English: View of the main (and oldest) building of Deir Mar Musa al-Habashi or Monastery of Saint Moses the Abyssinian, Syria Français : Vue du bâtiment principal (et le plus ancien) du monastère de Mar Mousa, Syrie (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Monte Rosa im Blick (Photo credit: uwelino)
English: Columns in Palmyra, Syria, 2009. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Spain: UFO Sighting at La Calera and Monte del Borracho (1981)
*Spain: UFO Sighting at La Calera and Monte del Borracho (1981)*
*A Report by Joaquín Mateos Nogales*
Gerena is once more the protagonist of events that defy all reason. This
community in the environs of Seville (Spain) has become a frequent backdrop
for sightings in the region for nearly twenty years. Events have occurred
to a greater or lesser extent practically ever since one man took an
interest in researching them: Joaquin Mateos Nogales, a TV technician and
native of the aforesaid town. There is perhaps some truth to the hypothesis
put forth by researcher Ignacio Darnaude, conc... more »
It's Wednesday...
*what's going on.*
*Syria:*
Capitalist Preservation: Misinformed Narcissist in Chief: "My Credibility
is Not on the Line," the International Community's Is
Maggie's Notebook: Obama – Syria Not Imminent Threat to US: John McCain
Will Not Support Draft Senate Resolution on Syria
Lynne's Little Nest: Obamawarrior
Gateway Pundit: Obama Lies About Red Lines And Blames The World
Liberty's Torch: Warfare Through a False Flag Frameup
Weasel Zippers: Obama Admits America “Not Directly Imminently Threatened”
By Assad Regime In Syria…
New Zeal: The Planned Destruction of Christian... more »
America's Mechanical Guerrilla Army
They don't wear boots or carry assault rifles but they're far more
dangerous to America's adversaries. They're machines situated in key spots
around the world that have been covertly captured by America's spy agencies,
an estimated 85,000 so far and growing rapidly. Thanks Edward Snowden for
the heads up.
*U.S. intelligence services carried out 231 offensive cyber-operations in
2011, the leading edge of a clandestine campaign that embraces the Internet
as a theater of spying, sabotage and war, according to top-secret documents
obtained by The Washington Post.*
*Additionally, ... more »
PREPARING FOR HOT WAR
The Israeli and US missile test yesterday is a troubling development in the
impending war on Syria. I've previously noted I believe one key goal of
this Obama version of "shock and awe" is to create a pretext to hit Iran as
well.
A Russian military expert told the ITAR-TASS News Agency yesterday that the
U.S. and Israel actually wanted to watch the reaction to the launch on the
part of Russia, China and Iran.
From 1996 through to 2001, Colonel-General Leonid Ivashov, Ret. was chief
of the Russian Defense Ministry’s Main Department for International Defense
Cooperation. He is Pres... more »
DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT PUBLIC SCHOOLS: It happened in Massachusetts—and in Texas too!
*WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2013*
*Interlude—The improvement:* In theory, our country is trying to improve
the math and reading skills of our public school students.
In some ways, of course, such improvement won’t matter. For example, if the
reign of the one percent continues, kids may get better in reading and
math, improving their productivity in the workplace.
But so what? The workplace gains which result will get looted, will be
drained off by the one percent! This is the process which now obtains in
our massive health care spending, a process characterized by types of
looting the... more »
Can An Employer Force You To Quit? 5 things to think about before signing a forced resignation letter
One question I'm surprised I've never gotten at AOL Jobs is one of the most
common questions I get in my law practice. That is, whether your boss can
force you to quit. Sometimes, a supervisor will try to make you so
miserable you'll quit, but some will come right out and say it's time to
turn in your resignation.
What are your rights if your employer shoves a resignation letter in front
of you and tells you to sign? Should you resign when asked?
In my latest AOL Jobs article, I talk about the top 5 things to think about
before you sign a forced resignation. You can read it here.
Ducks Ducks Everywhere
To help offset the departure of two permanent contributors, we would like
to welcome a few extra additions to our guest blogging pool. Burcu Ayten
Bayram is Assistant Professor at University of Texas-Arlington,
specializing in international organizations, political psychology,
identities and global justice. She works with quantitative methods
including survey and experimental methods. Her current
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“On the Road to Damascus”
*“On the Road to Damascus”*
by Bill Bonner
“As he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed
around him. He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, “Saul,
Saul, why do you persecute me?”
“Who are you, Lord?” Saul asked.
"I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,” he replied. “Now get up and go into
the city, and you will be told what you must do.”
The men traveling with Saul stood there speechless; they heard the sound
but did not see anyone. Saul got up from the ground, but when he opened his
eyes he could see nothing. So they led him by the hand ... more »
Photos Long Walk 4 Cahokia Mounds MO by Mark Swain
Longest
Walk 4 at Cahokia Mounds, Monk Mounds, and Black Bear Bakery in St
Louis
Photos by Mark Swain
.
Longest Walk 4 Return to Alcatraz: Thank you Mark Swain for sharing
photos with Censored News!
Top photos: Long Walkers at Cahokia Mounds, Missouri, Sept. 2, 2013.
Next: Fellowship at Black Bear Bakery. Then, to Monk Mounds for all
night ceremony.
James Corbett Interviews Sharmine Narwani- Geopolitics of the Syrian War
*Much thanks to James Corbett @ The Corbett Report for doing the work!*
3
Sep
2013
Interview 738 – Sharmine Narwani on the Geopolitics of the Syrian War Posted
by Corbett
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Writer and political analyst Sharmine Narwani joins us to break down the
geopolitics behind the Syrian war. We discuss the main players in the
Syrian conflict and their competing agendas and explore her new article, “Bandar
ibn Israel,” detailing Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud’s
strange disappearance and reappearance in the thick of the Syrian war.
The abo... more »
Matt Drudge Breaks Up With Republicans, Joins Libertarians
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*Activist Post*
Matt Drudge, the founder of the enormously popular conservative news
aggregator DrudgeReport.com, tweeted today that since there are no real
differences between Democrats and Republicans the only two real political
parties are Authoritarians and Libertarians.
"It's now Authoritarian vs Libertarian," Drudge tweeted. "Since Democrats
vs. Republicans has been obliterated, no real difference between parties..."
Drudge also asks his followers why anyone would still vote Republican. "Who
are they?!" he asks. "Rai... more »
Weather and lightning strike
Weather has been erratic around the globe and has caused a lot of damage.
*WHEN LIGHTNING STRIKES: The Greater Naples, Fla., YMCA was left Monday
with fire, smoke and water damage after a suspected lightning strike at the
facility caused about $2 million in damage. (David Albers/Naples Daily
News/Associated Press. WSJ*
Operation Sarkozy : How the CIA Placed one of its agents at the Presidency of the French Republic by Thierry Meyssan
Webster Tarpley: Operation Sarkozy - Married to the Corsican Mob and
Stepson to The CIA from Spike1138 on Vimeo.
*Operation Sarkozy : how the CIA placed one of its agents at the presidency
of the French Republic*
*
*
*by Thierry Meyssan*
*
One should judge Nicolas Sarkozy according to his actions, and not
according to his personality. Yet when his doings surprise even his own
constituents, it is legitimate to take a detailed look at his biography and
question the bonds that brought him to power. Thierry Meyssan has decided
to write the truth about the French Republic’s president b... more »
America is the Boy Who Cried Wolf for War
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*Youtube*
What you're not being told about the Syria war.
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Does it Pay to Divide and Conquer?
The intuition behind the maxim divide et impera is clear. If they’re busy
fighting each other, they not fighting you. And that’s obviously in your
interest (assuming, that is, you are some sort of occupier or metropole
seeking to extract rents from a local population.) Devious and
underhanded? Sure. Morally repugnant? If you’re inclined to
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Healed by Wheatgrass: 74 Year Old Man With Cancer Told He Would Be 'Dead in a matter of weeks' Proves Doctors Wrong by Jonathan Benson
Healed by wheatgrass: 74-year-old man with cancer told he would be 'dead in
a matter of weeks' proves doctors wrong
by Jonathan Benson
Natural News, 4 September 2013
(NaturalNews) When conventional doctors told 74-year-old Danny McDonald of
Dunaff, Ireland, that he had stomach cancer so severe that it would likely
kill him within three months, he decided to ignore their advice to undergo
toxic chemotherapy treatments and instead embrace a nutritional approach to
healing. Four years later and Danny is doing great, thanks to daily
protocol he adopted that involves juicing and dri... more »
Sukhoi-27 weapons system - more than meet the eye
address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 1 hour ago
Link:
http://youtu.be/4Kk9UxB7eLE -- Nice images here
True! I like a good defense system. Many countries would want one
against
assaults from foreign hordes. The option that Sukhoi offers with its
SU27
family for air defense (and attack) has advantages over Western
satellite
guided, high tech, fly-by-wire solutions prone to hacking (!) and
electro-magnetic influences from solar and other high power radiation
beamsinclusive lasers. Let us wait and see how this works out, when the
USA c.s.
goes to war again and meets Chinese and Russian opponents. One day
Westernallied bigotry and
meg... more »
Argentina: More on the Colonia Las Achiras CE-1
*Argentina: More on the Colonia Las Achiras CE-1*
*[Yesterday we presented the photograph uploaded by Daniel Ubaldo Padilla
to his Facebook feed and
today we give you the newspaper article from local daily "El Observador"
describing the
interesting sighting in Colón, Argentina -- SC*]
A UFO was reported in the area of Colonia Las Achiras on Sunday, August 25
[2013] during a heated
match between Achirense and Campito for the local football league. Gabriel
"Gato" Felix, a sports
photographer and current trainer for the local team, as well as an renowned
physical education
instr... more »
Untitled
*Court asked to uphold BP settlement approval*
*Robert Meachem re-signs; Jon Vilma begins on IR ~Ramon Antonio Vargas*
*Debate over new OPP size reignites*
Sex workers after Pickton, and something I wish the media would quit doing
Another excellent story by Sarah Petruscu in the Times Colonist on cuts to
services for sex workers in Victoria, despite all the findings of the
Pickton Inquiry.
