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Catch of the Day
You probably read about that PPP poll result in which Louisiana Republicans
blamed Barack Obama for Katrina. Great fun for liberals! But do read Mark
Blumenthal and Ariel Edwards-Levy for a round up of coverage and their
analysis of the question, especially this:
The problem with this question should be obvious: It was asked only of
Republicans and offered just two choices: Bush, who was president at the
time and Obama, who was still a junior senator from Illinois. "If you ask
the vast majority of Louisiana Republicans to identify the leader most
responsible for the Katrina response... more »
Justin's Splif Slip
Time will tell but it was probably a bone-headed thing to do. Why did
Justin Trudeau volunteer that he had smoked pot recently? Did he think it
would make him look cool? Was he hoping to attract the youth vote?
I don't think it's going to work. A good many of us won't be bothered that
he apparently smoked a bit of pot as much as we will be put off by him
seeming to boast about it, to place himself in a spotlight of controversy.
"*I not only own the company, I'm a customer*." Okay for the Hair Club for
Men, not so good when you're vying to become prime minister.
This certainly... more »
Spokane's finest arrest 16 year old Demetrius Glenn for beating death of WWII veteran Delbert Belton...
*no doubt his POS buddy will be in custody by the end of the day.*
Exactly what I predicted this morning at the breakfast table. The Gang
Squad in Spokane knew exactly who these two vile animals were and where to
find them. * *
From *KHQ *in Spokane:
*BREAKING NEWS:* The 16-year-old arrested in the Delbert Belton case is
identified as Demetrius Glenn, he's facing 1st degree murder and robbery.
*BREAKING NEWS:* Major crimes investigators have just confirmed that one
teenager has been arrested in the beating death of WWII veteran Delbert
Belton. One suspect remains on the loose. Cha... more »
Friday Morning Linkage
Update on the international community’s reaction to events in Syria: Russia
calls on Assad to cooperate with the weapons inspectors. Says it has
evidence the attack was propagated by the opposition. Pressure building in
Washington and Europe to do something. Obama announces that the time frame
for U.S. action may have shortened. Kerry’s diplomatic efforts.
Congressional doves
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*Louisiana Attorney General's Office Rebukes John Barry in Levee Board
Lawsuit*
~What the AG's office says: *"Absolutely no representation was ever made by
Mr.Kanner that Mr. Barry’s suit was not detrimental to the state’s B.P.
litigation. It never happened." *
*What John Barry said*: *We have been told our suit may interfere with the
BP trial. Our attorney checked with the attorney representing the state and
was told our suit would not interfere. How could it? The BP trial will be
over long before our trial starts. And at Garret’s request we waited until
the first phase of the t... more »
CSEC spies on Canadians : watchdog report
While whistleblower Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald have published
reports about the USA's NSA and UK's GCHQ joint electronic surveillance of
Brits and Americans, we've been pretty much in the dark in Canada about our
own government's surveillance of us.
An annual report tabled two days ago from the independent watchdog
commissioner for Canada's electronic eavesdropping agency* Communications
Security Establishment Canada* elicited the following timid headlines
repeated throughout yesterday's press coverage.
Post Media : Canadians may be victims of illicit spying
NaPo : Canada’... more »
ONLY GOOD NEWS TODAY
- Housemate Karen told me this morning that my blog today only can be
filled with good news. So here I go.
- Our friend Phui Yi from Malaysia arrived back here late last night
after a 25-hour trip from home for her summer vacation. She is a student
at nearby Bowdoin College and is a wonderful peace and justice activist.
Mary Beth helped her learn to drive during the last semester. This morning
we were joking about places with the craziest driving conditions and I
said my #1 in that category was Nagpur, India when at one intersection I
saw cars... more »
Smoke, Shills and Shrillionaires
(Say three times fast.)
Well, knock me over with a Lucky Strike. Michael Bloomberg, lord mayor of
the fiefdom of New York, 10th richest American plutocrat, 20th wealthiest
man in the universe, is taking on the Transpacific Partnership (TPP). More
specifically, he is taking on President Obama's "cave" to Big Tobacco,
which is demanding the right to spread cancer and sell ciggies to kiddies
the wide world over. Under the new agreement, the tobacco cartel will be
granted the power to actually supersede local laws governing the sale of
its products.
In an op-ed published in today's *Ne... more »
Haslam, Bush, WGU, and McGraw-Hill
In 2002 Stephen Metcalf documented the financially incestuous relationship
between the Bush family and McGraw-Hill that resulted from a
long-established familial system of mutual back-scratching and
“cross-pollination and mutual admiration” between the the two fiefdoms.
Today that system of good ole boy corruption, cronyism, and corporate
welfare continues in State Houses and governors’ mansions around […]
RODEO CLOWNS: From Rush to Crump!
*FRIDAY,
AUGUST 23, 2013*
*Part 5—Good decent person gets hurt:* Rodeo clowns have been driving
the
right for at least thirty years now.
Let’s be clear on what we mean by that statement.
We don’t mean that the right has been driven by *actual* rodeo clowns—by
people like Tuffy Gessling, whose clown act two weeks ago led
*metaphorical*rodeo clowns to compare him to the Klan and the Westboro
Baptist Church.
