Paris by SPOT Satellite (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: The palace of Luxembourg, in the Luxembourg garden, Paris, at sunset. Suomi: Luxembourgin palatsi Luxembourgin puistossa Pariisissa auringon laskun aikaan. Français : Le palais du Luxembourg, dans le jardin du Luxembourg, à Paris, au coucher du soleil. Русский: Люксембургский дворец в Люксембургском саду, Париж, на заходе солнца. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
This panorama is made from 8 photos. Hugin and Enblend were used for stitching. Gimp was used for some slight post-processing. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Paris Sunset from the Louvre window (Photo credit: Dimitry B)
Where are they Now? - A-Z of Bristol bands - Songwriters - Musicians (Photo credit: brizzle born and bred)Meet & Greet Monday (#MtaGt)
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*by Ken*
You probably thought the cushy job of U.S. ambassador to France was all
locked up for that Mega-Bundler Guy. Turns out Mega-Bundler Guy has either
pressing business holding him out of consideration or maybe -- according to
the *New York Post* (take it for what it's worth) -- some more personal
problems. Which means the job is open again, at least as of this report
from the *Washington Post*'s Loopmaster, Al Kamen, from a couple of days
ago (links onsite).
*Paris is open! Update those resumes.*
*The U.S. ambassador's residence in Paris*
By Al Kamen
Get those resumes out!... more »
Why I won’t be buying the govt’s shares
Even if it does go ahead, I won’t be buying shares in the government’s
non-privatisation1 of electricity generators.
Why?
Well, in the first instance, David Shearer and Russel Norman have
demonstrated that what can be created with politics can also be killed with
it. Says Oliver Hartwich,
Practically from one second to the next, and with no previous warning, let
alone any kind of meaningful stakeholder consultation, the rules of the
energy market were called into question… The strong public reactions to the
proposal, as well as the substantial losses for energy companies listed... more »
The War on Drugs is a Failure
..we don’t treat alcoholics like this. Starring Chris Christie, Ron Paul,
and the dubious powers of Autotune.
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Your moment of Zen
The magic bus as envisioned by Science and Mechanics magazine in 1950. [via
Roger Wilkerson.]
“…to whenever castration and office has been…”
*OFFICER (giving order): “Send reinforcements, we’re going to advance.”
N.C.O. (passing on order): “Send three and four-pence, we’re going to a
dance.”*
What happens when two of the most popular digital voices speak to each
other? Artist Michael Silber asked Google Voice and Siri to talk to each
other. Chinese whispers has nothing on this:
[Hat tip Noodle Food]
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Snapshots from the Performance
Photo credit: JACOB BELCHER/HARVARD OFA
Awwwwww... Frank Luntz Gets Outed-- And Then Gets Poutraged
A couple days ago we embedded a tape of Hate Talk Radio host Mark
Levin's
show, which has millions of listeners with no capacity for discernment.
On
it he denounced Paul Ryan as an Establishment shill and encouraged his
listeners-- the ones I just referred to as lacking discernment-- to vote
against him in the future. That might be great news for Rob Zerban or--
on
a longshot-- Hillary Clinton-- but Establishment Republicans just
*hate*when that happens. And it happens a lot, both from Levin and Big
Daddy
Limbaugh. And that was the topic of the latest skirmish in the GOP civil
war ... more »
The Diamond Blue
Thanks to http://3es.weebly.com/ for this song. It's not exactly the sort
of music I prefer, but oh, it could not be more à *propos*.
*
"Dear God"*
hope you got the letter, and...
I pray you can make it better down here.
I don't mean a big reduction in the price of beer
but all the people that you made in your image, see
them starving on their feet 'cause they don't get
enough to eat from God, I can't believe in you
Dear God, sorry to disturb you, but... I feel that I should be heard
loud and clear. We all need a big reduction in amount of tears
and all the people that you made in your ... more »
Nueva colección de rosas de colores para el Día de las Madres (10 de Mayo)
*Nota:* Click aquí para ver más *imágenes de rosas*
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Racial privilege, or one law for all?
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The so called “constitutional conversation” initiated by the Racist Party
in their coalition deal with Nation is less about discussing a constitutionthan it is about entrenching racial
privilege the Treaty, right down to “implementation of [fraudulent] Treaty
principles in the workplace.”
Canterbury University's David Round argues the point with the Racist
Party’s Te Ururoa Flavell on Sunday’s Q+A:
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Chicago Student Boycott: Israel and Malcolm set the record straight
“Hundreds of Chicago students are taking up the mantle in the fight against
the role of standardized tests in public school closures as they walked out
of a state exam Wednesday. Their message: “We are over-tested,
under-resourced and fed up!” Common Dreams. “The only place that students
should be during the school day is in [...]
Why our health care costs so much
Ezra posts a fascinating long read today about an experimental health care
program that saves money. It's based on a simple concept that doesn't
require costly medical equipment. It basically consists of regular home
visits to housebound elderly patients by registered nurses. It kept these
patients who suffered from chronic but easily treatable conditions from
ending up in hospitals. Apparently it worked too well.
But Health Quality Partners, with its emphasis on continuous
nurse-to-patient contact, did work. Of the 15 programs, four improved
patient outcomes without increasing cos... more »
Agri Econ 9: On Agrarian Reform and Agri Credit
Below are some exchanges that I and some friends made last January 18-20,
2013 in my facebook wall. Posting their comments with their permission.
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Tibs Filbert Arsenal Arceño Hi noy, for me one main factor why local
harvested rice have higher prices compared to other asian countries is land
ownership. As practiced, most land planted w/ rice are being owned by
absentee landowners. Since these lands are cultivated by tenants, workers
or renters—a portion of price of produces are considered before taking into
account the base price for the market. While in Vietnam majority... more »
Burned rainforest vulnerable to grass invasion
[image: Aerial view of forest edge in Mato Grosso, the Southern Amazon.
Photo: mongabay.com]
24 April 2013 (mongabay.com) – Rainforests that have been affected by even
low-intensity fires are far more vulnerable to invasion by grasses, finds a
new study published in special issue of the journal *Philosophical
Transactions of the Royal Society B*. The findings are significant because
they suggest that burned forests may be more susceptible to subsequent
fires which may burn more intensely due to increased fuel loads.
The research is based on an eight-year study involving experimen... more »
Marriage Proposal - That Will Make you Smile
At Daily Kos - 6 minutes of your time
"I Think I Want to Marry You." A Google Lunchroom Video. (But DOMA's Not
Making It Easy)
Petition: Tell ABC, NBC, and CBS News to cover climate change
[image: In 2012, ABC, CBS, and NBC evening news programs devoted 92 news
segments to the royal family, versus 12 news segments on climate change.
Graphic: Media Matters]
(Media Matters) – Twelve. That's the combined number of segments that ABC,
CBS, and NBC's nightly news programs devoted to climate change throughout
all of 2012. This is woefully inadequate. We need coverage that's
consistent with the importance of dealing with this issue.
