Flag of "Chechen Republic of Ichkeria" with the addition of a black oval with sword and Takbir in Arabic (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Right desire
Desire is sometimes given a bad rap by good and thoughtful people. That's because it is conflated with acquisitiveness. We often wish to accrue money, fame, a lover, electronic toys, a car. But surely it is not wrong to *desire *health, cleanliness, comradeship, companionship, mercy, and justice for ourselves and others. So, right desire can be the motivator toward living a principled and clarified life. We see by this how far from these good things we can be led by advertising, propaganda, and selected "news" -- which may be but advertising and propaganda put forth by the unprinc... more »
Weekend Fun
Watching the bridal party come down the aisle. Thursday night, my friend Jill and I hosted a party at the Monroe Country Club (she is a member and got us the hook up to use the facilities, thanks Jill!). We had a CABI clothing and Premier Designs jewelry party. It was a huge success. Not sure how many people we had in and out, but I would guess around 25 or so. Anyway, Jill and I each got $130 in free jewelry, a free scarf, as well as 6 half off CABI items and $30 in free CABI stuff. I got some amazing jewelry already (and gifted my free scarf to Angie since I don't do scarves).... more »
A Message To The American People: Tell Your Government To Stop Funding Al-Qaeda
Dear Americans, Your media is not informing you about what is going on in Syria. Journalists and politicians are lying to you. The Obama administration has been funding and arming al-Qaeda since the start of the war in Syria. As of late, America and her allies Turkey and Saudi Arabia have been openly assisting al-Qaeda and other Jihadist terrorist groups in their campaign of terror against liberated Kurdish towns and villages in northeastern Syria. These radical Islamist groups intent to ethnically cleanse these areas of Kurds. For decades Assad's regime denied Kurds the right ... more »
My #BammyAwards Victory Speech
First, I have to clarify something: when someone wins an Oscar or an Emmy or a Grammy, is that called a “victory?” Do they give a “victory speech?” If not, then I messed up the title of this post. Wait, according to Google, they’re called “acceptance speeches.” Damn. Fine. This is where I will post […]
Snap snap
So Lance Mannion mentioned this old TV series on the Facebook and I've had the theme song to 77 Sunset Strip playing in my ear ever since. Which makes me want to binge watch the entire series from the first episode. Somebody should make that possible. And I'm not ashamed to admit I had a teenage crush on Kookie. Also too, Connie Stevens! She was the Taylor Swift of my youth.
“Fukushima Radiation Plume After Japanese Earthquake; Iodine-131 Cloud Has Reached France”
* * *“Fukushima Radiation Plume After Japanese Earthquake; * *Iodine-131 Cloud Has Reached France”* by Bobby1 “A 5.8 earthquake rocked Japan just south of the Fukushima area shortly after midnight on September 20 (Japan time). Apparently radiation measurements in this area have temporarily spiked. “I would like to introduce that we have observed a high radiation dose in the radioactivity measurement data of Fukushima prefecture around. Location was observed particularly high number is Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture and Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture. You can think of it either ... more »
Right seeing
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We begin by seeing our mistake. The universe with all that is in it is one thing. This is why it is right to resist the spreading of poisons in agriculture, the land, the skies, the sea, and in our cities, and to resist the spreading of fear and of war. The cause of the spreading of poisons, fear and war is the lack of accountability due to greed, and the correction of this sickness is accountability -- accepting responsibility for both the visible and invisible costs of our actions, and adjusting those actions accordingly, so that we may act with clarity and justice. Capitalism is... more »
Are we running out of ideas?
Are we running out of ideas? It depends on who you mean by “we.” Says PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel: "We've had incredible progress in areas where there was no regulation and extremely limited progress where there was regulation. It's not that we've run out of ideas. It really is a story of two different economies." Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)
Quote of the Day:
“One thing I’ve learned .. is how obsessed so many of the key thinkers in the green movement are with the notion of ‘overpopulation.’ As one of their favourite think tanks, the Club of Rome, puts it: ‘*Earth has a cancer and the cancer is man*.’ This belief explains, inter alia, why the ‘science’ behind AGW is so dodgy: because the science didn’t come first. What came first was the notion that mankind was a problem and was doing harm to the planet. The “science” was then simply tortured until it fitted in with this notion. I do not share this view. Indeed … while people like ... more »
Fantastic news for super-observant Jews: Now you can apply to buy a dumbed-down smartphone
*Not Too Smart*: *New rabbi-approved ‘kosher’ phones are being marketed to ultra-Orthodox Israelis. They are like their high-tech treyf cousins, but disabled to avoid the internet or even phone calls.* (*Forward* caption) *"[H]ow does a smart phone cross from treyf to kosher? It has to be de-smarted. The Haredi objection to smart phones is that they allow free access to the internet, putting all aspects of secular thought, culture and media, as well as sexual content like pornography, at the fingertips of the observant. “ 'We get new cell phones in the shrink wrap, open them, and ... more »
Wanta: Top Secret National Security Directive 166
*This was posted at Veterans Today HERE by Leo Wanta, I duplicated the last page and enhanced the contrast of the text in this version of the PDF ... -Bill* PS: See HERE for the origins of Al Qaeda 170104153 Veterans Today 1 of 3 Wanta: Top Secret National Security Directive 166
Nicholas Lemann on Michelle Rhee
The New Republic has published an astute and nuanced view of CorpEd's Queen of Venom, Michelle Rhee. As may be expected, it took someone not on the neo-lib NR payroll to do this act of journalistic honesty. by Nicholas Lemann The other day I picked up a copy of The Adventures of Augie March. I hadn’t remembered that Saul Bellow, writing in the early 1950s, when he was not yet forty, about Chicago in the 1920s, had been in full sympathy with the urban poor, as he definitely was not later in his career. There is a hilarious bit in the early pages in which Grandma Lausch, the March f... more »
The Ghouta chemical weapons came from the Turkish Army
* **This is Syrian report based on a captured prisoner confession... -Bill* * * *The Ghouta chemical weapons came from the Turkish Army* VOLTAIRE NETWORK 17 SEPTEMBER 2013 http://www.voltairenet.org/article180284.html The TV channel Al-Ikbariya* [a Syrian TV station]* broadcasted, on Sunday the 15th of September 2013, a long interview of a prisoner reporting on the way that he had transported chemical weapons from a Turkish military base to Damascus. According to his report, the Turkish army was aiming to provoke an international intervention against Syria. This limited bombing wo... more »
“RIP, the Middle Class: 1946-2013”
* * *“RIP, the Middle Class: 1946-2013”* By Edward McClelland “I know I’m dating myself by writing this, but I remember the middle class. I grew up in an automaking town in the 1970s, when it was still possible for a high school graduate — or even a high school dropout — to get a job on an assembly line and earn more money than a high school teacher. “I had this student,” my history teacher once told me, “a real chucklehead. Just refused to study. Dropped out of school, a year or so later, he came back to see me. He pointed out the window at a brand-new Camaro and said, ‘That’s m...more »
Invention of the Day: The 2000-year-old computer
