NeoCons? (Photo credit: blmurch)
English: A rally in favor of the "yes" option in the 2004 recall referendum against Hugo Chávez in the capital, Caracas. The photographer is Carlos Granier-Phelps. He was contacted via email on 12/6/05 to confirm Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License v. 2.5. More pictures and license information on at http://www.carlanga.com/ (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Hugo Chávez, President since 1999. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Vice President Dick Cheney delivers his remarks on the war on terror, arguing against a withdrawl from Iraq, during a speech, Monday Nov. 21, 2005, to the American Enterprise Institute. White House photo by David Bohrer (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Cover of Stompin' Tom ConnorsRIP Stompin' Tom Connors ....
*Not sure who Stompin’ Tom Connors is? The country-folk crooner well known
for pounding the floor with his left foot during performances became a
Canadian icon and developed a devoted following throughout his lifetime.*
***Although wide commercial appeal escaped Connors for much of his
four-decade career, his heritage-soaked songs like “Canada Day, Up Canada
Way,” “The Hockey Song,” “Bud the Spud,” and “Sudbury Saturday Night,” have
come to be regarded as veritable national anthems thanks to their unabashed
embrace of all things Canadiana.*
***A few days earlier the musician penned ... more »
( Stompin Tom I saw repeatedly on TV singing the intro to Marketplace with lyrics about 'spendin money we don't got'. Years later while working at the Camrose federal building I learned one year he had made an order from one of the local veterinary inspectors who sidelined making varnished cowpatty clocks...63 unique Christmas presents )
Rand Paul Did Not Accept Any Bribes From The Drone Makers-- But Some Of The Other Filibusterers Are Totally On The Take
Aqua Buddha refused bribes from drone makers but his comrades in arms were
all soliciting bribes
Buck McKeon isn't and never will be a U.S. senator. He's in the House and
he's chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and the founder and
chairman of the Unmanned Vehicles Caucus, better known as the Drone Caucus.
He's responsible for all the legislation allowing drones to fly in
Americans airspace, responsible, at least, in terms of introducing it.
Obviously, the drone manufacturers' lobbyists wrote it for him. McKeon, who
is likely to be a lobbyist for an arms manufacturer himse... more »
Jim Turpin : Is the Imperial Presidency the 'New Normal'? / 2
Photo by Jim Watson / AFP / Getty Images./ Foreign Policy.
The 'new normal'?
The Imperial Presidency / 2
“You may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?”
-- Talking Heads ("Once in a Lifetime")
By Jim Turpin / The Rag Blog / March 7, 2013
Second in a two-part series.
In my previous installment of this article, I discussed how the codification of the Executive’s imperial power and
Innovative cyclist alert-and-brake car system Introduced by Volvo
*Volvo** has announced it is releasing a cyclist detection facility which
should prevent deadly accidents.* The Chinese-owned group introduced the
aspect at the Geneva Motor Show. The auto firm supposed that vehicles
fitted with the system will be able to detect threats including a cyclist
unexpectedly swerving out into a car's path. It held that if a crash risk
was detected an alarm would sound and the car's brakes would be fully
deployed.
The technology is an improved version of Volvo's ambler detection system
which it launched in 2010. The knowledge is an enhanced version of... more »
North Jersey on the Rise!
From www.northjersey.com :Pipeline opponents hold protest in Ringwood
[video]
Wednesday, March 6, 2013 Last updated: Wednesday March 6, 2013, 7:25 PM
BY MATTTHEW MCGRATH AND JIM NORMAN
STAFF WRITERS
The Record
RINGWOOD -- Two protesters lashed themselves to a pair of maple trees in
Ringwood Wednesday to try to slow construction of a gas pipeline, leading
to a standoff with police that eventually ended with the intervention of a
Native American tribe leader.
[image: Contractors for Tennessee Gas cut trees and clear a pathway near
Morris Road in Ringwood Wednesdsay, part of Ringwood... more »
EVEN BEFORE CHÁVEZ’S DEMISE, NEOCON JACKALS BEGAN TO SNIFF OUT OPPORTUNITY TO INFLUENCE
The late President of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez isn’t even in his grave but
already the neocon jackals are trying to ensure that the US will influence
Venezuela’s political future by suggesting the US make demands of the
interim and successive government before the US provides any support.
The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) produced a paper even before Chávez
had actually died. Among their key demands are:
*The respect for a constitutional succession;*
*The adoption of meaningful electoral reforms to ensure a fair campaign
environment and a transparent vote count in expected presid... more »
Counter-What?
This article discusses the importance of doing counter-intuitive work in
the social sciences: We love our counterintuitive findings. And for fields
such as psychology, they’re almost a necessity.If new conclusions already
gel with our beliefs, goes the common refrain, why was precious taxpayer
money ever wasted on the study in the first place? (I find
Continue reading
Via @AntoniaZ: Corporate ratfuckers kiss off quality journalism
*Res ipsa loquitur.*
*
*Covering your ass and letting the shit fall on people below you in the
food chain. Real character there.
*Related posts:*
- Wente, the Gelber, and the Globe: more quality control from Carol
Wainio
- Politics and its Discontents: Another Victory For The Star
- Lying cops, Mark Pugash, and the Star: Where we juxtapose, once again
Is there any way to thank Valerie Harper for Rhoda Morgenstern?
*Mary and Rhoda*
*by Ken*
Especially for someone with an AOL e-mail address, the tabloid gossip is
hard to escape, and often -- well, usually -- I find myself wondering why
anyone on earth would care whether so-and-so is sleeping with
such-and-such, or whether the marriage of Yokum and Hokum is more than just
on the rocks this time.
And then comes this awful news about Valerie Harper's brain cancer.
