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Most AMAZING INSPIRATIONAL Transformation
For those of you that haven’t seen this, it is one of the most heart touching videos to grace the surface of the internet!Yale study links common chemicals to osteoarthritis
Chemicals in everyday objects may cause disease: UN report
10:33 pm MST
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose ...
That means the more things change, the more it's the same old, same old.
In March last year, I wrote a response to George Zimmerman shooting and
killed a black kid, claiming that it was self-defense and using the Stand-Your-Ground
law in Florida as justification.
It was entitled Aileen Wuornos is My Homie.
I wondered what would happen if women in the US started MASSIVELY using
Zimmerman's pretext. It's obvious that law is supported by the NRA lobby;
they often exploit concerns about women's safety as a rationalization for
demanding gun-owners rights are sacred, and blahblahblah S... more »
Resolutions are Proceeding at this End Point Period…
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* *Resolutions are Proceeding at this End Point Period…*
by ÉirePort
Silence in these moment-to-moments is most helpful. Formerly clashing
energetics have begun to resolve and centering with Higher Self in the
silence is perhaps the most efficient means to allow these to resolve fully.
Resolutions are proceeding at this end point period in humanity-duality
history. Hue-manity arises out of this. By this we mean Hue-manity General.
Global consciousness expansion follows 100th monkey embracement of
Hue-manity, by humanity (small h).
ÉirePort | February 20, 2013 at 05:09
URL: ... more »
Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)
Welcome to Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)! If this is your first visit,
please click HERE for information and a complete list of all the challenges
we've taken on so far.
There's a lot of great information in this post and I encourage you to read
through it ... however, if you don't have the time right now, you might
find the following quick links helpful:
- The #CTWW Gang
- The Honor Society
- My Final Thoughts on Our Last Challenge
- This Week's Challenge
Last week we joined Mrs. Green for a "Use It Up" challenge. We were asked
to use the food we have in our kitc... more »
Mississippi Finally Makes It Official-- Slavery Is Now Illegal In The Virtute Et Armis State
Mississippi is also known as the Magnolia State and the Hospitality
State... but *Virtute et Armis* is more befitting in the context of a state
that took until this week to finally ratify the 13th Amendment a century
and a half late. That was the one that abolished slavery. At least
Mississippi is, by some way of thinking, ahead of Mali, Niger and Mauratania!
After Congress voted for the 13th Amendment in January 1864, the measure
went to the states for ratification.
On Dec. 6, 1865, the amendment received the three-fourths' vote it needed
when Georgia became the 27th state to ... more »
Ennui
Wow, I've been a bad blogger the past little while. It's not that I don't
have anything to write about but more to do with deciding what to write and
then getting it down on paper so to speak. That, plus my brain is a bit
mushy after work on some days. I promise to have something more
substantive soon (yes, I know I promised that LAST time....but this time I
really, REALLY promise) so in the meantime, I give you a random run down of
thoughts....
1. I blogged about going to work "in the field" in a previous post, which
is scaffolder-speak for heading down into the plant to work... more »
"Saskatchewan NDP Leadership - Part 1 - Context" - Guest Post By Dan Tan
*(Buckdog is covering the 2013 Saskatchewan New Democratic Party Leadership
race - today a guest post by Dan Tan):*
*
**NDP members in Saskatchewan will be tasked with choosing the next
social-democratic leader of that province. That leader will be tasked with
challenging the misguided, misleading, & merciless governing Saskatchewan
Party - and their leader Brad Wall. In service of this internal process,
the following series of posts are offered to take stock of both the context
of the province…and those men who have pledged to lead it on behalf of the
NDP.
Before we evaluate the ... more »
Paulo Coelho, “The Mystery of Discovery”
*“The Mystery of Discovery”*
by Paulo Coelho
“Tonight, before leaving, I’m going to spend time sorting through the pile
of things I never had the patience to put in order.
And I will find that a little of my history is there.
