Supreme Court of Canada, Ottawa, Canada. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Supreme Court of Canada (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Iran, North Korea, the NRA and Syria All Oppose The UN Arms Trade Treaty
When you open the right wing propaganda site, Townhall, the first thing
that pops up onto your screen is the form they use to mine screen names
they sell to various right-wing organizations (above). What a business
model-- but it does get them the target audience of low-info/high-anger
morons they're looking for. I was there to read about the latest caterwauling
from the gun nuts about their rights being infringed on by a conspiracy
with the UN.
A 40-word, straight-forward call to action in the first paragraph sums the
whole crazy effort up perfectly for any wing-nuts with ADD: "Y... more »
Is Supreme Court obiter binding?
R. v. Puddicombe, 2013 ONCA 506 deals with obiter from the Supreme Court of
Canada:
[67] *R. v. Henry** *instructs that some *obiter* from the Supreme
Court of Canada must be regarded as authoritative and other *obiter* will
be persuasive only:
All *obiter* do not have, and are not intended to have, the same weight.
The weight decreases as one moves from the dispositive *ratio decidendi* to
a wider circle of analysis which is obviously intended for guidance and
which should be accepted as authoritative. Beyond that, there will be
commentary, examples or exposition that ar... more »
Iraq Experts Give Their Opinions On The 2013 Provincial Elections
Iraq recently completed its 2013 provincial elections. There was a slight
delay as Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki held off on the voting in Ninewa
and Anbar until June for what he claimed were security reasons. Those have
now been completed, and all the provinces that cast ballots have new
governments. This year’s governorate level vote was quite different than
the last ones held in 2009 when the premier’s State of Law swept up most of
the south and Baghdad. Now he is being challenged by his erstwhile allies
the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq and the Sadrists. The Sunni vote was
... more »
Ostragene: realtime evolution in a dirty city
Ostrava, an industrial hub in the Northeast of the Czech Republic, is the
country's third largest city (300,000). It's full of coal mines and steel
mills. ArcelorMittal is the world's largest steel producer and bought a
major facility there. The air contains products of a chemical plant and
some junk blown from the nearby Poland, too. The history of hardcore
pollution in the region goes back to the 19th century.
Just to be sure, we're talking about real toxins, not bogus pollution like
CO2. The air often contains things like benzo(a)pyrene, a carcinogenic
polycyclic aromatic hydroc... more »
Why Would In-District Donations Be Less Effective?
Fascinating findings by Kristen Coopie Allen today over at Mischiefs of
Faction. She looked at money in state legislative contests (lots of cases!)
and, among other things, found one thing that I find particularly
interesting: money raised from outside the district is a bit more effective
than money raised within the district.
Important caveats: I've read the blog post, not the dissertation, and so I
can't speak to how impressive I think the relationship is; also, I don't
really know how she explains it, or even what speculation she has, since
it's not in the post. One more thing: t... more »
What does it mean to be colonized!
*WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 2013*
*Judy and Gwen get the nod:* What does it mean to be colonized?
In part, it means you’re forced to listen to hoary old tales from a hoary
old ruling elite. It means you'll see your nation's professors pretend that
these stories make sense. See our previous post.
But you can be colonized other ways too! For one example, read this
morning’s New York Times concerning Gwen and Judy.
Ascot-kissing Brian Stelter encourages us to be thrilled because of a
wonderful breakthrough. Two women will finally broadcast the news!
But look who those two women are.
When... more »
'GAY RUSSIANS'
*Cake Wrecks*
Zinoviev wrote to *Lenin*, who was in Finland:
"Dear Vova!
"You can be absolutely sure of my feelings towards you... Believe me, I
never touched a man or woman and I will not. Only you are near me."
*Zinoviev*
Zinoviev writes again after a week:
"Dear Vova!
"I have prepared a place for us...
"It's a wonderful house... Nobody can stop our love... No one can
understand our feelings. Come quickly. You wait, my flower. Yours, Ghersele
".
*Lenin a fost un homosexual notoriu si a murit de sifilis*. / Translate
this page
*Russian actress Alla Nazimova (1879 – ... more »
CAMERA: Preoccupied With Israel and the Palestinians, the Media Neglected Unstable Arab Societies
A must read article but one that the anti Semitic left will ignore.
Read here
http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&x_outlet=35&x_article=2516
Zimbabwe's "Blacks-Only" Stock Exchange Takes 'Financial Innovation' And Racism To New Highs | Zero Hedge
' following dictator Robert Mugabe's "reelection" has announced plans
toopen a new and "racially exclusive" stock exchange, allowing blacks alone
to trade. And not trade justanything, but shares of recently nationalized
foreign companies, most of which are South African-owned miners. Or rather
were, because following the most recent nationalization round, Zimbabwe
would take a 51% stake in all major foreign-owned companies valued at over
$7 billion. No compensation will be paid.'
Fascinating article here
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-07/zimbabwes-blacks-only-stock-exchang... more »
SOURCES OF PARALYSIS: Lehrer and the (compliant) professor!
*WEDNESDAY,
AUGUST 7, 2013*
*Part 3—The world of Broderian tales:* “But we were England’s, still
colonials.”
That’s how Frost described the American condition around the year
1775.Centuries later, we the people are still colonized, this time by a
set of
paralytic elites.
We’re in thrall to the fatuous values of the New York Times and its
Hamptons/Paris set. Intellectual squalor is produced when sets of
professors sally forth with their streams of fake facts.
Then too, we’ve been colonized by the so-called press corps’ old guard,
with their endless array of foundational stories. Con... more »
World Alert: The U.S. Government Has Gone Full Retard
It's official. The U.S. government has gone full retard. This *ridiculous
story* about officials intercepting an Al-Qaeda "conference call" proves
it.
An excerpt from Moon of Alabama's post, *"Sources: NSA Invited To Al Qaeda
Conference Call"*:
So the intelligence people thought it useful to tell the public exactly how
Al Qaeda communicates? What's the next nonsense they will try to sell to
the public? The San Fransisco-Honolulu bridge?
This is shameful fucking stuff. America deserves better propaganda than
this, goddamnit. All that money and this is what they come up with?
... more »
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*Saints Nation: Garrett Hartley Secures Kicker Job ~Andrew Juge*
*Happy Birthday Edwin Edwards! ~KnowLA *
*Anne Marie Vandenweghe-Boudreaux announces intent to run for Parish Wide
elective office ~Slabbed*
*NOLA Crowd to Rick Perry: 'You're in Louisiana!' (VIDEO) ~NOLA DEFENDER*
Prince
Prince and Bro. Dick Gregory on Obama, White Supremacy and the Black State
of the Union from Spike1138 on Vimeo.
*
*
*I was born, raised on a slave plantation
In the United States, of the red, white and blue
Never knew that I was different, till Dr. King was on a balcony
Lyin' in a bloody pool
I expected so much more from a loving
A loving, loving society
A truthful explanation, you know what
I got another, another conspiracy
If it was just a dream, listen, call me, call me a dreamer too
With more rewards and accolades, then anyone before or after
21st century, oh what a shame, what a... more »
Made in America: Segregation by Design | the becoming radical
What connects a Barbara Kingsolver poem, The Great Gatsby, and the
lingering mechanisms of segregation in the U.S.? Please read to examine:
Made in America: Segregation by Design | the becoming radical. Tagged:
segregation
The Rex 84 Martial Law Contingency Plan
The Rex 84 Martial Law Contingency Plan from Spike1138 on Vimeo.
*U.S. AIR FORCE 55-2 - GARDEN PLOT*
"The long title of the plan is United States Air Force Civil Disturbance
Plan 55-2, Employment of USAF Forces in Civil Disturbances. The short title
of this document is USAF Civil Disturbance Plan 55-2. The nickname assigned
by Department of the Army is GARDEN PLOT." It's dated July 11, 1984.
The plan opens with some basic "assumptions", namely that "civil
disturbances requiring intervention with military forces may occur
simultaneously in any of the 50 States, District of Columbi... more »
OUR Future
And the Canadian Left's response will be to blog about it. Form a facebook
page to "organize" a bitch-fest. Circulate a petition. And, finally, to
bring out the big guns: Get a bunch of young and old hippies out into the
streets to face the cops like lambs to the slaughter.
Pure fucking genius.
Your moment of Zen
Lotus flower. [photo via Robert MacCollum]
WotW: Nexus 7 — the Tablet You're Really Looking For
For my last birthday, my wife gave me one of the best presents ever: a new
tablet. No, I didn't want an iPad; I wanted a Nexus 7, and that's what she
got me. Perhaps you're thinking, "Why would you want anything other than an
iPad?" My answer: the Nexus 7 is the tablet you're *really* looking for.
