Participants in the 2010 Boston Marathon in Wellesley, just after the halfway mark (Photo credit: Wikipedia)How Badly Will Obama's Chained CPI Error Hurt Democrats In The Midterms?
Social Security has long been the third rail of American politics. It has generally kept Republican predators, fearful of losing their careers, at bay. By introducing the Republicans' plan for Chained CPI, Obama has weakened the power of the third rail. It's the worst thing he's done since taking office. In the long run, it could well permanently tarnish the Democratic Party brand. And in the short run, many Democrats worry it will destroy the party in the midterms. Although Boehner and Miss McConnell demanded that Obama include Chained CPI in his budget proposal, the GOP immedia... more »
The Realist Report with John Friend
On this edition of *The Realist Report*, John will be discussing his recent essay *The 20th Century: Talmudic triumph over Western civilization* and the alleged Jewish "Holocaust" during WWII. "Holocaust Remembrance Day" began the evening of Sunday, April 7th and ended on the evening of Monday, April 8th. Why is it important to think critically about the alleged Jewish "Holocaust"? Why should we question this event that is constantly talked about and promoted in the mainstream media and entertainment industry? Calls will be taken throughout the conversation. You can download the e... more »
Boston Marathon False Flag Attack: Boston Black Flag!
I just finished spending this evening visiting my mother in her new digs... During the time of that visit, we had the talmudvision on in the background, and again and again we saw reports of the bombs that went off during the 112th running of the famed Boston Marathon. I only needed to take one look at what the Jewish controlled media was claiming about this bombing to see it clearly as another false flag attack on America! To help summarize what we are seeing so far in this latest horrendous attack on America, I want to turn to a fellow researcher, Kenny, who writes "Kenny's Side... more »
God Whisperer
I hesitate to share this, as I do not normally speak like this. Yet, it is me and I have been sharing my understanding out loud right along. I have accessed my eternal essence and speak here as God. This is not channeled. It was whispered. I share it here because this is a journey we are taking together, as One. The language is uncomfortable yet it was and is mine. I have been transparent with you all along and this discomfort will not stop the transparency. At the end I share a song sung by Joan Osborne “What if God was One of us?” GOD *IS* ONE OF US. GOD I... more »
Updates
I am so behind on posting....Boo. I will try and recall recent life events. *Mom's Easter Late Bday Weekend in Grand Rapids* First, weekend with my Mom. Over Easter weekend, we met in Grand Rapids, MI, to have a late bday celebration. I wanted to take my Mom someplace really awesome for her 60th bday, like the Florida Keys or the Virgin Islands (she does not have a passport). She chose Grand Rapids. LOL. Cheaper, yet not as exciting. But, we had a blast. I booked us a room using her military discount (thanks Ronnie for being a veteran) at the Holiday Inn in downtown GR. I g... more »
"Boston"
Our deepest sympathy and prayers are for the victims and loved ones of this horror. - CP
Dave McArtney, legend
[image: David McArtney] Today’s sadness continues. I’ve just heard news that Hello Sailor’s Dave McArtney died last night. Shit! Dave was one of music’s gentlemen, and one of my very favourite live musos. Dave must have got sick of hearing this story, of how he turned me onto music. He got it every time I saw him, if I’d had two beers or more. (That makes it a lot of times.) I remember once someone saying what it meant to them when Bob Marley died. He said, “It means no more records from Bob, man.” Dave’s dead, and that means no more records from Dave, nor gigs, chats, drink... more »
Boston Marathon bombing: One runner's story
I have to step away from the horror. I can't deal anymore but one last link from Charlie's place to Jon Marcus who was there when the bombs exploded in Boston. It's a somber but inspiring story. It turns out the race was already won long before the bombs exploded. But it's a big race. The rest of the runners would be coming in for a long time yet. Boston Marathon isn't about winning. As Jon Marcus tells us: For runners from around the world, the marathon is a life goal. They train not for months, but years, to meet the daunting qualifying times. Crossing that small strip of paveme... more »
New & Noteworthy-- If Not News And Newsworthy
When you see a Republican elected official with a cigar in his mouth... hide your underage sons Ken is out this week, getting some new bits and pieces installed, so his nightly slot will be devoted to... what else?... bits and pieces. *Who Will Protect Us From The Boehner-Obama Plan To Wreck Social Security?* Wondering who signed the Grayson Takano No Cuts letter, the one that says "We will vote against any and every cut to Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security benefits-- including raising the retirement age or cutting the cost of living adjustments that our constituents earned and ... more »
What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been
I’ve been living like a hermit for 19 months now, reading dozens of powerful books, and writing weekly blogs. I’m not the same person I was when I started. My perception of reality has gone through some changes. I’ve been sharing what I learned with the world. I hope that seekers will find it, and I hope that my work will be helpful to them. I’ll be publishing this material in book form shortly. Genuine sustainability, of course, is the holy destination — a way of life that is healthy, satisfying, and has a long-term future. Getting there, of course, will be an enormous chall... more »
Meanwhile, in Christchurch, nothing happened
It’s now 784 days since the February 2011 earthquake. Winter is coming. And nothing is happening. It didn’t have to be this way. “We have a great big mess of interconnected problems. The root of most of them is a fundamental lack of respect for individual property rights.” Read Eric Crampton’s “Oh Christchurch” for the litany of what’s happening in Christchurch (short summary: bugger all), and why not (short summary: regime uncertainty). Here’s Tall Dwarfs: Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)
Kauilapele's Blog: “Soap OPPTeras”… and Staying out of them…
http://kauilapele.wordpress.com/2013/04/15/soap-oppteras-and-staying-out-of-them/ “Soap OPPTeras”… and Staying out of them… Posted on 2013/04/15by kauilapele [image: oppt_logo_blue26]I’ve heard about all this stuff, and soap operas are not my game. No desire to add any energy to all that. Anywhere, anytime. So when I realized that this was what you might call a “Soap OPPTera”, I stayed (energetically) out of that as well, and just sent Light (and all that metaphysical stuff) to it (although I did enjoy watching Ron Van Dyke’s video response to this). So in order of appearan... more »
The Bombing of Boston
Another day in America, another outburst of violence. I am not going to speculate or opinionate, except for this one thing -- when I watched the coverage, saddened yet shockingly not shocked, the only thought that did * not* enter my mind was what our kill list president would eventually intone : I’ve updated leaders of Congress in both parties, and we reaffirmed that on days like this there are no Republicans or Democrats -- we are Americans, united in concern for our fellow citizens. He just can't get away from his obsessive legacy-burnishing, consensus-building, bipartishit meme... more »
FBI's History of Handing "Terror Suspects" Live Explosives
*April 16, 2013* (LD) - In late September 2011, AFP reported that a man was charged with "planning to fly explosive-packed, remote controlled airplanes into the Pentagon and the Capitol in Washington." In its report, "US man charged with Pentagon bomb plot," AFP stated (emphasis added): During the alleged plot, *undercover FBI agents posed as accomplices who supplied Ferdaus with one remote-controlled plane, C4 explosives, and small arms* that he allegedly envisioned using in a simultaneous ground assault in Washington. However, ''the public was never in danger from the *explosive... more »
Rural Brazil lets another environmental murderer walk free – ‘The man was a monster’
[image: Activists hold candles during a vigil on the night after the first day of the trial of Zé Rodrigues and his brother, Lindonjonson Silva, and Alberto Nascimento, in the murder of Amazon forest activists Zé Claudio and Maria do Espirito Santo. On 15 April 2013, Lindonjonson was found guilty and sentenced to 42 years in jail, Alberto Nascimento was found guilty and sentenced to 45 years in jail, but Zé Rodrigues was acquitted. Photo: VICE] By Paulo Padilha and Felipe Milanez 15 April 2013 (VICE) – The city of Marabá was founded on 6 April 1913, in the southeastern edge of th... more »
Herman's House film to premiere in NYC on April 19, w/ events through weekend
On Friday, April 19, the new film about Herman Walllace and his collaborative art project with A3 supporter Jackie Sumell, will make its debut in NYC, with several events scheduled around the many screenings of the film through the weekend. Read more here. New photos from a visit with Herman this month are featured below.
