Vicunas (Photo credit: Marie Hale)
Bacchus parade, New Orleans, the Sunday evening before Mardi Gras Day. New Orleans Saints Quarterback Drew Brees honored on float. "Really, that's Drew Brees as King Bacchus" (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Chile (Photo credit: @Doug88888)Your moment of Zen
Pumpkin fairy house via Old Moss Woman.
McHammered
Here's a suggestion to Adam Ozimek of *Forbes*: When trying to make
your case, never quote a much better article by a much better columnist.
Case in point: Ozzie's article entitled, "The Liberal War on Food
Stamps." Obviously, this is a title that is designed to be provocative by
going for the most ironic sentence and one wrenched 180 degrees from its
polar opposite (that would be the truth). This pro-corporate fuckstick
immediately goes for the jugular by writing,
I can’t remember a more misguided attempt at attacking corporations than
the move to frame food stamps as co... more »
Scary Stuff
If you're afraid of snakes, Science has found a visceral cause. There
exists in our primate brains something called a pulvinar -- clusters of
neurons specifically designed to make us fear the slithering legless
reptiles.
So I ask myself: do our brains also contain special neuronal pockets making
us fear spiders, bears and sabre-tooth tigers? And before Homo sapiens goes
entirely extinct, will evolution go into speed-dial emergency survival mode
and gift us with a special place in our cerebral cortices which enable us
to spot a slimy politician from a mile away?
While you're ponder... more »
Oy, Fournier
This is what happens when the two parties ruling Washington lose touch with
America and pander to their crazy-extreme bases: President Obama's
competency and personality ratings are nose-diving, according to a new
NBC/Wall Street Journal poll; barely a sliver of the public thinks highly
of the Republican Party; and two-thirds of Americans want to replace their
own member of Congress.
This is what happens when a reporter is obsessed with insisting that the
two parties are mirror images of each other: he manages to miss what may be
a real story because he's so intent on serving up... more »
Mayor Rob Ford
What has Ford ever accomplished? He sat on council a job that one could
allege he inherited. Think what you will of John Tory, I like what he
offers in general. So how do you digest that John Tory had to seek
permission from Rob Fords mother to run for Mayor? Just think about that in
Game of Thrones perspective.
GWB became president of the united states under much the same circumstance.
Rob Ford was the worst candidate possible to do the dirty work of pushing
back against the left and making the city accountable. So why was he run?
Do you not feel like fools that the powers that be ... more »
Chile: Vicuña Object "Just a Solar Panel"? Debate is Ongoing
*Source: El Observatodo
Date: 10.30.2013*
*Chile: Debate Over Fallen Object is Ongoing*
*By The El Observatodo Team*
Many in Vicuña claim to have seen it, but El Observatodo reached the site
of the alleged crash shown in eyewitness photos. This is what we found.
In Vicuña, out of 10 persons interviewed, 8 had heard about the alleged UFO
and 5 claimed to have seen it. The photos circulating in the social
networks are proliferating all over the web, so the only way to find out
for sure was to organize an outing to the crash site itself. So we headed
to the hill located in the Los Pimie... more »
Untitled
*Rex Ryan praises brother Rob, Drew Brees ~Mike Triplett*
*Who is Kenny Stills? ~Bradley Warshauer, Gambit*
*IG: NOPD downgraded French Quarter thefts ~New Orleans Advocate*
*Charges mount against high school coaching staff ~WDSU*
*2013 Anba Dlo Symposium Initiates Public Dialogue ~Thomas Walsh, WWNO*
*New ammo maker, Atlantic Marksmen, to open in Gulfport in early 2014 ~Lisa
Monti, MBJ*
*Voodoo Preview: The Breton Sound Balance the Equation ~My Spilt Milk*
TFA's PR Machine Lights It Up in Memphis with Front Page Stories of "Enchantment" and "Allure"
CorpEd bought Memphis City Schools with a 90 million dollar Gates
Foundation grant in late 2009, and early in 2010 the TN Department of
Education was gobbled up by a $501 million bribe from the Gates controlled
US Dept. of Education's RTTT. Thus began the slashing and burning of
Memphis public schools in favor of corporate charters and the
"surplussing," "excessing," and firing of teachers in favor of Teach for
America's post-adolescent-and-white-privileged corporate missionaries.
On Monday CorpEd's dependable lackey reporter at the Commercial Appeal,
Michael Kelley, did a glowing... more »
In Spite Of Ongoing Interviews And Investigation Of Duffy / Wright, RCMP Had NO Knowlege of $13,560 Cheque From Conservative Party Until Duffy's Senate Speech ..
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*None of them .. Harper, Wright, Novak, Hamilton, LeBreton, Tkachuk, etc
etc etc, are being forthright or honest about the facts and sequence of
events in the Senate Scandal:*
*PARLIAMENT HILL—An RCMP account of a lengthy police interview last June
with two lawyers answering for Nigel Wright over the controversial $90,000
cheque he gave to embattled Senator Mike Duffy contains no reference to a
separate $13,560 cheque that Mr. Wright also arranged to pay Sen. Duffy’s
legal costs with Conservative Party money.*
*** Despite the storm that erupted in Parliament this week over Sen.... more »
Do You Think Multimillionaire Congressmen Care If You And Your Family Drown?
Chris Hayes did something remarkable Tuesday evening. He talked about how
climate change relates to income inequality in America. Take a look at the
short clip above. "Here's what I've learned," he reported. "The people at
the bottom of the social pyramid, the poor, those without assets, or no
assets other than their home, with debts piled up and low-wage jobs; those
people who are struggling to just hang on by their fingernails to something
that looks like a middle class existence… Those people, when the waters
come in from the storms, those people are the first ones dragged out ... more »
MALALA, MATTHEWS AND MADDOW: Hopelessly devoted to being against!
*THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2013*
*Part 3—Phrenology’s return:* Who will Malala Yousafzai turn out to be?
We can’t tell you that. We were so pleased when we watched the tape of her
U.N. address that we seem to have misheard one part of what she said.
We were thrilled to hear this very unusual person make this declaration,
emphasis hers:
“Dear brothers and sisters! I am not *against* anyone.”
We were thrilled by that declaration. We were so thrilled that, a bit later
one, we thought we heard her say this:
MALALA, AS HEARD: We call upon all the communities to be tolerant—*to
reject preju... more »
"The Point..."
"What is the point? We assume that every time we do anything we know what
the consequences will be, i.e., more or less what we intend them to be.
This is not only not always correct. It is wildly, crazily, stupidly,
cross-eyed-blithering-insectly wrong!"
- Douglas Adams,
“The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide”
Satire “G.O.P. Unveils Own Health-Care Web Site, EmergencyRoom.gov”
* “G.O.P. Unveils Own Health-Care Web Site,*
* EmergencyRoom.gov”*
by Andy Borowitz
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)— “Saying that “the American people are fed
up with a disastrous Web site that doesn’t work and never will,” House
Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Virginia) and a phalanx of congressional
Republicans today unveiled their own health-care Web site,
EmergencyRoom.gov. “At EmergencyRoom.gov, every American can access the one
tried-and-true health-care system that has worked in this country for
decades,” he said.
While Healthcare.gov has frustrated many users with its
... more »
Let's hold off on Rob Ford just now
Yes the documents seem to show a relationship with Lisi and some exchange
of something. And that could be drugs. But it also could be a paperback
novel. Being caught on police surveillance is not pleasant but it does not
always mean wrongdoing.
The correct way to deal with trick or treaters on Halloween
The correct way to deal with trick or treaters - Stephen Fry and Hugh
Laurie style.
Useful advice today, I'm sure you'll agree!
It Will Be All About Integrity
Stephen Harper came to power howling about the lack of Liberal integrity.
