English: This was published as an appendix to Deputy CNO Patrick Walsh's report to Barack Obama on conditions in Guantanamo as per Executive Order 13492. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Executive Order 9981 in which President Harry S. Truman bans the segregation of the Armed Forces., 07/26/1948, Page 1/2 (Photo credit: The U.S. National Archives)
CARTAGENA/COLOMBIA,07APRIL2010 - Mauricio Cárdenas, Director, Latin America Initiative, Brookings Institution, USA; Global Agenda Council on the Future of Latin America in the Interactive Sessions in Parallel Economic Outlook: Commodities, Currency and Growth of the World Economic Forum on Latin America 2010 in Cartagena Convention Center from 6 - 8 April. Copyright World Economic Forum www.weforum.org / Edgar Alberto Domínguez Cataño editorgeneral@fotoeditores.com (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
CROPS----GUESS WHO WANTS TO CONTROL THEM? WELL OF COURSE THE SAME PEOPLE WHO WANT TO CONTROL US (Photo credit: SS&SS)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 - 4 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 liveable is... 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 »
Meet & Greet Monday (#MtaGt)
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Do you have an Eco-friendly blog? Do you occasionally write about the environment or ways to live green? If you answered yes to any, you're invited to link up. Here are the rules: 1. If you have a green-living blog or a blog where you sometimes writ... more »Today on the TBS Cam
Majia's Blog - 14 hours 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 »
The case of Penney CEO Ron Johnson: Managerial "genius" can't be rated without reference to context
*Ousted JCPenney CEO Ron Johnson*: *Say, didn't this guy used to be a genius?* *by Ken* On April 8, the AP's Anne D'Innocenzio reported: J.C. Penney's board of directors has ousted CEO Ron Johnson after only 16 months on the job as a risky turnaround strategy backfired and led to massive losses and steep sales drops. The department store chain said that it has rehired Johnson's predecessor Mike Ullman, 66, who was CEO of the department store chain for seven years until November 2011. As D'Innocenzio reports the story, there wasn't any question about Penney's disastrous performan... more »
I’ve just discovered a reason to vote Len Brown
I’ve just discovered a reason to vote Len Brown. In two words: John Minto: Veteran activist John Minto is asking his political party [Whiners & Whingers] to approve a run for mayor of Auckland. The trade unionist and teacher said Mayor Len Brown had disappointed him. He’s disappointed me too. But for opposite reasons to Minto’s. Personally, I’d like to see an Affordable Auckland candidate. But I’d hold my nose and vote for Brown over Minto any day of the week. Mind you, that would mean actually registering to vote. Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for pe...more »
USA Today Writer Does Favor for NRA
From USAToday Man shoots himself in the head during NRA 500 at Texas 4:46 p.m. EDT April 14, 2013 2013-04-13 Texas Motor Speedway FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A medical examiner says a man who died in the infield during the NRA 500 at Texas Motor Speedway shot himself in the head. The Tarrant County (Texas) medical examiner's office on Sunday said the death of 42-year-old Kirk Franklin of Saginaw, Texas, was a suicide. SNIP Police spokeswoman Cpl. Tracey Knight has said alcohol may have been a factor. Knight said several people witnessed the incident, but nobody was in danger. *Polic...more »
Extreme weather battering insurance firms’ bottom line – Ohio’s low premiums at risk as storms, droughts increase
[image: William White, left, speaks to his insurance agent Rick Anderson, from USAA, right, to asses the damage to his home and property that was destroyed by the tornado. White's truck, behind, was blown into their backyard. Photo: Amy E. Voigt / The Blade] BY Jon Chavez 14 April 2013 (The Blade) – As a meteorologist for FirstEnergy Corp., Pete Manousos’ job is to keep the electric utility informed about any upcoming extreme weather that might cause outages, or hamper repair crews’ ability to restore power. But the last two years, that job has gotten harder and harder. “You have... more »
Exxon-Mobil Concerned with Teachers As Its Tar Sands Oil Spreads in Arkansas
If you were watching golf for the past 4 days, you would see hundreds of millions spent by Exxon-Mobil to push the Common Core Corporate Standards and to convince Americans there is some educational emergency in our schools. I guess I would be trying to change the subject at hand, too, if I were responsible for ruining another American community with a flood of dirty oil. From *Nation of Change*: ________________ *Cleanup Workers Collect Oil Faster than Media Collect Information* Ten days after the ExxonMobil Pegasus pipeline burst, spewing thousands of barrels of Canadian tar sand... more »
