British Iraq War Protest (Photo credit: DJOtaku)
"The logic of Iraq war" by Carlos Latuff. Another comics from Tales of Iraq War series. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Iraq War Memorial (Photo credit: Lorianne DiSabato)
List of wars involving the United States (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
War on Iraq (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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How to Tame a Zombie
New zombie show *In the Flesh* (BBC Three, Sundays, 10pm) is an interesting
take on a well-trodden genre. Taking place in a contemporary setting,
cadavers have crawled out their graves and, with a nod toward the spoof *Return
of the Living Dead*, roam Britain to satisfy their hunger for brains. UKIP
folk can chillax, then. But, in an interesting twist, science rides to the
rescue. Zombies desire the contents of your cranium because they have lost
the ability to reproduce a certain set of brain cells necessary to keep
them animated. Scientists are able to synthesis these cells and ap... more »
Dewey Cheatham & Howe: Cyprus Edition
Do the outrages never end? While Cypriot working stiffs are at
least temporary spared from having their bank accounts seized by the
Eurozone Austerity Brigade, and nobody really cares whether the murderous
Russian oligarchy has to take a haircut, stuck right in the middle are
the countless innocent victims in the international tax-evading business
community. The world's off-shorers have been swept up in the massive
financial tsunami hitting this island Club Med of Sheltered Wealth.
Poor expatriates. They thought they came to Cyprus for the waters. But like
Rick in *Casablanca*, they... more »
Sunday Question for Liberals
I'll stick with Iraq, but try to find something a bit different...we've
heard plenty from Democrats who supported the Iraq War in 2002/2003 and are
now apologizing for it; we've also heard a fair amount from Democrats who
opposed the war then and are pointing out now that they were correct to do
so. So putting all that aside: for liberals those who opposed the war then,
were there any lessons that they should have learned from what happened,
either in the run-up to the war or after it began?
Channeling the Free Planet?
"Creativity, passion and kinship are the key to custodian liberation," Mike
what does that even mean?
It's like this stream of consciousness, *that maybe all professional
writers experience as cynical as they might think their commercial
three-act wares are*, poured out of me and entry after entry in the Free
Planet section of this blog scrawled forth, lifted from the ether.
I came to a conclusion tonight, solely based on the fact that "I don't
believe in that stuff", that I seriously might be Channeling the whole Free
Planet message. And I don't like the idea that my thoughts are... more »
A Family Budget Is Not Comparable To A Government Budget-- Unless Your Goal Is To Mislead Your Listener
Over the course of the last year, we've spent a lot of time going over
Joshua Holland's wonderful book, The Fifteen Biggest Lies About The
Economyand you may have noticed that we often use the above graphic to
introduce
the discussion. A graphic like that could work just as well to introduce
Michael Tomasky's column for the *Daily Beast* Saturday, The GOP's Three
Fiscal Lies.
I've been waiting-- and waiting and waiting-- for Professor Obama to
come
out one day and explain, precisely, why the GOP obsession with budget
deficits is utter bullshit designed to trick the American people.... more »
Pop Popular Understandings of Game of Thrones and Nerd Blogging Friday Two Days Late
My post at e-ir on how folks understand IR and its manifestations in Game
of Thrones is eclipsed by this series of videos. For the conclusion with
heaps of paens to teen movies:
Sunday Question for Conservatives
I suppose I'm a few days late for this, but: what lessons, if any, do you
think the Republican Party has learned from the Iraq War? What lessons
should the party have learned?
Alone
So, Kurt had to take a business trip to Tampa/Orlando this weekend. He
left Thursday after morning court and will be back shortly. He had to
drive (long story). So, I am anxiously waiting for him to get home. It's
kinda pathetic how at a loss I am without him here for one short weekend.
But, I guess it's good I still like him this much after 16 plus years!
:).
I had a pretty chill weekend. I stayed home for most of it, and relaxed.
