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Thursday Morning Linkage
- Manta rays and sharks get new protections, CITES closes on a hopeful note - Yet new slaughter of elephants in Chad - Black market for sea cucumbers in Mexico, driven by demand in China - Oh yeah, Senate passes measures restricting NSF funding for study of democracy (cuz that’s not important), NSF can only fund study of Continue reading
Why Is The World Economy Doomed? The Global Financial Pyramid Scheme By The Numbers!
I have been like everyone else the last few days in watching what is unfolding in Cyprus right now. It is in my honest opinion that the Cypriots should absolutely NOT accept any criminal IMF or Euro-Bank imposed "austerity" that calls for a levy on every single bank account held by the Cypriots themselves. They should say absolutely NO to the criminal actions by the evil Jewish bankers and their own government, and do exactly what Iceland did, and tell the fraud Jewish bankers to take their demands and shove it up their asses! Debt enslavement is absolutely not the way to go, and... more »
17 Eco-Friendly Tips For Spring
Welcome to Spring!! After a cold winter with some severe storms throughout the world, warmer weather and sunshine is definitely welcome. But with the change in temperature, our green routines must change as well. Here are a few tips to get us started: If you're moving into Autumn instead of Spring, you might be interested in 39 Tips For Fall. 1. Spring is traditionally a time to tackle those big cleaning jobs. Instead of using toxic chemicals, opt for more earth-friendly cleansers. Check out How to Make a Non-Toxic Cleaning Kit for ideas and recipes. 2. Clean out closet... more »
The Back To Work Budget Didn't Pass
No one thought it would pass. It's far too good-- too sensible, too weighted towards the non-rich-- for any Republican to consider voting for it. It failed today 84-327 and, sure enough, not a single Republican voted for it. But, then again, neither did most Democrats. More than a few non-Progressive Caucus Members voted for it-- like Stephen Lynch who desperately wants Massachusetts Democratic primary voters to think he's a progressive-- but I was horrified and disappointed by the CPC members who didn't vote for it, as well as by other progressives who voted NO. Last week, writin... more »
Ben Swann - Full Disclosure: Al Qaeda in Syria, the Story You Haven't Heard?
YouTube Video Description - [Channel: Ben Swann]: Ben Swann Full Disclosure talks with Emilio Ibrahim, a Syrian man living in Damascus about the U.S. and Saudi funding of Al Qaeda fighters who are leading the so called Syrian revolution. Full Disclosure: Al Qaeda in Syria, the Story You Haven't Heard?
Paulo Coelho, “The Cycle of Nature”
*“The Cycle of Nature”* by Paulo Coelho “In the cycle of nature there is no such thing as victory or defeat: there is only movement. The winter struggles to reign supreme, but, in the end, is obliged to accept spring’s victory, which brings with it flowers and happiness. The summer would like to make its warm days last for ever, because it believes that warmth is good for the earth, but, finally, it has to accept the arrival of autumn, which will allow the earth to rest. The gazelle eats the grass and is devoured by the lion. It isn’t a matter of who is the strongest, but Go... more »
Johnny Rustywire : The Hitchhiker
Window Rock, Arizona, Navajo Nation. Image from Flickriver. The hitchhiker I thought it must be an old person, since the figure was small in size and wrapped in a blanket head to toe. I could see the person standing in my headlights, wrapped against the blowing crystals of cold snow. By Johnny Rustywire / The Rag Blog / March 21, 2013 I was on the road near Woodsprings, west of Window Rock,
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Video: Reggie Watts tallies the price of carbon pollution
13 March 2013 (Climate Reality Project) – Narrated by Reggie Watts. We are all paying the price of carbon pollution. It's time to put a price on carbon and make the polluters stop the carbon destruction. The Price of Carbon Technorati Tags: carbon dioxide,carbon,global warming,climate change,coal,oil production,corruption,pollution
Oil Spill Response Vessel Runs Aground After Almost Crashing With A BC Ferry
Joe Oliver was in Vancouver on Monday to announce that the Harper was creating an oil tanker inspection panel, and to announce the appointment of a special envoy whose duties would be to liaise between British Columbia, Alberta, First Nations and the Harper regime. Joe Oliver wanted to make a really big splash with his announcement, the Federal Government spent money and ordered British Columbia`s largest oil spill response ship to come from Esquimalt harbour base to Vancouver harbour to make a big impression, seems that everything went really really wrong, on a relatively calm day ... more »
Princeton Mind-Matter Interaction Research
Psyleron - Princeton Mind-Matter Interaction Research from Psyleron on Vimeo.
Were the CIA and MI6 told that Iraq had no WMDs? Tony Blair's "too busy" to comment -- how 'bout George and Big Dick?
*Why, if it isn't former British PM Tony "Too Busy" Blair! If he wasn't so busy, he might be able to clear up this matter of MI6 having received high-level secret Iraqi information that Saddam Hussen didn't have WMDs.* *"There were ways in which people were misled or misled themselves at all stages."* *-- Lord Butler, "the former [British] cabinet secretary who led an inquiry into the use of intelligence in the runup to the invasion of Iraq"* *by Ken* My, how time flies! Here we are already plunging into the festivities celebraing George and Dick's Excellent Adventure in Iraq! I kn... more »
“37 Percent of People Have No Clue About What's Going On”
*“37 Percent of People Have No Clue About What's Going On”* By Mark Morford "Six percent of Americans believe in unicorns. Thirty-six percent believe in UFOs. A whopping 24 percent believe dinosaurs and man hung out together. Eighteen percent still believe the sun revolves around the Earth. Nearly 30 percent believe cloud computing involves… actual clouds. A shockingly sad 18 percent, to this very day, believe the president is a Muslim. Aren’t they cute? And Floridian? Do you believe in angels? Forty-five percent of Americans do. In fact, roughly 48 percent – Republicans and... more »
GAIA PORTAL: Stations of Light are Established
* * * * *Stations of Light are Established* by ÉirePort Stations of Light are established over and around Gaia to enable smoother transitions for humans to Hue-mans, in this period following seasonal change. Locations of Stations of Light are flexible and move as required. Those called within to steward such will feel the pull... strongly. We of ÉirePort station are monitoring planetary consciousness levels as Light levels upon and within Gaia increase. The Stations of Light stewardship crews will be called to take appropriate steps to bridge discontinuities as they are noted. É... more »
Eternal Presence - Live with It
To buy Eileen Meyer's songs the easiest way is to go to iTunes. https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/songs-of-anima/id295309520 If you want to buy the actual hard copy CD buy direct from Eileen Meyer's website: http://eileenmeyer.com/Music.html If people want to just listen to all the songs from my CDs, they are on Reverbnation: http://www.reverbnation.com/eileenmeyer
TRENDS IN NATIONAL SPENDING PRIORITIES
Facing soaring deficits and disagreements over the mix of taxes and spending in the budget, it is valuable to consider what the American people think governmental spending priorities should be and how their preferences have changed over the last four decades. Since 1973 the General Social Surveys conducted by the University of Chicago have asked people whether government spending in various areas from health to foreign aid is too much, too little, or about right. The General Social Survey is a project of the independent research organization NORC at the University of Chicago with... more »
The Magic of ALEC
Another nutjob trying to defend ALEC. It is so sad when the other side is soooooo wrong. Myth: The bills are written by the conservative think tank American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). One California paper’s editorial claimed a state bill copies ALEC model legislation. It doesn’t. That model legislation, first proposed in 2003 and called the “Animal and Ecological Terrorism Act,” is actually similar to a federal Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act that Congress passed in 2006. That’s an important piece of legislation in its own right to battle terroristic elements in th... more »
