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"CIA-MOSSAD ORGANIZA DISTÚRBIOS NO BRASIL '
A CIA e seus amigos parecem ser organizar os tumultos no Brasil, usando o
termo 'Gigante Acordou' - os Awakes gigantes.
*Presidente do Brasil Dilma Rousseff *
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Brasil está sob ataque porque é amigo de Rússia e porque tem uma economia
moderadamente bem sucedido?
Os tumultos no Brasil pode ter um link para a Diageo. Alegadamente, a
empresa de bebidas Diageo tem ligações com a CIA.
Diageo ajuda a financiar AmeriCares que é declaradamente a CIA-front
organização.
facção cia de 'cristão'; americares, redes de pedofilia ... - Aangirfan
*Illuminati, israelense Mossad e Diageo est... more »
Good friend “Teacher Nicole” from WI explains common in #commoncore
Here’s her post on CCSS, as an actual educator for ELL/ESL students. We’ve
interviewed her on At the Chalk Face, I need to dig those up. Look back
here later. She’s great.
Weekend Fun 43: Tales from Narra Dorm, UP Diliman
Narra Residence Hall in UP Diliman was the only dormitory for boys. There
are three dormitories for girls -- Kamia, Sampaguita and Ilang-Ilang, the
rest are co-eds. And of those dormitories, Narra is gone, since several
years ago. First it was neglected, then a portion got burned, and finally
it was demolished to house the UP Integrated School (UPIS) as the original
UPIS campus has been bought by the Ayalas for another real estate project.
I was a resident of Narra dorm from 1983-85. Before that I stayed in Molave
(my 2nd year in UP) then Yakal dorms (my 3rd year). Many memories of ... more »
Settlement privilege applies to the quantum of settlement
*Sable Offshore Energy Inc. v. Ameron International Corp*., 2013 SCC 37,
released today, holds the quantum of a settlement is subject to settlement
privilege. The case also repeats the established law that "without
prejudice" are not magic words and settlement privilege attaches to
discussions intended towards settlement and that failed discussions are
also subject to privilege:
[14] Rush & Tompkins confirmed that settlement
privilege extends beyond documents and communications expressly designated
to be "without prejudice". In that case, a contracto... more »
education activists gather, talk, strategize: reclaim the conversation
On May 4, 2013 a group of educators, parents, students, and community
activists gathered at Barnard College to share their experiences within the
assault on public education, draw connections of understanding, strengthen
ties, and plan actions. One of our first actions was to create the video
linked below. In it organizers and participants talk about […]
Bill Cunningham and Tamara Holder (liberal stooge) go at each other on Hannity...
*listen to Tamara Holder (no relation to Eric Holder) defend attorney
general Eric Holder. This, my dear readers, is a peek inside the pretzel
logic, equivocating, and sheer insanity of a liberal's mind. Can this woman
not hear herself? *
*
*Radio host Bill Cunningham,* *who was* *Assistant Attorney General from
1978 to 1986 in Ohio, presents facts - Tamara presents excuses.
Note to Tamara: Ditch the ugly glasses and get a big girl hairdo. Neither
one is doing you any favors.
Five Points on Farm Bill/Immigration
Yesterday, I wrote over at PP about "What the Farm Bill says about
immigration in the House." I've already linked to Greg, who had a similar
view, and there were others, too.
But Ezra Klein has a bit of a counterintuitive view this morning:
I’ll admit it: I don’t know what the collapse of the farm bill portends for
immigration reform. But I suspect the answer is: not much.
[...]
Will immigration go the same way? Perhaps. But it’s not a sure thing,
either. There’s not going to be an immigration bill that all House
Republicans are happy with. And they’re not going to pass an immigrati... more »
Did Arne Duncan Give “Reformers” Enough Rope to Hang Themselves?
The Huffington Post’s Joy Resmovits reports that Secretary of Education
Duncan announced a voluntary pause in using test scores in teacher
evaluations during the transition to Common Core. She explains that the
new policy is seen by some as a “tacit recognition of the Obama
administration’s overreach into nitty-gritty management of America’s
schools.” Of course, I […]
SILLY SEASON: Who gets attacked!
*FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 2013*
*Part 4—Miss Utah yes, Maddow no:* First, they came for Miss South Carolina
Teen. That was 2007.
Two years later, they came for Miss California. On the One True Liberal
Channel, Keith Olbermann and his smutty pal mauled the offending pageant
contestant in ways which were plainly misogynistic.
Everybody knew not to say so. At least, not to say so out loud!
In these ways, a new type of seasonal shark attack was born—and this week,
they came for Miss Utah. At one point, they begged Miss Utah to take their
advice, and to take the advice of NeNe Leakes, a person ... more »
Judge must raise concept of reasonable doubt and W.(D.) when credibility findings required on a "vital issue" even without accused testifying
*R. v. King*, 2013 ONCA 417 holds:
[11] In *W.(D.)*, at pp. 757-758, Cory J. set out what is now the
commonly-used jury instruction on reasonable doubt:
A trial judge might well instruct the jury on the question of credibility
along these lines:
· First, if you believe the evidence of the accused, obviously you
must acquit.
· Second, if you do not believe the testimony of the accused but you
are left in a reasonable doubt by it, you must acquit.
· Third, even if you are not left in doubt by the evidence of the
accused, you must ask yourself whether, on the ba... more »
Kate Upton topless on a horse - Unfortunately NNSFW - A Rule 5 Friday post
TMZ of course ruined this moment with their gratuitous nipple stars.
MILITARIZING SPACE BLOCKS DISARMAMENT TALKS
- Early this morning the phone rang but I was still in bed so I let the
message machine pick it up. When I finally listened to the message it was
from a woman politician in Norway calling about the Global Network 21st
annual space conference in Kiruna, Sweden on June 27-29. She wants to
come and needed more information.
- I did a radio interview on Voice of Russia two nights ago about the
conference - they were particularly interested in discussing how the US
radar facilities in Vardo, Norway and Thule, Greenland are key instruments
in the Pentagon's... more »
Wrap Up: Battle Aleppo. Kosovo/Serbia. US& Russia to meet and way more...
Summarizing: The G-8 meeting. No concessions to the NATO tyranny. Russia
held the line they have for so long now.*G- 8 Declaration WILL NOT mention
the fate of Syrian leader Assad & Updates!*
The NATO world army, cared not, because they expect to up the ante:* Obama,
Syria and the Aspin doctrine: Plans for a "limited" strike on Syria?** And*
*Turkey, US cooperate on arms (aid ) to terrorists in Syria (rebels) Doha
lurks*
*Certainly, Russia is aware of that.* *Russia to fulfill Syria missile
systems contract *
*Language?*
* **"We respect all our contracts and are honoring all our co... more »
The Left on Just Deserts
I just got an email from the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute
regarding their work on inequality. I was struck by this passage:
Since the 1970s, the United States has become increasingly unequal in terms
of income, wages, wealth and opportunity. Today, 1 percent of Americans are
taking home nearly 20 percent of the country's total income and own nearly
35 percent of the country's wealth. This means that you (yes, you!) are
probably making less money than you deserve to.*
Notice the emphasis on what "you deserve." They aren't following the logic
of the conventional Mirrlees m... more »
Obama's Berlin Moment
image source Stephen Lendman
Obama's unwelcome in Berlin. He's not wanted. Many Berliners aren't pleased
he came. His rhetoric fell short. Doublespeak duplicity is hollow. It
doesn't sell well.
On July 29, 2008, 200,000 Germans cheered him. They did so in central
Berlin's Tiergarten. They hoped he'd change Bush/Cheney policies.
He promised. He lied. He exceeds the worst of his predecessors. On June 19,
Obama chose the Brandenburg Gate. It was hermetically sealed off to protect
him.
He spoke behind thick bullet-proof glass. About 4,000 got to attend. They
were handpicked to avoid... more »
Obama's Nuclear Arms Reduction Hoax
Missing Peace
Anthony Freda Art Stephen Lendman
Jack Kennedy was America's last peace president. He underwent a spiritual
transformation. He changed from cold warrior to peacemaker.
He wanted nuclear weapons abolished. He urged "general and complete
disarmament." He wanted force-fed Pax Americana ended.
He assumed great risk. Nearly all his top advisors disapproved. Pentagon
commanders opposed him. So did most congressional members. CIA officials
weren't pleased.
Kennedy was vulnerable. He knew it. He accepted the risk. It cost him his
life. He was assassinated weeks after signi... more »
The “Fear” Factor in “Killer Robot” Campaigning
One of the more specious criticisms of the “stopkillerrobots” campaign is
that it is using sensationalist language and imagery to whip up a climate
of fear around autonomous weapons. So the argument goes, by referring to
autonomous weapons as “killer robots” and treating them as a threat to
“human” security, campaigners manipulate an unwitting public
Continue reading
The Rational Market Myth
*armageddon without nukes*
*
*Paul Craig Roberts
One of the myths of economics is that markets are rational. Theories are
based on this assumption, and the belief that markets are rational fuels
the argument against regulation. The market response to the Federal
Reserve’s June 19 statement that it will taper off its bond purchases if
its forecast comes true is unequivocal proof that markets are irrational.
The Federal Reserve’s statement that it “currently anticipates that it
would be appropriate to moderate the monthly pace of purchases [of bonds]
later this year” depends on a ver... more »
Big Brother Writ Large in America
Stephen Lendman
Spying on its citizenry reflects one of the most defining police state
characteristics. Post-9/11, America crossed the line.