The Perfect GOP Wife
From the Financial Reports of GOP state representative (I intentionally redacted some of the info)
GUEST POST: Bernanke Gets Skewered by Stockman
*Guest post by Byron King from **Money Morning Australia* Did you see the *Sunday Times* on March 31? The Sunday Review section — the part with opinion-forming editorials and columns, etc. — had a banner headline declaring ‘*Sundown in America*’. This was the intro to a 2,600-word article by David Stockman, former budget director for US President Ronald Reagan. If you didn’t see the Stockman article, perhaps you saw summaries in other media. That is, we now have an economic ‘boom, bust, doom & gloom’ story with legs — and of course it drips with the holy water of top billing in ... more »
DOWN TO THE DOCTOR: Monckton magnificent in Manawatu
*[image: Official photo for Not PC]This week, **Libertarianz** leader Dr Richard McGrath has been listening to a tourist.* For those who have not yet heard Christopher Monckton in person, currently barnstorming the country on his Climate of Freedom Tour, you still have a chance to make one of his remaining meetings. I can assure readers they will not be disappointed. Yesterday I traversed the Pahiatua Track to Palmerston North, where sixty of us—including local Libz member and list candidate Chris Robertson, and former Libz candidate Lyn Charlton-- listened to a very polished and ... more »
Japan lawsuit seeks evacuation of children out of Fukushima radiation zone after nuke disaster – ‘Why is Japan about to repeat the mistakes of Chernobyl?’
[image: In this 2 April 2013 photo, Toshio Yanagihara, one of the lawyers representing 14 children from Fukushima who started a legal battle for the right to live free of radiation, holds a leaflet urging quick action be taken to protect children from radiation during a press conference in Tokyo. Yanagihara criticized the government as appearing more worried about a population exodus than in saving the children. Photo: Yuri Kageyama / AP Photo]By Yuri Kageyama 14 April 2013 TOKYO (Associated Press) – Their demand: The right to live free of radiation. The plaintiffs who started t... more »
why i haven't blogged about rehtaeh parsons and how the story makes me feel
I feel some kind of obligation to write about Rehtaeh Parsons. Not because I imagine I have something important to add to the conversation, just because she is on my mind so much, and when that happens, I must write. For non-Canadian readers, this is why we know the name Rehtaeh Parsons. From an excellent post by Christine Salek at PolicyMic: Let me know if you've heard this one before. A teenage girl attends a party, drinks alcohol, and then is gang raped by four male classmates. The boys take photos of the assault and share them with their school, and the girl is then bullied rele... more »
New Zealand deforestation intentions soar with low carbon prices
[image: Deforestation in Newzealand (South Island: Tasman, Westcoast), 3 May 2011. Photo: Martin Wegmann] By Brian Fallow 15 AprIL 2013 (New Zealand) – Deforestation intentions have soared as the emissions trading scheme, at least at current rock-bottom prices, is no longer seen as a barrier to switching to other land uses. A survey of large forest owners (with over 10,000 hectares) by Professor Bruce Manley of Canterbury University has found they intend to deforest 39,000ha between now and 2020, mainly in the central North Island and mainly to switch to dairy farming. They re... more »
Bozo bites
Boris Johnson wants a potential new Londonairport to be named after Margaret Thatcher. Double whammy! More proof, I think, that Boris Johnson functions as a prophylactic for Tory craziness (remember when he positively associated himself with Rupert Murdoch during the Olympics, when no other politician wanted to be near him). This is ULTRA provocative, yet a twinkle and a smile from Boris Johnson makes such things seem less than harmless. He is hardening people to Tory ideas and hardening people with Tory ideas.
Sunday Question for Liberals
On the gun bill: should Democrats attempt to pass whatever they can, no matter how little, as long as it's marginally better than the status quo -- or should they give up on it if it's not substantive enough? If the latter, what would constitute enough?
Fifty years ago . . .
— KIM & LEE — 1963, LEE HARVEY Oswald is murdered and Kim Philby defects — two individuals who effected great changes. Or not; nobody seems to know for sure, in both cases. Ron Rosenbaum has a great article in SLATE, "Philby and Oswald The truth is still out there." Maybe there are things are still to be discovered.
