Sunday, April 21, 2013

21 April - Blogs I'm Following II

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Meet & Greet Monday (#MtaGt) - Earth Day Edition

Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 42 seconds ago
Welcome to Meet & Greet Monday! In honor of Earth Day, we're going to turn this week's linky into a party. The only rule this week is that *links must be Eco-friendly*. You may link up to your blog, a blog post, your social media pages, a "green" site ... you can even link up to your favorite articles and sites from around the "web" ... anything which you feel like sharing. And because this is a party, there's no limit on how many links we'll accept. So ... start linking, visiting and ... have fun. Happy Earth Day Everyone! *Image courtesy of jannoon028 / FreeDigitalPhotos.net* ... more »

Plato: "The Measure Of A Man Is What He Does With Power"

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 56 seconds ago
*Out* specializes in lists-- the 100 this and the 20 that. Every few months they have a list. It must sell issues. The new one has the The Power 50 of 2013. "Welcome," they write, "to our 7th annual ranked list of the gay men and women whose power and prestige is instrumental in influencing the way Americans think about, and engage with, the world." And although Apple CEO Tim Cook is #1 again this year-- don't ask me; I have no idea-- there are quite a few more political figures on the list than usual... even without the now retired Barney Frank. Rachel Maddow moves up to #4-- bet... more »

Honor Dance for Carter Camp: Photos by Glenda Sue Deer

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 17 minutes ago
Ponca Warrior Carter Camp honored in White Eagle, Oklahoma on Saturday. Photos by Glenda Sue Deer, posted with permission at Censored News. Thank you! Click on images to enlarge. More photos: Honoring Carter Camp  http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2013/04/photos-honoring-warrior-carter-camp.html

Musical Interlude: Liquid Mind, “When Time Slows (Born Star)”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 40 minutes ago
Chuck Wild, Liquid Mind, “When Time Slows (Born Star)” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogldA2Gxl3g

"A Look to the Heavens"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 44 minutes ago
Do you see it? This common question frequently precedes the rediscovery of one of the most commonly recognized configurations of stars on the northern sky: the Big Dipper. This grouping of stars is one of the few things that has likely been seen, and will be seen, by every generation. *Click image for larger size.* The Big Dipper is not by itself a constellation. Although part of the constellation of the Great Bear (Ursa Major), the Big Dipper is an asterism that has been known by different names to different societies. Five of the Big Dipper stars are actually near each other in...more »

'Stand Tall with Julia' Fight the tarsands Keystone pipeline in north Texas

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 hour ago
Julia Trigg Crawford has used every available legal avenue to keep TransCanada from seizing her family farm for its toxic Keystone XL pipeline. Her story is a classic David and Goliath struggle of a Texas farmer standing tall against a multi-national corporation. To help in her fight against this corporate giant and mounting legal fees yesterday she hosted a benefit concert “Stand Tall

The Daily "Near You?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago
Conway, South Carolina, USA. Thanks for stopping by.

Genetics: "Native American Populations Descend from Three Key Migrations, Scientists Say"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago
*"Native American Populations Descend from * *Three Key Migrations, Scientists Say"* by ScienceDaily “Scientists have found that Native American populations- from Canada to the southern tip of Chile- arose from at least three migrations, with the majority descended entirely from a single group of First American migrants that crossed over through Beringia, a land bridge between Asia and America that existed during the ice ages, more than 15,000 years ago. By studying variations in Native American DNA sequences, the international team found that while most of the Native Americ... more »

Behind Closed Doors on Navajoland: How dirty coal stays in business

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 hour ago
Censored News Andrew Curley, in his blog 'The Dine' Situation,' describes secret meetings, resulting in long mineral and energy leases. Behind closed doors is how the dirty coal-fired power plant Navajo Generating Station, its operator Salt River Project and Peabody Coal mine, continue poisoning Navajos, and draining their pristine water. Curley writes: "... The current use of act to keep

Cambridge Bay

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 hour ago

Actress: Happy birthday mass murderer

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 2 hours ago
Over the weekend leading actress Robyn Malcolm burst into tweet to wish, apparently without irony, a happy birthday to Lenin. [image: image] Lenin, for those who don’t know, was the Bolshevik who snatched a good revolution away from the Russian people before going on to murder, starve and impoverish several million of the poor bastards, and set up the state apparatus which killed millions more. I’m sure Robyn knows that. I’m sure she knows what it was like living under communist rule. Mind you, she could be just another dumb Barbie unaware of what their favourite mass murders g... more »

Robert Moore And Douglas Gillette On The Warrior

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 2 hours ago
*Source*. Related: *Robert Moore - Archetypal Images of the King and the Warrior*. Below is an excerpt from the book, *"King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine,"* by Robert Moore And Douglas Gillette. 1990. HarperSanFrancisco: San Francisco. Pg. 82-84. "The Warrior traditions all affirm that, in addition to training, what enables a Warrior to reach clarity of thought is living with the awareness of his own imminent death. The Warrior knows the shortness of life and how fragile it is. A man under the guidance of the Warrior knows how fe... more »

Find Assad

Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 2 hours ago
Find Assad, Google maps aids Rebel to find Assad, Google maps aids rebels to find military targets, assad's general homes have pools, Assad's home has horse stables and very large pool https://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&cid=8537920657475966704&q=%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B9+%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%82&iwloc=A&gl=US&hl=en Al Assad Seed Newsvine

HILARION April 21, 2013

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 2 hours ago
* * * * *HILARION'S WEEKLY MESSAGE* April 21, 2013 Beloved Ones, The times that you are living in are wrought with both the greatest of challenges and the greatest of blessings. As the third dimensional energies are no longer being supported by the very atmosphere surrounding the Earth, it is becoming increasingly difficult to hold the denser energies in your personal energy fields. There is a boomerang effect that is occurring whereby those who harbor and hold the denser energies are finding that it comes back to them intensely magnified and this energy sometimes erupts in wa... more »

State of the EU ETS

noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 2 hours ago
Over at the Lowy Interpreter I have a guest post up on the current state of the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme in the aftermath of the EU parliament's decision not to prop up the program last week. I discuss the ETS and offer a few thoughts on the state of Australia's climate policy debates, where it looks like Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott are working together (what?!). Here is how it starts: Last week, in a surprise to many, the European parliament defeated a proposal to postpone the auctioning of emissions permits, a move that would have propped up prices in the blo... more »

