oldephartte(in training): 6 March

Português: Os presidentes do Paraguai, Fernando Lugo, da Bolívia, Evo Morales, do Brasil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, do Equador, Rafael Correa, e da Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, participam com integrantes do Fórum Social Mundial do painel América Latina e o Desafio da Crise Internacional (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Followers of Hugo Chavez. Chavismo. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: THE KREMLIN, MOSCOW. At a joint press-conference with President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Terrance Nelson 'Assassination of Hugo Chavez'

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 minutes ago

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

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 14 minutes ago

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

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 42 minutes ago

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Mourning Venezuelans march alongside Chavez's coffin

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 45 minutes ago

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

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 45 minutes ago

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Ositos panda buscando gusanitos

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 49 minutes ago

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La gran isla fría con su pequeña lancha

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 52 minutes ago

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Hermosa cascada en el bosque verde

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 56 minutes ago

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The mystery of China’s “missing province”

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 58 minutes ago

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 dynasty. Fail, and the people will be at your throats faster than you can say “peasant uprising.” For the ... more »

Frescas y saludables frutas y vegetales

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 59 minutes ago

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Exóticas orquídeas perfumadas

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 1 hour ago

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Dibujos animados de mujeres y conejos

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 1 hour ago

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Was Hitler a Zionist stooge?

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 1 hour ago

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 »

Bebé escondiéndose de la camara

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 1 hour ago

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Aguilas peleando por su comida en la nieve

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 1 hour ago

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Middle-aged Matt Miller makes it look easy!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 hour ago

*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

Left I on the News at Left I on the News - 1 hour ago

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

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 hour ago

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

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 hour ago

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

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 hour ago

"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

Roobin at THROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 1 hour ago

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

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 2 hours ago

"The Power Of Ideas" - Glenn Greenwald. Source: We Are Change.

Billions down the drain in Iraq

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 2 hours ago

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

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 2 hours ago

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

Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 2 hours ago

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

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 2 hours ago

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

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 2 hours ago

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

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 3 hours ago

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

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago

[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

noreply@blogger.com (Christian Munthe) at Philosophical Comment - 3 hours ago

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

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 3 hours ago

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’

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago

[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 »

HONORING HUGO CHAVEZ

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 3 hours ago

The Times does some very strange reporting!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 3 hours ago

*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

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 3 hours ago

- 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"

Anon at aangirfan - 3 hours ago

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

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 3 hours ago

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

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 4 hours ago

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

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 4 hours ago

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...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 4 hours ago

*no, really! * PonyMixer.com

Heroes And Villains: Massachusetts Senate Race

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 4 hours ago

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

Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 4 hours ago

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...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 4 hours ago

*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

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 4 hours ago

*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...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 4 hours ago

*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?

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 4 hours ago

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 Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 5 hours ago

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

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 5 hours ago

*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

Brian Kelly at AMERICAN KABUKI - 5 hours ago

*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

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 5 hours ago

http://www.jewishjournal.com/cover_story/article/why_i_am_a_zionist

No Masters Motions in Toronto are available until August 2013

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 5 hours ago

And people wonder why justice is slow!!!

IMITATIONS OF LIFE: Charlie sits with Justice O’Connor!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 5 hours ago

*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!

Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 5 hours ago

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’

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 5 hours ago

[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

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 5 hours ago

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

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 5 hours ago

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

Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 5 hours ago

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)

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 6 hours ago

*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

leftdog at Buckdog - 6 hours ago

*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

Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 6 hours ago

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

Elias at Stop The Tennessee Pipeline! - 7 hours ago

[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

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 7 hours ago

[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’

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 7 hours ago

[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

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 7 hours ago

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

Rainy day

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 7 hours ago

Links for Wed

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 7 hours ago

[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?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 8 hours ago

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

Seth R. Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 8 hours ago

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?

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 8 hours ago

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

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 8 hours ago

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

Daniel Nexon at Duck of Minerva - 8 hours ago

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 Continue reading

There Is Only One Type of Cholesterol: Here's Why by Heidi Stevenson

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 8 hours ago

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

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 8 hours ago

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

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 8 hours ago

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??