When I was a teacher, I was given an iPad2 to use for work and personal
enjoyment. Over the course of the year I had it, I found myself
increasingly annoyed by it. There were certain things that bothered me,
like the weight, awkwardly large size and the lack of apps that really
all... more »
How Martial Law In America Will Affect You
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Wendy McElroy
Martial law occurs when the military or militarized law enforcement
replaces civilian authorities in order to impose military rule during an
emergency. Civil liberties are suspended. In the United States, a pivot
point that signals martial law is the suspension of habeas corpus – the
right to a hearing on whether an imprisonment is lawful. In practice,
habeas corpus means a person cannot be imprisoned without legitimate
charges and due process. The U.S. Constitution recognizes the suspension of
habeas corpus a... more »
Why the ANGER Phase of Humanity is Coming
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The Wisdom Of Mary Baker Eddy
*Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910)*
Mary Baker Eddy was an influential American author, teacher, and religious
leader, noted for her groundbreaking ideas about spirituality and health,
which she named Christian Science. She articulated those ideas in her major
work, *Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures*, first published in
1875. Four years later she founded the Church of Christ, Scientist, in
Boston, Massachusetts, which today has branch churches and societies around
the world. In 1908 she launched *The Christian Science Monitor*, a leading
international newspaper, the recip... more »
Sousveillance: The answer to Surveillance
Sousveillance explains the psychopathic elites need for the Apple
Technology mentioned yesterday.
Apple Inc. Patents Technology to aid the Fascist Police State.
Clearly the elite were feeling threatened by an empowered populace... Too
bad for them.
Sousveillance will continue and evolve.
I enjoyed this video by James Corbett. Send thanks the anonymous commenter
who left the link.
And applaud the courage of the individuals who work for freedom, however
it is they choose to work for it.
How the Tea Party and Occupy Movements Are the Same
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Monsanto Baseball: Escaping Accountability in Corporate America
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Doom, glorious doom
I read today of stats showing the public turning perhaps decisively in
favour of the government's Austerity programme. This is, of course, in the
absence of an alternative being put, people adapting to the New Realism.
Note as well regardless of whether the public has thought the cuts fair or
unfair, working or not working, a majority public, according to these polls,
has always deemed Austerity necessary. Austerity, remember, is the upward
redistribution of wealth from the 99% to the 1%. In many ways this makes no
sense, but when the general public can’t even remotely evaluate its o... more »
OMFG!! US Debt is $70 Trillion, Elite Blame the Poor
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US and UK urge citizens to flee Yemen as closures used by some to legitimize NSA surveillance
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As the United States and United Kingdom urge citizens and “nonemergency”
employees to flee Yemen, some in Washington are using the closures to
legitimize increasingly controversial National Security Agency (NSA)
surveillance.
Meanwhile, critics have stated that there is no evidence indicating that
the NSA’s dragnet surveillance of the phone records of Americans is
actually providing unique value to US counterterrorism programs.
The moves came after officials in Washington, D.C. sta... more »
Pre-Crime And Mind Control Technologies Are Already Here
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Michael Snyder
Should the government be trying to figure out if we are going to commit a
crime in advance? That sounds like something out of a Tom Cruise movie,
but the truth is that “pre-crime” technologies such as were portrayed in *Minority
Report* are being aggressively developed, and some have actually already
been deployed.
We live at a time when technology is advancing at an exponential rate, and
it can be really hard to keep up with how rapidly our world is changing.
In the future, authorities may not only be able ... more »
(
Minority Report (2002) - IMDb
In
the year 2054 A.D. crime is virtually eliminated from Washington D.C.
thanks to an elite law enforcing squad "Precrime". They use three gifted
humans (called "Pre-Cogs") with special powers to see into the future
and predict crimes beforehand. John Anderton heads Precrime and believes
the ...
A Clockwork Orange Movie Review (1972) | Roger Ebert
Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange"
is an ideological mess, a paranoid right-wing fantasy masquerading As
an Orwellian warning. It pretends to oppose the police state and forced
mind control, but all it really does is celebrate the nastiness of its
hero, Alex.
rogerebert.com/reviews/a-clockwork-orange-1972 A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess wrote A Clockwork Orange in 1962. In 1971, Stanley Kubrick adapted it into a film of the same name. Both are delicious.
squidoo.com/aclockworkorange ) Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Cirroc Lofton, 35.
Good stuff:
1. "Don't Quit Your Day Job." Jay Ulfelder on making it as an independent
research consultant.
2. Lots of parties links...I may write on some of this, but I'll link to
them here in case I don't get to it. I'll start with Seth Masket on parties
and ideology.
3. Andrew Sabl uses the Jim Messina news (the Obama campaigner is working
for the Conservatives in the UK) to think a bit about party affiliation.
4. Mark Thompson on Rand Paul, Chris Christie, and the possibility that
Republicans will get their act together.
5. And, yes, Ishtar... more »
POWERFUL: Are We Going to Fight Back?
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Obama Hasn't Addressed Major Terror Threat But is on Jay Leno Tonight
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Corrupt Wall Street Hedge Fund Managers Electing An Ally To The U.S. Senate?
A week from today, we'll wake up knowing who won the Democratic
nomination-- tantamount to election-- for the open New Jersey U.S. Senate
seat. Will it be another progressive dedicated to representing working
families? Or will it be a shameless careerist who takes his every move from
his Wall Street benefactors. Last week, Blue America and Progressive
Democrats of America made the case for Rush Holt against Cory Booker. We
raised nearly $7,000 for Rush on our two ActBlue pages, here and here. And
Rush was able to use that money to help build the ad above.
As he says, "Cory may be... more »
Governor Corbett Handpicked Government Careerist and Education Reform Lobbyist to Head State’s 14 Public Universities? Vote Tomorrow. by Sean Kitchen
http://www.ragingchickenpress.org/2013/08/06/governor-corbett-handpicked-government-careerist-and-education-reform-lobbyist-to-head-states-14-public-universities-vote-tomorrow/
Governor Corbett has allowed a corporate coup’ de tat to occur within
the
Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. On Monday August 5th,
PASSHE’s Board of Governors announced that a vote for the new Chancellor
will happen on Wednesday, August 8th. Former Education Reform Lobbyist
and
Secretary of Education, Ronald Tomalis is one of […]
Nairobi airport suffers massive fire at its International Terminal - witnesses allegedly heard two explosions heard before flames broke out ... gas cylinders / electrical fire or terrorism the cause ?
Massive Nairobi airport blaze forces closure (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
Published time: August 07, 2013 05:01
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Kenyan authorities evacuated passengers and staff as emergency crews,
reportedly low on water supplies, battled to contain a massive fire that
has broken out at the international airport in the Kenyan capital.
Hundreds of people were stranded outside of the J... more »
Chicken Little and the Emperor
Yesterday, I was working in my room and decided that I would stop down and
discuss my recent “Math Module” training. I knocked on his open door and
said as I almost always do “Can I bother you for a minute?” He turned,
looked at me and I could tell immediately that he was not […]
Egypt updates - Senators McCain and Graham visit Egypt - meet with present government leaders and representatives of Muslim Brotherhood - state removal and imprisonment of President morsi was a military coup and US aid at risk.....Egypt President declares diplomacy phase over after foreign envoy visits ( US saw Senators McCain and Graham , Secretary of State Kerry and Under Secretary Burns intervene ..... other countries with representation include Qatar and other GCC States , Europe , Africa ) ...... The world now awaits next steps to deal with protests by the Egyptian government !
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/08/06/exclusive-john-mccain-on-his-meeting-with-the-muslim-brotherhood-in-cairo.html
During their whirlwind tour of Cairo Tuesday, two top GOP senators held the
most extensive meeting to date between U.S. officials and senior officials
in the embattled Muslim Brotherhood, whose supporters are fighting in the
streets to overturn last month’s military takeover of Egypt.
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Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham (R) address a news conference in
Cairo, August 6, 2013. McCain and Graham, two senior U.S. Republican
s... more »
Untitled
*Mired in Politics ~Library Chronicles *
*Flood Authority, suit against oil companies safe from political meddling —
for now ~Bob Marshall, The Lens*
*Climate change softens up already-vulnerable Louisiana ~Dan Vergano, USA
Today *
*Video: Report urges better industry storm preparation ~Any Wold, New
Orleans Advocate*
*"Bayou Corne is the biggest ongoing industrial disaster in the United
States you haven't heard of." ~Tim Murphy, Mother Jones*
*Report on chemical pollutants in wake of Hurricane Isaac ~Natasha Robin,
WVUE*
*BP balks at paying claims administrator*
*DuBos thinks l... more »
Vodafone Announces Launch 4G Service in UK
*Vodafone has exposed that it will launch its 4G service on 29 August to
clients in London after investing £900m in the system. *The firm supposed,
it will roll out to 12 other cities including Manchester, Leeds and
Sheffield by the end of the year. Prices for customers will start at £26
per month for a SIM only deal with a 12-month contract.
Last week O2 announced plans to open its own 4G service on the similar day.
O2's lowest tax is also £26 per month. EE, the first network to present the
faster mobile internet service, has a base tariff of £21 per month. *Vodafone
has partner... more »
Free market capitalism = unlimited QE and reckless government deficit spending ..... whether we talk about the US , europe , Uk , Japan or even China , that all markets focus upon......The Fall is coming and caution is advised ......
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-07/latest-overnight-nikkei-crash-drags-risk-lower
Latest Overnight Nikkei Crash Drags Risk Lower
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/07/2013 07:23 -0400
- Bank of England
- Barack Obama
- Ben Bernanke
- BOE
- British Pound
- Central Banks
- China
- Consumer Credit
- Copper
- CPI
- Crude
- Crude Oil
- Deficit Spending
- Fannie Mae
- Freddie Mac
- Gilts
- Gross Domestic Product
- Hong Kong
- Iraq
- Japan
- Monetary Policy
... more »
Enemies Within
Michael Harris suggests that, despite Stephen Harper's recent attempt to
list his enemies, his real foes are inside his own tent. That may be the
real story behind the the sound and fury over Mike Duffy:
Could the answer be that the deal was the brainchild of the PMO, and that
Senator Duffy was forced to agree to the payback for reasons not yet known?
