Bend Over Again America (Photo credit: wstera2)
Keystone XL demonstration, White House,8-23-2011 Photo Credit: Josh Lopez (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Grilled Halloumi Cheese Français : Tranches de halloumi grillées (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Truck hauling 36-Inch Pipe to build Keystone-Cushing Pipeline (Phase II) south-east of Peabody, Kansas, USA. Location is Timber Rd and 20th St in Marion County. Looking south-west with rural Whitewater Center Church in background. Photo taken by Steve Meirowsky on July 10, 2010. Note: The rear wheels on this truck has independent steering. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Oh the joys of the open road! (Photo credit: brizzle born and bred)VIDEO: Lakota Media Project 'Moccasins on the Ground for Unci Maka'
Lakota
youths at Lakota Media Project produced this superb video for the
protection of Mother Earth and in solidarity to halt the Keystone XL
pipeline of dirty crude oil targeting their land and water. -- Censored
News
Please watch and share this short video about the Moccasins on the
Ground Tour of Resistance. This was made by the young people at Lakota
Media Project and Peoples Media
ماذا فعل الأطباء المصريين لك
المصرية لمكافحة المتظاهرين العسكرية إخلاء أحد المتظاهرين بعد إصابته خلال
مواجهات في حي العباسية في القاهرة في مايو 2012. صورة: خالد دسوقي / أ ف ب /
غيتي
وصدرت الأوامر العليا المصرية الأطباء الجيش بالعمل دون مخدر على المتظاهرين
الجرحى في مستشفى عسكري في القاهرة خلال احتجاجات ضد الحكم العسكري، وفقا
لتحقيق بتكليف من الرئيس محمد مرسي. التقرير إلى سوء الممارسة الجيش والشرطة
منذ 2011 تزعم أيضا أن الأطباء والجنود والمحتجين اعتدوا مسعفون داخل المستشفى.
النتائج التي تتعلق سلوك الجيش خلال الاشتباكات بالعباسية مايو 2012، هي أحدث
تسرب لصحيفة الغارديان من تقرير التحقيق قمع انتهاكات حقوق الإنسا... more »
GAIA PORTAL: Displacement of Light Intender Beings from Negative Timelines is Occurring
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* *Displacement of Light Intender Beings from Negative Timelines is
Occurring*
by ÉirePort
Multiple timelines are being exhibited among Gaia inhabitants at this
moment. Displacement of Light Intender Beings from negative timelines is
occurring via rapid unveiling of potential results of negative timelines.
Such was not deemed necessary a few years in Gaia's past; however,
sufficient number of Light Intender Beings became mired in such negative
timelines.
Full ascension of Gaia requires full release of all negative timelines.
ÉirePort | April 11, 2013 at 17:52
URL: http://wp... more »
Grilled Cheese and Gucamole
I love avocados. I could honestly eat them at every meal and never grow
sick of them. There is something about a nice creamy avocado that always
makes me want to reach for more. I don't make grilled cheese sandwiches for
dinner very often because when I was little grilled cheese sandwiches were
what my mom made when we were sick. Seriously, I associate them so much
with sickness, that I always feel faintly sick when I eat one. I decided to
set out to make a better grilled cheese, one that I would crave instead of
associate with the flu.
You will need:
Bread
Butter
Provolone... more »
"Obama's War On Social America"
*"Obama's War On Social America"*
By Stephen Lendman
"Obama, Republicans and most democrats are in lockstep. They claim
Medicare and Social Security are going broke. They lie saying so. When
properly administered, both programs are sound. Modest adjustments only are
needed to assure it. They're federally mandated. They're not entitlements.
They're contractual obligations. They're for eligible recipients who
qualify. Payroll taxes fund them.
