Saturday, April 26, 2014

26 April - Blogs I'm Following

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Spring 2013 at Rutgers University - The moment...Spring 2013 at Rutgers University - The moment Frisbee-wielding Rutgers student was pepper sprayed by police (15 April 2013) …item 2.. The College Fix – ‘TINDER GOT ME LAID’ (APRIL 24, 2013) …item 3.. FSU News - Paradoxes and appearances (Feb. 26, 2014) . (Photo credit: marsmet532a)
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Tony Strickland Brings The Republican Party's War On Women To Santa Clarita Valley

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 17 minutes ago
Right-wing ideologue and career politician Tony Strickland-- likely to continue making horrible hiring decisions I wonder if Tony Strickland wishes he had stayed in Ventura County's congressional race against Julia Brownley instead of hopping into the crowded field too replace Buck McKeon in the district next door. As soon as it was announced that it had been decided that he would be McKeon's handpicked successor, local Republicans recruited state Senator Steve Knight to run against him. On top of that, two other Republicans, Troy Castagna and Navraj Singh, and a Libertarian, David ... more »

Sudden Death Syndrome Update ( April 24 , 2014 ) for Bankers / Financial Industry Professionals collects 15 victim as a french female banker commits suicide by leaping 14 floors to her death - after questioning her Supervisors ..... ( See 4/20/14 missive for additional color and back story ) ....

Catharsis Ours - 26 minutes ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-24/52-year-old-french-banker-jumps-her-death-paris-after-questioning-her-superiors 52 Year-Old French Banker Jumps To Her Death In Paris (After Questioning Her Superiors) [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/24/2014 18:38 -0400 - China - Deutsche Bank - France - Hong Kong - Tata inShare There have been 13 senior financial services executives deaths around the world this year, but the most notable thing about the sad suicide of the 14th, a *52-year-old banker at France's Bred-Banque-Populaire... more »

Doing the Stability-Instability Dance

Steve Saideman at Duck of Minerva - 34 minutes ago
The stability-instability paradox is a concept from nuclear deterrence land: that if two sides both have nuclear weapons that can survive a first strike, it might just create deterrence at the strategic level AND free up both sides to engage in violence at lower levels. Sounds just like an air-headed theory that would never happen Continue reading

If You Squeeze It, You Get Lemon Juice: The American F35 Fighter Plane Fiasco - Money For Nothing? Boeing Says F35 Isn't So Stealth After All

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 hour ago
I called it a long time ago… The newest American "fighter" plane, the infamous F35 Lightning is a hunk of junk and a complete waste of taxpayer money. This aircraft is so wrought with troubles that the list would take up an entire article in itself…. The fact is that this aircraft has been a boondoggle from its inception almost a decade ago, and nations everywhere would be better off seeking a better fighter replacement for their aging fleets elsewhere… For the longest time, one of the key selling points for the corrupt F35 has always been its so called "advanced Stealth capabilit... more »

The End Of The American Empire: Global Resistance To American Empire Increasing

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 hour ago
We are right now on the brink of World War III, or so it appears…. Right now, the criminal US government is refusing to back down from their insane push for war with Russia over their newest puppet regime in Ukraine's failed attempt to secure the hearts and minds of the Ukrainian people…. The eastern Ukrainians, primarily Russian speaking, have seen the writing on the wall and know that their future does not sit with a Rothschild IMF enslaved Ukraine, but with the prosperous Russian Federation.. They, like their fellow Russians in Crimea before them, are rightfully wanting a referen... more »

Reject Keystone Live Video DC Sat, April 26, 2014

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 hour ago
. Twitter photos Sat., April 26, 2014 Watch video recorded live today below! We Act Radio Streamed live on Apr 26, 2014 Cowboy Indian Alliance, joined by thousands in the climate movement. Censored News video screen capture Saturday, April 26, 2014 . Cowboy Indian Alliance fighting Keystone XL tarsands pipeline in DC today.

Queen Hillary the Inevitable Joins the Fray

Donn Marten at Carrying a Flag - 1 hour ago
It was a foregone conclusion but Hillary Rodham-Clinton has just locked down the Democratic party nod to replace Barack Obama as the reigning imperial warlord of planet Earth. She may as well just start picking out the color of the drapes for the Oval Office because it is a done deal. Elizabeth Warren? You have to be kidding. Joe Biden? He personifies Lyndon B. Johnson’s famous description of Gerald Ford as *“so dumb he can’t fart and chew gum at the same time"* - no way. The Republicans have zilch and their coming electoral triumph in November will be washed away by Hillary and m... more »

"Racism" Press Release From Cliven Bundy

urupiper at Yesterday 's Lies - 1 hour ago
[image: Bundy Ranch]PRESS RELEASE Friday, April 25, 2014 We are trading one form of slavery for another. What I am saying is that all we Americans are trading one form of slavery for another. All of us are in some measure slaves of the federal government. Through their oppressive tactics of telling the ranchers how many cows they can have on their land, and making that number too low to support a ranch, the BLM has driven every rancher in Clark County off the land, except me. The IRS keeps the people of America in fear, and makes us all work about a third or a half of the y... more »

Major pundits are brighter than Bundy!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 2 hours ago
*SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 2014 * *Or at least, so they claim:* By now, the point has been clearly established. Many major American pundits are brighter than Cliven Bundy. In this morning’s New York Times, Gail Collins and Charles Blow establish the fact that *they* are brighter than Bundy. In her column, Collins lists the things we’ve learned “from the Crazy Rancher Guy saga.” In his own piece, Blow is able to recognize “the Mount Kilimanjaro-size amounts of ignorance packed into” two recent statements by the rancher guy. In truth, it isn’t hard to be brighter than Bundy, who hails from ... more »

Just Keep on Gardening

theozarker at The Conflicted Doomer - 2 hours ago
April 26, 2014 Having decided the Empire has pretty much won the propaganda war over Russia concerning the Ukraine and that, whatever is going to happen will happen despite anything most of us can do about it, I’m doubling down … Continue reading →

April 26: one step back.....

Graeme Decarie at The Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad - 2 hours ago
I was in a bit of a rush yesterday, and didn't comment. on an item on B3 "Warning sounded on shale gas." This was a follow up to a story on April 24 of an earlier meeting, also of the New Brunswick Energy Institute. Both appeared to be critical of shale gas but, really, neither was. The message in both cases was the same. It appeared critical of shale gas development, but also sympathetic with just a little more research and a few more regulations. After reporting on one of the speakers, it added a reportorial opinion which should never appear in a news story. It says of a critic o... more »

LHC black hole: a catastrophic movie

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 2 hours ago
It was sort of inevitable that tonight, I would be watching a catastrophic movie on TV Prima (in Czech dubbing) about the LHC black hole. The original name of the 2013 German-Austrian film is Helden – Wenn dein Land dich braucht (Heroes: When Your Country Needs You, IMDB) ------------------------------ Trailer in German: click here The movie by the commercial TV station RTL that got mostly negative reviews is 140 minutes long – a big movie, indeed. The budget was €8 million i.e. $11 million – a lot. The very topic, the deadly LHC black hole, was silly so I had known that it would be... more »

Does Washington Want War With Russia?

urupiper at Yesterday 's Lies - 3 hours ago
*(this article is, imo, a very important summary of the ridiculous posturing by the Western Banksters in Ukraine, trying their best to drag us into direct conflict with Russia . . however the writer seems to be hopelessly lost in the thinking that socialism is the answer to capitalism . . when all we have ever needed is a Free Market . . Capitalism & Socialism are one and the same . . a few cruel Banksters at the top, and death and misery for the 99% . . .)* *By Bill Van Auken* April 24, 2014 "ICH" - "WSWS" - Does Washington want a war with Russia? A review of recent US actio... more »

Labour and David Axelrod

Phil at All That Is Solid ... - 3 hours ago
LabourList's Mark Ferguson concludes his piece on last week's appointment of Obama spinner David Axelrod to Labour's election team as a "big deal". But is it, really? I hope it is. After all Axelrod doesn't come cheap - an unstated six figure fee has done the rounds. Will his impact on the party carry more weight than say five or six extra full time Labour organisers working marginal constituencies? I can't help but feel sceptical about these big beast hires from overseas, regardless of who they work for. The Tories have imported Lynton Crosby from Australia to run vicious right-wi... more »

Straight from the Trojan Horse's mouth?

