Monday, September 09, 2013

The View

Sumer Album 013Sumer Album 013 (Photo credit: Tal King Photographer)

 

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In this Sumerian tablet, we see demonstrated knowledge of not only the sun in the center of the solar system at a time mainstream history tells us people thought the earth was flat, but a display of the full solar system 5000 years +- before modern telescopes and satellites. Not only did they know about Pluto but until recently they were superior to modern astronomy in their knowledge of a 12th planet only theoretically known of due to the pull of gravity on the planets that does not originate from the sun.

NASA - Dwarf Planets: Eris
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Dwa_Eris


Sumer 4500BC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer

 

Libertarians Are the New Communists

Larry Summers
and the Secret "End-Game" Memo

The Memo confirmed every conspiracy freak's fantasy:  that in the late 1990s, the top US Treasury officials secretly conspired with a small cabal of banker big-shots to rip apart financial regulation across the planet. What was the use of turning US banks into derivatives casinos if money would flee to nations with safer banking laws? The answer conceived by the Big Bank Five:  eliminate controls on banks in every nation on the planet  in one single move.  

 Ace of Spades

President of Syria Now on Instagram

Al-Assad is depicted, often along with his photogenic U.K.-born wife Asma al-Assad, attending to affairs of state that make for cuddly photo-ops. The images certainly have some connection to the top-tier Western PR professionals hired by the couple to push back against their problematic image as brutal dictators.
What's more, when the photos don't simply show a supporter rally or al-Assad signing some document at his desk, they co-opt the civil war's fallout in stunning displays of cognitive dissonance. Here, the al-Assads are pure compassion, attending to the wounded and grief-stricken.
The authoritarian Syrian government is no stranger to censorship — it's been on Reporters Without Borders' "Enemies of the Internet" list since 2006, and the country is subject to massive information blackouts. What's strange in this case is their embrace of a technology more often used to foment dissent and organize demonstrations in order to project their version of reality.
It appears that some despots have begun to see the Internet less as a weapon of the masses and more as a propaganda tool.

Scientific American declares it’s against GMO labeling

 GM crops don't kill kids : opposing them does


The driving force behind the folly of bombing Syria is Secretary of State John Kerry. I’m told Chuck Hegel has strong reservations, as do the Pentagon’s top generals. But Kerry has no reservations at all, and has convinced the President to stake much of his second-term presidency on it. Why? It’s possible, of course, that Kerry honestly believes that a punitive military strike against Assad is necessary, and that the benefits of such a strike would outweigh the potential costs. But I suspect something else is going on. Kerry is an intelligent man, but he has a fatal flaw. He craves the limelight. He wants to be in the center of the action and attention. Over the years I heard again and again from his Senate colleagues that Kerry grandstanded and wanted all the credit, said things that would get him on the evening news, pushed too fast and too far in order to make his mark. Recently he seemed to be making progress getting the Israelis and Palestinians back to the table, but perhaps he sensed that the incipient talks would drag on forever, and needed a new cause.

Forty years ago John Kerry called for an end to the Vietnam War but in his public pronouncements this past week he has sounded eerily like Robert McNamara in that tragic time – urging that America show “resolve,” that our “credibility” is at stake, that our “enemies are watching,” that we mustn’t “back down.” These were not then, and they are not now, reasoned arguments; they are exhortations. Kerry is on the warpath. The President is ultimately responsible, of course, but I fear he is listening mainly to the loudest voice in the room. And that loud voice is channeling loud voices from America's past -- voices that have led us seriously awry.
 
 
Obama Torn To Shreds on Fox News — with Barack Obama in Syria.
"Sen. Dallaire said that Mr. Harper’s response so far is that of “a country that has lost its international prestige and influence in global affairs as it used to be a leading middle power with considerable backroom diplomatic influence and innovative ideas and was able to bring about, as Norway does, solutions that big powers and belligerence often can’t even fathom.”

Sen. Dallaire noted that since Mr. Harper came to power, Canada has withdrawn from several UN-related interventions and treaties because of “an aversion” to engaging with the UN in favour of NATO.

“Our not sitting at the security council now where we could be in the front lines of attempting to find an influence has only reinforced this pullback from the UN and a significant realignment to NATO particularly if we’re using forces and diplomatic efforts in potential conflict scenarios,” he said.


