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SCOTUS deals big blow to DOMA
Good day to be a liberal. I''m not one to drink the bitter tears of my
opponents, but admit I'm enjoying the moment and wallowing in the joy
exploding all over my internets. SCOTUS delivered two big victories for gay
rights this morning.
The two cases, both decided on 5-4 votes, concerned the constitutionality
of a key part of a federal law, the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA),
that denied benefits to same-sex married couples, and a voter-approved
California state law enacted in 2008, called Proposition 8, that banned gay
marriage.
The Court struck down the use of the theocr... more »
Your moment of Zen
Happy Buddha via HoneyBearKelly. [photographer unknown]
Ultra badass student activists in Chicago giving it to CPS #stuvoice
I am quoting, via Facebook: Just spoke out against the Board of Education
with students from the CSOSOS! Most bad ass thing in the world! Security
had no idea what was going on as students across the room stood up and
spoke against the Board. It was pure chaos! My thirty second stand up
speech: […]
Duncan: Pay no attention to who is behind the #CCSS curtain.
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has been quite busy lately making the
rounds defending the Common Core. Yesterday Duncan gave a speech to the
American Society of Newspaper editors which Valerie Strauss titled “Arne
Duncan tells newspaper editors how to report on the Common Core.“ Duncan
stated that opponents of the Common Core were “spreading […]
OBAMA AND THE CIA; FROM HAWAII TO INDONESIA
Obama statue...
*1.* *A large number of the world's leaders work for the CIA.*
Ron Rewald, a banker, was recruited by the CIA's chief officer in Chicago
in 1976.
*Rajiv Gandhi*
Ron Rewald reported that "millions of dollars in CIA funds ... such as
those maintained in the Bank of Hawaii... were used to launder money for *the
Sultan of Brunei... President Ferdinand Marcos, Indian Prime Minister
Indira Gandhi, Gandhi's son and future Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, and
President Suharto of Indonesia*."
*The Story of Obama: All in the Company by Wayne Madsen*
- www.lewrockwell.com
... more »
Who is the horrible Prachi Gupta?
*WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 2013*
*Bearing a family resemblance to an earlier unpleasant group:* Prachi Gupta
graduated from college (Pitt) in 2009.
For two years, she worked for Deloitte Consulting. After a year as a
freelance writer, she hired on at Salon last August as an “entertainment
news blogger.”
Along the way, she seems to have given birth to the world, judging from the
high self-regard at several spots over which she holds sway.
Today, this surprisingly worthless young person spends her time degrading
the world, typing up manifest bullshit like the excerpt offered below. In
oth... more »
Back to the "Live" Filibuster
Everyone loves a live, or talking, filibuster. They make for terrific
drama! No question about it -- hey, say what you will about Frank Capra,
but he certainly knew from compelling drama. So when there is one -- such
as yesterday's marathon filibuster of abortion legislation by Texas State
Senator Wendy Davis -- everyone wants more, and gets all upset that in the
US Senate most filibusters are "silent" and not dramatic at all.
First, a bit of fun. Me, responding to why Democrats didn't demand a
talking filibuster against the ACA in 2009:
In the old days, Senators engaged in a filibu... more »
Failed States Index
*Foreign Policy* magazine and *The Fund for Peace* have released their 2013
*Failed State Index.*
Nations are rated by five categories, Critical, In Danger, Borderline,
Stable and Most Stable.
Not many countries achieve the Most Stable rating - Canada, the
Scandinavian countries including Iceland, Australia and New Zealand, that's
it. The United States, Japan and Britain, are among the second-tier or
Stable countries.
Most of Africa; the Middle East; South, South East and East Asia, together
with Russia fall into the In Danger or Critical categories. Disturbingly,
the emerging ... more »
I'm gone...
*not forever, but for awhile (at least until Monday.)*
I'll be popping in to some of my favorite blogs and may even be commenting,
but for now I have nothing to say except the following. *
*
Guess what?
I don't really care what the Supreme Court said today. If the libtards
want to live in a world of their own making, I say, "Let them." It
doesn't change one iota of how I plan on living my life, nor should it
change how you live your life.
The consequences of their immorality will be theirs alone to "enjoy." Kill
babies by the million up to and after birth? Just dandy. Practi... more »
Lippa application dismissed - Paralegals can be directed to sit in body of court and be called after lawyers.
R v Lippa 2013 ONSC 4424
I can forward a PDF to anyone who needs it
BBC Complaints and Clarifications
For fans of the BBC's labyrinthine complaints procedure, here are a
selection of this month's *Corrections and Clarifications *from the BBC
Complaints website.
*1. Guide: Why are Israel and the Palestinians fighting over Gaza?,
Newsround website, bbc.co.uk: Finding by the Editorial Complaints Unit*
*Complaint*
A visitor to the site complained that the item was misleading in three
respects. The reference to Israel having been *“carved out of land
populated by Palestinian Arabs”* gave the impression that there had
previously been no Jewish inhabitants of the area, the reference to... more »
More reasons to be cheerless
John Harris on why Generation Y is steadfast right-wing libertarian. It is
only one piece, admittedly based on long-term sample poll.
Politics is carefully balanced between two seemingly opposite processes. On
the one hand we have a generation of Thatcher and now Major’s Children, now
young adults, who have inculcated a lifetime of neoliberal propaganda and
turned it into (Gramscian) common sense. On the other hand we have an
ongoing breakdown in the Conservative Party voter base/hegemonic bloc which
dominated politics for most of the 20th century.
While this might make electoral po... more »
Let’s Unite in Opposition to Criminalization of Absenteeism in Texas
A couple of weeks ago, I tackled the daunting task of posting constructive
criticism of the UCLA Civil Rights Project’s support for data-driven
efforts to end some types of school suspensions. Now, I get to issue
full-throated praise to a federal civil rights lawsuit against criminal
prosecutions of Texas students for truancy (while acknowledging the […]
Temporary Workers are a Fix, One That Keeps Us from Finding Solutions
When employers can't find workers at a time of high unemployment, we've got
a problem. Filling those vacant spots with guest workers is a low-cost fix,
one that does nothing to solve our problem, perhaps even rendering it more
intractable.
*Currently, more than 330,000 workers live and work in Canada as part of
the federal temporary foreign worker program — a number that has nearly
tripled over the last 10 years, with the bulk of those job-seekers going
west in search of work.*
**
***The program was originally designed to attract skilled employees,
agricultural workers and live-... more »
Turk Pipkin : Remembering James Gandolfini
James
Gandolfini as Tony Soprano from season six of The Sopranos.
Sleep well, Jimmy:
Remembering James Gandolfini
Though I'd worked a long while in film and television, I never dreamed
that a tall drink of water from Texas would end up acting alongside
Gandolfini in the show that I loved...
By Turk Pipkin / The Huffington Post / June 26, 2013
From the premiere episode forward, I was a huge
ALEC Continues on Taxpayers’ Dollar
This morning there was a RepubliCON ranting about *Moyers' updated expose’
on ALEC* entitled:
*Moyers Continues Rant Against ALEC on Taxpayers’ Dollar*
By Mike Ciandella | June 26, 2013 | 11:30
And included the following paragraph:
Besides attacking ALEC, Moyers has also used his taxpayer-funded show to
promote theAmerican Legislative and Issue Campaign Exchange (ALICE) as a
liberal alternative to ALEC. He has also used his platform to promote other
liberal groups like Color of Change.
And included the following sentence:
The American Legislative Exchange Council is a non-pr... more »
Democratic Senators Who Voted To Confirm Fascists To The Supreme Court
Justice Ginsburg, who, like Bernie Sanders and Chuck Schumer, went to my
high school, James Madison in Brooklyn, knows what she's talking about when
she says the decision by the 5 right-wing Republican activists on the
Supreme Court, each of whom is also a corporate whore, produced an
anti-democratic ruling stinking of "hubris." She pointed out how illogical
their nakedly partisan arguments were:
In the Court’s view, the very success of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act
demands its dormancy. If the statute was working, there would be
less evidence of discrimination, so opponents... more »
Lack of Workers’ Rights In Iraq
Iraq is a country full of contradictions. It has one of the largest oil and
natural gas reserves in the world, yet that wealth has failed to trickle
down to the general public. The state of its workforce is a perfect
example. Many of Iraq’s laborers are unskilled and uneducated. To make
matters worse, the country lacks legislation to protect their rights. That
means it is hard for them to organize and improve their lot.
Iraq has a large and growing workforce, but it is not very skilled. The
country has one of the largest, youngest, and fastest growing populationsin
the Middle Eas... more »
Here is precisely why I get the news that matters from reliable internet sources and not the prestitute US "mainstream" media.
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Top Ten Ways US TV News are Screwing us Again on NSA Surveillance Story
(Iraq Redux)
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Posted on 06/24/2013 by Juan Cole
Welcome to Informed Comment,
where I do my best to provide
an independent and informed
perspective on Middle Eastern
and American politics.US television news is a danger to the security of the
United States. First, it is so oriented to ratings that it cannot afford to
do unpopular reports (thus, it ignored al-Qaeda and the Taliban for the
most part before 9/11). Second, it is so oriented toward the hall... more »
Tanner Colby wins the prize!
*WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 2013*
*There is no end to this process:* Make no mistake! Tanner Colby had it
rough back in the day.
