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Cat is so excited to see his owner, he nearly explodes with joy
There is no better feeling in the world than coming home to someone
who’s excited to see you.
Even if that someone is not a human. Even if it’s a miniature cat.
Imgur user DatSun280zxt shared this video of a cat, apparently
responding to his owner’s return. While dogs have a reputation for
enthusiasm, this little cat one-ups the entire species — in 30 seconds
flat
When the owner walks in, the cat
Man films the ground 'breathing in and out'
New footage has emerged showing the ground literally heaving up and
down within a forest in Canada. Filmed on a mobile phone by Brian
Nuttall at Apple...
29 times Patrick Stewart was hands down the most awesome guy on Twitter
LONDON — It's a well-known fact that Sir Patrick Stewart is an
all-round British hero, but did you know his Twitter game is also off
the charts?
See also: Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart reciting Taylor Swift lyrics
is as brilliant as you'd expect
From sweary film reviews to photos of himself having a splendid time
with best pal Sir Ian McKellen, here are some of his all-time greatest
tweets...
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Constant Lockdowns Lead Schools to Buy Portable Toilets
Via: San Diego Union Tribune: Shortly after San Diego schools kicked
off the new year in September, 21,000 students at 11 campuses were
locked in classrooms for up to three hours following a rash of violent —
and ultimately false — threats. Not surprisingly, some students had to
use a bathroom. Patrick Henry High School […]
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Olympic Peninsula: Crucial Site of an Historic Battle to Protect America’s Natural Heritage
Why is it so critical to prevent the Navy from conducting
electromagnetic war games over the Olympic National Park and Forest?
Bridge Over Sol Duc Falls, Olympic National Park
State of the Nation
The U.S. Military is on the brink of setting an extremely dangerous
precedent. The following excerpt from a Truthout.org article published
one year ago clearly delineates what is truly at stake. Author
The Corbett Report
Interview 1109 – James Corbett on Hastert, Political Pedophilia and Kakistocracy
[audio
mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2015-11-11%20James%20Corbett.mp3"][/audio]James
joins Tim Kelly once again on the Our Interesting Times podcast to
discuss the Hastert scandal, political pedophilia in general, and what
this tells us about the structure of the ruling kakistocracy.
The EnvironmentaList
Climate-Smart Conservation in the San Francisco Bay
Integrating climate science into marsh restoration and conservation efforts
The Comeback of the Atlantic Great White Shark
Along with rising numbers, sharks are enjoying improved public perception along the US Atlantic Coast
It’s Time to Phase Out Potent Greenhouse Gases in Our Air Conditioning Units
Chemicals in cooling and refrigeration systems can have a far greater climate impact than carbon dioxide
Protecting the Sacred Land and Water of the Everglades
In Conversation: Houston R. Cypress (Yahalétke)
Is the BBC biased?
Trust nothing
James Wright has written a piece in “The Canary” titled :“BBC
Journalist comes clean, says “trust nothing you read or watch”That’s
interesting, isn’t it? I must remember that and take that very good
advice. Trust nothing. (Don’t forget.)(hijacked graphic)Wright has
cherry-picked some rather eye-catching quotes from journalist John
Darvall’s blog and used them, if I may quote John Darvall (more of
"Compassionate"
Of course, the BBC's bias over the migrant crisis continues in the
background.In an online report tonight regarding the Croatian general
election appears this revealing passage:I think we can guess where the
BBC reporter responsible for that stands on the issue,
'Safe space' for the BBC's Iain Lee please!!
Those of us who argue that the BBC is biased are probably on our
firmest ground when it comes to contending that the BBC has a deep bias
in favour of social liberalism. This bias manifests itself in so many
ways.......from Mark Easton's reporting on the issue of drugs
liberalisation through to Evan Davis's bizarre hi-jacking of a Newsnight
election debate with Northern Irish politicians in order (
Scrutiny
For those of you who enjoy a transcription, here's an exchange from
this morning's BBC Breakfast newspaper review, featuring Manchester
University's Rob Ford (Matthew Goodwin's co-writer on Revolt on the
Right). The BBC presenters on the sofa were Sally Nugent and Christian
Fraser.Sally Nugent: I love the next story that you've chosen here
from The Independent on Sunday. We're heading to America f
@ the chalk face
Suspensions discouraged. Yeah, so?
There are nationwide efforts to reduce suspensions. They are applied
inequitably and I definitely agree they are ineffective. Although, I
will say that in some cases, everyone, teacher and student alike, need a
“cooling off” period. Suspension may not be the ultimate answer,
however. Our district shifted to a nebulous program of “restorative
justice.” In […]
What in the fresh hell, another ‘viral’ teacher resignation?
