Looking west at Baraboo, Wisconsin, USA. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Legal Maneuvering in Hershberger Case Is Mind Numbing, And Here’s Why It Makes Me Nervous
More than 100 people braved blizzard conditions to attend the hearing in the Sauk County Courthouse in Baraboo.
10:09pm MDST
Book Note: "The House That Herring Built" -- an amazing evening with Mark Russ Federman
*"As far as I know, I am the only Jewish father who was disappointed that
his kid became a doctor. I was thinking sturgeon, not surgeon."*
*-- from Russ & Daughters: Reflections and
Recipes from The House That Herring Built*
*by Ken*
The son in question is Noah, the older of Mark Russ Federman's two
children, Noah. He tells us in his new memoir that he had fantasies of
working side by side with his son in the family business, To Mark's
considerable surprise, his daughter Niki came back into the family
business, Russ & Daughters, the legendary appetizing store on Houston
Street in... more »
Musical Interlude: Vangelis, “Fields of Coral”
Vangelis, “Fields of Coral”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad1wFWdmZUs
GAIA PORTAL: Movements Within and Without Called For with Light Station Stewards
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* *Movements Within and Without Called For with Light Station Stewards*
by ÉirePort
Movements both within and without are called for with Light Station
stewards. Such Stations are manifested in harmony with energy signatures of
each steward and the location and intention for each Light Station.
Releasing of engraved patterns in such stewards and all Hue-manity is
essential for next steps in the energetic upgrade of Gaia. These pathways
have yet to be traversed, and require full flexibility of those involved.
Prior "standards of performance" for all Light Craft and Light Stewa... more »
According to Ellen Brown, who knows as much about banking as anyone in the world, what is now facing to the Cypriots can, and one day certainly will happen to Americans. The facts are that today's monster banks can loan much more money than their depositors deposit. However, in the event of a run on the banks, neither the banks nor those owning bank stocks will be liable. All losses will be borne by the depositors!!! You can look this up on Wikipedia. Advice: Move your savings account to a reliable credit union, STAT!
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A Safe and a Shotgun or Publicly-owned Banks? The Battle of Cyprus
Posted on March 21, 2013 by Ellen Brown
If these worries become really serious, . . . [s]mall savers will take
their money out of banks and resort to household safes and a shotgun.
– Martin Hutchinson on the attempted EU raid on deposits in Cyprus banks
*The deposit confiscation scheme has long been in the making. US
depositors could be next . . . .*
On Tuesday, March 19, the national legislature of Cyprus overwhelmingly
rejected a proposed levy on bank deposits as a condition for a... more »
"Fortune’s Fools"
*"Fortune’s Fools"*
by Phil Rockstroh
“Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.”
— Miles Davis
"As a general rule, musicians, artists, and writers, as well as those
possessed of an ardor for self-awareness and a commitment to political
activism have been advised to avoid a habitual retreat to comfort zones…to
take note of the criteria that causes one’s pulse to quicken, brings flop
sweat to the brow, causes sphincters to seize up, and delivers
mortification to the mind. In order to quicken imagination and avoid
banality, it is imperative t... more »
Definite Model Potential
In case you're not privy to my Facebook page, here is a re-post of one of
my favorite photos of Gabriel. Okay, so every photo is my favorite, but I
especially like this one. Gotta love those eyes.
"Folly..."
“Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.”
- Bertrand Russell
Is Ann Kuster Selling Out Already? Just A Late Night Question
Looks like they may have been right about her-- though for the wrong reasons
It didn't surprise me when lifelong Republican/spoiled brat Patrick Murphy
of Florida turned out to be one of the worst "Democratic" freshmen in the
class of 2013. We warned about him all during the 2012 cycle. Of course
he's not some kind of insane crackpot war criminal like Allen West, who he
replaced... but Allen West wasn't able to get inside the Democratic caucus
and woo naive freshmen Democrats away from progressive ideals towards a
Republican agenda that Murphy has always supported. That's exactly what... more »
"Bye, Bye American Dream! U.S. Economic Inequality Is Permanent, Study Finds"
*"Bye, Bye American Dream! *
*U.S. Economic Inequality Is Permanent, Study Finds"*
By Steven Rosenfeld
"A new study by a team of economists in academia and the government has
concluded that economic inequality is a permanent—not temporary—feature in
the United States, based on an analysis of 350,000 federal income tax
returns between 1987 and 2009. “For household income, both before and after
taxes, the increase in inequality over this period was predominantly,
although not entirely, permanent,” the highly technical report concluded.
“We also find evidence that the U.S. federa... more »
Math, Number Theory and Philippine Media
I have a good friend, a true blue academic scientist currently teaching at
UP Diliman. He got his BS Math also from UP Diliman in the 80s, he did not
graduate on time though because he was an activist. One time, he was shot
by the police in one of the anti-Marcos rallies. If he was not athletic –
he was a marathoner too, finished several 42K runs then – he should have
died that day as the bullet pierced a number of his vital internal organs.
His name is Dr. Fidel R. Nemenzo.
Fidel toned down his involvement in student activism and pursued his real
love – Math. He got his PhD Math f... more »
China Quarterly with Two on Taiwan
*Filming a commercial at Taipei Station*
From the latest *China Quarterly*:
Impact of Candidate Selection Systems on Election Results: Evidence from
Taiwan before and after the Change in Electoral Systems
Dafydd Fell
The China Quarterly, Volume 213, March 2013, pp 152 - 171
doi:10.1017/S0305741012001282 Published online by Cambridge University
Press 03 Jan 2013
Link to abstract:
http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0305741012001282
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Electronic Resources in the Study of Elite Political Behaviour in Taiwan
Jonathan Sullivan
The China Quarterly, Volu... more »
Northerntruthseeker On A Much Needed Vacation
I will be taking all of next week off for a much needed vacation break...