At Slate, the ugly fellow helps us picture life in Houston with Grandma:
COLBY (6/15/13): There was this Thanksgiving dinner once, at my aunt’s
house in Houston. That morning we’d read an op-ed in the local paper about
a school that still used corporal punishment. A white teacher had paddled a
black student. People were up in arms about the obvious racial overtones,
and *my grandmother, my sweet little 70-year-old Nanny, offered that she,
too, didn’t think the w... more »
This Week in Assclownery
It's been a helluva week on the political front and it's only Hump
Day. Let's see what's going on in the Land of the Free, Home of the Brave.
First off, Gabriel Gomez, aka Lurch, got his uptight ass handed back
to him by losing to Rep. Ed Markey in the Massachusetts special Senate
election. Apparently, not as many white Independent male voters went for
him as expected. Maybe it was the fact he called Ed Markey "pond scum" over
something he didn't do (compare him to bin Laden) or maybe it was the fact
his termagant of a wife decided to pile on Markey like a half-crazed harpy... more »
Propaganda, Plagiarism, and Public Misleading on CREDO
The corporate charter industry is working every angle to put the best
makeup on the CREDO charter study of 2013. And “news coverage” in
Tennessee shows their efforts paying off. Two examples of Tennessee media
“coverage” of the 2013 CREDO charter school study are provided below, and
as you can see, they are both lifted from […]
Banned in Britain
I read that the UK Home Secretary, Teresa May, has banned Pamela Geller
from entering the UK as it would not be conducive to the public good.
More here
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2013/06/banned-in-britian-uk-caves-to-jihad.html
Meanwhile Islamic preacher Muhammad al-Arifi who has advocated Jew-hatred,
wife-beating, and jihad violence was recently admitted to the UK with no
difficulty. Why the disparity in treatment? Are Islamist preachers, and
there have been several on recent years, who preach hatred, conducive to
the public good? Is promoting hatred of Jew... more »
Untitled
*The Advocate, WWL-TV announce partnership*
*Schemed to Death: Rob Ryan's Defense ~Uptown Murf, Canal Street Chronicles*
Wanna laugh? See this: how 'Europe' works... or so it seems!
address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 3 hours ago
Link: http://youtu.be/VTpkdtzncT0 -- you may need to put SUBTITLES ON !
*As often said: politicians are a reflection of a society*, not an example
for society. We live in decadent times, meaning: overruling with loss of
values, proportions and ethics, in particular on the side of those who
govern. *Tom Staal*, a Dutch TV-maker and journalist, made headlines these
days with his sensational report about cheating and money-embezzling
"parliamentarians" at the Strasbourg and Brussels "EU"-headquarters. This
part with English subtitles (put them manually on!) comes from his
Brussels' ex... more »
INVENTING THE OTHER: Serena's all wrong!
*WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 2013*
*Part 3—Our Own Salem Village:* At one time, we Americans really knew how
to invent The Other.
Back in Salem Village, we’d simply dunk those presumed to be witches. We’d
let nature take over from there.
Today, we no longer do that. As a bit of a replacement procedure, we have
the pronouncements of Mary Elizabeth Williams at Salon.
Williams was busy last week, inventing The Other in two major cases. On
Friday, she gave celebrity chef Paula Deen a good sound dunking for her
racial errors.
First, Williams misstated the contents of Deen’s deposition, as has... more »
Just a Little Bit of Global Warming Goes a Long, Long Way
*Chain of Fools**A little warming goes a long way*. That might be the real
message from the floods that have wracked Alberta over the past week.
It's a message much of the Third World has known, and endured, for quite a
while but we really never much listened to them. Most Canadians thought
global warming, for Canada, mainly meant a little less cold - yippee!
Oh sure, the Innu have been warning about climate change impacts in the far
north but we really haven't paid them much mind either. But Calgary? Well
that's another matter altogether.
Now we're coming to realize that the l... more »
DOMA Open Thread
I didn't do this yesterday for VRA, but I did it for the ACA case, so why
not: here's an open thread for discussing the Supreme Court's marriage
decisions. If you want to also talk about the Texas abortion law
filibuster, be my guest! I know I'll be writing about filibusters, and I'll
probably write about the SCOTUS stuff too, but for now, I'll just leave
this one.
Are We Not Men?
By Capt. Fogg
*Not to go on all-fours; that is the Law. Are we not Men?*
-H.G. Wells, *The Island of Dr. Moreau*-
I'd hate to make anyone think I'm an optimist. I'm not even sure I care too
much about the human race aside from a few individuals, but that's what
pessimism is about -- a cosmic frame of reference that sees no permanence;
that sees everything that is on the way up as inevitably on the way down.
Perhaps not caring gives a clearer vision. If it doesn't matter in the end
that voting rights are in peril, or at least under continuing assault, then
the failure of the Texas... more »
Evidence? Secretary Duncan, You Can’t Handle the Evidence
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan appears now to be assuming the mantle of
self-righteous indignation—a tenuous perch for someone who is leading a
field in which he has no experience or expertise. As Valerie Strauss has
reported, Duncan has lambasted news editors, berating them for failing to
demand evidence for claims against the precious Common […]
The Calgary Herald Discovers the Polar Jet Stream
It's a newspaper so far right that, to steal a line from Lawrence Martin,
it should be delivered in a holster. A couple of weeks ago the *Calgary
Herald *scribes treated climate change as the delusions of the loonie
left. That was then, this is now.
*The Herald* is now running a feature all about the polar jet stream, how
it's been fueled by the vanishing Arctic sea ice, even how "*it's been
wobbling and weaving like a drunken driver, causing havoc as it goes."*
*"There's been a lot interest in the jet stream in the last two or three
years," said Dave Phillips, an Environment Ca... more »
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Jose Barrios, 56. No, you don't remember him -- just a
very short cup of coffee, in 1982 -- but I do: three years with the Phoenix
Giants.
Good stuff:
1. If you've read my various defenses of John Boehner (and for those who
haven't: I think he's a pretty good Speaker in a very difficult situation),
you should probably read Stan Collender, who has a very different point of
view on Boehner.
2. Here's David Roberts on the Obama climate initiative.
3. And Scott Lemieux on Chief Justice Roberts and the Voting Rights case.
Fakers
Fake F-35 mock up cockpit from Lockheed Martin for DefMin Peter Airshow
MacKay to hold $47,000 presser in to announce purchase of 65 stealth
fighters in 2010.
Tony Gazebo and Rona Ambrose attending.
Fake citizenship ceremony in which half of the participants were actually Citizenship
and Immigration Canada staff passed off as new Canadians on Sun News Network
Fake lake, the $57,000 part of a $1.9 million display for the 2010 G8/20
summit, concerning which I asked some more questions earlier today.
Fake G8 border infrastructure slush fund that splashed $50M around Tony
Gazeb... more »
FDA Punishes Daniel Smith of Project Greenlife for Selling A Product (MMS) That Actually Works
Daniel Smith—who operated Project Green Life until the FDA came-a-calling
in 2010 with guns—and his wife Karis have been arrested and taken into
custody by U.S. Marshalls. They were charged with one count of conspiracy,
four counts of interstate sales of mis-branded drugs, and one count of
smuggling.**
*FDA Attacks Daniel Smith of Project Greenlife and MMS*
**
MMS Newsletter, 21 February 2013
*The FDA asks the justice department to send both Daniel Smith ( Project
Greenlife ) and his wife to prison for 36 years for selling MMS, and his
secretary as well*. This is in the face of the... more »
WotW: Boosting Your Blog's Reach Through Social Media, Pt 2
Last week I explained how to use Facebook to increase your blog's reach.
This week, I want to focus on another social media platform, one that has
potential to be your greatest ally, if you use it correctly. I'm talking
about Twitter.
Twitter is huge. It's popular. And yet, it can be very overwhelming. I know
I was overwhelmed by it at first. After all, it has its own language of
sorts (all the @ and # signs every other word). Everything has to fit into
essentially one sentence, and a seemingly cryptic one at that. And yet,
Twitter keeps on growing. And there's a reason for that.
W... more »
Untitled
*BP mounts aggressive ad, letter campaigns to intimidate recipients in
spill settlement dispute*
Read more here:
http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/06/25/3470132/bp-mounts-ad-campaign-in-spill.html#storylink=cpy
*French Market Corp. sends disputed parking contract back out to bid ~Andrew
Vanacore, The Advocate N.O.*
*Quatrevaux serves subpoena on Orleans Parish School Board ~WDSU*
*Has LSU lost its soul? ~Robert Mann*
* So that was quite a day ~Library Chronicles*
**
*Then Sometimes You Win ~Athenae, First Draft*
*Food Vendor Application - Blues & BBQ Fest*
*Today in New Orleans ~NOL... more »
The Turkefication of Egypt- June 30/13 "democratic" protests to what end?
Protests
creating an impression of democracy at work? Reality being a
reordering out of chaos?
A distraction of the masses while the elites aided by sycophants* *do
their
dirty work?
The protests continue in Turkey. *And, Obama continues relations with
Erdogan in Turkey*.
Not a surprise.
The push for war in Syria was the main topic, though Obama found time to
pay lip service to non violent free-expression. blah, blah, blah......
