Sunday, August 11, 2013

11 August - Blogs I'm Following II

Santa Maria degli Angeli (Assisi)Santa Maria degli Angeli (Assisi) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
In Costa Rica, teams made their way to Poás Vo...In Costa Rica, teams made their way to Poás Volcano National Park for a Route Info clue. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Auckland CityAuckland City (Photo credit: ljw)
Keith with Metal MooseKeith with Metal Moose (Photo credit: Avery Studio)
English: Cory Booker and Gayle King at the 201...English: Cory Booker and Gayle King at the 2011 Time 100 gala. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Français : Paris 13e arrondissement - Rue Simo...Français : Paris 13e arrondissement - Rue Simone-Weil - vue depuis la rue Charles-Bertheau (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Français : Paris 13e arrondissement - Rue Simo...Français : Paris 13e arrondissement - Rue Simone-Weil - plaque de rue (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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This is Auckland’s future: Mansion or crack shack?

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 minute ago
Auckland Mayor Len Brown reckons his “liveable Auckland” should follow the model of Vancouver, Canada—which he describes as "best practice urban planning." [image: Crack Shack or Mansion]You can see why it’s a model for Lying Len: Vancouver is a city whose average house prices are a whopping nine times average income, making it amongst the most unaffordable city in the English-speaking world—and making it damned hard to tell the difference between a mansion and a crack shack. See. Play the game and post your score. (I got 8 out of 16.) And wonder as you play whether this is Au... more »

Why The National Organization For Women Endorsed Rush Holt

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 29 minutes ago
Tuesday is election day in New Jersey-- not the general election, which is in November, but the special election primary for the open Senate seat. Wall Street has been successful in creating the conventional wisdom that their puppet, Cory Booker, can't be stopped. But a late summer special election primary is really about turning out voters more than anything else. Cory Booker may be a TV celebrity but he has a putrid record of failure and a sleazy relationship with Big Business special interests. That's why I was so buoyed to see the National Organization for Women endorse Rush ... more »

Stephen Plant - Simone Weil

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 37 minutes ago
*"Waiting For God" by Simone Weil.* *Wikipedia: * Simone Weil (3 February 1909 – 24 August 1943) was a French philosopher, Christian mystic, and political activist. Weil's life was marked by an exceptional compassion for the suffering of others; at the age of six, for instance, she refused to eat sugar after she heard that soldiers fighting in World War I had to go without. She died from tuberculosis during World War II, possibly exacerbated by malnutrition after refusing to eat more than the minimal rations that she believed were available to soldiers at the time. *Stephen P... more »

John Friend on Truth Militia Radio

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 1 hour ago
Earlier this evening I co-hosted *Truth Militia Radio* with my good friend Keith. We discussed a variety of subjects, including the myth of the good Jew and my recent *News from the Jews* column. Also, if anyone in the Southern California area is interested in participating in a 9/11 protest with myself, Keith, and a few other like-minded individuals, please contact me via *email*. We are hoping to organize a demonstration or rally highlighting the fact Israel and an international network of Jewish criminals largely controlling the United States federal government and media orga... more »

Costa Rica--Business Trip?

Lori Anne Haskell at Adventures with Kurt and Lori - 1 hour ago
Who takes business trips to Costa Rica? Us! Not related to the law firm, but related to our moving there. Kurt & I want to become permanent residents of the country for various reasons. Mostly, because of the benefits we can get from that. Becoming residents is not easy on your own, so we hired a lawyer to help us. We had a lawyer who helped us with our house transaction, so we ended up using another lawyer at the same firm for the residency stuff as well. We had a huge list of things we had to get ready before taking a trip to the country, and then we had to apply in person... more »

The Poet: David Whyte, "One Day"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago
* "One Day"* "One day I will say the gift I once had has been taken. The place I have made for myself belongs to another. The words I have sung are being sung by the ones I would want. Then I will be ready for that voice and the still silence in which it arrives. And if my faith is good then we'll meet again on the road, and we'll be thirsty, and stop and laugh and drink together again from the deep well of things as they are." - David Whyte "Where Many Rivers Meet" "The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see- ... more »

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noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago
“People Are Awesome 2013” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6WRZ8iBQzQ&html5=1 All that we can be, could be... * John Denver, "The Eagle and the Hawk" * “Come dance with the west wind and touch on the mountain tops, Sail o’er the canyons and up to the stars, And reach for the heavens and hope for the future, And all that we can be and not what we are...” - http://www.youtube.com/

"The Consequences of Fear"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago
* * *"The Consequences of Fear" * by May’s Closet "* *Worry* is a mechanism of our psyche that prompts us to do something. The prompting energy is fear – usually fear of some consequence. Because it is fear, the person tends to avoid thinking about it. Thus worry tends to perpetuate itself in a circular way – the fear causes non-action, and non-action further causes worry. * *Anxiety* is a fear whose object is nonspecific or vague, whereas worry is about something specific and identified. Anxiety is the result of repeated unprocessed fears that have accumulated in one’s subconsc... more »

"I Rescued A Human Today"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago
* * *"I Rescued A Human Today" * by Rescue Me Dog "Her eyes met mine as she walked down the corridor peering apprehensively into the kennels. I felt her need instantly and knew I had to help her. I wagged my tail, not too exuberantly, so she wouldn’t be afraid. As she stopped at my kennel I blocked her view from a little accident I had in the back of my cage. I didn’t want her to know that I hadn’t been walked today. Sometimes the overworked shelter keepers get too busy and I didn’t want her to think poorly of them. As she read my kennel card I hoped that she wouldn’t feel sa... more »

The Poet: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "What If?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago
"What if you slept? And what if, In your sleep You dreamed? And what if, In your dream, You went to heaven And there plucked A strange and Beautiful flower? And what if, When you awoke, You had the flower In your hand? ... Ah, what then?" - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The ZAP Report - 8/11/2013

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 3 hours ago
* * * * *Comments in red are mine alone -AK (BILL)* * * *Greetings and Salutations,* * * *The Global Reset is under way, nothing can stop it now! The reset is a process not just the flip of a switch. The RV is a part of it just as Basel III is a part along with the announcements and other pieces which make up the whole. Right now everyone is on pins and needles waiting for the 5 elders to swipe their cards in Reno. This is expected to happen at any moment now. When the card swipe happens we will see the RV kick in along with Basel III without delay. Then expect to see F&P anytime af... more »

Urban Gadabout: Plans come together as I look out over the upper East River esplanade and later walk across 72nd Street

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
*From the esplanade (more properly John H. Finley Walk) of Carl Schurz Park (lower left) we could look out at the lighthouse at the northern tip of Roosevelt Island, which I visited last week on an MAS walking tour, and, farther off, Astoria on the Queens shore, with the bird sanctuary of Mill Rock Park on the left and Wards Island farther off.* *by Ken* It didn't quite rise to the level of the way the A Team's Col. Hannibal Smith always used to love it when a plan came together, but that's sort of how I felt last week during a Municipal Art Society walking tour on Manhattan's Upp... more »

