English: American radio host Rachel Maddow. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Protest against the imprisonment of Bradley Manning, Fort Snelling, Minnesota, March 2011 Deutsch: Protest gegen die Inhaftierung Bradley Mannings, Fort Snelling, Minnesota im März 2011 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
High street of Haverfordwest, located near Milford Haven in Pembrokeshire, Wales (Photo credit: Wikipedia)10:33pm MDST
Rachel Maddow and Chemical Weapons:Inaccurate Information & Telling Omissions
During
her August 21 broadcast, in a segment on the reported use of chemical
weapons in a horrific attack that killed hundreds of civilians in Syria,
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow discussed the possible implications of such an
horrendous act and touched upon past uses of potentially similar
substances such as Sarin and mustard gas. She spoke about Saddam
Hussein's use of these chemical weapons
Doubting The Wisdom of Attacking Syria
*Below is an excerpt from **Patrick Seale's book, "Asad of Syria: The
Struggle for the Middle East." 1988. I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd: London. Pg.
474. [Source].*
"There was no sympathy in Washington for Asad's ambition to achieve parity
with Israel, no understanding of the reasons for his 'spoiling' role in
Lebanon and Jordan, nor any liking for his insistence that the Soviet Union
be given a role in the peace process. Israel's psychological warfare on the
theme of counter-terrorism had prepared Western opinion for the punishment
of Asad, as it had for that of Arafat and Qadhafi. In ... more »
Of course Bradley Manning won't be pardoned, but that doesn't mean the people who prosecuted him won't be shamed
*"The cancer of over-classification is threatening the very fabric of our
free society. Over-classification hinders debate. It hinders what we know
about our government. It hinders finding solutions to common problems [such
as] how do we keep our way of life in a post-9/11 world."*
*-- Lt. Col. David Coombs, Bradley Manning's lawyer,
quoted in Dana Milbank's *WaPo* column,* "Bradley Manning's
sentence and the zealous national-security state"
*"From the beginning, the Pentagon has treated Manning extremely harshly .
. . . It certainly looked like an instance of powerful institutions a... more »
Michael Hasting autopsy reveals trace of amphetamine and pot - but the crash caused his death ! UK authorities acted illegally indetaining the domestic partner of Guardian Reporter Glenn Greenwald - says the author of the UK Terror Law ! Google Glass - rapidly finding uses in the police state ! Are we the USsr today ? FISA Court = rubber stamp ?
Catharsis Ours - 45 minutes ago
Hasting autopsy - not the slam dunk rebuttal for those hoping to damp down
conspiracy discussions on how and why Michael Hastings was murdered
http://whowhatwhy.com/2013/08/21/hastings-autopsy-traces-of-meth-found-in-body-but-crash-caused-death/
Hastings Autopsy: Traces Of Meth Found In Body, But Crash Caused Death
By Kathleen Kelleher, Russ Baker and David J. Krajicek on Aug 21, 2013
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Toxicology tests showed traces of amphetamine in journalist Michael
Hastings’s body after his fatal car wreck in Los Angeles on June 18, the
Los Angeles County Coroner’s Department... more »
Cold Relations Between Washington And Kurds, Despite Shared Interests
**
**
*Related:*
*British Major Ely Banister Soane On Kurdistan*.
*A Future Republic of Kurdistan?*
*The Kurdish Sun Will Rise: Al-Qaeda, Turks, Islamists, Etc., Cannot
Change This New Reality.*
"The Kurdish factor greatly complicates Washington’s already difficult
calculations. U.S. leaders do not want to encourage the creation of a
separatist Kurdish entity in Syria. Yet the Kurdish population next door in
Iraq has been the one consistent, pro-U.S. faction in that unhappy country,
and the Syrian Kurds also seem to have a pro-Western orientation. Moreover,
several of the vi... more »
Best not advertise Viagra or Cialis in Canada
"Criminal Code 163 (2) Every one commits an offence who knowingly, without
lawful justification or excuse,
...
(d) advertises or publishes an advertisement of any means, instructions,
medicine, drug or article intended or represented as a method for restoring
sexual virility or curing venereal diseases or diseases of the generative
organs."
It really is time to revise the Criminal Code!
Musical Interlude: 2002, “Suddenly Yours”
2002, “Suddenly Yours”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQn4U-IxDL8&list=PLDB01297C18B7A943&html5=1
88 year old WWII veteran beat to death by two of Obama's sons...
*will the President make a statement?*
Hitting pretty close to home. My hubby used to play the lounge at the
Eagles in Spokane. Lovely place.
Witnesses described the suspects as 16 to 18-year-old African American
males of average build, according to authorities.
The 88-year-old victim, Delbert "Shorty" Belton, had been taken to the
Intensive Care Unit after the assault at the Eagles Ice-A-Rena at Francis
near Lidgerwood around 8:15 p.m. Officials said they found him with serious
head injuries. He died Thursday morning at a local hospital.
"He was an Army veteran," said Glenn Lo... more »
“We Humans Are Capable Of Greatness”
Carl Sagan, “We Humans Are Capable Of Greatness”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6ugFcwsgpE&html5=1
"A Look to the Heavens"
"M78 isn't really hiding in planet Earth's night sky. About 1,600
light-years away and nestled in the nebula rich constellation Orion, the
large, bright, reflection nebula is well-known to telescopic skygazers. But
this gorgeous image of M78 was selected as the winner of the Hidden
Treasures 2010 astrophotography competition. Held by the European Southern
Observatory (ESO), the competition challenged amateur astronomers to
process data from ESO's astronomical archive in search of cosmic gems.
*Click image for larger size.*
The winning entry shows off amazing details within bluis... more »
Psychology: "When the Imp In Your Mind Gets Loose"
* *
* "When the Imp In Your Mind Gets Loose"*
by the NY Times
"The visions seem to swirl up from the brain’s sewage system at the worst
possible times — during a job interview, a meeting with the boss, an
apprehensive first date, an important dinner party. What if I started a
food fight with these hors d’oeuvres? Mocked the host’s stammer? Cut loose
with a racial slur?
"That single thought is enough,” wrote Edgar Allan Poe in “The Imp of the
Perverse,” an essay on unwanted impulses. “The impulse increases to a wish,
the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing.” H... more »
The Poet: James Broughton, "Having Come This Far"
* *
*"Having Come This Far"*
"I've been through what my through was to be,
I did what I could and couldn't.
I was never sure how I would get there.
I nourished an ardor for thresholds,
for stepping stones and for ladders,
I discovered detour and ditch.
I swam in the high tides of greed,
I built sandcastles to house my dreams.
I survived the sunburns of love.
No longer do I hunt for targets.
I've climbed all the summits I need to,
and I've eaten my share of lotus.
Now I give praise and thanks
for what could not be avoided,
and for every foolhardy choice.
I cherish my wounds and their... more »
"Tell Me Yourself, I Challenge You..."
"Tell me yourself, I challenge you—answer. Imagine that you are creating a
fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end,
giving them peace and rest at last, but that it was essential and
inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature... and to found that
edifice on its unavenged tears: would you consent to be the architect on
those conditions? Tell me, and tell the truth.”
- Dostoevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov"
Chet Raymo, “Cherubic Propulsion”
*“Cherubic Propulsion”*
by Chet Raymo
"I was talking last week to another American here in the village, younger
than me. It transpired that he was on his way to church to celebrate the
Feast of the Assumption, a Holy Day of Obligation, when Catholics are
required to attend Mass. For those not familiar with Catholic doctrine, the
Assumption refers to the belief that Mary, the mother of Jesus, at the end
of her earthly existence, was assumed bodily and uncorrupted into Heaven.
The belief has an ancient history, but was only declared an infallible
dogma by Pope Pius XII in 1950. Whet... more »
Michael Hastings autopsy ( murder mystery gets murkier as we see an attempt to blame the victim for his " MacGuire " like explosive brand new Mercedes bomb on four wheels ! ) Crisis actors be hired in San Diego - wonder what's being planeed for California and when ? Any connection to Urban Shield 2013 ? Australia's 60 Minutes blows whistle on BP oil and corexit toxic soup ..... not an american media company - Australia !
Catharsis Ours - 2 hours ago
Michael Hastings murder mystery gets murkier...... if that's possible !
Release of Michael Hastings Autopsy Report Only Prompts More Questions
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Portrayal of Hastings as drug abuser skirts truth about crash
*Paul Joseph Watson*
Infowars.com
August 20, 2013
Reaction to the release of Michael Hastings’ autopsy report, which as
expected ruled his death to be an accident caused by massive blunt trauma,
has b... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
Aurora, Ontario, Canada. Thanks for stopping by.
