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Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)
Welcome to Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)! If this is your first visit,
please click HERE for information and a complete list of all the challenges
we've taken on so far.
There's a lot of great information in this post and I encourage you to read
through it ... however, if you don't have the time right now, you might
find the following quick links helpful:
- The #CTWW Gang
- The Honor Society
- My Final Thoughts on Our Last Challenge
- This Week's Challenge
Our challenge, last week, asked us to develop a strategy for putting local
produce on our table next winter. ... more »
Was The God Of Second Chances Smiling Down On South Carolina Republicans Today-- Or Setting Them Up For A Fall?
Mark Sanford was first elected to represent South Carolina's first
congressional district in 1994, when incumbent Arthur Ravenel-- yes, father
of notorious cocaine dealer and South Carolina ex-Treasurer Tom Ravenel--
stepped down to run for governor. Ravenel lost his GOP primary runoff.
Sanford won his. The district runs along the coast (although no longer
includes the northern section around Myrtle Beach like it did when Sanford
represented the area); it goes all the way past Hilton Head to the
outskirts of Savannah. By South Carolina standards, it's almost a
"moderate" district... more »
The Reality of Racial Violence
Please watch this excellent video Kyle Hunt of Renegade Broadcasting
produced. Also, take the time to read through the *National Protectionism
Manifesto*.
March 30: Appalachian Trail and Strategy Meeting
*A pipeline tour* where the Tennessee Pipeline crosses the Appalachian
Trail in New Jersey's High Point State Park will leave from the Deckertown
Turnpike trail head at 10AM on March 30. Experts will discuss the impact on
soils, vegetation, rare habitat, property values, tourism, and recreation.
Participants should wear hiking shoes or boots and be prepared to hike 20
minutes each way on intermediate terrain. This tour is entirely on public
park land.
The hike will be followed by a *12PM Strategy Discussion* in Milford PA at Angels
Backstreet Coffee, 611 Broad St, Milford PA. The di... more »
Back to Reality
Vegas trip was awesome. When I have time, I will post an entire trip
report. Relaxed a lot, and had a great time in general.
I will leave you with a pic of Erika and I from the night we all saw
Zarkana at the Aria. Awesome seats, 4 rows from stage. Also, one of my
and Kurt from the same night before the show.
Musical Interlude: Karunesh, “Moon Temple”
Karunesh, “Moon Temple”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE1yQu6I0A4
"A Look to the Heavens"
“This pretty, open cluster of stars, M34, is about the size of the Full
Moon on the sky. Easy to appreciate in small telescopes, it lies some 1,800
light-years away in the constellation Perseus. At that distance, M34
physically spans about 15 light-years.
*Click image for larger size.*
Formed at the same time from the same cloud of dust and gas, all the stars
of M34 are about 200 million years young. But like any open star cluster
orbiting in the plane of our galaxy, M34 will eventually disperse as it
experiences gravitational tides and encounters with the Milky Way's
interstell... more »
Colección de 20 imágenes de paisajes hermosos
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The Daily "Near You?"
Sheung Wan, Hong Kong, China. Thanks for stopping by.
Chet Raymo, “Then To The Elements Be Free”
*“Then To The Elements Be Free”*
by Chet Raymo
“Be cheerful, Sir.
Our revels are now ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air;
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on: and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.”
“Surely one of the most beautiful passages in all of d... more »
5 Minutes Until America Hits A Brick Wall
I have been busy the last few weeks taking care of everything from personal
business, family business, and just generally trying to avoid burning out
from everything that has been happening in my life. It does feel good to
be back blogging, and right now I do have a lot of catching up to do! I
have spent the last few days at every chance, reading a lot of reports out
there and trying to make sense of what is happening in the world right now.
For this article, I want to present the latest work by a great writer and
fellow truth seeker, "Horse 237" who writes the blog: Video Rebel's ... more »
Defund Abortion: 95% Less MASSIVE!
So, how did the promised MASSIVER second annual defund abortion bunfest
turn out today at Queen's Park?
You be the judge.
First (and only?) report:
Despite wind, sleet, and temperatures of minus six, more than 350 people
attended the Defund Abortion Rally organized by Campaign Life Coalition
Youth at Queen’s Park on March 19.
While the crowd was small at the start of the noon-hour event, causing
concern among organizers, it quickly grew during the presentations of the
first two speakers.
That must be something of a letdown after last year's MASSIVE showing.
TORONTO, Ontario, ... more »
QUOTE OF THE DAY: Hayek on Cyprus
With European ATMs shut down, accounts being frozen, stock markets tanking,
and the Cypriot parliament (and people) almost in open revolt, the EU’s
move to begin stripping Cypriots’ savings accounts in order to order to
maintain “stability” has lead to anything but.
Russ Roberts at Cafe Hayek beautifully paraphrases Hayek’s view on the
matter:
“The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to Cyprus and the EU how
little they really know about what they imagine they can design.”
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Syrian Detour: US Rejects Syrian Claim That Rebels Used Chemical Weapons (Which Means They Did!)
I have been following the so called war in Syria now for quite some time,
and now it does seem that the Syrian Government forces have the full upper
hand over the criminal US/NATO/Israeli bought and paid for mercenaries
("Rebels"). The fact is, readers, that the US has been absolutely dying
to get into Syria by any excuse necessary, because they know full well that
the innocent and peaceful nation of Syria has a mutual defense pact with
neighboring Iran. They had always hoped that by invading Syria, it would
trigger their long desired conflict with Iran. Such is the sickness of... more »
Transocean chief admits crew shortcomings in Gulf oil spill – ‘Every day, I ask myself if there isn’t something more I could have done’
[image: The Deepwater Horizon oil rig burns in the night. Photo: Matt
Milbury / Piping Designer]
By Clifford Krauss
19 March 2013
NEW ORLEANS (The New York Times) – The chief executive of the company that
owned the *Deepwater Horizon* oil rig acknowledged in court on Tuesday that
his crew should have done more to avert the 2010 oil well blowout that left
11 dead and soiled hundreds of miles of beaches along the Gulf of Mexico.
“Do I wish the crew had done more? Absolutely,” said Steven L. Newman,
chief executive of Transocean. “We acknowledged we should have done more.”
Mr. Ne... more »
The Economist as Advice Columnist
*Ask Emily* is slated to be the economist's version of *Dear Abby*.
ECONOMICS FOR REAL PEOPLE: Desert Island Economics
Here’s the note on this week’s discussion from our friends at the Auckland
Uni Economics Group:
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What is this man missing that all of us enjoy every day without noticing?
What does a sixteenth-century Scotsman have to say to a modern-day Peruvian
hill tribe?
What does that hill tribe have to teach today’s economists and
epistemologists?
And how do the answers to these questions provide the foundation for the
whole field of economics?
All these questions and more will be asked and answered tomorrow night at
the Auckland Uni Economics Group weekly discussion... more »
EARTH MAGNETIC FIELD CHANGES
http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/cgi-bin/magnetometer/gak-mag.cgi
Regarding the Cancellation of the Breakfast with Kinder Morgan PR Executive Allen Fore
Flyer distributed this week to local businesses and Chamber of Commerce
members in Milford, PA - Click to EnlargeOn Tuesday, the Pike County
Chamber of Commerce cancelled Thursday's breakfast event with Kinder Morgan
PR Executive Allen Fore citing threats of protest as concerned residents
flyered local businesses to attend with questions.
