Individual prison cells at S21 Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh (Photo credit: Toby Simkin)
houston (Photo credit: araza123)
Mass grave for the dead Lakota after massacre of Wounded Knee. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Exterior of the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff, Arizona (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Stop the Auction of Hopi and Zuni Sacred Items in Paris April 12, 2013
Stop the Auction of Hopi and Zuni Sacred Objects in Paris on April 12
by Neret-Minet Tessier & Sarrou Auction House and Drouot-Richelieu
Gallery
The following was
posted by the director of the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff,
AZ. "...the proposed sale of these katsina friends, and the
international exposure of them, is causing outrage, sadness, and
Showdown At the OK Corral... Tomorrow
Well... the Senate is finally taking up some gun legislation. Sort of.
First comes an attempt to cut off the Republican filibuster. Several of the
NRA's biggest whores-- Ted Cruz (R-TX), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Mike Lee
(R-UT), Miss McConnell (R-KY), Rand Paul (R-KY-- announced they would
filibuster any gun safety legislation no matter what it is. None of them
had even read any proposals before they declared they would prevent the
Senate from even *debating* the bill. But when 10 Republicans-- John McCain
(AZ), Lindsey Graham (SC), Mark Kirk (IL), Johnny Isakson (GA), Tom Coburn
(OK),... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
Booneville, Mississippi, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
HOUSTON American Indian Genocide Museum hosts teach-in of US Genocide
CENSORED
NEWS
HOUSTON -- In support of Lakota grandmothers, the American Indian
Genocide Museum, Idle No More Houston, and the Southern Apache Museum
featured the documentary 'Red Cry' and an exhibit of photos of the
Massacre of Wounded Knee, during its teach-in to expose genocide by the
United States.
In solidarity with the Idle No More Movement, the event was held at the
Southern
April 10, 1973
Remember that Vice President Agnew has been demanding a meeting with the
president? Haldeman's Diary:
--
The VP called me over today and said he had a real problem because Jerome
Wolff, who used to work for him back in Maryland, was about to be called by
the United States Attorney who was busting open campaign contribution cases
and kickbacks to contractors. It seems that Wolff kept verbatim records of
meetings with the VP and others, back over the years, concerning
fund-raising, and has a lot of quotes about how much we ought to get from a
certain contractor, and so on, who has ha... more »
“Hey, Idiot!”
*“Hey, Idiot!”*
by Elliot Sperber
“It is interesting to observe that the word idiot derives from the Greek
idiotes, which refers to a “private person” – as distinct from a public
person, or one who is involved in determining public life. That is, an
idiot follows the rules and laws that others draft and sign – irrespective
of whether or not it is in the idiot’s interest. Some people in society
determine how society will be organized – how its economic surpluses are
distributed, how its resources are employed, how its energies are directed,
how its cities are designed, its tran... more »
Arne Duncan's Next $5 Billion Corporate Bonanza Based on Same Mythology
For years the ostensible guru of value-added testing, Bill Sanders, told
anyone who would listen that teachers are the most important factor
influencing student achievement. When Richard Rothstein, Gene Glass, and
others pointed out the obvious falsity of this lie, the language shifted
among corporate ed reformers to argue that teachers are the most important *
school-based* factor in raising student achievement.
Well, that is sort of accurate in a misleading sort of way, with some
caveats and contextual factors to consider, which has led even the
conservative Education Writers Ass... more »
Midweek Linkage
And I bet that you all thought that I’d completely forgotten…. Robert
Farley on the lessons of the Falklands War… for the PLA-N. Adam Elkus
ruminates on the relationship between theory and math. Robert Murray: IR
Theory and North Korea. Patrick M. Morgan’s award-winning article: “The
State of Deterrence in International Politics Today” (PDF). The
Continue reading
Meanwhile .... In Labrador .....
[image: Progressive Bloggers]* *
*... a quiet campaign is underway .. vote by vote .... that will see Harry
Borlase and the New Democrats surprise the hell out of Newfoundland /
Labrador Liberals ....*
*"We have every intention of getting Harry Borlase elected." *
*Thomas Mulcair, Leader*
*New Democratic Party*
*Labrador By-election is wide open - The Star*
Foreclosure Settlement
Subject to a wrongful foreclosure? Our former neighbors were and we miss
them still.
The settlement reached between the banks and the regulators doesn't do much
for those who lost their homes wrongfully:
Zibel, a. & Fitzpatrick, D. (2013, April 10) 'Scant Relief in Foreclosure
Payouts: Most Borrowers to Get Less Than $1,000 as Part of a $9.3 Billion
Settlement Between US and Banks.' The Wall Street Journal, p. C1.
[Excerpt] About 4 million borrowers will share $3.6 billion in cash as part
of a settlement between federal regulators and banks accused of
foreclosure-processing mista... more »
"Smoothing Transitions: 10 Steps to Making Change Easier"
*"Smoothing Transitions: 10 Steps to Making Change Easier"*
by Madisyn Taylor, The DailyOM
"Change can be hard for anyone, following these ideas below can make it a
little less stressful.
1. Begin by making small changes or break up large-scale changes into more
manageable increments. This can make you feel better about handling the
changes you are about to make while making you more comfortable with change
in general.
2. Mentally link changes to established daily rituals. This can make
changes like taking on a new habit, starting a new job, or adapting to a
new home happ... more »
LATEST EDITION OF THIS ISSUE
The latest edition of *This Issue* features my interview with Richard
Rhames from Biddeford. He has been a public access TV activist in Maine
for well over 20 years and presently serves on the Biddeford City Council.
Richard is a vegetable farmer and offers his views on agriculture, public
education, Iraq, cuts in social programs, drones and more.
James McEnteer : How Mass Media Enable the Zombie Apocalypse
Zombies
from Shaun of the Dead. Image from TheModerateVoice.
What if the dead stop staying dead?
How mass media enable the Zombie Apocalypse
When Mitt Romney rose from the grave of his own hypocrisy and insular
privilege to oppose Barack Obama, even Americans who dislike Obama’s
policies voted for him anyway, simply because he was a live human being.
By James McEnteer / The Rag Blog / April
The Kissinger Files: Iroquois Chiefs appeal for Wounded Knee 1973
Wounded
Knee 1973
By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
Another Censored News Exclusive!
Wikileaks has released the Kissinger cables and revealed a new document
on Wounded Knee sent from the United Nations to the US State Department,
written on May 4, 1973.
Photo Chief Leon Shenandoah in Australia 1989
The document is signed by the Iroquois Confederacy, Chief
How High Does Senior Poverty Have to Go?
It's official: President Obama has proposed cutting Social Security by
replacing the program's current inflation adjustment with the stingier
"chained" Consumer Price Index. As I've discussed before, this risks
undoing all the progress made against senior poverty since the passage of
Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. 25% of seniors were poor according to
official poverty line in 1968, compared to just 9.4% in 2006. Note,
however, that the Supplemental Poverty Measure, which includes things like
out of pocket health care expenses which hit seniors disproportionately,
already shows a 16.... more »
Mrs. Thatcher as a champion of "freedom and liberty"? Jon Lee Anderson doesn't think so
*In March 1999, while General Pinochet -- finally, after all those years,
being called to account for some of his crimes -- was under house arrest in
London, his bosom buddy the former British PM paid him a much-publicized
visit.*
*"Britain regarded Pinochet's killing spree as unseemly, and sanctioned his
regime by refusing to supply it with weapons -- that is, until Margaret
Thatcher became Prime Minister."*
*-- from Jon Lee Anderson's newyorker.com "Daily
Comment" post,* "Neruda, Pinochet, and the Iron Lady"
*by Ken*
Where would the Right be if it didn't exercise so freely its ri... more »
Court of Appeal uses same test for reliability for hearsay and opinion evidence; bonus dormitat Homerus
Orfus Estate v. The Samuel and Bessie Orfus Family Foundation, 2013 ONCA
225 deals with hearsay and the principled approach.
