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Despite a lot of distraction, illegal political donations still stink up Alberta
Political culture in Alberta? Maybe not exactly as illustrated, but it’s
still a problem for the Redford Government if Albertans see it that way.
Below: O. Brian Fjeldheim. OK, we’re all enjoying a nice quiet Family Day
long weekend. This gives us an opportunity to look back at the interlocking
illegal political contribution eruptions that ... more »
Nineteen NY Legislators Protest Unproven and Damaging Teacher Evaluation Scheme
A clip from a post at *Ed in the Apple*:
. . . The testing system is deeply flawed.
*“Testing and education experts have expressed serious concerns about the
validity of the model, pointing to the inability of this methodology to
identify the most effective teachers. As an Economic Policy Institute
briefing paper mentions, one study found that across five large urban
districts, among teachers rated in the top 20% of effectiveness in the
first year, less than a third were in the highest rated group the following
year, and another third moved all the way down to the bottom 40%.”*
Nine... more »
Miro/Miranda... Will Transgender People Be The Last To Be Granted Equality?
Today I heard a radio report that even Mormons are rethinking their
doctrine of vicious homophobia and working, at least tentatively, towards making
amends for all the sorrow and pain they caused by financing the hateful and
bigoted Yes of 8 campaign in California. In the last 4 years, the country
has made unprecedented strides towards welcoming the LGBT community in as
equals-- or at least the LGB community. T is for "transgender" and, for
most Americans-- perhaps even for most gay people!!!!-- that's one step
beyond. There's always one step beyond.
I had a very special Valentin... more »
Cardinal Peter Turkson - Witness
An excerpt from *"Who will be the next pope? The contenders for Vatican's
top job"*:
A TV star, "people's person" and a "wonderful" priest, the Ghanaian
cardinal emerging as a strong favourite for the papacy is described by
colleagues in glowing terms. Peter Turkson, who is president of the
Vatican's pontifical council for justice and peace, was made a cardinal by
Pope John Paul II in 2003 after serving for almost 30 years as an ordained
priest. Continued. . .
Video Title: Cardinal Peter Turkson - Witness. YouTube Video Description -
[Channel: saltandlighttv]:
Cardinal Pete... more »
Hughes (TX-ALEC) - Has No Shame
IMHO most ALEC-ers are liars - must be a prerequisite for membership.
So when I see an article like this - I have to stop and look for a moment.
Texas Republicans say ALEC hasn’t shaped their fiscal approach
By ROBERT T. GARRETT
Austin Bureau
rtgarrett@dallasnews.com
Published: 14 February 2013 11:34 PM
AUSTIN — Seven GOP lawmakers have filed proposals to tighten the state’s
spending cap and make it harder to raise taxes, two goals of a
free-market-oriented group that urges business leaders and state
legislators to collaborate on model bills for use in statehouses around the
countr... more »
Australia flood coverage rises to unaffordable levels –‘Most people can’t afford insurance. It’s beyond anybody’s pocket.’
[image: Yarramundi Bridge under water at 7.30am, 2 March 2012. Floodwaters
from Warragamba Dam hit the Hawkesbury River amid evacuation warnings for
low-lying areas. Photo Mike Sea / Hawkesbury Gazette]
By Peter Hannam, carbon economy editor
17 February 2013
(Sydney Morning Herald) – Thousands of Australians are facing soaring
insurance premiums for flood cover, forcing many to ditch protection even
as the risk of extreme weather increases.
Insurers blame the increases on the spate of flooding across much of
eastern Australia in recent years - with another $733 million hit to
ins... more »
Exxon Hates Our Children and Our Voice
Found this tonight - kinda liked the ad - even though Exxon has put a cease
and desist on the PSA
Here's the webpage where you can read what happened and watch the 30 second
"Exxon Hates Our Children" PSA at the bottom of the page - the truth hurts.
>>>>HERE<<<<
Snips
We put together a nationally crowfunded PSA, promoted by thousands online
who threw in a dollar or a click or both in favor of two simple ideas: we
should be able to get the word out about the most pressing issue of our
time, climate change, on television primetime; and we should be able to
demand that our tax dollar... more »
Poor "Flimsy Lindsey" Graham! The Teabag-mad GOP faithful back home suspect him of closet reasonableness!
*It's not enough to be a credentialed nitwit and pathological liar. With
the Teabag Nation, you have to prove that you're really crazy.*
*"Graham made a fist. 'Am I supposed to sit on the sidelines and be a good
compliant Republican and just let this administration not account for what
I think is a national security breakdown of monumental proportions?' He
added that 'I guaran-damn-tee you' that Democrats would treat a Republican
president even worse."*
*-- WaPo's Dana Milbank, about "Lightweight Lindsey" Graham's
Wednesday TV appearance with Fox Noise's Chad Pergram*
*by Ken*
At t... more »
Mark Your Calendars--Occupy the U. S. Department of Education 2.0
From Peggy Robertson, with this note:
"First. . . please let students know that we have free sleeping available
should they need it - it would be most helpful if they would let me know
personally so that I have a head count. Second - please let everyone know
this is a LEGAL occupation. We have permits for everything and the Dept. of
Ed. knows we are coming :)."
Contact: United Opt Out National FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Email: unitedoptoutnational@gmail.com
Website: http://unitedoptout.com
OCCUPY THE US DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 2.0 The Battle for Public Schools
Administrators of the... more »
Mohawk Nation News 'Indian Affairs, the End is Near'
MNN: INDIAN AFFAIRS, THE END IS NEAR
Posted on February 16, 2013
INDIAN AFFAIRS, THE END IS NEAR
MNN. Feb. 16, 2013. The Corporation of Canada is
trying to do away with us by pretending to remove their international
treaty obligations, budget, protection and stealing our ever-growing
Indian Trust Fund. They want to get out of actions for liability for all
the cruelty,
Debra White Plume 'Shut Down Tarsands'
SHUT DOWN TARSANDS
by Debra White Plume
Feb 16,
2013
Censored News
While citizens in Nebraska and all over the USA watched
and waited for the decision of Nebraskan Governor Heinman regarding
his decision to allow or prevent the Transcanada Keystone XL oil pipeline
into ‘his’ state, I cringed, as that mentality is damaging and part
of the colonial construct. The Ogllala
Best Propaganda Film (OSCAR 2013 SPOILER! LEAKED CLIP!!)
Source: JoyCamp.
Western "Exceptionalism" Crumbling as Aussie Senator Deported from Malaysia
Senator was to meet with Wall Street-London funded faux-democracy front
Bersih, IMF frontman Anwar Ibrahim.
*February 17, 2013* (AltThaiNews) - The Australian reported in its article,
"Xenophon deported by Malaysia," that Australian Senator Nick Xenophon has
been detained and then deported in Malaysia as part of an "unofficial
parliamentary delegation to review the electoral system."
In reality, Senator Xenophon was part of a Western effort to assist
Malaysia's Wall Street-London backed opposition into power as part of a
wider geopolitical strategy to align Southeast Asia against C... more »
I Guess I'll Take a Poke at This Post
"Man stabbed in stomach following fight near Trader Joe’s store in Back
Bay; suspect in custody" by Brian Ballou | Globe Staff, February 15, 2013
A grocery clerk at Trader Joe’s supermarket in Copley Square who allegedly
stabbed a customer in the abdomen on Valentine’s Day, critically wounding
him, was charged in court Friday with the attack.