That's why we and the Sierra Club are joining the League of Conservation
Voters in asking those three nightly news programs to do a better job ... more »
Consumer society
I started worrying about the ruination of our planet at an early age, long
before they started calling us treehuggers. I was about 12 years old when I
first heard the phrase planned obsolescence. I recall being indignant even
at that young age at the calculated wastefulness of the corporate profit
seekers.
I remember before that, when things were built to last using high quality
materials and engineered so they were easily repairable when parts
inevitably wore out. More importantly, the cost of parts and repair work
were low enough to make it worth it to extend the life of the prod... more »
Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, April 28th, 2013
Yes, it is Sunday, and first I want to let everyone know that I am feeling
much better today.... Better than I have for the last two weeks.... I have
been suffering from a head cold, migraine headaches, body chills, etc...
Many of the symptoms of Influenza but without the extra great things that
come along with having the Flu itself.... I have noticed that many people
have had much the same illness that I have had, and it does make me
wonder.... Are the criminals wanting to see us more sick, and/or dead
responsible for many of these new sicknesses that we all are encountering?
I am... more »
Yachtsmen, rats, global warming threaten Chile’s humboldt penguins – ‘This area used to be completely filled with penguins and birds’
[image: Humboldt penguins. Humboldt penguins in Chile are in severe
decline, due to Yachtsmen, rats, and global warming. Photo: DAVID W CERNY /
REUTERS]
28 April 2013 (Sapa-AFP) – Several dozen Humboldt penguins sun themselves
along the coast of an islet in central Chile where the majestic birds
coming here to nest once numbered in the thousands. Humboldt penguins -
which nest only in parts of Chile and Peru - over the years have become
decimated by human encroachment, rat infestations and unforgiving weather
currents carried by unusually warm El Nino ocean temperatures, naturalis... more »
Sunday Question for Liberals
Since I think I'm writing about this soon: holding spending the same, which
do you prefer: higher taxes (written, let's say, by liberals, so making
taxes more progressive) or taxes where they are and a larger deficit?
Sunday Question for Conservatives
George W. Bush: conservative president, or not? What's underrated about
him? What does the conventional critique get right?
What Good Grad Students Do at AERA
Filed under: CHALK FACE: General News & Commentary
"Dog 'Cries' At Grave: 'Wiley Crying Over Grandma' (VIDEO)"
*"Dog 'Cries' At Grave: 'Wiley Crying Over Grandma' (VIDEO)"*
by The Huffington Post
"Brace yourselves, because this video is probably going to make you cry. In
this viral video, a service dog named Wiley appears to cry at the grave of
his handler's grandmother. The video was posted to YouTube by user
sarahvarley13 on April 14 and had received more than 79,000 views at the
time of writing. It was also posted to the website of the Lockwood Animal
Rescue Center (LARC), a Ventura County, Calif., shelter that specializes in
the care of wolfdogs and horses.
The short clip shows W... more »
Sunday Classics: My dark history with the rolllicking opening of Act II of Donizetti's "Elixir of Love"
*At the Met this past October, conductor Maurizio Benini (with baritone
Mariusz Kwiecien as the blustering Sgt. Belcore) seemed to think the thing
to do with this wonderful little chorus that opens Act II of L'Elisir
d'amore is to slam-bang your way through it. I think we've already heard a
better solution.*
*by Ken*
Partway through the spring trimester of my junior year in college I stopped
going to classes. Just stopped clean. Oh, it wasn't an intentional class
stoppage at the outset. It just felt better not going than going. After a
while, though, it became a clean break. I kne... more »
Hamas teaches Palestinian schoolboys how to fire Kalashnikovs - Telegraph
'Palestinian schoolboys are learning how to fire Kalashnikovs, throw
grenades and plant improvised explosive devices as part of a programme
run
by Hamas's education ministry.
The scheme has been criticised by Palestinian human rights groups, who
point out that Hamas has previously banned sport from the school
curriculum
on the grounds that there is not enough time for it.'
More here
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/palestinianauthority/10023810/Hamas-teaches-Palestinian-schoolboys-how-to-fire-Kalashnikovs.html
My,
aren't Hamas truly lovely people. It wonder how... more »
BOSTON BOMBERS, GULEN, RUSSIA, ACTORS
*Left - The boy-loving David Ferrie, who transported drugs for the CIA.
Right - Ferrie's 15-year-old student Lee Harvie Oswald.*
*
*
Tamerlan Tsarnaev may be like Lee Harvie Oswald.
There were two Oswalds.
Only one of them was shot dead.
*The CIA's Gulen (left) who helps Erdogan (right) run Turkey.*
The Boston Bombers' relative, Graham Fuller of the CIA, is an associate of
the Turkish Moslem called Fethullah Gulen.
*The CIA's Graham Fuller, who is related to the Boston Bombers, the
Tsarnaevs.*
Gulen is the CIA asset who helps the CIA to control Turkey.
Fuller was was one of the... more »
Petition of the Century in Sweden
http://removingtheshackles.blogspot.ca/2013/04/petition-of-century-in-sweden.html
"You should know that we Banks own the courts in this country! We will
crush you like a little bug."
S-E Bank Chief
Executive Lawyer
Goteborgsposten, 23
Januari 2000
The Fight in Sweden against the crooked criminal cabal banksters continues!
138319817 the Petition of the Century in Sweden
15 Must-Read Books (And 2 Must-Watch Movies) For Political Science Students
Consider this a prompt for an open thread. I’m looking for books to
recommend to students to both give them a hint of what academic political
science is “really” like but also to get them excited about the systematic
study of politics. No single book can do it all, but a summer reading list
can
Continue reading
Pro-ALEC Editorial - Recklessly Misleads Public
From March 2013
In an interview, Bill Meierling, ALEC's spokesman, …. did say that ALEC
has no plans to reveal its corporate and legislative members, identify
individuals representing corporations within ALEC, or open up their model
bill task force meetings.
Let me rephrase and repeat that in case you did not understand it the first
time:
In an interview, Bill Meierling, ALEC's spokesman, …. did say that
*ALEC has no plans to reveal its corporate and legislative members, *
*ALEC has no plans identify individuals representing corporations within
ALEC, or *
*ALEC has no plan... more »
Does Anyone Think The Republican Party Is The Same As A Garden Variety Fascist Party? Consider North Carolina
Just how the GOP, financed by wealthy fascist Art Pope, took over the
entire North Carolina state government and immediately turned to subverting
democracy and cementing their own power, is a well-known story, at least in
circles where people care about such things. And barely a day passes
without the Republican extremists in the legislature and the Republican
extremist governor working their asses off-- on behalf of consolidating and
retaining power. This week, for example, the House, largely along
party-lines, passed a controversial voter ID law meant to disenfranchise
African-... more »
Pre #commoncore kindergarten and #commoncore kindergarten
Thanks to Sara Wottwa for the image collections below. You can read about
these images on her blog
at http://nocommonsenseeducation.blogspot.com/2013/04/kindergarten-comparison.html
. Kindergarten (Pre Common Core) Common Core Kindergarten It’s never
too early to start getting your five-year olds ready for college and
careers! Someone has to say it! “Time to grow up!” [...]
