Ron Paul presidential campaign, 1988 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Ron Paul (Photo credit: Wikipedia)What its like to be free
I know a teenage girl whose boyfriend broke up with her. Three days
later, while in the midst of a tearful confrontation with him, she fell,
hit her head and was unconscious for a few moments. When she woke up, she
was fine, except she had amnesia. She remembered everything *until the
night he ended their relationship.* True story.
It’s like that. We’ve remembered everything right up until *now*. This is
the moment none of us recall. Not the “dark ones”, not the bankers, not
the “light workers”, not the “ascended” ones, not the boots on the ground
warriors. We li... more »
I Have To Stop Mixing Up Natalie Merchant And Natalie Tennant-- Until The Latter Proves She's As Worthwhile As The Former
A couple of weeks ago the *Charleston Daily Mail* speculated that if West
Virginia Secretary of State Natalie Tennant enters the race for the open
Senate seat, the Democrats will have a chance to hold onto it. Citing a
telephone survey, they said Republican Shelley Moore Capito got the thumbs
up from 45% of the voters and Tennant from 40% (which is within the margin
of error), with 15% unsure. Yesterday it became clear that Tennant will be
running, probably officially announcing her candidacy Tuesday.
The Republicans are already trying to paint her as a raging liberal. The
DSCC i... more »
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Joining Forces for Education’s statement on using Broad’s Jaime Aquino’s resignation to push for authentic reforms
First published on LA Schools Matter on September 14, 2013 “Once Broad
alumni are working inside the education system, they naturally favor hiring
other Broadies, which ups the leverage…” — Sharon Higgins While Los
Angeles’ corporate media bemoans scoundrel Jaime Aquino’s resignation,
replete with descriptions of tears from fellow Broadyte John Deasy, there
are other […]
On Ed Miliband's "Weakness"
Riddle me this. There is a man who ducks every serious fight, is running
scared of backbench rebellions and right royally screwed up a pivotal
moment of his political career at the very moment the world was watching.
There is another man who launched himself into the front rank of politics
by disregarding the ambition of his elder brother, and has since stood up
to the media mogul British politicians have, for generations, genuflected
to and is setting about re-establishing the relationship his party has with
its traditional backers. By any measure, regardless of the politics
invol... more »
Destabilisation
* Tarpley:*
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*"If you cannot see that everything Ron Paul has done in this campaign has
been in the service and to the advantage of Romney - then you just don't
have any political judgement..!"*
Tarpley/Jones The Great Ron Paul Debate! from Spike1138 on Vimeo.
*Jones: *
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*No, no, your wrong - I know Ron Paul, I know his family, I've had dinner
with 'em...!
Ron Paul is Good!!
Ron Paul is Good!!
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Rachel Maddow Calls Out Ron Paul, Alex Jones and Glenn Beck as Agents of
Destabilisation from Spike1138 on Vimeo.
de·sta·bi·lize (d-stb-lz)
tr.v. de·sta·bi·lized, de·sta·bi·liz·ing,... more »
"The Intra-Administration War in Vietnam" by Arthur Krock
Coming Soon: October Surprise: 1963 - Death in Saigon from Spike1138 on
Vimeo.
"...if the United States ever experiences an attempt at a coup to overthrow
the Government, it will come from the CIA..."
October 2nd, 1963
*The New York Times, October 3, 1963*
*In the Nation *
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*"The Intra-Administration War in Vietnam"*
*by Arthur Krock*
* WASHINGTON, Oct 2 *
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The Central Intelligence Agency is getting a very bad
press in dispatches from Vietnam to American newspapers and in articles
originating in Washington. Like the Supreme Court when under fire, the C. I.
A. cannot defe... more »
GIVING
The Thai telecommunications conglomerate True is getting rave reviews
worldwide for its latest spot, "Giving," which tells the story of a man
unexpectedly rewarded for a lifetime of good deeds he performed without
expecting anything in return.
It (Almost) Got Them Killed : President Gerald R. Ford
*"He's a nice fellow but he spent too much time playing football without a
helmet." *Lyndon B Johnson
*President Gerald R. Ford*
1913 - 2006
*Cause of (Almost) Death:*
*Likely Suspects:*
Gov. Nelson Rockerfeller / General Alexander Haig / Kissinger
*Assassination attempt of U.S. President Gerald R. Ford by Sara Jane Moore.
Location: San Francisco, CA. Description: Reaction of Secret Service
agents, police, and bystanders approximately one second after Sara Jane
Moore attempted to assassinate President Gerald R. Ford. 22 September 1975*
*The Daily Diary of U.S. Pres... more »
Fat Free Econ 48: Jobs, Taxes and the World Bank
* This is my article yesterday in interaksyon.com. The charts I added here,
not part of the original article in interaksyon.
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MANILA - The World Bank gave a press conference yesterday about the
Philippine Development Report 2013 with the theme, “Creating More and
Better Jobs.” The Bank expressed alarm that many Filipinos were either
unemployed or underemployed, or had jobs but were in low productivity,
low-paying work. Both conditions result in more poverty.
According to the Bank, some 10 million Filipinos were jobless (3 million)
or had jobs but were looking for additional... more »
Weekend Fun 48: On Being Old and Crazy
Early this week, I posted this in my facebook wall:
*"You can never be old and wise if you were never young and crazy. "-- Zeno
Martinez
Tama nga naman. But why aspire to be old and wise when you can be old and
crazy?*
Lots of likes and funny comments from friends, including friend from UP,
Zerno Martinez himself. Zero has a good sense of humor, posting one liners
in his wall. Below are some of those from his wall, and my additions.
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. -- Zeno
If at first you don't succeed, try and try until you will die. -- Nonoy
If a... more »
TV Watch: In series TV, how much is too much?
*This week we said good-bye to Burn Notice.*
*
* *by Ken*
* This week we said good-bye to USA's *Burn Notice*, after however-many
seasons and however-many episodes. (If you care, you can look it up as well
as I can. LATER: Okay, I looked it up: seven seasons -- of 12, 16, 16, 18,
18, 18, and 13 episodes.) My instinct is that it went on a couple of
seasons too long, and this despite the creative team's diligent work at
creating new and different hells for ex-CIA spy Michael Westen (Jeffrey
Donovan) and his crew -- (ex-)girlfriend Fiona (Gabrielle Anwar), old pal
Sam (Bruce Campbell)... more »
Argentina makes it a crime to publish inflation data that contradicts the official story on inflation....Of course the US sued S&P for daring to downgrade US debt .... pick your poison ?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-09-14/dare-question-argentinas-inflation-data-prepare-go-jail
Dare To Question Argentina's Inflation Data, Prepare To Go To Jail
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/14/2013 17:59 -0400
- BLS
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
- International Monetary Fund
- Purchasing Power
- Twitter
inShare
Back in April, we saw that merely asking the local economy minister what
Argentina's rate of inflation is, was enough to prematurely terminate any
interview and result in a mocking, viral twitter meme. Since then... more »
SOME VACATION PICTURES
*Back cove in New Harbor, just a few minutes walk from our cabin*
We just returned home today after a week away in New Harbor, Maine. Last
year MB and I went there for our vacation and the only thing we could
afford was a small two room place in the village area just a couple blocks
from the beautiful back cove. We spent that time walking along the rocky
coastline and decided to come back again this year if we could swing it.
We found a cottage right on the coast but the cost for a week was more than
we could handle. So we talked with Addams-Melman housemate Karen Wainberg
and sh... more »
You Know Those Annoying Commercials on YouTube?
I slammed straight into this one. Somehow I think I just lost a few days
off my lifespan.
On the Corruption and Suppression of Intellectualism
Henry Giroux, considered one of the top 50 educational thinkers of the
modern period, is sounding the alarm on the fate that has befallen intellectualism
in today's Brave New World.
*Edward Snowden, Russ Tice, Thomas Drake, Jeremy Scahill, and Julian
Assange, among others, have recently made clear what it means to embody
respect for a public intellectual debate, moral witnessing and intellectual
culture. They are not just whistle-blowers or disgruntled ex-employers but
individuals who value ideas, think otherwise in order to act otherwise, and
use the resources available to them t... more »
“Fukushima Radioactivity 30x Higher Just In Last Week"
*“Fukushima Radioactivity 30x Higher Just In Last Week*
“Engineers at Japan’s crippled nuclear plant have made a worrying
discovery.”
by ENE News
“Source: NHK World
Date: Sept. 13, 2013
The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says that it
found sharply rising tritium levels at a monitoring well near a wastewater
storage tank.Tokyo Electric Power Company says the level of radioactive
tritium at one of the wells rose to 130,000 becquerels per liter on
Thursday. That’s more than twice the government-set level for its release
into the sea. The tritium level i... more »
Colorado Whipsawed By "Once in a Hundred Years" Drought and Floods
This made the news in the Colorado newspaper, the Yuma Sun, on September
7th, just one week ago.