And the irony is that integrity will be Harper's undoing. Michael Harris
writes:
Integrity is the great leveller — and that is bad news for Stephen Harper.
It is the fatal deficit of all powermongers. The Harper government’s
clothesline is sagging under the weight of dirty laundry.
The man who posed as a scourge against corruption has come to personify it.
Consider the record:
Outcast former MP Bill Casey tells me that the PM changed the wording of
the Atlantic Accord, cheating Maritimers out of the agreed... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
Addis Ababa, Adis Abeba, Ethiopia. Thanks for stopping by.
"Ignored Reality Is Going To Wipe Out The Human Race"
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*"Ignored Reality Is Going To Wipe Out The Human Race"*
by Paul Craig Roberts
"To inform people is hard slugging. Everything is lined up against the
public being informed, or the policymakers for that matter. News is
contaminated by its service to special interests and hidden agendas. Many
scientists or their employers are dependent on federal money. Even
psychologists and anthropologists were roped into the government’s torture
and occupation programs. Economists tell lies for corporations and Wall
Street. Plant and soil scientists tell lies for agribusiness and Monsanto.
Tr... more »
"The Plague..."
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot
survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for
he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst
those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the
alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor
appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he
wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies
deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works
sec... more »
“Bottom Line: The NSA Lied (Again) To Congress”
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*“Bottom Line: The NSA Lied (Again) To Congress”*
by Karl Denninger
“That's the bottom line folks- they lied, repeatedly and intentionally.
“The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main
communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the
world, according to documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward
Snowden and interviews with knowledgeable officials. By tapping those
links, the agency has positioned itself to collect at will from hundreds of
millions of user accounts, many of them belonging to Americans. The NSA
does not ke... more »
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Mike Napoli, 32. Better than Vernon Wells! Better than
Frank Francisco! And congrats to the Red Sox...I'll miss having the Giants
as World Series Champions, though. But it was fun while it lasted (again).
Before the good stuff, one other note: Thank you, everyone -- record
traffic month at Plain Blog!
1. Norm Ornstein on the right to vote.
2. Meanwhile, Arizona will be voting on voting, as Reid Wilson reports.
3. John Sides passes along some new research on the effect of the Fox News
original rollout. I'd be very careful about extrapolating too far from
this...but... more »
7 Health Benefits To Eating Fermented Food by Tricia Drevets
7 Health Benefits To Eating Fermented Food
by Tricia Drevets
Off The Grid News, 29 October 2013
Most of us eat fermented foods without even knowing it. Condiments you use
such as ketchup and soy sauce, the sauerkraut or pickles you might add to a
sandwich, the yogurt you eat for breakfast, and the beets you toss in your
salad are all examples of fermented foods.
Fermentation is nothing new. In fact, people all over the world have been
preserving their foods by fermentation for thousands of years.
Archaeologists have found evidence of fermented foods and drinks in Babylon
(5000 ... more »
In Spite Of Ongoing Interviews And Investigation Of Duffy / Wright, RCMP Had NO Knowlege of $13,560 Cheque From Conservative Party Until Duffy's Senate Speech ..
**
*None of them .. Harper, Wright, Hamilton, LeBreton, Tkachuk, etc etc etc,
are being forthright or honest about the facts and sequence of events in
the Senate Scandal:*
*PARLIAMENT HILL—An RCMP account of a lengthy police interview last June
with two lawyers answering for Nigel Wright over the controversial $90,000
cheque he gave to embattled Senator Mike Duffy contains no reference to a
separate $13,560 cheque that Mr. Wright also arranged to pay Sen. Duffy’s
legal costs with Conservative Party money.*
*** Despite the storm that erupted in Parliament this week over Sen.
Duffy... more »
Syrian Army Base rocked again - Israel implicated .... Israel and Saudis ( both mad at the US non decision to bomb Syria and US preparing to reach accord with Iran ) still haven't let Syria and Iran off the hook .....Meanwhile the US is seen as moving toward its pax middle east in spite of the demands of US Congressmen , Israel and Saudi led GCC voices for War !
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-31/syrian-army-missle-base-rocked-again-overnight-explosions-israel-implicated
Syrian Army Base Rocked Again By Overnight Explosions, Israel Implicated
[image: Tyler Durden's picture]
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/31/2013 08:03 -0400
- Iran
- Israel
- Newspaper
inShare
The last time major explosions were reported near Damascus, it was in May when
Israel and its air force did everything in their power to provoke the Assad
regime to escalate military operations both domestically and abroad. It
almost succeeded when three month... more »
Ward Chapel and Haitian Hearts/Peoria
Ward Chapel and Haitian Hearts/Peoria http://t.co/fL4sLYoiWY
— John A. Carroll (@haitianhearts) October 31, 2013
Mathew LeTissier a genius with a football and also with numbers
On a football pitch...
Against Peter Schmeichel...
And beating Rachel Reilly on the Countdown numbers game
This could be interesting...
The BBC report that:
'A list of "shell" companies where firms keep money offshore will be
published to discourage tax evasion, David Cameron will announce later.
Ministers had already announced the register, intended to lift the "cloak
of secrecy" around company ownership.
But the prime minister will say making the register public will make it
easier for firms and developing countries to know who they are doing
business with.
Labour, anti-corruption campaigners and charities welcomed the move.
Speaking at the Open Government Partnership summit in London later, Mr
Cameron will say ... more »
How to Roast Pumpkin Seeds and Happy Halloween
I am so excited that Halloween is finally here. It is my daughter's
favorite holiday and I look forward to all of our yearly traditions.
Halloween means chili, bread bowls, trick-or-treating, lots of candy,
watching scary movies and most of all pumpkin seeds. Pumpkin seeds are a
random weakness of mine. Every year my mom would the seeds for our whole
line of pumpkins and I would eat them all. I love them and I especially
love when they are home roasted. We would carve pumpkins before
Trick-Or-Treating and I would go out, knowing my favorite Halloween treat
was going be waiting f... more »
Benghazi: Arnold Lewis Raphel - The US Ambassador Killed in an ElectionYear by George H.W. Bush
*Failure of Basic Fact-Checking:*
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*I quote The Enemy:*
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*"Operation Cyclone was one of the longest and most expensive covert CIA
operations ever undertaken;funding began with $20–30 million per year in
1980 and rose to $630 million per year in 1987.*
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*Funding continued after 1989 as the Mujahideen battled the forces of
Mohammad Najibullah's PDPA during the Civil war in Afghanistan (1989–1992).*
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*The program leaned heavily towards supporting militant Islamic groups that
were favored by neighboring Pakistan, rather than other, less ideological
Afghan resistance... more »
Stock markets and random walks
I was surprised how widespread the misunderstanding of Eugene Fama's
observations about the economy was. Fama explained that the QE program is
just about buying one type of bonds for others so its effect is similar to
removing $100 bills from the circulation and replacing them with a 10 times
greater number of $10 bills: the effect is pretty much non-existent.
See also my polemics with the Pig.
Critics of these insights seem to be grouped into two not quite disjoint
sets – those who believe that the Feds' permutation games are extremely
helpful for reviving the economy and those w... more »
So this is how it ends(?)
With the Edmonton Sun calling for Harper's resignation because his lies are too much - even for them.
As Harper said of Paul Martin over the sponsorship scandal, either he
knew and was guilty or did not and was incompetent. But Harper also
lies constantly, including telling the House on Tuesday it was “regular
practice” to cover legal expenses, like Duffy’s, while calling Duffy’s
actions “
Global warming Wine
Demand is up, capacity is diminishing. Canada may be one of the few places
in the world that can support a wine industry.
