Francis of Assisi Church, Empire Bridge (Photo credit: Herr P.)
English: Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Assisi (Photo credit: █ Slices of Light █▀ ▀ ▀)
Assisi 1995, Basilica di San Francesco (Photo credit: pizzodisevo, slowly i will recover)DCCC Wants You To Defeat Everyone Who Voted Against The Minimum Wage-- Except The 6 ConservaDems Who Crossed The Aisle Friday
The other day, we mentioned that every single Republican-- no exceptions--
voted against George Miller's modest proposal to gradually increase the
minimum wage to $10.10/hour. And almost every Democrat voted to increase
the minimum wage. Almost? Yes, 6 of the most conservative, anti-working
family Democrats-- each of whom votes far more frequently with the GOP than
with the Democrats-- crossed the aisle and voted with Bohener and Cantor
against working folks. It's not even a big deal about *which* Democrats did
this-- Barrow (Blue Dog/New Dem-GA), Matheson (Blue Dog-UT), McIntyre (... more »
Mining 8: Rio Tuba Mining in South Palawan
I am here in Puerto Princesa City, the provincial capital of Palawan
province. I joined a small group of people brought to Rio Tuba Nickel
Mining Corporation (RTNMC) by Jose Bayani "JB" Baylon last Friday. JB is a
friend and a classmate in one or two subjects in UP Diliman undergrad in
the 80s, He is now one of the VPs of Nickel Asia Corporation (NAC), a
Filipino-Japanese corporation based in Manila, that owns RTNMC and six
other nickel mining and processing firms in the country.
So last Friday whole day, we were in RTNMC, a big bararangay in the
southernmost Bataraza municipality, ... more »
St. Francis of Assisi: In His Own Words, by Larry Cunningham
Title: St. Francis of Assisi: In His Own Words, by Larry Cunningham.
YouTube Video Description - [Channel - ICLnotredame. Uploaded on November
10, 2011]:
Lawrence S. Cunningham, the O'Brien Chair of Theology Emeritus at the
University of Notre Dame, lectures on "St. Francis of Assisi: In His Own
Words" as part of the Saturdays with the Saints Lecture series at the
Institute for Church Life. With an introduction by John Cavadini, Ph.D.,
Director of the Institute for Church Life, recorded in the Andrews
Auditorium of Geddes Hall on October 29, 2011.
St. Francis of Assisi: In His ... more »
Stop Imperialism – Episode 61
Venezuela, Syria, Iran, Pakistan, Africa, and more.
IN TODAY’S EPISODE:*1. Venezuela
*[image: Venezuela]50 truths about Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution
Venezuelan economic and social performance under Hugo Chavez, in graphs
Venezuela after Chavez: Who’s who and who stands a chance in the 2013
presidential electionsSegment Start: 00 h 12 min 15 secSegment End: 00 h 45
min 26 sec*2. Syria
*[image: syria_80]US, UK, and France training Syrian rebels in Jordan
US and Europe in ‘major airlift of arms to Syrian rebels through Zagreb’
Damascus briefs UN on transfer of Libyan, Saud... more »
Creative Showcase Linky Party
Happy St. Patrick's Day! St. Patrick's Day is one of my favorite days of
the whole year. I always get a little crazy with the food. Rainbow cupcakes
and an all green dinner are on the menu this year. What fun things do you
do for the holiday?
Want to be featured on Creative Showcase? Link up your projects, reviews,
recipes and any other creative post in the linky below.Here are some of my
favorites from last week's linkup.
This Mint Shake from There's A Mouse in my Kitchen. We are mint lover's
in this house to the point where we fight over the Mint Oreos. This looks
divine!
Gre... more »
"The Astonishing Beauty of Things"
The Purse Seine
~ Robinson Jeffers
Our sardine fishermen work at night in the dark of the moon;
daylight or moonlight
They could not tell where to spread the net, unable to see the
phosphorescence of the shoals of fish.
They work northward from Monterey, coasting Santa Cruz; off
New Year's Point or off Pigeon Point
The look-out man will see some lakes of milk-color light on the
sea's night-purple; he points and the helmsman
Turns the dark prow, the motorboat circles the gleaming shoal
and drifts out her seine-net. They close the circle
And purse the bottom... more »
Businesses and Public begin withdrawing their funds from Cyprus Banks to send abroad
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http://www.cyprusexpat.co.uk/blog/read/id:3126/businesses-and-public-begin-withdrawing-their-funds-from-cyprus-banks-to-send-abroad
*Businesses
and Public begin withdrawing their funds from Cyprus Banks to
send abroad*
The lines are getting longer to withdraw money from Cyprus banks.