*The Colorado River Basin is currently experiencing its driest 14-year
period in more than 100 years of historical records. While the outlook
could change significantly if the watershed were to have a good snowpack
this coming winter, the basin needs to be prepared for continuing drought.*
**
*Colorado River water supply issues as well as restoration efforts along
the river in Yuma will be discussed at the next public meeting of the
Colorado River Citizens Forum at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Yu... more »
What "Crazy Things" Is Ted Cruz (R-TX) Advocating Besides Racism?
Why not 100 Abe Lincolns? 100 Teddy Roosevelts? 100 Dwight Eisenhowers? Not
a chance! Those great Republicans were do not come from the same
nihilistic, anti-government and anti-democracy wing that is dominated by
Ted Cruz, Michele Bachmann, Louie Gohmert and Jim DeMint, the GOP
politicians that are driving today's party further and further from the
mainstream of American political thought. Abe Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and
Dwight Eisenhower are celebrated by all normal Americans as genuinely
crucial historical figures. None of them would recognize Ted Cruz's GOP and
all of them w... more »
How Could US Signals of Weakness bring Russia and Syria to the Table?
That’s essentially the question Steve Saideman asked here (and which he
more explicitly asked on Twitter). His answer, which I find problematic, is
But here is the big problem in all of this: perhaps much of IR is not about
bargaining and persuasion about commitment and resolve. Perhaps much of IR
is a conflict of
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Speaking of George Zimmerman, Here's Ol' Man McCain and Lindsey Graham On the Warpath.
Forget the unabomber. America's moved on and filled Ted Kaczynski's shoes
with the duobombers. That's right, old man McCain and his longtime
girlfriend, Lindsey Graham.
These geezers think calling off the aerial shitstorm planned for Iran Syria
is a big mistake.
*In a statement released on Saturday, McCain and Graham said the deal would
give the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, time "to delay and deceive"
while the country's civil war continued.*
*The statement said: "It requires a willful suspension of disbelief to see
this agreement as anything other than the start of a dipl... more »
Bill Maher's New Rules - America Should Stop Acting Like George Zimmerman
From last night's show
Here's a clip from an earlier show where Maher warns that America is coming
dangerously close to not having a war.
Mining the Data
Alan at *Biased BBC* caught a rather striking example of a certain way of
thinking at the BBC, as put into words by Nicky Campbell on Radio 5 Live during
an interview with Labour MP Fabian Hamilton:
Would you like to do to the arms industry what people say Mrs Thatcher did
to the coal mining industry, would you like to phase it out and close it
down?
Alan describes this as a "schoolboy error" on Nicky Campbell's part, and
presents the data to support it.
I can only add a little more data - but it's strikingly revealing data, and
confirms that those "people" who Nicky Campbell men... more »
Lucas: Hierarchy Closed Down. The Trapdoor. Being You.
*Lucas – Hierarchy Closed Down – The Trapdoor – Being You*
Posted on September 11, 2013
by lucas2012
http://lucas2012infos.wordpress.com/2013/09/11/lucas-hierarchy-closed-down-the-trapdoor-being-you-11-september-2013/
Once again I am observing from my galactic observation post how things are
unfolding. Changes have taken place in absolute form. The will of the
people and the power of their human awakened parts has been an off the
meter experience. If that experience was induced or not does not matter
anymore. The ones you call the PTW or ‘powers that were’ have been really
sho... more »
Expanded grand portal activity engages Cosmic energetic connections for all Hue-Beings
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* *Expanded grand portal activity engages Cosmic energetic connections for
all Hue-Beings*
by ÉirePort
Expanded grand portal activity engages Cosmic energetic connections for all
Hue-Beings at this moment. Such connections are necessary at this time to
precursor the "full disclosure" chapters.
All Hue-Beings experience heightened sensitivities at all levels, including
3D body extremities such as hands/fingers, feet/toes, mouth/tongue/teeth,
and crown chakra.
Recommended for Hue-Beings at this time are Self-patience, rest (physical),
and stillness, as Higher-D DNA alteration... more »
Caching and BBQ
Having missed the meeting last month Southern Man made a point to attend
the monthly geocacher's luncheon, this time at a local BBQ place.
A festive gathering.
"No Vehicles Off Road?" We're geocachers! Off Road is where we live!
Geocaching is kid friendly.
Drawing for door prizes.
Another shot of most of the gathering. We were as usual too many for the
reserved accomodations so there was overflow in the adjoining room.
Geocaching is kid friendly, part two.
People sometimes give Southern Man a funny look when he talks about
geocaching. Well, people sometimes give Southern Ma... more »
Obama meets Putin - Redline
I thought I will add a little animation.
*Cartoon by MIKE PETERS*
Microorganismo de Montana: The Movie
Oh, we talk a lot about the importance of organic agriculture back
home, but would we climb up a 75-degree slope into a beautiful but buggy
mountain forest and dig around in the dead leaves for a couple of hours
looking for flecks of white fungus?
That's how a couple of my favourite Copan coffee producers passed a big
part of their day last week, collecting the *microorganismo de montana* that
is used by organic growers in Honduras to make a special fertilizer known
for helping plants of all kinds arm themselves against diseases and
infestations.
The fruits of the men's l... more »
Keeping the Pins in the Air
September 14, 2013 While the Empire struggles,over Syria, to keep all its
juggling pins in the air – thanks to that sly Russian fox, Mr. Putin,
stuffing his foot in Secretary of State Kerry’s mouth – and the financial
world … Continue reading →
Jesse Jackson Jr.'s Last Stand
Mr. WOLF of Virginia.
...But because I do believe that everyone should have the right to vote, I
voted for it.
But I would also say, to end, we may be approaching a time that this would
go because we want a Nation where no one is discriminated against, and we
may have reached that point. But I think the Judiciary Committee should
hold extensive hearings and we should see what the Supreme Court does. I
don't think this is the place to do it, and I strongly rise in opposition
to the amendment.
Mr. JACKSON of Illinois.
Will the gentleman yield?
Mr. WOLF.
I yield to the gent... more »
'UNITED NATIONS REPORTS WRITTEN BY CIA'
syria360.wordpress.com
The United Nations is not necessarily neutral on Syria.
The UN has been infiltrated by the CIA and its friends.
The UN has reported on Syria in the past.
In 2011 there was the UN Human Rights Council's report on Syria (full text
.pdf), and in August 2013 there was the most recent report on Syria(.doc).
These reports included:
*1.* Lies provided by the CIA's Syrian rebels and by defectors working for
the CIA.
*2.* Lies provided by charities (NGOs) working for the CIA.
*The UN has been infiltrated.*
The UN panel, for the 2011 and 2013 reports, was headed ... more »
Two days ago, September 11th, was 40th anniversary of the coup in Chile that overthrew the democratically elected Allende government. This coup has long been known to have been orcestrated by Henry Kissinger, including the murder of a journalist, Charles Horman, who was going to expose the truth that the U.S. already had "boots on the ground." Was it a coincidence, or something more sinister, that on the very day of this anniversary John Kerry was getting advice from Kissinger, the war criminal.
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* the**REALnews
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*What's behind Kerry and Kissinger's meeting?*
Michael Ratner: Despite being from different parties, the meeting between
Kerry and Kissinger highlights the consistency of an American foreign
policy based on imperialism - * September 13, 13*
More at The Real News
*Bio*
Michael Ratner is President Emeritus of the Center for Constitutional
Rights (CCR) in New York and Chair of the European Center for
Constitutional and Human Rights in Berlin. He ... more »
Negative Option Fetus Fetishizing
I get junk mail. You get junk mail. We all get junk mail. In my apartment
building there is a recycling bucket right under the mailboxes for quick
and easy disposal.
So when a pro-choice woman recently got something from Swift Current &
District Pro Life, she wondered how they got her name and opened the
envelope looking for a clue.
Good thing she did. Look what the deceptive shits are up to now (PDF).
For the click-averse, the letter starts out 'Dear Fellow Christians', then
explains that when the organization interacts with government types, the
government types want to know how ... more »
This Sceptred Island
A blog is a blog is a blog (a 'web log', a personal take, a collection of
ramblings), so please forgive me for straying (yet again) far from the
strict path of BBC bias hunting to pass on the words, from this week's *More
or Less *(BBC Radio 4), of Professor Godfrey Baldacchino, Professor of
Island Studies at the University of Prince Edward Island, Canada, and
editor of the Island Studies Journal, in response to the snub allegedly
made against our very own island kingdom by an aide to President Putin -
that we are "a small island no one listens to."
Britain is a fairly large islan... more »
New Article From Whitewraithe: World War III Will Be Over Before It Ever Starts
It does appear that the rush to war by the warmongers in both the American
and criminal state of Israel's governments against the innocent state of
Syria has been delayed... At least for now.... We have news that the
Syrians and the Russians are now pushing ahead for removal of all of the
Syrian government's chemical weapons stockpiles, and with that, the
criminals have lost that as their primary excuse to invade that nation...
