Cover of Neil Young
The Bridge: A Tribute to Neil Young (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Neil Young Contest Update: Last Call
Tomorrow afternoon we'll randomly pick the winner of the Neil Young
contest. So, it's still not too late to enter. Like we explained last week,
it's easy to win the RIAA-certified double platinum award for Neil's
classic *Harvest Moon*. We're hoping to help Pennsylvania state Senator
Daylin Leach win the open seat and beat back Steny Hoyer and his lobbyist
brigade, which, predictably, is trying to insert a more conservative and
Establishment-friendly candidate into the PA-13 seat (Northeast
Philadelphia and Montgomery County). As I've explained before, Daylin and I
have something... more »
in which i discover yet another internet scam
Looking for rental houses on Craigslist, I've discovered a scam that I was
previously unaware of.
I replied to an ad for a place that sounded wonderful, with unusually low
rent. I was keeping in mind the old maxim "If it sounds too good to be
true, it probably is," but at the same time, it's only an email. It can't
hurt to ask.
Everything I wanted to know about the property was answered in the
affirmative. Then the supposed owner told me that I should fill out a
rental application and, if approved, I could see the place.
Hmm. It's been six years since we looked for a place to live... more »
what i'm reading, children's books edition: # 8: the invention of hugo cabret
In the aftermath of the flood and with our impending move, when I'm not
dealing with those events, all I want to do is read and blog. If you enjoy
my "what i'm reading" posts, you'll be happy. If not...
* * * *
I've long wanted to read *The Invention of Hugo Cabret* by Brian Selznick.
Now that Martin Scorsese has adapted it into the movie "Hugo," I wanted to
make sure I read it before seeing the film.
*The Invention of Hugo Cabret* is a wonderfully inventive and engaging
book. It combines elements of picture books, graphic novels, and even flip
books within the "chapter book" form... more »
Long Walk 4 readies for Sunrise Ceremony July 15, 2013
Long
walker Lisa Peake.
Affirmation of Sovereignty of the Indigenous People of the Western
Hemisphere
Longest Walk 4 Return to Alcatraz
By Longest Walk 4
Censored News
WASHINGTON DC -- The Longest Walk 4: Return to Alcatraz begins tomorrow
morning, July 15, 2013, with a sunrise Ceremony from the place where the
original The Longest Walk 1978 finished. At this time, as we prepare
Quotes of the Day: On Politics…
*After I posted **a bunch of quotes on bureaucracy** last week, I was sent
a few more on politics…*
It is the responsibility of every citizen to ignore dumb laws.
— Ian Clarke – aka Sanity [
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=73217&cid=6588343]
Politics on the internet, it’s like Jupiter's great red spot, except made
of faeces.
— cutsDwnSudoIntelects [
http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/8llur]
One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their
intentions rather than their results.
— Milton Friedman
Revolution is the opium of... more »
Dirty Laundry: MEK Re-Ups 3 Year Old Nuclear Propaganda;Terror Group is Sounding Board for Dubious US Intel
Rudy
Giuliani with MEK leader Maryam Rajavi
(Photo Credit: Jacques Demarthon / AFP)
Embracing its recent removal from the U.S. State Department's list of
designated foreign terrorist organizations, the Mujahedeen-e Khalq
(MEK), an exiled Iranian terror cult with deep pockets and close ties to
the Washington establishment, is attempting to ramp up the
fear-mongering and propaganda over Iran's
Commentary On Syria And FSA (Fictitious Syrian Army) - A Round-Up of Articles
Here are interesting articles about Syria that caught my eye.
*Obama Administration Should Clarify Syria Policy (Al Monitor, July 14)*:
Underpinning congressional unease is how unpopular the policy seems to be
with Americans. A recent Gallup poll reported that 54% disapprove of
providing military aid to the rebels, while a Pew poll revealed 70% oppose
such aid.
The administration’s difficulty in getting congressional and popular
support for its Syria policy might in part be that the decision to aid the
rebels has been portrayed as the outcome of an internal administration
policy st... more »
What happened to the adage about following the money in coverage of the NSA surveillance revelations?
*by Ken*
It's one of those adages reporters are supposed to have echoing in their
heads: *Follow the money.* But it doesn't always (often?) happen in the
journalistic big leagues, especially when it's money that's connected to
Big Money. Prudent journalists, which is to say jouralists with a watchful
eye on their careers, generally know better than to go crashin' around in
them thar woods.
Which has led David Sirota to ask, in the column "How Cash Secretly Rules
Surveillance Policy": "Have you noticed anything missing in the political
discourse about the National Security Adminis... more »
How the Common Core is Being Sold
There’s nothing like a small town newspaper for a glimpse into how the
Common Core Standards and tests are being sold to a trusting public. This
is how the Common Core is being marketed in Palmyra PA. “You are not going
to see test prep in our classrooms,” Brown says. Instead, you’ll see kids
getting […]
The Fiction of Maori Ownership
*Guest post by A. Mous.*
In “Maori Land Law,” Sir Hugh Kawharu blatantly sets out to fabricate a
universally recognised body of Maori property rights pre-dating the Treaty
of Waitangi. By implication, these were rudely subsumed by white-settler
governments, who substituted their own Eurocentric notions of property
ownership. This now widely accepted thesis was explicitly created to fudge
or remove the fact that “customary title” is in practical terms no title at
all.
The functional social unit of pre-European Maori society was the hapu, or
sub-tribe. Each hapu was in a Hobbesian ... more »
Maxi Skirts and Pizza Kebabs (Creative Showcase Features and Link Ups)
I can't believe it is already halfway through July. If you follow
Housewife Eclectic on Instagram you saw pictures of my fun trip to New
York City that I took with my mom and husband and crossed so many things
off my bucket list. It has been the highlight of my summer! There are some
awesome features this week, some of my favorite ever.
I am crazy about maxi skirts right now. I am seeing them everywhere and I
want to make some more! I love this Easy Maxi Skirt Tutorial from Rae Gun
Ramblings.
I might be a little Doctor Who obsessed. I just had to feature this Free
Tardis Print... more »
A tale of two communities saying no
Global reforms are just that. Global. The same damage is being inflicted
worldwide to schools in large and small communities, causing distress and
doing nothing to improve education. Often quite the opposite. This is
Cedar, a small community in Canada. I only heard about Cedar because my
gorgeous friend James lives there. James isn’t a […]
Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, July 14th, 2013
I am on vacation... Enjoying the hot sun and sand..... I have not had a
chance to look over everything that has been happening over the last week.
My better half asked that I take a break from doing this blog and surfing
the net just to give myself a breather!
However, I have noticed the Zimmerman trial verdict, and to me, that is
both a tragedy and PLANNED by the criminals in charge of the US Government
that desperately needs anything now to divert attention from from their
other terrible acts against the American public. They are willing to
consider having open revolt and rage, ... more »
MPs on Twitter
As the silly season is imminently due, I've indulged my love of lists yet
again and done this. In short, I have all the Members of Parliament on
Twitter. Here. Below. In rank order. So where's your MP? How does your own
follower account match up against that of your honourable member? Are there
any who are inexplicably popular? Knock yourself out.
