Alberta mtn.'s1 (Photo credit: bbob)
English: Dunlossit House, Port Askaig Home of the banker Bruno Schroder, currently ranked (by Forbes magazine) as the 465th most wealthy person in the world. http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/10/billionaires08_The-Worlds-Billionaires_Rank_20.html (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Tennessee River (Photo credit: michaelwfreem)Who is "Kinder" and "Morgan"?
The Tennessee Gas Pipeline Northeast Upgrade is a project of Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co., a subsidiary of El Paso, which was acquired in 2012 by Kinder Morgan, America's third largest energy firm. We're talking big bucks and deep pockets. Richard Kinder is the Texan "pipeline baron" behind the dirty and destructive Tennessee Pipeline and is a huge advocate for exporting shale gas to foreign countries through his pipelines and LNG terminals. "Morgan" is his now retired business partner. From the December issue of Forbes Magazine: Rich Kinder's Energy Kingdom“I think that for any of our... more »
Why is Alberta’s medical queue-jumping inquiry uninterested in dramatic 1990s case?
Dr. Ron Bridges of the Helios Wellness Clinic testifying yesterday in a screen grab from CBC’s broadcast. Below, Dr. Ciaran McNamee, who hasn’t been called to testify. What are we to make of the fact Alberta’s preferential health care access inquiry has failed to call a witness who was at the centre of one of ... more »
Monday Movies Post
Ever heard of a movie called "Men Must Fight"? It's an MGM film from 1933, directed by Edgar Selwyn (from a play by Reginald Lawrence and S. K. Lauren). Here's the original NYT review. The main person you're likely to recognize is Lewis Stone, who plays the Secretary of State; also in it is Robert Young, in a brief part, and Hedda Hopper, three years before she transitioned from actor to gossip columnist. You may also recognize Robert Greig, a large man who is, as usual, cast as a butler (he's in The Lady Eve and other Preston Sturges movies); also, May Robson, who plays Stone's mot... more »
OPPT-IN February 11, 2013 with Lisa Harrison and Scott and Ken Bartle
What the FUQ (Frequently Unanswered Questions of the Australian Government
Business 360 4: Brownouts and Power Deregulation
* This is my article for Business 360, published in Kathmandu, Nepal, early this month. ----------- *A**ddressing power shedding and rationing* Power outages of 12 hours a day or more is one formula for slow economic growth if not economic contraction. Almost all aspects of modern life, industrialization and agricultural modernization require stable and affordable electricity. When Charu Chadha informed me that Kathmandu suffers from 14 hours a day of power outages in early January and is projected to rise to 18 hours a day in the coming weeks, I was greatly surprised. It is si... more »
CONDITIONAL DISCHARGE FOR 9 11 TRUTHER TONY ROOKE; DAILY MAIL REPORT
*Tony Rooke* On 25 February 2013, in a court in the UK, Tony Rooke related that the 'BBC has covered up the facts about 9/11'. The judge made Rooke pay £200 costs and gave him a conditional discharge. *dailymail.* "Conditional discharges are often used in political cases to indicate that the accused, though technically guilty, occupies the moral high ground." http://www.reinvestigate911.org/content/court-victory-protestor *Outside the court.* *Professor Michel Chossudovsky, at Global Research, relates:* * *Historic 911 Court Case: Through Media Disinformation, BBC Supports “The ... more »
"Saskatchewan NDP Leadership - Part 3 - Taking Stock" - Guest Post By Dan Tan
Saskatchewan NDP Leadership - Part 3 - Taking Stock *Before reading, see Part 1 & Part 2* *There are no "losers" here. Those not familiar with the NDP or its values will interpret that as some annoying & misguided insistence on political correctness. In fact, it is merely a utilitarian observation. Our opponents leadership contests are correctly described as "exciting" & "dramatic". This is to be expected, when a party's declared values consist of nothing but broad platitudes in service of the obvious or inconsequential (ie. the rejection of "discrimination" or the promotion of ...more »
US State Department's "Syriasly" Campaign Reaches New Level of Absurdity
*February 26, 2013* (LD) - While the West and its Arab partners, the brutally autocratic regimes of Saudi Arabia and Qatar, are now admittedly funneling heavy weapons to Al Qaeda's stronghold in Daraa, southern Syria, the US State Department and its extensive network of faux NGO's funded by the same corporate-financier interests that write its policy, have rolled-out a front organization they call "Syriasly." *Image: This fuax-human rights organization already screams biased, pro-Western propaganda with its Al Qaeda/French colonial green, red, and black logo, aping the so-called "Fr... more »
The ancestors of the living native Americans took thousands of years to develop the many types of corn that the world now thrives on. But now, to improve its profit, Monsanto is getting set to plant their genetically modified corn in Mexico irrespective of the likelihood that all of the original varieties may be destroyed. Fortunately, the Mexicans are protesting.
------------------------------ *Go to Original here.* February 25, 2013 *Mexican Farmers Protest the Entrance of GMO Corn* Thousands across Mexico demand their government reject permits for GMO Corn while Monsanto defends their patent on life in U.S. Supreme Court More at The Real News Cherchez la Verite
Day 6 - Tree Update
Full moon last night or so it appeared through the clouds. I slept with the tarp open so i could see it all night. at some point i would wake up and think someone was shining a spotlight on me, and then I'd remember "Oh, it's just the moon." A surveyor or logger, couldn't tell which, came to see me, said he had to check to see if i was still here. Asked if i was cold, i shook my head no (it's actually quite warm inside two sleeping bags). I wanted to ask if he was cold or wanted some food, but i thought it best to remain silent. My beef isn't with the workers, it's with the companie... more »
Guest Post - Energy Efficient Mortgage (EEM)
*What is an Energy Efficient Mortgage?* Energy efficient mortgages (EEMs, sometimes known as “green mortgages”) are loans that allow homeowners to finance energy-efficient upgrades for their current home or in a new home purchase. The cost of the upgrades is rolled into the mortgage so that multiple loans are not needed. An EEM allows lenders to extend borrowers’ debt-to-income qualifying ratio, which means that they may be able to take out a larger home loan than would be allowed with a traditional mortgage. With an EEM, upfront costs may be higher than with a typical home loan. T... more »
Start the countdown: A year from today, I stand to take possession of a "complimentary sweet treat"
*I finally got up the courage to check to see whether Jahn's still exists. Not in Brooklyn, it doesn't, or most anyplace else in New York and Florida where this fondly remembered ice-cream parlor once existed. But apparently there's still this one outlet in Jackson Heights, Queens.* *by Ken* How can you write off as a hellish waste of 24 hours a day that draws to a close with arrangements very likely in place whereby next year on this date I stand to take possession of a "complimentary sweet treat" at a mediocre chain restaurant? Somehow the prospects had seemed a little brighter ... more »
This Is Revolting: Daytona 500 Race Has Car #26 Labeled: "Sandy Hook School Support Fund"
Yesterday was the "Great American Race", also known as NASCAR's Daytona 500 Motor Speedway race. Much hype was supposedly focused in on the fact that the race itself has a prominent female driver, Danika Patrick, in the race in the "Go Daddy" #10 Chevrolet car, and even though I did not watch the race itself, much of the media focus was on her taking 8th place in that race.... But there is something equally startling about this stock car race that I was not even aware of, until I found it in an article, from a friend, Sherrie, who writes the great blog: "Sherrie Questioning All" ... more »
Napoleon On The "Courage of 2 A.M."
* * *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*. *Napoleon On Public Debts*. *Napoleon On Public Opinion*. *Napoleon On Homer*. 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. 220. [Conversation, December 1815, related by Las Cases] As for moral courage, Napoleon said, he had rarely encountered the... more »
Lamar W. Hankins : Questions Ted Cruz Won't Answer
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, the inquisitor. Photo by Jim Watson / AFP / Getty Images. Questions that Rafael Edward 'Ted' Cruz won’t answer Cruz’s performance has been described by various commentators and reporters as disgraceful, appalling, embarrassing, slanderous, impertinent, uncivil, moralistic, swaggering, belligerent, nasty, disrespectful, and demagoguing. By Lamar W. Hankins / The Rag Blog /
"The Web Gallery of Art"
"Welcome to the Gallery! The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European fine arts from 11th to 19th centuries. It was started in 1996 as a topical site of the Renaissance art, originated in the Italian city-states of the 14th century and spread to other countries in the 15th and 16th centuries. Intending to present Renaissance art as comprehensively as possible, the scope of the collection was later extended to show its Medieval roots as well as its evolution to Baroque and Rococo via Mannerism. Encouraged by the feedback from the visitors, recentl...more »
Tuesday Events, Upriver and Downriver!
