Stargazer's Stone (Photo credit: road_less_trvled)
Body of Fred Hampton, after being shot twice in the head at point blank range by members of the Chicago Police Department. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
U.S. Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The Canadian War Museum, Lebreton Flats (under redevelopment), Victoria Island, the Portage Bridge and the Ottawa River, as viewed from a hot air balloon. Ottawa, Canada. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Coast Guard Port Security Unit (PSU) at Guantanamo Bay. The PSU unit was based out of Miami, Florida. Photo by Jeshua Nace of the Joint Task Force Public Affairs Office. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: kneels down Thursday during one of five prayer services performed by detainees in Camp X-ray, , , 4 April 2002. Hamdi is the second American and is waiting to be out processed to the United States. Camp X-Ray is the holding facility for detainees held at , Cuba, during . (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Aerial view of Guantanamo Bay, collected from http://www.nsgtmo.navy.mil/mission.htm Web Archive URL, PD according to http://www.nsgtmo.navy.mil/security.htm Web Archive URL (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
USS Mercy and Relief, Guantanamo, Cuba, April 1927 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Flag of the American Indian Movement. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Map of Cuba with the location of Guantánamo Bay indicated (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Letter to Senator Cornyn (R-Texas) from Captain Terry M. Hestilow United States Army, Retired...
*how many of you think he's wearing a tinfoil hat?*
I don't.
Dear friends, the following is a copy of my correspondence with Senator
Cornyn concerning the arming of the DHS for war against the citizens of our
nation. You are each encouraged to copy and properly amend this letter to
send to your own senators and members of the U.S. House. Further, I am
somewhat overwhelmed at the response to my posts leading up to this letter
on this issue. At this point almost 3,000 of you have shared my original
post, I have 994 new friends requests, 61 messages, and 70 new comments to
process.... more »
Schedule: Journey of Nishiyuu arrives in Ottawa
TIME
SCENARIO DETAILS 7:00 AM Walkers leave the overnight stay at Chelsea
8:30 AM Walkers reach Hwy 105 and St Joseph Blvd 11:30 AM Ottawa Police
close the Portage Bridge for Walker’s entry to Victoria Island 12:00
NOON Sacred fire at Victoria Island lit by Algonquin Firekeeper Peter
Decontie 12:00 PM Arrive at Victoria Island for Traditional Menu Please
bring own bowls, spoons. 12:30 PM
Mohawk Nation New 'COINTELPRO'
COINTELPRO [1]
Posted on March 24, 2013
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MNN. Mar. 26, 2013. COINTELPRO is the US developed
“Counter Intelligence Program” against the American Indian Movement,
Black Panthers and any group they deem “enemies” of their national
security. The security of the banksters to continue their war program,
it was implemented in the 1950s.
Intense fear is
Mohawk Nation News 'Hostile Takeover Bid'
HOSTILE TAKEOVER BID
Posted on March 23, 2013
MNN. Mar. 23, 2013. Indigenous relationship with the
land is the biggest threat to the economic royalist bankers. Destroying
our communal land holding is to deny us our culture, life and identity.
International law dictates that changes can only be made with our full
knowledge and consent. Their think
Mohawk Nation News 'The Budget'
THE BUDGET
Posted on March 22, 2013
MNN. Mar. 21, 2013. Canada’s Minister of Finance,
Jim “Who-Just-Came-Back-from-Some-Kind-of-Rehab” Flaherty announced his
government’s plans for spending our money. His convalescence didn’t do
him much good. He still looks worried, fat faced, beet red nose and a
big beer belly. He presented the budget on how Canada is going to spend
MIXED BAG
- The Pentagon's Southern Command has requested $49 million to build a
new prison building at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, for "special" detainees
prisoners on top of other renovations it says are necessary since Congress
has decided to keep it open indefinitely. That brings the potential
taxpayer bill for upgrading the facilities to an estimated $195.7 million.
- While in Iraq Obama's new Secretary of State John Kerry warned that
many in the US are wondering how, after Americans “have tried so hard to be
helpful” in rebuilding post-Saddam Iraq, the country cou... more »
THE ROAD TO IRAQ: Shameless, Christopher Matthews said!
