Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center: Space exhibit, models of early scientific satellites (Photo credit: Chris Devers)
Malaysia (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
This image was selected as a picture of the week on the Farsi Wikipedia for the 13th week, 2011. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Times Square New York (Photo credit: Wikipedia)REPORTED FROM OUR HOUSE
In the middle of the storm we had a knock on the door and a young woman from Malaysia asked if she could use our back yard as a backdrop for her weather report that will be beamed back home. Sure we said and even offered her a coat - but she appeared to be in a big hurry to do the spot and split. She was kind enough to send me the link but I don't have any idea what she was saying. The wind was blowing hard and I figure that is what she told them.
Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, and Your Economists, Too
Click here to read my column in Sunday's *NY Times*.
Requisition me a beat!
They say the world looks down on the bureaucrat/They they they're anal, compulsive and weird/But when push comes to shove/You've got to do what you love/Even if it's not a good idea.
Casting Off Fearful and Hateful Dogmas Is the Key
Steven Goddard has a post on the saving grace of the Internet today, where he concludes: "Information is the key to keeping the tyrants at bay." My response follows: *I think a true sense of morals--above all, honesty over self-interest, and logical reasoning over unquestioning acceptance of received "wisdom", or dogmas--is the key. I have known, ever since I discovered the Great Design of the "gods", that unquestioned dogmas were the key, and the universal threat to man, in this time. That's because I found that all of the "ancient mysteries"--and hence, all the earliest and most s... more »
Interventionist Leadership - a poem
This matter is no longer up for discussion If you want to discuss this matter you must do so In your branches If you do discuss this matter in your branches it is not binding Unless you circulate discussion documents by The internet Discussing matters through the internet is Wrong There will be no more factions and no recall conference as this matter is no longer up for Discussion People will be expelled for discussing this matter There will now be a one-day conference And no expulsions The result of the conference will be that we were Right all along And this matter is no longer up for di... more »
Religion-based hate crimes against women...
This happened. *The leader of a dissident Amish sect was sentenced on Friday to 15 years in prison for a series of bizarre beard- and hair-cutting attacks on other Ohio Amish that drew national attention.* * * *Samuel Mullet Sr., 67, the leader, was sentenced in Federal District Court in Cleveland for coordinating assaults that prosecutors argued were motivated by religious intolerance. Fifteen of his followers, including six women, were given lesser sentences, ranging from one year and one day to seven years.* * * *The breakaway Amish were convicted of multiple counts of conspiracy ... more »
Sharp cut of black
There is a reason we are here. We wanted to see what we were made of. This dimension of duality gives us the contrast needed to do just that. Without the sharp cut of black, there is only light. A fish does not know water until it is on the beach. We are looking to know ourselves. This is the life when we clearly see the light that we are. It is the dark that provides the stage for our greatest show. We are in the midst of that show right now. The dark players are masters at deception. Right now we must question everything. For several years these blogs, Quests... more »
It's the Poverty Stupid
More empirical evidence that poverty is at the root cause of education problems in the United States. Will this important information and science continue to be ignored by politicians and the business community as they dismantle a public education system that took 200 years to build? Chicago is just latest city where students are begging to keep their community, public schools open as charters and for-profits move in to take over. They starved the beast, the public schools and the teachers unions, and now they can go in for the kill. Stanford Report, January 15, 2013 Poor ranking...more »
Just a little is enough
Source: google.com via Meg on Pinterest
Alex Loves Hillary Clinton
Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett: *Iran, the Militarization of American Diplomacy, and Hillary Clinton’s Legacy as Secretary of State*. Inside Story Americas - Hillary Clinton's legacy as top US diplomat
I Love It When The Democratic Bench Rocks-- Mass. State Rep Carl Sciortino Decalres For Markey's House Seat
I can't wait to tell you about Carl Sciortino but since he announced for Congress yesterday, let's hear directly from him first: “I am running to continue the strong progressive leadership that the families of the Fifth District have always counted on. I look forward to bringing my record of accomplishment to Washington to fight for our progressive values. “I am proud to call Ed Markey my Congressman and I am dedicated to helping elect him as our next U.S. Senator. His record on behalf of Massachusetts families-- fighting for jobs, consumers’ rights, and a healthier environment... more »
Barack the Unbalanced