ALEC Agri-Business Members - What Do They Want to HIde
Great read this morning - about the absurdity of the American Legislative Exchange Council Ag-Gag Bills. Short - to the point. A lot of great ALEC reads happen on people's blogs - too bad "the suits" don't recognize citizen journalists. *What do they have to hide?* * * *Thom on March 19th, 2013* Suppose at your local grocery store there was a clerk that, before putting the vegetables out on display, would urinate on them. Would you want them caught? What if the person who caught them doing it was not a USDA inspector? Would it bother you that the privacy of that person or the groce... more »
Foreign Aid 15: Shrink the IMF
I forwarded my article in interaksyon, Why the IMF is irrelevant in thePhilippines, to Dr. Josef “Jop” Yap, the President of the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) because it was the PIDS that sponsored the forum where the IMF regional officer, Dr. Anoop Singh, spoke. Jop replied that he shared my article with the PIDS staff, thanks Jop. He added that the IMF need not be dismantled, that it only has to refocus and should have been done in the past, but the Fund has no clout over the major country credits including the US. I replied to Jop saying that when the IMF is... more »
TRENDS IN NATIONAL SPENDING PRIORITIES
Facing soaring deficits and disagreements over the mix of taxes and spending in the budget,it is valuable to consider what the American people think governmental spending priorities should be and how their preferences have changed over the last four decades. Since 1973 the General Social Surveys (GSSs) conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago have asked people whether government spending in various areas from health to foreign aid is too much, too little, or about right. The General Social Survey is a project of the independent research organization NORC at the Universit... more »
SENIOR ISRAELI THINK-TANK ACADEMIC CAUGHT LYING IN EFFORT TO PROMOTE UNILATERAL WAR AGAINST IRAN
Dr. Shmuel Bar, director of studies at the Institute of Policy and Strategy, an Israeli think-tank based in Herzliya, has been caught lying over US involvement in the bombing of Syria’s so-called nuclear reactor in 2007. A report in a BBC online news article yesterday stated the following: *Shmuel Bar points out that Israel did not inform the US in advance of the attack on Osirak or its alleged attack on the Syrian reactor, and may take the same approach in attacking Iran, as a way of side-stepping a potential "red light" from the US altogether.* Shmuel Bar is flat out lying with r... more »
Christy Clark Fails Boating Community, Misses The Boat
I`m going to my best not to be sarcastic, however it`s very difficult not to be when Christy Clark continues to utter statements that prove she is in way over her head in all departments.. Early this morning there was a tragedy, details are still unfolding, at 4:00 a.m. this morning a car at high speed launched into the water at the Gabriola ferry landing(Gulf Islands) ...The Fraser river based hovercraft responded, they were on scene about 5:00 a.m....Divers went into the water, they still haven`t located the automobile(4:00 p.m.)... http://www.cknw.com/news/vancouver/story.aspx?... more »
The Potentiality of Love
The Potentiality of Love, by Bill Brockbader and Eva Moore
Zerban Announces in WI - Hopeful Sign for MN????
From Roll Call *Wisconsin:Ryan’s Former Democratic Foe Explores Rematch* Democrat Rob Zerban announced Wednesday that he is preparing for a rematch with Republican Rep. Paul D. Ryan in Wisconsin’s 1st District. SNIP “Since the election, I have been inundated with phone calls and emails from people all over the First District urging me to come forward again to give the people of Southeast Wisconsin a viable alternative to Paul Ryan,” Zerban said in a statement. “My hope is that, over the next few months, we will begin to have a conversation about what the people of the Wisconsin’... more »
Thinking of getting a dehydrator?...
*this is the one I'm getting.* *The Nesco 700-Watt Food Dehydrator* * * * Available at Amazon*
Strangeness on Scribd
Having some unusual things going on with Scribd. I can't seem to revise uploads, only do new ones. Also I just loaded up a Bill Brockbader upload in private mode, and somehow got 10 reads before I ever made it public. Now that is strange.
No, Auckland is not the world’s most expensive city
Despite the horror stories on the news about Auckland’s insane and rapidly rising housing prices, and Nick Smith’s increasing pressure on Auckland’s mayor and council to fix this, Auckland is not the most expensive city in the world in which to buy a house. The most expensive city in the world in which to buy a house—not even a house, just a *shoebox—*is Hong Kong*. The median price for your shoebox in Hong Kong is HK$3,810,000, which with a median Hong Kong income of HK$282,000 makes that a multiple (what housing researchers call a “Median Multiple”) of 13.5. In other words, it... more »
Introducing the American Nationalist Association
*THE AMERICAN NATIONALIST ASSOCIATION* * * *Introduced by* * * *WORLD VIEW FOUNDATIONS & John Friend* * * *www.wvfoundations.org* * * *www.john-friend.net* * **Statement of Purpose:* * **Peoples of European ancestry must begin to organize and protect their own interests. We can no longer rely on the established political parties or organizations, including both the Republican and Democratic Parties. We must develop a genuine alternative to the controlled mainstream outlets for political, cultural, and social expression which do not represent or advance the interests of OUR PEOPLE. Ever... more »
Michael James : Pictures from the Long Haul
Menominee Boys at the Battle of Mole Lake Historic Marker Crandon, Wisconsin, 1978. Photo by Michael James from his forthcoming book, Michael Gaylord James' Pictures from the Long Haul.. Pictures from the Long Haul: Duane and the Menominee warriors Duane was a fast runner, and he was the guy who came through the woods, through the snow, bringing and giving out the word that the Menominee
ten years on: hate mail to bush and cheney from a dying iraq war veteran and war resister
Yesterday, March 19, 2013, was the 10th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq. Looking for something to post, I sorted through about a dozen essays and stories online, but nothing reflected the anger and sadness and disgust and urgency and frustration I feel about everything connected with the ongoing Iraq War. I didn't write something myself, because it feels like I've said everything I have to say a good 50 times over. I'm going to leave my post to Tomas Young. Young is an Iraq war veteran, and he is dying. He was profiled in the documentary "Body of War," which I wrote about whe... more »
Manly P. Hall - Buddha and the Bomb
Manly P. Hall, from his talk "Buddha and the Bomb": "When a person follows a wrong pattern for enough years a good pattern will hurt him or make him feel uncomfortable. He will not want to change even though he realizes that his present course is fatal. He does not want to understand life even though he knows that he must sometime face a change. He is just beginning to think seriously about life after death, and he is not able to create a philosophical insight or a mystical insight strong enough to accompany him in the years as they come to an end. All of this is part of a little... more »
Invitation From OPPT OC
*WHEREVER YOU ARE.....* *Please read out loud the last OPPT filing and declaration with us* *sometime in the next (24) hours* *All is Eternal Essence, Debt Release* Heather Tucci-Jarraf, trustee of OPPT, has reminded us that *the more energy we invest into this document and its declarations the quicker the declarations will manifest in our world and lives.* With the Spring Solstice we have arrived at a perfect balanced state of Light & Dark, multi-dimensionally. Could the timing be more perfect to declare and invest our BEingness and intentions into this document? ... more »
The Democrats CAN Win Back The House-- IF Steve Israel Flows With DCCC Staffers' Vision!