*MILFORD, PA* *7AM - *Meet at the bottom of Cummins Hill Road, just after the I-84 overpass on the right. We will park on the shoulder where Tennessee Gas Has been parking their work trucks every morning after dangerously dropping their workers off on a blind turn up the mountain. It is legal for us to park on the shoulder there. Join us tomorrow as we park our vehicles in that area and make a statement to Tennessee Gas! Contact # 570-269-9589 *PHILADELPHIA, PA* *12PM - *Press Conference and Vigil at the Army Corps of Engineers Office * * * * * *
Spell of the Tiger
The Sundarbans is a region of mangrove forests spread across many islands. It straddles the border between India and Bangladesh, on the Bay of Bengal. In earlier times, it was a civilized place, a flourishing port region. Archaeologists recently discovered a walled city, built in the fourth century, that covered two and a half square miles (6.47 sq. km). Ruins are scattered throughout the jungle, including temples and monasteries. In 1586, a European visitor reported seeing fertile land and sturdy, storm-resistant houses. Over the last 600 years, the land has experienced big... more »
Ted Cruz, Like Most Texas Republicans, Understands The Danger Of Thinking
I think it was Texas, but it may have been Kansas, but one of the primitive, anti-education states was looking into officially banning "critical thinking" from schools. [UPDATE: Sorry, Kansas; it was in the official 2012 platform of the Texas Republican Party, which advocated eliminating the minimum wage and the prevailing wage, doing away with the Department of Education and Department of Energy, and “reducing taxpayer funding to all levels of education” and opposed multicultural education and “critical thinking skills" because they “focus on behavior modification and have the pu... more »
Bob Feldman : Texas Civil Rights Movement Wins Big Victories, 1954-1973
White and African American students from Austin area colleges sit in at a segregated lunch counter on Congress Avenue in Austin, April 1960 as part of a concerted effort to integrate lunch counters. Image from Austin History Center. The hidden history of Texas Part 13: 1954-1973/1 -- Civil rights efforts to desegregate schools, public facilities, have wide success. By Bob Feldman / The Rag
"Be Kind..."
"Be kind, for everyone you know is fighting a hard battle." - Plato
Musical Interlude: “Greensleeves”
“Greensleeves” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSjfkwvOOAM
"A Video Moment With Nature"
Algerian Desert, Ahaggar National Park by Deborha Patten - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4xsRZ2zHX4&list=PL22D299EAF12B5BCE
Fatima Bhutto: "I've Never Been Asked To Talk In Pakistan. We Have A Culture of Silence."
Fatima Bhutto is a vocal critic of Pakistan's government and its political culture. This interview with her was done in 2011 on Italian television. In it she is asked why she hasn't appeared on Pakistani media to talk about her 2010 memoir called, *"Songs of Blood and Sword."* She answered: "I've never been asked to talk in Pakistan. We have a culture of silence." [6:35 - 6:40].
"A Look to the Heavens"
“The dark Horsehead Nebula and the glowing Orion Nebula are contrasting cosmic vistas. Adrift 1,500 light-years away in one of the night sky's most recognizable constellations, they appear in opposite corners of the above stunning mosaic. * Click image for larger size.* The familiar Horsehead nebula appears as a dark cloud, a small silhouette notched against the long red glow at the lower left. Alnitak is the easternmost star in Orion's belt and is seen as the brightest star to the left of the Horsehead. Below Alnitak is the Flame Nebula, with clouds of bright emission and drama... more »
Paulo Coelho, “Beauty Exists Not In Sameness”
*“Beauty Exists Not In Sameness”* by Paulo Coelho “Beauty exists not in sameness but in difference. Who could imagine a giraffe without its long neck or a cactus without its spines? The irregularity of the mountain peaks that surround us is what makes them so imposing. If we tried to make them all the same, they would no longer command our respect. It is the imperfect that astonishes and attracts us. When we look at a cedar tree, we don’t think: ‘The branches should be all the same length.’ We think: ‘How strong it is.’ When we see a snake, we never say: ‘He is crawling along t... more »
Chet Raymo, “Immortality”
*“Immortality”* by Chet Raymo “A second life? I can barely cope with this one. I'm referring to the increasingly popular virtual world Second Life, available to online gamers. One enters Second LIfe by creating a three-dimensional, animated avatar that is one's virtual self. Then one can do just about anything in the Second Life world that is possible to do in real life, including, one presumes, things one would not do in real life. By all accounts, the Second Life universe is booming, to the extent that real-world businesses are setting up virtual franchises in a place that exi... more »
ALEC's IFA Introduces and Passes it's Own Legislation
From 2011 The ALEC lies don't get much better than this. Corporations and Corporate Associations writing ALEC legislation. *IFA-Backed Franchise Relationship Policy Adopted by American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)* SNIP: WASHINGTON, Jan. 31- The International Franchise Association today applauded the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) for adopting as official policy a *Resolution on the Misapplication of Employee Classification Laws*, recognizing that business format franchising is a major contributor to the United States economy and that franchising is a contra... more »
Cantor (ALEC-ALUM) Wants to Eliminate Overtime Pay
Strongly Recommend that you read this diary over at Daily Kos – another hit against workers in the private sector. Great coverage of a current issue – with excellent history. *Eric Cantor will propose Federal Law that Ends Overtime Pay for hourly workers* Snips: In Eric Cantor's February 2013 speech, he said he wanted to propose Federal Law that would end overtime pay for hourly workers. … and met privately with House Republicans to discuss one of the policies he had emphasized: a policy that would allow workers to convert overtime compensation into time off. Eric Cantor wants ... more »
The Poet: Anne Sexton, "Courage"
*"Courage"* "It is in the small things we see it. The child's first step, as awesome as an earthquake. The first time you rode a bike, wallowing up the sidewalk. The first spanking when your heart went on a journey all alone. When they called you crybaby or poor or fatty or crazy and made you into an alien, you drank their acid and concealed it. Later, if you faced the death of bombs and bullets you did not do it with a banner, you did it with only a hat to cover your heart. You did not fondle the weakness inside you though it was there. Your courage was a small coal that you kept swal... more »
Recreational Abortion
A new one to me. From Iowa, recreational abortion. Sen. Jack Hatch, a Des Moines Democrat, said he doesn't expect the legislation to advance. But he said GOP lawmakers will likely again try to block the use of state Medicaid funds for a small number of abortions performed in cases of incest, rape or when the life of the mother is at risk. “These are not recreational abortions, they are medically needed,” said Hatch said, who said he thought that any such effort would ultimately fail. Hatch is prochoice. Clearly, the discourse on abortion is totally fucked up in Iowa when even proc... more »
"What's the Malthusian Premise?"
*"What's the Malthusian Premise?"* by William Harris "For many natural scientists, 1859 marks the beginning of the modern era of biology. That's the year Charles Darwin published "The Origin of Species," the book that spelled out the theory of evolution by natural selection. Darwin is such a cultural icon and so closely identified with evolution that it's easy to think that he arrived at his theories in a vacuum. In reality, the father of modern biology was influenced by Thomas Malthus, who published "An Essay on the Principle of Population" in 1798. In fact, it might be said th... more »
EMHN 7: Free Trade Improves Public Health
Our regional and global health alliance, the Emerging Markets Health Network (EMHN), has republished a paper that was released February 2012 by the Free Market Foundation (FMF) of South Africa. MG Thinkers was a co-publisher of that paper. See here, Free Trade 24: Trade and Improving Health Outcome (February 15, 2012). EMHN Executive Director, Philip Stevens, partnered with two young economists from South Africa, Urbach and Wills, in producing this econometric paper. Here is the paper's Abstract:: *A recurrent theme of the academic literature and wider public discourse is that ... more »
Slow Saturday Special: WWIII War Games
*And we lost, Americans.... * "Plymouth native emulates enemy in Air Force war games" by Bryan Bender | Globe Staff, February 23, 2013 NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. — At supersonic speed, the 32-year-old Plymouth native climbed high over the Nevada desert on a mission for the fictitious enemy nation of Coyote. Often on such occasions, Air Force Major Scott Snider’s comrades fire up the *Russian national anthem* beforehand as a *rallying cry against the United States*. But Snider is no enemy of America. Quite the opposite. His job is to train fellow pilots to prevail in mortal *comb... more »
As the Sequester Festers
Denying Republican claims that she is out to frighten people with scare tactics, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano today warned that we are at horrible risk of a terror attack unless we continue pouring money into the voracious maw of the Orwellian surveillance state (a/k/a the tax-immune defense/spy industry.) And almost as if reinforce that salient point, her published remarks on *The Hill* blog were accompanied by this cookie-generated advertisement from Boeing -- showing a menacing predator drone about to swoop down at you at the stroke of twilight: You may or may not see thi... more »
Sunday Globe Special: China Maps Out WWIII
*Just taking a look at one and you can see the front lines.* "China wages quiet war of maps over disputed islands; Picking up the pace of research to bolster claims" by William Wan | Washington Post, February 24, 2013 BEIJING — Bitter maritime disputes between China and its neighbors have recently sent fighter jets scrambling, ignited violent protests, and seen angry fishermen thrown in jail. But beneath all the *bellicose rhetoric and threatening posture*, China also has been waging a quiet campaign — using ancient documents, academic research, maps, and technical data — to bolst... more »
UN Staffer missing from Golan Heights ceasefire area
*Carl Kampo, Austria-born legal advisor to force monitoring ceasefire abducted on February 7.* *Why is the story being reported on at this time?* An advisor to the commander of the United Nations force monitoring the ceasefire in the Golan Heights (UNDOF) was kidnapped on February 7. According to reports, Carl Kampo is a legal advisor from Austria. No further details were immediately available and the report has not been officially confirmed. The United Nations confirmed a member of the UN peacekeeping force is missing. "We can confirm that a staff member is not accounted for... more »
A Retabulation of Tables Already Tabulated
Excerpted from an essay in *The New Age* in 1917. (Unabridged audio recordings of the parts of the essay at the links.) Part I (sound file, 12:21) Now, apart from intensive national propaganda, quite apart from German national propaganda, the 'university system' of Germany is evil. It is evil wherever in penetrates. Its 'universal pervasiveness' is a poisonous and most pestilent sort of pervasiveness. The drug is insidious and attractive. It is...the only system whereby every local nobody is able to imagine himself a somebody. It is in essence a provincialism.... Its action i... more »
Sunday Globe Special: WWIII Will Begin in Syria
*I think we are already in it; however, this will be the official demarcation line of history, much like Sarajevo in 1914 and Poland in 1939. * "Tehran declares attack on Syria would be attack on Iran; Rebel tunnels used to smuggle weapons found" by Bassem Mroue and Ali Akbar Dareini | Associated Press, January 27, 2013 BEIRUT — Issuing Tehran’s strongest warning to date, a top Iranian official said Saturday that any attack on Syria would be deemed an attack on Iran, a sign that it will do all it can to protect embattled Syrian President Bashar Assad. Ali Akbar Velayati, an aide... more »
Elsewhere: Budget
Well, I found out today that the phone lines here at Plain Blog World Headquarters can't withstand a mild breeze, and so blogging was slower than expected (it was a bit windy; I wound up getting disconnected and having to reboot four times so far. Not fun). But I do have new posts out, both about sequestration, elsewhere. At Greg's place, I hit the GOP for pretending that the 2012 elections never happened. Truth is that the GOP rhetoric surrounding the budget has gone from weak to weaker...there's just no way that anyone is going to be convinced by what they are saying. Not, of cou... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
Timberon, New Mexico, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
"Stranger Than Fiction..."
“Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.” - H. L. Mencken
SUMMER SNIPPETS: ‘The Mystery of Capital’
*More snippets from some of my summer reading, this time from Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto’s 2003 classic* The Mystery of Capital*, the work that brought home to all those who read it that what the have-nots have not is at root* property rights*, without which they will forever remain without.* “The major stumbling block that keeps the rest of the world from benefiting from capitalism is its inability to produce capital. Capital is the force that raises the productivity of labour and creates the wealth of nations. It is the lifeblood of the capitalist system, the foundation... more »
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4 years in prison for New Orleans corruption figure with Nova Scotia ties ~South Coast Today
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*Why the New Orleans Saints should draft Tyrann Mathieu ~BlackandGold.com*
"America's Spiritual Death: It's Time to Learn the Dark History
*"America's Spiritual Death: It's Time to Learn the Dark History * *of the U.S. You Were Robbed of*... *and Oliver Stone Will Help"* By Fred Branfman “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.” -Martin Luther King Jr. “Beyond Vietnam” speech, April 4, 1967 "I recently watched all 10 episodes of Oliver Stone's "Untold History of the United States" (on Showtime). I strongly recommend it to everyone, but particularly to America's young people who have been robbed of a most preci... more »
Sunday Globe Specials: Splitting Up Syria
*Even though "the sects have coexisted for decades (if not longer).* * **You know, I recall seeing a balkanized map of the Middle East long ago, a purview of the neo-con globe-kickers, and it contained a split-up Syria.* "Assad loyalists could try to form new state in port city" New York Times, December 23, 2012 TARTUS, Syria — Loyalists who support the government of President Bashar Assad are *flocking to the Mediterranean port of Tartus, creating an overflowing boomtown far removed* from the tangled, *scorched rubble that now mars most* Syrian cities. There are no shellings or air... more »
The Six Million lie dissected.
*Six Million My Ass, by RyDawson, with comments by Mothman7777* 3,500,000 Jews lived in all of wartime German-occupied Europe. 2,200,000 left to live in Russia before the outbreak of serious wartime hostilities. Before the outbreak of war the world population of Jews was 15,000,000, in 1951 there were 15,450,000 Jews. That is despite the huge number whom had left German occupied Europe either before, or during the war. Several censuses exist to confirm those facts, some of them compiled by Jewish organizations themselves. 250,000 Jews were never deported from France. 50,000 Zionis...more »
Slow Saturday Special: The Pied Piper of New York City
"Plenty of rat stories, and plenty of doubt, in wake of Sandy in NYC" by David B. Caruso | Associated Press, February 23, 2013 NEW YORK — At the height of Hurricane Sandy, city residents watching seawater pour into the subway system couldn’t help but wonder: What will become of all the rats? Four months later, that’s still a mystery. And experts aren’t so sure about stories of *hordes of displaced rodents*fleeing the flood zone and taking up residence in buildings that were previously rat-free. TV stations and newspapers have been rife with reports about rats infesting parked car... more »
Thats the way you do it
Refreshing to see somebody on the teevee challenging the GOP claptrap. In contrast to the dozens of stenographic posts carefully transcribing Bobby Jindal's word salad, delivered moments after the White House governor's confab, CNN business correspondent Ali Velshi calls out Gov. Bobby Jindal's nonsense: *VELSHI*: It’s 3% of a small part of the federal budget which makes it a very big part of some major agencies. It’s misleading stuff Bobby Jindal is saying, number one. Number two when he says families understand they have to live within their budget. I don’t know a lot of families... more »
Confirmed, spyware in ALL cell phones.
*This co Carrier IQ has offices world wide what they do is provide operational analysis (so they say) What it actually does is they record every key stroke, every web page visited, every text message is stored and then sent to Carrier IQ computer. They say to trust them. If there was ever a real target for anonymous hive, this one is it...How ever this may just be a front Co for the American secret agency. We already know that CHOICEPOINT* is owned by ex NSA employees. Besides false identities and biographies are very easy to create especially by the people who make the passports.... more »
A Real Crash As Fake Movies Honored (Argo and Zero Dark Thirty - Honored?) Positively Surreal!
Yes, this was written before the Oscar was trashed, but the reviews are dead on. Don't miss the comments! They tell even more of the tale. Saturday, February 23, 2013 Oscar Prints the Legend: Argo's Upcoming Academy Award and the Failure of Truth One year ago, after his breathtakingly beautiful Iranian drama, "A Separation," won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, writer/director
Time to Redefine the Term “soft power”?
The broad goal of this blog, to the credit of its founders, is to bridge the gap between foreign policy practitioners and foreign policy scholars. Prior to joining it recently, I have known its reputation for doing just that. While in government I kept a mental note every time I came across a policymaker who Continue reading
We Warned You Eliot Engel Isn't Fit To Lead House Democrats On The Foreign Relations Committee
Eliot Engel represents AIPAC in Congress, which means he puts Israel's interests above America's. He shouldn't be in Congress to begin with but he certainly should not be the ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Back in 2002 when Bush was looking for backing for his plans for unprovoked war against Iraq, he knew he couldn't do it without bipartisan support. He * literally* couldn't do it in the House, where he didn't have enough Republican votes. But he found 81 Democrats to rubber stamp his decision. Most Democrats-- 126 + Independent Bernie Sanders-- voted ag... more »
Britain's colonial shame: Slave-owners given huge payouts after abolition
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/britains-colonial-shame-slaveowners-given-huge-payouts-after-abolition-8508358.html *Britain's colonial shame: Slave-owners given huge payouts after abolition* *David Cameron's ancestors were among the wealthy families who received generous reparation payments that would be worth millions of pounds in today's money* SANCHEZ MANNING SUNDAY 24 FEBRUARY 2013 The true scale of Britain's involvement in the slave trade has been laid bare in documents revealing how the country's wealthiest families received the modern equivalent of billion...more »
Nathan Rothschild Loses Libel Suit
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/rothschild-loses-libel-case-and-reveals-secret-world-of-money-and-politics-6720015.html * * *Rothschild loses libel case, and reveals secret world of money and politics* *Thanks to billionaire's legal battle, we now know a lot more about how the super-rich work* TOM PECK SATURDAY 11 FEBRUARY 2012 With his long limbs and delicate gait, Lord Mandelson could no doubt manage a quite convincing turn in Thunderbirds. He'd find Jeff Tracy most convivial: a billionaire astronaut with his own Pacific island, and now, it seems, he even has hi... more »
"How It Really Is"
And if you believe any of these clowns... Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah... REM, "Man on the Moon" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=5ojx_ldHs5M&feature=endscreen
Google Glass
Well if you don't find it annoying to have something permanently hanging in your peripheral vision, I guess Google's new glasses look pretty cool. Seems to be the general reaction on my social nets. Me, I'm creeped out by it. Feels like one step away from assimilation into the Borg. Very Three of Five. Call me Hugh... [via TPM]
Mass Extinction...a Burgeoning Meme
*Death Comes to the Banquet Table* ~ Giovanni Martinelli, 1635 Inspired by art, literature, music, drama and ancient legends in every culture going back as far as time takes us, humans have been admonished to remember the inevitability of our individual deaths. Periodically there have even been cautionary figures who claimed to confront the foreknowledge of the total end of, if not our species, our civilization. Lately it seems such a cacophony is swelling, and reaching a crescendo. Those who, however inadvisedly, attempt to warn people of converging catastrophes, are compelled t... more »
are we really all connected? who is it too dangerous for?
this section is called LETHAL REALITY, and for good reason THIS REASON we are not supposed to realise we're all connected INSTEAD we waste our time protecting what we 'have been told' is ours; *OUR PROPERTY, OUR SAVINGS, OUR PROFIT* without realising that *the real lethal reality* is this, "We're all and the same entity, sharing multiple timespaces," and somebody has been trying real hard FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS to make you forget this one truth. :)
BEFORE SANDY HOOK - SHOOTING AT JEWISH CENTRE IN LA 1999
*Joshua Stepakoff, one of the victims of the shootings at the North Valley Jewish Community Center in Los Angeles on 10 October1999.* * * "News of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School was all the more poignant for survivors of the 1999 shooting at the North Valley Jewish Community Center... "Survivor *Ben Kadish *was only six years old when white supremacist *Buford Furrow, Jr*. walked into the community center and shot 70 bullets into the lobby. "The barrage hit him in his leg and his abdomen." *dailymail* *Ben Kadish* No Jewish people were killed in the shootings. *... more »
3rd illegal refueling operation by whale poachers blocked – Japan sends military ice breaker into Australia waters to intervene; Canberra remains silent
[image: A 'flash bang' concussion grenade from the Nisshin Maru explodes on the fuel tanker Sun Laurel, a vessel so combustible that smoking is not permitted on the ship, 25 February 2013. Also visible on the Bob Barker's deck are barrels of unleaded petrol and aviation turbine fuel (ATF), which is highly combustible. The Nisshin Maru is ramming the Bob Barker, with the intent of sandwiching the Bob against the Sun Laurel. Photo: Sea Shepherd Conservation Society] 25 February 2013 (Sea Shepherd Australia) – Sea Shepherd Australia has successfully blocked a third attempt to refuel ... more »
Egyptian Nubian Leader Hints at Armed Operations against Muslim Brotherhood
Egyptian Nubian Leader Hints at Armed Operations against Muslim Brotherhood. Source: MEMRI TV.