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Ed Markey Won The Senate Seat-- Now Let's Make Sure Carl Sciortino Wins Ed's Old House Seat
Carl and Ed, Massachusetts progressives
Only weak minded and self-deluded Republicans were surprised by Ed Markey's
healthy win yesterday in the Massachusetts special election to fill John
Kerry's old Senate seat. Markey has been the foremost champion of climate
change amelioration of any elected official in the entire federal
government. And the Republicans put up some wealthy, crooked, right wing
businessman to oppose him. Gomez spent his last days of the campaign blaming
his defeat on the Republican Party. "They're wrong on too many issues. I
mean, you know, you gotta realize, the... more »
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Palestine for the Palestinians, unless Palestine is occupied by someone other Israel
Take a look at the first Palestine National Charter of 1964, this
explicitly denies any claim to the West Bank and Gaza which were then
“occupied” by Jordan and Egypt:
Article 24: This Organization does not exercise any territorial sovereignty
over the West Bank in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, on the Gaza Strip or
in the Himmah Area
As I have said before the 'Palestinians' claim on Israel is nothing to do
with the 'Palestinian' people. But don't listen to me, listen to Palestine
Liberation Organisation executive committee member Zahir Muhsein. Here's
what he said in 1977:
"... more »
Final Q1 GDP comes in as a huge miss , personal consumption hits the floor , infinite QE can't create more than 1.77 percent GDP ?
Final Q1 GDP Is A Huge Miss, Personal Consumption Craters
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/26/2013 08:44 -0400
- fixed
- Gross Domestic Product
- Personal Consumption
Remember the key component of the Fed's baffle with BS strategy: namely "*baffle
with BS*."
Sure enough, following yesterday's epic trifecta of economic growth when
durables, housing and confidence data all slammed expectations, it was up
to GDP to be the bad cop. Sure enough, following the already disappointing
first Q1 GDP revision which revised the preliminary 2.5% numbe... more »
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Learn to Love Worms with Vermicomposting
Gaye Levy
Three years ago, if someone had mentioned that they were purchasing some
worms, I would have grabbed my pole and said “let’s go fishing”. Later, as
I became interested in organic gardening, I started reading about worm bins
and worm compost. A light bulb went off in my head: folks were purchasing
certain types of worms so that could use them to create compost.
The technical term for this is “vermicomposting” which is, logically
enough, the process of composting using worms.
Now before you go “yuck,” hear me out. Vermicomposting is clean, takes up
very little space and, ... more »
A New Beginning Without Washington’s Sanctimonious Mask
*Image* Paul Craig Roberts
It is hard to understand the fuss that Washington and its media whores are
making over Edward Snowden. We have known for a long time that the National
Security Agency (NSA) has been spying for years without warrants on the
communications of Americans and people throughout the world. Photographs of
the massive NSA building in Utah built for the purpose of storing the
intercepted communications of the world have been published many times.
It is not clear to an ordinary person what Snowden has revealed that
William Binney and other whistleblowers have not a... more »
First we saw the SHIBOR spikes , then ICBC and Bank Of China customers had problems using online / ATM and counter services - now china Banks have just stopped lending to individuals and businesses " temporarily " due to liquidity shortages - time for more PBOC jawboning ?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-26/chinese-banks-stop-lending-due-liquidity-freeze
Chinese Banks Stop Lending Due To Liquidity Freeze
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/26/2013 08:16 -0400
- Bond
- China
- Credit Line
- Shadow Banking
- Shenzhen
- Yuan
If one thought the schizophrenic lies out of Europe between 2010 and 2013
were bad enough (the bulk of which it now appears were orchestrated by
Mario Draghi), here comes China, a country which already has a
"credibility" issue so to say, which has no choice but to lie as... more »
Government Employees Are Now Criminals If They Don't Spy on Co-workers
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The Trigger Has Been Pulled And The Slaughter Of The Bonds Has Begun
Michael Snyder
What does it look like when a 30 year bull market ends abruptly? What
happens when bond yields start doing things that they haven't done in 50
years? If your answer to those questions involves the word "slaughter", you
are probably on the right track. Right now, bonds are being absolutely
slaughtered, and this is only just the beginning.
Over the last several years, reckless bond buying by the Federal Reserve
has forced yields down to absolutely ridiculous levels. For example, it
simply is not rational to lend the U.S. government money at less than 3
percent when t... more »
Joe's Video Story: Autism Recovery After Using MMS (Miracle Mineral Solution)
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Tempora: The Americans And The British Are Recording All Phone Calls And All Internet Activity
Michael Snyder
What would you do if you knew that the government had tapped all of your
phones, was watching everything that you do on the Internet and was keeping
a copy of all of your emails? Well, the truth is that this is essentially
exactly what is happening right now.
Over in the UK, a British intelligence agency known as Government
Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) has tapped into the cables that all of
our phone calls and all of our Internet activity go through. All of the
information that goes through those cables – phone calls, Internet
searches, Facebook activity, ema... more »
Economic Obsessions
Those of us who are appalled by the Harper government have taken some hope
for the future as we have watched the PMO implode. But Edward Greenspon
warns that, when the next election arrives, it will probably still be
fought not on Harperian ethics but on the Harperian economy.
Mr. Harper claims that he is obsessed by the economy. It's true that he is
obsessed by a manifestly false proposition -- that wealth creates jobs. But
Harper's real obsessions are two: The Liberal Party of Canada and pipelines.
Harper is particularly obsessed by the Liberals, now that the son has also
risen.... more »
Edward Snowden stuck in Russia ? Wikileaks notes he may be forced to stay there unless an intermediary country comes forward - Ecuador backing away from Snowden due to US pressure and treaty concerns ?
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/snowden-may-be-stuck-in-russia-wikileaks/story-fn3dxix6-1226669898495
Snowden may be stuck in Russia: WikiLeaks
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WikiLeaks says Edward Snowden may be forced to stay in Russia permanently
because of US "bullying". *Source:* AAP
*THE WikiLeaks organisation says intelligence leaker Edward Snowden may be
forced to stay in Russia permanently because the United States is
"bullying... more »
War watch - Afghanistan , Iraq and Syria in focus... June 26 , 2013
Karzai would be ‘wise to leave with US forces’ before Taliban retakes
Afghanistan
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Hamid Karzai is unlikely to remain president of Afghanistan after US troops
leave the country, defense consultant Moeen Raoof told RT. The Taliban, a
longtime enemy of the US-backed Karzai administration, is expected to
regain control after 11 years.
*RT:* *The US State Department is hesitating to define the Tal... more »
Market gyros around jawboning of Central Bankers once again - this time ECB Head Draghi ....Though Mr Draghi has his own scandal brewing in Italy , which of course he won't address....
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-26/futures-lifted-verbal-cental-banker-exuberance
Futures Lifted By Verbal Central Banker Exuberance
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/26/2013 06:37 -0400
- Bank of England
- BOE
- Bond
- Borrowing Costs
- Case-Shiller
- CDS
- Central Banks
- China
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- European Central Bank
- Eurozone
- Gilts
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- headlines
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GCHQ monitoring - castigated by Germany ! How GCHQ uses fiber optic cables to spy on world communications and then share with NSA !
Catharsis Ours - 7 hours ago
Snowden was Right, they’re Reading your Mail: How British Intelligence and
the NSA are Tag-Teaming US
Posted on 06/22/2013 by Juan Cole
When President Barack Obama said ‘no one is listening to your phone calls,’
he was either misinformed or was being disingenuous. The British are at
least gathering up the voice signals of your phone calls, and sharing 200
million of them a day with the US National Security Agency via a joint
database.
According to The Guardian newspaper, the British electronic surveillance
agency GCHQ has attached sniffers or packet analyzers to the fiber optic
cabl... more »
LA Mid-Century Modern
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More than anywhere else, mid-century modern architecture grew up in Los
Angeles, in harmony with Californian industrial base and the Southern
Californian climate.
Unique domestic forms emerged through the implementation of new fabrication
techniques and materials, which had been rigorously tested by industrial
research labs during World War II. From the tract houses of Lakewood and
the towers of Park La Brea to the Case Study and experimental homes of the
Hollywood Hills, designers and developers employed pioneering methods to
create communities that sustained L.A.... more »
"You arrive, sign in, collect €300 for expenses you don't have and then you leave. I like that job, I want that job"
A great piece of investigative reporting.
How our EU masters behave...
Who is to blame for the Palestinian refugee problem?
I am often told that Israel caused the Palestinian refugee problem by
expelling non-Jews from Israel as they re-formed the Israeli state. This is
an obvious lie but it was nice to find this proof today...
Abu Mazen admitted that the Arab armies caused the Palestinian refugee
problem in 1976, has nobody told Jeremy Bowen and the rest of the BBC
Middle East department? Or does he & they know and just not care?
MORNING FUNNIES.....
I am off early this morning to Boston to catch my plane to Sweden for the
Global Network annual space conference. Hope all my connecting flights
work out.....and hope I can get some sleep on the plane. Love this cartoon
sent by a friend this morning.
Did Canada spy on journos at the Toronto G8/20 summit?
Image from leaked UK Government Communications Headquarters briefing slide
featuring the logos of Canadian, US, and UK signals intelligence spying
agencies.