Social Security provides retirement, disability, survivorship, and death
benefits. It's America's most effective poverty reduction prog... more »
"A Caveman’s Account of 'Civilized Society'”
*"A Caveman’s Account of 'Civilized Society'”*
By Joel Bowman
"Emblazoned across the lucre-basted exterior of the Internal Revenue
Service Building in Washington, D.C., is one of the most intellectually
polluted quotes any free mind is ever likely to encounter: “Taxes are what
we pay for a civilized society.”
Its effortlessly officious author, Associate Justice of the United States
Supreme Court Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., could scarcely have been more
wrong in his (albeit paraphrased) assertion. Unless, that is, the
mustachioed Rooseveltian meant to define “civilized society... more »
The American Nationalist News Wrap Up
Join us for a brief news wrap up! John and Rodney will be covering a
variety of recent news items, and offering commentary from a nationalist
perspective. Calls will be taken throughout the conversation.
You can download the entire program *here*, or subscribe to the American
Nationalist Network via iTunes *here*. Thanks for listening everyone!
Movie review: Oz the Great and Powerful
I've been meaning to review this movie for some time now, and it's been out
a while and kind of old, but as usual I was too busy to be timely about it.
But, on the Interwebs, it is never too late!
This movie is an attempt to revisit the L. Frank Baum *Wizard of Oz* story
as a prequel, focusing on the initial arrival of the Wizard---presented as
a circus magic show charlatan, womanizer, and swindler---by balloon. The
basic thematic arc of the story focuses on the Wizard's self-realization
that he is hollow inside and his subsequent to redeem himself by becoming
the champion of the ... more »
Anyone Want To Run Against ConservaDem Adam Schiff In A Nice Blue L.A. District?
Adam Schiff- totally wrong for his new district
When some of the country's "gayest" and gay-friendliest neighborhoods--
West Hollywood, Silverlake, Atwater, Los Feliz, Hollywood-- were redrawn
into Adam Schiff's congressional district last year, you would have thought
the long-time homophobe suddenly discovered he had 5 gay sons and a
long-lost lesbian sister. From someone routinely and gratuitously voting
against LGBT community interests, Schiff was suddenly treating gay people
as though they were Armenians-- i.e., with respect, reverence and
deference-- when he was the congressman ... more »
Common CORPORATE State Standards
Wonder who will benefit from adopting, implementing, and testing the Common
Core?
Look no further than the COVER of *Education Week*:
Gun Tea Leaves
The big news late this morning is that the Senate had no real trouble
getting to the gun bill, voting 68-31 for cloture on the motion to proceed
to the bill -- two Democrats defected and voted against cloture, but a
whopping 16 Republicans defected and supported cloture.
So they're on the bill.
Which hardly means the bill will pass, or beat back future filibusters. The
Manchin-Toomey compromise needs to be adopted as an amendment; that's going
to need 60 votes, and is apparently the first thing they're going to work
on. Then Republicans may attempt poison pill amendments that would,... more »
An appeal court can intervene only if it is satisfied the trial judge erred in law or made a palpable and overriding error in findings of fact or mixed law and fact
*Savoury v. Nova Scotia (Attorney General)*, 2013 NSCA 36 is a convenient
source for the standard of review on appeal:
[33] The parties acknowledge the limits of appellate review. An
appeal court can intervene only if it is satisfied the trial judge erred in
law or made a palpable and overriding error in findings of fact or mixed
law and fact (see *Housen v. Nikolaisen*,2002 SCC 33 (CanLII), [2002] 2
S.C.R. 235, paras. 25, 26 and 36). The phrase"palpable and overriding
error" subsumes findings that are unreasonable or unsupported by the
evidence (see *H. L. v. Canada (Attor... more »
North Korea Appears To Be Behind Cyber Attack On South Korean Computers ...
