
Free Planet - second ever LIVE remote viewing session.
Well, it's that time again, that back-right of my head is tingling and I
need to do another LIVE remote viewing experiment that's actually more like
Automatic Typing that Remote Viewing but let's not distract ourselves...
I'm going to 'flavour' this LIVE remote viewing with a question, "What is
the purpose of my life," and by this I mean I want to focus on 'the
possibility' that I'm not just here to eat, shit and die, and that there
might actually be 'some point' to my occupying this Flesh Machine for 48
years now.
Right, I'm ready...
1. fish bone archon
2. immediate dial... more »
Israel launched airstrikes into Syria- supporting their Islamists, of course
*Israel boasts* &* Syria confirms Israeli attack*
Where is John Kerry? Bald headed Hague? Why are these two hypocrites,
spewing their usual hyperbole, always missing in action when it comes to
Israel?
You know Kerry who utters such stupidities as this regarding Crimea
*"You just don't in the 21st Century behave in 19th Century fashion by
invading another country on completely trumped up pretext."*
Kerry, where are you? I am waiting for your condemnation of Israel. And
for the US to take action against this heinous breach of Syrian sovereignty
and territorial integrity.
Not the fi... more »
Provocations- Crimean sniper fire updated- UN Security council to meet
*The Crimean killings........updated from yesterday*
Sniper attack in Crimea- Two dead- Maidan take two?
As mentioned: Two dead. One Ukrainian military. One Russian self defence
force.
The NATO/corporate media is now also mentioning the two deaths.
*UPDATE-G&M* One *"Ukrainian soldier was killed when he was shot in the
heart"*.
News reports out of Crimea said *"one of the pro-Russian soldiers also
died"*
*Regarding earlier reports of one sniper down? Bogus*
Earlier, a fake Twitter account supposedly belonging to Prime Minister
Sergey Aksyonov had stated that a sniper had indeed bee... more »
Ban anti human Activity
We have a world court in the Hague that functions well. So lets just pass
laws at that level against anti human activity. Sure we can not bring most
to justice, but being on notice as a tendency to change behavior. The world
has a success story in the war on Ozone defeating activities. Lets take
down the humanity hurting scumbags for once and for all.
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*Carville: More attention on benefits, not costs of coastal restoration
~Amy Wold, The Advocate*
*Timeline shows how energy industry violated laws, levee authority
attorneys say ~Mark Schleifstein*
*Assessors eye La. salt caverns as revenue source ~David J. Mitchell*
*CB&I, Chiyoda awarded $6 billion contract to construct Cameron
liquefaction project; Sempra to hold 50% ownership in Cameron, project
~Renita D. Young*
*BP making 31 bids in Gulf oil lease sale ~AP*
*BR-N.O. passenger rail service estimated at $262 million ~Timothy Boone*
*UnfairBnB: What Unlicensed Short-Term Rental... more »
Bitcoin news March 17 , 2014 - Regulatory statements and related actions -- China ( Temporary QR Code Ban ) , South Africa and Germany ( Bundesbank member comment ) , investment fron ( Bitstamp item ) , Blockchain.info Is Down For Unscheduled Maintenance, Due To Issue With Database
Catharsis Ours - 15 hours ago
China’s Temporary QR Code Ban
Could Have Implications for
Bitcoin’s Future
Pete Rizzo (@pete_rizzo_) | Published on March 17, 2014 at 19:01 GMT |
*Asia, News, Regulation,Technology*
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The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) has placed a temporary ban on payments
made by scanning quick-response (QR) codes with mobile devices.
The move by China’s central bank, which was announced on 14th March, is
aimed at stopping, at least for the moment, the upcoming launch of ‘virtual
credit cards’ by major Internet companies.
Alibaba, China’s leading e-com... more »
Better To Reign In Hell
Jim Flaherty jumped ship yesterday. It came as no surprise. When he
questioned the wisdom of income splitting, he signalled that he was heading
for dry land. He had the temerity to question the central tenet of
Harperism. The surplus could not be used to pay down the national debt.
And, more unacceptable still, it could not be invested in national
priorities. It had to be used for tax cuts.
Tax cuts don't serve the nation. They serve one purpose -- and one purpose
only. They buy votes. And, therefore, they keep Stephen Harper in power. It
was the equivalent of questioning the ... more »
PCCC Endorses Brian Schatz
This morning, Brian Schatz added another grassroots progressive group to
his growing list of endorsers. The PCCC came out strongly in favor of
Schatz's campaign after their local members voted 4 to 1 in favor of the
organization endorsing Brian over New Dem Colleen Hanabusa. They cited
Social Security as the "defining issue" in the race and in their decision.