"Held Responsible..."
"It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do." - Moliere
The ultimate tax return
Farmers in Lucknow, India, took the appropriate tax return to their local tax office—40 slithering snakes unceremoniously delivered to “corrupt tax officials.” The word “corrupt” is of course redundant. Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)
BAT signal ON!
“We can't stop here, this is bat country!” ― Hunter S. Thompson, *"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"* Word is out that JJ may be (soonish, DJ! hopes) posting at her blog. In anticipation of this, as well as the tentative arrival of springtime in Ontario ―possibly in Manitoba and Yurp as well― this seemed relevant. *In 1985, responding to an influx of mailers promoting insurance company interests in his district, Senator Lloyd Bentsen (D-Texas) reportedly said, “A fellow from Texas can tell the difference between grassroots and AstroTurf.”He was referring to the difference between... more »
Oh crap, I think I am in an enduring rivalry
I think one of the most interesting findings in all of international relations scholarship is that the disproportionate share of conflict in the international system is comprised of a few dyads fighting over and over, what are known as “enduring rivalries.” These are highly emotional conflicts in which countries are found to fight because they have Continue reading
An Open Letter to Someone Contemplating a PhD and Parenting
Dear PhD Prospective (with kids or thinking about kids), Thanks for contacting me. It sounds like you missed Steve Saideman’s sage advice and are actually going to be trying to get a PhD in political science. Many top people in the discipline will keep working to discourage you from attending – with your best interest Continue reading
Boston Marathon attacked [updating]
Boston Marathon, hotel, library attacked. [Library on fire, Boston police tweet confirms unrelated.] Two Five unexploded devices also discovered around the city. Two killed, 107 injured. [UPDATE, 1:08pm: Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis tells media conference that at least three people have died. More than 100 injured in explosions, some seriously, says governor.] UPDATE, 11:53am: Boston police confirm they have a video of suspect dropping bombs in rubbish bins. [“People rushed to judgment about al-Qaeda links in past after attacks. For instance Oslo and not always right. Dome... more »
Thank-you . . .
THANK-YOU, ANONYMOUS, for slapping one upside the head of the Keystone Kops. Really, the sound of a multitude of pickles being withdrawn from a multitude of orifices must have been quite deafening. Now, if I could ask you to take a look at something? Could you please have your comrades take a look at where all the money went? All the Wall Street crooks, the hedge fund weasels,
EPA Director Confirmation Hearings Turn Into A Debate On Climate Change
The video above exemplifies why Bernie Sanders (I-VT) thanked John Barrasso (R-WY) for his ignorant, ostrich-like behavior during the Senate Environment Committee hearings on Gina McCarthy, president Obama's nominee to head the EPA. The cameo by Climate Change denier Jim Inhofe is hilarious. It's worth pointing out that Miss McConnell put 8 anti-Science, Climate Change deniers on the committee, David Vitter, Jim Inhofe, John Barrasso, Jeff Sessions, Mike Crapo, Roger Wicker, John Boozman and Deb Fischer. Thursday the 8 clowns howled like a pack of wolves instead of asking serious... more »
UN-Arab Envoy Brahimi to resign? Syrian Arab Army makes big gain & the media censors
News has it that Brahimi is going to resign. Western corporate lying media is attempting to have you believe it is because of Syria and Assad. Don't you believe it..... *What is the real reason behind the reason for Brahimi's exit?* The United Nations Security Council is to hold a session on Syria on April 18th in which international envoy Lakhadr Brahimi will present a report on his mission. [image: Lakhdar Brahimi] Meanwhile a report said that the Algerian diplomat is* likely to resign following a disputed with the Arab League* over the Syrian crisis. The Russian news agency ITAR-TA... more »
THATCHER; LESBIAN MP; LESBIAN PARTY LEADER
*Thatcher with Margot James.* * *Margot James was the first openly lesbian Conservative member of the UK Parliament. Margot James was one of the first to congratulate Margaret Thatcher when she became leader of the UK Conservative Party in 1975. Margot James was a 17-year-old at the time. She "shook my hand." "Margot James... went on to enjoy a number of other meetings over the years with Baroness Thatcher..." *www.stourbridgenews.co.uk* * * *Ruth Davidson, kick boxer and lesbian.* Ruth Davidson is the leader of the Conservative Party in Scotland. Ruth Davidson is a lesbian. ... more »
Boston bombing - live coverage...
*awful!* *If it doesn't play go HERE *
Double Bombing at the Boston Marathon
At approximately 2:50 this afternoon, two explosions occurred within 10-20 seconds of each other near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Boylston Street. *Fox News* is now reporting that at least three people have been killed and *ABC News* on their live feed has revised the injury toll to 15-20. There's also been a report of a third, controlled demolition by the Boston Bomb Squad, more likely than not the suspicious package they found in front of the Mandarin Hotel. President Obama's been apprised of the bombings and Pennsylvania Avenue's under lockdown, espe...more »
Breaking News..
I'm on a short break from jury duty this afternoon and seeing now the horrible news from Boston. I'll just repeat when I say whenever there is breaking news: reporters do as good a job as they can, but they'll get stuff wrong. Sometimes, badly wrong; sometimes, just a little. Sometimes, even the most basic, seemingly obvious "facts" turn out to be off. Pundits speculating? Even worse. We'll know more soon. Until then, take a deep breath, take in information if you like, but be aware that there's every possibility that what you're hearing isn't quite right, or perhaps not right at ...more »
North Korea isn’t funny
There is nothing funny about North Korea. Much of the media coverage of the place focuses on how amusing it is to have a strongman leader, legions of soldiers goose-stepping, and now how it is a bit of joke that he threatens to attack the United States. Yet the DPRK isn't that funny for those living there. Virtually nobody has internet access, access to foreign television broadcasts or even foreign radio broadcasts… There is no free speech. It is illegal to write anything that is critical of the state, party, military or the Kim family in any way. There is no independent... more »
UKIP's Catch-All Makeover
Ugh, UKIP. They have a new party election broadcast peddling a shopping list of "nice things". Not a single policy gets an airing (apart from leaving the EU, of course), but it does mark UKIP's transition from an avowedly right-wing populist formation to an organisation that is all things to all people. Interestingly, this also includes the passing of Thatcher. Now, you might expect UKIP and Farage to be effusive in their praise of the dear departed Margaret. After all, they are a principled "libertarian" party in the Hayekian mode. They love the idea of the "small state", of a ra... more »
Bombing at the Boston Marathon - Updated
[CBS News photo] Breaking news so not going to say much as it will be well covered and there's always so much misinformation in the initial confusion. What's clear is two bombs went off at the Boston Marathon a little while ago. Hearing one of them was at Mile Marker 26 which had been dedicated to the Newtown victims. Trying not to jump to conclusions about the symbolism in that. Clearly going to be a lot injuries. Local TV reporter reported to be sobbing at the scene. And this tweet seems legit, so some serious injuries. @JackieBrunoNECN: I saw people's legs blown off. Horrifi... more »
Bieber and Cohen regarding Anne Frank!
