Saturday, August 30, 2014

30 August - Blogs I`m Following

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The Air Force and the McMinnville UFO Photographs

KRandle at A Different Perspective - 3 minutes ago
For the last several weeks I have been researching my new book and I stumbled across a bit of information that suggests the Air Force was less than enthusiastic in their investigations of UFOs. I wondered what their conclusion of the McMinnville photographs was. These are the two pictures taken by Paul Trent on May 11, 1950 of a disk-shaped object near his farm in Oregon. I’m not going to debate the merits of the pictures here, merely look at the Air Force response. According to the Project Blue Book files, they came to no conclusion. In fact, they didn’t bother to investigate the ... more »

Obama’s “Lack” of Strategy Towards ISIS

Heather Roff at Duck of Minerva - 11 minutes ago
The last two days have seen a maelstrom of media attention to President Obama’s admission that he currently does not have a strategy for attacking or containing ISIS (The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) in Syria. It is no surprise that those on the right criticized Obama’s candid remarks, and it is equally not Continue reading

Big Money Interests Investing Heavily In Their Most Subservient Political Handmaidens

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 12 minutes ago
I would call this Horsey cartoon from yesterday's *L.A. Times* pretty risqué. It uses an image of a cocaine snorting Miss McConnell to portray and mock his addiction to extreme right-wing Koch brothers cash. David Horsey is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for the *Times* and he can get away with stuff like this. He also wrote the piece the cartoon accompanied. "The dilemma," he wrote, "facing the true grass-roots tea party believers-- the dilemma they do not acknowledge-- is that their primary goal of whittling and whacking away at big government undercuts their seco... more »

The Summer so Far

theozarker at The Conflicted Doomer - 32 minutes ago
August 30, 2014 Labor Day weekend is upon us and amidst the end of summer/pre-fall barbeques, vacations, staycations and general revelries, here’s what’s happening in my neighborhood: We hit 101 degrees last week, but after a run of 98 and … Continue reading →

Triage

Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 33 minutes ago
Putin's Russia and the Islamic State are short-term distractions from the serious problems of climate change and resource depletion. We simply don't have time to fuck around with some new fangled Cold- luke-warm-War or to humour the Islamic State. The global policy response should be robust, and aimed at walling off these two entities in every way possible so that we in the rest of the world can

Once More, With Feeling

D ... Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 45 minutes ago
When I first began writing the series of template articles, my intention was to publish them all within a day of each other, if not all at the same time. Unfortunately time and internet issues managed to derail that initial plan somewhat. With some of the articles being published days apart- with weeks between the first one and the last one- some of the message was lost. After discussing this aspect with Lisa and Heather and Nick, I decided that I would re-publish the set of 5 articles, in reading order, all at one time. Below are all 5 of the Template articles. I am posting them... more »

“What is Going On?”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 48 minutes ago
*“What is Going On?”* by David Stansfield “We have now reached the point in our story where we no longer know what is going on. Moore’s law still reigns supreme over the technological playground, but it appears that our toys have outgrown us – or are very, very close to doing so. Each prediction about what this will mean for the human race is wilder than the next. The wildest prophecies of all cluster around a concept known as “the singularity.” Now there’s a word. Something to do with single, with singleness, oneness, with one or perhaps, The One. All of that and more is wrapped u... more »

Foreign Fighters Volunteering to Fight Against Ukraine Military

greencrow at Greencrow As The Crow Flies - 3 hours ago
Fighters from throughout Europe are forming a "Europe United" brigade in Ukraine to fight alongside the Novorossian militia. I guess this is why NATO is calling for a 10,000 soldier force to confront Russia in Ukraine.....the biggest "civil war" in history seems to be shaping up. Canada is "considering" whether it will contribute to this force. Of course, the choice is not ours to make. The NATO henchmen make all those kinds of decisions...all we do is receive back into our country the mentally and physically broken soldiers from these kinds of combats.

Don Lincoln's introduction to particle detectors

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 3 hours ago
Fermilab's Don Lincoln has recorded a couple of videos promoting and explaining physics concepts. In this new 10-minute film, he presents particle detectors as subatomic bomb squads. To make his point clearer, he first detonates himself, goes to Heaven, and returns to Earth. A moment later, he makes his not so luxurious villa explode, too. Meanwhile, beginners may learn something about the methods that physicists used to reconstruct what happened during the explosion or collision.

Obama Awards Contract to Student Loan Predators Who Swindled 60,000 Veteran Families

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 3 hours ago
Sallie Mae has a long, dirty history (here, here, here, here, here, here, and here) of preying on those dependent upon student loans for a college education. Recently, the dirty bastards spun off a company, which according to Forbes, is really the old, rotten version of Sallie Mae that we have come to hate: The new company which is being spun out – Navient – is equivalent to the old Sallie Mae. It will continue to service the existing loans in the Sallie Mae portfolio, as well as service new loans via contracts with the Department of Education. It will also focus on servicing priva... more »

Sasha & Heather on TCI: raw unedited video footage

D ... Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 4 hours ago
Good evening everyone! Here is the raw, unedited video footage of The Collective Imagination Interview with Heather Tucci-Jarraf and Sasha Stone that was recorded on Tuesday August 26th, 2014. As many of you probably have already heard, we had some technical issues with getting the broadcast live on Tuesday. The round table discussion with Lisa Harrison, Brian Kelly, myself, and Sasha and Heather was recorded on skype and this is the unedited version that is embedded here. While the awesome technical team is putting together an awesome production of this discussion, using mult... more »

Can Peter King Add This To The Republican Law Suit Against President Obama?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 4 hours ago
“No way any of us can excuse what the president did yesterday… a week after Jim Foley was beheaded"- Peter King Roland and I have been traveling all over the world for decades. He'd eat grasshoppers, snakes, monkeys and, in Beijing, dog. So when I wondered if I knew anyone who watched the video of Jim Foley's beheading, I asked Roland. "Are you kidding," he declared in disgust. "I'd never watch the savage garbage." OK, so I don't know any friends or family who did. I asked a few congressmembers too and they all said no. I couldn't get an answer from Peter King's office but I bet he ... more »

UNDERSTANDING ISIS

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 4 hours ago
The Islamic militant group ISIS, formerly known as Al-Qaeda in Iraq, and recently rebranded as the so called Islamic State, is the stuff of nightmares. Would it interest you to know who helped these psychopaths rise to power? Would it interest you to know who armed them, funded them and trained them? Would it interest you to know why?

NATO'S RING OF STEEL

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 4 hours ago
NATO uses fear to increase their 'security state' in Wales for their annual summit. More money wasted at the very time that austerity measures are ripping communities to pieces. Say no to the NATO endless war machine!

Supplemental: The Clintons earn too much money again!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 4 hours ago
*SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2014Adopting Fawn Brodie’s procedures:* Early next year, our nation will embark on it latest White House campaign. The two-year campaign will be endless. Increasingly, the coverage of these campaigns is built around journalistic cartoons. Did we see one such cartoon growing again in today’s New York Times? Chelsea Clinton is leaving her post at NBC News. This is a strikingly trivial matter. That said, did we spot a certain cartoon in the Times? Headline included, Amy Chozick’s news report started like this: CHOZICK (8/30/14): *Chelsea Clinton to Leave ... more »

Friday Beaver - fear edition

Demeur at Demeur - 5 hours ago
Life of late is cheap which makes one wonder if it was always this way or did we just not see it? Was it hidden behind some veil of secrecy? Eventually atrocities creep out. How could a city stand and watch boxcars crammed full of humanity pass by and not wonder what was going on? Justice it seems is only for those holding all the cards, the boys with the most fire power. This truly has turned Orwellian. Good is bad and bad is good. Who would Jesus bomb? Rights? You actually think you have rights? Shut up. They just slap a label of enemy on your back and you get a visit from a d... more »

Editor's Note

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 5 hours ago
Taking some badly needed R&R today. Blogging will return later tonight.