We mean that the right has been driven by people who are *like* rodeo
clowns, although most actual rodeo clowns are probably much better
people.
For one example, consider what Rus... more »
It's Only a Matter of Time
When reports come out about computer hacking they tend to be either
espionage or a "denial of service" campaign by activists/radicals to take
down some corporate miscreant.
So far no one has been causing our chemical plants to explode or taking
down our electrical grid, not yet anyway. Perhaps hackers know they would
be hunted down like dogs or hostile nations know it would be an act of war
triggering uncontrollable consequences. But that doesn't mean it can't be
done. A recent article in the I.T. section of the *Brisbane Times* warns
that "Hacking is Way Too Easy."
*Hacking p... more »
Incompetent Skeptics IV: Dr. Judith Curry
The climate depot site has a link to a puff piece on Judith Curry and her
views on climate change/global warming. The following is my response:
*This is a puff piece, based entirely on a friendly, personal view of Dr.
Judith Curry. But the climate change debate is not about any person,
especially any academic who basically accepts the climate science as sound
and, as they like to say in their own best interests, "settled". Those who
have involved themselves in the debate--who have studied the science behind
it, and the arguments about that science--are strung out over the full
range... more »
Terror as a Career Opportunity
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While the “Great Recession” of 2008 technically ended in the summer of
2009, it appears that only now is the US economy starting to achieve
sustainable, if tepid, growth. But this recovery has clearly been one of
the weakest in terms of job creation. U6, an alternative measurement of
unemployment (measuring the total number of people out of work, plus people
who are working part time not by choice, plus people who are only
marginally attached to the labor force), still stands stubbornly at 14%.... more »
Mining and sinkholes
There is plenty of material on shale-gas fracking which causes air
pollution, water pollution, gas in tap-water and all kinds of health
problems. It has also caused earthquakes in certain parts of the U.S.
In Louisiana, U.S. mining in general is causing sink-holes. What next? What
more damage these mining companies will do? All that matters for the mining
companies is profiteering. Here is an interesting video on Louisiana mining
and sinkholes.
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Indictment of Iran for ’94 Terror Bombing Relied on MEK
Gareth Porter
Inter Press Service
Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman based his 2006 warrant for the arrest
of top Iranian officials in the bombing of a Jewish community centre in
Buenos Aires in 1994 on the claims of representatives of the armed Iranian
opposition Mujahedin E Khalq (MEK), the full text of the document reveals.
The central piece of evidence cited in Nisman’s original 900-page arrest
warrant against seven senior Iranian leaders is an alleged Aug. 14, 1993
meeting of top Iranian leaders, including both Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
and then president Hashemi Rafsanjani,... more »
Pang Laowai shot by policeman
*Wishes at a small temple in Tainan.*
I put a peaceful image above, to calm my readers before they encountered
this stupid story...
I suppose it is too much to expect professionalism from a Taiwanese news
organizations, but this Apple Daily report really angered many of us in the
foreign community. The story behind the video is a common enough. A drunken
man on a scooter is flagged down by the cops, an altercation ensues. The
cops shoot the man, unusual, but not unknown. Note that there is no need to
mention the nationality or origin of the man; it has nothing do with his
behavio... more »
Judge lifts order blocking increased Trinity River releases in Hoopa region
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Censored News
In a significant victory for salmon, a federal judge in Fresno today
issued a decision lifting a temporary restraining order blocking
increased releases of Trinity Reservoir water into the Trinity River to
prevent a fish kill on the lower Klamath River.
The decision by U.S.
Tohoku, JP wins the International Linear Collider
*The project may still be cancelled...*
In June 2013, I discussed the contest between the Sefuri mountains and the
Kitakami mountains who will build the International Linear Collider if any
collider will be built. Recall that the former offered a sexy 4-minute
musical video; the latter offered a somewhat boring, 21-minute-long
educational video.
The "boring" video guys won! ;-) Congratulations to Hitoshi Murayama et al.
Tohoku pitched for ¥1 trillion [$10 billion] collider (JP Times)
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Miyagi, Iwate prefecture mountains picked as possible site for int'l
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Ron Paul: Gov't Workers Have a "Moral Obligation" to Reveal Wrongdoing
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Australia ex-deputy PM: US gun culture is 'corrupting the world,'
I have already done a post on Christopher Lane of Australia who was killed
by teenagers and one of the teenagers said to police that the reason they
killed Christopher Lane because they were bored.
Tim Fischer, Australia's ex-deputy PM said that US gun culture is
'corrupting the world,'.
*MELBOURNE, Australia -- Australians should avoid the United States because
of its “illogical” gun laws, the country’s former deputy prime minister
said Friday after the killing of college baseball player Christopher Lane.*
**
*“I am angry because it is corrupting the world, this gun culture of the
... more »
Friday Nerd Blogging: Into Darkness
Sure, the movie came out months back, but this Honest Trailers does a nice
job of capturing why Star Trek Into Darkness was meh. JJ Abrams does not
apparently get it that the even numbered movies are supposed to be better.
Spoilers boldly go below: This video is perhaps inconsistent in pointing
out the retrograde
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Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Barbara Eden, 82.
