The destroyed remains of Iraqi T-54, T-55, Type 59 or Type 69 Main Battle Tanks (MBT) litter an Iraqi military complex West of Diwaniyah, near Al Qadisiyah, Iraq. Visible on the picture are also two ARVs (the upper one is a Chinese-made Type 653 while the lower one is a Polish-made WZT-2). The tank in the bottom of the picture is a Type 69 as evidenced by the fender-mounted headlights. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Casualties of the Iraq War (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Iraq War soldiers and bombing (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Map: occupation (stabilization) zones in Iraq, September 2003 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
War on Iraq (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Collage of images taken by U.S. military in Iraq. Compiled by the uploader. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
An IAEA inspector is taking smear samples at a machine factory in Iraq during weapons inspections in 2002. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Map of major operations and battles of the Iraq War as of 2007 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Valerie Plame Flow of Information (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
British Iraq War Protest (Photo credit: DJOtaku)
Iraq War Memorial (Photo credit: Lorianne DiSabato)
English: Valerie Plame at an event at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (Photo credit: Wikipedia)No, Not "Everyone" Fell For The Bush-Cheney Call To War In Iraq
National Memo kicked off the week reminding us that not *everyone* fell for
the Bush-Cheney war propaganda and not everyone went along with their rush
to war in Iraq. There were, in fact, millions of people who protested and,
in terms of insiders, National Memo spotlights people who criticized the
invasion risking their careers and reputations to do so. They focus on
Tyler Drumheller, head of CIA operations in Europe, the Knight Ridder
Newspaper chain, Al Gore, blue chip journalists Dana Milbank, Walter
Pincus, and Maureen Dowd, Jimmy Carter, Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame, Carne
R... more »
( I recall, in fact, in the early days after Bush's declaration of invasion of Iraq, a U.S. radio announcer saying 'God Bless the Canadians' for refusing to be stampeded into the operation. BlueGirlRedState in Kansas City,MO said the protests were of a frequency and numbers not seen since the Vietnam War.)
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Enhanced credit for pre conviction custody may properly include ineligibility for remission and parole while in remand custody
R. v. Summers, 2013 ONCA 147 holds enhanced credit for pre conviction
custody may properly include consideration of ineligibility for remission
and parole while in remand custody:
[8] As I see it, however, s. 719(3.1) of the Code allows a
sentencing judge to credit pre-sentence custody at a ratio up to, but not
exceeding, 1.5:1 for each day spent in pre-sentence custody where, on
consideration of all relevant circumstances, such credit is necessary to
achieve a fair and just sanction in accordance with the statutory scheme
for sentencing and punishment set out in the Cod... more »
ISA 2013 Blogging Reception
The good people at SAGE just sent this image along. It’s a mockup of one
side of the reception postcards that will be handed out at ISA 2013. I will
be running repeated reminders of the reception from now until the
conference. It will be from 7.30-8.30pm on 4 April in Yosemite A.
Unfortunately, only
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Well, That's That Then.
In an upset, Falkland Islanders have voted overwhelmingly in favour of flipping
the bird to Argentina.
*Despite near zero temperatures and flurries of snow and rain, the turnout
was 92% from an electorate of 1,650. All but three people voted yes to the
question posed on the ballots: "Do you wish the Falkland Islands to retain
their current political status as an overseas territory of the United
Kingdom?" *
Those pesky Argies were not impressed.
In Papal News
Let the Conclave begin!
Wait, what's that? There's already a snag? Frontrunner Papal would-be,
Cardinal Angelo Scola's diocese has just been raided by Italy's anti-mafia
cop squad.
*Anti-mafia detectives swooped on homes, offices, clinics and hospitals in
Lombardy, the region around Milan, and elsewhere. A statement said the dawn
raids were part of an investigation into "corruption linked to tenders by,
and supplies to, hospitals".*
*Healthcare in Lombardy is the principal responsibility of the regional
administration, which for the past 18 years has been run by Roberto
Formigo... more »
Mr. O was still explaining his outburst last night!
*TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 2013*
*The poodle which didn’t bark:* Last Tuesday night, Bill O’Reilly melted
down on his semi-eponymous cable news program.
Over and over, he called Alan Colmes a liar, although he began to apologize
for the name-calling before the segment was over. The following night, he
devoted his opening segment to the fracas, though he kept spreading
disinformation about Obama’s budget proposals, the matter which had been in
question. See THE DAILY HOWLER, 3/8/13.
Those segments aired last Tuesday and Wednesday. But how strange! Last
night, O’Reilly was *still* trying to... more »
THE ORIGINAL SIN: Why was Whitaker frisked!
*TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 2013*
*Part 2—The heartfelt belief that we know:* Why was Forest Whitaker
stopped, then frisked, outside a New York deli last month?
To tell you the truth, we don’t know. Everyone agrees that Whitaker did
absolutely nothing wrong—that he was *mistakenly* suspected of shoplifting.
But why was Whitaker suspected? To tell you the truth, we don’t know. There
has been little reporting about the incident. As far as we know, the name
of the deli employee in question hasn’t even been reported; neither has his
age or his race or ethnicity.
There has been no reporting a... more »
Manila the Miners' Canary of Climate Change
The Philippines are now being thought of as the "miners' canary" of climate
change. The archipelagic state has reeled under the impacts of sea level
rise and typhoons of increasing frequency and intensity. But the capital, Manila,
is the worst of all and now faces permanent flooding because residents have
compounded sea level rise and storm surges with subsidence caused by
draining their aquifers.
*In an interview with GMA News Online, Dr. Kelvin S. Rodolfo, Professor
Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago, explained that the
over-pumping of groundwater is the main ca... more »
Wing's Presentation on Epidemiology
Steve Wing
He begins by addressing the limitations of the Hiroshima lifetime study,
which include :
1. The study began 5 years after the bombing
2. Studies of cancer began in 1958
3. Fallout was not addressed because the people studied were primarily
subject to gamma and neutron radiation from the initial blasts rather than
fallout, which impacted populations located further away
4. No research addressed subjects exposure to ingested and inhaled
radioisotopes
5. No research addressed birth defects and miscarriages
He also addressed a vareity of other issues that impacted statist... more »
Tuesday Morning Linkage Club
Henry Farrell reflects on political economy, game theory, and methodology
[Crooked Timber] ICYMI: Voeten links to Fukuyama on new measures of
governance (ungated) [The Monkey Cage, Governance] Fukuyama seeks a measure
of the actual quality of governance, regardless of regime type. For my
part, I’ll note that I’ve discovered “political scientists measure
democracy using quantitative
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Iraq 10 Years Later (1): How Culpable is Academic International Relations?
I’ve been thinking a lot about the war this month. I’ll be teaching it in
the next few weeks at school because of the decade anniversary (March 20).