"Sequestration: Washington's Stupid, Destructive Game"
*"Sequestration:* * Washington's Stupid, Destructive Game" * by Richard Eskow "It's Monday morning in America. That means we're about to endure another week of pointless debate over the precise methods by which our federal government will impose more needless misery on the hapless population, instead of addressing its eminently fixable economic problems. Readers of our nation's newspapers might be forgiven for believing that the citizens of our nation have been condemned to some sort of quotidian hell as punishment for our collective crimes, where we must suffer the pangs of de... more »
Sunday Globe Special: Papal Politics
*Web Globe cut the printed sermon short!* "Rumors of scandal point to rocky path for papal conclave; Leaks meant to hurt candidates, observers say" by Rachel Donadio | New York Times, February 24, 2013 VATICAN CITY — In recent days, often speculative reports — some even alleging *gay sex scandals in the Vatican*, others focusing on particular cardinals stung by the child sex abuse crisis — have dominated headlines in Italian news media, suggesting fierce internal struggles as prelates scramble to consolidate power and attack enemies in the dying days of a troubled papacy. The re... more »
Pumas descansando sobre los árboles
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Flores blancas hermosas y delicadas
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Hermoso amanecer en la playa
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Colibrí en las flores recolectando el polen
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Rico helado de café natural
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Fiduciaries do not always act qua fiduciary
Simkeslak Investments Limited v. Kolter Yonge LP Limited, 2013 ONCA 116 holds: [16] Not all actions taken by a person in a *per se* fiduciary relationship – that is, in a category of relationship in which a fiduciary relationship has been traditionally recognized – attract a fiduciary obligation. The presumption that in a*per se* fiduciary relationship one party has a duty to act in the best interests of the other is rebuttable: *Hodgkinson v. Simms*, [1994] 3 S.C.R. 377, paras. 31 and 124. That presumption was rebutted in this case. We do not give effect to the appellants' ...more »
Bella playa con palmeras y un cielo espectacular
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Slow motion disaster
The only sensible thing to do at this late hour would be to just cancel the stupid sequester. But this is D.C. so it's going to happen because, crackpot cons need a Potemkin victory to please the angry rubes back home. GOPers are betting they can pin it on Obama, but the polling says otherwise. A vast majority, even among unengaged voters, know who to blame for the sequester. It won't be Obama. The problem is, though it's being spun as a world shattering disaster, the effects won't be immediately apparent to regular people who don't depend on government paychecks. But if it's allow... more »
Increible campo de flores rojas y árboles
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Slow Saturday Special: Grilloing the Italian Electorate
*How do you like your rigged elections?* "Comic’s protest movement shakes up Italy election" by Colleen Barry | Associated Press, February 23, 2013 MILAN — The burly man with a shock of silver curls and a scruffy beard gesticulates wildly on Milan’s Piazza del Duomo, unleashing a sprawling *diatribe against the political establishment*. ‘‘Send them home, send them home!’’ Beppe Grillo cries as *tens of thousands of supporters* send up a deafening cheer. Crisis-hit Italians are fed up. And no one is *tapping that vein of outrage*better than comic-turned-political agitator Grillo an... more »
Frutas frescas recién cortadas para un rico postre
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The Hard Truth About Unconventional Fossil Fuel
When it comes to unconventional fossil fuels, the majority of Canadian politicians, federal and provincial, fall into two categories - idiots or featherbedders. *The Tyee* has this eye-opener from geologist David Hughes, a gas and oil specialist for Natural Resources Canada for 32-years. *Unconventional fossil fuels all share a host of cruel and limiting traitssays Hughes. They offer dramatically fewer energy returns; they consume extreme and endless flows of capital; they provide difficult or volatile rates of supply overtime and have "large environmental impacts in their extract... more »
El osito del amor con una linda rosa
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Catarina sobre el rocío de las plantas
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Fracking Our Farms: A Tale of Five Farming Families ...and a video
------------------------------ Subscribe & Read Past Issues | OCA Homepage *ESSAY OF THE WEEK* Fracking Our Farms: A Tale of Five Farming Families Their names are Carol, Steve & Jackie, Susan, Marilyn & Robert, and Christine. They share a bond. Two bonds, actually: They all own, or owned, farms. And those farms, along with their own health and the health of their farm animals, have all been ruined by fracking. More than 600,000 fracking wells and waste injection sites have popped up all over the country, according to ProPublica. The oil and gas industry, a... more »
The Economy: “Leaders? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Leaders”
*“Leaders? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Leaders” * by Bill Bonner “Leaders – you're better off without them! The problem with the Fed-fueled stock market rally is that you can't trust it. It's not based on anything solid. Investors are not really investing in solid companies that are expected to produce solid growth and profits in the years ahead. They're speculating that the Fed's EZ money will boost share prices. Maybe it will. And maybe it won't. It seems likely, to us at least, that money printing by the Fed will push up the stock market. But it also seems likely that people wi... more »
Pit River protecting Medicine Lake Highlands from industrial development
PIT RIVER TRIBE OF CALIFORNIA UNANIMOUSLY RESOLVES TO PROTECT MEDICINE LAKE HIGHLANDS FROM INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT By Morning Star Gali Pit River Tribe Censored News BURNEY, Calif. – On February 15, 2013, The Pit River Tribe unanimously affirmed a resolution opposing geothermal and other industrial developments in the sacred Medicine Lake Highlands. The resolution affirms
2012 and GOP Candidates
Dave Weigel on Friday argued that there's been too much emphasis on disastrous GOP Senate candidates, especially the Tea Party ones; Ramesh Ponnuru follows up on that today by pointing out (again) that Mitt Romney ran ahead of most GOP Senate candidates. I think I agree with the main point each of them makes...but there's a lot going on here. I'll go bullet-point style: * As I've said many times, the out-party candidate challenging an incumbent president just isn't very important. * The big thing that the out-party candidate can get wrong is being perceived as an ideological outlie... more »
A Message from Heather: Almost Every Loan, If Not Every Loan is Fraud...No Loan Was Made
*Almost Every Loan, If Not Every Loan is Fraud...No Loan Was Made* Heather shared this message in a Skype chat, and I thought it was well worth sharing. I asked for permission (just like we did with the Poof interview lol) and here was her response: Heather: Sure...go for it...just post also with data that loan and debt are two different concepts, legally, lawfully, factually and as a matter of public policy. *The following dialogue is pulled directly from the Skype conversation:* Heather Ann Tucci-Jarraf: QUESTION HAS BEEN POPPING UP REGARDING STUD...more »
DRONES DO NOT EXIST
In a rare admission, Robert Gibbs, the former White House Press Secretary under Obama, told reporters Sunday that he was ordered to act as if there was no such thing as an active US drone program. “When I went through the process of becoming press secretary, one of the first things they told me was, you’re not even to acknowledge the drone program,” Gibbs said on MSNBC’s “Up With Chris Hayes” this past weekend. ** Gibbs said that he was told “You’re not even to discuss that it exists.”
Nihilism And The Republican Party Establishment-- What Would McKinely And His Backers Say?
Let me introduce the essential video above with a tweet from Sen. Bernie Sanders yesterday: "93% of all new income generated between 2009 & 2010 went to the top 1% while the bottom 99% split the remaining 7%. #Sequester One of the most memorable moments in the History Channel's rabidly pro-capitalist series, *The Men Who Built America*, came when predatory titans John D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan and Andrew Carnegie decided to make Republican Party hack William McKinley president and destroy the political career of populist Democrat William Jennings Bryan ("the Great Commoner," ... more »
Fully Funded, Any Time, Any Reason
Well, this isn't working very well. Virulent anti-choice Jeff Watson, MP for Essex, Ontario, had an notion for a poll at his website. Recently, as parliament debated M-312 to establish a committee to re-examine Canada's 400 year-old law defining a human being, the founder and Executive Director of the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada called fully taxpayer-funded abortion, at any time, for any reason - including for sex-selection or as birth control - a basic woman's right. Which best describes your position: 3464 total votes I support fully taxpayer-funded abortion, at any time...more »
Siberia permafrost thaw warning sparked by cave data – ‘Significant thawing could affect vast areas and release billions of tonnes of carbon’
[image: Evidence from Siberian caves suggests that a global temperature rise of 1.5C could see permafrost thaw over a large area of Siberia. More than a trillion tonnes of the greenhouse gases CO2 and methane could be released into the atmosphere as a result. Photo: Sebastian FM Breitenbach] 22 February 2013 (BBC) – Evidence from Siberian caves suggests that a global temperature rise of 1.5C could see permafrost thaw over a large area of Siberia. A study shows that more than a trillion tonnes of the greenhouse gases CO2 and methane could be released into the atmosphere as a result... more »
Final Verdict is Rendered in First Common Law Court Case against the Vatican and Canada for Genocide
*Final Verdict is Rendered in First Common Law Court Case against the Vatican and Canada for Genocide* ** *Pope, Queen and Canadian Prime Minister found Guilty of Crimes against Humanity and Sentenced to Twenty Five Year Prison Terms* ** *Court Orders them to Surrender by March 4 or face Citizens' Arrests* ** Here's the direct link: http://itccs.org/2013/02/25/guilty/ Brussels: Pope Benedict will go to jail for twenty five years for his role in Crimes against Humanity, and Vatican wealth and property is to be seized, according to today's historic verdict of the Interna... more »
Nobody is Safe Anymore. No One, Nowhere.