And good stuff:
1. Larry Bartels on polarization in Europe.
2. The lawsuit against Texas voter restrictions, from Molly Redden.
3. And a set I haven't read yet, but intend to: Marc Ambinder on the NSA
story; Conor Friedersdorf's response; and Ambinder's last word.
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*Who are the Landry/Coulter factions? ~Small Affair*
*New jail agreement gives Sheriff Gusman everything he wanted ~Clair
Galofaro*
*Assumption sinkhole video makes big Internet splash ~David J Mitchel, New
Orleans Advocate*
*Advisory issued for swimmers in Gulfport ~WVUE*
Barbara Buono Gaining On Chris Christie-- By A Lot
I feel badly that we haven't found any good progressive women running for
Congress yet and that so far all the Blue America-endorsed candidates are
men. On the other hand-- aside from the cycle being young-- all of our
candidates for governor are women. The first person we endorsed for
governor, Barbara Buono, is running against a classic male chauvinist pig
as well, loudmouthed New Jersey bully Chris Christie. And old fashioned
media hacks, Chris Matthews pops right into mind-- would rather treat Buono
as an good-looking woman than as a serious candidate, helping them validate
wh... more »
Egypt updates ( August 23 , 2013 ) ..... As the Brotherhood calls for Friday of Martyrs protests , Obama offers more excuses why Egypt military aid won't be cut off ( unless it already has been cut off - someone please inform the White House what's going on please.... )
Egypt - Protests after Friday prayers - Friday of martyrs march ....
UPDATE: Thousands of pro-Morsi demonstrators take the streets in Egypt amid
tightened security
Thousands of pro-Morsi demonstrators take to streets in Cairo and several
provinces decrying Morsi's ouster and killing of hundreds of protesters
last week, army and police forces tighten security at protest sites
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"The Daily 'NSA Near You?'"
To honor those fine and dedicated patriots from the NSA who protect us all
from those scary terrorists on this blog, a new feature beginning today,
"The Daily 'NSA Near You?'" Every time they visit I'll copy the log entry
and post it, so we all can feel safer and more free. Right? And you, Good
Taxpayer Citizen, are paying for all this fun! As always, click image for
larger size.
Yes, a whole lots changed in the last hour...
What I Have Been Reading
I am a bit of a readaholic. While I love to read, I don't always get around
to writing full reviews for the books I have read, so here are three books
I have read lately and a short review.
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Jacob makes the journey to
Cairnholm near Wales, to visit the orphanage where his grandfather grew up
to discover it was bombed out during the last World War. How can that be?
His grandfather received a letter from the Headmistress, just a few years
ago. It is a mystery that Jacob is determined to solve. I really liked this
book. It is the first bo... more »
Can We Take Him At His Word?
When asked this week if he would run for re-election in 2015, Stephen
Harper answered, "Of course, yes." It was a pretty flatfooted statement.
But Tasha Kheiriddin, one of the prime minister's most steadfast
supporters, writes that his answer is open to interpretation:
Some surveys have found that the public thinks the untested Justin Trudeau
would make a better Prime Minister than the seasoned Harper. Trudeau is
seen to care more, to share people’s values more. Add to this the bad smell
of the senate scandal, and Harper will have trouble playing the integrity
card, one of his g... more »
Fukushima updates ( August 23 , 2013 ) - the search for scapegoats intense in Japan- will the blame fall on fisherman for making the water problems worse ? . Fukushima Plant Manager Yoshida ( esophagus cancer ) laid to rest and thanked for its efforts - note effort to scapegoat him after his death .... Highlights of parade of horrible lowlights of the day !
[Column] Soon international media to treat Fukushima fishers as “the bad
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Soon Fukushima fishers will be given the bad name by corrupted media.
They will be considered to be the one to worsen Fukushima plant situation.
Fukushima plant is the machine to automatically produce 1,000 tones of
contaminated water everyday.
They can’t keep building the tanks forever.
The facilities called ALPS are thought to be the answer.
It’s supposed to filter mu... more »
My Plan (Part the Fourth)
So, in Parts One & Two I made the case for harper's illegitimacy and why
we are [were] therefore justified and even obligated to force him to
resign.
Part Three outlined the process of grass-roots outreach and organizing to
build the movement necessary to force the government to resign. It was
based on the idea that the fact of a really-existing campaign to impose
accountability on harper and to defend Canadian democracy would have a
snowball effect and would become a viable, nation-wide campaign in a matter
of months.
