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The Canard “All the Fake News that is Fit to Print” Cat Fancy, Inc. is the
target of an aggressive takeover bid by Battlestar Galacitcum, an upstart
nerd pornography site. The Duck of Minerva, purchased by Cat Fancy earlier
in the year, would be the prize in the acquisition. A mainstay among
international relations blogs,
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Can Debbie Wasserman Schultz Bend U.S. Policy To The Will Of Her Corrupt Financiers, The Fanjul Sugar Barons?
Click to read the web of sugar corruption
You don't normally see *DWT* championing bills introduced by anti-Choice
fanatic and far right extremist Joe Pitts (R-PA). But when he introduced H.R.
693 last week, a new day of bipartisanship may not have dawned, but we
recognized that Pitts is doing the right thing for a change. And he was
immediately joined by a healthy cross-aisle bunch of co-sponsors that
ranges from the lunatic fringe-- Lou Barletta (R-PA), Steve Womack (R-AR)
and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)-- to solidly mainstream legislators like Jackie
Speier (D-CA), Earl Blumenauer (D-... more »
Segregation is Manmade and It Can Be Unmade
Since Wall Street's grand theft of 40 percent of the nation's wealth in
2008, the federal government has passed out billions in grants to states
and cities for various projects, many of them even worthy of our tax
dollars. This process provided many great opportunities to incentivize
policies that could alter what has become the intensification of housing
and school segregation over the past 35 years. And yet there were no
incentives offered, particularly in the guidance or bonus points or
stipulations in Race to the Top. Instead, incentives were provided for
more intensely segre... more »
MNN 'Joint Task Force going to end up in the Joint'
MNN: JOINT TASK FORCE GOING TO END UP IN THE JOINT
Posted on February 18, 2013
Mohawk Nation News
www.mohawknationnews.com
MNN. Feb. 18, 2013. In 2007 the colonizer’s hired
“saboteur”, Phil Fontaine of the Assembly of First Nations AFN. He got
together with interim RCMP Commissioner Bev Busson, Ontario Provincial
Police Commissioner Julian Fantino, Jacques Chagnon of
Hermosa casa con jardines y albercas para relajarse
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Attempted Gotcha Gone Wrong
A resolution has been reached in the case of the pregnant Texas teen suing
her parents who were allegedly pressuring her to abort.
To the surprise of absolutely no one, the judge ruled in the girl's favour.
But I'm not sure it's the propaganda victory the fetus fetishists envisioned
.
They obviously thought they were being oh so clever in using Roe v. Wade in
yet another braindead attempted gotcha.
But look what they wind up saying.
“This is a tremendous victory, and another life has been saved,” said TCDL
(Texas Center for Defense of Life) attorney and President Greg Terra. “Our
v... more »
Castillo en medio del mar con un colorido arcoiris
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Saturday
It snowed again a little last night, leaving everything sheathed in
glittering white.
Since this is Southern State by mid-afternoon it was in the mid 60s.
Southern Man had lunch with Southern Son, did a little geocaching, ran
errands (which included twelve sheets of sanded plywood for the Woodshop),
and made it home by late afternoon to start putting that plywood up eat
dinner and drink beer and play computer games all evening. What a life!
Molino de viento en el campo de las flores
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Bowling
There's no better way to end a work week than bowling with twenty of your
closest friends.
A couple of Manly Men. Photo by Marilyn, probably.
Then we went to Denny's. Yes, with Southern Man the party never stops.
Various folks took lots and lots and *lots* of pics with the new camera but
only a few came out. Looks like Southern Man needs to read that manual! *Lord,
thank you for good friends and good food and good times. Amen.*
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Propaganda: Haz We Had Enuff Yet?
This is what set off my rage-o-meter yesterday.
Canadians may be growing weary of - even hostile to - all those Economic
Action Plan ads the Harper government has been pumping out for the last
four years.
Eight polls the Finance Department commissioned between 2009 and 2012
suggest the TV, radio, print and Internet ads are starting to fizzle - and
annoying some people.
. . .
The eight surveys, commissioned from four polling firms for almost
$300,000, have asked the same core questions of random samples of 1,000
people contacted by telephone.
'Even hostile'? Everyone I know is tho... more »
Yeah, Sure. Nuclear's the Safest Alternative (Washington: A Perfect Radioactive Storm)
The waste mitigation work now faces a predicament with the impending
sequester, the automatic across-the-board federal spending cuts that are
set to take effect March 1 unless Congress reaches a different arrangement
on a spending plan. Inslee says this will mean layoffs at Hanford and could
even stop work there. He termed the combination of the leak and the budget
cuts the "perfect radioactive
Just How Small Are You, Really?
On a clear, moonless summer night I like to sit out in the backyard and
gaze up into the heavens. I realize that the lights I am seeing come from
a time so far past that it's beyond our ability to really make sense of
it. And I know that light also comes from a time of civilizations past
and long gone.
Just figuring out our miniscule place in the universe is tough enough but
now it seems our universe may not be as universal as we might like to
think. That Higgs Boson particle, remember that? Well that breakthrough
has led to a theory of "vacuum instability" which suggests in ... more »
如果日本和中国对这些岛屿发动战争，美国是条约的约束，以保卫日本。
然而，这是非常黑暗的一面，因为美国政府没有钱，兵力，或制造，以确保取得积极成果常规战争在这里，它很可能第一次打击核攻击。
而这里
不幸的是，我担心怀特教授的评估可能是正确的。
这里的问题是，如果美国无法赢得在convential战争，美国将使用核武器
Nicolaus Copernicus: 540th birthday
*Off-topic, Higgs*: Fox News, BBC, and others are suddenly excited by the
possibility suggested by the Higgs boson mass that our Universe is
intrinsically unstable. See some 4-month or years old TRF blog entries.
Mikołaj Kopernik was born on February 19th, 1473 – half a millennium and
9.5 months before your humble correspondent – into a rich family in Toruń
(thorn) in Royal Prussia, a part of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland.
At that time, the nationality of the people was more associated with the
territory and not with ethnic groups: modern European 19th century nation
states w... more »
My outrage meter just spiked off the dial...
*tell me why this is allowed to go on? Someone? *
Watch TSA agents harass a mother and her little crippled daughter because
we all know that little tiny 3 year old crippled kids in pink wheelchairs
are dangerous.
Look at the face of that sweet little girl crying because they took away
her little stuffed toy. When she says, "I don't want to go to Disney
World," because she's so frightened my head almost exploded.
Why is this thuggery being perpetrated on the American people by low level
ignorant "agents"?