The event at the Best Western in Matamoras PA was scheduled for 7:30AM and
announced to the public to attend. At a meeting on Sunday evening organized
by the Stop the Tennessee Pipeline blog, concerned residents decided
against a protest of the eve... more »
Robert Jensen : Important Truths Behind an Anti-War Slogan
Image
from deepforest.org.
'No blood for oil!'
Important truths behind
an anti-war slogan
Underneath the complex relationships and shifting strategies, the
obvious question lingers: If the Middle East were not home to the
largest reserves of the most easily accessible oil in the world, would
we have gone to war in Iraq?
By Robert Jensen / The Rag Blog / March 19, 2013
I have never been
THE IRAQ WAR: WE KNOW ABOUT THE LIES, BUT NOW WE MUST ASK ‘WHY?’
About this time every March we remind ourselves that it is the anniversary
of the invasion and destruction of Iraq. This year is the tenth anniversary
and, for some reason, ten year anniversaries seem to hold a greater
fascination for folk than other anniversaries and, as a consequence, this
particular tenth year anniversary has renewed the debate over whether or
not Western leaders deliberately lied in order to get their respective
peoples to support the war.
As I have demonstrated in my previous post here, John Howard, one of the
most dedicated of Western leaders determined to fo... more »
MORE PLUTONIUM SPACE MISSIONS ON THE WAY
Scientific American reports, "The United States has begun producing
plutonium-238 again for the first time in a quarter century, marking a key
step toward averting a feared shortage of this important spacecraft fuel,
NASA officials say."
The Department of Energy (DoE) nuclear labs are in charge of the deadly
plutonium expansion program. They tell us it is safe and necessary for
deep space missions.
What they don't tell the public is that DoE's history of handling toxic
plutonium-238 (the most dangerous substance ever created) is very bad.
Countless cases of worker contaminatio... more »
Bolivian Cattleyas
Bolivia is home to some 2000 or more orchids, including of course Cattleyas
-
*C. nobilior, C. violacea and C. luteola*. The first of these grows in
Santa Cruz and
I found a great video of an expedition in search of these you can click on
here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Uln6zl7R8&noredirect=1
*C. nobilior *(above)
*C. luteola* (above)
*C. violacea* (below)
Craig's Guest Post
A couple of days ago I posted my frustrations about the EPA backtracking on
important environmental recommendations that would protect Texas drinking
water from uranium contamination and our air more generally from mercury
emissions.
My friend Craig's comments suggest this failure of governance is pervasive.
Here is the article I was responding to and below see his response:
*ProPublica (2013, March 13) After a Powerful Lobbyist Intervenes, EPA
Reverses Stance on Polluting Texas County’s Water’ by Abraham Lustgarten*
[Excerpted] When Uranium Energy Corp. sought permission to launch... more »
The Illusion of Wealth: Ludwig von Mises on the Business Cycle
Just as the economic bust we’re now enduring is the inevitable flipside of
the earlier (credit-induced) boom, so too is Cyprus-style bank theft the
inevitable flipside of the debts built up by governments during and after
the credit boom--inevitable because, as their spending continues to
increase even while the bust refuses to go away, governments are
increasingly desperate to find money (by any means necessary!) with which
to pay back that debt.
Both bust and theft are inevitable results of the earlier boom, that
illusion of wealth created by the unlimited credit expansion produ... more »
Mohawk Nation News 'Like ... Killing!'
LIKE … KILLING!
Posted on March 19, 2013
MNN. Mar. 19, 2013. The state has done extensive
research on training humans to kill others. Indigenous have been the
victims of calculated mass murder. The Germans studied the North
American Indian genocide very closely. They dehumanized the Jewish
People to set up conditions to create the holocaust.
Target practice.
A
The apartheid state
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Senate keeps assault weapons safe
Lots of pissed off leftys on the interwebs this afternoon when news got
out that Harry Reid won't bring the assault weapons ban to the floor. Me,
I've been preparing for that disappointment from the beginning. No way he
was going to find 60 votes. He says they can't even get 40 because of all
the Dem defections.
Shouldn't be a big surprise. Look at the what DiFi's bill would do:
Feinstein's bill would impose a ban on the sale and manufacture of more
than 150 types of semi-automatic weapons with military-style features. Her
measure was one of four bills approved by the Senate Judi... more »
Untitled
*Bitter Rivalry: How the Saints / Falcons Hatred Really Began ~Saints
Tailgate*
What is Waste? Answered.
I linked to it from Plum Line yesterday, but I want to make sure everyone
sees a great survey from Emily Swanson and Mark Blumenthal about what
"waste" means to those who want to get rid of wasteful government spending.
This all came out of a post I wrote a whole ago in which I wondered about
exactly that; it seems Swanson and Blumenthal decided to find out the
answer. Cool! It's well worth reading the whole thing -- the data are
fascinating -- but I'll quote the key paragraph:
When it comes to fingering specific programs for government waste versus
pointing more generally to ineffi... more »
The Lessons of Iraq? Ø (That's A Big Fat Zero, Bub!) Who Is Held Accountable For the Iraq Debacle?
In that sense, the Iraq War was the original event initiating the larger
Age of Moral Hazard — an epoch whereby our failure to demand consequences
for bad decisions has effectively encouraged the political class to get
things horrifically wrong, as long as doing so serves powerful political
interests. So, who's accountable for the Iraq War lies and 2
Trillion-Dollar price tag? Not the
'Only throwing stones'?
What a sweet little girl, but to certain the Palestinians she's just a
target.
'A woman and her three young daughters were wounded on Thursday when
Palestinians hurled rocks onto their vehicle, causing their car to swerve
off the road and collide with an oncoming truck. By Friday morning, 10
Palestinians from a nearby village had been arrested and taken into custody
for questioning.
Samaria police commander Kobi Shabtai told Army Radio on Friday, "In coming
hours we will move forward with the investigation and find out whether
these suspects are the ones who did this yester... more »
The Libertarians Vs The Religionist Fringe
Yesterday we took a little look at the battle raging inside the GOP through
the prism of their own Autopsy Report and a little analysis of why the
right-wing Austerity agenda is destroying the British Conservative Party
even as Paul Ryan and John Boehner redouble their efforts to push an almost
identical agenda on the American people. But as the new GOP impalement
unfolds, we totally left out one other dynamic-- the one raging between the
noisy, modernist libertarian wing of the party and the angry, hate-fueled
religionist wing.
This week, E.J. Dionne pointed out that Rand Paul an... more »
There are no numbers big enough
You have not come this far to stop now. You are at the starting gate and
the race is already won – ONE. Do you see?
The struggle you feel is habitual. You have come to love it because it
has been a part of you for all that you currently remember of you. You’ve
known all along that you are love and now, with Truth at your doorstep, you
hesitate. If struggle is not love, then what is?
How will you know that this door opens to truth? It is not with your
eyes, ears or body for discernment – but your heart. *Trust what fills you*
.