It’s worth reading.
PEERS, which provides a range of outreach and other services to sex workers
and those exiting the trade, has been forced to slash services and close a
daytime drop-in centre and employment readiness programs.
The problem is that the program was largely funded under a provincial
government employment contract. The government wanted fewer contracts, with
more controls, so it opted to award the main job pro... more »
Government Pension Protests Occur Across Iraq
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Iraq’s politicians live in a different world from the average citizen.
Parliament has given itself lavish salaries, pensions, and benefit plans,
while hardly passing any substantive legislation. In 2013, it was reported
that lawmakers earned around $72,000 a year, compared to $6,000 across the
nation. No matter how long they serve they get 80% of their salary when
they retire. During the summer this became a major issue amongst the
political class, and led to activists organizing protests. Since many of
these were to occur in Baghdad and the south, the base for Prime Minister
... more »
Syria: John Kerry - "What part of "No" do you not understand...?"
Syria: John Kerry - "What part of "No" do you not understand...?" from
Spike1138 on Vimeo.
*"Let's shut that door now as tight as we can,*
*
*
*There will not be American boots on the ground with respect to the civil
war.*
*
*
If [Assad is] foolish enough to respond to the world's enforcement against
his criminal activity, if he does, he will invite something far worse and I
believe something absolutely unsustainable for him,
*Now, that doesn't mean the United States of America is going to war."*
*
*
More Sorros Left-Hand Path Nazi warmongering - how is what he said *"a
stumble".... more »
Argentina: More on the Las Achiras CE-1
Argentina: More on the Colonia Las Achiras CE-1
[*Yesterday we presented the photograph uploaded by Daniel Ubaldo Padilla
to his Facebook feed and
today we give you the newspaper article from local daily "El Observador"
describing the
interesting sighting in Colón, Argentina -- SC*]
A UFO was reported in the area of Colonia Las Achiras on Sunday, August 25
[2013] during a heated
match between Achirense and Campito for the local football league. Gabriel
"Gato" Felix, a sports
photographer and current trainer for the local team, as well as an renowned
physical education
i... more »
Don’t Delay Retention Policy, Reject Retention
South Carolina is a dysfunctional poster child for the hot mess that is
political leadership, the media, and their combined influence on
educational policy. Superintendent of Education Mick Zais, The Post and
Courier (Charleston, SC), and even the SC League of Women Voters all cannot
stop themselves from promoting the worst possible education reform policy
[…]
Upcoming War On Syria: The Lies Of The Chemical Weapon Attack Are Falling Apart- UK Now Says Evidence Has Been Destroyed (!)
Yes, I have continued to tune into the Jew media Talmud-Vision to see what
the liars are now saying about Syria.... It is so amazing that these liars
and criminals are continuing to harp religiously that an attack on Syria is
"necessary" due to Assad using "chemical weapons" on his own people. In
most cases the liars cannot even keep their facts straight and all we see
now is pure unadulterated Bull Crap....
Just this morning, I came across a most interesting article that made me do
a slap to my own forehead in disgust... And I want to share that
information with all of my own rea... more »
New Books in Science Fiction and Fantasy Interview with Ben Hatke
In addition to phasing out of the Duck of Minerva, I’ve also been slowing
down my activities at New Books in Science Fiction and Fantasy. The channel
has a new host, Michael Zummo, who has taken over most responsibilities.
Still, I’m not entirely done. I have a new interview up with Ben Hatke.
Hatke is the author
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A factor on leave to appeal is delay below
Manning v. Society of Notaries Public of British Columbia, 2013 BCCA
386 holds that, among other things, a factor on leave to appeal
applications is whether the trial below will be delayed:
[21] It is obvious that an appeal of the judge's refusal to proceed
summarily is likely to hinder the progress of the action. Whether the
Supreme Court will take steps to delay the case based on its relationship
with other proceedings is a matter for that court, but I do not think it
appropriate for this Court to cause such delay.
Michael Hastings: The Last Journalist
*"How long shall they kill our prophets,*
*while we stand aside and look...?"*
*
*
*
*
Q&A with Michael Hastings on The Operators and the Celebrity Generals
from Spike1138 on Vimeo.
*"This dominates every aspect of their very existence and social life.*
**
*
*
* *
*If you can't get wasted with a journalist who's writing a profile of you
and piss all over the President who appoints you, what's the world coming
to?"*
Michael Hastings on 'The Operators' from Spike1138 on Vimeo.
The President, Petreaus & the Pentagon- The Michael Hastings Interview from
Spike1138 on Vimeo.
"Well,... more »
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Hawk Harrelson, 72. Yes, I enjoy his broadcasts. No, I'm
not going to apologize for it.
Some good stuff:
1. Reid Wilson on the era of the recall.
2. Smart Syria analysis from Dan Drezner.
3. Also worth reading: Ross Douthat on Syria.
4. Beth McMurtrie on social scientists and policy makers.
5. And this came up in comments here recently, so I should definitely link:
David Schoenfield on "why we'll see tanking in September." More plausible
than I thought. Thanks again, Bud Selig.
How Could Obama Let Himself Be Pushed Into This Catastrophe?
The American people, just like the British people and the French people,
oppose going to war in Syria... overwhelmingly. The other day, Orlando-area
congressional candidate Nick Ruiz said that "As Democrats we know better
than to fight unjust wars... When our leaders change for the worse, and
seek to lead us toward the lowest common denominator, then we should thank
them for whatever good they've done in the past-- but must tell them 'No,
we will not follow you there, and further, you will not lead us any
longer.' It is a crucial time when one must have the good sense to choose
n... more »
Nothing II
Hey twap! Didn't you just outline some bitchin' strategy for a campaign to
bring down the government? What's with all these videos and whining and
shit?
Ahem.
If you go back to the beginning of that, you'll see that it was to outline
a plan that I've abandoned due to my complete inability to get it off the
ground. No resources. No support. Even third-string lefty leaders were too
busy staring at their navels to even give me a hearing.
Fuck it.
Watch this instead. I thought half of it was pretty good before I fell
asleep:
Antisemitism in Europe
A must read article from
http://www.israelwhat.com/2013/09/03/gerstenfeld-on-gerstenfeld-european-anti-semitism-and-norwegian-hate-mongersyou
must read the whole article but here's a thought provoking extract:
' One aspect of this is to expose anti-Semites. The estimated figure of
150
million European anti-Semites with extreme negative opinions about
Israel
is so shocking that not a single non-Jewish paper in Europe has dared to
publish it. I have received a lot of media attention for Demonizng
Israel and the Jews in Jewish circles. So far articles in at least eight
languages have ... more »
Anti Union Snake Oil
Modern conservatism has been repeating the same balderdash for three
decades -- that unions are bad for the economy. The Fraser Institute,
predictably, has jumped on the bandwagon. Andrew Jackson writes in *The
Globe and Mail*:
A new study by the Fraser Institute argues that introduction of anti-union
“right to work” laws in Canada would boost manufacturing output and jobs.
While they are right that these laws, which make dues payments voluntary,
severely weaken unions, it is far from evident that unionization comes at
the cost of poorer economic performance.
In fact, Jackson wr... more »
REMIC complete deficiency ( otherwise known as fraud ) brought forth through lawsuit - empty shell trust allowed to misrepresent its true nature while the Regulators looked the other way .....
Now this is truly " Organized " Crime....
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=224067
You Want To Know Why....
*every single one* of the large financial institutions deserves to be *closed
and dissolved*, their officers *imprisoned* and *every single one of the
regulators involved, including The Fed, SEC, OTS and OCC* should be thrown
in the gulag, fed stale bread and water *and then eaten by wild hogs?*
*
**This* is why:
Read that a few times -- however many times you need to.
*Out of the entire sample in this so-called REMIC not one of the surveyed
loans actually was timely ... more »
Henrik Palmgren interviews William Engdhal: Syria & Manufactured Conflicts
* Thanks to Mr Palmgren @ Red Ice Radio for conducting this most excellent
interview.*
Good overall view of the situation in Syria. The creation of NATO jihadi
fighters. The pipeline aspect to this whole situation. If you have been
reading here at the blog, for the past 3 years, most of this will come as
no surprise. If you are a newbie, this is a concise foundation for
understanding what is going on right now regarding Syria, Qatar, Turkey,
Russia, China etc.,
*
**James@ WinterPatriot* wrote a very good piece regarding the Syrian
situation. James is confident the attack on Syri... more »
The Little Mermaid Birthday Party
I am a member of the Collective Bias® Social Fabric® Community. This
shop has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for
Collective Bias and their client.
We love all of the Disney Princesses in this house, especially Ariel. My
daughter begs to watch the movie every single day and we play the
soundtrack in our car. We have the old VHS version of the movie and after
our VHS player gave out, we started borrowing grandma's DVD. My little girl
cries every time we give Ariel back to grandma, we are so excited that The
Little Mermaid is coming out of the vault ... more »
The politics of War ( Syria edition ) - as Congress goes through the sausage making of authorizing War , the Military attempts to slow down the mad rush .... UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon pours cold water on legality of US attack plans without UN backing ( not that the US will listen to that ) !