The real question is:
*
**Why are we allowing this?*
H/T Gateway ... more »
NYT: The Trouble with Online College
The New York Times Feb 19, 2013
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/19/opinion/the-trouble-with-online-college.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130219
[Excerpted] Online classes are already common in colleges, and, on the
whole, the record is not encouraging. According to Columbia University’s
Community College Research Center, for example, about seven million
students — about a third of all those enrolled in college — are enrolled in
what the center describes as traditional online courses. These typically
have about 25 students and are run by professors who often have little
intera... more »
Transocean pleads guilty, is sentenced to pay $400 million in criminal penalties for criminal conduct leading to Deepwater Horizon disaster
[image: Deepwater Horizon flaring operation. Gas from the damaged Deepwater
Horizon wellhead is burned by the drillship Discoverer Enterprise, 16 May
2010, in a process known as flaring. Gas and oil from the wellhead are
being brought to the surface via a tube that was placed inside the damaged
pipe. Photo: Petty Officer 3rd Class Patrick Kelley]
Contact: Stacy Kika, kika.stacy@epa.gov, 202-564-0906, 202-564-4355
14 February 2013
WASHINGTON (EPA) – Transocean Deepwater Inc. pleaded guilty today to a
violation of the Clean Water Act (CWA) for its illegal conduct leading to
the 2010... more »
How Harper Was Conned
Who says you can't bullshit a bullshitter? Don't tell that to the
procurement wizards at our Department of National Defence. They've been
pulling the wool over the eyes of our gullible prime minister almost since
he took office. Michael Byers and Stewart Webb chronicle how hapless
Harper got fleeced:
*In the style of the classic BBC show, politicians have long been “Yes
Ministered” by the Department of National Defence. The problem has reached
new heights under Harper, who came to power believing the generals and
admirals could do no wrong.*
* Defence officials decided the C... more »
Drip, drip, drip...
*no comment.*
France Approves Euthanasia, Call it a "Duty to Humanity"
Hold That Tiger
First there was Rosemary Woods, the Nixon secretary reputedly responsible
for erasing some of the boss's tape recordings at the height of the
Watergate scandal. Now we have Tiger Woods-gate, in which the well-known
philandering golfer played a round with well-known perfect husband and
father Barack Obama in Florida over the weekend, and the courtiers of the
media were barred, shunned, dissed, maligned and peeved.
Dylan Byers of *Politico* (which Charles Pierce hilariously calls *TigerBeat on the Potomac
*) writes that Obama did try to make amends with the stenographers
afterwards. Bu... more »
Sunday Globe Special: Deportation Dilemma
*Nothing special about this blog as my readership stats continue to tank. *
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**And who can blame you? Who really wants to read agenda-pushing slop from
the AmeriKan media anymore. *
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*"Program deports many with no criminal record" by Maria Sacchetti |
Globe Staff, February 17, 2013
Federal immigration officials are deporting more immigrants in
Massachusetts for civil violations than for serious crimes under a
fingerprint-sharing program that expanded from Boston to the rest of the
state last year.
As of December, only 45.6 percent of the 768 immigrants deported through
the Secur... more »
“We Will Be Greeted As Liberators,” Why The Bush Administration Saw Iraq As A War Of Liberation
Before 2003, many members of the Bush White House held a rosy image of
what
the Iraq war would be like. Kenneth Adelman of the Defense Policy Board
for
example wrote an op ed for the Washington Post entitled “Cakewalk in
Iraq.”Vice President Dick Cheney told NBC’s Meet The Press that Iraqis
would see the Americans as liberators. These scenarios were based upon
several factors including advice officials received from Middle East
scholars and Iraqi exiles. Most importantly, President Bush and others
were
driven by their conviction that what they were doing was right, and
therefore wo... more »
SCHOOLED ABOUT PRESCHOOL: It’s all Nixon’s fault!
*TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2013*
*Part 2—The Culture of Liberal Indifference:* Last Tuesday, in his State of
the Union Address, President Obama made an important proposal.
“Tonight, I propose working with states to make high-quality preschool
available to every child in America,” the president said. Columnists swung
into action.
Last Friday, David Brooks praised the proposal in a well-reasoned,
information-strewn column. As he closed, he apologized for being rude, but
he explained the potential gain for the nation in Obama’s proposal:
BROOKS (2/15/13): This is rude to say, but here’s... more »
America's Dangerous Hyper-Nationalism
*We're Number One, We're Number One!*
*No you're bloody well not, no you're bloody well not!*
The United States is many things but it's not the greatest country in the
world. It has a chequered past and a chequered present. Yet from
mainstreet Hicksville, Arkansas to Capital Hill, Washington, you'll find
Americans ordinary and powerful chanting the mantra of their nation as the
greatest country in the world, the natural leader of all lesser states.
They don't just say it, they believe it, and that shapes their view, not
only of themselves but also of you.
* *
Writing in *The... more »
Australia re-rated on international reinsurance markets after another summer of flooding and extreme weather – Costs soar for reinsurers: ‘Insurers must rate to risk. If they don’t, they have a real difficulty in terms of solvency.’
[image: Aerial view of flooding in Pullenvale, Queensland. Photo: John
Grainger / The Daily Telegraph]
By Peter Hannam, Carbon economy editor
18 February 2013
(Sydney Morning Herald) – Australia has been re-rated on international
reinsurance markets after another summer of flooding and extreme weather
raised the country's peril profile, said Insurance Council of Australia
chief executive Rob Whelan.
As a result of the re-rating, Australian insurers have to pay more for
reinsurance, costs they will pass on to customers. ''Those [reinsurance]
premiums have increased in some cases b... more »
As the climate warms, forests encroach on meadowland – ‘Meadows’ biodiversity value is much larger than the area they occupy’
[image: Mountain bog gentian in the Oregon Cascades, 8 August 2007.
Mountain bog gentian is threatened by the invasion of trees, as the climate
warms in subalpine Oregon. Photo: Harold Zald]
By Carrie Madren
12 February 2013
(Scientific American) – In perhaps the slowest invasion in history,
mountain meadows in the Pacific Northwest—where hikers and backpackers
revel in breath-taking scenery—are gradually giving way to hemlocks,
Pacific silver firs and other conifers. In these high-elevation, subalpine
meadows of Jefferson Park in the central Cascade Range in Oregon, snow
typic... more »
Unit 61398 - China's Computer Commandos
It's possibly the most successful unit in China's Peoples Liberation
Army. Unit 61398 is believed to have hacked hundreds of terabytes of data
from targets in Canada, the U.S. and Britain.
*The report, by [U.S. security company] Mandiant, identified the People's
Liberation Army's (PLA) Shanghai-based Unit 61398 as the most likely
perpetrators of the hacking. The company said it believed the unit had
carried out "sustained" attacks on a wide range of industries.*
*"The nature of Unit 61398's work is considered by China to be a state
secret; however, we believe it engages in harmf... more »
Sausage and Tomato Pasta
My in-laws introduced us to this recipe this last month and we have fallen
in love. This recipe is easy and delicious. We love the fresh tomatoes it
uses and we actually love to make this recipe vegetarian style without the
sausage, which is just as good.
16 oz Penne Pasta
Kielbasa Sausage
3 cloves of garlic, minced
1 can of tomato sauce
1 can diced tomatoes
3 Roma tomatoes, diced
8 oz of cream
1 teaspoon oregano
1 teaspoon basil
Cook noodles according to package directions. While they are cooking
prepare the rest of the meal. Cook the sausage and garlic together in olive
oil, unti... more »
Immigration Meets DOMA-- No Big Deal, Says Senile Chuck Grassley
Every time some spoiled multimillionaire piece of garbage announces he's
leaving the U.S. because taxes are too high, right-wing sites and fringe
lunatics like Satanist Bryan Fischer go wild on twitter. Fischer's
latest
hysteria was brought on when over-the-hill Filipino boxer Manny
Pacquiaosaid he won't fight in America any more because the tax bite is
too high.
Awwwwwww. Don't let the door hit you on the way out... and, please,
don't
come back. Yesterday, though, the *NY Times* featured the story of two
young men the country should be genuinely sad to see leave, Brandon
Perlberg ... more »
Chile: World-Famous Abductee Changes Story
*Source: www.24horas.cl and Planeta UFO
Date: 19 Feb 2013*
*Chile: World-Famous Abductee Changes Story*
*** Corporal Valdés was Never Abducted in Northern Chile ***
Corporal Valdés was the protagonist of one of the better-known and
strangest cases in the history of ufology. However, his story was
completely untrue.
