The latest lie from the government that lies about everything
David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 18 minutes ago
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*Another Phony Jobs Report From A Government That Lies About Everything
–Paul Craig Roberts*
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June 7, 2013. The payroll jobs report for May released today continues the
fantasy.
Goods producing jobs declined, with manufacturing losing another 4,000
jobs, but the New Economy produced 179,000 service jobs.
Are these jobs the high-powered, high-wage “innovation jobs” that
economis... more »
This Is Too Good To Miss: 23 Reasons Why I Feel Safer Today In America!
Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 29 minutes ago
With all the reports coming out now about how the NSA has been purposely
spying on every American citizen via their phones, social media, and even
their personal e-mails, I am indeed shocked that more American citizens are
not up in arms about this horrendous action by their own criminal
government? Is America at the point now that its own citizens are
hopelessly dumbed down by chemicals and the droning effect of their
Talmud-Visions that they are unwilling to act to defend their freedoms and
liberties? I do wonder...
I came across the following article from the "From The Trenches... more »
Do Americans support tracking phone records?
Left I on the News at Left I on the News - 40 minutes ago
The Pew poll is being reported by news organizations, and by Pew, in a very
misleading manner. Here's Pew's headline, and the way it's being reported:
"Majority Views NSA Phone Tracking as Acceptable Anti-terror Tactic"
But the actual poll reads: "NSA getting secret court orders to track
millions of Americans to investigate terrorism is acceptable/not
acceptable/don't know"
56% of people polled answered acceptable to *that* question, which has one
huge lie and one huge bias. The lie is that NSA is getting secret court
orders to track millions of Americans; they are doing no such t... more »
Tiwesdæg: the Left-hand of Linkage
Daniel Nexon at Duck of Minerva - 42 minutes ago
Jeffrey Toobin’s “Edward Snowden is no Hero” has generated some very
sprited debate in my Facebook circles. Most of my online interlocutors fall
into the left civil-libertarian camp, so readers might imagine their
consensus view of Snowden’s action. I’m much less sanguine. I take the
ethical, moral, and legal obligations of holding a high-level security
Continue reading
James Corbett/Jan Irvin: CIA/Mkultra/Mind Control & the brave new world?
Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 hour ago
Don't forget the first post for today either.....Syria Conflict: A brief
military analysis
House of Commons Speaker Andrew Scheer Decides To Uphold And Reward Ongoing Conservative Party Electoral Misdeeds
leftdog at Buckdog - 1 hour ago
*Andrew Scheer, Speaker of the House of Commons, is WRONG to let two
Conservative 'candidates' sit in the House of Commons in spite of an
Elections Canada ruling that they should not be allowed to vote or receive
remuneration as a result of violating the Canada Election Act in the last
election. SHAME!!! *
*Hill Times *
Syria Conflict: A brief military analysis
Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 hour ago
Heralding the Rise of Russia-Russo-Armenian Relations, Eurasian Geopolitics
and Combating Western Globalism. This blog has many geopolitical articles.
Always enlightening. Perhaps controversial? Depending on your own thoughts,
feelings and knowledge regarding geopolitical situations. The analysis on
Syria is very good. Heralding the Rise of Russia is in the blogroll should
you wish to continue checking them out! Syrian Conflict: A Brief Military
Analysis - June, 2013An excerpt from a lengthy, but well worth *reading
entirely post*, *from this blogger:*
*-With momentum on their side... more »
#Commoncore supporters are butthurt #ESEA
Chalk Face, PhD at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 1 hour ago
Know your meme. CCSSO abandoning “efforts” to write social studies
standards to instead focus on ELA/Math implementation, and to thwart
opposition to CCSS, according to Education Weak [link excluded purposely,
find it yourself if you want, or trust us]. CCSSO Executive Director Chris
Minnich told me that the chiefs group wants and needs to focus […]
BILDERBERG; BRAINWASHING; ISRAELI FLAG
Anon at aangirfan - 1 hour ago
*Note the number of UK Members of Parliament copying Andrew Neil's mocking
laugh. *
Looks like the policy of the elite is mocking laughter.
Perhaps it is a guilty smirk rather than a mocking laugh.
*The BBC's Andrew Neil mocks Alex Jones.*
Bilderberg wants the world run by the rich elite.
*“The True Story of the Bilderberg Group”*
*Bilderberg means rule by a rich elite; it means Feudalism.*
Bilderberg's 'wish list' includes...
*Control of world populations by 'mind control'...*
Manufactured crises and perpetual wars...
*“The True Story of the Bilderberg Group”*
dreamweaver11... more »
HOME SICK
Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 hour ago
I've been in bed the last two days and feel like I got ran over by a
truck. My entire body aches and my nose is running. Sleep is hard to come
by. It all began Sunday morning when I woke up with a horrible sore throat.
I've been trying to figure out where I got this bug. Maybe somewhere on
the way home from Berkeley. My last morning there I had to get up very
early so I could catch the "Super Shuttle" to the San Francisco airport for
an 8:00 am flight. I was standing outside just after 5am waiting for it to
arrive. The morning before I had planned to sleep in but the confere... more »
Humanity Roars Like Lions Caged Inside the Agenda 21 Matrix
noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 1 hour ago
Ginger Jane Hammack
*Activist Post*
This cage has had societies under a spell for decades. The light from the
lamp post is softly glowing. We've been starring at it for years. Our feet
wet from random sprayings through the bars. Our spirits have been provoked
to hunt inner truth and we wait.
While opening the King James Bible and turning to Proverbs 28:1 the most
inspirational verse reads, "The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the
righteous are bold as a lion." While it is daunting to wake up the caged,
I'm encouraged somehow to show them they can be bold as lions.
With 6% o... more »
All your government surveillance is privatized
Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 hour ago
As I said in the previous post, we're having the wrong arguments about
domestic surveillance. All the chatter is about Snowden and Obama and Bush.
What's being lost in the noise is talking about the policy. The bigger
scandal than the surveillance is that the surveillance is being contracted
out to private corporations. Take for instance Snowden's last employer from
whence he apparently hacked his documents, Booz Allen Hamilton.
The company employs about 25,000 people, almost half of whom hold top
secret security clearances, providing “access to information that would
cause ‘except... more »
Edward Snowden Vanishes From His Hong Kong Hotel Room
noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 1 hour ago
Chris Carrington
According to reports from the BBC, Edward Snowden has vanished from his
Hong Kong hotel room. Ex-CIA employee Snowden, 29, was not expected to
check out and the move has taken many by surprise. His whereabouts are
unknown and thus far he has not made contact with anyone as to his plans.
Snowden who is on record as saying he had “an obligation to help free
people from oppression”
He is being investigated regarding the leaks and the case has been referred
to the Department of Justice as a criminal matter.
An online petition on the White House website has so far got... more »
Youth sentences relevant for adult mandatory minimum calculation
James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 hour ago
*R. v. Able*, 2013 ONCA 385 holds that a youth sentence can be applicable
in determining the mandatory minimum penalty under s. 95(2) of the Criminal
Code:
[16] The respondent, on the other hand, contends that the application
of s. 82(4) is also limited by the operation of s. 119(9)(a). Accordingly,
the appellant is well within the "period of access" defined in s. 119(2)
and the enhanced five-year mandatory minimum in s. 95(2) for second or
subsequent offenders should apply.
[17] I agree with the respondent. In *Rizzo & Rizzo Shoes Ltd. (Re)*,
[1998] 1 S.C.R. 27, at para... more »
Senate to hold closed briefing on NSA surveillance, lawmakers say they weren’t informed of programs
noreply@blogger.com (Mark Daniels) at Global Political Awakening - 1 hour ago
A portion of the Senate Intelligence Committee
image credit: SenRockefeller/Flickr Madison Ruppert
The Senate Intelligence Committee will reportedly hold a closed briefing
for members to discuss the recently revealed National Security Agency (NSA)
surveillance programs after some lawmakers complained about not being
informed of PRISM.
The recent media furor began with a report showing that a secret court
order forced Verizon to hand over all records for U.S. customers to the
NSA. Soon after, the massive NSA surveillance program called PRISM
involving major tech companies was revea... more »
Doug Bailey
Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 2 hours ago
Doug Bailey, the founder of The Hotline, RIP.
The Hotline was simply the best way to follow campaign news in 1988. And
1990. And 1992. And every election through at least 2000, which means at
least through the point at which National Journal acquired it in 1996. I've
had Hotline access on and off over the years, depending on where I worked,
and it's been consistently excellent throughout. Not only extremely
informative, but always a lot of fun. In fact, just last week I realized you
could get "Wake-Up Call" via email, and subscribed.
Before the Hotline...well, you just couldn't get ... more »
Iraq’s Oil Exports Remain Flat-Lined For Last Fourteen Months
Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 2 hours ago
April 2013 saw Iraq return to its highest export levels in the last 30
years. Unfortunately, the industry still suffers from a number of major
problems, which prevent it from being able to maintain those figures, and
reach its lofty goals. Not only that, but the price for Iraqi crude saw a
dip for that month, while problems with Kurdistan and insurgents also came
up. Those are all reasons why Iraq’s petroleum business has been at a
plateau for the last fourteen months. That doesn’t mean production is not
growing, and things won’t change, but it will just take a lot longer than
the... more »
AL JAZEERA VIDEO: Nouri al-Maliki's Visit To The Kurdish North
Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 2 hours ago
The Washington Post won’t criticize Fox!
bob somerby at the daily howler - 2 hours ago
*TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2013*
*Dearest darlings, it just isn’t done:* Professional courtesy plays a large
role in American pseudo-journalism.
And no, it isn't just Rachel Maddow! Consider the editorial in yesterday’s
Washington Post about the IRS mess.
In our view, the editors made an obvious, constructive point in their
editorial. Without diminishing or excusing the “troubling conduct” of the
IRS, the editors blasted the overstated scandal-mongering of the GOP.