Hanabusa, one of the most corrupt politicians in Hawaii, has adamantly
refused to to rule out cutting Social Security benefits. She did not join
many of her House colleagues who signed the Grayson-Takano letter, which
promis... more »
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*Millions of healthy Britons are set to be prescribed them, but why do many
GPs say they won't take statins?*
*As Dr Chand says, the litmus test is if you get better by stopping the
pills. Many do. It shows that the pills are the cause of the problems, not
just a coincidence*
He’d been a GP for a quarter of a century and had written ‘tens of
thousands of statin prescriptions’. Then two years ago, Dr Kailash Chand,
too, started taking the cholesterol-lowering pills to protect his heart.
As Dr Chand, who is the deputy chairman of the British Medical Association
— the doctors’ uni... more »
Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies news March 19 , 2014 -- Breaking: CoinEx.pw hacked, all coins stolen ....... Sean’s Outpost & Satoshi Forest Under Attack ....... Breaking: Blockchain Outage And Cause Of The Issue ...... BREAKING: As Promised, Bitcurex Resumes Operations on Tuesday ....... Bank of Thailand issues another statement on Bitcoin
Breaking: CoinEx.pw hacked, all coins stolen
Christoph Marckx
19/03/2014
Bitcoin, Bitcoin Exchanges, Breaking News, News, Security
Posted 2 hours ago
[image: coinex got hacked, coins stolen]
CoinEx.pw got hacked, all coins are stolen as reported by founder Erundook.
Another one bites the dust. CoinEx.pw seems to be the next exchange that
became the victim of a successful hack. Today, CoinEx finally responded on
Bitcointalk.org.
A few days ago, people started complaining in CoinEx’official thread at the
Bitcointalk forum. At first, deposits and withdrawals seemed impossible.
Sh... more »
NSA spying on everyone updates March 19 , 2014 -- NSA Recorded the CONTENT of 'EVERY SINGLE' CALL in a Foreign Country ... and Also In AMERICA ? Proof of lies -- NSA whistleblower Russel Tice – a key source in the 2005 New York Times report that blew the lid off the Bush administration’s use of warrantless wiretapping – says that the content and metadata of all digital communications are being tapped by the NSA. ......
NSA Recorded the CONTENT of 'EVERY SINGLE' CALL in a Foreign Country ...
and Also In AMERICA?
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- ETC
- FBI
- national security
- NBC
- New York Times
- SPY
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The Washington Post reports – based upon documents leaked by Edward Snowden
– that the NSA is recording *“every single”*phone call in one foreign
country (at the request of the NSA, the Post is withholding the name of the
country. However, the Post notes that the NSA is also planning on expanding
th... more »
Malaysia Airline mystery March 17 , 2014 - Alternative theory from Keith Ledgerwood -- Did Malaysian Airlines 370 disappear using SIA68/SQ68 (another 777) ? And if so , might the plane that no one can find debris for actually be in Xingjian province, Kyrgyzstan, or Turkmenistan ? India fears a 9/11 type attack and continuing triple talk from Malaysian Government Officials - just make folks very nervous and distrustful !
Catharsis Ours - 15 hours ago
http://keithledgerwood.tumblr.com/post/79838944823/did-malaysian-airlines-370-disappear-using-sia68-sq68
Did Malaysian Airlines 370 disappear using SIA68/SQ68 (another 777)?
*Monday, March 17, 2014 - 12:01 AM EST*
*UPDATED: Monday, March 17, 2014 - 9:00 AM EST**Typo was made during the
conversion of UTC times. Meeting of SIA68 and MH320 occurred at 18:00UTC -
18:15UTC. MH320 dropped off of civilian radar at 17:22UTC.*
*UPDATE - Monday, March 17, 2014 - 12:15 PM EST**Some have raised the
statement that TCAS doesn’t work if the transponder is disabled… this is
only partially correct... more »
Reasons to Invest in apartment Buildings by Jeff Adams
When most people hear about the millions of dollars investors make buying
and selling real estate, the majority of them imagine about homes and
duplexes. That’s because nearly each person starts on its own family
market.
The main reason investors start out buying homes is because they have heard
all the stories or watched an infomercial where some guru is pitching the
latest and greatest money down technique. Buyers think they can purchase
homes with no money using a variety of methods including foreclosure,
rehab, fix and flip, subject to, lease option, partnerships, wholesaling... more »
War watch - Ukraine , Syria and Iraq items of note March 19 , 2014 !