If so, what could those reasons be?
“Maybe someone who didn’t owe anything was forced to go along with this
scheme against his will,” says a player with personal knowledge of the
events surrounding the Nigel Wright payment to Duffy —... more »
The Guardian's Glenn Greenwald excoriates members of the US Congress who have been informed of the full extent of NSA secret spying, could have leagally informed all Americans of what NSA has been doing (by speaking on the Senate floor), but instead have covered up those activities while criminalizing heroic whistleblowers Edgar Snowden and Bradley Manning.
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*MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 2013*
Original here
*Greenwald: Is U.S. Exaggerating Threat to Embassies to Silence Critics of
NSA Domestic Surveillance?*
The Obama administration has announced it will keep 19 diplomatic posts in
North Africa and the Middle East closed for up to a week, due to fears of a
possible militant threat. On Sunday, Senator Saxby Chambliss, the top
Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said the decision to close
the embassies was based on informatio... more »
The question that anti-Israel activists find very hard to answer
When I am engaged in Twitter debate with a 'pro-Palestinian' who in reality
is anti-Israel and maybe anti-Semitic as well, I have found that they will
not/cannot answer the following question (this is not Twitter, so I have
extended the question beyond 140 characters for ease of reading and to make
it rather easier to read).
You say that Israel should return to its pre 1967 'borders'. If the Muslim
countries that attacked Israel in 1948, 1967 & 1973 had succeeded in vastly
reducing the size of Israel and had only been stopped from completely
destroying it by America, would you be ca... more »
Mystic Silence - A Poem by Attar
Mystic Silence
*From each, Love demands a mystic silence. *
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*What do all seek so earnestly? Tis Love. *
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*Love is the subject of their inmost thoughts, *
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*In Love no longer “Thou” and “I” exist, *
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*For self has passed away in the Beloved. *
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*Now will I draw aside the veil from Love, *
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*And in the temple of mine inmost soul *
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*Behold the Friend, Incomparable Love. *
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*He who would know the secret of both worlds *
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*Will find that the secret of them both is Love.*
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*Attar*
Essential Sufism, by James Fadiman & Robert Frager,
*About the poet:*
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Tent cities here in the US ? Yes , we have tent cities - perhaps governor Chris Christie will stop by with President Obama and help out those citizens living in tent cities in his state , such as the Camden tent city , the Essex County tent city or the Newark tent city ! Some photos below of how some Americans are living right now - wake up folks below this happens to you too - you don't think it can't ?
Catharsis Ours - 6 hours ago
http://www.my9nj.com/story/22989373/camden-tent-city
Tent cities have popped up across New Jersey including the state's poorest
city.
Meg Baker chased the story of Camden's tent city. Residing off Route 38 at
Wilson Boulevard under an overpass, through woods and down a path of trash
lays a community of people living in tents. This particular community was
relocated from Federal Street and it's inhabited by an array of people:
addicts, people who have fallen on hard times and some with mental illness.
Baker took a tour of this run down community and the pictures show just how
hea... more »
Thomas Hawkins: The Myth of Epimetheus and Prometheus
Related:
* Henry Geiger - The Chains Of Prometheus (1959).*
*R. J. Zwi Werblowsky On Prometheus.*
*Video Title: Thomas Hawkins: The Myth of Epimetheus and Prometheus.
Source: techEIU. Date Published: February 26, 2013. Description:*
Dr. Thomas Hawkins talks about the relationships between the human and the
technical systems at the Ancient Greece Symposium.
The Arabic textbooks which show children how to chop off hands and feet under Sharia law
A totally unsurprising article that tells me that Saudi schools teach
what's in the Koran.
' Barbaric textbooks handed out in Saudi Arabian schools teach children how
to cut off a thief's hands and feet under Sharia law, it has emerged.
The shocking books, paid for and printed by the Saudi government, also tell
teenagers that Jews need to be exterminated and homosexuals should be 'put
to death'.
...
In one, for ninth-graders, students are taught the annihilation of the
Jewish people is imperative.
One text reads in part: 'The hour (of judgment) will not come until the
Muslims f... more »
95% of Child Rape and Molestation Convictions in the UK Were Committed by Muslims
' Of the 100 Convictions there were: 95 Muslims, 5 Non-Muslims. 20% were
also named "Muhammad."'
But there is of course no religious link.
More here
http://shariaunveiled.wordpress.com/2013/08/06/95-of-child-rape-and-molestation-convictions-in-the-uk-were-committed-by-muslims/
KRYON: "The Recalibration of GAIA"
*Reposted from an American Kabuki post on October 4, 2012, this important
information for this moment of NOW. -AK*
LIVE KRYON CHANNELLING
"The Recalibration of GAIA" As channelled by Lee Carroll for KryonThis
live channelling was Given in Melbourne, Australia
March 18, 2012
*To help the reader, this channelling has been revisited [by Lee and Kryon]
to provide even clearer understanding. Often what happens live has implied
energy within it, which carries a kind of communication that the printed
page does not. So enjoy this enhanced message given in Melbourne, Australia
2012.*
G... more »
Karen Doonan: Archangeloi of the Elohim Message for 5th August 2013
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*This channeling points out something I have thought for many years after
reading about quantum logic. The binary logic (TRUE and FALSE) we are
taught since Aristotle is incomplete, it lacks two logic states necessary
to define reality (INDETERMINATE and UNKNOWABLE). This missing aspect
gives rise to paradoxes, dilemmas and circular reason, best summed up by
the words "those that are not with us are against us"... that underlies
most of the conflict in the world, religious, legal or political. Its a
logical conclusion but an inaccurate answer and fuels the conflicts ... more »
Gaia Portal: “Soaring” of Gaia Vibrationals Leads to Stabilization of Individual Hue-Being Energetic Patterns
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* *“Soaring” of Gaia Vibrationals Leads to Stabilization of Individual
Hue-Being Energetic Patterns*
by ÉirePort
"Soaring" of Gaia vibrationals leads to stabilization of individual
Hue-Being energetic patterns. All current updates are enabling the process
of Ascension with Gaia, for Gaia, and all Gaia Hue-Being inhabitants.
Galactic Presence within each now activates Higher Sense of Gaia
partnership and Gaia responsibility, and connectivity to all Creation as
Unity and Law of One components.
What some would term "massive" energy changes are simply comprehensive DNA
transformati... more »
U.S. Files Sealed Charges in Benghazi Attack
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* *U.S. Files Sealed Charges in Benghazi Attack*
Move Marks First American Response to Assault That Killed U.S. Ambassador
to Libya
http://goo.gl/U2qsDjBy
DEVLIN BARRETT
WASHINGTON—The Justice Department has filed sealed criminal charges against
a number of suspects in the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi that
killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three others, according to people
familiar with the matter.
The exact nature of the charges wasn't clear, nor was the number of
suspects named in the case. A Justice Department spokesman, Andrew Ames,
said the investigat... more »
PAYCHECK-TO-PAYCHECK
This is an unpaid ad, but I thought it was worth posting anyway.
Pretty clever way to market an accounting school too...
[image: Paycheck To Paycheck]
Source: Accounting School Guide
Why only bank fraudsters have a pet Central Bank?
Max Keiser is on a roll in this one! LOL!!
Sun's Magnetic Field About to Flip According to NASA
Photographer Mike Taylor watched the display from
Port Clyde, Maine: "The awe-inspiring green and purple
colors of the Northern Lights spiked up early on the
morning of August 5th while I was shooting the Milky
Way down at Marshall Point Lighthouse in Port Clyde,"
says Taylor. "This photo was taken about 5 feet from
the base of the tower."
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*MAGNETIC FIELD REVERSAL ON THE SUN: *It hasn't happened yet, but it's
about to. Data from NASA-supported observatories show that the sun's global
magnetic field will flip before the end of 2013. Th... more »
If you close your eyes
What is happening now is extraordinary. In this fictional arena called
time we are becoming One. It transcends language so hang in there as a
telling is attempted.
Yesterday polarity roared, gasping for breath. There was a moment of
confusion. Within reach and in plain sight were the oxygen tanks; familiar
and easy to operate. Yet nearby, something else insisted; something new
and untested.
It was not reached for as much as it arrived, right on time. In one bold
moment of unity, agape arrived. It said “I know you. I have seen you. There
is nothing you can... more »
Gaia Portal: “Standardized Responses” are Neutralized…
*“Standardized Responses” are Neutralized…*
by ÉirePort
"Standardized responses" to all situations on all dimensional planes are
neutralized as Gaia nodes are requesting Ascended Collaboration. All
attempts to utilize commonly-used measures will fail to bring in higher
frequencies to the planet.
Higher Self knows.
Gaia assists all who are intending to Ascend with Gaia.
All others will be moved to alternate ascension pathways.
Repeat: all standardized response techniques are currently neutralized, and
will fail to bring intended results.