Unconstitutional mass surveillance became official US policy. Bush began
it. Obama accelerated it. He did so straightaway as president.
He promised otherwise. He pledged transparency and openness. He promised no
more Bush/Cheney lawlessness. He lied. He exceeded the worst of his
predecessors.
Free societies don't tolerate these practices. Obama authorized them
secretly. He subverted constitutional law. He violated the public trust. He
brok... more »
Fast-Tracking Toward War on Syria
Anthony Freda Art Stephen Lendman
America's run by sociopaths. They're out-of-control criminals. They're
traitors. They menace humanity. They violate their sacred oaths of office.
Presidents "do solemnly swear (or affirm to) faithfully execute the Office
of President of the United States, and will to the best of (their) Ability,
preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
Congressional members "do solemnly swear (or affirm to) support and defend
the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and
domestic; (to) bear true faith and allegi... more »
20 Items to Kick Start Your Food Storage Plan
Gaye Levy
No matter how many times I write about food, there is always something new
to consider or a new and different way to present the same old information
in a more useful manner. With that in mind, today I would like to share a
method for getting started with your food storage program in an easy, step
by step, and cost effective manner.
To be truthful, my initial goal with this article was to respond to readers
who were just getting started and wanted a shopping list of things to buy
for their food storage pantry. I also wanted to compile a checklist that
more experienced ... more »
Free Download: Charles Dickens, "A Tale of Two Cities"
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of
wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was
the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of
Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had
everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to
heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was
so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities
insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative... more »
A New Direction?
There's a question mark there not because I'm asking anyone's opinion, but
only whether I'm too distracted and lazy and sloppy to stick to it. But,
anyway, ... I think instead of having this blog serve as a source of
criticism of the system and an occasional call to arms for the left, what
with my criticism being useless and the left's idea of "resistance" appears
to be useless rallies and online carping.
Instead, I thought that I'd make this blog a place to reflect about the
reasons why the left succeeded at one time and why we fail today. I'll also
be attempting to write more des... more »
Mining = Money, To Hell with the Commons
Pennsylvania seems to be getting hit particularly hard with fossil fuel
company damage.
Here is another story that I think folks should be aware of.
Mining - money - revenues - profits
That's all the fossil fuel corporations care about.
And yet our legislators keep giving them more and more access to our
commons - destroying our way of life - and potentially killing not only
destroying the environment - but killing the people.
Stockpiles of any type of fossil fuel isn't necessary if you end up dead
from lack of water/food or polluted air/water caused by the decimation of
our commons... more »
Free Download: Charles Dickens, "A Tale of Two Cities"
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of
wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was
the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of
Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had
everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to
heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was
so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities
insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative... more »
FedEx Pilot Narrowly Misses 2 Chemtrail Planes Because They Aren't on Radar
*Youtube*
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Obama’s Plan to Depopulate the Suburbs
Dave Hodges
If you live in the suburbs, you might be wise to advise your children on
how to live, work and survive in America’s inner cities because that is
where they are likely to be living in the near future in a Warsaw
ghetto-type of scenario.
The mass migration from the suburbs back into densely populated urban areas
is not a next week thing, or a next month thing or even next year
proposition, but the groundwork is happening right now. If you are not a
Baby Boomer, you will not likely be retiring in the suburbs.
In Part one of this series, I detailed how the Chinese are for... more »
Untitled
*Riders say ferry's severe cutbacks will create hardships ~Carolyn
Scofield, WVUE*
*Who Dat? New Orleans Saints Back With a Vengeance ~BlackandGold.com*
*"I'm from the Nine and you ain't taking Mine" Holy Cross neighbors protest
new development ~WDSU*
*The Lens named finalist for 6 Press Club of New Orleans awards*
*States with the worst bridges ~Winqien Zho*
*Pie company, destroyed by fire, closer to comeback ~Picayune Item*
*'Table Talk' From The Delta And 'Good Eggs' From The Bay ~Poppy Tooker,
WWNO*
*New Orleans Pride Festival 2013 event lineup ~Megan Braden-Perry, Gambit*
*~A... more »
DCCC-- No Shame Whatsoever In Exploiting Women
A good case can be made-- should be made-- that conservatives are waging a
relentless war against American women and that it has to be stopped by
voters at the polls by defeating the Republican Party. The GOP anti-women
jihad is out of control in every state where they've seized power and in
the U.S. House of Representatives. But the DCCC isn't the organization to
make the point, not if anyone is expected to believe it. Here's the e-mail
the DCCC sent out to tens of thousands of Democrats this week:
Last night, Republicans rammed through an extreme and unconstitutional bill
that... more »
Project Chess: Skype’s secret program aimed at making calls readily available to intelligence agencies
image credit:
Spinstah/Flickr Madison Ruppert
In yet another instance of a report indicating that tech giants worked
directly with intelligence agencies to enable government surveillance, it
is now being reported that Skype began a secret program called Project
Chess to enable intelligence agencies and law enforcement to easily get a
hold of calls.
This comes after it was revealed that Skype was part of the massive
National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance program known as PRISM.
The latest revelation about Skype’s secret program is quite interesting
given the controversy surro... more »
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Mariette Hartley, 73. Much loved (as far as I know) by my
generation; don't think I could explain why to anyone. Her Star Trek
appearance was OK, but I especially loved her two Columbo episodes.
The good stuff:
A Dean Baker takedown of Niall Ferguson.
Excellent substantive analysis of the farm bill fiasco from Jonathan Chait.
While Greg Sargent talks to Norm Ornstein about that fiasco.
Sarah Binder on the history of the Fed and the structure of the FOMC.
Ornstein, again, on contracting out government.
And I know I had this yesterday, but more detail from Reid Wils... more »
Food, Guns, Gold: “The Record is Rather Clear On the Side of Commodity Money”
Mac Slavo
If you’ve been watching U.S. financial markets the last few weeks you may
have come to the conclusion that something is amiss and that there exists a
major disconnect between what’s happening on Wall Street and what average
Americans are experiencing on Main Street.
While analysts and experts point to the stock market as a sign of economic
stability, today’s massive downswing should make it clear that the system
is anything but stable.
The economy, the financial markets, and the U.S. monetary system are in
uncharted waters and, as was noted yesterday after the Fed’s FOM... more »
'CIA-MOSSAD ORGANISES RIOTS IN BRAZIL'
The CIA and its friends seem to be organising the riots in Brazil, using
the term 'Gigante Acordou' - the Giant Awakes.
*Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff *
*
*
Brazil is under attack because it is friends with Russia and because it has
a moderately successful economy?
The riots in Brazil may have a link to Diageo.
Reportedly, the drinks company Diageo has links to the CIA.
Diageo helps to fund AmeriCares which is reportedly a CIA-front
organisation.
cia's 'christian' faction; americares, pedophile rings ... - Aangirfan
*Illuminati, Israeli Mossad, and Diageo are behind "pro... more »
Your Rights Regarding Pre-employment Credit Checks
Nevada has just joined the ranks of 9 other states that have outlawed the
use of credit history to discriminate against potential employees. However,
they're still a minority. Still, there’s a clear trend in the states.
According to the National Conference of State Legislators, “42 bills in 24
states and the District of Columbia have been introduced or are pending in
the 2013 legislative session relating to the use the credit information in
employment decisions. Out of the total 42 bills, 39 address restrictions on
the use of credit information in employment decisions.”
In most sta... more »
20 Signs That The Pharmaceutical Companies Are Running A 280 Billion Dollar Money Making Scam
Michael Snyder
If you could get 70 percent of Americans addicted to your drugs and rake in
$280 billion a year in the process, would you do it? If you could come up
with a “pill for every problem” and charge Americans twice as much for
those pills as people in other countries pay, would you do it? If you could
make more money than you ever dreamed possible by turning the American
people into the most doped up people in the history of the planet, would
you do it?
In America today, the number of people hooked on legal drugs absolutely
dwarfs the number of people hooked on illegal d... more »
Why Won’t The FBI Tell the Public About its Drone Program?
Jennifer Lynch
*EFF*
Today we’re publishing—for the first time—the FBI’s drone licenses and
supporting records for the last several years. Unfortunately, to say that
the FBI has been less than forthcoming with these records would be a gross
understatement.
Just yesterday, Wired broke the story that the FBI has been using drones to
surveil Americans. Wired noted that, during an FBI oversight hearing before
the Senate Judiciary Committee, FBI Director Robert Mueller let slip that
the FBI flies surveillance drones on American soil. Mueller tried to
reassure the senators that FBI’s d... more »
With Friends Like Harper, You Don't Need Enemies
Rob
Moore
The Grace Foundation, the New Brunswick charity which complained last week
about Justin Trudeau's speaking fee, now says it's "deeply distressed" by
the way things have turned out. Ian Webster, chairman of the foundation's
board, is upset. Supposedly private correspondence was made public:
"There was never any intention for this matter to become a political topic
of discussion on the floor of the House of Commons."