I will still post up tomorrow's Weekly Rant... But I will most probably not
be putting up any new articles at all for the entire week....
In my absence, I do recommend that everyone take the time to look at all
the fine articles put up by those who I believe are some of the best real
truth seekers around. They are listed in the left hand column of this
blog....
Thanks to everyone for supporting my work, and I will be back by March 31st
to post up my weekly rant on that date as well...
And as usual..
More to... more »
Exiled Oligarch Boris Berezovsky dead at 67- Suicide
This is breaking and the timing of this is most curious. I will move this
over to the suspicious deaths blog at some point in time.
As this is being reported right now- Suicide.
*Expect this to change. Expect fingers to be pointed at Putin.*
*But, I don't think so. *
Mr. Berezovsky’s death was first reported in a post on Facebook by his
son-in-law Egor Schuppe, and confirmed by Alexander Dobrovinsky, a lawyer
who had represented him.
Mr. Dobrovinsky, who runs a law firm with offices in Moscow and London,
wrote in Russian on his own Facebook page:* “Just got a call from London.
B... more »
Hatonn Wake up Call: March 22, 2013
SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 2013
Hatonn Wake up Call: March 22, 2013 by Nancy Tate
Hatonn
Good day dear ones! I am Hatonn, and I am here to tell you that so much is
happening within the framework of what will be in place when the mess is
cleaning up. There is so much that has been readied and will be set into
place when all of the rubble is cleared away and the ones who created it
have either seen their folly, or have been taken to their own holographic
planet. They don’t even recognize their power of creativity to the utmost,
for this holographic planet is of their creation. They are... more »
Bill Burr on Listening to Music
*Bill Burr on Listening to Music. YouTube Video Description - [Source:
activeobjectx. Uploaded on March 22, 2013]:*
So, I totally do this. Do you guys and gals do it too?
I listen to Bill Burr's Monday Monday Morning Podcast and thought I'd try
animating it.
You can listen to the podcast here, for FREE, at http://billburr.com/podcast
Paul Ryan-- The Prince Of Pain
I'm retired now. All the work I do is volunteer work. And the sun never
rises before I'm up and working. Before I retired I was the president of
TimeWarner's Reprise Records, home of Green Day, Eric Clapton, Joni
Mitchell, Neil Young, Depeche Mode, Wilco, Fleetwood Mac, Morrissey, Lou
Reed, Frank Sinatra, Barenaked Ladies, Cher, Enya, Josh Groban, Erasure,
Rickie Lee Jones, Steely Dan, Chaka Khan, and dozens of other artists. I
didn't work any harder then than I do now. And before that I started my own
independent record company, 415 Records, which I eventually sold to CBS.
That w... more »
Large infrastructure projects should be really easy, right?
Large infrastructure projects should be really easy. Because if you do "not
doubt in your heart" you can cast a mountain into the sea. See:
For verily I say unto you [says Jesus] that whosoever shall say unto this
mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not
doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith
shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray,
believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. (Mark 11:23-24)
Roading engineers could just set up... more »
CLIMATE CHANGE UPDATE
India's Maharasthra state has been hard-hit by poor rainfall and dwindling
water supply - causing many farmers to have to pay for water tankers to
deliver water on borrowed money.
The Rich are different
The old saw has never been more true. The rich not only have more money,
but clearly, they are different because the rich only care about themselves.
And at this point, they have enough money to buy their own priorites inside
the Beltway bubble.
We're not even talking the filthy rich here, these are just your ordinary
1%ers, with an average worth of $14 million. Granted this was a small study
in one city, but willing to bet these priorities would be the same in a
nationwide survey:
On policy, it wasn't just their ranking of budget deficits as the biggest
concern that put wealthy ... more »
Humanity at the Mercy of "Backup," "Makeshift" Systems
Majia's Blog - 7 hours ago
Power, cooling restored at Fukushima nuclear plant AP (March 20, 2013)
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201303200018 Tepco's
spokesman, [excerpted] Ono acknowledged the plant was vulnerable.“The
Fukushima plant still runs on makeshift equipment, and we are trying to
switch to something more permanent and dependable, which is more
desirable,” he said. “Considering the equipment situation, we may be
pushing a little too hard.”
Ono said the utility did not immediately try to switch to a backup cooling
system because doing so without finding and fixing the cause co... more »
Cruel Intentions
I've tried and tried and tried to make sense of this video. I'm still
stumped. But it's Simian Mobile Disco, so who cares?
A question for Jeremy Bowen, Jon Donnison, Wyre Davis etc.
http://twitter.com/RomanFox2/status/315507464860753921/photo/1
BORIS BEREZOVSKY, LITVINENKO, SERGEI SERYKH, RUSSIAN ISRAELI MAFIAS
Photo: www.mosnews.com/
On 23 March 2013, the 'Jewish Mafia Godfather' Boris Berezovsky was found
dead at his home in Surrey.
Reportedly, Boris Berezovsky, and his colleague Alexander Litvinenko, had
links to *the weapons smuggling Russian-Israeli Mafia.*
U.S. link to Litvinenko affair
Reportedly, Berezovsky had links to Neil Bush and Tony Blair and the Beslan
massacre.
*Alexander Litvinenko was a former officer of the Russian Federal Security
Service, FSB and KGB, who fled from court prosecution in Russia and
received political asylum in the United Kingdom. According to his wi... more »
Franz Boas - The Shackles of Tradition
*Wikipedia:*
Franz Boas (July 9, 1858 – December 21, 1942) was a German-American
anthropologist and a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the
"Father of American Anthropology" and "the Father of Modern Anthropology".
