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Are Agents Provocateurs From The Coup Regime Behind The Attacks On The Coptic Churches?
The leaders of Egypt's military coup has a very savvy propaganda operation,
which I would bet anything is directed from what we used to call "Madison
Avenue." The drum they were beating over the weekend was about biased
western reporting. "Biased," from their point of view, means covering
events independently of the lies the coup leaders are demanding is the
story. It drives them crazy when western media-- like the *Times of Oman*--
runs dispatches like Sisi cannot get away murdering Egyptians.
Egypt is getting soaked in blood virtually every day. Within a trifle over
48 hours of... more »
Flower Tower Power...
*in case you're sick of all the crapola going on in the world, I thought
you might want to see something pretty.*
I decided to make a flower tower for my front deck and I wanted it BIG -
mainly because I didn't want to cut my fencing in half. *Waaaay *too much
work. So my flower tower measures 4 1/2 feet tall from the deck to the top.
Here's what I started with back in May:
And here they are now:
(Notice also that the disgustingly ugly metal mini-blinds are gone. We
bought 2 1/2 inch Norman faux wood blinds from Blinds.com and couldn't be
more pleased. Great service and super... more »
Annual goose egg blowout
*Re-re-re-post, I think.*
Every year I have to learn all over again -- the margin of error, with the
high-speed grinder and the basketball pump, is relatively small. I'm sure
there are better ways to go about this, but this is what we do:
We gather up containers for the freezer, and a Sharpie for writing on the
container, spread out some newspaper, find a round toothpick, an
old-fashioned milk bottle or a glass carafe, the basketball pump, the
high-speed Dremel-style tool (ours is a Craftsman), and a bowl of soapy,
salty water.
With the little cone-shaped grindstone, we zip off a b... more »
Paulo Coelho, "Killing Our Dreams"
"Killing Our Dreams"
by Paulo Coelho
"The first symptom of the process of our killing our dreams is the lack of
time. The busiest people I have known in my life always have time enough to
do everything. Those who do nothing are always tired and pay no attention
to the little amount of work they are required to do. They complain
constantly that the day is too short. The truth is, they are afraid to
fight the Good Fight.
The second symptom of the death of our dreams lies in our certainties.
Because we don’t want to see life as a grand adventure, we begin to think
of ourselves ... more »
It's Here - Earth Overshoot Day, This Year 20 August, 2013
Tuesday, August 20, marks Earth Overshoot Day for 2013. This is not a
record to celebrate. It tells us that, in under eight months, mankind
exhausts an entire annual supply of renewable resources. After that, we're
eating our seed corn. Another way of looking at it is that, at current
rates of biomass consumption we need 1.5 planet Earths.
Now you might be asking yourself how mankind could possibly be using up
more renewable resources than the Earth can provide? The answer is we're
very good at it or very bad at it.
Biomass provides us the stuff we consume. It also absorbs ... more »
Kahlil Gibran, "The Madman"
* "The Madman"*
by Kahlil Gibran
"It was in the garden of a madhouse that I met a youth with a face pale
and lovely and full of wonder. And I sat beside him upon the bench, and I
said, “Why are you here?”
And he looked at me in astonishment, and he said, “It is an unseemly
question, yet I will answer you. My father would make of me a reproduction
of himself; so also would my uncle. My mother would have me the image of
her seafaring husband as the perfect example for me to follow. My brother
thinks I should be like him, a fine athlete. And my teachers also, the
doctor of phi... more »
UK destroys The Guardian's "Snowden" hard drives
Just as we are absorbing yesterday's news that Glenn Greenwald's domestic
partner was detained at London's Heathrow Airport for 9 hours under
Schedule 7 of the UK's Terrorism Act while they asked him all about
Greenwald and whistleblower Edward Snowden ?!?! ... comes this column today
from the Guardian's Editor-in-Chief, Alan Rusbridge :
*David Miranda, schedule 7 and the danger that all reporters now face*
In it he describes how two months of visits from "senior government
officials" demanding he hand over the Edward Snowden material culminated in
an ultimatum a month ago :
"..ha... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
Wakefield, Kansas, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
Personal trivia
My friend and former employer gets invited to the occasional White House
function but this encounter on the Vineyard happened by chance. Tom has
spent every August there for many years.
Boston Globe tells me:
One diner who kept his distance was Northampton attorney and Obama
fund-raiser Tom Lesser, who happened to be at the restaurant with his wife,
Maggie Spiegel, and their daughters Grace and Elisabeth. Obama stopped to
say hello and, before leaving, took a quick selfie with the girls. Patrons
applauded as the president and first lady departed.
I watched those girls grow up. ... more »
“Fukushima Apocalypse"
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*Years of ‘Duct Tape Fixes’ Could Result in ‘Millions of Deaths’”*
by RT
"Even the tiniest mistake during an operation to extract over 1,300 fuel
rods at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan could lead to a
series of cascading failures with an apocalyptic outcome, fallout
researcher Christina Consolo told RT. Fukushima operator TEPCO wants to
extract 400 tons worth of spent fuel rods stored in a pool at the plant’s
damaged Reactor No. 4. The removal would have to be done manually from the
top store of the damaged building in the radiat... more »
Philadelphia School District Financial Drama- Rama - Week of August 19, 2013 .. Monday opens with the news budgeting by the School District and SRc will NOT include money pledged from State ( with concessions from the PTF tied to release of any funds - as best one can tell , the negotiations are far , far from being concluded ) .....
Countdown, Day 21: Mayor says kids, not teachers, being asked to do
heaviest liftby Dale Mezzacappa on Aug 19 2013 Posted in Countdown to
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Superintendent William Hite and the School Reform Commission continue their
commitment not to budget a penny that they are not sure of getting as
schools struggle to prepare for opening under unprecedented conditions.
They have decided that the $50 million from the city is gettable, despite
the tug-of-war between Mayor Nutter and Council President Darrell Clarke over
how to raise it.
So they have put th... more »
JP Morgan to launch sale of its commodities assets in early September ( moving rather quickly .. ) Maybe the fact that the DOJ is investigating JP Morgan's Energy market manipulations is adding a sense of " urgency " ? Does the investigations by FERC and DOJ regarding Enron - like energy manipulations mean some day we have someone examine JP Morgans actions regarding gold and silver - or it that too much to ask ?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323608504579022852576701892.html
J.P. Morgan Chase JPM -2.74% & Co. has told potential buyers of its
commodities assets that it expects to kick off sale efforts in early
September.
The bank plans at that time to circulate a memo that details the balance
sheets and profitability of its physical-commodity assets, according to
people familiar with the sale process.
J.P. Morgan said in July it was pursuing strategic alternatives for these
assets, which range from metal warehouses to pipeline leases and power
plants, including a possible sal... more »
Marx and Dialectics
If you're not a lefty geek you probably don't know a vast literature has
grown up around scattered remarks by Marx on the 'D' word - dialectics.
There, I said it. Listen carefully and you might hear half the audience
clicking their mouse button to navigate away. And who can blame them?
Dialectics have a terrible reputation on the left not least because they
are abused to bolster a bit of dirge with some clever-sounding terminology,
provide a posse of get out clauses should otherwise cast-iron prophecies
not come to pass, or to position oneself as an adroit thinker and masterful
int... more »
Gold and Silver news , data and views - BTW , Germany recognizes Bitcoin as a legal currency August 19 , 2013 .... Good posts from Jesse Crossroads cafe , Harvey Organ snippets , Gata items of note.....
http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2013/08/gold-daily-and-silver-weekly-charts_19.html
19 AUGUST 2013
Gold Daily and Silver Weekly Charts - Goldman Was Buying Gold While They
Were Saying 'Sell?'