But I can guarantee that the sick mental cases in Israel are right now
planning a false flag attack to be blamed on either Syria, or even Iran,
just to get ... more »
Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake
Given my own biases, I'd be delighted to have lots more Douglas Murray and
Richard Dawkins on the BBC. Preferably together.
That's not something that's likely to happen.
So in lieu of that, and whilst I'm waiting for the BBC to oblige (and for
pigs to fly), there's always Douglas Murray's recent interview with the
blessed Richard in the *Spectator. *
(The first part of his autobiography, *An Appetite for Wonder: the Making
of a Scientist*, is out within the next couple of weeks.)
What struck me most, as a lapsed but grateful Anglican, is Richard's take
on his own Anglican inheri... more »
SICK TORIES; SYRIA; FEDERAL RESERVE
The UK has a coalition government made up of Conservatives (Nazis) and
Liberal Democrats (Nazis)
*Jobseekers are being coerced into experimental drug trials dressed up as
‘job opportunities’*
By *DAVID ICKE*
‘Many Coalition Members of Parliament ... are heavily financially invested
in pharmaceutical and health care companies.
Over 200 UK parliamentarians have recent past or present financial links
with, and vested interests in companies involved in healthcare and all were
allowed to vote on the Health and Social Care Bill...
So we must ponder just how coincidental it is that ... more »
"John Pilger is the most important voice of our time." -- Paul Craig Roberts
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The silent military coup that took over Washington
This time it's Syria, last time it was Iraq. Obama chose to accept the
entire Pentagon of the Bush era: its wars and war crimes
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John Pilger
The Guardian, Tuesday 10 September 2013 19.15 BST
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Children, many of whose deformities are believed to be the results of the
chemical dioxin that the US used in the Vietnam war, play outside a
hospital in Ho Chi Minh City. Photograph: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images
On my wall is the... more »
Jim Lehrer was more than a writer of novels!
*SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2013*
*News anchor also wrote plays:* There’s nothing wrong with writing plays.
Shakespeare did it a lot!
That said, we were surprised by Thursday’s report about Jim Lehrer’s new
play. We didn’t know the newsman wrote plays, though we knew all about his
novels.
Laura Bennett handled the history in the New York Times:
BENNETT (9/11/13): *Mr. Lehrer’s career in television news has made him
famous. But far less well known is that he has always loved writing for the
theater, and that he is the author of four plays. (He also has 21 novels to
his name.)* His fir... more »
A Cop's Take on George Zimmerman
A Florida police chief has sized up Trayvon Martin-killer, George Zimmerman,
as more than a little dangerous.
*Emails sent by a Florida Police chief appear to show him agreeing that
George Zimmerman, the man who shot teenager Trayvon Martin is "a Sandy Hook
waiting to happen".*
*** *
*The comments came after Zimmerman hit controversy again when his estranged
wife Shellie contacted police alleging he was threatening her and her
father with a gun at her father's house in Lake Mary. *
*Lake Mary resident Santiago Rodriguez wrote to the Lake Mary police
department to complain over thei... more »
The Senate Candidate The DSCC Is Ignoring
Patty Murray (D-WA) made running the DSCC look like apiece of cake. She and
her team practically swept the field last year, winning nearly every
impossible race the pundits had already awarded to the GOP-- replacing Wall
Street fave Scott Brown with Elizabeth Warren, beating back popular
Wisconsin ex-Governor Tommy Thompson with an openly progressive lesbian
from Madison, Tammy Baldwin, and winning in red states like Indiana,
Missouri, North Dakota, Montana, West Virginia and purple Ohio, Florida and
Virginia. The only close contest the DSCC lost was in Nevada where the
Democrats ... more »
SEN. ANGUS KING ON SYRIA
Sen. Angus King (Independent-Maine) still has not publicly declared his
official position on Syria attack. But today on the way home from New
Harbor, Mary Beth and I got a good glimpse of his thinking. He hosted an
interview with former Maine Republican Sen. William Cohen, who also served
as Bill Clinton's Secretary of Defense.
The radio interview was on WGAN's "Inside Maine" show.
During the interview Sen. King said that he'd seen the administration's
evidence of Syrian chemical use and that it was "strong but circumstantial".
King agreed with Cohen that the growing "isolationism... more »
Stephen Harper getting ready for October opening of Parliament
Before the Parliament opens Harper wants to master contortionism. He needed
time that is why he went for pro-rogue.
“As the Fantasy Dies: ‘Panic Will Ensue’”
*“As the Fantasy Dies: ‘Panic Will Ensue’”*
By Mac
“The US government may have funded studies and propaganda material which
says that people will not panic, loot or go hungry in the midst of a crisis,
but the fact of the matter is that history has shown otherwise. It’s often
the case that, despite countless warnings from those considered to be
fringe lunatics, the vast majority of the populace is blindsided by
horrific, paradigm-altering events. The signs are almost always there, but
people simply refuse to believe it can happen to them. ”It” always happens
somewhere else, an... more »
Global Communications: Wicked This Way Comes and The Smoky God
Had the pleasure of being anthologized again - Tim Beckley has just sent me
his two latest projects: UFOs - Wicked This Way Comes and The Smoky God.
Yours truly shares space with such greats as Sean Casteel, Peter Robbins,
Tim Swartz and Brad Steiger! Both are available from Global Communications
(www.conspiracyjournal.com).
Inexplicata Podcasts covering items from UFO / paranormal history in Spain,
Latin America and the Caribbean
When 99.99% of people don't work, is it communism?
Sean Carroll promotes a quote by Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983, an American
futurist/philosopher) that promotes a society in which technology allows a
vast majority of people avoid any work:
We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to
earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a
technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of
today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living.
We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be
employed at some kin... more »
Controversial stuff
Here are some investigative high japes for you, concerning the BBC's use of
the word 'controversial'.
The BBC's use of the word 'controversial' is itself controversial - well,
at least in BBC bias-hunting circles - as some BBC bashers (including yours
truly, from time to time) claim that BBC reporters use the word to cast a
biased cloud over things of which they themselves disapprove.
The underlying assumption here, if I think about it, seems to be that
calling something 'controversial' makes it sound suspect. Which it does.
For example, if you call someone 'a historian' no valu... more »
Judge to Fetus Fetishist: FFS!
One of the Jubillee Jailbirds, Linda Gibbons, was in the news last week.
Again.
But some good news to report. Judges are getting increasingly pissed off at
these scofflaws.
After sentencing Gibbons to the max, without reduction for time served, the
judge displayed her, um, annoyance.
The judge went on to administer a tongue-lashing to Gibbons at today's
hearing.
"She has indicated no remorse to the court," [Madam Justice Feroza] Bhabha
said angrily. "She believes in the rightness of her cause ... (but)
abortions are legal. Miss Gibbons does not appreciate that it's a legal
right... more »
Euro disaster update: the end seems near...
address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 12 hours ago
Link: http://youtu.be/f95ZUtvU3Lc
What is happening these days in "united" Europe is unacceptable, untenable,
rude. Political fantasies fly all over the place, the one with more
creativity than the other. But a fantasy may be a lie. "Europe is out of
the crisis" - well, is it? "Europe is out of recession" - well, is it? What
about the people? Anybody heard about them in statements from politicians? I
only seem to hear "recession", "debts", "bail-out (bail-in)", "election", "
banks" and verbs like: "we must", "we should", never: "we do" except when
it deals with tax-hikes and lowering... more »
Only Three (3) More Years Before Recovery Clicks In for Those At Bottom of Wealth Pyramid (99%) But (Whining) RICH Enjoy Huge Recovery! ($$$$$$ For Nothing)
Good news from the Bank of England (which may be the best we can hope for
today as we hear more and more that the "taper" by the US Fed will be
starting immediately if not sooner - with the next recession in the wings)!
(Plenty of $$$$$ still available, however, for War on Syria.) Bank of
England’s Carney says stimulus working, wary of new “false dawn” (Reuters)
“The economy is picking up and
Meta-theory and Practical Knowledge: Reflections on Reus-Smit’s ‘Beyond Meta-theory’
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Milja Kurki. It is the
18th installment in our “End of IR Theory” companion symposium for
the special issue of the European Journal of International
Relations. SAGE has temporarily ungated all of the articles in that
issue. This post refers to Reus-Smit’s article (PDF). His post appeared
earlier today. Other entries in the symposium–when available–may be reached
via the “EJIR
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Beyond Metatheory?