*"An official investigation into a major cyber attack on South Korean banks
and broadcasters last month has determined that North Korea's military
intelligence agency was responsible. An investigation into access records
and the malware used in the attack pointed to the North's military
Reconnaissance General Bureau as the source, the Korea Internet and
Security Agency (KISA) said on Wednesday. To spread the malware, the
attackers went through 49 different places in 10 countries including South
Korea, the investigation found. The attacks used malware that can wipe the
contents of ... more »
The Nationalist Hour with Rodney Martin
*THE NATIONALIST HOUR W/ RODNEY MARTIN*
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*ON THE AMERICAN NATIONALIST NETWORK*
“We should talk about Hitler and What is REAL National Socialism”
Wednesday April 10, 2013 - 6PM Pacific Time
On this edition of the *Nationalist Hour w/ Rodney Martin*,
In the first hour:
Rodney responds to listeners questions Re:
Hitler’s Foreign Policy as it was related to “Nationalism for other
peoples” and whether the SS was infiltrated with Soviet spies.
Addresses Christianity in the Third Reich, we will hear from Hitler and
Goebbels and George Lincoln Rockwell themselves
In the second hour:
... more »
Paolo Soleri, 1919-2013: Architect dies in Arizona
[image: Architect Paolo Soleri, 1919-2013. Photo: Sante Fe New Mexican]
[Des visited Arcosanti as a child and still has a couple of ceramic
“windbells” hanging in the living room window.]
PHOENIX, 9 April 2013 (Sante Fe New Mexican) – Italian-born architect Paolo
Soleri, who designed what for years was Santa Fe’s most popular music venue
before moving on to Arizona to build a futuristic community called
Arcosanti, died Tuesday. He was 93.
Officials of the Cosanti Foundation said Soleri died of natural causes at
his Paradise Valley home.
Soleri was born in Turin, Italy, on June 2... more »
Outrageous! Fed Provides Big Banks "Insider Info"
The Federal Reserve Bank does NOT represent the interests of US citizens.
Rather, it represents the interests of the big banks.
If you have any doubts about my claim, then read this story from the Wall
Street Journal today:
Sparshott, J., Hilsenrath, J., & Mullins, B. (2013, April 11) 'Feb Flub
Sparks New Data Concerns' The Wall Street Journal, pp. A1, A8.
[Excerpted] Some of the biggest banks and investment firms on Wall Street
were among those that received minutes of the Federal Reserve's latest
policy meeting 19 hours before the market-sensitive document was released.
The Fed ... more »
What is the Orange Glow Stick? Time stamp April 4 23:15
Majia's Blog - 3 hours ago
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DON'T Call Me ALEC!!!!!
He said: "now you just fought one hell of a fight
And I know you hate me, and you got the right
To kill me now, and I wouldn't blame you if you do
But ya ought to thank me, before I die
For the gravel in ya guts and the spit in ya eye
Cause I'm the son of a bitch that named you sue."
I got all choked up and I threw down my gun
And I called him my pa, and he called me his son
And I came away with a different point of view
And I think about him, now and then
Every time I try and every time I win
And if I ever have a son, I think I'm gonna name him
Bill or george! any damn thing but sue! I ... more »
MIND CONTROL - DREAMS
"I read Lady M's autobiographical 'Memoirs of a Marriage' where she states:
"'At the age of 10 or 11 I announced I wanted to play golf, I didn't even
know what golf was and to this day cannot explain the compulsion.'
"When I read how she met her husband-to-be on a golf course in Davos,
Switzerland and they were married three months later I just wondered
(y'know)!"
*Continued here: Has Dream Research been Militarised?*
THE WAY WE ARE: Blunders and bloopers concerning gun laws!
*THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 2013*
*Interlude—The way we actually function:* Thousands of years of propaganda
proclaim that we are the rational animal.
Good lord! Have you ever tried to watch The Way We Actually Function? Let’s
consider four recent attempts to discuss proposed gun legislation.
One of these moments concerns the facts. One of these moments concerns the
logic. Also involved is the basic way cable “news” channels function.