*MONDAY, MARCH 25, 2013*
*Part 1—Shamelessness may look like this:* Last Friday night, MSNBC
re-aired its hour-long documentary about the way we went to war in Iraq.
Hubris, the program is called.
As best we can tell, the network has never posted a transcript of the
hour-long program. Nor has the network made the tape of the program
available on-line.
Last Friday night, the network re-aired the Hubris program at 9. After
that, the network aired an hour-long discussion of the program.
The network hasn’t produced a transcript of that discussion program, which
was hosted by Chris Hay... more »
FCC - Public Servants of the Telecoms
This headline has been bothering me for four days.
*17 Free-Market Tributes to Robert McDowell on His FCC Tenure *
*SEVENTEEN *
*Free-Market Tributes*
Not only did the present FCC screw the consumer while in office.
But now as they "retire" or "resign"
the free-market advocates (like ALEC)
are going to shove our faces in it.
Get it America!
Corporate profits are more important
than the people.
Our tributes just proved to you
we control the free-market
dialogue and the public servants who report to us.
Public servants who faithfully served the private s... more »
NEW SCIENTIST: Banks gone bad: Our evolved morality has failed us
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21729090.200-banks-gone-bad-our-evolved-morality-has-failed-us.html
*Banks gone bad: Our evolved morality has failed us*
25 March 2013 by Christopher Boehm
We seem to be unable to punish bankers for their scandalous behaviour.
That's because our moral instincts can’t cope, says a professor of
biological sciences and anthropology
Why is it so hard to punish bankers for their scandalous behaviour? Have
our evolved moral instincts failed us?
ROB a bank and you risk a long stretch in jail. Run a bank whose dubious
behaviour leads to global ec... more »
Changes
Just for the record, Southern Man does *not* like change. He's quite
content to go on just as before. It's safe and secure and predictable. The
grass is plenty green right here, thank you very much.
Life, however, has other plans. In the last few weeks Southern Man has
learned that (a) he will not be returning to his university in the fall and
(b) Teen Daughter is adamant that she is going to move in with him this
summer.
The first of these is frankly terrifying. Southern Man has been on four
(yes, count 'em, *four*) professional interviews in his life. Three of the
four landed h... more »
Guns: Moral schizophrenia...
says it all.
H/T *Western Rifle Shooters Association*
Dangers from heatwaves in Victoria set to rise – ‘Heatwaves cause more deaths in Victoria each year than other natural disasters such as bushfires and floods, yet heatwaves are not included in the state’s emergency management plans’
[image: Number of days over 35 celsius in Melbourne, current and projected
to the years 2030 and 2070. Graphic: Victorian Council of Social Service]
25 March 2013 (AAP) – Victorians will face greater danger from heatwaves
because of climate change and inadequate planning, a new report says.
On the back of Australia's hottest summer on record, and with heatwaves
predicted to become more frequent, the state must upgrade its preparation
and emergency responses, says the Victorian Council of Social Service
(VCOSS) report.
The council's Feeling the Heat report says the 2009 Victorian ... more »
Foreign Entanglements: Iraq Anniversary Edition
Catch my prescient NCAA prediction at the beginning.
Clearing Hurricane Sandy debris from New Jersey waters is grinding task
[image: At a fenced compound in Brick, New Jersey, hulks of ruined vehicles
removed from Barnegat Bay await their next stop while in storage. The
cleanup cost from Hurricane Sandy will depend on how much debris is
collected, officials said, but it will likely be in the tens of millions.
Photo: Philadelphia Inquirer]
By Jacqueline L. Urgo
24 March 2013
MANTOLOKING, New Jersey (Philadelphia Inquirer) – Buddy Young and his crew
wait pensively on a dock, two-way radios in hand, for a "picker" boat a
half-mile out on Barnegat Bay to report on precisely what the long-arm boom
mounted t... more »
‘Don’t make the mistake we did’: Fukushima survivor to Queensland
[image: A radiation detector displays 131 microsieverts on 28 February
2012, near the Fukushima Daiichi plant. At this location, a person receives
the maximum annual dose recommended in France for artificial radioactivity
in ten hours. Photo: Kimimasa Mayama / Reuters]
By Marty Silk
12 March 2013
(AAP) – A survivor of the Fukushima nuclear accident is urging the
Queensland government to reinstate a ban on uranium mining.