Millions of people are stranded or without power and heat today in the aftermath of the fifth or maybe sixth Storm of the Century to have hit in the past year, the direct result of a stunning lack of attention to climate change on the part of our leaders. Millions of us remain unemployed and underemployed, a fifth of us are in poverty, with almost half us in danger of becoming destitute within three months of a job loss or other catastrophe. Fifty million still lack basic health care. And millions of those who do have insurance still can't afford to see a doctor because of high copa... more »
The Dummy American
It is tempting, always, to try to explain why some things are important, important to every single soul of us...those of us here or those of us reading blogs that same the exact opposite of what this one does. However, the rule of change is that it must come from within. As in a chemical reaction, there may be a catalyzing agent, like the match that starts the bonfire...but what catches and flames must be "ready" to become a conflagration. Otherwise, the match is wasted and the brief spark is extinguished. That is to say, if an explanation be necessary, it is often because the m... more »
Soot from oil-burning ships may be geoengineering by accident
[image: Global shipping lanes. Graphic: The Royal Society / Castner] By Jeff Hecht 9 February 2013 (New Scientist) – Geoengineering is being tested - albeit inadvertently - in the north Pacific. Soot from oil-burning ships is dumping about 1000 tonnes of soluble iron per year across 6 million square kilometres of ocean, new research has revealed. Fertilising the world's oceans with iron has been controversially proposed as a way of sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere to curb global warming. Some geoengineers claim releasing iron into the sea will stimulate plankton bloo... more »
Unable to stop climate change, EPA prepares for it – ‘Too bad we didn’t do more a few decades ago to keep all of this from happening’
[image: Beachfront homes in the Rockaways, New York destroyed by Hurricane Sandy. Graffiti on a bare foundation reads 'Global Warming'. Photo: Jenna Pope] By Philip Bump 8 February 2013 (Grist) – "We live in a world in which the climate is changing." This statement from the EPA, the first line in its draft “Climate Change Adaptation Plan” [PDF] released today, is basic. But that the EPA is saying it is important. For two reasons. The first is that the agency is advancing an argument it will need to make more forcefully later this year as it pushes for curbs on greenhouse gas p... more »
Is This How We Are Going to Go Down, After All?
I'm exhausted because I've been working so hard with so many competing obligations. Ugh. I came home yesterday and read *The Wall Street Journal* and discover the following headline: "Japan Claims Russia Breached its Airspace: Moscow Denies Accusation; Abe Government Already Sparring with Beijing, Now Faces Island Headache Up North as Well" 2/8/2013 p. A14 by C. Dawson and B. Spegele. A couple of days ago, Japan verbally and publicly attacked China: Wall Street Journal Wed Jan 6, 2013 p. A1, A9 by Y. Hayashi, J. Page, and J. E. Barnes [Excerpted] Japan accused China's navy of lo... more »
Peer-mediated buzz
James Fowler, a professor of psychology at UCSD, found that messages from our peers are more likely to initiate action than messages delivered by a political committee [ link ]. Last year, Obama’s reelection committee learned the same thing. They developed a system that leverages database technology and social-media to deliver their messages. In an instant, this system allows them to: 1. mobilize grassroots support for White House concerns 2. provide White House support for local concerns Apparently they took an extra step, conducted surveys ..and learned that nothing e... more »
Anti-Choice Tag Team
Thar's gold in them thar uteri. Keeping the abortion debate alive is very lucrative for a number of anti-choice entrepreneurs. Churches and 'right to life' groups are only the most obvious. There are the born-again anti-choicers like Abby Johnson, who once were blind but now they see. There are the 'Conceived in Rape' mongers, like Rebecca Kiessling. And now, a new-to-me brand of huckster -- the faux women's rights defenders. Via Kady O'Malley, we learn that sex-selective abortion promoter opponent Mark Warawa had a bunfest planned for Thursday, aka The Day Senator Brawler Brazea... more »
HOMER DON'T WANNA GO OUT
- They are reporting almost 30 inches of snow across the state since yesterday. We have more snow here than we can ever dream of shoveling. The wind is blowing at 32 mph. I shoveled for 1/2 hour early this morning just to make it possible for Homer to get out the door to pee.....what a mess. MB spent last night in Portland (45 minutes south of Bath) at a co-worker's house and had to walk to work at the homeless shelter today. She said more than 200 homeless are crowded into Preble Street Resource Center at this point. Not sure she can make it home tonigh... more »
From Russia, With Laughs
What follows is part of a hilarious set of 32 of the most bizarre photographs to recently come out of Russia. Naturally, this is irresistible to a guy who once belonged to a captioning community before he became a blogger. *Moscow, Nov. 2012: The Angry Birds: The Ballet premieres at the Bolshoi, prompting a craze among seniors unseen since the leaked Yeltsin porno videos . * *"I'm not going to try. You try." "I'm not going to try. Hey, let's get Misha." "Misha won't like, She hate everything." Russia's abortive Life Cereal commercial.* *"Hey, comrades. Little help, please? Hu... more »