No-one knows who invented it—it might have been Archimedes. But the oldest known computer was not made in the twentieth century, or even the century before that. Its construction has been dated to the early 1st century BC, more than tw0-thousand years ago, and was recovered from sunken wreck off the southern coast of Greece just over a hundred years ago. A two-thousand-year-old computer! No bigger than a modern laptop! Blogger Neil Craig reckons “the Antikythera mechanism is just about the most astonishing historical artefact there is.” It is not a hoax. It is, sadly, not complet... more »
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*Robert Meachem’s Triumphant Return ~Ryan Chauvin, Black and Gold Review* *Who Dat Playing Defense Finally? The Saints Dat’s Who ~JasonCalbos, Nola Nation Rising** *
Attention NC Teenagers: This Is What Racist Adults in Your State Don't Want You to Know about Ralph Ellison
Sixty years after winning the National Book Award for fiction in 1953, Ralph Ellison's *Invisible Man* has been banned by school board members (Board Chair Tommy McDonald and members Tracy Boyles, Gary Cook, Matthew Lambeth and Gary Mason) in Randolph County, NC. The decision ran counter to two review committee recommendations that considered the complaint against the book prior to passing the issue no the Board. Here are a few of the quotes from GoodReads that may help to explain why NC's high rolling Tea Baggers would not want young people to be reading this dangerous book: “Li... more »
Attention NC Teenagers: This Is What Racist Adults in Your State Don't Want You to Know about Ralph Ellison
Sixty years after winning the National Book Award for fiction in 1953, Ralph Ellison's *Invisible Man* has been banned by school board members (Board Chair Tommy McDonald and members Tracy Boyles, Gary Cook, Matthew Lambeth and Gary Mason) in Randolph County, NC. The decision ran counter to two review committee recommendations that considered the complaint against the book prior to passing the issue no the Board. Here are a few of the quotes from GoodReads that may help to explain why NC's high rolling Tea Baggers would not want young people to be reading this dangerous book: Invi... more »
The Affordable Auckland Voting Guide
*Guest by Stephen Berry and the Affordable Auckland team* Since Auckland Unions issued a voting guide for the Auckland Council elections, recommending the candidates to vote for if you want increased rates, enlarged debt, and a more unproductive port, Affordable Auckland is issuing its own guide on how voters should vote if they want lower rates, less borrowing and affordable housing. These are the boxes to tick on your ballot: ** *Mayor **Stephen Berry (Affordable Auckland)* – Stephen has laid out a full plan showing genuine cuts in rates and quality spending on core council ... more »
Solidarity with Victor Crespo
*While we play silly buggers with union links and Westminster watching, it is worth remembering that many of our comrades elsewhere risk their lives to defend working people. This from LabourStart's Eric Lee via Howie's Corner. I urge readers to take a moment to send a message of support.* Last Friday, armed men attempted to force their way into the home of Victor Crespo (pictured), the general secretary of a trade union in Honduras. They threatened Crespo's life -- and only fled the scene once neighbors were alerted. The International Transport Workers Federation believes that the... more »
Sunday Question for Liberals
On climate: compared with election day 2008, more optimistic or more pessimistic? Do you think it's because your expectations were too high (or too low) back then, or do you think your expectations were reasonable at the time?
The Republican Party: The Heaven's Gate of Politics
If you've lost Chris Wallace of Fox "News" and more than a few of your party members over ObamaCare, then perhaps it's time to start throwing going away parties for your lobbyist buddies and sending out your resume to K Street. This is an interview that Chris Wallace conducted on Friday with Sen. Rafael "Ted" Cruz, a guy who'd renounced his Canadian citizenship and will any day now change his name to Theodore Cross because it sounds more WASPish. Well, Senator Lady Eyes seems to think he can collect enough votes in the Senate and is calling Harry Reid's perfectly legal par...more »
Revisiting the "Consistent With" Canard
Over the past few days I've been engaged with a lively debate with a colleague over whether it is meaningful to proclaim that the extreme rainfall observed in Colorado several weeks ago are "consistent with" predictions of more intense rainfall associated with human-caused climate change. Long-time readers will know that I believe the use of the phrase "consistent with" in this context is a canard and devoid of substance. Hereis an example using exactly such a construction related to the Colorado floods. The analogy I'd suggest is a 52-card deck stacked with an extra ace. After ... more »
I just thought I would let the reader know…
… that while I was making a few Kindergarten literacy centers, I was watching Expendables 2 on Netflix. You read that right. That is all. Tagged: action, expendables, kindergarten, literacy, manhood
The Food Crisis in Prehistory
For several million years — almost the entire human journey — our ancestors survived by hunting and gathering. Until 10,000 years ago, everything on our menu was wild food. By 2,000 years ago, most of our food came from farms, a rapid and radical change. In his book *The Food Crisis in Prehistory*, archaeologist and anthropologist Mark Nathan Cohen explored two questions. Why did we switch to agriculture? Why did this shift occur, around the world, almost simultaneously? His answer to both questions was population pressure. Our preferred foods decreased as our numbers increase... more »
Dana Rohrabacher Was Not Elected Homecoming Queen Friday
Dana Rohrabacher's congressional district, CA-48, stretches along the Pacific Ocean from Seal Beach, where L.A. County and Long Beach end and Orange County begins, down through Huntington Beach, Costa Mesa, Newport Beach, Laguna Niguel right to the edge of San Juan Capistrano. It's easternmost points are just beyond Fountain Valley and Aliso Viejo. It's one of southern California's redder districts with a PVI of R+7. Obama scored 46% against McCain and 43% against Romney. The district is wealthy (medium household income is $76,077, compared to $57,287 for the whole state) and whi... more »
When You Get In A Pit With A Snake
*This is the face of evil.* "The US is pushing Russia into approving a UN resolution that would allow for military intervention in Syria, in exchange for American support of Syria’s accession to OPCW, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. *“Our American partners are starting to blackmail us: ‘If Russia does not support a resolution under Chapter 7, then we will withdraw our support for Syria’s entry into the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). This is a complete departure from what I agreed with Secretary of State John Kerry',”* Russian Foreign... more »
US Pushes War, Blackmails Russia & Is Generally Disingenuous
In other words, the usual. *Russia Rejects U.S., Europe Plan to Enforce Syrian UN Resolution* Russia rejected a U.S. and European plan to include enforcement in a United Nations Security Council resolution on Syrian chemical weapons’ disarmament, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. *Western actions are “irresponsible and unprofessional,” *Lavrov said in an interview with Russia’s Channel One published on the Foreign Ministry’s website today. *They want to “drive through a resolution based on force” and that blames President Bashar al-Assad for everything, Lavrov said.* The U.S., F... more »
Sunday Question for Conservatives
Ted Cruz: helping himself get the Republican presidential nomination with what's happened on the shutdown, or hurting his chances?
Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, September 22nd, 2013
Sunday again, and again time for my weekly rant.... I do feel that I have been neglecting this blog recently, due to my concentration on finishing this course material for my job.... With changes in technology, it was a decision between myself and my company that some enhancement was necessary to keep my job valid. I am right now about to finish the material and write the examination this coming week... It has been very grueling and very hard, and has taken me away from other business... Once this course is completed, I should be back to my normal blogging... In my absence these ... more »
Schools Matter Welcomes Doug Martin!