Japanese dairy farmer Hasegawa Kenichi is in Brisbane with a delegation
from the Japanese disaster relief organisation Peace Boat.
"Uranium is something the hum... more »
Daily Links, Monday, March 25, 2013
*Jump! Jump!*
Enjoy!
*BLOGS*:
- From Hong Kong Econ Journal Editor: some signs of what may be in store
for Taiwan some day. As I've noted before, surely the problem of
suppressing Taiwan's democracy after it annexes the island must be a vexing
issue for Beijing.
- Ben discovers a hilarious boardgame on Taiwan politics
- Is Agentina/Falklands a possible model for Beijing/Taiwan?
- Oz, that intrepid explorer of the dark side, goes after roadside betel
nut
- Bombing Handan
- Drew on training to recover his former glory.
*MEDIA*:
- President Ma press... more »
ALEC Educational Policy/Process - "Deceitful"
To begin with:
It's kind of interesting to note - that recent articles out there have been
noting that ALEC policy is too extreme for moderate Republicans.
Now ALEC policy/process is too extreme for a red state like Alabama.
I would say - it's time to sit up and take real notice.
The ALEC agenda of stealing taxpayer dollars to use for funding of
for-profit education has taken a unique turn in Alabama.
Maybe it’s just that people are waking up to ALEC nastiness or maybe ALEC
has finally pushed it too far this time.
When all of the nastiness from Alabama comes out in the "wash", ma... more »
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Nick Lowe, 64.
And some good stuff:
1. Dan Hopkins on how to influence policy if you're a lobbyist.
2. Bob Dole and the current Senate, by Michael Kranish.
3. And Mark Kleiman tries a little education.
Movie Ticket Shadow Box
I don't think I have ever thrown away a movie ticket. I have stubs from all
of the Harry Potter movies, Lord of The Rings and even some silly chick
flicks. These stubs are all in a envelope in my dresser and every time we
move my husband begs me to do something with me. Even though what he means
is to throw them away, I decided a little shadow box holding all of those
movie memories was just the ticket. Pun intended. ;) For this craft, I was
lucky enough to get to test out the new Dear Lizzy 5th and Frolic line from
American Crafts.
*Supplies:*
Shadow box or Toy Box from wooden... more »
Will Determined GOP Nihilists In The House Overcome Anemic Democratic Defenses In The Senate And White House To Impose Their Failed Austerity Agenda On America? Is Cyprus Coming Here?
Wall Street lobbyists fanned out over Capitol Hill in the last few weeks
with a plan to roll back regulations Congress passed on derivative trading,
trading that helped send the economy into a tailspin, caused the collapse
of AIG (and subsequent bailout), and nearly pushed us into a Depression
when regulations were nonexistent in the recent past. “Derivatives," said
Warren Buffett, "are financial weapons of mass destruction, carrying
dangers that, while now latent, are potentially lethal.” These shady
lobbyists haven't just reached their natural allies in the Republican
Party-- al... more »
CYPRUS BANKS; OTHER BANKS
*Cyprus invasion*
*
*
"The locals should understand: as soon as the money leaves, the people who
go to restaurants, buy cars and buy property leave too.
"The Cypriots' means of living will disappear."
*Russians prepare to quit Cyprus - FT.com*
nationalinterest.org...
*
*• Cyprus's second-largest bank, *Laiki Bank* is to be closed.
*Its deposits over €100,000 will be placed in a "bad bank".*
*
*
*These deposits could be wiped out entirely. *
Those with smaller deposits at Laiki will have their accounts transferred
to the Bank of Cyprus.
*All lenders to Laiki, including higher rated... more »
Beeb Bias Craig is back!
One of my favourite blogs was Beeb Bias Craig, the blog of Craig a man of
Morecambe descent who analysed BBC bias with a degree of forensic detail
that I could only marvel at.
He closed his blog on 26 May 2010 and started contributing more at Biased
BBC (now here) .