It's the latest, greatest thing in the Pentagon's toybox - MAVs. Micro Air Vehicles like those shown in the following video already exist and they could take your last shreds of privacy. They could even take your life. And here's the civilian version of the Dragonfly MAV developed for the U.S. Air Force. You can buy your own, limited performance, civilian version starting at a hundred bucks. The Dragonfly makers will even sell you your own "swarm." What the military is doing is to develop better power, communications and control systems for their MAVs. The civilian stuf... more »
Heads Up!
Today we begin the final stretch for this month. It is your range of vision that determines the proximity of the goal. How far are you looking ahead? What is known about some humans is that as they age, they tend to trip and fall. It was assumed for a long time that this was due to physical deterioration. This is not true. It is because of change of focus. Some of us will start to limit our options and capabilities, while decreasing our world view. As we walk, rather than focus on the destination, we look at our feet. Fear sets in. We watch only each step we take. ... more »
A Warming World Equals Work Loss
Most of us realize that it's a lot harder to work on those really hot, humid days. Climate change is bringing us more hot, humid days and there are more to come in the future. Ergo, we're facing a drop in labour capacity. Hot and humid has worsened over the past six decades to inflict a 10% drop in labour capacity on those scorcher days. That's expected to double by 2050. *To figure out the stress of working in hotter, wetter conditions, experts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration looked at military and industrial guidelines already in place for heat str... more »
HOW DO WE TALK ABOUT THESE ISSUES?
- Today I am preparing for two events. One is the drone hearing at Maine's state house tomorrow at 1:30 pm where a bill to ban drones in our state will be heard. I will try to make a statement if possible. The second is a seminar I've been invited to in San Francisco this weekend called *Techno-Utopianism--- Killing the World. *The meeting will "explore the negative role of recent generations of technological 'advancement.' The idea is to challenge the fundamental world-views of our society that celebrate and embrace the inevitable virtues of technologi... more »
Sunday Globe Special: A-Rod Stole Charity Cash
*Globe caught him stealing.... * * **"A foundation started by New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez gave only 1 percent of proceeds to charity during its first year of operation in 2006, then stopped submitting mandatory financial reports to the IRS"* *I've heard of low batting averages before, but....* "In nonprofit game, athletes post losing records; Some true benefactors, but Globe finds others give little of what’s raised" by Callum Borchers | Globe Staff, February 24, 2013 However low Josh Beckett’s public esteem sank toward the end of his six-plus seasons in Boston, ... more »
RoboCon : Michael Sona and Sun News Network
Former Guelph Con Party communications director Michael Sona relates how he was sitting in his Hill office on Feb. 23 2012 when he was shocked to hear Sun News reporter Brian Lilley fingering him on air for the Guelph robocalls election fraud. Sona : "I contacted a few people at [Con] headquarters and I just said I wanna know what's going on. Like why am I being thrown out here because *Sun News is you know kind of an alternate method of getting press releases and other stories out from the party, right? I mean everyone knows that, right? It's just a standard comm's tactic. An... more »
On the road to Tomalá, and the miracle spring
So there I was in Tomalá, having coffee with the mayor, perched on a couch in a dark living room, bags of newly harvested coffee stacked along the wall. I had been minding my own business, sitting outside on the hotel’s plastic chairs, working on case studies on a couple of interesting women’s projects being done by OCDIH, the NGO I’m helping. (We love acronyms in development land.) Then the mom of the family who owned the hotel brought her son, Edgar, and pushed him to talk to me. Last year, they sent him and his younger sister to an English-language collegio - high school - in a to... more »
Austerity ( the FauxConsensus?) Isn't Even Close To the Right Word (It's F A S C I S M!): Plan to Further Enrich the World's Wealthy, Privatize Medicaid in FL, and Take Over Once and For All
Well, it's certainly not Austerity for them (now is it?). I like the way our American Everyman 'splains it. And if you read to end of this essay you will understand how extreme wealth has deadened the "carriers." The Opiate of the Disenfranchised by willyloman by Scott Creighton First things first: let's stop calling this global neo-liberal class war "austerity". It's not austerity.
Chris Hadfield - Rockstar
*The Guardian* is singing the praises of Canadian fighter jock, test pilot and astronaut, the soon-to-be ISS commander, Chris Hadfield. This line says it all: *"...he is on the way to becoming a breakthrough star in his own right, the first internationally recognisable astronaut since the grainy black and white television images made Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and the original Apollo astronauts into superstars."* It's a good read. Check it out.* *
If You Talk Like an Activist - You Must Be Drunk or Delirious
Found a little bit of interesting blog reading this morning. And the entirety of the multiple entries hit a sore spot with me - I had to publish. An Indiana activist/voter and teacher – – took the time to write a letter to their legislators – demanding that they not pass specific pieces of ALEC education legislation and demanding that pro-corporate/privatization ALEC legislators be removed from the house education committee. *READ THE LETTER* *>>>>HERE<<<<* Well…………… One of the ALEC-ers that the activist wanted removed from the education committee was Sen. James Buck (R - T... more »
On the Edge
Nuclear war is not survivable, but we may not even survive the damaged caused by our collapsing global nuclear power plant infrastructure. Nuclear power plants built in the 1960s-1980s are suffering major structural breakdowns and the utilities and governments don't want to fix them because of the costs. So, everyone looks the other way and the nuclear power plants contaminate their environment with routine emissions and cataclysmic meltdowns. The public is too ignorant or apathetic (or both) to stop this assault against the human genome. But, it seems that the human race wants ... more »
How Finance Avoids Paying the Same Taxes Everyone Else Does
A Costly and Unjust Perk for Financiers By LYNN FORESTER de ROTHSCHILDPublished: February 24, 2013 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/25/opinion/carried-interest-an-unjust-privilege-for-financiers.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130225&_r=0OF the many injustices that permeate America’s byzantine tax code, few are as outrageous as the tax rate on “carried interest” — the profits made by private equity and hedge fund managers, as well as venture capitalists and partners in real estate investment trusts.... While the tax legislation passed on Jan. 1 increased the top individual-inc...more »
"Oscar, Oscar, Oscar..."
Apparently, a bunch of mostly white rich people got together in Hollywood again last night to pat eachother on the backs and give eachother bags o' goodies in the gifting suites that would feed a family of 5 for a decade. Oh, and the Onion hit a new low by calling a nine year-old black actress a cunt on Twitter and Seth MacFarlane set his career back about a decade. No doubt by now, Billy Crystal's been stop-lossed or IRR'd back into Oscar duty for the rest of his natural life. All that and Ben Affleck, beyond all rhyme or reason, is now considered a serious filmmaker again and... more »
The Pot Calling the Kettle Unqualified
Angry old man, Grampa John McCain is at it again. The guy who nearly made Sarah Palin his wing-gal in the executive branch had the gall to label Chuck Hagel "unqualified" to be Obama's defense secretary. To prove Hagel not up to the job, McCain pointed to Obama's failure to disclose just what he was doing the night of the raid on America's embassy in Benghazi, Libya.
Sunday Lunch
Actually Sunday was unremarkable - morning geocaching, the gym to shower and change, Sunday School followed by lunch with eight friends - but it's an excuse to post a pic of P and D with D's cute little BMW. Well, it would have been awkward to take a pic of just the car.
Sunday Globe Special: Indian Gold Mine
*I only found fools gold in my Boston Globe*: "India’s gold import tax faces off with tradition; Age-old customs called a drain on nation’s economy" by Kay Johnson | Associated Press, February 24, 2013 MUMBAI, India — Gold has been deeply entwined in Indian culture for thousands of years. Today, India is by far the world’s biggest buyer of gold, and those imports are an increasing drain on an economy that is growing too slowly to reduce widespread poverty. Last year Indians imported 864 tons of gold, about one fifth of world sales. The cost of $45 billion was second only to India... more »
He's No Gandhi
*And I don't mean **Affleck and Argo**.... * Yogi starts fasting to fight corruption Indian yoga guru ends fast against corruption * * *That didn't take long.* Bal Thackeray, 86, Hindu extremist Hindu extremist leader’s funeral draws throngs Death of an Indian extremist * * *No Gandhi he.* * *Locals celebrate India’s independence, memorialize Sikh temple shooting * **No mention of Gandhi?* * *"MANY FACES OF GANDHI -- Indian children dressed as Mahatma Gandhi on Tuesday in Ahmadabad to mark the date of his birth in 1869. The children marched in a rally against violence (Boston Glob... more »
Birthday Party
Today RCJ's mother (and Southern Man's Second Mom) celebrated her 80th birthday with family and friends. It turned out to be quite a houseful, including a brother that flew down all the way from Minnesota. So after a morning of geocaching and errands Southern Man headed that way. Front: E, Mrs. RCJ, and B. Back: RCJ and Uncle C (the C in RCJ's name). Why, yes, Southern Man had a terrible crush on B 'way back in the day, when we were junior high kids and RCJ's two older sisters were lovely high school girls with mid-60s Mustangs and (or so it seemed to us at the time) exciting and ... more »
Have Iraq’s Oil Exports Hit a Plateau?
