Sunday, March 09, 2014

9 Mar - Blogs I'm Following II

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Spring Fever $500 Cash Giveaway

Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 30 minutes ago
Who doesn't need a little extra cash? What I love about this giveaway is that you get the money and then you can decide what you want to do with it. Do you want that iPad? A mixer? Do you want to pay down some bills? Then this giveaway is perfect for you, it is like a choose your own adventure. What would you do with $500 extra? Welcome to the $500 Spring Fever Cash Giveaway! We have joined an amazing group of bloggers to bring you this great giveaway. One lucky person will win $500 cash. ------------------------------ Enter to win $500 cash via PayPal. Complete the tasks below to ea... more »

Ever Wonder Why Steve Israel Won't Let The DCCC Take On Pollution Avatar Fred Upton-- And Why He Recruits Pro-Pollution Democrats?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 32 minutes ago
With Climate Change, energy policy and environmental protection shaping up as one of the most important cache of issues facing America's political elites, I've been trying to figure out why DCCC chairman Steve Israel would recruit so many awful candidates with views on the environment identical to Republicans. He has them keeping their mouths shit about it-- his "mystery meat strategy"-- but he's recruited shills for Big Coal like Jennifer Garrison in Ohio and a fracking enthusiast in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Kevin Strouse, where even Republicans are environmentally-conscious! ... more »

Meet & Greet (#MtaGt) - March - The Wellness Wife

Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 32 minutes ago
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"How It Really Is"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago

“8 Colossal Jackasses From the Right-Wing Fringe: Just-Stop-Being-Poor Edition”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago
*“8 Colossal Jackasses From the Right-Wing Fringe: * *Just-Stop-Being-Poor Edition”* By Janet Allon “Sure, there was plenty of tomfoolery and dickishness on display over at CPAC this week—what with Trump’s immigrants-are-coming-to-steal-jobs remark and Paul Ryan claiming poor parents don’t love their kids. But asinine comments were made elsewhere in the right-wing lunasphere. Some doozies: *1. Fox Business commentator’s advice on the poor: “Stop being poor.” *The Daily Show’s Aasif Mandvi may have found the greatest jackass of them all recently when he interviewed Fox Business comme... more »

Lion Rock 12: Bill Stacey on Free Markets, Big Government and Hong Kong

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 1 hour ago
The Lion Rock Institute (LRI) is Hong Kong's first independent free market think tank. It was formed 10 years ago by locals and some HK-based expats. LRI Chairman is Bill Stacey (left in this photo), an Australian banker who has been living in HK for more than a decade now. Co-founders of LRI Simon Lee (middle) and Andrew Work (right), a Canadian married to a HK lady and was LRI's first Executive Director. Picture taken during the LRI Reading Salon, October 19, 2013 of which I was one of the foreign participants. Bill writes for Next magazine in HK. I am posting below three of his ... more »

NEO-NAZI'S PUSH FOR POWER IN UKRAINE

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 hour ago
The leader of the Ukrainian radical group Right Sector, Dmitry Yarosh, was a major player the protests in Kiev that toppled the government in February. Now Yarosh has thrown his hat in the ring to be the country's next elected president. The Right Sector movement, an amalgamation of several far-right groups, was formed in November 2013. After the February 21 agreement between now-ousted President Viktor Yanukovich and opposition leaders was signed, the Right Sector declared they did not recognize it and would continue the armed struggle. But Yarosh is facing opposition from Russia... more »

Elite Network That Included Judges, Politicians, Bankers, Businessmen, Police, NATO ... even the Belgian Royal Family implicated in HORRIFIC CRIMES

urupiper at Yesterday 's Lies - 2 hours ago
* (I'm not really looking for this stuff btw . . .)* The Hidden World September 19, 2013 Marc Dutroux (born 1956), "the Monster of Belgium", is a Belgian Jew who is a convicted serial killer and paedophile. He kidnapped, tortured and murdered young girls in the 1990s. He had a handful of accomplices who were also convicted - one of whom he killed (Bernard Weinstein). In what became known as the Dutroux Affair, the resulting investigations discovered that not only had Dutroux been protected by the police during the years he carried out his horrific crimes, but it was part of some... more »

Sentimental Sunday

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 3 hours ago
When I was teenager I had a raging crush on Peter Noone of Herman's Hermits. I kind of forgot about him for years but then I read this interviewand I'm crushing on him all over again.

Say, gals, did you know guys are turned on by watching you blow your nose or pee? (Say, guys, did YOU know?)

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
*What James Thurber called "The War Between Men and Women" seems to rage on without any signs of a truce.* *by Ken* I'm going to go out on a limb here and venture that in terms of ongoing hostilities Thurber's "war between men and women" makes the recent unpleasantness in Afghanistan look like a brief skirmish. And the casualty count just keeps on rising. As I mentioned not long ago, when time permitts I often enjoy the educational features of the website "The Frisky." where brave essayists attempt untiringly to explain guys to gals and vice versa. I guess I enjoy it because it u... more »

Asia round up March 9 , 2014 -- Rumblings from Two major Asia Economies -- Abenomics Crucified With Lowest GDP Since Abe, Worst Current Account Deficit On Record ........ Chinese Exports Collapse Leading To 2nd Largest Trade Deficit On Record ...... How can Europe and the US expect a recovery if China and Japan economies are collapsing ?

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 3 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-09/abenomics-crucified-lowest-gdp-abe-worst-current-account-deficit-record Abenomics Crucified With Lowest GDP Since Abe, Worst Current Account Deficit On Record [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/09/2014 20:18 -0400 - BTFATH - Germany - Gross Domestic Product - Japan - Ludwig von Mises - Mises Institute - Purchasing Power - recovery - Trade Deficit - Yen inShare1 *"It's the weather" *That's all Abe has left to pretend that 'recovery' is right around the corner. *Japan... more »

'We can't prove sex with children does them harm' says Labour-linked NCCL

urupiper at Yesterday 's Lies - 3 hours ago
[image: express_logo] EVIDENCE has emerged that the views of the Paedophile Information Exchange influenced policy-making at the National Council for Civil Liberties when it was run by former Labour Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt. By: James Murray & James Fielding Published: Sun, March 2, 2014 [image: Patricia Hewitt described the NCCL as naive and wrong] Patricia Hewitt described the NCCL as 'naive and wrong' [STUART MASON] PIE members were lobbying NCCL officials for the age of consent to be reduced and campaigning for “paedophile love”. Their view that children were not harm... more »

UKRAINE: HAVE U.S. MERCENARY TROOPS ARRIVED TO BATTLE RUSSIAN MERCENARY TROOPS?

Several news sources are suggesting that troops from the US based mercenary company Academi, previously known as Blackwater and then Xe, have arrived by air at Kiev airport and have been deployed to eastern and southern Ukraine districts where the local populations are Russian speaking and generally more aligned to Russian influence than the Ukrainian tendency to align with the West. The move follows the Russian’s deployment of what, according to the Daily Beast, seem to be mercenary troops from Russia’s own equivalent of America’s Academi mercenary outfit, a group called ‘Vnevedom... more »

The Ancient Giants Who Ruled America ❅ Richard J. Dewhurst w/Red Ice Radio

urupiper at Yesterday 's Lies - 4 hours ago
January 27, 2014 Richard J. Dewhurst is the Emmy Award–winning writer of the HBO feature documentary Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam. A graduate of NYU with degrees in journalism, film, and television, he has written and edited for the History Channel, the Arts & Entertainment Channel, PBS, Fox Television and Fox Films, ABC News, TNT, Paramount Pictures, and the Miami Herald. He lives in Vermont. We'll discuss his book, The Ancient Giants Who Ruled America. Drawing on 400 years of newspaper articles and photos, first person accounts, state historical records, and illustrated... more »

Deep tweets

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 4 hours ago
Nor teally such a deep tweet but it is amazing art. Amazing art by Ben Heine pic.twitter.com/tBWqsIshl7 — Sexy Summer (@LeahyTrahanqip) January 31, 2014

“Don’t Make Me Go Back, Mommy” : A Creepy Children’s Book About Satanic Ritual Abuse

urupiper at Yesterday 's Lies - 4 hours ago
[image: The Vigilant Citizen - Discover the Hidden Symbolism in Pop Culture] Feb 28th, 2014 [image: cover] *“Don’t Make Me Go Back, Mommy”*, is a children’s book published in 1990 written by author Doris Sanford. According to the book’s description: “The words of the text and the objects and situations illustrated are based on months of intensive research into the nature and practice of satanic ritual abuse. Any child who has been ritually abused will recognize the validity of this story.” The book was marketed primarily to mental health professionals, school counselors, parent o... more »