Propaganda to the side, The Way We Are is depressingly dumb. To start our
review of the mess about guns, let’s consider a factual claim—a claim which
was m... more »
Japan-Taiwan Senkakus Fishing Agreement Makes a Splash
*A spider grabs a bee for lunch in Taichung.*
The Ma Administration finally did something right. News swept the region
and the world this week that Japan and Taiwan have entered into a fishing
agreement for the waters around the Senkaku islands...will there be peace? (Japan
Times):
Japan and Taiwan concluded a long-awaited fisheries agreement Wednesday in
Taipei after officials from both sides formally resumed negotiations for
the first time in four years.
*The deal will allow Taiwanese trawlers to operate in part of Japan’s
exclusive economic zone near the disputed Senkaku Islan... more »
Mohawk Nation News 'Corporate Strategy'
Posted
on April 11, 2013
CORPORATE STRATEGY
MNN. Apr. 11, 2013 To derail the occupation forces, we must understand
their corporate strategy and then build resistance. The following is the
breakdown of the strategy they have in place. Our strength is in our
own minds.
1. Get organized. Corporations answer to the City of London
multinational bankers who give the orders to the
How Paul Bremer Tried To Ignore Iraq’s Ayatollah Sistani
Paul Bremer, the head of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) arrived
in Iraq in May 2003. He was determined to put his stamp upon the country.
He had a vision for how it would become a democracy, which would require up
to two years of transition under his supervision. This was to be a top down
process that had little room for what Iraqis wanted. This ran into
immediate opposition from Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the most senior
Shiite cleric in Iraq. He wanted Iraqis to have a voice in the process, and
demanded that elections be held as soon as possible to draw up a new I... more »
LISTEN: First Voices Indigenous Radio April 11, 2013
Tiokasin
Ghosthorse
Out of New York - FIRST VOICES INDIGENOUS RADIO 9AM Eastern. Stream it
live at WBAI NY 99.5 FM
Listen to today's show now:
http://firstvoicesindigenousradio.org/program_archives Today’s Guests:
Janene Yazzie is a Dine independent scholar, entrepreneur, and human
rights advocate. Sixth World Solutions (www.sixth-world.com)
works on the front lines of community
Sure as death panels and no taxes
Who could have predicted?
1) GOP says no budget deal without "entitlement" cuts.
2) Obama gives them "entitlement" cuts.
3) Republicans say no budget deal because:
Well Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR) — who also happens to be chairman of the House
GOP’s re-election committee — just showed how it’s done, saying Obama’s
budget “lays out a shocking attack on seniors.”
“I’ll tell you when you’re going after seniors the way he’s already done on
Obamacare, taken $700 billion out of Medicare to put into Obamacare and now
coming back at seniors again, I think you’re crossing that line very
q... more »
Renaming the Arab Spring
I’ve learned to limit consumption of Tom Friedman, except when he talks
about the Middle East…yesterday his column suggested that the Arab Spring
should be renamed in light of recent events…I think he is on to something,
but I doubt his suggestion of “The Arab Quarter Century” will fly…my
suggestion is the “The Arab Turn”,
Continue reading
Tennessee's Latest Stupidity: Take Food Away from Hungry Kids for Not Passing the State Test
I was in my hometown of Erin, TN for their Irish Day Celebration in March,
and I was talking to an old friend of mine, now a judge. It occurred to
both of as we were talking that when we were growing up there in the 60s,
our town and our state was a much richer place with more to offer and more
to gain. Since then the state's politics and policies have become
increasingly conservative as most people in the state have become poorer,
less healthy, and more desperate. And so today we see a kind of
proto-fascist extremism in the state legislature and the Governor's Mansion
that leve... more »
Fort McMurray's Downtown Redevelopment Plan...or Why I Can Always Count on Politicians to Bring Out My Inner Skeptic
A couple posts ago I mentioned about the recent demo of the Oil Can, a
local drinking establishment that's had a pretty colorful history. Its
pending demolition is but a small part of a redevelopment plan for Fort
McMurray's downtown core. The scope of this project is in a word, massive