In January 2013, Iraq’s oil exports went up a fraction from the previous month. The price for a barrel of Iraqi crude did increase by over a dollar however. Still, with disputes between Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) over oil contracts, infrastructure bottlenecks, and other issues, it appears as if Iraq’s ability to deliver more petroleum for foreign sales has hit a plateau until some of these problems are resolved. Oil exports barley changed from January 2013 to December 2012, and was far lower than the amounts seen last year. In January, the Iraqi Oil Minist... more »
Hotter, wetter climate slashes labor capacity by 10 percent – ‘We project that heat stress-related labor capacity losses will double globally by 2050 with a warming climate’
[image: Population-weighted individual labour capacity (percent) during annual mimimum (upper lines) and maximum (lower lines) heat stress months. Shown are the historical period (NCEP reanalysis—black, maximum alone; ESM2M historical—green), RCP 4.5 (blue) and RCP 8.5 (red). Earth's increasingly hot, wet climate has cut the amount of work people can do in the worst heat by about 10 percent in the past six decades, and that loss in labor capacity could double by mid-century. Graphic: Dunne, et al., 2013]By Environment Correspondent Deborah Zabarenko 24 February 2013 WASHINGTON (... more »
The Roman Catholic Church Created Its Own Mess ....
*Imagine being a young gay man growing up in the Roman Catholic Church of the 1950's, 60's or 70's. Upon graduation from high school, there was generally a family and church expectation that you would promptly marry, get a job and start pumping out as many babies as was humanly possible due to religious prohibitions on any kind of birth control or family planning.* * **"Are you married yet"? - "Are you married yet"? - "When are you getting married"? - "Why aren't you married yet"? - "Why aren't you getting married"? - **"Are you married yet"?* * **That was the refrain that assaulted... more »
Plan B for Syria: Preparations, Part 2
This article is a continuation on the theme of a post put up on Friday: *Obama needs a Plan B for Syria: Drawing In Lebanon?* I will put the third part up tomorrow in hopes of keeping this enjoyably readable * *Looking at the influx of heavy weapons into Syria. Through what means do the arms flow.** And, what does the arms flow mean?* * *A new influx of weapons to rebels tilts battle against Assad- Washington Post* *A surge of rebel advances in Syria is being fueled at least in part by an influx of heavy weaponry in a renewed effort by outside powers to “arm moderates” in the Free ... more »
A pro-firewall paper
The black hole firewall saga has continued with several new papers. Since the last blog entry about the topic, three Japanese authors proposed something that they call a self-consistent model of the black hole evaporation, probably without any firewalls. Because a starting point is semiclassical gravity, the paper can't be self-consistent, however. Rodolfo Gambini and Jorge Pullin propose that loop quantum gravity "solves" the firewall problem by producing some new degrees of freedom. They extend the LQG algebra to a Lie algebra. I guess other LQG proponents won't like such a here... more »
Southern Man Gets Booted
Rain, rain, go away! Well, Southern Man shouldn't say that given that we've been in a drought and it's the best kind of rain, the slow, steady kind that soaks into the ground and fills the lakes and ponds and rivers. But it has reduced The Land to a sea of sticky red mud. The Hyundai is safely tucked up at the top of the driveway on the gravel road but getting there and back is something of a challenge. So given the current forecast (rain, rain, and more rain) Southern Man explored The Barn(which is a mess) and found an old pair of rubber wading boots and stashed them in The Trailer... more »
Boston grapples with the threat of storms and rising water – ‘This is something that we’re worried about’
[image: The Boston Tea Party museum sits right on the edge of the harbor. With rising sea levels and the increasing threat of strong storms, buildings like these are at particular risk of flooding. Photo: Christopher Joyce / NPR] By Christopher Joyce 22 February 2013 (NPR) – Since the drubbing that Superstorm Sandy gave the Northeast in November, there's a new sense of urgency in U.S. coastal cities. Even though scientists can't predict the next big hurricane, they're confident that a warmer climate is likely to make Atlantic storms bigger and cause more flooding. Cities like B... more »
Six in 10 people worldwide lack access to flush toilets or other adequate sanitation, falling far short of UN Millennium Development Goal
[image: 'No protection from human excreta = unimproved sanitation.' 6 out of every 10 people on Earth still do not have access to flush toilets or other adequate sanitation that protects the user and the surrounding community from harmful health effects. Graphic: Baum, et al., 2013] Contact: Michael Woods, Editor, 202-872-6293 20 February 2013 It may be the 21st century, with all its technological marvels, but 6 out of every 10 people on Earth still do not have access to flush toilets or other adequate sanitation that protects the user and the surrounding community from harmful he... more »
‘Canary in the coal mine’: Living beyond the levees in Louisiana – ‘Leeville is washing away’ as sea level rises
[image: In this December 2012 photo, water washes around the tombs of those buried in a cemetery in Leeville in south Louisiana. What's left of the old Leeville cemetery is only accessible by boat. Photo: Dave Martin / AP] By Rick Jervis 23 February 2013 LEEVILLE, Louisiana (USA Today) – At the 85th Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday, an independent Louisiana-shot film, *Beasts of the Southern Wild*, will be up for four Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director, for its fictional account of a desolate band of folks living beyond the levees. Nearly 2,000 miles away, this fis... more »
ALEC - Leader in Distribution of Dumb Legislation
Interesting op-ed yesterday - about DUMB legislation. The interesting thing is that in the article only 4 legislators are mentioned - 3 of them are confirmed ALEC - 75% 75% of the "dumb" legislation in this article came from ALECers. And the other mention to DUMB legislation - specifically calls out ALEC - even though no ALEC legislators are named. That brings the total up to 4 of 5 ALEC mentions or 80% - of the "dumb" legisation came from ALECers. A short op-ed yet "dumb" legislation and ALEC are explicitly tied. Fans of dumb legislation shouldn’t get cocky, but the 2013 Ne... more »
rtod
Revolutionary thought of the day: Across the road at the sawmill smoke was coming out of the chimney and Anselmo could smell it blown toward him through the snow. The fascists are warm, he thought, and they are comfortable, and tomorrow night we will kill them. It is a strange thing and I do not like to think of it. I have watched them all day and they are the same men that we are. I believe that I could walk up to the mill and knock on the door and I would be welcome except that they have orders to challenge all travellers and ask to see their papers. It is only orders that come be...more »
The Best Things about the Anti-Testing Backlash in Texas and Elsewhere
What is the greatest recent victory in the backlash against standardized testing that has terrified “reformers” as it has reached a "crescendo?" A) The Garfield High School teachers’ boycott of the administration of standardized tests. B) The 120 Massachusetts professors’ protest against standardized testing. C) The Chicago, Georgia, and New York protests that inspired the Massachusetts stand. D) The 818 Texas school districts that have joined the protest against bubble-in excesses and the thousands who joined the Save Texas Schools rally in Austin? I am too biased...more »
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Monte Irvin, 94. The good stuff: 1. Garance Franke-Ruta on activism, politics, life, AIDS...must read. 2. The reality, or lack thereof, of future US government debt. Jeff Spross explains. 3. And Sarah Kliff on some interesting ACA polling.
MOFA Defends Revolting Diaoyutai Video
The Central News Agency (CNA), the government news organ, has a piece on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' (MOFA) defense of its revolting, condescending video on why the Republic of China owns the Senkakus. Hosted by a comedian and entirely in Taiwanese, it was supposed to be light-hearted. To wit: Minister of Foreign Affairs David Lin (林永樂) on Saturday said that a short film the ministry released a day earlier was meant to help Taiwanese understand the nation’s sovereignty over the disputed Diaoyutai Islands (釣魚台) in a “lively way.” DPP Legislator Hsiao Bi-khim had our backs: Th... more »
Five Minute Eiffel Tower Necklace
Along with my Distressed Photo Jewelry Tray, that I posted about on Friday, I made this cute Eiffel Tower Necklace. It is probably one of the fastest crafts I have ever made and people always ask where I got it. You will need: An acrylic necklace tile, I used the ones by Mod Podge and they were fabulous. Scrapbook paper with a design small enough for the tile, I also used papers by Mod Podge, they were great! I had no problem with wrinkles. Regular or Glitter Mod Podge, The Mod Podge Glitter is perfect for this craft, it adds just the right amount of sparkle. a jump ring Cut ...more »
The "Tide Of Citizens" Washes Over Spain... As Italians Elect A New Government
Every corner of Spain was the scene of angry but still mostly nonviolent protest over the weekend-- students, doctors, unionists, young families, pensioners... all pissed off about political corruption inside the neo-fascist government of Mariano Rajoy and inside the so-called "royal family," privatization of public services, and the exact same kind of failed Austerity Agenda Paul Ryan and the GOP are demanding for our own country. Over half of Spain's young workers are unemployed. It's a familiar theme-- bailouts for the banksters paid for by massive cutbacks in healthcare. The ...more »
Daily Links, Monday, Feb 25, 2013
Apologies for the light blogging. Deathly ill and consumed with work. I didn't even ride my bike this weekend. On to the links! *BLOG*: - AsiaEye's Under the Radar News - A Double Dose of Way Cool: Hear in Taiwan retraces pics from the Tom Jones collection I put up a while back to see what they look like today. And photos of old K-town from US sailors serving here prior to 1979 from Taiwan Airpower. - Maobitou in Kenting - J Michael with his series of Zombies in Taiwan. - Global Voices on Frank Hsieh's aborted microblog on Weibo. - Letters from Taiwan point...more »
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Arctic wolf
One was stalking me yesterday but then left me alone - I suspect he was on a low fat diet and decided an alternative was healthier!!!
