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When Big Money Flows from Taps
"*If you can find ways to invest in water,*
* you will be extremely rich*
* because we do have a serious water problem*
* in many parts of the world*
* like India, China, the southwestern part of the U.S.,*
* and west of the Red Sea.*"
Jim Rogers, 18 April,
2013
Jim Rogers knows what he's talking about. India's economy and its people
are fast running out of water and much of what does remain is too
contaminated, not just for human consumption but for agriculture and even
industry.
India has 18 per cent of the world's population b... more »
Breaking: The happiest time of the year is upon us!
*MONDAY, APRIL 22, 2013*
*The time when you rush to take part:* With the immediate miseries of
Boston behind us, we have decided to proceed with the happiest time of the
year.
People will suffer in Boston for years. Others will suffer around the world.
None of us ever do enough. But in the next two weeks, we’re going to give
you the glorious chance to contribute to our efforts.
Each day this week, we will lay out our plans for the coming year. We will
define four large interests we plan to pursue. And we’ll make our annual
promise to be a bit less unpleasant!
By now, you know that... more »
BOSTON BOMBERS' CIA CONNECTION; AND PRINCE ANDREW CONNECTION
*Uncle Ruslan 'of the CIA'.*
The uncle of Boston's two Tsarnaev brothers worked for the CIA-front
organisation called USAID.
*Was Boston Bombers 'Uncle Ruslan' with the CIA?*
Obama's mother also worked for USAID, while being in the CIA, reportedly.
Uncle Ruslan Tsarni (Tsarnaev), of Montgomery Maryland, graduated from Duke
Law School in 1998 and is now a 'well-connected' oil executive and lawyer.
Uncle Ruslan appears to have links to a group of oil executives who,
according to The London Telegraph, comprise “a network of personal and
business relationships” allegedly used for “i... more »
“Congress Exploits Our Fears to Take Our Liberty”
*“Congress Exploits Our Fears to Take Our Liberty”*
by Ron Paul
"This week, as Americans were horrified by the attacks in Boston, both
houses of Congress considered legislation undermining our liberty in the
name of “safety.” Gun control continued to be the focus of the Senate,
where an amendment expanding federal “background checks” to gun show sales
and other private transfers dominated the debate. While the background
check amendment failed to pass, proponents of gun control have made it
clear they will continue their efforts to enact new restrictions on gun
ownership into ... more »
Any American who wants to understand the trajectory of the American economy (ever more downward), why this is happening, and what will ultimately be required to reverse the relentless lowering of American salaries and offshoring of American jobs should listen to economist Richard Wolff passionately lay it out in easily understandable terms. It's not pretty.
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* the**REALnews
Permalink*
*Obama Preaches Stimulus to Europe and Practices Austerity at Home*
Richard Wolff: Low wages, cheap money, and cheap equipment are driving
higher profits and the politics of austerity - April 21, 13
More at The Real News
*Bio*
Richard D. Wolff is a Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst. And he is currently a Visiting Professor of the
Graduate Program in International Affairs at the New School University in
N... more »
Puerto Rico: Chupacabras - Sudden Impact
*Chupacabras: Sudden Impact*
*By José Pérez – PRMUFON*
On Saturday, 20 April 2013, a team of researchers consisting of this
author, José Pérez, his wife Ilbis Dominguez, Mr. Luissepi Quiñones, Mr.
José A. Martinez, Mr. Anibal Martínez and Mr. Richard Flores reported to
the residence of Mr. Fernando Díaz to interview him about the impressive
and highly important case which we will endeavor to narrate briefly in this
article as follows…
In the early hours of 30 March 2013 at around 6:15 a.m., Mr. Fernando Díaz,
a resident of the town of Guayama, Puerto Rico, was headed to work as
... more »
"We got him!": Boston bombing suspect captured alive
*American Scofflaw*
Now, just stop and think for a second. If you had just bombed the marathon,
and needed to hijack a car and plan to let the driver live, why would you
announce you were the bombers and that you had killed a cop, knowing that
the driver would them immediately report that to police?