Lake Erie salt mine at risk ? Cargill stops mining salt due to concerns roof could collpase . Are we seeing another major salt mine related debacle ( following the ongoing Louisiana sinkhole ) ?
http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2013/08/cargill_salt.html
Cargill stops mining salt under Lake Erie out of safety concerns
5 / 7
A pile of salt at the Cargill salt mine Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013. Cargill
has stopped mining because of concerns that the roof 1,800 feet below the
lake could collapse. (Gus Chan / The Plain Dealer)
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Cargill salt mine below Lake Erie has stopped mining
because of concerns that the roof 1,800 feet below ground could collapse.
That's according to Cargill spokesman Mark Klein, who said the company
stopped mining s... more »
Cockfighting Romanian Royalty In Oregon
The Pretenders; the royal cockfighter is on the left
Today everyone in Europe is complaining about the influx of Romanians into
their countries. Since Romania joined the EU, there are no borders to keep
them out and because there are a lot of poor Romanians, they are drawn to
the wealthier countries like Germany, Britain, Holland, Italy, France.
Europeans talk about them the way they used to talk about Moroccans and
Algerians and the way Republican xenophobes and racists like Steve King and
Dana Rohrabacher talk about Mexicans. Everything from "they're primitive
and carry diseases" ... more »
Tamarrud Movement in Gaza Calls to Oust Hamas on November 11, Anniversary of Arafat's Death [MEMRI TV]
*Israel created Hamas*.
Tamarrud Movement in Gaza Calls to Oust Hamas on November 11, Anniversary
of Arafat's Death. Source: MEMRI TV.
The Arab Spring Part II: Just When You Thought He Was Out, They Pull Him Back In
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Revolution Reversed: Egypt winds back clock as Mubarak released from prison
[Source: RT]
"Humanity Is Getting Verrrrrrry Close to Extinction"
*"Humanity Is Getting Verrrrrrry Close to Extinction"*
by Scott Baker
"If you were to take a comparative look back at our planet during the 1950s
from some sort of cosmic time-traveling orbiter cube, you would probably
first notice that millions of pieces of space trash had disappeared from
orbit. The moon would appear six and a half feet closer to Earth, and the
continents of Europe and North America would be four feet closer together.
Zooming in, you would be able to spot some of the results of the Golden Age
of Capitalism in the West and the Great Leap Forward in the East. L... more »
Let me describe in brief a #commoncore oriented math professional development.
Did I experience this or was this explained to me by another? You’ll have
to guess. But here it goes. Scheduled for three hours. Arrival. Breakout
session one consisted of a room with tables, each with a set of math
textbooks. For 30 minutes, examine the textbooks. Breakout session two
consisted of a computer lab. […]
NSA and GCHQ - spying on everyone news of the day ! August 22 , 2013 ....
Spying
on everyone news of the day......
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/exclusive-edward-snowden-leaks-reveal-uks-secret-middleeast-internet-surveillance-base-8781082.html
Related
articles
- Agencies should not be upset if we reveal that they run a listening
centre in the Middle East
- Police launch criminal case over David Miranda data
- GCHQ in fresh snooping row as it eavesdrops on phones and the
internet
- New laws needed for 'out of control' intelligence agencies
- Agencies should not be upset if we reveal that they run a listening
centre i... more »
her name is chelsea and she is a hero - and a scapegoat
A while back, I saw a blog post angrily asking why everyone referred to
Bradley Manning as a man when it is "known" that he is trans. The answer is
simple: out of respect. That's how Manning was identifying. Period.
Anything else was rumour.
Now that Manning's court martial (fake trial) is over, she has come out as
a transwoman. So now we can refer to Chelsea Manning with the same respect.
From Chase Madar, in *The Nation*:
*Update, 8/22/2013:* *Yesterday, Bradley Manning was sentenced to 35 years
in prison.* *Today, Chelsea Elizabeth Manning announced through her lawyer
that she ... more »
More exploration needed, but this is a very intriguing idea. The YAPLT
I just caught this group as a follower on Twitter. THE YAPLT IS A TYPE OF
STANDARDIZED TEST PROVIDED TO STUDENTS AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE ACT/ SAT
THAT NOT ONLY CALCULATES AN INDIVIDUAL’S INTELLECT, BUT ALSO HIS OR HER
LEADERSHIP, CREATIVITY, ORIGINALITY, WISDOM, AND PRACTICAL SKILLS. The
practicals escape me. But what an interesting […]
A carefully drawn employment agreement can exclude the usual damages for wrongful dismissal
Shekhdar v. K & M Engineering and Consulting Corporation, 2013 ONCA 521:
[2] On the trial judge's finding, the agreement of April 25, 2001
governed the working relationship between the appellant and the respondent,
K & M Engineering throughout the relevant time period. That agreement
provided for termination for "any reason whatsoever or no reason on 15
days' prior written notice."
[3] The trial judge found that the appellant did not breach the
terms of his agreement with K & M Engineering and Consulting Corporation at
least to the extent that K & M Engineering ... more »
Gold and Silver update for August 22 , 2013 - News , data and views touching on and concerning the precious metals !
Zero Hedge ......
The Line Every Gold Trader Is Watching
[image: Tyler Durden's picture]
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/22/2013 17:01 -0400
- Momo
- Monetary Policy
From Indian leases to negative GOFOs, from Chinese physical demand to
Western bank paper gold deleveraging, and from practical mining cost floors
to the ongoing playing out of the grandest experiment of monetary policy in
history; there are a plethora of drivers for the price of the precious
metal. But, for now, the only thing that counts is the 100-day moving
average as gold prints its *first positive cl... more »
Fukushima updates - August 20 -21 , 2013 - Just one day admitting a " minor " leak of 300 tons of highly contaminated radioactive water - Tepco drops more bombshells - they have 350 MORE tanks similar to the one presently leaking , which has a rubber seal rather than welded seals ! And just how could they measure the leakage accurately - the water gauge is 4 tanks away ? Meanwhile , the world watches as the ground becomes more unstable , perhaps liquid like in the area near the Sea - we are seeing a catastrophe unfold in relentless fashion that neither Tepco nor Japan has a clue how to address ! We just need a decent strength quake at this point for the endgame scenario to come into play .....
Catharsis Ours - 4 hours ago
The horrible truth slowly leaching out from Tepco regarding the state of
play regarding highly contaminated water storage at Fukushima......Recall I
recently wondered how many other tanks might be affected apart from the one
that has leaked 300 tons - so !
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2013/08/242077.html
Highly toxic water leaked from tank could have flowed into sea
TOKYO, Aug. 21, Kyodo
Highly radioactive water that leaked from a storage tank at the Fukushima
Daiichi nuclear power plant could have flowed into the adjacent Pacific
Ocean through drainage channels, data provided... more »
Reconnecting Labour
Two articles. Two broadly similar points. In the first place is James
Bloodsworth's piece for the *New Statesman* that makes what should be an
uncontroversial observation: that "backward" attitudes among working class
people toward immigration and social security stems from competition with
and close social proximity to migrants and recipients of the dole. Hell's
bells, even someone as unoriginal as me has occasionally made the same
points. Perhaps it is symptomatic of the estrangement James talks about
that his piece was shared widely on social media. Unfortunately, the
bleeding o... more »
Friday Morning Ramble: The ‘did anyone notice he had gone’ edition?
David Shearer has stepped down, but should the Labour Party itself be next?
After all, what does it stand for that either Greens or National doesn’t
already, and articulate better?
*Labour needs more than a new leader - it needs change* – Josie Pagani,
PUNDIT
*Why Shearer failed* – David Farrar, KIWIBLOG
The Reserve Bank reckons it’s providing a benefit to first-home buyers by
making it too hard for them to buy houses. (Eric Crampton reckons “I could
as plausibly claim that I'm making everyone better off by banning them from
listening to Coldplay because they're not likely to be ... more »
Thursday Late Afternoon “Morning” Linkage
It’s morning somewhere, right? Here are some belated links to stories,
covering Richard Haass and Syria, climate change and the IPCC 5th
assessment, a lethal bat-born virus, gay rights and Russia, and the new
Fukushima nuclear worry… Syria FT op-ed by Richard Haass of all people
urging the president to intervene in Syria Environment Draft
Continue reading
John Friend - An Introduction
I made the following video two nights ago, but am just now getting around
to posting it here:
I will be making more videos like this in the future. I think it will be an
effective way to communicate my message to more and more people. I'd
encourage everyone to sign up for *TruTube.TV* and subscribe to *my channel*.
