Detail of the background (right side) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The Mona Lisa (or La Joconde, La Gioconda). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Judi Dench at the BAFTAs at the Royal Opera House in London. Français : Judi Dench photographiée lors de la soirée des British Academy Film Awards dans le Royal Opera House à Londres. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)How It Really Is"
Works like a charm, every time, too...
Was Mona Lisa Enigmatic... Or Just An Airhead?
Here in Florence, people-- not many but some-- are buzzing about Leonardo
da Vinci’s most famous painting, *Mona Lisa* or at least about the woman
who played Mona Lisa when he painted his masterpiece, Lisa Gherardini, who
lived across the street from him back in the day. The painting itself has
been in the Louvre since 1797-- except when it was stolen in 1911 and
returned to Italy for a few years-- but Ms.Gherardini's bones were found in
the basement of Sant'Orsola, a former Ursuline convent in Florence.
Excavators found a bunch of bones from several people last year but they
aren... more »
Constructive first degree murder arising out of unlawful confinement or attempted unlawful confinement under Criminal Code s. 231(5)(e)
R. v. Parris, 2013 ONCA 515 holds:
[44] First, to establish first degree murder under s. 231(5)(e), the
Crown must prove each of five essential elements beyond a reasonable doubt:
i. that the accused unlawfully confined
or attempted to unlawfully confine the victim or another person;
ii. that the accused murdered the victim;
iii. that the accused participated in the
murder of the victim in such a way that the accused was a substantial cause
of the victim's death;
... more »
Alan Waldman: ‘As Time Goes By’ is a Timeless British Comedy Classic
Waldman's
film and TV
treasures you may have missed:
Dame Judi Dench and deadpan Geoffrey Palmer head a very clever cast in
this long-beloved series.
By Alan Waldman / The Rag Blog / August 12, 2013
[In his weekly column, Alan Waldman reviews some of his favorite films
and TV series that readers may have missed, including TV dramas,
mysteries, and comedies from Canada, England, Ireland, and
FILM / Jonah Raskin : Reviewing 'Fruitvale' and Remembering the Panthers
Reviewing
Coogler's Fruitvale Station
and reflecting on the Black Panthers
Fruitvale Station shows how far we’ve traveled since the days of the
Panthers, and how little we’ve traveled.
By Jonah Raskin /
The Rag Blog / August 12, 2013
The only Oakland, California, African-Americans I’ve ever known belonged
to the Black Panther Party founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in
Oakland in 1966.
Did Detroit need to file for Bankruptcy ? Richard Larkin says " No ! " I think I side with Kevn Orr on this one - Detroit was and is BROKE ! How will rising rates impact the Detroit Bankruptcy - might ice skating backwards through hell be easier ?
http://blogs.marketwatch.com/thetell/2013/08/12/detroit-other-bankruptcy-exits-face-pressure-from-rising-rates-moodys/
Detroit, other bankruptcy exits face pressure from rising rates: Moody’s
August 12, 2013, 12:37 PM
The nation’s two biggest bankrupt municipalities have indicated that they
plan to issue bonds as part of their plans to exit court protection. But
the recent sharp rise in interest rates could make that difficult, say
analysts at Moody’s Investors Service.
Detroit, which filed a Chapter 9 bankruptcy petition last month, said in a
restructuring proposal handed to creditor... more »
Phantom markets - or why liquidity is always there right up until you need liquidity ....
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-12/phantom-markets-part-1-why-tbac-suddenly-very-worried-about-market-liquidity
Phantom Markets Part 1: Why The TBAC Is Suddenly Very Worried About Market
Liquidity
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- Ben Bernanke
- Bond
- Equity Markets
- fixed
- HFT
- None
- Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee
- Volatility
Perhaps the best source of real, actionable financial information, at least
as sourced by Wall Street itself, comes in the form of the appendix to the ... more »
Today's best idea is spread by Norman Solomon: a Nobel Peace Prize for Bradley Manning
*"Now, the Nobel Committee and its Peace Prize are in dire need of
rehabilitation. In truth, the Nobel Peace Prize needs Bradley Manning much
more than the other way around."*
*-- Norman Solomon, in* "Memo from Oslo:
If Peace Is Prized, a Nobel for Bradley Manning"
*by Ken*
As Norman Solomon will explain in a moment, he's in Oslo today, and his
mission was to "carry several thousand pages of a petition -- filled with
the names of more than 100,000 signers, along with individual comments from
tens of thousands of them -- to an appointment with the Research Director
of the Norwegian... more »
Caregiving Mom to 9YO With Cerebral Palsy Needs Your Vote to Win a Cruise for the Family, No Money – Just Your Vote...
I've been remiss in getting this posted.
From Maggie at Maggie's Notebook:
Grumpy Opinions notified me that one of his readers and an occasional
contributor to his site has an 9-year-old granddaughter with Cerebral
Palsy. She has never walked without assistance. She cannot speak without a
specialized computer program. Now she has also been diagnosed with
“mitochondrial degeneration.” Her name is Alexa Savage and her devoted Mom,
Kimberly has been nominated to receive a “caregiver” cruise. If she wins,
she can take the whole family along, including Alexa. All you have to do is
visit... more »
ECONOMICS FOR REAL PEOPLE: Charter Cities
*Here’s your invitation to tomorrow night’s session at the Auckland Uni
Economics Group…*
Hi everyone,
In 2010, the Harvard Business Review listed Paul Romer’s theory of Charter
Cities as one of its top ten breakthrough ideas. As such, we are excited to
be having along a local expert in Charter Cities, Ben Gussen, to speak to
us about this topic on Thursday evening.
The idea of Charter Cities is like a larger version of “skunkworks.”
used to show an organisation whether an idea is workable or not. Hong Kong,
for example, could be seen as the skunkworks of China, showing Chine... more »
Mugabe victory in Zimbabwe: Dictatorship or Decolonization?
Nile Bowie
Russia Today
With another 5 years in power, Mugabe promises to expand his
“indigenization” policy, whose failure would beget a drying up of foreign
investment and increased economic isolation. After Robert Mugabe has
secured another five-year term as president of Zimbabwe, his
self-empowerment policy, which gives black Zimbabweans a 51 percent stake
in all existing foreign owned businesses, will hopefully inspire a regional
shift towards pro-indigenization policies.
Few modern African leaders have been both so passionately supported and
endlessly condemned as President... more »
McVeigh Lives
OKC: Mcveigh Lives from Spike1138 on Vimeo.
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*I apologise for the TERRIBLE quality. If anyone had it better, please
contact me or upload. *
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*But the information is sound.*
A few days after Chandra Levy's disappearance, the FBI sheepishly admits on
May 10, 2001, that they somehow "forgot" to give McVeigh's lawyers some
three thousand documents.
[Caused by details Ms Levy uncovered through the Bureau of Prisons?]
So, the execution date is changed to June 11, 2001.
There are ten media people selected to be at the death house window at the
Terre Haute, Indiana, prison, to... more »
Mencken on drinking
Those of you familiar with H.L Mencken might be surprised to know he
counselled drinking in moderation. Well, sort of.
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If They Can't Properly Manage Wood Chips, What Else Can Go Wrong?
