June 11: And so, good night.
A reader, noting my interest in the Koch brothers, sent along this item about a news station in Georgia. I takes a pretty blunt look at what has happened to the U.S. (and, to a considerable degree, to Canada.) It's about the crash of democracy, the rampant corruption of government, and the murderous behaviour of very greedy people like the Koch brothers. We need to take this a lot more seriously than we do. The behaviour of these people is the reason why millions of have been killed, millions more have fled their homes, and even more are starving. It's the reason why, in the riches... more »
Untitled
*Detroit Free Press Editor Calls For Murder Of GOP Lawmakers* The Pulitzer prize-winning editorial page editor of the Detroit Free Press has called for the murder of Michigan lawmakers with whom he disagrees. The reason? The lawmakers voted for legislation that would give parents more choices to avoid Michigan’s failing public schools. Detroit’s public schools are failing academically and nearly insolvent, the New York Times wrote in January. The Detroit News wrote in March that “the statewide opinion of K-12 education is downright ugly.” That poll showed residents didn’t think th... more »
Have You Noticed Trump Is A Fraud As A Businessman Too?
Early Thursday morning Trump was tweeting. "Crooked Hillary Clinton will be a disaster on jobs, the economy, trade, healthcare, the military, guns and just about all else. Obama plus!" Something tells me he's just stoking the lizard-brains of the Trumpist base, not seriously thinking he can win over any new converts to his cause. Just hours before, Adam Davidson, writing for the *NY Times'* "On Money," warned low-info voters who think they know who Trump is based on his reality TV show and his carefully crafted glitzy appearances, that the man is a con. Behind the Gold Curtain of D... more »
No Getting Around It
The notrickszone site has a post debunking an AGW alarmist's theory about a slowdown in the Atlantic ocean circulation, to which I responded: *Yet this article (quoting from climatecentral.org) still says: "...greenhouse gas pollution causes ice sheets to melt, which prior research has shown is causing the circulation to slow overall."* *So it doesn't even touch the core delusion, that there is a global-warming "greenhouse effect" and consequent global "climate change".* *I also read a comment on the climate etc site of Judith Curry, by one of the many notorious defenders of the utter... more »
Fukushima June 11 and 12, 2016
Fukushima June 11 3:35 AM Heavy Fog June 12 1:26 (Fog Thick at Futaba Intersection as well) View of plant from Futaba intersection entirely obscured (very unusual)
Today, Be An Angel In Disguise - A Quote from Roxana Jones
*To learn more about Roxana and her inspirational messages, please click on the link provided below:* *https://plus.google.com/u/0/+RoxanaJones/posts*
On the BBC's coverage of the death of Muhammad Ali
Both *Newswatch *on BBC One/the BBC New Channel and Radio 4's *Feedback *tackled viewer/listener complaints about the BBC's heavily extensive coverage of the death of Muhammad Ali. Both programmes, to their credit, aired complaints that the BBC had gone considerably over the top in the amount of its coverage. And both programmes hauled in a senior BBC editor (Gavin Allen. Controller, Daily News Programmes, on *Feedback *and Toby Castle, Deputy News Editor, BBC News, on *Newswatch*) to respond. Both senior BBC editors said that the BBC had not only got it 'about right' but had g... more »
Fukushima Update: "Your Radiation This Week, June 4 to June 11 2016"
*"Your Radiation This Week, June 4 to June 11 2016"* By Bob Nichols *"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”* - Shiva (San Francisco) June 11, 2016 – "Good Day, this is “Your Radiation This Week.” These are the recorded Radiation Highs that affected people this week around the United States and in your neighborhood. There is no way to recover from these kinds of exposures. There is no medicine and there is no cure. Millions now possess a shortened life span due to their radiation exposures. Are you next or already Zapped? Let’s get right to it. *All Radiation Counts rep...more »
"21 New ‘Clinton Cash’ Revelations That Have Imperiled Hillary Clinton’s Campaign"
*"21 New ‘Clinton Cash’ Revelations That Have* * Imperiled Hillary Clinton’s Campaign"* by Breitbart News "Prior to the release of the New York Times bestselling investigative exposé Clinton Cash by Government Accountability Institute President and Breitbart Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer, Hillary Clinton and her supporters claimed she was among the most vetted political figures in America—a candidate about whom everything was known. Yet as media outlets across the ideological spectrum have confirmed and verified the book’s explosive revelations about Clinton’s tenure as Sec... more »
Musical Interlude: 2002, “We Meet Again”
2002, “We Meet Again” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_OmsxDef9c
"A Look to the Heavens"
“NGC 6888, also known as the Crescent Nebula, is a cosmic bubble about 25 light-years across, blown by winds from its central, bright, massive star. This sharp telescopic portrait uses narrow band image data that isolates light from hydrogen and oxygen atoms in the wind-blown nebula. The oxygen atoms produce the blue-green hue that seems to enshroud the detailed folds and filaments. Visible within the nebula, NGC 6888's central star is classified as a Wolf-Rayet star (WR 136). The star is shedding its outer envelope in a strong stellar wind, ejecting the equivalent of the Sun's mass... more »
"Begin It Now."
"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth that ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have com... more »
The Poet: Mary Oliver, “Wild Geese”
*“Wild Geese”* "You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagi... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Thanks for stopping by!
Free Download: Orison Swett Marden, "An Iron Will"
"An Iron Will" by Orison Swett Marden "Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924) was an American writer associated with the New Thought Movement. He also held a degree in medicine, and was a successful hotel owner. Marden was born in Thornton Gore, New Hampshire to Lewis and Martha Marden. When he was three years old, his mother died at the age of 22, leaving Orison and his two sisters in the care of their father, a farmer, hunter, and trapper. When Orison was seven years old, his father died from injuries incurred while in the wood, and the children were shuttled from one guardian to anot... more »
“Former U.S. Attorney Annihilates Clinton On Emails”
*“Former U.S. Attorney Annihilates Clinton On Emails”* Joseph E. diGenova - Judicial Watch - Clinton Email Scandal by The Daily Bail "Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive." - Sir Walter Scott “This is a true must watch clip. I never post long clips but this is a unique case. The first 15 minutes are nothing but bombshells, one after another. At a panel hosted by Judicial Watch last month, former U.S. Attorney Joseph DiGenova discusses the criminal aspect of the Clinton email scandal. Hillary's hitman at the State Department Patrick Kennedy is singled out ... more »
"JFK Secret Society Speech"
"JFK Secret Society Speech" - http://www.theburningplatform.com/ ◆ Hat tip to Jim Quinn, "The Burning Platform"
Nutrition/Health: "Oh Look, More New-Age Stupid!"
*"Oh Look, More New-Age Stupid!"* by Karl Denninger "How does this sort of tripe wind up in print? "Aamodt is a neuroscientist, book author and former editor of a leading brain research journal. She also has become a prominent evangelist of the message that traditional diets just don't work and often leave the dieter worse off than before. And she's an enthusiastic proponent of mindful eating. "I define it as eating with attention and joy, without judgment," Aamodt said in an interview. "That includes attention to hunger and fullness, to the experience of eating and to its effects ... more »
ISIS Made Up for Lost Oil Revenue by Stealing, Despite US Boasts
[image: us airstrike_Islamic State] Despite U.S. efforts to disrupt the Islamic State's oil revenue, the terrorist group has turned to extortion and looting to replenish revenue lost to U.S. airstrikes. The European Center for the Analysis of Terrorism's recent report estimates ISIS generated approximately $2 billion... more »
Terrorists Could Soon Bring Down Cities With Cyber Attacks
[image: cybersecurity] Terrorist groups like al-Qaida and Islamic State are inching closer to having the cyber capability to electronically shut down entire cities. According to director of the United Kingdom's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), Robert Hannigan, as more items like cars become connected to the... more »
Putin Ups His Persecution of Social Media Users
[image: Putin Half Smirk - 900] The Kremlin has started cracking down with increasing severity on users of social media who dare to criticize the state of affairs in Russia or who parody Russian leader Vladimir Putin. For the crime of posting a picture of a... more »
UN Chief Admits He Pulled Saudi Coalition From Human Rights Blacklist Over Financial Threats
[image: United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon speaking at the COP16 Climate Change Conference in Cancún, Mexico on December 7, 2010.] United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon made a shocking admission when he told reporters he had yielded to Saudi Arabia's demands in response to big money. The confession came several days after Mr. Ban removed a Saudi-led coalition from a blacklist of armies... more »
How Did Things Get To Be This Way?