George Galloway 'beaten over Israel comments'

British MP attacked in London street by man said to have been shouting about the Holocaust Tags: UNITED KINGDOM OCCUPIED PALESTINE AKA ISRAEL PALESTINE

UK seeking to bar Russia from using SWIFT banking network

The British government will press other European nations at a meeting in Brussels on Saturday to block Russia from using the SWIFT banking network, Bloomberg reported, in what could be a dramatic expansion of sanctions. Tags: RUSSIA UNITED KINGDOM EUROPEAN UNION BANKING SANCTIONS

Woman working 4 jobs to make ends meet dies while napping in car between shifts

A New Jersey woman who worked four jobs, who sometimes “wouldn’t sleep for five days,” according to a co-worker, died Monday while napping between shifts in her car on the side of the road. Tags: UNITED STATES LUNACY ECONOMY

Italy's unelected Prime Minister slams Russia's elected President, Vladimir Putin, for 'escalation' in Ukraine

Italy's de-facto dictator, Matteo Renzi, called Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday to warn of "very serious consequences" after reports that Moscow has sent troops into Ukraine. Tags: ITALY RUSSIA HYPOCRISY

Washington Piles Lie Upon Lie — Paul Craig Roberts

The latest Washington lie, this one coming from NATO, is that Russia has invaded Ukraine with 1,000 troops and self-propelled artillery. Tags: UNITED STATES RUSSIA NATO UKRAINE PROPAGANDA

Irish carpenter who is desperately fighting eviction is thrown into Mountjoy Prison

Michael O’Neill, 46, has been imprisoned in Mountjoy for two days on foot of a High Court warrant which said to stay away from his home in Dunmanway, Co Cork. Tags: IRELAND BANKING CRIMINALITY FASCISM

EU to Discuss More Russian Sanctions, Possible Weapons Embargo – Danish Foreign Minister

The European Union plans to discuss more sanctions against Russia and is ready to consider a weapons embargo, Danish Foreign Minister Martin Lidegaard told reporters Friday. Tags: RUSSIA EUROPEAN UNION SANCTIONS

Cold War - Family Business for Brzezinskis

As US President Barack Obama prepares for his address at the NATO Summit in Wales and for chairing the United Nations Security Council in September, the children of Zbigniew Brzezinski, the aging anti-Russian strategist who advised Obama during his first presidential campaign, have been actively working on implementing their father's Cold War schemes. Tags: RUSSIA UNITED STATES SWEDEN

Donetsk Republic leaders ready to provide corridors for encircled troops

Leaders of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic are ready to provide humanitarian corridors for encircled Kiev-loyal troops on condition of their disarmament. Tags: UKRAINE RUSSIA

Obama threatens Russia with new sanctions over Ukraine

US President Barack Obama has threatened his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin with new sanctions over the growing crisis in Ukraine. Tags: UNITED STATES RUSSIA UKRAINE SANCTIONS

Saudi Arabia's King Issues A Warning To The West; The Jihadists Are Going To Strike You Next

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 6 hours ago
Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud speaks before a meeting with the US Secretary of State at his private residence on June 27, 2014 in the Red Sea city of Jeddah (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski) *Saudi King Warns West Will Be Jihadists' Next Target -- AFP* Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) (AFP) - King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has warned that the West will be the next target of the jihadists sweeping through Syria and Iraq, unless there is "rapid" action. "If we ignore them, I am sure they will reach Europe in a month and America in another month," he said in remarks quoted on Saturday b... more »

Israel's Embedded American Operatives Aid the Genocide in Gaza

Donn Marten at Carrying a Flag - 6 hours ago
Extremist Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu enjoys an overwhelmingly accommodating media in the United States. along with a treacherous Congress packed with corrupt and cowardly weasels, lickspittles and religious fanatics whose dedication to a foreign country stabs their actual constituents in the back. The fealty that Netanyahu receives was evident when he received 29 standing ovations during an address to the U.S. Congress in 2011. He also is able to play the corrupt state-corporate media like a Stradivarius to receive an unprecedented forum on national televisio... more »

Stephen Harper, Nobel Peace Prize nominee

Alison at Creekside - 6 hours ago
Not content with awarding Stephen Harper their Gold Medallion human rights award and pledging to create a *Stephen Harper Centre for Human Rights*, B’nai Brith Canada announced yesterday they will be nominating him for the Nobel Peace Prize. Frank Dimant from their statement : “Moral clarity has been lost across much of the world, with terror, hatred and antisemitism filling the void,” said Frank Dimant, CEO, B’nai Brith Canada. “Throughout, there has been one leader which has demonstrated international leadership and a clear understanding of the differences between those who wou... more »

Ignoring The Obvious

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 7 hours ago
http://www.breitbart.com/ Stephen Harper has just completed his ninth tour of the North. These tours provide the prime minister with an opportunity to serve up warm rhetoric. On this occasion, Harper saved his most heated words for Vladimir Putin. But he said nothing about the North's increasingly warm atmosphere. Jeffrey Simpson writes: Nowhere in Canada is the impact of climate change more increasingly evident than the North. And yet, the words “climate change” are never heard from Mr. Harper in the North, as if the idea... more »

Ukraine / Russia situation ( August 27 , 2014 ) -- Daily update on the state of play regarding South East Ukraine battlefield , sanctions watch ( US/EU/Ukraine and Russia ) , Peace Talks / Mediations , Natural Gas Situation....

Catharsis Ours - 7 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-08-28/ukraine-accuses-russia-launching-invasion-then-promptly-retracts Ukraine Accuses Russia Of Launching Invasion, Then Promptly Retracts [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/28/2014 07:24 -0400 - BTFATH - European Union - Greenlight <li class="taxonomy_term_9184" style="display: inlin

What A U.S. Military Intervention In Syria Really Means

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 7 hours ago
Badra Mamet/Reuters *What Going To War In Syria Would Really Mean For The U.S. -- Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic* A brutal dictator, a violent terrorist group, and the morally fraught tradeoff that interventionists face Attacking Adolf Hitler's Germany benefited moral monster Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union. That inescapable fact of World War II doesn't mean it wasn't worth fighting Nazis. Under the circumstances, allying with Stalin to beat Hitler was the right call. But the consequences of that fraught alliance were themselves horrific. To ignore its downsides would be to misund... more »

The Economist: one drop in the tsunami of stoopid

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 7 hours ago
*Another lovely Taiwan riding day*. I'm blogging on this because I fear that if you read this article in which the Economist explains why China and Taiwan are divided, your IQ may plummet. Just consider this my small public service in defending the world from the ongoing tsunami of stoopid in the media. Why O why can't we have a better media? The stoopid starts at the very beginning. With the title: "China and Taiwan are divided." But of course, China and Taiwan aren't "divided." The KMT and CCP governments wish to annex Taiwan to China, whose sovereignty over Taiwan is not suppor... more »

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 7 hours ago
*Nine ~Disenfranchised Citizen* *New Orleans on a roll, but 9th Ward stymied 9 years after Katrina ~Rob Masson, WVUE* *Abortion clinics ask federal judge to rule new state law unconstitutional ~WWLTV * *Nighttime burglar ransacks Treme funeral home, steals hearse ~Danny Monteverde, New Orleans Advocate * *It's GameDay! LSU Football vs. Wisconsin *

US hands over first upgraded KC-135 Stratotanker to France

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 7 hours ago
[image: ALAT KC-135RG Stratotanker]The French Air Force (ALAT) has taken delivery of the first modernised KC-135 Stratotanker aerial refuelling aircraft from the US at Air Base 125, near Istres, France. A total of three French KC-135RG tankers have been upgraded by the US to primarily ensure compliance with the RENO global air traffic management (GATM) standard. The new interface is claimed to enable navigation standards identical to those of US KC-135s and more efficient and secure integration into general air traffic. Read more

Taiwan to spend US$2.5b on anti-missile systems

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 7 hours ago
[image: Tien Kung 3 (Sky Bow 3) missile]Taiwan plans to spend TW$74.8 billion (S$3.1 billion, US$2.5 billion) in the next nine years to acquire anti-missile systems to boost its aerial defences against China, a lawmaker and media said Saturday. The defence ministry aims to purchase the locally-made Tien Kung 3 (Sky Bow 3) surface-to-air missile system between 2015 and 2024 to replace the ageing Hawk missile systems, said lawmaker Lin Yu-fang of the parliament's defence committee. T his will be the biggest procurement of domestically-made weapon systems in recent years, Lin said, ci... more »

The End of the Cobra Era

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 7 hours ago
[image: AH-1Z Cobra]The IAF has quietly retired one of its oldest and most venerable weapon systems recently. The AH-1 Cobra attack helicopter OrBat, which entered service in 1975, was demobilized pursuant to a decision (in the context of the recent cuts in the defense budget) to discontinue using the outdated helicopters. The demobilization process was executed in three stages: on July 29, 2013 the attack helicopter flight of the Red (Aggressor) Squadron was demobilized. Read more

Iran Nuclear talks hit impasse ( August 30 , 2014 ) - US rolls out more sanctions and Iranian response to same ...