The Blizzard of 2013
*I don't have to read about it because I lived it*: Massive storm builds by the hour Two storms converged at ‘perfect’ spot Warnings heard, a hush falls over Boston during storm Amid the turmoil, Patrick is calming voice of caution Travel ban surprises many, pleases some *I wasn't necessarily against it; I'm just angry at the way he did it, and that it was made a crime. He could have just pleaded and asked, not put out an empty threat left to arbitrary enforcement.* MBTA riders tweak schedules for shutdown Boston bars warm up locals during storm In Marblehead, marveling at the fury, ma... more »
A Moral Theory of Online "Hate" Harassment and Attacks
First of all: most of the links in the beginning of this post are in Swedish - English links are highlighted with bold text. My direct familiarity with the issue is from Sweden, hence the language of most links, but I know that the issue is general and is discussed in many settings around the world. Second of all: a quick little addendum was made just now (5 minutes after 1st posting) regarding the "internet dickwad" theory, that Fredrik Falk made me aware of. See further below...... In my country, there have been repeated public debates about the completely unacceptable and many ... more »
Appalling and Disappointing
The travails of Patrick Brazeau and Mike Duffy have once again led to calls for reform or abolition of the Senate. The argument is that the Senate has always been a House of Patronage, not a House of Sober Second Thought. The two aforementioned senators appear to prove the first proposition. But Tasha Kheirriddin asks some important questions, which appear to be getting lost in the nasty details: First, shouldn’t someone in the government have known about them? Second, if they did, why did the prime minister proceed with the nomination? Third, if they didn’t know, why didn’t the... more »
"Emergent Phenomenon", or Design
The wuwt site has a post putting forth the idea of global temperature variations, or climate, as an "emergent phenomenon", and hopefully suggesting that idea might be a new paradigm for understanding "climate". I submitted the following comment: *The mean global temperature of the atmosphere is not an "emergent" phenomenon, but simply a designed one. No one has yet demonstrated to my professional scientific satisfaction that there has even been any real global (as opposed to regional) warming over the period of modern temperature records; it is entirely unclear that climate scientis...more »
MOVE TO AMEND
In my latest episode of *This Issue* I interview Jerry Provencher of the Bath group Move to Amend. That is, "move to amend" our Constitution...to firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights. Move to Amend rejects the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United and other related cases.
Untitled
*Entergy takes blame for Super Bowl power outage but remains unsure of cause * *Reports: Saints hire Rob Ryan as defensive coordinator * *Lee Zurik Investigation: St. Tammany Parish Coroner's salary, wet bar face scrutiny* *Better enforcement of laws against parade-route squatters asked * *Cold front could throw showers on Mardi Gras* *Krewe of Iris* * * *Uptown 11:00 a.m*. *Krewe of Tucks* *Uptown 12:00 p.m* *Krewe of Endymion* * * *Mid-City 4:15 p.m.* *Krewe of Isis** * *Metairie 6:30 p.m.* *Krewe of NOMTOC** * *Westbank 10:45 a.m.* *Krewe of Bush** Bush 9:00 a.m.* *Krewe of S... more »
Drones And You
I'm not sure how much I agree with it but I completely respect the work people are doing in questioning the rights of the Executive Branch to use drones to kill American citizens without trials. Maybe the Executive should have a hearing to strip the accused of their citizenship *before* murdering them. My problem with drone policy, though, is different, the "collateral damage" abroad and the shredding of Constitutional protections domestically. As someone who has spent years in places, like Pakistan, Afghanistan and Mali, where U.S. drones are reigning terror and death down on the... more »
Join Portland Students to Stop High Stakes Testing
From *The Oregonian:* on February 06, 2013 at 10:10 AM, updated February 06, 2013 at 5:08 PM About 30 students gathered outside the Portland Public Schools district office to kick off a campaign urging students to opt out of state standardized tests. A group of students from the Portland Student Union and the Portland Public Schools Student Union are asking students to boycott the annual Oregon Assessment of Knowledge and Skills exams, which are required by state law. The students are calling the tests unfair measures of teacher and student performance, as well as a waste of resourc... more »
"There's No Money in the Pot for Climate Skeptics"
Steven Goddard has a post whose comments quickly turned into a discussion of the trials and tribulations of those of us who deny the popular, but tyrannical and false, climate consensus. I submitted the following comment: *I have gone down a different path than anyone, and don't really fit in anywhere any more. My epochal discoveries, coming outside of any professional paid employment or institutional framework, open the door to the next scientific paradigm--overturning the "undirected physical evolution" paradigm under which all the earth and life sciences now operate--but they req... more »
Some links....