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Christian Reus-Smit. It is the
17th installment in our “End of IR Theory” companion symposium for
the special issue of the European Journal of International
Relations. SAGE has temporarily ungated all of the articles in that
issue. This post refers to Reus-Smit’s article (PDF). A response, authored
by Milja Kurki, will appear at 11am Eastern. Other entries in the
symposium–when available–may be
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*Inaugural Mighty Mississippi Downriver Festival Flows into the French
Quarter ~Sam Nelson, NOLA DEFENDER*
First Storm Of Autumn & Hurricane Strength Winds Set To Arrive On Cue – As Forecast 5 Months Ahead For Exact Dates + Locations
*First Storm Of Autumn & Hurricane Strength Winds Set To Arrive On Cue –
As Forecast 5 Months Ahead For Exact Dates + Locations*
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* *The 5 month ahead autumn forecast stated the following information to
subscribers:*
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*September 2013:* Warm first half/settled at times + flash floods/large
hail &
very windy/stormy mid-month
A number of large scale low pressure systems and hurricane remnants are
also possible during the early part of September and around the MID-MONTH
point too. Dependant upon their exact development at the time, many parts
of the country can expect some ext... more »
Why Are Only Jews Allowed To Run The FED? And Why Is Our Government Illegally Spying On All Of Us And Sharing The Data With A Foreign Country (ISRAEL)?
I've posted this question over the last few weeks: why are only Jewish
Zionists allowed to run the FED? When Ben Bernanke (Jewish Zionist), who
took over for Alan Greenspan (Jewish Zionist), steps down from the FED,
guess who are the two people in the running to take over for Bernanke? Two
Jewish Zionists: Larry Summers and Janet Yellen:
*Washington Post: Battle Between Two Jews To Replace A Jew Who Replaced A
Jew*
Remember when America cared about giving everyone a fair shot and when we
saw one group being favored or ignored, we started a thing called *AFFIRMATIVE
ACTION* to rem... more »
Brand
*"But they did look fucking fantastic...!!"*
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*"Hugo Boss... It's fair enough... He might not have known...!"*
Russell Brand Kicks the Moneylenders Out of the Temple from Spike1138 on
Vimeo.
*"Shortly afterwards, Brand was kicked out by the magazine’s editor, Dylan
Jones. According to the comedian’s Twitter feed, the two men exchanged
angry words, with Jones saying, *
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*‘What you did was very offensive to Hugo Boss.’ *
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*Brand replied, ‘What Hugo Boss did was very offensive to the Jews.’*
"We have to have been the only band in history to get kicked out of our own
albu... more »
Ed Steer's gold and silver report - September 14 , 2013 - Data , news and views touching on the precious metals ! Jessie Crossroads Cafe covers the current situation at Comex - following dealer gold decline and record claims per ounce of gold and what these conditions may portend ...
http://www.caseyresearch.com/gsd/edition/goldman-sees-risk-of-gold-below-1000...hsbc-disagrees
¤ YESTERDAY IN GOLD & SILVER
As I mentioned in *The Wrap* yesterday, the smallish rally in gold in early
Far East trading ran into a not-for-profit seller about thirty minutes
before the London open, and it was more by good luck than by good
management that I manged to file Friday's column at the precise low of the
day, which came at 10:15 a.m. BST, which was 5:15 a.m. EDT. With the
benefit of 20/20 hindsight, this might have been an early a.m. London gold
fix.
After that, the gold price ... more »
Humanoid Isomorphism in the Santa Ana Case (1986) with Mythical Beings in the Creole Culture of the Argentinean Littoral
*Humanoid Isomorphism in the Santa Ana Case (1986) with Mythical Beings in
the Creole Culture of the Argentinean Littoral*
*By Andres Salvador*
*Facts of the Santana Case*. A close encounter of the third kind = CE-3
(Hynek, 1979:37-38) took place on Monday, 17 March 1986, in the vicinity of
the locality of Santa Ana in the Province of Corrientes (Argentina),
witnessed by Mr. Rito Melgarejo, 42 years old at the time. The case was
investigated by journalist Francisco Villagrán (1) who gathered the
following eyewitness account:
“In fact, I was returning home after playing cards with s... more »
Another word on those hi-tech, canned reading programs. #edchat #edtech
I just posted, not ten minutes ago, a little slice about a reading
consultant visit. But now, I have some other questions and thoughts. So,
these and other programs meant to “teach” “reading” require some kind of
technology. With budgets as they are, it looks like I’m not going to see my
own device. At […]
The next frontier for #TFA? Warrior training in Kenya?
No analysis necessary. But a vomitous story’s out there about some CA white
chick who is training to be a Maasai warrior. Here’s her account. Young,
white knights? Are you ready? I mean, what the hell does becoming a
“warrior” mean? She’s out there for a few months hither and thither doing
some cross training. […]
Hiduism and Rituals
All religion have strange rituals which turn me off of organized religions.
In the past I have posted about Judaism and Christianity. Here is an
interesting ritual of a Hindu devotee.
*SUBMERGED: A Hindu devotee carried an idol of the Hindu god Ganesha on the
fifth day of the festival Ganesh Chaturthi, in Mumbai on Friday. Hindu
devotees bring home idols of Lord Ganesha in order to invoke his blessings
for wisdom and prosperity. (Indranil Mukherjee/AFP/Getty Images)WSJ*
It is colourful.
9/11/1991
9/11/1991 from Spike1138 on Vimeo.
What George H.W. Bush was doing the day The Secret Team purchased all those
10 year Russian government bonds that came due on 9/11/2001...
You might be surprised...
Ed Steer's Gold and Silver Report - September 12 , 2013 ... News , data and views touching on the precious metals - and updates during the course of the day ...... Of particular note - Grant Williams and John Hathaway discuss ( Kings World News Blogs ) on the GLD telling its customers they can't have the gold ( unless you are Goldman or JP Morgan , you can forget about it ) .... The Wrap has interesting insights on the PM scene to consider including discussion of the US Mint hedging silver purchases with HSBC and JP Morgan...
Catharsis Ours - 13 hours ago
http://www.silverdoctors.com/precious-metals-smash-continues-into-globex-close-as-silver-breaks-under-22/#more-31822
*Today’s gold and silver paper raid has accelerated into the Globex close,
as silver closed at $21.73, just .06 off the days low of $21.66, and gold
closed at $1321, just $1 off the days low of $1320. *
*Silver lost $1.50 on the day, its largest single day loss since May, and
is now down 8% on the week.*
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Silver closes globex trading at $21.73, nearly $2 off Tuesday’s highs of
$23.50:
Gold closes just above crucial support and moving averages at $1320:
The last 4-5 wee... more »
Dr. Robert Hargraves, LFTR Advocate
I first encountered Dr. Robert Hargraves' nuclear advocacy 6 years ago,
when I was looking for support for an idea that I was developing. The idea
was a partial solution to nuclear costs through factory construction of
reactors. Robert had posted some material on the Internet advocating the
same idea and I stumbled on it. At this point the Pebble Bed Reactor was
still in the running for reactor of the century and Robert had suggested
that among its' advantages was its' potential for factory construction.
I respected Bob enough that I put the Pebble Bed Reactor in my also worth
dev... more »
Edushyster reveals him or herself. Nice. My standards, however, remain unchanged.
Friend of At the Chalk Face, Edushyster, revealed herself this week. The
unveiling merited coverage from Diane Ravitch. You can learn more about
Edushyster’s true identity here. As others do, I always enjoy her
contributions. Her writing and satire are excellent. And I’m sure that,
without her wit, opponents of corporate reform would lose a […]
Major General Smedley Butler – The Military Industrial Complex’s Original Whistleblower
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Anthony Freda Art Sigmund Fraud
After marking the 12th anniversary of the terrible events of 9/11 and
remembering the over 3000 lives that were lost, the American people find
themselves embroiled in endless military conflict without clear objectives,
without a clear definition of who or what we are still fighting, and
without respectable leadership. This confusion has been highlighted by the
recent push to initiate a bombing campaign against Syria, even though it is
widely known that any campaign against the Syrian governmen... more »
Reading consultants model teaching phonics, “hilarity” ensues
I experienced a visit this week from consultant teachers representing a
district mandated phonics program. The visit was meant for me to experience
its outstanding awesomeness from two awesome experts. I was told that these
activities require 30 minutes of my school day. We only had 20 minutes for
me to witness the awesome awesomeness […]
Vladimir Putin: ‘American Exceptionalism’
Putin objected to the ‘American Exceptionalism’ in an Op-ed in The New York
Times. He is wrong. ‘American Exceptionalism’ does exist.
*“My working and personal relationship with President Obama is marked by
growing trust. I appreciate this. I carefully studied his address to the
nation on Tuesday. And I would rather disagree with a case he made on
American exceptionalism, stating that the United States’ policy is “what
makes America different. It’s what makes us exceptional.” It is extremely
dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever
the motivation.”*... more »
Jeff Wagner, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Mayoral Candidate:"WAKE THE F**K UP!": T.V. ad
Eat your heart out Anthony Weiner! Jeff Wagner did not hide behind a
cellphone.:)
Greg Palast: A Memo that Confirmed Every Conspiracy Freak's Fantasy
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*We Are Change*
In this video Luke Rudkowski interviews investigative journalist Greg
Palast about the secret memo he uncovered. The End Game memo uncovered how
top US Treasury officials secretly conspired with a small cabal of banker
big-shots to benefit themselves. The memo indicates high level politicians
like Larry Summers, who is most likely going to be appointed the next
chairman of the Federal Reserve by Obama.