“I gave him a poke,’’ defendant Michael L. Guess 49, of Dorchester,
allegedly told police during a videotaped interview after the incident....
--more--"
Renewed kabuki theater lights up
The new design features some elements of the pre-reconstruction,
specifically the traditional brick gable architecture, but a new
high-rise office block will be added to the current four-story
theater building. The new complex will also provide space for
evacuees in case of possible disasters, Shochiku President Jay
Sakomoto said.
The individual kanji characters, from left to right, mean *sing* (歌), *dance
* (舞), and *skill* (伎). Kabuki is therefore sometimes translated as "the
art of singing and dancing". These are, however, *ateji* characters which
do not reflect actual et... more »
The State of the Union Quiz: Who Said It? Edition
The
State of the Union Address is as high-profile political theater as one
can imagine. Some speeches are well-crafted, others not so much. Some
enjoin citizens and politicians alike to unite in a worthy cause;
sometimes it's an hour or so of lies, hypocrisy and warmongering.
With all the soaring rhetoric, certain statements and turns of phrase
become the stuff of legend (the good kind and
Drake's Meets Source...
*These are Drake's words, not mine. Emphasis is mine. Comments in red are
mine. *
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* *Oh yeah, if you go over to the link at Drake's site there's something on
the graphic about the Pope that says humans were created by the Annauki, that's
incorrect, (you really didn't think they Annauki who created religions to
cover the truth would also tell the truth about the origins of humanity did
you?). They were created in parallel to humans. They are ten stranded
humans instead of 12 stranded. They lack the emotional DNA of the other 2
strands. Both were created by the Elohim (who ha... more »
The Thyagarajan Theorem
*Well, maybe not.... *
"MIT investigation finds former brain researcher falsified data" by Carolyn
Y. Johnson | Globe Staff, February 16, 2013
A former neuroscience researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology falsified data in a published study, according to an internal
inquiry. The paper, which described a method to visualize interactions
between molecules in brain cells, has been retracted.
Associate chemistry professor Alice Ting, the senior author of the paper,
wrote in a retraction notice published Thursday that her lab discovered
that the technique described in ... more »
Darwin's Lasting Error: Design, Not Undirected Evolution, Is the Fact
The climaterealists site has a post by Matt Ridley, essentially celebrating
Charles Darwin and his seminal and central contributions to modern science
(whose ruling paradigm, or fundamental assumption, is undirected evolution,
not only of all the life on Earth, but the Earth itself). The following is
my response:
*Matt Ridley is typical of the increasingly and fundamentally incompetent
scientists of the last 150 years (that is about 7 generations, of a
miseducated and delusionary consensus); he knows that the consensus climate
science is false, but he doesn't begin to realize that t... more »
What is Fascism?
*THE DOCTRINE OF FASCISM by Benito Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile, 1932*
*Like all sound political conceptions, Fascism is action and it is thought;
action in which doctrine is immanent, and doctrine arising from a given
system of historical forces in which it is inserted, and working on them
from within (1). It has therefore a form correlated to contingencies of
time and space; but it has also an ideal content which makes it an
expression of truth in the higher region of the history of thought (2).
There is no way of exercising a spiritual influence in the world as a human
will d... more »
Syriac Aramaic Orthodox Hymn
Photo: Palmyra, Syria.
YouTube Video Description - [Channel: BsharaShammas]:
A Syriac Aramaic Hymn from the Holy Syriac Orthodox Liturgy, the first
Christian Church in the Middle East which Jesus Christ talked its Holy
Aramaic Language. Imagery from Lebanon and the Qadisha Valley which means
in Aramaic the Holy and other sites of the Holy Syriac Maronite Church.
Alabama And Mississippi Were Forced To Give Up Slavery... But Mali's Tuaregs Weren't
I don't know... maybe it's because my distant ancestors were slaves in
Egypt, but to me slavery is the most horrifying thing that can be done to
another human being. And when I was in Mali I saw it close up and personal.
I've been wondering why there hasn't been anything in the western press
about how the Malian rebels-- the Tuaregs-- were at least in part motivated
by their unwillingness to stop using other human beings as slaves. The
French, Brits and the U.S. just did not want that to be part of the
conversation. There was speculation that the reason was because they had
hoped ... more »
Silence is not Golden, Silence is Consent to a Crime
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*Qui tacet consentire videtur, ubi loqui debuit ac potuit *
*(Thus, silence gives consent; he ought to have spoken when he was able to)
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*—Latin proverb*
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*A number of bloggers are getting emails something along these lines...*
"Just had a phone call asking me to not post any information about the
programs because the cabal is monitoring the internet for information. I
was asked to pass the same on to everyone else I know. Bringing on the
funding and especially the announcements which are critical to my survival
is perimount. Therefore i am asking that all of y... more »
Max Igan: The One Peoples Public Trust A Roundtable Discussion
*Max Igan ~ The One Peoples Public Trust - A Roundtable Discussion*
Max Igan interviews Scott and Ken Bartel, Bob Wright, Chris Hales, Lisa
Harrison and Heather Tucci-Jarraf concerning the One People's Public Trust.
It's well worth taking the time to listen to this interview. For audio
only files click HERE.
Rocco Palmo - Witness
Visit Rocco Palmo's blog, *"Whispers in the Loggia."*
*Wikipedia:*
Rocco Palmo (born 1983) is a Catholic commentator and writer living in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Palmo's blog "Whispers in the Loggia" is focused primarily on Catholic
ecclesiastical happenings in North America. In 2009 he broke the news of
the appointments of archbishops to New York, Miami and Los Angeles well
before traditional news outlets. Ann Rodgers, religion reporter for the
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette stated: "A great many of his sources are anonymous
archbishops and bishops who know they can talk to him, and... more »
Incoming Cosmics Encourage Love of Higher Self
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* *Incoming Cosmics Encourage Love of Higher Self*
by ÉirePort
Incoming Cosmics encourage and support love of Self, meaning, Higher Self.
Those aligned with with path to Higher Self find peace with these Cosmics,
as they release all "need" concepts.
Higher Self aligns with "Peace in Solitude", and not with the now-dissolved
"I need companionship" paradigm of common society.
"Cosmics" are held in distinction to "Solars", "Gaias", and refer to Cosmic
influences, not specified the type or form.
Hue-manity needs not further explanation of these concepts, although
humanity (smal... more »
February 15th, 2003
On a Saturday 10 years ago, the largest demonstration in modern British
political history wound its way through the streets of London. And where
was I? Watching it at home, unfortunately. No, I couldn't make the
celebrated and historic February 15th, 2003 march, but that isn't to say I
wasn't caught up in the buzz and excitement before it. The Stop the War
meetings, the wall-to-wall coverage as the drive to war built up, even my
mum broke her lifetime habit of taking her cue from *The Sun* to disclaim
the coming war. And, crucially, in the workplace where I was the T&G shop
steward... more »
Christianity: Good or Bad for Mankind?
Last weekend, top Objectivist intellectual Andrew Bernstein debated
Christian apologist Dinesh D’Souza on the topic ‘Christianity: Good or Bad
for Mankind?’
