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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 »
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 »
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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?
*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 Gene... 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. *
* *
*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.*
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*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
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Rico postre con frutas frescas y saludables
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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
**
**
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
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,
Continue reading
Nima at STScl: don't modify gravity, understand it
*...because it is a moral issue...*
It's not the first time when Nima Arkani-Hamed gave a "totally negative"
talk on a similar issue but it's a fun time.
Twelve days ago he came to The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in
Baltimore, Maryland – the terrestrial headquarters for Hubble (past) and
James Webb Telescope (future) and a loose part of Johns Hopkins University
– and had the following things to say.
Video:
Don't Modify Gravity—Understand It! (video, 85 minutes)
He is introduced by a host who enumerates some prizes Nima has received,
including a nice one from M... more »
Report points to risk of serious gap in weather satellite data
[image: Had it not been for polar-orbiting satellites, NOAA's forecasts of
Hurricane Sandy's track could have been hundreds of miles off, scientists
say. Rather than indicating five days in advance that Sandy would make
landfall on 29 October 2012 (left), the forecasting models would have shown
the hurricane remaining at sea (right). Graphic: NOAA]
By DYLAN WALSH
18 February 2013
(The New York Times) – A new report from the Government Accountability
Office elevates the problem of looming gaps in satellite weather data to a
“high risk” concern for the federal government
The G.A.O.... more »
Lawrence O’Donnell gone crazy and wild!
*MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2013*
*Did his rants make any sense:* The NRA is one of the dumbest lobbying
groups in the country.
It went around the bend long ago. Its leading spokesman, Wayne LaPierre,
has behaved like a madman for years.
That said, is LaPierre anti-Semitic? Over and over, Lawrence O’Donnell
teased that pleasing idea on last Wednesday’s program. See THE DAILY
HOWLER, 2/15/13.
He teased his claim again and again. But when it came time to deliver the
goods, was Lawrence able to back up his latest rant—his very serious charge?
We’d have to say he was not. Lawrence went on ... more »
Iraq Runs Dry
Just what a country riven by ethnic and religious conflict needs - a water
crisis. The country is Iraq where Shiite and Sunni struggles overlap into
Arab, Persian and Kurdish conflicts under a hopelessly corrupt and brutal,
Shiite-dominated central government.
So which bunch is going to have to get by without water?
The fertile crescent formed by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers created the
birthplace of civilization back in the days of the Mesopotamians.
Over the past decade, precipitation in the northern Middle East has fallen
while temperatures have increased. A Yale study o... more »
Meat Kills Our Environment
A United Nations Environment Programme report urges people in wealthy
countries to become "demitarians" by cutting their meat consumption by
half. The reduction is said to be necessary to curb environmental
destruction caused by excessive demand for meat products.
*The quest for ever cheaper meat in the past few decades – most people even
in rich countries ate significantly less meat one and two generations ago –
has resulted in a massive expansion of intensively farmed livestock. This
has diverted vast quantities of grain from human to animal consumption,
requiring intensive us... more »
'Chillin on a Dirt Road' - locked down and not leaving
*By Tulip,*
*Update:* Lock-downers Allison and Alex are still "chillin on a dirt road"
alongside a growing support crew in Pike County's Delaware State Forest.
They are holding strong through the cold, blocking a pipeline access road
for Tennessee Gas Pipeline's (TGP) Northeast Upgrade project (NEUP). Around
9am two independent contractors for TGP arrived on site and took pictures.
Channel 13 news showed up shortly after, but left, promising to come back
later. The Pocono Record is there now, as more folks roll in to support the
action. A truck from the Michel Pipeline Constructio... more »
But Israel is an apartheid state?
The Washington Post reports that:
'An Iranian newspaper is reporting that government authorities are
confiscating Buddha statues from shops in Tehran to stop the promotion of
Buddhism in the country.
Sunday’s report by the independent Arman daily quotes Saeed Jaberi Ansari,
an official for the protection of Iran’s cultural heritage, as saying that
authorities will not permit a specific belief to be promoted through such
statues.'
Anything on the BBC yet? Would there be if this was Israel taking such
action, rather than Iran?