Doug Martin’s *Hoosier School Heist* will be published by Brooks Publications in December. Martin’s exposures of the corporate takeover of public education have appeared or been referenced in the *Washington Post Answer Sheet*, the Associated Press, *Diane Ravitch's Blog*, and other places. Martin holds a PhD in literary prosody and nineteenth-century American literature from Oklahoma State University. His first book, *A Study of Walt Whitman’s Mimetic Prosody: Free-Bound and Full-Circle*, was published by Edwin Mellon Press in 2004.
Two Authors that Medical Schools Avoid
And whose works should be part of the foundation for a rational and evidence-based medicine... By Denis G. Rancourt The two researchers and authors to which I refer are: the late Petr Skrabanek, and Richard G. Wilkinson In particular, I have in mind their remarkable books: Follies and Fallacies in Medicine (Skrabanek, with co-author McCormick) [1], and Unhealthy Societies - The Afflictions
Czech president talks about rodents in EU politics
Czech president Miloš Zeman gave an interview to the Financial Times, Czech president takes swipe at Europe’s ‘great mice’ and it's an example of the funny events that improve my mood (which was already pretty good to start with) – a part of the reasons why I voted for him in the presidential elections. The nominally center-left politician who is sometimes nicknamed "the badger"mentioned that there is a difference between personalities and persons. In the EU politics, there are lots of persons but almost no personalities. The persons are great mice, party apparatchiks. Zeman, a pro... more »
The public has spoken
It happened again. * * *Sunday Morning Live *put a question to its audience - "Do Muslim veils deepen divisions?" - and the audience gave 'the wrong answer'. Samira Ahmed said they'd had "a huge response". The result? 95% said 'yes, they do' and just 5% said 'no, they don't'. After the result was given, Samira read out four e-mails on the subject (which she'd presumably had handed to her, as she was too busy presenting the programme to have chosen them herself). They didn't reflect the result of the public vote. Two said 'yes' and two said 'no'.
Clinton
*Statement by Independent Counsel on Conclusions in Whitewater Investigation * Published: September 21, 2000 The independent counsel Robert W. Ray issued the following statement today on his office's six-year investigation of the Arkansas business dealings of President and Mrs. Clinton, including the Whitewater land deal. The headings were not in the original. This office has now concluded, with certain limited exceptions, its investigation of the matters commonly referred to as ''Madison Guaranty-Whitewater.'' At this time, it is appropriate, in the public interest and consis... more »
Working Out the Ethics of "Defence" at the London Arms Fair
"This is an industry that is concerned solely with profiting from death, and there's little time to scrutinise how many lives a bomb might end up destroying when there's payment to discuss." *September 23, 2013* - Vice Magazine (Uzi Gold) - Last week, Britain hosted a four-day get-together for the planet's preeminent weapons dealers. The DSEi arms fair, held in London's ExCel Centre, touts itself as a "world leading defence and security event" and sells just about anything you could ever need if you're in the business of launching expensive military interventions in collapsing s... more »
Kenya's " Mumbai " style attack at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi sees death toll rise to 68 ....Sunday updates - 68 deaths reported to date ....Kenyan and Israeli troops launch assault on alleged Somali rebels Robert A. @RobertAlai MILITARY SOURCE: Operation is ongoing and we hope that this will end tonight. #WestgateAttack 12:23 после полудня - 22 сентября 2013
Last Update: Sunday, 22 September 2013 KSA 21:09 - GMT 18:09 Death toll in Kenya mall siege rises to 68, says Red Cross Saturday, 21 September 2013 An injured Kenyan man arrives at Aga Khan Hospital, Nairobi after the attack on Nairobi mall, September 21, 2013. (AFP) - - - - - - - Al Arabiya Kenya’s Red Cross said on Sunday that the death toll in siege in an upscale Nairobi shopping center has risen to 68. The gunmen remain inside with hostages nearly 24 hours after the attack was launched with grenades and assault rifles. Lenku said that there are 10 to... more »
Something about men in Dover
[image: New Scotland Yard sign] Following on from PJ Media's analysis of the BBC's coverage of the (still ongoing) siege in Nairobi (discussed earlier today), I see that something similar is happening with the latest breaking news story concerning Islamic terrorism... I spotted a Sky News headline a little while ago, which they are ranking as their third-most important-story. The headline couldn't be clearer: Terrorism Charges After Two Stopped At Dover And nor could the lede and nut graf: Two men have been charged with terrorism and firearms offences after being stopped in Dov... more »
Four Four Jew
That other feature on *Sunday* deserves a post to itself, as it was quite interesting. Using David Cameron and Ed Miliband's statement that the use of the word 'Yid' by Spurs supporters isn't anti-Semitic as a peg, the BBC's Bob Walker went to *Four Four Jew*, a new exhibition at London's Jewish Museum charting the historical links between football and the UK's Jewish community. He talked to Jo Rosenthal, the exhibition's curator. She said the story ...began with the establishment of youth clubs by the settled, wealthy British Jewish elites in Britain who saw all of these work... more »
Apple's New Operating System iOS 7 Doesn't Give Jerusalem A Country
'Why I will not be upgrading to iOS 7 and why my next phone will not be an iPhone-I have no desire to support an anti-Israel enterprise. Do you?' Full story here http://yidwithlid.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/anti-israel-apples-new-operating-system.html
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Just got home from the hospital. Had a mini stroke, but am doing fine. Will be moving downstairs next weekend, so no blog post until October 5. Hope to see you all, then.
Sunday Sunday
It's a bit late today, and I know you've all been waiting with baited breath, so... This morning's *Sunday *began with the massacre in Kenya, concentrating on al-Shabab - who are they and what they want - with the BBC's guy there [and rather him than me], Mark Doyle. Guest presenter Shelagh Fogarty then talked to Labour's Stephen Timms about the Labour Party and faith. He thinks there's something of a left-wing tendency among believers in the UK - unlike in the USA - which could work to Labour's advantage. This follows last week's interview with Lib Dem minister Steve Webb about ... more »
Made in the USA : Tim Hudak
Teahadist Tim Hudak, former Walmart manager and leader of the Ontario PC Con Party since 2009, doesn't much care for the term "right-to-work" laws, preferring instead "worker's choice reforms". Well, OK then - Workers' choice of the right to work for less money, reducing wages for union and non-union workers alike and pitting worker against worker. On Friday, LauraK went to hear Chris Hedges in Toronto and provides an excellent overview of his talk on Syria, Chelsea Manning, the surveillance state, corporate and media ownership, the liberal class, and organized labour. Laura's p...more »
Stephen Harper: Parliament Pro-rogued
I did the following picture in January 2010. He won 2011 elections and pro-rogueing has become the norm. I thought I will post this picture again as it conveys Stephen Harper's modus operandi quite well.