I worked part of the day on Saturday (it was my and Kurt's Saturday to
work, so he got out of that, bastard!), and today, I went over to Jessica... more »
Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, March 24th, 2013
Sunday and yes, I am on vacation, but as promised I would do my weekly
rant.... I will also be doing the rant for Sunday March 31st, after a much
needed break.
I have been under so much stress the last while that I decided to take a
break for a week....Work has been atrociously busy, and with all the
troubles with personal issues especially with the recent illness of my
mother, I decided to take a break to avoid burn out.
I am still under fire for my stance that the Jews are absolutely NOT a
distinctive race. There has been nothing that I have seen over the last
few weeks that h... more »
Tea Party turns on Fox News
If your March Madness bracket is broken or you just didn't care about
basketball in any case, here's some amusing reading for a lazy Sunday
afternoon. Loving this one. Tea Party types are boycotting Fox because it's
too liberal now.
Funniest sentence in the whole piece:
“We have seen FOX suddenly get very loud about Benghazi after the 1st
boycott, but conservatives are conservative because they are not stupid,”
the website reads.
And actually, I guess they're not entirely imbeciles. Another guy had this
to say:
“The more I research into Fox—I saw that they donate more to Democr... more »
ROTHSCHILD; PHILBY; ANGLETON
*Victor Rothschild*
*
*
It's not Zionists versus fascists.
It's the feudal elite and their mafias versus the rest.
"Lord Victor Rothschild ... made Churchill's decisions, including the
bombing of the food trains into the concentration camps, and the continued
strafing of the inmates.
"Rothschild is on record as saying;
*"'There will be no room in the new country for shnorrers' (poor Jews) *
"He only wanted the rich powerful and influential for the new land, the
rest were to be sacrificed."
*The Truth Seeker - The Biggest Secret of World War II*
*Blade on the Feather* (1980)... more »
Kerry Demands Iraq Stop "Arms Flow" to Syria even as US Arms/Funds Al Qaeda
*March 24, 2013* (LD) - Absurd demands were put forth by US Secretary of
State John Kerry, regarding Iraqi airspace and alleged aircraft passing
through it with arms and cash supposedly destined for the Syrian
government. The Washington Post reported in its article, "Kerry: Iraq
helping Syria’s Assad by allowing arms flow," that:
Iraq is helping to shore up the besieged regime of Syrian President Bashar
al-Assad by allowing Iranian arms and fighters to cross into Syria from
Iraq, Secretary of State John F. Kerry charged Sunday.
During an unannounced trip to Baghdad, Kerry lobbie... more »
"For This Is What We Do..."
"For this is what we do. Put one foot forward and then the other. Lift our
eyes to the snarl and smile of the world once more. Think. Act. Feel. Add
our little consequence to the tides of good and evil that flood and drain
the world. Drag our shadowed crosses into the hope of another night. Push
our brave hearts into the promise of a new day. With love: the passionate
search for a truth other than our own. With longing: the pure, ineffable
yearning to be saved. For so long as fate keeps waiting, we live on. God
help us. God forgive us. We live on."
- Gregory David Roberts, “Sha... more »
Fuck Them! (Or Not) It's Only Fair
Well, considering their past actions, you can't say they don't know what
they want. And are not shy about letting US know. You'd wouldn't be
surprised if they actually took up arms and led the new Crusade against
their own countrymen, er, -women. Except, of course, this is the antiwar
(chicken hawk) group. They are always against wars they have to fight in
personally. (Credit: AP/Christian
Another example of Israeli apartheid policy
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alternatives to google reader at replacereader.com
Since blog comments are not a very useful way of sharing information, I'll
post this again here. A list of alternatives to Google Reader can be found
at ReplaceReader.
I'm very interested in this, even though I stopped using Google Reader a
long time ago. I tried several times, and each time found that using any
feed service hugely exacerbated that feeling of drowning in too much
information. Worse, using a feed reader triggered my anxiety about not
having enough time, just about the last thing I need. Thus my own internet
reading continues to be the only thing in my life that is p... more »
Weekend Update
Well, really more of a week update.