Here’s a new creature provided for your amusement by the wonderful folks at Dark Mountain: How Did Things Get To Be This Way?
Bernie Endorses Another Congressional Candidate-- In Central New York
The Blue America truck-- our mobile billboard-- has been driving the roads and streets and highways of NY-24 since Memorial Day... and will continue right up through New York's congressional primary on June 28. We endorsed Eric Kingson last year and you probably know by now that he was the founder of SocialSecurityWorks and has been key in changing the mind of the Democratic Party from a Paul Ryan austerity point of view-- cuts to benefits-- to *expanding* Social Security. The Republicans don't call a hearing in the Senate or House on cutting Social Security without the Democrats ... more »
Football Fans Clash In Marseille Ahead Of Russia-England Game
Clashes have erupted in Marseille before the Euro 2016 opening game between Russia and England. Hundreds of violent football fans clashed in the streets of the French port city hosting the 2016 UEFA European Championship. One man is in a critical condition with at least 10 others injured as rival Russian and English fans outdo each other with booze and violence while hurling missiles and clashing with the police. RT reports: The head of the All-Russian Fans’ Union, Alexander Sprygin, told Reuters that English fans were “drinking a lot and behaving badly” prior to the outbreak of vio... more »
Different Folks, Different Rules
The Isle of Man tax avoidance scheme is nothing new. Linda McQuaig reminds her readers that Brian Mulroney cut the same kind of deal with the CRA: The riveting image of the former prime minister accepting wads of cash from a notorious lobbyist — admitted by Mulroney under cross-examination at a 2009 public inquiry — was so eye-popping that it completely eclipsed another fascinating aspect of the story: the sweetheart tax deal Mulroney got from the Canada Revenue Agency after he failed to report the cash. Although Mulroney had hidden the cash payments (totalling $225,000) from ta... more »
Will a Society that Purges Christian Symbols Stay Open to Christian Mandates for Justice?
[image: Constantine - 900] In April Tennessee’s governor vetoed an effort to make the Bible the state’s official book, like the tomato is the state’s official fruit and the raccoon the state animal. He essentially took the politically easier route, alluding to possible constitutional...more »
Official: Revenge Suspected in Shooting of Family in Mexican Village
[image: MEXICO FAMILY KILLED - 900] TEHUACAN, Mexico (AP) -- The prime suspect in the brutal slaying of 11 family members is a man who allegedly sought revenge after one of the victims reported that he raped her and he was jailed, a Mexican law enforcement... more »
Syrian Army Advances On Raqqa As US-Backed Forces Retreat
The Syrian Arab Army with the help of the Russian military is capturing ground as it moves eastwards to liberate the Daesh stronghold of Raqqa. While President Obama tries to find an integral role for the U.S. to play in liberating Raqqa, the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are moving in the opposite direction toward the city of Manbij, 80 miles away on the west of the Euphrates river. Sputnik reports: The Syrian Army (SAA) continued to advance on Raqqa after seizing the Taqba dam on the Euphrates River only 25 miles (40km) from Raqqa this weekend. The surge represents the ... more »
On Man Made Climate Change NASA has dropped the Mike
slice of chart showing CO2 levels over last 400,000 years until 1950 they never exceeded 300ppm, we now are reaching levels where the dinasours could not breathe See the science undisbuttitable with no chance of prejudiced in the last 4000000 years an anomaly was seen in 1950 and it just has gone on expontentialy CO2 in the atombreathingcocoon is not caused by sun spots orbital decay or any other God based explanations other than volcanoes and we have no evidence of hidden volcanoes pumping out unexplained CO2 and science provides us with the illustration of proof that when a volcano gro... more »
Update on BBC One's News at Six
And here's an update on our monitoring of BBC One's *News at Six *and its weekend equivalents' choice of EU referendum-related angle - as ever defined as "which side's angle comes first in either the headlines or the whole bulletin". We left it with a startling: *21* for Remain *7* for Leave Here's how things have gone since that last post: *31/5* *Tempers fray about the EU referemdum. Meanwhile campaigners to Leave call for VAT on energy bills to be scrapped* *1/6* *Take back our immigration policy by exiting the EU, say Leave campaigners. * *2/6* *The German chancellor Angel... more »
Thousands Trapped In ISIS Held Syrian City Of Manbij
Tens of thousands of people are trapped inside the Syrian city of Manbij in Aleppo province as US-backed Kurdish and Arab forces lay siege to the ISIS stronghold in northern Syria. ISIS claimed responsibility for two bombings outside a Shiite shrine near Damascus that killed at least 20 people, in the latest repeated deadly strike on the revered site. Pakistan Today reports: IS has fought back with deadly bombings even as it comes under pressure on several fronts since it declared a cross-border “caliphate” in Syria and Iraq in 2014. The Syrian Democratic Forces supported by US air ... more »
Americans Argue Over Puppets While Global Masters Meet in Secrecy
*Isaac Davis* - Should we be focused on the puppets, or on their masters?
Update on 'Newsnight'
Catching up with *Newsnight*'s EU referendum coverage.... Here's how things have gone since *ITBB*'s last post on the subject: 31/5 Joint interview: *Emma Reynolds*, Labour (REMAIN); *Chris Grayling*, Conservative (LEAVE) Interview: *Jon Cruddas*, Labour (REMAIN) 1/6 Joint interview: *Kavita Oberoi*, Oberoi Consulting (REMAIN); *John Longworth*, chairman Vote Leave business council (LEAVE) 2/6 Interview: *Mikhail Khodorkovsky*, former oligarch (REMAIN) 3/6 Joint interview: *Alastair Campbell*. former Labour advisor (REMAIN); *Dia Chakravarty*, Tax Payers' Alliance (LEAVE); *Simon... more »
The US Military Accidentally Poisoned Water for Tens of Thousands of People in Pennsylvania
[image: flint-water-top - 900] HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf has called on the military to fund blood tests for nearly 70,000 residents in suburban Philadelphia who might have been exposed to contaminated water. The Democratic governor wrote a letter to the... more »
More History
*Augusto Sandino* By Eduardo Galeano *Memory of Fire: Century of the Wind* *1928: Washington* *Newsreel * In an emotional ceremony in Washington, ten Marine Corps officers receive the Cross of Merit *for distinguished service and extraordinary heroism* in the war against Sandino [in Nicaragua]. The *Washington Herald* and other papers devote pages to the crimes of the outlaw band who slit Marines' throats. They also publish documents newly arrived from Mexico, with impressive numbers of spelling mistakes, proving that Mexican president Calles is sending bolshevik weapons and propa... more »
Can't Vote for Clinton
As Hillary Clinton becomes the presumptive presidential nominee of the Democratic Party, Abby Martin and Paul Jay discuss the strategy of voting for the lesser evil and the potential foreign policy of a Trump or Clinton administration. She cleans his clock. See even more on this whole discussion from a critical anti-establishment and anti-imperial point of view *here* and *here*
The Dance, The Stand...
*The Dance, The Stand* by Ed you offer me resistance so proud to make your stance with all the walls that surround there must be a way to dance the formal announcement is here yes love all is clear pomp and circumstance all proceeds to rule all around abundance dances even with the trickster even with the fool even with the clown laughter is the tool to bring it all down yes love the zero card has new rules I leave you now as you ask I leave you now with a kiss I leave you now with a glass perhaps you will give yourself one more chance and I reach out with an open hand star dust fa... more »
Another Betty VS Wilma
Rangar Lothbroke Uhtred of Bebbanburg[5 The Last Kingdom and Vikings are historical fictions based upon the same historical event. The Danish Viking invasion of England. Last Kingdom wins the historical accuracy prize as it build its narrative around the rule of Alfred the Great. Vikings is built around the somewhat murky history of a person who may just be just amalgamation of legends. The storyline of The Last Kingdom also benifits from adapation from a 9 Novel series of books. In gereral the Last Kingdom is a better produced more well funded effort than V... more »
Open Thread
Wow! Our second-ever open thread... Please ignore the tumbleweed.