Depositors in Cyprus banks are threatening to withdraw their savings and
other types of deposits from the island after the Eurogroup and
government
imposed a one-off bank tax of 9.9 percent on deposits over 100,000 euros
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and 6.75 percent on deposits under 100,000 euros.
"From Tuesday I wil... more »
TV Watch: I keep hoping I'll figure out what I should say about "Blue Bloods"
*It's the crime-fighting Reagans of Blue Bloods: Jamie (Will Estes), Henry
(Len Cariou), Frank (Tom Selleck), Erin (Bridget Moynihan), and Danny
(Donnie Wahlberg).*
*by Ken*
It doesn't often work out this way, but my favorite way to make the
acquaintance of a TV series is, shall we say, "unmediated" -- to happen
upon the thing with not much more to go on than whatever relationship I may
have with important participants (producers, writers, actors, directors),
and then let it make its case itself. I've found, as I've said here before,
that I'm usually not great at sizing a show up ... more »
Remembering Rachel Corrie: Murdered By The Criminal Jewish IDF 10 Years Ago Today!
Today marks a very solemn anniversary... It is exactly 10 years ago today
that a true hero of mankind, Rachel Corrie, was murdered by the criminal
Israeli Defense Forces in the occupied Gaza Strip. Rachel was with a
group of international observers and peace activists trying to stop the
criminal IDF from using an American built and US taxpayer paid for
Caterpillar armoured bulldozer to bulldoze the home of a Palestinian doctor
in Rafah. Rachel was wearing an orange vest and was easily seen by the
operator of the armoured bulldozer. She somehow fell in front of the
bulldozer and ... more »
ACTION: Bernie Sanders Petition for U 2 Sign
*PETITION AT BERNIE SANDERS WEBPAGE*
Send a Message to President Obama, Senate Majority Leader Reid and House
Speaker Boehner: No Budget Deal on Backs of the Elderly, the Children, the
Sick and the Poor.
At a time when the middle class is disappearing, poverty is increasing and
the gap between the rich and everyone else is growing wider, we demand that
the federal budget not be balanced on the backs of the most vulnerable
people in our country.
A federal budget that reduces the deficit by cutting cost-of-living
adjustments for Social Security and disabled veterans, raising the ... more »
Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food
The industrialization - and brutalization - of animals in America is a
relatively new, evitable, and local phenomenon: No other country raises and
slaughters its food animals quite as intently or as brutally as we do. No
other people in history has lived at quite so great a remove from animals
they eat. Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent,
literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill,
and eat animals they way we do. Tail docking and sow crates and beak
clipping would disappear overnight, and the days of slaughtering four
hundred hea... more »
Cold War: Old or New?
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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Agriculture and Husbandry: The Slow-Motion Singularity
I often listen to the radio when following laundry, and today was no
exception. Our local NPR affiliate was playing the TED Radio Hour. Remember
when TED was kind of neat and exciting… before it revealed itself for what
it is: a cliché-ridden academic variant of “business book summaries for
executives”? Anyway, the program featured Andrew McAfee‘s
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Benjamin J. Rhodes: another Jew at the pinnacle of world power
Is it a requirement to be a war-mongering Jew with ties to Israel to become
a high level public policy advisor in the White House and other agencies of
the federal government of the United States? It sure seems that way.
Richard Edmondson wrote a brilliant article exposing David S. Cohen a few
days ago, a Jewish lawyer working for Obama's Treasury Department as
Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, a man who is
responsible for many of the policies causing misery and suffering around
the world. Richard aptly titled his piece *A Jew at the Pinnacle of World
Power... more »
How to Stop Public Outrage Against Drone Attacks? Stop Reporting Them
U.S. Air Force stops reporting data on Afghan drone strikes March 10, 2013
Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/10/us-usa-afghanistan-drones-idUSBRE92903520130310[Excerpted]
(Reuters) - With debate intensifying in the United States over the use of
drone aircraft, the U.S. military said on Sunday that it had *removed data
about air strikes carried out by unmanned planes in Afghanistan from its
monthly air power summaries.*
U.S. Central Command, which oversees the Afghanistan war, said in a
statement the data had been removed because it was "disproportionately
focused" on ... more »
The Economist as Civil Libertarian
Tyler Cowen's new column in the *NY Times* reminds us that the worldview of
economists often extends beyond economic issues.
The footnote who would be king
Excerpts from *Gospel Truth: On the Trail of the Historical Jesus* by
Russell Shorto, an account of the finding of the scholars' conclave set up
to dispassionately examine the evidence for the historical Jesus, known as
the Jesus Seminar
As far as Funk [and many scholars at the Jesus Seminar] are concerned,
scholars have known the truth—that Jesus was nothing more than a man with a
vision—for decades; they have taught it to generations of priests and
ministers, who do not pass it along to their flocks because they fear a
backlash of anger...