It is not about anyone else. You ar... more »
US' New "Syrian PM" Yet Another Muslim Brotherhood Extremist
*March 19, 2013 *(LD) - The Western media eagerly announced that long time
US resident Ghassan Hitto was chosen as the new "interim prime minister" of
NATO's proxy forces fighting in Syria. While most headlines attempted to
focus solely on Hitto's long stay in the US and his role in a tech firm
based in Texas, The Globe and Mail reported in their article, "Canadian
loses bid to lead Syria's rebels; Ottawa's stance assailed," that:
Ghassan Hitto, a Kurd with links to the Muslim Brotherhood, was elected in
the early hours of Tuesday at a meeting of leading opposition figures of
the ... more »
Total cost of Iraq invasion and occupation estimated at $6 trillion – Study finds costs of U.S. wars linger for over 100 years
[image: The true cost of the invasion and occupation of Iraq is estimated
to be $6 trillion, including interest, through the year 2053. This is a
stark contrast to the Bush adminstration's estimate of $50-60 billion. Ten
years after the invasion, the U.S. had spent $1.6 trillion. Graphic: Mother
Jones]
By Tasneem Raja
19 March 2013
(Mother Jones) – Ten years later, the Bush administration's projected price
tag for the war in Iraq seems downright cute.
According to the first-ever comprehensive count of the true toll of the
combined wars, the estimate the administration used to s... more »
LOCAL DRONE BANS SPREADING
Charlottesville, Virginia, home to Thomas Jefferson and the University of
Virginia, has a long history of being a voice for freedom. Now it can add
freedom from drones to the list, as Charlottesville's anti-drone resolution
is the first of its kind in the nation. The resolution, which passed by a 3
to 2 vote, calls on the Virginia General Assembly and Congress to adopt
legislation barring information obtained from drones from being used
court-- and the city itself has adopted such a ban locally.
The measure also endorses a proposed two-year moratorium on drones in
Virginia. Even t... more »
Actually existing news
The Labour Party is abstaining from a bill being rushed through Parliament
that will create a retroactive law overturninghundreds of thousands of
benefit rebates due to unemployed people wrongly sanctioned. What is more
incredible, the fact The Party of Labour refuses to oppose workers
exploitation, or the government’s explanation for the bill, that it will
“protect the economy”?
Firstly the estimated total pay-out is £130 million, which is of course
next to nothing in the grander scheme. It is nothing compared to Trident,
nothing compared to Afghanistan, nothing compared to uncoll... more »
The Poet: Rainer Maria Rilke, "And Yet..."
"And yet, though we strain
against the deadening grip
of daily necessity,
I sense there is this mystery:
All life is being lived.
Who is living it then?
Is it the things themselves,
or something waiting inside them,
like an unplayed melody in a flute?
Is it the winds blowing over the waters?
Is it the branches that signal to each other?
Is it flowers
interweaving their fragrances
or streets, as they wind through time?"
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Satire: “Cheney Marks Tenth Anniversary Of Pretending There Was Reason To Invade Iraq”
*“Cheney Marks Tenth Anniversary Of Pretending *
*There Was Reason To Invade Iraq”*
by Andy Borowitz
HOUSTON (The Borowitz Report)— "In a sombre ceremony attended by former
members of the Bush administration, the former Vice-President Dick Cheney
marked the tenth anniversary of making up a reason to invade Iraq. The
ceremony, held on the grounds of the Halliburton Company headquarters,
brought together the former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the former
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the former Deputy Secretary of Defense
Paul Wolfowitz, and other key members of the... more »
Catch of the Day/Tom P. Baxter Update
David Leonhardt:
Five and counting: consecutive @newtgingrich tweets on driverless cars.
Oh, gosh, it's worth giving you this:
Catherine: I realize no one can actually predict the future, but I
understand you have a unique insight into where we might be headed as we
approach the turn of the century.
Tom: Yeah, I do. As I see it, Catherine, the future of business, well, the
future of this country in fact is... computers.
Catherine: Computers. Okay, would you care to elaborate on that?
Tom: Oh, you bet! I think computers are great! You can keep records on
them, play games. They're, ... more »
Kierkegaard On Socratic Ignorance
Below is an excerpt from, *"The Soul of Kierkegaard: Selections from His
Journals."* Edited by Alexander Dru. Dover Publications, Inc: Mineola, New
York. 2003. Pg. 172-73.
The majority of men in every generation, even those who, as it is
described, devote themselves to thinking (dons and the like), live and die
under the impression that life is simply a matter of understanding more and
more, and that if it were granted to them to live longer, that life would
continue to be one long continuous growth in understanding. How many of
them ever experience the maturity of discoverin... more »
"Just When You Thought Central Banks Couldn’t Get Any Dumber…"
* "Just When You Thought Central Banks Couldn’t Get Any Dumber…"*
by Matt Insley
"Let’s start today’s issue with a quick joke, it’s a one-liner: According
to CNN Money “Any bank run at this point outside Cyprus seems unlikely.”
Ha! Unlikely? Yeah, about unlikely as the sun rising.
Without wasting another minute, let’s venture into the world of poor
decisions. No, I don’t mean your editor’s St Patty’s Day weekend plans, but
rather let’s head to the central bank-plagued Eurozone… CNN Money’s
audacity is akin to that of central bankers – both over estimate their
grasp on a situ... more »
invitation to be spirit hacked
I know this image has NOTHING to do with the post but let's assume that it
suits our purpose of CONTACT WITH THE SPIRIT REALM VIA MY BROADBAND LINK.
Seriously, forget this table tipping, waterbowl wobbling and ouija
bourding. Surely all that's passé or at least 'out of fashion' for the
modern spiritualist or ghost hunter.
Surely, by now, electromagnetic entities of the universe we call ghosts or
spirits of the deceased have worked out how to use THE INTERNET and EMAIL
and THE COMPUTER SCREEN to get their message from the ethereal realm across
to us mere mortals.
I mean, right now,... more »
I've Been Trying to Tell You All It Was Sabotage
The Death Star was an inside Jabba (h/t Commissioner Clark).
Judis joins Corn on the anti-war front!
*TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 2013*
*Where he too failed to serve:* If you needed an excuse to think poorly of
major pundits, the tenth anniversary of Iraq is likely to help you find one.
Last night, Lawrence O’Donnell and David Corn conspired to give the
impression that Corn fought like a dog on TV to oppose the upcoming
invasion.
Nexis says that isn’t so. And as it turns out, yesterday’s memoir by John
Judis seems a bit like Corn’s.
Writing at the New Republic, Judis recalls how tough it was to oppose the
war with Iraq. These are the headlines which were used to draw your eyes to
his pie... more »
Removing the Shackles: The Energy is real
http://removingtheshackles.blogspot.ca/2013/03/the-energy-is-real.html
TUESDAY, 19 MARCH 2013
*The Energy is real*
*
* I woke up this morning to a message from Heather, that had been sent to
her from one of the awesome people in the Skype rooms.