Congressional Kabuki on War resolutions....
Fearing Defeat, Hawks ‘Limit’ Syria War ResolutionAdministration Likely to
Ignore Any Limits Once War Begins
by Jason Ditz, September 03, 2013
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In an effort to get senators to agree to the Obama Administration’s plan to
attack Syria, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has sought to sell the
idea that they are “limiting” the scope of the war, by adding a 60-day soft
deadline to the conflict.
The deadline would fit with the ongoing narrative of a limited, punitive
action against the Assad government, but also leaves... more »
Life, and increasingly death, for Christians in Egypt
' In fact, kidnapping young Christians and holding them for ransom has
become increasingly common in Egypt. Last April, 10-year-old Sameh George,
another deacon, or altar boy, at St. Abdul Masih ("Servant of Christ")
Church in Minya, Egypt, was also abducted by "unknown persons" while on his
way to church to participate in Holy Pascha prayers leading up to Orthodox
Easter. His parents said that it was his custom to go to church and worship
in the evening, but when he failed to return, and they began to panic, they
received an anonymous phone call from the kidnappers, informing them... more »
Syria updates - September 4 , 2013 - UK government approved sarin gas components for export to Syria in 2012 ? Putin interview - what Russia needs to see as convincing proof concerning chemical weapon use in Syria - let the UN experts do their job and also let the UN Security Council perform its role ! Updates on the latest on Syria as the US lurches to its Congressional authorization vote - House Republicans prepare draft resolutions for consideration as next week could be a big week in the latest War March !
UK has some explaining to do ....
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-09-03/how-uk-government-approved-sarin-gas-components-export-syria-2012
Guest Post: How The UK Government Approved Sarin Gas Components For Export
To Syria In 2012
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/03/2013 22:34 -0400
- European Union
- Guest Post
- United Kingdom
inShare
*Submitted by Michael Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,*
*The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency;
the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a... more »
"The Invitation"
* *
*"The Invitation"*
"It doesn't interest me what you do for a living.
I want to know what you ache for,
and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.
It doesn't interest me how old you are.
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your
dream,
for the adventure of being alive.
It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon.
I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow,
if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become
shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!
I want to know if you can sit with pa... more »
What if Beer Companies Told the Truth About GMOs In Their Ingredients?
What if Beer Companies Told the Truth?
Alliance For Natural health, 27 August 2013
Would some of their labels say, “Brewed with pure Rocky Mountain spring
water, GMO corn syrup, and fish bladder”?
If you like to kick back now and then with a cold one, you may not have
given much thought to what’s in the bottle or can. Perhaps you were
reassured by ads with wholesome images of sparkling mountain streams and
barley rippling in the breeze, or by slogans like “Budweiser: The Genuine
Article.”
The reality is far less appetizing. The list of legal additives to beer
includes:
- ... more »
"The Night Pleases Us..."
“I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without
thinking that
the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our
memory does.”
- Jorge Luis Borges
The Poet: Lynn Ungar, “Boundaries”
*“Boundaries”*
“The universe does not
revolve around you.
The stars and planets spinning
through the ballroom of space
dance with one another
quite outside of your small life.
You cannot hold gravity
or seasons; even air and water
inevitably evade your grasp.
Why not, then, let go?
You could move through time
like a shark through water,
neither restless or ceasing,
absorbed in and absorbing
the native element.
Why pretend you can do otherwise?
The world comes in at every pore,
mixes in your blood before
breath releases you into
the world again. Did you think
the fragile boundary of ... more »
Derrick Jensen, "No, We Can't Have It All"
*"No, We Can't Have It All"*
by Derrick Jensen
"We all face choices. We can have ice caps and polar bears, or we can have
automobiles. We can have dams or we can have salmon. We can have irrigated
wine from Mendocino and Sonoma counties, or we can have the Russian and Eel
Rivers. We can have oil from beneath the oceans, or we can have whales. We
can have cardboard boxes or we can have living forests. We can have
computers and cancer clusters from the manufacture of those computers, or
we can have neither. We can have electricity and a world devastated by
mining, or we can have ... more »
"A Look to the Heavens"
“Large, dusty, spiral galaxy NGC 4945 is seen edge-on near the center of
this rich telescopic image. The field of view spans nearly 2 degrees, or
about 4 times the width of the Full Moon, toward the expansive southern
constellation Centaurus.
*Click image for larger size.*
About 13 million light-years distant, NGC 4945 is almost the size of our
own Milky Way Galaxy. But X-ray and infrared observations reveal even more
high energy emission and star formation in the core of NGC 4945. The other
prominent galaxy in the field, NGC 4976, is an elliptical galaxy. Left of
center, NGC ... more »
"A Choctaw Prayer"
“Oh Great Spirit Father, who sits on high beyond the heavens,
Creator of all life below, please hear my spiritual prayer.
For I seek guidance in a world where few can lay claim to eternal peace.
Grant me the vision to see beyond tomorrow's horizon, yet still
accept my daily trials, that must and will be faced to survive.
Give me the strength to rise each day and breathe the breath of life
that you have provided for me.
Touch my spiritual soul, so that I may use every moment to spread
your sacred message of love and peace for all mankind.
I ask only the privilege to speak my native to... more »
Alex Noble, "This Parenthesis in Eternity"
*"This Parenthesis in Eternity"*
by Alex Noble
"This is the first, and the last day of my life. It is always this way,
isn’t it? How can we know, how can we ever know when a sudden transition
may come, and when we will be catapulted into our next chapter, our next
reality, sent home, or sent ahead, but sent, nevertheless. I did not mean
to start out this way, but I wanted this morning to put words on paper, as
a ritual, a sacred act of initiation and grace, the sandalwood incense
burning in its brass dish, the sleek rain falling softly now outside, the
day still dark and holdi... more »
“Silly Humans Can't Count: The 29% Effect”
*“Silly Humans Can't Count: The 29% Effect”*
By Paul Kedrosky
“From a new study in the "Journal of Consumer Research," how humans can't
count: “Consumers often have a distorted view when they compare information
that involves numbers, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer
Research. “As a consumer, would your preference for a dishwasher depend on
whether its warranty level is expressed in months rather than years?” write
authors Mario Pandelaere (Ghent University, Belgium), Barbara Briers
(Tilburg University, the Netherlands), and Christophe Lembregts (Ghent
Univ... more »
Archaeology: “Tiahuanaco: Gateway to the Gods”
“Tiahuanaco: Gateway to the Gods”
by Dan Eden
.
"Ask most people who are the oldest civilization or where the oldest
civilization lived and you'll hear answers like Mesopotamia (Iraq), Egypt
or Iran. While these cultures can be traced back to 4000 B.C., the
mysterious ruins of Tiahuanaco, in Bolivia, could be 14,000 years old! If
you think the Great Pyramid in Egypt is a technological marvel, wait until
you see what artists and engineers were doing in Tiahuanaco. This culture
thrived at the breathless, oxygen deprived elevation of 13,000 feet. They
managed to somehow move stones ... more »
"The Human Condition"
"I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible,
screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition."
- Albert Ellis
Paulo Coelho, “Searching For Meaning”
*“Searching For Meaning”*
by Paulo Coelho
“At such a moment it is not the physical pain which hurts the most (and
this applies to adults as much as to punished children); it is the mental
agony caused by the injustice, the unreasonableness of it all.” - Viktor
Frankl
“Terrible as it was, Viktor Frankl’s experience in Auschwitz reinforced
what was already one of his key ideas. Life is not primarily a quest for
pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught,
but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find
meaning in his or her lif... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
Santa Rosa, California, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
"Fight or Flight: Who Runs Your Life?"
*"Fight or Flight: Who Runs Your Life?"*
by Tony Schwartz
"Think, for a moment, about the life you're living. You skitter from
activity to activity. The consequence is that you don't do anything
particularly well. You're easily distracted and have difficulty paying
attention. You rarely read anything challenging, if you read much at all,
which is why so much of your knowledge is superficial. The same is true of
your relationships. How does that description strike you? Have I got it
pretty much right? My suspicion is I do, even if you are compelled to deny
it.
Okay, now take a mo... more »
The Poet: Arthur O’Shaughnessy, "Music and Moonlight"
*"Music and Moonlight"*
"We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone seabreakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world forever, it seems…
We, in the ages lying
In the buried past of the earth,
Built Ninevah with our sighing,
And Babel itself in our mirth;
And o’erthrew them with prophesying
To the old of the new world’s worth;
For each age is a dream that is dying,
Or one that is coming to birth."
- Arthur O’Shaughnessy, "Music and Moonlight" (1... more »
Chet Raymo, “Whence Ourselves?”
*“Whence Ourselves?”*
by Chet Raymo
“My thinking took me back to David S. Goodsell's "The Machinery of Life," and
I found myself reading the book again. There is nothing I didn't already
know, but it's worth reading again for the same reason one might read, say,
Anna Karenina or Moby Dick several times in the course of a life. In fact,
Goodsell's book would be a good candidate for the one science book I would
recommend to someone stuck on a desert island.
Step by step he takes us through the molecular machinery shared by all life
on Earth. Humans have a lot more in common with a... more »
"Warning Signs: Paying Attention to Red Flags"
* *
*"Warning Signs: Paying Attention to Red Flags"*
by Madisyn Taylor, The DailyOM
"Red flags often come in the form of feelings urging us to pause for a
moment, listen to our intuition, and reconsider. Just as the universe wants
to provide for our needs, it also seeks to protect us from dangerous
situations, destructive relationships, and even minor inconveniences.