ALEC Legislation - OK for MD's To Do Harm
Would you go to an orthopedic surgeon that wasn’t board certified? Would you go to a plastic surgeon that wasn’t Board certified? Would you go to a podiatrist that wasn’t Board certified? Would you take your kids to a pediatrician that wasn’t Board certified? Would you take your kids to a heart surgeon that wasn’t Board certified? Good questions. The Difference Between Licensed and Board-Certified Each state in the U.S. has a physician licensing system in place, and in order to practice in that state, a doctor must be licensed in that state. The requirements for licensure vary, but ... more »
Sunday Question for Conservatives
How should Republicans be responding to the inclusion of chained CPI in the president's budget: support it, attack it, or both? How do you think they will respond going forward?
How Badly Does The GOP Want To Obliterate Unions? Only 10 Of Them Voted Against The Latest Republican Scheme To Slam Labor
It's not that the 10 House Republicans are especially pro-working family... it's just that all are in districts where the union vote is important. These 10 stood up to Boehner and Cantor Friday and crossed the aisle to vote with the Democrats against a vicious anti-union bill by David Roe (R-TN): *•* Rodney Davis (R-IL) *•* Michael Fitzpatrick (R-PA) *•* Chris Gibson (R-NY) *•* Michael "Mikey Suits" Grimm (R-NY) *•* David Joyce (R-OH) *•* Peter King (R-NY) *•* David McKinley (R-WV) *•* Pat Meehan (R-PA) *•* Tom Reed (R-NY) *•* Don Young (R-AK) A gaggle of New York and Pennsylvania ... more »
"The World Is Too Much With Us..."
"The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!" - William Wordsworth, 1770- 1850
BILDERBERG 2013
Family Travel Review: The Grove Hotel... *So So Gay Recommends… the Grove Hotel and Spa, Hertfordshire.* *So So Gay Recommends... The Grove Hotel & Spa ...* 28 March 2013 "The Grove is affectionately referred to as ‘London’s country estate’ – a five star hotel, surrounded by 300 acres of rolling Hertfordshire countryside ... a perfect base for a trip to the nearby Warner Bros. Studio Tour to experience The Making of Harry Potter... "The former home of the *Earls of Clarendon* has been restored to stunning effect... Also at your fingertips is a luxury golf resort on which Tiger W... more »
How Rude
Several others have noticed the ‘Rude Israelis’ article. People don’t know what to make of it. Whether to laugh or cry. I think it’s fine, but it cries out for balance, without which it looks less than the light-hearted observational piece it’s probably meant to be. (Especially with that huge picture of a girl screeching, and that stupid, unfunny cartoon) Now all Raffi Berg needs to do is write about the wonderful things that characterise Israelis. As commenter Sharon Klaff says on the BBCWatch thread: “At the same time you can travel the world to find a more compassionate carin... more »
Iran, Pakistan, Syria, Qatar: Pipelineistan at work
*Many, if not all, of the readers here should be very familiar with this topic.* If not, you may have some serious catching up to do. *The competing pipeline strategies have been a constant through all the Eurasian machinations. * Disclaimer: Yes, it is from Pepe Escobar....who adheres to all ‘official’ narratives. *However the pipeline work is excellent and jibes with so much of the information on this blog that this article begs for posting.* *So, here it is.* *Construction is nearing completion on a natural gas pipeline linking Iran and Pakistan, a project that portends a huge g... more »
Hilarion – April 14 – 21, 2013
*Hilarion – April 14 – 21, 2013* April 14, 2013 in Hilarion Beloved Ones, You are each in full flow again of receiving and anchoring the Cosmic energies into the crystalline core of your planet. These are the rhythms that you are by now used to in your daily lives and as such you serve the Divine. As each of you receive and allow these energies to pass through you into the crystalline core, you are filling the Earth with these expansive energies and this is how the ascension of the Earth is taking place. The Light within expands within the center of the planet and is uplifted i... more »
Tennessee restores Yeager's gun carry permit
You'll recall some months ago that hot-heated CEO James Yeager of the dicey gun training camp Tactical Response had his carry permit revoked because of his video "'threatening to start killing people' if President Obama took executive action on guns." This week, Yeager got his gun carry permit restored. Here's his personal video statement. Man, he still looks totally crazy to me. Actually, the most frightening thing I learned in the video is they took away his carry permit, but they never took away his guns. Tennesee law doesn't require that even if they take your permit to car... more »
Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, April 14th, 2013
It is Sunday..... Time for my usual Sunday rant..... I have a question... What the hell has happened to Spring and Springtime weather? I thought the Global Warming fraudsters and hucksters stated that snow was to be a "thing of the past" as the world heated up according to their twisted logic? Well, it is mid April in these parts of central Canada, and there is at least a foot of snow still on the ground, and the forecast for tonight is for another WINTER storm to hit these parts along with an additional 5-10 cm of snow to boot! But I guess I am looking at imaginary white stuff... more »
Anne Frank was a "Great Girl"? Really?
