Santa Maria degli Angeli (Assisi) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
In Costa Rica, teams made their way to Poás Volcano National Park for a Route Info clue. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Auckland City (Photo credit: ljw)
Keith with Metal Moose (Photo credit: Avery Studio)
English: Cory Booker and Gayle King at the 2011 Time 100 gala. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Français : Paris 13e arrondissement - Rue Simone-Weil - vue depuis la rue Charles-Bertheau (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Français : Paris 13e arrondissement - Rue Simone-Weil - plaque de rue (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
10:30pm MDSTThis is Auckland’s future: Mansion or crack shack?
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
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
*"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
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?
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"
* "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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“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"
* *
*"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"
* *
*"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?"
"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
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* *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
*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..."
"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
What liberal politician(s) from the past should Democrats emulate more than
they do?
Sunday Question for Conservatives
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
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
*"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
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.
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 ?
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!
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
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
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
*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.... )
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
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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
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 . . .
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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*Kicking you off the internet ~Library Chronicles*
*The Advocate Story on Wisner ~American Zombie*
The Struggle For Democracy
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
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
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
"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
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
A forest cottage in Efteling, Holland. [photo via The Oakwheel]
Arms Race Update - There Goes the Neighbourhood
*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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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
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 . . .
REAL Women vs. Real Women, as seen by Sonya Bell & Jessie Willms on iPOLITICS. Love it.
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*"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
*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
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.
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
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 !
Filipino farmers destroy genetically modified ‘Golden Rice’ cropsAugust 10,
2013
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*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
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.....
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
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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
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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
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Obama's Lies Becoming Comical
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Obama Lied 'Repeatedly' During NSA Presser
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Abby Martin Blasts Rachel Maddow for 9/11 Comments
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*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
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?
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*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
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
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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.
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There is a "They"
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Apparently there's a new Independence Day film coming in 2015
Remember the first one?
They need a mirror
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
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
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)”
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
' 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
* 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.
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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
* This is my article yesterday in interaksyon.com.
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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
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
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'
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
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
*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?
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
'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"
* "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?"
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
'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)
*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
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
*Mind Control*
*Warrantless Vaginal Searches Conducted By Texas Police*
*New Company Allows Organizations To Hire Fake Protesters*
Shortcake and Pesto- Creative Showcase Linkup
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
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
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
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!
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
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
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!
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)
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
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 »
Email from a #TFA school admin requesting a grade change. For.No.Reason.
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
Untitled
*Video: Hunt for BP disaster oil continues on La. coast ~Amy Wold, The
Advocate*
GUEST POST from Robert Rendo on #commoncore.
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
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!
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* *
* *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'
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
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"
"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"
“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..."
"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..."
"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
*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
*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"
•
"Special scrutiny?" Nope, not a bit...
*Click image for larger size. *
"A Ticket To The Freak Show..."
“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?
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
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*
*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!
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”
* *
*“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?)"
* *
*"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!”
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...
Sunrise at Woodgate Beach Beach, Isis Region, Australia 8/11/2013
Photo by Muxi
So, What Would Change?
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....
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
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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..."
"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
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 »
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