My quick sense is that any defensible theory behind the war was simply
buried by an execution so awful, disorganized, mismanaged, and incompetent
that it invalidated the whole
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After the party, the CVAC's
When we realize our value we will be valuable. When we realize our value
we will be valuable. When we realize our value we will be valuable. We
are not valuable until we say so.
Why do you have low self esteem? Who told you to hate yourself? You were
programmed to comply and made to be obedient. When you realize your value
you will become valuable.
You do not realize your value and so you do not see yourself as valuable.
What makes one piece of paper more valuable than another? One rock more
valuable than another? An agreement – words like “In God We Trust” or “... more »
A Minor Defense of Ryan and the Republicans
Since I took it to Paul Ryan and the Republicans in fairly strong language
yesterday, and I suspect I'll not wind up saying nice things about Ryan's
budget, I'll back up a bit and say one thing in their defense.
Ryan is taking a fair amount of heat from some liberals because the budget
matches the Romney/Ryan campaign plan and because the ticket that ran on
that platform lost. For example, Jared Bernstein: "OK…but the thing is, we
had a national election on this preference set, and it lost."
I suppose there's nothing wrong with this as a talking point, but really:
what else do you e... more »
Their BIG Joke On You Explained: Laundered Drug Money Mainly A Hedge By the Banks?
It's just a favor (almost) that anyone from that level even speaks to us
(US) anymore. Have you started to feel that way also? I think we are lucky
to have an inside man like Bob Reich. Former labor secretary Robert Reich
says, “The idea that most Americans have been living beyond their means is
pure fantasy perpetrated by a small minority at the top whose means have
gone through the
The Good Ol’ Cold War
In the aftermath of a long war, a new degree of suspicion ensues between
two powerful countries that were nominally on the same side…one rattles its
sabre, threatening small countries on its borders…the other shores up
relations with the very same countries… a tit-for-tat arms race begins,
waged with the advantages of recent technological advances…espionage
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Beyond Critical Thinking -- a book review by author Jeff Schmidt
Beyond
Critical Thinking
Review of Denis Rancourt's Hierarchy and Free Expression in the Fight
Against Racism
By Jeff Schmidt
Author of Disciplined Minds
jeffschmidt@alumni.uci.edu
To understand Denis Rancourt and his book, Hierarchy and Free Expression
in the Fight Against Racism, you have to know the difference between
critical thinking and independent thinking.
Critical thinking is
Iraq Finally Passes 2013 Budget But With Protests
At the beginning of March 2013, Iraq’s parliament finally passed the annual
budget. Voting on it had been delayed for months, mainly because of
disputes between the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and the central
government over the former’s oil policy. The argument was not resolved by
the time the vote took place, which led to complaints by the Kurdish
Coalition. In terms of the actual budget, it is the largest in Iraqi
history. It also has the biggest outlay for investment, but many of the
country’s ministries have proven incapable of spending all their money. The
budget is ... more »
Chief of U.S. Pacific forces calls climate change biggest worry – ‘You could have millions of people displaced, and security will start to crumble pretty quickly’
[image: Admiral Samuel J. Locklear III met privately with security and
foreign policy specialists at Harvard and Tufts universities on 7-8 March
2013. He said the biggest long-term security threat in the Pacific region
is climate change. Photo: Jay Directo / AFP / Getty Images]By Bryan Bender
9 March 2013
CAMBRIDGE (Boston Globe) – America’s top military officer in charge of
monitoring hostile actions by North Korea, escalating tensions between
China and Japan, and a spike in computer attacks traced to China provides
an unexpected answer when asked what is the biggest long-term sec... more »
Learning about Hippies in Louisiana's Voucher Schools
*Beka Books is owned by Arlin and Beka Horton, who both graduated from Bob
Jones "University" in 1951. The company, which now has an extensive
product line of semi-literate ultra-fundamentalist teaching materials, made
headlines a couple of years ago by changing the Christian unfriendly "Slave
Trade" to the "Atlantic Triangular Trade." How offensive an unwholesome to
talk about slavery in a Christian environment. From Political Research
Associates:*
On May 21, Texas School Board member Cynthia Dunbar opened the board’s
meeting with an invocation: “Whether we look to the first cha... more »
Rising sea levels threaten historic Jamestown, marine geologist says island’s future is grim – ‘You can only fight nature for so long, because she will win’
[image: Historic Jamestowne, Virginia, the original site of the Jamestown
colony. Rising sea levels are threatening Jamestown, the site of the first
permanent English settlement in North America. Photo: Williamsburg Virginia
guide]
JAMESTOWN, Virginia, 10 March 2013 (Associated Press) – Rising sea levels
are threatening Jamestown, the site of the first permanent English
settlement in North America.
Jamestown Island, where most of Jamestown is located, lies 3 feet or less
above the tidal James River. Scientists project that it will be underwater
by 2100, but flooding will increase... more »
Canada losing its seasons – ‘We are changing seasonality. The north is becoming like the south, losing its sharp contrasts between the four seasons.’
[image: Average monthly Arctic sea ice extent, February 1979-2013. Graphic:
NSIDC]
By Stephen Leahy
11 March 2013
UXBRIDGE, Canada (IPS) – “Canada is not a country, it’s winter,” Canadians
say with pride. But the nation’s long, fearsome winters will live only in
memory and song for Canadian children born this decade.
Winters are already significantly warmer and shorter than just 30 years
ago. The temperature regimes and plant life of the south have marched more
than 700 kilometres northward, new research shows.
The frozen north is leaving and won’t be back for millennia due to
... more »
‘Melbourne on the Murray’ as city bakes in record heat – ‘It’s stunning. That heat is just not going anywhere.’
[image: Melbourne residents escape the record heat on the beach, 11 March
2013. Photo: Sydney Morning Herald]
By Peter Hannam, Carbon economy editor
11 March 2013
(Sydney Morning Herald) -- Melbourne's heatwave has set more records as
city dwellers endure temperatures more usually felt much further inland.
The mercury touched 30 degrees late morning and peaked at 37.1 just after
4pm, exceeding the forecast high of 36. Melbourne has only posted eight
consecutive days of 30 degrees or more on four occasions - in 1890, 1898,
1951 and 1961 - in records that go back to 1856. Each of t... more »
Farewell to one of Victoria's most controversial citizens
The death of Victoria lawyer Doug Christie last night prompted me to dig
out a feature I did on him for the Times Colonist way back in 2002.
Everybody's got a strong, strong opinion on the man, and plenty of people
just plain hate him. But like most people, he was a complex character.
An uneasy peace: At 56, controversial lawyer Douglas Christie now worries
for his childrenVictoria Times Colonist, Monitor section
Sun Mar 3 2002
They're dying off, the men who Douglas Christie loved the most. His heroes
are dead men and the list is growing every day.