More Photos, Forum on Electricity on the Go

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 4 hours ago
Here are more photos from the ETC applicants Datigan batch which organized the forum on "Electricity on the Go: An Assessment of EPIRA" last Thursday, March 06, 2014, at the College of Engineering Theater, UP Diliman, Quezon City. Atty. Debora Anastacia T. Layugan, Director of Market Operations Service, Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC). Ms. Maria Teresa "Maitet" Diokno of the Center for Power Issues and Initiatives (CPII) and the Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC). During the open forum. I reiterated that many of the electricity angsts of the public were not created by the Elec... more »

The Realist Report - 9/11 debate

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 4 hours ago
On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we will be hosting a debate between two astute independent researchers into the events of 9/11. Don Fox and OneBornFree have radically different perspectives of what actually took place on 9/11, how the WTC towers were destroyed, the role the mass media played, who was ultimately responsible and why. We will be debating these and other issues pertaining to 9/11 during this program. Calls will be taken in the second hour. You can download the mp3 for this program *here*, or visit *The Realist Report* on BlogTalkRadio to subscribe via iTunes ... more »

Why Some Labour People Don't Like Blair

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 5 hours ago
Is Tony Blair Labour's greatest ever leader? John McTernan certainly thinks so. He lays out Blair's stall and talks up the nice things he achieved in office. It begs the question, what is wrong with those people who grumble about him? Rising employment, stable public finances, the minimum wage - Gordon Brown couldn't have inherited a better set of policy achievements. It must be that Blair refused to nationalise the top 100 monopolies, and didn't squeeze the rich until the pips squeaked. Or perhaps it's because he won three consecutive elections by sticking dead centre and ignoring ... more »

EU delays bond issue over Ukraine, ratings review- WATCH CLOSELY!

D ... Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 5 hours ago
Watch this closely my friends!!!!There are some lovely tricky hints in here that should be closely examined by those following the financial megalo-drama. This is VERY telling...... Question: Who controls the IMF money again? hmmmmmm...... and where is that money coming from? Yes yes.... watch this closely! http://www.ifre.com/eu-delays-bond-issue-over-ukraine-ratings-review/21135018.article EU delays bond issue over Ukraine, ratings review IFR 2023 8 March to 14 March 2014 | By John Geddie The European Union will delay its bond issue scheduled for next week, as it looks to fi... more »

Michelle Rhee Loves Bob Behning and Other Indiana Right-Wingers

Doug Martin at Schools Matter - 5 hours ago
by Doug Martin Michelle Rhee’s political funding machine has entered Indiana, and the fake Democrat who once spoke at the statehouse with former governor Mitch Daniels is now handing cash to the rightest of the right-wing in Indiana, the latest none other than ALEC member Bob Behning. In 2013, Rhee’s Students First PAC, registered in California, slid Behning $1,000 (page 9). The PAC is also fundingthe campaigns of Cisco System’s Todd Huston, Religious Right’s Carl Yoder, and ALEC’s Jim Banks. But Rhee's is not the only fake liberal outfit which has tossed money to Indiana Republi... more »

Janet Yellen Angrily Rejects Central Bank Audit

Amin Fasei at Our Manmade Disasters - 5 hours ago
New Fed Chairman Angrily Rejects Central Bank Audit The audacity and blatant arrogance of this Rothschild Zionist scum whore should have the whole entire country up in arms...she is forbidding the simple act of an audit on the fed...hmm I wonder why !? Oh maybe because it would enclose information on trillions of dollars that are being funneled into the coffers of 9 Zionist Jew families...should I name them ? Oh I fucking think so... The Federal Reserve Bank is a consortium of 9 Zionist Jewish-owned & associated banks with the Rothschilds at the head: $1. Rothschild Banks of Londo... more »

The Asteroid Mystery Continues....

D ... Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 5 hours ago
This is getting weirder and weirder, lol!!! So Last week I talked about the RT story that mentioned a moon Impact the previous week, that exactly matched the dimensions and speed of the impact that they had reported as having happened Sept 11: *My itchy bump is still itching it would seem. So, is the person who wrote the RT article just clueless about when a giant rock slammed into the moon, or is there a lot more to this story? The original report that I put out on Feb 25th already sent my inner brain bump itching with the fact that it took over 5 months for someone to repo... more »

What to do when it's mucky out

risa bear at A Way to Live - 6 hours ago
Not much is doing at Stony Run Farm. We are spring cleaning indoors mostly; it is just too wet out for a lot of infrastructure maintenance, construction or farming. *Beds laid out*We did have a dry spell. I used it to make up the main beds, add some compost, plant sugar snap peas and broadbeans, and bring out and sort the seed potatoes. We only plant one 3X50 foot bed of these a year, and though our method is one of benign neglect, we get enough that this year, for example, although we lost a third of the stored spuds in the garage to the big -9F freeze, we planted a third of the re... more »

"Top Gear makes Saudis look liberal, says BBC's Kirsty Wark"

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 6 hours ago
If you've ever felt that tolerated cash-cow *Top Gear *(Jeremy Clarkson et al) really doesn't sit comfortably with the soft-left insiders of the BBC, then here's a striking headline from *The Belfast Telegraph *that might confirm your feeling: Top Gear makes Saudis look liberal, says BBC's Kirsty Wark Now, what the *Belfast Telegraph *quotes her as *actually* saying isn't quite so controversial and is, perhaps, meant sarcastically: There are more women driving in Saudi Arabia than you will ever see on Top Gear. In fact, you actually have more chance of hosting a driving show in S... more »

Karl Denninger, "In A World Of Monsters, Hypocrisy Reigns"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago
*"In A World Of Monsters, Hypocrisy Reigns"* by Karl Denninger "Judge Napolitano has penned an interesting essay on the Ukraine situation: "Enter Vladimir Putin. He is the popularly elected president of Russia who has designs on reconstituting the old Soviet Union. Putin is also an ex-KGB agent; he is a torturer, a murderer, a tyrant and a monster. He often has lamented the demise of the former Soviet Union." All true. Let's not forget that Bush and Obama have both tortured (by the definition commonly used), both have murdered (including knowingly shooting un-involved civilians wi... more »

Letting Illusions Die

gail zawacki at Wit's End - 6 hours ago
“We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.” ~ W. H. Auden An unexpected trip to California ensued when youngest daughter required an emergency appendectomy. She recuperated nicely, and since I was there anyway I took the opportunity, with Benjamin the Donkey, to meet Florence Windfall and David Oertel, who is President of the Humanist Hall in Oakland. It was so exciting to meet in person people I only knew through comments on websites and facebook pages, I only took one picture. Sometime... more »

Meanwhile Back in The Homeland

Donn Marten at Carrying a Flag - 7 hours ago
With the feverish 'all-in' push for the relaunching of the Cold War the NSA Stasi is probably delighted to be out of the spotlight for the time being at least. The waves of anti-Putin invective continue to roll out of the neocon dominated US propaganda machine over at the Washington Post, the latest war criminal on deck is former Bush administration National Security Adviser and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Like Dick Cheney and Colin Powell the lies of Ms. Rice were instrumental in making the case for the illegal and disastrous attack and invasion of Iraq, a country that d... more »

While World Attention Is Glued To Ukraine: Why The Israeli-Palestinian "Peace Talks" Were Set Up To Fail!

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 7 hours ago
Yes, the entire world's Jewish run media has its eyes firmly glued on the situation in Ukraine, and the push by the lunatics in the US Government, who created this mess in the first place, for war against Russia... It does appear that we are headed towards a conflict, and I do fear the idea that it could indeed quickly escalate into a major global war... But while the world is so focused in on the Ukraine, little attention has been paid to the fact that the criminally psychotic state of Israel has been moving even more rapidly on building more and more illegal settlements in the occ... more »

Adieu to the "Mound of Sound"

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 7 hours ago
He of "The Disaffected Lib." He's packing it in, at least for a while. And I can't say as I blame him. I only hope and pray that the results of his meat-space activism add up to more than what traditional "activism" (re: petitions, one-off demonstrations and information seminars for the converted) tend to amount to. But hey, MoS; don't do what Sixth Estate did, and close-up shop altogether. Leave that record of dissent and analysis up for posterity to enjoy.

