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Mohawk Nation News 'Swarming'
MNN:
SWARMING
Posted on February 17, 2013
SWARMING
MNN. Feb. 17, 2013. When the European military came to Great Turtle
Island, they met Indigenous warriors who did not meet them head on. They
attacked and disappeared into the woods. Our men used swarming to
attack and defeat the much larger and better armed British and French
formations. Behind our fighting groups we had a democratic
Another Day, Another Warning, This Time from the World Bank
World Bank president Jim Yong Kim had a blunt message for G20 finance
ministers meeting in Moscow, telling them it's time they "*tackle the
serious challenges presented by climate change."*
"These are not just risks. They represent real consequences," said Kim,
calling the lack of attention to the issue by finance ministers and central
bank chiefs "a mistake". He said failing to tackle the challenges of
climate change risked having "serious consequences for the economic
outlook". "Damages and losses from natural disasters have more than tripled
over the past 30 years," said Kim, giv... more »
“Blurring” of visions may be common in all Gaia surface beings
*“Blurring” of visions may be common in all Gaia surface beings*
by ÉirePort
"Blurring" of visions may be common in all Gaia surface beings at this
time. We speak of 3D-eye vision as well as higher visions, via 3rd, 4th,
and 5th eyes.
This results from the shifting in Gaia plates as well as movement of sacred
portal sites. This process is necessary in order to optimize Gaia
energetics to a unified Beingness. This same process occurs in individual
human (small h) units, and particularly in the more conscious Hue-man units.
Gaia illumination increases as alignment progresses, and ... more »
Meteor Explodes Before Landing
.
The meteor that caused so much damage in Chelyabinsk on friday morning
exploded in mid-air.
Has this ever happened before?
Just asking.
.
Sunday Globe Special: Oliver Ames Wrestles With Student's Death
"Easton struggles with sudden loss of Oliver Ames senior, 18" by Zachary T.
Sampson | Globe Correspondent, January 27, 2013
Dozens of teens, parents, and teachers gathered at Oliver Ames High School
in Easton on Saturday as the community grieved for Devin Ness, an
18-year-old senior and captain of the wrestling team, who died from an
aneurysm Friday morning, the school principal said....
--more--"
*
**Also see*: High school wrestlers’ goal: Win for late captain
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The News at a Furtive Glance
Here at Pottersville, when the news breaks like a fart, we light it.
What follows is some of more unusual, infuriating and downright hilarious
news items from the last few days gleaned from Twitter and readers like you.
------------------------------
Next time Mark Zuckerberg tries to charge you a dollar to send off an
email on Facebook, think about this news item. Markie Mark and his merry
band of tax dodgers are about to get a $429,000,000 tax break from We the
People after a year in which Facebook took in over $1,000,000,000 in pure
profit selling your personal informati... more »
Archbishop John Myers
Cardinal Mahony, Archbishop Myers keep the scandal alive shar.es/YD1Fh via @
sharethis
— John A. Carroll (@haitianhearts) February 17, 2013
Political Clown Parade...
*needs prayers.*
When Life Becomes More About Waiting
In Search of GOD
*A message about "The Search for GOD"*
*Blessings all;
A daunting title, no? I've been told there are two types of people. On one
hand, you have your groups of people that don't believe in GOD, but
disagree on the formulas and equations used to explain it all. On the other
hand, you have your groups of people that do believe in GOD, but disagree
over who gets to own Him...or Her...or Them. Then, on another hand you have
groups of people that pretend whatever gets you to believe in them and what
they tell you, they are all the GOD you need. On yet another hand, you have
groups of p... more »
AK INTERVIEW WITH OPPT ON INFOWARS.COM
The OPPT is now news on Infowars.com. Also the interview we did is posted
there as well.