ÉirePort | August 3, 2013 at 19:28
URL: ... more »
Updated: A Personal Note
I've decided to spend the next 30 days on a personal exercise in releasing
my spiritual limits. There are many reasons why we all have limits we
impose on our being and Eternal Essence, most of them are unconscious and a
product childhood upbringing, religious training (or lack of it), friends,
peer pressure and perhaps even the bleed through from past lives. Much of
this is tied to emotions of events, positions and roles we have played in
this life and others.
A friend referred me to a woman named Jodie Newell who has a very
interesting technique to release emotional baggag... more »
TOTAL PAGE VIEWS SINCE FEBRUARY 2012
I TRIED TO CATCH THIS AS ALL 1s BUT WAS NOT FAST ENOUGH.... :)
The ZAP Report 8-3-2013
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* *Oooh things get fun now! And before September 1 too! We told you HSBC
was the Dragons bank! The contrast begins. As Heather says "I love the
Absolute Plan"! All gets revealed... -AK*
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* *Greetings and Salutations,*
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* *Many important dates are included in today's update from ZAP. He was
even kind enough to include some very important historical dates and
information to help us better understand how we arrived at this point in
history and where we are going from here.*
From ZAP..........Hi All
Tomorrow, the global reset will begin. There is to be a series of
announc... more »
In Every Atom
In Every Atom
*Heavenletter #4636 Published on: August 4, 2013*
God said:
Although I am silent, I am never speechless. I speak in a language deeper
than words. I speak in a universal language. I speak in the boom-ta-boom
that underlies all language. It is a soundless sound that vibrates. I
created Creation with sound, and I maintain what I have created with sound.
Even a molecule sounds. Bells are not the only instrument that peals. All
the extant in the world is a sounded vibration. A vibration has a beat. A
beat moves. It repeats itself. It echoes itself.
It is said tha... more »
Walkway to Portal on August 25th – CONFIDENCE
*My birthday is a portal! How cool! I posted this to a Skype room... -AK*
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* *...Heather: I love you!!!! I am posting this again...consider it akin
to an "energetic bitchslap"...PAY ATTENTION!: **
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?noframes;read=283825*
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DO-KNOWLEDGE-CONFIDENCE-EXPERIENCE-DO-KNOWLEDGE-CONFIDENCE-EXPERIENCE-DO-KNOWLEDGE-CONFIDENCE-EXPERIENCE-DO....
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*AA Metatron – Walkway to Portal on August 25th – CONFIDENCE*
By annamerkaba on August 1, 2013
*The theme of this walkway as you make your way to anot... more »
Hilarion – August 4 2013
*Did he really just say "unemployed angels"? LOL!!! The economy is worse
than I thought! -AK*
*Hilarion – August 4 – 11, 2013*
August 4, 2013 in Hilarion | Tags:
Beloved Ones,
You are asked to maintain your center and stay calm no matter what occurs
in the world around you. All is unfolding in an accelerated manner in order
to awaken as many people on the planet as possible. Awakening most often
occurs when there is something revealed that was not known before which
rocks the foundation that people based their lives upon. This shakes the
template that has been in place around ... more »
Official: HSBC drops dozens of London missions
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* *Hmmm... could the September 1 termination of government and corporate
immunity from prosecution be involved? Was the Papal Apostolic letter the
movitation? Did HSBC grow a conscience? Was there the "white powder" in
some of those diplomatic pouches? Why so much cash flowing through
embassies? Why won't any other banks pick up the business? Very curious
indeed! :) -AK*
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* *Official: HSBC drops dozens of London missions*
Raphael Satter, Associated Press 2:18 p.m. EDT August 4, 2013
Britain HSBC
(Photo: Lefteris Pitarakis AP)
*Official: Diplomats scramble to find a new pl... more »
Your Birth Certificate Was Made Into a Bond...it's Worth Billions!
AK NOTE: American Bank Note company is a printing house, it prints
currencies around the world and other banking documents. The company name
of the printing house doesn't of itself "prove" the Birth Certificates are
traded, but other written evidence indicate that they are traded. I had a
conversation with a Primary Market banker he admitted to me they are traded
as securities by the govt. Just thought I'd clarify that point - since this
was cross posted to this blog. -AK
*WARNING:* DO NOT ATTEMPT TO ACCESS YOUR VALUE VIA THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE,
SOME DID THAT A DECADE OR... more »
UPDATED: Prime Creator Makes an Announcement
*Heather found this article on Rumor Mill News, she added this comment:*
*[8/3/13 3:37:48 AM] Jarrafusa: (chuckle)*
*[8/3/13 3:38:01 AM] Jarrafusa: I LOVE THE ABSOLUTE PLAN!!!!!!!! I LOVE
SURPRISES!*
*[8/3/13 3:38:35 AM] Jarrafusa: I LOVE EXPERIENCING OTHERS EXPERIENCING
SURPRISES EVEN MORE!!!!!!!! ;)*
*-AK*
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* *updated 8/5/2013 Thought I should add this exchange to this post since
it might be widely misinterpreted. *
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* A reader wrote:
Hello, I need a bit of help to understand .....
Will you please explain who all of you are working with in other words the
so called Galactic F... more »
Removing the Shackles: The Beginning of the Lie.... oh my!
*Comments in red are mine alone and not D's or the author she quotes. I
will be updating the blurb on a previous article about the Pope and England
to correct a few minor points to match this. Wonderful article below on the
origins of Papal control on America. Also see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_of_1606 -AK*
Saturday, 3 August 2013
*The Beginning of the Lie.... oh my!*
http://removingtheshackles.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-beginning-of-lie-oh-my.html
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* .... You know.... if today gets any more fun, I might just laugh myself
into a coma.
Yet another example of asking "... more »
Proof ALL of Your Debt is PRE-PAID!
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August 2, 2013
posted by Brian Kelly
from Brian Kelly's Blog
I had a discussion with a friend the other day when I asked the question on
Facebook, "If you found out your mortgage, car loan, student loan, credit
card was fraudulent debt, would you keep paying it?" I included a link to
the post I put out about Key Bank waiving a $32K loan. This was his
response:
"If I borrow money from someone, I'm going to repay it. I don't care if
it's the mafia, some made-up big brother organization, or a bank. Stealing
is stea... more »
SLATE: All Corporations Go to Heaven
A pharmacist works at a Safeway pharmacy in Great Falls, Va., in 2009.
The Supreme Court will need to decide soon whether corporations with
religious objections to providing coverage for birth control could be
forced to do so under the health care law. Photo by Hyungwon Kang/Reuters *My
comments are in red italics -AK*
All Corporations Go to Heaven
*The Supreme Court will soon decide if CEOs can impose their religious
convictions on the people who work for them.*
By Dahlia Lithwick
Posted Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013, at 2:32 PM
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprude... more »
UPDATED: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA INC. Registered in Delaware as a Religious Non-profit Corporation
by American Kabuki
*8/2/13 Note: minor corrections to law origins of Papal fealty in England
-AK*
*8/4/13 struck out text that was not historically accurate, inserted text
and link to an article that gives the in depth story of how England swore
fealty to the Vatican. -AK*
If you've been wondering how the Pope Francis recent Apostolic Letter regarding
the Roman Curia law removing legal immunity and liability from governments,
attorneys and judges, might affect governments around the world, then read
on. I got many inquiries asking for how a Roman law can affect an
ostensibly se... more »
The Blessing of DIS-ILLUSION-MENT
Simulacra and Simulation book from the movie Matrix
The Blessing of DIS-ILLUSION-MENT
by American Kabuki
It was 30 below in St. Paul the dark night Rodney rang me. "Hey man, you
gotta see this movie, I'm coming over!" He didn't say why he wanted me to
see it, drove all the way from Eden Prairie to St Paul just to get me.
Rodney liked to do things just to watch my reactions. He drove me out to
a cineplex in Burnsville MN. The roads were icy and cold and I remember
crossing that arched suspension bridge on I-35 West going over the
Mississippi out of the Twin Cities and wondering... more »
Ground Zero High Defiition
* Click picture
to enlarge*
ZZZZZzzzzzz.....
RAW GARLIC
A study has found that those who ate raw garlic were significantly less
likely to get lung cancer, even if they smoked
According to the new research, eating raw garlic twice a week can almost
halve the risk of lung cancer.
Previous studies have suggested garlic protects the lungs against various
conditions, and wards off other malignancies such as bowel cancer.
One study at the University of South Australia suggested that garlic could
cut the risk of bowel tumours by nearly a third.
Other studies have found that garlic may help prevent colds, hospital
superbugs and malaria.
The ... more »
Night 2: Nez Perce protest tarsands megaload
Night
2: Photo by Leotis McCormack
Night 2: TUESDAY, Aug. 6, 2013
At midnight Tuesday night, numerous arrests of protesters was reported,
as 100 people marched, and megaload blocked before it moved at a crawl
Lewiston Tribune Online Updates
http://lmtribune.com/article_9fad7bb8-fe41-11e2-8af6-0019bb30f31a.html
UPDATE 11:45 P.M.: Protesters were throwing softball- to
basketball-sized
Relocation Update
I'm back in the Wood. That being Hollywood, Florida. I'm caught up in a
million mundane transitional activities that are somehow taking way longer
than they should. While I'm fighting with the DMV over relatively new and
ridiculously strict rules regarding diver's license renewal (if you thought
the Tea Party were serious about birth certificates, you should see how
these people roll) while simultaneously scouring the peninsula for an
Ethernet line long enough to run from the router in the front room to the
computer in my bedroom enjoy this set from John Darnielle of the Mountain
Go... more »
The Great Elder Statesmen To The Rescue
*Morsi and Muslim Brotherhood to John McCain and Lindsey Graham: Avenge
us, masters!*
Sen. Graham: Egypt 'Looking Into the Abyss' (Source: AP).
