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50 years ago today: The Beatles
*On December 26, 1963*, *hastily pushed up in response to public demand, Capitol Records released their first Beatles record, a single of "I Want To Hold Your Hand" backed with "I Saw Her Standing There." It wasn't the first Beatles release in the U.S., but it was the first by the group's official label, and the first properly promoted and distributed. The rest, as they say, is history.* *by Noah* As a youngster in the early 1960s, I had a portable radio. You’ve heard of "a boy and his dog" going everywhere together. Well, for me it was a boy and his radio. And it was always tuned... more »
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Some Governors and Common Core: “Hot Friends Cooling”
Hoping to advance your own political career? Better be quiet about Common Core. Amazing how a number of formerly outspoken, pro-CCSS governors have strategically opted for silence (or some other form of distance) regarding the now-highly-charged CCSS. New York: Andrew Cuomo It seems, for example, that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has become somewhat of […]
The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Is The Long Feared Fukushima Radiation Plume Already Hitting The American West Coast?
I have been tracking events pertaining to the Fukushima nuclear disaster of March, 2011, for well over two and one half years now, and what I see is a situation that is absolutely not improving at all.... The fact is, readers, that the media and our own governments have been lying their asses off now for that entire period of time, and this disaster is absolutely NOT under control, period.... There has been growing fear that the full brunt of the Fukushima radiation would be hitting the west coast of both the United States and Canada by the end of this year, or even sometime in earl... more »
Back From A Much Needed Break
Yes, I am back... And I will be resuming writing articles, and of course my weekly rant, very shortly.. It was a much needed break... I was seriously suffering from burnout the last few weeks with a horrendous work schedule, family issues and needs, and of course trying to keep up with this blog..... It does get very depressing to see how bad this planet has been ruined by the Jewish criminal elite, and even I have a feeling of helplessness at times in not reaching enough people to fight their sick goal of world domination. I have watched over the last while as factions within this... more »
before the onion, before the yes men, there was the post new york post
One day, as I was getting off the subway on my way from Brooklyn to my workplace on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, people were handing out these tabloids. I never learned who made them, where they came from, or where they went. But I'm so glad I saved my copy all these years. It's a whole newspaper - news, sports, weather, ads for fake movies, personal ads. Brilliant. In case you can't read the date, it was 1984. And special bonus from one decade later, *The National OJ*. I had to scan them in two parts, but they are each tabloid size.
after eight years, i have a less-than-ideal observation about ontario health care
Since moving to Canada in 2005, my experiences with Ontario's health care system have been extremely positive. Through the public system, my partner and I have been able to access health care whenever we needed it, in convenient and pleasant settings, at no cost - that is, paid for with our taxes. The quality of care has been at least as good, and often superior, to anything I experineced in the United States. I love our public health care system, and I would love to see it expanded.* Single-payer, nonprofit health care is the only system that makes any sense. When I fractured my f... more »
"I Have Nothing BUT Contempt for This Court..."
FORT MEADE, Md. — A military judge on Tuesday twice expelled Ramzi bin al-Shibh — one of five Guantánamo Bay detainees facing a death penalty trial — from a courtroom at the military base there in Cuba after he disrupted proceedings by shouting about his treatment. Col. James L. Pohl, the judge presiding over the pretrial military commission hearing, clashed with Mr. bin al-Shibh at the start of both the morning and afternoon sessions. Each time, Mr. bin al-Shibh began loudly complaining about torture instead of answering a question from the judge about whether he understood his r... more »
Ed Snowden's Christmas Message to the Commonwealth
Well, of course. The US Government asked Verizon if they could put in a man-in-the-middle tap on ALL their customers communications, and they said "Yes. " Because that's totally legal. It's their property, their hardware, their infrastructure. They just didn't tell their customers. But why should they? They're not obliged to. They certainly never said that they wouldn't. What's your point, Ed?