Like many such pioneers, he trained in other disciplines; he received his
doctorate in physics, and did post-doctoral work in geography. He applied
the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies;
previously this discipline was based on the formulation of grand theories
around anecdotal knowledge.
Boas once summed up his approach ... more »
Your moment of Zen
From Paul Shoul's excellent travelogue on South Korea. Heart and Seoul.
[Paul Shoul photo via Korea Tourism Bd]
[Photos are better if you click on them to embiggen.]
What Mattered This Week?
You know what mattered, I think? The CR: that is, the decision by the
Democrats to pass on an opportunity for a budget showdown. I suppose it's
also a decision by the Republicans to pass, too, although it seemed to me
that this one would have been a much better playing field for the
Democrats. We'll see...the next showdown opportunity will be over the debt
limit, with Republicans so far sending mixed signals. After that, the end
of the fiscal year.
As far as the budget resolutions...it's nice to see the Senate functioning
properly for a change, but other than that I doubt that it ma... more »
Can we predict when people will abandon the Jersey Shore? ‘The way we’re doing things at the coast right now is dumb’
[image: The Casino Pier Star Jet roller coaster submerged in the sea on 13
January 2013 in Seaside Heights, New Jersey. Photo: Glynnis Jones /
Shutterstock]
By Dave Levitan
20 March 2013
(Discover Magazine) – Diamond City, North Carolina, is not actually a city,
in that no one actually lives there. People did live there, though, back in
1899. That was when a major hurricane hit the community, on a small barrier
island near Cape Hatteras. Homes were destroyed, animals were killed, and
graves were uncovered or washed away in the storm according to a
conservation group in the area. ... more »
Just a week to go... Doctor Who is coming back to our screens...
And in case you have forgotten the last series and Christmas special,
although much of those episodes were forgettable, here's a reminder
"Rageddy man... goodbye"
Now if you really want a some spoilers here's a video that takes the
trailer and explains it. I love the idea of travelling within the Tardis. I
always enjoyed the 1980s peeks into the Tardis. I loved the idea of rooms,
wings indeed, a swimming pool, a library and more... There was the cloister
room which is where the Eye of Harmony is locate which I think was the
Tardis's power source.
SAVE THE RICH! (Fuck the Poor - HARDER) Is It Margin Call Time? (Rich Moochers Hurting US Again and Again)
My thanks to my buddy, RJ. For clearing this up. (Even though they clearly
have got it coming.) And if you think what the 1% just did to the poor
(90%) in the latest "Grand Bargain" is new . . . please please please
DON'T! Stop it now. Moochers! Mar 22, 2013 How Rich “Moochers” Hurt America
The 3-point plan of wealthy landlords, lenders and insurance providers --
the true "takers"
you are here
"So tell me my man...
you happy here...
in the big world ?"
Ruby Rhod
Omniscan Dye Used for MRI Contrasts Contains Toxin, May Cause Disease
Majia here: This story really raises my ire because I've been exposed to
the dye used to sharpen images twice in the past 5 years and had strange
reactions after the MRI.
I have two pituitary tumors in my brain and they've been mapped using the
MRI dye. Identification of these tumors has provided no medical benefits
because they are considered inoperable unless they begin growing rapidly,
are in danger of imploding, or are producing hormones at abnormal levels.
I experienced terrible "hangover" like symptoms after each of my latest two
MRIs using contrast. The second time my sympto... more »
Kurosawa's Birthday 2013
Each
one [of the films I’ve made with Kurosawa] is something very like a
revelation to me – not only about him, but about myself as well. Talking
about actors’ realizing themselves, when I am with Kurosawa... I
realize myself best. And yet he never dictates. Rather, he allows you to
do your best, and for him you do it.
– Takashi Shimura
Photos and quotation from This Must Be the Place. Fans
ACTION: 3/24 - 1pm Mpls Post Office - BE THERE !!!!!
*Rally at Main Post Office! (Rally)*
The Postal Service's plan to end Saturday mail is an attack on the future
of this great institution, on the customers who need it, and on the
employees who support it!
The American people depend on Saturday delivery to keep us connected and to
facilitate our business. Eliminating a day of delivery will hit rural
communities, small businesses, and senior citizens the hardest. This isn't
a change the American people want or that the Postal Service needs.
Make your voice heard! Join the March 24th Delivering for America rally to
preserve six-day del... more »
Former MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan quits TV to run organic hydroponic farm
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/20/former-msnbc-host-dylan-ratigan-quits-tv-to-run-organic-hydroponic-farm/
*Former MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan quits TV to run organic hydroponic farm*
By David Ferguson
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 16:11 EDT
Former MSNBC host and author of the book Greedy Bastards Dylan Ratigan has
announced that after leaving his show in June of 2012, he has re-launched
his life as an organic, hydroponic farmer. In an open letter on his website
DylanRatigan.com, Ratigan proclaimed that his life changed direction when
he found himself burnt out by “hollow political d... more »
IRS blasted over 'frivolous' parody video of 'Star Trek,' agency admits mistake
This video image from an Internal Revenue Service video
shows IRS employees portraying "Star Trek" characters
in a video parodying the TV show that was made for a
2010 IRS training and leadership conference. (AP) *AK Note: What a curious
video this is... *
*IRS Captain: How long till total anarchy?*
*Spock: According to my calculations total anarchy will occur at 11:11hours....