Somewhere I saw Valerie's signature character, Rhoda Morgenstern, Mary
Richards's best friend on *The Mary Tyler Moore Show* who was then spun off
into her own show, *Rhoda*, as "icon... more »
The Economy: "Why Central Planning Fails"
*"Why Central Planning Fails"*
by Bill Bonner
"The Dow is still rising. It rose another 125 points yesterday… hitting a
new record high. Gold is dawdling.
We’re still thinking about how so many smart people came to believe things
that aren’t true. Krugman, Stiglitz, Friedman, Bernanke — all seem to have
a simpleton’s view of how the world works. They believe they can manipulate
the future and make it better. Not just for themselves, but for everyone.
Where did such a silly idea come from?
Aristotelian logic came to dominate Western thought after the Renaissance.
It was e... more »
Napoleon On His Legacy
*Related:*
*Napoleon On Men of Destiny*.
*Napoleon On Speculators And Profiteers*.
*Napoleon On An Age of Transition & The Dangers of A Militarist Government
*.
*Napoleon On Alexander The Great*.
*Napoleon On Public Debts*.
*Napoleon On Public Opinion*.
*Napoleon On Homer*.
*Napoleon On The "Courage of 2 A.M."*
*Napoleon On Statesmen.*
*Napoleon On Tragedy.*
From, *"The Mind of Napoleon: A Selection from His Written and Spoken
Words,"* edited and translated by J. Christopher Herold. Columbia
University Press: New York. 1955. Pg. 239-242.
[Conversation, 1816] I sh... more »
ECONOMICS FOR REAL PEOPLE: First meetup for 2013!
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Our friends at the Auckland Uni Economics Group kick off for the year
tonight at Auckland Uni Business School with free pizza and book giveaways.
You’d be a fool not to join them. Here’s their invitation:
*Hi all,
*Hopefully you had a good break and are ready for another great year. We
sure are.
With global economies and financial markets still in turmoil, what better
time to discuss the importance of economic ideas.
So, come along tonight to the first Economics Group event of the year and
hear economic ideas and economic thinkers kicke... more »
Queen Noor Has Hope
*Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage.
Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as
they are.*
~ Augustine of Hippo
That's my idea of REAL hope, but unfortunately, too often when people hope,
they have no intention of doing anything about the problem they hope gets
fixed, especially if it requires sacrifice, or radical rebellion.
The following is an interview with Queen Noor, who is in the US to promote
the organization Global Zero, which is dedicated to working towards a world
without nuclear weapons. Understandably, s... more »
RAG RADIO / Thorne Dreyer : Austin Chronicle Editor and SXSW Co-Founder Louis Black
Austin
Chronicle editor and South by Southwest co-founder Louis Black in the
studios of KOOP-FM in Austin Texas, March 1, 2013. Photo by Thorne
Dreyer / The Rag Blog.
Rag Radio Podcast:
Austin Chronicle editor Louis Black,
co-founder of South by Southwest
By Rag Radio / The Rag Blog / March 6, 2013
Austin Chronicle editor Louis Black -- co-founder of the massive South
by Southwest Music,
Which Are You?
*Either You are part of the solution, OR You are part of the problem -
there is NO middle ground.*
Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food and do not be afraid to ask your pork
provider how the pigs that are your food were raised - that includes how
the sows were kept, and farrowed. If the farmer/purveyor say's "dunno"
then Say No Thanks. Thanx - The farm animals are counting on you.
ALEC Legislators - Make Poor Decisions
Do you folks know that you could get better internet service – higher speed
internet service at a lower cost if your city were to invest in and build a
broadband system?
Yep – that’s the truth!
But ALEC members in your state legislature are passing legislation that
makes it impossible for cities to develop their own broadband systems for
their citizens.
Why does ALEC do this?
Because ALEC Corporate Profit sector members rule over the legislatures and
what ALEC Corporate Profit sector members wants/need – means *more* to ALEC
legislators than you do.
Below are some snips from a D... more »
Vermont Voters Say "No" to Athabasca Bitumen
The people of Vermont want nothing to do with Athabasca bitumen being piped
through their state. 29 towns, including Montpelier and Burlington, have
passed resolutions opposing the proposed transport of bitumen.
*The main purpose of this effort was to challenge proposed changes to an
aging oil pipeline that could have a serious impact on Vermont and our
entire region. Recent weeks have seen visits to our state capitol by the
CEO of the pipeline company – owned by ExxonMobil's Canadian subsidiary
– along with environmental officials from Alberta, confirming
long-standing suspicio... more »
Real tele-presense Marital sexual relations
Prediction....on the news you missed...
let's take a look at the stories below...
(A) *wireless brain sensor...*
Today it needs to be implantable...in 8 or 10 years it will be a peelable
patch...
Just like the phone became wireless and cars are going wireless and
driverless so too will this will change and the implanted part.
(B) *Brain to Brain inteface*
The scientist that made the Brain to Brain interface possible in rats have
made the feat greater in the sense that they also made rats in other parts
of a continent share knowledge via the internet...
Think about this Rats share Expe... more »
Piling Mistake Upon Mistake- The Hindu
*The only way to achieve a peaceful transition to democracy in Syria is
through the regime. Destroying the state will lead to a power vacuum and
chaos *
The Hindu
"For two years, the United States and the European Union have done
everything short of sending their own troops and aircraft into battle to
evict Bashar al-Assad from power in Syria. Only recently have they begun to
realise that they have made a historic mistake: in the euphoria created by
the Arab Spring, they are in imminent danger of handing over the entire
Arab world to Islamists for whom democracy is anathema.