Sen. Dallaire said that “supporting your ally is positive” but the question needs to be asked: is a military strike the right solution? “I don’t believe so. I do not believe that conducting offensive operations against the Assad regime is the answer,” he said.

“I believe that, under the Responsibility to Protect, and under simply a recognition of the vulnerability of the civilian population, and the chances of this conflict escalating, and regionalizing all-the-more to Jordan and Lebanon, and getting Iran involved, what you’re supposed to be doing, in my opinion, is gaining the support of Russians and Chinese for a ceasefire and introducing on-the-ground separation forces under Chapter Seven [of the Charter of the UN] that will pull those forces apart and then we set up whatever process is needed to bring whatever political or diplomatic or judicial process which includes the International Criminal Court investigating it because there were crimes against humanity.”


http://www.hilltimes.com/news/news/2013/09/09/global-community-‘inept’-at-dealing-with-mass-atrocities-syria-says-sen/35864?page_requested=2
 
It Even looks like Harper street!!
 
It seems that the more oil is pumped from the tar sands, the more Alberta is loosing money. ... What happened to their very well garnished "Heritage Fund" ? How could the province go from having surpluses every years for a long time, to running deficits ever since the tar sands really "took off" ?

The only thing Alberta seems to be getting from that activity is destruction of the environment.

Listening to harper, the oil industry is vital to the financial well being of the country. If that was true, there would be surpluses, not deficits every year and people would see and feel their financial situation getting better, instead, harper keeps cutting and bashing every group of people one by one not to mention organizations.

My imagination must be playing tricks on me ... What I just said can't be true ...

He has to go before the end of fall ... We can't wait 2 more years.
 
Canada Post has created a new stamp with a picture of Prime Minister
Stephen Harper on it.

The stamp is not sticking to envelopes. This has enraged the Prime Minister, who demanded a full investigation.

After a month of testing and spending $4.1 million, a special commission has presented the following findings:

1. The stamp is in perfect order.

2. There is nothing wrong with the adhesive.

3. The Public is spitting on the wrong side of the stamp.
In the past while we've discussed the continuing saga of the F-35, and the opening of new military bases in the Phillipines and elsewhere in the far east. No reasonable discussion or explanations have been forthcoming from our government. We've also asked why the government consistently claims there are no funds for social programs.

This is an Al Jazeera short film which raises possible explanations and answers to consider. While it is centred on US politics, we are tied at the hip.
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People & Power - America's War Games
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The United States' military expenditures today account for about 40 percent of the world total. In 2012, the US spent some $682bn on its military - an
While attention is focused on Syria, food stamps for the nation’s poor are about to be cut. So are funds for low-income housing. And although jobs are slowly returning, the median wage continues to drop, adjusted for inflation. At the same time, both income and wealth continue to become more concentrated at the very top. A single income of one of the ten richest Americans could buy housing for every homeless person in the United States for an entire year. (Based on a typical day last winter, when over 633,000 people were homeless, and the typical monthly rental cost of a unit with single room occupancy of $558 per month.) The 400 richest Americans have more wealth than the bottom 150 million put together. But we are not talking about any of this. We are not debating about what’s happening to our nation. We are not raising the minimum wage or reforming our tax code or fixing our schools or getting big money out of politics. We are paralyzed at home, and now turning our attention to a potential quagmire abroad. This is the great tragedy of our time.
 
"Consider that in 1985, Congress mandated that the US destroy more than 98 percent of its chemical weapons stockpile. Yet of the original total of 31,496 tons there remains 24,144 tons to be destroyed. "

Friday Syria briefs


 Iraq - a Decade of Hell

Why We Have a Need to Know About the Esoteric

Jerry Brown Creating Private Prisons so Prison Guards Have More Prisoners to Guard

While attention is focused on Syria, the gambling addiction of Wall Street's biggest banks is more dangerous than ever. On the fifth anniversary of the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, which led to he worst financial crisis in eighty years, the biggest Wall Street banks are far larger than they were, and the Dodd-Frank rules designed to rein in their wild derivative bets with the insured deposits of ordinary savers are still on the drawing boards, courtesy of the banks' lobbying prowess. The so-called Volcker Rule has yet to see the light of day. To be sure, the banks' balance sheets are better; they've raised lots of capital and written off many bad loans (their risk-weighed capital ratio is now about 60 percent higher than before the crisis). But they're back to too many of their old habits.