Ukraine......
EU Hawks Call to Escalate Sanctions, But Not Everyone Is SoldAustria,
Others See Sanctions War as Losing Proposition
by Jason Ditz, March 18, 2014
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A first round of EU sanctions against Russia, unveiled yesterday, has been
roundly mocked by Russian officials as weak and meaningless. Hawks among
the EU foreign ministers are inclined to agree, and are pushing for an immediate
and dramatic escalation of sanctions.
That’s not going to be an easy sell, as the EU can’t impose anything that’s
not unanimous, and with Russian trade ties vital to many natio... more »
Malaysia Airlines Mystery March 19 , 2014 -- A day 12 rolls on , Malaysian Authorities swat down theories ( Maldives sighting ) , try to keep relatives calm ( as relatives try to storm pres briefing ) , attempt to tamp down speculation ( while trying to retrieve deleted files from the pilot's home flight simulator ) and still are requesting military radar ( has the US supplied its data yet from Diego Garcia ? )
Catharsis Ours - 16 hours ago
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/19/mh370-assumed-lost-in-the-indian-ocean-live-updates
9.32pm GMT
Summary
We’re going to tie up this live blog. Here’s a summary of where things
stand:
*• **The 13th day of the search for MH370 has opened *in the southern
Indian Ocean, with five merchant ships answering a call to search alongside
surveillance aircraft from Australia, the US and New Zealand.
*• Frustrated relatives of missing passengers were ejected from a news
conference with Malaysian officials* Wednesday. The relatives accused
authorities of withholding information. “We can... more »
Recusal motion
*Dugas v. Gaudet et al.*, 2014 NBCA 7:
[5] The grounds giving rise to the apprehension of bias must
be sufficiently serious to rebut the presumption that the judge will abide
by his or her oath of office and “[judge] a particular controversy fairly
on the basis of its own circumstances” (see United States v. Morgan, 313
U.S. 409 (1941), at p. 421, excerpt quoted with approval in R. v. S.(R.D.),
1997 CanLII 324 (SCC), [1997] 3 S.C.R. 484, [1997] S.C.J. No. 84 (QL)).
Reporting Israel's reaction first
The BBC report thus:
'*Israel attacks Syrian army sites after Golan bombing*
Israel says it has attacked several Syrian military sites in retaliation
for a bombing that wounded four of its troops in the occupied Golan Heights.
Among the targets were a headquarters, a training facility and artillery
batteries, the Israeli military said.
The Syrian army had "aided and abetted" the attack on a patrol near the
ceasefire line on Tuesday, it added.
There has been no comment yet on the air strikes from Syria and it is not
clear if there were any casualties.'
So far as I am aware the BBC ... more »
Nazis in Antarctica - The Fürherkonvoy
I quote The Enemy:
*U-977 was launched in 1943. She was used in training and made no war
patrols during her first two years of service. *
*On 2 May 1945 she was sent on her first war patrol, sailing from
Kristiansand, Norway, under the command of Oberleutnant Heinz Schäffer
(1921–1979). Schäffer's orders were to enter the British port of
Southampton and sink any shipping he found there. This would have been a
very dangerous assignment for a Type VII boat. When Admiral Dönitz ordered
all attack submarines to stand down on 5 May 1945, U-977 was outbound north
of Scotland.*
*Ober... more »
Declarations of War In Iraq; Escalations In Ukraine; The Facade of The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process
"The eventual victors of the war had established secret treaties during the
war, such as the Sykes-Picot Agreement, that would allocate control of
various territories to European authorities. Baker described how the
negotiations during the conference after the war corresponded closely with
these secret treaties, as well as with the ongoing planning of an oil
pipeline and a railroad. “[I]t suddenly emerged in the secret councils …
that powerful British and French commercial interests were at that moment
negotiating for the laying of a pipe line from the Mesopotamian oil fields
to t... more »
AL QAEDA'S INSPIRE MAGAZINE; PROSTITUTES IN SAN DIEGO
Al-Qaeda has published the twelfth issue of its propaganda magazine, called*
Inspire*.
*Al-Qaeda urges followers not to bomb the military or Jews - Telegraph*
In *Inspire*, Al Qaeda names the Savoy Hotel, which is owned by a Moslem
Arab, as a top target.
The Savoy owner, Prince Al Waleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz al Saud, uses
Fairmont Hotels and Resorts to manage the hotel.