A capacity assessor left certain voicemails outlining his impression of the
capacity of a testator. Subsequently he had no records or recollection of
or for the voicemails or what prompted him to say what he said. The Court
of Appeal ruled, absent some backup notes or recollection the voicemails
were unreliable and so inadmissible under the principled approach (which
requires necessity and reliability for otherwise hearsay statements to be
admitted)
With ... more »
Upcoming New Orleans film screenings of HARD TIME, about Robert King and the Angola 3, April 17-19
*Watch and listen to Canadian media coverage from the film's premiere there
in February: CBC Radio II Thunder Bay News Watch, TV coverage and written
article.*
Dr. Ronald Harpelle’s new documentary film entitled "Hard Time," will
premiere in Louisiana next week:
--Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge on April 17th (E130 Howe
Russell Hall at 7pm)
--The Craige Community Center in Old Algiers, New Orleans on April 18th
(1800 Newton Street from 6pm to 9pm),
--The Angola 3 Coalition office in New Orleans on April 19th (2900 Grand
Route St. John at 9pm, as part of a 41 hour v... more »
Fool Me Once: Munich Re's Thunderstorm Claims
Last October Munich Re, one of the world's largest reinsurance companies, issued
a press release in which they made a remarkable claim about a new study of
normalized economic losses related to thunderstorms in the United States:
In all likelihood, we have to regard this finding as an initial
climate-change footprint in our US loss data from the last four decades.
To date no studies of economic losses associated with weather events have
successfully identified a signal of human-caused climate change in loss
data. This conclusion was underscored by the IPCC which surveyed the
liter... more »
MY LETTER TO MAINE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
Maine's Attorney General Janet Mills (Democrat) is now formally opposing
our bill to require warrants for police before they can do surveillance of
the public with drones.
She says: "The Legislature finds that evolving technology regarding
unmanned aerial vehicles ('drones') presents a potential economic driver
for the State of Maine, an opportunity for research and development, a very
real benefit for security and search and rescue efforts and for disaster
prevention and relief, a potential aid to the investigation of crime, as
well as potential privacy threats from private use a... more »
VIDEO First Nation Elders: Residential schools were internment camps
On the school blackboard 'You're not an Indian anymore ...'
The result: Suicide, alcohol, drugs, whatever they could ease the pain with ...
Watch video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVYkctM1k90
Bitcoin: Money of the Future or Old-Fashioned Bubble?
ZERO HEDGE:* The Bitcoin bubble has burst, but not yet collapsed. *
*The crypto-currency is falling because of apparent distributed denial of
service attacks.** A denial of service attack happens when an attacker
overwhelms a target with external requests, so that it can’t honour regular
requests from legitimate users. This also happened last week Bitcoin
reached $142 and hackers attacked the exchange.
**The Tokyo-based exchange said last week that hackers are engaging in a
strategy** to manipulate the price of the currency: “Attackers wait until
the price of Bitcoins reaches a... more »
Irk
"In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the
necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create."
-- Raoul Vaneigem
Hula's that girl?
Doctor day so been offline. Just catching up on the news now. So here's
something I've never seen before. Imagine there's a movie to go with this
little clip. I really want to find it.
Mohawk Nation News 'Royal Proclamation 1763'
ROYAL PROCLAMATION 1763
Posted on April 10, 2013
MNN. Apr. 10, 2013. Royal Proclamation of 1763 is a
guideline for European settlement on Great Turtle Island. It guarantees
Indigenous independent nationhood, sovereignty and ownership of
Onowaregeh. We are not part of the settler colony. All lands must be
ceded by treaty. So far none has been. No law of the settlers
The Iron Lady and the BBC (Part Three)
There have been some interesting opinion polls on the subject of Margaret
Thatcher in the last couple of days. The YouGov poll for *The Sun *showed
52% expressing the opinion that she was a "great" or "good" prime minister,
as against 30% saying that she was a "poor" or "terrible" prime minister.* *This
result was echoed by the* *ICM poll in *The Guardian *which showed that 50%
of respondents though that her rule had been good for Britain as opposed to
34% who thought it had been bad for Britain. The nation may still be
strongly divided over the late prime minister, but it seems th... more »
Nothing to look at! Just keep typing!
*WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 2013*
*Dowd and Nocera, sublime:* Luckily, no serious issues confront or
challenge your failing nation.
This freed Maureen Dowd for her latest yawner. Also, Joe Nocera.
On Sunday, Dowd considered Hillary Clinton’s chances for a White House
race—a White House race which will occur three years in the future. This
morning, she was hard at work thinking about Annette Funicello’s life.
As far as we know, Funicello was a thoroughly decent person. We’re just
glad there are no problems in (upper-class) paradise to distract Dowd’s
empty mind.
We had a similar reaction... more »
FILM / David McReynolds : 'How to Survive a Plague' Is the Remarkable Story of ACT UP's Battle Against AIDS
How
to Survive a Plague:
The remarkable story of ACT UP
Panic spread slowly. Rock Hudson's death gave the disease a public face,
but took us no closer to the cause.
By David McReynolds /
The Rag Blog / April 10, 2013
[David France's critically-acclaimed and award-winning documentary film,
How to Survive a Plague, saw limited release in the United States in
2012.]
Clancy Sigal's advice to
How much does Newark spend per pupil!
*WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 2013*
*This struck us as being perhaps a bit less than fully honest:* How much
money gets spent per pupil on low-income students?
On Sunday’s massacre of the mind, Linda Darling-Hammond raised the issue,
with moderator Melissa Harris-Perry staring unhelpfully on. This is how it
started:
DARLING-HAMMOND (4/7/13): *Just to reinforce that, we spend three times as
much in the high-spending schools in most states as we do in the lowest
spending schools.* We spend more on the education of affluent kids than
poor kids in most states.
In context, it wasn’t completely... more »
Nick Ruiz And The Inaugural Issue Of New Left Now
In the premier issue of *New Left Now*, I interviewed progressive
congressional candidate Nick Ruiz, who's running against a GOP
Establishment hack in the Orlando area, John Mica. They said it would be OK
for me to run the entire interview here at *DWT*. I want to remind you as
you dig in, that Nick is a grassroots candidate with no personal wealthy,
no corporate ties and no backing from the DC Establishment. If you want to
help put someone into Congress who will kick ass for working families and
never back down, please consider contributing to Nick's campaign.
*New Left Now:* Thi... more »
Will Japanese Children Suffer from Increased Rates of Neural Tube Defects Due to Exposure to Fukushima Fallout?
Majia here: This data produced by this study indicated that chronic
low-dose exposure to radiation from Chernobyl caused increased rates of
neural tube-defects and conjoined twins:
Wladimir Wertelecki Malformations in a Chornobyl-Impacted Region *Pediatrics
2010; 125:4 e836-e843; published ahead of print March 22, 2010,
doi:10.1542/peds.2009-2219 *
*Abstract*
*OBJECTIVE:* One of the populations most exposed to chronic low-dose
radiation from Chornobyl (Chernobyl in Russian) lives in Polissia, the
region representing the northern half of Rivne Province (Oblast) in
Ukraine. Her... more »
Peter Schiff on David Stockman
Peter Schiff talks about the impact and arguments of former Reagan Budget
Director David Stockman, and his new book *The Great Deformation:
Corruption of Capitalism in America*. Because it was written by a former
insider, it’s been making waves, Stockman’s critics “shooting the
messenger” rather than dealing with his severe criticisms …
In reference to an op-ed piece by Stockman in the New York Times, for
example, “Corruption of Capitalism in America,” Krugman dismissed the
ex-congressman as a "cranky old man" without even reading the book.
Actually, I was disappointed in Stockma... more »
Margaret Thatcher don't wanna jump - YouTube
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=QiMs165tVdw&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DQiMs165tVdw
The Stupid Things People with a Ph.D. say on Airplanes
“My main job [as an assistant professor at insert-flyover-university-here]
is advising presidential policy on public religious life.” I actually heard
a Ph.D. tell his neighbor that on an airplane. I know that there might be
more worthwhole topics for my first post in months (I haven’t been a total
slacker, I have been doing some
Continue reading
Mass Murderer Maggie Dead But Not Mourned Except By Reagan/Pinochet Cabal and Obama Conundrum Explained?