Frequently in our lives, perhaps everyday, we encounter psychic red flags
warning us of potential problems or accidents. We may not always recognize
the signs. However, more often than not, we may choose to ignore our... more »
Iran and homosexuality
The new Iranian Penal code that was passed by the Guardian Council of the
Constitution in Iran on May 1, 2013, states, “male homosexuality , in other
cases rather than lavat [sodomy] and tafkhiz [rubbing penis between another
man's tights without penetration], such as passionate kissing and lustful
touching – is punishable by 31 to 74 punitive lashes of 6th degree.”
[Article 237].
The wording of the law [such as..] allows the judge to consider any other
“homosexual” conduct – whether imaginary or real – as deserving punishment
…. This vague law, in practice, paves the way for the... more »
Likely: latest Atlantic hurricane-free date at least since 1941
I have manually checked the dates of formation of the first hurricanes on
Wikipedia pages about the 1851 Atlantic hurricane season (older, sparser
data, are available at most on the "one page per decade" basis) through the 2013
Atlantic hurricane season. You should be able to manually edit the year in
the URL to get to all the other pages.
This is what I found.
The first 2013 Atlantic hurricane hasn't started to form yet; only two
20-30 percent "glimpses" of a possible depression can be seen and they're
likely to be destroyed by their collision with the land (and if they won't
be, ... more »
Parliament's Porn Habit
What a rib-tickler. As MPs swan around the House in the short period before
another recess takes hold for party conference season, this little gem was
reported by the BBC this morning:
More than 300,000 attempts were made to access pornographic websites at the
Houses of Parliament in the past year, official records suggest.
It is unclear whether MPs, peers or other staff are responsible, House of
Commons officials said.
The figures were not all "purposeful requests" and may have been
exaggerated by third-party software and websites that reload themselves,
they added.
Now now, it m... more »
"If they are expensive enough to be effective, they aren't going to be affordable. And if they're affordable, they aren't going to be effective" - Why carbon reduction schemes are a bad idea - Remember 50:1
Remember "If they are expensive enough to be effective, they aren't going
to be affordable. And if they're affordable, they aren't going to be
effective"
More at 50:1
Wednesday Addams Linkage
There’s linkage! Allies release details of alleged Syrian chemical attacks.
There have been many of them and they have killed a lot of people. [The New
York Times] As Charli mentioned yesterday, congressional debate on Syria
shows new support for an attack. Poignant: Kerry invoking his and Hagel’s
votes for Iraq as evidence that they
Continue reading
MARRIED TO THE MOB; PRESIDENTS AND IN-LAWS
*'Obama's men' execute two young boys in Syria. *Rebels execute Two Small
Boys.
Thank goodness that Syria's Assad is not like your typical American
president.
Obama is linked to the deaths of young gay men in Chicago.
"Among the members of the gay 'Down Low Club' were Obama and TUCC’s choir
director, Donald Young, an openly gay man who reportedly had a sexual
relationship with Obama.
"Two other gay members of the church were Larry Bland and Nate Spencer.
"Young and Bland were brutally murdered, execution style, in late 2007."
MORE ON OBAMA MURDERS
*John McCain with his al ... more »
BBC NEWSREADER GEORGE ALAGIAH
*George Alagiah OBE, newsreader at the BBC.*
George Alagiah reads the news on the BBC.
Are we correct to assume that George Alagiah works for the security service
MI6?
George had his secondary education at St John's College in Portsmouth.
On the edge of Portsmouth is Fort Monckton, where MI6 trains its recruits.
* *
*George getting married.*
George charms people, which is why he is so good at reading out 'the
propaganda' on the BBC news.
George is a Roman Catholic Tamil, originally from Sri Lanka.
He was educated at the University of Durham.
He is married to Frances Robathan.
... more »
A New Year's Resolution for the BBC?
The third-placed story on the home page of the BBC website this morning is:
4.8m Britons 'earn below living wage'
The number of UK workers earning less than the so-called living wage has
risen to 4.8 million, a report by the Resolution Foundation think tank
suggests.
It's one of those stories which only the BBC rates as being *that*important.
The BBC report outlines the think tank's findings and quotes its lead
author, economist Matthew Whittaker, but also gives a lot of space to
Labour's attack on the government on the issue, with the government's
response being buried away (br... more »
Did soot melt glaciers in the 19th century?
Media including NBC focused our attention to a paper in PNAS,
End of the Little Ice Age in the Alps forced by industrial black carbon
by Thomas Painter and 5 co-authors from Caltech, Michigan, Innsbruck,
Davis, and Boulder. The claim is easy: the post-little-ice-age melting of
glaciers in the 19th century started well before CO2 could possibly matter
which is inconvenient so a different explanation has to be found. The
explanation is dirty snow from the industrial revolution.
Well, I find it plausible. Throughout the late 18th and the whole 19th
century, they didn't care about the... more »
British motor engineering is dead?
As a driver of a classic British car myself, I too have subscribed to the
view that British motor engineering is long dead. Not so, said this
season’s final episode of *Top Gear –*apparently those feet in modern times
still *drive *upon England’s mountains green:
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He Still Owes the State a Thousand Years
Ariel Castro is no more. Faced with a prison sentence of life plus a
millennium, Aerial decided to fly economy, hanging himself in his cell.
Given the future that awaited him, Castro probably did the smart thing.
And, for that, he's not to be pitied - only forgotten.
US Planned Syrian Civilian Catastrophe Since 2007
*September 4, 2013* (Tony Cartalucci) - NBC News' report, "'The great
tragedy of this century': More than 2 million refugees forced out of Syria,"
stated:
More than 2 million Syrians have poured into neighboring countries as
refugees, the United Nations revealed on Tuesday.
Around 5,000 people per day are fleeing the three-year conflict, which the
U.N. says has already claimed over 100,000 lives.
“Syria has become the great tragedy of this century -- a disgraceful
humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in
recent history,” said António Guterres, the U... more »
The myth of deregulation, part #124
Courtesy of AmResolution.Com, here are 12 things you could do in 1975 that
you can’t do now…
1. You could buy an airline ticket and fly without ever showing an ID
2. You could buy cough syrup without showing an ID
3. You could buy and sell gold coins without showing an ID
4. You could discipline your children
5. Your children could buy you sherry from the bottle store
6. You could build your own house
7. Your children could build a tree house without a permit
8. You could pull as much cash out of your bank account as you liked
without the bank filing a... more »
Myles Dyer - SYRIA: 10 Thoughts On The Crisis
*SYRIA: 10 Thoughts On The Crisis. Source: Myles Dyer. Date Published:
September 3, 2013. Description:*
Syria is a bloody mess, and the US government is eager for military
intervention. Here are my 10 thoughts on the crisis.
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RESOURCES:
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2) U.S. Depleted Uranium as ... more »
@AACTE: Really? VAM’s for teacher education?
In case you missed it. The American Association of Colleges of Teacher
Education “applauded” the Council for the Accreditation of Educator
Preparation (CAEP) for “adopting” new standards that will hold teacher
education programs accountable for the invalid high stakes test score gains
or losses of children even though these scores are really a measure of a
child’s […]
Israel Pulling The Strings?
Obviously, that's Engel in the middle
AIPAC managed to get its most subservient congressman, New Dem Eliot Engel, elected
Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. If you want to hear
what the extreme right parties in Israel are behind, just pay attention to what
Engel says. He's their spokesperson. He doesn't care what his constituents
in Westchester and the northern Bronx say; he's the Likud's man on the
scene first and foremost. If Assemblymembers Jeffrey Dinowitz or Amy Paulin
are as smart as they appear, they're starting to think about a primary
challenge to Engel. ... more »
Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW) - Zero Waste Week
Welcome to Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)!
Wondering how to live greener? You've come to the right place. Each week we
challenge ourselves to try a new task ... or "amp up" something we're
already doing. We raise our awareness, learn from each other and develop
Eco-friendly skills which will improve our lives and protect our planet.
Doing so together gives us power ... the power to Change The World!
If this is your first visit, please click HERE for information and a
complete list of all the challenges we've taken on so far.
This post contains great information and I encourage ... more »
Is your money safe in the bank?...
*probably not.*
Understand this: When you put your money in a bank *it is no longer yours.*
Did you know that? Until about a year ago, I didn't know that either.
Put some of your money in tangibles.
We just invested in some freeze dried food. A mere $300.00 gave us almost
a years worth of beef and vegetables. I spent untold hours searching out
the best deals. *Costco won.*
MSNBC War Cheerleaders Get OWNED by Hillary Mann Leverett - September 1, 2013
Read,
*"Hillary Mann Leverett Takes on America’s Liberal Hawks over Syria"*by
Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett. An excerpt:
It is not surprising, but still disappointing, how much the mainstream
media are uncritically falling into line for the Obama administration’s
highly questionable case for yet another illegal American war of
aggression
in the Middle East. It is, of course, to be expected that unrepentant
neoconservatives who have learned nothing from the enormous damage that
their foreign policy project in the Middle East has done to America’s
international position (n... more »
Top 10 Diversions John McCain Found During Syria Hearing
Yesterday during a three hour-long hearing about Syria, Sen. John
McCain (R-AZ) was caught by a photographer playing Poker on his iPhone.
Senator McCain was unapologetic on Twitter, sarcastically calling the
disclosure a "Scandal!" (Last November, Sen. McCain had held a press
conference castigating President Obama for not holding meetings with
Congressional leaders about Benghazi *during* a classified Benghazi briefing).