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 3 hours ago
When you've been following a story closely at, say, Andrew Gilligan's column in the (right-leaning) *Telegraph* or at (left-leaning) *Harry's Place, *and they've been somewhat of the same mind about it, then the BBC's coverage of the same story can appear to come from somewhere unique to the BBC. Somewhere strange. The Trojan Horse story is a case in point. Yes, all credit must be given to *Newsnight *for leading their Thursday edition with some freshly-discovered developments in the story, but the results were tame by the standards of what I've been reading elsewhere. It's as i... more »

Wouldn't It Be Ironic If Michael "Mikey Suits" Grimm Were Reunited With "Fat Tony" Morelli In Prison?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 4 hours ago
Most Americans never heard of Michael Grimm until the infamous "I'll break you in half like a boy" incident on the balcony of the Congress. If you're a *DWT* reader, you've been reading about Michael "Mikey Suits" Grimm, Gambino Crime Family mobster turned Staten Island GOP congressman, since 2005 when he had a tangential role in a hushed up case of New York mobster/real estate developer Tom "Gus" Kontogiannis giving Randy "Duke" Cunningham $400,000 to try to buy a pardon from then President George W. Bush. Kontogiannis, a Long Island Republican real estate developer, could have ... more »

Sushi Summit Bottoms Out

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 4 hours ago
There's reason to be cautiously optimistic today. In the world neoliberal death match euphemistically known as the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), the little guys just won an important round against the steroid-fueled defending champions of Team Corporate Elite. The small family farmers of Japan, who kind of want to keep both their families and their farms intact, delivered a stunning blow this week to Big Ugly Ag. But Big Ugly Ag's promoters (Shinzo Abe of Japan and Barack Obama of America), after canoodling over sushi, have vowed to come back for another round of fishy antics. ... more »

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Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 4 hours ago
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McDonalds Canada CEO and Foriegn Workers

LeDaro at LeDaro - 5 hours ago
How did this guy become CEO? Or maybe it's his kind of attitude, insensitivity, which is required of a McDonalds CEO. Unbelievable listening to this, how he dismisses the controversy over the Temporary Foreign Workers program as "bullshit." This is a complex issue, where workers overseas, living in poverty, seek work to support their families. There is also an issue of exploitation of labour, foreign workers who may not know their rights, who may fear being deported, and who may accept lower wages and fewer benefits, who would be less likely to unionize. It is reprehensible that ... more »

Abominable Idolatry!

Capt. Fogg at The Impolitic - 6 hours ago
By Capt. Fogg Abominable Idolatry! Pretty spectacular language for an era so far removed from the Iron age, but then The United States is always an exception. “Do you hear me ladies? It is an abominable idolatry to love your children more than you love your husband, and it will ruin your marriage. And yet you blame it on him because he ran off with some other woman!" Them are fightin' words, from the fightin' preacher Det Bowers whom you probably never heard of if you're not from South Carolina. You're probably never heard a name like Det either and I can only speculate that it... more »

The Not So Great White Hope

jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 6 hours ago
(By *American Zen*'s Mike Flannigan, on, loan from Ari.) "And I've often wondered, are they better off as slaves, picking cotton*...*" - Cliven Bundy "Slavery is such an ugly word..." - Stuart Best, *Murphy Brown*, from his special interest position paper Perhaps, when he was growing up in the Nevada desert back in the 50's, Cliven Bundy had always dreamed about being a cowboy. And, to look at him now, with his Bushian pretensions and personal fortune he's made in the cattle business, it would seem as if he'd succeeded in realizing his boyhood dream. But between then and now... more »

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 6 hours ago
*Why are Louisiana’s universities suddenly out of money? ~Robert Mann* *CBD window washers pulled to safety after cable snaps ~New Orleans Advocate* *Decisions just weeks away on re-opening Bayou St. John’s sea gate to the lake ~Sam Tabachnik, The Lens* *Crawfish Pie ~Saveur* *“Get ready for the First Annual Shamarr Fest at Shamrock 2014″* [image: http://www.shamarrallen.com/] *City Hall warns Jazz Fest vendors, parking lots to get permits* *Venues across N.O. cash in on Jazz Fest with 'after shows' ~WVUE*

Cars Stalled by UFOs - Part Two

KRandle at A Different Perspective - 6 hours ago
I have long been under the impression that in many UFO EM cases in which car engines stalled, the car spontaneously started when the UFO departed. I then noticed in a couple of cases that it was reported that the car was restarted, which is not the same as it just restarting up on its own. I had suggested that we might want to revisit these cases of EM effects to see what we might learn from them. Using various sources including my files, Project Blue Book, Dick Hall’s *The UFO Evidence*, Mark Rodeghier’s *UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference*(because, frankly, I wasn’t all t... more »

Mike's Story Part 7: South of the Border

Jenna Orkin at From the Wilderness' Peak Oil Blog - 7 hours ago
By Jenna Orkin The morning of July 12, 2006, Carolyn Baker called. "Are you sitting down?" "Yes." Then I did. "Mike's in Venezuela. He got there this morning.” Email to Mike, August, 2006: * when carolyn told me where you were, i was shocked but not surprised. you had left a trail of breadcrumbs: the line, "there are few things that could make me think of leaving this country but the loss of internet independence is one of them." i knew from the very denial that you were thinking of leaving this country. it was a snap to figure out where you would go; you'd me... more »

NYC SAYS NO TO 'PIVOT'

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 7 hours ago
As President Obama tours Asia Pacific to strengthen military alliances and promote the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), Asians in New York City came together to say "No to the U.S. pivot to Asia," "US troops out of Asia," and "No to the TPPA."

It Takes Sunny Ways

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 8 hours ago
Yesterday -- for the second time in a month -- the Supreme Court reminded Stephen Harper of two truths about Canada. The first is that, as prime minister, he is obliged not to make the rules but to follow them. The second is that this country is a federation. Harper has consistently operated on the assumption that he can ignore the constitution. Errol Mendes writes: This is a landmark decision and, along with the Supreme Court’s take on the Nadon appointment, it shows the court nailing down the fundamental constitutional limits of the Canadian parliamentary and federal order for a... more »

Ninth Circle Cult - Pope Francis

urupiper at Yesterday 's Lies - 8 hours ago
*(This article sat in one of my browsers for several days . . it is very dark and most of this kind of info, even if true, will be very difficult to 'prove' to a skeptic . . that said, I had about decided not to post it, and closed the browser window . . Then, for some reason, I wanted to look at it one more time, so I did several searches, and would find links, but EVERY ONE of them had been removed, no longer existed . . I searched for the original writer on the Examiner, Judy Byington, and all of her articles are gone . . I was able to find this copy of the article on a cache... more »

Meet Shayan Modarres (D-FL)

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 8 hours ago
Extremists Orlando has grown so much over the last couple of decades that the metro area now has 4 congressmembers, Corrine Brown (FL-05), John Mica (FL-07), Alan Grayson (FL-09), and Daniel Webster (FL-10). The districts were gerrymandered in such a way to put gigantic numbers of Democrats in Brown's and Grayson districts so that Mica's and Webster's would be relatively safe. These are the PVIs-- along with Obama's 2008 percentages: FL-05- D+21/73% FL-07- R+4/49% FL-09- D+8/60% FL-10- R+6/47% It isn't *that* much of a stretch for a well coordinated, carefully planned two-cycle pla... more »

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jonjayray at EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL - 8 hours ago
*Affirmative action is doomed. Here's what progressives should do about it* *Instead of cobbling minority preferences onto a broken system, liberals should attack the racial injustices at the root of the problem* This week's Supreme Court ruling in the Michigan affirmative action case tried to strike a Solomonic middle ground, neither demanding nor forbidding states from using racial preferences in university admissions, while endorsing the right of each state's voters to decide such matters themselves. In practice, however, the decision marks the beginning of the end of the era o... more »

SECRETARY OF BLOVIATION

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 8 hours ago
John Kerry and the "last resort" rule as a cause for optimism From: The Vineyard of the Saker Listening to Kerry today I went through a series of rather contradictory emotions. First, I felt disgusted, then my disgust turned to anger, then to outright amazement and, by the end, I actually felt rather happy. Let me explain why. First, of course, my stomach turns every time I hear this prototypical representative of the 1%er plutocracy speaking to the world as if he was some kind of Emperor-schoolteacher scolding a class of rather dumb and unruly kids for their bad behavior and... more »

Ukrainian Coup Junta influence waning: Russian aircraft violates Ukie airspace?!!?

