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Señor pescando en la isla congelada
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Joe Arpaio-- What Recalls Were Invented To Remedy
*-by Bob Lord*
Progressives across America have a rare opportunity.
Joe Arpaio, the megalomaniacal sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, is the
face of racism in America today. He is facing a well-organized recall
campaign. Arpaio has been elected six times, dating back to 1992, by
raising zillions of dollars from right-wing ideologues and using the funds
to play to the fears of Maricopa’s conservative population base,
particularly the fearful senior citizens in the retirement communities west
of Phoenix, while smearing his opponents with horrifically deceitful ads.
But each elec... more »
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Karl Denninger, "Don't Believe Your College: They'll Fail You, Then Sue You"
* "Don't Believe Your College: They'll Fail You, Then Sue You"*
by Karl Denninger
"Now I think I've seen it all. Let's cut the crap- colleges market
themselves to young men and women on the premise that their educational
services will provide you a means to get a better job than you would
otherwise obtain. That's the entire purpose of a career-focused education
and the *only* justification for the outrageous tuition charges they assess.
Well, as it turns out if you fail to benefit from the alleged "education"
that these people sold you, and in the process you borrowed money usi... more »
Restrictive covenants
*Martin v. ConCreate USL Limited Partnership*, 2013 ONCA 72 is an
important case upholding strongly the principle that, generally,
restrictive covenants are unenforceable: *(1)* Framework
[49] Covenants in restraint of trade are contrary to public policy
because they interfere with individual liberty and the exercise of trade:
see *Elsley v. J.G. Collins Ins. Agencies Ltd.*, [1978] 2 S.C.R. 916, at p.
923. They are *prima facie* unenforceable. A covenant will only be upheld
if it is reasonable in reference to the interests of the parties concerned *
and* the interests of the ... more »
Catch of the Day
Okay, it's a cheap shot, but Matt Yglesias gets the Catch for his tweet:
"If you want to know what’s wrong with US conservatism, read this from
@richlowry," and links to Lowry's hyping of the Paul Harvey ad from the
Super Bowl.
It's a tweet, so I'm not sure what in particular got to Yglesias (there's
so much!), and, yeah, it's not everything that's wrong with US
conservativism...but it's sure a mess.
Lowry:
The spot stuck out for how thoroughly un–Super Bowl it was. It’s a wonder
that CBS didn’t refuse to air it on grounds that it wasn’t appropriate for
the occasion. It was simple... more »
M408: Totally Bogus
In previous blogposts here on private member's bill M408, the condemnation
of sex selection, aka The Latest Backdoor Attempt to Legislate on Abortion,
we've noted that it is sheer, cynical posturing coming from a member of the
CONtempt Party.
The CONs have nothing but contempt for women. For starters, just look at
the list of women's organizations whose funding has been cut or ended by
them.
Today, I decided to have a look at Mark Warawa's history on matters
relating to his new hobby, 'protecting girls'.
I mean, there are tons of fetus fetishizing Cons, why pick him as the front ... more »
Stalin Documentary
A monster yes. It's somewhat surreal watching Madeleine Albright and Zbigniew
Brzezinski talking about his crimes though.
Such a world.
Cui Bono? Paying the Bin Laden Tax for Perpetuity (Or Until the USA Ceases To Exist In Its Present Constitutional Form)
This essay shows exactly why I respect Tom's reporting and ability to see
below the surface of complex events so much. And whether you believe in the
official 9/11 story or not, we're a totally different country now doing
things to our own citizens that conflicts with Nazi Germany and Soviet
Russia never incurred Paying the Bin Laden Tax Tom Engelhardt February 5,
2013 Follow TomDispatch
The Relationship between Peace and Economic Equality
The current distribution of wealth in the United States is extremely skewed
towards the wealthy – more so than in any other developed country. This
inequality results in the unavoidable reality that there are insufficient
economic resources available for the majority of the nation’s citizens.
This situation has been severely exacerbated by the economic downturn
precipitated by the Great Recession that began in 2008. This economic
reversal was caused, for the most part, by the unwise, cavalier and often
extra-legal activities of the major financial institutions that led to
widespr... more »
Vatican condemns elephant poaching, pledges steps – ‘We are absolutely convinced that the massacre of elephants is a very serious matter’
[image: Elephant herd in Kenya. It's estimated that around 25,000 elephants
were killed by poachers in 2011, though the number could be even higher.
Photo: Rob Roy / mongabay.com]
By Jeremy Hance
4 February 2013
(mongabay.com) – Responding to an investigative report by National
Geographic, the Vatican has condemned elephant poaching for ivory and
pledged three steps to help in the battle to save the world's elephants.
The National Geographic article Ivory Worship by Bryan Christy, looked at
how religions—specifically religious items for Christians and
Buddhists—were playing in t... more »
Tuesday Morning Linkage Club
I guess Chuck Hagel’s going to be confirmed, so we can return to an
all-international edition of linkage. And mostly Asia. Papua New Guinea
could finally give us a test of the institutions strain of the
resource-curse hypothesis; unlike rich and democratic oil titan Norway,
Papua New Guinea is poor and democratic(ish). The news that
Continue reading
The Asahi Shimbun's Series Prometheus Trap #4
PROMETHEUS TRAP (4): U.S. official sought 'heroic sacrifice' from Japan
2/4/2013*Editor's note: This is the fourth part of a series that has run in
the past under the overall title of The Prometheus Trap. This series deals
with the differences between Japan and the United States in dealing with
the Fukushima nuclear accident of 2011 following the Great East Japan
Earthquake*# 3
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201302010004 #2
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201301300006#1
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201301280006F... more »
ROSA PARKS AT 100: Why can’t Charles Blow stick to the facts!
*TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2013*
*Part 2—What three major newspapers said:* Presumably, columnists at the
New York Times know how to look things up.
They know how to fact-check a claim, no matter how pleasing it is.
That said, what did Charles Blow find if he fact-checked the claims which
drove last Saturday’s column? If he fact-checked his claims, he found what
we did:
His pleasing claims were bunk.
The pleasing claims which drove Blow’s piece concern the public’s
understanding of Rosa Parks, who was born one hundred years ago this week.
Blow cites a fascinating new book about Mrs. Pa... more »
Mary Franson (MN) Are You an ALEC Member???
Reported on BlueStem Prairie yesterday –
Inspired by ALEC bill?
*Beard, Draz & Franson hating on MN renewable energy standards*
Today, Representatives Mike Beard (R-Shakopee), Steve Drazkowski
(R-Mazeppa) and Mary Franson (R-Alexandria) introduced HF306, which would
abolish Minnesota's renewable energy standards.
Beard and Drazkowski are both known members of the American Legislative
Exchange Council. ALEC's Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force
adopted a resolution supporting the "Electricity Freedom Act" at the 2012
Annual Meeting on July 26, 2012; the resolution... more »
A Knife Through The Heart Of Traditional Marriage?
.
It looks like the 'Gay Marriage Bill' will succeed after its first reading
today. This development is really more of the same kind of social
engineering that has been pushed onto society over the last decades. This
Bill is no different in kind to many before it. It is designed to destroy
marriage as a public institution and as social glue.
As the Protocols state, "We will destroy all unity, save our own."