You can also subscribe to my *YouTube channel*, where I will also post
these videos. But I will probably run into problems with YouTube at some
point, given the nature of the topics I will be discussing. TruTube is an
excellent alternative to YouTube anyways. Stay tuned... more »
Is the Muslim Brotherhood attempting to black President Obama regarding Benghazi ? Is another catastrophic event about to be rolled out - was that the purpose of Monday's meeting between President Obama , the Regulators ( FDIC/ CFTC / SEC / OCC ) and of course the Banksters ? Treasury meltup in yields causing interest rate derivatives " heartburn ? And just where does Larry Summers fit in - and why is he being " forced " upon us as the next Federal Reserve Board Chairman ?
Lots of wild FWIW items floating these days...
Obama Bankrolled Attack On The Benghazi Consulate
AUGUST 22, 2013 BY KRIS ZANE 37 COMMENTS
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It has been widely reported in Egyptian media that one of the leaders in
the attack against the Benghazi consulate on September 11, 2012 was Mohsen
Al-Azazi.
According to Ahmed Moussa, a former high ranking intelligence official with
the Egyptian government and several other sources, Al-Azazi’s passport was
found in the house of Khairat Al-Shater, the Number Two man in the Muslim
Brotherhood hierarchy, now under house arrest in Egypt by t... more »
Syria updates - Life in the War Zone of Aleppo ..... Kurds flee Syria for relative peace in Iraq........ US and Russia to discuss Syria Summit - a Summit to discuss a future Summit ( looking at the seniority of participants - and in light of current atmosphere between US and Russia politically , there will need to be another Summit to discuss a Summit to hold a Summit on Syria' fate ! )
Catharsis Ours - 5 hours ago
Aleppo - life inside a war zone.....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23696829
Aleppo: A city where snipers shoot childrenBy Hannah Lucinda SmithBustan
al-Qasr, Aleppo, Syria
[image: Bustan al-Kasr]
Continue reading the main story
In today's Magazine
- Could you forgive your daughter's killer?
- Could your best friend be the one?Watch
- Exploring LA's forgotten stairways
- How does a polyamorous relationship between four people work?
Bustan al-Qasr is the last remaining crossing point between the rebel and
regime-held sides of Aleppo. Snipers are rife and the atmosph... more »
"How It Really Is"
*Click image for larger size.*
Nothing to see here, NSA, move along... what? Truth you don't want people
to know?
Oh, my bad, sorry, sorry... *not.*
"US Prepares For "Kinetic Strikes" Against Syria"
* *
*"US Prepares For "Kinetic Strikes" Against Syria"*
by Tyler Durden
"The chart below will likely come as a surprise to most. It shows total
nominal US defense spending, more importantly it shows that such spending
has been rapidly declining since 2010. And while on the surface it is great
news the US is becoming more "pacifist" (apparently mass killings using
drones are relatively cost-effective) and the result for the US is even
better as it means lower deficits, there is one person who is very unhappy
with this outcome- Ben Bernanke.
Why is Ben unhappy? Simple- as a remind... more »
Boston bombing narrative - gunshot story contradicted by photo evidence . additional aspects of Boston story simply not making sense ! Why was Michael Hasting afraid his car was being tampered with ? Why is DHS employing an employees - in fact THE employee responsible for gun purchases , when this employee is preparing for a race war ?
http://www.infowars.com/gunshot-wound-to-dzhokhars-face-contradicts-original-boston-bombing-narrative/
Gunshot Wound to Dzhokhar’s Face Contradicts Original Boston Bombing
Narrative
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Medical report reveals Dzhokhar Tsarnaev suffered from fractured skull due
to gunshot wound to the face
*Julie Wilson*
Infowars.com
August 22, 2013
Trauma surgeon Stephen Ray Odom, of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center,
te... more »
Catch of the Day
A very nice one from Brian Beutler, who takes note of the current campaign
against the IRS role in the Affordable Care Act...and the GOP enthusiasm
for Health Savings Accounts:
For the uninitiated, HSAs are tax-preferred vehicles that provide people
with bare bones insurance an incentive to put away money in the event they
develop chronic illness, require long term care, or experience a costly
accident. Modeled after IRAs, they allow qualified people to put pre-tax
dollars into an account that can only be drawn from without penalty to pay
for certain medical costs.
There’s plenty t... more »
"Nice laptop you got here. Be a shame if something... happened to it."
There are some days that are just so strange, when all the evil agents
of the universe come descending on you in such short order that only the
word "surreal" can even start to define it. Now, it's obvious my traffic
has dwindled down to a faithful few but some of you guys are tech-savvy and
maybe my limited crowd sourcing options will be enough to help me solve
this dilemma.
Some time this morning, some elderly Indian lady called my house (on
my house phone) at about 10:00-10:30. She said she was from some PC company
and that they'd received error messages from my compute... more »
LITTLE BY LITTLE
*The Jeju City cathedral was packed. Here supporters hold various signs. In
front a sister holds a sign that says, "The Peace of Gangjeong is our
Peace."*
- Our *Space Alert *newsletter is done and set to go to the print shop.
I am really pleased with how it turned out. Nancy Randolph always does a
great job of laying it all out. We should have it posted online in the
next day or so and folks will be able to see it in full color. Won't
likely get printed for another week or so which makes me crazy but there is
little I can do about that.
- I am doing a rad... more »
Moon of Alabama On Why The Egyptian Military Threw Out Morsi
Below is an excerpt from, *"Where Egypt Might Go"* by 'b' of Moon of
Alabama, published on August 22:
"There are all kinds of conspiracy theories around this issue. The Saudis
bought off the military because they hate the Brotherhood. The U.S. wanted
the military to take over. If you believe the more and more erratic Turkish
premier Erdogan it was the Israelis that were behind the coup.
*I doubt all these theories. They all deny agency to the Egyptian military.
*Are we to believe that the generals in Cairo, who see themselves in the
tradition of Gamal Abdel Nasser, can simply be... more »
Terms of impeachment
Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn dangles impeachment to soothe the angry
base at a home district speaking event.
“No, I agree,” Coburn said. “My little wiggle out of that when I get that
written to me is I believe that needs to be evaluated and determined, but
thank goodness it doesn’t have to happen in the Senate until they’ve
brought charges in the House. Those are serious things, but we’re in a
serious time. I don’t have the legal background to know if that rises to
high crimes and misdemeanor, but I think they’re getting perilously close.”
Translation: Happy to feed your imp... more »
“Flash: Nasdaq Exchange Down”
*“Flash: Nasdaq Exchange Down”*
by Karl Denninger
"Not sure what's going on here, and there is no official statement of what
is happening, but... The Nasdaq has basically frozen their entire exchange,
and so have the options markets for these stocks (which is necessary when
you're an option market maker- you have to be able to hedge!) There is
currently no explanation of why this is happening or when it will be fixed,
but there are clearly severe impacts in anything Nasdaq-listed right now-
spreads are utterly nuts in the options market at the moment, if you can
get anything to go... more »
"America Alert: August - November 2013"
*"America Alert: August - November 2013" *
by Susan Duclos
"This video compilation tells a story that you won’t be hearing on the
mainstream news, a story that clearly shows a country preparing for
something disastrous. From the Department of Homeland Security building a
domestic army to the entire country going through an EMP disaster drill to FEMA
demanding emergency food from Survivalist websites to more MASSIVE ammo
purchases by government agencies, something is clearly going on that TPTB
don’t want us to know about!"
- http://beforeitsnews.com/
Egyptian Update... From Bad To Worse
From the very first, the coup leaders prioritized the systematic
intimidation-- not to mention murder-- of members of the independent media.
Independent reporting is the last thing the Egyptian security state and
their American backers wanted. As we pointed out before, they had their
story down and that is the only story they want out there. Even though
their story is patently absurd. And killing members of the media isn't
where it ends. Now they're even hauling Mohamed ElBaradei, Egypt's leading
neo-liberal and until last week the "vice president" of the junta's puppet
regime and... more »
Rob Ford: His latest stunt
Rob Ford, Mayor of Toronto, to arm-wrestle Hulk Hogan.
*Ford will take on 14-time pro wrestling champion Hulk Hogan on Friday at
Toronto's Fan Expo.
*
Lucky Torontonians as their mayor keeps them entertained . CBC story
Palmistry - I just want my right hand to heal.
as a palmist, I know I should bother looking at my own hand, it's a vicious
circle-cycle.
But I just want my right hand to heal.