1. David Cameron - 366,392 (Con)
2. Ed Miliband - 226,397 (Lab)
3. William Hague - 157,131 (Con)
4. George Galloway - 152,121 (Respect)
5. Tom Watson - 125,260 (Lab)
6. Nick Clegg - 118,640 (LibDem)
7. Ed Balls - 94,744 (Lab)
8. Grant Shapps ... more »
The Real News - Palestinians in Gaza react to Morsi's ouster, closure of Rafah crossing
Palestinians in Gaza react to Morsi's ouster, closure of Rafah crossing.
Source: The Real News. Date Published: July 13, 2013. Description:
The Egyptian army's decision to close the Rafah crossing, Gaza's only
terminal to the outside world, and the demolishing of the underground
tunnels along the border added more hardships and suffering to Gazans.
Spain political crisis spread - Prime Minister Rajoy linked to illegal party funding - despite all of the endless denials ! Co op Bank in the UK - taxpayers potentially at risk of bailing out the banking subsidiary unless 77 percent of bondholder approve the pending bailout deal....
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-07-14/european-political-crisis-spreads-leaked-texts-prove-rajoy-link-illegal-party-fundin
European Political Crisis Spreads - Leaked Texts Prove Rajoy Link To
Illegal Party Funding
[image: Tyler Durden's picture]
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/14/2013 13:33 -0400
- Google
- Newspaper
- Portugal
Amid the turmoil in Portugal, the Barcenas-Affair in Spain had dropped to
the back-pages of the European press... until now. The illegal
party-funding that ex-Treasurer Barcenas is now whistle-blowing on has been
linked directly to Spanish ... more »
Money Always Wins or Courage (Nut-Case Insanity) To Tell the Truth? (It's A Death Struggle)
Gee, I wish the following essay were fiction. What a lovely world it would
be . . . well . . . for the 1% anyway. For a while. The listing that
follows of all the nature organizations (that can't actually be held to any
real defined standards of not just being money-makers with a few nice
droppings for "saving" our natural world) includes quite a few I stopped
giving money to over a decade
What is required to change bail at the conclusion of a preliminary inquiry
The judge hearing a preliminary inquiry can, at the conclusion of the
inquiry vacate any existing bail order and make a new one: Criminal Code s.
523(2).
R. v. Prete, [1987] O. J. 2480 is usually taken to say such an order will
be made only if there material change in circumstance from the existing
order.
Other cases seem to consider the preliminary inquiry judge to be holding a
hearing de novo. So R. v. Grier, 2010 ONSC 6934 holds:
[4] The applicant suggests that errors were committed both at
first instance and at the *de novo *hearing. In my view, the *de novo*... more »
Tweeting MPs
1. David Cameron - 366,392 (Con)
2. Ed Miliband - 226,397 (Lab)
3. William Hague - 157,131 (Con)
4. George Galloway - 152,121 (Respect)
5. Tom Watson - 125,260 (Lab)
6. Nick Clegg - 118,640 (LibDem)
7. Ed Balls - 94,744 (Lab)
8. Grant Shapps - 67,611 (Con)
9. Caroline Lucas - 61,152 (Green)
10. Chuka Umunna - 55,334 (Lab)
11. George Osborne - 55,178 (Con)
12. Diane Abbott - 54,404 (Lab)
13. Harriet Harman - 46,169 (Lab)
14. Andy Burnham - 45,061 (Lab)
15. Jeremy Hunt - 44,897 (Con)
16. Vince Cable - 41,244 (LibDem)
17. Yvette Cooper - 32,725 (Lab)
18. Eric Pickles - 31,775 (Con)
19. Ch... more »
Evolution Takes Time. Evolutionary Adaptation Takes Far More Time Than Climate Change Allows.
Many species of plants and animals will face extinction because they cannot
evolve in time to adapt to the rapid onslaught of climate change. The
pace of current global warming is simply too quick for natural or
evolutionary adaptation.
A study by researchers at the University of Arizona finds that it takes up
to a million years for species to evolve to a 1C degree temperature change.
*Using data from 540 living species, including amphibians, reptiles, birds
and mammals, [Professor John]Wiens and colleagues compared their rates of
evolution with the rates of climate change project... more »
Positive thinking . . .
POSITIVE
THINKING can be found at CORE77, which is a site about industrial
design. Do check out the home page and articles. Anyway, one of their
contributors, Ray, has a post about a Canadian triumph, "First
Human-Powered Helicopter Surpasses Sikorsky Standards, and Why Humans
Are Still Superior to Robots". It's a fine account of the Aerovelo
team, led by engineers and co-founders Cameron
Hummingbird
When Polyhymnia sends refracted light
shimmering toward parched and shriveled roots,
seeking some semblance of promise kept alive
between her hands, her well, her seeds and soil,
A bit of fluff, a female Anna's, comes
to perch nearby, cocking its tiny head
and waiting. Waiting for the hose to steady
its cold blast toward some fainting eggplant
or tomatillo, ready for a burst of aimed
delight, catching one rainbowed drop of water
short, then flitting to the fence again,
shivering. To the Muse of hymns and farmers it's
a game, to the throbbing ball of feathers more.
Its heart will stop wi... more »
Have House Republicanos Really Retreated Into A Cave Of Indifference And Ignorance?
Quinnipiac has a new poll out. It covered a lot of ground-- like Hillary
Clinton's ability to beat NJ organized crime figure Chris Christie in 2016
if the tow of them run for president. I was more interested, though, in
this: "American voters blame both parties for gridlock in Washington, but
they say Republicans are more responsible for Congress' inability to get
things done... There is gridlock because Republicans are determined to
block any Obama initiative, 51 percent of voters say, while 35 percent say
President Barack Obama lacks the skills to convince leaders of Congress to... more »
A license to kill
I expected this verdict but nonetheless it still rankled when I woke up to
find George Zimmerman was acquitted. And no, despite the old saw, Zimmerman
was not found innocent. Neither was he exonerated of the crime. The fact
that he killed an unarmed teenager with a gun was never in dispute. He was
acquitted on the charge of murder. There's a difference.
Neither can it be said that the court delivered justice for Trayvon. That
would have required a guilty verdict, which just wasn't going to happen
under Florida laws. Our legal system is imperfect. The guilty often go free
while the i... more »
Which "ministers"?
Further to my earlier post on the BBC's extraordinary failure to feature
the story about the forthcoming report of those 13,000 'needless' deaths in
the NHS - a story which the *Telegraph *and *Mail *led with and which both
ITV News and Sky News considered a major story -, well the story is getting
ever more politically dramatic....
....and it's not just being reporting by the right-wing newspapers.
The *Independent*'s headline tonight reads:
Andy Burnham defends Labour's record as healthcare report shines light on
'failings' under previous government
The article beneath says:
A... more »
When will the ALEC/NRA Lying Start Again?
*Think about this!*
Turning the other cheek is supposed to be a sacred virtue.But by removing
the duty to retreat from a confrontation in public when one can safely do
so, the “Stand Your Ground” law allowed George Zimmerman to stalk and kill
an unarmed teenager and walk away a free man. That’s a tragedy, because
there can be no doubt that Zimmerman could have avoided a confrontation
with Trayvon Martin on the evening of February 26, 2012.