Subscribe to WeAreChange's Channel
WeAreChange.org
GregPalast.com
Enter your email address to subscribe to... more »
Flashback: 9/11 WTC Gold Heist - $1.7 Billion in Bullion Missing
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*Massive Insider Trading by Dozens of Major Corporations *
Alexandra Bruce*
**Forbidden Knowledge TV*
Now we come down to some of the motives for the 9/11 attacks. This segment
is from the famous Internet film, originally created by Dylan Avery in
2005, *Loose Change*.
He brings up Larry "Pull it" Silverstein, the leaseholder of the WTC
complex, who sued to collect $7.2 billion in damages from the attacks
(double his policy), by claiming that each plane constituted a separate
terrorist attack. The courts initially rewarded h... more »
DCCC Now Admits It Helps Republican-Lite Democrats Beat Grassroots Progressives In Primaries
Anne Kuster, the newest New Dem
Late in July, the corrupt corporate whores of the Democratic Party-- the
right-leaning New Dems-- boasted in a press release that they "now
represent over 1/4 of the entire House Democratic Caucus at 53 Members."
How did that happen, you wonder? DCCC recruitment. Last year they looked
for conservative Big Business-oriented candidates, rather than
family-friendly grassroots types, and this year the New Dems wound up with
a ton of new members who favor very non-Democratic propositions like, for
example, deregulating Wall Street. They work in tandem with ... more »
U.S and Russia reach a deal on Syria
*"The United States and Russia struck a deal Saturday under which Syria
will allow its stockpile of chemical weapons to be removed or destroyed by
next year — easing a crisis over a threatened American military attack."*
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
*"The Russian foreign minister called it an agreement “based on consensus
and compromise and professionalism.” France welcomed it as an “important
step forward.” Kerry and his British and French counterparts will talk
about the deal’s implementation over lunch Monday in Paris."*
I believe... more »
The New Charge Of The Light Brigade
For the last decade, Stephen Harper has been pitching the idea that he and
his party -- which has changed its name three times -- have given this
country economic stability. But, despite the re-branding, Tim Harper wrote
this week that the numbers tell a different story:
In Harper’s Canada, more than four in 10 of us live paycheque to paycheque.
Almost half of us over 50 have barely one-quarter of what we will need for
our retirement.
In Harper’s Canada, wealth is the domain of middle-aged white men, but if
you are a visible minority or an aboriginal working full time you are
ea... more »
Whatever Happened to Scientifically Based Research in Education Policy? | Alternet
Whatever Happened to Scientifically Based Research in Education Policy? |
Alternet.
The Thoroughly Depressing State of Canadian Democracy
Both the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party have presided over the
torture of Canadian citizens. Torture was widespread in Afghanistan.
Everyone knows this. But the thing about crimes against humanity (it
appears) is that they're not really that big a deal. It seems that you can
even witness a brutal murder, but if nobody does anything about it, after a
while you start to force yourself to live with it.
It's only the people who were tortured, and their loved ones, who have a
vested interest in seeing that justice is done. The supreme dick-wad,
stephen harper, continues to figh... more »
Plant Some Seeds Of Love
Source of this poster:
http://notesalongthepath.com/2013/09/13/born-to-spread-love/#respond
IPCC AR5 will reduce sensitivity by 30% or so
*In two weeks, one third of the remaining traces of the climate hysteria
will evaporate within a day*
Matt Ridley wrote an article for the Wall Street Journal (and Anthony
Watts' blog) where some information about the upcoming IPCC report is
leaked.
*Image courtesy of CartoonbyJosh.com*
The fifth assessment report (AR5) about the physical basis of the climate
hysteria (Working Group 1) will be released in Stockholm on Friday,
September 27th. It will have 1,914 pages plus 31 pages of the summary which
is what will be enough for "most readers".
Their estimate of the warming produc... more »
Top 5 Health Benefits of Cherries by Elizabeth Renter
Top 5 Health Benefits of Cherries
by Elizabeth Renter
Natural Society, 13 September 2013
Cherries are a delicious summer treat, sweet and fun to eat. But in
addition to being a great example of a natural, delicious food packed with
nutritional benefits. Interestingly, many conventional websites are quick
to point out that cherries have a lot of sugar and little nutritional
content—but they are missing several worthwhile perks of these little red
fruits. *Here are 5 health benefits of cherries.*
Health Benefits of Cherries
*1. **Anti-inflammation -* Cherries are an important par... more »
BREAKING: IPCC AR5 report to dial back climate sensitivity | Watts Up With That?
IPCC row back from predicting climate catastrophe.
' Specifically, the draft report says that "equilibrium climate
sensitivity" (ECS)—eventual warming induced by a doubling of carbon dioxide
in the atmosphere, which takes hundreds of years to occur—is "extremely
likely" to be above 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit), "likely" to
be above 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.4 degrees Fahrenheit) and "very likely" to
be below 6 degrees Celsius (10.8 Fahrenheit). In 2007, the IPPC said it was
"likely" to be above 2 degrees Celsius and "very likely" to be above 1.5
degrees, with no upper l... more »
Getting complaints from both sides
This week's *Newswatch *was a special from Glasgow on the BBC's reporting
of the Scottish independence debate.
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Presenter Samira Ahmed said that "most of the complaints received by *
Newswatch*" have accused the corporation of "an anti-independence bias"*. *
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Some of those were read out :
Why should we, the Scottish people, pay a licence fee to be fed propaganda
on a daily basis by an alleged 'neutral' TV channel?
I am writing with regards to 'Reporting Scotland' and their constant
negativity and 'warnings' about Scottish independence. I went into the
referendum with an open... more »
Christy Clark Walkin And Talkin Tough While Donning Jackboots
Above picture is Tony Abbott, Christy Clark`s newest mortal enemy, is it
me or..or does Tony Abbott have a devious never lose look about him,
contrast that with Christy Clark who still struggles with the English
language, *.."ya know, ya think", *..
Who wins that argument, well...Oh, who is Tony Abbott?...Details are at the
bottom..
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Christy Clark putting on the Jack boots...
*Smart Meters Financial Assault Or Political Suicide *
Smart meter diaries, yes indeed, first off, this proposed $35 dollar per
month fee to read my analog meter will not be tolerated, BC Hy... more »
small steps Ellie - the power of subtle influence - we all march to the same drum
you kinda think you're not being led by the nose ring on a daily basis by
GLOBAL MAINSTREAM MEDIA, INSTITUTIONALISED EDUCATION and PRO-PROFIT
GOVERNMENT SUGGESTION?
Well, it all depends on 'knowing the mechanics of compliance' - take, for
example, this footage of 32 randomly fired off metronomes achieving a
marching synchrony. How? Harmonic Resonance and Mechanical Entrainment
mostly. Knowing the (in this case subtly-enhanced acceleration) mechanics
of compliance: the table is rocking. If you know what socio-political
button to push, on a regular basis; you get total and unwitting c... more »
Boycott all trading as long as market rigging for favored customers ( such as 16 of the World's largest banks and hedge funds ) is allowed !
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=224292
( Until the rigging is stopped , just boycott trading.... )
(Legally) Burn Them All To The Ground
I've marveled for years at reports buried in the earnings releases for
major banks in which they appear to be able to repeatedly churn out trading
results that not only buck the odds *they defy physical statistical reality*.
I'm speaking of the penchant for big banks to turn in *perfect* quarterly
trading records -- three month periods where they never once having a
losing day.
The statistical probability that a given bank, or even a bunc... more »
Pol. Ideology 50: Plato, The Republic and Pork Barrel
Another intellectually stimulating posting by Dr. Amado “Bong” Mendoza in
his facebook wall last Thursday, analyzing the on-going pork barrel scandal
using the ideas of the famous Greek philosopher, Plato (428/427 BC –
348/347 BC). Bong wrote,
*The best ancient philosophers like Plato flourished when the Greek city
states like Athens were in crisis and on the decline. Let's face it; who
philosophizes during swell times? That's the time to party!**
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**Plato's over-riding concern was justice and the specification of the
best, which must be a just, political order.**
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**Plato obser... more »
CLINTON VISITS SPY BASE?
The following is a translation from the Hebrew and may contain some errors.
*Clinton and the spooky Sir Menzies Campbell (left) at St Andrews
University, which has the Centre for the promotion of Terrorism*
On 13 September 2013, Hilary Clinton gave the graduation address to mark
the 600th anniversary of the founding of St Andrews University in Scotland.
