Dredge Tauracavor 3 in New York Harbor (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Billboard with portrait of Assad and the text God protects Syria on the old city wall of Damascus 2006 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Trudy Rubin: Contractors were real winners in Iraq war
The heart of the problem, said the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, is excessive reliance on badly supervised private contractors engaging in “vast amounts of spending for no benefit.”
John Farnham · Top Commenter
Waste
can be a weapon as well - especially if it denies access to a vital
supply. If it seems that this supply is to be satisfied - but is not -
so much the better.Fallujah's water plant is a case in point ( in an
area subjected to intensive irradiation from depleted uranium with
consequential genetic damage to the unborn ). But for the premise to
seem reasonable, it would need some sort of corroboration. Hydraulic
Warfare - to desert tribes Poisoning the Well - is an essential of war.
Turkish dams are cutting supply via the rivers. But years earlier water
was targeted in a different manner, utilizing knowledge that clean water
was essential to public health. http://
The PNAC got rid of Saddam and partitioned Iraq ( Kurdistan might as well be a separate country ) as a way to destroy government in countries where oil was to be found. Search rewriting the political map ( the Great Game ) for more.
The PNAC got rid of Saddam and partitioned Iraq ( Kurdistan might as well be a separate country ) as a way to destroy government in countries where oil was to be found. Search rewriting the political map ( the Great Game ) for more.
More mismanagement. http://thebulletin.org/
Will the Real Reformers Please Stand Up?
the One Levee Board campaign took place long before the investigative studies were complete. It took place long before anyone fully understood why the Greater New Orleans flooded so badly. The campaign pulled attention away from the true culprits–the engineers and commanders at the Army Corps of Engineers–and focused attention on the pre-Katrina Orleans Levee Board which, to this day, has not been found guilty of wrong doing pertaining to the Flood.9:18pm MDST
Your moment of Zen
Full circle. Stage one. Stage two. Metamorphosis in Maeve's magic garden.
Megyn Kelly Interviews Ted Cruz...
*the voice of reason.*
"What matters is responding to the American people."
U.S. praise for Assad inappropriate -Turkey's Erdogan [Source: Reuters]
LOL @ this clown. His government is harboring chest-opening, heart-eating,
throat-slitting Jihadist murderers and terrorists, literally the
stepchildren of al-Qaeda, and yet he has the audacity to call Assad a
monster.
Compared to Saudi-US-Turkish-Israeli-British backed Jihadist murderers,
Assad is the second coming of Christ.
Secretary of State Kerry's praise for Assad is surprising. It shows that
U.S. officials aren't totally mad and dishonest. Praising your enemy is
good. Kerry should get applauded for that.
U.S. praise for Assad inappropriate -Turkey's Erdogan. Source:
... more »
Musical Interlude: Deuter, “Temple Of Silence“
Deuter, “Temple Of Silence“
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyxG8sBAsYM
Truckin' on down the line
Charlie Pierce catches today's breaking news from Crazy Street. Crackpot truckers
plan to arrest Congressmen for constitutional violations. The plan appears
to be to form a "citizen's grand jury" to indict various Congressmen. They
will arrive "by the thousands" in convoys and if the police won't "do their
sworn duty" and make the arrests -- well -- they'll just have to take
matters into their own hands. Full details at the link including this gem
from the Crackpot in Chief.
Reply by Earl Conlon yesterday:i've always believed Obama to be the Anti
Christ from the day i first laid ey... more »
Middle East and North Africa Watch - October 7 , 2013 - Iran , Iraq , Afghanistan and Egypt in focus !
Iran.....
http://news.antiwar.com/2013/10/06/iran-urges-west-make-an-offer-before-next-weeks-meeting/
Iran Urges West: Make an Offer Before Next Week’s MeetingFebruary Plan
Outdated, FM Insists
by Jason Ditz, October 06, 2013
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With Iran and the P5+1 making good progress at talks on the sidelines of
the UN General Assembly, a new round of talks scheduled for next week has
raised high hopes. But Iran is hoping to see an actual proposal.
“They should come to the negotiating table with a new approach,” added Foreign
Minister Javad Zarif, who said he believed the ... more »
The ZAP Report 10-7-2013
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* *Comments in red are mine solely, all the rest is Susan and Zap. I know
Zap and company are frustrated and we love them all. Something much better
is coming guys! You did great! -Bill*
*Poof's say[s]" "....What is important to remember is that many people
think that all of this is a scam and that we should shut up and should go
away. told you before that story has been repeated a million times - and so
it has – but, in case you have not noticed, I am still here and still
saying the same thing. Why? Because I know the damned facts, it is real,
and that it is happening; the... more »
"A Look to the Heavens"
"Why do many galaxies appear as spirals? A striking example is M101, shown
below, whose relatively close distance of about 27 million light years
allows it to be studied in some detail. Recent evidence indicates that a
close gravitational interaction with a neighboring galaxy created waves of
high mass and condensed gas which continue to orbit the galaxy center.
*Click image for larger size.*
These waves compress existing gas and cause star formation. One result is
that M101, also called the Pinwheel Galaxy, has several extremely bright
star-forming regions (called HII regions) s... more »
"What Is the 'Avoidance of Suffering'?"
* "What Is the 'Avoidance of Suffering'?"*
by Carolyn Baker
"There is no coming to consciousness without pain."
- Carl Jung
"In the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, Sigmund Freud
cultivated a very dark perception of humanity as he assessed the baser
instincts largely repressed in the human unconscious. His pupil, who became
the famous Swiss psychologist, Carl Jung, acknowledged the dark side of
humanity which drove Freud to utter despair but unlike Freud, Jung came to
believe that the dark side was a necessary ally in transforming human
consciousness. He spent decad... more »
The Poet: David Wagoner, "Getting There"
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*"Getting There"*
"You take a final step and, look, suddenly
You're there. You've arrived
At the one place all your drudgery was aimed for:
This common ground
Where you stretch out, pressing your cheek to sandstone.
What did you want to be?
You'll remember soon.
You feel like tinder under a burning glass,
A luminous point of change.
The sky is pulsing against the cracked horizon,
Holding it firm till the arrival of stars
In time with your heartbeats.
Like wind etching rock, you've made a lasting impression
On the self you were,
By having come all this way through all this welter
... more »
"Sit!"
“The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the
inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage
to remain silent. Music, commercial breaks, news flashes, adverts, news
broadcasts, movies, presenters... there is no alternative but to fill the
screen; otherwise there would be an irremediable void. That's why the
slightest technical hitch, the slightest slip on the part of the presenter
becomes so exciting, for it reveals the depth of the emptiness squinting
out at us through this little window.”
- Jean Baudrillard
"If the nation is lucky, this October will mark the beginning of the end of the tea party" (E. J. Dionne Jr.)
*by Ken*
I make no secret of the fact that I love *Washington Post* columnist E. J.
Dionne Jr., not least for his seemingly unshakable decency. Even the bad
people he finds it necessary to dress down come out sounding less, well,
indecent in his retelling. What I sometimes worry about, though, is whether
his decency may not sometimes lead him to underestimate the indecency of
generally indecent people.
Which is a prelude to saying that I hope he's right in suggesting in his
column today, "Shutdown: The tea party's last stand," that the Teabaggers
have really outbagged themselves ... more »
Obamacare updates - October 7 , 2013 - The Bad , The Worse and the Ugly -- systemic and endemic problems with technical issues plague Obamacare , not surprisingly enrollment is horrid - but wait until the sticker shock hits as insurance skyrockets !
http://www.infowars.com/epic-fail-99-of-obamacare-applications-cant-be-processed-nightmare-scenario-coming-in-january/
Epic fail: 99% of Obamacare applications can’t be processed, ‘nightmare
scenario’ coming in January
- [image: The Alex Jones Channel][image: Alex Jones Show podcast][image:
Prison Planet TV][image: Infowars.com Twitter][image: Alex Jones'
Facebook][image: Infowars store]
*Mike Adams*
Natural News
October 7, 2013
Obamacare is going to crash and burn from *technical* issues more than *
political* concerns, it seems. You’ve probably already heard that virtuall... more »
Chet Raymo, “The Burden of Thinking”
* *
*“The Burden of Thinking”*
by Chet Raymo
"Let me speak for gray. Not black or white. Good or evil. Truth or falsity.
Yes or no. Let me speak for maybe. Sort of. More or less. I think so.
I am reluctant to speak for gray for fear of being considered wishy-washy.
Indecisive. Unprincipled. But lately it seems as if we are surrounded on
every side by zealots, and it's not a pretty sight.
