Union soldiers guarding the Potomac River in 1861. Behind them is the old Aqueduct bridge and Georgetown University on top of the hill (Photo credit: Wikipedia)The Increasing Irrelevance of the Keystone XL Debate
Last week President Obama unveiled a new plan to combat climate change in a speech at Georgetown University. While there is generally broad consensus that his comments further threaten the already battered US coal industry, his comments on TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline project had pundits guessing at his meaning.
A Look at the Drivers of Deepwater Oil & Gas Exploration
Nearly 60% of world oil production is located in areas of
high geopolitical risk, writes Lou Gagliardi. This is one of the major
incentives for the major oil companies to explore for oil deposits in
deeper and more remote waters.
Oil Industry Declares War on E15
Climate science
A sensitive matter
The climate may be heating up less in response to greenhouse-gas emissions than was once thought.
Curry: less warming than predicted. Models seem wrong
Canadian politics just got turned upside down
Mar 27 Fundamental to our understanding of democratic politics across the developed world is that conservative parties stand for relatively low levels of government spending, while those on the left of the political spectrum are prone to higher spending. A new study, released yesterday by the Montreal Economic Institute (MEI), blows a hole through that conventional wisdom.
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Are The Egyptian People Being Played As Suckers? US (And Israel) Are Playing BOTH Sides Of Egypt Coup!
I have been watching the events unfold in Egypt over the last week, and I
do not like what I am seeing... In fact, I do smell a rat.... There is
absolutely no way in hell that the criminals in both the United States, and
the criminal terrorist state of Israel would ever allow Egypt to slip from
their grip.... It is a fact that these criminals replaced one puppet Hosi
Mubarak a few years back in the last Egyptian "Arab Spring" revolt with
another puppet, Morsi.... And now we see after two years of corruption in
Egypt that the Egyptian people have had enough of another US/Israel boug... more »
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Whitewraithe On Spingola Speaks Show With Deanna Spingola, Friday July 5th, 2013
My friend, Whitewraithe, was on Deanna Spingola's "Spingola Speaks"
Internet radio show at www.republicbroadcasting.org, yesterday at 11am,
CDT..... Lets just say it was a great show, and I am proud to have the link
to that show right here for everyone to listen for themselves....
http://k002.kiwi6.com/hotlink/046g1j8479/spingola_speaks_-_whitewraith_2013.07.05.mp3
NTS Notes: Whitewraithe is definitely a wealth of information, and makes
for a great guest....I know that Deanna will most definitely have her on
again sometime in the future.
And a bit of good news....Deanna Spingola has... more »
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Tarsands Healing Walk Photos July 6, 2013
The Healing Walk Begins July 6, 2013. Photo by Ben Powless
Tar sands healing walk approaches first tailings pond after a prayer to the south. Photo Ben Powless
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Thank you Ben Powless, Mohawk, for sharing with Censored News!
Gator Grift
*Gator Grift? La. Hunting Trip Puts New Mexico's First Couple Under Fire ~Stephen
Babcock, NOLA DEFENDER *
TV Watch: Food Network Star has often felt a bit wheezy in Season 9, it's still had its moments
*Easily the dopiest challenge of Season 9 of Next Food Network Star was
Episode 4's "Dinner and a Movie," in which three-person teams not only had
to create a dinner suitable for a genre of movie -- romance, Western, and
musical -- but do a trailer for it. Team Musical (Rodney the pie man,
Chris, and Lovely) sang, God help us. Click here for a preview of
tomorrow's Episode 6.*
*by Ken*
In fairness, by Season 9 of anything it's apt to be a tough haul to find
new things to do or new ways of doing things. There's no question in my
mind that the first few seasons of what is known now ... more »
Road Weirdness
I'm not sure if its the constant oscillation between sun and rain we've had
the past few days or that its summer and some people's brains are in
neutral but it seems like local overpasses have a bull-eye on them or
something. It seems that some distracted genius in a big truck misjudged
the height of the Suncor overpass and made contact with it with his load
this morning. We had a similar incident earlier this year here in town as
well. I haven't really heard any more on this little oops but it did
result in quite the traffic back up on the ride in to work. There wasn't
really m... more »
Hospitals-- A Place People Go To Get Even Sicker?
I'm sure many people think of hospitals as places to go to be cured of
sickness. I always think of hospitals as places to go to die. And not just
to die because medicine doesn't cure much of anything but die because
hospitals all filled with disease so that patients who go to them are at
risk of catching something unrelated to whatever brought them there in the
first place-- and dying. Does that sound crazy?
Thursday Reuters published a report from London that over 3 million
Europeans come down with just such an infection in a hospital *every year*!
That's 80,000 people a day, ev... more »
There Are More Things In Heaven And Earth, Than Are Dreamt Of In Your Philosophy
I have submitted the following comment to the warning signs site of Alan
Caruba, who asks if Edward Snowden is a spy or a hero:
*The bottom line is that Snowden acted to protect the basic freedom of
Americans to not be continually lied to by their leaders, and to not be
subjected to unreasonable search and seizure of even our personal
communications. He should be a hero to real Americans, those who seriously
value their individual freedoms, so carefully laid down at the very
beginning of the United States of America. Insofar as you think the jury is
still out on him, you have alread... more »
Tom Hayden : Does Egyptian Coup Auger an Arab Winter?
Throngs
in Cairo celebrate the military's overthrow of Mohamed Morsi, July 3,
2013. Photo by Amr Nabil / AP.
An Arab winter?
The coup in Egypt
If Morsi couldn't create a new center, the reason might not have been
because he was paranoid or heavy-handed but because there is for now no
viable center as Egypt emerges from decades of dictatorship.
By Tom Hayden / The Rag Blog / July 6, 2013
The
Margin call on US banks (or rather too-big-to-fail banks)
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http://www.tradingfloor.com/posts/margin-call-us-banks-rather-fail-banks-1939469058
*Margin call on US banks (or rather too-big-to-fail banks)*
Steen Jakobsen, Chief Economist & CIO, Saxo Bank
Filed in Steen's Chronicle
Denmark, Tuesday at 23:28 GMT-7 Recommend
This week's biggest news is not the Nonfarm Payrolls (which will be 160,000
again), or the European Central Bank (which will not introduce quantitative
easing) or even Portugal's government falling. No — this week's big deal is
the openness with which the Federal Reserve is preparing a major margin
call on the too-big-to... more »
One Lie Too Many for Sideshow Steve?