Moore (NC - ALEC): Women - Duct Tape Your Nipples
“You know what they say, duct tape fixes everything,” Republican state Rep.
Tim Moore agreed.
*NC lawmaker: Women should ‘duct tape’ nipples to stay out of jail*
By David Edwards
Thursday, February 14, 2013 16:18 EDT
North Carolina Republican state *Rep. Tim Moore* says that women can
protect themselves from a new law that makes baring female breasts illegal
by simply applying duct tape to their nipples.
On Wednesday, the state House Judiciary Committee C approved House Bill 34,
which makes it a Class H felony to purposefully expose “private parts” for
the “purpose of arousing or... more »
Tar Sands Refinery Explosion Under-reported
Saw this on Crooks and Liars
April 27, 2013 04:36 PM
*Explosion Reported At Detroit Tar Sands Refinery*
By Susie Madrak
Another explosion, this time near Detroit:
DETROIT (WWJ) – BREAKING – There has been an explosion at the Marathon
Detroit Refinery and a mandatory evacuation order is in effect for the area
just off of Schafer from Ropp down to Dix and all the way down to Outer
Drive per Melvindale police.
Reports of the explosion came in from several listeners to WWJ
Newsradio 950 just before 6 p.m. and it appears that one of the tankers on
the site may have exploded.
... more »
Mohawk Nation News 'Asset Stripping'
ASSET
STRIPPING
Posted on April 28, 2013
MNN. Apr. 28. 2013. Canada will be raiding bank accounts to take
people’s money. Just like the way the Corporation of Canada passed a
statute making itself the trustee of our ever growing $70.5 trillion
Indian Trust Fund. The wealth of Canadians, all created by genocide and
theft of our natural resources, will be plundered by the shareholders of
Replace 'Pink Ribbon' Campaign with 'Say No to Genotoxins' Campaign
The New York Times has an interesting and lengthy discussion of the Pink
Ribbon campaign 'against' cancer. The discussion emphasizes the potential
drawbacks of frequent mammogram screening. There has been considerable
debate about the relative safety and costs/benefits of annual mammograms
for women, especially for those under 50. This article focuses on this
debate and the costs/benefits. It does not address the causes of breast
cancer, only detection, diagnoses, screening and treatment:
Orenstein, P. (25 April 2013) Our Feel-Good War on Breast Cancer The New
York Times,
http://w... more »
Yaqui in Sonora invite President Obama for government to government consultation
Yaqui
in Sonora invite President Obama for government to government
consultation
By Brenda Norrell
Censored News Breaking News Exclusive
www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
POTAM PUEBLO, Sonora, Mexico -- Yaqui in Sonora, Mexico, have invited
President Obama to meet with Yaquis in a government to government
meeting in the Yaqui village of Potam, during Obama’s visit to Mexico on
May 2 -- 3. Urging
Son of Oilman - "Time to Let Go of 20th Century"
A perfect example of how legislators choose not to listen and silence the
voice of the public – when it comes to fulfilling the needs of the fossil
fuel industry – regardless of whether it is in the US or Canada.
A perfect example of the potential of the next generation - in regards to
climate change.
20 minutes well worth your time.
His passion and rhetoric sometimes make it hard to listen to - and you have
to listen carefully -
BUT this is important!!!!
*Lee Brain, son of an oil man,* receives a standing ovation and brings a
crowd to tears after delivering powerful & inspirat... more »
Adrian Dix, Fighting Against Stephen Harper To Protect British Columbia
Adrian Dix, firm, concise, the only leader fighting to protect British
Columbia from the heavy tar stained hands of Stephen Harper.
Grab a coffee, put your feet up, watch the next premier of British Columbia
speak to a national audience, and unlike Christy Clark, Adrian doesn`t
embarrass us with sounding like valley girl*.."I think, ya know" *
http://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=914784&playlistId=1.1257498&binId=1.811561&playlistPageNum=1
The Straight Goods
Cheers Eyes Wide Open
Are White People the New "Niggers"?
Controversial title and video from Joe and John at *The White Voice*, but a
must watch folks. Think about it.
From the video:
*"If you define 'Nigger' as someone whose lifestyle is defined by others,
whose opportunities are defined by others, whose role in society is defined
by others, the good news is you don't have to be Black to be a 'Nigger' in
this society. Most of the people in America are 'Niggers'."*
*- Ron Dellums, former Mayor of Oakland and California Congressman
(1971-1998) *
How true is that statement? Are White people in America allowed to define
their own lifestyl... more »
POTUS - Correspondence Dinner comments and humor
For any of you out there - who like me - don't get CSPAN
My favorite story:
*I know Republicans are still sorting out what happened in the elections of
2012. *
*One thing they all agree on is that they need to do a better job of
reaching out to minorities. *
*Call me self-centered, but I can think of one minority they can start with*
* *
*(and he raises his hand) *
*Hello????????*
* *
*Think of me as a trial run.*
* *
*See how it goes.*
Yeh - it would be sell if the Republicons reached out to the president.
The Every-Country-For-Itself Face of the Global Food Insecurity Crisis
Consider these two realities. (1) The United Nations World Food Programme
toils to keep millions of people alive (2) in the same African nations
where affluent grain-importing countries like Saudi Arabia, China and South
Korea are busy buying or negotiating long-term leasing rights on key
agricultural lands.
*As of mid-2012, hundreds of land acquisition deals had been negotiated or
were under negotiation, some of them exceeding a million acres. A World
Bank analysis of these “land grabs” reported that at least 140 million
acres were involved - an area that exceeds the cropland d... more »
Amen to That, Babs
From the mouth of former First Lady and Presidential Mom, Barb Bush:
Amen to that, Babs
ALEC - keyword search laugh of the day
I actually had someone come into my blog with this series of search words -
I would not lie to you:
*how much per diem do I get at american legislative exchange council*
What a bozo.
Must be a future member of ALEC!
The answer:
Buttwipe - your per diem is 100%.
Corporations pay for your airfare, your parking, your hotel, your
registration.
The per diem is known as an "ALEC coporate scholarhip"
In addition:
The ALEC corporations wine and dine you while you are there and make you
offers of great consequence so they can get you to do their bidding.
When it comes to ALEC meetings:
Don't w... more »
GOP - At War With Itself and Losing
Great Article – really a must read – entertaining and informational.
Limited Snips from a really good article
*Whole article is: *
*>>>HERE<<<*
*A Republican Party Held Captive by Its Radical Base*
May 1, 2013 | by Lou Dubose
Reporters appreciate the annual Conservative Political Action Conference.