All the letters, the notes, cuttings and receipts will take on their own
life and have strange stories to tell me – about the past and about the
future.
All the different things in the world, all the roads travelled, all the
entrances and exits of my life.
I am going to put on a shirt I often wear and, for the first time, I am
going to notice how it ... more »
“You should be forced to buy this book”
The title of this post comes from Stephen Hicks, who blogs on a new book by
aspiring philosopher-queen Sarah Conly defending paternalistic laws;
[image: conly-aa]that is, laws that make you do things, or prevent you from
doing things, for your own good. I argue [says the bossy bitch] that
autonomy, or the freedom to act in accordance with your own decisions, is
overrated … we need the help of others—and in particular, of government
regulation—to keep us from going wrong.”
To which busybody-babble Hicks drily responds:
Rumour has it that contrarian paternalists disagree violently,... more »
Musical Interlude: 2002, “Remember Now”
2002, “Remember Now”
- http://www.youtube.com/
Junius - The Antediluvian Fire
This is from the album *'The Martyrdom of a Catastrophist.'*
Musical Interlude: 2002, “Remember Now”
2002, “Remember Now”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq4qjI8VVzg
Nancy Tate ~ Hatonn ~ 18 February 2013
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* *Nancy Tate ~ Hatonn ~ 18 February 2013*
By FatherMotherGod... - Posted on 18 February 2013
I am here today to tell you all of something that is taking place in the
universe. I am Hatonn, and I greet you on the most momentous of days. It is
a matter of circumventing the universe and all of its territories and then
coming around again. We are in that beginning phase of the return trip
around the universe, the one that is beginning to open us all up to who we
truly are and what our next steps are.
You may be wondering in this moment what I speak of when I include myself,
a... more »
Flabbergasted at Boston Globe Flatulence
*Happened when I flipped over the first page and saw this leading its
nation coverage. *
*
**Keep in mind this is coming from the same group of people who claimed
that snowfalls were a thing of the past. *
"Climate contradiction: Less snow, more blizzards; 2 studies detail global
warming, extreme weather" by Seth Borenstein | Associated Press, February
19, 2013
WASHINGTON — With scant snowfall and barren ski slopes in parts of the
Midwest and Northeast the past couple of years, some scientists have
pointed to *global warming* as the culprit.
Then when a whopper of a blizzard smac... more »
Save IR and Politics at University of the West of England
Earlier today, I received an email alerting me to the fact that the
University of the West of England’s Academic Board supported a
recommendation from the Vice Chancellor’s Executive Group to close all
international relations and politics programs. Apparently, the plan is to
refocus the university (one of the ten largest in England) on skills-based
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Japan whale poachers spill oil during illegal refueling operation – ‘The time has come for the Australian government to intervene and put a stop to this insanity’
17 February 2013 (Sea Shepherd Australia) – In the early hours of the
17th
of February, while the *SSS Sam Simon *was tailing the South Korean
owned *Sun
Laurel*, fuel bunker ship to the Japanese whaling fleet, the *Sam
Simon*crew noticed the smell of diesel fumes coming from the wake of the
*Sun Laurel, *over one mile ahead.
Captain Luis Pinho radioed the *Sun Laurel* at 3:00 am AEDT,
approximately
15 minutes after the *Sun Laurel* entered Australian Antarctic
Territory,
informing them that they smelled diesel fumes, could see fuel slicks in
the
wake of the *Sun Laurel*, had col... more »
Harry Targ : Celebrate the 'Historical Revisionists' / 2
Paul
Sweezy and Paul Baran, shown photographed in Cuba, wrote about a new
era of monopoly capitalism. Image from Fotopages.