But Poker was not the only thing the senior Senator from Arizona was caught
doing during the hearing. What were his other diversions?
10) Trying to find all te... more »
Use of Electronic Devices in the Courtroom
*Unless the presiding judge orders otherwise, *the use of electronic
devices in silent mode and in a discreet and unobtrusive manner is *
permitted* in the courtroom by,
- counsel;
- paralegals who are licensed by the Law Society of Upper Canada;
- law students and law clerks assisting counsel during the proceeding;
- self-represented parties; and,
- media or journalists
subject to the following restrictions:
a. The electronic device cannot interfere with courtroom decorum or
otherwise interfere with the proper administration of justice.
b. The electronic device cannot... more »
I never cease urging peace, which, however unfair, is better than the justest war in the world
*Equidem ad paceni hortari non desino; quae vel iniusta utilior est quam
iustissimum bellum cum civibus.*
*
*
*Cicero, **Epistulae ad Atticum* Bk 7 Ltr 14
My Little Town Makes the News
We had a wild time last night, for a while at least. It began when Mother
Nature made her presence known around 8 p.m. with a barrage of thunder.
And then the storm hit - all at once. Now I should mention that we're used
to high winds and heavy rains out here. We get beat up pretty regularly in
the winter months by storms raging out of the Bering Sea. Not too distant
is the port town of Ucluelet, near where they've had 420 mm. of rain in 24
hours. Average rainfall on the coast varies from 2,500 to over 4 metres
per year.
The intensity of last night's storm was wicked - both i... more »
“Republicans Offer Syria Strategy: ‘We Must Defund Obamacare’”
* *
*“Republicans Offer Syria Strategy: ‘We Must Defund Obamacare’”*
by Andy Borowitz
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)— “As the debate over Syria moves to the
United States Congress, a leading Senate Republican said today that the
only way to resolve the crisis in the war-torn Middle Eastern country is by
“defunding Obamacare at once.” Appearing on the Fox News Channel, Sen. Ted
Cruz (R-Texas) told host Sean Hannity, “If we’re trying to send a strong
message to [Syrian President] Bashar al-Assad, I can think of no better way
to do that than by defunding Obamacare.” Elaborating on... more »
“Syria and the Perpetual War Economy”
* *
*“Syria and the Perpetual War Economy”*
by Chris Mayer
"Whether you agree or not that the U.S. ought to strike Syria, there is one
reason it will: Because it has to. Perpetual war is one of the pillars of
the US economy. According to the Mercatus Center, the U.S. spends more on
its military than the next fourteen biggest spenders combined and six times
more than the #2, China. All by itself, America makes up 45% of all
military spending on the planet. The U.S. guarantees the security of 28
nations and has over 600 overseas bases around the world. It is an Empire.
And Empires ... more »
Untitled
*Expert says Louisiana officials “in denial” over radium risk at Bayou
Corne sinkhole ~Stuart Smith*
Update: Expert says Louisiana officials “in denial” over radium risk at
sinkhole - See more at:
http://www.stuarthsmith.com/update-expert-says-louisiana-officials-in-denial-over-radium-risk-at-sinkhole/#sthash.OHMjkAKO.dpuf
Update: Expert says Louisiana officials “in denial” over radium risk at
sinkhole - See more at:
http://www.stuarthsmith.com/update-expert-says-louisiana-officials-in-denial-over-radium-risk-at-sinkhole/#sthash.OHMjkAKO.dpuf
Update: Expert says Louisiana officials “in... more »
Transportation Alternative(s) invites you to register for "New York City's greatest adventure," this year's NYC Century Bike Tour
*But could I just pick a bit at the org name?*
*Online registration closes Friday for the 24th Annual NYC Century Bike
Tour on Sunday.*
*by Ken*
I think it was a couple of years ago on a Jane's Walk walking tour on
Staten Island that I met a bright, committed person affiliated with
Transportation Alternatives, which I'd never heard of. But the name sounded
interesting, and the young lady gave us all cute little TA buttons, and all
you have to do to get me to log onto a website is to give me a button. So I
signed up for the e-mail list, and among the e-mails I've received since
the... more »
Michael James : Muddy Waters and James Cotton at the Fat Black Pussycat, 1963
Muddy
Waters and James Cotton at the Fat Black Pussycat in Chicago, 1963.
Photo by Michael James from his forthcoming book, Michael Gaylord James'
Pictures from the Long Haul.
Pictures from the Long Haul:
Muddy Waters and James Cotton
at the Fat Black Pussycat, 1963
Music has always been big in my life... In the 1950’s I was all in when
Rock and Roll swept the scene, its fans, its makers,
From Peggy Robertson, I just need to share this. Sorry, kiddo.
Saw this posted, needed to quote it: Hold on to your seats…I think I may
win the award for the Greatest Testing Absurdity of the Night!!!!
Nashville, TN 7th grade parents were informed that the 7th graders must be
able to type 60 WPM in order to finish the new common core tests. And…no
worries […]
Belated Tuesday Linkage
Syria Boehner is backing Obama after this briefing. via CIVIC, the
unclassified version of the USG’s assessment of the Ghouta attack. Drezner
on IR theory in practice. Academica The politics of academic salaries. Via.
Rising star Dara Kay Cohen is featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education
for her pathbreaking work as a scholar/public intellectual of wartime sexual
Continue reading
Global Economic Model of War::: Understanding Syria and more
War
museum, Ottawa, Canada
By Denis G. Rancourt
Following a quick survey of macro-economic indicators which are readily
available on the web, from such public sites as the CIA, WTO, and so on,
one can readily posit a clear and predictive model of war. (All numbers
in this article are expressed in trillions of US dollars, such as 1.0T
for one trillion US dollars, as an amount, or as a
Don't F**k With Russia.
No, no, no....
Don't do *that....*
*The way a Shark looks at a Bream....*
A diplomatic report about the “stormy meeting” in July between Russian
President Vladimir Putin and Saudi intelligence chief Prince Bandar bin
Sultan concluded that the region stretching from North Africa to Chechnya
and from Iran to Syria — in other words, the entire Middle East — has come
under the influence of an open US-Russian face-off and that “it is not
unlikely that things [will] take a dramatic turn in Lebanon, in both the
political and security senses, in light of the major Saudi dec... more »
Al-Qaeda Demands Congress Pass Obama's Syrian War Resolution
Related:
*Al-Qaeda Presents The Moral Case For U.S. Intervention In Syria*.
*Al-Qaeda Is Disappointed In British Parliament, Calls On British PM To
Attack Syria*.
*Al-Qaeda Applauds Secretary of State John Kerry's Latest Remarks On Syria*.
*Al-Qaeda Approves of Barack Obama's Glorious Declaration of War Against
Syria On August 31st*.
*Al-Qaeda Praises Obama Reaching Out To Friends McCain And Graham*.
*Below is a statement by Jamal Ahmed al-Tahiri, the spokesman for Al-Qaeda
in Damascus (AQD), demanding that Congress pass President Obama's Syrian
War Resolution. *
In the Name of Alla... more »
The myth of deregulation, part #123
Every uninformed member of the Church of the Commentariat feels obliged
at
some stage in their career to get up on their hind legs to denounce the
“deregulation” of New Zealand. Such denunciation, it seems, is a
prerequisite for elevation through the Church hierarchy.
The most recent application for elevation was lodged by Colin Bloody
Espinerwho, if you recall, denounced “the dangerous free-market hole”
into which
New Zealand has fallen courtesy of “the buzzwords "deregulation",
followed
by "light-handed regulation" and its kissing cousin "self-regulation."”
But look what Nanny d... more »
Syria updates - August 31 , 2013 - Russia Putin rubbishes as utter nonsense claims that Syria's government used chemical weapons in a War they were already winning , challenges the US to present its " so called evidence " to the UN Security Council , calls out any unilateral use of force without UN authorization as violative of International law !
Catharsis Ours - 16 hours ago
Coalition of the Missing in Action.....
http://rt.com/news/syria-crisis-live-updates-047/
( Now you say why the President mentioned time is not of the essence , the
attack could occur in a day , week or MONTH ! )
Saturday, August 31
*22:25 GMT:* Ahead of the congressional debate on a possible Syrian strike,
US Secretary of State John Kerry will try to win the hearts of Americans by
arguing the administration’s case on five major US talk shows, politico
reported citing a White House source. Kerry is planning to appear on NBC's *"Meet
the Press,"* ABC's *"This Week,"* CBS's *"Face ... more »
Hackers find ways to hijack car computers and take control
*
* *
* *Sloppy security by car makers or deliberate backdoors exploited thru
OnStar and Bluetooth wireless ports? Remember all those Toyota's suddenly
accelerating on California freeways? They always blame individual hackers
for this but its the individual hackers that uncover this kind of crap and
negligence... Its defective software and circuit design and should be
treated as such. Car control systems should be subject to same scrutiny
given to life support systems. -Bill*
*
* *Hackers find ways to hijack car computers and take control*
Tom Krisher, Associated Press | 13/09/03 ... more »
Microsoft buys Nokia mobile business for $7.2 billion
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* *
* *Microsoft buys Nokia mobile business for $7.2 billion*
Published time: September 03, 2013 09:38
http://rt.com/business/microsoft-nokia-mobile-business-341/
Nokia chief executive Stephen Elop (left) welcomes Microsoft chief
executive Steve Ballmer (file photo) (Reuters / Luke MacGregor)Nokia chief
executive Stephen Elop (left) welcomes Microsoft chief executive Steve
Ballmer (file photo) (Reuters / Luke MacGregor)
Microsoft is buying Nokia's smartphone business and a portfolio of patents
and services in an attempt to improve its position in the mobile market and
compete wit... more »
ISRAEL & US RAMP UP MILITARY ACTIVITIES IN REGION
If the US does attack Syria I'd bet my life that Israel will be involved in
some substantial way. And if that happens all hell is likely to break open
- which is what the US and Israel really want. They are both itching to
have a reason to expand this war into Iran. The potential to draw Russia
into a shooting match is also very high.
