10:48pm MDST
Your moment of Zen
Rhapsody in blue. Very rare blue poppies (Meconopsis 'Lingholm') at
Longwood Gardens.
The Realist Report with John Friend
On this edition of *The* *Realist Report*, we'll be joined by *Stew Webb*,
a federal whistleblower and political activist. Stew and I will be
discussing his background and past experiences, his views on the problems
facing our nation, governmental corruption and financial crimes, and
potential solutions to some of America's most pressing problems. Calls will
be taken through the conversation.
You can download the entire program *here*, or subscribe to Truth Militia
Radio via iTunes *here*. Thanks for listening everyone!
India, Pakistan, Mali, Maine... You Know... Everywhere
When I got to India the first time, having driven my VW van across Asia, I
was just getting out of my teens. I entered in the Punjab, drove to Delphi,
Bombay, Goa, through Kerala, took the ferry across to Ceylon for a few
months, then drove to Pondicherry, Madras, north through Andhra Pradessh
and Orissa (where Tom Wolf, probably the next governor of Pennsylvania was
serving in the Peace Corps at the time), on to Calcutta, Benares and up
into Nepal for a couple months, Oh, and what fun it was! I'll spare you the
unsavory details of what the Kabul Runs entails, but I can still reme... more »
Christy Clark, Bill Bennett, Sean Leslie, CKNW, Promoters of Fake Stories, A Straight Goods Raw Ex`pose
Time to put an end to the preposterous claims being made by Bill(slime for
hire)Bennett, it`s also time for BC Liberal sycophant Sean Leslie and the
enabling radio station CKNW to grow a pair of testicles and stop spinning,
stop promoting the insane ramblings of Bill Bennett as truth, or valid..
It is also time for Christy Clark`s ex-husband, the loud, limp and prolific
twitterer Mark Marissen to put up or shut up...
British Columbia, especially parts of the lower mainland, there are areas
of the GVRD where ethnic people far outnumber English speaking born and
raised Canadians..And... more »
Know Your Rights!
A National Lawyers Guild attorney prepared a Know Your Rights document for
us recently that is derived from experiences during more urban actions, but
includes material for us to learn well.
This document is primarily for Pennsylvania and may be referenced for
actions in New Jersey as well, although specific laws may be different.
Please consult an attorney if you have more specific questions. *We hope
that Kinder Morgan security and law enforcement officers viewing this blog
will become as familiar with our rights as we are.*
Click To View Printable Version
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**Know Your Rights FA... more »
An allergy to reading
Ten people contributed opinions on vocabulary development in Larry
Ferlazzo’s recent blog on “Many Ways To Help Students Develop Academic
Vocabulary” (Ed Week, March 17; http://tinyurl.com/ctesagq).
There is massive research from many different kinds of research showing
that reading is a powerful source of vocabulary knowledge, most likely the
most powerful source. Also a number writers in the professional literature
present evidence showing that direct instruction of vocabulary can have
only a limited effect.
Nevertheless, only one contributor to Ferlazzo’s blog mentioned reading... more »
Death to those who say ‘death to patent trolls’
David Farrar says “Death to Patent trolls.” David Farrar is an idiot.
Thomas Edison was a “patent troll.”
So was Nikola Tesla.
So was almost every great inventor in the last 200 years*.
So is any inventor who licenses their invention rather than produce it
themselves. Unlike the ignoramuses who attack them, these people aren’t
trolls. They’re benefactors:
Adam Smith wrote that the division of labour is a critical way of
increasing a nation’s wealth. Only if inventors can be paid for inventing,
can they specialize in their profession. The only way inventors can be
paid just fo... more »
Concerned Residents Win Concession For Free Speech in Protest Injunction
MILFORD, Pa. - Pike County President Judge Joseph Kameen granted a special
injunction Monday requested by Tennessee Pipeline Co. against civil
disobedience while including special protections for concerned residents'
free speech.
Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co., a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan, sought relief
against residents' attempts to speak in favor of and enact civil
disobedience blocking controversial pipeline construction.
Judge Kameen's special injunction raises the consequence of defendants'
trespassing on the pipeline right of way and blocking access roads in Pike
County to incl... more »
Musical Interlude: 2002, “River of Stars”
2002, “River of Stars”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg9Wl4b3gOo
If Senator Rob will do just one more thing, I'll be happy to upgrade him from a "no-guts" t ao "low-guts" nonentity
* Looking at this picture, can you tell which of these guys is gay and
which is straight? Me either. But I bet you can tell that they look like
a
pair of yutzes. (Don't you have to credit Senator Rob with guts in
allowing
his office to circulate this photo?)*
*by Ken*
For once Jay Leno, who does politics worse than just about anything,
seems
to have gotten it right, quipping Friday that Ohio Sen. Rob
Portman"doesn't care who his son marries -- as long as it's not a
Democrat."
If everyone promises not to tell the senator, I will admit that my
opinion
of him has already been upgraded... more »
"A Look to the Heavens"
"What caused this outburst of V838 Mon? For reasons unknown, star V838
Mon's outer surface suddenly greatly expanded with the result that it
became the brightest star in the entire Milky Way Galaxy in January 2002.
Then, just as suddenly, it faded. A stellar flash like this had never been
seen before- supernovas and novas expel matter out into space.
Click image for larger size.
Although the V838 Mon flash appears to expel material into space, what is
seen in the above image from the Hubble Space Telescope is actually an
outwardly moving light echo of the bright flash. In a light... more »
Paulo Coelho, “The Stone”
*“The Stone”*
by Paulo Coelho
"A wise woman who was traveling in the mountains found a precious stone in
a stream. The next day she met another traveler who was hungry, and the
wise woman opened her bag to share her food. The hungry traveler saw the
precious stone and asked the woman to give it to him. She did so without
hesitation.
The traveler left, rejoicing in his good fortune. He knew the stone was
worth enough to give him security for a lifetime. But, a few days later, he
came back to return the stone to the wise woman. “I’ve been thinking,” he
said. “I know how valua... more »
The Poet: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., "The Last Rites of the Bokononist Faith"
*"The Last Rites of the Bokononist Faith"*
by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
"God made mud.
God got lonesome.
So God said to some of the mud, "Sit up!"
"See all I've made," said God, "the hills, the sea, the sky, the stars."
And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around.
Lucky me, lucky mud.
I, mud, sat up and saw what a nice job God had done.
Nice going, God.
Nobody but you could have done it, God! I certainly couldn't have.
I feel very unimportant compared to You.
The only way I can feel the least bit important is to think of all the mud
that didn't even g... more »
Kate Braun : Vernal Equinox Combines Customs from Many Cultures
"Eoster"
was an Anglo-Saxon maiden goddess of the dawn. Image from Vita Marie
Lovett.
Vernal Equinox:
A renewal of the land's fertility
By Kate Braun / The Rag Blog / March 18, 2013
“Green, green, it’s green they say, on the far side of the hill...”
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 is the Vernal or Spring Equinox, which may
also be called Ostara or Lady Day. Lady Moon is in her 2nd quarter in
14 Imágenes bonitas de casas grandes
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"Answering the Call: Taking Responsibility for Your Destiny"
*"Answering the Call:*
*Taking Responsibility for Your Destiny"*
by Madisyn Taylor, The DailyOM
"Each and every day you have the opportunity to answer your own call and
take action toward creating the life you want. There are those of us who
believe that our lives are predestined and that we should resign ourselves
to our lots in life. Yet the truth is that it is up to each one of us to
decide what that destiny will be. While each of us is born with a life
purpose, it is up to us whether or not we will say yes to fulfilling it.
And just like when we choose what to eat, who to ... more »
"Our Destiny..."
"Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified
or totally explained. We are simply here."
