PORT FOURCHON, La. - The base of a pollution containment chamber is moved to a construction area at Wild Well Control, Inc. in Port Fourchon, La., April 26, 2010. The chamber will be one of the largest ever built and will be used in an attempt to contain an oil leak related to the mobile offshore drilling unit Deepwater Horizon explosion. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Third Class Patrick Kelley. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
ROBERT, La. - A robotic arm of a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) attempts to activate the Deepwater Horizon Blowout Preventor (BOP), Thursday, April 22, 2010. In addition to the use of ROVs, the unified command is mobilizing the Development Driller III, a drilling rig that is expected to arrive Monday to prepare for relief well-drilling operations, to stop the flow of oil that has been estimated at leaking up to 1,000 barrels/42,000 gallons a day. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
"Rathausplatz Film Festival" (June, August). Each evening, movies on music are shown open air, free of charge, in HD quality on a 20x11,5m screen to up to 6000 spectators. This evening's movie showed Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore, directed by Otto Schenk at the Wiener Staatsoper, with Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazon, Ildebrando D'Arcangelo, Leo Nucci. Conductor: Alfred Eschwé. 2005. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Royce Library in Grass Valley, California (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Platform supply vessels battle the blazing remnants of the off shore oil rig Deepwater Horizon. A Coast Guard MH-65C dolphin rescue helicopter and crew document the fire aboard the mobile offshore drilling unit Deepwater Horizon, while searching for survivors. Multiple Coast Guard helicopters, planes and cutters responded to rescue the Deepwater Horizon's 126 person crew. Français : Les restes en feu de la plateforme Deepwater Horizon. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The Witch Head reflection nebula (IC2118), about 1000 light years from earth, is associated with the bright star Rigel in the constellation Orion. The nebula glows primarily by light reflected from Rigel, located just outside the top right corner of the image. Fine dust in the nebula reflects the light. The blue color is caused not only by Rigel's blue color but because the dust grains reflect blue light more efficiently than red. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Sunday Classics preview: There's something about the opening of Act II of Donizetti's "Elixir of Love"
*Leo Nucci (Sgt. Belcore), Ildebrando d'Arcangelo (Dr. Dulcamara), Inna Los
(Giannetta), and Anna Netrebko (Adina) in the opening of Act II of
Donizetti's L'Elisir d'amore, conducted by Alfred Eschwé and directed by
Otto Schenk, at the Vienna State Opera, April 2005 (we have Italian-English
texts below)*
*by Ken*
Donizetti's magical *Elixir of Love* would be amply worth our attention
even if it didn't contain one of the most memorable of tenor arias. We
already heard a bunch of fine performances of "*Una furtiva lagrima* in the
December 2011 post "The old minor-to-major switcheroo... more »
The Geek Filibuster
See
the opening credits scroll for an explanation. This is why the term
"nerdgasm" was invented. The actual episode (which only showed about 30
seconds of this tour de force) was also pretty good.
Musical Interlude: Logos, “Cheminement”
Logos, “Cheminement”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOuXP8aVWHU
"A Look to the Heavens"
“This skyscape finds an esthetic balance of interstellar dust and gas
residing in the suburbs of the nebula rich constellation of Orion.
Reflecting the light of bright star Rigel, Beta Orionis, the jutting,
bluish chin of the Witch Head Nebula is at the upper left. Whiskers tracing
the red glow of hydrogen gas ionized by ultraviolet starlight seem to
connect that infamous visage with smaller nebulae, like dusty reflection
nebula NGC 1788 at the right.
*Click image for larger size.*
Strong winds from Orion's bright stars have also shaped NGC 1788, and
likely triggered the formatio... more »
Chet Raymo, “All Night, In The Dark”
*“All Night, In The Dark”*
by Chet Raymo
“Why do we so admire the poetry of Mary Oliver? She is not the most
technically proficient poet around, and there is a disquieting sameness to
her work. But we come back to her again and again. My volumes of Oliver's
collected poems are the most dog-eared of any on my shelf. I think it is
something about the way Oliver is able to get out of her body and into the
skin of a hummingbird, a swan, a snake, or a black bear. She is a
shape-shifter, a shaman. When she describes a grasshopper moving its jaws
this way and that, we almost feel it ... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
Grass Valley, California, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
“'People's History' of Gulf Oil Disaster Reveals Deadly Truth Behind Dispersant Corexit”
*“'People's History' of Gulf Oil Disaster Reveals *
*Deadly Truth Behind Dispersant Corexit”*
Report released on eve of Deepwater Horizon anniversary
tells of BP lies and government collusion in oil 'clean-up'.
by Jacob Chamberlain
A dispersant plane passed over an oil skimmer in the Gulf of Mexico
ten days after Deepwater Horizon explosion (Patrick Semansky/AP)
"Not only is the chemical dispersant that was used to "clean up" the
Deepwater Horizon oil disaster of 2010 extremely dangerous, it was
knowingly used to make the gushing oil merely "appear invisible" all the
while... more »
Financial Media Outlets pull Stories regarding Reuters Killing Soros
It is pretty telling how Marketwatch.com and other major financial websites
felt they had to disable the comments and/or outright remove the freshly
posted stories about the Reuters false death report of George "Schwartz"
Soros.
The epitaphs coming in were getting too embarrassing for the Soros media
sycophants. I can keep this short and leave it to the imagination. For
those of you who missed it before the story was removed, let's just say
that the news of his death "being greatly exaggerated" wasn't met with much
joy or relief by Marketwatch readers who often take the opportunit... more »
Graph of the Day: Oil production declines for top five oil companies, 2004-2012
[image: Oil production declines for top five oil companies, 2004-2012. Oil
majors' output peaked in 2004 and has decline 25.8% since. Graphic:
Matthieu Auzanneau]
By Matthieu Auzanneau
19 April 2013
(The Oil Drum) – The combined crude oil production of the five main
international oil companies (Exxon, BP, Shell, Chevron and Total) hit an
historic high in 2004. Since then, it has fallen by 25.8%, despite large
increases in investments.
Total crude oil produced by the majors was 10.760 million barrels per day
(MB/D) in 2004. In 2012, it reached only 7.981 MB/D. It has decreased by... more »
MAINE PAPER COVERS JEJU NAVY BASE FIGHT
Here is the full-page coverage last Monday in our local Times Record
(midcoast Maine) newspaper about the Jeju Island Navy base fight.
Fellow Maine activist Carolyn Coe went to Gangjeong village for three weeks
and did this great report. I am amazed and happy that the paper covered
this considering that the Navy Aegis destroyers, outfitted with so-called
missile defense systems, are made here in Bath.
It's a really good thing for the community to have to see this. Thank you
Times Record.
They Took Suspect 2 Alive - What a Relief
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is in police custody, hours after his brother, Tamerlan
died following a gun battle with his pursuers.
I had feared the 19-year old Dzhokhar would either be brought down by
police or take his own life which might have left many questions
unanswered. Now at least the authorities will have a slim chance to
interrogate young Tsarnaev.