Personal stuff
Where I was On the subject of the EU referendum... Despite being on holiday with my family in Devon (and, briefly, in Sue's Cornwall) I couldn't avoid the subject. My family wanted to talk about it. Lots of other people wanted to talk about it too - and, contrary to what some might expect (ahem, some at the BBC),* none *of them seemed bored to death with the subject - even the one member of my family who's only voted about once in forty years and who won't be voting in this one either, despite being obviously and quite angrily pro-Leave. (Is such interest unusual?) And, though it'... more »
That was then. This is now
We received an interesting comment the other day on a very old thread concerning how to monitor BBC party political bias. Part of the comment struck me as worth expanding on because it contained an assertion which I'm seeing more and more often (from the Left) on Twitter: The overwhelming objective evidence found from analysing political coverage showed that even during a Labour government the amount of Conservative voices aired remained consistently higher than those on the left and under a Conservative government this increased significantly in disproportionate bias. I'm gues... more »
Let's talk about BBC Radio 4
Talking about James Delingpole... When BBC reporters (et al) talk about 'blue on blue' attacks during the present EU referendum some of us politically-minded obsessives know what they mean. And some of you will easily be able to work out what I mean by calling James's *Radio *piece in *last *week's *Spectator* a definite case of 'Speccie on Speccie' attack. As soon as I read it I knew it was an attack on the *Spectator*'s main *Radio *reviewer Kate Chisholm (who I've always felt is a good deal more *New Statesman *than *Spectator* in her political outlook). Dellers criticised th... more »
Shall I compare thee to Blackadder II?
Oh dear, oh dear, oh deary dear... I've been reading the reviews for Ben Elton's new BBC Two sitcom *Upstart Crow *and, frankly, many of them have been hardly any kinder to Ben Elton than dying Tudor playwright Robert Greene (as played by Mark Heap) was about William Shakespeare (as played by David Mitchell). "For there is an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers," said the *Telegraph *guy, "that with his Tygers hart wrapt in a former *Saturday Live *host's hyde, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a BBC comedie as the best of you: and being an absolute *Richard Curtis... more »
Laura in the lions' den
Millicent Garrett Fawcett, founder of the Fawcett Society *Woman's Hour* debated 150 years of feminism on Tuesday. I enjoyed it, and I suspect you might too if you fancy catching up with it on the iPlayer. Unusually for *Woman's Hour*, Jane Garvey's guests *didn't* all sing from the same feminist hymn sheet. Three of them *did*, but one *didn't -* and the one who *didn't *was Laura Perrins of *The Conservative Woman*. So it was 3:1 against Laura, but at least someone who thinks like Laura was, for once, invited onto *Woman's Hour - *which is something. Or, more accurately, it ... more »
Was Nigel right?
John Sweeney Last night's *Newsnight *carried a report from John Sweeney which Evan Davis introduced as a "disturbing" update on a story they'd covered previously. John Sweeney reported that an 18-year-old man, from one of the Syrian refugee families which the programme followed after the UK government granted them asylum last year and brought them into the country from a camp in Jordan, has been in court, alongside two other men, charged with sexual assault against a 14 year old girl. One of them has also been charged with sexually assaulting a second 14 year old girl, and a fourt... more »
What The BP Energy Review Tells Us About China’s Economy
By Paul Homewood Yesterday I looked at global energy trends as reported by BP for 2015. Now to take a closer look at what has been going on in China. The first, and certainly most important, point to note is that total energy consumption has barely grown year on year. The increase of […]
The Chart dont lie
Hat Tip to the Mound of Sound. Who you gonna believe NASA scientists of big oil lobbyists.
Fort McMurray's Singin' & Dancin' African Firefighters Are Going Home...
Because their exploitation became public. Notley`s saving face- though she`s an obvious liar And I`ve nothing good to say about the NGO that brought them here- for profit! When I first read the news of the South African fire fighters brought into Fort McMurray to help fight the fire- it was OBVIOUS to me and should have been OBVIOUS to everyone that Alberta's government had intentionally brought in foreign workers- Displacing Canadians who could easily do this work, with training. And there was time to train people to undertake this firefighting. *CBC a couple of weeks back:* ... more »
Editor's Note
Blogging will return later tonight.
Israel Provides ‘Food Aid’ To Al-Nusra In Syria
According to local reports, Israel is providing ‘food aid’ to Al-Nusra miltants in Southern Syria and the terrorist-controlled area is swarming with Israeli Goods SANA reports: Local sources in Syria’s Quneitra province revealed that terrorist organizations had been distributing Israeli-made foodstuffs to the locals in the areas under their control. This has been happening almost monthly, according to the sources which indicated that Israeli-made food items have flooded the areas controlled by terrorists in Quneitra countryside. The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said... more »
Clinton Emails Off Limits to Voters Until After She's Crowned (No, Bernie Still Not Dropping Out No Matter How Loudly They Whine) Yes, They Know What's Best for US (They Only Want to Improve Social Security?) By Abolishing It As the Insurance You Thought You Had Already Paid For
The Cost to You and Me of Proposed Offshore Drilling? $179.2 Billion After Frustrating Primary, Millions of Ballots in California Remain UncountedThe uncounted ballots would put the total number of voters at around 8.5 million, or around 47 percent of all registered voters State would need 75 years to compile Clinton emails My guess is that no one in the insiders group wants this to happen.
The Last Kingdom VS Vikings
Rangar Lothbroke Uhtred of Bebbanburg [5 The Last Kingdom and Vikings are historical fictions based upon the same historical event. The Danish Viking invasion of England. Last Kingdom wins the historical accuracy prize as it build its narrative around the rule of Alfred the Great. Vikings is built around the somewhat murky history of a person who may just be just amalgamation of legends. The storyline of The Last Kingdom also benifits from adapation from a 9 Novel series of books. In gereral the Last Kingdom is a better produced more well funded ... more »
Nestle Forced To Ditch Plans To Extract Water In Monroe
Nestlé has been forced to ditch its plans to extract water from a spring in Monroe County, Pennsylvania this week after fierce resistance from the local community The plan would have seen bottled beverage giant, Nestlé Waters North America, take 200,000 gallons of waterery day from the source in Kunkletown, located in Eldred Township, and truck it away to a nearby plant to be bottled under its Deer Park brand. Activist post reports: The plans for the water grab, helped by the municipality, which may have improperly adopted a corporate-friendly ordinance, had drawn the ire of many lo... more »
Syrian Update: Confirmation that the US is in an undeclared Civil War
*Syrian Aleppo Neighbourhoods * *attacked by al-Jewsra* Many bloggers have faulted Russia for pulling back its forces in Syria before the job was finished and the "foreign-backed terrorists" like ISIL and al Nusra *[which I'm now calling al-Jewsra since an ex Mossad chief disclosed that Israel is providing "tactical support" to the terrorist group] *were defeated. I have maintained that Russia has always been a patient warrior and that has been the secret of its success in battle over the centuries. One factor that Putin may have considered when making his decision to attempt t... more »
Lockheed Martin Threatens Canada If It Does Not Buy Their F-35
An F-35 Joint Strike Fighter on display at naval yard in Maryland in January. (Yuri Gripas / Reuters) *CBC*: *Lockheed Martin warns it will pull $825M in F-35 contracts if Canada buys another jet* Canadian companies could stand to lose at least $10B over lifetime of aircraft U.S. defence giant Lockheed Martin is warning Canada that $825 million in aerospace industrial contracts signed with Canadian companies to build and equip F-35 jets would be moved to other partner nations if the Trudeau government decides to buy a different fighter jet. Steve Over, the company's director of F... more »
A Great Initiation Called Death
*Julian Rose* - To die well, we must live well.