Leave it to the Democrats to lead us into such an escalation - they talk
peace, demobilize the peace movement, and expand our wars. LBJ did the
same thing with Vietnam.
Don't buy the war talk from the magician and his team.
Ronald Coase, 1910-2013
*"In my youth it was said that what was too silly to be said may be
sung. In modern economics it may be put into mathematics."*
- Ronald Coase, 1988
The oldest living Nobel Prize winner died last night at 102.
Ronald Coase won his Nobel Prize for ideas in economics he developed when
he was an undergraduate in the 1930s at the London School of Economics,
studying under Arnold Plant and a young Friedrich Hayek. And he got it for
essays that were short, concise, and eminently readable—ideas that hit the
calcifying economics profession with all the intellectual power of a hand
gren... more »
Poison Gas Origins From USA? (CIA-Connected Syria Outsiders Outed) Obama Gets Bipartisan Support From Connected (And Suborned?) Insiders (DontAttackSyria.Com)
Thanks, Tom! (He's so not funny.) Obama Has Bipartisan Support for Syria
Strike D.C. Kabuki Theater (Just In Time) Alden Pyle was Graham Greene's
Quiet American, who was employed by a US economic venture that masqueraded
for the OSS/CIA's intelligence penetration around 1952 in US-sponsored
pre-Thieu/Gen. Ky Vietnam. (In every important scene in the movie, there is
an ominous figure
The Guns of August
*President Kennedy seeks counsel from General Douglas A. MacArthur*
*First hand witness to the folly of the Guns of August, 1914*
*August, 1962*
*
*
*"MacArthur believes it would be a mistake to fight in Laos. It would
suit the Chinese Communists whom he feels we should have destroyed at the
time of the Korean War. He thinks we should fight a rear-guard action in
the southeast of Asia. He does not feel we should interviene at this time
in Cuba because it does not represent a military danger to us although the
time may come when we may have to do so. He thinks our line should be
Jap... more »
The Syria Sea Change - Geneva Business Insider [The Corbett Report]
Title: The Syria Sea Change - Geneva Business Insider. Source: The Corbett
Report. Date Published: September 2, 2013. Description:
David L. Smith of the Geneva Business Insider blog joins for our monthly
conversation on world events. This week we dissect the Syrian chemical
weapons attack and its geopolitical fallout. We also talk about the sea
change that is taking place in public opinion as the people rise up to stop
these endless illegal wars of aggression.
Rep. Alan Grayson's Petition. Tell Congress: Don't Attack Syria
*By MARC McDONALD*
As the corporate media's drumbeat for war gets louder and louder, it's
reassuring to know that there is still a member of Congress who speaks the
truth (and who is willing to confront the Military Industrial Complex and
the "defense" contractor corporations that feed at the trough of our tax
dollars).
Please add your voice to Rep. Alan Grayson's online petition to tell
Congress: *Don't Attack Syria*.
As the petition states:
*"The Administration is considering intervening in the Syrian civil war. We
oppose this. There's no vital national security involved. We are... more »
Really, John? Kerry Says "World Wants to Know If U.S. Can Make a Difference."
John, calm down. We know the U.S. can make a difference. We all know
that. We know the U.S. makes a difference to just about anything that
gets its attention. But just because you can make a difference doesn't
mean that's a good thing.
Case in point. You made a difference in Iraq. You got rid of Saddam and
gave the country a new government. It's a really crappy government,
largely beholden to Iran, and the country remains poised on the brink of
civil war that's already claiming anywhere from 800 to 1,000 lives a
month. So, yeah, you made a difference.
You made a diffe... more »
Microsoft, Google sue US for right to reveal nature of surveillance requests
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* *
* *Microsoft, Google sue US for right to reveal nature of surveillance
requests*
Published time: August 31, 2013 02:20
http://rt.com/usa/microsoft-google-lawsuit-surveillance-241/
Microsoft and Google announced Friday they are going forward with a lawsuit
against the US government for the right to reveal more information about
official requests for customer data by American intelligence.
The companies originally filed suits in June following revelations provided
by Edward Snowden of their relationship with the National Security Agency
and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillanc... more »
The Power of Faith Trumps The Power of Bombs
The Obama administration and its allies, the Saudi despots and hawkish
Israelis, have already lost the illegal and aggressive war against Syria.
The verdict of history has already been handed down.
Syria is in the right. It has not attacked America, and it did not use
chemical weapons on civilians. Washington has no rightful claim to
intervene in Syria. Obama and Kerry are throwing their country into a fire
that will consume them to no end. They are up against a people, a region,
and a religion that cannot be destroyed with bombs. They will never submit
to America's dictates. They w... more »
Transition: Pedro Ferriz Santacruz (1921-2012)
We have received word from our friends and colleagues at Mexico's
C.I.F.E.E.E.A.C research organization that *Pedro Ferriz
Santacruz*(1921-2012), the "Father of Mexican Ufology", has passed away
at age 92.
Known throughout the Spanish-speaking world for his UFO television
program*"Un Mundo Nos Vigila"
* (A World is Watching)in the 1960s and 1970s, Ferriz approached the
mystery of UFOs with a sense of awe and respect, although with an
undeniable sense of humor that came across in his written work: "The
enormity of the universe, and the infinity of time, constitute
challenges
to the br... more »
Dad`s Boat
I apologize that no new articles have been posted in some time and I will
try and write one in the next couple of days....
Up here in Garden Bay the boat the Wyndover III is well-known..And lately
the old girl is feeling little rundown, that is about to change..
What started as routine maintenance has turned into a complete engine
rebuild, anyone familiar with boats knows there is little room to work
with, this boat has twin 350 chevy motors with all the extra added marine
devices, such as heat exchangers...
It was running rough, checked carb..checked plugs and distributer, fin... more »
Hanna Rosin corrects an inaccurate claim!
*TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2013*
*We liberals decide to fight back:* Last Friday, Hanna Rosen corrected an
inaccurate claim—an inaccurate claim that is frequently made.
Especially in this tribal era, news orgs should be doing this sort of
script-checking on a regular basis. For ourselves, we were struck by some
of the reactions to Rosin.
What claim was Rosin correcting? It was a bit of a Labor Day special. She
defined the inaccurate claim right in her opening paragraph:
ROSIN (8/31/13): *How many times have you heard that “women are paid 77
cents on the dollar for doing the same work a... more »
Photos Long Walk 4 through St Louis by April Rhodes
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Thank you April Rhodes for sharing your photos of Longest Walk 4 Return
to Alcatraz through St Louis with Censored News! Click on image to
enlarge.
April said she asked walkers what they needed that people could donate:
Another tent; air mattresses; lighting for camp; and laptop to plan
route.
Update: Western Shoshone long walker Carl '
BRICS agree on $50bn IMF rival bank, ‘difficult’ details remain
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* *BRICS agree on $50bn IMF rival bank, ‘difficult’ details remain *
03 Sep 2013
http://special-events.rt.com/summit-g20/news/brics-bank-g20-petersburg/
The ‘big five’ of the developing world, the BRICS nations, will meet on the
sidelines of the G20 to further iron out the details of their proposed
development bank, which will pool foreign reserves from the five nations to
create a fund of up to $100bn.
Leaders from Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa will meet in
St. Petersburg to discuss the progress of the bank to rival the dominance
of the World Bank and the IMF... more »
Brother of Murdered Syrian Actor: "Syrians are only afraid of God, not the US"
"The brother of Mohammed Raffea, a well-known Syrian actor said to be
killed by the Syrian opposition gunmen in late 2012, spoke about his
brother death on Tuesday. He also said that he smiles when he hears "about
an American attack," on Syria because "Syrians are only afraid of God, we
are not afraid of the US."" *[Source: RuptlyTV, Syria: Late Syrian actor's
brother says "Syrians are only afraid of God, not the US," September 3,
2013]*.
Children Aren't Learning
My pal Roland was back at school last week. He seemed really happy with his
students this year, at least in terms of behavior. As far as their ability
to learn the basic stuff from the syllabus... he usually says the kids in
his inner city elementary school don't learn because of their situations at
home. My parents encouraged me to do my homework and status was awarded in
my house based, at least to some extent, on achievement in school. Many of
his kids' have very different situations at home, including parents on
drugs or in prison. according to a *Businessweek* report last wee... more »
The Plot to Kill Mitt Romney
Benghazi: Rupert Murdoch Tries to Run Gen. Petraeus as his Own Personal
Presidential Candidate (Audio) from Spike1138 on Vimeo.
*Roger Ailles was going to quit Fox News to be Petreaus' Campaign Manager
and Rupert Murdoch made a personal commitment to finance Petreaus' ENTIRE
Presidential Campaign.*
*You can't make this stuff up..*
* Why the US media ignored Murdoch's brazen bid to hijack the presidency.
Did the Washington Post and others underplay the story through fear of the
News Corp chairman, or simply tin-eared judgment?
Carl Bernstein
The Guardian, Thursday 20 December 201... more »
Nobody Talks. Leave No Witnesses. Harper Covers His Tracks.