http://planet.infowars.com/activism/one-peoples-public-trust-smashes-the-cabal
Sunday Classics chronicles: Remembering Charles Rosen (1927-2012)
*Charles Rosen -- not only a pianist but perhaps
the most illuminating writer on music in our time*
He was a lot of fun in snark mode, but it made me think about separating
the desire for truth from the need to be right. The most beautiful element
of Charles, for me, was after all this learning and accumulation, the smile
with which he would play some beloved modulation, or demonstrate some trick
of pedalling: suddenly again a child, innocence meeting knowledge at the
end of the road. When I played Schumann's *Davidsbündlertänze* for him, he
showed me how releasing the pedal in the ... more »
Rally on Monday, 10am, 10 Mountain Rd, Montague NJ!
**
George Feighner, wept today (2/16) as 70-year old white pines were clearcut
less than 100 feet from his front door by pipeline contractors who started
cutting yesterday morning after receiving a Notice to Proceed from the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday (2/4).
*Rally on Monday, 10am,*
*10 Mountain Rd, Montague NJ!*
George is an 86-year old man in Montague, NJ living just off the banks of
the Delaware River, and had his 60-acre property condemned for eminent
domain to be the path of the Tennessee Gas Pipeline Loop 323. The upgraded
pipeline will transport M... more »
TGP Started Tree Clearing This Morning...
We need to keep the pressure on DRBC and Commissioners to urge them to stop
the Tennessee Gas Northeast Upgrade Project and re-open the docket. Today
chainsaw crews started cutting in Pike County, PA and Sussex County, NJ as
clearing that started last week continued in Passaic County, NJ near Mahwah
(they just got FERC approval for Pike and Sussex yesterday). They are
moving fast because they know the public does not want this project.
Things you can do and share right now to help:
1) Flood DRBC with emails now: Here is a link to write an email to
commissioners with a click with ... more »
NOON ON SUNDAY Direct Action Meeting, Milford PA
MEETING TO PLAN TENNESSEE GAS PIPELINE DIRECT ACTION - Alex Lotorto's house
just outside Milford, PA, Sunday at noon. Call or text him to RSVP and get
the address 570-269-9589
URGENT: Tree clearing will proceed in Milford starting next week. Tennessee
just filed their weekly report following FERC's Notice to Proceed that was
granted this morning:
"Loop 323, Pike County, Pennsylvania -- Construction of 6.31 miles of a new
30-inch diameter pipeline:
Subject to receipt of the requested Notice to Proceed, it is anticipated
that tree felling activities will commence during the next repor... more »
DRBC – The Last Hope To Prevent Tennessee Gas Pipeline's Northeast Upgrade
Re-blogged from
http://www.delawareriverkeeper.org/act-now/urgent-details.aspx?Id=139* **Call
Them, Fax Them, Email Them Today *
DRBC has now admitted they were wrong on other up river pipelines – they
should have done a review of the cut through the forests and parks before
the project ever happened. They didn’t. So now they are going back to
take a second look. Because those are already in, all that can be done is
to try to undo some of the tremendous damage done.
But the DRBC still has a chance to do that review on the Tennessee Gas
Pipeline’s Northeast Upgrade Project (TGP ... more »
DRBC Letter by Alex Lotorto
*The Delaware River Basin Commissioners refuse to accept that major
pipeline projects impact the Delaware River watershed. It's up to us to ask
for a stop to Tennessee Pipeline construction and the proper public
hearings which have never been granted.* *For more information, see the
Delaware Riverkeeper Network's latest blog post: *
http://www.delawareriverkeeper.org/act-now/urgent-details.aspx?Id=139
Dear Delaware River Basin Commissioners, Voting Governors, and President
Obama,
I write to you as a lifelong resident and sportsman of Pike County, PA
requesting that you *immediatel... more »
The BBC Spins the Truth on Iran's New Centrifuges
The
BBC published an impressive piece of scaremongering disinformation on
February 13. In an article entitled, “Iran upgrades uranium enrichment
despite US warning,” the news outlet reports that new, upgraded uranium
enrichment centrifuges are now being installed at Iran’s primary
enrichment facility in Natanz.