He did promise me that he'd resurrect his blog but instead I learn todaythat Craig and Sue have been posting on a new blog Is
the BBC biased?. I will take a detailed look around the site later but at
first glance the detailed investiagtive work you'd expect from Craig is
much in evidence.
A Break
I'll resume my look at Scott Neigh's *Talking Radical: Resisting the State *tomorrow
(maybe). For now, yeez kin watch a video. A terrible video I watched with
my 5-year old last night. The guy who wrote that script probably got $150
(in today's money) for it. Threw it at his bosses and said "If you want
quality, you have to pay for it." I can see it all now. Bet the guy looked
a little like me!
P.S. The five-year old thought it was stupid.
Untitled
***Barge Gate issues loom, engineering system failures worry La. flood
official ~Bob Marshall*
~*“It’s an incredibly complicated design that will take nine hours to close
effectively — and that the corps still can’t operate successfully after
repeated tries. **I keep seeing us trying to close that hole in the wall
with a storm coming — and having nothing but problems.’’* -Bob Turner,
Civil Engineer, regional director of the South Louisiana Flood Protection
Authority - East.
The story of the barge gate goes back to the aftermath of Hurricane
Katrina. *Admitting that its own catastrop... more »
You Can See It Coming
Michael Harris writes this morning that his support for native issues is
meeting some strong resistance:
Consider this response to my last column on aboriginal issues, which
predicted that unless the federal government abandons the status quo, there
will be big trouble in the land of peace, order and good government — and
sooner rather than later:
“What you fail to grasp Michael is the widespread support Harper has
amongst the white majority in Canada regarding the natives. The vast
majority of Canadian whites are fed up with the natives. The natives may be
fed up with us as well... more »
Indian Country Today continues plagiarism and copyright violations
International
writer, photographer, filmmaker and activist Rebecca Sommer exposes the
fact that Indian Country Today continues to plagiarize and violate
copyrights.
Indian Country Today currently relies primarily on armchair journalists
who plagiarize the hard work of others, relying on the theft of photos
and videos, while refusing to give credit.
While the writers at ICT are paid, many of
Rule of Law 19: How to Strengthen RoL?
* This is my 4th guest post in antipinoy.com
---------
This is a puzzle that all administrations in the Philippines have answered
or attempted to answer. And it seems that almost all of them have provided
the wrong answer, or partially correct answer.
I had a long discourse last week with a friend who teaches Political
Science at UP Diliman, Prof. Amado “Bong” Mendoza, and some friends in his
facebook wall.
Bong wrote,
*I agree with you Nonoy Oplas that we do not have a rule of law culture and
situation in our country. The question to be asked and answered: why is it
the case? So... more »
Economic Action Panda Rental
Pandas are the new Con mascot.
Apparently pandas are short-sighted, ill- tempered, and not well-adapted to
the world, but have nonetheless achieved a 40% increase in population over
the last 20 years.
Perfect.
.
Those little town blues
By Capt. Fogg
Small town newspapers. When I first moved here over 11 years ago, Little
Boots was in the white house and although the fear machine was running on
afterburner and everyone was in the process of never forgetting and sending
money to Taiwan manufacturers of plastic automobile flag holders, you still
had headlines declaring that some local fisherman had caught a record Snook
or irate letters about litter in the park. Now it's outrage. Every day.
Even the fish are angry.
Printed opprobrium grew over the Bush years, at least those quasi-literate,
misspelled, cliche-ridd... more »
Monday Morning Linkage
Good morning, Duckaroos! Here’s your Monday linkage from… “Dixie”: The
South will rise again – according to the UN. No, not that South, the
Global South. For the first time in two centuries, Brazil, India, and
China’s combined GDP is nearly equivalent to the combined GDP of the
leading powers of North America and Europe.
Continue reading
An Economist Speaks about the OPPT
*Subject: Why all of your efforts will pay off.*
Date: 2013-3-18 10:34:8
Lisa, Heather, Randall, Bob, Caleb, D, BK, AK, K and all others.
I will be working during the airing of you March/18/2013 show so I'll send
this message to you ahead of time in stead.