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 9 hours ago
*First- *There are a few reports that Russian planes violated Ukrainian airspace Did they? Did they not? Well the Pentagon claims they did? Pentagon claims - without providing details. It’s not clear what the intent was. Or if this really happened? *Second- Webster Tarpley. Give it a listen! Interesting background information* Download this clip (mp3, 10.27 megabytes) Play this clip in your Computer's media player *Guns and Butter *"Ukrainian Crisis In Historical Context" with Webster Tarpley. Citizens of Ukraine unwilling to fight on behalf of the fascist coup; *Ukraine as a crea... more »

The very essence of the cabal’s misdeeds, the financial system, exposed for all to see. What was the response? Total silence.

urupiper at Yesterday 's Lies - 9 hours ago
[image: Project Camelot] About 48 - Paladin Speaks Out 23 Apr 2014 About 48… For those of you familiar with the White Hats Reports, you’re aware that we have suspended publishing reports, and more importantly, failed to release report #48 as promised. I have been asked about that on numerous occasions in the recent weeks and months and feel perhaps I should address it here. Our objective with these reports was primarily to continue the exposure of the withholding of the World Global Settlements (WGS) funds, the Wanta Funds, the CMKX debacle and the various other financial frauds... more »

Malaysia Airline Flight 370 Mystery Day 46 April 24 , 2014 -- Is conspiracy rumor once again becoming conspiracy fact ? From Malaysia Chronicle , consider the following -- " As if the MH370 saga couldn’t get any more strange, now officials are saying that the flight LANDED according to this newly released video report from Dahboo7 via the original story from the Daily Mail " ..... For those that doubt the conspiracy theory ( and that is understandable ) , then consider this point - if Malaysia has nothing to hide , why are they hedging on making a public report on their initial report pertaining to flight 370 ? From Malaysia Chronicle note -- Malaysia has yet to decide whether to publicly disclose an initial report submitted to international aviation authorities on the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the country’s director-general of civil aviation said on Wednesday ..... In other news , nothing found in the Indian Ocean and debris washed ashore discounted as being related to Flight 370 ship still fruitless search and the underwater search by Bluefin 21 almost a wrap too .... ......

Catharsis Ours - 9 hours ago
Thursday, 24 April 2014 11:07Shock! MH370 Landed Say Officials! SO WHERE ARE ALL THE SURVIVORS?Written by beforeitsnews.com - font size [image: decrease font size] [image: increase font size] - Print - E-mail - Comments (10) Rate this item - - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 (3 votes) [image: Shock! MH370 Landed Say Officials! SO WHERE ARE ALL THE SURVIVORS?] As if the MH370 saga couldn’t get any more strange, now officials are saying that the flight LANDED according to this newly released video report from Dahboo7 via the original story from the Daily Mail. Will... more »

Some News On Terrorist Funding In Syria, Improving US-Iranian Relations, A Palestinian Unity Government, New Kurdish Divisions Emerging Along Syria-Iraq Border, And Disinfo About The Ukraine Crisis [4.26.14]

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 10 hours ago
President Barack Obama greeting the leader of Kuwait, Shaykh Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al Sabah, at the White House in August 2009. At the time, President Obama said: "We're also discussing important regional issues ranging from the *importance of moving the Arab-Israeli peace process forward*, to the situation in Afghanistan, *our joint counterterrorism efforts*, and our need to emphasize Iran meeting its international obligations. And I'm confident that, based on this conversation and ongoing work between our two countries, that we can strengthen not only Kuwaiti-U.S. relationships, *bu... more »

Ukraine Updates April 24 , 2014 -- News of the morning -- A day after the acting government in Kiev announced the Geneva agreement is void and that it would once again send special forces to deal with "terrorists" in east Ukraine, it had made good on its promise and over the past few hours, Ukrainian tanks, APCs and other special forces troops took control of a checkpoint north of Slavyansk on Thursday, following what numerous reports confirm was an exchange of gunfire..... reports vary but fatalities have been alleged ( perhaps 6 ) .... and without wasting much time Russia , the response from Putin has come - diplomatic and potentially the start of military action !

Catharsis Ours - 10 hours ago
Late day news...... http://www.businessinsider.com/john-kerry-statement-ukraine-russia-putin-2014-4 John Kerry Just Gave Russia A Final Warning BRETT LOGIURATO APR. 24, 2014, 6:33 PM 1,428 18 - FACEBOOK - LINKEDIN - TWITTER - GOOGLE+ - PRINT - EMAIL [image: John Kerry] AP United States Secretary of State John F. Kerry U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry provided Russia with a stern warning Thursday evening: Start complying with the de-escalation agreement brokered last week in Geneva, or face the wrath of new U.S. sanctions. Kerry delivered a terse statemen... more »

I met reactionary Fernando Espuelas' challenge, now will he demand the same of Gates, Zuckerberg, and Dell?

Robert D. Skeels * rdsathene at Schools Matter - 10 hours ago
*"Another issue involves concerns that charter schools may be screening students by requiring parents to provide information related to special education eligibility and services on the lottery application. Over the past two years, a review of applications has found a considerable number of schools requiring such information despite efforts by the District to eradicate this through oversight of the application process." — LAUSD Office of the Independent Monitor (OIM) Modified Consent Decree* [image: Right-wing reactionary Fernando Espuelas challenges me to do something he would ne... more »

Strange things going on in Russia and Bolivia

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 10 hours ago
1. A car appearing from 'nowhere' in Russia... 2. A mysterious figure 'appears' and moves at a Bolivian football match...

Govt allocates HUF 2.8 billion to prepare Gripen fleet for close air support

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 11 hours ago
[image: JAS-39 Gripen]The government has decided to allocate 2.8 billion forints (EUR 9m) for capability development of the Hungarian army’s Gripen unit, the defence ministry said on Thursday. The army’s JAS-39 multi-purpose Gripens currently perform airspace defence and airspace control tasks, the ministry told MTI in a statement. The ministry’s ten-year army development concept defines obtaining full capability of close air support as an objective, which means “developing the operational capability of the armed forces’ most modern arms system,” the statement said. Read more

Surface-to-air 'Akash' missile test fired successfully

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 11 hours ago
[image: Akash missile]India on Saturday successfully conducted two rounds of trials of its indigenously developed surface-to-air Akash missile as part of a user trial by the air force from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur near Balasore in Odisha. "The sophisticated Akash missile was test fired twice in quick succession from launch complex-3 of ITR at about 11.55 am and 12 noon," defence sources said. Describing both the trials as 'fully successful', ITR Director M K V Prasad said the whole exercise was carried out as part of a user trial by the Indian Air Force. Read... more »

USAF team checks Estonia air base for NATO mission

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 11 hours ago
A U.S. Air Force team has conducted a technical inspection of a military airfield in Estonia, which will likely be used as a new basing alternative for NATO’s Baltic Air Policing mission. Airmen from the 48th Air Expeditionary Group RAF Lakenheath recently visited Amari Air Base in Estonia to certify the base’s aircraft arresting system, seen as a critical step toward validating the airfield as a new NATO forward operating base, a news release on Friday said. NATO’s Baltic Air Policing mission was set up a decade ago to patrol the skies over Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which don... more »

US Warship Leaves Black Sea as Ukraine Crisis Heats Up

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 12 hours ago
[image: USS Donald Cook]The US guided missile destroyer USS Donald Cook has left the Black Sea, two weeks after it was deployed there to reassure Eastern European allies worried by the Ukraine crisis, the Navy said Friday. The presence of the warship, which departed on Thursday, was an "example of the US Navy's commitment to enhancing interoperability at sea, serving as a cornerstone of NATO's military strength, while demonstrating the US and allied forces' capability to provide the right presence, in the right place, at the right time." Word of the Donald Cook's departure came as K... more »

Take The Pledge To Our Earth

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 12 hours ago
Source: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Living-with-Common-Sense/154468647938561

WiFi-Free Town Becomes Refuge for People Sickened by Technology by Elizabeth Renter

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 12 hours ago
Source: http://dprogram.net/2014/03/01/wifi-theres-something-in-the-air/#more-150496 WiFi-Free Town Becomes Refuge for People Sickened by Technology by Elizabeth Renter Natural Society, 25 April 2014 Green Bank, West Virginia is small, with around 150 people living inside the Allegheny Mountain Range, part of Appalachia. *But this tiny community is growing, not because of the views but because of what it’s missing – wifi and electromagnetic chaos.* Green Bank is part of the National Radio Quiet Zone (NRQZ), established in 1958 by the federal government to red... more »

Boeing Builds the Navy an F-35C Exit Strategy

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 12 hours ago
[image: F-35C & F-18]A rival aircraft manufacturer has worked not so quietly this past year to offer the Navy an escape hatch from the costly Joint Strike Fighter program. The Navy's decision to reduce its F-35C five-year acquisition plan from 69 to 36 aircraft over the past year raised questions about the service's commitment to the fifth generation fleet. More questions have been asked since the Navy included 22 EA-18G Growlers on its unfunded priorities list. Boeing officials started their effort in earnest this past summer at the Paris Air Show to get the Navy to buy more F/A-18... more »

Obama Expected to Sign Defense Agreement on Visit to Philippines

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 12 hours ago
Opposition to American military involvement in the Philippines forced Washington to abandon what once was its largest overseas Navy base, Subic Bay, in 1992, along with the rest of its military network in the country. Now, more than two decades later, Manila is urging Washington to come back, and not just to Subic. That change of heart, driven by worsening fears over China's military rise, forms the backdrop to President Barack Obama's two-day trip to Manila starting Monday, the first by a U.S. president since 2003. Read more

India, China agree to deepen naval ties after landmark exercise

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 12 hours ago
[image: INS Shivalik]As the Indian Navy's INS Shivalik prepared to leave Qingdao port on Friday after a six-day stay in China, both countries declared that the missile frigate's visit had gone a long way in deepening strategic trust between two navies that are increasingly coming into contact on the high seas. Officials on both sides said the Shivalik’s visit and participation at the People’s Liberation Army Navy’s (PLAN) 65th anniversary celebrations – marked by first-ever maritime exercises involving 7 nations in China – had sent a strong signal of India’s keenness to deepen navy-... more »

Musical Interlude: Loreena McKennitt, "Dante's Prayer"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 12 hours ago
Loreena McKennitt, "Dante's Prayer" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60g7gvBLIoQ

Pentagon: Russian Spy Ship, Tug Operating Near U.S.