The report states that Iran itself announced the upgrade to the IAEA
back on
Elsewhere: 3rd Parties, Hagel, More
I've been negligent on these posts again, but catching up now. My weekend
column at Salon was about the Hagel filibuster, and what it indicates about
any Supreme Court nomination. It's what I've been saying for some time: of
course there's going to be a 60 vote standard, although that doesn't mean
that all Republicans who oppose a SCOTUS pick will necessarily vote against
cloture. But most will.
At TAP on Friday, I knocked down the idea that technology or whatever will
lead to a crack-up of the Democrats and Republicans.
I'm not going to link specifically to everything else, but ear... more »
Rube, Rube, Rubio
Maybe they should have stuck with Bobby Jindal. Up and coming Republican
Marco Rubio of Florida was picked to give the GOP rebuttal to president
Obama's State of the Union speech this week.
Rubio showed how quickly he was able to shed his lizard skin for the sake
of a shot at the rightwing leadership slot.
Here's what Rubio said in 2007:
"*Global warming, dependence on foreign sources of fuel, and capitalism
have come together to create opportunities for us that were unimaginable
just a few short years ago. Today, Florida has the opportunity to pursue
bold energy policies not ju... more »
Brave New World
Incomes Flat in Recovery, but Not for the 1% by Annie Lowrey Feb 15,
2013* *The
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/16/business/economy/income-gains-after-recession-went-mostly-to-top-1.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130216[Excerpted]
— Incomes rose more than 11 percent for the top 1 percent of earners
during
the economic recovery, but not at all for everybody else, according to
new
data. The numbers, produced by Emmanuel Saez, an economist at the
University
of California, Berkeley, show overall income growing by just 1.7 percent
over the period. But there was a wid... more »
IT WILL NEVER BE RIGHT
Footprints for Peace organizes an annual "Walk for a Sustainable Future"
through mountaintop removal country in East Kentucky. This is a glimpse of
the 2013 200-mile walk.
Skynet?
Scientists invent a self-repairing computer that will never crash By
Christina
Farr | VentureBeat.com, Published: February 15
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/scientists-invent-a-self-repairing-computer-that-will-never-crash/2013/02/15/be4576a6-76de-11e2-b102-948929030e64_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines
THE ART OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS + LIVING IN THE UNKNOWN!
http://thedailylove.com/the-art-of-unfortunate-events-living-in-the-unknown/
THE ART OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS + LIVING IN THE UNKNOWN!
February 17, 2013 by Kathryn Budig
I was recently asked what yoga means to me. My sentiments about this
question are deeper and richer than a seven layer buttercream cake. The
answer directly correlates to the current affairs of my life, so I simply
stated,
“Yoga is okay with not knowing the answers.”
There were many ingredients needed to create this delicious answer so I’ll
need to backtrack a bit. It started about two months ago when I learned a
v... more »
Wild Bill: Predicts exactly what I've been saying about gun control...
*the mental health back door approach.*
Think about this if you allow doctors to inflict dangerous drugs on your
kid to "help" with his "ADD." And you'd better think twice before you
tell your doctor you've been feeling depressed. Your medical records are
no longer yours. They belong to the government. It's all going according
to plan.
BPA Lies
The Wall Street Journal Reported yesterday "No Ill Effect Found in Human
BPA Exposure" by R. L. Hotz Feb 6-17 2013 p. A3.
"Human exposure to a controversial ingredient in many plastic bottles and
food containers is too low to be worrisome, according to a closer look at
150 studies of an additive called bisphenol A, widely known as BPA."
Majia here: The article says the review was conducted by a toxicologist at
the Pacific Northwest national Laboratory. BPA can mimic estrogen. The
researcher, Justin Teeguarden, claimed BPA levels were too low to have an
effect.