We are surrounded by people who are so certain of their Truth that they are
willing to strap bombs to their chests and walk into crowded pizza parlors.
Or fly airplanes into towers. Or bomb abort... more »
"Courage..."
“Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know
you can lose.”
- Tom Krause
“Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold
it together
when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true
strength.”
- Anonymous
USA's democracy is terrorism dressed in noble clothes
Who is this Sergei Vasilenkov?
*Let's put it this way this guy get's it!*
*He gets the imperialism. *
Recent events around Syria have brought up the subject of how the U.S.
promotes the ideals of democracy in the world. There is quite a list of
countries that have fallen victim to American democracy. For example,
Afghanistan has become a heroin power owing to the U.S. power, while Libya
has turned into an impoverished country with great wealth.
**
*The realities of life in the "democratic" Libya*
*The Americans are so fond of their own democracy and filled with hatred
against di... more »
The market for affordable housing is still broken
[image: Nick Smith Len Brown]I was struck by the posturing last week of
Nick Smith and Len Brown, slapping each other on the back out at Manurewa,
both trying to take credit for a new “affordable housing” development at
Weymouth.
If you read their press releases, these new “affordable homes” are supposed
to be the harbinger, somehow, of “39,000 new homes built in the city over
the next three years,” so “avoiding a repeat of the previous [present]
runaway housing market [that] had been an ongoing concern of the
Government.”
So they’re all ever hopeful. But there's no need for them... more »
Last Hours
It's hard not to be impressed that, in the world of climate activism, the
doomsday clock always remains suspended at five minutes to midnight...no
matter how dire the evidence, there's always a chance we can pull back from
the brink if we ONLY go vegan/stop KXL/put up a solar panel/etc. The video
embedded below - *Last Hours* - comes closer than most sources at saying
it's already TOO late. The scientists are finally getting scared enough to
speak publicly about tipping points beyond which there is no salvation.
The bad-girl tipping point that has the Miley Cyrus starring role in t... more »
White House and DC Police tight lipped over handling of fatal car chase the resulted in the shooting of the unarmed woman ( later identified as Miriam Carey from Connecticut ) ...... family members of Miriam Carey speak out to the media and give their perspective on the situation and call for answers as to why the unarmed woman was shot to death - and did the police know there was a young child in the car before unloading their guns ? And who is the mystery man who sometime accompanied Miriam - the one in the Porche Cayenne - not her boyfriend , clearly not close to the family ?
Catharsis Ours - 3 hours ago
This is hard to explain......Witness Patty Bills says she saw law
enforcement pull child from car - and once the child was pulled from the
car , that was when the gun fire really let loose !
Did the ongoing Drill factor in what might be viewed as an overreaction
and shooting of an unarmed woman ?
Capitol Car Chase And Shooting Happens The Same Day As Major First
Responder Drill In DC AreaOctober 3, 2013
Print Version
*Source: Lee Rogers, Blacklisted News*
Washington DC was temporarily placed on police lockdown following a bizarre
incident where a woman was said... more »
Tucker, Darling-Hammond, and Jackson Wuss Out: Failing to Challenge Basic Assumptions of CCSSI Is No Solution
EdWeek published today a piece by Marc Tucker, Linda Darling-Hammond, and
John Jackson, entitled “Fewer, Better Tests Can Boost Student
Achievement,” a promising title from a trio of authors at least the last
two of whom are generally associated with sane, progressive, child-positive
education. Unfortunately, the piece was either dominated by Mr.
Tucker, president of the Washington-based […]
The Daily "Near You?"
Texarkana, Texas, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
“Watch the Taxi Meters”
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*“Watch the Taxi Meters”*
Don’t follow leaders; watch the parking meters.
by Bill Bonner
“If you’ve been watching this space, you know that our dear leaders have
been wildly successful. Not at creating peace and prosperity... or
conjuring up a genuine economic recovery. But at their main mission:
transferring wealth, power and status from us to them.
The trouble with American voters is they lack enough cynicism to understand
what is really going on. The pols say they are trying to boost jobs or make
the world safe from terrorism. The poor voters believe them. President
Obama ... more »
It’s what’s *not* shut down that really matters
Robert Tracinksi has both good news, bad news and laughable news about the
US government “shutdown.”
The good news is that the US government has shut down. The laughable news
is that most of the “shutdowns” are absurd: “closing” the Grand Canyon for
example (“Now *there's* a statement of the warped metaphysics of “shutdown
theatre”: the conceit that even the existence of nature is dependent on
federal funding. Without it, the Grand Canyon will close up”); or hiring
federal workers to erect barriers around monuments that require no federal
workers to remain open.
Bill Clinton l... more »
“Transforming America’s Schools into Authoritarian Instruments of Compliance”
* *
*“Transforming America’s Schools*
* Into Authoritarian Instruments of Compliance”*
By John W. Whitehead
“To the degree that we take away play, we deprive children of the ability
to practise adulthood, and we create people who will go through life with a
sense of dependence and victimisation, a sense that there is some authority
out there who is supposed to tell them what to do and solve their problems.
That is not a healthy way to live.” – psychologist Peter Gray
“These days, it is far too easy to rattle off the outrageous examples of
zero tolerance policy run amok in our nat... more »
No Risk of Default
My Harvard colleague Martin Feldstein writes me in an email:
The WSJ and FT continue to write about the risk of default, quoting the
Treasury, Boehner and others.There really is no need for a default on the
debt even if the debt ceiling is not raised later this month. The US
government collects enough in taxes each month to finance the interest on
the debt, etc. The government may not be able to separate all accounts into
"pay" and "no pay" groups but it can certainly identify the interest
payments. An inability to borrow would have serious economic consequences
if it lasted for any... more »
Lundy
I’m sure you’ve heard the news that Mark Lundy’s conviction for the murder
of his wife and daughter has been quashed by the Privy Council.
So, what do you think?
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Boehner prepares to let the US default
*Boehner prepares to let the US default*
http://rt.com/usa/speaker-boehner-ceiling-default-844/
Published time: October 07, 2013 16:22
Edited time: October 07, 2013 16:56 Get short URL
Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)
The top Republican in the House of Representatives warned President Barack
Obama over the weekend that he’s ready to let the United States default —
and that the White House is to blame.
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) told ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday that
Republicans in his chamber would not immediately honor the White... more »
Ed Miliband's Reshuffle
"Ed Miliband backs down and gives Len McCluskey his dream team!!!" screams
Conservative Central Office as if people outside the Tories' increasingly
fevered (and depleted) ranks gives a monkey's. Meanwhile, back on planet
Earth Ed's shadcab reshuffle is being dissected by friend and foe alike. As
with any leader, the appointment of ministers and shadow ministers is never
just a matter of ability - it's about the internal politics of party
management and how the party looks to the electorate. With these factors in
mind, these choices are smart politics. Bring on the Kremlinology.
Fi... more »
Elsewhere: Spin, Lazy Republicans, more
My TAP column today is about why we get too much coverage of spin, and why
we're stuck with it.
At Salon over the weekend, I talked about lazy Republicans and the
party-aligned press that encourages them to stay that way.
And, hey -- I did some TV today. Well, not real TV; WaPo's version of it.
It was supposed to be on the question of whether the shutdown was a sign
that the US system was inferior, but it wound up being more about the
shutdown in general...anyway, if you want to see a skype version of me,
tune in.
Oh, one more: I argued over at PP on Friday that it's not Madison, ... more »
Fuck The Poor?
Last month, Digby read an interesting study that helps explain why European
Parliaments aren't overstocked with multimillionaires unable to relate to
or have empathy with ordinary middle class citizens. We've been decrying
DCCC recruitment of self-funding multimillionaires like Sean Eldridge this
cycle and conservative New Dems John Delaney (MD), Elizabeth Esty (CT),
Suzanne DelBene (WA), Scott Peters (CA), Patrick Murphy (FL), Bill Foster
(IL), etc, last cycle. But Digby is disputing the assertion by the *Washington
Post*'sTimothy B. Lee that congressmen should be paid more so th... more »
So Obama Won't Give In To Terrorists, Extortionists And Blackmailers… Right?