It never fails to provide good copy.
Louie Gohmert? The short, bald Teabagger who has accomplished nothing in
the six years as he has represented his East Texas district—other than
establish himself as a cable news curiosity whose comments are so over the
top that they go viral in 24 h... more »
ALEC Educational Policy - "Separate and Wholly Unequal" in Louisiana
The Louisiana Voice has been on top of the evilness of ALEC - since way
back when.
Today they published an extra-ordinarily long - yet very information
article, on how the "separate and wholly unequal" educational policies of
the American Legislative Exchange Council have failed Louisiana.
EDITOR’S NOTE: LouisianaVoice traditionally addresses state political
events as they occur. Our posts generally run between 1,000 and 1,500 words
in length. Recently, however, attorney Nancy Picard, a Metairie law firm
partner, submitted the following 4,000-word essay that examines the
complicate... more »
Just this once, we’re letting you ask us!
*SUNDAY, APRIL 28, 2013*
*About our fourth annual fund-raising drive:* Just this once, we’re letting
you ask us about our conversations with sitting vice presidents.
See our new post, straight below.
We’re also letting you ask us about our fourth “annual” fund-raising
drive—the fourth in fifteen years.
Yes, our fund-raising drive is still on. To join all the fun:
Just click here.
سرية FBI برامج التجسس
الحالة 04:13-MJ-00234 وثيقة 3 قدم في TXSD في 04/22/13 الصفحة 1 من 13UNITED
STATES المحكمة الجزئيةمقاطعة جنوب تكساسهيوستن شعبةIN WARRANT RE للبحث عن
هدف §COMPUTER في مقر UNKNOWN § القضية رقم H-13-234M§§مذكرة وORDERوقد طبقت
الحكومة لبحث المادة 41 وأمر الاستيلاء استهداف جهاز كمبيوتر يدعى تستخدم
لانتهاك الاحتيال الاتحادية البنك، وسرقة الهوية، وقوانين الأمن الكمبيوتر. ويقال
إن مجهولين :: أنهم ارتكبوا هذه الجرائم باستخدام حساب بريد إلكتروني معين عن
طريق الكمبيوتر غير معروف في مكان مجهول. سيتم إنجاز البحث من قبل خلسة تثبيت
البرنامج مصممة ليس فقط لاستخراج بعض السجلات الإلكترونية تخزين ولكن... more »
Secret FBI Spying software
Case 4:13-mj-00234 Document 3 Filed in TXSD on 04/22/13 Page 1 of 13
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS
HOUSTON DIVISION
IN RE WARRANT TO SEARCH A TARGET §
COMPUTER AT PREMISES UNKNOWN § CASE No. H-13-234M
§
§
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
The Government has applied for a Rule 41 search and seizure warrant
targeting a computer allegedly used to violate federal bank fraud, identity
theft, and computer security laws. Unknown persons are said:: to have
committed these crimes using a particular email account via an unknown
computer at an unknown location. The search would be ... more »
That Decision Just Got a Lot Easier
Looks like I'll be voting NDP in the upcoming British Columbia elections.
I had some qualms about backing the NDP or my party of choice, the Greens,
especially when it appeared the NDP already have this election in the bag.
Problem solved. The Greens aren't fielding a candidate in my riding.
They're contesting 58 of the 85 ridings and mine isn't one of them. I'm
hoping the Greens have stood down to avoid undermining the NDP's chances of
ousting the Liberals in a riding that *The Tyee* has concluded is "too
close to call."
Oh well the Liberals and *Christy Clark* have to go bu... more »
F-35 Cyber-Warplane, Cyber-Vulnerable
One of the big selling points of the F-35 is the warplane's stealth
electronics. The F-35's systems are so advanced that the maker had to
write almost ten-million lines of onboard software code to make them
work. That's about six times more computer code than is needed for an
F-18.
All that code runs elaborate sensors that, unlike radar, allow the F-35 to
gather information without generating its own electronic emissions that
would allow an enemy to spot it. The F-35 relies on information gained
elsewhere and transmitted to it. This data enters the F-35 through
electronic po... more »
Mobile device giant Samsung admits to using tin linked to child labor, deforestation – Apple mum on sourcing
[image: Pools of stagnant water and the cratered landscape of this PT Timah
tin mine have replaced forest and farmland. Mobile device giant Samsung has
admitted to using tin sourced from the controversial mining operation on
the Indonesian island of Bangka, where unregulated mining kills 150 miners
a year and causes substantial environmental damage Photo: Ulet Ifansasti]
25 April 2013 (mongabay.com) – Mobile device giant Samsung has admitted to
using tin sourced from a controversial mining operation on the Indonesian
island of Bangka, where unregulated mining kills 150 miners a yea... more »
Rhinos now extinct in Mozambique’s Limpopo National Park – Poachers include park rangers
[image: Poachers have likely killed off the last rhinos in Mozambique's
Limpopo National Park. Park rangers are among the poachers. Photo:
mongabay.com]
25 April 2013 (mongabay.com) – Poachers have likely killed off the last
rhinos in Mozambique's Limpopo National Park, according to a park official
who spoke with *Portugal News*.
Park director António Abacar said that no rhinos have been sighted in
Limpopo National Park since January, “which means that the ones that lived
in the park are probably dead”.
Abacar blamed poachers, including park rangers, noting that 30 employees
a... more »
Why elk are robbing birds of nesting habitat as Arizona climate changes rapidly
[image: A Red-faced Warbler in its nest. Warblers are threatened by rapid
climate change as elk eat the plants in which the birds nest. Photo: Sonya
Auer]
By Sonya Auer, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
26 April 2013
(LiveScience) – Plants and animals in a given area form an ecological
system of interacting species. Impacts on one, or just a few, species can
ripple throughout the system and have indirect effects on other species
within a larger community.
Many plants and animals are sensitive to shifts in temperature and
precipitation and subsequently relocate to more suitabl... more »
Rep.Trey Gowdy Says More Benghazi Hearings Are Coming Quickly...
*I love starting my day with Trey.*
Days of Bush: Manufactured all the way down!
*SUNDAY, APRIL 28, 2013*
*Was George Bush a good, decent person:* Was President George W. Bush “more
than a composite of swagger and smirk?” Was he “also a kind man with a
gentle heart who should be remembered as such?”
We don’t know, although we certainly think that is possible. That said, we
can’t say it hugely matters. The decisions and conduct of a president are
more important than the question of what he was “really like.”
At any rate, Kathleen Parker is saying those things about Bush in this
morning’s Washington Post. She draws upon this methodology:
PARKER (4/28/13): *Everyo... more »
Workers' Memorial Day
Today is Workers' Memorial Day, and I didn't know this:
Workers' Memorial Day was started by the Canadian Union of Public Employees
(CUPE) in 1984. The Canadian Labour Congress declared an annual day of
remembrance in 1985 on April 28, which is the anniversary of a
comprehensive Workers Compensation Act (refer to the entry Workplace Safety
& Insurance Board), passed in 1914. In 1991, the Canadian Parliament passed
an Act respecting a National Day of Mourning for persons killed or injured
in the workplace, making April 28 an official Workers’ Mourning Day.