Everyone forgets to remember that Tesla was manually digging trenches when
he first immigrated to make basic ends meet until he had access to
“capital” and the time to develop his experiments. The problem being when
someone else (ie JP Morgan) controls that access they can also pull the
plug.
I’m an Economics major who gradua... more »
THE CLASSIC RUSSIAN JEWISH OLIGARCH - BORIS BEREZOVSKY
*Boris with his former girlfriend Elena Gorbunova*
The Daily Mail has learnt that the Russian Jewish oligarch Boris Berezovsky
"regularly paid for teenage girls to fly from Eastern Europe or Russia to
the UK for sex."
Young teen girls had sex with Boris in his armoured Maybach limousine, at
the Lanesborough Hotel in London and at his mansion.
*Boris's mansion*
"Close sources said it was an 'open secret that he paid for sex with
teenage girls.'"
*Mark Pendlebury*
Boris's driver was Mark Pendlebury, an ex-Paratrooper, who presumably has
no links to the security services or to th... more »
Media Reaction to Icelandic Revolution
The reason that you indict bankers is because it informs the next
generation who must be given the same power to make loans, that the price
of fraud is real and substantial. Today. Iceland has a reformed banking
system and a thriving economy largely making up its past losses and growing
nicely.
Those in the USA and Europe who also face prison for their behavior, also
control or deeply influence media. They certainly do not welcome this story
as it informs the population that there is an alternative to present
behavior.
Iceland is a growing success story, as for that m... more »
Amazing Cassava
This item introduces us to the benefits of cassava generally. The modern
world is seeing these plants in our supermarkets without much help in
deciding what to do with them. My own experience tells me that any new
product has to be tried and tested at least three times before we get it
right. This may help.
I suspect that we will be seeing much more of this plant and its
derivatives as we master the art of its use. I also think that food science
can do wonders here to make attractive products.
It certainly has more uses than as a pudding.
*The amazing cassava root:... more »
Constructural Law with Adrian Bejan
This is an extraordinary insight. What we are saying is that ordered
systems act as sinks for imposed currents by improving their access. We
leave out the actual physical nature of those currents and accept our
ignorance does not predispose our understanding. Suddenly Chinese medicine
has a creditable framework.
It also clarifies the evolutionary process as decision driven. A mouse
tests a new environment, prospers and leave offspring. It has nothing to do
with survival of the fittest. It has to do with right choices.
That also tells us that the collective acts to media... more »
Li Chiang-Yuen Lived to 256?
Our first instinct is simply to ignore this story as a deliberate tall
tale. Yet it appears to have been triggered by the investigations of
serious local authorities who got interested in the case. Certainly the
conditions were right for a local community to vouch for the authenticity
of these claims. That meant undisturbed records and little local mobility
allowing folk memories to be preserved to provide at least 150 years of
direct confirmation. Recall that it would be the last 150 years that are
surprising.
If the claimed imperial letters truly existed and attested to,... more »
Syrian Insurgent Provocations: Going For Endgame?
*Syrian Insurgent Provocations: Going For Endgame?*
By Daniel McAdams
Lew Rockwell Blog
Published on March 24, 2013
The armed insurgents in Syria are desperate to provoke an attack on the
Syrian regime from an outside force. Several recent events suggest they are
raising the stakes significantly in their attempts to foment a wider
conflict. The US government and its allies may well be willing accomplices
in this dangerous escalation game. Although it may well be an attempt by
some factions to shift back some balance of power between the rebel groups,
as word comes out that the CIA h... more »
"A Look to the Heavens"
“A mere 46 million light-years distant, spiral galaxy NGC 2841 can be
found in the northern constellation of Ursa Major. This sharp view of the
gorgeous island universe shows off a striking yellow nucleus and galactic
disk. Dust lanes, small, pink star-forming regions, and young blue star
clusters are embedded in the patchy, tightly wound spiral arms. In
contrast, many other spirals exhibit grand, sweeping arms with large
star-forming regions.