Given that this appears to have been a political act, Tsarnaev may be
willing to make a statement. Of course, given that he is a recent
immigrant of the Muslim faith from central Asia coupled with the fact that
today's America is a ... more »
Good police work in Boston
It seems the marathon bombers have been found and killed in a gun flight
with police or captured.
Since the bombing was this week and there were no obvious clues except
video that is a remarkable accomplishment.
The police did good! The deserve recognition for that!
The Lamest Ducks In The House-- A Beltway-Eyed View
Accidental Congressman Gary Miller, California's Confederate sympathizer
This week, *Roll Call* points to California Republican Gary Miller and
Tennessee date rape drug doctor Scott DesJarlais as being the two incumbents
most likely to lose their seats in 2014. Close behind are detestable Blue
Dog reactionaries Jim Matheson (UT) and Mike McIntyre (NC), New Dem Ron
Barber (AZ) and GOP fringe loon Mike Coffman (CO). The retirements of these
four characters by their constituents who be steps in the right direction
for making Capitol Hill a better place-- even if we would need 2-300
ret... more »
“Evading Suspicion and Shirking Responsibility”: The Politics of Official Discord in Qing Taiwan, 1725-1726
*Don't come any closer!*
The Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies hosted an interesting journal
article on the complexities of 18th century Qing Administration in
Taiwan.....
That is, when Chanjibu impeached Magistrate Zhou Zhongxuan 周鐘瑄 for
illegally accepting seven hundred taels of silver from a defendant in a
criminal case. Ordinarily, this “crime” would hardly even have aroused the
attention of the prefect, much less that of the emperor, particularly when
the sum involved was so small. Nevertheless, the case would embroil
bureaucracies in Taiwan, Fujian, and beyond, make and... more »
GAIA PORTAL: “Galactic Body” Alignments Accompany Increasing Frequencies of Transformation
*
* *“Galactic Body” Alignments Accompany Increasing Frequencies of
Transformation*
April 19, 2013
Frequencies of transformation among up-grading Hue-mans are increasing, and
currently have reached 11-fold from time of prior post. The frequency
increase varies from individual to individual, yet the 11-fold number
signifies transmittance of new 4-7D codes into the consciousness bodies of
each.
Indications of frequency increase include sense of dissonance with all
prior life pathways, release of all internal energetic “packages” which no
longer support the increasing frequencies,... more »
Vulture Capitalism is Alive and Well
For all the lofty reports lately of a capitalist reformation and new age
economics that recognize natural and social capital in addition to
financial capital, there's this.
In the U.S., five states are poised to begin actively poaching California
companies. What is the weakness they're lining up to exploit? Why it's
an insidious, voter-approved initiative to raise income taxes to finance
education.
That's driven knowledge-based companies such as Google, Apple and SolarCity
to make tracks for backward, low-tax states like Texas, Arizona, Virginia
and Nevada. They want highly... more »
Food fascists . . .
THE
CEO OF NESTLE is a nasty fascist. According to American Live Wire,
"Nestlé CEO Says Water Is Food That Should Be Privatized – Not A Human
Right". Check out the video. Myself, I will never buy anything from
Nestlé or its subsidiaries.
Russell Means to be inducted into Native American Music Awards Hall of Fame
RUSSELL MEANS TO BE INDUCTED INTO
THE NATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS HALL OF FAME
By NAMA Hall of Fame
Censored News
Niagara
Falls, NY - The 14th Annual Native American Music Awards will be
inducting the late American Indian activist, actor, and musician,
Russell Means, into the NAMA Hall of Fame on May 10, 2013 at the Seneca
Niagara Hotel & Casino in Niagara Falls, New York.
America Has Given Itself Over To Fantasy And Delirium
*The Scapegoat by William Holman Hunt, 1854*.
America is a nation that kills the weak and innocent, and there is no
clearer proof of this truth than what has transpired in the days since the
false flag Boston bombings.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his brother were both framed by the intellectually
discredited and morally bankrupt U.S. government. They are scapegoats, not
terrorists.
America's legacy is being written right now, and it isn't good.
May God have mercy upon it.
America Awakening to Refreshing New Possibility: Tell Bill Gates to Take His Money and Go to Hell
When the LA Times starts having doubts about the wisdom of His Aged
Geekiness, Billy Gates, then you have to know the worm is turning quickly.
After all, it was the LA Times that published Gates-approved teacher
ratings that ended in the suicide of Rigoberto Ruelas in 2010.
Perhaps Team Obama should have a second look at its decision to put
corporate foundations in charge of U. S. education policy. Just perhaps
there is something to be learned from a hundred years of academic research
that the corporate drones have summarily dismissed. From the LA Times
editorial page:
. . . .Pr... more »
"How It Really Is"
Ahh, yes, all those "campaign contributions" for our trustworthy,
totally honest and honorable public servants in the House and Senate.
My personal opinion is more accurately reflected in the graphic below,
though I could be wrong of course...
- CP
No, not wrong...
Phony Malware Alert!
Some of you may see this graphic, and we've experienced this a number of
times before. This is *NOT* true, despite what Google says, and I've always
found it curious that this type of phony alarm appears on the blog
immediately after something the Powers-That-Be might deem inappropriate,
that is, *truth* they'd rather you not know. There are NO ads, banners,
popups or commercial advertising of any kind on this site which might
trigger an alarm. This is just the government lads playing their games
again, nothing more. I'd say what I think of that, and them, but this
blog's PG rati... more »
Where all their speculation got them....
As discussed in an earlier post, Tuesday's speculation on Radio 4's *Today *with
regards to the Boston marathon bombings tilted strongly towards giving
credence to the 'it's domestic terrorism' line of argument:
*Evan Davis*: We know it was Patriots' Day and a holiday in Boston
yesterday. How significant might that be do you think? Or is it just the
day the Boston marathon is run and, so, if you want to create carnage at
the marathon that's the day you do it?
.....looking at this it seems as though the evidence is tipping towards
some kind of domestic terrorism rather than somethin... more »
"Fed Governor Stein Warns When A TBTF Bank Fails, Depositors Will Be Cyprus'ed"
*"Fed Governor Stein Warns When A TBTF Bank Fails,*
* Depositors Will Be Cyprus'ed"*
by Tyler Durden
"Two months ago, Fed governor Jeremy Stein caused a major stir among the
very serious excel-using economists and other wannabe
"scientists"-cum-voodoo witchdoctors, when he hinted that it was the Fed's
actions that were leading to "overheating" in the markets. It took quite a
bit of rhetoric by other very serious people to talk down his comments and
give the impression that the S&P is not about 50% overvalued. Today, Stein
has managed to stick his foot in his mouth for the second... more »
Fixing this Microsoft Excel error transforms high-debt countries from recession to growth
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http://qz.com/75035/fixing-this-excel-error-transforms-high-debt-countries-from-recession-to-growth/
*
* *Fixing this Excel error transforms high-debt countries from recession to
growth*
By Tim Fernholz @timfernholz April 16, 2013
It looks like the most frequently cited justification for fiscal austerity
in the aftermath of the global financial crisis *is based on a boneheaded
Microsoft Excel error.*
When advanced economies began slumping in 2008, the immediate debate was
whether to boost growth with short-term deficit spending or reduce
government debt. Advocates of the latte... more »
Terrance Nelson 'White Privilege Conference Seattle'
By Terrance Nelson
First Nation Roseau River Anishinabe
Censored News
Dr. Eddie Moore Jr:
I would like to thank you for the
opportunity to be keynote speaker at the White Privilege Conference in
Seattle Washington on Friday April 12th 2013. To present to over a
thousand people in the Assembly was especially meaningful to me because,
the people present were activists from all over
Elsewhere
It's basically a rerun, but over at PP today I argued that, yes, political
responses to things such as the Boston bombings are not only justified, but
actually quite patriotic.