UN widens effort to fix environmental woes – ‘It is becoming more and more clear in the minds of the public that climate change is a clear and present danger that will require us to act’
[image: Logo for UNEP's conference, Rio+20: From Outcome to Implementation
- The First Universal Session of the Governing Council, Nairobi, 16-22
February 2013. Graphic: UNEP]
18 February 2013 (Reuters) – A new United Nations plan to involve all
nations in marshalling science to fix environmental problems ranging from
toxic chemicals to climate change will be put to the test from Monday at
talks in Nairobi.
The 40-year-old U.N. Environment Programme will open its annual governing
council to all the world's almost 200 nations, up from a current group of
58, under reforms aimed at ... more »
SCHOOLED ABOUT PRESCHOOL: Red states rule!
*MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2013*
*Part 1—Obama, Oklahoma and Georgia:* In last week’s State of the Union
Address, President Obama proposed “working with states to make high-quality
preschool available to every child in America.”
When the president made this proposal, he named two states which have been
leading the way in this area. Within days, liberal “journalists” were
helping us liberals find ways to deny what Obama had said:
OBAMA (2/12/13): Tonight, I propose working with states to make
high-quality preschool available to every child in America. Every dollar we
invest in high-qual... more »
ALEC Opens the Doors to the "General Public"?
This
past weekend I introduced you to ALEC's new poobah of PR
*>>>>>>>>Bill
Meierling<<<<<<<<<<*
Well
- it looks like he and/or Edleman have been screwing around with
ALEC's webpage recently.
They made a few changes and this one is a major change and intriguing.
And could come back to bite them in the butt. From a public relations
standpoint - a nightmare - they just shot themselves in both feet -
that's
why I give you the screenshot - for posterity and all time - they will
NEVER live this one down.
a nonpartisan *public-private partnership* of America's state
legi... more »
Westboro Baptist Church
So, last night we watched "The Most Hated Family in America" and, no
surprise, I was appalled.
Now, I don't think that I was expecting any profound insights from a church
with the slogan "God Hates Fags" as its main message. I was just surprised
at what an uncharismatic, hollow, empty shell of nothingness that the
cult's patriarch, Fred Phelps was.
In the whole show, Louis Theroux gets to speak with Fred Phelps twice. The
first time, it's just after Theroux introduces us to a member of the cult
who had, like Theroux, come as a documentary filmmaker to observe the
Phelps family. Thi... more »
Goldwater Insittue - ALEC:transparent, Unions:not
Oh, my …………………………
The Repugs are really going over the edge here.
I wonder how much ALEC corporations paid for this study?
How much longer do we have to put up with them spreading their extremist,
right-wing misinformation?
This whole report is such a bunch of twisted REPugnant bull crap - cause
anyone that knows ANYTHING about government knows about open meeting law -
executive session privilege and ratification in an open meeting.
Forty-one states require or encourage secret contract negotiations between
public boards and unions
By Victor Skinner
EAGnews.org
PHOENIX – ... more »
John O'Farrell was sorry that the Brighton bomb didn't kill Margaret Thatcher. Was his disappointment eased by the injuries incurred by my wife? – Telegraph Blogs
Norman Tebbit poses a good question, one that Ed Miliband will surely fail
to address.
*'*John O'Farrell was sorry that the Brighton bomb didn't kill Margaret
Thatcher. Was his disappointment eased by the injuries incurred by my wife?'
So come on Ed Miliband where do you stand on prospective Labour MPs being
on record stating that they previously wished Lady Thatcher dead?
Does this photo give us a clue?
How Greece is surviving the Crisis...
address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 18 hours ago
Link: http://youtu.be/YimngJj_TR8
Fantastic! A great video about a great people! Thanks *Heleni Arzumanidis*from Athens for the hint.
We enjoyed this! Keep it going Greece!!
John
Rubio's Environmentally Wrong Fundraiser
Report: Rubio PAC raises $100,000 from sale of water bottles
By Meghashyam Mali - 02/18/13 08:10 AM ET
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) has raised more than $100,000 thanks to his water
break moment during last week’s GOP response to the State of the Union,
according to a report.