As I know well, workers ar... more »
Torture is Still a Crime
Just in case anyone has forgotten. Just in case the shamelessness of our
current political culture has caused you to lose your moral and legal
bearings. Beating people until they answer questions, driving people mad
through sleep deprivation, systematically humiliating powerless human
beings, mutilating people's genitals, threatening the families of
prisoners, stress positions, water-boarding, etc., etc., ... it's all
torture and it's all wrong and it's all illegal.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/04/19/the-crime-of-torture/
Why Mulcair Shouldn't Be Trusted to Govern Canada.
Any doubts whether T. "Tony" Mulcair is ready to govern Canada are resolved
by his actions in the modest controversy over the Supreme Court of Canada's
handling of the 1981 constitutional patriation case.
Author Frederic Bastien contends two justices of the SCC, Justice Willard
Estey and Chief Justice Bora Laskin, made inappropriate disclosures of the
court's deliberations.
Estey, Bastien claims, told British officials the court was dealing with
the patriation issue. Laskin allegedly told British and Canadian officials
that the justices were divided on the question and suggested ... more »
Ed Balls in Stoke
Stoke-on-Trent Central Labour Party and the potters' union Unity hosted a
members' and supporters' question and answer session with the "most
irritating man in British politics" yesterday. And as today is Ed Balls Day,
there has never been a more opportune moment to look at what the shadow
chancellor had to say.
*On trade unions* The last Labour governments did not strike the right
balance between the party and its trade union support, acknowledging there
was some understandable frustration on their part. Labour should never take
the link for granted, nor, for that matter, trade un... more »
Puerto Rico: Chupacabras Update, 04.28.2013
INEXPLICATA contributing editor José A. Martínez Echeverría of Project
Argus-PR has posted as sequence of photographs of alleged Chupacabras
depredations at the property of Rafael "Tigre" Flores. He writes: "New
information provided by researcher José Pérez indicates that the
creature
returned to Tigre's property, where it attacked once more, killing two
piglets. Another one is missing."
For more information please visit Mr. Martínez's site at
http://historiasufologicasenpuertoricoyexterior.wordpress.com/2013/04/28/nuevos-ataques-de-entidad-anomala-en-guayama-puerto-rico/
Inexplica... more »
bangladesh factory fire: consumers are not the problem, or the solution
As I write this, the death toll in the recent Bangladesh factory fire nears
350. That number is expected to grow, as scores of people are still trapped
under giant blocks of concrete, and not expected to survive. Six people
have been arrested in connection with the conditions in the factory.
This fire is only the latest (and worst) in a long series of factory fires
in Bangladesh's booming garment industry.
After a fire killed 112 garment workers at Tazreen Fashions in November,
clothing brands and retailers rejected a union-sponsored proposal to
improve safety throughout Bangladesh'... more »
Do My Blogs Count?
This blog site is a virtual collection of educators writing about
education. For many of us, then, we have already ventured into the Brave
New World of scholarship that academia has refused to acknowledge. Please,
dear reader, consider venturing to this blog post of mine about “a riskier,
less tidy mode of scholarly production.” I’d love to [...]
Duncan Protest Planned at AERA
from Ann Berlak at Rethinking Schools: ________________________ Reclaim
AERA: Protest Arne Duncan Speech April 26, 2013 by rethinkingschoolsblog By
Ann Berlak For the first time since I can remember some members of the
American Educational Research Association (AERA)—the largest association of
educators and educational researchers in the world—are taking a public
stand at AERA’s annual meeting in [...]
The President as Financial Planner
He and Michelle seem inattentive to their own finances:
The Obamas paid $45,046 in mortgage interest in 2012, which appears from
the disclosure statement to be at a 5.625% interest rate with Northern
Trust. That suggests an outstanding principal balance of about $800,000.
On the other hand, the bulk of their investments are in Treasury notes.
Based on the disclosures, I estimate they hold about $3 million in Treasury
notes (also held by Northern Trust), yielding 0.71% if averaging a
five-year maturity.
By selling some of those Treasuries and paying off the mortgage, they would
ef... more »
Brave New World
*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy*
The origin of the title of Aldous Huxley's *Brave New World* is found in
Shakespeare's "The Tempest", specifically Miranda's speech, Act V, Scene I:
O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in't.
—William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act V, Scene I, ll. 203–206
Shakespeare's Miranda (The Tempest) had grown up on an isolated island. She
had known only her father, servants, spirits and an "enslaved savage".
There was one notable exception: Ariel, "...a spirit of the air", ... more »
How Long Before Half the Gays Will Vote Republican?
Very nice; not for me
There was a time when no self-respecting son of Ireland or Italy, not to
mention the children of immigrants from Eastern Europe, would consider
voting for he stuffed shirt party of richie rich Republicans. Republicans
were class enemies and Democrats were working for the betterment of working
families. Republicans backed busting their unions to keep them down, while
Democrats helped expand the middle class by passing minimum wage laws,
extending the franchise, outlawing child labor, mandating collective
bargaining, writing legislation to protect employees at the... more »
My Thoughts On This National Day of Mourning
Today marks the National Day of Mourning in remembrance of Canadian workers
killed either on the job or from work-related diseases. Its a sombre day
and an important one. I'll be the first to admit that prior to moving here
I didn't really think all that much about safety on the job. Mainly this
was because my work environment and the nature of my work were very
different from what it is now. I recall a time about 10 years ago when I
had to evacuate a school because of a fire alarm. Yes, the building was
actually on fire as it turned out but fortunately no one was hurt). Other... more »
Israeli police quiz IRA suspect
Terrorist scum are terrorist scum are terrorist scum.
More here
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-188399/Israeli-police-quiz-IRA-suspect.html
This sentence I found most interesting and may help to explain the BBC's
position on Northern Ireland and Israel.
'In hardline Catholic districts of Belfast it is common to see
pro-Palestinian slogans painted on walls, while in staunchly Protestant
areas Israeli flags are sometimes flown alongside British flags and
loyalist paramilitary banners.'
Making The Mighty Nervous
Stephen Harper has greeted the new leader of the Liberal Party with
mockery. It is the same response he had for both Stephane Dion and Michael
Ignatieff. But don't be fooled, Paul Wells writes in *Macleans*. Justin
Trudeau has got Harper rattled. Consider his attack on Trudeau at Margaret
Thatcher's funeral:
All Harper had to do was zip up, and Trudeau’s comments would have stood
alone for all to judge by their lights. He didn’t figure that out until
after he had used a funeral to pick a fight. For the leader of a party that
will be lucky indeed if it can simply stop losing seats... more »
The United Klingon Independence Party
Kingdom, surely...? Anyway, it seems the heat is on UKIP, and it's about
time. Why? Here's why.