In... more »
Hugo Chavez: How he brought heating oil to Native Americans
Photo Robert Free Galvan
Native Americans Lost an Ally
By Robert Free Galvan
Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
Photo: Robert Free Galvan in Venezuela
We lost an ally! May he rest in peace President Hugo
Chavez. He supported indigenous rights by naming many indigenous people
to high positions. Dr Noli Fernandez of the Wyuu Tribe as Minister of
Indigenous Health. He
Rand Paul Talks
So we're some number of hours into Rand Paul's talking filibuster of the
nomination of John Brennan for Director of the CIA. Paul has been joined by
a few Republicans and by one Democrat, Ron Wyden. Everyone agrees that 60
or more Senators support the nomination, so at this point it's just a case
of how long Paul wants to keep it going; presumably it ends when he's done,
although it is possible that the others could tag-team and keep it going
indefinitely and thus force a cloture petition to end it.
As usual, these things draw a lot of attention from the political press,
which these... more »
Terrance Nelson 'Assassination of Hugo Chavez'
Assassination of Hugo Chavez
March 6th 2013
By Terrance Nelson
Vice Chairman of American Indian Movement
Former five term Chief of Roseau River Anishinabe First Nation
Censored News
www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
I have read the article posted in your website written by Greg Grandin. http://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/8040
I was in Iran five months ago in October 2012 and in
A Ray Of Light Amid The Austerity Blight In Washington
Paul Ryan and his cronies want to import failed European-style Austerity. A
better idea would be importing the Robin Hood tax on stock speculators
It looks like the country that once brought the world democracy, is now on
board with the worldwide shift towards plutocracy and oligarchy. This week,
*Forbes* reports that there are politicians on the 2013 Forbes Billionaires
List. That helps explain how an Austerity Agenda that is disastrous for
upwards of 95% of the people in the Western democracies just keeps chugging
along. And that's why it was so nice to watch Senator Tom Harkin (D-I... more »
Perrito mirando la llegada del sol
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Mourning Venezuelans march alongside Chavez's coffin
Oligarchs of Venezuela, unite! And then bend your knees before the CIA.
Mourning Venezuelans march alongside Chavez's coffin. Source: Al Qatar.
Paisaje en otoño con enormes árboles
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The mystery of China’s “missing province”
There is a “missing province” in China that explodes the myth about China’s
strong economic growth.
You see, China’s political leadership is nominally communist, but in every
important respect is the same as Chinese political leadership since the
time of Confucius: they have the “Mandate from Heaven” to live off the
backs of others, just as long as they deliver the national goals, be they
national pride, military success, and/or economic growth and prosperity.
Succeed in delivering the goals, with or without bloodshed, and the
leadership has a job for generations—the makings of a... more »
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Was Hitler a Zionist stooge?
Perhaps no other political figure and period of history is as misunderstood
as Adolf Hitler and his rise to power and reign as the Führer of National
Socialist Germany. Confused and oftentimes *disingenuous conspiracy
historians* and alternative media personalities present a *wide variety* of
*interpretations* of Adolf Hitler and National Socialist Germany, with many
claiming Hitler was some sort of secret "Rothschild operative"
collaborating with the Jewish international bankers as an agent of Zionist
interests in the Middle East, as J. Speer Williams *has recently argued*.
Thes... more »
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Middle-aged Matt Miller makes it look easy!
*WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 2013*
*Calls Ezra Klein to mind:* Is Matt Miller *allowed* to say these things?
In his new piece for the Washington Post, Miller describes Paul Ryan’s new
budget plan, which is due for release next week.
Is Miller allowed to say these things? He kicks Ryan’s ass all over the
town, telling valuable truths in the process:
MILLER (3/6/13): Ryan’s new budget, slated to be unveiled next week, will
alter the debate in ways no one has prepared for.
To be sure, *I expect Ryan’s new blueprint to be another exercise in
faith-based budgeting, a duplicitous document that p... more »
Count the lies about Iran
Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren appeared on the Colbert Report
last night. Count the lies in this statement made by him (and unchallenged
by Colbert):
"Iranian leaders are every week threatening to wipe us off the map if they
get those nuclear weapons."
Of course the truth is that Iranian leaders have *never* threatened to
"wipe Israel off the map," much less have they done so "every week," nor
have they ever spoken about what would happen "if they get those nuclear
weapons," since not only have Iranian leaders never spoken of a desire for
nuclear weapons, they have spo... more »
Breaking! Syria "rebels" seize UN peacekeepes in Golan
UNITED NATIONS — Syrian rebels on Wednesday abducted more than 20 UN
peacekeepers in the Golan Heights ceasefire zone pushing back the frontier
of their war with President Bashar al-Assad.
The United Nations said it is trying to negotiate the release of the
Philippines soldiers. But a* spokesman for the rebels said in a video that
the UN troops would be held until Assad's forces pull back from a village
in the Golan.*
About 30 armed fighters stopped a UN Disengagement Force (UNDOF) convoy in
the ceasefire zone, where the UN has had peacekeepers monitoring a
ceasefire between Syria... more »
Can we have a serif with this stupid scandal
Silly faux scandal of the day is the GOP freakout over the White House
calligrapher. This is a side outrage to the shutting of the White House
tours the GOPers have been wildly howling about all over the intertoobz.
[T]he “Chief Calligrapher,” Patricia A. Blair, who has an annual salary of
$96,725, and her two deputies, Debra S. Brown, who gets paid $85,953 per
year, and Richard T. Muffler, who gets paid $94,372 every year.
No idea what the going rate for high quality calligraphy is these days, but
with all the White House formal functions that happen in any given year,
I'm certain... more »
The Assassination of Hugo Chavez: The CIA Gave Chavez Cancer
"Would it be so strange that they've invented the technology to spread
cancer and we won't know about it for 50 years?" Chávez pondered, one
day
after Argentina's president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner announced she
had been diagnosed with thyroid cancer and would undergo surgery in
January.