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 8 hours ago
Tweets.... *Hassan Rouhani* @HassanRouhani · 6m Our broad sense in the nuclear negotiations is that all 7 countries want to solve the issue. - *Hassan Rouhani* @HassanRouhani · 9m The recent measures taken against #Iran by the US are against the spirit of the Joint Plan of Action and confidence building. - *Hassan Rouhani* @HassanRouhani · 28m Hope #nuclear negotiations will be fruitful. If counterparts avoid excessive demands outcome would benefit all parties. #WinWin #RouhaniLive - http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/08/29/U-S-imposes-new-sa... more »

Why Would You Vote For Anyone Opposed To Increasing The Minimum Wage?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 8 hours ago
No doubt Labor Day is about barbecuing for many people… or an extra day off from work that can be spent with friends and family or in blissful solitude. But this morning, in his weekly address, Presdient Obama chose to discuss the minimum wage, particularly since Mitch McConnell had just prostrated himself before the Koch brothers and some equally heinous billionaires and viewed he would never allow an increase in the minimum wage to even come up for a vote if he wins reelection. It probably angered Peter King again, but the president decided to talk about economic issues that fa... more »

With Syrian Rebels Intensifying Their Attacks, UN Peacekeepers Flee Into Israel From Their Posts In The Golan Heights

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 8 hours ago
*Philippine Syria Troops 'Attacked' -- BBC* Philippine peacekeepers trapped by rebels in the Syrian Golan Heights are "under attack", Philippine Defence Minister Voltaire Gazmin says. He said the assault had started early on Saturday, but gave no details on any casualties. In recent days the Syrian rebels have taken 44 Fijian peacekeepers hostage in the area and surrounded 75 Filipinos manning two separate UN posts. The rebels have also seized a crossing point into the Israeli-occupied Golan. They are believed to include members of the al-Nusra Front, al-Qaeda's affiliate in Syri... more »

Death is not the end. Our Struggle is Eternal

Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 8 hours ago
The death of a loved-one is never easy. It is that much harder when the one you lose suffers excruciating pain before death. This month has been a particularly difficult one, with the loss of a confidant, a listener, an individual who was forthright yet compassionate, took no nonsense but wasn't patronising, and was in every way a kindred spirit. Due to the nature of my writing, I cannot give the name or any other details of the great individual who has departed this world. Why not? Because to do so would put the rest of my family in danger due to the malicious behaviour of tho... more »

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jonjayray at EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL - 8 hours ago
*TX: Some teachers packing heat, school district signs alert visitors* A school district outside Dallas will reportedly continue to allow some teachers to carry guns in school, and posted signs on school campuses warning that teachers "may use whatever force is necessary to protect our students." NewFix's CW33 reported that Argyle teachers will continue to be allowed to be armed on campus under the state's Protection of Texas Children Act. The report said these gun-toting teachers are required to have a handgun license, pass a psychological test and go through emergency response t... more »

A War Which Would Kill 40,000,000 Americans in an Hour

Spike EP at News Spike - 8 hours ago
*LBJ: "Dick...it has already been announced and you can serve with anybody for the good of America and this is a question that has a good many more ramifications than on the surface and we've got to take this out of the arena where they're testifying that Khrushchev and Castro did this and did that and kicking us into a war that can kill 40 million Americans in an hour. "* Everyone ignores the direct, personal role played by Bobby Kennedy in bringing the Warren Commission into existence - Bobby asked Earl Warren to serve on the Commission, in person, TWICE, *BEFORE* LBJ asked hi... more »

APSA Fire Update

Josh Busby at Duck of Minerva - 8 hours ago
Well, the main APSA hotel at the Marriott last night caught fire last night in what might be an act of arson, but we really don’t know. For those of us staying at the Marriott, we awoke at 1am to alarms and recorded messages to evacuate the building. We stayed outside until around 4:30 or Continue reading

Winter watch ( August 30 , 2014 ) - Are Russia and Germany conniving to work around recalcitrant Ukraine regarding natural gas for Europe ? Association of European Businesses urges EU to refrain from sanctions against Russia ...... European Commission recommends Ukraine to start repaying Russian gas debt

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 8 hours ago
http://en.itar-tass.com/world/747385 ( Ukraine needs 3 billion for their war with Novorussians and billions more to pay for Russian natural gas...... Pony up time , boys and girls ! ) Barroso suggests EU’s increased financial aid for Ukraine World August 30, 20:12 UTC+4 “More than half a billion euros in loans and 250 million euros in grants have already been mobilized by the European Commission as part of this package,” the president of the European Commission said © AP Photo/Yves Logghe BRUSSELS, August 30, /ITAR-TASS/. European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said on Sat... more »

Saturday Interview: Howard Fuller

Phil at All That Is Solid ... - 8 hours ago
Howard "Howie" Fuller is a PCS activist from London. Among his sins are a penchant for comics and prog rock. He blogs at Howie's Corner and has proven so far resistant to Twitter's lure. - Why did you start blogging? I actually came to blogging by accident rather than design. For several years I had run (and still do) an e-mail list in the PCS union which managed to get up the noses of the Socialist Party/Left Unity leadership. So much so in fact that in late 2012 I received a phone call from John McInally, a PCS Vice President (and SP Grandee) asking me to desist in my criticisms... more »

Ukraine Updates ( August 30 , 2014 ) -- Ukraine Demands Arms, NATO Membership as Rebels Advance on Mariupol Kiev Cries 'Invasion,' But Still Has No Evidence ....... Ukraine Claims ‘Thousands’ of Russian Troops Invaded, Offers No Evidence Rebels Advance, But No Sign of Putative Russian Backing ....... Next Week’s NATO Summit to Focus on Escalations Against Russia Expected to Reach Deal on More Eastern Europe Troops ........ NATO planning 'rapid-deployment force' of 10,000 troops to counter Russia ...... Updates from the battlefield and Political minefields......

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 9 hours ago
Anti War..... Vineyard of the Saker...... SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2014 “Russian Invasion” – How long is screaming ‘Wolf!’ having an impact of the Western Populations? – Until Full Spectrum Dominance has been attained? by Peter Koenig "*The separatists are backed, trained, armed, financed by Russia. Russia determined that it had to be a little more overt in what it had already been doing, but it's not really a shift*." Barak Obama, 29 August 2014. "*If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth.*” Joseph Goebbels Interestingly, most of us who are seeking the truth are primaril... more »

Map On Wall In Office Of Governor Of Donetsk People's Republic Shows The Territory That They Want

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 9 hours ago
Map on wall in office of governor of Donetsk People's Republic shows territory they want in #Russia. pic.twitter.com/iFKx7pRXrm — Alexander Marquardt (@MarquardtA) May 12, 2014 *My Comment:* It is not going to happen .... but some are now proposing such a split to solve the crisis .... *A Split Is Possible Way Out Of Ukraine Crisis -- Analysts* ( Marcel Michelson, Forbes)

Ukraine Civil War News Updates -- August 30, 2014

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 9 hours ago
*Mariupol Digs Its Trenches And Awaits An Attack From The Troops Of 'New Russia' -- The Telegraph* Ukrainian forces in the port city of Mariupol believe Russian troops are poised to take their stronghold – but Moscow denies that its troops are serving across the border "They're different to the fighters in Donetsk. We know what they're like, we've fought them before. These guys are different. Their kit, their uniforms, everything – they're Russian armed forces." Standing among the sandbag redoubts dotting the grounds of the Azov battalion's headquarters in Mariupol, the city of ... more »

Who's really hit a nerve with Jon Donnison?

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 9 hours ago
Someone is very sore about *BBC Watch. *You might also say *#obsessed. * Jon Donnison, though back in Oz (where his job is to report on Australian affairs), is still obsessively tweeting about Gaza at the moment. And about *BBC Watch* and *CiF Watch*. And, yet again, he's happily scrapping with an Israeli spokesman, this time Yiftah Curiel, Spokesperson of the Embassy of Israel in London. Here's what's been happening so far: I hope lone voice behind @bbcwatch is being paid by the word, or must be most monumental waste of time since England picked Carlton Palmer. — Jon Donnison (@Jo... more »

Iraq / Syria Regional War Updates ( August 30 , 2014 ) -- US has no strategy for ISIS yet is bombing away in Iraq , UK playing a " Chicken Little Game " crying terror threats , UN being dragged into the Syria campaign by al Nusra .......