Shooter Kills Christina Grimmie Of “The Voice” Outside Florida Concert
Former star of The Voice, Christina Grimmie, was killed by a deranged fan at a concert in Florida on Friday night. Christina Grimmie, who was 22, was shot several times by the fan who then turned the gun on himself and committed suicide. Dlisted reports: Christina was big on YouTube before making it to The Voice in 2014 and joining Adam Levine’s team. She made it all the way to 3rd place. Last night, she opened for the band Before You Exit at a show in Orlando, FL. While signing autographs in the lobby after the show at around 10, a man with two guns came up to her and opened fire. ... more »
Trump University Isn't The Only For-Profit College Scam Defrauding Students-- Guest Post By Annette Taddeo
Going to college, getting an education, and having a career is part of the American Dream many people strive for. However, today this is becoming less of a reality for so many aspiring students. For-profit colleges have crept into the mainstream of higher education and taken advantage of students. They charge high tuition fees and provide little in return. These “colleges” use a classic bait and switch strategy targeted at unsuspecting students. They lure in students expecting to learn, improve their lives, and get a job but instead of degrees, students receive costly excuses and a... more »
The U.S. Military Tries To Maintain Its Technological Edge Against China
The model of a Chinese-made Warrior Eagle Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), an unmanned attacker (front), is displayed before the opening of the 7th China International Aviation & Aerospace Exhibition, or Airshow China 2008, in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai in this November 3, 2008 file photo. REUTERS/Bobby Yip/Files *Tom Risen, US News and World Report:* *U.S. Military Races to Stay Ahead of China's Tech* Efforts like the Third Offset Strategy invest in new tech like lasers to keep the military's advantage. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said Friday the U.S. military has lost... more »
The Great British Wind Farm Scandal
By Paul Homewood http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/06/11/great-british-wind-farm-scandal/ Something’s upset Dellers! From Breitbart: Regular readers may be aware that I am not a fan of wind farms. This is because, among other things, they kill birds and bats, hurt the environment, cause sleeplessness and sickness in humans, drive up fuel prices, enrich troughing rent-seeking crony […]
Air France Pilots’ Strike Hits Euro 2016
A strike by Air France pilots over working conditions is threatening to cause travel disruptions for hundreds of thousands of fans visiting France for Euro 2016. Aljazeera reports: Police are on high alert in the southern city of Marseille, where England and Russia supporters clashed and hurled bottles at officers on Friday night, a day before their first game. Industrial unrest, fears of terrorist attacks and devastating flooding have overshadowed the build-up to the month-long tournament. Air France said it was cancelling flights on Saturday after 25 percent of the national carrie... more »
Paul Ryan has a better way to fight poverty and how about those new HUD regulations?...
*except he doesn't, and the HUD regulations will destroy the value of your biggest investment *- *your home. * His plan, *A Better Way to Fight Poverty*, was unveiled last Tuesday. Yawn. *Supposedly this plan took months to put together. * Developed by the Task Force on Poverty, Opportunity, and Upward Mobility as part one of a six-point initiative by House Republicans titled ‘A Better Way,’ this plan aims to transition government policy from treating the symptoms of poverty to those that perpetuate it. According to Ryan, “instead of trapping people in poverty, we can get them... more »
I suppose that many of you who visit my blog get most of your news from the US "mainstream media," which constantly reports military and propaganda provocations against Russia. Here, Paul Craig Roberts asks the question: “What if the Russians believe us? What if we convince Russia that we are going to attack her?” Well, from extensive reading of non-mainstream media, I have learned that Vladimir Putin is not a monster, and that he plans to attack no one but ISIS in Syria. That is, until NATO completes its anti-nuclear-missile installations in Eastern European countries surrounding Russia …which would put Russia in true danger. So, like the Minute Men at Bunker Hill, Putin won't shoot until he sees the whites of the eyes of those who plan to attack Mother Russia. However, whereas the Minute Men fully expected the arrival of the Red Coats, the US continues to pretend that their illegal planting of anti-nuclear-weapons in Russia's front yard is only defensive. While Putin is still hoping for peace, he is neither dumb nor indecisive. He has made it clear that as soon as the first of NATO's anti-nuclear-missile instalations surrounding Russia becomes operational, Russia will destroy it. And another thing you might not know is that Russian weapons are decades ahead of those of the US. So, if the neocons in charge in Washington decide to start a nuclear war with Russia, not just Bunker Hill, but all of the US will be flattened. In the words of Pogo, a comic strip character if my youth: "We have met the enemy, and they are us." Wake up, America, before it’s too late!
------------------------------ *Where Do Matters Stand? — Paul Craig Roberts * ------------------------------ *April 23, 2016* | Original Here | If you wish to receive his newsletter via email go to Original and sign up at bottom. Dear Readers: Support Your Site. Your Site Needs Your Financial Support and Your Moral Support. Where Do Matters Stand? Paul Craig Roberts On the eve of World War II the United States was still mired in the Great Depression and found itself facing war on two fronts with Japan and Germany. However bleak the outlook, it was nothing compared to the outlook t... more »
Epilogue: Candidate Trump assails Pocahontas!
*SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 2016Our various one-track minds:* Atop the front page of the Washington Post, three journalists report the latest from Candidate Trump today. We were struck by the limitations of Trump's one-track mind—and by the limitations of the one-track mind found at the Washington Post: GOLD, DEMIRJIAN AND DEBONIS (6/11/16): *It was a bad time for Sen. Cory Gardner to be caught in an elevator with a reporter.* Donald Trump had just referred to Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts as “Pocahontas”—again—and the Republican freshman from Colorado was struggling to figure o... more »
Great White Hope Donald Trump Embarrasses American Republicans
The Republican party watches in dismay as presidential nominee Donald Trump attracts racists from all over the states. The demography of America is changing in favor of non-whites due to immigration over the years from the rest of the world. A fact that is disturbing to some Republicans who see America as a white Christian country that tolerates non-whites. For years the undercurrent of racism in the party has been manifest and has played its part in putting a spanner in the workings of government with the stalemate between the Republicans in Washington and President Obama in the Wh... more »
Is U.S. Intelligence Up For Sale?
*ABC News*: *How Clinton Donor Got on Sensitive Intelligence Board* Newly released State Department emails help reveal how a major Clinton Foundation donor was placed on a sensitive government intelligence advisory board even though he had no obvious experience in the field, a decision that appeared to baffle the department’s professional staff. The emails further reveal how, after inquiries from ABC News, the Clinton staff sought to “protect the name” of the Secretary, “stall” the ABC News reporter and ultimately accept the resignation of the donor just two days later. Copies of... more »
Teenager Develops Economical Purifier Using Organic Waste to Make Clean Water
*Sofia Adamson* - She designed a water purifier made from common household waste.
Oregon Court Rules That Nonbinary Is A legal Gender
An Oregon circuit court has rule that residents can legally change their gender to nonbinary. Nonbinary is an umbrella term for anyone who does not identify as just male or just female and for the first time in US history, it is being legally recognized as a gender. Everything was put in motion by Jamie Shupe, an Army vet who has been transitioning gender since 2013, according to the Daily Dot: In a historic move sure to challenge federal policy, an Oregon circuit court ruled on Friday that a resident could legally change their gender to nonbinary. The Daily Dot spoke—in an exclusiv... more »
Supreme Court Likely to Decide School Transgender Bathroom Issue
[image: Fighting Restroom Sign - 900] After a three-judge panel on the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a teenage girl in Virginia who now identifies as a male may use boys’ high school restrooms, the Gloucester County School Board appealed, and the case may... more »
How Obama Has Made It Harder for Companies to Hire
[image: Business Regulations, Red Tape, Office] Government data released on Wednesday shows the number of private-sector job openings was at an all-time high in April. Companies, however, hired the fewest number of people on a seasonally adjusted basis in nine months. Why the disparity? The JOLTS... more »
Cartel Ran Its Own Death Camp Inside a Mexican Prison
[image: A policeman looks through a window before the presentation of Juan Manuel Rodriguez Garcia (out of frame), aka "Juan Perros", an alleged leader of the Gulf drug cartel, at the hangar of the Attorney General's office in Benito Juarez International Airport in Mexico City on May 25, 2014. According to the statement read during his presentation, Rodriguez Garcia was arrested in Tamaulipas. AFP PHOTO/ Yuri CORTEZ (Photo credit should read YURI CORTEZ/AFP/Getty Images)] The Los Zetas cartel operated a death camp inside a Mexican prison for three years and butchered 150 people near ... more »
Carbon Tax Fight Erupts on Capitol Hill
[image: Global Warming, Climate Change, Environmentalists] House lawmakers have passed a resolution opposing a carbon dioxide emissions tax and another opposing a tax on barrels of oil, once again setting off a battle on Capitol Hill over global warming. Lawmakers passed an anti-carbon tax resolution introduced by Louisiana... more »
Poll: Massive Swing In Britain To Leave The EU
*The Independent:* *EU Referendum: Massive swing to Brexit – with just 12 days to go* *Exclusive: polling carried out for ‘The Independent’ shows that 55 per cent of UK voters intend to vote for Britain to leave the EU in the 23 June referendum * The campaign to take Britain out of the EU has opened up a remarkable 10-point lead over the Remain camp, according to an exclusive poll for The Independent. The survey of 2,000 people by ORB found that 55 per cent believe the UK should leave the EU (up four points since our last poll in April), while 45 per cent want it to remain (down... more »
The US is Paying Billions for an Afghan Police Force That Doesn’t Exist
[image: Afghan policemen perform a drill during exercises as part of their graduation ceremony at a police training centre on the outskirts of Jalalabad, in Nangarhar province on August 16, 2015. AFP PHOTO / Noorullah Shirzada (Photo credit should read Noorullah Shirzada/AFP/Getty Images)] Nearly half of the police force in the contentious Helmand province in Afghanistan does not actually exist, yet the U.S. continues to spend billions to fund it. Afghanistan's Ministry of the Interior is poised to conduct an investigation of former...more »
NY’s Democrat AG Defends Gawker’s Free Speech But Tries to Prosecute Global Warming Dissenters
[image: Climate Change, Global Warming Alarmism, Climate Science] New York Democratic Attorney General Eric Schneiderman took to Twitter Friday to lament the demise of gossip news website Gawker. All the while he's leading a nationwide effort to prosecute global warming skeptics. Freedom of the press is a cornerstone... more »
Poland Tightens Anti-Terror Laws To Allow Surveillance Of Foreigners
The Polish parliament has approved a bill to amend the country’s anti-terrorism laws. The changes will allow security forces the power to monitor the movements of foreign citizens without court approval and allow them to hold suspects without charge for up to two weeks. RT reports: Under the bill, Poland’s state security service would be allowed to conduct surveillance of foreign citizens for up to three months without prior court approval, Reuters reported. Authorities would also be allowed to hold suspects for 14 days without charges but with court approval, drastically lengthenin... more »
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*From* *Jenna Orkin* John Howe's Triple Crisis of Civilization - Work in Progress What It's Like to Run a Russian Hacking Ring U.S. elections rank worst among Western democracies Stunning Emails Reveal How Clinton Foundation Donor Bought Seat As Hillary's Nuclear Weapons Advisor Bailout Legislation For Puerto Rico Has Officially Been Passed By The House UN Admits Extortion Behind Removal Of Saudi Arabia From Child-Killer Blacklist Proposed Drilling Expansion May Cost Us More Than The Oil Is Worth In case you were wondering what happened to Peak Oil. Thailand Ends Mother-To-... more »
Roberto Ferri - photorealism - with a dash of mythology...