The stated reason for bringing this Bill (that appeared in no party
manifesto nor for which was there any perceivable public demand) forward is
'equality'. Those gays who marr... more »
Making Friends By Outsourcing Torture
More Than 50 Countries Helped the CIA Outsource Torture By Spencer Ackerman02.05.13
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/02/54-countries-rendition/[Excerpted] A
new report from the Open Society Foundation details the CIA’s effort to
outsource torture since 9/11 in excruciating detail. Known as
“extraordinary rendition,” the practice concerns taking detainees to and
from U.S. custody without a legal process — think of it like an
off-the-books extradition — and often entailed handing detainees over to
countries that practiced torture. The Open Society Foundation found that
136 people... more »
SIRIUS - made by the people - for the people
there's a spanking new trailer for Dr Steven Greer's free_energy
alien_contact documentary SIRIUS which includes footage of the miniature
alien which has shown a full (and unique) skeleton under x-ray analysis:
Sirius-ly, I'm convinced we'll find that THE ELECTRIC UNIVERSE has had the
answers to ANTI-GRAVITY for 'at least' one hundred years ... we've just
held back from FREE ENERGY because the MI(c)C can't meter such to earn
their pathetic PROFIT and ensure your debt-SLAVERY.
Cocktails With a Twist of Logic
This is beyond schizophrenic. The same president now leading the national
charge to keep disturbed people from using lethal weapons finds nothing too
terribly disturbing about exempting himself from any guidelines at
all. Whether there are rules about presidential homicide written down
somewhere, or if they're just floating around in his head, he is not
sharing his thought processes with the likes of you, the people he was
hired to represent.
According to an Obama Administration "white paper" sent to Congress
and leaked to NBC News last night, the president or some other unnamed
hi... more »
Sunday Globe Special: Burn Pit
*Needed to catch my breath before I posted this*:
"Health answers sought about burned-off war garbage" by Kevin Freking |
Associated Press, January 27, 2013
WASHINGTON — J.D. Williams *didn’t think much* about the *smoke cloud* that
often *shrouded his air base* in Iraq. Not when it *covered everything* he
owned with *black soot* or when his *wheezing and coughing* made it
difficult to sleep.
*
**Support the troops.*
‘‘We *just went about our business* because there was a *war going on*,’’
said Williams, a retired chief warrant officer who was responsible for
maintaining some 250... more »
Australia braces for days of high fire risk – ‘The lack of rain has completely dried most areas of grassland and bush across Victoria’
[image: The bushfire in the Mount Hotham region is one of five 'live'
blazes in Australia's Victoria state, 5 February 2013. Photo: Robert
Plumtree / Sydney Morning Herald]
By Peter Hannam, Carbon economy editor
5 February 2013
Victoria faces days of heightened fire risk with the return of hot weather
and little sign of rainfall relief for much of the state.
Fire resources have been mobilised to fight five continuing fires in
expectation of warmer conditions lasting until Sunday.
A “severe fire danger” rating has been forecast for the south west and
north central districts and a... more »
Rate of tree die-off in Amazon higher than previous estimates – ‘These climate-change signals will start popping out of the noise faster and faster as the years go on’
[image: This image taken from a helicopter shows the same blowdown region a
few years after the 2005 storm that killed trees near Manaus, Brazil.
Regrowing vegetation has covered up most of the downed trees, but some tree
stems are still visible. Photo: Chambers, et al., 2013]
1 February 2013 (mongabay.com) – The rate of tree mortality in the Amazon
rainforest due to storm damage and drought is 9-17 percent higher than
conventionally believed, reports a study published in the *Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences* (PNAS).
Comparing Landsat satellite images with on-the-... more »
Sunday Globe Special: Harkin Hears a Who
"*Harkin has faced questions about his and his wife’s role in developing a
namesake policy institute at Iowa State University. Reports have said some
of its largest donors are from companies that have benefited from his
policies."*
*
**But, but, but.... he's a Democrat!*
"Iowa Senator Tom Harkin won’t seek 6th term" by Thomas Beaumont |
Associated Press, January 27, 2013
CUMMING, Iowa — US Senator Tom *Harkin, Democrat* of Iowa, chairman of the
influential Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, and chairman
of the largest appropriations subcommittee, said Saturday that ... more »
Sunday Globe Special: Supreme Court is on the Pill
*Of course, it will take a while for the verdict to come to term*:
"High court may hear suits on employees’ birth control" by Ethan Bronner |
New York Times, January 27, 2013
NEW YORK — In a *flood of lawsuits*, Roman Catholics, evangelicals, and
Mennonites are *challenging a provision in the new health care law* that
requires employers to cover *birth control* in *employee health plans* — a *high-stakes
clash* between religious freedom and health care access that appears *headed
to the Supreme Court*.
*
**When it gets there let me know.*
In recent months, federal courts have seen... more »
UN to Israel: Remove Settlers & Israel to 'buffer' Syrian land
Israel, ignored the Human rights report.
Because that is what you do when you live under the delusion of chosen and
entitled as set out by your own special version of "God"
The UN report hit the mainstream right before Israel launched it's
unprovoked attack on Syria and was largely ignored.
It seemed obvious that Israel’s strike on Syria last week* had to have
served more then one purpose.* There is never just one reason for such an
outrageous action to be taken.
So, there is the continued destabilization/destruction of Syria by giving
aid to the NATO’s mercs which benefits Israel i... more »
JUSTIFYING KILLING
The United States can lawfully kill a U.S. citizen overseas if it
determines the target is a “senior, operational leader” of al-Qaeda or an
"associated group" and poses an imminent threat to the United States,
according to a Justice Department document published late Monday by NBC
News.
"This is a chilling document," said Jameel Jaffer, deputy legal director of
the American Civil Liberties Union. He called the document a “profoundly
disturbing” summary of “a stunning overreach of executive authority — the
claimed power to declare Americans a threat and kill them far from a
recogn... more »
Lakes Michigan and Huron sink to lowest levels ever recorded – Michigan governor proposes $11 million plan to dredge harbors
[image: In the nearly 100 years researchers have catalogued the rise and
fall of the Great Lakes, Michigan and Huron have never seen a month like
January. The two-lake system recorded its lowest-ever level for a month, a
mean of 576.02 feet above sea level. It's a number that dips below the
all-time low for January — 576.12 feet — as well as the all-time low for
any month, 576.05 feet in March 1964. Graphic: The Detroit news]
By Jim Lynch
2 February 2013
(The Detroit News) – In the nearly 100 years researchers have catalogued
the rise and fall of the Great Lakes, Michigan and Hu... more »
Gary Sinise: One of the good guys...
*and we thank him.*
*Snowball Express Hollywood Adventure 2013 *
Read about the Gary Sinise Foundation HERE
H/T Theo Spark
ALEC/NRA - 2 Little Love Birds Sitting in a Tree
*(Thinking Valentine's Day already)*
The NRA has a list of national organizations on their webpage that one
might consider the combatants of the NRA.
Per the statement at the top of the page:
The following organizations have lent monetary, grassroots or some other
type of direct support to anti-gun organizations. … All have officially
endorsed anti-gun positions.
Posted September 2012
The top of the list includes:
AARP
AFL-CIO
Ambulatory Pediatric Association
American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing
American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
American Academy of Child a... more »
Erin Weir: PotashCorp Royalties Remain at Rock Bottom
*"...** Erin Weir continues to ask the hardest questions of any candidate
in the Saskatchewan New Democrat leadership campaign. The governing Saskatchewan
Party is led by Premier Brad Wall and boosted (to the point of
embarrassment) by the province's major daily papers and other MSM outlets.