Gold and silver had quiet pullbacks today as the markets digested some of
their recent gains.
Overall trading is very quiet as many traders are on their summer vacations.
Registered inventory bounced back up a little bit last week, but remains
rather thin and indicative of an intermediate trend change.
A reader informs us that:
"For those with a bloomberg terminal, type up the comma... more »
Compound interest appropriate for breach of trust damages
Bronson v. Hewitt, 2013 BCCA 367:
At para. 17 of his supplementary endorsement, the motion judge explained
why he awarded compound interest:
Courts of equity have always exercised the power to award compound interest
whenever a wrongdoer deprives a company of money which it uses in its
business. On general principles it should be presumed that had the business
not been deprived of the money, it would have made the most beneficial use
of it available to it. Alternatively, it should be presumed that the
wrongdoer made the most beneficial use of it. [Internal citations omitted.]
I a... more »
At the Foreign Correspondants' Club of Japan, Oliver Stone speaks on the U.S. government's violations of the the 4th and 5th Amendments and its tacit abolition of the Magna Carta. He sees Edward Snowden as an American hero and Obama ...as a snake.
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Oliver Stone criticizes massive US government surveillance as a violation
of basic democratic rights and praises Edward Snowden as a hero who give up
his own well-being for the benefit of all citizens.
Cherchez la Verite
I wonder if this is still true?
If any of you have ever looked at your FBI file, you discover that
intelligence agencies in general are extremely incompetent. That's one of
the reasons why there are so many intelligence failures. They just never
get anything straight, for all kinds of reasons. Part of it is because of
the information they get. The information they get comes from ideological
fanatics, typically, who always misunderstand things in their own crazy
way. If you look at an FBI file, say, about yourself, where you know what
the facts are, you'll see that the information has some kind of relation to
the f... more »
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*Barry: Lawsuit opposition based oil & gas politics ~New Orleans Advocate*
*Water gates: Bob Marshall of The Lens on what it takes to activate New
Orleans' flood protection system if tropical weather approaches*
Fukushima contamination updates - August 19 , 2013...... " Water World 2013 " - Fukushima Bay Tritium measurments hit highest ever as Tepco admits to 40 Trillion Becquerels have spilled ( who knows what the true numbers might be ? ) As the reality that Fukushima is the world worst nuclear disaster admitted to so far , Rube Goldberg schemes to keep things together for a day / week / month longer falling to the wayside.....Grim reality that Tepco flying / lying in the dark slowly utterd out loud ( that's when you know there's no hope really - the truth is slowly being vocalized ) ......
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-19/tritium-measurement-fukushima-bay-highest-ever-tepco-admits-40-trillion-becquerels-h
Tritium Measurement In Fukushima Bay Highest Ever As TEPCO Admits 40
Trillion Becquerels Have Spilled Into Pacific
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/19/2013 17:22 -0400
- Newspaper
- Nikkei
- Reality
Over the weekend we posted an in-depth narrative of what may happen in a *
theoretical*worst case scenario in Fukushima, one in which the government *
continues *to do nothing and pretends all is well, and where the en... more »
Simply so predictable
Glenn Greenwald says this is a misquote:
"I will be far more aggressive in my reporting from now. I am going to
publish many more documents. I am going to publish things on England too. I
have many documents on England's spy system. I think they will be sorry for
what they did," Greenwald, speaking in Portuguese, told reporters at Rio's
airport where he met Miranda upon his return to Brazil.
He's right. It wasn't an exact quote. Nonetheless, having read Glenn's
version, I think Reuters captured the general sense of Glenn's statement.
Even in his own words, it reads like a not so su... more »
#SurveillanceState: “But he’s such a *nice* man…” [update 4]
*[I]n Friedrich Dürrenmatt's novella "Traps," which involves a seemingly
innocent man put
on trial by a group of retired lawyers in a mock-trial game, the man
inquires what his crime
shall be. "An altogether minor matter," replies the prosecutor. "A crime
can always be found."*
- Daniel J. Solove, “Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have 'Nothing to Hide'”
Instead of protecting our private communications, the state plans to invade
them.
There are people about, loads of them,who are okay with that.
In a veritable swamp of stupidity that I had to confront around me
yesterday, I thin... more »
Clean and Pretty Darn Funny and a Giveaway
Have you heard of Pretty Darn Funny? It is a comedy web series produced by
Desert Book, that is back starting today with its second season. It focuses
on Gracie Moore, a mom to three and a member of an all women comedy troop.
Watch the Mom Footloose Parody, a hilarious take on parents embarrassing
their children. My child doesn't usually need me to stop dancing in public,
just singing and all sorts of other embarrassing things.
The first episode of Pretty Darn Funny, embedded in this post, came out
today is about "Movie Cheating," or seeing a movie without your spouse. It
is fun, ... more »
What is Bill Keller talking about!
*MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 2013*
*Persistently, the New York Times simply defies belief:* Bill Keller’s
column didn’t appear in today’s hard-copy New York Times. For that reason,
we hadn’t seen it until we saw Paul Krugman’s link.
We clicked the link and started reading. In paragraph 5, we hit this:
KELLER (8/19/13): [The Common Core] is an ambitious undertaking, and there
is plenty of room for debate about precisely how these standards are
translated into classrooms. But the Common Core was created with a broad,
nonpartisan consensus of educators, convinced that *after decades of
embarra... more »
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And The Purge Is On-- Fascist GOP Thought Police Will Not Tolerate Pro-Gay Members
I guess if Troy King is still in the closet, he can be on the Alabama GOP
steering committee. BINGO!
You may have read last week that top RNC leaders voted unanimously on a
resolution stating that the national party "will not partner with the
networks nor sanction any primary debates" if they they plan to sponsor and
broadcast a documentary on Hillary Clinton. They're talking about excluding
CNN and NBC (including Spanish labguage networks CNN en Espanol and
Telemundo) from the Republican debate season, meaning Rachel Maddow and
Chris Hayes fans will have to look elsewhere in order ... more »
Christie, Strategic Politicians, and the 2012 Cycle
John Sides makes the point today that Chris Christie's choice to pass on WH
2012 was consistent with the pretty good chance that Barack Obama would be
re-elected. Strategic politicians, John says, consider the chances of
winning in their decisions about running, and that
a strategic candidate might have looked at the landscape in 2011 and said,
“You know what, I’ll have a better shot in 2016.” And we aren’t suggesting
that there aren’t idiosyncratic factors at work either. It’s just to say
that Christie’s decision was nicely in line with what political science
says.
Put that way... more »
ISRAEL PRETENDS TO BEFRIEND EGYPT'S MILITARY
*Israel wants the Sinai.*
In the Israeli newspaper *Haaretz*, Anshel Pfeffer points to four reasons
'Israel would miss Morsi':
1. Morsi did not support Hamas.
2. Morsi operated decisively against the Gaza smuggling tunnels.
3. Morsi did not get close to Iran.
4. Morsi supported the peace treaty with Israel, and justified it to the
Egyptian people.
Mixed opinions of the Egyptian revolution in Israel - +972 Magazine
*Al-Sisi is being courted by Israel.*
Now that Morsi has been toppled, Israel fears that Egypt could become more
friendly with Russia, and less friendly with Israe... more »
"How It Really Is"
"Between the acting of a dreadful thing,
And the first motion,
all the interim is
Like a phantasma or a hideous dream."
- William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar"
“First They Came”
*“First They Came”*
Biting Our Tongues Doesn’t Keep Us Safe,
It Only INCREASES Danger In the Long Run
by WashingtonsBlog
“Preface: German pastor Martin Niemöller initially supported Hitler. But he
later opposed him, and was imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp for
years. Niemöller learned the hard way that keep your head down doesn’t keep
one out of trouble, in the long run, it increases the danger to all of us.