“New Atheists,” such as Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, and Michael
Shermer, have debated Mr. D’Souza in the past, but their critiques of
Christianity have been based on skepticism, subjectivism and relativism. In
short, they’ve argued on the basis od uncertainty, and have failed to properly
critique religion’s history or offer any rational alternative to religious
ethics.
Dr. Bernstein’s case against Christianity ho... more »
F. William Engdahl: 'Majority of Egypt against Muslim Brotherhood'
"Either the brotherhood steps down peacefully and respects the will of the
majority or we're going to have a very bloody, ugly mess in Egypt." - F.
William Engdahl.
A LIFE ON THE STREETS
It seems like I've spent half my life standing on street corners holding
protest signs. If you want to see and know America that is the place to
be. People in their automobiles are living their "dream" of independence
and upward mobility - at least that's what they've been conditioned to
think.
Today seven of us stood for an hour in the breezy-cold under gray skies
with snow lightly falling in front of the administration building at Bath
Iron Works. We started at 11:30 am and at noon the shipyard horn blew and
minutes later a steady stream of cars come flying out of the parking ... more »
Who is our greatest president?
The Davis Enterprise, this week, asked people on the street, *"Who is our
greatest president?"* Most of the respondents got it wrong.
“I guess I would have to say *Obama*, I think because he’s an excellent
mediator.” ... “*Woodrow Wilson*, because of his idealism.” ... “*Bill
Clinton,* because he fixed things.” ... “*Bill Clinton*. He’s a great
president; he should be a king. Policies, charisma, leadership, you name
it.”
Two, at least, had smart choices, although the person who picked Franklin
Roosevelt had poor reasoning:
“FDR, I guess, because I like social programs.” ... “... more »
Israel Matzav: Soccer Dad's Middle East Media Sampler
http://israelmatzav.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/soccer-dads-middle-east-media-sampler_16.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&m=1
What Mattered This Week?
Well, it was SOTU week; that matters. On policy, I think the big question
isn't whether Obama makes much progress on his preschool plan -- he
probably won't -- but whether it starts moving up on the priority list of
Democrats, which it certainly might.
It's hard to see how the North Korea nuke test matters.
That's what I have -- what about you? What do you think mattered this week?
LOL @ This Piece of Shit
An excerpt from *"Senior Saudi official: Danger of terrorism still persists"
*:
Prince Turki bin Mohammed al-Saud tells international conference on
security that terrorist threat remains, urges global cooperation to combat
it.
RIYADH - A senior Saudi official told an international conference on
security on Saturday that the "terrorist" threat remains and urged global
cooperation to combat it.
"The danger of terrorism and terrorists still persists and affects several
countries," Prince Turki bin Mohammed al-Saud of the foreign ministry told
delegates at the opening of the two-... more »
Comments have been turned back on.
I turned the comments back on. Vacation is over.
Paul Craig Roberts, a man with bona fide right-wing credentials, reflects on the natures of the political left (supporting government power) and right (supporting private-sector power). But, says Roberts, today's left and right both have TOO MUCH power and, worse, they are ONE AND THE SAME "...beholden to a private oligarchy, consisting of the military/security complex, Wall Street and the financial sector, the Israel Lobby, agribusiness, pharmaceuticals, and the energy, mining, and timber businesses, with the power to shut down people’s protests at their exploitation by robber barons and government alike." The blogger, with fair-to-middling left-wing credentials, is in 100% agreement with this view.
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*While Left And Right Fight, Power Wins–Paul Craig Roberts*
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February 14, 2013 | Go to Original
My experience with the American left and right leads to the conclusion that
the left sees private power as the source of oppression and government as
the countervailing and rectifying power, while the right sees government as
the source of oppression and a free and unregulated private sector as the
countervailing and rectifying power. Both are concerned with restraining
the power to oppress, but they take opposite positio... more »
Ban Ki-moon: Seriously, Go Fuck Yourself
Sincerely,
humankind.
Print your own parts, tools and guns
Metalic printers are here to stay....Just like we can now print plastic
coffee mugs and other things, we can now print guns and rifles just copy
the parts.
Abraham Ben Judea
Below are some of the things that can be done with modern plastic printers.
http://3dprintingsystems.com/products/up-plus-3d-printer/
Below is a metalic powder 3d printer that is about to do an IPO in the
exchange..
These new printers will be in just about every house that has a computer.
A real time to invest early on new technology. like buying stock on early
cable co's
http... more »
Mohawk Nation News 'Paleface Privilege'
MNN: PALEFACE PRIVILEGE
Posted on February 16, 2013
PALEFACE PRIVILEGE
MNN. Feb. 16/13. Fundamentalist whites think they
are always right. Prime Minister Harper cruelly and coldly told
Indigenous women victims of horrific assault and sexual abuse crimes by
the RCMP to go to their rapists to file reports. This is a disrespectful
white privilege remark to fuel racism.
Ice-free Arctic Ocean in 2030?
[image: This image of Greenland summer 2012 air temperature anomalies at
the 925 hPa level (about 3,000 feet above the surface) shows that all of
Greenland experienced warmer than average temperatures, with the strongest
warming along the west coast. Temperatures are compared to the 1981 to 2010
average. Graphic: National Snow and Ice Data Center / NOAA/ESRL Physical
Sciences Division]
By Gerard Wynn
15 February 2013
LONDON (Reuters) – Vast uncertainty remains over the causes of melting
Arctic sea ice and when it may disappear altogether during the summer,
which would have conseq... more »
As New England fisheries struggle, debate heats up over how to help – ‘I really just don’t see a way at the moment’
[image: The harbor in Gloucester, Massachusetts, part of the Northeastern
fishery declared a disaster by the Commerce Department last fall. Photo:
Gretchen Ertl / The New York Times]
By JESS BIDGOOD
15 February 2013
GLOUCESTER, Massachusetts (The New York Times) – B. G. Brown, a
second-generation fisherman who chases cod and haddock from this port city,
spent a recent morning rigging up his 31-foot commercial vessel to be
manned alone. He had just lost his only crew member to the more lucrative
lobster fishery, days after fishery regulators last month approved a 77
percent cut in... more »
Four U.S. states introduce Keystone XL pipeline resolutions, lifting language directly from ALEC and TransCanada
[image: Comparison of language from Missouri HCR 19 and the ALEC Resolution
in Support of the Keystone XL Pipeline. Legislators in four states have
introduced bills supporting the controversial TransCanada Keystone XL
pipeline, with language lifted directly from a 'model' American Legislative
Exchange Council (ALEC) bill and from TransCanada's own public relations
talking points. Graphic: PR Watch]
16 February 2013
By Brendan Fischer
(PR Watch) – Legislators in four states have introduced bills in recent
weeks supporting the controversial TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline, with
l... more »
STOP WAR GAMES, START PEACE TALKS
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*Statement Opposing U.S.-South Korea Joint Military Exercises Key Resolve
Foal Eagle*
The Korean War, known in the United States as “The Forgotten War,” has
never ended. Every year, the United States stages a series of massive
joint war games with its ally, South Korea (ROK). These coordinated
exercises are both virtual and real. Among other things, they practice
live fire drills and simulate the invasion of North Korea—including
first-strike options.
While we - peace, human rights, faith-based, environmental, and Korean
solidarity activists – are deeply concerned about... more »
Many long years ago
Going to be a slow news weekend with the entire Village having fled for the
holiday. Including POTUS and FLOTUS on -- gasp -- separate vacations. So
how about a little US history for a Saturday afternoon? The Atlantic posts
a fabulous gallery of 50 iconic photographs from 1963. (Added bonus -- all
on one page). This one still brings a tear to my eye ever time I see it.
