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How much is a quadrillion?
The question is, how much is a quadrillion?
Answer number one: it’s twice Japan’s GDP.
Answer number two: that’s how much the Japanese government now owes, after
trying to lift up its economy by overspending on the back of rapidly
expanding government debt.
One quadrillion dollars. More than seven-million yen per taxpayer.
One-thousand trillion yen in total, owed to Japanese’s aging savers.
Here it is in zeroes:
1,000,000,000,000,000.
And here’s the really sad thing: After twenty-three years of their
government trying to fix their 1990 depression by borrowing and
overspendi... more »
In Kinmen with FTV
Another trip with Michella and FTV, this time a brief night in Taipei
followed by a trip to Kinmen. I really enjoyed Kinmen's completely
different atmosphere and its interesting and well-preserved old buildings.
Hoping to get back there soon for a few days of cycling around the island.
Click on READ MORE for photos and commentary.
In Shulin we stopped at a night market to shoot some shots of a BBQ scallop
place.
I grabbed a pic of this innovative pot drying technology.
Michella does some stills.
The next day it was off to Kinmen. Here is a shot of the bed and breakfast
we staye... more »
Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW) - Preserving Local Produce
Welcome to Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)!
Wondering how to live greener? You've come to the right place. Each week we
challenge ourselves to try a new task ... or "amp up" something we're
already doing. We raise our awareness, learn from each other and develop
Eco-friendly skills which will improve our lives and protect our planet.
Doing so together gives us power ... the power to Change The World!
If this is your first visit, please click HERE for information and a
complete list of all the challenges we've taken on so far.
This post contains great information and I encourage ... more »
Social Media-- More Profoundly Impactful Than You Think
The worst thing I can think of in terms of the impact of social media on
society is portrayed in the short film (above) by Werner Herzog, "From One
Second To The Next."
A study by Joseph DiGrazia, Karissa McKelvey, Johan Bollen and Fabio Rojas
at the University of Indiana illustrates how Twitter conversations can be
used to predict election outcomes, whether they are determiniative or not.
Rojas, an associate professor of sociology at Indiana State, explained what
they found in an OpEd for the *Washington Post* on Sunday.
Digital democracy is here. We no longer passively watch o... more »
This Is What FULL EMPLOYMENT Looks Like
... in case you're wondering:
... Yes! I noticed the sub-texts of racism and misogyny too! This is a
great historical artifact!
Your moment of Zen
The Perseid meteor shower at Stonehenge. [via The Guardian photo gallery]
Favela Ninjas and Apartheid Samurai
Neill Blomkamp’s “Elysium” packs a punch for an action sci-fi film even if
its punches don’t land. So yeah … Jodie Foster doesn’t give her best
performance and the other roles for women in the film are completely lame.
A beefy Matt Damon, bless his heart, is poorly cast. The core plot line
doesn’t make
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Bandar Bush, 'Liberator' of Syria
Pepe Escobar
Asia Times Online
Talk about The Comeback Spy. Prince Bandar bin Sultan, aka Bandar Bush (for
Dubya he was like family), spectacularly resurfaced after one year in
speculation-drenched limbo (was he or was he not dead, following an assassination
attempt in July 2012). And he was back in the limelight no less than in a
face-to-face with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Saudi King Abdullah, to quote Bob Dylan, "is not busy being born, he's busy
dying". At least he was able to pick up a pen and recently appoint Bandar
as head of the Saudi General Intelligence Directorat... more »
The Asia-Pacific Perspective #6: Shadow Drills, Invisible Armies, Deadly Leaks
*Welcome back to The Asia-Pacific Perspective, that monthly show where James
Corbett of corbettreport.com and Broc West of apperspective.net break down
all the latest news and headlines from the Asia-Pacific region. This month:
the South Korean and US armies prepare to stage the largest drills in the
world to stoke tensions with North Korea; Japan's invisible army starts to
uncloak; and the Fukushima leak is now (finally) an admitted emergency.*
*
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*Story 1:*
South Korea, US military drill to fuel tensions
http://ur1.ca/exnb6
South Korea approves S$7.6 million in aid for North Korea
... more »
@DianeRavitch speaks the language of #optout
In case you missed @the chalkface radio (special Monday episode with Dr.
Diane Ravitch) here’s your chance to listen to radio brilliance. We spent
the entire day getting ready for our interview with Dr. Ravitch. However,
five minutes before the show started Shaun and I realized we had no ability
to contact our guest. Guess […]
August 14 , 2013 Bahrain Protests - Independence Day from Britain..... Tamarod faces off against draconian new Bahrainian measures to stamp down protests....
Bahrain Protests 2013: August 14 Will Be Biggest Protest This Year
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Bahrain is bracing for a series of protests likely to be the most
significant in over a year. Inspired by the Tamarod Movement, which helped
bring down the Morsi government in Egypt, Bahriani activists will take to
the streets on August 14, ... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
Lafayette, Louisiana, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
"Evolution of the Soul: Life Lessons Through Reincarnation"
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*"Evolution of the Soul: Life Lessons Through Reincarnation"*
by Madisyn Taylor, The DailyOM
"Often we reincarnate on earth with our soul family and often our most
intense relationships are with our soul family. You meet someone for the
first time and feel as if you know them already. You’re in a town that
you’ve never been to before, yet you recognize streets and buildings. You
start playing a new sport and amaze everyone, including yourself, at your
natural abilities and intuitive knowing of the rules. We often describe
such experiences as déjà vu: the experience or feeling... more »
Michael Hastings working on Expose of CIA Director John Brennan before his sudden death ........ Who are the Terrorists ? Just maybe we need to reconsider the answer to the question..... How many folks even know who Michel Hastings was , that he is dead because he was doing his job as a real journalist , where is the outrage ? Is Washington's culture of criminality a scourge on humanity ? Paul Craig Roberts with a thoughtful Essay ....
Clarification on the cremation conspiracy theory......
Exclusive— Hastings ‘Unauthorized Cremation’ Mega-Rumor False, Family Says
By Russ Baker on Aug 13, 2013
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According to a member of Michael Hastings’s family, a widely circulated
story that the investigative journalist’s body was cremated by authorities
without the family’s permission is flat-out untrue.