Monday was the Spring Birthday Celebration at Outback. Which is in part all
about Southern Man.
Southern Brother
Southern Children and Nephews. Heads, from left to right: nephew, son,
nephew, nephew, nephew, daughter.
Youngest Southern Niece with her mother and grandmother. Also, new glasses!
A good time was had by all.
The rest of the week was actually fairly relaxed as Teen Daughter was
(mostly) content to hang at the Ancestral Manor with her grandparents.
Southern Man had dinner there 'most every night and many games were played
afterward... more »
Michigan's Primer on Destroying Democracy
*from the bottom up.*
*Kill local democratically elected government first. *
From Common Dreams
Democracy Betrayed in a Bloodless Coup in Detroit
by Greg Bowens
A bloodless coup of the largest democratically elected government in our
state has occurred. Detroit has an emergency financial manager.
As Americans, we should be ashamed.
Those charged with defending the principals of our republic betray it
instead. … as the power of the executive and legislative branch is placed
in the hands of one person.
No invading army of communists is at the door. No terrorist insurrection
has oc... more »
JRE #331 - Dr. Steven Greer
*Sirius Documentary.*
YouTube Video Description - [Channel: PowerfulJRE. Uploaded on March 4,
2013]:
JRE #331 - Dr. Steven Greer, Brian Redban
Bill Burr on Prepping for Disaster
YouTube Video Description - [Channel: Anthro podcastic]:
11/12/2012 Clip from Bill Burr's Monday Morning Podcast. Listen on iTunes
http://billburr.com http://allthingscomedy.com
Will you still need me, when I'm 54
This piece was written by a woman of relative privilege. She's not worried
about where her next meal is coming from, or how to keep a roof over her
head. But these grafs could apply to anyone who lost good paying jobs after
the crash of 08. Thing is, with unemployment still too high and advancing
technology allowing big employers to wring greater productivity out of
fewer workers, "leaning in" is a cruel joke on 50something women:
Leaning in isn’t really an option for women like Marie and me, because
frankly, it’s not even that easy to get someone to take our calls. In a
world wher... more »
ALEC Allegedly "Vilified" - Right Counterfarts
But the one thing the vast left-wing media do want you to forget
is that there is a vast left-wing conspiracy supporting it.
That was the closing sentence in an op-ed yesterday – but NOWHERE in the
entire op-ed did the writer display anything remotely tied to the
preponderance of “vast left wing media”
Wake up this morning and turn on the TV - and all I see on the Sunday talk
shows is a gaggle of righties - telling me what they think I should believe.
Would someone PLEASE point out the “vast left wing media" to me? I sure as
hell can’t find it in Minneapolis/ St Paul or on the crap... more »
Watch the World Come Alive - A Vision
A vision from Dream Hopper:
There is your higher self and there is you; separated into this image
projected into 3D. You have forgotten how to access everything BUT the
image (you) projected into the dream (3D world). There will be a release
of this incredible amount of energy that will alter your understanding of
your 3D projection in this dream.
It is as if you had a huge cylinder of water with a spicket at the bottom.
The only thing you are conscious of is the spicket. The water has always
been there, you just weren’t aware of it. This “moment” is like a
rel... more »
Ellen Brown Explains Basel Recommendation to Tax Depositors in Bank Failures
Majia here: Ellen Brown explains a Basel proposal to reduce 'moral hazard'
by the banks by eliminating free bailouts and forcing all banking participants
to bear the costs, including bank depositors.
In principle, this approach is seen as a strategy for enforcing market
disciplines upon financial players.
In reality this approach will cause victims of bank malfeasance to pay for
the costs of that malfeasance:
*Ellen Brown *The Cyprus Bank Battle: The Long-planned Deposit Confiscation
Scheme: A Safe and a Shotgun or Public Sector Banks?