*
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/22/irs-calls-tar-trek-parody-video-mistake/
*IRS blasted over 'frivolous' parody video of 'Star Trek,' agency admits
mistake*
Published March 22, 2013
FoxNews.com
W... more »
Robert H. King: End 41 years of cruel and inhuman solitary confinement for Albert Woodfox of the Angola 3
*Photo of Robert H. King****Please support Albert Woodfox by sending an
email to Attorney General Caldwell, via Amnesty International's online
action page!*
My name is Robert H. King. I was released on February 8, 2001 after
spending 31 years in prison - 29 of them in solitary confinement at the
infamous Louisiana State Prison also known as 'Angola'.
Confined there with me were Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace, the other
two friends who make up 'the Angola 3'. Herman and Albert have now spent 41
years in prison. And though they are no longer housed at Angola, both
remain in solita... more »
It Seems to Me that the Number of Meteor Reports in the Media Has Been Unusually High
*The Washington Post just reported 2/22/2013*: Apparent meteor streaks
across evening sky in D.C. area
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/2013/03/22/d1c92d54-9357-11e2-a31e-14700e2724e4_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines
However, I am not certain that the actual number of meteors sighted on
earth has increased this year because the media may simply be reporting
more of them after the spectacular Russian one, which NASA reported as the
largest in 100 years here
Here is a list of 2013 meteors here.
Has anyone seen any comparative analysis?
Are we getting more or are they simply being... more »
Halliburton: Merchant of Death
Cheney's Halliburton Made $39.5 Billion on Iraq War By Angelo Young,
International Business Times 20 March 13
http://readersupportednews.org/FOCUS%20_%20Cheneys-Halliburton-Made-39-5-Billion-on-Iraq-War.htm
[Excerpted] The accounting of the financial cost of the nearly decade-long
Iraq War will go on for years, but a recent analysis has shed light on the
companies that made money off the war by providing support services as the
privatization of what were former U.S. military operations rose to
unprecedented levels.
Private or publicly listed firms received at least $138 billion of U.... more »
MOOCs Getting Bigger
MOOCs (or Massive Open Online Courses) emerged in 2008. Offering students
the opportunity to study high quality courses with prestigious
universities, but interestingly do not demand entry requirement and the
courses are online and can be undertaken from anywhere and regardless of a
student’s financial circumstances.
MOOCs are built for an online networked world where they can form virtual
shared interest communities that can cut across geographical and cultural
boundaries. These communities offer the learning support rather than the
academic staff and assessment of MOOC courses in... more »
BINGO!
Further to this post, Thomas Walkom confirms what DJ! had speculated about,
with regard to the sincerity of the Harper government's re-configuration of
the MASSIVE Employment Insurance job training funds.
*The federal government says it is serious about job-training. It is not. *
*If it were, it would not make it so easy for business to hire cheap
workers from abroad. *
*This is the dirty little secret about job-training in Canada. Employers
don’t train workers because most don’t have to.[..] *
*But employers know they don’t have to train. Instead, they need only wait
until the l... more »
Can Colbert's Sister Win In South Carolina-- Even Against A Corrupt Philanderer Like Mark Sanford?
In the South, they prefer a sinner who claims to have repented rather than
a saint who never sinned. No one can relate to a saint; they're all
sinners, struggling with guilt and fearing the hell their preachers use to
keep them in bondage. And in their weird religions of self-righteous
hatreds-- a kind of "Christianity" utterly devoid of Jesus' message--
they've been taught that no matter how opportunistic and insincere the
repentance, it trumps everything else. James Dobson-- the pope of a
right-wing s&m religionist cult based in Colorado Springs but appealing
primarily to primit... more »
Wernher von Braun: 101st birthday
Today, we celebrate the birthday of three mathematicians who have heavily
influenced physics: Pierre-Simon Laplace, Amalie Emmy Noether, and Ludvig
Faddeev. But because I posted the biographies four years ago (click at the
previous sentence), I won't do so again.
Instead, let me mention that six years ago, set theorist Paul Cohen died.
He is the man who proved that the axiom of choice can neither be proved nor
disproved using the Zermelo-Fraenkel (most popular) set theory axioms and
who repeated the same achievement with the continuum hypothesis.
So it's up to your belief and aesth... more »
WH Petition - NO Chained CPI
we petition the obama administration to:Tell the GOP and the Nation, No
cuts to Social Security benefits, No Chained CPI, no Superlative CPI will
be tolerated.Cutting Social Security benefits via Chained CPI or
Superlative CPI is unacceptable to Americans. A recent National Academy of
Social Insurance poll found 64% of Americans thought the COLA should be
increased not cut. A poll conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health
showed 66% of Americans supported no cuts to Social Security.
Increasing annual COLA's also increases Social Security Trust Fund
revenues. This improves Soci... more »
Why The War In Iraq Was Fought And Won For 'Big Oil'
*Yes, the Iraq War was a war for oil, and it was a war with winners: .....
Big Oil.*
*It has been 10 years since Operation Iraqi Freedom's bombs first landed in
Baghdad. And while most of the U.S.-led coalition forces have long since
gone, Western oil companies are only getting started.*
**
*Before the 2003 invasion, Iraq's domestic oil industry was fully
nationalized and closed to Western oil companies. A decade of war later, it
is largely privatized and utterly dominated by foreign firms.*
*From ExxonMobil and Chevron to BP and Shell, the West's largest oil
companies have set up... more »
Earth Hour 2013 - Still a Despicable Hoax (repost)
Earth Hour: A Despicable Hoax
"Earth Hour" special by Tony Cartalucci,
Originally posted March 26, 2011 - Nothing embodies the corporate hijacked
environmental movement more than the despicable hoax that is "Earth Hour."