If the Mike Duffy scandal has shown us anything, it's how easily - and
successfully - Stephen Harper and his minions lie. They've almost elevated
lying to an art form.
Perhaps it can be put down to hubris that follows years of watching one
scandal after another magically slide off the prime minister's back into
oblivion but the pattern of lying by just about everybody involved in this
fiasco points to a culture of people who consider themselves beyond
accountability.
Duffy showed his contempt for accountability in the haphazard way he went
about establishing Prince Edward Island r... more »
What Mattered This Week?
I'm behind in my reading this week, so I'll just go with the jobs report as
something that mattered -- not as far as electoral politics is concerned,
but for the economy.
For doesn't matter...well, a lot of the stuff about the ACA employer
mandate delay is overstated. I don't know if it "doesn't matter," though.
What does you have? What do you think mattered this week?
Never Was About Security - Only Control and Power (It's Obviously Offensive War Planning) and History of CIA-Boston Bombers Connection
So, even Digby is willing to say in the face of all-out administration
denial that all the hurraw about security is really about the money (and
the power that accompanies it), and that although this is understandable
among this greedy crowd, that it really matters to the citizens paying for
the privilege of having such leadership that the people in charge aren't
deluded idiots (h/t to Barbara
Tennessee Using SAT-10 In 85 Percent of K-2 Classrooms for Teacher Evaluation Purposes
That’s right–high stakes testing is not just for kids who can read and
count anymore. Commissioner (M. Rhee’s ex) Huffman is leading an effort
to make sure that children in 117 of its 137 districts are provided funding
to fully test before the onset of literacy. Had Huffman ever had a course
in child […]
Egypt: Why Morsi Fell
Oh, hello again Mr ElBaradei. It's been well over two years since I last wrote
about Egypt. Since then, there's been a lot of changes. But in a rather
peculiar way, things are the same again. A heavy-handed and out-of-touch
presidency is toppled by a *de facto* alliance of a millions-strong
insurgency and the military, and once again the mercurial Mohamed ElBaradei
is prepared to act as an interim figure until things die down and elections
are called. The only difference between this time and last is, unlike
ElBaradei and his military friends, his predecessor - the hapless Mohammed ... more »
The Great Snuff Wars
July 6, 2013 Back in the summer of 1945, we spent the month of August
with my paternal grandparents who, after retiring from their leased farm,
had moved into a nearby town of 300 souls in southern … Continue reading →
My Common Core Compromise | the becoming radical
My Common Core Compromise | the becoming radical.
The Republican Fear Of All Things Womanish
*by Noah*
No, this isn’t about The Republican Party’s continuing war on women, as
recently exemplified in the neo-fascist states of Ohio, Texas, and North
Carolina. It’s just something that recent events made me think about on
this 4th of July weekend. It’s not about abortion rights per se and it’s
not about the hate-filled Herculean pro-death, Republican efforts to stop
uterine and breast cancer screening with sneaky late night anti-democratic
state legislature maneuvers. No, this is something far more base and basic.
It’s about what actually drives the evil of Republicans in bot... more »
El Baradei becomes Egypt’s Interim President
*Tool of the ptb’s*.
*Here comes the rebrand. *
The filthy hand prints of NATO and friends..banksters, corporations and
other assorted evil doers are all over this move
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*Nobel Peace laureate **( Just like Obama)* *Mohamed ElBaradei *took over
as Egypt’s interim prime minister, a day after 36 people were killed in
clashes involving Islamist supporters of deposed President Mohamed Mursi
and his opponents.
*ElBaradei, a former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency*,
emerged as one of the leaders of the movement against President Hosni
Mubarak during Egypt’s 2011 uprising ... more »
Peru and Bulgaria also seeing mass protests ! Are we seeing a global awakening ?
Peru police clash with student protesters
Police in Lima fire tear gas and water cannons to repel students
demonstrating against proposed education law.
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Several injuries were reported in Lima and at similar protests in several
provincial capitals. [Reuters]
Police in Peru have used tear gas and water cannons to repel student
protesters marching to the National Congress in the capital city.
The demonstration on Th... more »
Damien Gillis Speaks To Truth, Those Opposed To Harper Economics Are Enemies Of The State!...You Will Be Persecuted, Prosecuted And Jailed
(*The above picture, Stephen Harper`s name, and or the Federal Conservative
party as a whole should be placed on the patient name line)*
Damien Gillis speaks about the Stephen Harper crime family terrorizing
Environmentalists, also how pipeline and LNG opponents are the new 21st
century communists/reds under your bed, Joeseph Macarthy......Marcarthyism
renewed ......
Click the link, click the audio link, listen to his words, be prepared to
be shocked..
You have been warned!
http://thecanadian.org/item/2184-audio-damien-gillis-on-multi-issue-extremism-and-liberal-gas-agenda-... more »
Plane crash as San Francisco Airport - Asiana Airlines flying in from Taipei - most passengers seem to have escaped !
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-07-06/boeing-777-crashes-sfo-live-feed
Boeing 777 Crashes In San Francisco (2 Dead, Up To 70 Injured) - Live Feed
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/06/2013 16:36 -0400
- Boeing
- NBC
*UPDATE:* 2 Dead, *SF GENERAL HAS '10 TO 12' CRITICALLY INJURED FROM JET
CRASH
Just over an hour ago an Asiana plane inbound from Seoul, South Korea,
crash landed at San Francisco airport. Given the images below, it is a
miracle no one is reported dead (among the 291 passengers and 12 crew). An
eyewitness noted:
- **AIRLINER... more »
Adventures in responsible gun ownership
Ye gods. Adam Kokesh is a bonafide crackpot:
The libertarian activist Adam Kokesh who called for and then canceled an
armed march on Washington uploaded a YouTube video on July 4 that shows him
loading a shotgun in the center of Freedom Plaza, Washington, D.C, near the
White House. In the video, Kokesh cryptically warns, “We will not allow our
government to destroy our humanity. We are the final American revolution.
See you next Independence Day.”
You have to watch the video clip to appreciate the full scope of his
insanity. This guy just exudes teh crazy.
This of course is wild... more »
Syria updates - mystery blast at Syria government weapons depot in Latakia - missiles fired by whom ? Homs battle wages onward....Various on fighting elsewhere in Syria .... Syrian Opposition elects another leader....Politics in general involving Syria bogged down for now......
