English: The delegation at St. Michael's Cathedral. From left to right: Senator Richard Burr, Mrs. Brooke Burr, Senator Judd Gregg, Mrs. Kathleen Gregg, Mrs. Karyn Frist, and Senator Bill Frist. Kyiv, Ukraine. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: NORFOLK (March 29, 2010) West Virginia Governor, Joe Manchin III stands with a custom-painted C-2A Greyhound from the Rawhides of Fleet Logistics Support Squadron (VRC) 40 before boarding the plane for a flight to the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75). The Governor is embarking Harry S. Truman as a distinguished visitor. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class William Weinert/Released) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Where are they Now? - A-Z of Bristol bands - Songwriters - Musicians (Photo credit: brizzle born and bred)
Turkeys in Folsom (Photo credit: rckenned)
European Union (Photo credit: ana branca)
european union stars (Photo credit: notarim)Turkey & Ukraine afflicted with EU/ private banking/business parasites
Found some interesting articles...
As usual I will highlight the interesting bits.
Turkey is afflicted with the same bloodsucker trying to latch itself onto
the Ukraine.
*The parasitic EU wants to drain all life from both nations.*
*THE EU NEEDS TURKEY*
But, does Turkey need or want the EU? Does the Ukraine really want or need
to be part of the EU?
We have some interesting parallels here-
ISTANBUL —* The Turks are increasingly hubristic, and not just in the
Middle East. Having seen their total G.D.P. more than double in the past
decade, many Turks do not feel that they need the Eu... more »
Summer Reading
A few of you were distraught* that I hadn't yet posted my bookstack of
holiday reading this year. So here it is, all ready for me to realise I'm
going to need a bigger bag.
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The source of true friendship
H/T to Oldpharte and Globallove Think Tank
Chariots of the Gods new revelations
Any question this depicts spacecraft? These are Mayan disks found 8o years
ago. I am not totally sold on extra terrestrial.
Another plausible explanation is that earth has had one or more cycles
where technology surpassed our own. Thus destroying that civilization
so thoroughly we only have a few artifacts remaining.
H/T to American Kabuki and oldephartte(in training)
Christmas less Christian, says survey
Gus Van Horn spotted some more interesting polling data coming out of the
States, summarised by him as "Half of Americans Have Ceased Injecting Faith
into Christmas":
[O]nly a little more than half [of Americans] actually regard the
[Christmas] holiday primarily as a religious celebration.
More than one-third say it's more a cultural holiday, a new poll from Pew
Research's Religion & Public Life Policy found.
This is great news from undeniably the most religious western country, and
hopefully a growing cultural trend. As Gus says
This calls to mind Leonard Peikoff's classic essay... more »
Fair warning!
For the next week, starting tomorrow, once again, Through the Scary door
will be the world's BIGGEST blog. The odds are fairly good that this guy
will make an appearance.
Is There Such A Thing As Too Extreme On The Right-- Or Does It Always Have To End In An Orgy Of Blood?
If you want to find out which Senate Republicans have the most reactionary
and extreme right voting records, you can access that information at
ProgressivePunch. You just scroll down past the most conservative
Democrats-- like Joe Donnelly, Joe Manchin, Mark Warner and Mark Pryor--
and past then garden variety conservative Republicans who are getting
primaries by teabaggers, like Susan Collins, Lamar Alexander, Thad Cochran
and Lindsey Graham, and you get to a land of make-believe. Past right-wing
sociopaths like Ron Johnson, Richard Burr, Marco Rubio, Richard Shelby, you
find the... more »
PASTOR BUM-SEX AND OIL
*American pastor Rick Warren embraces a young man. American pastor Rick
Warren has close ties to the "kill the gays" bill supporter pastor Martin
Ssempa.*
An American called *Caleb Lee Brundidge* admits to having a history of
being GAY.
*nytimes.com*.
One might assume that he may still be GAY.
One might speculate that Caleb Brundidge is paid by the CIA to promote a
policy of 'divide and rule' in Uganda, which has oil wealth.
Caleb Brundidge is one of the American evangelical Christians who went to
Uganda to back the homophobes who want gay people to be executed.
In March 2009,... more »
The Poet: William Butler Yeats, "The Second Coming"
*"The Second Coming"*
*․ *
"Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the... more »
The Axiom of the Abandoned: “I Am the Union”
I am pro-union. Teachers need strong representation and advocacy. But
it’s broken right now. Just when I thought that the speeches and editorials
from Dennis Van Roekel and Randi Weingarten were showing a turn-around back
to reality, and just when I thought those two were going to start fighting
for public education and their members, […]
"What Can We Know?"
"What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering
out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instincts of
beasts."
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
We Have A Moral Obligation To Fix US Inequality, Orwell Triumphs Regretted As Gov't Lies and Warrantless Wiretapping Continues, and More Cass Sunstein Legerdemain For the Unseeing Masses (Or Will It Ricochet)? Bankers Now Sitting In Barber Chair (Waiting for Trim?) Just A Quick Haircut As BoA Foreclosure Scams Revealed (Rape Victims Names Now A Commodity)
Robert Reich has a Christmas message for US. Ninety-five percent of
economic gains since 2009 have gone to the 1 percent. We have a moral
obligation to fix this. It’s the season to show concern for the less
fortunate among us. We should also be concerned about the widening gap
between the most fortunate and everyone else. the biggest lottery of all is
what family we’re born into. Our life
NSA backlash hits US tech as foreign countries balk at doing businesses due to concerns of NSA spying aided by Big Tech complicity .....
http://www.juancole.com/2013/12/encryption-companies-install.html
NSA bribed Encryption Companies to Install Back Doors: Was the Law Broken?
Did Obama Know?
(By Juan Cole)
Reuters gets the scoop: the National Security Agency gave internet security
firm RSA some $10 million to use an NSA encryption formula in its BSafe
software. RSA is now a subsidiary of the EMC corporation, and they have
urged customers not to use BSafe since the revelations by Edward Snowden
made clear that the NSA’s formula in fact allowed the agency access to all
the information supposedly encrypted with it.
T... more »
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Sovereignty 101: Installment 1 - Sea of Chains
You are swimming in a sea of chains. There are so many and they are so
thick, you cannot tell what yours are attached to – but yes, you are
shackled. It is not as if your very life depends on what’s at the end of
that shackle – *it is that you believe that it does. *It is that belief
that keeps you bound. Keeps you moving to wherever it drags you. Keeps
you asking to be released.
It is your belief that holds you, your mind that binds you.