Physical exercise stops you from being gay. Unborn disabled children should
be aborted. Nigel Farage admits UKIP candidates could be former BNP members,
never mind, at least he's honest, also lap dancing clubs are alright. It
seems the limit for UKIP is anti-semitism, which I suppose we should all be
grateful for. At least holocaust denial will get you kicked off the ballot
paper.
This is the United Kingdom Independence Party. This is, of course, the
ugly, provincial underbelly of Britis... more »
Untitled
*They’re Back: Loomis and Payton Return With a Vengeance ~Saints Tailgate*
*Areas of coastline gone on NOAA charts ~Amy Wold* ~Yellow Cotton Bay,
officially, no longer exists.
The bay, along with Bayou Jacquin and 29 other places in Plaquemines
Parish, have been lost from Louisiana’s shrinking coast.
*Tough Times on the Mississippi. Maybe not so tough ~Quinta Scott*
*Jazz Fest Food: Poppy Tooker's Top Picks 2013*
73 words to sum up broken Britain and send a chill down your spine - The Commentator
' A badly spelled, grammatically incorrect status update of 73 words is
more pithy in its indictment of broken Britain than anything I could
write...'
More here
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/3351/73_words_to_sum_up_broken_britain_and_send_a_chill_down_your_spine
Winds of change ...Malaysia is next. What are you waiting for?
Anwar Ibrahim once seemed a certainty to rule Malaysia. Then came his
arrest and imprisonment. Now, with his party shaking up the establishment,
is he set to finally fulfil his ambition? By Mark Baker.
Read more:
http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/winds-of-change-20130422-2i947.html#ixzz2RkxdluTQ
[image: Rabble rousing … Anwar Ibrahim on the hustings in Kuala Lumpur.]
Rabble rousing … Anwar Ibrahim on the hustings in Kuala Lumpur. *Photo:
Austral Press*
It's nearing midnight in Penang. In a park surrounded by decaying concrete
apartment blocks, a swelling crowd waits patiently amid the... more »
Fascist, fascist, fascist...
Calling someone a fascist, is the go to response of the so many of the
ill-educated, hatemongers of the left and one of them tried to post a link
to a really nasty piece on a blog that seems to have been setup just to
attack this post of mine.
I haven't posted this individual's comment because the link is to the sort
of hate-filled, lies and left-wing crap that is all too prevalent on the
internet. here's the comment, if you want to read the whole piece you can
follow the link.
Here's one extract with my response.
'The stupid suggestion that Jordan is the real Palestine was a br... more »
Not criminally responsible: Some common misconceptions
An NCR verdict does not mean a person gets to "walk" free, nor can anyone
with a mental illness use the defence to avoid jail.
Story here
•MYTH: An NCR verdict means a person gets to “walk” free.
A person deemed NCR does not get to walk out of the courtroom free to go
about their lives as they wish. They are placed under the authority of a
provincial review board and sent to a psychiatric facility for treatment
until they are no longer deemed a “significant risk.” Some spend more time
hospital than they would have spent in jail if convicted of a crime.
•MYTH: Anyone with a mental... more »
The mob rules – the police merely look on | Dispatch International
'Sweden is no longer a genuine democracy. The mob rules, while the police
watch. Two journalists have been prevented from doing their job. And
although the photographer who documented it all and sent the pictures
to Scanpix – a photo agency that every Swedish media outlet has access to –
nobody published them.'
More here http://www.d-intl.com/the-mob-rules-the-police-merely-look-on
This is what happens when left wing fascists take control of the streets.
DILBIT does Neanderthal
CBC : Top U.S. climate expert calls Conservatives 'Neanderthal'
Former NASA scientist James Hansen fires back at Natural Resources Minister
Joe Oliver
Foreign special interests and their deep pocket puppets
Previous DILBIT toons
.
Ex-BNP councillor switches to Labour
'Maureen Stowe, the Burnley councillor who left the British National party
in February, has joined Labour in the wake of last week's local government
elections.'
More here in The Guardian . Any coverage on BBC or does this go against
their narrative?
'BOSTON BOMBERS' CIA LINK REACHES MAINSTREAM MEDIA
[image: MailOnline - news, sport, celebrity, science and health stories]
Boston terror suspects uncle
was married to CIA officer's daughter and even shared a home with the agent
By KATIE DAVIES
*PUBLISHED:* 00:34, 28 April 2013 | *UPDATED:* 06:55, 28 April 2013
*'Boston Bomber' Tamerlan, who attended a CIA-run workshop. *
*His aunt is the daughter of a top CIA official.*
*According to Mail Online:*
*Boston terror suspects uncle was married to CIA officer's daughter and
even ...*
*
*
*1.* Ruslan Tsarnaev, the uncle of the Boston Bomb suspects, shared a home
with top the CIA office... more »
April 27, 1973
Floods in Mississippi. The President flies down there and back, meeting
with Haldeman on the way there (and earlier in the morning) and both
Haldeman and Ehrlichman on the way back. More of the same: would they take
a leave? Resign? An indefinite leave or a 30 day leave? At one point,
there's a proposal that they take a vacation? Nixon pretty clearly has
decided that they're gone, but he's not able to simply say it, and so this
has been going on all week.
Pat Gray, the story of destroying the material in Hunt's safe having
reached the press, finally puts himself out of his misery an... more »
Friedrich Hölderlin - The Time of Socrates
Related:
*Friedrich Hölderlin - Love*.
*Friedrich Hölderlin - The Gods*.
Source: *Selected Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin. Translated by Maxine
Chernoff and Paul Hoover.* 2008. Omnidawn Publishing: Richmond, California.
Pg. 447.
*Friedrich Hölderlin - The Time of Socrates*
Once it was that God set things in order.
Kings.
Wise men.
who judges now?
The people as a whole?
Spiritualists and churchmen?
No? Who then now decides?
a bunch of vipers! ... more »
Boston Marathon False Flag Attack: Proof Positive It Was (Badly) Staged.... Where The Heck Were The Emergency Crews And Ambulances?
This Boston Marathon "bombing" truly stinks to high heaven... There, I have
said it.... The more and more we look closely at this "bombing" the more we
find even more evidence that it was a preplanned training exercise that was
turned into a fraudulent "terrorist bombing" by both the criminals in our
media and our own governments.....
One thing that we always see in real accidents, shootings, and "bombings"
is the rapid response by emergency crews who quickly converge on the scene
with fire trucks, emergency medical personnel, and of course...
Ambulances..... But one thing that was ... more »
Creative Showcase Features and Link-Up
Creative Showcase has been making me hungry lately. Terribly hungry. Here
are a few of my favorite recipe link-ups from the past few weeks.
[image: Gluten Free Recipes]
Lemon Pie Bars with a Gluten-Free Alternative from Cranberry Morning.