According to E.P. Sanders [for example... more »
Andrew Hounshell Is Taking On Boehner's Toxic "Free" Trade Agenda
When I first talked to Andrew Hounshell, the Democrat running for Congress
in Ohio's 8th district, the seat currently occupied by John Boehner, I was
a little worried because all I knew about him is that he was a friend of
Obama's and that he's a steel worker and a vice president of his local
union, the International Association of Machinist and Aerospace Workers
(IAMAW). I soon realized that just because President Obama invited him to
introduce him at the big Cincinnati campaign rally last September that
didn't mean he would be parroting any of Obama's specific policies. In
fact,... more »
Good News - Dead Pigs in the River
One of Shanghai's main sources of drinking water, the Huang Pu river, has
had thousand of dead pigs removed from its waters. Recent reports put the
total at 8,300 and climbing.
Now it's being said that the dead pigs may actually be a good sign.
There's speculation that these are pigs that previously would have been
sold to slaughterhouses for processing into meat products. Now, thanks to
a police crackdown, the dead pigs are being tossed into the river.
*In May the police in Jiaxing, a pig-producing city, arrested four people
who had sold dead pigs to slaughterhouses. And, in De... more »
Federal court strikes down National Security Letters
Everyone is obsessed with the CPAC clown show on my intertoobz, so this
isn't making nearly as big a splash as it should be. Great news from a
federal district court:
Ultra-secret national security letters that come with a gag order on the
recipient are an unconstitutional impingement on free speech, a federal
judge in California ruled in a decision released Friday.
U.S. District Judge Susan Illston ordered the government to stop issuing
so-called NSLs across the board, in a stunning defeat for the Obama
administration’s surveillance practices. She also ordered the government to
... more »
It's Time that Canada Found a New/Old Economy
By the time you're in your 60s you've developed a sense of a certain
cadence to life, something like a master Circadien rhythm that regulates
life on our planet. Every now and then something happens and mankind
skips a quarter or half a beat. That's what happened in the Great
Depression and World War II. But before long we get back into the beat and
life goes on. We have families, we make plans, we look to the future
silently trusting in the metronome of life.
We don't do well when our civilizational beat becomes erratic,
unpredictable, unreliable and yet that's what seems t... more »
Watch Harodim (Full Length Movie)
Lazarus Fell, a former naval intelligence officer trained in black ops and
tasked with tracking down the most wanted Terrorist in the world, has gone
rogue, realizing his mission has been inexplicably compromised by his own
chain of command. As a result, Lazarus has faked his own death, forsaken
his life, his family and all that matters to him in the world, to continue
his solitary pursuit. But he has personal motivations as well, believing
his father, Solomon Fell, Chief of Operations for the Office of Naval
Intelligence, was killed in the attacks of 9/11 the event masterminded by ... more »
Mircea Eliade On The Fury of The Berserkers
*Wikipedia:*
Berserkers (or berserks) were Norse warriors who are reported in the Old
Norse literature to have fought in a nearly uncontrollable, trance-like
fury, a characteristic which later gave rise to the English word berserk.
Berserkers are attested to in numerous Old Norse sources. Most historians
believe that berserkers worked themselves into a rage before battle, but
some think that they might have consumed drugged foods.
Below is an excerpt from Mircea Eliade's 1958 book, *"Rites And Symbols of
Initiation: The Mysteries of Birth and Rebirth."* Harper & Row, Publishers: ... more »
Terminator Prescience in Cyberwar's "Anticipatory Self-Defense'
In the Terminator film series, Skynet autonomously precipitated World War
III.
I follow the news closely and I see the very real possibility that World
War III could be accidentally precipitated in the context of global
tensions in the Middle East and Asia.
Today, war can be fought by simply knocking out your enemies' power grids.
Imagine it. Every single nuclear plant in the affected area would begin
nuclear meltdowns within a week given the very short duration of operations
for backup generators. Chaos would reign and then people would panic
utterly.
This article from *The Wash... more »
Film on the Toxic Legacy of Nuclear Power
HOT WATER: ‘Erin Brockovich of Uranium’ Exposes the Toxic Legacy of Nuclear
Power http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/03/11-0[excerpted] Hot Water,
a new documentary exposing the long-term devastation wrought by uranium
mining and the nuclear industry, will launch the 21st annual Environmental
Film Festival in Washington D.C. on March 12, 2013.
The film follows the investigative journey of Liz Rogers, the “Erin
Brockovich of Uranium,” as she travels around the nation examining the
legacy of uranium mining, atomic testing and the creeping danger of
contaminated waste in the dr... more »
John David Ebert On The Walking Dead
*The Walking Dead *
*Reviewed by John David Ebert*
*Cinema Discourse *
*December 5, 2012*
As I have pointed out elsewhere, television is now the great new medium
that is taking over the role once occupied by cinema, especially the role
of miniaturizing ancient and long forgotten cosmologies. And so, from now
on, I will be including reviews of television shows on this site, along
with contemporary films. Frank Darabont’s television show, *The Walking Dead
*, based on a series of graphic novels, is one of the best of these new
shows and I want to say a few words about it here.