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-cyprus-bank... more »
Graph of the Day: New Zealand soil moisture deficit, January 2013
[image: New Zealand soil moisture deficit compared with historical average,
January 2013. End of month water balance in the pasture root zone for an
average soil type where the available water capacity is taken to be 150 mm.
Graphic: NIWA]
4 March 2013 (NIWA) – February rainfall totalled less than 15 mm (and also
less than 15 percent of February normal) in parts of Northland, Auckland,
and the Bay of Plenty. It was the driest February on record for Leigh
(north Auckland), and Milford Sound. In the case of Leigh, it was also the
driest month (of any month) in records which began in... more »
Sunday Classics: Remembering Risë Stevens
*Risë Stevens sings the "*Habañera*" from Act I of Bizet's Carmen -- I
gather from a 1951 TV performance.*
*by Ken*
As I mentioned in Friday night's preview, since Risë Stevens was an
important exponenet of a number of roles that have commanded attention here
at Sunday Classics that we've already heard a fair amount of her. For the
most part, then, today's musical remembrance will involve literal
remembrances, with the addition of a couple of items we haven't heard
before.
The plan couldn't be much simpler: We're just going to revisit each of
these classic roles from Stevens's r... more »
Creative Showcase Linky Party
This has been a crazy week for us. It started out with lots of projects
and new recipes and ended with our 4-year-old in the hospital. She is still
very sick, but finally home. She is napping right now so I thought I would
sit down and look at all my favorite's from last week's link-up.
Want to be featured on Creative Showcase? Link up your projects, reviews,
recipes and any other creative post in the linky below.Here are some of my
favorites from last week's linkup.
I love fudge. Doesn't this No Bake Malted Milk Fudge from Lemon Tree
Dwelling look amazing? You can never go wrong... more »
Summer in the Sydney carries on into autumn in once-in-a-decade event
[image: Swimmers in Sydney watch the sun rise over the south Curl Curl rock
pool. March 2013 overall was hotter than February, something that has
happened only 17 times in the past 100 years. Photo: James Brickwood]
25 March 2013 (Sydney Morning Herald) – Sydney is on target for its hottest
week since January and hottest March week in a decade, with an average
maximum temperature of about 29 degrees.
The city has already begun its unusually warm week.
On Friday, the mercury rose to 31.8, 6 degrees above the long-term monthly
average and the first 30-degree day since January.
Betw... more »
Poll question phrasing shifts public views on global warming – ‘Belief that global warming is happening has been mostly stable and increasing for the last thirty years’
[image: U.S. belief that global warming is occurring weighed over all polls
since 1986 to 2012. How you ask the question skews the results when it
comes to public opinion on global warming, finds an analysis of hundreds of
polls by The Strategy Team. The public mostly agrees on global warming's
reality, it says. Graphic: The Strategy Team]
By Dan Vergano
23 March 2013
(USA TODAY) – How you ask the question skews the results when it comes to
public opinion on global warming, finds an analysis of hundreds of polls.
The public mostly agrees on global warming's reality, it says.
The ... more »
RUMOURS OF A COUP IN INDONESIA; KIDNAPPED KIDS
*Hercules*
*On 9 March 2013*, a 'gangster' called Rozario '*Hercules*' Marshal was
arrested in Jakarta.
Gerindra Speaks Out Against Arrest of Hercules
*Hercules* may have been subjected to mind control by US-trained elements
of the Indonesian military.
*Hercules* runs a private army, reportedly on behalf of former general *Prabowo
*Subianto.
In 1998, *Prabowo* reportedly toppled Suharto on behalf of the CIA.
Indonesia is the world's biggest Moslem nation and it is booming.
So, it may be wrecked, just like Tunisia?
Indonesia's spy chief, Lt.Gen.Marciano Norman, has said that on... more »
West Drops Syria WMD Narrative As Evidence Points to Western-Armed Terrorists
*March 24, 2013* (LD) - For the US, UK, France, and its regional partners
including Israel, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar, nothing would have suited
their interests more than if the recent chemical attack reported in Aleppo
Syria turned out to be (or could have been portrayed as being) the work of
the Syrian government, or even "loose" weapons that had fallen into the
hands of Al Qaeda terrorists the West both arms and condemns simultaneously.