Part Four then, describes the strategy for forcing the gove... more »
Syria chemical attack update - August 23 , 2013 - Were the Materials allegedly implicating the Syrian government in chemical attack prepared before the incident ? Russia says yes , they were ! As the UN warns of alleged crimes against humanity , recall the syrian rebels control the area where this incident occurred and have the greatest incentive to "push " this incident ! Amazing how a massacre of civilians in Egypt clearly brought forward by the Egyptian military has been embarrassingly handled by the west ( as far taking a real stand against the Junta ) , while with Syria , there is a mad rush to form judgments before any actual facts are established !
http://www.infowars.com/us-trained-rebels-moved-towards-damascus-days-before-chemical-attack/
( False Flag Attacks are crimes against humanity
also - memo to the Un )
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Lawmakers who opposed arming FSA militants “reconsider intervention”
*Paul Joseph Watson*
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August 23, 2013
300 handpicked rebel militants trained by the US... more »
Ham Omelettes and Taiwan’s Defence
In the old old question of why the weak occasionally beat the strong, my
favourite metaphor is the Ham Omelette. In a Ham Omelette, the chicken is
involved but the pig is committed. In a clash over the Taiwan Strait, who
would be the pig, who the chicken? This matters, because in the end
predicting
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Breaking News: Two Explosions hit Lebanon's Tripoli
*Light on details:*
*NOW UPDATED!*
WP — Lebanese security officials say 2 explosions rock northern city of
Tripoli.
ABC -The officials say the blasts went off near mosques in the city on
Friday, the Muslim day of prayer when mosques would be packed.
Reuters-Two explosions rocked Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli on Friday,
causing casualties, witnesses and security sources said.One blast was
outside a mosque as Friday prayers ended. The other hit central Tripoli.
SANA- Lebanon's national news agency: Two explosions heard in Tripoli and
clouds of smoke cover the city
* UPDATE BE... more »
Tony Curtis with a lovely Marilyn Monroe anecdote
Tony Curtis reminiscing about the making of Some Like It Hot.
Aspects of Al Gore's lies on category 6 hurricanes
Two days ago, Al Gore gave an interview to the Washington Post
Al Gore explains why he’s optimistic about stopping global warming
in which he pretended to be optimistic that unhinged alarmists like himself
may still morph from the hopeless dirty losers such as himself to winners.
With his characteristic diplomacy, the former future U.S. president
compared climate realists to champions of apartheid, to homophobes, and to
an alcoholic father who explodes whenever the elephant in the room (more
precisely, ethanol in the bottle) is being mentioned which is why his
relatives prefer to be... more »
"The Most Beautiful People..."
"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat,
known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out
of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an
understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a
deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen."
- Elisabeth Kuebler-Ross
Dead for 42 Minutes, Brought Back to Life
We have been tracking resuscitation therapy closely since I had my own
encounter in 2005 when there was no background at all. Now we have a
deliverable machine called the thumper that sustains the CPR artificially.
We have also reported on a two and one half hour event without a heartbeat
that allowed the victim to recover and go home. What is key is that this
machine is now rolling out and victims will be make it to the operating
table and superior prospects.
This is very good news because the protocol allowed surgeons to
successfully intervene and repair major damage... more »
Alfredo Moser's Lightbulb Moment
And we cannot take this further? Every building requires daytime lighting
to manage shadow that causes uneven lighting. Most roofs can work around a
simple plastic insert properly sealed. Thus an interior space can readily
be lit using this technology. It uses no energy and is as easily discarded
and replaced.
In this way power can be conserved during daylight hours while enhancing
the working environment.
It has now been well tested and demonstrated. A plastics manufacturer
needs to cook up a design package that works well enough. It should be
easy. At least ma... more »
Bridges to Ireland
Everyone likes to dream but some really need to happen. Build this one
through Dublin and
we can be sure that the natural appeal of Ireland will bring in a large
population. The relative cost of p*u*tting in bridges has steadily
declined which is why they are proposed, hewed and hawed about, then
proceeded with.
Bridge building and tunnel building are both in their maturity and in
heavy demand because time has made the unaffordable affordable. A rail
road link into Ireland can inspire an industrial renaissance there.
Another comparable is the huge island of Va... more »
World Bank Turns Away From Coal
The fact is that coal plants are now officially declared obsolete by this
move. What is more, they are and getting out of the coal business is
timely. It will even be hugely effective in reducing the globes carbon
footprint as it has in the USA.
There are so many better solutions and technology coming down the
pipeline, that coal plants are becoming a nasty alternative used only
because of costs and that only sometime. The wind down of the thermal coal
industry is already well begun and will only gather momentum. After all,
natural gas is allowing utilities to add ... more »
Bronze Age Cinnamon Trade Confirmed
Quite simply, this is hard evidence that cinnamon was transported to the
Levant 3000 years ago or just at the end of what we are describing as the
Atlantean Age which spanned 2500 BC to 1159 BC. In its maturity, the
Atlantean Age was a global concern system of palace based trade factories
underwritten by the copper trade itself. The global establishment itself
took place around 2400 BC. Thus a good thousand years of fairly
unrestricted interchange took place although the enterprise bred serious
piracy.
As we have learned, it takes time for the hard evidence such as this ... more »
New Ways To Create Gradients For Molecular Interactions
This sounds to be sort of helpful but neither is it more than a way to
somewhat improve on the resolution of known reactions. It is hard to see
it altering the economic equation.
Otherwise it is good stuff.
One thing that most folks do not understand is the sheer depth of ongoing
research in chemistry and that it had been at the forefront for one and a
half centuries. I can see Jon Turk understanding that the world could
well do without one more chemist.