A number of Republican congressmembers have referred to their own
colleagues as terrorists, not just privately, but for attribution. Devin
Nunes famously called the teabaggers driving the GOP crazy train as "lemmings
with suicide vests... They have to be more than just a lemming. Because
jumping to your death is not enough," he said. Peter King has been even
more vituperative, especially when Texas Tea Party Senator Ted Cruz comes
up in the conversation. So far, supposedly, there are at least 21
Republican House Members-- most, but not all, in swing districts-- who are
on record s... more »
The first part of this post by Ellen Brown is apocalyptic whereas the second part optimistically describes a solution to the apocalypse THAT MAY VERY POSSIBLY OCCUR ON OCTOBER 17 AND IS VERY LIKELY NOT TO BE SETTLED QUICKLY! Moral: stock up on food, things that could be traded for food, and cash dollars before the 17th! It would be tragic to be caught unprepaired!
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Is Homeland Security Preparing for the Next Wall Street Collapse?
Posted on October 7, 2013 by Ellen Brown
Reports are that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is engaged in a
massive, covert military buildup.* *An article in the Associated Press in
February confirmed an open purchase order by DHS for 1.6 billion rounds of
ammunition. According to an op-ed in Forbes, that’s enough to sustain an
Iraq-sized war for over twenty years. DHS has also acquired heavily armored
tanks, which have been seen roaming the streets. Evidently somebody in
gov... more »
Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Commander General Suleimani And His Role In Iraq, An Interview With The New Yorker’s Dexter Filkins
The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Qods Force Commander General Qasim
Suleimani is a rather infamous figure in Iraq and the Middle East. The
general has been blamed for organizing attacks upon American forces when
they were in Iraq, helping to put together new governments in Baghdad, and
now he’s running Iraqi fighters into Syria. The man is a jack of all trades
involved in espionage, covert operations, and power politics. He’s rarely
talked about in public however, which was why Dexter Filkins’ recent
article for the New Yorker profiling the general was quite revealing. Here
now i... more »
Europe's Muslim Emperors
He's grim. And his name's Selim.
Rageh Omaar's glossy new three-part history, *The Ottomans: Europe's Muslim
Emperors*, began on BBC Two last night.
Eschewing the suit and the single-person narrative of Simon Schama, Rageh
and his collection of expert 'talking heads' told us the story of the rise
of the Ottoman dynasty from its nomadic beginnings in deepest Anatolia
through to the establishment of a state and its swift transformation into
an empire, onto the westward march of the Ottoman armies into the Balkans,
running through to the conquest of Constantinople under Mehmet II, and... more »
Russell Brand: Humanity Coming Out of The Cave
This is an amazing interview with a very awake comedian! -Bill
Turning Grief Into Strength; Oct. 12 Memorial Service and Oct. 8 Fundraiser in NOLA
*Herman Wallace, RIP*
*Sunrise: October 13, 1941*
*Sunset: October 4, 2013*
What an unbelievable, surreal, momentous, and historic week it has been
with Herman's amazing release after 42 years, the State's vindictive last
ditch attempt of a reindictment, and his passing. This, all in a period of
days. His family and friends are still in a whirlwind.
Always larger than life, Herman leaves a huge hole in so many of our lives.
Below is information about Herman's funeral service on Saturday and a
benefit tomorrow to help the family pay for the service.
Long live Herman Wallace!
Free Al... more »
Thoughts for the brain - SCP Foundation
I am writing to recommend you something, firstly because it’s great but
secondly because it lets us talk a little more about culture as a point of
struggle.
The SCP Foundation is a creative writing project, based around a fictional
organisation that collates and contains supernatural and anomalous objects.
It is said to have began as a thread on the image board 4Chan in 2007. The
following year it became a Wiki in 20081. Though the content varies widely,
from horror2 to fantasy3 to the surreal4, each report is written in a
pseudo-scientific style. SCP is an acronym, both for ‘speci... more »
World Bank 'gambling assets' by investing in private water firms
MDG : An boy drinks water from a roadside tap in Allahabad, India
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/oct/07/world-bank-private-water-firms
*
* *World Bank 'gambling assets' by investing in private water firms*
*
* *Activists lobby World Bank to disinvest amid concerns over access to
poorest communities and conflict of interest*
Stella Dawson, for Thomson Reuters Foundation, part of the Global
development network
theguardian.com, Monday 7 October 2013 02.00 EDT
MDG : An boy drinks water from a roadside tap in Allahabad, India
A boy drinks water from a roadside tap in ... more »
Low-income kids: Who gives a rip?
*MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2013*
*Ripley’s book, not so much:* We’ve spent the past two weeks discussing
Amanda Ripley’s new book, The Smartest Kids in the World.
It’s one of the most fascinating texts we’ve encountered in fifteen years
at the Howler. We don’t offer that as a compliment, although the book has
its obvious merits.
This week and next, we expect to do shorter posts about more of the book’s
many fascinating components. This week, let’s consider the way Ripley’s
book ignores the situations and needs of our nation’s low-income kids.
In part, Ripley’s book is fascinating becaus... more »
It's Not Ideology
Matthew Dickinson was dragged back to blogging (good to have him back!
Although I'd like to read his WH staff book when it's done) to discuss
polarization, and how there's not as much of it out there as some people
think. I tend to be on his side of the discussion; I'd note that it's a
real debate, however, and I'm glad that he's going to talk more about it in
a subsequent post.
All I can add is that what's going on doesn't fit any notion of ideology
that I can understand. I saw a couple of people note this on twitter, but
you shouldn't miss this from yesterday's NYT look at polariz... more »
Junk Food Junkie- My Favorite Childhood Costume
Today, I can't help but share my favorite Halloween Costume from my
childhood. My mom is kind of incredible, in about a million different ways.
We used to dream up crazy things we wanted to be for Halloween and my mom
would make them happen. One year my little brother was Captain Horatio
Hornblower and he looked awesome.
I can't remember the origins of this Junk Food Junkie Costume, I just
remember loving it and LOVING getting to eat all of the candy from the
wrappers.
For this costume you will need:
Candy Wrappers of all kinds (Slice the candy up the back to remove the
... more »
My Life, My Choice.
"Death
to death with dignity, It’s our own distress that we can’t abide, not
that of the dying." A curious argument against euthanasia by Rosie
DiManno.
Contrast this sentence "dying, with all its miseries, is a part of
living; that we do not and should not get to choose the moment of our
death any more than we chose the moment of our birth" with the prior
paragraphs, "My own father, through
Murdoch Rag Publishes Excerpts From RFK Jr.'s Stolen Secret Diary
Members of the Kennedy Family almost never comment publicly about members
of the Bush Family.
And vice-versa.
There are some other real gems in here - although New International and the
newspaper that brought you October Surprise and The Son of Sam has opted
not to offer a national platform to Bobby's beliefs or activism regarding
Vaccination Science, which would have been one of his main activities
during the time period in question.
Essential America
In an unsurprising move pretending to catch all the movers and shakers by
complete surprise, Defense Secretary Chuck Hegel has ordered all 350,000
furloughed civilian employees of the military back to work. This decision,
according to the *Washington Post*, will "significantly" lessen the impact
of Shutdown USA: The Movie.
When a shutdown's impact is "significantly lessened" simply because the
workforce in one single department is now back on the job, it suddenly
dawns on you just what the United States government is all about. (As if
you really needed any more sudden realizations... more »
Stephen Harper finally noticed in Malaysia
Sunday October 6 Stephen Harper did meet Malaysian counterpart Najib Razak.
Prime Minister Razak of Malaysia has stated that Malaysian state-owned oil
company, Petronas, will invest billions in Canadian liquefied natural gas
development. Now the fun starts as more pollution will be introduced in
Canada. Besides China, now Malaysia is going to spend money in Canada.
Harper is doing a good job to serve his masters – oil and gas companies.
*Malaysian Prime Minister Mohd Najib sprung the "gargantuan" investment
figure during a joint availability with Harper in Putrajaya, saying
Malays... more »
By the Numbers
After last night's massive but completely-ignored post, over which I
slaved like a coolie under a shotgun, I began taking stock this morning of
what I've accomplished as a blogger over the last nearly nine years. Many
of us have died, or gotten bored or discouraged and given up. Some of us,
like the proprietors of the Cool Kid's Clubhouse, have gone on to bigger
and better things.
This is, I believe, my 1858th post, not including four drafts that
never saw the light of day. Welcome Back to Pottersville has been around
for close to four and a half years, with another three ... more »
Colleague and I on the front page of Sunday’s Baltimore Sun on #optout
Amazing how good conversations lead to such small quotes. Journalists! In
any event, opt out and common core resistance makes the front page of the
Baltimore Sun, mainly about the left-right debate. The coverage continues.
