English: Courtyard of Adolphus Busch Hall, Harvard University, at 29 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. I took this photograph. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Anheuser-Busch pioneered the use of refrigerated railroad cars for transporting beer to a national market. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The packaging plant at the Anheuser-Busch headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: The Busch Mausoleum in Bellefontaine Cemetaries at St. Louis, Missouri. photo by Einar Einarsson Kvaran aka Carptrash 02:33, 21 December 2006 (UTC) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Anheuser-Busch plant, St. Louis, MO USA (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Lower Post, B.C. Canada (Photo credit: Bruce McKay Yellow Snow Photography)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 - 2 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 * *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 adverts had been.
Brief Notes on 9/15
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
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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Mark Mazzati tells Jon Stewart that there are two separate US kill lists
for Yemen -- one for the CIA and one for the Pentagon.
His new book on the CIA --* 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 ... 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 PATSIES? PRESSURE COOKER HOAX? NORWAY
The Boston suspects, the Tsarnaevs, are believed to have emigrated from
Chechnya.
Allegedly, the Beslan school massacre was carried out by Chechens working
for the CIA.
'GLADIO B' / THE CIA'S MOSLEMS / RUSSIA / BEREZOVSKY; LITVINENKO; JEWISH
MAFIA / OSAMA 'WAS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN'
*Do they look suspicious?*
The Islamist extremists in Chechnya were organised by the CIA.
*Strange inconsistency "It would have been so easy to wear sunglasses, pull
down their caps, and keep their heads down."*
*Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (left), 19, "is at large".
Tamerlan Tsarnaev (right), 26, "was run o... 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.***
*
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.***
*
“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 »
The Daily "Near You?"
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 »
AMERICAN FOLLIES
- It's a sad testimony about politics in the US these days when the
simplest of gun control measures could not get approved in the Senate which
is controlled by the Democrats. Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid
(D-Nev.) announced Thursday that the Senate will “take a pause” and return
to consideration of gun legislation at a later date. Don't hold your breath
waiting. Polls show that 90% of the citizens wanted something - anything -
done to stop the spread of gun violence across the nation but the influence
of the corporate gun industry stood in the way.... more »
US Senate declares the entire USA to be a "Battleground"
http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-711747
This is from 2011, but you should know about it... -AK
*US Senate declares the entire USA to be a "Battleground".*
By NikkiClark87 Posted December 2, 2011
A bill passed late last night (93-7 votes) that declares the entire United
States of America a battleground. What this means is that the U.S. Military
can now operate with impunity, and grant the U.S. Military the unchecked
power to arrest, detain, interrogate, and even assassinate United States
citizens with impunity.
What this means is the United States is basically declaring war with ... more »
The Gordion Knot of Modern Industrialism - Pricing Natural Capital
"Natural capital" comprises things from nature that belong to no one and to
everyone - things like the atmosphere. Other types of natural capital are
considered national assets, like a country's groundwater.
Natural capital is what allows us to go for lovely walks through the forest
or camping in national parks. It is also what sustains almost all life on
the planet.
Yet throughout the history of mankind and, particularly ever since the
Industrial Revolution, industry has treated natural capital as its own and
a freebie at that.
In a world in which the demand for natural cap... more »
Questions About The Boston Marathon Bombing
Are the FBI/CIA/MOSSAD the #1 suspects? YES, as always. They have proven
this to me since 911.
*Boston Bombing Culprits Identified?*
*Navy SEALs Spotted at Boston Marathon Wearing Suspicious Backpacks?*
*FBI Ignores Men With Backpacks At Scene of Boston Bombings*
*Photos: Private military operatives hired to 'work' the Boston marathon
with black backpacks, radiation detectors, tactical gear*
LISTEN CLOSELY TO HOW "DRILLS": ARE ALWAYS BEING DONE BY OUR GOVERNMENT
WHENEVER THERE'S A "TERRORIST ATTACK" -
Listen to Lieutenant Colonel Potter Please
*NYTimes: Terrorist Plots, Hat... more »
Chris Hadfield's High School Science Experiment in Space
The Canadian commanding the International Space Station, Chris Hadfield,
took a science experiment request from two high school girls from Nova
Scotia. It's a lot of fun.
Fed Discusses Ending Fractional Reserve Lending
This is Professor Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University speaking at the
"Fixing the Banking System for Good" conference on April 17, 2013. This
audio is absolutely EXPLOSIVE!
You can now Pre-Order the new documentary, "Jekyll Island" at:
www.jekyllisland-themovie.com
Nuggets-- Mostly Gun Control
Good news: Ken is out of the hospital and his operation was a complete
success. Hopefully, he'll be back in this slot soon. Meanwhile: bit and
pieces I missed the last couple of days
*Arkansas ConservaDem Mike Ross Is Back*
Corrupt Blue Dog Mike Ross is throwing his hat into the ring in Arkansas'
gubernatorial race. The Republican in the race is right-wing fanatic Asa
Hutchinson and the Democrat running is former Lt. Gov. Bill Halter. Ross
hopes to position himself in between, just like his entire sordid career in
Congress was, where he had the distinction of voting more frequentl... more »
In Harper and CON universe, bullies rule.