There Was No Financial Fraud By Banks If You Are Incapable of Recognizing It (Or How It's All Been Put Into Place To Happen Again) You Wonder What Happened To The DOJ After The S&L Frauds? GWOT

Newsflash! NSA, CIA Share Data on Americans With DEA John Kiriakou: "Dissenters' Punishment Not Limited to Jail Time" Blow Out - Charles Pierce, EsquireTh(is) blog has been following closely those place(s) in the country - West, Texas, Geismar, Louisiana, etc. - that have taken to blowing up recently and it has discovered that, in many cases, the blowing up occurs because the local "

"The Cost Of Knowing It..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago
"There's a truth deeper than experience. It's beyond what we see, or even what we feel. It's an order of truth that separates the profound from the merely clever, and the reality from the perception. We're helpless, usually, in the face of it; and the cost of knowing it, like the cost of knowing love, is sometimes greater than any heart would willingly pay. It doesn't always help us to love the world, but it does prevent us from hating the world. And the only way to know that truth is to share it, from heart to heart, just as Prabhakar told it to me, just as I'm telling it to yo... more »

Sunday Question for Liberals

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 5 hours ago
What liberal politician(s) from the past should Democrats emulate more than they do?

Sunday Question for Conservatives

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 5 hours ago
Since I complained about the influence of Nixon and Newt this weekend... What politician(s) from the past should Republicans be emulating more than they do?

No Judgement, Just Love

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 5 hours ago
Sunday, 11 August 2013 No Judgement, Just Love *Did you feel it? The surge of energy? WE are SOOOOOOO There Darlins!!!! * http://removingtheshackles.blogspot.com/2013/08/no-judgement-just-love.html *The beautiful words that Bill wrote on American Kabuki:* * * *To Team Contrast* * * *We felt your moment of despair today.* *Your services are no longer required. * *The experiment has concluded. * *You excelled at role you played.* *Bravo! Job well done.* *Time to repurpose your being and doing. * * * *Love and protection awaits those who* *stand down and operate in ... more »

Searching for Meaning in a Secular Age

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 5 hours ago
*"All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age"* by Hubert Dreyfus Sean Dorrance Kelly. (2011). *Video Title: Searching for Meaning in a Secular Age. Source: University of California Television (UCTV). Date Published: May 12, 2011. Description:* Host Harry Kreisler welcomes philosophy professors Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Kelly to discuss their book, "All Things Shining." Drawing on their reading of Western classics, Dreyfus and Kelly analyze how different epochs offered unique answers to the question of what is sacred and what can provide meanin... more »

Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, August 11th, 2013

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 6 hours ago
Another Sunday, and time again for my weekly rant... First, I have received several comments from some fellow truth seekers that state that the subject of my last article, pertaining to the Department Of Homeland Insecurity now imposing their will on live music is a hoax... I have yet to see anything that shows it to be a hoax or a fraud... But if it does prove to be false, I will pull the article, of course, and put up an apology to everyone.... So far, I have found nothing yet to show it is a fraud, and therefore I am leaving it as is... The one subject that I have been covering a... more »

ALECer Misleads Public About ALEC.

2old2care at Because I Can - 6 hours ago
Found this tweet exchange yesterday: After the conversation - Sara Marie blocked Superguts. For a "internet marketing guru" - she evidently lacks the ability to defend her stance on things. She is wife of Ohio State Rep. Andrew Brenner - an ALEC Member And she is own little tornado of controversy. *She is on the City Council of Powell, OH* - with some controversy about past tax liens against the business held by her and her husband. And it got nasty. And it got even nastier when people were asking her to resign from the City council over this. She is currently embroiled in an i... more »

September G-20 - harbinger for a new Bretton Woods Agreement and the end of King Dollar as the World Reserve currency ? Are the moves of China and Russia partly responsible for the mad rush to obtain and secure physical gold by China and other nations - including the huge transfers of gold out of London that have been observed , the move by JP Morgan to corner the Comex future market ?

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 6 hours ago
G20 Showdown on Dollar HedgemonyAugust 11, 2013 Print Version *By RUSS WINTER of Winters Actionables* Obama canceled his scheduled meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week. Although Obama didn’t give his reason for the cancellation, the media stoogery speculated it was because of Russia’s protection of whistleblower-patriot Edward Snowden. What is not being reported is that Russia has been warning its citizens and institutions since last March’s Cyprus bail-in to divest assets out of western banks. Additionally, last week Yao Yudong of the PBoC’s monetary policy committ... more »

Fear not, young home-buyers!

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 7 hours ago
The National Party seems to reserve its party conferences for announcements of the feel-good but ineffective. Yesterday their leader, John Key, announced changes to NZ housing policies. If they have any effect at all, it will be negative. The “big idea”—virtually the only idea in a conference billed by Bill English and Steven Joyce as “the conference of good ideas”—is to raise the house values under which buyers may attract a Kiwisaver or “Welcome Home” subsidy; and to raise this subsidy from bugger all to not much. Even his audience of party faithful yawned—perhaps because it wa... more »

The British Isles: A Family of Nations

Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 7 hours ago
The following is an interesting piece about the British Isles by the controversial American writer, David Lane. I reproduce this piece as it shines an outsider's light upon a very real problem in the British Isles. I can attest to the truth that the peoples of the isles are thoroughly mixed. I myself have Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Celtic 'English' origins, with presumably some Anglo-Saxon thrown in. Considering that my bloodline is also heavily infused with that of my ancestors from Baltic Russia, the mixture of most of the indigenous nations of the British Isles in my own fami... more »

No Judgement, Just Love

Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 7 hours ago
Did you feel it? The surge of energy? WE are SOOOOOOO There Darlins!!!! The beautiful words that Bill wrote on American Kabuki: *To Team Contrast We felt your moment of despair today. Your services are no longer required. The experiment has concluded. You excelled at role you played. Bravo! Job well done. Time to repurpose your being and doing. Love and protection awaits those who stand down and operate in complete transparency and truth to bring resolution and completion to the experiment on Earth and other realms. Eternal Essence will enforce against the inbodiments who choos... more »

Sunday Classics: Gilbert and Sullivan's gondoliers try to temper monarchy with republican equality

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago
*The Duke of Plaza-Toro and suite make their entrance in the Yale Gilbert and Sullivan Society's 2011 Gondoliers.* *Flourish. A gondola arrives at the Piazzetta steps, from which enter the*DUKE OF PLAZA-TORO *, the *DUCHESS*, their daughter *CASILDA*, and their attendant *LUIZ*, who carries a drum. All are dressed in pompous but old and faded clothes.* *DUKE*: From the sunny Spanish shore, the Duke of Plaza-Tor' -- *DUCHESS*: And His Grace's Duchess true -- *CASILDA*: And His Grace's daughter, too -- *LUIZ*: And His Grace's private drum to Venetia's shores have come: *ALL*: If ever, ev... more »