Roberto Ferri is so famous in his native Italy for his Caravaggio-inspired-yet-thoroughly-modern photo-realistic-yet-mythically-overtoned paintings that he was invited to paint the portrait of the current Pope. And a cracking depiction of a dynamic and living man it is. Obviously, it's not that image that concerns Free Planet but many of his other works, especially the following three images which can be narratively linked and construed to episodically track the downfall of Man (in wondrously rendered female form)...
String theory vs a cynical demagogue
Five days ago, I didn't have the nerves to complete the reading of another demagogic rant by an aggressive crackpot named Sabine Hossenfelder. I did find the time and nerves minutes ago. The second part is at least as outrageously false and unacceptable as the first one. Let's discuss the individual sentences. In his book Why String Theory?, Conlon tells the history of the discipline from a string theorist’s perspective. As a counterpoint, let me tell you how a cynical outsider might tell this story: An honest scientist or reader doesn't need "counterpoints" to every statement. He... more »
Does Bilderberg Really Run The World? This Chart Says Yes
*(Click on Image to Enlarge)* *Zero Hedge: **Does Bilderberg Really Run The World? One Chart To Help You Decide* With the Bilderberg 2016 meeting now humming along at the Taschenbergpalais hotel in Dresden, deep behind closed doors and protected by heavily-armed guards, many have wondered: just how hyperbolic are allegations that the Bilderbergs run the world. To help readers decide, here is a chart laying out the linkages and various connections - financial, political, statutory and otherwise - between the handful of people who comprise the Bilderberg core and the rest of the wo... more »
The U.S. Goes After The Islamic State's Money
*CNN: **U.S. goes after ISIS' billion-dollar revenue stream* Washington (CNN)The U.S. estimates that ISIS brought in $1 billion in revenue last year but that recent airstrikes on their cash holdings and oil infrastructure are beginning to squeeze the group's finances. Daniel Glaser, the Treasury Department's assistant secretary for terrorist financing, said Thursday that the U.S. efforts to cripple ISIS' ability to raise money are "bearing fruit." He pointed to airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition against ISIS cash storage sites in Iraq and Syria as having destroyed "possibly" mor... more »
The T-X Is How The U.S. Air Force Will Train Its Elite Fighter Pilots Of The Future
*Dave Majumdar, National Interest*:* T-X: How the U.S. Air Force Will Train its Elite Fighter Pilots of the Future* The United States Air Force is working on a set of system specifications for a new next-generation advanced jet trainer to replace the long-serving Northrop T-38 Talon, which first became operational in 1961. While the venerable Talon remains an outstanding trainer, the diminutive twin-engine supersonic jet can no longer meet the demands of training pilots to fly advanced fifth-generation stealth fighters like the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor or the F-35 Joint Strike ... more »
The Story On How 12 Army Paratroopers Unleashed Hell On 1,000 Iraqi Militant Fighters
*Photo*: Army Master Sgt. Thomas Ballard led a 12-man team of soldiers against an overwhelming enemy force. Three hours later, more than 265 insurgents would be dead.who should have received the Medal of Honor. Pininterest *Task & Purpose*: *UNSUNG HEROES: The Paratroopers Who Killed 265 Insurgents To Defend One Downed Apache* When an AH-64 went down near the Iraqi city of Najaf, 12 Army paratroopers unleashed hell on an enormous enemy force. On Jan. 28, 2007, a 12-man Military Transition Team, or MiTT, composed of paratroopers from the 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Inf... more »
This Sniper Rifle Can Track Moving Targets In Darkness
*Washington Times*: *‘NightDragon’ $13K rifle automatically tracks, kills targets in darkness* A U.S. precision-guided firearm maker has released a rifle that can automatically acquire and track targets moving up to 15 miles per hour — at night. The price tag: $12,995. Texas-based TrackingPoint Inc. regularly produces innovative weapons for predator eradication or self-defense. The NightDragon semi-automatic 7.62 NATO, which tracks targets as the trigger is pulled, was released Tuesday. “NightDragon incorporates an infrared-sensitive CMOS sensor that detects light not visible to ... more »
Tracking Top Secret Spy Satellites
*(Click here for an enlarged version of this image)* *Geoff Manaugh, The Atlantic*:* Tracking Earth's Secret Spy Satellites* With the right gear and know-how, anyone can keep tabs on the clandestine ”moons” that surround our planet. Behind the night sky is another sky, one obscured by legal darkness and criss-crossed by satellites we’re not meant to know exist. This is the “other night sky,” as geographer-turned-artist Trevor Paglen calls it, a world of clandestine moons and unacknowledged orbiters. Kept out of official reach by defense and intelligence services, this hidden sky ... more »
US Military Admits Bombing Syrian Rebels Trained By The Pentagon
The US military has admitted bombing a Syrian rebel unit it had trained and armed purportedly to fight ISIS terrorists. A report in the Wall Street Journal said that the incident was the most serious setback for the controversial Pentagon program that was looking to find new recruits to train. A friendly-fire incident occurred in May, prompting an internal investigation and raising questions about renewed efforts by the Pentagon to build local forces to fight ISIS. Press TV reports: The Pentagon carried out a series of airstrikes in and around Syria’s northern town of Mare’ on May ... more »
Weekend reads: Idiotic reviews; wrong metrics in China; questions about preprints
The week at Retraction Watch featured the corrections of papers claiming that conservative beliefs were linked to psychotic traits, and a new member of our leaderboard, from philosophy. Here’s what was happening elsewhere: Here’s how to handle an idiotic review, from Stephen Heard. “Fraud, bureaucracy and an obsession with quantity over quality still hold Chinese […] The post Weekend reads: Idiotic reviews; wrong metrics in China; questions about preprints appeared first on Retraction Watch.
