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This stroller folds up small enough to fit in a backpack
Pack your baby food, pack your diapers, and pack your stroller? Now you can, with the GB Pockit — one of the newest strollers on the market — which folds down to the size of a handbag in just a few simple moves. Shown at the ABC Kids Expo in Las Vegas earlier this week, the GB Pockit broke the Guinness World Record for the world's smallest folding stroller. Measuring at 12"x14"x7" f
War Criminal Tony Blair Sorry for Iraq War
Via: Independent: Tony Blair has made apologies about aspects of the Iraq War for the first time and has said there are ‘elements of truth’ in the theory that the invasion helped feed the rise of the so-called Islamic State (Isis). In an television interview with the US network CNN, the former British Prime Minister […]
Here's how you can help Hurricane Patricia victims in Mexico
During the aftermath of a natural disaster, it's natural to ask what you can do to help. In the case of Hurricane Patricia, the strongest storm on record in the Western Hemisphere, there are many ways to aid relief efforts on the ground in Mexico — no matter where you are. See also: How Hurricane Patricia became the strongest hurricane on record so quickly The hurricane made landfall near Cuixmala
First ever juvenile giant squid discovered
Scientists have identified the first ever baby giant squid in specimens fished up off the coast of Japan. Giant squid are notoriously difficult to obs...

The Corbett Report 

Interview 1101 – BFP Roundtable Exposes Pedophile Politicians and Public Apathy
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2015-10-21%20Dan%20Dicks.mp3"][/audio]Today on the BFP Roundtable James Corbett talks to Sibel Edmonds, Peter B. Collins and Wayne Madsen about the Hastert scandal and cover up, the history and context of this story, and the remarkable lack of public interest in the case.
Interview 1100 – Dissecting the Trudeau Hype with Dan Dicks
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2015-10-21%20Dan%20Dicks.mp3"][/audio]Canadians enthusiastically lined up on Monday to vote in yet another term of Bilderberg crony oligarchical globalist government. Joining us in the election hangover to dissect the propaganda and unmask the Trudeau deception is Dan Dicks of PressForTruth.ca.

The EnvironmentaList 

Trudeau Victory May Not Signal a U-Turn in Canada’s Climate Policy
Those hoping the new prime minister will be a climate champion willing to fix the damage done by his predecessor Stephen Harper could be in for a reality check
‘Stay Humble, Embrace Conflicting Viewpoints, and Love Your People Fiercely’
The environmental movement needs to learn how to better engage young folks and people of color
Climate, Cows, and the California Golden Trout
Overgrazing already impacts the headwater streams of these endemic, native fish. Now warming waters pose another serious threat.
In Conversation: Jeffrey Ventre
Former SeaWorld trainer says that at the end of the day, Orcas are ‘just working for their food’

Is the BBC biased? 

Headline
Some headlines just have to be clicked on (never mind how old you are). Sky News now has:
"Rich Nations of Europe 2: Wretched of the Earth 3"
Talking about talking about From Our Own Correspondent...Jon Don's award-friendly piece from the Philippines was preceded by the latest FOOC pieces by BBC Central Europe correspondent Nick Thorpe - another blog favourite (and now a regular on FOOC). His fine writing - and even finer BBC bias (advocating the refugee {migrant} cause) - has been outlined here quite a few times recently.  His piece to
Award-winning journalism from Jon
Talking about From Our Own Correspondent...(hmm, it's becoming a bit of a habit of mine to start posts with the words "Talking about....". I suppose I should stop doing so, but...)Er, talking about From Our Own Correspondent...Today's edition contained one piece that really ought to be given an award for fine writing. (A cynic might say it was too obviously aiming at such an award, but I
Bibi-bashing from the BBC
Blogs are personal, We write about what interests us. You don't have to pay a licence fee to us. If some things obsess us more than others, you're not put out of pocket by that fact.That thought sprung to mind again today because both From Our Own Correspondent on Radio 4 and Dateline London on the BBC News Channel (broadcast concurrently) focused on Israel and the Palestinians yet again. (FOOC ev