The answer is that you would not.
So, my theory: Operatives shot and killed the police officer in his car to
scare the Boston police into thinking the two kids they were chasing were
cop-killers, so that the police would shoot first and ask questions later.
Then these operatives hij... more »
How do we know that humans are responsible for global warming?
[image: Observed Global Temperatures (black curve) compared with the spread
among model simulations that include only natural factors (blue band) and
that include both natural and human factors (red bad). Only the model
simulations that include human factors are able to reproduce the observed
warming Graphic: Second Assessment of the U.S. Global Change Research
Program, 2009]
By Michael E. Mann, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, Pennsylvania State
University
[Text excerpted from chapter 2 of *The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars*,
by Michael E. Mann, Columbia University Press, New ... more »
“The Latest From ‘DHS Insider’"
*“The Latest From ‘DHS Insider’" *
By Douglas J. Hagmann
*"Introduction:* 23 December 2012: After a lengthy, self-imposed
informational black-out, my high-level DHS contact known as "Rosebud"
emerged with new, non-public information about plans being discussed and
prepared for implementation by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in
the near future. It is important to note that this black-out was directly
related to the aggressive federal initiative of identifying and prosecuting
"leakers," at least those leaks and leakers not sanctioned by the executive
office - the lat... more »
Why can’t Obama be more like President Douglas?
*MONDAY, APRIL 22, 2013*
*Maureen Dowd's mind want to know:* Maureen Dowd may be the most
influential print journalist of the past thirty years.
As early as 1992, the highly prescient Katherine Boo was warning about the
trend she described as “Creeping Dowdism.” But Dowd was already a very
important player at our most influential newspaper.
Career players wanted to work for the Times, or at least to attend their
galas. In part for that reason, people like Dowd are rarely criticized in
the mainstream press or in the career liberal world.
We’ve told you these things for years by now... more »
Did Joe Oliver Just Declare War on British Columbia?
A solid and steadily growing majority of British Columbians want nothing to
do with Alberta's bitumen pipelines crossing our province to our coast.
Fewer of us still want bitumen-laden supertankers plying our pristine
northern coastal waters or Vancouver's inner harbour.
According to our federal government's reptilian industry minister, Joe
Harper, our firmly held opposition to this bitumen trafficking makes us,
the great majority of British Columbians, "*inimical to Canadian national
interests." *
Now "inimical" is a loaded word. It connotes hostility, and a willingness
to harm,... more »
Setting aside default judgment
Traditionally setting aside a default judgment has required fulfilling a
three-part test. The Defendant must establish: (1) there was a reasonable
explanation for the failure to file the Statement of Defence; (2) there is
a prima facie defence on the merits of the claim and (3) the Defendant
promptly moved to set aside the Default Judgment. Recent caselaw has made
the test somewhat less rigid and more equity based. So the decision in *B2B
Trust v. Pearce*, 2013 ONSC 2305 holds:
[2] The defendant, as co-mortgagor with her husband and
co-defendant, gave a mortgage t... more »
Comparing Iraq’s Provincial Elections 2005-2013
There were many reports before Iraq’s April 2013 provincial elections that
the Iraqi public was disillusionedand not interested in them. The early
word out of the country’s Election Commission however showed that the same
percentage of people showed up as the last vote in 2009, 51%. The total
number of voters is lower this year at 6.4 million, compared to 7.5 million
during the last round of balloting. That’s because two provinces, Anbar and
Ninewa have had their balloting postponed. When they finally vote, the
numbers will likely be very similar. The make-up of voters changed
dram... more »
“‘Boston Strong’: Marching in Lockstep with the Police State”
*“‘Boston Strong’: *
*Marching in Lockstep with the Police State”*
By John W. Whitehead
“Of all the tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its
victims may be the most oppressive.” - C.S. Lewis
“Caught up in the televised drama of a military-style manhunt for the
suspects in the Boston Marathon explosion, most Americans fail to realize
that the world around them has been suddenly and jarringly shifted off its
axis, that axis being the U.S. Constitution. For those like myself who have
studied emerging police states, the sight of a city placed under martial
la... more »
Mohawk Nation News 'Vigilantism'
VIGILANTISM
Posted on April 22, 2013
MNN. Apr. 22, 2013. Vigilantes take the law into
their own hands, backed by militancy, bigotry and suspicion, without
facts. The mainstream media unleashes propaganda to empower the mob of
vigilantes.