Rubio’s political action committee began selling water bottles branded with
the Tea Party favorite’s name for contributions of $25 or more. Buzzfeed
reports that after a week the effort has sold more than 3,100 water bottles.
The water bottles were an attempt to capitalize on Rubio's swig of water
while deliveri... more »
Old Gas Leak Sparks Water Ban in Wisconsin
Rachel Rindfleisch at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 18 hours ago
By: Nathan Lamb
Contaminants from an old gas leak have left residents of a Wisconsin
apartment complex without drinking water for more than three months,
according to this article from the Kenosha News.
Roughly 25 residents of the Lincoln Crest Apartments at Twin Lakes have
been getting by on bottled water since high levels of a gasoline additive
were discovered at the complex’s well by the state's Department of Natural
Resources (DNR) in late October.
The testing revealed methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE), a fuel octane
heightening compound that’s considered a potential carcino... more »
Boehner Has No Intention Of Allowing A Vote On The Minimum Wage
That graphic above is a stark reminder of why President Obama asked
Congress to raise the minimum wage as part of his State of the Union
address last week. Massachusetts state Rep. Carl Sciortino is running for
the congressional seat being vacated by Ed Markey. He was one of the
Massachusetts Progressive Caucus and of People For the American Way's Young
Elected Officials Network. The head of the YEO Network, Andrew Gillum
(D-Tallahassee) told me Carl's "devotion to our work has never diminished.
He served as a YEO State Director for multiple years and has invested in
training the ... more »
War, Or Enlightenment: The Only Option
The climaterealists site has a post by John Delingpole, wherein he
seriously asks what can be done about President Obama's lies about "climate
change" (in quotes, because it is just a false idea, not a reality). The
following is my response (with an added phrase or two at the end, to the
comment as I submitted it):
*The leaders and movers in the world act like they are playing an involved
game of chess, but one in which pieces are never removed from play (the
major pieces just move around in their own spot, the pawns are
replaceable), so the King can always believe he is winning. Th... more »
Against P Day
(My regular, rerun post for the holiday)
Presidents Day is a terrible idea for a holiday. Just an awful idea. In
this republic, there's absolutely no good reason to take a day to honor our
presidents.
On the other hand, Washington's Birthday is a perfectly good idea. If
we're going to honor great Americans, and we should, I'm not going to argue
with those who put George Washington first on the list of those to be
honored. In fact, the official federal holiday is Washington's Birthday,
but lots of states have renamed it to Presidents Day or something similar.
The consensus Thre... more »
GA's ALEC Choices for US Senate
Boy, this article from The Roll Call really outlines the lack of and
limited choices for decent representation of/by/for the people. Future
doesn't look too bright when you have this type of lineup for the US Senate.
Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, R-Ga., *[ALEC] *said Monday he will not be a
candidate in the Peach State’s Senate race next year.
“After discussing it with family and friends, and after much deliberation
and prayer, I have made the decision to not pursue a statewide office at
this time,” Westmoreland said in a statement. “I am honored to be serving
as the U.S. Congressman f... more »
The Epitome of Folly
The Edmonton Journal reports that Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver
knows about the damage being done by mining the tar sands:
Tailings ponds from oilsands production are leaking and contaminating
Alberta’s groundwater, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver was told in an
internal memo obtained by Postmedia News.
The memo, released through access to information legislation, said that
federal government scientists, including Quebec City-based research
geoscientist Martine Savard, had discovered evidence of the contamination
in new research that rejected longstanding claims th... more »
Untitled
*Levee upkeep bill to shift ~Bob Marshall*
~By the June 1 start of hurricane season, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
will be handing over the keys to the $14 billion hurricane protection
system it built around metro New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina. Yet as
the deadline approaches, the agency responsible for the East Bank flood
defense — the South Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East — knows that
the eye-popping $34 million annual bill it will soon face is beyond its
means, and possible solutions are blocked by state and congressional
politics.