Tagged: baltimore sun, common core, Maryland, politics, tea party
Returning from a successful trip to Douglas County, CO, UPDATED
Tim and I, along with the Edushyster, visited Douglas County, CO as they
gear up for a contentious school board election. All politics are indeed
local. From the kitchen of one of our hosts, we have a live broadcast with
a panel of guests engaged in this fight. Listen here. UPDATE I want to
include […]
DEINDUSTRIALIZATION LED TO JAILS
Listen to Hollywood actor and political activist Danny Glover passionately
explain why the same problem exists in every corner of this country,
whether it's in the streets of Philadelphia, San Francisco, Chicago, or New
York.
He's tired of the fact that this country is waging war on its people and
not on the core of the problem itself, and he's hoping that this
documentary he's supporting will spark some of us to rethink and discuss
the underlying problems at play.
Prisons are slave ships on dry land.
Snowden
I know exactly what you're thinking...
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3 October 2013
*Questioning Snowden Truth*
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Provocative comments and disclosures in recent days about truth of the
Snowden releases:
1. Glenn Greenwald and Janine Gibson answered questions on Reddit over two
days, elaborating on how Snowden documents publishing decisions are made in
consulation with governments.
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1nisdy/were_glenn_greenwald_and_janine_gibson_of_the/
2. Twitter furor today on Jacob Appelbaum's charge that The Guardian's
Jam... more »
AP: Pressure Mounts on Ma.... Really?
*In a temple procession, a ji tong possessed by the spirit of the god talks
to a young man.*
AP reports on President Xi of China's remarks that the political issues
between China and Taiwan must be resolved and talks could not be
indefinitely put off:
Xi’s comments Sunday on the sidelines of the APEC summit meeting in Bali,
Indonesia. represented his strongest statement so far on the Taiwan
unification issue, which remains a fundamental cause of instability in the
western Pacific. China insists that the democratic island be brought under
its control, and has threatened force to a... more »
Bono does the impersonation of Bill Clinton and Bill Clinton returns the favour
I actually saw it on Fareed Zakaria's program GPS last Sunday -Zakaria was
interviewing Bono of U-2 lead singer about his humanitarian work in Africa.
Also Bill Clinton is involved in a similar work in Africa. It is hilarious.
So I found a YouTube video of both impersonating each other.They are pretty
good.:) Enjoy!
Shutdown Doesn't Stop Employment Law Filing Deadlines
Thanks
to the government shutdown, EEOC's website is down. NLRB's websiteis
also down. You might assume the fact the government is shut down means
your deadline for filing claims against your employer is extended. You'd
be
wrong (maybe). If you have a deadline coming up soon for filing a charge
of
discrimination with EEOC or a charge against employer with NLRB, you may
still have to (somehow) get your filing done in time.
My latest piece in AOL Jobs tells you what to do if you have a pressing
deadline to file with EEOC or NLRB.
Oy, Fournier
Just when you think he's hit bottom, he keeps going.
First bit: Fournier believes that Republican demands (about ACA) are
unreasonable, but that Barack Obama should negotiate with them. Fournier
entirely ignores the argument against negotiations: that rewarding
hostage-taking is a mistake, and that therefore Obama should not be willing
to give anything at all on the debt limit (or, for that matter, on a
short-term CR, as opposed to a full year funding bill). There are
counterarguments to that position, I think, but Fournier just ignores it
completely.
Second bit: Fournier believes ... more »
My Dream- No war and unpolluted earth
I watched this video on the internet. I liked it so much that I decided to
post it.
Lyrics:
*In my dreams there's a place without war*
*No more guns no more pain no more hurt*
*It's a world full of joy without sadness*
*People sing people dance with all happiness*
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*Take me to my dream*
*Love is everything*
*Where there is no war*
*And then children sing*
*Love is all around*
*It's the only thing*
*In a dream that must come true*
*In my dreams there's a place where it's clean*
*No more waste in the air and the sea*
*So this place will be pure and all healthy*
*You can live your life ... more »
Satire: "Ted Cruz: Destroying Entire Planet Best Way to Stop Obamacare"
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*"Ted Cruz:*
* Destroying Entire Planet Best Way to Stop Obamacare"*
by Andy Borowitz
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)— "Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) raised the
ante in the battle over the Affordable Care Act on Sunday, telling CNN’s
Candy Crowley that “destroying the entire planet is really the best and
only way to stop Obamacare.”
“Look, I’m in favor of shutting down the government and not raising the
debt ceiling, but let’s not kid ourselves. Those are only half measures,”
he told Crowley. “If we are really serious about stopping Obamacare, we’ll
destroy the entire planet.”... more »
Citation Counts are Like Democracy
There is much gnashing about citations of late. This tweet inspired the
ensuing spew below: Formula predicts research papers’ future citations
http://t.co/4Hy8j3Glqj. I am afraid the citation game is getting out of
hand. — John Panaretos (@J_Panaretos) October 5, 2013 But also this series
of posts at the Monkey Cage last week on gender bias
Continue reading
Memewatch: Savannah Guthrie, unprepared!
*MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2013*
*Rand Paul conquers Meet the Press:* Last Wednesday, CNN’s Erin Burnett was
unprepared.
She was unprepared for Rand Paul’s completely standard presentation about
the debt limit. For our Memewatch report, click here.
Yesterday, Paul appeared on Meet the Press. He followed Jack Lew, who
pretty much convinced the nation that we have little to fear from a failure
to raise the debt limit.
We know, we know! Lew was trying to say the opposite. But what a horrible,
narcotized spokesman! This brings us back to Paul’s appearance on Meet the
Press, with Savannah Gu... more »
Declaration of I- Will and the Word
THE WILL AND THE WORD
Published by Heather Ann Tucci-Jarraf on October 7, 2013
IN LOVE, GRATITUDE AND PEACE
Perception is such a beautiful tool!
Expansion of perception until all limits are chosen to be released
is a wonderful process in deed.
....excert of perception beginning of September 2013....
What was the perceived “Financial/Monetary System”? In Absolute Truth? A
system of limits presented as a value system, contrived from a few parts of
the whole Universal Value System, appearing to operate in a vacuum, yet, a
highly significant geiser of Value production and cornerstone ... more »
American Indians demand US fulfill Treaty obligations during shutdown
American
Indian Nations demand US fulfill Trust and Treaty obligations during US
government shutdown
By United Native Americans
Censored News
October 7, 2013
Noon until 2 pm, with press conference, at BIA
SACRAMENTO, CA - United Native Americans, in solidarity with Idle No
More Global Day of Action will host a peaceful rally and press
conference Monday, October 7, 2013 at the John Moss
THE WILL AND THE WORD
Published by Heather Ann Tucci-Jarraf on October 7, 2013
IN LOVE, GRATITUDE AND PEACE
Perception is such a beautiful tool!
Expansion of perception until all limits are chosen to be released
is a wonderful process in deed.
....excert of perception beginning of September 2013....
What was the perceived “Financial/Monetary System”? In Absolute Truth? A
system of limits presented as a value system, contrived from a few parts of
the whole Universal Value System, appearing to operate in a vacuum, yet, a
highly significant geiser of Value production and cornerstone in the
Unive... more »
Untitled
*Saints Snap Soldier Field Hex, Move to 5-0!*
*Our New Orleans Saints A Converging Menace ~Saints Win*
*Conventional Offense ~Library Chronicles **
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Bureaucracy, Cognition & Geopolitics: Authoritarians vs. Libertarians
Good interview! I had two listens because it was interesting and thought
provoking
There is a pdf that inspired this interview. I've not had the time to read
it. But will be doing so.
It is linked below
*Paper**Bureaucracy_V2.0.pdf*
*Thanks to Henrik at Red Ice Radio !!!*
Don't miss the earlier post and flashback!
There is a connection
Improper language can fill your world with phantoms and spooks.... more »
Photos Dine' for Wild Horses at Shiprock Fair Parade
Thank
you Legacy, Dine' for Wild Horses, for allowing Censored News to share
your photos above from Shiprock Fair and Parade!
"Shi'zeehi' (father) Jones Benally , shi (Me) doi shi' na'heh' (big
brother) Kenneth Davis, doi shi'ts'li' (lil Brother) Clayson Benally.
Great times at the ship rock parade. Oct 2013"
Photo by Jenn M. Harvey, thanks for sharing with Censored News!
GONNA STUDY WAR A LOT MORE: At Salon!
*MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2013*
*Part 1—Teaching liberals to hate:* According to conventional pieties,
children have to be taught to hate.
For the most part, so do we liberals! Pitifully, quite a few people seem
more than willing to accept that teaching assignment.
Who is prepared to teach liberals to hate? Who else? Consider the ugly,
absurd misstatement pimped yesterday by Salon.