But local MP Rob Moore -- and the Prime Minister's Office -- made Trudeau's
fee a *caus... more »
Next Phase of Syrian Invasion Begins -- The Central Bank Connection
Freda Art Brandon Turbeville
As the secular Syrian government continues to mop up the mobs of death
squads made up of mercenaries, religious fanatics, and the criminally
insane (as well as cannibals), the second phase of destabilization is
quickly taking shape - that is, the establishment of “no-fly zones” and the
arming of the death squads by the West with even heavier weapons than they
have previously been given. The destruction of Syria is thus apparently
scheduled to take exactly the same form as that of Libya.
It is important to remember that, in the case of the latter count... more »
Global markets stabilize - there are no markets , just manipulations ! Greece may be the day's exception though.....
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-21/global-markets-stabilize-following-thursday-meltdown
Global Markets Stabilize Following Thursday Meltdown
[image: Tyler Durden's picture]
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/21/2013 07:08 -0400
- Australia
- Bank of Japan
- Bond
- Borrowing Costs
- Brazil
- Carry Trade
- CDS
- China
- Copper
- CPI
- Crude
- Equity Markets
- Greece
- headlines
- Initial Jobless Claims
- International Monetary Fund
- Japan
- LatAm
- LTRO
- Meltdown
- Mexico
- Monetary... more »
Crafting Tip: A Glue Gun Plate
Today's post is more a tip than a tutorial. This simple trick changed the
way I craft. I have spent years resting my glue gun on whatever was handy,
a piece of a paper, a napkin, whatever was closest to my current project.
It worked fine, but not great.
One day when I was in one of my favorite thrift stores, I found this
darling plate. I loved the plate, but I had no use for it. For 50 cents I
decided it was going to come home with me anyway. Later that night I was
working on a project and the plate happened to be the closet thing to me.
It dawned on me that this plate was per... more »
Welcome summer
The Northern Hemisphere celebrates Summer Solstice today, the longest day
of the year. Welcome change! Celebrate the star that gives us life. What
are you doing to celebrate today's change in seasons? Spend a moment giving
thanks, welcoming change and celebrating that which gives us life, el sol.
Every year I mark the beginning of summer, the day when the northern
hemisphere is tilted most toward the sun, with something special and always
in community. One year I celebrated with 99 drummers. Last year I
participated in the largest yoga class in the world -- 4,000 people -- in
the... more »
Mass Carnage: Stocks, Bonds, Gold, Silver, Europe And Japan All Get Pummeled
Michael Snyder
Can you smell that? It is the smell of panic in the air. As I have noted
before, when financial markets catch up to economic reality they tend to do
so very rapidly. Normally we don't see virtually all asset classes get
slammed at the same time, but the bucket of cold water that Federal Reserve
Chairman Ben Bernanke threw on global financial markets on Wednesday has
set off an epic temper tantrum.
On Thursday, U.S. stocks, European stocks, Asian stocks, gold, silver and
government bonds all over the planet all got absolutely shredded. This is
not normal market ac... more »
Rand Paul Introduces Amendment to Block National Biometric IDs
*Activist Post*
Sen. Rand Paul today announced the introduction of the Protect Our Privacy
Act as amendment to the Senate's Immigration Reform Bill. This amendment
would prohibit the issuance of a national identification card system. In
the wake of the IRS scandal and NSA wiretapping revelations, Sen. Paul
believes that his amendment is necessary to protect the privacy of all
citizens.
"A National ID card violates our right to privacy by helping to consolidate
data and facilitate the government in the tracking of individuals.
President Ronald Reagan opposed this idea, as did Pres... more »
Measurement Problem - Reality is an Illusion
*Youtube*
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'WAR CRIMINAL' VISITS DUBLIN; Ireland pimped out like prostitutes
In the Irish parliament, Clare Daly tells the truth about Ireland being
pimped out like prostitutes for the Obama visit.
*Iraq, Libya, Syria, Extensive US-NATO War Crimes. How the Media Buries
“The Evidence”:*
*Senior NSW police officer shredded documents from meetings with Catholic
Church officials.*
When the deaths of Palestinians in a refugee camp is of no interest to the BBC
Imagine that an Israeli tank shell hit an UNRWA school accommodating 260
Palestine refugees. Imagine that at least five of these Palestine refugees,
including two children and two women, were killed inside the school by that
shell and that eleven more sustained serious injuries including an UNRWA
staff member.
What would the BBC coverage be like?
How many Palestinian spokespersons would be put on the air to scream about
Israeli aggression?
How many BBC reporters would walk with a doleful expression and tears in
their eyes through that camp?
How many images of the wailing relatives... more »
BANKS OUT OF CONTROL
*Our banks*
*Joris Luyendijk* writes:
"I spent many years researching Islam and Muslims.
"I set out with images in my mind of angry bearded men burning American
flags, but as the years went by I became more and more optimistic: beyond
the frightening rhetoric and sensationalist television footage, ordinary
Muslim people go about their day like all other human beings.
"The problem of radical Islam is smaller and more containable than
Islamophobes believe.
"With bankers I have experienced an opposite trajectory.
"I started with the reassuring images in my mind of well-dressed ... more »
"Don't give weapons to people who want to kill us" - Sensibe advice for Barack Hussein Obama from Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas)
It would seem that Ted Cruz has a better handle on what's really happening
in Syria than Barack Hussein Obama, or does Obama really know just what
he's doing...
Facebook / NSA Connection
From the New Times
Coincidence? You actually believe in coincidences? Too bad.
Web’s Reach Binds N.S.A. and Silicon Valley Leaders
By JAMES RISEN and NICK WINGFIELD
WASHINGTON — When Max Kelly, the chief security officer for Facebook, left
the social media company in 2010, he did not go to Google, Twitter or a
similar Silicon Valley concern. Instead the man who was responsible for
protecting the personal information of Facebook’s more than one billion
users from outside attacks went to work for another giant institution that
manages and analyzes large pools of data: the National ... more »
Cruz (TX) GOP Immigration Hypocrisy
Does anyone else see the damn hypocrisy in this post from Talking Points
Memo (in it's entirety):
In a report Thursday on NPR about *how Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) father shaped
his vision on immigration,* his father, Rafael Bienvenido Cruz, an
immigrant from Cuba, said that while he “came to this country legally,” he
basically bribed an official to get to the United States.
“A friend of the family -- a lawyer friend of my father basically *bribed a
Batista official *to stamp my passport with an exit permit,” the elder Cruz
said.
Son Ted Cruz, who is critical of the ‘Gang of 8' immig... more »
"Evidence Indicates Michael Hastings Was Assassinated"
* "Evidence Indicates Michael Hastings Was Assassinated"*
Rolling Stone journalist made enemies in FBI, CIA
by Paul Joseph Watson
"The revelation that Rolling Stone journalist Michael Hastings was working
on a story about the CIA before his death and had contacted a Wikileaks
lawyer about being under investigation by the FBI hours before his car
exploded into flames has bolstered increasingly valid claims that the
33-year-old was assassinated. Hastings died early Tuesday morning in
Hollywood when his car allegedly hit a tree at high speed. The Los Angeles
Coroner’s office has not y... more »
Greg Hunter, "Weekly News Wrap-Up 6.21.13"
*"Weekly News Wrap-Up 6.21.13"*
Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com
The Middle East, namely Syria, continues to dominate the news in my world.
It is because the threat of a wider war is increasing and not decreasing.
President Obama met with Russian President Vladimir Putin about Syria and
the civil war that has taken the lives of more than 90,000 Syrians. How
did the meeting go? In a word, bad. No agreement was reached to end the
war, and Russia will not agree to anything that removes the Assad regime.
So, it appears to be “game on” in the war front as the U.S. arms the rebels
w... more »
Banking Crisis in China
This is obviously a major crisis and possibly it is been deliberately
produced to crush off balance sheet fraud. We can hope that it is a plan.
Otherwise, we have to accept that we are at the beginnings of a huge
financial break.
China's export business is doing fine. The real problem is that internally
it has been building white elephants that produce mountains of bad debt.
This eventually chokes out the good business and distorts the capital
markets.
It is really a natural failure of the imagination caused by a top down
decision system that is unable to empower in... more »
Bigfoot Finally Captured on Trail Cam
We finally got a trail-cam image of Bigfoot that appears to be authentic
by way of Dale Drinnon's blog. I have been expecting to have this for the
past three years, but it stills needs someone to set up it up properly with
intent. The best way is to set up plenty of cameras on obvious game trails
and be patient. Lacking that we need to get lucky. This guy got lucky.
As should now be blindingly obvious, establishing a lot of trail-cams will
soon provide us with ample pictures. This sounds like something that a grad
student can handle. The sooner the better, of course. I am g... more »
Official Chinese Culpability on Organ Harvesting
Just how one of the biggest stories ever reported can be kept from the
western press as well as it has, escapes me. Epoch has been going the lone
wolf on this and yet it really needs the mass market treatment to haul it
out into the light. We are getting real admissions both direct and indirect
as to what is going on.
Imagine Hitler’s Henchmen babbling away to the media.
This stuff must be kept secret, yet we are seeing continuing disclosure
leak out. The investigations have also forced folks to find ways to
distance themselves before the boot drops as it must.
*Chi... more »
Eurozone Economic Failings
I have plenty of issues with USA macroeconomic policy, or more properly
its lack thereof. This recession lasted four unnecessary years and the
criminals who brought it on have not been charged with treason. That is
beef enough I think.