During a ceremony for the conferment of an honorary degree from St Andrews
university, Hilary Clinton delivered a staunch defence of American death
squads and false flag terrorism
Clinton commended St Andrews for being the fir... more »
News from the Jews
*Zionist war-mongering & more "Holocaust" programming*
As noted here *last week*, the push for war against Syria is largely coming
from the organized Jewish community, the state of Israel (who *provided
most of the "intelligence"* used by the Obama administration to
substantiate their claims that Assad used chemical weapons against the
Syrian people), and her Zionist puppets and stooges essentially controlling
the federal government of the United States, namely the Obama
administration and other leading figures in the political establishment
such as Senator John McCain. *Tablet Maga... more »
Friday Night Magic - Chet and Mark
And Les Paul any one?
And, because I got his autobio for my birthday (thank you), an all time
favourite Shocking Pink -
And, as for Les Paul and Mary Ford - How High the Moon
Or Jeff Beck and Imelda May:
And for the newly departed, Mike Wolfe, just a bit of Bootsy:
'Panorama', and alarm bells ringing
Anticipating Monday's upcoming edition of *Panorama, Tax, Lies and Videotape,
*I hoped* *four days ago - as you may recall - for proper investigative
journalism rather than out-and-out campaigning from the programme, as
befits an impartial BBC, and mentioned some things to look out for in order
to help us decide whether the programme is engaged in campaigning:
So look out for the names Richard Murphy, Nicholas Shaxson and Prem Sikka.
If any of these people appear, and if they are introduced by the presenter
as some kind of independent expert, or labelled on screen as some kind of ... more »
Preempting The Next Round of Lies Against Syria
What the UN report on Syria will say & what the liars in the West will
claim it says.
*September 14, 2013* (Tony Cartalucci) - The bottom line regarding the UN's
upcoming report regarding the August 21, 2013 chemical weapons attack in
Damascus, Syria is best summed up by the BBC's article, "Syria crisis: UN
report to confirm chemical arms attack" [emphasis added]:
Ban Ki-moon made no comment on who was to blame for the 21 August attack in
the Ghouta area of Damascus, *as that is not part of the report's remit*.
Despite this, the United States and its axis of collaborators are alread... more »
strange lucid flying and Christmas Carol dream after Agnostic self-debate
last night, before going to sleep, I came to the conclusion that it is
better to er on the side of caution and adopt an Agnostic (rather than
Atheist) stance. Even if 'god' may not seem to exist, if just one person
has contact with a 'god-like entity' it breaks the Atheist rod across the
knee. We can never interrogate everyone, so we must assume that the
possibility exists for such an event.
I was treated to a brace of super-vivid dreams this morning for my pains,
the first was lucid, the second wild:
*the first:*
I attempted to take control of whatever dream I was having, about wh... more »
Making Assad The Bad Guy: The Four Tricks
*Invoking the ghost of Hitler to win a propaganda war: It's easy, it's
simple, and it's fun. *
Related: *From Fantasy To Fact: Four Ways The Fake Media Creates A False
Reality.*
*Making Assad The Bad Guy: The Four Tricks*
As each day passes, more and more people are beginning to realize that
Hollywood screenwriters are guiding U.S. foreign policy, not
military-minded war hawks or strategically inclined empire-builders.
Washington's playwrights have desperately tried to make Syrian President
Bashar al-Assad, a mild-mannered physician and family man who has no desire
to live ... more »
VICTIMS OF OBAMA'S REBELS IN SYRIA
A Pro-Assad man being beheaded by Obama's rebels.
Another victim of Obama's rebels.
Another victim of the rebels, who were sent into Syria by the CIA.
"I don’t know how old the victim was but he was young. He was forced to his
knees...
"The executioners belonged to ISIS - an Al-Qaeda faction."
www.dailymail.
Full Video of "JFK and the Unspeakable" panel discussion with Jim Douglass, Oliver Stone and Lisa Pease, moderated by Robert Ellsberg
Here
is the entire talk, filmed at the Saban Theater in Beverly Hills,
California, on November 8, 2010, 50 years to the day after John F.
Kennedy was elected President. I have to say, each and every one of
these men was just as nice and genuine and brilliant offstage as they
were onstage. It was such a treat to share the stage with them for this
event! YouTube limits uploads to 15 minutes, hence
Sunday Classics preview: Preparing to attack Mahler's First Symphony
*The young Gustav Mahler*
*Start*
*Finish*
*Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, cond. Philips, recorded
September 1962*
*Start*
*Finish*
*New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein, cond. CBS/Sony, recorded Oct. 4
and 22, 1966*
*by Ken*
Every now and then I remind myself that, while we've "done" a bunch of
Mahler symphonies, including the whole of the Fourth, Sixth, Seventh, and
Ninth, and while we've had posts that took us inside the first, second, and
third movements of the Mahle First, we still haven't properly done the
symphony.
So we've started, above, by hearing ho... more »
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*Jindal won't reappoint 2 levee officials who support lawsuit against oil
companies ~Mark Schleifstein and Manuel Torre*
"A Look to the Heavens"
“The Crab Nebula is cataloged as M1, the first on Charles Messier's
famous
list of things which are not comets. In fact, the Crab is now known to
be a
supernova remnant, an expanding cloud of debris from the explosion of a
massive star. The violent birth of the Crab was witnessed by astronomers
in
the year 1054. Roughly 10 light-years across today, the nebula is still
expanding at a rate of over 1,000 kilometers per second.
*Click image for larger size.*
Want to watch the Crab Nebula expand? Check out this video
(vimeo)animation comparing an image of M1 taken in 1999 at the Europe... more »
"Let Me Tell You..."
"Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something.
What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your
entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know
what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad.
It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I'm talking
about?"
- Morpheus
There is Absolutely no truth to the rumour that Nigel Wright recently purchased a condo in Manhattan ...
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* **Pamela Wallin repays $100K in expenses, blames Senate 'lynch mob'*Pamela
Wallin selling Manhattan condo H/T to @Heyburke on Twitter
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*Maneuvering for Levee Board seats begins amid lawsuit controversy ~Jeff
Adelson, New Orleans Advocate*
Hillary Mann Leverett on The Robert Wenzel Show + Hillary Mann Leverett On CNN
Hillary Mann Leverett on The Robert Wenzel Show. Source: Robert Wenzel.
Date Published: September 10, 2013.
An excerpt from, *"The Syrian Crisis and America’s Counterproductive Quest
for Middle Eastern Hegemony"* by Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett,
September 13, 2013.
Earlier this week, before President Obama’s September 10 address on Syria
and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s proposal to place Syria’s
chemical weapons under international control, Hillary used a CNN interview,
see *here*, to go beyond near-term analysis of unfolding developments and
examine what t... more »
Your moment of Zen
Pura Ulan Danu Temple on Lake Bratan, Bali, Indonesia.
Urban Gadabout: Catching up with Jack Eichenbaum
*One of NYC's great buildings: the New York Public Library building on
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street*
*by Ken*
It was a big commitment last weekend, especially for someone still
recovering/rehabbing from knee-replacement surgery, but I couldn't resist
signing up for Municipal Art Society walking tours with four of my favorite
tour leaders -- on Saturday, Matt Postal ("Upstairs Downstairs" in
Manhattan's East 60s) and Jack Eichenbaum ("From Forest Hills to Corona" in
Queens); on Sunday, Joe Svehlak (the half-mile expanse of Nassau Street in
downtown Manhattan) and Francis Morrone (th... more »
Henry Geiger - Reflections On War (1983)
*Related: *
*Henry Geiger - The Meaning Of War (1988).
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*Henry Geiger - The Glory Of Our Species (1981).*
*Wikipedia:*
Henry Geiger (1908?-15 February 1989) was the editor, publisher, and chief
writer of MANAS Journal which published from 1948-1988. Abraham Maslow
called him “the only small ‘p’ philosopher America has produced in this
century.”
*Below is an excerpt from, "Reflections On War" by Henry Geiger. Source: MANAS
Journal, Volume XXXVI, No. 18. May 4, 1983.*
The major appeal, these days, by people hoping to put an end to war, is to
fear of extinction. This is logical... more »
"Conditioned Response: Reactions to Life Events"
*"Conditioned Response: Reactions to Life Events"*
by Madisyn Taylor, The DailyOM
Our past experiences can and do influence our emotional reactions and
responses to present events. Our experiences color everything. The events
of the past can have a profound effect on how we see our lives now and what
we choose to believe about our world. Our past experiences can also
influence our emotional reactions and responses to present events. Each of
us reacts to stimulus based on what we have learned in life. There is no
right or wrong to it; it is simply the result of past experience. ... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
Omaha, Nebraska, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
Comin’ at ya . . .
MIT
TECHNOLOGY REVIEW has an article by Aviva Hope Rutkin that you should
read and ponder. “Report Suggests Nearly Half of U.S. Jobs Are
Vulnerable to Computerization”. 45% is the estimated job loss over the
next 20 years.