*New Ways To Create Gradients For Molecular Interactions***
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by Staff Writers*
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Raleigh NC (SPX) Aug 01, 2013... more »
Snake Bite Kit That Works Coming
A simple nasal inhaler can halt and even reverse venom induced paralysis
and thus save the victim’s life. Since the vast majority of snake bites do
just this, it is a blanket treatment that likely at worst is sufficient to
allow the patient to seek medical help. In many cases though, if we are
reading this correctly, it will be enough.
Needless to say, once this is available it will become a necessity in
every village at risk. Something like this really lends itself to home
care treatments were the first responder happens to be a family member.
This will automatical... more »
Resveratrol Blocks Melanoma
This clearly informs us that resveratrol is effective suppressing
melanoma. This also supports the improvement observed in longevity in the
sun drenched Mediterranean. Benign moles are often observed in this
environment and that could also be a function of the access to grape.
Whatever the relationship, wine drinking has been protective here forever
and continues to be. As usual, there are many other molecules involved
whose effect is not yet understood.
This effect quite rightly needs to be woven into our foods in many other
ways to get around the alcohol limita... more »
Alkaline Treatment Protocols for Cancer
This article fills in many of the blanks regarding alkaline therapy and
pretty well places it on the go to list for all cancer victims.
In fact, the absolute first step for a victim is to immediately convert to
a vegan diet regime. This is not enough to finish the job but it is enough
to prepare your body for the final push with the optimum chance of a
successful outcome.
We have also posted on maple sugar and baking soda which may be an
excellent preventative measure. However, once facing the diagnosis, go
vegan and then locate a specialist to guide you through the t... more »
Dr. Sanjay Gupta Reverses Weed Stance
No scientist wishes to wake up in the morning to discover he has been had
and worse he has been had by his peers who accepted money to slant the
research findings. Yet that is the bottom line for USA based research on
marijuana.
Thus the inevitable review leads to the inevitable retraction and a direct
cost in wasted effort brought on by the deliberate fraud of others. Yet
this is now the daily pattern of our so called pharmaceutical industry.
Our only defense is the rapid expansion of medical research outside theses
financial cartels that is now taking place.
... more »
Cloning Extinct Woolly Mammoth Technically Possible
I do think we are going to nail the Mammoth and the complete Ice Age
menagerie before too long. We may even recover viable stem cells to make
our life easy. I also think everything else will be devilishly difficult
in comparison but also not impossible either.
Others are also much more optimistic but here we have a clear skeptic
coming on side.
What I do know for sure is that the birth of a fresh herd of living
mammoths will be the news story of the decade and will receive constant
media attention. Maybe we should try to create a herd in the Great Bear
Rain Fores... more »
Hezbollah Manufacturing Counterfeit Medicine
Islam has done a poor job of shedding outright criminality, most of which
ends up been directed against believers. The idea that criminality exists
to be applied against nonbelievers has provided a loophole allowing the
worst criminals to do just what they like. Sophism is wonderful.
Here we have the completely bizarre case of an actual fatah been issued
that merely exempts shiites. This means that they can be sold to Saudi
Royalty in good Islamic conscience, an oxymoron if there ever was one.
This is the sort of nonsense that is steadily diminishing Islam.
*Hezboll... more »
Nuclear Decay Model
Now that I have a tentative lotus like model for the progressive design of
our elemental table, it is possible to address the key aspect of nuclear
decay. What I propose there is that as the nucleus becomes larger,
electron packing around the center of the lotus tightens increasing the
possibility of an electron discharging its separation energy along the axis
of attachment and allowing that electron to rejoin the proton to produce a
neutron. This immediately produces a neutron imbalance and a drop to the
next slot in the periodic table. This is elegant and natural and will l... more »
Cancer Gene Study Revealing
This is another huge advance and we really are coming close to the day
when we see the backside of the cancer problem once and for all. This maps
the common pathways and discovers that for most several things must go
wrong genetically. The empirical data hinted at just this as most victims
were often merely more exposed.
The take home of course is to live a life that generally avoids or at
least limits exposure to various toxins. Perhaps easier said than done but
still plausible for most. The bad news is that it starts with learning how
to not overindulge. Good luck o... more »
Crucifers are Cellular Tonic
Crucifers are a cellular tonic that restores function. This is very
important as a tool to recover from dietary excess in particular. It also
underlines the therapeutic efficiency of stock made from cabbage that was
promoted by an old country doctor back in the fifties who reversed many
metabolic diseases at the time.
I fortunately have always been partial to cabbage, much to the chagrin of
my wife. This even makes my preferred breakfast of Kimchee and Kipper with
Black Rye Bread look inspired. Hey, so I am getting older and the taste
buds need a kick.
It is even c... more »
City Owned Bank for San Francisco
Let us hope that this is a good beginning. We have been posting on the
necessity of this since 2008 and this should trigger several more that are
already in the works. At least every city of this size needs to take on
its own banking.
Importantly it creates a moral barrier that is internal and carefully
watched by the voters. Thus excessive wage demands ultimately get curbed
when it puts mom and dad at risk. Financial prudence becomes part of the
cities DNA.
It is still going to take some time but at least it is well begun.