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/news/international/Syrian_opposition_chooses_Saudi-backed_leader.html?cid=36384156
July 6, 2013 - 17:27
By Khaled Yacoub Oweis and Erika Solomon
ISTANBUL/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's fractious opposition elected a new
leader on Saturday but rebel groups were reported to be fighting among
themselves in a sign of growing divisions on the ground between factions
trying to topple President Bashar al-Assad.
The Syrian National Coalition chose Ahmad Jarba as its president after a
close runoff vote that reinforced the influence of Saudi Arabia over a
perpetually... more »
Canada sees a massive explosion today at Lac - Megantic as an oil train derails - 30 building destroyed m 1000 evacuations and 60 people missing at last report !
60 reported missing as runaway Canada oil train explosion forces town
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Four tanker cars of petroleum exploded in the east Canadian province of
Quebec after a train derailed, leaving flames billowing hundreds of feet
into the sky. Some 30 buildings were destroyed and 1,000 evacuated from
homes. Local radio reports 60 missing.
*“It's dre... more »
"The Last Of The Human Freedoms..."
"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing; the last of the human
freedoms- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to
choose one's own way."
"Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather
must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is
questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own
life; to life he can only respond by being responsible."
"A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human
being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, w... more »
Egypt - key updates of the day as Egypt hits Day Three of the Re - Revolution....
Catharsis Ours - 10 hours ago
Egypt - key items as the country move forward post- revolution..........
So is this a Re-revolution to the Coup/ Revolution now ? Death and injury
count really starting to jump too ....
Washington remains silent over Egypt coup
Sat Jul 6, 2013 12:1AM
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Supporters of the ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi carry a protester
who was shot during clashes next to the headquarters of the Republican
Guard in Cairo.
The United States remains silent about the ongoing chaos in Egypt, ignoring
clashes between opponents and supporters of ousted Egyptian President
Mohamed Morsi... more »
Tim Maudlin's right and (more often) muddled opinions about physics
Vincent has asked me what I thought about an interview with philosopher of
physics Tim Maudlin at 3:am,
On the foundations of physics.
Regular TRF readers remember Maudlin as the main villain in the 2011 story
about Tom Banks and anti-quantum zealots which was ignited by a discussion
at Preposterous Universe (well, it was at Cosmic Variance at that time).
Yesterday, Maudlin mostly said the same wrong things as he did 1.5 years
ago but let me discuss them again.
At the beginning, he's asked why he became a philosopher. As an undergrad,
he dreamed about kibitzing about the fundame... more »
The Villain ALWAYS Wore A Black Hat In The Old Vintage Western Movies .....
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*Ladies and gentlemen .... I rest my case!!!!*
*-Harper's version of events contradicted in court documents on Duffy
scandal*
Muslim television channel fined after preacher of hate incited murder live on air - Telegraph
' An Islamic television channel based in Britain has been handed a heavy
fine for broadcasting a programme which urged Muslims to commit murder in
the name of their religion.
Ofcom, the broadcasting regulator, ordered Manchester-based DM Digital to
pay an £85,000 fine for a programme which told Muslims it was their duty to
kill anyone who insulted the Prophet Mohammed.
...
Rehmatul Lil Alameen featured a live lecture by Abdul Qadir Jilani, an
Islamic scholar, which included material that Ofcom considered was "likely
to encourage or incite the commission of crime or to lead to dis... more »
Is David Brooks a Racist?
That's the question being asked throughout the blogosphere (you can start
here, here, here) today in the wake of the latest blather from David Brooks
of the *New York Times*. (Google *David Brooks + Racist* and you get
1,660,000 hits.) What has people so riled up this time is that in his latest
column, he shockingly calls into question the "mental capacity" of
Egyptians to govern themselves.
I have sometimes wondered why more people haven't constantly and
relentlessly called him out for all kinds of bigotry long before this
latest effort. The simple answer is until fairly recentl... more »
Forget Peak Oil, Peak Water is the Greater Threat to Mankind
It's a problem so widespread, so obvious, so immediate and so perilous to
so very many people in every corner of the world that it speaks to the
paralysis of our political leadership that they have all but ignored it.
It is what's now being called "*Peak Water.*"
Anyone who has listened to the warnings from people like Maude Barlow over
the past many years knows that the freshwater crisis setting in around the
world is a threat to our civilization that rivals that of climate change
itself.
Some nations are nearing *Peak Water, *the point at which their supply of
freshwater is i... more »
Midterm Report: The Best and the Worst Democratic Freshmen
Time to grade the Democratic freshmen-- or at least to pick out the 10 best
and the 10 worst. Which ones lived up to what Alan Grayson laid out in his
little monologue above? And which served the interest of careerism and
corporate special interests above the interests of their own constituents?
Short version-- for people in a hurry-- here are two lists (alphabetized),
the 10 best, followed b the 10 worst:
*THE BEST:*
*•* Tony Cardenas (D-CA)
*•* Matt Cartwright (D-PA)
*•* Alan Grayson (D-FL)
*•* Jared Huffman (D-CA)
*•* Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY)
*•* Joe Kennedy (D-MA)
*•* Alan Lowe... more »
The Grand Old Vagina Party (The GOVP - Rich Old White Guys) Continues To Pretend About Minority's Babies And Continues Their Obsession With Vaginas
*The biggest bullshit story of all-time: REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS CARE ABOUT
ABORTION.*
(Above: *6 rich, old, bald, male, white wrinkly Republican penises and 12
shriveled balls and wrinkly ball-sacks from Ohio* "PRETEND" to care about
the "sanctity of life" by signing some more VAGINA LEGISLATION. It's ALWAYS
wrinkly old penises and balls who propose vagina legislation.)
Let's all stop pretending that Republican politicians care about babies and
the "sanctity of life". This is one of the biggest, if not THE biggest,
bullshit stories I and everyone else have been brainwashed with s... more »
DAZED MEETS CONFUSED: Pesudoliberal contempt!
*SATURDAY, JULY 6, 2013*
*Part 5—Our big TV stars don’t care:* Imagine a primitive, preliterate
society, one in which it is very hard to conduct the simplest public
discussion.
Rumors are easy to spread in this world. Misinformation is widely repeated.
In many ways, you live in such a world. You plainly live in such a world
when it comes to our public discourse about public schools and their
infernal teachers.