Loss of UK’s AAA-rating will intensify the pressure on sterling | City A.M.
A seriously depressing article... http://www.cityam.com/article/loss-uk-s-aaa-rating-will-intensify-pressure-sterling
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*Points of Unity:* * To find our common ground with those we work with.* 1. *No Dirty and Destructive Energy Projects:* We struggle in solidarity with the land to resist not just the Tennessee Pipeline. In this struggle we respect all life. 2. *Seek our Common Ground:* If we disagree with or don’t endorse a certain action we will not condemn or implicate other people. 3. *Safety is a Priority:* Dirty extracted gas development and pipelines are unsafe for us and our communities. We will not take unnecessary risks or put anyone, ourselves included, at risk without explicit an...more »
Nearly two decades of no global warming: From the Globaloneyists
*But much globaloney!* Brief digression: A word that came to my attention, attributed to Clare Booth Luce, in a book I was reading some years back. Clare assailed Vice President Henry A. Wallace's freedom-of-the-air policy to insure international peace, calling it "globaloney." A term also attributed to the creation of the UN many decades ago. It works The promoters of globaloney are the Globaloneyists. Digression over. Onto the news at hand *Nearly two decades no increase in global temperatures* Not a surprise. It's always been all style and no substance from the one world tyra... more »
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*The Wisner Trust - Battle for the Bayou - A Battered Beach ~American Zombie * *BP Gulf of Mexico Spill, From Disaster to Trial * ***An eye on the Times-Picayune’s numbers ~Columbia Journalism Review*** *New Orleans civil rights icon joins young education activists ~Uptown Messenger* *Mounds of coral could provide history of Gulf of Mexico ~Any Wold * *City Council President Stacy Head modifies proposed food truck laws ~Danny Monteverde* *Lower Ninth Ward Releases Plan For Getting Fresh Food ~ WWNO*
The Pinocchio Index
Carol Goar writes, in *The Toronto Star*, that the C.D. Howe Institute has developed a tool to measure government fiscal accountability. It's called the Pinocchio Index. She writes: This year’s just-released index contains several surprises: The biggest overspender in the country? Saskatchewan by a long shot. You’d never know it from the province’s balance sheet (it has a modest surplus) or Premier Brad Wall’s forceful rhetoric about fiscal responsibility. But the index shows Saskatchewan spent 38 per cent more than it budgeted between 2003 and 2012. It has now displaced Alb... more »
Oxford Cheiromancy - free trial hand analysis - Career, personality, lifestyle.
*e.g. clear images of hands* as a unique gift to the readers of Free Planet, O.C. or OXFORD CHEIROMANCY is offering a free hand reading to the first 50 respondees who send in 4 clear high resolution shots of their hands. One image each of the left hand and the right hand, both front and back i.e. send four separate images. Cheiromancy generally works better on a one-to-one in-person basis but this is a great way to obtain a personal sketch of where your life's at and where your skills could take you. Send your 4 shots, current age and career to the email address found in the Contac... more »
As Doc Watson once put it, we're southbound!
*Full services return on the morrow:* In our view, Doc Watson put it best. To see a performance of the whole song, just click here: Southbound, she's burnin' the ground and I don't mean maybe Sure am glad I caught this train cause I'd like to see my baby I've been lonesome, long to see them hills that I come from I'm going back to spend a little time Where a friend's a friend when you ain't got a dime I'm southbound. In our case, no "baby" is involved; the only "hill" would be Bolton Hill. The part about friends and dimes doesn't seem to apply. But the doctor got the general idea, as... more »
What determines the device and format of music?
Some will say that the tipping point comes when the sales hit a certain level. But is that just the result and what drives consumers to change from eight track to Cassette and from that to CD and from CD to MP3 streamed? Some 15 years ago we couldn’t understand why many cars were still being fitted with cassettes and forcing us to keep cassettes alive. A good friend and media guru, Trev Huxley, told us that the key was simple and the day the car hire firms started to demand CD players in their standard specification the game was over. At that point the car manufacturers fit them a... more »
No Justice Possible in BP Oil "Spill"
Majia's Blog - 19 hours ago
BP, Halliburton, Transocean, plaintiffs’ lawyers all prepare to face off in gulf oil spill trial by S. Mufson 2/23/2013 Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/in-gulf-of-mexico-oil-spill-trial-bp-halliburton-transocean-plaintiffs-lawyers-prepare-to-face-off/2013/02/23/84aea08c-7d2a-11e2-82e8-61a46c2cde3d_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines [Excerpted] One of the biggest legal circuses on Earth — the trial of BPover the extent of its responsibility for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill — is scheduled to open in New Orleans on Monday, featuring 34 leading lawyers in... more »
Are Spielberg and Bigelow artists or slackers!
*MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2013* *What hath Zero Dark wrought:* We fled the Oscars not too long after Seth MacFarlane performed “We Saw Your Boobs,” which the Washington Post’s Hank Stuever has now described as the gent’s “best number.” Plainly, the Howard Stern formula owns the culture. That formula has two parts: First, determine the thing you “shouldn’t” say. Then, proceed to say it, knowing that the mandarin class will treat your piffle as humor. Ah, those mandarins! We have continued to ponder Megan McArdle’s review of the current mandarin class, even as we have been rereading The... more »
Samsung Add Another Galaxy to the Mix
Samsung is about to throw in another tablet to the mix, the Galaxy Note 8.0. The device is neatly positioned to start to offer Samsung users a range of devices that vary merely in their size and unlike the Apple world these in the main offer the same or similar functionality without the defined walls created by Apple. In other words you have the Galaxy phone with pen, the Note II, 7 & 8 with pen all with the same SIM size and all capable of being tethered or being a phone. Apple like to separate their media light device iPod, from their phone, Iphone from the Tablet, iPad. The point ... more »
To anyone who still believes that it's not about Jews, it's about Israel.
I still hear people claiming that Islamists don't hate Jews because they are Jews but because of Israel. I have posted many articles that show how wrong this claim is, the most recent being this one entitled Jews -p "human pieces of filth" Here's Hamas MP and Cleric Yunis al-Astal with his view on the Jews: "It is well known tha the Jews are bent on spreading abomination, depravity, and all typesof corruption on the face of the Earth" Watch the whole piece and then ponder why so many British MPs and ex-MPs openly support Hamas. Remember also the words of Hamas Prime Minister Haniya... more »
Monday Linkage
Mornin’ ducks… In anticipation of the P5+1 talks in Kazakhstan this week, let’s start the week in… Iran Yousaf Butt, a nuclear physicist, urges the West to make Iran a serious offer. But Patrick Clawson argues that the Islamic Republic is just too dysfunctional to cut a nuclear deal. Farhang Jahanpour at Juan Cole’s Informed Comment blog Continue reading
FireFox-OS Phone - the first VolksPhone?
Link: http://youtu.be/gIjEALMdheo Linux based, Mozilla-Gecko driven, super-light and well-organized, without extra-ordinarias that kept me, yes me!, from wanting and using a mobile. I'll throw an eye on this one as soon as I can lay my hand upon it. For about 100 euro it changes owner I was told. That it is fully HTML5 (css3?) compatible is highly interesting. No "Flash" needed anymore, still offering nice effects and video. The Firefox OS phone isn't a "closed" casket, but aims to be an "open" webdevice. I guess it could become the first "* Volksphone*" for everybody, so also for m... more »
Seafood Freakshow: 59% Of Tuna Mislabeled, Fake Tuna Linked to ‘Anal Oil Leakage’ by Anthony Gucciardi
Oceana also offers a graphical breakdown: Oceania Report Graphics Seafood Freakshow: 59% Of Tuna Mislabeled, Fake Tuna Linked to ‘Anal Oil Leakage’ by Anthony Gucciardi Natural Society, 25 February 2013 Do you enjoy the taste of tuna? If you answered yes to that question, there’s a very large chance that you actually enjoy the taste of many bizarre and exotic imposter ‘fake tuna’ fish types that have been peddled and mislabeled by the seafood industry and restaurants alike — even a ‘snake mackerel’ fish linked to side effects like anal oil leakage. The new genetic testing... more »
No blogposts today
No blogposts today - I just don't feel up to it.
Giant Sloths of the Applachians
This is all part of the Appalachians of course and we actually have a number of plausible cryptids reported over the years. Bigfoot is of course the most common but we also have the Giant Sloth and a small hominid that is likely part of the Lucy lineage. These are the best suspects. It I have taken a lesson from uncovering the Giant Sloth is that it is way too easy to misidentify such a creature in a glimpse. However if it is in the fossil record, do not discount its presence in the modern era even if confined to a small range. Here we have an excellent report of wha... more »
Vietnam Lizard Being Encounter
I have posted several reports now about these lizard beings. They are all rather substantial in terms of detail and relay a tale of an evolved Terran race established on Earth for millions of years. This is a creditable proposition as even the fossil record supports that possibility. Almost all encounters appear either underground or close to such access. It is relayed to us that these creatures reside deep underground in large formed habitats with ample access to the surface for rare intrusions. Again we are entering a future in which our mastery of material strength will... more »
new Bone Repair Therapies on Nanoscale Surfaces
Step by step we are getting there. This approach opens the door to artificially mold absent bone and then use it as a scaffold to replace that bone. It will no longer be necessary to build out the whole organ or bone. We are entering the age of full scale tissue engineering and ultimately complete restoration of a human body. At this point I see little to thwart us. What is in front of us are solvable problems and what is behind us are formally daunting unsolvable problems. What I find gratifying is that no one dares say never anymore. Even my dentist has got into the sp... more »
Small-molecule Drug Drives Cancer Cells to Suicide
This is a breakthrough using a failed protocol and a possible game changer for brain tumors in particular. I wonder how it may work with a baking soda protocol happening as well to block the ability of the cancer to respond to a direct attack like this. These are simple ideas but we surely need the data and it is safe enough to push that envelop. We continue to see a wide range of new therapeutic approaches coming on board and what is becoming badly needed is way more direct involvement with patients and their doctors to produce a far larger empirical database to support...more »
Gene Brewer's BECOMING HUMAN 5/5 win for Oscar.