US senators call for national dialogue in Egypt. (Source: Al Jazeera).
Italy Is Buzzing About Berlusconi's Sentence... But That's All, Just Buzzing
Maybe it's because I'm in Italy so often-- or maybe because my all fresh
vegetables tomato sauce is so amazing-- but everyone has been asking me
what's going on with neo-fascist multi-billionaire Silvio Berlusconi. First
the good news: Thursday, the court of last resort for the old crook said
his conviction for tax fraud and sentence (four years, already reduced to
one) will stand. He can't participate in electoral politics for the next
six years. Now the bad news: the 76 year old Berlusconi will never see the
inside of a prison. He'll probably be confined to his sumptuous palace i... more »
Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW) - CO2 Levels
Welcome to Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)!
Wondering how to live greener? You've come to the right place. Each week we
challenge ourselves to try a new task ... or "amp up" something we're
already doing. We raise our awareness, learn from each other and develop
Eco-friendly skills which will improve our lives and protect our planet.
Doing so together gives us power ... the power to Change The World!
If this is your first visit, please click HERE for information and a
complete list of all the challenges we've taken on so far.
This post contains great information and I encourage ... more »
BOOKS / Ron Jacobs : Incarceration Complex: 'Beyond Walls and Cages'
Incarceration
complex:
The desire to imprison
Walls and Cages provides example after example of how central the
business of incarceration is to the U.S. power elites in the
twenty-first century.
By Ron Jacobs / The Rag Blog / August 7, 2013
[Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Border, and Global Crisis, edited by
Jenna M. Loyd, Matt Mitchelson, and Andrew Burridge (2012: University of
Georgia
"Avoiding Negative Vibrations: Taking on the Energy of Others"
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*"Avoiding Negative Vibrations: Taking on the Energy of Others"*
by Madisyn Taylor, The DailyOM
"In order to protect ourselves from taking on any negative energy from
other people or situations, we can learn to shield. There are times when
you may find that being around certain individuals or groups of people
leaves you with feelings of discomfort. It may be that spending time with a
particular friend feels draining or that dealing with a specific coworker
exhausts you. Being around toxic or angry people is also draining. And you
may even find that being surrounded by a crowd... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
Werribee, Victoria, Australia. Thanks for stopping by.
Michael James : 'El Triumph' in Tamaulipas, Mexico, 1962
Check
Point, Tamaulipas, Mexico, June 16, 1962. Photo by Michael James from
his forthcoming book, Michael Gaylord James' Pictures from the Long
Haul.
Pictures from the Long Haul:
El Triumph in Mexico,
Check Point, Tamaulipas, 1962
I’m working hard to keep the Triumph on the road through the flat, arid,
brown, dry and desolate terrain. Its new, different, and I’m digging
it, taking it all in.
ANDREW BOLT: THE VOICE OF MURDOCH OIL
Ever wondered why Murdoch’s Australian minion, Andrew Bolt, is so
anti-renewable energy? Have you wondered why he’s so anti-Carbon tax and
why he’s a climate change denialist? We all know why he’s anti-boatpeople
and against respecting the rights and heritage of Aboriginal people and
demeaning of African and Islamic people – it’s because he’s a racist, but
do you know why he’s so anti-green energy and generally such an avid
anti-environmentalist?
The problem with non-renewable energy resources – apart from polluting our
atmosphere as it gets used and being… well, non-renewable, as ... more »
China making Greece an outpost - converting those dollars into hard assets ! Meanwhile Greece faces further austerity and misery as the Troika works its magic .....
Greece on sale........
China runs half of Greece’s ports, now ready to take over rest; along with
roads and airports
Posted on August 6, 2013 by maxkeiser — 2 Comments ↓
How do you know more austerity is coming ?
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_06/08/2013_513034
*Talk of new austerity measures dispelled*
There are no plans for a fresh reduction to the minimum wage or for the
13th and 14th monthly wages in the private sector to be reduced imminently,
the government said on Tuesday as it stressed ahead of a new troika visit
next month Greece’s inability ... more »
"Japan Finally Admits The Truth: 'Right Now, We Have An Emergency At Fukushima'”
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*"Japan Finally Admits The Truth: *
*'Right Now, We Have An Emergency At Fukushima'”*
by Tyler Durden
"Tepco is struggling to contain the highly radioactive water that is
seeping into the ocean near Fukushima. The head of Japan's NRA, Shinji
Kinjo exclaimed, "right now, we have an emergency," as he noted the
contaminated groundwater has breached an underground barrier and is rising
toward the surface - exceeding the limits of radioactive discharge. In a
rather outspoken comment for the typically stoic Japanese, Kinjo said
Tepco's "sense of crisis was weak," adding that "this ... more »
Do you think the accountability hacks get sexual gratification from pummeling teachers?
Seriously. There has to be some kind of fetish with this stuff, some kind
of sexual fantasy. This from The Answer Sheet. Do you have any idea how
humiliating this poor woman does any good whatsoever? This kind of public
display of humiliation of an educated person does absolutely no good, I’m
serious. I think that’s […]
UPDATED: Hegemonic Warfare Watch: Taiwan, pivotal or not?
*Catholic facility in Tanzih, probably aimed at the large population of
Filipino workers in the nearby export processing zone. With what's coming
in Asia in a few years, we'll need all the help we can get.*
Typing this on my new Nexus 7 tablet with a mobile Bluetooth keyboard. Got
it so I'd have a light computer solution for biking and travel. The two
together weigh roughly 750 grams....
The resignation of Andrew Yang after only six days as Minister of Defense
for plagiarism has rocked the nation. The local media and several longtime
observers who know Yang personally are saying i... more »
Ineffective assistance of counsel
R. v. R.L., 2013 ONCA 504:
[5] The governing test for a claim of ineffective assistance of
counsel is an exacting one. As indicated by the Supreme Court in *R. v.
G.D.B.*, 2000 SCC 22, [2000] 1 S.C.R. 520, at para. 26, for an appeal to
succeed on this ground it must be shown, first, that trial counsel's
conduct constituted incompetence and, second, that a miscarriage of justice
resulted.
[6] With respect to the first requirement, the Supreme Court
explained in *G.D.B.*,at para. 27:
Incompetence is determined by a reasonableness standard. The analysis
proceeds... more »
Twas the Night Before Scores
Twas the night before scores And all across the state Teachers waited to
hear their fate The scores will be lower Was predicted long ago Now we all
wait to see just how low NYSUT says the scores are a baseline For informing
instruction When in reality The scores mean destruction For teachers and
students […]
Was Jeff Bezos's purchase of the Washington Post really just a gigantic "online shopping error"?
*Close your eyes and make a wish, Chris*: *Here is washingtonpost.com's
Chris Cillizza's view of "The future of the Washington Post -- in 2
tweets."
Well, this is one view.*
*by Ken*
I really intended to write about, and share, a piece from the
washingtonpost.com poltical blog "The Fix," "Why you shouldn't
underestimate Elizabeth Warren." But once the subject of the *Washington
Post* came up, I felt I couldn't let it pass without saying
*something*about yesterday's stunning development, the announcement that
the Graham
family is sellilng the paper, along with its smaller regional ... more »
Climate Change, British Columbia Style
*Giant Sunfish or 'Mola'* British Columbians don't need to be persuaded
that climate change is real and its impacts are coming on hard and fast.
The evidence is inescapable: changes to the mountain snowpack; premature
snowpack melting; the relentless spread of the lodgepole and mountain pine
beetle infestations; species migration and so on.
But the face of climate change is especially prominent along the coast.
Marine ecosystems are changing and moving at rates that far outpace changes
on land.
*"...researchers have discovered that the warmer temperatures are causing
marine spec... more »
Gold and Silver report for August 6 , 2013 - Fun with gold delivery charts ( Feb / April / June and Aug COMEX delivery months ) ....data , news and views from GATA , Turd Feg , Harvey Organ .....
Fun with charts....... focus on closing pm fix...
Feb high 1679 on 2/5.... Feb low of 1580 on 2/21
April high on April 1- 1580 ... April low - 1380 on 4/16
June high on June 3 at 1400 ... June low on June 27 at about 1190....
August high ( so far ) ... 8/1 at 1315....... and the low will be what
????If the trend for delivery months continues , we should see june low
taken out.....and note the difference between the high and low is about 200
! Let's see if this holds up ! If it does , a London pm fix of 1115 is in
the cards.....
news and views......
From NSA sur... more »
Three interesting economic factoids connected to 40 percent ! Minimum wage adjusted for inflation - 40 percent of 1968 minimum wage.....BLS vs JOLTS - misrepresentation of BLS---- over 40 percent ........How many student loans are being repaid - you got it ----forty percent !