Two recent news items regarding the regard PMSHithead has for certain types
of people.
First: Shirish Chotalia.
[Public Service Integrity Commissioner Mario Dion] called Chotalia's
behaviour "totally unacceptable" and said that in his nearly 2½ years on
the job, he's never come across a worse case of behaviour towards employees
that shows a "total lack of respect."
He said Chotalia created a "poisoned atmosphere" in the workplace, and that
her manner towards not just her staff but to appointed members of the
tribunal was often "belittling and humiliating."
Some of Chotalia's beh... more »
ALEC Policy Failure Costs Calif $700 Million Each Year
From Bloomberg:
Since 1986, California has used an “enterprise zone” program in an effort
to spur investment and job creation* in specified areas*. The state awards
tax credits, more than $700 million a year as of 2010, to businesses that
hire designated kinds of workers within the zones. The program is popular
with businesses and local officials.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t appear to create jobs. A 2009 study by the Public
Policy Institute of California found no difference in job creation between
zoned and comparable unzoned areas. Given this finding, Governor Jerry
Brown wisely tr... more »
Twin Cities KTCN Rabid NRA Radio Host - Tells Newtown Parents to "Go to Hell"
I have friends who come in from out of state and accidentally punch in the
wrong radio station and end up listening to some really nasty right wing
stuff.
From Daily Kos – as taken from Crooks and Liars and as noted on the Thom
Hartmann show this afternoon:
A Minnesota radio host said he would like to tell the families of the Sandy
Hook Elementary School shooting victims to "go to hell" for infringing on
his gun rights.
Bob Davis was discussing those affected by the Newtown, Conn., tragedy
during a Friday segment of his show, "Davis & Emmer," on Twin Cities News
Talk AM 1130, a... more »
Nick Stern's Carbon Bubble Warning
Nick Stern is the latest voice to warn of the Carbon Bubble that threatens
to plunge world markets into yet another financial crisis.
The former World Bank chief economist, currently I.G. Patel professor of
economics at the London School of Economics, has joined with the Carbon
Tracker thinktank to release a report finding that two-thirds of known
fossil fuel reserves will have to be left in the ground if the world is to
avoid truly dangerous climate change impacts.
*Stern said that far from reducing efforts to develop fossil fuels, the top
200 companies spent $674bn (£441bn) in 20... more »
What Were America's Founding Fathers Thinking?
Why this, of course.
“The Wit and Wisdom of Will Rogers”
*“The Wit and Wisdom of Will Rogers”*
by Tom Purcell
"Things are mighty heated these days. Tempers are flaring and minds are
closed. Here’s the solution: the wit and wisdom of Will Rogers.
“The short memory of voters is what keeps our politicians in office.”
“We’ve got the best politicians that money can buy.”
“A fool and his money are soon elected.”
Rogers spoke these words during the Great Depression, but they’re just as
true today. With 24-hour news channels, our memories are shorter than ever.
And in the mass-media age, the politician who can afford the most airtime
f... more »
Canadian creativity . . .
CONSIDERING
OUR CURRENT Stevie situation, this seems rather inspirational.
According to a report from the CBC, we have "Canadian glow-in-the-dark
toilet seats to light the way".
The Economy: "Before the Collapse, a Call to Action"
*"Before the Collapse, a Call to Action"*
by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
"Before we get to the impact of the Obama budget, let’s explode a critical
myth: there is no recovery (at least for the 99%). Last month’s
unemployment numbers revealed the fraud of the unemployment rate. Even
though the country produced less than 90,000 new jobs, when over 120,000
are needed to keep up with growth, the unemployment rate declined. Why?
Because hundreds of thousands are giving up on work each month and they
don’t get counted.
At present, over 100 million working age Americans do n... more »
Of Bombings and Tax Havens: Terrorizing the Economy"
"*Of Bombings and Tax Havens: Terrorizing the Economy"*
by Laura Flanders
"Two acts of cruelty claimed lives this tax day. One was criminal, bloody
and shocked a nation. The other was routine, legal and potentially way more
deadly. They both rely on secrecy. The bombs near the finish line of the
Boston Marathon were planted by we don’t know whom. The tax haven: a killer
at the heart of our world economy, was planted by the planet’s richest
people, businesses and banks with the complicity of their governments.
*Click image for larger sizes.*
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Compare tax evasion to terro... more »
The Path of Love
*Received this from a reader:*
*...they credit Sufi philosopher Ibn Arabi for this writing:*
My heart holds within it every form,
it contains a pasture for gazelles,
a monastery for Christian monks.
There is a temple for idol-worshippers,
a holy shrine for pilgrims;
There is the table of the Torah,
and the Book of the Koran.
I follow the religion of Love
and go whichever way His camel leads me.
This is the true faith;
This is the true religion.
- Ibn Arabi
Follow that camel!