Yesterday, I poked at Boehner a bit, saying that his current position on
budget procedures is the correct one.
And earlier, I reacted to the demise of the gun bill and talked about what
comes next, and had a companion piece on how the gun fight might (or might
not) lead to Senate reform.
That's it for now. With any luck, I'll have a baseball post later, and
there's plenty more Watergate to come. I don't know... more »
How Will Peter King Respond To Rick Perry's Request For Federal Aid To Help In The Fertilizer Factory Explosion?
Texas secessionist Rick Perry didn't get a vote in the Hurricane Sandy
relief bill. But this is how his state's two dozen Republican congressmen
voted:
*•* Joe Barton- No
*•* Kevin Brady- No
*•* Michael Burgess- No
*•* John Carter- No
*•* Michael Conaway- No
*•* John Culberson- Yes
*•* Blake Farenthold- No
*•* Bill Flores- No
*•* Louie Gohmert- No
*•* Kay Granger- No
*•* Ralph Hall- No
*•* Jeb Hensarling- No
*•* Sam Johnson- No
*•* Kenny Marchant- No
*•* Michael McCaul- No
*•* Randy Neugebauer- No
*•* Pete Olson- No
*•* Ted Poe- No
*•* Pete Sessions- No
*•* Lamar Smith- No
*•* Steve ... more »
Nate Bell (AR- ALEC/NRA) - "F#cking Moron"
From Daily Kos
*READ IT*
*>>>>HERE<<<<<<<*
Just passing it on - becauseican.
ACTION: Stop WoW : protect a woman's access to health care
From the ACLU webpages
*Kansas No Longer A Place to Call Home?*
By Becca Cadoff, Reproductive Freedom Project at 1:01pm
After her adventures in Oz, Dorothy couldn’t wait to get back to Kansas.
But if she lived there now, she might not be so eager to return. Governor
Sam Brownback has just signed yet another bill that makes it more difficult
for Kansas women to get the health care they need.
And we know this is not an isolated attack. Kansas is the latest frontline
in the current round of attacks in politicians’ war on women. Arkansas,
North Dakota, and Alabama, have also each re... more »
Untitled
Some handy tips I found in my travels:
1. Verbs has to agree with their subjects.
2. Never use a preposition to end a sentence with. Winston Churchill,
corrected on this error once, responded to the young man who corrected him
by saying "Young man, that is the kind of impudence up with which I will
not put!
3. And don't start a sentence with a conjunction.
4. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
5. Avoid cliches like the plague. (They're old hat.)
6. Also, always avoid annoying alliteration.
7. Be more or less specific.
8. Parenthetical remarks ... more »
Four lessons learned by Chris Cillizza!
*FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 2013*
*Frankly, we’re sorry we looked:* “What the Boston bombings taught me about
journalism.”
That was the headline on a new post by the Washington Post’s Chris
Cillizza. Instinctively, we knew we should pass it up.
Despite those better angels, something made us look.
Cillizza was especially thoughtful in the wake of the Boston bombings.
Here’s the way he started:
CILLIZZA (4/19/13): *What the Boston bombings taught me about journalism*
*The events in Boston over the last four days have riveted the nation—and
put journalism, the profession that I love, under th... more »
The Media Angle
At about midnight last night I spoke to my friend who lives in Atlanta. In
the wake of the marathon bombing, the Manchin/Toomey filibuster, the ricin
letters, the fertilizer plant tragedy, the CNN meltdown and several other
major stories packed into an incredibly full news week, we were fairly
certain that the developing story out of MIT, where a shooting had been
reported, wouldn't turn out to be a bigger story. Within an hour, it was
clear that we were wrong. From a little after midnight until about 4am,
when I eventually crashed, a barrage of crowd-sourced information spewed
fort... more »
Mohawk Nation News 'Energy Balance'
Energy
Balance
Mohawk Nation News
www.mohawknationnews.comPosted on April 19, 2013
MNN. Apr. 19, 2013. In these dark hours of designed chaos, war and
violence will not bring resolution. Mass confusion is being created to
erupt into military action. In the Mohawk language, “te ho te ri wa kwen
ten” means that “they have pushed matters to a ridiculous extreme
putting everything out of balance”.
THE PROPAGANDA MODEL
An interview with Edward S. Herman who was co-author with Noam Chomsky of
"Manufacturing Consent".
Wildlife - Born To Ruin
Wildlife - Born To Ruin. Source: WaxRecords.
An Actual Expert on the Caucasus….
Charles King at The Daily Beast: In other words, the focus now should be on
the Tsarnaevs as homegrown terrorists, not on the ethnic or regional
origins of their family. Journalists’ initial conversations with family
members in Dagestan amplify that point: a sense of shock that two nice boys
who had gone to America for their
Continue reading
In Amerika, the "K" Stands For Kafka
I think it's time I let you guys know what's going on in my life.
You may think I'm being overly dramatic or and perhaps paranoid when I
say what I'm about to say. Yet let it be known that I have worked for our
government on two separate occasions and, being a blogger who's been
following the increasingly bizarre activities of the last two
administrations from the outside looking in, I don't think what is
happening now and may very easily happen in the near future is outside the
realm of possibility.
My entire week since the Boston Marathon bombings has been fraught
w... more »
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Boston right now
There's too much hysteria to say much about what's going on in Boston
today. Seems pointless to obsess about every thinly sourced rumor or repeat
what little actual information is on every media news outlet in America.
For the moment, this photo, which is surely destined to one of the iconic
images of this event, seems to say it all.
Fenmore Square. Been here many times in my life. I've never seen this
street so completely empty.
[via Buzzfeed]
Friday Foolishness - Viagra Creates Life
Got one of those stupid questions answered today.
Why do they fight insurance coverage on birth control - but allow insurance
coverage on Viagra and Cialis?
Cause both Viagra and Cialis are about creating life - babies - pro-life.
When Democratic state Sen. John Marty asked why this drug needed to be
regulated, rather than errectile dystfunction medications such as Viagra, Republican
Sen. Paul Gazelka, the bill’s sponsor, responded that unlike RU-486, *Viagra
is a “wonderful drug” *that “*helps create life*.” When I asked Sen.