The effort to control you focuses on a constant stream of programming as
well as entertainment and food, to keep you fat and happy, mesmer... more »
ObamaCare update December 21 , 2013 - Did President Obama and HHS , by partially exempting millions from the Individual Mandate unilaterally , de facto repeal the Individual Mandate for everyone ? How can the act of Insurers following the law and canceling insurance plans that were not in accord with Obamacare ( rendering millions suddenly with out insurance plans ) , be deemed an " unexpected human caused event " ? In other words , is ObamaCare itself a " hardship " and if so , what other exemptions will be bestowed on random groups / subsets of citizens by HHS as ObamaCare continues to unravel ? As the economics fall apart , what subsidies will be unilaterally given to insurers ?
Catharsis Ours - 5 hours ago
View from right and Left on Obama individual mandate exemption tossed
out
Thursday evening
Leftish view.....
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*real* Obamacare fix: Let thirtysomethings sign up for Medicare
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insurance marketplace from the Department of Health and Human Services.
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"You Can Be Sure of It..."
"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken
places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and
the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these
you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."
"If we win here we will win everywhere. The world is a fine place and worth
the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it."
- "A Farewell to Arms"
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Never, ever forget that nothing in this life is free. Life demands payment
in some form for your "right" to express yourself, to condemn and ... more »
Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, December 22nd, 2013
Sunday, and honestly I did want to skip doing this rant for one week while
I am trying to get some rest and relaxation, but what I found this last
week has made me decide to absolutely not miss this one at all...
First I do want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas.... And yes, it is still
CHRISTMAS.. Not that garbage of "Happy Holidays" that the Jewish scumbags
want to permanently put in its place...I have spent enough time over the
last few weeks going shopping, and everywhere I go I have been wishing
everyone a "Merry Christmas"... It is so amazing the dirty looks I have
received f... more »
Predictably, the Washington Post releases a major CIA story during a week when no one is paying attention
The
best times to read the paper are Friday nights and holiday periods.
That's when the more sensitive stories the CIA doesn't want you to read
are often put out. It's happened over and over through history.
This holiday season, the Washington Post released an important story
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2013/12/21/covert-action-in-colombia/?wpisrc=al_national)
on covert
Sunday Classics: It's "The Nutcracker" -- the whole deal! (again -- our last annual encore presentation)
*With the "Nutcracker Suite" sequence of Disney's Fantasia now unavailable,
I thought to kick off we'd just look at this little teaser from Helgi
Tómasson's San Francisco Ballet staging.*
*by Ken*
[*To repeat, this is an "encore presentation" of last year's encore
presentation of 2011's complete-Nutcracker post, which I thought came out
pretty darned well. You probably think it's a huge labor-saver just running
a post "rerun." Perhaps I thought so too, but it never works out that way.*]
The plan is pretty simple. As promised in Friday night's preview, when we
heard (once again) tw... more »
New York Times Doesn't Just Bury the Lead, They Bury the Story
The Sunday *New York Times* has a front page story about ballooning class
sizes with this headline:
Subtract Teachers, Add Pupils: Math of Today’s Jammed Schools
COATESVILLE, Pa. — The recession may have ended, but many of the nation’s
school districts that laid off teachers and other employees to cut payrolls
in leaner times have not yet replenished their ranks. Now, despite the
recovery, many schools face unwieldy class sizes and a lack of specialists
to help those students who struggle academically, are learning English as a
second language or need extra emotional support.
The ... more »
A Smoothie Recipe From Kids For Kids
Source:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/KIDS-saying-NO-to-GMO-and-Monsanto/532725250123850
Quarter Four Local By-Election Results 2013
Party
Number of candidates
Total vote
%
+/- Q3
Average/
contest
+/- Q3
+/- Seats
Conservative
72
25,133
20.3%
-7.0%
349
-4
-3
Labour
63
42,668
34.5%
+1.0%
677
+193
+6
LibDem
55
13,570
11%
+0.6%
247
+30
0
UKIP
62
15,933
12.9%
-4.0%
257
-11
0
SNP*
7
7,186
5.8%
+5.8%
1,027
+1,027
-2
Plaid Cymru**
4
1,022
0.8%
-0.5%
255
-290
0
Green
32
2,938
2.4%
-1.5%
92
-80
0
BNP
7
348
0.3%
+0.2%
50
-70
0
TUSC
13
570
0.5%
-0.1%
44
-43
... more »
Local Council By-Elections December 2013
Party
Number of candidates
Total vote
%
+/- Nov
Average/
contest
+/-
Nov
+/- Seats
Conservative
20
4,893
16.8%
-3.7%
245
-124
-1
Labour
15
9,148
31.5%
-2.7%
610
-66
0
LibDem
14
2,670
9.2%
+0.0%
191
+0
0
UKIP
19
4,202
14.5%
-0.3%
221
-101
0
SNP*
2
1,680
5.8%
+4.5%
840
+294
0
Plaid Cymru**
2
786
2.7%
+2.7%
393
+393
0
Green
8
855
2.9%
+0.9%
107
+37
0
BNP
2
81
0.3%
-0.1%
41
-35
0
TUSC
7
338
1.2%
+0.7%
49
+7
0
Independent***
12
3,425
11.8%
+1.7%
311
-12
+1
Other***... more »
"Holocaust" satire
*satire: the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and
criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of
contemporary politics and other topical issues.*
You may have read in some obscure part of the internet that the Holocaust
of six million Jews during WWII is a hoax - it didn't happen - and that all
of the heroic survivors and eye witnesses of Nazis atrocities are actually
embellishing or outright fabricating their entire experience during WWII.
Some even go so far as to claim that much, if not all, of the infamous
photographic and video i... more »
Teens & Kids On GMOs
https://www.facebook.com/TeensAndKidsAgainstGmo
Y'know all those "made in BC" jobs Christy Clark promised ...
Well,
the actual contract hasn't even been inked yet and Seaspan is looking
offshore to fill the positions necessary for the vessels they will
(supposedly) build.
Seaspan is a Canadian shipbuilding firm which has recently been given a
contract to build 17 ships for the Canadian Navy.
Now
they need skilled workers to move to Vancouver and help build the
vessels – and they have got their eye on
TUDA victor go the spoils?
The recently published 2013 Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA) has
received a great deal of attention, especially in regards to the District
of Columbia Public Schools. Although leading education reform advocates
express cautious optimism, they claim the results as “evidence” that the
2008 education reforms in D.C., vis-à-vis former DCPS Chancellor Michelle
Rhee, were, not […]
Steve's year in review
*Person of the Year*
Edward Snowden by a long shot. Will his heroic truth telling save humanity
from big brother and the Man? To soon to tell but sadly it seems no. Just
like every other bad thing we are forced to live with, climate change, war,
banksters and invisible hands, the surveillance society is here to stay.
Maybe knowing all about it will raise the collective angst to unbearable
levels. Ironically the bad guys now are fully informed, so the only people
caught in the net will be joe six pack citizens and their advocates,
especially the advocates.