*The ... more »
Record cesium level detected in fish caught near Fukushima nuclear plant
[image: A highly radioactive greenling fish caught near the Fukushima
nuclear plant, 20 December 2012 Photo: Tokyo Electric Power Company]
(Kyodo) – Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Friday it detected a record 740,000
becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium in a fish caught in waters
near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, equivalent to
7,400 times the state-set limit deemed safe for human consumption.
The greenling measuring 38 cm in length and weighing 564 grams was caught
near a water intake of the four reactor units in the power station’s port
on Feb. 21 ... more »
Freedom of opinion and expression
Article 19 of the UN Declaration of Human Rights as agreed by Britain in
1948
*Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right
includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive
and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of
frontiers.*
U.N. bodies want to tackle drought to avert food crisis – ‘As opposed to other natural disasters it’s a slow creeping phenomenon’
[image: In southern Kenya, a woman uses a gourd to scoop water from a dry
riverbed. During droughts, many women walk hours to find water. Photo:
Laura Sheahen / Caritas]By Emma Farge; Editing by Alison Williams
15 March 2013
GENEVA (Reuters) – U.N. agencies want to strengthen national drought
policies after warnings that climate change would increase their frequency
and severity.
Droughts cause more deaths and displacement than floods or earthquakes,
making them the world's most destructive natural hazard, according to the
Food and Agriculture Organisation, one of the groups tak... more »
RIDING THE RAILS
- My sign today at the Lenten vigil at Bath Iron Works had a painting
(by an artist friend) of a public transit system with the words "Made in
Bath" underneath. Studies show that if they built rail systems at BIW
the number of jobs would nearly triple. A no brainer.
- I went to Portland yesterday morning for a meeting about putting a
public transit system between that city and Auburn. I've always been a
huge supporter of public transit since living in Germany as a kid and
seeing the value of it. Funny though that most of my life has been in
places tha... more »
What Mattered This Week?
Oh, I suppose I'll say that it mattered that Rob Portman flipped on
marriage. It's one of those where it sort of depends on what you mean by
"mattered" I suppose...but it certainly marks where we are in the process.
The budgets? They don't matter all that much.
That's what I have. What do you think mattered this week?
U.S. fish populations rebound since 1996 catch limits law
[image: Populations of U.S. fish stocks, 1981-2011, showing population
trends (5-year moving average) for all fish stocks subject to
post-Sustainable Fisheries Act rebuilding plans with sufficient information
to evaluate progress under the plans, and that are either rebuilt (and not
designated as approaching an overfished condition) or have recovered to at
least 50% of the rebuilding target and shown at least a 25% increase in
abundance since plan start (28 stocks). Graphic: NRDC]
6 March 2013 (NRDC) – The bounty of America's fisheries have fed a hungry
nation, built homes, seduce... more »
Perception is Everything
(By *American Zen*’s Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari.)
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
Let's get one thing straight: I never liked Bill Maher. The one time I
was on *Real Time*, Maher proved to be just a smarmy, arrogant cocksucker
who flaunted his substance abuse and sexual addiction issues for cheap
laughs. I dislike him twice as much after he'd come out a couple of Fridays
ago in favor of Rand Paul's ridiculous filibuster and Obama's drone
strikes, apparently uncomfortable with yet being quite comfortable with the
horrendous col... more »
Ban on neonicotinoid pesticides falters in European Commission, Beekeepers remain hopeful – ‘Today’s vote meant that the chemicals industry would have had to deliver a knockout blow, and they have not’
[image: Honey bee in flight. Photo: Odilon Dimier / Getty Images]
By Bernhard Warner
15 March 2013
(Businessweek) – Big Pharma on Friday won the first round of its fight to
defeat a European proposal to ban a trio of commonly used pesticides
suspected of killing honeybees. The closely watched measure, which calls
for a European Union-wide moratorium on three types of neonicotinoid
pesticides, failed to secure the needed votes from the 27 EU member states
today, a result cheered by the manufacturers of the chemicals.
Despite today’s inconclusive vote, the European Commission says... more »
A Pelosi Pity Party
Mitt
Romney was rightly castigated for his "binders full of women" remark
at the same town hall presidential debate in which the binding and
gaggingof two female Green Party candidates precluded any real
discussion of human
rights.