*"Hi guys just wanted to let you know that as I cut and pasted the full
text of the new filing from Dees web site into a word doc format on my pc,
the magnetometer app that I have open on my tablet went off the scale and
gave me an audio signal indicating the surge....confirmation of the
energetic coefficients attached to these docs or... more »
Iraq - ten years after
Ten years ago the Bush administration launched the Iraq invasion. They
promised us we woud be welcomed as liberators and showered with flowers and
sweets. Didn't quite work out that way. And on this grim anniversary, the violence
in Iraq is still ongoing:
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - More than a dozen car bombs and suicide blasts tore
through Shi'ite Muslim districts in the Iraqi capital Baghdad and other
areas on Tuesday, killing nearly 60 people on the 10th anniversary of the
U.S.-led invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein.
Sunni Islamist insurgents linked to al Qaeda are regaining ground... more »
Overwhelmed with information...
*again
- and still trying to see the entire forest instead of just a few
trees.*
Some random thoughts:
- Something about the reaction to Pope Francis makes me uneasy.
- Exactly how did our culture become so degraded?
- The devil is the master of division.
- How "free" are we really?
- Could a Cypress "solution" be possible here? Actually, I think the
bank and auto bailouts were exactly that.
This morning I watched John Ainworth's presentation on the 14th
Amendmentto the Constitution in an attempt to explain why the government
today
operates without Constitutional ... more »
Jean Trounstine : Texas Calls it 'Ad Seg' but Prisoners Call It Torture
Image
of life in solitary via Buried Alive in Texas Prisons.
Solitary confinement:
Texas calls it 'Ad Seg' but
prisoners call it torture
A recent conference on solitary confinement at Harvard University
prompted prisoners at Between the Bars to tell their side of the story.
Here’s what they say about being caged within a cage.
By Jean Trounstine /The Rag Blog / March 19, 2013
This past
Fukushima Part II - a new nuclear accident?
address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 9 hours ago
Link: http://youtu.be/wEqLYxI0boQ
*Fukushima*'s nuclear accident on March 11, 2011 might well be on the way
to get a repeat. A most unbelievable story indeed. After a power failure on
Monday (take note of this!) nuclear rods can't be cooled because of pump
malfunctions. These rods are in cooling pools with water that now can't be
renewed. Temperatures were rising between 0.1 and 0.5ºC. per hour. They are
now about 35C, well below the critical temperature of 65C/149F still. So
technicians would have some time to work out a solution. All the rest is in
the movie clip, which comprises... more »
“The Great Cyprus Bank Robbery by Financial Terrorists”
*WARNING: VERY STRONG LANGUAGE ALERT!*
*“The Great Cyprus Bank Robbery by Financial Terrorists”*
- http://www.youtube.com/
•
*"Saxo Bank CEO: “This Is Full-Blown Socialism And I Still Can’t Believe
It Happened”*
by InvestmentWatchdog
"It is difficult to describe the weekend bailout package to Cyprus in any
other way. The confiscation of 6.75 percent of small depositors’ money and
9.9 percent of big depositors’ funds is without precedence that I can think
of in a supposedly civilized and democratic society. But maybe the European
Union (EU) is no longer a civilized democracy?
... more »
Sympathy for the Devil
For all who were justifiably outraged by the empathetic coverage of the two
Steubenville rapists by a couple of CNN hostesses reporters actually named
Poppy and Candy, I have one question: What else did you expect?
This is a country with a corrupt media machine that has long shown undue
deference to predators of all stripes. We must half-admire our criminal
athletes, we must show a grudging respect for the financial miscreants
who've raked in 100% of all the wealth regained since they themselves
brought the world economy crashing down in 2008, we must give a wink and a
nod to the an... more »
The one hundred and eightieth weekly "No shit Sherlock" award
'Ian Hislop: Press regulation deal 'worrying''
per the BBC
"No shit, Sherlock"
American Farmers in Record Debt Because of Toxic Bankers and Products?
As Crop Prices Surge, Investment Firms and Farmers Vie for Land by Julie
Creswell, The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/19/business/as-crop-prices-surge-investment-firms-and-farmers-vie-for-land.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130319
[Excerpted]
Debt held by the nation’s farmers has risen nearly 30 percent
since 2007, to an expected $277.4 billion this year. The bulk of those
loans were made by commercial banks, the farm credit system and the Farm
Service Agency. Some regulators and critics say that figure is most
likely
undercounting debt from specialized finance... more »
这样的女人几乎没有逃脱中国于1949年，但在2013年美国现在被困
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Underrated Villains of Iraq
Okay, let's talk blame for the Iraq War.
Matt Yglasias, in a smart post, says:
The main not-totally-obvious thing I have to say about this is that the
underrated villains in this drama are the leading Democratic Party
politicians of the 2002-2003 era. “Because trusted leaders of my political
party say so” is of course not a good reason to back any political
position. But the evidence is overwhelming that elite signaling and
top-down leadership matter for public opinion formation. I remember quite
clearly that in arguments around the dining hall people who were (rightly)
opposing th... more »
LOLITA; THE CIRCLE
*Lolita film*
In the Daily Mail, Petronella Wyatt has written "the outrageous confessions
of an upper-class Lolita."
*The-outrageous-confessions-upper-class-Lolita.*
Petronella refers to Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir Robin Day, Sir Albert Finney
and Lord Lambton.
Petronella argues that society must be less censorious of Lolita-type
behaviour.
She reports that teen girls can be very manipulative.
*Petronella Wyatt (centre), aged 18, on holiday in Italy with, from left,
father Woodrow Wyatt, mother Verushka Wyatt, Rosemary Lamont, and her then
husband Norman Lamont, the former Tory g... more »
Americans behind 9/11; Hitler greater than Roosevelt - the PA’s welcome to Obama - PMW Bulletins
The moderate Palestinian Authority in action.
'Two days before US President Barack Obama's visit to Israel and the PA,
the official PA daily chose to print anti-American hate speech along with
pro-Hitler comments in an op-ed: "Our history is replete with lies...
[including] the lie about Al-Qaeda and the September 11 events, which
asserted that Muslim terrorists committed it, and that it was not an
internal American action by the Freemasons."'
PalWatch has the details
I await the BBC's coverage of this story. Ditto The Guardian.
Messages of Hope from Patrick Cody Morgan & Stacy Chapman
*AK note: I DO NOT make the claim that Anthony Bonojo is a "prophet", the
words used below are the Cody's. I have no knowledge of Anthony Bonojo or
why they consider him a prophet. I specifically avoid such religious titles
and the baggage of hierarchy they suppport as all are one in Source and
Source speaks through all. *
*Messages of Hope from Patrick Cody Morgan & Stacy Chapman:*
First message from Cody, which was in response to this post we put up on
March, 19th.
http://americankabuki.blogspot.com/2013/03/an-opportunity-to-make-difference.html
Dear OPPT,
From t... more »
OPPOSITION TO "MD" BASE IN MAINE
*This ground-based mid-course "missile defense" interceptor was deployed in
Alaska in 2009. The underground missiles are helping to spark a new Cold
War with Russia and China.*
The Obama administration’s announcement that a “missile defense” base on
the east coast of the U.S. will now be studied is the perfect example of a
corporate-driven “solution” searching for a problem.
The studies have been justified by the supposed “nuclear threats posed by
North Korea and Iran”. Using North Korea and Iran as justification for new
missile defense deployments is sketchy since neither of thos... more »
Lib MLA: 'Why would you rent from somebody who didn’t support you?'