*Al Qaeda urges followers to bomb Moslems and Christians*
Al Qaeda wants proletarian football supporters to be killed, but does not
want any damage done to property that might be owned by Jewish oligarchs
(u... more »
Untitled
*CFC quack singing an old song*
*Below is an attempt to leverage off the prestige of an earlier Greenie
hero. Everything he says is Greenie boilerplate and mostly wrong. But his
claim to fame is his theory that CFCs caused the ozone hole in Antarctica.
But both fact and theory have since demolished that theory. CFC reduction
has not led to the hole shrinking and "Our understanding of chloride
chemistry has really been blown apart" by recent findings. So the Warmists
are relying on a man who was demonstrably wrong before*
Early in his career, a scientist named Mario J. Molina w... more »
Deek Jackson - New History of Humanity - civilisation millions of years earlier
Deek Jackson makes some bold claims about Human Evolution in his
documentary New History of Humanity.
TOOL USE: one million years earlier
TOOL MAKING: three hundred and fifty thousand years earlier
HUNTING: a million years earlier
FIRE USE/COOKING: three hundred thousand years earlier
*Until recently the oldest, unchallenged evidence of human hunting came
from a 400,000-year-old site in Germany the evidence came from marks left
by spears on horse bones - horses were clearly being speared and their
flesh eaten. but new Evidence from ancient butchery site in Tanzania shows
early man... more »
RT > Sophie & Co > How Coup'd You?
Sophie Shevardnadze (host of Sophie & Co) talks to *former US intelligence
officer* Scott Rickard to find out how one funds a foreign revolution.
*Scott Rickard, never heard of him, like what does he gain from doing
seemingly destructive interviews like this? I mean, I like his data, his
'alternative history lessons' but am unsure of his motivation. Is Scott
Rickards a KNOWN WHISTLEBLOWER that I didn't get the memo about? (ed)*
"Sanctions are an act of War," boasts Scott Rickard.
Join The TPP Facebook Blitz Today
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Post on these mainstream media FB pages and tell them to cover this toxic
trade agreement. The public NEEDS TO KNOW about the TPP. Starting at 6pm
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While it looks like we and a spectrum of other organizations have helped to
stall Fast Track and the TPP, it has not gone away. There is still much
work to be do... more »
After Gardasil: Will I Ever Get My Normal Life Back? by Helena Overgaard Andersen
Helena
After Gardasil: Will I ever get my normal life back?
By Helena Overgaard Andersen
Helsingør, Denmark
Sane Vax, Inc. 18 March 2014
*As I am now in touch with many other girls who have been vaccinated with
Gardasil and who also have been suffering many health issues, many similar
to mine, I am determined to do the best I can to investigate ways of
improving my Health.*
I am a 15-year-old girl from Denmark, who unfortunately has been harmed by
the HPV vaccine like thousands of other girls worldwide. I had no idea that
this vaccine could change my life so much and take aw... more »
In Syria, God Is No Longer Great
An excerpt from, *"War turns Syrian society upside down"* by Suhaib
Anjarini, Al Akhbar English, March 18, 2014:
The word “takbir,” which is the Arabic term for the phrase “God is great”
is now used all the time and has become a way to jest and joke. *The use of
the phrase “God is great” is no longer welcomed within certain circles
because of it association with fighters.* Fouad tells *Al-Akhbar*: “I
received my passport after waiting five months. In the meantime, I checked
with the immigration and passport department about 10 times until I lost
hope of ever getting it. Finally, whe... more »
Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW) - Paper Towels
Welcome to Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)!
Wondering how to live greener? You've come to the right place. Each week we
challenge ourselves to try a new task ... or "amp up" something we're
already doing. We raise our awareness, learn from each other and develop
Eco-friendly skills which will improve our lives and protect our planet.
Doing so together gives us power ... the power to Change The World!
If this is your first visit, please click HERE for information and a
complete list of all the challenges we've taken on so far.
This post contains great information and I encourage ... more »
White Man March - the beginning of something much bigger?
Kyle Hunt, host of *The Blitzkrieg Broadcast* on *Renegade Broadcasting*,
is one of the leading organizers of the *White Man March* which took place
this past Saturday, March 15th. What follows is a transcript of the
questions I asked Kyle for a review of the White Man March I am currently
writing for *American Free Press* (America's last *real* newspaper!),
followed by his responses. I also *interviewed Kyle* on my radio program, *The
Realist Report*, earlier this morning (mp3 is *here*).
*JF:* Could you please provide a brief explanation of the purpose and
goal(s) of the March?