The Idiocracy Files (Redux), Part 2: Beware the Girl Scouts, Sheldon Adelson, and more
[*We continue the encore presentation of Noah's 2012 Idiocracy series. When I told him I was rerunning the series (begun last night with Part 1), he replied, "Running Idiocracy works fine. Repug nuttery is, unfortunately, timeless." And don't forget his new "Need a last-minute Christmas gift suggestion?"*] *FOX "News" in the age of Idiocracy* *"As the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point. Natural selection, the strongest, the smartest, the fastest, reproduced in greater numbers than the rest, a process which had once favored the noblest traits of man, now beg... more »
DNA presence or absence and transference not mere "common sense"
R v Pruden, 2013 CanLII 83110: [13] The nature of the DNA evidence in this case was not straightforward and I agree that expert evidence was required to explain the significance of its *presence* or *absence* in respect of particular locations. See *R. v. F.M.*,2009 ONCA 485 (CanLII), 2009 ONCA 485 at para. 20, 250 O.A.C. 257. That is, the requirement for expert evidence regarding the transference of DNA can also include situations where the jury is asked to draw an inference from its presence as well as from its absence. See *R. v. Robinson (C.L.)*,2003 BCCA 3... more »
Musical Interlude: Justin Hayward, "Celtic Heart"
Justin Hayward, "Celtic Heart" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iTAFGIM_0w
Egypt and Turkey: Destabilization and Destabilization
Unsurprisingly, truly unsurprisingly, the new *saviours* (alleged) of the Egyptian people have now labelled Muslim Brotherhood a "terrorist organization" Yawn. This convenient branding will be used to further degrade and destabilize Egypt. But,* Egypt i*s not going to be alone in this campaign of destruction. The labelling or branding/rebrand of Muslim Brotherhood as a 'terror' group bodes very ominously for* Erdogan and the Turkish people.* As I had mentioned way, way back in this July post: *Rebranding the Arab Spring to Reorder the Middle East/Africa* *Brief digression for back... more »
NETANYAHU WANTS WAR WITH IRAN, OBAMA DOESN’T; IT’S AS SIMPLE AS THAT!
If only it were. If it were just up to Obama there would be no war until he decides there will be. But he’s just the President and, while he wields a lot of clout, at the end of the day he has a Congress to answer to. If Obama put his foot down and said ‘no’ to Netanyahu launching a strike against Iran then Netanyahu wouldn’t do it. While there’s been a lot of talk of Netanyahu launching a unilateral strike against Iran, there is no way that he would do such thing without knowing that the US would come to Israel’s aid if Iran decided to retaliate – which it almost certainly would.... more »
ALEC PR Poobah - Twisting the Words to Protect ALEC's ...
Oh, my - - - - - - On Stand Your Ground - which was pushed by ALEC legislators from 2005 to April 2012 - #LicenseToKill *Meierling was quoted *as saying. “Every single person also knows that we no longer have any model policy on that issue, or any firearms issues for that matter.” Push come to shove -* that's not true, really - not true* Some of the "policies", not found on ALECs webpage. On welfare drug testing - which was introduced to ALEC legislators at the November 2010 ALEC meeting. *Meierling declined to say *if the staff at ALEC endorsed the idea of drug-testing welf... more »
The man accused of killing a TSA agent in LA last month has his trial scheduled for February 2014
Three or four months for a high profile first degree murder case. Hmmn. In Canada we'd be looking at two years minimum. Maybe closer to three to four years ,,,
Annual Report of the Red Mountain Pilgrimage
Well, I’ve survived yet another trip around the sun, and I hope you have, too. It’s been an interesting year, and a good one. I’m busy doing the work I was meant to do, and it’s finding an audience that appreciates it, and respects me. It’s a bit sad that I spent so many years hauling stone blocks up the latest pyramid, but I was always learning, too. It takes time to make sense of this world. I never imagined that, at this point in my life, there would still be so many fascinating new things to learn I’ve been living in the hermitage for four and a half years now, on a wee b... more »
Leonard Peltier's Christmas Message 2013
By Leonard Peltier Censored News Greetings my relatives, friends, and supporters: In this season of giving, receiving and acknowledgement of blessings, I want to acknowledge all of the people who have helped me all of these years and I want the supporters outside the United States to know I appreciate them also. Sometimes I am at a loss for words. Some of you probably have experienced
Is Turkey As Corrupt As Wall Street? New Jersey?
Last night you may have heard me grousing about how Martin Scorsese left out the real life political corruption in the story of the Jordan Belfort scandal that shook Wall Street in the '90s. Belfort gave thousands of dollars to notorious Wall Street shill Senator Alfonse D'Amato (R-NY) and, at D'Amato's urging, a check for $100,000 to the RNC in a vain hope to get the FBI off his back. Scorsese left that out iof his 3-hour film, *The Wolf Of Wall Street*, which opened yesterday. Maybe Scorsese left that chapter of Belfort's corruption out of the movie because no one would even fin... more »
A story of revolution….