The story that the cremation was unauthorized—further stoking credible
suspicions aroused by Hastings’s strange death in a fiery one-car crash,
complete with a dramatic explosion– has raged across the Inter... more »
“People Come To The Rescue”
Alexandr Mish, “People Come To The Rescue”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EJpr2GPoWU
Chet Raymo, “Natural and Artificial”
* “Natural and Artificial”*
by Chet Raymo
"(You probably read the story last week about the European researchers who
produced a lab-grown beef burger from stem cells from a living cow. Which
raises again the distinction between natural and artificial. I started to
write about this, then remembered that I had already done so back in 2007.
I'm repeating that series of posts this week, to remind myself what I
thought then, and to learn what you think now.)
Nothing more exacerbates my nature writing colleagues than the mechanical
metaphor for life. Think of life as a machine, they say... more »
NEXT STEP IN DRONE ORGANIZING - TALKING ABOUT THE SATELLITES & GROUND STATIONS
Someone has subscribed me to the magazine called *The Atlantic*. I don't
know who it was. I used to read *The Atlantic* back in the 1970's while in
the military, before I knew much about alternative media sources. I'd say
it's a centrist publication - Clinton and Obama Democratic Party with
Cadillac car ads.
The cover story in the edition that arrived in my mailbox today is called *Drone
Warrior: Has it Become Too Easy for a President to Kill?* The article
raises many good questions but then gives Obama a pass at the end by
concluding, "Obama's efforts to mitigate the use of d... more »
Philadelphia School District financial travails - gridlock still rules - While Philly politicians want 45 million now , The State Budget Secretary Zogby says NO ! What is the biggest impediment - Zogby wants a new CBA with the Teachers Union before any new funding is released ..... PFT holding tight for now , School district and PFT far apart......
Philadelphia School Drama lingers....
Countdown, Day 27: Philly's elected officials want $45 million now; Zogby
says noSubmitted by Dale Mezzacappa on Tue, 08/13/2013 - 14:34 Posted in Latest
news | Permalink
***UPDATED with further reaction, 6:50 p.m.*
The city's legislative delegation, Mayor Nutter, and City Council leaders
joined Tuesday in urging the state to immediately release $45 million in
state-authorized dollars to the District so that schools can open on time.
They sent to Gov. Corbett a list of reform accomplishments that they say
fulfills the state's requirements for rel... more »
Proxy war in Iran ongoing ? Yeah , that would be ever growing sanctions on not just Iran's finacial capabilities but it's oil industry ... India and China facing the US down ?
India, China Defy US Congress’ War on Iranian Oil
Posted on 08/13/2013 by Juan Cole
The US House of Representatives approved a bill at the beginning of this
month aimed at completely closing off Iranian petroleum exports. Not since
President Roosevelt told Japan in July 1941 that he was going to cut it off
from American petroleum has the United States threatened to use oil to
strangle a country so completely. And FDR’s threat caused the Japanese to
decide to take Indonesia away from the Dutch, which required crippling the
US Pacific Fleet at . . . Pearl Harbor.
The bill is intended a... more »
ISRAEL AND THE ROLE OF THE NEOCONSERVATIVES
Without America’s support, Israel in all likelihood would not by now exist
and, without the neoconservatives, there would in all likelihood be no
American support for Israel.
The interests of Israel have always been neoconservatism’s primary concern
and it has been American neoconservatives that have lobbied the hardest to
ensure American support for Israel. They have done this by integrating
themselves into all levels of American society where they can be of
influence including in government, public service, academia, political and
social commentary, journalism, and think-tank org... more »
HISTORY / Bob Feldman : A People's History of Egypt, Part 6, 1890-1917
Cairo
street scene, early 1900's. Image from mfish.
A people's history:
The movement to democratize Egypt
Part 6: 1890-1917 period -- Early union-building and calls for economic
reform.
By Bob Feldman / The Rag Blog / August 13, 2013
[With all the dramatic activity in Egypt, Bob Feldman's Rag Blog
"people's history" series, "The Movement to Democratize Egypt," could
not be more timely. Also
Joe DiGenova - a lawyer for one of the Benghazi whistleblowers - declares 400 surface to air missiles were stolen in Libya and given to some very bad people , like Al Qaeda....Intel community fear is they may be used to shoot down a airliner ....So , despite the tap dancing , we've being supplying deadly weapons to syrian rebels which include islamic fanatics - such as Al Qaeda and Al Nusra type rebels groups ? And despite widely dispersed accounting of CIA gunrunning - where is the outrage ? Liberal Dems not outraged , conservatives republicans not outraged - does a US or Western airliner have to be shot down and then would the blame for that fall on the Syrian Government ( like the so called chemical weapon usage - totally unproven to date and ironically grave concerns that the rebels actually have used chemical weapons ! ).
Benghazi Whistleblower Lawyer: “Stolen” Libyan Missiles Will Be Used to
Shoot Down Aircraft
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*Kurt Nimmo*
Infowars.com
August 13, 2013
A former U.S. attorney, Joe DiGenova, who is representing a Benghazi
whistleblower, told a Washington, D.C., radio station on Monday that 400
surface-to-air missiles were “stolen” in Libya and given to some “very ugly
people,” aka al-Qaeda.
“We had troops ready to deploy... more »
Gold and Silver Data for August 13 , 2013 , news and views touching on the precious metals !
http://www.smartknowledgeu.com/blog/2013/08/the-incredible-shrinking-comex-gold-warehouse-inventories/
The Incredible Shrinking COMEX Gold Warehouse Inventories
During this banker raid on paper gold and paper silver, while banking shill
Nouriel Roubini was spouting more propaganda in the distribution channels
of the mass media of a gold collapse to sub-par $1000 an ounce prices, we
were busy informing our readers about the *“Lies of Nouriel Roubini” *(whose
sole purpose in life, by the way, seems to be to scare uneducated people
into selling off their physical gold and silver into t... more »
It Doesn't Help to Call Oprah a "Cannibal"
The Swiss shopgirl at the centre of controversy for allegedly refusing to
show Oprah Winfrey a purse, claiming she couldn't afford it, is defending
herself - clumsily.
The woman denies Winfrey's claim, says that never happened and there was
definitely no racism involved in their encounter.