Definitely click through to view the whole gallery. Good reminder that as
bad as it seems now, back then it was actually worse.
Faith Based Science Policy
Brian Cox is a physicist and largely doe to his ubiquitous presence on the
BBC, he is the Generation X face of British science. He also has more than
a million Twitter followers. Today he tweeted this:
It’d be wonderful if Russian meteorite were enough to make Nobel Prize
winner Andre Geim’s Davos dream come true ft.com/cms/s/0/ad8e9d…
— Brian Cox (@ProfBrianCox) February 16, 2013
Readers here may recall my critique of Geim's piece, which centered on his
wish for an asteroid to be on a collision course with the Earth in order to
motivate policy makers to open their wallets for scie... more »
The Midnight Archive - Art and the Occult
YouTube Video Description - [Channel: Ronni Thomas]:
Art And The Occult -- The very venerable Pam Grossman (phantasmaphile.com)
shares her views on the 'Magic of Art'. A noted voice in the world of the
esoteric and the art scene, you'll learn about her very unique and
compelling perspective on how there is a magical transference when viewing
particualr works of art. For more information and far more images, visit
www.phantasmaphile.com
Saturday Linkage
Belated Valentine’s from the Duck of Minerva. Brad DeLong wants Cosma
Shalzi to figure out what the Chelyabinsk meteorite strike means for
policy: “What should this piece of information do, decision-theoretically,
to change our view of the situation we find ourselves in?” I’m not a
statistics whiz, but I’d say: probably nothing. There’s no indication (yet)
Continue reading
How Many Congressmembers Will Their Reactionary Stand On The Minimum Wage Cost The GOP In 2014?
Wednesday we talked a little about the longstanding Republican Party
obsession with opposing minimum wage bills and statutory increases. Steven
Dennis at *Roll Call* also took up the GOP obsession with the minimum wage,
but from a different perspective. He was looking at how their knee-jerk
opposition to the modest increase President Obama suggested in the State of
the Union, could lead to congressional defeats for them next year. Boehner
took the bait by immediately attacking the proposal in the tired and
ineffectual language conservatives have used against it since the 1930s.
Ex... more »
"By Any Measure, the Jobs Disaster Continues"
Editorial by Mortimer Zuckerman published in the Wall Street Journal Feb
16-17 2013 p. A13
[Excerpted] After four years America remains in a jobs depression as great
as the great Depression....
More than 48 million Americans are in the food stamp program--an almost
incredible record...
The only work that has increased is part-time, and that is because it
allows employers to reduce costs through a diminished benefit package or
none at all.
The broadest measure of unemployment today is approximately 14.5%....
The read unadjusted figures for January show that nearly 2.8 million jobs... more »
ROSA PARKS AT 100: Four lessons!
*SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2013*
*Conclusion—Amy Goodman's approach to the facts:* We began exploring the
topic we leave today because of a column by Charles Blow. The column made a
claim which struck us as highly implausible.
When Rosa Parks died in 2005, was her life “sanitized and sugarcoated for
easy consumption” in “nearly every account?” More specifically, was her
life “sanitized and sugarcoated” in the ways Blow described?
That claim struck us as highly implausible. After maybe five minutes of
fact-checking, we had begun to see how absurd that claim really was.
(For one more e... more »
“U.S. Military Faces Fire as It Pulls Out of Afghanistan”
*“U.S. Military Faces Fire as It Pulls Out of Afghanistan”*
By Matthew Rosenberg
STRONG POINT HAJI RAHMUDDIN II, Afghanistan — "When the last American
soldiers to occupy this squat, lonely outpost in southern Afghanistan
pulled out this week, they left the same way earlier units had arrived:
ready for a fight. They were leaving this violent patch of land outside
Kandahar, the south’s main city, just as Taliban fighters were filtering
back in from winter havens in Pakistan. It was, as First Sgt. Jason Pitman,
35, bluntly put it, “no time to get stupid.”
The Americans knew they w... more »
Nuclear Waste Cannot be Successfully Contained
Enformable: Washington Governor confirms radioactive waste leaking from
underground tanks at Hanford Nuclear Reservation
http://enformable.com/2013/02/washington-governor-confirms-radioactive-waste-leaking-from-underground-tanks-at-hanford-nuclear-reservation/
Napoleon On Alexander The Great
Related:
*Napoleon On Men of Destiny*.
*Napoleon On Speculators And Profiteers*.
*Napoleon On An Age of Transition & The Dangers of A Militarist Government
*.
From, *"The Mind of Napoleon: A Selection from His Written and Spoken
Words,"* edited and translated by J. Christopher Herold. Columbia
University Press: New York. 1955. Pg. 58-59.
[Conversation, 1816] Alexander had barely outgrown his boyhood when with a
handful of men he conquered a portion of the globe: but was this, on his
part, a mere irruption, a kind of deluge? No--everything was calculated
deeply, carried out... more »
Images from North Dakota’s Bakken oil fields boom – ‘This is changing the landscape so fast. I grieve now when I leave North Dakota.’
[image: Aerial view of an oil pipeline cutting through the prairie near
White Earth, North Dakota. Photo: Terry Evans]
By DYLAN WALSH
15 February 2013
(The New York Times) – For Elizabeth Farnsworth, the story began when she
was walking her dog at a highway rest stop off Interstate 94 in North
Dakota.
“My husband and I met a trucker who was making $100,000 per year,” said Ms.
Farnsworth, a freelance filmmaker and special correspondent on PBS NewsHour.
“That’s when I got interested in the oil boom.”
In collaboration with Terry Evans, a photographer and longtime friend, Ms.
Farns... more »
How To Know When Your Charter School Sucks
Wisdom by Mark Naison:
1. It's leader calls himself/herself a CEO.
2. The CEO's salary is more than three times the salary of the highest
paid teacher in the school.
3. The board of the school is full of hedge fund executives [or
corporate directors].
4. Teachers in the school are terrorized and students treated as though
they were in prison or on the verge of being sent to prison.
5. The construction company who built the school is owned by a relative
of a politician or a powerful community organization.
6. The school teaches that those who practice some... more »
CHALLENGE TO BBC COVERAGE OF 9 11; OSCAR FOR BEST PROPAGANDA; CHILD ABUSE
*Historic case to challenge BBC’s coverage of 9/11*
On 25 February 2013, in the town of Horsham in the United Kingdom, 3 hours
of detailed 9/11 evidence is to be presented and considered in a court of
law.
The BBC will be challenged over the inaccurate and biased manner in which
it has portrayed 9/11.
Over the last 16 months, the BBC has been challenged strongly by
individuals in the UK over two of its documentaries.
Formal complaints were lodged with BBC over the inaccuracy and bias of
these documentaries, which, according to 9/11 activists, was in breach of
the operating requi... more »
and one great read from harper's: nicholson baker on "why i'm a pacifist: the dangerous myth of the good war"
After finally getting Jill Lepore's "Lie Factory" posted on this blog, I
will go back even further, to something I've wanted to post for nearly two
years. No matter the date, this piece is timeless, and more relevant with
every passing day.