Weir holds Wall's fiscal and natural resource policy under the microscope
and it's not as rosy as the government or the press try to tell you it is"*
*Buckdog Politics*
* *
* **The following comments are by Erin Weir concerning the release of
PotashCorp's Fourth Quarter 2012 Report:*
*
**"Potas... more »
Shilling For Benefits
Last week the press was all a twitter -- because Stephen Harper was
tweeting. It makes you wonder what kind of critical thinking skills our
press barons possess. Michael Harris writes that it's all about replica news
:
Perhaps the prime minister’s temerity in tweeting his own image is based on
the replica news model he has managed to foist on broad swaths of the news
profession. Replica news is what the government wants to see reproduced.
Journalism, as Orwell famously remarked, is printing what someone doesn’t
want you to print.
And, let's face it, there is all kinds of informa... more »
The Party Of Stoopid Wants To Destroy Your Life-- Or Let The Financial Predators Who Underwrite Them Destroy Your Life
If the Republicans really cared about not being the stupid party any
longer-- instead just fighting among themselves about who's stupider, Bobby
Jindal or Donald Trump (an obvious draw)-- they would spend less time being
brainwashed by Fox and more time reading Nobel laureates like Paul Krugman.
Trump on *Fox and Friends* yesterday: "He was stupid for using that term.
Because that term is so obnoxious, and so good for the other side, he
should not have used that term. That term is going to be living now for a
long time, and they're going to have his face on television using it." An... more »
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Jennifer Jason Jeigh, 51.
And a bit of good stuff:
1. Jonathan Chait follows up on his first-rate essay about GOP
anti-democratic efforts. If I was a totally annoying nitpicker, I'd mention
that the distinction he makes between activists and "party" doesn't really
work well, but then again as far as I know the Colorado effort he talks
about was not, in fact, an effort to steal away electoral votes in a state
Democrats believed was otherwise lost to them; it was, rather, a misguided
(okay, in my view) effort to achieve fairness. The key question I'd ask
isn't acti... more »
Argentina: Carhué UFO is the "Photo of the Year"
*Argentina: Carhué UFO is the “Photo of the Year”*
*By Luis Burgos, Fundación Argentina de Ovnilogía (FAO)*
*28 January 2013*
Carhué is a small city in western Buenos Aires whose main source of
attraction can be found in its hot baths and sports fishing in local
lagoons. Only a few kilometers distant we find Lago Epecuén, notorious for
the fact that its waters abruptly flooded the entire town one terrifying
night in 1985. Today, its sunken ruins also attract tourists, who leave
astonished.
Since the 1960s and 1970s we have over 5000 cases in our database
(1947-present... more »
ISRAEL: HOPE; VIOLENCE IN THE WORLD
www.thejerusalemconnection.us
*On 1 February 2013, at the Financial Times, Simon Kuper wrote about Israel:
perched between hope and fear*
"Listen to six former chiefs of Israel’s domestic intelligence service Shin
Bet.
"They speak in the new Israeli documentary *The Gatekeepers*...
*"'We are making millions of people’s lives unbearable,' says one ex-chief.
*
"'We have become cruel,' says another.
"'When you retire,' a third says of his job, 'you become a bit of a
leftie.'"
*Simon Kuper continues:*
"War is in decline worldwide, as the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker
points... more »
MN GOP-ers Support ALEC Extremism
ALEC is not dead in Minnesota.
Ultra-conservative, right-wing extremist thinking is not dead in Minnesota.
Minnesota GOP-ers are looking to east and seeing the dissension among state
citizens caused by ALEC-er Scottie Walker and they approve.
Minnesota GOP-ers are looking to east and seeing the economic destruction
to the state caused by ALEC-er Scottie Walker and they approve.
Minnesota GOP-ers are looking to east and seeing the private sector taking
over the state caused by ALEC-er Scottie Walker and they approve.
Minnesota GOP-ers are looking to east and seeing the 42nd worse job... more »
Untitled
*With private security clueless and uninvolved, police search for men who
kidnapped, raped, robbed Garden District woman *
*Garden District woman kidnapped at gunpoint by three men, raped and beaten ~Uptown
Messenger*
*Super Bowl blackout mystery probed; New Orleans as host praised*
*Will Super Bowl cause surge in people moving to New Orleans?*
*Congratulations To The Baltimore Ravens! Now Pay Your Louisiana Tax Bill*
*Sandy Rosenthal to Speak about Levees.org *
*Patents issued drops in N.O. *
*Officials say City Park's lone black swan attacked, eggs destroyed*
*Morganza flood con... more »
9 Concepts Kids Should Learn About Health That They'll Never Learn In School by Marco Torres
9 Concepts Kids Should Learn About Health That They'll Never Learn In School
by Marco Torres
Prevent Disease, 4 February 2013
When it comes to health, children today are guided by an illusion of
reality. Teachers in the educational system have only the best of
intentions, but unfortunately even they are led by a curriculum so
distorted from our natural world, that it is nearly impossible for children
to learn any semblance of how to obtain a healthy body. A new health
paradigm is creeping up and it's not under the radar. It's in your face,
assertive, wide-reaching with well-or... more »
ELM GUEST HOUSE, GRAFTON CLOSE, AMSTERDAM, BIRMINGHAM, ISLINGTON, JERSEY...
"In the PC Inn, Berlin police found Bosnian boys of only 12 on sale to
customers."
how-a-paedophile-murder-inquiry-fell-apart/
Abuse victims 'trafficked abroad'
*The Independent* reports that a young boy from London's *Grafton
Close*children's home was taken to a boy brothel in Amsterdam where he
was
sexually abused.
This boy was not the only one taken by an elite pedophile ring to boy
brothels in Amsterdam.
The boy from the Grafton Close care home was also taken to London's *Elm
Guest House*, a boy brothel for the elite.
*Abuse victims 'trafficked abroad'*
*Warwick Spinks, c... more »
Steve Hsu: Alice is Schrödinger's cat who may have fallen to a black hole
*...or not...*
The black hole firewall saga continues. The original paper by AMPS has
collected 35 citations according to SPIRES. Most of the recent 10 are
papers that are primarily about issues that different than black hole
firewalls.
However, Stephen Hsu who is also a blogger (article about the topic; don't
confuse him with Steven Chu although there may be some similarities here,
too) just posted a new, 3-page preprint that attacks the essential error
done by AMPS:
Macroscopic superpositions and black hole unitarity
I believe his basic line of arguments is equivalent to what I'... more »
New Type of Volcanic Eruption
The outflow is buoyant but not explosive. This could well make sense of a
lot of geology that presumes explosive eruptions yet generates huge deep
flows of materials over a large area. When you consider it, we have no
evidence of deep explosive sub sea events anywhere close to what we
experience on land. They must then behave differently and this shows us how.
It is quite right to attach a fresh name to this type of volcano.
It also suggests that during the sub sea stage, most of the material will
accumulate close to hand and help build the cone that does eventually bre... more »
Real Employment Continued Contraction
What this tells you is that the real economy has contracted by about three
percent since 2007. Everything else is window dressing to disguise this
fact. As I posted in the past, we are repairing the credit collapse the
hard way. It is also the slow way.