No nerve gas found at New York JFK Airport - despite the initial concerns and breathless NY Post story from earlier today ! Substance at issue believed to be organophosphate- used in soda pop ( makes you think twice about sodas though.... )

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 7 hours ago
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/08/no-there-was-no-nerve-gas-found-jfk/68209/ No, There Was No Nerve Gas Found at JFK AP - - - - [image: Share] Share - Print article - Email article - [image: Comments] Comment CONNOR SIMPSON4:41 PM ET There was a brief scare Sunday afternoon after two workers became sick after opening a package in a mailroom at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. Initial reports said the two men were exposed to a dangerous nerve gas, but thankfully that wasn't actually the case. Two Customs agents were forced to ... more »

Breaking news

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 8 hours ago
I really don't understand why this keeps happening. If you've been reading the news online today you'll know that a radical Muslim cleric, Sheikh Issa Ponda, has been on the run after being shot by police on Zanzibar - and, according to the *Daily Mirror*, has now been caught and is under armed guard in hospital. The Islamist is suspected of involvement in the cruel acid attack on two British girls last week. I won't quote them all but Sheikh Issa Ponda's flight from the police has been reported right across the media today - in the *Mirror, *on Sky News, ITV News, Channel 4 News... more »

Creative Kiwis . . .

Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 9 hours ago
DESIGNER DRUGS ARE BIG in New Zealand, according to a post on The Economist, “A New Prescription”, and the Kiwi government has had to come to terms with the situation. Unlike Stevie and the CONs, for whom prisons are perfection, the Kiwis have decided that regulation and taxation is the only sustainable policy. Sick of trying to keep up with drugmakers, the government is trying a new tack.

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 9 hours ago
*Kicking you off the internet ~Library Chronicles* *The Advocate Story on Wisner ~American Zombie*

The Struggle For Democracy

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 9 hours ago
One of our most annoying conceits is our glee at dissecting and critiquing democracy in other lands. To these critics I say, 1215. Remember that for 1215 is the date our Anglo-Saxon drive for democracy began with King John signing the *Magna Carta*. Barely seven centuries later we became so enlightened that "we" actually "gave" women the right to vote. You're welcome, ladies. I only wish these armchair critics could be made to watch Patrick Watson's 1989 documentary series, "*The Struggle for Democracy.*" They would learn that democracy is, at best, a very loosely defined conce... more »

Health warnings and independent think tanks

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 9 hours ago
A study for the Centre for Policy Studies, a right-of-centre think tank with links to the Conservative Party, has found that the BBC is "biased toward the left" - according to a report in the *Telegraph*. Its research has found that "the BBC is twice as likely to cover left-wing policy proposals than those that are right-wing" and "to hail them as “independent” while giving right-wing research a “health warning” by pointing out its ideological position". The CPS has quantified this statement. The CPS has also compared the corporations coverage through the prism of the *Guardian *... more »

Retaining Author Relationships In A Transparent World

Martyn Daniels at Brave New World - 10 hours ago
Technology and communications are changing not only our culture but also our relationships with others. It is not just about how and what we communicate but also about the transparency and openness of the communication. Where once we could not see, we now can and this can start to question and even undermine the trust and inter-dependency in relationships we once took for granted. We can all now see our financial transactions and business is now viewable in real time 24x7. Even our location, what we are doing, what we like and dislike can be tracked and visible to many. There i... more »

BRAIN FOOD; PETER LANZA

Anon at aangirfan - 10 hours ago
"A daily supplement with 800 micrograms of *folic acid*, 20 milligrams of vitamin* B6*, and 500 micrograms of vitamin *B12* can slow and possibly reverse the progression of Alzheimer's symptoms along with cognitive impairment." *B Vitamins Slow Alzheimer's and Grey Matter Loss* *Peter Lanza Photo Album; Sandy Hook Manufactured ... - Aangirfan* KeywordPercent of Search Traffic 1. aangirfan 17.67% 2. peter lanza 9.34% 9.34% of people who search for 'peter lanza' find aangirfan? 17.67% of people who search for 'aangirfan' find aangirfan? *Aangirfan Global T... more »

Eddie Shah's Conceit

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 10 hours ago
Given Eddie Shah's anti-union history, I'm quite pleased to see him drag his own name through the mud. But his comments that basically amount to "sometimes, underage girls are gagging for it" still, unfortunately, has wide currency. Let's get some things out the way. Since Freud, if not before, childhood sexuality has been acknowledged in medicine and psychology as a fact. Ask anyone and most people will have had a good idea about what their sexuality was from a young age. Ask again and a good proportion will have had some form of sexual experience prior to the age of consent - usu... more »

Your moment of Zen

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 10 hours ago
A forest cottage in Efteling, Holland. [photo via The Oakwheel]

Arms Race Update - There Goes the Neighbourhood

The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours ago
*Singapore's RSS Swordsman* When Obama announced America's military "pivot" out of the Middle East and into Asia-Pacific, it was bound to shake up the neighbourhood - that plus China's rapid military expansion that the pivot is intended to counter. When China and the U.S. get testy it's guaranteed to stir up the neighbourhood and so it has. *Aviation Week* reports that America's "partners" - Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand - are unlocking their treasuries and going on an armaments buying spree. For the five-year ... more »

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Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 11 hours ago
Following on from the last post, the test of BBC bias here is, obviously, to test how they reported the story - and the best test case is usually the *Today *programme. The 8.10 spot on *Today *on Monday began with Evan Davis interviewing Rochelle Monte, a lady who works on a zero-hours contract. Evan left the question open at the start of the interview as to whether it was a good thing or a bad thing, but Rochelle was downbeat about it and would have left listeners with the feeling that zero-hours contracts bring far more negatives for the employee than positives. Evan then ta... more »

Virtually The Entire House Financial Services Committee Should Be Indicted For Bribery

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago
For much of the year we've been talking about the corruption that, to a great extent, defines the New Dems in Congress and pointing specifically to the bad apples among them that managed to get onto the House Financial Services Committee, one of the principal conduits of bribery cash from the Wall Street banksters to Congress. Of the seven Democratic freshmen who were "lucky" enough to be rewarded with the plumb assignment-- Bill Foster (New Dem-IL), Dan Kildee (MI), Patrick Murphy (New Dem-FL), John Delaney (New Dem-MD), Kyrsten Sinema (New Dem-AZ), Joyce Beatty (OH) and Denny He... more »

Reality is relative . . .

Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 12 hours ago
REAL Women vs. Real Women, as seen by Sonya Bell & Jessie Willms on iPOLITICS. Love it.