*Worst Person of the Year... more »
War watch December 22 , 2013 - Pakistan Aid tied to Nato supply Routes ... Iran Sanctions battle in US set for early January , key test for not just Obama and Congress , but also the Nuclear Talks viability and AIPAC ...... Iraq death dealing report....
Pakistan related news ......
US bill links Pakistan aid to Nato supply routes
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WASHINGTON: The US Congress has passed a $552 billion defence authorisation
bill for 2014, which also calls for stopping reimbursements to Pakistan if
ground supply routes to Afghanistan are interrupted.
The bill provides $80.7bn for operations in Afghanistan and $1.5bn for
reimbursements to Pakistan in 2014, when the United States plans to
withdraw most of its combat troops from the region.
The bill is now at the White ... more »
The Memphis Hopson Hustle
Unless the public stops the corrupt capitulation by Memphis politicians to
the Gates agenda for privatizing American schools, the children of Memphis
will soon become the educational property of corporate charter schools that
receive public money to subject the poorest children to their cultural and
behavioral neutering programs. Here is a telling chunk of a piece on the
developments in New Orleans, whose Recovery School District was the model
used Tennessee's Tea Party hustlers:
. . . . Of the 89 public schools in New Orleans, only five will not be
charters next fall, all under th... more »
Our last show of 2013, DC mayoral candidate joins us At the Chalk Face
I attended a forum sponsored by the Washington Teacher’s Union on December
9th, which was part of a larger national day of action for AFT affiliations
to reclaim public education. Candidates for DC mayor showed up to answer
some questions on education posed by the President of the WTU. I was
particularly impressed by the […]
Kindergarten and the #commoncore @dianeravitch
Some pretty emotional comments were posted to Diane Ravitch’s blog recently
from Kindergarten teachers about how they’re teaching was forcefully
changed by the Common Core. And by forcefully, I mean that new rounds of
observation by new evaluators compel teachers to adjust their instruction
in very negative ways. Two points. One, I do sympathize with […]
Battling Education Reform: In the End it must be a “calling.”
I am the “new” Dean of a School of Education at a Catholic College in the
Midwest. One of the major reasons I was attracted to this position was the
prominence of the college’s Dominican values (Truth, Justice, Compassion,
Partnership, and Community). Think about it. If a college was committed to
these values what would […]
I Don’t Need Standards To Teach, I Need Students
I Don\’t Need Standards To Teach, I Need Students. via I Don’t Need
Standards To Teach, I Need Students.
Bloated Military Budget Passes-- Here's One The GOP Didn't Filibuster
Thursday night, just before midnight, the Senate approved the Pentagon
Budget 84-15. Disappointingly, only three Senate Democrats had the guts to
vote NO, Bernie Sanders, Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden. In the video above,
Bernie explains to his colleagues why had decided to vote against it. It's
worth watching. The only Republicans who voted against it are just the
regular extremists who oppose everything that Obama backs, Ted Cruz, Mike
Lee, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, Tom Coburn, etc. In his speech
Bernie quoted from President Eisenhower's "Cross of Iron" speech on April
16... more »
Teachers of Conscience and the Common Core Scylla and Charybdis
Teachers of Conscience and the Common Core Scylla and Charybdis. via
Teachers of Conscience and the Common Core Scylla and Charybdis.
Musical Interlude: Mary Hopkins,"Those Were The Days"
*For you, little Turtle, and all the great things we would do...*
*"Those Were The Days" *
by Mary Hopkins
"Once upon a time, there was a tavern
Where we used to raise a glass or two
Remember how we laughed away the hours,
Think of all the great things we would do
Those were the days, my friend
We thought they'd never end
We'd sing and dance forever and a day
We'd live the life we'd choose
We'd fight and never lose
For we were young and sure to have our way
Di di di di di di
Di di di di di di
Di di di di di di di di di di
Then, the busy years went rushing by us
We lost our starry noti... more »
Untitled
*James Gill: It’s official: Louisiana is a ‘hell-hole’ ~New Orleas Advocate*
*New Orleans apartment market surges ~Daily Comet*
*Employment, wages mostly flat in Louisiana ~AP*
* Fats Domino named Honorary Grand Marshal of Krewe of Orpheus ~WVUE*
Review of the Basics: Everything You Need to Know about "money" & "governments"
Today my friends, we are doing a review of the basics of what we know about
"Money" "Banking" "Currency" and "Value".
None of what I'm posting here will come as a surprise to the regular
readers of RTS- this is all information that I've been discussing for a
long time now. I am putting out this review because as Maloney in this
first video states, it is KNOWLEDGE and UNDERSTANDING that is the first
step to kNOWing and CHANGING- not just the system itself, but changing
OURSELVES and WAKING UP and BEing the Change we wish to see in this
world..... and beyond. It is only by kNOWi... more »
Links.... alas, too busy to blog
*Had a lot of fun riding down to the Chiayi HSR today. We played follow the
HSR line through the farm tracks in southern Yunlin county. Forgot that
there are only a couple of bridges across the river into Chiayi. Ended up
taking the new tourism bridge in Beigang...with that chilly north wind at
our backs, riding was easy. *
Too busy to blog today.....
*Daily Links*:
- Why doesn't anyone care about rising US-China tension?
- Latest in the MaWangMess: lesser prosecutor falls victim to influence
peddling accusations, which legislators from both major parties argues
is t... more »
Sunday Question for Everyone
What's a gift you would like to give to a politician you like? This is for
sincere, not sarcastic, gifts, but creative ones if you can think of them.
Chris Geo of Truth Frequency - amazing Ayahausca purging - meets the Holograph Maintainers!
This is labelled under 'big pharma' but it's more useful to think of this
as a 'little pharma' experience.
A couple of days ago, Chris Geo of Truth Frequency (who have featured put
up with 'yours truly' on a couple of occassions) celebrated his first
anniversary of marriage to wife Sheree by going on a massive Ayahuasca
purging.
Like, three times the standard dose, in the safe-ish hands of shaman
William Whitecrow, to face his fears and confront his demons. It's a
spectacular personal journey and one worth micro-quoting, thus:
*“You asked for the truth Chris, this is the cold hard... more »
EXPECT DEFLATION FOLLOWED BY INFLATION?
*Steen Jacobson*
Last year, Steen Jakobsen, the chief economist at the Danish Saxo Bank,
predicted that gold would drop in price to $1,200 an ounce and that shares
in the USA would rise sharply in price.
Those predictions were correct.
*Some of his other predictions were wrong.*
*Here are his predictions for what MIGHT just happen in 2014:*
*1.* The global recovery will falter.
*2.* There will be deflation.
