President Hafez al-Asad with his family in the early 1970s. From left to right: Bashar, Maher, Mrs Anisa Makhlouf (the then new First Lady of Syria), Majd, Bushra, and Basil. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Secretary of State Dean Rusk testifying about the Vietnam War before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Bashar al-Assad under pressure (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Meet North Carolina's Newest Democrat: Jason Thigpen
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 17 minutes ago
There are no moderates left in the Republican House Caucus. The "best"
you'll get is a mainstream conservative willing to stand up to Tea Party
extremism from time to time-- or a libertarian who may be good on an
important issue or two but is still, essentially, a raving lunatic on
everything else. Walter Jones (R-NC) is kind of a mix of the two. He is a
basic mainstream conservative with some libertarian tendencies. He also has
voted for progressive bills in the House more frequently than any other
Republican this year-- and more frequently than 9 right-wing Democrats--
John Barr... more »
Wendy Sherman: Bitch Demon From Hell
Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 37 minutes ago
*Despicable, wretched whore: be gone!*
An excerpt from, *"America’s Lead Iran Negotiator Misrepresents U.S. Policy
(and International Law) to Congress"* by Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann
Leverett, November 3:
Last month, while testifying to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
Wendy Sherman—Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs and the senior
U.S. representative in the P5+1 nuclear talks with Iran—said, with
reference to Iranians, “We know that deception is part of the DNA.” This
statement goes beyond orientalist stereotyping; it is, in the most literal
sense, racis... more »
Updates On Syria: FSA Leader Steps Down, Pakistani Jihadists Bring Long-Dead Disease To Syria
Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 37 minutes ago
An excerpt from, *"Rebels lose ground to Assad forces in Syria war; Free
Syrian Army official Akaidi resigns"* by Liz Sly, The Washington Post,
November 3:
The resignation Sunday of a top leader in the U.S.-backed Free Syrian Army
further underscored the extent to which rebel infighting is undermining the
effort not only to topple President Bashar al-Assad but also to hold on to
territories won by the opposition in more than two years of conflict.
A representative of the Fictitious Syrian Army is quitting the battlefield.
And we're supposed to be sad about this? This is the best new... more »
A War On the Poor (Armageddon Most Likely) When US Budget Deficit Fell 37% So Far in 2013
Cirze at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 55 minutes ago
(Please consider making a contribution to Welcome to the Pottersville2
Quarterly Fundraiser happening now or sending a link to your friends if you
think the subjects discussed here are worth publicizing. Thank you for your
support. We really appreciate it. Anything you can do will make a huge
difference in this blog's ability to operate.) When you hear Republicans
like neoCon Ohio Governor
Athabaska River, Headwaters And Cancer, An Alberta Legacy Story
Grant G at The Straight Goods - 1 hour ago
*Breaking*..1 billion litres of coal mine tailing water spilled into the
Athabaska river....
A tailing pond failed, details are sketchy as to why it failed, and the
below article claims the "sludge" is harmless to humans and fish, but if
this sludge is so harmless why was it contained in a tailing pond?...
http://www.theprovince.com/news/Billion+litres+coal+mine+muck+leaks+into+Athabasca+River/9119759/story.html
Oh, did I mention that Aberta has had another train derailment...
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/11/03/another_cn_train_derails_in_rural_alberta.html
We a hu... more »
David, with hernia
Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 1 hour ago
A hernia doctor improves upon a Michaelangelo.
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Obama Is Not Good At Killing People, He Didn't Even Kill Bin Laden
Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 2 hours ago
An excerpt from, *"Last Year President Obama Reportedly Told His Aides That
He's 'Really Good At Killing People'"* by Michael Kelley, Business Insider,
November 2:
This will not go over well for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner.
According to the new book “Double Down,” in which journalists Mark Halperinand John
Heilemann chronicle the 2012 presidential election, *President Barack Obama
told his aides that he’s “really good at killing people” while discussing
drone strikes.*
Peter Hamby of The Washington Post noted the moment in his review of the
book.
The reported claim by th... more »
Egyptian Military Shuts Down Show of Egypt's Jon Stewart
Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 2 hours ago
Is the Egyptian military run by idiots? Do these generals even understand
where their society is heading? I was all for the coup. Morsi was raising
up a storm, calling Jews descendents of pigs and spouting aggressive
rhetoric against Ethiopia for the construction of its Renaissance Dam. The
generals quieted things down, especially with Ethiopia, so that was a good
thing. But you have to rule intelligently. And shutting down the show of a
popular talk show host who is watched by millions of young Egyptians isn't
the smart way to go forward.
Source: CNN.
Annals of Technological Progress: When did it become assumed that everyone has a laptop computer?
KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
*by Ken*
Since this is going to rad like another diatribe against Technological
Progress, I'd like to start by stressing that this truly isn't what's
meant, and the best way I can do that is by quoting part of a *New
Yorker*"Briefly Noted" review (in the Nov. 4 issue) of a book called
*Smarter Than You Think* by Clive Thompson:
"Thompson is not a tech acolyte, and is skeptical of "the giddy
boosterism
of Silicon Valley," but he makes a sharp and sustained argument against
"apocalyptic warnings" that social media and constant connectedness are
degrading private consciousness or pub... more »
Taxpayer-sponsored poverty entrapment
Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 3 hours ago
*Guest post by Dominic Costello*
The New Zealand Welfare solution was envisioned and eventually introduced
at a time when *real* poverty and actual starvation was a day to day
reality for some Kiwis. However, as *real* poverty and actual starvation
have diminished, the Welfare Solution has done the reverse, evolving to a
level its designers would not have imagined possible.
Over time, the umbrella of of welfare coverage has expanded significantly
faster than the growth in population. And little wonder.
Once the need for taxpayer support is agreed to, of itself it becomes
neces... more »
The Best Wings and The Best Wireless Plan for Football Season
Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 3 hours ago
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has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for
Collective Bias and their client. #cbias
We bleed green and yellow in this house. I had never sat through a full
game before I met my husband, but football has been turned into a full
family affair. I have a love hate relationship with football season. I love
going to games together, I love making wings and other football food and I
love having friends over to watch games. I did not love losing my husband
for several hours every day to the ... more »
JFK50: Executive Action (1973) by Dalton Trumbo
Paul Coker at News Spike - 4 hours ago
Executive Action (1973) - The JFK Assassination as Viewed in Context from
the Year of Watergate
from Spike1138 on Vimeo.