How The NRA Prevents Law Enforcement From Catching Violent Terrorists

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
As voting patterns started emerging among the freshman class in the new Congress, I saw a lot of new Members who tried appealing to progressives during the election, voting regularly against progressive initiatives. Although Matt Cartwright (D-PA) and Mark Pocan (D-WI) have 100% ProgressivePunch crucial vote scores, many more have abysmal scores. Gloria Negrete McLeod (D-CA), for example, has a dismal 52.63% score. Although she represents a solid blue district (CA-35- Pomona, Ontario, Chino, Fontana, where Obama crushed Romney 67.4- 30.6%), her conservative record in the state le... more »

“It’s not the drinking. It’s the way we’re mis-reporting the drinking”

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 3 hours ago
"“We” have a major drinking problem, says the headline writers. Bollocks, says economist Eric Crampton.* “They keep looking for dark linings to silver clouds, don't they?” The actual results of the survey cited by the headline writers are the opposite of those reported, he summarises. Why isn't the anti-alcohol lobby celebrating these results instead of saying how alarming they are? Do they somehow need for there to be a crisis? Answers on a postcard, please. * * * * * I doubt the learned and refined Eric has ever said “Bollocks.” This is in fact my short summary of his positio... more »

National’s programme is now dead. What next?

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 4 hours ago
Cactus Kate points out that after the weekend, the central plank of the government’s election platform has been taken away—because after the Winston First/Greens/Labour promise to renationalise Might River Power as soon as they get into power, no-one in their right mind will want to buy these shares. “The political risk is now entirely stupid.” But now that they’ve scuppered the half-arsed privatisation, the axis of thieves should come clean, she says, and explain how they’re going to go about their other flagship promises, which at the moment are just vague and undefined. 1. F... more »

When attacked cry "FIRE" not "HELP"

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 4 hours ago
People will respond better to "Fire".

Ron Van Dyke on OPPT Enforcement of Filings

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 4 hours ago
I would caution people that discussions are in progress with Swissindo but not yet conclusive and final. Swissindo seems to have very pure intent about ending the NWO without bloodshed and doing so in absolute transparency. Swissindo have received criticism (as has the OPPT) from some groups for taking this very courageous stand. There are people and groups out there that want violence. The OPPT does not stand for that kind of thing. There is much to discuss with them yet before this is a done deal. The OPPT Trustees have not signed off on anything yet... For up to date details... more »

SIRIUS: ABSOLUTE PROOF

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 4 hours ago

The warmest since last time

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 5 hours ago
While mainstream media have failed to broadcast the news that global temperatures have flatlined in the last 15 years, calling into question the models that say they should have risen catastrophically, Government Radio this morning was trumpeting a new worldwide study indicating “the end of last century produced the hottest temperatures for 14-hundred years.” The study shows [says RNZ] that the rise in the average temperatures reverses more than a millennium of gradual cooling. But does it really show that? The chart above shows the study’s thirty-year mean relative temperatures ... more »

Bill Whittle: The answer to the burning question...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 5 hours ago
*how tall is Bill Whittle?* But first: (No peeking...) It's difficult to find words to describe an evening with Bill Whittle, but two words might be; "dynamic" and "electrifying", and that amounts to just a weak attempt. I don't ever recall seeing a speaker talk for as long as he did without so much as one um or er, plus manage humor and impeccable logic with such grace, and all without the help of any sort of notes except for one tiny little scrap of paper. When so many of us are mired in hopelessness, it is refreshing to hear someone say, "We will win.", and then go on to exp... more »

OPPT - ITALIA

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 5 hours ago
http://www.opptitalia.org/

DEBATE: Patents are enforceable property rights, yes or no?

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 5 hours ago
Adam Mossoff and Jeffrey Tucker, two of the leading lights on opposite sides of the understanding of intellectual property rights, square off in print to make their case. Patents are NOT enforceable property rights, says Tucker. If patents for inventions were part of the free market, to make and sustain them would not require legislation, constitutions, bureaucracies, filings, armies of attorneys, and years of litigation. They would exist in the same way regular property rights exist. Apparently Jeffrey has never noticed the laws, bureaucracies, filings and lawyers that underpin ... more »

Mute Swan

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 5 hours ago

Sunday silly!!!

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 5 hours ago

Boston Bombing: NATO- Taking the fight to Russia via Georgia/Chechnya ??

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 6 hours ago
Psychic, I am not. Someone in the comments mentioned that. Thanks. I am flattered!!! Why I suspected a Chechen angle? As mentioned the separatist Chechens have used the ball bearing IED previously.. The tit for tat has been heating up between Russia and the US. There is no doubt of that. And that area is on the radar for US/Israel/NATO etc. April 2012: I had put up a post called *Predicting the future destabilization of Russia* In there was a link to the Heritage Foundation *:**A Threat to the West: The Rise of Islamist Insurgency in the Northern Caucasus and Russia’s Inadequate ... more »

Joe Oliver's Blowjob

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 6 hours ago
Joe Oliver got a freebie from Claudia Cattaneo in the pages of the *Financial Post.* In an extraordinary puff piece, '*A Battle of Canada's Future: How Joe Oliver has become Canada's energy pitchman,' *Cattaneo praises ol' Joe for firmly standing up to those whom Joe finds are "*inimical to Canadian national interests*." It's a truly amazing piece of garbage journalism. *Rolling Stone's *Matt Taibbi discussed the current penchant for Cattaneo's sort of blowjob journalism in an article about Paula Broadwell's "slobberific" Petraeus biography, *"All In"*. *Then it hit me – it was ... more »

More on Anonymous Drone Strikes Under Escalating Fascism

Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 6 hours ago
Obama Administration Lied About Drone Targets By Natasha Lennard, Salon 17 April 13 http://www.salon.com/2013/04/10/obama_administration_lied_about_drone_targets/ [Excerpted] Investigative reports and on-the-ground testimonies have made it public knowledge that far more people than al-Qaida leaders are killed by drone strikes. The U.K.’s Bureau of Investigative Journalism (BIJ) estimates that in Yemen, Pakistan and Somalia over 1,o00 civilians may have been killed by U.S. drone strikes. The Obama administration has long maintained, however, that strikes are only ever authorized to t... more »

Two Significant Earthquakes in Japan and Yellow Emissions from Area of Units 2-3

Majia's Blog - 6 hours ago
Enenews: M5 jolts Fukushima — Day after powerful Intensity 6- quake hit Japan — No confirmed damage so far at nuclear plant http://enenews.com/m5-quake-jolts-fukushima-day-after-powerful-intensity-6-quake-hit-japan-no-confirmed-damage-so-far-at-nuclear-plant Majia here: That yellow radioactive 'fog' at Daiichi could be evidence of 'damage.' These screen shots were taken this morning (US Pacific Standard Time Sunday April 14) <img alt="" src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAATUAAAC1CAIAAACxuv8/AAAgAElEQVR4nOy8WcxtW3YWdsquunWb0/7/3nutNddsxxxjzHatvXb3d6e5/XW5KVxx2U7ZBdiFSR...more »

"Oh, You Awake!"