*Think about this!*
*shot a kid that the police told him to leave alone.*
**
* *
911 dispatcher:
Are you following him? [2:24]
Zimmerman... more »
Sunday Question for Liberals
Which would you prefer: Republicans back down and the contested exec branch
nominations are confirmed, or Republicans refuse and Democrats go nuclear
on exec branch nominations?
(I suspect I know the answer to that, but...well, I'll add a second one:
what do you expect to be the outcome of Showdown July in the Senate?)
Stand Your Ground WAS an Issue
There are lots and lots of people who are saying that "stand your ground"
was not an issue in the TRayvon Martin case.
WRONG
Jury Instructions
JUSTIFIABLE USE OF DEADLY FORCE
If George Zimmerman was not engaged in an unlawful activity and was
attacked in anyplace where he had a right to be, *he had no duty to retreat
and had the right to stand his ground and meet force with force, *including
deadly force if he reasonably believed that it was necessary to do so to
prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or another or to prevent the
commission of a forcible felony
OPPT ITALIA, Being and Doing...
On 7/13/13, at 12:42 PM, Alfred On Gaia wrote:
*Hi everybody, something is moving in Italy...*
*
* *Yesterday one of the opptitalia.org team has taken the initiative to
speek spontaneously to a manager of his bank's local agency.*
*This is what happened:*
-------------------------
This morning I went to the bank to pay a check to cover the minimum
utilities, as my usual
I turn to my friend, chief financial officer and deputy director (which I
will not name as the local agency in order not to create any problem to him)
And I said:
"Look, let's go get a coffee ... will you?"
It's... more »
FIVE..MILLION..POUNDS..
Given the Labour Party's troubles with its biggest trades union donor Unite
in the last couple of weeks, in the wake of the Falkirk scandal, who could
blame a cornered Labour leader for raising the issue of Conservative Party
donations during Prime Minister's Questions last week? There's not been a
Conservative Party donations scandal for quite a while now but, still, a
Labour leader can but try, can't he?
What if the BBC tried the same tactic as Ed Miliband though?
Well, a cynic might say that this was exactly what Paddy O'Connell was up
to on this morning's *Broadcasting House*... more »
Your “press corps” is almost completely incompetent!
*SUNDAY, JULY 14, 2013*
*Capehart checks the facts:* Was last night’s verdict the correct verdict?
We would be inclined to say yes. To gain a conviction on murder or
manslaughter, the prosecution had to prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that
George Zimmerman wasn’t engaged in self-defense when he shot Trayvon Martin.
Given the nature of the incident, given the state of the evidence, that was
quite hard to prove.
Like you, we don’t know what actually happened when Zimmerman and Martin
encountered each other that night. Many scenarios can be imagined, at least
among those who are ho... more »
Sunday Question for Conservatives
Senate reform: good, or bad? Do you support a 60-vote Senate?
"Upper-class Individuals Behave More Unethically Than Lower-class Individuals"
* *
*"Upper-class Individuals Behave More Unethically Than Lower-class
Individuals"*
“In a series of startling studies, psychologists at the University of
California at Berkeley have found that "upper-class individuals behave more
unethically than lower-class individuals." Ongoing research is trying to
find out what it is about wealth- or lack of it- that makes people behave
they way they do.”
- http://www.youtube.com/
•
I'm shocked, shocked I tell you! No I'm not, lol.
What the 1% degenerates forget is where this fine product comes from...
Hey, George Zimmerman!
You just got away with murder! Where are you going to go next?
"I'm going to Paula Deen's Lady and Sons Restaurant!"
Now that Trayvon Martin's rotting corpse has been convicted of Walking
While Black, what are we to learn about the criminal justice system in the
Land of the Free, Home of the Brave?
Well, first of all, we've learned that hulking white men with guns and
a criminal record of violence can stalk, accost, assault and kill unarmed
black youths in Florida, use the Stand Your Ground law (Thank you, Jeb) and
get away with it. Secondly, it also proves the sam... more »
Your moment of Zen
Mytoi Gardens on Martha's Vineyard. [Alex Johnson photo]
Golden oldies . . .
Evidence
shows that Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Partyexercised considerable
influence over Hollywood,including what films went unmade and what
scenes were cut.
WHEN HOLLYWOOD HELD HANDS WITH HITLER. Really. That's the title of an
article by Alex Kafka at the Chronicle of Higher Education. It's worthy
of your perusal. According to Alex,
A debate is raging over Hollywood's alleged collusion with
Trayon/Zimmerman: Are the Masons Playing a Little "I know what you are, but what am I...?"
This does NOT bode well....
Topic: Zimmerman wanted wife to buy tickets to Israel (Read 1736 times)
June 18, 2012
George Zimmerman in a jailhouse phone call urged his wife to buy herself a
bullet proof vest shortly after he was arrested in the shooting death
teenager Trayvon Martin.
"As uncomfortable as it is, I want you wearing one," Zimmerman told his
wife Shellie.
Zimmerman's urging came as he was receiving death threats and his Sanford,
Fla., neighborhood as well as much of the country was outraged by the
shooting of the unarmed Florida teenager.
The conversa... more »
Racism Built into the System to Mask Racism
Lisa Wade explains about stand your ground laws: It’s simple: stand your
ground laws increase the chances that a homicide will be considered
justifiable because it gives the jurors more leeway to give defendants the
benefit of the doubt. But, jurors will likely give that benefit of the
doubt to certain kinds of defendants and […]
Michael James : Sunrise on Lake Michigan, 1961
Sunrise
on Lake Michigan, 1961. Photo by Michael James from his forthcoming
book, Michael Gaylord James' Pictures from the Long Haul.
Pictures from the Long Haul:
Sunrise on Lake Michigan,
Lake Forest, Illinois, 1961
In Chicago I am introduced to Polish sausages at a hot dog stand on
North Avenue by Bill "Notso" Smart, who also took me to a strip club in
Calumet City. I visit the Art
Canada is full?
Recently there has been a claim that Canada is full - the population cannot
grow larger.
Certainly in parts of the South good farmland has been, and continues to
be, paced over for shopping malls and housing. That's a mistake.
But anyone who thinks Canada is crowded probably hasn't left Toronto
recently.
The vastness of Canada is amazing but the emptiness of most of the country
is staggering.
Fly due north from Ottawa for three hours crossing Nunavik and on to
Baffin.
Look down - what do you see?
Buildings? Farming? Roads?
No.
And once you arrive in Iqaluit you are st... more »
Sunday Classics: Karl Ridderbusch as the King in "Lohengrin" -- this is what's called "shouting"???
ELSA *has appeared in a very simple white garment and overwhelmed the
assembled nobles with the purity and innocence of her bearing. Now *KING
HEINRICH *tries to get, well, anything at all out of her regarding the
disappearance of her little brother Gottfired, which she is accused of
being responsible for.*
*KING HEINRICH*: Are you she, Elsa of Brabant?
[ELSA* nods her head affirmatively.*]
Do you recognize me as your judge?
[ELSA *turns her head toward the *KING*, looks him in the eye, and then
affirms with a trust-filled gesture.*]
Then I ask you further:
Is the charge known to yo... more »
healthy slow-cooker recipe of the week: chicken in wine with sun-dried tomatoes
When it comes to soups and stews, there is a seemingly endless number of
variables that can be changed to create new variations of any given dish.