This lengthy essay by Nicholson Baker ran in *Harper's* in May of 2011: "Why
I’m a pacifist: The dangerous myth of the Good War". It's available by pdf
download with a *Harper's* subscription, or (I hope) at your local library,
or from me by request. (Artwork from the Swarthmore College Peace Collection,
Swarthmore, PA.)
Baker charts his evoluti... more »
Blowback: Greed Edition
"Where are all the customers? And where's all their money?" frets a Walmart
vice president in some panicky emails revealed today by *Bloomberg News*.
Cameron Geiger, who runs the hilariously-named U.S. Replenishment Division
at the world's largest retailer, might start looking at his own employees,
whose crappy average $8/hour paycheck has shrunk even further thanks to the
rising price of food and medical care and the demise of the two-year
payroll tax holiday. Walmart workers are also Walmart's best customers.
What's earned in Walmart is spent in Walmart. And the world's biggest
re... more »
Nick Cave: Higgs Boson Blues
I have listened to lots of songs by Nick Cave because he's been among the
most favorite musicians of my former German Australian roommate (this is how
he moved in except that I didn't have that much furniture yet). ;-) Your
humble correspondent only became fond of his duet with Kylie Minogue that
Oscar Pistorius apparently picked as his role model. The "pure" Cave & Bad
Seeds songs are too wild for me.
At any rate, Sean Carroll noticed an interesting new Spring 2012 song,
Higgs Boson Blues.
*Sean's version of the video contains the lyrics rather than a live concert.
*
Be careful:... more »
Another Day, Another Warning
The American Association for the Advancement of Science annual convention
is underway in Boston and climate change seems to be what everyone is
talking about.
*Heat waves have become more frequent across the United States, with
western regions setting records for the number of such events in the 2000s,
said Donald Wuebbles, a geoscientist with the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign.*
*But the Midwest and Northeast have experienced a 45 percent and 74 percent
increase, respectively, in the heaviest rainfalls those regions have seen
since 1950.*
*The extreme drought that pla... more »
Society is Designed for a Family of Four
*Warning:
All three of the following links will count against your monthly free
access to the Globe And Mail website.
The Globe and Mail has had a series of articles detailing the issues
around falling fertility rates. Doug Saunders has written a couple of
excellent articles. Sheryl Ubelacker wondered why Canadian families are
settling on having only one or two children and came up empty.
The
two great reads from the new yorker, part 2: jill lepore on political advertising
The current *New Yorker* stories by Joseph Mitchell has given me an
opportunity to post something I've been meaning to share for ages.
Last September, Jill Lepore unearthed an incredible bit of history, a piece
of the American past that is alive with us today, and more dangerous than
ever. (I am generally interested in anything Lepore writes; last year I
gushed over her reviews of books about Clarence Darrow, one of my abiding
heroes.)
In this piece, Lepore writes about the roots of political advertising - the
falsehoods and trickery, the lies and slander, the deception and
distor... more »
Caturday Blogging
*"Yes, peasant?" *
Whether or not he can pick up on our occasional emotional distress, I
still envy Popeye because he doesn't have any idea of how desperate our
financial situation is getting. It must be nice having no concept of money,
bills, eviction, liens, etc. It's a peace of mind I haven't known since I
was a kid and now I understand why the old man used to tell me that I
didn't know how good I had it.
So please help us out because if we get kicked out of here after this
month, we'll never hear the end of it from our cat. And God knows what'll
happen to him if worse... more »
A Morose, Vindictive Man
Speaking at the Salt Spring Forum in December, Tom Flanagan -- Stephen
Harper's former *eminence gris* -- said of his former pupil:
He is an unusual package of characteristics. He can be charismatic in small
groups, morose, secretive, suspicious and vindictive. These may not be
traits you want in your next door neighbour, but they are very useful in
politics."
Harper himself provided an illustration of those characteristics this week
when, Carol Goar writes, he told a Burnaby audience that
he would change the Criminal Code, giving prosecutors the power to
designate some of thes... more »
MOVE TO AMEND IN MAINE
Across the state of Maine 37 local cities and towns have passed resolutions
in support of banning corporate $$$ in our elections. Eleven states have
either passed resolutions at their state legislature or held statewide
referendums in support of an amendment to the constitution that says
campaign spending is not a form of speech protected under the First
Amendment.
Last week town councilors in neighboring Brunswick voted 6-3 in support of
such a constitutional amendment. On March 6 Bath City Council will vote on
a similar resolution. In order to help make this happen I've been ... more »
two great reads from the new yorker, part 1: joseph mitchell on himself
*The New Yorker* has given us a singularly rare gift: new writing by Joseph
Mitchell.
Joseph Mitchell wrote about New York City and the multiplicity of people
who inhabit it. Mitchell wrote nonfiction portraits of quirky people,
overlooked trades, unknown professions, obsessive collectors. His warm,
meticulous prose brought people to life before your eyes. He wrote
beautifully, and with great respect for the endless diversity of humanity,
long before diversity was a buzzword.
First edition, found here.Mitchell wrote from 1929 to 1964. Then he stopped
writing - stopped completely,... more »
Elizabeth Warren Wants To Know If The Banksters Are Too Big For Trial
Last year over 800 Blue America contributors put up some money for
Elizabeth Warren's campaign for the Senate. As you know, she ousted the
incumbent, Wall Street shill Scott Brown. This week was her first
opportunity to question witnesses from her new position on the Senate
Banking Committee. I think if you chipped in-- or even just rooted for
her-- you'll be proud of Senator Warren's first official indication of what
her job performance is going to be like for the next six years. There's a
new sheriff in town! And the worst nightmare of the predator banksters is
coming true. Ban... more »
Ernest Moniz, MIT: Chu's successor?
Some sources including Reuters speculate – or spread rumors – that Barack
Obama is considering a nuclear physicist at MIT, Ernest Moniz, as a
replacement for Steven Chu.
I don't think I have ever met him. His CV reveals that he's worked both on
nuclear power and nuclear weapons. He is a nuclear bull. His publication
record is non-empty yet modest – surely relatively to e.g. Steven Chu.
Moniz is a "nuclear bull" but the true underlying reason for this fact is
less encouraging. He is the director of an institute that gets funding from
BP, Chevron, and Saudi Aramco. Before you rejoi... more »
Media's Misguided "Miracle" Meme
Paul Tough has built a career on "no excuses" approaches to teaching "other
people's children" in the charter school racket, most recently touting the
importance of "grit" (see "Paul Tough Is Way Off-Base. And Stop Saying
'Grit'" by Katie Osgood to understand why Tough is misguided).
More recently, David Kirp has offered a call to re-invest in public
education, not charter schools, by triggering the same "no excuses"
argument embedded in a favorite meme among journalists, the "miracle"
school!
Tough and Kirp follow in the footsteps of David Brooks, who literally
christened the Harl... more »
Untitled
*Gulf of Mexico Gas Well Evacuated Due to Leak ~Jason Saul, WWNO*
*Scientists say pelicans can be fearsome mascot ~Nikki Buskey, Daily Comet*
~Above: Editilla cruisin'da scene, always on da'lookout fo'dem who would
oppose us, Sinn Féin.