When reading the essay below try to not think of Madeleine Albright (bearer
of "we think the price" of other people's suffering "is worth it"
sentiments). And then try not to think of who that "we" is. The Woman Who
Wrecked Great BritainMargaret Thatcher earned every single cheer that
greeted her deathBy Alex Pareene Margaret Thatcher and Augusto Pinochet in
March, 1994, during a private
Harry Targ : Global Challenges to the International Order
Women
protest in Cairo during Arab Spring. Image from Organizing Upgrade.
The empire in disarray:
Global challenges to the international order
Latin American and African dependency theorists and “bottom-up”
historians have argued for a long time that resistance must be part of
the understanding of any theory of imperialism.
By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / April 10, 2013
A whole generation of
Icelandic fitness - A Wednesday evening Rule 5 post - NSFW
*Thanks to Theo Spark for the spot.*
LIVE! Red Lake tribal member locked down at Enbridge office
Watch videos from today's lockdown! April 10, 2013
http://www.ustream.tv/uneditedcamera
Read news article: Angie arrested after day of lockdown at Enbridge:
http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/content/woman-arrested-after-hours-long-protest-enbridge-oil-pipeline
Red Lake Tribal Member locked down to Enbridge
office in Bemidji, MN. Police have show up after Red Lake Nation served
Enbridge with an
“The Wall Street Ticking Time Bomb That Could Blow Up Your Bank Account”
*“The Wall Street Ticking Time Bomb That *
*Could Blow Up Your Bank Account”*
By Ellen Brown
“Cyprus-style confiscation of depositor funds has been called the “new
normal.” Bail-in policies are appearing in multiple countries directing
failing TBTF banks to convert the funds of “unsecured creditors” into
capital; and those creditors, it turns out, include ordinary depositors.
Even “secured” creditors, including state and local governments, may be at
risk. Derivatives have “super-priority” status in bankruptcy, and Dodd
Frank precludes further taxpayer bailouts. In a big deriva... more »
Stupidification of British Columbia/The BC Rail Stall Game
Stupidification of British Columbia/The BC Rail Stall Game
(*April 10th/2013 This is a repost from March 27th/2012*)
http://powellriverpersuader.blogspot.ca/2012/11/mirror-mirror-on-wall-whos-leakiest-and.html
Classic baiting and switching performed like a Russian ballet, spins twirls
and tosses, a stage busy with dancers, design and artists adorned in tutus
and tight pants, eyes easily strained following all the moving parts, I
don`t know if we should turn the BC Rail Saga into a ballet or tragic
Shakespearian play, although the thought of Gordon Campbell and David
Mclean pranci... more »
Lakota Elders waiting to be received by UN Secretary General
Lakota Grandmother Charmaine Whiteface saying prayer
LAKOTA ELDERS DELEGATION
http://www.lakotagrandmothers.org/april-10th-genocide-complaint-update/
APRIL 10th
UNITED NATIONS MEETING UPDATE:
Following yesterday’s amazing march and action with Occupy Wall Street
and other powerful community members, the Lakota Delegation is currently
in negotiations with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
“Another Reason There Will Be No Economic Recovery in America”
*“Another Reason There Will Be No Economic Recovery in America”*
By Bill Bonner
“From the Daily Mail in London: “US sees highest poverty spike since the
1960s, leaving 50 million Americans poor... The number of Americans living
in poverty has spiked to levels not seen since the mid-1960s, classing 20%
of the country's children as poor. It comes at a time when government
spending cuts of $85 billion have kicked in after feuding Democrats and
Republicans failed to agree on a better plan for addressing the national
deficit. The cuts will directly affect 50 million Americans living... more »
Excerpt: "The FDIC was set up to ensure the safety of deposits. Now, it seems, its function will be the confiscation of deposits to save Wall Street."
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Winner Takes All: The Super-priority Status of Derivatives
Posted on April 9, 2013 by Ellen Brown
*Cyprus-style confiscation of depositor funds has been called the “new
normal.” Bail-in policies are appearing in multiple countries directing
failing TBTF banks to convert the funds of “unsecured creditors” into
capital; and those creditors, it turns out, include ordinary depositors.
Even “secured” creditors, including state and local governments, may be at
risk. Derivatives have “super-priority” status in bankruptcy, and Dodd
Frank precludes fu... more »
Rare interview confirms PA pays salaries to terrorists and not social aid to families - PMW Bulletins
http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=8783
McClandish Phillips,exposer of the NYS Judaic Grand Dragon Klansman dies
The article from* NYT's recalls*, and commemorates, the reporter
McClandish Phillips recounting his exemplary work one a very controversial,
likely slightly notorious news article. This story from 1965 story is quite
interesting. *Let's recall this forgotten page in history.*
McCandlish Phillips, a former reporter for The New York Times who wrote one
of the most famous articles in the newspaper’s history — *exposing the
Orthodox Jewish background OF* *a senior Ku Klux Klan official*
* *
*McClandish Phillips*
Mr. Phillips’s most renowned article appeared o... more »
FDR Is Rolling In His Grave Today
Yesterday Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Mark Takano (D-CA), and Mark Pocan (D-WI),
along with folks from AARP and a broad coalition of progressive
organizations, reiterated their NO CUTS to Social Security, Medicare and
Medicaid stand by presenting petitions with 2.3 million signatures on them
to the White House. That didn't stop Obama and Boehner from moving forward
with their plans to destroy the idea that Social Security is the third rail
of American politics. Their plan to cut benefits to seniors and vets
through their Chained CPI scheme was part of Obama's budget today. And it's
wh... more »
More Ammunition for the B.C. NDP
Christy Clark must be feeling just a little crispier today. A *CBC Fifth
Estate* assessment of hospitals across Canada doesn't speak well of British
Columbia's healthcare.
There wasn't even one B.C. hospital in the top ten, A+ category. But B.C.
is punching above its weight in the D category at the very bottom where it
claimed a dominant four of the eight spots for really bad hospitals. All
four were from the Lower Mainland and included Vancouver Hospital (VGH),
Burnaby, Surrey Memorial and Ridge Meadows.
The contest isn't closed yet. You can go here to check out your local
... more »
There is something fundamentally wrong with a country when disgraced politicians...
*think it's okay to run for office.*
Really.
Anthony Weiner, the famous weeny wagger, is going to run for mayor of New
York. Down south, Mark Sanford, who shamelessly used tax-payer money to
court his girl friend - without asking his wife and children what they
thought of the whole affair, is going to run for congress in South Carolina.
Both of these incidents show a complete lack of moral or ethical behavior
and speak to the lack of character of either of these men. My question
is: Why would they be willing to step back into the political world?
The only answer I can conjure up... more »
Dogs, Not Barking
Here's a special executive branch nominations edition of "Dogs, Not
Barking." A quick search found pretty much zilch news about any of these:
that's a big story! On the good side, at least the White House has finally updated
their nominations page, at least through two weeks ago. On the bad side,
1. Secretary of Commerce: a month ago, Penny Pritzker was reported to be
the candidate for this opening, which has existed since June. Since then,
nothing much. Can Barack Obama make it a full year without nominating
anyone for this cabinet post?
2. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood an... more »
Canada’s commercial seal slaughter opens despite no quota and no demand – Government of Newfoundland and Labrador paid $3.6 million in taxpayer subsidies
[image: Welcome to Canada: A Canadian fisherman kills a baby harp seal by
slamming its head on the ice during the 2011 slaughter. Photo: AndyC via
piaberrend.org]
TORONTO, ONTARIO (IFAW) – Canada's commercial seal hunt opens off the coast
of Newfoundland and Labrador today, despite a lack of demand for seal
products and restrictions on seal products in 34 countries. The
International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) questions why the Canadian
government insists on wasting millions of tax dollars supporting an
industry that is clearly obsolete.
"For the second year in a row the com... more »
TWO HUMAN CATASTROPHES CLASHING WITH EACH OTHER
Amira Hass, the only Jewish-Israeli journalist to have spent almost 20
years living in and reporting from Gaza and the West Bank, recently
suffered a torrent of hate mail and calls for her prosecution after she
wrote an article defending the right of Palestinians to resist violent
occupation.