*The clerk, who spoke anonymously, [said] she feels "powerless" in the face
of the prominent media mogul's accusations. "I don't know why she is
making these accusations. She is so powerful and I am just a shop girl."*
*"I don't know why someone as great as her must cannibalize me on TV." *
"Humanity Is Drowning In Washington’s Criminality"
* "Humanity Is Drowning In Washington’s Criminality"*
By Paul Craig Roberts
“Americans will soon be locked into an unaccountable police state unless US
Representatives and Senators find the courage to ask questions and to
sanction the executive branch officials who break the law, violate the
Constitution, withhold information from Congress, and give false
information about their crimes against law, the Constitution, the American
people and those in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Iraq, Libya, Syria,
Somalia, Guantanamo, and elsewhere. Congress needs to use the impeachment
power th... more »
It's Santorum Again. He's Back.
Rick Santorum is not a classy guy. In fact, he denounces the term "middle
class" as Marxist. Here's what he told an audience in Iowa:
*"Don't use the term the other side uses. Who does Barack Obama talk about
all the time? The middle class. Since when in America do we have classes?
Since when in America are people stuck in areas or defined places called a
class? That’s Marxism talk."*
*The Daily Kos' *Laura Clawson answers Santorum's question.
* *
*Since when in America do we have classes? Aside from "since always"?
(After all, when this country was founded, in most places only
... more »
Obama's hissy fit with Vladimir Putin over the Snowden asylum affair is analyzed by Asia Time's roving reporter, Pepe Escobar, concluding that POTUS "acted like a diplomatic dilettante at best." Don't let Pepe's humoristic writing style deceive you. Having followed him for years, I've concluded that he is the most knowledgeable correspondent on the economies and politics of the countries of the Asian continent, including many with names that end in "stan."
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*OpEdNews Op Eds 8/11/2013 at 00:26:29*
*Vlad the Hammer vs Obama the Wimp*
*By Pepe Escobar (about the author)* *Permalink*
opednews.com
Source: Asia Times
This is getting ridiculous. The President of the United States (POTUS)
screamed and shouted because he wanted his spy (Edward Snowden) back.
Snowden, following Russian laws, was granted temporary asylum. The White
House was "disappointed."
Then POTUS snubbed the bilateral summit with Russian President Vladimir
Putin in Moscow coinciding with the Group of 20 in St Petersburg in earl... more »
Fukushima updates for August 13 , 2013 ......ALPS ( this is a multiple nuclide removal system ) an epic fail as parts have deteriorated swiftly after just two months of test operations....Another counter measure ( in ground water storage ponds ) becoming an epic fail as ground water pressure causing the ponds to float ! Predictably the ist well to draw off groundwater ( recall target was 100 tons a day , actual groundwater flow per day - estimated at 600 tons per day ) working at a 52 ton per day pace - Tepco needs to pick up the pace.....Summing up the news for the day - Nuclide WATER WORLD.... ......
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/08/4-more-parts-found-severely-deteriorated-in-multiple-nuclide-removing-system-alps-only-2-months-after-test-operation/
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more parts found severely deteriorated in multiple nuclide removing
system ALPS only 2 months after test operation
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Following up this article..*Serious deterioration found in adsorption
tower
of multiple nuclide removing system ALPS* [URL]
According to Tepco, they found the same deterioration in 4 ... more »
The Most 90s Video Ever?
Amber may only be remembered by a few hardcore eurodisco geeks, but she
might have inadvertently distilled the 1990s in her 1996 release, *This Is
Your Night.*
I'm not just talking about the video but the song as well. Okay, by the
time it came out its sound was about three years off trend. Small wonder it
didn't bother the UK charts. But it has a charm redolent of Culture Beat,
Maxx, 2 Unlimited and La Bouche. All that's missing is the "techno, techno,
techno".
“America’s Descent Into Madness”
* *
*“America’s Descent Into Madness”*
by Henry Giroux
“America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is
the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse than the Bay of
Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous than the Vietnam
War.” – John le Carré
“America is descending into madness. The stories it now tells are filled
with cruelty, deceit, lies, and legitimate all manner of corruption and
mayhem. The mainstream media spins stories that are largely racist,
violent, and irresponsible- stories that celebrate power and demonize
victi... more »
Remember the Line About Horses and Barn Doors? Hey, Merv, Why The Rush?
The Harper government has pulled the operating licence from the now
bankrupt Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railroad. Apparently the Canadian
Transportation Agency concluded that MM&A doesn't have adequate third-party
liability insurance.
"*It would not be prudent, given the risks associated with rail operations,
to permit MMA and MMAC to continue to operate without adequate insurance
coverage*."
The company has said it has less than $25-million in coverage. The
clean-up costs alone for the Lac Megantic catastrophe are expected to
exceed $200-million.
It's time we had a rubber-glo... more »
"America’s Disappeared"
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*"America’s Disappeared"*
by Chris Hedges
"Big Frankie, Little Frankie and Al, three black men who spent a lot of
time in prison and have put their lives back together in the face of
joblessness, crushing poverty and the violence of city streets, abruptly
stopped appearing at the prison support group I help run at the Second
Presbyterian Church in Elizabeth, N.J. This happens in poor neighborhoods.
You see people. You make plans to see them again. And then without
explanation they vanish. They get arrested for something, often trivial,
after the police randomly stop them,... more »
Henry Geiger - Plato's Intent And Method (1976)
*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).*
* Henry Geiger - Men and Gods (1973). *
* *
*Wikipedia:*
Henry Geiger (1908?-15 February 1989) was the editor, publisher, and chief
writer of MANAS Journal which pub... more »
Arms Race Update - Japan Launches First Aircraft Carrier Since WWII
The Japanese navy has a new warship, the largest warship and first aircraft
carrier it has built since WWII. The Japanese, sensitive to their past
and current tensions in Asia-Pacific, are calling it a destroyer or
helicopter carrier. Observers expect it's only a matter of time before it
sails with F-35C warplanes aboard.
Not to be outdone, India launched its first indigenous aircraft carrier
this week. It's the INS Vikrant and it will carry the naval variant of the
Mig-29.
China is also working up its own carrier air arm. Like India, it began
with a refurbished Soviet shi... more »
Immigration and the Statue of Bigotry
*A friend speaking this afternoon at a public debate on the question “Should
New Zealand be Going for Population Growth?” asked me to send him some
articles on immigration I’d posted here a few years back. Since they’re
still topical, I figured I’d repost them here, so everyone who didn’t see
them then can see them now.
But first…*
At the foot of the Statue of Liberty, a gift from nineteenth-century France
to nineteenth-century America, Emma Lazarus's poem The New Colossus sums up
what the statue symbolised for the immigrants who helped build America . .