*... more »
Suddenly MI-11 Is In Serious Play For The Democrats-- Nancy Skinner Is Running
One of the most bitter and brutal Republican mini-civil wars is raging in
MI-11, west and northwest of Detroit and we took a brief look at it last
week. Incumbent teabagger Kerry Bentivolio is up against a fatally flawed
eviction and foreclosurer specialist, Dave Trott, who is being financed by
the corrupt Republican Establishment. The teabaggers are currently running
this *very* effective ad against Trott:
Steve Israel, sensing an opportunity to elect one of his vile mystery meat
candidates, recruited an ex-CIA agent, Bobby MacKenzie, who refuses to talk
issues and is hoping t... more »
Big success with the big bang!
To give you some context, after thirty-five years scientist Andrei Linde
had his hypothesis about the birth of the universe confirmed this week.
Wonder no longer that must have felt like, as “Assistant Professor Chao-Lin
Kuo surprises Professor Andrei Linde with evidence that supports cosmic
inflation theory. The discovery, made by Kuo and his colleagues at the
BICEP2 experiment, represents the first images of gravitational waves, or
ripples in space-time. These waves have been described as the ‘first
tremors of the Big Bang.’”
This is what it looks like to see your life’s work vi... more »
US Expels Syrian Diplomats - Dangerous Desperation in the Air
[image: 453453]*March 19, 2014 *(Tony Cartalucci - New Eastern Outlook) -
In Al Jazeera's report, "US suspends diplomatic relations with Syria," it
states:
The United States has officially told the Syrian government to immediately
suspend its diplomatic and consular missions in the country, and ordered
its diplomats to leave the country if they are not US citizens.
"We have determined it is unacceptable for individuals appointed by that
regime to conduct diplomatic or consular operations in the United States,"
US special envoy for Syria, Daniel Rubinstein, said in a statement issue... more »
QUOTE OF THE DAY: On the cause of cronyism
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Update
Wow! My last post was about not drinking caffeine, and I have not drank it
since. It was not a hard process at all. I still crave it sometimes when
I am tired, but I have avoided it. Yay!
So, we have so much going on. Tomorrow morning, we are heading out early
to Ohio to buy our vehicle for Costa Rica. We are buying a Nissan Xterra.
It is the best choice for us for Costa Rica. Cannot wait to have that.
We are then going to renew our passports in Detroit at this place that
does expedited passport renewal.
Kurt is planning on leaving April 24. He has two friends going with m... more »
BREAKING: Students Take Legislature UPDATE WITH LIVESTREAM
BREAKING: Students occupy legislature to protest illegal trade pact moves.
The KMT ignored procedure to bring the pact to a vote, and has ignored the
public's expressed wish for a line by line review.
- Buzzfeed with good explanation
- LiveStream *[NEW]*
- Ketagalen media
- CNN iReport.
- Slideshare.net: problems with the trade pact (in Chinese)
- FocusTaiwan: gov't media view, love the comical stuff from Ma about
respecting the legislature -- remember the MaWangMess when he went after
its speaker?
_______________________
[Taiwan] Don't miss the comments below!... more »
Musical Interlude: Medwyn Goodall, “Eye of the Wolf”
Medwyn Goodall, “Eye of the Wolf”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBuSKPD2jY0
"A Look to the Heavens"
"Is this what will become of our Sun? Quite possibly. The bubble of
expanding gas pictured below is the planetary nebula PK 164 +31.1, the
remnants of the atmosphere of a Sun-like star expelled as its supply of
fusion-able core hydrogen became depleted. Visible near the center of the
nebula is what remains of the core itself- a blue-hot white dwarf star.
This particularly photogenic planetary nebula shows intricate shells of gas
likely expelled at different times toward the end the star's demise, and
whose structure is not fully understood.
*Click image for larger size.*
This deep i... more »
"The Essential Thing..."
"The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.
The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well."
- Pierre de Courbertin
"Lifting Pain's Veil: Bitterness"
*"Lifting Pain's Veil: Bitterness"*
by Madisyn Taylor, The DailyOM
"Bitter feelings allow us to become perfect victims in that we no longer
feel obliged to work toward healing. It is natural to feel resentment or
anger when life does not unfold as expected. We consciously or
unconsciously anticipated one experience, and we grieve for the loss of it
when the universe puts something else in our path. Most of the time, we
work through these feelings and they pass. Occasionally, our anger and
resentment do not fade and are instead transformed into bitterness. Bitter
feelings allow us t... more »
Health: “What is a ‘Cytokine Storm?’"