*'Executive Action'** *opened to a storm of controversy over the depiction
of the assassination: in some places in the U.S., the film ran only 1 to 2
weeks in movie theaters or got pulled from them altogether.
The movie was part fiction, but it would contest other reports of the
assassination, including the controversial Warren Commission report of
1964, which led to attacks against the film.
The trailers for the film never ran on certain television stations, ... more »
Thirty-five More LDOE Files: A Number of 2012 Test Score Reports
deutsch29 at @ THE CHALK FACE - 4 hours ago
Once again, I have spent time on the LDOE website, seeking information that
was once publicly available in pre-Serling Louisiana. My first excursion
yielded 95 files, c. 2011-13; my second, 88 files, c. 2007. Here are
today’s finds: 35 files, c. 2012. Lots of test results in this set: BESE
Meeting Minutes April 18, 2012 Comparison Between Current […]
The Nuclear Power Web of Deceit
John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 4 hours ago
*The Nuclear Power Web Of Deceit:*
*John Friend Interviews Dr. Richard Wilcox*
*JF*: Richard, you live in Tokyo, Japan and have a background in
environmental studies. Could you tell us more about it?
*RW*: My university degrees are in the arts and social sciences and not the
natural sciences. I have always been interested in both aspects of science
though, but like many students my math and science skills were poor so I
had to go into humanities. I realized that without an understanding of
scientific logic it is too easy to have the wool pulled over your eyes by
experts who advise, ... more »
Now, this is scary . . .
Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 5 hours ago
ACCORDING
TO Bruce Wilson at AlterNet, “Almost Two-Thirds of 18-29 Year Olds
Believe in "Demon Possession" What Is Happening to America?”. Just like
in medieval times, superstition is probably eternal.
Over one half (63 percent, to be exact) of young Americans 18-29 years
old now believe in the notion that invisible, non-corporeal entities
called "demons" can take partial or total control of
New, improved Jim Crow law tested in Texas
Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 5 hours ago
Well I suppose we could call it progress. If by that you mean the test run
of JimCrow 2.7 in Texas will discriminate against women, old white people
and anyone else in danger of voting Democratic of any race or religious
background. No one can accuse the GOP of racism for denying Mr. Jim Wright
a voter ID card.
Former House Speaker Jim Wright was denied a voter ID card Saturday at a
Texas Department of Public Safety office.
“Nobody was ugly to us, but they insisted that they wouldn’t give me an
ID,” Wright said.
The legendary Texas political figure says that he has worked things ... more »
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Inequality in New Zealand is rising…”
Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 5 hours ago
“Inequality in New Zealand is rising. This is a fact. What
is not clear is why some people think it is a problem.”
- Damien Grant, “Poverty isn't fault of rich",” NZ HERALD
Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission
to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)
Class Conference 2013
Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 6 hours ago
What is it about train journeys to and from London that are so tiring?
No
matter. Your humble scribe made the trek down the track for the first
annual conference of the Centre for Labour And Social Studies. That's
Classto you and me. And, as you might expect, there was a smorgasbord of
left,
trade union and Labour speakers on offer. Allow me a quick aside. Long
time
readers will recall a time when I dutifully reported on left gatherings.
But more recently, I've stopped. There's only so many times you can go
to
meetings, come away with the impression that times are hard, and make it
... more »
Karlsruhe Court impotence - with the fate of Europe dangling on their decision , it's hard to conceive of the German Constitution Court putting a halt to Draghi and the ECB's OMT program....
Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 6 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-11-03/impotence-karlsruhe
( Karlsruhe Court Trapped with their where to go ..... with Europe riding
on their decision , you know how this turns out... )
On the Impotence of Karlsruhe
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- 10 Year Bond
- Bond
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- default
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- European Union
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When did “Kiwi” become the pejorative for big government?
Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 6 hours ago
David Cunliffe was pleased to announce at his party’s conference two big
policies he wants to take into election year. One was giving preference in
Labour’s candidate selection to folk with particular genitals. The other
was a policy pinched from Winston Peters.
This was a policy calling for the state, which has enough problems running
itself, to run an insurance company. It will, he says, be “a local
insurance company called KiwiAssure, which will work for all New
Zealanders.”
Or so he says.
He says we wants folk to have the option of patronising a New Zealand
insurance compa... more »
Creepy Chris Christie shouts down constituent
Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 6 hours ago
Photo of the day. Chris Christie closes out a rally at Rutgers rally by
spit-shouting at a female teacher. Clearly he's channeling his inner Ralph
Kramden but without the barest shred of humanity. Meanwhile, I've seen that
blank look and frozen smile on another GOP presidential hopeful wife's
face.
Jersey Jazzman has the teacher's side of the story. Apparently it takes
very little to trigger a tirade from New Jersey's biggest bully. Can't
understand how any decent person could vote for this creep. His shameless
abuse of his constituents (and his power) should have ended his caree... more »
Ben Fulford Interviews Karen Hudes
AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 7 hours ago
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The Muslim Brotherhood Student Destructive Behavior
Hani Fakhouri at Middle East Today - 7 hours ago
Since the beginning of the academic year at Egyptian universities, the
Muslim Brotherhood protest movements on various campuses nationwide left a
very clear picture of their destructive behavior. This destruction,
especially at Al-Azhar University, confirms the public view that the Muslim
Brotherhood’s political fascist ideology is based on violence as a means to
achieve their political goal—total control of society under the Muslim
Brotherhood’s interpretation of Islam.
The violent acts, including the assassination of heads of state and
attempts of assassination during the past 8... more »
Epochal, Generational Challenge: Climate Change vs Willful Government Dysfunction
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago
Nostradamus I'm not but I have a strong suspicion that decades from now,
historians will look back on our generation with contempt for not dealing
with Climate Change. How does anyone ever make sense out of two obscenely
wealthy brothers, sons of a vicious anti-American fascist-- keeping the
world from saving itself so they could increase their wealth? Even Republicans
have started to hate what their own party has come to stand for and when it
comes to Climate Change, the civil war inside the Republican Party becomes
very apparent and very tangible. A new poll from Pew uncovers ba... more »
Sunday Question for Liberals
Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 7 hours ago
The Obama Administration now says that Healthcare.gov will be working by
the end of November. Do you believe them?