Ten days ago The Guardian published GCHQ briefing slides, courtesy of
former NSA contractor turned whistleblower Edward Snowden, revealing :
Foreign politicians and officials who took part in two G20 summit meetings
in London in 2009 had their computers monitored and their phone calls
intercepted on the instructions of their British government hosts,
according to documents seen by the Guardian. This included:
• Setting up int... more »
Press and terrorists in symbiotic relationship
What is also interesting is the last shot, if the press were really scared
of being shot at by Israeli troops they wouldn't stand like that. In
reality Israel is the only Middle East country where the army wouldn't
shoot someone identified as being 'presss' even if they are colluding with
terrorists.
*Thanks to Israel Matzav for the video spot.*
MIB: colonic prolapse - trip chair - psychotronic dna warfare
obviously, I'm trying as hard as I can to FRONT LOAD as much of this
factionist post as possible with RKPs or Relevant Key Phrases like "colonic
prolapse", "trip chair" and "psychotronic dna warfare". One can only hope
my efforts haven't been in vain.
While much of this Bases Series Episode 25 subject 'Ray Collins''s
stuttering/timeslurring will be down to Skypelag, I suspect that iff the
guy in this video really has been Bourne Legacy'd i.e. chemically rewritten
and cerebrally timelooped like that as often as such off-the-reservation
activity would entail then that is EXACTLY how s... more »
Michael James : Baseball in Moscow and 'Turf Accountant' in Belfast
Turf
Accountant, a betting parlor in Belfast, Northern Ireland, August 7,
1990. Photo by Michael James from his forthcoming book, Michael Gaylord
James' Pictures from the Long Haul.
Pictures from the Long Haul:
Playing baseball in the USSR and
drinking Guinness in Belfast
In Belfast we drive to the battlefield called the Falls Road, working
class and traditionally socialist. I shoot
Israel Matzav: Mohamed Morsy's new stooge: The US Ambassador to Egypt
Israel Matzav reports:
'US Ambassador to Egypt Anne Patterson is reportedly *pressuring Christian
Copts not to participate* in mass demonstrations against the regime of
Mohamed Morsy and the Muslim Brotherhood that are due to take place next
week in Cairo.
The June 18th edition of *Sadi al-Balad *reports that lawyer Ramses Naggar,
the Coptic Church’s legal counsel, said that during Patterson’s June 17
meeting with Pope Tawadros, she “asked him to urge the Copts not to
participate” in the demonstrations against Morsi and the Brotherhood.
The Pope politely informed her that his spi... more »
Meditation Saves A Veteran From PTSD and Suicide
Related:
*PTSD Causing Record Suicides in Vets + Transcendental Meditation helps
war veterans with PTSD relief.*
*Joseph E. Garland - Unknown Soldiers + Joseph E. Garland and Dr. Jonathan
Shay discuss PTSD. *
Meditation Saves A Veteran From PTSD and Suicide. Source:
DavidLynchFoundation. Date Published: September 26, 2012. Description:
Veterans are often loath to acknowledge to themselves or others their inner
wounds of war after they return home from combat. Healing those wounds of
war requires an approach that directly impacts the neurophysiology
underlying post traumatic st... more »
Stephen Walt And Zbigniew Brzezinski On Syria
Stephen Walt on Syria.
Zbigniew Brzezinski on Syria.
An anomaly-like argument in favor of SUSY
*A new Higgs tadpole cancellation condition reformulating the hierarchy
problem*
The first hep-ph paper today probably got to that exclusive place because
the authors were excited and wanted to grab the spot. Andre de Gouvea,
Jennifer Kile, and Roberto Vega-Morales of Illinois chose the title
\(H\rightarrow \gamma\gamma\) as a Triangle Anomaly: Possible Implications
for the Hierarchy Problem
They point out a curious feature of the diagrams calculating the Higgs
boson decay to two photons (yes, it's the process that seemed to have a
minor excess at the LHC but this excess went away)... more »
Musical Interlude: Adiemus, “Adiemus”
Adiemus, “Adiemus”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL8kZ-iVk90&html5=1
James McEnteer : Escape to Ecuador
Edward
Snowden and the flag of Ecuador. Image from Salon.com.
Rehanging the crepe paper:
Escape to Ecuador
Edward Snowden is the latest insider who pulled back the curtain to
reveal the wizardry of American Freedom as the diabolical machinations
of a surveillance state.
By James McEnteer / The Rag Blog / June 25, 2013
QUITO, Ecuador -- The colored crepe paper we hung up has tattered and
"A Look to the Heavens"
"Andromeda is the nearest major galaxy to our own Milky Way Galaxy. Our
Galaxy is thought to look much like Andromeda. Together these two galaxies
dominate the Local Group of galaxies. The diffuse light from Andromeda is
caused by the hundreds of billions of stars that compose it. The several
distinct stars that surround Andromeda's image are actually stars in our
Galaxy that are well in front of the background object.
*Click image for larger size.*
Andromeda is frequently referred to as M31 since it is the 31st object on
Messier's list of diffuse sky objects. M31 is so distan... more »
Chet Raymo, "The Fourth Seal"
* "The Fourth Seal"*
by Chet Raymo
"Immediately, another horse appeared, deathly pale, and its rider was
called Plague, and Hades followed at his heels." It has been nearly 20
years since I read Laurie Garrett's hair-raising "The Coming Plague: Newly
Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance," a big book, impressively
researched by a first-rate science reporter. It was a book that made you
want to wear a mask over your mouth and nose, and avoid airplanes and
crowded places. Especially airplanes.
Now comes David Quammen with another big book, "Spillover: Animal
Infections a... more »
Obama jumps the warmist shark
With most US businesses still struggling to make a profit, the US economy
struggles to fire. So Obama has chosen to pour more cold water on the still
weak and sporadic flames.
With the globe simply failing to do what the global warming models say it
will, the global warming “science” has arrived at a failed dead end. So
he’s declared the debate over the science “obsolete.” (That’ll do it.)
And so called “green jobs” have been costing the US taxpayer up to $2
million per job in subsidies. So he’s elected to “create” many more.
He calls it his Climate Action Plan of June 25 2013. T... more »
OMG, Anthony Weiner is now the NYC mayoral front runner!
*Oh no, he's back! (Sorry, no penis pictures available.)*
*by Ken*
Howie will have quite a lot to say about the Supreme Court ruling in the
morning, and I'm happy to give the subject a pass. I'd probably just
fulminate, and probably calumniate -- the Five Supreme Lunks, that is.
(Howie's going to have some point-by-point on them too.)
Instead I thought I'd retreat into the political weirdosphere. From our
local online news emporium DNAinfo.com this evening:
*Latest Poll Shows Weiner Leading Democratic Mayoral Pack*By Jeanmarie
Evelly on June 25, 2013 7:01pm
NEW YORK CITY -- A new... more »
Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW) - Reduce Energy A Bit More
Welcome to Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)!
Wondering how to live greener? You've come to the right place. Each week we
challenge ourselves to try a new task ... or "amp up" something we're
already doing. We raise our awareness, learn from each other and develop
Eco-friendly skills which will improve our lives and protect our planet.
Doing so together gives us power ... the power to Change The World!
If this is your first visit, please click HERE for information and a
complete list of all the challenges we've taken on so far.
This post contains great information and I encourage ... more »
QUOTE OF THE DAY: On ending global poverty
Economist Jeffrey Sachs dazzled the development world with his plan to end
global poverty with aid. Sachs's aid program has not worked. But economic
liberty has.
“After several decades that saw the largest poverty reduction in history --
with the number of "extremely poor individuals" falling most spectacularly
in China, from 683 million in 1990 to 156 million in 2010 …, and not
because of foreign aid and well-intentioned foreigners but because of
booming economic growth -- some analysts now argue that the best medicine
for poverty is reforms to scale back the role of the state in... more »
Ideas For Saving Ourselves From Total Economic Collapse: An 11 Point Program To Stop This Depression And End The War Against Us!
The World economies are indeed teetering right now on total collapse... It
is so sad that nations that have foolishly adopted the criminal Jewish
Usury debt system have not learned from history, which clearly shows that
any nation that bases its financial system on Usury has always collapsed!
What we have right now is history repeating itself... This time on a world
wide basis....It does appear again that we have not learned from history
and we will be paying dearly for that folly as a result....
I have been in a constant search for any solutions for getting us out of
this economi... more »
Some Climates Never Change
The graphics couldn't have been better -- or worse, depending on your point
of view. There was the normally unflappable, cool president sweating like a
pig. When I first saw the photo below, I actually thought he was weeping in
remorse over his fateful choice to preside over a spy state, with the
resulting loss of all his international friends. No such luck. In the midst
of the current climate of authoritarianism and racism and xenophobia, he
was simply and belatedly waxing rhapsodic about the actual climate. Suffice
it to say that he added volumes to the hot air surrounding him. For... more »
The Realist Report with John Friend
On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined by Paul Topete of
the rock band *Poker Face*. Paul and I will be discussing his band, *
FREEDOMPALOOZA*, and a variety of other subjects.
Please visit *The Realist Report* on TalkeShoe to download this and past
episodes.
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Musical Interlude: Justin Hayward, "The Way of the World"
Justin Hayward, "The Way of the World"
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1QUrpqOAXY&html5=1
SURVEILLANCE STATE: Let’s recap [updated]
[image: image]Take your eye off the flight of Edward Snowden, advises *
Forbes* writer Andy Greenberg, and put it back where it belongs.