By the end, the Dems had won 201 House seats, a net gain of 8 You can always count on Stuart Rothenberg for a tidy summary of conventional wisdom and he didn't disappoint in yesterday's *Roll Call*story about how the Democrats can't win back the House. "Democrats," he insists, "need to net 17 seats next year to reach a 218-seat majority in the House." That's correct and... hardly news. The next two words, though, are the warning signal that he's going off track. "Democratic operatives identify 30 House Republicans who won by less than 10 points last year and assert that the margin mak... more »
Dutch Government Fueling Anti-Semitic Feelings :: Gatestone Institute
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3631/dutch-government-bds#.UUnYtGxKc9g.twitter
FRIENDS OF ISRAEL TOUR; WHY SHOULD JEWS HAVE A HOMELAND?
*Parliamentary Friends of Israel Study Tour - Debate* *Parts of a speech delivered by David Shoebridge in Australia's New South Wales Legislative Council on 14 march 2013. * * **Mr DAVID SHOEBRIDGE*: The human rights of the Palestinians ...were airbrushed out of the itinerary of the study tour that travelled to Israel and some very small parts of the West Bank... How could members not go to see the way the Palestinians live under the illegal blockade or not speak to ... the the paramedics about how they respond to the impacts of aerial bombardments by the Israeli military? *Isra... more »
Sounds Like Peoria to Me
Lyons: U.S. patients the victims of health care profiteers shar.es/ezQUavia @ sharethis — John A. Carroll (@haitianhearts) March 20, 2013
Anti-Racist is codeword for Anti-White
Must watch video from *MarmiteMan4*:
Exasperation Nation
Aspiration Nation. Could it be the dumbest political slogan since 'Make Ireland Thatcher's Vietnam!'? How befitting then it got an airing no less than several thousand times in Osborne's Budget Statement this afternoon, a piece of political work premised on political failure, economic incompetence and outright complacency. Don't take my word for it, here are some graphs. Aspiration? Exasperation nation more like ... There's very little I can add. Osborne's 2013 budget is austerity-as-usual. The points I made on the occasion of the Autumn State in December(!) largely still stand, tho... more »
Voters support stimulus spending for job creation
More proof nobody cares about the deficit. When it gets down to specific policy voters support "government spending" to create jobs. Even Republican voters: Americans widely support each of three job creation proposals, including offering tax breaks to businesses that create jobs in the U.S. and a program that would put people to work on urgent infrastructure repair projects. Support for these programs is only slightly lower in a variant of the question that asks respondents if they are in favor of spending government money to pay for the programs. Greg breaks out the figures: *... more »
Walk a Mile with Me
*Blessings Everyone:* *Someone once said something about walking a mile in another person's shoes to learn empathy. * *Do you have 8 min. to walk a mile with me? * *You can still wear your own shoes.* *your humble servant, * *ancient clown*
Just Like Cyprus: How the Australian Government Turned on its Citizens
*Guest post by Nick Hubble* Yes, this is getting old, but this week a new Mediterranean country became the centre of the financial world’s attention. It’s not even big enough to be one of the PIIGS, which used to make all the headlines. But Cyprus is important for a whole new reason. This time around, bank depositors will take a hit in the effort to bail out the banks. And that’s causing panic across Europe… What you need to know about this isn’t in the details. They’re a complete mess and keep changing from one hour to the next. One moment all depositors will lose a few percen... more »
Happy First Day of Spring!
This is what the local supermarket's parking lot looks like right now (we had another blizzard yesterday and the night before). Pretty soon, we'll be down to 3 or 4 layers of clothing. Woo hoo! How's the weather in your neck of the woods, peeps?
Obama: Manchurian Candidate or Enslaved?
Elliot, J. (2013, March) Drilling Deeper: The Wealth of Business Connections for Obama’s Energy Pick Propublica, http://www.propublica.org/article/wealth-of-business-connections-ernest-moniz [Paraphrasing] Majia here: This article analyzes potential conflicts of interest for President Obama's nomination for Energy Secretary, Ernest Moniz. Moniz was described by the administration as a "'brilliant scientist' who, among his many talents, had effectively brought together 'prominent thinkers and energy companies'....” ProPublica analyzes Moniz's 'collaborative work' as captured in h... more »
"Just Watch Me" (cross a picket line) - Justin Trudeau
For the record, Justin Trudeau confirmed on Twitter that when he signed this note to another passenger, he was flying back from Halifax on *Porter Airlines* --- where the workers have been locked out over their demands to meet safety standards. Meaning he crossed a picket line to do so!* -CBC: Justin Trudeau sparks Twitter frenzy with 'Just watch me' note**-Catholic Teachers Donate $30,000 to Striking Porter Airlines Employees* *-Letter from Sid Ryan to Porter Airlines President Robert Deluce* * * *H/T to Alice Funke* *PROOF! (for those Libs who are denying this .. ) * [image:... more »
What Lawrence O’Donnell said in real time!
*WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 2013* *Another big fake on Iraq:* It's one of the miseries of this anniversary week! We refer to the people who are misrepresenting their bulldog stance in the weeks leading up to war with Iraq. On Monday night, Lawrence O’Donnell and David Corn pretended to recall the way Corn brawled on TV during the run-up to Iraq. Just yesterday, we showed you that David, in the real world, engaged in no such fights. Wouldn't you know it? David and Lawrence were aggressively misremembering! Speaking of Corn, how about Lawrence? Early in his chat with Corn, he defined his ... more »
The June 23, 1947 UFO Sighting
I believe that I have found the original source for the story of a Cedar Rapids engineer who saw the flying discs. A headline in the *Cedar Rapids Gazette* said, “Flying Discs Seen By Railroad Man.” The problem? The newspaper is dated June 28, 1947 and appears two days after the Arnold story. And it didn’t happen in Cedar Rapids. The article, which is not six lines or six paragraphs, but a little longer than that, said: A railroad man said Friday [which is June 27, 1947 and eliminates the need for further information right there because the story appeared after Arnold] he saw “abo... more »
UCC Filing EMF (Electro-Magnetic Frequency) Test
*UCC Filing EMF (Electro-Magnetic Frequency) Test* * * (Just to clarify, the document being used in this video is the Press Release 1111.1 from the People's Trust 1776 website, NOT the most recent filing. Whichever the document, there is most definitely some incredible energies at play here!) ~ Brian This is a follow up to this article posted yesterday: http://americankabuki.blogspot.com/2013/03/removing-shackles-energy-is-real.html This experiment and YouTube video was shared by Paige in one of the Skype chat rooms today. Paige Ilise 11:42 AM Hey Y'all - I d... more »
Lamar W. Hankins : The Delusions of War Ten Years and Counting
Austin activist David Hamilton demonstrates against the Iraq War in December 2008. Photo by Sally Hamilton / The Rag Blog The delusions of war ten years after the bombing of Iraq began Only the willingly deceitful claim anymore that the war was for some noble purpose. By Lamar W. Hankins / The Rag Blog / March 20, 2013 For most of us, the last 10 years have not involved the personal agony
"An Orwellian America"
*"An Orwellian America"* By Gordon T. Long "As a young man, I voraciously read George Orwell's "1984", Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" and Alvin Toffler's trilogy which included "Future Shock", "The Third Wave" and "Power Shift". During the era of the Vietnam War, I wondered seriously about the future and how it was destined to unfold. Now being considerably older, I have the vantage point to reflect back on my early ruminations and expectations. Unfortunately, I am too old to alter the lessons that are now so painfully obvious. Instead, I pass the gauntlet to those who can un... more »
“Iraq, America's Arab Slaughterhouse”
*“Iraq, America's Arab Slaughterhouse”* By Paul Craig Roberts “Ten years ago today the Bush regime invaded Iraq. It is known that the justification for the invasion was a packet of lies orchestrated by the neoconservative Bush regime in order to deceive the United Nations and the American people. The US Secretary of State at that time, General Colin Powell, has expressed his regrets that he was used by the Bush regime to deceive the United Nations with fake intelligence that the Bush and Blair regimes knew to be fake. But the despicable presstitute media has not apologized to ... more »
In the Spotlight:
*Terresa Monroe-Hamilton* Terresa Monroe-Hamilton, who maintains* Noisy Room, *and also contributes to* **New Zeal, *and* Gulag Bound, *seems to be everywhere important and can turn out prodigious amounts of extremely good material. Somehow she manages to do all this while running a very successful business,* Monroe Virtual Services.* Terresa also has a *Facebook page,* a *Twitter account,* and does it all while managing to be seriously pretty. I have no idea of how she does this when I can't even keep my blog linkage sorted out. Maybe some day she'll share her secret. In the... more »
Harry Targ : Expanding the 'Iraq Syndrome'
Image from Democratic Underground. Cooperation over conflict: We need to expand the 'Iraq Syndrome' As we reflect on the 10-year anniversary of the launching of the Iraq War, the madmen inside the beltway are talking about increasing U.S. military involvement abroad. By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / March 20, 2013 In a November/December 2005 Foreign Affairs article, "The Iraq Syndrome," I
Left I on the News, 10 Years Ago
This blog came into existence in August, 2003, several months *after* the invasion of Iraq. But prior to that invasion, the author wrote an unpublished letter to the editor, which I reproduce here to remind readers that not everyone was drinking the Kool-Aid Colin Powell was pouring at the U.N. on the day that really clinched the U.S. government's attempt to persuade those that matter (the media and the Democrats in Congress, certainly not the public who were *not* convinced, nor even the U.N. Security Council for that matter) that an invasion of Iraq was necessary: While Iraq's co... more »
All eyes on South Carolina Congressional race
There's just so much to love about the SC special election. Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford took the first step on the comeback from the Appallachian Trail and won the first round of the Republican primary. His chances look good for winning the subsequent run-off. Meanwhile: The eventual Republican candidate will square off in the May 7 general election against Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch, the sister of comedian Stephen Colbert. She won the Democratic primary for the seat, handily defeating perennial candidate Ben Frasier. Her bro has already announced he's willing t... more »
银行系统本身处于危险之中。如果这样下去，西方是死定了！
American Scofflaw 塞浦路斯议会否决了盗窃的存款金额的昨天这意味着，赔率是银行（股市和一切金融）将被关闭，直到下周至少有没有计划B.弗拉基米尔·普京的使用的是“非常危险的”在他的描述发生了什么事。如果你打破其最基本的根源，它来自你的“非常危险”这个词应该害怕“很害怕！”“非常”是一个术语，用于把重点放在以下单词在这种情况下是“危险的”。 “危险”，取决于谁在使用这个词的范围可以从任何地方不小心把牛奶泼到“危险”...危及生命。在这种情况下，它被用来弗拉基米尔·普京... 或者，也许害怕吗？银行系统本身处于危险之中。如果这样下去，西方是死定了！
AND THEN IT GOES BOOM
*One of the early US nuclear weapons tests in the Marshall Islands * - I've had a very busy 24 hours. I spent most of yesterday preparing the news release about our opposition to the basing of "missile defense" systems in Maine and then sending it around to media in our state and around the world. Then I posted it on several other alternative news web sites and forwarded it to our Global Network email lists. By the afternoon I got several requests for radio interviews including a long one with Voice of Russia. This morning I noticed the Bangor Daily News had... more »
Scott Neigh's "Talking Radical: Resisting the State"
So, my friend Scott Neigh has asked me to review his book *Talking Radical: Resisting the* *State - Canadian History Through the Stories of Activists. *So here's the review!! First off, I finally think that I understand Scott's antipathy to working through official channels to achieve lasting gains. Many of the activists (either interviewed or described third-hand) who accepted government funding found their freedom of action constrained and their campaigns co-opted and neutered. Of course, I've always proposed going in with our eyes open to actually take-over and implement revolut... more »
A New Reality is About To Be Born
Another BIG thank you to Jorge for this beautiful work of art. ♥ In Absolute Gratitude, ~ Brian
Native leaders from US in Canada, Join Forces in Tarsands Fight
First Nations say they will fight oilsands, pipeline Minister of Natural Resources says pipeline projects are in First Nations' economic interest The Canadian Press http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2013/03/20/ottawa-live-conference-first-nations-pipelines.html Posted: Mar 20, 2013 9:24 AM ET An alliance of First Nations leaders is
If I Taught a Statistics Course
Today I am guest lecturing in a graduate seminar here on Quantitative Methods of Policy Analysis, being taught by Jason Vogel. The subject of today's class is statistics. In preparing for the class I rounded up a set of books that I have found to be particularly useful and I thought I'd share them here, just in case I ever teach a stats class down the road. These four books would be at the top of my required reading list: S. Sigler, 2002. *Statistics on the Table: A History of Statistical Concepts and Methods*, Harvard University Press. S. Senn, 2003. *Dicing with Death: Chance, ... more »
"No Free Ride" — brilliant!