*When the New Orleans Hornets announced they were changing their name to
the Pelicans late last month, there was some collective grumbling about the
supposedly less-than-fearsome choice. But pelicans, in addition to being a
long-serving symbol of Louisiana, are more than meets the eye. When the New
Orleans basketball team adopts its new logo for the 20... more »
Jimmy Savile report: Whitewash fears as BBC is accused of cutting criticism | Mail Online
'Fears of a BBC whitewash over the Jimmy Savile scandal grew last night
amid claims 'key criticisms' have been 'gutted' for 'legal reasons' from a
review of its handling of the affair.
Corporation chiefs are planning to release thousands of pages of evidence
given to former Sky News boss Nick Pollard – who oversaw an independent
inquiry into why a Newsnight investigation into the late entertainer's
paedophile past was shelved.
But last night a source claimed 'heavy redactions' have been made to
critical comments about BBC bosses. They added that it no longer gave 'an
honest pictur... more »
Monsanto Keeps on Moving Toward a Lock on the World’s Food System by John Funiciello
Vernon H. Bowman
Monsanto Keeps on Moving Toward a Lock on the World’s Food Systemby John
Funiciello
Global Research Canada, 16 February 2013
*Arguments are scheduled to begin next week before the U.S. Supreme Court
about whether an Indiana farmer is right when he claims that the seeds he
planted should not be considered under the control of Monsanto, the giant
transnational chemical and seed monopoly, through its patenting of the
seeds.*
Some are calling it a “David versus Goliath” contest but the farmer, Vernon
H. Bowman, of southeastern Indiana, told *The Guardian *that... more »
Jews - "human pieces of filth"
More clips of Muslim leaders religious and secular decribing Jews as "human
pieces of filth", as "the scum of mankind", as "satan in human form", of
course as "the offspring of apes and pigs" and so on.
Particularly revealing is the segment from 13:30 to 16:46, how terrible a
slur to call someone in Egypt - Jewish.
Racism and anti-Semitism are rife across the Muslim Middle East not that
you'd know if it from the coverage of the BBC for whom Israel is the
problem and Islam the solution.
Using Documentary as Manipulation: The Dishonesty of ‘The Gatekeepers'
https://www.standwithus.com/app/iNews/view_n.asp?ID=2587&buffer_share=5e62c&utm_source=buffer
FIFA's Double-Standard Against Israel - Op-Eds - Israel National News
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/12881#.UR9k7bvyRWw
Grape Seed Extract Outperforms Chemo in Killing Advanced Cancer Cells by Susan Patterson
Grape Seed Extract Outperforms Chemo in Killing Advanced Cancer Cells
by Susan Patterson
Natural Society, 15 February 2013
Patients with colorectal cancer may benefit from the
cancer-growth-inhibiting power of grape seed extract. Researchers from the
University of Colorado Cancer Center report that the more aggressive the
cancer cells are, the more effective the grape extract works at targeting
and stopping the growth. Grape seed extract is amazing in that it attacks
the cancer cells but leaves the healthy cells untouched. This is a
departure from conventional cancer treatments th... more »
Why $9?
Since the State of the Union address, the minimum wage has heated up again
as a political issue. You can read my previous posts on the topic by
clicking here. (Unfortunately, some of the links in these old posts are
now dead.)
There is one question I would like to see some reporter ask Alan Krueger,
the president's chief economist: How did they decide that $9 per hour is
the right level? Why not $10 or $12 or $15 or $20? Presumably, the
president's economic team must believe that the adverse employment effects
become sufficiently large at some point that further increases are
u... more »
How relentless Andrew Neil carved up Ed Davey on the Sunday Politics show | CYBERBORISjohnson
http://cyberboris.wordpress.com/2013/02/12/how-relentless-andrew-neil-carved-up-ed-davey-on-the-sunday-politics-show/
Most Arctic Ice Gain Ever Recorded | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)
http://www.thegwpf.org/arctic-ice-gain-recorded/ reports that :
'With a few weeks of growth still to occur, the Arctic has blown away the
previous record for ice gain this winter. This is only the third winter in
history when more than 10 million km² of new ice has formed.'
I await the BBC's coverage of this story. Sorry, who am I kidding; the BBC
will either not report this news or will hide it away, there's a narrative
to spread and inconvenient facts must be ignored.
Al Gore, president of Earth Inc, didn't mention climate for 1 minute
Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore uploaded a new video to YouTube – the
first video on his YouTube channel – in which he announced a new company,
Earth Inc.
The video has attracted more than 1,000 viewers in three days. Well, it was
probably 200 viewers seeing it 5 times but it's still impressive for a
former vice-president and a major party's presidential candidate in a
country with 300 million people. We may be going to double the number of
views. ;-)
Al Gore advertises printers that may print whole houses within a day as
well as new Al Gore Rhythms that increase the efficienc... more »
With Hot Air Treatment, Bacteria Fly the Coop
This could even be rigged up quite cheaply with a heater and a blower. It
certainly applies to all animal handling situations and looks to be a
simple add on to a wash down. At least it promises to be cheap to
accomplish and manpower would be on hand anyway attending to other tasks.
At least we know that it is effective enough.
It is also a handy tip for the individual pet owner who can apply a hair
dryer to pet bedding and devices and make it better.
*With Hot Air Treatment, Bacteria Fly the Coop*
*
by Rosalie Marion Bliss for USDA News*
*
Athens TX (SPX) Feb 01, 20... more »
Meditation is Not What You Think
Perhaps but there is also the experience of luminous dreaming which
meditation opens the way to. Meditation and its practice stills the mind.
It takes time and practice to do this well. Once luminous dreaming is
encountered the experiences appear rather similar although I suspect that
there are several types encountered.
Once experienced it is clear where the concepts of heaven come from what
ever other conclusions you may reach.
In my own one and only such experience, I was clearly invited into the
afterlife or abode of my mother. I extracted new information during th... more »
Ketchum Bigfoot Paper Uproar
We are presently witnessing the present struggle of Dr Melba Ketchum to
introduce her scientific DNA work into the science world. This represents
the first serious DNA study of purported Bigfoot samples. This delivers a
mass of unique data points and some conclusions that support the existence
of a North American hominid. It may or may not be a human hominid hybrid
and the mass of third party reports does support just that prospect, but it
certainly a hominid confirmed over a wide spectrum of samples.
What is outrageous is the blanket of authoritative dismissive attacks
t... more »
Fighting Back Against Citrus Greening
As with most crops, nasty diseases take their toll in production. We have
here a key problem with orange production and learn to what extent it is
possible to continuing the harvest of affected trees. Pretty well it turns
out although production itself is curtailed. At some point the tree itself
will still come out early.
This impacts the citrus trade and will be a problem for years to come. The
result will be an underlying taste of bitterness in processed orange juice.
That may have to be neutralized if it can be. If I recall correctly it has
been done in other cases.
P... more »
MADELEINE McCANN AND RUSSIA
The hunt for Madeleine McCann 'has switched to Russia and the Ukraine',
after 'a confession from pedophile Raymond Hewlett that she could be in
Russia or the Ukraine'.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk
*Raymond Hewlett*
Hewlett - who died three years ago from cancer - is reported to have told
his son that he knew who had abducted Madeleine in 2007.