They even named some names:
WASHINGTON POST EDITORIAL (6/10/13): Capitol Hill saw three more days of
hearings last week abo... more »
Victoria Nece - PRISM PowerPoint Redesign - girl made a judgement call
Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 3 hours ago
amid all the media-ring-nose-led furore associated with 'whatever the hell
this recent Edward Snowden *whistleblower event* is or might be, graphic
designer Victoria Nece has taken it upon herself to rework the decidedly
1990's retro feel of the thus-far-leaked pages of the NSA's PRISM
intelligence template that seems to be applied to all Corporate War Machine
'product's (to use parlance from the Bradley Manning trial).
Here are her own words from the relevant page of her website where the rest
of the reworked graphics are hosted:
*So, I’m not sure why anyone was really shocked ... more »
TWO KINDS OF FACTS: Hacker and Dreifus make a very key point!
bob somerby at the daily howler - 3 hours ago
*TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2013*
*Part 2—It won’t produce a discussion:* Given the way our discourse works,
it often seems we have two kinds of facts—invented and withheld.
In any given subject area, we’re subjected to waves of invented
facts—factual claims which are wrong or misleading. At the same time, an
array of *accurate* facts are studiously withheld from view.
In various subject areas, these two kinds of facts are used to create
highly familiar, novelized tales—novelized tales which make clear vision
impossible. One such tale was given a prominent place in Sunday’s New York
Times.
... more »
Tommy Robinson, Islamism and the EDL: when should we listen to extremists? – Telegraph Blogs
Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 3 hours ago
One odd argument struck me in this piece.
'He claimed the EDL was an organisation committed to peaceful protest, even
though last year its planned march through Walthamstow was banned by the
Home Secretary in order to "ensure local communities and property are
protected". '
That the march was banned by the Home Secretary does not necessarily mean
that the EDL were or are violent.
More here
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danhodges/100221217/tommy-robinson-islamism-and-the-edl-when-should-we-listen-to-extremists/
We're having the wrong argument about domestic surveillance
Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 3 hours ago
I'm about done with Edward Snowden barring any new corrected information
but let's review for a moment the earliest reports about Snowden's
revelations:
Snowden:
"All my options are bad," he said. The US could begin extradition
proceedings against him, a potentially problematic, lengthy and
unpredictable course for Washington. Or the Chinese government might whisk
him away for questioning, viewing him as a useful source of information. Or
he might end up being grabbed and bundled into a plane bound for US
territory. "Yes, I could be rendered by the CIA. I could have people come
... more »
Lunch Anyone? How DC Works... At Least On The Right-Wing Fringe
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
Over the weekend, the *L.A. Times* reported on a Park City, Utah GOP big
donor retreat hosted by Mitt Romney. The big donors are frustrated that
their party has veered off the track-- keeping wealthy people's taxes low
and undermining business regulations-- so gigantically into social issues.
It's the old GOP tension between the Greed and Selfishness wing of the
party and the Hatred and Bigotry wing of the party.
[N]o group is more frustrated by the party's slow march forward than the
high-powered donors and business, technology and industry leaders who met
for a three-day retrea... more »
Just Acquired: Slide one from a USDE presentation on new accountability program #QUIZM
Chalk Face, PhD at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 3 hours ago
Does this slide not look oddly familiar? It must be some kind of really
terrible government Powerpoint template. And to think, as a result of this
initiative, schools are actually using Powerpoint presentations in real
classrooms. All of this money spent on technology and it just gets us
Powerpoints on DELL’s. Awful. In any event, […]
German Constitution Court starts two day hearing on legality of the ESM and OMT Program.....BTW , the OMT is just a series of Draghi speeches - THERE IS NO TERM SHEET !
fredw at Catharsis Ours - 4 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-11/they-just-learned-omt-still-has-no-legal-term-sheet
They Just Learned The OMT Still Has No Legal Term Sheet
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/11/2013 08:23 -0400
- Bond
- European Central Bank
- Term Sheet
Moments ago, the following headline hit the tape:
- *ASMUSSEN SAYS ECB HASN'T SEEN NEED TO PUBLISH OMT LEGAL TEXT*
That's right: the ECB is trying to get the German Constitutional court to
pass the OMT (i.e., On Merkel's Tab) bond purchasing program, *and yet
there still is no legal term shee... more »
Untitled
New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 4 hours ago
*Mayor Mitch'mo touts economic plan*
~*City, businesses offer new treasure map for economic growth* *'Because of
Katrina:' Many questions on Red River levees' status, but few answers*
*All Gulf Shores beaches closed after 4th drowning in 24 hours* *Big Data
for Disaster Response: A List of Wrong Assumptions ~iRevolution*
*“It might be provocative to call into question one of the hottest tech
movements in generations, but it’s not really fair. That’s because how
companies and people benefit from Big Data, Data Science or whatever else
they choose to call the movement toward a data-ce... more »
PRISM : Everyone is a foreigner somewhere
Alison at Creekside - 4 hours ago
While DefMin Airshow MacKay prevaricates in the House about the extent to
which Canada is complicit in the NSA 'foreigner' surveillance program PRISM
outed by whistleblower Edward Snowden, former NSA and other foreign
government officials are more forthcoming :
Guardian : NSA 'offers intelligence to British counterparts to skirt UK law'
The US National Security Agency circumvents UK law by offering, rather than
being asked for, intelligence from global websites to their British
counterparts, according to David Blunkett, who was home secretary at the
time of the 9/11 attacks. Briti... more »
Austin Leads Agenda 21 Adoption with Smart Grid, International Codes
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 4 hours ago
*Driving around Austin, Texas over the past year, I’ve noticed a change
taking place.*
Melissa Melton
Large mixed-use development buildings with apartments on top and businesses
on the bottom are popping up all over town. Billboards line the highways
telling me I should have a “roadmance” (not even kidding) with the new toll
roads encircling the city that Texans never really ever wanted;future toll
roads subsidizing corporate interests are in the works. Advertisements are
pushing high-speed rail as hip and trendy; they are reminiscent of America
2050 goals for the future of our nat... more »
War watch - June 11 , 2013 - focus on Pakistan ( revokes Government secret approval for US Drone strikes ) ... Civil War in Iraq death toll rising ..... Syria War updates.....
fredw at Catharsis Ours - 4 hours ago
Pakistan.......
http://news.antiwar.com/2013/06/10/pakistan-pm-revokes-govts-secret-approval-for-us-drone-strikes/
Pakistan PM Revokes Govt’s Secret Approval for US Drone StrikesVows End to
'Dual Policy' of Public Criticism and Private Acceptance Under Previous Govt
by Jason Ditz, June 10, 2013
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Less than a week after officially taking office, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz
Sharif has announced the revocation of a secret government authorization to
the United States to launch drone attacks against the country.
Drone strikes have been hugely unpopular in Pakistan... more »
Support Snowden - You can!
2old2care at Because I Can - 4 hours ago
When a tornado happens - we go to the basement/tornado shelter for
protection. But we don't spend our lives living in the basement/tornado
shelter forever.
Just because 9/11 happened - does not mean that we should give up our
rights forever
Who defines what a "terrorist" is?
Now or in the future?
Have the American people become the "enemy"?
Now or in the future?
Even though charges haven’t been filed –
We know they are coming –
Even moderate Dems are getting in front of the cameras and stating that
national security was breached – *which is a crock of _____* - - -
*From Cr... more »
It's Ethics, Stupid!
Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 4 hours ago
Lawrence Martin summarizes Stephen Harper's central problem very succinctly:
The Prime Minister’s problem is that ethics is taking over from economics
as the dominant issue in the public mind. That’s a trend he has to reverse;
it’s poison.
So far, he has ignored the problem. His strategy has been to take comfort
in the company of loyalists. That is why Ray Novak is in charge of the PMO.
But loyalty to the prime minister is getting a little thin. Martin writes
that, according to one anonymous Conservative MP, the natives are restless:
There are more than enough Conservative dissi... more »
Progress
Southern Man at Southern Man - 4 hours ago
Well last week Southern Man promised he'd fix the leaks in The Barn and
progress has been made. The drip on the south roof has been repaired (in
the courses of earlier work Southern Man had installed some flashing
incorrectly) and a problem on the south side has been temporarily amended.
All that remains is to build an overhang over the north door and that work
has begun.
And in addition with that week off (and it really was off; Southern Man's
office was off limits for the week) Teen Daughter and Southern Man did a
lot of shopping and running around and saw some movies and got the... more »
Apples: Yet Another “Perfect” Food? by Elizabeth Renter
Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 4 hours ago
Apples: Yet Another “Perfect” Food?
by Elizabeth Renter
Natural Society, 11 June 2013
For a long time, bananas held the crown as the “perfect food”, but lately
it seems we’ve been adding more natural foods to that list. Avocados are
just one fruit that has been blessed with this ‘perfect food’ label. Now,
the fruit and vegetable superpowers should make room for yet another star
to share their throne—*the apple*.
If there ever was a “classic” fruit, one whose popularity and benefits
never wane, it’s the apple. Apples don’t only keep the doctor away, they
can provide a wealth of... more »
27 Edward Snowden Quotes About U.S. Government Spying That Should Send A Chill Up Your Spine
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 4 hours ago
Michael Snyder
Would you be willing to give up what Edward Snowden has given up? He has
given up his high paying job, his home, his girlfriend, his family, his
future and his freedom just to expose the monolithic spy machinery that the
U.S. government has been secretly building to the world. He says that he
does not want to live in a world where there isn't any privacy. He says
that he does not want to live in a world where everything that he says and
does is recorded. Thanks to Snowden, we now know that the U.S. government
has been spying on us to a degree that most people wo... more »
Ed Steer's Gold and Silver Report - June 11 . 2013 - Data from June 10th , News and Views.....
fredw at Catharsis Ours - 4 hours ago
CFTC Gold and Silver Bank Participation Report: Ted Butler’s Comments
Jun
*11*
- Yesterday in Gold and Silver
- Critical Reads
- The Funnies
- The Wrap
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"Whoever is caught on the short side will be allowed to burn in hell."