In 1977 a group of Chilean soldiers claimed having lived through a
paranormal situation. This has become known as the “Corporal Valdés” case,
well-remembered by the public, because the soldiers claimed
extraterrestrial contact.
The story was handed down for generatio... more »
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Smokey Robinson, 73. Have to throw in a link to songs
written by Robinson, too. Also: how does "A Love She Can Count On" fail to
reach the Top Ten, anyway?
Ah, the good stuff:
1. Jonathan Chait on Republican reformers.
2. Brits, too, need to move on from Maggie, says Alex Massie.
3. Andrew Sprung on where the missing great lines are.
ESCAPE FROM LA, TO THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PLACE IN THE WORLD
*From LA...*
Back home in LA, Jessica Fox worked for NASA by day, and for a film-maker
by night.
dailymail
But, when the elite seek out those ideal places to live, they don't choose
LA.
They choose places like Wigtown.
Jessica Fox swapped California sunshine for Wigtown.
How I made a dream come true | Life and style | The Guardian
*Near Wigtown*
Jessica describes the Wigtown area:
"We walked in silence through a soft mist.
"As we turned a corner, a view unfurled of silvery marshland.
"'This is the most beautiful place in the world,' I gasped."
dailymail
*Jessica Fox and... more »
Local Residents Dig In for a SECOND Day of Civil Disobedience to Stop Tennessee Pipeline Construction
MILFORD TOWNSHIP, Pa. - On Tuesday morning, two local youth blocked the
Tennessee Gas Pipeline Northeast Upgrade construction by locking themselves
through a Delaware State forest gate in Milford Township for the second
consecutive day. Allison Petryk, of Vernon, NJ and AlexLotorto, of Milford,
PA plan to remain at the gate at the end of Schocopee Road throughout the
work day again to prevent access by pipeline tree clearing crews.
Tree clearing began last Friday within twenty four hours of the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission's Notice to Proceed.
Yesterday, residents from thro... more »
Can't the government afford an English editor?
This was sent out for Lunar New Year. A friend posted it to Facebook. It
was kindly meant, but you'd think the Mayor's office would have an English
editor on tap to clean it up and make it look professional. Really.
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Make It British, Make It Local, Make It Happen - Support Local Farmers
Source: https://www.facebook.com/makeitbritish?group_id=0Farming
Delivers For Britain
Farming delivers. It delivers for you, for me, for all of us. Obviously
farming delivers *food* but it also delivers more than you might think. All
that delicious, fresh, British produce at your supermarket or local farmers
market is only part of the story.
Agriculture also makes an invaluable contribution to the *economy*. It
creates tens of thousands of *careers*. And farmers look after the *
environment* in huge areas of our unique countryside. They also take their
roles in ensuring good sta... more »
Untitled
*Emails Reveal Early Plan by LSU to Muzzle Corps Critic ~Levees.org*
*Slabbed sends an open letter to the Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice Leon
“Pierre” Muise*
*Gretna struggles with rules to prevent neglect of historic properties
~Allen Powell *
*Offshore Aquaculture: Bad News for the Gulf*
*New Orleans developer now a player in local film scene ~Brian Friedman*
*The Virtual St. Joseph Altar*
A Kennedy In Ottawa?
There are rumors that Caroline Kennedy will be the next American ambassador
to Ottawa. Lawrence Martin writes that you shouldn't make book on that:
It’s not only the iconic liberal name that would grate on the Tories.
There’s some history to be recalled here. And from a Conservative
perspective, what an ugly stretch of history it is.
President John F. Kennedy was Tory enemy No. 1. The Kennedy relationship
with John Diefenbaker was the worst in the history of the presidents and
prime ministers. The Kennedy administration precipitated Dief’s downfall on
a no-confidence vote in 1963... more »
Tuesday Morning Linkage Club
Only a handful of links this morning: Seth Masket investigates what happens
when you raise the cost of voting. Unsurprising: minority and poor voters
suffer more. Tim Burke pushes back against MOOCs and the failure of
managerial class models of higher education. Nina Zumel provides a public
service by transforming William Cleveland’s plots into ggplot2.
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Mining 6: Large Investments vs. Large Bureaucracies
The mining is perhaps the most regulated, most intervened, and most taxed
sector by the government. Coming second would be the pharmaceutical sector,
and perhaps the water and other utilities. One important indicator that
there is heavy government regulation and taxation of a particular sector is
the high presence of the informal or black market for such sector.
In the case of mining, the black market is the high presence of the
so-called "small mining" like in Mt. Diwalwal in Davao. In the pharma
sector, it's the existence of so many unregistered "health products" like
the "magic ... more »
The BBC, any excuse to criticise David Cameron - and a fine example of the tolerance of the left
The BBC have found another excuse to remind us of Johnny Marr's petulant
forbidding of David Cameron from liking The Smiths' music. This time it's
Johnny Marrs 50th birthday:
'Johnny Marr was only 23 when he left The Smiths in 1987. Now in the year
when he turns 50, he is releasing his debut solo album "The Messenger".
In between times, he has had spells in Talking Heads, The Pretenders and
The The.
In 2007 he had his first ever US number one album after joining US indie
group Modest Mouse.
Johnny Marr told the BBC's arts correspondent Colin Paterson about why he
has now decide... more »
The BBC and the terrorists in Southern Thailand
The Islamic terrorists in Southern Thailand havde been responsible for the
deaths of over 5,000 people since their insurgency restarted in earnest in
2004. How much have you heard of this Islamist insurrection on the BBC? I
finally found a BBC video report on the insurgency, do go and watch the
video and read the summary text:
'Following the deaths of 16 insurgents in Thailand in a failed attack on a
Thai marine base, the BBC's Jonathan Head speaks to some of the insurgents'
bereaved families.
The deaths are the largest loss of life the separatist movement has
suffered, since it ... more »
Musical Interlude: Leonard Cohen, "Anthem"
Leonard Cohen, "Anthem"
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ma5tF6TJpA
NHS Body Contouring, NHS Fertility Treatment and the re-Naming of Countries
here's a good mix of interesting topics:
NHS Body Contouring, NHS Fertility Treatment and the re-Naming of Countries.
just three things that are irking me this morning.
1) NHS Body Contouring:
why are we, the tax payers and contributers to the National Health Service,
paying for OVERINDULGERS to have gastric band surgery and then
(potentially) reconstructive Body Contouring i.e. ultra-expensive plastic,
surgery for an issue that's not a national health service issue. You eat
too much sugary fatty foods and move too little (probably because of your
sedantary office lifestyle or chron... more »
Bhutan To Be First Country to Go 100% Organic
Bhutan To Be First Country to Go 100% Organic
by Anthony Gucciardi
Natural Society, 18 February, 2013
If there was ever a nation that could see the purpose behind organic,
sustainable farming, it would be a nation that is composed mostly of
farmers. Such a place does exist, and it soon may be the first nation to go
100% organic, paving the way for others to do the same on a global scale.
The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan is known for a *high level of* citizen
happiness, but it is doing something even more noteworthy in the near
future. With Prime Minister *Jigmi Thinley* maki... more »
Musical Interlude: Moody Blues, "The Story In Your Eyes"
Moody Blues, "The Story In Your Eyes"
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgOtLKttDU4
K-T Boundary Asteroid Event Sharply Tightened
What this means is that the error has been reduced by a full order of
magnitude and this will now apply across many other geological questions.