The King and his policymakers gather in a large building making laws for the people in lands far from the towers of the capital. The leaders imposed a biased system of judgement that took away the opportunities for localities to make their own decisions. People proclaimed that citizens should be judged by their “peers” instead […]
Esto es cancer....fotos
*Como es la costrumbre de hacer comentarios propios antes de los articulos. Se le sugiere que lean el articulo publicado en el 2006 de una revista de salud en la Gran Brettania.* *Se trata de una posible cura....Un estudio secreto que aun no se ha publicado. Esta al final* *Otro asunto, En los estados unidos no hay, ni permiten injecciones de Vitamina C no gasten su tiempo preguntandoles a sus doctores Americanos. La unica solucion es ingerir tabletas de Vitaminas C con accion prolongada/demorada, por la sencilla razon de que nuestro cuerpo no puede almacenar la Vitamina C como lo ... more »
ALECer DirectTV Spreading Trash Across USA
Been awhile - had some issues to deal with - but I'm back now. Had an interesting discussion today about DirectTV - ALEC member - DirectTV. DirectTV putting those ugly dishes on top of every roof they can and then - - - abandoning them. *True story - * Person I work with bought a house that had a DirectTV dish on the roof. They wanted a higher level of service - so DirectTV comes out to put a new dish on their roof. While they are there my collegaue asks them to remove the old dish - DirectTV says no and leaves. Now my co-worker climbed up on the roof - removed the ... more »
Bitcoin news - December 23 , 2013 -- Thousands of Hoarded Bitcoins Flood the Block Chain in Mystery Transaction ( caused by old time miners , large exchanges , long term early adherents , Silk Road or other blow us ? ) .... Singapore Regulators decline to interfere with Bitcoin.....News anchor learns valuable lesson about BitCoin security.....4 Million buck Icelandic BitCoin mining consortium....Silk Road Accused wants his BitCoin back from the Government .....
Catharsis Ours - 8 hours ago
December 24 , 2013...... http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-24/bofaml-asks-end-bitcoin BofAML Asks "Is This The End Of Bitcoin?" [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/24/2013 17:13 -0500 - Bitcoin - China - Renminbi - Switzerland - Volatility - Yuan inShare Following David Woo's initial $1300 fair-value price target for Bitcoin, the BofAML strategist has had to suffer through some significant changes; not the least of which is China's increasingly strict Bitcoin regulation. The shifts, he notes, *raise key ques... more »
BBC Openly Sides With Regime - Portrays Protesters as Violent, Anti-Democratic
A regime run by a convicted criminal hiding abroad would be unacceptable in any other country in the word and it is unacceptable in Thailand too. What's unacceptable worldwide, is also unacceptable here.*December 26, 2013* (Tony Cartalucci) - Thailand is currently run by Thaksin Shianwatra. Thaksin was not on the ballot during the last general election, nor was he even in the country, but as the New York Times reported in their article, "In Thailand, Power Comes With Help From Skype," he is still very much in charge: For the past year and a half, by the party’s own admission, the mo... more »
Catholics behaving badly...
*via the Blaze.* Like a ton of other houses of worship on Wednesday, St. Patrick Catholic Church in Miami Beach held a Christmas Day service. And like most congregations, St. Patrick’s offered those assembled in the sanctuary some special music to celebrate one of the holiest days on the church calendar. But it’s safe to say few, if any, had Andrea Bocelli singing during communion. *read the rest* Now check out what some in the congregation did immediatly after receiving the body and blood of Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Catholics believe in the true presence - or at least... more »
THINKING ABOUT SWORD AND CROWN
*MB and I with our favorite gals at the Addams-Melman House yesterday. We were looking at the new book called "Even Aliens Need Snacks"* *Our neighbors house grows icicles* - MB works for an organization that runs a homeless shelter/soup kitchen in Portland. It's a 45-minute drive from here. In Maine jobs are few and far between so people have to move around to work. She must be "on call" during the holidays because her turn came up in the supervisor’s rotation. So last night, Christmas night, at 12:30 she was woken by the beeper signaling her that she had to ... more »
VAM, Sham, Thank You Ma’am
Here’s a short, but hopefully sweet, three-minute speech on why I believe VAM is an unfair measure. ~ @angelcintronjr Tagged: teaching, vam
The Foisting of the Rejoicing
It's time once again to (belatedly) dust off that old seasonal standard, *Barack and Michelle Do Christmas.* Talk about Deja Vu all over again*.* No wonder Thomas Friedman is reportedly Obama's favorite columnist. Not only do these chin-stroking dudes share the delusion that endless repetition is a virtue, they share the same audience: an exclusive set of elites who never tire of being told how virtuous they are when they temper their endless acquisitions with an occasional spurt of noblesse-oblige. So without further ado, The Obama Christmas Carol, 2013 version: THE PRESIDE... more »
Things to make your life easier...