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 6 hours ago

Hermosas criaturas en su hábitat natural - Animales

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 7 hours ago
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Lindsey Graham... Not Courageous

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago
Lindsey Graham was the first of the Republican panderers to declare 19 year old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev an enemy combatant, unworthy of the trial that this country guarantees people accused of crimes. I'm sure he thought that kind of unconstitutional raving would play well in the upcountry where he's so very, very unpopular. And he certainly knows South Carolina better than I do. I mean the fact that a flamboyant, superficially closeted homosexual like Lindsey Graham can cultivate a political career in a stridently anti-gay state like South Carolina, certainly shows ole Lindsey has some... more »

Satire: “CNN Quits Breaking News, Becomes ‘CNN Classic’”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago
* “CNN Quits Breaking News, Becomes ‘CNN Classic’”* by Andy Borowitz NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)— “In a sweeping format change that marks the end of an era for the nation’s first cable news outlet, CNN announced today that it would no longer air breaking news and would instead re-run news stories of the past “that we know we got right. The rebranded network, to début nationwide on Monday, will be called “CNN Classic. “Breaking news is hard,” said the newly installed CNN chief, Jeff Zucker. “You have to talk to sources, make sure their stories check out O.K., and then get on t... more »

"How It Really Is"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago

"Quiet Desperation..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago
"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things." ~ Henry David Thoreau

Pilsen wins 1st Czech Stanley Cup

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 7 hours ago
Many people in Pilsen follow soccer as well as ice-hockey; our teams were great in recent years. *A flag of HC Škoda Pilsen...* Just minutes ago, HC Škoda Pilsen, the local ice-hockey club, defeated HC Zlín in the last, seventh match. At 96:15 (!!!), the captain and playing 40-year-old owner Martin Straka – the local ice-hockey emperor whom North American readers may know as a New York Ranger (and, previously, a member of 5 other NHL teams) – scored the decisive goal in this incredibly hotly contested series of final matches. Despite the immense contributions of Pilsen to the ... more »

“How to Keep Your Focus Razor Sharp”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago
*“How to Keep Your Focus Razor Sharp”* by Jan Bruce “There's a woman I know, a writer and consultant, who says she's more stressed out by what she's not doing than what she is doing. When she's in the flow of work, she's consumed by it, productive, engaged. But when she's not and instead worrying about what she has to get done, she says she "hovers like a gnat around her work, not landing on anything, not getting anything done, and completely stressed out about it." This isn't a workload problem. This is a focus problem. And it's something you're struggling with, too. Challeng... more »

Drudge baiting UK style

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 7 hours ago
The Daily Mirror, one of many UK tabloids, has apparently mastered the art of netting a Drudge siren having baited the hook with a sensational claim that ZOMG, Boston bombers were part of sleeper cell of scary foreign terrorists. They breathlessly "inform" us: More than 1,000 FBI operatives were last night working to track down the cell and arrested a man and two women 60 miles from Boston in the hours before Dzhokhar’s dramatic capture after a bloody shootout on Friday. A source close to the investigation said: “We have no doubt the brothers were not acting alone. The devices use... more »

Sunday Question for Liberals

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 7 hours ago
I'll go with the same question: just in terms of electoral politics, what's the best outcome for the Democratic Party on immigration?

“Could Our Deepest Fears Hold the Key to Ending Violence?”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago
*“Could Our Deepest Fears Hold the Key to Ending Violence?”* by Frances Moore Lappé “In his book “Violence”, psychologist James Gilligan asked a Massachusetts prison inmate, “What do you want so badly that you would sacrifice everything in order to get it?” The inmate declared, “Pride. Dignity. Self-esteem… and I’ll kill every motherf****r in that cell block if I have to in order to get it.” Or, as another inmate said, “I’ve got to have my self-respect, and I’ve declared war on the whole world till I get it.” Pride, dignity, respect, agency—a sense that we matter—these are f... more »

Borneo elephants poisoned by unidentified toxin

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 8 hours ago
[image: Three-month-old Bornean elephant calf next to dead mother. Officials suspect this elephant, and 13 others, were poisoned. Photo: Sabah Wildlife Department / Rhett A. Butler] Jeremy Hance 18 April 2013 (mongabay.com) – After three months, officials still don't know for certain what killed at least 14 Bornean elephants (*Elephas maximus borneensis*) in the Malaysian state of Sabah. However tests do indicate that the herd perished from a "caustic intoxicant," possibly ingested accidentally or just as easily intentionally poisoned. A distinct subspecies, Bornean elephants ar... more »

GAIA PORTAL: Solar Gateway Activation and Re-activation in Progress

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 8 hours ago
*Solar Gateway Activation and Re-activation in Progress* by ÉirePort Solar gateway activation and re-activation is occurring. Dormant solar energetic gateways are being re-activated and new solar communication gateways are being created and activated. What some would term "Travel gateways" are in process as well, although at an early stage, awaiting "humanity general" to "Hue-manity General" consciousness upgrades to complete. As "humanity general" become "Hue-manity General", with uplifted vibration sufficient to support such, inter-dimensional travel becomes commonplace among... more »

Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, April 21st, 2013

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 8 hours ago
Yes, it is Sunday... Again... And it is again time for my usual rant.... I first want to inform everyone that I have been MIA the last few days due to illness... I came down with one heck of a head cold on Friday, and it just got progressively worse.... The usual fever, headaches, and wicked cough..... It is only now that it does appear that my body has finally began to recuperate..... I really do hate this time of year with the change in climate, because it always seems that I come down with either sinusitis or a terrible version of cold/flu.... This year has been no different! I d...more »

Sunday Question for Conservatives

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 8 hours ago
Just in terms of electoral interests, what is the best outcome for the Republican Party on immigration?