BPA is an ENDOCRINE ... more »
Untitled
*Released emails show LSU tried to silence Ivor van Heerden*
*Guns and laws: La. legislators roll out proposals *
*Louisiana could benefit from rice exports to China*
The Sun and Anjem Choudary
If you haven't seen *Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country*, let me save
you the bother. After the Klingon economy is crippled by the destruction of
their main armaments facility, they enter into tentative negotiations with
the Federation to normalise relations after their long, drawn-out cold war.
However, there are elements on both sides who have an interest in the
continued stand-off, and conspire together to derail the peace talks.
Mutual interest in a mutual antagonism is an oft-noted feature in all kinds
of things, and not least is it a useful foil for making sense of the
t... more »
A Cereal Box Prize of Hatred
I wonder at the necessity of asserting that reading and writing foster
reading and writing.
But beyond that there is the familiar disconnect, in the "What's the Matter
with Kansas" sort of way, where the idea of testing and drill and
vocabulary lists or word recognition lists being used *ad nauseum* in the
lower grades--exactly the time when doing this induces an abject hatred for
and distrust of WORDS as they are offered in the context of judgement--that
this method of "education" is extraordinarily invasively "regulatory."
That is to say, the very people who produce an endless s... more »
A Profile of Stanley Fischer
In the *Washington Post*. Stan was my PhD dissertation adviser.
Does Anyone Listen To Dick Cheney Anymore?
Speaking at a Republican dinner in Wyoming recently, Dick Cheney opined
that President Obama's national security personnel choices were "dismal."
He was particularly offended by Obama's choice of Chuck Hegal to run the
defense department. That's Chuck Hegal, who was being wounded in Vietnam
when Cheney was getting serial deferments -- because, in his own words, he
had "other priorities."
Joe Conason writes:
It is hard to imagine a record as profoundly impressive as that of the
Bush-Cheney administration, back when everyone knew that [Cheney] was
really in charge of everything im... more »
Jewish Fruit Bad, Islamist Nuts Good – University of York | Stand for Peace
http://standforpeace.org.uk/jewish-fruit-bad-islamist-nuts-good/
As I keep on telling you, it's not about Israel it's about Jews.
SUNDAY SONG
What a Wonderful World | Playing For Change from Playing For Change on Vimeo
.
Robin Kelly For Congress (IL-02)
This morning state Senator Toi Halvorson, back in Chicago from working to
get the marriage equality bill passed in Springfield, made an inevitable
decision. She's pulling out of the race for Jesse Jackson's old seat
(IL-02) and endorsing the other progressive candidate, Robin Kelly.
From the first, Blue America's position has always been that the key to
preventing self-described "conservative Democrat" Debbie Halvorson from
worming her way back into Congress was to keep the non-Halvorson vote from
splintering. Toi looked best equipped to do that but over the course of the
last tw... more »
Sunday Globe Wake-Up Call
*"**a once-in-a-century occurrence**.... a **glimpse of an apocalyptic
scenario** that many have walked through mentally, and Hollywood has
popularized"*
*
**This was all supposed to happen on Dec. 21st, so WTF?*
"Meteor lifts awareness of cosmic risks; Hit that rattled Russia fuels bid
to protect planet" by William J. Broad | New York Times, February 17, 2013
NEW YORK — For decades, scientists have been on the lookout for *killer
objects from outer space *that could devastate the planet. But warnings
that they lacked the tools to detect the most serious threats were largely
ignor... more »
Sunday Globe Special: They Really Are Coming For Your Guns
*"Moving to combat gun violence, police also launched rounds of antigun
sweeps during the past decade in major cities"*
*
**Oh, I'm sure that will have the "gun rights conspiracy nuts" up in arms
-- and it should. It's coming straight from the agenda-pushing horse's ass,
I mean, mou..., well, actually.... *
"UK gun control offers model for US; Effective laws prompted by mass
shootings" by Anthony Faiola | Washington Post, February 17, 2013
LONDON — When *police on a weapons raid* *swarmed a housing project* after
London’s 2011 riots, they *seized a cache of arms* that in the United... more »
Sunday Globe Special: Quick Set From The Station
*"The **night of Feb. 20, 2003**" *
*
**I remember the next morning well. *
*
*"Great White’s frontman has struggled with fire’s legacy" by Milton J.