*like how to store those Christmas lights.* For years I've wound my strings of light around egg cartons. It works well, but does take up more space so I switched to pieces of cardboard. Here's another neat idea: How to Store Christmas Lights Around a Coat Hanger
John Foster Dulles vs William O. Douglas-- The Conservative Mind vs The Progressive Mind
Lately, I've been writing a bit about a book I'm reading, Prediposed by John Hibbing, Kevin Smith and John Alford. As I mentioned the other day, one of the themes is that "liberals and conservatives report distinct personality and psychological tendencies and have different tastes in all sorts of things from art and sports to personality traits and vocational preferences… Conservatives' cognitive patterns reveal a comfort level with clarity and hard categorization while liberals are more likely to value complexity and multiple categories." Another book I'm reading-- and loving th... more »
The Fordham Strong Arm of Letter Grades for State Standards
In my previous post, The Importance of Common Core for Nationally-pervasive Ed Reform, I cite the 2009 Broad Foundation report in which a number of major reformer “participants” told America of the reforms it might expect to be in place in 2012– one of which is the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Among the list of “participants” […]
Childish, anti-White ADL Jews denounce John Friend as "anti-Semite"
Two days ago, Access ADL, the official blog of the White-hating, Jewish supremacist propaganda and intelligence gathering organization known as the Anti-Defamation League, *posted a blog* denouncing yours truly as an "anti-Semite" in an effort to not only defame me, but also David North, a fellow at the *Center for Immigration Studies*. Mr. North *appeared on The Realist Report* last Wednesday, where we discussed the EB-5 visa program and the proposed "China City" scheduled to be built in New York state. True to form, the pathetic, childish, classless Jews writing for Access ADL spe... more »
Thailand: Regime Escalates Conflict - Deadly Mayhem Ensues
*December 26, 2013* (Tony Cartalucci) - Anti-regime protesters sought to occupy the Election Commission venue at the Thai-Japanese Stadium in Din Daeng, Bangkok for the third day today in attempts to disrupt the regime's show-elections scheduled for February 2, 2014, but were met instead by regime police. Clashes ensued, with police firing rubber bullets indiscriminately at protesters, bystanders and journalists alike. Tear gas flooded the streets of the densely populated urban district, forcing residents to flee and schools to prematurely close for the day. Police restrained and th... more »
My Best Books in 2013
This year I am joining The Perpetual Page Turner in an end of year book survey. If you want see all 110 books I read this year, I would love for you to friend me on Goodreads. 1.Best Book You Read In 2013 by genre? - Contemporary YA – The Fault in Our Stars, Dash and Lily's Book of Dares - Dystopian/Post-Apocalyptic – The Testing - Historical Fiction – Dark Triumph and Grave Mercy - Paranormal – Clockwork Princess and the Vampire Academy Series - Science Fiction – Parallel - Fantasy – Siege and Storm - Fairy Tale – Entwined 2. Book You Were Excited About & Thought ... more »
Crackdown On Protest Site In Iraq’s Anbar Province Seemingly Averted
After several attempts at reconciliation between Anbar’s provincial government and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to end the on-going protests there events turned for the worse in December 2013. The premier claimed that the demonstration sites were a base for Al Qaeda and demanded that they be ended, and hinted at a crackdown. Just before that Sheikh Hamid al-Hayes accused the death of his nephew upon the Ramadi protests as well, and threatened to use violence unless the perpetrators were turned over to him. It seemed like either the government or Hayes’ tribe was about to storm ... more »
Interview With Global Politics On Iraq In 2014
Here’s a recent interview I did with Bob Tollast for Global Politics entitled “Who can bring unity to Iraq in 2014?”
Celebrating Arbaeen In Iraq's Karbala Dec. 22-23, 2013
In the middle of December 2013 thousands of Shiites from around the world celebrated Arbaeen by making a pilgrimage to the holy city of Karbala where the Shrine of Imam Abbas resides. These pictures are from Agence France Presse's Mohammed Sawaf showing pilgrims in Karbala on Dec. 22 and 23, 2013.