Speaking on Wednesday during an end-of-year address to the armed forces,
Chávez
hinted that a spate of cancer among the region's leaders could be a US
plot– although he conceded he had no proof and did not want to make
"reckless"
accusations.
"I repeat: I am not accusing anyone. I am simply t... more »
Tuppence for Hugo Chavez
Here are a few words for Hugo Chavez; and why not? He had plenty of words
for everybody else.
The first thing to say was he was not a socialist. This is not to do the
man down. He was a reformer and a powerful inspiration. I am quite
particular about my socialism however, firstly because there is nothing
more damaging to socialism than Actually Existing Socialism. A socialist
movement does not need to whip out a mat and pray to Caracas five times a
day. Socialism is critical or it is nothing. The second reason his
movement’s achievements and setbacks have been marked by the lack o... more »
"The Power Of Ideas" - Glenn Greenwald
"The Power Of Ideas" - Glenn Greenwald. Source: We Are Change.
Billions down the drain in Iraq
There's a new report that maps out the disaster of the Iraq occupation.
Nobody talks about it much anymore, although it should come up every time a
GOPer wails about excess spending. This was one expensive fiasco in foreign
relations.
Overall, including all military and diplomatic costs and other aid, the
U.S. has spent at least $767 billion since the American-led invasion,
according to the Congressional Budget Office. National Priorities Project,
a U.S. research group that analyzes federal data, estimated the cost at
$811 billion, noting that some funds are still being spent on on... more »
Pentagon Report Slams F-35
U.S. defence officials are beginning to have disquieting thoughts about the
F-35 light attack bomber that include its survivability in air combat.
A 68-page report dated 15 February, 2013, addresses a number of performance
deficiencies in the F-35 and its systems.
*It includes stunning pilot comments about the aircraft’s survivability (“Aft
visibility will get the pilot gunned [down] every time”) while detailing
the limited performance of the Air Force’s F-35A and its support systems
during initial training at Florida’s Eglin Air Force Base.*
*Some of the shortcomings are simply a ... more »
The Slippery Slope Down Towards Domestic Totalitarianism
By Michael Isikoff “*Holder: No drone strikes in US, except in
'extraordinary circumstance'” OpenChannel NBC,
http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/05/17197906-holder-no-drone-strikes-in-us-except-in-extraordinary-circumstance?lite
=*
[Excerpted] The Obama administration has "no intention" of carrying out
drone strikes against suspected terrorists in the United States, but could
use them in response to “an extraordinary circumstance” such as the 9/11
terror attacks, according to a letter from Attorney General Eric Holderobtained by NBC News.
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who recei... more »
Hugo Chavez is dead, his legacy will linger
It can't be denied he was a flawed man. By the end, it became all too clear
that Hugo Chavez was a bad administrator. One could even say he behaved
tyranically, seduced by power and tripped up by his own machismo. But I
think what remained true to the end was he truly cared about social
justice.
He began with the best of intentions and surely his people loved him.
Chavez was the champion of the mestizo, Venezuela's shockingly poor
underclass. He was one of them. He empowered them. He gave them a voice. He
lifted them a little from undeserved, grinding poverty. They re-elected him
... more »
Filibusters and Judges
The Senate this morning defeated cloture on the Caitlin Halligan nomination
for the DC Circuit Court. The vote was 51-41, with Harry Reid switching to
"no" for procedural reasons. I don't know the details of the vote yet; last
time she came up for cloture during the 112th Congress, every Democrat and
one Republican supported her.
After the vote, I saw several people on twitter talking about the supposed
failure of Senate reform I wrote yesterday over at PP about why that's wrong;
basically, neither the reform package that passed or the Udall/Merkley
package that failed would have ch... more »
Some Wisdom From Roger Ailes
Below is an excerpt from the article, *"Exclusive Excerpt: Roger Ailes Off
Camera,"* published by Vanity Fair.
I asked if he is afraid to die. “Because of my hemophilia, I’ve been
prepared to face death all of my life. As a boy I spent a lot of time in
hospitals. My parents had to leave at the end of visiting hours, and I
spent a lot of time just lying there in the dark, thinking about the fact
that any accident could be dangerous or even fatal. So I’m ready. Everybody
fears the unknown. But I have a strong feeling there’s something bigger
than us. I don’t think all this exists b... more »
World Health Organization: ‘Small increased cancer risk’ from Fukushima radiation
[image: Cover of the WHO publication on the Fukushima nuclear disaster,
'Health risk assessment from the nuclear accident after the 2011 Great East
Japan earthquake and tsunami, based on a preliminary dose estimation', 28
February 2013. Graphic: WHO]
28 February 2013 (BBC) – People living near the damaged Fukushima nuclear
plant in Japan have an increased risk of developing some cancers, the World
Health Organization says.
The increased risk is limited to communities and some emergency workers
exposed to radiation after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, analysis shows.
For those l... more »
New details on the University of Minnesota psychiatry morass: suspicion of vital documents falsified and hidden from court
More on what I posted on a few days ago with regard to a thickening enigma
around the ethics of the so-called CAFÉ study – involving Astra-Zeneca and
associated with at least one death – at the psychiatry department of the
University of Minnesota, here.
To read the new developments, looki here! In short, as new evidence occurs
the suspicions about a bona fide coverup, featuring falsified consent
documents and other vital pieces of evidence hidden from court
investigations – are strengthened.