Most satisfying though is this result. We all know in our heart of hearts
that the impact did it for the megafauna at the end of the cretaceous. Yet
a million year error bound does not make anyone brave. Now that we have
narrowed it to 11000 years and it is still there tells us that it is almost
impossible to have an alternative.
We will also now recover an accurate global spectrum of associated geology
with a clear idea of di... more »
Large Mammal Ancestry Completed
The rapid expansion of DNA testing capability and general efficiency is
now so mature that we are actually mopping up some of the big obvious
tasks. I have no doubt that this will soon be expanded to birds in
particular and all land animals out there.
We continue to confirm that the mammal did not become a factor at all
until post K-T. I am not so sure that that will hold up simply because egg
eating works so well for rats in particular. That and insect eating and we
can anticipate a very successful mammal and many small successful reptiles
who are out there.
What the... more »
Minimum Wage Considerations
First, let me explain something. All money and derivative credit is first
produced by government fiat. It is then spent and extended in a manner to
support economic activity that both implements government policy and
expands the economy. It then taxed back mostly as it passes through the
hands of the people over and over again.
Understanding that it should be obvious that it is sound policy to ensure
a living wage tied directly to a legitimate measure of inflation and to
ensure one hundred percent labor force participation at that wage or
better. This naturally stimulates... more »
Gold Forming Bacteria Discovered
It has been thought in the mine exploration business for years that there
must exist a biological pathway active in moving water that is able to
mobilize gold and also coagulate it to form larger gold complexes. The gold
nuggets were forming in environments that just had never gotten hot enough
to satisfy the known volcanic process.
It may turn out the gold is primarily bio available rather than in any
other manner. Much gold deposition I have inspected could be better so
explained.
At least we now have the sought for medium identified and it is easy to
take it forward. And ... more »
"OPEN LETTER TO THE MEDIA -- CALL TO ACTION"
*"OPEN LETTER TO THE MEDIA -- CALL TO ACTION"*
By Brian Kelly
To think that this whole story broke less than two months ago is baffling,
to say the least. A current google search for "One People's Public Trust,"
pings back 33M results, as of this day, February 18, 2013. Countless emails
continue to flow in from people wanting to BE of service to the cause. This
post is a Call-to-action for anyone willing to share their energy in
support of bringing freedom to Humanity once and for all...
If you are one of the people who has heard the call, and you're ready to
stand up ... more »
GANGNAM STYLE; SHOOTING KIDS; GOLD
GAZA CITY (IPS) - “We wanted to do something to bring focus to the plight
of Palestinian political prisoners. There are around 5,000 in Israeli
jails, including hunger strikers, children, women,” said Mohannad Barakat,
30, one of seven Palestinians who have made a version of the pop song
“Gangnam Style” based on life in Gaza.
*"GANGNAM STYLE" PARODY PUTS SPOTLIGHT ON GAZA SIEGE*
*This photo was posted on the personal Instagram account of Mor Ostrovski,
a 20-year old Israeli soldier in a sniper unit.*
"It reminded us of a *chilling account another Israeli soldier gave to the
grou... more »
MorningBrew w/Gwen Caldwell Interviews Brian Kelly on Orion Talk Radio Network
MorningBrew w/Gwen Caldwell Interviews Brian Kelly on Orion Talk Radio
Network
Join us every Wednesday at 9am pst, 12 noon est for a down to earth OPPT
discussion with Gwen Caldwell of the Morning Brew show on Orion Talk Radio.
Last Wednesday the first show aired live, brining in an astounding 1
million + live listeners, representing a whopping 10 countries!
On our first program we discussed the Who, What, When, Where, Why of OPPT,
which made for a great platform for listeners discovering the People's
Public Trust for the first time. So, if you're trying to share this
info... more »
Welcome to Wildrose Alberta! What do you mean they didn’t win?
OK, the National Post got a little overheated with this election-day photo
of Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith. But, really, what’s the difference?
Below: Premier Ernest Manning and Premier Alison Redford, bookends in
Alberta’s endless conservative governing dynasty. In April 2012, spooked by
the dangers posed by a far-right Wildrose government, progressive voters in
Alberta abandoned ... more »
Untitled
"Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor."
- Jackson Brown
"No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it."
- E.E. Luccock
"Celebrate your success and find humour in your failures. Don't take
yourself so seriously. Loosen up and everyone around you will loosen up.
Have fun and always show enthusiasm. When all else fails, put on a costume
and sing a silly song."
-Sam Walton
The Realist Report with John Friend
On this edition of The Realist Report, we'll be joined by Andre from *
TotalFascism.com* to discuss Fascism and National Socialism, and how these
ideologies differ fundamentally from Jewish communism and Jewish
capitalism. We also discussed his essay *On the Issues: American Third
Position vs. Total Fascism*, and solutions to the problems facing our
communities, society, and race. This turned out to be an excellent program
folks, be sure to download and listen to the full three hours.
You can download the entire episode *here*, or subscribe to Truth Militia
Radio via iTunes *he... more »
Snippets
When the spaceship Juno headed off to Jupiter during the summer of 2011,
three 1.5" tall LEGO figures went along for the ride. The trio should
arrive at their destination sometime in 2016. The specially-constructed
aluminum mini-figures are the Roman god Jupiter, his wife Juno and the
"father of science", Galileo Galilei. "The LEGO crew's mission is part of
the LEGO Bricks in Space project, the joint outreach and educational
program developed as part of the partnership between NASA and the LEGO
Group to inspire children to explore science, technology, engineering and
mathematics", ... more »
EU watchdogs may turn against Google over privacy policy
*According to French privacy regulator CNIL, EU watchdogs plan to take
action against Google by this summer over the web giant's existing privacy
policy. *Last October, the firm was agreed four months to amend its policy.
But Google supposed its procedures did fulfill with EU law. The new policy
was implemented after the company united 60 separate privacy policies into
one agreement.
The firm should offer a centralized opt-out tool and allow users to make a
decision which of Google's services provided facts about them. Google
should acclimatize its own tools so that it could lim... more »
Ancient Temple Discovered in Peru
Excavators stand near a newly-discovered temple at the archeological site
El Paraíso in Peru. Photo courtesy: Peru Ministry of Culture via
LiveScience.com
Archaeologists in Peru have uncovered what they believe is a temple,
estimated to be up to 5,000 years old, at the site of El Paraíso, north of
Lima.
Inside the ruins of the ancient room, which measures about 23 feet by 26
feet (7 meters by 8 meters), there's evidence of a ceremonial hearth, where
offerings may have been burned, archaeologists say. The temple also had a
narrow entrance and stone walls covered with yellow clay, o... more »
Religious Nuts... Dangerous To Normal People And An Efficiently Functioning Society
In the new Gallup poll, one is counted as "very religious" if they "affirm
that religion is important to his or her daily life and that church is
attended either weekly or almost every week." That's 40% of Americans.
Another 29% claim to be "moderately religious," meaning "they don’t attend
religious services regularly (or that *faith is not* very important to
them, but they still attend church regularly). It probably isn't hard to
guess that the most religious states are also the poorest, most racist,
least educated and most supportive of right-wing political candidates.