These look divine. I have a lemon obsession.
Quinoa Stuffed Peppers from Lemon Tree Dwelling. We are really getting
into Quinoa in our house. It is a the perfect ingredient to replace
unhealthy alternatives with.
Easy Lasagna from a Mouse in my Kitchen. Who doesn't love some
yummy lasagna?
I can't wait to get cooking!
Now to this week's Creativ... more »
A Post-Islamic Middle East? Graham E. Fuller - A World Without Islam
*Graham E. Fuller - A World Without Islam. *
Graham Fuller - A World Without Islam. YouTube Video Description -
[Channel: BakerInstitute. Uploaded on June 9, 2012]:
Jan. 27, 2011
Graham Fuller suggests that many current tensions between the East and the
West have a geopolitical, rather than religious, origin, and would have
arisen even in a world without Islam.
Quotes from the lecture below:
"One of the primary arguments of the book is that the explanation of
trouble and conflict between the Middle East and the West, or America
today, has to do with politics, and geography, ... more »
Nahko Bear (Medicine for the People) ღ Aloha Ke Akua
Lyrics:
Lend your ears, lend your hands,
Lend your movement, anything you can.
Come to teach, come to be taught.
Come in the likeness in the image of God.
Cause, you can be like that.
With all that humbleness, and all that respect.
All of the power invested in me,
be it hard to love my enemies.
All of the black bags over the heads of the dead and dying.
The more I understand about the human race,
the less I comprehend about our purpose and place
and maybe if there was a clearer line
the curiosity would satisfy.
Time based prophecies that kept me from li... more »
Better Know A District-- Or, Better Yet, A Top Notch Congressman: Matt Cartwright (PA-17)
When Blue America first got behind Matt Cartwright's lonely and
"impossible" challenge to Blue Dog Tim Holden last year, no one expected
him to beat the very entrenched dean of the Pennsylvania delegation, and
very well-funded one at that. Steny Hoyer called some of our biggest donors
and told them we're insane and that we were wasting their money and that
Holden would win by a landslide. Hoyer, in fact-- lobbyists in tow-- was
all over PA-17 trying to make sure he was correct about that. Blue America,
on the other hand, felt that Matt Cartwright had what it took to beat
Holden an... more »
More on the RESPECT Blueprint: Attracting the Desperate and the Naive
“. . . attracting a high-performing and diverse pool of
talented individuals to become teachers and principals is a critical
priority” (p. 5). For all the Arne-talk about attracting the best and the
brightest, the chart from p. 24 of this Orwellian version of teacher
respect shows us a different vision. Click on it to enlarge (my red
inserts). ”Beginning teachers” [...]
Boston Marathon False Flag Attack: More Proof - Important Videos Expose How Entire Operation Was Preplanned, And Staged
First things first.. I want to let everyone know that I have been very sick
all week long with flu like symptoms. It got so bad that yesterday I went
to go and see a doctor, and try to find answers... I was told there is a
very bad "bug" going around and that it would be best if I take it easy the
next few days (I had already done that for about a week!), get lots of
rest, drink the usual fluids, take Vitamin C, etc, etc....I am a fighter,
and after sleeping most of yesterday and today, I decided that since I was
feeling a bit better, that I would get back on line and catch up on wh... more »
Awesome Tweet of the Day
Some clever educator just called #RttT “Race to the Trough” @unitedoptout —
Michelle Gunderson (@MSGunderson) April 28, 2013 Filed under: CHALK FACE:
General News & Commentary, KRIS NIELSEN: First, Do No Harm
Selling my Tamron 18-200mm
Hiya folks. I'm selling my Tamron 18-200 F3.5-6.3 aspherical zoom macro.
It's one year old, clean and in excellent condition. With polarizer and
original box and packaging. $6000.
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Exxon Valdez & BPGOD were planned accidents by the same Zionist OMAR
Bk Lim
Can't help but wonder if the Exxon Valdez was also a planned "accident".
All the elements of a bad plot are evident. All the locations of the
grounded Valdez not only differ by more than a nautical mile; they seem so
inconsistent with the official incident report.
Why must a simple task of getting the right grounded location of the Exxon
Valdez be so screwed up?
Compare with the earlier photo shown (hor. flipped).
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=509922579068349&
set=a.128510663876211.20575.100001518344620&type=3&theater
[image: Photo]
*BPG DWH Evidence of Coverup & pre... more »
Did you know they had Drills, Preparations and Assets for the "planned accident" on 20 Apr 2010?
BPGOD had all the drills and prepn as well. They applied to MMS and MMS
promptly agreed the site specific (Macondo well) in early March 2010
(revised mind u, earlier version exists!) for the period 21 April - 21 Sept
2010. These 2 dates are significant because on 20 April they were "legally
/ authorised" to send their survey vessels, Zionist OMAR and other ilite
dignitaries to observe for themselves the planned fireworks. 21 Sept gave
them 3 days to clear up / destroy all the evidence after the Well "was
suddenly" declared "killed, signed, sealed and delivered".
Contribution from
... more »
TV Watch: Say, has anybody been watching this CBS "Golden Boy" thing? (Anybody at all?)
*In seven years this very pretty -- yet strangely uninteresting -- boy, who
has been on the police force for about ten minutes, is going to be the
police commissioner of NYC. Does anybody care?*
*by Ken*
Before I got sidetracked into wondering, in the post title, whether anyone
actually *is* watching this *Golden Boy* thing (Tuesdays at 10pm ET/PT on
CBS), I intended to ask such viewers as might be turned up: Are you making
head or tail of it?
So much of it looks like NYC cop shows we've seen over and over and over,
except more anonymous. I mean, here is this idyllically pretty bo... more »
Significance of explosions on March 17, 2013.
From our Facebook friends in Fallout Shelter.
Don't forget 17 March 2010 was the day they spud and drilled the 3rd
illegal well (BE) that penetrated the reservoir from Hell (Macondo) to
intentionally flood the Gulf of Mexico with crude oil.
Cherie MartinHitn Run Pundit
A DEVELOPING THEORY FOR SOME OF THE EXPLOSIONS
As always, our group looks for linguistic relationships that help us to
interpret and give meaning to multiple events of the same nature, such as
the many explosions that are occuring with greater frequency, particularly
within the past 90 days. Toponymy is the etymolog... more »
“No Bank Deposits Will Be Spared from Confiscation”
*“No Bank Deposits Will Be Spared from Confiscation”*
By Matthias Chang
"I challenge anyone to prove me wrong that confiscation of bank deposits
is legalized daylight robbery. Bank depositors in the UK and USA may think
that their bank deposits would not be confiscated as they are insured and
no government would dare embark on such a drastic action to bail out
insolvent banks. Before I explain why confiscation of bank deposits in the
UK and US is a certainty and absolutely legal, I need all readers of this
article to do the following:
Ask your local police, sheriffs, lawyers... more »
The media is the message
Tonight is the so-called nerd prom, otherwise known as the White House
Correspondents Dinner. Except most of these guys aren't nerds and this is
not a prom. It's a spectacle. It's become a national embarrassment. If Poe
was writing the story it would be called the Fall of the Fourth Estate.