If you like chicken stew, for example, you could experiment with different
combinations of vegetables, different seasonings, better (or quicker)
stocks, fresh herbs - and then with various combinations of all of those.
Since buying my slow-cooker some months ago, I've made lots of different
chicken stews, all of them easy, tasty, and healthy. This one is my current
favourite combo.
A note about these stews. To make a proper stew, most pe... more »
dear liberal public: there is nothing shocking about the george zimmerman verdict
Dear liberal public,
The internet tells me you are shocked - shocked and outraged - about the
verdict in the George Zimmerman case.
Seriously? You are shocked?
You have lived in the United States or Canada all your life, and you are
shocked that a white man who killed a black child in the state of Florida
has walked free?
I can only scratch my head in wonder. There is nothing shocking about this
not-guilty verdict. Indeed, it was the most expected and the most typical
outcome possible. I would have been shocked if the verdict had been any
different. *That's* the problem.
What's ... more »
ALEC ACTION: Sat, 7/20 Salina Kansas?
Found this:
20 Saturday
American Legislative Exchange Council information meeting. 1:30-3 p.m.,
Martinelli's.
Posted
*>>>HERE<<< *
science fiction
if the truth
looked like science fiction
would you believe it ?
Racism, California Style
Oakland television station KTVU and the National Transportation Safety
Board are apologizing for a racist stunt that got on the air concerning the
July 6th Asiana Airlines crash at San Fransisco airport.
Someone, either an intern at the station or a staffer at the National
Transportation Safety Board, came up with a bogus list of names purportedly
of the flight deck crew aboard the jetliner. Here's what KTVU aired:
Israel and White Supremacy by Aaron MIchael Love
OCTOBER 15, 2002
Israel and White Supremacy
by AARON MICHAEL LOVE
In 1945 Jan Smuts, then prime minister of South Africa appealed to the UN
for an article on human rights to be included in the United Nations
Charter. This incident, cited in W.E.B Du Bois’s remarkable book The World
and Africa, is a powerful reminder of the contradiction in the European
conception of freedom. Freedom only applies absolutely to the white man,
temporarily excluding the complications of class and of course, gender. Du
Bois argued that the Atlantic slave trade produced this schism materially
and... more »
ACTION: NAACP Seeks DOJ Intervention
Last night on Daily Kos - when the verdict came down on Trayvon Martin the
front page went up noting:
Zimmerman not guilty, but ALEC sure as hell is
And then the battle of the words began.
The majority of the commenters noting that Stand Your Ground was not the
issue.
Some of us begged to disagree and immediately got trounced by the "comment
pundits" at DKos, that we were wrong.
Funny thing happened this morning when I went to my first site of every
day.
*NAACP Seeks DOJ Intervention in Martin Case, Targets 'Stand Your Ground'
Laws*
by John Nichols
The nation’s oldes... more »
RAG RADIO / Thorne Dreyer : Houston Rock and Blues Musician Guy Schwartz and Band
Rag
Radio's Thorne Dreyer, left, with Billy Bourbon and Guy
Schwartz in the studios of KOOP-FM in Austin, Texas, July 5, 2013. Photo
by Marlo Blue / The Rag Blog.
Rag Radio podcast:
Houston rock and blues artistGuy Schwartz with band
Houston's Guy Schwartz -- whose bands have included Relayer,
Z-Rocks, the New Jack Hippies, and the Austin-based Guy Schwartz
& the Affordables -- was called
Reich's Impertinent Question - Is it Treason?
First saw it on Daily Kos
taken from Salon
*Robert Reich: Has the 1 percent committed treason? *
Date 7/12/13
Has the 1 percent committed treason?
A small group of extremely wealthy people are systematically destroying the
US government
By Robert Reich
Permit me an impertinent question (or three).
Suppose a small group of extremely wealthy people sought to systematically
destroy the U.S. government by (1) finding and bankrolling new candidates
pledged to shrinking and dismembering it; (2) intimidating or bribing many
current senators and representatives to block all proposed le... more »
Egypt , Saudis and Israel strike different paths from US regarding Middle East hot spots - Syria and Egypt in focus - July 14 , 2013!
http://www.debka.com/article/23118/Washington%E2%80%99s-push-against-Egyptian-Israeli-go-it-alone-military-steps-US-marines-deployed-off-Suez-Sinai
The
Obama administration is signifying its strong disapproval of Israel and
Egypt taking matters in their own hands in the last two weeks,
DEBKAfile’s
military and Washington sources report: Israel was accused of
independent
military action against Syria, and the Egyptian army of persecuting
the Muslim Brotherhood after deposing President Mohamed Morsi.
Washington is also highly displeased with the campaign the Egyptian army
launched a... more »
Hey! We're Going to Have a Vote on Torturing You and Killing You!
Imagine that for a second. There's a bunch of dickwads who are in control
of your desert island society. Through a lot of electoral jiggery-pokery,
the most ruthless and power-mad folks have seized control of the
government, but there are some other people involved in the decision-making
process. They're comprised of a lot of slightly less obnoxious ruthless
types and a few milquetoasts who you don't really mind but don't care about
too much either.
Remember, taking charge in this process is NOT democratic and fair.
Anyways, out of the blue, the ruthless, power-mad guys have annou... more »
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I am happy to see we are not eschewing the issue of #nojustice
Other authors beat me to it. I’m happy to see that. I am one of six
founders of United Opt Out National and, like all well-mannered activist
groups in the 21st century, we have a Facebook presence. We have done a
great job over the years avoiding the sidetracking of discussions. Like all
new groups […]
Syria War updates - July 14 , 2013..... Free Syria Army has a second War front opened as it fights islamist Rebel forces..... Meanwhile , the Syrian Government announces that it has uncovered the Syrian Rebel chemical weapons cache !
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/14/free-syrian-army-jihadists-clashes-aleppo
Free Syrian army clashes with jihadists in wake of commander's assassination
Fighting in Aleppo widens cracks in splintering opposition as military
gains are reversed
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The body of a rebel being carried into Bustan al-Qasr in Aleppo, where
jihadists have been trying to exert their influence. Photograph: Dona
Bozzi/Corbis
Months of u... more »
Hegemonic Warfare Watch: Taiwan in the Pivot
Michael Mazza over at AEI argues that Taiwan has a crucial role in the US
"pivot" toward Asia....
Yet Taiwan can take steps to ensure that US forces would have access to the
island’s facilities during a time of crisis, even in the absence of a
formal access agreement. Taiwan, for example, could invest in
infrastructure that would enable the island to serve as a logistics hub for
US forces in the event of a conflict to the island’s north or in the South
China Sea. Along similar lines, Taiwan might stockpile supplies that would
be of use to American forces operating in the region. Doi... more »
Untitled
*FEMA reviews nonaccredited levees ~Jeff Adelson, Advocate N.O.*
*Stephanie Grace: Judges cast skeptical eye on U.S. Attorney’s Office*
*The Last Swift Bus to New Orleans ~WWNO*
*Until Waiting Fills ~Flesh and Bones*
*Bastille Day ~Odd bits of life in New Orleans*
*Restoring the Body, physical trauma therapy and New Orleans as a whole ~On
Being*
*Made in Louisiana: Jolie and Elizabeth ~Maker's Row*
*Lolis Eric Elie - TREME : Stories and Recipes from the Heart of New
Orleans ~Octavia Books*
*New Orleans crawfish: America's best regional food? ~Kristopher Neild*
*City Grit presents... more »
Sephora Lip Gloss Giveaway!