MADELEINE McCANN - A PATSY EMERGES
A man, who had been sacked by the owners of the holiday complex where
Madeleine McCann was staying, 'has been identified as the main suspect' in
the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
The man died in a tractor accident in 2009.
http://www.dailymail.
"Sounds to me as though he is being made a 'patsy' and as he's dead no one
can corroborate his side of the story."
http://www.dailymail.
A portuguese newspaper, Correio da Manha, reports that the 40-year-old, who
had once worked at the Ocean Club resort, might have snatched Maddie in
revenge after being sacked.
'Police identified th... more »
William H. Sullivan - Last US Ambassador (NarcoBaron) to Iran Dies
*NOTE: There was NO US Ambassador to Iran when the US Embassy was seized in
November 1979.*
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*President Carter FIRED William Sullivan in March 1979 for "Serial
Insubordination".*
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*His Immediate Predecessor in-post was Former Director of Central
Intelligence Mr. Richard Helms; who puppet-mastered The Year of Watergate
from Tehran.*
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*Both were in the Heroin Trade in Laos and Iran up to their necks.*
William H. Sullivan, a career diplomat who spent much of the 1960s and
1970s in volatile parts of the world — notably Laos, where he oversaw a
secret bombing campaign, and Ir... more »
Why a democratic UK is doomed along with the rest of Western civilisation
'A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a
permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until
the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts
from the public treasury.
From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who
promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that
every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is
always followed by a dictatorship.'
The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of
history ... more »
Gordon Brown 'an ex-politician' - apart from taking an MP's salary of course
My distaste for Gordon 'broken moral compass' Brown is on record, so this
recent admission of his does not surprise me in the slightest.
the last video Ted L Gunderson made before he was murdered with ARSENIC
hey, don't look at me, that's what the Conspiracy Nut Grid (a part of which
is intimately linked/driven by the Covert Intelligence Agency in
cellularised form, via shill agents and patsies of corporate war fog) is
saying about the death of infamous ex-FBI whistleblower Ted L Gunderson, already
featured on Free Planet.
*Ted L Gunderson, former head of FBI in Los Angeles, Memphis, and Dallas,
was poisoned with arsenic says Dr Ed Lucidi who saw Ted’s body before and
after passed away. Dr. Ed treated Mr Gunderson, who suffered bladder cancer
and died as a result of its spread. Reportedl... more »
Happy Halloween 2013
http://www.creativegreenliving.com/2013/10/10-gmo-free-trick-or-treat-options.html
The Winter of Our Dys-CONS Tent
Ah, the five dimensional chess game of our uber-logistician Prime Minister.
It's all clear to me now. His geeeeenius plan to destroy the Senate of
Canada was cunning as a weasel tied to the underbelly of the diving
chickenhawk taunting the eagle as it startled the bear out of the tree.
Sabotage the sober second thought lounge by handpicking loyalists to
populate its greenery, convince them they could do no wrong, (pay no
attention to the little man behind the heavy velvet curtains muttering
darkly about legality) and lead them down the Hill Garden Path where His
PMinence would leave... more »
Mi'kmaq Warriors denied all rights in jail, one beaten
Article
by Brenda Norrell
Censored News
Nineteen-year-old David Mazerolle of the Mi'kmaq Warrior Society
describes how Mi'kmaqs were denied all their rights in jail and placed
in solitary confinement after police brutally attacked the anti-oil and
gas drilling camp in Elsipogtog, New Brunswick.
"I was one of the six that got left in there," David said of the Moncton
jail. "They left us in
GHOSTS
*Portrait of Prince Arthur, 1854, by Roger Fenton. The Royal Photographic
Society Collection, National Media Museum.*
*
*Above is a portrait of one of Queen Victoria's children, Prince Arthur,
taken by Roger Fenton in 1854.
At the side of the young prince can be seen the ghost-like figure of his
nurse.
She moved into the frame part way through the exposure.
G is for ghosts
*The Ram Inn and owner Caroline Humphries.*
The* Ram Inn* is said to have 20 ghosts.
This bed-and-breakfast cottage was built in 1145, on a site where child
sacrifice and devil worship are reported to have tak... more »
Life in Pakistan
'... teenage girl dug herself out of shallow grave after she was raped
by
two men and buried alive.The 13-year-old was snatched while walking to
Koran lessons from her local village in Punjab and raped by the men in
an
isolated area.Her attackers then buried her alive when they thought that
she had died during the assault. '
More here
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2478945/Girl-13-digs-shallow-grave-raped-buried-alive-men-Pakistan.htmlbut
not on the pro Pakistan BBC
BRENDAN HUNT ON SANDY HOOK, CHILD ABUSE, INDIA, LES VISIBLE
*Children's rapes: The end of silence ?
Paedophilia and Child Sacrifice - United Nations of Film*
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*Models display Muslim themed outfits at Jakarta Fashion Week.*.
nydailynews.com/
*It Is Time We Discussed Les Visible*
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**Mass Poverty and Social Inequality in India: The Devastating Impacts of
the Neoliberal Economic Development Model - *Center for Research on
Globalization
*In Indonesia, which has a huge AIDS epidemic, 15-year-old caught after
escorting three other teens to meet clients at hotel*
Fiat LUX
*Guest blog by Dr Adam Falkowski, Orsay, France*
A new episode of the dark matter detection saga was just broadcast live
from Sanford Lab. LUX is a new direct detection experiment located in a
South Dakota mine, not far from Mt Rushmore. Today they presented their
results based on the first 3 months of data taking.
LUX is very similar to its direct competitor Xenon100. They both use a
dual-phase xenon target, and a combination of scintillation and ionization
photons to detect the collision of dark matter particles on nuclei,
estimate the recoil energy, and separate dark-matter-li... more »
Hopi and Dine' to Peabody Coal 'Halt theft of burial places'
Hopi
and Dine' tell Peabody Coal that the era of misery and exploitation
ends now
By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
Photo by Indigenous Action Media
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- When Peabody Coal seized the land at Black Mesa for
the dirty coal industry -- with the aid of corrupt attorneys, Arizona
Congressmen, tribal politicians and the media -- Peabody Coal robbed the
burial places and looted the
Thursday Morning Linkage
Aside from major sporting events, there have been a few items of import in
the news. Health A new polio outbreak in Syria is endangering the drive for
global eradication Climate Change A 2012 story that I missed, a drive to
replace dirty cook stoves in India using experimental methods failed India
not keen on
Continue reading
Guest Post From Paul Clements, The Progressive Democrat Opposing Fred Upton In Western Michigan
Fred Upton's "monkey court"
Today Congressman Fred Upton grilled Health and Human Services Secretary
Kathleen Sabelius over the error-plagued launch of HealthCare.gov, the
federal government’s enrollment website for mandatory health insurance.
Would that he were so assiduous in his support for Americans’ access to
high quality, affordable health care!
This is the same Upton who voted 40 times to defund the Affordable Care
Act. The same one who required healthcare navigators to fill out arduously
voluminous paperwork before they could help people figure out how to get
new health insu... more »
Storm Update + Turning Colder & More Violent Storms/Hurricane Strength To Come + November Snow
Another period of very stormy weather and potentially damaging winds is
now likely to develop throughout Friday and the weekend across many parts
of the country, as areas of intense low pressure push in from the Atlantic (As
suggested in the Sunday update @ *http://youtu.be/BZHSAQC5K_4*).
The stormy conditions are also likely to become and feel more widespread
in scale and distribution, than the more recent St. Jude storm that we have
just experienced. Further gusts and severe gales in excess of 60-80 mph are
also a possibility, especially in some exposed coastal areas. This perio... more »
Gold and Silver news and views - October 30 , 2013 - Gata items including Andrew McQuire's response to the Jeff Christian attack on his credentials ....CitiGroup and JP Morgan put senior currency dealers on leave , no silver or gold dealers put on leave......Did Jeff Christian inadvertently disclose manipulation of silver ( would also apply to gold ) - Bix Weir says " YES " and writes to the useless CFTC to wake up and address HFT and computer algo programs manipulations .... and just look at the deathly silence at CME for gold - is there any physical gold left and not just paper there ?