How the NSA is infiltrating private networks
AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 8 hours ago
*How the NSA is infiltrating private networks*
By Barton Gellman, Todd Lindeman and Ashkan Soltani, Published: Oct. 30,
2013
http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/national/the-nsa-is-hacking-private-networks/542/
The NSA, working with its British counterpart, the Government
Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), secretly taps into the internal
networks of Yahoo and Google, the two biggest Internet companies by overall
data traffic. The operation intercepts information flowing between the
enormous data centers that those companies maintain around the world. In
general, Google and Yahoo u... more »
Sunday Question for Conservatives
Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 8 hours ago
It's going to be a big week for Chris Christie, so, conservatives: What do
you think of Chris Christie?
Nothing to say
Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 8 hours ago
At the risk of becoming fixated on this theme, the *Sky News *homepage
features another disgusting story of human brutality:
Deadly Gun Attack On Nigeria Wedding Convoy
*Sky *informs us that "Islamic militants were blamed" for the attack,
which killed over thirty people, including the groom:
One driver, who did not wish to be named, said he saw dead bodies lying on
the road.
"It was a gory scene," he told the AFP news agency. "All the victims were
brutally murdered by the attackers."
The *Guardian* is reporting the story too.
What of the BBC's account?
Well, the story isn't on... more »
The Turkish Government Is Sheltering Al-Qaeda, Following Obaaama's Orders
Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 9 hours ago
*Photo Source: AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais*.
An excerpt from, *"Al Qaeda Terrorists Pass US Special Forces, CIA Agents
on Way to Syria"* by Tony Cartalucci, Land Destroyer Report, November 1,
2013:
*Yet despite all of this, Turkey, a NATO member since the early 1950's,
appears to be guilty of the very crime Afghanistan was allegedly invaded
and to this day still occupied for, harboring Al Qaeda terrorists.* An army
of Al Qaeda is (and has been for nearly 3 years) using southern Turkey as a
safe-haven and staging ground for the invasion of Syria - disingenuously
portrayed by th... more »
Paul CIAmossadFBIcia Shoots Up LAX Airport
Big Dan at Big Dan's Big Blog - 9 hours ago
Now, really: does this look like a shot TSA agent, or a DUMMY in a
wheelchair to you:
Here's the whole video, look at the 0:28 second mark, it's a MANNEQUIN and
the "news" guy says: "THEY HAVE A TSA EMPLOYEE SHOT IN THE CHEST":
It's FAKE. It's a HOAX. And every story connected to it is. All you have
to do is watch that video above. Here's the "OFFICIAL STORY": A guy named *Paul
CIAnCIA* dressed in CAMO or dressed as a TSA agent went into LAX airport
with a HUGE gun and did a bunch of shooting. The NSA spies on everyone in
the whole world, including other world leaders and the P... more »
My Local Teachers Union President and Superintendent Stand Against Common Core and PARCC
deutsch29 at @ THE CHALK FACE - 9 hours ago
On Friday, November 1, 2013, I had the following letter in my school
mailbox from St. Tammany Federation of Teachers President Elsie Burkhalter.
In it, both Burkhalter and St. Tammany Schools Superintendent Trey Folse
publicly support the St. Tammany School Board resolution to opt out of both
the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and the associated PARCC
(Partnership […]
SUNDAY TIMES: CIA'S DAVID HEADLEY PLOTTED MUMBAI MASSACRE
Anon at aangirfan - 9 hours ago
*David Headley*
AN AMERICAN agent, David Headley, while he was being used by the
CIA, masterminded the terrorist attack on Mumbai that killed 166 people in
2008.
*"David Headley, a former drug smuggler, was acting as a 'highly prized
counterterrorism asset' for America, according to former officers in the
Joint Terrorism Task Force, who said his covert career had run for 11
years."*
*This is according to the UK's Sunday Times.*
*CIA's bin Laden hunter plotted India massacre - *The Sunday Times
According to the UK's Sunday Times, Headley was being used by the CIA to
hunt for O... more »
Raising Questions: Ideas for Empowering Educators to Advocate for Students
Scholastic Chaos at @ THE CHALK FACE - 10 hours ago
Am I teaching content to students, or am I teaching students how to access
and learn content? This is the fundamental question that guides my
teaching practice on a daily basis. If I decide that I am teaching
content to students, it means that the material I am teaching is more […]
Something Unknown Is Doing We Don't Know What - video
AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 10 hours ago
This was posted at:
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=291136
Paxogate
Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 11 hours ago
Alan at *Biased BBC* has written an interesting dissection of Jeremy
Paxman's forthright criticism of David Cameron over the prime minister's
plans to commemorate Britain's involvement in the First World War.
Paxo's criticism has appeared in print, and - to a wider public - on the *Graham
Norton *show.
Alan argues - with supporting evidence - that Paxo got it dead wrong,
mistakenly thinking that the PM was preparing a 'knees-up' akin to the
Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
Prompted by that misreading of Mr Cameron's words, the newly-bearded *Newsnight
*presenter mounted a high horse a... more »
Police not giving Rob Ford "Special Treatment"
James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 11 hours ago
Rosie DiManno’s most recent column suggests there may be one law for
ordinary people and another for the Mayor of Toronto. She asks why, if
apparent drug deals were going on, the police didn’t arrest everyone.
First, perhaps the suspicious transactions were not drug deals. I grant you
meeting at night in parking lots seems sketchy but not everything is as it
appears at first blush.
Second, and more important, police do not bust every drug buy they see. The
purpose of a major surveillance project is not to nail a few street buyers
for a possession charge but rather to trace a street ... more »
Pleading may be admitted as exhibit at trial in Judge's discretion
James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 11 hours ago
*Vanderbeke v. O'Connor*, 2013 ONCA 665 deals with the admission of a
pleading as an exhibit during trial. It is not uncommon to cross-examine a
party on their pleading at trial (whether that is an effective technique is
another issue) but few cases have considered whether it is proper to admit
the pleading as an exhibit. Here the Court held such admission was proper;
it should be noted here that the pleading was in a related matter and was
drafted by the party without counsel. In other cases it might be argued
that the plading was drafted by counsel and ought not to bind the p... more »
Sunday Classics: Guess who's coming to dinner at Don Giovanni's place
KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago
*Ildar Abdrazakov as Don Giovanni and Andrew Foster-Williams as Leporello,
in Washington last October*
*THE STATUE*: Don Giovanni, you invited me
to dine with you, and I have come!
*Matti Salminen (bs), the Commendatore; Berlin Philharmonic, Daniel
Barenboim, cond. Erato, recorded April 1991*
*Kurt Moll (bs), the Commendatore; London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Georg
Solti, cond. Decca, recorded Oct.-Nov. 1978*
*Giorgio Tozzi (bs), the Commendatore; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Karl
Böhm, cond. Live performance, Dec. 14, 1957*
*by Ken*
In Friday night's special Sunday Classics ... more »
New Left Blogs October/November 2013
Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 11 hours ago
A little later than normal, but whatevs. Touch small this month too.