And now there's the trumped-up angst over Barack Obama keeping his own
female Democratic minority leader in such a bind. For it is now Nancy
Pelosi's onerous task to become loyal marionette to the martinet in the
Oval Office. She has accepted the challenge to lead the Party of FDR
over a
right-wing cliff.
Her current job description: getting her caucus t... more »
The International Studies Blogging Reception at ISA
We will be announcing the winners of the 2013 Outstanding Achievement in
International Studies (OAIS) Blogging Awards at the reception. Come one,
come all. If you are registered to attend ISA, that is.
Saturday Linkage
I am teh sick, so this will be short. Dan Trombly on the future of power in
world politics. Bhartendu Kumar Singh on Sino-Indian defense talks.
Somalia’s achievements and challenges. Robert Farley looks at the
future (or lack thereof) for aircraft carriers. Ned Lebow does Theory
Talks. Check out Ned’s mention of PTJ and Stefano Guzzini as
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JAY LOVESTONE, DEREK ROBINSON, THE CIA
*Jay Lovestone (Jacob Liebstein) 1897 - 1990*
Jay Lovestone was a trade union leader, a leader of the Communist Party of
the USA, and an asset of the CIA.
The Lovestone Empire is a term for the network run for the CIA by Jay
Lovestone... who worked with foreign unions...
*Trade Unionist Derek Robinson (centre)*
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*According to a BBC Radio 4 programme entitled 'Leyland Buses, Cuba and the
CIA', CIA agents reportedly sabotaged consignments of British Leyland buses
bound for Cuba in the 1960s.
In 1964 the CIA sunk a ship delivering buses
In the 1970's, the British secret service was... more »
It's A Chocola vs Rove Death Match In The Battle For What's Left Of The Republican Party
Everyone knows who Karl Rove is and that he's become a grifter living off
the commissions he collects from wealthy Republican donors. Last year he
spent untold millions of dollars trying to elect Mitt Romney and a
Republican Senate and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Claire McCaskill (D-MO),
Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND), Bill
Nelson (D-FL), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Joe Donnelly
(D-IN), John Tester (D-MT), and Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) all owe their
elections-- at least in part-- to the way he wasted massive Republican
resources in their ... more »
Offshored American manufacturing jobs are NOT being replaced by jobs requiring "imagination and innovation" as rationalized by the giant corporations who are increasing their profits by offshoring. Paul Craig Roberts has been saying this for a decade. Now a team of 20 MIT professors and their grad students concluded that “the loss of companies that can make things will end up in the loss of research that can invent them.” TOO LATE! Now millions more of Americans will be doomed to joblessness ...while our corporate-owned goverment is preparing to cut their safety net.
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*When Truth Is Suppressed Countries Die — Paul Craig Roberts*
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March 14, 2013 | Original Here
Over a decade during which the US economy was decimated by jobs offshoring,
economists and other PR shills for offshoring corporations said that the US
did not need the millions of lost manufacturing jobs and should be glad
that the “dirty fingernail” jobs were gone.
America, we were told, was moving upscale. Our new role in the world
economy was to innovate and develop the new products that the dirty
fingernail economies would p... more »
The women who allowed America to be attacked: OUTED
Special thanks to CRYPTOME
The two women below are directly responsible for allowing the 911 attack
and making you take your shoes off at the airport...and Kept Vital
informatiom from the FBI and LIED to the *911 Commission*
* *Woman # 1* Michael Ann Casey* of the Scull & Bones Casey Family not
picture of Ann is available yet....But now we know where she and her
husband live...see below.
Woman #2..... *Barabara Bodine* Read below
In 1997 Barbara Bodine interfered with an FBI investigation
That was hot on the trail of the would be 911 Highjackers.
She also stopped the lead inv... more »
Phil Space
The Sun is out over London right now. If the weather stays clement there
might be a chance to see Comet PANSTARRS this evening.
Stanton's Speech at World Taiwanese Congress, Complete
*Dusk over Taichung.*
The Taipei Times ran an article today on former AIT head William Stanton's
speech at the World Taiwanese Congress in Taipei: Taiwan increasingly
leaning towards China.
Taiwan is actually increasingly leaning toward China, he said, and the
“status quo,” as perceived by Taiwanese, was “problematic” and “an
illusion,” given that China is growing ever stronger and Taiwan is
increasingly dependent on China economically.
Taiwanese cannot unilaterally decide the development of cross-strait ties,
Stanton said at the annual meeting of the World Taiwanese Congress in
... more »
Richard Nixon, Traitor to the Republic?
It was 1968. Richard Nixon was squaring off against the Democrat chosen to
succeed Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey.
Johnson, meanwhile, had brought the leadership of South and North Vietnam
to the negotiating table for peace talks that seemed to promise hope for an
end to the Vietnam war.