The good news is that the banking system now knows what they have to work
with and they have begun to lend again and this will begin to stimulate
demand to allow a recovery to get under way. I think we are now into a
three year cycle of slow steady recovery.
I have also posted before that it did not need to be way but no... more »
Permafrost Agriculture
Once again, the received truth is that agriculture in permafrost country
is an impossibility. I do not generally agree. It is clearly impossible
to grow trees beyond a certain set of conditions, but much of their
northern range is in fact underlain with permafrost. So it is not so
impossible as a species variant.
Yet we do know that the short growing season is capriciously rich for the
few weeks that it lasts. It is a mistake to discount it at all.
The problem for agriculture is to establish a secure seedbed as ever.
Modern equipment makes this much more practical... more »
Superior Lighting Developed
This is not about energy efficiency as we already have that. It is about
light quality. This is a major breakthrough on sheer quality and
flexibility. We can set up any geometry and I expect we will soon love
light panels. A hanging tile gets rid of a lot of hardware we have no need
for.
How about a parabolic shell that emits light? The options become endless
the moment you are not dealing with a lot of metal and glass in awkward
places.
So yes, this technology will meet price point and be outright superior in
light quality. It will still roll out slowly but soon become ... more »
Persian Paladin Films - Hossein Turner - Circuits in our Skies
"The concept of an Electric Sun changes everything," thus states this
Electric Universe or Plasma Cosmology documentary and if you think it's
going too slow at the start, just go to 08:13 where part one of the
"Circuits in our Skies" documentary begins proper.
in fact, there's no escaping Hossein Turner's pedestrian
commentary/editorial pace but the information's top notch, so watch on,
dear inquisitiv-er.
if you're reluctant to click on either of those above videos, first try
clicking on this link to an earlier post about THE ELECTRIC UNIVERSE as
it's a tad more concise if tim... more »
Khan, Cusanelli canned: Alberta premier sacks two rookie ministers in wake of poll
Steve Khan, eyed suspiciously by a fox. Below: Richard Starke, Christine
Cusanelli, Richard III and Thomas Lukaszuk. Right on the heels of a new
poll suggesting a decline in support for the Progressive Conservative
government of Alberta, Premier Alison Redford announced a mini-shuffle of
her cabinet yesterday, sacking a couple of rookie ministers who for ... more »
Huawei launches Windows Smart phone in Africa
*Chinese telecoms giant Huawei has unveiled a bespoke Windows-run smart
phone entirely available in Africa. *This includes plans to develop cheap
wireless broadband in the Rift Valley in Kenya and help local people in
South Africa and Egypt expand Windows apps. Gustavo Fuchs, the director of
Microsoft Windows Phone division in the Middle East & Africa, supposed
that,”Our aim is to be the most affordable Windows phone in Africa”.
Affordability is important but without the right local content we believe a
lot of users will not see the benefit in the change from a basic feature
pho... more »
Economist and white-collar criminologist Bill Black paraphrasing a column by Matthew Yglesias: "...it was essential, if you're going to bail out the biggest banks, that you not allow any proscecutions, because if you had allowed any proscecutions, then the banks would have been driven by proscecutions back into insolvency. ... this is even worse than blaming the victims ... you have to make sure that the victims get no recovery from the frauds, because if the victims got recovery, well, the victims suffered such massive losses, roughly $20 trillion lost in wealth, that it would bankrupt the fraudulent banks."
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February 3, 2013
*Creative Finance: Leaving Felons in Charge of the Banks*
Bill Black: Obama Administration following logic that to not investigate
and prosecute banking fraud builds trust in the institutions
*Watch full multipart The Black Financial and Fraud Report*
More at The Real News
*Bio*
William K. Black, author of THE BEST WAY TO ROB A BANK IS TO OWN ONE,
teaches economics and law at the University of Missouri Kansas City (UMKC).
He wa... more »
Lubošification of Scott Aaronson is underway
In 2006, quantum computing guy Scott Aaronson declared that he was ready to
write and defend any piece of nonsensical claim about quantum gravity or
string theory if he gets paid for it. The highest bidder wins. Your humble
correspondent was dissatisfied with this attitude for ethical reasons.
Now, in 2013, Scott Aaronson recalls that exchange and adds a comment about
the positive developments:
Yeah, this paper is pretty uninformed even by the usual standards of
attempted quantum-mechanics-overthrowings. Let me now offer three more
general thoughts.
First thought: isn’t it ironic t... more »
Sunday Globe Special: Groundhog Day
*Honestly, reading the Globe every day feels like the movie. *
"Groundhog doesn’t see his shadow
PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. — An end to winter’s bitter cold will come soon,
according to Pennsylvania’s famous groundhog. After a recent stretch of
weather that’s included temperatures well below freezing as well as record
warmth, tornadoes in the South and Midwest and torrential rains in the
mid-Atlantic, Punxsutawney Phil emerged from his lair Saturday but didn’t
see his shadow. Legend has it that if the rodent sees his shadow on Feb. 2,
winter will last six more weeks. But if he doesn’t see hi... more »
SUMMER SNIPPETS: ‘Parallel Motion: A Biography of Nevil Shute’
*Snippets from my summer reading of Parallel Motion, a new biography of
novelist Nevil Shute, author of* A Town Like Alice*,* Trustee from the
Toolroom*,* No Highway* and many more novels showing the best of the human
spirit.*
“Shute summed up the carefree days of peace before the First Wold War with
the poem *Romance *by Eleanor Geach… [but for the schoolboy] Shute, as for
millions of others, the attitude to the War [and to life] changed as the
casualties increased… His thoughts were no longer of a career on leaving
school. As he later wrote, he was ‘born to one end’: to go int... more »
Sunday Globe Special: Obama's Medicaid Mafia
*Which is a good thing.*
*
**"It is not unlike a payday loan, with a quick influx of cash and a large
obligation to follow."** *
*
**And here the government is always warning us about those!*
"Oregon’s bid to cut spending on Medicaid could be model" by Sarah Kliff |
Washington Post, January 27, 2013
PORTLAND, Ore. — In 2011, Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber faced a *vexing
problem*: The state had a *$2 billion hole* in its *Medicaid budget* and no
good way to fill it.
He could cut doctors’ pay by 40 percent, but that might lead to them
quitting Medicaid altogether. He could drop pati... more »
Pulp Blog Fiction
The completely awesome Pulp-O-Mizer is dangerously fun. Gee whiz!
Jacob Voorhees Shops at Oregon Mall
*Two days before Newtown.... *
Ore. mall shooter used stolen gun, officials say
Jacob Tyler Roberts, wearing a *hockey-style face mask*, parked his 1996
green Volkswagen Jetta in front of the second-floor entrance to Macy’s and
walked briskly through the store, into the mall, and began firing randomly,
police said. Roberts then fled along a mall corridor and into a back
hallway, down stairs, and into a corner where police found him *dead from
an apparent self-inflicted gunshot*, authorities said."* *
*
**It may very well be what happened; however, it does start reading like a
script... more »
Gerrymandering-- Both Sides Do It... True But Only One Side Does It Enough To Base Its Entire Future On
Earlier today we took a look at some pretty good news from North
Carolinawhich, admittedly, has been pretty depressing lately for
progressives.