1. #teacherROAR (Unaligned/Education) (Twitter)
2. A Free Left Blog (Labour) (Twitter)
3. Clifford Fleming (Greens) (Twitter)
4. It's Not the Despair (Unaligned) (Twitter)
5. Kate Gilson (Labour) (Twitter)
6. Left Unity Leamington Spa (Left Unity) (Twitter)
7. Matry-sloshed-ka (Unaligned/Feminist) (Twitter)
8. Normfest (Unaligned)
9. Sanchia Alasia (Labour) (Twitter)
10. Socialism First (Labour)
That's your lot for October/November. If you know of any new blogs that
haven't featured before then drop me a line via the co... more »
The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) is the latest and potentially the most crushing reverse-Robin-Hood plot of the giant corporations that own the U.S. government and those of most of the rest of the western world. This is required watching if you want to stay abreast of this secret conspiracy against America's poor and middle class.
David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 11 hours ago
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.*Original Here*
Yves Smith and Dean Baker on Secrets in Trade from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo.
***Yves Smith and Dean Baker on Secrets in Trade*
from BillMoyers.com
A US-led trade deal is currently being negotiated that could increase the
price of prescription drugs, weaken financial regulations and even allow
partner countries to challenge American laws. But few know its substance.
The pact, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), is deliberately shrouded in
secrecy, a trade deal powerful people, including President Obama, don’t
want you to know about. O... more »
4 Ways to Protect the Liver from Prescription Drugs Damage by Christina Sarich
Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 11 hours ago
4 Ways to Protect the Liver from Prescription Drugs Damage
by Christina Sarich
Natural Society, 3 November 2013
There are hundreds of pharmaceuticals which can cause acute liver damage,
and others which are definitely not kind to this extremely important organ
of the body (which is in charge of over 500 bodily functions). Many people
eschew prescription drugs altogether due to bodily damage like this, but if
you are still weaning yourself from the traditional medicinal paradigm or
you must take a prescription drug for some other reason,*here are 4 ways to
protect your liver ... more »
Million Mask March - 5 November 2013
Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 11 hours ago
By Andrew Pontbraind | October 8, 2013
(INTELLIHUB) – November 5th is a symbolic date, more recently remembered
due to the Movie “V For Vendetta”, but is attributed to Guy Fawkes, who
unsuccessfully tried to “blow up” the House of Lords in London on November
5th, 1605, in his attempt to bring Catholicism back to England. The
relation to Guy Fawkes however, is in the symbolism of the mask worn in the* V
for Vendetta* movie, and of course a date which to most, represents a
revolution.
The mainstream media is already pushing the idea that a “loose collective”
known as “anonymous”, ar... more »
WILL USA LOSE CONTROL OF INTERNET?
Anon at aangirfan - 12 hours ago
bambooinnovator.com
The USA dominates the internet, through corporations such as Google.
The Internet is a collection of linked networks.
Now, people in countries such as Germany and Brazil are talking of having
their* local* internet traffic avoid being routed through the USA.
In India, it has been reported that government employees are being advised
not to use Gmail.
NSA surveillance may cause breakup of internet, warn experts / Will NSA
revelations lead to the Balkanisation of the internet? -The Guardian
*www.prisonplanet.com*
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*The main problem is the USA's National Security... more »
EFN Asia 31. Friends in the Asian Free Market Movement
Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 12 hours ago
During the Economic Freedom Network (EFN) Asia 2013 conference in Bangkok
last October 21-22, two friends from the Japanese for Tax Reforms (JTR)
came, Marc Abela and Hiroshi Yoshida. A third and young participant from
JTR joined them.
Hiroshi is a long time friend since 2005, during the Atlas-FNF round table
discussion on Hayek's “The Constitution of Liberty”. Hiroshi came with Mr.
You then, the President of JTR. After that one-day event, the EFN Asia 2005
conference started, same hotel in Phuket, Thailand.
It was my first time to meet Marc, who has been a friend since several
y... more »
Join us At the Chalk Face at 6PM EST while we chat with the NJ teacher subjected to yet another Christie tirade
Shaun Johnson at @ THE CHALK FACE - 12 hours ago
Listen here, at 6PM EST. I doubt any reasonable person would disagree with
this educator from NJ on her perspective. Tagged: angry, christie, new
jersey, NJ, teacher, tirade
Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, November 3rd, 2013
Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 13 hours ago
Sunday again, and of course time for my weekly rant... And for all of you
Hasbara/JIDF agents, something more to take shots at your sick nation of
Israel and your twisted pyschotic tribe...
First, I really do HATE having to go through what seems to be an annual
ritual with me.... I am of course talking about my usual bout of Sinusitis
that usually hits hard, and really takes a lot out of me. This year, I am
continuing my foregoing of any prescribed "Antibiotics" or other medicines
given out by the quacks in our medical and pharmaceutical industries, and
instead have concentrated o... more »
"Only a small percentage"
Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 13 hours ago
I keep hearing that I shouldn't tar all Muslims with the same brush of
intolerance, as "only a small percentage" hold extremist views...
A small percentage?
Untitled
New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 13 hours ago
*Sean Payton quotes from final press conference before New York Jets*
*Happy 47th Birthday Saints Fans O'Da Whodat Nation!*
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*~Special thanks to Chef Mary Sonnier for this Beautimous Birthday Cake!*
*James Gill: Environmental abyss still growing ~New Orleans Advocate*
*Mississippi River corridor between New Orleans and Baton Rouge is home for
much of state’s industrial boom ~Richard Thompson, Advocate*
*Louisiana consultants ease Seaside Heights' Sandy recovery ~Kristi
Funderburk, APP.com*
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Libya news November 3 , 2013 - Was Al - Libi seized by Libyans rather than US Special Forces - SSC Head Hashim Bishr says " Yes , he was " ... UAE National Airline suspends air service between Abu Dhabi and Tripoli effective immediately - passenger and cargo flights halted due to operational and safety concerns ... A look at jailbreaks in Pakistan , Iraq and Libya , Al Qaeda plot say Americans , wonder what Libyans surmise ?
Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 13 hours ago
http://www.libyaherald.com/2013/11/01/ssc-head-maintains-al-ruqaii-seized-by-libyans-not-americans/#axzz2javEuXB7
SSC head maintains Al-Ruqaii seized by Libyans not Americans
*By Ashraf Abdul Wahab and Tom Westcott*.