The authors believe this takeover will happen in two stages. First,
computers will start replacing people in especially vulnerable fields
like transportation/logistics,
ECB complains too much leeway given to Spain and Portugal - how do you know the German Election season is almost over and its hammer time for the PIIGS ?
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2013/09/men-in-black-return-to-spain-ecb.html
Friday, September 13, 2013 3:17 PM
Men in Black Return to Spain; ECB Complains of Too Much Leeway; Alarm Bells
Ring "More Tax Hikes Coming"
*Men in Black Return*
Via translation, *La Vanguardia* reports Men in Black Will Examine Bank
Bailout on Monday
A mission of experts from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will
arrive in Madrid on 16 September to discuss with government and private
sector rescue progress and Spanish banking sector reform, reported a
spokeswoman for the international... more »
"No More War" - James & the Giant Beats
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Colorado flooding - hearbreaking !
Homes were flooded. Highways wrecked. Mudslides endangered commuters and
residents. President Obama declared an emergency in the state and approved
federal aid. Affected residents and local officials used social media to
share photos, organize community help, and keep everyone updated on
conditions.
Just before midnight, a massive “wall of water” was headed toward Boulder.
Anthony Sagliani @*anthonywx*
Massive wall of water observed via USGS sensor at Fourmile Creek. This is
almost tsunami like. #*boulderflood* pic.twitter.com/DcXQ3nNnX3
2:02 AM - 13 Sep 2013
[image: View ima... more »
While Zombies Rule US, Putin Comes To Rescue? (Not That His Agenda Is Totally Rad . . . But It's Not A Gas)
Bureaucrats at the Fed force down interest rates to support zombies
everywhere – from Wall Street to Skid Row. Low rates also help make more
money available to the zombies who are besieging the Pentagon. Here’s
journalist and author Leon Hadar at the American Conservative: “There is
nothing new about the notion of political corruption in Washington. What is
new – and actually quite
Friday Baseball Post
I continue to believe that the current double wild card system is better
than the previous single wild card system (although still not as good as the
system I'd like to see). But the confusion that people have about this is
pretty obvious in what I've seen a lot of: claims that this season has been
evidence in favor of the new system. It isn't!
The big advantage of the two WC system over the old single WC is that it
restores meaningful division races. In the 1995-2011 system, there was no
significant advantage to winning a division vs. being the WC; now, the
division title is far be... more »
Duty of trial judge to review evidence and issues for jury
R. v. Minor, 2013 ONCA 557:
[79] In all but the rarest of cases, a trial judge has a duty to
review with the jurors the issues to be resolved and the evidence they may
consider in resolving those issues. In *R. v. Daley*, 2007 SCC 53, [2007] 3
S.C.R. 523, at para. 54, Bastarache J., giving the judgment of the
majority, adopted what he described as "[o]ne of the classic statements
describing the trial judge's duty to review the evidence in the charge"
from *Azoulay v. The Queen*, [1952] 2 S.C.R. 495, at pp. 497-98:
The rule which has been laid down, and consistently followed ... more »
Time to Change MPs' Expenses
MPs' expenses. By this time four years ago the whirlwind of scandal had
more or less blown itself out. But it has left a deep legacy of distrust
and loathing towards our honourable members. Such is the toxicity that I've
previously felt compelled to defend MP's expenses. And yet, despite 2009
and all that, to use the parlance of our times, there are some who still
don't "get it". As revealed this morning, it is indefensible that Karen
Bradley, the Tory MP for Staffs Moorlands employs her husband on a salary a
quid short of £45 grand. Nadine Dorries has been a generous boss to both
... more »
She Who Measures
And now something totally different.
Any thoughts?
With the Syria War on hold , let's catch up on items put on the back burner......Affordable Care Act aka Obamacare updates for September 11 , 2013 - Note AFL - CIO i full revolt over Obamacare and set to demands changes to the Law ! And as today is 9-11 , let's recall what happened last year at Benghzai ! Finally , once one considers the true financial picture of the United States of Ponziland , one understands why John Kerry was happy to announce the GCC nations were more than happy to hire our armed forces as mercenaries ....the financial situation is the US is broke !
Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
Falling to pieces......
Healthcare.....
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/09/11/white-house-to-big-labor-can-you-guys-not-pass-a-resolution-shaming-obamacare-please/
White House to Big Labor: Can you guys *not* pass a resolution shaming
ObamaCare, please?
POSTED AT 8:01 PM ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2013 BY ERIKA JOHNSEN
While a handful of individual unions have already come out publicly with
strong criticisms of ObamaCare and the unfortunate ways in which the law
pretty much wrecks their multi-employer health insurance and hence
dissolves one of the largest attractions to even being in a u... more »
EVEN MORE space
This is great. Just in case you don't see it the first time this is a frogphotobombing the
LADEE spacecraft launch last week.
Does This Mean She'll Be Shopping at Winners Instead of Holt Renfrew?
Senator Pam Wallin might be prowling the outlet malls for a while now that
she's down a hundred grand to clear her Senate tab.
*The former Conservative senator said she had done nothing wrong, vowed to
stay on as a senator and lashed out a Senate committee that she said
“succumbed to a ‘lynch mob’ mentality’ when dealing with her audit. *
Oopsie, Not So Invisible After All. A Laser Jammer for the F-35.
This is the directed laser jammer being developed by Northrop for
retrofitting to the F-35 stealth light attack bomber.
These jammers operate by firing laser beams at the sensors of incoming,
heat-seeking missiles to break lock.
Presumably this is going to have some sort of pop-up capability so that it
remains concealed within the F-35 until the aircraft is attacked.
And you thought the F-35 was going to be invisible. Silly you.
What Crimes Against Humanity?
Ban Ki-Moon is lying. Assad has not committed any crimes against humanity.
Assad has not attacked any other country. You can't just throw around the
term "crimes against humanity" without evidence or logic to back it up.
Pick up a history book for once and put down the USraeli-supplied
propaganda leaflets.
Video: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon Lies, Saying Assad Has Committed
"Many Crimes Against Humanity"
Friends in high places
It looks as if he wagons are being drawn around the BBC, following the
Public Affairs Committee debacle last Monday.
Among those firing their pistols at the approaching native Americans is the
BBC's Head of Strategy, former New Labour minister James Purnell. He's
trying to fend off (Conservative) Culture Secretary Maria Miller's attempts
to give the National Audit Office full access to the BBC's accounts, and
he's receiving the backing of senior Labour Party figures like Harriet
Harman.
Now calls for Ofcom to either regulate the BBC in place of the BBC Trust or
to become the c... more »
Ray Dolby (1933-2013)
Today's *The World at One *marked the death of the inventor Ray Dolby.
Dr. Dolby was the man who took the hiss away from sound recordings (oh, how
I appreciated that Dolby button on my cassette recorder!) and
revolutionised the sound of the cinema, making it the overpowering
experience we all know so well today (or at least we do if we actually go
to the cinema).
The programme put in a call to Thomas Dolby, whose pop hits included *She
Blinded Me With Science* and *Hyperactive!,* as you may (or may not)
recall. He shares the same surname as Ray Dolby (as you may have spotted).
... more »
The Republicans Are Back In Washington-- And They Voted For The 41st Time To Defund The Affordable Care Act
The vast majority of Americans, when polled, oppose defunding ObamaCare,
including people who oppose the law for one reason or another. Even Republican
voters oppose defunding it! But that doesn't stop right-wing
congressmembers from perpetuating their clown-show.
According to a poll released by the Morning Consult Wednesday, only 6% of
Americans want to see the law either defunded or delayed, including only 7%
of Republicans. The same poll finds about a third of Americans want to see
the law repealed, while nearly two-thirds want it left alone, improved, or
expanded.
The plan... more »
Friday Afternoon Linkage
It’s late Friday afternoon — here are a few things worth reading: Betcy
Jose asks, with all of the attention on chemical weapons, why does it
matter how people die in conflict? Sohail Hashmi and I agree we need
stronger protection for civilians in conflict, but ignoring the use of
chemical weapons is not the
Continue reading
Climate change and conflict revisited: fixed effects or no?
Over at the Woodrow Wilson Center’s New Security Beat, I have a new post
about a recent Science article by several economists on the connections
between climate change and conflict. That article, which featured a
reanalysis of sixty studies, sought to unambiguously demonstrate the
climate effects contribute to conflict across a range of time periods,
Continue reading
Somerville Teachers’ Grievance Brings Apology and Purging of Evaluations Based on Immigrant Test Scores
Somerville, Massachusetts has just under 3,400 public school students, and
1,700 of them come from homes where English is the second language. Many
of these students are economically disadvantaged. This has not stopped
Boston Magazine’s racist and classist school rankings from posting
Somerville 118th out of 135 systems. In fact, if you look at the […]
"The 12 Rules of Survival"
*"The 12 Rules of Survival"*
by Laurence Gonzales
"As a journalist, I've been writing about accidents for more than thirty
years. In the last 15 or so years, I've concentrated on accidents in
outdoor recreation, in an effort to understand who lives, who dies, and
why. To my surprise, I found an eerie uniformity in the way people survive
seemingly impossible circumstances. Decades and sometimes centuries apart,
separated by culture, geography, race, language, and tradition, the most
successful survivors–those who practice what I call “deep survival”– go
through the same pattern... more »
The Route to Cold War II, China's New Silk Road.