*Gulf shrimpers hail early suc... more »
Local Residents Deploy President's Day Actions and Civil Disobedience to Stop Tennessee Pipeline Construction
MILFORD TOWNSHIP, Pa. - Early this morning, two local youth engaged in
civil disobedience by locking themselves through the Delaware State Forest
gate that is being used by pipeline workers to clear cut trees for the
Tennessee Gas Pipeline Northeast Upgrade construction. (Photos attached)
Allison Petryk, of Vernon, NJ and Alex Lotorto, of Milford, PA plan to
remain at the gate at the end of Schocopee Road throughout the work day to
prevent access by tree clearing crews. Tree clearing began on Friday within
twenty four hours of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Notice to
... more »
Is Rove's "Victory Project" His Waterloo?
Stop and think about the last election and the antics of all the
CONservative PACs and nastiness of what they produced as TV ads. Just a
reminder – think of all the ads from Americans for Prosperity, Restore our
Future, American Crossroads, America’s Future Fund, Crossroads GPS, or the
Conservative Majority Fund.
Well – what was good for the goose is NOT good for the gander.
Do unto others – but not unto thyself.
I was raised on a farm and we raised pigs – When a sow delivered a brood of
piglets you had to be in the barn to watch over it – cause she could and
would eat them.
Gue... more »
on vacation links....
*Logging operations on the river above Sibu, Sarawak, Malaysia. *
As I contemplate the differing economic paths of Sarawak and Taiwan... on
vacation links coming at ya....
- *DO NOT MISS*. FT with a scary, sinister story on China, technology,
and national security on a murder in Singapore, blatantly falsified in an
in-your-face warning way. *Death in Singapore*.
- China's war of maps with its neighbors. From WaPo. No mention of
Taiwan. Too hot to touch?
- Taiwan is new center of (Chinese) medical tourism.
- Legislative action in the upcoming session.
- Som... more »
Weekly Find: The Russet
*Weekly Find: The Russet*
Last Sunday we ventured out for brunch and at last gave The Russet a go.
This hidden barn style restaurant is located in the heart of east London.
Filled with the amazing baked goods from E5 bakehouse, it might be slightly
daunting to a limited eater. But actually after speaking to the staff about
the Gluten free bread sign on the window, I quickly discovered they are
very limited eater friendly. E5 is actually creating their own gluten free
sourdough loaf for Russet. Apparently the owners of both places are
friends, so big up to both of them for supporting... more »
Personal Statements From Today's Pike County Civil Disobedience Participants
Photo Credit: The River Reporter
*Please donate to the Anti-Fracking Bail Fund (link at the top right of
this page) that is being used to support arrestees throughout this ongoing
campaign against the Tennessee Pipeline! *
*Allison Petryk*
I was born and raised in Vernon, NJ, where the Tennessee Gas Pipeline Loop
324 has already impacted my community and where Loop 323 will end when it's
finished. After graduating from Ramapo College with a degree in
Environmental Studies I became an Outdoor Environmental Educator at the
Pocono Environmental Education Center in the spring and summe... more »
Monday Morning Linkage
Good Morning! Let’s start the week in the Asia-Pacific… North Korea It
looks like US officials met secretly with North Korea three times in 2011
and 2012 without telling Japan or South Korea. Why the US loaded heavy
equipment, including a bulldozer, on their plane during a stopover in Tokyo
remains a complete mystery. Not
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Biodynamic Farming - Rudolph Steiner - chemical free farming
BIODYNAMIC FARMING seems to be a reversion to ancient esoteric practices:
respecting the seasons and the electromagnetic influence of the earth, the
moon and the stars!
As far back as the 1920s, farmers were becoming concerned that artificial
(chemical) fertlisers were detrimental to both the animals, their produce
and their grazing/watering sources. Along came Austrian philosopher Rudolph
Steiner who suggested a more holistic approach to fertilisers, planting
cow-dung filled cow horns in earth for six months to transform the dung
into natural fertiliser which could then be diluted... more »
AMS-02 dark matter results in 2-3 weeks
*...and they may be pretty exciting...*
The BBC and The Globe And Mail (via Gordon) bring us some details about the looming
dark matter announcements.