Niemöller wrote a brilliant poem – “First They Came” – about the manner in
which Germans allowed Nazi abuses by failing to protest the abuse of
“others”, first... more »
Cryptozoology: Follow Up - "A Strange and Enormous" Four Meter Fish Washes Up on a Beach in Villaricos
Source: Ideal.es (Spain - Almeria Edition)
Date: 08.17.13
Cryptozoology: Follow Up - "A Strange and Enormous" Four Meter Fish Washes
Up on a Beach in Villaricos
The photo uploaded to Facebook by a beachgoer captured half the world's
attention; the nature of the "critter" is still not known.
The photo of a strange creature uploaded by a beachgoer in Villaricos "went
around the world" by means of the Facebook network, garnering a
multiplicity of comments as it did so. The fact of the matter is that what
is believed to be an enormous fish was found by a woman on Luis Siret beach
in Vi... more »
Photos: On the Road with Longest Walk 4 Return to Alcatraz
Photos
by Mexicanos de Rostro Desconocido.
Thank you for sharing with Censored News!
The Longest Walk 4 Return to Alcatraz began with a Sunrise Ceremony in
DC on July 15, 2013. The walkers are currently in Indiana, nearing the
Illinois border.
Update from Long Walkers:
Sunday, Aug. 18, 2013: We would like to thank the American Indian
Movement Indiana-Kentucky for their
Your moment of Zen
Morning in the Meadows, Northampton, MA. [George Lenker photo]
The Life Of Nouri al-Maliki, An Interview With Journalist Ned Parker
Nouri al-Maliki has been the prime minister of Iraq since 2006. His reign
has been marked by increasing controversy as he has reneged on promises,
and taken on his rivals using the security forces and corruption charges.
His approach to government can in part be explained by his past. He joined
Iraq’s first Shiite Islamist organization the Dawa Party in the 1960s,
which was then an underground movement. He was eventually forced into exile
in 1979, because of his activities, and became a leader in the armed
struggle against Saddam Hussein in both Iran and Syria. After the 2003
inva... more »
Norman Tebbit: "no evidence the EDL are far-right"
Yep, that's what he said. Normo Tebbs, finally reversing the Taxi Driver
Argument. It seems you can't prove anything with facts. That said, Norman
Tebbit is worried gay marriage will lead to a lesbian queen, so I don't
really think he knows what he's talking about.
The Guardian: Glenn Greenwald: detaining my partner was a failed attempt at intimidation
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the opposite effect of the one intended*
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/18/david-miranda-detained-uk-nsaGlenn
Greenwald
The Guardian, Sunday 18 August 2013
At 6:30 am this morning my time - 5:30 am on the East Coast of the US - I
received a telephone call from someone who identified himself as a
"security official at Heathrow airport." He told me that my partner, David
Miranda, had been "detained" at... more »
The bedroom tax, multicultural Manchester, and the BBC
My local BBC news programme *North West Tonight *was in full-blown
campaigning mode this evening, leading on the issue of the bedroom tax.
The programme's introduction used the phrase 'bedroom tax' without
qualification or implied inverted commas [saying, *"A housing association
promises that no one will be made homeless by the bedroom tax"*,
accompanied by images of placards reading 'Axe the tax'], even though the
government is adamant that it's not a tax and has complained about the BBC
using its opponents' terminology without qualification. [So that showed 'em
then!]
Ah, but ... more »
This song has been running through my head for two days now, no idea why but I thought I'd spread the joy!
Monty Python's I bet you they won't play this song on the radio.
Maureen Dowd dreams of the Lincoln Bedroom!
*MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 2013*
*It’s time to tell Ahab to stop:* In yesterday morning’s New York Times,
two of the newspaper’s columnists were killing time in the future.
Despite the fact that it’s 2013, Frank Bruni was pondering Jeb Bush’s
degree of interest in the 2016 White House race. And needless to say,
Maureen Dowd was beating the meat concerning Hillary Clinton and her vile
husband and daughter.
Dowd’s column was so awful that it cries for a great deal of treatment. In
our view, it’s inane to be writing about the 2016 campaign at this point.
We will suggest that, when columnists... more »
Hey, Political Scientists!
Next week it looks like I'm going to mostly be over at Greg's place, while
he and most of the political world is on vacation. I'm already looking
forward to scrounging for posts for Plum Line, but I'd also like to keep
something going over here. So if you happen to have an APSA paper you've
written that should get some publicity, or if you encounter someone else's
paper that deserves a bit more visibility over the next couple of weeks,
please let me know! Can't promise anything, but I'm very likely to be
looking for items even more now than usual.
Of course, this also applies to new... more »
The curse of the Sinai?
Karin: I concur completely the whole Egyptian meltdown has more twists and
turns then a mountain road.
Including the treacherous conditions!
*UPDATED BELOW *
This was starting to look like a case of needing more background. Myself, I
am coming away with the idea that the military bloodbath and all that has
ensued is serving as some sort of distraction from the Sinai region on one
level. On any other levels? I am just not sure. Syria, Cyprus, Lebanon,
Sudan. It's all there.
I have been rolling the Egyptian scenario ‘round in my head. Thinking
perhaps I need to understand the area ... more »
Oregon GOP Ups the TinFoil Hat Ante
The Oregon Republican Party has elected a new chairman and they got
themselves a guy with a PhD and everything. He's Art Robinson and he's an
idea man, big ideas - weird ideas.
*On nuclear waste: "All we need do with nuclear waste is dilute it to a low
radiation level and sprinkle it over the ocean—or even over America after
hormesis is better understood and verified with respect to more diseases."
And: "If we could use it to enhance our own drinking water here in Oregon,
where background radiation is low, it would hormetically enhance our
resistance to degenerative diseases. Ala... more »
How Germany Made a Killing on the Euro-Crisis
Europe's fiscal crisis has hammered much of the E.U. from Ireland to
Britain, Spain, Portugal, France and Greece. Germany, however, has made
out like a bandit.
The collapse of every nation around it made German debt much, much more
attractive to investors looking for security. So much more attractive that
Germany saved 41-billion Euros in interest charges. Sure, Germany put a
lot of money into bailouts for countries like Greece but that totalled
599-million Euros to date.
0.6 billion they put out, 41-billion they saved. That sounds pretty good,
doesn't it?
Mafia's Rep In Congress-- Michael "Mikey Suits" Grimm-- Is Still Not In Prison
Ken used to be an opera critic for the *NY Times* but, that aside,
neither
of us get many calls from ace *Times* reporters working on explosive
investigative pieces about criminal congressmen. A couple years ago,
though, several *Times* reporters called me because, it turns out,
*DWT*was the first to report anything at all about a rogue FBI agent
named
"Mikey Suits" who went over to the Dark Side-- first to the Mob and then
to
the GOP for the Mob. It was 2005 and there was a frantic scramble to
coverup
a $400,000 payoff from Tom Kontogiannis to George W. Bush via
bribe-happy
San Di... more »
What Gave Him Away?
It only took them two decades to track him down, but Indian authorities
claim to have captured the mastermind responsible for more than 40-bomb
attacks in India.
No word yet on how Indian authorities spotted him. Maybe it was the white
hat. Oh wait, I know, he's missing his left arm from a bomb-making mishap
decades ago.
What an Exodus Looks Like, Or Does It?
This image, published in the Sydney Morning Herald, is said to show an
exodus of Syrian Kurds, escaping the brutal civil war to take refuge in the
autonomous Kurdish territory in Iraq.