‘The Voice’ Singer Christina Grimmie Dies After Shooting
[image: Singer Christina Grimmie was shot after a concert at The Plaza Live Friday, June 10, 2016, in Orlando, Fla. A publicist for Grimmie says "The Voice" star has died after being shot at a concert venue in Florida. Police said in a news release that the 22-year-old singer's brother tackled the gunman after the shooting Friday night. (Christal Hayes/Orlando Sentinel via AP) MAGS OUT; NO SALES; MANDATORY CREDIT] A gunman opened fire at a Florida concert venue as a onetime star of The Voice signed autographs for fans after a show, killing the female performer before fatally shooting... more »
Navy Admiral Pleads Guilty to Role in Biggest Bribery Scandal of the Decade
[image: RETRANSMITTED WITH UPDATED CAPTION INFORMATION- Rear Adm. Robert Gilbeau enters the federal courthouse in San Diego on Thursday, June 9, 2016. Gilbeau pleaded guilty Thursday to lying to federal authorities investigating a $34 million fraud scheme involving a Malaysian contractor known as “Fat Leonard.” (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)] The ongoing "Fat Leonard" fraud case brought down the career of a high-ranking admiral on Thursday. Rear Adm. Robert Gilbeau, the highest official thus far to be charged in the fraud case, pled guilty to charges he lied to federal investigators about... more »
Christians Must Unite to Fight for Freedom
[image: church fires] The single most hopeful development in the past 50 years has been the coming together of faithful Christians across once-bitter denominational lines around the issues of "the culture wars." Leftists proclaim that with the Supreme Court's approval of same-sex marriage,... more »
Socialist Venezuela is in Such Turmoil That Starving People Raid a Truck Full of Chickens
[image: Venezuela - 900] The starving people of Venezuela resorted to stealing live chickens off a truck just to feed themselves, according to a video posted to YouTube Friday. A driver caught the scene while stuck in traffic on a major Venezuelan roadway. The footage zooms in to... more »
Trump Responds to Video Alleging Google Manipulates Searches to be Pro-Hillary
[image: Donald Trump4 - 900] Donald Trump responded Friday to the viral video that claimed "Google has been actively altering search recommendations in favor of Hillary Clinton's campaign." Trump told Business Insider, "If this is true, it is a disgrace that Google would do that," and called it... more »
Drones, Mansour and Policy Problems
This is a guest post by Tobias T. Gibson, Associate Professor of Political Science and Security Studies at Westminster College, in Fulton, MO. Late last month, a U.S. military “drone” killed Mullah Mansour, the leader of the Taliban. Because the drone was operated by the Department of Defense, the Obama administration was quick to claim […]
Who is subsidizing the Save Our Schools March in Washington D.C. on July 8th and 9th?
by Jim Horn and Ken Derstine June 11, 2016 This article is also posted at Defend Public Education! Scholarships for 100 people are being offered for the Save Our Schools March in Washington DC on July 8th and 9th. The scholarships include transportation costs; hotel rooms starting at $129 in a high cost area of DC; and breakfast/lunch on Saturday. All for a $25 registration per person. Who is paying for these costs? At $200 per person that is $20,000. Is this an independent march as it portrays itself or is this an AFT/NEA event (and, therefore, a backdoor get out the vote for H... more »
It Did Not Take Them Long To Blame Paris Floods On Climate Change
By Paul Homewood http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jun/10/paris-floods-made-almost-twice-as-likely-by-climate-change-say-scientists From the Guardian: The Paris floods, that saw extreme rainfall swell the river Seine to its highest level in decades, were made almost twice as likely because of the manmade emissions driving global warming, scientists have found. A three-day period of heavy rain at the end of […]
Economic News , Data & Views ( June 11 , 2016 ) Quick Hits For Saturday June 11th ( 1. Brexit - Twelve Days Before The Historic Vote , A Range Of Items Touching On The UK Referendum. 2. Markets / Market Moving Items - Articles , Charts , Data. 3.Greece In Focus - Updates On Creditor Talks , More Prior Actions , Refugee Matters Touching On Greece. 4. Refugee Crisis/ Migration Items De Jour. 5. Odds & Ends. )
Brexit...... *dwnews* @dwnews 24m 24 minutes ago Expats in #Europe face uncertain #Brexit future http://dw.com/p/1J1jX *fred walton* @fredwalton216 55m 55 minutes ago fred walton Retweeted The Local Germany Germany’s Der Spiegel on Saturday begged Britons to stay in the European Union-less than 2 weeks before referendum fred walton added, *The Local Germany* @TheLocalGermany 'Please don't go,' German weekly begs Britain http://bit.ly/1UJa4X0 *fred walton* @fredwalton216 1h 1 hour ago fred walton Retweeted Ste Davies You are seeing more businessmen speak ... more »
Being Conservative And Being Corrupt Are Overlapping States Of Existence
*The nature of political conservatism is corruption* Friday morning the House rejected a plan to gut the Office of Congressional Ethics-- which concerned me, because I just filed a complaint against corrupt conservative Patrick Murphy with it. Right wing New Mexico multimillionaire oil industry crook, Stevan Pearce (R) was behind an amendment to kill it by taking $191,000 out of its budget. It lost 137-270, with most Republicans (134 of 'em) voting with Pearce but with all but 3 egregiously corrupt conservative Democrats and 102 Republicans voting NO. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, one o... more »
Socialism is an Economic and Environmental Disaster. Exhibit A: North Korea
[image: North and South Korea Map - 900] See part one of this series here. Pyongyang is the capital of North Korea. Seoul is the capital of South Korea. Pyongyang is paradise. Seoul is a sewer. This is what we might conclude if we believed, as President Obama does,... more »
Events unfold, the centre cannot hold
Sometimes things just happen. In the UK just a short time ago, prime minister David Cameron created a monster in the form of a suggestion that, despite being publicly pro-EU, he would open a conversation, and later a referendum about Britain's withdrawal from it. Lord knows just what he was thinking (my own view is that he thinks very hard but finds thinking very hard). Fear of UKIP's fear of
At Least 20 Dead As Twin Blasts Hit Town Near Damascus
Two blasts have rocked the town of Sayyida Zeinab 10km from the Syrian capital of Damascus. The suburb is home to one of one of Shia Islam’s most renowned shrines According to Syrian media and security sources at least nine people have been killed and 16 injured. The UK-based Saurian Observatory for Human Rights reported that at least 20 people were killed and 30 wounded in the blasts. ISIS have reportedly claimed responsibility. RT reports: The first blast occurred at the entrance of Set Zaynab when a terrorist suicide bomber detonated an explosive belt. The second blast – a car bo... more »
American Teens are Sex-Abstaining Teetotalers, Says Latest Data
[image: American Teens Are Sex-Abstaining Teetotalers, Says Latest Data] The current generation of teenagers is the most sober and abstinent on record, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The 181-page report analyzing data from September 2014 through December 2015 strongly suggests teenagers are shunning... more »
The UN Just Ordered Ireland to Legalize Abortion
[image: The UN Just Ordered Ireland To Legalize Abortion] The United Nations ruled this week Ireland violated a woman's human rights by preventing her from having an abortion, and took the unprecedented step of ordering the country to change its laws and constitution to ensure women can exercise their... more »
Obama was Right About One Thing: If We Want to Change the Culture, We Are the Change We Seek
[image: Darkly lit Crowd Facing Light - 900] America has her candidates. Having weighed them in the balance, many Christians have found them wanting. The fact that America desperately needs a statesman is not the problem. The problem is that her people don’t want one. In our form of... more »
CBO: Despite Dip, America’s May Deficit a Harbinger of Skyrocketing Debt
[image: A July 12, 2015 photo shows the US Treasury in Washington, DC. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras told US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew on Sunday his country wanted the eurozone to provide a bailout, but one that "respects the Greek people". AFP PHOTO / MANDEL NGAN (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)] WASHINGTON (AP) -- The federal government’s budget deficit shrank sharply in May because of a calendar quirk. But even with latest improvement, the deficit for the first eight months of this budget year is larger than last year. The Treasury... more »
Bangladesh Detains 1,600 In Drive Against Islamic Radicals
[image: Bangladeshi police officials investigate the scene where an Italian priest was shot in Dinajpur, some 350 kilometres (220 miles) north of Dhaka, on November 18, 2015. Unidentified gunmen shot and wounded an Italian priest on November 18 in northern Bangladesh, just weeks after two foreigners were killed in similar attacks blamed on hardline Islamists, police said. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)] DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- Authorities have rounded up about 1,600 criminal suspects, including a few dozen believed to be Islamist radicals, in a nationwide... more »
Business Owners ‘Nervous and Unhappy’ After San Diego Raises Minimum Wage to $11.50
[image: California Gov. Jerry Brown discusses proposed legislation to increase the state's minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2022, during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif. Monday March 28, 2016. If approved by the Legislature,4 California would be the first state to raise the minimum wage to $15. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)] San Diego residents on Tuesday voted to raise the city's minimum wage to $11.50 an hour beginning Jan. 1, producing an outcome that left few surprised but small business owners feeling resigned and disappointed as they now work to address... more »
House Benghazi Panel Interviews Drone Operator ‘John from Iowa’
[image: FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2016 file photo, House Benghazi Committee Chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C. speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. It’s a question congressional investigators have long been seeking to answer: Could the military have reached the besieged diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, in time to prevent the killings of four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, the night of Sept. 11, 2012? Gowdy, echoing comments by his top lawyer, now says no. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)] WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House Benghazi committee has interviewed ... more »
Court In Canada Awards $13m In Iran’s Frozen Assets To Terror Victims
A Canadian court has awarded $13 million in non-diplomatic assets seized from Iran to the families of Americans who died in terror activities allegedly sponsored by Tehran. The ruling follows in the footsteps of the US Supreme Court who in April upheld a judgment allowing families of victims of alleged Iranian-sponsored terrorism to collect nearly $2 billion in compensation. The judgment by the Superior Court of Justice in Ontario, found Iran responsible for financing and training Hamas and Hezbollah operatives, who carried out eight bombings or hostage-takings in Buenos Aires, Isra... more »
Freedoms Voice
there's a blogger mist arising a fog thats thick as pitch it carries words of wisdom and its kicking up a bitch its drifting over kentucky and over in bangalore its cleaving through bigotry it will leave your head so sore for its the voice of human reason its the whisper of a new season its the song of human treason 'cause gathered in their thousands blacks and browns and whites are laying down foundations challenging wrongs and rights there's a girl in alabama and a guy in tokyo there's a group in istanbul and a woman in ohio like a dragon breathing fire or an angel that's been kissed it's... more »
The World's Biggest Corporate Conspiracy
Thanks to the like of Wikileaks this conspiracy dreamed up by America's largest corporation's is now common knowledge and seems to have died a death. I doubt the dead stay dead long and wouldn't be surprised to see it 'Lazarus' again shortly but not before our eyes, but behind our backs.