The viral Facebook post follows the same narrative. A teacher leaves
her district by and large because of the following: Like many other
teachers across the nation, I have become more and more disturbed by the
misguided reforms taking place which are robbing my students of a
developmentally appropriate education. Teachers like myself, especially
those […]
The mysterious “morning collaboration.”
Simple question. What do other teachers do in the morning? Over a
decade ago, when I taught fifth grade in Silver Spring, MD, I recall
getting to school between 7:30 and 8:00 before my students walked in at
around 9:10. For the first year at that school, I taught in a “learning
cottage” out back. […]
Using early warning systems in education
Looks like we’re going to use “early warning” data, something new to
me. Although, it’s a new title, but relatively old concept of trying to
use BIG DATA to solve all of our problems. I’m looking some things up,
but a very preliminary Google Scholar search was kind of funny to me.
Searching for “early […]
The Rules of Exposition
Bernanke he will Rogoff, even weather if
I don't care what your name is and who your friends are; it is careless
and inconsiderate to write like this:I cannot claim—we cannot claim—to
know whether Bernanke he will Rogoff or Krugman and Summers are correct
here, or even weather if Bernanke he and his committee had found the
nerve, and rolled double-or-nothing one more time to boost the American
high-powered money stock to $9 trillion, we
Blattman on Klein on Better Communication
Chris Blattman summarizes Ezra Klein's talk on how to popularize
research.Key points:1. "Tell people what’s new and surprising right
away, and tell them immediately what they should walk away thinking."2.
"... start telling people why they should read in the title."3. "... it
helps to link your work to the broader issues that people care about."4.
"People like an
"Hardly anything is known of it except its fame"
Via Orange Crate Art, two wonderful paragraphs by Alberto Manguel at
the New York Times.Plato, in the “Timaeus,” says that when one of the
wisest men of Greece, the statesman Solon, visited Egypt, he was told by
an old priest that the Greeks were like mere children because they
possessed no truly ancient traditions or notions “gray with time.” In
Egypt, the priest continued proudly, “there is noth
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A Closer Look: Jody Paterson
On going viral and feeling hope: My letter to the prime minister
I have a Facebook post that is in the midst of going viral. You know,
like that '70s commercial for Breck shampoo, where one woman tells two
friends, and they tell two friends, and next thing you know the TV
screen is full-up with people telling each other about shampoo.Anyway, I
have often fantasized of going viral for some of my posts around sex
work, but this wasn't one of them. This was a post
#Rolls4Strolls: Let's put an RV back on Victoria's sex-work strolls
Fundraising was never my thing in my journalist years, and I felt very
awkward about it back in 2004 when I realized that as the new executive
director of Peers Victoria, fundraising was going to be one of the most
important parts of my job.But there quickly came a point in those early
fundraising days where I realized that I didn't mind asking people for
money, because I knew just how important t
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A Different Perspective
J. Bond Johnson's Statement on His Visit to General Ramey
Since it has been suggested that Ramey had invited reporters from the
Fort Worth Star-Telegram to his office, and since some of the quoted
material came from a web site that hosted an interview with J. Bond
Johnson, the reporter, I thought I could clarify some of this by posting
the following. This is from my second interview with Johnson, made
about a month after he called me, left his telephone
Additional Ramey Memo Scans
While most of the new scans have been provided to a number of people
including several skeptics (though some of them suggested they weren’t
all that interested in pursuing the Ramey memo) we haven’t had a chance
to learn of their results if there are any.I have a couple of other
files that are small enough to put on this blog and they will follow.
But I did one thing that I believe was an idea by
Digital Image of the Ramey Memo
There has been some discussion that suggests our research into the
Ramey memo has been accomplished behind closed doors in a manner similar
to the way the Not Roswell Slides were investigated. While we certainly
did arrange with those at the University of Texas – Arlington to make
new scans of the negative, it was not for sinister purposes.
Arrangements, which including several experts in forensic
Ramey Memo and Victims of the Wreck
We have been privileged to learn the importance of the Ramey memo based
not on the research currently underway but on the opinion that there is
no alien visitation so that there is nothing in the memo to lead in
that direction. We’re told that even if it says, “Victims of the wreck,”
as many UFO researchers suggest, it doesn’t mean that what fell was
alien. It seems that we should just give up bec
A Very Public Sociologist
Andrew Fisher: It's Not About Rule-Breaking
So a couple of Labour MPs have made complaints against Andrew Fisher,
Jeremy's head of policy, and the NEC have moved to suspend him. His
offence? Among other things, publishing a tweet advocating a vote for
our anarchist friends Class War over Labour's Emily Benn in Croydon
South almost a year prior to the general election. Not the political
crime of the century by any means, but rules are rules.
Constructively Critiquing Corbynomics
Something more significant than the move against Andrew Fisher happened
on the right of the Labour Party last week. It was Tuesday morning, in
fact, and the occasion was Liam Byrne's speech to the Policy Network.