☺ Pilar
Despite its troubles, Libya flashes cash for Egypt and worse
*I find it highly irregular that Libya is shoring up Egypt... with cash.*
*Why?*
A country still rebuilding from civil war and prowled by loosely-governed
bands of idle and heavily armed youths, Libya might seem an unlikely donor
to bail out its bigger neighbour Egypt.
NATO bombs in Libya
But by quietly finding $2 billion of its oil-derived wealth to deposit in
the Egyptian central bank, Libya is stepping back into its old role as
North Africa's answer to the Gulf petro-states, discreetly deploying its
cash to secure its interests.
Libya's central bank governor, Saddeq ... more »
Without the Filibuster?
I mostly want to call everyone's attention to two excellent posts, by Brian
Beutler and by Ryan Grim, which take seriously a key fact about the gun
bill consideration: simple majority votes on amendments would have not only
allowed Democratic amendments to pass, but would also have allowed
Republican amendments to pass. In particular, the Grassley substitute,
backed by the NRA, received 52 votes. But I'll do a little speculation and
thinking about reform options from where they leave off.
As they both point out, in a simple-majority environment, things might have
been different. It'... more »
Brave Mark Warawa ^NOT
Been away from the fray for a bit, so to catch up.
Warawa's Wank is toast.
Conservative MP Mark Warawa is dropping his bid for a vote on his motion to
condemn sex-selective abortion, an issue that caused several MPs to split
with the rest of the party's caucus in recent weeks.
Warawa told reporters on his way into the House of Commons that he is
tabling a bill tomorrow that deals with sex offenders who serve house
arrest in the same neighbourhoods as their victims, revictimizing them when
they encounter each other in the community.
Another brave stand. Warawa demands: Do you stand ... more »
Whose Fault Was The Gun Control Vote In The Senate?
I don't know anything about Andrew Kaczynski or his politics. He writes for
a website called BuzzFeed and he tweeted the above just after every
Republican but 3 voted against a moderate, bipartisan background check
amendment and after every Democrat except 4 voted for it... some of those
Democrats voting against it being very much red state Dems, including Red
state Dems facing difficult reelection battles. Many observers were shocked
that Arizona freshman Jeff Flake voted NO and some say that had he or
Portman signaled they would be YES votes, the 4 Democratic cowards would
have ... more »
Mark Carney: Supports Canadian Bail in regime- NO GUARANTEES FOR DEPOSITORS
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The Canadian Bank "bail in" news is making the rounds yet again... Central
Banker Mark Carney is pushing the same lies I have already addressed in the
two previous posts on this subject and yes, I am going to relink them!
Canadian deposits safe under bail-in, but no guarantee: Carney
*"Mark Carney says policy-makers are working diligently to devise an
international “bail-in” regime to prevent big bank failures, but he offered
no guarantee global depositors would be protected under all... more »
Federal Reserve Refuses to Submit to an Audit of Germany’s Gold Held in U.S. Vaults
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http://nsnbc.me/2013/04/18/federal-reserve-refuses-to-submit-to-an-audit-of-germanys-gold-held-in-u-s-vaults-2/
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* *Federal Reserve Refuses to Submit to an Audit of Germany’s Gold Held in
U.S. Vaults*
by nsnbc
Dr. Long Xinming (4M),- The German government has been storing about half
of its gold supply with the US FED, apparently in the NYC FED vaults.
Germany decided to bring home all its gold, but the FED has said that isn’t
possible to do, and it would need until 2020 to be able to accomplish the
transfer.
The German government then asked to visit the FED vaults to invento... more »
Dear FERC: We The People Do Not Approve!
Many folks traveled down to Washington DC for the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission meeting today who have been involved in the Tennessee and
Millenium Pipeline fights, including the Minisink Compressor Station in
Orange County, NY.
FERC is the Obama-appointed commission that decides the fate of people and
property owners who live in the path of Big Energy infrastructure like
intrastate gas pipelines, including eminent domain condemnation.
FERC did not order an Environmental Impact Study and allowed only a limited
Environmental Assessment of the Tennessee Pipeline Northeast U... more »
Backbenchers Spring officially over
Two weeks ago the Backbenchers Spring was full of hope as Langley Con MP
Mark Warawa and his five brave Con backbenchers rose up to defend the very
soul of democracy, and incidentally, Wawawa's right to independent
Steve-free abortion speech in the House of Commons in the form of Motion
408.
Sadly it was not to be. Yesterday ...
Wawawa will drop bid for vote on sex-selective abortion :
*"Over that last couple of weeks, I seriously considered my options and how
best to move this issue forward.**I've decided to continue working on the
sex selection, gendercide issue by speaking at u... more »
Does The Economist magazine portray the British economy in an intellectualy honest fashion? Not in my book! What do you think?
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Thatcherism: Good or Bad for Britain?
by David L Griscom | April 17, 2012
The April 13th edition of The Economist magazine featured a picture of
Margaret Thatcher on the cover together with the words "Freedom fighter."
What did they mean by that?
Well, they said "She thought nations could be great only if individuals
were set free." They clarified this thought as "...the right of individuals
to run their own lives, as free as possible from micromanagement from the
states."