Three Women Who Launched a Movement

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 7 hours ago
*Sorry, I missed International Women’s Day last week. So here, in a Guest Post by the Cato Institute, is a tribute to three women I guarantee the mainstream celebrations would have missed, three women whose stories don’t “fit the narrative” – three women who** “saved capitalism from the capitalists” and without whom the modern libertarian movement would not exist.* This Women’s History Month, the Cato Institute pays homage to three women, who in the early 1940s unabashedly defended free-market capitalism and individualism in an age that widely considered American capitalism dead ... more »

Who's a Naughtie boy then?

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 7 hours ago
You may recall, from today's first post, that *The Sunday Times* has been reporting that *Today*'s James Naughtie has been reprimanded (by Fraser Steel, the BBC's Head of Editorial Complaints) for plugging a friend's commercial business on the *Today *programme. Thanks to genealogist Debbie Kennett's comment on that very post, I think a good deal more can be added to that... ....and for that something extra you need only go to two of the links which Debbie herself provided: Alistair Moffat, BritainsDNA and the BBC - a "uniquely British farce" A tale of misleading claims and legal ... more »

Corrupt Republican Establishment Crushing Their Tea Party Foes, Nationally And Locally

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago
Authentic Miss McConnell Tom Beaumont penned a widely distributed story for the A.P. today about the increasing challenges facing those who are trying to reform the Republican Party from within. "Four years after the tea party rocked the political world by ousting several prominent Republicans in Congress," he posits, "the ultra-conservative movement finds itself with slimmer prospects as it moves into the new election season." But what everybody's talking about is the Carl Hulse story in today's *NY Times* about how the GOP Establishment is moving to stamp out the teabaggers. Well, ... more »

Deep Water

What Is Sustainable at What Is Sustainable - 7 hours ago
The completion of the Hoover Dam in 1935 was a head-snapping experience — something like the moon landing, or the atomic bomb — history-making techno-craziness. It was the greatest construction project in human history, and the world’s biggest power plant. It was a giant leap forward in humankind’s crusade to enslave and abuse Big Mama Nature, and leave behind enormous messes for the kids. Legions of hustlers were thrilled to realize the fabulous new opportunities for becoming rich whilst not getting their hands dirty. From 1935 to 2000, about 45,000 large dams were constructed ... more »

Deadly Times Ahead

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 8 hours ago
Welcome to Daylight Saving Time, a.k.a. Nighttime Stealing Time. Since most of us don't need that fake extra hour of daylight to plow the fields and bring home the cows after supper, time theft is exactly what the annual abomination of Daylight Saving Time is. No benefits are accruing to those being ordered to save. To the contrary: the first Monday of DST has been scientifically proven to be the most dangerous day of the entire year. Chances are that you might not even live to see another *night* because of all that pretend extra sunshine being inflicted upon you. Heart attacks and ... more »

The common core: An untried curriculum plus nonstop testing

skrashen at Schools Matter - 8 hours ago
Sent to the Salt Lake Tribune, March 9, 2014 M. Donald Thomas is right: "Common Core supporters (are) providing misinformation" (March 7). In addition to the points he makes, there are other serious problems. First, the common core standards are untested. There were no pilot studies. Second, the common core requires a huge increase in testing; research has indicated that increasing testing does not mean greater achievement. Also, the new tests will cost a fortune because they must be delivered online. This requires internet access, and up-to-date computers that will be obsolete ... more »

Belgium MP Laurent Louis arbitrarily arrested

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 8 hours ago
gallier2 has brought to my attention that Belgian MP Laurent Louis was arrested gallier2March 8, 2014 at 1:07 PM Sorry to post about something else. Laurent Louis the courageous lonely voice in the Belgian Parliament who denounced the pedophilia in the elites has been brutally and arbitrarly arrested in Mons/Bergen this evening. http://www.egaliteetreconciliation.fr/Arrestation-de-Laurent-Louis-a-Mons-23943.html gallier no apology is necessary :) If you are not familiar with Laurent Louis? Aangirfan has covered him previously in a far broader manner then I could-* There should... more »

The American people just sit there and take it!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 9 hours ago
*SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 2014* *Way to go, Obama:* Have you noticed anything different today? Thanks to Obama, the country “lost an hour” last night. This so-called “weekend” is going to be exactly one hour short! They say we’ll get it back in the fall. We’ve all heard *that* one before! They make the change at 2 AM, assuming that no one will notice. Fox can’t fight this all by itself. When will the rest of us notice? *Guess who’s getting their full 48:* Needless to say, Hawaii was excluded from this. So too most of Arizona.

hey little girl

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 9 hours ago

A 'Pointless' post

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 9 hours ago
We bought a *Sunday Telegraph *today and - having not read one (in dead tree form) for donkey's years - I was surprised at the sheer quality of it. The amount of time, effort and imagination that goes into publishing a Sunday newspaper of such quality, with its many sections and many, many, many hundreds of carefully-wrought articles, is really quite something when you think about it. Even some of the most out-of-the-way by-ways of the inner sections contained fascinating stuff. I don't really have the time to do justice to it though by actually bothering to read most of it, and th... more »

More Strange Webcam Phenomena

Majia's Blog - 9 hours ago
TBS cam is down. TEPCO cam is showing spiderwebs: <img alt="" height="286" src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAASgAAADUCAIAAACgQimYAAAgAElEQVR4nOy9V3ccR5YuCnqA8ABJeFcmq9JnVtrKLO8LBUcQjt4bABRFSTQiJbVEqjU9olo9PTN9xqw1M2fN/IB75+Guex7O0/090y2p1/yAvg+7KhAVaaoAUhTVp/eqhVWIiowMs7/YO/aO2NHxpz/96b//+7+/++6777///vvvv//DH/7w/fff//DDD39o0HfffffDDz/88MMP33///XfffffHP/7xu+++g2yQAj/98MMPUMh3Dfrhhx9+//vfo5KhzO8wgszwFwokfsUz4PnxFPj++9//HgpHFXNmQzmhVign1Bwe//777//4xz+idn3XTM4KoM7BuwgR3kvwIiDXMiH9v/7rv1zbjmd2rZUXEf3g2j9/+MMffv/730Md8DYCA6AvqIuc1cbrgJ5CLcV/9a/tu0Z4XV0r/r3jJ//2/eEPf/jjH//4pz/9q... more »

Rand Paul Denounces Leviathan at CPAC Forum

Donn Marten at Carrying a Flag - 10 hours ago
During the annual CPAC Conference that took place in the pox on the Potomac the usual right-wing shockmeisters like Ted Cruz, Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich, Michelle Bachmann and Rick Santorum whipped out shovel after shovel of bloody red meat into an adoring crowd of low-information types while Rand Paul towered above them. Paul delivered a principled address that was as devoid of cultural populist religious dreck as it was a challenge to the crushing jackboot of Leviathan that is embodied by President Barack Obama’s NSA Stasi and the American war machine itself. Senate Majority M... more »

HOW DO WE TAKE BACK OUR CURRICULUM FROM COMMON CORE?

davidgreene207003059 at @ THE CHALK FACE - 10 hours ago
Gary Stern, education reporter for Lo Hud, is a “not for hire” gun regarding education. He takes a reasoned approach to reporting and makes sure he gets his evidence lined up in a true journalistic fashion..with as little bias as possible. This is his latest comprehensive report on the Common Core. Please follow the links […]

Sunday Classics: Mahler's "Song of the Earth" in full orchestral dress and chamber-scaled

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 10 hours ago
*The inspiration for Das Lied, and the source for the texts, was Hans Bethge's German reworking of a bunch of Chinese poems in Die chinesische Flöte (The Chinese Flute).* *by Ken* As I mentioned in last night's preview, I was then about to head out for a chamber-scale performance of Mahler's Adagietto from the Fifth Symphony, the *Songs of a Wayfarer*, and Das Lied von der Erde. It was actually pretty nice -- at least an experience of the music was had, something that isn't at all guaranteed these days. The chamber version of *Das Lied*, first proposed and begun by Arnold Schoenb... more »

Musings On Iraq In The News

Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 11 hours ago
I missed this podcast when it came out back in December 2013 with the Project On Middle East Democracy that also featured Dr. Fanar Haddad.

