Bacchus parade, New Orleans, the Sunday evening before Mardi Gras Day. New Orleans Saints Quarterback Drew Brees honored on float. "Really, that's Drew Brees as King Bacchus" (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Untitled
*Drew Brees No. 5 on Forbes highest paid athletes*
*Clash between culture and progress is a perennial New Orleans problem,
panelists say — but may be getting better ~Robert Morris, Uptown Messenger *
*Orleans jail ‘adequately funded,’ IG says ~Gordon Russell, The Advocate* *Tropical
Storm Andrea zipping up the East Coast *
Abandonment a defence in Canada
R. *v.* Gauthier, 2013 SCC 32 upholds the defence of abandonment from a
common intent to commit a crime.
Many, including this writer, doubted such defence existed in Canada. Well,
it does and the Court holds:
[38] Thus, it was held that a defence of
abandonment has three essential elements: (1) there must be an intention
to abandon or withdraw from the unlawful purpose, (2) there must be timely
communication of this abandonment or withdrawal from the person in question
to those who wish to continue, and (3) the notice so communicated to those
who continue... more »
Live Feed: Dear Lord in Heaven: Obama is going to speak (read off a teleprompter) about ObamaCare...
*I'm not sure I can actually watch this crap.*
JOIN THE LIVE CHAT
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Sean and Newt continue the scam!
*FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 2013*
*Continuing! The dreck of the 157:* Last evening, just a few minutes in,
Sean Hannity continued the scam.
He feels no fear of correction or challenge from any high-profile news org.
For that reason, he and Newt kept discussing Douglas Shulman’s deeply
troubling, non-existent visits to the White House.
To watch the scam continue, click here:
HANNITY (6/6/13): What did you make of the transcripts? Because the
narrative has been that the people responsible were in Cincinnati. Rogue
agents. But the transcripts, they said they were directed by Washington.
What do... more »
Friday Fun - Walker Bozzle
For your Friday afternoon entertainment
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**89 words possible- don't cheat*
I'll start you off:
COVEN
Time to Wind Up a Long-Standing Debate?
In the vein of recent graduations everywhere and the exams students had to
take to get there, and thinking there is now ample evidence out there to
get closer to winding up a debate that has raged in both policy and
academic circles, let’s keep in succinct: “Fukuyama was right. Huntington
was wrong. Discuss”
The Middle Digit of Digital Dissent
Good morning, Sardonicky readers and all the fine folks at the NSA.... or
should I say, the fine computers at the NSA. If the reports are true, the
security state machinery is culling this blog-post as fast as I can write
it, looking for suspicious words and their placement in cyberspace, the
better to keep me safe, secure, and suppressed. Fat chance. I hereby give
the middle-finger salute to the dweebs.
I think I finally figured out the real reason that Congress is trying to
destroy the Post Office. Even though George Bush issued that infamous signing
statement back in 2007 givin... more »
Pros and cons of the U.S. surveillance program
It has been revealed that the FBI and NSA are using the Patriot Act to
monitor pretty much all telephone calls and media files drifting through 9
major Internet companies including Apple, Google, and Microsoft. Obama says
that those things are in the context of the fight against terrorism. Some
key officials responsible for these formerly secret programs have
criticized the... leak.
I was sort of pleasantly surprised by the New York Times editorial
President Obama’s Dragnet (via NewsMax)
which sort of concludes that the Obama administration has all credibility
on this issue. The ... more »
George (MD-ALEC) Wants to Be Governor
Note this first:
Del. Ron A. George (R-30)[3]; Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force[9]
*ALEC member*
*Delegate Ron George announces candidacy for governor*
6/6/2013
By Ron George
Annapolis Republican Outlines Plan to Build a New Maryland
Delegate Ron George, (R-Annapolis) announced his candidacy for the
Republican nomination for Governor on Wednesday June 5th in Annapolis to an
enthusiastic, standing room only audience of supporters.
George outlined his vision for Building a New Maryland in his speech to the
several hundred supporters on Wednesday night. George’s speech focused on ... more »
NSA - TOTALITARIAN SECRECY & SURVEILLANCE
A leaked court order has revealed the Obama administration is conducting a
massive domestic surveillance program by collecting telephone records of
millions of Verizon customers. The Guardian newspaper published a
classified order issued by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
directing Verizon’s Business Network Services to give the National Security
Agency electronic data, including all calling records on an "ongoing, daily
basis." The order covers each phone number dialed by all customers, along
with location and routing data, and with the duration and frequency of the
c... more »
Speak Up For Your Privacy In The EU
Source: Access Now
https://www.accessnow.org/page/speakout/speak-out-for-privacy-in-europe?js=false
**
*Businesses and governments want to strip you of your privacy*, leaving
your personal data naked and exposed. These powerful interests want to gain
access to your personal information, while restricting your control over
what they see.
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) on the Civil Liberties Committee
are *under intense pressure from foreign governments and corporate lobbyists
* to weaken the Regulation.
That's why* it's so important for MEPs to hear from citizens like... more »
House Of Commons Speaker Andrew Scheer DEFIES The Canada Election Act And Allows Two Ineligible Conservative's To Sit As Members Or Parliament ....
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[image: Progressive Bloggers]
*'The [Canada Elections] Act provides that an elected candidate who fails
to provide documents required ... may not continue to sit or vote as a
member until the corrections have been made.'*
*(Excerpt from a letter from Elections Canada to Speaker Andrew Scheer .. a
letter that Speaker Scheer has been sitting on for weeks!!!)*
*Shame on you Andrew Scheer! Your partisan streak is showing! Are you that
afraid of the PMO????*
*Shame!*
*-Letter from Elections Canada that Speaker Scheer has decided to Ignore
and defy!!*
Rand Paul also has something to tell you...
*1984 is here.*
Happenings: LSE Workshop
*Dragon boat rowers, Tainan*
On tap: a workshop at LSE entitled: “Taiwan Youth Ambassador Programme
Workshop: Unexplored Taiwan” and AmCham Taichung June Happy Hour
Click on READ MORE below....
I am very pleased to invite you to an event at the LSE, entitled “Taiwan
Youth Ambassador Programme Workshop: Unexplored Taiwan”. Details below.
Regards
Dr Fang-Long Shih
Co-Director, LSE Taiwan Research Programme
Title: Taiwan Youth Ambassador Programme Workshop: Unexplored Taiwan
Date: Thursday 20 June 2013
Venue: Room AGWR, Old Building, London School of Economics
Chair: Dr Fang-Long S... more »
Among all of the creatures that have ever populated the Earth, only human beings commit torture and wanton murder for fun and profit. It's a fact. Here Paul Craig Roberts reviews the evidence.
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*A BRIEF FOR ANIMALS — Paul Craig Roberts*
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The article below is reprinted from CounterPunch, January 12, 2011. Since
the article was first published, Washington has added the slaughter of
Libyans, Yemeni, and Syrians along with that of wolves to its
accomplishments. An addendum describes the wicked new “sport” of “canned
hunting.”
*Hribal’s “Fear of the Animal Planet”*
A Brie... more »
WHAT’S WRONG WITH MSNBC: With tape of adorable penguins at 9!
*FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 2013*
*Part 5—Rachel pretends to fight:* Why has MSNBC been losing viewers?
Like everyone else, we can’t say.
The channel seems to have lost some viewers in the switch from Big Ed to
Chris Hayes at 8, but that may turn out to be temporary. Beyond that, there
is no science which can explain why MSNBC has lost viewers compared to this
time last year, while the Fox News Channel has gained.
Why have some people stopped watching MS? For today, let’s ask a slightly
different question:
Why would anyone *want* to watch the lazy mess this channel presents?
Consider the p... more »
Friday Night Lites
*A night market in Wanhua.*
Apologies for the light blogging, but the end of the semester here has been
brutal. Waay overloaded with work.
Another reason I haven't blogged much is because I'm waiting for the
release of the video of the Philippines Coast Guard vessel shooting at the
Taiwanese fishing craft. There doesn't seem to be much more to say, since
the Taiwan government hasn't moved off its ridiculously intransigent
position, still taking the absurd position that Philippines should accept
responsibility before the investigation terminates.... for example, from Ma
Ying-jeou ... more »
Woman Rejects Chemo, Overcomes Ovarian Cancer With Nutrition Video, plus Text
Source: https://www.facebook.com/TFarmacy#!/TFarmacy
Woman Rejects Chemo, Overcomes Ovarian Cancer With Nutrition
Natural Society TV, 2 June 2013
NaturalSociety TV) Evita Ramparte was diagnosed with a serious case of
ovarian cancer after a visit to the doctor revealed it was the concerning
cause of her constant pain. Told that chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery
were among her only options to ever recover, Ramparte was not convinced.
After all, she had been living her whole life in ways that she was unhappy
with, ‘going with the flow’ of the world and ending up as obese and unhap... more »
William Binney, a 32-year veteran of the National Security Agency ...
*has something to tell you.*
The ALEC Ethos - LIES, LIES and more damn LIES
This morning PRWatch released an important article about the work of the
Center for Media and Democracy to ensure transparency of ALEC’s influence
on our state legislatures. *It is important to* *everyone in ALL 50 states*
.
I strongly recommend you read the entire article
*>>>>HERE<<<<*
Though filed in Wisconsin, the suit has relevance in all 50 states, since
ALEC has declared itself immune from every state’s public records law.
A snip of this very important article:
*ALEC Asserting Immunity From State Freedom of Information Laws*
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 7, 2013
CONTACT: Br... more »
Friday Morning Linkage
The PRISM slides: two nice touches you may have missed (Someone put some
real thought into presentation — this is not your grandparents’ NSC-68):
Top secret, code word, art work. There’s a special seal for “Special
Source Operations” that has an eagle lifting a bundled globe — very
impressive; and, Great product placement — special
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Read Stuff, You Should (Plus Housekeeping)
Happy Birthday to Ken Osmond, 70.
And some good stuff:
1. "The people have taken over American politics, and they hate it." Ezra
Klein reads Fiorina.
2. Brad DeLong on "normalization."
3. Scott Bland on the DCCC taking sides and getting away with it. Very
interesting.
And I'm on the road through Tuesday...I'll almost certainly put up the
normal weekend posts, but don't expect much more than that over the next
few days.
Things Fall Apart
Humpty Dumpty is teetering on his wall. Michael Den Tandt writes in the
Postmedia papers:
Edmonton MP Brent Rathgeber’s resignation from the Conservative caucus,
which dropped inside the Ottawa bubble like a little concussion grenade
late Wednesday, represents more than the loss of a single MP among the 164
Tories in the Commons. It is a dagger straight to the heart of Prime
Minister Stephen Harper.