.
*From her beacon-han... more »
The Smart But Mistaken Case Against A Healthy Party
This may be a little unfair, but I'm going to react in advance to a
three-part series by Sean Trende about party makeovers. Despite that he's
only published part one.
Trende proposes to answer seven questions about elections:
1) What if elections are simply random?
2) What if it really is just the economy, stupid?
3) What if Republicans actually aren’t that out of step ideologically?
4) What if party makeovers don’t work?
5) What if the American people just automatically self-correct?
6) What if this period of introspection is just what out-of-power parties
do?
7) What if it makes no s... more »
Georgia And U.K. Conservatives Have Something In Common- Demographic Shifts They Can't Adjust To
According to *The Hill*, Georgia Republicans are starting to panic that
their party's demented and ill-informed base will saddle the party with "a
flawed candidate" (meaning almost any of the crazy contenders) and allow
Democrat Michelle Nunn to win the open seat.
Recent polling shows the two candidates Republicans are most anxious
about-- Reps. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) and Paul Broun (R-Ga.)-- leading the
pack. Whoever emerges from the clown-car primary, with seven candidates and
counting, will face a candidate Democrats are high on in a state where
shifting demographics benefit th... more »
Apple ring season
Apples are harder to come by this year than last, though not as badly as we
had thought. Even though they could stand to stay on the tree longer,
flavor-wise, worms are taking interest early (what's their hurry?) and so
we have begun making apple rings. It's nice that we're still having hot
days to run the solar dryers, too.
The peeler-corer slicer makes quick compost (or vinegar if you prefer) of
the peelings and cores.
A single slice through half the spiral separates all the rings.
Three days in the sun will suffice to dry the rings enough to put away in
storage jars or bucket... more »
TtSD - the blog that loves to share
Here is Adam Curtis writing about the astonishing and insane organisation
called MI5. It all began in 1906, when a hack author called William Le
Queux had his mad conspiracy novel about a German spy ring serialised in
the Daily Mail, readers from all over Britain started sending him reports
of German spies, which he took to the Committee for Imperial Defence, which
bowed to the pressure and set up a secret service... and so MI5 was
created... Things only got weirder from then on.
Is the BBC pogonophobic?
Former BBC Director General
Talking about BBC employees - and former employees - accusing the BBC of
bias, Jeremy Paxman has accused his employer of being biased against
beards, describing the BBC as being "generally as pogonophobic as the
late-lamented Albanian dictator, Enver Hoxha".
His former radio-bound colleague Robin Lustig concurred, saying that when
he wanted to get into television he was told "that if I seriously wanted to
do more, I would have to get rid of my beard."
In an act of brazen defiance, Jeremy sported a fine set of whiskers on last
night's *Newsnight*, provok... more »
The BBC's Rapid Reaction Force in action?
This made me smile.
The report into BBC bias by the Centre for Policy Studies - focusing on how
the BBC reports the findings of think tanks from opposing sides of the
political spectrum- received wide coverage in the last couple of days, and
one of the examples used was the left-leaning New Economics Foundation.
As a post here at *Is the BBC biased?* also showed yesterday, not one of
the BBC News website's articles from the start of 2012 through to yesterday
gave *any* political label to the New Economic Foundation (except for one
use of 'independent').
Lo and behold, today t... more »
Anatomy of a cable news crash!
*TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 2013*
*Grandpa battles the expert:* Lawrence O’Donnell is a real piece of work.
Of that we can all feel sure.
Last night, he devoted an entire segment to the guilty verdict in the
Whitey Bulger trial. Wierdly, he did the entire four-minute segment is a
light “Townie” accent.
You can hear this if you listen again. The man is *very* strange.
(In part because of Affleck and Damon, “working class chic” became tres
chic at some point among arts-class Bostonians. O’Donnell is a genuine nut
who likes to pose as a former street tough from Dawchestah. Last night, he
to... more »
Tatterdemalion: Chapter 10
Tatterdemalion Ch 10 by Robert Crawford
This is the tenth chapter of my novel *Tatterdemalion*, the one that's
starting to generate some buzz among my beta readers. The text is probably
too small without extreme magnification (just click on the link and read
the document directly on Scribd's website) but this is mainly to show you
the cover I'd had professionally done two days ago by Samantha Hensler at Ebook
Covers Galore. It cost me a pretty penny and I'll still need to pony up
another $35 when it comes time to do the Create Space edition. But the way
I look at it, it's like ... more »
Taking Back a Stolen Homeland - Scotland
Few things show inequality more than Land Registry records and, when it
comes to that, Britain surely stands alone. In the thousand years since
the Norman conquest, most of the land in England has been held and remains
held by a very small and select segment of the population.
*According to the author Kevin Cahill, the main driver behind the absurd
expense of owning land and property in Britain is that so much of the
nation's land is locked up by a tiny elite. Just 0.3% of the population –
160,000 families – own two thirds of the country. Less than 1% of the
population owns 70% o... more »
The Security "Failures" of Benghazi
Oversight Hearing Day 1 - The Security "Failures" of Benghazi from Spike1138on
Vimeo.
The Mormon Mafia Star Chamber Day 1. It's from around 58:10 onwards that
the truth comes out.
Romney and Rove's October Surprise Redux: The Smoking Gun from Spike1138 on
Vimeo.
Hillary Clinton went on National Television to blame internet video "The
Innocence of Muslims" for triggering a spontaneous protest in Libya which
killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others.
Because that's the CIA told her had happened.
That's NOT what they told the Romney/Ryan Campaign - they told THEM it was
... more »
Missionary Zeal and the Paradox of Paternalism | the becoming radical
Missionary Zeal and the Paradox of Paternalism | the becoming radical.
Untitled
*SLFPA-E Levee board's suit moved to federal court*
*Green groups keeping mum on flood authority lawsuit opposed by Jindal**
~Also~**Live Chat: Bob Marshall Of The Lens Discusses Coastal Loss Lawsuit
Against Oil And Gas Companies ~WWNO*
*RTA board approves ferry fare plan*
*Carpetbaggers & the Go-Cup — A New Orleans Tale of Murdering New Orleans ~Kiss
Me, I'm Cooking*
Untitled
*Army Corps Of Engineers Warns Of Possible Cutbacks On MS River ~Maureen
McCollum*
*Sinkhole bypass meeting set Tuesday in Napoleonville*
Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies
Encouraging the misplaced outrage was all fun and games until the "angry
mob" turned on them. Now Republicans run from holding Town Hall meetings in
order to avoid their angry base. And yes there's a few conservative
Democrats who have been voting with them who are doing the same.