Detroit specifically needs to set thi... more »
Periodic Table and the Lotus
This note is regarding a conjecture of mine. I suspect that the atomic
nucleus is properly modeled with proton – neutron pairings that naturally
distort under the internal rules imposed by the generalized cyclic metric
described in my paper of 2010 in AIP’s Physics Essays into lotus like
petals that assemble lotus like to form the nucleus in a spiral pattern.
This insight was a totally unexpected result of my working up a preliminary
theory.
I have long deduced that certain symbols coming down to us from the most
ancient civilization that plausibly achieved modernism h... more »
In-Wheel EV Motor From Evans Electric Unveiled In Australia
I had seen previous efforts in regard to the electric wheel and I presume
that this one is superior. There will be no reduction gearing and this
makes for a superefficient system. Note the additional benefits as each
wheel responds on its own to the road surface.
This will make the advent of the electrical vehicle far easier as losses
are now minimized.
Even a hybrid configuration will see a huge jump in efficiency and
performance. We have waited a long time for this and it was easily
foretold. The deveil as usual was in the details which is quickly receding
behind... more »
Artificial Human Ear Grown in Lab
As we have posted before, organ replacement by simply regrowing your own
is working. The battle is won and it is now time to go over into the hot
pursuit mode. Every tissue type can be identified and it can be grown.
What remains is the engineering.
If we do this, then several years of effort and solution delivery will end
almost all disability issues once and for all. This will end the massive
drain of society that it all represents.
I do think that most fundamental problems are now worked artound.
*Artificial human ear grown in lab*
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Dolphins Call Dolphins by Name
We have understood the intelligence of dolphins for a long time. Now it
understood that it is possible to address them by name. That means we need
to perfect a device able to capture our voice and translate it clearly. A
recording does not cut it any better than it would between humans.
However, once we have done that much, it should be much easier to create a
mutual language conversion system by working together. After all, calling
out an individual’s name is a powerful entry point which makes mutual
effort possible.
Of course, we have been trying for several de... more »
No Northern Ice Age
I want to introduce a shocking concept to my readers that flies hard in
the face of the accepted knowledge of the past two centuries. It is that
the Northern Ice Age did not exist at all. What did exist was an Antarctic
sized ice cap situated on top of Hudson Bay and spread out over an arc of
thirty degrees. The crust itself was rotated thirty degrees to position
this ice cap and also the Antarctic Ice Cap to sit within fifteen degrees
of either pole.
An immediate corollary is that the temperate zone from 15 degrees south
through forty five degrees south was subject ... more »
The Most Important Number In The Entire U.S. Economy
It is easy to predict the end of the world looking at the numbers that are
assembled here. Yet the substance can be a mouse. So start by not
trusting this rather shallow interpretation. The hard reality is that the
printing press over at the fed is buying up the long treasuries creating a
shortage of long paper and driving cash out into the market to look for
yields. This is how stimulus looks.
Otherwise it has been ineffective at best. The middle class or top two
thirds of the economy need ready access to expanded credit to actually
expand their wealth and drive the... more »
Stepping into a Parallel Dimension with Offutt
So far this is a science fiction story pretending to be factual. There is
no attempt to place the real Carol in her day job to stand up and say that
this really happened. So even with the author pursuing this type of story
and developing skill in this direction, without investigating the so called
witness we have nothing.
The special nature of her interaction or lack thereof also suggest an
actual brain event taking place and producing the experience. I
particularly draw attention to the cigar smell as she entered this
transition.
So what did happen here and can we ge... more »
Goats to Help Tend Historic Grave Sites in the Nation’s Capital
This is welcome. The real problem is that herding goats does not pay
because you need a shepherd. This has to be better thought out, because
there is ample forage in inconvenient locations that beg close cropping by
our voracious goat.
The best way, and I think that this will apply to all animals before we
are finished is to invent a collar to be applied to either all or some of
the animals that makes an annoying pulse whenever the animal has strayed
outside a perimeter. All animals are nicely trainable to that extent at
least and the perimeter can be set with simple be... more »
Four Hundred Thousand Year Old Villages
In my unpublished manuscript, Paradigms Shift, I made the conjecture that
humanity made the transition from the hunting band social structure which
is well represented among a number of animals to the village grade
structure of less than two hundred members through access to a rich
immobile feedstock. The obvious locale for this was the tropical seashore
and the protection of a coral reef.
In more recent times we have the Indians of the North West who built huge
urban complexes while relying totally on gathering food from the sea
without any metal at all. Once we underst... more »
"All Is Not Lost... What A Chimera!"
"If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost;
you can still call him vile names."
- Elbert Hubbard
"What a chimera then is man!
What a novelty, what a monster, what a chaos,
what a contradiction, what a prodigy!
Judge of all things, imbecile worm of the earth;
depositary of truth, a sink of uncertainty and error;
the pride and refuse of the universe!
Who will unravel this tangle?"
- Blaise Pascal
"We Are The Ones..."
"This could be a good time!
There is a river flowing now very fast.
It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid.
They will try to hold on to the shore.
They will feel they are being torn apart,
and they will suffer greatly.
Know the river has its destination.
The elders say we must let go of the shore,
push off into the middle of the river,
keep our eyes open, and our heads above the water.
See who is in there with you and celebrate.
At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally.
Least of all, ourselves.