I repeat myself when under stress: At the very least, the University of
Minnesota should ha... more »
Rand Paul Stands Up For The Rule of Law
Rand Paul is all about limited government, but *he's also for war against
Iran*. This is a transparent contradiction. You can't have a limited
government in wartime. So Rand Paul's words are meaningless. Still, they
are nice words. So enjoy the video below. Seeing a senator talk like this
is pretty cool.
Euro Zone reports record joblessness and low inflation – ‘Wage growth is set to weaken from already low rates’
[image: An unemployment office in Athens. Greece's jobless rate is 27
percent; Spain's is 26.2 percent. The unemployment rate in the euro zone
edged up in January 2013 to another record, as the ailing European economy
continued to weigh on the job market. Photo: John Kolesidis / Reuters]
By DAVID JOLLY
1 March 2013
PARIS (The New York Times) — The unemployment rate in the euro zone edged
up in January to another record, official data showed on Friday, as the
ailing European economy continued to weigh on the job market.
That, along with new data showing a decline in inflation in ... more »
The Times does some very strange reporting!
*WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 2013*
*The New York Times adores race:* The New York Times loves race.
That was our reaction yesterday morning when we turned to the paper’s
hard-copy National section. Underneath a large color photo, this report
topped the section’s first page:
PEREZ-PENA AND GABRIEL (3/5/13): *Racist Incidents Stun Campus and Halt
Classes at Oberlin*
Oberlin College, known as much for ardent liberalism as for academic
excellence, canceled classes on Monday and convened a “day of solidarity”
after the latest in a monthlong string of what it called hate-related
incidents and v... more »
I'D TAKE CHAVEZ OVER KERRY EVERY TIME
- Got alot on my plate this week. This morning I taped another edition
of my public access TV show and invited fellow Mainer (and Jeju Island
filmmaker) Regis Tremblay to be my guest. He did a great job. Tonight we
have the Move to Amend resolution coming to our Bath City Council for a
decision. Then when I get home there is an 8:00 pm phone conference call
with the Hancock Air National Guard drone base protest (April 26-28)
organizers from Syracuse, New York. I've been invited to speak at that
event and also to join in their planning call.
- Tomorro... more »
"CASTRO KILLED CHAVEZ"
FIDEL CASTRO OF THE CIA killed Chavez, according to one conspiracy theory.
*According to Cuban born American writer Servando Gonzalez:*
"Researchers at the Ochsner cancer clinic in New Orleans ... developed,
under CIA auspices, injectable, rapidly-developing cancer cells that can be
used as bioweapons to kill people...
*Hugo Chavez: Another Victim of Castro*
"The CIA shared the technology with some of their friends, among them their
secret agent Fidel Castro,who has used it over and over on unsuspecting
victims."
*Psychological Warfare and the New World Order*
Cuban writer in ... more »
This Is About as Blunt a Warning As We Can Get
It comes via *The Royal Society*, a scientific body that has been around
since the 1600s and is considered about the most prestigious on our planet,
you know, Earth. It's a warning about our very real prospects of global
civilization collapse in what may be modern mankind's final century.
*What is the likelihood of this set of interconnected predicaments leading
to a global collapse in this century? There have been many definitions and
much discussion of past ‘collapses’, but a future global collapse does not
require a careful definition. It could be triggered by anything from a ... more »
The Trivium Method vs the Classical Trivium- History, so it does not repeat
If it matters at all to you personally, I did find this presentation very
interesting.
Which is, of course, the reason it is getting posted.
It is not an easy listen. *Much territory is covered.*
And the list of references....... lengthy.
You might have to listen more then once.
And, that is ok.
I expect that those who read here have terrific attention spans.
- Open minds.
-Are sick of the lies that are fed to us via the mind control school system
and media.
-Want to be better informed
-Understand how they are manipulated by the elite classes
-And most importantly want to live in a world... more »
Popes & Planes & Plutocrats
The Beanie Boys have been sequestered! The Vatican has ordered the
Cardinals in Rome for the Pick-a-Pope-alooza to stifle themselves. And that
goes for you too, Timmy Dolan, who has brought the art of avuncular
clerical schmoozing with the media to whole new heights, even inviting
journalists to their own special Mass over the weekend. Dolan, always
surrounded by a gaggle of reporters, has finally been gagged. Hallelujah.
And while the Cardinals are jamming in the Sistine Chapel, the Holy See has
made sure that outsiders will not see or hear anything. They have installed
a special j... more »
Make your own dancing pony...
*no, really! *
PonyMixer.com
Heroes And Villains: Massachusetts Senate Race
Massachusetts will pick a replacement for Senator John Kerry on June 25,
although it's likely that the winner of the Democratic primary on April 30
will pretty much have it locked up. All of the top tier Republicans who
looked at the race-- ex-Senator Scott Brown, ex-Lt. Governor Kerry Healey,
ex-Lt. Governor Jane Swift, ex-Governor William Weld, ex-state Senate
Minority Leader Richard Tisei and a bunch of Romneys-- quickly declined to
run. If enough of the petition signatures they turned in are deemed valid,
the 3 Republicans who will be on the primary ballot-- ex-Navy SEAL Gabri... more »
Childhood destroyed by design
A recent survey conducted with parents, has concluded that childhood ends
at 12 years of age for most children. This news is currently on the radio
in the UK, and the way that it is presented is in a tone of shock and
disbelief. However, the hypocrites of the media who decry the loss of
childhood innocence, are themselves a key factor in the destruction of
youth.
Turn on any radio station which plays 'pop' music, and one finds oneself
bombarded with foul lyrics focussed on the need to have sex, to be pretty,
and to be 'popular' - itself a term used euphemistically to encourage
p... more »
Bill O'Reilly tap dances on Alan Colmes...
*I'm sure his blood pressure was reaching stroke territory.*
What's up with that ugly hair on Colmes??