Valencia and Mark Arsenault | Globe Staff, February 17, 2013
HERMOSA BEACH, Calif. — By Feb. 20, 2003, Great White was well past its
1980s glory days, when “Once Bitten, Twice Shy” was a hit single and two
albums went platinum. Once popular enough to pack arenas, the band had been
reduced to playing out-of-the-way roadhouses like The Station.
Jack Russell, 52, initially balked at a Globe request for an interview — he
rarely talks to t... more »
Outrage and disgrace in the UK: NHS genetics database laws allow selling people's health data against their will to private companies
Yes, apparently, the safeguards put into place in the UK laws and rules
around a planned national genomic database – created out of the biological
samples collected from people in the regular process of sample taking and
diagnostics for regular NHS health care purposes – to protect individuals
from undue harm and integrity breaches are far less than satisfactory. They
provide ample room for commercial companies to purchase individual and
identifiable genetic information without any consent of the people
concerned. At least, this is what an analysis performed by the independent
inves... more »
Walmart Wonders Where Are All the Shoppers
"Walmart executives sweat slow start to February sales" by Renee Dudley |
The Washington Post, February 16, 2013
NEW YORK — Walmart Stores Inc. had the *worst sales start to a month in
seven years* as *payroll tax increases hit shoppers* already battling a
slow economy, according to internal e-mails obtained by Bloomberg News.
*
**Oh, that is what they are blaming it on? The chump-change $6 a week the
government is taking back?*
*Does Walmart sell six packs of beer?*
‘‘In case you haven’t seen a sales report these days, February MTD sales
are a *total disaster*,’’ Jerry Murray, Wa... more »
Leading Geneticist: Human Intelligence is Slowly Declining by Mike Barrett
Source: http://naturalsociety.com/Leading Geneticist: Human Intelligence
is Slowly Declining
by Mike Barrett
Natural Society, 17 February 2013
*Would you be surprised to hear that the human race is slowly becoming
dumber, and dumber? Despite our advancements over the last tens or even
hundreds of years, some ‘experts’ believe that humans are losing cognitive
capabilities and becoming more emotionally unstable. One Stanford
University researcher and geneticist, Dr. Gerald Crabtree, believes that
our intellectual decline as a race has much to do with adverse genetic
mutations.*... more »
Now do you understand why BBC's coverage of NHS deaths was so minimal?
' Former Health Secretaries Andy Burnham and Alan Johnson
ignored 81
requests for a public inquiry into Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust in the
two
years after it was first warned of poor NHS care, it has emerged.
Andy Burnham and Alan Johnson, two former Health Secretaries, turned
down
dozens of requests for public inquiries into the Mid-Staffordshire
scandal,
including 20 from fellow MPs.'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9875660/Mid-Staffs-Labour-Government-ignored-MP-requests-for-public-inquiry-into-deaths.html
The
BBC's coverage of NHS deaths was minimal & so quickly
relegate... more »
Hayley Mills Quit Chemo & Used Nutrition And Alternative Therapies to Heal Breast Cancer in 2009
Hayley MillsHayley Mills quit chemo, used nutrition and alternative
therapies to heal breast cancer in 2009Chris Beat Cancer Blog, 26
December 2012
Hayley Mills, 66, star of two of my daughters favorite movies *Pollyanna*and
*The Parent Trap* secretly battled breast cancer for 3 years before going
public in January 2012.
This week she announced that she had surgery, but refused radiation, and
quit chemo after three sessions.
Now four years after her diagnosis, she explains how she is happy, healthy
and cancer-free.