Celebrate the 'Historical Revisionists' / 2
Revisionists argued that while security, ideologies, personalities of
elites, and even human nature had some role to play in shaping policy,
all of these forces were influenced in the end by economics. And
economic interest
The take-no-prisoners LGBT march to world domination claims yet another casualty: Olympic wrestling
*It must be the computer world's cohort of virginal young maidens who can't
get enough of the tingly tight-singlet action of "wrestling-boner videos."*
*by Ken*
By and large, the most insidious conspiracies, I think we can agree, are
the ones that are so well hidden, that even seem so improbable, as to be
off the conspiracy boards altogether. By this standard, there is no
conspriacy insidiouser than the Gay War on Wrestling.
I've been meaning to get around to this for going on a week, but what with
this and that, you know how it is. Anyway, here's the heart of the
conspiracy, as r... more »
Update by Sheldan Nidle for the Spiritual Hierarchy and the Galactic Federation 02/19/2013
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* *Update by Sheldan Nidle for the Spiritual Hierarchy and the Galactic
Federation 02/19/2013*
9 Ahau, 8 Zac, 9 Eb
Dratzo! We return! Your world has moved even closer to its victory over the
dark! There are signs everywhere of what is shortly to happen. Your sacred
secret societies have compiled the legal instruments to force the major
governments of your world to resign. In consonance with this the military
and police forces of these nations have come together in secret to assert
that each of them is more than ready to use their powerbases to give their
respective governme... more »
XKCD: More ships in the oceans than fish, by weight
[image: Illustraion of how much sea level would fall if every ship were
removed all at once from the Earth's waters The level falls about six
microns — slightly more than the diameter of a strand of spider silk.
Graphic: XKCD]
*How much would the sea level fall if every ship were removed all at once
from the Earth's waters? – Michael Toje*
About six microns—slightly more than the diameter of a strand of spider
silk. […]
Sea levels will likely rise a few feet by the year 2100. Current fish wet
biomass is about 2 billion tons, so removing them won’t make a dent either.
(Marine fis... more »
SUMMER SNIPPETS: ‘Wolf Hall’ by Hilary Mantel
*More snippets below from my summer reading…*
*While we’re talking about figures undeservedly maligned by history …
allow me to introduce to you (if you haven’t already been introduced) a*new
*Thomas Cromwell—a man for the modern age.*
*Who?*
*An apprentice to Cardinal Wolsey, the sometimes benevolent sometimes
bullying Thomas Cromwell was the advisor to King Henry VII through one
Reformation, three marriages and many royal successes (and successors). He
is a villain however in Robert Bolt’s *Man For All Seasons*, and hence—for
the generation that venerated that play—a villain ... more »
The Most Expensive Weapon Ever Built
Time magazine has published an informative evaluation of the F-35 as it
stands today.
*The F-35, designed as the U.S. military's lethal hunter for 21st century
skies, has become the hunted, a poster child for Pentagon profligacy in a
new era of tightening budgets. Instead of the stars and stripes of the U.S.
Air Force emblazoned on its fuselage, it might as well have a bull's-eye.
Its pilots' helmets are plagued with problems, it hasn't yet dropped or
fired weapons, and the software it requires to go to war remains on the
drawing board.*
*Jack of All Trades, Master of None*
*Th... more »
Missing or murdered indigenous women and girls
*[...]Michèle Audette, president of the Native Women’s Association of
Canada (NWAC) states that, “it is incredible that the RCMP is publicly
doubting the number of missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls that
has been documented in the Native Women’s Association of Canada’s Database!
The high number of missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls that has
been documented was based on accurate secondary source information that in
many instances came directly from police reports that had further been
corroborated by NWAC researchers with various police agencies.*
*
* *NWAC... more »
Stephen Harper, Canada`s Intellectual Disgrace, Exposed
There he is, our national disgrace, the treasonous Stephen Harper..
In a blatant move, two months ahead of time, the Harper mandated closure of
the lifesaving Kits coast guard base...
Two months before we THOUGHT Stephen Treason Harper was going to close a
lifesaving coast guard base, against our will, against common sense, with
BC`s elected Federal Conservative MP`s running away, hiding, cowering like
gutless losers, spineless jellyfish, Conservative MPs who will be
unemployed as of 2015, with help from BC`s electorate...