Sunday Classics: Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci" and the woman who understood the birds' song
*Elizabeth Futral does her best at singing while she histrionicizes Nedda's recitative and Balatella. The chunk of recitative below, the first of three, occupies the first 57 seconds of the clip.* *(1) "Qual fiamma avea nel guardo!"* How his eyes did blaze! I turned mine away for fear he should read my secret thought! Oh, if he should catch me, brutal as he is! But enough, these are frightening nightmares and silly fancies! *Claudia Muzio (s). Edison, recorded Jan. 21, 1921* *Gabriella Tucci (s), Nedda; Orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, cond.... more »
RIP: I remember the middle class
Once the people worked hard and prospered. Those days are gone. The middle class is disappearing like free snacks at happy hour now. So for your Sunday reading, a good review of how we got to our current dismal state of "everything is all fucked up and bullshit." When I was growing up, it was assumed that America’s shared prosperity was the natural endpoint of our economy’s development, that capitalism had produced the workers paradise to which Communism unsuccessfully aspired. Now, with the perspective of 40 years, it’s obvious that the nonstop economic expansion that lasted from ... more »
“Do You Have Any Idea What $50 TRILLION Looks Like?!”
*“Do You Have Any Idea What $50 TRILLION Looks Like?!”* By David DeGraw “Comedian Lee Camp was inspired enough by our latest commentary on the state of our economy to feature it in his new Moment of Clarity video. Apparently only comedians seem to understand the mind-blowing absurdity of US millionaires having $50 TRILLION in wealth, while we also have a record number of people living in poverty. Russell Brand has been riffing on that stunning fact on his Messiah Complex tour, and now Lee Camp throws some fuel on the fire and also rips on this “crime against humanity.” $50 TRI... more »
German Election preview - German lethargic about major issues of the day - such as NSA spying , War in Syria , true state of affairs with perpetual bailout union aka Eurozone ? While Merkel seems likely to win a third term but the wildcard remains what happens with FDP , what happens with AFD ? Will the SPD / Greens / Left Party outpoll Merkel's governing Coalition ? Opinion polls on Sunday show the race is on a knife's edge !
Germans seem totally living in La La land regarding the major issues of the day - sadly , this would augur well for Merkel.... http://rt.com/op-edge/germany-election-euro-party-181/ Ahead of the parliamentary vote, Germans seem to be totally uninterested in major issues, like the NSA scandal or war in Syria, and talk more about things like Angela Merkel’s necklace, says Christian Schmidt from the anti-euro party. “*That is baffling everybody around,*” none of important issues have surfaced during the pre-election campaign, Dr. Christian Schmidt, deputy head of the Berlin branch ... more »
Better Life Thru Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals
Got out of the house and away from the computer for a bit, the last couple of weeks- and I was amazed at what I've repeatedly heard and thought I would expound on it a bit. Did you know that 70% of Americans take at least one pharmaceutical per day? This absolutely astounds me. When I was little I lived on a farm - we were dirt poor - farm dirt poor. We had an outhouse, brought our water to use in the house from a pump out by the barn - heated our water for use in a special container that was built onto the wood stove we used for cooking. People died every year when I was a kid - ... more »
Heavenletter #4684 Receiving God's LoveSeptember 21, 2013
*Heavenletter #4684 Receiving God's Love , September 21, 2013* God said: Love from Me is not accidental, nor is it occasional. It is a given. At every moment, I am sending you love. At every moment you receive it, whatever you are aware of or not. Close your beautiful eyes, and feel your receiving love from Me, God, the One and Only. Of course, I am within you, and that makes us One, One of Love, One of All. Oneness is Totality, Wholeness, All That Is. Oneness is All, All as One. Reach out to Me, and you are reaching out to yourself. What more is there to say? Why clutter up s... more »
EU demands Israel explain seizure of Palestinian aid - and they should demand answers for why concussive grenades were hurled at their Diplomats and why their Diplomats were literally manhandled !
Last Update: Sunday, 22 September 2013 KSA 15:41 - GMT 12:41 EU demands Israel explain seizure of Palestinian aid Sunday, 22 September 2013 French diplomat Marion Castaing lays on the ground after Israeli soldiers carried her out of her truck. (Reuters) - - - - - - - Al Arabiya Israel has been asked by top European Union officials on Saturday to explain why its soldiers seized a truckload of humanitarian aid intended for Palestinians. On Friday, Israeli soldiers manhandled European diplomats and seized emergency aid that was intended to be delivered to Pal... more »
Fracking in New Brunswick: The scientist who recommended fracking in NB is a fake scientist
*Louis LaPierre of Dieppe, N.B., is invested as Member * *to the Order of Canada by Governor General David Johnston, * *November 2012. Louis LaPierre has admitted he falsely * *claimed to have a doctorate in environmental science. * *(CP/Fred Chartrand)* Fracking in New Brunswick is quite controversial. However, the scientist Louis LaPierre, who gave "go to" for fracking in NB, turned out to be a fake scientist. He is known now the "go to" scientist. *"Surprising revelations over the credentials of academic Louis LaPierre * ** *For decades, a prominent New Brunswick academic, was the ... more »
No Vision
What does the opposition stand for? Free pot (maybe)? The environment? (Elizabeth May will need more friends then.) We're supposed to vote without knowing anything.
Consumers face bill for power stations to be mothballed amid blackout fears - Telegraph
There's an odd line in this Telegraph report http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/10325749/Consumers-face-bill-for-power-stations-to-be-mothballed-amid-blackout-fears.html 'Critics of wind power said turbines were flawed because they do not generate electricity when there is little wind,' Does that mean that supporters of wind power believe that wind turbines generate electricity when there's little wind?
Your moment of Zen
Happy autumnal equinox. The caterpillar prepares for metamorphosis in Maeve's magic garden.
Seismic Shift?
Some pundits claimed the 2011 election was a political earthquake. John Ibbitson and Darrell Bricker asserted that it was a *Big Shift*. Peter C. Newman claimed that it marked the death of the Liberal Party. Andrew Cohen isn't so sure. Canada may, he writes, be reverting to its old three party system -- with the NDP as the third party: Looking at polls, you could think we have returned to the way things were in Canada before we elected a multi-party Parliament in 1993, when the Reform Party and the Bloc Québécois erupted as regional powers. Now we have become essentially a three-... more »
Our World and violence
Yesterday I was looking at the headlines from around the world. It looks there is violence and killings everywhere. What kind of world we live in? We are supposed to have progressed but it looks centuries ago lot fewer people could be killed when bow and arrow, and swords were the major weapons. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *Armed siege at Kenya shopping mall enters second day; 59 dead* Gunmen stormed a crowded shopping mall frequented by Westerners in a brazen midday attack . By Alastair Jamieson, Patrick Garrity and Simon Moya-Smith, NBC News An armed hostage siege at ... more »
The Grubby Politics Of The Vote To Shut Down The Government-- Fundraising And Hypocrisy
DCCC faves McIntyre & Matheson both voted to shut down the government I'm sure you already know that on Friday, Boehner surrendered to the Tea Party nihilists and the deranged Ted Cruz faction of his party and passed a bill that would shut down the government unless the Senate and Obama agree to repeal the Affordable Care Act. It passed 230-189. Despite teeth gnashing by Republicans in swing districts who need independent voters for reelection-- especially loud from Peter King (R-NY) and Michael Fitzpatrick (R-PA)-- only one Republican crossed the aisle and voted with the Democrats, ... more »
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Women and the residential fellowship: a few thoughts
In my email inbox last week was a notification of a fellowship opportunity. Since I have a sabbatical coming up shortly—okay, in a couple of years, but time flies, right?—I eagerly skimmed the details. It’s a fellowship squarely in my field. The funding is pretty generous, probably enough to help me buy out some extra Continue reading
Time for a new Icon
I need to lose weight... but it's what I look like in 2013.