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Coconut lick worthy lipstick has me dreaming of the beach. I feel it is a
perfect time to giveaway 15 Shades of Sephora. Enjoy from LeChateauDesFleurs
:
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*What it is:*
A collector’s edition of iconic lip colors spanning 15 years.
*What it does:*
This lip library includes everything from rich reds to natural nudes all
in Bite’s lick-worthy Lush Fruit Lip Gloss formulation. Instant nutrition
for lips, this formula contains the same healthy ingredients you’d find in
a pure fruit smoothie: real coconut, man... more »
Alex Rodriquez discussing a plea deal with MLB ? Have wee seen the last of A Rod in a Yanks uniform and in baseball generally ?
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/i-team/sources-mlb-cut-deal-rodriguez-article-1.1398168
[image: Alex Rodriguez's 20-day rehab assignment ends on July 22, and it is
unclear where A-Rod will go after that, but according to a source, Yankee
officials sent him a notification Saturday telling him that he is obligated
to inform them in advance of any absence.]BILL SERNE/FOR NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Alex Rodriguez's 20-day rehab assignment ends on July 22, and it is unclear
where A-Rod will go after that, but according to a source, Yankee officials
sent him a notification Saturday telling him... more »
NSA preps launch of cyber war “army”
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Aaron Dykes
The massive stores of data and wholesale government have been announced to
the public – just after Bilderberg mulled the “big data” agenda at its 2013
meeting. Now Wired magazine says NSA (and CYBERCOM) chief Gen. Keith
Alexander, a frequent Bilderberg attendee I’ve been warning about for
years, is ready to unleash his cyber army on the globe? What’s next?
FLASHBACK: Silicon Valley CIA-Front Lectures Bilderberg on “Big Data”
FLASHBACK: DHS, CYBERCOM: Government & private sector “must” share data to
prevent cyber t... more »
10 Reasons Why The Global Economy Is About To Experience Its Own Version Of “Sharknado”
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image source Michael Snyder
Have you ever seen a disaster movie that is so bad that it is actually
good? Well, that is exactly what Syfy's new television movie entitled *
Sharknado *is. In the movie, wild weather patterns actually cause
man-eating sharks to come flying out of the sky. It sounds absolutely
ridiculous, and it is. You can view the trailer for the movie right here.
Unfortunately, we are witnessing something just as ridiculous in the real
world right now.
In the United States, the mainstream media is breathle... more »
Obama Blocks Snowden's Asylum
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image source Stephen Lendman
On July 12, Russia Today (RT) headlined "US 'blocks my asylum:' Snowden
human rights activists to airport meeting," saying:
Snowden remains stuck. He's in limbo. He's at Moscow's Sheremetyevo
Airport. He's in its transit area. A source told Interfax he'll meet with
human rights organizations late Friday.
Airport spokeswoman Anna Zakharenkova said she "can confirm that such a
meeting will take place."
Snowden invited a UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) representative,
Amnesty Internation... more »
Some Thoughts on the Zimmerman Trial
I was saddened, but not shocked, by the not guilty verdict for George
Zimmerman in the point-blank killing of Trayvon Martin. There is a simple
explanation for it: it happened in Florida. George Zimmerman had Florida
law on his side. Without the relentless publicity and the pressure brought
to bear by national political and media figures, there never would
have been a trial in the first place.
This was in Florida, where holding such a trial would have been unthinkable
even a generation ago. This was in Florida, home of the infamous Groveland
Four case, in which a duly sworn sheriff ... more »
The 50 House Republicans Who Hate Poor People The Most
Republican in-fighting between conservatives and the neo-fascist radicals
that have been challenging them, derailed the Farm Bill in 2012. This year
Boehner, Cantor and McCarthy agreed to slash food stamps really badly and
figured they would pass the bloated bill subsidizing wealthy farming
operations (and scammers on the Upper East Side of Manhattan). They figured
wrong. For too many of the extremists, slashing wasn't want they wanted.
They want the program... well, drown in a bathtub.
So on Thursday, Boehner and crew passed the bill without a single
Democratic vote, not even fro... more »
Live from the Bradley Manning Trial with Alexa O'Brien
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*Reason TV*
*The full report from Alexandra Bruce can be seen here:*
http://www.forbiddenknowledgetv.com/videos/police-state/live-from-the-bradley-manning-trialwith-alexa-obrien.html
*RELATED ACTIVIST POST DAY-TO-DAY TRIAL INFO:*
*Bradley Manning Defense Rests Their Case on Day Three of Testimony;
Manning Will Not Testify*
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Rich Rappers Singing About Being Rich are "Douches"
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*Youtube*
Forbes has announced the top 5 wealthiest rappers in 2013 based on their
net worth.
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The Original Writings of The Illuminati Discovered
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Propaganda on NSA Spying and Snowden Not Working
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Get Ready For The Next Great Stock Market Exodus
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Brandon Smith
In the years 2006 and 2007, the underlying stability of the global economy
and the U.S. credit base in particular was experiencing intense scrutiny by
alternative economic analysts. The mortgage-driven Xanadu that was the late
1990s and early 2000s seemed just too good to be true.
Many of us pointed out that such a system, based on dubious debt
instruments animated by the central banking voodoo of arbitrary fractional
reserve lending and fiat cash creation, could not possibly survive for very
long. A crash was ... more »
The Mental Illness of Choice for CEO’s and Politicians
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Anthony Freda Dave Hodges
After writing my most recent article with regard to what typically happens
when a currency collapse takes down a country’s economy, many people wrote
to me asking me when it is going to happen. The short answer is that I have
a hard time predicting the actions of psychopaths. All of us have a hard
time predicting the action of others who are so different from the
mainstream of America because most of us do not think like psychopaths.
However, I can state with certainty that when the last mortgage ha... more »
Ag-gag in Action: National Geographic Photographer Arrested After Aerial Photos
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Image Heather Callaghan
Ag-gag laws are cropping up like Whac-a-Mole across the states in an
attempt to protect large-scale farming and cattle operations from those
pesky activists who find out about abuse and cruelty. Instead of addressing
the systemic issue of transparency and animal/food safety, lobbying leads
to more laws that inhibit the freedom to speak out about dismal conditions
- clear 1st Amendment violations. Always in the name of "safety" and
protecting trade secrets. It's one thing to keep people from committing... more »
Trayvon Martin Convicted: Sentence to Run Concurrent with Eternity
If this case teaches anything, it is that the high crime of involuntary
racism regularly has more insidious and corrosive effects than the
premeditated variety. There was the 1) tepid prosecution by unprepared and
inattentive prosecutors; 2) a defense that was allowed highly-irregular
concessions to make its case; 3) an investigative team friendly to
gun-toting […]
They Do It Without Blushing
On May 2nd, the Harper government staged a ceremony to commemorate the
Canadarm and Canada's contribution to space exploration. Curiously, Marc
Garneau, Canada's first astronaut -- who was later made president of
Canada's Space Agency, and who was the first person to operate the
Canadarm -- was not invited to the event. The Canadian Press reports:
Garneau was miffed at being excluded, blaming the lapse on the "highly
partisan" Conservative government.