It hasn't been easy being the lawy... more »
Untitled
*Tulane professor protests neuroscience society’s decision to stop meeting
in New Orleans*
*Without tolls on the CCC, revenue sources sought for bridge upkeep*
*Drivers want refunds on pre-paid CCC toll tags* *Developers request more
time for controversial luxury apartments project* *Café Reconcile reopens
today *
invasive Species Boundary
In reality, this is a battle that can not be won. The Mississippi Basin and
the Great Lakes Basin share a thousand mile long headwaters consisting
mostly of farm fields, wetlands and woodlands. All of it is flushed and
flooded during the spring breakup with every depression and ditch full of
water. Pathways will exist and carp populations will expand to steadily
increase the probability of penetration.
If it has not happened yet, then we have been lucky. Sooner or later all
populations in the headwaters regions will reach full capacity at which
crossing over the head waters divid... more »
‘Zionism’ Means Something Different for Some Muslims
This is an important nuance to the understanding of the meaning of Zionism
outside traditional western understanding. The education system has
promoted a threat concept that is actually ludicrous and implausible, but
certainly expanded the concept of a national enemy that was obviously
convenient for rulers. Who would have thought.
I now clearly realize that a huge amount of Middle Eastern propaganda is
about apples rather than oranges. Most likely it is also used as code to
resist the West while pandering to it. We have wrongly linked the words to
our own understanding of Zionis... more »
Spanish Chupacabra Update
This is a translation from Spanish language sources. I must say that there
is a lot of material from the Spanish language press that I do wish to
access in my many areas of interest. In this update, Puerto Rican gargoyle
from twenty years ago has reappeared which effectively suggests that there
is a native population generally avoiding contact. Geographically, it is
accessible to Central American comparables.
Otherwise other creatures are out there to sow confusion. These could be
even other types of unidentified vampire bats. What is clear is that local
reports and local popul... more »
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Tammy Duckworth, 45.
On to the good stuff:
1. David Frum doesn't like Woodrow Wilson and explains why you shouldn't,
either.
2. New Buzzfeed WH reporter Evan McMorris-Santoro seems to be starting out
with a healthy realistic view of the job. I wrote about this a while ago,
by the way.
3. Andrew Sprung on the GOP, electioneering effects, and more.
4. Health care real estate, from Sarah Kliff.
5. And via Sarah Binder, Richard Arenberg's filibuster defense.
We Really Do Need A Healthy Republican Party
Jim Himes, once a Goldman Sachs banker, now vice-chair of the New Dems, is
working harder than anyone to gut the derivatives regulations Wall Street
hates
Zack Beauchamp made an elegant case for why America needs a mainstream
conservative party and an electorally plausible GOP. "Progressives," he
writes, "should want the Republican reformers to succeed in creating a
party that’s both more substantively tethered to reality and, as a
consequence, more electorally viable. The current Republican party is a
serious threat given the structure of American politics even if it’s in
long-ter... more »
New Rankings
*US News and World Report* has released its updated rankings of graduate
programs in economics. Click here to see them. The top programs are:
#1 Harvard
#1 MIT
#1 Princeton
#1 Chicago
#5 Stanford
#5 UC-Berkeley
#7 Northwestern
#7 Yale
#9 Penn
#10 Columbia
#11 NYU
#11 Minnesota
#13 Michigan
#13 Wisconsin
#15 Caltech
#15 UCLA
#15 UC-San Diego
#18 Cornell
#19 Brown
#19 Carnegie Mellon
#19 Duke
Tues. 3/12 - ALEC in Iowa, Noon - Be There
*Tuesday March 12th*
*ALEC in Iowa*
*Room 22*
*Iowa State Capitol, Room 22, Des Moines, Iowa*
*Tuesday, March 12th, 12:00 – 1:00 PM*
Official News Release
Des Moines, Iowa — Local and national leaders will speak out on Tuesday,
March 12th about the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, and
its influence on Iowa’s legislative process. Lisa Graves, the executive
director of the Center for Media and Democracy and publisher of
ALECexposed.org, Senator Joe Bolkcom, chair of the national Progressive
States Network, and Peter Fisher, research director for the Iowa Policy
Proje... more »
ALEC - Moving Public Land to Corporations
Of great importance to anyone in the US who enjoys or just appreciates the
beauty of the American great outdoors is an article that appeared today at
the Center for American Progress.
*State Efforts to ‘Reclaim’ Our Public Lands*
This article is VERY important in understanding how ALEC members view our
public lands.
ALEC members view our public lands as a commodity to be sold or traded to
ALEC corporate profit members – becausetheycan.
It is the duty and responsibility of EVERY American to make sure that this
rape of public lands by American Legislative Exchange Council memb... more »
Co-operatism Vs Corporatism
Paul Adams writes that it will probably take another election defeat before
the Liberals and the NDP decide there is good reason for them to work
together. Each party has its champion of cooperation:
Like Nathan Cullen in the NDP race last year, [Joyce] Murray has presented
a credible progressive version of her party’s traditions while also arguing
for party cooperation. And she’s attracted significant support — even
though leadership races are when party supporters are at their most
partisan.
Of course, we all know she won’t actually win.
The old ways die hard. And co-operati... more »
Phil Mickelson - RAZR Fit Xtreme TV Ad - Award Quality Visuals
forget the news, forget soaps, forget reality shows, *advertisements* can
'sometimes' provide the most Creative, the most Innovative, the most
Enjoyable televisual moments elevating the *blatant product sell* to the
level of ART.
This incredible 2013 advert from Callaway c/o Factory Design Labs in
collaboration with Leviathan showing Phil Mickelson swinging their
de-constructing re-constructing Razr Fit Extreme golf club is exactly that:
Art.
The Need to Revisit The Supply Chain
Logistics always taught us that supply chains are only as strong as their
weakest link. This is particularly relevant in a finely balanced chain such
as the book trade, which is made complex by the many to many relationships
and single source of product.
Publisher, former politician and founder of Biteback Publishing Iain Dale,
made a strong speech at the Independent Publishers Guild conference last
week claiming that the large retailers have publishers ‘over a barrel’. So
what is the ‘barrel’ he was claiming and how does it impact today’s supply
chain.
His points are nothing new... more »
More referendum observations
A longtime observer of local politics pointed out to me another bit of
anti-democratic fallout from the Double 50 threshold: ballot secrecy. There
won't be any. Consider...
1. It is likely that the KMT will instruct its people to stay home.
2. It is also likely that the referendum will not combined with next year's
elections.
3. Thus, the only thing voted on will be the Fourth Nuke Plant referendum.
If KMT types are ordered to stay home, this means that the only people
going will be, in the very least, people who are voting to stop
construction and operation of the plant, and who a... more »
Interesting how the BBC choose when to report with 'context'
The BBC's reluctant report includes this piece of context at the end:
'The UN report concluded that at least 169 Palestinians were killed by
Israeli attacks during the offensive.