¤ YESTERDAY IN GOLD & SILVER
It was very quiet in Far East trading on their Monday. The gold price
traded pretty flat until noon Hong Kong time...and then it drifted down to
its low of the day, which came around 9:30 a.m. BST in London.
The subsequent rally was hardly worthy of the name, but it lasted until
2:00 p.m. in electronic trading ... more »
Main Core: A List Of Millions Of Americans That Will Be Subject To Detention During Martial Law
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 5 hours ago
Michael Snyder
Are you on the list? Are you one of the millions of Americans that have
been designated a threat to national security by the U.S. government? Will
you be subject to detention when martial law is imposed during a major
national emergency? As you will see below, there is actually a list that
contains the names of at least 8 million Americans known as *Main Core* that
the U.S. intelligence community has been compiling since the 1980s.
A recent article on Washington’s Blog quoted a couple of old magazine
articles that mentioned this program, and I was intrigued becau... more »
Snowden leaks show NSA 'routinely lies' to Congress
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 5 hours ago
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Prime Minister Erdogan escalates police to clear Taksim Square on June 11 , 2013 - Tear gas , Water cannons deployed , Erdogan once again displays arrogance in dealing with dissension...
fredw at Catharsis Ours - 5 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-11/turkish-riot-police-storm-taksim-square-central-banks-warns-intervention-due-extreme
Turkish Riot Police Storm Taksim Square, Central Banks Warns Of
Intervention Due To Extreme Market Volatility
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/11/2013 07:28 -0400
- Bond
- Capital Markets
- CDS
- Central Banks
- default
- Reuters
- Turkey
- Twitter
- Volatility
Over a week into "Occupy Taksim", the Turkish situation is nowhere near
resolution. In fact, judging by the capital markets resp... more »
Obama's String of Lies
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 5 hours ago
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Public Transit Prank of the Day: Your Face on a Bus Ad - Henry Grabar - The Atlantic Cities
Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 5 hours ago
http://m.theatlanticcities.com/arts-and-lifestyle/2013/06/prank-day-your-face-bus-ad/5862/
How Much Is That Smartphone in Your Pocket Worth?
Martyn Daniels at Brave New World - 5 hours ago
Once thieves broke into houses to steal your possessions, now it’s
probably
easier to steal your smartphone on the street. As everyone is carrying
around a mobile ‘jewellery’, then the value of authentication and
protection from theft is becoming a hot subject.
Nearly half of all robberies in San Francisco last year involved a
smartphone, up from 36% the previous year. In other US cities the same
high
profile exists with Washington recording 42% of robberies and New York
14%.It is now claimed that a third of all US citizens own a tablet and
the
ownership of smartphones is very much ... more »
Farmers Sue Monsanto For Runaway Wheat Losses
arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 7 hours ago
Yes we have a problem. Let me describe just how big it actually is. Super
weeds caused by natural selection and no direct hand of man have appeared
almost everywhere, obviously distributed by birds. This is surely what has
happened to the GMO wheat. The fear was always there, but empirical proof
is here now. This means any and all GMO seeds cannot ever be contained is
the new starting conjecture for all future planning.
We also know that the alien genetic material can help form genetic
surprises. So we are doing open field experiments with little more planning
than rolling... more »
Mitochondrial Medicine
arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 7 hours ago
The developing protocol for dealing directly with cancer is to induce an
alkaline blood environment. This can be done directly with baking sodas,
and better yet with magnesium bicarbonate. Indirectly we can do this with a
vegan diet.
Regardless, at least get the sugar and meat well out of your diet as this
drives the acid environment.
This gets us deep into the known science and helps us build a pretty clear
working model. There will be improvements, but this is today well ahead of
anything we have. In the end though, it still must work for the dying.
Using this ... more »
Pending Chinese population Contraction
arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 7 hours ago
What is about to kick in is the direct effects of the one child policy
that lasted from the sixties through the nineties. This essentially halved
the available number of mothers. Worse, these mothers are happy with small
families and that successor population is operating around replacement
levels but also contracting the number of mothers.
Put another way. A million mothers in 1970 produced around a half million
new mothers. This half million new mothers produced perhaps 450,000 new
mothers. Life extension is working fine to buoy manpower availability,
however the re... more »
Russians Proving That Small-Scale, Organic Gardening Can Feed the World
arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 7 hours ago
This is an excellent reminder that agricultural productivity is mostly a
function of the boots on the ground. A machine can optimize productivity
for large field crops with little human input, but the actual output per
acre is a fraction of what a single human being can produce on that same
acre. Industrial farming blinds us to this but it is also core to the
reforming of the human life way.
Machines find it difficult to provide care to the most productive plants
that often need ongoing local intervention. Something simple that all can
understand. A cherry tree is highly ... more »
It's music mash-up time
Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 7 hours ago
The Beatles 'Day Tripper' meets The Beastie Boys 'Triple Trouble' to create
Tripper Trouble
Post A Short Story To A Friend
Martyn Daniels at Brave New World - 8 hours ago
Forget 140 character stories on twitter we now have a 224 word story on a
stamp!
To celebrate Dublin’s permanent designation in July 2010 as a UNESCO City
of Literature Ireland has issued a 60 cent stamp with the words of a 224
word short work by Eoin Moore that captures ‘the essence of Dublin’.
Eoin Moore’s short work, as depicted is on An Post’s new 60c stamp.
*The thick clouds cover up the moonlight, but the city’s lights provide
worthwhile illumination – above them all, the beacon burns bright atop the
monolithic podium, signalling to wayfaring voyages the ancient Viking
set... more »
ALEX JONES AND THE ZIONISTS
Anon at aangirfan - 8 hours ago
*Alex Jones*
The CIA campaign against Alex Jones has been very effective.
Alex Jones is anti-CIA and anti-Zionist and anti-Feudal-System.
Prison Planet.com tells us that the Zionist Lobby paid off U.S. journalists
to sell Zionist ideas.
*"Do you believe," said Martin, "that hawks have always eaten pigeons when
they have found them?" *
*Alex Jones can see that the problem is not just the neocons.*
Before the Zionist neoconservatives, we had Cesar Borgia.
SOLVING THE PROBLEM
At the top of the pyramid there are the feudal lords.
These feudal lords do not belong to any one race or r... more »
Lost in Music
Martyn Daniels at Brave New World - 8 hours ago
It’s often disturbing whilst you are on the tube or in public places to
have to listen to the constant hissing beat of music emanating from people
listening to music through their earbud headphones. However, it can also be
equally frustrating trying to listen to music or an audiobook through the
same earbud headphones whilst you are in a very noisy place like a train
station.
So now those masters of sound Bose have come up with the answer and much
more.
First they want people to be able to listen without the need to crank up
the volume to compensate for all the other surround ing... more »
Peter Lilley replaces Tim Yeo as Chairman of Energy and Climate Change Committee
Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 8 hours ago
Remember Peter Lilley was one of only four MPs to vote against Ed
Miliband's ruinous Climate Change Bill, the main reason UK energy prices
are so high.
UPDATE:
Unfortunately this was an unsubstantiated rumour; what a shame.
Santa Monica College "shooting" - yet another hoax!
John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 9 hours ago
Please watch the following videos. The Santa Monica "shooting" is yet
another hoax, a PSYOP designed to entice the American people to willingly
give up their Second Amendment rights. Don't fall for it folks!
Artist Taxi Driver - THE LAW IS FOR THE POOR
Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 10 hours ago
my favourite shouter, after Alex Jones, the *Artist Taxi Driver* refers to
yesterday's Parliamentary speech by William Hague where he (allegedly)
states "THE LAW IS FOR THE POOR".
Now, I don't know if this is quoting a 'direct statement' from the Foreign
Secretary or a liberal paraphrase by *A.T.D.* but I have requested
verifiable source from this *ChunkyMark* if he has it, otherwise it's a
great summarising rant.
Police and social workers must recognise issue of sexual grooming by Pakistani men - MPs - Telegraph
Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 10 hours ago
'Social workers and police must acknowledge that there is a pattern of men
from Pakistani backgrounds grooming young white girls for sex, MPs warn
today.
Some officials have been reluctant to draw attention to the problem for
fear of being labelled racist and inflaming community tensions, the Home
Affairs Select Committee found.
The MPs expressed shock that the sexual abuse of vulnerable children by
organised gangs is continuing in every part of the country, and condemned
the "inexcusable" postcode lottery that means offenders are more likely to
escape justice in certain regions.... more »
Kuwaiti teacher given 11-year sentence for Twitter criticism of government | End the Lie – Independent News
Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 10 hours ago
News you won't find reported on the BBC whose Middle East news coverage is
more concerned with increasing hatred of Israel and Jews than reporting
what actually happens in Muslim countries.
More here
http://endthelie.com/2013/06/10/kuwaiti-teacher-given-11-year-sentence-for-twitter-criticism-of-government
Your moment of Zen
Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 10 hours ago
Creativity is greater than negativity. [artist unknown]
NDP`s Orange Star Turns Yellow, Even In The Quietest Moments
Grant G at The Straight Goods - 11 hours ago
What that picture represents is the latest trend among provincial NDP
parties, a yellow streak of cowardice, a lack of courage and conviction,
this dilemma does not bode well for the NDP in the next federal election,
the public wants fighters who stay true to their beliefs, without
provincial backbones, with NDP in British Columbia and Ontario turning to
spineless jellyfish Thomas Mulcair is doomed, in other words, because of
cowardice on the provincial level by the NDP, you better get used to
saying...
The Honourable Prime Minister Justin Trudeau....God help us all..