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 12 hours ago
*"I'll have the Roasted Falcon" ~Sean Payton*

Bilderberg Jr: U.S. House Taking Their Bi-Annual Odd-Year Secret All-Expses-Paid Including Family Members Trip To Israel With No Mainstream Media Coverage

Big Dan at Big Dan's Big Blog - 13 hours ago
*What list is even harder to get than the Bilderberg attendee list? The list of U.S. House reps that go on the Israel "junket".* Did you read in your local paper about the U.S. House bi-annual odd-year all-expenses paid for their families, too, "junket" to Israel? Of course you didn't. They're busy distracting you with the *WORLDWIDE FAKE MUSLIM TERROR ALERT* so you didn't realize there's a WORLDWIDE JEW TERROR ALERT that our U.S. House members are pledging allegiance to Israel: *Florida Reps. Frankel, Murphy, Garcia join trip to Israel that raises questions of influence* Forgive... more »

Zero further coverage

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 13 hours ago
BBC News Commenters *Bob Nelson* and *1327 *on the *Biased BBC* open thread noted that *"The BBC’s crusade against zero hours contracts a few days ago appears to have come to an abrupt halt (as has the opposition’s outrage)"*and speculated that this might be because *"The Guardian, The Co-operative Bank and several Labour councils use them"*- something that only emerged as the story snow-balled. I must admit that I saw, heard and read the initial onslaught of BBC coverage, but failed to notice that the story had gone away again...until I saw their comments. Much of the BBC's coverage... more »

First NCTQ and now CAEP: Nightmares for Teacher Education.

Timothy D. Slekar at SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE - 13 hours ago
I have posted about NCATE and the CAEP a few times. But here it is: The new standards, finalized by the CAEP Commission on Standards and Performance Reporting in June after a public comment period, contain controversial new requirements such as minimum program-entry standards and consideration of graduates’ performance in the classroom, including value-added data and any […]

god is not religion

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 13 hours ago
religion divides us but spirituality brings us together.

GMO Rice backlash ....Filipino farmers destroy GMO " Golden Rice " , South Korea and Japan still stand by their bans of US wheat , France continues ban on GMO corn despite sell out by European Commission and sell out by France Council of State - Frankencorn spurned in France !

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 14 hours ago
Filipino farmers destroy genetically modified ‘Golden Rice’ cropsAugust 10, 2013 Print Version *Source:* Raw Story [image: GMO protester via Shutterstock]  A group of activist farmers in the Philippines stormed a government research facility and destroyed an area of genetically modified rice crops the size of 10 football fields. According to New Scientist, the farmers say that genetically modified organism (GMO) foods have not been established to be safe for consumption and that the real solution to world hunger isn’t biologically engineered plants, but a reduction in worldwide rat... more »

I Had a Dream

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 14 hours ago
Part of it was that I was in the lobby of a mental hospital and this woman who was in a very agitated state was being told by the nurses at the front desk that they didn't have any room for her. The woman was short, late middle-aged, with a cheap printed knee-length dress on. She was depressed and frantic. The nurses/bureaucrats were all very simpering in their "I'm terribly sorry" routine. Dejected, the woman walked away. She held out her hand to take her sister's "hand." Her sister was, if anything, in worse state than she was. She was about a little over a meter tall. She had a s... more »

The Slog hammers EU Bail In Law - rushed through but premeditated .....Which Banks are so at risk as to warrant the legalization of deposit thefts in the EU ? Can Germany win the race to have Merkel re-elected before the proverbial SHTF in Europe ? Bundesbank warns of next Greece bailout - by January 2014 at the latest ! Europe funding shortfall now at 4 trillion - an increase of 500 billion in about one year ! News of the day from Zombie Landa aka Greece - next bailout looms as mentioned , talks may start in November.....

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 14 hours ago
http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2013/08/11/global-looting-the-new-eu-bailin-law-was-hurried-through-alright-but-the-template-was-premeditated/ GLOBAL LOOTING: The new EU bailin law was hurried through alright…but the template was premeditated How imminent bank collapse fears forced the Eunatics to act [image: deutsche]*Deutsche Bank…..two left feet* *It’s becoming clearer with each day that passes why the EC rushed its new bailin law through the European Parliament at the beginning of this month. When the US returns from vacations after September 2nd – and even more so once the German ele... more »

Monsanto can sue farmers when GMO contamination goes over one percent of their crop

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 15 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Rady Ananda At the Justice Begins with Seeds biosafety conference held in Seattle August 2-3, it was announced that a recent court decision prevented Monsanto from suing farmers for patent infringement when their crops become genetically contaminated with lab-engineered patented seeds. But the ruling is insufficient to protect farmers in the real world, where contamination events are often much higher than only one percent of a field, as specifically prescribed in the ruling. The June 2013 decision dismissing *OSGATA v. Mons... more »

Bloomberg's at it Again: Electronic Cigarettes in the Crosshairs

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 15 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] Nanny Mike Wikimedia Commons Paul Lawrance Newly drafted tobacco bills leaked by the Consumer Advocates for Smoke-free Alternatives Association (CASAA) reveal NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg’s plan to wage war on electronic cigarettes. If the ordinances were to be executed, the display of smokeless tobacco and e-cigarettes would be prohibited in retail stores and would require 21 years of age to acquire. The bills, which were drafted by the Health Department at the request of Mayor Bloomberg, define electronic cigarettes, their... more »

JP Morgan - the Bad Boy Of Wall Street - no shortage of civil suits - now a criminal probe related to mbs , investigations around the globe over alleged misconduct at JP Morgan , in the middle of physical concerns at COMEX --- Will JP Morgan put TBTF to the test ? Gold and silver data , news and views - August 8 , 2013 !

Catharsis Ours - 15 hours ago
http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2013/08/gold-daily-and-silver-weekly-charts_8.html 08 AUGUST 2013 Gold Daily and Silver Weekly Charts - GLD May Be In the Eye of the Gathering Storm I spent some time rereading the prospectus and some recent filings of the SPDR Gold ETF today. A reader had asked me a question this morning about a statement I made yesterday about the squeeze on physical bullion and how it may intensify if gold rallies. I said that GLD has to start adding back some of the bullion it has disgorged at some point, and many of those 400 oz. bars may likely have ... more »

This is What a Police State Looks Like

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 15 hours ago
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Obama's Lies Becoming Comical

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 15 hours ago
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Obama Lied 'Repeatedly' During NSA Presser

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 15 hours ago
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Abby Martin Blasts Rachel Maddow for 9/11 Comments

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 15 hours ago
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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 15 hours ago
*City Hall battles Wisner heirs over valuable real estate ~Andrew Vanacore, New Orleans Advocate* *Sunday Coastal B’s: Bay Tech, Bentz and Bay St Louis broke? ~Slabbed* *Sheriff Gusmans latest claim, Scorpion King, raises eyebrows ~John Simerman * *St. Claude Zoned as Arts & Cultural Overlay District ~NOLA DEFENDER* *Could Terrebonne Parish Council ban public sleeping? * *Beyond dinner: Tiger shrimp mounted for display* Read more here: http://www.bradenton.com/2013/08/10/4654351/beyond-dinner-invasive-shrimp.html#storylink=cpy

New Day Dawning In War-Ravaged Mali Today? I'd Wait Before Buying A Ticket To Timbuktu

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago
A Muslim Keita dynasty ruled Mali from 1235 until the Empire collapsed with the death of Mahmud IV in 1610. As a stamp collector in my teenage days I recall a Keita ruling Mali when it first gained independence in 1960. That was Modibo Keita and I don't think he was part of the royal lineage. In fact, he was a socialist. In 1968 he was overthrown in a military coup and imprisoned, where he died 9 years later. And that brings us to Ibrahim Boubacar Keita-- IBK-- who is about to become the new Malian president. He was Prime Minister from 1994-2000 and and President of the National ... more »

Another Risk From Hydraulic Fracturing (Fracking): Dust Inhaled By Workers Linked To Deadly Lung Disease

Another Risk From Hydraulic Fracturing (Fracking): Dust Inhaled By Workers Linked To Deadly Lung Disease

Did a Whistleblower Stop a Terror Attack in Austin?