It said more than 100 were civilians, including 33 children and 13 women.
The report said six Israelis were killed by Palestinians attacks, including
four civilians.'
Even if we accept the Palestinian sourced split between civilians and
military, and work on the minimum figure of 101 civilians out of 169
deaths, that makes a ratio of approximately 1.69:1 civilians:military. This
sounds terrible, after al... more »
Keiser Report - Man-eating Sinkhole Season
*copyright bloomberg*I mean, just because I regularly report on Max Keiser
and Stacey Herbert's every-other-day show Keiser Report broadcast by RUSSIA
TODAY out of central Moscow doesn't mean Free Planet condones i) every
race-to-the-bottom buy-silver dog bitcoiner for himself or ii) communism.
Today's wind-swept discussion by the young lovers (they are still dating,
right?) involves them likening the seasonal Sinkhole Phenomenon to the
eternal Prison Capitalism practises that are RAMPANT on this
financially-enslaved planet - the image (top right) suggest they might have
'borrowed' ... more »
Gustav Kirchhoff: a birthday
*Sad recent event:* Donald Glaser, the 1960 Nobel prize winner in physics
for his invention of the bubble chamber, died on February 28th.
Gustav Kirchhoff was born on March 12th, 1824, in Königsberg, capital of
Prussia (now the island of Kaliningrad, Russia: note that it was easy to
correct the country's name) to a lawyer and his wife. He married his math
teacher's daughter and got lots of good education by people including
Jacobi.
In some sense, we could say that this important 19th century physicist was
the ultimate conventional career mainstream scientist. He died at age of 63 ... more »
Is the right-wing Manning Centre plotting ‘Manchurian Municipal Candidates’?
Former Texas Congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul, the crazy
uncle of American politics, with some of his young acolytes at this
weekend’s Manning Centre “Big Ideas” conference. Below: anti-medicare
crusader Dr. Brian Day, a sign directing conferees to advice on how to sell
their kidneys, and Mr. Manning himself. OTTAWA You can’t take an ... more »
Musical Interlude: Genesis, "Land of Confusion"
Genesis, “Land of Confusion”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZujuYiweht8
Is the United States of America the greatest country on the world?
------------------------------
http://youtu.be/16K6m3Ua2nw
*The most honest three and a half minutes of television, EVER...*
*James Bouder*
*Published on Jun 26, 2012*
Beginning scene of the new HBO series The Newsroom explaining why America's
Not the Greatest Country Any Longer... But It Can Be.
Cherchez la Verite
sex and death
"Death is like sex...
you will find it in your own way."
March 11, 1973
Chuck Colson, now outside of the White House, took a trip out of the
country during Patrick Gray's testimony, and now talks to the president on
the phone, mainly reassuring him. Nixon knows what's important, however:
keeping the White House staff, and John Dean in particular, away from
Congress.
--
Colson: [...] As I told Bob, you do get a completely different feeling when
you come back and see the jackassery that is engaged in this town. My God
almighty. Just lean back, and there is the *Washington Post*, big picture
of Kalmbach and Chapin, you know, as if that really had any conse... more »
The Failed Cabal Timeline
Posted by American Kabuki
March 11, 2013
This is the 2nd piece of the recording supplied to me by an anonymous
contact in late 2012. The other portion of this video was about the mind
controlled Montauk children was published shortly after the killings in
Sandy Hill NJ. I felt that information had to get out immediately.
This portion I delayed posting, mostly because there was so much hysteria
around 12/21/2012, both from the negative disaster perspective (Hollywood
did its best to magnify that possibility) and from others expecting a
suddenly miraculous new world. I had no desire... more »
The Realist Report with John Friend
On this edition of the Realist Report, we'll be joined by *John Kaminski*,
a returning guest! John and I will be discussing his recent article *UGLY
EMPIRE* and the latest developments since the last time he was on the
program. We'll also discuss solutions to the problems confronting our
nation and world, including the recent *National Protectionism Manifesto*released by Mike Sledge and
*Renegade Broadcasting*.
*John Kaminski* is a writer who lives on the Gulf Coast of Florida,
constantly trying to figure out why we are destroying ourselves and
pinpointing a corrupt belief system ... more »
Can You Trace The Byzantine Empire On A Current Map?
We love history at *DWT*. Last night when we posted about America's most
hated Supreme Court Chief Justice, Roger B. Taney, we were well aware that
most people don't know who he is or why he's important-- and we know that
no one who was born as one of his slaves is still alive today. But with
today's most vicious Supreme Court racist, Antonin Scalia, agitating among
his colleagues to declare Title V of the Voting Rights Act
unconstitutional-- or, at least, outdated-- and lionizing Taney, there is a
need to understand how the evil of deranged racism causes grievous harm to
our coun... more »
NEOCON CHUTZPAH OVER TARGETTED ASSASSINATIONS
Before I launch into criticising neocons for their hypocrisy and double
standards regarding targeted assassinations, I should point out that I am
against any type of targeted assassination regardless of who is killing who.
Today in *Commentary* magazine, Jonathan Tobin, the magazines most prolific
neoconservative propagandist, wrote an article criticising the honouring in
France of the Palestinian fighter Majdi Rimawi who is imprisoned in Israel
for assassinating Rehavam Ze’evi, who at the time of his assassination was
Israel’s Minister of Tourism.
Tobin writes:
*Bezons,* [a suburb... more »
"A Look to the Heavens"
“Many stars form in clusters. Galactic or open star clusters are
relatively young swarms of bright stars born together near the plane of our
Milky Way Galaxy. Separated by about a degree on the sky, two nice examples
are M46 (upper left) 5,400 light-years in the distance and M47 (lower
right) only 1,600 light-years away toward the nautical constellation Puppis.
*Click image for larger size.*
Around 300 million years young M46 contains a few hundred stars in a
region about 30 light-years across. Aged 80 million years, M47 is a smaller
but looser cluster of about 50 stars spanni... more »
ALEC - In the Business to Make Money for ALEC Corps
*MUST READ*
This is the guts of what legislative members of the American Legislative
Exchange Council have done / are doing to the United States through ALEC
"model legislation".
Read it and weep
>>>>>HERE<<<<<
*Snips *
*Published on Monday, March 11, 2013 by Common Dreams*
* *
*Five Poisons of Privatization*
* *
*by Paul Buchheit** *
It gets more maddening every day. Essential human needs are being packaged
into products to be bought and sold. The right to food and water,
education, health care, public spaces, and unrestricted speech shouldn't be
based on who can pay... more »
Chet Raymo, “WWHD? (What would Harry do?)”