Nixon knew that a peace accord would scuttle his chances of taking the
White House and he set about convincing Saigon and Hanoi to walk away from
the talks, ensuring the continuation of slaughter and suffering for many
more years.
Johnson knew what Nixon was up to. That much is clear from record... more »
Email revival? Add HTML-CSS to your correspondence
address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 12 hours ago
Dull plain-text emails are 'out', neat and attractive Html-emails are 'in'
these days. Complaints about their width falling outside feature phone
screen-sizes made me investigate what has changed and still is changing in
the email world. A surprise, then what appeared not possible a year ago
works quite well these days. Even on the very latest Microsoft systems that
aren't longer limited by the infamous IE 6-7-8-9 environments this might
work!
Can you use HTML emails with embedded Css in MyOpera Mail? Yes, you can!
They are received and displayed correctly and can be forwarded or us... more »
The Advocate's Dilemma
In today's FT John McDermott has lunch with Noam Chomsky. If you don't know
who Chomsky is McDermott explains:
Chomsky is arguably the world’s most prominent political activist. To his
opponents, he is a crank who sees evil as made in America. To his
supporters, he is a brave truth-teller and unrelenting humanist; a
latter-day Bertrand Russell. . . Some of Chomsky’s critics have accused him
of going easy on the faults of autocrats so long as they are enemies of the
US.
Chomsky pushes back on this characterization and in the process points to a
fundamental dilemma faced by the a... more »
Hey! You Guys! Stop That! Or . . .
Despite attempted blocking by misogynists from Iran, Syria, Russia, and the
Vatican Taliban, there has finally been an agreement at the UN's Commission
on the Status of Women meeting.
NGO ActionAid welcomed news that the CSW had managed to reach an agreement,
following the failure of members to do so last year. The commission took up
the topic of ending violence against women in 2003.
It should be shocking that ten bloody -- and I mean bloody -- years later
ending violence against women is a contentious issue.
But, sadly, it's not.
And I have some news for Vivian Thabet.
Vivian T... more »
David Icke - We think we are Humans.
*Thanks to Deva for pointing this video out... -AK*
That’s where the (Medicare) money goes!
*SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 2013*
*Do average folk need to feel pain:* As the cognoscenti know, one of the
nation’s top happy hours is conducted right inside Baltimore’s Penn Station!
You can drink margaritas for $1 while watching people run for the train.
And we do mean *run!*
Yesterday, we took some reading material along as we headed off to engage
in this local folk tradition. Specifically, we took the Business Day
section from the February 27 New York Times.
We wanted to read Eduardo Porter’s weekly Economic Scene column. On that
day, his column bore this hard-copy headline: “No Need... more »
PENTAGON'S DARK ARTS
The full length version of 15-month investigation by the Guardian and BBC
Arabic reveals how retired US colonel James Steele, a veteran of American
proxy wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua, played a key role in training and
overseeing US-funded special police commandos who ran a network of torture
centers in Iraq.
Channel Light from your Heart
http://kauilapele.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/george-kavasillas-the-21st-december-2012-deception-and-what-we-can-do-about-it-and-where-was-this-video-when-we-all-needed-it-and-i-say-yes-yes-yes-yes-yes-and-you-are-you/
*George
Kavasillas… “The 21st December 2012 Deception and What We Can Do
About It” (and, “Where was this Video when we all Needed It???”) (and, I
say, “Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes!!!”) (and, “YOU Are Your OWN Guru”)*
*Posted on 2013/03/15 by kauilapele*
First of all, this is the first thing I have ever posted from or about
George
Kavasillas (I believe). I was somehow led to... more »
HOLY PRIESTS OF GOD
Regis Tremblay writes:
Many priests, nuns, ministers, and Buddhist monks regularly travel to
Gangjeong Village on Jeju Island to protest the construction of the massive
naval base that is destroying the village, the pristine ecosystem, and
contributing to the military expansion of the United States, not to mention
raising the already high tensions of the region.
Among the most regular protestors are three Jesuits who have made direct
action their priestly ministry. All have been arrested and jailed for
obstructing construction of the base. I spent many hours each day chatting
wit... more »
LMAO - ALEC is Transparent???
LMAO this morning.
ROFLMAO - Really
ALEC is “transparent”
This entry is going to have a lot of redundancy - cause in this case -
redundancy is very important - cause I don't want anyone to miss the main
point.
This mornings Google search is inundated with articles about how ALEC
released their nasty legislation on their webpage – who cares!!!!
So what!!!
The Center for Media and Democracy - *ALEC Exposed* –* already had that
information* on their webpage for the public to review – because of a
whistleblower action - not because ALEC was being "transparent".