In particular, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, a $1.5 billion gadget
operating from the International Space Station, should reveal their first
results in two or three weeks or so, i.e. probably in early March. And I
would say that Samuel Ting, a 1976 Physics Nobel Prize winner and the boss
of AMS, is trying to increase our suspicion that the AMS-02 results could
be damn interesting although he remained able to leak no detail whatso... more »
Hamas Destroys 75 Homes of Pro-Fatah Clan | United with Israel
'Hamas has ordered the demolition of 75 homes belonging to the
Fatah-affiliated Abu Amrah clan in a Gaza City neighborhood.Members of the
Abu Amrah clan have protested this decision at the offices of the
Palestinian Legislative Council. According to Abu Salah Abu Amrah, "We are
refugees and we have been living in this area for tens of years." Another
resident, Hazim Abu Hmeid, claimed, "When our children come back from
school, they will not know where to go because by the time they arrive,
their houses will have disappeared. The only place they will have is the
street in this cold... more »
Backpacker survives six weeks in Australia
'*BRITISH 18-year-old Stephen Malley has managed to survive for six weeks
in the heart of Sydney. *
Starved of culture and self-deprecation, Malley was forced to drink his own
urine rather than sweet, fizzy lager.
He said: “*Neighbours* and *Home and Away* can’t prepare you for the
reality of the situation.
“Everyone here is so relentlessly cheerful.”*'*
Lovely satire...
Thanks to The Daily Mash
Global Banking Cartel? - Too Big to Fail has become Too Big for Trial?
Senator Elizabeth Warren asks OCC and SEC federal bank regulators why no
banks were taken to trial in the aftermath of the financial crisis.
"When was the last time you took a Wall Street bank to trial?" she asks
Honourable Tom Curry (Comptroller, Office of the Comptroller of the
Currency) and Elisse Walter (Chair, U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission).
"We have not had to bring bank to trial," OCC Curry responds.
"I'll have to get back to you," SEC Walter appends.
Finally, Sen Warren 'loses it', interjecting a terse note, "There are
District Attorneys and U.S. Attorneys who ... more »
Open Source Ecology Philosophy Explained
27 January 2013
Open Source Ecology founder Dr. Marcin Jakubowski and the OSE team explain
the philosophy behind their work. Special thanks to our remote
collaborators Tom Griffing, Zach Dwiel and William Neal.
Join us in building the future.
*www.opensourceecology.org*
A lecture by Aaron Makaruk on Open Source Ecology at TEDxMadrid:
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-D8FGZi0qc*
http://opensourceecology.org/
THE BBC'S JAMES PURNELL - KOSHER NOSTRA?
*James Purnell.*
"From 2002 to 2004 James Purnell served as chairman of Labour Friends of
Israel....
"In December 2002 he paid a week-long visit to Israel...
"Upon his return to Britain he embarked upon an Israeli propaganda
campaign..."
*The incoming director-general of the BBC, Tony Hall, has put James
Purnell, in charge of strategy at the BBC.*
*Read more: Arch-Zionist Gets Top BBC Strategy Job*
*
*
*Gay Pub and James Purnell.* lgbtlabour.org.uk...
"Is James Purnell gay?"
"The question was posed on a website run by someone living in or near the
Work and Pensions Secretary's... more »
CO2 Flue Gas Capture Mastered
This is actually huge. As I reported before, it is possible to operate
acid rain in a pipe to strip SOx and NOx from the flue gas stream, using
the produced acids to reduce the heavy metals and run it all through a
water quench to leave a pure CO2 feedstock for the stack. Now this
technology easily grabs the CO2 itself. That was the only part missing.
It is now reasonable that all industrial thermal operations can achieve
full stripping of the flue gases to produce acids, metal salts and now
calcium carbonate.
Getting all this into a working plant is quite another matte... more »
Egyptian Transcendence
I find this very interesting. It is clear that the political elite were
way too small to find a way to easily transform itself into an acceptable
alternative. Worse its only tool to retain command and control is the use
of repression and that is both convincingly countered and also eliminated
through the dispersion of the secret police.