*“WWHD? (What would Harry do?)”*
by Chet Raymo
"I have been reading David McCullough's massive Pulitzer-prizewinning
biography of Harry Truman. The first third, about the future president's
childhood and young adulthood in western Missouri is a bit of a slog. Not
much excitement; not much that would hint at future greatness, a story not
of big events but of character, family, earthy virtues. Harry, the farmer;
Harry the soldier with thick eyeglasses, who discovers he is braver than he
thought he was; Harry, the failed haberdasher.
Then, in the middle third of the book, two ... more »
"Accepting and Releasing Emotions: Denying Your Feelings"
*"Accepting and Releasing Emotions: Denying Your Feelings"*
by Madisyn Taylor, The DailyOM
"It's always best to acknowledge our feelings so they may rise to the
surface rather than keep them suppressed and turned into anger. Dealing
with powerful emotions can be challenging, especially when we are going
through chaotic, sad, or cruel experiences in our lives. Often, it can seem
like we have only two options for dealing with our feelings so they don’t
become too overwhelming. We may let our feelings out in an immediate and
visceral way, or we may bottle them up by suppressing o... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
Paso Robles, California, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Fukushima's Radiation Saturates The Planet, Two Year Anniversary Today!
It has been a while since I last reported on the still ongoing and very
deadly situation with the three failed nuclear reactors at the Fukushima
Daiichi plant in Japan. I am also sad to report that today is the official
second anniversary of that disaster that is still affecting the world now
two years later....
To show what is happening at Fukushima, on this, its second anniversary of
its deadly disaster, I want to turn to a new article from a fellow truth
seeker, Penny, who writes the blog: "Penny For Your Thoughts" at
www.pennyforyourthoughts2.blogspot.com. It is entitled: "Fu... more »
Today at the Fukushima Symposium
All the speakers were very interesting, except one who drove me crazy.
Who drove me crazy? David Brenner. He drove me crazy because he began his
presentation by emphasizing uncertainty in our understanding of radiation
effects. But, then he gave us a low-ball figure for mortality with
certainty.
I agree that there is considerable uncertainty in predicting risk, not
simply because our knowledge is limited and contested but also because
radiation effects are mediated by age, general health, diet, vector of
exposure (e.g., internal versus external), cummulative body burden,
synergis... more »
Irritant watch: Pork strikes the US-Taiwan relationship
*Lunch yesterday.*
Well, as predicted by many, including this blog, US ractopork is now
becoming an issue in US-Taiwan relations. Another useful irritant. The
China Post reports:
The Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) denied a request to approve
ractopamine-containing pork imports during yesterday's bilateral trade
talks with the United States, which said it will broach the topic again.
*The seventh round of Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) talks
opened yesterday in Taipei after a six-year hiatus.*
*During the talks, U.S. negotiators pressured Taiwan to rethink it... more »
Holy Joe Lieberman finds the perfect vehicle for his accumulated, er, talents
*Isn't it about time we had some phony bipartisan foreign policy?*
*by Ken*
What's most exciting about this headline reproduced from a press release
from the American Enterprise Institute?
*Is it the thrilling news itself?* (Stop the presses!)
*Is it the thrill-inducing tension of the head itself?* (Can't you just
tell they've got a pile-up of J-school grads there at AEI?)
No, what I like best is the pretense that what's nothing more than a
boilerplate press release is in fact a think piece by former AZ Sen. Jon
Kyl. Why, there's even a phony-baloney "About the Author" photo:
... more »
“JSoc: Obama's Secret Assassins”
*“JSoc: Obama's Secret Assassins”*
by Naomi Wolf
"The film "Dirty Wars", which premiered at Sundance, can be viewed, as Amy
Goodman sees it, as an important narrative of excesses in the global "war
on terror". It is also a record of something scary for those of us at home
– and uncovers the biggest story, I would say, in our nation's contemporary
history. Though they wisely refrain from drawing inferences, Scahill and
Rowley have uncovered the facts of a new unaccountable power in America and
the world that has the potential to shape domestic and international events
in an un... more »
Racing through jungle rivers in the night
Sweeping through a narrow jungle river at high speed, in a long, narrow
crowded boat, as a searchlight picks out trees crowding the banks in the
darkness - business travel didn’t used to be like this.
We’ve gone to where the road ends and far, far beyond.
Travel in Honduras is often an adventure, but last week took it to a new,
Indiana Jones level.
The boat journey, about four hours, was the highlight. We left Batalla at
dusk. The collectivos - shared boats to the heart of La Moskitia - don’t
leave until the last truck has arrived at the end of the road in the
Garifuna village, deliv... more »
Elect Republicans, kill the economy
As the kids say, shit just got real. The sequester cuts that were never
supposed to happen because they were so awful everybody would want to stop
them are now being embraced by the GOP as a great win for the party.
Republicans, especially the crackpot caucus, are now crowing about how they
cowed that uppity President and his false alarms about calamity. Guess when
you live in a self-constructed reality, it's easy to believe the voices in
your head whispering about sweet success.
Or maybe they just didn't know how quickly the cuts were going to kick in.
Already the spending cuts... more »
Volcanes con nieve y planetas alrededor
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"Fukushima's Fallout Is Already Harming Our Children"
*"Fukushima's Fallout Is Already Harming Our Children"*
by Harvey Wasserman
"Thyroid abnormalities have now been confirmed among tens of thousands of
children downwind from Fukushima. They are the first clear sign of an
unfolding radioactive tragedy that demands this industry be buried forever.
Two years after Fukushima exploded, three still-smoldering reactors remind
us that the nuclear power industry repeatedly told the world this could
never happen. And 72 years after the nuclear weapons industry began
creating them, untold quantities of deadly wastes still leak at Hanford... more »
Hermosa casa con alberca y un bonito paisaje
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THEY ARE DIGGING US A HOLE
Video streaming by Ustream
On Monday, March 11, over 100 people representing a coalition of students,
members of the Massachusetts Methodist clergy, mothers fighting for their
children, and concerned community members marched into the Westborough, MA
office of TransCanada Corporation and held a funeral mourning the loss of
our future at the hands of the Keystone XL Pipeline. The pipeline will
transport the tar sands that climate scientists say will lock us into
irreversible global warming.
Learning from China: Coal and its Nukes
Over the past few years I've given the NYT's Justin Gillis a (deserved)
hard time for some of his reporting. Today I'm happy to given him some
well-earned praise on the occasion of his first monthly column at the NYT
Times on climate change. Gillis wisely chose to write his first column on
energy innovation, with a focus on nuclear power and China:
We have to supply power and transportation to an eventual population of 10
billion people who deserve decent lives, and we have to do it while
limiting the emissions that threaten our collective future.
Yet we have already poured so m... more »
All the hegemony you can eat
The way things have been if I don’t see another buttressing quote from
either Lenin, Luxemburg or Tony Cliff for a long while I will be happy. So,
in that spirit, let’s talk about Lenin!