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 12 hours ago
[image: Viktor Leonov]A Russian intelligence-gathering ship has been operating off the U.S. East Coast and near the Gulf of Mexico for the past month, the Pentagon said Thursday. “We are aware that the Russian ships Viktor Leonov and Nikolay Chiker are currently operating in waters that are beyond U.S. territorial seas but near Cuba,” said Lt. Col. Tom Crosson, a Pentagon spokesman. “We respect the freedom of all nations, as reflected in international law, to operate military vessels beyond the territorial seas of other nations.” The Leonov is an intelligence gathering ship outfitte... more »

Curing Autism With Chlorine Dioxide - A Video Presentation by Kerri Rivera

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 12 hours ago
*Published on April 25, 2013 * Curing autism with Chlorine Dioxide. A total of* 128 children *have so far been *recovered* (ATEC score of 10 or below,) using the CD Autism protocol! CD stands for *C*hlorine *D*ioxide, which is an inexpensive, broad spectrum, gentle, anti-pathogenic. *http://www.autismo2.com/* *http://jimhumble.org/*

'Newsnight' - 22-25 April

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 14 hours ago
As for many of us, this week was another four-day week for *Newsnight*. (I like four-day weeks). What did they cover this week, and who did they interview? *Tuesday 22/4* 1. *David Moyes sacking by Man United*: "Game over. David Moyes is out. But whoever is in next at Manchester United they'll need to perform and fast. Do we all lose out if we just aren't willing to wait for success". Interview with Paul Marshall, member of the Red Knights consortium; Alyson Rudd, football columnist, *The Times*; & Professor Bill George, Harvard Business School. 2. *Ukraine*: Discussion with Mark ... more »

Support The Labelling of GMOs In Minnesota

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 14 hours ago
[image: Foto: GMO Labeling is heating up in Minnesota! Great turnout at the informational hearing with a lot of testimony explaining why GMO labeling is important. The Grocery Manufacturers Assoc. showed up and testified against because they claimed that labeling GMOs would confuse consumers. We think the GMA is CONFUSED! What do you think? GO MINNESOTA!! Spread the word :) READ: http://righttoknowmn.org/2014/04/25/a-great-day-for-gmo-labeling/ #Minnesota #RightToKnowMN #GMO #labelgmos #NeedToKnowGMO #GMA #GMOFreeUSA] GMO Labeling is heating up in Minnesota! Great turnout at the i... more »

Chernobyl, 28 years later: birds mostly benefit

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 14 hours ago
*Off-topic*: Geneva hosted a joint conference of theoretical physicists and rhythm-and-blues artists on the nature of forever. Among the panelists, Edward Witten had the most intelligent remarks. Exactly 28 years ago, on April 26th, 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear plant exploded. I remember those weeks rather well. There would be a nearly complete silence for several day. Afterwards, the socialist media began to cover the story. My favorite journal, VTM (Science and Technology for Youth), would offer quite detailed maps showing the propagation of the radiation etc. *Chernobyl recla... more »

Cracks in Collective Denial About Fukushima

Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 15 hours ago
First let me thank all you who have offered your thoughts and support regarding my father's ill health. Thank You! The path is hard, but the support has been great. Now I turn to the recent mass-mediated disclosures concerning the ongoing problems at Fukushima: I think we have reached a turning point. Relatively mainstream sources are admitting publicly that the ocean contamination is ongoing because water running through the site is directly encountering melted fuel, as documented recently by Enenews (e.g., see this story). Some experts, such as Ken Buesseler, are even expre... more »

Does "fact-checking" done by idiots and ideologues count as, you know, fact-checking?

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours ago
*If you're going to pretend to check facts relating to the criminal-justice system, shouldn't you know something about the criminal-justice system?* *"The ironic thing about the Republican disdain for criminal defense attorneys is how many Republicans eventually end up needing one."* *-- washingtonpost.com's Radley Bilko, in his post* "When fact-checking fails" *by Ken* Washingtonpost.com blogger (on "criminal justice, the drug war and civil rights") Radley Balko offers a really interesting post today called "When fact-checking fails." Two issues sort of intersect here, and they'... more »

DUELING TV NEWS PROGRAMS

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 19 hours ago
The top US diplomat John Kerry has accused Moscow of using RT International as a tool to distort reality. Pepe Escobar, a foreign affairs journalist, joins RT to talk more about Washington's attack.

The Kiss of Lady X to premiere at Urban Nomad Film Festival

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 20 hours ago
[image: IMG_8057] *Water drops are whole worlds.* It’s official!! My friend Dean K's movie, “*The Kiss of Lady X*” has been accepted into the Urban Nomad Film Festival, and will be showing on Saturday, May 10 at 4:45 at the LUX theatre in Ximending. Here's the trailer, and the bare bones website. If you're in Taipei that weekend, go to see *The Kiss of Lady X* and the other wonderful films at the festival And please feel free to invite others -- they want to pack the house and make a real party of it! People can reserve tickets online here, or buy them at the door. ________________... more »

Gold updates April 25 2014 --- Is Germany gold sitting in the vaults of some investment bank ( rather than Central Banks who have pledged to safeguard said gold ? ) Or sold off long ao ? whatever the answer is , Germany can't get back what they stored at the Central Banks - and that is a quiet default ! CIBC decides to sell physical gold ! While chinese gold demand has dropped off somewhat , demand to date is 606 tons - Germany can only dream of obtaining back 606 tons in less than 4 four months from either the French or US Central Banks !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 20 hours ago
http://www.silverdoctors.com/the-high-risk-of-safekeeping-gold-in-a-central-bank-custodial-vault/ *By PM Fund Manager Dave Kranzler, Investment Research Dynamics:* Clearly, if the U.S. were “safekeeping” Germany’s gold in a segregated custodial account, it should have been nearly effortless to ship 300 tonnes back to Germany via two cargo flights. After all, Venezuela received 160 tonnes of gold in about 4 months from several different Central Bank vault locations. As it turns out, GATA.org found a Reuters article yesterday which surreptitiously reported the fact that Central Banks... more »

FROM THE WINDOW ALL IS CLEAR

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 20 hours ago
On the train today from Maine to New York with fellow Veterans for Peace member Doug Rawlings. We were heading to N.Y. for the April 26 *Full Disclosure: An Honest Commemoration of the American War in Vietnam* event planned in New York City at the Judson Memorial Church. The event is being sponsored by Veterans for Peace and Iraq Veterans Against the War. While on the train we agreed to each write a poem and this is mine. *From the Window All Is Clear * Two old poets on a train sparks fly as they share their words both understanding the rage and severe disappointment, depression t... more »

Criminal crackpot Cliven Bundy is lambasted for failing to use established GOP code words for his racist slurs

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 20 hours ago
*Oops, wrong Bundy. This isn't famous criminal crackpot "Cliven" Bundy, it's famous shoe salesman Al Bundy -- no relation, as far as I can tell. Never mind.* *"The reason [Bundy] was embraced by so many on the right is that he was their kind of people, One of Us. . . ."When conservatives looked at Bundy, they saw not just a white guy, but also a cowboy, and that particular brand of character who waves an American flag while fighting the American government (in his case by stealing public property). And they saw lots of guns, which also told them he was their kind of people. Every... more »

Guest Post from Paul Horton. Standards?

Timothy D. Slekar at @ THE CHALK FACE - 20 hours ago
National Standards not Common Core Standards Rather than permitting the issue of the Common Core Standards (CCS) to be a political hot potato in the upcoming election season, I call for our education secretary to establish a national commission on creating national standards. Currently, a few foundations, Microsoft, Pearson Education, and several governors, the Fordham Institute, and our education […]

Friday night quiz

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 22 hours ago
The BBC is nothing if not sensitive to minority groups, even at the risk of parody. Take today's *Last Word *on Radio 4. As it's Friday night, it's quiz time. So, which of the following is the real (Dr Leonard 'Bones') McCoy? - i.e. said by presenter Matthew Bannister in the course of the programe: And we should warn vegetarians and vegans that this programme contains graphic descriptions of meat consumption. And we should warn listeners from the Maori community that this programme contains descriptions of women undergoing their menstrual cycle. And we should warn listeners from... more »

Watch "James Franco & Seth Rogen "Bound 3" Kanye West Pa…" on YouTube

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 22 hours ago
James Franco and Seth Rogen "Bound 3" a parody of the Kanye West and Kim Kardashian video for Bound 2 As briefly shown on Graham Norton tonight...