- Hegemonic Warfare watch: Japan says China aimed radar at its ships. China says nyah nyah. The Council on Foreign Relations complains that more needs to be done about Chinese cyber attacks. What? You mean bringing them into the international system didn't make them behave like the foreign policy establishment claimed it would? Who could have predicted that? US naval officer says China's claims are nonsense and it is a threat to peace. DPP slams China over Senkakus. China creates new national level task force to deal with Senkakus. Manila, Hanoi, push b... more »
More Judicial Abuse?
A couple of cases are in the news lately... first, this open letter from NATPA, one of the pro-Taiwan organizations in the US and Canada... We also thank DPP legislators Lee Chun-yi (李俊俋), Mark Chen (陳唐山) and Hsu Tain-tsair (許添財) for speaking up for former Sino Swearingen Aircraft Corp (SSAC) chairman and chief executive Kuo Ching-chiang (郭清江), a member of NATPA allegedly involved in embezzlement and corruption at SSAC. The three legislators said that the Special Investigation Division (SID), after conducting the SSAC investigation in 2008, did not further investigate the case. Usu... more »
SENATE INTEL COMMITTEE: KABUKI OVERSIGHT
President Obama’s nominee to run the CIA, John Brennan, forcefully defended Obama’s counterterrorism policies, including the increased use of armed drones and the targeted killings of American citizens during his confirmation hearing Thursday. "None of the central questions that should have been asked of John Brennan were asked in an effective way," says Jeremy Scahill, author of the forthcoming book, "Dirty Wars." "In the cases where people like Sen. Angus King or Sen. Ron Wyden would ask a real question, for instance, about whether or not the CIA has the right to kill U.S. citiz... more »
World Renown Heart Surgeon Speaks Out On What Really Causes Heart Disease - chronic inflammation from our healthy diets
Dr Dwight Lundell MD has been a heart surgeon for 25 years, performing operations and recommending corporate-funding medicines/diets to unwitting patients. Now, it seems he's had a cathartic, Road To Damascus, reassessment of his role in life: *What thoughtful person would willfully expose himself repeatedly to foods or other substances that are known to cause injury to the body? Well, smokers perhaps, but at least they made that choice willfully. The rest of us have simply followed the recommended mainstream diet that is low in fat and high in polyunsaturated fats and carbohydrate... more »
Healing Quest: The Grass Fed Movement
12 July 2012 A revolution is quietly rolling across pastures and kitchens all over the U.S. Its aim is to foster a new attitude about healthy fats in our diet and the value of grass fed, pasture raised livestock. *http://www.healingquest.tv* *The benefits of eating grass fed:* *http://www.americangrassfedbeef.com/grass-fed-natural-beef.asp*
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Moon
Yeah, there are two strong camps who claim either the Appollo missions were i) real or ii) fake, and I don't wanna get into a debate of all that crap. All you need to do (dear reader) is scroll to 38:00 in this documentary "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Moon" and watch as a head appears IN FRONT OF a supposed full-window camera view of earth from 'allegedly' 130,000 miles out - just watch what happens when the lights come on, revealing the 'magician's trick' window shot from *the back of* the lunar module. "Free the Citizens of Earth from the Crimes of History and the s... more »
The finest escape from a snooker ever?
Ronnie O'Sullivan from 2008. The second escape is also pretty good.
BAD KIDS; BLAME MOTHERS; NURSERIES CREATE SAVAGES; MENTORS
Why do some kids become savages? Usually because they have been neglected, or, abused. Children can be neglected both at home and in a poorly-staffed nursery school. Psychologist Oliver James refers to *"childcarers who scrape through school and are doing it for the money, often spending the day texting their boyfriends."* Robert Thompson's parents, Ann and Robert, were heavy drinkers and there was violence in the home. (Profiles: the Bulger killers, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson ) Small children need lots of individual attention and love. Do nurseries make todlers aggress... more »
The Progressive Conservatives and Alberta’s government: one entity, indivisible, under God?