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 16 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] *A memo warning law enforcement of a possible terror attack at specific locales was officially sent out – but without authorization.* Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton KXAN reported that the threat advisory warning law enforcement of a possible terror attack in Austin was ‘sent out by mistake,’ claiming that “someone released an official memo that they shouldn’t have, and that has caused fresh worries.” Yeah, “worries” that only lend credibility to the suspicion that an inside-system terrorist attack may have been planned for A... more »

On The Margins No More

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 16 hours ago
John Ralston Saul writes that scientific experiments to starve our aboriginal peoples should come as no surprise: When Canadians learn that malnourished aboriginal children were used for nutritional experiments, they cannot really be surprised. Shock is a more plausible reaction. We should never be beyond shock. But not surprised. That would be to feign innocence, when we all know that for more than a century, Canadian authorities of all sorts continually acted badly when it came to indigenous peoples. Many Canadians knew this when it was happening. The standard public discourse ... more »

9/11 in the Academic Community

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 16 hours ago
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] *Youtube* A Winner of the 2011 University of Toronto Film Festival, the film examines the academic community's treatment of critical perspectives on 9/11 by exploring the taboo that shields the American government's narrative from scholarly examination. Through a powerful reflection on intellectual courage and the purpose of academia, the film aims at changing intellectual discourse on 9/11 and the War on Terror. Support the film at 911inAcademia.com Enter your email address to subscribe to our newsletter: Delivered b... more »

There is a "They"

Mark Daniels at GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING - 16 hours ago
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Apparently there's a new Independence Day film coming in 2015

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 17 hours ago
Remember the first one?

They need a mirror

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 17 hours ago
Talking of the BBC's Australian election coverage, a search of the BBC News website brings up the first tranche of articles. The coverage began with two articles on 4 August, when Kevin Rudd called the election: *'Australian PM Kevin Rudd calls election for 7 September' * and *'Australian election call: Voters react'*. The following day saw four articles - *'Australia election campaign kicks off'* and a video report, plus two profiles - one of Tony Abbott and one of Kevin Rudd. That's as you would expect. Then the BBC's biases begin to creep in. The next article came on 8 August a... more »

Hatred is terribly important to a certain kind of Leftie – Telegraph Blogs

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 19 hours ago
Daniel Hannan is right on the money... 'Look at how many people happily declare 'hates Tories', 'hates capitalism' and the like. Sure, you can find one or two 'hates socialism', but it's much, much rarer. ' Read it all here http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100229359/now-right-wingers-are-supposed-to-hate-the-entire-planet/

Jon Don goes down under

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 19 hours ago
Jon Donnison's departure from his BBC Middle East brief was something of a relief. We weren't exactly fans of his reporting. He's been reassigned to Australia, where he'll doubtless bring his brand of BBC impartiality to bear on the present general election (*/sarc, *as we say on the internet). His arrival piece for *From Our Own Correspondent *though*, From little Gaza to chunky Australia, *has given him one last chance (hopefully) to have a go at Israel: With its wall, fences and watchtowers, Gaza is not a place for the claustrophobic. There are neighbourhoods with some of the h... more »

Musical Interlude: Liquid Mind, “Balance (Galaxies)”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago
Liquid Mind, “Balance (Galaxies)” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKKzFk-FiZM&html5=1

Church of England 'hijacked' for pro-EU cathedral service featuring prayers for Britain to stay in Europe | Mail Online

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 19 hours ago
' Prayers for Britain to stay in the EU forming part of a Brussels-backed event to mark the 40th anniversary of the UK joining the Common Market are to be said in a service at Salisbury Cathedral. The event next month is being held in Salisbury because it was the home of the late Sir Edward Heath, the Prime Minister who took the UK into what is now the EU in 1973. Leading pro-Europeans will attend.' More here http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2389140/Church-England-hijacked-pro-EU-cathedral-service-featuring-prayers-Britain-stay-Europe.html

Business 360 10: Foreign Aid as Band Aid Solution

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 19 hours ago
* This is my article for the August 2013 issue of Business 360, published in Kathmandu, Nepal. The two figures below, ADB and WB lending to Nepal respectively, were not included in the published article due to space limitations. ----------- Official Development Assistance (ODA) or simply Foreign Aid, is a government to government transfer of resources, meant to hasten the development of a poor country. If one or both governments, the donor and recipient governments, is/are corrupt, then waste is huge. The money would only fatten the pockets and personal bank accounts of politicians,... more »

Fat-Free Econ 45: Newton's Laws of Motion and Traffic Congestion

Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 19 hours ago
* This is my article yesterday in interaksyon.com. --------- British physicist and mathematician, Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) was known for his contributions to classical mechanics and physics. His famous theory, which I remember from high school, is the so-called “Newton’s Laws of Motion.” Having done research on various social and economic issues for many years, it dawned upon me that Newton’s three laws can be applied to society as well, especially on how the government attempts to solve the daily traffic congestion in Metro Manila and other big cities in the country. Below are... more »

In the footsteps of William Crawley

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 19 hours ago
Much of this morning's *Sunday *with William Crawley followed the agenda outlined on their website - and in the previous post. Two items got dropped though - David Willey's report on corruption at the Vatican (which may have been the same one broadcast on yesterday morning's *Today*), and the feature on Betty Maxwell's ecumenical work. The late Mrs Maxwell made way for a discussion on Northern Ireland. Here's an outline of today's programme. 7.10 *Introduction* by William Crawley 7.11 *Should politicians 'do God'?* In the wake of someone asking David Cameron, "What would your res... more »

Some weekend looking

Roobin at THROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 20 hours ago
It's been a while since we've bunged up a Satellite Eye... link. Here's Planet Earth in July. Here's my favourite picture, an Egyptian sand storm wafting across the Red Sea; the Nile is in the distance.

The 'apartheid state of Israel'

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 20 hours ago
See how the Jews live separately from Muslims. See the Jews only beach... See why calling Israel 'an apartheid state' is lying.