I`ll be bri... more »
... if I hear one more bloody Conservative say .. 'We Support The Troops' ..
leftdog at Buckdog - 11 hours ago
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Injured soldier who testified about struggles given discharge notice*"An
injured Canadian soldier who testified about his struggle for health
benefits has been notified that he will be discharged in six months,
despite assurances from Defence Minister Peter MacKay that he would suffer
“no ramifications” for speaking out.*"
*CTV News*
*More ... *
*-The Ongoing Myth That Stephen Harper 'Supports The Troops' ...*
BDS – don’t believe the hype
Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 11 hours ago
A must read piece at Harry's Place - do go and read it all, here's a few
extracts:
'Naturally the constant comparisons between Zionism and colonialism
entirely ignore the fact that Jews *weren’t* coming to Palestine to build
some sort of Jewish empire and to harvest the resources of a new territory
for profit but to escape from the brutality inflicted upon them elsewhere.
Zionism was so popular because of the oppression of Jews and its message
that Jews could take their lives into their own hands and make them better
through statehood.
I have often heard Palestinians and BDS suppor... more »
Issa's Job
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 12 hours ago
When Boehner appointed a congenital liar and crook like Darrell Issa, a
common street thug who robbed, cheated and burned his way into the ranks of
multimillionaires, to head the House Oversight Committee, he knew exactly
what he was doing. Issa's job was to drum up witch hunts and help discredit
government and discredit Obama. He's been busy. Although today he was a
different kind of busy-- screeching his outrage up and down the corridors
of Twitter:
Issa's job is to blow up everything that's ptoblematic inside "the
government," magnify it, make it look malevolent and then tie i... more »
Guest Post - How to Make your Car More Eco-Friendly
Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 12 hours ago
Although it would be environmentally and economically beneficial to not
have to drive, unfortunately for many of us modern life requires a car.
Whether it is commuting to work or just having a large family, being a car
owner is an essential part of everyday living.
If you’re reading this website it is likely that you are trying to be as
Eco-friendly as possible and, as such, it can be hard to justify having a
car with your desire to reduce your carbon footprint.
So what’s the solution? The reality is that driving will never be
completely Eco-friendly, however, unless you can reali... more »
Bank of Japan decides to stay the monetary course - no changes to funding terms , no expansion Japanese version of QE !
fredw at Catharsis Ours - 12 hours ago
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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-11/yen-soars-most-over-three-years-nikkei-futures-plummet
Yen Soars Most In Over Three Years, Nikkei Futures Plummet
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- Australian Dollar
- Bank of England
- Bank of Japan
- BOE
- Bond
- British Pound
- CDS
- China
- Crude
- Equity Markets
- European Central Bank
- Exchange Traded Fund
- Finland
- fixed
- Germany
- Goldman Sach... more »
My Top 10 Beach Reads
Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 12 hours ago
There is nothing I love better than sitting in a chair on the beach with a
book in my hand. I don't want to sit on the beach biting my fingernails,
waiting for what happens next, or bawling because the story is so sad. To
me, the perfect beach read is a light, fun read with a touch of romance.
Here are 10 of my favorite beach reads. Linking up with The Broke and the
Bookish.
- Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins- Anna is pulled away
from her American High School just before her senior year and sent to
boarding school in France. She doesn't speak the languag... more »
By George . . .
Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 13 hours ago
THE
ORWELLIAN NIGHTMARE seems to be with us, as we regard the "processing"
of Bradley Manning, the hounding of Julian Assange and now Edward
Snowden.
There's good news, bad news and really bad news. The good news is,
eventually the Fourth Reich will be overthrown. The bad news is,
Hollywood will create "The Bradley Manning Story". The really bad news
is, the actor who will play Bradley
Snowden's long game on leaking
Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 15 hours ago
Here's a curious side note on Snowden's epic leaks. He contacted this
documentary film maker in January, Interestingly "she is filming the story
behind the story — including her co-author on the Guardian story and former
Salon columnist Glenn Greenwald — for her forthcoming documentary on
whistle-blowers and leaks."
We now know Snowden ultimately contacted a slew of media people by the time
he produced any hard evidence. Now they're fighting over credit for the
scoop. It also apparently took him a long time to come up with the
documents.
We were contacted, we didn’t know what he ... more »
Turkey protest updates on day 11 of the protests - June 10 , 2013 .....Amid more tear gas , water cannons and brutality , Prime Minister Erdogan offers a concession....
fredw at Catharsis Ours - 15 hours ago
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2013/06/2013610232628232230.html
Turkey's PM to meet protest leaders
Erdogan's deputy announces first concession since onset of unrest amid
protests in Istanbul and Ankara for 11th night.
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Al Jazeera's Anita McNaught reports from Ankara on the apolitical character
of the Occupy Gezi movement
In his first apparent concession since the deadly unrest began nearly two
weeks ago... more »
"NSA Built Back Door In All Microsoft Windows Software Since 1999"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago
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*"NSA Built Back Door In All Microsoft Windows Software Since 1999" *
Careless mistake reveals subversion of Windows by NSA.
by Duncan Campbell
"A careless mistake by Microsoft programmers has revealed that special
access codes prepared by the US National Security Agency have been secretly
built into Windows. *The NSA access system is built into every version of
the Windows operating system now in use*, except early releases of Windows
95 (and its predecessors). The discovery comes close on the heels of the
revelations earlier this year that another US software giant, Lotus, ... more »
Food Allergies: What’s To Eat? Part 2
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 15 hours ago
Catherine J. Frompovich
In Part 1 I discussed some of the more commonly-associated information
regarding food allergies, at least information that many
‘holistically-inclined’ eaters may be familiar with. What I talk about in
Part 2 is information that probably very few eaters know. The information
revolves around the food industry’s use of chemicals, which may be more
than partially responsible for allergic food reactions. That becomes
apparent as the article unfolds.
Perhaps it would be important to realize that allergic reactions—no matter
the substances—usually occur due to s... more »
Paul Krugman has a message for policy-makers: "Where we are is not O.K. Stop shrugging, and do your jobs"
KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago
Patrick Chappatte [*click to enlarge*]
*"For more than three years some of us have fought the policy elite's
damaging obsession with budget deficits, an obsession that led governments
to cut investment when they should have been raising it, to destroy jobs
when job creation should have been their priority. That fight seems largely
won -- in fact, I don't think I've ever seen anything quite like the sudden
intellectual collapse of austerity economics as a policy doctrine.
"But while insiders no longer seem determined to worry about the wrong
things, that's not enough; they also need... more »
The Truth About Whistleblowers
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 15 hours ago
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‘Big Data’: Bilderberg Firm Palantir Works for NSA Spy Agenda
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 15 hours ago
Aaron Dykes
*“Paypal Mafia Don” Peter Thiel brings technocratic control of “big data”
to the forefront of Bilderberg’s 2013 agenda via Silicon Valley’s
partnership with the NSA and CIA.*
The age of “big data” is reluctantly upon us, and it affects almost
everything, as Bilderberg’s 2013 talking point suggests. Their secretive
closed door discussion on massive stores of data, collected from the
biggest portals on the Internet and analyzed in the pursuit of NSA
objectives, is being led by Dr. Alexander Karp, the co-founder of Palantir
Technologies.
The firm has admittedly been... more »
Lawsuit Claims BP and Courts Colluded to Keep Monopoly on Oil Containment Tech
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 15 hours ago
Dees Illustration Brandon Turbeville
If claims being made amid the court proceedings surrounding a three-year
old lawsuit filed against BP are to believed, then a stunning revelation
has been made regarding the criminal neglect of British Petroleum and, even
more so, collusion between BP and agents of the Federal courts.
The lawsuit (No. C-10-02505) and its subsequent appeals began as far back
as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010 when Ron Johnson, owner of
Ericam Environmental, LLC., filed a lawsuit with the United States District
Court of the Northern District against Briti... more »
The creative versus the machine
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 15 hours ago
Jon Rappaport
The great obsession of the 20th century was organization, and it continues.
Form a goal, put people together, and give them separate tasks that add up
to forwarding the goal. Yes, it’s a strategy as old as the hills, but in
the last hundred years the drive to expand the numbers has taken over.
Corporations, governments, churches, non-profits, foundations, armies.
Consolidate. Combine. Bigger is better.
Of course, when leaders of these modern mammoths keep fine-tuning
specialized jobs within their structures, the human workers come, more and
more, to resemble machine... more »
Media fails on Snowden story
Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 16 hours ago
So I'm still catching up the Snowden story. It's not that easy because it
seems the facts keep changing and there's a metric ton of noise with
everybody fighting about whether this kid is a hero or a traitor. Jeffrey
Toobin doesn't think Snowden is a hero. He thinks he's " a grandiose
narcissist." At this point, I tend to agree with that. It's not that I
don't appreciate the guy restarting the debate about domestic surveillance,
but I'm finding Snowden vaguely sociopathic for a number of reasons.
A lot of fighting appears to be based on incomplete information. Media has
been floodi... more »
The Prison Industrial Complex
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 16 hours ago
Dave Hodges
Only the most vile, degenerate and immoral person could feel good about the
practice of for-profit institutionalized slavery which dominated the
southern economy for 300 years. What is even more unacceptable is that
people who knew better, presumably Christian people with a conscience, did
little or nothing while evil was triumphing.
Today, America is witnessing the rebirth of institutionalized slavery
within its borders and it is indeed a predominantly racist practice with
Latinos and Blacks comprising the bulk of the new slaves. And we are also
witnessing racist rat... more »
Turmeric Produces 'Remarkable' Recovery in Alzheimer's Patients
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 16 hours ago
*"...they came to recognize their family within 1 year treatment."*
Sayer Ji
Turmeric has been used in India for over 5,000 years, which is likely why
still today both rural and urban populations have some of the lowest
prevalence rates of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in the world. A recent study
on patients with AD found that less than a gram of turmeric daily, taken
for three months, resulted in 'remarkable improvements.'