Participants in today’s Alberta Economic Summit solemnly await Premier Alison Redford’s arrival at Calgary’s Mount Royal University. Many are called but few are chosen, and they may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below: Stefan Baranski, Charles Rusnell and Stephen Carter. As befits an almost exclusively political event, criticism of today’s Alberta economic summit by the ... more »
Storm Clouds Crawling With Bacteria
While we cannot see them easily, and obviously find them difficult to sample, the atmosphere is well endowed with its load of single cell life. We likely completely underestimate it connectivity besides. Recall that we have conjectured the existence of methane filled bubbles made by slime molds able to rise into the stratosphere as plausible sources of certain types of lights in the sky. We have no difficulty positing a happy slime mold in a pond of water. How about all sorts of critters in the pond of oxygen rich atmosphere? The persistence of a significant bacterial bac... more »
Giants of Aztalan Wisconsin
All of a sudden we have the mother lode for giant archeology. It is still been ignored of course but it is just were it needs to be. There is also plenty of misinformation here and the evidence has been clearly ignored except locally. This is a phenomena that I have become totally familiar with. You start of in ignorance and come across an isolated datum. Then by scouting likely locales, it is possible to ferret out a little more data that conforms to the first discovery. I have already identified the giants with a strain out of Ireland directly on the Minoan or Atlantic gr... more »
Direct USAF UFO Encounter Witness Report
What I do find interesting here is that a group of men who were not actively bound under the Official Secrets Act or its equivalent got to witness an interaction between an UFO and a team of military personnel. They even got to share the stories with their families without the knowledge of minders. They also knew better than to make noise. Yet it also could be entirely made up in the here and now simply because we know all this now. However if the witness is for real and we have no reason to think otherwise, the independent confirmation gave him the faith to share this stor... more »
When Cancer Disappears
This is extremely good news. Someone is finally investigating the dog that failed to bark. There is a huge mass of data out there that is begging to be collected and it is surely worth something. What I do know is that the medical profession has been largely cut out of the loop by these survivors because they all went out and shopped for fresh ideas and successfully implemented them and saw little reason to report back. This nonsense had to end and this will help hugely. Key will be the recruitment of researchers able to independently collect the reports properly. This i... more »
Are tensor products in QM unnatural?
*Off-topic:* Your humble correspondent will be incorporated in the next edition of the Holy Scripture One aspect of quantum mechanics that makes beginners – including permanent beginners – feel uncomfortable is the fact that its "space of possible states" seems too large to them. The Hilbert space may seem large and if we want to describe composite systems, we need to employ a tensor product of the smaller Hilbert spaces. This product seems both large and mathematically complicated. For example, a user named Joe asked a would-be historical question that made is sound as if the te... more »
About That F-35 Bill
The F-35 programme has been underway for, well, eleven years. Current plans call for completion of testing in 2019. Here's a sobering look at F-35 development taken from *Aviation Week.* *The U.S. bill for JSF development and production has increased about $40-million a day, in 2012 dollars, since the program started - while 400 fewer aircraft are planned. As far as the IOC (initial operating capacity) goes.. Initial Operating Test and Evaluation (IOTE) - which is necessary for IOC - will not finish until August, 2019. That would put IOC in 2020.* Will the F-35 be up to snuff... more »
Schuon's Audience
Video Title: Schuon's Audience. YouTube Video Description - [Channel: ImperiumUltimum]: Mark Perry, Patrick Laude and Seyyed Hossein Nasr discuss Schuon's writings and audience.
Friday Baseball Post
Two big sports stories that I'm aware of this week...well, after the Super Bowl, that is. One was the new round of accusations against Alex Rodriguez and other baseball players. The other was accusations of massive levels of match-fixing in international soccer. Now, what I'm wondering is: doesn't everyone consider the latter story a much, much, much...infinitely more important one? I mean, not to the world as a whole, but within their own sports. I don't follow soccer much at all, so I have no idea how new this story is other than the story that broke this week, or how likely it... more »
Sunday Classics chronicles: Remembering Eugen Jochum (3) -- Overtures Plus, part 1
*Act III of Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz* *Huntsmen's Chorus* What pleasure on earth can compare with the hunter's? Whose cup of life sparkles so richly? To lie in the verdure while the horns sound, To follow the stag through thicket and pond, Is joy for a prince, is a real man's desire, Is strengthens your limbs and spices your food. When woods and rocks resound all about us, A full goblet sings a freer and happier song! Yo ho! Tralala! Diana is present to brighten the night; Her darkness cools us like any refreshment in the day. To fell the bloody wolf, and the boar who greedi... more »
US trade deficit links to growth
*A narrowing in the US trade shortage during December raises hopes that the economy was stronger in the final quarter of 2012 than first estimated.*According to the Commerce Department, the US trade gap with the rest of the world fell to $38.5bn in December a near three-year low. The data suggests that the US economy was stronger in the fourth quarter than initially expected. The information could result in a revision of the a 0.1% annualized contraction in gross domestic product during the quarter, which was firstly calculated before these figures were available and were based ... more »
Illness In My Family
I want to inform my readers that I have had an illness in my family... My elderly mother recently suffered from a stroke.....Thankfully, the stroke was mild, and she is out of any immediate danger.... I will continue to try to put up new articles, but they may be few and far between over the next while until my family situation is cleared up... In the meantime, I again recommend that everyone take the time to look at the fabulous work by other real truth seekers that I have listed in the left hand column of this blog under the heading: "The Finest Bloggers That I Know"... You will n... more »
Belly of the Beast
While Eastern Canada is getting pummeled with snowy weather, I can say we've had our share of snow here this winter. Certainly, this is the most snow I've seen in my 4 winters out here. The mercury is due to creep up over the freezing mark in the coming days and while I'm grateful for a break from the intense cold we've experienced here of late, part of me can't help but wonder what kind of mess we'll have when all our snow starts to melt in the Spring. I have quite the piles of snow piled up in the front yard here. Fortunately, I'm pretty sure I have the biggest front yard on the ... more »
Sublime . . .