Though Republicans in recent years have harnessed the political power of
these open mic, face-the-music sessions, people from both parties say they
are noticing a decline in the number of meetings. They also say they are
seeing Congressional offices go to greater lengths to conceal when and
where the meet... more »
“saw bias from the inside”
This is a striking scoop from DB at Biased BBC:
Toby Young has written an article for the Jewish Chronicle about anti-Israeli
bias in the British media. It drew this response from a parent at the West
London Free School where Young is chairman of the governors:
hanna white @hannabaconwhite
@toadmeister BIG thank you for defending Israel, from WLFS parent/daughter
of Israeli holocaust survivor/ex-BBC (saw bias from the inside)
about 8 hours ago
Daughter of a Holocaust survivor, ex-BBC journalist: “saw bias from the
inside”.
Interesting.
Hanna worked for the BBC from 1997-2012, fo... more »
Watch trailer 'The Cherokee Word for Water'
Cast
from The Cherokee Word for Water
Published on Jun 27, 2013
The Cherokee Word for Water is a feature-length motion picture that
tells the story of the work that led Wilma Mankiller to become the first
modern female Chief of the Cherokee Nation.
Set in the early 1980s, The Cherokee Word for Water begins in the homes
of a small town in rural Oklahoma where many houses lack
The Last Waltz of Robert Mugabe
First the good news. Robert Mugabe is almost certainly on his final term
as president of Zimbabwe. If he manages to serve his full, five-year
stretch, he'll be 94.
Now the bad news, at least for the long-suffering people of Zimbabwe.
Waiting in the wings to replace president Bob are two real characters, one
known as "*the Crocodile*", and his rival, "*Comrade Spill Blood*."
VP Joice Mujuru took the name Spill Blood as a teen when she was a freedom
fighter. Former spymaster, Emmerson "Crocodile" Mnangagwa got his
nickname when, as a teen, he led a sabotage unit against the R... more »
Stop Imperialism: Podcast # 66
Lots of good info contained in the over two hour podcast. You can pick and
choose what news you wish to take in as Mr Draitser from Stop Imperialismprovides a breakdown of time and place to get the info.
Very glad to see that he is talking about Fukushima!
The* ecofascists* don't touch this story except in the most meek manner
imaginable, if at all.
Example: Green Peace
*Yet,* *Fukushima is the biggest global environmental catastrophe ongoing.
And barely garners more then a passing mention.*
*1. **Syria* [image: syria_80]Al-Qaeda militants travel to Syria Via Turkey
CIA moved Lib... more »
Interview with Todd Brendan Fahey: Captain Trips- Al Hubbard
In this episode we discuss the “Johnny Appleseed of LSD” and it’s not
Timothy Leary. In fact, today we’ll be discussing Captain Trips – Al
Hubbard, the man who supplied ALL of North America, including the CIA, FBI,
US Army and even Canada, with Sandoz LSD. Every dose of Sandoz LSD-25 that
came from the Grateful Dead or Tim Leary, or anyone else, including those
involved in MKULTRA, got their LSD from this man. Al Hubbard even
personally dosed Aldous Huxley.
Gerald Heard, Aldous Huxley and Capt. Al Hubbard
*Thanks to Jan Irvin @ Gnostic Media. Always linked in the sidebar....*
*DEFIN... more »
Hey, Pollsters! What's a Deficit (To You)?
Paul Krugman flagged polling showing that people (incorrectly) believe that
the federal budget deficit is rising, and Kevin Drum explains it as information
lag: "It takes a long time for public opinion to change on stuff like this,
and that's especially true when one side is loudly trumpeting false
narratives." Could be! But there's more than one possibility here:
1. People mean the actual federal budget deficit, but are misinformed
(Krugman/Drum).
2. People mean the federal debt, not the budget deficit, and correctly
believe that the debt is still rising (suggested by Megan McArdle... more »
A Hunted Woman
I've never been fond of those nature shows that get you to watch the
beautiful gazelle going about its business and then pull back to let you
see the pride of lions setting off a race that you just know is going to
end badly for the gazelle. There's that look of panic in the prey's eyes
that can be so uncomfortable to watch.
I felt that same discomfort looking at this image of Senator Pam Wallin
with a swarm of journos closing in as though for the kill. She's got that
"prey look" in her eyes, across her face.
Duffy, Harb, Wallin and Brazeau - they're like the contestants in *Th... more »
Transmutations of all Higher D portals proceeds at this moment
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by ÉirePort
Transmutations of all Higher D portals proceeds at this moment, bringing
each in precise alignment to assist individual communities adjustments to
Higher Incomings.
Frontier transformationals enter consciousness of group, community,
individuals prepared for these. Those "unprepareds" also sense these
transformationals and transmutationals.
Signing of Higher Contracts nears completion for Hue-manity, as caretakers
of these transformationals and transmutationals.
All is proceeding as Hue-manity int... more »
Republican Civil War Heating Up Again-- This Time AP Names The Names Of So-Called "Moderate" Republicans
Nothing
left of the Tea Party Caucus but garbage
The latest battleground is over the debilitating and draconian spending
cutsextremist rightists who are in the pockets of the 1 percent are
demanding.
These are cuts even greater than the cuts neo-liberals in the Obama
administration and among the New Dems and Blue Dogs have been
implementing.
The extremists want to get rid of public education, food stamps, Amtrak
and
start the process of ending Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security,
their
longtime *bêtes noires*. AP insists there is a significant "backlash"
from
more mainstreamish con... more »
Got a Gut Feeling About Climate Change? You Just Might.
A study by the University of Zurich has found heatwaves can get one's
bowels in an uproar.
*Patients with inflammatory bowel disease are at greater risk of relapse
during heat waves, finds a study that could have significant implications
in an era of climate change.
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*Risk of hospitalisation for an IBD flare went up by nearly five percent
for every day that a heat wave lasted, retrospective data from over 2,000
patients showed.