The Economist goes on to say that when Tharcher took power "She privatized ... more »
Christy Clark, Will You Denounce Ezra Levant For Attacking Adrian Dix`s Wife?(updated at bottom)
Watch the shocking video featuring Ezra Levant attacking Adrian Dix`s wife
last night on Sun News Network, it was the most disgusting display of dirty
lowbrow journalism I have ever seen in Canada....(At the 8:40 mark of the
below linked video is where Ezra attacks Adrian`s wife)
Video in the below link
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/battlegroundbc/archives/2013/04/20130417-183235.html
Ezra Levant is not only a bald-faced liar, he`s a dirtbag, the lowest form
of sleaze, there is no bigger liar, spinner, lowbrow pond dwelling slimer.
Ezra Levant is free to whore for big... more »
Update: Why weren’t 54 votes enough?
*THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 2013*
*This just in from Fallows, with an acidic flahback:* In this post, James
Fallows discusses the matter of yesterday's insufficient 54 votes.
We weren’t being facetious in our earlier post. After reading Jonathan
Weisman’s jumble of verbiage in today’s New York Times, we no longer felt
we knew why 54 votes weren’t enough on the gun bill.
After reading Fallows today, we’re *still* not completely sure we know. But
let these points be clear:
In this morning's Washington Post, one person after another failed to
explain, in any way, why 54 votes weren’t enough... more »
When the Middle Class Finally Revolts
Across the western world, our political classes are oblivious to the powder
keg of revolt they're sitting on. So warns Polish philosopher, Marcin Krol
.
*Notwithstanding received ideas to the contrary, the poor and downtrodden
have never been the driving force behind western revolutions. They have
always been instigated by the middle class. *
*In the classic case of the French Revolution, the revolutionary vanguard
was composed of lawyers, entrepreneurs, civil servants of the time and
sympathetic army officers. The economic factor was important, but not
primary. Revolutionary move... more »
Exploding the myth of over-regulated industry
By now you've heard about the horrible explosion at the fertilizer plant in
Texas. We don't know what caused it yet, but deliberate sabotage is rarely
the cause of these things. It's a pretty safe guess it had to do with
shoddy plant maintenance and/or cheating on safety practices. Not that the
company will ever admit to it. In fact, they assured the people of West,
this couldn't possibly happen.
The fertilizer plant that exploded Wednesday night in West, Texas, reported
to the Environmental Protection Agency and local public safety officials
that it presented no risk of fire or ... more »
The American Power Elite Should Read Confucius And Get Its Act In Order
Trust in government across the world is at an all-time low, but it is
especially low in America, where U.S. officials have consistently lied to
the people about nearly everything for over half a century now.
The unraveling of the official media and government response to the Boston
marathon bombings is a sign that the criminally led government in America
is unable to govern public perceptions and manage the public psyche.
Watch *Alex Jones's interview with Dr. Steve Pieczenik* about the botched
false flag in Boston.
A society without a functioning and stable government is even... more »
Mohawk Nation News 'Indigenous Canaries'
INDIGENOUS CANARIES
Posted on April 18, 2013
MNN. Apr. 17, 2013. Canary in the coal mine is about caged
canaries that miners carry down into the tunnels. If dangerous gases
leak into the mine, the canary dies, giving the miners time to escape to
safety. The public turned away when they saw the Indigenous genocide
program of rape, abuse, denial of
GAIA PORTAL: Energetics of Gaia are Staged for Stepping to Next Level
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* *Energetics of Gaia are Staged for Stepping to Next Level*
by ÉirePort
Monitors of Gaia report that energetics of the Gaia planetary body are
staged for stepping to the next level... Energetically, on Individual and
Collective basis, as well as "Galactic-ally".
Hue-manity has embraced that which resonates with this process. "humanity"
(small h) has consented to the possibility of a "next level", and thus
procedures for "up steps" of "humanity" (small h) have been analyzed,
approved, and set in motion.
As these are Higher-than-3-4D, many have sensed the results of the up st... more »
Michael James : Moving Right Along
Rapid
rolling wheels at U.S. Track and Field Championships, Haywood Field,
Eugene, Oregon, 1993. Photo by Michael James from his forthcoming book,
Michael Gaylord James' Pictures from the Long Haul.
Pictures from the Long Haul:
Rapid rolling wheels and
the momentum of Boston
For me the Boston bombings have kindled memories, images, and
observations of people who -- despite their challenges
Harvard School of Public Health Cites Negative Impact of Fluoride on Chidren's Neurological Development
Hat Tip: Craig (thanks for this informative article)
Harvard School of Public Health: Impact of fluoride on neurological
development in children
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/fluoride-childrens-health-grandjean-choi/
July 25, 2012 — For years health experts have been unable to agree on
whether fluoride in the drinking water may be toxic to the developing human
brain. Extremely high levels of fluoride are known to cause neurotoxicity
in adults, and negative impacts on memory and learning have been reported
in rodent studies, but little is known about the substance’s im... more »
Expert evidence on the frailties of eyewitness evidence not admissible
R. v. Frimpong, 2013 ONCA 243 holds:
[23] The appellant has two submissions in respect of the expert's
evidence, one broad and one more narrow. The broad submission asks this
court to depart from its pronouncement in *R. v. McIntosh* (1997), 117
C.C.C. (3d) 385 and hold admissible expert evidence explaining in general
the frailties and dangers inherent in eyewitness identification evidence.