VENEZUELA DONATES free heating oil to 100,000 needy US households. According to Brett Wilkins post in the DIGITAL JOURNAL. For the eighth straight year, Venezuela's state oil company is donating free heating oil to hundreds of thousands of needy Americans.
Entire internet critiques secret George Bush paintings
Some talented hacker with an hipsterish nym breached the Bush family's private emails. The big hit of his data dump was George W Bush's paintings. Not unexpectedly, this earthshaking expose caused the intertoobz to erupt into a virutal tsunami of snark. For the record, I thought his paintings were rather good. Looking at the work divorced from my feelings about the artist, it's not great art. It's not bad art either. Only saw two others who agreed all day. Atrios and Karen Tumulty. Also, for the record, I appear to be the only one who finds the hackery more disturbing than amusing.... more »
Shorts Inside Battery Caused Fire inside Boeing Co 787 Dreamliner
*The Strange thing about this article is 1 of the 2 attributed causes:* *Pasztor, A. & Ostrower, J. (2013, Feb 8) 787 Probe Indicates Fire Caused by Short The Wall Street Journal, p. B1.* [excerpted] Short circuits inside a batter triggered a fire aboard a parked Boeing Co. 787 Dreamliner last month, said US investigators... The National Transportation Safety Board's preliminary findings, issued Thur... said multiple short-circuits in one of the battery's eight cells touched off 'an uncontrolled chemical reaction at high temperatures" that spread to other cells.... Investigators s... more »
Criticising others, giving them an unwelcome feeling, can be done by anyone. Uplifting them and giving them a good feeling - that takes a special gift and spending effort.
*לבקר אחרים ולתת להם הרגשה שאינם רצויים - זאת יכול כל אחד לעשות. אך לרומם את רוחם ולהעניק להם הרגשה טובה - לכך דרושים כישרון מיוחד והשקעת מאמץ* *Nachman of Breslov *
While we're on storm watch here in the Northeast, maybe it's an OK time to play "2016"
*Two questions, in no particular order: (1) Will this man be the next president of the United States? (2) Do you have any idea who this man is? (Hint: "He doesn’t bring the glitz and glamour of some of the other names of this list.") Okay, an extra-credit question: (3) Anybody heard from ol' T-Paw lately?* *by Ken* "One of the Fix's favorite phrases," the post begins, "is this: It's never too soon." No, it's not that I take WaPo "Fix"-master Chris Cillizza seriously, but one thing you know when you read Chris is that if he's saying it, other political insiders are saying it. I wo... more »
Die Flut Kommt
Video found at *HARDON'S BLOG*: *"It is a characteristic feature of all great reforms that, in the beginning, there is only one single protagonist to come forward on behalf of several million people." * *- Adolf Hitler* * **"He who would live must fight. He who does not wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist." * *- Adolf Hitler*
Aztec in Perspective by Monte Shriver - Part Two
(*Blogger’s Note:* The following is reprinted by permission. Given the length of the original article, I have broken it into three parts and will publish all three over the next week. It was written by one-time resident of Aztec, Monte Shriver, and provides an interesting insight into the alleged crash. Again, reprinted by permission of Monte Shriver.) *THE AZTEC INCIDENT -RECOVERY AT HART CANYON* BY SCOTT AND SUZANNE RAMSEY, DR. FRANK THAYER AND FRANK WARREN In his forward to this book, Stanton Friedman states “In this outstanding new book, Scott and Suzanne Ramsey have done an... more »
New Underwear Bomb Made Me Crap My Pants