There *Must* Be Gosnells

noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 8 hours ago
For non-Tweeps, there's this hilariousness going on. Ever since the Gosnell trial began, fetus fetishists have been wanking themselves into gore-fuelled paroxysms of prurient joy. Sadly, though, Canadian fetus fetishists are missing out. Despite SUZYALLCAPS's obsession (I got bored counting at 30 blogposts here: http://www.bigbluewave.ca/search?q=gosnell&updated-max=2013-04-14T22:06:00-04:00&max-results=20&start=20&by-date=false), unaccountably, Canada has produced no Gosnells. Though it darned well should, according to HER. (I can't embed HER tweets because she has me blocked.) ... more »

Don't Sugar Coat It, Maggie

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 9 hours ago
Ah, Margaret Thatcher, the giggles just go on and on. There were not many people in this world that Maggie liked and a good many that she despised, among them the Irish. She even toyed with the idea of cleansing Northern Ireland of its Catholic population. *Did Margaret Thatcher have a problem with the Irish? It seems a fair question after Peter Mandelson’s odd revelation the other day about meeting her after he had just been appointed Northern Ireland Secretary in 1999:* ** *She came up to me and she said ‘I've got one thing to say to you, my boy’. She said, ‘you can't trust the... more »

Heather Tucci-Jarraf Answers Jay's Questions 4/21/2013

Americani Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 9 hours ago
* ** * *AK note: The following is a recent Skype conversation between Heather and Jay. I have edited the grammar and spelling, and format for readability. Jay is Polish and not a native English speaker so I have corrected spelling and grammar for readability. This conversation answers some questions that have been outstanding about OPPT logo design, and the Heather's interactions with the Rothschilds. * * * *I will also add for the record, the OPPT Trustees have not accepted outside ANY sponsorship or donations from any group, their work has been accomplished solely through t... more »

Sphincter of the Week - Surprise, He's a Brit; No Surprise, He's a Tory

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 9 hours ago
Our *Sphincter of the Week* award goes to Midhurst county councillor, John Cherry, a Tory of course, for his opposition to a proposal by Brixton's Durand Academy to expand to a disused school building in Stedham, West Sussex. I'll let councillor Cherry take it from here: *"Ninety-seven per cent of pupils will be black or Asian. It depends what type of Asian. If they’re Chinese they’ll rise to the top. If they’re Indian they’ll rise to the top. If they’re Pakistani they won’t.* **** *"There are certain nationalities where hard work is highly valued. There are certain nationaliti... more »

Meet the Enemy

gail zawacki at Wit's End - 9 hours ago
Special for Earth Day, the film "Thin Ice" is free to watch online, so it's embedded below for however long it remains available (I think, through tomorrow, April 22) so watch it while you can! It is comprised of interviews with climate scientists about their work. Here's a poster for the first Earth Day, circa 1970: The New Yorker published an article discussing the history of Earth Day, the beginning of which follows: "On September 20, 1969, Gaylord Nelson, a Democratic senator from Wisconsin, gave a lightly publicized speech in Seattle in which he remarked, “I am convinced that ... more »

Libertarian Koch Brothers in bid to buy biggest U.S. newspapers

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 9 hours ago
[image: Tribune's newspapers, including The Chicago Tribune, have caught the interest of a number of suitors, including Charles and David Koch, the billionaire industrialists and supporters of libertarian causes. Photo: Tannen Maury / European Pressphoto Agency] By AMY CHOZICK 20 April 2013 (The New York Times) – Three years ago, Charles and David Koch, the billionaire industrialists and supporters of libertarian causes, held a seminar of like-minded, wealthy political donors at the St. Regis Resort in Aspen, Colo. They laid out a three-pronged, 10-year strategy to shift the coun... more »

American Taxpayers Paying the Price of Climate Change

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 9 hours ago
Their Congressional representatives may dispute it, call it a hoax even, but the U.S. government is doling out big money in relief for those hit by climate change impacts. According to environmental corporate watchdog, *Ceres*, crop insurance payouts for last year's drought cost every American man, woman and child $51. *“Climate change is fundamentally changing the United States, and American taxpayers are paying a huge price for it,” said Ceres president Mindy Lubber. “The cost of withered crops, submerged streets, hurricane damage and wildfires eventually comes out of our own wal... more »

FIELD TESTING THE CLAMP DOWN

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 9 hours ago
*4th Amendment to the US Constitution:* *The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. * On Friday, April 19 in Watertown, Massachusetts during the manhunt for Boston Marathon bombing suspect police and federal agents spent the day raiding people's homes and performing searches. Police were filmed pu... more »

The True 'Nature' Of The Harper Conservative Government ...

leftdog at Buckdog - 10 hours ago
*In their blind, unfettered drive to advance the interests of the Oil industry in Canada, Stephen Harper has slashed federal environmental protection budgets and put a choke hold on democracy in Canada. * * *** *For Prime Minister Harper, Premier Brad Wall and Premier Alison Redford, the profit making ability of the big multi-national oil companies trumps your right as a citizen to clean water and a healthy, clean environment that we can hand to future generations of Canadians. * *You have been warned ... but are you listening? * [image: Progressive Bloggers]

Conservative consequences . . .

Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 10 hours ago
ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES, but so do inactions. Conservatives are hard-wired to deny this, these days, it seems. Unlike, say, America's last great Republican, Eisenhower, who built things that people could use, like roads and highways. Compared to Ike, today's conservatives are mean, twisted, sociopathic weasels — they are actually mentally-ill, with a pernicious affliction, a dementia of sorts

Big Story - British Columbians Speak Out

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 10 hours ago
RCMP in suburban White Rock foiled an apparent burglary/home invasion after receiving reports of two males trying to break into a home. The suspects took off but inside the officers found - wait for it - 8,000 pot cookies. And here are some of the comments from the CBC web site: I*'ll take 3 dozen!...oh wait...I'll take 6 dozen! Haven't had one of those since the 60's!* *If you got any gluten free ones, I'll take them all!* *Arrest anyone with a milk moustache.* *Oreos are a gateway cookie.* *It's a vicious cycle to break: Eat a cookie, get high, get the munchies, eat a cookie....more »

The Wait

Sophia at AMERICAN KABUKI - 10 hours ago
We’ve embarked on yet another Quest. For two years we’ve travelled together and still there is further to go. For we have not seen what we are searching for, and we are associative learners. Repetition and familiarity jog our memories. There is nothing familiar about Absolute Freedom. Unconditional Love is sovereignty. “Thou shalt have no other Gods before me.” Realize what the words mean. Examine the Gods in your life. Who or what is preventing you from Love Absolute? To Love is a fearless act. Freedom is something we like to hear tales about and fight for. Yet ... more »

Global warming increases costs for American taxpayers – ‘Climate change is fundamentally changing the United States, and American taxpayers are paying a huge price for it’

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 10 hours ago
[image: U.S. Federal crop insurance payments, 1990-2012. Graphic: Ceres / Federal Crop Insurance Corp.] BOSTON, 15 Apr 2013 (Ceres) – A growing chunk of American tax dollars is footing the bill for increasing floods, fires, droughts and other climate related changes taking place in the country, according to new figures compiled by Ceres, a nonprofit organization mobilizing business leadership on climate change. “Climate change is fundamentally changing the United States, and American taxpayers are paying a huge price for it,” said Ceres president Mindy Lubber. “The cost of wither... more »