The world has become so caught up in the suspense and intrigue of the
Snowden Affair–practically a ready-made Robert Ludlum title–that it seems
to have almost forgotten the massive National Security Agency surveillance
controversy that he’s risked his future to bring to light…
is as good a time as any to take an intermission from the drama and
recall the real story: the biggest global privacy scandal of the decade. Here’s
a recap of Snowden’s ... more »
Support Egypt #Tamarod #June30 2013
*One year after coming to power, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has send
Jihadist terrorists to Syria to kill Syrians who are resisting the foreign
invasion and occupation of their country. *
Title: Support Egypt #Tamarod #June30 2013. Source: EgVibes. Date
Published: June 23, 2013. Description:
Egyptians call the free people of the world to support the huge movement
taking place on June the 30th 2013. We need your support on social media.
Main stream media is expected to ignore the event. The peaceful protesters
are expected to be defamed with no basis. Your help is needed.
John Lennon auditions on The Voice
Yes, true story (well, sort of).
PS: Wonder how Bob Dylan would do?
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REVIEWING THE SNOWDEN CHASE
Washington has revoked Edward Snowden's passport and said that he should be
prevented from traveling any further. That's as officials demand that he be
returned to the jurisdiction of the United States. Some lawmakers are
urging Washington to spare no effort to put him on trial in the US, even
going so far as to threaten Russia over its involvement. RT's Gayane
Chichakyan reports.
Taiwan and Renewables at JapanFocus
JapanFocus has an excellent piece on Taiwan's energy situation in int'l
comparison.... and some good points about the silliness of objections to
renewables:
To illustrate our proposition, let us suppose that the Taiwan government
said today that the entire nuclear power fleet would be phased out over
five years, and would be replaced by a series of concentrated solar power
(CSP) plants, rooftop solar PV, and wind power. The scare stories are that
this would cover Taiwan in photovoltaic cells and wind turbines; that it
would be prohibitively expensive; and that it would be unreliable... more »
Another Manifestation Of The GOP Civil War: Utah's 2 Republicans Parted Ways On Immigration Reform
Mike Lee & Orrin Hatch
What's a Republicano to do? The racist, hate-filled base they've nurtured
equates comprehensive immigration reform with national suicide but the
party elders and, more important, the corporate financial financiers,
absolutely insist on it-- and assert it would be political suicide for the
GOP to derail it.
The conservative rank-and-file have a loud and clear message for Republican
officials: Support citizenship for illegal immigrants at your own peril.
A sizable plurality of registered GOP voters say they will be less likely
to support their incumbent lawmake... more »
A fun graduation song
A music educator gives a nice presentation via song at the graduation
ceremony for Williamsville East High School in suburban Western New York.
Please bear with the video, the first part is a little blurry. Song starts
around one minute mark. Lyrics: Is it an A, or a B, or a C, or a D? […]
Tiwesdæg: the Left-arm of Non-linkage
Collection and promulgation of links today was interrupted by my daughter’s
minor sports injury. For all ten of you who care: my apologies. Go read
Cherly Rofer’s Edward Snowden timeline. Or about a nearby star “crowded
with super-Earths.” Or focus on today’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act.
Or about the game that’s stolen my
Continue reading
CLIMATE CHANGE UPDATE
On March 2nd, 2013, warriors across 14 Pacific island nations answered a
call, brought on by the threat of climate change. The warrior spirit of the
Pacific Islands rose to show the world "We are not drowning. We are
fighting." The Warrior Spirit of the Pacific Islands has now awoken to
fight climate change.
We're not giving up. We're going to fight for what is ours - our island
homes and cultures.
O'odham 'Zombies' March Against Loop 202
O’odham Zombies March Against the 202
Marching down 51st Ave
Posted on June 24, 2013
by Akimel O'odham Youth Collective
http://aoycblog.wordpress.com/2013/06/24/oodham-zombies-march-against-the-202/
June 24, 2013
Contact: Akimel O’odham Youth Collective
akimeloodhamyc@gmail.com
(520) 510-3407
http://www.AOYCBlog.wordpress.com
On the morning of June 22nd, 2013 a group of about 20
MOHAWK NATION NEWS 'LSIPOGTOG RESISTING FRACKING'
LSIPOGTOG RESISTING FRACKING
Posted on June 25, 2013
MNN. June 26, 2013. Tensions are rising at the Highway 126 anti-fracking camp near Elsipogtog First Nation
in Kent County, New Brunswick (Wabanakik). By June 23, on National
Aboriginal Day, twenty-nine had been arrested. One is in hospital.
Warrior
Chief John Levi is calling supporters to help resist seismic testing by
US
Bonds see a Lehman Brothers repeat - apart from rising US government yields , there is a festering pus in high yield and even investment grade bonds .... China watch continues as their government tries to jawbone stability amid a roll of more than 1.5 Trillion (yuan ) in very dubious wealth management products by the end of June ! And as we wait for the looming Detroit bankruptcy , note the muni deals being pulled ! And that's before muni buyers learn how reckless these government borrowers have truly been !
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-25/bonds-its-lehman-repeat
For Bonds, It's A Lehman Repeat
[image: Tyler Durden's picture]
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/25/2013 16:43 -0400
- Advance-Decline
- Bond
- CDS
- High Yield
- Investment Grade
- Lehman
- Recession
There is plenty of discussion of outflows but we though the following chart
was perhaps the most insightful at why this drop is different from the last
few year's BTFD corrections. As we noted here, corporate bond managers have
desperately avoided selling down their cash holdings (since t... more »
Detroit - Canary in the coal mine for the Municipal Bond Market ?
Catharsis Ours - 19 hours ago
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-17/detroit-recovery-plan-threatens-muni-market-underpinnings.html
Detroit Recovery Plan Threatens Muni-Market Underpinnings
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"The Optimism of Uncertainty"
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*"The Optimism of Uncertainty" *
by Howard Zinn
"In this awful world where the efforts of caring people often pale in
comparison to what is done by those who have power, how do I manage to stay
involved and seemingly happy? I am totally confident not that the world
will get better, but that we should not give up the game before all the
cards have been played. The metaphor is deliberate; life is a gamble. Not
to play is to foreclose any chance of winning. To play, to act, is to
create at least a possibility of changing the world. There is a tendency to
think that what we see ... more »
W.B. Yeats and Florence Farr: Poet and Dramatic Muse
Title: W.B. Yeats and Florence Farr: Poet and Dramatic Muse. Source: UCD -
University College Dublin. Date Published: June 14, 2013. Description:
William Butler Yeats was inspired by several extraordinary women to write
some of the greatest poetry in the English language. University College
Dublin, Professor Tony Roche discusses WB Yeats and Florence Farr: Poet and
dramatic muse.
WB Yeats defined the business of the poet as 'to articulate sweet sounds'.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923 "for his always
inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expr... more »
Inflation: Robbing You Since the 10th Century
*Monetary inflation has always been with us. Dan Steinhart from The Casey
Report shares a couple of the stories.*
Watching from afar as inflation in Argentina grows worse – officially 11%,
realistically around 25% – it's tempting to think of the scourge of fiat
money as a modern phenomenon; tempting to think that if only US President
Franklin Roosevelt hadn't confiscated US citizens' gold to usher in the
beginning of the current era of paper money—or if only Richard Nixon hadn’t
abandoned the last link with gold—we could be living in a precious metals
paradise, as all our ancestor... more »
"Supreme Court Frees Americans from Burden of Voting"
* "Supreme Court Frees Americans from Burden of Voting"*
by Andy Borowitz
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) — "By a five-to-four vote, the Supreme
Court today acted, in the words of Justice Antonin Scalia, “to relieve
millions of Americans from the onerous burden of having to vote.”Writing
for the majority, Justice Scalia stated, “Since 1965, citizens across the
nation have lived under the tyranny of being forced to elect people to
represent them. This is an important step to free them from that unfair and
heinous obligation.”
Justice Scalia added that the Voting Rights Act had “... more »
"Where Are We Now? A World View"
* "Where Are We Now? A World View"*
by James Howard Kunstler
"Wondering why the money world got its knickers in a twist last week? The
answer is simple: the global economy is breaking apart and its constituent
major players are doing face-plants on the downhill slope of a
no-longer-cheap-oil way of life. Let’s look at them case by case.
*The USA* slogs deeper into paralysis and decay in a collective mental fog
of disbelief that its own exceptionalism can’t overcome the laws of
thermodynamics. This general malaise precipitates into a range of specific
quandaries. The so-called... more »
Using Facts To Burst Sask Premier Brad Wall's Mythology On 'Record Job Numbers' .... (Updated)
*(Click on graphic to enlarge ... ) *
*- Graphic courtesy Regina Leader-Post*
[image: Progressive Bloggers] * *
*Political parties on the Right in Canada do an incredible job of altering
reality in the communications they send out to the public. No better
example of that exists than in Saskatchewan under the administration of
Premier Brad Wall.*
*
**Premier Wall and his Saskatchewan Party have constructed a perception of
the province which insists that 'nothing happened economically under the
NDP governments of Premiers Tommy Douglas, Woodrow Lloyd, Alan Blakeney,
Roy Romanow and L... more »
Reclaiming the conversation video series, check it out.
Some very familiar names throughout this series. Listen, learn, share.
Tagged: edu4, reclaiming the conversation
Reclaiming the conversation video series, check it out.
Some very familiar names throughout this series. Listen, learn, share.