Gata......
Citigroup, JPMorgan said to put senior currency dealers on leave
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2013-10-30 23:20. Section: Daily Dispatches
By Gavin Finch, Liam Vaughan, and Ambereen Choudhury
Bloomberg News
Thursday, October 31, 2013
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-30/citigroup-jpmorgan-said-to-put-...
Citigroup Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. are putting their top London
currency dealers on leave after regulators probing the manipulation of
foreign-exchange rates started investigating the traders’ use of an
instant-message group, three people with knowledge of the moves... more »
Untitled
*Rob Ryan helps Saints find inner animal ~Mike Triplett, ESPN.com*
First Up-Close Glimpses of Neptune and Triton
This video is now about a moment in history:
How to Naturally Remove Radioactive Particles from Your Body in 5-7 Hours
*Wake Up World*
Information From A Different Perspective
[image: nuclear-power-plant]28th October 2013
By Gavin Bragg
Guest Writer for Wake Up World
Fukushima may soon become the greatest environmental disaster site the
world has ever seen. If the more than 1300 fuel rods from the badly damaged
reactor 4 fuel pool, that is perched 100 feet in the air, are not brought
to the ground with absolute precision it could spew out the radiation
equivalent of more than 15,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs. The pool rests on a
badly damaged building that could easily come down in the next earthquake,
... more »
The Depravity of the SWP
Depravity is a strong word, but what else can describe the the latest batch
of revelations regarding the SWP/Delta alleged rape case? Going through the
document one is confronted with the complete indifference, the arrogance,
and the bullying the alleged victim, 'Comrade W', and her supporters faced.
There are many unpleasantries, but for me the below set of incidences
struck me as especially appalling:
In her district she was simply ignored as if she ceased to exist. When she
did see members and tried to talk to them, her experience was one of abuse
and bullying. Geoff D informed ... more »
Different Planets
There's this one :
"Jane Doe" and her G/Fs
Then there's the one the Religious Right lives on:
Do you ever feel like you’ve just landed on a different planet? I do when I
learn about situations like the following. Several girls at a school in
Colorado are finding out just exactly what is involved in transgender
rights. An older boy has been entering the girls’ restroom at Florence High
School in Florence, Colorado, claiming he’s a female and then he’s
apparently been harassing some of the actual, biological girls. But when
the girls’ families contacted the school, did this legitimat... more »
On #edreform celebrity.
I can name more persons affiliated with education and the reform movement
than I care to. Authors are our rock stars it seems. I found myself on
whatever path I am on because of some unique circumstances, but above all
that I’m an educator. I speak out because I’m oftentimes a stubborn person
with a […]
"Ted Cruz resembles the Bill Murray of a quarter-century ago, when he played fishy, mock-sincere fakers" (David Denby)
*Plus: Worst spam of the day*
*"When Ted Cruz lies, he appears to be praying. His lips narrow, almost
disappearing into his face, and his eyebrows shift abruptly, rising like a
drawbridge on his forehead into matching acute angles. He attains an
appearance of supplication, an earnest desire that men and women need to
listen, as God surely listens."*
*-- the opening of David Denby's newyorker.com
blogpost today,* "Ted Cruz: The Mask of Sincerity"
*by Ken*
I keep wanting to get to "Big Dick" Cheney's apparently unexplodable heart,
but stuff keeps coming up. Yesterday it was breaking... more »
One dares to call them liars
News you won't see from the Clickbait Corps. BigMedia fears to tread where
Brian Beutler dares to go with “Rate shock”: The GOP’s shameful new
Obamacare lie. This in particular.
Some people who receive these notices will be pleasantly surprised to find
that the most similar new plan offered by their current provider is
actually cheaper than their old one. Others will be told that a similar
plan will cost more. What they won’t be told, because insurers don’t want
to downsell or advertise for their competitors, is that they’re likely to
find a different plan available through their s... more »
Former Prime Minister Joe Clark Says Stephen Harper Needs To Tell The Truth!!!
*Former prime minister Joe Clark says current PM Stephen Harper needs to
"bring people into the facts" and tell the real story about what went on
with Senator Mike Duffy and Nigel Wright, the PM's former chief of staff.*
* **Clark has written a new book — titled How We Lead — about Canada's
foreign policy, and our country's global standing. The book is quite
critical about Harper's approach to international affairs. CBC chief
correspondent Peter Mansbridge interviewed Clark on Wednesday about
leadership, not only on foreign affairs, but also on management, including
how he sees th... more »
#optout in Wisconsin
It’s official. We are now Wisconsin opt outers! Dear Principal: Michelle
and I are requesting that Lacey not participate in state standardized
testing during the current school year. Furthermore, we ask that no record
of this testing be part of Lacey’s permanent file, as we do not wish for
Lacey to participate in standardized achievement […]
in which i survive three days without internet, or how rogers (maybe) punishes former customers
Sometime late on Thursday night into Friday morning, our internet went
down. This is the worst possible time for such an event, as internet is our
lifeline to baseball, and the Boston Red Sox are on their way (I hope) (I
believe) to winning the World Series.
From the sound of things, there were problems at some major internet hubs
in the area, with massive outages affecting parts of Mississauga, Toronto,
Kitchener-Waterloo, Hamilton, and so on.
What was the problem? When could we expect service to resume? TekSavvy
wasn't able to tell me... because Rogers wouldn't tell them.
I have... more »
"Obama, NSA Spying and the Dangers of Secretive, Authoritarian Government"
*"Obama, NSA Spying and the Dangers of *
*Secretive, Authoritarian Government"*
By John W. Whitehead
“The perception here is of a United States where security has trumped
liberty, intelligence agencies run amok (vacuuming up data of friend and
foe alike), and the once-admired “checks and balances” built into American
governance and studied by European schoolchildren have become, at best,
secret reviews of secret activities where opposing arguments get no
hearing.” – New York Times columnist Roger Cohen
Recent reports indicating that President Obama was aware of and personally ... more »
Videos and photos: Peabody Coal's theft from Black Mesa burial sites
Hopi
Vernon Masayesva speaking at Cultural Review.
TODAY! (Above) VIDEO Bahe of Big Mountain speaks about the attempt of
Peabody Coal and the Bureau of Reclamation to have a secret meeting.
Bahe speaks of the need for the traditional way of living and
sustainable living.
...........................
Today (above) Norman Benally speaking.
Peabody Coal representatives
Icke/Brand
Icke/Brand from Spike1138 on Vimeo.
*"George Bush [Sr.] is a notorious paedophile."*
This is true:
Conspiracy Of Silence: The Franklin Cover-Up from Spike1138 on Vimeo.
In late 2003, Troy Boner walked into a hospital in New Mexico screaming,
*"they're after me, they're after me because of this book."*
The book Troy was waving was this book, The Franklin Cover-Up. Boner was
"... mildly sedated and calmed down ... and put in a private room for
'observation.'"
When nurses came to check on him early next morning, Boner was sitting in a
chair, bleeding from the mouth and quite ... more »
War Watch October 27 , 2013 - NSA spying on the world updates ..... Iraq death dealing update ..... Syria war and chemical weapon destruction watch ..... Afghanistan watch !
Catharsis Ours - 17 hours ago
Obama caught lying regarding US spying on German Prime Minister Merkel and
every other leader, promises it will play nice....