*Malinka from Russia*
"Inconsistencies in Sergey Malinka's account of his relationship with
Robert Murat emerged: 'he had said he had not contacted Murat in a year but
Murat’s mobile phone records allegedly show he called Mr Malinka at 23:... more »
Roman Church admits the Pope’s Guilt: Joseph Ratzinger to Evade Justice and Hide out in the Vatican for his own legal immunity and “protection”
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http://itccs.org/2013/02/16/roman-church-admits-the-popes-guilt-joseph-ratzinger-to-evade-justice-and-hide-out-in-the-vatican-for-his-own-legal-immunity-and-protection/
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*Roman Church admits the Pope’s Guilt: Joseph Ratzinger to Evade
Justice
and Hide out in the Vatican for his own legal immunity and “protection”*
Posted on February 16, 2013 by itccs
Exclusive Breaking News: Friday February 15, 2013
12 midnight GMT
*An Urgent Update from the International Tribunal into Crimes of Church
and
State (ITCCS) – Brussels*
Rome:
In a statement to Reuters today, Vatican officials anno... more »
Richard Bush catches up
*On cycling vacation in Borneo with my man Michael C. That's him above on
his recumbent somewhere between Kota Kinabalu and Papar last week. *
My how things change. Last week former AIT head and longtime US gov't
Taiwan expert Richard Bush observed (TT):
The returns on* cross-strait economic exchanges may be diminishing because
the Chinese economic model is changing*, former chairman of the American
Institute in Taiwan Richard Bush said on Wednesday.
“Taiwan was a real beneficiary of export-led growth relying on essentially
cheap labor, abuse of the environment and local corruption... more »
Pope will have security, immunity by remaining in the Vatican
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/15/us-pope-resignation-immunity-idUSBRE91E0ZI20130215
*Pope will have security, immunity by remaining in the Vatican*
By Philip Pullella
VATICAN CITY | Fri Feb 15, 2013 1:59pm EST
(Reuters) - Pope Benedict's decision to live in the Vatican after he
resigns will provide him with security and privacy. It will also offer
legal protection from any attempt to prosecute him in connection with
sexual abuse cases around the world, Church sources and legal experts say.
"His continued presence in the Vatican is necessary, otherwise he might be
defensel... more »
A Powerful Voice, Soon To Be Many Powerful Voices
Water, land, air, sustainability for generations to come, Enbridge will be
defeated, this fight is for the future, a fight we can`t afford to lose..
I have no more words to add, this young girl speaks for real British
Columbians..
The Straight Goods
Cheers Eyes Wide Open
SYRIA: REALITY OVERWHELMS NEOCON DREAMS
The neocon dream of the Syrian people rising up to overthrow President
Bashir al-Assad and replacing him with a Western-friendly secular democracy
is turning into a nightmare for them as it becomes increasingly obvious
that Islamists are clearly gaining control of the Syrian revolution and the
government that replaces al-Assad is as unlikely to be any more friendly to
Israel and the US than al-Assad was. Indeed, if anything, it’s beginning to
look as though it’s a case of ‘out of the frying pan and into the fire’ as
far as the Israelis and the neocons are concerned to the point where... more »
Friday Baseball Post
Nothing
long today, because I'm actually working on a longer baseball
thing, but: Pitchers and Catchers Report! Are there better words in the
American language? Not that I know of.
I've talked before about how great it was growing up in Phoenix in the
earlier days of the Cactus League, when the ballparks were not crowded,
and
everything was smaller scale. And how we used to drive to Francisco
Grandeevery spring to see the Giants workouts. Back then, there were
only a
handful of teams, and they weren't all in the Phoenix area -- the Angels
were in Palm Springs, the Padres in Yuma, the... more »
When Lies Are Legal, The Truth Is A Crime
I want to present a recent article by John Kaminski (www.therebel.org) that
was also picked up and posted by John Montecristo, who writes for Lasha
Darkmoon's blog, Darkmoon, at www.darkmoon.me, here for all of my own
readers to view for themselves. It is entitled: "When Lies Are Legal, The
Truth Is A Crime", and is a definite must read by everyone, especially now
when we are watching the downfall of the once great United States of
America happen right before our very eyes... Here is that article, and I do
have some of my own thoughts and comments to follow:
When Lies are Legal, t... more »
A Gentle Reminder
This one's just a tiny meteor, not an asteroid. It's no bigger than a
Greyhound bus. Travelling 30 km/sec though....
Sunday Classics chronicles preview: Remembering Charles Rosen (1927-2012)
*Cézanne's "Pierrot and Harlequin" (1888)*
*SCHUMANN: Carnaval, Op. 9:*
*2. Pierrot*: Moderato (2/4)
*3. Arlequin*: Vivo (3/4)
2. "Pierrot" (Moderato) is a revolutionary work of pure instrumental music
in its use of the grotesque. It is a character piece: relentless,
deliberately monotonous, but with sudden jerky movements like the personage
of the *commedia dell'arte*; it makes no pretensions to beauty or charm.
The drama arises from the cumulative crescendo towards the end with a final
and very original pedal effect, as the penultimate chord gradually frees
itself of all the heav... more »
Adolfo Nicolás: "The globalization of superficiality"
"The world is becoming very superficial. We have more information than
ever, but less ability to think, to reflect, to digest that information. So
there is a globalization of superficiality. . . And even if the first news
are totally biased or prejudicial, that's what sticks in the mind. And we
don't have the ability to confirm, to study, to see whether this is true or
whether this is balanced." - Adolfo Nicolás, the thirtieth and current
Superior General of the Society of Jesus.
Elizabeth Warren goes back to Washington
The talk of the toobz today was about Elizabeth Warren kicking the SEC's
ass at her first Senate Banking Committee hearing. She politely asked why
no banksters had been brought to trial. This apparently unexpected inquiry
left the SEC flailing, and failing, to come up with an adequate answer.
Our intrepid Senator Warren then proceeded to explain in great detail why
the failure to meaningfully prosecute the banksters was not a particulary
effective deterrent to criminal manipulation of the financial markets. And
her sidebar on the double standards of the justice system was a thing o... more »
Canada Gets New Flag - February 15th, 1965
*Here's your political history lesson for the day: *
"From the Tory benches the prime minister (Pearson) was greeted by jeers
and hoots and shouts of derision. 'Vote with pride', "All right," exclaimed
Mr. Pearson, "they have turned it down with jeers and insults, but we will
vote with pride."
Shouts, screams, desk-banging - even obscene gestures - marked the final
phase of the Conservative fight against the red Maple Leaf Flag.
Introduced in senate today, and even with the last vote they declared that
they would not quit and that the fight would go on in the senate, where a
simi... more »
A conviction based on a not overwhelming case may not be unreasonable
R. v. Bryan, 2013 ONCA 97 holds:
[4] We conclude that on the whole of the circumstantial evidence
in this case, the verdicts are ones that a properly instructed jury, acting
judicially, could reasonably have rendered. In particular, on this record,
a properly instructed jury could reasonably conclude that the appellant's
guilt was the only rational conclusion. See *R. v. Biniaris*, 2000 SCC 15;
*R. v. Beaudry*, 2007 SCC 5; *R. v. R.P.* (2012), 282 C.C.C. (3d) 435
(S.C.C.).
...