*“What is a ‘Cytokine Storm?’" *
by Wisegeek
"We think of external microbes as our worst enemy during an outbreak of
influenza or bronchitis but our own immune system is potentially more
lethal. When our body detects foreign microorganisms indicating an
infection, our body might respond by over-protecting the site of infection.
The body may race so many antibodies to the infection site that they
collect in a cytokine storm. When the infection is in the lungs, for
example, a cytokine storm can potentially block airways and result in
suffocation. Medical researchers have identified th... more »
Clarissa Dickson Wright (1947-2014)
*in this Two Fat Ladies "Afternoon Tea" clip, that's Jennifer Paterson
(1928-1999) who cooks first. Clarissa gets her turn at 2:36.*
*by Ken*
I'm kind of surprised to see that in all there were only 24 episodes of *Two
Fat Ladies*, produced in four series from 1996 to 1999, when Jennifer
Paterson (born 1928) died, within a month of being diagnosed with lung
cancer. The younger lady, Clarissa Dickson Wright (born 1947), died
Saturday. Separately or together, the two were about the least probable TV
stars you could imagine. But together, they were something else, and theirs
was a co... more »
Alan Watts,“Chivalry”
*“Chivalry”*
by Alan Watts
“It comes, then, to this: that to be "viable", livable, or merely
practical, life must be lived as a game - and the "must" here expresses a
condition, not a commandment. It must be lived in the spirit of play rather
than work, and the conflicts which it involves must be carried on in the
realization that no species, or party to a game, can survive without its
natural antagonists, its beloved enemies, its indispensable opponents. For
to "love your enemies" is to love them as enemies; it is not necessarily a
clever device for winning them over to your side.... more »
The Poet: Mary Oliver, “The Spirit Likes To Dress Up”
*“The Spirit Likes To Dress Up”*
by Mary Oliver
"The spirit likes to dress up like this:
ten fingers, ten toes, shoulders, and all the rest,
at night in the black branches,
in the morning in the blue branches of the world.
․
It could float, of course,
but would rather plumb rough matter.
Airy and shapeless thing,
it needs the metaphor of the body,
lime and appetite, the oceanic fluids;
it needs the body's world, instinct and imagination,
and the dark hug of time, sweetness and tangibility,
to be understood,
to be more than pure light that burns
where no ... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
Talca, Maule, Chile. Thanks for stopping by.
Sam Smith,"Never Despair"
"Never Despair"
by Sam Smith
"Empires and cultures are not permanent and while thinking about the
possibility that ours is collapsing may seem a dismal exercise it is far
less so than enduring the frustrations, failures, damage and human
casualties involved in constantly butting up against reality like a boozer
who insists he is not drunk attempting to drive home. Peter Ustinov in
'Romanoff and Juliet' says at one point: "I'm an optimist: I know how bad
the world is. You're a pessimist: you're always finding out." Or as GK
Chesterton put it, "We must learn to love life without ever... more »
"Who Are You? What Do You Know?"
"Go without a coat when it's cold; find out what cold is. Go hungry; keep
your existence lean. Wear away the fat, get down to the lean tissue and see
what it's all about. The only time you define your character is when you go
without. In times of hardship, you find out what you're made of and what
you're capable of. If you're never tested, you'll never define your
character."
- Henry Rollins
Chet Raymo,"Six Things"
*"Six Things"*
by Chet Raymo
"My mother was part of the last generation of Americans who were welded
into a national cohesiveness by the classroom memorization of poems by
English language poets - Longfellow, Whittier, Riley, Lowell, Field, and
all the rest. All her life, lines of verse were on her lips...
"All at once, and nothing first,
Just as bubbles do when they burst."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The One Hoss Shay"
"Each morning sees some task begin,
Each evening sees it close;
Something attempted, something done,
Has earned a night's repose."
Longfellow, "The Village Black... more »
Another Escalation: US Freezes Diplomatic Relations With Syria, Orders Non-US Personnel To Leave Country ..... Is this like the man who kicks the dog after a bad day at work ?