Tagged: edu4, reclaiming the conversation
The Privatization Of Spying
*East Germany had it easy.*
Private firms find big role in US spy programmes. Source: AlJazeera.
Spying by corporations is different than spying by government. Source: RT.
Catch of the Day
How about one for Seth Masket, for an excellent explanation of just what it
was that prevented the pretenders from winning the GOP nomination in 2012.
See also John Sides, but Seth is focused more on this part of it.
No, it wasn't the voters. It was -- you guessed it -- the Republican Party.
Well, collectively, it was; individually, it was lots and lots of
individual Republican party actors.
What's tricky about all of this is that there's no fixed formula to tell us
how important activists are compared with, say, campaign professionals. Or
how important particular party-aligned inte... more »
Another Orange County UFO
I had a meeting yesterday in Los Angeles with one of the people active in
Cobra's Portal2012 group. He had a contact that wanted to discuss some
finance issues with me and Heather. I had an interesting discussion with
his contact, a very nice gentleman and enlightened human being. I don't
known yet what comes of the discussions but we will know in time. So I
won't say much about that for now. Far too early to speculate.
On the way home I saw the same sort of UFO I saw prior to the Cobra
Conference in Laguna last November. I couldn't stop as I was the freeway
but I caught ... more »
the allies of humanity
skinny bob
three aliens
the allies of humanity
SURVEILLANCE STATE: How to Give the NSA (and GCSB) the Finger
*Your government is listening to you—but not in the way you hoped for. Simon
Black from the Sovereign Man website offers you a few tips to keep your
private communications private.*
[image: NSA Black Paper]On March 10, 1975, a group of US diplomatic and
national security officials gathered at the office of the Turkish foreign
minister's office in Ankara. Henry Kissinger was among them.
The discussion turned to foreign aid and supply of parts for military
equipment, at which point Kissinger (Secretary of State at the time)
suggested something that violated the law.
William Macombe... more »
Become the Survey Participant! New Survey on Teacher Evaluations
In case you are interested in expanding our knowledge of the use/misuse of
teacher evaluations, Lisa Martin of Wisconsin-Madison has a short survey
that is worth taking: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/KDWNCXS Results may
make it into what looks like a very exciting APSA panel on “Minding the
Gender Gap in Political Science.”
ALEC Holds Responsibility for the SCOTUS VRA Decision
ALEC was founded in 1973.
Within years of that first meeting, ALEC was recruiting corporations and
corporate lobbyists to help fund ALEC - and attend ALEC meetings - thereby
giving corporations unprecedented access to legislators from across the US
- behind close doors and in secret.
Within years of ALEC being founded, one of the founders of ALEC Paul
Weyrich stated:
I don't want everyone to vote.
For 40 years, the continued participation of corporation in our legislative
process - facilitated by ALEC for funding led to the corporatization of our
legislatures.
As our legislatures ... more »
Chamber Of Commerce Moves To Bolster Their Boy Rubio, As Palin And The Hate-Filled GOP Base Reject Him
Two polls were released Monday-- and both auger terrible news for the
GOP.
One, by the reputable Pew organization trumpets the broad national
supportfor comprehensive immigration reform embodied in the Gang of
Eight
proposal. The other, by the Republican Party's own polling firm,
Rasmussen,
showed that Marco Rubio's support among Republican voters has
plummetedbecause of his role in the drafting of that immigration
legislation most
Americans want to see passed. 71% of American voters say undocumented
immigrants should be allowed to stay in the country. The racists,
xenophobes, Know... more »
Interpreter Holly Maniatty Signs Hip Hop Shows In Great Detail
Sign language interpreter Holly Maniatty went viral for her interpretation
of a recent set by Wu Tang Clan at Bonnaroo.
Maniatty has been interpreting shows for 13 years. Amy K. Nelson has an
article over at *Slate* about Maniatty's fascinating skills.
I don't know about you...
I am sure Edward Snowden is currently tired and afraid but it feels like
the entire human race is rooting for him right now. Run, rabbit, run, don't
let Obama and his goons catch you. Keep running for as long as you have to.
Stay free.
To understand is to perceive patterns
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http://www.minds.com/archive/view/9354/To-Understand-is-to-Perceive-Patterns
*To understand is to perceive patterns* from notthisbody
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INSPIRATION:
Albert-László Barabási, author of LINKED, wants you to think about NETWORKS:
“Networks are everywhere. The brain is a network of nerve cells connected
by axons, and cells themselves are networks of molecules connected by
biochemical reactions. Societies, too, are networks of people linked by
friendships, familial relationships and profession... more »
GAIA PORTAL: Centeredness in Gaia Conscious Operation is of High Value at this Time
*
* *Centeredness in Gaia Conscious Operation is of High Value at this Time*
by ÉirePort
Centeredness in Gaia conscious operation is of high value at this time.
Lasting results for Gaia-New-Paradigm construction and Real-ization require
Hue-Beings living from their center.
Outer type focuses become distractions if brought to center of immature
soul structures.
BE-ing from the Gaia center is key for all Gaia-New-Paradigm construction
team Hue-Beings.
ÉirePort | June 25, 2013 at 18:20 | Categories: Uncategorized | URL:
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Joseph E. Garland - Unknown Soldiers + Joseph E. Garland and Dr. Jonathan Shay discuss PTSD
*"Unknown Soldiers: Reliving World War II in Europe"* by Joseph E. Garland.
Joseph E. Garland - Unknown Soldiers. Source: garlandunknown. Date
Published: September 30, 2008. Description:
Joseph E. Garland, World War II veteran of the storied 45th offers a
startlingly personal collective memoir of his platoon's experiences during
the Italian Campaign, from Sicily, to Anzio to Dachau. Diagnosed with PTSD
decades after returning stateside, Garland and many of his platoonmates
never "came home" from the war. This book, what one reviewer called
Garland's "masterpiece," breaks the ci... more »
CREDO Charter Study Finds Over 70 Percent of Charters Testing Worse or No Better than the Poorest Public Schools
The new CREDO charter school study is out, which means that we point out
once more the wasted billions in tax dollars that are now going to
corporate apartheid schools that are, in the majority of cases,
underperforming the poorest matched public schools in the same communities.
Even though you have to dig through the […]
Provincial driving suspensions do not constitute any part of a punishment imposed by criminal law but are a form of civil driving disability
R. v. Fernandes, 2013 ONCA 436 holds:
[98] It is also important to emphasize that driving prohibition
orders under the*Code*, and provincially-imposed driving suspensions or
restrictions are different in character and serve discrete purposes.
Driving prohibition orders under the*Code* form part of a sentencing
judge's arsenal of sanctions on sentencing an accused for a criminal
driving offence. In some instances, the imposition of a driving
prohibition order is mandatory for such a conviction; in other instances,
it is a discretionary sanction that may be imposed by the se... more »
Functional/Dysfunctional II
On a totally different topic...
Ryan Lizza did some awesome reporting today: he happened to be sitting near
a new Member of Congress who was doing fundraising calls, and Lizza
live-tweeted the whole thing. John Sides has it all here.
There's nothing new here, but it's always good to get an honest look at
what the current campaign finance regime does to politicians.
I have to say, however, after the last presidential election...I'm not as
enthusiastic about my preferred fix as I used to be. As regular readers
know, I'm for floors, not ceilings, plus disclosure -- let them raise what ... more »
Tired and Defeated
There is an odour exuded by my person, the odour of defeatism! At least
according to sundry contributors to my piece on the People's Assembly
over
at Socialist Unity. I can understand why some comrades, like Mark
Steelmight get a little narked about a critical piece when you've put a
lot of
effort and energy into what is an otherwise welcome trade union
initiative.
But tough. Faith and enthusiasm are no substitutes for clear heads and
the
sober analysis of the opportunities and problems confronting the
anti-austerity movement.
But what I'm interested in is this notion of 'defeatism'... more »
Where do phony “hero tales” come from!
*TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 2013*
*A common part of our discourse:* It’s hard for people to understand how
much of our discourse is simply made up—invented by pseudo-journalists.
Our press corps routinely repeats bogus facts to punish outcasts or reward
friends. In such situations, they also know which facts they must, as a
group, withhold.
In the process, utterly bogus “demon tales” get invented about the guild's
targets. Utterly phony “hero tales” may also be widely pimped.
Last Thursday, the New York Times debunked a well-known “hero tale” dating
from the Holocaust.
On the front page o... more »
Kate Upton topless on a horse - no longer...
Unfortunately the video I posted here has been taken down. Why? TV
Predictions report that:
'TMZ.com has not commented on what happened to the video, but Coed.com
(that's a real site?Yeah, it is.) reports the video was taken while the
supermodel was doing a photo shoot for Complex Magazine in 2012. Our guess
is that Complex knocked on TMZ's door and said knock it off and take it
down. We don't know that for sure, but hmmm....