- Iris Murdoch
EFN Asia 16: Participation in Jeju Forum for Peace 2013
The Economic Freedom Network (EFN) Asia will be participating in the Jeju
Forum for Peace and Prosperity 2013 Conference this coming May 29-31, 2013,
to be held at Haevichi Hotel and Resort Jeju, S. Korea. I think this will
be the first time that the network will join this big international
conference held yearly in the southern island of Jeju. The Friedrich
Naumann Foundation for Liberty (FNF) Korea Office is working with the EFN
Asia Secretariat in Bangkok in the network's participation.
This forum was invented in 2001 meant for a regional dialogue to promote
peace and prosperity... more »
“Marches of Folly: When Will We Ever Learn?”
*“Marches of Folly: When Will We Ever Learn?”*
by Paul Krugman
“Ten years ago, America invaded Iraq. Some voices warned that we were
making a terrible mistake, and those warnings were, of course, right. So
did our political elite and our news media learn from this experience? It
sure doesn’t look like it.
The really striking thing during the run-up to the war was the illusion of
consensus. To this day, pundits who got it wrong excuse themselves on the
grounds that “everyone” thought that there was a solid case for war. Of
course, they acknowledge, there were war opponents — ... more »
"None Dare Call It Theft"
*"None Dare Call It Theft"*
by Jeffrey Tucker
"The euro elites don’t call it theft or robbery or even a tax, much less
an outright default by the banks of Cyprus. They are calling it a
“stability levy,” a plan that could lead not to stability, but a
domino-style collapse of the banking system in Europe. True to the nature
of government propaganda, the Cypriot head of state, Nicos Anastasiades,
says this “stability levy” is necessary to forestall “a complete collapse
of the banking sector.” It’s the same kind of language we heard in the fall
of 2008 — an intimidation tactic use... more »
The Banksters have gone well and truly crazy
This bank bailout in Cypress is insane. You can get the wonky details here,
which include Russian mobsters, but the shorter is: The major bank in
Cypress is nationalized. The bank fucked up. They intend to bail out the
bank by taking between almost 7% to 10% of the depositor's money.
Unsurprisingly this has already led to a run on the ATM machines that ran
them dry. Suspect they haven't refilled them. Meanwhile, the bank holiday
that was supposed end tomorrow has been extended to Thursday to give the
Banksters time to legalize the thievery.
I'll be surprised if this doesn't backfi... more »
The GOP autopsy
That's not my term. It's what the media is calling the new 100 page report
delivered by the RNC that resulted from months of study on the causes of
their trouncing in 2012. I'm told this a good summary of the RNC's
post-mortem. Didn't read it myself. I'm not that interested in Republican
navel gazing.
Besides, I can tell the GOP what its problem is in a few sentences. They
can't win without the crackpot con base vote but they can't win by
supporting the crackpot agenda either. The wedge issues near and dear to
the activist base are now causing internal rifts within the party and ... more »
Your Money Isn't Safe Anymore
*[image: _Jeffrey Tucker]Guest post by Jeffrey Tucker *
The euro elites don't call it theft or robbery or even a tax, much less an
outright default by the banks of Cyprus. They are calling it a "stability
levy," a plan that could lead not to stability, but a domino-style collapse
of the banking system in Europe.
True to the nature of government propaganda, the Cypriot head of state,
Nicos Anastasiades, says this "stability levy" is necessary to forestall "a
complete collapse of the banking sector." It's the same kind of language we
heard in the fall of 2008 -- an intimidation tac... more »
Untitled
*Other People's Property: A Blighted New Orleans ~Geoff Gauchet*
Calling Out Brad Wall's Phony Contrived Outrage At Mulcair
*Pipelines have already carried share of hot air*By Bruce Johnstone - Regina
Leader-Post *Aside from oil and gas, pipelines seem to be useful conduits
for transporting another commodity we seem to have a surplus of - hot air.**No
sooner had Premier Brad Wall returned from his trip to Washington, D.C.,
last week, where he spoke to politicians and business leaders about the
importance of approving the Keystone XL pipeline, he was blasting federal
NDP leader Tom Mulcair for failing to defend Canada's interests in the
U.S., namely promoting the Keystone XL pipeline.*
*Wall accused Mulc... more »
The Economy: "A Crisis They Can’t Avoid"
*"A Crisis They Can’t Avoid"*
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com
"Former Assistant Treasury Secretary Dr. Paul Craig Roberts says there is
another financial calamity coming to the U.S. Dr. Roberts says, “It is a
crisis they can’t avoid. One way or another it’s going to bite very hard,
whether it comes through the dollar or the bonds.” Dr. Roberts says all the
ongoing financial problems we face today are a result of little or no
regulation. Dr. Roberts makes his case in a book titled “The Failure of
Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West.” Dr. Roberts
conten... more »
Ohio Republican Steve LaTourette Admits The GOP Is Losing The War Against Women
*Fox News Sunday* hosted former Republican Congressman Steve LaTourette
yesterday. He's a mainstream conservative who never appreciated the
extremism of the Tea Party or the Southern racists who have managed to take
over the GOP in recent decades. He warned his brethren, many of whom had
just seen Republicans arguing at CPAC whether or not slavery had been a
good thing (for the slaves) that "If we ever want to be a national party,
then we have to look like America. Today we look like a bunch of white guys
below the Mason-Dixon line." The Republican he singled out for infamy,
thoug... more »
Game Night and Shopping and Movies, Oh My!
After a morning of - OK, basically nothing - out at The Land Southern Man
headed to the Ancestral Manor to pick up Teen Daughter The Younger for an
evening of fun and games.
Southern Mother working puzzles in the Library.
Another library shot with TDY.
Southern Father hard at work. That's the pecan orchard in the background.
The kickoff event was Vintage Game Night at the church.
The Game Of Life
TDY makes her move.
Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots!
Battleship Couples Therapy.
Then Southern Man and TDY headed to the mall to shop...
TDY cashed in on three months back allowance and spen... more »
100 years of coming and going
Manhattan’s Grand Central Station, a classic of architecture, transport
engineering and cinema—and the busiest train station in the States—is 100
years old.
Over the years, the terminal has appeared in many books and a host of
movies:
It might look like the Paris Opera House from outside, but the inside was
said to be the model for the Taggart Terminal in Ayn Rand’s *Atlas Shrugged*
*. *
Every day more than 750,000 people come through its doors, where its main
hall provides the perfect model of spontaneous order: no cops, no ropes,
no centralized direction, just order through in... more »
The Not-So-Imminent Iranian Nuke: A Year Away for a Decade
According
to official estimates, the Islamic Republic of Iran is now roughly a
year away from acquiring a nuclear bomb. Well, that is, if it were
actually building a nuclear bomb. Which it's not.
"Right
now, we think it would take over a year or so for Iran to actually
develop a nuclear weapon, but obviously we don’t want to cut it too
close," President Barack Obama told an Israeli
Everything changes for same sex marriage
Everything changes. Always. In the case of equal marriage rights for same
gender couples, support for gay marriage has grown almost miraculously
quickly.
Support for gay marriage reached a new high in the latest ABC
News/Washington Post poll, marking a dramatic change in public attitudes on
the subject across the past decade. Fifty-eight percent of Americans now
say it should be legal for gay and lesbian couples to wed.
That number has grown sharply in ABC News/Washington Post polls, from a low
of 32 percent in a 2004 survey of registered voters, advancing to a narrow
majority fo... more »
RAG RADIO / Thorne Dreyer : An Interview with Novelist and Immigrant Rights Activist David McCabe
Novelist
and immigrant rights activist David McCabe at the studios of KOOP-FM in
Austin, Texas, March 8, 2013. Photo by Thorne Dreyer / The Rag Blog.