If a misapprehension played an essential part in the trial judge’s reasoning process leading to the conviction, the conviction is not saved even if the evidence at trial was capable of supporting a conviction
*R. v. Gough*, 2013 ONCA 137 is a useful source for the principle that a
factual misapprehension can be fatal if it goes to an essential part of the
Court’s reasoning:
[24] The question that follows is the extent to which, if at all,
this misapprehension affected the trial judge’s reasoning process,
resulting in his conclusion that the appellant is the robber. If the
misapprehension played an essential part in the trial judge’s reasoning
process leading to the conviction, the conviction is not saved even if the
evidence at trial was capable of supporting a conviction: *R. v.... more »
White House closed to visitors...
*do we need anymore proof that the government of this country is headed up
by small-minded petty crazy people? *
*
**Will Sequester Farce Blow Up in Obama’s Smug Face? *
from Moonbattery by Dave Blount
The mendacious charade of Obama’s sequester — by which the explosive rate
of government growth is being slowed slightly and temporarily as part of a
propaganda offensive against Republicans — has reached the point of
outright farce:
In its bid to make the sequester as painful as possible, the White House
announced Tuesday that it is canceling all visitor tours of the White House
“d... more »
Why Has the Arab Spring Failed to Bring Peace?
Unrest continues throughout the North African countries supposedly
liberated in the "Arab Spring." Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed writes that there is
no peace because these uprisings have failed to address the environmental,
energy and economic crises that sparked them.
*We now know that the fundamental triggers for the Arab spring were
unprecedented food price rises. The first sign things were unravelling hit
in 2008, when a global rice shortage coincided with dramatic increases in
staple food prices, triggering food riots across the middle east, north
Africa and south Asia. A month befo... more »
Did Washington Create Iraq's Death Squads?
The carnage in the wake of the American conquest of Iraq was horrific.
Iraqis were being murdered at rates of over 3,000 a month.
A documentary from *The Guardian* now suggests a good deal of the massacre
was the handiwork of an American, a retired colonel named James Steele.
The documentary implicates Steele and his superior, David Petraeus, in the
organization, arming and funding of Iraqi Shia police commando death squads.
Here's a trailer for the full documentary you can find at the link above.
Chavez & Thaksin: A Tale of Two Socialists and Western Hypocrisy
*March 6, 2012* (LD) - Confounding was the Australian's (newspaper) recent
op-ed titled, "Death of a ruthless autocrat," in regards to the late Hugo
Chavez. Confounding not for the op-ed's condemnation of socialist policies
or its criticism of Hugo Chavez, an obstruction to Western
corporate-financier interests in South America for over a decade, but
because of the obscene hypocrisy displayed throughout, from a newspaper and a
corporate-financier-academic establishment in Australia that coddles a
figure in nearby Thailand that is every bit as guilty of everything it
accuses Chavez o... more »
OPPT Q&A w/Heather -- March 5th
*OPPT Q&A w/Heather -- March 5th*
**
Here is the link to the article on RTS:
http://removingtheshackles.blogspot.com/2013/03/oppt-questions-answers-march-5th.html
*Questions and Answers *
*March 5, 2013*
*Question: *Ok what I think is people are worried about who is in charge
and who's going to be dictating what they can spend their new funds on and
the properties they acquire will be in the hands of the Trustees…
*Heather: *you are in charge of your own value...spend it on what you
choose by your free will without damaging another...it is unlawful and
il... more »
Why I am a Zionist | Cover Story | Jewish Journal
http://www.jewishjournal.com/cover_story/article/why_i_am_a_zionist
No Masters Motions in Toronto are available until August 2013
And people wonder why justice is slow!!!
IMITATIONS OF LIFE: Charlie sits with Justice O’Connor!
*WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 2013*
*Part 2—His next imitation of life:* Imitations of life define the work of
our national press corps.
On Monday night, Charlie Rose staged an imitation of debate, as we noted
yesterday. For the record, this imitation occurred on his nightly PBS show,
*not* on his daily CBS program.
These days, if a broadcaster doesn't host *two* daily programs, it means he
doesn't count.
On Monday evening, Rose pretended to moderate a debate between Paul Krugman
and Joe Scarborough. In fact, Rose was staging an imitation of this
familiar broadcaster function. This fact b... more »
Come Onnnnn . . . No One Believes That!
Sometimes you just have to break in to your normal thought patterns with a
few very interesting novel ones. I just love a good piece of fiction. Heck,
political fiction even better. I also respect really good writers (read the
whole essay for these mentions). So let's see: Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez,
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, Paraguayan Fernando Lugo, and former
Brazilian leader Luiz
Post-Fukushima, arguments for nuclear safety bog down – ‘You never know if it is going to run according to the script’
[image: Officials have recommended that nuclear plants like Nine Mile Point
in New York install new safety equipment, but the nuclear indiustry and its
representatives in Congress are resisting. Photo: The New York Times]
By ERIC LIPTON and MATTHEW L. WALD
26 February 2013
(The New York Times) – Alarms sounded and lights flashed as control panel
dials at a nuclear power plant in upstate New York warned that the power
for safety equipment was failing. The room went dark until the emergency
lights kicked in. But there was no reason to worry on this frozen winter
morning.
This was... more »
US Plots Conquest Of Venezuela In Wake Of Chavez's Death
Yes, Hugo Chavez, long time President of Venezuela, is dead. He died of
complications from his two year battle with Cancer yesterday. It is truly
surprising to see the Jewish controlled western controlled media do their
usual spewing of lies to vilify this man, when we know full well that he
freed the Venezuelan people from the sick and evil clutches of Jewish
controlled banking interests and had the guts to nationalized Venezuela's
massive oil resource companies' wealth for the benefit of the Venezuelan
people.