Nothing says coverup in government louder than the total absence of any
paper trail.
When the CBC's Greg Weston went fishing for documents of the Senate expense
scandal he came back empty-handed. The Prime Minister's Office, even the
Justice Department, reported zero documents on this broad scandal. "*Not
an e-mail, a memo, or even a sticky note.*" It's as though those two
bureaucracies had never heard mention of it.
*These responses came after requests from reporters and others using the
Access to Information Act to obtain all documents relating to the Senate
fiasco in the po... more »
Untitled
*Amount of BP fines to fund Louisiana’s coastal restoration still a
promise, not a certainty ~Bob Marshall, The Lens*
Wars and Refugee Crisis -Syria, Somalia...
*Al Zaatri, Jordan (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)*
*Hosts about 122,723 Syrian refugees. Almost 5,000 citizens a day on
average are flowing out of Syria, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees
António Guterres said Tuesday.*
*Dadaab, Kenya (Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty Images)*
*A complex of five camps hosts 402,361 people, mostly from neighboring
Somalia. Here, boys fetched water from a puddle at the camp in 2011.*
And this will be the water for drinking and cooking etc. Very sad.
“Fukushima: Radiation Leaks Far Worse Than Reported”
* *
*“Fukushima: Radiation Leaks Far Worse Than Reported” *
TEPCO admits deliberately using radiation detectors that give deceptively
low readings.
by Mike Adams
"At the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant, radiation isn't the only
thing leaking out. Each week, it seems there's another small leak of the
truth that has been deliberately hidden from the public. Yesterday, TEPCO
finally admitted it has been downplaying the ongoing radiation release
levels by a factor of almost twenty. But the real story here is exactly how
TEPCO arrived at the deceptively small numbers it has... more »
RAG RADIO / Thorne Dreyer : Musician/Author Bobby Bridger & 'Lost Gonzo' Guitarist John Inmon
Musician
and author Bobby Bridger with guitarist John Inmon at the KOOP studios
in Austin, Texas, August 24, 2013. Photo by Roger Baker / The Rag Blog.
Rag Radio podcast:
Singer-songwriter and author Bobby Bridger
with 'Lost Gonzo' guitarist John Inmon
Houston-based musician Bobby Bridger, also a chronicler of the old west
and American indigenous culture, was joined by signature Austin
Pro-choice violence: The evidence
Update on the 'pro-choice violence' anti-choice shit-disturbing at the
Imperial Pub.
If this is their evidence, no wonder the cops weren't interested.
And isn't it interesting that there are two young black men in the chalking
group? Were the fetus fetishists offering a 'choice' between race and
gender on which they were planning their complaint?
I'm betting this isn't the first time the Imperial Pub has been targetted.
Look how close the Pub (first map) is to Campaign Lie's office (second map).
Musical Interlude: Outlaws, “Green Grass and High Tides”
Outlaws, “Green Grass and High Tides”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R82OM5tzcrk&html5=1
Easing back into things after the weekend, enjoy...
Turn it up! lol
1974 Ehrlich and Holdren Senate Testimony
Motivated by my recent reading of *The Bet*, by Yale University's Paul Sabin,
I tracked down the complete 1974 Senate testimony of Paul Ehrlich and John
Holdren in hearings on the "Domestic Supply Information Act" held by the
Committee on Commerce and Committee on Government Operations (Serial No.
93-107).
The testimony provides an eye-opening look into the depths of Malthusian
froth of the time and also provides a great case study for thinking about
the role of experts in policy making. I plan on using the testimony in
future courses, so I am making it available here as a PDF.
B... more »
US: The Indispensable (Bombing) Nation
Pepe Escobar
Asia Times Online
Yes We Scan. Yes We Drone. And Yes We Bomb. The White House's propaganda
blitzkrieg to sell the Tomahawking of Syria to the US Congress is already
reaching pre-bombing maximum spin - gleefully reproduced by US corporate
media.
And yes, all parallels to Iraq 2.0 duly came to fruition when US Secretary
of State John Kerry pontificated that Bashar al-Assad "now joins the list
of Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein" as an evil monster. Why is Cambodia's
Pol Pot never mentioned? Oh yes, because the US supported him.
Every single tumbleweed in the Nevada deser... more »
Steve Israel Is Serving Up Some Very Unappetizing Mystery Meat
Wikipedia defines "mystery meat" as "a disparaging term for meat products,
typically ground or otherwise processed, such as chicken nuggets, Spam,
Salisbury steaks, sausages, or hot dogs, that have an unidentifiable
source. Most often the term is used in reference to food served in
institutional cafeterias, such as prison food or an American public school
lunch." They suggest also looking up Pink Slime. I'd suggest also looking
up Steve Israel, the congressman from Princesses: Long Island, who,
unfortunately for the Democrats, was reappointed chairman of the DCCC by
Nancy Pelosi a... more »
Gaia Portal: Primary Gaia Ascension Constructs [are] Fully in Place
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* *Primary Gaia Ascension Constructs [are] Fully in Place*
by ÉirePort
Primary Gaia Ascension constructs [are] fully in place. Awaiting final
signal for next movement.
Appropriate next movement of Hue-manity is perceived and accepted.
Secrecy grids dissolved, all planetary intentions are visible to all.
Spontaneous Higher Light "explosions" follow rapidly and eliminate all
shadow spaces.
Being "in the Light" or "in the shadows" matters not.
The Higher Light has prevailed.
ÉirePort | September 3, 2013 at 16:30
URL: http://wp.me/p2sFUY-nW
Lamar W. Hankins : The Tyranny of the Manning Trial
Pfc.
Bradley Manning. Graphic by DonkeyHotey / Flickr.
A failure of the justice system: The tyranny of the Manning trial
Pfc. Manning has been sentenced to 35 years in a military prison for
embarrassing the government in a trial that grossly violated the
constitutional guarantee of due process.
By Lamar W. Hankins /
The Rag Blog / September 3, 2013
The right to due process is the bedrock of
Catch of the Day
To Scott Lemieux, who has gathered up some of the worst Munich analogiesbeing bandied about with regard to Syria:
Here’s the thing: for this to be a “Munich moment,” Assad would have to,
you know, have both the desire and capacity to conquer most of the region.
Since in fact it’s far from obvious that Assad will even be able to
maintain power in his own country — let alone have the ability to overrun
the Middle East — Assad isn’t a new Hitler and whatever he does Obama won’t
be Chamberlain. And in this particular case the analogy goes beyond
stupidity to being self-refuting — if Assa... more »
Key Lime Pie replaced by KitKat
I hear that Android 4.4 will not in fact be called Key Lime Pie as everyone
had been lead to believe by Google, but will instead be called KitKat. It
is being claimed that no money has changed hands between Google and Nestle,
how odd.
Jesse Jackson Jr.
Can you figure out from this what he did wrong...? Other than support Obama
as his campaign manager and out his father...?
Jr and his wife are both serving 14 years in the Illinois Penal System
under Rahm Emanuel....
(The Rev. absolutely threw Jesse Junior under the bus, by the way -
absolutely shameless.)
Ronald McDonald gets his booed in Bolivia
(NaturalNews) McDonald's happy image and its golden arches aren't the
gateway to bliss in Bolivia. This South American country isn't falling for
the barrage of advertising and fast food cooking methods that so easily
engulf countries like the United States. Bolivians simply don't trust food
prepared in such little time. The quick and easy, mass production method of
fast food actually turns Bolivians off altogether. Sixty percent of
Bolivians are an indigenous population who generally don't find it worth
their health or money to step foot in a McDonald's. Despite its
economically f... more »
Yossef Bodansky: Did the White House Help Plan the Syrian Chemical Attack?...
*it makes sense.*
I've never thought Assad had anything to do with the chemical attacks. He
had absolutely nothing to gain. In contrast, the Free Syrian Army really
had nothing to gain by attacking civilians - *unless* you consider the
following article:
*via Rush Limbaugh who is simply saying it's a very possible scenario:*
* *
*Did the White House Help Plan the Syrian Chemical Attack?*
There is a growing volume of new evidence from numerous sources in the
Middle East — mostly affiliated with the Syrian opposition and its sponsors
and supporters — which makes a very strong case,... more »
The Geopolitics of Syria
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*Eric Draitser of StopImperialism.com appears on Press TV on Sunday
September 1st, 2013. Draitser discusses the larger geopolitical context of
the war in Syria. He explains the motivations for the United States and
its regional partners in attacking Syria, both in terms of economic and
strategic interests. Draitser examines how the US drive to maintain
hegemony in the Middle East is at the heart of the proxy war in Syria.*
Lev Pontryagin: 105th anniversary
Lev Semenovič Pontryagin was born in Moscow, Russian Empire, on September
3th, 1908, i.e. 105 years ago, and died in May 80 years later, about 25+
years ago.
Interestingly and sadly enough, a primus stove explosion made him legally
blind at the age of 14. That didn't prevent him from becoming a top
mathematician.
On the other hand, it didn't stop him from being a jerk of a sort, either.
In 1936, he warned the Soviet officials that the mathematics community was
full of counter-revolutionaries in the so-called Luzin affair. People were
losing jobs. He was not only an aggressive comm... more »
Your moment of Zen
Hobsyllwin, the white dragon in Patagonia. Close to the city of Gaiman
(South America). [photo via The Pagan Poppet]
Argentina: Possible Anomalous Object Over Colón (Entre Rios)
UFO researcher* Daniel Ubaldo Padilla* posted this image to his Facebook
feed with the following caption: "The Visitor" - Along with other
onlookers, a qualified local witness saw an object in the skies over Colón,
photographing it in three separate intervals during a football match in the
Las Achiras district.