Is it real? I'm not sure. There's one fellow with a small travel bag but
none of the others seem to be carrying even backpacks. Usually refugees
don't leave their most valuable items behind and they usually wear as much
clothing as possible. Also missing from this image is any sign of the
usual family groups we associate with fleeing refugees - the kids, the
parents, somebody helping grandma. It... more »
What We Know Now (and How It Doesn’t Matter) | the becoming radical
What We Know Now (and How It Doesn’t Matter) | the becoming radical.
Egypt's Security Forces Stand Back As Islamic Extremists Attack Coptic Churches In A Province South of Cairo
"The caretaker at the Church of the Archangel Saint Michael in Gizeh shows
the extent of the damage, several days after the church was attacked by a
crowd of pro-Morsi supporters. Mehdi Chebil/France 24." *[Source: "In
pictures: The ruins of a burnt-out Coptic church," France 24, August 19,
2013].*
Below is an excerpt from the article, *"Egypt: Islamists hit Christian
churches"* published by AP on Sunday, August 18:
After torching a Franciscan school, Islamists paraded three nuns on the
streets like "prisoners of war" before a Muslim woman offered them refuge.
Two other women w... more »
Egyptian Professor Abdullah Schleifer Says The Media Has Misunderstood Developments In Egypt
Below is an excerpt from the article, *"Media at odds with military in
Egypt coverage"* by Abdullah Schleifer, published by Al Arabiya on Tuesday,
August 13:
I have been shocked by the shallow way the Western media has covered the
political situation in Cairo since the coup against former President Mursi.
One would never know from reading The New York Times editorials and a good
deal of its coverage – along with that of other leading news organizations
– that *the Egyptian armed forces had moved against a political movement
attempting to impose an authoritarian regime on the country... more »
Coastal Flooding - A Trillion Dollar a Year Problem by 2050
People who inhabit coastal areas don't waste much breath muttering about
hoaxes or myths of climate change. They leave that nonsense to
petro-heads and other drylanders.
A new report warns that coastal cities could suffer flood damages of a trillion
dollars a year by 2050. And the news is particularly bad for the United
States.
*More than 40% of these prodigious costs could fall upon just four cities –
New Orleans, Miami and New York in the US and Guangzhou in China.*
*Stephane Hallegatte of the World Bank in Washington and colleagues looked
at the risks of future flood losse... more »
“The NSA: ‘The Abyss from Which There Is No Return’”
*“The NSA: ‘The Abyss from Which There Is No Return’”*
By John W. Whitehead
“The National Security Agency’s capability at any time could be turned
around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left,
such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations,
telegrams, it doesn’t matter. There would be no place to hide. If a
dictator ever took over, the N.S.A. could enable it to impose total
tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back.”—Senator Frank Church
(1975)
“We now find ourselves operating in a strange paradigm where the governmen... more »
Autism is NOT the new "orange".
This hateful diatribe was surreptiously left by a pathetic creature. She
claims to be a mother. From the vile tone of her letter, one might also
suspect she's a "pro-life" zealot, one who wants government to police
women's uterus as though they were public property, but doesn't want her
taxes supporting pre-natal health care, or anything in support of
children's well-being once they're born and dependent upon adults' care.
Since the letter's writer suggests that the child she calls a hindrance
should be euthanized and "whatever non retarded body parts he possesses" be
donated to s... more »
How regular people behave at the circus!
*MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 2013*
*Mark Twain challenges Lawrence:* It’s one of our favorite passages from
literature, little of which we have actually read.
In Chapter 22 of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain describes the way an Arkansas
crowd behaves at a low-grade circus. Being a live performer himself, Twain
had seen people laugh:
TWAIN: *It was a real bully circus. It was the splendidest sight that ever
was when they all come riding in, two and two, a gentleman and lady, side
by side, the men just in their drawers and undershirts, and no shoes nor
stirrups, and resting their hands on their... more »
The Free State Solution (Mini-Documentary)
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Is Japan's Prime Minister's Mansion Actually Haunted?
Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe won't set foot in the place. In 2007,
during a previous term in office, Abe left the prime minister's mansion
and, despite being re-elected seven months ago, he shows no signs of
wanting to go back.
*Rather than move into the presidential home, Abe has preferred to make the
15-minute commute from his family's house to the office and has shown no
indication that he is preparing to move into the art deco mansion in the
heart of Nagatacho, the capital's political district, where he lived during
his previous stint as prime minister in 2006-07.*
*Wh... more »
9/11 Revisited: Live Mainstream Media Coverage Conflicted with Official Story
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*As the anniversary is shortly upon us, we decided to revisit footage
captured from live local media broadcasts on the morning of September 11,
2001.*
Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton
TV news stations always have slogans like “news you can count on,” but when
a major traumatic event happens, what percentage of the live mainstream
media reports that you are watching are even really *happening*?
On September 11, the nation watched in horror live as the second plane
slammed into the World Trade Center, then later both towers ... more »
RODEO CLOWNS: And cable news hosts!
*MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 2013*
*Part 1—Escape from the Klan:* Tuffy Gessling is, or was, a rodeo clown.
Let’s make sure we understand what we mean by that statement.
We don’t mean that Tuffy Gessling is *like* a rodeo clown. We aren’t using
the term metaphorically, as a type of insult, the way it’s often employed.
At some point, “rodeo clown” became a generic insult, a rude suggestion
that some person isn’t enormously bright. When used in this insulting way,
the term functions like “itinerant carnival worker,” or perhaps like “cable
news host.”
One example:
In 2007, John Mellencamp in... more »
Albert Ortiz Photos: Long Walk 4 with AIM in Indiana
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Photos by Albert Ortiz
Censored News
Walkers of the Longest Walk 4 Return to Alcatraz continue through
Indiana as they approach Illinois. Thank you to Albert Ortiz for sharing
photos with Censored News from the events in Indiana.
Albert Ortiz said, "One of our members , Mary Horn, set everything up in
Richmond Indiana which was their first stop. Then we hosted them
Spain: A High-Strangeness CE-3 in Huelva (1977)
*Spain: A High-Strangeness CE-3 in Huelva (1977)*
*Report by J. Mateos, A. Moya and M. Filpo - Grupo GERENA*
*Location: Village of La Escalada, Almonaster la Real.*
Ceferina Vargas Martín, 20, single, was on her way to visit her grandmother
– who lived in a nearby village – following a trail along the edge of a
stream. Suddenly, she felt a flash in her eyes from the stream, leading her
to think it might be a piece of glass or a mirror in the water. She felt an
instinctual urge to walk faster, yet something appeared to be slowing her
down. After walking another 20 meters, she felt ano... more »
Terrance Nelson 'Why Indians stay in jail'
Canada
continues systematic genocide with the incarceration of First Nations
and failure to honor Treaties
By Terrance Nelson
First Nation Roseau River Anishinabe
Vice Chairman American Indian Movement
Censored News
Dear Gord Hannon
You represented the Attorney General of Manitoba at the recent CN V
Terrance Nelson court case. The court found for CN and further decided
that I have
You Know It's a Coup When
When you're an Egyptian, you know your uprising has actually been a
military coup when the authorities release Hosni Mubarak.
*It was unclear how Egyptians — particularly those who have welcomed the
military action against Mr. Morsi — would respond to the release of a
despised autocrat whose downfall united Mr. Mubarak’s secular and Islamist
foes. News of the legal maneuvers came at a time of sustained bloodletting.*
*Just in the past 24 hours, the Egyptian government has acknowledged that
its security forces had killed 36 Islamists in its custody, while suspected
militants we... more »
Yatim's Killer Charged With Murder
*The Execution of Sammy Yatim*
Toronto constable James Forcillo has been charged with second degree murder
in the execution of Sammy Yatim in a Toronto streetcar on July 27th.