“If you contact every MLA in this province... find out if they don’t rent
from supporters.”
I’ve been surprised this story and interview with Vernon-Monashee MLA Eric
Foster hasn’t attracted more attention.
Especially his claim that MLAs routinely make a point of renting office
space - with tax dollars - from people who contribute to their campaign.
Foster has been criticized by the auditor general for having taxpayers pick
up the bills for a near-total renovation of the building he chose for his
constituency office.
Especially as the building was bought just before the election by... more »
NATO Proxies Using WMD's in Syria - Dozens Dead
*March 19, 2013* (LD) *UPDATED* - After a 10 year war/occupation in Iraq,
the death of over a million people including thousands of US soldiers, all
based on patently false claims of the nation possessing "weapons of mass
destruction," (WMDs), it is outrageous hypocrisy to see the West arming,
funding, and politically backing terrorists in Syria who in fact both
possess, and are now using such weapons against the Syrian people.
At least 25 are reported dead after a chemical weapons attack targeting
Syrian soldiers was carried out by NATO-backed terrorists in the northern
city of Al... more »
Another Politically Connected Financial Predator Is Too Rich To Jail-- Steve Cohen Gets The Equivalent Of A Big Traffic Ticket
I have to admit I was surprised the other day to see a tweet from
reactionary Southern California Congressman Darrell Issa quoting James
Madison. It flew right in the face of the Grover Norquist-GOP nihilism that
calls for shrinking government down to the size it can be drown in a
bathtub: " If men were angels, no government would be necessary."
Ideologically, Republicans don't usually see government as part of the
solution, but as part of the problem. Where Democrats expect government to
help right the power imbalance between ravenous predators in the financial
world out to ensl... more »
When does a cause of action for solicitor's negligence accrue?
Lipson v. Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP, 2013 ONCA 165 holds:
[73] In our respectful view, the motion judge's conclusion about Justice Le
Dain's holding in Central Trust Co. v. Rafuse is incorrect. Justice Le Dain
did not hold that "the limitation period for the claim of solicitor's
negligence commenced running with the manifest challenge to the mortgage".
Rather, he concluded that the earliest date on which the claim for
solicitor's negligence could have commenced running was the date on which
the validity of the mortgage (and therefore the validity of the solicitors'
opinion) was... more »
Your Asset Value -- IT IS IN YOU
A special thanks to Jorge Ojeda Cortez for sending me this :)
In Absolute Gratitude,
~ Brian
Michio Kaku's confusing Higgs remarks
I partly but not quite agree with Sean Carroll's and Matt Strassler's
criticisms of this CBS interview (HTML) with Michio Kaku, a co-father of
string field theory and a sometimes excessively lively popularizer of
physics, not to mention more general aspects of science fiction marketed as
science:
*Sorry if CBS inserts half a minute of ads.*
It seems that Michio Kaku who watches *The Big Bang Theory* on the same TV
station – together with 20 million Americans in average – couldn't resist
to incorporate the Big Bang to his new story about the Higgs boson. And the
result of his crea... more »
The myth of ‘shock and awe’: why the U.S. invasion of Iraq was a disaster
[image: Britain's 2 Company Irish Guards check a man dressed in civilian
clothes in Basra on 6 April 2003. Photo: Getty Images]
[Desdemona can think of another reason why the invasion and occupation were
disastrous: If the U.S. had instead poured trillions of dollars into
upgrading its energy-production infrastructure to renewables, we wouldn’t
need to invade oil-producing nations ever again.]
By Richard Sanders
19 March 2013
(Daily Telegraph) – The lead unit of the US Marine Corps arrived at the
gates of Baghdad on the late afternoon of Sunday, April 6, 2003, less than
three wee... more »
Ten Years Later...
...and, as round numbers such as 10 oblige us to write the usual
autopsies of abortions like Iraq, we have to read and listen to everyone
give their spin on Iraq on this, the tenth anniversary of the day George W.
Bush gave the order to take back the oil fields that were rightfully ours.
The daily readership of Pottersville these days and the inexplicable
turning away in droves of what used to be a readership of close to 1000 a
day made me desist from my original intention of writing a larger, more
comprehensive post. I have better things to do with my life than
metaphori... more »
There are many ways to get conned on TV!
*TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 2013*
*Best friends of Lawrence and Rachel:* Last evening, on the Last Word,
David Corn recalled the way this country went to war with Iraq.
Corn mentioned one famous name, chose not to mention another:
CORN (3/18/13): *Colin Powell, that speech he gave February 5, 2003,
everyone remembers that, you know—*
O’DONNELL: *That swayed a lot of people.*
CORN: *It swayed a lot of people. And the coverage was like over the top.
It was like writing about a rock star.*
But then if you turned inside and you kept on reading 20 inches in, you
would find people saying, “Wai... more »
Reinventing America? Is It Possible Or Has Its Time Passed? (Times Haven't Stopped Changing)
News of later developments (much later?) in our civilization from our
friend at the Archdruid Report: A great many people are wondering these
days when the resulting bubble in US paper wealth—for that’s what it is, of
course—is going to pop. That might still happen, especially as a side
effect of a sufficiently sharp political or military crisis, but it’s also
possible that the trillions of
Climate-driven disasters cost Victorians $4 billion over the last decade
[image: A view of the Grampians bushfire on Thursday, 21 February 2013
taken from Wartook. Photo: Geoffrey Lea]By Tom Arup, Environment editor,
The Age
20 March 2013
(The Age) – Climate-driven disasters such as bushfires and floods have
cost Victorian taxpayers more than $4 billion over the last decade, it has
emerged, as the Napthine Government released its plan for Victoria to
prepare for the future impacts of climate change [pdf].
The plan – released on Tuesday in state parliament – aims to manage risks
to Victoria of increase bushfires, heatwaves, droughts, and floods as
cl... more »
“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.” -- Thomas Jefferson
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http://youtu.be/R2kpyYWd0eo
*Oliver Stone Tears Apart Obama's Empire *
breakingtheset
*Published on Dec 24, 2012*
Abby Martin sits down with Academy Award Winning Director, Oliver Stone,
and Historian Peter Kuznick, to talk about US foreign policy and the
Obama
administration's disregard for the rule of law.
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FOLLOW Abby Martin @ http://twitter.com/AbbyMartin
*Blogger's Note:* This video was called to my attention by *Brasscheck
TV*via their free e-mail distribution of videos of interest that
might... more »
Bill Burr - Advice: Effed Up World
http://billburr.com/ and http://www.allthingscomedy.com/
Bill Burr - Advice: Effed Up World. Source: YouTube Channel PaperBagBandits.
Tuesday Morning Linkage Club
The Globe and Mail investigates why Japan is falling in love with robots
(by the way, I know we’re supposed to love longform journalism now because
it’s long, but you can read either half of this piece and you won’t miss
the other half) [The Globe and Mail] U.S. Naval War College Professor Tom
Nichols
Continue reading
The other Honduras: Garifuna culture on the coast
Mirna Ruiz cooks a yucca torta.
It’s crazy-hot in the little *casita *where the Garifuna woman is cooking.