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*By around the same margin, patients with infectious gastroenteritis (IG)
were also more likely to have a flare during a heat wave compared with a
cont... more »
Paul Toner, MA TURNcoat, Leads Charge for Common Core and PARCC
Lawyer, corporate stooge, and MTA President, Paul Toner has sold teachers
down the river in Massachusetts with support for test score based teacher
evaluations, more segregated corporate reform schools, and now the Common
Core testing delivery system. Toner has a propaganda piece at the MTA site
that once again applies lipstick to the pig that he […]
Hoopa Valley Tribe intervenes for salmon on Trinity River
Westlands
files lawsuit against Trinity water release
Hoopa Valley Tribe intervenes, urges increased release of water
"A die-off of Trinity River salmon, if it were to occur again this year,
would be very harmful to the many Hoopa tribal members who rely upon
these fish." -- Hoopa Valley Chair Danielle Vigil-Masten
by Dan Bacher
Censored News
The Westlands Water
ELECTIONS ARE WON WITH BRAINWASHING; USA AND SCOTLAND
*Nate Silver*
Nate Silver, the statistician, correctly predicted the outcome of all 50
states in the 2012 US presidential election.
Did he use Maths or did he read the minds of the 'Powers-That-Be'?
The 'Powers-That-Be' had decided that Obama was to be re-elected.
They arranged that the Republicans would choose as their candidate an
'unelectable' Mormon who would make a number of gaffes.
They got the media to present Obama as the 'good guy'.
Much of the US population was successfully brainwashed.
Although it should be noted that less than half the electorate turned out
to vote;... more »
How Much Can CNN Get Wrong About F1 Engines, Physics In One Article?
' While a standard engine is powered by a belt connected to the crankshaft,
a turbo engine runs on its own exhaust steam, making it more energy
efficient.'
More here in case you can't see why that sentence is gibberish
http://jalopnik.com/how-much-can-cnn-get-wrong-about-f1-engines-physics-in-1111423405
If CNN are that wrong about F1 engines, how wrong are they about other
matters?
Megaload Blockade Organizing: More Megaloads Headed to Northwest!
Nez
Perce megaload blockade
Anti-megaload activists from Northern Rockies Rising Tide are sending
out an alert calling on all West Coast/Columbia River activists.
Breaking news from Northern Rockies Rising Tide (12:22 am Tuesday):
"Thirty people just blocked the megaload for about five minutes. No
arrests. Lots of cops, not much patience. Lots of good material.
By Wild Idaho Rising
13/13/Cat Blogging
Luckily, I don't have triskaidekaphobia, or a fear of the number 13.
Otherwise, this 13th day in the 13th year of this century would paralyze me
with an additional phobia that no one in these scary times doesn't need.
There are enough real things in this world, especially in this country, to
fear without having to succumb to an irrational, numerology-based phobia to
add to the pile.
For his part, Popeye's only fears, it seems, is approaching storms
that never affect him and the little bare circular spot in his dry food
dish that occasionally appears.
Meanwhile, I'm st... more »
Keep digging!
[image: Prime Minister Stephen Harper, second from left, poses for a photo
opportunity with, from left to right, chairman of the Toronto Port
Authority Mark McQueen, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, and Federal Finance
Minister Jim Flaherty at Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport in Toronto
Friday, March 9, 2012.]
Harper, Ford, Flaherty and some other entitled person.
The photograph was used last evening at this event, sponsored by the
Canadian Labour Congress.
Julie Lalonde did a presentation for Hollaback! Ottawa.
I'll post more about that later; my DSL is wonky and my internet connection... more »
US Border Patrol Impunity Must End! Border Patrol Getting Away with Murder!
Border
Patrol Impunity Must End!
Mother Demands Justice
Carlos La Madrid loved to play soccer and guitar and was learning to
work with solar energy. Image credit: Border Action Network.
By Derechos Humanos
Censored News
Tucson -- Guadalupe Guerrero, mother of Carlos La Madrid, was informed
this past Friday, August 9th, that the murderer of her son, Border
Patrol Agent Lucas Tidwell, will
Steve Pinker is right to defend "scientism"
A week ago, Harvard's top evolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker wrote an
essay for The New Republic,
Science Is Not Your Enemy: An impassioned plea to neglected novelists,
embattled professors, and tenure-less historians,
that defends the application of the scientific method to various fields,
including those that used to be monopolized by the tools of humanities and
other methods and non-methods. I think that both Pinker and your humble
correspondent think that the would-be expletive "scientism" is being mostly
used for the idea that scientific reasoning shouldn't be confined jus... more »
EU, knowing it is wrong, still refuses to correct "1967 borders" terminology
' Truth be damned! We all decided that they were borders, so they will
continue to be called borders!
The EU is literally changing history in order to strengthen its political
position, rather than changing its position to adhere to those pesky little
things called facts. Their pathetic defense is that they all agreed to lie,
therefore the lie is now the truth.'
Truth and the EU are not often happy bedfellows.
More here
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.no/2013/08/eu-knowing-it-is-wrong-still-refuses-to.html?m=1
BBC News - British Library's wi-fi service blocks 'violent' Hamlet
Internet content filters are generally either over protective like the
British Library one or far too lax. In fact, often they are both...
More here http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23680689
The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: UNCONTAINABLE!!!
It has been over two years now since the original Israeli attack on
Fukushima via their criminal Stuxnet virus (and possibly several small
nuclear devices) that has left that facility wrecked and its reactor cores
still in meltdown...And in spite of the Jewish news propaganda, still
horribly out of control.... I have kept a vigilant watch over this
disaster for two straight years, and NOW it does appear that the Jewish
lying media criminals can no longer avoid this situation and are finally
having to report to the world the truth....
I have been watching reports for the last few w... more »
There was a large house on Nantucket!
*TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 2013*
*Mark Leibovich makes forbidden remarks:* We haven’t yet read This Town,
Mark Leibovich’s tattletale opus about Insider Washington.
Still, we’ve read the pages permitted on-line. In those pages, Leibovich
says several naughty things—naughty but instructive.
By law, these forbidden remarks must be ignored by the rest of the “press
corps.” So you can read these statements somewhere, we’ll reproduce them
here.
Let’s start with this, a snapshot from Tim Russert’s memorial service in
June 2008, the scene which opens the book. As she enters the cathedral,
Hill... more »
Political Background To Iraq’s Current Descent Into Violence
Iraq's insurgency is making a comeback. The number of attacks and deaths
has gone up dramatically this year with almost weekly mass casualty
bombings. The security forces have proven incapable of preventing any of
these operations. The April 2013 raid upon the Hawija protest site in Tamim
province is widely regarded as the spark that ignited the current unrest.