The Europeans have done worse. None yet understands that macroeconomic
policy must be distributed to be properly effective. The best way is to
distribute those powers downstream to smaller political entities. This
might well include the cities of Berlin, Frankfurt, Paris, Chicago, etc. In
the USA, we best have the States themselves with a co... more »
Vancouver Sun Omits Pertinent Facts on Exxon Mobile LNG Proposal and Adds Christy Clark Spin and Bluster
The Vancouver sun omitted the most important paragraph from an LNG article
tonight...June 20th/2013..
The article, originally written by Jeff Lewis and posted in the National
post..
His article included this paragraph...
"*Exxon, which has optioned land from the B.C. government at Grassy Point,
north of Prince Rupert, said the project would initially produce 10 million
to 15 million tonnes of chilled fuel per year, beginning in the
2021-to-2023 time frame. At full capacity, the facility would include six
processing units. It would draw gas from fields owned by Exxon and Imperial
... more »
Vancouver Sun Omits Pertinent Facts on Exxon Mobile LNG Proposal and Adds Christy Clark Spin and Bluster
The below story appeared in the Vancouver Sun tonight, June
20/2013...here`s the link.
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/energy/Exxon+joins+race/8556764/story.html?__lsa=8979-acce
Below I have cut n pasted several excerpts from that story, and a little
further on I`ll tell you about the excerpt that was omitted from the
article and the excerpts that were added to the article..
This afternoon a similar story appeared in the Vancouver sun, almost
identical, the story this afternoon told a similar story, except it was
very short, no quotes from Christy Clark, no information about... more »
Current Account, Foreign Reserves and Philippine Economic Growth
* This is my article today in the online magazine, thelobbyist.biz.
-----------
Three weeks ago, I made an analysis of the breakdown of the Philippines’
7.8 percent growth in 1Q 2013 and showed how the services and industry
sectors, and the construction and financial intermediation sub-sectors in
particular have contributed the most to such stunning growth rate. It also
showed comparative growth rates of other Asian economies and the industrial
economies of the US and Europe.
This column will now look at some international aspects and contributors of
such growth, and how the Philipp... more »
The Wall of Sound
Phil Spector is a weird dude and a murderous one. He was also a musical
genius, giving us his "Wall of Sound" which by most accounts comprised
getting great sessions musicians and packing as many of them as possible
into the existing studio space.
Spector and his talent gave us songs like "Da Doo Ron Ron"
Obviously the Crystals were performing to recorded music but the power of
the Wall of Sound is inescapable.
And if you think this is geezer music, here's a classic performed as none
other by a brilliant, extremely talented dead chick.
Oddly enough, it seems like Amy is alread... more »
THE BUSH FAMILY
*Bush Family - Slavery and sex slaves.*
George W. Bush's great-great-great-great-grandfather, Thomas Walker, was a
slave trader.
*"There could not possibly have been a more inhuman monster than this
Walker.
"Many a poor seaman has been brought by him to an untimely end."*
*In 1797, his own crew mutinied, shot him dead and threw him overboard.*
Read more: *http://www.dailymail.co.uk/*
*Brice Taylor, in her book, writes that George H W Bush was a child abuser.*
Brice says that her daughter Kelly was abused by George H W Bush.
Brice writes:
"Over the years, Kelly was closely tied... more »
Austin: 1-inch accelerator gets electrons to \(2\GeV\)
PopSci,
Science Recorder, The Guardian Express, and The Hindu Business
Linedescribe a new accelerator developed at the University of Texas in
Austin
that is really, really small.
Half a billion of electrons may be accelerated to \(2\GeV\) on a square
inch.
A similar gadget is planned to become a part of the most powerful lasers
at
very high, X-ray frequencies. Upgrades to \(10\GeV\) (a few inches) are
waiting in the pipeline, too. A \(20\GeV\) accelerator may arrive in a
decade.
Chemists and biologists are mentioned as potential consumers of similar
gadgets. But of course, ... more »
Vancouver Sun Pimps LNG By Omitting Entire Paragraphs and Replacing Facts With Spin, Yellow Journalism
The below story appeared in the Vancouver Sun tonight, June
20/2013...here`s the link.
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/energy/Exxon+joins+race/8556764/story.html?__lsa=8979-acce
Below I have cut n pasted several excerpts from that story, and a little
further on I`ll tell you about the excerpt that was omitted from the
article and the excerpts that were added to the article..
This afternoon a similar story appeared in the Vancouver sun, almost
identical, the story this afternoon told a similar story, except it was
very short, no quotes from Christy Clark, no information about... more »
Pentagon Top Dog Admits F-35 Edge Lost to Hacking
When you've got a super-secret technology, it's a good idea to keep it
under wraps at least until you're ready to deploy the device. It's a
really bad idea for you to let your prospective adversary steal your secrets,
especially early in the game.
*“A lot of that is being stolen right now and it’s a major problem for us,”
[U.S. defense acquisitions chief Frank] Kendall told a Senate hearing on
development of the Lockheed Martin fighter, a so-called fifth generation
aircraft capable of evading radar and integrated air defense systems.*
* “What it does is reduce the costs and lead ti... more »
George Galloway attacks SNP's hatred of other opinions - BBC Question Time
'Gorgeous George Galloway attacks the way the SNP have a hatred of views
that are not the same as theirs, in particular backing up Nigel Farage's
recent visit to Scotland, and how he was attacked by SNP activists,
bringing shame to Scotland, especially as the SNP leader Alex Salmond
backed the protesters.
Recorded from BBC Question Time, 13 June 2013.'
Oh my word, I agree with George Galloway on something, I feel dirty.
Of course our reasons are different...and there's nothong 'gorgeous' about
George Galloway.SNP
The best Twitter feed ever?
Short but descriptive of events...
Turkish film translation "erases" Israel from Brad Pitt epic from The Commentator
'Turkey's version of World War Z starring Brad Pitt is reported to have
removed references to Israel, instead labelling the Jewish state, "Middle
East"'
More here
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/3819/turkish_film_translation_erases_israel_from_brad_pitt_epic
Interesting that Turkey have managed to erase any references to Israel from
that film, meanwhile all over the Muslim world people would love for Israel
itself to be erased.
Hey, It's Not Even July, Yet Arctic Ice Levels are Nearing All-Time Record Lows.
Arctic sea ice is currently receding at about 100,000 sq. kms. a day.
Because of it, we'll not only be breaking a record for sea ice loss this
year but we'll be breaking it really soon, perhaps just next week.
*"Unless something really unusual happens we will see the record broken in
the next few days. It might happen this weekend, almost certainly next
week," Julienne Stroeve, a scientist at the US National Snow and Ice Data
Centre (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colorado, told the Guardian.*
*"In the last few days it has been losing 100,000 sq km a day, a record in
itself for August. A storm... more »
Java's last synagogue demolished as U.S. students visit on religious pluralism tour from Washington Times
'Beth Shalom, Java's only synagogue, was demolished in May after being
sealed off by Islamic hard-liners since 2009, Freddy Istanto, the director
of the Surabaya Heritage Society (SHS), told the Jakarta Globe on Saturday.
He said it was uncertain who destroyed the building.'
But Israel is an apartheid state? All over the Islamic world, non Muslims &
the wrong kind of Muslims are being discriminated against and even killed,
meanwhile the world says & does nothing for fear of being labelled
Islamophobic.
More on the plight of Jews here in The Washington Times but definitely not
... more »
Obama's new obsession with the global warming myth
Barack Obama was visiting Berlin and at the Brandenburg Gate (which looked
so ordinary to me a few years ago – relatively to my childhood – because no
one is waiting there to shoot you anymore), he gave a speech urging the
world to reduce nuclear weapons and... to combat climate change.
*Our leaders before 1989 would surely be jealous if they saw how
enthusiastically and uncritically the attendants of the rally were waving
their parade sticks. But the reasons behind the difference are
understandable: Obama is more charismatic and he probably more genuinely
believes some of these l... more »
Threats Of Primaries By GOP Racists Make It Harder For Non-Southerners To Back Popular Mainstream Positions
As soon as Jim DeMint took over the already right-wing Heritage Foundation,
he made sure it would be even more extreme and, especially, more racist.
Their first big effort under his regime was to put out a phony "study"
claiming immigration would cost American taxpayers gazillions of dollars--
or, to be more "exact," 6 trillion dollars. No doubt, South Carolina's
former KKK senator brought the figure with him and asked the propagandists
at Heritage to write a justification of it. The KKK senator from Alabama,
Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III was so sold on the Heritage nonsense, h... more »
"The Contemporary Relevance of the Iliad"
"The *Iliad*," said the Emperor, "is, like Genesis and the whole Bible,
the symbol and token of its age. In composing it, Homer was poet, orator,
historian, legislator, geographer, theologian: he was the encyclopedist of
his era." - Napoleon, 1816.
Related:
*Emperor Julian On The Social Value of Reading The Classics*.
*Caroline Alexander: The Iliad's Lessons of War*.
*Professor Stanley Lombardo reads from his translation of the Iliad*.
*Napoleon On Homer*.
Title: "The Contemporary Relevance of the Iliad." Source: Trinity
University. Date Published: May 6, 2013. Description:
... more »
Morsi Picks Former Terrorist Whose Group Killed Tourists In Luxor To Be Governor of Luxor
*Temple of Hatshepsut, Valley of the Kings, Luxor: Site of the 1997
terrorist attack on tourists by the Sunni Islamist group Al-Gama'a
al-Islamiyya.*
This week, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi shocked both the Egyptian
people and international observers when he picked Adel Asaad Al-Khayat,
from the Islamist terrorist group/movement Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, to be
the new governor of Luxor.