Harper's standard defense when he has been cornered is to blame those
"others" -- primarily Liberals -- or "separatists" and "socialists." But
Rathgeber is from Harper's heartland, t... more »
Jobs report comes in slightly better than expected on headline number....internals such as average hourly earnings ( miss ) , manufacturing jobs still shrinking ( - 6,000 ) , B/D adjustment added 205 , 000 jobs to the unadjusted level....labor participation rate chart looks horrid !
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-07/175k-may-non-farm-payrolls-small-beat-april-revised-down-unemployment-rate-76-higher
175K May Non-Farm Payrolls Small Beat, April Revised Down; Unemployment
Rate Of 7.6% Higher Than Expected
[image: Tyler Durden's picture]
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/07/2013 08:34 -0400
- Unemployment
Those hoping for a decisive jump or plunge in the NFP number will be
disappointed with the May NFP printing at 175K, on expectations of 165K,
even as the April number was revised from 165K to 149K, and a net
March-April revised change of -12K. The Unem... more »
Bachmann - Living in la-la Land
From Talking Points Memo this morning.
From Michele Bachmann’s Hannity interview.
This is the world Michele lives in:
*"I feel like I've done a lot in the eight years that I’ve been there.”*
This is the REAL WORLD from a MN paper:
After four terms in Congress and a short-lived run for president in 2012,
Bachmann had demonstrated that her relentless stream of half-truths,
conspiracy theories, shopworn anti-Obamacare rhetoric and conservative
media appearances made her a political headliner but did little for her
district.
her portfolio of legislative accomplishments is embarras... more »
So America Decided To Turn Itself Into A Surveillance State?
The Patriot Act should have been repealed the second the Democrats won
control of Congress. Instead, many Democrats worked with Republicans to
keep it in place. Same for FISA. Now people are demanding Congress
investigate the NSA's and Verizon's indiscriminate, bulk spying on American
citizens. Congress? Investigate? What a joke! Congress is responsible for
this-- and in a very conservative consensus ("bipartisan") way. Lindsey
Graham, hardly an Obama apologist, was just on Fox saying "I’m sure we
should be doing this.”
Yesterday, the *NY Times* slapped the Obama Administration ... more »
Awesome domino book chain
Possibly the most awesome thing on the internet ever, at least so far.
It took a total of seven hours of setup and five tries, but at around 11
p.m. Friday, May 31, The Seattle Public Library set the world’s record for
the longest book domino chain using a record-breaking total of 2,131 books.
The previous record was a 1,000-book domino chain set in 2011. [Via Paul
Constant by way of Anne Laurie.]
How the GOP Hijacked Texas
*By Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy*
The millions of good people in Texas are just as appalled by the rise of
the GOP in that once great state as are Democrats/progressives/liberals in
any other part of the country. Epithets targeting Texas are misplaced.
Texas is NOT your enemy. We have seen the 'enemey' and it's the GOP! The
GOP knows full-well what happened in Texas and the role of George H.W. Bush
in bringing it all about.
The demonization of Texas only plays into GOP hands. It's bunkum. For some
100 years --from Gov Richard Coke, January 15, 1874 to Dolph Briscoe,
January... more »
Friday Nerd Blogging: Predictable But Enjoyable Mashup
Do not click if one has not read the third book of Game of Thrones or did
not see the most recent episode, as spoilers dwell within: Ah, any
deployment of Princess Bride is, well, magical, but, in this case, given
the over-reactions on the internet Sunday night and Monday morning, this is
just about
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Supreme Court Says "What 4th Amendment?"
*YouTube*
In a recent ruling, the US Supreme Court ignored the 4th amendment and
paved the way for states to collect DNA from people who have not been
convicted of a crime.
(LINK TO SCOTUS OPINION)
http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/...
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Top 6 Signs Your Unpaid Internship Should Be Paid
In honor of my daughter landing her first internship, I thought I'd go
through once again an issue that comes up every summer. Many internships
that are unpaid are exploiting young people for free labor instead of
providing a meaningful learning experience.
If your internship is more about scut work and less about learning, you are
probably an employee who needs to be paid, not an intern. Here are some top
signs that your unpaid internship is really a job that should be paid:* *
1. *You aren't learning:* An internship is supposed to provide training
similar to that you would r... more »
NIH-Funded Project Sterilizes Rats in NYC Subway
*The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is spending nearly half a million
dollars in taxpayer funds to test a chemosterilant rat bait for the
Metropolitan Transit Authority.*
Melissa Melton
As part of this pilot project, Dr. Loretta Mayer and her company Senestech
received $462,836 from the NIH to test the product ContraPest® on the NYC
subway system’s brown rat population. The bait contains 4-vinylcyclohexene
diepoxide (VCD), commonly used in tires, polyesters and plastics. According
to blogger Anastasia Bodnar, “VCD basically degrades ovaries, similar to
how the ovaries degrade ... more »
Fast food ice dirtier than toilet water, study finds
*YouTube - RT*
*
*A new study by UK's The Daily Mail found that ice from McDonald's,
Starbucks, Burger King and KFC, to name a few, contains more bacteria than
toilet water. RT's Margaret Howell breaks down the report.
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MS Breakthrough
This protocol for MS appears to be both an alternative to immune
suppression and a valuable addition that together could hugely suppress the
disease. Slowing the onslaught of the disease is often good enough for the
majority of victims. Thus this is good news.
We are still a ways of from actually defeating MS but the pace has been
increasing quickly so the prognosis itself is steadily improving.
This is one of those chronic diseases we truly need to see the back of.
*Medical breakthrough for multiple sclerosis sufferers*
*By Amanda Woerner*
*Published June 06, 2... more »
Cardiovascular Benefits of Turmeric
We already have good reasons to like Turmeric but this must be classed as
compelling. The effects are actually so strong that using it aggressively
is surely called for. It appears to support vascular health and along with
large amounts of Vitamin C is strongly indicated. Again half measures are
not suggested as this poses no known risks.
The whole field of active plant based health supporting ingestibles has
really taken off over the past decade as a huge number of healers, from
professional to individual self medicators actively sharing information and
a general optimi... more »
Monsanto's State Department
What is disturbing is that public servants are engaged in spending their
time to advance private corporate agendas way beyond what anyone would
consider appropriate. Just were does it actually end?
I would like to make another comment. I think that the Monsanto seed
protocol is a failed economic protocol, but that Monsanto is pressing ahead
in order to salvage value. In the meantime major resistance is rising in
Europe because you can not get past the perception that Monsanto is
attempting to create a wealth destroying monopoly on the backs of farmers.
This is a major sto... more »
Abduction Experience Confirmation
This is a long piece in which we receive detailed witness reports of an
alien abduction and examination that is extensive and intrusive to the
point of producing physical damage.
Far more important is that the physical damage is confirmed through a CAT
scan years later.
Just like our own medicine, not all applied procedures are painless at
all. I also think that there is something going on here beyond merely
sampling tissue. There is really no evidence of that at all.
We really get a sense of recognition here even if it is ahead of us in
development.... more »
Smoking Gun: The direct link between Agenda 21 and local planners
Tom DeWeese
When the fight started against Agenda 21, those of us working to expose it
were largely ignored by the mainstream media and even the established
Conservative movement and its media. Too far out there, they said, to be
taken seriously.
Then, as more and more Americans began to experience the dire effects of
Sustainable Development in their daily lives, suddenly our message began to
take hold. Today, thousands of Americans have taken up the fight. And
anti-Agenda 21 activists are storming planning meetings, demanding answers.
State legislatures and even some county and ... more »
Whooping Cough Rapid Rise After 20-Year Use of Poor Quality Vaccines
Heather Callaghan
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The rate of whooping cough, or pertussis, has exploded in America in the
last few years. A brand new study confirms what scientists already
expected. They confirmed that the burgeoning comeback of whooping cough is
due to introducing new, "safer" vaccines 20 years ago. Safer, meaning fewer
side effects and minus the previous toxin that was used, but not safe for
long-term protection from disease.
Pertussis bacteria affects upper respiration and creates shortness of
breath. The disease, which can be fatal to babies, actually almost
disappeared in the late '... more »
6 Corporations That Control Your Perception
*Youtube*
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Organic Consumers Association Calls for Immediate End to Field Testing GM Crops
*Activist Post*
The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) today called on the U.S. Department
of Agriculture (USDA) to immediately end all open-air field testing of
genetically engineered crops (GMOs). The request comes in response to last
week’s discovery by an Oregon farmer of an unapproved, illegal variety of
wheat, genetically engineered by Monsanto to withstand the company's toxic
RoundUp herbicide, growing on his property.
The OCA has launched a consumer petition calling on the USDA to halt
open-air field trials of GMO crops.
“Public health and the livelihood of U.S. wheat fa... more »
Vermont Governor Signs Marijuana Decriminalization Law
Phillip Smith
Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin (D) signed into law Thursday a bill
decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of marijuana. That makes
Vermont the 17th state to decriminalize, including all of its neighboring
New England states except New Hampshire.
Introduced by Rep. Christopher Pearson (P-Burlington) and passed with
tripartisan support, House Bill 200 removes criminal penalties for
possession of up to one ounce of marijuana and replaces them with a civil
fine, similar to a traffic ticket. People under 21 will be required to
undergo substance abuse screening. Unde... more »
IRS Gate - Cincinnati Staffers blast DC on conservative group scrutiny issue - Two IRS Agents declare DC directed targeting in a broad rebuke to the official story of rogue agents !
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/07/us-usa-irs-scrutiny-idUSBRE95605X20130607
(Reuters) - A misfired email from a U.S. Internal Revenue Service employee
in Cincinnati alerted a number of Washington IRS officials that extra
scrutiny was being placed on conservative groups in July 2010, a year
earlier than previously acknowledged, according to interviews with IRS
workers by congressional investigators.
Transcripts of the interviews, reviewed by Reuters on Thursday, provided
new details about Washington managers' awareness of the heightened scrutiny
applied by front-line IRS agen... more »
PROVOCATEUR IN TURKEY
*Hatay*
Brian commented on "ERDOGAN, DUMPED BY GULEN, TO BE REPLACED BY GUL":
"*A man who opened fire on police and tried to provoke the protestors last
night in Hatay is reported to be a member of the Free Syrian Army. *
"The protestors, who were alarmed by his unusual behaviors, revealed the
identity of the provocateur.
"The Free Syrian Army is an armed group supported by the Turkish government
against the Syrian regime.
"Parliamentarian from Hatay, Hasan Akyol, spoke to soL newspaper and said
that the people surrendered the man to the security forces.
"The provocateur is hol... more »
Ron Paul on Massive NSA Spying Scandal "Power in Government is Always Abused"
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There's a Reason They are Called “Courts....”
