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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 - 15 minutes 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 - 5 hours ago
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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 »
Hermosa cascada de color azul en el bosque
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Niña jugando con palomas blancas
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Paisaje flotante con rocas y árboles
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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)
Práctica computadora entre las hojas verdes
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Rosas frágiles y perfumadas
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Piano con teclas de colores
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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 »
Tigre hambriento esperando su cena
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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 »
Swagel on Scheiber
Phill Swagel reviews *Escape Artists* by Noam Scheiber on President Obama's first term.
Kierkegaard On "Man"
Related: *Kierkegaard On Socratic Ignorance*. Below is an excerpt from, *"The Soul of Kierkegaard: Selections from His Journals."* Edited by Alexander Dru. Dover Publications, Inc: Mineola, New York. 2003. Pg. 249-50. All those who have been exceptional, who have lived sparsely scattered through time, have each of them delivered their judgment on "man." According to the report of one: man is an animal; according to another: he is a hypocrite; according to another: he is a liar etc. Perhaps I shall not hit it off least happily when I say: man is a twaddler---and that with t... more »
Svensmark: “global warming stopped and a cooling is beginning” – “enjoy global warming while it lasts” | Watts Up With That?
The warmists ignore any history that might show the problem with their position,Watts Up With That has some extracts from a recent paper that addresses that shortage: 'Solar activity has always varied. Around the year 1000, we had a period of very high solar activity, which coincided with the Medieval Warm Period. It was a time when frosts in May were almost unknown – a matter of great importance for a good harvest. Vikings settled in Greenland and explored the coast of North America. On the whole it was a good time. For example, China’s population doubled in this period. But aft... more »
Death Talks - A short story
*A man was on a journey when he saw a shortcut down a dark alley. Dark alleys were nothing new to this man, as he has travelled through many of them over the course of his journey. Neither were shadows, as he has even faced his own, but there was something odd about this one because it seemed to move as he looked at it and it wasn't his. He paused, sensing something. "Who's there?", he asked the darkness. The darkness chose not to respond. "You might as well show yourself, i can feel you here.", he said to the silence. "You have become much more aware my friend..." came a whisper from ... more »
US Regulator Delays Nuclear-Plant Rules
Tracy, R. (2013, March 20). Regulator Delays Nuclear-Plant Rules. The Wall Street Journal, p. A6. [Excerpted] The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission delayed action on a proposed regulation that might have imposed hundreds of millions of dollars of costs on some of the country’s older nuclear reactors. In a victory for the nuclear industry, a majority of the commission’s five-member governing board voted for more analysis of the costs and benefits of installing filters on reactor venting systems… ...In a written statement Tuesday, NRC Chairman Allison Macfarlane appeared to disa... more »
On a positive note . . .
INHABITAT reports that clever young people exist, with an article you should read, by Morgana Matus, "17-Year-Old Builds Algae Biofuel Lab in Her Bedroom to Win $100K Intel Science Talent Search Prize". Sara Volz
Watch Karen Lewis Call It What It Is
On PBS, nonetheless. If you want to see the fire that will burn down the corporate whore house that is now in charge of our children's education in urban America, watch Karen Lewis on PBS tonight. I am assuming it will be posted later on the PBS site unless Bill Gates intercedes on behalf of the oligarchs that he leads. Protect Karen Lewis: she is only one I have seen who has the courage, the intelligence, caring, and the fire to galvanize an education for democracy movement. Watch Chicago Board of Education Plans to Shut Down 54 Schools on PBS. See more from PBS NewsHour.
Obama Dares To Step Foot In Palestine, Gets The Boot
I'm shocked that any American president even dares to step foot in Palestine after all these years, after all the killing that has gone on there by the Israeli government under U.S. cover. Have they no shame? The amount of suffering, destruction, pain, and misery that the U.S. government has been responsible for in the Middle East is unreal. From Afghanistan to Iraq, from Palestine to Syria, the list of countries is endless. Obama should stay in his bunker in Washington. He should be shunned by all civilized nations. Throwing shoes at the image of his face is a great gesture. Beth... more »
GAIA PORTAL: Intensities of individual upgrade pathway energies are increased
* * *Intensities of individual upgrade pathway energies are increased* by ÉirePort Intensities of individual upgrade pathway energies are increased. This is to enable full planetary alignment with Cosmic Higher D influx frequencies. Subsequent Cosmic waves ensure sealing of Higher Energies (frequencies) into Gaia. Final planetary movements are in process. ÉirePort | March 22, 2013 at 17:35 URL: http://wp.me/p2sFUY-eq
Catch of the Day
Ezra Klein asks one of my favorite questions today: what ever happened to the public option? Regular readers will know that I've been dead wrong on this one, at least so far. I thought it would be an extremely popular position for Democratic politicians, especially those running in competitive primaries. In fact, I thought it would be virtually required for such candidates. But it wasn't, really, in 2010, and it was only rarely mentioned in 2012. That was even true in Senate primaries, for example, in New Mexico and Hawaii, in which one would have expected the candidates to try to s... more »
Globalization Hits American Workers' Pocketbooks
In 2011, globalization depressed wages for non-college educated American workers 5.5%, or roughly $1,800 per annum. That's bad but it pales in comparison with this claim: *As a point of comparison, growing trade with poorer countries has cost the typical worker more than would result from recent proposals to make the Bush-era tax cuts permanent and to finance them with across-the-board cuts to transfer such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment insurance and food stamps.* Did you get that? Tax cuts for the rich? They're to be financed by "across the board cuts" ... more »
Is The DCCC Gearing Up To Take On Buck McKeon, Corrupt Drone Advocate And Chairman Of The House Armed Services Committee?
It must have been such a relief when every single Democrat voted against the Ryan budget Thursday morning. Normally, you'd get at least 3 or 4 corrupt, reactionary Blue Dogs or New Dems like Jim Matheson (Blue Dog-UT), Bill Owens (New Dem-NY), John Barrow (Blue Dog/New Dem-GA) and Mike McIntyre (Blue Dog/New Dem-NC) voting with Boehner and Cantor and against the Democrats, These four are particularly problematic not just because they do it all the time but because all four are on the DCCC Frontline List. This is what the DCCC and their allied House Majority PAC wasted in the reele... more »
“Divergent Directions: Coping with People You Dislike”
*“Divergent Directions: Coping with People You Dislike”* by Madisyn Taylor, The DailyOM “When we are forced to deal with people we dislike, a great learning opportunity is being put forth to us. As much as most of us wish we could exist in harmony with the people we encounter throughout our lives, there will always be individuals we dislike. Some simply rub us the wrong way while others strike us as deliberately unaware. We may judge others as too mean or abrasive for us to interact with them comfortably. Yet no person should be deemed a villain because their beliefs, opinions,... more »
Friday Nerd Blogging: Game of Thrones and Popular Understandings of IR
Check out my new post at e-IR for a consideration of how Game of Thrones tends to reflect how non-IR scholars might be thinking about IR.That’s all, folks.
The great global warming swindle - Full version
The great global warming swindle.
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