The oil price will fall to $80 a barrel.
*3. *Technology stocks (shares in such companies as such as Amazon,
Netflix, Twitter, Pandora Media and Yelp) will fall greatly in ... more »
Volunteers Needed For A GMO Free Ohio
OHIO is working on a Constitutional Amendment that will put GMO Labeling on
the ballot in 2014. Volunteers needed - sign up at www.labelthetruth.org.
Signature gathering will begin soon - 600,000 signatures are required so
much help is need...ed. OHIO, COLORADO & OREGON take it to the people to
vote in 2014. WE NEED TO KNOW IF IT'S GMO!
*#Ohio* *#labelthetruth* *#gmo* *#labelgmos* *#freedom2chooz* *#boycottGMOs*
*#gmofreeusa* *#Colorado* *#Oregon*
*Source:*
*GMO Free USA*
Elixir of youth: nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide
Alchemists were hired and transferred to Prague by our leader, Austrian
Emperor Rudolph II (reign in Bohemia 1576—1611), and one of their tasks was
to develop the elixir of youth for the monarch who was aging, despite his
blue blood. He was aging so quickly that at night, "they" were clearly
hearing how "their" arteries are hardening with calcium and other waste
products (arteriosclerosis).
Days ago, the research project funded by Rudolph II was finally completed.
Well, maybe, if we believe the optimistic reports.
Anti-ageing compound set for human trials after turning clock back ... more »
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*Professional journalists and Federal Agents have been killed for telling
you the story I am about to tell you.*
*"The crash was covered decently and modestly by the medias. The
Lockerbie-people saw and felt a somehow stronger version: I am very
familiar with Lockerbie, both the locality and the circumstances
surrounding PA103.*
*My family spoke of that dreadful night with a horror that is hard to
describe. Of course newspapers and television use discretion when
publishing photographs of crash-sites. They usually publish photographs of
a teddy-bear or a broken doll to s... more »
Football discussed at a higher level than on Match of the Day - well the interviewer tries
Monty Python of course
And you think you have it rough ...
Journalist Michelle Stewart can probably put those feelings to rest.
All the best, Michelle. All any of us can do is hope this is a Christmas that brings you some joy. You deserve it.
We received one billion dollars
I was pleased to learn that along with Dick Lindzen, Anthony Watts, Marc
Morano, and a few other pals, we have received one billion dollars just in
2013!
Conservative groups spend up to $1bn a year to fight action on climate
change (Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian)
Congratulations to all of us. A possible problem – one pointed out to me by
the Galileo Movement via Twitter – is that I may find out that we just "may
have received" the billion instead of the phrase "did receive" it.
Meanwhile, if you send a few tens of dollars via PayPal, it will be noticed
and appreciated. ;-) Just ... more »
Weekend Fun 53: Mayor Days be Merry and Binays
*Mayor days be merry and bright*
*and Mayor all Christmas be white.*
*Binays (be nice), be not naughty*
*Santa Claus is coming to town.*
*Mayor Christmas always Binays.*
*Mayor dreams in Malacanang not come true. :-)*
These are some of the revised Christmas carols here in Manila after Makati
Mayor Junjun Binay's Dasma gate. Typical Pinoy humor.
On the famous umbrella at night and it was not raining, here are some
comments in facebook...
*may iba nagpayong at gabi pa... mainit ba buwan?*
*Oo nga, bakit pinapayungan sa gabi? Nilalamig ang bumbunan!?!*
*I can understand Imelda Marco... more »
Exercise of right to silence not evidence of guilt
R. v. Snelson, 2013 BCCA 550 (CanLII):
[56] If an accused person has a right to silence, it is an empty
right if the Crown is permitted to seek an inference of guilt from the
exercise of this right. An accused person also has a right to consult with
a lawyer and no inference of guilt can be drawn against Mr. Snelson for the
exercise of that right. See *R. v. Belowitz*, (1990), 56 C.C.C. (3d) 402 at
412-13 (Ont. C.A.).
Your moment of Zen
Snow Queen, one of the largest snow sculptures in the world, measuring 35m
high and 200m long.
White Elephant
If I had won that big Megabucks lottery a few days ago, I would have funded
this project myself. Brilliant. And how cool is it that you can make a
living at origami?
Backstory:
Now the 33-year-old artist is appealing to Indiegogo’s crowdfunding angels
to help him realize his ambition of folding a life-size elephant out of a
single sheet of 50 x 50 meter (164 x 164 foot) paper. (So far he’s raised
$13,843 of his $24,000 goal with 3 weeks to go.) Mabona says his aim is to
show what a single sheet of paper can do by using it to create a replica of
one of the world’s most imposing... more »
BATTLE TO COVER-UP CHILD ABUSE AND MURDER
On 22 December 2013, we read, yet again, that a top UK Conservative Party
politician, a former Thatcher Cabinet minister, is facing arrest in
connection with child abuse.
Police investigate former Thatcher Cabinet minister over child sex abuse -Herald
Scotland
The politician is being investigated by detectives leading Operation
Fernbridge, which is investigating claims that politicians and others
sexually abused boys at various places in the UK.
The police say that the charges relate to seven victims aged between nine
and 15, with the alleged offences taking place in the 1970s an... more »
PEDOPHILE RING IN ISRAEL?
*'Eyal Golan'*
In late November 2013, it was reported that the popular Israeli recording
artist Eyal Golan had been detained for questioning at Tel Aviv Police
Headquarters, in connection with allegations that he engaged in unlawful
sexual intercourse with a 15-year-old minor.
Reportedly, Golan was at the center of pedophile a ring that included his
father, his manager and other associates who sought out teenage female fans
during concerts for post-show sex and drug parties.
Israel's Eyal Golan Center of Sex Scandal
Two famous Israeli singers were said to be involved, plus a med... more »
The #ChristmasMyths #5: So, What’s With All That Frankincense?
*Part of a continuing series looking at the pagan origins of the Christmas
Myths,* one day at a time. Today, the story and pagan origins of the Divine
Child being recognised and presented with gifts…*
*So the Magi arrive at the house (if you’re reading Luke’s story of the
Nativity) – or the shepherds arrive at the stable (if you’re Matthew’s
story of the Nativity) – or no one arrives anywhere at all (if you’re
reading Mark or John’s story of the Nativity, because they didn’t see or
hear or dream up of any events they considered important enough to write
down) – so they arrive at t... more »
Want To Help Rickie Lee Jones Record Her New Album?