Stephen the freak Harper thought he would use BC`s budget ... more »
China takes over Pakistan port
THE TAKEOVER HAS BEGUN, *muahahaha*.
YouTube Video Description - [Channel: JDUS2020]:
China has taken over management of a major port in Pakistan in a move that
gives it a potential naval base close to the Strait of Hormuz, reports
Reuters. China paid most of the $248 million used to build the port of
Gwadar on the Arabian Sea, aiming to slash the time it takes oil to reach
China from the Middle East and Africa. The acquisition of the port has
alarmed India, which fears it is being encircled by a string of
Chinese-funded ports that also includes facilities in Bangladesh and Sri
Lan... more »
Sunday Globe Special: The New Steward of Massachusetts Health Care
*Now I understand why Romney went along with it*:
"Steward reshapes Mass. health care business; For-profit hospital chain is
growing fast; cutting costs with tough management, innovation" by Robert
Weisman | Globe Staff, February 03, 2013
Dr. Gerard B. Hayes’s pace might be called breakneck if he was moving from
bed to bed. But he’s remotely monitoring patients at several hospitals from
an “e-ICU’’ outpost in Westwood operated by Steward Health Care System.
Caregivers at the site watch video screens showing patients in hospital
ICUs from Methuen to Fall River. It brings extra sets... more »
Video Simon Ortiz: Indigenous Alliance without Borders Youth Border Action Festival
Acoma
Pueblo poet and professor Simon Ortiz
Videos and photos from the Indigenous Alliance without Borders' Youth
Border Action Festival.
Acoma Pueblo poet and professor Simon Ortiz interviewed at the
Indigenous Alliance without Borders Youth Border Action Festival in
South Tucson, Arizona.
Thank you Guojun and the Indigenous Alliance without Borders.
More videos from the event:
"A Look to the Heavens"
“For now, Comet Lemmon (C/2012 F6a), and Comet PanSTARRS (C/2011 L4) are
sweeping through southern skies. Lemmon's lime green coma and thin tail are
near the left edge of this telephoto scene, a single frame from a timelapse
video (vimeo here) recorded on February 12, tracking its motion against the
background stars.
*Click image for larger size. *
Comet Lemmon's path brought it close to the line-of-sight to prominent
southern sky treasures the Small Magellanic Cloud and globular cluster 47
Tucanae (right). Sporting a broader, whitish tail, Comet PanSTARRS appears
in later video... more »
Winnemem Wintu Chief says Frankenfish must be stopped
Photo
of Joe Simmons, Winnemem Wintu Tribe member, Caleen Sisk, Chief and
Spiritual Leader of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe, and Kayla Carpenter, Hoopa
Valley Tribe member, at the State Capitol at a protest against Governor
Jerry Brown's peripheral tunnel plan on July 25. Photo by Dan Bacher.
Winnemem Wintu Chief says Frankenfish must be stopped
by Dan Bacher
http://
Chet Raymo, “Thinking Like A Tortoise”
*“Thinking Like A Tortoise”*
by Chet Raymo
“The average lifespan in a hunter-gatherer society is 32 years. If you
think you'd like the simplicity and ecological integrity of a
hunter-gatherer lifestyle, be sure to take your mobile phone and not wander
too far away from a hospital. Culture, medical and biological science in
particular, changed things dramatically. A century-and-a-half ago life
expectancy at birth was 50 years, with child mortality being the most
significant limiting factor. By the time I was born, life expectancy at
birth was pushing 70 years, with the age-ran... more »
Foreign Meddling Ahead of Malaysia's Elections
Xenophon: The Not-so Impartial Observer
*February 20, 2013* (Nile Bowie) - Malaysia’s decision to detain and deport
Australian Senator Nick Xenophon has become a hot topic of discussion
across the nation’s blogosphere. Xenophon came to Kuala Lumpur as part of a
seven-member international team of election observers invited by de-facto
opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim. Xenophon attended the Bersih 3.0 street
rally during a previous visit to Malaysia and criticised the government for
being “authoritarian” in handling the demonstrators. Xenophon was barred
from entering Malaysia under t... more »
Climate Change: The Folly of "Demanding" Action
*February 19, 2013* (LocalOrg) - At a recent Washington climate change
rally, who is demanding action? Demanding action from whom? What action?