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-06/only-40-federal-student-loan-borrowers-are-currently-making-payment
Only 40% Of Federal Student Loan Borrowers Are Currently Making A Payment
[image: Tyler Durden's picture]
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/06/2013 20:04 -0400
- default
- Student Loans
While it is relatively well-known that there are about 28 million federal
student loan borrowers in the US, and as we first covered a year ago, about
15% of these are deeply delinquent, what may not be known is that of the
total borrowers, a tiny 40%, or 10.8 million of lenders are act... more »
“It Will Be Madness In America Soon, Out Of Control”
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*“It Will Be Madness In America Soon, Out Of Control”*
By Michael T. Bucci
"I bought a copy of USA Today Weekend at the supermarket and wanted to gag.
A front-page lead story showing a picture of Edward Snowden's Russian
permit was titled: "Welcome, Comrade Snowden" (Is John McCain now writing
their headlines?). To read American mainstream news is to collide with an
illusory but impenetrable wall of rigid propaganda (rah, rah, America #1;
rah, rah, S&P 1700; rah, rah, Washington vs. a world of enemies). In short,
the paper's almost one-million readers were encouraged. In so ma... more »
Improvements . . .
SOME
THINGS DO get better. In a Stevie world, it's hard to believe, but just
check out the video. Sure is a lot safer to see
the-yoooo-esssss-ayyyyy-in-yer-shevrolay these days, in spite of the
road rage and the drive-by ordnance.
Below, Dina Shore, sixty years ago. The boys were home from the Korean
war, and Eisenhower was getting the Interstate highway system completed,
and it was time
Detroit - is Rothbard's pronouncement on deficit spending and public debt ( " a growing and intolerable burden on the society and economy ” ) the chicken coming home to roost ? In other news from Detroit , ineptitude being rooted out at the Pontiac School district !
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-06/detroit-austrian-moment-making
Detroit - An "Austrian Moment" In The Making
[image: Tyler Durden's picture]
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/06/2013 19:36 -0400
- Austrian School of Economics
- Creditors
- Deficit Spending
- Detroit
- Mark Spitznagel
- Michigan
- University Of Michigan
*Authored by Mark Spitznagel, originally posted at Project Syndicate,*
As Detroit begins to sort through the ill-begotten public liabilities that
have driven it to bankruptcy, an important opportunity is at hand to
revitalize the... more »
Porn Filters are Also Ideas Filters: Government Regulation of Fantasy,Approved Bt the State
"You haven’t a real appreciation of Newspeak, Winston,’ he said almost
sadly.
’Even when you write it you’re still thinking in Oldspeak.
I’ve read some of those pieces that you write in The Times occasionally.
They’re good enough, but they’re translations.
In your heart you’d prefer to stick to Oldspeak, with all its vagueness and
its useless shades of meaning.
You don’t grasp the beauty of the destruction of words.
Do you know that Newspeak is the only language in the world whose
vocabulary gets smaller every year?"
Winston did know that, of course.
He smiled, sympathetically he h... more »
Elections in Mali: Francophile A vs. Francophile B
While many citizens long for stability as Mali holds its first presidential
elections since the 2012 coup, France and others are positioning themselves
to reap the rewards of military intervention from the impoverished
resource-rich nation.
As one of the world’s poorest countries, day-to-day life in Mali has never
been easy for the vast majority of the people, but the situation has
significantly deteriorated since the March 2012 military-coup that deposed
democratically elected President Amadou Toumani Touré just weeks before
scheduled elections. The borders of Mali, once known as ... more »
America's War on the People of Korea
*In this speech, delivered at the International Symposium on Concluding a
Peace Treaty on the Korean Peninsula in Seoul, South Korea on July 26,
2013, Professor Michel Chossudovsky of the Centre for Research on
Globalization outlines the truth about the threat to peace and stability on
the Korean peninsula and discusses what needs to happen in order to realize
a peace treaty. Filmed and produced by James Corbett for Global Research TV*
"How It Really Is"
"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"
- Juvenal
"What Do You Call Government CONCEALMENT?"
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*"What Do You Call Government CONCEALMENT?"*
by Karl Denninger
"Let's play a little game...
(Reuters) - "A secretive U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unit is
funneling information from intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants
and a massive database of telephone records to authorities across the
nation to help them launch criminal investigations of Americans. Although
these cases rarely involve national security issues, documents reviewed by
Reuters show that law enforcement agents have been directed to conceal how
such investigations truly begin- not only from de... more »
Distilling His Own Kool-Aid: NSA Director Keith Alexander
Meet Dr. Strangelove:
Flynt Leverett Talks About Iran's New President
*Obaaama and Rouhani are not moderates. They are new faces on unpopular
regimes. And Rouhani played a key role during the origins of the
revolution, he's an old hand there, so to expect change is a sign of
delusion. The selection of both presidents represents the same desperate
attempt at preserving crumbling political orders in Washington and Tehran. *
Read: *America’s Iran Policy, the Undermining of International Order, and
the Bankruptcy of Washington’s Approach to Nuclear Diplomacy*.
Iran's New Leadership: Renwed Hope for Western Relations? Skip to the 4:30
mark. (Source: CCT... more »
Lists - various...
*Those Crazy Christians*
The Book of Esther is the only book in the Bible that doesn't mention god.
The church has always frowned on adultery but didn't get round to banning
sex with animals until the year 314.
The early Christian church held that Mary was impregnated through the ear -
hence wimples.
The Bible is full of lepers. In ancient times a leper was anyone with a
skin defect.
In the 12th and 13th century the church led a holy war on cats.
St Denis is the patron saint of syphilis.
Blessed William of Fenoli was a monk who defended himself from robbers by
tearing off a limb ... more »
Al Qaeda Makes A Move In Yemen
Yemen seems like an interesting place to visit. So far the closest I've
come is listening to Ofra Haza's music and sitting around a kitchen table
in Los Angeles and talking with her before she passed away. In 2009 we
looked into how safe it is to visit Yemen-- short answer: it's one of the
world's 10 least safe countries--and in 2011 we suggested postponing your
trip to see the mud skyscrapers until after the revolution. I think I
better update that; wait til your next lifetime. Back in 2011, the State
Department was very clear:
The Department of State warns U.S. citizens of the... more »
Oy, PolitiFact
I basically ignore everything PolitiFact has to say at this point, and today's
pathetic episode is exactly why. I mean, I was going to ignore this, as
I've been trying to ignore everything about them, but really, PolitiFact --
if you not only make bonehead mistakes but refuse to correct them...well,
as I said, I ignore everything they say.
Here's the thing. Eric Cantor said somewhere that the deficit was
"growing." He probably actually meant the debt, which is in fact growing;
he said the deficit.
Is it worth getting all fact-checky about? Probably not. But PolitiFact
did, in fact,... more »
Elsewhere: Senate Reform, Budget, More
My TAP column this week is about Senate reform, looking at two questions:
why did the deal on exec branch nominations take so long (answer: Obama's
fault), and does it mean we're in for similar deals on other filibusters
(answer: nope).
At PP today, I look at the strange place of House conservatives in the fall
budget showdown.
And from Friday, I'm still pushing the idea that conservative organization
leaders who are pushing young healthies to boycott health insurance should
be asked if they have health insurance themselves.
And also in the last few days:
Politicians’ paranoia is ... more »
The Humans Who Went Extinct
Clive Finlayson is an evolutionary ecologist and a champion skeptic. He
routinely rejects theories based on no evidence, even if they are solidly
supported by popular whims, like the widely held belief in the inferiority
of Neanderthals. What science now knows about human evolution is something
like finding 100 pieces of a 10,000-piece puzzle.
Experts have a strong urge to fill in the blanks with their opinionated
imaginations, an approach that is far from trusty. The mindset of
mainstream modern science worships *Homo sapiens*like Hitler worshipped
Aryans — the master race — whi... more »
Musical Interlude: Jethro Tull, "Locomotive Breath"
The previous deliriously uplifting and optimistic economic post initially
made me remember the words of the all-wise Mogambo Guru: "We're so freakin'
doomed!" Further consideration brought this little tune to mind as well...
enjoy! - CP
Jethro Tull, "Locomotive Breath"
SHUTTERED EMBASSIES A PROPAGANDA MOVE?
The Obama administration has announced it will keep 19 diplomatic posts in
North Africa and the Middle East closed for up to a week, due to fears of a
possible militant threat. On Sunday, Senator Saxby Chambliss, the top
Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said the decision to close
the embassies was based on information collected by the National Security
Agency. "If we did not have these programs, we simply would not be able to
listen in on the bad guys," Chambliss said, in a direct reference to
increasing debate over widespread spying of all Americans revealed by Gle... more »
The values of the New York Times!
*TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 2013*
*They’re as simple as S-E-X:* Is our nation in a state of moral and
intellectual paralysis?
Yesterday, we spent some time on the latest drivel from Maureen Dowd, queen
of the Bulger trial and Paris. She *defines* the New York Times’ fatuous
values.
But she isn’t alone.
On Sunday, Dowd devoted her column to the Gotham mayoral race. Her piece
sat on page one of the Sunday Review. This was her sad stupid headline:
“Who’s That Candidate in the Teal Toenail Polish?”