Rag Radio Podcast:
Novelist and immigrant rights activist
David McCabe, author of 'Without Sin'
"When love for family is stronger than fear /
when the desperation sets in /
A man will cross any line that is drawn, /
and who's to say it's a sin
Strikes near Lebanon border: Syria? Israel? The US?
*You decide:*
*Syria? *
*Syrian jets bomb Lebanon border area*
Warplanes from Syria are reported to have bombed targets *on the border it*shares with Lebanon
There were no immediate reports of casualties from the air strikes, which
reportedly targeted Syrian rebel positions in eastern Lebanon, specifically
a remote area near the town of Arsal, according to security sources cited
by news agencies and Lebanon's state-run National News Agency.
"Syrian planes bombed the border between Lebanon and Syria but I cannot
yet say if they hit Lebanese territory or only Syrian territory," a ... more »
Bowling Night
It's that time of the month again!
The Girls
P Gives A Lesson
Clowning Around
Feasting On Mexican Food!
Honduras: 42 Mutilated Sheep in Comayagua
*Source: Vision OVNI
Photo Source: http://eng.laprensa.hn
Date: 03/15/2013*
*Honduras: 42 Mutilated Sheep found in Comayagua*
*“Chupacabras” blamed for 42 deaths; residents are astonished.*
Reports on dead animals showing incisions on their necks are emerging from
Comayagua in central Honduras. SENASA authorities look into animal killings
on a property belonging to congressman Valentin Suárez.
Rumors about the Chupacabras have gained strength as a result of the death
of a large number of sheep on a property belonging to a political
representative of that province. Yesterday, at 5:0... more »
Maarten Horst Interviews Brian Kelly & Deva Peters March 11, 2013 about the OPPT & First Contact
Brian Kelly & Deva Peters are interviewed on ET First Contact Radio by
Maarten Horst on March 11, 2013
Primary and Caucuses Shuffle
The other big procedural reform discussed in the RNC party assessment
document today is to shift the party convention back from August to July or
June, and compress the primaries and caucuses further to make that work. In
order to do that, they suggest that the party "should strongly consider a
regional primary system or some other form of a major reorganization."
We should divide this into two parts. The date of the convention is fully
within the control of the RNC, and if they want to move it, they can.
As Josh Putnam has been tweeting today, however, the dates of the primaries
an... more »
Treaty obligations bind the Crown as a whole, both Federal and Provincial; the respective Crown to deal with specific matters is determined by the Constitution Act, 1867
Keewatin v. Ontario (Natural Resources), 2013 ONCA 158 holds that Treaty
obligations bind the Crown as a whole, both Federal and Provincial, and
that the respective Crown to deal with specific matters is determined by
the Constitution Act, 1867 and the division of jurisdiction set out
therein:
[139] The promise made in the harvesting clause is that of the Crown, not
Canada. The two levels of government are "separately invested by the Crown
with its rights and responsibilities as treaty maker and as owner
respectively": Annuities Case, at p. 645. As Prime Minister Robert Borden
sta... more »
All in the family
The family business is a time honored tradition in the United States, but
when that business is politics, the grift is built in:
Thirty-two members of Congress dispensed more than $2 million in campaign
funds to pay relatives' salaries during the 2012 election cycle, a USA
TODAY analysis of the most recent campaign records shows.
Lawmakers have hired their children, spouses, aunts, parents and in-laws as
consultants, accountants and record keepers, the examination shows. In some
cases, multiple members of the family joined the payroll.
It's entirely possible that some of these fam... more »
Mircea Eliade On The Eleusinian Mysteries
Below is an excerpt from Mircea Eliade's 1958 book, *"Rites And Symbols of
Initiation: The Mysteries of Birth and Rebirth."* Harper & Row, Publishers:
New York. Pg. 112-15.
For the purpose of our investigation, one thing is particularly of
interest---that these experiences are brought on by rites which, both in
the Greco-Oriental and the primitive worlds, are initiatory, that is,
pursue the novice's spiritual transmutation. At Eleusis, as in the
Orphic-Dionysiac ceremonies, as in the Greco-Oriental mysteries of the
Hellenistic period, the mystes submits himself to initiation in ... more »
US shells out big money for small pox vaccine? Bed bugs/small pox link.
*Can this all be a coincidence? Perhaps? Perhaps not?*
*Summary:*
-Bed bug populations have been on the rise all over North America.
Actually all over the World
-Also the latest incarnation of bed bugs happen to be resistant to
pesticides, making their population difficult to control.
-Even more curious is that no other insects have mutated to have this
resistance....isn’t that odd?
-Oh and last but not least bed bugs have historically been connected to the
spread of small pox.
-And the US is spending 200 dollars per dosage for small pox vaccinations
Bed Bug bites
Bed bugs infes... more »
Spent Fuel Pool Problems at Daiichi Responsible for Recent Emissions?
Maybe the spent fuel problem is responsible for the heavy emissions
visible
with the webcams:
Enenews reports from NHK: Another fuel pool loses cooling system at
Fukushima Daiichi — CBC: May take days to repair
http://enenews.com/nhk-another-fuel-pool-loses-cooling-system-at-fukushima-plant-cbc-solution-may-take-days/comment-page-1#comment-338269
*Links
provided by Enenews:*
Blackout halts cooling system at Fukushima plant NHK* *March 18 2013
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20130319_01.html
[Excerpted] TEPCO officials say a power blackout has suspended a cooling
system for use... more »
Wake up Call: Hatonn, Feb 18, 2013
*
**This was posted 30 days ago shortly after it was discovered the Akashic
records had been damaged by "controllers" of this planet, and the records
of Creation were brought down to restore them. They didn't know there were
back up copies that are untouchable. -AK*
*
* http://treeofthegoldenlight.com/email_ad_wuc02-18-13.htm
*Wake up Call: Hatonn, Feb 18, 2013*
Posted by Nancy Tate
I am here today to tell you all of something that is taking place in the
universe. I am Hatonn, and I greet you on the most momentous of days. It is
a matter of circumventing the universe and all of i... more »
Ever-Closing Windows and Biden Time on Iran at AIPAC
(Susan
Walsh/AP)
After a brief respite from incessant warmongering nonsense following the
reelection of Barack Obama in November 2012, it appears old rhetorical
devices have reemerged. With a vengeance.
Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu, addressing his minions at
AIPAC via video chat on March 4, spent a bunch of his time saying
supposedly scary things about "Iran's pursuit of nuclear
God Save Me From A Normal Life — Part Two
My father was born 100 years ago. One hundred years from now, the
seven-point-something billion people alive today will be gone. There will
be no cars, TVs, computers, phones, and so on. The vision of a
technological wonderland will be forgotten and extinct, replaced by many
new low-tech survival-oriented pursuits. If humans continue to exist, they
will not be very fond of our generation, and the messes we left for them.
Every civilization eventually exhausts essential resources and collapses. As
predictable as the sun, civilizations rise, peak, and then set. In the
wake of ... more »
Jonah Raskin : Lay Monk Tolbert McCarroll on the Pope, the Church, and the Crisis in Catholicism
Brother
Toby at Starcross Community.
Interview with Brother Toby:
Author, heretic, and spiritual
pilgrim at Starcross Community
“The Catholic Church today is an absolute monarchy and an absolute
patriarchy that puts you right back in the Medieval Ages.” -- Tolbert
McCarroll
By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / March 18, 2013
Tolbert McCarroll -- better known to friends and family members as
In Memoriam Francois Duprat - 26.10.41 to 18.3.78
Today marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of the murder of Francois Duprat.