You Know When You've Been Quango'd - The Truth Seeker - Daniel Bushell

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET BLOG - 11 hours ago
in the USA they're called NGOs or Non Governmental Organisation, in the UK they're called quirkily QUANGOs or Quasi Non Governmental Organisations - but it's *all the same scam*. *NGOs caught forging documents for war, insider warns all NGOs infiltrated; 'Independent military observers' for EU-based group OSCE again turned away in Crimea, OSCE branded one more 'vulgar instrument' for foreign interests; and CNN buys the latest State Department hoax. *[source RT] Anyway, in this stunning edition of The Truth Seeker, Daniel Bushell delivers shocking testimonials about these so-call... more »

NELLIS VIGIL

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 11 hours ago
About 40 of us from the Pacific Life Community retreat gathered at the front gate of Nellis AFB in Las Vegas early this morning. Because a NASCAR auto race was also beginning this morning near the base, traffic was heavy and we got a surprisingly positive response from the public - including the race fans. Talking with others afterward we came to the conclusion that that American people are increasingly becoming anti-war. In my talk yesterday I suggested that the peace movement needs to use our imagination more often. We tend to get rigid at times in our work and wonder why we ... more »

Steam Visible from Common Spent Fuel Pool Area

Majia's Blog - 11 hours ago
And the TBS cam reveals the site bathed in pink-red-purple pixilation, which is unusual for the TBS cam: <img alt="" src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAggAAAEmCAIAAACI0P/vAAAgAElEQVR4nOy92Y9cWX7nl+JSrO6ujUwyudTKLTNju8vZ93PP3ZfYciNZ1epuqa2xZgaw4Dcb82DAM4DhgYWekVrqvVtqjUYzMmDAf4gN+E+w4T9h4JeBAfnhZgYj4waL0UlWdZXcwPchk4wbeZdzf59zftvZunT5ynvbN2/duXN9e/vm7Z3b93Zu3dm+eef69u0b129dv37zvRs71+++f+fO3U9u7Xx0Y/ve9Rv3tm9+sHP741s7H23f/GBF7f/e2vloZ+ejm7c+vL79/o3t92/ufHhOtz68fuPe9e2zT97++M7d+zu3133b9qpubH+4ffOjFd3a+ejWzkc3b324ffOD69vvX79+9/qNe9e33z+ve9dv3L6+ffvGzTvbt+7e3Ll36/b7N3fev7lzb0... more »

Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, March 9th, 2014

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 12 hours ago
[image: rant-jpeg-b] Sunday... And after taking yesterday off to take care of personal and family business, it is time to do my weekly rant.... First, I am sitting here typing away with one heck of a throbbing headache. It seems that I am again coming down with my annual bout of sinus infection, and no matter how much Vitamin C and Vitamin D that I have been pumping into my system, the symptoms are not going away. Lets face it, I have terrible sinuses that I inherited from my mother, and it seems that nothing short of a major operation to clear them up will fix this problem. P... more »

American Kabuki ID on Project XIII

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 12 hours ago
Those of you who sent me a Project XIII friend request will need to do so again to "*american.kabuki*". I had a problem with my account (my fault... not a Project XIII bug). I apologize for the inconvenience of this... I have already contacted those in the Project XIII Skype testing room... more »

A very determined BBC reporter v women farmers

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 13 hours ago
A new blog has been launched today called *The Conservative Woman *and it has hit the ground running with an amusing piece by Kathy Gyngell about BBC bias - specifically what she sees as *Farming Today*'s attempts at pushing a feminist agenda over the course of the past week: Saturday’s programme, it turned out, was the culmination of a week-long campaign by the Beeb’s gender warriors to track down the oppressed of the farming industry. No, they were not seeking out migrant labourers at the mercy of gangmasters or poor peasants drowning on the Somerset levels, but women farmers. ... more »

The Hypocrisy of the U.S. against Russia going into Crimea is Astounding! WW3 - Not Bombs but bonds?

Sherrie Questioning All at Sherrie Questioning All - 13 hours ago
I am sincerely astounded at the hypocrisy of the U.S. and Western nations. They are so outraged that Russia would go into the Ukraine area of Crimea and try to calm the events that are happening there. We know that the U.S. was behind the revolution of Ukraine due to the recorded phone calls. We know that the sniper was a U.S. supported person. But I am astounded that the U.S. and how

Argentina: Unusual Object in Argentinean Air Force Display

Inexplicata (IHU) at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 13 hours ago
*Source: Planeta UFO and Vision OvniDate: March 4, 2014* *Argentina: Unusual Object in Argentinean Air Force Display* *Andrea Pérez Simondini writes*:"Several things happened on 11 August 2012, during the 100th celebration of the Argentinean Air Force at the Córdoba Air Base. The public was treated to a lovely display of aerial acrobatics, there was a brush between two aircraft without any consequence to the pilots and and incredible recording was obtained: a video taken by one of the participants. Here is a vidcap from the document. We will see what it's all about, but at first bl... more »

Teaching Students, Missionary Zeal, and the Cult of Personality

plthomasedd at @ THE CHALK FACE - 13 hours ago
Teaching Students, Missionary Zeal, and the Cult of Personality. via Teaching Students, Missionary Zeal, and the Cult of Personality.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical

Mexico: Three "UFO Flaps" Documented in Yucatan

Inexplicata (IHU) at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 13 hours ago
*Source: Planeta UFO and SIPSE http://sipse.com/milenio/enigmas-yucatan-documentan-tres-oleadas-ovni-jorge-moreno-79059.html?Date: March 6, 2014* *Mexico: Three "UFO Flaps" Documented in Yucatan* *By Jorge Moreno, SIPSE* MERIDA, Yucatan - In UFO parlance, a "flap" means "frequent sightings of spacecraft (sic) in the same place and for several consecutive days. Throughout history, there have been UFO flaps in various European countries such as England, Italy, the Netherlands, German, while the Americas, the United States began having an increased quantity of cases until just the m... more »

Judge Joe Brown

Paul Coker at News Spike - 13 hours ago
Judge Brown Slams Memphis Over the King Case As recorded by Dick Russell *The following is a transcription of Judge Joe Brown’s remarks made on the 30th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King on April 3, 1998 at the Centenary Methodist Church in Memphis. The remarks were transcribed by author Dick Russell who will be writing an article for High Times this fall on this conference. Russell is also the author of the current book Black Genius which was published by Carroll and Graf earlier this year. Our thanks to Dick for letting us share this transcription with our ... more »

MLK - Truth in Lyrics

Paul Coker at News Spike - 13 hours ago
*The Assassination of Martin Luther King * April 4 of 67 Martin voiced opposition against the Vietnam War, He also planned to march on Washington addressing the struggles of the poor, Trying to inspire America to help citizens they generally ignore, One year later it inspired America to murder him, because America is evil to the core. America has had over 30 years to come clean, Now here’s the truth about who murdered* Martin Luther King.* *J. Edgar Hoover* tried to force Martin to commit suicide, By threatening him with pictures where his image was compromised, They sent audio ta... more »

After Gardasil: I Simply Want My Healthy Daughter Back by Anna Brix Larsen

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 14 hours ago
[image: Natasja]Natasja After Gardasil: I Simply Want My Healthy Daughter Back By Anja Brix Larsen Ringsted, Denmark Sane Vax, Inc. 9 March 2014 * All I want is for my daughter to recover and become her old self again. That surely is not too much to ask.* Prior to Natasja being vaccinated with Gardasil, she led a very active and healthy lifestyle. Now please see what has happened to her since the Gardasil vaccine was injected into her body. My daughter Natasja had the three shots of Gardasil in May, August and December of 2011. After her second shot she started having sever... more »

Ukraine Distraction: LOOK OVER THERE!!!!!

D ... Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 14 hours ago
I sat down this evening to start working on a financially based article on the Ukraine debacle to go with the political media propaganda article that I put out this morning. I was just finishing up todays Transpicous News update when I found this excellent article by Alt-Market's Brandon Smith.... and over half of my work is already done for me!!! We've covered all of this information in previous articles about the banksters and their controllers over the past couple of years, but we are currently seeing a whole new wave of people who are just now discovering that they have been liv... more »

War Watch March 8 , 2014 - Iraq death dealing continues unabated , US Special Forces training Iraqi and Jordanian troops as well as Syrian rebel forces ...... Syria focus these days remains on the rebel vs rebel in-fighting , but the War between the Syria Government and Rebels rolls on , Syria chemical weapon destruction item of note ....... Another Afghan drone attack mifire - how widely will the implications of the deaths and serious injuries sustained on this occasion by Afghan National Army soldiers be felt remains to be seen ........ Iranian nuclear talks and international politics regarding same in focus.....