Once a year, we are bombarded worldwide by a feel-good advertising campaign
on TV, radio, billboards, fliers, in the newspaper and in every other
conceivable way for an event that involves turning off the lights for one
hour per year, to "take a stand against climate change."
Image: What Al Gore doesn't tell you: CO2 has been 1000's of times higher
during the Creta... more »
U.S.A.: 10 Years After Installing Bush/Cheney Policy Of Torturing People
This is what happens when pure evil psychopaths steal power, rig elections,
rig courts, and rig law enforcement of an entire country...and no one does
anything about it.
An essential part of the 911 inside job by our government & intelligence
agencies (and other intelligence agencies like Israel's MOSSAD) was to
install a policy of TORTURE, to extract FALSE CONFESSIONS to cover up the
facts of who really did the terrorism on 911. "The Muslims" were the
PATSIES. The Bush/Cheney regime then dispatched a team of lawyers led by
JOHN YOO to retroactively make TORTURE LEGAL, so none of ... more »
Tepco was Supposed to Have Cooling Resumed but the Fukushima Plant Continues to Look Extra Hot
Majia's Blog - 12 hours ago
Emissions
are quite visible.
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EPILOGUE: Maddow promotes the great one-and-only!
*FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 2013*
*Their most important product:* Last Tuesday evening, at 9 PM, Big Ed
Schultz threw to Rachel, as he had done every night for several years.
Gratefully, Maddow said this:
MADDOW (3/12/13): Thank you at home as well for joining us this hour. *The
great Ed Schultz* is actually going to be back here joining us later this
hour...
Wow! According to Maqddow, the great Ed Schultz would rejoin her later!
“It’s coming up later on tonight,” she said. “I’m very much looking forward
to that.”
Wouldn’t you know it? One week later, Maddow introduced Steve Kornacki the ... more »
‘Quarantine her!’ Top Tunisian Islamist says topless girl needs stoning - Alarabiya.net English | Front Page
The religion of tolerance?
' Al Arabiya -
A Tunisian Salafi preacher has called for a 19-year old girl who posted her
topless pictures on Facebook to be "quarantined" and stoned to death before
she starts "an epidemic."
Tunisian newspaper AssabahNews quoted Salafi preacher Alami Adel, who heads
the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, saying:
"According to God's law, she deserves 80 to 100 lashes, but what she
committed is worth much more than that. She deserves to be stoned to death
and she must be quarantined because what she did is an epidemic."'
ht... more »
Exploding glass: slowed down
This is not a blog entry about state-of-the-art physics but it is about
mechanics of solids which is a part of physics which is why it may have its
place on TRF.
Prince Rupert's Drops are not named in this way because a prince invented
them but because a prince brought them from North Germany or Bavaria or
Holland to England in 1660.
They are created by rapidly cooling molten glass in water. This makes a
tadpole-shaped structure.
This piece of glass turns out to be remarkably resilient because the
pressure deep inside the drop is higher. It isn't easy to break it, unlike
most... more »
Socialism for Small Business?
John Kenneth Galbraith is remembered for declaring that the only form of
socialism that would be acceptable in America was socialism for the rich.
Now Britain's Labour Party, looking for ways to drum up support before
sweeping aside the Conservatives in the next elections, is promising state
intervention to protect small business against the abuses and excesses of
big business.
*[Labour Party] shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna raised the prospect
of automatic sanctions for big companies that fail to pay their suppliers
on time.*
*Umunna said the UK's late-payment culture was "... more »
Local KMT officials Oppose the 4th Nuclear Plant
Mayor Hau of Taipei came out this week against the Fourth Nuclear Plant... (Taipei
Times)
*Hau became the first local government head from the pan-blue camp* to
declare his stance on the nuclear issue by saying on Thursday that he would
vote “yes” in a national referendum asking voters if construction and
operation of the plant should be suspended.
His announcement prompted President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) to call him on
Thursday night to discuss his stance on the power plant. Ma met him
yesterday in the Presidential Office to continue their discussion on the
issue.
Presidential Offic... more »
A conviction based on a not overwhelming case may not be unreasonable
R. v. Bryan, 2013 ONCA 97 holds:
[4] We conclude that on the whole of the circumstantial evidence in this
case, the verdicts are ones that a properly instructed jury, acting
judicially, could reasonably have rendered. In particular, on this record,
a properly instructed jury could reasonably conclude that the appellant's
guilt was the only rational conclusion. See R. v. Biniaris, 2000 SCC 15; R.
v. Beaudry, 2007 SCC 5; R. v. R.P. (2012), 282 C.C.C. (3d) 435 (S.C.C.).
...
[13] Viewed cumulatively, we are persuaded that these factors were
sufficient to support the inference of the... more »
I CAN'T BELIEVE......
Idle No More Oklahoma rallies at the state capitol to protect the water and
environment of the area.
Crystal Zevon who sent around the above video, and has been with indigenous
people's recently at Tar Sands protests as she tours the country, writes:
I believe the theme emerging from my travels is that our Native brothers
and sisters have been in this fight for a very long time. They understand
the absolute necessity of caring for the land, our environment, through our
daily attention to our Mother Earth at the same time we are engaging in the
fight against the Earth's oppressors ... more »
Iraq 10 Years Later (3): Why the Neocon Theory behind the War Failed
My first post on the Iraq War asked if academic IR had any responsibility
to slow the march to war. The second tried to formulate what the
neoconservative theory of the war was, because many of us, in retrospect of
a conflict gone so badly, desperately want to un-remember that there really
was a logic
Continue reading
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*Carpetbaggers Continue Hate-Debate Over 'Make It Right" and How to Rebuild
New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward ~Smithsonian*
Editilla~New Orleans Ladder says: March 23, 2013 at 11:04 am
At least Thing 1 at The New Republic quoted a resident. Did you interview
any residents?