Why Has US President Already Delivered Guilty Verdict to Boston Bombers? Gitmo Comes to America

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 10 hours ago
*President delivers ‘executive verdict’ as Feds draft in Gitmo interrogators to handle 19-year-old student held in custody* Patrick Henningsen Rule number one for any serious crime scene or investigation is to gather all the evidence and all the testimonies first, before being able to establish criminal charges, let alone deliver any meaningful verdict. In an extraordinary executive intervention, the President of the United States has weighed in on the Boston Bombing case – already delivering a guilty verdict for the Tsarnaev brothers. *Executive Verdict?* Barack Obama informed t... more »

Our Chained CPI "Contest" Is Over Tomorrow Morning

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago
Tomorrow at 6AM (PT) we'll do two things: award the congressional candidate who had the most donations-- not the most money, the most people donating-- a $1,000 Blue America PAC check; and we'll randomly chose one donor to get the RIAA-certified 311 platinum award pictured above. So, there's still plenty of time for you to "vote." You do it here. Although it's close enough so that it could go any way, the two leaders right now are Nick Ruiz, who's running in central Florida against Republican anti-Social Security reactionary John Mica, and Pennsylvania state Senator Daylin Leach, ... more »

Uranium Film Festival Rio de Janeiro 2013

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 11 hours ago
http://www.uraniumfilmfestival.org/index.php/en/programme/films Convite: Uranium Film Festival no MAM Rio de Janeiro 3º Festival Internacional de Filmes sobre Energia Nuclear (Uranium Film Festival), 16 a 26 de maio, na Cinemateca do Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (MAM). Você terá a oportunidade única de conhecer filmes de todos os gêneros sobre a temática nuclear e radioatividade.

The Terrists Win

noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 11 hours ago
April 17, 1984, was the first full day of my first visit to London. My pal and I were near St James Square, just wandering around, pretty jet-laggedy stupid. I was finding the noise really quite jarring, then it seemed to jump up several zillion decibels. Sirens. We didn't know at the time but the Libyan Embassy Siege had begun a couple streets from where we were. In minutes, it seemed, helicopters were hovering and loud-speakers were telling people to get off the rooftops. And the sirens wailed. My pal was excited and wanted to hang around. Me, I was thinking IRA, as was no dou... more »

death in the midst of life

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 11 hours ago
musashi the great teacher

FBI Caught in a Web of Lies in Boston

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 11 hours ago
*Please help us ID them. Oops, we already knew exactly who they were.* *Activist Post* Why did the FBI make a spectacle out of releasing the photos of the alleged Boston bombing suspects to the public feigning ignorance on who they were, asking for the public's help to identify them, when they knew all along who they were? Remember the FBI saying the following: These photos should be the only ones the public should view to assist us. Other photos should not be deemed credible. They unnecessarily divert the public's attention in the wrong direction, and create undue work for vital ... more »

Raiding the dark animal underbelly of wildlife trafficking – ‘4-star generals kept tigers in cages in their living rooms, bears were behind most restaurants waiting for their paws to be cut off’

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours ago
[image: Severed bear paws ready to be served as a delicacy in Cambodia. Photo: Jerrie Demasi / Sydney Morning Herald] [Part 1: ‘Skull is removed, brains eaten alive’: Like the drug trade, wildlife trafficking is big business in Asia] By Jerrie Demasi 19 April 2013 (Sydney Morning Herald) – "Mum, you need to be more patient," says nine year old Cambodian Bo Pa. Her adoptive mother sits across the table of a red-and-gold-clad Chinese Restaurant in the heart of Phnom Penh, as they wait for their Mekong lobster to arrive. "Bo Pa," she responds sternly. "If I was built to be patien... more »

Video: J. Michael Fay talks about massive gold mining operations in British Columbia that will devastate the region

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours ago
21 April 2013 (Talking Stick TV) – Interview with J. Michael Fay, Wildlife Conservation Society scientist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, about his recent investigation of mining impacts in British Columbia. For more info: http://unukriverpost.org/ Technorati Tags: Canada,North America,pollution,deforestation,habitat loss,ecosystem disruption,fish decline

The Week the Joker Struck and the Shit Hit the Fan in Gotham

jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 12 hours ago
(By *American Zen*'s Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari Goldstein.) As the Chinese would cynically say, we "live in interesting times." Adding to the interest is how, in times of great upheaval, life inevitably imitates art. The one bombing suspect we have left, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, has a first name that sounds a lot like "Joker", the super villain who blew up a hospital in Gotham and battled the entire city's police department to a standstill. At the end of the standoff in Watertown, Massachusetts, there was even a boat involved that, thankfully, didn't blow up. In real ...more »

How to "CISPA Blackout" Your Blog on April 22

2old2care at Because I Can - 12 hours ago
This is what I found when I did a search So here's a few easy steps to achieve the goal of "going dark". I (currently) have 2 methods to doing this: Method 1: Turning your page black, i.e. make the backgrounds, text etc. black. Yes, I'm taking it literally here, but you're blog is going to be completely blank. An example can be seen here ( http://robtestblog1.blogspot.com ). If you need details, you click "Design" in your dashboard. Then, above your blog layout there's a tab that says "Template Designer". In this go to Advanced and change every colour to black (#000000). If you post ... more »

On Climate Change, Money - Or Its Absence - Talks.

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 12 hours ago
I can give you six hundred and seventy four billion reasons to believe the scientific consensus on climate change. $674,000,000,000.00 - that's the amount the top 200 energy companies spent, just last year alone, on exploring for new fossil fuel reserves. Gee, that sounds an awful lot like two-thirds of a *trillion* dollars, doesn't it? Yes, yes it does. Even in my world, that's serious money. So, what does 674-billion dollars have to do with the scientific consensus on climate change? In fact, just about everything. It shows that, in the supposed dispute over whether climate ...more »

Morality of global warming: Faith leaders look beyond science, politics – ‘This is about the well-being of the entire communion of life’

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago
[image: The home of Susan Soleil, director of Interfaith Power and Light, is a geodesic dome with a full complement of energy efficiency measures, 16 April 2013 in Midway, Utah. Photo: Trent Nelson / The Salt Lake Tribune] By JUDY FAHYS 21 April 2013 (The Salt Lake Tribune) – Rob Gillies and his team gather data on Nepal’s changing climate for a research project. They log temperatures, raindrops and snow. They pump the numbers into powerful computers and read the trend lines the computers spit out. Gillies sees the numbers in human terms, too. Global warming is likely to mean ... more »