In 2006, Blue America worked with a group of various artists to promote
several dozen little known challengers to Republican House incumbents. The
video above, which we did for Kirsten Gillibrand in her first run for
Congress against powerful, entrenched incumbent John Sweeney, may have
helped her win her 53.1- 46.9% victory. She's now a U.S. Senator and
someone on the list of future potential national leaders. That same year we
did similar videos and songs for John Yarmuth (D-KY) and now Senator Chris
Murphy (D-CT). All three have music that was contributed by the key members
of... more »
Another BigMedia fail
While I've been offline for a few days President Obama held a presser. I
didn't see it but Betty Cracker did and reports:
UPDATE: Conference underway. PBO started off talking up the economy,
deficit reduction and healthcare enrollment. Noted that a budget passed.
Called for an extension of unemployment benefits, saying GOP should have
passed it before they left town.
She runs down the questions our prima donnas of the insider media asked
POTUS. Of course almost none of them addressed the substance of his
remarks. My personal favorite:
What is your New Year’s resolution?
Notably... more »
The Way Forward for 2014 .......JIM WILLIE: IN 2014 THE FAILURE BEGINS ! The Hidden Motives Behind The Federal Reserve Taper Strange things afoot involving gold ?
http://www.silverdoctors.com/jim-willie-in-2014-the-failure-begins/
By Jim Willie, GoldenJackass.com
The year 2013 will go down in history as the year of great transition,
tremendous disruption, numerous financial breakdowns, widely adopted hyper
monetary inflation, exposure of hidden devices, panorama of popular
awakening, and indisputable evidence of a systemic failure. The following
titles of significant events, organized by topical theme, are mindboggling
and comprehensive so as to attest to the global failures. The breakdown
touches almost every part of global life. The Ameri... more »
You don't mean to say you fell for this "royal baby" hoax?
*by Ken*
The woman in the alleged photo above is alleged to be a certain "Duchess of
Cambridge," aka "Princess Kate," who is alleged to have given birth to a
royal prince just 89 days before this photo was allegedly snapped. As
gazillions of women all over the world will tell you, "No way, José."
Next they'll be telling us that men have walked on the moon. And Hillary
Clinton didn't have all those people murdered.
Naturally the alleged British press is all over the alleged story.
For all those who were wondering whether Kate has snapped back into shape
following the birth o... more »
The Project Mogul Double Standard
Here’s an interesting question that is generated by the recent discussions
of Delbert Newhouse and his UFO footage. There are those on the skeptical
side of the fence who reject his close up description of objects that were
gunmetal-colored disks because that description doesn’t appear in the
written record until nearly two years after the fact. One debunker seemed
to be outraged that I had mentioned that this was what Newhouse told me
because I didn’t talk to him until 1976. Of course, I was merely pointing
out that I had talked to him and that this description of the UFOs had come... more »
Nova Gaia Energetics have Taken Flight”
*Nova Gaia Energetics have Taken Flight”*
by ÉirePort
Nova Gaia Energetics have "taken flight", as former paradigm energy grids
have closed, and necessary Nova Gaia portals have opened.
Energetics are now fully aligned with Ascendant Gaia.
Timelines are now integrated into a single stream, and all discrepancies
healed.
Nova Gaia has been boarded, and Hue-manity has accepted fully invitation
for the "Higher Ride".
ÉirePort | December 21, 2013 at 23:30
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Cocaine - by Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley
Cocaine
In its original publication, in The International XI(10) for October
1917 EV,
this article carried this editorial note: `
`We disagree with our gifted con-
tributing editor on some points, but nevertheless we regard this article
as
one of the most important studies of the deleterious effects of a drug
that,
according to police statistics, is beginning to be a serious menace to
our
youth.''
Now, some sixty years later, it is more relevant than ever, especially
to Americans, since Crowley was residing in, and largely... more »
How many American Weddings would have to get hit by Drones before they were Banned ? Examining US drone death dealing policy in Yemen .....
Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
After Yemen Wedding Strike, US Drone Policy Comes Under New ScrutinyUS
Claims More Care in Drone Strikes Not Holding Water
by Jason Ditz, December 20, 2013
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The Obama Administration’s claims on its global drone assassination policy
have rarely been internally consistent, arguing regularly that the strikes
were incredibly accurate and that they were going to exercise more care in
the future.
Then a wedding happened in rural Yemen, and US drones were quick with a
“signature strike” against the procession, killing at least 12 civilians.
Carloads of civilians were... more »
Winter Solstice
December 21, 2013 We had rain last night. As the temperature dropped
below freezing, it froze on the tree branches turning them to crystal by
the time I woke up this morning. Lovely. As the temperature rises above … Continue
reading →
Your moment of Zen
And the sun begins to win again against the darkness. Stonehenge on
Solstice day.
Conservative Unions Backs Conservative Candidates-- Let's Look At Hawaii's Senate Race
*Hanabusa with her longtime friend, anti-gay legislator Sam Slom (the only
GOP State Senator in Hawai`i). She calls him "Sammy" during their frequent
joint appearances on conservative talk radio in Honolulu. *
Historically, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union has always
prided itself on being among the most progressive labor unions.
For four decades, starting with its founding in 1937, the ILWU was led by
radical Harry Bridges. Opposing FDR because the New Deal didn’t go far
enough, Bridges was always skeptical of labor partnerships with mainstream
politicians. He regarde... more »
Education policy “wonks” + pop culture = train wreck
Michael Petrilli, the executive vice president of the Thomas B. Fordham
Institute in Washington, D.C., and, according to his profile, “one of the
nation’s most trusted education analysts,” apparently has a lot of time on
his hands. I’m not against having fun at work, and I even applaud these
so-called policy wonks’ attempt at creating […]
JP Morgan Chase limits debit card use for customers at risk in Target breach ! 2 Million Chase customers could be impacted by 100 buck limit in daily cash withdrawals and 300 buck total purchases daily limit ( does this remind you of Cyprus ? ) Time limit fo restriction ( not immediately given ??? ) ..... some help at Chase branches available but how many folks will find out about these restrictions while shopping ? And how many banks will follow Chas with these de facto capital controls , which look like they will last until debit cards are canceled and replaced for Chase customers ? !
WTF ? Capital controls imposed by Chase on customers who used debit cards
at Target between Thanksgiving and mid - December ?