Another Escalation: US Freezes Diplomatic Relations With Syria, Orders
Non-US Personnel To Leave Country
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- Michigan
- Reuters
- Ukraine
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Putin 2 - Obama 0, which means it is time to go back to the one place where
it all started last year, and where Putin had his most resounding victory
over the US foreign policy apparatus (at least until the Ukraine, where we
trampled not only over Obama's red line... again... but where nobody quite
explained the "costs" to the ex-KGB leade... more »
Pond Inlet
Pond Inlet is considered to be one of Canada's 'jewels of the north.' It is
ringed by scenic mountain ranges, with many glaciers and fiords. There are
ice caves to explore, hoodoos to marvel at and abundant species of wild
animals to watch, including narwhals. There are also beluga and orca
whales, ringed and harp seals, caribou, arctic foxes and wolves, seabirds,
geese, gyrfalcons, ptarmigans, gulls and ravens to encounter, plus the
occasional polar bear to be viewed from a safe distance.
Indeed, a safe distance!
Nice Job Neocons: Now What?
Nothing can be more exceptionally American than the shock and arrogance
expressed by the US political class in the aftermath of Russia’s annexation
of Crimea. They are outraged, I tell you, outraged that the loathed Russian
President Vladimir Putin would call their bluff and refuse to sniff the
glove after they had pissed on his prized showcase of the Sochi Winter
Olympics and then with assistance of fascists, neo-Nazis and assorted other
anti-Semitic miscreants toppled the democratically elected government that
sits on his borders. The nerve of Putin to not submit to having yet mor... more »
Hand-wringing
Sue has already neatly knocked the stuffing out of Owen Jones's
shouty-but-featherweight piece on BBC bias...
[Anyway, any man who begins his article with the words, *"There are
three
certainties about British life: it rains on bank
holidays...,"*automatically disqualifies himself from being taken
seriously, in my ever
so 'umble opinion.
[The Morecambe Marketing Board (slogan: "Sunshine guaranteed, with a
friendly smile and a few Morecambe Bay shrimps chucked in (at a price).
And
don't forget to photograph yourselves with the Eric Morecambe statue
whilst
you're here") will have... more »
Ron Jacobs : The multi-pronged provocation of Crimea
After years of watching Washington and its NATO alliance entice and cajole
traditionally Russian allies to join the western capitalist sphere, Moscow
has recently begun fighting back. By Ron Jacobs | The Rag Blog | March 18,
2014 Recent events … finish reading Ron Jacobs :
The multi-pronged provocation of Crimea
Get your Chinese tattoo translated first
And you think Chinglish on signs and T-shirts is hilarious. What about
having “chicken soup” tattooed on your chest in Chinese? Or worse?
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ECONOMICS FOR REAL PEOPLE: Going Scottish
[image: image]What’s on at this week’s Auckland Uni Econ Group? Thanks for
asking:
In this week’s seminar we’ll be looking at an economic idea developed by an
eighteenth-century Scotsman that changed course of history. An
uncomplicated idea presented through a simple story with history-making
implications.
What was the story? And what can this sixteenth-century Scotsman teach
both modern-day Peruvian hill tribes and today’s economists?
We’ll see that this idea provides the foundation for the whole field of
economics and can be used to help us answer almost all questions related ... more »
Sniper attack in Crimea- Two dead- Maidan take two?
* Did a sniper manage to slip through the security checks?*
2 Incidents? NO, just one.
One pro-Russian militiaman was killed and two other wounded on Tuesday in a
sniper attack on the streets of the Crimean capital, Simferopol, *local
media reported.*
*A unit of pro-Russian self-defense forces came under sniper fire *w*hile
searching for a group of unidentified gunmen on a tip from local residents*,
the Kryminform news agency said citing a *Crimean police source.*
“As a result, one member of self-defense forces was killed and two were
wounded,” the source said, adding that the in... more »
Why Marx Was Right
I'm currently reading Terry Eagleton's *Why Marx Was Right*, a little book
that came out in 2011. And, I have to say, it is possibly the best short
introductory work to Marx and Marxism I've read. And I've read *a lot*.
Taking a set of common charges made against Marx (Marx was a determinist,
Marx hated individualism, Marx is outdated, Marx foreshadowed Stalin, etc.)
Eagleton patiently but clearly explains why those objections are mistaken
and in so doing sets out Marx's stall for him. The Marx that springs from
the page is a profoundly positive thinker and comrade sceptical of gran... more »
Dahlan: Mahmoud Abbas is a Catastrophe; Negotiations Are "One Big Lie"
"Mahmoud Abbas no longer represents Fatah. He represents the negotiations,
the destruction of the PA (Palestinian Authority), the plundering of the
PA, and all that is evil in the lives of the Palestinians." - Mohammed
Dahlan, "the former leader of Fatah in Gaza...In 2007, Dahlan assisted in a
U.S. plan to overthrow the elected Hamas government in Gaza, but the coup
failed when Hamas carried out a counter-coup, and routed Fatah forces in
Gaza instead" (*Wikipedia*).