Here's ... more »
Beloved Author and Thought Leader Debbie Ford Dies at 57
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* *Beloved Author and Thought Leader Debbie Ford Dies at 57*
Posted on February 18, 2013 by NCReview
By Laurie Sue Brockway
Debbie Ford, 57, the bestselling author and teacher known for her work in
helping people break free of their emotional baggage and fears, died on
Sunday, February 17, 2013 in her home in San Diego, Calif. She was
surrounded by friends and family who gathered around her to lovingly send
her off to her next journey.
Those of us who knew her, or were in some measure touched by her work,
remember her as a physically tiny person who was a huge force of nature... more »
Junius - "Betray The Grave" Music Video
Source: ProstheticRecords.
Twisting the Treaty: A Tribal Grab for Wealth and Power
Ahem, allow me to recommend a new book—just published!
[image: _TwistingTheTreaty]
As you’ll have seen, there are one or two names there that might be
familiar.
The book appears at an important time in the country’s constitutional
history. If the Treaty itself arrived just in time to cement in place and
reward pre-Treaty genocidal land grabs by the likes of Hongo Hika, Te
Rauparaha and others, then the Maori-National party’s “constitutional
review” of today arrives at a time when Maori corporations, having been
gifted billions by taxpayers for things we haven’t done, seek to hav... more »
Northerntruthseeker On Truth Hertz Radio, February 18th, 2013
This morning, February 18th, 2013, I was on Charles Giuliani's "Truth
Hertz" radio show, on the Oracle Broadcasting Network
(www.oraclebroadcasting.com), along with my friend, Gregg Kalina, aka..
"Pt1Gard", to discuss a variety of subjects, especially the fraudulent
Sandy Hook Operation. Here is the link to that show:
http://mp3.oraclebroadcasting.com/Truth_Hertz/Truth_Hertz.2013-02-18_16k.mp3
NTS Notes: I do believe that I did a pretty good job overall....The show
flowed pretty consistently, and Gregg, Charles, and Mr. Sammo who called
in, made for a great roundtable discussion... more »
Clever Pun on MOOCs
Okay, I don’t have one. But I’d like to call attention to some excellent
discussion of Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Adam Kotsko asks “what
is the business model for online education.” Nigel Thrift analyzes the
recent “media obsession” with MOOCs. Louis Betty makes unfortunate swipes
at Apple in pursuit of a larger point about
Continue reading
Seriously Consevatives,
The
reason that no amount of marketing and focus groups will sell the Tar
Sands to us is because we do not want an "energy sector" that involves
them.
There's no magic pill here.
Napoleon On Public Debts
*Steampunk Bonaparte. Source: Jennifer Mei.*
Related:
*Napoleon On Men of Destiny*.
*Napoleon On Speculators And Profiteers*.
*Napoleon On An Age of Transition & The Dangers of A Militarist Government
*.
*Napoleon On Alexander The Great*.
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. 93-94.
[Dictation, Saint Helena, on the financial conditions of France in 1797]
The most important thing, in Napoleon's opinion, was to honor the public
trust and t... more »
Senators and residence
The recent media outrage about where Senators "reside" seems to have all
but ignored the legal definition of "residence". That definition is fairly
straightforward -- the fact that the Senators under attack have not gone to
that definition to show they are residents of their home province or
territory is very telling.
"Reside" does not necessarily require physical presence. It is more a
question of where a life is centred about. Where are taxes paid, what type
of drivers licence is held, what's the mailing address for credit cards and
that sort of thing.
So I may think of Vancouv... more »
"The Number One Thing the U.S. is Subsidizing Is Ignorance" (Lee Camp)
*"Most of us don't understand the economy, so Wall Street is allowed to
caress it, molest it, and digest it, and then run off with bags of money.
Our tax dollars are then used to save these fucking Armani-clad poop
farmers when they can't pay their debts."*
*by Ken*
I couldn't resist this newly posted Moment of Clarity from the great Lee
Camp, #207.
A couple of nuggets from "The Number One Thing the U.S. is Subsidizing Is
Ignorance":
We've subsidized our ignorance. Running out of cheap oil? We begin fracking
the fucking frack out of every square foot of the country. What is the
... more »
BOOKS / Jonah Raskin : Marjorie Heins' 'Priests of Our Democracy'
Priests
of Our Democracy:
Marjorie Heins on Academic Freedom
and the Red Scare of the '50s
“There were only a few exceptions to university collaboration in the
Cold War heresy hunt.” -- Marjorie Heins
By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / February 18, 2013
[Priests of Our Democracy: The Supreme Court, Academic Freedom, and the
Anti-Communist Purge by Marjorie Heins (February 2013: New York
WAS BEN ZYGIER HUNG OUT TO DRY BY AUSTRALIA’S SECRET SERVICE, ASIO?
In a report today at Australia’s ABC online news source, it is alleged that
Australian-Israel Ben Zygier, who was murdered/died in a high security
Israeli prisoner in December 2010, had also been spying, or at least been
in contact with, Australia’s own spy organisation ASIO. It is further
alleged that it was for this reason that he was arrested, secretly
imprisoned, and later died or was murdered. If this is the case then why
did not the Australian government speak out about Israel holding an
Australian citizen without trial or due process? Why did not ASIO protect
one of their own... more »
"The Basement Beneath the Wage Floor"
*"The Basement Beneath the Wage Floor"*
by Jeffrey Tucker
"There are certain sounds that tend to make people crazy. Think of nails on
a chalkboard. An infant screaming nonstop on a long flight. A piercing
whistle that won’t go away. Now we need to add another: a U.S. president
who thinks he can legislate high wages into law. For anyone who knows the
basics of economics — not distorted by a bogus central-planning mentality —
hearing this is like torture. It’s painful. It makes you crazier and
crazier until you finally want to yell, “Make it stop!”
This is how I felt when Preside... more »
Hard Times USA: Searching For a Place to Sleep”
“*Searching For a Place to Sleep”*
By Kenan Heise
Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from “The Book of the Poor: Who
They Are, What They Say, and How To End Their Poverty.” T.M.’s story was
written in the spring of 2012. (T.M. is in his fifties and has been living
on the street, off and on, for a majority of those years.)
“The Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”
—Matthew: 8:20
“For four years, I’ve been homeless and mostly living outside. Finally,
finally, I was able to get an SRO (single room occupancy in a multiple
tenant building) in Chicago. It was great unti... more »
Benjamin Fulford: After Pope falls, British Monarchy under severe attack, global turbulence increases
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* *After Pope falls, British Monarchy under severe attack, global
turbulence increases*
Posted by Benjamin Fulford
February 19, 2013
The resignations of Pope Malevolent and Queen Beatrix have now put the
British Monarchy under severe attack with allegations of incest, human
sacrifice and cuckoo bird like substitutions of genuine monarchs with
non-genetically linked intruders. It is not clear yet if these allegations
are true or are merely part of a psychological warfare campaign aimed at
forcing the resignation of Queen Elizabeth along with Princes Charles and
William.
The... more »
OPPT: UCC FINANCING STATEMENT AMENDMENT
Proper Wording to the UCC filing- VITAL INFO
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED WITHOUT PREJUDICE, UCC Doc. # 2000043135, the
perpetuity, is hereby duly amended only to include the following additional
collateral as follows,
WITH DUE STANDING, AUTHORITY, and AUTHORIZATION, without prejudice, public
policy, UCC 1-308, creator, experiencing by creation, knowingly, willingly,
and intentionally manifesting self through, by, and between bondservant
therefrom and any and all manifestations thereunder by Universal Contracts,
in any and all existences, does knowingly, willingly, and intentiona... more »
CISPA IS BACK
Digital rights activists vow to fight CISPA By Caitlin Dewey, February
14,
The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/digital-rights-activists-vow-to-fight-cispa/2013/02/14/e0c63282-7626-11e2-8f84-3e4b513b1a13_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines
[Excerpted]
The next battle in the war over the Internet’s future may have launched
this week in a K Street conference room.