Taming the Greenland Melting Global Warming Hype
By Paul Homewood http://www.cato.org/blog/taming-greenland-melting-global-warming-hype From CATO: There is a new paper generating some press attention (e.g. Chris Mooney at the Washington Post) that strongly suggests global warming is leading to specific changes in the atmospheric circulation over the Northern Hemisphere that is causing an enhancement of surface melting across Greenland—and of course, […]
‘More Than Our Collection of Seashells’ — Aging With Wisdom and Grace
[image: Elderly Retirees in circle] At an authors’ retreat a few years ago Liz Curtis Higgs grabbed several of us and said, "Come on, let's take a picture of the Silver Foxes together." In today's culture that worships youth, her proud ownership of her silvering... more »
Gunmen Rob McDonald's Where 11 Armed French Special Forces Officers Were Eating (Guess What Happened Next)
*Photo *from Wikipedia *Task & Purpose:* *Gunmen Try To Rob McDonald’s Where Special Forces Are Eating* The robbers didn’t get to have it their way thanks to the 11 French special forces officers dining in the restaurant. When two armed men entered a McDonald’s in Besançon, a city in Eastern France near the border to Switzerland, they bit off more than they could chew. On June 5 two robbers in their mid-20s entered the fast food chain, fired a shotgun into the air, and began directing employees to empty the register, which contained roughly $2,270 in cash, reports Agence France-Pr... more »
Military Photo of the Day: Break-Out from Normandy
[image: Normandy Supply Operation Overlord - 900] Tank landing ships, with barrage balloons afloat, unloading supplies on Omaha for the break-out from Normandy during Operation Overlord. - Wikipedia
Britain's Newest Destroyer Is Breaking Down In Waters That Are Too Warm
*CNN:* *Britain's Royal Navy warships are breaking down because sea is too hot* (CNN)Britain's £1bn ($1.4bn) warships are losing power in the Persian Gulf because they cannot cope with the warm waters, MPs have been told. Six Type 45 destroyers have repeatedly experienced power outages because of the temperatures, leaving servicemen in complete darkness. During the Defence Committee hearing on Tuesday, MPs questioned company executives about the warship failures. "The equipment is having to operate in far more arduous conditions that were initially required," Rolls-Royce director... more »
Essentials for Road Trips with Kids
Road trip season is finally here. Long before we had kids, we love to take long road trips. We took our first road with kids when our daughter was 2 weeks old. Since then we have traveled across the country multiple times and have had a blast doing it. Taking a road trip with little ones can seem daunting, but I have compiled some fantastic ideas and printables to make your next road trip an amazing one. Download the free printables at the end of this post. *The License Plates Game*- Pretty much everyone I know has played this game in some way. Simply look at the window as you ... more »
A Look At What Life Is Like On An Ultra-Modern Chinese Guided Missile Destroyer
*Popular Mechanics*: *A Glimpse Inside an Ultra-Modern Chinese Guided Missile Destroyer* *Hefei is one of the Chinese Navy's sleekest ships on the seas.* China Defense Blog has republished a series of photos depicting life on one of China's most modern ships. The photos show a world not too different from western navies, albeit with more spartan living conditions. Hefei, a Type 052D guided missile destroyer, is roughly the equivalent of the U.S. Navy's Arleigh Burke-class destroyers. Displacing 7,000 tons, Hefei has a Type 346 phased-array radar system for detecting aerial thre... more »
Tweet For Today
The image that kicked off Clinton's e-mail scandal https://t.co/ofegBRyVFE pic.twitter.com/OVjikBEJ9E — Reuters TV (@ReutersTV) June 10, 2016
The U.S. Navy Submarine Fleet Wants To Adopt Drones As Part of Their Arsenal
The Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Tucson (SSN 770) is underway during the U.S.-South Korea joint naval and air exercise in waters off the east coast of the Korean peninsula, July 26, 2010.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo) *Kris Osborn, National Interest:* *U.S. Navy: Nuclear Submarines Will Control Multiple Drones* Groups of underwater drones will soon simultaneously use sonar and different sensors to identify and destroy enemy submarines and surface ships, search for mines, collect oceanographic data and conduct reconnaissance missions – all while a single human performs command and... more »
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*New surfaces absorb rain, helping property owners, drivers and environment ~Bob Marshall, The Lens*
Picture Of The Day
Schoolchildren stand beside North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as he arrives to attend "We Are the Happiest in the World", a performance of schoolchildren to celebrate the 70th founding anniversary of the Korean Children's Union (KCU), in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang. June 8. © REUTERS/ KCNA *WNU Editor:* Yes .... this picture looks creepy.
Gaia Portal:Collapses of essentials are observed and surpassed
*My apologies for not seeing this one... and the delay in posting it. -AK* *Collapses of essentials are observed and surpassed* by ÉirePort Collapses of essentials are observed and surpassed. Fluencies are enabled as rhymes are validated. Corollaries of Light come to play. The Force of Love is experienced in full. ÉirePort | June 9, 2016 at 08:08 | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/p2sFUY-yN
If The U.K. Votes To Leave The EU Will Other States Follow?
*Voice of America:* *Concern Grows in Brussels That Brexit Could Prove Contagious* LONDON — Approval of the European Union has fallen sharply across the continent, according to new research, raising fears in Brussels of a contagion effect from the upcoming British referendum on its membership in the bloc. The Washington-based Pew Research Center interviewed 10,000 people across Europe. Their answers showed that skepticism about the EU was not confined to Britain. France viewed the bloc even more unfavorably than its neighbor across the English Channel, with just 38 percent of pe...more »
Empty Rhetoric... Or Will President Obama Propose Legislation To Strengthen Social Security?