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-28/white-house-stop-spying-allies-dianne-feinstein-promises
White House To Stop Spying on Allies, Dianne Feinstein Promises
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- Germany
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Continuing to play Obama like a fiddle, the Snowden revelations have done
more to c... more »
Even more space filling
Until the political urge takes me again... and this time about actual
space! Kepler-78b is just like like Earth, only 2,000 degrees hotter. The
ongoing crisis in American government finances is putting future missions at
risk. All missions are difficult to maintain, not least planet hunting ones.
The first 1,000 extra solar planets have been discovered. It's not
guaranteed that figure will reach 2,000.
Dark matter, which has been inferred throughout the known universe has yet
to be captured, and there are very well designed experiments run by very
clever people that have been going... more »
Helen Thomas: LBJ and Obama Both Took Insults From Israel in Election Years
The venerable White House correspondent Helen Thomas, who died in July, was
Mark Mondalek’s grandmother’s cousin. He says his interviews in 2011-2012
with Thomas, an Arab-American who resigned under pressure in 2010 because
of comments she made about Israeli Jews, were the last she ever gave. At Middle
East Monitor.
Some excerpts, focusing on the Israeli influence in American politics,
LBJ’s ignoring the USS Liberty attack in an election year, Obama’s taking
insults from Netanyahu, Israel trying to get us into an Iran war, etc. Re
my headline, I’d note that no foreign country can s... more »
Mohawk John Kane 'Two Row Time'
Two
Row Time
By John Kane, Mohawk
Censored News
Much has been made of the Two Row Wampum lately. The “Two Row Wampum
Renewal Campaign” and the launch of the “Two Row Times” are just two
examples of the recent attention being given to it. Yet there seems to
be something fundamentally missing from a meaningful conversation on the
subject even as attention has spread.
Let’s be clear. The
Eike Batista's OGX files for bankruptcy in Brazil today - and with the filing , the overall status of the EBX Group is reduced to assets far below in value of the amount of debt on the books !
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-30/batistas-ogx-files-bankruptcy-largest-ever-latin-american-history
Batista's OGX Files Bankruptcy: Largest Ever In Latin American History
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In line with what we discussed last night, once cajillionaire Eike
Batista's net wealth has now collapsed to less than -$746.5 Million
according to Bloomberg as Veja notes, his "take over the world" company OGX
has declared bankruptcy following the breakdown of restructuring talks with
bondholders... more »
Pub culture is over?
This morning, I ask you to address one of the most important issues facing
the world. To whit:
“Pub culture is over. Five blokes talking rubbish over a pint died with the
smoking ban.”
Discuss.
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The first time the Cardinals invaded Fenway!
*WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2013*
*We take our revenge on Harry The Cat/A visit from Bud and Lou:* This year
marks the fourth time the St. Louis Cardinals have traveled to Fenway for
the World Series.
The first time was 1946, when the Cardinals went to Boston for games 3-5.
Years later, David Kruh wrote a book about Boston’s entertainment district,
the old Scollay Square, which is of course long gone.
What happened when the Cardinals hit town that year? In his fascinating
book, Kruh reprinted someone's reminiscence about an event which transpired
at the Old Howard, our father’s theate... more »
NAFTA: Two Decades Later
Of course Buck McKeon voted for NAFTA and every other disastrous "free"
trade agreement
On November 17, 1993-- quite late at night-- the House voted on NAFTA, the
George H.W. Bush "free trade" bill that he couldn't pass but that Clinton
assured Wall Street he would get done. At it got done, Rahm Emanuel
twisting arms for the White House. Although most progressives warned of the
consequences in advance, we now have 20/20 hindsight to rely on in confirming
their worst fears:
NAFTA opponents-- including labor, environmental, consumer and religious
groups-- argued that NAFTA would laun... more »
Louisiana sinkhole updates - October 28 , 2013 - H/T Louisiana Sinkhole Bugle
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lightning, hurricanes - how can we NOT be using this FREE ENERGY in the year 2013?
we are getting fucked in the ass (excuse my French but my dander's up)
every fucking day by IDIOT ENERGY CONGLOMERATES burning fossil fuels to
make electricity, or worse NUKEing water to make electricity and charging
us extortionate rates for it.
What about ALL THAT WEATHER ENERGY ALL AROUND US most days, and THEN look
at sucking energy from the solar bombardment of our planet. Do that first,
for free. And allow the Free Planet to bloom, patent free.
METER FREE'd.
# STOP WATCHING US RALLY - October 26 , 2013 !
Catharsis Ours - 19 hours ago
http://rt.com/usa/nsa-rally-mass-surveillance-786/
#StopWatchingUs rally against mass surveillance: Live Updates
Published time: October 26, 2013 15:45
Edited time: October 26, 2013 18:49
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Mass Surveillance" march near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, October 26,
2013. (Reuters / Jonathan Ernst)]
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Surveillance" march near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, October 26, 2013.
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DEVELOPING STRATEGIES FOR THE PIVOT
I head to Washington DC in the morning for three days of meetings about the
Obama "pivot" into the Asia-Pacific.
The meetings will assemble a couple dozen key activists from around the
country to create an on-going strategy to bring greater peace movement
activity around this important issue. At this point there is not yet
enough understanding and organizing going on around the surge of 60% of US
military forces into the region in order to control China and Russia.
Congress and the military industrial complex are certainly far ahead of
us. Rep. Randy Forbes (R-VA), Chairman of ... more »
“America’s Cult of Ignorance, Part 2”
* *
*“America’s Cult of Ignorance, Part 2”*
by James Quinn
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always
been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding
its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false
notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your
knowledge.” – Isaac Asimov
“While every group has certain economic interests identical with those of
all groups, every group has also, as we shall see, interests antagonistic
to those of all other groups. While certain public policies w... more »
Maintenance Work In Southern Iraq Causes Planned Disruption In Oil Exports For Sep 2013
September and October 2013 saw major maintenance work on Iraq’s ports in
Basra which account for the vast majority of the country’s oil exports.
That caused a decline in sales for September, but prices remained high, and
the flow through the southern pipeline was actually higher than scheduled.
At the same time two oil fields came on line, and there are continued plans
for a large expansion in production and exports by the end of the year into
2014. Iraq’s petroleum industry is steadily moving forward, but not at the
tremendous rates originally predicted.
Repairs to Iraq’s two s... more »
Tom Poor Bear urges NCAI advocacy for Leonard Peltier
Leonard
Peltier with Oglala Vice President Tom Poor Bear during a recent visit.
Photo courtesy Oglala Commemoration, published with permission at
Censored News.
Poor Bear urges NCAI to help bring Peltier home
By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
Oglala Sioux Vice President Thomas Poor Bear urged the National Congress
of American Indians to strengthen its advocacy for imprisoned Native
Immigration: Dead or Undead?
Greg Sargent has been doing great reporting and analysis on immigration,
and today he reports on a third Republican Member who has signed on to the
House Democrats' bill.
There are important differences between immigration and the clean CR needed
to re-open the government earlier this month, but in many respects the way
to look at it is similar. A handful of Republicans willing to go public
with their support for comprehensive immigration reform isn't likely to get
a bill to the House floor. Even twenty of them, which would be enough for a
House majority (if Democrats are unanimous,... more »
The Economy: “Apocalypse Later!”
*“Apocalypse Later!”*
by Bill Bonner
“It’s all decided. Play now. Pay later. Let’s see, stocks moved up again
yesterday. The Dow rose 111 points. Gold fell $6 an ounce. As usual,
Bloomberg had a reporter in the playground: "It still seems that the Fed
has created this good news is bad news, bad news is good news
scenario,”Randy Bateman, who oversees $15 billion as chief investment
officer of Huntington Asset Advisors in Columbus, Ohio, said by telephone.