This record offers no basis for any departure from *McIntosh*. Dr.
Lindsay's [the defence expert] brief commentary on the abilities of jurors
to properly assess identification evidence... more »
Ed Felien : Komen and Cancer: Cause and Effect?
These
women are protesting the Komen Foundation's defunding of Planned
Parenthod -- later retracted -- at
headquarters in Dallas, February 7, 2012. But there may be other
reasons to say "Shame on Komen!" Photo by Rex C. Curry / AP. Image from
PBS.
Komen Foundation:
Is the 'Race for the Cure'
actually a 'Race to Obscure'?
Even more troubling than the revelation of their right-wing
Satire: “Courageous Senators Stand Up to American People”
*“Courageous Senators Stand Up to American People”*
by Andy Borowitz
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)— “In the halls of the United States
Senate, dozens of Senators congratulated themselves today for having what
one of them called “the courage and grit to stand up to the overwhelming
wishes of the American people.”
“We kept hearing, again and again, that ninety per cent of the American
people wanted us to vote a certain way,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch
McConnell (R-Kentucky). “Well, at the end of the day, we decided that we
weren’t going to cave in to that kind of sp... more »
Clapper: Iran Still Not Building a Nuclear Weapon; Purpose of Sanctions is to Foster Unrest
Director
of National Intelligence James Clapper, April 18, 2013
(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and director of the
Defense Intelligence Agency Army Lieutenant General Michael Flynn
testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee today and
reiterated the same assessment regarding Iran as was delivered in March
2013.
The exact same
"alec exposed is lies" - In Search of Truth
"alec exposed is lies" - that was in my search terms.
Someone out there is trying so hard to try to figure out what is truth and
what is not.
So - I figured I'd post this for anyone else that uses that search term
again
- to help them find the truth,
- the whole truth and
- nothing but the truth.
So I repeat this entry - from just before the holidays - which will bring
them immediately to the truth.
As we get ready to spend time with friends and families over the holidays -
we should consider that it would be a good time to educate them on ALEC.
As we get ready to start a new po... more »
Who Is Actually Dividing Our Society?
The United States and, to a lesser extent Canada, have fallen victim to
wedge politics. We become victims when our society is fractured, made
suspicious of and hostile to each other. This malevolence is Stephen
Harper's weapon of choice.
This isn't natural any more than it is accidental. Frequently our
differences seem to be magnified in order to herd us into camps. Here, a
co-founder of Tea Party Patriots, Mark Meckler, speaks of finding much
common ground with MoveOn.Org's Joan Blades and asks why the political
classes and their media minions stoke the fires of distrust.
Everything You Want To Know About the 60 Vote Threshold Agreement
The votes on the gun bill amendments were held under a unanimous consent
agreement requiring 60 yes votes for an amendment to be adopted. That seems
to have confused some of the coverage, in particular about whether this was
filibuster-related or not. The answer, as I said yesterday, is that it
absolutely is filibuster-related: Manchin-Toomey and the other amendments
which reached 51 votes but not 60 were in fact defeated by filibuster, and
that's what reporters should be saying. See yesterday's post for the general
discussion of the gun bill and filibusters, but here I want to sketc... more »
The useful idiots of Newtown threaten the rights of the majority...
*yes - that's right, I called them useful idiots. *
*Some observations before I head off to work: *
First we have Francine Wheeler giving the weekly radio address instead of
the president. Then we have Mark Barden introducing Obama after the vote
on gun control (in which Obama acted like a petulant child.) These people
were flown to DC via Air Force One. Are they also having their
accommodations paid for? One would think so. Your tax dollars at work.
Here's a tidbit on Francine Wheeler you may not know:
Francine Wheeler, the Newtown mom giving Obama's weekly radio address isn'... more »
It's only just begun
Our broken Senate managed to prevent any reform of gun safety regulations
yesterday. In a way it's almost a good thing because there were more
amendments than just the watered down expansion of background checks that
failed to break the perpetual filibuster requirement of 60 votes. In fact,
the GOP's Cornyn amendment to further weaken interstate gun safety laws got
more votes than Manchin-Toomey, though it also failed to reach the magic
number.
While many were angered and disappointed by this complete failure of good
governance, few have more reason to be angry than Gabby Giffords ... more »
Age of conspiracies
This picture has been buzzing round the internet immediately after the
Boston bombings. Who is this man?
The Boston bombings are compelling firstly because they are awful to
contemplate but secondly because they are, as of yet, motiveless (if it was
Al-Qaeda we would have been told straight away). The President initially
did not even call the bombings and act of terrorism, then he did, but he
still upset some people.
For the time being there is room for myth-making and pareidolia. What was
that man doing on the roof? What would anyone do on a roof?