*MONDAY, APRIL 15, 2013* *Plus what Mandela said:* By most accounts, Justin Bieber said a dumb thing about Anne Frank when he visited the Frank house in Amsterdam. At the Washington Post, Alexandra Petri sees his comments as *very* dumb. But Richard Cohen has expressed a different view: COHEN (4/15/13): Bieber has been excoriated for making what has universally been considered a narcissistic gaffe. But it was nothing of the sort. *Maybe out of ignorance or maybe out of innocence but surely out of insight, he treated Anne as the 14-year-old girl that she was. *Her room, until she and... more »
Mining 13: Timeline of Policies
This afternoon, there will be an oral argument and debates at the Supreme Court in Baguio City. Two petitions by Risa Hontiveros, et al challenge the constitutionality (for the second time) of RA 7942 or the Philippine Mining Act of 1995, particularly Sec. 80 and 81 of the law. In the SC website, it says, *Petitioners argue that: (1) section 811 of the Mining Act of 1995 is unconstitutional because: (1) it violated the rule on delegated legislation; (2) the Secretary of the DENR (public respondent) acted with grave abuse of discretion resulting to lack or excess of jurisdiction in ... more »
The Corporate Betrayal of America, Mad Maggie Memories, and Nice Negotiating, Obama, But He's Joined the Club!
It's nice to have all the figures isn't it? The Corporate Betrayal of America by Paul Buchheit Multinational corporations have built their businesses on the backs of American taxpayers. They've depended on government research, national defense, the legal and educational systems, and our infrastructure. Yet they've turned around and mocked us with declining tax payments. They've cut workers
Mohawk Nation News 'Fascist Road'
FASCIST ROAD Posted on April 15, 2013 MNN. Apr 14, 2013. Our red brothers and sisters are forewarned of the impending calamities of the evil industrial-military-intelligencia complex. We must stand firm on the Kaianerekowa based on our inherent natural ties to Great Turtle Island. Our treasonous corporate Indians should be pulled off their seat behind the big desk
Mohawk Nation News 'Les Sauvages'
“LES SAUVAGES” Posted on April 14, 2013 MNN. Apr. 13, 2013. Quebec and Canada pretend to fight each other, although they’re owned by the same shareholders. Canada’s Prime Minister Harper and Quebec Premier Marois are actually working closely together to try to eliminate their common enemy, the Indigenous land and resource owners. The recent public attack of a Mohawk
Mohawk Nation News 'Healing Circles'
HEALING CIRCLES Posted on April 13, 2013 MNN. Apr. 13, 2013. Pacification is a stage of warfare, in Canada called “Healing circles”. The military conducts pacification to suppress negative criticisms and actions by Indigenous people. Knowledge and activism are controlled. Missionaries, social programs and law enforcement keep Indigenous people from complaining about our bad
America's Enemy-Industrial Complex
You can own all the locomotives and all the rolling stock in the world but they're useless without tracks. The same logic holds true for the world's largest, most fearsome military. What good is it without an ample supply of enemies? Just as General Motors needs people to buy Chevys, the U.S. military/industrial/commercial warfighting complex needs a world full of potential enemies and, when it runs short, it has to scrape the bottom of the barrel to come up with some imminent threat, no matter how implausible. Tom Englehardt of *Tom Dispatch* says the villain of last resor... more »
Penashue's Extortion Action Plan
Peter Penashue's Extortion Action! Plan! concept via Canadian Cynic Former Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs Peter Penashue ran for office in 2011 under the campaign slogan "Peter for All". Winning that election by just 79 votes, he resigned his Labrador seat last month over an ongoing Elections Canada investigation that found his campaign overspent and accepted illegal donations. So it was a bit of a surprise when he was back on the campaign trail last week bragging to his constituents that he held up a Newfoundland project for six months in or... more »
LOCK-MART ENDLESS $$$ FOR WAR
Lockheed Martin last week unveiled the concept design of the company’s Unmanned Carrier Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike (UCLASS) air vehicle. They've got plans to keep their corporate endless welfare program going for another generation. I was out working in the yard today cutting wood for next winter and I noticed a couple boys, about 4-5 years old, playing two doors away. One was yelling to the other, "I'm going to kill you." I couldn't help but think how tragic it is that the American culture is being hollowed out and turned into not much more than a killing machine... more »
snake
Richard Avedon (May 15, 1923 – October 1, 2004) was an American fashion and portrait photographer. An obituary published in The New York Times said that "his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century."
Four More Weeks, Four Long Weeks
British Columbians are counting the days until we send Christy Clark and her sullied neo-Liberals packing. The NDP are going into the election campaign up by 12 points over Clark's Liberals. Could the rightwingers stage a comeback? Anything is possible but that seems highly unlikely. All the NDP has to do is keep refreshing voters' memories as to why they despise the sitting government. There are plenty of reasons, so many that it can be hard to keep track of them all. The Ekos poll found that, among those who said they're likely to vote, the NDP lead climbs to 17 per cent. ... more »
The Joy of Tech: Bitcoin vs Bankers
Comic illustration by The Joy of Tech.
KOREA PSY-OP
*South Koreans* From *NPR*: "International TV broadcasters have been repeatedly showing tanks trundling through Pyongyang’s Kim Il Sung Square in a demonstration of North Korean national power. "But when Patrick Thornquist, a Chicago teacher visiting the North Korean capital at the end of last week, arrived in the square, he was surprised by what he saw. "This iconic square was full of children rollerblading and shouting with joy. "One of leader Kim Jong Un’s contributions to the nation has been building roller-skating parks and promoting entertainment facilities. *No tanks!... more »
How Harper, Trudeau and Mulcair are Steering Canada Toward a Cliff
Canada went through the 2008 Great Recession and fared better than most of the developed world. It turns out Harper didn't have enough time to let Canadian banks off their leashes to run wild like their American and European counterparts. When the widely predicted (Krugman, Roubini, Stiglitz et al) crash came in 2008, some thought it foretold the end of the Bubble Economy fueled by casino capitalism and crony capitalism. America surely must have had its fill of the madness that brought it the Saving & Loan scandal, the Enron/WorldCom scandal, the Dot.Com bubble, the Sub-Prime Mor... more »
My header on Friday's post asserted that: "This blog features only the very best economists that money CAN'T buy." and that "These include Republicans as well as Democrats." However, the two economists in Friday's posts are very likely Democrats. Here below is a timely observation and analysis by a bona fide Republican. Read it and you will see that the common denominators of my selected economists are "deep understanding of macro economics and intellectual honesty." By contrast, our insane government buys off economists and puts them to work illegally tinkering with the economy in an incompetent effort to cover up the government's crimes against We The People.