*Alzheimer's Disease: A Disturbingly Common Modern Rite of Passage*
A diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), sadly, has become a rite of
passage in so-called deve... more »
The case for economic freedom
Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 16 hours ago
Don Boudreaux, says Marc Street, “has the unique ability to point out the
weaknesses of opposing economic viewpoints in such a manner that the reader
easily grasps *and *remembers them.”
Test his claim for yourself.
Six minutes on freedom, by Don Boudreaux, starting now…
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to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)
Why Do We Need 1.4 Million Corporate State Spies?
Jim Horn at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 16 hours ago
If you divide the number of K12 teachers (2.8 million) in the U. S. by 2,
you get the number of corporate geeks and geekettes with top secret U. S.
Government clearance who have privileges to invade our privacy in ways we
never imagined. Booz/Allen/Hamilton, which is 70% owned by the infamous
Carlyle Group from, […]
Five great Frida Khalo quotes...
Sandra Guzman at Sandra Guzman - 17 hours ago
*"...The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint
whatever passes through my head without any other consideration."*
~
Imagine that? Living a life authentically as you feel like it? The boldness
with which Frida Khalo lived her life continues to inspire. She didn't just
paint, she painted to live. And as a result Frida Khalo lived a full life.
While her life seemed like one huge performance art exhibit, she wasn't
performing, she was living. This renaissance woman was interested in *everything
and not just 'art.' *And, she had things to say about it all--pol... more »
Washington attempts to contain fallout from NSA surveillance leaks, Clapper apparently lied under oath
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 17 hours ago
Madison Ruppert
Individuals in Washington are now engaging in damage control in response to
the devastating information leaked by Edward Snowden about the National
Security Agency (NSA) surveillance programs as it becomes increasingly
apparent that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper lied under
oath.
President Barack Obama quickly came out in defense of the NSA’s programs
which range from grabbing all of Verizon’s U.S. phone records to working
directly with tech giants on the PRISM program but the administration is
now kicking it into high gear.
Recently, Clapper sla... more »
Satire: “N.S.A. Enforces Zero-Tolerance Policy on Conscience”
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago
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*“N.S.A. Enforces Zero-Tolerance Policy on Conscience”*
by Andy Borowitz
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)— “The National Security Agency moved
swiftly and forcefully today to remind its employees of its longstanding
zero-tolerance policy on conscience, warning that any violation of that
policy would result in immediate termination. “When you sign on to work at
the N.S.A. you swear to uphold the standards of amorality and soullessness
that this agency was founded upon,” said N.S.A. director General Keith B.
Alexander. “Any evidence of ethics, decency, or a sense of right and wr... more »
America's Student Loan Racket: Stiffer Debt Bondage Coming
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 17 hours ago
Stephen Lendman
For growing numbers of American youths, higher education is increasingly
out of reach. High tuition and fees make it unaffordable. So does a
disturbing government/corporate partnership.
Millions of students need financial aid. They're exploited for profit.
Providers are enriched. Higher education involves debt entrapment.
Students graduate tens of thousands of dollars in debt. Some post-graduates
face burdens up to $100,000. If unpaid after 30 years, it's multiples
higher. If default or declare bankruptcy, it's unforgiven. Bondage is
permanent until repaid.
Loa... more »
Mass Surveillance in America
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 17 hours ago
Stephen Lendman
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It shouldn't surprise. It's longstanding policy. Post-9/11, it escalated.
Previous articles said Big Brother is real. It's no longer fiction.
Mass surveillance is official US policy. It's not for national security.
It's not about discovering terror or other threats. None whatever exist.
Claiming otherwise doesn't wash. Big Lies substitute for vital truths.
What's ongoing reflects unchecked power. It's for unchallenged global
dominance. It's secret with no oversight for good reason. It's
unconstitutional. Societies governed this way are lawless. People livin... more »
NSA leaker: are there serious cracks in Ed Snowden’s story?
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 17 hours ago
image source Jon Rappoport
First, I’m not doubting the documents Ed Snowden has brought forward. I’m
not doubting the illegal reach of the NSA in spying on Americans and the
world.
But as to how this recent revelation happened, and whether Ed Snowden’s
history holds up…I have questions.
Could Snowden have been given extraordinary access to classified info as
part of a larger scheme? Could he be a) an honest man and yet b) a guy who
was set up to do what he’s doing now?
If b) is true, then Snowden fits the bill perfectly. He wants to do what
he’s doing. He isn’t lying about that.... more »
Greek Stocks and bonds slump , Delays in invoice payment shows how hurting the economy truly is - taxes crippling small businesses while Troika sneers at any relief for Greece , privatizations Program flops - just in time for the next set of Troika talks starting Wednesday !
fredw at Catharsis Ours - 17 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-10/greek-stocks-enter-bear-market-privatization-program-crashes-does-not-burn
Greek Stocks Enter Bear Market As Privatization Program Crashes But Does
Not Burn
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/10/2013 11:37 -0400
- Bear Market
- Equity Markets
- European Central Bank
- European Union
- Germany
- Greece
- Gross Domestic Product
- International Monetary Fund
- Natural Gas
- Reality
- Reuters
*"It all began with Greece," *and as Mark Grant notes today,* "somebody,
some... more »
"I Don't Care, I've Got Nothing to Hide"
Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 18 hours ago
RADIO NZ NEWS: The US National Security Agency uses a clandestine
surveillance operation known as Prism to monitor computer and telephone
networks around the world… practically every New Zealander who uses the
internet will have data stored about them in the United States and it's not
known how much the agency has fed back to security agencies here…
Yeah, they’re listening. Whatever.
Nothing to care about, nothing to think about, nothing to talk about,
nothing to hide…
If you’ve got nothing to hide, then take down all your curtains and tear
off all your doors.
And you should kn... more »
Our Song
Sophia Love at AMERICAN KABUKI - 18 hours ago
Until recently, we didn’t know we were enslaved. How then, will we know
when we are unchained? It will be felt, and the knowing will be undeniable.
In truth, we are feeling it already,
without recognizing it’s calling card.
We are vibration; all of life has a frequency. The falsehoods of our
history say to believe what is said, read and preached. Yet we know now
that what is true just “feels right”. It resonates.
Like good slaves, we are waiting. Waiting to witness a “finale”, an
“event”, something to set things straight. Yet in the same breath we
understand that... more »
US officials debate arming Syria’s' rebels', other steps ahead of bigger meeting later this week
Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 18 hours ago
Obama the gun grabber is more then happy to send lethal weapons to hired
killers in Syria, so they can kill more innocent Syrians
And there is the double standard. * The hypocrisy of the US government. *They
will take guns away from law abiding citizens in the US. But! The US will
happily send off more *additional lethal weapons* to hired killers to kill
innocent Syrians
Meanwhile Assad is giving weapons to the Syrian people to fight off their
invaders.
*Hm.** Maybe there is no double standard with Obama?! *
*Him and the entire US administration want guns in the hands of all the
cri... more »
Noting default and sharp practice
James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 18 hours ago
Male v. The Business Solutions Group, 2013 ONCA 382:
[19] The publication issued by the Advocates' Society, entitled* The
Principles of Civility for Advocates*, has been endorsed by this court on a
number of occasions. Section 19 provides:
19. Subject to the Rules of Practice, advocates should not cause any
default or dismissal to be entered without first notifying opposing
counsel, assuming the identity of opposing counsel is known.
[20] We note the exchange in the argument before Ramsay J. mere hours
before respondent's counsel noted the appellants in default, when ... more »
Untitled
New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 18 hours ago
*BP Ends Oil Spill Cleanup In Gulf, Except For Louisiana ~Bill Chappell,
WWNO*
"Mounting Controversies Are All About Trust"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago
* "Mounting Controversies Are All About Trust"*
By Liz Sidoti
FILE - In this Oct. 23, 2012, file photo President Barack Obama campaigns
for his reelection in Delray Beach, Fla. A Quinnipiac University poll
conducted in late May 2013 shows a steep decline in the percentage of
people who find Obama honest and trustworthy: 49 percent, versus the 58
percent of their 2011 poll. And since his second-term controversies have
taken hold, the poll also shows Obama has taken a hit among independents,
which used to be a source of strength for him: 40 percent say he is honest
and trustworthy... more »
"It's Not About Terrorism Folks"
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago
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*"It's Not About Terrorism Folks"*
by Karl Denninger
"Since 9/11 the common mantra from our government at all levels is that
"This is about protecting you from terrorists." This is a lie. I'm going to
prove it.
The odds of being killed by a terrorist over a five year period are about 1
in 20 million. This means the odds are about 1 in 100 million annually. Now
that would equate to about 3 terrorist deaths a year in the United States.
There are, of course, monstrous spikes in that figure that make such a
statement difficult to quantify accurately - such as 9/11. Then again t... more »
Musical Interlude: Outlaws, “Green Grass and High Tides”
noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago
Outlaws, “Green Grass and High Tides”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R82OM5tzcrk
Turn it UP!
- CP
Another capital offence at the BBC?
Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 19 hours ago
So what's the capital of Israel? That's right, Jerusalem... Now stop lying
to us BBC...
More here http://bbcwatch.org/2013/06/10/another-capital-offence-at-the-bbc/
Schadenfreude super-size me . . .
Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 19 hours ago
SCHADENFREUDE
INDEED:
“My fellow Canadians, we have all just witnessed a sad spectacle, a
prime minister so burdened with corruption in his own party that he is
unable to do his job and lead the country, a party leader playing for
time, begging for another chance. This is not how a prime minister
should act.”
Stephen Harper, April 21, 2005
And did you know, Stevie's chimps have been
Is There Any Way To Keep Wall Street Shill Cory Booker Out Of The New Jersey Senate Seat?