Of course, the irony of all this is that many people on the Internet were
unhappy with the video anyway because TMZ had the audacity to put little
stars over ... more »
COUNTING THE VOTES
- Good news came to us today from Jackie Cabasso (Mayors for Peace) who
reports the following: Yesterday the US Conference of Mayors unanimously
adopted the Mayors for Peace resolution *Calling for US Leadership in
Global Abolition of Nuclear Weapons and Redirection of Military Spending to
Domestic Needs* at their annual meeting in Las Vegas! Don't let what
happened in Vegas stay in Vegas!! Read the final resolution with the list
of 30 sponsors *here** *
- It's refreshing to see that big city mayors understand the current
massive imbalance in our fede... more »
Iraq’s Oil Exports At 15-Month Plateau, While Prices Drop
Iraq’s oil exports made a large jump from 2011 to 2012, but have since
flat-lined. For the last fifteen months they have stayed at relatively the
same level. The country was still profiting due to high oil prices. In the
last two months that has changed however, as the price per barrel of Iraqi
crude has fallen below $100. This poses a dilemma for the country as its
entire development plan is based upon boosting its exports as quickly as
possible, but it currently lacks the infrastructure to achieve that, and
now the world oil market is changing.
In May 2013, Iraq’s petroleum exp... more »
IT GETS DEEPER YET.....
NRO: The "Other" Intelligence Agency By Loring Wirbel (Citizens for Peace
in Space, Colorado Springs)
Now that every member of Congress and the White House staff is avoiding
learning anything about the National Security Agency, in favor of calling
for the head of Edward Snowden (with the exception of admirable efforts by
Mark Udall and Ron Wyden), it is time to remind everyone that NSA is not
the largest U.S. technical intelligence agency by budget. That honor goes
to the even lesser-known National Reconnaissance Office, or NRO. The NRO,
which spends in the neighborhood of betw... more »
Gregory asked a peculiar question!
*TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 2013*
*Then he attempted a dodge:* David Gregory asked a strange question on
Sunday’s Meet the Press.
He was speaking with Glenn Greenwald, Edward Snowden’s man at the Guardian.
This is what Gregory asked:
GREGORY (6/23/13): A final question before you go, but I'd like you to hang
around. I just want to get Pete Williams in here as well.
*To the extent that you have aided and abetted Snowden, even in his current
movements, why shouldn't you, Mr. Greenwald, be charged with a crime?
*
That was a *very* strange question. In our view, Snowden is looking less
savvy ... more »
"Is the Government Spying On You Through Your Own Computer’s Webcam Or Microphone?"
* *
*"Is the Government Spying On You Through Your *
*Own Computer’s Webcam Or Microphone?" *
Government – Or Private Individuals – May Be Watching and Listening
by WashingtonsBlog
"We documented earlier that – if you are near your smart phone – the NSA or
private parties could remotely activate your microphone and camera and spy
on you. This post shows that the same is true for our computer.
Initially, the NSA built backdoors into the world’s most popular software
program – Microsoft Windows – by 1999. And a government expert told the
Washington Post that the government “quit... more »
Jean Trounstine : Censoring What Prisoners Read
Werewolf
erotica: Too sexy for prisoners? Image from The Atlantic Wire.
'Werewolf erotica' too 'sexy'?
Censoring what prisoners read
The truth is that prisons want to control behavior. They want to
'reform' prisoners, which usually means they want to turn out people who
are as conformist as possible.
By Jean Trounstine / The Rag Blog / June 25, 2013
Some astute judges are standing up and
No Telling Whether Obama's Okay with Keystone XL
President Obama has said the Keystone XL pipeline can only go ahead if it
doesn't "significantly increase" U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. There's
enough wiggle room in there to delight almost everybody.
Define "significantly." There you go. What does it mean if you export
the really filthy petroleum coke or petcoke bitumen refining by-product to
Asia and let them burn it? Is that okay? Does that just go on someone
else's carbon books and off America's?
And in a country with the rapacious energy consumption of the United States
anything "significant" would be huge almost anywh... more »
I Stand with Wendy Davis
At this moment a Texas woman named Wendy Davis is attempting to hold the
floor of the state senate in a filibuster to prevent the latest
anti-abortion idiocy from becoming law.
Here's Rachel Maddow for the background.
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
In the segment, there's a clip of this moron, *sponsor of the bill, mind*, Jodie
Laubenberg explaining why a rape/incest exception is not needed in this new
law.
Amid a heated debate over a restrictive anti-abortion bill being pushed by
Texas GOP lawmakers, one Republican argued that a propos... more »
Civil-Military Relations– Why A Little Conflict is OK
Robert’s review of The American Culture of War yesterday was both extremely
funny and informative. It also mentioned a problem I’ve seen in a lot of
the civil-military relations literature: too much over-identification with
a political leaning or ideology. This area of scholarship reminds me
sometimes of Jack Nicholson in “A Few Good Men” –
Continue reading
What's on God's Mind Lately?
Recent throughts from *The Tweet of God:*
*Well I've lost faith in you, too.*
*Sorry, rest of the world, Junior and I can't help you now. We're too busy
helping some loon cross a canyon on a piece of floss.*
*"Atheist" is an anagram for "eat shit". Advantage, Me.*
*Paula Deen saying all that matters is "what's in your heart" is
cardiologically hilarious.*
*Wow, I really enjoyed deciding who won the Stanley Cup.*
*Just because someone's richer or more famous or talented doesn't mean
they're happy. It just means they're happier than YOU.*
*The big difference between me and Kanye is ... more »
"Snowden’s Flight to Freedom"
* "Snowden’s Flight to Freedom"*
by Jeffrey Tucker
"Dear rest of the world: Please know that it’s painful for us Americans to
see what is happening in the case of Edward Snowden. Here he is flying from
Hong Kong to Russia — countries that seem like safe havens from the long
reach of the U.S. empire. Where will he end up? Could be Iceland,
Venezuela, or Ecuador. He needs someplace to go where the authorities can’t
be intimated to turn him over to his jailers and possible executioners.
It’s either that or face the chair for doing the right thing. Even though I
understand the corru... more »
Once - The Cradle of the Rights of Man
*Picture a country at the height of its international power and
prestige.*It has military forces stationed around the globe. It is an
intellectual
leader. Its citizens are pleased to insist that the national idea, their
country's way of life, is a beacon of enlightenment and human rights for
the rest of the world. Indeed, they are wont to harp on the notion that
the
country embodies the very concept of Western Civilization.
But beneath the façade of greatness there is creeping rot. The rich (who
are accustomed to getting their way in all things) corrupt the system
and
buy the peop... more »
Helpful tips from an #education #reformer
I may have forgotten all about these. But I have a few images from a rather
helpful ad campaign, “Tips from an Education Reformer.” Hopefully you find
them as helpful as I do in dismantling a free system of public education.
Tagged: certification, public schools, racism, TFA, tips from an education
reformer
Is Israel an apartheid state like South Africa was?
People like @DD1958 aka Pleb Donovan would say Israel was an apartheid
state but then they don't seem to be able to face facts. Here's something I
read last month, it's a letter to the San Francisco Examiner from a South
African MP, the Rev. Dr. Kenneth Meshoe:
'On my recent trip to San Francisco, I was deeply disturbed to learn about
the posters in The City accusing Israel of apartheid. As a black South
African who lived under apartheid, this system was implemented in South
Africa to subjugate people of color and deny them a variety of their
rights. In my view, Israel cannot be com... more »
Argentina: UFO Photographed in the River Islands of Victoria
*Source: La Provincia (newspaper)
Date: 23 June 2013*
*Argentina: UFO Photographed in the River Islands of Victoria*
A member of a photo club based in the city of Victoria was shooting the
landscape when an unidentified flying object turned up in one of the
pictures. The image was submitted to experts on the subject, who will know
whether the object is a UFO or not.
The photographer states in uppercase: I DO NOT KNOW WHAT IT IS, AND I MAKE
NO CLAIMS ABOUT IT. IT SIMPLY CAUGHT MY ATTENTION.
[*Translation (c) 2013, S. Corrales, IHU. Special thanks to Guillermo
Gimenez, Planeta ... more »
I Joyously Declare that I am a Sovereign Living Soul and a Child of God.
Havasu Falls, Grand Canyon *
* *
* *Lisa Harrison shared this email with some of us last night, I asked her
if I could post here for you all, its quite beautifully written. *
*-AK*
*
* *
* *Hi Lisa...*
*
* *my name is Michael Rice... from Ireland but spending a lot of time in
the Czech Republic... all part of the great unfolding..*
*
* *I wrote this a few years back... and felt it would be good to share..*
*
* *I love what you are doing and wish you continued love and support..*
*so here goes:*
I Joyously Declare that I am a Sovereign Living Soul and a Child of God.
My Life Mission is... more »
The 441 TRILLION Dollar Interest Rate Derivatives Time Bomb
Michael Snyder
Do you want to know the primary reason why rapidly rising interest rates
could take down the entire global financial system? Most people might think
that it would be because the U.S. government would have to pay much more
interest on the national debt. And, yes, if the average rate of interest on
U.S. government debt rose to just 6 percent (and it has actually been much
higher in the past), the federal government would be paying out about a
trillion dollars a year just in interest on the national debt. But that
isn't it.
Nor does the primary reason have to do with... more »
Senators urge NSA to correct ‘significant inaccuracy’ about privacy protections in FISA fact sheet
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.)
credit: Talk Radio News Service/Flickr Madison Ruppert
Two senators are now calling on the National Security Agency (NSA) to
correct the “misleading” statements made in the agency’s fact sheet on the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
FISA lays the groundwork for a great deal of government surveillance including
the highly controversial and wide-ranging PRISM program.