Vigilantes stone and kill an elder.
During the Mohawk Oka Crisis of 1990, Canada and Quebec directed
MEDIOCRITY ALL THE WAY UP: Public schools meet managed news!
*MONDAY, APRIL 22, 2013*
*Conclusion—The New York Times needs to report:* In yesterday’s column, New
York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan disagreed with a reader’s
complaint.
The reader thought a certain photograph from the Boston bombing had been
too disturbing to publish. As she agreeably disagreed, Sullivan saluted the
flag of her noble profession:
SULLIVAN (4/21/13): I respect this view, which I heard from many others,
but I found the photo choice reasonable. If it had shown one of the dead,
or gruesome detail of a severed limb, I would have felt differently. *The
journa... more »
Talking Academic Journals: Collecting Data
Note: this is the first in what I hope will be a series of posts opening up
issues relating to journal process for general discussion by the
international-studies community. Although many readers already know the
relevant information, let me preface this post with some context. I am the
incoming lead editor of International Studies Quarterly (ISQ), which
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earth day 2013: one million comments against the keystone xl pipeline
Nancy Zorn's Direct ActionTo mark Earth Day 2013, I hope you will submit a
comment to the US State Department opposing the Keystone XL Pipeline. The
form is properly set up for both US zip codes and Canadian postal codes.
The goal is one million comments.
*Submit your comment here.*
In Arkansas, four weeks after a pipeline rupture spewed hundreds of
thousands of gallons of oil into a residential area, Exxon tried to buy off
affected residents with the princely sum of $10,000. What's that the human
equivalent of, three cents? Exxon is refusing to pay the cost of
investigating the sp... more »
More Endorsements
From Megan Amram, Tommy Amaker, and Larry Summers.
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*Levees.org Disaster Bike Tour 2013!*
*Solar power system helps musicians play on at Bucket Brigade Earth Day
~Mary Jameson *
*Corps to divert more of Miss. River to Basin ~Richard Burgess, The
Advocate *
*Azz everywhere: An exclusive Q&A with Big Freedia ~The Brown Daily Herald*
*Sippin' in Seersucker benefits the Ogden Museum of Southern Art*
*Monday in New Orleans ~NOLA DEFENDER*
*Zoo-to-Do at Audubon Zoo and they all ‘aksed’ for you!*
*Join Us For Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me -Live! ~WWNO*
Belief in free market economics predicts rejection of science
[image: Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma has alleged that thousands of
scientists working independently over decades are actually part of 'the
greatest hoax' to fake climate science. Photo: via PsyPost]By Eric W. Dolan
20 April 2013
(PsyPost) – A strong belief in a hands off approach to economics is
tightly linked to the rejection of scientific facts such as climate change,
according to research published in *Psychological Science* in late March [NASA
Faked the Moon Landing—Therefore, (Climate) Science Is a Hoax].
“The conspiracist ideation that all of the world’s scientific acade... more »
Exposing The "Nazi" Epithet - Who Started It, Why, How, And Who Benefits!