Gazelka if he could clarify his response, he told me via... more »
Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Obama Liberals
President Obama expanded the war in Afghanistan (like he said he would),
attempted to prolong the occupation of Iraq past the exit date negotiated
by bush II, supported the TARP bail-outs, presides over the torture of
Bradley Manning, failed at his promise to transfer the prisoners at
Guantanamo Bay to some other lawless hell-hole, vastly expanded the
murderous predator drone program, attacked the Occupy Movement, protected
Wall Street banksters from criminal prosecution, the only person to serve
prison time for the USA's torture regime since Obama came to office is John
Kiriakou (t... more »
Monckton Down Under
*The Eyes Have It?*He holds an arts degree and a journalism diploma from
the mid-70s. He fantasizes himself being a member of Britain's House of
Lords even though being ordered by the House to "cease and desist" making
the utterly untrue claim. Lately Britain's equivalent of a Thurlingian
prince has descended upon New Zealand to expound on how international
scientists and their professional bodies are absolutely wrong about, well,
science, while he, the professional nutjob, is right.
Lord Christopher Monckton is being invited to address the Marlborough
Federated Farmers branch t... more »
Really Rich GOPer Rips up NRA Card
Not literally - but verbally.
It would have been nice to see him do it literally -
This got on my radar because:
Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc.[14] Member of ALEC's Commerce, Insurance and
Economic Development Task Force and ALEC's Tax and Fiscal Policy Task
Force[35]
Even though it didn’t pan out for me – it’s an interesting read from HuffPo
*Adolphus Busch IV Resigns From NRA After Gun Control Defeat In Senate*
Posted: 04/18/2013 7:17 pm EDT | Updated: 04/19/2013 11:19 am EDT
Quote snips only:
WASHINGTON -- Adolphus Busch IV, heir to the Busch family brewing fortune,
resign... more »
Greg Hunter, "Weekly News Wrap-Up 4.19.13"
*"Weekly News Wrap-Up 4.19.13"*
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatachdog.com
“Video and photos are now released, and suspects in the Boston Marathon
bombing case are being hunted down. They will be in custody soon, if not
already. My prayers go out to family members who lost lives and limbs in
the blast. This is being politicized to blame and demonize everything from
the NRA to Republicans and even the sequester cuts. I hope this is not yet
another excuse to take away more freedoms from Americans in the name of
safety.
North Korea, once again, made more threats against South Korea b... more »
Restitution orders
*R. v. Trac*, 2013 ONCA 246:
[35] The trial judge’s error in law requires this court to determine
whether, on a proper consideration of all of the relevant factors, the
restitution order should be made. The inquiry begins with the purpose of
restitution orders in the sentencing process. Restitution orders advance
the goal of rehabilitation by promoting direct accountability by the
wrongdoer to the victim. Restitution orders also promote public acceptance
of and support for the criminal justice system by recognizing the specific
harm done to victims and by providing a conve... more »
Kevin Drum explains the senate two-way!
*FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 2013*
*Was that a filibuster we saw, or were they just happy to be there:* Was
that a filibuster of gun bill proposals we saw in the senate this week?
Before we read yesterday’s major newspapers, we thought we knew. After we
read the Post and the Times, we were no longer sure.
For background, see yesterday's post.
Was that a filibuster we saw? We asked, and Kevin Drum answered. This is
what he said:
DRUM (4/18/13): Here's the answer: over the past few years, as the use of
the filibuster has become routine, it's become common to speed things up a
bit by adoptin... more »
CISPA... Who Betrayed Us Yesterday And What It Means Now
2 who spoke up against Big Brother yesterday: Amash (R) & Grayson (D)
We tried explaining CISPA on Wednesday when the House voted on a few
amendments to CISPA that were permitted by Pete Sessions' very fascistic
Rules Committee. The serious amendments that were offered by champions of
individual liberty-- opponents of CISPA-- like Justin Amash (R-MI) and Alan
Grayson (D-FL) were not allowed to even be voted on, ruled inappropriate by
Sessions (R-TX). Amash's disallowed amendment was meant to "permit a
company to provide through contract that it won't share personally
identifiable ... more »
Iceland Shills for Chinese Voice in Arctic Affairs
The timing must be entirely coincidental. Iceland just became the first
European country to conclude a free trade agreement with China.
*The China-Iceland FTA covers trade in goods and services, investments, and
various other areas. Specific provisions on investment, movability of
citizens, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, technical trade barriers,
rules of origin, customs procedures, competition policies and intellectual
property are also included in the FTA. The parties also made commitments in
service trade that are stricter than the WTO commitments.*
And, in a remarkable... more »
Avedon
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."
Avedon was always interested in how portraiture captures the personality
and soul of its subject. As his reputation as a photographer became widely
known, he brought in many famous faces to his studio and photographed them
with a large-format 8x10 view camera.
His subjects include Buster Keaton, Marian And... more »
Extreme Weather Funnies - Chicago Sewer Geyser
Chicago was hit by a deluge, some say of apocalyptic proportions. One of
those "storm of the century" events that now seem to occur a couple of
times a year to welcome us to our planet's new climate state.
The Chicago downpour was so intense it overwhelmed the city's storm and
sanitary sewer systems. A large volume of sanitary sewer overflow was
jettisoned into Lake Michigan. That's liquid poop by the way.
Elsewhere Chicagoans were greeted by free sewer geysers.
The event got locals coining new terms such as "upspout", "sewerspew" and
"road barf".
Once More on "Is It a Filibuster?" (Hint: It Is)
This one might be a little redundant at this point, but everyone is pretty
much focused on the manhunt in Boston right now, and I have nothing to say
about that, so I might as well continue filibuster blogging. And besides,
maybe this is still necessary -- because Kevin Drum is a smart guy, and if
he's still a bit confused on this point, maybe lots of people are.
So this comes from a post Drum wrote last night in which he said that the
press should call what happened to Manchin-Toomey a filibuster, even though
"Technically, however, it's not a filibuster, so reporting it as one isn't... more »
Reinforcing the Need for Martial Law and More More More Military Spending (Boston Attack Metaphor for Anywhere)
My buddy, Coyote Prime, at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly is one of the best
amalgamators of excellent intelligence operating in blogtopia. Bookmark his
site. You won't regret it. Tuesday, April 16, 2013 Martial Law... No Ways
TiredBenito Mussolini defined Fascism as the "merger of government and
corporatism." We've witnessed the financial rape of this country by the
banksters and their
Canada's Carbon Black Eye - Bitumen Peddling
Across Canada, provincial and local governments have achieved great things
in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and the Harper government has grabbed
as much undeserved credit for that as possible.
Yet Harper and his slackjawed EnviroShill, Peter Kent, can't hide the impacts
of their bitumen-peddling policies, no matter how much credit they steal
from others.