In the article, Hass defended the throwing of stones by Palestinian youth
at Israeli soldiers, calling it "the birthright and duty of anyone subject
to foreign rule." Hass said Israelis remain in denial about "how much
violence is used on a daily basis against Palestinians. They don’t like to... more »
The Netherlands Parks the F-35
The Dutch already have one F-35 and they're due to get another in just a
few months. They're the first of what was supposed to be an 85 aircraft
purchase. But the Netherlands government and military are getting cold
feet for the over-expensive, overdue and under-performing, partially
stealthy light attack bomber. So they've decided to park the F-35s while
they explore their options.
*Newly appointed defence minister Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert announced the
decision to park the test assets in a letter to the Dutch parliament on 4
April. A first example - delivered in late 2012 - ... more »
Woman behind street parties to 'celebrate' death of Margaret Thatcher named - Telegraph
' Blythe is a drama teacher with a workshop company that visits
secondary
schools. She specialises in "facilitating workshops for young, excluded
and
potentially criminalised individuals and uses drama techniques she has
developed to explore resolution of conflict and oppression," according
to
the company's website.'
More here
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/margaret-thatcher/9984646/Woman-behind-street-parties-to-celebrate-death-of-Margaret-Thatcher-named.html
Our
children's education is in safe hands...
THE WAY WE ARE: Professor entranced by a child with a horn!
*WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 2013*
*Part 3—Intellectual squalor spreads:* When you walk through the valley of
the shadow of dumb, you may not see The Dumb all around you.
That doesn’t mean that The Dumb isn’t there, that it isn’t destroying your
culture. Consider the cable discussion of public schools which occurred,
among the complacencies of the peignoir, this past Sunday morning.
To watch all three segments of this gruesome discussion, click here.
For decades, Fox News and its pre-existing culture have made a joke of your
discourse. Last Sunday, it fell to Melissa Harris-Perry and a fou... more »
NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES
In Belgium, Dr. Steven Laureys and his team have spent many years with
patients who have had near-death experiences
They report that near-death experiences are 'more vivid than real events'.
'Afterlife' feels 'even more real than real,' researcher says
*Comments at the Mail online include:*
It's real. It happened to me when I was 8. I am in my 50s now and remember
it vividly. The amazing thing is that my memories are so similar to
everyone else's near-death experience.
- Tee Dee , San Luis Obispo, United States, 10/4/2013 05:06
We don't die....we were never born... We are NOT our... more »
Documentary evidence in provincial offence matters
Documentary evidence poses a major challenge for the Courts. This is
especially so for Provincial Offences – often trials for these matters are
conducted rather casually and evidentiary issues are glossed over.
Prior to admission all documents must be authenticated and established as
relevant before admission.
Authentication, that is proving the document is what it purports to be,
seldom poses an issue. A person who made or received the document can say
it is, in fact, for example, a letter sent or received. Similarly a
document found among records can be authenticated as bein... more »
Documentary evidence in provincial offence matters
Documentary evidence poses a major challenge for the Courts. This is
especially so for Provincial Offences – often trials for these matters are
conducted rather casually and evidentiary issues are glossed over.
Prior to admission all documents must be authenticated and established as
relevant before admission.
Authentication, that is proving the document is what it purports to be,
seldom poses an issue. A person who made or received the document can say
it is, in fact, for example, a letter sent or received. Similarly a
document found among records can be authenticated as bein... more »
Documentary evidence in provincial offence matters
Documentary evidence poses a major challenge for the Courts. This is
especially so for Provincial Offences – often trials for these matters are
conducted rather casually and evidentiary issues are glossed over.
Prior to admission all documents must be authenticated and established as
relevant before admission.
Authentication, that is proving the document is what it purports to be,
seldom poses an issue. A person who made or received the document can say
it is, in fact, for example, a letter sent or received. Similarly a
document found among records can be authenticated as bein... more »
Will the U.S. be Wracked by Violence and Riots by 2020? The Math Says So.
Mathematician Peter Turchin has run the numbers and predicts the United
States will face a widespread wave of violence and riots by around 2020.
Turchin, a U. Connecticut prof, is the champion of "cliodynamics" which is
drawing on mathematical models of the past to foretell the future. The
name comes from Clio, the Greek goddess of history.
*“We start with questions that historians have asked for all of history,”
Turchin says. “For example: Why do civilizations collapse?” — but they seek
to answer these questions quite differently. They use math rather than mere
language, and accor... more »
We Are All F***ed!: Winner Takes All - The Super-Priority Status Of Derivatives!
I have been following the steadily worsening world wide financial situation
for some time now, and have put up dozens of reports at this blog
informing everyone to be prepared for a true hurricane of financial
collapse that is surely just around the corner (possibly as soon as this
summer!). It is startling to realize that most people are totally
unaware, or absolutely do not care, that their entire world is about to
change, and they could wake up one day, destitute and wondering how the
hell did this mess ever happen!
We hear constantly about the crushing Usury debt loads that a... more »
Burton (IN-ALEC) - Conflict of interest, Nah!
Hell - if this doens't constitute some kind of conflict of interest - I
have no idea what would.
[R58] Rep. Burton appointed to ALEC Financial Services Subcommittee
STATEHOUSE — The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has appointed
State *Representative Woody Burton (R-Whiteland) as co-chairman of the
Financial Services Subcommittee.* This subcommittee is an advisory body to
the larger Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development Task Force.
ALEC works at the state level to advance the fundamental principles of
free-market enterprise, limited government and federalism. Th... more »
"Liberal / Tory ... same old story" - Stockwell Day Throws Support To Right Wing B.C. Liberal Party
*KELOWNA, B.C. - A former federal Conservative cabinet minister says he'll
be supporting the BC Liberal Party in the upcoming provincial election.*
* **Stockwell Day served as trade minister and public safety minister under
Prime Minister Stephen Harper but didn't seek re-election in 2011.*
* **This past October, he and former Conservative senator Gerry St. Germain
told delegates at a Liberal convention that British Columbians had to unite
under Premier Christy Clark to keep the New Democrats from office. *
* **Day says New Democratic policies will be bad for the economy, adding
th... more »
Hump Day Open Thread
Trouble is, the American middle class are the ones getting humped and
not just on Wednesday. It's inconceivable that more liberals than we're
seeing aren't decrying this Chained CPI Grand Compromise by Obama as the
unnecessary evil that it truly is. Remember, folks, this Chained CPI in the
2014 budget proposal is only to be found in the White House's version,* not
the GOP's*. The Republicans are smart enough to let Obama shoot himself in
the foot and the middle class in the head while keeping their hands clean.
That way, when dozens of Democrats are up for reelection in next ye... more »
Something to make you smile...
*and the good Lord knows we could use a bit of fun. *
H/T Theo Spark
Image of the Day: Satellite view of flooding in La Plata, Argentina, 4 April 2013
[image: NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image on 4 April 2013 of
severe flooding in La Plata, which claimed more than 50 lives, and forced
thousands from their homes in the Buenos Aires region. Many of the
casualties occurred in La Plata, situated about 60 kilometers (40 miles)
southeast of Buenos Aires. Roughly 40 centimeters (16 inches) of rain fell
on La Plata in a two-hour period 2–3 April 2013. Photo: NASA / GSFC / METI
/ ERSDAC / JAROS, and U.S. / Japan ASTER Science Team]
Caption by Michon Scott
9 April 2013
In early April 2013, severe flooding claimed more than 50 liv... more »
Pretty girls with firepower...
*welcome to Wednesday.*
Girls and Guns
What’s To Gain From the Kurdish Alliance’s Boycott Of Iraq’s Government?