K-PAX series author Gene Brewer was kind enough to send me a signed review copy of his new novel BECOMING HUMAN. What a great little book (200 pages) about a 'burgeoning mechanical intelligence' called Oscar. If my chosen review venue uploads the book review I've submitted (with an exclusive quote from Brewer about the mainstream publishing process) then I'll add that link into this blogpost. I totally enjoyed the fresh take on an over-subscribed concept A.I. or machine mind and recommend this book.
Renting seniors’ beds is a formula for failure – and it’s time for Alberta to stop doing it
Fresh air and yogurt might have helped these guys live to be 160, but if they’d lived in Alberta, instead of Russia, where could they afford to sleep? Below, seniors care in Calgary, back in the day, before oldsters all carried tennis racquets, rode bicycles and looked like fashion models, only with white hair. Do ...more »
CRESSIDA, HARRY, BUTTERFLIES...
*Cressida with a butterfly. So, what DOES Prince Harry see in Cressida?* * * Butterflies have been linked to mind control. *Harry and another girl with a butterfly. uk.onlinenigeria.com * * * *Cressida's friend Princess Beatrice* * * *Pippa, sister of Prince William's wife.* Cressida Bonas's mother is Lady Mary-Gaye Georgiana Lorna Curzon, an heir to the wealthy Curzon banking family. "Lady Mary Gaye has five children by three of her four husbands, all of whom she divorced". dailymail.co.uk/ Lady Mary Gaye's father Edward Richard Assheton Penn Curzon, 6th Earl Howewas a Companion... more »
Can IR Theory Free this Student?
Omid Kokabee is a University of Texas PhD student from the Department of Physics who was arrested in 2011 when he returned home to Iran over the winter break to visit his family. Though he is by all accounts apolitical, Omid was sentenced to 10 years for conspiring with foreign governments and given additional time in Continue reading
Do you Remember?
*I was writing something very similar, but you know...this is even better than what I wrote! -AK* http://removingtheshackles.blogspot.ca/2013/02/do-you-remember.html SUNDAY, 24 FEBRUARY 2013 *Do you Remember?* Who you are? Where you come from? Do you Remember why you are here? Do you remember the Game? The Experiment? Maybe you don't........ yet. That was part of the rules of The Game- rules that WE made when WE created The Game. Rules that WE agreed with Source to follow when we all decided to play the Grand Experiment. The Game is played like a theatre production: The p...more »
Fat Free Econ 39: P57,000 Public Debt Per Filipino
* This is my article last Saturday in interaksyon.com -------- The outstanding debt of the Philippine government has breached the P5 trillion mark sometime in March 2012. By the end of last year, the debt was P5.437 trillion. This means that on average, each of the 96-plus million Filipinos as of that period had a per capita debt of about P57,000. Not a good figure to hear. Aside from the outstanding debt, there is also the guaranteed debt or “contingent liability” that is not part of the former yet, but if the indebted GOCC or GFI (government financial institution) cannot pay the ... more »
A Letter from Sam Davis at The Guardian Express
*A Letter from Sam Davis at The Guardian Express* Ladies and Gentleman,**** ** ** http://guardianlv.com/2013/02/in-the-money-oppts-ucc-filing-explained-what-this-means-for-all-of-us/ **** ** ** I am Sam Davis, and I have been publishing the recent articles about the OPPT UCC filings in the Guardian Express Newspaper.**** ** ** Thank you for your support, and we will be publishing content daily about OPPT and what it means to everyone on the planet.**** ** ** Gary Livingston put me on to this amazing story, after another writer on our staff, Steve... more »
Mozilla: Firefox Smart Phone launch Partners
*The not for profit organization behind the Firefox web browser has announced handsets based on its operating system for cell phones. *According to Jay Sullivan, vice president of products at Mozilla, Firefox phones are likely to be sold first in the developing planet and Eastern Europe and will be at the cheaper end of the smart phone market. Mozilla supposed that 18 operators including Deutsche Telekom and Telephonic were signed up. Mozilla described the Firefox OS as an open alternative. The platform is based on the HTML5 web programming language which Mr Sullivan says gave i... 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 »
What Will Political Dysfunction Do To America's $1 Trillion Annual Tourism Industry?
The Administration thinks that by next weekend the relatable face of sequestration for thousands in the middle class will be painful airport travel. Long, long lines and miserable delays and inconvenience. Republicans, the s&m party, think it's their job to add pain and suffering to people's lives. When I was president of Reprise, a division of AOLTimeWarner, we had several sleek private jets at our disposal. I spent a lot of time in New York and in London and flying privately, rather than hassling at an airport, was deliciously convenient. In all my years at the company, though... more »
Brian Kelly Interviewed on Nibiru TV
Thank you to Elias for having me on NIBIRU TV! One quick correction I realized I made: UCC is "Uniform Commercial Code" not Universal Commercial Code. Slip of the tongue :) If interested in conducting an interview with one of the OPPT Radio Team, please contact us at peoplespublictrust@gmail.com In Absolute Love & Gratitude, Brian
Stop Imperialism – Episode 59
*February 25, 2013* (StopImperialism) IN TODAY’S EPISODE:*1. Syria *[image: syria_80]Death toll rises in Damascus blast US refusal to condemn Damascus terror act frustrating – Lavrov Syria militants attack Hezbollah positions in Lebanon: FSA If Syria’s Assad falls, Hezbollah’s next Syria: The death of a countrySegment Start: 00 h 09 min 21 secSegment End: 00 h 37 min 45 sec*2. Iran (Political) * [image: ir]World powers plan ‘serious offer’ to Iran Iran installing new Natanz centrifuges, says IAEA Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran Supreme Leader, scolds Ahmadinejad ahead of electionsSegme... more »
Río fresco en el bosque
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Dead French Photographer was State Department-Funded - Embedded With Al Qaeda
*February 25, 2013* (LD) - Further indication of the depraved nature of the West's campaign against Syria, and the depraved nature of its institutions, methods, and faux-NGOs, vindicating a growing trend of ejecting Western "journalists" and NGO's from an ever increasing number of nations, it is revealed that a French photographer recently killed in Syria was embedded with terrorist militants in Idlib, northern Syria, and was working on behalf of the US State Department's National Endowment for Democracy (NED) funded "Reporters Without Borders." The UK Daily Mail revealed in their ... more »
Pajarillos enamorados sobre las rocas
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Encantadora chica acompañada de bellas aves
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Perrito mirando las maravillas de la naturaleza
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Delfines nadando a orillas de la gran isla
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Cascada de color azul en las montañas
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Spa natural y fresco para relajarse
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Patito de colores en el lago
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Gatito con mucha sed tomando agua
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Arbol de color rojo en el campo
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Day 5 - Voice From The Trees
"Heard owls last night and a woodpecker this morning. No rain today, it's nice. A poem: From tar sands oil, fracking gas, and mountaintop removal coal It's hard to believe these exec's still got souls They say that there's no other way to live but think about what the world could give If I can survive up here in a tree I think there's hope for you and me If they can make computers the size of a hand Then I think we can still save this land." -A journal entry sent from Gifford Pinchot in the trees on Day 5 of the tree sit blockade halting construction for the Tennessee Gas Pipeline her... more »
Searching for Sugar Man wins Oscar Best Documentary
Censored News congratulates Searching for Sugar Man for winning the Oscar for Best Documentary, and the life and music of Sixto Diaz Rodriguez! Producers said Rodriguez didn't attend because he didn't want to take credit for the film, which says a lot about who he is. Here's an article from Censored News on the power of Sugar Man's music, and that of the Beatles and Buffy Sainte Marie!
Sunday Globe Special: Night at the Oscars
*I think I'll spend it here.* "The blurry intersection of fact, fiction, and art" by Ty Burr | Globe Staff, February 24, 2013 Six American embassy workers and their CIA handler flee revolutionary Iran in a white-knuckle airplane getaway as pursuing soldiers fire at them from the tarmac. Two Connecticut congressmen in 1865 Washington vote against passage of the 13th Amendment, outlawing slavery. A CIA black-ops team softens up a suspected terrorist with waterboarding, beatings, and sleep deprivation until he gives them a crucial lead to the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden. What do... more »
Musical Interlude: Sacred Spirit, “May You Walk In Sunshine”
Sacred Spirit, “May You Walk In Sunshine” - http://www.youtube.com/
Musical Interlude: Traveling Wilburys, “End Of The Line”
Traveling Wilburys, “End Of The Line” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf_dQk9iaSY
Super cheerleader flip - hole in one!
Link: http://youtu.be/6s32R8Yl7Hc One for the books! Now I understand what a "cheer-leader" is. She deserved the sheers... John
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