*Canada's annual heat-trapping greenhouse gases continue to level off or
decline in most sectors of the economy, outside of Alberta's oilpatch, says
the latest annual inventory report submitted by the Harper government to
the... more »
Your moment of Zen
Chrysler Imperial rose from my friend Maeve's garden.
Mourning With America from Boston to Baghdad
(America
Loves Iraq/Facebook)
“I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states…We
are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single
garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all
indirectly.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," April 16,
1963
Nearly 50 years to the day after Dr. King wrote his passionate plea
Howard Uhal: America and the 'Good People'
Please
stop trying to punish America
By Howard Uhal
April 19, 2013
By now many of you have read Patton Oswalt’s heartfelt comments
following the Boston Marathon bombing.[1] I agree with Mr. Oswalt that
good will triumph over evil. I strongly disagree that this is happening
in America.
Would good people invade the New World, slaughter the native inhabitants
while stealing their resources,
MEDIOCRITY ALL THE WAY UP: Reporting the gaps while hiding the gains!
*FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 2013*
*Part 5—The public will never be told:* For obvious reasons, we should
state the obvious.
Presumably, Harvard assistant professor Jal Mehta is a perfectly decent
person—a person who is kind to his family, to his students, to his
neighbors and friends.
It’s also true that Mehta made some sensible points in his lengthy op-ed
column in Saturday’s New York Times.
How might we improve our public schools? Mehta noted that charter schools
aren’t some sort of magic solution. Neither Michelle Rhee nor Diane Ravitch
has a magic solution, he said.
That said, much ... more »
A Little Bit About Dagestan
A lot of information is being thrown around about Chechnya and the Caucasus
region in general in wake of the revelation this morning that the suspects
in the Boston Marathon bombings are from there. The best I can sort out is
that they were born in Kyrgyzstan. At least one of them attended school in
Dagestan, which neighbors Chechnya in the North Caucasus region. Dagestan,
along with Chechnya, are part of Russia. This clip from Al Jazeera English
covers the insurgency in Dagestan. UPDATE: Matt Yglesias adds context.
Stand Up For Yourself Without Getting Fired
I thought I'd share with you today an interview I did with TJ Walker, who
is an excellent media trainer with a regular internet TV show. We talk
about my book, employment contracts, noncompete agreements and how you can
negotiate a better severance package with your employer.
Ta da! My first video embed. I'm very excited that this worked. Maybe I'll
actually figure out one of these days how to embed some videos I did where
I actually appear on the video. . .
Unreasonable verdict of a jury
*R. v. W.H.,* 2013 SCC 22 is an important case making clear that review for
unreasonable verdict is very limited. In effect the only time a decision
will be set aside as unreasonable is if “judicial fact-finding* **precludes*
the conclusion reached by the jury”. The Court holds:
[25] A person convicted of an indictable offence
has broad avenues of appeal. There is a right of appeal on any question of
law alone and an appeal by leave of the court on questions of fact or mixed
law and fact or on “any ground of appeal . . . that appears to the court of
appea... more »
Schools Matter and @thechalkface to Join Forces
Schools Matter will be moving to a new home in a few days. We will be
partnering with @thechalkface to begin a renewed and re-fortified effort to
eradicate high stake testing and corporate control from our public schools.
Stay tuned for details.
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What are the 'Lights' on Unit 4's New Construction?
Majia's Blog - 13 hours ago
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Where is the steam/smoke comming from at Fukushima Daiichi?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq7jzH90a-M
TX Secessionist Rick Perry Begs for US Govmt Aid
From last month
*Texas takes step toward secession with Rick Perry’s plan to hoard gold*
Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) and freshman state Rep. Giovanni Capriglione have
a plan to create a “Fort Knox of Texas” so that the state can start
hoarding gold.
Giovanni has filed a bill to establish a Texas Bullion Depository to store
the $1 billion worth of gold bars that are owned by University of Texas
Investment Management Co. (UTIMCO), which are currently being housed by the
U.S. Federal Reserve.
In a 2009 interview, Perry had joked that Texas was “thinking about”
becoming an independent ... more »
Untitled
*Corps' levee risk studies already outdated; new studies could guide future
improvements, says Levee Board engineering consultant*
*Saints schedule is out!*
*Super Bowl XLVII tax revenue impact in N.O.: $34.9 million ~Danny
Monteverde *
*Backup S&WB turbine blamed for oily sheen over west Carrollton homes;
relief may be a year away ~Uptown Messenger*
*Food Truck Reform Passes City Council ~William Dilella, NOLA DEFENDER*
*TWO SECOND LINES SUNDAY (New Orleans problems…) ~New Orleans Good Good*
Pivot Divot
*Two women assemble stacks of beer cans as temple offerings. Any country
where they offer beer to the gods is all right with me.*
*"For years we thought of ourselves as a production oriented company,
meaning we put all our emphasis on designing and manufacturing the product.
But now we understand that the most important thing we do is market the
product. We've come around to saying that Nike is a marketing-oriented
company, and the product is our most important marketing tool." -- Phil
Knight, CEO of Nike.*
John Pfeffer at FPIF scribes:
The Obama administration has revived the ol... more »
Okay, Radical Islaam May Factor Into Boston Marathon Bombing
One bomber is dead following a shootout with Boston police. The other is
on the run with police in hot pursuit. Both men are implicated in an
earlier shooting that left a M.I.T. police officer dead.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died in hospital, apparently of gunshot wounds.
19-year old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is being hunted down in the Boston Watertown
neighbourhood. News reports claim police have him cornered.
The suspects came to America with their families less than ten years ago
from central Asia, having lived in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. The family
is believed to be Chechen.
L... more »
China represents 68 percent of increase in global CO2 emissions, India represents 8 percent
[image: Cover of 'The Policy Climate' report from the Climate Policy
Initiative, released on 15 April 2013. Graphic: CPI]By Jayashree Nandi
15 April 2013
NEW DELHI (TNN) – India represented 8% of the increase in global
energy-related CO2 emissions between 2000 and 2010 according to a report by
US based Climate Policy Initiative (CPI). In contrast, China represented a
whopping 68% of the increase in global CO2 emissions.
The study released on Monday at The Brookings Institution in Washington DC,
claims to have analysed the impact of three decades of implementation of
various kind... more »
Al Gore: ‘The world as a whole is putting 90 million tonnes of global warming pollution into the atmosphere every day as if it is an open sewer’
[image: Al Gore spoke at a conference in Dublin looking at the links
between hunger, nutrition, and climate change, 17 April 2013. Photo: Press
Association]
By Evelyn Ring
17 April 2013
(Irish Examiner) – We are using the atmosphere as if it is an open sewer,
former US vice-president Al Gore, told a major international conference on
hunger and climate change in Dublin yesterday.
“The world as a whole is putting 90 million tonnes of global warming
pollution into the atmosphere every day as if it is an open sewer,” Mr Gore
said on the second and final day of the conference, co-host... more »
The Capitalist Reformation? Not Holding Breath, Not Holding Breath.
Even dedicated capitalists are beginning to realize they're in a hole to
nowhere and they have to stop digging.