Saturday, April 20th, was the 124th birthday of Adolf Hitler... It is so
amazing that even to this day this man is so vilified and labeled as the
"Greatest Evil" of history. Knowing now that our so called "History books"
are nothing more than packs of lies and pure propaganda, everyone needs to
take the time to do a re-examination of Adolf Hitler and his place in true
history... Upon doing so, many will discover and be shocked to find out
that Adolf Hitler was not the great evil that he has always been labeled,
but a brave individual who stood up against the true tyranny of criminal... more »
The Combating Terrorism Act vs Justin Trudeau
On Thursday, three days *after* the Boston Marathon bombings, the Cons
still had scheduled an opposition day for Monday - a day on which the
opposition parties set the day's agenda. But then on Friday, an hour after
learning that Justin Trudeau would spend it introducing his Backbenchers'
Spring motion, Government House Leader Peter Van Loan suddenly announced
that opp day was cancelled due to the vital national importance of debating
the Combating Terrorism Act on Monday instead ... because of the Boston
Marathon bombing.
Sure, whatever.
Notable that the S-7 Combating Terrorism Act... more »
Republicans And Their Bankster Buddies Have A Plan To Squeeze Needy College Students
John Kline (R-MN) wants much higher loan rates for students
Just a few days shy of a year ago, there was a great deal of tumult about
conservative Austerity hawks trying to double to interest rate on student
loans.
President Obama begins an all-out push on Friday to get Congress to extend
the low interest rate on federal student loans, White House officials said,
an effort that is likely to become a heated battle along party lines. If
Congress fails to act, the interest rate on the loans, which are taken out
by nearly eight million students each year, will double on July 1, to 6.8
... more »
CODE NAME
Intrigue. Romance. Revolution. It all comes together in this action-packed
documentary film which chronicles the tumultuous birth of a new nation in
East Timor through a never-before-seen perspective.
Kirsty Sword, a young Australian activist, aspired to be a documentary
filmmaker, but instead became a underground operative for the Timorese
resistance in Jakarta code named 'Ruby Blade'. Her task: to become a
conduit of information and instruction for the enigmatic leader of the
resistance, Kay Rala "Xanana" Gusmão, while he was serving life in prison
for his revolutionary activit... more »
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Catherine Mary Stewart, 54.
And here's some good stuff:
1. The number one justified conservative complaint about the press: how
"conservative" and "right-wing" are used interchangably for both folks like
Ronald Reagan and Mitt Romney, on the one hand, and Hitler, on the other.
During the tail end of the Soviet Union, the faction which wanted to keep
communism as it was regularly was referred to as, yes, conservative. Philip
Klein was annoyed by it on Friday.
2. Emily Bazelon on Miranda.
3. Good journalism: excellent look at House and Senate recruiting, from
Shane... more »
Permanently Unemployed
Paul Krugman writes in *The New York Times* that America is creating a new
social class -- the permanently unemployed:
Now, some unemployment is inevitable in an ever-changing economy. Modern
America tends to have an unemployment rate of 5 percent or more even in
good times. In these good times, however, spells of unemployment are
typically brief. Back in 2007 there were about seven million unemployed
Americans — but only a small fraction of this total, around 1.2 million,
had been out of work more than six months.
Then financial crisis struck, leading to a terrifying economic p... more »
A Call For Boycott Against CISPA Supporters (Video)
The Internet recently fought against the incredibly unpopular and
ridiculous “cyber safety” bill called the Stop Online Piracy Act. Online
‘blackouts’ and outspoken critics downright embarrassed and forced the
United States Congress and the media lobbyists to back down from supporting
it while also leading to thousands leaving GoDaddy’s web hosting care due
to the company’s now retracted support of SOPA.
However, Congress and the rest of the world’s governments did not learn.
They and their shadowy counterparts thought they could sneak in bills
within bills – a billception if yo... more »
Spotting a Plesiosaur in the Deep
Dale Drinnon came up with this report that I have not seen before. It
confirms my core conjecture that I expected to see confirmed sooner or
later. Our plesiosaur lives in the deep. It is not air breathing at all
and it stays below the six hundred meter thermocline that separates the
surface waters we do know well from the cold waters of the deep.