*Click image for larger size.*
NGC 2841 has a diameter of over 150,000 light-years, even larger than our
own Milky Way, but this close-up ... more »
Chet Raymo, “Daybreak”
*“Daybreak”*
by Chet Raymo
“I may have been in the last generation of youngsters who grew up with an
awareness of the works of Maxfield Parrish. The children's' books he
illustrated were still in circulation. Reproductions of his works appeared
with some regularity in books and magazines meant for kids, and they were
commonly framed for children's rooms. To me, they represented a fantasy
world, a never-never land of make-believe. Those skies! The blues! The
golds! The luminous mists! The billowing clouds like castles in the air!
The unearthly light that sugarcoats trees and cr... more »
March 24, 1973
In Washington, Senate Committee counsel Sam Dash continues meeting with
James McCord. In Florida, Nixon and Haldeman are calling around for advice.
And at Camp David, John Dean is writing, or not writing, the Dean Report.
Which, if completed, was to be used to exonerate and protect the president
-- but, as Dean realizes, only by landing the responsibility for the
cover-up squarely on John Dean.
Dean's suggestion, which he's made before but pushes again on the phone
this weekend to Haldeman, is for Dean to go to the soon-to-be-revived grand
jury, get immunity, and then tell the trut... more »
12 Imágenes bonitas y diferentes para fondo de tu laptop
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Microsoft facts global police data requests
*More than 75,000 requests were prepared by police services around the
world for data on Microsoft users in 2012.T*he facts were revealed in
Microsoft's first transparency report which comprehensive how often police
forces required data to aid investigations.US police forces topped the
record of agencies keen to know who produced specific images or other
content. In most cases, Microsoft only handed over basic information such
as login names and IP addresses.
Most of the additional requests were for non-content figures such as login
names, IP addresses or other low-level identif... more »
Meet & Greet Monday (#MtaGt)
Welcome to Meet & Greet Monday!
Banner by Art Ist
Grab our banner for your site:
Do you have an Eco-friendly blog? Do you occasionally write about the
environment or ways to live green? If you answered yes to any, you're
invited to link up. Here are the rules:
1. If you have a green-living blog or a blog where you sometimes write
about the environment, sustainability, etc., please use the "linky" below
to list your site.
2. If you only occasionally write about green living, please use tags such
as "green", "Eco", "Environment", etc. and then link to... more »
The Washington Post has every right to charge for its Web content; I just don't expect to be paying
*The washingtonpost.com home page tonight*: *Come summer, you'll still be
able to "make us your homepage," as it suggests, but you won't be able to
read more than 20 articles per month for free. (Click to enlarge.)*
*by Ken*
I've been meaning to say something about this week's announcement that the *Washington
Post* is going to begin charging "frequent users" of its website, defined
as "those who look at more than 20 articles or multimedia features." As of Monday's
announcement, "the company has not decided how much it will charge."
Notably, the report indicated that the paper --
... more »
ISA Survival Guide for Grad Students: the essential clothing, food, shelter, and networking dos and don’ts
It is time again for the International Studies Association Annual
Conference. With thousands of attendees, a phone book full of panels, and a
slough of receptions, dinners, meetings, and opportunities, the whole thing
can be a bit overwhelming as a grad student (and for everyone else too!).
You’ve likely received advice on how to present
Continue reading
People Start Revolt Against Disaster Capitalism Coups? (No More Safe US Airports: We Are Soooo Fucked (FAA To Close 149 Air traffic towers under cuts)
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/03/24 FAA to close 149 air
traffic towers under cuts Mar 22, 7:06 PM (ET)By JASON KEYSER (AP) In
this March 9, 2010 photo, an American Eagle flight waits for release from
the air traffic... Full Image CHICAGO (AP) - Under orders to trim hundreds
of millions of dollars from its budget, the Federal Aviation Administration
on
The Daily "Near You?"
Incline Village, Nevada, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
i am a master of information
The degree will not be official until May, but I've just completed my very
last school assignment. This means... *I. AM. DONE.* Done!!!!! My apologies
to everyone who already saw this at Facebook, but such momentous news *must*be posted on wmtc!
I am honestly unable to express my joy and relief at finishing school. I
sometimes wonder if I'm making a big fuss over something quite common,
something people do every day. Then again, if people do return to school
after nearly 30 years and pilot through a complete career change in their
early 50s, every day, then good on them, because it i... more »
Paulo Coelho, “May We All Be Forgotten”
*“May We All Be Forgotten”*
by Paulo Coelho
“In the monastery of Sceta, Abbot Lucas gathered the brothers together for
a sermon. ‘May you all be forgotten,’ he said. ‘But why?’ one of the
brothers asked. ‘Does that mean that our example can never serve to help
someone in need?’