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 9 hours ago
Anti War..... No ISIS Strategy; Obama’s Rare Moment of CandorHawks Push Escalation, But Lack of Strategy Not an Oversight by Jason Ditz, August 29, 2014 Print This | Share This Nothing is more unwise for politicians than honesty, and President Obama was caught in a pretty significant moment of candor with his admission that “we don’t have a strategy yet” for the ISIS war. The comment sparked immediate condemnation from hawks pushing him to escalate the ISIS war even more precipitously, with claims that he isn’t taking the situation seriously enough. Yet the lack of a strategy isn’t s... more »

Coup Underway In African State Of Lesotho. Prime Minister Has Fled the Country

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 9 hours ago
*Military Coup Under Way In Lesotho -- Al Jazeera* Prime Minister, who has fled to South Africa, confirms with Al Jazeera that army has taken over government buildings. Military units in Lesotho have surrounded government and police buildings and gunfire has been heard in the small mountainous southern African kingdom, in what diplomats said appeared to be an attempted coup. The military seized control of the tiny police headquarters and jammed radio stations and phones in the early hours on Saturday, a government minister and member of the ruling coalition told the AFP news agency... more »

NATO Plans To Establish A 'Rapid-Deployment Force' Of 10,000 Troops

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 9 hours ago
German troops who are part of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) (Reuters / Omar Sobhani) *NATO Planning 'Rapid-Deployment Force' Of 10,000 Troops To Counter Russia -- RT* NATO is reportedly working towards the creation of an expeditionary force composed of 10,000 troops from seven different member states as a result of escalating tensions with Russia over the conflict in Ukraine. According to the Financial Times, the force’s creation will be spearheaded by Britain and involve contributions from Denmark, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Norway, and the Netherla... more »

Ukraine Wants To Join NATO

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 9 hours ago
Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko (L) greets NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen during their meeting in Kiev, August 7, 2014. Rasmussen on Thursday called on Russia to pull its troops back from the border with Ukraine and "step back from the brink". REUTERS/Mykola Lazarenko /Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via Reuters *Ukraine To Seek Nato Membership, Says PM Yatsenyuk -- BBC* *Ukraine's prime minister has said he will ask parliament to put the country on a path towards Nato membership.* Arseny Yatsenyuk said the government was sending a bill to MPs urging... more »

Poland Closes It's Airspace To The Russian Defense Minister's Plane From Flying Over

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 10 hours ago
Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu (RIA Novosti / Igor Russak) *Poland Closes Airspace To Russian Defense Minister's Plane, Demands 'Non-Military' Flight Status -- RT* *Poland has allowed the plane of Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu to fly over its territory, after the plane changed its status from military to civilian. Earlier the country barred its airspace to the plane.* The Russian defense minister’s plane has left Bratislava’s airport, according to the Slovak Interior Ministry, RIA Novosti news agency reported. The plane has received permission to fly over Poland af... more »

U.S. High-Altitude Missile System For S. Korea Upsets China, N. Korea, Russia, Poses Problems For South

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 11 hours ago
[image: THAAD launcher]The specter of Chinese warplanes buzzing U.S. and Japanese planes adds urgency to U.S. pressure for high-altitude defense in Asia against a still more formidable threat: that of missiles fired by North Korea and maybe even China. Both the Pentagon and Japan’s defense ministry have protested the close calls with Chinese planes while China threatens still more of them and complains about U.S. dreams of installing a “Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense” system in South Korea. China, North Korea and, most recently, Russia all seem to fear that installation of the... more »

Sweden to buy next-generation jets despite Swiss pullout

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 11 hours ago
[image: Saab JAS-39 Gripen E/F]Sweden said Friday it would go ahead with the purchase of a new generation of Saab Gripen fighter jets, despite Switzerland pulling out of a major co-financing deal. "Global developments and Russian action in Ukraine, with troops in the country, underline the importance of us pursuing the acquisition of the next generation fighter aircraft," defence minister Karin Enstroem told public broadcaster SVT. "This is also about our security and defence capability in the future," she said. Read more

Rare footage: F16 low level test over beautiful Greenland landscapes

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 11 hours ago
Thanks to Major John Kristensen of the Royal Danish Airforce you get to see Greenland like you have never seen it before, flying low in an F16 fighter jet. Jacob Michaelsen, wing commander on the mission said, "the video combines the best of two worlds; F16 flying and the breathtaking scenery over Greenland". Major Kristensen originally recorded the video as documentation but was given permission from Tactical Air Command Denmark to share it with the World after he edited it and showed them. Source

Accurate and Up-To Date Maps are Important.

Spike EP at News Spike - 11 hours ago
*Remember Yalta - Yalta is extremely Important to remember.*

Transport Econ 13: On Prohibiting S. Luzon Provincial Buses to Enter M.Manila

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 11 hours ago
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) will soon prohibit buses from southern provinces to enter Metro Manila. Their analysis says that these provincial buses contribute significantly to Metro Manila traffic; thus, the solution is to ban and prohibit them from entering the metropolis. Is this a good analysis? In July 2013, MMDA proposed a two days a week cars-not-allowed in M.Manila, from the current one day a week. Public adverse reaction was high and MMDA was forced to abandon it. Then in August 2013, MMDA prohibited provincial buses from Cavite and western Batanga... more »

Pratt halted F-35 engine shipments in May over titanium

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 11 hours ago
[image: F-135 test]United Technologies Corp's Pratt & Whitney unit briefly suspended delivery of the engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jet in May because of questions about titanium provided to a parts supplier. Pratt said on Friday it discovered conflicting documentation in late May that raised questions about the origin of the titanium, which was also used in parts for engines made by its Pratt & Whitney Canada division. The Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 strike fighter is the Pentagon's costliest weapons program. Pratt determined very quickly that the material did not pose a fl... more »

US Air Force's Secretive X-37B Space Plane Passes 600 Days in Orbit

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 11 hours ago
[image: X-37B Space Plane]The U.S. Air Force's mysterious unmanned space plane has winged beyond 600 days in orbit on a classified military mission that seems to have no end. The X-37B space plane is carrying out the Orbital Test Vehicle-3 (OTV-3) mission, a long-duration cruise that marks the third flight for the unpiloted Air Force spaceflight program. The Air Force launched the miniature space shuttle into orbit on Dec. 11, 2012 using an expendable Atlas 5 rocket. By the end of Friday (Aug. 29), the space plane had spent 627 days in orbit. That's one year, eight months, 19 days ... more »

Russia, India to Continue Joint Air Force Drills in November

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 11 hours ago
[image: Su-30MKI Flanker]The second phase of joint Russian-Indian Air Force exercise “Aviaindra-2014” is set to take place in India in November, deputy chief of the Russian Air Force's General Staff, Aleksandr Lyapkin, told reporters Friday. “The second phase of the exercise will take place in India after the end of monsoon season, on November 10-21. The location isn't known yet, this will become clear in October, when planning is finished,” Lyapkin said. Russia is currently hosting the first ever Russian-Indian air force drills, which involve joint flights with mixed Russian-Indian... more »

UCLASS RFP Delayed Again Following Pentagon Meeting

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 11 hours ago
[image: X47B Night Deck Handling]The final request for proposal (RFP) for the Navy’s planned carrier-based unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has been delayed pending a review of the service’s information, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) portfolio as part of the service’s budget process this fall, Navy officials told USNI News on Friday afternoon. “Defense officials will be including [Unmanned Carrier Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike (UCLASS)] in its ISR portfolio review to be conducted in conjunction with the normal budget review process this fall,” Cmdr. Thurraya S. Kent... more »

Del Pilar class frigates to be fitted with CIWS, Harpoon missiles

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 11 hours ago
[image: BRP Gregorio Del Pilar (PF-15)]“Our initial target is for the Del Pilar frigates to have the same capabilities as the Hamilton-class did when they were in US service, such as having the Phalanx CIWS and Harpoon anti-ship missiles,” Marine Colonel Eric Nicanor, commander of the PN’s Naval Communications, Electronic and Information Center and chairman of the technical working group for the Del Pilar-class frigate upgrade told IHS Jane’s. He also said that they are looking to possibility of fitting Del Pilar class firgates with weapon and sensor system same with the upcoming br... more »

Japan defence ministry asks for record US$48.7b budget

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 11 hours ago
[image: Kawasaki P-1 MPA]Japan’s defence ministry yesterday made its biggest ever budget request, as Tokyo bolsters its military amid worries over China’s expanding naval reach. The ministry wants 5.05 trillion yen (US$48.7 billion) for the year, with the focus on boosting protection of a string of southern islands that stretches from Kyushu to waters near Taiwan. The request, if approved, would mark the third straight annual defence budget increase and a 3.5 per cent rise from the budget for the current fiscal year, which ends in March 2015. The trend reflects Prime Minister Shinz... more »

"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart"

Spike EP at News Spike - 11 hours ago
*"Smash your left hand down about right here three times, then twice up in this area, then three times right about here... * *That's 'Louie Louie' "*