My left hand, where all the potential lives, shows a lovely strong central
fate line with interleaved breaks in it showing intentional changes of
career, leaning toward the Sun (or Mercury) finger. The sun line is strong,
leading right to the base of Apollo, with a later sun line more towards the
communication Mercury finger alongside it.
My right hand is a mess: scattered, weakened and wobbling fate line with
all sorts of Moon-mount influences. Sun line... more »
Hoopa Valley Protest: Feds give away fish water to same growers suing over Trinity releases
Photo of Hoopa Valley Tribe protest against Westlands Water District on August 21 by Dan Bacher.
Feds give away fish water to same growers suing over Trinity releases
by Dan Bacher
Censored News
Over
60 members of the Hoopa Valley Tribe rallied in front of the federal
courthouse in Fresno on August 21 as U.S. District Judge Lawrence J.
O'Neill held a hearing regarding the
Uncertain World: Russia and Ukraine on the Verge of a Decisive Choice
Fyodor Lukyanov
RIA Novosti
Russian-Ukrainian relations are again at the center of attention. Nothing
has happened between Moscow and Kiev in the three years since the signing
of the Kharkiv agreement, under which Ukraine extended Russia’s lease of a
naval base in Sevastopol used by its Black Sea Fleet in exchange for a
reduced price on Russian gas. Attempts to improve cooperation have quickly
ground to a halt. The enmity created by Viktor Yushchenko’s term as
president of Ukraine has not resurfaced – both sides drew lessons from the
crises of the second half of the 2000s. But while... more »
World of stupid
Prince William told CNN that his son Prince George has an Africa-themed
nursery because he wanted to share his love of the continent.
“I’ll have toy elephants and rhinos around the room,” [William] said in CNN‘s
one-hour special, “Prince William’s Passion: New Father, New Hope.”
“We’ll cover it in, you know, lots of bushes and things like that. [We'll]
make him grow up as if he’s in the bush,” he added.
I really hope he doesn't mean that literally. Nine out of the ten highest
rates of infant mortality occur in Sub-Saharan Africa. We're sticking
strictly to the sentimental, Lion Kin... more »
Is yawning contagious from people to dogs?
*THURSDAY,
AUGUST 22, 2013*
*How contagious is it:* Is yawning contagious from people to dogs? And
if
so, as Ed McMahon might have asked:
“How contagious is it?”
We ask because of this short report in Tuesday’s Science Times
section.Sure enough! A new study has found that dogs are contagious
yawners.
When they see their owners yawning, they start yawning too! But wouldn’t
you know it? We had our usual problems with the Times’ reporting.
Anahad O’Connor started like this. Already, we had minor problems:
O’CONNOR (8/20/13): *Yawning when you see someone else yawn is thought
to
sign... more »
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*Suing oil and gas interests to save the coast: author John Barry weighs in ~The
Lens*
*Levee board, Jindal administration remain at odds over lawsuit after hints
of reconciliation ~Bob Marshall*
Censored on the US Border: Howard Buffett's $6 million donation
On
the southeastern Arizona border: Where the national media fears to
tread
By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
The Runner News: Tohono O'odham Police purchased armored tank
SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. -- The truth about the US Border seldom appears in
print. However, reporter David Morgan has exposed a $6 million
"anonymous" donation from the Howard G Buffett Foundation to the Cochise
County
Structural Problems With Iraq’s Economy Creating Job Crisis
Iraq’s economy is producing fewer jobs today than it did in the recent
past. At the same time, the population is growing and becoming younger.
This creates a huge dilemma for the country to meet the expectations of its
populace. The government has tried to step in using its growing oil
revenues to produce more work, but it can’t meet demand. Luckily private
sector employment is picking up, but many Iraqis turn down that opportunity
for the civil service, because it offers better pay and pensions. There’s
the added issue of Iraq importing large numbers of foreign workers. These
mir... more »
Hockey breaks out on the Times op-ed page!
*THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 2013*
*Maureen Dowd does it again:* What’s the old joke? We were at a boxing
match and a hockey game broke out?
Yesterday morning, we were conducting our latest vigil concerning Maureen
Dowd. In 1992, Katherine Boo warned the press corps about the journalism
she derided as “Creeping Dowdism.”
By now, the spawn of that Dowdism has crept all over the land. But in the
years since Boo issued her warning, only one career journalist has told the
truth about Dowd.
That was Times public editor Clark Hoyt, who savaged Dowd for her horrible
conduct in June 2008. Chaste... more »
Obamacare: Your doctor won't be seeing you...
*"If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor." Barack Hussein Obama*
Except you can't.
Just received a letter from my former physician who I was forced to abandon
due to Medicare. Back in 2004, he transitioned to an all-cash practice
enabling him to practice *real* medicine. Since the insurance we purchased
privately was more along the lines of a catastrophic policy with
deductibles of $2500.00 - $5000.00, it suited us just fine. If a patient
wanted something submitted to their insurance company, the coding
information was sent to an independent company for filing. Cost?... more »
Fake Steve Harper
There is a tweeter who calls himself Fake Steve Harper. His tweets are
hilarious. Here are some examples:
*FakeSteveHarper @FakeSteveHarper 20 Aug *
*My name is Big Steve, and I am addicted to proroguing.*
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Like Superman to his Fortress of Solitude, I head north when things get a
little hairy. Usually to talk about the military.
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Working on a piano version of Nugent's Stranglehold.
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15 Aug
I'm hiring a new Director of Communications, requirements are:
- Fear
- Fanatical Devotion
- Inability to speak unless told what to say
~~~~~~~... more »
Hopi Paatuwaqatsi 'Water is Life' Run Sept. 14, 2013
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Paatuwaqatsi
Runners and Public Invited
to 10TH Annual
Paatuwaqatsi (Water is Life) Run
Hopi Trail Run Celebrates Sanctity of Water
Censored News
POLACCA, Ariz—On September 14, 2013, runners and their supporters from
around the world will gather on Hopi’s First Mesa to celebrate and
commemorate the sanctity of water in the 10th annual Water is Life run.
This year’s run
Out of Sight, Out of Mind. Putting Athabasca Back in Bitumen.
We - Canada, Alberta, the Oil Patch - are the *sine qua non* of the
emissions that result from the production, transportation, refining,
distribution and consumption of Athabasca bitumen.
Just because we find someone else to burn the crud doesn't matter. We made
it available for them to burn. We marketed the stuff to those who burn
it. We transported it thousands of miles to their markets so they could
burn it. That's all on *us*, not them.
It doesn't matter that they burn the stuff thousands of miles distant. The
emissions still go into our atmosphere, the world's atmosphere,... more »
Are The Rightists Smarter... Or Just More Motivated?
It's how the Bourbons saw themselves; it's how conservatives always see
themselves, especially the plutocratic ones
Right after Obama was reelected, the Republican-controlled state government
of North Carolina kicked an ALEC-initiated plan into high gear--
disenfranchising, to whatever extent they could, two of Obama's biggest
constituencies, students and African-Americans. They've been spectacularly
successful, just as other states controlled by right-wing governors and
legislatures-- think Ohio, Wisconsin, Texas, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and,
basically, the whole Old Confederacy--... more »
1st Day of School Picture and Graduation Year Shirt
I can't believe that summer is over. We have one more weekend and then it
is back to school for us. Even though my husband is no longer a school
teacher and he is not going back to school, this month has seemed busier
than ever. Last year we started a picture tradition, and I am excited to
continue it this year. I can't believe how much bigger my little girl looks
in just one year. I made a shirt that has her graduation year on it, and
every year we will slip it on for a picture.
To Make the Graduation Shirt You Need:
An Adult Large Shirt
Freezer Paper
A Craft Cutter or Sci... more »
Iron Law of Politics? House Republican Leaders Are Always Squishes
There's a lot of good talk this morning about the GOP House leadership's
current maybe-plan to trade in the possibility of shutting down the
government over Obamacare for the threat of defaulting the government over
Obamacare. Regardless of how it plays out, it occurs to me that there may
be an Iron Law of Politics: House Republican Leaders Are Always Squishes.
John Boehner, of course, is a well-known traitor to true conservatives. He
replaced Denny Hastert, who mostly was a blank slate for most people...at
any rate, by the end of his tenure as Speaker, conservatives were quite
unha... more »
RODEO CLOWNS: Blackface, she said!
*THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 2013*
*Part 4—From Rush Limbaugh over to Capehart:* Did American rodeo clown
Tuffy Gessling really do something wrong last week, along with a second
such clown?