My efforts at completely describing this creature are now quite mature. A
number of necessary conjectures have been eyeballed and thus confirmed by
separate witnesses. Sooner or later, one of these will be captured.
The c... more »
Triad of Climate Warmists Climb Down
Let it be said that even the diehards are disengaging from the man made
global warming bandwagon.
Once again for the record. There are two phenomena. Global temperatures
rose a half degree or so through 1995 and then plateaued. They are
prospectively now poised to decline sharply. That may take an additional
decade but it looks like a decline is likely.
While this has been going on, the human production of CO2 has steadily
climbed without a serious pause. There is now likely twice as much CO2 been
added to the atmosphere today as was put out twenty years ago. Therefore... more »
Lab Grown Kidney Tested
This is a beginning, and a solid proof of do-ability. The remaining
problems look almost clear cut and solvable. On top of all that the
threshold for success is actually quite low. Thus the mere step of
replacing one diseased kidney with a partially effective kidney is
practical even with these lousy expectations.
Two dying kidneys cab be replaced one at a time. And as mentioned, the
outcome is still better.
So conservative as this item is, we are far closer to a working protocol
that this suggests. Re-fleshing a failed kidney is an option. That could
lead to the bod... more »
Peruvian Giants
Once again we have further confirmation of the race of Irish giants that
flourished during the Bronze Age when sea based trade became global. The
cause of this giantism is from a genetic flaw that is inheritable. It is
even well understood with historical examples and DNA confirmation. The
only thing missed by most commentators is a clear understanding of the
sheer reach of bronze Age trade and the natural points of contact.
Effectively, these giants are showing up wherever the Atlanteans
established a clear presence. Most likely these giants acted in the same
role as Golia... more »
BP SLICK IN NEW ZEALAND!
IT'S OFFICIAL FOLKSYour Hurricane Creekkeeper in New Zealand??!!
Hurricane Creekkeeper on Hurricane Creek, Photo by Ken Robinson
As your Hurricane Creekkeeper I have been privileged with being the
advocate for one of the most beautiful places on Earth, Hurricane Creek.
Kenneth Robinson will be standing in as Your Hurricane Creekkeeper while I
am away. Let Ken know if you see anything that needs attention...
kennethrobinson1@netzero.com (205-310-0995)
Through my involvement in groups like the Citizens Coal Council and Waterkeeper
Alliance I have become associated with some of the wor... more »
DIY Little Girl Dress from Adult T-Shirt
I usually consider a t-shirt the most boring thing in my wardrobe,
sometimes I try to dress them up a little bit, but usually they are what I
wear just around the house. Who knew with a little bit of sewing, some
ric-rac, and the new heat transfer from Cricut, a simple t-shirt could
become the perfect dress for your little girl?
You will need:
A t-shirt to transform (this one is an adult medium)
2" Grosgrain ribbon, large ric-rac and a smaller grosgrain ribbon
Cricut Heat Transfer
1/4" elastic
The first thing you need to do is cut the neck and sleeves of the shirt
off. Don... more »
URGENT: Boston Bombing Suspects' Aunt ID's Naked/Alive Detainee as Slain Nephew - FBI Lies
Russia warned FBI of suspects AGAIN just 6 MONTHS ago, after repeated
visits to US-backed Chechen terrorists.
*
**April 22, 2013* (LD) - Independent investigative journalist Dan Dicks of
Press For Truth produced a video detailing his interview with the Boston
bombing suspects' aunt where she identifies a naked, cuffed, clearly alive
and well detainee seen in video aired by CNN, as her nephew and Boston
bombing suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Tamerlan Tsarnaev would later be
announced "dead," with injuries covering his body from "head to toe." The
aunt is reportedly in fear for her life.... more »
Scott Aaronson: a prototype of some confusion of IT scientists about physics
*Quantum mechanics is natural, not plagued by problems; maths relevant for
physics worships the rules that are natural for continuous, not discrete,
structures*
I received my copy of Scott Aaronson's book – thanks to him – and I
sometimes find some time to read a chapter or two. So let me post several
comments on my impressions – and generalized comments about thinkers like
him.