Dees Illustration Janet C. Phelan
Walking into any “court” of late one might have a distinct impression that
one has walked into a monarch's domain. In our post- 911 America, it is
becoming increasingly clear that the rule of law only applies at the
discretion of the monarch. And that would be the judge sitting in that
particular court.
Unlike removing a President, it is nearly impossible to remove a judge.
Lifetime appointments in many cases coupled with laws prohibiting suing a
judge (even for “malicious and corrupt practices”) have given the judiciary
a nearly godly form of im... more »
ABC's of ALEC - Don't Flunk the Test
It is important to remember that a lot of people don't know about ALEC
yet. Many people are just now hearing about ALEC and they don't know what
or who ALEC is and they don't know how they should respond to what they are
hearing about ALEC.
As we get ready to spend time with friends and families over the summer -
we should consider that it would be a good time to educate them on ALEC.
As we hopefully activate friends and family to help us with our on-going
exposure of ALEC - let’s review a little bit of what we know so far.
*What is ALEC?*
The American Legislative Exchange Council... more »
Ed Steer's Gold and Silver Report - Jnue 7 , 2013 - Data from June 6 , 2013 and selected news and views.....
http://www.caseyresearch.com/gsd/edition/bloomberg-gold-traders-most-bullish-since-bear-market-began
Bloomberg: Gold Traders Most Bullish Since Bear Market Began
Jun
*7*
- Yesterday in Gold and Silver
- Critical Reads
- The Funnies
- The Wrap
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"Despite the currency moves, the precious metals are not being allowed to
rally."
¤ YESTERDAY IN GOLD & SILVER
The gold price slid quietly lower in Far East trading on their Thursday,
hitting its low of the day [around $1,393 spot] shortly after the London
open. From there it rallied until 8:30 a.m. in New York...almos... more »
Syria updates - June 7 , 2013 ... White house bleats on as Syrian Government forces retake Qusayr.... Golan coming into play as Syria War creeps closer to Israel....Al Qaeda bleats on about Sunnis fighting Shia Rebels ...
http://news.antiwar.com/2013/06/06/white-house-unacceptable-for-syrian-govt-to-retake-qusayr-from-rebels/
White House: Unacceptable for Syrian Govt to Retake Qusayr From RebelsDemands
Hezbollah Immediately Withdraw
by Jason Ditz, June 06, 2013
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The White House has issued a statement today condemning the Syrian
government for retaking a strategically important town along the Lebanese
border, insisting that it caused “untold humanitarian suffering.”
Spokesman Jay Carney insisted that the US knew Syria’s government couldn’t retake
the town of Qusayr without Hezboll... more »
Lindsey Graham on Verizon: If We're Not Talking to Terrorists "We Don't Have Anything to Worry About"
Daisy Luther
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) must have studied his Police State Handbook
before giving an interview regarding the Verizon scandal. The U.S.
government was granted unlimited authority to obtain the records of all
telephone calls in the Verizon system if at least one of the parties was in
the US.
All of the classic manipulative language was present to justify the
invasion of privacy when Graham discussed the matter with Fox News and
expressed his personal delight at being surveilled.
I think we should be concerned about terrorists trying to infiltrate our
country and at... more »
I spy - using wellknown US companies only? Are 35 countries participating?!
address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 3 hours ago
Link: http://youtu.be/96vseHolOm4
The revelations by The Guardian and Washington Post about the existence of
the big ears of Big Brother and collaboration of a number of wellknown US
companies raises more questions, than it gives proper answers! Let's tackle
one question: how, yes how!, to manage the *billions* of electronic
communications that pass each day through networks? Why was Microsoft (yes,
again) the first to go and sit on the NSA's knees, according to the
revealed top-secret documents? And why was Apple Inc. according to the
documents more or less one of the last? Why so... more »
British MP slams Bilderberg meeting: ‘We’re all kept out and that cannot be right’
image credit:
mbbmore.com Madison Ruppert
One British MP has already come out against the 2013 Bilderberg Group
meeting in Watford, Herfordshire, England, saying it is an affront to the
British government’s claims to be committed to more transparency.
This year’s meeting will reportedly focus on the Middle East, Africa,
cyberwarfare and more with participantsincluding Google Executive Chairman
Eric Schmidt,Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, Henry Kissinger, European
Commission President José M. Durão Barroso among other major corporate
figures, major figures in banking, media, gov... more »
Government Surveillance Of American Citizens Goes Far Beyond What You Are Being Told
Anthony Freda Art Michael Snyder
Every single day, the U.S. government gathers and stores more than a
billion phone calls, emails, text messages, photographs and Internet
searches. Just about every form of electronic communication that you can
possibly imagine is being harvested. In fact, it has been reported that
NSA personnel gather 2.1 million gigabytes of data every hour. This is
being done even though it is a blatant violation of the U.S. Constitution.
Sadly, most Americans do not even know what the Fourth Amendment actually
says.
For those that do not know, the Fourth Am... more »
ALEC - Not Where You Find "Best Practices"
As the privatization experiment of the American Legislative Exchange
Council matures - IT FAILS.
ALEC legislators supposedly get together to talk about "best practices"
among the states and based on the real-life horror stories coming out -
promoting ALEC privatization policies schemes is not a "best practice".
Prison privatization will continue to be a worst case scenario for ALEC
"model legislation".
From an* article on Think Progress:*
Other states with private prison health care can forecast the conditions
Florida inmates will now face. A Kaiser report on these systems found ... more »
Obama is Big Brother and a Bald Faced Liar!
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New secret files reveal NSA has direct access to systems of top U.S. Internet giants for data mining
credit: documents obtained by
The Washington Post Madison Ruppert
Thought yesterday’s revelation of Verizon being ordered to hand over
records for all U.S. calls to the National Security Agency (NSA) was bad?
Think again.
Today documents were unveiled showing that the NSA and FBI are directly
tapping into the servers of nine of the largest U.S. Internet companies
since 2007 under a secret program called PRISM in order to mine data
including e-mails, documents, connection logs, audio, video and photographs.
Given this newest information, it is important to note that the connection ... more »
Repeal of Monsanto Protection Act Blocked From a Vote
*Activist Post*
Two senators took to the floor Thursday to oppose the Monsanto Protection
Act rider to the farm bill. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Sen. Jeff Merkley
(D-Ore.) have introduced an amendment to the farm bill that would repeal
the provision. Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) blocked the vote on the amendment and
the Senate voted to end the debate on the Monsanto Protection Act.
Even though the Senate voted to end the debate, Stabenow's declaration to
oppose Monsanto Protection Act extension without full debate is significant.
Huffington Post notes:
When two senators have a pre... more »
The Real Story Behind the 'Monsanto Protection Act'
*Youtube*
Barack Obama's signing of 'The Monsanto Protection Act', or H.R. 933 is
really only small part of a much bigger pattern and corruption and
collusion between Monsanto and the U.S. government.
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I LOST THAT RESPECT FOR LIFE
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Former drone operator Brandon Bryant tells NBC's Richard Engel that he felt
like he became a "heartless" "sociopath" under the drone program.
“People say that drone strikes are like mortar attacks,” Bryant said.
“Well, artillery doesn't see this. Artillery doesn't see the results of
their actions. It's really more intimate for us, because we see everything.”
Greg Hunter, "Weekly News Wrap-Up 6.7.13"
*"Weekly News Wrap-Up 6.7.13"*
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com
"1,000 U.S. Marines are headed to the Jordan/Syrian border. You might
remember pieces of the 1st Armored Division are already there. Military
exercises are common between the U.S. and Jordan, but this is not part of a
military exercise. The Pentagon is worried about the fighting in the
Syrian civil war spilling into Jordan and wants to protect the Kingdom.
There’s another story about how the U.S. government has been secretly
collecting information, this time from Verizon customers. The NSA had
unlimited authorit... more »
Thomas Dolby's 'She Blinded Me with Science' Live with Buzz Aldrin reprising Magnus Pyke's role
Buzz Aldrin showing some pretty poor moves and mic technique there...
This video is of a performance at the Smithsonian's "The Future is Here"
conference to discuss the great triumphs and future innovations in science
and technology.
Here's the original video...
GAY PARENTS
*Photo: Dallas Kilponen*
Kids with gay parents have 'significantly better' general health and
greater family cohesion than those with heterosexual parents.
This is according to new research in Australia.
The researchers at the University of Melbourne, in Australia, studied 500
children aged between one and 17.
Of the 315 gay, lesbian and bisexual parents involved, 80 per cent were
women.
smh.com. - children of same sex couples thriving / ACHESS - The Australian
study of child health in same-sex families
As of 2005, an estimated 270,313 children in the United States live in
house... more »
Who’s on Duck?
Having been newly promoted to permanent contributor, I’m delighted to join
the esteemed Duck blogging crew (pictured above) on a more long-term basis.
I’m looking forward to more lengthy substantive blog posts beyond the
Thursday updates. I feel like I’ve been trapped in reviewer hell for weeks,
just as it looked like I was clearing my inbox
Continue reading
Say that again Mr. Kayser! LAUSD should have more public meetings
“As it is, the meetings are held downtown in the middle of the day when
most parents, students and employees cannot participate. Ultimately this
behavior pattern leads to decisions made in a vacuum, isolation from
reality and the rubberstamping of pre-determined outcomes.”—Bennett Kayser
Former teacher and current Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD)
Board of […]
Summer Reading Survival Kit Giveaway (13 books and more!)
Summer is finally here. Whether you love laying under a big shade tree
with a book in your hand, or prefer to do you reading at the beach, summer
is the perfect time to catch up on all of the books you have been missing.
To help out your summer reading list, Marissa from Rae Gun Ramblings and I
have put together a giveaway with some of our favorites reads, perfect for
a summer reading marathon. Among the books are Divergent, one of my all
time favorite books, Cinder, a great story about a cyborg Cinderella and
Grave Mercy which is full of Nun Assasins. It doesn't get any better... more »
Your moment of Zen
Cave homes, Cappadocia, Turkey. [photo via]
[click to embiggen.]
Codename PRISM - I know you're reading this - Bush's 'Illegal Wiretap' continues under Obama
Anyone remember the 'fictional' ready room in the Bourne Trilogy (created
by spy-thriller-master Robert Ludlum) where a DAC or Despotic Assassin
Commander in a dark room at Langley, London, Paris etc. would issue kill
orders to track-my-target and action-all-comms on any unfortunate who found
themselves directly or indirectly party to covert acts of pro- con-
activity of our Governments?
Well....
*The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the
central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio,
video, photographs, e-mails, documents an... more »
Islamist gang that wanted to start war with the EDL: Bomb attack would have sparked 'spiral of terror' with far-Right | Mail Online
'...the group set out their intentions in a 'chilling' document called
Operation in Defence of the Prophet Muhammad.'