Catharsis Ours - 14 hours ago
Iraq...... US Sends Special Forces Troops to Jordan for Iraq TrainingTroops Will Also Train Jordanian Forces by Jason Ditz, March 07, 2014 Print This | Share This The Pentagon has confirmed another deployment of “a small number” of special forces troops to Jordan to take part in ongoing counter-terrorism training for Iraqi and Jordanian forces. The US pledged the training operation after al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) seized much of the Anbar Province. The Iraqi military has continued to try to oust them, with very limited success. The training is expected to last through the end of April, t... more »

Two-Tier Justice

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 14 hours ago
"3 Mohawk protesters could be charged after Ontario rail blockade." Ignoring the racist shit-heads saying "If hundreds of women from my personal demographic group went missing or were found murdered and the police couldn't be bothered to investigate, I wouldn't block rail-lines or protest at all. I think the First Nations of Canada should just shut-up forever and take whatever abuses we fire at them because I'm a stupid, ignorant, useless, ugly piece of garbage" ... I'd just like to say that I'll be happy when there's one-tier justice in this country. When murdering corporate scum l... more »

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 14 hours ago
*Green Army rallies at state capitol ~WDSU* *James Gill: Senator Robert Adley goes to bat for Big Oil* *Sea Change ~SaintsWin * *Long, cold winter means scarce, expensive crawfish* *Dr. John to get all-star concert salute May 3 in New Orleans ~ Randy Lewis, LA Times* *Second Lines Return with Keep-N-It-Real By the Bayou ~NOLA DEFENDER *

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sue at Is the BBC biased? - 15 hours ago
I don’t think the BBC has mentioned it, which is a pity because it’s right up their street, but the beautician who embarrassed herself with that Tweet was at least trying to engage with world affairs, rather than hair extensions or things related to her immediate surroundings. Have you seen “Goggle Box’? I know it’s not on the BBC, but some of the programmes the Gogglers had been told to watch are. The one with Evan Davis and Boris Johnson probably wasn’t one that many Gogglers would have chosen to watch had they not been instructed to do so, but there was mileage in the appear... more »

The Economics Of Coercion

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 15 hours ago
The British economic historian Avner Offer believes that the gap between our economic model and our economic reality is now similar to the gap between Karl Marx's Communism and Leonid Breshnev's Communism. Chris Hedges reports: Our current economic model, he said, will be of little use to us in an age of ecological deterioration and growing scarcities. Energy shortages, global warming, population increases and increasing scarcity of water and food create an urgent need for new models of distribution. “The state of current political economy in the West is similar to the state of ... more »

EPIC's epic National Energy Program

Alison at Creekside - 15 hours ago
After CBC reported that the RCMP had seized Bruce Carson's bank records as part of their investigation into his alleged illegal lobbying on behalf of the *Energy Policy Institute of Canada*, the policy think tank comprised of most of Canada's energy resource extraction corporations' website promptly went offline. It's still offline. This is not the first time poor old EPIC's website has melted away when struck by sunlight, only to reanimate a few days or weeks later with a member or two missing. EPIC's whole purpose is to formulate a national energy program and get it implemented.... more »

Job Creators Have Their Own Magazines

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago
I live in a rich zip code; there aren't any multi-family dwellings near here except a couple of condos where they charge over a million dollars for an apartment. So everyone in the neighborhood gets free copies of very glossy magazines from Modern Luxury-- as do rich zip codes in Aspen, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Honolulu, Houston, Miami, NYC "and the Hampstons," Orange County, San Diego, San Francisco, Scottsdale and Washington, DC. Apparently, that where the money is. Their magazines look like they are very expensive to produce, certainly not throw-aways. And it's virtually impos... more »

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jonjayray at Food &Health Skeptic - 15 hours ago
*Passive smoking 'dramatically increases' the risk of miscarriage, stillbirth and ectopic pregnancy* *The usual rubbish. Smoking is correlated with IQ. High IQ people are much less likely to smoke. And high IQ people have fewer health problems. We are looking at the effect of IQ here, not smoking. Dumb people tend both to smoke and have dumb families* Passive smoking increases the risk of miscarriage, stillbirth, and ectopic pregnancy, new research warned. And the more women are exposed to second hand smoke, the greater the risk, a study in the British Medical Journal reporte... more »

The phrase “spring forward, fall back” goes back decades.

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 15 hours ago
One of the first uses was by the Heppner Gazette-Times in Oregon, which gave that advice to its readers in 1928.

Why GOP Administrations Do Not Create Jobs

Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 16 hours ago
*by Len Hart, the Existentialist Cowboy* What tycoons of old understood was that if wager earners earn more, they spend more. Jobs are created. Even more spending follows the additional jobs. That's the left/dem/progressive model. But the GOP method is just the opposite and so --too --the miserable results. The effects of the GOP model are confirmed with official stats from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the U.S. Commerce Dept and various studies. A GOP tax cut --from which only elites benefit --is invariably followed by a recession/depression, increased joblessness, higher pri... more »

In these New Times of International Tension out of Ukraine: Remember the Military Industrial Complex!

noreply@blogger.com (Christian Munthe) at Philosophical Comment - 16 hours ago
I suppose no one has missed the turbulent events in Ukraine the last couple of weeks and there are, of course, many things one might say about those. At the moment, there appears to be a stalemate, where sympathies are allocated according to (i) what leadership orientation is preferred, and (ii) how one assesses the legality of the initial shift of power in Kiev, when the 2010 democratically elected president Yanukovych was replaced by the current provisional rule. If (ii) is assessed as illegal, it follows that Yanukovych is still legitimate president and then the presence of, if n... more »

Ukraine Updates March 8 , 2014 - Moscow and the West continue to trade jabs over the respective actions and legitimacy of said actions coming from Kiev and Crimea , China weighs in with its thoughts on the overall situation in Ukraine , its disagreement and opposition to " the easy use of sanctions in international relations , or using sanctions as a threat " and political means being the only solution , sanction talk from both the West and Russia bandied about -- neither side has much enthusiasm on actually imposing truly punitive measures at this time but expect changes in tone if the Crimea referendum does occur and Crimea votes to join the Russian Federation , IMF discusses its intial consultations with Ukraine ( handcuffs being fitted even as we speak for the Ukrainian people with pensions in the gunsights ) , inquiring minds wonder as to why Kiev is courting neo- fascist groups and Oligarchs in its new government of the people , Military movements / War games / Sanction tough talk - all par of the grand game being played out , but those Gazprom gas bills near 2 billion and are still unpaid .

Catharsis Ours - 17 hours ago
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The Liars of 9-11 - The Anti-Defamation League of the International Order of B'nai Brith (Armchair Division)

Paul Coker at News Spike - 17 hours ago
The Liars of 9-11 - The Anti-Defamation League of the International Order of B'nai Brith (Armchair Division) from Spike EP on Vimeo. *The Anti-Defamation League: Dope, Inc.'s Public Relations Firm* In 1979, only a few months after the publication of the first edition of Dope, Inc., a scurrilous attack on the book and its authors appeared in a local Philadelphia Jewish newspaper. The weekly charged that Dope, Inc.'s identification of the now deceased Meyer Lansky as the kingpin for the syndicate's dope operation in the United States, was an "anti-Semitic" attack on a great Jewish... more »

Five Lessons for Taiwan from the Ukraine Mess

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 17 hours ago
*Almost to Donghe.* *1. The propaganda struggle* It's been exceedingly depressing to watch my feeds fill up with propaganda about the Ukraine, with reliable information hard to obtain. A number of my lefty friends seem to be forwarding Russian propaganda claims as fast as Moscow can put them out (there's a whole swath of the "anti-imperialist" left that will embrace any imperialism, as long as it is not western), while my right-wing friends and the US mainstream media have simply ignored US involvement in the pro-western protests. Lots of the lefty websites I frequent are overrun ... more »

Ukraine, art, Syria, cuts, Muslim women's football, armour, Islam & conservation, and gay vicars getting hitched

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 17 hours ago
I was thinking of giving up listening to *Sunday *for Lent but temptation has taken hold of me and, alas, I've fallen by the wayside. So here we go again... This week's *Sunday *began with *Ukraine*, and interviews with two people who take a negative view of Russia's involvement there. First came an interview between Edward Stourton and Protestant pastor Sergei Golovin about "what Russian control [of Crimea] might mean for different faith and ethnic communities." Though an ethnic Russian, the pastor thinks what Russia is doing is "illegal" and fears that Russian control would le... more »

Chinese Copper Financing - should the financial world fear the copper rather than black swan ? China credit market roiled as default of Chaori Solar puts paid to perceived PBOC put ! Default worries hit not just credit markets resulting in several debt offerings being pulled but extends to commodities as well !