The obvious solution as applied elsewhere is to organize the local demos
as a first level of democratic regeneration to produce a fresh cadre of
leaders. This cadre can then produce a parliament to legislate change and
implement economi... more »
Japanese Whale Market has Collapsed
This informs us that the whaling industry is literally dying with a
whimper leaving behind a band of stranded rent seekers in its wake.
At least Canada’s seal hunt has some semblance of good husbandry
associated with it. The whale population happens to be in the early days
of a long term recovery cycle that is going to take a couple of centuries.
It is time to forget we know how to hunt them.
In fact is the whole global wild fishery is now well on the way to been
totally abandoned. The primary solutions are already in place and are been
deployed as fast as possible. ... more »
How Congress Could Fix Its Budget Woes, Permanently with Ellen Brown
Once again the wilderness speaks and perhaps someone will someday listen.
I have injected several additional comments in the text.
I personally have become much more radical in my thinking vis a vis the
economic system. Micro finance informed us that the same tools can be
shipped downstream to the individual and the natural community. A big part
of my emerging paradigm secures the definition of the natural community and
its financial integrity *independent *of the greater State, but directly
attached to the land. I suspect that this is very powerful and will
rapidly dom... more »
Labor Econ 10: Voluntary and Involuntary Unemployment
* This is my article today in thelobbyist.biz.
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One of the major sources of skepticism of high economic growth of the
Philippines is the persistent high unemployment and underemployment rates.
As of the latest labor force survey, October 2012 result, some 25.8 percent
of the total labor force of the country were either unemployed or
underemployed. See previous discussion here, Rise in unemployment not
exactly bad.
There are two main reasons why a person is unemployed. One is that he is
rejected due to under-qualification or over-qualification (may demand
higher pay later o... more »
Dr Aseem Malhotra - 20% Sugar Tax - 100% Cancer Tax
*you're hooked, now pay for that shit!*Dr Aseem Malhotra seems to have
spent an awful lot of time hammering the Junk Food Industry's cynical
sponsoring of sports events like last year's Olympic Games (*official
'restaurant' of the 2012 olympics*, was the slogan that me laugh the most)
via his numerous articles of concern on the BBC's website.
And he's right - processed sugar is the bane of Consumerist Humanity, and
has been DIRECTLY CONNECTED to both obesity, diabetes and cancer.
But is taxing sugar really the way to go?
Of course, it's a captive audience. Most processed foods, i.e... more »
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*Coalición de Derechos Humanos*
Contact:*
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P.O. Box 1286
Tucson, AZ 85702
Office: 520.770.1373
or 1.800.682.4280Fax: 520.770.7455
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grassroots organization which promotes respect for human/civil rights and
fights the militarization of the Southern Border region, discrimination,
and human rights abuses by federal, state, and local law enforcement
officials affecting U.S. and non-U.S. citizens alike. [image: DH logo]
*Please spread the word!*
Press Release
February 17, 2013
So... more »
Canadian's Don't Buy Mulcair's "50 Plus One" Pitch
"*No, I Love Eating Crow, It's Delicious*"
Three out of four Canadians reject NDP leader Tom Mulcair's contention
that the barest of majorities, 50 per cent plus one, in support of Quebec
sovereignty should oblige the federal government to negotiate.
*The Canadian Press Harris-Decima survey suggests almost three-quarters of
Canadians don’t buy Mr. Mulcair’s assertion... Indeed, on average,
respondents pegged the ideal threshold at 64 per cent.*
*The telephone poll was conducted Feb. 7-10 as The Canadian Press was
soliciting the opinions of provincial NDP leaders to the federal par... more »
Meet & Greet Monday (#MtaGt)
Welcome to Meet & Greet Monday!
Banner by Art Ist
Grab our banner for your site:
Do you have an Eco-friendly blog? Do you occasionally write about the
environment or ways to live green? If you answered yes to any, you're
invited to link up. Here are the rules:
1. If you have a green-living blog or a blog where you sometimes write
about the environment, sustainability, etc., please use the "linky" below
to list your site.