One thing I have been adamant about for some time is that the revolutionary
party was not Lenin’s key innovation. Firstly, even if he intended to found
“The Bolsheviks” he did not intend his party to be a new party. He was
trying to found a Russian SPD. Many Communist Parties were not made brand
news but founded out of Socialist Party majorities. Despite instants of
political hardship (not least of... more »
Paying for Advice? Just Say No
How do we know the job market is broken for academics? Because people are
willing to spend money hiring advisers. Really. This article documents
the costs of being on the market these days. To be clear, this piece is
deceptive and unrepresentative. But as a result, it is representative.
Huh? How does that make any
Continue reading
Begrudging?
The BBC have finally recognised that the UN have found that 'several
Palestinians were killed by rockets launched by the armed groups that fell
short & landed in the Gaza Strip."'
Here's the BBC report, could it be more begrudging?
The Naked Ones
Words like “should” and “owe” and “debt” and “obey” are uncomfortable. They
rest uneasy on my BEing. Faced now with Freedom, where do they fit?
Guilt is a dress I have worn often, as has my mother and her mother before
her. It feels familiar yet it no longer fits. It feels more like a strait
jacket – meant to hold me in. I’ve begun to take it off, noticing the
awkward, sort of exposed feeling that results. What to do with all these
parts – loose and able to move?
As we look around, we notice others like ourselves. Some of us are
looking for other strait jackets; eve... more »
Fukushima's radiation saturates the planet: Two Year anniversay, today.
It was two years ago today that the *triple disaster *at Fukushima took
place
Yes, that is right a triple disaster. An earthquake, the tsunami and the
total and* complete meltdowns at 3 of Fukushima’s nuclear power plants.* If
you were a reader here two years ago you were already aware of that fact.
Not conspiracy theory. FACT.
It was obvious that multiple meltdowns had occurred the very day of the
earthquake and tsunami two years ago. Despite the msm lies. Despite the
spin from the msm
Despite the snide comments from corporate whores
One of the worst being George Monbiot: Why Fukushi... more »
Napoleon On Various Subjects
*Related:*
*Napoleon On Men of Destiny*.
*Napoleon On Speculators And Profiteers*.
*Napoleon On An Age of Transition & The Dangers of A Militarist Government
*.
*Napoleon On Alexander The Great*.
*Napoleon On Public Debts*.
*Napoleon On Public Opinion*.
*Napoleon On Homer*.
*Napoleon On The "Courage of 2 A.M."*
*Napoleon On Statesmen.*
*Napoleon On Tragedy.*
* Napoleon On His Legacy.*
*Napoleon On The Virtues of The Soldier.*
From, *"The Mind of Napoleon: A Selection from His Written and Spoken
Words,"* edited and translated by J. Christopher Herold. Columbia
Uni... more »
The Errors of Keynes's Critics
*Guest post by Steven Kates*
An important understanding is taking hold, that the road to unwind
Keynesian economics travels through Say’s Law. Keynes himself could not
have been clearer about the significance of Say’s Law to the entire
structure of his argument. Keynes emphasized, over and over again, in *The
General Theory* (*TGT*) that he was reversing the conclusions of those who
believed Say’s Law to be true.* Thus, there are two things that need to be
done if you are going to refute Keynes. First, you have to know what Say’s
Law is. Then you have to show it is valid.
[image:... more »
Change your life....change your prints
Change your fingerprint...
should it be free information? There is an easier way.... it involves A
strong nail file... some Anvils or Aspirin and a common found in the
American and British supermarkets....
Which finger print is like yours? Want to change them? See what you do is
file away at the excess skin on your fingerprints to the point that they
are ALMOST RAW...
the point is that you don't have to go to the extremes below
Kris Alingod – AHN News Contributor
Boston, MA, United States (AHN) – A Dominican doctor was sentenced on
Thursday in Boston for helping illegal immigrants c... more »
How The GOP Transformed Itself Into The Country's Biggest Walk-In Closet
Not everyone agreed with my assertion Saturday that Democrats are mentally
healthier than Republicans nor with the premise that Democrats are
emotionally and spiritually healthier as well. But so much of modern
Republicanism is premised on hatred and negativity that just identifying as
seriously Republican is toxic to anyone's well-being. Let's take one
instance a look at Max Blumenthal's report on how the GOP has become, what
he called "a sanctuary for repressed gay men" and how mentally and
emotionally incapacitated self-loathing closet cases transformed it "into
the country's b... more »
God Save Me From A Normal Life - Part One
Returning to genuine sustainability in the near future is impossible,
because there are far too many people in the world. There is no way to
feed them all without causing deeper permanent injuries to the ecosystem. Sadly,
humankind displays almost no interest in doing what needs to be done to
address overpopulation. It’s much easier to unplug our brains, close our
eyes, and assign the unpleasant business to famine, war, and disease. So
be it.
Our extreme overpopulation is possible because we are living in a temporary
bubble of abundant energy. Unsustainable industrial agricult... more »
Mohawk Nation News 'Surviving Sieges'
SURVIVING SIEGES
Posted on March 11, 2013
MNN. Mar. 10, 2013. It’s an art! Canada has attacked
us many times, Gustafssen Lake, Ipperwash, Six Nations, Oka, Burnt
Church NS, etc. We’ve studied and learned their Modus operandi.
For the 1990 crisis in 3 Mohawk communities, Canada brought in Col.
Musgrave, Britain’s foremost expert on psychological war tactics. He was
the brain
Dig This Concrete Tent
Need a concrete structure in the middle of nowhere? Then take a look this
report on the concrete tent from National Geographic (h/t to my friend Jeff
via Facebook).
Sagrada Familia, by Antoni Gaudi
Construction on the Sagrada Familia began in 1883, when famed architect
Antoni Gaudi first laid the blueprint for his now-iconic Barcelona church.
Gaudi devoted his last years to the project, and 130 years later, it's
widely regarded as one of the most stunningly unique buildings on Earth. It
also has yet to be completed…
But it will be:
Using advanced aeronautical design software, [New Zealand born architect]
Mark Burry* and other architects have been able to reverse engineer Gaudi's
models from leftover shards. Today, Burry is among a group of architects
leading construction o... more »
"The Manufractured American Mind"
*"The Manufractured American Mind"*
by Zen Gardner
"This phenomenon can seem apparent but it’s quite profound when you break
it down. If you watch any mainstream propaganda with an alert viewpoint it
appears clear at the outset, but the underlying mechanics may be
surprising. Not only are American minds in particular being targeted for
total subversion and coercion, but this systematic method of indoctrination
via fragmentation is shockingly powerful.
“Altered” or fractured thinking is their modus operandus. Divide and
Conquer from the get go, right inside the mind. An alter... more »
Corporate Shill, John Legend
From the Daily Trojan:
Program Board and EdMonth kicked off its second-annual monthlong initiative
on the state of education Monday at Bovard Auditorium with a panel
discussion on igniting the next generation of leaders.