Of course, MPs, particularly former ministers, give speeches to think
tanks all the time and most float under the radar, noted only by the
hardest of hardcore politics watchers and profe
Phantasy Star for the Sega Master System
It's fair to say Sega's humble 8-bit system didn't have many stand-out
classics that have echoed down the decades in the same way as the
Nintendo Entertainment System had, but here's one of them. Hitting the
shelves way back in 1988, Phantasy Star was Sega's me too answer to a
plethora of role-playing games released for Nintendo's machine. Save the
Zelda franchise (which, in my opinion, is an acti
New Blogs October/November 2015
Slim pickings for the last month. Nevertheless, the regular shout out
goes to ...1. Driftmine (Unaligned) (Twitter)2. Elliott Adair (Labour)
(Twitter)3. Greg Dash (Labour) (Twitter)4. Road to Somewhere Else
(Labour) (Twitter)5. Turning the Tide (Labour) (Twitter) If you know of
any new blogs that haven't featured before then drop me a line via the
comments, email, Facebook or Twitter. Please note
A Way to Live
Zones
We haven't talked much about zones at Stony Run Farm. Basically, the
farther you have to go to get up from your rock in the cave or easy
chair in your house and do something to water, feed, clothe, shelter, or
remunerate yourself and yours, the higher the zone number. If you are
well organized your lower-numbered zones are those closer to where you
get up, and are those more frequently visited. If
One another
Here, November is doing what it does, dark and wet and broody, though a
little warmer than we are used to -- still no frost, tomatoes trying to
ripen under a leaden streaked with silver.Bedraggled as the garden is,
it is still supplying a lot of greens for the humans and the hens. Ducks
have been let in early and are high-grading the chard, but also
cleaning up wheat seeds in the straw that we hav
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
Activist Teacher
AEI Award for Netanyahu Is Meant to Repair the US-Israel Split: Prof. Denis Rancourt -- Truth NGO
AEI Award for Netanyahu Is Meant to Repair the US-Israel Split: Prof.
Denis Rancourt Truth NGO, 08 November 2015 06:08 The conservative
Washington D.C.-based think tank American Enterprise
Institute has announced that it would grant the Irving Kristol Award
2015 to the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in recognition of
his contributions to democratic leadership and the role
Adrienne's Corner
Did Barack Obama call the family of Tanya Chamberlain?...
do you even know who Tanya Chamberlain is?From her obit:November 6,
2015Tanya L.(Wilson)Chamberlain was born September 8, 1972 in Kansas
City, Missouri and departed this life on November 1, 2015 in Lee’s
Summit, Missouri at the age of 43 years, 1 month and 23 days. She was
the daughter of Darrell W. Wilson and Genia (Lilly) Fetters. sourceTanya
did not "depart" willingly.She was repeated
Asian lives matter...
except in Missouri.Watch these entitled ignorant little sh*ts
intimidate, harass, and threaten Tim Tai, a photographer for ESPN, who
also happens to be Asian. Warning: The following video will make your
blood boil (around 100 degrees Celsius, or 212 degrees Fahrenheit, in
case you're interested.) A photographer was threatened with mob violence
by a professor at Missouri University after he tried t
University of Missouri president Tim Wolfe resigns under threats of football players not playing...
because the good Lord knows football must go on.I'll make this
(blessedly) short.As I see it, a group of big strong football players
who are black (and probably on full ride scholarships) got their tiddy
widdys in a bunch over being picked on, or called names, or
something.Other than a swastika being smeared on a wall using some sort
of excrement, the form of this racial harassment is unknown. No
Planned Parenthood TX Abortion Apprentice Taught Partial-Birth Abortion to "Strive For" Intact Heads...
what the hell happened to this young woman to make her so evil?She
actually says, "I have so much respect for development" when referring
to the bodies of aborted babies. Perhaps a hundred thousand dollars or
more spent on an education so she can spend her time aborting babies?
The videos in order:There are some other videos not listed here which
are mainly discussions with various PP d
AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)
Israeli anger as EU agrees to label settlement products
Producers must clearly label products coming from settlements built on land illegally occupied by Israel and sold in EU.
Iraqi Kurds launch offensive to retake Sinjar from ISIL
Peshmerga fighters, backed by US-led coalition jets, close in on three fronts in bid to cut off ISIL supply lines.
Myanmar's Suu Kyi wins seat, demands military meeting
Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi re-elected on Wednesday as her NLD party continues to dominate the ballot box.
Sweden imposes new refugee border controls
As authorities struggle to cope with record number of refugee arrivals, Sweden announces new border measures.