Jesse Jackson Jr. Knows Who His Daddy Is
JJJ on MLK - "I Stand Before You Here, The Inheritor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from Spike1138 on Vimeo. "As regards the allegations [concerning] The Reverend.... ...he will have to defend himself." - Jesse Jackson Jr. on the 2000 Dept. of Justice report commissioned in the wake of the Guilty verdict in King Family vs. Jowers et al. (1999)., for the purpose of clearing "SCLC Minister" and "Memphis Minister" as accessories to Murder, April 4th, 1968
Just like that!
OK, a little light relief is needed, courtesy of Tommy Cooper. *A man walks into a bar with a roll of tarmac under his arm and says: "Pint please, and one for the road."* *A dyslexic man walks into a bra.* *A sandwich walks into a bar. The barman says "Sorry we don't serve food in here."* *A jump lead walks into a bar. The barman says "I'll serve you, but don't start anything."*
The Nairobi terrorist attack
CNN breaking news last night: 'Al-Shabaab tweets that all Muslims were escorted out of Nairobi mall before violence, says it won't negotiate.' Racist terrorist murderers? No, the BBC prefer to describe them thus 'The Somali militant group al-Shabab has said it carried out the attack.' The BBC just disgust me more each day. Latest figures for this latest Islamist terrorist atrocity is that Thirty-nine people are dead and 293 have been treated at area hospitals.
I see the BBC are desperately spinning on behalf of Ed Miliband this morning
The BBC happily report without any querying that '*Ed Miliband 'urged Brown to sack Damian McBride'* Ed Miliband says he urged Gordon Brown to sack Damian McBride over concerns the spin doctor was briefing against senior Labour colleagues. Mr McBride, who worked for Mr Brown, admits in a new book that he leaked stories to smear the ex-PM's opponents. Mr Miliband - who worked with Mr McBride at the Treasury - said he had been "worried" about his activities. And he had urged Mr Brown to get rid of the spin doctor, the Labour leader said in an interview with Andrew Marr.' Really... more »
Deliberately obscure BBC reporting about Kenya?
The conservative PJ Media website has posted a blistering hatchet-job on the BBC News website's reporting of the massacre in Kenya. The author admits he's frozen a moment in an ever-shifting news stream, analysing a single variant of repeatedly updated report - and you can see all the variations in this article at NewsSniffer - but he spells out his evidence that the version of the BBC article in question is, at best, badly-written and, at worst, deliberately obscure and misleading. The claim being made is that the BBC deliberately misreported these attacks by using an obscure a... more »
NSA / surveillance updates - Snowden leaks allow NSA critics to contest government surveillance lawsuits ...RSA warns of NSA link to encryption formula..... Brazil seeks to extricate the internet from US control ....FBI domestic spying - out of control ?
http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/323793-snowden-leaks-help-nsa-critics-in-legal-fights Snowden leaks help NSA critics in government surveillance lawsuits For years, the government has successfully suppressed lawsuits by civil liberties groups challenging the constitutionality of its surveillance programs. But the leaks by Edward Snowden have eroded the government's key legal defense and could mean that questions over whether the National Security Agency is breaking the law will be decided in open court. "No matter what you think of the lawfulness of these progra... more »
EPSLP: College Ready? Alliance Charter Corporation's big scam
First published on Echo Park Patch on September 20, 2013 ------------------------------ *"If the American public understood that reformers want to privatize their public schools and divert their taxes to pay profits to investors, it would be hard to sell the corporate idea of reform." — Professor Diane Ravitch* *"However, within this market, competition exists in several forms" — (Alliance CRPS Corporation's Business Plan, 2010 p.9)* [image: Alliance College]Over a decade ago Republican venture capitalist Richard "Dick" Riordan joined forces with other profit-hungry businessmen a... more »
A tale of two nations and two different maladjustments / economic perversions - first in the US , a look at how the food stamp program has devolved ( as discussed , perversion include excess food stamp selling at the end of the month , as well as JP Morgan handling / profiting from the food stamp program - profiting from the pain and misery of those less fortunate ) ... second , the economic maladjustment of China rapidly growing ghost cities......Both maladjustments reflect and expose deep maladies in both societies and the consequences for both nations are far reaching and profound !
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-09-21/food-stamp-nation Food Stamp Nation [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/21/2013 21:20 -0400 inShare2 From the art of selling excess food stamp dollars at the end of each month, to JP Morgan profiting from the program as a line of business, Liberty Blitzkrieg's Mike Krieger introduces the following micro-documentary on the rise of our food stamp nation. Produced by Future Money Trends, this video covers it all , *exposing the dismal and far-reaching consequences to society.* Here are three recent popular pos... more »
Ed Steer's Gold and Silver report - September 19 , 2013 - Data , News and Views touching on the precious metals ....
Catharsis Ours - 19 hours ago
http://www.caseyresearch.com/gsd/edition/who-leaked-the-fomc-statement-to-gold-traders ¤ YESTERDAY IN GOLD & SILVER The HFT sell off in gold in early Far East trading came to an end at 10 a.m. Hong Kong time. From there it rallied until shortly after the London open, before selling off gently until noon in New York. From that point it developed a positive bias that accelerated as the FOMC announcement approached. And then a minute or two before the actual announcement was made, the gold price blasted off, reaching an interim high about fifteen minutes later. From there it traded s... more »
EPSLP: College Ready? Alliance Charter Corporation’s big scam
First published on Echo Park Patch on September 20, 2013 “If the American public understood that reformers want to privatize their public schools and divert their taxes to pay profits to investors, it would be hard to sell the corporate idea of reform.” — Professor Diane Ravitch “However, within this market, competition exists in several […]
CIA ATTACKS MALL SHOPPERS?