*Because I laughed so hard.* "Al Qaeda altered underwear bomb" July 28, 2012 ASPEN, Colo. — US security officials are on the lookout for a *new type of explosive* after analysis of an *upgraded underwear bomb* intercepted by a CIA operation in Yemen. * **(Blog editor has already started snickering) * Transportation Security Administrator John Pistole said at the Aspen Security Forum that the *device smuggled out* by a *double agent* in an operation earlier this year was an upgrade from the underwear bomb carried by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to try to bring down a Detroit-bound airl... more »
"Al-Saleh-Duh" in Yemen
*I suppose that is why the coverage has mostly faded away for the last few months.* "Yemeni gunmen seize key building as unrest lingers" Associated Press, July 30, 2012 SANA, Yemen — *Gunmen loyal to Yemen’s ousted ruler seized a security building* near the Interior Ministry in the capital for a few hours on Sunday before vacating it, a security official said. The official said a former security official and a relative of the former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, sent the gunmen on the mission. After taking over the building in Sana, they blocked off the airport highway where it is... more »
Erin Weir Is The BEST Candidate To Deal With Saskatchewan's 'Incoherent' Potash Fiscal Regime
* * *Saskatchewan's New Democrats are in the process of picking a new provincial leader. To date, Economist Erin Weir has articulated the most pragmatic, visionary policy for the province's potash industy, its growth and direction. * *Today, **The School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary added their voice to those who understand that Premier Brad Wall is allowing the economic benefits of a key natural resource to slip away because of an 'incoherent' fiscal regime.* *"CALGARY, Feb. 8, 2013 /CNW/ - A report published today by The School of Public Policy concludes that... more »
OPPT WEB SITES (so far)
* * * * *Thanks to Aaron and Pierre for tracking the URLs. If your group is not listed please leave a comment on the blog and I will add it to the list. * * * *The following sites are One People's Trust related:* *OPPT Trustee web site:* http://www.peoplestrust1776.org/ *UCC Filing Search site:* https://gov.propertyinfo.com/DC-Washington/# * *** *OPPT Web sites other people have created: * 1. OPPT-IN blog: http://oppt-in.com/ 2. OPPTBOOK (an unofficial OPPT *Facebook-like* social site) http://opptbook.com/ 3. American Kabuki: http://www.americankabuki.blogspo... more »
Droning on About Yemen
*I'm sorry, readers, but if I were being true to my blog I'd be posting more often about murder from on high.* *What the Globe has given me these last months*: "*US drones* *killed 10* Al Qaeda militants — one believed to be a top bomb maker — in *two strikes* targeting moving vehicles in Yemen, officials and the country’s state-run agency said Tuesday." *All bad guys, always bad guys. * "No.2 Al Qaeda leader in Yemen reported killed; Saudi national, 6 others believed targeted by drone" by Ahmed al-Haj | Associated Press, September 11, 2012 SANA, Yemen — An *apparent US drone st...more »
GAIA PORTAL: Upsurges Are Noted...
* * * * *Upsurges Are Noted...* by ÉirePort We have observed an upsurge in 4D-5D activity over the past 3 hours, beginning at 1900 UTC. At this moment, the upsurge appears to continue. Energetics of Gaia are re-forming around this upsurge, and will plateau at a much Higher and more refined energy level. Those who have adapted to multi-dimensional understandings will align rapidly with this Higher level. While retaining integrity (unity) with all so-called "lower" levels. Upsurge appears visually to the ÉirePort team as a spiral projecting upward, counterclockwise rotation when vi... more »
How to Find a UCC Filing
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C'mon, Folks, Polling Averages. Remember?