Proudly, Salon gave the piece high billing. It was an excerpt from a new
book by Bill Ayers, who became famous all over again during Campaign 08.
Ayers was a violent radical during the anti-Vietnam days. Duri... more »
Your future under Obamacare...
with a special thanks to Mr. Pinko of *iOwnTheWorld *for the lovely picture.
We try around here to give credit where credit is due. That hasn't been
the case for iOwnTheWorld.
Large conservative sites *have been ripping off their pictures,* stripping
them of their logos, and in some cases even claiming them as their own.
Shame on them!
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to David S. Bernstein. Younger than me.
Plenty of good stuff to begin Shutdown Week 2:
1. I haven't been linking to the Monkey Cage symposium on gender in
political science; in fact, I'm pretty far behind in reading the items. I
will get to it -- and I strongly recommend it, certainly to political
scientists, but also for, well, everyone. Certainly all academics, but (and
again, I've only just started reading) I think there's plenty here that
applies more broadly. Kudos to the gang over there for running this, and to
both them and the Post for keeping the Monkey Cag... more »
The "They're All Bums" Reaction To The Shut Down Is Off-Base
A few days ago, when Blue America set up an ActBlue page for endangered
progressive incumbents in the House, we only found two worthy of endorsing,
at least so far. One is our old friend, Carol Shea-Porter, a principled
grassroots activist in New Hampshire's swing district. NH-01 has a PVI of
R+1 and Shea-Porter has stuck to her guns and voted in accord with her
promises to New Hampshire voters when she ran for election. The other New
Hampshire district, NH-02, is a blue district (PVI is D+2) represented by
New Dem Anne Kuster, who has voted frequently with the Republicans against ... more »
TAKING LAND IN CANADA FOR MILITARY
Effective immediately, for the first time in his life, Frank Meyers has no
legal right to step foot on “his” property. On Oct 2 the Canadian
Department of National Defence erected “No Trespassing” signs around the
fence line, as contractors begin preliminary work on what will become the
new headquarters of Joint Task Force 2.
More Shutdown Theatre
Apparently if the Federal Government is your landlord they can ignore the
terms of the lease: Couple evicted from home that they own because it sits
on Federal land. Ditto for an inn which has been operating on Federal Land
(and paying rent) since 1919. There was an attempt to shut down Mount Vernon,
which is privately owned; all they managed was a privately-owned parking
lot. But "Federal Land" doesn't even begin to cover it: in Florida, the
Feds attempted to shut down the ocean itself, citing the shutdown.
As one angry Park ranger put it: "We've been told to make life as difficult... more »
MIT: Terminator' self-assembling cube robots discovered
Cube-shaped robots that can flick, skip and assemble themselves into
different shapes have been unveiled by scientists at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT). The small robots, known as M-Blocks, have no
exterior parts but can move with an internal flywheel instrument.
The scientists envisage miniaturized swarmbot versions self-assembling like
the liquid steel androids and *different scales* in the Terminator movies.
More practically, the researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial
Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), believe armies of such cubes could be used
fo... more »
Today is the 250th Anniversary of the Royal Proclamation of 1763
The Royal Proclamation is a foundational document in the relationship
between aboriginal peoples and the Crown; while it does not establish
aboriginal rights, as those predate the Proclamation, it recognizes and
affirms them:
Royal Proclamation of 1763
1763, OCTOBER 7.
BY THE KING.
A Proclamation
George r.
Whereas We have taken into Our Royal Consideration the extensive and
valuable Acquisitions in America, secured to Our Crown by the late
Definitive Treaty of Peace, concluded at Paris the Tenth Day of February
last, and being desirous, that all Our loving Subjects, ... more »
Does the Reserve Bank of India's second marginal facility rate cut in two weeks reflect concerns over the liquidity confronting India's banks ?
India's Bipolar Monetary Policy Continues: RBI Cuts Marginal Facility Rate
Another 50bps To Boost Liquidity
[image: Tyler Durden's picture]
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/07/2013 08:29 -0400
- India
- Monetary Policy
inShare
It was less than four weeks ago that the Reserve Bank of India, under new
head Raghuram Rajan, stunned the world on September 20 when it announced that
it would both *hike its repo and cash reserve rates *in an inflation
fighting step, while *lowering its marginal standing facility rate by 75
bps to 9.5% in order to boost banking sector liquidity*... more »
Libya demands answers after US Special Forces raid and capture of alleged Al Qaeda leader in Tripoli ( wonder why we haven't moved on the Benghazi attackers if we have the capacity to do raids in Libya ) ..... expect more blowback from both the Libya raid where Anas al - Liby has allegedly been captured and what has been determined to have been an unsuccessful raid in Somalia - both raids occurring on Saturday !
Special Forces Raids this weekend .....
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/10/6/libya-demands-answersafteruscapturesalqaedaleader.html
Libya demands answers after US seizes Al-Qaeda leader in Tripoli
October 6, 2013 9:45PM ET
PM questions 'kidnapping' of Libyan citizen; Somalia indicates willingness
to fight Al-Qaeda after US raid
Topics: Libya Somalia al-Qaeda
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[image: Liby]
The rubble of the U.S. embassy in Kenya is seen in 1998 after an attack,
which the U.S. alleges was partially planned by Anas al-Liby (inset).Alexander
Joe/AFP/Getty Images; Inset: FBI
The Libyan... more »
Fukushima updates - October 7 , 2013 - Water Injections used for cooling purposes halted at Fukushima plant - due to power failure ( as per Tepco ) or by worker hitting a wrong button ( NRA ) ? Back up systems now is use - should we ask Tepco or the NRA for how long ?
Energy News......
02:07 AM EST on October 7th, 2013 | 8 comments
Just In: Conflicting reports over why water injections halted at Fukushima
reactors — Backup system now in use — Tepco claims power failure;
Regulators say worker hit ‘stop’ button
11:15 PM EST on October 6th, 2013 | 11 comments
Bloomberg: Concern over small quake triggering another crisis at Fukushima
— ‘Silly’ for gov’t to claim leakage contained — Scientist questions if
food chain is contaminated far from plant
07:47 PM EST on October 6th, 2013 | 42 comments
After recent ‘lies’, Japan PM admits help needed to contain ... more »
Running Scared
It's clear now that Republicans are trying to upend the constitution by
nullifying both an election and a Supreme Court ruling. Joshua Holland
writes that, to understand what is behind their quest, you have to
understand the Republican base -- which is composed of three distinct
segments:
Democracy Corps – a Democratic-leaning polling firm – released a study this
week based on a series of focus groups they conducted with loyal Republican
voters. They divided them up into three sub-groups which together represent
the base of the party. Evangelicals represent the largest group, foll... more »
Cure for terrorism may be worse than disease
The following article was originally broadcast on KPFT-FM (Pacifica) in
Houston, Texas during Bush Jr's run up to war against Iraq.
LEAD-IN BY HOST: Anyone who has ever read a campaign manual will recognize
a typical tactic: dictate the agenda and change the subject when it is most
advantageous to your candidate. The same tactic can now be found in the
Bush Administration. Having gone to war by claiming Iraq had Weapons of
Mass Destruction, the administration is now shifting the focus. The slogan
du jour is now the "liberation of Iraq". Reporter Len Hart finds the
origins of this... more »
Taboo or Not Taboo?
[Note: This is a guest post by Richard Price, Professor of Political
Science at University of British Columbia and author of The Chemical
Weapons Taboo.] Counter-intuitively, the first large-scale attack of
chemical weapons (CW) in twenty five years is having the effect of actually
reinforcing the CW taboo. Notably, both sides in Syria continue to deny
that they used
Continue reading
US government shutdown hits Day 7 with no end in sight presently ..... Overnight news , data and views on the current situation form Bloomberg News , Ransquawk and Jim Reid ( DB )
The view from Germany....
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-press-review-on-us-government-shutdown-a-925768.html
The illustration on the cover of German business daily *Handelsblatt* on
Wednesday morning fairly well encapsulates the way the US federal
government shutdown is being perceived across the Atlantic. The Statue of
Liberty stands bound in chains, her torch hand hanging listlessly by her
side. Across it reads the headline: "The Blocked World Power."
Many Germans have found it hard to understand American lawmakers' inability
to resolve their budget disagr... more »
Improper language can fill your world with phantoms and spooks....