It’s even hotter over by the wood cooking stove, where she’s grilling
ground yucca into the giant wafer-like *tortas *that are a mainstay of the
Garifuna diet.
Mirna Ruiz is chief cook and president of the Binadu Uwenedu women’s
cooperative in Ciriboya, Colon. The little co-op produces 2,000 of the
crisp wafers every month, most to be packaged for sale in the cities of
Honduras to Garifuna people far away from their home communities on the
Caribbean coast.
In Honduras, Garifuna... more »
ALEC / RNC Using Legislators to Destruct Democracy
ALEC state legislators using your state legislature to rig elections in
favor of Republicans
ALEC state legislators using ALEC legislation to limit democratic
participation
*LIE
CHEAT
STEAL
to win elections*
* *
*That’s the Republican way*
First we had to put up with the proliferation of ALEC Voter ID legislation
Verified by this ALEC state legislator - stating to the world that ALEC
legislators were willing to do anything legislatively necessary to ensure
that Republicans win
At the same time that Voter ID was happening - ALEC and ALEC state
legislators were interfering in red... more »
Once Again Iraq’s Premier Maliki Goes After Former Finance Minister Issawi
Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has increasingly used arrest warrants
to intimidate and get rid of his political enemies. The latest example
occurred in March 2013 when a court ordered former Finance Minister Rafi
Issawi to be detained on terrorism charges. Issawi is from the Iraqi
National Movement, which is one of the main rivals to the prime minister’s
State of Law, and he has often criticized the prime minister’s rule. In
December 2012, some of his bodyguards were arrested, and allegedly
confessed to carrying out attacks. That led to the current protests in
western, east... more »
KLEIN ON THE LAWN: Pretending to speak, analyze and explain!
*TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 2013*
*Part 2—Without a thing to say:* To what extent is youth being served at
the new improved Washington Post?
Again, consider the remarkable way one young Postman describes himself at
his eponymous blog.
“About Me,” this young scribe’s headline says. By conventional standards, the
following profile borders on the insane:
*About Me *
Evan Soltas is the writer of Wonkbook, the morning email newsletter of Ezra
Klein's Wonkblog at The Washington Post, and for Bloomberg View's "The
Ticker" blog. A student at Princeton University, where he intends to major
in ec... more »
Days of promise fade for North America ethanol production as drought causes widespread crop failure
[image: Corn storage at the ethanol plant in Macon, Missouri, which stopped
operating in January. Officials have vowed to reopen it, and it is
undergoing renovations. Photo: Daniel Acker / The New York Times]
By John Eligon and Matthew L. Wald
16 March 2013
MACON, Missouri (The New York Times) – Five years ago, rural America was
giddy for ethanol.
Backed by government subsidies and mandates, hundreds of ethanol plants
rose among the golden fields of the Corn Belt, bringing jobs and business
to small towns, providing farmers with a new market for their crops and
generating billio... more »
Man-made desert lake in UAE: Ecological paradise or disaster?
[image: Lake Zakher is in a remote corner of the United Arab Emirates, a
blue lake shimmering amid the sand dunes. The lake is an industrial
byproduct of the desalination system used to meet the UAE's water needs.
With few sources of fresh water in the region, the country has relied on
desalinating seawater for domestic use. Photo: CNN]
By Leone Lakhani
14 March 2013
Lake Zakher, United Arab Emirates (CNN) – In a remote corner of the United
Arab Emirates, a blue lake shimmers amid the sand dunes.
It's not a mirage, but a man-made oasis -- an unintended byproduct of the
UAE's wate... more »
By Masses of Complicated Fact
The whole field of education is affected -- There is no end of detail that
is without significance.
Education would begin by placing in the mind of the student the nature of
knowledge -- in the dead state and the nature of the force which may
energize it.
This would clarify his field at once -- He would then see the use of data.
But at present knowledge is placed before a man as if it were a stair at
the top of which a DEGREE is obtained which is superlative.
nothing could be more ridiculous. To data there is no end. There is
proficiency in dissection and a knowledge of parts but... more »
Inuits worried as they confront new realities of rapidly melting Arctic – ‘The rapidity of the changes has taken us by surprise. We have been underestimating the changes.’
[image: In this September 2006 file photo, ice chunks float in the Arctic
Ocean as the sun sets near Barrow, Alaska. Photo: AP]
By Meena Menon
17 March 2013
OSLO (The Hindu) – The rapid melting of the Arctic sea ice has rejuvenated
interests in the region, ranging from oil and gas and mineral exploration
to the possibility of shorter sea routes and increased tourism. But all
this poses fresh challenges to the survival of the Inuit and other
indigenous people who live there.
While some speakers at The Arctic Summit held by *The Economist* on March
12 seemed to favour the line tha... more »
Pope Francis
Clearly defining his vision of his own role, he quoted from scriptural
texts to say that as Bishop of Rome, he was endowed with “a certain power.”
But he went on: “Let us never forget that authentic power is service and
that the pope too, when exercising power, must enter ever more fully into
that service which has its radiant culmination on the Cross.”
“He must be inspired by the lowly, concrete and faithful service which
marked St. Joseph and, like him, he must open his arms to protect all of
God’s people and embrace with tender affection the whole of humanity,
especially the poore... more »
Graham Hancock - TED Talk - The War on Consciousness
thanks to dognamedblue for reminding Free Planet that this TED Talk by
"self-confessed ex-cannabis addict" Graham Hancock presentation "The War on
Consciousness" was banned from the TED Talk website for the way he is
supposed to have misrepresented Science (big S) but it was probably his
comments about "the single-minded pursuit of PROFIT". Oh, yeah, that'll get
you banned.
*Over the matter of the censorship on Youtube of my "War on Consciousness"
presentation and Rupert Sheldrake's "Science Delusion" presentation, TED is
closed minded, operates with an extremely limited view of wha... more »
Radical teaching philosophy of Denis Rancourt -- interview with The Times of India
"A man against grading"
-- interview with Poonam Jain, The Times of India,
Expert Eye, March 19, 2013
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Brent Scowcroft, 87.
Good stuff:
1. Sarah Binder is tracking the CR. Which is easier said than done.
2. Interesting David Karpf item about technology and politics.
3. And the amazing history of GOP minority outreach: it didn't start in
2013.
Shouldn't Florida Democrats Have Someone In The Race For Governor Instead Of Just Two Republicans?
Charlie Crist epitomizes inauthenticy in American politics. And
opportunism. You couldn't find a better match for self-proclaimed Florida
Democratic Boss Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Crist has no values and no
beliefs that will ever get in the way of his business (politics)-- and
neither does Wasserman Schultz. She's been busy threatening-- existentially
threatening-- every Democrat even *thinking* about running for governor
against supremely unpopular Republican Rick Scott to keep the field clear
for Charlie, a former conservative Republican governor, tossed out of the
party as it g... more »
Copycat Chili's Queso Dip
We have an obsession with Chili's Queso in this house. When I say
obsession, I mean it. We talk each other into ordering queso from Chili's
probably about once a week, and while we usually just pick it up curbside
to go, we needed something we could make at home to satisfy our frequent
cravings. This recipe is super easy to throw together and makes a great dip
for a party. We served it at our Superbowl party and were scraping the bowl
clean.