There are immediate psychologica... more »
White Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Racial Violence and How the Media Ignore It
You can order Colin Flaherty's book *"White Girl Bleed a Lot": The Return
of Racial Violence to America* from Amazon.com *here*.
Gina McCarthy and the Failed Radnet System
Gina McCarthy is the new nominee to run the EPA.
I'm wondering how she could have been nominated given the EPA Inspector
General report that found Radnet to have been operating very poorly during
the Fukushima events in March-April 2011.
She failed in her responsibility for overseeing the private contractor that
runs Radnet.
Here are the recommendations for reform found in the EPA Inspector General
report:
http://www.epa.gov/oig/reports/2012/20120419-12-P-0417.pdf
We recommend that the Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation
establish and enforce expectations for RadNet ope... more »
Remember Afghanistan? It Was In All the Newspapers?
I wouldn't begrudge Canada's paying over one-billion dollars a year to free
a country of 30 million people from tyranny.
Seriously.
But I do kinda resent Canada's having spent almost $20 billion since 2001
in Afghanistan to impose one brutal tyranny on that country, rather than
another one.
So how's Canada's largest foreign policy investment since WWII working out?
Check it out!
Faced with an impending withdrawal deadline and tightening budgets, U.S.
planners created another security entity, the Afghan Local Police (ALP),
which they have pitched as an affordable short-term fix to ... more »
Can Republican Closet Case Lindsey Graham Survive A Primary?
*"I am running to replace Senator Lindsey Graham because I believe that
after 20 years in Washington he is out of touch with South Carolina values
and voters. Although Senator Graham might be hard-working and sincere, I
cannot distinguish his core principles and can no longer trust his
judgment. It is time for a new voice in Washington. We need a voice that
represents Christian, conservative, and Republican principles instead of
the latest bi-partisan 'deal' that simply makes matters worse."*
-Richard Cash
Cash is running against Lindsey Graham for the Republican nomination for
t... more »
BEFORE THE BOSTON BOMBS
*Triple Canopy, founded in Chicago in 2003 by U.S. Army Special Forces
veterans.*
*
*
Before Boston, there was Mumbai.
US trained mercenaries may have been used in both attacks.
Some of the Mumbai gunmen appear to have been beer-drinking white men,
according to a BBC report.
According to the BBC, 27 November 2008:
(BBC NEWS Mumbai attackers create 'killing zone'):
"The 'fair skinned' men, as Mr Mishra remembers them, simply carried on
killing..."*
*
*Triple Canopy* have recent experience managing cases in India, Nigeria and
Somalia.
(Experience Triple Canopy )
In the Mumbai a... more »
How did a minority of senators kill an important bill?
*THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 2013*
*The Washington Post and the New York Times can’t or won’t explain:* In
this morning’s New York Times, the editors thundered about the gun vote.
As they did, they created a bit of a puzzle. Since the senate has 100
members in all, how the heck did 45 senators manage to kill the bill?
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIAL (4/18/13): *For 45 senators, the carnage at Sandy
Hook Elementary School is a forgotten tragedy.* The toll of 270 Americans
who are shot every day is not a problem requiring action. The easy access
to guns on the Internet, and the inevitability of the ... more »
INTERVIEW / Jonah Raskin : Documentary Filmmakers Doug Hecker and Christopher Oscar Dish on 'Junk Food News'
Documentary
filmmakers Christopher Oscar, left, and Doug Hecker.
Doug Hecker and Christopher Oscar:
Documentary filmmakers on media,
civil liberties, and 'Project Censored'
“The corporate rules are simple: tell the news the way you're told to
tell the news or ratings will decline and you'll be out of a job.” --
Doug Hecker, Co-Producer, Co-Director, Co-Writer, 'Project Censored: The
Movie'
the greatest instrument for mass persuasion
Experiments conducted by researcher Herbert Krugman reveal that when a
person watches television, brain activity switches from the left to the
right hemisphere. The left hemisphere is the seat of logical thought. Here,
information is broken down into its component parts and critically
analyzed. The right brain, however, treats incoming data uncritically,
processing information in wholes, leading to emotional, rather than logical
responses. The shift from left to right brain activity also causes the
release of endorphins, the body's own natural opiates--thus, it is possible
to bec... more »
Revolutionary Thought
You have come now to a knowing. The things you are aware of today in this
world would seem impossible or insane to some with eyes still shut. Seeing
life as it is actually happening requires a willingness to change your
perspective and in many things your entire belief system. It demands an
examination of everything your eyes see and most of what this society has
told you was real.
Realize that all of life does not operate in this way. The earth has been
part of what some would call an evil plot yet evil is not a concept I
adhere to or consider. Life proceeds along its... more »
Thatcher on Society
*Of course, Thatcher's supporters have been right all along concerning her
'no such thing as society' declaration. "It's been taken out of context",
they bleat. Be that as it may, it got traction that still resonates because
it fit with the times she brought about. It was a more accurate summation
of the dog-eat-dog economic her policies were generating than the standard
Tory view of what society was about she actually subscribed to.