The group targeted a famous tourist attraction in Luxor on November 17,
1997, killing 62 people. Their motive was to damage the tourist economy,
and, by extension, destroy the credibility of t... more »
Syria updates June 20 , 2013..... How do you arm rebels which will inevitably turn against you at the first opportunity ? And is the rebel " cure " worse than the Assad " disease " ?
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Next_Phase_of_Syrian_Invasion_Begins_--_The_Central_Bank_Connection/26817/0/38/38/Y/M.html
Next Phase of Syrian Invasion Begins -- The Central Bank ConnectionJune 20,
2013
Print Version
*Brandon Turbeville*
Activist Post
As the secular Syrian government continues to mop up the mobs of death
squads made up of mercenaries, religious fanatics, and the criminally
insane (as well as cannibals), the second phase of destabilization is
quickly taking shape - that is, the establishment of “no-fly zones”and the
arming of the death squads by the West with even h... more »
How does your income affect green living?
Many people, myself included, feel that green living walks hand-in-hand
with frugal living. Reducing, reusing and recycling save us money. With
today's world economy, conserving our income motivates us to walk gently on
the earth.
But what if money were no issue?
[image: Gold bars representing all the money in the world.]
Would we live as consciously?
That's the subject of this month's survey. Please choose a response and
then click the box labeled "Please Explain" and elaborate on your answer.
Create your free online surveys with SurveyMonkey , the world's leading
questionnaire... more »
"A Look to the Heavens"
“Sharp telescopic views of magnificent edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 3628 show
a puffy galactic disk divided by dark dust lanes. Of course, this deep
galactic portrait puts some astronomers in mind of its popular moniker, The
Hamburger Galaxy.
*Click image for larger size.*
The tantalizing island universe is about 100,000 light-years across and 35
million light-years away in the northern springtime constellation Leo. NGC
3628 shares its neighborhood in the local Universe with two other large
spirals M65 and M66 in a grouping otherwise known as the Leo Triplet.
Gravitational inter... more »
"In Search of the Soul"
* "In Search of the Soul"*
by Chet Raymo
"The philosopher Rene Descartes insisted that body and soul are separate
things. "I think, therefore I am," he famously said. His "am" was not flesh
and bone.
Science overwhelmingly refutes Descartes. "I am, therefore I think," is
closer to the modern view. The soul as a thing separate from the body has
been hunted to its lair. The lair is empty. Biology and neuroscience have
not found the slightest evidence that a human self can exist independently
of the body- not even a glimmer of body-soul dualism. Whatever the soul is,
it is inext... more »
"If My Answers Frighten You..."
"If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions."
- Samuel L. Jackson as Jules Winnfield, "Pulp Fiction"
The Daily "Near You?"
Aliso Viejo, California, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
Derrick Jensen, “Love Does Not Imply Pacifism.”
*“Love Does Not Imply Pacifism.”*
by Derrick Jensen
“The people in power will not disappear voluntarily; giving flowers to the
cops just isn’t going to work. This thinking is fostered by the
establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only
way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.”
- William S. Burroughs
“Many hundreds of pages ago, and now for me many years ago, I wrote that
this book was originally going to be an exploration of when counterviolence
is an appropriate response to the violence of the system. In fact... more »
Sen. Ted Cruz: "Don't give weapons to people who want to kill us" (video)
*is Ted Cruz the only sane person (for now) in DC?*
Fernando Pessoa, "Follow Your Destiny"
* *
*"Follow Your Destiny" *
"Follow your destiny,
Water your plants,
Love your roses.
The rest is shadow
Of unknown trees.
Reality is always
More or less
Than what we want.
Only we are always
Equal to ourselves.
It’s good to live alone,
And noble and great
Always to live simply.
Leave pain on the altar
As an offering to the gods.
See life from a distance.
Never question it.
There’s nothing it can
Tell you. The answer
Lies beyond the Gods.
But quietly imitate
Olympus in your heart.
The gods are gods
Because they don’t think
About what they are."
- Fernando Pessoa
"O How Incomprehensible Everything Was..."
“O how incomprehensible everything was, and actually sad, although it was
beautiful. One knew nothing. One lived and ran about the earth and rode
through forests, and certain things looked so challenging and promising and
nostalgic: a star in the evening, a blue harebell, a reed-green pond, the
eye of a person or a cow. And sometimes it seemed that something never seen
yet long desired was about to happen, that a veil would drop from it all,
but then it passed, nothing happened, the riddle remained unsolved, the
secret spell unbroken, and in the end one grew old and looked cunnin... more »
Remembering A True Warrior In This War Against Jewish Domination: My Struggle Against The Jews, By Eustace Mullins
It has now been over three years since the world lost a true patriot and
warrior against the Jewish supremacists bent on world domination.... I am
of course talking about Eustace Mullins. Few people know that it was the
works of Eustace Mullins, and a few others, that opened my own eyes to the
criminality of the Jews, which helped propel me into writing this blog.
For this article, I want to present the following article that comes from
Lasha Darkmoon's website, at www.darkmoon.me. It was originally an article
from Eustace Mullins himself, posted by the "Christian Vanguard" back i... more »
Important Health News; A New Giant Vaccine Scandal Exposes Government Lies And Psyops!
For years now, I have been advocating in this blog for everyone to
absolutely NOT take any vaccines, and in particular so called "flu
vaccines"..... The facts are simple... These vaccines absolutely do NOT
work, and having them injected into our bodies actually weakens the body's
own immune system making it susceptible to other more dangerous diseases!
It has been very shocking to me to watch people line up like gullible
sheep, rolling up their arms, and taking poisons into their bodies...
But now I want to present the following article, from the Activist Post
website, at www.acti... more »
NSA totally out of control , alleged to spy and blackmail top government officials and military officers - and also President ( then Senator ) Obama ! ! ! BTW , did Obama hint he's been threatened with death like MLK ? And they are doing that to those folks , imagine what they are doing to everyone else who gets in their sights ?
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-06-20/nsa-whistleblower-nsa-spying-%E2%80%93-and-blackmailing-%E2%80%93-top-government-officials-an
NSA
Whistleblower: NSA Spying On – and Blackmailing – Top Government
Officials and Military Officers
NSA whistleblower Russel Tice – a key source in the 2005 New York Times
report that blew the lid off the Bush administration’s use of
warrantless
wiretapping – told Peter B. Collins on Boiling Frog Post News (the
website
of high-level FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds):
Tice: Okay. *They went after–and I know this because I had my hands
literal... more »
"Why America Still Needs Affirmative Action" (John Cassidy)
*"The University of Texas's admission policies have enabled it to increase
diversity. '[T]his is what the policy was intended to do,' says John
Cassidy, 'and that's why the Roberts Court might well strike it down.' "*
*"Having lived in the United States for almost thirty years, I am always
amazed that Americans persist in believing that this is a land of
unparalleled opportunity and social mobility."*
*-- John Cassidy, in a newyorker.com blogpost,*
"Why America Still Needs Affirmative Action"
*by Ken*
It appears that affirmative action is safe for this week. But as John
Cassidy ma... more »
Which chinese banks have the biggest default risk ? CITIC , Minsheng and Industrial Bank seem to be the answer ....
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-20/which-chinese-banks-have-biggest-default-risk
Which Chinese Banks Have The Biggest Default Risk?
[image: Tyler Durden's picture]
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/20/2013 20:43 -0400
- Barclays
- Bond
- Carry Trade
- default
- Equity Markets
- Excess Reserves
- fixed
- Reverse Repo
- Volatility
With China’s credit-to-GDP ratio over 200%, it appears, as Barclays notes,
that the PBoC is acting in line with the government’s efforts to
deleverage, rebalance and position the economy towards a path for
susta... more »
mystery of the moon
moon rising
sgt. karl wolf
pioneers of space
Friday Morning Ramble: The ‘Orwell was Right’ Edition
/
Battle lines have been drawn, on the housing front, to be the country’s
most racist party.
Taxpayer-funded houses for Maori only, says Hone’s racist Mana party. No,
no, says Tariana and Pita’s racist Maori Party, that’s *our *policy. John
Key, meanwhile, is “relaxed.” What does he care?
*Mana Party unveils policy for Maori first-time home buyers that would see
the state provide low interest, no-deposit loans, with 10,000 new state
houses a year* – INTEREST.CO.NZ
The reaction against stone-age wailing in classrooms has finally begun.
*Teachers against karakia* – NZ HERALD
Lin... more »
NEOCON ‘MAD MAX’ BOOT: WAR AGAINST AL-ASSAD IS PART OF U.S. ‘CONFLICT’ AGAINST IRAN
If there’s one thing neocon commentator ‘Mad Max’ Boot can be relied upon
it’s his inability to even pretend – despite his efforts – that
intervention in the Syrian war is for any reason other than an opportunity
to weaken Israel’s arch enemy Iran who Boot says, ‘whether we like it or
not, we are in conflict with’.
Boot’s latest piece in *Commentary* exposes his real interests in getting
Obama to use airpower against al-Assad. He ignores the reality that the Jihadi
extremists within the rebel ranks have the upper hand as far as the
opposition is concerned and that the downfall of al... more »
Greek Coalition about to collapse - will Samaras and Pasok attempt to soldier on ? Can Greece fill the gap that may or may not exist ( do you believe Eurogroup or IMF view of Greece ) ?