Possibly! For ourselves, we’d be just as happy if rodeo clowns stopped
telling stale jokes about American presidents, as seems to be their wont.
Is it wrong to tell stale jokes? If so, Gessling did something wrong. That
said, a more powerful charge quickly pervaded “liberal” circles—and, in
accord with current law, it’s a question which answers itself:
Did Tuffy Gessling do something “racial” or “raci... more »
Stephen Harper is working hard and needs rest?
That is why he is proroguing the Parliament. Or is he sleeping on the job?
Is he simply a pro-rogue or a rogue.
Syrian Government uses chemical weapons against opposition and demonstrators
Situation in Syria is getting more deadly. According to NBC News Bashar Al
Assad of Syria uses chemical weapons against Syrians who are opposed to his
regime. Over 1000 civilians killed and most of them were women and children.
It is about time that world intervenes and stops this slaughter of
civilians.
Warning: This video is quite graphic.
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news
Global Warming
The clock is ticking and countries around the world need to take action now.
Gaia Portal: 1469
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* *1469*
by ÉirePort
Progress on all dimensional levels has been made during the recent moments
and allows substantial High Energetic Upgrades in all Gaia inhabitants,
Hue-Being and human.
At this moment Gaia recognizes not the term "human", as all inhabitants of
Gaia are now upgraded sufficiently towards the "Hue-Man" levels.
Potential for "Whole Planet Ascension" has now reached critical mass point,
so such is assured.
All former paradigms of operation upon Gaia are now closed. Those
attempting to operate via those paradigms will be "stonewalled", as some
might say. [Eirepor... more »
Forcillo was Eight for Nine
That Sammy Yatim was range practice for his executioner, constable James
Forcillo, is apparent from the autopsy findings. Forcillo emptied all
nine-rounds from his gun. Eight times his bullets found their target,
Sammy Yatim's body.
Eight hits in the course of firing lasting 13-seconds. You rarely see
anyone firing that fast at a shooting range. You also won't see shooters
that close to their target at a firing range. What's the point?
Stationary shooter, stationary target, short range, eight for nine. That's
not suspect down. It's suspect done.
Zapatistas: National Indigenous Congress Declaration of Rights August 2013
National
Indigenous Congress: Declaration of Rights
August 2013
Statement by the Chair
Tata Juan Chávez Alonso
The peoples and governments of the world
At the Sixth , national and international Women and men students in
small Zapatista school
As is the case in time in our history with Mother Earth, we the people
following nations and tribes, natives Yaqui, Mayo, Nayeri, Wixárika,
Blogging the syllabus, international security edition: what is security?
With all of the focus on APSA, there’s been little discussion of another
Labor Day ritual—the Revising of the Syllabus. In truth, I should have
begun this ritual a few weeks ago. Now that the panic dreams have kicked
in—you know, the ones where you show up to class on the first day without a
Continue reading
Mining 31: Prof. Winnie Monsod's Faulty Tax Proposal
* This is my article today in Mining Week.
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In an opinion last August 09, 2013 at the Inquirer, *Worse than the pork
barrel scam**,* Prof. Winnie Monsod wrote,
*Alas, there is an even greater scam that is being perpetrated on the
Filipino people, beside which, in terms of orders of magnitude, the pork
barrel pales in comparison. A scam that allows the rich to get richer, and
the poor to get screwed coming and going. A scam that affects not just the
present generation, but also generations to come….*
*What humongous scam is this? That foisted by the Philippine Mining ... more »
American Healthcare and inequality
If you're employed and especially if you're rich then you can get all kinds
of healthcare services. If an employed and rich person's kidney, lungs or
heart fail, a new organ will be available so that you can live on and maybe
live a long life. However, if you're unemployed and poor and you have
similar health problems then RIP and may you enter heaven if there is one.
It is a very troubling situation in America - the world's most powerful
nation according to Americans. Chris Hayes of MSNBC points out such an
inequality quite well.
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news
My Plan (Part the Third)
In the first and second parts of this series, I wrote about why something
as radical as a constitutional insurgency was required in response to the
actions of stephen harper. I am talking about putting into actions, the
notion that we should be "in the streets" to "do something" about stephen
harper's abuses of democracy. This system (as compromised as it is) is OUR
system and it is therefore up to US to do something about it.
So, harper's CONTEMPT for Parliament, his human rights abuses, his
unilateral abrogation of sworn treaties, and his violations of election
laws, all make him ... more »
Missouri ALEC Action? A lobbyist for every legislator.
Well - just in case Missourians want to say, NO to ALEC.
They are holding a dinner in Jefferson City - evidently the state dinner
held at the annual meeting wasn't good enough.
Read the bennies on this one.
MO - ALEC State Dinner
Monday, Sept 9, 2013
6:30-8:30pm
Double Tree Sapphire’s Restaurant
422 Monroe St Jefferson City, MO
ALEC is hosting a dinner.
A dinner to bring together ALEC legislators and ALEC Corporate member
lobbyists.
How quaint.
*Wonder if the public can buy a ticket. *
*Ticket purchaser - evidently there will be a lobbyist for every legislator.
*
Your chance to s... more »
The Muslim Brotherhood’s War on Coptic Christians - The Daily Beast
' USA Today reports that "forty churches have been looted and torched,
while 23 others have been attacked and heavily damaged" in one week.
According to the Coptic Orthodox and Catholic churches in Egypt, 160
Christian-owned buildings
have also been attacked.'
More here
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/08/22/the-muslim-brotherhood-s-war-on-coptic-christians.htmlbut
not on the pro Muslim Brotherhood BBC.
Newest Syrian Chemical Weapons False Flag Attack: What Did The Terrorists Do To These Children To Make This FAKE Film?
As I stated in my previous article, I am one pissed off blogger these
days.... I tried, and lord knows I did try, to actually watch the Jew run
mainstream media garbage news telecasts yesterday concerning the obvious
false flag chemical weapons attack in Syria that has supposedly killed over
1000 people....I could barely stomach the lies and innuendos promoted by
the liars in the American media that continued to harp on the falsehood
that this latest chemical attack was conducted by Assad's forces against
his own people....
I was indeed bothered by all of the videos that have been f... more »
Surveillance theatre
Given the sheer pointlessness of :
1) destroying the Guardian copy of Snowden hard drive data after being
informed there were two other copies in existence elsewhere anyway, and
2) detaining Greenwald's partner Miranda for 9 hours under a terrorism
statute when they knew he isn't a terrorist
we are reliably inclined to view this as a clear intent to intimidate the
Guardian and Greenwald, as well as any other media with the audacity not to
equate journalism with terrorism.
But there may be another possibility.
In this Guardian article published earlier this month based on Edward
Sno... more »
Networking at Conferences: Not Just for Graduate Students and Junior Faculty
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by David Lake, who is the Jerri-Ann and
Gary E. Jacobs Professor of Social Sciences and Distinguished Professor of
Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. I want to
weigh in on “networking at conferences” debate here on the Duck (and
elsewhere), some of which has been lost
Continue reading
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Valerie Harper, 74. Was in "Blame it on Rio." Also a
Columbo. Seems totally weird to me that most young folks nowadays don't
watch the classic sitcoms; one of the few things that definitely makes me
feel like an old guy.
Also some good stuff:
1. I pretty much disagree with Scott Lemieux about the filibuster, but I do
agree with him that it doesn't really matter what the Framers thought.
2. I still love the election reports series from the Monkey Cage. One of
the most valuable things out there. This time, it's Natalia C. Del Cogliano
and Mariana L. Prats on Argent... more »
Posturing Redacted
“A spokeswoman for the BBC said that Kennedy’s remarks would be cut from
the television screening because they did not “fall within the editorial
remit of the Proms as a classical music festival."She added: “The Proms is
not an appropriate place to foster political statements.”
Quotes John Bingham in the Telegraph.
Which seems quite right and proper to me. But the row is being framed to
look as if it’s only “Jews” who are making a big fuss about the BBC’s
decision to cut the political posturing out of Nigel Kennedy’s prom when
it’s re-broadcast on BBC3.
This is like deja-*don’t-v... more »
Return of Pennsylvania ConservaDem Mark Critz... And Progressives Fight Back
-by LeftGeoff
When Mark Critz battled Blue Dog Jason Altmire in a member to member
primary in 2012, progressives who didn't just walk away in disgust, chose
to back Critz over Altmire. It was a bitter pill to swallow. Critz, who a
few people viewed as not as bad and unfit for office as Altmire, still left
much to be desired. Altmire, was a pro-business/anti-family conservative
Democrat; Critz was a pro-labor conservative Democrat. Critz then lost the
general election and has since taken employment as a... wait for it... you
guessed it: lobbyist. When Critz's loss followed Tim Hold... more »
Syria: Images of death but NO PROOF of chemical attack
*Images of death, but NO PROOF of chemical attack*
*The attack was especially conspicuous given the presence in Damascus of a
team sent by the United Nations to investigate chemical strikes* reportedly
waged earlier in the war.