and I only fully realized this over the weekend after perusing a study
proposing nothing less than a complete overhaul of downtown. Part of the
plan in revitalizing downtown is a proposed civic area, much needed and
overdue I should add. Initially I suspected this would take the shape a
pedestr... more »
Any Congressional Democrat Who Backs Cutting Social Security Might As Well Look For Another Job
If Obama was just trying to demonstrate that the Republicans will never
compromise no matter what-- even if he gives them exactly what they want--
fine. It worked. Otherwise, his call for cutting Social Security and
further shredding the social safety net to "placate" the austerity hawks he
surrounds himself with, is catastrophic. It's obviously catastrophic for
the elderly and for handicapped vets first and foremost. But it's also
catastrophic for the Democratic brand to whatever extent Obama is allowed
to represent that brand after this Grand Betrayal. And it's catastrophic to
a... more »
Untitled
*French Quarter Fest: Music line up, map, World's Largest Jazz Brunch, film
schedule*
*French Quarter Fest prepares for heavy rain on Locals’ Lagniappe Day*
*Pontchatoula Strawberry Festival!*
* Gentrifying the parade route ~Library Chronicles*
*New research indicates Mississippi River diversions could harm marshland
~Bob Marshall, The Lens*~*For decades, those leading the life-and-death
struggle to keep southeast Louisiana from being swallowed by the Gulf of
Mexico have had a battle cry: “Put the river back into the marsh.” The
thinking is that the river should be allowed to build... more »
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Louise Lasser, 74.
You come here for the good stuff:
1. The future of political science? Jay Ulfelder is pretty excited.
2. Josh Putnam's latest update on the rules for 2016.
3. A couple of baseball items linked by the idea of agency: Steven Goldman on
Branch Rickey; Christina Kahrl on Paul Konerko.
4. And Adam Kotsko has some innovative ideas for how to organize a
university. Via LGM.
Thatcher Is Dead. Thatcherism Isn't.
Margaret Thatcher died this week. Unfortunately, the program she advocated
hasn't -- at least not yet. Tom Walkom puts the Iron Lady in historical
perspective:
The world that Thatcher faced when she became Britain’s prime minister in
1979 was still coming to terms with the events of the post-1945 era.
World War II had produced a great compromise between labour and capital.
Under the terms of that compromise, capitalism was allowed to do its magic.
In return, through both labour unions and the welfare state, working people
were awarded a piece of the action.
It was a remarkably ... more »
Economics Teaching Conference
For information about submitting papers or registering, click here.
Alexandria Rising
It is a little startling just how fast this gas is getting to market. It
also establishes a major trade opportunity for Turkey. Pumping gas to
Europe in competition with Russia is desirable. Pumping it from Israel is
both ironic and a sharp rebuke to the local political dispensation. There
are huge amounts of gas in Iraq and Iran that could also feed this pipeline.
Perhaps the opportunity to actually profit will focus folk's attention? We
can hope.
In the meantime, the economic posture of Israel will steadily improve
making them the natural Hegemon in the Middle East.... more »
Lowest Wintertime Ice Maxima
And a few days ago the entire Beaufort sea ice cover literally shattered.
Thus the spring is truly off to an interesting start and plenty more to
come. Everyone has forgotten that we seriously broke records last season
and there is ample reason to think we are entering uncharted country here.
Now the winter recovery is lack luster as well.
Add in the right wind conditions and we could see the ice been rapidly
removed.
In other words we can expect to see an interesting melt season this year.
*2013 Wintertime Arctic Sea Ice Maximum Fifth Lowest on Record*
*
by Ma... more »
Telomerase is Fully Mapped
A rather brave headline and in fairness there is plenty of unfounded
optimism around telomerase to go around and around. It is very seductive,
yet I do not think it will be that easy nor do I think it will be that
hard. In fact, I suspect that we will develop a sound and safe protocol
that naturally corrects cellular aging and allows an reinvigorated body to
fully restore itself. It is certainly hinted at here and there over the
years.