Denying Israel's existence is worth money on a Palestinian tv quiz. The Palestinian TV show the BBC will not tell you about

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 20 hours ago
BBC Watch has the details that the anti Israel BBC will not ever report - http://bbcwatch.org/2013/08/11/the-palestinian-tv-show-the-bbc-will-not-tell-you-about/

UK AID MONEY GOES TO AL QAEDA

Anon at aangirfan - 20 hours ago
*Somalia* There is a theory that the US and UK governments use part of their 'foreign aid' money to finance their militia groups such as al Qaeda. *Between November 2011 and February 2012, al Qaeda terrorists in Somalia managed to get control of £480,000 worth of British aid.* The 'theft' of the aid and equipment 'was hidden in a recent set of UK government accounts.' *DailyMail.* You might wonder why the UK government has increased spending on foreign aid while reducing spending in other areas. *Is the aid money being used to bribe friendly dictators, finance terrorist groups... more »

Will ALEC Diss a Sitting US Senator?

2old2care at Because I Can - 20 hours ago
It all started here two weeks ago: *Dick Durbin to holdhearing on ‘stand your ground’ laws* *Durbin’s hearing will probe the NRA and the ALECl. | * By BURGESS EVERETT | 7/19/13 12:34 PM EDT The Senate’s No. 2 Democrat will hold a hearing on “stand your ground” laws this Fall. Dick Durbin of Illinois announced on Friday that his Senate Judiciary subcommittee will hear testimony on state laws that give citizens the right of lethal force to defend themselves in situations where they feel their life is threatened, measures which are on the books in some form in dozens of states. Durbin... more »

Egyptian Jihadists brag that they were targeting Jews

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 21 hours ago
'The statement said, "We mourn... the Mujahideen in the name of Allah, the martyrdom of a group of the finest fighters in the Sinai, four of the best of the group Ansar Jerusalem...whilecarrying out their jihad duty against the Jews, the process of firing rockets at Jewish settlements near the borders of the occupied territories." The spokesman added, "What triggers grief in our hearts is the emergence of cooperation andcomplicity of the Egyptian army with the Jews in their crime... Is there any betrayal of the public larger than that? The Egyptian army allowing Zionist drone air... more »

Chet Raymo, "The Ring of Truth"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago
* "The Ring of Truth"* by Chet Raymo "In Salley Vickers' novel, 'Where Three Roads Meet,' the shade of Tiresias, the blind seer of the Oedipus myth, visits Sigmund Freud in London during the psychoanalyst's final terrible illness. In a series of conversations, Tiresias retells the story of Oedipus - he who was fated to kill his father and sleep with his mother - a story at the heart of Freud's own theory of the human psyche. At one point in the conversations, as Tiresias and Freud discuss the extent to which our lives are fated, the question of immortality arises. Freud says of ... more »

The Daily "Near you?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago
Stadtallendorf, Hessen, Germany. Thanks for stopping by.

Did 6 million Jews really die in the Holocaust or was it actually more? Exposing a hidden Shoah, one mass grave at a time | The Times of Israel

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 21 hours ago
'Yahad-In Unum's research so far indicates that 1 million Jews "from Poland to Ossetia" were shot dead and laid in mass graves, many of whom were unaccounted for in previous Holocaust research. "A whole part of the genocide has not been declared," Desbois told The Times of Israel. "The challenge is to collect the maximum amount of evidence about the killing of the Jews in these countries and find out about the mass graves. Tomorrow the witnesses will disappear and the deniers will overreact, saying that the Jews falsified the story."' More here http://www.timesofisrael.com/expos... more »

Henry Geiger - Men and Gods (1973)

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 22 hours ago
*Related: * * Henry Geiger - Symbol And Myth (1974).* *Henry Geiger - The Present And The Long View (1979)*. *Henry Geiger - Moonshine And Sunlight (1984).* * * * Henry Geiger - The Uses of Make Believe (1983).* *Henry Geiger - Signs of A New Civilization (1980).* * * *Henry Geiger - We See What We Are (1980).* * * * ** Henry Geiger - An Ancient Question (1986).* * Henry Geiger - The Chains Of Prometheus (1959).* *Wikipedia:* Henry Geiger (1908?-15 February 1989) was the editor, publisher, and chief writer of MANAS Journal which published from 1948-1988. Abraham Maslow called... more »

Dakota Unity Riders meet US Calvary

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 22 hours ago
Photo: Historic meeting in Newtown, Conn., with the last remaining Calvary connected with the Battle of Little Big Horn, the 7th Calvary. At the same time the Governor of Conn. deputized the Dakota Unity riders, and returned the flag ! “The International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples” Grand Chief Murray Clearsky Southern Chiefs Organization Censored News I wish to extend

Vaginal Searches; Fake Protesters; Mind Control; Dodgy Nuclear Arms Deal

Anon at aangirfan - 22 hours ago
*Mind Control* *Warrantless Vaginal Searches Conducted By Texas Police* *New Company Allows Organizations To Hire Fake Protesters*

Shortcake and Pesto- Creative Showcase Linkup

Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 23 hours ago
I have been painting like crazy this week. Some projects are small and others large, like finishing my daughter's bed....finally. She has only slept on a mattress on the floor for a year. I can't wait to get some of these great projects up on the blog. Until then, what have you been up to. Feel free to link up anything you have been creating, baking, reading or anything else to the link party. Here are some great links from last week. While not a tutorial, I really like, Making a Kitchen, Part 2: A Day in the Life, from The Pursuit of Craft. It shows what it is like to build your o... more »

Obama Snubs Putin-- McCain And Graham Smell A Chance To Spill Young Blood

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 23 hours ago
In their report on the snub, *Time* doesn't even make a passing reference to Russian homophobia or the Olympics. Ed Snowden and international power politics is why, they say, Obama is traveling to St. Petersburg for aG-20 Summit and skipping Moscow and a planned visit with Putin. (And in his press conference yesterday, Obama suggested Snowden turn himself over to the American gulag system he's allowed his administration to become identified with; as for boycotting the Olympics over Russia's treatment of LGBT people... Russia's gays can suck wind for all Obama cares. The games must ... more »

a kiss on the wrist: the absence of same-sex love on star trek as a measure of how far we've come

laura k at wmtc - 1 day ago
Earlier this year, I re-watched the original "Star Trek" series end-to-end on Netflix - a thoroughly entertaining experience - then decided to watch "Star Trek: The Next Generation" for the first time. It wasn't long before I was completely hooked. The show has a lot to recommend it: compelling story lines, mostly good writing, progressive politics, and the brilliant acting of Patrick Stewart meshed with the commanding character of Captain Jean-Luc Picard. I especially appreciate how Star Trek TNG improved on the worldview of Star Trek TOS. I remember reading about this when the sho... more »

more roku joy: post your pbs and nfb recommendations here

laura k at wmtc - 1 day ago
Roku has added an app for PBS! This means we watch music clips from Austin City Limits, and in the winter we'll binge on American Experience history documentaries and American Masters biographies. These documentaries are consistently worth watching, and often truly excellent. On American Masters, we've recently seen "There But For Fortune," about Phil Ochs, and will eventually see bios of Philip Roth, J. D. Salinger, Johnny Carson, Mel Brooks, Rosetta Tharpe, and James Baldwin. American Experience has a spate of docs we haven't seen, including "The Abolitionists," and films on the b... more »

This Is Insane: The US Department Of Homeland (In-)Security Says It Is Now Illegal To Freely Play Music In The USSA!