Dowd’s column was so fatuous that many commenters complained. But the Times
ran two other colu... more »
Unhelpful Variations
Following on from the earlier *Panorama *posts, it's fascinating - and not
a little disturbing - to read the differing accounts of the opening day of
the court martial of Maj. Nidal Hasan, the suspect in the Foot Hood
massacre of 2009 which saw 13 U.S. soldiers killed and many others injured.
I read the *Daily Telegraph*'s take first:
Fort Hood trial: US soldier Nidal Hasan says 'evidence will show I was the
shoote*r'*
Nidal Hassan, a US army major and self-styled "soldier of Allah", has
spoken publicly for the first time since shooting dead 13 of his comrades
in a gun rampage at... more »
Untitled
*Bayou Corne-type disaster could happen elsewhere ~Lt. Gen. Russel Honore *
Explaining the silence of the logicians!
*TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 2013*
*We may be better off:* Progressives are in a world of hurt with ranking
professors like Patricia Williams, whose recent work we reviewed in this
earlier post.
Conservatives get dumb listening to Rush. We progressives have folk like
Williams to perform that service.
That said, we recommend the recent flap about another ranking professor. We
refer to philosophy professor Colin McGinn, who hit the front page of the
New York Times this weekend.
We don’t know how to judge the matter which brought McGinn his front-page
placement. Nor do we really recommend the... more »
"Real US Debt $211 TRILLION?"
* "Real US Debt $211 TRILLION?"*
New Study Shows US Debt 6 Times Greater Than Officially Declared.
Its Not $12 Trillion, Its $70 Trillion
By Robert Bridge and Mort Amsel
"The United States has accumulated over $70 trillion in unreported debt, an
amount nearly six times the declared figure, according to a new study by
University of California-San Diego economics Professor James Hamilton. The
unique aspect of Hamilton’s study is that he examines federal debt that has
not been publicly released, specifically the federal government’s support
for “housing, other loan guarantees, d... more »
RALPH - GORBALS BOY
*Ralph*
Eight year old Ralph was in tears when his little friend Charlie left
Glasgow and went off to live in Russia.
The Russia of 1927 was supposed to be some kind of Utopia.
*Russia 1927*
But Ralph was not a believer in Utopias.
Ralph's mother had died of cancer.
*Shared toilets in the Gorbals often overflowed. *"Rats and mice moved
about freely, seeming to share the accomodation with us grudgingly..."
Ralph lived in the Gorbals, a slum of the sort that can be found in
Calcutta.
In the Gorbals many children suffered from rickets and went about barefoot.
*Gorbals by Bert Ha... more »
Alan Waldman : 'Inspector Lynley Mysteries' Feature Aristocratic Police Detective
Waldman's
film and TV
treasures you may have missed:
Nathaniel Parker and Sharon Small are excellent as the
mismatched-but-successful crime-fighting pair.
By Alan Waldman / The Rag Blog / August 6, 2013
[In his weekly column, Alan Waldman reviews some of his favorite films
and TV series that readers may have missed, including TV dramas,
mysteries, and comedies from Canada, England, Ireland,
PHILIPPINES BUYS US WARSHIP
Philippines President Benigno Aquino has welcomed the arrival of the
country's newest warship. It will be used in territorial disputes in the
South China Sea. Al Jazeera's Marga Ortigas reports from Subic Bay, where
the ship is docked.
In this clip the reporter mentions that the Navy would look into fitting
the ship with a "missile defense" system when they could "afford" to do
so. That's the big question as the Filipino people are in need of jobs,
health care, education and more and exorbitant spending on "modern" US
weapons technology aimed at China is not exactly a good way to... more »
Tiwesdæg: the Left-hand of Linkage
Tuesday on Lake Champlain In comments, Assaf Moghadam notes that
his Studies in Conflict and Terrorism critique of Bob Pape’s work is free
to download (PDF). In light of the 5 August 40-year anniversary of the
LTBT, the National Security Archive notes its 2003 collection, “The Making
of the Limited Test Ban Treaty, 1958-1963.” Erin Jenne
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Learning From The Best POP-UP Bookshop Experience
Merely handing over the business to the digitally enlightened is not the
answer, just as pretending digital will not happen was not the answer. We
spend far too much time trying to disintermediate and disrupt and maybe not
enough realising time that the present can have a place in the future.
Having spent a week last month, preparing and manning the Bibliophile stand
at the Queen’s Coronation Festival at Buckingham Palace, I was encouraged
by the power of the physical book. There are only two booksellers with a
perstigious Royal Warrant and being the only one selected to be on show... more »
Apple Inc. Patents Technology to aid the Fascist Police State.
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*One bad apple rots the rest*
*Just as bad as Microsoft: *
*Apple has patented a piece of technology which would allow government and
police to block transmission of information, including video and
photographs, from any public gathering or venue they deem “sensitive”, and
“protected from externalities.”*
In other words, these powers will have control over what can and cannot be
documented on wireless devices during any public event.
And while the company says the affe... more »
Duncan: Heading off disaster?
Two back to back items from New York City based media appeared in my
twitter feed today from a press call with Secretary of Education Arne
Duncan. Duncan was talking about the new Common Core state assessment
scores in New York which will be released to the general public tomorrow.
School administrators already have the […]
The New York Times is a real piece of work!
*TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 2013*
*What, them issue corrections:* The New York Times is a real piece of work.
Here’s why:
Yesterday, Paul Krugman made a very rare mistake in his column. The error
didn’t contradict the basic thrust of the column, but it was a large
mistake, and it came early on in the piece:
KRUGMAN (8/5/13): Consider what went down in Congress last week.
First, House leaders had to cancel planned voting on a transportation bill,
because not enough representatives were willing to vote for the bill’s
steep spending cuts. Now, just a few months ago House Republicans approved ... more »
HISTORY / Bob Feldman : A People's History of Egypt, Part 5, 1879-1890
Sir
Evelyn Baring, later Lord Cromer, coined the term "Veiled
Protectorate." Painting by John Singer Sargent / National Portrait
Gallery, London / Wikimedia Commons.
A people's history:
The movement to democratize Egypt
Part 5: 1879-1890 period -- Britain rules Egypt under 'Veiled
Protectorate.'
By Bob Feldman / The Rag Blog / August 6, 2013
[With all the dramatic activity in Egypt, Bob
Nights from the Alhambra - Loreena Mckennitt
address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 22 hours ago
Link: http://youtu.be/fR3jRhqSkUk
For my Islamic friends Ramadan comes to an end when Eid ul Fitr, the Sweet
Festival with the Breaking of the Fast is celebrated on Wednesday upon/or
Thursday. The rising New Moon will mark the end of Ramadan everywhere on
our planet.
What is better than contributing to it with a stylish concert from Loreena
Mckennitt, the Canadian musical talent: *Nights from The Alhambra*, from
the Moorish jewel in Granada and pride of ancient Spain, not so far from
the place where I live. *Eid Mubarak, Eid Sa'id to all of you!
Many thanks to my dear My Opera-frien... more »
(Ferrari Shortage) These Guys Are Funny? No Mistakes Have Been Made (Disappearing the Bad News (10 Million Jobs Lost) : The “New Economy” Is The No-Jobs Economy) Iceberg Rescues Titanic? (RICH Poisoned!)
Don't relax just yet. Summer's almost gone (no, not Summers - ever it
seems) and it's time to get to work. Cleaning out the (Augean) stables.
Newsflash! When I saw this item yesterday my first comment on Twitter was
along the lines of "Do you think he and the Koch Brothers can just divide
up what's left of print?" The Iceberg Just Rescued the TitanicBy Andrew
LeonardJeff Bezos' shocking
It's a copy, right?
—
The original 1959 dry toner Xerox —
COPIERS USED TO BE ANALOG, now they are digital. Faster, better,
cheaper. Well, ARS TECHNICA has an interesting report, “Confused
photocopiers randomly rewriting scanned documents” that shows that
sometimes, you might not get copies that are identical to the original.
Photocopiers exist to produce close enough replicas of original
documents.
Taking care of Bezos
By now you've heard that the gazillionaire owner of Amazon, Jeff Bezos,
bought the WaPo. (Moment of silence for the untimely end of Kaplan test
prep daily jokes.) This is of course will be a topic of endless fascination
among the insider media types for the duration of the summer.
Henry Blodget at Business Insider has already been living life under a
Bezos investment at his publication and tells us it's not a bad thing. He
offers up his own speculation on why Bezos decided to make the purchase.
Over at The Week, Peter Weber surveys the internets and collects the five
best reasons ... more »
Your moment of Zen
Hadrian's Wall, Great Britain. [photo via Pam Leavey]
Politifact still useless after all these years
I stopped reading (and especially linking to) Politifact years ago. After
they gave the Dems "Lie of the Year" for something that was absolutely
true, I was hoping the very serious important people would do the same.
They didn't but maybe today's Politifact idiocy will do the trick. Steve
Benen catches us up:
Cantor said that the federal deficit is "growing." Annual federal deficits
are not growing right now, and they are not projected to grow through 2015,
a point at which the deficit will have shrunk by three-quarters since 2009.
By this standard, Cantor is wrong. However, unless... more »
A New Job for Raghu Rajan
He's becoming a central banker.