The Kurdish Coalition is currently boycotting both the parliament and the
cabinet. This came after the 2013 budget was passed without their consent
at the beginning of March. Afterward Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG)
President Massoud Barzani called for a conference on the matter with
Kurdish politicians, and they have not gone back to work since then. The
Coalition is facing two problems. The first is that the Kurdish parties are
not united, and have different views on what action to take vis-Ã -vis
Baghdad, and the second is that the Kurds lack the numbers to have a
meaningfu... more »
A FAIR BUDGET FOR ALL
- I had a very busy day yesterday. I spent hours working on the drone
bill now pending in Augusta. Tomorrow is the Judiciary Committee work
session on the bill so I sent a news release out about our concern with
drones snooping on us in Maine. I also sent the drone petition with all
the names we've gathered to each member of the Maine House of
Representatives and many members of the Senate. (It was interesting to
find that Maine Senate Republicans had their emails available while
Democrats require you to fill out a form to reach them which didn't allow ... more »
Four charts that show the U.S. spends too little on energy research
[image: Trends in non-defense research and development by function, in
billions of dollars, 1953-2013. Graphic: AAAS]
By Brad Plumer
9 April 2013
(Washington Post) – At his confirmation hearing this morning, Energy
Secretary nominee Ernest Moniz told the Senate that the United States
spends far too little on energy R&D. “We are underinvesting by a factor of
three,” he said.
Is that accurate? Many energy experts have, indeed, argued over the years
that the U.S. government should do a lot more to invest in innovative new
energy technologies — particularly if we want to address glo... more »
Being Margaret Thatcher
Barack Obama opened his oversized vintage 80s handbag this morning and
dumped the entire contents on a sleepy unsuspecting public. No cash -- just
a pile of IOUs payable to the Wall Street elites, to be drawn from our
Social Security trust fund to go straight to their trillion-dollar tax-free
offshore bank accounts and CEO pay packages.
The only shocker is that there are still a few hold-outs who are still
shocked by the Great Betrayal. Happily, most *New York Times*reader-commenters are up in arms, with one woman (Renee of
Manhattan) even suggesting that Barack be dragged bodily fro... more »
Canadian Banks Outsourcing Jobs
Billions of dollars in profits. Multi-million dollar salaries. But still, they
want to save a few hundred grand at the expense of the livelihoods of their
workers.
Who are the main shareholders in Canadian bank stocks?
Of course, you'll always find some mainstream economist who will drone on
and on about how small this particular incident of outsourcing, automating,
down-sizing, whatever is, in the context of the economy as a whole.
There'll be some study showing how wages in outsourcing-prone industry
aren't any more stagnant than wages in the wider economy so there's nothing
to w... more »
Andrew Wiles: 60th birthday
Andrew Wiles, the man who proved Fermat's Last Theorem, is 60 tomorrow.
Congratulations.
In 1996, Simon Singh produced this 50-minute documentary for the BBC
Horizon series. And I just watched it again and liked it a lot.
Wiles' father was a chaplain in Cambridge – and a professor of divinity at
Oxford. The program convinced me – without saying it – that this religious
background was important for Wiles to know how to get concentrated for the
years that were needed to complete the proof. Note that he first presented
a proof in 1993, one that was seen to have a gap, and he was a... more »
Conservative "Reformers" Oppose and then Support Standardized Testing
Chester Finn’s “Accountability Dilemmas,” in the Fordham Flypaper, seems to
be an example of a conservative “reformer” acknowledging at least some of
the failure of bubble-in "reform." Finn recognizes that parents “fret” over
the overemphasis on testing that “fosters dull, drill-centric classrooms.”
Finn is open to some sort of testing hiatus as Common Core is introduced.
Turning down the heat on educators would allow them to “focus on what’s
coming rather than on the academic expectations that are going out of
style.” Teachers could adjust to the new standards “without having to l... more »
Amur leopard population rises to 50 animals, but at continued risk from poachers
[image: Captive Amur leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis) snarling in snow.
Photo: Lynn M. Stone / WWF]
By Jeremy Hance
9 April 2013
(mongabay.com) – In the remote Russian far east, amid pine forests and long
winters, a great cat may be beginning to make a recovery. A new survey
estimates that the Amur leopard (*Panthera pardus orientalis*) population
has risen to as many as 50 individuals. While this may not sound like much,
it's a far cry from the a population that may have fallen to just 25
animals. Sporting the heaviest coat of any leopard, the Amur leopard
largely hunts hoof... more »
The War on Workers
In Harperland, the war on workers continues. Carol Goar reports that, this
past Sunday, new EI eligibility rules went into effect:
Until Sunday anyone living in a region with an unemployment rate above 8
per cent was eligible. Now the benchmark is a 13.1-per-cent jobless rate.
Only a handful of regions qualify: parts of Newfoundland-Labrador, eastern
Nova Scotia, Gaspésie, Restigouche, northern Manitoba, northern
Saskatchewan, Nunavut, Yukon and the Northwest Territories.
Under the old rules, laid-off workers in most regions could use their best
14 weeks of earnings when submitti... more »
MI GOP "Let 'em Die" Agenda
Saw this on Dialy Kos this morning (if you are not aware of the hell
Michiganders are going through - wake up and educate yourself - it's coming
to a red state near you soon).
The Michigan GOP
Here's the laundry list:
- Over 1,000 workers, roughly 9% of the total staff, would be cut from
the Department of Human Services, the state department that, among other
things, handles welfare, food assistance and child abuse investigations
- Cuts $108.6 million from Governor Snyder’s proposed budget
- The three juvenile justice facilities in Escanaba, Grayling and
Whitmore ... more »
WPB/NYC and Anything Else on Pinterest
WPB/NYC and Anything Else is now on Pinterest. Have a look and pin
articles, videos relevant to Green Rights and politics in general.
Are Ad Hoc, Issue Driven Congressional Coalitions An Option?
On any given day there is an odd-- and I mean *odd*-- assortment of
Republicans willing to buck their much loathed party leadership and cross
the aisle to make common cause with Democrats. That can be as many as 60
members as we saw when the GOP leadership offered an amendment to the
Violence Against Women Act on February 28. It was carried by Conference
Chair Kathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), #4 in the GOP hierarchy and the intent
was to strip out protections for gays and lesbians in the domestic violence
bill about to pass the House. 60 Republicans helped defeat the amendment at
11... more »
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Terre Roche, 60.
Right to the good stuff, as I'm glad that I've made it through the first
stretch of west coast night games:
1. Larry Bartels on math (don't know that I've ever mentioned it as such,
but Bartels is one of the people who you should pretty much always read on
every subject).
2. Seth Masket (with Thad Krouser and Eric McGhee): party endorsements in
primaries appear to have direct effects on voters.
3. Dean Baker on Social Security disability.
4. One more on Thatcher: Carah Ong has comments from Reagan and Bush
administration oral histories about ... more »
ALECer - Newtown Has Nothing to Do With Gun Debate
From HuffPo
Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) told reporters that the coming debate will have
nothing to do with the families of the victims from Newtown, Connecticut.
“See, I think it’s so unfair of the administration to hurt these families,
to make them think this has something to do with them when, in fact, it
doesn’t,” Inhofe said and suggested that Obama is manipulating and
misinforming the families for political purposes.
That is just so damn dumb - I can't comment on it.
From Think Progress
The Oklahoma senator has an A+ rating from the NRA and Gun Owners of
America. He has taken a... more »
Argentina: Cattle Mutilations in Santiago del Estero
*Source: Diario El Liberal, Diario Panorama and Vision Ovni
Date: 8 April 2013*
*Argentina: Cattle Mutilations in Santiago del Estero*
A cattle rancher from Paraje San Miguel, located in the interior of the
Quebrachos department, made known the discovery of mutilated cows.
*Technical Information:
Place: Paraje San Miguel, Department of Quebrachos
Location: 2 kilometers from the farmhouse
Livestock Producer: Aldo Pineda
Number of Animals: 1
Date Reported: 8 April 2013*
Type of incision: “Those of us who live in the country and have slaughtered
an animal are aware of the difficulty in... more »
WotW: Educate Your Parents on Social Media
Last week, I was at dinner at my parent's place when my mom started talking
about the last blog post I wrote about hashtags. Not only was I surprised
she read my post, but that reading blogs was even part of her routine. She
told me the post was really helpful because she had heard a lot about
hashtags, but had no idea what they were.