@ the chalk face 

Watch administration twist themselves in knots.
One of the cheapest and least effective interventions in struggling public schools is to require teachers to hang very specific items on their walls. From a teaching standpoint, these interventions do nothing for students, especially in the early elementary grades when students can neither read nor process most of the mandatory items hanging on walls. […]
There’s a lot of hang-wringing on #ewateachers.
Education writers are wringing hands, clutching pearls, lately over the standards of their own writing/coverage. Of all the items discussed by the folks who cover education, are there any conversations about the very obvious flaw in education writing? That is, most education writing, the vast majority based on my experience, doesn’t report the actual experiences […]
Are School Closings Really Land Grabs? YES!
Source: Are School Closings Really Land Grabs? In some cases, they are, and it’s pretty easy to figure this out. Our school in SE Washington, DC, for instance, was formerly in a building adjacent to highly coveted real estate: next to a DC Metro stop. As the area was slowly showing signs of gentrification, which haven’t […]
Teachers, beware of the “specialists.”
No, I’m not talking about the art, music, and PE teachers, who are, in my experience, typically referred to as teaching the “specials.” I’m not even talking about the special education teams. I’m referring to the other “specialists,” your behavior specialists, reading specialists, intervention specialists, and even your “deans.” Staff members not attached to classrooms […]

A Different Perspective 

Kepler's Discovery of an Alien Civilization?
Back around 1960 Frank Drake proposed an idea to search for alien civilizations by looking for their radio signals. He thought that any technological society would have developed some form of electromagnetic communication, and any technologically advanced society would realize that the best place to announce their existence was in a specific range of frequencies known then as “the waterhole.” Drak
Chester Barton and Roswell
It seems that we keep coming back to some of the same tired questions. No matter what is presented in the way of testimony, it seems that someone has an objection Chester Barton in 1947.to it. Lately it has been the idea that all the witnesses were contaminated by the publicity surrounding the Roswell case. Even when I was the first to talk with a witness, the comment seems to be that they had hea
The Next Not Roswell Slides Chapter
One of the reasons that the posts here appear on an irregular basis is that I wait for some sort of inspiration to hit. I had put up the post on the size of the debris field with the idea to do the same with descriptions of the debris, or which officers said what about the crash and the like. Rich Reynolds also chastised me for not answering his question about UFO movies and I wanted to do somethi

A Very Public Sociologist

 
 
Adam Rickitt - I Breathe Again
I'm blaming Howie of Howie's Corner fame. T'other day he posted a Dannii Minogue track to the Book of Face that, much to my shame, I was quite into at the time. That got me thinking and remembering the occasions over the last 20 years where artists, and I use that term advisedly, who are naff, awful, and (ugh) mainstream who nevertheless made credible interventions into the dance scene. At least t
Tory Tax Credit Stupidity
It's proven to be the closest shave of Dave's second term and would have thrown the government into chaos had the ayes won it. Tonight's vote in the Commons, brought before the House by Labour, saw the noes (i.e. keep the cuts to working tax credits) win by 317 to 295 - a tiny sliver of a margin. This is despite Tory luminaries like Boris Johnson weighing in against the cuts, and Heidi Allen - new
Quick Notes on Lord Warner's Resignation
Baron Norman Warner. Who he? I can't be the only politico who scratched their head as news came through that Lord Warner resigned the Labour whip in the Lords this evening. So here are some very quick notes about a resignation few are likely to notice.1. Lord Warner was ennobled under His Royal Blairness in 1998 after years as a career civil servant. He served in the Department of Health between 2
The Conservative Indifference to Steel
It was like the crashing of dominoes, except the toppling was done by livelihoods, supply chains, ways of life. First, SSI in Redcar announced it was going belly up. And after toing and froing with the government, once it was clear state aid wasn't forthcoming it was as if Britain's steel bosses huddled together and decided the time was right for job losses. 2,200 are going in Redcar. Tata are she

A Way to Live 

Almost nothing
While the garden mostly fallows, I have been broadening out my activities a bit. There are many new poems at Collected Poems and some new observations at Journal of a Zenista, but these are sit-down activities.The main effort has been to walk more, for which there are a lot of attractive opportunities close by. Every day, of course, there is walking the dog, and sometimes I take him with me to pla

Adrienne's Corner 

Removed: Photographer Removes Phones From His Photos To Show How Terribly Addicted We’ve Become
I find the sight of people walking around with their noses in their phones very dismaying. I think this photographer perfectly captures the idiocy of misused technology.American photographer Eric Pickersgill removed the smartphones and digital devices from his portraits of everyday life. The project “Removed” aims to show our addiction to technology and hyper-connectivity, and Pickersgill knows th
Bill Whittle: How Hillary Clinton's Lawlessness Gets Ignored...
particularly apt considering she is in the process of lying to the Benghazi committee.
Dr. Anca-Maria Cernea Slaps down the Synod Fathers...
with some very straight forward truth telling.  God Bless her.Will the bishops listen?I doubt it.A synod in the Catholic Church is a bunch of bishops getting together to discuss stuff, eat some great food, and drink some fine wine.   This synod is about the family.  So far, I think all they've talked about is making homosexuals and divorced folks who have re-married feel welcome. Synods don't chan
Is the entire country suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?…
it’s entirely possible.  At least for those of us who are paying attention. I apologize for my long absence.  I attribute it to PTSD.by Adrienne The Mayo Clinic describes PTSD as: Post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms may start within three months of a traumatic event, but sometimes symptoms may not appear until years after the event. These symptoms cause significant problems in social or work

AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE) 

Israel and Jordan agree on Al-Aqsa Mosque surveillance
Steps proposed to calm tensions at holy site in occupied East Jerusalem as two Palestinians die from Israeli gunfire.
Scores killed by air strikes in northern Syria
Russian and Syrian jets have been heavily bombing northern cities as battles intensify between several factions.
Russia offers to coordinate with rebels and US in Syria
FM Sergey Lavrov says he is ready to work with Free Syrian Army and the US against ISIL as air strikes kill scores.
Israeli gunfire leaves two more Palestinians dead
A Palestinian man in Gaza dies from week-old wounds by Israeli gunfire, while Israeli forces shoot dead teen in W Bank.

Allen L Roland's Weblog 

Trudeau'S Election A Shot Across The Neocon Bow
         Justin Trudeau of the Liberal Party and his wife before giving his victory speech in Montreal, Canada.Connect the dots, Bernie Sanders in the U.S, Jeremy Corbyn in the UK and now Trudeau in Canada ~ a massive shot has been fired across the bow of the all-powerful global neo conservative corporate state and it's gaining momentum ~ for the people are tired of war, of being ignored and they
On Being In The Field
           There is another source of awareness, it is the subtle awareness of an inner direction which is bigger than ourselves, our hopes and our fears ~ it is the inner call of a state of soul consciousness deepest within us all ~ a  Unified Field  of love and soul consciousness which calls us into service from an egoless place of joy, intention, purpose and delight: Allen L Roland, PhD“Out bey
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AMERICAN KABUKI 

SPHERE ALLIANCE MESSAGE #104 Meet the New "M1" of the Financial Systems... Barack Obama
On Sunday October 18, ZAP wrote:..."ALL OF THIS WAS EXPECTED AND TIMED ACCORDING TO THE BIG PLAN FROM UPSTAIRS. [the powers that were -AK]  THE PLAN OF THE EXPERTS SET IN MOTION SO LONG AGO HAD TO BE MODIFIED AS THE M1 (MONETARY ONE) THAT WAS CREATED THROUGH A CAREFUL BLENDING OF GENE POOLS AMONGST THE ROYALS TO CULMINATE IN ONE PERSON THAT COULD REPRESENT ALL ROYAL FAMILIES FOR THE BENEFIT O
UPDATED 10/21/15: SPHERE ALLIANCE MESSAGE #103 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Secret Transfer of US Territory to China in Redemption of Fraudulent Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Securities, The Land Under Trump Tower, Sale of National Parks,Sovereign Indian Lands, and US National Monuments
Donald Trump's Trump Tower sits on Chinese sovereign territory according the Sphere AllianceAK: UPDATED 10/21/15 NEW DATA WITH LINKS ON LAND SALES... AK NOTE: The following is a conversation today with the Sphere Alliance based on a tip that the Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton exchanged land in the USA to replace fraudulent Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac securities that were sold to the Chin
China's Xi seals nuclear power deal as part of $62 billion splurge in Britain
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/chinas-xi-turns-money-politics-britain-day-pomp-081003419--sector.htmlChina's Xi seals nuclear power deal as part of $62 billion splurge in BritainReutersBy Guy Faulconbridge and Kate HoltonA supporter of China's President Xi Jinping waves a Chinese flag opposite Big …By Guy Faulconbridge and Kate HoltonLONDON (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping has sealed a multi-bi
GAIA PORTAL: Flares of recognition are in place
Flares of recognition are in placeby ÉirePortFlares of recognition are in place.Standards of the past are dropped.Wrigglings cease.Heaven Sents are viewed with delight.Sustenance follows.ÉirePort | October 20, 2015 at 09:19 | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/p2sFUY-vN

ArmsControlWonk 

Humanitarian Consequences (Cont.)
[See the previous post. -Ed.] Yes, every kind of weapon, if used against noncombatants, can violate the humanitarian laws of warfare. But nuclear detonations add a whole new scale to this problem. A single mushroom cloud, except under highly particular circumstances, will violate the humanitarian laws of warfare. And, if a single detonation triggers more detonations and all Hell breaks loose, even

Buckdog 

Canada is going to throw a Right Wing Autocratic tyrant out of the Prime Minister's Office today !!!
"Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term, and very proud of it. Canadians make no connection between the fact that they are a Northern European welfare state and the fact that we have very low economic growth, a standard of living substantially lower than yours, a massive brain drain of young professionals to your country, and double the unemployment rate o

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