Two senior ministers, however, said museum and space agency staff fumbled
the ball and that their own ministerial offices played ... more »
When blouse buttons come undone
Julia Louis-Drefus aka Elaine from Seinfeld shows more cleavage than usual.
Social Justice?
“The law is meant to be my servant and not my master, still less my
torturer and my murderer.” — James Baldwin. The Nation (July 11, 1966)
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” — Martin Luther
King Jr. Letter From Birmingham City Jail Blinded by the Stereotype
Spotlight “The Poor Are Too Free”?: Unlocking […]
How Labour policy is made...
Chris Dunne (@ChrisDunne29) tweeted at 8:59 PM on Sat, Jul 13, 2013:
Exclusive: how the #Labour party make policy: http://t.co/CfaVOywjqb
(https://twitter.com/ChrisDunne29/status/356140768982863872)
“Who is in the dock?”
This is a post of two halves - one recycling an article from elsewhere, one
reviewing a particular edition of the *Today *programme. The one, however,
follows on from the other, and I think they can both shed some light on the
preceding posts about the BBC's news priorities.
The *Telegraph*'s Charles Moore has written one of the best articles about
BBC bias that I've read for a long time:
*Why does the impartial BBC not tell the story of the great majority?*
Our self-righteous national broadcaster is woefully detached from voters’
real lives
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*The 'Liberal Progressive' hegem... more »
Misdirection watch - George Zimmerman trial and Adam Kokesh arrests are convenient tools to change the subject away from the very serious geopolitical , national security missteps , constitutional violations and financial buggery of the US ongoing on a daily basis......
To be fair , Kokesh openly and freely broke the law in D.C on video that he
had taken .... his arrest by itself was not a surprise - the extent of
force displayed however was a different issue altogether..... And charging
him ( if this actually occurs ) with armed sedition would be another
reach...
http://www.infowars.com/kokesh-held-without-bond-possibly-charged-with-armed-sedition/
Kokesh Held Without Bond, Potentially Facing ‘Armed Sedition’ Charge
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Prison Planet TV][image: Infowars.com Twitter][im... more »
DHS's Janet Napolitano leaves ( very good riddance to her ) ..... of course the concern is who might the most transparent administration ever have in mind to replace her ?
DHS’ Napolitano Leaves Legacy of Corruption, Lies, Lawsuits, and WasteJuly
13, 2013
Print Version
*Source: *The New American
Many were surprised at Janet Napolitano’s announcement that she will leave
her position as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) at
the end of August to become president of the University of California.
Chosen from more than 300 candidates vying for the position, Napolitano
managed to keep her interest in that position, and her successful bid for
it, from the public until Friday.
She issued the usual departure appreciation statement:
I than... more »
Zimmerman
The acquittal was not a great surprise.
The prosecution's case did not come out especially well. The attempt last
week during closing (!!!) to allege child abuse was not a ploy to distract
the defence - it was a Hail Mary gambit by the prosecutor where the hope
was to salvage something.
Perhaps because it wouldn't fly on the facts the issue of race was not
brought forward in the trial. As a result further federal proceedings seem
highly implausible.
State Attorney Angela Corey said she believed prosecutors had "brought out
the truth on behalf of Trayvon Martin".
"This case has... more »
'Up To 13,000 Needless Deaths' In NHS Hospitals
Talking of the BBC's unique news priorities, the second story for ITV News
at the moment is 13,000 'needless' NHS deaths:* *
Some 13,000 patients may have died needlessly at hospitals since 2005, a
report by the NHS medical director released next week will say. Sir Bruce
Keogh will expose failings in the 14 worst trusts in England.
This is the story which the *Daily Telegraph *is leading on:
13,000 died needlessly at 14 worst NHS trusts
The needless deaths of thousands of NHS patients will be exposed in a
report this week.
The NHS’s medical director will spell out the failings of ... more »
What is the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and why are the negotiations that are ongoing totally kept away from not just the American people in general - but also Congress ? And if you think this is just about trade - are you aware that " Pooling Sovereignty " is part of the concept ? With the EU a major flop except for Germany - why does the US have any interest in dragging itself into this debacle in the making ? While America is distracted by the George Zimmerman show trial - hyped by the media to achieve mass rioting in the event that George Zimmerman was found not guilty ( which has happened ) , the most transparent administration ever is doing its best to neuter America's sovereignty .... Wake up folks !
EU Official: Pooling Sovereignty, Once “Unthinkable,” Now “the Model”July
13, 2013
Print Version
*Source: New American*
As reported here this week, the first round of Transatlantic Trade and
Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations has been underway in Washington,
D.C. with European Union and American officials, along with a select group
of business, banking, environmental, and union “stakeholders.” President
Obama has placed this planned political and economic merger of the EU and
the United States on a fast track, with the intention of building support
for it over the coming m... more »
Bravo Zulu, Cpl. Kate
Leopard tank driver Cpl. Kate MacEachern broke a world record last year
walking over 500 kilometers from her post at CFB Gagetown in New Brunswick
to her hometown of Antigonish, N.S. to raise $20,000 for injured veterans. In
full battle dress with a 22 kilogram kit on her back, she did it on her
annual holidays.
DefMin Airshow MacKay was so impressed he walked the last kilometer with
her.
In June this year she asked for 20 extra days of unpaid leave in
addition to her 25 days of holiday time to make a... more »
This morning's 'Sunday'
7.00: I'm 'live blogging' this morning's *Sunday - *though I lack the
technical wherewithal to do it like they do it properly. So it's just me
typing as the programme is being broadcast! Has my experiment with
predicting which topics would and wouldn't feature on this week's edition
proved correct, or not - based on prior experience of the programme's many
biases (as I see them)?
7.10: Edward Stourton is presenting this week. The first topic is Ireland
and abortion. That was inevitable for *Sunday *- a "given" indeed (as I put
it in the last post)! The Irish parliament's vote to al... more »
America is Still a Profoundly Racist Country : Dr. King's Security
Jesse Jackson is not the Emperor of Black People from Paul Coker on
Vimeo.
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*From the Post-King Family vs Jowers et al (1999) Justice Department
Report:
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*Dr. King's Security*
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Evidence was also presented to suggest a plot to facilitate the removal
of
Dr. King's security. We discussed most of this trial evidence, along
with
other related information not presented in the trial, when we considered
general accusations that security was removed in Section
IV.D.2.b.(1)above. However, two additional pieces of evidence were
presented in King v.
Jowers in an effort to ... more »
HARRY AND WAR CRIME; DAVID KELLY; REDACTIONS REVEALED; PALESTINIANS; CHILD SLAVES
US special forces, working with Prince Harry's squadron, reportedly
murdered three innocent shepherds.
*Harry was witness to war crime*
"Harry's squadron ... were mounting joint patrols in Helmand province with
a US Special Forces unit codenamed 'Task Force 32'.