From one of Canada's respected, award-winning veteran film-makers, this video about Hudak's morally vacuous ideological position with regard to Ontario workers. Together, Hillier and Hudak make the specious argument that Ontario’s declining manufacturing sector and rising unemployment, relative to other provinces, can be blamed on unions. Their analysis ignores the upheavals of globalization, the appreciation of the Canadian dollar, and the commodity booms that benefited other regions. And it conveniently overlooks the historical reality that in Ontario’s boom times, the private se... more »
Ron Jacobs : Raining Shock and Awe in Iraq
Image from Popular-Pics.com. Raining shock and awe: 'Mission accomplished' in Iraq? There was nothing good about this war unless you owned stock in the arms industry. Thousands of U.S. men and women were sent to Iraq over and over again to fight against an enemy that was essentially created by the U.S. invasion. By Ron Jacobs / The Rag Blog / March 20, 2013 The news had come overnight. U.S.
March 20 - First Day of Spring...
*and not too late to shop Amazon for great deals.* * ** * *Shop Amazon Easter Shop - Candy, Clothes, Décor * **
Solar Wind Energy Source Discovered
Understanding this phenomena has clear implications for the mastery of plasma based fusion energy. Present work envisages taking advantage of bismuth fusion – fission combination and this surely calls for the finesse this work indicates. Otherwise they plan to send a deep probe into the sun. that will be interesting to say the least. Getting data return will also be a challenge. This may also have much to do with some of the visible surface features on the sun. counter intuitive behavior tends to do that. *Solar Wind Energy Source Discovered* *http://scienc... more »
Tom Perez... And The Republican Party War Against Hispanics
To avoid a discussion of the Republican Party Austerity agenda fiasco, Rience Preibus' sad GOP Autopsy Monday focused around the edges, carefully skirting the real issues that make the Republican Party anathema to so many Americans. "We've got to reach out to more Hispanic voters" doesn't work while the party is blocking attempts to pass popular and rational immigration reforms. And it doesn't work when a notorious Republican senator, whoremonger and s&m freak, David Vitter-- who last made national headlines when his wife threatened to cut his dick off if she ever heard about him ... more »
Pre-hearing conferences in criminal cases
*R. v. Nguyen*, 2013 ONCA 169 discusses pre-hearing conferences in criminal matters : Pre-Hearing Conferences and their Use [53] Section 625.1(1) of the Criminal Code authorizes pre-hearing conferences to be held before trial or other proceedings (for example, a preliminary inquiry) “to consider the matters that, to provide a fair and expeditious hearing, would be better decided before the start of the proceedings and other similar matters”. Where a case is set to be tried by a court composed of a judge and jury, a pre-hearing conference “to consider any matters that would promote... more »
Syria asks UN to probe chemical weapon use by 'rebels'/NATO mercs
Original url to CTV story http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/syria-asks-un-to-probe-alleged-chemical-attacks-1.1202994 *The Syrian government asked UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday to appoint an independent mission to investigate an alleged chemical weapons attack by rebels in northern Syria.* Rebels in the north have denied the government claim and blamed regime forces for Tuesday's missile attack on Khan al-Assad village in northern Aleppo province. The U.S. ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford, said Wednesday the Obama administration has no evidence to support Syria's claims... more »
The Cost of Crime
But does this report include unreported crime? A new report says per capita spending on criminal justice — including federal and provincial jails, court costs and policing — has climbed 23 per cent over the past decade even as Canada's crime rate fell 23 per cent. Funny thing about the Canadian constitution: Feds make criminal law, provinces pay about 75% of the cost of enforcing it. Or, as our pal Kev says: @fernhilldammit @matthew_barlowAt this rate we can't afford to reduce crime any further — trapdinawrpool (@trapdinawrpool) March 20, 2013 What we can't afford is much more o... more »
Great Plains Tarsands Resistance: Action Camp Day 1
Action Camp Update: Day 1 March 19, 2013 by Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance Yesterday was the opening day of Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance’s first action camp—and we’re incredibly thankful to the folks who have thrown their weight behind this struggle and whose history of resistance continues to provide inspiration and context. The camp began with an opening ceremony led by
A "Lesson of Iraq" Which I Thought Everyone Learned But I Guess Not
Reading over all of the Iraq stuff this week, I'm sort of stunned that almost everyone -- supporters, opponents then, supporters then who believe they were wrong -- are still using the phrase "weapons of mass destruction." Cut it out, everyone. "Weapons of mass destruction" was a stupid category then, and it's a stupid category now. Unless it's for a critique of the poor thinking that went on then, no one should use it. Ever.
VIDEO Native Americans: Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance
Published on Mar 16, 2013 Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance is a coalition fighting the expansion and construction of Tar Sands infrastructure in the Great Plains. We are in explicit solidarity with peoples indigenous to this continent, communities near the point of extraction, and communities living in proximity to these toxic, cancer-causing refineries. GPTSR on FaceBook: http://
Why has Rory McIlroy lost form?
Consnsus opinion is that it's the fault of his changing clubs in that massive deal with Nike. However I wonder if he's been distracted recently... His girlfriend, world tennis number 1, Caroline Wozniacki has been posing for promotional material for a new sports lingerie range. The Mail have some diverting stills. Here are some others that I found that may illustrate why Rory is off his game. Maybe this has put Rory off of his stroke...
Mohawk Nation News 'War Rape'
WAR RAPE Posted on March 20, 2013 MNN. Mar. 20, 2013. Rape is a war crime. Pedophilia is rape. Rape is a scientifically developed military strategy to kill the victims and demoralize the people. Rape is one of the spoils of war with no prosecution of rapists. According to the UN it is a crime against humanity. Rape is used worldwide to subjugate the opponents. Peds,
Krauthammer: 'America Is Headed the Way of Cyprus' ...(video)
*when Krauthammer starts saying things like that it should be a real cause for alarm.* Seriously!
Your moment of Zen
Whatever the weather is saying outside your window, the wheel of time turned and the vernal equinox happened this morning. [Photos are better if you click on them to embiggen.]
The New York Times outdoes even itself!
*WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 2013* *Ashley Parker does it again, concerning immigration:* Ashley Parker got her start as Maureen Dowd’s “research assistant.” We’ll pause for a moment to let you laugh. Or as you try to figure out what that could possibly mean. Parker is part of the youth brigade at rags like the Post and the Times. This morning, she files a news report about the way the GOP is switching its stance on immigration. Her report sits atop the front page of the hard-copy Times. By its placement, it’s the day’s number-one news story. These are Parker’s first three paragraphs. ... more »
Financial Complexity Follies: The Elites Designed A New System That Redistributes From Middle/Bottom To Top (The GOP's Real Agenda Blusters On To Victory)
Lawyer: It’s Generally Preferable To Not Be Mentioned In Detail In An Insider Trading Complaint Hope this clears things up. Read more_ _ _ _ _ _ _ I think more and more these days about this great Interfluidity post about complexity in finance: Financial systems help us overcome a collective action problem. In a world of investment projects whose costs and risks are perfectly
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*Senators Vitter and Boxer join forces on bill to speed Corps of Engineers work*
Midweek Linkage
I’ve realized that it is mathematically impossible to finish what I need to get done before ISA. So this will be brief. Some of this morning’s world-politics headlines: deposit levy fails in Cyprus, leading to emergency talks; ROK banking and television computer networks hit by “virus”; and Al Qaeda in Africa claims to have beheaded Continue reading
Prime Minister Maliki Completes His Clear Out Of Central Bank of Iraq
At the end of 2012, the governor of the Central Bank of Iraq Sinan Shabibi was charged with corruption, and forced out of office. At first, his deputy Matheher Mohammed Mudher Salah tried to put a positive spin on events, and was even mentioned as a possible replacement to his boss. Instead, he ended up being placed under house arrest for several weeks. Now it’s been reported that Salah has been retired upon orders from Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. The entire affair was seen as a power grab by the premier who disagreed with the Central Bank’s policies. Deputy Governor of the Ce... more »
KLEIN ON THE LAWN: In search of minimal competence!
*WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 2013* *Part 3—Bungling a bevy of budgets:* Is Ezra Klein a minimally competent journalist? Frankly, we’ve started to wonder. His work last week was relentlessly awful. Much of his work was relentlessly awful in the weeks before that. Forget the young fellow’s blizzard of bobbles concerning the budget offered last week by the Senate Democrats. Let’s consider his hard-copy work from last week, including his critiques of two other budget proposals. Let’s start with Paul Ryan’s new budget outline. Can Klein quit this wonderful man? Last week, many pundits were ab... more »
Sharks win endangered species protection – ‘The smell of corruption and underhand deals around the halls was foul, and it was everywhere’
[image: Sea Shepherd is a CITES International NGO Observer. Photo: Sea Shepherd] By Gary Stokes, Coordinator, Sea Shepherd Hong Kong 18 March 2013 BANGKOK (Sea Shepherd Conservation Society) – The room erupts in cheers and applause as the result of the vote is announced, the Oceanic white tip shark is now safely listed on the CITES Appendix II. Shortly followed by the three Hammerheads, the Porbeagle Shark and both of the Manta’s. More importantly, CITES itself has regained some teeth as a resounding NO came from many of the worlds delegates in response to the Japanese led charge ... more »
Paul Craig Roberts: "Ten years ago today the Bush regime invaded Iraq." ... "What threat did the victory defeat? There was no threat. Weapons of mass destruction was a propaganda hoax. Mushroom clouds over American cities was fantasy propaganda. How ignorant do populations have to be to fall for such totally transparent propaganda? Is there no intelligence anywhere in the Western world?"
------------------------------ *Iraq After Ten Years — Paul Craig Roberts* ------------------------------ March 18, 2013 | Original Here March 19, 2013. Ten years ago today the Bush regime invaded Iraq. It is known that the justification for the invasion was a packet of lies orchestrated by the neoconservative Bush regime in order to deceive the United Nations and the American people. The US Secretary of State at that time, General Colin Powell, h... more »
ALEC is NOT About Strong Democracy
Oh my – the ALEC “educational session” last week in Iowa and subsequent media articles has got somebody’s panties in a bunch. Greg Forristall Chair - ALEC’s Education Task Force The title of his “opinion piece” made me want to puke Iowa View: Strong democracy grows from ideas like those ALEC shares I guess he and I have a philosophical difference here. Democracy to Me: A representative government of/for/by the PEOPLE Democracy to ALEC: A representative government of/for/by the CORPORATIONS Strong democracy in an ALEC kind of way means the corporations get the... more »
WotW: Build Your Own (Digital) Mix Tape with Songdrop
Anybody else remember spending hours listening to the radio with your finger on the record button of your tape deck, waiting for your favorite song to air so you could record it and make the ultimate mix tape? I sadly admit to making many of these mix tapes. Today, we have a number of devices and software that take care of this for us. My next big find is yet another digital mix tape concept, but done remarkably well and with the web in mind. It's called Songdrop. The concept is simple. Whenever you're on the web, listening to a favorite song on a popular music/video site, like Yo... more »
Invasion of Iraq - 10th Anniversary Reflections
What do I take away from this abomination? The reaffirmation that our opponents are dangerous. They are cretinous, deluded, hypocritical, murderous, greedy, cowardly vermin. Everyone who was sold on the unelected bush II's case for the war was an ignoramus or a complete idiot. Every media outlet that fails to condemn bush II and his administration as war criminals has failed utterly in its responsibilities. We won't agree to disagree on this. We are right and they are wrong. We were and remain right about Iraq. We are right about global warming. We are right about austerity. We are... more »
US politico-legal establishment's viscious treatment of Lynne Stewart
(part of an email received from a supporter of Lynne Stewart) In 1995, Lynne Stewart was appointed by a federal court to represent the blind Egyptian cleric Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, who was accused of conspiring to blow up New York landmarks. She became co-counsel with former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and renowned civil liberties attorney Abdeen Jabaar.Despite Lynne
Do Statin Drugs Cause Memory Loss?