*PM: We will continue with or without DIMAR for another three years*
Prime Minister Antonis Samaras declared late on Thursday night that his
government would continue on its way toward reforms and sustained funding
of the country from its creditors, with or without the support of the
Democratic Left (DIMAR) which on Friday morning is expected to announce its
secession from the coalition government.
Samaras also confirmed he has backed down on the issue of the state
broadcaster by agreeing to the hiring of as many as 2,000 of the 2,656 old
ERT employees and for broadcasting to restar... more »
Harvey Organ's Gold and Silver Report - June 18 , 2013 .... Data , News and Views...
Catharsis Ours - 16 hours ago
http://harveyorgan.blogspot.com/2013/06/good-evening-ladies-and-gentlemen-gold.html
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
GLD declines again/Comex inventories remain constant/another gold/silver
raid
Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen:
Gold closed down by $16.20 to $1366.00 (comex closing time). Silver fell
by 8 cents to $21.67 (comex closing time)
In the access market at 5:00 pm, gold and silver finished trading at the
following prices :
gold: 1367.10
silver: $21.67
At the Comex, the open interest in silver rose by a rather large 2408
contracts to 150,968 contracts despite silver's fall in ... more »
U.S. Median Wealth Falls by 1/4 in One Year (Maybe)
Les Leopold's report on Alternet that the United States is only 27th in
median wealth per adult (h/t @papicek) is getting lots of well-deserved
notice. But his article, based on the October 2012 Credit Suisse Global
Wealth Databook, missed a big point. (I missed it, too, when the 2012
edition came out.)
As I reported last July, the 2011 Global Wealth Databook estimated that
U.S. median wealth per adult was $52,752. But by 2012, the figure had
fallen to $38,786, a decline of 26.5%. This is, obviously, a huge number.
Moreover, mean wealth per adult had grown by 1.0%, from $259,796 in ... more »
"The True Ruling Power of Our Country"
* *
*"The True Ruling Power of Our Country"*
by James Quinn
“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny;
when the government fears the people, there is liberty.”
– Thomas Jefferson
"There are weeks that change the course of human history. There are weeks
when people must choose sides. There are weeks that expose the real
American traitors. There is no middle ground in this debate. You are either
on the side of freedom, liberty, truth, transparency and the U.S.
Constitution or you are on the side of mindless obedience, oppression,
deception, corruption and tyranny... more »
Untitled
*Mayor Landrieu, City Council propose updated mobile food vending ordinance*
*Geismar Residents Report Health Impacts from Explosion ~Louisiana Bucket
Bridgade*
OBAMA PROTEST IN GERMANY
On the occasion of the visit of President Obama to Berlin, organizations of
the peace and civil rights movements of Berlin called for red-carding Obama
and showing US policies their limits. This was done in a demonstration and
symbolically by surrounding the US embassy in Berlin on June 17.
About 1,000 people marched from Bertolt-Brecht-Platz to Platz des 18. März
and demonstrated for an immediate end of the war in Afghanistan, a
worldwide ban on combat drones, the abolition of nuclear weapons, the end
of missile defense shield, a stop of the armament madness of the USA, an
immedi... more »
DHS Insider provides the lay of the land to Doug Hagmann...... The Guardian breaks another major article - NSA Secret warrantless spying rules revealed !
More DHS insider from DC
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By Doug Hagmann (Bio and Archives) Thursday, June 20, 2013
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As noted in my June 7, 2013 report titled DHS Insider: It’s about to get
very ugly, the additional information provided to me that was temporarily
withheld from publication is now being released. The methodical and
incremental release of information was (and is) deliberate, to allow other
things to play out, such as the public exposure to the name Edward Snowden
and his revelations regarding just how extensive the domestic ... more »
Aurora boreal en Suiza
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Leona al amanecer
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Farm bill fails in the House
Boehner blames the Democrats for not delivering the votes for him.
In a blow to House GOP leaders, the House on Thursday rejected a five-year
farm bill.
Members voted down the $940 billion bill in a 195-234 vote that only won 24
Democratic votes. Most Democrats voted against the bill because it cut food
stamp programs by more than $20 billion.
The 62 crackpot cons voted against it because it didn't cut food assistance
enough. The crackpots think they might pass it if they make bigger cuts. In
which case Boehner better have all the votes on his side because they'll
likely lose the... more »
Ann Barnhardt advocates for a Federal Tax strike and for abolishment of the IRS ! IRS - Gate updates and Tea Party rally Wednesday ! And is the IRS about to tommy hammer Bitcoin ?
Catharsis Ours - 17 hours ago
http://www.silverdoctors.com/ann-barnhardt-declare-federal-tax-strike-abolish-the-irs/
ANN BARNHARDT: DECLARE FEDERAL TAX STRIKE, ABOLISH THE IRS?
JUNE 18, 2013 BY THE DOC 5 COMMENTS
*Ann Barnhardt, who last summer warned SD readers that “If you’re still in
these markets you’re either stupid or on drugs!” before the first sign of
bail-in risk to depositors emerged in Western markets is back with another
explosive interview with Elijah Johnson. *
*In the wake of the recent IRS scandal targeting tea-party groups,
Barnhardt discusses her tax revolt against the IRS, declares a federal ta... more »
Jacob Heilbrunn: "There really is no accountability when it comes to American foreign policy"
*Obama in Berlin.*
Below is an excerpt from Jacob Heilbrunn's article, *"Obama and the Failure
of the Syria Debate"* (The National Interest, June 20):
Obama’s moves on Syria have not failed to stir a debate among
intellectuals and the press. Professor David Bromwich, one of our leading
intellectuals, has written a masterful dissection of the Obama
administration’s road to war in the *New York Review of Books*. *One of the
proximate causes of the renaissance of the de facto alliance between
liberal hawks and neocons has been the sorry fact that there really is no
accountabilit... more »
"Skynet Rising: Google Acquires 512-qubit Quantum Computer"
* *
*"Skynet Rising: Google Acquires 512-qubit Quantum Computer; *
*NSA Surveillance To Be Turned Over To AI Machines"*
by Mike Adams
"Most people don't know about the existence of quantum computers. Almost no
one understands how they work, but theories include bizarre-sounding
explanations like, "they reach into alternate universes to derive the
correct answers to highly complex computational problems."
Quantum computers are not made of simple transistors and logic gates like
the CPU on your PC. They don't even function in ways that seem rational to
a typical computing engineer.... more »
Tigre bañándose en el pantano
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Steve and Barry have a little chat
Really excellent background from The Tyee on the outing of the numpty
non-issue of charity speaker gig fees that the Cons used to waste the last
week of the House of Commons before summer recess.
Tyee Bonus : Spot the Lickspittle
And as Dammit Janet asks : Why did no other media outlet but that one tiny
paper, the Barrie Advance, realize that the real story here was the PMO
sending out partisan trumped-up *anonymous* leaks on the taxpayers' dime?
.
Reliance damages in tort and contract
PreMD Inc. v. Ogilvy Renault LLP, 2013 ONCA 412 holds:
[65] The ordinary measure of damages in tort is reliance damages.
The court tries to put the injured party in the position it would have been
in had the tort not been committed. The ordinary measure of damages for
breach of contract is expectation damages. The court tries to put the
injured party in the position it would have been in had the contract been
performed.
[66] In some breach of contract cases, an injured person cannot prove
expectation damages or loss of profits, or the contract has been
unprofitable... more »
Turkey, US cooperate on arms (aid ) to terrorists in Syria (rebels) Doha lurks
*Protesting Turks? The collusion between NATO, Turkey and terrorists
continues.*
Turkey and the United States have intensified political and military
dialogue for strategic planning to smoothly deliver U.S. weapons to the
Mercenary Army: Free Syria Army (FSA)
On the political level, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and Secretary of
State John Kerry exchanged two phone calls, one on Saturday and the other
late Wednesday, to discuss recent developments in Syria on the eve of a
crucial core group meeting of the Friends of the Syrian People on Saturday
in Doha. Kerry and Davutog(lu a... more »
Why Won't Alberta Do the Right Thing, Refine Their Bitumen There?
Why build two pipelines instead of just one? Why transport dangerous
dilutent from the Pacific coast all the way to Athabasca just so it can be
transported right back again? Why import dilutent only to then export
it? Why run an oversize diluted bitumen pipeline from Athabasca to the
Pacific coast when a much smaller pipeline transporting fully refined
synthetic crude is all that's really necessary? Why not use just a
fraction of supertankers to export fully refined synthetic crude instead of
far more tankers making far more trips to bring in dilutent and carry out
hazard... more »
At the Chalk Face is back, this Sunday, June 23rd, 6PM EST
At the Chalk Face is back, this Sunday, June 23rd at 6PM EST. Educated
educators talking education, this time on the recent NCTQ report on teacher
preparation. Remember, we are at the helm in the BTR chatroom, live
tweeting @thechalkface, and you can always call in to speak with us live,
805-727-7111. Tagged: at the […]
trouble maker
Somebody
asked me
why I do this
my answer was
"If I don't do it,
who will?"
world peace
'Unfettered Free Market' Stock Exchanges TUMBLE At Hints Of A Slow Down To Taxpayer Funded Corporate Welfare Handouts!
