10:27pm MDST
UHC 15: On DOH Plan to Recentralize Healthcare
The quest for government-initiated and centralized universal health care
(UHC) can be dizzying for all sectors -- patients/public, private
healthcare professionals and providers, government health agencies, the
legislature and everyone else. This is because when government centralizes
or almost monopolize healthcare, competition, price differentiation,
market segmentation and service innovation is often sacrificed or killed.
A famous physician, expert and consultant on , also a friend, Dr. Tony
Leachon, posted this story from GMA News the other day, in his fb wall,
*PNoy to push f... more »
Your Supreme Court at work and play -- as same-sex marriage slips through the portals of privilege
*-- from NYTimes.com's "Afternoon Update"*
"Today's Supreme Court decision is a victory for all Americans, and brings
our nation one step closer to the promise of equality and justice for all.
The DOMA decision ensures that married gay and lesbian couples are
recognized by the federal government, and that their families receive equal
treatment in the eyes of the law. There should be no more discrimination
based on where you're from, what you look like, or who you love. Today's
DOMA decision is a historic step in the fight for equality. The federal
government must ensure that no one... more »
Leviticus 20:13 Revisited
12/6/2012
Marijuana possession became legal in Washington state Thursday, as did
same-sex marriage.
And then there was this:
The Daily "Near You?"
Barkerville, Ontario, Canada. Thanks for stopping by.
Issa - Punk'd the US with the IRS Audit
We are all grunts.
We do what our boss tells us what to do – our boss does what their boss(es)
tell them to do.
Sometimes they tell us to pull what they need, sometimes they tell us do to
busy work.
But if we want to keep them off our backs and keep our job – we normally do
exactly what they tell us to do.
And that’s what happened here.
From *The Hill*
SNIPS (my emphasis throughout)
*IG: Audit of IRS actions limited to Tea Party groups at GOP request*
By Bernie Becker - 06/25/13 08:11 PM ET
The Treasury inspector general (IG) whose report helped drive the IRS
targeting controver... more »
Genetics: "World Populated By Single African Tribe"
*"World Populated By Single African Tribe" *
by The Telegraph
"Research by geneticists and archaeologists has allowed them to trace the
origins of modern homo sapiens back to a single group of people who managed
to cross from the Horn of Africa and into Arabia. From there they went on
to colonise the rest of the world. Genetic analysis of modern day human
populations in Europe, Asia, Australia, North America and South America
have revealed that they are all descended from these common ancestors.
Click for larger sized chart.
It is thought that changes in the climate between 9... more »
RIch get richer, the poor get screwed
Another in long series of reminders that the wealth created by financial
markets only raises the luxury yachts, leaving everyone else underwater in
their wake.
The biggest gains in wealth are going to wealthy households that tend to
save a big chunk of their incomes and spend a smaller proportion on basics
such as food and clothing. "Those guys don't spend much," says economist
Edward Wolff of New York University.
So Wolff looked at the net worth of the median U.S. household — those smack
in the middle, where half of households earn more and half less. The median
family's net wor... more »
Republican SuperPACs Aren't Bringing In The Cash The Way They Used To
No more checks from Idaho fascist Frank VanderSloot unless candidates can *
prove* their anti-American extremism
Saturday night I was driving home after dinner and I was hearing some
pretty racist talk coming out of my radio. Had someone changed the preset?
No, I had a local PBS affiliate on and it was the *Tavis Smiley Show*. He
had some crackpot ant-immigrant kook on from a hate group, the California
Coalition for Immigration Reform. And he interviewed her as though she were
an expert and never questioned any of her racist assumptions. When she was
done, he had a law professor from ... more »
"Somewhere..."
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
- Blaise Pascal
SURVEILLANCE STATE: Why has the media ignored the message?
The Auckland Banner airs a reasonable question about events further afield:
Why is it that [the media are] following every single detail about Snowden,
but not really talking about the substance of this huge privacy scandal?
Fair question. RT Journalist Anastasia Churkina has a crack at answering it
with Wikileaks spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson. As Hrafnsson says, “this is a
test of proper journalism.”
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Bond market slaughterhouse claims prominent victims - such as Bridgewater ( Ray Dalio ) and Pimco ( Bill Gross ) ..... And we won't even talk about what might be going on with John Paulson these days......
http://www.acting-man.com/?p=24328
Bond Market Losses – A Potential Crisis Trigger?