Watch "Kanye West - Bound 2 (Explicit)" on YouTube

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 22 hours ago
Kanye West - Bound 2 (Explicit) - with Kim Kardashian Seth Rogan parody to follow...as briefly showed on Graham Norton on Friday night.

The Fierce Power of Agape

Sophia Love at AMERICAN KABUKI - 22 hours ago
[image: Picture] *You reside in a field of love. Your very base programming begins there. It is the spark of each other that joins you. Isolated, you may appreciate nature and love life, yet it is in human contact that you embody the fierce power of agape. For when you love another, it is not their attributes that are calling to your soul, but a reminder of your own.When you look at each other and are deeply moved, it is because at a fundamental level you understand that there you behold the sacred. It is you that has stirred your own soul.What this moment is about is a... more »

"How It Really Is"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago

Wag The Finger: John Kerry's Increasing Instability

Donn Marten at Carrying a Flag - 22 hours ago
It is by now obvious that the US created Ukraine crisis is not headed towards a happy ending and the Obama regime now is going to engage in the act of war of slapping even more onerous economic sanctions on Russia. When historians look back on all of this - which may well be the beginning of the end of the haughty, hubris crazed American Empire if not the end of human life - it the incredibly irresponsible three headed monster of Obama-Biden-Kerry and their legions of neocon and liberal interventionist winged monkeys to blame for it all. They are just going to continue to push and... more »

First Thoughts on Piketty

Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 23 hours ago
I have been reading Thomas Piketty's "Capital in the 21st Century." It is truly an impressive work, and I am much enjoying it. I have recently organized a session at the upcoming AEA meeting (January in Boston), where David Weil, Alan Auerbach, and I will be discussing the book, followed by a response from Professor Piketty. Let me offer a few immediate reactions. The book has three main elements: 1. A history of inequality and wealth. 2. A forecast of how things will evolve over the next century 3. Policy recommendations, such as a global tax on wealth. Point 1 is a sig... more »

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Steve at Thinking Aboot - 23 hours ago
someday I will be cautght for all my offensise dessions against the polyglot we see today in England the people say fuck off I watch soccer alot who can find the balacene between preventing herpes and a goverment diseaae; We are all stupid players no on will dipute that way of looking upon the millions of the Minisrey that is there by the will of the public to prevent or at best case mitigate industrial disease For the warriors that have some streght you can not fight because your grandchilren are held hostage They will kill them if you annonce strenght. So on we go captivated by the Cinem... more »

Stay Tuned for Steve TV

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 23 hours ago
Sometime you are forced into a position that make you uncomfortable when presented matter of fact. I am at my ends wits of deciding what I should do. SteveTV is a life preserver but its more about you. At one time in democracy we had the fifth estate that would barbeque. Now its a weenie roast of critics and something worse. So I will attempt to learn how to make a U tube video that stinks of truth and production values that make it work. SteveTV will be principled. Yes I will take a stand against those who use freedom to attack the bold. First of all and its sad that this is the fi... more »

Lies, damned lies, and Cardiff University academics

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 23 hours ago
Mark Twain is the likeliest candidate for having coined the killer quote, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics". I've always felt that to be deeply unfair to statistics. Statistics are invaluable. It's how they are used - and misused - that's the problem. Think of it this way, if you like. People (though not Mark Twain) sometimes say, "There's no such thing as a bad dog, just a bad owner." Well, I'd say there's no such thing as a bad statistic, just bad users of statistics. As someone who (in the past) based an entire BBC bias-related blog around st... more »

Ohioan Appalachia-- Jennifer Garrison vs Greg Howard… The Republican Wing vs The Democratic Wing Of The Democratic Party

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
Who has a worse makeup job? Ohio's 6th congressional district is redder than the state of Ohio. It's whiter, poorer and less educated. The state is 82.9% white and OH-06 is 95.3% white, the whitest in the state. Ohio's medium household income is $45,749 and the district's is $41,355. Only 11.7% of Ohioans didn't graduate from high school. In OH-o6 that number is 14%. Obama won Ohio in 2008 (52-47%) and 2012 (51-48%) while Obama lost both time (53-45% in 2008 band 55-43% in 2012). The closest the district has to an actual city is Steubenville (population- 18,659) and Obama lost 17 of... more »

Sadly for Ukraine, The West Does Not Have Important Interests There

Phil Arena at Duck of Minerva - 1 day ago
Editor’s note: this is a guest post by Anna O. Pechenkina, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dept of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University. It is primarily a response to an essay Branislav Slantchev recently posted on his personal website. Branislav Slantchev advocates for NATO troops to be stationed in Eastern Ukraine to preserve western strategic interests in the Continue reading

Ali Baba & His Forty Lives:Harry Ekizian’s Saga of Survival and Success

Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 1 day ago
"If this be play-acting, then it is play-acting of the highest order and comes close to being the best entertainment in town. To cavil at it for being play-acting is to cavil at a Booth or a Barrymore for getting up off the floor and putting on his street clothes after the final curtain has been lowered on 'Hamlet.'" - Joel Sayre, "The Pullman Theseus," The New Yorker, March 5, 1932 Over

Local Council By-Elections April 2014

Phil at All That Is Solid ... - 1 day ago
Party Number of candidates Total vote % +/- March Average/ contest +/- March +/- Seats Conservative 9 3,180 33.0% +3.2% 353 -67 0 Labour 8 2,265 23.5% -5.5% 283 -163 0 LibDem 4 1,108 11.5% -0.2% 277 +58 +1 UKIP 6 1,275 13.2% -1.6% 212 -64 0 SNP* 0 -3.8% -1,334 Plaid Cymru** 1 329 3.4% +3.4% 329 +329 0 Green 1 124 1.3% -1.2% 124 +28 0 BNP 0 TUSC 0 Independent*** 3 1,072 11.1% +6.1% 357 +161 -1 Other**** 1... more »

“Eating Brains in Argentina”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
*“Eating Brains in Argentina” * by Bill Bonner Gualfin, Argentina. "It's called guadeado. You take the whole head... without the skin, of course. You dig a hole in the ground. You build a fire. And when you have hot coals, you put the head in the hole with the coals... and you can put in herbs, if you want to... and then you cover it up and wait for 24 hours. Then you uncover it. The skull will come out clean and white. And the meat, with the brains... will be delicious." Thus did Javier explain a local culinary tradition. When a cow is butchered, the head is interred with hot coals... more »

Supreme Court rules Senate cannot be changed without Constitutional Amendment

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago
Senate decision 2013 SCC 32: Pursuant to s. 53 of the *Supreme Court Act*, the Governor in Council referred the following questions to this Court: *1. *In relation to each of the following proposed limits to the tenure of Senators, is it within the legislative authority of the Parliament of Canada, acting pursuant to section 44 of the*Constitution Act,* *1982*, to make amendments to section 29 of the *Constitution Act, 1867* providing for (*a*) a fixed term of nine years for Senators, as set out in clause 5 of Bill C-7, the *Senate Reform Act*; (*b*) a fi... more »

Albert Woodfox Speaks to the Experts

angola3news at Angola 3 News - 1 day ago
*The essay featured below, *Albert Woodfox Speaks to the Experts*, from the *Why Am I Not Suprised?* blog is reprinted in full with permission of the author. * *Now 42 years since Albert was first put in solitary, Amnesty International has renewed its call for Albert's immediate release (view Amnesty's recent statement and essay). If you have not yet done so, please sign the Amnesty petition today.* *(PHOTO: The author with Albert Woodfox)* This past weekend, I visited Albert Woodfox for the umpteenth time in the last five years. All but one of the visits have been at the David Wade... more »

Let ther be Gold...lost mine History

Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 1 day ago
Legend of the Lost Dutchman Mine What strange secrets lie hidden near Superstition Mountain in Arizona? Did a lone miner really discover a fortune in lost gold here? And what strange force has caused a number of adventurers to die brutal deaths and vanish without a trace in this rugged region? Located just east of Phoenix, Arizona is a rough, mountainous region where people sometimes go... only to never be seen again. It is a place of mystery, of legend and lore and it is called Superstition Mountain. According to history, both hidden and recorded, there exists a fantastic g... more »

April 25: Get a Globe and Mail for April 23....