------------------------------ *Assault On Gold Update — Paul Craig Roberts* ------------------------------ April 13, 2013 | Original Here I was the first to point out that the Federal Reserve was rigging all markets, not merely bond prices and interest rates, and that the Fed is rigging the bullion market in order to protect the US dollar’s exchange value, which is threatened by the Fed’s quantitative easing. With the Fed adding to the supply of dollars faster than the demand for dollars is increasing, the price or exchange value of the dollar is set up to fall. A fall in... more »
Justin Trudeau, Born To Run
As expected, the Cyprus assault upon wealthy investors has spooked the markets, Cyprus banks needing even more assistance than previously stated are selling off precious metal holdings, the results have sent panic through the market, all major indexes in panic mode.. Oil down below $90 dollars..Silver seeing new lows, Copper falling as well... And the big shocker, Gold fever panic.. Gold down nearly 10%...Falls well below $1400 per ounce... The jubilant markets of late were mere smoke and mirrors, reality is setting in, stagnant growth, high unemployment around the world, the mas... more »
It happens many springs!
*MONDAY, APRIL 15, 2013* *The happiest time of the year is approaching:* Now that Tax Day is moving behind us, that happiest time of the year is approaching fast. Next week, we’ll kick off our fourth annual semi-annual fund-raising drive. Our fourth semi-annual drive, in fifteen years at this post! As we do, we’ll be establishing plans for the coming year. We expect to list four separate points of emphasis for the coming year, at least one of which will involve a return to a closer monitoring of Fox. Today, we’re just giving our seventeen readers a bit of a heads-up. Some of you w...more »
The Way to Ruin
*It would be some consolation for the feebleness of our selves and our works if all things should perish as slowly as they come into being; but as it is, increases are of sluggish growth, but the way to ruin is rapid.* ~ Lucius Anneaus Seneca, Letters to Lucilius, 91 Until this spring I never had a bird feeder at Wit's End, because it would have simply made easy pickings for the barn cats, both relentless predatory prowlers even in their dotage. But they died in the past year, so about a month ago I decided to hang a feeder on the Japanese maple outside the kitchen window. An a...more »
THE HIDDEN JEJU STORY
The Ghosts of Jeju from Regis Tremblay on Vimeo.
“Roaches, Mosquitoes, and Birds: The Coming Micro-Drone Revolution”
*“Roaches, Mosquitoes, and Birds: * *The Coming Micro-Drone Revolution”* By John W. Whitehead “Drones are a game-changing technology, akin to gunpowder, the steam engine, the atomic bomb—opening up possibilities that were fiction a generation earlier but also opening up perils that were unknown a generation ago.”—Peter Singer, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. America will never be a “no drone zone.” That must be acknowledged from the outset. There is too much money to be made on drones, for one, and too many special interest groups—from the defense sector to law e... more »
How Unfair Are Taxes?
Today is tax day. I got mine in on time. Most Americans-- barely most Americans (55%)-- think they pay a fair amount of taxes. That's a decreasefrom around 60% in recent years. Democrats, independents, liberals and moderates all tend to feel the system is fair. Needless to say, Republicans and conservatives feel they pay too much. An OpEd by James Livingston in Sunday's *NY Times* made a good suggestion that would make most people feel much better about paying their income taxes: "why not tax corporations as if they were natural persons, in accordance with their newly discovered r... more »
"Martial Law by Executive Order"
*"Martial Law by Executive Order"* by Jim Garrison "President Obama's National Defense Resources Preparedness Executive Order of March 16 does to the country as a whole what the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act did to the Constitution in particular- completely eviscerates any due process or judicial oversight for any action by the Government deemed in the interest of "national security." Like the NDAA, the new Executive Order puts the government completely above the law, which, in a democracy, is never supposed to happen. The United States is essentially now under marti... more »
Tennessee Republicans Trade Local Control for Corporate Domination
If there's anything Tennessee conservatives hate more than minorities who refuse to serve as doormats, it is anything public that is not controlled by corporate overlords. Local control? Only if corporations make the "local" decisions. To make sure of it, see what is happening with proposed legislation to take charter school decisions out of the hands of local boards of education and put them in the hands of Haslam and Huffman's henchmen. From Tom Humphrey at the News-Sentinel: ___________________________ NASHVILLE — A bill to create a new state panel that could authorize chart... more »
Chicago Corporate Media Ignore Teachers' CORE Candidates
At this point in the U. S., there is one urban teachers' union that represents the social justice agenda of equal opportunity, quality public schools for all, and quality professional teaching before deal cutting and kowtowing to the Gates Foundation. That is why the corporate media has chosen to ignore them. That, however, will not stop progress. Please spread the word to every corner of America that teacher organizing is alive and well in Chicago, at least. From Substance News: _________________________ Plutocrats' press pawns and propagandists from Sun-Times, Tribune and Cata... more »
“This Website Would Be More Popular If…”
*“This Website Would Be More Popular If…”* by WashingtonsBlog "A friend of ours – whose pieces are regularly picked up by one of the world’s biggest websites – told us that this site would be a lot more popular if we picked his team. He’s *right*. Liberal sites like Huffington Post and conservative sites like Drudge are extremely popular. People like belonging to a team – Red team or Blue team – just like we like to belong to our favorite sport’s team. After all, we think in a tribal fashion… because our brains evolved while living in small tribes. The Founding Fathers tried t... more »
Civil remedies forfeiture may be refused if Crown delays excessively
*Attorney General of Ontario v. 20 Strike Avenue, Bowmanville, Ontario*, 2013 ONSC 2130 holds that an application by the Attorney General of Ontario for an order for forfeiture of property under s. 8 (1) of the Civil Remedies Act, 2001, S.O. 2001 may be refused for delay in prosecution by the Crown (Thanks to YAMRI TADDESE for drawing the case to my attention) : [12] The question of forfeiture is not to be decided on a mere balancing of the pros and cons of making a forfeiture order. An order will not be made where it is clearly not in the interests of justice: s. 8(1). ...more »
Sinking in a sea of garbage
Tegucigalpa floods: Take hills, garbage-blocked ditches and drains, add rain I’ve been wondering about garbage-per-kilometre as a development indicator, along with all the formal measures like stunted children and GINI indexes and poverty rates. Maybe when a society gets a handle on garbage, it’s reached some sort of turning point. If so, Honduras has a long way to go. Early this year, slick new recycling containers sprouted on the streets in Copan Ruinas. We saw them in Tela too, so it must be some sort of national program. They had their own little concrete pads and were abut four-fe... more »
Future of corals bleak –‘The slippery slope to slime looks to be coming true’
[image: University of Queensland's Associate Professor Sophie Dove tests coral survival in warmer, acidified water in March 2013. The coral has not survived and algae has taken over. Photo: Sophie Dove] By Graham Readfearn 15 April 2013 (ABC Environment) – On a large wooden deck on a coral cay island in the middle of the Great Barrier Reef, research assistant Aaron Chai removes the lid from one of 12 circular white water tanks. "This is the 'do nothing' tank," he says, peering inside at a careful arrangement of dead, slimy, algae-covered and bleached-white corals. In July last y... more »
With No Due Regrets
Get ready for yet another spate of horrific George W. Bush memorabilia. The fawning courtiers of the national media, along with every fawning living president, will soon be descending upon Texas to witness the dedication of his lieberry. (that's how we pronounced it during my Long-goyland childhood, arright?) To get you all fired up and ready to go for the grandiose occasion, the *Dallas Morning* *News* has published a blockbuster interview with W. And here's the big scoop: along with his recently revealed talent for primitive folk art, George has also developed skills in primordial...more »
Annette Funicello - thanks for the memories
Annette Joanne Funicello (October 22, 1942 – April 8, 2013) was an American actress and singer. Beginning her professional career as a child performer at the age of twelve, Funicello rose to prominence as one of the most popular "Mouseketeers" on the original Mickey Mouse Club. As a teenager, she transitioned to a successful career as a singer with the pop singles "O Dio Mio," "Tall Paul" and "Pineapple Princess", as well as establishing herself as a film actress, popularizing the successful "Beach Party" genre alongside co-star Frankie Avalon during the mid-1960s. In 1992, Funice... more »
Greer and Wilcock discuss omnipresent consciousness, free energy and E.T. Disclosure.