June 26, 2013 | Author Pater Tenebrarum
*Prominent Victims*
Hegde fund legend Ray Dalio among other things runs a big fund that is
called the 'All Weather Fund'. Its appeal is based on the idea that by
holding different investments that will either profit from rising or
falling inflation, it will deliver positive returns no matter what happens.
What the fund's managers obviously didn't expect was the scenario that has
actually unfolded lately: inflation expectations are collapsing, and bond
yields... more »
The Collaboration: Hollywood's Pact with Hitler by Ben Urwand (Video)
*The Collaboration: Hollywood's Pact with Hitler* (Available in September
2013).
An excerpt from a description of the book (Source: Harvard University
Press):
To continue doing business in Germany after Hitler’s ascent to power,
Hollywood studios agreed not to make films that attacked the Nazis or
condemned Germany’s persecution of Jews. *Ben Urwand* reveals this bargain
for the first time—a “collaboration” (*Zusammenarbeit*) that drew in a cast
of characters ranging from notorious German political leaders such as
Goebbels to Hollywood icons such as Louis B. Mayer.
Read a revie... more »
40 tons of GMO crops torched - nothing heard but crickets !
Though the controlled corporate media apparatus is suppressing the story,
40 tons of GMO crops were torched, prompting an FBI investigation. There
has been a COMPLETE MEDIA BLACKOUT, outside of local circles has dared to
mention it, perhaps because government fears that if the public learns that
other people are getting fighting mad (literally), they might join in, and
become an actual revolution. It was only reported locally live on KXL Radio
and echoed by the Oregonian, where the ONLY web mention exists, hard to
find because the headline wording is carefully avoids the most likel... more »
Russia evacuates Tartus - as well as military and diplomatic personnel from Syria ... Is the next kinetic action about to pop off ?
http://www.debka.com/article/23073/Russia-evacuates-Tartus-also-military-diplomatic-personnel-from-Syria-High-war-alert-in-Israel
*
*
Shortly
after the DEBKA aired a special video on the Syrian war’s widening
circle, Moscow announced Wednesday June 26, that the evacuation which
had
begun Friday of all military and diplomatic personnel from Syria was now
complete, including the Russian naval base at Tartus.
“Russia decided to withdraw its personnel because of the risks from the
conflict in Syria, as well as the fear of an incident involving the
Russian
military that could have l... more »
What do David Bain and Kevin Rudd have in common?
So, a lot happened overnight, while I was otherwise engaged.
The wildest day ever ended at Wimbledon with favourites knocked out, honest
journeymen injured on slippery grass and a spate of retirements right in
the midst of games. Events never seen before in London SW17.
One of the wildest days in recent memory ended in Canberra with the ALP
shooting itself in the foot while stabbing itself in the back.1 And Gillard
went, bewailing her fate as a woman (“infamy, infamy, every misogynist had
it in for me”) but gratifyingly just in time for everyone to switch over to
Origin—a game wh... more »
Compromised: How the National Security State Blackmails the Government
*Blackmail exists in every political system, in every time period, in
every country.*
"If you sign up for the government, you’re going to give your life for the
country. The National Security Act suspends all your civil rights, you get
it? After you’ve given your life for the country, since they didn’t need
you to survive, they’re going to use anything you’ve got – your body parts,
your mind, your soul, anything. That’s the way the game is played. *Most of
the victims of mind control are government related.*" - Walter Bowart, *"The
Secret History of Mind Control."* Walter Bowa... more »
Auckland Quote of the Day:
“98% of Aucklanders surveyed think that *other* people should take public
transport.”
Discuss.
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When Jeanne Allen Comes Out Against the CREDO Study, the News Can’t Be Good for Charters
Apparently, world champion charter industry promoter, Jeanne Allen, did not
get the memo from the corporate ed offices that all corporate education
welfare recipients should pretend that the new CREDO study was full of good
news for the corrupt charter school industry. Jeanne, who otherwise is a
lifelong member of the Test and Punish Society […]
Satire: "Scalia Arrested Trying to Burn Down Supreme Court"
* *
*"Scalia Arrested Trying to Burn Down Supreme Court"*
by Andy Borowitz
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)— "In a shocking end to an illustrious
legal career, police arrested Justice Antonin Scalia today as he attempted
to set the Supreme Court building ablaze. Justice Scalia, who had seemed
calm and composed during the announcement of two major rulings this
morning, was spotted by police minutes later outside the building, carrying
a book of matches and a gallon of kerosene. After police nabbed Justice
Scalia and placed him in handcuffs, the Juror appeared “at peace and
resign... more »
Chinese economist Li Zuojun opines on what the new government in China may do rising housing prices ( guide them lower 20 percent ) , how China might deal with its own financial crisis centered on - a bursting real estate bubble , local debt troubles , hot money ( tough love doled out meticulously and vigilantly seems to be the plan. ) Meanwhile , the focus in Europe remains southern Europe in particular Italy , but keep your eyes on France as joblessness increases there !
http://www.zerohedge.com/node/475738
What Does China's Dr. Doom Foresee?