So say privacy advocates and digital rights activists, who already are
marshalling for a fight against the reintroduced legislation. The Cyber
Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act passed the Ho... more »
He sells real estate AND …
In between selling real estate, Martyn Bradbury will be changing the NZ
blogosphere. Or so he says.
His plan to “change the blogosphere” is (wait for it, wait for it!) a new
blog. One that “will bring together 30 of the best left-wing bloggers and
progressive opinion shapers in NZ all onto one site to critique the news,
the media, and politics to provide the other side of the story.”
I can already hear you ask how this will differ from existing blogs like,
for example, The Double Standard? Well, for one thing, at least they’re all
using their own names…
Launching March 1st TheDa... more »
Arctic Sea Ice Death Spiral
Arctic Death Spiral Bombshell: CryoSat-2 Confirms Sea Ice Volume Has
Collapsed
By Joe Romm on Feb 14, 2013 at 6:28 pm Think Climate Progress
[Excerpted] The sharp drop in Arctic sea ice area has been matched by a
harder-to-see, but equally sharp, drop in sea ice thickness. The combined
result has been a collapse in total sea ice volume — to *one fifth* of its
level in 1980.
Back in September, Climate Progress reported that the European Space
Agency’s CryoSat-2 probe appeared to support the key conclusion of the
Pan-Arctic Ice Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System (PIOMAS) at the ... more »
Bob Feldman : Population Growth and Civil Rights Victories in Texas, 1940-1953
Herman
Sweatt was the first African American to attend the University of Texas
after a 1950 Supreme Court decision. Photo courtesy of UT Press / Daily
Texan.
The hidden history of Texas
Part 12: 1940-1953/2 -- Population growth and some significant civil
rights victories.
By Bob Feldman / The Rag Blog / February 18, 2013
[This is the second section of Part 12 of Bob Feldman's Rag Blog
Are the winds of change blowing in Syria? -UPDATED
*If the US plays poker and Russia plays chess........*Adrian Salbuchi
paraphrased
How to interpret these THREE news stories?
Is change in the air??
*E.U. foreign ministers reject arming Syrian rebels*
Rejecting a push by Britain, European governments on Monday decided against
providing weapons to Syrian rebel forces, expressing fears that more arms
would only lead to more bloodshed in a conflict that already has taken
nearly 70,000 lives.
I see that the numbers provided by the Saudi’s to John Kerry are not used
in this article. No surprise there.
A report issued Monday in Geneva b... more »
Not-So Red Star Over Russia
No time for a proper blog tonight as I've been busy attending to other
matters. So instead enjoy the spectacular footage from last week's meteor
strike in Russia. To think, a few hours later and this could have been
Northern England.
White House Press Corps laments lack of access
Did I call it last night, or what? Sure enough, as White House
Correspondents Association President, Ed Henry lodged an official complaint
about access, or lack thereof:
"Speaking on behalf of the White House Correspondents Association, I can
say a broad cross section of our members from print, radio, online and TV
have today expressed extreme frustration to me about having absolutely no
access to the President of the United States this entire weekend,” said
Henry. “There is a very simple but important principle we will continue to
fight for today and in the days ahead: transparenc... more »
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AMH UPDATES
- Addams-Melman House (AMH) housemate Karen Wainberg returned home today
from Washington DC after attending the Climate Change rally that organizers
say drew nearly 50,000. Karen stayed at the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker
House in DC which she loved and she raved about hanging out with Kathy
Boylan and all the others who live there. While at the CW House Karen ran
into our long-time Florida friend John Linnehan. She told us the march and
rally were in freezing cold but was thrilled by the experience.
- Over the weekend we had very high winds and cold here ... more »
Yes, There Are Still Members Of Congress Today Who Voted To Keep Terri Schiavo From Dying In Peace-- And Not Just Republicans
By early 2005 it was clear to everyone that Republican House Majority
Leader Tom DeLay (TX) was knee deep in one of the most far-reaching and
twisted scandals to hit Washington politics since Tea Pot Dome-- and that
he was probably implicated in the gangland style murder of Konstantinos
"Gus" Boulis. Many wondered if he would bring the whole stinking edifice of
the religious right, from Robertson, Falwell and Reed to Dobson down with
him. The last straw DeLay grasped onto before being flushed down history's
toilet was the a woman in Florida who had been in a vegetative state for 5 ... more »
NORMAN TEBBIT
Norman Tebbit (above) was a friend of Jimmy Savile.
Tebbit was invited to Savile's funeral.
Paedophile Peter Morrison was appointed a deputy chairman of the
Conservative Party when Tebbit was chairman.
Norman Tebbit
[image: Ponders End]
*Norman tebbit is from Ponders End.*
Norman Tebbit's father, Leonard, was a jeweller and pawnbroker.
Leonard "preferred playing snooker to working."
*Famous grouse - Telegraph*
*Thatcher and Tebbit*
Norman Tebbit "seems such a cold-blooded man: I find myself wondering
whether this is partly a defence mechanism against the isolation and
repre... more »
Recessions: The Don't Do List
*Back in 2008, when even politicians started to notice the economic
fertiliser had begun hitting the blade-rotating ventilation device, **I
suggested there were seven things governments could to to ensure the
economic recession was a long one**—and predicted they would do them all.
And so they did.
And here we still are.
Those seven things were taken from Murray Rothbard’s excellent book* America’s
Great Depression*. In this Guest Post, John Cochran updates the story.*
Listening to a new report on the just-released American GDP numbers while
reading Rothbard’s *America’s Great De... more »
Spot the contradiction
The item all over your news last night was Education Minister Hekia
Parata’s announcement of school closures, mergers and rationalisations
around Christchurch.
Virtually to a man (and woman) the parents, principals and teachers the
reporters spoke to were agin it. Their response is best summed up by that
of the Educational Institute (NZEI), who says the Government “needs to
listen to schools and their communities.”
These are the same people, and the very same NZEI, that wholeheartedly
supports top-down centralised control of state schools—which takes all
important decision maki... more »
Thoughts for the Brain - Sherlock
Apropos of nothing, except perhaps finding out the new series of Sherlock
goes into production next month I decided to scan various online theories
about the Final Problem, the Reichenbach Fall and how Sherlock escaped
death. It also helps because it means after this little blurb comes a list…
great.
The mechanics of Sherlock’s faked fall are still unclear, but there is a
wonderful section in the middle of this post, which very convincingly
unpicks the Final Problem and the origins of Jim Moriarty. It’s not
spoiling much (because it’s really excellent detail) to say the headline i... more »
Going For The Gold:The P5+1's Latest Lackluster Offer to Iran
In
anticipation of renewed talks between Iran and the P5+1 (the
nuclear-armed permanent members of the U.N. Security Council - Russia,
China, France, Britain and the United States - plus Germany) being held
later this month in Almaty, Kazakhstan, anonymous Western officials have
revealed a new "plan to offer to ease sanctions barring trade in gold
and other precious metals with Iran in return
Can you spot the missing point?