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 19 hours ago
2 NJ pols who play on the same team-- the Wall Street team
There are two excellent candidates running for what was Frank Lautenberg's
New Jersey Senate seat: progressive congressman Frank Pallone and
progressive congressman Rush Holt. Holt's career-long Progressive crucial
vote score is the best of any New Jersey congressman: 91.88. For 2013 his
score is 100, a distinction shared by only 15 Members. Pallone's
career-long score is 86.10, not bad, and for 2013 it's a super 96.77, the
second best score after 100 (and something he shares with liberal champions
like Barbara Lee, Alan Gray... more »
The Economic Sense in ‘Game of Thrones’
Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 19 hours ago
[image: Photo of Matt McCaffrey][image: Photo of Carmen Dorobat]*Alright, I
confess that I know next to nothing about* Game of Thrones* myself, only
recently having discovered that the* Game* everyone’s been talking about is
not a fancy computer game at all but a reputedly addictive TV show. And not
just addictive, argue Matt McCaffrey and Carmen Dorobat in this Guest Post—they
reckon it’s jam-packed with good economic horse sense.
[ Note: This article is spoiler-free.]*
The popular HBO series *Game of Thrones* is ending its third season this
Sunday, amid fan concerns over its rap... more »
REPORT: University of Chicago removed pews from 88-year old chapel to accommodate Islamic prayers
Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 20 hours ago
It's a 'symbol of religious tolerance' apparently. What symbols of
religious tolerance of Christians and Jews can you think of in Saudi
Arabia, Syria, Egypt and the other Islamic states?
More here http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=4787
Can Someone Explain This NYSED Policy?
antiqueteacher60 at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 20 hours ago
So, here’s the deal ………. in NYS, if you as a student, want a Regents
Diploma with Advanced Designation, you MUST score 65 or better on a Regents
Exam in a Language Other Than English. But, wait, in 2011 – NYS DROPPED
FOREIGN LANGUAGE REGENTS EXAMS!! How does a student manage to get “Advanced
Designation” […]
Outside of Context: Iain M. Banks, 1954-2013
Patrick Thaddeus Jackson at Duck of Minerva - 20 hours ago
Yesterday the world lost one of its great contemporary literary lights.
Iain M. Banks, named “one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945” by
The Times in 2008, died of gall bladder cancer that had only been diagnosed
this February. He finished his last novel — ironically, it’s a story about
the final weeks
Continue reading
Dangerous and underpaid: Working in the Moskitia
Jody Paterson at A Closer Look: Jody Paterson - 20 hours ago
I’m sitting at this moment in a Moskitia hotel frequented almost
exclusively by scary, armed men in the cocaine-distribution business, in a
town that even the more adventurous guide books tell you to avoid. The bar
downstairs is blasting narco-ballads, the deceptively cheery music that
relates hair-raising stories of life in the illegal-drug trade.
The presence of scary, armed men is great fodder for blog posts for
travelers who live elsewhere, but it’s fairly unsettling for the 67,000
people who live and work in Gracias a Dios, the watery, wondrous Honduras
state that borders... more »
Glad I don't live there . . .
Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 20 hours ago
A
CAR-JACKING in Venezuela. Citizens 1 Carjackers 0, it seems. Violent,
to be sure, but perhaps this might help see how the NRA and Tea Party
types regard owning guns and the right of self-defense. Where they live,
you see, sooner, rather than later, you'll probably need one.
Emperor Julian On The Social Value of Reading The Classics
Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 20 hours ago
Source: Murdoch, A. *"The Last Pagan: Julian the Apostate and the Death of
the Ancient World."* Sutton Publishing. 2003. Pg. 141-42.
"Preoccupied with matters of state, Julian's next legal move against the
Christians did not occur until after he had left the capital. He had,
however, already begun to politicise the issue by holding audiences in
sanctuaries, naturally favouring those who took part, refusing to receive
embassies from complaining Christians, and he had already suggested that
for all administrative positions 'the god-fearing must be preferred' to
Christians. But on 1... more »
Will the F-35 Be Obsolete Before It Reaches Canadian Hangars?
The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 21 hours ago
Here's a question no one has yet asked. What is the F-35's anti-stealth
capability?
Way back when America's stealth fighter, the F-22, and its poor cousin,
America's stealth light bomber, the F-35, were conceived it was envisioned
they would be operating against non-stealthy aerial opponents. One side
had stealth, the other side didn't - advantage stealth.
But, as the stealth programmes became bogged down in endless delays and
cost overruns (as is to be expected with any radically new technology), the
world once in the F-35s designers' vision has changed.
What's changed? Plen... more »
Politifact fact-checks (almost) everyone!
bob somerby at the daily howler - 21 hours ago
*MONDAY, JUNE 10, 2013*
*Guess who the site doesn’t check:* Politifact is willing to fact-check
(almost) everyone!
In recent days and weeks, they’ve been willing to fact-check Barack
Obama—and even Jimmy Carter! They’ve fact-checked Chief Justice Roberts and
Republican senator Tom Coburn—and a little-known physics professor at the
University of Rhode Island.
They’ve been willing to fact-check Jay Carney—and they’re even willing to
fact-check “Bloggers.” For the most recent post in their “Bloggers” series, just
scope this post right here.
That said, there’s one group Politifact *w... more »
Does Red Mean Crass, Stupid or Just Uneducated? (Speaking of that Jobs Report: More Than Five Years Into the Recovery, With Potentially Another Five To Go, We May Have an Entire Lost Decade for Millions of American Workers)
Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 21 hours ago
Taking even a brief look at the map below makes you just shake your head in
profound dismay and deep sorrow, doesn't it? (Or clever glee if you're one
of the fomenters of this outcome?) Anybody want to discuss "opportunity
missed" yet? In North Carolina, for one instance, we have got to elect real
progressive representatives now (not those progressing in a downward
direction). Monday, Jun
#Commoncore defenders, own it! It is a curriculum, and that’s that.
Chalk Face, PhD at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 22 hours ago
I have no problem with unvarnished assent to the common core. That’s
between you and your therapist. But let’s get some things very, very clear.
Actually, might I suggest some close reading of all the press, research,
and commentary on the subject, because I’m not sure you’d be such a fan? In
any event, the […]
IT'S 2013 BUT STILL 1984 / WE'RE NOT FREE AND RESISTANCE IS VICTORY
Allen L Roland, Ph.D at Allen L Roland's Weblog - 22 hours ago
**
**
*Slowly but surely the fear driven Orwellian noose closes in as
constitutional civil liberties and freedoms in America, which were once
taken for granted, are gradually restricted or ended and always for the
same reason, National Security and the War on Terror ~ but the tide is
changing and an inevitable and unpredictable mass resistance movement is
already under way: Allen L Roland *
*"Those who would sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither." Benjamin
Franklin*
George Orwell's 1984 revealed that the key to social control is a never
ending war, such as t... more »
Julian Assange discusses NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden
Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET - 22 hours ago
as NSA/*PRISM* whistleblower Edward Snowden 'goes missing' from his hotel
in Hong Kong, having unleashed all sorts of migraine all over the Secrete
Services with his act, here's a video-link to the Ecuadorian Embassy where
THE NEWS interviews THE ORIGINAL WIKILEAKER, Julian Assange:
we all know the real reason for monitoring THE WHOLE HUMAN RACE is (dead
simple) *PROFIT*
Applicability of a provincial regulatory scheme to the out-of-province appellants
James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 22 hours ago
Ontario College of Pharmacists v. 1724665 Ontario Inc. (Global Pharmacy
Canada), 2013 ONCA 381 holds:
[67] There is no dispute about the legal principles that apply when
determining the applicability of a provincial regulatory scheme to the
out-of-province appellants. The question is whether there is a sufficient
connection between those appellants and Ontario, such that the College has
jurisdiction over them. The first two propositions in para. 56 of *Unifund* provide
the starting point for answering that question:
Consideration of constitutional *applicability *can conve... more »
Some news from 'Palestine' that you won't find on the BBC
Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 22 hours ago
JPost reports this:
'Palestinian Authority Economy Minister Jawad al-Naji was forced to walk
out of The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Conference on
Saturday after participants demanded that he leave for insulting a man who
asked a “provocative” question.
The man was later severely beaten by PA security officers accompanying the
minister and taken to hospital.
...
Eyewitnesses reported that one of the participants, Nizar Banat, asked the
minister why the PA and President Mahmoud Abbas were continuing to conduct
security coordination with Israel while fighting “norma... more »
THIS IS A CHEMICAL WAR
Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 22 hours ago
Here is an important video from inside the center of protests in Turkey.
All around the world governments are cracking down on freedom and
liberation movements. To risk life and limb people must be quite fed up
with the existing order that is increasingly under the control of
corporations.
It is clear to me that the people in Turkey have tried to remain
non-violent in their resistance to their corrupt government but they have
reached the point where they must find ways to defend themselves. Building
barricades and throwing tear gas canisters back at the police is not
violence.
... more »
December 24, 2012 – White Hats Report #47.1
The White Hat Reporters at The White Hats Report - 22 hours ago
*Twas the night before Christmas (Updated) *
Twas the night before Christmas and all through the land,
The rats were all scurrying because Judgment Day is at hand;
Their stockings were filled with big lumps of coal,
It was their payment for trying to steal our soul;
The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of freedom danced in their heads;
With mama in her pj’s and I with my pipe,
Reading the media’s most recent NWO hype;
When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
I put down my pipe to see what was the matter;
I moved to the door to peek through the crack,... more »
An evening with Patrick O'Brian
Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 22 hours ago
Title: An evening with Patrick O'Brian. Source: The Mariners' Museum. Date
Published: April 8, 2011. Description:
An interview with the late author Patrick O'Brian at The Mariners' Museum,
in Newport News, VA, on April 11, 1995. Then Museum President and CEO John
Hightower moderated the interview and questions. This event preceded the
release of O'Brian's 17th novel in the Aubrey-Maturin series, "The
Commodore".
Kid: “Mommy, where do burgers come from?” Mom: “Why, a LAB, sweetie!”