First, the book is very witty, narcisistically witty. Its language is very
informal. It's totally OK with me because at least one-half of my parental
background is extremely detached from any world resembli... more »
Monday Morning Linkage
Good morning… These aren’t the linkages you’re looking for… Owen Jones
reviews the hierarchy of death in the wake of the Boston bombing or what
Judith Butler, in Frames of War, might call (un)grievable lives. Deepak
Sarma at Racialicious writes about “Being Brown After the Boston Bomb
Blast.” (Hey the dudes who did it turned out
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The Food Revolution Summit Starts 27 April 2013
The Food Revolution Summit Starts 27 April 2013
*Something’s brewing and I want you to be a part of it!*
On April 27th, top food experts around the globe are coming together to
light your food–fire!
Breakthrough insights. Unknown truths. Join 24 top experts who are changing
the food game!
It’s true! Among the many remarkable participants, from the comfort of your
home, you can spend time with billion-dollar Dej Jam Records co-founder and
good will ambassador for the UN; *Russell Simmons*, food justice visionary
and global voice for farmers and seed purity; *Vandana Shiva*, nutri... more »
BOSTON, ISRAELIS, BALI, JAVA HEAT, BODY DOUBLES
*Surrender at the boat. Reportedly this is Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. He looks
reasonably fit.*
*
*The Boston Bombings are part of a struggle to influence world opinion.
Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk has noted the similarity between
the Boston attacks and Israel's experience with Palestinian suicide
bombings.
Reportedly, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, or his double, is now being treated by
Israeli doctors, at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
Israeli doctor treats Boston terrorist, victims; says 'I'm used to it' / Israeli
doctors in Boston treated injured and suspects... more »
ADVICE: Custom domains - ensure you record blogspot URL
If you have converted your blogspot blog to Custom Domain, you are highly
advised to save the blogspot URL (address) in case your blog ever get
wrongly identified as a spam blog or for TOS (Terms Of Service) violation
especially if for some reasons Google/Blogger had chosen to not give you
the option of requesting for review by clicking the link to review in the
Dashboard. (Do not assume that custom domain blogs are immune to deletion?).
In this case, your only option will be to request for review via the Blogger
Help Forum. You cannot give the custom domain URL for review. Only the ... more »
Crisis Acting needed to amplify & dramatise FEAR PORN
BOSTON (CBS/AP) — 23,181 runners left Hopkinton Monday morning with the
goal of finishing the 117th Boston Marathon. Many of them did, but there
were just two winners.
*Find:* 2013 Boston Marathon Finishers
Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia won the men’s race in three-way sprint down
Boylston Street to finish in 2 hours, 10 minutes, 22 seconds.
[image: Rita Jeptoo of Kenya and Lelisa Desisa Benti of Ethiopia, winners
of the 117th Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. (Photo by Jim Rogash/Getty
Images)]
Rita Jeptoo of Kenya and Lelisa Desisa Benti of Ethiopia, winners of the
117th Boston Marat... more »
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This is a CISPA Blackout
(thanks minds.com)
*For the next 24 hours we will be blacking out the website to raise
awareness of a very controversial bill called CISPA that the government is
trying to sneak in under our noses. A bill that will irreparably destroy
fundamental rights to privacy that citizens everywhere are entitled to.
Please take today as a day of focus and action to learn about this
destructive bill and what you can do to prevent it from becomming a reality.
*
Right now, the US Congress is sneaking in a new law that gives them big
brother spy powers over the entire we... more »
TERRORISM: ‘THEIRS’ OR ‘OURS’?