[image: Ruqaii was seized on]
Al-Ruqaii now faces terrorism-related charges in the US
*Tripoli, 1 November 2013*:
The head of the Supreme Security Committee (SSC) Hashim Bishr maintains
that the kidnapping of Nazih Al-Ruqaii, alias Abu Anas Al-Libi, was
executed by Libyans, not US Special Forces.
“The American story is saying that the operation was done by American units
... more »
Iraq seeks intel help ( drones over Iraq again ) , Apache helicopters , missiles and other weaponry from the US ( While house not ready to send soldiers to Iraq - not yet at least ) .... So after leaving Iraq , US slinking back in country on the sly ?
Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 13 hours ago
http://rt.com/op-edge/iraq-us-weapons-zangana-140/
US weapons won’t solve Iraq’s security issue, will only increase civilian
deaths
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Can I bubble? Yes, I can!
Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 14 hours ago
This real *kindergarten* poster was sent fromTexas and posted by Shaun
Johnson @thechalkface on Oct. 27:
Teacher Latest Victim of Nation's Largest Governor
Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 14 hours ago
1. See a pattern here?
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Governor Chris Christie responds to a teacher's question during a town
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Judge Jeanine to Barack Obama: "No One Believes You Anymore!"...
Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 14 hours ago
*and they haven't for a long, long time.*
So glad Obama got in a round of golf yesterday. /sarc
And, via Drudge, exactly what I predicted years ago: *Virginia Democrat
Calls For Forcing Doctors To Accept Medicare And Medicaid Patients.*
via Freedom's Lighthouse:
"Stop telling us what's good for us!" says Judge Jeanine Pirro in her
opening statement on 'Justice' this week as she focuses primarily on the
horrific rollout of Obamacare issues, coupled with the continued denial by
Barack Obama and Kathleen Sebelius as to who needs to take the blame for it.
Truthiness and popular consciousness
Roobin at THROUGH THE SCARY DOOR - 14 hours ago
This is a small example but, according to this poll, people are typically
more likely to think the BBC is left-wing than right-wing; 27% of people
think it is left-leaning, 14% think it is right leaning, 37% think it's
neutral and 23% don't know.
I'm not sure which is the most disturbing figure. I suppose it must be that
almost quarter of people can't tell the difference between left and right.
This is truthiness in action. The fact is popular consciousness is a wreck.
People will not rise up/resist/whatever until they have the remotest grasp
on what is actually being done to them.... more »
November watch list - Food Stamp Hunger Games begins November 1 with the impact not to be fully realized until the latter part of the month ..... Fukushima fuel rod removal at the spent fuel pool for Unit 4 commences November 8 - is Tepco up to the task ? Iran and P 5 + ! talks resume November 7-8 - will the talks succeed or be sabotaged ? Grid Ex 2 coming November 13-14 - False Flag looming ? Why is a President who never shys from making speeches or finding the great photo opportunity NOT participating in the 150th Anniversary of the Gettysburg Address - what is on his schedule so important , why the snub if there isn't something truly compelling , why was no legitimate reason given by the White House Press Secretary for why Obama will be missing in action there ? ? Is the decision not to participate akin to the dog that didn't bark ?
Catharsis Ours - 15 hours ago
Things to watch for November......
Hunger Games American style.....Nov 1
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-11-01/today-americas-foodstamps-program-gets-6-haircut-what-happens-next
Today, America's Foodstamps Program Gets A 6% Haircut: What Happens Next?
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/01/2013 11:03 -0400
- Capital Markets
- Federal Reserve
- Florida
- Gross Domestic Product
- Illinois
- Main Street
- Michigan
- Ohio
- Recession
- recovery
inShare
Today, one of America's best-known welfare programs wit... more »
Aboriginal Rights - Who Qualifies to Claim
James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 15 hours ago
The definition of who is, or is not, an aboriginal is fraught with
controversy (consider Grey Owl). That said, in Powley 2003 SCC 43 the
Supreme Court defined who may claim rights as Métis and that gives some
guidance:
*Métis Identification*
The Court did not set out a comprehensive definition of Métis for all
purposes. It did, however, set out the basic means to identify Métis
rights-holders. The Court identified three broad factors:
self-identification, ancestral connection to the historic Métis community,
and community acceptance.
*Self-identification* - the indivi... more »
Standing Firmly By The Wealthy
Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 15 hours ago
Ten anti-union resolutions were passed at the Conservative convention in
Calgary. They are aimed at making Canada a "right to work" nation. It's
wise, therefore, to examine what has happened in the nation which pioneered
right to work legislation. Right to work is the brain child of the
Republican Party -- the source of inspiration for Harper Conservatives.
On Friday, in *The New York Times*, Paul Krugman wrote that Republicans
have declared war on the poor:
Republicans in leadership positions try to modulate their language a bit,
but it’s a matter more of tone than substance. Th... more »
In The Republican War Against The Poor, Not All Democrats Are On The Right Side
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago
You probably saw the anti-union, food stamp-cutting governor of Ohio, John
Kasich, publicly bitching the other day that his political party is engaged
in a merciless war against the poor. “I’m concerned," said Kasich, "about
the fact there seems to be a war on the poor. That, if you’re poor, somehow
you’re shiftless and lazy.” He may well have had Republican House budget
chairman and class warrior Paul Ryan in mind. The Paul Ryan who has been
working single-mindedly to demolish the social safety net and famously
quipped that it has become “a hammock that lulls able-bodied people to... more »
Background checks on all prospective gun owners in the USA?
Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 15 hours ago
I believe that Obama supporters are in favour of background checks on all
prospective gun owners in the USA? How about in Syria?
WE CAN'T AFFORD THE PIVOT
Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 15 hours ago
I'm at the Washington airport waiting to fly home. The three days of
meetings on Obama's "pivot" of 60% of US military forces into the
Asia-Pacific went very well. I'll write more about the meetings later on.
For now it's evident that we are building a good national/international
working group around the US military strategy to surround and provoke
China. We came up with some good plans to help the peace movement and the
broader public get engaged in thinking and talking about this expensive,
provocative and dangerous strategy.
I was up early this morning and left the Dorothy ... more »
Seek and ye shall find
Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 15 hours ago
Returning to this morning's *Sunday* (as I'm wont to do), we heard an
interview with the charming Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby.
Ed Stourton had him on the phone from South Korea, and asked him if he's
enjoying the job. He is.