Francois Duprat was a truth-seeker. He helped to uncover the great lies
pushed by the Cult of Holocaustrianity, and for this act of blasphemy
against the faith of the Establishment, he was murdered in a car bombing;
one which had all the hallmarks of a State operation. The bomb blast
crippled his wife, who only narrowly escaped with her life.
Responsibility for the terrorist murder of Francois Duprat was claimed by
a self-styled 'Jewish Remembrance Group', but was far from the work of
amateurs; it had to... more »
execution
The execution of Ruth Snyder
Tom Howard - January 12, 1928
EPA Accused of Violating Clean Water Act in BP Gulf Oil Cleanup
EPA
Accused of Violating Clean Water Act in BP Gulf Oil Cleanup By Farron
Cousins, DeSmogBlog 9 March 13
http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/312-16/16389-epa-accused-of-violating-clean-water-act-in-bp-gulf-oil-cleanup[excerpted]
*O*il Spill Eater International (OSEI), through the Gulf Oil Spill
Remediation Conference group, issued a press release this week saying
that
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) effectively blocked or
otherwise delayed scientific advancement in the cleanup of the 2010 Gulf
of
Mexico oil disaster by refusing to acknowledge the toxicity of t... more »
Repetition concerning those kids today!
*MONDAY, MARCH 18, 2013*
*Where does false belief come from:* False belief tends to be rooted in
constant repetition.
We thought of that fact when we read this letter in Saturday’s Washington
Post:
LETTER TO THE WASHINGTON POST (3/16/13): *The Common Core regimentation of
kindergarten can only sadden those of us who were fortunate enough to have
gone to school before World War II,* when kindergarten was devoted entirely
to socializing children. The only specific thing we ever learned was
nursery rhymes. We spent our time playing games or listening to our teacher
read to us. Now s... more »
Mohawk Nation News 'The Jesuits'
THE
JESUITS
Posted on March 18, 2013 by admin
Reply
MNN. Mar. 18, 2013. The Jesuits have always been the storm troopers of
the Catholic Church. They came to the Western Hemisphere to “spread the
lie of male hierarchy”. The real reason is to use bio-weapons and all
means of mass murder. The Western Hemisphere is to be the Zion of the
Apache receive support from Superior City Council opposing land exchange
Photo
courtesy Sandra Rambler
Superior City Council opposes HR 687, Southeastern Land Exchange Bill
By Sandra Rambler, San Carlos Apache
Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
Photo courtesy Sandra Rambler
SUPERIOR, Ariz. – During an emergency Special Council meeting on March
13, the Superior Council voted to oppose the proposed Arizona
Southeastern Land Exchange (HR 687)
A (very reluctant) case for Airport Security
For students of international affairs and security, especially from either
side of the Atlantic, its that time of year again when we congregate at
the ISA Conference to muse on the globalisation of everything in a
borderless world…after enduring an increasingly unpleasant border regime at
the Airport. I’m not sure about our readers, but the
Continue reading
Mohawk Nation News 'UN Serpents'
Posted
on March 16, 2013 by admin
MNN. MAR. 16, 2013. There once was an evil man whose head was full of
serpents like Medusa, called “Atotarho”. Each serpent wreaked havoc,
domination, disorder, control or death. To bring peace Dekanawida and
Ayonwatha combed out the serpents. As his roots were in Great Turtle
Island, he became clean-minded and was appointed the chairman of the
Five Nations
Which Way Will The GOP Turn-- And Who Decides? Rience Preibus' GOP Autopsy Report
Boehner bombed on ABC's *This Week* Sunday. First he admitted that the debt
crisis is *not* an immediate threat. Then he reiterated that we need to gut
the two most popular social safety programs in American history: Social
Security and Medicare:
We do not have an immediate debt crisis. But we all know that we have one
looming. And we have-- one looming-- because we have entitlement programs
that are not sustainable in their current form. They’re gonna go bankrupt.
Washington has responsibility-- to our seniors and our near seniors-- that
we firm up these programs so that they’re... more »
Could Postponing Debates Matter?
I'm going to look at the GOP presidential nomination process suggested
reforms out today, starting with the debates.
The RNC wants to chop in half the number of primary-season debates next
time around, starting later (not until September 2015) and ending earlier
("after the first several primaries").
It is worth noting this would mean that the first debate wouldn't be until
after the Ames Straw Poll...and whatever one thinks of Ames, it's now
become a regular pattern that one or more candidate is knocked out before
the suggested date of the first debate.
If Republicans really were ... more »
Open Thread: Irony Deficient edition
I'm preparing a massive post tomorrow about the tenth anniversary of
the invasion of Iraq for the one or two people who care what I write about,
anymore. If there's anything you want me to include, now's the time to ask
while I'm going on a .jpeg and news source safari.
1500 kilometres by foot through the arctic winter: the journey of the nishiyuu nears ottawa
On January 16, 2013, six young Cree men and an experienced guide left their
community on Hudson's Bay, in the far north, on foot. Their destination:
Parliament Hill, Ottawa. Along their route, other aboriginal youth joined
them, and together, now almost 200 strong, they are still walking.
This is the Journey of Nishiyuu, or, the Quest For Unity.
The walkers will reach Ottawa on March 25, having walked more than 1500
kilometres in sub-zero temperatures.
These impressive young people stand in solidarity with Idle No More, and
seek to protect their land and their heritage, and to bui... more »
High Tech Brain
This is all early days but we can all see where this is headed. We are
certainly mastering our brain in the process.
An interesting question. We think that we forget but do we? We certainly
set stuff aside and move on. Yet how well do we return to the knowledge
area? Are the channels open and reinforced during a revisit? We have
examples of long term photographic memory that gives us a very robust
picture instead.
Thus an unused pathway will open up to respond eventually to a freshly
asked question. So just how does our brain order its search? That is really
important.... more »
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*Why The Saints Need Better Offense ~ The Ad Infinitum Philosophy ~Saints
Tailgate*
Human Rights Treaties Are Like Virginity Pledges
In the category of “pop-culture-not-talked-about-by-normal-Ducks,” People
magazine’s cover story last week was on ABC’s The Bachelor, Sean Lowe, and
his pledge to remain a virgin re-virgin until his wedding night. As
someone who graduated high school in town of less than 1500 in Kansas, I
think this type of pledge is pretty typical: many teens
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Campaign to rename Earth to "Free Planet".
this is our chance to make a real difference to how we view ourselves, our
planet.
Campaign to rename Earth to Free Planet.
and it'll work in whatever language you wanna adopt for your chosen
Diversity.
As somebody replying to some thread on some forum* put it, "Why is a planet
that's 70% water called Earth?" and, no, I don't think we should rename it
to *something based on the Greek Gods like all the other Solar System
planets*.
In fact, we already know what it's not, a Free Planet. This is more than
abundantly evident from the continued slavery of *You The People* to the
work ... more »
Campus Crusade for Austerity
It's bad enough that college students are getting crushed with debt before
they even graduate to a lifetime of wage slavery. But now, insult is being
added to injury. On campuses throughout America, kids are getting inundated
by a flood of class war proselytizers. The missionaries, unfortunately, are
not the remnants of the Occupy movement or the labor movement. They're the
One Percent Meritocracy, spreading the addictive dogma of austerity to
their peers. The message: Wall Street is not robbing you blind. Grandma and
Grandpa are. Stop them, starve them now, before it's too late!
An... more »
Stiglitz on Singapore
Nobel laureate economist, Joe Stiglitz, has an op-ed piece in today's *New
York Times *in which he looks at how Singapore's efforts to redress
inequality has reaped huge benefits for the country.