Watch "FBI fence jump" on YouTube

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 12 hours ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahwSmcZxBAU&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Nuclear Fangs for the F-35 - Obama's Light Bomber

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 12 hours ago
*Don't Worry, This Will Only Hurt for a Second* The United States is refurbishing 200 nuclear bombs for use aboard the F-35 light attack bomber. The old B-61 gravity bombs are being converted with new tail fin assemblies that will transform them into guided weapons. They'll be kept at various bases in Europe from Belgium to Turkey. *Little Bundles of Instant Sunshine* *"What will be going back to Europe will be a guided nuclear bomb," [Hans Kristensen, a nuclear weapons expert at the Federation of Nuclear Scientists] said. "Especially when you combine it with F35 with stealth cha... more »

Linkage Week in Review

Daniel Nexon at Duck of Minerva - 13 hours ago
Our readers may have noticed the lack of Saturday linkage. I was at the MD/PA/WV/VA combined state Tumbling and Trampoline state championships, in a facility with Faraday-cage properties. I am pleased to say that my daughter qualified for National Junior Olympics in her two main events — trampoline and double-mini trampoline. Along the way she Continue reading

U.S. Supreme Court asked to hear EPA greenhouse gas challenge – Virginia Supreme Court revives epic suit against Massey Coal

Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago
[image: Massey Energy logo. Graphic: Massey Energy] By Valerie Volcovici; editing by Xavier Briand 19 April 2013 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Top industry groups and a dozen states have asked the Supreme Court to review a lower court decision upholding the Obama administration's plan to limit greenhouse gas emissions generated by power plants and vehicles. The parties, which had until Friday to submit petitions to the high court, are challenging a 2012 decision by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals that upheld rules issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The petitioners a... more »

Why did Fitch downgrade the UK?

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 13 hours ago
Whether it *really* matters much or not (and it might do), this week's downgrade of the UK to AA+ by the ratings agency Fitch has embarrassed Chancellor George Osborne and been pounced upon by Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls. If you read the BBC News website's account, Fitch downgrades UK credit rating to AA+, you will (I suspect) come away with a vague sense as to the reason for the downgrade. The BBC article concentrates on the Plan A v Plan B debate concerning the government's austerity measures, leading the reader to assume that Fitch's beef is with the austerity strategy and the... more »

Public editor praises the work of the Times!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago
*SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 2013* *This just in from the best of all possible worlds:* A newspaper isn’t required to have a public editor. Press criticism is everywhere now. You might say there’s no particular need for a public editor/ombudsman at a big newspaper. Indeed, the Washington Post has just eliminated the position. That said, the New York Times *does* have a public editor. Although at this time, she only publishes two columns a month. This morning, we were struck again by the oddness of her column. Two weeks ago, Margaret Sullivan wrote an utterly silly column, answering utterl... more »

Oh Yeah; Cooperation, Followed by Proportional Representation

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 13 hours ago
The not-anti-democratic, constitutional parties should cooperate to defeat harper, hold him accountable, and implement proportional representation. After that, they can get back to hating each other all they want. [I think I'll stick to posting silent-screen starlets for my ironicalist "eye-candy" segments. I feel a little creepy posting those two pics. Maybe pictures of food, or landscapes .... ]

What really happened in Watertown

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 14 hours ago
Everybody's an armchair tactician. One of major sources of contention on the internets in the last 24 hours has been over how law enforcement handled the search for the Boston bombers. Early on it was all about whether they should have crowdsourced the photos. That sequed into the wisdom, or lack thereof, of shutting down the city. I'm not judging anybody's take. I'm as guilty as the next guy of second guessing the primary tactics in any given major event. Tom Watson made the best case for why shutting down Boston was unwise. I'm sympathetic to the argument that it sets a bad prece... more »

The practice of imposing "global" sentences for multiple offences is to be discouraged, because it undermines the transparency of the sentencing process

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 14 hours ago
*R. v Hanna*, 2013 ABCA 134 holds: [5] The sentencing judge did not proportion the totality discount between the two offences. The practice of imposing “global” sentences for multiple offences is to be discouraged, because it undermines the transparency of the sentencing process. Section 726.2 of the *Criminal Code *requires that reasons be given for sentencing: 726.2 When imposing a sentence, a court shall state the terms of the sentence imposed, and the reasons for it, and enter those terms and reasons into the record of the proceedings. The need... more »

Oglala Commemoration 2013

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 14 hours ago

4/21/13 7pm Premiere 350.org - Do the Math

2old2care at Because I Can - 14 hours ago
Screenings can be found in your area Just enter your zip code (top right side of page) *To find an EVENT you can attend NEAR YOU*

Surprised That Freaks And Kooks Like Glenn Beck Are Selling Conspiracy Theories About The Boston Tragedy?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago
Most of my blogger friends told me that the whole mess around the Boston Marathon was driving traffic in a big way. We don't sell ads and I couldn't see what I could possibly add to the tsunami of information-- and misinformation-- about the bombing and subsequent manhunt, resulting in the death of Tamerlane and the eventual capture of Dzhokhar. Yesterday, when looking at the shredding of the Constitution Lindsey Graham was hysterically screeching about, we had our first mention of the Boston tragedy. And there's even worse out there than Lindsey. All week long I watched the bloo... more »

Bachmann (MN-Nut Job) Spends Weekend with Extremists/Fanatics

2old2care at Because I Can - 15 hours ago
Wondering what Michele was doing this weekend? She sure as hell wasn't working on the issues important to the 6th District in Minnesota. *Michele Bachmann to Headline Conference with 9/11 & Sandy Hook Truther, Birthers and Anti-Gay Activists* Submitted by Brian Tashman on Monday, 4/15/2013 11:45 am Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) will be joining some of the most extreme right-wing activists in the country at the upcoming Awakening 2013 conference, which is organized by the Liberty University-affiliated Liberty Counsel. Along with Bachmann, Rep. Steve Pearce (R-NM) and Jim Bob and Mi... more »

Rogers (US Congress - ALEC) - Sponsored CISPA

2old2care at Because I Can - 15 hours ago
GOP Thinks Privacy Is For Criminals Buying Guns, Not Americans On Facebook The House of Representatives passed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2013 (CISPA) by a vote of 288-127, a nearly veto-proof majority. It now heads to the Senate, where it died last year. President Obama has threatened to veto the bill in its current form. ZDNet‘s Zach Whittaker explains: For those out of the loop, *CISPA will allow private sector firms to search personal and sensitive user data of ordinary U.S. residents to identify this so-called “threat information,”* and to then s...more »

It's About Fair Trade, Not Free Trade

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 15 hours ago
Canada's three major parties now endorse Free Trade. Tom Walkom writes: Free trade is now orthodoxy in Canada. It used to be debated fiercely. It no longer is. Stephen Harper’s Conservatives embrace free trade. So does Justin Trudeau, the new Liberal leader. As part of their ongoing effort to pretend that they are not New Democrats, so do Tom Mulcair’s New Democrats. The problem is that politicians have reached this consensus just as the evidence confirms that free trade isn't working. The problem is that what sounds good in theory never works in practice: The 19th century the... more »

SUNDAY SONG

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 15 hours ago

Satellite eye...