WHCD isn't about journalism anymore. It's DC insider media in wannabe
Hollywood mode. I mean, here's Karen Tumulty reporting the contents of a
swag bag at one of the pre-dinner parties. You would get laughed out of
Hollywood for the swag. The real story is in the related links:
*Related*: Whi... more »
"The Decline of Critical Thinking"
*"The Decline of Critical Thinking"*
by Lawrence Davidson
"In 2008 Rick Shenkman, the Editor-in-Chief of the History News Network,
published a book entitled "Just How Stupid Are We? Facing the Truth about
the American Voter" (Basic Books). In it he demonstrated, among other
things, that most Americans were: (1) ignorant about major international
events, (2) knew little about how their own government runs and who runs
it, (3) were nonetheless willing to accept government positions and
policies even though a moderate amount of critical thought suggested they
were bad for the co... more »
Education in America: right or privilege?
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Fwd: Letter to the president
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Forwarded message ----------From: Mario Leyva K.Date: Saturday, April
27, 2013Subject: Letter to the presidentTo: "brendanorrell@gmail.com"
Dear Brenda Norrel: Attached is my letter to the president inviting him
our tribal government during his upcoming trip to Mexico. We hope you
are interested.SincerelyMario Leyva KajeemeYaqui indian cell 520-949-
Six months after Sandy, thousands homeless in New York and New Jersey
[image: Homes severely damaged in October 2012 by Hurricane Sandy are seen
along the beach on 25 April 2013 in Mantoloking, N.J. Photo: Mel Evans / AP]
By Wayne Parry
27 April 2013
MANTOLOKING, N.J. (AP) – The 9-year-old girl who got New Jersey's tough-guy
governor to shed a tear as he comforted her after her home was destroyed is
bummed because she now lives far from her best friend and has nowhere to
hang her One Direction posters.
A New Jersey woman whose home was overtaken by mold still cries when she
drives through the area. A New York City man whose home burned can't wait ... more »
"As a left-wing student, I was given one view of Gaza/Palestine," said Mr Rhodes. "But I realise now that many of those representations were entirely politically motivated."
'Seyi Rhodes travelled to the Gaza Strip in February to film an episode of
Unreported World, which airs tonight.
But rather than reporting on a region torn apart by conflict, the programme
focuses on the property market
and booming construction taking place there
Mr Rhodes said the experience confounded his expectations.
"Before I started researching, I thought the region was destitute - people
living literally hand-to-mouth on aid, with constant security threats. I
took it for granted that people would be living in temporary accommodation
provided by the UN."
In fact, he found "a... more »
NYT: "Nowhere in Rebel-Controlled Syria is There a Secular Fighting Force to Speak Of"
Time to end Western support for terrorists in Syria.
*Image: **(Edlib News Network Enn, via Associated Press) Al Qaeda
terrorists in Idlib, Syria. It is now admitted by the New York Times that
the entire armed so-called "opposition" is comprised entirely of Al Qaeda,
meaning the torrent of cash and weapons sent to the "opposition" by the
West and its regional allies, were intentionally sent directly to listed
terrorists guilty of a multitude of unprecedented atrocities.*
*.... *
*April 27, 2013* (LD) - In an astounding admission, the New York Times
confirms that the so-called "Syri... more »
Conspiracy Theories
April 27, 2013 The events in Boston, two weeks ago, numerous conversations
I’ve had with forum friends in the doomer community every time such events
happen and a conversation with a poster to the comments section of last
week’s blog … Continue reading →
South Carolina Closets
After he wrote Over-Lawed to explain a run-in with a complicated securities
law, Jay Stamper's thoughts must have turned to whatever other skeletons he
had in his closet. Actually, Lindsey Graham has a closet. A more apt
metaphor for Stamper might be... the Parisian catacombs. There are a lot of
skeletons but regrettably, for him, few involve women, another thing he has
in common with Lindsey Graham.
Anyways, like most people in their late 20’s, Stamper had experimented with
purchasing the domain names of Republican members of Congress and linking
them to websites promoting cannib... more »
Friedrich Hölderlin - The Gods
Related: *Friedrich Hölderlin - Love*.
Source: *Selected Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin. Translated by Maxine
Chernoff and Paul Hoover.* 2008. Omnidawn Publishing: Richmond, California.
Pg. 115.
*Friedrich Hölderlin - The Gods*
Silent Upper Air! You're always on guard
Against the pain in my soul, and often
My heart is moved and ennobled, Helios,
By the brightness of your light!
Most excellent gods! Those who don't know you
Are poorer for it, their crude hearts always in discord,
And the world is night for them,
And no song or joy ... more »
Bennett: #commoncore because Exxon-Mobile said so.
Thanks to Bob Sikes for bringing us a new defense for the common core. It
seems that the Sun Sentinel was present at the Broward Workshop’s State of
Our County forum on April 12 and got the pleasure of listening to Tony
Bennett defend the federally imposed/market driven common core curriculum.
You know the #commoncore? The standards that are [...]
Libor Outdone? Done Deal! (If You Thought Those Financial Catastrophes Seemed Rigged, Fooled You Twice - At Least) And You Thought the Courts Were Impartial?
Maybe done and done? How does this state of affairs go on and on after
being so thoroughly exposed? Has everybody been paid off? Because,
otherwise, nothing that has happened in the last decade (or maybe since the
80's?) in finance in general, in pricing in particular, and in the courts
makes any sense. And how could the citizens who've witnessed their savings'
(and, thus, their financially
Forget Prometheus - REBOOT THAT ALIEN PREQUEL - back to basics
so, for the longest time during the long and expensive publicity phase of
Prometheus (2012) we were led to believe that Ridley Scott was making a
prequel to his 1979 film Alien. Then it turned out that Damon Lindelof was
brought on board to perform a 'thematic polishing' of Jon Spaihts original
Alien-prequel script and Prometheus became a 'parallel story' within the
'alien universe'.
And we all know what that means.
They attempted to make all the Gigery-stuff look like it did in the 1979
original but it really wasn't. It was sanitised, de-edged and
de-sexualised, like the whole Pr... more »
Rolling Stone: Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever The Illuminati were amateurs. The second huge financial scandal of the year reveals the real international conspiracy: There's no price the big banks can't fix
Illustration by Victor Juhasz *
* *Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever*
*The Illuminati were amateurs. The second huge financial scandal of the
year reveals the real international conspiracy: There's no price the big
banks can't fix*
Illustration by Victor Juhasz
By MATT TAIBBI
April 25, 2013 1:00 PM ET
Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the
Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an
apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your
basic premise is correct: The world is a rig... more »
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