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 22 hours ago
*Why “Schmeat” could be for dinner, and other experiments in lab-created
food.*
Melissa Melton
Beyond the known unknowns of GMOs and cloned beef lie the impending horrors
of “schmeat” – a lab-grown in vitro “meat” product, as well as the advent
of 3-D printed food. And I thought we already didn’t know what our food was
made of.
Readied for eating after years in the making, the advocates of “schmeat”
have dubbed it the ‘ethical’ way to eat meat, because it doesn’t involve
slaughtering cattle. What it does involve is scraping neck-cells from cows
and replicating them thousands of... more »
MYSTERIOUS BEN FELLOWS; NSA; SYRIA
Anon at aangirfan - 22 hours ago
*Actor Ben Fellows.*
*
*Ben Fellows, who is of mixed race, was adopted by a white family.
His mother, Imelda J. Pitt, gave him up for adoption "because she could not
afford to care for him."
*When I Met Her I Was A 'Jellified Idiot*.
Ben became a child actor and was groped, allegedly, by a top government
minister and by a world famous composer.
*Ben*
Reportedly, Ben tracked down his real mother and discovered that she was a
film maker and actress.
One of her works was: Disaster Recovery Plan (2002).
According to Ben:
"I wrote quite a detailed letter to her with lots of backgro... more »
Toronto needs a new vision of the future, says Edward de Gale
Lilith eZine at LILITH NEWS - 23 hours ago
By Charles Moffat - June 2013.
Local charity worker *Edward de Gale* says Toronto needs a new vision of
the future. And Torontonians need to be thinking both realistically and
boldly about the future of Toronto as a city of the 21st century.
Now if you've never heard of Edward de Gale, don't feel alone. He isn't a
celebrity or anything like that. But he does have some nice quotes on his
website. Quotes like this one:
*"Toronto needs a new vision of the future and we need leaders who are
both bold and have realistic plans for the future."* - Edward de Gale.
And he isn't alone. Ma... more »
The Post prints a truly remarkable document!
bob somerby at the daily howler - 23 hours ago
*MONDAY, JUNE 10, 2013*
*What happened in 1967, only six years later:* Among other accomplishments
and undertakings, Phyllis Richman was a restaurant critic for The
Washington Post from 1976 to 2000.
But that came later. In 1961, Richman, a recent Brandeis graduate, applied
to graduate school at Harvard in the department of City and Regional
Planning.
After applying, she received a remarkable letter from the department—a
letter she recently found, some 52 years later.
To read that remarkable letter, click here. The letter was written on the
other side, though just barely, of an ... more »
Edward Snowden, drama queen
Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 23 hours ago
"He was capable of melodrama but wrote with some eloquence about his
beliefs."
Just catching up on this story of our intrepid leaker. Snowden claims he's
not comfortable in the spotlight but everything I've read about this so far
reads like a bad spy novel starting with his code name Verax which means
“truth teller” in Latin.
Furthermore, he obviously planned to come forward from the beginning,
making elaborate plans to secure asylum.
To effect his plan, Snowden asked for a guarantee that The Washington Post
would publish — within 72 hours — the full text of a PowerPoint
prese... more »
Bill Gates and the Incubators
Jim Horn at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 23 hours ago
I know–it’s a great name for a band, but it is distinctly unmusical and no
fun. It’s about destroying public schools and the teaching profession in
urban areas where children of the poor will be grown and behaviorally
groomed in segregated corporate welfare hothouses. Who makes these cozy
corporate nests possible? The oligarchs and high […]
Can Iceland Give NSA Whistle Blower Asylum Before The Gulag Swallows Him Up?
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 23 hours ago
Predictably, uptight Military Industrial Complex shills like Peter King
(R-NY) and Mike Rogers (R-MI), were on the Sunday TV gab fests howling
for
the blood of Edward Snowden, the 29 year old ex-NSA employee/technical
engineer for defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. Snowden came
forwardand outed himself as the source of Glenn Greenwald's explosive
exposé about
NSA domestic spying in *The Guardian* last week. Eric Cantor chimed in
this
morning that the House investigation will be "very serious." Does that
mean
he won't give the investigation to GOP clown Darrell Issa? And does i... more »
Did you watch Graham Norton on Friday and couldn't you find the uncensored video of the Robin Thicke song 'Blurred Lines'? A Tuesday night Rule 5 post - NSFW
Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 23 hours ago
As I posted last month...
This video by Robin Thicke ft. T.I., Pharrell for 'Blurred Lines' has been
receiving quite a lot of admiring looks, and you can see why.
So how about a look at the alternative uncensored (for which you can read
topless - not naked) version?
OK but only because you've been very good this week...
Aren't I good to you?
I haven't seen as much lipstick in a music video since Robert Palmer's
'Addicted to Love', you know this one...
Is that enough gratuitously sexy music videos for a Monday evening?
ARCHITECTURE OF OPPRESSION
Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago
Vietnam war-era whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg writes:
In my estimation, there has not been in American history a more important
leak than Edward Snowden's release of NSA material – and that definitely
includes the Pentagon Papers 40 years ago. Snowden's whistleblowing gives
us the possibility to roll back a key part of what has amounted to an
"executive coup" against the US constitution.
Since 9/11, there has been, at first secretly but increasingly openly, a
revocation of the bill of rights for which this country fought over 200
years ago. In particular, the fourth and fifth ame... more »
Are We Heading for Despotism?
The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day ago
The first thing that someone stealing your privacy will tell you is "*don't
worry*." That's the standard line *after* they have been exposed stealing
your privacy. That, in turn, is reinforced with suggestions that you
don't matter to them anyway, you're insignificant and that they have netted
so much data they don't have the means to really snoop into what you're
saying and thinking, not little old you.
What they don't tell you is that if they did, for some reason perhaps known
only to them, they could very easily snoop into just about everything
you've been thinking and doing ... more »
TURKEY; ROTHSCHILDS; ISRAEL; SANDY HOOK
Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago
*Six Turkish policemen commit suicide during Gezi protests*
*
**Turkey protesters clash with police in Ankara*
~~
- The Rothschild Family - Puppet Masters
~~~
The Israeli regime injects Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails with
'dangerous viruses' before releasing them, a report says.
"A Palestinian released from Israeli jails, Rania Saqa, has brought to
light that the Israeli regime injected detainees that are out of prisons
with dangerous viruses," Russian daily Komsomolskaya Pravda wrote on
Friday.
Saqa also said many of the prisoners are suffering from mysteriously ... more »
Whistleblower behind exposing NSA surveillance programs reveals his identity, motivations and more
Mark Daniels at Global Political Awakening - 1 day ago
Edward Snowden
image credit: screenshot from
an interview by The Guardian Madison Ruppert
Today the man behind exposing the highly secretive programs of the National
Security Agency (NSA) including PRISM, the software known as Boundless
Informant and the surveillance of all U.S. Verizon customers has revealed
his identity.
The individual responsible is Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old currently
working for defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton and a former technical
assistant for the CIA, according to the Guardian.
“I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done n... more »
Monogram Glass Block
Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 1 day ago
[image: Vinyl Lettered Block]
Wedding season is upon us. My fridge is covered in wedding invitations and
with each invitation comes a gift to be made. This monogram glass block is
one of my favorites to go to, especially in a pinch because it comes
together quickly.
You will need:
A glass block
Vinyl
A way to cut the vinyl (Cricut, Scissors)
Ribbon and Tulle
Whenever I make a craft that uses a glass block, my first stop is always
the thrift store. Sure I can buy a glass block from the craft or home
improvement store, but I can usually find one that has some vinyl slapped
... more »
Behold The Sheer Arrogance Of An Unelected Conservative $enator ... (Calls $enate Scandal A Mere 'Bump In The Road')!!
leftdog at Buckdog - 1 day ago
[image: Progressive Bloggers] * *
*"Things were done that were improper, but everybody's trying to make these
things into major scandals. They are not. These are bumps in the road.
[...] **The Liberal party survived. We will survive." *
*Conservative $enator Dave Tkachuk *
*(Former Principle Secretary to *
*Sask Premier Grant Devine) *
*The only person who ever 'voted' for Dave Tkachuk to sit as a $enator was
Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney when he appointed him to a huge
patronage reward in the Canadian $enate.*
*Saskatoon Star Phoenix*
*-Saskatchewan $enator David ... more »
Credibility
James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago
R. v. Tash, 2013 ONCA 380 holds:
[36] Credibility rules are of three types.
[37] The first type concerns attempts by the witness' proponent to
bolster the witness' credibility even *before* it has been impeached. As a
general rule, we do not permit the witness' proponent to elicit bolstering
evidence in direct examination. The rule against "oath-helping" excludes it.
[38] The second group of credibility rules involves the techniques an
opponent may invoke to attack or impeach a witness' credibility.
[39] The third set of rules governs the method that the witness... more »
The Changing Face Of Sectarianism In Iraq, An Interview With Research Fellow At National Univ of Singapore Fanar Haddad
Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 1 day ago
Sectarianism is a constant point of discussion when talking about Iraq.
Many in the west interpret everything that happens in the country in
sectarian terms. Iraqis in general do not like identity politics, yet fall
back on it again and again. Fanar Haddad is a research fellow at the Middle
East Institute of the National University of Singapore. In his book *Sectarianism
In Iraq, Antagonistic Visions of Unity*, and in various articles he has
attempted to break down the origins and changing nature of sect and
politics in Iraq. It is his theory that sectarianism is not a constant in ... more »
TED VIDEO: Paradoxes of the National Youth Orchestra Of Iraq
Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 1 day ago
The Jason Furman Fan Club
Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 1 day ago
AEI Chapter.
*Update*: Here the President's announcement of Jason's appointment.