“It made me feel awful,” she sighs. “I was more frightened of th... more »
My disappointment Mrs Thatcher didn't die in the Brighton bomb - by Labour's Eastleigh candidate | Mail Online
' The Labour candidate in the crucial Eastleigh by-election said he wished
Margaret Thatcher had been murdered in the IRA attack on Brighton's Grand
Hotel.
Left-winger John O'Farrell felt a 'surge of excitement' when he heard of
the attempted assassination in 1984 and was 'disappointed' the terrorists
failed.
He asked himself repeatedly: 'Why did she have to leave the bathroom two
minutes earlier?' The bathroom of Lady Thatcher's suite was wrecked in the
explosion. She had been in it shortly before the bomb went off.'
More in the Mail.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-227... more »
Coca Cola or Pepsi?
The unaired Superbowl advert
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=68al-o2XSpE&feature=youtu.be&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D68al-o2XSpE%26feature%3Dyoutu.be&gl=GB
...
Or Sodastream
Editorial: Global Warming Consensus Looking More Like A Myth | Climate Realists
http://m.climaterealists.com/?id=11158
I await the BBC's coverage of this story!
CLEGGIE THINKS WE BRITS NEED TO BE PUT IN OUR PLACE | CYBERBORISjohnson
'No other culture in Europe is quite so enamoured by such a false notion of
difference".'
Is Nick Clegg more loyal to EU than UK? If so is that because of his EU
pension?
http://cyberboris.wordpress.com/2010/04/22/cleggie-thinks-we-brits-need-to-be-put-in-our-place/
Thatcher's the best! New poll names ex-Tory leader as greatest prime minister - The Commentator
' The poll asked members of the British public: "In your opinion, is David
Cameron a better or worse Prime Minister than —?" and named each of the
prime ministers since Harold Wilson.
Embarrassingly, though not unpredictably, the last Labour leader, Gordon
Brown, scored -17 points, coming last behind John Major and James
Callaghan.'
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/2735/thatcher_s_the_best_new_poll_names_ex_tory_leader_as_greatest_prime_minister
VIDEO: Tech author slams BBC for "irresponsible... crap" - The Commentator
The BBC irresponsible? Who'd have thought that?
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/2734/video_tech_author_slams_bbc_for_irresponsible_crap
What the Stones Did for Me - and For You Too
For nearly half a century I've been a devoted follower of the Rolling
Stones. Still am, always will be.
They came along in the wake of the Beatles but what a difference. To most
they were the rowdy boys to the Beatles' good boys. But that was never it,
not really. The difference, even to young guys like us, maybe 14-years
old if that, was they introduced us, and all of the world, to American
blues music. Black music.
We came from a white bread world. It was an amazing, transformational time
to pass through puberty. Most everybody our age was conformist but we knew
that wa... more »
Drug Pollution in Rivers Make Fish AntiSocial
Researchers found that perch (shown here) exposed to low levels of an
antianxiety medicine were bolder, more antisocial and faster eaters. Photo
courtesy: Bent Christensen via livescience.com
Drugs taken by humans can have unintended side effects — on fish, in the
natural environment. Turns out, fish fed extremely low concentrations of an
antianxiety drug eat more quickly, and act bolder and more antisocial than
their un-medicated peers, a new study finds.
"We can see profound effects at the low levels that we find in surface
water. Exposed fish are more bold," Jerker Fick, a co-au... more »
The Lost Jedi Art of Reading Closely
I thought, mistakenly, that the Hoth symposium had run its course: Ackerman
point, a bunch of us counterpoint both at Danger Room and elsewhere (here
at Duck, and, if it’s not up yet it will be soon, over at Grand Blog
Tarkin), and my tossing a little more fuel on the fire by arguing what
Continue reading
All-Glass Buildings Not as Green as You Would Expect
More victims of "waytoomuchglassia". Photo courtesy: Loozrboy/CC BY 2.0
Cities like Toronto, New York or Chicago get cold in the winter and hot in
the summer, yet almost every new condo and office building is designed with
floor to ceiling glass. Something many people don't realize that the more
glass a building has, the less strength there is in the outer walls.