Roobin at THROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 16 hours ago
Here's this month's Satellite Eye (it seemed to be a little while coming). This is my favourite, one of the oldest surviving impact craters on Earth, now a lake in Quebec.

Untitled

New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 16 hours ago
*New Orleans Earth Day Festival and Green Business Expo * *Music and Festivities * *9:00am Yoga on the Bayou with Swan River Yoga* *10:00 am Festival kicks off with * *Dj Tj “The Smooth Operator”**, food, beer, and Green Business Expo open for business * *11:00 am* *Bayou Kayaks Earth Day Regatta* *11:30 am * *Flowtribe* *12:50 pm Chegadão* *2:15 pm* *Earth Day Second Line with the Stooges Brass Band and the Original Big 7 Social Aid and Pleasure Club* *4:00 pm Panorama Jazz Band* *6:00 pm* ** *Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk* *All Day Activities* • Craft, Food, Non-Pr... more »

A Quick Note on Ed Miliband and George Galloway

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 16 hours ago
According to the *Daily Mail*, George Galloway had a "secret meeting" with Ed, sparking "rumours that Mr Miliband is considering allowing Mr Galloway to rejoin the party". It must be a slow day in *Mail* land if this is the best they can do. For the benefit of Labour supporters horrified at the prospect of the Gorgeous One's return, and those on the far left ready to sound the 'betrayal' alarm, folk need to chillax. Gallows isn't coming back. The Leader's office regularly facilitates meetings between Ed and MPs from other parties. Whisper it, Ed has even had private meetings with Ni... more »

Ed Miliband shows his lack of judgement

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 16 hours ago
'The Labour leader invited Respect MP Mr Galloway to his Commons office, where they had a 'cordial and friendly conversation' for nearly an hour. It has sparked rumours that Mr Miliband is considering allowing Mr Galloway to rejoin the party.' More here http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2312375/Naive-Miliband-attacked-party-secret-George-Galloway-meeting.html

Sex parties, a gym and a spa: Inside the Saudi prisons where terrorists caught in Saudi Arabia are sent | Mail Online

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 16 hours ago
The Mail have an interesting story as to how Saudis plan to punish Islamist terrorists http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2312136/Sex-parties-gym-spa-Inside-Saudi-prisons-terrorists-caught-Saudi-Arabia-sent.html It seems that if you steal you'll lose a hand, commit a homosexual act then you'll hang but if you commit acts of terrorism then you'll be sent to a holiday camp for a few years until the fuss dies down. It seems to me that Saudi Arabia is saying to AL-Queda "don't worry chaps, if you get caught we'll look after you and send you to a holiday camp until your time is d... more »

How to make cycling more civilised

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 16 hours ago
Works for me!

Against Legal Loan Sharking

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 17 hours ago
Payday loans have become something of a sexy political topic. Stella Creasy has done a great deal of work to get it in the spotlight and Ed Miliband kicked off Labour's local election campaign with a pledge to give councils the power to push payday lenders (and bookies) off the high street. Like the SWP, I'm always happy to clamber aboard a passing bandwagon and, to this end, I invited Carl Packman to come and speak to Stoke-on-Trent Central Labour Party's meeting on Friday night. As readers may be aware, Carl has become the 'go-to' man for payday loan comment and recently had his ... more »

Good Times at Pottersville #3

jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 17 hours ago

"Is the BBC biased against Israel?"

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 18 hours ago
As per an article in the *Jewish Chronicle, *a survey by the Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR) has found that an overwhelming majority of Jews in the United Kingdom believe that the BBC is biased against Israel in its news coverage. You can read the full report here. JPR's summary of this part of the report runs as follows: The vast majority of respondents (four out of five) considered BBC News’s coverage to be biased against Israel. Respondents who supported the Conservative Party were twice as likely to perceive the BBC as being ‘heavily biased’ against Israel as Labo... more »

SIRIUS - THE MOVIE

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 19 hours ago

Should you judge a man by his friends?

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 20 hours ago
Ed Miliband showing that at heart he's still a student activist. Should Lady Thatcher pass away I trust that if he dares to pipe up with some unmeant eulogy, he is reminded of this image. My disdain for Ed Miliband knows no bounds, although he's not as hateful as Ed Balls, of course.

Art - Keng Lye - alive without breath

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 20 hours ago
Singaporean artist Keng Lye creates unusual three-dimensional images of animals, using acrylic paint and epoxy resin. Lye's work cross the border between painting and sculpture in that each resin layer is painted on to give this amazing 3d effect - similar to (but with far more fidelity than) the layered glass paintings of Xia Xiao Wan. Here's a couple images up close just to give you an idea of THE DEPTH OF LYE'S ART.

THE BOSTON BOMBERS

Anon at aangirfan - 20 hours ago
*Tamerlan Tsarnaev (right) with Dzhokhar* * *Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are not the Boston Bombers. They are like Lee Harvey Oswald. Reportedly, there was a Lee Harvey Oswald in New Orleans and at the same time as there was a Lee Harvey Oswald in Japan. JFK 101 - JFKresearch.com *"There were no videos like the officials claimed; and they had no images of the brothers either planting bombs or standing around watching the carnage. All of that was a lie." Video of Dzhokhar Planting Bomb is Forgotten* The FBI knew all about Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who *may* have been part of the CIA...more »

FBI Entraps US Citizen Attempting to Join US-funded Al Qaeda in Syria

Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 21 hours ago
Increasingly bizarre US terror-racket inspires human misery from Boston to Damascus. *Image: FBI's latest entrapped patsy, Abdella Ahmad Tounisi, a U.S. citizen, attempted to join Al Qaeda's Syrian franchise, Jabhat al-Nusra. The irony is, as Tounisi is charged with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, the US State Department has announced an additional $123 million in military aid to these very same terrorists. * .... *April 21, 2013* (LD) - As the FBI reels from its bungled Boston bombing case, where the suspects turned out to have been co... more »

Hollywood style over-dramatisation of leg blown off fake victim- Boston Marathon Bombing