The American Legisla... more »
Aboriginal Anger
Stephen Harper must feel he has dodged a bullet. Theresa Spence has left
the island; and all appears calm along the banks of the Ottawa River. Now,
as he did with the premiers on healthcare, Harper is dictating terms to
Canada's First Nations. Michael Harris writes:
Senior Idle No More sources have told iPolitics that bands are in turmoil
over a debate about whether to sign this year’s contribution agreements
with the federal government. The issue is an appendix of conditions
attached to the documents.
The appendix allegedly requires the bands to support federal omnibus
legislat... more »
Untitled
*New Orleans St. Joseph’s Day and its Magic Beans ~Caroline Gerdes*
*Georges signs letter of intent to buy The Advocate*
*Graphic video captures brutal Marigny attack* *Old cars in Bayou St.
John complicate search for missing teacher's vehicle * *First Sterling
Farms grocery store set to open in Marrero*
*Louisiana Crawfish Part 2: From Civil Engineering to Crawfish Farming – A
Trusting Partnership Proves Good Business*
Budget Proposals-- A Choice Between Failed European Austerity Gimmicks Or Economic Growth
Thursday night we started talking about how, of all the budgets floating
around DC, the only really serious one is the Progressive Caucus budget,
AKA, the Back to Work Budget. Unlike Ryan's unserious fantasy, the
Progressive Budget actually makes a real effort to solve the country's
problems. Of course, Ryan and his conservative colleagues and the policies
and agenda they've pushed over the last decade are what *caused* the
economic mess to begin with, so why should anyone imagine he and they would
come up with a way out of it? I promised on Thursday that we'd take a look
at the a... more »
Fat-Free Econ 40: IMF Irrelevance
* This is my article today in interaksyon.com.
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In a forum last Wednesday at the Philippine Institute for Development
Studies (PIDS), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) director for Asia and
Pacific Department, Dr. Anoop Singh, revealed a little known shift in the
multilateral lender's "new" role.
According to him, their main concerns now are (a) the rising inequality in
the Philippines and other Asian economies that have been growing rather
fast recently, (b) unstable macroeconomic fundamentals that can restrict
potential growth, and (c) raising public finance to develop... more »
Election financing reform needed
We have finance rules and they have to be followed. That said, the rules as
they exist are far too limiting. I can easily imagine this situation
happening with a volunteer who was trying to act properly and made a
mistake. That doesn't excuse it but it does explain it.
We should allow donations of up to $6,000 from anyone - unions and
corporations included. We should have maximum campaign spending limits to a
reasonable figure - say no more than $150,000 for each federal riding
(maybe more for risings requiring a lot of travel). We don't want to get to
the American system but what ... more »
Continuing Official Catholic Confusion on the Morality of Child Molestation, Rape and Pedophilia
A new Pope has just been elected and immediately, one of the very cardinals
that took part in the election-process (the so-called Conclave) is on the
news making a massive fool of himself, as well as illustrating that the
complete confusion and ethical morass within the official Catholic
institutional establishment has not become any less than before. I have
from time to time commented just a little bit on the amazing stupidity and
deepest immorality of central official institutions and representatives of
the Catholic Church when it comes to its dealing with allegations of
systemat... more »
9/11, RT just won't let it die a death
9/11, RT just won't let it die a death - good for them:
*On this episode of Breaking the Set, Abby Martin speaks with independent
journalist, and co-host of Media Roots Radio, Robbie Martin, about the
recent revelations of former vice president Dick Cheney lying to the 9/11
commission, and what larger implications this could have. BTS wraps up the
show with a look at how executives at Academi, the military contractor
formally known as Blackwater (Xe), have been able to commit countless
crimes with utter impunity.* [source RT]
*click image to play video on RT*
Of course, it's not g... more »
CIA COUP IN CYPRUS?
*The British military in Cyprus. wax-tablets.blogspot.com. Currently, the
UK has military bases on Cyprus, at Akrotiri and Dhekelia.*
*
*Has the CIA just arranged a coup in Greek Cyprus?
Will Greek Cyprus now join NATO?
*
*
The newspaper *Scotland on Sunday* reported 16/9/ 2001 that Osama bin Laden
made his fortune in part by working with Jewish-Russian mafia operations in
Cyprus.
Cached
www.docstoc.com ...*MOSSAD AND MURDER IN CYPRUS*
"Large Russian communities are emerging in ... Cyprus where there are
Russian shops and services on offer."
In 2010, a court in Cyprus granted b... more »
Enbridge Pipeline Unraveled
There was a 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck offshore near Haida Gwaii on
October 27th/2012..5 months ago, the big crackerjack earthquake was
followed by many aftershock quakes, ranging from 4.8 to 5.8 in magnitude...
Earthquakes are measured with a device called the Richter scale, many
aren`t aware of how this scale works, a 4.0 quake is 10 times the severity
of a 3.0 quakes..An earthquake that measures 5.0 on the Richter scale has a
shaking amplitude 10 times larger than one that measures 4.0, and
corresponds to a 31.6 times larger release of energy..