"According to a British eye-witness three shepherds were peacefully minding
their own business when they were engaged (shot).
"Given the force of the heavy machine gun rounds it is likely they suffered
serious or fatal injuries, though their bodies were never recovered."
Read more: *http://www.dailymail.co.uk/*
A Tony... more »
GOD'S WHAT?
This verdict makes me sick but comes as no real surprise. I lived in
Central Florida for 20 years and can tell you it is one hell of a racist
community.
Zimmerman is one sick dude and should be in prison. My heart breaks for
the family of Trayvon Martin.
This cannot be called justice by any measure of the word.
Some stuff
The Slender Man mythos is an online phenomenon that has grown into a
full-blown urban myth[1]. It began in 2009 as an online photoshop
competition on the Something Awful[2] forum to transform ordinary photos
into fake paranormal photos. A character called Victor Surge made two
photos of an unidentified man standing near children. He was very tall and
had strange, tentacle like arms. Victor Surge also included a thumbnail
back story about a library fire. The legend grew from that point into:
Slender Man (a.k.a Slenderman) is a mythical creature often depicted as a
tall, thin figure ... more »
ANOTHER BASE DISPUTE IN ASIA-PACIFIC
Activists in Manila denounce Philippine government's plans to grant U.S.
troops greater access to the country's military facilities.
Climate Tricks 21: Arctic Ice Will be Gone This Year?
See how alarmist and idiotic the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) and
"man-made" climate change (CC) religion is. In December 2007, BBC reported
this, quoting Profs. Maslowski and Wadhams of the US,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7139797.stm
Top of Form
It is now summer 2013 in the Arctic, and there are some 9 million sq. kms.
of ice there as of July 12, 2013. (PH's total land area is 0.3 million
sq.kms.), data from the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), So all those
wide ice will melt in the next two months, wow.
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icecover.uk.php
*COI | Centre for Ocea... more »
Fukushima 2013: “Remaining Radioactive Mass”, “Dangerous Leaking Radioactive Water”, All Four Reactors are “Getting Worse”
* *
*Fukushima 2013: “Remaining Radioactive Mass”, *
*“Dangerous Leaking Radioactive Water”, All Four Reactors are “Getting
Worse”*
By William Boardman
“The first thing to know about the danger from the radioactive mass
remaining on site in the three reactors that melted down at Fukushima is
that nobody knows how much radioactive material there is, nobody knows how
much uranium and plutonium it contains, and nobody knows how to make it
safe — so no one knows how great the continuing danger is.
In order to prevent nuclear material from being diverted to use in weapons,
the Intern... more »
Attorney Mark O'Mara speaking at a press conference after the verdict of George Zimmerman...
*good on him!*
(emphasis mine)
“(George Zimmerman) A man who believes in the system… A man whose dad was a
judge, who maybe wanted to be a cop or a prosecutor and then gets a system…
Two systems went against George Zimmerman that he CAN’T understand. You
guys, the media, he was like a patient on an operating table where mad
scientists were committing experiments on him and he had no anesthesia. He
didn’t know why he was turned into this monster, *but quite honestly you
guys had a lot to do with it, you just did, because you took a story that
was fed to you and you ran with it and ... more »
Lincoln's Favourite Poem
Abraham Lincoln's statue in Old Calton Cemetery in Scotland. *Source of
Photo*.
*"Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud?"* by Scottish poet William
Knox (1789–1825), also known as "Mortality," was Abraham Lincoln's
favourite poem. Knox, "son of a farmer in Roxburghshire, he wrote several
books of poetry, *The Lonely Hearth*, *Songs of Israel*, *Harp of Zion*,
etc." (*Wikipedia*).
An excerpt from John J. Miller's article, *"With Death on His Mind,"* (Wall
Street Journal, February 11, 2012):
"Lincoln recited the poem so much that some people assumed he had written
it.... more »
TV Watch: The best thing showing lately on my TV has been Michael Palin's "Sahara" and "Himalaya"
*I've just finished watching the 2004 film of Michael P's epic 2003 journey
through the Himalaya and surrounding regions. The map above should be
intelligible enough (you should be able to click to enlarge it) to suggest
the scope of the journey, except that the copy of the book covers over the
early segments in Pakistan and India.*
*by Ken*
I've written about my excitement at rediscovering the early Michael Palin
travel-trek series on British DVDs. (Even now that they're actually readily
available in U.S. editions, the U.K. ones are still way cheaper.) Of course
you have to have ... more »
Pol. Ideology 46: Misunderstanding Adam Smith
Last Monday, July 08, I posted Pol. Ideology 45: Left Intellectualism Means
Abandonment of Socialism in my facebook wall. It attracted another round of
long discourse. Thanks to fellow UP ETCer (younger batch) Mel, Mike,
Shakaru, for that long exchange from July 08-10, 2013.
While the debate still focuses on whether we should have a BIG or
small/limited government, one source of confusion is a misunderstanding of
some quotes from Adam Smith’s book, *The Wealth of Nations*.
This is 12 pages long, 6,100+ words, so grab a can of your favorite drinks
and enjoy.
*Mel Lorenzo Accad* In... more »
July 13, 1973
After John Dean's televised appearance, the Watergate Committee hearings
had continued, with John Mitchell appearing and basically stonewalling.
Soon after, Richard Nixon was hospitalized with viral pneumonia.
The way the committee worked was that, if possible, they pre-interviewed
the witnesses before the full committee confronted them on live TV. On July
13, the pre-interview was with Alexander Butterfield -- the man who had run
the president's daily schedule (and who now headed the FAA).
Here's Emery, taking up the story after the Democratic counsel had taken
his turn with Butter... more »
Tragically jaded journalists
Under the heading, "What's wrong with everything," this was posted by the
political editor of Buzzfeed as a "reminder" to his fellow journos.
Click over to read the responses. It's a case study in bored Beltway
insiderism. The journos are all yeah, covering the effects of policy is
such a loser. Which may well be true, but that's because these too cool to
care journos are reporting the politics instead of the policy. The cruel
effects of the GOP's massacre of food assistance are going to affect 47
million people, most of whom are likely still blissfully unaware it's
happening beca... more »
How to change post content column width using Template Designer
While you can easily change the whole width and the sidebar/sidebars width
by signing into DASHBOARD > LAYOUT > TEMPLATE DESIGNER > ADVANCED > CHANGE
WIDTH (if you don't understand this, click here) and dragging the slider
cursor, you can't change the width of the main column (post content column)
width this way as there are no slider for the width of the main column.
[image: screenshot:Using template designer to change blog width]
However, using an indirect method by manipulating the blog width and the
sidebar or sidebar widths width and using simple arithmetic, you can change
the ... more »
Elizabeth Warren Has Already Been In Office 6 Months-- Where's The New Glass-Steagall Act? Oh... Here
I think most Members of Congress, financed and sold out as they are to Wall
Street, abhor the idea of going to war with the banksters over regulations.