*"You don't need to take drugs to hallucinate; improper language can fill
your world with phantoms and spooks of many kinds."*
-Robert A. Wilson FLASHBACK! Because it seems fitting................... *“Supernatural:
Magic and Spelling as Mind Control” *
“Cut the Debt by Ending the Empire - Bring the Legions Home”
* “Cut the Debt by Ending the Empire - Bring the Legions Home”*
by Eric Margolis
“’Banana Republicans,’ sneered the Democrat’s leader, Senator Harry Reid.
It’s not certain if Reid was comparing his conservative Republican
opponents to monkeys or citizens of a Central American banana republic.
Either way, Reid’s nasty remark captured the bitter animosity surging
through the US Congress as the mighty United States faces running out of
money on 18 October. Legislators in the House and Senate are at one
another’s throats. President Barack Obama blames conservative “tea party”
Republ... more »
“Free to Be Hungry”
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*“Free to Be Hungry”*
By Paul Krugman
“The word “freedom” looms large in modern conservative rhetoric. Lobbying
groups are given names like FreedomWorks; health reform is denounced not
just for its cost but as an assault on, yes, freedom. Oh, and remember when
we were supposed to refer to pommes frites as “freedom fries”? The right’s
definition of freedom, however, isn’t one that, say, F.D.R. would
recognize. In particular, the third of his famous Four Freedoms — freedom
from want — seems to have been turned on its head. Conservatives seem, in
particular, to believe that free... more »
“The Real Crisis Is Not The Government Shutdown”
* *
*“The Real Crisis Is Not The Government Shutdown”*
by Paul Craig Roberts
“The inability of the media and politicians to focus on the real issues
never ceases to amaze. The real crisis is not the “debt ceiling crisis.”
The government shutdown is merely a result of the Republicans using the
debt limit ceiling to attempt to block the implementation of Obamacare. If
the shutdown persists and becomes a problem, Obama has enough power under
the various “war on terror” rulings to declare a national emergency and
raise the debt ceiling by executive order. An executive branch that has ... more »
A Thought Experiment
Think about the disaster of Afghanistan. We've been there for over ten
years. We've spent billions.
Why?
To defeat an insurgency that remains as strong as ever.
To defend a government that is as corrupt and unpopular as ever.
To defend a program of school-building that is marred by theft and fraud.
Rosie DiMoron says that this multi-billion dollar project was vindicated by
the fact that the Canadian Forces learned to fight again, but I rather
think some well planned war games could have done that for maybe tens of
millions, rather than ten billion dollars.
Imagine a peaceful progr... more »
Hitler's ally, Abbas's hero, Netanyahu's response | David Bedein | Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel
Israel's partners in peace the 'moderate' PLO have been at it again
' In his new year's speech, Abbas spoke glowingly of the legacy of the
godfather of the PLO, the Mufti of Jerusalem Hajj Muhammad Amin Al-Husseini,
who during the 1920's and 1930's instigated pogroms against the Jews of
Palestine and who during his residence in Nazi Germany actively plotted a
Final Solution to be carried out once his German allies would win the war.
Abbas praised the Mufti as a man whose ways should be emulated by all
Palestinian Arabs.
"We must remember the pioneers, the Grand Mufti of Palestine, ... more »
Coming to a Western country soon?
' A Moroccan boy and girl have been arrested for posting a photograph of
themselves kissing online.
The couple - aged 15 and 14 - had their picture taken outside their school
by a 15-year-old friend outside their school in the north-eastern town of
Nador and posted it on the social networking site Facebook.
They were held for violating public decency after a local newspaper printed
the photo, causing a public outcry. A complaint lodged with the police
resulted in an investigation.'
More here http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-24409323
Clerics at 18 British mosques are caught agreeing to marry off girls of 14: Four imams investigated after undercover operation
' More than a dozen Muslim clerics have been caught agreeing to marry off
girls as young as 14.
Four imams are now under investigation, after they offered to arrange the
illegal ceremonies.
Undercover reporters, posing as the mother and brother of a 14-year-old,
visited 56 mosques across the country and asked clerics to perform an
Islamic marriage ceremony, known as a nika.
Imams at 18 mosques agreed – including one who has advised the police.
The preacher was prepared to arrange the nika despite being told that the
'bride' was being forced to move in with a man against her wishes... more »
CERN, CLOUD: ammonia-like odor helps aerosol production
*Vaginal odors cause global cooling*
CERN's CLOUD experiment that uses a particle-physics-based device to study
the effects underlying the cloud formation just published a new paper in
Nature and a corresponding press release:
Molecular understanding of sulfuric acid–amine particle nucleation in the
atmosphere (Nature, by Almeida and dozens of co-authors)
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...supporting information...
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CERN’s CLOUD experiment shines new light on climate change (CERN press
office)
I don't want to copy all the information you may find above so... more »
Government Shutdown: “Countdown: 10 Days Till Default”
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*“Countdown: 10 Days Till Default”*
By Donna Cassata and Martin Crutsinger
“The United States moved closer to the possibility of the first-ever
default on the government's debt Sunday as Speaker John Boehner adamantly
ruled out a House vote on a straightforward bill to boost the borrowing
authority without concessions from President Barack Obama. With no
resolution in sight, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew warned that Congress is
"playing with fire" as he called on lawmakers to quickly pass legislation
re-opening the government and a measure increasing the nation's $16.7
trillion... more »
Jesus and Mo Banned from LSE Student Freshers Fair | Homo economicus' Weblog
' Chris Moos and Abhishek Phadnis of the atheist society at the LSE
freshers fair were asked to remove/cover their T-Shirts which had the
cartoon pictures from Jesus and Mo comic strip. When they refused they were
marched off the premises by ten security guards. The following day they
returned with the same t-shirt with tape censoring parts of the cartoon.
When again asked to remove/cover they inquired which parts were deemed
offensive so they could tape them too. Again they were asked to leave and
escorted off the premises.'
More about the LSE's disdain for freedom of expression... more »
RIVER PHOENIX - THE VIPER ROOM - CHILDREN OF GOD
River Phoenix was brought up as a Christian.
He was part of the *Children of God* sect.
Aged 23, River Phoenix died of an overdose.
He had consumed cocaine and heroin.
*Last night at the Viper Room, *by Gavin Edwards,* *describes River's final
hours outside the Viper Room in Los Angeles on Halloween, 1993.
*The Viper Room, owned by Johnny Depp.*
River Phoenix starred in the films *Stand By Me,* *Indiana Jones and the
Last Crusade, My Own Private Idaho, *and *Running on Empty.*
*River Phoenix - Gay Hustler *
The night he died River went to the Viper Room, where he met his youn... more »
How Vaccines Harm Child Brain Development by Dr Russell Blaylock
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*12 June 2013*
If you are a parent of a baby or young children, expecting a baby or if you
are a health professional you need to watch this lecture filmed at a Radio
Liberty Seminar in October 2008 in which Russell Blaylock MD discusses the
effect of vaccines on the developing brain and his concerns about the
increasingly crowded infant vaccination schedule.
Dr Blaylock also provides compelling arguments why the vaccination of
pregnant women is harmful and a hidden cause of neurological disorders. He
also discusses the toxic ingredients in vaccines such as formaldehyde,
m... more »
6 Simple Ways To Reduce Your Risk Of Cancer by Elizabeth Renter
6 Simple Ways To Reduce Your Risk OF Cancer
by Elizabeth Renter
Natural Society, 30 September 2013
Pharma would make tens of thousands of dollars off of your cancer
diagnosis. They wouldn’t give you a real solution, but would merely prolong
your illness so you can continue to spend your savings (and beyond) on
their toxic cancer drugs. What the medical industry doesn’t seem to want to
discuss (in addition to a cure) is how to prevent cancer. *The fact is:
cancer is preventable. *
**
Cancer rates have climbed significantly over the past 100 years and that’s
due, in part, to our... more »
A plan for peace and happiness in the Middle East
I know thatI've posted this video by Andrew Klaban before but maybe some of
the knuckleheads who try to torment me on Twitter will see it this time.
Natural Born Killers: Drones vs. Men
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*On any given day, a targetted strike by an armed Predator UAV will kill
far less innocent people in general, and innocent Muslims in particular
than an armed ex-Blackwater CIA contract agent stuck in traffic with road
rage.*
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*We have hard numbers on this.*
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*
"...a nearly-six-month-long investigation recently published by Sebastian
Abbot of the Associated Press suggests that the majority of those killed in
the strikes are militants.