[image: Tyler Durden's picture]
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/26/2013 17:20 -0400
- China
- Google
- Housing Prices
- Meltdown
- Real estate
- recovery
Chinese investors are holding their collective breaths to see if the
banking crisis predicted two years ago by renowned Chinese economist Li
Zuojun will come to fruition in the next couple of months. Li's astounding
accuracy in predicting China's economy has led to him earning the nickname *"China's
most successful doomsayer."* Tho... more »
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Osborne's Zombified Spending Review
When his pallid figure rose to address the House just after lunch time,
there was no sign of the urbane, erotic charm characteristic of the
intelligent, blood-sucking undead. Instead, what we got was a cadaverous
chancellor devoid of all thought, save that of the decaying dogma that
animates his being. This spending review, this budget by another name
marked a moment in this government's zombified shuffle toward ever greater
political decrepitude.
This government is:
* *Dysfunctional* because there was nothing in there that would heat up the
economy *now*. Instead, all of the me... more »
"The Bear Market in Bonds"
* *
*"The Bear Market in Bonds"*
by Bill Bonner
"We know it has to happen. And when it does, we'll get out." One of the
speakers at a conference we attended in London last week, a professional
money manager, talking about the most important bit of investment
information you are likely to get in your lifetime. He was probably
speaking for thousands of his colleagues. All confident that they would be
able to spot the turn in the bond market when it happens... and all leave
the party in good order.
We're still in the wee hours of a bear market in bonds that will probably
last *unti... more »
Happy Birthday!
Today Teen Daughter turns fourteen!
Southern Man slipped by the Ancestral Manor that morning to leave a cake
and a Vera Bradley gift bag full of goodies.
Teen Daughter about to blow out the candles. Photo by one of the Southern
Grandparents as Southern Man was at work.
Shopping with Southern Man (who picked her up after voice lessons
mid-afternoon) - Vera Bradley and the candy store.
Southern Man's little girl is growing up; two years from today she'll be
driving.
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The Economy: “The Button Has Been Pushed… Ready Or Not”
* *
*“The Button Has Been Pushed… Ready Or Not”*
by Bill Holter
“This week has started off miserably. China had problems within their
banking system last night as bank transfers, ATMs, online banking and wires
did not work. Europe announced that their E500 billion bailout fund for
banks is no longer the case; they now say that 60 billion Euros will be the
limit…retroactively. To put this in perspective, Spain had already been
promised 100 billion Euros for their banking system; I guess the money is
not coming? Our stock market has started the day down 230 points and the 10
yr. T... more »
Gerald Celente: “We’re Going into the Greatest Depression”
*Gerald Celente: “We’re Going into the Greatest Depression”*
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com
“Top trends forecaster Gerald Celente says NSA leaker Edward Snowden is a
non-event. Celente charges, “What did Snowden say that we didn’t write
about over a year ago.” Celente says the real stories are the imploding
economy and coming war. Another crash is coming, and Celente predicts, “It
will be worse than the panic of ’08. It will be deeper. It will be more
painful because they will not be able to pull off the stimulus game again.”
Celente goes on to say, “We are going into the Great... more »
HELP!
Mayday! Mayday! SOS! The idiots have taken over!
Women beat down GOP on Texas abortion bill
It's a very good day to be a liberal. The days long people's filibuster at
the Texas statehouse culminated in an epic 11 hour filibuster on the Senate
floor delivered by Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis.
Senator Davis was shooting for 13 hours but fell short when the Republicans
successfully challenged her on procedural grounds, at which point the
people in the gallery took over again and created enough noise to delay the
vote until just past the mandated close of the special session.
Apparently hoping to take advantage of the confusion, Republicans tried to
pull a fast bit of tricker... more »
RAG RADIO / Thorne Dreyer : Peruvian Scholar/Activist Cristina Herencia, UN Observer on Indigenous Issues
Peruvian
social psychologist Cristina Herencia in the studios of KOOP Radio,
Austin, Texas, Friday, June 14, 2013. Photos by Roger Baker / The Rag
Blog.