Jason Leewig at Our Manmade Disasters - 21 hours ago
Irrefutable proofs of dramatised leg blown off victim using ex-vet amputees, crisis actors and hollywood production crew. Use of 2 different wheel chairs over 50 yards. Just incredible. Wake up people! Share, share & share. Remember their words "Don't let a good crisis go to waste". They are using this as an excuse to forward their agenda. Something odd here? The only one with both legs blown off and in critical condition was wheeled >50 yards to a waiting ambulance, more than 1 hour after the explosion. Every injured person was put in the ambulance or wheeled off well before 15... more »

Rule of Law 20: PNP and Rule of Men

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 22 hours ago
The police -- like the Philippine National Police (PNP) -- is supposed to be the main implementer of many laws protecting the citizens' right to private property, right to life, right to liberty. Thus, the police should be in the frontline in going after law violators -- thieves, murderers, kidnappers, sex traffickers, etc. Whether big or petty crimes, the police should be upholding the laws, not violating the laws. Below are some instances where the police are violators of several traffic or road regulations. Like no counter-flow, no obstruction of traffic, "no helmet no travel". ... more »

Spring is in the air, and so is change of a most magnificent kind

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 22 hours ago
*Spring is in the air, and so is change of a most magnificent kind* Through John Smallman The Oneness that is God has all of creation enfolded within It; It is the infinite field of divine Love where all Wisdom, all Knowledge, all Consciousness has its eternal existence. It is a state of utter joy, peace, and contentment, where no one is, or can ever be in any way, bereft. It is Reality, where all are free to create abundantly with the skills and abilities that God has bestowed upon them, and delight in the results. It is into this sublime state that humanity is to awaken. Your p... more »

Your moment of Zen

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 22 hours ago
A random path.

Is it contagious?

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 22 hours ago
* * http://just4ublogdotcom.wordpress.com/ * * *Is it contagious?* Posted on April 20, 2013 by sojournerbe I received this in an email this morning. It is a great way to start my day!! Thank you Saskia. The insight emanating forth from your Eternal Essence is inspiring. It fits right in with all that is unfolding in a new paradigm these past few weeks. Let’s keep the Light shining! by Saskia Davis Be on the lookout for symptoms of inner peace. The hearts of a great many have already been exposed to inner peace and it is possible that people everywhere could come down with it in e... more »

April 18, 1973

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 23 hours ago
"The P had me in at 8:00 this morning. Said that if this thing goes the way it might, and I have to leave, he wants me to take all the office material from his -- ah -- machinery there and hold it for the library." That's Haldeman's diary, from April 18. The cover-up of the cover-up is fully underway here, and one of the first things to do is to secure the evidence. And as Nixon knows, the White House tapes are evidence that will convict all of them, himself certainly included. Henry Petersen was busy that day. Dean had mentioned the Fielding break-in a few days ago, and by now it's... more »

Kierkegaard On Imagination

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 23 hours ago
Related: * * *Kierkegaard On Socratic Ignorance*. *Kierkegaard On "Man."** * *Kierkegaard On Socrates And The Immortality of The Soul.* *Kierkegaard On God's Love.* *Kierkegaard On Passion.* * Kierkegaard On Martyrs of Truth.* *Kierkegaard On Truth*. *Kierkegaard On The Difference Between "Popular" And "Philosophical."* *Kierkegaard On Religion And Doubt.* Below is an excerpt from, *"The Soul of Kierkegaard: Selections from His Journals."* Edited by Alexander Dru. Dover Publications, Inc: Mineola, New York. 2003. Pg. 243. "The imagination is what providence uses in orde... more »

When the Soul Hits Home

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 23 hours ago
* When the Soul Hits Home by Eileen Meyer * http://adaptingtograce.com/2013/04/20/when-the-soul-hits-home/ This is in honor of the OPPT and all who are awakening on Planet Earth. I wrote and recorded the vocals around an existing loop. I love Garageband.

Mark Smith, Democratic Candidate For Pennsylvania Lt Governor, Rocks... In More Ways Than One

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
I've only been to the Bahamas once; it was to visit the legendary, now shuttered, Compass Point Studios in Nassau, where one of our bands, the Ocean Blue, was recording *Beneath the Rhythm and Sound* late in the summer of 1993. It was a difficult time for the band, who came from a very conservative religious fundamentalist background and had been coming to grips that one of it's key members had decided to eschew the closet and embrace his homosexuality. He had written the band's only real hit and was the member most liked by the media. But the other band members-- who had once all... more »

Musical Interlude: Pink Floyd, “Shine On You Crazy Diamond”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
Pink Floyd, “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MDHv1xLnlM

The Maddening Sprint Towards "Justice" In Boston Diverts Global Attention From The Facts

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago
"The rhetoric of national emergency also supports the dominant ideology of the day which is counter-terrorism. The ideology of counter-terrorism cannot be maintained without the periodic announcement by the federal government that it "foiled a dangerous terrorist plot against America," or that, "the FBI captured a group of terrorists." This government tactic helps to keep alive the fear of terrorism and reinforces the popular belief in the ideology of counter-terrorism. False Flag Terrorism is the most fundamental government strategy in the West's war of terror. For the Anglo-Ame... more »

Photos: Honoring Warrior Carter Camp, Ponca

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
Thank you Cat Carnes for sharing your photos with Censored News! Honoring Carter Camp at White Eagle, Oklahoma today, April 20, 2013. . www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com

Antarctic Ice Melting at Fastest Rate in 1,000 Years

Photo courtesy: Public domain/Public Domain Summer ice is melting at a faster rate in the Antarctic peninsula than at any time in the last 1,000 years, new research has shown. The evidence comes from a 364-metre ice core containing a record of freezing and melting over the previous millennium. Layers of ice in the core, drilled from James Ross Island near the northern tip of the peninsula, indicate periods when summer snow on the ice cap thawed and then refroze. By measuring the thickness of these layers, scientists were able to match the history of melting with changes in tempera... more »

CISPA Internet Blackout April 22nd | #CISPABlackout

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GAIA PORTAL: Attunements to Higher Vision in Alignment with Gaia Higher Purposing Vision Occurs Rapidly

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* * * * *Attunements to Higher Vision in Alignment with Gaia Higher Purposing Vision Occurs Rapidly* by ÉirePort Attunements to Higher Vision in alignment with Gaia Higher Purposing Vision occurs rapidly at this now moment. Those harmonized with Gaia Higher Purpose receive and are inspired to Be and act upon this Higher Vision. All such Gaia Harmonics collectively respond to Hue-Being involvement and Higher Intention, as given by Gaia, as received by individual Hue-Being. The collective Gaia Harmonics response via collective Hue-Being participation brings in an amplified effect fo... more »

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