Green signal for anti-sub sensors

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 11 hours ago
[image: INS Kolkata]Defence minister Arun Jaitley today asked the navy to procure anti-submarine warfare suites for two classes of warships from within the country. The Telegraph had reported last week that the Prime Minister and Jaitley had this month commissioned warships INS Kolkata and INS Kamorta despite their platforms not being fully equipped with anti-submarine sensors. The Defence Acquisitions Council (DAC), chaired by Jaitley, today asked the navy to speed up procurement of ASW (anti-submarine warfare) sensors worth up to Rs 1,700 crore for a class of frigates and destroye... more »

French supplier faltering, deadlines breached; Scorpene may take another hit says defence shipyard

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 12 hours ago
[image: Scorpene class SSK]The alarm bells have gone off. After nine long years of waiting, the Indian Navy couldn't have expected a worse time for it to happen. Suffering from two debilitating underwater losses within a year and tardy acquisition process, its only hope, Project 75 involving the construction of six Scorpene submarines based on transfer of technology from the French firm DCNS, is on the verge of taking a hit, resulting into the fourth straight extension of delivery deadline. The Mumbai-based Mazagon Dock Limited (MDL), which is building the boats with DCNS' assistan... more »

Petition

sue at Is the BBC biased? - 12 hours ago
Disputed figures on Gaza casualties. Petition to change the BBC's boilerplate "mostly civilians" phrase while the figures are inadequately verified. Change BBC boilerplate on Gaza casualties to reflect disputed figures Almost uniquely among news organisations the British Broadcasting Corporation has a duty to impartiality that is not just implied by the professional journalism they claim to practice but also legally by Royal Charter:*"The BBC is required to deliver duly impartial news by the Royal Charter and Agreement and to treat controversial subjects with due impartiality"*[BB... more »

General Dynamics Delivers Submarine North Dakota To U.S. Navy on Schedule and Under Target Cost

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 12 hours ago
[image: USS North Dakota (SSN-784)]General Dynamics Electric Boat today delivered the nuclear-powered attack submarine North Dakota (SSN-784) on time and more than $30 million below target cost. Electric Boat is a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics. North Dakota is the 11th ship of the Virginia Class, which provides the Navy with the capabilities required to retain undersea dominance well into the 21st century. North Dakota will join the fleet in a commissioning ceremony Oct. 25 at the Navy submarine base in Groton. North Dakota is also the first of the eight-ship group of ... more »

Kenya Navy destroys ship with Sh1 billion worth of heroin as Uhuru watches from his military chopper

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 12 hours ago
President Uhuru Kenyatta witnessed the destruction of the stateless Al Noor ship with 370 kgs of heroin aboard a military chopper, 16 nautical miles South of Mombasa. The ship was destroyed at around 4:20pm by the Kenyan Navy officers who ringed the ship with explosives which were later denoted. Journalists watched from a distance as the ship exploded in a ball of fire and sunk 500m down the sea bed. Read more

Conflict – Emotion, Bias and Objectivity

sue at Is the BBC biased? - 12 hours ago
*Conflict – Emotion, Bias and Objectivity* That’s the heading to the promotional material for the event that was to have taken place at the Frontline Club next week. It was fully booked, but it has now been postponed, which must have been inconvenient for all concerned. “An event discussing media coverage of the recent Israel-Hamas conflict has been cancelled, following plans by the ZF to protest outside it. “Reporting the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict – Emotion, Bias and Objectivity,” organised by the Frontline Club, was scheduled to be held on Sept 3 at the Shaw Theatre.” Perhap... more »

Rasmussen: Ukraine free to seek Nato membership

Ko Savonije at Naval Open Source INTelligence - 12 hours ago
[image: Anders Fogh Rasmussen]Nato chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said Ukraine is free to pursue membership of the Western alliance despite Russian opposition. He told press in Brussels on Friday (29 August): “I’m not going to interfere in political discussions in Ukraine. But let me remind you of Nato’s decision at the Bucharest summit in 2008, according to which Ukraine ‘will become a member of Nato,’ provided of course, Ukraine so wishes and fulfills the necessary criteria”. “We adhere to the principle that each and every country has the right to decide [its foreign and securit... more »

Stratbase 2: On Power and Jobs

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 12 hours ago
* Reposting this from Business Mirror. --------- Group urges P-Noy to focus more on power generation andjob creation 27 Aug 2014 Written by David Cagahastian CIVIL-SOCIETY group Citizenwatch has proposed several action plans that the Aquino administration should focus on in its last two years in office, particularly in the areas of power generation and promotion of medium-scale enterprises to create more jobs. In a recent roundtable discussion among the conveners of Citizenwatch, the need to lower the costs of power and to provide for a reliable source of power for industries was ... more »

Incitement

sue at Is the BBC biased? - 12 hours ago
Incitement George Galloway provides conclusive proof of his own guilt. *Update*. Racially/religiously aggravated assault! That’s the charge we’re told the assailant will face. It looks as though the ‘racist’ element of the above crime (racially aggravated assault) normally concerns the ‘victim’. If A hits B because B is black/foreign/ Jewish/ Muslim etc etc. then the assault is considered to be racially aggravated. George Galloway is none of the above. Unless being a annoying, provocative, racist antisemite is a race. I suppose it could be a religion. George was acting in a racia... more »

George Galloway taken to hospital after street attack - BBC News

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 12 hours ago
The BBC are almost ecstatic to report that it may have been a supporter of Israel that carried out this attack on Galloway. Read here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28992601

Farming Today

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 13 hours ago
Following *Prayer for the Day *came Farming Today - another daily staple of the Radio 4 schedule. The BBC is sometimes accused of having a metropolitan, anti-farmer bias, so having this as a regular part of its day is an important gesture (even if it is scheduled at 5.45am). Does the programme itself, however, show a metropolitan, anti-farmer bias in its concerns? Well, there were four topics on this edition of the Tuesday 26th August edition of the programme. The first subject was land access, specifically the tension between the public's rights over footpath use in the country... more »

Fukushima:"Officials: About 2 Trillion Becquerels of Fukushima Radioactive Material Flowed Into Ocean Every Month During 2013"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago
*"Officials: About 2 Trillion Becquerels of Fukushima * *Radioactive Material Flowed Into Ocean Every Month During 2013"* by ENENews.com "Officials reveal about 2 Trillion becquerels of Fukushima radioactive material flowed into ocean every month during 2013 — “Deadly strontium” releases now more than double cesium — “Strontium gets into your bones… it changes the equation” (VIDEO) Strontium 90 = 5 billion Bq Cesium 137 = 2 billion Bq Tritium = 15 billion Bq Total daily outflow into the port = 22 billion Bq Senior Scientist: 100 times more strontium than cesium in water at Fukushima... more »

The U.S. Navy Wants It's Future Fighter Jets To Have An Aritificial Intelligence Platform

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 16 hours ago
Boeing concept for F/A-XX. Boeing Image *Navy’s Next Fighter Likely to Feature Artificial Intelligence -- Dave Majumdar, USNI News* Artificial intelligence will likely feature prominently onboard the Pentagon’s next-generation successors to the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor. “AI is going to be huge,” said one U.S. Navy official familiar with the service’s F/A-XX effort to replace the Super Hornet starting around 2030. Further, while there are significant differences between the U.S. Air Force’s vision for its F-X air superiority fighter and the ... more »

Musical Interlude: Clannad, “Mystery Game”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago
Clannad, “Mystery Game” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIDzqVRFr5c

Here's Where We Think The World's Nukes Are Stored

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 17 hours ago
An image from the U.S.'s May, 1953 "Grable" test of a 280-mm nuclear cannon. U.S. Department of Energy *Here's Where We Think The World's Nukes Are Stored — And What It Says About Global Security -- Armin Rosen, Business Insider* Nuclear security scholars Hans M. Kristensen and Robert S. Norris published a study of the worldwide deployment of nuclear weapons on August 27th in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, their first such survey since 2009. As they stress throughout their paper, tracking the number and location of the world's nuclear warheads is an inherently uncertain end... more »

Rumors Are Spreading That Now Retired Special Operations Admiral Bill McRaven May Be Hillary Clinton's Running Mate in 2016

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 17 hours ago
*Photo:* Ret. Adm. William Harry McRaven. Wikipedia *Special Ops Commander Swears: I Won't Be Hillary's VP -- Kimberly Dozier, Daily Beast* He commanded the bin Laden raid—and expanded U.S. commandos’ global footprint. Now Adm. Bill McRaven is leaving the military. He promises—promises—that politics won’t be next. Admiral Bill McRaven left command of U.S. special operations this week as a somewhat bewildered man – surprised, stymied, and in some cases burned by the fame and notoriety that launched his three years there, as the military commander of the 2011 raid that killed terror... more »