2old2care at Because I Can - 8 hours ago

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

Anon at aangirfan - 9 hours ago

*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

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 9 hours ago

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

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 9 hours ago

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

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 10 hours ago

Normally 'cute' adverts are just annoying but this one for 3 is rather good #DancePonyDance

Untitled

New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 10 hours ago

*New Orleans City Council pushes for changes in Sewerage & Water Board operations * *Letter: Bad levees, not Katrina, flooded N.O. * *Levee District to sell $100 million in bonds for Morganza* *La. residents could get pounded by new flood insurance rates* *Ravens donate two motorcycles to New Orleans police department*

What was Israel really targetting when it bombed Syria?

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 11 hours ago

I almost missed reporting this from the Long War Journal in February: 'Western intelligence officials have told *TIME *that "at least one to two additional targets" were struck by the Israeli Air Force (IAF) in Syria earlier this week in addition to that which has already been publicly reported. The officials did not specify the additional targets. On Jan. 30, *The Long War Journal* reported that the IAF had carried out an airstrike on a Syrian weapons convoy which reportedly included Russian-made SA-17 anti-aircraft missiles, and noted the Syrian regime's claim that "a scientific... more »

INSIDE JOB - TERRORISM IN INDIA

Anon at aangirfan - 12 hours ago

*Brijesh Mishra holds a meeting with Tony Blair's Jewish security adviser Sir David Manning in New Delhi on July 10, 2002. Manning was in New York on 9 11 and saw the Twin Towers attacked. * To help keep the rich 1% in power, the spooks carry out acts of terrorism. And the spooks all seem to work together. The CIA's terrorist friend Dawood Ibrahim, who is from India, has a house in Karachi in Pakistan. *Dawood Ibrahim (left) Indian film actor Salman Khan (right)* * *Near Dawood Ibrahim's house is the base of the CIA's Indian Mujahideen, which is used by the spooks for terror opera... more »

Chavez is dead, the BBC are in mourning and the useful idiots of the left are spouting crap

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 12 hours ago

Really upset to hear of Chavez's death. Ignore his ignorant critics. A democratically elected fighter for the poorindependent.co.uk/voices/comment… — Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) March 5, 2013 Sorry to hear of the death of Hugo Chavez, democratic socialist President of Venezuelaguardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar… — Billy Bragg (@billybragg) March 5, 2013 Strong rumours that Hugo Chavez has sadly passed on. A true socialist hero inspiring millions of ordinary people. — Ian Lavery MP (@IanLaveryMP) March 5, 2013 It's now official Hugo Chavez has lost his battle against cancer. A remarkab... more »

Holocaust Gets More Shocking

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 14 hours ago

The core problem of the Holocaust was the logistics and this spells that out pretty clearly. It also becomes clearer just how the end point of what is a chain of events was substantially camouflaged from those at least who did not want to know. In your own community you would see labor camps clearly doing useful things. Attrition from those camps was inevitably to another country for 'resettlement'. One never saw the result of that 'resettlement'. Thus while the majority of citizens likely condoned the labor and disenfranchisement, they were never asked to progress past ... more »

Malawi's Bountiful Harvests and Healthier Children

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 14 hours ago

Again the future is now. These are simple ideas that can be accessed by anyone with a cell phone. Boots on the ground have no difficulty sharing the underlying knowledge today and people are responding. And what a thousand can do today a million can do next year. It is humbling to understand that tossing out a successful idea can today reach everyone where everyone is a scientist quite able to try out an idea to see if it will work. it can affect right down to the least likely. All of Africa is singing this song as is the rest of the world. It also reminds just how ... more »