The Security Council, meeting in emergency session, issued a statement
calling for a prompt investigation of the allegations and a cease-fire in
the conflict, but took no further action.
*“I can say that there is a strong concern among Council members about the
allegations and a general sense that there must be clarity on what happened*,
and that the situat... more »
The Founding Fathers Would Weep
Chris Hedges writes that, with the sentencing of Bradley Manning, the
United States is now a penal colony:
There are strict rules now in our American penal colony. If we remain
supine, if we permit ourselves to be passively stripped of all political
power and voice, if we refuse to resist as we are incrementally reduced to
poverty and the natural world is senselessly exploited and destroyed by
corporate oligarchs, we will have the dubious freedom to wander among the
ruins of the empire, to be diverted by tawdry spectacles and to consume the
crass products marketed to us. But if w... more »
Omate Truesmart Smart Watch offers Built-in Camera
*Omate Truesmart - a smartwatch with a built-in five megapixel camera - is
set to go into production after striking its crowd funding target.* The
machine raised more than $100,000 of pledges on fundraising site
Kickstarter, guaranteeing it will get the cash. Omate's success comes ahead
of the much-anticipated launch of a smart watch from Samsung.
Unlike many of the smart watches already on the market, Omate says the True
smart can be fitted with a micro-Sim card to make use of its 3G chip. It
has not announced when it will unveil the product, but its next scheduled
event is at B... more »
Dan Rather: "This Is Demolishing The Trust In The Government!"
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Chinese medicine is carcinogenic
The following insights look particularly ironic and make me think about the
prescientific way of analyzing Nature.
One of the most omnipresent chemical compounds in Chinese herbal medicine
have been aristolochic acids (AA) which are found in wild ginger,
pipevines, and other long tubular flowers. AA I is almost omnipresent in
Aristolochia species.
*This European Asarum edition of wild ginger almost looks like a tumor
itself.*
The three hexagons plus a pentagon in the chemical formula don't look
particularly healthy to me. ;-) But just to be sure, not all polycyclic
compounds suc... more »
Overnight market review - overview of Asia trading news , data , a look at the global markets ( equities / commodities / bonds / FX ) , Jackson Hole starts ( no agenda made public yet ) as we watch the ten year slouch toward 3 percent in yield !
Jackson Hole Begins As 10 Year Slouches Toward 3.00%
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/22/2013 07:07 -0400
- Ben Bernanke
- Bond
- British Pound
- CDS
- China
- Citigroup
- Copper
- Crude
- EuroDollar
- European Central Bank
- Eurozone
- fixed
- Germany
- Goldilocks
- Gross Domestic Product
- headlines
- India
- Initial Jobless Claims
- LatAm
- Market Conditions
- Markit
- Nikkei
- POMO
- POMO
- Price Action
- recovery
- Reverse Repo... more »
Fukushima updates - a second leaking tank (tank area H3) containing highly contaminated water discovered ( recall 350 similar tanks to the one that has leaked at least 300 tons of highly contaminated water are at Fukushima ) ..... BTW , as the article regarding the ongoing leaks ( at tank area H 4 ) from ex skf reveals , Tepco doesn't have the slightest clue as to what the heck is going on ( par for the course )
More tank leakage - different tank , same type......
[More tank leakage] 100 mSv/h detected beside another tank area of the same
type
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Following up this article..*[300m3 leakage] Fukushima nuclear plant has 350
more tanks of the same type / Rubber sealing instead of welding* [URL]
According to Tepco, they detected extremely high level of radiation beside
the tank area called H3 on 8/22/2013. This is *a different tank area from
where Tepco found 3... more »
Releasing / leaking / providing highly classified information either is a crime ( ask Bradley Manning ) or it isn't a crime ( Stuxnet leaker(s) ) ....... The standard should be whether or not the " release " is politically helpful or politically embarrassing ......
Catharsis Ours - 17 hours ago
How about a little consistency.....
Wash Times: Stuxnet Links Lead Back to Obama White House
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access to a range of high-level national security officials for a book that
divulged highly classified information on a U.S. cyberwar on Iran’s nuclear
program, internal State Department emails show.
The information in the 2012 book by chief Washington corresp... more »
White House just rolls out the same lies concerning illegal NSA spying on Americans despite being caught ( by a fresh set of new disclosures proving prior White House statements on NSA spying were false ) , no wonder the wag the dog operation for Syria is being strongly encouraged by the US !
http://news.antiwar.com/2013/08/21/caught-white-house-reiterates-flat-out-lies-about-nsa-surveillance/
Caught, White House Reiterates Flat Out Lies About NSA Surveillance
by Jason Ditz, August 21, 2013
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Fresh off of a brand new series of document releases, including several
that flat out admit to the NSA violating the US Constitution with its
surveillance schemes and collecting broad swathes of data about ordinary
Americans’ communications, the White House is quick with another statement.
Caught red-handed in repeated lies about the NSA not doing any surveillance... more »
The funniest end to a film ever?
I'm sure I've posted the end of Billy Wilder's incomparable Some Like It
Hot before but here it is in all of its magnificence. Jack Lemmon and Joe
E. Brown achieve comic perfection whilst Tiny Curtis and Marilyn Monroe
make-out in the seats behind them.
In fact I have posted this scene before, take a look here for several more
magic scenes.
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*State coastal authority votes to demand that East Bank levee authority
drop its oil, gas, pipeline lawsuit ~Mark Schleifstein*
*Bubba Dove Floodgate opens, offers protection to Terrebonne (Video) ~Amy
Wold*
*How could city of New Orleans raise money to pay for police, jail consent
decrees? ~Charles Maldonado, The Lens*
*Downtown housing transformation begins with start of Iberville demolition ~
WWLTV*
*Some who sought FEMA assistance after Federal Flood being forced to pay
back 'debt' ~WDSU*
*Louisiana to overhaul food establishment inspection process ~Leigh
Isaacson, WVUE*
*Boe... more »
In the after math of an alleged attack in the Syria town of Ghouta ( unclear by whom but the timing is suspicious that the syrian rebels could be behind this once again ) , a unbiased , professional investigation is required to establish what occurred
Numerous experts have called out the alleged chemical weapon attack as
BS.....Who knew the syrian rebels had crisis actors ?
Expert: Chemical Weapons Victim Footage Appears “Set-Up”
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Behavior of victims not consistent with alleged injuries
*Paul Joseph Watson*
Infowars.com
August 22, 2013
Another chemical weapons expert has cast doubt on video footage which
appears to show victims of a “gas attack” in Sy... more »
Allow Grace - A Poem by M.N. Hopkins
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*Be not deceived*
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*Rather*
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*Be relieved*
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*Of the fog*
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*That has covered your eyes*
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*And *
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*Dimmed your view*
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*Of the world around you*
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*See*
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*With clear*
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*Eyes*
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*Of Light*
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*Open yourself*
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*And allow yourself*
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*To be loved by others*
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*Allow Grace*
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*To clear a pathway*
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*Into your heart*
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*Seek not *
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*The consul of others*
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*Rather*
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*Seek only that which*
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*Is best within yourself*
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*And *
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*Share it with others*
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*For*
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*Your time has come*
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*To forgive*
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*And*
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*To be forgiven*
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*Now*
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*You can be*
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*An... more »
Spotify For Trade eBooks?
Many talk about creating a ‘Spotify for eBooks’, but all too often they
fail to grasp the differences between the media, marketplace and cultures
and once again see all as the same. There is no reason to doubt that a
subscription service will work for some book sectors, but there is plenty
to question whether it could prevail across all sectors.
Academic, professional and educational sectors have a captive audience and
market and often also have ‘must have’ content. This makes subscription
services potentially viable in these sectors. There are questions about who
can aggregate th... more »
Darren Lehmann what a delightful chap
I heard the Darren Lehmann Australian radio interview yesterday but didn't
have tome to blog it. He made some rather off colour remarks about Stuart
Broad including this:
“From my point of view I just hope the Australian public give it to him
right from the word go for the whole summer and I hope he cries and he goes
home.
...
*DJ* “The first day at the Gabba is Free Tomato Day, they’re giving
tomatoes out outside the ground, so just let him know that would you,
Boof?”