I don't want to offend any Bieber fans out there but this kid's a total, self-absorbed jerk. Apparently he spent an hour touring the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam. On his way out he took time to leave this entry in the guest book: "*Truly inspiring to be able to come here. Anne was a great girl. Hopefully she would have been a belieber.*" Yes, you little twit, when she wasn't busy being worried about being discovered by prowling Nazis and sent to her doom in a concentration camp, I'm sure she would have wanted nothing better than to become one of your fans, a true *belieber.*
MSM on Gosnell: We Are Ignorant Shills!
Unending lies and spin force me to write about Kermit Gosnell. Again. He was arrested on January 19, 2011; I wrote that blog-post on January 20, 2011. And in a remarkable show of prescience tedious prediction, I called it: He'll become the fetus-fetishist poster boy for 'Late Term Abortion! Gosnell! Gosnell! SHRIEEEEEK!!!1!1' Just checked. Yup, they're aaaall over it. Kermit Gosnell: Hero of the Forced Pregnancy Gang. For the last few days, fetus fetishists have been SHRIEEEEKING that the MSM has been totally, absolutely, left-wingedly ignoring this MAJOR story. Which, as Snopes...more »
"Think It’s Safe To Use A Cell Phone?"
*"Think It’s Safe To Use A Cell Phone?"* Spectacular Documentary On The Health Implications of Mobile Phone Technology by PreventDisease.com "Many scientists have claimed that the wave of mobile communications made popular in the last two decades will result in long-term health implications worldwide. An unprecedented level and frequency of tumor growth inside the human brain may be inevitable. Resonance - Beings of Frequency is a spectacular documentary uncovering for the very first time, the actual mechanisms by which mobile phone technology can cause cancer. And, how every... more »
Family values Republicans
Something light for a Sunday afternoon. Marcus Hook, PA, Mayor James “Jay” Schiliro (R-Crazy Drunk) won't be seeking re-election after all: Authorities allege that late on the evening of Feb. 21, Schiliro contacted the young man by text message and had a Marcus Hook police officer deliver him to his borough home. There, with Schiliro’s 13-year-old daughter sleeping upstairs, the mayor allegedly gave the young man alcohol and produced three firearms, one of which was fired into papers inside the house. During the encounter, the mayor repeatedly asked the young man if he could give... more »
GAIA PORTAL: “Sprites of Light”
* * *“Sprites of Light”* by ÉirePort Light Connections among 100th monkey Hue-persons have strengthened and are increasingly connecting with all of "non-enLightened" humanity. These connections appear as "Sprites of Light" to those with 5-7D eyes to see. "Sprites of Light" pass from one human to another, even those in "non-enLightened" state. This is a Gaia-directed channeling of the Higher D Light whose strength (intensity) has multiplied 10-fold as a result of recent Solar activity. Each human entity has become sufficiently Light-aware (even though often un-consciously) to perm... more »
“The Fleecing Has Only Begun”
*“The Fleecing Has Only Begun”* by Andy Sutton “The story broke from nowhere and caught many off guard. To others it was the manifestation of previously unspoken fears. It was, and is, by far the biggest story of 2013, the decade, and quite possibly the millennium. It was the crossing of another Rubicon. For years and decades, the financial piranhas had wandered around the edges, nibbling a little here and a little there. Inflation, bailouts, and other monetary mischief had already eroded the value of most currencies. But never before had they actually made the boldest of move... more »
Believing in clean oilsands like believing in ‘magic fairies’, top scientist says
[image: University of Alberta scientist David Schindler holding a deformed whitefish collected from the Athabasca watershed, downstream from the oilsands industrial development. Schindler told a Carleton University audience Friday that claims that Alberta’s oilsands are environmentally harmless are 'lies' and won’t convince anyone in Washington. Photo: Ed Kaiser / Edmonton Journal] By Tom Spears 13 April 2013 OTTAWA (The Ottawa Citizen) – Claims that Alberta’s oilsands are environmentally harmless are “lies” and won’t convince anyone in Washington, one of this country’s most famo... more »
Creative Showcase- A linkup for all things creative.