You will need:
1 can of chili, If you want a more authentic Chili's taste, buy the "No
Bean" kind. We decided we didn't mind the beans.
1 15 ... more »
THE OIL IS KILLING US
Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance is a coalition fighting the expansion and
construction of Tar Sands infrastructure in the Great Plains. We are in
solidarity with people indigenous to this continent, communities near the
point of extraction, and communities living in proximity to these toxic,
cancer-causing refineries.
Untitled
*Climate change could mean seven times as many Katrinas ~Tim McDonald, Grist
*
~Batten down the hatches, East Coasters: A new study argues that for every
1 degree C (1.8 degrees F) of global warming, the U.S. Atlantic seaboard
could see up to seven times as many Katrina-sized hurricanes.
That’s the conclusion of Aslak Grinsted, a climatologist at Copenhagen’s
Niels Bohr Institute, who led an effort to match East Coast storm surge
records from the last 90 years with global temperatures. His results,
published today in the *Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences*,
suggest that ... more »
NATO's mercs use chemical materials in Syria- Updated!
*IMPORTANT UPDATE BELOW *
* CTV*
Syria's state media say rebels have fired a chemical weapon in the north of
the country, killing 15 people.
The report by the official SANA news agency marks *the first time *the
government has accused fighters seeking to topple President Bashar Assad of
using chemical weapons.
It says "terrorists" fired a rocket "containing chemical materials" into
the Khan al-Assal area in the northern province of Aleppo on Tuesday.* The
regime regularly uses the term terrorists* to refer to rebels fighting
Assad's forces.
SANA says around 15 people, most of them... more »
No Progressive
The Harperites -- not surprisingly -- accused Thomas Mulcair of traitorous
behaviour when, during his recent Washinton gambit, he did not give his
full throated support to the Keystone XL pipeline. He was, they said,
damaging Canada's international reputation.
But four of Canada's former prime ministers have recently suggested that
Stephen Harper is doing a superb job of trashing our international
reputation without any help from Mulcair. Consider Jean Chretien's terse
comment:
"I'm travelling the world. The image of Canada today is not what it was,"
Chrétien told *Global News* ... more »
Twain Speaks to Corp-Edu Reformers
A message from Mark Twain for Bill Gates, Michelle Rhee, Arne Duncan:
"All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure."
Untitled
*‘Wave Robber’ wins Entrepreneur Week’s water challenge*
*Film industry expresses concerns about Jindal tax proposal*
*La. black bears active early*
* Pols on parade ~Library Chronicles*
*Archbishop gives brief history behind St. Joseph's altar tradition*
*2013 Tennessee Williams Festival March 20-24*
UKIP and Labour
Trailing his article in this month's *Total Politics*, Mark Ferguson
asksif Labour should be worried about UKIP? On first glance, no. C4's
analysis of the Eastleigh by-election shows just seven per cent of UKIP
voters previously supported Labour. This is broadly supported by
YouGov's recent
research. UKIP have an order of magnitude greater pull with Tories than
Labour voters. Indeed they have more of an attractor among former LibDem
voters too, probably because the yellow party has left the 'none of the
above' situation vacant. So should we sit back and grab the popcorn as
they
duke... more »
Socialized Healthcare 13: On Inequality and Inclusive Business in HC
Two weeks ago, I attended this forum at the Asian Institute of Management
in Makati, sponsored by the AIM-Zuellig Center for Asian Business
Transformation, ACCESS Health, ASSIST and Globe Telecom. Perhaps a
coincidence, another forum that same day, same time, was held in Discovery
Suites in Ortigas, about "inclusive democracy" starrring the UN and other
groups. And this forum is about "inclusive business" starring the ADB and
other groups.
Dr. Moser showed several slides how inequitable the Philippines' healthcare
system is. The Under 5 years old mortality rate (U5MR) is high in ... more »
“Former US Treasury Official: Fed Desperate To Avoid Collapse”
*“Former US Treasury Official: *
*Fed Desperate To Avoid Collapse”*
by KWN
“A former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury warned King World News,
“This type of situation is extremely dangerous. The world has never seen
it before.” Former Assistant of the US Treasury, Dr. Paul Craig Roberts,
also told King World News that JP Morgan now threatens the stability of the
entire global financial system. And if the Fed loses control and we
collapse, “Nothing and no one would be safe anywhere.”
Here is what Dr. Roberts had to say in this extraordinary interview: “I
can point o... more »
“Too Big to Jail”
*“Too Big to Jail”*
by Dan Dewalt
“Corporate America just received the confirmation that they’ve been
waiting for. The attorney general of the United States has now admitted
that the biggest American financial corporations have created such a
labyrinth of their structures and practices that the Justice Department has
given up trying to police them in matters of corruption or criminal
malfeasance, saying that bringing down any of these mega-banks or
businesses could cause crash the economy.
In 2008, the Justice Department announced a shift in policy, deciding to
be cooperati... more »
Government still selling ECFA as Ag boon
*Future exports under ECFA?*
The government is still pushing the *ECFA = Agricultural Export
Increases!*line, still trying to sell ECFA as a big boost to Taiwanese
agriculture (a
2011 review of that drive) and change some minds in southern Taiwan.
Though, I also wonder if they are trying to lay the groundwork for
opening
up to agricultural exports from China, which would likely be
devastating:
"See how competitive we are? It's safe to flood the island with
melaminemelons and stuff from China!"
The latest round in this effort was out on the intertubes via Taiwan
Today....
noting that... more »
“The Young Are Going to Get Screwed by Debt”
*“The Young Are Going to Get Screwed by Debt”*
By Bill Bonner
“Thomas Jefferson was opposed to a 'national debt'. He thought it was
immoral that one generation should spend on credit, forcing the next
generation to pay the bill. Jefferson knew what a burden debt could be -
especially when it is debt for spending he didn't enjoy himself. He had
inherited debts from his father-in-law. You've heard of 'something for
nothing'? On the flip side is a second condition as disagreeable as the
first is pleasant: nothing for something.
'Nothing for something' describes the financial s... more »
Advance Notice - The end of this blog
I have been reading reports on the Royal Charter on Press Regulation and I
fear they sound the death knell for this blog and many like it. Despite
claims that blogs are not included in this Charter, this extract seems to
say that they are:
b) “relevant publisher” means a person (other than a broadcaster) who
publishes in the United Kingdom:
i.) a newspaper or magazine containing news-related material, or
ii.) a website containing news-related material (whether or not related to
a newspaper or magazine);
This blogger is currently based in the UK, where it is published is a moot
poin... more »
BBC Panorama - The Spies Who Fooled The World - Iraq no WMDs.
*"Saddam has developed anthrax and nerve gas and nukular weapons,"* thus
spake Lord Bush Junior, Head of America Corporation to drag the UK and the
USA into what was always the lucrative 'Iraq Invasion'.
And with fifty more people killed (and hundreds injured) in Iraq from more
bombings in Baghdad this morning, did this Liberation of Iraq (or Libya)
from the Hussein (or Ghadafi) Regime actually do anything other than put
oil revenues in other banks' hands?
What a *CURVEBALL*...