There were larger political issues however, dating back several years,
which led to the current deterioration in security.
2010 marked the breakdown of Iraq’s fragile post-sectarian war politics. In
2008, Prime Minister No... more »
The Glue That Holds the Crap Together
President Obama yesterday appointed National Intelligence Director James
Clapper to head a secret task force to figure out how James Clapper and the
Spy State can lie more effectively to the American people. In
spook-speak, it is called being the "least untruthful". In real-speak, it
is called polishing off the dog shit being hurled at the public and calling
it a kiss from a warm puppy.
In a sign that the president not only holds us in utter contempt, but that
he is now gleefully rubbing our noses in it, he wasted no time pivoting awayfrom promising an "independent review" at Friday'... more »
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Dallas Braden, who once was perfect, 30. It's a tough
game for pitchers.
Starting back up with a little good stuff:
1. Not a surprise that, as Paul Krugman reports, people (erroneously) think
the federal budget deficit is going up; I still don't think most people
mean the actual federal budget deficit when they complain about deficits.
2. Matthew O'Brien on Rand Paul and Milton Friedman.
3. And Garance Franke-Ruta suggests three questions that Hillary-attackers
should ask themselves.
EYES WIDE SHUT: The silence continues!
*TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 2013*
*Part 1—Plutocrat looting ignored:* Amazing amounts of money get looted in
the normal operation of American health care.
Way back when, in 2005, Paul Krugman tried to raise this issue with a
series of columns in the New York Times. He may as well not have bothered.
The rest of America's press and pundit corps is committed to avoiding this
ginormous policy matter.
But along the way, Krugman offered the basic outline of a puzzling
situation. On April 15 of that year—Tax Day!—he discussed the “amazing”
state of American health care spending:
KRUGMAN (4/15/0... more »
Blast from the Past: Cinema enters Taiwan
*A rain squall seen from Shiti Port on the east coast of Taiwan.*
From here (it downloads a .doc file):
In August and September of 1899, an unnamed businessperson brought an
Edison projection system from the US and showed a documentary short on the
Spanish-American War. Encouraged by these new historical findings, film
historian Ye Long-Yan dug deeper into the colonial archives and was greeted
by an even greater surprise. *In August 1896, less than a year after the
“invention” of cinema, a time coinciding with Japan’s acquisition of
Taiwan, a Japanese merchant brought with him to ... more »
Economic Round Up: Beijing to strip Taiwan banks?
*So hot on the east coast this weekend, everyone is taking a dip.*
With President Ma away on a foreign trip, FocusTaiwan provides some of the most
recent numbers on Taiwan's economic situation....
Taiwan's exports usually post strong growth in July, but that was not the
case this year. A rare monthly decline in exports was recorded in July and
the annual export growth rate for the month was also lower than expected.
Even though exports rose 1.6 percent year-on-year, the growth rate fell far
short of expectations, said Liang Kuo-yuan, director of Polaris Research
Institute.
....
... more »
Amazon.com And You're Done
I remember in the late 90s siting in a strategy board meeting, where one
director predicted that Bertlesmann would ‘crush ‘ Amazon and that the
company would not last at the level of losses is was making. I tried to
explain global branding, customer service, and how retail operations can
work on positive cash flow, but I only got a glazed look in return. The
outcome is now history.
It is hardly surprising to find that the media that Amazon started with,
books, is one that they cover so well. It is the width and depth of
Amazon’s book vision and commitment that makes it different.... more »
Will Independent-Minded New Jersey Voters Prove Big Money And Corporate Media Wrong Today?
And Cory Booker-- same crooked garbage
Christie made sure that the election for the open Senate seat would not
fall on the same day as his own election-- costing New Jersey taxpayers
millions of dollars-- because he was afraid Cory Booker's celebrity status
would turn out lots and lots of Democrats who might not otherwise bother
voting... and who could tilt his own race towards Democrat Barbara Buono.
So today's the day of the primary.
Corporate media has developed a convenient pro-corporate fake bipartisan
theme that Christie can't lose his race and that Booker can't lose his
race.... more »
A Good Place To Start
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WTC7....THIS IS AN ORANGE WTC7
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It's Who They Are
It's not just the $140,000 in illegitimate expenses -- which Stephen Harper
is on record as saying are "comparable to any parliamentarian travelling
from that particular area of the country." It's not just that Wallin's tab
is considerably larger than Mike Duffy's tab. It's that she doctored her
records ahead of the audit. It would appear that, like Bev Oda, Ms. Wallin
feels free to alter official documents.
And, of course, there is the matter of scale. John Ivison points out in *The
National Post* that:
Lest any of the senators currently in the spotlight have forgotten — which
i... more »
Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction
Just so weird.
Saw this:
And wikipedia gave me the back--story and then some ...
US General Dempsey in Israel - is a no fly zone , 40 km buffer zone limited kinetic action looming ( Libya redux ) for Syria - to support Al Qaeda rebel forces ( not sure if this is part of core al qaeda we have on the run or the spreading cancer variety - that are currently droning in Yemen ? )
http://www.debka.com/article/23191/Dempsey-in-Israel-Jordan-to-tie-last-ends-before-Obama-decides-finally-on-US-military-action-in-Syria
Chairman
of the US Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey arrived in Israel
Monday, Aug. 12 for critical talks with Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahu, Defense minister Moshe Ya’alon and Chief of Staff Lt. Gen.
Benny
Gantz, followed by parallel talks in Jordan. DEBKAfile reports he has
come
to lay the ground ahead of President Barack Obama’s final decision to
embark on limited US military intervention in the Syria civil war.
The Obama plan, if... more »
Recalling the Great March 2011 Earthquake that devastated eastern Japan , how likely is another strong quake in Japan ? The answer is sooner than one might believe !
Catharsis Ours - 18 hours ago
Rare video of the effect of the great Japan March 2011 Tsunami...... The
power of nature is amazing ........