Keeping that in mind 2 days... more »
IPS - Inter Press Service » IPS – Media Face a Palestinian Kick
'In an extraordinary move, a civilian has been sentenced to a year's
imprisonment for posting a picture on Facebook of Palestinian Authority
President Mahmoud Abbas dressed in a Real Madrid soccer outfit and kicking
a ball. The sentencing is among several instances of a targeting of media
in Palestinian areas.'
http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/03/media-face-a-palestinian-kick/
Any civil rights protesters going to get outraged by this? Will the
National Union of Journalists be complaining about freedom of expression?
Or will you wait for Israel to imprison a terrorist?
Whole Foods announces Mandatory GMO Labeling
This will cause agribusiness to take serious notice. There are serious
issues been touted out there and people are responding to those issues. The
first step is disclosure so we can begin to separate the data. It is
outrageous for the industry to introduce a shift of this magnitude and then
outright hide the data from been collected inside the good data.
No one wants to believe there is a problem, but you certainly do not make
it easier when you make it impossible to catch a problem. We do not allow
this to happen with meat, so why anything else when it comes to food.
... more »
Egypt Opposes Women's Rights
It appears that the Muslim Brotherhood still has not figured out how this
new fangled democracy works. They have just handed the opposition a stick
to coalesce around and ensure half the electorate will now abandon the
brotherhood.
Not only are they utterly ignoring the opinions of their own women, they
are acting as if they are blind, dumb and stupid. The universal experience
of women in Egypt is highly unsatisfactory. This is rubbing their noses in
it. Expect push back.
Morsi himself seems to be holding his own. His association with the
brotherhood smacks way ... more »
'Gigantic Jet' Lightning Spotted Over China
These were not believed until we spotted them from space. They are also
obviously rare but
certainly dramatic. The electrical life of our planet is barely mapped or
understood moistly because we do not think about it and have no serious
illusions in terms of tapping it. The potential though is clearly huge and
well worth more thought.
A vertical laser beam with the right frequency could plausibly generate a
channel that then taps the actual potential difference. Our problem is to
have such a device that is large enough to work.
All good fun.
*'Gigantic Jet' Light... more »
Bakken 201 with Brian Hicks
This is a story worth telling. It also reminds us that every advance made
by humanity needs a champion no matter how small. You can also be sure that
Findley's expectations on the first test wells were quite circumspect.
It turns out that the early flush production is huge and over pressure of
the rocks is very encouraging. It suggests that merely stepping sideways a
modest distance will see any well replicated. I do not know how modest is
modest yet. If we could step sideways a couple hundred meters and drill a
parallel well which is something not easily allowed by regulation.
... more »
Georg Ohm: birthday
Albert Einstein (born in Ulm on March 14th, 1879) is such a formidable
personality that I gave up the idea to write a biography. The problem is
that I know too many things about him and other people know even more
things about Einstein etc. Ohm is an easier task.
George Simon Ohm was born in Erlangen, Holy Roman Empire (100 km from the
Czech border) on March 16th, 1789. He died in Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria
(200 km from the Czech border) at the age of 65. When he was just four
months old, he could have stormed the Bastille but he decided not to.
His father was officially uneducated ... more »
Zapatistas Marcos 'Loro E Noi VII Le/i piu piccol@y.-La Resistenza
Inicio / Comunicado traduccion
mar10 2013.
LORO E NOI VII. – Le/i più piccol@ 6.- La Resistenza.
LORO E NOI
VII. – Le/i più piccol@ 6.
6.- La Resistenza.
Marzo 2013
NOTA: I frammenti che seguono parlano della resistenza zap… un
momento!… esiste una Forza Aera Zapatista?! Il sistema di salute
zapatista è migliore di quello del malgoverno?! Durante questi
March 15, 1973
Haldeman's Diary:
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The P had his press conference this morning, and over half of it was
devoted to Watergate questions. He got into quite a discussion with me this
afternoon about that, and his concern, which he's expressed continually,
although tries to stay away from it with me, that we're in a bad position
on Watergate. He keeps working with Dean every day on trying to develop
ways of finding some statement that we can put out that shows that we're
not just covering it up.
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First question of the press conference:
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Q. Mr. President, do you plan to stick by your decision... more »
Once Upon a Time, Corporations Paid Taxes
Hell, they paid more in taxes just a decade ago (before US infrastructure
and education went off the cliff for good), but it seems like much longer a
time frame, doesn't it? Remember which President began that decade of tax
cuts after a stolen election? Imagine how amusing essays like the following
one are to those who wield power so effectively that they could have
radically changed our tax
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