This got me to thinking about what a strange world social media must be to
our parents. Now, I'm sure there are some readers of this blog who are the
age of my parents, and I applaud you for keeping up with the times. But
chances are most of our par... more »
An Interview with Dr. Colin A. Ross, pt. 1 – “What is Mind Control?”
This episode is with an interview with Dr. Colin A. Ross, titled “What is
Mind Control” and is being released on Tuesday, April 09, 2013. This
interview with Clint and Burt was recorded on Thursday, April 04, 2013.
Dr. Ross is an internationally renowned clinician, researcher, author and
lecturer in the field of trauma-related disorders. He is the founder and
President of the Colin A. Ross Institute for Psychological Trauma.
Dr. Ross is the Executive Medical Director of three trauma programs located
at Timberlawn Mental Health System in Dallas, Texas, Forest View Hospital
in Grand ... more »
Untitled
*City formally files to place federal receiver over Orleans Parish Prison*
*Something is killing dolphins in the Gulf*
*Gulf health questions linger after oil leak*
*Offshore extension bill dovetails into red snapper issue* *French Quarter
Fest 2013 Food Better ~He Said/She Said NOLA* *Today in New Orleans ~NOLA
DEFENDER**
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Winter storm watch for today!
It's springtime, but a winter storm watch is in effect.
Environment Canada warns it's not snow we have to worry about.
A series of low pressure systems is bringing heavy rainfall warnings. On
Thursday, a stronger low will arrive from the southwest and combine with a
colder airmass from the north, the national weather network reports. As a
result, a large amount of rain is expected to change to ice pellets and
freezing rain.
Guest Post – Dave Kang: The Media Coverage of the Korean Crisis is Inflammatory
My own thinking on the current Korea flap is on The Diplomat. I argue it’s
a faux crisis, which promptly got me accused of being an air-head academic
in the comment section. Lovely. I was also pleased to respond to Kim Jong
Un’s threat that I should leave the country. And I managed not to
Continue reading
Let the Panic Begin!
*Wood chips, drying in Hengchun.*
New cases suspected.... it's spreading!!!!!
Test results have cleared three suspected cases of H7N9 avian influenza
infection, as 10 new suspected cases were reported, the Central Epidemic
Disease Surveillance Command Center said yesterday.
Virus uncovered in poultry markets in Shanghai. Meanwhile, in Taiwan....
Six suspected cases of H7N9 virus found in Taiwan, but four cleared.....
CDC Deputy Director-General Chou Chih-hau (周志浩) said on Thursday that six
people reported fever symptoms after arriving in Taiwan from China
recently. Two of them we... more »
Chamomile Benefits: Growing Your Own Medicine by Elizabeth Renter
Source of poster:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Zengrannys-Sage-Gardens/155617971159528
Chamomile Benefits: Growing Your Own Medicine
by Elizabeth Renter
Natural Society, 6 April 2013
Chamomile marks many people’s first venture into herbalism, and it’s
usually because they have problems sleeping. The value of the plant as a
mild relaxant has made it a popular choice in prepared teas found in nearly
every grocery store. But *chamomile benefits* don’t stop there—this
flowering jewel is able to provide an array of health perks. What’s more,
growing chamomile at home is quite an e... more »
Margaret Thatcher: Public anger at BBC bias: Viewers hit out at lengthy coverage of poll tax and miners' strike | Mail Online
One excerpt from this Daily Mail piece struck me
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2306564/Margaret-Thatcher-Public-anger-BBC-bias-Viewers-hit-lengthy-coverage-poll-tax-miners-strike.html
' One of Thatcher's arch critics – former Labour MP Tony Benn – was one
of
the first invited to speak on BBC 5 Live and BBC World Service and was
given free rein to criticise Lady Thatcher.
He said: 'Margaret Thatcher taught us the meaning of class war, we have
paid a very heavy price for it.
'She used the power she had to make war on the miners and the trade
union
movement . . . and it was ... more »
Physics World on sub-\(46\GeV\) neutralinos
Colin Stuart wrote the following article for Physics World yesterday:
Are there signs of SUSY in Planck data?
A week ago, AMS showed us much more accurate data about the high-energy
positrons and electrons that haven't qualitatively changed our beliefs
about the dark matter particle, at least not officially. Very recently,
Planck – the successor of WMAP – released its data as well and it contained
no clear SUSY smoking guns, either.
The Physics World article seems to be mostly based on the following preprint
Naturalness of Light Neutralino Dark Matter in pMSSM after LHC, XENON100
a... more »
Molokai MOM - Standing Up to GMOs
Molokai MOM - Standing Up to GMOs
Youtube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7D4DB5LSBQ&feature=em-subs_digest-vrecs
*Published on Mar 20, 2013*
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For more videos about GMO in Hawaii visit::
http://www.youtube.com/user/HawaiiSEE...
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For More Info on GMO in Hawaii: http://hawaiiseed.org/
For more music by Makana: http://makanamusic.com/
Mercy and her family live downwind from Monsanto's fields. After a dust
storm her son falls ill. This sets Mercy on a search to understand why
these GMO test crops are being pla... more »
Goodbye Maggie
A lot of this particular article is at best mean spirited, and a last
stand on the soap box for the willfully blind before the muse of history
puts it all back in balance.
The vast majority of the population see their narrow personal interests as
the ‘national interest’ when in fact the national interest often demands
personal sacrifice. Ask any Soldier.
The outrageous behavior of the union movement throughout the twentieth
century strangled the national interest just as surely as had the
traditional landholders throughout much of history. Neither are pleasant
to look a... more »
Elasmosaurus Identified?
This skeleton and a recent report posted in which the creature was
outright eyeballed directly from above by trained observers pretty well
clinches it. Some of the inferences here are open to controversy, but what
we are dealing with can be put to rest.
All sea serpent reports and loch Nessie like reports are about this
creature and no other.
I think that it still retains the capacity to crawl along on land when it
needs to. It certainly will be able to flounder around in a marsh. Thus
establishing an egg nest in decaying vegetation is practical. While the
argument f... more »
Icelands Growing Violcanic Threat
For some reason these researchers have not connected the dots. In 1159 BC
Hekla blew and shut down agriculture in Northern Europe for a stunning
twenty years, The fact that I think much more than that actually happened
does not have to be accepted to confront the reality of tree ring analysis.
That describes a horrific disaster.
Thus normal volcanic activity as we have seen forever, is a mere
inconvenience. Knowing it can be far worse is known also as prudence. The
good news is that these events are wonderfully uncommon.
However, we have plenty of unfriendly local n... more »
Private Space Industry Enters Orbit
If we ever needed proof of the natural success of the private public model
of enterprise development this is surely it. We are not so much inventing
anything new, but we certainly exploring all the ways in which the tech can
be made to fly.
We are on the way to having several lift configurations out there and we
have already effectively matched the best past performance in one way or
another.
As important we are close to having a reusable first stage and even
electromagnetic launchers. Space is getting exciting again and it is about
to surpass all our drea... more »
Harper's Canada Posts Poor Showing on Child Well-Being
Sideshow Steve Harper doesn't have much time for the plebs, especially the
little ones - the dependent-types. UNICEF has just released a report on
the well-being of children in the 29 richest countries and we finish in a
miserable 17th place.
*Canada ranked very low in the category of health and safety, ahead of only
Latvia and Romania. According to UNICEF, the category looked at such things
as infant mortality, low birth weight, national immunization and overall
child and youth mortality.*
*Canada had the worst ranking in terms of youth cannabis users at 28 per
cent; was 24th i... more »
Dr. Steve Pieczenik - Time to Shutdown The CIA & DHS
these JOKERS gotta leave us alone, it is now time to adopt CUSTODIAN ways
on this PLANET so that it can be FREEd from this micc insanity.
Remembering, of course, that Dr. Steve Pieczenik is a former top hostage
manager, has used psychological warfare to overthrow governments, and
founded Delta Force in 1979. So, when he says, "It is now time to shut down
The CIA & DHS," do we listen to him or do we listen to NWO bloodline
mouthpiece and covert assassin (by his own admission) James Casbolt who
suggests, "MI6 created the CIA in 1947 and they're still controlling it."