At least we have a door open.
For what it is worth, I suspect that our corrected lifeway entails living
productively on Earth until... more »
Deep Magma Imaging
More on the recent advances in deep imaging of the earth's crust. The melt
zone under the ridge is deeper and thicker than imagined but becoming
clearer. Sooner or later we can expect to map the whole crust to a decent
level of resolution.
The most important understanding coming out of all this is that liquid
means liquid somewhere down there. We are not talking about a glacial creep
here.
Fine resolution will also clearly map sinking plate segments as well which
will make interesting text books.
I assume that the deep working liquid happens to be molten basalt ... more »
Opt Out's Four Day Occupation Video Archive
In mid-livestream, you might say. Find other speeches here.
Watch live streaming video from califather at livestream.com
Shapes of torus and modular group
In June 2012, I emphasized that the Higgs field was the first
experimentally observed elementary scalar field – the Higgs boson is the
first elementary spinless particle we know – and because string theory
loves to predict scalar fields and gives them many roles while many
alternative thinkers love to invent legends claiming that there's something
wrong about scalar fields, the discovery of the Higgs boson may be viewed
as a minor, modest victory for string theory.
I would like to spend some time with some scalar fields in string theory
and with their interesting properties. Quite g... more »
BAN ASSAULT WEAPONS IN SPACE
Citizens for Peace In Space and other groups protest the opening banquet of
the annual Space Symposium at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs on
April 8, 2013.
The protest was to counter the message of the military industrial complex's
annual celebration of greed and secrecy and this year highlighted America's
favorite weapons system, the killer Drones.
Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop, General Dynamics and Raytheon lead the
way but a host of other smaller companies who feed at the pork barrel
banquet were there.
Organizer, Bill Sulzman said, "This is the epitome of busines... more »
Buffy Sainte Marie to Censored News
Long Walk concert 1978: Buffy Sainte Marie: 'What a great memory.'
By Buffy Sainte Marie
Censored News
www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
Tansi Brenda,I hope you're thriving, wherever you are. Many thanks as always for your continued good work in keeping this old
canoe balanced. I just got back from Oklahoma (anti-frakking rally) and
Regina for a week with my family, and it was really cold. Idle
USA'S TOP FAMILIES
*David Rockefeller.*
Town & Country Magazine has produced a list of the* USA's top Families* /* *
*Town and County Magazine*'s *list*
*1. The Rockefeller family* are a top family.
David Rockefeller has used Kissinger, Brzezinski, and the Dulles brothers
to shape US foreign policy.
The Dulles brothers supported Nazi Germany.
The Rockefeller Foundation "funded and developed the German eugenics
programs".
"The theoretical godfather of U.S. covert state policy, Leo Strauss, was
funded ... by David Rockefeller..."
Some researchers say the Rockefeller family is worth $110 billion.[12] ... more »
GOOGLE BIAS
beforeitsnews.com
*Google* *works* *for* *CIA*
shopsearchers.com
Compare prices and stores *for*
*Google* *works* *for* *CIA*
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An EU investigation has revealed that Google gives prominence to certain
sites.
The report is especially concerned about the lack of visibility of rival
services.
Google has been criticised by the EU for not making it clear when a result
is a promoted link and when it is not.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/
David Kuo
David
Kuo recently died at the age of 44 from brain cancer. There's more in
obituaries from The Washington Post, The New York Times, Los Angeles
Times and Americans United. He was the deputy director of the "Office
of Faith-Based Initiatives" under President Bush, but became
disillusioned with the administration because he felt that Karl Rove and
others were cynically using conservative
DNA results in - it's not from Earth - tiny extraterrestrial guy is ALIEN.
you see shit like this on the internet from time to time, and it makes you
wonder, "Where is OUR MONEY being spent?" re: alien
research/communication/integration.
Six inches tall alien guy is like TINY.