However, a strange silence has fallen across the Western media regarding
the chemical attack which Israel had even claimed to have "confirme... more »
Beautiful, Poignant Editorial
Edward Hoagland: Opinion Pity Earth’s Creatures The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/24/opinion/sunday/pity-earths-creatures.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130324&_r=0
Majia here: We are self-destructing as a species and most of us cannot
even recognize it. Our leaders hope to deceive us about our imminent
collapse, thereby escalating our collective suicide.
Beekeepers and activists sue EPA, saying it should have banned neonicotinoid insecticides
[image: Neonicotinoids may affect bees' ability to navigate. Photo: John
Walker / Corbis]By Michael Marshall
22 March 2013
The lawyers will be as busy as bees. The long-running row over
insecticides linked to declines in bee numbers is going to court.
Beekeepers and activists are suing the US Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA), saying it should have banned neonicotinoid insecticides.
Neonicotinoids are relatively new chemicals but have already become widely
used in recent years because they are taken up by all parts of a plant,
giving comprehensive protection against crop pe... more »
Territorial Entrepreneur Wins
We remember speaking as part of a team on Supply Chain opportunities at the
UK BA conference back in Dublin in 1998. We knew the statement that would
provoke a response was going to be when the final speaker of our team, Mike
Shatzkin, would suggest that UK retailers should buy their books from the
likes of Ingram in the US. The outrage from some on the day was expected
and somewhat overshadowed all else and although the case was somewhat
different to the Kirtsaeng v. Wiley recent case, the issue of territorial
restrictions and pricing wasn’t.
Last week, the US Supreme Court’s rul... more »
If We Only Had a Free Press in Canada
Imagine if Canada had journalists like BBC's Eddie Mair here seen grilling
London mayor Boris Johnson. Imagine if someone in Canada had the courage
to sit down with Sideshow Steve Harper and take him through his own lies
and manipulations. It would be hard to get through that in a half hour but
it would be delightful.
LET'S TALK ABOUT JOBS
- I'm always talking about conversion of the military industrial complex
to peaceful production. And when I do that I always mention the definitive
jobs study by UMASS-Amherst Economics Department Professor Robert
Pollin. And now you can hear from the man himself.
- I got lucky this week by having two Op-Eds published in the two
biggest newspapers in Maine. The other day my piece was in the Bangor
Daily News and this morning the Portland Press Herald ran a similar
piece in their Sunday Maine Telegram. You can read it *here*
The losers in the latest U.S. budget deal: the rural poor, EPA, NASA
[image: Press release on Continuing Appropriations Act to Fund Government
through September 30, 2013, and to Prevent a Shutdown. Photo: U.S. Senate
Committee on Appropriations]
By Suzy Khimm
22 March 2013
(Washington Post) – Both Democrats and Republican leaders celebrated the
passage of a short-term budget that averted a government shutdown while
blunting some of the worst effects of sequestration. “I am so proud the
Senate bill protects national security while meeting compelling human
needs. It makes investments in human infrastructure like early childhood
education,” Sen. Bar... more »
33 years ago today - the guidestones
The Georgia Guidestones is a granite monument in Elbert County, Georgia,
USA. A message clearly conveying a set of ten guidelines is inscribed on
the structure in eight modern languages, and a shorter message is inscribed
at the top of the structure in four ancient languages' scripts: Babylonian,
Classical Greek, Sanskrit and Egyptian hieroglyphs.
The structure is sometimes referred to as an "American Stonehenge." The
monument is 19 feet 3 inches (5.87 m) tall, made from six granite slabs
weighing 237,746 pounds (107,840 kg) in all. One slab stands in the center,
with four arrange... more »
Immigrants and Ignorance
Another Sunday, another immigrant-bashing headline. Responding to
"concerns" (and looking to get favourable headlines, for a change), Dave
will announce measures tomorrow to keep immigrants out of social housing.