The City that Ended Hunger

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 14 hours ago

This story needs to be told over and over again. It applies everywhere and tells one key lesson. It is easy and merely needs will. Suppliers will cooperate with a clear set of rules to work from which the government supplies. Twenty separate products are supplied at an attractive price to the consumer as a form of rent for space usage. That alone will go far to ensuring proper food security. When the market place is peddling potatoes at several different prices around a half dollar, you can be sure that the grower is receiving the same dime a pound for everything. That ... more »

biodiversity Strengthens Agriculture

arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 14 hours ago

Monoculture serves precisely one master. That of the heavy equipment used to plant and harvest it. That this approach is highly vulnerable is no surprise. What we have to do now is to think through methods in which we can blend diversity into our growing regimes along with that critical diversity. We have posted on the application of arboreal banding of crop fields. This envisages narrow tree lines set wide enough apart for two passes of the harvesting equipment. Since the actual tree line itself will be well lit, they can be pruned high and an understory can also be pla... more »

Ivan Olifan - artist

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 14 hours ago

if you like that sort of contemporary chocolate-box depiction of fantasised femininity, Ivan Olifan paints nice pictures of nice women in nice poses, nicely. You can see it through all his work. His artistic technique conveys a sense of form or nostalgia. But here's nothing 'special' or 'alluring' to this critic, in his 'highly competent works'. Then, in 2013, he comes up with these STUNNERS: and suddenly, I'm a big fan.

Health Benefits of Dates – Promoting Heart, Brain, and Digestive Health by Mike Barrett

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 14 hours ago

Source: http://positivefoodie.com/health-benefits-of-dates/Health Benefits of Dates – Promoting Heart, Brain, and Digestive Health by Mike Barrett Natuarl Society, 5 March 2013 *A product of the date palm and cultivated since approximately 6000 B.C, the date fruit is one of the sweetest fruits around and also happens to come in many different varieties. Although dates can be eaten fresh, the fruit is very often dried, resembling raisins or plums. But whether fresh or dry, the health benefits of dates are still just as plentiful.* Nutritional Content of Dates If you’re looking ... more »

Monatomic Gold

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 15 hours ago

Interesting discussion on monatomic precious metals, starting at 43:18

Black hole monodromies explain why inner horizons matter

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 15 hours ago

*...not to mention that they also calculate scattering amplitudes and unmask a hidden conformal symmetry responsible for black hole thermodynamics...* *Off-topic, Moriond 2013* (right sidebar has link to live broadcast): ATLAS' diphoton rate is $1.64\pm 0.30$ times the Standard Model, 2.1 or 2.3 sigma too much... Two bright Gentlemen whom I know from Harvard, Joshua Lapan and Alex Maloney, and two bright Ladies who are actually at Harvard right now, Alejandra Castro and Maria Rodriguez (yes, their affiliation footnotes are marked as ABBA on the title page, and yes, "A" are female... more »

Custodian - third draft complete - dedicated to all our children's children

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 15 hours ago

*reworked cover idea*just completed the third (and hopefully final) draft of the first Free Planet novel, the 83,000 words Custodian. As this book was about three years in the research and a couple years in the writing, the front of the book and the back of the book needed 'stylistically welding'. I've edited, reworked and tightened up the opening chapters and gone through the rest of the opening part of the book so that it ties together better with the attitude, speed and style of the latter part of the book. To further weld the book, I got rid of the cumbersome Oxford University ... more »

Christy Clark Creates Her Ethnigate Excuse

Grant G at The Straight Goods - 15 hours ago

*The evidence* Brian Bonney, Pamela Gardner, Mark Robertson...BC Liberal president, riding executive and communications director, April 2012.. Leaked emails between the above, mentioned turning the Burnaby hospital germ outbreak scandal into a *"winning election issue" a letter written by Pamela Gardner went even further*... These three Liberal insiders in April 2012 sent letters to Government staff outlining a step by step plan on how to turn the c deccile germ outbreak scandal at Burnaby hospital into a election winning issue, this plan included putting Chinese doctors on pu... more »

OPPT: Heather Tucci-Jarraf Discusses Details on CVACs

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 15 hours ago

Lisa Harrison, Chris Hales, Bob Wright, Brian Kelly, D of Removing the Shackles, OPPT Trustee Heather Tucci-Jarraf, American Kabuki, and others on The Collective Imagination - 5/6 March 2013 Listen to internet radio with 5D Media Network on Blog Talk Radio