More here about these particular misunderstanders of Islam
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2337142/Islamist-gang-wanted-start-war-EDL-Bomb-attack-sparked-spiral-terror-far-Right.html
"Riding Through The Ruts..."
"Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you’re riding through
the ruts,
don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy.
Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality.
Wake up and live!"
- Bob Marley
Here's a few reasons why Stephen Harper is going to skip out of Friday's Question Period .... UPDATED -
[image: Progressive Bloggers]
*UPDATE:*
*PM Harper failed to appear in the House of Commons this morning for
Question Period ..... surprise surprise ;)*
*In his place ... 'Sparky' Polievre spoke for the PMO *
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
* *
*-PM's former chief of staff controlled secret Tory fund*
*-Pamela Wallin could pay back another $20,000 in expense claims*
* *
*-Conservative MPs used like 'trained seals,' Rathgeber says*
* *
*-Backbenchers support Rathgeber’s bill *
*-Liberals want auditor general to investigate prime minister’s office too*
Bank of Japan policy causing insane instability ....but why has the Fed to Infinity Qe not caused same result ?
12,877.53 [image: Down] 26.49(0.21%) 2:28AM EDT
[image: NIKKEI 225 (^N225)]
12,725.58 [image: Down] 178.44(1.38%) 10:15PM EDT
[image: NIKKEI 225 (^N225)]
More Adult Swim Fireworks Out Of Japan Ahead Of "Most Important Ever"
Non-Farm PayrollsSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 06/07/2013 - 06:59
To get a sense of the momentous volatility in Japan, consider that the
Nikkei225 is more or less in the same numeric ballpark as the Dow Jones,
and that each and every day now it continues to have intraday swings of
more than 500 points! Last night was no different following swin... more »
Musical Interlude: Pink Floyd, “The Dark Side Of The Moon”, full album.
Pink Floyd, “The Dark Side Of The Moon”, full album.
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY5winxPMvA
Broad’s Girl Friday in RI, Deb Gist, Looking for the Duncan Bump
If there is an education official in Rhode Island who has earned an Arne
Duncan endorsement, it would have to be Deborah Gist (Broad Class of 2008).
Her ability to ignore those pestering parents, those vomiting children,
those weeping teachers, and those angry grandparents has earned Ms. Gist a
place among the giants of corporate […]
"A Look to the Heavens"
“While most spiral galaxies, including our own Milky Way, have two or
more spiral arms, NGC 4725 has only one. In this sharp color composite
image, the solo spira mirabilis seems to wind from a prominent ring of
bluish, newborn star clusters and red tinted star forming regions. The odd
galaxy also sports obscuring dust lanes a yellowish central bar structure
composed of an older population of stars.
*Click image for larger size.*
NGC 4725 is over 100 thousand light-years across and lies 41 million
light-years away in the well-groomed constellation Coma Berenices. Computer
sim... more »
Chet Raymo, “Belief and Faith”
* “Belief and Faith”*
by Chet Raymo
“Last week, T. M. Luhrmann, a professor of anthropology at Stanford
University, had an op-ed in the New York Times called "Belief Is the Least
Part of Faith." She is the author of a recent book on American
evangelicals. Here again is someone making a distinction I have a hard time
grasping: the difference between belief and faith. It is a version, I
suppose, of Pascal's wager: I don't know whether God exists or not, but I
choose to live as if he does because the risk of not believing- eternal
hell-fire- is too great.
Luhrmann's evangelicals, ... more »
"We Are Here..."
"We are here on Earth to do good to others.
What the others are here for, I don't know."
- W. H. Auden
Vegan Recipe - Caesar Dressing & 3 Minute Parmesan Cheese
*Do you love Caesar Salad? The traditional version includes non-vegan
ingredients like Worcestershire sauce, anchovy fillets, eggs, and Parmesan
cheese. So when our very own Alicia (who you might know as a frequent
Change The World Wednesday participant) agreed to be this month's guest
chef and sent me this recipe ... well ... I'm pretty sure that even Caesar,
himself, would approve. It includes good-for-you ingredients and a healthy
"Parmesan Cheese". I can't wait to try it out!*
*A huge thanks to Alicia for sharing this recipe with us. I hope that you
and your family enjoy it:*
... more »
The time has come to start counting our monthly WaPo pieces of content
*by Ken*
So now we know when (more or less) and how (give or take) the *Washington
Post* will begin charging for access to its online content. The good news
is that the paper will not limit our ability to search classified
advertising, in case you were worried.
*Publisher’s letter: How the paywall will work*By Katharine Weymouth,
Published: June 5, 2013 at 10:00 am
On June 12, we will begin phasing in our metered subscription model. It
will take us a few weeks to get everyone into the system, but doing that
will allow us to ensure that you have the best possible experience.
Once... more »
"A Wise Man Once said..."
“A wise man once said you can have anything in life if you will sacrifice
everything else for it. What he meant is nothing comes without a price. So
before you go into battle, you better decide how much you’re willing to
lose. Too often, going after what feels good means letting go of what you
know is right, and letting someone in means abandoning the walls you’ve
spent a lifetime building. Of course, the toughest sacrifices are the ones
we don’t see coming, when we don’t have time to come up with a strategy to
pick a side or to measure the potential loss. When that happens, when... more »
War Over Water? Dispute Between Egypt and Ethiopia Over Nile Grows After Violent Threats Made On Egyptian TV
An excerpt from, *"Ethiopia: Halting Dam’s Construction Unthinkable"* by
Marthe van der Wolf (VOA News, June 6, 2013):
Tensions between Egypt and Ethiopia are rising after Ethiopia began
diverting the water of a Nile River tributary to build the continent’s
biggest hydroelectric power plant. Despite criticism from Egypt, Ethiopia
says construction of the dam will proceed.
Ethiopia summoned the Egyptian ambassador this week to demand an
explanation after Egyptian politicians were overheard on a live broadcast
discussing ways to sabotage the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.
The s... more »
Another Reason To Never EVER Have A "Facebook" Account: Computer Virus Found On "Facebook" Steals Bank Details And Money From Accounts When Users Click On Links!
Periodically I do receive email and comments at this blog saying that I
could increase my viewership by simply opening both a "Twitter" and a
"Facebook" account.... I have said to these people, thanks but no thanks...
My own research over the last few years alone has shown conclusively that a
"Twitter" account is much too dangerous because governments are keeping all
information on both "Twitter" account users, and their "Tweets" which could
come back eventually to haunt the person posting them... And "Facebook" is
even more dangerous due to the fact that it is the evolution of an or... more »
ALEC - pre-prepared, donor-friendly model legislation
Found this quote on the *South Dakota Democratic Party* webpage.
The SDDP is waging was against taxpayer paid ALEC junkets and they are
doing an amazing job.
Their publicity war has been very effective - letters to the editors,
petitions, etc - SDPP is on top of this issue and they should be
applauded. They have take a stand against the extremist American
Legislative Exchange Council - at the most basic level - their state!!!!
*Ryan Gruber*, 35, of Sioux Falls, is principal horn for the South Dakota
Symphony and a former Republican legislative staffer in Wisconsin,
2001-2005.
“W... more »
McGuire (AK-ALEC) To Run for Lt Governor
NOTE this first from ALECExposed:
Sen. Lesil McGuire (R-N); Tax and Fiscal Policy TaskForce
ALECer
Snips
*McGuire files to run for lieutenant governor*
By KYLE HOPKINS | khopkins@adn.com • Published June 05, 2013
ANCHORAGE – Sen. Lesil McGuire announced Wednesday she will run for
lieutenant governor,
And, she added, having a woman on the Republican ticket "brings an
interesting perspective for Alaskans
Having a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council on the ticket
brings a disgusting perspective to the race.
"The mayor has done a good job leading the city in many... more »
20/20
Hindsight is always 20/20. One day we’ll look back and realize how each
puzzle piece fit together. This is the tale of a planet and her challenge
to evolve with all of the beings and life she supports*. It cannot be
known in its fullness except from a distance*. It incorporates creation
and truth, agape and unity.
There is a message from Turkey from a few days ago where oneness is
palpable. The latest Off world Message describes humanity working day and
night to protect and create a new world. Some recent movie releases
mirror what is going on with “Rise of Th... more »
Bill Whittle: We have a moral obligation to be...
*watch and find out.*
Some wise advice...
Syria's War Against Tyranny: This Is A Laugher - US "Condemns" Syria And Hezbollah For Their Taking Back Strategic Town From Murderous US Bought And Paid For Mercenaries!
I have been very happy this last week for the proud people of Syria...
Their government forces have the murderous US/Israeli bought and paid for
"rebels" (mercenaries) on the run, and they are rightfully defeating them
at every major battle now... It definitely does appear now that victory for
the Syrians against tyranny is definitely at hand......
With the recent victory by the Syrian government forces in the border town
of Qusayr, the world is finally waking up and noticing that the Syrian
people will not bend over and accept the same fate as Libya to the monsters
in NATO/US/Israe... more »
Another Great Video By Snordelhans: 9-11 IS The Litmus Test!
It has been a very long time since I put up any articles or videos about
Israel's murderous attack on American, September 11th, 2001. I am truly
amazed that now almost 12 years after that fateful event, most Americans
are still in the dark about the facts that America's so called "ally", the
criminal state of Israel, along with its Sayanim Jewish agents operating in
America itself, committed one of the most horrendous murderous attacks in
all human history... It shows the control the Jews exert on America itself
that they have been able to keep up the facade for almost 12 years tha... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
"NSA Prism Data Mining Is All Up In Ur Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, Apple"
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*
*"NSA Prism Data Mining Is All Up In Ur Microsoft, Yahoo,*
* Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, Apple" *
by Jason Linkins
"America, here's hoping you've had enough time to be come to terms with the
National Security Agency scooping up all of your metadata pertaining to all
of the phone calls you've been making with Verizon, because here comes the
next fun news about the government's far-reaching panopticon of total
information surveillance, courtesy of Barton Gellman and Laura Poitras of
The Washington Post: "The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping ... more »
Ingredients for a great thin soup: Asparagus, Fennel, and Turnips. @aftunion
I call it AFT soup for short. It’s really good and very easy to make.
Ingredients 1 bundle chopped asparagus 1 fennel bulb sliced, not the greens
1 diced turnip 4 cups veggie broth 4 garlic cloves, chopped fine 800 AFT
teachers, roughly 1/3 from NY state alone Directions 1. In a 4 quart pot,
[…]
Where are my #edtech folks on this one? #prism AND #connectED?