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day ago
I have been watching all of the news reports that I can over the last few years about the criminal actions taking place against the American people by both the criminals in the so called "Department Of Homeland Security" (DHS) as well as the NSA and other US Government groups. It has become increasingly clear that America truly is now a Police State that rivals the former USSR for brutality against its citizens. I have always been a music lover, and I have always enjoyed celebrations, parties, and get-togethers, where music is played in the background by a band for everyone's enjoy... more »

Dine' Leland Grass: Wild Horse Slaughter: Navajo Leaders Lost the Horse Song

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
Leland Grass: Betatkin wild cow chase Why would the Navajo government support the slaughter of the sacred wild horse?  "The horseback riders should understand the prayer and song as to why there is such a horse." -- Leland Grass By Leland Grass, Dine' Censored News I don't understand why our own Navajo Nation government President Ben Shelly, Speaker of the Council Johnny Naize and  Dine

GOP jokesters

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 day ago
I'm sure Maine's crackpot Gov. Paul LePage's expressed desire to blow up the local newspapers was meant to be taken as a joke, but it's not funny. While he was at photo op, manning a fighter jet simulator in the local Pratt & Whitney factory, he told the crowd, "I want to find the Portland Press Herald building and blow it up." And if it was meant as an offhand remark, one wonders why he repeated it twice: Later in the event, a television reporter from WMTW asked LePage again if he had any targets. The governor answered: "The Press Herald and the Bangor Daily News." This was aft... more »

Moscow Rejects Saudi Offer To Drop Assad For Huge Arms Deal!

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day ago
President Bashar Al-Assad is now at the point of total victory against the criminal bought and paid for mercenary "rebels" for control over Syria. The good guys, the Syrian government forces have these so called "rebels", who have proven to be nothing more than murderous maniacs, on the run, and the proud people of Syria are now almost free of these US/Israeli invaders of their nation. The result has seen the US Government at the point of pure desperation and looking for anything to get an invasion of Syria going.... The real thorn in the American side when it comes to Syria has ... more »

H. L. Mencken Interview (1948)

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago
H. L. Mencken Interview. Posted by YouTube channel Gottfried Leibniz on August 1. H. L. Mencken was interviewed by Donald H. Kirkley at the Library of Congress on June 30, 1948.

‘It’s an economic war’: How the Edward Snowden of banking is blowing the whistle on secret Swiss accounts

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago
Former French employee of HSBC Private Bank Herve Falciani collected data on at least 24,000 customers of HSBC's Swiss subsidiaries from 2006 to 2008, while he worked in the bank's information technology development unit in Geneva, which he then passed on to French authorities. The data is at the centre of a row between France and Switzerland over suspicions of tax evasion by French citizens using Swiss bank accounts. * * * * *‘It’s an economic war’: How the Edward Snowden of banking is blowing the whistle on secret Swiss accounts* The New York Times | 13/08/08 | Last Updated: 13/08... more »

Rothschild's get into the Weather Forecasting Business...

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago

Email from a #TFA school admin requesting a grade change. For.No.Reason.

Chalk Face, PhD at SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
I have the email embedded for you below. The interesting item is the whole inspirational quote thing in the email signature. I blocked most of it out, but I wanted to leave the end, “No Excuses.” Indeed. Tagged: admin, grade change, TFA

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago
*Video: Hunt for BP disaster oil continues on La. coast ~Amy Wold, The Advocate*

GUEST POST from Robert Rendo on #commoncore.

Chalk Face, PhD at SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
Common Core or no Common Core, standards for what children should know by a certain age (skills or content) have always been in flux and controverted. The CCSS is, I think, on an extreme part of that spectrum of flux. The consensus reality and research that more or less corroborates what, for example, a fifth […]

Po'pay, A True American Hero

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
A promotional short for the documentary film, 'In the Spirit of Po'pay'. Native American hero, Po'pay was the leader of what is being called, "the First American Revolution", The Pueblo Revolt of 1680.  Dutch translation by Alice Holemans, NAIS Gazette, thank you! http://www.bloggen.be/natam/archief.php?ID=2291525 PO’PAY, EEN WARE AMERIKAANSE HELD Bron: Censored News  Een korte

Get outrageous with it!

        AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago
* * * * *Get outrageous with it! * – channeled by Ron Head August 8, 2013 Michael This Lion’s Gate portal is now open to its greatest extent, and the energies pouring into your world, and therefore into your bodies, physical, emotional mental and spiritual, are greater than any you have experienced so far. The resulting changes to yourselves, and therefore your societies and your planet will become more evident and greater, as well. This is how it works, you see. Watch ever more closely now for evidence, for trends, which will at last be obvious enough to encourage you, to bring... more »

Zapatistas Marcos: 'Votan IV. D-Day Minus 7'

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
Votán IV. D-Day Minus 7. Votán IV. D-Day Minus 7. Revelations of what the Zapatista heart admires in others, announcement of some exemptions to the Zapatista Little School, and some pointless advice that no one is going to follow.   August of 2013. Okay so, there’s not much left now. I mean that there are not many days left until the Little School starts, not that we don’t have much more

South Dakota: 'Hot Water' exposes uranium mining contamination in water

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
Filmmakers Liz Rogers and Kevin Flint go to South Dakota following a story about Uranium contamination only to discover that the problem flows much farther, and runs deeper than they could have imagined. Three years and thousands of miles later, "Hot Water" tells of those impacted by Uranium mining, atomic testing, nuclear energy and the contamination that runs through our air, soil and even

Paulo Coelho, "The Wounded by Love Agreement, General Provisions"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
"The Wounded by Love Agreement, General Provisions" by Paulo Coelho A] Considering that it’s absolutely correct the saying that states that “all is fair in love and war”; B] Considering that in war we have the Geneva Convention, adopted in August 22nd of 1864, that determines the fate of the wounded in battlefields whereas there is no agreement that was promulgated until this day that deals with the wounded of love, who are much more populous; It is hereby declared that: Art. 1 – All lovers, male or female, are now being notified that love, besides being a blessing, is also s... more »

The Poet: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "My Purpose"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
“The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs; the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, ’Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars...” ~ from “Ulysses,” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"It Comes Then, To This..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
"It comes, then, to this: that to be "viable", livable, or merely practical, life must be lived as a game - and the "must" here expresses a condition, not a commandment. It must be lived in the spirit of play rather than work, and the conflicts which it involves must be carried on in the realization that no species, or party to a game, can survive without its natural antagonists, its beloved enemies, its indispensable opponents. For to "love your enemies" is to love them as enemies; it is not necessarily a clever device for winning them over to your side. The lion lies down with ... more »