*Democracy, we now recognize, involves more than periodic voting. Societies
with a high level of economic inequality inevitably wind up with a high
level of political inequality: the elites run the political system for
their own interests, pursuing what economists call rent-seeking behavior,
rather than the general public interest. The result is a most imperfect
democracy. The Nordic democr... more »
VFP TAKES OVER SOUTH BOSTON
Yesterday MB and I drove to Portland early in the morning and jumped on the
bus to Boston. We were going to join the Veterans for Peace (VFP)
alternative St. Patrick's day parade through the streets of South Boston.
The traditional parade (with its military, fire and police focus) has
refused for years to allow peace or gay rights groups to be in the event.
These organizations have taken the case to high courts and lost. Three
years ago VFP decided to just start a second parade that would follow in
the steps of the traditional one. Each year it has gotten bigger and
yesterday ... more »
Updated: OPPT: All is Eternal Essence, Debt Release
*Note: We are aware of the year typo in the PDF, that is corrected in
amendments... -AK*
12:40 PM PST - Further amendments.
UCC Eternal Essence Filing March 18, 2013
What Sideshow Steve Never Learned in Bible School
Harper, to the extent he thinks at all, thinks regular inspection of
bitumen supertankers and a bit more aerial surveillance should put coastal
British Columbians' concerns to rest.
Harper curiously doesn't know that the Hecate Strait is truly biblical.
The massive winds that tear at the place can actually part the waters,
exposing the seabed.
Here's one account from *The Golden Spruce*:
"*Under certain conditions, overfalls take the form of "blind rollers,"
which are large, nearly vertical waves that roll without breaking; not only
are these waves virtually silent but, under p... more »
Elsewhere: Boehner Rule, Next in Line
Two new columns out...
Today over at TAP I have one developing an idea that comes from Sarah
Binder: that the Speaker has replaced the Hastert Rule with a Boehner Rule
of "Make the Senate Go First." It's actually a two-track process. When the
party wants things to pass, they let the Senate negotiate out deals and
then allow them to pass in the House, even if it means support from only a
minority of Republicans. For everything else, however, the House is free to
accommodate the crazies, since anything initiated by the House is on the
"make a statement" track, not the track that yield... more »
How Will The Sadrists And Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq Do In The 2013 Provincial Elections? An Interview With Prof. Babak Rahimi
Babak Rahimi is a professor of communication, culture, and religions at the
University of California, San Diego. He has written extensively upon Shia
Islam, Iran, and Iraq. In April 2013, Iraq is due for the next round of
provincial elections. The country’s Shiite religious parties have had
contentions relations, coming together during some periods, only to turn on
each other at another. This year’s balloting will again test the ties that
bind and repel these lists. Below is an interview with Professor Rahimi
about the fortunes of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) and the ... more »
REUTERS VIDEO: Iraq Marks 25th Anniversary Of Halabja Attack
Iraq marks 25th anniversary of Halabja attack *by reuters*
FASTING CONTINUES TO HALT NAVY BASE
*Professor Yang Yoon-Mo hit 46th prison fast day as of March 18, 2013*
On March 15, the National Network of Korean Civil Society for Opposing to
the Naval Base dispatched some representing people to the Jeju Prison. They
are Fr. Mun Jeong-Hyeon, Fr. Mun Kyu-Hyun, mayor Kang Dong-Kyun, Mr. Kim
Duk-Jin (Secretary of the Catholic Human Rights Committee) and Jang Hana
(National Assembly Woman). The group urgently appealed Prof. Yang Yoon-Mo
to stop his fast, very concerning about his deteriorating health.
Prof. Yang has been fasting since the evening of Feb. 1 when he was
directly arr... more »
Data Sets with Year-to-Year Country Dyads
Andrew Gellman’s much discussed discussion of trading bias for
variance reminded me — however indirectly — of something I’ve been meaning
to blog about. We face a number of problems connected with quantitative
data in international-relations scholarship. Most of these boil down to
“the data for a lot of the things we want to study just
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Harper to Unveil West Coast Oil Spill Prevention Programme
The Harper government, or someone on its behalf, will show up in Vancouver
today to announce that Ottawa has heard our concerns and has prepared a "world
class" oil spill programme to mollify our concerns about a tanker disaster
on the west coast.
*Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver and Transport Minister Denis Lebel
will be in B.C. to provide details of a long-term funding commitment to the
National Aerial Surveillance Program, first established in 1991, as well as
new funding measures to “enhance” the program’s coverage, especially along
the northern B.C. coast.*
**
*The minis... more »
"Free speech, exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free."
Liberty's Human Rights Page contains the following
The right to freedom of expression and the right to protest are crucial in
a democracy – information and ideas help to inform political debate and are
essential to public accountability and transparency in Government.
Free speech, exercised both individually and through a free press, is a
necessity in any country where people are themselves free.
- Theodore Roosevelt, 1918
Freedom of speech and freedom to protest are closely linked – free speech
would mean nothing if there was no right to use public spaces to make your
views k... more »
Shock Doctrine (Higher Education Style) and How Deregulation Stole Your Life and Resurrected American Economic Insecurity
A good start on understanding why the right wing loves charter schools and
privatization of education is found at Lawyers, Guns and Money. Do yourself
a favor and read it all. Higher Education Shock Doctrine March 13, 2013 |
Erik Loomis The education capitalists have a great plan. We starve the
universities by reducing their state funding so much that students can’t
easily graduate in 4
DISGUISING REAL MOTIVES
The primary goal of the US plans to bolster missile defense in Alaska isn’t
about tackling a North Korean threat, but putting a claim on the natural
resources of the Arctic, former MI5 intelligence officer, Annie Machon,
explained in an interview RT.
Machon, believes that the North Korean threat is just as unrealistic for
the US as the one from Iran, with control over natural resources once again
being Washington’s true aim.
The horrible thing which happened to Krugman!
*MONDAY, MARCH 18, 2013*
*A way to peer into the past:* Today’s young children are pretty much
horrible journalists.
The adults of the last generation may have been even worse. Consider what
happened just one week ago when Paul Krugman took part in the roundtable
segment on ABC’s This Week.
Unfortunately, Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) was also present. Johnson,
a former polyester and plastics mogul, soon uttered familiar sounds:
JOHNSON (3/10/13): To say that the Republicans haven't done anything is
just false. The House has actually passed budgets—you know, with proposals
to... more »
The Strongarming of Kevin Page
In the thug gallery that passes for a federal government today this
shouldn't surprise anyone, least of all parliamentary budget officer, Kevin
Page.
On CTV's *Question Period*, Page revealed the price he had paid and the
intimidation he received from the Harper gang for outing them on the F-35
costs.
*Page revealed that he came very close to quitting after the Harper
government cut his budget by one-third and demanded that all of his
office’s work be kept confidential.*
*“It definitely was intimidation,” Page claimed.*
*His five-year tenure, which is about to come to a close,... more »
Putting a Clear Face on Austerity
The Cypriot people are discovering how austerity politics plays out these
days. Like the Irish people before them, and the American public before
that, they're being fleeced to bail out their crooked, money-laundering
banks.
The European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International
Monetary Fund have approved a Cypriot bank bailout that is essentially a
confiscatory raid on savings.
Cypriot bank depositors will see their balances lightened. Those with
holdings over 100,000 Euros will be "taxed" 10%. Ordinary Cypriots with
forfeit 6.7% of their bank balances.
... more »
ISRAEL'S BEST FRIEND
*'Crypto-Jew' John Kerry in Cairo to celebrate Israel's conquest of Egypt.*
John Kerry, America's secretary of state, was recently greeted in Egypt by
angry charges that he supports the Muslim Brotherhood.
*It’s hard being in charge*
The Muslim Brotherhood has long been a tool of MI6 and the CIA.
*'Crypto-Jew' Kerry is burnt in Cairo.*
Israel's new best friend is Egypt.