In reality, the diminutive, corporate-media inflated rally in DC was
organized by the very corporate-financier special interests that have been
wreaking terrible havoc on both the human population and the environment of
this planet for decades. They are demanding action from a government that
already represents their interests. Their demands are policies,
particularly financial tax schemes that they themselves created and are are
best positi... more »
Ohanian Nails the Common Core, and then Burns It
Too good to miss from our national treasure and every corporate education
deformer's nightmare. At Daily Uncensored.
Arguments for a New STAR TREK Series
Because “53 reasons” is just plain stupid, and increments of five are
basically listicles, I provide three. 1. We are heading straight for
maximum Star Wars saturation. Despite its ham-handed didacticism, Star
Trek‘s values are far preferable to those of Star Wars. We cannot allow
aristocratic fantasy to bury republican virtue. 2. JJ Abrams is a pretty
good action
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AUSTRALIAN RACISTS FALL OVER THEMSELVES TO AVOID BEING LABELLED ’RACISTS’
There
was an interesting article in Australia’s ABC online *Drumbeat*
columnyesterday about the visit to Australia of the Islamophobic Dutch
hatemonger
Geert Wilders scheduled to tour Australia selling his message of hate.
Both
the article and the myriad of comments that followed the article are
well
worth a read as the comments demonstrate how fear and hatred in
Australia
is born out of ignorance. The comments also show how many racists
attempt
to avoid the ‘racist’ label by denying that Islamophobia is being racist
‘because Islam is a religion and not a race’. This stemmed from my o... more »
Pakistani Hazaras continue sit-in after attack
Source: AlJazeera.
Harvey Wasserman : Our Atomic Dominoes Are Falling
Falling
dominoes. Image from ANS Nuclear Cafe.
Two reactors down, others teetering:
Our atomic dominoes are falling
This latest stretch of shutdowns does not mean the death of the
industry. Both Georgia and Florida are being assaulted with legislation
that would allow utilities to build new reactors while ratepayers foot
the bill.
By Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog / February 19, 2013
Two
Hilary Mantel on Kate Middleton
Kate seems to have been selected for her role of princess because she was
irreproachable: as painfully thin as anyone could wish, without quirks,
without oddities, without the risk of the emergence of character. She
appears precision-made, machine-made, so different from Diana whose human
awkwardness and emotional incontinence showed in her every gesture. Diana
was capable of transforming herself from galumphing schoolgirl to ice
queen, from wraith to Amazon. Kate seems capable of going from perfect
bride to perfect mother, with no messy deviation.
The rest of Mantel's heresy is h... more »
Substance, Style, and Knowing the Difference
I finally got to the NYT Style section from Sunday, and spotted this gem:
“The fabric of politics has always been gossip and jokes and crazy
personality stuff and memes,” he said, a little angrily. “I mean, Dukakis
in the tank, that’s a meme. Political coverage that wants to be solely
high-minded is missing huge chunks of the actual interplay of personality
and power that is what actually drives things.”
He in this case being Buzzfeed's Ben Smith.
Look: it's really, really okay to cover "gossip and jokes and crazy
personality stuff and memes." That stuff is fun to read! I love a lo... more »
How Does The Republican Civil War Look From Behind Enemy Lines?