Well, for the benefit of those who's never read the *Woman's Own* interview
from which it was lifted, here is 'no such thing as society' *in context*... more »
Why US Fights? Tales of Reagan's Guatemala Genocide (Psychopaths Explained In Girl With Dragon Tattoo)
Democracy? Freedom? Hardly in the top ten. Tales of Reagan's Guatemala
Genocide By Robert Parry, Consortium News 17 April 13 he first month of the
genocide trial of former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt has elicited
chilling testimony from Mayan survivors who - as children - watched their
families slaughtered by a right-wing military that was supported and
supplied by U.S.
The Still Islamophic States of America
The the greater scheme of things the Boston Marathon bombing was a fart in
a hurricane. Except, of course, it happened in Boston during a notable
footrace run mainly by white people.
But the bombing was all it took to get America's Islamophobia stoked for
all to see. *The New Yorker's* Amy Davidson wrote a telling account, "The
Saudi Marathon Man."
*A twenty-year-old man who had been watching the Boston Marathon had his
body torn into by the force of a bomb. He wasn’t alone; a hundred and
seventy-six people were injured and three were killed. But he was the only
one who, while i... more »
Sentencing for criminal negligence causing death in alcohol-related circumstances
R v Smith 2013 BCCA 173 is a tragic case of death resulting from impaired
driving. The trial judge gave a sentence of one day because of the
circumstances and rehabilitation of the offender. The Court of Appeal
imposed a much longer sentence holding:
[34] The fundamental principle is proportionality: the punishment
must be broadly commensurate with the gravity of the offence and the moral
blameworthiness of the offender (*R. v. M. (C.A.) *at para. 40); s. 718.1.
[35] In 1992, this Court, with a five-justice division, took the
opportunity to review the range of sente... more »
The BBC's Baroness Thatcher funeral coverage: Who did they interview?
For those of you who are interested, here is a complete list of all the
interviewees (excluding vox pops) featured on the BBC News Channel's
coverage of Lady Thatcher's funeral between 6.45am and 10.00pm yesterday.
I believe the list speaks for itself.
6.50 Andrew Pierce (*Daily Mail*) & Kevin Maguire (*Daily Mirror*)
7.15 Charles Moore, *Daily Telegraph, *biographer of Lady Thatcher
7.45 John Sergeant (ex BBC political correspondent) & Beatrix Campbell,
writer (feminist & left-winger)
8.05 John Sergeant (ex BBC political correspondent)
8.14 Bob Broadhurst, former Met Police C... more »
New Orleans Shows the Limitations of "No Excuses" Schools
The debate over "No Excuses" schools has focused on their attrition rate
and their potential for being scaled up. Schools such as New Orleans Sci
Academy have produced great college acceptance rates for students who are
dedicated enough to meet their goal of "100% of cultural expectations 100%
of the time." It is too soon to tell, however, whether their culture
prepares their graduates for life beyond the classroom.
An important subtheme of Sarah Carr's *Hope Against Hope,* a narrative of a
year in three New Orleans schools, includes a preliminary exploration of
whether the "No Excu... more »
Dirac's 1975 lectures
Spiros found this remarkable 1-hour talk by Paul Dirac in New Zealand in
1975:
Recall that Dirac was born in 1902 and died 1984; so he was 73 in the video
above. He is a serious man but there's a lot of room for his memories as
well as some jokes.
There are actually four talks. The first one above is on quantum mechanics;
the second one is on quantum electrodynamics; the third is on the magnetic
monopoles; and the fourth one is on his largely incorrect large number
hypothesis (variation of universal constants).
Even if you focus on the first lecture on quantum mechanics, th... more »
Korean Unification
This does need to be considered. It is impossible to understand why this
state is still standing. Present extreme noise could well be the sound of
desperation as the regime attempts to extort a band-aid to last a little
while longer.
We all understand that the South Korean military is not going to be
surprised. The risk is that the North sets of a nuclear device were it
could cause real military damage. Yet that would barely slow the South down.
From that starting point, there are a wide range of strategic options all
of which lead to collapse and reunification. Let me ... more »
Dark Lightning
This is a continuation of work that uncovered the real complexity of the
activity going on in a thunderstorm. That dark lightning produces a sharp
dose of ionizing radiation is surprising. I also suspect that this dark
lightning could even be in the form of positively charged ions. We have
already understood ball lightning to be just that and it follows that the
more uncommon dark lightning is just that also.
This provides a much richer understanding of our oldest physical phenomena
that long inspired human curiosity.
This also suggests that passing through a storm will g... more »
Deep Photosynthesis
This is a long way from our usual facile understanding of photosynthesis.
It turns out to be way more complicated than all that. This could lead to
better strategies for even photovoltaic systems if only by the power of
suggestion.
Read the last paragraph to capture the sense of all this.
We are now tuning our investigations in such a way as to establish high
resolution and sort out the real high points. A lot of new data will flow
from all this.
*Study provides new insight into photosynthesis*
*
by Staff Writers*
*
Toronto, Canada (SPX) Apr 09, 2013*
... more »
David versus Monsanto
In the long term, I do not thing agribusiness as constituted is
sustainable at all. The only problem is that it is creating a legacy cost
base that we will end up paying for. This is continuing although this item
is an example of the increasing push back.