How is it possible that so many people have never head the simplest facts
about the National Assessment of Educational Progress? The NAEP is widely
described as “America’s r... more »
Gaia Portal: New Portals for Assistance in the “humanity to Hue-manity”
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* *New Portals for Assistance in the “humanity to Hue-manity” *Conversion
Process have Opened
by ÉirePort
New portals for assistance in the "humanity to Hue-manity" conversion
process have opened during the 7-3 to 7-5 period. Such are aligned with new
Higher Light influxes currently ongoing.
Current portals also enable more facile communication with Inner Earth
beings. No longer are such exchange portals limited to a few limited
locations, eg., Shasta. Communication exchanges with Inner Earth beings
will now occur readily, and often.
Fabricated "Light Work" is being exposed... more »
Business As Usual in Egypt
image source Stephen Lendman
Days of street protests created illusory change. Everything changed but
stayed the same. The pattern's familiar. Ousting Morsi assures same old,
same old.
Washington prioritizes Middle East control. It wants it unchallenged. It's
the oil, stupid. Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, and other regional states have
nearly two-thirds of proved world oil reserves. They have huge gas deposits.
Egypt's the largest Arab country. It's geopolitically important. It
supports America's imperium. US officials prioritize continuity. Michel
Chossudovsky asked: "Was Washington ... more »
Painting Morsi As A Victim of A Coup Ignores The Bigger Picture
Photo Source: Reuters.
*"Should a regime fall without mass mobilization, it is defined as a victim
of a coup d'état, usually by a military cabal."* - Ronald A Francisco, *"Collective
Action Theory And Empirical Evidence."* Pg. 11. Published in 2010 by
Springer. *Source*. Francisco is a *professor of political science* at the
University of Kansas. He is also the author of *"The Politics Of Regime
Transitions."*
The same newspapers and media outlets that are lamenting the fall of
Egypt's first democratically-elected president and charge that it was a
coup did not care about the sa... more »
No Hope On The Jobs Front
Dees Illustration Paul Craig Roberts
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**After reading my account of today’s payroll jobs report, please proceed
to today’s main article, “Lawlessness Is The New Normal.”*
Do you remember the promise of the New Economy that was going to replace
the lost “dirty fingernail” manufacturing jobs with innovative highly paid
New Economy jobs? Well, the promise was just another deception from the
elites who have stolen Americans’ future.
For the umpteenth consecutive month and year, the June BLS payroll jobs
report (released on July 5) shows that the US economy has created no such
jobs. T... more »
What's Next in Egypt?
image source Stephen Lendman
Morsi's out. Junta power rules. Generals have final say. Democracy's
verboten. Popular interests don't matter. They never did. They don't now.
What's next?
Headlines said Egyptians celebrated Morsi's ouster. Fireworks lit up
Cairo's sky. On February 12, 2011, jubilant crowds reacted the same way.
Millions hailed Mubarak's removal. People overthrew entrenched power, they
believed.
Hoped for change didn't follow. So-called Arab spring didn't bloom. It
wasn't meant to. Expect nothing different this time.
Wealth, power and privilege alone matter. It's de... more »
Largest Sunspot In Cycle 24 Emerges: Chance Of X-Class Flare Increases Dramatically
Chris Carrington
The southeastern section of the Sun is covered with a large dark blotch.
Sunspot AR1787 is one of the biggest if not the biggest of the whole of
cycle 24. The spot is massive; the dark cores of the spots alone are the
size of the Earth and it has the energy to produce X-Class flares, though
that magnetic field is still building and is nowhere near its full
potential yet. The magnetic field will continue to build in strength and
this dramatically increases the chance of a large X-class flare.
If an X-class was thrown off today, Earth would not be directly in the
f... more »
Lawlessness Is The New Normal
image source Paul Craig Roberts
In various articles and in my latest book, *The Failure of Laissez Faire
Capitalism And Economic Dissolution Of The West*, I have pointed out that
the European sovereign debt crisis is being used to terminate the
sovereignty of the countries that are members of the EU. There is no doubt
that this is true, but the sovereignty of the EU member states is only
nominal. Although the individual countries still retain some sovereignty
from the EU government, they are all under Washington’s thumb, as
demonstrated by the recent illegal and hostile action tak... more »
Have Central Bankers Lost Control? Could The Bond Bubble Implode Even If There Is No Tapering?
image source Michael Snyder
Are the central banks of the world starting to lose control of the
financial markets? Could we be facing a situation where the bond bubble is
going to inevitably implode no matter what the central bankers do? For the
past several years, the central bankers of the planet have been able to get
markets to do exactly what they want them to do.
Stock markets have soared to record highs, bond yields have plunged to
record lows and investors have literally hung on every word uttered by
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and other prominent central banker... more »
CHILD ABUSE CHARITY, CIA CHILD TORTURE, COLONIA DIGNIDAD AND PAUL SCHAFER SCHNEIDER
*Paul Schäfer Schneider, believed to be an Ashkenazi Jew and a Nazi.*
The CIA and its friends use children's charities as fronts for their
torture and terror activities.
The charity* Colonia Dignidad *was set up in Chile by a 'Jewish Nazi'
called *Paul Schäfer Schneider.*
The CIA has evidence of the presence at the colony of Josef Mengele.
*Villa Baviera*
During the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, who was put into
power by the CIA and various crypto-Jews, Colonia Dignidad was used as a
torture centre.
*"During the Pinochet rule, the person mostly in charge of the nuts... more »
ZIONISTS AND NAZIS
Most people have no idea about the roots of the Nazis and their ties to the
Zionists.
Eustace Mullins Nazis Zionist conspiracy
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UK blocks EU espionage talks with US over spying.....
EU exposed as barking dog with no teeth ......
NSA leaks: UK blocks crucial espionage talks between US and Europe
First talks to soothe transatlantic tensions to be restricted to data
privacy and Prism programme after Britain and Sweden's veto
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José Manuel Barroso, the European commission president, and Dalia
Grybauskaitė, Lithuania's president, have backed down from initial demands
of two... more »
Veterans Today: “Game Over” for Morsi, Israel
Opponents of Morsi hold protest rallies in Cairo on July 3, 2013. *I don't
often publish articles from Veterans Today anymore once I figured out it
was an outlet of US military Intelligence even given its links to Iran's
Press TV (I know that's confusing but such is the world at this moment in
time - if you think the world works like the TV News paints it - you'll be
lost). VT has published some remarkable pieces on the middle east most of
which I think were truthful, but discernment is always advised. As long as
you know the bias there's good data in the web site. Similarly with... more »
BBC gets one of its facts on “Palestine” right | BBC Watch
'Historian: Well, it wasn't called any of the names we know it as today. It
wasn't Syria and it wasn't Palestine, particularly. These were Western
names, and Roman names sometimes, we used to refer to this part of the
world, but at that time it was all just part of the Ottoman Empire.'