Steven Greer's SIRIUS documentary is released April 22nd 2013.
*E.T. SUPPLEMENTARY:* for more information on 'our alien friends/enemies'
remember to check out the research of Wayne Herschel and Lloyd Pye on Free
Planet.
Trashing dead politicians
From the Daily Mail two days after Michael Foot died.
Bradley Manning Finally Catches a Break
If the U.S. government wants the book thrown at Bradley Manning for leaking
government communications to WikiLeaks, it'll have to dot the i's and cross
the t's.
*The US government will have to prove that the WikiLeaks source, Bradley
Manning, had "reason to believe" that his disclosure of state secrets could
be harmful to the US and beneficial to foreign nations, the judge presiding
over the soldier's court martial ruled on Wednesday.*
*The ruling from Colonel Denise Lind, sitting in a military court at Fort
Meade in Maryland, raises the burden of proof for the prosecutors who are
... more »
The one hundred and eighty third weekly "No shit Sherlock" award
Afghanistan's future after Nato troops leave uncertain, admits Hammond
http://t.co/AIHvEVzkuv -- fatima costa (@fcrep2007)
'No shit, Sherlock'
Anti-Semitism is why the Arab Spring failed | Ahmad Hashemi | Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel
'My skepticism gained further momentum by hearing and reading news
headlines such as: "With more than 2000 years of Jewish heritage, Egypt
shuts down its last synagogue," or "Attacks on Coptic places of worship
continue," and "Egyptian high profile officials call Jews `apes,`" and
"David Gerbi, the Libyan-Italian Jew who returned to his homeland, receives
death threats," and "The last synagogue in Iraq is closed, signaling the
end of a 2,700-year Jewish presence there."
These and other similar examples were indications that not only were the
remaining small Christian and particula... more »
Palestinian support for Hamas, rocket fire plummets, poll finds | The Times of Israel
'A poll of attitudes in Gaza and the West Bank by a Palestinian group found
a sharp drop in support for rocket attacks on Israel and a slight rise in
backing for the moderate Fatah political movement, in a report released
Wednesday.
The survey, conducted by the Ramallah-based Jerusalem Media and
Communications Center found that 38.4 percent of Palestinians supported
firing rockets at Israel, Palestinian news agency Ma'an reported.'
Soon will it just be the BBC who scream 'we are all Hamas now'?
http://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinian-support-for-hamas-rocket-fire-plummets-poll-... more »
Thursday Morning Linkage
Here is your Thursday Morning Linkage! Algal bloom kills 240 of Florida’s
5000 manatees (cause of death: natural toxin) Madonna smacked down by
Malawi government after her recent visit Shale gas and methane leaks,
greener than coal but by how much? Obama tells donors that the politics of
the environment are hard, hints at what
Continue reading
Stop the Auction of Hopi and Zuni Sacred Items in Paris April 12, 2013
Survival goes to court to stop Hopi sacred objects auction 9 April 2013
Hopi
elder James Kootshongsie, who died in 1996. The Hopi are 'vehemently
opposed' to the sale of the tribe's sacred objects in a Paris auction
house.
© Jonathan Mazower / Survival
http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/9126
Lawyers
acting for Survival International have today filed legal papers in
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 and Baton Rouge 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 ... 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
Lady Thatcher has principles.
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."
------------------------------
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
*Rare interview with wife of Palestinian prisoner
*
*proves PMW's contention*
*that PA pays salaries to prisoners, *
*including terrorists, *
*and not social welfare to their families,*
*as reported by foreign ministries*
*PA TV interview confirms that *
*Norway and UK Foreign Ministries*
*gave incorrect information to their parliaments*
*PA TV journalist to wife of prisoner:*
*"For nearly four years, the prisoner's allowance from the Ministry of
Prisoners' Affairs... has not reached your hands and your children's
hands... Did you try to turn to the authorities?"*
*Prisoner's wife:... more »
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 »
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