The Greed and Selfishness wing of the GOP tried asserting it's control over
the party it thinks it owns and is running into fierce resistance. The
Hatred and Bigotry wing isn't going to take it any longer and seems willing
to wreck what's left of the party in an attempt for a full takeover. It's
easy to say "You go for it," but there are two major problems. 1- As we
learned in the 1940s, fascism is dangerous and 2- old style,
"mainstreamish" conservatives are flooding into the Democratic Party. Last
week we saw lifelong Republican Patrick Murphy working to reorient the
House fresh... more »
The Kevin Drum we want to read!
*TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2013*
*Beyond the valley of the mutual loathing:* Last Tuesday night, Marco Rubio
stopped to take a swig of water.
By Friday night, the general inanity which ensued had given issue to this:
MATTHEWS (2/15/13): *Water-hyphen-gate! Marco Rubio’s water bottle moment
may be the image that haunts him for a long time.* Tonight, a look back at
some of the other moments that fairly or not have come to define some
politicians forever.
That brief statement was a tease. Later, we got another:
“Up next: Marco Rubio’s big gulp might become the moment that defines the
gu... more »
Pain Relief in Haiti--A Short Story
Untreated Breast Cancer in Haitian Woman
(Photo by John Carroll, 2012)*
**As referenced in a previous post, most Haitians have very difficult lives
and many of them suffer from painful conditions that are never treated. And
their pain is ignored too not because "Haitians have a higher pain
tolerance" but because Haitians are poor. *
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When Haitians have medical problems that cause pain, they need and deserve
pain medication. Pain relief is a basic human right. And ten million
Haitians have their fair share of burns, broken bones, and post-operative
pain.
Haiti has a huge supply of c... more »
Fault lines under Higashidori plant are active
*Ryuta Koike ‘Nuclear watchdog: Fault lines under Higashidori plant are
active’ Feb 19, 2013 The Asahi Shimbun
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201302190051*
[Excerpted] Geological fault lines that run beneath Tohoku Electric Power
Co.'s Higashidori nuclear power plant in Aomori Prefecture are almost
certainly active, according to an expert panel of the Nuclear Regulation
Authority.
The assessment was part of a draft report presented when the panel met on
Feb. 18. The panel also called for further studies on the activity of two
separate fault lines that exte... more »
Lamar W. Hankins : Selling Cremation Door-to-Door
Neptune
Society mailer. Image from Boing Boing.
Consumer beware!
Selling cremation door-to-door
I was treated to a sales pitch full of misleading or outright false
claims, all to get me to pay more than double the cost for a simple
cremation in the Austin area.
By Lamar W. Hankins /The Rag Blog / February 19, 2013
SAN MARCOS, Texas -- I just had the opportunity to be a “secret shopper”
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"Fear By Another Name"
*"Fear By Another Name"*
by Michael Brenner
"Assassination of American citizens by presidential dictate, blanket
suspension of habeas corpus indefinitely, massive wiretapping and
surveillance with and without warrant, torture as the official policy of
the United States government – these are trademarks of the “war on terror”
pursued since 9/11. This despite the absence of a single serious attack
over the past twelve years and the scattering of a defanged al-Qaida – the
only group that once had the potential capability to do us major harm.
The extraordinary trashing of our c... more »
Musical Interlude: Moody Blues, ''English Sunset''
Moody Blues, ''English Sunset''
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDXRemrXsOg
Satire: “House Science Committee Questions Existence of Meteors”
*“House Science Committee Questions Existence of Meteors”*
by Andy Borowitz
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)— “The chairman of the House Committee on
Science, Space, and Technology said today that the committee would hold
hearings next week “to settle the question, once and for all, of whether
meteors exist.” “The media has been in something of a frenzy recently on
this whole topic of meteors,” said chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas). “I think
it’s irresponsible of them to frighten the public about something that, at
the end of the day, may be about as real as unicorns.”
Rep. Smith ... more »
Poor Richard
What we know about King Richard III we mostly know about from Shakespeare.