Right now, I want to present a very interesting article, that come... more »
When It Comes to Steve, There Is No Bottom
Our mendacious prime minister, Sideshow Steve Harper, was practically bursting
with glee yesterday over the death of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez.
Harper, true to his vile form, issued a statement. “*At this key juncture,
I hope the people of Venezuela can now build for themselves a better,
brighter future based on the principles of freedom, democracy, the rule of
law and respect for human rights*.”
Freedom, democracy, the rule of law, Steve, really? All those things you
treat as obstacles to be swept away? But, since you raised the subject,
let's recall Venezuela's last el... more »
Two Great Articles in Counterpunch
Karl Grossman Obama's Dept of Fracking and Nukes
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/03/05/the-department-of-fracking-and-nukes/
[Excerpted] With the nomination of Ernest Moniz to be the next U.S.
secretary of Energy, President Barack Obama has selected a man who is not
only a booster of nuclear power but a big proponent of fracking, too. What
happened to Obama’s call for “clean” energy in his 2013 State of the Union
address?
Moniz, a physicist and director of the MIT Energy Initiative, heavily
financed by energy industry giants including BP and Chevron, has long
advocated nuclear po... more »
Muslim Communist Keith Ellison (D., Minn.) lies about the Ryan Medicare reform...(video)
*so what else is new?*
I really hate to put these two disgusting individuals on my blog. It's a
horrible way to start the day.
The handsome and learned Rob Janicki, of Capitalist Preservation, brought
this to my attention.
These two idiots are saying the exact opposite of what Paul Ryan has
proposed and they manage to do it with straight faces.
This Is What Democracy Looks Like - Saskatchewan New Democratic Leadership 2013
*Other political parties may wish to take a glance at how a truly
democratic party selects its leader. *
*Sask NDP Leadership 2013 Voting FAQ*
Could The U.S. Have Done Better In Iraq? No Says Prof. Daniel Byman of Georgetown University
The conventional wisdom is that the U.S. made too many mistakes in Iraq to
be successful. It didn’t garner enough international support before the
invasion, went in with not enough troops, and then started polices like
deBaathification afterward that made the situation worse. Some claim that
with better decision-making, things could have turned out differently.
Professor Daniel Byman of Georgetown University in an article for the
journal Security Studies entitled “An Autopsy of the Iraq Debacle: Policy
Failure or Bridge Too Far?” argued that Iraq would have turned out badly no
mat... more »
Lockdown in Ringwood, NJ
[image: activists in RIngwood NJ locked down]
Locked down between two hundred year old Maple trees, two New Jersey
residents are blocking the destruction of the final stand of trees in the
Tennessee Gas Pipeline right-of-way. They have so far stopped work for the
day, and police are on the scene conferring with workers about how to
proceed. *Please donate for bail, we need the support!*
Matt Smith of Wanaque, NJ and Jerome Wagner of Wayne, NJ are committed to
remaining on site for as long as it takes to defend the one-mile stretch of
forest and wetlands in the foothills along the... more »
Republican lawmaker in Washington state backpedals after saying cyclists pollute by breathing
[image: Washington state Representative Ed Orcutt (R – Kalama) claimed on 1
March 2013 that bicycling is environmentally friendly because 'You would be
giving off more CO2 if you are riding a bike than driving in a car.' Photo:
via Seattle Bike Blog]By Eric M. Johnson; Editing by Cynthia Johnston and
Lisa Shumaker
5 March 2013
(Reuters) – A Washington state lawmaker has apologized for telling a bike
store owner, in a spat over a proposed bike fee, that bicyclists can cause
pollution - just by breathing out carbon dioxide.
Ed Orcutt, a ranking Republican member of the state House... more »
Google urged to remove ads for ivory, whale products – ‘It is shocking to discover that Google, with the massive resources it has at its disposal, is failing to enforce its own policies’
[image: Seized: Ivory tusks are displayed after being confiscated in Hong
Kong. Photo: AP]
6 March 2013 (AFP) – Conservationists have urged Google to remove thousands
of advertisements promoting products made from endangered whales and
elephants.
Campaign group the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) said it had
written to Google chief executive Larry Page last month appealing for the
removal of more than 1400 ads promoting whale products and 10,000 ads for
elephant ivory products on its Japanese shopping site.
"Google has laudable policies that prohibit the promotion of end... more »
Misleading the Court on Legal Issues
A lawyer must not misstate the law. Lawyers are under a positive duty to
make full disclosure of all the binding authorities relevant to a case.
This means that all such authorities on point must be brought before the
court, whether they support or undermine the position being argued by that
party, even if opposing counsel has not cited such authority. See: *A
LAWYER'S DUTY TO THE COURT *by Roebert Bell and Caroline Abela
Links for Wed
[image: FTVDay2_88]
A few links.....
- Wild at Heart has the skinny on the anti-nuclear protests taking place
across Taiwan on Saturday, March 9.
- The DPP is now mulling absentee voting on the referendum. The KMT is
totally for it.
- Excellent letter on the Fourth Nuke Plant and how stupid it is.
- Foreigners seeking to preserve Taiwan's aboriginal languages.
Bonus links... I found that I forgot to post these links from Monday, Feb
25, 10 days ago. Sorry! So enjoy.
*BLOG*:
- AsiaEye's Under the Radar News
- A Double Dose of Way Cool: Hear in Taiwan retrac... more »
Did You Know The House Has A Pro-Pandemic Caucus?