So, who to beli... more »
PRINCE HARRY AND JAMES HEWITT
Prince Charles told Prince Harry that James Hewitt was not his father
Aged two, Prince Harry loved James Hewitt's stories of his life in the
military.
Harry and William liked to chat with 'Mummy's friend'.
Harry's most treasured item of clothing was a military uniform which James
Hewitt had had made for him.
'Uncle James' took Harry to visit Combermere Barracks, home of the
Household Cavalry.
*James Hewitt*
When Uncle James was posted abroad, Diana began her relationship with James
Gilbey and then with Dr Hasnat Khan.
In 2002, James Hewitt stated that he was not Prince ... more »
April 9. 1973
There's a Gallup poll in the field that finishes up today; Richard Nixon's
approval ratings is at 54% for April 6-9. It had been generally been
circling around 60% for most of the last few months, but has now been
falling since it spiked up in January (presumably on Vietnam news). So
Nixon is still reasonably popular (he had, after all, won a massive
landslide in November), but not quite as much so as had been the case.
Haldeman's diary:
--
Had a long discussion [with Nixon] about the monitoring facilities in his
offices and he wants them all taken out, but then he later changed h... more »
Kierkegaard On Truth
Related: * *
*Kierkegaard On Socratic Ignorance*.
*Kierkegaard On "Man."** *
*Kierkegaard On Socrates And The Immortality of The Soul.*
*Kierkegaard On God's Love.*
*Kierkegaard On Passion.*
* Kierkegaard On Martyrs of Truth.*
Below is an excerpt from, *"The Soul of Kierkegaard: Selections from His
Journals."* Edited by Alexander Dru. Dover Publications, Inc: Mineola, New
York. 2003. Pg. 201-202.
. . . No, instead of wishing, like the young man, to tear away the veil
from divinity, I wish to tear the veil from human twaddle and from the
conceited self-complacency with which... more »
"In America truth is offensive, If you tell the truth, you are offensive."
So writes former U.S. deputy treasury secretary, Paul Craig Roberts, in his
column for *CounterPunch, America, Land of the Lost*.
Roberts recently published the e-book, *The Failure of Laissez-Faire
Capitalism*, reviewed on this blog three weeks ago. Plenty of offensive
truth-telling there. Now, Roberts confronts the shrill unacceptability of
being both honest and open in modern Western culture.
*Throughout history truth tellers have suffered and court historians have
prospered. It is the same today.*
* If you tell readers what is really going on, they want to know why you
c... more »
I wonder how The News Quiz will handle Lady Thatcher's death
I note that BBC Radio 4's The News Quiz returns for a new series on Friday,
presumably they will be recording the show on Thursday night.
I wonder how the assorted lefty 'comedians' will respond. My prediction
would be the very nasty and very left-wing Jeremy Hardy to be nastily
sarcastic and vicious (in his faux sweet middle class voice) and Sandi
Toskvig to have some nicely written barbs of her own against a woman who
she could never dream of emulating.
I believe the other guests are Phill Jupitus, Daniel Finkelstein, and
Roisin Conaty.
Phill 'Porky the poet' Jupitus is another r... more »
The Realist Report with John Friend
On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined by Rocky Suhayda,
Chairman of the American Nazi Party, and Axl Hess, Director of Outreach of
the *American Nazi Party*. We'll be discussing the American Nazi Party,
it's history and objectives, *George Lincoln Rockwell*, challenges facing
White America, and related issues. Calls will be taken throughout the
conversation. Tune in for what will surely be an interesting discussion!
You can download the entire program *here*, or subscribe to the American
Nationalist Network via iTunes *here*. Thanks for listening everyone!
BOOKS / Ron Jacobs : Vijay Prashad and the Lessons of the Global South
Vijay Prashad's 'possible history':
The lessons of the Global South
Prashad paints a sweeping indictment of those who want to rule the earth with little or no regard for most of its inhabitants.
By Ron Jacobs / The Rag Blog / April 10, 2013
The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South by Vijay Prashad (2013: Verso); Hardback; 300 pp; $26.95.
Vijay Prashad is fast becoming
The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights Is Simply Bullshit
An excerpt from the New York Times article, *"A Very Busy Man Behind the
Syrian Civil War’s Casualty Count"*:
Military analysts in Washington follow its body counts of Syrian and rebel
soldiers to gauge the course of the war. The United Nations and human
rights organizations scour its descriptions of civilian killings for
evidence in possible war crimes trials. Major news organizations, including
this one, cite its casualty figures.
Yet, despite its central role in the savage civil war, the grandly named Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights is virtually a one-man band. Its found... more »
Prisoner Abuse Scandal in L.A. County Jails-- Guest Post From Sheriff Candidate Lou Vince
In 2011, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a report in Federal Court
giving L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca’s department a scathing review for his
deputies’ treatment of prisoners. A *New York Times* article that year
summed up the report:
One inmate said he was forced to walk down a hallway naked after sheriff’s
deputies accused him of stealing a piece of mail. They taunted him in
Spanish, calling him a derogatory name for homosexuals.
Another former inmate said that after he protested that guards were
harassing a mentally ill prisoner, the same deputies took him into anoth... more »
Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)
Welcome to Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)! If this is your first visit,
please click HERE for information and a complete list of all the challenges
we've taken on so far.
There's a lot of great information in this post and I encourage you to read
through it ... however, if you don't have the time right now, you might
find the following quick links helpful:
- The #CTWW Gang
- The Honor Society
- My Final Thoughts on Our Last Challenge
- This Week's Challenge
Last week we asked the question, *How many CDs/DVDs do you have?* These
seemingly harmless discs create a lot... more »
QUOTE OF THE DAY: Giving a bugger
“Key’s announcement that he plans to respond to the GCSB’s habit of
illegally spying on New Zealanders by making it legal for them to spy on
New Zealanders is the same as National’s previous response when the
police were caught illegally spying on New Zealanders. No one gets held
accountable, and the law is changed to enable the previously illegal
activity.
“The message to government agencies – that they can break the law and
violate people’s rights with impunity because the government will never
prosecute them and will rewrite the law to whatever they want if they get
caught... more »
Revealing Some Truths About Britain's So Called "Iron Lady": Margaret Thatcher's Part In The Sinking Of The Argentinian Battleship "General Belgrano"!
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom between 1979
to 1990, and well known as the so called "Iron Lady" by many around the
world, passed away yesterday at the age of 87. Much of the news coming
out of the United Kingdom for the last two days and many Jewish run media
outlets around the world have paid tribute and much accolades to this
woman, the United Kingdom's first and only female Prime Minister, and her
legacy. From what I have discovered through research about this woman, I
do not hold her in the same high regard.....
I want to present one article ... more »
The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Newest Update - TEPCO "Losing Faith" In Leaking Fukushima Tanks...But Has No Place To Put The Radioactive Water!
It has been a while since I last put up any updates on the still dangerous
situation with the failed nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear
power station in Japan, and I figured that there was no time like the
present...
I have watched the reports over the last week about the leaking nuclear
waste storage facility pits at Fukushima with about as much disgust as
everyone else.... It is troubling that now over 2 years since that horrific
disaster, we are watching as Tokyo Electric Power Corporation (TEPCO)
continue to struggle in almost vain attempts to contain the situatio... more »
MicroSoftNBC Interviews Lawyer on Literacy, Reading, Testing, Homeschooling, and More
The next time that the young guns of The Cycle have a legal issue to talk
about, I am wondering if they will find an educator to analyze the issues
around the case. After giving the Occupy DOE event thirty seconds of video
with clueless voiceover by the host of the show, the producers gave United
Way CEO, Sheena Wright, 7 minutes to share her commonplace ignorance on the
issues of opting out, testing, home schooling, literacy, and more. But
then, with New York City short on educational reform scholars and
commentators, what's wrong with a lawyer's advice on school issues? After
... more »
Pol. Ideology 39: Thatcherism
The great, cool “Iron Lady” Margaret Thatcher, UK Prime Minister from
1979-1990, passed away yesterday. RIP, Margaret.