JEWISH NEWS 1 VIDEO: Iraq's Boomistan? Boom Times And Wealth Sweep Kurdistan
Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 1 day ago
Looking under Antarctica - a hidden continent
address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 1 day ago
Link: http://youtu.be/usDzh7l5HZw
"The topography of the bedrock under the Antarctic Ice Sheet is critical to
understanding the dynamic motion of the ice sheet, its thickness and its
influence on the surrounding ocean and global climate. In 2001, the British
Antarctic Survey (BAS) released a map of the bed under the Antarctic Ice
Sheet" is written here. The "Scientific Visualization Studio" at NASA's
Goddard Space Flight Center builds magnificent scientific animations. For
example this one about Arctic daily sea-ice. With the Sun's maximum
activity for cycle 24 at amazing minimum l... more »
The Changing National Self-Image
Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day ago
Not sure if I'm going to get to any regular news posting today and
tomorrow, but I've been touristing around Washington all weekend and can at
least share a few thoughts on that.
Mainly, on the changes to the Mall. I hadn't previously been able to see
the WWII and Korea Memorials; I also hadn't seen the King Memorial,
although I had seen FDR already.
I had a fairly mixed view of the WWII memorial...I really don't have much
of a problem with heroic, triumphant national self-celebration. Was it
specific enough to the conflict? I'm not sure, and I'm not sure that the
size was sustaine... more »
Video: Facebook Censors Photos of Children Protesting Monsanto as ‘Abusive’
Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 1 day ago
Facebook Censored Picture
Video: Facebook Censors Photos of Children Protesting Monsanto as ‘Abusive’
by Anthony Gucciardi
Natural Society, 9 June 2013
I recently spoke to the mother who was beyond shocked after the* photos she
posted of her children protesting Monsanto at the March Against Monsantowere labeled as ‘abusive’ and ultimately led to a ban
* on her ability to interact with other Facebook pages.
As it turns out, she was not alone, and soon the story began popping up on
MSN and around the web after originally being reported on by Mike Adams
over at NaturalNews. Apparentl... more »
Daily Links, Monday, June 10th
Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 1 day ago
*As a day of riding in Miaoli came to a close, we found ourselves above
Liyutan Reservoir with the sun falling into the west. Yesterday was
gorgeous.*
Enjoy some links for a rainy monday...
*BLOGS*:
- Craig Ferguson takes some lovely pics in Taichung
- Oz finds some wisdom at an abandoned Coast Guard station.
- Wind power firm hires thugs to protect its site, says J Michael
- A 1964 document on being an analyst of the war theater in Taiwan
- Jenna lists her favorite coffee shops in Taipei
- Tea Masters, always sumptuous, on high mountain oolongs.
- Steve C review... more »
Two names you ought to be thinking about!
bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago
*MONDAY, JUNE 10, 2013*
*Those names are Kessler and Maddow:* In the past ten days, we have watched
fairly closely as a fraud has been perpetrated.
That fraud has been conducted against millions of people. It involves the
array of bogus facts we continued to discuss in this morning’s first post.
Millions of people have been disinformed as this scam has been pimped. For
starters, you should think about the role that’s been played in this scam
by Glenn Kessler.
Kessler runs the Fact Checker site at the Washington Post. As he has shown
in the past ten days, he would rather jump off ... more »
Something missing from the BBC reporting that I've seen re Patrick Mercer
Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day ago
In all of the BBC's reporting of the latest allegations surrounding
Conservative MP Patrick Mercer, I've not seen any mention of this part of
the video
I think it fair to assume that the BBC would have been more inclined to
cover this aspect of the story if Patrick Mercer had said 'bloody Muslim'
rather than 'bloody Jew'.
Did The DCCC Muck Up Jim Graves' Run In Minnesota... Again?
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
If you want to know how "Minnesota nice" sounds, call Jim Graves. He picked
up the phone yesterday morning with the warmest, friendliest of
greetings... and immediately said he isn't talking to the press until July
first and suggested we talk about my upcoming trip to Tuscany instead. He
suggested I spend time in Siena, long one of my favorite small European
cities. As for questions around his dropping out of the congressional race
in MN-06... not a peep, although he did follow up a few minutes later by
sending this copy of the Bill Maher "the lights are a little bit dimmer in
Cra... more »
Activism is the alternative
Barbara Madeloni at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 1 day ago
Last week I was on a local radio program, Bread and Roses, to discuss the
assault on public education in its various nefarious forms, and the
possibilities of resistance, especially through grassroots union
organizing. As I was discussing the ways that educators are being boxed in
by shock doctrine tactics of depleted resources on the […]
TWO KINDS OF FACTS: Invented, withheld!
bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago
*MONDAY, JUNE 10, 2013*
*Part 1—The New York Times publishes Hacker*: Right through this morning’s
4 o’clock hour, Fox News was pouring it on.
At that very recent hour, Fox was rebroadcasting Greta van Susteren’s
program from Friday evening’s 10 o’clock hour. In case they had missed it
the first million times, Fox viewers got to see Greta and Newt tell them
this:
VAN SUSTEREN (6/7/13, 6/10/13): What do you think President Obama thinks
about this? Does he pay attention? Or is this getting to him? Is this a
distraction?
GINGRICH: You know, Kubler-Ross did this book on death and dyin... more »
One Singular Snoopy Sensation
Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 1 day ago
If
you'd told me last week that Glenn Greenwald would be the featured
gueston the corporate-funded Sunday blather-fests, I would have asked
you what
you were smoking.
If you'd told me last week that a creepy outfit named Booz Allen
Hamilton was
working in cahoots with the American government to spy on virtually
everybody on the planet, I would have asked what you were drinking. Can I
have my Booz on the rocks, please?
If you'd told me that the leaker would be a high-school dropout with an
aristocratic name, as articulately well-versed in the law, politics,
technology and humanitaria... more »
Barack Obama and his time at Columbia University
Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day ago
Did Barack Obama go to Columbia University, if so why does nobody remember
him? Is the story 'rancid'?
'I just returned from New York, where I attended my 30th Columbia
University reunion. I celebrated with my esteemed classmates. Everyone
except Barack Obama. As usual- he wasn't there. Not even a video greeting.
Not a personalized letter to his classmates. Nothing. But worse, no one I
met at our 30th reunion ever met him. The President of the United States is
the ghost of Columbia University.'
It's an odd story but not one that the US mainstream media or the BBC would
ever inv... more »
Untitled
New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago
*Hearing may shed light on sheriff’s murky books ~Andrew Vanacor, The
Advocate*
~*@TheLensNOLA* Round 2 of OPP consent decree hearings begins today at
8:30am. We'll live blog everything.
*New Orleans Holding Emergency Preparedness Exercise *
*Louisiana exports growing ~WWL*
*Central La. Guard unit headed to Guantanamo Bay ~Leigh Guidry, Town Talk*
*Y@ Speak: winners and losers ~Gambit*
@FleurtyGirl @SusBobadilla Hanging with @Editilla @yat_speak #Twitterpromtonight. So much fun! http://
pic.twitter.com/ow7xblCpa5
He's Perfectly Clear
Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 1 day ago
Those of us who are old enough to remember recall that one of Richard
Nixon's pet -- and pat -- phrases was "perfectly clear." And, therefore, it
is particularly ironic that Stephen Harper -- who appears more Nixonian
with each passing day -- has adopted that phrase. As evidence, I offer the
above clip.
But, Jordan Himmelfarb writes, the more Harper claims to be "clear," the
more opaque he gets. That was particularly true during question period last
week -- when Harper chose to show up:
Asked by Mulcair last week how many times a day he speaks to his chief of
staff, Harper claime... more »
The Trans - Pacific Partnership Treaty - the latest boondoggle which will be forced down the throats of Americans.... Meanwhile as our Politicians sell out Americans ... China is buying everything not nailed down !
Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://silverdoctors.com/obamas-super-secret-treaty-which-will-push-the-deindustrialization-of-america-into-overdrive/#more-27432
From
*The Economic Collapse Blog*:
The treaty is known as “the Trans-Pacific Partnership”, and the nations
that are reported to be involved in the development of this treaty
include
the United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand,
Chile, Peru, Brunei, Singapore, Vietnam and Malaysia. Opponents of this
treaty refer to it as “the NAFTA of the Pacific”, and if it is enacted
it
will push the deindustrialization of America into overdrive.... more »
A reply to the Toronto Star
James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago
A reply to the Toronto Star Story on Justices of the Peace:
Dear Sirs:
The story of a Superior Court judge overruling a Justice of the Peace on
the issuance of a search warrant is interesting but hardly shows Justices
of the Peace, as a group, are lacking suitable legal training. Every day
the Court of Appeal for Ontariohears up to a dozen appeals from judges, all
of whom have law degrees and stand at the top of their profession; no one
questions their eminent qualifications. What’s more, in the particular
case where the Justice of the Peace granted the disputed warrant it seems
... more »
Egyptian girl dies while being circumcised - Alarabiya.net English - But not on BBC
Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day ago
'A 13-year-old Egyptian girl has died while being circumcised at a private
village in the Daqahliya governorate north east of Cairo, Egyptian media
reported on Sunday.
"We left our daughter with the doctor and the nurse. 15 minutes later, the
nurse took my daughter out of the operation room to a nearby room, along
with three other girls whom the doctor was circumcising," Mohammed Ibrahim,
a farmer, told al-Masry al-Youm.
"I waited half an hour, hoping that my daughter would wake up, but,
unfortunately, unlike the rest of the girls, she did not," he said.'
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Robo Bird
arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 1 day ago
This is hardly fast, but works around a close in battle field which
describes the needs of the folks at the pointy edge. This toy can also be
camouflaged better so that it stays less obvious, although once deployed,
even real birds will be quickly targeted.
Beyond all that, this is a great toy for mass consumption. It looks like
it can take off and land on a single spot in one's backyard. Every teenage
boy is a sure buyer. What a neat way to fly with the eagles.
At least we now have a successful working prototype.
*United States Army's New Robotic Bird Drone I... more »
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