Catharsis Ours - 18 hours ago
Keep those eyes on China.......Exports falling ups the pressure on the china copper financing schemes discussed below ! Chinese Exports Collapse Leading To 2nd Largest Trade Deficit On Record [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/07/2014 22:20 -0500 - BRICs - China - Copper - recovery - Shadow Banking - Trade Balance - Trade Deficit inShare4 Plenty of excuses out there for this evening's colossal miss in *Chinese exports (-18.1% YoY vs an expectation of a 7.5% rise)* mainly based on timing issues over the Lunar New Ye... more »

Ukraine Post Revolution Updates - Focus on Crime Re-Revolution -- As Crime moves toward its March 16 , 2014 Referendum concerning joining the Russian Federation , rallies in support of vote continue in Crimea and rallies in favor of Russian intervention occur in Eastern Ukraine ......... The new Ukrainian government continues to take actions to deter the vote occurring - the latest step being blocking the electronic system of Crimea's Treasury and freezing the Autonomy accounts ( state pensions not affected for now , Crimean Authorities respond by opening accounts with Russian Banks . ) ......... Austerity to be imposed on Kiev coup government ( to accompany planned pension cuts of up to fifty percent for working pensioners ) ........ Anti-fascist march activists were shot minutes after their protest finished in Kharkov, Ukraine, LifeNews and Glagol reported. A bus with ten people inside stopped and began shooting at the activists. The men then came closer and reportedly began beating the activists. Three people were injured, one of whom sustained a gunshot wound in his back ...... The EU and US still conferring ( by phone ) to come up with a strategy that will slow down the referendum tide in Crimea , Eastern European countries and the US support strong sanctions against Russia while Germany , France , Italy and UK adverse to imposing meaningful Russia sanctions.....

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 18 hours ago
Today's headlines...... http://rt.com/news/kiev-clashes-rioters-police-571/Sunday, March 9 08:59 GMT: Around 10,000 people have taken part in a rally in support of Ukraine in Maikop, in the Russian Republic of Adygea, local police report, as cited by Interfax. 08:54 GMT: Ukraine’s self-imposed authorities have blocked the electronic system of Crimea’s treasury and frozen the autonomy’s accounts, said Crimean Deputy PM Rustam Temirgaliyev. However, he says this will not affect state payments like pensions, Interfax reports. “*We are now quickly opening accounts in Russian banks, incl... more »

Tantoo Cardinal receives Agua Caliente Film Award during night of profound films

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 19 hours ago
Tantoo Cardinal after receiving her award tonight. Photo Brenda Norrell Tantoo Cardinal receives standing ovation, during night of immersion in profound films of natural world By Brenda Norrell Censored News Exclusive PALM SPRINGS, Calif. -- Indigenous actress Tantoo Cardinal was awarded the 2014 Richard M. Milanovich Award tonight for distinguished contributions to Indigenous Film. The

8 Unanswered Political Questions from the Oscars

Megan MacKenzie at Duck of Minerva - 19 hours ago
I know it has already been a week, but I’m still thinking about the Oscars. Not the fashion (boring!! predictable!!), or the hostess (boring!! predictable!!) or the winners (boring!! predictable!!), or the speeches (ok you get my point)- but rather a short list of questions I still need help with. Answers welcome. 1. Was bell Continue reading

SKYE McALPINE, LORD McALPINE AND MARGARET THATCHER

Anon at aangirfan - 19 hours ago
*The Thatchers with Skye McAlpine, daughter of Lord McAlpine, who was the Conservative Party Treasurer while MargaretThatcher was prime Minister.* Margaret Thatcher enjoyed the company of young Skye McAlpine, the daughter of Alistair McAlpine. Skye once played play hide-and-seek with Margaret Thatcher at the McAlpine estate at West Green. They didn't tell anyone what they were doing *http://www.dailymail* *West Green.* Skye spent many Christmases with the Thatchers, sometimes at Chequers, sometimes in London or Venice. *http://www.dailymail*. / aangirfan: THATCHER; LESBIAN MP; ... more »

What lies behind the paywall this morning?

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 20 hours ago
Today's newspapers have a fair bit about the BBC in them, especially *The Sunday Times *(£)*.* They tell us, for example, that *James Naughtie* has been told off by an internal BBC inquiry for allowing a friend to plug a commercial company and give inaccurate information during an interview. Fraser Steel, head of editorial complaints, criticised the *Today *presenter's... ...failure to dispel the idea that BritainsDNA was not a business and his allowing Moffat to read out its website address, giving “undue prominence [to] a commercial organisation”. Naughty, naughty Jim! We then... more »

Richard Feynman: Los Alamos from below

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 20 hours ago
If you have 70 spare minutes and you are interested in the Manhattan Project or if you want some cool physics-based entertainment, watch (listen to) this: On Thursday, February 6, 1975, Richard Feynman gave this talk in Santa Barbara. The talk is pretty interesting, starting from the introduction involving some special and sophisticated praises of Feynman as a physicist (and drummer). Feynman also unmasks lots about the sociology of the work over there, the relationship between men of different ranks, and so on. (Feynman hadn't completed his thesis yet.) On a committee, Co... more »

Well he was right

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 21 hours ago
Before the World Indoor Athletics Championships Richard Kilty said what he could achieve... 'Richard Kilty wants to show he deserves a place in the World Indoors 60m... the Teesside sprinter beat French duo Christophe Lemaitre and Jimmy Vicaut, and American Mike Rodgers last Saturday, all of whom have broken the 10-second barrier over 100 metres. "I think I can run sub 6.50. I was a little fatigued in Birmingham on Saturday having raced three hard rounds in the UK trials the weekend before. "There are little things to improve on technically in terms of being a little tense, and ... more »

(Normalizing Poverty: Making It OK) World’s Billionaires Saw Their Combined Wealth Soar More Than $1 Trillion Last Year As Median US Income Fell 6% After 2008 Bank Bail Out (Corporate Capitalism Digging Its Own Grave?)

The disparity between the fortunes of the super-rich and the struggles of the vast majority has become so stark and so wide that the corporate-controlled media and the corporate-controlled political parties cannot avoid discussing it. Obama and the Democrats are even seeking to raise the issue of economic inequality against their Republican opponents, albeit half-heartedly and without any

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JR at GREENIE WATCH - 21 hours ago
*ObamaCar Replacement Batteries Cost $34,000 According to GM Dealers* Here’s the good news about the ObamaCar known as the Chevy Volt: There haven’t been any reported fires connected with the ObamaCar since the company recalled 8,000 of the electric vehicles—that’s one in six vehicles. That is no fires, if you don’t count the people who’ve been “fired” from the Volt production line as sales continue to make Obama’s “one million” electric car promise just another broken dream in a crooked scheme. Obama promised that by the time he finished as president, he’d put a million electric ... more »

Vampire Banksters descend on the Ukraine and Putin does the Exorcism!

Papani at DeadBanksterSociety - 21 hours ago
*Interview by Cara St. Louis with F.William Engdhal on the Ukraine Catharsis and the vampirism activity of the IMF, NATO, EU and Zionist/Nazi subhumans.* Also mentioned is "Operation Paperclip" where Nazi's from a losing Germany were brought over to seed the US with their greater "intellectual prowess"; with the likes of V2 rocketeer Wernher Von Braun - who plastered London with 1000 V2 rockets - aka "Father of the Apollo Programme". This subsequently leads to ICBM's and the arms race.