That, however, was pretty much the only question that went beyond the
programme's usual frame of reference. The rest of Ed's questions concerned
(a) splits within the Anglican communion, (b) more splits over women
bishops and (c) yet more splits over same-sex marriage. There's usually "an
Anglican row over something" story on *Sunday,* so this int... more »
Military unrest with President Obama - retired Generals criticize actions taken that have damaged morale , weakened readiness and resulted in 197 high officers being relieved of duty over 5 years ...How is it that the sequester could leave military units unable to conduct training due to lack of ammunition , when we read of DHS and other agencies buying large amounts of ammo without any seeming restrictions ? And why would a President who admires Lincolnc so much pass on participating in the 150 Anniversary of the Gettysburg Address ? Just odd.....
Catharsis Ours - 15 hours ago
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2013/10/obama_passes_on_invitation_to.html
( Does this strike anyone else as just odd ? )
Hopes that President Obama would be in Gettysburg Nov. 19 to take part in
ceremoniescommemorating the 150th anniversary of President Lincoln's
Gettysburg Address were dashed Wednesday when the administration announced
Obama will not attend.
Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will represent the administration,
the National Park Service announced. She and Pulitzer Prize-winning
historian James McPherson will share the keynote speaker role in the
D... more »
Half the story...
Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 16 hours ago
On forums such as this, or *Biased BBC*, or the *Spectator, Telegraph,
Mail, Commenter *or *Central Trending* (etc), you can read comments on an
almost daily basis alleging that the BBC treads on eggshells when reporting
on misdeeds by UK Muslims.
Some of the allegations made against the BBC are much stronger than that,
of course, claiming outright censorship on the BBC's part, in the supposed
interests of maintaining positive cultural relations and not fanning
so-called Islamophobia.
So what do you make of this?
*Sky News *has a prominent and arresting headline on its homepage:
... more »
APRC regulations and children of foreigners here
Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 16 hours ago
*You never know where a Taiwan ride will take you.*
A needlessly cruel law is the regulation that when minor children of
foreigners here become twenty, they can no longer remain in Taiwan on their
parents visa. This is a simple issue to fix, and one that affects a number
of families. Ralph Jensen, whose daughter has become the face of this
issue, writes:
My wife and I started a project to encourage the Taiwan government to relax
APRC regulations for spouses and children of APRC holders.
There's an online petition at
http://www.change.org/petitions/nia-keep-families-together but o... more »
Dia de Los Difuntos: The Movie
Jody Paterson at A Closer Look: Jody Paterson - 16 hours ago
Here's a little video of the scene in the Copan Ruinas cemetery yesterday,
Dia de Los Difuntos. This is my favourite Honduran celebration, as it's
wonderful to see the graves all painted and decorated, and everyone in such
a festive mood as they remember their loved ones. Nothing sombre about Day
of the Departed.
Jody Paterson has been observing the world through writing since 1982.
Guest column: S.C. schools have poverty problem | The Greenville News | greenvilleonline.com
plthomasedd at @ THE CHALK FACE - 16 hours ago
Guest column: S.C. schools have poverty problem | The Greenville News |
greenvilleonline.com.
BBC EU Action
Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 17 hours ago
The *Telegraph* v the BBC. Round 116.
And it's the* Telegraph*'s Tim Ross again piling on the punches. [I've
never heard or seen him on the BBC, as far as I'm aware, and am probably
even less likely to see him from now on!]
This story relates to the charity BBC Media Action and the news that it
received £4.5 million from the European Union last year "mostly for work
designed to ensure the progress of the enlargement of the EU".
Some Conservative MPs are concerned, saying this could "undermine the
credibility of the BBC’s coverage of controversial European issues,
including EU e... more »
Undoubtedly true
Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 17 hours ago
' The Syrian crisis remains absent from Palestinian talking
points because
Palestinians are still far more intent on destroying the Jewish
state–inter
alia by flooding it with millions of Palestinian refugees–than in making
the compromises needed to get a state of their own and absorb those
refugees themselves. And that's also precisely why peace remains
impossible.'
More here
http://israelmatzav.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/behind-palestinian-silence-on-syrian.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&m=1
Aboriginal people are the plurality in large areas of Canada
James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 17 hours ago
No lights on 'Sunday'
Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 17 hours ago
"When looking for bias, one invariably finds it", says one of the BBC's
defenders at the *Guardian *website (in the thread beneath the report
mentioned in the last post).
It's a theme I used to dwell on quite a bit here, and it's one that those
who blog about BBC bias should always have at the back of their minds,
acting like a smoke detector.
As someone who tunes into Radio 4's *Sunday* with the express purpose of
monitoring it for bias, I am certainly "looking for bias". Almost
"invariably" I "find it" too.
For example, as many of Britain's Hindus and Sikhs are celebrating Diw... more »
Free Planet - what's possible from abstaining from ANIMAL MURDER FOR FOOD
Mike Philbin at PROGNOSIS II - 18 hours ago
in a Free Planet, the people will be supplied with their own Peanut Taxis
that take them to their own Floating Homes in the sky, borders will be
eradicated so one can live where one wants and all food will be
hydroponically supplied i.e. Vegan.
"But, Mike, aren't vegans short, pale and pasty weaklings?"
*Vegan bodybuilder Frank Medrano joins a growing number of athletes and
bodybuilders whose phenomenal fitness and peak physical performance are
powered exclusively by plants. As the general public is increasingly
confronted with the inherent cruelty of all animal farming, and armed ... more »
Transition: Liliana Flotta
Inexplicata (IHU) at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 18 hours ago
*Transition: Liliana Flotta*
The Argentinean UFO community is saddened by the passing of researcher *Liliana
Flotta* on Saturday, November 2. INEXPLICATA readers came to know her
through her sterling work in the research of the Orlando Ferraudi contactee
experience(*
http://inexplicata.blogspot.com/2013/02/old-school-1956-ferraudi-contactee.htm
*l)and earlier works we had the pleasure of making known to English-reading
audiences. She is survived by her husband *Eduardo Grosso*, who was also
her companion in research. Our deepest sympathy to her friends and family.
Inexplicata Podcas... more »
"There is no room for prejudice of any kind in sport or in society."
Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 18 hours ago
These were the words used by The International Tennis Federation who have
suspended Tunisia from the Davis Cup tennis tournament after Tunisian
player Malek Jaziri was ordered not to compete against an Israeli opponent
last month. The International Tennis Federation said there was no room for
prejudice in sport and the one-year ban was a "fitting penalty".