Greg Lotorto, professional horticulturalist, got this response from the
DCNR regarding wood chips that have been piled three feet deep up to 20
feet out from the Tennessee Pipeline right of way by Kinder Morgan. Photo
taken in the Delaware State Forest, Milford Township adjacent the headwater
wetland of Pinchot Brook, a DCNR-designated core habitat for endangered
species, named for Gifford Pinchot, father of the American conservation
movement.
To Kinder Morgan: *We are everywhere, and we will catch every violation.*
Dear Mr. Lotorto,
Thank you for your interest in the pipeline exp... more »
All you need to read on Hans-Herman Hoppe. Ever.
For some reason, pseudo-intellectual Hans-Herman Hoppe is taken seriously
by many who should know better—and by many others who can’t be bothered
picking apart his errant constructs and castles in the air.
This is a fellow who claims monarchy is your ultimate guarantee of liberty
and peace, ignoring centuries of history—not least the causes of the
American Revolution, and the role of the Hapsburg, Romanov and Hohenzollern
clans in plunging the world into war. This roving rationaliser once
presented a lecture in which he claimed (seriously) that Ludwig von Mises
had set the intell... more »
" We Won't Pay " movement in Greece - reconnects power to poverty stricken home - as unemployment closes in on 28 percent , " poverty stricken " takes on new meaning....and as this movement grows , power , money and control will be taken from the 1 percent who loot the 99 percent ! While Greece civil disobedience movements grow , Spain and Portugal are swirling around the toilet bowl - the questions being whether Portugal tips over before Spain , will Portugal debt wipe out Spain's banks , do both topple at the same time ? Good thing Europe passed their Bail In law........
Catharsis Ours - 4 hours ago
‘We Won't Pay’: Greek activists reconnect power to poverty-stricken homes
Published time: August 08, 2013 09:40
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THE MILITARIZATION OF AMERICAN CULTURE
Was just sent the video of my talk in Berkeley, California at the Moana Nui
conference organized by Jerry Mander and the International Forum on
Globalization. Most of the other speakers were from the Pacific.
The event was held last June. My topic was the Militarization of American
Culture.
You can see many other speakers *here*
Gold and Silver news , data ande views for August 12 , 2013 ..... BTW , if JP Morgan has cornered the Gold Comex futures market , why are they begging and borrowing like mad -- at Comex ?
Just wondering if the rise is for real or just a set up for the next hear
breaker ?
Gene Arensberg's GGR: Big changes in gold futures market composition
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2013-08-12 18:09. Section: Daily Dispatches
2:05p ET Monday, August 12, 2013
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Gene Arensberg's new Got Gold Report identifies substantial changes in gold
futures market positions. Aresnberg writes: "Despite very large changes in
the positioning of the swap dealers and other reportables, which we find
incredibly interesting but unreadable, there is still a tremendous amount
of... more »
Has America abdicated world actual leadership - as compared with " Leading From Behind aka Following " ? JUST a few recent examples of why many Americans feel the country has gone to hell in a hand basket . And leadership starts at the top , so let's start there........
Leading from behind......
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The phantom menace......
Official: Embassy Attack Threat “Had No Basis in Fact”
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Terror plot manufactured to dampen opposition to drone strikes
*Paul Joseph Watson*
Infowars.com
August 12, 2013
A high-ranking Yemeni security official has told McClatchy that the Obama
administration’s recently announced terror threat wh... more »
Rob Ford, Sopranos Edition - A timeline
2005. Scott MacIntyre , convicted drug trafficker and boyfriend of Rob
Ford's sister Kathy, is charged along with another guest with shooting
Kathy in the face and stealing the family Jag at one of the famous Ford
Family BBQs . Charges against MacIntyre are dropped.
2008 A reunited MacIntyre and Kathy are busted for stealing licence plates
and possession of B&E equipment. Kathy is convicted but charges against
MacIntyre are again dropped.
Jan 11 2012 MacIntyre enters Ford's home and yells : "You owe me money,
your sister owes me money. If I don’t get it, they will kill me," and "Yo... more »
PATO: Canadian Navy goes West...due to threat from China?
I wonder how all the Chinese people living in Vancouver feel about this
news?. Since nearly 20 percent of the population is of Vancouver is Chinese,
according to report from the BBC
[image:
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one in five of Vancouver's population is Chinese
For the first time in 2011, the Pacific Rim dislodged the US as
British Columbia's biggest trade partner. With the collapse of the US
housing market, lumber exports have fallen. But demand for coal and natural
gas to fuel China's factories is skyrocketi... more »
Class-action status denied in Chicago. Ok. But…
In a suit to halt school closures, a judge denies class-action status to
African-American and special needs students and families suing CPS. Huh.
I’m no lawyer. But don’t they organize students into, you know, classes in
school? Class of 2013, 2014, and such? Class rings, classroom, class rank?
Schools are all about tracking, sorting, grouping, […]
The Economy: "A Strong Contrarian Signal That This Market Is Toast"
* *
*"A Strong Contrarian Signal That This Market Is Toast"*
by Bill Bonner
"It’s still sum… sum… summertime. Still lazy hazy. Still crazy. And still
not much action in the financial markets. The Dow sold off a little on
Friday. Gold went nowhere. You’ve already heard our guess: Investors are
marking time… waiting… procrastinating… maybe even thinking things over.
The serious action won’t begin until summer ends. Then investors will
return to their desks… and PANIC.
Panics are rare. Crashes are rare. And we’re not going to predict something
with small odds. Most likely, it won’t ... more »
Untitled
*The redevelopment of Freret Street ~Robert Morris, Gambit/Messenger*
*Corps releases draft environmental document for review - Greater New
Orleans Hurricane & Storm Damage Risk Reduction Mitigation*
Open Letter to the Media, Politicians, Reformers, B/Millionaires, and Celebrities | the becoming radical
Open Letter to the Media, Politicians, Reformers, B/Millionaires, and
Celebrities | the becoming radical.
Modern and Contemporary Iranian Art, On Display and In Demand
Untitled,
by Abolghassem Saidi (1973). Oil on canvas.
(Collection of Sam Bayat and Charlotte Denise Madeleine Bayat)
An upcoming exhibition at the Asia Society in New York City will
highlight over 100 pieces of pre-revolution Iranian art – paintings,
photography, drawing and sculpture – created by “the most noteworthy
Iranian artists of the 1950s to 1970s” compiled to “shed light on a
period
"We Did NOT Learn from History"
* *
*"Rome’s Hundred Million Dollar Economic Bailout Two Thousand Years Ago…*
* The Same Money Lenders Doing it Again Today – We Did NOT Learn from
History."*
by Tom Dennen and Cornelius Tacitus
"I have and always will maintain that most of mankind’s troubles derive
from the invention of Usury driven by greed.
Tacitus was one of the greatest historians of ancient Rome, and “a primary
source for much of what is known about life the first and second centuries
after the life of the Christus”. Today’s ubiquitous mantra, “if we do not
learn from history, we are doomed to repeat it,” ... more »
British Jobs for British Workers?
One thing's for certain, Tony wouldn't have stood for it. The shambolic
bungling of today's "big speech" by shadow immigration spokesperson, Chris
Bryant lacked the smooth running of a Blair-era media operation. But Labour
getting a handle on employers' preferences for East European workers from a
recognisably labour movement point-of-view would never have passed muster
back then either.