*DL* “Perfect, we’ll get the whole lot for him. I just hope everyone gets
stuck into him because the way he’s ca... more »
Miliband touching cloth - says Daily Mash
'FALLING unemployment and signs of economic recovery have left Ed Miliband
dangerously close to self-befoulment.
Experts said the faint signals of optimism could destroy the Labour
leader's strategy of hoping you are still poor and frightened come May 2015.
Julian Cook, professor of political underwear at Roehampton University,
said: "If you look closely at Miliband you'll see that his smile is
wonderfully desperate and that his eyeballs are sweating.'
More and the worrying image here
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/politics-headlines/miliband-touching-cloth-2013061271887
"Fukushima: Tank Has Leaked 300 Tons of Contaminated Water"
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*"Fukushima: Tank Has Leaked 300 Tons of Contaminated Water"*
by the NY Times
TOKYO — "Three hundred tons of highly contaminated water has leaked from a
storage tank at the ravaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant on
Japan’s Pacific coast, its operator said Tuesday, prompting regulators to
declare a “radiological release incident” for the first time since disaster
struck there in 2011 and adding new fears of environmental calamity.
Workers raced to place sandbags around the leaking tank to stem the spread
of the water, contaminated by levels of radioactive cesium and st... more »
The "Hate Assad" Parade Continues Down Fantasy Lane: New Chemical Weapons Propaganda Is Even More Absurd Than Before
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*Is there evidence to support these wild claims? What do we got? "Nothing.
No matches on prints, DNA." *
Check out the following articles:
*US Has "Strong Indications" Assad Used Chemical Weapons; Russia Says Rebel
False Flag*.
*Syria gas attack story has whiff of Saudi war propaganda*.
*Corporate Media Begins Chemical Attack Propaganda Ahead of Syrian Invasion*
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*Syria: Another False Flag "Chemical Weapon" Attack*.
Your moment of Zen
A lotus blossom. [Birgit.Juergen Pictures]
Camp David: Good For Israel, Bad For America?
Below is an excerpt from, *"Bacevich in ‘LA Times’: Camp David ushered in 4
decades of US militarism in Mid East"* by Philip Weiss [Mondoweiss, August
21]:
The LA Times op-ed page has run an important piece by realist Andrew
Bacevich saying that military aid to Egypt is symptomatic of a failed
US policy across the Middle East of supplanting diplomacy with militarism.
The aid was the price of the Camp David accords, *and Bacevich argues that
in the four decades before Camp David, the US had little military
involvement in the region, while in the four decades since it has been
en... more »
Lead stories
Continuing to keep an eye on the lead stories of the day to check if the
BBC is indeed being led by the nose by the *Guardian....*
....well, not today.
The lead story of the *Guardian, Times, Independent *and *Daily Mirror *is
the apparent gas attack in Syria*. *The *Telegraph *has 'BBC licence cases
make up one in 10 prosecutions'. The *Daily Express *has 'Millions hit by
pension rip-off'. The *Daily Mail *goes with 'Exposed: Health supplement
con'. Sky News leads with Syria, as does ITV News.
The BBC's top three stories are very much their own:
1. GCSE pupils receiving exam re... more »
Bradley Manning Headed To Prison, While Those Who Authorized Torture Go Free
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* *Bradley Manning Headed To Prison, While Those Who Authorized Torture Go
Free*
The Huffington Post | By Matt Sledge
Posted: 08/21/2013 10:22 am EDT | Updated: 08/21/2013 1:47 pm EDT
FORT MEADE, Md. -- Bradley Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison on
Wednesday for releasing 700,000 documents about the United States'
worldwide diplomacy and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Manning was a 25-year-old Army private first class at the time of his
arrest. He saw himself as an idealist acting to end the wars, and said in
online chats with hacker Adrian Lamo that he was part... more »
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Democrats Are Unprepared For A Rare Opportunity To Win A Senate Seat In Tennessee
Anti-immigrant Know Nothing Joe Carr (R)
Tennessee's congressional districts are so gerrymandered that Democrats can
only win in the state's two districts that are primarily in big cities,
Nashville and Memphis. And in Nashville, the Democratic incumbent, Jim
Cooper, is a conservative corporate-friendly Blue Dog who votes with the
GOP very frequently. Statewide, it's not as clear cut, although the state
has trended red in recent years. Democrats lost every presidential race in
Tennessee after Bill Clinton's narrow 48-46% win in 1996. And last year,
Obama did worst of all, failing to ... more »
bradley manning in his own words
In case you haven't seen it, this link at Democracy Now! has the transcript
of Bradley Manning's statement, read by his lawyer David Coombs, after
Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison.
The decisions that I made in 2010 were made out of a concern for my country
and the world that we live in. Since the tragic events of 9/11, our country
has been at war. We’ve been at war with an enemy that chooses not to meet
us on any traditional battlefield, and due to this fact we’ve had to alter
our methods of combating the risks posed to us and our way of life.
I initially agreed with thes... more »
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Professor Adel Iskandar On The Political Crisis In Egypt: "Media Polarization Eliminates The Middle Ground" [Video]
*"Egypt in Flux: Essays on an Unfinished Revolution"* by Adel Iskandar.
*Wikipedia:*
Adel Iskandar "proposes the concept of "contextual objectivity" as a
critique of media's coverage of war. He writes a regular column for
Egyptian independent newspaper Almasry Alyoum, and teaches in the
Communication, Culture and Technology (CCT) program as well as the Center
for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS) at Georgetown University."
*Al Jazeera Became Al Morsi:*
Professor Adel Iskandar says that under Morsi, "Al Jazeera Arabic almost
became an extension of government media directed towards... more »
Where to now for Labour?
Labour leader David Shearer—who was voted in by Labour members only 2 years
ago—has resigned today, citing a lack of full support from his caucus
colleagues.
That’s putting it mildly.
Over the last two years his caucus colleagues, especially the three listed
below, have directed more fire at Shearer from behind the scenes than they
have in the open across the aisle at Key.
So where to now for the rudderless Labour Party, under which of the
colleagues who’ve spent the last three years rat-fucking their elected
leader?
Back to 60s unionism with Andrew Little?
Back to Clarkist ant... more »
Changes
Welcome friends, I'll be on the road for a few days taking my daughter to
college, so posts might be sporadic until next Monday. If I don't answer
emails or comments on the blog you know why...
This has been quite a week. I am still on my quest to release limits and
emotional baggage from my being. I very much recommend Jodie Newell's
technique for the emotional side of that equation.
Had a number of interesting insights in the past week, including a memory
fragment of having been friends with Heather in another life somewhere
(where I don't know). In that life she was... more »
Faith Goldy Suffers an Unthinkable Horror, A Sunnews Exclusive
Laughter is said to be the best medicine and it has been awhile since I had
a really good laugh..
There is a story at Sunnews network, Faith Goldy who has been covering the
line 9 protesters..
Faith Goldy was sitting/seated in a court facility in Hamilton, Faith Goldy
was so busy tweeting and emailing, her head like most young people glued to
their electronic devices, oblivious to her surrounding, unbeknownst to
Faith Goldy was the fact one of the dirty stinky(Ezra Levant`s description)
line 9 protesters put his rear end near and pointed at Faith Goldy`s
face(who was seated, prot... more »
Urban Gadabout: New palm trees for the World Financial Center's breathtaking Winter Garden
*The Winter Garden, the breathtaking public atrium in the World Financial
Center, is one of New York City's most beautiful interior spaces.*
*by Ken*
Amid the devastation of 9/11, the fate of the Winter Garden, the majestic
and much-loved 10-story atrium of the Cesar Pelli-designed World Financial
Center, adjacent to the World Trade Center, may not have been uppermost in
many people's minds, but in fact it was pretty much totaled.
The relatively quick and genuinely masterful rebuilding of the Winter
Garden correspondingly became one of the city's most heartening symbols of
revi... more »
Political Islam Is A Dead End: Could Egypt Just Be The Beginning?
*Source of Photo*.
Political Islam's solutions to complex economic, social, cultural,
political, spiritual, and other problems comes down to one simple word:
martyrdom. Death is all that political Islam offers to the countries in
which it is the ruling philosophy. In a spiritual and warrior-minded nation
like Iran that message is easier to swallow, but in a materialistic and
secular country like Egypt that has historically been either in the
Communist camp or the American-Western camp in global geopolitics, it is a
no-go.