Though not as depressing as it once was. Sunday, David Frum, in his
review
of Robert Norrell's biography of Booker T. Washington, *Up From
History*,
reminded us how racist sociopath Alfred Waddell became mayor of
Wilmingtonback when the Democrats were the party of bigotry and racism
and the
Republicans were still vaguely anti-racist.
Alfred Waddell, an out-of-favor politician remaking himself as a
white-nationalist leader, became the most ... more »
Anonymous posts over 4000 U.S. bank executive credentials
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http://www.zdnet.com/anonymous-posts-over-4000-u-s-bank-executive-credentials-7000010740/?s_cid=e589
*Anonymous posts over 4000 U.S. bank executive credentials*
Summary: Anonymous appears to have published login and private information
from over 4000 American bank executive credentials its Operation Last
Resort, demanding US computer crime law reform.
By Violet Blue for Zero Day | February 4, 2013 -- 07:28 GMT (23:28 PST)
Following attacks on U.S. government websites last weekend, Anonymous seems
to have made a new "*Operation Last Resort*" .gov website strike Sunday
night.
... more »
Check-in
We are having an absolutely awesome time in Costa Rica for our combined
Kurt's bday and house hunting trip.
I will post a trip update when we return, but thus far, we have spent time
in both the Jaco area and the Uvita area.
Pura Vida!
The Realist Report with John Friend
On this edition of The Realist Report, we'll be joined by William Finck of *
Christogenea.org* to discuss the origins, migrations, and history of the
European peoples and Western civilization generally. Where do modern
Europeans have their origins? What is our true history? These and related
questions will be discussed. You can download the entire program *here*, or
subscribe to Truth Militia via iTunes *here*.
Sorry for the abrupt ending tonight folks. Skype dropped the call, and once
that happened the show apparently ended automatically.
The garden year begins
As you can see we are now lining off the beds, which are 3X50 feet, and
raking the sheet compost/mulch out of the paths. That's about as "raised"
as we get. Seems to do the job, especially after almost two decades. Paths
will be lined with cardboard and a layer of straw, which along with leaves,
poultry bedding and grass clippings added over the year, will be raked onto
the beds again next February, if all goes as it should. I'll also cut up
prunings into short bits and scatter them round the beds, especially the
soft fruit perennial beds. Anything too large for the hand pruner is ... more »
Benjamin Fulford: Queen Beatrix quits, the Rockefellers flee, the Bushes are rats in a trap; Queen Elizabeth, the Pope and the Rothschilds are still standing
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*Queen Beatrix quits, the Rockefellers flee, the Bushes are rats in a
trap; Queen Elizabeth, the Pope and the Rothschilds are still standing*
Benjamin Fulford
February 5, 2013
The announcement last week that Queen “Bilderberg” Beatrix of the
Netherlands was abdicating the throne is but a visible sign of some
fundamental changes in the secret power structure of the West. In a yet to
be publicly confirmed move, David and J. Rockefeller have fled to an Island
near Fiji, according to a CIA source. The Bush family, for its part, tried
to flee via an airport in Arkansas but... more »
Same Guy Who Developed US Drone Policy Now Developing US Pre-Emptive Cyber-Strikes Policy
Majia here: And of course the rules will be "highly
classified":
*Broad Powers Seen for Obama in Cyberstrikes. Published: February 3,
2013 The
New York Times By DAVID E. SANGER and THOM SHANKER
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/04/us/broad-powers-seen-for-obama-in-cyberstrikes.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130204&_r=0
*
*[Excerpted]*A
secret legal review on the use of America’s growing arsenal
of cyberweapons has concluded that President Obama has the broad power
to
order a pre-emptive strike if the United States detects credible
evidence
of a major digital attack looming fr... more »
US Believes Itself Entitled to Resort to Unilateral Force to Ensure 'Uninhibited Access To Key Markets, Energy Supplies, and Strategic Resources"
Noam Chomsky remarked recently on this tenet in his essay Tomgram: Noam
Chomsky, Why It's "Legal" When the U.S. Does It
"Take the Clinton doctrine. The Clinton doctrine was that the United States
is entitled to resort to unilateral force to ensure "uninhibited access to
key markets, energy supplies, and strategic resources." That goes beyond
anything that George W. Bush said. But it was quiet and it wasn't arrogant
and abrasive, so it didn't cause much of an uproar. The belief in that
entitlement continues right to the present. It's also part of the
intellectual culture...." http:/... more »
The Global Warming Fraud: Proven Right (Again!) UN Report Finally Admits Solar Activity "May" Play Significant Role In Global Warming!
It has been a while since I last took a shot at the fraudsters behind the
man made Global Warming scam... I have hoped by now that with people doing
their own research, and simply opening up their doors and seeing for
themselves that it has actually been getting colder around the world, we
could finally put these criminals and their Global Warming lies out of
their misery once and for all....
However, I have noticed that major governments around the world, including
the United States of America itself, are still pushing forward with their
plans to impose new "Carbon Taxes" on their... more »
Important Health News: Great Video Exposing The Dangers Of Fluoride - Fluoridegate, An American Tragedy!
There are many that constantly ask why I put so much emphasis in this blog
on health issues instead of concentrating on the criminal Jewish elite... I
say to these people that Health issues are absolutely tantamount in this
war.... It is important that everyone understands the fact that one of the
key weapons used by these criminals against us is to have our bodies and
our minds destroyed by the many poisons they have introduced in our food
and water, so that we unable to put up a fight against their criminal
activities!
One key issue that I have constantly covered in this blog is t... more »
Religious Identity in an Emergent Second Axial Age
YouTube Video Description - [Channel: berkleycenter]:
April 11, 2011 | It has become almost a cliché to say that we live in a
time of globalization, but the spiritual dimensions of contemporary
globalization are less well understood. We are living in a time where
religions and religious practitioners are meeting one another and being
transformed in the process. Some scholars suggest that we are witnessing
the dawn of the Second Axial Age. Professor Prabhu explored the possibility
that a Second Axial Age is dawning, both similar to and different from the
First Axial Age (800-200 B... more »
The Dominant Animal
Paul and Anne Ehrlich are respected thinkers in the modern environmental
movement. Paul achieved infamy in 1968, following the publication of his
book, *The Population Bomb*. It made dire predictions, warning of mass
starvation in the 1970s and 1980s, and won him the intense and enduring
hatred of every fiend suffering from a loony obsession with perpetual
growth.
The predictions probably would have come true, but Ehrlich’s timing could
not possibly have been more unlucky. He was blindsided by the
unfortunately lucky efforts of Norman Borlaug, who tried to eliminate world
hunge... more »
These banksters are responsible for crashing the economy, yet they got interest-free bailouts from us taxpayers and seem to be exempt from going to jail for their provable criminality thanks to their regulators being revolving-door members of their own staff.