Graeme Decarie at The Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad - 1 day ago
Look for the column by Michael Bliss "Why is Canada sending fighter jets to Poland?" This is what news is - not just about scribbling down whatever some politicians say. It's about giving us understanding of what is going on. In this case, Bliss does it largely by raising questions - which is a very good starting point, especially for us, because we've never even heard the questions, and we're making big noises about going into a mutually suicidal war without having the slightest idea what it's about. We have almost no information of what kind of country Ukraine is. We talk of going... more »

A Tale of Two NGA Press Releases, and Then Some

deutsch29 at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are at the stormy center of unprecedented controversy regarding a supposed set of K-12 “standards.” The closest “standards storm” that I can think of as being somewhat similar to the current CCSS uproar occurred in 1994, twenty years ago, and concerned the national history standards. Let us pause and briefly […]

Will Cliven Bundy Sit Down For An Interview With Rachel Maddow? What If They Allow Him To Bring Sean Hannity Along As A Body Guard?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
Last week a new name started popping up on my Twitter feed: Cliven Bundy. Before I had even processed it, he was in a standoff with federal law enforcement officials over unpaid taxes and fees and Harry Reid was calling him a domestic terrorist, Sean Hannity was egging him on to start an armed rebellion and Ted Cruz seemed to be angling to get him to run on his ticket in 2016. It looked too silly/ugly/predictable to pay any attention to. So I didn't. But it didn't go away. It got louder and uglier and sillier and more predictable and right-wing imbecile Dana Loesch was already whi... more »

the longest day

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 1 day ago

Mike's Story Part 6: Jackboots

Jenna Orkin at From the Wilderness' Peak Oil Blog - 1 day ago
By Jenna Orkin I didn't let Mike smoke in the apartment when I was home so he would godownstairs in front of the building and talk to the doorman or tenants walking their dogs. But when it was too cold for that (he was a California kid after all,) he simply slipped into the stairwell. One night, after returning from his last cigarette before retiring, he said, "When I was out in the hall, all I could think about was men in jackboots kicking the door down and taking away everything. I think it has to do with Denver." Of all the moves Mike had had to go through as he was grow... more »

Friday Beaver? You get what you pay for cheapskate

Demeur at Demeur - 1 day ago
Friday already? Okay this isn't a beaver. You try looking for a photo of a beaver and a mirror and don't even think of trying it with safe mode off. Mirror mirror on the wall who got blown up stabbed or shot today? No you aren't the prettiest puss in the land. Have you looked in the mirror lately? Just more bad news boys. Keep working and work harder because the end isn't anywhere in sight. Just when you thought you'd make ends meet they moved the ends. Knew I shouldn't have burned that candle at both ends. Life is what you do while you're waiting to die...Bob Dylan. No more Capt. ... more »

Reject Keystone! Ponca Casey Camp opens ceremony at Sec State John Kerry home

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
. Cowboy and Indian Alliance's Reject and Protect at Sec. State John Kerry's home BREAKING NEWS, Friday, April 25, 2014 Top photos by Jamie Henn Censored News WASHINGTON DC -- Ponca Casey Camp-Horinek opened the Interfaith Ceremony outside US Secretary of State John Kerry's home this morning, during the Cowboy and Indian Alliance's Reject and Protect action to halt approval of

Before I take today off...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 1 day ago
*allow me to renege on an earlier promise to lay the Bundy racist thingy to rest.* Others, most of whom I consider more intelligent than me, have written in support of Bundy. Francis Porretto, of Liberty's Torch, hit it out of the park with his post today. Liberty's Torch: *The Forbidden Subject* *Former U.N. Ambassador Alan Keyes said:* “I find it appalling that we basically have a history of the leftist liberalism that wants to extinguish black people by abortion [and] destroying the family structure,” Keyes told WND. “All of these things if you just look at the effects, you wo... more »

Royal Malaysian Navy future Gowind SGPV-LCS program update with Boustead Heavy Industries

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 1 day ago
During DSA 2014, the 14th Defence Services Asia Exhibition and Conference currently held in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Anuar bin Murad, Director of Defense & Security at Boustead Heavy Industries Corporation Berhad (BHIC) gave us the latest update on the Gowind Second Generation Patrol Vessel - Littoral Combat Ship (SGPV - LCS) program for the Royal Malaysian Navy. Talking to *Navy Recognition* Mr. Anuar Murad explained that the latest design tweaks are currently focused around the top part of the ship, around the mast area. Kelvin Hughes of UK was recently selected to deliver the na... more »

Report from the Chair

Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 1 day ago
Readers of this blog may have noticed that I have not been as active here over the past two years as I was previously. One of the reasons is that, about two years ago, I was appointed chairman of the Harvard economics department. That has been keeping me busy. But I am happy to report that the job is going well. One of the responsibilities of the chair is to oversee faculty hiring, and we have had some great results. Our new faculty hires include the following (in alphabetical order): 1. Gabriel Chodorow-Reich 2. Ben Golub 3. Robin Lee 4. Matteo Maggiori 5. Matthew Rab... more »

Come To Understand That..... A Quote by M.N. Hopkins

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 1 day ago
*Come to understand that one is a part of that which brings Light and understanding and not that which brings only darkness and despair.* M.N. Hopkins

Deluded Plutocrats

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 1 day ago
The fact of the matter is that idiots like Rob Ford, Ezra Levant, Bill Kristol, the Koch brothers, ... they believe in what they preach. Sure, they lie shamelessly. But these are really shallow, confused people. They imagine that they're lying strategically. Every lie is an isolated weapon in a battle of ideologies. They are like animals though. Simple creatures, living in the moment, overwhelmed by the totality of existence. They forget their past lies. They forget their past lies to the extent that they're incapable of realizing that their entire worldviews are based on a mountain ... more »

Love Is The Religion - A Quote by Rumi

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 1 day ago

Lies and Damned Lies

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 1 day ago
Mark Twain wrote that there are "lies, damned lies and statistics." The truth of that aphorism was proved once again this week after the *New York Times* reported that the Canadian middle class was in better shape than the American middle class. Jason Kenny went all a twitter. Justin Trudeau had it all wrong, he tweeted. His claim about middle class angst was not "evidence based." Tom Walkom responded: Given that his government has eliminated the long-form census, cancelled Statistics Canada studies and squashed straightforward scientific research, it’s a bit rich for Kenney to ca... more »

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago
*Guest commentary: Levee board reforms could be washed away ~New Orleans Advocate* *Jefferson Chamber condemns efforts to put governor in control of levee boards~Ben Meyers* *New Coastal Index Measures Population Shifts, Economic Opportunity In Changes To Land And Water ~WWNO* *Viewpoint: What's a coastline worth? ~Mary Rickard, Holy Cross resident, NolaVie* *N.O. Public Library faces $3 million deficit, no money for operations ~WWLTV * *The “Louisiana Miracle” or another Jindal lie? ~Forgotston.com*

Queen Elizabeth IUI

Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 1 day ago

The Many Determinants of Demand

Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 1 day ago
Allen Sanderson sees them multiplying.

Could Marjorie Margolies' Sordid And Unbridled Corruption Derail Hillary Clinton's Presidential Run?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
Disaster in the making? Three weeks from Tuesday is election day in PA-13. Yes, it's the primary for the seat Allyson Schwartz is giving up to run for governor. But the district is such a healthy deep blue-- PVI- D+13; Obama won against Romney with 66%-- that no one doubts that the winner of the primary will be the next Member of Congress from northeast Philly/Montgomery County. Blue America endorsed state Senator Daylin Leach last year-- you can contribute to his Get Out The Vote effort here-- and we've been warning all cycle that his best-known opponent, Marjorie Margolies (AKA- Ma... more »

Pandas

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

Conservatives and Liberals tied

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago
The Conservatives and Liberals are tied in the national vote for the first time in months, as Canadians appear unmoved by the controversy whirling around the government’s elections bill, a new poll has found. The Ipsos Reid poll, conducted this month for CTV News, says the Tories and the Liberals each boast 33 per cent of the national vote, with the Conservatives enjoying a four-point bump since February and their best showing since an Ipsos poll in late 2012. Thomas Mulcair’s NDP would glean 24 per cent of the vote. Story

President Obama Spring Tour of Asia ( April 22 - 29 , 2014 ) Japan , South Korea , Malaysia and Philippines starts with a photo op full trip to Japan ( failure to reach regional trade deal with Japan underlines inability to get things done though ) ..... Meanwhile China quietly benefits !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/World/WOR-03-240414.html *US 'pivots', China reaps dividends* By Pepe Escobar Let's start with a flashback to February 1992 - only two months after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. First draft of the US government's Defense Planning Guidance. It was later toned down, but it still formed the basis for the exceptionalist dementia incarnated by the Project for the New American Century; and also reappeared in full glory in Dr Zbig "Let's Rule Eurasia" Brzezinski's 1997 magnum opus *The Grand Chessboard*. It's all there, raw, rough and ready: Our first o... more »

Florida Retail Federation, Republican Legislators Still Want To Legalize Wage Theft

Donna Ballman at Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home - 1 day ago
I previously reported that big business in Florida has made three attempts to repeal local efforts to crack down on corporate wage theft. It all started when Miami-Dade County passed an ordinance providing for triple damages for employers who fail to pay wages. First, Big Employer tried to get legislation passed to repeal local laws that punish employers for stealing employee wages. Employees got another victory when Broward County passed its own wage theft ordinance. Then the Florida Retail Federation along with Republican legislators made another failed attempt last year to pass l... more »

There is no moral equivalency between Israel and the Islamist terrorists that face it

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day ago
There is no moral equivalency between Israel and the Islamist terrorists that face it, this poster should explain the differemce to any passing BBC 'journalist' or the likes of @Wotsit4 and @DD1958

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Mystery - Day 45 April 23 , 2014 -- Malaysia DING-DONG FOR MH370 FAMILIES: Now, sources say plane may have LANDED NOT CRASHED ....... NO LONGER CONSPIRACY THEORY! Diego Garcia in spotlight again as MH370 LANDING SPOT ....... Another fruitless day of searching in the Indian Ocean as that aspect of the search edges closer to a wrap ......

Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
New Straits Times...... 23 April 2014| last updated at 08:40PM MH370 Tragedy: New independent international investigative team established By ALIZA SHAH and ZAFIRA ANWAR | news@nst.com.my 0 58 Google +0 0 0 comments KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has established an independent international investigation team to evaluate, investigate and determine the actual cause for the missing Malaysia Airline flight MH370. Acting Transport Minister Datuk Seri Hishammudin Hussain said the team was set up to look into the incident so that similar event could be avoided in the future. “The cabinet today... more »

Senate Decision

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago
The Supreme Court has been surprising me recently. That said, it seems almost inconceivable that it will approve any material changes to the Senate without a full constitutional amendment process. Perhaps they will allow voting to nominate Senators for the Prime Minister's consideration but even that is doubtful. So then what? I cannot imagine this government wants to open the Constitution (maybe I am wrong here but that's a high risk step) and so,,, Senate reform dies. Perhaps the best we can hope for is appointments actually made on merit.

Anti-Monster Spray with Leah from Fabulous Farm Girl

Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 1 day ago
*Today I am thrilled to have Leah from Fabulous Farm Girl here to share her Anti-Monster Spray. I love her version because of the amazing essential oils she uses in it. She has some amazing recipes using essential oils including Bath Fizzies and Honey Mint Lip Balm. Make sure to follow her for more incredible ideas. * Hey everyone, I’m Leah your friendly Fabulous Farm Girl. I’m a wife, mama of 3 boys and surrogate mama to a dog, 2 cats, 8 chickens and a mess-load of bees. I grew up in the country, dreaming of the city but now I live in the city and dream of the country. I blog over... more »

John Kerry vs freedom of press, Russia Today

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day ago
John Kerry spoke about Ukraine and reserved some "verbal bullets" for the Kremlin-funded TV network, Russia Today. *The full speech is available.* I think that such an overall attack by a top politician against an important media outlet (which has surpassed 1 billion total views on YouTube, for example) is pretty incredible in a free country. Needless to say, I remember pretty much the same attacks against the "seditious transmitters of the imperialists" (including Radio Free Europe) we would hear during communism. (RFE/RL stopped its direct broadcast from Russian transmitters in... more »

We’re off on a mission of national import!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago
*FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 2014* *Won’t post until tomorrow:* We’re off on a mission of national import involving a limited tour of the nation’s Medicaid-funded facilities. We won’t be posting until tomorrow. Today, we’re recalling the classic, decade-long Fox News hysteria concerning The New Black Panther Party. The liberal world finally noticed this nonsense in 2010. By that time, Hannity & Colmes had been using the Panthers to stoke tribal fears on a regular basis for years. The New Black Panthers were a thoroughly insignificant group. But they were repeatedly hosted by Hannity and Col... more »

4 All-Natural Allergy Remedies That Work

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 1 day ago
4 All-Natural Allergy Remedies That Work by Kimberly Hertzer Off The Grid News, 21 April 2014 Think that the coldest winter in years means fewer allergies this year? Think again! Allergies might not come as early this spring because the cold weather has kept some plants from releasing their pollen. However, when they do come, allergists warn that they will come with a vengeance. “We’re going to get a bumper crop of pollen,” Dr. Paul Ehrlich, an allergy/allergist/immunology specialist at Mount Sinai Beth Israel, told the *New York Daily News*. Since the outlook for allergies... more »

An anti-ER-EPR paper

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day ago
Vijay Balasubramanian, Micha Berkooz, Simon F. Ross, and Joan Simon are very good physicists who have written many nice papers about quantum gravity. Nevertheless, I don't know how to learn anything from their new paper Black Holes, Entanglement and Random Matrices (hep-th). It is a sort of a criticism of the Maldacena-Susskind ER-EPR correspondence that works with random matrices in the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence. Maldacena and Susskind proposed to identify ER (non-traversable wormholes i.e. Einstein-Rosen bridges) with EPR (entanglement). The former is a universal geo... more »

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JR at GREENIE WATCH - 1 day ago
*An interesting admission* *"Nature" magazine admits that more CO2 is good for plants -- which includes crops. Skeptics have been saying it for years, of course* Elevated CO2 further lengthens growing season under warming conditions By Melissa Reyes-Fox et al. Abstract Observations of a longer growing season through earlier plant growth in temperate to polar regions have been thought to be a response to climate warming1, 2, 3, 4, 5. However, data from experimental warming studies indicate that many species that initiate leaf growth and flowering earlier also reach seed maturati... more »

Northrop Grumman Completes Preliminary Design Review for B-2 Bomber Software Upgrade

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 1 day ago
[image: B-2 Spirit]Northrop Grumman Corporation has successfully completed a major U.S. Air Force review of a new software upgrade for the B-2 stealth bomber. The upgrade is part of the Air Force's Flexible Strike Phase 1 program. It is the first step in a process that will help increase the jet's mission capabilities and reduce its maintenance costs. Northrop Grumman is the Air Force's prime contractor for the B-2, the flagship of the nation's long range strike arsenal and one of the most survivable aircraft in the world. Read more

2,500kg Trinitrotoluene blows a hole in INS Sindhurakshak's salvage operations

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 1 day ago
[image: INS Sindhurakshak]INS Sindhurakshak has more than 2,500 kilos of "unused" Trinitrotoluene(TNT), considered the world's deadliest explosive. And that is why salvaging the submarine is no easy task. The Russian-made Kilo class submarine sank at the Mumbai naval dockyard on August 14 last year, following a series of explosions, claiming the lives of 18 navy men on board. At that time, the battle-ready submarine was loaded with at least 16 torpedoes and Klub-S missiles. To be precise, there were six firing tubes and 12 racks in the submarine's nose carrying torpedoes and missile... more »

Sweden wants cruise missiles 'for defence'

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 1 day ago
[image: Taurus KEPD 350]The Swedish government has announced plans to beef up its defence forces by fitting its fleet of Gripen fighter jets with long-range cruise missiles. Defence Minister Karin Enström said the high-precision missiles would chiefly act as a deterrent to other countries that might be considering an attack on Sweden. “They would give new capabilities by offering a longer reach, but also the ability to fight targets that are further away,” she told Sveriges Radio (SR) on Thursday. Read more

First domestically produced attack helicopter delivered to Turkish Army

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 1 day ago
[image: A-129 Mangusta]The Undersecretariat of the Defense Industry announced that the first T129 ATAK Raid Helicopter (ARH), which is the first domestically produced helicopter, was included in the inventory of the Turkish Armed Forces on April 22. The ATAK was produced within the agreement signed between the Undersecretariat of the Defense Industry and Turkish Aerospace Industries (TUSAŞ) on Sep. 7, 2007, which envisages the supply of nine pieces of T129 ARHs helicopters. The T129 ARH helicopter with two crews has two LHTEC CTS800-4ATurboshaft engines, each of which has a power ... more »

Army says Apache co-pilot only injury in crash landing

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 1 day ago
[image: AH-64E Apache]The co-pilot of one of Taiwan's new AH-64E Apache helicopters was the only one injured when the attack helicopter crashed into a residential building in Taoyuan County Friday morning during flight training, the Army said. Early reports said both the pilot and co-pilot had been injured. The aircraft had to make a forced landing on top of the three-story building because of an emergency situation. The Army said it was mostly intact despite the rough landing, and no other injuries, civilian or military, had been reported. Read more

Ten NATO allies to back Baltic States

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 1 day ago
[image: F-15C Eagle]Ten countries have suggested strengthening the airspace above the Baltic States, the Estonian Ministry of Defense has informed DELFI reported. According to representatives of the Estonia’s Defense Ministry Artur Jugaste, the United States, Poland, the United Kingdom, France, Denmark, Germany, Portugal, the Netherlands, Canada and Turkey have informed about their preparation to send the additional forces to the Baltic States. Jugaste has highlighted that the list of these countries can be expanded. Moreover, the representative of the Estonia’s Defense Ministry has... more »