*Dr. Steven Greer and David Wilcock share many of the same ideas about the importance of shifting our paradigm to accept the importance of our connection through consciousness. This is one of the rare times they have recorded a discussion together.* Talking about the *virulent cancer* Greer and his associates 'contracted' back in 1998, William Pavelec says, "Shari and Steven Schiff died and Steven Greer and I survived." As of 2007, Pawelec is also no longer with us. "The National Press Club Event happened ... then you got washed out by September 11th 2001," Wilcock adds, at a c... more »
Catch of the Day
Dave Weigel notes the underreported fact that Frank Lautenberg hasn't been healthy enough to vote for some time now, and that his missing vote could scuttle the gun bill. And that this matters, in part, because the Senate did not adopt the flipped responsibility on cloture -- one of the relatively minor reforms that was proposed but rejected in January was changing the cloture rules from 60 votes needed for cloture to 41 votes needed to prevent cloture. Now...on the other hand, I'm really not convinced that it's going to matter in this case. A bill (or key amendment) that can't get ... more »
Tracking and Political-Science Journal Accountability
(click on the image to enlarge) I’m usually cautious about linking to anything in the PSJR/PSR family of sites, but this strikes me as pretty interesting: a wiki devoted to tracking political-science journals. Contributors note the journal, the turnaround time, and information about what happened to the article. Despite the promulgation of end-of-year journal reports, Continue reading
"An Anarchist Squint at the Jobs Report"
*"An Anarchist Squint at the Jobs Report"* By Chris Mayer "So the jobs report came out last week and rattled the market a bit. But there is a different perspective to this whole thing that I think is far more important. It also fingers a much more sinister trend afoot. First, the conventional view: The unemployment rate fell to a new four-year low of 7.6%. Everybody knew that was bogus. It fell because half a million Americans left the job market. The unemployment figure the government publishes is a fiction anyway. It’s a government-manufactured number. I never really pay any... more »
B.C. Economist Slams Bitumen Scam
She's even using the "F" word, as in *fraud. *And Robyn Allan says the fraud, on the Canadian people, is being perpetrated by the federal and provincial governments, Big Oil, Enbridge, a rightwing think tank, a major bank and, of course, their media waterboys. *In her latest critique Allan makes several points:* *. Bitumen is a "junk" crude which, because it requires upgrading and complex refining and considerable transportation costs, "has always sold at a discount" that has "not changed significantly" and the change "isn't related to pipeline capacity."* *. While major oil co... more »
Anne Frank is a Bilieber!
Oy Weh, it's time for some more fabricated news. As no-one is discussing the faith of the Cult of Holocaustianity, the media have contrived a new incident to get everyone talking about the 6 million temporarily dead kosher ones, bars of soap, magickal shower rooms-cum-gas chambers and the rest of the unbelievable nonsense which we are supposed to accept as gospel. Justin Bieber - an annoying teenage 'pop' star - has been to Amsterdam to pay homage to the amazing Anne Frank - the little girl who managed to write a book using a variety of hand-writing styles, with fore-knowledge of ... more »
Early Vote For Iraq’s 2013 Provincial Elections Sparks Controversy
April 13, 2013, was the start of voting for Iraq’s provincial balloting. Members of the security forces went to the polling stations first, so that they could protect voters during the general election. The early voting however was marked by controversy as various media outlets and political parties accused Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki of pushing commanders in the army and police to get their forces to vote for the premier’s State of Law list. On April 7, for instance, Shafaq News ran an article where a lieutenant in the 17th Army Brigade claimed his deputy commander gave the un... more »
Britain's Billionaire Enviro-Philanthropist Outs People Like Harper, Mulcair and Trudeau
Fund manager, Harvard MBA, billionaire - we've become all too familiar with the type. But British-born Jeremy Grantham is best known for predicting all the major economic bubbles in recent decades and making a fortune on them. Now he's speaking out about the most dangerous bubble of them all - the Carbon Bubble - and he's putting his money to work to fight it. His mission, as he puts it, "*What we are trying to do is buy time. Buy time for the world to wake up*." Grantham describes a form of high-finance mental illness of the sort that seems to infect our own prime minister an... more »
Cutting specific pollutants could slow sea level rise by 50 percent – ‘We still have some control over the amount of sea level rise that we are facing’
[image: The annual rate of sea level rise (SLR). b, SLR since 1900. Observations are shown from 1900 to 2001. The uncertainty of model-projected SLR at the end of the twenty-first century is shown for the BAU and CO2+SLCP cases. Graphic: Hu, et al., 2013] Washington, 15 April 2013 (ANI) – With coastal areas bracing for rising sea levels, new research indicates that cutting emissions of certain pollutants can greatly slow down sea level rise this century. The research team found that reductions in four pollutants that cycle comparatively quickly through the atmosphere could tempora... more »
Dead dolphins and shrimp with no eyes found after BP clean-up – Chemicals used to disperse Gulf of Mexico spill blamed for marine deaths and human illness
[image: Dispersant clotted oil and fresh crude float on surface nine miles from the Deepwater Horizon oil well spill source in the Gulf of Mexico on 6 May 2010. Hundreds of beached dolphin carcasses, shrimp with no eyes, contaminated fish, ancient corals caked in oil and some seriously unwell people are among the legacies that scientists are still uncovering in the wake of BP's Deepwater Horizon spill. Photo: EPA] By Emily Dugan 14 April 2013 (Independent) – Hundreds of beached dolphin carcasses, shrimp with no eyes, contaminated fish, ancient corals caked in oil and some serious... more »
US leads world in “humanitarian” assistance to Syria
*Look at the image below: U.S. leads in humanitarian funding to Syria* Since the conflict began in 2011, the United States has contributed the largest share, 25 percent, of global aid to Syria. Despite promises of assistance, some nations have yet to follow through Interesting that the GCC has failed to live up to their promises of funding. But, then did these nations ever really intend to deliver this funding? Or did they portray themselves, with the help of the lying corporate media as the major backers to cover up the fact that the US was the real paymaster....??? Notice the ... more »
GITMO IS KILLING ME
By Samir Naji al Hasan Moobel (Reprinted from New York Times) Guantanamo Bay, Cuba One man here weighs just 77 pounds. Another, 98. Last thing I knew, I weighed 132, but that was a month ago. I’ve been on a hunger strike since Feb. 10 and have lost well over 30 pounds. I will not eat until they restore my dignity. I’ve been detained at Guantánamo for 11 years and three months. I have never been charged with any crime. I have never received a trial. I could have been home years ago — no one seriously thinks I am a threat — but still I am here. Years ago the military said I was a... more »
Severe weather ‘pushing millions’ into starvation – ‘The links between hunger, under-nutrition, and climate change are clear once we listen to the experiences of the poorest and most vulnerable people’
[image: Logo for the Hunger, Nutrition and Climate Change 2013 conference in Dublin. Graphic: eu2013.ie] By Cormac Murphy 15 April 2013 (Independent) – Severe weather patterns are "pushing millions" into starvation, former president Mary Robinson said, ahead of a major climate change conference at Dublin Castle. President Michael D Higgins officially opened the two-day gathering on Hunger, Nutrition and Climate Change this morning. The event was jointly organised by the Government and the Mary Robinson Foundation - Climate Justice. "The links between hunger, under-nutrition and ...more »
Theory Section Redux
I want to remind interested parties that we’ve posted a call for suggestions for (1) the ISA Theory Section’s “Distinguished Scholar” of 2014 and (2) the wording of the book prize. Vocal parties at the 2013 business meeting called for democratizing the process via this kind of mechanism; it would be a shame if Schmitt Continue reading
Washington and Beijing Talk the Talk, Now Must Learn to Walk
They're the world's two biggest national economies and the world's two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases. It's encouraging then that the United States and China have announced an agreement to "*accelerate action to reduce greenhouse gases by advancing cooperation on technology, research, conservation, and alternative and renewable energy*." Their joint statement goes to the heart of climate change denialism and drives a stake right through it. In a joint and quite powerful statement on the dangers of climate change, the two sides said they “*consider that the overwhelming scient... more »
We’re going to say that George Will got this right!