You mean Palestine didn't exist under the Ottoman Empire? Has anyone told
@DD1958?
More here
http://bbcwatch.org/2013/07/05/bbc-gets-one-of-its-facts-on-palestine-right/
Nikola Tesla: Calling All Freethinkers, Part Three
click to enlarge Rand Clifford
One thing seeming most reliable for seekers of truth about Nikola Tesla:
90% of available information is disinformation, or misinformation. What’s
more, Tesla’s greatest triumph is not only forbidden information, fully
reproducing Aether capture Tesla style can be a PSQ capital offense. [1]
Tesla could annihilate the stranglehold thrown on humanity by the Power
Status Quo (PSQ). He showed humanity how to transcend the PSQ’s paradigm of
destructive energy; the PSQ has responded for over a century the only way
they know how, more destruction.
Regardi... more »
41 IMF Bailouts And Counting – How Long Before The Entire System Collapses?
Michael Snyder
Broke nations are bailing out other broke nations with borrowed money.
Round and round we go - where we stop nobody knows. As of April, 41
different countries had active financial "arrangements" with the IMF.
Sometimes they are called "bailouts" and sometimes they are called other
things, but in every single case they involve loans. And most of the time,
these loans come with very stringent conditions. It is a form of "global
governance" that most people don't even know about. For decades, the IMF
has been able to use money as a way to force developing nations ... more »
Booming Tear Gas Industry Continues To Lead Global Economic Recovery
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Obscured by the Coup in Egypt , Note that Bulgaria's government collapsed on Wednesday - due to protests by the people there !
Protests Sweep Bulgaria As Government Collapses Amid Chaos
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The Bulgarian government was officially dissolved on Wednesday with the
resignation of Prime Minister Boiko Borisov as thousands took to the street
to protest against high electricity bills and declining living standards.
The country, which joined th... more »
Independence Day primer - The wisdom of Mark Twain .... To the freedom " Desert of the Real " here in the US today.....
Catharsis Ours - 13 hours ago
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/07/03/mark-twain-americas-spirit-of-independence-day/
Mark Twain – America’s Spirit of Independence Day
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Hunger and Thirst Are the Primary WMDs of the Globalists
The Georgia Guidestones Dave Hodges
The greatest conspiracy is the fiction that there are no conspiracies.
Among those in the know, there is the prevailing belief that the elite
intend to exterminate 90% of humanity, and have boldly proclaimed this
belief on the Georgia Guidestones. Many of us mistakenly believe that the
plan to cull the human race is some planned future event. The evidence is
strongly suggestive of the fact that this slow-burn genocide is happening
right now.
It is not just happening in the Third World through the planned deprivation
of food and water, it is beg... more »
What Might Have Been
Commenting on my last post, PLG wrote thusly:
Well, I don't have much to say about your "unpopular essays" so I haven't.
I don't disagree, but I'm damned if I see a plausible way of fixing it.
A new party? There are new parties. They get nowhere. And if they got
somewhere, they'd just split the vote anyway.
A new Waffle? Maybe. But to get anywhere, and present a real alternative,
it would need to be connected to a strong grassroots progressive movement
of some sort.
. . . Um, yeah. Grassroots progressive movements in Canada (well, outside
Quebec) are about as marginal as in the State... more »
Crashes of Convenience: Michael Hastings
*James Corbett*
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State Demands $700,000 from Michigan Farm Family and the Destruction of 70 Farm Animals
David Michael
[*Editor's note:* Over $10,000 has been raised to help the Baker family
fight the motion for all farmers nationwide, with $14,000 left to go. It is
encouraged by the author to consider donating $17.76 to make a statement.
More ways to help below.]
On this Independence Day we should be celebrating freedom and thankful for
those who died, were injured and served in the military over the decades to
keep the freedom we have. This is the thanks this 20-year military veteran
has received from the Michigan state government and this is an example of
those freedoms being... more »
New Study Confirms Wheat-Autism Link
Sayer Ji
*As the autism epidemic continues to accelerate, one of the least well
known contributing factors goes mostly unnoticed: wheat consumption. *
A new study published in the open access journal *PLoS* is reinvigorating
the debate over what are the primary causes of the accelerating autism
epidemic. Whereas too many within the conventional medical establishment,
failing to identify a singular cause, apathetically label the condition
"idiopathic," i.e. cause unknown, or worse, "caused by unknown defective
genes," there is a growing awareness that a multitude of environmental
... more »
Britain and Sweden block critical talks on espionage and intelligence between EU and US
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EU Parliament/Flickr Madison Ruppert
Britain and Sweden vetoed plans to launch two working groups to deal with
issues of espionage and intelligence with the United States, thus
restricting upcoming talks in Washington to issues of data privacy and the
National Security Agency’s PRISM program.
Instead of allowing two working groups to deal with the complex issues that have
been raised in the wake of stories publicizing the United States’
surveillance of Europeans, especially Germans, there will be just one
working group focusing on the PRISM program.
Interestingly, t... more »
Economic Bizarro World: Persistently High Unemployment And Skyrocketing Bond Yields Are Good?
Michael Snyder
The mainstream media is heralding today's "fantastic" employment numbers as
evidence that the U.S. economy is steadily recovering. But is that really
true? The number of jobs created in June was just a little bit more than
what is required to keep up with population growth, and the official
unemployment rate remained at 7.6 percent. And if you look deeper in the
numbers, they don't look very good at all. The percentage of low paying
part-time jobs in the economy continues to rise, the number of full-time
jobs actually *decreased* and the U-6 unemployment number ... more »
Happy Weekend...
*this is how I'm starting to feel.*
By Bill Dyszel via Legal Insurrection
In the meantime, I have the day off and weeds are calling out my name...
And Saturday would not be complete without some kitteh's.
Going beyond various people against bad things
According to this, Ed Miliband apparently wants to investigate the
possibility of maybe, perhaps, perchance breaking the formal link between
the Labour Party and the unions. There is a world of difference between the
unions breaking from Labour (i.e. a self-confident working class asserting
itself) and the Labour Party breaking from the unions (the working class
being isolated from mainstream politics). The most sensible reckoning is
Miliband will look at a way of keeping Unite's money, just shrugging off
all those nasty trade unionists who want a pro quo for their quid.