[13] Viewed cumulatively, we are persuaded that these factors were
sufficient to support... more »
A conviction based on a not overwhelming case may not be unreasonable
R. v. Bryan, 2013 ONCA 97 holds:
[4] We conclude that on the whole of the circumstantial evidence
in this case, the verdicts are ones that a properly instructed jury, acting
judicially, could reasonably have rendered. In particular, on this record,
a properly instructed jury could reasonably conclude that the appellant's
guilt was the only rational conclusion. See *R. v. Biniaris*, 2000 SCC 15;
*R. v. Beaudry*, 2007 SCC 5; *R. v. R.P.* (2012), 282 C.C.C. (3d) 435
(S.C.C.).
...
[13] Viewed cumulatively, we are persuaded that these factors were
sufficient to support ... more »
Ban Ki Moon, Go Fuck Yourself
"We should not give much more time to the Iranians, and we should not waste
time," Ban said. "We have seen what happened with the DPRK." For more
quotes, read: *Ban Ki Moon Is A Bad Diplomat*.
The Connecticut Elementary School Shooting: Sandy Hook Tragedy - Corporate Media's "Lone Gunman" Storyline Losing Ground!
I have been busy again the last two days taking care of family business...
It does not appear to ever end!
I sometimes feel that I have been letting down my readers, due to lately
having to take care of family concerns and not doing any articles in this
blog... So, to make up for some lost time, I want to focus on a real
important subject here that is still very much in everyones' minds....
The stories about the Sandy Hook Operation (and Yes, everything still
points at it definitely being an Operation!) put out by the liars in the
Mainstream media continue to try to spin and promote... more »
Urban Gadabout: Some highlights of the MAS March-May schedule
*The only image I could find of Ada Louise Huxtable's 1961 book Four
Walking Tours of Modern Architecture in New York City, which Matt Postal
points out is long out of print, was pathetic and unusable. So here's a
really lovely photo of Ms. H.*
*by Ken*
Talk about a happy coincidence! This weekend I have walking tours in
three
boroughs with three of my very favorite tour leaders, all of whom I've
written about here frequently: Clinton Hill (Brooklyn) with *Matt
Postal*on Saturday, and "New York in the Time of George Washington" in
Lower
Manhattan with *Francis Morrone* and and "*Th... more »
An Airship Photograph
I am probably one of the worst people when it comes to promoting my work.
I think that others should do that and that each book should generate
interest because of what is in it rather than what I have to say about it.
But, sometimes, there are reasons to promote what I have written… and
sometimes it is important to report what others have done to make the book
even better.
Such is the case with *Alien Mysteries, Conspiracies and Cover-ups*. One of
those who was helping find illustrations made a telephone call that I
hadn’t thought about. He found a photograph that I didn’t know ex... more »
Vallejo Calif. 'Idle No More' Feb. 23, 2013
YOU
ARE INVITEDSHOW SOLIDARITY WITH IDLE NO MOREat VALLEJO,
CaliforniaSATURDAY FEB 23 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. Unity Plaza, 505 Santa Clara
St. (intersection of Georgia St.), Vallejo, California 94590
Below excerpts
from http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/02/03/18731271.php
Idle No More calls on all people to join in a revolution which honors
and fulfills Indigenous sovereignty which protects
Mohawk Nation News 'Women, Put Your Boots On'
MNN: WOMEN, PUT YOUR BOOTS ON!
Posted on February 15, 2013
WOMEN, PUT YOUR BOOTS ON!
MNN. FEB. 15, 2013. Elimination of Indigenous women
is government policy. We are being sacrificed for private profit. The
bankers fear the women as the owners of the land and for having the
power to stop the war. Who created the misconceptions of Indigenous
women? Fur traders,
“Taking a Time Out: You Are Not Crazy”
*“Taking a Time Out: You Are Not Crazy”*
by Madisyn Taylor, The DailyOM
“Sometimes as adults, we just need a time out to refocus and gather
ourselves before starting out again. Most of us feel a little crazy from
time to time. Periods of high stress can make us feel like we’re losing it,
as can being surrounded by people whose values are very different from our
own. Losing a significant relationship and moving into a new life situation
are other events that can cause us to feel off kilter. Circumstances like
these recur in our lives, and they naturally affect our mental stability... more »
Democracy in Palestinian Territories
' President Abbas's term ended four years ago. He has clung to power as an
unelected autocrat for nearly half a decade.'
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/opinion/palestines-democratic-deficit.xml
NYT: Palestine's Democratic Deficit
Free speech in Palestinian Territories example 1
' LAST week, a 26-year-old Palestinian activist, Anas Awwad, was sentenced
in absentia by a court in Nablus, the West Bank, to one year in prison for
"extending his tongue" against the Palestinian Authority's president,
Mahmoud Abbas, on Facebook. Thousands have joined a Facebook group to show
their solidarity with Mr. Awwad, but the damage has been done. Free speech
has been set back, and a chill sent throughout Palestinian society.'
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/opinion/palestines-democratic-deficit.xml
Message from the Guardians
IT'S A MISTAKE LYRICS
- MEN AT WORK
Jump down the shelters to get away
The boys are cockin' up their guns
Tell us general, is it party time?
If it is can we all come
Don't think that we don't know
Don't think that we're not trying
Don't think we move too slow
It's no use after crying
Saying
It's a mistake, it's a mistake
It's a mistake, it's a mistake
After the laughter as died away
And all the boys have had their fun
No surface noise now, not much to say
They've got the bad guys on the run
Don't try to say you're sorry
Don't say he drew his gun
They've g... more »
Hillary Mann Leverett: Does Obama Want Regime Change in Iran?
Related: *Flynt Leverett: Nixon's China Visit as a Blueprint for Obama &
Iran*.
Video Title: Does Obama Want Regime Change in Iran? YouTube Video
Description - [Channel: carnegiecouncil]:
American University lecturer Hillary Mann Leverett says that Obama wants
"soft regime change" and "tremendous concessions" from Iran. She explains
how many Democrats thought the 2009 Iranian election would make these goals
easier to achieve.
Syria: Assassination attempts and Saudi casualty count = more lies
Believe it or not, I have been paying attention to Syria
It appears as if the NATO mercs *are *making another push on that
beleaguered country.
Things would improve if NATO and Israel would call off their hired killers
*Hired Killers. May Karma strike them down...*
*The propaganda war is on an upswing. *
*There was an alleged car bomb explosion a few days ago at the
Syrian/Turkey border.*
I mentioned this in the comments section a few days back..
The external opposition is spinning this as an attempt to derail talks
offered by SNC.
Bullocks! Pure showmanship.
*Let's have a look at th... more »
Guess Who Reportedly Made $1B+ Betting Against the Yen
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http://www.nesaranews.blogspot.ca/2013/02/guess-who-reportedly-made-1b-betting.html
Friday, February 15, 2013
*Guess Who Reportedly Made $1B+ Betting Against the Yen*
George Soros, founder of Soros Fund Management LLC, at the World Economic
Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 25, 2013. (Photographer: Simon
Dawson/Bloomberg).
Has he struck it rich (again)?
Billionaire philanthropist and liberal activist George Soros has reportedly
made $1 billion since November 2012 by betting against the Japanese yen, Bloomberg
reports.
“The Japanese wager helped the firm retu... more »
Friday Nerd Blogging, Hiatus Ends Appropriately
We have fallen short of our Friday responsibilities, but given the theme of
the week, this video seems most appropriate. Of course, this raises all
kinds of possibilities and re-definitions of “bad” PR. My guess is that the
best episode of this series of six web-isodes will be the next one. The
third will be
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