Over a span of 13 seconds, Forcillo fired nine rounds from his sidearm at
the young man who stood alone in the empty streetcar.
Within the first two seconds Forcillo fired three rounds sending Yatim to
the floor from which he never rose.
Then followed a break of almost five seconds before Forcillo fired another
four rounds then a pause and the eighth round, another pause, and the ninth
round.
It was that... more »
Tweeting and Elections
I have a TAP column out today in which I'm not very kind to the
sociologists who got a ton of publicity last week from a claim that "tweet
share" could predict elections. I only had access when I was writing to an
early version of the paper, and I wasn't impressed...but the bulk of my
item was really about what polling and survey research is good for, based
on one of the authors unimpressive op-ed which made implausible claims
about the technique.
Blog posts here go up, usually, as soon as I write them (although every
once in a while I'll write in advance and hold it, or sometimes d... more »
Monday Linkage
Rosa Brooks compares our drone wars to Egypt’s crackdown. Context by Fred
Kaplan on the drone era. Lovely Umayam on the perils of crowdsourcing.
Podcast: NPR’s Ian Masters and Columbia University’s David Philips on the
Syrian refugee crisis. Area 51 documents have finally been declassified.
The documents suggesting that there was never anything there but a secret
spy plane program.
Continue reading
Debunking the Defund Obamacare Myths...(video)
*providing answers to the questions.*
The SAS Did Diana
Britain's SAS (Special Air Services) trained the Khmer Rouge.
The British Special Air Services (SAS) firm Keenie Meenie Services
reportedly trained the Tamil Tigers.
(Southern India, Sri Lanka terrorist groups)
The SAS trained bin Laden's Mujahedin fighters in Scotland
In the early 1970s Rafael Eitan, head of the Mossad hit-squad known as the
'Kidon', toured Northern Ireland and the Special Air Services (SAS) base in
Hereford, England.
Shortly after his visit there were big changes in UK security policy,
including the setting up of what was to become the Force Reconnaissance
U... more »
Spain: UFO and Entity Sketches from Grupo Gerena
A collection of sketches of UFOs and entities compiled by Spain's Grupo
GERENA, formed by *Joaquín Mateos Nogales, Manuel Filpo* and *Antonio Moya*.
The sketches are the work fo Antonio Moya and formed part of the vast
wealth of case files concerning the intense UFO activity that overwhelmed
Spain's Andalucía region in the past. The information was painstakingly
digitized by José Manuel García Bautista and Rafael Cabello in the early
2000s.
Inexplicata Podcasts covering items from UFO / paranormal history in Spain,
Latin America and the Caribbean
Spain: Policeman Reports UFO Phenomenon Along the Road to Gerena (1990)
*Spain: Policeman Reports UFO Phenomenon Along the Road to Gerena (1990)*
Mr. Antonio Márquez, a resident of Gerena, member of the National Police on
duty at a commissariat in Seville, kindly visited ufologist Joaquín Mateos
Nogales to report the following:
“While travelling in my car to Seville from this community of Gerena to
join the ranks, I witnessed something unusual at Kilometer 9 of the Gerena
Road, at the crossing with the road to Extremadura. The time was 20:45
hours on the night of 6 February 1990. A brilliant, triangular-shaped
OBJECT was some 40 meters to the right of th... more »
“The key to school performance is diversity of socioeconomic classes.”
The quote above is from Richard Kahlenberg’s latest study for Little Rock
schools. Here is a clip from the Arkansas Times blog about the study.
Here’s the full report: . . . .Kahlenberg concludes that the magnet
schools and transfer program have been successful in producing both racial
and socio-economic integration. But he said that […]
Diana : A Manifestation of Zionism vs. Judaism
*And did those feet in ancient time.*
*Walk upon Englands mountains green:*
*And was the holy Lamb of God,*
*On Englands pleasant pastures seen!*
*
*
*And did the Countenance Divine,*
*Shine forth upon our clouded hills?*
*And was Jerusalem builded here,*
*Among these dark Satanic Mills?*
*
*
*Bring me my Bow of burning gold;*
*Bring me my Arrows of desire:*
*Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold!*
*Bring me my Chariot of fire!*
*
*
*I will not cease from Mental Fight,*
*Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand:*
*Till we have built Jerusalem,*
*In Englands green & pleasant Land*
Okay, here's... more »
The Wisdom Of Lao Tzu
Source: http://www.poetseers.org/the-poetseers/lao-tzu
*Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not
good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are
honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is
attained.*
**
*Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates
profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.*
**
*Silence is a source of great strength.*
You've Been Warned
David Miranda was never even given the British version of his Miranda
Rights.
As a matter of fact, the legal term "Mirandized" may have just gotten
a whole new meaning. Thanks to the Heathrow Airport arrest and detention
yesterday of David Miranda, domestic partner of Glenn Greenwald, we now
have irrefutable proof that our civil rights have eroded even faster than
we thought. The whole world is a police state, and we are all deemed
terrorists unless and until they decide otherwise.
The familiar Miranda Warning, the one we see on TV cop shows, says "You
have the right to remain ... more »
Stephen Harper's Economic Policies Are DANGEROUS For The Nation!
\
*If you listen to Stephen Harper, only he can be trusted with the Canadian
economy. Nothing could be further from the truth ..... *
*
**"What I am telling you is that with the NDP and Liberals, what you see is
what you get; dangerous ideas and vacuous thinking that would reverse all
of the progress we have made."*
*Stephen Harper*
*August 18, 2013*
*Would he please explain why he has run up the largest deficit in Canadian
history AND why he used $114 Billion tax dollars to bail out Canada's huge
Chartered Banks????*
*-Stephen Harper is ALL ABOUT corporate welfare!*
10 Tips for Healthier, Clearer Skin
This post is part of a social shopper marketing insight campaign with Pollinate
Media Group™ and Clearasil, but all my opinions are my own. #pmedia
#SuperFruits http://cmp.ly/3/8vNxcO.”
I was the that kid in junior high. You know, the one with braces, glasses
AND bad skin? That was me. Eventually I grew up a little, got contacts and
had the braces taken over, but I still battled my skin. A battle that I
continue today. My skin frustrations have always been compounded by the
fact that my skin can be a little sensitive. I often found the products
that would clear up the blemishes w... more »
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Jonathan Frakes, 61. Fire at will! Directed an excellent
episode of Dollhouse. On the other hand: Sub Rosa. Fire at will!
Another week, another load of good stuff:
1. International treaties banning weapons...actually seem to work pretty
well. From Charli Carpenter.
2. Ed Kilgore remembers Bert Lance.
3. Ezra Klein on young healthies and health insurance.
4. David Roberts on climate and conservatives.
5. Philip Klein is right about debates.
6. Josh Putnam on what, if anything, the RNC can do about debates it
doesn't want.
7. And Reid Wilson introduces GovBeat. ... more »
Another example of the compassionate nature of Islam as Saudi Court Condemns Editor to 600 Lashes But With Breaks
'He'll probably survive the whipping only because it comes in four sessions
with planned hospitalizations in between. '
The whipping is 600 lashes to be administered 150 in each of four sessions
with a hospital visit after each session. How compassionate...
More here, if you've the stomach for it
http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-12/saudi-court-condemns-editor-to-600-lashes-with-breaks.html
Don't expect much coverage on the BBC as there's no evil Israel angle to
exploit.