Yes, we know, guns don't kill people

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 17 hours ago
*by Ken* Yes, we know, guns don't kill people. Sometimes nine-year-old moppets frolicking with Uzis on gun ranges kill people {"Child firing Uzi at Ariz. shooting range accidentally kills instructor, police say"). Gun enthusiasts become heated in their defense of responsible gun ownership and use. And I'm sure many of them *are* responsible. And yes, we're hearing some of them saying, "Wtf?" At this point, however, it carries less and less weight in the face of their steadfast defense of a do-nothing policy on gun control. Earlier tonight I voiced some reluctance to make a big d... more »

A Look At The U.S. Spy Planes That Will Be Used To Gather Intelligence On The Islamic State

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 17 hours ago
The RQ-4A Global Hawk is a high-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aerial reconnaissance system designed to provide military field commanders with high-resolution, near-real-time imagery of large geographic areas. (CREDIT : REUTERS/U.S. Air Force/Staff Sgt. Reynaldo Ramon) *The U-2 And Global Hawk, The US Spy Planes That Will Help Hunt ISIS in Syria -- International Business Times* The United States has begun surveillance flights over Syria in an attempt to spy on ISIS fighters. While the U.S. Department of Defense refused to comment on what type of aircraft will be used, one milita... more »

"A Look to the Heavens"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago
“To the eye, this cosmic composition nicely balances the Bubble Nebula at the lower right with open star cluster M52. The pair would be lopsided on other scales, though. Embedded in a complex of interstellar dust and gas and blown by the winds from a single, massive O-type star, the Bubble Nebula, also known as NGC 7635, is a mere 10 light-years wide. * Click image for larger size.* On the other hand, M52 is a rich open cluster of around a thousand stars. The cluster is about 25 light-years across. Seen toward the northern boundary of Cassiopeia, distance estimates for the Bubble Neb... more »

Paulo Coelho, “Closing Cycles”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago
*“Closing Cycles”* by Paulo Coelho “One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the happiness and the meaning of the other stages we have to go through. Closing cycles, shutting doors, ending chapters – whatever name we give it, what matters is to leave in the past the moments of life that have finished. Did you lose your job? Has a loving relationship come to an end? Did you leave your parents’ house? Gone to live abroad? Has a long-lasting friendship ended all of a sudden? You can spend a long time wondering... more »

"Willingness to Feel: Opening to Understanding"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago
*"Willingness to Feel: Opening to Understanding"* by The DailyOM "When we are resisting something based on a limited understanding, we must then open ourselves to willingness. There are times when we may find ourselves struggling or even fighting with our thoughts and emotions. We may feel that something must be done in a certain way or not at all, or there may be some other situation that feels absolutely black and white. But life is not this way—it’s the way we are looking at our experiences that is causing the turmoil within us. When we become aware that the struggle we are havi... more »

The Daily "Near You?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago
Coppenbrügge, Niedersachsen, Germany. Thanks for stopping by.

A Maze Or Labyrinth..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago
"The difficulty in dealing with a maze or labyrinth lies not so much in navigating the convolutions to find the exit but in *not entering* the damn thing in the first place. Or, at least not yet again. As a creature of free will, do not be tempted into futility." - Vera Nazarian

Chet Raymo, “Whence Ourselves?”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago
*“Whence Ourselves?”* by Chet Raymo “I recently thought of David S. Goodsell's "The Machinery of Life," and I found myself reading the book again. There is nothing I didn't already know, but it's worth reading again for the same reason one might read, say, Anna Karenina or Moby Dick several times in the course of a life. In fact, Goodsell's book would be a good candidate for the one science book I would recommend to someone stuck on a desert island. Step by step he takes us through the molecular machinery shared by all life on Earth. Humans have a lot more in common with a bacteriu... more »

The Poet: Wendell Berry, “Leavings”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago
“In time a man disappears from his lifelong fields, from the streams he has walked beside, from the woods where he sat and waited. Thinking of this, he seems to miss himself in those places as if always he has been there. But first he must disappear, and this he foresees with hope, with thanks. Let others come.” - Wendell Berry, “Leavings”

Consider This Dispatch a WAR-WARNING

Spike EP at News Spike - 19 hours ago
*"The current threat level from international terrorism for the UK is assessed as SEVERE"* - If an attack should occur before, during or after the 2014 NATO Summit in Wales, DON'T think ISIS, Don't think Putin, Don't think Syria: think *NATO Intelligence.* *#warwarning #nato*

I am afraid of Carbon Fiber as a mission critical resouce

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 19 hours ago
It blows up at failure and give you little warning watch the NHL for evidence no way I am riding a bike made of carbon fiber.

Untitled

New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 19 hours ago
*Environmental businesses as a New Orleans economic asset: See the data points ~Mark Waller*

Tonight's Movie Is 'The Bunker'

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 19 hours ago

Oh no, the evil ISIS terrorists are waterboarding! How dare those dastards . . . oops!

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 20 hours ago
*Kids, don't try this at home! But I've got some suggestions of blowhards who deserve to undergo a lovely round of waterboarding -- at the hands of professional CIA torturers technicians. (Artwork by Simon Scarr/Reuters Graphic.)* *"Critics of waterboarding have said for years that the practice endangered Americans, putting them at risk of being subjected to the same brutal treatment at the hands of the enemy."* *-- from "Captives held by Islamic State werewaterboarded" on washingtonpost.com* *by Ken* Let's try not to make *too big* a deal of it, but since the Lying LIars of the... more »

Hey Hackers: Join the NSA, It's like a Rave Party

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 20 hours ago
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Singapore Singapore Singapore

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 20 hours ago
Austria Austria Austria, Denmark Denmark Denmark, Germany Germany Germany. Of all the treys only Germany is a significant country but man they can move like a little one and treat the citizens to a good life despite the troubled seas that surround them and the lack of natural resources that enrich the stupid ones. But I say to you all, Singapore is the place that has been playing civilization since 1964 and winning every round. Take a look folks, no wires our mirrors just good, not good great goverment. Social housing is the foundation and good goverment over all is the salvation ... more »

Crushed [updated]

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 20 hours ago
Gutless, and gone? *UPDATE*: Good riddance. A shame she wasn’t sacked for all her real offences . Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)

Breaking News: greencrow's option "None of the Above" pondered by Federal Liberal caucus

greencrow at Greencrow As The Crow Flies - 20 hours ago
GREENCROW'S SUGGESTION FOR BALLOT REFORM - *'NONE OF THE ABOVE' ADDED TO BALLOT* - IS BEING CONSIDERED BY LIBERAL CAUCUS Greencrow proposed the "None of the Above" (NOTA) option to Minister for Democratic Reform Pierre Poilievre and MP James Moore back last February, 2014. Neither of them bothered to respond to my e-mail....but it looks like the Liberals have accepted my suggestion for a change to the ballot. The Liberals have, however, framed it as a "mandatory vote"...which I don't think will fly and is a totally unnecessary march down the path to totalitarianism. http://www.v... more »

Kissinger Defines His View Of What Is Necessary For A New World Order

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 21 hours ago
*The Assembly Of A New World Order -- Henry Kissinger, Wall Street Journal* The concept that has underpinned the modern geopolitical era is in crisis Libya is in civil war, fundamentalist armies are building a self-declared caliphate across Syria and Iraq and Afghanistan's young democracy is on the verge of paralysis. To these troubles are added a resurgence of tensions with Russia and a relationship with China divided between pledges of cooperation and public recrimination. The concept of order that has underpinned the modern era is in crisis. The search for world order has long b... more »

"How It Really Is"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago

"Two Things..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago

SELLING MISSILE OFFENSE

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 21 hours ago
*Zoom in Korea* *South Korea Missile Defense: U.S. Presses Interoperability * U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work says he wants South Korea’s missile defense (MD) system to be ‘extremely interoperable’ with the U.S. system. “We want the Korean Air Missile and Defense (KAMD) to be independent and strong,” he told a news conference at the Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek on August 21, “What we hope is to have an extremely interoperable system between the United States’ theater missile defense and the KAMD.“ *‘Extremely Interoperable’ – What does it mean?* The US government has... more »