The finance sector spends more on bribing federal elected officials--
$663,265,994 last cycle alone-- than any other industry. And, although they
give a bit more to Republicans, they give plenty to both corrupt Beltway
parties. Here are the 10 biggest recipients of bankster cash last year in
the Senate and in the House:
Thursday Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), John McCain (R-AZ), Maria Cantwell
(D-WA), and Angus King (I-ME) introduc... more »
Supai message: 'Heal your bodies, heal the earth'
Lightning Stories
Message from Supai Waters
Damon Watahomigie, Havasupai
Censored News
I would like to send a message to all front line
warriors. Hail to all massive people for environmental awareness and
cultural exchange. Stand on your own territory.
Warning don't take
sides on either end. Don't ask for peace. That's exactly what they want
you to be, is to be under the ground, your
13 Cuetzpalin Linkage
The current issue of the International Journal of Comparative Sociology has
a special issue on trade and travel. In it, sociologists apply network
analysis in domains familiar to international-relations scholars. I haven’t
read the articles yet, but I thought the cross-disciplinary dimension was
interesting enough to ask SAGE to make the contents available. You can
download them
Continue reading
US spying on Latin American leaders heats up as Bolivia and Argentina detail the extent of US espionage .....President Obama warns President Putin not to give Edward Snowden asylum - of course the question is the " or else what ? "
http://www.france24.com/en/20130713-morales-says-us-hacked-bolivian-leaders-emails
Morales says US hacked Bolivian leaders' emails
[image: Bolivia's President Evo Morales speaks during the XLV Mercosur
Summit, at the headquarters of the bloc in Montevideo on July 12, 2013.
Morales on Saturday accused US intelligence of hacking into the email
accounts of top Bolivian officials, saying he had shut his own account
down.]
Bolivia's President Evo Morales speaks during the XLV Mercosur Summit, at
the headquarters of the bloc in Montevideo on July 12, 2013. Morales on
Saturday accused US ... more »
Fukushima updates - July 13 , 2013 ...... Fukushima = Tepco-nado ? Enough said.....
Former Fukushima worker “Stopping groundwater flowing to the sea may cause
various problems”
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High level of radiation is measured from groundwater and seawater.
Tepco suspects there is a “possibility” that the contaminated groundwater
is flowing to the sea, they are building the underground wall to stop it
moving to the sea.
(cf, Tepco doesn’t estimate how much more groundwater would flow into the
plant by stopping it flowing to the sea [URL])
Howeve... more »
The Nature of the Beast
Why no one trusts Mainstream Media anymore:
Takin' it all in: Egypt, Israel, Turkey and Syria
*The psychotic elites continue on with their agenda of death, destruction
and mayhem.*
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Israel readies for end of decades-long calm on Golan border
Hmmmmm.......
Israeli military prepares for Lebanon and Syria threats despite turmoil in
Egypt
*
*Making clear the turmoil in Egypt is well within Israel’s domain of
influence and control*
*The Israeli military trains in a mock Lebanese or Syrian village in its
base in this northern Israeli town. Officials say such a conflict could
erupt at any time.
The military built the complex after the 2006 war to institutionalize the
l... more »
Great Decisions Lecture "Iran" by Dr. Christopher J. Bolan, USAWC
*Video Title: Great Decisions Lecture "Iran" by Dr. Christopher J. Bolan,
USAWC. Source: USArmyWarCollege. Date Published: March 1, 2013. Description*
:
Dr. Chris Bolan, USAWC, a former Middle East policy advisor to Vice
Presidents Gore and Cheney, addressed the security challenges associated
with "Iran" on Feb 22 at AHEC. What accounts for the troubled history of
U.S.-Iranian relations? What are key U.S. and Iranian strategic interests
in the region? What are the policy options for U.S. leaders as they
struggle to deal with Iran's improving nuclear capabilities? Is a
diplomatic ... more »
Thousands break Ramadan fast in Tahrir, celebrate Morsi ouster (Ahram Online)
*Photo Source: AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi*.
Thousands break Ramadan fast in Tahrir, celebrate Morsi ouster. Source:
Ahram Online. Date Published: July 12, 2013. Description:
Several thousand Egyptians gathered in Tahrir Square to break their fast
during the holy month of Ramadan.
Meals were gathered as donations by several political movements. People
came from different governorates specially to participate in this day.
Key quotes from the video:
*"We have been fighting with Muslim Brotherhood rule for a year. I'm here
to tell the world: There is no military coup. We came out mo... more »
Dasaolu becomes second-fastest Brit - BBC Sport
A British athlete running 100m in 9.91! I am shocked... Maybe he could
threaten the Jamaicans & Americans.
Well not with 9.91 but if he could get down into the 9.8s then maybe...
Story here http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/23281670
Predictive text
Given Radio 4's religious current affairs programme *Sunday*'s tendency to
report certain kinds of stories and not report others, it might be a
fruitful experiment to see what topics it covers tomorrow morning and make
some predictions. A blogger who senses bias should be able to predict in
advance what sorts of story *won't* get covered, even though they *should*be covered.
OK. Here goes then.
There's the highly significant news that Pope Francis is backing the
Ordinariate by allowing Catholics to join it. This will disappoint some of
Edward Stourton's friends at the liberal Cat... more »
Harry Targ : Egypt, Popular Uprisings, and 21st Century Social Movements
Gamal
Abdel Nasser emerged as a powerful charismatic figure in Middle East
politics. Image from The Majalla.
Egypt, popular uprisings, and complexity
of 21st century social movements
On one side are those who remember military coups supported by the
United States all around the world. On the other, the case can be made
that each rupture in a society must be understood in its own historical
Halloween horrors . . .
NO COSTUME NEEDED. Should be a fun time.
Will Gay Democrat Sean Eldridge Be Any Better In Congress Than Gay Democrat Next Door, Sean Patrick Maloney?
Sean's on the left-- at least in the photo
We looked at New York New Dem Sean Patrick Maloney's putrid record as a
freshman a couple months ago; it hasn't improved. As of this morning he's
tied with corrupt Texas Blue Dog and warmonger Henry Cuellar as the 200th
"best" voter in Congress. His ProgressivePunch crucial vote score (32.91)
was earned by backing Boehner's and Cantor's toxic agenda more than any
Democratic freshman and more than any Democrats other than Bill Owens (New
Dem-NY), Jim Matheson (Blue Dog-UT) and John Barrow (New Dem/Blue Dog-GA).
But Maloney is good on gay issu... more »
Some Thoughts About Rape in an Age of Collapse
July 13, 2013 These days, news sites on television and the internet are
filled with stories of bloviating politicians rushing to pass laws about
women’s bodies. Usually in the guise of “protecting” women. Usually by men
who’ve shown little inclination … Continue reading →
(They Stole It Fair and Square?) Happy Nation of Peasants Serving a Ruling Plutocracy Headed by Charles and David Koch (Now It's On To Eliminating Minimum Wage Laws!)
Happy Saturday the 13th? From PoliticusUSA we get the joyous news (if
you're among the 1%). Charles Koch Launches Campaign to Eliminate the
Minimum Wage Now we can breathe easy. By: Rmuse Jul. 13th, 2013 The
majority of Americans are fortunate to never know what it means to be
destitute, or exist in a condition where they lack enough money to afford
basic human needs such as food,
Egypt Protest Video Gives Bird's Eye View Of Massive Anti-Morsi Demonstrations On June 30 Inbox x
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