For the moment that we do,
our spiritual growt... more »
"Watching the Thinker"
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*"Watching the Thinker"*
by Eckhart Tolle
"What exactly do you mean by “watching the thinker”? When someone goes to
the doctor and says, “I hear a voice in my head,” he or she will most
likely be sent to a psychiatrist. The fact is that, in a very similar way,
virtually everyone hears a voice, or several voices, in their head all the
time: the involuntary thought processes that you don’t realize you have the
power to stop. Continuous monologues or dialogues.
You have probably come across “mad” people in the street incessantly
talking or muttering to themselves. Well, that’s ... more »
“The Human Need for a ‘Higher Purpose’"
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*“The Human Need for a ‘Higher Purpose’" *
by E-M
"One of the more compelling reasons why some people hope for the existence
of a purposeful creative process is because it can give a sense of meaning
to their lives. Believing in a purposeful process is like having faith that
our existence is orderly and meaningful, whereas to reject the possibility
of purpose is like resigning yourself to the notion that our existence is
ultimately meaningless, mindless, and possibly chaotic.
The idea that consciousness has some kind of higher purpose has always been
popular because it offers... more »
"Going Away to Go Within: Retreat"
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*"Going Away to Go Within: Retreat"*
by Madisyn Taylor, The DailyOM
"Occasionally, we need to pause - and step away from the hustle and bustle
of modern life. One way to do this is to get away from our daily life and
go on retreat. Far more than a vacation, a retreat offers us time to
ourselves to rest, heal, reflect, and renew our spirit. It is a time to
cocoon so that we may emerge renewed, refreshed, and ready to return to our
everyday lives with a new perspective. A retreat gives us time for
uninterrupted meditation so that we may go deep within and spend time with
oursel... more »
Desktop 3D scanner-Makerbot Digitizer on sale
A desktop device that can quickly scan substance so they can be replicated
using a 3D printer has gone on sale. Demand for the device appeared to
excess the company's store when it went on sale on Thursday evening. It
also allows users to upload their 3D designs directly to Thingiverse, a
website where 3D designs can be public.
The Digitizer is the newest product looking to bring 3D printing to normal
technology users - but experts are skeptical. The machine is intended to
allow the replication of objects without any need for the user to learn any
3D modeling software or have any ... more »
A Prayer Goes Out - A Poem by M.N. Hopkins
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*It has been done*
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*Your prayers have been answered*
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*And*
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*Now*
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*Will others benefit*
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*From the effects*
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*Of the words offered*
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*This day*
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*In kindness*
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*For ones fellows*
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*The words go out*
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*Into the collective*
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*As waves upon the sea*
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*Waves that carry*
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*Messages*
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*Far and wide*
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*Some will be aware*
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*And*
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*Accept this gift*
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*Others*
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*Will not*
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*As the prayer passes by*
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*To find another*
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*Willing*
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*To accept this gift*
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*Given freely*
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*To all with*
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*The courage*
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*To change*
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*Behaviors*
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No Coward Soul Is Mine - A Poem by Emily Bronte
No Coward Soul is Mine
*No coward soul is mine,
No trembler in the worlds storm-troubled sphere:
I see Heavens glories shine,
And faith shines equal, arming me from fear.*
*O God within my breast.
Almighty, ever-present Deity!
Life — that in me has rest,
As I — Undying Life — have power in Thee!*
*Vain are the thousand creeds
That move mens hearts: unutterably vain;
Worthless as withered weeds,
Or idlest froth amid the boundless main,*
*To waken doubt in one
Holding so fast by Thine infinity;
So surely anchored on
The steadfast Rock of immortality.*
*With wide-embracing love
Thy Spirit a... more »
Blogiversary VIII: Eight Posts a Week
(Early
bloggers tried out new identities, struggled with format and display
issues, and competed for attention on the Internet with… other
interests.)
Last month, this blog turned eight. Projects in the alleged "real life"
have cut into my writing time, but occasionally I get around to posting
something. (Not eight posts a week, though!) Thanks to those who have
stopped by.
As usual, I'll
Boddy, Carroll: trying to save physics by sacrificing the Universe
*...but no saviors are needed: their irrational Boltzmann Brain alarmism
misunderstands what a hypothesis includes...*
On his blog, the Preposterous Universe, Sean Carroll promoted a paper by
himself and Kimberly Boddy:
The Higgs Boson vs. Boltzmann Brains (his blog)
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Can the Higgs Boson Save Us From the Menace of the Boltzmann Brains? (arXiv)
Last week, I was giving a popular physics talk in a planetarium in Northern
Bohemia. It clearly turned out to be too complicated for the bulk of the
audience (philosophers are sometimes annoying but a group of phil... more »
"Mass Economic Collapse Explained"
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, "Mass Economic Collapse Explained"
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u81di6JmXw&html5=1
Name Change by Bradley Manning
I suppose Bradley Manning's statement this morning was shocking to most
people. For me, well, I lived for 15 years in lovely downtown Northampton
where we elected an openly lesbian mayor several times and the local public
college had a center for transgendered students. Natural reproduction in
all species is imperfect. Wrongly assigned gender at birth is more common
than you might imagine.