This BBC report I have quoted in full, can you spot the question that just
isn't being asked?
'A solicitor has been jailed for 10 years at the Old Bailey for running an
immigration sham marriage scam.
Tevfick Souleiman and immigration advisers Cenk Guclu and Furrah Kosimov
were found guilty of conspiracy to breach immigration law last week.
Souleiman, from Hatfield, and Guclu, from Enfield, were also convicted of
receiving proceeds of crime.
Kosimov, 29, from Wembley, was also convicted of money laundering.
He was found guilty in his absence as he is believed to have fled to his
... more »
Like Pepperidge Farm, Ezra Klein remembers!
*MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2013*
*Feared deficits when he was six:* What kind of a writer is Ezra Klein?
At this point, we aren’t sure. For our money, his most memorable moments
have earned him demerits; we refer to the various times he fawned to the
wondrously sincere Paul Ryan, presumably because he wanted to keep his
journalistic life lines open.
We’re also struck by the way The Channel is trying to construct a broadcast
persona for Klein—essentially, is trying to turn him into a more useful
Mouseketeer. For our money, it isn’t yet working.
Darling Rachel lives to snark. When the sa... more »
Forbes: Why Republicans should embrace the reality of climate change – ‘There’s no way of explaining what’s happened in the last 50 years through natural cycles’
[image: A church is surrounded by floodwaters as Staten Island residents
return to their Cedar Grove neighborhood on 1 November 2012, for the first
time since Hurricane Sandy ripped through the borough, leaving mass
destruction and flooding. Photo: Craig Warga / New York Daily News]
By Matthew Herper, Forbes Staff
18 February 2013
(Forbes) – We have reached the point where every rational person who
believes in making decisions based on science and available data should, if
not fully believe that human beings are warming the planet by releasing
greenhouse gases, at least recognize ... more »
The Tortured Road to Energy Transition. Who Said It Was Going to Be Easy?
Decarbonizing our economies and our societies, breaking our dependency on
fossil fuels, is going to be vastly harder than you may have imagined.
*The Tyee's* Andrew Nikiforuk offers a sobering assessment of the hurdles
and hardship that stand in our path.
*The basic global energy picture is what Nobel laureate Richard Smalley
once called the "terawatt challenge." And it comes with no comfortable
answers. *
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*What's a terawatt? Well, it's equal to the energy released from five
billion barrels of oil yearly, one billion tons of coal, or 1.6 billion
tons of wood.*
* *
*Every day t... more »
Robert D. Skeels: a community candidate for LAUSD School Board
*"Alongside this began a sharp rise in the costs of elections, which drove
the political parties even deeper into the pockets of the corporate
sector." — Professor Noam Chomsky*
[image: Robert D. Skeels for LAUSD School Board]Readers have probably
already seen the news of how the morning after I trounced the incumbent at
a local candidate forum, that NYC Mayor Bloomberg increased my opponent's
already obscene campaign fund by a whopping $1 Million. We had begun our
campaign early, because we knew that the corporate reformers would "up the
ante" this election cycle, but I don't thi... more »
Chile: A Hitherto Unpublished Military Narrative on Easter Island
*Chile: A Hitherto Unpublished Military Narrative on Easter Island UFOs*
*By Raúl Núñez – IEEE
NOUFA No. 20
February 2013*
The most reliable sources at the moment regarding the presence of the UFO
phenomenon on the island is the information provided over thirty years ago
by a unique character: Ignacio Valdes Jaña. The information gathered by
this Chilean military man has remained in private files for a very long
time, as the inquisitive soldier was “unable to convey his concerns to the
Chilean military, since they involved the slippery subject of UFOs.” Who,
then, was Ignacio Vald... more »
LifeShite Libels Dr Carhart
I am not a lawyer, but this isn't libel I'll eat my hat.
Dr Carhart should sue.
Alex Jones - The Western Standard of Living is Over
I think we should take a "silver lining in the cloud" perspective.
If He Hollers, Don’t Let Him Go
(By *American Zen*’s Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari.)
“*The only way the American Negro will ever be able to participate in the
American way of life is by a series of acts of violence-it’s tragic, but
it’s true.*” – African American author Chester Himes
“*The white spectators were fortunate that there were no blacks among them,
despite the accidental casualties, for had these irate, nervous cops spied
a black face in their midst there was no calculating the number of whites
who would have been killed by them accidentally.*” – Chester Himes,
“Prediction”
Chester Hime... more »
Richard Briers R.I.P.
I was saddened to hear of the death of Richard Briers today. As regular
readers of this blog will know, I am quite a fan of The Good Life, the
sitcom that first brought Richard Briers to my attention.
Admittedly I have concentrated previously here more upon some of the
attributes of Felicity Kendall rather than Richard Briers but I was still a
fan of his. What shocked me was that in the first episode Richard Briers
was portraying a man of just 40, at the time I thought he was much older;
now not so much - tempus fugit.
Here's the first eight and a half minutes of the very first epis... more »
The best giving starts with knowing what's needed
Confession time: Have you ever had to come up with a fast donation for a
food drive and solved the problem by digging around in the back of your
cupboards for tins and packets of things you never use?
I used to do it, despite nagging feelings of shame that all I was really
doing was dumping things I didn’t want in the first place – cans of kidney
beans, stewed tomatoes, cream corn. After I worked at a non-profit and saw
just how much unwanted crap got dumped at our door in the name of
donations, I put that practice away once and for all.
I was reminded of that today when I poked m... more »
Tigres sobre las rocas mirando el paisaje
[image: Tigres sobre las rocas mirando el paisaje]
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Rico postre con frutas frescas y saludables
[image: Rico postre con frutas frescas y saludables]
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Perrito y gatito entre las flores del jardín
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Syria attacked exactly as Germany in 1939
In the late 1930s, the Polish authorities, acting under the direction of
the Talmudic Establishment in London, committed horrendous massacres of
German citizens living in portions of the country which had been occupied
by Poland after the victory of Zionism over free Europe in the Great War.
Germans were raped, beaten and murdered for no other reason than being
German. The brutalisation of people in their own territory, was ignored by
the Zionised media across Europe, and even today is denied. The situation
which occurred in occupied-Germany in the 1930s, is now being duplicated ... more »
Anjem Choudary speaks
On Sunday The Sun reported thus:
'*SCROUNGING hate preacher Anjem Choudary has told fanatics to copy him by
going on benefits — urging: “Claim your Jihad Seeker’s Allowance.” *
****He cruelly ridiculed non-Muslims who held down 9-to-5 jobs all their
lives and said sponging off them made plotting holy war easier.
The Sun secretly filmed him over three meetings also saying leaders such as
David Cameron and Barack Obama should be *KILLED*, grinning as he branded
the Queen “ugly” and predicting a “tsunami” of Islamic immigrants would
sweep Europe.
...
People will say, ‘Ah, but you ar... more »
Peces de colores y delfines en el fondo del mar
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Conejos enamorados sobre el pasto verde
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Corporate Welfare King, Reed Hastings, Offers Up Another Hollywood Propaganda Film Promoting Corporate Ed Deform
It's fronted by Reed Hastings and called House of Cards, which would a
perfect title if it were about the underpinnings of corporate education
reform, but, alas, it is not. Clips from MinnPost:
. . . According to Ed Week, the fictional version is a cudgel with which
Francis “Frank” Underwood pummels those who get in his way: “Denied a
nomination to be secretary of state by the president-elect, Underwood
channels his ambitions toward passing a major education bill, the Education
Reform and Achievement Act.”