Untitled
*Mitch Landreiu's Aspen Ideas tour ~Library Chronicles*
*Plaquemines Parish floods make some leery of the levees ~Jaquetta White,
New Orleans Advocate*
*Who Fat: LA #1 in Obesity, CDC Says ~NOLA DEFENDER*
*Love NOLA: Coming Home ~Brett Will Taylor, WWNO*
Mubarak set to be released from jail - perhaps within 48 hours ( so says his lawyer ) ? Would the Generals of the Junta free Mubarak - have they been so emboldened by the total crush of the Muslim Brotherhood , tepid dispproval of their tactics from the US and EU , coupled with fierce support from GCC nations , Israeli , Russia and China - that they would turn the whole prior revolution on its head ? And if the US foreign policy approaches for Egypt looked bad before ..........
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-19/mubarak-back
Mubarak Is Back
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/19/2013 08:32 -0400
- Corruption
- Reuters
The man whom the Muslim Brotherhood deposed with the assistance of the CIA
following the first Egyptian coup in 2011 - former Egyptian president Hosni
Mubarak - is about to be return to the public scene, and perhaps to power
(as we predicted in March 2011 in a tried and true Thermidorian Reaction
fashion) now that the Muslim Brotherhood itself has been overthrown in the
recent countercoup. And wit... more »
I have no words for this headline
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DRONES, DRONES, DRONES, DRONES.......
*The Drone Boom*
By Cole Stangler
In These Times
The drone lobby really doesn’t like the word “drone.”
When I say it in an interview with Michael Toscano, president and CEO of
the Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI), he
immediately corrects me.
“We don’t call them drones,” says Toscano, who has led the largest trade
association for companies in the growing drone industry since 2008. “When
most people hear the word ‘drone,’ you think military, you think hostile,
you think large and you think autonomous. There’s a total misconception.
And every time the me... more »
There Are A Lot Of Reasons To Vote For Carl Sciortino-- Alan Grayson Is Emphasizing The Out-Of-Control NSA
Carl Sciortino with Ed Markey on election day
Last night, Alan Grayson (D-FL) endorsed Carl Sciortino for Congress, the
progressive in a tight 5-way primary to replace Ed Markey. He joins People
for the American Way, Blue America and all the Massachusetts LGBT and
progressive organizations who have already endorsed. Grayson went right to
the domestic spying situation Congress in looking at now-- although he
didn't mention that one of Carl's opponents, Katherine Clark (yes, EMILY's
List again) has a shocking record as a state legislator in advancing a
domestic spying agenda that has b... more »
Overnight review of global markets - US focus remains US bond market pressure as ten year crosses 2.87 percent this morning !
Bond market pressure continue here in the US , troubles brewing in Asia
......
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BlackRock Admits The Fed Is Causing "Tremendous Distortions"Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 08/19/2013 - 16:38
BlackRock's fixed income CIO Rick Rieder is worried about the impact that
higher rates will have on the stock market. In this brief interview with
Bloomberg TV's Tom Keene, Rieder explains that while equities look 'cheap'
given where rates are, this is a mis-pricing and warns (as we have
repeatedly) that "*people don't spend any time looking at cash-flow
discounted ... more »
How YOU Doin’?
A friend asked me just a day ago, “How are you holding up? Sending a child
off to college and the start of school can be very stressful.” I will admit
that I went a bit of a rant – and fortunately for me the friend understood.
How am I doing? Turns out – not […]
A new normal - is fear mongering , thug tactics by governments where terror laws are abused to intimidate journalists ( and who might be next ) and almost daily Al Qaeda ( or whomever the terrorists of the day might be ) are used to keep the sheep in line and justify police stste " Stasi " conduct ?
Al Qaeda fear mongering .....
http://www.france24.com/en/20130819-al-qaeda-targeting-european-rail-network-report
19 AUGUST 2013 - 05H15
Al-Qaeda 'targeting European rail network': report
[image: This file photo shows the main railway station in Mainz, western
Germany, pictured on August 12, 2013. Al-Qaeda is plotting attacks on
Europe's high-speed rail network, German mass circulation daily Bild
reported on Monday, citing intelligence sources.]
This file photo shows the main railway station in Mainz, western Germany,
pictured on August 12, 2013. Al-Qaeda is plotting attacks on E... more »
Frozen In Time
With the Senate scandal taking its toll, and the Lac Megantic disaster
still fresh in the public mind, you would think that Stephen Harper might
be engaged in a re-think. But, if one is to judge by the rhetoric he has
been employing on his tour of the Far North, it would appear that his brain
is frozen in time.
Michael Den Tandt writes in *The National Post*:
Prime Minister Stephen Harper used the occasion of his eighth annual Arctic
summer tour to deliver a blistering, highly partisan and combative speech
in which he defended his record across the board and hammered the
opposit... more »
My Plan (Part the First)
I have believed that harper is illegitimate ever since he was found guilty
of contempt of Parliament. Even before I knew his majority was stolen
(based as it was on election fraud) I believed this. Because the
fundamental premise of our pseudo-democracy is that the government gets its
authority from Parliament. I argued (with little effect) that if harper
didn't feel bound to respect the basis of his own authority over us, why
should we respect his authority?
Think about it for a minute: If that ugly, rancid tower of shit came into
your home and tried to order you around, you'd tell... more »
Stem Cell 2: Comments from My Physician Friends
After posting in my facebook status the PhilStar article re DOH Sec. Ona’s
proposal that PhilHealth will soon cover stem cell treatment (SCT), several
physician friends commented, below. The images I got from the web, I just
added them here.
(1) From Doc Ethel:
It infuriates me Nonoy. Patients should not be made to undergo treatment
that has not been proven to be safe and effective. And to pay for that is
nothing less than unethical, bordering on malpractice. –
(2) From Doc Tony:
Soon every doctor will buy ADI stem machine with rebates and referral
system will be in place creatin... more »
Stem Cell 1: PhilHealth to Cover SCT?
I was following the stem cell treatment (SCT) controversy in the
Philippines recently. The Philippine Medical Association (PMA) and the
Philippine Society of Stem Cell Medicine (PSSCM), both headed by Dr. Leo
Olarte, vs the 21 other specialized medical societies. The former group
says stem cell treatment can cure many diseases, the latter camp says it is
not true, that stem cell is proven only for bone marrow transplant and
blood-related cancer, I think, and that stem cell in other diseases are
still under clinical trials.
But one problem came up when DOH Secretary Enrique Ona has ... more »
Major Nidal Hasan's murderous jihadi attack or workplace incident at Fort Hood
I've written about this case before and have noticed that the BBC are
incredibly uninterested in reporting the ongoing case. Thanks to Jihad WatchI have an update:
'I received this email today from Neal M. Sher, attorney for the victims of
Nidal Hasan's murderous jihad attack at Fort Hood on November 5, 2009.
As the attorney for the victims of the Ft. Hood massacre, and their
families, I can say unequivocally that at every turn the Administration and
the Army have twisted rules, regulation and common sense into pretzels to
avoid acknowledging what Hasan himself has admitted prior to... more »
Bousso's pseudoarguments against \(ER=EPR\), black hole complementarity
*...the vacuum can't be excited only if one assumes that it can't be
excited...*
When I was living my days in the "physics establishment", it was pretty
much true that there was a connected theoretical high-energy theoretical
physics community including professors, postdocs, and students that worked
hard to learn everything it should learn, that cared about the important
new findings, and that cared whether the papers they write are correct
ones. You could have taken the arXiv papers from that community pretty
seriously and when a paper was wrong, chances were that it would be
corr... more »
"Hello NSA Ashburn!"
*You know the drill, click images for larger size.*
I mean, really? 9 hours, 27 minutes, 41 seconds *HERE*? Are you totally
insane?
How about this idea? How about you expletive deleted idiots *obey* the laws?