*(Click on image to enlarge ....)*
*Corporate welfare mentality is alive and well amongst some of the richest
business entities in both Canada and the US. Even a hint that taxpayer
support to the corporate world may be reduced, sends them into panic mode
on North America's stock markets.*
*TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index slipped on Wednesday after
comments by the U.S. Federal Reserve that it could begin rolling back its
stimulus program this year weighed on investor sentiment and caused
declines across most sectors.*
*Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said the U.S. central ba... more »
Tuesday, or Not?
One of the biggest surprises to me recently has been the emergence of
National Review as a location for some quality reporting on Republicans.
I've thought of NRO as mostly a cheerleader site, but with Robert Costa
taking the lead, it's now becoming a place to get information beyond what
today's talking points happen to be. That's good!
That said...I'm more than a little confused about today's item, from
Jonathan Strong, claiming that "The Tuesday Group, a moderate-Republican
caucus long ignored within the House GOP, is quietly starting to fight back
against the conference’s right t... more »
Rachel makes fools of her viewers, part 1!
*THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 2013*
*A truly ridiculous segment:* In Monday morning’s Washington Post, Laura
Vozzella penned a strange report about Virginia governor Bob McDonnell.
Has the state of Virginia been picking up the tab for some of McDonnell’s
personal expenses? It’s impossible to tell from Vozzella’s report, which
was journalistically peculiar. It’s also very hard to care, so piddling are
the offenses the Post scribe tries to establish.
For a full review of Vozzella's report, see yesterday's post.
McDonnell seems to be in some serious doo-doo concerning a separate matter,
in whi... more »
SNAP! Agricultural Subsidies For Wealthy Republicans-- Starvation For Poor Families-- Sinks GOP Farm Bill
During the Vietnam War I never thought I'd actually return to the U.S. I
was so ashamed of what my country was doing to the people of Southeast
Asia. But one morning I woke up in Amsterdam and realized I had been
dreaming in Dutch. I decided to go home and I was back in America within 2
weeks. I had been away for nearly seven years and I had a real period of
readjustment, especially when I washed up in San Francisco, a city I had
never lived in. I was lucky to have some Sufi connections from the
meditation center I had worked in in Amsterdam and I was lucky to have met
Harvey Milk... more »
R.I.P. Michael Hastings
Michael Hastings on President Obama's drone speech on May 23 and his
administration's counter-terrorism policy:
"Look, the two key things that I took away from that speech is that Obama
has enshrined the two most radical principles of the Bush doctrine. The
first is, oh, he got rid of, sort of got rid of torture and sort of got rid
of extraordinary rendition but enshrines targeted assassination. At the
same time, he doesn't apologize for, he won't apologize for the scandal in
Benghazi, he won't apologize for the, really the IRS is a few bad apples,
and he says, “No, the AP and s... more »
Dear Prudence
As a good proportion of readers are political anoraks, I am sure most of
you will of heard of In the Black Labour, the discussion document put out
at the end of 2011. It made the - controversial for some - argument that as
the British state is caught between the rock of the deficit and the hard
place of public sector debt, it would be foolish for the next Labour
government to promise a spending spree. "Responsibility" and "fiscal
conservatism" should be the watchwords as Labour re-presents itself as the
thoughtful and prudent custodian of the nation's finances.
As you can imagine, ... more »
How Bogus Narratives Perpetuate:The Guardian's Bad Facts on Iran Return
Back
in April, The Guardian newspaper published an article in its Business
section on the supposed sanctions-evading trade relationship between
Iran's Atomic Energy Organization and the massive British commodities
broker Glencore. The article, written by Rupert Neale, was riddled with
erroneous statements and speculative presumptions posing as facts.
Most egregious of these was the article's
"More DHS Insider From DC"
* *
* "More DHS Insider From DC"*
By Doug Hagmann
"As noted in my June 7, 2013 report titled "DHS Insider: It’s about to get
very ugly", the additional information provided to me that was temporarily
withheld from publication is now being released. The methodical and
incremental release of information was (and is) deliberate, to allow other
things to play out, such as the public exposure to the name Edward Snowden
and his revelations regarding just how extensive the domestic surveillance
apparatus is—and who the surveillance is actually targeting.
*Back to the early hours of Ju... more »
Spotting Lickspittles
Call me naive, but I can't get over this.
The Prime Minister's Office has been giving reporters 'marching orders'
since May.
Kudos to the weekly Barrie Advancefor exposing the way some journalists are
taking their marching orders from Erica Meekes, a flack in the Prime
Minister's Office.
These edicts from Meekes instructing reporters to attack Harper's political
opponents have been the subject of much chatter amongst the hacks in my
small circle since they began arriving in the email box of a pal in May.
We've been using them to play Spot the Lickspittle -- we Google the key
phras... more »
Drive Thru Educational Service
Apparently someone was under the impression that Southern Man's employer
offers drive-through education services and took their brand new Mustang
down a long sidewalk and past numerous obstacles to plant it squarely in
the college front entrance this morning...
Cell phone photo by Nikita (one of Southern Man's summer students).
photo by fellow professor Tad.
Photo cribbed from a news article.
Later that afternoon crews were still at work reparing damage and preparing
to extract the car.
Note how that right front wheel is twisted. Must have hit pretty hard.
The car came down ... more »
The Future of the Real IRS Scandal!
I saw this from Kevin Drum, who sent me to Dave Weigel, and from there to a
brilliant paper designed to fuel infinite resentment for conservatives,
summarized by James Pethokoukis beginning with this gem:
1. Let’s say Tea Party groups had continued to grow at the pace seen in
2009 and 2010.
And ending with the conclusion that the Democrats stole the 2012 election
by suppressing the Tea Party vote by foot-dragging on certifying their
tax-exempt status.
To which my first reaction is: that's nothing! Of course we should assume
that Tea Party groups would naturally group in Years Three... more »
"How to Disappear Without a Trace"
*"How to Disappear Without a Trace"*
by Bill Bonner
"Travel is tiring. Often, it's our laptop computer that shows the signs of
fatigue first. Yesterday, it got fed up and refused to deliver the mail. We
could neither send nor receive mail... neither from our laptop nor from our
iPhone, which normally accesses our email account.
We should have been delighted. We were in Ireland. Now we had an excuse not
to work. We could pay attention to our surroundings... and enjoy them. But
with no means to contact the outside world, we grew anxious. Who was trying
to contact us? What importan... more »
Google's Eye On the World.
Google Alerts is a fine source of news from around the world on almost any
topic that interests you. Every day Google delivers to your inbox an
array of linked headlines that you can then pore over at your leisure.
Some of the topics I monitor through Google Alerts include drought, floods,
the water crisis, climate change, inequality, war and arms races. Through
these alerts you can access a lot of information that would never make it
into our domestic media. Over time you build up a picture of what's
happening where and when and the magnitude of the issue from one region to
... more »
Priests for Life send letter to Pelosi...
*telling her what her bishop should be telling her.*
*From Priests for Life: *
Dear Mrs. Pelosi,
Last Thursday, June 13, you were asked a question in a press briefing that
you declined to answer. The question was, *"What is the moral difference
between what Dr. Gosnell did to a baby born alive at 23 weeks and aborting
her moments before birth?"*
Given the fact that the Gosnell case has been national news for months now,
and that Congress, where you serve as House Democratic Leader, was about to
have a vote on banning abortion after 20 weeks fetal age, this was a
legitimate questi... more »
TRAVEL / David P. Hamilton : Aubervilliers Is Paris 'Red Belt' Suburb That Defies Expectations
Some
public housing units were interspersed with gardens and balconies,
connected by curving pedestrian walkways. Photos by Sally Hamilton / The
Rag Blog.
Paris suburb defies expectations:
Visiting Aubervilliers in the 'Red Belt'
Although Aubervilliers at night might be a scary proposition for an
American senior with less than perfect French, it is safer than hundreds
of places in the U.S.
CONTEST TIME: Nick Ruiz Is Into The Cult
My first serious, non-hippie job-- my friend Andy started calling me
"corporate Howie"-- was working for Sire Records. At the first label
meeting, Seymour Stein assigned me responsibilty for The Ramones, Talking
Heads, The Smiths, Depeche Mode, Erasure, The Replacements, Echo and the
Bunnymen, Ice-T, Aztec Camera, Book of Love, Throwing Muses, the Tom Tom
Club, Ofra Haza, Yaz, Seal, k.d. lang, Kid Creole & the Coconuts, My Bloody
Valentine, Dinosaur Jr. and The Pretenders. Seymour said I looked glum.
"What's the matter? You're not getting Madonna." I responded, "I don't want
Madon... more »
Get Lucky - Five pianist style
That's The Daft Pianists
This is the Daft Punk original
The Apocalypse
Photo by John Carroll
“The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has
arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live
within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still
have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.”
― Terence McKenna
Iraq’s Kurdistan Postpones Presidential And Constitutional Vote
September 2013 was the date set for voting on the Kurdistan Regional
Government’s (KRG) president and parliament. The balloting was surrounded
in controversy as President Massoud Barzani was attempting to find a way to
run for a third term, despite Kurdish law saying that he could only serve
two times. As part of this effort, Barzani was pushing a referendum on the
region’s draft constitution, which would allow him the opportunity to serve
up to eight more years. The Kurdish opposition was crying foul, and
Barzani’s erstwhile allies the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) were also ... more »
Corporate Welfare Recipients 2 P in Cup
Wouldn't you love to hear that?