JPMorgan Chase, the largest, lost $6.2 billion last year by betting on credit default swaps tied to corporate debt, and then lied about it. The bank appears to have paid bribes to get certain counties to buy the swaps. In addition, it allegedly lied to public power authorities about the prices it's selling electricity, and committed fraud in collecting credit card debt, selling mortgages and then foreclosing on them. And so on. The bank's most recent quarterly report lists all its current legal imbroglios in nine pages of small print, and estimates resolving them all may cost as much as $6.8 billion. That's not much more than a pittance for a company with total assets of $2.4 trillion and shareholder equity of $209 billion. Which is precisely the point.

Five years ago this month Wall Street almost slid over the cliff. We bailed it out. Millions of Americans are still suffering the consequences of the Street's excesses. But the Street has barely learned a thing. Its top guns and fat cats are still treating the economy as their own private casino, and raking in more than before. We're the ones who should have learned: The giant Wall Street banks are ungovernable -- too big to fail, too big to jail, too big to curtail. They should be split up, their size capped, and Glass-Steagall resurrected to fully separate their commercial and investment functions.

 

Syria:Humanitarian Intervention, International Law, and the Blair legacy.

Networks, Media Blacking Out ClimateGate Story; ABCNews Instead Runs Headline, "Worse Than the Worst: Climate Report Says Even Most Dire Predictions Too Tame"

 The Source of Europe's Mild Climate

The notion that the Gulf Stream is responsible for keeping Europe anomalously warm turns out to be a myth

Global Cooling & New Ice Age UK

If you still believe in 'climate change' read this… 

If any business were to submit a prospectus as patently false and deliberately dishonest as the ones used to advance the cause of the global warming industry, its directors would all be in prison by now

Jamie Whyte provides a fascinating, erudite and original answer in his new paper for the Institute of Economic Affairs – Quack Policy. "They are partial in their accounting for costs and benefits; they ignore substitution effects; they pretend that mathematical precision is evidence; they confound risk and uncertainty; and they exaggerate the certainty warranted by the available evidence. Having committed such errors, they obscure them with grandiose irrelevancies about peer-reviewed publication, consensus among scientists and the proclamations of official scientific committees."

The climate models that predict AGW have not been tested and they are not mere entailments of well-known physics and chemistry. Why, then, do scientists have such high levels of confidence in them? In other words, if a scientific consensus really does exist, this is what needs to be explained. It cannot explain itself, nor justify itself.

Those who build climate models are scientists. But their branch of science has no success with which to impress us, neither in its predictions nor in its applications. In the absence of such success, their assertions of confidence should carry little weight. Especially when such assertions are predictable even in the absence of proper grounds for confidence.

 

fenbeagleblog 

Shale gas is Rearden Metal 

there are those five big lies about shale gas so brilliantly nailed by Matt Ridley.

Wind power does more environmental harm

Here are five things that they keep saying which are just not true. First, that shale gas production has polluted aquifers in the United States. Second, that it releases more methane than other forms of gas production. Third, that it uses a worryingly large amount of water. Fourth, that it uses hundreds of toxic chemicals. Fifth, that it causes damaging earthquakes.
The total number of aquifers that have been found to be polluted by either fracking fluid or methane gas as a result of fracking in the United States is zero.

 


On the August 30 edition of my daily Genesis Communications Network radio show, Truth Trial (emordtruthtrial.com), Government Accountability Project Legislative Campaign Coordinator and Investigator Shanna Devine revealed that the Obama Administration and British Petroleum had disseminated false public health and safety information and engaged in a cover-up to mask the harmful effects of chemical dispersants and oil in the Gulf. Shanna Devine explained that agents of BP and the federal government falsely claimed that a chemical dispersant, Corexit, was essentially as safe as dish washing detergent when in fact it was, when mixed with oil, 52 times more toxic than oil alone. She explained that clean-up workers, physicians, divers, and area residents have suffered related maladies, including blood in urine, temporary paralysis, heart arrhythmias, kidney damage, liver damage, neurological damage, skin lesions, respiratory and central nervous system damage, and seizures. As GAP reports, “[b]lood test results from a majority [of the people GAP interviewed in the Gulf region] showed alarmingly high levels of chemical exposure—to Corexit and oil—that correlated with experienced health effects. These chemicals include known carcinogens.”