Allen L Roland's Weblog
Living On The Edge / Book Review: Fear Runner
Living on the edge was a way of life for myself as a
former Naval Aviator with 150 plus carrier landings and later as an
investment banker who traded on Wall Street and finally a survivor of
facing my deepest fears in surrendering to love ~ but former Commodity
floor trader Dale Brandon's fast paced thriller Fear Runner touches all
those fear bases and more in its electrifying 36
As Greenland Melts / Gulf Stream Cools
Greenland Ice sheet melting downFor years, scientists have
studied the impact of global warming on the Greenland Ice sheets but now
on the ground researchers are documenting the full impact of the
melting of Greenland's ice sheet, one of the biggest and fastest-melting
chunks of ice on Earth ~ which could eventually increase sea levels by
about 20 feet as well as permanently alter the Gulf
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
AMERICAN KABUKI
Interview with Musician Jim Morrison of The Doors
The source of this article is currently unknown... -AKInterview with
Musician Jim Morrison of The DoorsLizzie James: I think fans of The
Doors see you as a savior, the leader who'll set them all free. How do
you feel about that? It's kind of a heavy burden, isn't it?Jim Morrison:
It's absurd. How can I set free anyone who doesn't have the guts
tostand up alone and declare his own freedom? I think
Solar Update - Solar Storm Grounds Airlines, fries power transformers
My take on this is its incoming plasma for what happens next. Plasma is a liquid form of light and precursor to matter. -AK
Open your eyes, this is ascension
It is not that you are un-ascended or not enlightened. Even words like
expansion are misnomers for what you are feeling right now.The primary
thing to realize is that all of this already exists. It is like the
seed holding within it what’s to become the magnificent, towering oak
tree. Yet it’s beyond that, for the seed holds a very specific
blueprint, for a single tree.YOU are the entirety of c
Gaia Portal: Storms of change bring Inner Rest
Storms of change bring Inner Restby ÉirePortStorms of change bring
Inner Rest.Flights begin for all in contact with the Inner
Guides.Hue-manity begins, in full.hu-manity admits defeat, and
relinquishes the fantasy.Nova Gaia begins.ÉirePort | November 6, 2015 at
09:19 | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/p2sFUY-w0
Angola 3 News
A3 Newsletter: Court Rules Albert Can Be Retried a Third Time
PHOTO: A 'cardboard cutout' of Albert Woodfox is displayed in downtown
London, England during a November 7 protest march organized by Amnesty
International UK. If you have not yet done so, please take action by
joining Amnesty's call to "Free Albert Woodfox!"MEDIA COVERAGE:
Esquire: "The Absurdity of Retrial" II Washington Post II NY Times
II The Independent (UK) II T
ArmsControlWonk
Arms Control Wonk Version 4
I’m really excited (really really excited) about this. Today we find
ourselves 11.5 years into this experiment with 3,261 posts, 30,331
approved comments, 880 tags and 30 authors. The main goal with this
update is to find ways to highlight and make browsing this substantial
content archive a little easier. We now have individual author pages. …
Russian Underwater Drone Slide
I am going to write something longer on the (accidental?) leak of the
slide showing a Russian UUV. But I wanted to share the best quality
image I could make. Comments solicited.
Upending the Stalemate between India and Pakistan
Trend lines in the subcontinent are poor and will not improve until
there is substantive dialogue between India and Pakistan. Hopes that
Prime Minister Narendra Modi would pull a “Nixon goes to China” maneuver
with Pakistan have been dashed, at least for now. Modi either has no
Pakistan policy or has a policy not to engage with Pakistan. It’s worth
recalling, however, that President Richard Nixon
Missile Defense Intercept Test at Korla?
Over the weekend many residents in Xinjiang Province posted pictures on
Chinese social media sites of a mysterious event in the sky. Rather
quickly online commentators began to speculate that this event was a
missile defense test from the Korla Missile Test Complex.
Over the past year Jeffrey and I have discussed this facility here and
here, so a possible test (with pictures no less!) naturally
Buckdog
The Flotsam And Jetsam That Is The Conservative Federal Caucus ....
A defeated, yet still highly offensive group of political like minds
will join together in Ottawa today. They are known as the Conservative
Party of Canada Federal Caucus. While in power they raised the debt of
Canada by tens of billions. They enriched their corporate sponsors with
embarrassingly huge amounts of tax dollars. They badly dented the CDN
Charter of Rights and Freedoms. They are, and
A huge burden has just been lifted from the shoulders of all decent Canadians ...
Fuck off Stephen Harper, you undemocratic, arrogant, evil, deluded prick !!!
Saskatoon City Police Tell PM Trudeau To Shove His Pot Legalization Plans 'you know where' !!
Reasonable persons would look at the results of the recent federal
election and determine that change is going to happen with Canada's
existing marijuana laws. These same reasonable individuals would deduct
that perhaps application of the old, about to change law, should be
tempered with some relaxed enforcement. Not in Saskatoon. Nope. Mindless
and ruthless adherence to heavy handed policing cont
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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