Support Nova Scotia & BC Canada Apple Farmers By Taking Action Before March 30, 2014

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 22 hours ago
[image: Foto: Nova Scotia farmers are opposed to growing and selling genetically modified apples, as a farmer in British Columbia is proposing. An apple grower in Summerland, B.C., has applied for approval of a genetically modified apple that doesn't turn brown after it’s sliced. READ: http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/1192183-ns-growers-say-no-to-gmo-apples Take action before March 30. For “Talking Points” to help you talk about the apple at your grocery store: http://www.cban.ca/apple/talkingpoints For more info and action: http://www.cban.ca/apple For actions in BC check ou... more »

Hookers and Blow in Fort Crack?

Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 23 hours ago
One thing I get asked about living here is the crime rate. It's not really something I like to talk about or really think about, not because I want to ignore or whitewash things but simply because I've found the stereotype annoying and removed from the reality of my everyday life. I'm not naive enough to think that we inhabit a perfect world or that this city isn't without its challenges. But for the most part, I tend to find out about illicit happenings here pretty much like everyone else in this country....by reading it in the news. In my 4 years year I can say I've never seen... more »

SUNDAY SONG

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 23 hours ago

Saturday Night w/ the Wise Old Man

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 23 hours ago
Welcome to *Saturday Night w/ the Wise Old Man*! Zan Overall, also known as the Wise Old Man, is an activist, musician, and actor. Tonight, we will again hear two of the Wise Old Man's excellent songs, along with a review of his recent activism on the UCLA campus and at the 2014 Oscar Awards Ceremony last Sunday night in Hollywood, California. You can download the mp3 for this program *here*, or visit *The Realist Report* on BlogTalkRadio to subscribe via iTunes and view past programs. I'd like to thank everyone who has participated in and supported the *Spring 2014 fundraiser* ... more »

Senator Ed Hernández And Congresswomen Jackie Speier And Grace Napolitano Buck The Machine To Endorse Eloise Reyes

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 23 hours ago
This pathetic mess somehow "forgot" to mention to California progressives that he's been begging the corrupt, anti-working family New Dems to endorse him Dr. Ed Hernández, former president of the California Optometric Association, is the state Senator representing the 24th district, which stretches from East L.A. through Monterey Park, Rosemead, and El Monte out to Azusa and Covina. Hernández is chairman of the Senate Health Committee and one of the most respected Los Angeles legislators in Sacramento and a powerful advocate for working families. Last night he stood with a growing l... more »

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        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago

The wheels on the bus go round and round: Tips for a better Honduran bus experience

Jody Paterson at A Closer Look: Jody Paterson - 1 day ago
Spend enough hours on a Honduran long-distance bus and you will end up boarding them with the seasoned eye of a veteran seat-assessor, able to take in the available options at a glance and make the best choice with barely a moment of additional anxiety to the passengers jamming in behind you. Having been up, down and around this country on all manner of public transportation, here are my recommendations for how it's done: 1.* Do I have control of the window? *Unless you're on a first-class, air-conditioned bus - in which case none of this matters, because you'll have an assigne... more »

Sunday Classics preview: Chamber-scale Mahler

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
*by Ken* I'm just about to leave for a chamber-ensemble concert devoted to, of all composers, Mahler -- comprising, in reduced-orchestra form, the Adagietto from the Fifth Symphony, the *Songs of a Wayfarer*, and *Das Lied von der Erde*. As some of you out there will recall, we still have a "complete" *Das Lied*under Sunday Classics promise, and I've done a fair amount of performance-sorting and thinking, but I still don't know what I want to say. Maybe nothing more. We'll see. In the meantime I thought tonight we'd listen to the famous Adagietto, familiar from countless funerals... more »

Almost 70 Years Late -- FBI Quietly Opens Secret Files That Attest HITLER WENT TO ARGENTINA Rather Than Commit Suicide...

urupiper at Yesterday 's Lies - 1 day ago
*(we've been lied to about basically everything . . one day, they will tell you about Kennedy, 911, bin Laden, etc, etc, etc . . )* RED FLAG NEWS [image: Read the documents yourself at fbi.gov] Read the documents yourself at fbi.gov (by R&S, Exposing the Realities) — Newly declassified FBI documents prove that the government knew Hitler was alive and well, and living in the Andes Mountains long after World War II. On April 30 1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his underground bunker. His body was later discovered and identified by the Soviets before being rushed back to Ru... more »

How To Clean Your Arteries With One Simple Fruit

urupiper at Yesterday 's Lies - 1 day ago
Thinking Humanity*The future of cardiovascular disease prevention and treatment will not be found in your medicine cabinet, rather in your kitchen cupboard or in your back yard growing on a tree.* Pomegranate Found To Prevent Coronary Artery Disease Progression A new study published in the journal *Atherosclerosis* confirms that pomegranate extract may prevent and/or reverse the primary pathology associated with cardiac mortality: the progressive thickening of the coronary arteries caused by the accumulation of fatty materials known as atherosclerosis.[i] Mice with a genetic suscept... more »

Self Defence against the truth

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 1 day ago
I have a scan of a pink flyod CD cover on one of my blogs. Yes I have heard several small species grooving in a pic with a cave. So were they fifty years to early or just tragically late to connect with History.

"According to a report in Kommersant-Ukraine, the finance ministry of Washington’s stooges in Kiev who are pretending to be a government has prepared an economic austerity plan that will cut Ukrainian pensions from $160 to $80 so that Western bankers who lent money to Ukraine can be repaid at the expense of Ukraine’s poor. It is Greece all over again."

David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day ago
------------------------------ *The Looting Of Ukraine Has Begun* ------------------------------ March 6, 2014 | Original Here Go here to sign up to receive email notice of this news letter The Looting Of Ukraine Has Begun Paul Craig Roberts This supporter of the Ukraine joining the EU has received her reward: a 50% cut in her pension. According to a report in Kommersant-Ukraine, the finance ministry of Washington’s stooges in Kiev who are pretending to be a government has prepared an economic austerity plan that will c... more »

OSCE observers prevented from entering Crimea- Mercs in Ukraine & more

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 day ago
For the third time- warning shots fired this time. Can't say about the other two *Here's the news* Warning shots have been fired as a team of international military observers was turned back from entering Crimea. The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) said that no-one was hurt in the incident at Armyansk. It was the third time the OSCE has been prevented from entering Crimea, now in the control of pro-Russian forces. *I will be updating with a piece from Israel Shamir, thank you, very relevant, stay tuned. * And then something from brian .... The Ukrainian... more »

Challenger, KAL 007 and Oliver North

Paul Coker at News Spike - 1 day ago
"If you can get hold of a book by Barry Schiff (he's an aviation writer) written a year before the incident, called *Flight 209 is Down*, it will explain to you, in part, in this novel form, the real scenario. What happened, according to Fletcher Prouty's work, Bob Cutler's work, other researchers, is that 007 stayed on course, never deviated. KAL 015 right behind it, saw it, on radar and visible, all the way through. It never left course, kept along R20." John Judge KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - A powerful electrical storm created an eerie tapestry of light in the skies near Space... more »

Of Polls and Public Engagement in International Relations

Josh Busby at Duck of Minerva - 1 day ago
This is a guest post by Idean Salehyan. There has been a lot of hand-wringing and debate lately as to whether or not academics are engaged enough with important policy questions (See Nicholas Kristof’s article in the New York Times and just a few responses, here and here). As this conversation was circling around the blogosphere, there was an impressive initiative Continue reading

Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 1 day ago
On a slightly personal note, I was reading the obituary in the *Telegraph *of the woman who served as Lancaster's MP for 27 years, Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman. When I went with school to the Houses of Parliament, it was Dame Elaine (a Conservative) who guided us round. Born and educated in God's (real) own country, Lancashire, she did her wartime service as a land girl. She went to university with Margaret Thatcher. Her first husband was killed in a car crash. She herself suffered head injuries and memory loss but, remarkably, she took over the job of running his 149-acre farm w... more »

Bad Bear's Photos: Makin' Fry Bread at Cal State Puvungna Powwow

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
Thanks to Western Shoshone Carl Bad Bear Sampson for sharing photos today. Long Walkers Teri and Bad Bear at Teri Szynkowski's fry bread stand at California State University Long Beach.