*MONDAY, APRIL 15, 2013* *Ken Burns and the Central Park Five:* We’re going to say that George Will got this right! In yesterday’s Washington Post, Will recommended an upcoming PBS film—a film about the gross miscarriage of justice visited on the five teen-agers known as the Central Park Five. As he started, Will described the Ken Burns film. On many PBS stations, the film airs tomorrow night: WILL (4/14/13): From Tom Paine’s “Common Sense” to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” to Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” American history is replete with examp... more »
MEDIOCRITY ALL THE WAY UP: Mehta sees mediocrity!
*MONDAY, APRIL 15, 2013* *Part 1—We see something worse:* Jal Mehta, an assistant professor at Harvard, sees mediocrity all around him. More specifically, he sees mediocrity in a predictable place—among America’s teachers. For our previous post, click this. On Saturday, the New York Times granted a remarkable 1752 words to the 36-year whiz from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Speaking of world-class mediocrity, Mehta began his lengthy remarks in a thoroughly hackneyed place: MEHTA (4/13/13): *In April 1983, a federal commission warned in a famous report, “A Nation at R... more »
Untitled
*Court To Notify Those Affected By Flooding From Hurricanes Katrina And Rita About A Class Action Settlement*~The lawsuit alleges levees and other flood and water control structures failed and/or were overtopped as a result of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita because they were not properly designed, inspected, or maintained, and that this failure caused property damage, personal injury and other losses. The Settling Defendants say that the levees failed for reasons beyond their control and that they did not do anything wrong. Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2013/04/15/5342294/cour... more »
Contaminated Wells Could Spark New Rules
Rachel Rindfleisch at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 15 hours ago
By: Nathan Lamb Officials from Somers, Connecticut are considering mandatory testing for private wells, after recent samples discovered uranium and arsenic in local drinking water, according to this story from the Journal Inquirer. The issue came to light when officials tested more than 50 local wells. Town sanitarian Steven Jacobs didn’t give a specific number, but said high levels of contaminants were found in a small percentage of samples. Arsenic and uranium are thought to have leeched into the water from bedrock, resulting in isolated pockets of contamination. According the E... more »
Help Save Social Security... And Win A 311 Platinum Award
When we're getting to know candidates running for Congress, we ask them lots of questions about economic justice and, of course, we want to know where they stand on issues like Choice, the environment, war powers, domestic spy drones, marriage equality, campaign finance and the other big issues likely to come up for congressional debate. Truth be told, though, we really just want to figure out what's in their hearts and how they come up with their conclusions-- and how courageous they're likely to be. Over the last couple of weeks, though, we've just been concentrating on just a s... more »
Yesterday's Man?
Suddenly -- with the ascension of Justin Trudeau -- everyone is talking about Stephen Harper's future. Michael Harris writes: If he were a week-old loaf of bread, or a dubious meatball at the back of the fridge, it would be time to throw him out. But all political leaders wear out their welcomes. The longer you are in power, the higher the pile of dirty laundry gets. And Tim Harper writes in the *Toronto Star*: Should Harper decide to seek another mandate from Canadians in an election that will happen no later than October, 2015 — the Prime Minister has already mused about hol...more »
Witness exclusion orders and calling a party after others have testified
Witness exclusion orders are customary in both civil and criminal trials. In both cases the parties are allowed to remain in court, even if witnesses, regardless of the exclusion order. In civil cases the parties may be ordered to give testimony before other witnesses: *Blajic v Windsor Air*, [1995] O.J. 4045 (C.A.). Such power to govern the order witnesses are called in does not exist in criminal matters (see *Angelantoni*(Ont. C.A.), [1975] O.J. No. 884) however, if the accused is called last that may lead to the accused’s evidence, especially in alibi cases, being given less we... more »
The NDP and Socialism and Justin Trudeau
Well, the NDP decided that they don't like public healthcare, but that they do like private banks who gouge everything and everyone in sight. Or something that probably makes sense to Tom Mulcair. They took the dreaded word "socialism" out of their party constitution. I've always thought this attempt to "move to the centre" is as bone-headed as it's possible to be. "Let's be like the Liberals who just imploded due to their lack of ideas!" Whatever. And, the Liberal Party of Canada has just made Justin Trudeau their leader. The Barack Obama of Canadian politics. A young, handsome, e... more »
Extremist Legislation - 1st FL, Then ALEC, Then Your State
(My emphasis throughout) Remember the Stand your Ground – you can Kill at Will gun law that the American Legislative Exchange Council made available to the state legislators who are members of ALEC? Well – did you know that the NRA took that law to FLORIDA first and after it was implemented in FLORIDA, then the NRA took it to ALEC and then with ALEC’s help and the vault of ALEC legislation ALEC members copied/pasted (plagiarize) the legislation and pass it off as their own – across the United States. Well – it’s happened again And FLORIDA is where it started. Drug testing of we...more »
Whiteboard Menu and Shopping List
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I would love you to link up your projects, recipes and book reviews to this week's Creative Showcase! Let's face it, as moms we get asked lots of questions. Number one on that list for me is, "What's For Dinner?" The reality is I usually have no idea. I tend to wing it every night. The problem with winging it, is it not only leaves me stressing an hour before dinner time, sometimes I can't come up with something to eat at all because we don't have the right ingredients on hand. I decided it was finally time to make a central location to use to not only plan out our meals, but leav... more »
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Dave Edmunds, 69. The good stuff...and by the way, I have no idea of the blogging schedule for this week, thanks to, yup, jury duty. Meanwhile, there's this: 1. More in an excellent series of posts from Sarah Binder on the House, John Boehner, and the Hastert rule. 2. Kevin Drum on words. 3. Steven Taylor on the Gosnell flap.