To be honest, I'm not interested in the media's mischief-making about first
and second drafts of Chris's speech. Anecdotally - and reinforced by
Channel 4 News features on it last night - is that T... more »
"Military Convoys: Moving Their Pieces Into Place"
* *
*"Military Convoys: Moving Their Pieces Into Place"*
Military NCO’S Observation: I Have Never Seen A Convoy of This Magnitude
Especially With Up-Armored Humvee’s. Along With All The Other QAlerts &
Warnings We Have Had,
This Is A Clear Sign They Are Moving Their Pieces Into Place.
“Real quick background on me to verify the legitimacy of this message. I
have been an Infantry soldier in the Army National Guard in Illinois for 8
years. I am an NCO. Today, I was westbound on I-70 between Casey, IL and
Effingham, IL. Effingham, IL is the location of my unit which is the
larges... more »
Long Walk 4 in Richmond, Indiana
Day
28: Long Walk 4 Return to Alcatraz
Censored News
Photos by Aki Zaagi, thank you for sharing with Censored News!
"Day 28 - interesting day on Richmond, Indiana. Had a Pipe Ceremony by
the Courthouse and a few people walked with us from there. Having a
feast at the Townsend Center in a bit. We are hoping to go to the place
where St. Clair, leading the first standing US army in
Pigging-- In The U.K. And The USA
Thursday, *The Guardian* reported that David Cameron was pushing for
fracking in the U.K. again, this time using shop-worn conservative talking
points from the U.S. that "ruling out fracking on environmental grounds
would cost Britain in jobs and cheaper energy bills." Environmentalists in
Britain are warning that fracking will "pollute drinking water and scar the
landscape."
Hundreds of protesters are gathering to disrupt work at a potential
fracking site in Sussex this summer.
But addressing staff at Crown Paint, in Darwen, Lancashire, the prime
minister suggested that there ... more »
Your moment of Zen
Another butterfly in Maeve's magic garden.
Handbags at dawn
It was only yesterday that I was complaining again about the BBC's tendency
to binge on a story for a day and then move on, forgetting to follow it up
- even when a dramatic new development occurs in that story. There's
another example of this today - though it concerns a more trivial story.
You can hardly fail to have heard about Oprah Winfrey's alleged racist
treatment at the hands of a shop assistant in Switzerland. The papers and
the BBC website were full of the story on Friday (9th August), and I
remembering hearing it discussed on both *The World at One *and on *PM* on
Radi... more »
MARCHING IN MADISON
The Forward Marching Band from Regis Tremblay on Vimeo.
During the recent national Veterans For Peace convention in Madison,
Wisconsin a march was held through the center of the city.
Mainer Regis Tremblay put together this video from the march which ended at
the state capitol building.
Old Fort Mac . . .
AS SEEN BY Corin Raymond, the Stevie Paradise, where any job is a good job — just ask the hookers.
Bertolt's Blues:
In the dark timesWill there also be singing?Yes, there will also be singingAbout the dark times.
On the economic upturn...
The Tories ratings for economic competency has taken a huge boost, 28% to
40%. First things first the depression could not simply last forever, even
if it felt like that a few years ago. That said this current upturn could
well crash quickly. The current fundamentals are not great. The current
boom is based on inflating house prices, the same method that drove the
economy to the wall in the first place.
Labour were never in a strong position to fight the Tories on economic
competency having not fought for an interpretation of the 2008 crash,
largely because they were heavily impli... more »
CHILD ABUSE IN CHINA
In 1994, Mao Zedong's personal physician, Dr. Li Zhisui, published The
Private Life of Chairman Mao.
According to Li Zhisui, *young virgin peasant girls were brought to Mao for
sex, often group sex.*
Book Review - Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine
Mau like young girls.
*The Chinese Boy Kept as Slave by Uncle*
According to The Economist, *'Mao lived like an emperor, carried on litters
by peasants, surrounded by concubines and placated by everyone.'*
Staying at the top Mao and the art of management Economist.com
Mao liked sex with the 'handsome young men in his guard who ... more »
Let their freak flag fly high
I don't suppose the baby Jebus loves me enough to let this happen.
Responding to a birther's question at a town hall a Texas Congressman
confides they have the votes in the House to impeach Obama, but the
crackpot cons should not be getting the hopes up.
“You tie into a question I get a lot: ‘If everyone’s so unhappy with the
president’s done, why don’t you impeach him?’” [Rep. Blake] Farenthold
continued. “I’ll give you a real frank answer about that: If we were to
impeach the president tomorrow, you could probably get the votes in the
House of Representatives to do it. But it wou... more »
Cushing, Okla: Undercover agents infiltrated Tarsands Resistance Camp
Photos
by Laura Borealis/Tar Sand BlockadeAccording to documents obtained
by Earth Island Journal, investigators from the Bryan CountySherriff's
Department had been spying on a Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance
training campthat took place from March 18 to March 22 and which brought
together local landowners,Indigenous communities, and environmental
groups opposed to the pipeline.
South Park.... 911 truth, lol
Well this isn't something I would normally post but Nick just showed it to
me and I literally was floored.
Typical South Park, potty language warning, lol. Season 10 episode 9- Kyle
and Stan end up in the White House and President Bush completely outlines
how he pulled off 911.
.... my jaw seriously hit the floor!! Sorry it's not the best quality,
but......
The court should not lightly interfere with a testator’s choice of the person to act as estate trustee
Chambers Estate v. Chambers, 2013 ONCA 511:
[95] The applications judge was fully alive to the legal principle
that the court should not lightly interfere with a testator's choice of the
person to act as his or her estate trustee: *Re Weil*, [1961] O.R. 888
(C.A.), at p. 889. Just as a court should remove an estate trustee only on
the "clearest of evidence", so too they should be reluctant to pass over a
named executor unless "there is no other course to follow":*Windsor*, at
para. 41, citing *Crawford v. Jardine* (1997), 20 E.T.R. (2d) 182 (Ont.
C.J. (Gen. Div.)), at para.... more »
Did Senator Pam Try to Cook Her Expenses Records?
Nothing says "guilty" more than getting caught tampering with the
evidence. Will the defendant please rise? Yes, Ms. Wallin, that'll be
you.
Apparently, Senate expense-scandal auditors, Deloittes, believe the senator
from Wadena tried to doctor some of her spending records. The auditors'
report is expected to be made public tomorrow.
A Few Facts about Project Mogul
There are some facts about Project Mogul that seem to get lost in the
minutia of the debate so that the same errors are frequently repeated.
These are facts that should not be in dispute but somehow they keep getting
missed, or misused, so I thought, in an effort to annoy everyone, I would
publish these truths and see how far that went.
1. Mogul Flight No. 4 was cancelled. It did not fly, there is no record of
it anywhere and that number is skipped in the accounting. Contrary to what
Charles Moore claimed, it did not perform as well or better than Flight No.
5 because, had it flown... more »
Was that a smart thing for Chris Hayes to do?
*MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 2013*
*We’re going to say that it wasn’t:* Two weeks back, Chris Hayes did a
segment on All In that carried a written warning:
“The following is a satirization of recent news analysis.”
Dating back to Jon Stewart’s hour of advice to Rachel Maddow in 2010, we’re
largely opposed to actual journalists performing satirizations. We stand
with Stewart’s apparent message to Maddow that night—her job as an actual
journalist is more important than that.