Rag Radio podcast:
Social psychologist Cristina Herencia,
UN observer on Indigenous Issues
Sponsored by the United Tribal Nations of North America, Herencia has
been an observer at the UN's Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues yearly
since
Barbara Buono's Lesbian Daughter Is In A Very Different Situation Than Louie Gohmert's Lesbian Daughter
Digby, Jacquie and Amato met with Barbara Buono at Netroots Nation last
week-- so now we can all vouch for what an incredible governor she would
make. All she has to do is get around a gigantic roadblock, media darling
(they're masochists) Chris Christie. But, as far as Blue America is
concerned, it's now official: we endorse Barbara Buono for governor of the
Garden State!
Early Monday morning I found an e-mail from someone named Tessa Bitterman.
I never heard of her and almost deleted it. But something made me open it
and read it. I'm glad I did. Tessa is Barbara Buono's younges... more »
UN Report: Access to Justice and Indigenous Peoples 2013
UN Report Access to Justice Indigenous Peoples 2013
Read and download:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/150214088/UN-Report-Access-to-Justice-Indigenous-Peoples-2013
Statements of intent can be hearsay where intent is a fact
R. v. McDonald, 2013 ONCA 442 holds:
[58] The Crown's purpose in introducing Ms. Lewis's evidence of the
statement was to help establish that the common intent of the members of
the appellants' group was to assault Bruer. For the Crown's purposes, it
would have been no different had the declarant said, "We are going to
Bridges to assault Bruer." The Crown sought to prove both the statement
itself, and the intention of the declarant to assault Bruer, which the
Crown sought to have the jury impute to the group.
[59] This is not a case where the statement was adduced for... more »
Obama creates Native American Affairs Council, places non-Indian as chair
Obama
creates Native American Affairs Council, places non-Indian as head
By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
President Obama created the White House Council on Native American
Affairs today. However, in an act of typical US paternalism, the US
Secretary of Interior was placed as the chair of the new council to
'honor treaties.' The non-Indian, British born Sec. of Interior Sally
Jewell worked
Wednesday Linkage
Yesterday was an exciting day in American politics, featuring legislative
time-traveling, a Supreme Court turning back the clock on voting rights,
and of course the invalidation of DOMA and the death-by-default of
California’s Prop 8. But I assume you have Facebook and that you already
knew all that. Here’s some items you might have missed:
Continue reading
The Realist Report with John Friend
*www.LesVisible.com*
On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined by the one and
only *Les Visible*. Les writes and maintains a number of very popular
blogs, and is also an excellent poet, musician, and philosopher.
Please visit *The Realist Report* on TalkeShoe to download this and past
episodes.
Timesman mourns the decline in English majors!
*WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 2013*
*Fails to review their past efforts:* This Sunday, we were struck by Verlyn
Klinkenborg’s lament for the English major.
Klinkenborg teaches non-fiction writing. He seems like a good, genial
person. Despite these facts, he has been part of the New York Times
editorial board since 1997.
In a way, that affiliation was the source of our puzzlement.
In this weekend’s Sunday Review, Klinkenborg offered a well-written lament
for the dwindling English major. As it turns out, the English major is
going the way of all flesh:
KLINKENBORG (6/23/13): *The teaching o... more »
Rule books
The head of the BBC's newsroom Mary Hockaday recently told *Newswatch*'s
Samira
Ahmed, *"We don't tell our reporters. We don't give them a sort of rule
book for language"*. She said that in the wake of the Oxford grooming
trial, when the BBC News at Six had been criticised by viewers for
failing
to use the word 'Muslim'.
As Sue pointed out a couple of days ago, however, the BBC certainly
*does*have rule books for its reporters vis-à-vis language - such as its
suggested
language guide for coverage of Israel and the Palestinians.
Mary Hockaday's comment came back to me again as I ... more »
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 […]
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, plus 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 emer... 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 imbibed 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 polit... 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
*Minister of Quick Fixes*
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,
agricul... 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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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*
*New Orleans newspaper war: Now with TV partnerships! ~Andrew Beaujon,
Poynter.*
*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 - 12 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)
* 20 June 2013*
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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
- Consumer Confidence
- European Central Bank
- Eurozone
- Gilts
- Gross Domestic Product
- headlines
- Jim Reid
- LIBOR
- Market Sentiment
- Mervyn King
- Monetary Policy
- New Home... more »
GCHQ monitoring - castigated by Germany ! How GCHQ uses fiber optic cables to spy on world communications and then share with NSA !
Catharsis Ours - 17 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 [updated]
[image: Obama jumps the 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 A... 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
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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 - 1 day 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 »
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