Just as classical economic models are being recognized as obsolete and of
waning utility in a finite world heading toward a population of
nine-billion, so too is capitalism coming under self-scrutiny.
*Peter Bakker, president of the World Business Council on Sustainable
Development, recently observed: "I am a capitalist … The mistake currently
lies in only expecting (and managing) a return on financial capital.
Capitalism requires a new operating system, and needs to be re... more »
Accord would regulate fishing in Arctic waters as sea ice melts away
[image: Deep sea fishing trawler Shetland Challenger fishing for shrimp
through the Arctic ice. Photo: Craig Taylor]
By ANDREW E. KRAMER
16 April 2013
MOSCOW (The New York Times) – It was once protected by ice. Now regulation
will have to do the work.
The governments of the five countries with coastline on the Arctic have
concluded that enough of the polar ice cap now melts regularly in the
summertime that an agreement regulating commercial fishing near the North
Pole is warranted.
Talks are scheduled for later this month among diplomats and fisheries
officials from Norway, D... more »
CHANGE THE WORDS
Activists in Stockholm, Sweden recently changed the signs inside the metro
- putting peace messages where bland commercial adverts had been.
Brief Notes on 4/15
Boston on lockdown. One suspect dead. One–apparently a CRLS graduate–still
at large. The fact is that we still don’t have adequate information for
much in the way of meaningful speculation. But I do think it useful to call
attention to three related issues: One of the major memes developing among
the online national-security community is
Continue reading
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Tim Curry, 67. Hey, I did not realize that he was
involved in "Clone Wars." Anyway, mainly because he was in the sadly
underappreciated "Oscar."
Not sure that anyone is interested right now with the Boston manhunt going
on, but there's always good stuff:
1. More from Sarah Binder on the gun bill and the 60 vote threshold.
Excellent, of course.
2. Matt Yglesias on low-skill immigrants and the principles involved in
immigration policy.
3. And John Patty on the gun vote.
Aaron Schock, GOP Closet Twink, Defends Twinkies' Right To Poison You Without Government Interference
Twinkies
Aaron Schock is still whining he just hasn't met the right gal yet but he
isn't fooling anyone in Peoria-- and especially not anyone who went to
Richwoods High School or Illinois Central College. He likes Ding Dongs a
lot more than he likes ladies. And he did an OpEd for *Politico* about it
this week. The overly ambitious closet case-- second youngest Member of
Congress after the equally conservative Patrick Murphy-- wants to run for
governor of Illinois. So he's burnishing his credentials as a pro-Business,
anti-regulations Ayn Rand fanboy. Perhaps he hopes it will get vote... more »
Vampire Government
Claiming "We Can't Afford It," The Harper government has been killing all
arms length entities whose job has been to hold the government to account.
Its latest target is the Health Council of Canada. Michael Harris writes:
HCC’s work has never been more important, as evidenced by the dour
conclusions of the Mar. 27, 2012 Senate committee report on health care.
Among other things, the committee found that after ten years of special
government commitment and increased funding, real systemic transformation
of the health system simply hadn’t happened.
The HCC was one of the better t... more »
A Message from the SWP
Remember the 'Lynch mob 500' list of SWP members who were quite happy to go
along with their central committee's shameful handling of serious sexual
assault allegations? Well, after a couple of months in the public domain
the following comment was posted this morning.
It has just been brought to my attention that you have published an
internal Socialist Workers’ Party document including my and other
signatories, on to a public blog without permission. I would like to make
the following clear:
a) The signatories who are members of this union continue to support the
SWP’s handling of... more »
ALEC - Lining the Pockets of the Rich for 40 Years
Excellent article on Alternet – please take the time to read the whole thing
>>>>HERE<<<<
*Poverty Expert Peter Edelman Explains How Low Wages and Racial Politics
Line the Pockets of the Rich*
A few snips from the article (out of order as were published)
The minimum wage is what it is. It's not a living wage or a near-living
wage. [The benefit of the proposal is] in terms of the effect that it has.
It goes in the right direction, but it only gets part of the way to where
we need to go. But we shouldn't disparage it, it's very important. At the
margins, $9 an hour is a substantial ... more »
SEPARATE KILL LISTS
*The Daily Show with Jon Stewart*
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Show on Facebook
Mark Mazzati tells Jon Stewart that there are two separate US kill lists
for Yemen -- one for the CIA and one for the Pentagon.
He has a new book on the CIA* *called* The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a
Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth. **
*
Wow! Chechens in Boston. Framing Russia? Not a surprise.
*As I said, right here, on this blog. If the fingers are pointed at Russia
regarding the explosion in Boston...... Don’t be surprised.*
*Tuesday April 16/13 in the post titled* :*Bombs at the Boston Marathon:
Bomb sniffing dogs present pre-race*.
If you had not read what I had suspected then, let me rehash here and now
*“In all my years blogging, I recall a ball bearing attack taking place at
a Moscow airport.*
*Suspect in Moscow Airport bombing, reported dead months ago?!*
*The suspect held extremist Wahhabi ideologies. So we are talking Chechen,
most likely.*
*His family claimed... more »
EFN Asia 18: Jeju Forum's Economic Panels
* This is my guest post today in the EFN Asia website.
---------
In less than six weeks, I will fly to Seoul, then Jeju, S. Korea, to attend
the Jeju Forum for Peace and Prosperity, May 29-31, 2013. The Economic
Freedom Network (EFN) Asia will participate in one of the panel discussions
on Day 2, and I will be the rapporteur for that panel.
There will be plenty of panel discussions on those 2 1/2 days forum. To
accommodate them all, there will be about five simultaneous discussions on
each time block. See the list of topics here.
Day 1, May 29, I plan to attend session 1-D, "*Cultur... more »
Ghosts, Dreams and Past Lives- Gift by Andrea J. Buchanan
Daisy may go to an ordinary high school, but she is anything but ordinary.
She has the ability to manipulate electronics of any kind. Unfortunately,
this normally means frying them instead of something more useful. It has
led her to live a chaotic life, moving from school to school after she
creates problems and accidentally sets electronic fires. She is working to
control her "gift" and fit it in her new school, but all of that changes
when she befriends a fellow student who tries to commit suicide and starts
have frighteningly real dreams about the murder of people who lived more... more »
Boston Bombings and Justin Trudeau
You need to understand a cancer to treat it.
Justin Trudeau’s comments about root causes and the Boston bombing are
perfectly sensible.
They show a politician who has something substantive to say.
The comments are also consistent with sensible politicians of all political
stripes.
Defence Minister Peter MacKay, following the Oslo terror attacks, was
widely quoted saying “we have to demonstrate and persevere and work
together to try to find the root causes but also try to pre-empt and
interrupt these types of attacks”.
Both Trudeau and MacKay were correct.
Party List 6: Discourse with Luie Guia
Today, the President announced the appointment of two new Comelec
Commissioners, lawyers Luie Tito F. Guia and Al Parreño to replace retiring
Commissioners Rene Sarmiento and Armando Velasco.