That said, the New York Times’ David Carr wrote an interesting column last
week about Hayes’ satirization segment. But... more »
"Likely" to Die in Prison
Let's do the math. You're 83. You just stood trial on 32-charges and
were convicted of 31 of them, including eleven murders. Even if you were
given just one year for each of those murders you would have to reach 94
before you were released.
According to Boston.com, Whitey Bulger is "likely" to spend the rest of his
life behind bars. That's a pretty safe bet.
But, it could have been worse. The jury chose not to convict Bulger of
another eight murders.
The Indiscriminate Lover
We were wrong about love. We know what it feels like; yet just a few of
us know what it looks like. We’ve tagged it with promises, dressed it up
with rings, burdened it with contracts and misidentified it with more words
– words like loyal, moral and only. Love is not any of these – love is
what you are.
Without the baggage, love is remarkable. It shoots out at everyone
indiscriminately; there are no loyalties or labels. There is no hesitation.
Those of us reading this blog have learned the rules of love and either
successfully or not, live within those definitions. The... more »
Creampie Asshole of the Day
(Tip o' the tinfoil hat to faithful reader CC)
In the interests of context, in case you haven't read the lead story
on Yahoo:
Tim Armstrong, All-American Boy and corporate sociopath CEO of AOL,
announced to Wall Street (before telling his own people) that he was
shrinking AOL/Patch from 900 to 600 websites. When this filtered down to
the troops, morale, understandably, drooped like Bob Dole's cock before a
naked Elizabeth Dole because that means a loss of jobs. So in some Hannibal
Lecteresque simulacrum of empathy, Armstrong arranges a conference call to
rally them. ... more »
Stiglitz Casts the Bones and Reads the Entrails of Detroit,
Nobel laureate economist Joe Stiglitz argues that it's vital not to get
misled about the real significance of the bankruptcy of Detroit.
*Detroit’s most serious problems are confined to the city limits. Elsewhere
in the metropolitan area, there is ample economic activity. In suburbs like
Bloomfield Hills, Mich., the median household income is more than $125,000.
A 45-minute drive from Detroit is Ann Arbor, home of the University of
Michigan, one of the world’s pre-eminent hubs of research and knowledge
production.*
*Detroit’s travails arise in part from a distinctive aspect of Amer... more »
Send in the creepy clowns
I usually ignore these sort of lame-ass stupid crackpot shots at Obama but
this show of disrespect to our POTUS at a Missouri rodeo wasn't just an
obscure and brief reference in some movie. This was a sustained charade at
a family event with lots of children in attendance.
"The announcer wanted to know if anyone would like to see Obama run down by
a bull," the posting said. "The crowd went wild. He asked it again and
again, louder each time, whipping the audience into a lather."
Another clown then apparently joined the performance.
"One of the clowns ran up and started bobbling... more »
The Fort Hood Shooter: Major Nidal Malik Hasan.
"At Ft. Hood, an army psychiatrist, Dr. Hasan, killed thirteen and wounded
29, using a 5.4mm Fn Herstal pistol, specially designed for defeating Level
III body armor. Hasan is said to have ties to a San Diego cleric of Yemeni
background. However, while working at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington
DC, Hasan was the chosen representative of the Bush Administration,
coordinating with Homeland Security. "
http://www.veteranstoday.com/?p=233612
The assault on the Benghazi compound was led by a Yemeni national and
member of "Al-Qaeda" in the Arabian Peninsular - a false flag brigade ... more »
...the finder cannot unsee once it has been seen. ~ Vladimir Nabokov, Speak Memory
I quite like this comparison of Shanghai over a period of 27 years of
unbridled growth which was published in the Atlantic. To me it sums up
quite neatly humanity's voracious consumption of the natural world, turning
it by increments into a monstrous, hellacious death trap. It's especially
compelling since Shanghai has been setting new records for hot temperatures
on a daily basis.
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One of the most difficult things about becoming aware of the converging
catastrophes that are lurching inexorably ... more »
I'm I..P..P..P..R/I'm I..P..P..P..R/I know I am/I'm sure I am/I'm B..B..B..B..C
In light of that Centre for Policy Studies report into BBC bias....
By searching the articles on the BBC News (from 1st January 2012 to today),
we find the following mentions of some of the leading right-leaning and
left-leaning think tanks, which seems to give some credence to the CPS's
findings.
Here are the results of my own forays into this area, each quoting how the
BBC describes the respective think tanks and then apportioning a score for
each think tank (representing the number of articles which label the think
tank politically followed by the percentage that do so in rela... more »
Roy Cohn
Mae Brussell - Update on the Presidio Child Molestation Case - And Death
Threats from Spike1138 on Vimeo.
This is a show that Mae Brussell did on March 21, 1988.
Citizen Roy Cohn, Norieaga's Drug Running Friends, And Butler Silent
Brotherhood.
Also, Oliver North at the Supreme Court, Ross Perot's employees (and money)
used by North and FBI Executive Assistant Buck Revell (Chief Investigator
of Pan-Am 103) to set up Libya for the La Belle Discoteque Bombing in
Berlin and Operation Eldorado.
Buck Revell was also personally responsible for dirty tricks pulled by the
FBI against Ross... more »
Tony, Meet Steve
They're both rabid rightwingers so you would have thought the man hoping to
become Australia's next prime minister, Tony Abbott, would know a thing or
two about his Canadian counterpart, Sideshow Steve Harper.
Abbott seemed to ignore Steve entirely when, on the campaign trail, he
dropped this bomb: “*You don’t get good decisions from government if all
the decisions are simply made by one person. No one, however smart,
however well educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom
*.”
Tony, meet Steve, the walking, talking suppository of all wisdom. And
now, Tony,... more »
GETTING THE NEWSLETTER OUT
- I've got most of our Global Network newsletter *Space Alert* ready to
go to our layout person. I had to edit the articles submitted by various
folks, write some of my own, and then go through pages and pages of good
related space news articles to pick out gems to put in our two-page spread
we call Odds & Ends. I worked for 12-hours straight the other day on the
newsletter copy, once I get on a roll it is hard to stop. I also tried to
include some good action reports and photos from protests in order to make
sure that the newsletter was not just filled ... more »
Wrong On Virtually Everything Else, California Crackpot Dana Rohrabacher Gets It Right On Ed Snowden
Chairman Rohrabacher of the Europe, Eurasia and Emerging Threats
Subcommittee (r) plays dress-up with terrorists in Afghanistan
Generally speaking, southern California Congressman Dana Rohrabacher is a
dickhead. In the last few days, he again insisted that Climate Change is a
"total fraud" and happily backed Obama's drone policies. “I don’t have
anything against drone strikes, and I think that the administration has not
been doing a bad job when it comes to using drones to single out and kill
the terrorists who would harm our own people. We should use every
technology that we can to... more »
Volume, Volume, Volume!
If America is top at one thing, it's mass incarceration. With but 5% of
the global population, the U.S. has 25% of the global prison population.
Its *prison-industrial complex* is second to none but, like all successful
ideas, sometimes it can be too successful.
America has been so successful at banging up little people for minor drug
possession charges that it has accumulated more little people behind bars
than it can stuff into even its generous supply of prison cells. What to
do, what to do?
Do you stop tossing little people in prison for minor drug offences? No,
no, not t... more »
The Ripper
Peter Suttcliffe is* not *the Yorkshire Ripper.