When I first met Earl Blumenauer, he was proudly displaying an oversized
bicycle shaped badge on his lapel. That's because he's the founder and
chairman of the House Bike Caucus, which encourages municipalities to build
bicycle lanes and otherwise support the idea of making it convenient for
citizens to get around on bikes. There were over 180 members when I met
him. Buck McKeon also founded and chairs a caucus, the House Unmanned
Systems Caucus (AKA, the Drone Caucus). It encourages drone manufacturers
to bribe Members of Congress. McKeon doesn't wear anything on his lapel.
But ... more »
WotW: 7 Reasons You Should Be Using Google Chrome
You may be using the Internet, but you may not be getting as much out of it
as you could be. No, that's not an ad for Time Warner Cable's next great
product. It's my pitch for a piece of software that has simplified and
improved my Internet experience a million times over.
I'm talking about Google Chrome, the free web browser that has been around
for slightly more than four years and has taken the world by storm. In
fact, latest estimates have Google Chrome users making up 37% of worldwide
users, which makes Chrome the most widely used web browser out there. And
that's impressive co... more »
Please Help To Find Kelly Woiszwillo Last Seen In Wareham, MA, USA?
This is My Cousin's God Daughter... I have never met this girl but, my
cousin asked us to share this!
This is my beautiful 14 year old God Daughter Kelly Woiszwillo, she is
5'2'' and about 100 lbs... she went missing from Wareham, MA on Sunday
March 3... She is believed to be with a 37 year old black male, his
identity is uncertain. Her cell phone was last pinged in North Carolina on
March 4 before it could no longer be located. Her mom and family are
frantic at this point. ANY information about this please contact your local
authorities or the Wareham police station. You can a... more »
The Taiwan Badlands
This weekend I had the opportunity to spend some time in the Taiwan
Moonscape, the area of badlands in southern Taiwan. I had never seen the
area up close and personal, merely ridden through it on a bike. One thing I
hadn't understood was how big they were. The map below should give some
idea of the extent of this 100,000 hectare formation which crops out as
badlands in the area around Tianliao, with a thickness variously given as
3-4 kms (source), spreading across southern Taiwan from Chiayi to
Kaohsiung. Mudstone formations are also found in Kenting near Hengchun and
in Taitung.... more »
Snowquestratian Linkage
Yesterday I decided to create an account at thegradcafe.com. In doing so, I
joined a handful of political scientists who post there in an effort to
increase transparency. Of course, I’m now being flooded with questions
about improving applications and the like. Which I don’t really mind. But I
am surprised at (1) how many
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There Is Only One Type of Cholesterol: Here's Why by Heidi Stevenson
There Is Only One Type of Cholesterol: Here's Why
by Heidi Stevenson
Green Med Info, 1 March 2013
*We keep hearing about different types of cholesterol. It's all nonsense.
There's only one cholesterol molecule, so there's only one type of
cholesterol. What started this nonsense of types of cholesterol?*
Just how many types of cholesterol are there? The more we're indoctrinated
with the cholesterol-as-poison myth, the more types they seem to find. HDL.
LDL. VLDL. And those pesky triglycerides: Are they a type of cholesterol?
Here's the truth:
*None of them are cholesterol, and the... more »
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Kiki Dee, 66.
Good stuff, or at least a little of it:
1. Philip Klein on Trump and CPAC.
2. Gotta love those state legislators -- Steve Greene finds one set of very
self-impressed ones.
3. And a profile of Ta-Nehisi Coates, who I've often said is the single
Best Blogger out there, by Jordan Michael Smith.
Real Economists
Jim Flaherty dances to Stephen Harper's tune. Flaherty, after all, is
merely a lawyer. Harper likes to remind everyone that he possesses a
master's degree from the University of Calgary. And, during the last
election, he promised Canadians that his government would balance the
budget by 2015.
A real economist knows that, in a world dominated by economic uncertainty,
making that kind of a promise is economic folly. That is why Harper and
Flaherty have taken such pains to make sure that Parliament and the public
do not and cannot know the state of the nation's finances. The *Nation... more »
Chevron(ALEC) - Gives Boehner (ALEC) Too much Money??
I am taking two items that I found at Daily Kos this morning and making a
couple of additions *(in bold)* to the citations that were referenced in
the DK diary.
I really think it is important to realize the horrible precedence set by
the American Legislative Exchange Council, when it comes to corporate money
in politics.
I realize that even though the information is out there – press and others
don’t use it – because they intentionally don’t want to connect the dots.
Partly because most people still - still don't understand what ALEC is or
does or the incredible damage it is caus... more »
'JEWISH SPY' ARCHBISHOP WELBY
*Justin Welby (left) with Sir John Sawers (right), currently head of MI6,
in Baghdad 2003.*
"The head of the Church of England (Justin Welby) has a secret past
smuggling in cold war Europe, briefing US state department officials on
rebels in the Niger Delta and chatting to the future head of MI6 in
Baghdad."
*MI6 spy - Archbishop of Canterbury*
*At Eton, Justin Welby studied 'alongside the scions of banking dynasties'.
*
Justin Welby, the head of the Anglican Church, is the son of a German Jew
called Bernard Weiler.
Justin Welby: Secret life of my father
Justin Welby regularly... more »
Ed Miliband on immigration
The above is Ed Miliband's 'apology' for the last Labour government's
immigration policy.
Doesn't really go far enough does it, maybe someone could ask him whether
he now thought that the Right's nose had been rubbed in diversity enough?
PMQs 3 March 2013
Following the Eastleigh by election, David Cameron has decided to take the
attack to Labour at PMQs. He's reminding people of Labour's record in
office. He should have been doing this for months and years, not starting
now.
Too little, too late.
A 'cute' advertisement that I like
Normally 'cute' adverts are just annoying but this one for 3 is rather good #DancePonyDanceRelated articles
Stompin' Tom Connors' final letter to his fans(macleans.ca)
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