*"Israeli soldiers say that their co-ordination with their Egyptian
counterparts at the border is better than under Hosni Mubarak's old regime."
*
*The Gaza Strip: The Islamists are again on the defensive** *
*
*
... more »
That's One Way to See Rio de Janeiro
Kids, don't try this at home.
La Moskitia: The road less travelled for a reason
Part of the regular route to La Moskitia (Jody Paterson)
Tourists don’t much go to La Moskitia.
The vast rainforest in southern Honduras, bordered by the Caribbean and
Nicaragua, is an extraordinary natural wonder. It includes the Rio Platano
Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, jungles, lagoons and miles
of untouched beach. It’s home to Garifuna, Miskito and Pech communities,
with distinct cultures.
But all that empty space also makes it attractive to narcos shipping
cocaine from South America to U.S. markets. The risk of running into
narcotrafficantes is tiny, but it’s... more »
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Grant Hart, 52
Some good stuff:
1. Adam Serwer takes down Jennifer Rubin (and updates us on Justice
Department scandals and non-scandals).
2. Why Paul Ryan isn't courageous, by Ezra Klein.
3. DLC veteran Ed Kilgore assesses GOP reform.
4. Sarah Posner and Wil Gafney on the History Channel's "The Bible." As
usual when I link to a bloggingheads episode.
5. And Seth Masket on GOP reform. As I've said, my basic sense is that at
least for presidential elections, GOP extremism is probably a very minor
negative for them at most, but it is a big deal when it comes to gov... more »
KLEIN ON THE LAWN: Who is Ezra Klein!
*MONDAY, MARCH 18, 2013*
*Part 1—A familiar blizzard:* Senate Democrats released a budget resolution
last Wednesday. It was their first such presentation since 2009.
In response, Ezra Klein produced a familiar yet peculiar blizzard at his
Washington Post web site.
This Wonkblog blizzard arrived in three parts. The chronology went like
this:
*Wednesday afternoon, 5:09 PM:* Just after 5 PM on Wednesday: Klein
produced a full-scale post which bore this peculiar headline: “The Senate
Democrats’ vague, conservative budget.”
Really? Had Senate Democrats really produced a *conservative*... more »
How to Make A Large Photo Collage
If there is one thing I love in this world, it is taking pictures of my
little girl. She has been photographed so many times in her four years that
my husband actually had to buy me a separate hard drive to store her
photos. Every time I switch out the pictures in our frames, I get a little
sad. I love the new photos, but I always miss having the older pictures
around, especially the fun candids.
To bring a lot of those older photos out of hiding, I wanted to make a
large photo collage of favorite pictures in the seven years that my husband
and I have been together. This coll... more »
Meet Andrew Hounshell-- The Democrat Running For The Ohio Seat Boehner Is Occupying
If you've been reading *DWT* with any regularity, you no doubt heard me
warning readers that lifelong Republican spoiled rich kid Patrick Murphy,
who ran against neo-fascist GOP war-criminal Allen West, would make a
horrible congressman. Murphy managed-- albeit barely-- to beat West. And he
has been a horrible congressman, immediately joining the New Dems, racking
up a voting record that has him siding with Boehner and Cantor on most
crucial roll calls and seducing a gaggle of naive freshmen Democrats to
join the GOP in it's efforts to cut benefits to seniors who rely on the
Socia... more »
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*Guest Column: LSU deserves accountability from its administration**~Since
settling with Dr. Ivor van Heerden for a near-half million dollars in his
wrongful dismissal suit, LSU’s line, straight from LSU Interim System
President and Chancellor William “Bill” Jenkins, is that further discussion
is “no longer relevant, warranted or appropriate.” Indeed? For an
institution of higher learning, should not truth matter? We require
accountability of students, staff and faculty, why not of upper
administration and our Board of Supervisors? Especially when these same
individuals have been in... more »
Windfarm Wankers
The source of wind-turbine illness has been tracked down. The source is
anti-wind farm campaigners who make people think those windmills are going
to make them sick. Let's call them "*windfarm wankers*."
It was obvious that there's nothing inherently sickening about wind farms
by the number of communities elsewhere, particularly in Europe, where local
populations live with them and report no problems.
Now an Australian study has linked windfarm illness to the presence, not of
windmills, but of the anti-wind power campaigners.
*Complaints of illness were far more prevalent in co... more »
ALEC Legislator - I Don't Know What I'm Introducing
I don’t know what is in the bill I am introducing.
I am only doing what ALEC told me to do at the last meeting.
I have no idea what the hell this legislation is all about.
The news story is a year old - but it probably happens every day.
American Legislative Exchange Council has a hand in S.C.politics
COLUMBIA — Sen. Mike Rose stood up on the Senate floor earlier this month
to clear confusion over a bill and asked for a delay so he could check with
the measure’s creator.
But the proposal’s author wasn’t a fellow lawmaker or anybody in South
Carolina.
“This is an American Legislat... more »
ALEC Intentionally Misleads US Again
As has been covered to excess - last Friday ALEC dropped SOME of their
legislation.
When researching last night, I opened up the HuffPo article on the drop and
- there it was!
American Legislative Exchange Council, misleading the general public, again.
When you buy a carpet sample - you do not get the whole carpet.
When you get an ice cream sample - it is not the size of an ice cream cone.
When you get a pharmaceutical sample - it is not enough to last you a month.
When you get a cosmetic sample - you get a teaspoon worth of the product -
not an ounce.
When you listen to a music samp... more »
Toxic Harper killing everything that is Canadian.
Possibly the only truly honest statement Harper has ever uttered was his
2006 threat to reconfigure Canada: “You won’t recognize Canada when I’m
through with it”.
More here. And here.
An article in the Winnipeg Free Press deconstructs the Harper government
communications strategy that stamps PMSHithead's brand on every media event.
Internal documents show the prime minister's department micro-managed a
media event staged by Parks Canada, trying to erase the venerable agency
from a public announcement while promoting the Harper government.
The incident is a case study in comm... more »
Inflammatory questions in cross examination
*Desharnais v. Parkhurst and Romanowski*, 2013 BCCA 113 deals with
inflammatory questions put during cross examination:
[79] The plaintiff relies on *R. v. Fanjoy*, 1985 CanLII 53 (SCC),
[1985] 2 S.C.R. 233, 21 D.L.R. (4th) 321 for the proposition that a trial
judge's failure to restrain abrasive or abusive cross-examination may be an
error in law. *Fanjoy* also stresses the discretionary nature of judicial
interference in cross-examination. Justice McIntyre stated, at 239:
... The discretion to intervene in a cross-examination must, of course, be
exercised judicially. It... more »
The Escalating War on Labour
We hear that Ontario's ongoing dispute with teachers is about extra
curricular activities and the deficit. It's about neither. Tom Walkom writes
in the *Toronto Star*:
At its heart, this fight is about work. It is about the implicit deal
struck between governments, employers and employees more than 50 years ago
to make the workplace a fairer place.
It is about the unravelling of that deal.
Fifty years ago, a carefully constructed set of rules applied to labour
negotiations:
Ontario’s law established criteria under which unions could organize a
workplace. Employers, in turn we... more »
Desecrating a Koran
Do you remember the anger and indeed hysteria when a non-Muslim defaces a
Koran? The Islamic organisations are up in arms (figuratively of course),
the liberal media are outraged, etc. How about when an Islamist hollows out
a Koran in order to plant a bomb in it? Not so much anger...
From Iraq.
It's almost as though the Islamist anger over Joran desecrations are just a
tool to intimidate the kufr.
You call that a blizzard?