An AP reporter talked to about 80 villagers in areas of North Waziristan
where 10 of the most deadly drone attacks in the past year ... more »
Water is Life: No uranium mining in Black Hills Oct 7, 2013
By
Carla Rae Marshall
Censored News
On Oct. 7th Powertech Uranium Mining water permit hearing begins at the
Ramkota in Rapid City. Powertech is seeking 551 gallons of water per
minute from the Madison Aquifer and 8,500 gallons of water per minute
from the Inyan Kara Formation totaling 13 million gallons of water PER
DAY for 20 years to mine the toxic yellow-cake in the Southern Black
Hills.
Where DOES the BBC find such partisan audiences?
The puzzle of those unrepresentative-seeming *Question Time *audiences also
seems to be an issue with Radio 4's *Any Answers *- a puzzle addressed by
Dominic Lawson in the *Mail on Sunday*:
My question to the panel: where DOES the BBC find such partisan audiences?
Where does the BBC get its audiences? More particularly, where does it find
audiences for its political panel shows such as Radio 4’s Any Questions and
BBC1’s Question Time?
Last week’s Any Questions provided a classic example of the way
Right-of-centre politicians collide uncomfortably with an impenetrable wall
of hosti... more »
October 6, 1973
The Yom Kippur War began.
Just as one important part of the context of Watergate is the war in
Vietnam, an important part of the context of October 1973 is a war which
very much took place within the Cold War. The Yom Kippur War isn't just
about Israel and its neighbors; it's yet another almost, could-be US/USSR
confrontation, with all the nightmarish possibilities that evokes.
Meanwhile, this from Elizabeth Drew:
--
The Green Book, Washington's social register, was published this week. The
Haldemans, the Ehrlichmans, the Deans, the Magruders, and the Stanses have
been dropped. A... more »
Wealthy (Self-Entitled) Individuals Bought a Radical Right Party, Believing — Correctly — It Would Cut Their Taxes and Remove Regulations, But Failed To Realize That the Craziness Would Take On a Life of Its Own: A Shutdown or a Coup? (How It Was Engineered By the SuperRich) The Real Crisis Is Not the Government Shutdown
Clearer words about our current Congressional crisis have not been more
available than in the three essays below (and they are in reverse order of
gravity (if you can believe it after reading the first one)). Pay
attention, please. It may be our last chance to pull this bacon (our
country) from the fire. Notice how stoopid the Harvard and Yale (not to
mention Oxford) neoCons come off? I told
Ben Carnes urges national debate in case of Leonard Peltier
Obama
urged to call for national debate in Peltier case
By Ben Carnes, Choctaw
Published with permission
Censored News
Ben Carnes, Choctaw
Ben Carnes, Choctaw from Oklahoma, calls for a national debate in the
case of Leonard Peltier. Carnes said it is necessary “to effectively
make a difference in securing freedom for a man who could be any one of
us from back then, to today, and in
Roberto Rodriguez 'Anatomy of Banning a Worldview'
Anatomy
of Banning a Worldview
By Roberto Cinti Rodriguez
Censored News
Posted with permission
I have heard authors openly complain of never having had their books
banned by Arizona's Grand Inquisitors. I suppose it's a form of street
cred, yet the truth is that censorship and banishment are not a badge of
honor - but evidence of something very sick.
The Tucson Unified School District (
Meet & Greet Monday (#MtaGt) - The Daily Green
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to Meet & Greet Monday, a regular series designed to grow our
green
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of environment... more » Will The GOP Shut-Down-The-Government Strategy Further Decimate California Republicans?
Trends start in California
Obama beat Romney 6,493,924 (59%) to 4,202,127 (38%) in California. Obama
won every county with a substantial population except Orange and
Riverside-- and Riverside was a 49-49% tie. Of California's 53
congressional districts, Obama won 41 districts (including 3 with
Republican congressmen, Jeff Denham, David Valadao and Gary Miller) and of
the 12 Romney won, Obama was within striking distance in 3, all occupied by
GOP congressmen who are Boehner loyalist committee chairmen, Darrell Issa,
Ed Royce and Buck McKeon. There were 7 districts where Romney failed ... more »
Heavenletter #4699 Beyond Choice, October 6, 2013
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* *Heavenletter #4699 Beyond Choice, October 6, 2013*
God said:
Hail to the King! You are the King. You are the King of Your Life! Bow to
your Self. Listen to your heart beat. Listen well. You have a built-in
indicator. Happiness this way, unhappiness that way. Of course, there may
be a thousand ways that lead to Me.
Certainly, you want happiness. I want you to have happiness. Yet there is
greater than happiness to gauge yourself by.
The knack you are developing is to be happy – anyway – any way. Why
wouldn’t every path take you to happiness? Why not start from happiness ... more »
Coast to Coast AM: Time Travel & Teleportation Andrew D Basiago
Andrew Basiago - Project Pegasus
President Bashar al-Assad Tells Der Spiegel: President Obama "Has No Right To Pass Judgment On Syria"
*Dr. Assad has not gassed Syrian women and children. Claims that he has
are obvious lies and should not be believed.*
Below is an excerpt from a recent interview that German magazine Der
Spiegel conducted with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. (*Source: Syrian
Arab News Agency*. October 7, 2013).
Der Spiegel: It’s not only us who deny the legitimacy of your presidency.
U.S. President Barack Obama said at the U.N. General Assembly meeting in
New York that a leader who kills his people and gases children to death has
forfeited any right to rule his country.
President Assad: Firs... more »
GAIA PORTAL: Fortification of All Gaia Ascension Grids Occurs at this Time…
*Fortification of All Gaia Ascension Grids Occurs at this Time…*
by ÉirePort
Gaia Release grids are being fortified and opened to facilitate release of
old-paradigm-aligned-and-outdated patterns that have ingrained into the
hu-man component of Gaia whole.
Gaia Construct grids are being fortified and opened to facilitate increased
resonance of hu-beings on all current consciousness levels to align with
the Gaia New Paradigm. This will accelerate the "hu-being to Hue-Being"
process.
Gaia Wisdom grids (as we would term such) have also been fortified to
assist connection of both hu-... more »
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights = Fraud
*Photo: The fraudster front-man of the Syrian Observatory for Human
Rights.*
Below is an excerpt from, *"Humanitarian Wars and Their NGO
Foot-Soldiers"*by Daniel McAdams, published at Mises.org on Friday,
October 4, 2013.
Close to 99 percent of the mainstream media articles on Syria rely on a
single source, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. It is a one-man
operation in London run by Rami Abdulrahman, whose day job is running a
small clothing shop. Once again, one man and an NGO have been able to
ignite international opinion in favor of “humanitarian” intervention. It
woul... more »
Pennsylvania Governor Corbett's Legacy: only state that doesn't tax frackers, radioactive water, crumbling bridges & roads, only northern state that doesn't participate in Medicare expansion for the poor, only northern state that doesn't recognize gay marriage, cover-up of Penn St scandal & missing DA Ray Gricar, insensitive comments about women & gays, forced vaginal ultrasound, against legalizing marijuana but for "privatizing" (1%-izing) liquor stores to make liquor more "available" & "accessible", escapes media scrutiny for ruining Pennsylvania
*Pa. Gov Corbett for years somehow escapes the press asking him, "IF WE'RE
SHORT ON MONEY, WHY AREN'T YOU TAXING THE FRACKERS?"*
Pennsylvania Governor Corbett's Legacy: only state that doesn't tax
frackers, radioactive water, crumbling bridges & roads, only northern state
that doesn't participate in Medicare expansion for the poor, only northern
state that doesn't recognize gay marriage, cover-up of Penn St scandal &
missing DA Ray Gricar, insensitive comments about women & gays, forced
vaginal ultrasound, against legalizing marijuana but for "privatizing"
(1%-izing) liquor stores... more »
Urban Gadabout, L.A. edition: "What's Out There Weekend Los Angeles" is coming, October 26-27!
*by Ken*
Last October's "What's Out There Weekend New York" was my introduction to
the Cultural Landscape Foundation, and it was a pretty good indication that
these are serious people when it comes to exploring the ways in which
public landscapes are imagined and executed. Oh, there were glitches that
seemed mostly owing to the fact that the planning wasn't done locally --
not least the scheduling of this incredibly ambitious program for the same
weekend as "Open House New York," which I described here recently, in
connection with this year's edition of OHNY, October 12-13, as "pr... more »
Mohawk John Kane 'The Big Lie: The Doctrine of Christian Discovery'
The
Big Lie: The Doctrine of Christian Discovery
By John Kane, Mohawk
Censored News
Despite where you stand on religion or Christianity specifically, a lie
is a lie even if the church utters it. One of the greatest lies ever
pulled off on people the world over is that “God” chose individual
“families” to rule over the rest of humanity. Even though many,
including Americans who should
Yes, There Are Gay Democrats Who Vote GOP On Everything But Specifically Gay Issues
Don't assume from this picture of Sean Patrick Maloney's lovely family that
he isn't a conservative
Friday Michaelangelo Signorile picked up on the theme we've been discussing
here at *DWT* about the disappointments inherent in identity politics. He
singled out anti-progressive gay congressmembers, specifically Sean Patrick
Maloney (New Dem-NY) and Kyrsten Sinema (New Dem-AZ).