Apparently the ERAA is indeed ripped from the headlines, albeit headlines ... more »
El lago de los cisnes lleno de flores púrpura
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Harper's Religious Freedom Boondoggle
It's probably no surprise that Sideshow Steve Harper, immersed in the
magical thinking of fundamentalist evangelism, would say "*screw austerity,
let's create an Office of Religious Freedom*. *Now, find me an Ambassador.*
"
In the *Toronto Star*, Natalie Brender has an interesting look into what
Steve has in ever curious mind.
I'm all for freedom of religion but only so long as it is accompanied by
freedom from religion, especially Sideshow Steve's.
" Keep The Home Fires Burning - With Your Census Form"
*DOWN TO THE DOCTOR'S: This week, Dr Richard McGrath is getting his matches
ready*...
Yes, it's that time again: when freedom lovers across the land express
their antipathy to that recurrent symbol of bureaucracy and the Nanny State
-- the five yearly census form --by turning it into a carbon footprint.
Libertarians object to being told to fill in a census form for two reasons:
first, being *ordered* to fill in a questionnaire (they never just ask
nicely, do they) is a violation of a peaceful person's right to be left
alone; second, the information obtained via the census is util... more »
Carro antiguo para viajar por todas las ciudades
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Campo de tulipanes de color naranja
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Chile: Chupacabras Startles Suburban Couple
*Chile: Chupacabras Startles Suburban Couple*
*IEEE
NOUFA No. 20 – Noticiero Ufológico Autónomo
February 2013*
Incredible though it may seem, and in spite of countless hypotheses that
endeavor to explain the manifestations of the Chupacabras in our country,
we constantly find a series of anecdotes and reports that shatter our
frameworks, in one way or another, constituting an enigma that refuses to
vanish.
The appearance in recent days of news items regarding the IEA *(Spontaneous
Aggressive Intruder, in Spanish)* or Chupacabras have prompted those who
have had sightings of an ent... more »
Bella cascada en un paisaje hermoso
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Comrade Steve is a Real Bastard, Harper PMO Compared to KGB
Scientific research is supposed to be peer reviewed. For federal
government scientists, however, their research is politically reviewed
first to make sure it conforms to Comrade Harper's rancid ideology.
U Vic professor and climate scientist Andrew Weaver denounces Harper
government policies cracking down on scientists at the Department of
Fisheries and Oceans as "*reminiscent of the Cold War era, with the KGB in
Russia … George Orwell would just be chuckling in his grave*.”
*Under revised Fisheries and Oceans Canada rules, scientists working in its
central and Arctic region cann... more »
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UN says fertiliser crisis is damaging the biosphere – Mass application of nutrients causes pollution in some areas while under-use hampers food production in others
[image: Trends in global mineral fertilizer consumption for nitrogen and
phosphorus and projected possible futures,1960-2050. The amounts of
nitrogen and phosphorus in 2050 will depend on present-day decisions
(expressed as N and P2O5). Graphic: Global Partnership on Nutrient
Management (GPNM) in 'Our Nutrient World']
By Michael McCarthy
18 February 2013
(The Independent) – The world is facing a fertiliser crisis, with far too
little in some places, and far too much in others, a new report from the
United Nations says today.
The mass application of nitrogen, phosphorus, and ... more »
Rachel's MSNBC Iraq War Special Tonight-- Don't Miss It
Last week we looked at the idea of redemption in the political context and
the post wound up being about my own congressman, Adam Schiff (D-CA).
Schiff recently quit the Blue Dogs (while remaining in the not totally
different New Dems) and he's been co-sponsoring progressive legislation.
Does that expiate his vote for Bush's unprovoked attack on Iraq?
Yesterday it was reported that Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is planning
to mount a run for president (or, more likely, vice president) in 2016. It
won't hurt him in the Republican primary, but what will normal voters think
when i... more »
Tinfoil Hat Fun
Anybody else think that this two-fer headline on today's *New York* *Times*homepage is hilariously macabre?
President Plans Decade-Long Effort to Map Human Brain By JOHN MARKOFF
The Obama administration is outlining a project that would examine the
human brain and build a broad map of its activity, seeking to do for the
brain what the Human Genome Project did for the study of genetics.
- Obama’s Plan Envisions 8-Year Wait for Illegal Immigrants
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What's this? Illegal brains are getting a two year jump on Murikan
brains? Call Homeland Security, surround the laboratories with... more »
Justified
By Capt. Fogg
It isn't common for the US media to make an issue of the level of violence
in South Africa, but Oscar Pistorius is a celebrity and the woman he's
accused of murdering was a celebrity. The lives of our secular pantheon
are important to the public and particularly if the celebrity has to do
with sports. Are the successful athletes we love to appoint as role
models, whom we love to pretend to emulate, really paragons of virtue and
discipline or does their drive, their ego, their motivation spill over into
something sometimes less than wholesome? I'm not going to genera... more »
Shabby Chic Hutch Redo
I am not sure how it started, but for almost every important event in my
life, I have been given a doll. I have a bridal doll that was given to me
from my parents on my wedding day, a beautiful doll with curly ringlets
that my husband gave to me when my daughter was born and many more. These
dolls have spent their lives in a plastic container. Never having a place
to be displayed. I have always wanted a hutch to display them, but we have
never had the room and the price tags on hutches are way more than
something I could spend on a want.
When we moved back to Utah from Texas last ... more »
UN Pleads for Arctic Protection
The United Nations Environment Programme warns that the Arctic is about to
get gang raped and it's going to be ugly.
*The Arctic needs to be better protected from a rush for natural resources
as melting ice makes mineral and energy exploration easier, the United
Nations' Environment Programme (UNEP) said.*
*"What we are seeing is that the melting of ice is prompting a rush for
exactly the fossil fuel resources that fuelled the melt in the first place,"
said Achim Steiner, U.N. Under-Secretary-General and UNEP Executive
Director.*
*"As the UNEP Year Book 2013 points out, the rush... more »
Celebrate President’s Day with a West Wing Marathon
Here’s the ten eleven best West Wing episodes you should watch today: Noel
Posse Comitatus A Proportional Response
Katie Osgood: The Lowest Expectation of Them All
Corporate education reformers love to rave about how schools that “beat the
odds” are full of teachers with “high expectations”. There are echoes of
George W’s “soft bigotry of low expectations” in this mantra implying that
in the past, teachers–stifled no doubt by those innovation-hating
unions–all had “low expectations” for their students and somehow THAT is
why students from low-income backgrounds struggled in school. Regardless of
the obstacles of poverty, homelessness, underfunding/lack of resources,
large class sizes, mental health problems, special needs, or not yet
knowing... more »
Climate Change Petri Dish
It's not a couple of low-lying islands about to sink under a risking sea.
It is the 7th-most populous country in Asia, 12th in the world.
Its 92-million people are scattered throughout the 7,100 islands that make
up their country and cover 300,000 sq.kms. And, right now, they're reeling
from the savage impacts of climate change. The Philippines may have
become the poster child for global warming.
*The Philippines experiences an average of 20 typhoons a year (including
three super-typhoons) plus numerous incidents of flooding, drought,
earthquakes and tremors and occasional vol... more »
Cat Fancy, Parent Company of Duck of Minerva, Subject of Takeover Bid by Nerd Pornography Site
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