I am loving the sunshine. I am starting to have faith that summer might actually be just around the corner. Here are some of my favorite link-ups from last week's Creative Showcase! This cute DIY Missionary Tag from the Happy Scraps. This May Day Wreath from Lemon Tree Dwelling. Love this Spring Table Runner from the Happy Scraps. This Printable Travel Pack for Toddlers by Just Lu. Now to this week's Creative Showcase. Want to be featured? Link up below! [image: Housewife Eclectic Creative Showcase] <img border="0"... more »
Why Australia Fears the United States
Since coming into existence in 1776, the United States has enjoyed just 21 "war free" years. The last four of those were under president Jimmy Carter who didn't see much point in blowing other people, their kids and all their stuff into smithereens just to make a point. No wonder he was so reviled. Since Bush/Cheney rode into Washington, the United States has become our world's only true *Warfare State*. Obama, despite his claims to the contrary, has kept the tradition alive and well. When Canadians consider our country's relationships with America, we too readily forget that... more »
THATCHER'S GAY FRIENDS
The gay Kenny Everett (left) with his friend Margaret Thatcher. Diana 'Dressed As Man' With Kenny *Conor Burns.* Member of Parliament Conor Burns, a close confidante of Thatcher, is gay. In 1967, Margaret Thatcher voted in favour of the decriminalisation of homosexuality, in England and Wales, in the face of opposition from Tory traditionalists. While she was Prime Minister, male homosexuality was made legal in Scotland in 1981 and in Northern Ireland in 1982. The 'gay' Michael Portillo was said to be Thatcher's choice as her successor. Liam Fox (above) was Thatcher's close... more »
We Seem to Be Making a Herculean Effort to Get to First Base
Imagine you're a baseball player and your only focus is to make it to first base. Not second, not third, not home plate. Just first, that's it. All of your aspirations begin and end at first base. That sounds pretty stupid, doesn't it? What's the point of showing up at the park at all? You're not going to be helping your team. You won't be doing much for the fans either. And what of those eager batters who come up after you? What are they going to do if you won't budge from first base? Yet that's just about our approach to this whole climate change business. That's ... more »
Chris Hayes says he can’t understand!
*SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 2013* *Do you believe Chris Hayes:* Chris Hayes made a heartening choice of topics on Friday night. He spoke with PBS education reporter John Merrow about Michelle Rhee’s endless problems with the truth. Merrow had received and revealed a memo which shows that Rhee was warned about possible cheating in the DC schools even in her first year as superintendent. But she didn’t choose to investigate hard—and in Year 2, the problem got worse. Meanwhile, Rhee made various public remarks which seem perhaps a bit inaccurate in light of the new memo. To read Merrow’s rep... more »
Sunday Classics: From brooding depths to sparkling heights -- Bruch's G minor Violin Concerto
*Itzhak Perlman plays the opening Prelude (Allegro moderato) of the Bruch G minor Violin Concerto, with Kazuyoshi Akiyama conducting the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra.* *by Ken* In Friday night's "Max Bruch preview" we heard the composer's *Kol Nidrei*, an "Adagio based on a Hebrew melody," which I described as his second-best-known work. "The best-known," I write, "surely is his G minor Violin Concerto," noting that we would be listening to it today. An obvious point of reference for what used to be known as "the Bruch Violin Concerto" but now has to be called "the Bruch First Violin ...more »
Beware . . .
BEAVERS BITE. According to Lapham's Quarterly, with fatal results.
"ALEC" Legislative Extremism - Destroyed Brand Beyond Repair
This is a story that we can not let have one day of coverage and then forgetaboutit. This is so important that it can not be lost in one news cycle. We have to keep talking about it over and over and over and over again. I can’t help thinking about the article that came out at PRWatch this past week, noting: “You may have noticed we are limiting the use of the acronym 'ALEC,'” wrote Bill Meierling, ALEC's recently-hired Senior Director of Public Affairs in a March 13 email sent to ALEC members and obtained through an open records request. “Over the past year, the word 'ALEC' has be... more »
Sometimes a Picture Is Worth...
This might be one of those times. *Chris Riddell, The Guardian*
THE HIDDEN STORY OF JEJU
Ghosts of Jeju from Regis Tremblay on Vimeo.