Video Title: Dahlan: Mahmoud Abbas is a Catastrophe; Negotiations Are "One
Big Lie." Source: MEMRIReports. Date Publ... more »
Untitled
*Let The Freak Show Begin ~Adrastos, First Draft** ~I really didn't think
that 4 term former Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards (hereinafter EWE or
just plain Edwin) would run for Congress. I even predicted a non-candidacy
on social media. In the immortal words of Graham Parker "I thought I was
right, I was wrong."*
*After EWE's announcement there was a lot of back and forth on NOLA twitter
between the moralists who were outraged and horrified and those of us who
view politics as entertainment with higher than average stakes. The
moralists are concerned that EWE's candidacy will "hurt ... more »
The New Zealand Left Needs To Reinvent Itself [updated]
*Guest post by Hugh Pavletich*
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This week’s big local political news is NZ Labour’s Travails. A fairly
balanced *Otago Daily Times* editorial summarises, asking rhetorically:
Can it get any worse for Labour leader David Cunliffe … six months out from
the September 20 general election?
The results of the *Herald* DigiPoll survey released this week put
Labour's support down to 29.5%, the lowest it has been since Mr Cunliffe
took over the leadership from David Shearer in September last year, and Mr
Cunliffe's individual support down to 11.1%, lower than the worst D... more »
GOP Plutocrat Ken Langone And New Dem Wall Street Shill Jim Himes Are Waging Class War Against American Families
Although he occasionally writes a check to Democratic corporate whores who
serve Wall Street and fight for the plutocracy-- like Chuck Schumer,
Kirsten Gillibrand, Andrew Cuomo, Steve Israel and Cory Booker-- in the
last few election cycles Ken Langone has contributed hundreds of thousands
of dollars-- at least $800,000-- to the Republican Party, to right-wing
Republican candidates and to GOP committees (like $25,000 to Rove's
American Crossroads). Forbes estimates his net worth at around $2.1
billion, so his contributions of around $800,000, would be like a normal
person giving ... more »
Light Guacamole made with Greek Yogurt
There a few things that I love more than guacamole. I love it on my tacos
or just with a package of tortilla chips. The one thing I don't love about
guacamole is the calories. If I am not careful, I can eat an entire bowl of
guacamole in one sitting. Three avocados is enough to kill anybody's
calories for the day. When I am looking for a lighter, delicious option, I
will make this Light Guacamole. It is easy to pull together, and made with
Greek Yogurt, for added protein.
You will need:
1 Large Avocado, mashed
1 Container Plain Greek Yogurt
The juice of one lime, to taste
1/2 tsp. ... more »
Why I Don't Want My Daughter to Work in Silicon Valley
As someone who worked in the tech world for over 30 years, my heart goes
out to this gentleman who is concerned for his daughter's well being there.
I hired women in the 70's and 80's in an effort to make the
engineering/tech world smarter and more beneficial a place in which women
could make a living, support their families and learn skills useful for
their future work lives. As the articles
NAZI PROVOCATEURS 'KILL TWO IN CRIMEA'.
On 18 March 2014, an unknown sniper' killed a 'self-defense member'
(presumably pro-Russia) and a Ukrainian soldier near a military research
centre in Crimea.
*2 killed in shooting near Crimea military research center, sniper
suspected*
The 'suspected sniper' opened fire in two directions from a partially
inhabited building near the military research centre in Simferopol.
The Kryminform news agency, citing an unnamed local police source, reports
shooting came from a house under construction opposite the centre and
targeted Crimean self-defense units as well the military centre i... more »
Robert Jensen and Pat Youngblood : Working for a realistic left politics in Texas
To our friends outside Texas, we ask: Is it really so much better where you
live? Where in mainstream politics in the United States is there much
sanity? By Robert Jensen and Pat Youngblood | The Rag Blog | February …
finish reading Robert Jensen and Pat Youngblood :
Working for a realistic left politics in Texas
Governor Christie Starving Public Education for a Fifth Year
Governor Chris Christie is still bullying public schools and public school
teachers who do not work for his bosses in New Jersey. You know, the ones
who are being paid off with favors and punished for not bowing down to him.
The governor who is under investigation for closing bridges and playing
games with Hurricane Sandy funds, is once again putting children and
families in harms way by not adequately funding public schools. He knows
how to keep a promise when it comes to not raising taxes on millionaires
and billionaires in his state. After all, why would a governor want to
gener... more »
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