“The anticipation is that the Fed will retain its purchasing of $85 billion
in monthly Treasury and mortgage securities, whi... more »
The Facts, Not the Spin, about Washington D.C.'s IMPACT Evaluation System
As U.C.L.A. School of Management Professor Samuel Culbert explained, a
performance evaluation is as much of, "an expression of the evaluator's
self-interests as it is a subordinate's attributes." Culbert argued that
the institution of professional performance reviews is, "as destructive and
fraudulent as it is ubiquitous." It is not just in educational evaluations
where "almost every person and every person reviewing it knows it is
bogus." Throughout the business world, there are plenty of people who
believe that improved performance evaluations can improve productivity, but
it is a... more »
FUKUSHIMA IS HERE TO STAY
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*Hundreds of volunteers spell out the obvious to an apathetic world.*
*Like a relentless invisible creeping fog**,** Fukushima's poisonous
presence is already here on the West Coast and it won't go away. This
ongoing ominous radiation threat will be impossible to ignore **by** 2014
and **its effect **could double within five years when its life threatening
**symptoms **will begin to surface: Allen L Roland*
The map below comes from the Nuclear Emergency Tracking Center and it shows
that Fukushima radiation levels at radiation monitoring stations all over
the United States ar... more »
Pastors Enriching Themselves from the Pulpit Proceeds
Here we go again. I've seen this movie and lived it like Groundhog Day.
Apostle Paul helped finance his ministry through a second job making tents.
We've come a long way baby.
How many students are living in poverty?
*WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2013*
*The way journalism works:* Roughly 315 million people live in the U.S.
Given that fact, you’d think a recent report in Education Week simply
couldn’t exist.
The piece, which was written by Sarah Sparks, concerns the rising number of
American children who are living in poverty. It starts like this, headlines
included:
SPARKS (10/23/13): *Poor Children Are Now a Majority in 17 States' Public
Schools*
*Study finds poverty rising in every state since 2000*
*Nearly half of all American public school students now live in poverty,*and in broad swaths of th... more »
7 Ways To Protect Yourself If Your Boss Is a Bully
Last week, I answered a question from a "used and abused" reader who was
facing a workplace bully. I talked about five ways that your workplace
bully might be breaking the law. Today, I talk about some things you can
do, starting today, to protect yourself if your boss is a bully.
Read my article in AOL Jobs for *seven things you can do, starting today,
to protect yourself if your boss is a bully.*
Geneva II: Peace talk delay as big powers split
I think just about anyone could see this *delay *coming. Painfully obvious
since the US/Israel/GCC have an agenda of regime change for Syria, Iran and
then at some point in time, Russia.
*Exclusive: Syria peace talks face delay as big powers split*
* *
AMMAN (Reuters) -* International powers are unlikely to meet their goal of
convening peace talks on Syria in Geneva next month as differences emerge
between Washington and Moscow over opposition representation, Arab and
Western officials said.*
Failure of the main Syrian National Coalition to take a clear stance over
the talks, whic... more »
TERROR IN TUNISIA AS US SEEKS BASE
*Tunisia's Defence Minister, Blel Hatem, in bed with NATO.*
In March 2013, US General Carter F Ham visited Tunisia.
"Some media and social networks said that the visit ... falls in line with
discussions regarding the setting up of a US military base in Tunisia."
US Military Base in Tunisia
*NATO terrorists in Tunisia*
In the second half of October 2013, NATO warships were paying a visit to
Tunisia
* Monastir*
On 30 October 2013, bombers attacked holiday resorts in Tunisia.
On 30 October 2013, a man blew himself up outside the Riadh Palm hotel in
Sousse.
Attack on Hotel in So... more »
IN THE WATER AT BIW
The new Zumwalt class "stealth" destroyer being built by General Dynamics
at Bath Iron Works (BIW) in Maine was moved to dry dock and then into the
Kennebec River over the weekend.
Coming out of dry dock at BIW does not mean the ship is ready to put to
sea. BIW will keep finishing their work on the ship before installing a
considerable arsenal of weapons, including two Advanced Gun Systems (AGS),
which can fire rocket powered, computer-guided shells that can destroy
targets 63 miles away. That's three times farther than ordinary destroyer
guns can fire. In addition cruise missiles... more »
Retrospective
I keep noticing a fifties revival, what with all that retro furniture with
splayed out, spindly legs, and nostalgia on the radio like that enjoyable
stroll through the childhoods of Christopher Matthew and Martin Jarvis, ‘Grey
shorts and sandals’ radio 4. Apart from finding the content entertaining I
thought it also echoed what radio used to be like. (before every other
programme included something related to Islam or Sharia compliant
everything-but-the-kitchen-sink)
There’s been a marked hankering back to the days when there was an air of
certainty about ‘right’ and ‘wrong’. Ch... more »
Assclowns of the Week #96: Treat or Treat, Kiss My Ass edition
(Thanks to Tengrain linking to this during his turn on Mike's Blog
Roll at *Crooks and Liars*, this posting will get some decent exposure.
After making the rent on November 1st, Mrs. JP and I will be seriously
wiped out. If 1000 people read this post and every one chips in even a
dollar or two each, it would make all the difference in the world. With
$800 in back taxes and the steady barrage of bills bearing down on us, we
need all the help we can get as we stagger into the holiday season. So
please kick in whatever you can to help keep this feature a regular one
like it was b... more »
Bad Bear's Photos Long Walk 4 Beautiful Grand Junction Colorado
Michael
Lane on News 5 Grand Junction Wednesday.
Photos by Carl 'Bad Bear' Sampson, Western Shoshone long walker, thanks
for sharing with Censored News! Long walkers Emilio and Bad Bear take a
hike around Serpents Trail near Grand Junction, Colorado.
By Censored News
(Oct. 31, 2013) GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -- Walkers on the Longest Walk 4
are in need of sleeping bags.
"As
Want a Trustworthy Word on Teach for America (TFA)? Listen to Former TFAer Gary Rubinstein
Below I have posted two youtube videos by Gary Rubinstein, who joined Teach
for America (TFA) in 1991 and who later made the decision to become a
career teacher. Gary now writes extensively about the problems associated
with the temporary teaching TFA promotes as the “solution” to the complex
issues faced in contemporary America public education. […]
Chief for Change, Janet Barresi, Doubles Down on Meaningless School Grading System
Chief Barresi What if the scientific community reveals that a state school
policy produces meaningless and misleading results that conceal deep
inequalities and mask others? If you are one of Jeb Bush's Chiefs, you
smile, ignore the facts, and proceed as if nothing happened:
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Dark matter wars are over: LUX safely excludes all the hints
*The dark matter wars are over.*
Many TRF readers were watching the sequence of talks in Lead, South Dakota.
A gold mine was rebuilt as a top laboratory, thanks to many folks including
the philantropist Danny Sanford.
Today, we learned that LUX has instantly become the clear leader of the
direct dark matter search experiments. I was immensely impressed by the
methods, sensitivity, clever calibration, and so on. Some of the magic of
this experiment is the accurate localization of the nuclear events inside
the tank.
The results – as presented in the talks and the paper that shou... more »
Maine Has Saved The Union Before-- Can Shenna Bellows Save Us From NSA Spying?
Both of Maine's congressmembers are Democrats-- and one, Chellie Pingree,
is a strong progressive leader. Last year Obama beat Romney 401,306 (56%)
to 292,276 (41%) in the state. And the Democrats regained control over both
Houses of the state legislature. Still, the DSCC is reluctant to take on
Senator Susan Collins. She has an undeserved reputation as a "moderate,"
probably because people think if a Republican isn't a teabagger, they must
be a "moderate." In reality, Susan Collins is a mainstream, garden variety
conservative, profoundly out of step with Maine's progressive tradit... more »
The government lies. The mainstream media repeats these lies. If We The People can't find the truth, then we -- and the entire earth -- are in deep trouble. Paul Craig Roberts: "The only advice I can give is that when you hear the presstitute media smear a concern or explanation as 'conspiracy theory,' have a closer look."