2. If you only occasionally write about green living, please use tags such
as "green", "Eco", "Environment", etc. and then link to... more »
Manny Pacquiao-- Another Shabby Right Wing Icon
Yesterday, far right fanatic Bryan Fischer was whining on twitter how
"ANOTHER rich guy takes his money - and his tax revenue - out of US because
taxes are too high." And that was Manny Pacquiao, a Filipino boxer and the
congressman representing Sarangani province back home. Since being sworn in
on April 16, 2012 he's been representing Sarangani's 500,000 mostly poor
farmers from his two beautiful homes in Los Angeles. He's in L.A. making
millions doing commercials for NIKE, for detergents, medicines, telecomm
companies, cheap beer, clothing and for anyone else who will write him a... more »
Will Chicago Public Schools Be Sued Duing Black History Month for Its White Curriculum?
From DNAinfo.com:
CHATHAM — State Rep. Mary Flowers (D-Chicago) is urging a community group
to file a lawsuit against Chicago Public Schools for not complying with a
22-year-old state law that requires all public elementary and high schools
to include black history as part of its regular curriculum.
"I encourage you to file a lawsuit against CPS to make them comply with the
state law," Flowers said at a Saturday meeting with community group We Can
Inc. at Josephine's Cooking restaurant, 436 E. 79th St. . . .
In 1986, Flowers sponsored a state law, which took effect in 1991,
mand... more »
Face book: Under attack by complicated hackers
*Face book has discovered it was the target of a complicated attack by
hackers last month, but found no proof any user data had been compromised. *The
US-based social network supposed that the assault occurred when human
resources visited a mobile developer website that was compromised. In last
month, Face book security discovered that our systems had been targeted in
a sophisticated attack.
Face book suggests, in a blog post that it was not the only company to have
been attacked in this way. The assault happened when a handful of employees
visited a mobile developer website tha... more »
"Self-Hating Whites Are In Charge"
Must watch guys. Also, be sure to sign up for *TruTube.TV* and boycott
JewTube!
How the English saw Canada in 1941
Here's the start of a plot summary for the British film 49th Parallel, a
film set in World War II:
"U-37, the first German submarine to reach Canada, sinks a merchant ship in
the Gulf of St. Lawrence, then runs for cover in Hudson Bay."
Do you think they looked at a map?
Europe by night
By crikey, the human environment is beautiful!
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Cardinal Ratzinger, Dr. Fox, and the Holy Office of the Inquisition
*Cardinal Ratzinger, Dr. Fox, and the Holy Office of the Inquisition*
By Paula: Humfrey
Twenty-one years ago I was baptized as a Lutheran in a ceremony at home
alongside my infant son, who was also baptized. This was a transcendent
experience for me. I say that just to put things in context. I've always
had genuine reverence for the ceremonies and rituals of worship. At their
best, these are symbols of the ineffable grace of the Creator. However, for
me, one real difficulty with institutional religion remains: we the people
long ago handed over control of our individual rights to... more »
A Decorous Rally Protests Keystone XL
I left the evermore dun and drab landscape around Wit's End for the
"biggest climate change rally ever" in Washington DC, carpooling to today's
event with my friends Roger and Susan. Of course on the way we passed by
countless sights like this, dismal scenes of trees in varying states of
decay.
But we went for a purpose, so I won't dwell on that now. Here we are,
marching from the Washington Monument to the White House, in a photo
courtesy of our kind host who has let us couchsurf at his Georgetown condo
- thanks for a cozy place to stay, and the pictures, Shaw Thacher!
The irrepre... more »
Political photo of the year
I watched this speech live. Have to agree this captures the magic of that
moment perfectly.
Brooks Kraft has won “Political Photo of the Year” from the The White House
News Photographers Association for this image of President Barack Obama
speaking in the pouring rain during a campaign rally in Glen Allen,
Virginia.
Can't imagine how they choose only one from a whole year. I've seen so many
great images. In fact, this would be a good time to clear out some of my
archives. I'd vote this best POTUS with baby photo of the year.
Best family photo. Barack and the kids watching Mich... more »
As the "Downton Abbey" season draws to a close, do we have to wonder if we're seeing the real thing?