What’s the difference between delivering a bomb via backpack that kills
innocent civilians and delivering a bomb via drone that kills innocent
civilians? Well, if it’s a bomb delivered by backpack that kills innocent
civilians in the West then it’s an act of ‘terrorism’, but if it’s a bomb
delivered by drone that kills innocent civilians in Yemen or Pakistan or
Afghanistan or Somalia or the Gaza Strip or the West Bank then it’s part of
the ongoing ‘war on terrorism’ and the deaths of innocent civilians is
simply ‘collateral damage’. The bottom line, however, is exactly the same –
in... more »
April 19, 1973
With the big Washington Post story out in the morning, much of the day is
consumed, again, with whether Haldeman and Ehrlichman will stay or go.
The president meets again with Petersen, with the main topic Nixon trying
to push hard on "national security" for the Fielding break-in and any other
Plumbers material Petersen shouldn't get in to. Nixon's line to Petersen is
that "Nothing in terms of break-ins or anything was approved" but that the
Fielding break-in nevertheless is completely justified on national security
grounds -- Nixon says he would have approved it.
In their general c... more »
Your moment of Zen
Heart of the matter. [source unknown]
Regarding Mark Glenn of The Ugly Truth
As many of you know, Mark Glenn of *The Ugly Truth* was the first person to
interview me back in late 2011. Mark has featured many of my blog articles
on The Ugly Truth, and has generally been supportive of my work in the
past. I once considered him to a righteous ally in our common struggle to
expose and resist Jewish tyranny, but after his recent actions and
statements, I no longer view him as a professional, honorable truth-teller
he presents himself as.
I've sat back and watched the drama and back-and-forth attacks between Mark
Glenn on the one hand, and Mike Delaney and Andre... more »
Kierkegaard On Objectivity And Subjectivity
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.*
* Kierkegaard On Imagination.*
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. 126.
"The majority o... more »
Meet & Greet Monday (#MtaGt) - Earth Day Edition
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*
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Plato: "The Measure Of A Man Is What He Does With Power"
*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
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)”
Chuck Wild, Liquid Mind, “When Time Slows (Born Star)”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogldA2Gxl3g
k.d. lang inducted into the canadian music hall of fame at juno awards in regina ... she deserves it!
a little tribute to k.d. lang
[image: Progressive Bloggers]
"A Look to the Heavens"
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
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?"
Conway, South Carolina, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
Genetics: "Native American Populations Descend from Three Key Migrations, Scientists Say"
*"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
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
Actress: Happy birthday mass murderer
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
*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
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
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HILARION April 21, 2013
*
* *
* *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
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
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”
"“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?
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"
People will respond better to "Fire".
Ron Van Dyke on OPPT Enforcement of Filings
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 »
The warmest since last time
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...
*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 »
DEBATE: Patents are enforceable property rights, yes or no?
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 »
Boston Bombing: NATO- Taking the fight to Russia via Georgia/Chechnya ??
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
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
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 - 19 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)
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src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAATUAAAC1CAIAAACxuv8/AAAgAElEQVR4nOy8WcxtW3YWdsquunWb0/7/3nutNddsxxxjzHatvXb3d6e5/XW5KVxx2U7ZBdiFSR... more »
Hermosas criaturas en su hábitat natural - Animales
Por favor visite nuestra página oficial: www.fotofrontera.com
Lindsey Graham... Not Courageous
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’”
* “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 »
"Quiet Desperation..."
"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
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”
*“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
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
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?”
*“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
[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
*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
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
Just in terms of electoral interests, what is the best outcome for the
Republican Party on immigration?
There *Must* Be Gosnells
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
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
*
**
* *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
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
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
[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
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
*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 ...
*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 . . .
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
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
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’
[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
*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
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
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
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 »
FBI Caught in a Web of Lies in Boston
*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’
[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
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
(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
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.
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’
[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
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahwSmcZxBAU&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Nuclear Fangs for the F-35 - Obama's Light Bomber
*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
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
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U.S. Supreme Court asked to hear EPA greenhouse gas challenge – Virginia Supreme Court revives epic suit against Massey Coal
[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?
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!
*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 »
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