Russia Has Equipped Syria With Their Most Advanced Anti-Ship Missiles

According to the report from Syrian-based Dam Press and the Dyar Newspaper, the Russians aren’t backing off their Syria policy and they are getting ready to double down by supplying Assad’s military with weapons that have never before been seen in the middle east.

Russia has sent advanced antiship cruise missiles to Syria, a move that illustrates the depth of its support for the Syrian government led by President Bashar al-Assad, American officials said Thursday.
Yes, these missiles have the range to hit targets in Cyprus.  Perhaps someone should tell U.S. military planners that it is probably not a good idea to be parking so much air power at bases there.

 Sept 6 

China Sends Warships & 1000 Marines to Syria, Accuses the U.S. of lying About Syria And Ignoring International Laws. Russia Sends another Amphibous Assault Ship. Turkey Sends More Troops to Syria Border

 

Syrian President Bashar Assad has warned there will be 'repercussions' against any US military strike launched in response to a chemical weapons attack in his country.

Explore the strength of Syrian and US military forces on this interactive map:
http://aje.me/15LEMvW
Today's news from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.):

Americans Oppose U.S. Force in Syria: Sen. Bernie Sanders reports there is 10-1 opposition to authorizing the use of force in Syria in an online survey of constituents. Calls to his offices are even more overwhelming, according to an editorial on Sunday in the The(Madison, Wis.) Capital Times.

Vermont Delegation Split on Syria: Sen. Patrick Leahy, the country's most senior senator, appears set to support U.S. intervention. Sen. Sanders has voiced reservations while Rep. Peter Welch remains on the fence, WCAX-TV reported on Saturday.


Kerry Meets Arab Leaders on Syria: Secretary of State John Kerry is meeting Arab League leaders in Paris as part of a European tour to gather support for intervention in Syria. Kerry said the number of nations prepared to take military action was now in "double digits", but the list has not been made public. France strongly supports intervention in response to the use of chemical weapons in Damascus last month, but it wants to wait for a report by UN weapons experts before taking action, BBC reported.

Health Care: “A new and affordable way for many Vermonters to purchase insurance is the key provision of the Affordable Care Act. I was proud to be involved in the passage of this law when I worked as the health policy adviser for Sen. Sanders,” David Reynolds, deputy director of health reform in the Vermont Agency of Administration, wrote for the Rutland Herald and Times Argus.
Continue reading here:
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=65b0b24b-7f12-4f39-8ed6-721048881ef0
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A couple of RCMP officers stopped at Sandy Bay First Nation and talked to an old Indian standing on the road.
He told the old Indian, "I need to inspect this land for illegally grown drugs."
The elder reluctantly said, "okay, but don't go into that field over there...", as he pointed with his lips to the location.
The RCMP officer verbally exploded & said, "look mister, I have the authority of the federal government with me!"
Reaching into his rear back pocket, the arrogant officer removed his badge & proudly displayed it to the old Indian.
"See this fucking badge?! This badge means I can go wherever I want, whenever I want................on any land! No questions asked, no answers given! Do you understand old man?"
The elder nodded kindly, apologized & went about his business. Moments later he heard loud - fearful screams; he looked up & saw the RCMP officer running for his life, being chased by a Bull Bison. With every step the Bull Bison was gaining ground on the officer & it was likely that he'd sure enough get gored before he reached safety. The officer was clearly terrified.
The old Indian threw down his tools & ran as fast as he could to the fence & yelled at the top of his lungs......"YOU’RE BADGE! SHOW HIM YOU’RE FUCKING BADGE!
"Those responsible for the chemical attack in Syria should be referred to the International Criminal Court for prosecution under international law. The United States should also sign and ratify the treaty establishing the International Criminal Court and become a member of the court. "
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WNN WEBSITE: Crime novelist delves deep into Armenia’s illegal sex-trafficking industry


Trafficked women and children, for instance, are often promised work in the domestic or service industry but, instead, are sometimes taken to brothels where they are forced into prostitution, and their passports and other identification papers are confiscated. They may be beaten or locked up and promised their freedom only after earning – through prostitution – their purchase price and their travel and visa costs.

