Britain - spy nation (Photo credit: Clive Power)
English: The Jeliana Bridge in Benghazi, Libya over the 23rd of July lake. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: beach view 3 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Mawlid Celebrations in Ottoman Benghazi in 1896. The Ottoman flag is being raised on a building in the Municipality Square. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: A general view of Benghazi Zoo, officialy known as Benghazi Tourist Park, and unanimously known as al-Bosco by locals. Photograph taken from the Ferris Wheel. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
A view of the cathedral of Benghazi (Libya) and corniche of Benghazi during early Italian occupation. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Benghazi at dawn (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
benghazi_sandstorm (Photo credit: an agent)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.
* CIA Base in Benghazi, Libya*
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-letting-us-in-on-a-secret/2012/10/10/ba3136ca-132b-11e2-ba83-a7a396e6b2a7_story.html
Rep.
Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) was the first to unmask the spooks. “Point of
order! Point of order!” he called out as a State Department security
official, seated in front of an aerial photo of the U.S. facilities in
Benghazi, described the... more »
Missionary Zeal and the Paradox of Paternalism | the becoming radical
Missionary Zeal and the Paradox of Paternalism | the becoming radical.
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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* *Transmutations of all Higher D portals proceeds at this moment*
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.
*
*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.
*
*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.
By Wild Idaho Rising TideDear Comrades,
Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) offers its humble gratitude for all of the
courageous Nez Perce tribal members and regional supporters who so
successfully blockaded and scuttled the Omega
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 - 7 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 *
*O... 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 - 19 hours ago
‘We Won't Pay’: Greek activists reconnect power to poverty-stricken homes
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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"
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*"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. 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 implicated in it. Nonetheless, having
done so, t... more »
CHILD ABUSE IN CHINA
Dr Zhang stole babies from the county hospital.
"When she came to us, she said our baby was dying," said Zhou...
"I believed her because she was the doctor...
"She said normally they would throw the baby in a well but in this case she
could arrange an old man to come and collect the baby and we just needed to
pay her 50 yuan"...
'In recent years the trade has become "industrialised", according to the
Chinese media, with entire villages serving as "hubs"...
'The authorities are often complicit in the trade...'
*The doctor and China's evil baby trade*
In 1994, Mao Zedong's per... 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 c@ll 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
*
Kiss The Earth
***
*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
*
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 […]
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