On 21 September 2013, an upscale mall (photo above) became a war zone in Kenya. This mall attack is partly about oil, oil pipelines, naval bases and the US struggle against China. *Samantha Lewthwaite is linked to the London Tube Bombings of 2005, and to a bombing campaign against tourist hotels in Kenya. Her father was a soldier in the UK military. **SAMANTHA OF MI6?* Mossad, the CIA and MI6 are heavily involved in Kenya. Kenya has become friendly with China. A few years ago, the Chinese defence minister agreed to modernise Kenya's armed forces. (The sound of silence) Chi... more »
IPCC AR5 WG1: preemptive indoctrination
*Alarmist journalists already know how everyone will react and should react to an unknown report* The almost final draft of the IPCC AR5 WG1 [physical basis] report will be handed to politicians tomorrow in Stockholm. It's my understanding that minor details may still change in the text, under the political pressure. Their summary for policymakers will be out on Friday and the whole report will be out on the immediately following Monday. These documents have leaked – I don't have the final copies! – so many journalists already know what's inside. Despite claims that the document wi... more »
Trinational protest at Mexican Consulate in solidarity with CNTE
Protesting education neoliberalism across borders. En solidaridad con Los maestros de Mexico! #lausd pic.twitter.com/t8sunJeLP6 — Robert D. Skeels (@rdsathene) September 21, 2013 On Friday, September 20, 2013 the Trinational Coalition To Defend Public Education organized a demonstration in front of the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles in solidarity with our sisters and brothers in Mexico to protest the repression of the Mexican teachers and attempts to privatize public education in Mexico. *My tumblr photoset of the protest* Trinational posted some photos on their facebook page ... more »
2010 nine years after 9/11 - 900 First Responders are dead - CANCER CANCER CANCER
This news report from RT in 2010 puts former Soviet nuclear intelligence officer Dmitri Khalezov's deep-underground-nuked *World Trade Center* story CENTRE PAGE, "Cancers among first responders, after ten years," is how he put it. *Nine hundred 9/11 heroes have died since the 2001 terrorist attacks. Thousands of others are suffering from various cancers believed to have been caused by toxins at Ground Zero. The US federal government has failed, thus far, to pass 9/11 health legislation that would assist 9/11 responders with medical care.* [source RT 2010]
Terrorism returns to Kenya
The latest, sickening atrocity by Islamic terrorists looks as if it's comparable to the depraved attacks in Mumbai in 2008. A hostage situation is still going on, following the targeted murder of dozens of innocent people in a busy shopping centre in Nairobi - the victims (including children and elderly people) selected simply for being non-Muslim. The confusion in some of the reporting as events unfolded yesterday is entirely understandable. It hardly needs saying that it takes time for journalists to get a handle on a massacre as it's happening, and that fresh details keep emer... more »
British Columbia Media, Blinded By Science, Or Stupidity Pills?
*Written by Grant G* I really didn`t think it was possible but since the election of Christy Clark our media has become even more stoogier.. Perhaps Smyth, Palmer and Sean Leslie believe it`s trendy and neato to be a ditxy dummo like like Christy Clark, I mean really, how many Adrian Dix articles must one endure, let us be clear, very clear, Adrian Dix has been a dead duck since the election, it wasn`t a matter of if but when, Vaughn Palmer threw a hail Mary pass to save Adrian, ...Michael Smyth has been blathering about the election loss since that fateful day.. I wonder why the... more »
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Towing 2: Confiscating Motorcycles
Towing "illegally parked" cars, motorcycles and other vehicles, impound them to a certain area and release them after payment of penalty -- I think P500 or P1,000 for motorcycles and P1,500 for cars -- is among the revenue sources of certain local government units (LGUs) as being done by almost all cities in Metro Manila. Last Friday afternoon, around 3:25pm at the back of Skyland Tower, in front of Tiara Oriental Hotel, Malugay St., Makati, a man briefly left his motorcycle here to buy fishball or what. I don't think it was "illegally parked" as there were two other vehicles on tha... more »
America Aims To Prop Up Fictitious Syrian Army (FSA), While Still Backing Al-Qaeda Terrorists
*Fact: Obama never assassinated Osama.* America's Syria policy is in shambles, and for good reason. Washington has done nothing constructive or positive. America is not fighting for anything in Syria, it is simply exporting terror and chaos. Since the start of its media war against Assad, Washington has financed and armed culturally and socially backward terrorist groups like al-Qaeda who harbor racist and religious hatred for Christians, Kurds, Shiites, Jews, and other minorities. The shameless Western mass media has tried in vain to black out America's covert support for al-Q... more »
Road to Disarmament: Syria hands over toxic arsenal info to intl agency
Syria just committed the biggest error of the war. Assad should have never listened to the Russians. Israel won't listen to America, as Syria listened to Russia. Just watch. When international pressure is put on Israel and America to hand over Israel's WMDs to international regulators, Israel will tell the world to go to hell. Israel knows what survival means. Syria and Iran should follow Israel's path and tell the IAEA to go to hell. If these regimes want to survive, telling the IAEA to go to hell is the first and most important step. Road to Disarmament: Syria hands over toxic ... more »
Skydiving Experience
Watching the video, pre-jumpOur office was at lunch a few weeks back and someone brought up skydiving. Several at the table expressed an interest in going, so I called and set up a date and time for two weeks later. I figured, if we did not set it up, it would never happen, and if it was too far off, people would chicken out and not go. So, it was scheduled at Skydive Tecumseh for a Sunday in September. It ended up being myself, Lauren from the office and Jennifer (Kory's girlfriend). We were scheduled to show up at 1145 to start our journey. Got a call that morning from the... more »
A few quick notes
Today I have just a few quick notes to make... *First*, some of you may have already seen *this story*, but I'd like to highlight it here. What an absolute disgrace - "freedom" and "equality" in America means being free to be a pervert and sexual deviant, and have your behavior and "lifestyle" elevated and glorified by the Jewish-controlled mass media. I hope parents are paying attention. Is this acceptable to you? *Yahoo News* reports: In what is being described as the first known event of its kind, *a transgendered teen was named as her high school’s homecoming queen* on Friday.... more »
American Indians: Protect Treaty Territory from White Supremacists in Leith, North Dakota
Lakotas and Dakotas face off with white supremacists in Leith, North Dakota today Screen capture by Censored News . "The mothers will take you on!" Screen capture by Censored News Native American elders rallying against white supremacists. Censored News screen capture . Riot team with no badges to identify them Censored News screencapture Lakotas face off with white
Big Banks Ready for Next Bang-Up (Bail Out)? The Design for Being Poor in the Land of Plenty and What the Crazies Have In Mind for US
It's the weekend! Time for visiting all the lit venues for the latest on what's being written that's elucidating and fun (intellectually stimulating, anyway). I'm currently reading Bob Shacochis' latest world-shaker, with Pyncheon's and Leibovich's in the queue. I saw the one below earlier today and thought it deserved some serious comment as I've been wondering for years when someone would
America is a scoundrel. America is a deadbeat nation.
America has never been a friend of liberty. America is a scoundrel. America is a deadbeat nation. America backs al-Qaeda and Jihadist terrorism in Syria and around the world. May God's vengeance strike down this tyrannical and criminal nation and leave it exposed to disease, economic collapse, mass shootings, civil war, urban riots, infrastructure meltdown, and a thousand other evils under the sky.