One big thing you almost never read about in the western media is the SCO,
the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
The SCO is something of a work in progress, a Chinese-Russian initiative to
create a trade bloc stretching from Eurasia to east Asia to South Asia and
into the middle east. Observers predict it will also morph into a
military, mutual-defence alliance akin to NATO. The SCO would encapsulate
roughly half the population of the planet.
Pakistan is already a probationary member and the rest of the "stans" may
soon follow. *Asia Times* correspondent, Pepe Escobar, says... more »
U.N. Team Finds No Proof of Chemical Weapons Use in Syria, Sec-Gen Claims Otherwise.
The report of a U.N. weapons inspection team finds that Assad forces have
plenty to answer for but can't be shown responsible for chemical attacks.
*"On the evidence currently available, it was not possible to reach a
finding about the chemical agents used, their delivery systems or the
perpetrators," the team probing human rights violations in Syria said in
its latest report on Wednesday.*
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*It was clear however that "the majority of casualties result from unlawful
attacks using conventional weapons," the Commission of Inquiry on Syria
said in a statement.*
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Back-bending contortionist who’s made the Guinness World Records 2014
Watch and be amazed.
*(Euronews.com)*
*Update:* A friend pointed out that all politicians can pass or break that
record -contortionist.
U.S. Colorado: Floods
I never heard of such an erratic weather that we are experiencing this
year. Floods all over North America. In Maritimes, Canada, some of the
coastal communities are dealing with floods and damage caused by these
floods. Many U.S. communities are dealing with excessive floods. Colorado
is hit quite hard this year and three deaths have been reported so far.
*CUT OFF: A flash flood destroyed a bridge near a home in Golden, Colo.,
Thursday. Flooding in Colorado left three people dead, prompted hundreds to
be evacuated, caused building collapses and stranded cars, officials said.
(Rick ... more »
"The Commonwealth of Morons"; A Comment
*"The Commonwealth of Morons"*
by David Diderot
"Five percent of the people think;
ten percent of the people think they think;
and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think."
- Thomas A. Edison
"Not much has changed since 1922 when H. L. Mencken described the United
States as "the commonwealth of morons." The majority of Americans are
under-educated, pathetically misinformed, generally lacking critical
thinking skills, and apparently incapable of fact-based analysis. Indeed,
American ignorance about current events, their own culture, history and
government,... more »
The Poet: Rolf Jacobsen, "When They Sleep"
*"When They Sleep"*
"All people are children when they sleep.
There's no war in them then.
They open their hands and breathe
in that quiet rhythm heaven has given them.
They pucker their lips like small children
and open their hands halfway,
soldiers and statesmen, servants and masters.
The stars stand guard
and a haze veils the sky,
a few hours when no one will do anybody harm.
If only we could speak to one another then
when our hearts are half-open flowers.
Words like golden bees
would drift in.
God, teach me the language of sleep."
- Rolf Jacobsen,
"The Roads ... more »
"In the Inbox"
*"In the Inbox"*
“From: Coordinator of Volunteer Services
We have a young man, thirty-six, on hospice who has a very young child.
They want someone to help him do a life review and perhaps put some
pictures together for he and his wife so the child will know him. Call me
if you are willing to do this.”
"The next time, friend, your life seems too hard, check your Inbox."
- Jose Orez
Washington's Blog: Syrian Rebels Slit Throat of Christian Man Who Refused To Convert To Islam
Here is more proof that the "Syrian rebels" are assholes from hell. These
Jihadist terrorists have nasty, shitty souls. They have no real religion.
They have no principles. Their religion is murder. Their god is the god of
killing for killing's sake.
What do they bring to the table of life? Chaos and terrorism. And, so, by
extension, the governments that fund, train, and arm these Jihadist
terrorist killers have nothing to offer the world other than chaos and
terrorism.
*Below is an excerpt from, "Syrian Rebels Slit Throat of Christian Man Who
Refused To Convert To Islam, Taunt Fi... more »
Elsewhere: Torture and Syria, more
Housekeeping: I'm going to try to get a Friday Baseball Post up before
sunset...we'll see. I still should have one over at Greg's place this
afternoon, and my Salon column will run over the weekend (again assuming I
can get it done before sundown). What Matters? won't run until Sunday
morning, I guess. For those observing the holiday, G'mar Chatima Tovah, and
Shana Tovah.
My column at TAP this week was an argument that Barack Obama's failure to
deal with the fallout from ush-era torture was part of why the GOP was so
dysfunctional during the Syria episode. It is admittedly speculat... more »
We Are Infected With a Potentially Lethal Political Contagion
We have to shake our minds free, deprogramme ourselves, from this notion
that we are of one of a handful of states that is entitled to police the
world. Our leaders pompously sit as prosecutor, judge, jury and
executioner for supposed crimes of others that often pale to those they
themselves have committed. Consider these thoughts from *The Guardian's*John Pilger
:
*When the public is "psychologically scarred", as the Channel 4 reporter
Jonathan Rugman described the British people's overwhelming hostility to an
attack on Syria, suppressing the truth is made urgent. Whether or no... more »
Untitled
*Strap In, Who Dats: The Saints Will Only Get Better ~Black and Gold Review*
Bill Bonner, “In Praise of Mr. Putin”
*“In Praise of Mr. Putin”*
by Bill Bonner
“Call us traitors. Accuse us of treason. Say we’re quislings and fifth
columnists. But don’t forget to mention: We’re also right! Yes – today we
stand shoulder to shoulder with Barack Obama’s arch-rival, Vladimir Putin.
We’ll come back to this in a moment… First, let’s check the latest market
moves.
The Dow eased off yesterday. But gold got whacked – WHACKED! – for a
$33-an-ounce loss. If gold really is in a bull market (as we believe it is)
it is doing a good job of keeping it quiet. Why did gold sell off so much?
Maybe it is becau... more »
Tzom kal
Now, I'm well aware than many of you won't like the idea of a piece of
music by modernist, twelve-toner Arnold Schoenberg...and I can see some of
you rushing to the exits already...but as this evening marks the start of
Yom Kippur and I love Schoenberg's lovely *tonal* choral/orchestral piece *Kol
Nidre*, I'm posting it anyhow!
Enjoy - and for all our Jewish readers, have an easy fast.
A Cautionary Tale - Steer Clear of GoDaddy
If you're thinking about getting your own web domain for your blog you
might have noticed the ad campaign being run by an outfit called GoDaddy.
For a modest sum they'll reserve your chosen domain name and, with that,
you're up and running. My computer savvy daughter and her even more
computer savvy fiance talked me into setting up with GoDaddy several months
ago. (It's a sign of getting old. I did it because they said it was a
good idea. Go figure.)
Then, a couple of months ago, I received an e-mail from GoDaddy confirming
my transfer of my domains to some Rios guy from Detr... more »
Seymour Hersh: Iran - Preparing the Battleground
Seymour Hersh: Iran - Preparing the Battleground from Spike1138 on Vimeo.
Following the National Intelligence Estimate of 2006, Bush/Cheney
fraudulently requested (and got) $400Billion for cross-border Special
Operations under JSOC (Joint Special Operations Command) and covert
operations to destabilise the Iranian leadership, society and the Iranian
Nuclear program - which the NIE made clear has been dormant since 2003.
Iran has not attacked another country in over 200 years.
And the US was waging offensive war via covert operations against them for
years.
They have not retaliat... more »
The 21 Most Obvious Fatal Holes in Bushco's Version of 911
*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy*
The Conservation of Matter and Energy is summed up simply:
During an ordinary chemical change, there is no detectable increase or
decrease in the quantity of matter.
The result summed up in the quoted section describes what was --in fact
--observed at the site of the collapse of the Twin Towers on 911.
The fact that towers of steel were reduced to "dust" supports my criticism
of the BUSH CONSPIRACY THEORY (19 hijackers is, by law, a conspiracy); it
does not support the conclusion of Bushco's 911 commission, i.e, the steel
towers collapsed a... more »
Reaping the Whirlwind in Egypt
If democracy is to have any chance of surviving in Egypt it's up to the
E.U. and the U.S. to move against the generals. The Egyptian army's
counter-coup is now a fait accompli. Expectations that toppling the
democratically-elected Morsi government would pave the way for a secular,
non-elected, democratic (???) civilian government have been dashed as the
generals moved to consolidate their hold on the country.
It's been suggested that Western governments and media demonized Morsi to
condition the public for his ouster. If so, it worked.
Mubarak was released, Morsi imprisoned... more »
Russia: Peacemaker
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