THE SPIES WHO FOOLED THE WORLD click that link to be taken to the iPlayer
page for this edition of Panor... more »
DEATH OF THE UK PRESS?
On 18 March 2013, the deputy editor of the Telegraph, tweeted: "We can
never again lecture a Mugabe or a Putin on freedom of expression."
The UK parliament (some of whom are allegedly "a bunch of child abusers
and
fascists") has agreed to the setting up of a powerful new *press
regulator*designed to prevent the public from learning that some of our
leaders may
be "a bunch of child abusers and fascists."
scienceblogs.com
The independent regulator (expected to be run by the CIA and its
friends)
will have powers to impose fines and demand prominent corrections, and
courts will be a... more »
Nuclear Plant Referendum and Power Stuff
*Taking pictures in front of the Hakka Museum in Dongshih.*
The Executive Yuan came out in favor of absentee ballots for the
referendum, provided the system is only done domestically.
“The Executive Yuan recommends the adoption of transfer voting in Taiwan.
For example, people who live in Pingtung County could vote in Taipei
by-elections,” Executive Yuan Secretary-General Chen Wei-zen (陳威仁) told the
legislature’s Internal Administration Committee.
The interesting thing will be how they prevent people from voting more than
once..... the absentee ballot issue was a sensitive issue si... more »
Facebook used to demolish prejudice claim on 11(b) application
R v Nowak 2013 ONCJ 52 shows a creative Crown using Facebook to demolish a
claim of prejudice arising from trial delay. The Court notes:
Of note, Mr. Nowak stated that he received "top marks" in one course.
Further, the cross-examination by the prosecutor, aided by numerous photos
from Facebook suggests that Mr. Nowak was able to socialize quite well with
fellow students, notwithstanding his stress and anxiety, and that he did
consume alcohol.
Cyprus Haircut
Well no. The lesson is a little more simpler than that. If you do not
respect credit given then you will feel pain when it is withdrawn. Worse,
your voters will now feel it directly. In short, easy credit is not a
license to steal and operate corruptly with apparent impunity. You cannot
protect the benefits of a civil society by such behavior.
The lenders never get to actually spend the money provided. It escapes me
why anyone thinks they are in charge. What they are in charge of is the
decision to continue at all.
The fundamental problem happens to be the quality of t... more »
Confronting Drone Swarms
No one appears to have publicly connected the dots yet but drones are the
future of all aircraft except for hobby horses. If a pilot is along at all
it will be as an emergency responder and even that may become nonviable.
Our cars will move us and our aircraft will also end up with the pilots
somewhere else. We just have to get used to it.
Jet fighters are about to become drones just to eliminate the constraints
of a human pilot. Can you imagine confronting a flight of fighters able to
do thirty G turns and to convert closing speed to Mach 5 while locked in
weapons indepe... more »
Aussi Oil Giant Discovered
This is a lot short on technical details, but it is a shale based
discovery that will need to be proved out. It is certainly huge and appears
likely to be highly productive. We already pretty well knew this but thanks
to fracking, deliverable oil at anything over $50 a barrel is becoming a
global glut. It will first prove so by the USA going into a surplus
position and no longer needing to import anything from off shore.
China and India are the two great export markets and the rush is on in
order to supply them. Yet even they are able to produce a lot of their own
needs... more »
Antiquity of Peruvian Maize
As I have inferred in the past, the Atlantean sea peoples emerged around
5000 years ago and that naturally inferred significant crop sharing as
needed. Bio-char emerged in the Amazon and it also demanded a maize
culture. For those reasons the antiquity of Maize in Peru really had to be
approximately 5000 years. This is now confirmed.
Let me explain again just why this is important. It provided natural long
term storage for food which allowed taxes to be paid in something other
that labor. That it also provided food security for large urban populations
is also a given but ... more »
Anti-Depressants Don’t Work for Mild or Moderate Depression by Paul Fassa
Anti-Depressants Don’t Work for Mild or Moderate Depression
by Paul Fassa
Natural Society. 18 March 2013
A *Harvard Medical School *lecturer, psychologist and Associate Director of
the Program in Placebo Studies at Harvard, Irving Kirsch, was recently
featured in a *CBS* *60 Minutes *new program with a claim that put a chink
into the pharmaceutical industry’s armor. Professor Kirsh provided a
documented conclusion that pharmaceutical anti-depressants don’t work for
mild to moderately depressed patients. What’s more, a placebo is almost
always nearly as effective – without the side... more »
Obama As Satan Is A Provocative Statement
Will Hollywood cast this actor for a future Obama biopic?
A lot has been made about the character of Satan in History Channel's
miniseries *'The Bible'* looking a lot like President Barack Obama. Twitter
was ablaze yesterday about this. But the creators of the hit show are
saying that any suggestion that Obama looks like Satan is *"utter nonsense."
* They're obviously not good liars. One look at the photo above and the
first thing that crosses your mind is, "that's Barack Obama."
Were the creators of 'The Bible' making a statement by casting an Obama
look-alike as Satan? How ca... more »
It's good that the GOP has admitted to lying about the fiscal crisis. However, the question remains: Will Obama now back off his plan to cut Social Security and Medicare?
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MONDAY, MARCH 18, 2013 05:15 AM MST
*GOP: We’ve been lying all along*
*Boehner's admission that we don't really have a debt crisis reveals his
party's ulterior, program-cutting motives*
*BY DAVID SIROTA*
John Boehner (Credit: AP/Susan Walsh)
I never thought I’d write these words, but here goes: Thank you, John
Boehner. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, for finally admitting on national
television that all the fiscal cliffs, sequestrations and budget battles
you’ve created are, indeed, artificially fabricated by ideologues and
self-interes... more »
EU Chooses Bank Runs Over Fighting Tax Haven Cyprus
NPR's "Marketplace" reported Monday that the European Union planned to
impose a tax on bank deposits in Cyprus of up to 10% to bail out the
country's banks. This unprecedented action threatens to undermine
confidence in banks throughout the eurozone periphery, Greece, Italy,
Spain, Portugal, and Ireland. As Louise Cooper told Marketplace, “(This
move) says that your savings are not necessarily safe in a bank. What this
risks is bank runs." Indeed, we could be literally hours from seeing bank
runs in one or more of them.
What's the motivation for introducing such a risky policy? Cypr... more »
Iraq 10 Years Later (2): What was the Neocon Theory behind the War?
My first thoughts on the war’s ten year anniversary are here. There I asked
if there was any defensible theory behind the war, anything that might
explain why we launched it, because weapons of mass destruction were not
really the reason. Paul Wolfowitz notoriously admitted they were just a
pretext to rally the country behind
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Sauce for the Gander
It appears that fetus fetishists are getting a dose of sauce for the gander.
A U.S. company that provides software solutions to nonprofit organizations
has refused service to the Canadian pro-life group Campaign Life Coalition,
accusing it of supporting “hate, prejudice and bigotry."
Campaign Lie hired a consultant to find a 'databank solutions company', who
recommended The Databank in Minneapolis.
But [CLC's] Fonseca says that after filling out a form on the company’s
website to view a free online demo on behalf of CLC, the consultant
received an email reply from Bridget Kelly, T... more »
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.*
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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’ [updated]
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" to a "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
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