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/21/21998899-chase-limits-debit-card-use-for-customers-at-risk-in-target-breach?lite
Chase limits debit card use for customers at risk in Target breach
By Erin McClam, Staff Writer, NBC News
JPMorgan Chase, the largest bank in the United States, told customers
Saturday that they would be limited to $100 in cash withdrawals and $300 in
total purchases per day if they used Chase debit cards at Target during a
recent sec... more »
Why Is Blackstone Gobbling Up Homes? (Source: Bloomberg)
An excerpt from, *"Meet Wall Street: Your New Landlord"* Zero Hedge,
December 20:
Blackstone Group appears to be trying to oligopolize the business of
renting single-family homes in the U.S.. As Bloomberg reports, after the
housing crash left more than 7 million foreclosed homes in its wake, the
investment firm has spent more than $7.8 billion purchasing about 41,000
single-family homes for rental conversion. The world's largest private
equity firm has quickly become the largest landlord (of rental homes) in
the U.S. and in October, Blackstone offered the first-ever
"rental-home-ba... more »
SILENCE OVER THE SECRET BLACK BUDGET
The Pentagon has secured a $630 billion budget for next year, even though
it's failed to even account for the money it's received since 1996. A
whopping $8.5 trillion of taxpayer cash have gone to Pentagon programmes -
none of which has been audited. This black budget has sparked concerns over
potential fraud, as Gayane Chichakyan reports.
Some years ago a journalist who writes for Jane's Defense Weekly studied
the US black budget to try to determine where this secret budget
architecture came from. He came to the conclusion that the Nazi operatives
smuggled into the US after WW I... more »
Pandemic watch December 21 , 2013 - Scientists Angry over work to make H5N1 bird-flu virus MORE dangerous to humans ...... Does the possibility of a release ( accidental or otherwise concern scientists ) Reminds me of the start of 28 Days Later , just not the " Rage " virus ..... When you consider the continuing dangerous releases from Fukushima debacle - impacting not just Japan and the countries in that region , but the West Coast of North America ( and let's not forget the sailors on US ships at the time of Fukushima debacle on March 11 , 2011 ) , contaminated foods , Mystery illnesses , insecticides in the food chain ........ Is there a conspiracy to cause mass deaths ?
Scientists Angry over work to make H5N1 bird-flu virus MORE dangerous to
humans
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Coalition of leading scientists claim ferret experiments could lead to a
pandemic / via independent.co.uk
Some of the world’s most eminent scientists have severe... more »
China Rejects Over 1 Million Pounds Of U.S. GM Corn As Unsafe
http://blogs.naturalnews.com/china-rejects-over-1-million-pounds-of-u-s-gm-corn-as-unsafe/
*China Rejects Over 1 Million Pounds Of U.S. GM Corn As Unsafe*
By Paul A. Lauto, Esq.
Posted Friday, December 20, 2013 at 03:39pm EST
Keywords: China, corn, Exports, GM Food, GMO Label Law
by Long Island Attorney Paul A. Lauto, Esq. http://www.liattorney.com
Over 60 countries around the world either prohibit, restrict or require
genetically modified (GM) food to be labelled, excluding the United States.
In fact, one thing the U.S. government and the government of China have in
common, is th... more »
Morocco Diary #2 Unusually calm sea in spite of the winds...
By American Kabuki
Thought you might be interested in the unusually calm Mediterranean Sea
near us, despite the howling winds. This has been going on for several
days. The sea has been like glass... you could water ski on it.
I've lowered the sound volume some as there's a lot of wind noise on this
iPhone made video.
Below are some lion tracks I found on the beach the day after Heather's
encounter with the dolphin. Seems like a lot of animal life is showing
up... my foot is on the right I wear a size US size 12 shoe (Euro size 45
cm).
Interesting stuff
You've heard about peak oil, and the debate about said concept, but we may
also be reaching peak agriculture. Global crop yields are struggling, and
there needs to be a 60% increase in the amount of food produced (by
2050) to keep pace with demand. Projections of food production were based
upon "one time innovations" such as breeds of wheat, artificial fertilizers
or pesticides. There is, of course, the problem of soil exhaustion, and
let's not forget global climate change (agriculture has a huge effect on
the climate).
Any civilisation, let alone one dedicated to competitive accum... more »
Alberto Juantorena's World Record breaking 1976 Olympic 800 gold medal run - commentator David Coleman
David Coleman RIP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBTG-QwbNsE&feature=youtube_gdata_player
This isn't the "opens his legs and shows his class" commentary. That was
from the same Olympics but in an earlier race I think...
What Mattered This Week?
Sure, why not do this one?
Let's see...I'll go with the nominations that made it through the Senate.
Yes, there was some foot-dragging that successfully delayed others, but
nothing that's really a big deal, and the ones that got through are now
done. Plus there were new judicial nominations this week. Both the number
of judicial vacancies and vacancies without nominees -- most of them blue
slip issues -- remain stubbornly high, but things are better than they were.
Obviously this week's silliness -- Pajama Boy, White Santa Claus, Duck
Dynasty, whatever else -- didn't matter, and onc... more »
Is California “Common Core Unrest State #23″?
In response to my post, UPDATE: Common Core Unrest in 22 States, I received
the following comment: You should include California. It is the sleeping
giant that no one is paying attention to and here is why: First, this past
summer, California Republican Party overwhelmingly passed a resolution
condemning Common Core. Based on your above analysis, this […]
JB Campbell on The Realist Report
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Ducking the Truth: The Real American Dynasty
(By *American Zen*'s Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari.)
"*Start with homosexual behavior and just morph from there.
Bestiality, sleeping around with this woman and that woman and that woman
and those men.*" - Phil Robertson, GQ
"*Free speech is an endangered species: Those 'intolerants' hatin' &
taking on Duck Dynasty patriarch for voicing personal opinion take on us
all.*" -Sarah Palin from her Mooselini Twitter balcony
There are many things that do not subscribe to common sense in the
Phil Robertson storm raging across the internet. The first that comes to
mind is w... more »
Why It Makes No Sense To Travel With A Conservative, Even A Nice One
When I was 13-- and all my friends were studying for their bar mitzvahs-- I
was making my first big hitch-hiking excursion. My grandparents were in
South Beach, which was very grandparent-friendly back then, for Easter and
I decided to see what hitching would be like. Brooklyn to Florida with $20
and a toothbrush in my pocket. I got as far as the New Jersey Turnpike and
got arrested. They made my father come pick me up. He gave me the dough for
a Greyhound. But it wasn't about the destination. I wanted to try out
hitchhiking. I had plans.
A couple years later-- having sent farmin... more »
Thailand: Protesters Must Stay Out of the Gutter
Key
to winning the nations back is winning the hearts of those who disagree
with you most.
*December 21, 2013* (Tony Cartalucci) - The regime of Thaksin
Shinawatrabuilt itself upon a foundation of corruption, deceit, fear,
intimidation,
bigotry, violence, and mass murder. Its followers, the "red shirts," are
notorious thugs, having barricaded schools threatening teachers and
parents, slapping university lecturers, and even going as far as hacking
their opponents to pieces, committing massive city-wide arson, and armed
insurrection. Though they only represent at most 7% of the popula... more »
The Ed-ventures of Edysseus
Edysseus lived on the island of Paideia with his wife, Sophia, and son,
Foiti̱tí̱s. Far away, on the island of Columbia, the “war of the
pedagogues” threatened to spread to the peaceful island of Paideia.