EdMonth aims to bring awareness of the education inequality to students
both at USC and at other universities.
Opening remarks were presented by David Dwyer, founder of USC Hybrid High
School, who highlighted the university’s innovative approaches to education
with the new school through the three pillars of personalization, time and
connectedness.
Grammy Awar... more »
ALEC's Keystone XL Pipeline Success
I wept (literally) when I read this headline this past week on Truthout.
*State Department Opens Door to Keystone XL Pipeline Approval*
and all I could think about was ALEC, the Koch brothers, TransCanada and
how big a mess we are in - because people do not realize how deep ALEC has
buried their secret, extremist, pro-corporate members into our government.
The one thing that has puzzled me for the past week is
Why isn’t the American Legislative Exchange Council braying about their XL
Pipeline success, publicly – where are the press releases?
Oh yeh, the disastrous things ALEC members ... more »
“The Kabuki Theatre of Demopublicans, Part I”
*“The Kabuki Theatre of Demopublicans, Part I”*
by The Gold Report
“Doug Casey’s latest book, "Totally Incorrect", gathers his iconoclastic
views in a tidy package to stimulate and possibly dismay readers. In an
interview with The Gold Report, Doug elaborates on some of his most radical
ideas and offers his view of where the markets are likely to head in 2013.
*The Gold Report:* Doug, you have a new book out called Totally Incorrect:
Conversations with Doug Casey. In one of those incorrect conversations with
Louis James you said, “It’s not the US economy that’s facing a fisca... more »
Students risking arrest to halt TransCanada Keystone tarsands
March 11, 2013
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Over 100 Youth Risk Arrest, Escalating Fight Against Keystone XL Pipeline
Students hold “Funeral for Our Future” in act of civil disobedience at TransCanada Corporation’s Westborough, MA Office
Westborough, MA – On Monday morning, over 100
The ennui of the White House reporter
In the endless Beltway media shuffle, former TPM mainstay Evan
McMorris-Santoro has moved into Zeke Miller's old spot at BuzzFeed. Evan
debuts with a look at why everyone hates the White House Beat.
Judging by these quotes from incoming WHPA president McClatchy's Steve
Thomma, it sounds more like why the WHPC hates the *Obama* White House and
possibly the readers:
A more pressing problem, Thomma said, is that the White House now looks at
the rise of social media and sees a way to circumvent reporters to get
their message out. Meanwhile, the televised briefings — which have become ... more »
When Pigs Float
Shanghai has a water problem. Somehow more than 2,800 dead pigs wound up
floating in one of the main rivers that supplies drinking water to the
mega-metropolis of 23-million.
Local authorities claim the river water is still safe to drink but they are
local authorities and this is China.
Nobody has figured out where the pigs came from yet. How some farmer can
conceal the absence of nearly three thousand pigs is a bit tough to
understand. Yet the animals show no sign of disease or any other obvious
cause of death.
Apparently this is nothing new.
*"You can see dead pigs here ... more »
Crazy, or Crazy Like a Fox?
Kevin Drum has a conniption because....well, I better tell this in order.
First, the TSA announces they're going to relax the restrictions on stuff
you can take onto an airplane -- including a bunch of fairly boring stuff
such as a bunch of sports equipment, but also including small knives.
Second, like clockwork, a politician decides to demagogue the issue:
knives?!? On airplanes?!? In this case, the first-off-the-mark pol appears
to be, no surprise, Chuck Schumer. Which is where Drum (and presumably
other critics of "security theater") come in, hitting Schumer and defending
the (r... more »
Press Conference with Navy Sailors
I'll have to post more on this later but the narratives provided by the
sailors is sickening.
Case in point. The officers and pilots all received potassium iodide pills
to prevent uptake of radioiodine but NONE of the enlisted people did.
One of the sailors stated his "body is falling apart" and he provided
specific examples, I'll post on later.
The sailors were all required to sign a disclaimer saying they were healthy
and would not hold the Navy responsible for any radiation exposure.
The sailor most impacted has discovered that all of his medical records are
Missing, post- boot ... more »
Sanctifying Mother Teresa is a PR stunt
to distract from all the scandals in the Catholic Church. Also, she raised
millions of dollars for the Vatican Taliban - which is actually why they're
canonizing her, I suspect.
Here's the latest about her.
A study conducted by Canadian researchers has called Mother Teresa
"anything but a saint", a creation of an orchestrated and effective media
campaign who was generous with her prayers but miserly with her
foundation's millions when it came to humanity's suffering.
The controversial study, to be published this month in the journal of
studies in religion/sciences called Religieus... more »
Breezy Weekend
A fun weekend, but breezy and *c-c-c-cold*! At least for March.
Friday was actually pretty nice so there was after-work geocaching and
puttering around at The Land. Saturday morning was the aforementioned cold
and breezy so Southern Man came into town for errands (laundry, renew
driver's license, post office, and so on) and then payed a visit to the
Ancestral Manor to see the Southern Parents. Then after an afternoon of *not
going outside* in the cold wind he came back into town for an evening Bible
study at a local Panera Bread. Pics later, if anyone posts them. Then
Sunday was th... more »
Southern Man Has A Birthday
And, yes, he is still thirty-something.*
*In hexadecimal.
Recent global heat spike unlike anything in 11,000 years – ‘We’ve never seen something this rapid. Even in the ice age the global temperature never changed this quickly.’
[image: This graphic of the temperature reconstruction shows the rise and
fall global temperatures throughout the Holocene epoch. An earlier
reconstruction of the past 2,000 years is shown for comparison. Graphic:
Marcott, et al., 2013 / Science / AAAS]
By SETH BORENSTEIN
8 March 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) – A new study looking at 11,000 years of climate
temperatures shows the world in the middle of a dramatic U-turn, lurching
from near-record cooling to a heat spike.
Research released Thursday in the journal *Science* uses fossils of tiny
marine organisms to reconstruct global tempera... more »
Untitled
Funding Crisis Looms For $14 Billion Hurricane Protection System ~Bob
Marshall, *WWNO*
Paul Ryan's Roadmap Leaves Seniors Even Further Behind
Paul Ryan announced Sunday that his new budget-- which is destined to again
go nowhere-- will be premised on repealing Obamacare. Apparently he wasn't
paying attention to the votes in November. Though Romney picked Ryan to
communicate the GOP position on Obamacare to voters-- and to bring in upper
Midwest states-- voters were clear that they preferred Obamacare over GOP
Austerity. And Romney-Ryan lost every single upper Midwest state, including
Ryan's home state of Wisconsin. Even in Ryan's own carefully gerrymandered
congressional district, Romney only managed a tiny 51.6% victory... more »
Bosnian Pyramids
It is high time to start taking these structures in Bosnia seriously
whatever we may think of the interpretation. Importantly, it is claimed
that this is a working pyramid. That is very important.