At noon today, on the White House blog, ConnectED was announced to, among
other things: That’s why President Obama is unveiling a bold, new
initiative called ConnectED, which will connect 99 percent of America’s
students to the internet through high-speed broadband and high-speed
wireless within 5 years. The President also directed the federal government
to […]
There Are Young Republicans... Really
A few days ago Chris Hayes interviewed (above) Alex Smith, national Chair
of the College Republican National Committee, an arm of the NRC. He found
it interesting that her group spent a great deal of money on an indepth
survey and analysis that basically proves her party is alienating young
voters at a faster and faster rate. Not just alienating them-- but making
them positively loath the party. "Our focus on taxation and business
issues," warns the report, "has left many young voters thinking they will
only reap the benefits of Republican policies if they become wealthy or
rise ... more »
GOP Obamacare hypocrisy
Proving that the GOP's alleged concern about Obamacare is based solely on
politics and Obama Derangement Syndrome, Lee Fang at the Nation unearthed a
treasure trove of Republican requests for Obamacare funding from
Republicans who trash the program on a near daily basis and have voted
dozens of times to repeal the bill altogether.
The list of these hypocrites is too long to list to them all, but it's
instructional to see how they praise the program when they've got their
hand out for the money.
House Republicans and the Senate Republican Policy Committee have trashed
the ACA’s Co... more »
Phils/Taiwan Cringe: ROC reps pass this around
Here are the two pages of a brochure the TECRO (ROC representative) offices
in the US are passing around. Look carefully at the map on page 1, it
includes the Senkakus, showing how these territorial claims are linked in
ROC (Chinese expansionist) propaganda and shows the "overlapping" EEZs of
Philippines and Taiwan. Its use of international law is selective, to say
the least: as a friend pointed out, there's no territorial waters around
the Japanese islands and no EEZ extending into the Taiwan Strait. There's a
bigger view of it on my Flickr account here.
_______________________
[Ta... more »
FRIDAY MORNING RAMBLE: The “Dunne Nothing” Edition
*If measured by what appears in MSM political commentaries, this ramble
should be full of references to Mr Dunne Nothing.
But it won’t be.
Instead, I’ll just point you to Graeme Edgeler, who likes this sort of
thing. And bring to mind Cromwell’s exhortation to the Rump Parliament:
“You have sat too long for any good you have been doing … Depart, I say;
and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!”).
And now, here’s one of the most stunningly beautiful photos of Auckland you
will see. (Yes, it enlarges. No, I can’t find out who took it. Yes, it’s
much better looking th... more »
Greece slides into the Fourth World ! Zero Hedge lead article and additional news pertaining to Greece !
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-06/greece-slides-fourth-world-full-photo-album
Greece Slides Into The "Fourth World" - The Full Photo Album
[image: Tyler Durden's picture]
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/06/2013 18:33 -0400
- Germany
- Greece
- Reality
- Reuters
- Unemployment
With Greek government bonds at multi-year highs (up 300% in the last year),
the Athens Stock Index still up 100% in the last year, and leaders all over
the Euro-zone proclaiming the crisis is over (and that Greece has "made big
strides"); we thought it perhaps useful to look at ... more »
Comex puts a disclaimer on its precious metals warehouse inventory ? Did Comex just send out a clarion call for those who THINK they actually have gold stored at the Comex to grab it while you can ? Note JPM total gold inventory shrinking again - but the unanswered questions of when or whether JPM settles outstanding May contract deliveries and those for June keep percolating ! For those who doubt Comex could default , Exhibt A in rebuttal would be - what happened at ABN Amro if not a default ? Any coincidence that all of a sudden numerous mines are bing shutdown just as physical demand has skyrocketed , especially Asian demand ? Eric Sprott discussion GLD ETF redemptions - Bullish for physical gold in his opinion !
Catharsis Ours - 16 hours ago
http://harveyorgan.blogspot.com/2013/06/comex-puts-disclaimer-on-gold-silver.html
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Comex puts disclaimer on gold silver inventory/gold and silver
whacked/Dealer comex gold lowers to 47.34 tonnes/
Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen:
Gold closed up down by $14.60 to $1397.10 (comex closing time). Silver
fell by 32 cents to $22.40 (comex closing time)
In the access market at 5:00 pm, gold and silver finished trading at the
following prices :
gold: 1399.90
silver: $22.54
I am not going into the trading of gold and silver because you all know
that it is manipulat... more »
Farmers begin suing Monsanto over genetic pollution of wheat crops ! Ernest Barnes , the Kansas farmer leads the charge - and recall Japan and South Korea have already taken action against US wheat !
http://www.infowars.com/its-on-farmers-begin-suing-monsanto-over-genetic-pollution-of-wheat-crops/
It’s on! Farmers begin suing Monsanto over genetic pollution of wheat crops
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*Mike Adams*
Natural News
June 5, 2013
The next wave of farmer backlash against Monsanto has just been unleashed
by Ernest Barnes, a wheat farmer in Morton County, Kansas. He filed suit
this week in the U.S. District Court in Wichit... more »
Divide And Conquer: The Revolts In Syria And Turkey
For background, read:
*"So What Color is the Turkish “Revolution”? The Red Revolution™? The
Crimson Revolution™?" *by Scott Creighton.
*"Smoke Begins To Clear in Turkey"* by Daniel McAdams.
Not every protest in the Middle East can be lumped into the "Arab Spring"
current. This vague term has been used by malicious warmongers to
legitimize both aggressive war (in the case of Libya) and foreign-driven
terrorism (in the case of Syria).
Too many events are mischaracterized as expressions of the "Arab Spring."
If some homeless guy lifts a finger in Iraq against the police, an
oppor... more »
Satire: “A Letter to Verizon Customers”
* *
*“A Letter to Verizon Customers”*
by Andy Borowitz
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)— “Today, President Obama issued the
following letter to all Verizon customers:
Dear Verizon Customers,
Yesterday it came to light that the National Security Agency has been
collecting millions of phone records from you each and every day. Since
that news was released, many of you have called the White House with
questions and concerns about this new program. To save my time and yours,
here are answers to three of the F.A.Q.s (Frequently Asked Questions) we’ve
been hearing from you:
*1. Will ... more »
"12 Clear Signals That The U.S. Economy Is About To Really Slow Down"
* *
*"12 Clear Signals That The U.S. Economy Is About To Really Slow Down"*
By Michael
"A lot of things that have not happened since the last recession are
starting to happen again. As you read the list below, you will notice that
the year "2009" comes up again and again. There is a reason for that.
Many of the same patterns that we witnessed during the last major economic
downturn are starting to repeat themselves. In fact, many of the things
that are happening right now have not happened in quite a few years. For
example, manufacturing activity in the U.S. has contracted for... more »
How you gonna cry victim now?
I wrote about this a while back. The IRS received applications from 298
groups for tax exempt status and a quick look at the approved groups sure
looked like the majority were conservative. Now Kevin Drum found an
intrepid soul who did the real work.
However, the IRS does publish the names of groups that have received
special scrutiny and been approved for tax-exempt status. They recently
released a list of 176 organizations that have been approved since 2010, so
Martin Sullivan checked each one to figure out if it was liberal or
conservative. Here's what he found:
122 conservati... more »
Which Part of the Brain Causes Some People to Reflexively – If Illogically – Trust Just About Anything Published in Establishment Media? NYT Warning: Trust Authorities on Boston Bombing, or You’re Nuts (The Rosebud Moment?)
If you haven't been following closely this almost Keystone-copy exercise in
press management . . . well . . . you shoulda been. I've been holding on to
this group of essays for a few days now as more information becomes
available every hour (hopefully, on my part, from unbiased sources). I have
an even more alarming essay planned for tomorrow from a very trustworthy
source so stick with me.
Everyone who wants the IRS in charge of their health care...
*please raise your hand.*
Here's a handy list of FreedomWorks educational resources on why the IRS
should not be entrusted with administering the president's health law.
Keep the IRS Away from Our Health Care [5/30/13] (blog post with graphic)
Keep the IRS Away from Your Health Care [5/30/13] (convenient “write your
Congressman” action alert page) (more than 12,000 messages sent to date)
Why the IRS Should Not Be In Charge of ObamaCare [5/29/13] (blog post, with
link to printable palm card)
Let the IRS Implement ObamaCare? Are We Nuts? [5/28/13] (op-ed)
Top Ten Reasons the IRS S... more »
Not Jennifer Garrison Again! The DCCC Is Trying To Recruit Ohio's Sarah Palin To Run Against Bill Johnson
Steve and Jennifer-- a match made in hell
Clearly, the DCCC should be going after powerful Republican policy makers
in vulnerable seats like Paul Ryan (where Obama scored 47%), John Mica
(where Obama scored 47%), Ileana Ros Lehtinen (where Obama scored 53%),
Peter King (where Obama scored 52%), Fred Upton (where Obama scored 49%),
Mike Rogers (where Obama scored 48%), Buck McKeon (where Obama scored 48%),
John Kline (where Obama scored 49%), and Darrell Issa (where Obama scored
46%). Instead Steve Israel is all about targeting pointless GOP
backbenchers no one's ever heard of and was... more »
Old, Old, Senate Update
Two special elections to replace two older Senators, with the late Senator
Lautenberg an especially significant case (he was 89).
I think I've written about Massachusetts before, but it's looking very much
like a wasted opportunity. Ed Markey, the solid favorite, will turn 67 in
July. That's not young!
The Republican in the race, Gabriel Gomez, is only 47 (he'll be 48 in
August). So there's some hope of a relatively young new Senator. But I'll
be pretty surprised if he wins.
In New Jersey, the only Republican in the race so far is Steve Lonegan, 57.
It's looking as of right this mi... more »
Gail Collins wants preschool education!
*THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 2013*
*Here’s where the problem comes in:* Gail Collins wrote a real column
today. She wrote about Obama’s proposal for expanded preschool education.
Almost surely, it won’t happen. This passage helps us see why:
COLLINS (6/6/13): *I am telling you all this because nothing major is going
to happen for early-childhood education without an enormous groundswell of
public demand.* This is a cause that’s extremely popular in theory. But its
advocates have no power to reward or punish. Lawmakers who labor on behalf
of preschool programs may get stars in heaven, but the... more »
"Blocked up With Yucky Stuff"
* *
*"Blocked up With Yucky Stuff"*
by Bill Bonner
"First, this from our own right-hand man, Chris Hunter (investment director
for the Bonner & Partners Family Office) with a more generous assessment of
Fed policy:" Yesterday, Mr. Bernanke's price-fixing scheme ran over a speed
bump. The Dow dropped 216 points. Just a jolt, for now. The brick wall is
still ahead. But we will try to give the devil his due. "I'm not sure it's
right to say that the Fed has been retarding a recovery... If you look at
the US, things aren't perfect, but they're a hell of a lot better than they
are in E... more »
Killing Them Softly - best film in ages.