Five women have been killed. An East Anglian town has been forced to cope
with a murderer in its midst, who takes the lives of young street
prostitutes.
But this is not Ipswich, where the relatives of five victims had their pain
eased just a little on Friday by the full life sentence given to the
killer, Steve Wright. This is Norwich, 45 miles to the north, where the
police show no sign of solving the long-standing cases of Natalie Pearman,
Mandy Duncan, Kellie Pratt, Michelle Bettles and Vicky Hall. Here, five
families remain di... more »
Clarice Feldman trashes Diane West's book "American Betrayal"...
*which she hasn't read.*
Really?
But, it's okay since much of her article at American Thinker was based on a
review done by Ron Radosh, a self-described ex-Marxist, who also *hasn't
read the book.* There were quotes from some other elitist historians -
none of whom read the book.
Feldman praises David Horowitz, head of Freedom Center which publishes
Frontpage Magazine, for removing a favorable review of the book and
replacing with the scathing one whipped up by Radosh, who, to remind you, *has
not read the book. *
Now Mr. Radosh has doubled down and spewed even more vitriol on D... more »
Ethnosectarian Politics In Iraq, Its Future And Repercussions, An Interview With Univ of Miami Prof. Adeed Dawisha
Sectarian politics has ruled Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003.
Although the Americans are widely blamed for institutionalizing this style
of government, the Iraqi opposition was already organizing themselves by
sect and ethnicity in the 1990s. Since the U.S. invasion, every Iraqi
government has been a national unity one where all the winning lists have
been given a seat, and top positions are divided up using ethnosectarian
quotas. Washington and others have argued that this system was necessary to
include all of Iraq’s diverse population, so that they could work toget... more »
Judge in judge alone trial has jurisdiction to reverse a finding of guilt suo sponte
R. v. Griffith, 2013 ONCA 510 holds:
[12] On the basis of this court's decision in *R. v. Lessard* (1977),
30 C.C.C. (2d) 70, it cannot be doubted that the trial judge was not *
functus* until he imposed sentence. In *Lessard,* Martin J.A., speaking for
the court, held that a judge sitting without a jury is not *functus officio* until
he has imposed sentence or otherwise finally disposed of the case.
Therefore, a judge who has made a finding of guilt, either as a result of a
guilty plea or on disputed facts, is empowered to vacate the adjudication
of guilt at any time before ... more »
Belated Friday Nerd Blogging: Meta Heroes
I am on vacation so I am a bit late with the FNB. This 2014 film looks
like a heap of fun–when superhero impersonators stop impersonating and
start hero-ing:
New York Mayoral Candidates: Fly Me to Cincinnati
When New York mayoral candidates lead reporters and editors of the New York
Times on a field trip expedition to the hinterlands of Cincinnati schools,
you have to know there is something awful at home they would rather
everyone forget. The awful something in this case, of course, is the
test-bombed remains of New York’s […]
Watermarking DRM Could Offer New Opportunities
Many see DRM as a glass half empty and also a barrier to interoperability,
others see it as a means of restricting abuse, copyright infringement and
piracy. The solution may not be as black and white as many believe.
Only a few years ago we would have advocated the wholesale dropping of DRM
and a position similar to that adopted by MP3 music. Today however, there
is potential for a softer approach to DRM to offer great opportunities for
the marketplace.
First we must accept that the current prevailing ‘unsocial’ or encrypted
DRM serves few and in fact in many cases can be broken... more »
The One Percent
The *JEP* Symposium on The Top One Percent is now available online.
Times readers just keep pummeling Dowd!
*MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 2013*
*Something is happening here:* Yesterday, a very encouraging trend
continued. Readers continued to pummel Maureen Dowd for her fatuous work,
which is quite paralytic.
Dowd has been a study in the fatuous since taking a richly deserved "vaca"
in late June. Returning after the Fourth of July, she did four fatuous
columns from Paris, then two columns from Boston about the ways Whitey
Bulger’s accomplices used to murder their girl friends, then pull out their
teeth.
After that, she authored two columns concerning her thoughts about weiner,
plus a third column... more »
Running scared . . .
FROM THOSE CONCERNED FOLKS at 350.ORG.
Egyptian Military Kills its own while collaborating with Israel & NATO ???
* Tough question!*
*If* you are one of those persons, who supported the coup psy-op in Egypt,
using the reasoning that the coup was undertaken to achieve democratic
restoration in Egypt, this post is not going to make you happy.
* If *you were one of those individuals who equated the Syrian Army to the
Egyptian Army and the actions ongoing in their respective nations as the
same, this post is not for you.
* It* will challenge your cherished beliefs. And for whatever reason people
don’t want their beliefs challenged. You have been warned. The proposition
is the same as the one origi... more »
SOURCES OF PARALYSIS: Skill-less in Cincinnati!
*MONDAY,
AUGUST 12, 2013*
*Epilogue—“An analysis by the New York Times” of Queen City public
schools:*What does intellectual paralysis look like, in its purest form?
Put it another way: How deeply pre-human are the elites who drive our
intellectual culture? How deeply pre-human are this nation’s
“journalistic”
elites?
Consider the lengthy news report which appears in today’s New York
Times.
The piece runs more than 1500 words. Its headline announces this:
“Candidates for Mayor See Cincinnati as a Model for Schools in New York”
Reports like this have appeared in the upper-end press ... more »
Messiah is Back - He's Here, He's There, Over There Too
Only in Tennessee - or Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia maybe. A magistrate
dealt with the case of a baby boy whose parents could not agree on the
child's last name.
Child support judge, Lu Ann Ballew decided she was none too pleased with
the 7-month old's first name either and so she changed that to Martin from
- wait for it - Messiah. Judge Lu Ann ruled Messiah was a religious name
earned by only one person and, "*that one person is Jesus Christ.*"
But here's the kicker. It looks as though Judge Lu Ann's reasoning is
wrong, big time:
*"Messiah was the fourth fastest-rising baby ... more »
Two Small Steps for Man Amidst the Giant Leap Backward
In an unsurprising ruling, a federal court judge has just ordered an end to
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's campaign of racially profiling black and
brown men on the streets of his fair city. From the *New York Times*:
In a decision issued on Monday, the judge, Shira A. Scheindlin, ruled that
police officers have for years been systematically stopping innocent people
in the street without any objective reason to suspect them of wrongdoing.
Officers often frisked these people, usually young minority men, for
weapons or searched their pockets for contraband, like drugs, before
lett... more »
Read Stuff...I Should
If it wasn't in the Racing Form, I probably missed it this weekend -- so
here's an open thread for Monday, and also a chance to let me know what I
should catch up on. Good stuff, especially, but if there's something that
would make me cranky, I suppose that's okay too. Thanks! Back to normal
tomorrow.
The Problem with Apollo Analogies
Last week I had a letter in the FT, commenting on the latest call for a
new Apollo project, this time for solar energy. I explained that Apollo is
a poor analogy for difficult challenges:
*Going to the moon was easy by comparison*
From Prof Roger Pielke, Jr.
Sir, David King and Richard Layard (“We need a new Apollo mission to
harness the sun’s power,” Comment, August 2) call for new spending on solar
energy technology of the magnitude that was spent on the Apollo moon
missions in the 1960s and 1970s: “To match the spending on the Apollo
project would require only 0.05 per cent o... more »
Kiss The Earth - A Poem by Thich Naht Hahn
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Kiss The Earth
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*Walk and touch peace every moment.