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*OpEdNews Op Eds 10/29/2013 at 11:14:32*
*Ignored Reality Is Going To Wipe Out the Human Race*
*By Paul Craig Roberts (about the author)* *Permalink*
*Headlined to H2 10/29/13*
* **opednews.com*
To inform people is hard slugging. Everything is lined up against the
public being informed, or the policymakers for that matter. News is
contaminated by its service to special interests and hidden agendas. Many
scientists or their employers are dependent on federal money. Even
psychologists and anthropologists were roped into the government's torture
and oc... more »
Sebelius speaks...
*and flaps her hands around at a rate fast enough to change the climactic
atmosphere of the room.*
Women who flap their hands around, make claws of their fingers, and slash
at the air are not to be trusted.
When asked early on if she had tried using the exchange website her answer
was that she had, but had only gone so far because "she *had* affordable
health care." The arrogance of this statement when the Washington elites
were essentially granted a carve out and we, you and me, are paying for
their health insurance is galling.
While listening to Sebelius speak at this dog and p... more »
The Realist Report with John Friend
On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined by "One Born
Free", an indepedent investigator of the events of September 11, 2001. "One
Born Free" and I will be discussing his views on 9/11, particularly as they
relate to media fakery, deception, and psychological warfare.
You can download the mp3 for this program *here*, or visit *The Realist
Report* on BlogTalkRadio to subscribe via iTunes and view past programs.
Below are relevant links for this program:
- *Onebornfree's 9/11 Research Review*
- *PSYOP aspects of 9/11* by John Friend
- *September Clues - The C... more »
Limning Minnesota: Rocking the TIMSS!
*WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2013*
*Ripley’s first round of embellishments:* Did public school students in
Minnesota “rock a major international test” in 2007?
That’s what Amanda Ripley says in her widely praised book, The Smartest
Kids in the World. Just to refresh you, here’s the passage in which she
makes that assessment:
RIPLEY (*page 72*): Of the three American students I followed, Eric was the
only one who did not loathe math. Coincidence or not, Eric’s home state of
Minnesota was one of only two states that came close to achieving
world-class math performance. Roughly speaking, M... more »
Compare and Contrast
When ex-Conservative Prime Minister John Major intervened in the energy
price debate, the BBC made it headline news. When Tony Blair expresses
regret that Labour had not cut spending before the recession struck, the
BBC just don't report the story.
Why other than wanting to cause the Conservative government embarrassment
but protect the Labour opposition from similar embarrassment could the
explanation for this be?
The true story here is that the Fundamental Spending Review, which Tony
Blair says “didn’t really go anywhere”, offered an opportunity to make
savings. Instead, it was ... more »
Crises, Real and Imagined
This week's edition of inside-the-Beltway angst centers around the pressing
question:
Is Temp Emp (temporary emperor) Obama ignorant, detached, or just plain
mendacious?
Look at the following four crises, and examine how they are affecting you
personally in your own daily slog. What did you know about them, and when
did the corporate media let you know it? (hint: #4 has not yet been deemed
officially pressing) Look into your souls, Proles, and decide whether, in
the grand scheme of things, the resolution of any of these crises
would make your lives even one smidgen better.
1) Bar... more »
Holds
News broke yesterday from the Senate: "Rand Paul is officially holding
Janet Yellin's nomination until Harry Reid agrees to hold a vote on
auditing the Fed."
This strikes me as a more or less proper use of a hold, and demonstrates
the merits of retaining holds on executive branch nominations.
I like that Paul is specifically attempting to influence the institution
involved in this particular nomination. I like that he's not making an
unreasonable demand; he's asking, apparently, for a vote, not an outright
policy concession (I don't know whether he's asking for a protected,
majorit... more »
This Is the Problem
This Is the Problem. via This Is the Problem.
Feldstein on Obamacare
Marty worries about a great unraveling.
The Corrupt Haitian Adoption Process
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Terry Grier Makes Houston Schools Awful Enough to Win the Broad Prize
The picture above is of Arne Duncan and Eli Broad having a swell time at
Barack Obama's inauguration party in 2008. The picture below is Arne and
Eli in 2013, this time accompanied by the poster boy for CorpEd's model of
segregated urban reform schools, Terry Grier. With his systemwide No
Excuses model in place in Houston, Grier has made life so miserable for
teachers and students alike that it has earned him this year's Broad Prize
for Urban Education. Last year 700 teachers had quit by January, which, of
course, brings in more white corporate missionaries from TFA to replace
r... more »
WotW: Waste Away Your Adult Life with Full-Screen Mario
Perhaps the greatest day of my childhood was the Christmas Santa brought me
and my sisters a Nintendo – the original NES. The hours I wasted playing
Mario, and blowing into those cartridges – convinced it was actually doing
some good – were innumerable. To this day, nothing quite compares with the
original Nintendo. And there's something special about Super Mario Brothers.
Sadly, it's difficult to find functioning Nintendo systems, and off-brand
remakes are sketchy. Fortunately, some genius figured out a way for us all
to enjoy Super Mario Brothers from the comfort of our own compute... more »
Tongue in cheek or serious?
One comment caught my eye on the BBC's story that 'A petition demanding the
government reverse a ban on schoolchildren in England taking holidays
during term-time will be delivered later.'
Is this serious or tongue in cheek?
'8.
Heisenberg
3 Hours ago
Quite right, I myself have 6 children and it's a nightmare with plane fares
when we go to Florida at peak times. The government need to help struggling
families like mine cope with this.'
Hmmmm
MALALA, MATTHEWS AND MADDOW: Not being against!
*WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2013*
*Part 2—Being against Ted Cruz:* We’ll admit it:
We were thrilled by William Dalrymple’s column in Saturday’s New York
Times, which we repeatedly read. See our previous post in this series.
We were thrilled when we went upstairs to watch the tape of Malala
Yousafzai’s address at the United Nations in July, on her sixteenth
birthday.
We were thrilled to see this very unusual person declare her lineage from
the greatest souls in world history, starting with “the Lord Buddha” and
moving through Dr. King and Mandela. We’ll recommend watching that speech, ... more »
Linux Mint 15 KDE, too good to be true?
address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 1 day ago
*It took me some time to put this on your display*. Working with a desktop
computer amidst the hype about mobile devices, using Ubuntu-based Kubuntu
and Linux Mint versions for fast evolving journalistic researchwork, wasn't
too inspiring for an article or opinion. Time to reflect as well on trends
in digital communication. The NSA disaster and its fall-out, as well as
crossroads we currently face regarding operating systems and their visual
presentation (desktops), made me review earlier held opinions. The gradual
self-inflicted demise of Ubuntu, earlier the Linux desktop that had ... more »
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Charles Martin Smith, 60. The Toad. Also directed
"Welcome to the Hellmouth," for which, as long-time readers might remember,
he earned an appearance in my epic Reagan thing (which I do try to link
back to every once in a while. I like it).
Well, whether you're in the mood for Reagan or not, surely you want some
good stuff:
1. The Wall Street Journal really, really, really, shouldn't run op-eds by
"expert" Suzanne Somers. Alex Seitz-Wald explains.
2. I think Andrew Sullivan basically gets it right on surveillance,
including Obama's role to date -- although my view... more »
Arvol Looking Horse statement 'White Buffalo Day' Nov 2, 2013
Arvol
Looking Horse, 19th Generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf
Pipe, statement for National Bison Day aka White Buffalo Day event for
November 2, 2013
URBAN FARM TO PROTECT ALL LIFE
From Miami, Florida.....trying to go to organic farming conference in Cuba
but US government won't let them sail their boat to Havana.