Heat Shocking Produce
This is a rather important understanding that goes against all our food handling inclinations. Yet it is on hand and doable. One avoids washing things off immediately because that encourages spoilage. Now we merely soak instead in hot water. I wonder how lettuce performs. I note that it is useful to soak a cantaloupe a full hour in water maintained at 120. that is a bit of a challenge and would only be done if it was necessary. It would be easier to in fact cut it up and process the pieces. Yet it illustrates the desirability of actually reaching all the flesh in order to t... more »
RAF Sights Elasmosaurus
I found this item on Dale Drinnon’s blog. This report is actually very important because it tips the scale firmly to the long necked Elasmosaurus away from a pure sea serpent which may never have existed at all. The long neck does the trick nicely in terms of generating all such reports. The creature has now been eyeballed by professional observers. It does not get any better than this. Better it comes from exactly that one class of observers who had a chance of actually sighting such a creature. These creatures do not surface in the presence of props turning anyw... more »
Global Warming: Was It Just A Beautiful Dream After All?
What I find most astonishing is that so many clever people have hung on to the dogma over so many years of outright derision from Mother Nature. At the height of the hysteria, before Climategate it was almost impossible to take a dissenting view even though the leaked emails reveal the promoters themselves feeling serious discomfort with Mother Nature who was going elsewhere. Late in the game, a few are now having sober second thoughts although not likely soon enough if we are treated to a massive reversal in the next two years. This summer is then possibly the last s... more »
Graphene Vanadium Ribbons for Powerful Batteries
Without doubt the day of the super battery is fast approaching. Here is some more research news. Look at the implied complexity achieved. There is a lot of wow factor here. As we have reported there is plenty of work underway and it is profoundly difficult but we are also learning to work with atomic layering which is the ultimate source of all our core future technology. Everything we use is presently hopelessly obsolete in terms of our current present knowledge. Remember that. *Hybrid ribbons a gift for powerful batteries* *Rice lab finds vanadium oxide/gra... more »
Letter From America on Science Advice
At The Guardian's Political Science blog you can find an excerpt from my forthcoming chapter on science advice, to appear later this week in *The Future of Scientific Advice in Whitehall *(edited by Wilsdon and Doubleday)*, *which will available to download here. My piece is written as a "letter from America" to Sir Mark Walport, the newly installed UK chief scientist, offering some advice from the history of science advice in the US. Here is the opening from the excerpt of the chapter: Congratulations Dr Walport on your appointment as the UK government's chief scientific adviser.... more »
PhilHealth Watch 15: Rising Claims for NCDs
Payment for the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PHIC or PhilHealth) is among the four mandatory monthly payments that people in the formal sector must accept. Meaning even if they are not satisfied with many government services, their monthly take home salary becomes smaller because of these mandatory deductions and forced contributions. The other three are SSS/GSIS, Pag-IBIG, and the withholding personal income tax. Before tackling the costs and benefits of PhilHealth, here is an important situationer on healthcare in the Philippines in 2009, the latest available data. S...more »
Wayne Herschel says Stargate Gods are REAL.
*what did Roland Emmerich (or his handlers) know?* Wayne Herschel (featured on Free Planet back in 2012) is back on Coast to Coast A.M. talking about *The Great Flood* from about 10,000 years ago and showing how we (as a humanoid race) were delivered here by *The Stargate Gods*, some 7,000 years before that, and we were delivered in God's (humanoid) image. Who's to know, but the Evidential System suggests that *'what we know as history'* might not be wholly true. The main impression I get from Wayne is he's ANGRY that Hollywood is getting more credit for his Intervention Theories (... more »
Dark matter direct search: CDMS suggests a light WIMP
*An unexpectedly precisely suggested mass: \(8.6\GeV\); your humble correspondent totally persuaded by the graph* For some time, I have been joining the "alerts" that it's plausible that the dark matter particle could be discovered very soon and it could be great. In fact, there are three complementary strategies to search for the dark matter particle and there are good reasons to expect that they could provide us with some powerful evidence in favor of a specific dark matter particle rather soon: the direct production at the collider (LHC), the analyses of cosmic rays and radiatio... more »
Still Cutting to the Chase...
Just as a follow up to the previous post.... It looks as if where the BBC leads others follow. *Benefit cap reforms rolled out* has now entered at No.1 on ITV's online news chart (from which it was absent at 6.00am) and the *Guardian* and Independent have now placed the story in 4th and 3rd place in their respective pecking orders. (Checking out *Google News* confirms that they were both published after 7.00am.) Sky News is now also mentioning the story, though only in passing. (If you blinked you would have missed it). The Sky News website is also sticking with regarding it as a... more »
Monday Morning Linkage
Good morning ducks! Here are your links… Even more well off people will be able to exempt themselves from TSA’s airport security theater thanks to Visa credit cards. Well, it’s not like potential hijackers could afford the annual fee or first-class tickets anyway. Oh wait… Do you enjoy being frisked, finger printed, and rapiscanned at airports? Continue reading
Ask Your Doctor To Name 3 to 4 Ingrdients in The Vaccine To Be Given To Your Child
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Free Planet - the Reality of Existence - the Lie of Society
Society, as we know it, IS A LIE. Bold statement, and worthy of my incarceration for heresy in older times, BUT TRUE. What we take for Normal, for Democracy, for Freedom is NOTHING BUT AN ILLUSION. Here on Free Planet, we must speak only of TRUTH. And ways to achieve understanding of WHAT WE REALLY ARE and WHY WE'RE REALLY HERE. Do you get this yet? Obvioiusly not, or I wouldn't need to keep broadcasting THE SAME OLD MESSAGE of Creativity, Passion and Kinsip over Fascist Global Domination leading to the death of Mother Earth in the name of WORTHLESS AND ENSLAVING PROFIT for the ... more »
Kryon's Solution for North Korea...
This is excerpted from the channeling located here.... http://www.kryon.com/CHAN%202013/k_channel13_boulder.html ...I'm going to give you a potential on Earth that is not the strongest. I am going to tell you about a Human Being who has a choice. This potential is only about 50 percent. But I'm going to "read a potential" to you that you didn't expect. It's about a paradigm that is starting to shift. Let's talk about North Korea. There's a young, new leader there. The potential is that he will never, ever hear this channel, so I can talk freely about him. He is facing a dilemm... more »
Goldman Sach's Whistleblower Greg Smith
http://beta.mnet.co.za/carteblanche/Article.aspx?Id=4704&ShowId=1 Greg Smith Date: 14 April 2013 07:00 Producer: Esté de Klerk Presenter: Devi Sankaree Govender Show: Carte Blanche Wall Street, New York City - the exemplar of power, money, wealth... It's the centre of commerce and the financial capital of the globe, home to the largest financial markets in the world - the Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange. And if you're serious about being a mover and shaker in the financial world, this is where you want to work. It's where Greg Smith found himself at the age of 21, when he... more »
BBC Sports Personality of the Year
Well I never knew that the BBC Sports Personality of the Year is meant to be 'awarded to the sportsperson "whose actions have most captured the public's imagination"'. Nothing to do with personality at all.