Luie Guia is a friend way back in UP Diliman undergrad days in the 80s. He
is also a friend in facebook, and we have exchanged ideas and debated
several times, in a friendly and civil way.
Congrats Luie. I am sure you will retain your objectivity and independence
in doing your work. This photo, I got it in his facebook wall, made by his
other friends.
Ok, to the topic. About three weeks ago, b... more »
Ed Miliband's biggest donor and his Communist Party plea - The Commentator
A fascinating article but not one that tells me anything surprising, the
British Labour party has long contained Communist sympathisers. Many
socialists are just light Communists.
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/3285/ed_miliband_s_biggest_donor_and_his_communist_party_plea
The hypocrisy is the key:
' But what would the media's response be if David Cameron's biggest
financial backer propped up, and was on the management board of a major
Fascist outlet, or some other antiquainted ideology that slaughtered
millions? Yes, it'd be front page news.
But Red Ed can carry on flying the... more »
Mr Batsby defends freedom of speech
'It appears to be hateful and loathsome and vile to drunkenly utter on
social media a racist taunt which you then withdraw, but it is fine to
loudly and widely revel in the death of an octogenarian and hurl abuse of
the most extreme kind at any who defend her legacy. And now it turns out
that being from Liverpool places you in a special class affording you
protection from nasty words, presumably because you can't handle them when
they're coming your way.
Thus it was that Twitter stalwart @Old_Holborn was by all accounts
arrested yesterday (although this is yet to be confirmed at ... more »
FBI Was Searching for Boston Marathon Suspect BEFORE Bombing
*Editor's Note: **The narrative is now shifting again, with new suspects
announced. Between the Boston Police and the media outlets they have
entrusted to carry their message to the public, immense distortion and
conflicting reports have been made as "confirmed." Since it is clear the
term "confirmed," no longer holds any relevance, Land Destroyer is
suspending its coverage of Massachusetts until truly confirmed information
is available. For continued analysis please instead follow @landdestroyer
on Twitter. **
*
*April **18, 2013 *(LD) - In late March 2013 CBS reported in their a... more »
Twitter launches -Music with artist recommendations
*Twitter has unveiled an innovative music app which will propose tracks
based on who you follow on the social network.* Songs can be played
indirectly in the app via services such as Radio, Spotify and iTunes. The
software displays songs your friends are now listening to - as well as
suggestions from artists.
According to Twitter's Stephen Philips it uses Twitter activity, including
tweets and engagement, to perceive and surface the most popular tracks and
rising artists. Many companies have tried to hit into the probable of
social suggestion for music. *At its launch, the late St... more »
Free Planet - genetic diversity FAR MORE IMPORTANT than family name - reduce the inbreeding
as Eugenics-theory would have it, it's better to KILL ONE RACE e.g. an
enemy race, rather than DIMINISH ALL HUMANS in the following fashion:
30 YEAR BIRTH EMBARGO
it's the only way to ensure a) continues Diversity of the genetic pool on
Free Planet and b) the ability of this exhausted, raped and/or pillaged
planet to successfully feed, clothe and/or shelter ALL its living
inhabitants (that list includes plants, trees, fungus, fish, insect,
mammal, bird - everything).
Might seem harsh, and a little dictatorial, but (it's neither) hear me out.
What's the point of a GO FORTH AND MULT... more »
"Contractors" at Boston Marathon Stood Near Bomb, Left Before Detonation
(Photos) Seen across street after blasts talking with FBI bomb squad. Who
were they? What were they and the FBI doing?
*April 19, 2013* (LD) - What appear to be private contractors, wearing
unmarked, matching uniforms and operating an unmarked SUV affixed with
communication equipment near the finish line of the Boston Marathon shortly
after the bomb blasts - can be seen beforehand, standing and waiting just
meters away from where the first bomb was detonated. The contractor-types
had moved away from the bomb's location before it detonated, and could be
seen just across the street u... more »
Sasha Petrova - art dolls - elongated supermodel horror inspiration
those ceramic, china or porcelain vintage collectible dolls, right, there's
something wrong about them; they're ugly, they're incestuous, they're real
scary!
Right?
Well, (potentially-Polish ceramics artist) Sasha Petrova's dolls take that
to the next level with elongated limbs like an anorexic supermodel cocaine
eyes like an anorexic supermodel and champagne supping aplenty like an
anorexic supermodel.
Overharvesting Our Future?
We already know that eliminating an apex predator has a huge impact on
diversity, at least in the near term. Thus our rapacious ways with the
Oceans are having a similarly huge impact.
It is also reasonable that every available tract is now been seriously
overfished and been driven below the l9ine of sustainability as we have a
rush to the bottom.
The good news is that farmed fish is already half the market and will soon
drive much of the wild catch from the market. Unfortunately, it will take
another twenty years to exhaust this nonsense at least. I heave no
confi... more »
Extreme Algal Blooms in Lake Erie
Of course it is the new normal. So long as we use our present chemical
dousing protocol, we will over load the ground water and cause excessive
nutrification of the lakes and parts of the ocean.
As we have posted many times the actual solution to all this is the
establishment of biochar protocols. This naturally retains nutrients in the
soil until a root arrives and frees it. Better, any nutrients re-released
is reabsorbed. It is pretty neat and slowly been understood and implemented.
Once that becomes the standard, all these blooms will disappear' so
although these po... more »
Utility Industry Pending Solar Smack Down
The take home here is that moderate penetration is smack down for the
utilities industry. The focus today is on steadily cheapening solar, but
this blog has covered a range of alternative energy solutions struggling to
break into the market.
What I had not understood before though was just how damaging the battery
and solar combination promises to be. It will drive the utility industry
completely out of the housing market as we know it. It only retainable
niche will be night time refueling of electric cars and that will be easily
matched by simple battery depots with an o... more »
Population Peak in 2050?
Of course this all presumes that the established trends maintain
themselves as all unique populations transition into modernism. The take
home is that we will have an expanded population that sustains at close to
ten billion people.
My own opinion here is that we will actually transition into a sustainable
lifeway that naturally demands and employs a high density steady state base
population and that this could easily approach one hundred billion before
we are finished.
With extended life times typically approaching 300 years and global
reproduction at maintenance,... more »
Three Emirati Men Ejected From Festival For Being Too Handsome
Three Emiratis have been forcibly removed from an annual culture festival
in Saudi Arabia and sent back to the UAE (United Arab Emirates) after it
was suggested that women might find them irresistible. (I am unable to find
a picture of the actual three Emiratis removed. Photo courtesy: FAYEZ
NURELDINE, AFP/Getty Images
Three Emiratis have been forcibly removed from an annual culture festival
in Saudi Arabia and sent back to the UAE after it was suggested that women
might find them irresistible.
The delegates from the UAE were at the Jenadrivah Heritage and Culture
Festival in Riyad... more »
Beowulf's Descent Into The Underworld
Related:
*Mircea Eliade On Going Down Into The Belly of A Monster*.