Finally a world sports federation takes action against one of the Muslim
racist states. Plenty more need to follow suit.
CONNED, SEDUCED AND INTIMIDATED BY THE RICH
Anon at aangirfan - 18 hours ago
*America's Midwest is being neglected by the elite, and so it is losing
people. Orange = losing people*. *Mapping 60 Years of White Flight, Brain
Drain and American Migration*
Governments deliberately create economic crises so that they then have an
excuse to privatize public property and reduce spending on the poor.
"The financial oligarchy ... has embarked on an unprecedented economic coup
d’état against the people, the ravages of which include extensive
privatization of the public sector, systematic application of neoliberal
austerity economics and radical redistribution of reso... more »
Evolving perspectives on temperature
Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 19 hours ago
Long before men and women became humans, even millions of years before they
were polar bears ;-), these people experienced the sensations related to
the heat and coldness. When it was warmer, they usually felt pleasant. When
it was too hot, they started to sweat, melt, and evaporate. When it was too
cold, they started to freeze over, and so on. You have probably heard about
these phenomena. ;-)
*Thermoscopes and their modernization*
Before anyone would talk about science, it was instinctively understood
that the environment had a property – one that we call the temperature
today – ... more »
Another poll
Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 19 hours ago
Talking of opinion polls, the *Observer *has published another one about
the BBC today, confirming that more people think the BBC is biased towards
the Left than towards the Right.
Around 41% think the BBC displays some bias. Of these, 27% say it leans to
the left and 14% say it favours the right. Overall, 37% of people polled
think the corporation is neutral in its news reporting while 26% do not
know.
[You may have notices a mismatch between the *Observer*'s quote of 26% who
don't know, and their accompanying graphic showing that figure as 23%].
on the subject of being SENSITIVE... I am not 'psychic' nor will I ever be... but...
Mike Philbin at PROGNOSIS II - 19 hours ago
some people, like myself, are sensitive ... to the Environment.
Let me state for the record that (though I've tried time and again to fire
up my so-called 'psychic powers' of spirit contact or psychokinesis or
astral travel) I don't believe there's anything about me that's PSYCHIC in
this manner. Any such power that I would profess to have is 'in my head'
only. Caveat cited.
But ... *I am sensitive* ... to the Environment. Like many people I've had
to deal with certain reactions to the world I live in: asthma, hay fever or
other reactions to food, additives, alcohol, caffeine, asp... more »
Lessons of History Department
Zoe Brain at A.E.Brain - 19 hours ago
The Religious Reich has been like this for a while.
Free Planet - Campaign to STOP MUCKING ABOUT WITH NOON for commercial purposes
Mike Philbin at PROGNOSIS II - 20 hours ago
as a kinda soft-link follow-on to my decimal day, decimal year post of
April 2013, I want to discuss *or rant about* DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME or
SUMMER TIME.
Every year, for some commercial or latitudinal reason, Global Time Keepers
push the clocks one hour forward in March and one hour backward in October.
This is supposed to be, according to ABC affilitate WGNO, all Benjamin
Franklin's fault.
*Benjamin Franklin proposed Daylight Saving Time as an American delegate in
Paris in 1784. The idea didn’t really catch on in the United States until
World War I, in an effort to save on artif... more »
Is the writing on the wall for the BBC licence fee?
Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 21 hours ago
The *Sunday Telegraph*'s assault on the BBC continues.
They commissioned the polling company ICM to ask the public about the BBC
licence fee, and the results are startling, with 70% of voters responding
that the licence fee "should be abolished or cut".
That figure breaks down into 49% saying the fee should be completely
abolished, and 21% saying that the present £145.50 fee should be cut. Only
10% were willing to see the fee increase in line with inflation, and only
0.3% supported an above-inflation rise.
The *Telegraph *adds, "There was wide support for the idea of the BBC
dev... more »
Update On Syria: Saudi Arabia's Scattered Army of Executioners And Vandalists Faces Defeat
Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 23 hours ago
*BHO: Never bow to a tyrant. Especially a tyrant who will meet his fate
very soon. A better man would have not even offered his hand for a
handshake. But America is led by lesser men, by the likes of Rumsfelds
and
Obamas of the world who shake hands with tyrants when's it convenient,
and
then seek their ouster when it's not. Shame on any nation that produces
such men and raises them to high office time after time. *
An excerpt from, *"Unifying Syria’s Rebels: Saudi Arabia Joins the
Fray"*by Yezid Sayigh, Carnegie Middle East Center, October 28, 2013:
According to Saudi insiders, t... more »
Are You Prone To Obey Authority?
DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
Stanley Milgram's experiments on obedience to authority are among the best
known social science experiments ever done and we've looked at them before,
primarily on the context of what kind of a person will agree to torture
another human being-- and what kind of a person will refuse. Stanley
Milgram began these experiments in 1961 just after the high-profile trial
of German war criminal Adolf Eichmann dominated international headlines.
In their new book, Predisposed: Liberals, Conservatives, and the Biology of
Political Differences, John Hibbing, Kevin Smith and John Alford look at... more »
Another Small Library: Eighty-eight More LDOE Documents
deutsch29 at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
Yesterday, I posted 95 documents, the result of my searching files not
obviously available on the Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE)
website. Today, I returned to the site to locate documents from 2007, the
time that Paul Pastorek became state superintendent and Paul Vallas,
Recovery School District (RSD) superintendent. It is a terrible experience
to have […]
TV Watch: Bye-bye, Food Network -- it was nice while it lasted
KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
*Considering all the extraordinary work Alton Brown did on Good Eats, he
remains a real star in my book. Still, can he really be happy having sunk
to the level of Cutthroat Kitchen?*
*by Ken*
You want to know how far I go back with Food Network? When I first got
cable (finally! after moving from an apartment where for more than 20 years
I'd been unable to have cable because the landlord supposedly wouldn't
allow the building to be defaced with cable wiring -- it wasn't till I
moved out that I discovered I was pretty much the only one in the building *
without* cable), we didn't eve... more »
Kerry Brown in The Diplomat
Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 1 day ago
Kerry Brown's piece in the The Diplomat argued that the PRC is Biggest
Obstacle to Unification with Taiwan. He writes:
This second issue is where the hope lies. Taiwan’s political evolution
remains a great inspiration for change on the Mainland, a political
transition within a Chinese cultural polity which was stable. For this
reason, while Xi’s comments might unsettle people in the short term, in the
long term they just expose the great secret about modern cross-Strait
relations: that the People’s Republic of China’s political system is the
greatest barrier to reunification. *A r... more »
Elsipogtog Reclaim Traditional Lands: November 2, 2013
brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
Elsipogtog
Reclaim Traditional Lands: November 2, 2013
Shared by Jarrett Martineau
On November 2, 2013, members of Elsipogtog First Nation began staking
claims to unoccupied Crown lands, as part of Reclamation Day campaign to
reclaim "all unoccupied reserved native lands" to be put it in the
trust of the Mi'kmaq Nation.