‘In the days when everyone was just, no one paid any attention to people
who behaved in an exemplary manner,’ replied the abbot. ‘Everyone did their
best, never thinking that by behaving thus they were doing their duty by
their brother. They loved their neighbor because they understood that this
was ... more »
New Democrat Harry Borlase Will Challenge Peter Penashue In Labrador By-election
*The New Democrats have chosen a northern analyst to carry the party banner
in the coming Labrador byelection, rejecting a suggestion the party sit
this one out.*
*Harry Borlase was picked in an online vote Sunday for the byelection,
which has yet to be called.*
*Borlase was raised in Nain and Happy Valley-Goose Bay, and has worked on
northern issues all his life, most recently at C-CORE.*
*The Labrador seat became vacant when former Conservative cabinet minister
Peter Penashue quit this month after Elections Canada found his election
campaign had accepted 28 different ineligibl... more »
So much farmland, so little food
Photo: Rainforest Rescue
I came home from our recent trip to the Moskitia feeling unsettled by the
vast, eerie mono-cultures of African palm trees that dominate the coastal
landscape of Honduras as you move east toward the Nicaraguan border. A
Google search on the phenomenon provided me with this 2013 quote about the
plantations from a web site that tracks Central American business trends:
“Investments of $35 million allowed an increase in planted areas of 17,000
hectares, which are added to the 135,000 already cultivated with oil palm,"
notes the Business to Business site. "Crude pa... more »
Will We Be Looking At A Congressman Torrey Smith (D-MD) One Day?
Two Maryland stars: Elijah Cummings & Torrey Smith
I'm not a sports fan; never was. I used to go to all the Lakers games but
that was because when I became president of Reprise I inherited Frank
Sinatra's best-in-the-house on-the-court seats. It was exciting. I sort of
became a fan after a few seasons. But mostly I just watch whatever sports
game is on TV when I'm visiting my friend Russ, usually before dinner and
after dinner. I don't know one team from another and I still can't figure
out football. And the only thing I know about the Baltimore Ravens is that
the team was named for ... more »
British Queen urged to relinquish power because of ill health
*
* http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=272542
*British Queen urged to relinquish power because of ill health*
The UK’s Queen Elizabeth II has been advised to resign and relinquish power
as she gets older and overburdened with a tough schedule to live with,
local media reported.
The advice came from former Labour deputy prime minister Lord Prescott, who
suggested that “the Queen should think about abdication because she is
overburdened at the age of 86”, British media reported.
The former deputy premier added that ‘the monarch was risking her health
and deserves ... more »
We Need More Drones!
Actually We Don’t
- *We don’t need more DRONES!*
- *We don’t need the PATRIOT ACT!*
- *We don’t need the NDAA!*
- *We don’t need more WARS!*
- *We don’t need more BANKER BAILOUTS!*
- *We don’t need to be TOLD what to EAT, DRINK, or THINK!*
[image: United We Stand Festival]ALL this is happening today using your
tax dollars and it will get worse *unless we peacefully and positively come
together to reform our electoral process NOW.*
Free & Equal’s 2012 Presidential debates (remember the real
debate moderated by Larry King) rocked the political establishmen... more »
UPDATED: Breaking: Syria's Assad shot dead by bodyguard?
http://israelmatzav.blogspot.ca/2013/03/breaking-assad-shot-dead-by-bodyguard.html
Sunday, March 24, 2013
*Breaking: Assad shot dead by bodyguard?*
Based on reports in Arab media, Israel's News One is reporting that Bashar
al-Assad has been shot and killed by one of his bodyguards (link in Hebrew).
According to the report, Assad was shot by one of his bodyguards and
hospitalized in a Damascus hospital. The report has not been officially
confirmed.
According to the report, Assad was shot by an Iranian officer named Mehdi
Yacoubi, who was assigned by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to guard ... more »
Untitled
*Exotic Romancing ~Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans*
Results are in...