James Bond #n and Twilight #n both shat on this film at the box office: how
is that even possible?
Starring Brad Pitt, Richard Jenkins, Ben Mendelsohn, Ray Liotta (et al)
KILLING THEM SOFTLY is just about the best film this reviewer has seen in
ages - it's clever, it's brutal and it has a delicious anti-Globalist
message. It has attitude, it has some wonderful turnaround moments, it has
balls.
Indirectly charting the fall of Bush and the rise of Obama, Killing Them
Softly makes constant reference to the 'political process' and the 'deals
that have to be made' to keep Prosperity on ... more »
Music and stuff
Why are ticket prices for concerts going through the roof? Examples: £450
for the best seats at a Barbara Streisland gig, £950 for the equivalent at
a Rolling Stones gig. It costs £50 to watch Texas and £60 to see Keith
Sweat (who?). They not the youngest nor the most cutting edge acts you
might say, but why are veteran bands reforming so frequently these days and
who keeps giving them festival headline slots? Is it anything to do with
the fact the average age of a festival goer is now 36? And what about those
young, breakthrough, chart acts, why are, at any one time, a majority of ... more »
Lenin and Dirigibles
Is this the most awesome early Soviet propaganda poster ever? It has
everything - Lenin rising up from the masses, clearly gesticulating the
young workers' republic's line of march. And demonstrating the fruits
socialist industry unleashed, you have the immense modernity of the airship
thrusting upwards into the orange dawn of the future. Dating from 1931, it
reads "Let's build a fleet of airships in Lenin's name", or, "We will build
Lenin's escadron [squadron] of airships", depending on who you believe.
Whatever, I'm sure it sounds perfectly rousing in the original Russian. You
ca... more »
After The B.C. NDP, The Next Gigantic Step.
*Written by rmathews@telus.net*
The calamitous B.C. May election is over. A full-scale, grass-roots
eruption should have taken place – with the whole province watching as the
NDP Top Twenty were publicly disgraced, disowned, discarded, dismissed ...
booted out. That should have been followed by new policies based on face to
face confrontation: anti-neoliberal militancy, planetary environmentalism,
fundamental tax revision, dogged pursuit of Campbellclark lawlessness,
major policies of re-regulation and provincial ownership through Crown
Corporations.
But the purring, NDP c... more »
“7 Reasons Why George Orwell Was Right About Surviving The Police State”
* *
*“7 Reasons Why George Orwell Was Right About Surviving The Police State”*
by Tim George
“George Orwell said, “Good prose is like a windowpane. I cannot say with
certainty which of my motives are the strongest, but I know which of them
deserve to be followed.” For him, the strongest impulse was political
change. The author of 1984 and Animal Farm, having experienced first hand
the effects of government control, wrote with an innate determination to
push the world in a certain direction. Perhaps a better explanation would
be that Orwell wrote to push back against totalitarian g... more »
“Pushback”
* *
*“Pushback”*
by A
"A bill protecting the fundamental due process and habeas corpus rights of
Californians is working its way through the state assembly. On April 9, the
assembly’s Public Safety Committee unanimously approved the measure by a
vote of 6-0
When I returned to America after my first and only visit to the Soviet
Union, walked into my dorm room at law school, and shut the door, I burst
into uncontrollable tears. Looking back, I believe it was because for the
first time in three weeks, I felt safe. I felt home. I felt home in
America, land of the free, or so it wa... more »
PM Harper And Premier Wall Are Putting North American Security At Risk By Allowing Huawei To Participate In Major Canadian Telecommunications Projects
[image: Progressive Bloggers]
*The former head of U.S. counter-espionage says the Harper government is
putting North American security at risk by allowing a giant Chinese
technology company to participate in major Canadian telecommunications
projects.*
***In an exclusive interview in Washington, Michelle K. Van Cleave told CBC
News the involvement of Huawei Technologies in Canadian telecom networks
risks turning the information highway into a freeway for Chinese espionage
against both the U.S. and Canada.*
***Huawei has long argued there is no evidence linking the company to the ... more »
Bridger SD: Moccasins on the Ground to Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline June 2013
Moccasins on the Ground To Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline
By Owe Aku International Justice Project, Kent Lebsock
Censored News
www.bsnorrrell.blogspot.com
Debra White Plume/White House Keystone protest arrest
Moccasins
on the Ground Tour of Resistance opens the nonviolent direct action
training at 5pm on Friday, June 14, 2013 in the small community area of
Bridger, SD located on
Arizona: Migrant deaths increase 2013
New report reveals migrant deaths, increase number of Central American migrants
Censored News
Migrant shoes Sonoran Desert/Photo Brenda Norrell
Press statement
Tucson, Arizona—A report released
today by the Binational Migration Institute at the University of Arizona answers
key questions about migrant deaths in southern Arizona since 1990. Authored by researchers from the Binational
Untitled
*Saints are buying into Rob Ryan ~Pat Yasinskas, ESPN*
*Understanding What Rob Ryan’s 3-4 Defense Means for the New Orleans Saints ~Bradley
Warshaur, Black and Gold Review*
If some snooping is good, then...
The White House response to the revelation that the NSA is collecting
massive amounts of phone "metadata" from Verizon is that this is a vital
"anti-terrorism" tool. But if collecting data from Verizon is a key
anti-terrorism tool, then surely collecting it from AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile,
and everyone else would be an even better anti-terrorism tool. And if
collecting metadata is providing essential anti-terrorism information,
think how much more anti-terrorism information could be gleaned by
recording the actual "data" (that is, the conversations that are taking
place)? Not to mention... more »
Shocked to learn there's surveillance going on in this place
Anybody who's old enough to have been paying attention shouldn't be
surprised to learn the huge telecom data sweeps are still going on
unabated. Adding, I'd be willing to bet it's not only AT&T who's
cooperating on this. The only thing that's changed is now they do actually
get a secret court warrant to conduct surveillance. Furthermore this didn't
start with the bed wetting after 9/11 when the vast majority of Americans
willing gave up their privacy rights for imagined security against those
scary terrorists. Government has been spying us for as long as I can
remember in some way o... more »
That apartheid state of Israel again
Andreas Fagerbakke (@afagerbakke) tweeted at 7:09 PM on Thu, Jun 06, 2013:
Ibrahim is a Muslim, and braved many dangers at a very young age to come to
#Israel as a refugee. Apartheid? http://t.co/1XNRY783yo
(https://twitter.com/afagerbakke/status/342704810866393088)
"Now More Than Ever, Everybody’s a Target in the American Surveillance State"
* *
*"Now More Than Ever, *
*Everybody’s a Target in the American Surveillance State"*
By John W. Whitehead
“Everybody’s a target; everybody with communication is a target.”- A senior
intelligence official previously involved with the Utah Data Center.
The recent revelation that the National Security Agency (NSA) is collecting
the telephone records of millions of Verizon customers, with the complete
blessing of the Obama administration, should come as no surprise to anyone
who has been paying attention over the past decade.
As I document in my new book “A Government of Wolves: Th... more »
MILITARIZING SWEDEN
Each year the Global Network holds our international space organizing
conference in a different country. We try to go to places where military
space technology development is underway and under reported.
On June 27-29 we will meet in Kiruna, Sweden in what is called the "High
North". This part of the world, very close to the Russian border, is being
heavily turned into a space warfare testing and satellite downlink
receiving area.
The politicians in Sweden and Norway are down playing their growing
involvement in US-NATO space warfare preparations that are particularly
aimed at ... more »
Quotes about Homelessness in Toronto
I found these quotes about homelessness in Toronto. They really hammer home
the concept that affordable housing is the big issue when it comes to
homelessness. (Real estate prices and rental rates in Toronto are way too
high.)
And combined with that, the cost of heating and electricity.
Learn more about this topic by visiting Solving Toronto's Homeless Problem.
*"Canada is the second coldest country on earth and with a climate like
Canada’s, energy, like food and housing is a necessity of life."* - Edward
de Gale.
*"It is a little known fact that the inability to pay basic
ut... more »
Rep. Trey Gowdy: IRS Has Moral, Character Problems...
*at his best!*
From YouTube:
Representative Trey Gowdy gives a passionate opening statement at the House
Oversight Committee Hearing on excessive conference spending by the IRS. He
states that the institution has a character problem that isn't going to be
"solved with another webinar" and that it may be time to "start over."
An Egyptian Discovers that When an Israeli is Pricked, She Indeed Bleeds | Jewish & Israel News Algemeiner.com
'... this ugly episode on a wrestling mat in Italy was not, to be sure,
merely an act of poor sportsmanship. Mostafa is the product of a culture
with anti-Jewish racism so pervasive that the country's President could,
with total impunity, refer to Jews as "sons of apes and pigs" andsermonize
to parents on the importance of "nursing their children" with Jew hatred.'
More here
http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/06/06/an-egyptian-discovers-that-when-an-israeli-is-pricked-she-indeed-bleeds/
Marilyn McCord Adams on Evil and Optimism
*"Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God"* by Marilyn McCord Adams.
*"Christ and Horrors: The Coherence of Christology"* by Marilyn McCord
Adams.
*Wikipedia:*
Marilyn McCord Adams (born 1943) is an American philosopher working in
philosophy of religion, philosophical theology and medieval philosophy.
Adams was educated at the University of Illinois (AB); Cornell University
(PhD 1967); and Princeton Theological Seminary (ThM 1984, 1985); and holds
the degree of Doctor of Divinity from the University of Oxford (2008).
Adams' work in philosophy has focused on the philosophy ... more »
CAMERON, SYRIA, BULLINGDON, SEX SCANDAL
*David Cameron and Boris Johnson.*
David Cameron, Prime Minister of the UK, wants the UK to arm the filthy
rebels in Syria and perhaps wants the UK to invade Syria.
At least five members of his Cabinet are reportedly opposed to this madness:
Deputy Prime Monster Nick Clegg, Justice Secretary Chris Grayling*,
International Development Secretary Justine Greening, **Foreign Office
Minister Baroness Warsi** and the Cabinet Office minister Ken Clarke.*
"The Prime Minister is also facing a growing backlash from backbench Tories
who want a Commons vote on any major escalation in British ... more »
John Dickerson doesn’t know how to read!
*THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 2013*
*Still able to work for CBS News and for Slate:* By traditional standards,
John Dickerson is a bit of a good looking feller. He’s also a legacy. His
mother, the late Nancy Dickerson, was a good-looking female correspondent
in the 1960s, one of the first such women in TV network news.