"In Praise of America's Bureaucrats"
*"In Praise of America's Bureaucrats"* by Bill Bonner "It's been "Bureaucrat Appreciation Week. Just when we had lost all respect for them, we notice a countertrend. It's time for us to get in step. So, today, we take time out from our regularly scheduled programming to thank the people who rule us... To the TSA agents at airports... to the IRS agents who audit our tax returns... to the NSA agents who read our emails... and to zombies everywhere... To all of you, we'd like to say a heartfelt "Go f***k yourself." No... no... no... We meant to say THANK YOU! Yes, dear reader, we'v... more »
World's BIGGEST blog - day 4
Lake Superior - the world's BIGGEST lake
Trifecta: How to Make Obamacare "Cool"...
*hear the latest bad healthcare idea.* "Embrace the suck young Americans" Young people are not interested in enrolling in Obamacare. Some have suggested making Obamacare cool. Is this even possible, and will Obamacare "cool" encourage the young and uninsured to sign-up for Obama's signature health care plan? Find out.
EPIDEMIC RADIATION EXPOSURES AND DEATHS IN JAPAN DUE TO THE FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR MELT-DOWN HAVE BEEN COVERED UP BY THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT. ALSO COVERED UP HAVE BEEN LOWER BUT UNRELENTING QUANTIES OF WIND-CARRIED RADIONUCLIDES REACHING NORTH AMERICA. THIS RADIOACTIVE FALL-OUT IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE AT LEAST TO 2020. SO EDUCATE YOURSELFS AND YOUR LOVED ONES OF THIS THREAT AND LEARN TO PROTECT YOURSELVES ACCORDINGLY!
------------------------------ Gundersen: All of Japan is contaminated, gov’t covering up enormous exposures to public; Epidemic is just beginning — Evacuee: We are in fact dying in Fukushima; What happened to us will soon affect all Japanese people (VIDEOS) Published: December 16th, 2013 at 8:54 pm ET Original Here By ENENews Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer at Fairewinds, Dec. 16, 2013: The Japanese parliament has just passed the state secrets law. It’s really an information ‘iron curtain’ that’s preve... more »
Our Politics And The Loss Of Community
*The Tyee* has dusted off a piece which Murray Dobbin wrote four years ago. It's worth a read. Dobbin maintains that progressives have been infected by the same consumer culture that is destroying our politics and our planet: We have known for years that our consumer culture is out of control and our obsession with having more and more stuff has reached the status of a virus. Our consumer-driven global economy is a lethal threat to the planet and every one of its ecosystems. The lock that consumerism has on Western so-called civilization is formidable -- a virtual death-grip on o... more »
Untitled
*We thought the LSU football story was a joke; now we learn Koch & smart-ALEC is buying entire university departments ~Louisiana Voice* *Washington Post: U.S. Loss of Ecologically-Sensitive Wetlands Staggering ~Gulf Seafood Institute* *Wood product said rotting in 'green'-built homes ~Richard Thompson, New Orleans Advocate*
Predictions 2014
God Reveals. This is the year all the teasers of this cycle of civilization are revealed. Men now have the power of Gods at their fingertips. The wisdom gap remains huge. Stephen Harper. He drops out. Well not quite he gets a seven figure job. Jim Prentice is the new leader of the PC. USA Congress goes back to democrats. Americans will no longer pay to eat a shit sandwich. Afghanistan goes back to normal. A medivels society where pedophilia is not only part of the culture, it defines the problem. After defending pedophilia for a decade, the west says, so hard to turn around a perve... more »
Christmas Was Yesterday-- But It's Never Too Late For These Words Of Warning From The AFL-CIO
The New York State AFL-CIO did the above video in regard to their own state. But there isn't a state in the Union that it doesn't apply to. Where is this not relevant: "We need to start looking at things from the perspective of the workers who call our state home, not the corporations who call Ne York their tax break layover." And they offer solutions that aren't in the forefront of politicians who cater to the 1%-- the entire Republican Party and the whole Republican wing of the Democratic Party-- Blue Dogs, New Dems, Third Wayers, et al. "We need to develop industries that crea... more »
Pointless Sacrifice
Thinking Aboot Edward Snowden. Will his sacrifice make any difference? Thinking Aboot the fate of the Chinese Tank Commander. And IO9 reminds me how Superman Man of Steel went off the rails. Movies cost millions to make, is there no one left who can say, thats just stupid, cut it out? BTW I do not Think Aboot the video as gospel. I was in Hong Kong that day, it was fantastic, and millions in the streets protested. It changed nothing.