Ron Fournier on one reason Barack Obama may refocus his State of the Union message: Though Obama's team would dismiss its significance, Democratic allies took notice of Quinnipiac University's new poll that showed Obama's approval rating dropping since his election, from a 53 percent approval rating in December to 46 percent. C'mon. Did we all learn nothing from the last election cycle? Polling averages, folks, not single polls. Heading over to Pollster, guess what? Obama's approval rating, including that Q poll, is rising, not falling. In fact, there were a total of polls with sur... more »
Englishness and Suburbia
There is a spectre haunting the Union, the spectre of Englishness! I was down in London Monday evening for the launch-cum-discussion of Rupa Huq'snew book, *On the Edge: Contested Cultures of English Suburbia*. Having skimmed the first 50 pages by way of preparation, Rupa argues the suburbs have long been the repository and incubator of the tensions and characteristics that one can find condensed in English national identity. For example, chatting with an ex-trot comrade yesterday, we mused how we didn't define ourselves as 'big E' English, but there are certain eccentricities and q... more »
"Executioner in Chief: How a Nobel Peace Prize Winner Became the Head of a Worldwide Assassination Program"
* "Executioner in Chief: How a Nobel Peace Prize Winner* * Became the Head of a Worldwide Assassination Program"* By John W. Whitehead “Much of our foreign policy now depends on the hope of benevolent dictators and philosopher kings. The law can’t help. The law is what the kings say it is.”— Ta-Nehisi Coates, writing for "The Atlantic" “If George Bush had done this, it would have been stopped.”— Joe Scarborough, former Republican congressman and current MSNBC pundit “When Barack Obama ascended to the presidency in 2008, there was a sense, at least among those who voted for him,...more »
Chris Christie's weight is no joke
[photo via] I've never found mean jokes that mock appearance or ethnicity funny. I cringe every time I see someone make a fat joke about Chris Christie. But when former White House physician Dr. Connie Mariano expressed concern about Christie's weight, she was making a valid observation about his health, not mocking him. Christie responded by telling the doctor to shut up and called her a typical hack who just wants five minutes on TV. But that apparently wasn't satisfying enough blowback for NJ's biggest bully. He subsequently called Dr. Mariano and hollered at her personally. S... more »
Mohawk Nation News 'International Treaties'
INTERNATIONAL TREATIES Posted on February 8, 2013 INTERNATIONAL TREATIES MNN. Feb. 8, 2013. We Onkwehonwe are the keepers of the law of peace here on Great Turtle Island. Any valid treaty must have have the principles of the Two Row for all North and South America. The law of the land is Kaianereh’ko:wa. 1701 Great Peace of Montreal, only valid treaty, rooted in law of the land.
Stopping MA DESE from Turning Over Student and Teacher Records to Corporations
Letter from ACLU to MA BESE: February 5, 2013**** ****Massachusetts**** Board of Elementary and Secondary Education 75 Pleasant Street ****Malden**, **MA** **02148******** Dear Board Members,**** It has come to our attention that the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education intends to share confidential student and teacher data with the Gates Foundation, as part of its Shared Learning Collaborative, consisting of personally identifiable information including student names, test scores, grades, disciplinary and attendance records, and most likely, special educa... more »
Shattered Crystal Balls... And Criminal Gerrymandering In Florida
Will Florida voters hold legislators accountable for cheating? The day before the election in November, I glanced at Larry Sabato's predictions, just so I could amuse myself about how slanted they would once again be towards the GOP. I don't know the man or even his politics but I do know that he always looks in his crystal ball and sees an optimum outcome for Republicans and nothing but failure for Democrats. For example, the election yielded 332 electoral votes for President Obama and 206 for Romney. Sabato's crystal ball, the night before, showed Obama with 290 and Romney with 248... more »
“Pay Attention America: Police Shooting People”
* “Pay Attention America: Police Shooting People”* by Karl Denninger "We have a little problem here. Out in LA there's this ex-cop. He was allegedly fired for blowing the whistle on another cop who used excessive force. And now, he's decided to take action himself, and has declared war (literally) on the LAPD. "I will bring unconventional and asymmetrical warfare to those in LAPD uniform whether on or off duty," Dorner allegedly wrote in a lengthy letter promising retribution against the department, where he worked from 2005 until 2008. An LAPD source provided the document to CN... more »
Honeywell's CEO's Hateful Behavior to Senior Citizens
*Honeywell CEO David Cote — *who is part of an organization called Fix the Debt that is pushing for steep cuts in social spending as part of a “grand bargain” on the budget — acknowledged in an interview that the sequester’s spending cuts will harm the economy. But he thinks they need to happen anyway: *Cote is one of the highest-paid CEOs in the country*, making $37 million in 2011. *Honeywell, meanwhile, paid just a 2 percent tax rate between 2008 and 2011*, according to Citizens for Tax Justice, while *receiving $1.7 billion in tax subsidies*. Cote himself has said that the corpo... more »
Droning On About John Brennan
*I already said my **prayers** for the guy.* "John Brennan is grilled on drones" by Mark Mazzetti and Scott Shane | New York Times, February 08, 2013 WASHINGTON — Engaging a high-ranking Obama administration official *for the first time in an extensive public discussion of the use of drones* for *targeted killing* on Thursday, senators pressed John O. Brennan, President Obama’s nominee for director of the CIA, about the secrecy of the strikes, their legal basis, and the reported backlash they have produced in Pakistan and Yemen. Adding a new element to the roiling debate, the Sen... more »
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