What are they thinking if they align their business with the large
operators who are then encouraged to buy out the small operators? This
problem has been going on for a long time and no one is particularly happy
with the results.
It all removes boots from the ground and that is exactly what needs to be
properly re... more »
MEDIOCRITY ALL THE WAY UP: Slick disinformation about public schools!
*THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 2013*
*Part 4—King of the cherry-pickers:* Like all public schools which ever
existed, American public schools could do a better job.
On the elementary level, they could do a better job transmitting the basic
skills of reading and math. They could do a better job conveying the spirit
and the enjoyment of inquiry—that so-called “love of learning.”
With kids who are struggling to meet conventional norms, our schools could
do a better job helping children “catch up.” They could do a better job
challenging kids who may be especially “talented.”
That said, how good... more »
Touching Tribute At Bruins Game
Last night the Boston Bruins hosted the Buffalo Sabers. After a video
tribute, singer Rene Rancourt began singing the National Anthem, but he
quickly yielded to the passionate crowd. Incidentally, the 73 year old
Rancourt has been performing the anthem at Bruins games for 35 years.
#46Cowards
It hasn't been a good week for the United States. By Wednesday, twin
bombs exploded near and at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing
three innocents and wounding nearly 180. A lightning bolt struck a
fertilizer plant in West, Texas last night, killing at least one police
officer and five firefighters and destroying 80 or more homes. And then
just hours before the West, Texas disaster, the United States Senate, the
higher chamber of our legislative branch, voted 54-46 for the
Manchin-Toomey bill that would've strengthened background checks for
wouldbe gun owners.
... more »
new zealand joins the world of marriage equality and their parliament breaks out in celebratory song
This is so beautiful! New Zealand, we thank you! We love you!
Trifecta: Perfectly sums up news and White House coverage of the Boston bombing...
*and we thank them.*
Coverage of Opt Out's Occupy DOE 2.0
From Education Opportunity Network:
_______________________
Occupy The Department Of Education Ushers In America’s Angry Spring
No offense, but the Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education building
in Washington, DC is not a pretty sight.
Crossing the National Mall on 4th street, you pass between the glisteningly
modern National Air and Space Museum and the sculpted brown stone of the
National Museum of the American Indian to come face to face with what can
only be described as a monument to bland austerity.
It was at the base of this concrete and glass slab that a band of public ... more »
Running Shoes
This appeared in yesterday afternoon's university email:
Southern Man understands the need to respond to an atrocity like this even
if in an entirely symbolic manner so he is wearing running shoes today.
Asics, of course.
But for a born-again Bible-thumping evangelical, that's not enough. In
James Chapter 2:14-16 we read that
What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not
have works? Can faith save him? If a brother or sister is naked and
destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be
warmed and filled,” but you do not gi... more »
Another Hollow Promise By Iraq’s Electricity Ministry, End To Power Shortages By October 2013
Iraq’s Electricity Ministry recently said that it would solve Iraq’s power
problems later this year. This was not the first time that it had much such
a bold announcement. That was also the reason why the remarks were met with
widespread skepticism within the country. Questioning the Ministry’s
statement is justified, because it has failed to reach its benchmarks
before, and lacks the institutional capacity and support to deal with the
daunting task it faces.
In April 2013, the Electricity Ministry promised that Iraq’s electricity
shortages would be ended by October. The Ministry ... more »
In a voluntariness analysis the fact the statement was made by the accused must be demonstrated albeit to a minimal degree
*Montgomery,* 2011 ONSC 5331 (at para. 9):
On a voir dire to determine whether a statement made to a person in
authority is admissible, a trial judge is required to decide: (i) whether
the statement was made; and (ii) if made, whether it was voluntary. To
satisfy the first requirement, it is sufficient that the Crown introduce
some evidence that the statement attributed to the accused was, in fact,
made by the accused. The standard of proof is minimal. The Crown's onus
with respect to voluntariness is proof beyond a reasonable doubt. (See *R.
v. Gauthier,* [1977] 1 S.C.R. 441).
Twitter links
Readers may recall I once looked at who was followed by the PMO's Office --
you do have to at least try to avoid inappropriate links but I don't see
that's a reason to quit twitter:
Story
Newfoundland and Labrador’s premier has shut down her Twitter account after
it implied associations that her office says were inappropriate or vulgar.
Kathy Dunderdale says she was upset when she found out her account was
associated with the websites.
How politicians use social media became an issue this week when a New
Democrat was temporarily suspended from the legislature after the
Progressive C... more »
A New Book on Science Advice
Good news: A new book is out today on science advice for government.
Even better news: The book is rich with content.
It gets even more better: It is free!
The book has been put together by Robert Doubleday of Cambridge University
and James Wilsdon of the University of Sussex on the occasion of Mark
Walport taking over as the UK government's chief scientific adviser. The
book has a UK focus but covers issues of much broader relevance.
Here is the table of contents:
1. The science and art of effective advice - John Beddington
2. Experts and experimental government - Geoff Mulg... more »
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