The take home is that memory impairment is an issue. It must be closely monitored and dosage levels minimized at least. Recent work also suggests that a high intake of coconut product is useful to counter the effects.. It is also correct to say that the negative effects apply to a small population and can be recognized as a possible side effect to be guarded against. Statins continue to collect controversy and concerns. However certain critical variables have been recognized and it is high time we conducted a massive study that tracks all the attendant variables and the... more »
Guardian Angels Again
Quite simply, if you have never had a comparable experience, then it is hard to credit this type of report. However, observe something here. The individual received a clear message and acted to actually change the normal outcome in the first instance. The second is not as clear and gains credence only in light of the first as a comparable. I personally have experienced the equivalent of the first instance. Other situations that can be best described as ambivalent have also occurred but lack clarity. In the first instance though, I was approaching a heavily traveled i... more »
Calling Out Rachel Maddow On Her Ill-Informed Whitewash Of Iraq War Democrats
Maybe I was wrong. I mean Rachel Maddow is very smart and has great sources and I really trust her more than almost anyone on TV other than Ragnar Lodbrok. But Monday night when she said (in the clip above about how we look at contemporary history) "In American politics, there were plenty of Democrats who went along with the Iraq War 10 years ago, who believed it, who fell for it, who advanced it and made the lie more convincing by virtue of their Democratic endorsement. On the Democratic side though, *since*, that at least has since become a source of shame. It's a strike against... more »
Detention following arrest (refusal of bail) can be used to deterrent and a denunciatory effect
R. v. Kablutsiak, 2013 NUCJ 3 is a striking sentencing decision. In it Justice Cooper finds that detention following arrest (refusal of bail) can be used to deterrent and a denunciatory effect. This is useful for sentencing matters where bail was refused: [34] Furthermore, while it is not the intention or purpose of the bail system, the unintended consequence of removing an accused from the community and remanding him into custody immediately following the commission of an offence is that a message is sent that the Criminal Justice system will respond quickly and strictly to offenc... more »
Propagating A Lie
Truth is always the first casualty of war. But, on the tenth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, Richard Gwyn writes that truth died before that war started: In Bush’s version of the maxim, it wasn’t the fact every war once begun makes lying inevitable: each side always blames the other, minimizes its own misdeeds and claims that God is on its side. Instead, the purpose of these lies was to manufacture a war that otherwise couldn’t have happened. As a result, there was no limit to the lying. And George Bush told some whoppers. He claimed: That Iraq had an armoury of nuclear w... more »
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Spike Lee, 56. No shortage of good stuff: 1. Nice Seth Masket item mourning InTrade -- but remembering that it wasn't actually all that useful. 2. Jared Bernstein on the health care curve -- more details on what's going on, and whether it will last. 3. The latest (but still necessary) Conor Friedersdorf rant about sane conservatives and the GOP-aligned partisan press. 4. Yes, as long as Jennifer Rubin is out there, we'll have Jennifer Rubin takedowns, and they'll still be useful. This one on Obama and Israel from Emily Hauser is nice. 5. Matt Yglesias is right a... more »
Luke's Change - an inside job - Star Wars reappraisal
based on the Dylan Avery's expansive examination of the so-called INSIDE JOB that was 9/11 namely "Loose Change", this 'reappraisal' of George Lucas's 1977 Death Star Demolition Event is reminiscent of the same accusations directed towards the Corporate Hand of God that directed operations on the morning of September 11th 2001. We gotta ask, "How prescient (or cognisant) was George Lucas?" Actually, I can't work out whether this video is supposed to be parody i.e. honourably referential to the original work, or just blatant Neuro Linguistic Programming on the tenth anniversary of... more »
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On State Government Websites, Jindal Administration Promotes and Publishes Editorial Attacking Critics and Opponents of Tax Plan As “Unintelligent” “Demagogues” ~CenLamar
Pierre Deligne wins Abel Prize
Viscount Pierre Deligne of Belgium won the $1 million Abel Prize, a major award given to mathematicians, today. It's a well-deserved honor, I think. He is perhaps most famous for the proof of several Weil conjectures, (now) theorems about various Riemann zeta functions and related facts generalized to the case of finite fields. This is enough to see that Deligne is primarily an algebraic geometer, in the tradition of Alexander Grothendieck. However, the depth of a mathematician may arguably be measured by the extent to which his or her insights start to influence cutting-edge theor... more »
WalMart/Microsoft Bribery Scandals - Tip of Iceberg?
Saw this this morning Microsoft bribery probe hinges on definitions SEATTLE – Whether Microsoft actually gets prosecuted for bribery relating to contracts in China, Romania and Italy may hinge on the "something of value" the software giant may have bestowed on an executive or official to influence his or her discharging of public or legal duties. The Wall Street Journal, using unnamed sources, reported today that the software giant is the subject of a preliminary investigation to determine if it violated the legal definition of bribery. (The Justice Department did not respond to ... more »
Happy Nowruz
A Haft sin tableTo all a spring full of hope inspired by spring flowers shining on joyful hearts. Happy Nowruz
What Was Liam Byrne Playing At?
What is Liam Byrne playing at? There has been exasperation and annoyance that Labour MPs were instructed to abstain on last night’s DWP Commons vote. This was to retrospectively revoke workfare recipients’ right to claim compensation in light of the so-called Poundland ruling. Readers will recall IDS and his minions fell foul of an especially badly-worded set of rules that sanction dole recipients who "refuse" to take up compulsory work experience “opportunities”. It was a classic case of Tory incompetence and the DWP looked set to pay out approximately £500 to 230,000 JSA recipient... more »
BP & MMS caught with 2 versions of submitted WAR
Even when you have concrete proofs like this BP's whores will still say ....."but it doesn't mean anything". This came from BOMRE website. Check it yourself. Share or like if you genuinely want to save Mother Earth from these filthy OMAR who are bent on Greed, Oil, Satanism & Destruction (GOSD).
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*Jindal tax plan draft released* *On State Government Websites, Jindal Administration Promotes and Publishes Editorial Attacking Critics and Opponents of Tax Plan As “Unintelligent” “Demagogues” ~CenLamar* *Hiring in metro projected to be the second weakest in the nation* *Steve Gleason speaks on powers of technology in helping disabled* *Sequester rally today in New Orleans * *New Orleans taxi company launches backseat vending* *More St. Joseph's Day Altar photos * *La. alligator market on upward trend * *Col. Bruce Hampton and Andrew Duhon Ready for Wednesday at the Square*
Equinox, astronomical spring: now
Now, at 12:02 PM (after the noon), Pilsner Winter Time, the astronomical spring is getting started. The axis of Earth's spin is orthogonal to the plane in which the Earth orbits the Sun i.e. both Southern and Northern Hemispheres are equally far from the Sun. If you ignore the fact that the length of the day and the night may be "easily" measured just once a day, the day and the night are equally long right now. What I find bizarre is that people keep on repeating wrong dates of the equinoxes and solstices. If you check the table of the equinoxes, you will see that at least betw... more »
Should I be reassured?
EU Referendum has posted an interesting piece that addresses some of my worries I expressed in this piece: 'There has been a certain amount of concern as to whether bloggers might be caught by the proposed press regulations, and thus be exposed to crippling fines. However, in the debate last night in the Commons, the position was made clear by culture secretary Maria Miller. A clause inserted into the coming Bill makes the law apply only to a "relevant publisher". Such a publisher would have to be publishing news-related material in the course of a business, the material would have ... more »
TOP PEOPLE'S SEX FILES HIDDEN BY TOP POLICE
In the UK, top people "had their sex attack files hidden from investigating officers by police top brass." Hundreds of documents on famous suspects have been marked 'secret' or 'restricted' *Celebrities, politicians and VIPs had their sex attack files hidden ...* *Metropolitan Police Commander Peter Spindler has confirmed to The Times newspaper that top people were protected "by high levels of confidentiality built into intelligence systems."* The *National Association of People Abused in Childhood* says that the top police have put the protection of top people before the protect... more »
The BBC still trying to keep the hidden agenda, hidden
This morning much of the British media, including Sky, The Mail and The Scotsman are reporting that: 'Labour backbencher Jim Sheridan was facing a backlash last night after suggesting that journalists who mocked MPs should be banned from parliament. The comment came as the culture, media and sport committee took evidence from the Hacked Off pressure group on proposals for regulating the press. In a swipe at Commons sketchwriters, Mr Sheridan said: “I don’t understand why they are allowed to come into this place and behave in the way that they do.”' Of course Jim Sheridan's attitude... more »
DEFEAT FOR CIA IN MALTA? VICTORY FOR CIA IN CYPRUS?