Walk and touch happiness every moment.
Each step brings a fresh breeze.
Each step makes a flower bloom.
Kiss the Earth with your feet.
Bring the Earth your love and happiness.
The Earth will be safe
When we feel safe in ourselves.
***
*Thich Naht Hahn
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From " Call Me By My True Names"
**
*Thích Nhất Hạnh (born October 11, 1926)* is a Vietnamese Zen Buddhist
monk, teacher, author, poet and peace activist. He lives in the Plum
Village Monastery in the Dordogne region in the South of France. His poems
reflect his version of ... more »
Massive Document dump from @unitedoptout. How about it? #optout
The good folks at UOO are working very, very hard to give you all the
information you need to take a stand. You won’t be going into this blindly.
So, check out their Truth and Justice campaign, which for this phase
includes a slew of new documents, toolkits, brochures, and flyers for you
to […]
Untitled
*A New Core ~Saints Win *
*Sean Payton Harder On Himself For Play Calls Than We Were ~Saints Tailgate*
*The Times-Picayune Fiasco: Newhouse says he's 'pleased.' Huh? ~Errol
Laborde*
*Marullo leading dispenser of not-guilty verdicts ~John Simerman *
*As one year anniversary of Hurricane Isaac approaches, some victims feel
forgotten ~WVUE*
*Swift Departure ~Stephanie Riegel*
*New Orleans entrepreneur gets serious about sunglasses ~Renee Peck, NolaVie
*
*Free dance lessons in New Orleans (almost) every day of the week ~Megan
Braden-Perry, Gambit*
*Oyster hatchery ‘dream building’ so... more »
TV: Your Mind. Controlled.
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*Are large segments of the American public literally walking around in a
hypnotic trance?*
*
*Melissa Melton
Michael Snyder, of The American Dream, wrote this almost two years ago:
Our society is rapidly coming apart at the seams and people are seriously
starting to lose it… Way too many Americans seem to be losing all sense of
what is right and what is wrong. Way too many Americans seem to be losing
all sense of what it means to treat others with dignity and respect… It is
almost as if some sort of mental illness is spreadin... more »
Why Are Millions Of Fish Suddenly Dying In Mass Death Events All Over The Planet?
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Michael Snyder
Millions upon millions of fish are suddenly dying in mass death events all
over the world, and nobody seems to know why it is happening. In many of
the news reports that are linked to below, locals are quoted as saying that
they have never seen anything like this before. So is there a connection
between all of the fish deaths that are now occurring all over the planet?
If there is a connection, is there anything that we can do to stop the fish
die-off? Sadly, because the big mainstream news networks in the U... more »
The critical moment in the political trial of the century was on 28 February when Bradley Manning stood and explained why he had risked his life to leak tens of thousands of official files. It was a statement of morality, conscience and truth: the very qualities that distinguish human beings. But the mainstream media weren't there to record it. They were waiting for the verdict so that they could condemn him for crimes he did not commit.
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2013
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*Will Bradley Manning's Courage Inspire Other Whistleblowers?*
*Truth in the Crosshairs*
by JOHN PILGER
The critical moment in the political trial of the century was on 28
February when Bradley Manning stood and explained why he had risked his
life to leak tens of thousands of official files. It was a statement of
morality, conscience and truth: the very qualities that distinguish human
beings. This was not deemed mainstream ne... more »
The Nuremberg Charter was the first time in history that individuals in the country losing a war could be prosecuted for war crimes. One of the provisions of the Charter asserts that indivduals ordered to commit what he/she recognizes to be an immoral act but commits it anyway is gulity of a war crime. Those (like Bradley Manning) who refuse such orders are innocent.
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Permalink*
*Bradley Manning, the Nuremberg Charter and Refusing to Collaborate with
War Crimes*
Pt 3 of 4. In this segment of Reality Asserts Itself, Paul Jay and Vijay
Prashad discuss the Bradley Manning case in light of the 68th anniversary
of signing the Nuremberg Charter which states it is illegal to follow
orders to commit a war crime - * August 11, 13*
More at The Real News
*Bio*
Vijay Prashad is a professor of international studies at Trinity Colleg... more »
Trudeau The Elder
For the Canadian Right, Pierre Elliott Trudeau is the bogeyman. Stephen
Harper, who used to admire Trudeau, came to believe the standard
Conservative line, best expressed by Bob Plamondon in his book, *The Truth
About Trudeau*:
“Far from being one of the best of our prime ministers, he was one of the
worst. [He] left deep divisions and scars that remain to be healed. … It
took successive leaders many decades to clean up the disorder.”
Somewhere between the time he left Toronto and started to refer to Calgary
as his "home town," Harper dedicated himself to undoing what Trudeau had... more »
Are Establishment Republicans About To Dump A Michigan Santa Claus Impersonator For A Foreclosure Lawyer?
Kerry Bentivolio (R-MI) is one freshman who has not been embraced by the
GOP House Establishment. The very strange Tea Party activist is very much
an accidental congressman, who slipped into office when long-time GOP
incumbent, Thaddeus McCotter, resigned as part of a deal to keep him out of
prison for election fraud. Bentivolio has a typical GOP voting record (a
ProgressivePunch score of 6.73) and hasn't done anything to distinguish
himself since being elected last year. The former reindeer rancher and
professional Santa Claus impersonator was involved in a long drawn out
bankrup... more »
Ford Follies: Monday Morning Round-up
Your Monday morning round-up on the bizarreness that is the Chief
Magistrate of Toronto.
First from the Globe and Mail, Rob Fucking Ford goes to jail.
An after-hours appearance by Toronto Mayor Rob Ford at a west-end jail in
March was deemed unusual by correctional officials and prompted an e-mail
describing the incident for the Ministry of Community Safety and
Correctional Services, multiple sources have told The Globe and Mail.
Mr. Ford went to the jail that night to speak with a then-inmate named
Bruno Bellissimo, The Globe has learned. Mr. Bellissimo, 43, is not named
in th... more »
NY Regulator issued subpoenas to all of the popular BitCoin Companies...... In other money news , gold shorts running for the hills now that JP Morgan has cornered gold futures at Comex and is seeking physical gold aggressively - August delivery angst or a sign of bigger things coming our way ?
http://www.businessinsider.com/regulator-subpoenas-bitcoin-companies-2013-8
REPORT: NY Regulator Issued Subpoenas To All Of The Popular Bitcoin
Companies
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The Wall Street Journal's Robin Sidel says New York Department of Financial
Services has subpoenaed about two dozen Bitcoin merchants as part of an
inquiry into their compliance with the state's finance statutes.