Members of Elsipogtog First Nation began staking claims to
Israel Attacks Syria In Attempt To Jump Start World War III
Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day ago
I have not commented the last few days about Israel's unprovoked and
heinous attack on a Syrian military facility near the port city of Latakia,
but I figured it is better late than ever that I chime in on this insidious
attack, and what I believe is the psychos in Israel wanting to get the war
on Syria jumpstarted since their attempt to use the fraud chemical weapons
attack of a few months back has failed miserably!
I came across the following article, through the Russia Today online news
site, at www.rt.com, that I knew belonged here at my blog... It does seem
that the Israelis di... more »
NJ Governor Screams at Teacher: ‘Do Your Job!’
Kris Nielsen at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
The New Jersey teacher in the photo below had just asked Chris Christie the
following question: Why do you continue to spread the myth that our schools
and teachers are failing? His reply? “You people! Just do your job!” What
does he mean by “you people?” UPDATE: Make sure you listen to The Chalk
Face […]
Saudis break away and lead GCC on their own path regarding aiding Al Qaeda Rebels in Syria..... Interestingly , the Washington Post Woodward article gives credence to the Debka piece from earlier this week that a deal with Iran in the ongoing nuclear talks is well on the way , if not already " quietly " agreed upon between the US and Iran ...... Isn't it almost funny ( considering how War in Syria seems almost like some misty have formed dream / nightmare of sorts ) , that we still are waiting for the final UN report on Syria and so called chemical weapon usage by either / or Syria rebels or Government forces ......
Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/syrian-conflict-persian-gulf-officials-tired-of-waiting-for-us-move-to-boost-aid-to-rebels/2013/11/02/af0c8554-4324-11e3-8b74-d89d714ca4dd_print.html
(
GCC going their own way on Syria... )
Syrian conflict: Persian Gulf officials, tired of waiting for U.S., move
to
boost aid to rebelsBy Karen DeYoung and Bob Woodward, Updated: Saturday,
November 2, 5:57 PMPersian Gulf countries, led by Saudi Arabia, are
moving
to strengthen their military support for Syrian rebels and develop
policy
options independent from the United States in t... more »
Europe unemployment numbers and inflation data leads a bevy of dismal macro ( fundamentals matter ? ) news from Europe .... Japan also present dismal data as Abenomics disappoints - wages fall for 16 straight month despite increase in prices for imported ( safe ) food and energy ...China still between rock and hard place of liquidity concerns and reining inflationin...President Obama sees political polling number sink to lowest approval level ( Obamacare sinking into American brains )
Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-31/futures-unable-ramp-higher-despite-cornucopia-disappointing-macro-news
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Futures Unable To Ramp Higher Despite Cornucopia Of Disappointing Macro NewsSubmitted
by Tyler Durden on 10/31/2013 - 07:07
In addition to the bevy of ugly European unemployment and inflation news
just reported, the overnight session had a dollop of more ugly macro data
for the algos to kneejerkingly react to and ramp stocks to fresh time highs
on. First it was China, where the PBOC did another reverse repo, however
this time at a fixed 4.3%... more »
Another Great Video Narrated By "Snordelhans" Aka.."Snordster": Game Over! Dollar Dead! Gold $7000 (Part 1)
Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day ago
I have been a bit under the weather the last few days... This year, I was
hoping that I could get past my annual attack of Sinusitis... But this
year, in spite of my preparations, it came on over the last few days, and I
have been laid up trying to fight it. Luckily, this year I have been
overloading my body with both Vitamin C and Vitamin D and the effects have
been much diminished over what I have experienced over the last few years.
I also absolutely REFUSE to go and get any "antibiotics" to fight this
attack, because I do know the truth that "antibiotics" do more harm than
g... more »
The blame game: NSA chief points finger at US diplomats in spy scandal
AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago
U.S. Army Gen. Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency
and
commander of U.S. Cyber Command (Mark Wilson / Getty Images / AFP)
http://rt.com/news/nsa-chief-blames-diplomats-061/
*The blame game: NSA chief points finger at US diplomats in spy scandal*
Published time: November 01, 2013 08:02 Get short URL
In an unexpected twist in the NSA scandal, spy chief Keith Alexander has
blamed US diplomats for ordering surveillance on EU politicians. Meanwhile,
State Secretary John Kerry has admitted espionage “reached too far,”
alleging it was on “automatic pilot.”
Indicatin... more »
ALEC Admits It Is Out to Destroy US Democracy
2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day ago
ALEC Admits It Is Out to Destroy Democracy
Yep folks - you read that correctly!
There are no "take-backs" on this one for ALEC.
I'll make this entry short because I don't want you to get confused or
missed the point.
For the past 3 years I have written that you have to be careful about
everything that ALEC writes - that they intentionally mislead the press and
the public.
For years I have warned you that ALEC was out to destroy our democratic
representative government - of, for and by the people.
For years - I have been duped by ALEC also.
*"Limited Government"*
For years I have th... more »
It's the singer, not the song
Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 day ago
Something for a Saturday night. Previously unpublished photos of the
Rolling Stones taken in 1965. Many more at the link.
They were so young then. Almost innocent.
To My Students: ‘I Love You and Believe in You’
Kris Nielsen at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
The following is a guest post from my friend, Meg Norris, who has an
important message for her students. (Grab a Kleenex. I did.) To My
Students, I did not return to the classroom this year and I want to
apologize. I am truly sorry for having left you. It was the hardest
decision I […]
Flashpoint is Soon to be Attained Among Gaia Inhabitant Energetic Mixture
AMERICAN KABUKI at AMERICAN KABUKI - 1 day ago
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by ÉirePort
Formation dynamics of New Gaia grids continues transformation process for
"hu-manity to Hue-manity".
Flashpoint is soon to be attained among Gaia inhabitant energetic mixture,
leading to final transmutation/purification of the planet.
Monitoring by Higher Sources continues on all levels.
Energetics of Gaia are prepared for the next phase.
ÉirePort | November 2, 2013 at 21:43
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