“NSA Broke Privacy Rules Thousands of Times Per Year, Audit Finds”
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/
- CP
Marketing in Everything: Economics Edition
Krugman writes: But neither I nor most economists are going to make the
effort of puzzling through difficult writings unless we’re given some sort
of proof of concept — a motivating example, a simple and effective summary,
something to indicate that the effort will be worthwhile. Sorry, but I
won’t commit to sitting through your
Continue reading
The BBC covering up for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt - as usual
The BBC have a page of news stories about the ongoing crisis in Egypt. The
link to that page from the BBC news home page says 'Coverage in full'.
Hmmmm.
Where is the coverage of the 58 Christian churches, schools, institutions,
homes and shops looted and torched, where is the coverage of the news of
nuns being paraded through Egyptian streets as 'prisoners of war'?
Why are the BBC censoring the news coming out of Egypt in order to protect
the Muslim Brotherhood?
Why do the BBC love the Muslim Brotherhood so much?
Could the Muslim Brotherhood's Sheikh Qaradawi's comments in 2009 be ... more »
Oh dear, how sad, never mind
Sky News report
'A Saudi prince has warned that his oil-reliant nation is under threat
because of fracking technology being developed elsewhere around the world.
Billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal said the Gulf Arab kingdom needed to
reduce its reliance on crude oil and diversify its revenues.
His warning comes as rising shale energy supplies in the United States cut
global demand for Saudi oil.'
I'm trying not to weep for the Saudis, truly I am!
Maybe with less reliance on oil from nasty Islamofascist states like Saudi
Arabia, the rest of the world will stop following such st... more »
The Economy: "Financial Storm Will Devour US, Europe"
* *
* "Financial Storm Will Devour US, Europe"*
By Tom Dennen
"If you have not already taken steps to protect yourself then you risk
losing everything. Your livelihood. Your savings. Your house. Your car.
Your retirement funds. Your precious metals. Even your personal safety.
“Capital controls” are the ultimate ‘smoking gun’ to evidence the complete
collapse of an insolvent government. Only the most desperate governments
have to restrict the free-flow of capital across their borders. And once
they hit, you know the endgame is near.
Capital controls can take a variety of forms,... more »
DO YOU RECOGNISE THESE PEOPLE?
Dr Max Lüscher, born 1923 in Switzerland, is the Swiss psychotherapist who
developed the *Luscher Color Test *to test moods, feelings and attitudes:
*Colorquiz* or *The Luscher Color Test*
Luscher, in his book *The 4-Color Person*, describes what we may be like,
if we are not happy and balanced.
He describes the following types of people:
*1. The Good Natured Angel*
Good Natured Angels do 'good deeds'.
They expect their victims to enslave themselves in eternal gratitude and
devotion.
Good Natured Angels often have another side to them.
Good Natured Angels can be *Disconten... more »
Tokyo Turbulence: The Looming Japanese Crisis
*Nile Bowie discusses the Fukushima disaster and the daunting possibility
of economic collapse in an increasingly militaristic Japan with James
Corbett, independent journalist and editor of the Corbett Report:*
*
*
*NB:* Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling coalition has grasped a
strong mandate in recent parliamentary elections, and this is viewed as a
green light to continue pressing ahead with the much-touted “Abenomics”
economic reform program. In Japan, government debt to GDP sits at a
staggering 245%, while government expenditure to government revenue amounts
to some 200... more »
"Come, Come, Whoever You Are..."
“Come, come, whoever you are.
Wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving — it doesn't matter,
Ours is not a caravan of despair.
Come, even if you have broken your vow a hundred times,
Come, come again, come.”
- Rumi
"A Look to the Heavens"
“Have you ever seen the Pleiades star cluster? Even if you have, you
probably have never seen it like this: all dusty. Perhaps the most famous
star cluster on the sky, the bright stars of the Pleiades can be seen
without binoculars from even the depths of a light-polluted city. With a
long exposure from a dark location, though, the dust cloud surrounding the
Pleiades star cluster becomes very evident. The below exposure took about
30 hours and covers a sky area several times the size of the full moon.
*Click image for larger size.*
Also known as the Seven Sisters and M45, the P... more »
"For This Is What We Do..."
“For this is what we do. Put one foot forward and then the other. Lift our
eyes to the snarl and smile of the world once more. Think. Act. Feel. Add
our little consequence to the tides of good and evil that flood and drain
the world. Drag our shadowed crosses into the hope of another night. Push
our brave hearts into the promise of a new day. With love: the passionate
search for truth other than our own. With longing: the pure, ineffable
yearning to be saved. For so long as fate keeps waiting, we live on. God
help us. God forgive us. We live on.”
- Gregory David Roberts, “Sha... more »
"That Dreadful Universal Thing..."
“The more one analyzes people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear.
Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human
nature.”
- Oscar Wilde
"Terrible Animals..."
“We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune
system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.”
- Kurt Vonnegut
Untitled
*"The Genesis of Evil"*
by Andrew Lobaczewski, Ph.D.
"Ever since ancient times, philosophers and religious thinkers
representing various attitudes in different cultures have been searching
for the truth as regards moral values, attempting to find criteria for what
is right, what constitutes good advice. They described the virtues of human
character and suggested these be acquired. They created a heritage which
contains centuries of experience and reflections. In spite of the obvious
differences among attitudes, the similarity or complementarity of the
conclusions reached ... more »
Musical Interlude: Vangelis, “Last of the Mohicans”
Vangelis, “Last of the Mohicans”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5anLPw0Efmo&html5=1
ICF
"Just recently a two year old died while in the custody of child protective
services in Texas, and 78 children completely vanished while in the care of
Oklahoma Human Services...
"Many poor children who go missing from scandals such as the Second Mile
Foundation, the Franklin Scandal and the latest scandal with the 78 missing
wards of the state in Oklahoma, frequently end up being put into child sex
trafficking rings operated and funded by such notables as DynCorps and HSBC
bank."
*
The Massive Conspiracy Designed to Separate You From Your Children*
The ZAP Report 8-18-2013
*
**Text in red is from AK/Bill...and not part of the original posting...* *
* *Greetings and Salutations,*
*
* *We have definitely entered another round of "Rumor Du'Jour, Funny
Season". It's very important to keep your feet planted firmly on the
ground. If you are paying attention many of these rumors appearing as FACT
re-surface about every 3 months and this has been part of the ever-ending
story for at least the last 12 years give or take. Remember the meaning of
FEAR...False Evidence Appearing Real. Discernment is a mandate in this time
of change. Don't take any wooden nickels.... more »
China's Gold-rush In Perspective
James Corbett
International Forecaster / Corbett Report
It was the Sentence Heard Round the Blogosphere. The Sentence That Launched
a Thousand Headlines. The Sentence to End All Sentences. Or so some would
have us believe:
*“People’s Bank of China official Yao Yudong has an article in the China
Securities Journal calling for a new 'Bretton Woods'.”*
This titillating tidbit appeared as a breaking news item on Bloomberg and
then was widely posted around the blogosphere, exciting quite a bit of
speculation for such a tiny piece of information. Some outlets even
wondered if this meant... more »
Meet & Greet Monday (#MtaGt) - Slightly Hippie Housewife of Suburbia
Welcome
to Meet & Greet Monday, a regular series designed to grow our
green
community.
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of environment... more » Is Obama Turning Earth Over To Aliens?