Sidel says firms run by Marc Andreessen and the Winklevoss Twins receive... more »
The Slog reveals how EU Regulations can become law with MEP involvement - and how the Bail In Law will impact and apply not just in the Eurozone but the wider EU itself ! Stated bluntly - if you live within the EU , a mechanism is already in place to loot your bank accounts !
http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2013/08/12/global-looting-how-an-eu-regulation-can-become-a-law-without-mep-involvement/
GLOBAL LOOTING: How an EU regulation can become a law without
MEP involvement
EC process and Brussels Mole confirm that a legal mechanism exists to
fleece all of us in the event of a euro bank collapse
[image: rehnexcept]*The exceptionally unexceptional Olli Rehn*
*In this follow-up to the weekend’s bailin process adoption posts, The Slog
fills in the remaining pieces of the jigsaw. You may think you are a member
of a Democratic European Union. You are not. There are m... more »
Gold and silver news of the day - August 9 , 2013 ! Gold Collateral situation - very complicated indeed....Jesse's crossroad cafe blogspot breaks the current conditions down..... updates from GATA - focus on imaginary gold , banks trying to block gold withdrawals , COMEX and Gold ETF physical gold heading to China , Bank of England covering up gold custody questions ....Ted Butler blows whistle on JP Morgan cornering gold......This week's COT Report - note the shifts for futures for Large Speculators and Commercials.......
Catharsis Ours - 15 hours ago
August 10th Update ..... Ed Steer's Gold and silver Report ....
http://www.caseyresearch.com/gsd/edition/ted-butler-cornering-the-gold-market
Ted Butler: Cornering the Gold Market
Aug
*10*
- Yesterday in Gold and Silver
- Critical Reads
- The Funnies
- The Wrap
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"But behind the apparent calm in gold and silver prices, there are huge
forces in play. "
¤ YESTERDAY IN GOLD & SILVER
The gold price 'action' on Friday, if you wish to dignify it with that
description, was nonexistent, and the highs and lows aren't worth posting,
as the gold price traded in a ... more »
Media silence as Hamas cracks down on opposition | Trending Central
Hamas have arrested and may have tortured opposition politicians in Gaza
not that you'd know if you rely on the BBC for your Middle East news. As
usual the BBC are doing their best to protect Hamas from any negative news
coverage.
' When some buildings are built, the BBC is there, high-definition cameras
at the ready, to capture what it frames as great injustices.
But when terrorists are holding an entire body of people hostage,
imprisoning and executing opposition activists, the organisation falls
silent.
In two, three, five years, or a decade, when the Palestinians in Gaza
fina... more »
Revealed: Obama admin’s nonsensical legal justification for bulk collection of Americans’ phone records
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image credit:
WeMeantDemocracy/Flickr Madison Ruppert
The Obama administration recently released a white paper which summarizes
the supposed legal justification for the bulk collection of Americans’
phone records. Contained therein are some thoroughly nonsensical and leave
the door open for massive invasions of privacy.
Meanwhile, it was revealed that the National Security Agency (NSA) can conduct
warrantless searches for the phone calls and emails of Americans and that
the collection of data expands far beyond what was prev... more »
Snowden's Representatives are Formidable
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*Youtube*
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden's father, Lon Snowden, and civil liberties
attorney Bruce Fein appeared on ABC's *This Week* to discuss the NSA spying
scandal and the fate of Edward Snowden. They are clearly a formidable match
for the spymaster liars in the U.S. government.
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BBC News - Labour amends foreign workers speech
'"But when agencies bring such a large number of workers of a specific
nationality at a time when there are one million young unemployed in
Britain, it is right to ask why that is happening."'
So speaks Labour immigration spokesman Chris Bryant. Doesn't he know that
increased immigration was the last Labour government's policy, designed as
Andrew Nether told us to 'rub the right's noses in diversity' and as I
believe to increase the Labour vote. For Chris Bryant to make such a speech
now reeks of the sort of vile hypocrisy that Tony Blair was such an
exponent of.
More from the ... more »
What This Judge Did, Happens Every Day...
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DeviantArt w/ added Star Heather Callaghan
*Ooops, sorry if I offended anyone ... *is basically the response Judge Amy
Salerno of Franklin County, Ohio gave after getting called out for scolding
the jury for their verdict. She then went further by threatening them that
she would keep having a trial until the *right verdict* came in.
She is a rare one that got pulled out into the limelight. But judges
everywhere use the jury as their personal Magic 8 ball, shaking it till
they get the response they want - a response which alm... more »
Off to protests...er, pastures...new
Vis-à-vis *Newsnight*'s departing economics editor, I had to smile at this
(courtesy of Guest Who at *Biased BBC*):
Paul Mason, *Newsnight*'s economics editor, announced he was following
colleagues Michael Crick, Shaminder Nahal and Jackie Long and crossing over
to the rival team...
For [Ian] Katz [the incoming *Newsnight* editor] it will have been a bitter
blow, although the decision is not a reflection on *Newsnight*'s new regime
but due to concerns the BBC's strict rules might inhibit Mason's future
ambitions in writing and innovative story telling. Books he has previously
writ... more »
Philippines Protesters Trample, Uproot GM Golden Rice Trial
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Image 1, Image 2 Heather Callaghan
A new genetically modified crop of 'Golden rice' was weeks away from
harvest in the Philippines. It was reportedly going to be submitted to
authorities for evaluation. This was an important milestone as other
countries like Bangladesh, India, and Indonesia were considering going for
the crops in Philippines' wake.
Growing GM rice with vitamin A to help the blind is one of the biggest
philanthropic harbingers for GM crops. Extra genes are inserted to better
produce beta-carotene. As discuss... more »
This is the Absolute Opposite of a Free Society
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Workers at Fukushima plant now contaminated by body cooling mist - this latest revelation as to how bad contamination is involving water subsequently forced the shutting off of water ( toilets , etc. ) to the Seismic Isolation Building ( or Anti - Seismic building ) - headquarters for all the work done at the plant , as well as Reactor Buildings 5 and 6 - as these Buildings share the same water source as the body misting system ..... is the drinking water contaminated as well ? Naturally Tepco has no clue as to the source of contamination.....
[Contaminated groundwater penetration ?] 10Bq/cm2 on face of workers / A
part of the plant tap water turned off
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Following up this article..*Dust monitoring alarm went off / Body cooling
mist possibly contaminated Fukushima workers* [URL]
Tepco measured 10Bq/cm2 of contamination on the face and head of the 10
workers at maximum.
At 13:40 of 8/12/2013, they turned off all the water (toilet etc..) in the
seismic isolation building and reactor5 and 6 *b... more »
Forget REAL ID -- The Global Smart-ID is coming!
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Julie Beal
The grand plan for Global ID is to give each person on the planet a way to
identify themselves online. One ID number for each person, to signify all
that they are. This is the full personal profile containing anything
relevant for identification purposes. It means all our private details
being managed by a corporation, in the cloud.
If you want to sign up to the online identity ecosystem, you can already do
so through Google or Yahoo!, or by registering with the Identity Ecosystem
Steering Group (IDESG).[1]
And... more »
Possible Nerve Agent Shuts Down JFK Airport Post Office; Turns Out To Be Beauty Supplies
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image source *Activist Post*
As a plethora of scandals continue to erupt in U.S. government, many are
suspecting that an increase in terror drills (including one for chemical
agents in the NY subway) and fake terror threats could be the harbinger of
a real event -- false flag or otherwise.
Austin, TX recently became the site for a leaked memo that highlighted a
Homeland Security warning which seemed to show a legitimate specific threat
that was hidden from the public.
New York law enforcement reported earlier that a let... more »
SUNDAY SONG
구럼비-바람이 분다 from cho sung bong on Vimeo.