All-glass buildings develop envelope problems much sooner than traditional
designs.
Andrew Michler calls it "the very contagious disease waytoomuchglassia." At Building
Science, John Straube does the math and shows how rea... more »
62-Year-Old Albatross Hatches Chick #35
Mother and chick. Photo courtesy: © Jaymi Heimbuch
A couple years ago TreeHugger.com was excited to learn about a 60-year-old
Laysan albatross named Wisdom hatched her 35th chick. Then last year, they
were excited to visit Midway Atoll where she nests, and where she was
rearing yet another chick. Now this year, miraculously, Wisdom has returned
to the atoll -- now as the oldest living wild bird as she outlived a
Northern Royal albatross named Grandma -- and has nested yet again, with
her newest chick hatching on February 3rd. Wisdom is now 62.
Wisdom's age puts her at living more t... more »
February 16, 1973
Why did Richard Nixon decide to nominate L. Patrick Gray to be the director
of the FBI? Apparently, it was all about loyalty, which Nixon decided was
more important than brains -- which he didn't think Gray really had -- or
the risks that were involved in having someone go up for confirmation
hearings who wasn't really fully part of the cover-up but nonetheless had
plenty of guilty knowledge.
Or perhaps, as Nixon told Ehrlichman, because he believed that Gray could
deflect Watergate away from the White House and towards the FBI.
At any rate, he did it. On February 16, he had the se... more »
"TOP TORY TO BE ARRESTED FOR CHILD ABUSE"
*Sydney Cook, whose pedophile ring has been linked to a former UK
government minister.*
A former UK government minister is "set to be arrested over child rape
claims."
Tory faces child sex arrest - Mirror Online / dailymail.
An ex-Conservative Cabinet minister is set to be arrested by police over
claims he abused boys and raped a young girl.
The former Conservative minister is being investigated by police after a
woman came forward to claim he raped her as a child.
*Jason Swift has links to Baby P. In 1985, 14-year-old Jason Swift was
killed by a child-abuse gang. Jason is belie... more »
Samuel Beckett - Mystic
Samuel Beckett - Mystic. YouTube Video Description - [Channel: SchAdvStudy]:
Professor Declan Kiberd (University of Notre Dame)
A lecture exploring the problem of pain, authorship and godhead in
Beckett's Murphy, Waiting for Godot, and The Unnameable.
Skip to the 0:10:30 mark.
LANZAS: NICHOLAS, 9 11, ROBERT...
*Nicholas lanza.*
Nicholas Lanza's mother reported died in tower 2 on 9 11.
"I was 7 years old.
"My aunt came in contact with a guy from HBO and a psychologist, Dr. Gilda.
They made a documentary of my life after 9/11. That documentary made a bad
situation worse."
Finding Nicholas - The Daily Beast
Nicholas Lanza, 17, now a high-school senior in Virginia, blogs at SiegfriedElric
- Webs
On 28 April 1990, Andrea Cordero Lanza became Apostolic Delegate to
Jerusalem. During this appointment, he secured the agreement in 1993 of the
government of Israel to the Fundamental Agreemen... more »
Just One Last Time - Ban Ki Moon: Go FUCK Yourself
*Dark Side of Ban Ki-moon And The United Nations Shines Through As They
Condemn Richard Falk For His Views on 9/11*.
Related:
*Ban Ki Moon, Go Fuck Yourself.*
*Ban Ki-moon: Seriously, Go Fuck Yourself*.
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 nation does not live for the sake of the economic system, and the
economic system does not exist for the sake of capital. On the contrary,
capital is the servant of the economic system and the economic system is
the servant of the people."*
*- Adolf Hitler*
*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 there... 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.
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