I can't wait to see which Republican troll-- I'd bet on fake preacher Bryan
Fischer or one of two Texas congressmen, Louie Gohmert or domestic
terrorist Steve Stockman-- is the first to accuse Obama of being in thrall
to aliens from Mars. The proof: His unjustified anger at Ed Snowden may be
due to the exposure of Area 51, where the U.S. works jointly with aliens on
various projects. Before there was a Tea Party, the activists who dominate
it were busy with this kind of thing:
My theory is this that
- Roswell craft crashed
- Roswell debris and dead and alive aliens sent to milt... more »
Agent Provocateurs In Egypt? A Look At The Shadowy Elements In Pro-Muslim Brotherhood Protests
*Photo: A proud and patriotic Egyptian stands up to the Muslim Brotherhood
gang. Source of photo: AP.*
It is a known fact that agent provocateurs are used by all despotic
governments, especially military governments, to demonize protests and
characterize protesters as hoodlums and terrorists.
When there are popular, anti-government protests in police states, state
security forces dress in civilian clothing and do heinous things like cause
destruction to private property in order to delegitimize the protests and
justify the full use of state violence against the opposition.
Rarel... more »
Imagine?
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Lost Babes
*Written by Grant G*
Innocence of the child, fragility of a kitten, both can be sculpted into
fine art or molded to reflect the harsh reality of a cold advanced
society...
It amazes me how the poorest and hungriest children of the world will feed,
care for and protect a kitten, those babes with nothing and without
hesitation would rather starve than watch an innocent feline waste away, is
it something born to us, ingrained at birth, the need to care for and
protect those even more helpless, or is it a way to remain feeling human in
a world turning more and more alien, more col... more »
@drloisweiner is no “liberal.” She’s a “mad democrat!”
Just in case you missed the live version here is your never ending link to
@the chalkface radio. We talked to Dr. Lois Weiner. She’s got some
serious stuff to say. If you’re a liberal you might not want to listen
however, “white christians” are welcome. Listen here.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/chalkface/2013/08/18/at-the-chalk-face-progressive-edreform-radio
Untitled
*Sean Payton marches on with new outlook ~Jim Corbett, USA Today*
DID EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT MASS EXECUTE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD PRISONERS WHILE BEING TRANSPORTED IN A SEALED TRUCK?
Some 38 Muslim Brotherhood prisoners today died after being asphyxiated by
tear gas while locked inside the back of a truck. While the Egyptian
authorities claim that the prisoners died after they took a guard hostage
in an attempt to escape, the Muslim Brotherhood through a ‘legal source’
has accused the Egyptian authorities of deliberately murdering the prisoners.
I find it very difficult to believe that one guard would be left alone in
the back of a truck to look after 38 prisoners. And, even if it happened
they way the Egyptian authorities tell it, then what happened to the gua... more »
Lies with a tee-emm . . .
REALLY.
From Michele Bachmann's Facebook page “Christians For Michele
Bachmann”, an oeuvre apparently paid for by Christians for Michele
Bachmann™. Love the tee-emm. The FB slogan is “Changing lives, one
BachFann™ at a time”. More tee-emm.
My Opt Out/Refusal Letter for 2013-2014
Dear —, My name is Peggy Robertson and my son, Sam, will be attending —
High School tomorrow as a freshman. He is beyond excited! We are equally as
thrilled to have Sam become a part of the — HS family. I was so impressed
at orientation with the focus on community as well as […]
Sunday Classics: Dance a cachucha! Returning to the "Gondoliers" Overture
*APOLOGIES FOR THE LATE POSTING*: *I really wanted to do something more
with this post, and I just wasn't getting it done. Finally I decided to go
with what I had more or less ready, reserving the right to return to the
subject.*
*MONDAY NIGHT UPDATE*: *With time to reflect, I've revamped the post to
include vocal texts. After all, if I'm inviting you to listen, *really
listen*, to the various performances, and I am, I am, the texts could help,
and even raise questions like: For which recordings are the printed texts
most and least necessary?* -- Ken
*Dance a cachucha!*
Dance a... more »
The Poet: TS Eliot, “The Hollow Men”
* *
*“The Hollow Men”*
by TS Eliot
“We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar
Shape without form, shade without color,
Paralyzed force, gesture without motion;
Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom
Remember us - if at all - not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.
II
Eyes I dare not meet in dreams
In death's dream kingdom
These do not... more »
interspecies love, adorable baby elephant edition
If this doesn't tug at your heartstrings, better call 911. You might be
dead.
Many thanks to Stephanie for helping me stay afloat.
discoveries make me happy
I
am always astonished to see stories such as these.
A tree-dwelling animal with a teddy-bear-like face and rust-coloured
furhas become the newest mammal species discovered by scientists.
The olinguito, the smallest known member of the raccoon family, lives in
the cloud forests high in the Andes Mountains of Colombia and Ecuador,
reported a team of scientists from the Smithsonian Institution in
Washington, D.C., which described it in the journal ZooKeys Thursday.
The animal has actually been displayed in museums and zoos over the past
100 years, but was mistakenly identified as a di... more »
a witchunt and its backlash: interest in "a people's history" surges, thanks to censorship attempts
Once upon a time in the state of Indiana...
Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States, one of the
country’s most widely read history books, died on January 27, 2010. Shortly
after, then-Governor of Indiana Mitch Daniels got on his computer and fired
off an email to the state’s top education officials: “This terrible
anti-American academic has finally passed away.”
But Gov. Daniels, now president of Purdue University, was not content
merely to celebrate Howard Zinn’s passing. He demanded that Zinn’s work be
hunted down in Indiana schools and suppressed: “The obit... more »
Marriage Equality
Today’s the day equality of marriage becomes law. Time for a quiet
celebration—the day when loving couples of whatever sexual persuasion can
formalise their relationship and ask for the state to recognise their
contract.
It should hardly be controversial, should it?
After all, how is it anybody else’s business who you love?
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to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)
ARROGANT JEWISH SETTLERS TERRORIZE PALESTINIAN FARMERS
The Jaber family of al-Baqa'a is being harrased and attacked by the Zionist
settlers of Kiryat Arba. This incident was filmed by Hudaina and Atta
Jaber's daughter through the house window on July 12th, 2013. Her father,
who arrived at the scene as the settlers were rampaging around the house,
had fainted and was given water by the ITF soldiers who would not apprehend
the settlers a moment earlier.
How America Lost Egypt: Washington's Support For Al-Qaeda Was The Straw That Broke The Camel's Back
*The Great Nation of Egypt Has Told The Evil Empire And Its Jihadist
Terrorist Proxies: Go To Hell, And Take Al-Qaeda With You!*
In his statement on recent events in Egypt, *President Obaaama said*,
"America cannot determine the future of Egypt. That’s a task for the
Egyptian people. We don’t take sides with any particular party or political
figure. I know it’s tempting inside of Egypt to blame the United States or
the West or some other outside actor for what’s gone wrong."
Not a word in that statement is true. Washington has taken sides in Egypt
and the Arab world. It is o... more »
“I Love You, Mr Lange”
Sean Plunket rather overstates his case about the magnitude of last last
week’s John-off on TV3, by comparing it with the justifiably famous 1984
television debate between a fading Muldoon and a rampant David Lange. But
it did make me re-watch the debate, which was fascinating after having not
seen it for nearly thirty years.
This was truly a historic moment in New Zealand affairs—the moment when NZ
turned from Muldoonist despair to a hope that Lange was so good at
articulating, a moment Muldoon himself seemed to recognise in rolling over
in that famous last line of the night.
... more »
Grimm assessments
New York Congressman Michael Grimm is appalled Obama would use his
executive power to do nice things for the peoples because, founding fathers
never intended that to happen.
Rep. Michael Grimm (R-N.Y.) said recent executive actions by President
Obama, including a plan to extend high-speed Internet connections to
virtually every school in the nation, demonstrate a "blatant" attempt to
subvert the will of the American people.
"It's just a flagrant, you know, arrogant disregard not just for the
current Congress," Grimm said in an interview with Fox News. "Look, it's
not about me per... more »
Sunday Question for Liberals
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