Although Edysseus tried to avoid entering the war, it was no use, as he had
sworn to the gods of […]
Ted Cruz speaks...
*we should be listening.*
It's up to us...
WEATHER CHANGES
MB and I are on Cape Cod, Massachusetts to attend a wedding. We went for a
walk this morning along the ocean. The weather here is quite mild for this
time of year.
When we left Maine yesterday there was almost two feet of snow on the
ground. After nearly a six hour drive south we found no snow here when we
arrived last night. And much higher temperatures.
We return home tomorrow and the weather report calls for an ice storm in
Maine as we head back north. It's quite amazing how just a few hours
difference can usher in such huge changes in weather conditions.
The Big Chill
Why, asks Lewis Lapham, are there no 21st century Mark Twains around to
lambast the malefactors of great wealth and the corrupt politicians
enabling them, making us collapse with laughter as we revel in the
skewering?
Part of the reason is that independent newspapers, for which Twain once
wrote, have been subsumed by six media conglomerates controlling 90% of
everything we see, hear and read. And so, Lapham observes,
We have today a second Gilded Age more magnificent than the first, but our
contemporary brigade of satirists doesn’t play with fire. The marketing
directors who produc... more »
Libya disaster just keeps getting worse every day......Colonel Fethallah al-Gaziri, newly appointed head of military intelligence in Benghazi, shot dead during a family visit..... Just three 4x4s to patrol 120 Jufra desert weapons stores ...... UN Security Council Concerned At Worsening Security, Political Divisions in Libya
Libyan military colonel assassinated
Colonel Fethallah al-Gaziri, newly appointed head of military intelligence
in Benghazi, shot dead during a family visit.
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Colonel Fethallah al-Gaziri, the newly appointed chief of military
intelligence in Benghazi, has been assassinated during a visit to his
family in the e... more »
Liberalism: A Mental-Developmental Disorder
What is Liberalism? Is it a political, economic or social ideology? Is it
a faith? No. Liberalism is a Mental Disorder; a disorder resulting from a
failure to develop from a child to an adult.
When one debates with a liberal, one is not debating with another adult;
one is debating with a person who has the outward appearance of an adult,
but inwardly has the mentality of a child - and a spoilt child at that.
Liberals will not listen to reason. This is because they are incapable of
seeing the world from any perspective other than their own; in exactly the
same manner as children... more »
With Syria and Iran becoming yesterday's news ( from the view of where will the next limited kinetic action occur ) , is Africa the new " hotness for 2014 ? US Aircraft, UN Helicopter Attacked In South Sudan ....... ‘Humanitarian Intervention’ in Central African Republic
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-21/us-aircraft-un-helicopter-attacked-south-sudan
US Aircraft, UN Helicopter Attacked In South Sudan
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- China
- France
- goldman sachs
- Goldman Sachs
- Iran
- Middle East
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inShare
With a wave of detente spilling over the Middle East, following the
surprising US overture to calm relations with Syria and Iran just months
after it nearly launched an offensive war in the country over a few
fabricated YouTube clops Looks li... more »
Gold and Silver report - December 19 - 20 , 2013 - P.M. Kitco Roundup: Gold Slumps To 6-Month Low Post-FOMC, And Amid Stronger U.S. Dollar ........Comex registered gold slumps to new multi-year lows ( 490 , 000 ounces ) , JPM takes deliveries as Customer or Eligible gold rises notably ( Turd Ferguson wonders if JP Morgan is buying for China in an interesting post ) ..... Meanwhile London's gold vault' virtually empty .... What gives is the question that should be asked ?That question and how broadly are those chinese buyers smiling as gold price suppression continues unabated along with chinese buying of physical gold ? Additional news , data and views on Gold primarily.......
Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
December 20 , 2013......
http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2013/12/jp-morgan-takes-on-more-gold-61790.html
20 DECEMBER 2013
JP Morgan Takes On More Gold, 61,790 Ounces Come Out of Mocatta
The big stopper JPM added about two tonnes of gold, and 61,790 ounces of
bullion came out of the Scotia Mocatta registered inventory.
This brings the total deliverable (registered) ounces of gold down to
432,612 which is a number that we have not seen in this inventory category
since the early 1990's, well before the gold bull market.
Supposedly Simon Weeks of Scotia Mocatta, who is also t... more »
Wild Bill: Dancing with Ducks...
*"If you want to make a liberal mad, tell him the truth."*
Major computer security firm RSA took $10 million from NSA to weaken encryption
**
*Amazing... they sold their company's future reputation down the drain for
only $10 million? -Bill*
*Major computer security firm RSA took $10 mln from NSA to weaken
encryption*
Published time: December 20, 2013 23:48 Get short URL
RSA SecureID electronic keys (Reuters / Michael Caronna)RSA SecureID
electronic keys (Reuters / Michael Caronna)
The National Security Agency arranged a clandestine US$10 million contract
with computer security power RSA that allowed the spy agency to embed
encryption software it could use to infiltrate the company’s widely used
products, Reuters r... more »
ObamaCare updates December 19 , 2013 - As Many Uninsured Oppose Obamacare as Favor It , which is not what the expectation would have been ! In other news , note the shocker of the day -- Surprise: Insurers extend deadline to pay first month of ObamaCare plan premiums until January 10th ....... And on the new head of Healthcare.gov.......
Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://www.infowars.com/boehner-calls-for-one-year-obamacare-delay/
Boehner Calls for One Year Obamacare Delay
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December 20, 2013
House Speaker and Ohio Republican John Boehner has called for a one year
delay in the individual mandate under the Obamacare bill. Boehner made the
suggestion on Friday following the Obama administration’s announcement it
would exempt people who had ... more »
Has the GOP Inspired Prejudice about Texas?
*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy*
For some reason, millions of people who have never been to Texas persist in
spreading lies, and misconceptions about the state, "dissing it" though
they have never bothered to confirm their prejudices by actually visiting
the state. Nevertheless --they are convinced or have convinced themselves
that Texas is a horrible and backward place. How much blame must be
directed at Bush for having destroyed the reputation of a state that had
been Democratic/progressive for over one hundred years
The fact is, Texas is not a 'backwater'. Second only to ... more »
Meaningless Sentence of the Day
This *NY Times* story on the middle class's struggle with the new
healthcare law is generally pretty good, but this sentence struck me as
comically meaningless:
Experts consider health insurance unaffordable once it exceeds 10 percent
of annual income.
What the heck does this mean? The typical American spends more than a
third of income on housing. Does that make housing unaffordable?