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*CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY AND WORKPLACE*
BillMoyers.com / *By* *Bill Moyers, Matt Taibbi*
Bill Moyers and Matt Taibbi: Everyone Pays If the Banksters Don't Go to Jail
*"The rule of law isn’t really the rule of law if it doesn’t apply equally
to everybody," Taibbi tells Moyers.*
*February 1, 2013* | *From Bill Moyers.com:*
Journalist Matt Taibbi assesses the Obama Administration’s approach to
holding banks accountable for their behavior, and early indications are not
promising. Taibbi tells Bill that fearing another economic calamity is no
ex... more »
Speaking of Mali and Syria: NYT reporters and editors can hardly show us connections between stories which they don't see themselves
*Okay, so we see Algeria and Mali over there on the left of the map (which
you can click on to enlarge), and Syria is at the upper right, and
Afghanistan is way the heck off the map to the right, and the Soviet Union
isn't on the map at all anymore, and Osama bin Laden is, um, still dead. No
way they're connected, is there?*
*"[I]ncredibly, one [piece] offers an example of what can go wrong when a
government -- Algeria -- cozies up with a bloodthirsty killer and religious
fanatic, while the other tells how the US government is in the process of
doing exactly the same thing in Syria... more »
Karl Jaspers, Arnold Toynbee and Eric Voegelin on the Axis of Time
*Wikipedia*:
Axial Age or Axial Period (Ger. Achsenzeit, "axis time") is a term coined
by German philosopher Karl Jaspers to describe the period from 800 to 200
BC, during which, according to Jaspers, similar revolutionary thinking
appeared in Persia, India, China and the Occident. The period is also
sometimes referred to as the Axis Age.
Jaspers, in his Vom Ursprung und Ziel der Geschichte (The Origin and Goal
of History), identified a number of key Axial Age thinkers as having had a
profound influence on future philosophies and religions, and identified
characteristics commo... more »
Saskatchewan's Provincial Auditor Is Owed Sask Party MLAs Respect - Saskatoon Star Phoenix Editorial
Saskatoon Star Phoenix
February 4, 2013
*The government might not like the fact that provincial auditor Bonnie
Lysyk is going beyond what her predecessors have done in stressing the need
for one set of books in reporting the province's finances, but that doesn't
excuse her treatment by Saskatchewan Party MLAs on the public accounts
committee on Friday.*
*Starting with a question by Herb Cox as to whether the auditor had
considered a cut in pay for herself, the proceedings eventually degenerated
into an aggressively partisan line of questioning that went well beyond the
business of ... more »
Slumlord Millionaires
If you have millions to burn and are sick and tired of plunking it down for
kitschy overpriced art, and you retain some of that dim, genetic memory of
the good old days when plutocrats were still allowed to own people, then JP
Morgan Chase has such a deal for you.
You can now indulge your primal urge of sucking the life out of ordinary
people and extracting the value out of 5,000 foreclosed properties at the
same time! JPMC, that too-big-to-fail, too-big-to-jail bank with a
GDP bigger than most countries, recently stole some real estate for a
second time, again on the cheap, in such... more »
OPPT: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFORECLOSURE ON MAJOR CORPORATIONS
Press Release - One People's Public Trust - Foreclosure on Major
Corporations by American Kabuki
Stephen Harper`s Kangaroo Court, Enbridge Edition
*Written by Grant G*
Here we are, Monday February 4th, coastal First Nations have announced
that they can fight no more against Enbridge, legal fee funds have been
exhausted, for the remaining hearing days scheduled in front of the Joint
Review Panel coastal First Nations will present no more argument..So this
means what, Stephen Harper won, Enbridge won, big oil won....
No, it means the day has finally arrived, the day where sane man says
enough is enough, the court, this court, kangaroo at best but more often
than not it was mere form, in body, in structure in scheduling. proto... more »
This Post Will Make Waves
"Oregon turns to sea for power for energy; First-in-nation setup ready to
go" by Kirk Johnson | New York Times, September 04, 2012
PORTLAND, Ore. — The *first commercially licensed grid-connected
wave-energy device* in the nation, designed by a New Jersey company, Ocean
Power Technologies, is in its final weeks of testing before a planned
launch in October....
Adding to the breath-holding nature of the moment, energy experts and state
officials said, is that Oregon is also in the final stages of a long-term
coastal mapping and planning project that is aiming to produce, by late
t... more »
Newest Fox hire endorses child abuse
If there ever any doubt he was the perfect hire for Fox "News" punditry, it
was laid to rest today when Erick Erickson applauded corporal punishment of
children by complete strangers with this tweet:
The link goes to a story about a short tempered store clerk:
A Dollar General employee arrested in Wrightsville last week for hitting a
child with a belt has now been charged with aggravated assault. The charges
were upgraded from simple battery because store video showed the woman
hitting the 8 year old at least 25 times.
Picture that for a moment. *She beat him with a belt at leas... more »
Over the Oregonian Mountains
*You might want to slow down a little around the turns.... *
"9 die as tour bus slides off icy highway in Oregon" Associated
Press, December 31, 2012
PENDLETON, Ore. — A *tour bus crashed* through a guardrail along an icy
Oregon highway and went several hundred feet down a steep embankment
Sunday, *killing nine* people and injuring more than 20 others, authorities
said.
The charter bus carrying about 40 people lost control about 10:30 a.m. on
the *snow- and ice-covered* lanes of Interstate 84, according to the Oregon
State Police.
The bus came to rest at the bottom of a snowy slop... more »
The Portland Patsy
"Ore. man convicted of terrorism" by Nigel Duara | Associated
Press, February 01, 2013
PORTLAND, Ore. — A *federal jury* found an Oregon man *guilty of terrorism*charges on Thursday,
*rejecting* the defense team’s argument that Mohamed Mohamud was *entrapped
or induced* by a *yearlong FBI sting* that began to *target him when he was
a teenager*.* *
*
**I'm beginning to think that all federal juries are rigged. And the FBI
was into this kid's mind as a teen, huh? I guess it takes a long time to
set up patsies.*
Mohamud was accused of leading a plot to detonate a bomb at Portland’s ... more »
Portland's Pal Joey
"The indictment also states that David ‘‘Joey’’ Pedersen, 32, had *researched
the names and addresses of Jewish organizations* in Seattle, Portland, and
Sacramento, Calif., to identify potential targets for elimination as *part
of a white-supremacist campaign* to ‘‘purify’’ and ‘‘preserve’’ the white
race."
Dine' Arlene Bowman: Indigenous women filmmakers shut out of the industry
Arlene
Bowman's 'Graffiti' has shown in international film fests.
Dine' filmmaker Arlene Bowman, originally from Greasewood, Ariz, on the
Navajo Nation, describes how Indigenous women filmmakers are shut out of
the film industry
By Arlene Bowman
Censored News
Recently I watched The Turin Horse, 2011 on Cinema Guild DVD directed by
Bela Tarr, a Hungarian filmmaker. I have
not seen
Califather Video "We Hold These Truths"
From a California Father to the nation.
Occupy the DOE 2.0 April 4-7 2013
Why does Waitangi Day belong to one race?
Why does Waitangi Day belong to one race?
It could be an annual non-racial nation-wide celebration of everything
we’ve achieved in this country, which in just over one-hundred and seventy
years our we and our forebears have turned into one of the best little
countries in the world. It should be a celebration of the bringing to these
isles of British rights and the British rule of law, which in 1840 still
meant something—and which have underpinned ever since our freedom and
prosperity.
If any country has something to celebrate, it’s this one. Wet instead,
tomorrow will be another ... more »
Mohawk Nation News 'Sage Advice'
MNN: SAGE ADVICE
Mohawk Nation Newshttp://www.mohawknationnews.com
MNN. Jan. 3, 2013. During the Caledonia struggle,
former Prime Minister Mulroney gave Prime Minister Harper some advice on
how to deal with Indians.
I got that one, Brian.