*C.S. Lewis On The Lord of the Rings*.
An excerpt from C.S. Lewis's book, *"On Stories: And Other Essays on
Literature."* 1966. C.S. Lewis Pte Ltd. Pg. 24-25.
The final challenge and climax of *The Lord of the Rings* took place in the
Chambers of Fire in Mount Doom. There Frodo faced both the baleful
influence of the Enemy and the cataclysmic completion of his task. The
quest was ultimately achieved, but through an unanticipated series of
events.
Descents of this type have an important role in myth, where they... more »
20-Years Later, Canada's Cod May Be Gone For Good
We've waited two decades for east coast cod stocks to rebound. Now
researchers say they haven't and they're not going to.
*"Here we are more than 20 years after the cod was effectively depleted,
and according to our analysis, the recovery of the cod stocks is highly
improbable,” says fisheries scientist Jeffrey Hutchings at Dalhousie
University, co-author of the study published in the journal Science on
Thursday.*
*He and his colleagues looked at 153 fish and invertebrate species around
the world that have been so overfished their populations declined below
their maximum sustain... more »
Phoenix – "Entertainment"
Here's their recent live session on KCRW.
"A Look to the Heavens"
“This skyscape finds an esthetic balance of interstellar dust and gas
residing in the suburbs of the nebula rich constellation of Orion.
Reflecting the light of bright star Rigel, Beta Orionis, the jutting,
bluish chin of the Witch Head Nebula is at the upper left.
*Click image for larger size.*
Whiskers tracing the red glow of hydrogen gas ionized by ultraviolet
starlight seem to connect that infamous visage with smaller nebulae, like
dusty reflection nebula NGC 1788 at the right. Strong winds from Orion's
bright stars have also shaped NGC 1788, and likely triggered the formatio... more »
April 16, 1973
As Haldeman says, "Another all-Watergate day, as they generally tend to be
now."
Two things are going on, really. First is that the collapse of the cover-up
is continuing. Haldeman and Ehrlichman are each still trying to save
themselves, and Nixon too is still hoping that somehow the CRP backup
coverup can be saved, presumably be keeping Dean and Magruder from reaching
final deals with Justice. But at the same time, the president is putting
together a new cover-up -- the cover-up of the cover-up. For that, Nixon is
willing to sacrifice everyone in order to save himself and his pres... more »
BOSTON ISRAELIS, PATSIES, PRESSURE COOKER, NORWAY
*Danino*
Just *before* the Boston Bombings, Israeli Police Chief Yohanan Danino had
organised to send Israeli officers to Boston.
According to RT, "Israeli law enforcement planned the trip* before* the
bombings."
*Israelis Flown in for Boston Shoot-Out?*
After the bombings, Danino announced that his officers had flown to Boston
to "meet with FBI agents and other authorities" to participate in
discussions that "will center on the Boston Marathon bombings and deepen
professional cooperation between the law enforcement agencies of both
countries."
"Just a few minutes after the Pent... more »
Excellent capture of 'steam' at Fukushima Daiichi
Wotcha posted this link to a screenshot illustrating Fukushima steaming at
Enenews here
http://s1310.photobucket.com/user/Wotcha1/media/Fuku19thApr2013_zps5f08d85e.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0
CHILD ABUSERS; CORONATION STREET; EASTENDERS; TOMORROW'S PEOPLE; DR WHO; GRANGE HILL
*Coronation Street kids*
In the UK, the child abuse rings reportedly have links to TV.
Michael Le Vell has appeared in a UK soap opera called Coronation Street.
Le Vell has been charged with 19 child sex offences including rape,
indecent assault and sexual activity with a child aged 6.
BBC News - Coronation Street's Michael Le Vell in court on child sex ...
*Child abusers and* TV
*Coronation Street kid*
Andrew Lancel has appeared in Coronation Street.
He has been accused accused of two counts of indecent assault on a child
under 14 and two counts of indecent assault on a child und... more »
A Hero’s Welcome Home
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*http://adaptingtograce.com/2013/04/18/a-heros-welcome-home/*
*A Hero’s Welcome Home*
18 Apr 2013
Posted by 1Akabal
The fullness of our being descends
Where we are lifted once again
Larger views
Crash into
All that we once knew
Though beautiful pieces remain
After the
Messenger of pain
Dances us
To the dawn
Of a Golden Day
The other night there were three of us OPPT’ers having another marathon
Skype phone chat. One of the many topics we covered was what it was like in
our lives leading up to this now moment – where we are all meeting each
other with grand enth... more »
Saskatchewan Becomes First Province To Mandate Compulsory Asbestos Registration ... 'Howard's Law'
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[image: Progressive Bloggers]
*MLAs on both sides of the aisle have voted unanimously to pass a
groundbreaking asbestos registry law.***
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Howard’s Law was introduced by NDP Leader Cam Broten in the fall. It will
create a mandatory registry of public buildings that contain asbestos and
require that list to be available online – the first system of its kind in
Canada.***
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“Passing Howard’s Law means that working people and families will have more
information when making decisions about their health,” said Broten.
“Whether you’re choosing a seniors care home for grandma or gettin... more »
It Would Be Great To Get Allyson Schwartz Out Of Congress, But Is She The Best Pennsylvania Democrats Can Come Up With For Governor?
John Hanger
Allyson Schwartz is a champion of women's rights. Other than that, though,
hers is a profile in cowardice. Right-wingers call her a liberal-- which
her miserable voting record shows she isn't-- and she moves to the right.
She's exactly what is *not* needed in the already dysfunctional political
system. Pennsylvania would almost be better off with an outright
conservative being pressured to move towards the center, than with
Schwartz, who is already right-of-center and will always give in to
pressure to move right.
A vice chair of the corrupt, Big Business-owned New Dems,... more »
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Manitowoc, Wisconsin, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
Chet Raymo, “Navigating”
*“Navigating”*
by Chet Raymo
“My ignorance grows by leaps and bounds. I try to keep up. I read
"Science" and "Nature" every week. I check the new-book shelves in the
college library for anything of interest. I do a modest amount of surfing
science sources on the internet. Yet I fall farther and farther behind. The
store of reliable human knowledge accumulates exponentially faster than my
ability to assimilate.
So I mostly tend my bailiwick. My own little garden of verses. The wispy
bits of universe that cling to my life like an aura of places been, things
seen, syllables he... more »
This Is Just Sick: US Defense Secretary Says US "Can" (Will) Support Israel "If" (When) It Attacks Iran!
Again, with much of the news still focused in on the false flag attack in
Boston Massachusetts, there is plenty happening elsewhere in the world...
There is the continuing economic mess in Europe, and even the threat of war
against North Korea as prime examples... And of course we cannot forget
about the criminal state of Israel and its continuing sabre rattling
campaign against the innocent and peaceful nation of Iran.
For this article, I want to present a very disturbing piece of news that
comes from the Times Of Israel website, at www.timesofisrael.com, where the
new US Defense S... more »
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