"The Human Trouble..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
"Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death- ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life." - James Baldwin, “The Fire Next Time”

TV Watch preview: Larry David on apologies, plus (finally!) the final episodes of "Breaking Bad" begin

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
*A trailer for HBO's Clear History* *WILDLY ENHAIRIFIED LARRY DAVID CHARACTER*: I'm really sorry. *JON HAMM CHARACTER*: It doesn't matter if you apologize if it's not sincere. *WIDLY ENHAIRIFIED LARRY DAVID CHARACTER* [*exasperated*]: Apologies don't have to be *sincere*. *JON HAMM CHARACTER*: That is literally the *only* thing an apology has to be. I'm sorry it had to be like this. *WILDLY ENHAIRIFIED LARRY DAVID CHARACTER*: You see? You *apologized*, but *you didn't mean it!* *by Ken* I don't know much about this HBO film *Clear History* (written by David Mandel, Alec Berg, and ... more »

The Syriaization of Egypt: Washington Eyes Endless Arab Civil War, Puts Diplomatic Weight Behind Global Jihadism

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago
*John Kerry as Bin Laden: The Universe Has Come Full Circle. *(From A Sign In An Anti-Morsi Protest In Egypt).* **Photo Source*. "Where Ford goes, there the death squads go also. Ford is notorious as a disciple of John Negroponte, and it was said originally of Negroponte starting in Salvador in the 1980s that where Negroponte goes there the death squads also appear quite quickly. . . This is what passes for State Department Arabists. State Department Arabists used to be people who actually had some sympathy for the Arab nations and the Arab peoples, but now you can see we've go... more »

"How It Really Is"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
• "Special scrutiny?" Nope, not a bit... *Click image for larger size. *

"A Ticket To The Freak Show..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
“When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front-row seat.” - George Carlin That being said, and freely admitting that, yes, this country *really is*the biggest insane asylum in the history of the world, all I can do is completely agree with the words of James Baldwin when he says, “I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually." And so I will, and you should too. It could be *so* much better... - CP

What Mattered This Week?

Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day ago
Since I'm on vacation, I'm just going to leave it open. What do you think mattered this week?

Verification of Renewed and Amplified Energetic Structures for Gaia Ascension Now in Progress

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago
* * *Verification of Renewed and Amplified Energetic Structures for Gaia Ascension Now in Progress* by ÉirePort Verification of renewed and amplified energetic structures for Gaia Ascension is now in progress. This final phase of Gaia preparation for Ascension occurs at this time as sufficient former paradigm structures have been removed and/or reset. Such verification requires no effort on the part of Hue-Beings at this time, as Gaia has complete administrative care of and responsibility for this phase. Hue-Beings will continue efforts at local levels as Guidance suggests. ... more »

Chicago: Police attack ALEC protesters!

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
  Arrests happening now in Chicago as protesters gather at the posh hotel of ALEC's event. The right-wing infrastructure source of ALEC is a profit-driven agenda which includes "K-12 Inc" a private company seeking to legislatively take over public schools, and aligned with the tobacco industry, the oil industry, and the pharmaceutical industry. Privatization of schools is a $500B industry,

“America the Mesmerized”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
* * *“America the Mesmerized”* by William C. Lewis “Welcome to America, where we have such lovely things as police brutality, arms factories, gigantic prisons, racism, liar politicians, propaganda news and pornography. Bomb-making is a favorite American past-time as little worker bees who sit in factories all day work a nice 9-5 job making spare parts that are assembled to blow off the limbs of other children in far-away distant lands. When not doing this, Americans love such leisures such as recreational dope smoking, prostitution, snitching off neighbors and cutting each other... more »

"Face It: You're Afraid (Why?)"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
* * *"Face It: You're Afraid (Why?)"* by Karl Denninger "One simple question: Why? Why do you submit to mental control over your life, over your future, over you? You're afraid of dying. But death comes to all of us; it is inevitable. All that is alive will die. The question is whether you live well as you determine it and whether, when the time comes, you die well, not whether you will die. It is this fear that leads you to permit the irretrievably-screwed medical system we have in this country to exist. It is why you allow a hospital to charge $165,000 to replace a battery in... more »

Superintendent Rella: “If it sounds too bad to be true, it’s not!”

plthomasedd at SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
Test scores in New York being released is having unintended consequences, such as the entire testing regime of the recent 30-year accountability era being systematically unmasked. I invite you to read the letter from Superintendent Joseph V. Rella to Senator Kenneth P. LaVelle, which offers near the end: If you believe that any of this […]

The Light Cometh...

Obi-Wan Kabuki at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago
Sunrise at Woodgate Beach Beach, Isis Region, Australia 8/11/2013 Photo by Muxi

So, What Would Change?

theozarker at The Conflicted Doomer - 1 day ago
August 10, 2013 Tom Whipple, a retired CIA analyst who writes a good deal about peak oil and other energy issues for various publications, had an article on LENR (low energy nuclear reactions) again, this week, over at the Falls … Continue reading →

Iraq sectarian death dealing rocks Iraqi cities - up to 80 killed today . An ominous note is that the Urds from Iraq may intervene in Syria to protects Syrian Kurds from Islamist fighters......What will Turkey do under those circumstances if Iraqi Kurds fight in Syria - August 10 , 2013....

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
Deadly car bombs rock Iraqi cities At least 67 dead in string of explosions in Baghdad and other cities during Eid al-Fitr celebrations. Last Modified: 10 Aug 2013 20:10 [image: Listen to this page using ReadSpeaker] [image: Email Article] [image: Print Article] [image: Share article] [image: Send Feedback] Bomb damage in the city of Nasiriyah, where four people were killed [Reuters] At least 67 people have been killed and hundreds injured in a series of car bombs that rocked Baghdad and other Iraqi cities amid Eid al-Fitr celebrations. Al Jazeera's Imran Khan, reporting from the... more »

"That Lawless Crowd..."

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
"I can't run no more with that lawless crowd, While the killers in high places say their prayers out loud. But they've summoned, they've summoned up a thundercloud, And they're going to hear from me..." - Leonard Cohen, "Anthem"

Teabaggers, Their Tiny Brains Filled With Hate Talk Radio Nonsense, Are Now Coming After Republican Congressmen

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
From the beginning of the Republic, the kind of conservative assholes who now call themselves Tea Partiers-- but were originally known as Loyalists or Tories and took up arms against the Patriots who fought the Revolutionary War-- were not just willing, but eager to see democratic government die. And they still are today. In the video above between mainstream conservative Aaron Schock and his constituents, including more than a few brainless teabaggers, the 'baggers demand that Schock commit to voting against any bill that includes funding for the Affordable Care Act. They insist... more »

CIA special delivery, Afghanistan

Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 1 day ago
Now this is what you call, !!!Having a few strings, let me make a call!! What do you think the cost for copter
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