Apparently, no one can get a look-in as Afghans, Iraqis, Somalis and
Eritreans have jumped the housing queue. Things are so bad even single mums
are getting pushed aside! Never mind this is all a load of rubbish, it's an
opportunity for the PM to show how tough he is by attacking yet another
group of powerless people.
Back when I was a tweenaged Tory, there were a couple o... more »
Scientists plan to save Australia mountain pygmy possum as global warming melts snowy habitat
[image: An Australian mountain pygmy possum is fitted with a tiny radio
tracking collar. The rapidly warming climate has contracted the Snowy
Mountains' blanket of winter snow that serves as a possum refuge from
freezing temperatures when the possums hibernate for six months. Photo:
Nick Moir]
By Nicky Phillips, Science Reporter
24 March 2013
(Sydney Morning Herald) – Endangered species experts plan to save the
mountain pygmy possum from becoming the continent's first climate-change
victim.
A rapidly warming globe has contracted the Snowy Mountains' blanket of
winter snow that ... more »
Waging Class War is One Thing, Winning It Before the Other Side Knows About It is Everything
Bad news for working class America, white and blue collar - the class war
they never really understood had been waged against them for the past three
decades is over and they lost.
A team of researchers from the U.S. government and Brookings Institute
pored over 350,000 tax returns from 1987 to 2009. The exercise led them to
conclude that income inequality is not merely vast but, far worse, permanent
.
*"For total house-hold income, the large increase in inequality over our
sample period was predominantly,though not entirely, permanent. For this
broader income category, both the pe... more »
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*La. National Guard practices storm response*
*Letter to the Editor: ABO Hearing on St. Roch Tavern ~NOLA DEFENDER*
*Local landowners can get help restoring private wetlands** *
*Film industry workers nervous about proposed changes to tax credits* *Wardell
Quezergue Mass 4 pm Today ~WWOZ*
Storyful - Niche Propagandists Work Full-Time Distorting Syria Conflict
*March 24, 2013* (LD) - The Western media monopolies, the same media houses
that willfully and repeatedly told lies regarding "weapons of mass
destruction" in Iraq to help sell the corporate-financier engineered
invasion and occupation of the Middle Eastern nation for a decade, have
been very busy since. They helped sell NATO and its corporate-financier
backers' war of aggression and subjugation against Libya, and has been
attempting to sell a repeat of the atrocities committed in North Africa,
this time in Syria.
They certainly have their hands full. With the emergence of social me... more »
Employment Insurance In The Maritimes
Ralph Surette has been around a long time. He has seen politicians come and
go. And, for him, Stephen Harper cannot go fast enough:
Environmental and fishery laws, our international reputation, the integrity
of Parliament, relations with the provinces, and more, have been junked;
scientists have been gagged, information snuffed under a pall of
non-transparency, and so forth. Virtually every week, for years now,
there’s been a new outrage; they have become so routine that they’re hardly
reported.
And, from the perspective of a Maritimer, Harper's "reform" of EI really
means the d... more »
PEACE OF JEJU IS THE PEACE OF ASIA
**
Professor Yang Yoon-Mo has ended his 52-day fast against the Navy base on
Jeju Island. He remains in prison and issued this statement yesterday:
As I think that many people suffer from my fast, I don’t want to transfer
them suffering any more.
I have taken fast to urge people concern with Gangjeong, to inform them on
disappointing National Assembly, thoughtless Ministry of National Defense,
and innocent villagers and activists oppressed by the judicature.