Vulnerable populations in former Soviet states, such as Armenia, are particularly susceptible to this global phenomenon. Since Armenia’s independence, thousands of Armenian women and girls have been taken — to Russia, Turkey, and some Arab states of the Persian Gulf — to be initiated into prostitution.


http://womennewsnetwork.net/2013/09/06/armenias-illegal-sex-trafficking/
Real Coastal Warriors
Yesterday morning, the town of Hua Xu Dan Village Zhaowei Chun family's yard, 40 beehives surrounded by a rectangle. Ground everywhere dead bees, beehive opened one by one, which is only ten bees, "per case in previous years, almost 30,000 to 50,000 bees, and now some boxes on the left of the queen bee."

Original link here: (Place in translate) http://env.people.com.cn/n/2013/0905/c1010-22811814.html
Utility companies in Europe are making massive investments to convert their power plants to burn wood—known as “biomass”—as a replacement for coal and other fossil fuels ...

In this part of the review, we will study in detail chronicled sprawl giant sinkhole in Louisiana, which recently marked one year. Especially that usually gets there first until Wikipedia is stingy with information . American geologists say that nowhere in the world is nothing like this has ever been observed . Behind the phenomenon of the Bayu-Korn even stuck the title of "Mother of all karst failures." Meanwhile, the failure of this creeps "methane gin", which is powerless against the American army and the Ministry of Emergency Situations. What is this phenomenon? Not whether it is connected with the global genocidal program and the oil disaster of 2010,? Do bowels of the earth began to move, and people are driven from their homes? Expected Great Migration? Consider everything in order. technogenic accident in Bayou Corne - is the result of the creation of underground gas storage facilities, oil and toxic and radioactive waste man-made underground workings (including in the body of salt domes covering the shelf and the southern states). The United States was among the leaders in the use of artificial underground workings, so Hush-Korn - only a "second call" in front of a theater curtain. What to do with this disaster, no one knows why the local government has remained silent or outright nonsense, but the federal government is just waiting 'till the last. "



From Russia with Love: Technological disaster in the Bayu-Corn - is the result of the creation of underground gas storage facilities, oil and toxic and radioactive waste man-made underground workings (including in the body of salt domes covering the shelf and the southern states). The United States was among the leaders in the use of artificial underground workings, so Hush-Korn - only a "second call" in front of a theater curtain. What to do with this disaster, no one knows why the local government has remained silent or outright nonsense, but the federal government is just waiting 'till the last. " TO READ THIS IN ENCLISH, YOU MUST PUT THE LINK IN GOOGLE TRANSLATE: http://www.kpe.ru/sobytiya-i-mneniya/ocenka-sostavlyayuschih-jizni-obschestva/zdorove-cheloveka-orujie-genocida/4125-metastases-gulf-14-7



Photo: In this part of the review, we will study in detail chronicled sprawl giant sinkhole in Louisiana, which recently marked one year. Especially that usually gets there first until Wikipedia is stingy with information . American geologists say that nowhere in the world is nothing like this has ever been observed . Behind the phenomenon of the Bayu-Korn even stuck the title of "Mother of all karst failures." Meanwhile, the failure of this creeps "methane gin", which is powerless against the American army and the Ministry of Emergency Situations. What is this phenomenon? Not whether it is connected with the global genocidal program and the oil disaster of 2010,? Do bowels of the earth began to move, and people are driven from their homes? Expected Great Migration? Consider everything in order. technogenic accident in Bayou Corne - is the result of the creation of underground gas storage facilities, oil and toxic and radioactive waste man-made underground workings (including in the body of salt domes covering the shelf and the southern states). The United States was among the leaders in the use of artificial underground workings, so Hush-Korn - only a "second call" in front of a theater curtain. What to do with this disaster, no one knows why the local government has remained silent or outright nonsense, but the federal government is just waiting 'till the last. "

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