*- by John Laesch* Mr. President where is your legislative proposal to increase and strengthen Social Security? As the National Democratic Party Attempts to steer their corporate candidate into the white house, they are now openly wooing progressive voters with empty rhetoric. The first salvo of false promises comes from the sitting president. Sandwiched between 2008 and 2016 rhetoric promising to increase Social Security, the president actually proposed cutting Social Security as part of a “grand bargain.” Please sign my petition that calls on President Obama to introduce legis... more »
Government Had Muhammad Ali Under Surveillance Before Death
Leaked documents from a 2013 lawsuit show that the U.S. government had the late Muhammad Ali under surveillance due to his anti-establishment views. Ali was placed on an NSA watchlist due to his outspoken resistance to U.S. imperialism and institutional racism. Mintpressnews.com reports: As the world mourns a man that many consider one of the greatest and most influential sports figures of all time, the president and other current and former government officials were eager to memorialize Ali. Ali was “not just as skilled a poet on the mic as he was a fighter in the ring, but a man ... more »
The Great North American Mid-life Baseline Assessment
North America and I have reached mid-life. My doctor tells me that at 52, I am actually not in mid-life, but old, and I suppose the same is true for the United States and to a lesser extent, Canada. We have enjoyed the exuberance and productivity of youth, fueled by abundant energy. We reached our peak, thinking it would last, but now decline seems unavoidable and inevitable. I have spent the past thirty years navigating a miasma of motherhood, marriage, work and most-recently, higher education, every day an endless stream of things to do, people to nurture, deadlines to meet and ex... more »
Putin's Core Supporters Are Getting Restless
Leonid Ragozin, Bloomberg*: Putin's Core Support Begins to Waver* *Working-class Russians hurt by recession look for someone to blame—in an election year.* Russia embarks on an almost two-year-long election season this summer that ends with a presidential contest in 2018. But unlike previous years, the country's faltering economy has taken its toll on lower-income voters who blame the Duma and the cabinet for their plight. Five years ago, allegations of vote rigging led to the biggest antigovernment protests since Vladimir Putin’s ascent—dozens of opposition activists and leader... more »
Criminals To Be Sent To Scientology ‘Re-education’ Jails
The prison system in America have introduced Scientology “re-education” jails to brainwash inmates using a controversial program of ‘Moral Reconation Therapy’. According to an article on Raw Story, the church and prison system are keen to keep this hushed up: A few years ago, Abe Bergman’s 19-year-old son was court-ordered into a residential treatment program in Washington State for co-occurring mental illness and “substance abuse.” After he’d been in the program about a week, Bergman called and asked: “Can I come visit my son?” The person he spoke to, a counselor, said: “No, he has...more »
NASA To Build Houses On Mars
Congress have approved a budget that will allow NASA to build homes on the surface of Mars by 2018. The agency’s budget has been increased by adding $1.3 billion in 2016, which will allow NASA to build a space habitat for future astronauts on the red planet. Insideedition.com reports: According to Popular Science, Congress has directed NASA to use $55 million if its $19.3 billion budget to begin the habitat. NASA has 180 days from December 18, the day it was awarded the funding, to produce a status report on the program to Congress. Congress has given NASA until 2018 to build a livab...more »
CDC: Zika Mosquitoes Have Been Found ‘All Over America’
The CDC have warned Americans they have found evidence that Zika mosquitoes have infiltrated every single state across the country, posing a significant health risk to the public. According to newly released maps this week, authorities say that mosquitoes carrying the Zika virus have been found throughout the country, and they’re urgently trying to assess just how big the public health threat is. Yahoo News reports: The maps show the two breeds of virus-carrying mosquitoes, the yellow fever and the Asian tiger mosquito, can live in the nation’s northernmost states of Michigan, New H... more »
Former Agent Claims FBI Manufactures Nearly All Terrorist Incidents
A former FBI agent has claimed that the agency manufacture nearly all of the major terrorist plots they claim are carried out by terror groups. According to Michael German, the FBI routinely entrap vulnerable individuals who would never have committed any violence, and brainwash them into committing terrorist acts so they can be “caught” and “punished” by the FBI. Businessinsider.com reports: “They’re manufacturing terrorism cases,” Michael German, a former undercover agent with the FBI who now researches national-security law at New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice, to... more »
California Is Showing Signs Of Imminent Mega Earthquake
A leading seismologist has warned that a major earthquake capable of wreaking havoc across the globe is almost a certainty in California, as “the Big One” is likely to happen any day now. Professor James Dolan from the University of Southern California has said within the next few decades California is due to release a huge amount of “pent up energy” is has stored in the rocks underground. RT.com reports: “At some point, we will need to start releasing all of this pent-up energy stored in the rocks in a series of large earthquakes,” Dolan stressed. The earthquake could spark a “supe... more »
An Open Letter to Hillary Clinton Backers
Dear Hillarybots: Welcome to the new Republican Party. What kept you? No doubt, many of you reading this have stopped reading already, since an enduring and consistent characteristic of Hillarybots is a complete intolerance of contrary views which is very similar to the "You're either with us or against us" mindset that consistently characterized the Bush years. For those of you with a bit more intestinal fortitude, sally forth, Dear Reader and you might learn something. But, more likely, you won't. You are viciously and mindlessly supporting a woman who is simply ... more »
EU Army Given Green Light By European Leaders
British Prime Minister David Cameron has announced his approval for a proposed EU Army, as European leaders edge closer towards their goals of unifying a European army. Cameron has said he is prepared to allow the Royal Navy warship to help Op Sophia, a mission under the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy. The Navy’s involvement marks a tentative step towards an EU military, army experts have claimed. Breitbart.com reports: Back in 2014 then Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said the idea of an EU military was a “dangerous fantasy”. So how is it that David Cameron has announced... more »
Russia Threaten Military Retaliation Against US Naval Destroyer
Russia have warned America that they are prepared to take decisive military action against the entry of a U.S. naval destroyer in the Black Sea this week. The Russian foreign ministry have warned the U.S. navy that the arrival of the USS Porter to the Black Sea port of Varna, Bulgaria, Tuesday amounts to a “show of force” by America. Usatoday.com reports: According to a statement from U.S. 6th Fleet, the destroyer “will conduct port visits and bilateral exercises with partner navies.” Its operations aim “to enhance maritime security and stability, readiness, and naval capability wi... more »
The Control of Mike Tyson
Mike Tyson was buggered as a child; so was former NoI National Spokesman Khalid Abdul Muhammad, and possibly Louis Farrakhan as well. Farrakhan also (now) claims that Malcolm X had unspecified "problems with women", chiefly concerning his inability to satisfy his wife's sexual appetite and implied suppressed homosexuality - and Mike Tyson calls Reggie Kray "Sir". *That's MK.* "Minister Louis Farrakhan comments on the Church of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard and dianetics during public address titled, "*All Is Vanity*" at the Nation of Islam's headquarters Mosque Maryam in Chicag... more »
Is Russia's MiG-35 Fulcrum-F Ready For 'Prime Time'
Многоцелевой истребитель МИГ-35Д *Dave Majumdar, National Interest*: *Russia's MiG-35 Fulcrum-F: Ready for Battle against America's F-22 or F-35?* The Mikoyan MiG-35 Fulcrum-F is set to enter testing in 2017 with deliveries to the Russian Aerospace Forces starting in 2018. Flight tests for the new advanced Fulcrum derivative—which were originally scheduled for this summer—have been pushed back due to production delays. “Development work under contract with the Ministry of Defense on the MiG-35 is currently ongoing,” Vladimir Mikhailov, the head of United Aircraft Corporation’s (UA... more »
America's Rebel Allies In Syria Are Abandoning The U.S. To Join Russia
Free Syrian Army fighters (Reuters/Muzaffar Salman) / Reuters *Mike Giglio, Buzz Feed*: *Russia Is Recruiting The U.S.’s Rebel Allies In Syria* ANTAKYA, Turkey — The rebel commander was nervous. He had changed phone numbers and been difficult to reach before finally agreeing to meet in Antakya, a city near the border with war-torn Syria that has long swarmed with rebels, refugees, and spies. On the road to an out-of-the-way hotel, he told the driver to avoid the main route through town. “It’s better not to drive among all the people,” he said. It was an open secret that the comman... more »
Trump's Amish Army
I don't think I know any Amish people. When I worked at Sire Records I had a band I was close to called the Ocean Blue and they were from some quasi-Amish sect but not Amish exactly, although they were from Amish Country. I stayed friends with one of them but he left the sect when he figured out he was gay and didn't want to live in the closet. The band fired him. And I watched a couple of sit-coms or reality shows about Amish people or quasi-Amish people. One was about some kids who ran away to a big city and one was about the horrors of small time Amish life. They were both so a... more »
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