I consider those have become enough informed. And I accepted the earnest
request by Fr. Mun Jeong-Hyon, Mayor Kang Dong-Kyun... more »
Putting American Seniors In Chains With Chained CPI
Enjoy the fantasy; Richard Burr will never be arrested for his crimes
against America
Few Republicans-- other than the machete-wielding lunatic fringe, the
Gohmerts, Stockmans, Brouns, Pompeos and, in the Senate, the 18 who voted
outright to end Social Security [Randy Paul (R-KY),John Barrasso (R-WY),
Tom Coburn (R-OK), John Cornyn (R-TX), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Ted Cruz (R-TX),
Mike Enzi (R-WY), Jeff Flake (R-AZ), Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Ron Johnson (R-WI),
Mike Lee (R-UT), Miss McConnell (R-KY), Jerry Moran (R-KS), James Risch
(R-ID), Tim Scott (R-SC), Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Richard Shelby (... more »
Happiness Cave: A thoroughly minor historical site
Riding along in Shihgang east of Fengyan the other day, I followed a
recently created bike path and zoomed past this cave. I'd noticed it
before, but always ignored it.
The sign said DO NOT ENTER. Normally I regard that as an invitation but in
this case the stink of urine was so powerful I declined to practice fine
American art of trespass.
The sign said that the cave had been used to store aircraft parts during
the Japanese period. I queried the awesome Wei-bin over at the Taiwan
Airpower blog, who opined that the cave and the road serving it were too
small for that purpose.
The... more »
Feeding the College-to-Poorhouse Pipeline
Bill Gates and his plutocratic pals of the Billionaire Boys Club have
successfully planted and nurtured the self-serving myth there is a huge
talent shortage among American workers. This myth has been fed, of course,
by corporations looking to drive down wages by creating an oversupply of
college graduates, and it has been promulgated by the college industry,
both for profit and non-profit.
With an oversupply of applicants at brick and mortar schools, those fine
institutions can cherry pick the high scoring middle class students and
dump the rest into the for-profit non-profit onli... more »
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Western Media Celebrates Faux Progress in Myanmar
*March 24, 2013* (LD) - Even as mobs loyal to Nobel laureate Aung San Suu
Kyi hacked to death scores of Rohingya refugees in a racist, genocidal orgy
of violence, the West has been of late, showcasing what it calls a newly
"open," "independent," and "free" Myanmar. The Los Angeles Times wrote a
particularly absurd piece titled, "Myanmar pivots uneasily away from China,"
where it states:
Myanmar's recent pivot from China toward the West, and a more open
government, came as a surprise to many outsiders. In rapid succession,
President Thein Sein's government suspended the $3.6-billio... more »
I'll Find My Way Home
❤ I'll find my way home ❤
You ask me where to begin
Am I so lost in my sin
You ask me where did I fall
I'll say I can't tell you when
But if my spirit is lost
How will I find what is near
Don't question I'm not alone
Somehow I'll find my way home
My sun shall rise in the east
So shall my heart be at peace
And if you're asking me when
I'll say it starts at the end
You know your will to be free
Is matched with love secretly
And talk will alter your prayer
Somehow you'll find you are there
Your friend is close by your side
And speaks in far ancient tongue
A seaso... more »
CHILD ABUSE; EARLS SCHOOL; KINCORA; SPOOKS
* £39,000-a-year Earls School in Hampshire which specialises in teaching
pupils with learning difficulties*
Stanbridge Earls School is an independent boarding school where UK Ministry
of Defence families send their children.
It is at the centre of a child sex abuse investigation, the Sunday People
has revealed.
*School of scandal: "Sexual Abuse" at UK school where soldiers send their
kids*
*Kincora boys home in Belfast in Northern Ireland. Kincora was home to 168
boys aged 15 to 18, between 1963 and 1968.*
*Police are to re-open the child sex abuse investigation at the Kincora
... more »
Reagan's Star Wars: 30 years ago
Ronald Reagan gave the following 30-minute talk on March 23rd, 1983, i.e.
30 years ago:
*Most of the talk is about the motivation and the situation. The very SDI
comments begin at 25:00 or so.*
The visionary SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative) speech was arguably the most
consequential presidential speech in the modern U.S. history. I am somewhat
impressed by the depth of the technical arguments that Reagan offered.