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/350325/description/News_in_Brief_Japans_2011_earthquake_upped_Tokyos_risk
News in Brief: Japan's 2011 earthquake upped Tokyo's risk
Chance more than doubled that capital city will soon experience big temblor
By Erin Wayman
Web edition: May 10, 2013
Print edition: June 1, 2013; Vol.183 #11 (p. 20)
A+ A- Text Size
The magnitude 9 earthquake that shook Japan in 2011 more than doubled the
risk that a big quake will rattle To... more »
Untitled
*Sandra Hester files lawsuit against city, mayor, police chief ~WWLTV*
*A New Core ~Saints Win *
*Saints’ Vaccaro ‘brings it’ in practice, on the field ~Brian Allee-Walsh*
*Sequester limits coastal restoration payouts ~Jordon Blum, New Orleans
Advocate*
*Coast Guard Releasing Oil Spill Response Plan ~WWNO*
~Officials signing off on the plan include representatives of the Louisiana
Oil Spill Coordinator’s Office. Local leaders represent Orleans,
Jefferson, Plaquemines, St. Bernard and St. Tammany parishes.
*Surpirse! Surprise! BP orchestrates media blitz to sway public opinion*
*Ba... more »
Healed by Self - A Poem by M.N. Hopkins
Healed By Self
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*Searching for a cure*
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*Heal*
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*Searching for a cure*
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*Healing*
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*Searching for a cure*
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*Healed*
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*When I ended the seeking*
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*I was healed by mySelf*
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*M.N. Hopkins*
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*Note: *Written on August 12, 2013 and first published for the first
time on my blog today. Dedicated to those who have forgotten the way of
Self healing and perhaps have remembered this day.
Erwin Schrödinger and his cat in Google Doodle
Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger was born on August 12th, 1887,
i.e. 126 years and 1 day ago, in our then capital, namely Vienna,
Austria-Hungary (where he also died in 1961), to a German-speaking botanist
and a mostly British daughter of a chemist. He was their only child.
This background may explain some of this physicist's deep interest in the
foundations of biology. However, he had some more unusual interests related
to Eastern religions and pantheism – religious symbols often appeared in
his work. In my opinion, this fact boils down to his family background,
too. He was... more »
More news from 'the apartheid state of Israel'
'Shlayan went on to add, "Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East
and the only one that protects Christians and holy places."
The Arab uprisings have led to an increase in the persecution of Christians
in the region and Shlayan believes that a "change in culture" is needed.
He says that he has received messages from Egyptian Christian Copts that
they would like to seek refuge in Israel.'
The apartheid state of Israel that is in fact the only truly multi racial,
multicultural state in the Middle East
Much more here http://www.israellycool.com/2013/08/13/who-said-this
Is ALEC LYING About Membership Numbers?
From the meeting in Oklahoma this past May
How embarrassing!
“About 500 people, mostly lawmakers from across the country, are expected
to converge next week in Oklahoma City for the spring meeting of an
organization that promotes free-market and conservative ideas.”
*ABOUT* FIVE HUNDRED “PEOPLE”
*NOT* 500 legislative members of ALEC
*500 PEOPLE*
Let’s crunch some numbers on ALEC legislators:
2011– Before they started hiding the membership lists
Civil Justice Task Force - 168 members
Commerce – 214 members
Communications and Technology – 181 members
Education – 181 members
Health an... more »
Shall We Sing Together - A Poem by M.N. Hopkins
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Shall We Sing Together
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*From the depths of your being*
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*Comes a new song*
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*A song of healing*
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*A joyous song*
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*Sung with a chorus of angels*
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*Singing our joy to all of mankind*
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*Letting all know*
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*That an ending comes*
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*And*
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*A beginning is put into motion*
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*A new beginning for Mankind*
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*A new start*
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*A forgiveness*
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*No longer contained*
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*A joy*
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*Expressed*
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*A love*
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*No longer denied*
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*A sweetness in being*
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*A kindness*
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*To be shared*
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*Now*
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*Is the time*
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*Now*
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*Without the confines of time*
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*Now*
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*Ex... more »
Obama Administration Releases Previously Secret Legal Opinion on NSA's Associational Tracking Program
AUGUST 9, 2013 | BY CINDY COHN
*Obama Administration Releases Previously Secret Legal Opinion on NSA's
Associational Tracking Program*
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/administration-white-paper-associational-tracking-program
Congress Does Not Hide Elephants in Mouse Holes
The Administration released a White Paper on Friday that summarized its
claimed legal basis for the bulk collection of telephony metadata, also
known as the Associational Tracking Program under section 215 of the
Patriot Act, codified as 50 U.S.C. section 1861. While we’ll certainly be
saying more about th... more »
And you wonder why the Middle East is so ethnically divided
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2013/08/Levant_Ethnicity_lg-smaller1.jpg
Bandar Bush, Saudi Extraordinaire, Admits Funneling $100 Million To Mercenaries/Al-Qaeda/CIA To Topple Assad and Buy Off Putin (John Grisham Outs GITMO BS)
Bart Playing In the Rosemary I remember when George W. Bush said after he
was no longer President that his only regret was not being able to "reform"
(obliterate) Social Security. Leading me to wonder what Obama's will be.
Perhaps not bribing enough foreigners? Or will actually obliterating Social
Security be enough? Need I mention again . . . they are not that smart. But
they are
LOCKERBIE: LOST VOICES
"So was the bombing of Pan Am 103 an elaborate plot to get rid of some CIA
guys ... on board?
"Were people taken off the plane for some unknown reason?
"If the plane was truly on a heading of 270 degrees then could it have
landed at Prestwick?
"Was it headed there?
"Did the Americans or any other forces interfere in the forensic
investigation after the crash?"
*Edinburgh Festival Fringe REVIEW – Lockerbie: Lost Voices*
Kathryn Samson went along to rehearsals - watch her full report below.
*Lockerbie: Lost Voices on Vimeo*
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*aangirfan: LOCKERBIE IS ABOUT HEROIN*
aangirf... more »
My Top 10 Books Set in a Dystopian Future
I am a dystopian lover. Usually the only recommendation that I need for a
book is that it is set in a dystopian future and I will give it a chance.
Here is a list of some of my favorites that I have read. Linking up with
The Broke and the Bookish.
Uglies- Set in a future where all teenagers undergo a surgery to make them
pretty. Tally discovers over the course of the first book just what else
the surgery changes. Overall, this is not my favorite dystopian series, but
worth a read. I liked the first two books more than the last two.
The Handmaid's Tale- I read this more gr... more »
"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 - 1 day ago
‘We Won't Pay’: Greek activists reconnect power to poverty-stricken homes
Published time: August 08, 2013 09:40
Edited time: August 09, 2013 08:31
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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 watch many of the 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 »
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