*About $59 billion is spent on traditional social welfare programs. $92
billion is spent on corporate subsidies. *So, the government spent 50% more
on corporate welfare than it did on food stamps and housing assistance in
2006.
Let's see that would mean
The banksters for the bailout
Wall Street
Halliburton
IBM
General Electric
Honeywell
Xerox
Dow
Motorola
3M
United Technoloigies
Ford
Dupont
General Motors
Corning
Cummins
J&J
Medtronic
Chevron
Raytheon
Monsanto
Just ... more »
FDA 5: Trade and Investment Promotions
Today, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will celebrate its 50th
Anniversary at its office in Alabang. Congratulations, FDA Director Dr.
Kenneth Hartigan-Go and staff.
Doc KHG has a new slogan, a "Transformative FDA" where they are "finding
the balance between innovations and sound regulations."
I think it is a good and simple goal. Encouraging innovations while weeding
out the not-so-good guys among the players via regulations and penalties
for violation of certain rules.
Last Monday, June 17, FDA held a training seminar for its top officials and
decision makers from differe... more »
Did Harper Deal BlackBerry a Body Blow?
Is there anything Stephen Harper won't do to degrade his office and our
country? Time and again Harper reveals his chronic dark, gutter side. The
man has the integrity and instincts of a pimp.
I don't know where Harper's bottom line is. I don't even know that he has
such a thing. Perhaps the floor for this character is his sense of
plausible deniability. If his base, his core of supporters, are willing to
believe him or even just give him the benefit of the doubt, it's a green
light for Steve to indulge his instincts.
At times Harper's misfits, or in Tory lexicon his "cabin... more »
Una chica sobre los árboles
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Elefante y garzas
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Jardín japonés en Portland
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Pajarillos descansando
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Niall Ferguson just keeps pouring it on!
*THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 2013*
*Concerning our miserable failure:* When you’re creating a Standard Group
Story, repetition is very important.
Tuesday night, Charlie Rose spent half an hour with Niall Ferguson, the
gloomy and frequently misinformed world-famous Harvard professor.
Eventually, it had to happen. Ferguson shrieked about American performance
on international tests, with Charlie cheering him on:
FERGUSON (6/18/13): *Let’s just look at education. We are failing,
miserably, at the level of secondary education—high school education.*
ROSE: *Right.*
FERGUSON: *If you look at the... more »
Democratic Underground
If only.
I'd love nothing more than to see that piece of shit website run by a
pervert named Skinner go six feet under. Then again, I'd also love to see
Jon Swift and Steve Gilliard to come back to life, Pam Spaulding to come
out of retirement and Baghdad Burning to make a comeback. But life's full
of disappointments and tradeoffs and perhaps the Blogging Gods will reward
me for my Job-like tribulations with a massive server crash that'll put the
kibosh on DU.
Longtime reader KPete was, well, kind enough to link to my last postregarding the obvious murder of Michael Ha... more »
SILLY SEASON: Greatest teen bimbos of the past!
*THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 2013*
*Part 3—CNN’s version of Miss Indiana remembers:* It’s hard to get one’s
arms around the emptiness of our modern “journalistic” “elites.”
Despite that, we’re willing to try! Consider the bright-eyed, bushy-tailed
gang at CNN’s new morning program.
The adjectives come from the headline atop Alessandra Stanley’s profile. In
Tuesday morning’s New York Times, she described the cheerful threesome who
have become the face of CNN in morning drive-time.
At the start of her piece, Stanley captured the bushy-tailed trio at play
as their program premiered:
STANLEY (... more »
Does this qualify as “intimidation” from NCTQ? Watch out #highered and #teacherprep
I received an email message the other day from someone at NCTQ regarding an
account I had of a meeting with them in 2011. In my first year as a faculty
member, I decided to meet and speak with a number of education policy and
advocacy organizations to see how folks in my position could get […]
Neil Cavuto talks with Dr. Ben Carson about the upcoming Obamacare disaster...(video)
*it's designed to fail. *
H/T: 1389 Blog
A Letter to Educators Who Embrace the #commoncore
Dear Educator Friends, While the common core may not be an issue for you,
or your school, do know that for others it will be a major issue. And the
problem is this, while the standards might work for you and your school,
there are many standards in CC that do not work for many […]
Ineffective assistance of counsel
*R. v. Buckley*, 2013 NSCA 73 holds:
[3] The standard of review for a claim of ineffective
assistance of counsel is well settled. This court said in *R. v.West*,
2010 NSCA 16 (CanLII), 2010 NSCA 16:
*[268] The principles to be applied when considering a complaint of
ineffective assistance of counsel, are well known. Absent a miscarriage of
justice, the question of counsel’s competence is a matter of professional
ethics and is not normally something to be considered by the courts.
Incompetence is measured by applying a reasonableness standard. There is
a strong ... more »
Steve King's Tea Party rally small but devoted
Crackpot Congressman Steve King was all ready to filibuster the hell out of
all six hours of this Tea Party rally. But not to worry. The usual lunatics
were there to help.
Crowds showed up in droves. One member of Congress after another showed up
to give speeches. The Heritage Foundation’s Robert Rector dropped by to
talk about his widely criticized study that the Senate’s immigration bill
would cost $6 trillion (though there was no criticism from this crowd).
For King the outpouring of support from Tea Party groups and likeminded
members of Congress was proof that his efforts t... more »
Lluvia de meteoritos
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Wild Bill: "Rubio is the poster boy for the destruction of American conservative values...
*as he trumpets amnesty for criminals." *
Anything You Don't Say Can Be Used Against You
You no longer have the absolute right to remain silent in Police State USA.
That is the unbelievable gist of a Supreme Court decision issued on Monday.
If the cops don't Mirandize you prior to conducting an informal, friendly
chat, and you clam up at some point in the voluntary interview, your very
silence may now be legally construed as a prima facie indicator of
your guilt. You must verbally self-invoke your right against
self-incrimination, because passive-aggressive sullenness won't cut
it. Even nervous tics can be used as evidence against you.
So as the chip, chip, chipping awa... more »
Extremist GOP PAC Named “Americans for Progressive Action”
Two reasons for this post.
*One* to WARN PEOPLE that all is not as it seems if you get a call asking
for money from these scam artists.
*Two* - the RepoubliCON party is so in the toilet that they now have to use
the word PROGRESSIVE to raise money
- cause no one wants to give to the conservative extremist right-wing
RepubliCONS.
*“Americans for Progressive Action”*
*is a GOP PAC*
*From Think Progress *
*New ‘Progressive’ Super PAC Actually Backing Conservatives, Run By Former
Consultants For Rove And Bachmann*
By Josh Israel on Jun 13, 2013 at 12:30 pm
*A secretive new supe... more »
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Mohawk Nation News 'Let's Play Indian'
LET’S PLAY INDIAN
Mohawk Nation News
MNN. June 16, 2013. Why do White People Play
“Indian”? From fake Mohawks at the Boston Tea Party, to Grey Owl, to
Oscar de Corti, to Charlie Smoke, to all those grey-haired academics
creeping around the “Indigenous” scene who suddenly “found” their Indian
roots.
Do they aspire to our third world living conditions?
Your moment of Zen
Sunflowers remind me of driving through Spain. [photo via]
MAINE DRONE VICTORY (OF SORTS)
Yesterday the Maine House of Representatives passed our drone bill 115-33.
(The Maine Senate had previously passed the bill as well.) It was a mixed
victory.
On the positive side, the long sought after police warrant requirement was
in the bill which would allow law suits against the police if they violate
the warrant provisions. The bill also has a two-year moratorium on police
use of drones in Maine.
On the negative side, the bill carried an amendment that allows testing of
weaponized drones in Maine. The bill language reads something like this: *An
unmanned aerial vehicle m... more »
DC AFL-CIO - Promotes ALEC Education
The DC Council is promoting an event by Progressive Maryland for their
members.
This is a very good thing.
*Film: The United States of ALEC *
*Where*
Howard County Library Central Branch; 10375 Little Patuxent Parkway,
Columbia
*When*
Jun 24 * 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm*
Join Progressive Maryland and Common Cause Maryland for a special screening
of Bill Moyers' acclaimed film about corporate control of our laws and
legislatures and how we can take back our government.
Too few people have heard about ALEC, or the American Legislative Exchange
Council. But this is a group that everyone s... more »
War Law, the “Public Conscience” and Autonomous Weapons
In the Guardian this morning, Christof Heyns very neatly articulates some
of the legal arguments with allowing machines the ability to target human
beings autonomously – whether they can distinguish civilians and
combatants, make qualitative judgments, be held responsible for war
crimes. But after going through this back and forth, Heyns then appears to
reframe the debate
Continue reading
The CDC is lying to you again: flu reality vs. flu fiction
image source Jon Rappoport
I now have the official CDC flu-death statistics for the year 2010.
They were provided to me by Martin Maloney, who, some years ago, contacted
me to show how the CDC was lying all the way along the line about numbers
of flu deaths. Many thanks, Martin, for your good work.
2010 is apparently the most recent year for which the CDC has issued a
final report. It was released on May 13 of this year.
The report comes through a sub-agency of the CDC, the National Vital
Statistics System (NVSS).
On page 89 of the report, “Deaths: Final Data for 2010,” in Table 1... more »
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