It is from him we get the vicious deformed hunchback we all “know”: the
scheming blackguard “cheated of feature by dissembling nature, deformed,
unfinished, sent before his time into this breathing world scarce half-made
up”—so lame and unfashionable dogs bark at him as he limps by—so deformed
he is unable to prove a lover, hence is determined to be a villain.
Yet the body of the last Plantagenet king, the man defeated by Henry Tudor
at Bosworth Field—who Shakespeare has despairing at his end, “a horse, a
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WHICH IS SUSTAINABLE?
- An underground single-shell tank at the Department of Energy Hanford,
Washington nuclear facility is leaking up to 300 gallons of radioactive
waste a year. The tanks contain a mix of high-level radioactive and
hazardous chemical waste left from chemically processing fuel irradiated at
Hanford reactors to remove plutonium for the nation's nuclear weapons
program. As many as 67 of the tanks are believed to have leaked in the past.
- Maine Veterans For Peace will hold its annual retreat on Saturday,
February 23 at the Viles Arboretum in Augusta. It will ... more »
LANZA, BREIVIK, ISRAEL
*Adam Lanza - faked photo?*
"There is ZERO online fingerprint of him, there is ZERO video evidence,
there is ZERO car insurance, tax information, phone history...
"The neighbors haven’t seen him in years, nobody who lives around the
Lanzas seems to have seen him, and the last time there is any record of him
at all was 3 years ago.
"The FBI apparently can’t retrieve the information from his computer it was
so well destroyed (how convenient)."
*Has Adam Lanza Even Been Alive The Last 3 Years?*
*Adam Lanza at the Saturday Night Live studio.*
"What is more likely.. that a computer n... more »
The BBC and the Palestinian hunger strikers
This BBC article about the Palestinian hunger strikers raised two questions
in my mind.
First, what is the definition of a hunger strike lasting 200 days? Even the
BBC have to report that:
'Mr Issawi launched a hunger strike in August, but the the BBC understands
that at points during the 200 odd days he has broken off his hunger strike
for short periods only to resume it again.'
Hmm, in which case I have been on hunger strike for almost a year now,
only breaking it for three meals a day and never overnight.
Second, nowhere in the article does it say why the hunger strikers were
... more »
“Is Nigeria, And Its Light Sweet Crude, About To Be Drawn Into The Mali "Liberation"
*“Is Nigeria, And Its Light Sweet Crude, *
*About To Be Drawn Into The Mali "Liberation" Campaign?”*
by Tyler Durden
"Precisely a month ago, when we last looked at the ongoing French campaign
in Mali, whose diplomatic justification before the people of the
"democratic" world was the eradication of "insurgents", and various other
"Al Qaeda rebels", we asked readers, rhetorically, to look at a map of Mali
and tell us what they see.
We even provided an answer: Nothing. Mali is one of the most irrelevant
countries in West Africa from a resource standpoint, and what happens
ins... more »
Obama finds a way to blame everyone but himself...(video)
*and his lips are moving so you may be assured that he is lying.*
He "cut the deficit"? Um, no.
My oh my - listen to the laundry list of terrible things that will happen
with sequestration.
SCoaMF
H/T Freedoms Lighthouse
A Whole Lot About Parties, Third Parties, and Change
Recall that Ron Fournier wrote a recent column about how the Republicans
and Democrats are in danger of cracking up, and that Brendan Nyhan and I
wrote responses bashing him a bit. Well, Fournier apparently doesn't read
TAP, but he did respond to Nyhan in a column today that I think is very
helpful at sorting out where Fournier -- and his informants, who are
political professionals -- have something worth saying, and where they get
things wrong.
The short version: what Fournier and the political professionals are seeing
is the potential for change within the parties. They are (or he... more »
CKNW`s Question Of The Day
Will LNG be the lifeblood of BC`s economy by 2020?
Results at 10:30 am....
68.2 %-no
31.8%-yes
We shall see how long it takes for Christy Clark`s team of freepers and
cookie cutters to sabotage the question..