Countering The Demented Ravings Of Doctors Like Paul Broun And Phil Gingrey, Georgia Sociopaths

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
Lee Rogers, surgeon, progressive This morning's *NY Times* looked at medical doctors in Congress-- although the post is mostly a puff piece about a naive right-wing pediatric neurosurgeon in Oregon who's running against Jeff Merkley. The Senate has 3 doctors now (Coburn, Barrasso and the uncertified ophthalmologist Rand Paul) and there are 17 in the House (many of whom are certifiably-- and horrifyingly-- insane, like Tennessee Republican, Scott DesJarlais, who is best known for sedating his patients with heavy drugs to have sex with them, and a couple of whacked out Georgia extremis... more »

On Free Will

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 1 day ago
Sugar drinks may kill you faster than heroin, but the good news in both cases it was a free choice. Free choice is a brilliant, until it meats reality. We are all victims of goverment. But goverment is the only way to prevent us to be the victims of individuals. Now vote which is worse.

Most brilliant Framing

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 1 day ago
Framing is a new name for what used to be argument. Now there is no need to argue just a need to decide you can frame the issue with a force that makes the other side abide. Its true on some heart and sole issues from both side when the invective right our wrong rings true like medieval kings they will surrender that issue and Armour up for the next conflict. There is no longer a sentiment that to some thing I must be true,

Kill the butterflies cause they are free

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 1 day ago
we fly like butterfly's so innocent with nothing behind our wings except pollination so may families have dies just keeping our jungle alive no one we know no one we do not believe has not been bought out by the powers that believe If you say freedom all the sheeple will accept the fact that you deceive because it means you will be the last one to receive the blade of reality that just does not kill you but collects a lifetime of taxes and waits without priduce for your kin and kind to contribute above and beyond taxes in this freely elected mandate to forgive when we deceive,

The Two Hinkleys

Paul Coker at News Spike - 1 day ago
TESTS SET FOR MAN CHARGED IN THREATBy JOSEPH B. TREASTERPublished: April 9, 1981 A Federal judge yesterday ordered a psychiatric examination for the 22-year-old unemployed man who was charged in Manhattan Tuesday with threatening to kill President Reagan. Other authorities said the man had indicated he was motivated to commit violence by a ''prophetic dream.'' The accused man, Edward M. Richardson of Drexel Hill, Pa., told of the dream in a letter that was delivered to Jodie Foster, the actress, at Yale University last Monday, Federal law enforcement officials said. In the lette... more »

Quebec as a country

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 1 day ago
Amid all the shouting idots and regal progressions there is some willing desire of all people to fly the flag. Its so easy an appeal, these guys are making economic violence on your downtrodden lives. Its exactly the appeal that moved Germany into such a violent appeal for respect. How can respect a Quebecois, should I drop my pants and say there you go at length will not measure up to the manhood of the Quebec measure of dick length based upon the phase of stimulation.. Oh fuck I am a minority on a contient that has not got over slavery. Please tell me you are not shirly serious abo... more »

The EU's funding of the BBC

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 1 day ago
Do you remember the "brief frisson of excitement" a week or so ago about an article in the *Spectator *that I myself, sharing in that frisson, describedas looking like "a questions-really-need-answering kind of scoop to me, and quite damning against the BBC"? The *Speccie *had used FoI requests to force a reluctant BBC to reveal that it had received some £4 million in EU funding between 2011 and 2013. So what happened next? Well, nothing really. The "brief frisson of excitement" subsided, and the BBC's world continues to spin on regardless. Aha!...but, via Christopher Booker at ... more »

"How to Spot Your Own Self-Delusion"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
*"How to Spot Your Own Self-Delusion"* by Pamela Meyer "What if deception is in the eye of the beholder? And what if lies can help us tell the truth? Enter into the multimedia world of magician Marco Tempest and decide for yourself." "Marco is right: The biggest lies are the lies we tell ourselves. S.E. Hinton wrote in The Outsiders, "I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me." Maybe she was onto something. We've trained ourselves to accept certain truths about where we find fulfillment, where we find joy, and where we find success. But should we challenge that conventi... more »

We all like life

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 1 day ago
When the tiger strikes how will you deflect its g force blows that even a kung fu fighter would say will take me to kingdom come and thats what I say wake up do not be stupid we have lives a life that is slipping away there is no cure just adapat and we could do this with no magical cure It would mean giving up all the commercial crap Kim kardasion would no longer be the targert of our youths sexucal and intetllecutal tarp. We must draw a new horizen and if you look to history this land was tamed and maintained in a sustainbale way sure some perverts slept with their daugters but they... more »

Research Mission: The Politics of Species Survival

Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day ago
My research mission is to disclose political and environmental dangers to our well-being as a species. I study the politics of our vitality as a species and I've become increasingly interested in ionizing radiation's biological effects because they directly threaten species survival, a fact that has been known since the 1940s but has been deliberately denied for reasons of political power. Below find some data I've assembled about the reproductive and childhood effects of ionizing radiation. The data were assembled in response to a media inquiry about thyroid nodules & cancer among... more »

Lunch and Geocaching

Southern Man at Southern Man - 1 day ago
Today was the monthly geocacher's lunch, which is always a great time. Forget geocaching - Little Gypsy came to sell cookies! Bonnie wasn't aware that the question was "who wants to host the next luncheon?" "Take this haunted Totem and recieve three free mushrooms!" Little Gypsy and Hate To Be Lost mug for the camera. After lunch Southern Man and Dr. Scissortail headed out to pick up a few caches... "Can't get in that way..." We were five feet from the cache but had to hike to the other entrance and break out the flashlights to get to it. Good people and good times...

Physical Therapy

Southern Man at Southern Man - 1 day ago
So after numerous delays Southern Man finally gets his first appointment with the surgeon-recommended physical therapist to work on that ankle. But when Southern Man found out what it would cost ($200 per visit *with*insurance!) he decided that walking to distant geocaches would be both cheaper and more effective so he tackled one near the therapist called "Deer Trail" that was about a half-mile in to an undeveloped area. One of the deer didn't make it. So there will be no physical therapy this month, just lots of backwoods geocaching. Wait, isn't that how Southern Man broke his le... more »

"America's Glorious Empire of Debt, Part II"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
*Editor's note:* America's economic recovery may seem like it is built on solid ground. But scratch the surface and a very different reality emerges. In their book, "The New Empire of Debt", Bill Bonner and co-author Addison Wiggin, reveal the faulty foundations on which the US economy rests. Through his widely followed e-letters and his bestselling books, Bill has made it his mission to warn readers about the dangers posed to them by America's debt-fueled and heavily manipulated economic model. He believes that the debt crisis of 2008 was just the first wave of a much bigger cris... more »

Ukraine, Quebec and the price of tea in China

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 1 day ago
If John Wayne was an interplanetary cowboy sitting so high in his saddle he could see the earth like a big TV, what would he see? Violent death is part of the cowboy creed, and where that is happening you will find many gunslingers and a few Marshall who believe. The Duke would surely want to do the most good for the pilgrims of this planet. If that were the case he would be taking the reigns in hand in central Africa where the carnage is like worse than Gettysburg every week out of hand. Our maybe he would see the hundreds of gunshots death every day in the USA and think that's my... more »

Sandra - In the Heat of the Night

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 1 day ago
East confronts West. Idle talk of a new Cold War is in the air. For some, including me, the nostalgic pull has proven too difficult to resist - musically speaking. Thankfully, German skies in the 1980s weren't lit up by shell fire and the exhaust trails of tactical nukes. Instead, galloping basslines, hairspray and concrete-hard shoulder pads cavorted under the shadow of the bomb. To recall that apposite time, for your aural delectation here is a battle hymn from the front.

Reproductive Public Health Ethics at MANCEPT 2014

noreply@blogger.com (Christian Munthe) at Philosophical Comment - 1 day ago
Happy to be able to tell the world that a proposal headed by myself for a series of sessions at the increasingly popular and important MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory conference has been accepted for this year's edition, September 8-10, 2014. The proposal is on the theme of *Reproductive Public Health Ethics*, where a selected lineup of speakers from the Netherlands, Romania, Sweden and the UK will address different dimensions (biopolitics, bioethics, public health ethics, population ethics, environmental ethics) of ethics and value issues attached to reproductive policy. The ... more »

Ukraine and Gardening

theozarker at The Conflicted Doomer - 1 day ago
March 8, 2014 Ukraine, 2014 Photo by Mstyslav Chernov Thank goodness for the blogosphere. Yes, you have to pick your sources wisely, but you can find news there that the corporate owned, mainstream media won’t touch. Such is the … Continue reading →
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