We, in the US, are the "freedom" folks except when it applies to things
like having access to the people of Cuba.
Recipe To Dissolve Kidney Stones
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Living-with-Common-Sense/154468647938561
Google mystery barges ( what is their purpose and for whom are they building the barges for ) deepens as Google requires even government officials to sign confidentiality agreements ? Is Google or their client more important or able to dictate to the government what they can or cannot do or say ? What is going on here folks ?
Recall the prior post on Google's secret barges?
http://fredw-catharsisours.blogspot.com/2013/10/mystery-barges-in-both-san-francisco.html
Saturday, October 26, 2013
Mystery barges in both San Francisco and Portland linked to Google - are
these floating data centers and why do we see Google building these four
story structures on barges , on both the east and west coasts ? Google
linked by a website that covers the technology sector - but acting super
secret about what it's up to ( is this a military or NSA project ? ) And if
Portland Barge is identified as BAL 0011 and San Fran bar... more »
War watch October 30 , 2013 - NSA Spying updates for the day.... Iraq's PM sees role as major regional player as he seeks more weapons from the US - pesky civil war in his country doen't seem to be an impediment to the dreams of Mr Maliki ..... Syria updates of the day ..... Iran updates regarding the possibilities of productive nuclear talks in light of US push for more sanctions..... Building barracks for the Taliban in Afghanistan - at the end of the day , who else is going to take possession of these barracks if they even want them ?
NSA updates....
Proof Leaked, But NSA Insists Spying on Spain, France ‘False’Clapper: All
Spying Was for 'Valid' Purposes
by Jason Ditz, October 29, 2013
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Reports in Le Monde and El Mundo alleging broad NSA surveillance of French
and Spanish citizens didn’t come out of thin air, but rather were a product
of Edward Snowden’s leaks. The documents associated with those stories were
also published alongside the reports.
So once again the cat is out of the bag, and once again the NSA is
scrambling to issue blanket denials, insisting that the documents were
“misinte... more »
Musical Interlude: Deuter, "Illumination"
Deuter, "Illumination"
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxlMqABNx8M
Alex Sink Is Running For Congress
The big news in Florida this morning wasn't exactly a surprise. After
Florida's former chief financial officer and Democratic gubernatorial
candidate, Alex Sink, expressed interest in running for the open
congressional seat in Pinellas County (FL-13), she became the focus of all
Democratic attention. And when former candidate Charlie Justice and
potential candidates Janet Long and Ken Welch said a few days ago they
weren't running, it was widely assumed Sink had let them know she was in.
This morning Adam Smith at the *Tampa Bay Times* let everyone else know.
Sink, who lives in ne... more »
His Luck Is Running Out
There's a scene in *It's A Mad, Mad, Mad World* where Jonathan Winters
destroys a gas station and two of its attendants. As the Senate debacle
unravels, the prime minister -- consumed with rage -- looks more and more
like Jonathan Winters on a rampage.
At the end of the scene, having obliterated the building and its
inhabitants, Winters hops in a tow truck and drives away, unscathed.
Lawrence Martin suggests that things will not work out that way for Stephen
Harper:
But the list is long and Harper’s odds are not good. There is a common
thread running through his governance, a p... more »
Federal Reserve Decision Day - proving once again that fundamentals matter not a bit , the sole focus today for US markets will be what the Fed does or doesn't do and how it "explains " it all - taper focus ! Red lights flashing once again in the Chinese repo market as repo rates blowing wide once again !
This happens only if the Fed et all want to have a market crash.....
NOctaper Or Shocktaper: Deutsche Bank's Five Reasons Why The Fed May Stun
Everyone Once Again
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/30/2013 08:02 -0400
- Ben Bernanke
- Blackrock
- China
- Deutsche Bank
- Hong Kong
- Jim Reid
- PIMCO
- recovery
inShare
Remember when minutes before the September FOMC announcement *every*one was
absolutely certain the Fed would announce tapering, only to leave a lot of
very angry traders fuming? Fast forward one mont... more »
Wow! Conservative Party Of Canada National Council Officials Move To Issue Gag Order On Party Members / Convention Delegates
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* **Subject: Fw: CBC Requests for Interviews*
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*Gord Elliott wrote:*
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*Fellow Conservatives*
*I and other members of the party have received emails from the CBC fishing
for people to interview about Mike Duffy’s allegations. I have ignored all
of the requests and strongly urge you to do the same. Should you happen to
talk to one of their reporters, please refer the reporter to our party’s
Director of Communications, Cory Hann, at 613-755-2000.*
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*Gord Elliott*
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Alberta Member Representative
National Council
Conservative Party of... more »
Untitled
*Honore delivers startlingly radical call to action against forces
destroying coast ~Mark Moseley, The Lens*
*Texas Brine official says their giant sinkhole at Bayou Corne, La. could
double in size ~Cheryll Mercedes, KSLA*
*Homeowners' Flood Insurance Affordability Act has broad support ~Jordan
Bloom*
*Louisiana grapples with assessing alternative charter schools ~Andrewe
Vanacore*
*Officials promise to minimize pain to businesses during Freret streetwork
do-over ~Robert Morris, Uptown Messenger*
*Convention & Visitors Bureau seeks local support for more tourists ~Leigh
Isaacson,... more »
Ed Steer's Gold and Silver Report October 26 , 2013 - News , Data and Views touching on the precious metals ( additional items from silver Doctors and Harvey Organ snippet . )
Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://www.caseyresearch.com/gsd/edition/gold-producers-accused-over-misleading-data
¤ YESTERDAY IN GOLD & SILVER
The gold price was under quiet selling pressure during the Far East trading
session on their Friday, and that continued right up until 1:10 p.m. BST in
London, which proved to the be the low price tick of the day. From that
point, the gold price rallied quietly for almost the entire Comex session
when it opened 10 minutes later. The rally ended/got capped shortly after
1 p.m. EDT, and about 20 minutes before the Comex close. After that, gold
didn't do much.
According... more »
Academic decisions subject to judicial review but not appeals
*Mortazavi v. University of Toronto, *2013 ONCA 655:
[4] We see no basis for interfering with the motion judge's
exercise of discretion in this case. The original Statement of Claim was
long, convoluted, repetitive and confusing. Crucially, once the 187 pages
is pruned to its essential core – not an easy task – what is left is an
attack on a series of academic decisions relating to admission, enrolment,
leave of absence, grades, and appeals. In these circumstances, the motion
judge had ample justification to conclude, as he did, that "the lawsuit for
the tort or the br... more »
Causation in homicide
*R. v. Manasseri*, 2013 ONCA 647:
[44] The causation requirement in cases of unlawful homicide emerges
from the combined operation of sections 222(1) and 222(5) of the *Criminal
Code*. A person commits homicide when that person, directly or indirectly,
by any means, causes the death of a human being: *Criminal Code*, s.
222(1). A person commits culpable homicide, an unlawful killing, when that
person causes the death of another by means of an unlawful act: *Criminal
Code*, s. 222(5)(a).
[45] It is well settled that to satisfy the causation requirement in
cases of u... more »
The Structure of Jury Charges
*R. v. Huard,* 2013 ONCA 650:
[51] In jury charges, substance controls. Form, not so much. No
particular approach or standard formula is compulsory. Provided the charge
fulfills its purpose and satisfies its requirements, the manner in which it
does so is of no great moment: MacKinnon, at p. 386. That said, an orderly
or systematic approach to final instructions seems more likely to enhance a
jury’s understanding of the precise nature of its task and how to discharge
it by following a series of logical steps corresponding to the essential
elements of the offence charged.
[52... more »
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