Perhaps for these reasons, Dickerson has several good jobs at good pay
within the upper-end press corps. He holds jobs with Slate and with CBS
News despite a shortcoming:
John Dickerson doesn’t know how to read.
Dickerson puts this lack of skill on display in his new piece at S... more »
What would you do with $200,000 to help drug addicts in Toronto?
If you had obtained $200,000 from an Indiegogo campaign dedicated towards
buying the Rob Ford crack video (which we all know exists, because even
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford admitted to his staff that it does, he just denies
that it is crack that he is smoking in the crackpipe) and had failed to get
the actual video... what would you spend the $200,000 on instead?
The website Gawker raised the money weeks ago in their attempt to buy the
video. But the large scale media attention caused the men who were trying
to sell the video to think twice about their personal safety and the video
and ... more »
Something else you can do with WD-40...
*nice to know.*
We have some green plastic lawn chairs that were so oxidized that we
planned on throwing them away. Since they were nice chairs, I did a little
searching on the internet to see if there was something I could do to fix
them up (besides paint them.)
Lo and behold - WD-40 to the rescue.
After cleaning them I coated them with WD-40, and while they're not
perfect, they now look good enough to keep.
*Before pics of our little set on the front deck:*
*After a quick wash and smearing on a bunch of WD-40:*
*I can live with the one little white spot on the table...*
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. ~ Hippocrates
Would you feed your car water instead of gasoline? Each time I put a morsel
of food in my mouth I stop I think about that, and I say a silent
meditation that a friend taught me: "Let this food serve as medicine for my
mind, body and spirit."
Focusing on how I fuel my body this way has allowed me to eat healthier not
in a big visionary way, but with each small choice I make.
While in Venice a few months ago a friend took me to Cafe Gratitude, an
eatery that understands that partaking in breaking bread is sacred. In
fact, their view is that their environments are part of something t... more »
If the Six Day War hadn't happened...
From
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/if-six-day-war-hadnt-happened.htmlcomes
this brilliantly thought out set of questions :
' If the Six Day War hadn't happened...
Would there be a Palestinian Arab state today on the West Bank and
Gaza?
Would Israel's Arab neighbors consider the 1949 armistice lines as
"borders" today?
Would Jews would be allowed to visit their holy places in Jerusalem,
Bethlehem, Hebron and elsewhere today?
Would Israelis in the Galilee be safe from fire coming from the Golan
Heights today?
Would there have not have been another war of ... more »
Accident alone does not prove dangerous driving
R. v. Clare, 2013 ONCA 377 holds:
[7] While I accept that the accident itself cannot be used as
proof that the driving was dangerous, the finding in this case was amply
supported by other evidence.
How Republicans Use Pot Law Enforcement To Disenfranchise African-Americans
Edith Jones, a controversial Reagan appointee and a notorious corporate
whore, is no longer the Chief Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Fifth Circuit but she still sits on that court. Hopefully that will change
now that she's exposed herself as a demented and deranged racist. She gave
a speech for the proto-fascist Federalist Society at the University of
Pennsylvania Law School a few months ago asserting that blacks and
Hispanics were more prone than others to commit violent crimes and that a
death sentence was a service to defendants because it allowed them to make
peac... more »
NAKED WOMEN
*Indonesian, Kamidia Radisty*
One of the countries where you can see the largest number of naked women is
Indonesia.
*Jakarta.*
Around half of the Indonesian population use a river, a canal or the sea as
their bathroom.
Water supply and sanitation in Indonesia
*Indonesians*
It is unfortunate that *Miss World "is to axe bikinis for Muslim Indonesia*"
Contestants in the September 2013 Miss World contest will not wear bikinis,
in a bid to avoid causing offence in Moslem-majority Indonesia.
The pageant, to be held in Bali and Bogor, has upset the Indonesian Ulema
Council, which h... more »
It's Thursday...
*what's going on.*
Michelle Malkin: History lesson: The crucial differences between Bush and
Obama’s NSA phone surveillance programs
Conservative Hideout: Government Now Decides Who Lives and Who Dies
Freedom Works: Don't Sweat Health Care, California's Got This
Bunkerville: Eric Holder: ‘Things are a little out of whack’
Angry White Dude: QUESTION OF THE DAY: DO YOU HAVE A MESSAGE FOR MARTIN?
Sultan Knish: The Apotheosis of Chris Christie
Blowing San #1: Thought control in the 21st Century.
Woodsterman: THINGS YOU DON'T SEE VERY OFTEN III
PEPFAR and the Presidency
I have a new column up over at TAP about the presidency, about how the
presidency we have isn't particularly Constitution-based. It goes along
with last week's column there, which was about why the myth of the magical
heroic-king presidency is so persistent; this one is about how our ideas
about the presidency gain strength because the Constitutional version is
such an empty shell.
I used an example at the end about how George W. Bush's program to fight
HIV/AIDS in Africa, PEPFAR, was in part a reaction to the "need" for him to
have something feel-good to say in his 2003 SOTU speech... more »
Trifecta: Detroit: This is what liberalism does...
*it's not pretty. *
Democracy Decays ... whatev's
Anti-democratic sleaze-ball Dalton McGuinty presided over the deliberate
deletion of government emails that detailed the costs of cancelling the gas
plants and what the government knew about it. This deliberate cover-up of
public information, this destruction of public information, should have
been a criminal offense. But accountability has never been a pressing
concern for our capitalist quasi-democracy.
The whole Liberal gas plant fiasco stinks to high heavens, but the only
people who seem really fired-up about it are the hypocritical shit-heads
who support the Ontario PC's and wh... more »
SAGE and the Duck of Minerva
This is just a short note to explain the appearance of the phrase
“temporarily un-gated PDF” in Peter Henne’s guest post about contagion and
the Syrian civil war. We’ve been linking to academic articles for quite
some time, but usually to the abstracts or random versions available on the
web. But after The Monkey Cage announced
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Is Syria Infecting the Middle East?
This is a guest post by Peter S. Henne. Peter received his PhD from
Georgetown University in May 2013, and was a Fellow at the Miller Center at
the University of Virginia during 2012-2013. His research focuses on
religion and foreign policy; he has also written on terrorism and religious
conflict. A recent article in The New
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IR Theory Syllabi
I just completed a significant update of the international-relations theory
syllabi collection. Although currently hosted at the Duck of Minerva, this
collection is an initiative of the THEORY section of the International
Studies Association. Massive props to the former THEORY officers for
getting it running. I’m again asking for anyone who is interested in
submitting syllabi
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Dick J. Reavis : Diverse 'Moral Monday' Movement Captures Imagination in North Carolina
Demonstrator
being arrested during a protest at the Legislative Building
in Raleigh, N.C., Monday, May 6, 2013. Photo by Gerry Broome / AP.
'Moral Monday':
Diverse NAACP-led movement
'achieves mass' in North Carolina
“When I got to an A.M.E. [African Methodist-Episcopal] church for a
meeting called by the NAACP and saw that 70 percent of my audience was
white, I knew that something was
How Do We Go from “the Anti-Education Era” to Meaningful Learning for All?
James Paul Gee’s The Anti-Education Era is full of analyses of how humans
learn that should inform the practice of all types of educators. Previous
posts, here and here, describe his powerful indictments of test-driven
schooling, as well as his subtle explanations of where “reformers” and
other educators have gone wrong. This post will focus […]
Is Pam Wallin the Ultimate Tory Piggy at the Trough?
Pam Wallin is, by most standards, flush. In addition to the hefty pension
benefits she likely racked up from her broadcasting days, she has plenty of
other revenue streams - atop her tidy Senate stipend.
*Pamela Wallin has a lucrative life outside politics, where she has been
entitled to roughly $1 million in fees and stock options for her role on
corporate boards since being appointed to the Senate.*
*The Star looked through public company profiles, her disclosures to the
Senate ethics office and expenses related to her former role as chancellor
at the University of Guelph to pai... more »
Fox News national security analyst KT McFarland says Susan Rice will be a disaster...
*Obama is hiding Susan Rice behind "executive privilege" by appointing her national
security adviser.*
Transparency?
World’s Most Intrusive Database To Go Live In December
Mick Meaney
Scotland plans to introduce a new highly intrusive database that will
record every citizen’s personal details from “cradle to grave”, it emerged
this week.
The Data Sharing and Linking Service (DSLS), the world’s most intrusive
database, is scheduled to go live in December and will begin logging and
monitoring the name, dates of birth, genders and postcodes for everyone in
Scotland, including health records, maternity details, mental health,
cancer, GP and even dental notes.
Education, childhood and parenting profiles will also be stored.
Social care, housing and just... more »
ALEC Economic Report - Authors Credentials Skewed
If you look at the "About the Authors" section of the latest ALEC economic
report - you will find bio's that seem to (as always) serve the purposes of
ALEC. Biased and Outdated.
Today a rebuttal to an recent opinion piece provides some amazing and new
information regarding the authors of the red-state lauded economic report
distributed by the partisan and biased American Legislative Exchange
Council.
It takes a village to discredit ALEC.
Snips (my emphasis)
The Mountain News’ lead editorial in its May 30, 2013,issue lauds ALEC—
... —calling it “an organization headed by economis... more »
1000 Points of Light: Bilderberg 2013's Infinite NWO Connections
Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton
Well, it’s that time of the year again — Bilderberg.
Endless connections abound at the annual meeting where leading members of
industry, banking, politics, finance, technology and the military
industrial complex come together behind closed doors in secret to inform
policy that affects all of our lives.
With the usual suspects pretty well known for those who follow Bilderberg,
we’ve decided to highlight a few of the potentially lesser-known attendees,
and little known influence over world affairs. Let’s take a closer look at
who some of these people a... more »
Susan Rice for National Security Advisor
Stephen Lendman
Previous articles discussed her. Calling her controversial stops short of
accurately characterizing her. Moral depravity explains best. Vishay
Prashad calls her the "queen of interventionist hawks."
South African journalist Getahune Bekele said she's a "consummate ally of
grubby despots."
Ray McGovern says she believes "hawkishness" is "safer" for career
advancement than "thoughtful diplomacy." Reuters called her "sharp-tongued."
Others condemn her bloody hands. Banality of evil describes her. Death and
destruction don't bother her. She was quoted once saying, "The... more »
Dissolving Micro-Chip Will Tell Big Brother Your Every Move
Chris Carrington
John Rogers PhD and his team work out of the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. They, along with other teams at Tufts are developing
transient electronics, tiny micro-thin chips that dissolve when they have
served their purpose.
On April 8th this year their research paper was presented to the American
Chemical Society at their annual National meeting, this year it was held in
New Orleans.
Rogers spoke eloquently of the technology, explaining its possible use and
exactly how the chips work. There was nothing negative at all in the
presentation. Nothing w... more »
Obama Wants Whistleblowers Silenced
Bradleymanning.org Stephen Lendman
Previous articles discussed his war on whistleblowers, free expression and
dissent.