Another thing you didn’t do was mention the Corps of Engineers as the cause
of our devastation in New Orleans and particularly the flood wall failures
which disappeared your subject. That kinda makes you Thing 2.
Both of you casually imply Katrina devastated New Orleans. This is simply
not the Truth of what happened her... more »
The Waning Days of the First Republic
It's not difficult to conclude we are witnessing the rise of
pre-revolutionary America. From the ravages of globalization and the
offshoring of the nation's manufacturing base which once nurtured America's
middle class to still rapidly growing inequality that is the worst, by far,
in the developed world and marked by poverty levels now encroaching on
segments of the population that were once securely middle class to the
decline of American democracy and the rise in its stead of authoritarian
oligarchy and corporatism, the country has become a pressure cooker with no
functioning sa... more »
Simply adorable: the cute kids of the third Intifada at NYT Magazine | Jerusalem Post - Blogs
' "That's all he writes about Ahlam Tamimi but we can tell you more. She is
a Jordanian who was 21 years old and the news-reader on official
Palestinian Authority television
when she signed on with Hamas to become a terrorist. She engineered,
planned and helped execute a massacre in the center of Jerusalem on a hot
summer afternoon in 2001. She chose the target, a restaurant filled with
Jewish children
. And she brought the bomb. The outcome (15 killed, a sixteenth still in a
vegetative state today, 130 injured) was so uplifting to her that she has
gone on camera again
and again
... more »
It's The Fragment, Not The Day
The nearest demonstration I could find to join for this week of
actionsagainst the KXL pipeline - the proposed vehicle to transport oil
from the
Canadian tar sands to Texas for refining and eventual export just
approved
yesterday by our illustrious Senate - was all the way up in White
Plains,
New York. I had the usual misgivings about whether the strategy to
focus
on Keystone is much better than a red herring, a ploy that is more
convenient than targeting the underlying problems of excessive
population
and consumption. In this case that quandary was exacerbated by the
agonizing pa... more »
Bachmann Bashed in NYTimes OpEd
People like Bachmann represent everything that is wrong with the Republican
Party.
A NYTimes Op-Ed this morning takes not only the Republican party to task –
but focuses on Bachamnn
IMHO – a must read opinion piece.
Read it
>>>>HERE<<<
The Op-Ed ends with this:
When all the dust settles from the current dustup within the party over who
holds the mantle and which direction to take, Republicans will still be
left with the problem of what to do with people like Bachmann.
And as long as the party has Bachmanns, it has a problem.
People like Bachmann represent everything that is wron... more »
Twofer from Commonwealth: rice and nukes
*Went to the bike show in Taipei this friday to drop in on friends and ogle
the gear. Great time. Expecting full report on the show from Taiwan in
Cycles tomorrow!*
Commonwealth Magazine has two excellent articles this week, one on
political rice buying by China that explains why ECFA has neither benefited
the south nor changed hearts and minds, the other on the fourth nuclear
power plant. On rice, discussing how China early on adopted a two pronged
strategy, one to win the hearts and minds via purchases, the other to strip
mine Taiwan's agricultural know-how.....
This January, Wa... more »
A Clear Majority Of Democrats Abandon Pelosi's And Hoyer's Job-Destroying Sellout To Boehner
One of Pelosi's finest moments was when she stood up to her boss, House
Democratic Leader Dick Gephardt, in October 2002, and told him to take the
Iraq War Authorization bill he and DeLay had put together and stuff it
where the sun don't shine. Although-- with help from House leaders Steny
Hoyer, Steve Israel, Joe Crowley and Eliot Engel-- Gephardt managed to get *
81* crucial Democrats in the House to OK Bush's plot to invade Iraq, most
Democrats backed Pelosi and that was the end of Dick Gephardt's dreams of
being Speaker or president. He's a creepy-crawly, sleazy Beltway lobbyist... more »
Leadership 101
Simpletons lead simpletons by being simplistic.*
* Read *Leading Minds* by Howard Gardner. Disturbing evidence about
black-and-white messages as powerful leadership tools.
CYPRUS WINNERS AND LOSERS?
*1.* *Bank of Cyprus* "is likely to be saved"?
It has "*close ties to the island's ruling establishment* and is more
heavily laden with Russian deposits."
*- Financial Times*
*Typical scenery in Greek Cyprus.*
*2*. Felix Salmon wrote in Reuters of the Cyprus confiscation:
"Meanwhile, people who deserve to lose money here, won't...
"The big losers are *working-class Cypriots*, whose elected government has
proved powerless . . . .
"The Eurozone has always had a democratic deficit: monetary union was
imposed by the elite on unthankful and unwilling citizens..."
*Cyprus.*
*3.* ... more »
Why I'm Sceptical to the Idea of Harvesting Donor Organs from Living People
In a recent article in the Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics (alas
behind a paywall for those of you who lack access to university library
services or have a private subscription), it is argued that the so-called
Death Donor Rule (DDR) of most (if not all) regulations of organ donation
around the world, is not valid from a moral point of view. It is the
Canadian bioethicist Walter Glannon, who argues that the requirement with
regard to so-called *vital organs* – that is organs, the removal of which
is not compatible with sustained life of the donor – that they should not
be ... more »
They Really Believe We're Stupid
Jim Flaherty's budget is an extraordinary feat of legerdemain. He boldly
claims there are things in it which simply aren't there. Take his claim
that his government will invest in infrastructure. David Macdonald, at *The
Progressive Economics Forum*, writes:
One the most amazing things about this budget is that one of its three
focuses will actually be the opposite of what it’s touting. You’ll likely
hear that $14 billion will be spent on infrastructure over the next 10
years (actually you may hear much bigger numbers but they just re-announce
existing programs like the gas tax ... more »
Breathe
HER Grace is all she has,
And that, so vast displays,
One Art, to recognize, must be,
Another Art to praise.
Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924.
The seasons - with Brian Eno
Winter
Spring
Summer
Autumn
Scientific Evidence Says Vaccinating With HPV Vaccine Is Ineffective, Dangerous For You And Your Daughters & Wrongly Promoted As “Anti-Cancer”
Scientific Evidence Says Vaccinating With HPV Vaccine Is Ineffective,
Dangerous For You And Your Daughters & Wrongly Promoted As “Anti-Cancer”
Child Health Safety, 23 March 2013
Thank God, الله أكبر, for researchers with courage who are prepared to tell
the truth against the financial might of the drug industry, its
manipulation and its political lobbying to market harmful ineffective drugs.
A peer reviewed well researched well referenced letter has been published
in The Journal of Infectious Agents And Cancer telling the truth – yes –
really – yes it has – honest to God... more »
Musical Interlude: Dr. John, “Right Place Wrong Time”
Dr. John, “Right Place Wrong Time”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5zPqgQ67yo
Turn it up! lol
- CP
DAPHNE GUINNESS, BERNARD-HENRI LEVY, DIANA MITFORD MOSLEY, JOHN AMERY
*Daphne Guinness.*
The artist *Daphne Guinness* has Jewish and Nazi connections.
Daphne Guinness has been "romantically involved" with married Jewish
philosopher* Bernard-Henri Lévy* for a number of years.
*Bernard-Henri Levy and Daphne Guinness*
Daphne's grandmother was *Diana Mitford Mosley*.
*Diana Mitford-Mosley (right) with her friends in the Nazi SS.*
Diana Mitford Mosley, having divorced Brian Guinness, married the leader of
the British Union of Fascists, *Sir Oswald Mosley*.
*Daphne.*
Daphne's mother was Suzanne Lisney (died 2005) an artist and "muse to Man
Ray and S... more »
Nose rubbed yet?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2297776/SATURDAY-ESSAY-Why-Left-epic-mistake-immigration.html
Legacy From Pierre Trudeau To Justin Trudeau … To The RCMP … To Stephen Harper … To The Canadian People.
* **Written by Robin Mathews*
Possessing perhaps too much personal glamour, Pierre Trudeau
has left a legacy mediatized into an unparalleled fantasy. The truth is
painful.
Know first the despotism of Stephen Harper and the Prime Minister’s Office
(the PMO) has been made possible by Pierre Trudeau. The construction of
that office into a dictatorship, stripping cabinet ministers of anything
but decorative power and leaving MPs with no power at all was work largely
begun by Pierre Trudeau – and elaborated, of course, by his successors.
He set in play even worse initiatives than his... more »
They're not borders
The anti Israel crowd and their mouthpiece, the institutionally biased
against Israel BBC, are fond of calling for a return to the 1967 borders.
The problem is that they aren't borders, as the 1967 Armistice agreement
makes clear.
' Article VI
9. The Armistice Demarcation Lines defined in articles V and VI of this
Agreement are agreed upon by the Parties without prejudice to future
territorial settlements or boundary lines or to claims of either Party
relating thereto."'
They're NOT borders.
http://bbcwatch.org/2013/03/23/yolande-knell-ties-one-state-banner-to-bbc-mast/
Aung San Suu Kyi's "Saffron Monks" Stalk Streets With Machetes - Mass Slaughtering Refugees
*Image: Aung San Suu Kyi's "Saffron Monks" are committing genocide in
Myanmar. The West has both created this movement and is silently supporting
it, hoping to disrupt and ultimately drive out extensive Chinese interests
found at the epicenter of the violence. ***
....*
*
*March 22, 2013* (LD) - In Southeast Asia's Myanmar, already 20 are
reported dead in the latest genocidal violence carried out by Nobel
Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's "Saffron monk" political movement. CNN's, "Armed
Buddhists, including monks, clash with Muslims in Myanmar," reports that:
Buddhist monks and others a... more »
Fake Goods in China
This is an amusing item on the wonders of interacting with the nuances of
Chinese culture. It is a fun tale well worth it. Chinese culture was never
self conscious regarding their culture. After all, they could quite rightly
be so as theirs was central and intact over thousands of years. Catching up
to modernism was a shocking interlude well delivered and has created modern
China. Yet it was only a couple of centuries.
Even better, they have absorbed huge parts of western culture just as we
are absorbing attractive parts of their culture.
The Chinese today are creating... more »
New Hockey Stick is Junk
A new simulation of past climate has come out and this item spells out
just how wrong it has to inevitably be. Again we get an extremely
exaggerated hockey stick. That even makes no note of the decadal flat
period we are in.
Why anyone is still trying to hang on to the hockey stick metaphor escapes
me. This is called wishful thinking.
It also reminds us just how recent the advent of temperate agriculture
must be. It was only possible after 6000 BC in most locales. And that is
when the great agriculture expansion got serious.
The first centers were the seed colonies and... more »
USAF Sergeant Charles L. Moody's Abduction Report
This report throws in some fresh new information. It has been clear for a
long time that a number of types do come and go. In this case we get to
look at a working Drive. Of course we do not expect to understand it but it
can be described.