"Fukushima Increased Cesium Levels 100 to 1,000 Times Worldwide... and 1,000,000 to 10,000,000 Times On the U.S. West Coast"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago
*"Fukushima Increased Cesium Levels 100 to 1,000 Times Worldwide... * *and 1,000,000 to 10,000,000 Times On the U.S. West Coast"* by George Washington "We noted 2 days after the Japanese earthquake that radiation from Fukushima could end up on the West Coast of North America. And see this. We started tracking the radioactive cesium released by Fukushima within weeks of the accident. In fact, U.S. nuclear authorities were extremely worried about the West Coast getting hit by Fukushima radiation but publicly said nothing. We reported that Fukushima radiation had spread worldwide, and ... more »

Corrupt UK Government Exports Islamist Terrorists To The Middle East And Then Uses Them To Put Fear In Its Ignorant Population

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 22 hours ago
"The United Kingdom raised its terror threat level from “substantial” to “severe” Friday, at a time when Britons have traveled to Iraq and Syria to fight alongside the Islamist militant group wreaking havoc there." - Alex Rogers, *"U.K. Raises Terror Threat Level to ‘Severe’"* Time, August 29, 2014. The corrupt, cynical, and criminal U.K. government says that Islamist terrorists that have taken over substantial territory in Iraq, and whom it previously falsely labeled as "rebels" when they were busy fighting Assad in Syria, pose a severe threat to the security of the U.K. Insane ... more »

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- August 29, 2014

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 22 hours ago
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the all-Russian youth forum Seliger, held in Tver region August 29, 2014. (Reuters / RIA Novosti / Mikhail Klimentyev) *Putin Mocks The West, Puts His Own Prestige On The Line -- Anna Nemtsova, Daily Beast* By proclaiming his support for Novorossiya, the old imperial name for eastern and southern Ukraine, Putin signals he won’t back away from the fight. MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin ratcheted up his rhetorical-historical claims on eastern Ukraine Friday, even as pro-Russian rebels and their allies among the separatist rebels pu... more »

Venezuela debt watch ( August 29 , 2014 ) - Venezuela has 15 billion in foreign reserves - 6 billion due to be paid in October - December 2014 ! If 2015 debt is similar to 2014 ( USD 9.6 billion to be paid in 2014 ) , it's not clear how Venezuela meets its debt obligations - while paying the rest of its bills .....

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 22 hours ago
http://www.eluniversal.com/economia/140823/foreign-debt-maturity-puts-pressure-on-venezuelan-public-accounts Foreign debt maturity puts pressure on Venezuelan public accountsUSD 6 billion is expected to be paid in October-December The figures of the central bank show Venezuelan repaid USD 7 billion in foreign debt in 2013 (Vicente Correale) EL UNIVERSAL Saturday August 23, 2014 12:00 AM In order to raise expenditure above oil revenues and tax collection, the Venezuelan government took on debt by selling bonds now nearing their maturity date, which forces authorities to allocate signif... more »

Rob Ford

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 22 hours ago
How I despise this man and the system that put such a reprobate in.

KISSINGER ADMITS PLAN FOR NEW WORLD ORDER

Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 22 hours ago
Former Secretary of State releases globalist plan for world government *by* HENRY KISSINGER | THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Editor’s note: this is an article written by wanted war criminal and the elites gopher, Henry Kissinger. The article is titled: ‘Henry Kissinger on the Assembly of a New World Order‘ and appeared in the Wall Street Journal 29th Aug, 2014. Libya is in civil war, fundamentalist armies are building a self-declared caliphate across Syria and Iraq and Afghanistan’s young democracy is on the verge of paralysis. To these troubles are add... more »

FIRE TIME

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 22 hours ago
- I started bringing in some wood today because the temperatures are cooling off and I wanted to fill up the wood holders in the house. Tonight I am going to sit out in the back yard with a fire going and I called MB and asked her to bring some beer on her way home from work. Might as well start thinking and acting like I am on vacation. - The summer this year has gone by fast and has been much cooler than the past couple of years. This summer felt more like the Maine summers we experienced after moving here in 2003. - I had a 90-minute massage to... more »

Masters out of control spells KAOS

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 22 hours ago
I have no idea how you became competent to comment. But believe me girl and I would say the same thing to you if you were a man. The end of civil discussion in near, Rob Ford over thirty and thats when the mission blows and the other entertains increase the suck and blow and we get a mayor whose lungs can survive a blow out at 35.000 feet due to tequila. The world is so crazy these days and I thought I would love it watching the wooden animals rot so fast But thats a pleasure I have put into the past We need these rotten decks of humanity to move us into a concrete future Tabernac... more »

The Indefatigable Lithuanians

Spike EP at News Spike - 22 hours ago
*NATO : The Organisation so Satanic, they back-mask their own name.* Zbig - The Ukraine Crisis and the Brezezinki's Plan for a Greater Poland from Spike EP on Vimeo. "The Young Poland of Lelewel and Worcell demands the re-creation of the Polish state and rollback of the 1772-95 partitions of Poland. But they go much further, laying claim to Poland in its old Jagiellonian borders, stretching from the shores of the Baltic to the shores of the Black Sea. *This includes an explicit denial that any Ukrainian nation exists. * In the orbit of Young Poland is the poe... more »

World News Briefs -- August 29, 2014 (Evening Edition)

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 23 hours ago
*NATO To Russia: Stop 'Illegal' Military Operations in Ukraine -- Voice of America* NATO has called on Russia to cease its "illegal military operations" in eastern Ukraine, which it says are aimed at destabilizing the country. The comments by NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Friday followed an emergency meeting in Brussels to discuss the worsening crisis. Rasmussen, referencing satellite images released by his organization Thursday, said it is now clear that Russian troops and equipment have illegally crossed the border into eastern Ukraine. He said this is not an isolated inc... more »

Prayer for the Day

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 23 hours ago
That forensic review of BBC Radio 4's output on Tuesday 26 August, which I envisioned in the previous post, would have to have begun somewhere and, as the yearning Christian atheist in me would want me to begin the day with a prayer, I would surely have had to have started it with *Prayer for the Day - *Radio 4's daily religious offering at 5.43am. Thinking about it, *Prayer for the Day* is an intriguing BBC Radio 4 institution - as is *Thought for the Day *on the *Today *programme, the *Daily Service *(longwave only), *Sunday Worship*, and the ever-delightful *Bells on Sunday*. ... more »

How to solve all our problems

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 23 hours ago
The earth is a very big place and its hard to hurt humans have done this repeatedly since our birth now it has come to a crises one the humans should curse because of the extinction event animals we are well above the curve First and foremost cut back the CO2 Ban coal burning that will give us a decade or two Then just modernize or lifestyles Climate house our domiciles and hydroginize our transport systems man is the great architect of living so lets listen to the best build Manhattan projects that are forgiving not death dealing atomic blasts. Every technology we need to day has b... more »

Fort Hood Shooter Nidal Hasan Wants To Be A Citizen Of The Islamic State

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 23 hours ago
*'It Would Be An Honor To Join ISIS And Become A Citizen Of The Caliphate,' Says Former US Army Psychiatrist Who Killed 13 In Shooting Spree At Fort Hood -- Daily Mail* * Nidal Hasan claimed it would be 'an honor' to join ISIS caliphate in letter * Hasan killed 13 and injured 30 in 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas * Earlier this year FBI chief testified that he believed the shooting carried out by Hasan at Fort Hood in Texas was inspired by al-Qaeda The former Army psychiatrist who killed 13 people in the 2009 shooting spree at Fort Hood has said it would be 'an honor' to joi... more »

Supplemental: The endless desire to see lives destroyed!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago
*FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 2014* *Rachel Maddow in eastern Ukraine:* On last evening’s TV show, Rachel Maddow really seemed to be flying. To our taste, she wasted a lot of time with a lot of piffle-fed topics. She wasted time discussing herself, as she constantly does. At one point, she turned to her favorite topic. Early on, she made an odd remark: MADDOW (8/28/14): The defense rests! Today was the last day of testimony in the federal corruption trial of Republican Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell. Today, the judge in the case rejected a request by the defense counsel for an acquittal.... more »

Rob Ford-- Four More Years?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
When Richard Nixon was narrowly elected president in 1968-- beating war-tainted Herbert Humphrey by seven tenths of a percentage point, 43.4 to 42.7%-- I decided to move to another country. I travelled around the world and finally settled down in Amsterdam. By the summer of 1972 it was obvious to me that Nixon couldn't possibly win another term and I started thinking about moving back to America. When the votes were counted on November, Nixon-- who we later found out stole the election through a criminal fraud that later forced him to resign in disgrace-- had 47,168,710 votes (60.... more »

Its anxiety rising true

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 1 day ago
Every one has cancer and there will never be a cure Its a war like weeding your garden keep the bad plants away but your never going to eliminate any biological function without killing the patient.