The U.S. Government Does Not Want Americans To Travel Abroad
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Freda Art Digby Jones
No other government on the face of this Earth wants to make it’s citizens
more ill-at-ease, deathly afraid, or made to feel so guilty for stepping
outside of it’s national boundaries as the United States of America. Rather
than encouraging Americans to embrace overseas travel as one of the most
educational, enjoyable, and emotionally and spiritually satisfying
endeavors that people can undertake in the course of our painfully short
lives, U.S. government departments and institutions are notorious for
w... more »
NEW YORK PEDOPHILE RING LINKED TO CIA?
The Sphinx and the Spy: The Clandestine World of John Mulholland
*John Mulholland* taught industrial arts at the Horace Mann School.
*The very same day that Allen Dulles approved the CIA's Project MKULTRA
brainwashing operation, Sidney Gottlieb went to see John Mulholland.*
John Mulholland went to work for the CIA and MK ULTRA.
(The Sphinx and the Spy: The Clandestine World of John Mulholland)
*Johannes Somary, former music teacher at Horace Mann School in New York.
Somary is named in abuse claims, including allegations by Joseph Cumming. 'Little
attention has been paid to the fact... more »
London in 1926
London in 1927 from Tim Sparke on Vimeo.
Incredible colour footage of 1920s London shot by an early British pioneer
of film named Claude Friese-Greene, who made a series of travelogues using
the colour process his father William - a noted cinematographer - was
experimenting with. It's like a beautifully dusty old postcard you'd find
in a junk store, but moving.
Music by Jonquil and Yann Tiersen.
The lovely people at the BFI have got in touch and it turns out the film
was made in 1926. They have lots of other footage from his film, The Open
Road on their YouTube channel up here bi... more »
Faust
Here's the classic silent movie ...
And another ...
I don't believe I have a soul to sell. But I still recall thinking these
films were groovy when I was a teenager.
CIA 'Free Baluchistan' op to carve Pakistan under China's nose
William Engdahl
Russia Today
Developing Pakistan-China ties which can drastically change the economic
map of the region are threatened by Pakistani separatism, which might
suddenly transform into another ‘terror ground.’
As Washington continues sending its development assistance aid in the form
of drones to bomb civilians illegally inside Pakistan’s borders, allegedly
to go after Taliban fighters, Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif recently
completed a trip to Beijing where he met Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, his
first foreign visit after the May elections. The Pakistani Federal ... more »
Both neutralino, sbottom may weigh less than \(20\GeV\)
*Dark matter searches and LHC rumors may converge in a light
sbottom-photino point*
I decided that the most exciting hep-ph preprint today is
Supersymmetry with Light Dark Matter confronting the recent CDMS and LHC
Results
by Alexandre Arbey, Marco Battaglia, and Farvah Mahmoudi. An interesting
detail about the list of the authors is that all of them are partially
affiliated with the CERN theory division. Why is it interesting? Because
the LHC top squark rumor from February 2012 was later rumored to have
arrived from the CERN theory division so these three physicists might know
mu... more »
Monday Morning Linkage
Hey, y’all… Here’s your linkage… Enjoy. Kapil Patel argues that a growing
awareness of India’s declining conventional deterrence vis-a-vis China has
led it to create a new mountain strike corps of 40,000 men. Alec Metz at
Registan reviews this year’s Eid message from the sub-literate but
charismatic Mullah Muhammad Omar. Ajit Sahi argues that despite the
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“Alcohol or Not Vote as Nebraska Town, Population 10, Sells 13,000 Cans of Beer Daily to Oglala Sioux”
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*“Alcohol or Not Vote as Nebraska Town, Population 10, *
*Sells 13,000 Cans of Beer Daily to Oglala Sioux”*
By Evelyn Nieves
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"Nebraska calls this a village: two blocks, one dusty road and six or so
buildings, squat and cheap, like the set of a spaghetti western. Just over
the South Dakota border, the Oglala Lakota Sioux call this place something
else. They call it the root of all the pain, suffering and damnation
endured on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. They call White Clay hell.
Plopped a minute away from Pine Ridge, where alcohol is banned, White Clay
provides tribal... more »
On-demand Media and Sensory Devices will Change Culture
Our dependency on electronic devices has grown over the last decade. We now
appear to be entering yet another cycle of the technology escalation and it
resulting cultural change. It will like those before it change how we
consume media and how we communicate with others.
The ‘I’ era was one of the Pod, Phone and Pad. It enabled mobility and
communication but also created the ‘I’ society who often resembled zombies,
switch on, tuned out and transfixed through those white earpieces. What it
finally gave us was the platform environment which enabled media to be
enjoyed across multip... more »
Burkas and Bikinis
' The fact of the matter is that only in Israel do both the girl in the
bikini AND the woman in the Burka not fear any repercussions for being seen
next to each other.
The fact of the matter is that the woman in the Burka feels safer in Tel
Aviv than she would in her own village/town. She knows that she can walk
unhindered down a beach, smell the sea air, enjoy the sound of the crashing
waves – and other cliches – without anyone posing any moral authority over
her.
The fact of the matter is the woman in the bikini also feels safe to walk
down the beach unmolested by men that think ... more »
SUPPOSITORY BOMB
Ibrahim Asiri has been attempting to design bombs to be implanted inside a
bomber's body.
Asiri reportedly invented the 'suppository bomb'.
One US official told Newsweek about a bomb to be inserted in the
terrorist's 'love handle'.
*Yemen's hunt for master bomber*
*Asiri of the CIA*
Asiri reportedly equipped his 23-year-old brother, Abdullah, with a
'suppository bomb'.
Abdullah then attempted to kill Prince Muhammad bin Nayef, a senior Saudi
interior minister who has led a programme in Saudi Arabia to encourage
CIA-terrorists to reform.
*Abdullah al-Asiri *
"Abdullah gaine... more »
In defense of five standard deviations
Five standard deviations are cute.
However, Tommaso Dorigo wrote the first part of his two-part "tirade
against the five sigma",
Demistifying The Five-Sigma Criterion
I mostly disagree with his views. The disagreement begins with the first
word of the title ;-) that I would personally write as "demystifying"
because what we're removing is mystery rather than mist (although the two
are related words for "fog").
He "regrets" that the popular science writers tried to explain the
five-sigma criterion to the public – I think they should be praised for
this particular thing because th... more »
$200 Toys R Us Gift Card Giveaway!
Today I am thrilled to be teaming up with a fun author and other bloggers
to bring you this huge giveaway!
Welcome to the $200 Toys R Us Gift Card Giveaway!
Award winning author Carole P. Roman is a former teacher turned
businesswoman. She has successfully run a family business with her husband
that employs close to five hundred people. Her most favorite job is being
grandmother to her many grandchildren.
Roman has two wonderful sons and hit the jackpot in the daughter-in-law
department. She currently lives on Long Island with her husband. Her first
book, Captain No Beard - A... more »
Meet & Greet Monday (#MtaGt) - EcoFriendly Baby Products
Welcome
to Meet & Greet Monday, a regular series designed to grow our
green
community.
[image: A link-up for green blogs on Reduce Footprints Blog]
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*The
rules:*
1. Use the link-up tool below to share your green-living blog or
collection
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*The
rules:*
1. Use the link-up tool below to share your green-living blog or
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of environment... more » This 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"
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*"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*: And, if eve... 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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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.
Untitled
*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*
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lanza 9.34%
*Aangirfan Global Traffic Rank 1 month*
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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]
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