What's happening to the Muslim Brotherhood was inevita... more »
Quote of the day: The past is a violent country
On a day when hundreds of Syrians are reported cold-bloodedly gassed by
their government, it might seem almost obscene to post a quote celebrating
modernity’s declining level of violence, but read on…
“A common misconception often quoted by media, politicians, activists is
that violence is on the rise and has historically been much lower.
Similarly, the trend in post-colonial anthropology has been to regard
historically indigenous and tribal societies as more peaceful than
contemporary Western society. However, archaeological [image: handshake]evidence
shows that previous societie... more »
Harry Targ : The CIA's Iranian Coup and 60 Years of 'Blowback'
Supporters
of Mohammed Mossadegh demonstrate in Tehran, July 1953. Placard depicts
an Iranian fighting off Uncle Sam and John Bull. Image from The
Spectator.
The overthrow of Mossadegh:
Sixty years of Iranian 'blowback'
The overthrow of Mossadegh and the backing of the return of the Shah to
full control of the regime led to U.S. support for one of the world’s
most repressive and militarized
Has the White House " secretly " suspended US military aid to Egypt ? And , why would the White House attempt to put the suspension on some type of double secret probation - odd ? Or looking at the NY Times piece - has non military aid been stopped , but not military aid ? Is the " secret " decision to cut off Egypt's military and non economic aid the explanation for why the Saudis suddenly declared they would cover the tab for Egypt if the US and EU cut off the country ?
Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/08/19/senator-obama-administration-secretly-suspended-military-aid-to-egypt.html
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Chet Raymo, “Yet…”
* “Yet…”*
by Chet Raymo
"My suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose,
but queerer than we can suppose."
- J. B. S. Haldane
“Legend has it that after reciting his official recantation, kneeling on
the floor of the Holy Office in Rome before assembled officials of the
Inquisition, Galileo whispered, "And yet it moves." To save his life, or at
least to avoid some dank dungeon and perhaps torture, the old man had
publically denied that he ever believed or taught that the Earth orbits the
Sun, rather than the other way around. The public recantation ... more »
Syria gas attack story has whiff of Saudi war propaganda
William Engdahl
Russia Today
The reports of massive chemical attacks in Syria might become the “red
line” for the US for active military intervention. But even rudimentary
analysis of the story shows it is too early to believe its credibility.
The Middle Eastern newspaper, Al Arabiya, reports that “At least 1,300
people have been killed in a nerve gas attack on Syria’s Ghouta region,
leading opposition figure George Sabra said on Wednesday…” The paper went
on to claim that the Government of President Bashar al Assad was
responsible for the attacks. If confirmed it could be the “red... more »
Silly Plonka & the Cock-Up Factory
Brain block tonight, blog-chums. So how's this for a piece of political
artistry? Unfortunately, I don't know who to credit it to. Anyone know?
Post script: Thanks to Chris in the comments. Image source
Did last night’s debate change the Australian election?
If you abused a popular Prime Minister, you’d lose.
So…
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Egypt updates - August 21 , 2013..... Mubarak set to be released while Brotherhood spiritual guide Mohamed Badie detained ? Military pushing the envelope as they seek to break the Brotherhood once and for all. Apart from calling another protest which could lead to more deaths and arrests of members , does the Brotherhood have a hidden hand to play - is the US or the US President at risk with " evidence held in the possession of certain Brotherhood leaders ? Tahani al- Gebali , Vice - President of the Supreme Constitutional Court believes Egyptian Intel Agencies possess documents that could be damning ! What financial exchanges are at issue , if any ? Where does President Obama's brother ( Malik Obama ) fit in - with respect to the Muslim Brotherhood ? As with many things , the proof is in the pudding and not the allegations - until shown what exists , FWIW ! But interesting to ponde !
Mubarak set to be released while more Brotherhood leaders being arrested ,
pressure being deployed to break the Brotherhood once and for all by the
Egyptian military ( and supported by the GCC leadership )
http://news.antiwar.com/2013/08/21/egypt-could-release-mubarak-on-thursday/
Egypt Could Release Mubarak on ThursdayAs Corruption Charges Fade, Court
Says Dictator Must Be Freed
by Jason Ditz, August 21, 2013
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Long-time Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak has been ordered released once
again by a court today, insisting that with the corruption charges against
hi... more »
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Plagiarism in UFO Writing
I saw, the other day, in the *Skeptical Inquirer*, an article by Benjamin
Radford about plagiarism in paranormal writing. He was suggesting that some
“writers” lift case reports from others and report as if they are their
own. I know these things happen in the world of the UFO and the one
instance that springs to mind is a line written by Ed Ruppelt in his *The
Report on Unidentified Flying Objects*. In writing about the fabled
Estimate of the Situation, Ruppelt said, “The situation was UFOs; the
estimate they were interplanetary!” (Page 58, Ace paperback).
I have seen that very li... more »
The Economy: “There Is No Scenario Where This Ends Well”
*“There Is No Scenario Where This Ends Well”*
by Jim Quinn
“Luckily, the average American is so bad at math they can’t read this chart
and understand the implications. They remain willfully ignorant of their
plight. After a lifetime of working, the median Boomer household has
managed to accumulate $12,000 of retirement savings.
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That means that 50% have even less than $12,000 for their retirement.
These 55 to 64 year olds are up the creek without a paddle. No wonder the
percentage of over 55 people working is at an all-time high. Every age
bracke... more »
Why Americans are so uninformed
Not sure if this says more about the media, or the markets.
Each week, TIME Magazine designs covers for four markets: the U.S., Europe,
Asia and the South Pacific. Often, America's cover is quite, well –
different. This week offers a stark example. [...]
This is not an isolated incident, for perusing TIME's covers reveals
countless examples of the publication tempting the world with critical
events, ideas or figures, while dangling before Americans the chance to
indulge in trite self-absorption.
Click over to see more.
It's easy to blame Time for dumbing down the public but the... more »
Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW) - Cancel Subscriptions
Welcome to Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)!
Wondering how to live greener? You've come to the right place. Each week we
challenge ourselves to try a new task ... or "amp up" something we're
already doing. We raise our awareness, learn from each other and develop
Eco-friendly skills which will improve our lives and protect our planet.
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complete list of all the challenges we've taken on so far.
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Bruce Lipton: your mind or your checkbook?
address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 1 day ago
Link: http://youtu.be/0quDjlkVvPM
You haven't heard about Dr. Bruce Lipton, Ph.D.?! You have missed
something. He is a biologist and promotes ideas that aren't particularly
favoured by everybody, for instance globalists, like oil companies,
pharmaceutical products producers, food chemists and pseudo-skeptics. He
has a very special sense of humour as well. I have a lot heard and seen
from him. So hurry to YouTube to learn and enjoy more from him. Bruce
indeed is a fascinating personality! He deserves your special attention!
John
“A Complex World”
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*“A Complex World”*
by Bill Bonner
“It is a complex world. There is a solution to every problem (even problems
that don’t really exist). And every solution comes with more new problems.
Joseph Tainter was right. Society becomes more and more complex. Complexity
sucks up resources. Eventually society goes broke. In today’s installment,
your editor returns to his farmhouse in rural Maryland, only a couple of
miles from where he was born. His house has just been remodeled. It is so
completely improved that it is almost unbearable. Howard, the builder,
attempts to explain. Here’s... more »
The Realist Report with John Friend
On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined by Mike King of *
TomatoBubble.com*.
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Our Countryside is Sacred. The Enemy Wishes to Destroy it
Europe is a continent of beauty. We have vast lakes, splendid plains,
rolling hills and mountains. Our forests and woodlands are home to an
amazing richness of native wildlife. Our coastal areas are breath-taking.
The diversity of life to be found upon our sacred soil is truly
astounding. This soil is ours, not to exploit and to corrupt, but to care
for and pass on wholly intact to future generations. The union of blood
and soil, of native Europeans and our glorious indigenous wildlife, is of
such profound importance that it must be seen as the absolute highest value
to all Eu... more »
Woodward and Bernstein did it without computers
[Guardian photo]
Adding a bit to my earlier post on trusting BigMedia, here's The Guardian
on the destruction of their computers. Not sure which iteration of the
story this might be but I'm told this is *not* a photograph of destroyed
hard drives.
Read it and see if it makes more sense to you, but for me the real tell was
the last graf:
"I hope what [the Miranda detention row] will do is to send people back to
read the stories that so upset the British state because there has been a
lot of reporting about what GCHQ and the NSA are up to. What Snowden is
trying to do is draw at... more »
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Coroner, family link Michael Hastings to drug use at time of death: The Hoax Continues(dancingczars.wordpress.com)
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