Former KIPP Principal Demonstrates Why Honesty Should Be Added to the KIPP Character Trait List
Former KIPP "stallion," Elliot Witney, has somehow earned a spot across from Deborah Meier at the Bridging Differences blog (surely thre's no Gates influence in that decision by Ed Week). And the first thing I noticed in reading Witney's dissembling responses to Meier's questions on KIPP is 1) his effort to distance himself from KIPP, and 2) how quickly he would like the change the subject away from KIPP, and 3) his consistent lack of honesty about KIPP. Here is a clip for Elliot's response that highlights his brazen lack of honesty: The situation you describe simply does not re... more »
Tommy, We Have to Talk
Dear Tommy: I've got some bad news. The old gang has moved on. They've "modernized" some, taken a new direction if you will. Now, rest assured Tom, no one's saying that everything the party you created once stood for is radical nonsense. At least none of them are saying that out loud although some certainly are acting that way. They've figured out the route to get elected, their one slim chance at power, meant they'd have to grow up some. They'd have to become sophisticated, moderate - pragmatic if you will. Compromise is the order of the day and you know what a slippery... more »
What will the North Korean Military do if Japan Shoots Down the Missile Launch?
A few days ago, I predicted there would be no war, probably because I’m lazy and predicting the future will be the same as the present is an easy way to protect my credibility. But I got some criticism that I was a dippy academic who doesn’t see how dangerous the situation really is. And Continue reading
CHILDREN IN CHAINS
Margaret Thatcher, when she was in Indonesia, was alerted to the conditions of children in institutions for the 'mentally backward'. In Indonesia, children who are a little mentally backward, or who have epilepsy, are often put into mental institutions. We have seen children in such institutions tied up with tape or chains. They become covered in urine and faeces. The BBC reports on mentally ill patients in Indonesia held in chains. *Mentally ill patients in Indonesia held in chains* The Galuh Foundation looks after people who are said to be 'mentally ill'. Some of the 'patient... more »
The BBC, the L.S.E., North Korea, Paddy O'Connell and Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan
Well, the BBC can certainly give itself a right good whacking at times. If you want to hear a BBC reporter getting violently slapped around (figuratively-speaking) by a BBC interviewer then please give this morning's *Broadcasting House *a try. The interviewer displaying a surprising amount of rudeness was Paddy O'Connell and the BBC reporter on the receiving end - though he fought back a bit - was John Sweeney, presenter of tomorrow night's *Panorama, North Korea Undercover. * * * As you may be aware, this is the subject of a heated and headline-grabbingrow between the BBC and the ... more »
Engineering Consent Through Propaganda
Edward Bernays is responsible for encouraging 'leaders' to manage the public through public relations, rather than leveling with them about real conditions. See the Century of the Self here and read Bernay's book, Propaganda, here. Bernays' encouraged the titans of industry and presidents to engineer consent using propaganda that appealed to people's instinctual drives and herd instinct. Bernays approach was and remains sociopathic, but also very effective, as illustrated by the following anecdote: Yesterday while at my oldest son's track meet (for 5 hours) I had the opportunity ... more »
Why is the Fog at Fukushima Pink?
Majia's Blog - 1 day ago
Fukshima weather conditions for today: 20% Chance Radioactive Rain and 94% Radioactive Humidity (edits mine, weather source here) <a href="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAScAAADdCAIAAAB2RiPdAAAgAElEQVR4nOy9168lx5ngqT9xH/ZlH3oxPRLJuq4sVaKanmLRiWSRrCJVvur649Jn+Ii0x15TRc3MPsyuWi2pzWCBNQPsAgvMYFf7ECYjzTn33iLVmAa68OHgVNw8kXHyxC8/G5E/+c//93/9Z5D/6//5f7//D7+bPv+P09/+fvb9Ujn+D39My+Nk+u/n/+4PKw77V/lX+RctP/kvf/7zP4P81z//+b/8f3/+x//1P//xH/+3P/7T/75C/vSf/s8//af/Y/Ux/yr/Kv+i5SeLo1Nb5l2ysN6cefAyWRyfnjz/7emLJfLcev1XWXaJnne9eV6/eu3GRvtfqIfGB9vS/n07T/dieeOL1hmXta8eyZk9XEisq/G8Jv/OevPvXnz/...more »
Nikki Haley (SC - ALEC Governor) - Has a Challenger
Well, well, well, South Carolina gets another chance to redeem themselves. Moderate Democrat Vincent Sheheen, has announced that he’s going to give his pursuit of the South Carolina Governorship another go in 2014. He lost to Governor Nikki Haley by 4 points in 2010. I know he’s running again because my Halifax Media-owned local right-wing newspaper revealed his intention in a minimal coverage story on page C-3. Had the situation been reversed and Sheheen was the sitting Governor, there would have been giant front-page headlines “HALEY TO CHALLENGE GOVERNOR.” A picture of Haley ... more »
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