True Priests: The Smiling Pope and The Supreme Leader
Iran's Supreme Leader, Ali Khameni, is likely to die with the next few
years.
He had no obvious successor to safeguard the Revolution.
*This is what the assumption of absolute temporal and political power looks
like;*
Ali Khameni reacts in the Iranian Paliament to the unanimous floor vote
confirming his late mentor's nomination to the position of being only the
second ever Surpeme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
"One day, in the Vatican, a Venetian who worked in the security services
said to him as their paths crossed, «Eminence, allow me to offer you my
best wi... more »
A Constitution for the Few: The Masonic So-Called Founding Fathers
A Constitution for the Few: Looking Back to the BeginningBy *Michael Parenti
*
To understand the U.S. political system, it would help to investigate its
origins and fundamental structure, beginning with the Constitution. The men
who gathered in Philadelphia in 1787 strove to erect a strong central
government. They agreed with Adam Smith that government was "instituted for
the defense of the rich against the poor" and "grows up with the
acquisition of valuable property."
*Class Power in Early America
*
Early American society has been described as egalitarian, free from the
extremes... more »
SOURCES OF PARALYSIS: Our own Rush!
*TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 2013*
*Part 2—Paralysis from the professors:* Is our nation trapped in a type of
moral and intellectual paralysis? As Joyce thought his Dublin was?
We liberals noticed this problem when it appeared among our rival
conservative tribe. Starting in the 1980s, we rolled our eyes at the
“ditto-heads” who proclaimed their fealty to a tribal priest, Father Rush
Limbaugh.
Yesterday, in a column in which he himself made an error, Paul Krugman
described a problem which can plague a tribalized nation. Speaking of
Republican voters, Krugman correctly said this:
*“Base vote... more »
Anonymous Republican Senator Preventing A Vote To Protect E-mail Privacy
Ken and I-- along with Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Bernie Sanders and Chuck
Schumer-- went to James Madison High School in Brooklyn. Maybe that's why
the 5 of us are all committed to the 4th Amendment to the Constitution, a
crucial part of the Bill of Rights. It was Madison, who was later elected
president, who wrote and proposed the simple one-sentence amendment:
*The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and
effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated,
and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or... more »
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, And The Big Historical Lie
Every year on this day, I pay homage to the 250,000 victims that were
massacred by the American military at Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, Japan.
Yes, it was a massacre, and again I want to present material that
absolutely shows that these atomic bombings were unnecessary and an act of
cold blooded murder!
For this article, I want to present a most interesting new article that
comes from the "Beyond The Mainstream" website, at
www.orwellwasright.co.uk, entitled: "Hiroshima, Nagasaki, And The Big
Historical Lie". In this article, that I have here in its entirety, you
will again see mo... more »
My Enduring Rivalry Endures: What is a Credible Signal Anyhow?
Previously, on Rathbun’s Enduring Rivalry: Brian is locked in an enduring
rivalry with this neighbors in which he does not really understand why they
are mad at him and why they won’t take yes for an answer, which makes him
really, really mad and inclined to do anything possible to drive them crazy
and make
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CotD Opportunity!
Democrats have been all worked up about the stunning GOP hypocrisy of
blocking a conference on the budget after spending years pretending that
the failure of the Democratic Senate to pass a budget resolution was
extraordinarily important. Regular readers will know that I think Democrats
are wrong now, after having been correct before, and that I don't really
care much about the hypocrisy.
However, there is one thing that I'm curious about. After being so invested
in the (supposed) importance of budget resolutions, it's sort of surprising
to me that a little thing like the Senate hav... more »
What Caused the Iraq War? Debs and Monteiro reply to Lake
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Alexandre Debs and Nuno P. Monteiro,
both of Yale University. In it, they discuss the causes of the Iraq War, a
subject of some recent discussion at The Duck of Minerva. This (surprise)
third installment responds to David Lake’s post, which itself was an
engagement with Debs’ and Monteiro’s article–and its summary post at The
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The Charitable-Industrial Complex
Peter Buffett
New York Times
I HAD spent much of my life writing music for commercials, film and
television and knew little about the world of philanthropy as practiced by
the very wealthy until what I call the big bang happened in 2006. That
year, my father, Warren Buffett, made good on his commitment to give nearly
all of his accumulated wealth back to society. In addition to making
several large donations, he added generously to the three foundations that
my parents had created years earlier, one for each of their children to run.
Early on in our philanthropic journey, my wife an... more »
Jared Diamond on How We Can Avert Collapse
A funny-looking little man delivers a decidedly unfunny little talk.
If you want the short talk, you can skip to 10:35 where Diamond discusses
how elites can undermine and collapse their own societies. He describes
what is going on today within our governments and our boardrooms and how
little time remains for us to reclaim our future from them.
The type of person Diamond describes seems to match people like Harper and
Joe Oliver. They're convinced they are acting rationally and, from a
narrow, short-term perspective, that's arguable. Yet it also makes them
seem so alien to an... more »
William Hill, here I come
Someone somewhere will doubtless be running a sweepstake on who'll replace
Paul Mason as* Newsnight*'s economics editor.
My money's on Larry Elliott, economics editor of the *Guardian*, though it
may well also be worth a punt on the somewhat darker horse, Phillip Inman
of the *Guardian*.
They could, however, go well beyond the confines of the BBC (and the *
Guardian*) and grab David (Danny) Blanchflower from his academic position
across the pond.
Danny is no stranger to the *Newsnight *studio and his powers of predictive
insight are at least as...er...good as Paul Mason's.
Y... more »
Hey! It's Eric Margolis!
A while ago, I wrote a post about state-sanctioned thuggery and murder in
Canada and Iran. Essentially my point was that letting Robert Dziekanski's
RCMP murder-squad avoid penalties for his death was going to put us on the
fast downhill slide to our becoming like countries such as Iran, where,
fairly recently, Canadian (of Iranian birth) photojournalist Zahra Kazemi
had been tortured, raped and murdered by torturers within Iran's official
repression apparatus. That when state-paid killers enjoy immunity from
prosecution ... well, it's so obvious a truth that it doesn't need
elabora... more »
RIP Sharon...
My long time blogger friend, known on her blog "Knocking Everywhere" as
Kalona, *has just passed away. * Please keep her in your prayers. Thank
you...
Nez Perce Executive Council Arrested Blocking Tarsands Megaload
By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
Nez Perce leaders were arrested blocking a tarsands megaload in the
predawn hours of Tuesday morning.
"We were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct," Brooklyn Baptiste
told Censored News.
"Eight of the nine members were arrested," Baptiste said of the Nez Perce Executive Council.
"Most of us are
Learning the Piano from Your Home (Piano Lesson Giveaway)
Is there something from your childhood that you wish you would have stuck
with? For me it is the piano. I took for a little while, but the second my
mom would let me quit in favor of the violin, I did. It has something I
have regretted many times in the years since, especially every time we have
sung A Capella in church because there was no one who could play the piano.
After we were married for a few years, we inherited a hand-me-down
keyboard, whose keys only sometimes worked, I tried piano lessons again and
made some progress before life got in the way. Fast forward to this year... more »
Today In Kafka
One of the great traumas of early parenthood is the very first time you
hear adorable little Susie or Johnny uttering the *F* word. Since the
standard ritual of the washing-out of the mouth with soap is now considered child
abuse in some locales (and for good reason -- have you read the ingredients
on a bar of Irish Spring lately?) the most that Mom and Dad can do is a
time-out, loss of privileges, and of course taking a good hard look at our
own potty mouths.
But how would you feel if your child was under official court order to
never, ever utter one particular *F* word again for t... more »
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Peter Bonerz, 75.
A bit of good stuff:
1. Brad DeLong: honest, classy. A mensch.
2. Stuart Rothenberg takes an early look at 2014 primary challenges.
3. Josh Marshall on the sale of the Washington Post to Jeff Bezos. I'm
still mostly critical of the reporting of the sale because there wasn't
enough emphasis on What It All Means for non-staff contributors to WaPo
blogs.
4. And Scott Lemieux is absolutely correct about Alex Rodriguez in Texas.
REVEALED: The NSA's Data Is Being Used Against You, Really
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*Why does the IRS and DEA have the same access to your private info as the
NSA?*
Eric Blair
*Activist Post*
Remember the good old days when the PATRIOT Act and warrantless spying were
just used to stop imminent Al Qaeda attacks overseas?
After 9/11, the Bush government said "trust us, we'll only use these powers
on Al Qaeda". Yet, the concern for abuse was still so large it forced a
sunset clause into the PATRIOT Act. Even the ultra-hawks agreed that
suspending privacy rights should only be temporary to get through a crisis... more »
Legalising fourth trimester abortion?
Campus Reform have the details, scary they are too.
America's Ruling Elites Are Screwing The Rest Of Us Out Of Selfishness And Greed
"We can't have a prosperous economy," explains former Secretary of Labor
Robert Reich in the video above, "without a large and growing middle
class." Over the weekend, his column dealt with the Republican Party's
systematic sabotage of the economy. They're opposing policies that grow and
sustain the middle class and they're pushing an agenda that pushes more
ordinary working families into economic distress and poverty. Reich focuses
on the GOP's obstruction of every attempt to improve the jobs situation.
They're not just not doing anything to help in the House, they're using
thei... more »
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