Iqaluit was under a blizzard advisory last night. I expected to be trapped
forever in the Storehouse Bar (I suppose there are worse places to be
trapped). In fact there was a dusting of snow. Might be a major winter
storm for, say, Myrtle Beach... .
THE ULTIMATE IS HERE!!!
Hey all my lovely readers,
You may have wondered why I have not been updating the blog much recently,
the reason is quite simple. I have made a website :) Many people I have
spoken to don't see the big difference between a website and a blog, but
personally I think it differs to a large extent. It is much more organized,
and feels like a little home of my own instead of a blog lost in the big
wide world of blogs... If that makes any sense. So please, support me on my
journey and visit my website. There you will find improved versions of my
recipes, helpful information for those of y... more »
Meet & Greet Monday (#MtaGt)
Welcome to Meet & Greet Monday!
Banner by Art Ist
Grab our banner for your site:
Do you have an Eco-friendly blog? Do you occasionally write about the
environment or ways to live green? If you answered yes to any, you're
invited to link up. Here are the rules:
1. If you have a green-living blog or a blog where you sometimes write
about the environment, sustainability, etc., please use the "linky" below
to list your site.
2. If you only occasionally write about green living, please use tags such
as "green", "Eco", "Environment", etc. and then link to... more »
Tyson vs Greene: a lesson in demagogy
Someone sent me the following video. Indeed, it turned out to have a large
capacity to make me upset.
The exchange between Brian Greene and Neil deGrasse Tyson, a science
communicator from a planetarium, took place at the 2011 Isaac Asimov
Memorial Debate (107 minutes) two years ago. Members of the panel included
Katherine Freese, Jim Gates, Janna Levin, Marcello Gleiser, Brian Greene,
and of course the omnipresent pushy hippie crank called Lee Smolin.
In the 4-minute excerpt, Tyson prepares Brian for a purposefully blunt
question. At this moment, the eternally diplomatic Brian... more »
Cyprus Plays Hardball With Investors, Shocks Economic Markets
(UPDATED AT BOTTOM, March 18th, 10:44)
Be prepared for a sell-off today in all North American stock markets.
Europe is in dire straits as we all know, unemployment hovering at 30%,
Italy requiring bailouts, France has run deficits for decades, Portugal in
trouble, Greece in trouble, the UK in big financial stupor..
Yes indeed, and this is all old news, nothing to see here, move along, look
the other way, except...
Except something very different has developed this weekend, past bailouts
for European countries Greece, Portugal and others resulted in Governments
of those bailed ou... more »
Saudi Arabia Tears Down Column Marking Muslim Claim to Jerusalem
'Israel has respected Islamic sites more than Saudi Arabia, the custodians
of Mecca and Medina, have. But now the Saudis have destroyed the basis of
their colonialist fairy tale claim to Jerusalem.'
Front Page with some news about Saudi Arabia's destruction of Islamic
religious sites that the BBC will not bring you. Meanwhile Israel has ceded
control of its holiest site in Jerusalem to Islam.
ROBERT MUGABE OF THE CIA, AND MOSSAD
*Mugabe. www.rawstory.com*
*Zimbabwe's leader Robert Mugabe is almost certainly an asset of the CIA.*
*1.* On 5 October 2010 we learnt that the CIA tipped off Mugabe against
going to Ecuador
"Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe was tipped off against going to Ecuador by the
America Central Intelligence Agency, as they had information about an
impending political upheaval [aka their coup] in the volatile country,
Zimdaily has learnt.
"Despite posturing about anti-American sentiment, Zimdaily has it on good
authority that Mugabe abruptly cut short his trip and returned to Zimbabwe
after the C... more »
Monday Morning Linkage
Good mornin’ duck fans! Let’s start the week by revisiting last week’s
firestorm in … Afghanistan Hamid Karzai has become a bewildering enigma for
many Americans as he launched yet another verbal tirade against the US last
week. This time he recklessly accused the US of colluding with the
Taliban. The NY Times speculates that
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Sexism and Abuse of Power in the SWP
I met P some years ago when I was around the SWP. A couple of years older
then me, she came across as strong, confident, and earnest in the way most
of us were when we joined our first revolutionary organisation. I recall
her kicking my arse when, after a branch down the pub, I was dumb enough to
venture the idea that fascists should have the freedom to speak and to
organise too. P was a trusted and well-respected SWP activist who had a
militant but wise head on her shoulders. Thinking back there was no inkling
whatsoever the SWP had already put her through the wringer. When I fell ... more »
2012 Film Roundup, Part 1: The Oscars and the Year in Review
(Welcome
to the Annual Post-Oscar Film Roundup, a tradition that dates back to
the misty age of pre-blog times. (It was delayed more than I'd like.)
It's broken into four parts. To read it all, start here, scroll down,
and use the "Older Posts" link if necessary.)
2012 saw a number of strong films, from quieter and more intimate movies
to several very good summer blockbusters. I didn't
Ralph Ellis - King Jesus Trilogy - Jesus, King of Edessa
"Jesus, King of Edessa" is the fascinating new book in Ralph Ellis's "King
Jesus Trilogy". It talks of all the Bible Kings missing from the historical
register or conversely all the real Kings not mentioned in the Gospels;
like one or the other never existed.
"We're looking in the wrong era for 'Jesus' i.e. AD 30-33, christianity
came from the (Rome friendly) Church of Saul," asserts Ellis, citing a
historical character Josephus Flavius from the AD 60s as a likely culprit
for the origin of the christian story.
For I was blind, and now I see?
Ellis's re-assessment of 'recorded c... more »
2012 Film Roundup, Part 2: The Top Two
Lincoln:
Director Steven Spielberg, screenwriter Tony Kushner and actor Daniel
Day-Lewis head up an impressive team for this film on Abraham Lincoln
and the passage of the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery. At the
center onscreen is Day-Lewis, whose resemblance to Lincoln (with the
help of some makeup) becomes uncanny. It's one of his best
performances, and he captures the warmth,
2012 Film Roundup, Part 3: Noteworthy Films
Moonrise
Kingdom: Wes Anderson's latest film has his usual quirky characters
galore, but also a sweet side that helps ground it. It's a tale of
young romance in 1965, as misfit orphan and "Khaki Scout" Sam Shakusky
(Jared Gilman) decides to run away from camp on a New England island
with a girl who lives there, Suzy Bishop (Kara Hayward). They've been
secret pen pals since meeting a year
2012 Film Roundup, Part 4: The Rest (The Good, the Bad and the Godawful)
Prometheus:
Oh, the wasted potential. Two scientists discover possible evidence of
alien intervention early in humankind's history, and convince one of
Earth's richest men to fund a space expedition to a distant system in
search of humanity's possible creators, whom they dub "engineers."
Needless to say, they don't find quite what they expected. Ridley
Scott's latest film (and a welcome
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Daily Links, Monday, March 18, 2013
*A homemade cheese place on Dongshan Rd outside of Taichung. They sell
cheesecakes and chunks of homemade cheese for $3-4 a gram.*
Wow! Long time since I've had time to collect some links for the weekly
linkfest. Enjoy!
*SPECIAL*: At the China Policy Blog, Paul Katz shows what a complete
failure the Ma Administration is. Great work. Don't miss it.
*BLOGS*:
- Expert raises questions for Taiwan's submarine development program
- Taiwan's Quadrennial defense review
- Michael rides from Syuhai to Taidong
- Far Eastern Sweet Potato notices more young people out to protest. Th... more »
Samsung Galaxy S4 with eye-tracking facility
*Samsung has launched a smart phone which allows users to control its 5in
screen by only their eyes.* The Galaxy S4 follows on from last year's S3,
an invention that solds over 40 million units universal. Analysts generally
look upon Samsung to be the biggest challenger to Apple's dominance of
mobile products. Subsequent the launch, shares in Samsung fell 1.7% in
early trade in Seoul amid worries the market for phone upgrades was
flattening out.