Presumably not. What makes 10 percent the magic threshold for health
insurance but not for other categories of crucial spending? Who are these
experts, and what criterion do they use to determin... more »
New York Times bungles test scores again!
*SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2013*
*The era of living incompetently:* On Thursday morning, the New York Times
reported, or tried to report, the new NAEP scores for New York City.
For reasons you can review, we described the news report as the work of
functional illiterates. That was *before* we fact-checked the newspaper’s
factual claims.
Yesterday, we fact-checked their claims. Truly, we are all trapped in the
era of living incompetently!
What did Al Baker and Motoko Rich claim in their multiply bungled report?
As you can recall at the link we’ve provided, this was the passage we fo... more »
Hypocrisy Squared
There was something a little hollow about Stephen Harper's praise for
Nelson Mandela. Murray Dobbin writes:
In 1989 Harper was a member of the Northern Foundation (NF) about the same
time that he became policy chief of the Reform Party. The exclusive mandate
of the NF was to counter the serious efforts of the Canadian government of
Brian Mulroney to pressure the South African government to release Nelson
Mandela from prison and to end apartheid.
Certainly, when it comes to the matter of justice, the two men live on
different planets. Steve Sullivan delineates their differences:... more »
LGBT Equality In The Enchantment State-- New Mexico Democrats Are Jubilant While DCCC Hack Is Mum
“Denying same-gender couples the right to marry and thus depriving them
and
their families of the rights, protections, and responsibilities of civil
marriage violates the equality demanded by the Equal Protection Clause
of
the New Mexico Constitution,” Justice Edward Chavez wrote for the
five-member court, which ruled unanimously Thursday, making New Mexico
the
17th state jun the Union to back marriage equality for LGBT citizens.
New Mexico is a pretty live-and-let-live kind of state. Bigots and
haterstend, like everywhere, to gravitate towards the Republican Party,
which now
has j... more »
The lawyer, the wife and the boobs
The lawyer is Cameron Diaz, the wife is Leslie Mann and the boobs is Kate
'sweet smelling sweat' Upton.
Joblow.com have examined, very closely, the above video and created their
highlights only version...
Untitled
*How much will Saints, Panthers tweak? ~Mike Triplett, ESPN*
And What Is Everyone Doing About Toronto's TTC Fare Increase?
Just to bring non-Torontonians up to speed: Toronto has gone from having
what was widely regarded to be a good public transit system to having what
is widely regarded as being a bad transit system. Bus service in the outer
city is deplorable. Long waits to get on over-crowded buses, or to watch
over-crowded buses pass your stop. Streetcar service that can mean it's
faster to walk from Yonge to Bathurst than it is to wait for a streetcar.
An over-crowded subway system prone to signals breakdowns and other
interruptions.
This has happened because for the past few decades, neo-liberals... more »
Supporting Common Core Is Supporting Entire Reform Machine
Supporting Common Core Is Supporting Entire Reform Machine. via Supporting
Common Core Is Supporting Entire Reform Machine.
Pearson's $300 Toll Road to Teaching
If you need some extra holiday cash, you might consider working part-time
from home to help Pearson decide who will become teachers and who won't.
It's easy--just complete a few online tutorials, and Pearson will send you
a bunch of student teaching portfolios, complete with video clips of
student teachers and classes with students whose parents have no idea that
Pearson now has in their permanent libraries. All to become part of Big
Data.
In working for Pearson, you will help universities to decide the curriculum
for teacher candidates, for remember, what gets tested gets taught. ... more »
War watch December 21 , 2013 - Syria Peace Talks crumbling as the Syrian rebels crumble , coupled with Iran not attending ....... Pakistan passes symbolic reolution against US drone death dealing , while Pakistan Civilian leadership passively agrees with US drone death dealing policy - and the Government still wants that 1.6 billion in US blood money .... Iran nuclear talks continue even as the US Senate tries its best to derail the nuclear talks with ever more sanctions against Iran...
Syria......Geneva Peace Talks D.O.A
Geneva Peace Talks Crumbling: Syria Rebels, Iran May Not AttendUS Is Still
Trying to Keep Iran From Being Invited
by Jason Ditz, December 20, 2013
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The Geneva II peace talks were initially scheduled for June, and after
months were finally set up for January 22, with a watchmakers’ convention
forcing the talks to Montreaux. Even though these talks have been “set” for
weeks there remains doubt over whether they’ll actually happen.
That’s because as the Syrian National Coalition (SNC) loses what little
credibility it had among t... more »
Delivering
"The health care website problems were a source of great frustration.... I
now have a couple million people, maybe more, who are going to have health
care on Jan. 1.
And that is a big deal.
That's why I ran for this office,"
Provocative thoughts and thinking - December 17 , 2013 ....Obama Allows Great Lakes Water To Be Sold To China As Half The U.S. Faces Extreme Water Crisis ........ Nukes on the Loose...... The Most Dangerous Woman In America
Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://beforeitsnews.com/economy/2013/12/obama-allows-great-lakes-water-to-be-sold-to-china-as-half-the-u-s-faces-extreme-water-crisiss-2579664.html
Obama
Allows Great Lakes Water To Be Sold To China As Half The U.S. Faces
Extreme Water Crisis
Monday, December 16, 2013 17:17
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[image: Drought Monitor December 2013]What in the world is Barack Obama
thinking? At a time when the United States is facing the greatest water
crisis that it has ever known, Obama is allowing water from the Great
Lakes
to be drained, bottled and shipped to China and other countries around
t... more »
Lost your corkscrew? All is not lost.
A nifty way of opening a bottle of wine if you're minus a corkscrew.
Quatermass
*"I wish Bernard were here..."*
*"Chance'd be a fine thing - British Rocket Group's got it's own
problems..."*
The Quatermass Experiment - Episode 1 - "Contact Has Been Established..."
(Tx.18 July 1953)
from unpersonal on Vimeo.
One morning, two hours after dawn, the first manned rocket in the history
of the world takes off from the Tarooma Range, Australia.
The three observers see on their scanning screens a quickly receding Earth.
The rocket is guided from the ground by remote control as they rise through
the ozone layer, the stratosphere, the ionosphere, beyond the air.
... more »
The #ChristmasMyths #4: The Birthplace and Surroundings of the Little Baby Jesus
*Part of a continuing series looking at the pagan origins of the Christmas
Myths, one day at a time.* Today, the story and pagan origins of where
Jesus was said to be born…*
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Jesus was born in a manger and visited by shepherds, say the authors of
*Luke*.** No, say the authors of *Matthew*, he was born in a house in which
he and Mary were visited by an unconfirmed number of Magi from the East (
*three* being a later gloss).
There were no little drummer boys.
The authors of *Mark* and *John *don’t bother with any of this carry on. To
them, it clearly doesn’t matter a... more »
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