“In our judgment this inaccuracy is significant, as it portrays protections
for Americans’ privacy being significantly stronger than they actually
are,” Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and... more »
Futurist Proposes Solving ‘Overpopulation’ with ‘Birth Credits’
*According to Michael E. Arth (Earth?), the planet’s future looks grim
because there are just too many people living on it.*
*
*Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton
In an interview with Vice, the urban designer, former Florida gubernatorial
candidate and futurist proposed the concept of "birth credits" to help curb
what he terms a “slow-moving, global disaster like overpopulation”:
China, and the rest of the world, would be better served by a choice-based
marketable birth license plan, or ‘birth credits,’ that could stop or
reverse population growth on a dime… Each person would be issued ... more »
America: Police State Ruthlessness Writ Large
Stephen Lendman
Cold-blooded barbarity reflects US policy. Democracy's more illusion than
reality. Rule of law principles don't matter. They're systematically
spurned.
Dissent's increasingly targeted. Freedom's imperiled. Obama's ruthless. He
exceeds the worst of George Bush. He's waging war on truth-tellers. He
targeted more whistleblowers than all his predecessors combined.
*Merrian-Webster* calls a police state "a political unit characterized by
repressive governmental control of political, economic, and social life
usually by an arbitrary exercise of power by police and espec... more »
DHS Criminalizes Legitimate Redress of Grievances
Michael Hastings
1980-2013 Dave Hodges
We know that whistleblowers are facing unprecedented dangers in this
country for identifying the misdeeds of individuals and certain agencies
within the government. Andrew Breitbart was murdered to prevent the release
of damning tapes of Obama’s past misdeeds. The coroner investigating
Breitbart’s death was murdered as well. Michael Hastings was trying to go
into hiding because of information he had learned with regard to the
nefarious activities of the FBI and the CIA. He was subsequently murdered.
If Woodward and Bernstein were breaking the... more »
Agenda 21 and the Steady-State Techno-Corporatocracy: an introduction
*One must make a new system that makes the old system obsolete*. —
Buckminster Fuller
Julie Beal
Once upon a time, we worried about a possible New World Order. A plan to
create a One World Government. We read books and watched films that gave us
glimpses of what was coming. These days we can feel it is already here, as
each day the tales of tyranny come thick and fast.
*
* *Big Brother breathes hotly down our necks.*
Yet still there is much dis-unity among us, a fragmentation of interests,
which leaves us vulnerable to the whims of those who would control us.
Going forward, expo... more »
Ed Snowden, NSA, and fairy tales a child could see through
Jon Rappoport
Sometimes cognitive dissonance, which used to be called contradiction,
rings a gong so loud it knocks you off your chair.
But if you’re an android in this marvelous world of synthetic reality, you
get up, put a smile back on your face, and trudge on…
Let’s see. NSA is the most awesome spying agency ever devised in this
world. If you cross the street in Podunk, Anywhere, USA, to buy an ice
cream soda, on a Tuesday afternoon in July, they know.
They know if you sit at the counter and drink that soda or take it and move
to the only table in the store. They know if you ... more »
Is It Political Suicide For Paul Ryan To Still Be Hawking A Failed European Austerity Agenda?
Martin Wolf's autopsy of Europe's Austerity Agenda for the *New York Review
of Books* doesn't even mention Paul Ryan. But I hope Democrat Rob Zerban,
who nearly beat Ryan in 2012 and will take him on again next year, is
reading it and absorbing it. It really is-- at least as much as Ayn Rand's
adolescent writing-- what Ryan is all about.
After Ryan's buddies in the state legislature gerrymandered WI-01 to make
it redder and safer, Ryan managed to beat Zerban 55-43%, his closest call
since he was first elected. Zerban won his home county, Kenosha, and he
also won Ryan's home county... more »
ALEC-oholics
Snatched this off an entry on Democratic Underground.
John Cole is the editorial cartoonist for *The Times-Tribune*, and is syndicated
nationally by Cagle Cartoons.
The Global Threat of Persistent Organic Pollutants
Brandon Turbeville
In my past two articles I have discussed the connection between pesticides,
both general and POPs (Persistent Organic Pollutants), to a myriad of
adverse health effects such as cancer and neurological disorders,
particularly Parkinson’s Disease. For these reasons alone, it is important
to look at the standards currently set for such chemicals by the
international standard-setting organization known as Codex Alimentarius.
As I mentioned in the first article in this series, I will distinguish
between two different types of pesticides for the sole purpose of the to... more »
EFF Sues NSA, DOJ Over Secret Surveillance Program
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Roadtripping, Prepper Style
Daisy Luther
We’ve embarked on a road trip that will be over 2500 miles. I’m driving
with a kid, a dog, and 2 incredibly unhappy cats, and pulling behind us a
trailer full of all our stuff. We have a cooler full of snacks, good tunes,
books on CD, and a camera and journal at the ready to help us to enjoy the
trip.
However, if you happen to be a prepper, I’m sure you can completely
sympathize with the uncomfortable feeling of “What if something happens
while we are between homes?” Think of your prepper version of a worst case
scenario and then think of it happening while you’re in... more »
What is Raza Studies and What is it Good For?
TRUTHOUT SPECIAL
http://www.truth-out.org/speakout/item/17198-what-is-raza-studies-and-what-is-it-good-for
Tuesday, 25 June 2013 10:16 By Roberto Cintli Rodriguez, SpeakOut | News
Analysis
A few days ago, the media reported that a mother was found dead in the hot,
scorching desert, purportedly while attempting to cross into the United
States. Underneath her was her dead infant.
The complaints were onerous: A series of questions this month on a social
media site asked a variant of: Why should Mexican Americans care about
immigration issues? The complainer, with disdain, asserted... more »
SWISSINDO: Update 22hrs German-Time Regarding G8 Meeting and Obama-Merkel Meeting
http://i-uv.com/update-22hrs-german-time-regarding-g8-meeting-and-obama-merkel-meeting/
*Update 22hrs German-Time Regarding G8 Meeting and Obama-Merkel Meeting*
BY I M POWER / SATURDAY, 22 JUNE 2013 / PUBLISHED IN ABSOLUTE DATA
Update 22hrs German-Time Regarding G8 Meeting and Obama-Merkel Meeting
Published June 20, 2013
*NEO THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GOD SKY EARTH UN-SWISSINDO MULTINATIONAL
COMPENSATION COMMITTEE AUTOMATED OWNER MASTER ACCOUNT AGREEMENT*
Know to all man, Participant’s & Beneficiary with the People on Earth
Ref: Release Unlimited AD452106/66/C.P1-11/ECB/2013
... more »
Washington v. Edward Snowden Update
image source
credit: Bobby Yip/Reuters Stephen Lendman
Events are fast-moving. On June 23, the Hong Kong Special Administrative
Region's (HKSAR) press release said:
Mr Edward Snowden left Hong Kong today (June 23) on his own accord for a
third country through a lawful and normal channel.
The US Government earlier on made a request to the HKSAR Government for
the issue of a provisional warrant of arrest against Mr Snowden.
Since the documents provided by the US Government did not fully comply
with the legal requirements under Hong Kong law, the HKSAR Government has
requested t... more »
Should We Stay Or Should We Go?
Dave Hodges
Are you tired of living under relative tyranny where every email is read,
every phone call is listened to and your every movement is tracked and
dissident journalists are harassed and even murdered by federal agencies
such as the rogue NSA, CIA and IRS? Are you thinking about escaping our
corrupt and criminal government?
Americans are leaving the country at record speed and the annual rate of
expatriation is growing as over 150,000 Americans departed the former land
of liberty for greener pastures overseas in the past year. In fact, there
are now over five million Ame... more »
Nikola Tesla: Calling All Freethinkers! Part Two
Rand Clifford
Had humanity been allowed to pursue Nikola Tesla’s Aether technology as
Tesla envisioned, we might not be on the brink of martial law in America,
and WWIII wouldn’t be breathing down our necks. The Power Status Quo (PSQ)
are very heavy breathers with death on their breath.
Speaking of breath...President Woodrow Wilson surely spoke under his breath
when he talked about the tiny elite club that dominates humanity—or as
Wilson called them in the following quote, the “power somewhere”:
Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me
privately. So... more »
U.S. Median Wealth Only 27th in World
As I discussed last week, U.S. median wealth per adult is lower than many
other countries. To be exact, it comes in at #27 for 2012, at $38,786 per
adult. This is more than 1/4 lower than had been reported by Credit
Suisse's Global Wealth Databook for 2011. I contacted one of the authors,
Professor James Davies of the University of Western Ontario, to find out
the reason for the big change for the United States as well as the even
bigger change for Denmark.
Professor Davies was kind enough to lay out the technical issues for me.
First, of all, data for mean wealth is more reliable t... more »
If Only Man's Best Friend Could Speak Its Mind
Sad Dog Diary
Enemies of Syria Plan Escalated Aggression
Stephen Lendman
So-called "Friends of Syria" are their worst enemies. They're a rogue's
gallery of scoundrels. They're complicit with Washington's imperium. They
violate core international law principles.
They're no friends of peace, stability and freedom. Umbrella group members
America, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia,
Turkey, UAE, and Qatar met in Doha.
They agreed on "secret" escalating measures. They hope to tip the military
balance. They're desperate to counter Assad's impressive victories. He's
routing insurgents convincingly. They're no match a... more »
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