In addition, the "Smart Scroll" software analyses the user's eyes and wrist
to scroll through emails and other content. Much was made o... more »
Obama Seeks Global Rules on Drones
This tells us that we already have an arms race on in these weapons. The
problem is that the quality of the craft is secondary to be software and
everyone can get that figured out.
It clearly allows you to fill the skies with cheap drones that can loiter
and select high quality targets. For the first time in history, command
and control is squarely on the front lines. That is how Al Qada has been
hugely suppressed.
What we have is still pretty basic. Hunter killer supersonic jets are
coming next. Worse, we are able to fill the skies. Technology will
maintain an ... more »
Pope Francis Confronts Poverty
The elevation of John Paul II was not understood at the time. That was
when the Catholic Church threw down the gauntlet to confront Communism. A
movement that was the bane of mankind ultimately disintegrated and blew
away. It all happened peacefully because the leaders understood that they
had lost the mandate to rule and had no more answers.
Now we have Pope Francis. The church is now going to confront human
poverty soul by soul. Think what this means. We today have the tools to
end poverty. Microfinance, fiat lending and community are all tools that
the Church ca... more »
Flu Breakthrough
This is really good news as it clearly applies across the threat spectrum
and prevents severity. It may not end the threat but it can ensure
survivability. A welcome weapon and badly needed as the present protocol is
a weak solution to the problem because of the time lag.
Let us hope it proves up and is available quickly. We will all feel a
little safer knowing something can effectively prevent death from the
disease.
After all that is essentially our strategy for diabetes for the past
decades.
*A mighty fighting flu breakthrough*
*
by Staff Writers*
*
Canberra, Aus... more »
LEADBEATER, WEDGWOOD, KRISHNAMURTI, MESSIAH, SEX
*Charles Leadbeater (right) (Krishnamurti as a young boy Meditation
Handbook Home)*
Charles Leadbeater liked boys.
James Wedgwood liked boys.
The two of them set up the Liberal Catholic Church.
Leadbeater and Wedgwood were also top people in the Theosophy Movement.
Leadbeater took a keen interest in the boy children of the Theosophists.
*Bishop James Wedgwood*
In 1922, Bishop James Wedgwood settled in Paris "abandoning his
ecclesiastical position temporarily to pursue a life of sexual excess."
In Gay Paris, Bishop Wedgwood "fell victim to cocaine addiction, also
supplying his b... more »
Lamar W. Hankins : CPR and End-of-Life Decisions
Art
from PBS NewsHour.
CPR and end-of-life decisions
Since the story of the 87-year old woman first appeared, more
information has come to light. She was aware of and had agreed to the
policy of the center where she lived -- that CPR would not be performed
in the event she collapsed.
By Lamar W. Hankins / The Rag Blog / March 17, 2013
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation -- CPR -- is as widely
Your moment of Zen
They might be giants. The Appennine Colossus, just north of Florence, Italy
[Recommend clicking to embiggen for full appreciation.]
NorthJersey.com: Trails Closed in Ringwood State Park
From www.northjersey.com:
Monday, March 11, 2013
BY HOLLY STEWART
Area hikers contemplating their next jaunt through the woods should be
aware that many of the trails in Ringwood State Park will remain closed at
least until mid-April due to construction work associated with the
Tennessee Gas Pipeline.
[image: Signs like this one seen just off Morris Road on Wednesday are
commonplace in Ringwood State Park during the construction of the Tennessee
Gas Pipeline Company’s Northeast Expansion project.Traffic on Morris Road
leading to Skylands Manor came to a standstill due to pipeline... more »
Death and the cartoonists -- philosophical musings and a real-life story courtesy of Bob Mankoff
*I'll explain what this David Sipress cartoon is in a moment. (For now
trust me that it's not an indictment of nurses in general.) Meanwhile, I
can use help. Can anyone tell me what this nurse, who's not seeing
patients, is doing?*
*"One of the functions of humor is to cope with stress and adversity. This
coping mechanism is put to the ultimate test when the stress is death
stress."*
-- New Yorker *cartoon editor Bob Mankoff, in his latest
e-newsletter/blogpost,* "To Be or Not to Be Funny"
*by Ken*
Bob has death on his mind this week. Death and cartooning, that is. Along
the way h... more »
22 Imágenes bonitas de carros antiguos
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Michael Tsarion - Psychic Vampirism
*Michael Tsarion - Psychic Vampirism *
Title: Michael Tsarion - Psychic Vampirism. YouTube Video Description -
[Channel: PrometheanReachXVI]:
http://www.PrometheanReach.com
"Alternative researcher Michael Tsarion's groundbreaking investigation into
the problem of evil continues with a penetrating and scholarly look at the
strange phenomenon of Psychic Vampirism. Michael's analysis of this deadly
syndrome digs deeper than any other work on the subject. Listen to his
complete magnum opus for free, and make a donation at unslaved.com
also visit us at http://www.psychicvampirism.co... more »
Satire: “Portman Inspires Other Republicans To Stop Speaking To Their Children”
*“Portman Inspires Other Republicans To *
*Stop Speaking To Their Children”*
by Andy Borowitz
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)— “The decision of Sen. Rob Portman
(R-Ohio) to support same-sex marriage after learning that his son was gay
has inspired hundreds of other Republican lawmakers to stop speaking to
their children immediately, G.O.P. leaders confirmed today. “I have
gathered my caucus and told them, if your kids are going to tell you
something that’s going to cost you the next election, it’s better to nip
that situation in the bud,” said House Speaker John Boehner (R-Oh... more »
Graham Hancock - The War on Consciousness BANNED TED TALK
You can't ban knowledge. Censorship = dead end.
Graham Hancock - The War on Consciousness BANNED TED TALK
Alan Waldman : Leonard Rossiter is Incandescent in Hilarious Britcom ‘Rising Damp’
Waldman's
film and TV
treasures you may have missed:
Strong cast and remarkable writing mark this outstanding 1974-1978
British TV comedy series.
By Alan Waldman / The Rag Blog / March 17, 2013
[In his weekly column, Alan Waldman reviews some of his favorite films
and TV series that readers may have missed, including TV dramas,
mysteries, and comedies from Canada, England, Ireland, and
Tom Terrific
Posting this because I read something yesterday that reminded how very much
I love Manfred the Wonder Dog.
Jennifer Carroll-- What A Mess... (And Not At Concrete Blonde)
In announcing the forthcoming release of new polling numbers from Florida,
PPP tweeted early Saturday morning that "Even after this week Jennifer
Carroll only has about 30% name recognition in Florida." And they weren't
talking about Top Chef Jennifer Carroll. Until this week she was the
state's Lieutenant Governor and if barely anyone in Florida knows who she is,
I'm going to have to assume far fewer outside the state know who she is
either-- or why she resigned this week. "If her name rings no bells, you're
probably in the majority. It's the price one pays for being Florida's fi... more »
"Iraq War Has Bankrupted US: Cost Over $2 Trillion–May Reach $6 Trillion
*"Iraq War Has Bankrupted US: Cost Over $2 Trillion–*
*May Reach $6 Trillion, **And This Doesn’t Include Afghanistan"*
By Daniel Trotta
NEW YORK, March 14 (Reuters) - "The U.S. war in Iraq has cost $1.7
trillion with an additional $490 billion in benefits owed to war veterans,
expenses that could grow to more than $6 trillion over the next four
decades counting interest, a study released on Thursday said. The war has
killed at least 134,000 Iraqi civilians and may have contributed to the
deaths of as many as four times that number, according to the Costs of War
Project by the ... more »
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