An aside: h... more »
Marche Funèbre
On Wednesday, an elderly couple (ages 70 and 69) won the lottery,
restricted to 20 applicants daily, to hike to the famous rock formation in
Arizona called The Wave. In order to protect the remote site, there is
only a 10% chance of gaining access - out of 48,000 people last year, there
were 7,300 allowed to make the treck.
The pair were found dead the next day, the wife huddled under one of the
few juniper trees. Naturally, the news article blames the heat, which
reached 106 degrees - but, typical for deaths attributed to heat, doesn't
mention the level of air pollution. This i... more »
Elevation Schmelavation
*FEMA releases new preliminary flood maps for area parishes ~WVUE*
Find your Elevation above Sea Level
*A Gulf of Mexico and an Eastern Atlantic Disturbance Worth Watching ~
Wunderblog*
*NOPD review disputes IG over-billing allegations ~Laura Maggi, Advocate
N.O.*
*The TWERK guide to LGBQT employment discrimination in Louisiana, pt. 2:
case studies*
*Gay pride flag display at Lafayette park raises ire ~The Advertiser*
*Good Government Saturday: CFGG Celebrates a Victory for Good Government
and No-bid Contracts ~Slabbed*
*Escaped BR zoo eagle eludes capture ~Advocate B.R.*
*New Or... more »
Egypt Post - Coup Post Mortem - did the Army miscalculate by releasing Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Badie on Friday ( who then gave a fiery sermon at Friday morning prayers and urged Muslim Brotherhood to go into resistance and attempt to former deposed President Morsi ! ) By the end of the day , 36 killed and injured toll in excess of 1,000.... on the scene reporting and photos follow.....
Egypt Coup Post- Mortem
http://www.juancole.com/2013/07/brotherhood-hundreds-wounded.html
Brotherhood, Army risk Civil War: 30 Dead, Hundreds Wounded
Posted on 07/06/2013 by Juan Cole
Egypt veered sharply toward the looming specter of civil war on Friday, as
the leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood continued to call for resistance
to the overthrow of Muhammad Morsi, who had been the elected head of state
before the army deposed him on Wednesday.
On Thursday, the military had arrested the Supreme Guide of the Muslim
Brotherhood, Muhammad Badie, at Marsa Matrouh and brought him by ... more »
My Message to the Badass Association of Teachers
Reblogged from Diane Ravitch's blog: I was uneasy with the name , but I got
over it. The reality is that the Badass Association of Teachers fills a
need. Teachers have been beaten up in the media, and have seen state after
state strip away their academic freedom, their rights, their status in the
community. […]
Seven More Songs for the Summer
We've been here before. That seldom-seen golden globe is beating down from
a clear sky and baking Britain to a crisp. It is the time of Pimms,
sunburn, knotted hankies and utterly superb music. In this summer is unique
among the seasons for demanding a soundtrack. And never one to be backwards
about coming forward with my cultivated and stylish taste in all things
electronic, here are seven more songs for the summer. Be advised: best
heard loud.
Sadly, no one does memes and tagging any more on blogs. *Sigh*, another
casualty of social media. But to try and jumpstart thi... more »
Vaccination Causes Autism – Here’s What They Know…
Autism is a form of vaccine injury
image source Christina England
For many years, parents have believed that multiple vaccinations have
caused their children to become autistic. Governments from around the
world, however, have categorically denied this possibility.They continue to
bury their heads in the sand and ignore what is happening. They refuse to
carry out relevant studies and will not answer any questions that may
uncover the truth about vaccines.
Their actions are clearly demonstrated in a video titled *AutismOne &
Generation Rescue 2013 Conference Congressional Panel*, f... more »
New Wave of Mini Robots Has Arrived
No name yet for this bot;
see it in the video below ... if you can
image source Nicholas West
Beyond the economic debate of whether humans will officially be outsourced
to robots -- or not (maybe by 2045) -- there is no question that the
military-industrial complex loves the idea of creating robots that can
serve the battlefield and beyond. Here are some of their current favorites.
- PETMAN humanoid robot
- Sand Flea jumping robot
- Robobee - pollinator/surveillance
- Cryo - robot jellyfish to patrol the oceans
- Cheetah - designed to chase human prey (and now has ... more »
Cult of irrationality
Dear "serious" news channel: This is not helping:
On Friday, CNBC anchor Joe Kernen described climate science as a “bona fide
cult” of “enviro socialists” in an interview with the former CEO of Shell
Oil.
The two of them yukked it up over this "foolishness." The CEO laments we're
"not dealing with the real problems." I assume by that he means, his profit
margin is simply not obscenely high enough yet. He'll never get that
gargantuan bonus without it.
It's not surprising CNBC would be in the pocket of BigBusiness but ye gods,
they're working against their own self-interest when th... more »
A Progressive Continuum: Paying it Forward
by Cecil Bothwell
Thanks to support from readers of this blog, and Glen Greenwald's
endorsement, I was able to wage a credible primary campaign against our
former Blue Dog Rep. Heath Shuler.
Heath dropped out, we think in part because polls suggested we might win.
But big money won the primary for Heath's deputy, who then went on to lose
the General.
That loss was due in at least some measure to NC redistricting that tilted
this district to the right.
Far beyond what that gerrymander did to Tar Heel representation in
Washington, it bent the election for our General Assembly. Tea... more »
NC Tea Party Taliban Requires Health Teachers to Lie to 7th Graders on Later Effects of Abortion
That’s right. The bill passed both legislative bodies and is now on the
Governor’s desk, who is expected to sign it–even though he promised during
his campaign that he would sign no legislation on abortion. SB 132, AN ACT
TO INCLUDE INSTRUCTION IN THE SCHOOL HEALTH EDUCATION PROGRAM ON THE
PREVENTABLE CAUSES OF PRETERM BIRTH, INCLUDING […]
Jerome Keating Meet Up Sat 13
*A thunderstorm brews above Wenzheng Lane, near Sun Moon Lake*
Jerome Keating sends this around:
Our next meeting is this coming Saturday, July 13, at 10 am.
Speaker, Stephen Pilion Ph.D. of St Cloud State Univ.
Topic: "Have you wondered what is going on with Labor Activism on either
side of the Taiwan Strait?"
Are things happening and if so what?
Here is his background.