Mulroney: “First, you gotta make those
Indians look bad. Hire some top
US Can't Avoid Recession With Real Jobless Rate At 18%, Bush Cousin Rules on 9/11 Pentagon Fraud Suit and Billionaires Fund Anti-Global Climate Change Studies
You heard it here. Okay, maybe not first . . . but you did hear it here.
The economy now needs all the help it can get, says Krugman, author of End
This Depression Now! whose paperback edition has just been released with a
new preface. “The U.S. economy is recovering but slowly,” and still
experiencing “depression conditions,” says Krugman. “Almost four million
workers have been out of work
There's a scammer born every minute
I wouldn’t have thought that a scam targeting Honduran non-profits would be
particularly lucrative. Few of them have a discretionary *centavo *to spare
outside of their meticulously itemized project funds.
But this scam is a relatively clever appeal to the ego, and I can see how
it might trick somebody running an NGO in a developing country like
Honduras. It involves an invitation to an international congress on
HIV-AIDS ostensibly being organized in Canada at the end of this month by
the Ontario Public Health Association.
My boss at the Comision de Accion Social Menonita head office... more »
Big Progressive Win In North Carolina Over The Weekend
On most days North Carolinian Democrats now wake up to a nightmare. Just a
few years ago the state had turned blue. Barack Obama became the first
president to win the state since 1976, Democrats picked up Congressional
seats, elected a Governor and even took Jesse Helms' old US Senate seat.
2008 was a great year for the Tar Heels; one could almost see a future free
of Virginia Foxx on the horizon if one squinted hard enough.
A dark cloud started to roll over the state in 2010. The backlash against
progress and the complacency of Democrats took the form of a tea bag.
Everyone had f... more »
DRONES: GIGANTIC GROWTH INDUSTRY
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
Morning Joe on MSNBC host Joe Scarborough talks about his concerns with
drones. Scarborough is a former right-wing congressman from northwest
Florida. He asks "Where are the civil liberties lawyers?" He raises a good
point that the domestic opposition, during the Bush administration, to
these offensive military developments have largely disappeared during the
Obama years.
The rest of the video is mostly cheer leading for drones.
Howard Kurtz is an idiot
Of course, you knew that. However, in this chock full of fail CNN piece, Kurtz
confesses his abject ignorance:
I never realized that the conservative media were so eye-poppingly powerful.
This great revelation comes at the top of Kurtz mewling about POTUS, Gore
and all us loser libs "whining" about how the wingnut media machine is
destroying civil society. Kurtz just can't understand what the problem is
here. Oh sure, Fox and Limbaugh and their lesser minions have a media
operation that blasts out unfiltered bullshit and shameless lies 24/7 but
gosh, President Obama has the bully p... more »
This Post Has Really Been Bugging Me
*Finally swatted it dead!*
"Dallas plans spraying to fight virus" Associated Press, August 17, 2012
DALLAS — The last time Dallas used *aerial spraying to curb the mosquito
population*, Texas’s Lyndon Johnson was in the White House, Mission Control
in Houston was launching Gemini missions, and *encephalitis* was blamed for
more than a dozen deaths.
*
**So which chemical companies hold the contract$ in your $tate?*
But on Thursday, for the first time in more than 45 years, the city and
county planned to resume *dropping insecticide from the air* to combat the
nation’s worst outbreak ... more »
This Post is the Bomb
"Threats at college campuses investigated" by Jim Vertuno | Associated
Press, September 15, 2012
AUSTIN, Texas — *Tens of thousands of people streamed off university
campuses* in Texas and North Dakota after *telephoned bomb threats* on
Friday.
Both campuses eventually were deemed safe and reopened by early
afternoon....
The threats came as violent protests continued outside US embassies in the
Mideast. Officials said the caller in the Texas threat *claimed to belong
to Al Qaeda*, and a university spokesman said he had a Middle Eastern
accent.
*
**What f***ing obvious CRAP!*
A... more »
Jonathan Kay Still Ignoring Women
As promised, Jonathan Kay responds (sorta) to Carolyn Bennett and his other
(ahem) pro-choice critics.
In other words, Ms. Bennett concedes the literal truth of my statement that
abortion is “legal” at any point in gestation. But she also argues that I’m
“misrepresenting” the situation, because some people will infer from what
I’ve written that third-trimester abortion is professionally sanctioned and
common, even in cases where there is no medical necessity.
It is completely true that third-trimester abortions are rare in Canada.
It’s also true that a pregnant woman who is deep int... more »
Preppers are becoming mainstream...
*and it's about time.*
The term "prepper" simply means someone who plans ahead (IMO.) In the
olden days when I was but a wee girl, most everyone had a pantry full of
home-canned goods, extra batteries, candles, and the many things that make
life simpler in times of emergency.
Today, I marvel at the rush to the grocery store by panicked people if a
winter storm is predicted. I *will *admit to making many a panicked rush
to the library to stock up on a big supply of books since we are well
stocked with food, water, wood for our stove, and lots and lots of toilet
paper.
I have b... more »
Ron Paul Responds To Death Of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle: Live By The Sword, Die By The Sword (TWEET)
Republican candidate Ron Paul waves to supporters at the Tampa Bay Times
Forum in Tampa, Florida, on August 28, 2012 before the start of the day's
Republican National Convention events. The 2012 Republican National
Convention is expected to host 2,286 delegates and 2,125 alternate
delegates from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and five
territories. AFP PHOTO Brendan SMIALOWSKI (Photo credit should read BRENDAN
SMIALOWSKI/AFP/GettyImages)
Former Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) took to Twitter Monday to respond to this
weekend's fatal shooting of former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle.
The s... more »
Cooking the Dallas Police
"Slain Dallas woman’s family sues over 911 call" by Nomaan Merchant |
Associated Press, September 20, 2012
DALLAS — The family of a Dallas *woman found dead* two days after she *tried
to call 911* during a deadly attack filed a civil rights lawsuit against
the police Wednesday.
Deanna Cook called 911 on Aug. 17 to report that her former husband was
assaulting her. Police have acknowledged the *call was not logged correctly
so* the officers did not know it was an emergency. The two officers who
went to Cook’s south Dallas home *received no response* at the door and *left
*without ... more »
Two Cheers For This Texas Post
"Attorney General Greg Abbott said Wednesday he will defend high school
cheerleaders who want to use Bible verses on banners at football games."
*
**How about a prayer for this guy then?*
"A 25-year-old fan died after tumbling about 60 feet from a fifth-floor
escalator at Reliant Stadium during a preseason Houston Texans game,
officials said Friday."
*Also see: **Friday Night Lights*
*
**Friday Night Lights** in New York*
*
**The Only Show on the Island*
Taking Care of the Children of Texas
*Or not.... *
Guilty verdict in Texas day-care death
A Texas woman was convicted of murder Tuesday in the death of one of four
children who *died in a fire* at her home day care after *she left them
alone* with hot oil on the stove while she shopped at Target."
Prosecutor: Children left at day care were doomed
*
**All right, let's dig into it:*
"Texas woman gets 80 years in deadly day-care fire; Left children alone to
go shop; four were killed" by Juan A. Lozano | Associated Press, November
21, 2012
HOUSTON — It had been Jessica Tata’s dream to run a day-care center.
She was soo... more »
Allen Ginsberg Reads "C'mon Pigs of Western Civilization Eat More Grease"
Allen Ginsberg - *C’mon Pigs of Western Civilization Eat More Grease*.