What is suggested is that this type will actively attempt communication
after 1995.
what has to be said is that the apparent activity has increased hugely in
the past twenty years and little of that expansion can be assigned to an
increase in public awareness. Better, all material is generally hitting the
internet.
A lot is inferr... more »
March 22, 1973
Patrick Gray is still testifying in support of his nomination, which is by
now pretty clearly doomed. Or if it wasn't...
--
Senator Byrd. Going back to Mr. Dean, when he indicated that he would have
to check to see if Mr. Hunt had an office in the Old Executive Office
Building, he lied to the agents; didn't he?
Mr. Gray. I would say looking back on it now and exhaustively analyzing the
minute details of this investigation, I would have to conclude that that
probably is correct, yes, sir.
--
This is the end of a very long line of questioning based no Byrd's
observation that Dean ... more »
Jihadist Leader of FSA Cries About His Masters Cheating Him (Video)
"They invited us to many conferences, but in total they told us, 'We will
give you weapons if you fight the Islamic groups.' This was told to us in
one of their conferences. 'We will arm you if you, the FSA, fight the
Islamic fronts.' I left this conference."
This quote above is from the video below. It is by a high-level Jihadist
terrorist leader. He is defending the plethora of radical Islamic terrorist
groups that have sprung up like poisoned mushrooms in Syria thanks to
Turkish, Qatari, Saudi, UK, and US aid.
He is apparently angry that the political and military leaders of ... more »
Sunday Classics preview: Risë Stevens (1913-2013)
*Risë Stevens as Prince Orlofsky (who may be blasé about
most worldly matters, but not about his beloved champagne)*
*J. STRAUSS II: Die Fledermaus: Act II, Champagne Trio*
*Risë Stevens (ms), Prince Orlofsky; James Melton (t), Eisenstein; Patrice
Munsel (s), Adele; Robert Shaw Chorale, RCA Victor Orchestra, Fritz Reiner,
cond. RCA, recorded c1950*
*by Ken*
No, Risë Stevens didn't make it to the 100 mark, but most of us would
settle happily to make it into our 99th year.
She was a Met mainstay for more than 20 years, from 1938 through 1961, and
sang a number of signature mezzo rol... more »
NETANYAHU’S IDEA OF ‘TWO STATES FOR TWO PEOPLES’ IS DIFFERENT FROM OBAMA’S
When US President Obama in his speech to the people of Israel said:
“Negotiations will be necessary, but there's little secret about where they
must lead -- two states for two peoples”, he was referring to the West Bank
becoming a Palestinian state. However, when Benjamin Netanyahu thinks about
‘two states for two peoples’, he’s thinking more in terms of West Jordan
becoming the Palestinian homeland and the West Bank – which Zionists refer
to as Samaria and Judea – becoming a part of Israel along with the Gaza
Strip.
While Netanyahu has said that he is willing to ‘negotiate’ with th... more »
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The story behind Ezra Levant's 11th hour 'apology' for Roma rant
By Karl Nerenberg
| March 21, 2013* *
*Apologies are coming fast and furious from Ezra Levant and Sun News
Network. Just this week, there have been apologies for comments made about
the publication Vancouver Observer and for a rant directed against the Roma
people. Our parliamentary reporter Karl Nerenberg, who has been closely
following the story of Roma refugees in Canada, has uncovered information
about just how close Levant actually came to facing prosecution for hate
crimes over his comments about the Roma. The office of the Attorney General
of Ontario was contacted for commen... more »
BP Gulf Oilspill Disaster was never an accident but a murderous plot
Okay guys. We promised you more documented evidence that BPGOD was a
premeditated murder plot disguised as an accident.
Here's another one; more incriminating since the doc first came from a BP
infiltrator as a planted disinfo.
They had intended this to be the "proof of another rig accident / sunken in
or around 23 March". Either they did not read the doc carefully or they
thought we couldn't read. Took us some time to check the authenticity of
the doc as all searches on the BOEMRE database did not list this particular
one. How did a lay person with no previous industry working k... more »
CONNECTING THE FOSSIL FUEL DOTS
Why we are here - Veterans For Peace members Tarak Kauff, Mike Tork, and
Ellen Davidson.
About 20 folks were at TransCanada today in Westborough Massachusetts,
protesting the war on Mother Earth being waged by the Keystone XL
pipeline. Two were arrested, in totally bogus arrests, when they were not
given time to leave.
Video by Nat Goldshlag (VFP)
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D.C. Circuit appeals-court nominee Caitlin Halligan drops the other shoe gently
*Sure, there are plenty of dumb and/or corrupt Democrats. But today's
Republicans really seem to represent a biological breach -- some sort of
mysterious reversal in the course of evolution.*
*"I am confident that with Caitlin's impressive qualifications and
reputation, she would have served with distinction."*
*-- President Obama, about Ms. Halligan's withdrawal from
consideration for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals*
*by Ken*
Both Howie and I wrote about the infuriating roadblock thrown up by the
worthless scum of the Senate Republican conference against the nomination
to the D.... more »
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Promoting fake Jewish "Holocaust" narrative is intellectual and psychological terrorism
President Obama, currently wrapping up a trip to Israel, where American
politicians and media executives receive their marching orders, visited the
Yad Vashem "Holocaust" memorial center earlier today, which provoked this
headline and article from the *Jewish Telegraph Agency*:
JERUSALEM (JTA) – *Israel does not owe its existence to the Holocaust, but
its existence prevents another one from happening*, President Obama said on
the third and final day of his visit to Israel.
"Here we hope," Obama said Friday at Yad Vashem's Hall of the Children
after touring the Holocaust memorial mus... more »
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