Even better we have a high quality cement we want to replicate.
As I have been extensively posting, we are steadily unearthing and
recovering the shape of the Atlantean world from 3000 BC to 1159 BC and the
Bronze ingot currency that drove it. All the core Atlantean centers
mustered the man power able to build large pyramids. We are now finding
them.
I also see no Atlantean evidence t... more »
The Next Great Event in The Awakening!
*This is an interesting article. I've been long expecting something like
this to arrive, sort of a living version of what I experienced in my NDE. A
global change in human perspective... **-AK*
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http://quantumodyssey.squarespace.com/blog/2013/3/5/march-2013-the-next-great-event-in-the-awakening.html
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* *March 2013 The Next Great Event in The Awakening! *
Mindy Mitchell
Hello Everyone!
I conducted a research project using QHH to obtain more clarity for
humanity regarding The Shift and all it entails. My focus was what we would
be experiencing and how to prepare ourselve... more »
HOME AT LAST
- I got home about 9:30 pm last night worn to a frazzle. Had not slept
much in two nights largely due to fact that my hotel roommate during the
conference I was attending had late night parties in our room both nights.
I finally got them to leave but the roomie was in and out all night which
kept me awake. Thankfully my trip home was uneventful - just what was
needed after having had the experience I did trying to get to Wilkes-Barre
on Friday. That was the trip from hell - movies have been made about
journeys like that.
- To top the whole story off,... more »
Pike County Updates
We had a meeting at the Lotorto's again last night and here are some
upcoming events we're planning!
RALLY at the Tennessee Gas Pipeline office in Milford!
Saturday, March 16 at 10am
544 Rte 6 & 209, Milford PA (Parking available at Milford Township
Municipal Building)
Contact 570-269-9589 with questions
MEETING at Angels Backstreet Coffee,
Sunday March 17 at 5PM
611 Broad St. Milford PA (Located in back of the old 7th Street Coffee On
Broad)
For all interested in joining and planning our efforts. For questions,
contact 570-269-9589.
SAVE THE DATES:
Warm-Up for Fossil Fools Day - Su... more »
The legislature is presumed not to intend to abolish, limit, or otherwise interfere with the established common law or statutory rights, including property rights, in the absence of explicit statutory language that it intends to do so
Hamilton (City) v. The Equitable Trust Company, 2013 ONCA 143 holds:
[34] In addition to the foregoing considerations, it would be contrary to
another well-entrenched principle of statutory interpretation to give
effect to the City's submissions. The legislature is presumed not to intend
to abolish, limit, or otherwise interfere with the established common law
or statutory rights, including property rights, in the absence of explicit
statutory language that it intends to do so: see Parry Sound (District)
Social Services Administration Board v. Ontario Public Services Employees
Unio... more »
BBC News - Lancaster Islamic girls' school sex assault: Three arrested
'Three men arrested on suspicion of sexual assault and false imprisonment
at an Islamic girls' school have links with the school, police said.
Officers are investigating a single alleged incident last Tuesday involving
a small number of girls at Jamea Al Kauthar in Lancaster.'
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-21740704
Light vs Blight
Is it someone's idea of a joke to celebrate Sunshine Week at the same time
the geniuses in charge keep pretending that Daylight Saving Time magically
bestows an extra hour of wonderful sleep-deprived glare upon us?
This is the dreaded Monday to end all Mondays, when more heart attacks
happen, and traffic accidents skyrocket, and "cyberloafing" at work becomes
epidemic. So let us ponder, through our untimely snores and our bleary eyes
and our snickering cynicism, this blinding ephemera known as Open
Government. Some history:
Sunshine Week naturally got its start in Florida, the Suns... more »
In the Post, a pair of progressives discuss “reform!”
*MONDAY, MARCH 11, 2013*
*The powerful seem very potent:* Have the powerful never seemed so
powerless?
That’s what it said, one week ago, at the top of the Washington Post
Outlook section. (See THE DAILY HOWLER, 3/8/13.) Yesterday, we thought of
that rather ridiculous claim when we read an opinion piece in the *new*Sunday Washington Post.
The piece was written by Harry Holzer and Isabel Sawhill; they describe
themselves as progressives right in their piece. (Holzer is a Georgetown
professor. Sawhill is holed up at Brookings.)
We aren’t saying they *aren’t* progressives. We aren’t ... more »
Stephen Basset - The Exopolitical Revolution - The Truth Embargo 1947-
now, this guy's a VERY ENTERTAINING speaker for Exopolitics and the future
of Disclosure.
*Stephen Bassett, the founder of PRG and X-PPAC, presented "The
Exopolitical Revolution" at the 2nd Annual British Exopolitics Expo on
Sunday August 8th, 2010 at the Leeds Exopolitics Expo.* [source ANTHONY
BECKETT]
The sixth contention THE TRUTH EMBARGO 1947~ is the pivotal part of this
presentation/update, and even though it's over two hours long it's a very
concise ET-timeline overview.
As it's 2013, the obvious thing to shout is, *"Still waiting for that Two
Hour Disclosure Special!"*... more »
Plans vs. Talking Points
I think Glenn Kessler gets maybe two things right in his column this
morning about what constitutes a "plan" by a politician.
One is that there are times when a fact checker is better off just backing
off and explaining a story without needing to award "Pinocchios" or
whatever. The other is that there is, in fact, a difference between
partisan talking points and a real, operative, policy commitment. At issue
here is whether the White House has a "plan" to replace sequestration, and
Kessler is right that "[I]n Washington, there are real plans and faux
plans."
Alas, it all goes badly... more »
Mr Akio Matsumura
[Paraphrased]
Why does the US stand by quietly when Fukushima continues to pose
"unprecedented international security risks"?
Sabotage suspected at sinking RCMP headquarters in Iqaluit
Maybe, but remember there is a dispute over payment (see here) so I take
the allegation of sabotage with a grain of salt!
Story here
A real Northern mystery has settled on the RCMP’s new $18-million Iqaluit
headquarters, which is sinking into the permafrost for reasons that almost
no one wants to talk about.
More than two years have passed since part of the three-storey detachment
office began to crack and settle, yet only one person connected to the
project will offer a full explanation – and he says it’s sabotage.
Bill Watt of Arctic Foundations of Canada Inc. (AFC) said the pa... more »
S'no Goose
Last year around this time I went to Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area
in Pennsylvania, to see the snowgeese that usually stop there in early
spring on their northward migration (that post is here). I didn't realize
how lucky I was to see a flock numbering in the tens of thousands, until I
returned this year. Even though we waited until dusk, when they are
expected to return to spend the night safely floating on the water, only
these few were to be seen. The dark specks on the sky, and the light
specks settling in on the reservoir, is all that appeared. At the very end
of th... more »
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