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On another LNG related note, Bill Good had on air Calgary Herald`s energy
expert Mr. Ewart, not for long, a mere 10 minutes, between 8:49 and 8:59
am..
He was very good, meaning quite honest, meaning more bad news for our
Governing party of unicorns..
http://www.cknw.com/news/audiovault/index.aspx
You know the routine, cue-up 8:00 am, February 19th, fast forwa... more »
Mediocrity watch: Our Rhee on Rose!
*TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2013*
*How to evaluate teachers:* The other day, we noted the irony of Michelle
Rhee’s campaign against mediocrity in public schools. We noted that Rhee
seemed to be quite mediocre, in various ways, as DC school superintendent.
For ourselves, we liked several things about Rhee’s approach—but overall,
she was at best mediocre. And if anyone ever doubted that, they should
consider her conversation with Charlie Rose last night.
Rhee did a segment with Rose on his eponymous program. In one chunk of
their conversation, they discussed the best ways to measure teache... more »
What a shock!
I have had a response to my complaint to the BBC Trust. It's a long one and
I will take my team reading it and no doubt fisking it BUT here's the
summary:
'I am sorry to send a disappointing response, but I do not believe your
appeal should be put in front of Trustees.'
Quelle surprise.
"In Arduous Officer Course, Women Offer Clues to Their Future in Infantry"
*"In Arduous Officer Course, *
*Women Offer Clues to Their Future in Infantry"*
By James Dao
"Last fall, two newly minted female lieutenants joined about 100 men in
Quantico, Va., for one of the most grueling experiences that soldiers not
in war can experience: the Marine Corps’ Infantry Officer Course. During
the 86-day course, candidates haul heavy packs and even heavier weapons up
and down steep hills, execute ambushes and endure bitter cold, hunger and
exhaustion. Uncertainty abounds: they do not know their next task, or even
how long they will have to perform it. At I.O.C.,... more »
Massachusetts Hospitals Are $ick
*I wouldn't know because although I have state-mandated insurance, I can't
afford to use it.*
*
**Enjoy your model, America!*
"With *profits down*, future of Mass. hospitals questioned" by Robert
Weisman | Globe Staff, September 08, 2012
As they brace for an era of shrinking government funds and mounting
pressure to cut prices for medical services, Massachusetts hospitals face
growing financial strains.
Two dozen — more than a third of the state’s total — lost money last year,
including rural community hospitals, urban safety net hospitals, and even
affiliates of renowned academi... more »
A parcel description of a property – including an incorporated reference plan – is not definitive of the boundaries or the extent of the land
MacIsaac v Salo, 2013 ONCA 98 is a remarkable decision that, among other
things,holds aparcel description of a property – including an incorporated
reference plan – is not definitive of the boundaries or the extent of the
land
[48] Indeed, prospective purchasers of property in the land titles
system must understand that the parcel description of a property –
including an incorporated reference plan – is not definitive of the
boundaries or the extent of the land. Only an up-to-date survey can confirm
the location of the boundaries of a parcel of land as they exist on the
gro... more »
"To Drone, or Not to Drone?"
*"To Drone, or Not to Drone?"*
by Joel Bowman
“Decent folk don’t need Dick Cheney to describe something as “a good
policy” to know it’s probably a bad idea. But just in case they missed the
point the first time around, the former VP was on television last week to
hammer it home for them. In an interview with "CBS This Morning", Cheney
brushed aside calls for “checks and balances” against the Obama
administration’s controversial drone program. “I think it’s a good
program,” Cheney told the host. “I don’t disagree with the basic policy
that the Obama administration has pursued in ... more »
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 and
that snow was a distant memory. 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!
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Rosa roja de los grandes jardines
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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. *
*
**And who can blame you? Who really wants to read agenda-pushing slop from
the AmeriKan media anymore. *
*
*"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.
Continue reading
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
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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 »
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