*People of Malta.* * * Malta was used by the U.S. and NATO in the war against Libya. Malta: Case Study In NATO Subversion And Coercion In Malta's general election, held on 9 March 2013, the pro-NATO Nationalist Party was* defeated* by the 'anti-NATO' Labour Party. *Meanwhile, there seems to have been a CIA COUP IN CYPRUS* *Gozo in Malta.* In 2012, the Malta Labour Party made it clear that it opposed the Nationalist Party sneaking Malta into NATO’s *Partnership for Peace*program, without the permission of parliament. "Partnership for Peace obligations entail joint military exercise... more »
Greene et al.: too large landscapes are unstable
For years, I've been intrigued by the general idea that the usual KKLT arguments – supporting the view that the number of vacuum (dS or AdS) solutions to string theory is googol-like huge, most of those are stable, and they realize the anthropic principle (including the anthropic explanation of a tiny cosmological constant) within string theory – fail because there is an overlooked mechanism that tries to harm the classes of vacua that are too numerous and prefer the more unique vacua (or their small families). In the landscape category of this blog, you will find numerous article... more »
KOSHER NOSTRA WANT TO CURB UK PRESS?
Who are the wealthy people who have backed the campaign for curbs on the UK press? Blogger Guido Fawkes claims he has a list that shows key donors include: Lady Annabel *Goldsmith*, mother of Jemima Khan and Zac Goldsmith. Jewish billionaire Lord *Sainsbury*, who was one of Labour's biggest financial backers under Tony Blair. Hacked Off Donors: #1 Lady Annabel Goldsmith Hacked Off Donors: #6 Billionaire Labour Lord Sainsbury Hacked Off Funded By Billionaire Russian Oligarch *Lebedev* *aangirfan: ROYAL WEDDING - GOLDSMITHS* *According to the UK government:* "No newspaper or blo... more »
Lyndon LaRouche: Rapid Population Reduction Policy Implemented
Alex Jones welcomes back to his show activist and former presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche to cover a range of topics from the threat of thermonuclear war and asteroid defense to the complete breakdown taking place in Europe as seen by the recent events in Cyprus. Who knows what's really going on, and what's cynical PSY-OP for profit-related gameplan? And you know, on the topic of over-population, the funny thing is, Free Planet CONDONES less humans on this Earth. Free Planet is of the opinion that WE i.e. You The People, that's you and I and how we run our own affairs, ne... more »
world of physical pain - it's why we're here - spirit condensing
in the late nineteen eighties, I wrote a sarcastic surrealistic sonnet about the artistic condition called Red Hedz that Creation Press published in paperback. It was the 'story' of an artist the resurrected sum total of whose psycho-figurative art comes back and loves him too hard. The camp tagline was "Love is pain, begging for death." Paul Kasparek, that was the artist's name, and boy did he suffer - no sexual perversion was ever enough for his enigmatic Jane Doe. At about the same time a lovely film called Hellraiser, by scouse artist/writer Clive Barker, came out. And it seeme... more »
De Extinction Gathering Momentum
The Mastodon is an extinct species related to elephants that lived in North and Central America. They went extinct 12,000 years ago. I posted the first half dozen and you can see why these are popular. It will only get better. There are thousands of niche species out there that scream to be restored. I will go much farther than that. It will become the principle occupation of natural biology.A I have been posting, we are entering a world when the human community will deliberately attach itself to a small chunk of biome which it will optimize in terms of food productiv... more »
Failure of QE and Why With Ellen Brown
The real take home here is that the focus on the central bank is grossly misguided. The correct response is through direct government action. This should consist of mostly extending credit guarantees. You do not ask stupid people to make smart decisions. You create credit. This is something only the government can do. Banks merely lend to what you have created. They often do not do much of a job determining good intent. Our whole housing industry lives and dies on the basis of first time lending guarantees for a first time buyer. His education is underwritten is the same w... more »
Parent Trigger - False Promises, Divided Communities and Disrupted Young Lives
*Thank you for this thoughtful and informative video exposing The Heartland Institute, Parent Revolution, and ALEC's corporate charter trigger law. We're hopeful that videos like this will counter the lies the trigger proponents promulgate, and that communities will resist when these outsiders come to steal our schools. — rdsathene* The video tells the story of Adelanto, California where a well-funded, outside group "Parent Revolution" came to town and instead of working to improve the schools tricked parents with false promises, bitterly divided the community, and disrupted the... more »
Blast from the Past: Videos from '40s and '50s
*Whenever I take my dog for a walk in the fields in the morning, I bring my macro lens.* This is less than a minute of elementary education in Taiwan from 1947. This two and half minute video looks like someone's travel video of Taiwan from the 1950s, lots of old sights here. Check the sidebar of Youtube, there's even more stuff there. _______________________ [Taiwan] Don't miss the comments below! And check out my blog and its sidebars for events, links to previous posts and picture posts, and scores of links to other Taiwan blogs and forums! Delenda est, baby.
Matt Ridley on the greening planet
Many of us had serious doubts about the talk claiming that lots of cows will green the deserts. On the other hand, I have almost no doubts about the main points in this 19-minute talk: *Via Bernhard Jordan* The increased CO2 levels, higher efficiency of agriculture in general, and fertilizers in particular allowed the planet to become greener than before. Matt Ridley offers lots of geographic examples. He also mentions that only nine species that weren't confined to islands (plus Australia) have gone extinct due to humans in the last 500 years. The deceleration of extinctions ... more »
I Remain "Roughly" 18 Feet Tall
*UPDATE: Grinsted engages in the comments, do have a look!* *UPDATE2: I see that Grinsted is changing his "rebuttal" in real time and without acknowledgment of the changes (not good blog etiquette;-). So please do note that the post below is a response to the rebuttal as it stood March 19th, which now has evolved. In the latest version, Grinsted grants my major points (great!), so I think this debate has come to a close. Readers are invited to judge for themselves whether the Grinsted et al. surge index should be preferred in any way to existing datasets on US hurricane landfall f... more »
March 19, 1973
It's Monday, a relatively quite day on what will be one of the three or four biggest weeks of Watergate. Today's topic is only the fight over testifying on the Hill. From Haldeman's diary: -- Got into the Ervin question with [White House press secretary Ron] Ziegler because Ervin was on TV yesterday saying he would have White House staff people who refused to testify arrested. And try to force the issue that way. The P told Ron he thought it was too early to reiterate the P's position regarding a separation of powers. But emphasized that this is not a case of refusal to cooperate o... more »
Prayers...
*take time to offer condolences. * Dealing With An Aging Pet: The Last Chapter: With All Our Love to "The Best Cat"
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
Click to Enlarge Map*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 (GPS coordinates N41 15.148 W74 41.371) 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 1.1 miles, 20 minutes each way on intermediate terrain. This tour is entirely on public park land and is family friendly. The hike will be followed by a *12PM St... 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 »
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The Daily "Near You?"
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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.” Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon a... more »
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 »
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