Meet Boeing's Ramis Tactical ISR Testbed

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 1 day ago
[image: Ramis Tactical ISR Testbed]Boeing has been pushing hard to come on strong into the tactical ISR market. Despite the sputtering of the Enhanced Medium-Altitude Reconnaissance Surveillance System (Emarss) program for the U.S. Army, it seems the company had secretive customer that helped underpin the business a few years ago. But, what was known as the Yellow Jacket demonstrator for that unnamed customer has been morphed for roughly three years into what we now know as Ramis, the Reconfigurable Airborne Multi-Intelligence System. Read more

Russian aircraft carrier still in the Mediterranean Sea. NATO planes watch closely

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 1 day ago
[image: NOTAM Area]Aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov is still in the Mediterranean where it operates watched closely by NATO E-3 AWACS. Even if it has reportedly ended its mission and headed for Severomorsk, Russia’s aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov is still sailing in the Mediterranean Sea. Its position can be determined based on the NOTAMs (Notice To Airmen) issued for the Algiers FIR (Flight Information Region). Read more

Royal Navy warship 'monitoring' Russian naval vessel

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 1 day ago
[image: Vice Admiral Kulakov]A Royal Navy warship is monitoring the activity of a Russian destroyer as it transits past United Kingdom territorial waters, the Ministry of Defence has said. HMS Dragon, one of the Royal Navy's newest Type 45 destroyers moved into position last week north of Scotland to be able to respond to the activity of the Russian vessel, Vice Admiral Kulakov, the MoD said on their website. In what the MoD are calling a "well-established and standard" response, HMS Dragon will track the Russian vessel as she transits south. Source

Capitalism Is Not Only Unfair But Under The Circumstances of Untaxed Inherited Wealth, It Doesn't Work (Democratically) At All and Do New FCC Rules Murder the Idea of the Free and Fair Internet?)

We are at an historically important turning point in the understanding of what unbridled capitalism (in play today) has in store for titular democratic countries. If we don't organize and make changes to our taxation (and voting) system based on this new reality, we will reap what they sow. And their crops will not be distributed democratically. But they will be spread with a vengeance by

Chimericana Books 2014 - Press Release - all Mike Philbin novels now available on subscription service Scribd

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET BLOG - 1 day ago
*Chimericana Books 2014* * - Press Release - * *all Mike Philbin novels now available on subscription service Scribd.* click on above SCRIBD image to go select, purchase Mike Philbin titles

China splurging on military as U.S. pulls back

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 1 day ago
[image: Jin class SSBN]China’s navy commissioned 17 new warships last year, the most of any nation. In a little more than a decade, it’s expected to have three aircraft carriers, giving it more clout than ever in a region of contested seas and festering territorial disputes. Those numbers testify to huge increases in defense spending that have endowed China with the largest military budget behind the United States and fueled an increasingly large and sophisticated defense industry. While Beijing still lags far behind the U.S. in both funding and technology, its spending boom is att... more »

KD Tunku Abdul Rahman submarine proves RMN's capabilities

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 1 day ago
[image: Scorpene class SSK]The Royal Malaysian Navy's Scorpene submarine fleet, which has been a subject of discussion on social media recently, proved its naysayers wrong after KD Tunku Abdul Rahman submarine succesfully completed a week-long journey from its base in Sepanggar, Sabah to the Lumut RMN naval base here today. RMN Fleet Commander, Vice-Admiral Datuk Abdul Hadi A. Rashid said the seven day journey - which passed without incident - was proof that the navy's submarines were not as unreliable as painted by the online community. "As you can see, there is absolutely no truth... more »

Unelected Regime Begins Killing Spree in Eastern Ukraine

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 day ago
*Image: Kiev has unleashed heavy armor, warplanes, and gunships on its own population with substantial NATO backing in direct contradiction to the West's policy over the last 3 years of alleged "responsibility to protect."* *April 25, 2014* (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - Deadly clashed broke out as the unelected regime occupying Kiev attempted to restart what it is calling “anti-terror” operations in eastern Ukraine where anti-fascist protesters have begun rising up. Several have been killed during clashes in the eastern Ukrainian town of Slavyansk where Kiev has set armored vehicles a... more »

Greg Hunter,“Weekly News Wrap-Up 4.25.14”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
*“Weekly News Wrap-Up 4.25.14”* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com “Last week, I told you the deal reached on the Ukraine crisis would be “extremely temporary.” That was on Friday, and by Easter Sunday, there was bloodshed and the deal was off. Now, the pro-West Ukrainian officials announced the resumption of its anti-terror program against the pro-Russian militia in Eastern Ukraine. Russia says this is military force on citizens, and it is “criminal.” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said if Russians are attacked in Eastern Ukraine, Russia would respond. Russia is also holdin... more »

How Does An Actual Progressive Campaign In A Red State?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
Ex-Republican/BRAVO TV star Tom Ravenel announced he is running as an independent against Lindsey Graham in the general election. If he manages to pull just 10% of the anti-Graham votes, the Democrat will win the U.S. Senate seat. Last year, when no one wanted to Democratic nomination, Blue America endorsed progressive outsider Jay Stamper but when Ravenel made it public he was going to run the Democratic state Party Establishment got behind hopeless conservative, Chamber of Commerce state Senator Brad Huttowho is hoping that Ravenel can deliver the Senate seat to him. In the vide... more »

Guest Post - The Latest Energy Saving Devices That Save You Money

Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 1 day ago
Saving money is something that everyone enjoys doing, yet many people are unaware what they can do to keep energy costs low. In most cases, the only method used to save money [image: The Latest Energy Saving Devices That Save You Money] on energy is to keep the heat low in the winter, the air conditioner high in the summer and reduced water consumption as much as possible. However, there are several devices that can reduce energy costs without making friends and family uncomfortable in the home. Some of the devices have been available for some time, but new advances have made them mor... more »

EFN Asia 36: Pett J and Secretariat Work

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 1 day ago
I have written a number of papers about the Economic Freedom Network (EFN) Asia, especially its annual conferences in different cities in Asia. Such big regional event for many independent think tanks and academics is made possible not only by the financial support of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF) but also by the hard work put by the EFN Secretariat staff. The head of the Secretariat is the Regional Program Officer for EFN, Pett Jurapaiboon. Photo, Pett talking to Fred McMahon of Fraser Institute (Canada) during the EFN 2013 Conference in Bangkok last year. Pet... more »

Important Health News: 18 Scientifically Validated Reasons To End Public Water Fluoridation!

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day ago
With the world teetering on the edge of a new world war that this time will indeed be caused by the United States of America, I have wondered how the American public could stand almost idly by while their criminal government pushes the entire planet to the edge of oblivion.... The answer may lie in the fact that for decades now the American people, and the people of other nations as well, have had their brains turned to mush through the use of nefarious chemicals in the very foods they digest, as well as FLUORIDE in their drinking water. For this article, I want to present a very im... more »

WIPP ongoing nuclear debacle updates April 24 , 2014 -- Attempting to determine what happened before the massive accident , trying to understand the extent of the radioactive releases , trying to figure out where to go from here.....

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://enenews.com/strange-events-govt-wipp-report-reddish-brown-vapors-observed-after-unplanned-exothermic-reaction-march-filters-orange-tint-when-changed-hours-after-radiation-release-began Radiological Release Event at WIPP, Department of Energy, Apr. 2014 (*emphasis added*): - At 0014, on Saturday, February 15, the [Central Monitoring Room Operator] attempted to notify the on-call Radiological Control Technician (RCT) but was unable to reach him. The effluent sample Station A, Skid A- 2 and Station D shutdown due to low air flow or clogged filter paper. [...] Sta... more »

Fukushima Updates April 24 , 2014 --- Fukushima Disaster in one sentence “After the massive accident at Fukushima, we are now in a situation in which massive accidents occur daily.”

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://enenews.com/journal-fukushima-has-an-ongoing-melt-out-is-this-not-the-worst-possible-outcome-nuclear-fuel-mixing-with-groundwater-and-leaking-into-sea-disaster-never-seen-in-human-history Syndic Literary Journal No. 10, by poet Taki Yuriko and translated by John Saxon, Dec. 2013: *Excerpts from ‘Fukushima has an Ongoing Melt-Out’* - On March 11, 2011, Pandora’s Box was opened. - TEPCO reports, “1000 tons of groundwater Flow daily into the reactor structure. Half the contaminated water is Pumped into land tanks, but Half leaks out to sea” - In short, Melted nucl... more »

Why SHOULDN'T we have a warmer and fuzzier KKK?

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
*Well, if it's a warmer and fuzzier KKK we're hoping for, CNN's revised headline -- the lower one, in case you were wondering -- is, um, fuzzier, no?* by Ken Howie asked earlier today if I'd thought about writing about Cliven Brady, and I had to say honestly that no, I hadn't, and I didn't think anyone would be eager to hear my solution, which would be to have him killed just so people would stop talking about him -- and also it would teach him a lesson. You know, it's hard even to get these criminal-crackpot types' attention, let alone teach them a lesson. For what it's worth,... more »

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