U.S. - Iraq Military Operations Are Cost $7.5 Million Per Day

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 1 day ago
A still image captured from U.S. Navy cockpit video shows an F/A-18F Super Hornet assigned to the Fighting Black Lions of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 213 after launching from the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush in the Arabian Gulf on Aug. 10, 2014 in this video released on Aug. 11, 2014. A series of U.S. airstrikes since last week has slowed the operational tempo of the Islamic State, the militant group that has seized large parts of northern Iraq, but is unlikely to substantially weaken the group, the Pentagon said on Monday. Reuters/U.S. Navy/Handout via Reuters *Pentago... more »

More Jo Grant pictures - NSFW - Doctor Who related - Friday Night Rule 5

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day ago
A while ago I posted some 'arty' photos of Katy Manning, Jo Grant from the Jon Pertwee Doctor Who era, and very nice they were too - a Dalek and a naked Jo Grant. Here's Jo Grant as I remember her. Here's Jo Grant as we all too occasionally saw her on Doctor Who back in the early 1970s Now, partially thanks to Emma Peel's Pants, I have some more Katy Manning/Jo Grant gratuitious nudity photos. And here are those Jo Grant with Dalek photos, because you can never see them too many times. Ah happy days - 'something for the dads' they used to say, but also for this randy... more »

Excuses, excuses

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 1 day ago
What with having a full-time job, a family, and friends who persist in asking you to do things with them, it's a hard life being a blogger. It really is, and, to be honest, I don't envy myself being one. In fact, it's so bad that I *demand* violins. (Are Hilary Hahn and Nicola Benedetti available?) As a blogger, you keep intending to post important pieces - pieces bound to resound around the blogosphere and beyond - and to conduct scorchingly incisive in-depth surveys into the BBC's output which, in some sort of other world to this one, might very well shake that wicked corporati... more »

Rest In Peace Richard Attenborough

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 1 day ago
Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough, CBE (29 August 1923 – 24 August 2014) was an English actor, film director, film producer, and entrepreneur. He was the President of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). As a film director and producer, he won two Academy Awards for Gandhi in 1983. He also won four BAFTA Awards and four Golden Globe Awards. As an actor, he is perhaps best known for his roles in Brighton Rock, The Great Escape, 10 Rillington Place, Miracle on 34th Street and Jurassic Park. He was the older brother of Sir David Attenborough, a naturalist and broa... more »

A Cure for Climate Change

hygiecrat at hygiecracy - 1 day ago
originally published on CounterPunch As Easter Sunday melds into Easter Monday, and as technophiles and other overly zealous techno-fetishists prattle on about their market-based (that is, their faith-based) and tech-based fixes for climate change, a foolproof, low-tech and (dare I say) “shovel ready” solution is already at hand: the time-honored institution of the vacation. Recognized as vital at least since biblical times (when the sabbath – a word derived from the verb ‘to rest’ – was introduced) the vacation not only enables people and other animals to rejuvenate, the planet it... more »

Beyond Reparations - Ferguson and Actual Justice

hygiecrat at hygiecracy - 1 day ago
originally published on CounterPunch Killed at noon, just down the road from the grave of the slave Dred Scott, Michael Brown has now joined a perennially growing group of dead men and women (a group that only recently added Trayvon Martin, Oscar Grant, Eric Garner, Ezell Ford, Renisha McBride, and others) killed by a combination of institutional racism and systemic poverty. Poverty and race, of course (like race and wealth), cannot be easily disentangled. Not only has the man-made construct of race been used to justify seizures of material resources (gold, timber, land, etc.) from ... more »

Is The Islamic State Plotting To Kill Pope Francis?

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 1 day ago
*Italy Steps Up Security Over Alleged ISIS Plot to Kill The Pope -- Barbie Latza Nadeau, Daily Beast* Vatican scoffs at threats that Pope Francis is “in the crosshairs” of ISIS as Italy issues a terrorist threat and tightens security. VATICAN CITY — As Pope Francis continues to straddle the fine line between calling for the end of persecution of Christians in Iraq and blessing American airstrikes against the Islamic State (also known as the “Caliphate,” ISIS, or ISIL), there is increasing concern for the pontiff’s—and the public’s—safety. Earlier this week, the Roman newspaper I... more »

What Can The West Do To Prevent A Ukraine Defeat?

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 1 day ago
*What Can The US And NATO Do To Prevent Putin From Defeating Ukraine? -- Quartz* The new incursion into Ukrainian territory by Russian forces has led some veteran US foreign policy hands to call for a quick and highly visible Western airlift of military equipment to Kyiv. The aim: to prevent a Russian rout of Ukraine. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, former US secretary of state George Shultz and ex-defense secretary William Perry urged the US and NATO to deploy forces in the Baltics, and equipment in Ukraine. The prospects a swift victory for Russian president Vladimir Putin’... more »

Truth Is Always A Casualty Of War

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 1 day ago
Pro-Russian separatists walk at a destroyed war memorial on Savur-Mohyla, a hill east of the city of Donetsk, August 28, 2014. Credit: REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov *On Russian Troops In Ukraine, Honesty Is Not Everyone's Best Policy -- Christian Lowe, Reuters* (Reuters) - The Ukraine conflict has evoked many memories of the Cold War, including a footloose attitude to the truth. But even as Russia’s denials of involvement stretch credibility to breaking point, for some they remain a convenient fiction. Russian President Vladimir Putin is chief among them; denying a Russian role will kee... more »

Why Clacton Matters for Labour

Phil at All That Is Solid ... - 1 day ago
*A very quick something bashed out for LabourList this morning and published here. In case you missed it ...* Make yourself a cuppa, pull up a comfy chair, and watch. Since Douglas Carswell’s surprise/no-surprise defection to UKIP yesterday and the forcing of a by-election in Clacton, there will be some in the party tempted to adopt this attitude. And not without good reason. Consider the previous by-election outings over the last year or so. In Eastleigh, a Liberal Democrat/Tory marginal, from nowhere, became a LD/UKIP marginal. The Conservatives were dumped into third place and o... more »

Ukraine Civil War News Updates -- August 29, 2014

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 1 day ago
BBC *Death Toll In Ukraine Fighting Hits 2,593: U.N. Human Rights Official -- Reuters* (Reuters) - A total of 2,593 people, including civilians as well as Ukrainian and separatist combatants, have been killed in fighting in eastern Ukraine since it erupted in mid-April, a senior U.N. human rights official said on Friday. "The trend is clear and alarming. There is a significant increase in the death toll in the east," Ivan Simonovic, U.N. Assistant Secretary General for Human Rights, told journalists. "The current number of killed is 2,593 - close to 3,000 if we include the 298 v... more »

NATO Condemns Russia For It's Invasion Of Ukraine

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 1 day ago
*NATO to Russia: Stop 'Illegal' Military Operations in Ukraine -- Voice of America* NATO has called on Russia to cease its "illegal military operations" in eastern Ukraine, which it says are aimed at destabilizing the country. The comments by NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Friday followed an emergency meeting in Brussels to discuss the worsening crisis. Rasmussen, referencing satellite images released by his organization Thursday, said it is now clear that Russian troops and equipment have illegally crossed the border into eastern Ukraine. He said this is not an isolated inc... more »

Grand Chess Master provokes "Kennedy Solution" from Ex CIA agent

greencrow at Greencrow As The Crow Flies - 1 day ago
Grand Chess Master Putin *What took them so long to start talking about the "Kennedy solution"?* Ex CIA agent and former Reagan advisor Herbert E. Meyer has proposed that Putin be assassinated by his own Russian oligarchs. *"Herbert E. Meyer, who served as a Special Assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence under the Reagan administration, said the goal of U.S. sanctions against Russia “should be to get the Russians who’ve been keeping Putin in power, or tolerating Putin in power, **to throw that knockout punch**.”* We all know the evil doers are *basically one or two ... more »

Why Did Russian President Putin Use The Term 'Novorossiya' In Yesterday's Statement

War News Updates Editor at War News Updates - 1 day ago
The area of 'New Russia' which Putin now refers to in Ukraine.(WikiCommons) *The Very Scary Word In Putin's New Statement On The Ukraine Crisis -- Max Fisher, VOX* Russian President Vladimir Putin just dropped the biggest, scariest dogwhistle of the Ukraine crisis: "Novorossiya." The word literally means "new Russia" — it was an old, imperial-era term for southern Ukraine, when it was part of the Russian Empire, and is now a term used by Russia ultra-nationalists who want to re-conquer the area.Putin has used the word twice during the crisis. First, he used it in April, about a m... more »

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