In July 1979, Reagan would visit some defense folks in Colorado and they
showed him that the Mutually Assured Destruction doctrine was the only
possible conclusion. Ro... more »
Real Wages Decline; Literally No One Notices
Your read it here first: Real wages fell 0.2% in 2012, down from $295.49
(1982-84 dollars) to $294.83 per week, according to the 2013 *Economic
Report of the President*. Thus, a 1.9% increase in nominal wages was more
than wiped out by inflation, marking the 40th consecutive year that real
wages have remained below their 1972 peak.
Yet no one in the media noticed, or at least none thought it newsworthy. I
searched the web and the subscription-only Nexis news database, and there
are literally 0 stories on this. So I meant it when I said you read it here
first. In fact, there was lit... more »
PROFIT is the real CANCER blinding you to this Free Planet
look at it this way, fellow Custodians, fellow Free Planeters, if you (or
one of your loved ones) got *cancer*, you'd try everything within your
means to eliminate it. After that, you'd try to eradicate THE SOURCE of
this cancer so that your body doesn't get 'reinfected' by it. You'd want to
avoid remission. You'd want to stay healthy. Live longer, happier, classier.
Right? Life is precious and we should relish every living moment of it.
So, apply that same logic to PROFIT.
I know for a fact that, for the last few thousand years under
Empire-then-Corporate Rule, you've been educat... more »
Ivan & Alyosha – "Running For Cover"
There's
also a good live version from their KCRW session (but the backing
vocals are mixed too low for my tastes). As some folks might have
guessed, the band takes its name from characters in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's
novel The Brothers Karamazov.
Lynn Picknett - Lucifer Revised [Red Ice Radio]
*The Secret History of Lucifer by Lynn Picknett.*
Video Title: Lynn Picknett - Lucifer Revised. YouTube Video Description -
[Channel: RedIceRadio. Uploaded on February 23, 2013]:
Lynn Picknett is a writer, researcher, and lecturer on the paranormal, the
occult, and historical and religious mysteries. Lynn and Clive Prince
authored The Templar Revelation: Secret Guardians of the True Identity of
Christ inspired the New York Times bestsellers The Da Vinci Code and The
Secret Supper. Lynn joins us to discuss, The Secret History of Lucifer, the
sequel to Mary Magdalene: Christianity'... more »
March 23, 1973
Judge John Sirica began the proceedings by saying he had a preliminary
matter to attend to first. He had the clerk unseal the letter, pass it to
him, and the judge read (original available at the link):
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TO: JUDGE SIRICA March 19, 1973
Certain questions have been posed to me from your honor through the
probation officer, dealing with details of the case, motivations, intent
and mitigating circumstances.
In endeavoring to respond to these questions, I am whipsawed in a variety
of legalities. First, I may be called before a Senate Committee
investigating this matter. Secondly, I m... more »
Tunisian Jihadist: FSA Is A Den Of Thieves And Money-Hungry Assassins
Video below: A Tunisian Jihadist talks about the FSA (Jihadist terrorists).
The realistic picture he paints of the FSA is not surprising to people who
have been paying attention and who have not been brainwashed. For example,
he says that many FSA fighters enter the homes of ordinary Syrians to loot
at will, and then make up excuses to justify their crimes.
It is clear that the FSA is, both in spirit and in action, a destructive
and criminal force. They are not liberators but trespassers and terrorists
who come mostly from countries outside of Syria and who have no business
being in... more »
Dr. Steve Pieczenik: Corruption of The Catholic Church
*New World Pope, Same Old Bullshit. *
The image and style of Pope Francis has surprised many people. But image
isn't everything. It is important to always be cautious of following
leaders, whether political or religious, who go down to the level of the
poor to gain their trust and consent. Pope Francis has done very symbolical
acts that have gotten him positive press coverage. He knows the gullible
people will eat it up and view him and the Church favourably, but he would
be more truthful if he acted as his status and position demands. A Church
full of pomp and pageantry is mo... more »
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 fr... 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/podcastRelated articles
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