Sibel Edmonds founded the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition (NSWBC).
She did so to aid "national security whistleblowers through a variety of
methods."
The ACLU called her "the most gagged person in the history of the United
States."
Since 1977, the Government Accountability Project (GAP) calls itself "the
nation's leading whistleblower protection and advocacy organization."
"What is a Whistleblower," it asks?
Anyone "who discloses information that (he... more »
Cable host Bill O’Reilly self-corrects!
*THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 2013*
*And other imitations of life:* Below, you see the way it looks when Bill
O’Reilly “self-corrects.”
It happened last night in his opening segment, his famous Talking Points
Memo. Bill was discussing Susan Rice and her ongoing misbehavior.
Then, he showed us how it looks when he, Mr. O., “self-corrects:”
O’REILLY (6/5/13): "Talking Points" doesn't believe Susan Rice lied. I
believe she was told what to say and said it she did no investigation
herself. But Ms. Rice knows, she knows who gave her the misleading talking
points and she will not testify to that. ... more »
Syria Ravaged By Outbreaks Of Disease: Typhoid, Cholera, Measles And Tuberculosis
Chris Carrington
The World Health Organization is warning of an increased risk of disease
epidemics in Syria and neighboring countries as summer approaches.
The WHO says outbreaks of diseases carried in water – specifically
hepatitis, typhoid, cholera and dysentery – are inevitable, given the
severe disruption to Syria’s health system.
Cases of diarrhea and hepatitis-A have more than doubled since January.
There have also been outbreaks of measles and typhoid.
According to the WHO, at least 35% of the country’s public hospitals are
out of service, and in some areas, up to 70% of ... more »
Sound problems on your computer?...
*a word of advice.*
Before spending an hour pouring over online advice of how to fix the
problem, look down in your little tray, click on the sound icon (I
seriously didn't know about it), and make sure your sound is not muted.
Thanks, hubby!
We're All Bradley Manning
image source Stephen Lendman
On June 3, trial proceedings began. They'll last well into summer. What's
ongoing reflects much more than Manning alone. We're all in this together.
Freedom in America is on trial.
Post-9/11, it's been on the chopping block for elimination. Convicting
Manning of anything compromises what is too important to lose.
He deserves praise, not prosecution. His fate is ours. That's what's
fundamentally at stake. Everyone stands to win or lose with him.
In his February plea statement, he said he wanted to "spark a domestic
debate on the role of the military ... more »
The covert op to destroy the word “freedom”
Jon Rappoport
These days, “freedom” mainly refers to fairy-tale mass movements.
We’re supposed to believe it happens this way: A bunch of students sitting
in a cafe suddenly go to their cell phones, pop over to Facebook, and say,
“Hey, wanna be free?” And a Republic is born. Poof.
The evil dictator grabs a suitcase full of gold bars, wires half a billion
dollars from the State treasury to his private account, makes a dash for
the airport, and flees to Paris.
In the other popular version, rugged freedom fighters emerge from the
forest with copies of John Locke tucked in their lugg... more »
You Call That an IRS Scandal?
*Youtube*
The recent "scandal" involving the IRS is completely trivial compared to
injustices that are routinely committed across the country by the federal
extortion racket.
LarkenRose.com
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ELA or Math support classes, fun for everyone!
If you’re not necessarily enjoying school, guess what? You’re going to love
it now when you are enrolled in an ELA/Math support class. Yes, that’s
right, all of the low kids, all in one place, at one time, you know, so we
can identify you. Enjoy. Tagged: ela, farmingdale, math, support class
Syria Rebels Caught with Sarin Gas in Turkey
*Youtube*
Suspected Syrian militants have reportedly been detained in Turkey with a
cylinder of highly poisonous sarin gas found in their possession. Those
arrested are believed to be members of the Al-Qaeda linked Al-Nusra Front.
Earlier this month, UN investigators voiced suspicion the nerve agent was
being used by opposition fighters.
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Violence Disrupting Iraq’s Economy
The dramatic increase in violence in Iraq is now affecting not only the
lives of the public, but the economy as well. Some companies have said
their sales are down, they are cutting their hours, and transferring some
of their business to safer areas, while Anbar announced that it was losing
investors. These are all troubling signs, because for the last several
years the insurgency has been at such a low level that it did not affect
the larger society. Now that is changing, and the disruption of the economy
is just the latest sign that Iraq is heading towards an unsettling future.
... more »
Martial Law Has Come to America
*Youtube*
Undeniable evidence that America is under Martial Law.
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Dylan Ratigan Quits TV to Become a Hydroponic Farmer
*Comedy Central*
*The Daily Show with Jon Stewart*
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Nestle’s Wet Dream: They Mark Up Water 53 MILLION Percent
Daisy Luther
The directors of Nestle must be breathing a sigh of relief as the world
targets Monsanto with a barrage of negative publicity, global protests, and grassroots
campaigns. While we’re all distracted by Monsanto’s GMO corruption of the
food supply, Nestle is taking steps to profit off of the natural world with
patents on breast milk and medicinal plants, and the privatization of
water,and giving the seed company a run for the title of The Most Evil
Corporation in the World.
Between corporate demons like Nestle and Monsanto, the very right to life
itself is becoming a ... more »
Food History in the Making
Catherine J. Frompovich
One of the more poignant lines former Speaker of the U.S. House of
Representatives Tip O’Neill is famous for having uttered, “All politics is
local,” certainly applies to what happened in the little, but mighty, State
of Connecticut over the weekend of June 1 and 2, 2013.
Connecticut House Bill 6527, *An Act Concerning Genetically Engineered Foods
*, was passed by both chambers of that state legislative body and becomes
the first GMO labeling law in the United States. Congratulations, kudos,
hurrah, and all other accolades go to GMO Free Connecticut Coalitio... more »
WHAT’S WRONG WITH MSNBC: This!
*THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 2013*
*Part 4—Hayes, Walsh and Maddow speak out:* Yesterday, Obama announced that
Susan Rice will become his national security adviser.
A few hours later, the children began to offer their “takes” on Obama’s
selection.
What’s wrong with MSNBC? At 8 PM, Chris Hayes discussed the long-running,
savage attacks against Rice. He spoke with Salon’s Joan Walsh.
What’s wrong with MSNBC? If not for what was said in the very next hour,
the exchange between Hayes and Walsh could have gone to the Guinness folk
as the “dumbest discussion ever.”
To watch their full segment, ... more »
Americans Searched on a Hunch? DHS Reaffirms Broad Power
Daniel Jackson
The Department of Homeland Security has reaffirmed their belief that they
have the power to conduct unwarranted electronic surveillance on American
citizens returning to the country, based on nothing more than a hunch.
The data taken from electronic devices such as smartphones and laptops can
then be copied and saved by Homeland Security.
Despite widespread outrage from civil liberties groups such as the ACLU,
Homeland Security's own internal study shows that they plan to continue the
practice and are using scary words such as terrorism and child pornography
to jus... more »
Kraft Foods Denies GM Wheat but ADMITS GMO in Products
*Kraft responds to questions about genetically modified warning flagging
wheat on imported boxes of Macaroni & Cheese.*
Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton
Truthstream Media followed up on a report by Vani Hari at Foodbabe.com that
boxes of Kraft Macaroni & Cheese imported to the U.K. were showing up with
a label warning that the product contained genetically modified wheat. As
no forms of GMO wheat are legally approved for cultivation or sale anywhere
in the world, we investigated further, contacting both Kraft and the
distribution company that placed the label to get the bottom of it.... more »
Congressional Members - Argue ALEC - FINALLY
From The Hill
Definitely not the liberal media.
Happened in Congress
So this is kinda special.
The extremist policies of the American Legislative Exchange Council are now
being identified at the Congressional level.
And some of you folks out there were naive enough to believe that ALEC did
not have a foothold in our Nation's Capital.
*Democrat sees ‘Koch brothers’ fingerprints’ on regulations bill*
By Megan R. Wilson - 06/05/13 04:12 PM ET
Democratic Rep. Hank Johnson (Ga.) on Wednesday said a regulatory reform
bill moving through Congress has “the Koch brothers' fingerprints all ... more »
Normandy Landings, June 6th, 1944...(videos)
*remember.*
On the ships the soldiers listened to Dwight D. Eisenhower’s June 6th
Order of the Day:
*
** *
*Ronald Reagan’s speech from Normandy on the 40th anniversary in 1984.*
*Powerful... *
Terrific Use of State Letterhead in New York
When we think creatively about any nonviolent means to eradicate, disrupt,
quell, explode, destroy, demolish, or otherwise confound the high stakes
testing scourge that has American education paralyzed, here is a great
example, as reported by DNAinfo New York’s Amy Zimmer: BROOKLYN — Rebecca
Herz was relieved to receive a letter from the principal of Prospect […]
US Army Veteran Denied Hurricane Sandy Aid by FEMA
Daniel Jackson
A strict federal law has helped FEMA deny Hurricane Sandy aid to an elderly
Korean War veteran suffering from dementia.
As the Hurricane ravaged through his Staten Island neighborhood, Vito
Colucci Sr. was safe in his son’s New Jersey home, having been staying
there for a time due to his deteriorating health problems.
Apparently, telling FEMA the truth was where the family’s problems began:
Vito Colucci Sr., a Staten Island resident who served in the Korean War,
was living with his son’s family in New Jersey when Hurricane Sandy hit at
the end of October. Colucci w... more »
Gut Biota Never Recover from Antibiotics: Damages Future Generations
Heidi Stevenson
The misuse of antibiotics is not only causing new, never-before known
diseases like E. coli and MRSA, the flesh-eating bacteria, it's also
destroying the gut biome with devastating effects on our ability to deal
with infections and destroying our ability to absorb nutrients from food.
Emerging research shows that the harmful effects of antibiotics go much
further than the development of drug resistant diseases. The beneficial
bacteria lost to antibiotics, along with disease-inducing bacteria, do not
fully recover. Worse, flora lost by a mother is also lost to her ... more »
Military-Industrial Complex Offers New Biotech Passwords for "Health"
image source Brandon Turbeville
Although talk of biotechnology-based tattoos and nanotech pills has been
circulating in the tech world for quite some time, a recent report in the
Daily Mail entitled, “The hi-tech tattoo that could replace ALL your
passwords: Motorola reveals plans for ink and even pills to identify us,”
serves as an official introduction of the technology to a world of trendy
consumers who will no doubt gobble up the devices as if they were a hot
meal.
Covering the discussions taking place at the D11 conference in California
in late May, Victoria Woollaston repo... more »
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