So believe me when I tell you, it's not complicated to deal with Bradley
Manning's gender shift to Chelsea Manning. It's just ordinary etiquette.
She's declared her choice of gender so from now o... more »
The Confidential Memo at the Heart of the Global Financial Crisis
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* *Got this web link in the email...very interesting... -Bill*
*The Confidential Memo at the Heart of the Global Financial Crisis*
Greg Palast's Column
The Confidential Memo
By Greg Palast
http://m.vice.com/en_uk/read/larry-summers-and-the-secret-end-game-memo
When a little birdie dropped the End Game memo through my window, its
content was so explosive, so sick and plain evil, I just couldn't believe
it.
The Memo confirmed every conspiracy freak’s fantasy: that in the late
1990s, the top US Treasury officials secretly conspired with a small cabal
of banker big-shots to ... more »
Greg Hunter, "Weekly News Wrap Up 8.23.13"
*"Weekly News Wrap Up 8.23.13"*
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com
"I am mainly focusing on two areas today–the Middle East and the coming
financial calamity. Let’s start with Syria. There have been new reports
about another poison gas attack, and this one is particularly gruesome. The
number of reported deaths could be as high as 1,300. The al-Qaeda backed
Syrian rebels say it was the Assad regime. So does the U.S. The Russians
say it was a false flag attack perpetrated by the rebels. The UN has called
an emergency meeting and is promising a “thorough investigation.”
Meanwhile, ... more »
My Interview With EcoGrrl
Happy Friday Everyone!
I recently had the honor of being interviewed by EcoGrrl. She has a regular
series where she interviews people from around the Internet ... and she
graciously invited me to "sit down" with her and chat.
I'd like to invite you to click over to EcoGrrl's place and read the
interview ... and while you're there, please take some time to browse
around. She is a Super-Greenie and shares wonderful content ... I promise
that you'll love her blog!
A big THANK YOU to EcoGrrl for featuring me this week!
Okay ... ready to go? Just click the picture below:
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Tucson Labor Day DACA Sept 2 fundraiser for Miquiztli
Calpolli Teoxicalli would like to invite our community to support Miquiztli
in paying his DACA application fees. He is of the Nahua community in
Tlamanalco (Tucson), and has been very active in our community at a time
when Arizona has been heavily under attack, particularly as a result of
anti-immigrant legislation such as SB 1070 and the anti-ethnic studies HB
2281. As a dream student, he is involved in defending the undocumented
population of Tucson, particularly the rights of our Jornaleros (day
laborers) to look for dignified work and receive fair wages. DACA (Deferred
Action... more »
AUSTRALIAN FOREIGN MINISTER INDICATES U.S. RELUCTANCE TO ACT IN SYRIA: ISRAEL FEARS JIHADIST VICTORY
Judging by the carefully worded statement by Australian Foreign Minister
Bob Carr, who oversees Australia’s chairmanship of the UN Security Council
(UNSC) beginning next month, the US has already decided not to take any
action against the Syrian government over its apparent use of chemical
weapons against civilians recently.
Foreign Minister Carr was reported in *The Australian* as having called on
China and Russia, Syria’s two major allies, to call on Syria to tell them
that they are “crossing a red line”. The wording is diplomatically
important here. Carr hasn’t said the Syrians h... more »
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 - 12 hours 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
[image: fireycrash]
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
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*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,
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(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"
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* "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"
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*"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 - 14 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
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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 »
The Controls & Confines of Our Obedience Based Education System -- video
Published
on Aug 22, 2013
EBTV presents host Evita Ochel (http://www.evitaochel.com) with special
guest Denis G. Rancourt (http://rancourt.academicfreedom.ca/) in a
dialogue about the limits of the current education system.Denis
is a former tenured and full professor of physics at the University of
Ottawa in Canada. He practiced several areas of science
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
[image: Cute Animated Gif on Giphy]
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
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articles
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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 - 16 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
inShare15
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 - 16 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.*
This is just today folks, on this little blog. Does this make any kind of
sense?
Your tax dollars hard at work against the scary terrorists, huh?
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 shouldn't 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 artistic potential lives, shows a lovely strong
central fate line with interleaved breaks in it showing intentional changes
of career, leaning toward the Sun (or Apollo i.e. creativity) 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... 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 »
Untitled
*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
Updated Aug. 23, 2013
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
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.*
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
*
Like Superman to his Fortress of Solitude, I head north when things get a
little hairy. Usually to talk about the military.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Working on a piano version of Nugent's Stranglehold.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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
Photo
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
*
* *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” CNI
To the people and governments of the world:
To the national and international Sixth:
To the students of the Zapatista Little School:
In this time and in our history with the mother earth, the people,
nations, and indigenous tribes of the Yaqui, Mayo, Náyeri, 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.
-------------
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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- Bond
- British Pound
- CDS
- China
- Citigroup
- Copper
- Crude
- EuroDollar
- European Central Bank
- Eurozone
- fixed
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- 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 - 1 day ago
How about a little consistency.....
Wash Times: Stuxnet Links Lead Back to Obama White House
Monday, 19 Aug 2013 06:48 AM
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The Obama administration provided a New York Times reporter exclusive
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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