*Inexplicata* readers are cordially invited to check out his podcast (in
Spanish) at http://www.fminolvidablecolon.com/
Inexplicata Podcasts covering items from UFO / paranormal history in Spain,
Latin America and the Caribbean
Argentina: UFOs in Victoria – There’s Something Going On (1998)
*Argentina: UFOs in Victoria – There’s Something Going On (1998)*
[From Carlos A. Iurchuk’s “El Fuego del Dragon”, No.1, Vol.1]
*By Andrea and Silvia Pérez Simondini – VISION OVNI*
Throughout the year 1991, a story dominated the first pages of the
country’s major newspapers: UFOs were invading the small and little-known
locality of Victoria, located in Entre Rios, in the Republic of Argentina.
Witnesses everywhere discussed the lights they would see flying over Laguna
del Pescado, in single units, twos and threes, in an incredible itinerary
that made it a show not to be missed by anyo... more »
What was in John Lewis’ speech!
*TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2013*
*Taylor Branch reporting:* Last week, we reviewed a series of reports about
John Lewis’ now-famous speech—the speech he gave, at age 23, at the March
of Washington.
There was much discussion of the fact that Lewis agreed to change some
parts of the original speech. But every time we turned around, we seemed to
get a different account of what the speech had originally said!
The analysts still weren’t satisfied! So last Friday, we took Taylor Branch
to happy hour over at Penn Station. Rather, we took his book, Parting the
Waters: America in the King Years... more »
From SNAFU to FUBAR
(For translations of the above military acronyms, please see the end of
this post. I didn't want to begin with the F word right off the bat. But to
paraphrase, let's just say that ever-declining 21st century America has
gone from merely crazy to batshit insane.)
Syria. I can't keep up with the developments. Nobody can. But maybe that's
the whole idea. When it comes to domestic programs like passing a pallid
background check for gun purchases, gridlock rules so that the NRA dollars
may flow and the campaign coffers grow. When it comes to war, the speed is
lightning fast, because only... more »
No comment from Ed Balls?
The BBC report very quietly that:
The OECD economic agency has sharply increased its growth forecast for the
UK economy this year to 1.5% from an earlier estimate of 0.8%.
It said UK growth had gained momentum through the first half of the year.
The forecast came as a survey indicated that activity in the UK
construction sector grew at its fastest pace for nearly six years in August.
On Monday, a similar survey had shown strong growth in the manufacturing
sector.
Recent data and surveys have pointed to an acceleration in the UK's
economic recovery.
'Impressive' performance
The OEC... more »
MSNBC Host Tries Everything to Get Alan Grayson to Support a Strike on Syria
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Nice but dim
The BBC has presented Middle Eastern issues from a predominantly Arabist
perspective for several decades, but when people observe the religiously
fuelled turmoil that's erupting throughout the Arab world, the idea that
the troubles behind the “Israel Palestine conflict” may somehow be related must
*surely* occur to them sooner or later.
The appointment of Raffi Berg as Tarik Kafala’s replacement as head of the
BBC News website’s Middle East desk set off a reflexive response from the
usual pro-Palestinian organisations. Events have shown that ‘pro
Palestinian’ advocacy is actually ... more »
Amazon Matchbox: Wet Matches or Real Fire?
If you buy a print book and get an ebook thrown in you would call it a
bundle. It’s like the old ‘buy 1 get 1 free’ offer. You may pay a little
extra at the time you buy it, but you may want to read the hardcopy at home
and the digital in the version on the train. You may just be a hoarder and
intent on owning everything, in every media.
But is physical and digital book bundling mere hype dreamt up by the
digital advisors, or a new marketing ‘must have’ and is there a real
consumer demand that needs to be fulfilled, or are we merely striking
matches in the dark?
Well Amazon have ... more »
Coalition Deaths Still Declining in Afghanistan
As war talk continues about Syria, it's still the case that the US is at
war in Afghanistan -- remember that one? And odds are that the US will
still suffer more casualties in Afghanistan than anywhere else over the
next several months.
Still, it's worth noting that coalition casualties continue to decline
sharply.
There were 13 coalition fatalities in Afghanistan in August, following on
14 in July. That compares with 52 in August 2012 and 46 in July 2012; it's
the lowest combined total for July and August since 2005 (and the lowest
August since 2004). For the year, the total is 1... more »
The Strategic Signaling Dynamics of Assistant Professor Office Decorating Decisions
Having all read the canonical signaling literature within International
Relations, new faculty members in IR are faced with a crucial and
excruciating dilemma: how best to decorate their academic office. The
following blog post examines this dilemma in detail and is intended to
create an inter-university dialogue and research agenda on the issue.
While
Continue reading
DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT PUBLIC SCHOOLS: The Kenneth Chang Challenge!
*TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2013*
*Part 2—The refusal to report:* Way back in 1960, Sam Cooke released
Wonderful World, which went to number 12 on the charts. He’s credited with
the familiar lyrics, along with Adler and Alpert:
Don't know much about history
Don't know much biology
Don't know much about a science book
Don't know much about the French I took...
Cooke, who was already 29, said he didn’t know much about the subjects he
studied in high school. But he knew what a wonderful world this would be if
his girl friend loved him too.
The song, and the lyrics, have stuck. To hear the r... more »
Demonstration i Stockholm den 4 september.
Nej (No to) till Big Brother Obama
Stockholm, Sweden
September 4, 2013
Protest Event
I morgon, 4:e september, 5:00 em
Medborgarplatsen, 611 35 Stockholm, Sweden
Detta är en demonstration som arrangeras i samband med att USA:s president
Barack Obama kommer till Stockholm den 4 september.
Vi kommer att demonstrera mot: Massövervakning, USA:s krigspolitik och
Nato-samarbete.
Alla som kan samlas under dessa tre teman är varmt välkomna att deltaga.
Målet är att lyckas samla en så bred massa som möjligt och använda detta
ypperliga tillfälle åt att ifrågasätta USA:s politiska prioriter... more »
I Stopped Vaccinations Because___________________? - Fill In The Blank
Source:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Living-with-Common-Sense/154468647938561
*If you would Be so kind ,please fill in the blank in the comment section
below.*
Diane Ravitch’s Message to Boston Voters via The Indignant Teacher
Dear Indignant Teacher: Friends in Boston have told me that my message to
you has been widely read, which is good, but also widely misinterpreted. I
am writing now to be clear what it means to support public education. It
means that public schools should be subject to democratic control. Mayoral
control is a very […]
Syrian Crisis and Stephen Harper's role
Stephen Harper does not want Parliament or the public to know that he will
covertly participate in any Syrian attack by the U.S.
Please read my earlier post on this subject matter here.
Upcoming War On Syria: Have The US And Israel Just Attempted A False Flag Missile Attack?
The criminals in the US and Israel are absolutely desperate to have their
nice little blood thirsty war against the innocent nation of Syria off and
running..... They have already attempted the ridiculous "chemical weapons"
attack on Assad's people that they thought they could sell to the public as
being launched by Assad himself...Luckily, everyone on this entire planet
has not bought into their lies..... So now they have been forced back to
the "drawing board" so to speak in a new sinister plan to somehow justify
an attack on Syria...
Well, it seems that just this morning, these ... more »
Syrian civil war
Barack Obama drew a redline after the Syrian government allegedly used
chemical weapons. Now he does not know what to do about the red line.
.
It Sounds Like a Japanese Sci-Fi Movie - An "Ice Wall" to Sequester Fukushima
The Japanese government claims it will build a wall of frozen soil to
surround the Fukushima nuclear plant and, it's hoped, prevent radioactive
cooling water from leaking.
Shafts will be drilled into the ice wall to a depth of 27 metres through
which coolant will be circulated to freeze the soil.
Ronald Coase has died
Here is the news from the University of Chicago.
In breach of trust cases, restitution is proper even if repayment unlikely
*R. v. Castro* 2010 ONCA 718 holds:
28 Insofar as the nature of the offence is concerned, in cases
involving breach of trust, the paramount consideration is the claims of the
victims: Fitzgibbon at pp. 1014-15. Ability to pay is not the predominant
factor. Indeed, where the circumstances of the offence are particularly
egregious, such as where a breach of trust is involved, a restitution order
may be made even where there does not appear to be any likelihood of
repayment: R. v. Yates (2002), 169 C.C.C. (3d) 506 (B.C. C.A.), at paras.
12 and 17.
Untitled
*Friends of slain 11-year-old speak out against N.O. violence ~WVUE*
*Sinkhole fears spur La. 70 realignment plans *
*Saints linebackers ready to answer questions ~Ramon Antonio Vargas*
*Steve Gleason Legally Entitled To Concussion Lawsuit Money ~Saints Tailgate
*
*French Quarter Battles Habana Outpost Restaurant Proposal ~Eileen
Flemming, WWNO*
Did Ed Miliband Save The World?
This morning I happened to hear a Southern drawl coming out of the TV in my
bedroom when I was washing up in the bathroom. The drawl was making a lot
of good sense on Syria, which surprised me. It walked over to see who it
was: Lloyd Doggett, a progressive from the Austin area. Figures! He talked
about how his constituents are adamantly opposed to an attack on Syria,
particularly if it's just the U.S. alone holding Assad accountable. Thank
you, Ed Miliband!
The UK's imperialist establishment has the knives out for Miliband, the
leader of Britain's Labor Party-- even more than usu... more »
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