Stephen Philion
Professor of Sociology
Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology
St. Cloud State University
http://www.stcloudstate.edu/sociology/faculty/philion.asp
Director, SCSU Research Group on Immigrant Workers ... more »
It's Happened Before
Documents released yesterday indicate that, contrary to what Stephen Harper
says, there were more people than Nigel Wright involved in the pay off to
Mike Duffy. Most interesting of all is the revelation that Senator Irving
Gertsein, who controls Conservative Party funds, was prepared to pony up
$30,000 to help Duffy pay his bill -- until Gerstein discovered that
Duffy's tab was three times bigger than that.
Paul Wells writes that this isn't the first time party money was used to
try and make a problem go away:
At the beginning of the campaign for the 2006 election, an Ottawa lawy... more »
A CRUDE OIL - WE ARE TOLD IT IS SAFE TO TRANSPORT ON TRAINS
Balls of flames shot several metres into the air after a train carrying
crude oil derailed in the Quebec (Canada) town of Lac-Megantic early
Saturday, sparking several explosions.
Hundreds of people were evacuated in the community about 250 kilometres
east of Montreal.
"It's dreadful," said Lac-Megantic resident Claude Bedard. "It's terrible.
We've never seen anything like it.
Some of the train's 73 cars exploded and a fire that that could be seen for
several kilometres spread to a number of homes.
A large but undetermined amount of fuel also reportedly spilled into the
Chaudiè... more »
Musical Interlude: Deuter, “Black Velvet Flirt”
Deuter, “Black Velvet Flirt”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-cyUvk8rsY&html5=1
SUNDAY SONG (A DAY EARLY)
강정의 평화! 구럼비야 사랑해! from cho sung bong on Vimeo.
REPORT ON US WAR ON AFRICA FROM INSIDE GERMANY
At the 5:12 point in the video they have a really good illustration of how
US drones flying over Africa are linked to satellites that connect AfriCom
in Germany and US drone pilots back home. Really reenforces how satellites
are ultimately the "triggers" that make drones work.
Revealed: BBC boss who landed £866k payoff and walked straight into another public-sector job | Mail Online
Public sector troughery at its finest. Read the Mail...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2357165/Revealed-BBC-boss-landed-866k-payoff-walked-straight-public-sector-job.html
The cutest animal photo ever? Adult gorilla and baby duck
A.A.Emmerson (@AAEmmerson) tweeted at 11:43 AM on Sat, Jul 06, 2013:
That's it - i'm done - a gorilla with a baby duck http://t.co/qFAKC4isue
(https://twitter.com/AAEmmerson/status/353464167182761984)
Watch "Pro-Morsi Wahhabis Vow to Suicide Bomb Everyone Opposed to Them & to Set Christians on Fire" on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFX1heljE9k&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Oh Egypt, what chaos your way comes...
REPORT ON US SPYING ON GERMANY
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The correct way to queue
Debbie Davies (@DebbieDavies) tweeted at 5:17 AM on Mon, Jul 01, 2013:
"@DocHackenbush: OMG, you guys. We've been doing queues all wrong. THIS is
how to queue: http://t.co/wN94BNIAP6"
(https://twitter.com/DebbieDavies/status/351555238316097538)
Absolutely brilliant!
Chet Raymo, “The Incredible Potential of Unexpectedness”
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*“The Incredible Potential of Unexpectedness”*
by Chet Raymo
“The Jesuit scientist/mystic Teilhard de Chardin imagined what he called a
"noosphere" (from the Greek word for "mind") as the next stage of
terrestrial evolution- an envelope of pure human thought embracing the
planet. This would be the inevitable result of human progress on a
spherical Earth of finite surface area. We rub up against each other. We
are stimulated by proximity. Railroads and airplanes extend the range of
our interaction. Better still (he wrote), "thanks to the prodigious
biological event represented... more »
Muslim Brotherhood: Good or bad?
Comparing the reporting of the Egyptian army's killing of pro-Morsi
protesters near the HQ of the Republican Guard yesterday evening showed
that reporters from both the BBC and ITV had a similar take on the course
of the violence.
After Friday prayers, a breakaway group of aggrieved Muslim Brotherhood
marchers arrived at the army headquarters and, in time, began to become
angrier. They were met by a military which started with a speech welcoming
peaceful protest but warning the protesters against coming closer, then
began firing warning shots and tear gas as the crowd grew more a... more »
PAUL BONACCI
*Paul Bonacci*
Bonacci testified on videotape (5-14-1990) for Nebraska State Police
investigator Gary Caradori:
"Bonacci said that while on a trip to Sacramento, he was forced at
gun-point to commit homosexual acts on another boy before he watched other
men do the same - after which the boy was shot in the head."
(Child sex rings linked to top Americans Part 2)
Your moment of Zen
Janis Joplin on display at Martin Macks gastro Pub on 1568 Haight St in San
Francisco. [Original art by Mark Bode]
Preview: It's Fantasy Week at Sunday Classics!
*Homero Francesch is the piano soloist in this performance of Beethoven's Choral
Fantasy with Leonard Bernstein conducting the Vienna Philharmonic and
Vienna Jeunesse Choir.*
*by Ken*
We have a great musical fantasy coming up Sunday -- Max Bruch's *Scottish
Fantasy* for violin and orchestra, so I thought tonight we would review the
two wonderful fantasies we've already heard.
*THERE WAS, FOR ONE, LISZT'S HUNGARIAN FANTASIA*
We first heard it in the August 2010 post "The piano-and-orchestra Liszt --
the orator meets the poet."
**
*LISZT: Hungarian Fantasia for Piano and Orchestra*... more »
Wishes for Independence Day
Paul Krugman has a very special salute for Americans still holding on to
the dream of constitutional government (in our first and only republic (so
far)) and individual liberty. Today’s America is a place where everyone
claims to support equality of opportunity, yet we are, objectively, the
most class-ridden nation in the Western world — the country where children
of the wealthy are most
Nestle CEO - Water should have a market value
Awhile ago – I did a post that *included a video with the President of
Nestle***stating:
Access to water is not your right
believing you have a right to water - is an extreme belief
Water is a raw material and a "foodstuff" that should be
privatized and commercialized.
Privatize, privatize, privatize.
The natural resource commons does not belong to the people - it belongs to
the corporations for the sole purpose of profits.