Both, though Sinema even more so, campaigned for Congress as progressives
and both were very upfront about being gay and seemed to hope voters would
assume because they are openly gay, they would also back a pr... more »
"An Empire of Money and Privilege in Decline"
*"An Empire of Money and Privilege in Decline:*
* Portrait of a Tragic Policy Error" *
By Jesse
"Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
"They don't have intelligence. They have what I call thintelligence. They
see the immediate situation. They think narrowly and they call it 'being
focused.' They don't see the surroundings. They don't see the
consequences." - Michael Crichton
"The Fed is faced with a problem that is best represented by the first two
charts below. Velocity of money is a simple ratio measure of money supply
... more »
Young group of different faiths embark on world tour to promote interfaith dialogue
Video Title: Young group of different faiths embark on world tour to
promote interfaith dialogue. Source: romereports. Date Published: October
5, 2013. Description:
http://en.romereports.com
A Christian, a Muslim, a Jew, an atheist and an agnostic. It may sound like
the start of joke, but in reality, their work is no laughing matter. These
five young Frenchmen are in the middle of a world tour promoting interfaith
dialogue.
snowden: mass surveillance threatens to be the greatest human rights challenge of our time
The heroic Edward Snowden, in his own words, via Jesselyn Radack, at the
European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee in Brussels.
I thank the European Parliament and the LIBE Committee for taking up the
challenge of mass surveillance. The surveillance of whole populations,
rather than individuals, threatens to be the greatest human rights
challenge of our time. The success of economies in developed nations relies
increasingly on their creative output, and if that success is to continue,
we must remember that creativity is the product of curiosity, which in turn
is the product of... more »
my favourite customers and two-way readers' advisory
The children's library where I work services a huge age-range of young
people and their caregivers, from birth up to around age 12. I enjoy the
full range - helping parents understand the importance of reading to their
children, helping kids find fun books to read, finding material for school
projects and reports - all of it. But what I love best is connecting avid
young readers - of the age group known as "tweens" - with books they enjoy.
Wikipedia defines the tween demographic as ages 10-12, but tweens may be
9-13, or may even be as young as 7 or 8, depending on the person. Tweens... more »
what i'm reading: the maze runner, a youth novel
There's a subgenre of youth books in which young people are cast into an
alien and dangerous world, where they must struggle to understand their
purpose, struggle to survive. If you remember your own adolescence, the
metaphor should be obvious.
These books are often characterized as nihilistic or depressing, but I find
that's generally the thoughts of people who haven't read the book. While a
survival book may be frightening and sometimes violent, it usually offers
positive messages about what it takes to survive. Young heroes find inner
reserves of strength and courage, and learn ... more »
watch the future unfold: gaudi's masterpiece to be completed in 2026
This post on the design blog Core77 brought back so many wonderful memories
of our recent trip to Spain, especially my total infatuation with the city
of Barcelona, and the wildly beautiful architecture of Antoni Gaudí.
Click here to see a wonderful animation of the projected completion of La
Sagrada Familia in 2026.
Thanks, James!
"Ah, The NSA Has NO Terrorist Stops To Its Credit?"
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*"Ah, The NSA Has NO Terrorist Stops To Its Credit?"*
by Karl Denninger
When do we start locking up Administration officials for perjury in their
so-called "testimony" before Congress? "Pressed by the Democratic chairman
of the Senate Judiciary Committee at an oversight hearing, Gen. Keith B.
Alexander admitted that the number of terrorist plots foiled by the NSA’s
huge database of every phone call made in or to America was only one or
perhaps two — far smaller than the 54 originally claimed by the
administration."
But wait a second- Clapper assured the American people (and ... more »
Sunday Question for Liberals
It's Day 6 of the exchanges: how are you feeling about the future of the
ACA?
Greece considers confiscation of private assets - to obtain social security contributions and avoid slashing pensions and benefits ! 14 billion seems to be the gap the Greek Government needs to close - how they do that without further crushing the economy and sending more folks to the poor house is anyone's guess ! And maybe the reason Greece is trying to avoid a third / fourth bailout from the Troika is there desire to obtain reparations from Germany - 220 billion by the calculation of the Greeks !
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-06/greece-considering-confiscation-private-assets
Greece Considering Confiscation Of Private Assets
[image: Tyler Durden's picture]
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/06/2013 15:50 -0400
- Corruption
- Eurozone
- Greece
- Gross Domestic Product
- John Paulson
- None
- Real estate
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The last time we opined on the possibility of a Cyprus-style "bail-in" in
Greece, which is essentially a legally-mandated confiscation of private
sector assets held hostage by the local financial system, until such time
as the ba... more »
Plans to move Czech embassy to Jerusalem
An Israeli newspaper, The Jerusalem Post, finally noticed the current visit
of the Czech president Miloš Zeman to Israel.
The article describes some of the actual depth of the Czechoslovak and
Czech support for the Jewish state. The new Czech president – who has
always been comparing Arafat to Hitler and who recommended the NATO to
invite Israel and redefine the purpose of the organization as a group
fighting against the Islamic Anticivilization, an empire stretching from
Northern Africa through Indonesia that is partly funded by oil and partly
by drugs – made the proposal to move... more »
Ted Cruz with Candy Crowley this morning...(video)
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documentary - George Galloway - The Killing of Tony Blair
there's nothing like the stale taste of yesterday's news, right? So how
about last month's news, or even the month before? Well I have my excuses,
I was away on foreign *vacation* writing the TANDEM novel in splendid
isolation in various European locations away from the British press, away
from the internet, incommunicado.
Yes, I did write, edit and publish a 69,000 words novel in two months!
So, here it is then in case, like me, you missed it first time round, the
promo video that George Galloway put out in August this year of his
determined plan to make the documentary film exposi... more »
Sunday Question for Conservatives
Have you changed your mind about anything related to the shutdown over the
last week -- people, strategy, policy?
Beauty and strength in diversity
"Stacking"
“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity
there is beauty and there is strength.”
― Maya Angelou
Despite what some may tell you, human diversity *is* a strength, just as
having three toppings on a pizza provides a greater range of nutrients. But
I'm about income here ("Obtain a yield"), i.e., clean earth, clean air,
clean water, relatively clean fire, good clean local food, low-impact
shelter.
It's worthwhile to widen the variety of vegetables, cover crops, shrubs,
trees and livestock to be found on the premises where you do your food
scen... more »
James Naughtie does it again
On the subject of the *Daily Mail *controversy, here are a couple of
intriguing exchanges from last week's *Today *programme.
The first was James Naughtie's interview with former Conservative press
advisor Nick Wood on Wednesday's edition of the programme, where
Jim betrayed his contempt for the *Mail *and then got defensive when his
guest called him out on his display of bias:
*Nick Wood*: I suppose Mr Miliband is doing what he...I mean if Mr Miliband
had ignored the *Daily Mail, *which I assume is what the Labour Party do
most of the time, then...
*James Naughtie* [interruptin... more »
Party Conference Watch 2013: The Conservative Party
Many of you may have been eagerly awaiting my latest dispatch from the
party conferences. As usual it's running late.
This week it's the Tories.
As with the Liberal Democrat and Labour conferences, the Saturday edition of
the programme didn't feature a *Today *presenter at the Conservative
conference and contented itself with discussing a single proposal here a
plan to give tax breaks to married couples.
A short (three minute) discussion with the BBC's Ross Hawkins kicked off
the programme and a discussion on the same subject occupied the 8.10 spot.
That discussion was held b... more »
Texas Governor: Whither After El Pendejo?
By Manifesto Joe
Texas has a weak governor, strong lieutenant governor system. The No. 2
executive in the state, presiding over the Senate, is often thought to have
at least marginally more power. But the governor does wield a veto pen and
is at least symbolically the state's leader.
The 2014 race for governor seems to be taking shape, now that Rick "El
Pendejo" Perry has, after 14 long years, decided that he doesn't want to be
governor for life and hasn't ruled out another embarrassing bid for the
presidency. Here's how things are looking now:
*State Sen. Wendy Davis of Fort Worth... more »
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