Allegations Of Big Irish Banks Operating Without A Banking License
Allied Irish Bank Logo http://www.boombustblog.com/blog/item/9062-allegations-of-big-irish-banks-operating-without-a-banking-license Sunday, 14 April 2013 15:42 *Allegations Of Big Irish Banks Operating Without A Banking License* Since I started my series on the Irish banks, there's been an outpouring of sympathizers, empathizers, consultants and analysts who have joined in to contribute information, data and insight to the efforts. Below is a contribution from a reader on his experience with AIB (see Global Banking Crisis - How & Why YOU Will Get "Cyprus'd" and As If On Cue, BoomBus... more »
Message from Montague Keen - 14 April, 2013
* * * * *Message from Montague Keen - 14 April, 2013* There will come a time in the near future when you will have to make a decision as to whether to stand up for truth, or be a coward, and go with whatever you feel is the easier path. Let me assure you now, there is no easy path. The cabal has no intention of creating an easy path for anyone. When enough of you are prepared to stand together for truth and light, then the cabal will know, without doubt, that it has failed in its effort to establish the New World Order that it has spent years planning. Ireland has just done this.... more »
BANKERS AND BRAINWASHERS
Are some of the elite 'mind-controlled Satanists'? *This photo (above) from Bohemian Grove appears to show Colin Powell, George Kennedy - from Dallas and The Naked Gun - and Malcolm McDowell - from A Clockwork Orange.* Among those recently attending Bohemian Grove: the president of CNN, the president of the Associated Press, and executives from Time-Warner. Many of the people in the media, and in the world of entertainment, work for the spooks. The spooks are said to be involved in mind-control, using 'Satanism'. *Hacked photos show Colin Powell, actors at Bohemian Grove* *Co... more »
Cutting to the Chase
Comparing the news priorities of various media outlets this morning - a snapshot taken at 6.00am - shows that a number of stories are considered important by all media outlets (N Korea, Venezuela, etc); however, it's the differences that are intriguing. As ever, you can see the *Guardian* and *Telegraph *offering their readers a range of additional stories which reflect the political interests of their respective readerships. The most striking difference, however, is between the BBC and everyone else. *Only* the BBC is leading with the roll-out of benefit cuts, with trials begi... more »
Christy Clark And The Scary Horse Infomercial
Well, wasn`t that an interesting infomercial, only now do I realize how lucky my family was to have survived the decade of the 90`s, the horror, no electricity, 3600 consecutive days(and nights) of rain, so gloomy it was it didn`t even snow on the ski slopes, no jobs, 800% rate of taxation, the only employment that existed was 1 million workers toiling on fast ferries..The horror...Indeed.. All kidding aside, this Sunday evening blockbuster was rather lacking in, well, in every department, I definitely needed more twizzlers and popcorn.. Just a few points I would like to make...Co... more »
April 14, 1973 (part one)
"The point that the P is trying to determine with E and me is, who should talk to Mitchell to tell him the jig is up, and that the only way for this to be a plus is for you to go in and volunteer a statement." -- That's how (in Haldeman's notes) April 14, a Saturday, begins in Nixon's Executive Office Building office. The business with confronting John Mitchell is, really comical: the White House conspirators have believed on and off from the start that the fallback line if the cover-up goes south is to have the people from the campaign take responsibility. Now that's combined wit...more »
Musical Interlude: Marvin Gaye, “Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)”
Marvin Gaye, “Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1uelY2SGmw
10 Imágenes bonitas de mujeres hermosas
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Mujer rodeada de animales hermosos
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Your moment of Zen
Fruit salad. Possibly the most beautiful fruit salad I've ever seen, which immediately made me think of this:
Flores de colores en los grandes jardines
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Bello paisaje con árboles de colores
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Fix spec building to make Auckland affordable again
SHOULD AUCKLAND BUILD OUT? Should Auckland build up? “Sprawl” or intensification? The new Auckland Unitary Plan, the way planners have decided we must live, plumps for the latter and all but bans the former. Opponents like Nick Smith reckons we must build out, and castigates planners who promote increasing the density of the existing city. They’re both wrong, yet they’re both right. As I’ve said before, Auckland should do both. Basically, it should allow people to do both: to live as and where they *choose* to, and can afford. (Choice! Fancy that!) The key to making Auckland live... more »
Death Penalty For Crooked Congressmen And Their Crooked Staffs? Nooooooo... Never
Capitol Hill doesn't need weaker ethics laws; it needs much stronger ethics laws. If it was up to me, elected officials and their staffers would be a special category of defendant, different from ordinary people. Any crimes they commit are crimes against the trust society has placed on them. So... I don't want to offend all my friends who hate the death penalty but... a congressman or high-ranking bureaucrat who breaks the law should be shot-- or whatever the humane way is for disposing of the trash is. Don't worry... Congress is moving in the other direction. You know how they sa... more »
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Majia's Blog - 1 day ago
Tepco time stamp for this screen shot is April 8 2:26. The bright light illuminates the buildings' emission halos and it appears that the orange-red glow stick is back. I don't know what it is. <img alt="" src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAS0AAACrCAIAAAC8H13IAAAgAElEQVR4nOy52bLkyJElyBIWMyPudXcAtqvtO3b47neLiMwki13dMyX9/58zD5HJyiLrfWZaeMTE4TBRUz26ATCxP5z+z8Xtdns8Hvd/4p/4/zz+cPs/F9fr9fJP/BP/f8Af6j/xT/wT/2/jDznnWmtfaymplFRKLiXXWmrNteZay3fUmkvJv958l/ltlJJLSSXnWkrNpZbvI/e1lJJLTrXk39SUUkot9Xf/y28a8t/m628mvlus30W+Wymp1vQbmVRKrrV+J1lLqd8t/o7k727/c+Y3sVR/70jNv6nNpeSS83eP/mboN5K...more »
QUOTE OF THE DAY: That pesky freedom
“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty, than to those attending too small a degree of it.” - Thomas Jefferson, letter to Archibald Stuart, 1791 Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)
Break, entry and theft may be established by recent possession of goods obtained by break and enter
*R. v. Pitcher*, 2013 NLCA 22 allows the doctrine of recent possession to be used to prove break, entry and theft. Some might suggest that holding places a great deal of weight on what is a permissible presumption of fact; nevertheless the Court's holding is clear: [29] The doctrine of recent possession permits a conviction for break, entry and theft if it is established that the accused is in recent possession of the goods stolen in the break and entry. Recency is determined by the circumstances, including the amount of time between the commission of the break, entry and ... more »
Flier flagged for speech freedom
[image: image] The Advertising Standards Authority has made the right decision in rejecting an “offensive” anti-gay Families First flier opposing gay marriage. Sorry, that should read “extraordinarily offensive”: Family First's "21 great reasons to keep marriage as is" pamphlet equates same-sex marriage with incest and paedophilia, denigrates children of same-sex couples and is hurtful to single-parent families, the Advertising Standards Authority heard. The complainant said the brochure was "inflammatory, largely incorrect and was filled with biases". It was "extraordinarily... more »
Ground control to Major Tom
Wanted to end the day with something cheery. Maybe I'm the last one to see this, but it was new to me and it's a really great two minute time lapse video of Earth from Orbit.
A Party with God
Last night I spent an evening with God. We chatted until early this morning. Hard to believe, I know. Yet I can tell you with certainty what God looks like. I held him, laughed with him, hugged her and had a drink with her. He cried, she showed me her quilt, he played for me his latest song, and he made dinner with me. He said “I love you”, she told me a secret, he looked in my eyes and I heard him. My house was full of God and long after the leaving, I was whispered to for several more hours. In my next blog, I’ll share those whispers with you. For now just con... more »
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