And counted. A grand total of 51 people voted. We would have liked to have
got more votes than TUSC, but taking on such a mighty electoral machine in
such a short space of time... we think we did well. So, anyway, puzzle no
longer, the definitively tip-top best meme of the SWP crisis is, well, you
can see it: That's quite a successful revolutionary organisation you've got
there... Aaaaaaaand it's gone. It was quite a close run thing. The results
are as follows:
Aaaaand it's gone - 31%
Creeping feminism - 25%
Don't X Y - it's petty bourgeois - 20%
We must observe socialist discipline... more »
"How It Really Is"
"As democracy is perfected, the office of President represents, more and
more closely,
the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain
folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White
House will be adorned by a downright moron."
- H.L. Mencken
•
And so it was...
- CP
“Income Tax 101”
*“Income Tax 101”*
by Tom Purcell
"Ah, the income tax preparation season is upon us. You’re probably
wondering why you have to spend a couple of weekends barricaded in a room,
sorting through receipts in the faint hope of complying with our confusing
income tax laws.
The income tax first came to America in 1861. Americans paid it to help
finance the Civil War, but come 1871 — six years after the war — the tax
was repealed. Some politicians, however, took a liking to it. They tried
for the next 20 years to reinstate it. But the Supreme Court shot down the
income tax as uncon... more »
Garden of Eden
Since I’ve slagged off before the amateur-hour administrators at Eden Park
who’ve so often contrived to make Eden Park the Home of Mediocrity, let me
praise them now for the mature attitude they’ve taken during the first test
cricket match the Park has hosted for seven years.
In short, they’ve done well.
The patronising ground announcements have gone. The scoreboards are
providing advertising *and* scoreboard information, and not instead of. The
overbearing Eden Park security staff, normally completely unaware they’re
not policing a prison and that people are coming along to the... more »
"Give Some Back..."
"In life you have to do a lot of things you don't f***ing want to do.
Many times, that's what the f*** life is... one vile f***ing task after
another.”
"Pain, or damage, don't end the world- or despair or f---in' beatings.
The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you've got more punishment in
store.
Stand it like a man- and give some back."
- “Al Swearengen”,
Ian McShane's character in “Deadwood”
"Never..."
“Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, NEVER. In nothing, great or
small,
large or petty, never give in, except to conviction of honor, and good
sense.
Never yield to force, never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of
the enemy.”
- Winston Churchill
“Iraq War Deaths Exceed Vietnam War Numbers”
*“Iraq War Deaths Exceed Vietnam War Numbers”*
by Gary Vey
“More Gulf War Veterans have died than Vietnam Veterans. This probably is
news to you. But the truth has been hidden by a technicality. So here is
the truth. The casualties in the Vietnam War were pretty simple to
understand. If a soldier was dead from his combat tour, he was a war
casualty. There are 58,195 names recorded on the Vietnam War Memorial in
Washington, DC. Some of these brave men died in the jungles of Vietnam
while others died in Medivac units or hospitals in Japan and America. A
dead soldier can surrend... more »
Message from Heather to White Dragons, et al… “Let the real fun begin!”
*Sorry for the delay in posting this new information I had to take my
daughter to the airport. -AK*
*The following information just came in which is relevant to what is going
on at this NOW moment:*
*Just to pass on... Sheldan Nidle just acknowledged the Creation of the
OPPT as an embodiment of the changeover in societal structure, as an
expression of the New Galactic society. The steps taken [legalities and
protocols], he explained, are ones that are required, PLUS the steps taken
with ALL of us, collectively, in implementaing the ENERGETIC of KNOWING as
CREATIONAL principles.... more »
I M POWER (IM-POWER) UCC FILING AND NOTICE OF THE EVENT March 24, 2013
I M POWER UCC FILING
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
Those evil Israelis, running an apartheid state of the worst kind!
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 and Neice. Heads, from left to right: nephew,
son, nephew, nephew, nephew, niece. Teen Daughter was seated by niece but
for whatever reason wasn't in her seat for this pic.
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 g... 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 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 »
Untitled
*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 Fengyuan 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.
Th... 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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