This video is an example of the extremist free market philosophy held by
the American ... more »
Former U.S. Ambassador to Egypt, Frank Wisner, On Why The Situation In Egypt Is Not A Coup
*Source of photo.*
"In this case in Egypt I think it's wise, and the President is wise, to go
slowly and consider very carefully both what happened in Egypt and what is
at stake. For, in Egypt, it wasn't a military that flooded [inaudible]
seizure of the the government and grabbed it. *It was a massive public
uprising that left unchecked it would've produced great violence.* It
would've left the military in the miserable position of having to control
that, those demonstrations by force.
*The cry from the crowd was they wanted new elections and they wanted a
broader political dis... more »
"A Web of Collaborators"
*"A Web of Collaborators"*
by Peter Coyne
"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Pardon the Latin. After a few burgers, beer
and coleslaw, we began to see the world clearly yesterday. Today, we’re
still at it, asking a very old, as yet unanswered question: Who, precisely,
watches the watchers?
Enter the MIT Web app project called “Immersion: A People-Centric View of
Your Email Life.” You enter your email address into it and it will show you
your email’s “metadata” as seen by the NSA. And it shows who you
“collaborate” with. For entertainment purposes, we decided to spy on
ourselves. Her... more »
The Economy: “It's Simple: Adjust Your Expectations Or Die”
* *
*“It's Simple: Adjust Your Expectations Or Die”*
by Karl Denninger
“There are a lot of hard-headed people out in the investment and banking
world. Most of them are hard-headed because they have never known anything
else. A few are a bit smarter - they know that their business model is
cooked if the underlying assumptions change and they're being intentionally
dishonest in trying to grab the last few nickels in front of the
steamroller, and to hell with you (their customer.) Then there are those
who have it figured out and are attempting to find a way to adapt to what
is going... more »
Snowden'a ayslum options - While Iceland said no for now , Nicaragua and Venezuela say yes - Can Bolivia be far behind at this point ? Blowback for the " Imperial hijack " ?
Blowback for the imperial hijacking ? Blowback from Venezuela for prior US
actions ?
Venezuela’s Maduro: Unlike US Asylees, Snowden didn’t Blow anything Up,
just said ‘This is not Right’
Posted on 07/06/2013 by Juan Cole
Globovision reports that President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela on Friday
offered asylum to US leaker Edward Snowden, in order, he said, to protect
him from “imperial North American persecution,” describing the US
government as among the “most oppressive in the world.” He said he hoped
Snowden would be able to live “quietly in the free country of Bolívar and
Chávez... more »
THE EGYPTIAN COUP AND THE PEOPLE OF THE GAZA STRIP
As much as the Egyptian street generally sympathise with the plight of the
Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, it seems the new Egyptian regime are
falling over themselves to make themselves look good in the eyes of the US
in order to ensure that the promised $1.5 billion of aid comes there way
despite the coup. Unfortunately, one element of their approach to appeasing
the US is by demonstrating that they are mindful of Israel’s concerns with
regard to security about the Gaza Strip. And one way of showing they mean
business is to close down the Gaza Strip’s supply line tunnels betw... more »
If You Don't Secure Your Firearms, Don't Complain When the Police Take them
Harper's Redneck Society, High River Branch, is incensed that RCMP officers
entered their abandoned homes and recovered unsecured firearms left in
plain view. Sideshow Steve wasted no time in bitching about it, even
exceeding his authority to recommend direct that the weapons be returned to
their owners without delay.
Now the RCMP officers are to be investigated for securing unattended
firearms.
Sure Cletis may or may not have had his guns secured in a proper gun safe
in the basement when the floods arrived and, sure, he and his wife/sister
may have had to move their shootin' iro... more »
JULY 4 BATH PARADE PROTEST
A video by Regis Tremblay covering our drone and NSA surveillance protest
during the July 4 parade in Bath, Maine.
End of video has a great quote from S. Brian Wilson, member of Veterans For
Peace.
Courtesy Ceresta Smith, some intelligence flickers at #NEARA13 #optout
Here’s the full text of NBI 24 passed at the NEA RA in Atlanta on
supporting parents who decide to opt their children out of standardized
testing: NEW BUSINESS ITEM 24 Adopted as amended NEA shall support the
rights of parents/guardians to collaborate with teachers in determining
appropriate options for assessment of student proficiency if […]
Troika and Greece Government come closer to agreement on latest Troika conditions - civil service layoff scheme seems set , civil service strikes set to roll.....and with municipal police impacted this go round , this could get interesting fast ! s
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_05/07/2013_507801
*Greece, troika agree to reduce sell-off target, close to deal on civil
servants*
***Municipal workers stand in front of a police cordon during a
demonstration of the federation of local government employees POE-OTA
outside the Ministry of Administrative Reform in Athens, on Friday.*
The Greek government continued its bargaining with the troika Friday as the
two sides debated how Athens will meet its targets for a labor mobility
scheme ahead of Monday’s Eurogroup, when eurozone finance ministers will
decide wh... more »
NMA rocks Taiwan: Taiwan State of Mind Parody
More hilarity from the animators at NMA.
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You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here
Echoing the catch phrase of bartenders everywhere, it's last call for
Snowden in Russia.
Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Russia had received no request
for political asylum from Snowden and he had to solve his problems himself
after 11 days in the transit area of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport.
President Vladimir Putin has refused to extradite the American and Russian
officials have delighted in his success in staying out of the United
States' clutches since revealing details of secret U.S. government
surveillance programs.
But Moscow also has made clear that Snowden ... more »
Inside Metro Politics
*Inside Metro Politics: N.O. judges off to Panama junket ~The Advocate,
N.O. Bureau*
Should We Keep Hidden the Way People Behave When their Actions are Hidden?
In his most recent post, PTJ argues that “things like Freakonomics are
basically corrosive and should be opposed whenever practicable”. While he
repeats in that post (and the comments section) a number of dubious claims
about what sorts of behavior are possible within a decision-theoretic
framework, I think we’re past the point in the conversation where it
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A "better than expected" jobs report isn't the same thing as a "good" jobs report -- Dean Baker explains
Guardian* caption: "Three business sectors -- restaurants, retail trade,
and temporary help -- account for more than half of new jobs in the US."*
*"This would be a bad situation in any case, but it is made worse by the
fact that it is 100% preventable. We know how to make the economy grow more
rapidly and generate jobs. But politicians are using old superstitions and
deliberate lies to scare people away from the sort of fiscal stimulus that
would get the economy back on track."*
*-- economist Dean Baker, in "Upbeat June jobs report still
leaves US economy in a deep hole," for* The G... more »
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