*by Ken*
As we arrive at the end of the third season of *Downton Abbey* (well, not
actually; if I've got this right, we saw that *last* week, and what we're
seeing tonight -- or whenever our local PBS outlets get around to it -- is
the post-Season 3 2012 "Christmas Special"), I have to admit that I'm
coming late to a controversy that has been festering online now for, well,
all three seasons: the reediting of the show for U.S. airwaves. All I can
say in my defense is that I try not to spend a lot of time hanging out
among the online TV crazies.
In this case, though, they've final... more »
Minimum Wage a Winner Both Politically and Economically
President
Obama's proposal to raise the minimum wage to $9.00 per hour puts
the Republicans between a rock and a hard place politically. Paul
Krugmanechoes the point that a big majority of the population supports a
minimum
wage increase, including a majority of Republicans (his linking to the
original poll source appears to have crashed that website, but I will
update later). Yet the Republican leadership remains trapped because it
opposes this increase as well as any alternative policy that might make
the
poor better off, such as increasing the Earned Income Tax Credit or
endorsing ... more »
Filipino super-typhoon an ominous warning of climate change impact – ‘The devastation was worse than anything I have ever seen’
[image: One of the Expedition 34 crew members aboard the International
Space Station captured this still image of Super Typhoon Bopha on 2
December 2012. The storm was bearing down on the Philippines with winds of
135 miles per hour. Photo: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center]
By Simon Tisdall
17 February 2013
(guardian.co.uk) – When super-typhoon Bopha struck without warning before
dawn, flattening the walls of their home, Maria Amparo Jenobiagon, her two
daughters and her grandchildren ran for their lives.
The storm on 4 December was the worst ever to hit the southern Philippines: ... more »
Refrescantes paletas de sabores y colores diferentes
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Perrito bajo la sombra de los árboles del bosque
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Canadians Are On To Harper's "Action Plan" Propaganda
Eight polls, all of them of course on your tax dollar, were commissioned by
the federal finance department between 2009 and 2012 to learn that Canadians
are fed up with Harper's incessant "Economic Action Plan" ads. The polls,
by the way, alone cost $300,000.
*The most-recently released survey has respondents calling the material
“propaganda” and a “waste of money,” while fewer people than ever are
taking any action after viewing the ads.*
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*The Finance Department, meanwhile, continues to air the ads, with the
latest TV campaign kicking off Monday and running to April 30.*
*...O... more »
Gatitos jugando con bolas de estambre suaves y calientitas
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Las princesitas de los cuentos de hadas
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Tucson Activist Picked up Migra! Call!
Long-time human rights Tucson activist Raul Alcaraz Ochoa has been picked
up the migra and is being held at the Tucson Border Patrol Station. You can
call the migra and demand his release at (520) 514-4700.
UPDATE:"Raúl Al-qaraz Ochoa should be released soon. But if he isn't
released by morning, his lawyers will take action. They are working to
draft a press release for the media now. Please continue to call Border
Patrol at (520) 514-4700, 520-748-3041 or 520-748-3113 and demand that he
is released."
Ave de colores volando por los cielos
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Haitian Hearts has Two Patients Accepted
Memose--October, 2012
(Photo by John Carroll)
Thirty-four year old Memose was just accepted by a medical center in the
United States for reconstructive surgery of her jaw.
Thirteen years ago Haitian Hearts brought Memose to this same medical
center for cancer of her right lower jaw. The cancer was resected and her
fibula was used as a bone graft to make her a new jaw bone. It is held
together by a titanium plate and screws. After surgery Memose underwent
radiation therapy and did very well and returned to her family in Haiti.
Unfortunately, after the 2010 earthquake Memose was lost ... more »
US-Saudi Funded Terrorists Sowing Chaos in Pakistan
Baluchistan, Pakistan - long target of Western geopolitical interests,
terror wave coincides with Gwadar Port handover to China.
*February 18, 2013* (LD) - Quetta, the capital of Pakistan's southwest
Baluchistan province, bordering both US-occupied Afghanistan as well as
Iran, was the site of a grisly market bombing that has killed over 80
people. According to reports, the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi has
claimed responsibility for the attack. Billed as a "Sunni extremist group,"
it instead fits the pattern of global terrorism sponsored by the US,
Israel, and their Arab partne... more »
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