America Is Betting Against The Kurds In Syria, Backs Al-Qaeda-Linked Terrorist Groups
Related: *America And Her Allies Stand Opposed To Kurdish Aspirations For Statehood*. "It is clear in the civil war in Syria that the US backs the FSA. *Washington hopes that the fall of the Assad regime will allow the Syrian forces in the FSA to defeat the Gulf Arab militias who, by then, they hope, will have defeated the armed forces of the DUP. But this seems unlikely because the PKK is not just a strong national liberation movement and it is now firmly embedded in Kurdish society in the east and southeast of Turkey. *Indeed, it is possible that the PKK and DUP together may ... more »
TV Watch: Lessons from "the" phone call on last week's "Breaking Bad"
*by Ken* I hadn't planned to write about *Breaking Bad* again until the whole series was under our collective belts, but in a post prompted by last week's episode *The New Yorker*'s Emily Nussbaum, "That Mind-Bending Phone Call on Last Night's *Breaking Bad*," has raised two large issues about the relationship between TV programs and TV audiences which I think deserve to be shared. *[Needless to say, a spoiler alert applies for anyone who hasn't seen last week's episode, "Ozymandias."]* Actually, the issue that interests me more isn't really raised as such in the piece. Emily N ... more »
Meltdown in Washington: President Obama Reported Sedated Following Emotional Breakdown
*Meltdown in Washington: President Obama Reported Sedated Following Emotional Breakdown* September 21, 2013 http://nationalreport.net/meltdown-washington-president-obama-reported-sedated-following-emotional-breakdown/ As is the case with many stories these days, I cannot prove the legitimacy of this story. However, I will say, if it were true I would not be in the least bit surprised. I personally believe Obama is a puppet (as all Presidents are) being controlled by many levels of power above the presidency. This assumption has yet to be proven, yet I feel the stage is now be... more »
Longest Walk 4 Photos: Ioway Powwow Kansas
. Longest Walk 4 near Topeka, Kansas, at powwow, late today, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013. Photos by long walker Carl 'Bad Bear' Sampson, Western Shoshone, thank you for sharing with Censored News! More of today's photos: Potawatomie honor Longest Walk 4 at Veteran's Powwow: http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2013/09/photos-potawatomie-honor-long-walk-4-in.html
AUSTRALIA: THE NEW RIGHT AND THE END OF TRANSPARENT GOVERNMENT
For all the foibles and weaknesses of the previous Labor government, what with its leadership issues and struggles to govern with the help of the Greens and independents, at least the Australian people knew what was going on as the two sides of the media, Murdoch’s right-wing hard copy and online news resources on one side, and the centrist and left-of-centre Fairfax hard copy and online news resources and ABC media on the other side, gave a running commentary which the Labor government under both recent leaders were always willing to respond to. But it was the overwhelming ability... more »
Lesson Plans? I don’t need no stinkin’ lesson plans!
It’s Saturday, and I sit down to plan my lessons for the upcoming week. Fortunately, I don’t have a template to use, a place to upload them, or an administrator who even looks at my lesson plans. There is a modicum of dignity left for me as a teacher in that. Sadly, too many teachers […]
America And Her Allies Stand Opposed To Kurdish Aspirations For Statehood
Related: *America, Turkey, And Saudi Arabia: Cease And Desist Your Unlawful Attacks Against The Kurds In Syria*. *"The role of the Obama administration in suppressing the long-running Kurdish uprising in Turkey is largely unknown.* But a few weeks ago a U.S. diplomat dropped an intriguing clue. *Francis J. Ricciardone, Jr., Obama's ambassador to Turkey, revealed that the U.S. had secretly offered Turkey what was, in effect, a bin Laden-style assassination of the top leadership of the PKK* (Kurdistan Workers Party), the rebels who have been fighting the U.S.-equipped Turkish army ...more »
Extreme and Fringe... And Don't Forget Crazy
On Thursday Justin Amash (R-MI) told a crowd of libertarians at the Liberty Political Action Conference that Senators John McCain (R-AZ), and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) "are on the extreme fringes of American society in terms of their views on war.” Amash is correct about McCain and Graham but this week he voted to slash $40 billion from food stamps and also voted to hold hostage keeping the government open to ending Obamacare. That would be just as extreme and fringe as McCain and Graham. Yesterday Paul Krugman dubbed the whole lot of them, The Crazy Party. "In recent months, he wrote... more »
What Bernanke revealed by failing to follow through with the Federal Reserve's telegraphed taper messaging was put on display that five years after the financial calamity that began in 2008 and hit its most visible moments of turmoil in 2009 with Lehman Bros collapse and AIG last minute rescue - is the financial sphere is still on life support , still unable to handle even a modest withdrawal of the Fed's liquidity " heroin " ...... Like with any ponzi scheme , flow of cash into the scheme must continue or things fall apart ! Manipulation like we saw last week - not just the Fed's abrupt about face , but the PMs rapid rise post - Fed meeting announcement on Wed / TH and then the brutal beat down on Friday where 65 - 70 percent of the price gains were taken away ! And if JP Morgan ( or a Goldman ) recommends that their customers should buy gold - smart money ( or those with the blueprint from the PTBs ) are probably selling ...
What Bernanke Did [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/21/2013 17:44 -0400 - Ben Bernanke - Ben Bernanke - Government Stimulus - Unemployment inShare1 What Ben Bernanke did by not Tapering was *expose the fragility of the US economy for all to see*. His actions, Mises Institute's Peter Klein explains in this brief clip, based on the premise that the US economy was not capable of sustaining any reduction in the $85 billion per month stimulus free-money, means once again "the economy is so dependent on artificial stimulation from the ce... more »
Achievement School District Responds
Jeremy Jones, one of the bristly, high-T clones of the Ahievement School District administration (see pics above and tell me which one is Jeremy), sent the following comment to my post yesterday on the ASD corporate corruptionism going on in Nashville and Memphis, as the poorest public schools are labeled "Priority" before being auctioned off to charter chain gang operators: It is incredibly misleading to say "corporate," "corporation" and "corporatize" when characterizing the changes happening in Memphis in the effort to move the bottom 5% of schools to the top 25% within five ye... more »
After lulling traders into a Taper assumption , Ben Bernanke pulls a fast one with NO Taper ( well , as you will see below , not quite a surprise to all as some gold trader (s) made a surprisingly good call just before the Fed announcement today ( or got a heads up ) ! Bottom line - carnage for gold and silver shorts , carnage for treasury shorts , carnage for USD longs , risk on for US equities ! There are no markets , just manipulations......
Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-09-18/fomc-shocker-no-taper ( There are no markets , just manipulations... ) FOMC Shocker: No Taper - Full FOMC Statement Redline Comparison [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/18/2013 14:01 -0400 inShare13 <iframe data-gapiattached="true" frameborder="0" hspace="0" id="I0_1379542376000" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" name="I0_1379542376000" scrolling="no" src="https://apis.google.com/u/0/_/+1/fastbutton?bsv=o&usegapi=1&size=medium&hl=en-US&origin=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fnew...more »
West Attempts Syria Cover Up - Claims "Twitter Donations" Behind Rise of Al Qaeda
US "officials" claim combined treasuries of US, UK, France, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Israel, and others no match for "Twitter donations" in latest and most absurd attempt yet to cover up direct support for Al Qaeda in Syria. *September 22, 2013* (Tony Cartalucci) - In the latest, and perhaps most absurd attempt yet by the West to cover up direct aid, arms, and funding it has been sending to Al Qaeda throughout the duration of the Syrian conflict, the Washington Post now claims "Twitter donations" have somehow managed to outpace the collective resources of a 7 nation-plus axis w... more »
hedges: "when harper passes right-to-work, you must go on a massive general strike, or you're finished"
Last night, I heard author, journalist, and activist Chris Hedges speak at the Bloor Street United Church in Toronto, sponsored by the excellent *Canadian Dimension*. Hedges is a radical intellectual, in the Chomsky vein, also compassionate and fearless, in the mode of Howard Zinn. He touched on many subjects - and credited the work and thoughts of *many* others. I can only hope to impart a few snippets of the many threads Hedges wove. *"A seismic moment"* Hedges called the recent US debate on Syria a "seismic moment". The Obama administration pulled out all the familiar mechanisms... more »
This time he really means it
Or at least I hope Obama does: President Obama phoned Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Friday to tell him he will not negotiate with Republicans on the debt ceiling, according to a readout provided by the Speaker’s office. Boehner told the president he was “disappointed” to hear his position, an aide said. “Given the long history of using debt limit increases to achieve bipartisan deficit reduction and economic reforms, the Speaker was disappointed but told the president that the two chambers of Congress will chart the path ahead. It was a brief call,” the aide said. Long histo...more »
America, Turkey, And Saudi Arabia: Cease And Desist Your Unlawful Attacks Against The Kurds In Syria
*America, Turkey, And Saudi Arabia: Hell awaits you if you do not cease and desist your support for al-Qaeda and your unlawful attacks against the Kurds in Syria. * Related: 1. *Kurds In Syria To U.S Ally Turkey: Stop Attacking Us And Stop Supporting Al-Qaeda*. 2. *Reports: U.S Ally Turkey Is Intervening Militarily In Syria On The Side of Al-Qaeda*. 3. *America, Turkey, And Saudi Arabia Are Waging War On Kurds In Syria Via Al-Qaeda.* * * * *4. *America's Main Middle East Client Regimes, Turkey And Saudi Arabia, Are Using Al-Qaeda To Suppress Kurdish Rights In Syria.... more »
Concealed Handguns and Road Rage. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Two motorists, each with a concealed weapon permit. Add one portion of road rage. Stir.
Benghazi: The Scandal That Never Was
Yesterday we looked at an astonishing Rachel Maddow exposé on how money-grubbing right-wing operatives are using the "spectre" of ObamaCare to fleece the flock. Go back and look at that and image she was talking about how these scurrilous people are using "Benghazi" instead of "ObamaCare" to line their pockets with the cash of angry, frustrated dummies who spend too much time glued to Fox and Hate Talk Radio propaganda networks. The political brethren of those hucksters-- your Darrell Issas and Michele Bachmenn, Louie Gohmerts, John Micas and Steve Stockmen-- think they can conj... more »
The Rise of the Gullibillies
Today's hard Right draws an astonishing amount of electoral support from people who are simply too damned dumb to realize they're voting against their self-interest. This is especially true of the United States where the Red States, the heartland of Republican support, tend to have the poorest social outcomes - lifespan, health issues/obesity, education/illiteracy, poverty, violence and imprisonment, teen/unwed pregnancy, divorce, domestic abuse - the whole gamut. It's the Republican Red States that also garner the most from the federal government while contributing the least to ... more »
A Thousand Years of Blagging Politicians
Talking of Nick Clegg, the Lib Dems and plastic bags... The plastic bag was first invented in 1957, as a sandwich bag. By the 1970's it had already replaced the paper bag as our favourite way of carrying shopping. Radio 4's* More or Less *quoted Mr Clegg saying, "We all use plastic bags. I do. Everyone does. I think everybody feels that maybe we use *too many* plastic bags. You might use them for twenty minutes walking back from the shops, but they take a thousand years to degrade." Do they really? And what's the source of this 'thousand years' claim? To find out, Tim Harford tal... more »
No One Will Shed A Tear When The U.S. Dollar Collapses
"This is the United States of America, we’re not some banana republic. This is not a deadbeat nation. We don’t run out on our tab. We're the world's bedrock investment, the entire world looks to us to make sure the world economy is stable. We can’t just not pay our bills." - Con Artist Barack H. Obama. If America is the "world's bedrock investment" then the world is screwed. The world can do without this so-called "bedrock" called America. America can go to hell. The world does not need this collapsing bedrock. Humanity will be better without America as a bedrock. Humanity will pros... more »
Today With Pope Francis - Money Is the Root of All Evil.
Somebody, on the inside, is going to knock this guy off. He's telling way, way too much truth. But if the Pope is just too hard to take, you can always go back to this guy - he's not a pope, he's a Prophet. Like all these quacks, money is never the root of evil - provided you're sending it their way.
"Getcha Damn Hand Outta My Pocket!!"
The Navy Yard Raid - White House Down from Spike1138 on Vimeo. Here, we have a Jarhead in civvies letting off firecrackers practically on the Rose Garden lawn, for no good reason, around the exact time the FBI declared * "Case Close, the dead N*gger acted alone - just sprinkle some crack on him and lets get out of here." * And the manhunt was abruptly called off. There is historical precedent for this: * "Right after Malcolm greeted his audience with "As-salaam alaikum" (earning the return: "Wa-alaikum-salaam") someone in the 8th row shouted "Get your hand out of my pocket!". ... more »
Party Conference Watch 2013: The Liberal Democrats
I promised to monitor the *Today *programme's coverage of the party conferences this year to see if any evidence of bias emerges. The Greens came first. Next came the Liberal Democrats. Their conference began last *Saturday*, but that day's *Today* (14/9) didn't spend much time on it. The programme spent some two and a half minutes previewing the conference (from 7.12-7.14), though that discussion with chief political correspondent Gary O'Donoghue spent a good portion on that talking about a new government policy - the announcement of a five pence charge on plastic bags. Gary me...more »
Higher Dimensional Cosmics Permeate All Gaia Upgrade Grids
* * * * *Higher Dimensional Cosmics Permeate All Gaia Upgrade Grids* by ÉirePort Sentience of all Gaia Hue-manity increases dramatically during the 9-20 to 9-22 window, as Higher Dimensional Cosmics permeate all Gaia upgrade grids. Fore-movement of these Cosmics portends major consciousness upgrades in all Gaia participants, Hue-manity as well as humanity. Separation protocols, in place for centuries, have been dissolved and transcended as a result of these Higher Dimensional Cosmics. "Fear aligneds" are unable to maintain such, and fade from all dimensional viewpoints. Resistanc... more »
IAEA: Go To Hell.
The IAEA is dead. Let it go to hell. The world should reject this institution and the hypocrites who run it. "The members of the UN's nuclear agency have narrowly rejected an Arab-backed resolution calling on Israel to join a global treaty limiting nuclear arms." (*Source*).
Mike Duffy: Minimum punishment
He should walk in front of the Parliament with a sign: *"I am a thief I stole money from the taxpayers."*
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