Let me start with a few quotes from this great leader.
*To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure
leukaemia with leeches.*
*We want a society where people are free to make choices, to make mistakes,
to be generous and compassionate. This is what we mean by a moral society;
not a society where the state is responsible for everything, and no one is
responsible for the state.*
*If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it... more »
Mayors Against Illegal Guns sets the NRA bullies in its sights
*This "Message from Neil Heslin," father of Jesse, is being circulated by
Mayors Against Illegal Guns as part of its Demand Action to End Gun Violencecampaign.
*
*"For too long, the only voice that has been loud enough to influence
Congress has been the Washington gun lobby's -- that's how we've ended up
with ineffective gun laws that have fueled our country's gun violence
epidemic. Now we're working to make sure that the voices of the more than
900 bipartisan mayors in our coalition -- and the 90 percent of Americans
who support commonsense reforms like background checks for all gu... more »
make believe
' Tis strange - but true; for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction; if it could be told,
How much would novels gain by the exchange!
How differently the world would men behold!
How oft would vice and virtue places change!
The new world would be nothing to the old,
If some Columbus of the moral seas
Would show mankind their souls' antipodes.
Lord Byron, in the satirical poem *Don Juan*, 1823*.*
Your Mission Part 2
*Your Mission Part 2*
April 9th, 2013
http://removingtheshackles.blogspot.ca/2013/04/your-mission-part-ii.html
I received this message from the awesome Sue, whom I love so much for her
amazing energy!! This is a continuation of the visualization I wrote about
yesterday HERE.
[10:35:50 AM] Sue Harper Todd:
I have been DOing. After reading D’s brilliant visualization yesterday I
could immediately see everyone at the Party except the divines. I could
feel they were having a really hard time letting go of their ‘identity’. I
could see them as D described ‘hiding –closeted ... more »
Harry Reid ready to bust out gun control bill
Our Senate Majority Leader tells us he is a patient man, but apparently
he's lost his patience today. Harry Reid is forcing a cloture vote on the
current Democratic gun reform bill. The kabuki is complicated on this move
with the compromise bill still stuck in the back rooms and the above
pictured GOPers being joined by Mitch McConnell threatening a filibuster,
along a few red state Dems.
Not clear how serious they are about the filibuster. Josh says their
resolve is failing. Surely, there are long term problems for the Republican
party in blocking a vote on a bill that has the s... more »
Larry Ray : The Right of Americans to Love and Marry
There's
a problem when the stars and stripes exclude some Americans, forcing
them to have their own flag. Image from iHandbill.
The right to love and marry:
Picking the fly specks out of the pepper
Conservative judges on the Supreme Court were literally stewing and
sputtering as they questioned attorneys speaking in support of same-sex
marriage.
By Larry Ray / The Rag Blog / April 9, 2013
It
“Sticking it to the man” by saying “stuff you” to artists
Promoters of economic theft recently have been pointing to Amanda Palmer’s
inspiring TED talk—“don’t *make *people pay for music; *ask* them” she
says—as grounds for saying the “old model” should die, copyright should go
hang, and every artist should be just like AFP*.
Palmer argues her outstanding success in getting her fans to support her
financially is built in large part on trusting them. “I put myself and my
work out there, I ask to be embraced, and I am embraced.” As a promoter of
artists rights myself, and also as one of the 24,388 people who trusted her
enough to back her ... more »
Untitled
*Gentrification flap rooted in an older debate over New Orleans
‘exceptionalism’ ~C. W. Cannon*
World War One!! ..... it seemed like a good idea at the time
**
*I see that the Conservative Party and their friends in the MSM are getting
ready to try and brainwash you into thinking that World War One was a
glorious moment in Canadian history. You are being told that Canadian
soldiers died for Canada's 'freedom' during the First World War ... to 'protect
and preserve our nation'. Nonsense!!!*
*Any one with even a fleeting knowledge of history will struggle with this
interpretation of the pointless, meaningless conflict known as 'the First
World War'.*
*
**Stop any citizen on the street and ask them what the reason for the First
World War... more »
Glenn Alexander Magee - Goethe the Alchemist
Glenn Alexander Magee is Chairman of the Department of Philosophy and an
Associate Professor of Philosophy at Long Island University (LIU). Here is
a background of his work (*Source: LIU*):
If there is a unifying theme to my scholarship and my teaching, it is this:
I am interested in the relationship of philosophy to "the irrational."
Mysticism claims to provide wisdom in a non-discursive form and typically
rejects philosophy's insistence that all truths must be established by
reason. However, as my scholarly work demonstrates, throughout history
philosophers have in fact been i... more »
Untitled
*When Boatloads of Federal Money Attack ~Mike Church*~In 1817, President
James Madison vetoed(1) Henry Clay and John C Calhoun’s “Bonus Bill” which
would have given the Federal Government funding and authority to begin
building levees, canals and roads. In his veto Madison wrote “The
legislative powers vested in Congress are specified and enumerated, and it
does not appear that the power for constructing canals, and improving the
navigation of water courses… is among the enumerated powers vested by the
Constitution in the Government of the United States.”
If only Madison had been aro... more »
Untitled
*Collapse of Jindal plan spawns unfunded schemes to phase out income tax
~Mark Moseley, The Lens*
*Poke a fork in his buns cause Jindal’s Done ~Dakinikat, Sky Dancing *
GAIA PORTAL: Spheres of Light are Released from Gaia Portals at this Time
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* *
* *Spheres of Light are Released from Gaia Portals at this Time*
by ÉirePort
Spheres of Light are released from Gaia portals at this time. As shells of
old paradigms are cracked, Spheres of Light are released, as well, from
individual beings.
This may appear to some as an effervescence of Light, appearing in regions
formerly viewed as stagnant or neutral or dark.
The Effervescence of Light spheres results from release of ego pressure
from individuals as well as cultures of all types throughout Gaia.
Resting during periods of physical "tiredness" encourages ego shell
crackin... more »
America Becomes Dr. Evil More And More As Each Day Passes
*NY Times: Navy Deploying Laser Weapon Prototype Near Iran*.
What you can learn from the movies
Pssst. Here’s some important cold, hard facts about the world everyone can
learn from the movies. The first fact is, the movies are always right…
[image: Some movie facts]
And the last lesson is, if you ever meet kidnappers with duct tape, be
really scared of the tape.
Cartoon from 9GAG. Vid from Smithsonian Blogs.
Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission
to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)
EMHN 9: Private Sector Role in India UHC
Another bright and sensible paper from one of our international partners,
the Emerging Markets Health Network (EMHN). In a new paper published this
week, Indian economist and a friend, Debashis Chakraborty of the Indian
Institute of Foreign Trade in Delhi, argued that *"PPPs have the potential
to help India achieve its healthcare ambitions, although the government
should refrain from using its power to dominate the partnership, and will
have to allow private partners greater scope both to plan and manage."*
In his new seven-pages paper, The private sector’s role in achieving
Univer... more »
The Original Rudeboys - Sunny Days
We identify people by their different characteristics: the contours of
their body, the shape of their face, the colour of the hair or the sound of
their voice or even of their laugh. Their selfhood or character is summoned
up by the powerful blending of all these characteristics. I wish to
concentrate on only one of these qualities here, namely the last listed one
- the sound of the human voice.
Some years back, I remember viewing a TV programme on those poor lost souls
- the homeless or those of our number who live on our streets. The most
haunting thing about the whole programm... more »
Glenn Gaven : The Sad Saga of Austin's $10 Million Concrete Path
Austin
City Councilman Chris Riley on his trusty steed. Image from
chrisforaustin.com.
Taken for a ride:
The sad saga of the
$10 million concrete path
It is no coincidence that this segment of concrete treasure will run
along part of Austin Councilmember Chris Riley’s pet project, a New
Urbanist rezoning wet dream known as the Airport Boulevard Renovation
Project.
By Glenn Gaven / The Rag
Inanimate carbon rod
But let's be clear, future; not just for the next 5 years but the next
4,000 years, together, with the rod, in positive, serious fightback,
together, clear where we're going.
"How It Really Is"
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