Monday Cranky Blogging 2
This one is going to be a bit unusual for cranky blogging, and I want to be
clear about this up front: I got cranky from reading an article which I
really liked overall. It's from Jonathan Chait, and he does an excellent
job of putting together a bunch of things that lots of us have written
about separately, in a way that I don't think anyone has done yet: the
Republican program of aggressive gerrymanders, the aborted attempt to rig
the electoral college, the filibuster, judicial activism, and various forms
of making it difficult to vote. Chait argues, and I think with quite a bit
o... more »
Cruzing Through This Post About Texas
*Well, he is your senator*:
"Cruz, a Tea Party favorite, wins Texas Senate primary" by Jennifer
Steinhauer | New York Times, August 02, 2012
*Why has my printed paper given me the byline of Erik Eckholm?*
WASHINGTON —Ted Cruz, the 41-year-old Sarah Palin-blessed upstart,
virtually assured the latest Tea Party candidate a seat in the chamber next
year.
And he will not be alone when it comes to those backed by the movement that
propelled Republicans to control of the House in 2010.
Among 17 contested Senate races and in Texas, more than half a dozen of the
Republican candidates — ... more »
DOWN TO THE DOCTOR’S: Salinger: Distinguished Ambassador For The Panic Merchants
*Libertarianz leader Dr Richard McGrath has been waiting for a break in the
weather of climate misinformation.*
Climate alarmist and sacked former NIWA employee Michael James Salinger has
really outdone himself this time. On January 30, when the focus of much of
the nation was on searing (for New Zealand, anyway) summertime temperatures
and drought, Salinger opined from his ivory tower that temperatures could
reach the high thirties and possibly the low forties.
If New Zealand was ever going to break its record temperature, it would be
now, Dr Salinger said.
“Parts of the South I... more »
breaking news: federal court rules in favour of war resister jules tindungan
Another win in federal court! From the War Resisters Support Campaign:
On Friday February 1st, the Federal Court of Canada released a decision
granting U.S. war resister Jules Tindungan a new hearing before the
Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB). The Court found errors in the original
IRB decision pertaining to issues which are at the heart of asylum claims
by U.S. soldiers in Canada.
Mr. Tindungan is one of dozens of former U.S. soldiers who have sought
asylum in Canada because of their objection to the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan. Tindungan refused to return to combat for the Un... more »
Meet the Next President George Bush
*Some would say it seems like **he** is still in office and I know you
thought Jeb would be next, but.... *
Attorney George P. Bush plans Texas run* *
*The longest journey begins with a single step.*
*Got some large footprints to fill*:
President George H.W. Bush in Texas hospital
George H.W. Bush’s condition stable
George H.W. Bush could leave hospital before Christmas
Cough keeps George H.W. Bush in Texas hospital
"George H.W. Bush spends Christmas in hospital" Associated Press, December
26, 2012
HOUSTON — Former President George H.W. Bush spent Christmas in a Houston
hospital wi... more »
Message of Peace you should see (and hear)
address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 22 hours ago
Link: http://youtu.be/_4F7hL-9-WQ
I found this a most remarkable video*. Maybe you too. An even more
remarkable article in the German magazine "Die Welt" put me on track to it.
It claims that Adnan Oktar, a Turkish author and media producer known under
the pseudonym of Harun Yahia, surrounds himself with voluptuous, "Dirndl"-dressed
ladies to promote Islam in (Protestant) Germany. The German "Bundesamt für
Verfassungsschutz" (BfV) had an interest in him and watched him and his
followers. For Adnan Islam is 'serious business', in particular for peace.
The video contradicts claims ex... more »
Who Killed L.H.?
"Larry Hagman; portrayed villainous J.R. Ewing; at 81" by Enid Nemy | New
York Times, November 25, 2012
NEW YORK — Larry Hagman, whose portrayal of one of television’s most
beloved villains, J.R. Ewing, led the CBS series ‘‘Dallas’’ to enormous
world popularity, *died* Friday in Dallas. He was 81.
The *cause* was complications of *cancer*, his family said. Mr. Hagman had
been in Dallas filming an episode of the TNT cable channel’s reboot of that
series, which had made him the man audiences loved to hate from 1978 to
1991.
In October 2011, shortly before filming began on the new ‘... more »
Untitled
*Dancin’ in the dark… to the radio of love ~moosedenied*
Mohawk Nation News 'People's Fire'
MNN:
PEOPLE’S FIRE
PEOPLE’S FIRE
MNN. Jan. 3, 2013. The power is the People. They select the chiefs,
clan mothers, titles and positions, who answer to the people. If they
don’t listen, the people will remove errant chiefs or clan mothers.
The fire symbolizes the people coming together. “Sa’tsi”ra” means, “You
have a fire”. “Swa’tsi:rare” means, “the fire is
Maravillosa cascada refrescando a unas bellas aves
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Lecture: "The Outsourced Self: Intimate Life in Market Times"
*"The Outsourced Self: Intimate Life in Market Times"* by Arlie Russell
Hochschild.
Amazon's description of the book:
The family has long been a haven in a heartless world, the one place immune
to market forces and economic calculations, where the personal, the
private, and the emotional hold sway. Yet as Arlie Russell Hochschild shows
in *The Outsourced Self*, that is no longer the case: everything that was
once part of private life—love, friendship, child rearing—is being
transformed into packaged expertise to be sold back to confused, harried
Americans.
Drawing on hundre... more »
Taking a Shot at a Post About Texas
*Well, they have the reputation.... *
"‘American Sniper’ author shot to death in Texas" by Michael Schwirtz |
New York Times, February 04, 2013
NEW YORK — Since retiring from the Navy SEALs, Chris Kyle, whom the
Pentagon has deemed as among *America’s deadliest snipers*, would
occasionally take fellow veterans shooting as a kind of therapy to salve
battlefield scars.
Kyle, 38, author of the best-selling book “American Sniper: The
Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History,” was with
a struggling former soldier on just such an outing on Saturday, hoping that ... more »
Mujer acostada entre fieras salvajes
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Journey of Nishiyuu welcomes new trekker to Ottawa
Monday,
Feb. 4, 2013: The Journey of Nishiyuu. Marybelle Neacappo, one of the
new walkers, with her sled loaded and ready to go. Chisasibi this
morning. Idle No More.
P hoto: Ricky Angatookaluk
The
Journey of Nishiyuu. The original seven do a group prayer before
starting the next stage of the walk south from Chisasibi today. Idle No
More. Photo: James Napash
Lindos pajaritos de colores esperando la luz del sol
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Paisaje de otoño con caminos y bancas
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If An Event Is Staged (False Flag), There Won't Be Any Videos Or Pictures From It, Although There Were Hundreds Of Cameras There, Including SURVEILLANCE Cameras
(btw...see my update on the bottom of this post for ANOTHER "lone nut
gunman" story since I first wrote about THIS ONE)
You know how you can tell if a major event is a staged false flag? Even
though there were hundreds of cameras, cell phones, surveillance cameras,
etc... at an event, there won't be ONE video or picture from it. Then the
next stage is that you'll have to blindly believe what the "news" tells
you. The story will change constantly. People will say the news is "inept",
that's why the story is changing all the time. Pictures of the "LONE NUT
GUNMAN" will come out, but... more »
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