Cadillac a metaphor for America
When I was growing up, a very common expression was it was the Cadillac of something. Thats the Cadillac of hockey sticks. Thats the Cadillac of steaks. etc etc. I think this idea ended the day they brought the Cinarom to market. Today Cadillac is fighting its way back to the top. Sadly it can no longer carry America in its trunk.
Local shop
So. The M & S thing turned out to be a molehill, not the mountain it was cracked up to be. The current ‘truth’ appears to be (at the time of writing) that one solitary devout Muslim checkout assistant refused to handle pork’n’booze, whereupon the management okayed their fundamental right to practice quaint cultural practices. So. Not, as was recklessly disseminated in the media, M & S management dictating a policy of appeasement with all the unforeseen ramifications and counter-productivity entailed. It seems that the group who most objected to this impracticable proposal were M... more »
"[T]he only [U.S.] data from 2011 that we had was on newborns with hypothyroidism. Every baby in this country, every newborn baby is tested for certain diseases, one of which is hypothyroidism. And we looked at California ... and we looked at the changes in the rates of hypothyroidism for the nine months after Fukushima compared to the previous year, and we found a 26 percent increase in the rate of hypothyroidism." "[T]he doses in Japan are hundreds, thousands of times higher than they were on the West Coast. Unfortunately, there have really been no studies in Japan except for one, and that is one that's being done by the Fukushima Medical University. They haven't looked at hypothyroidism, but what they've done is this: they have taken 200,000 children under age 18 who live relatively close to Fukushima, and they tested for two things ... [one of which] was thyroid cancer. And they have found up to 59 children have thyroid cancer. In a normal population, it's very rare in children. In a normal [case] we would expect one or two. They have 59." "Second thing that they found is they through ultrasound look at the child's thyroid gland for precancerous lumps, you know, what they call cysts and nodules. And so far, 56 percent of children near Fukushima do in fact have a precancerous cyst or a nodule. And every year it gets higher--two years ago, 35 percent, last year 45 percent, this year 56 percent. Pretty soon we're going to find that almost every child in the area has a precancerous growth on their thyroid gland."
------------------------------ Original Here *Scientists Link Spike in Thyroid Disease to Fukushima Disaster* Nuclear expert and researcher Joseph Mangano explains his research in connecting the increase of hypothyroidism in newborns on the West coast to the Fukushima nuclear disaster - *December 23, 2013* More at The Real News *Bio* Joseph Mangano MPH MBA is a health researcher, and Executive Director of the Radiation and Public Health Project (RPHP). The group is the only one in the U.S. with a specific mission of producing research on health hazards of nuclear ... more »
War Watch December 26 , 2013 - US Sends Drones, Missiles to Iraq to ‘Fight al-Qaeda’ , meanwhile Baghdad Christians targeted during Christmas holiday ......Iran MPs Push Enrichment Bill to Retaliate for US Sanctions .....Truce Set to End Siege on Town Outside Damascus - The rebel-held town of Moadamiyet al-Sham, on the outskirts of Damascus, is set to disarm as a condition for the military ending its siege against the town.
Iraq....... US Sends Drones, Missiles to Iraq to ‘Fight al-Qaeda’Experts Doubt Move Will Halt Soaring Violence by Jason Ditz, December 25, 2013 Print This | Share This Eight months of worsening violence in Iraq have many concerned, and the Obama Administration is rush shipping large numbers of drones and missiles to the Maliki government to “confront al-Qaeda” with. Sectarian violence has been soaring in Iraq throughout the summer and into the winter, with spillover from Syria and internal resentment over Maliki’s reneging on power-sharing agreements combining to start a bloody civil... more »
The Etymology of "Miracle": On the Politics of Lies
My doctoral work was a trifecta of marginalized scholarship since I attained an EdD (shunned second cousin to the PhD) by preparing a qualitative dissertation (closeted step-cousin of the sainted quantitative paradigm)—an educational biography (a mish-mash of a non-academic field, education, with a popular but lowly literary genre, biography) of Lou LaBrant (Thomas, 2001). My scholarship on biography helped me understand the roots of why academia shuns the biography: Biography began as hagiography, fabrications spun to praise manufactured heroes instead of scholarly tomes crafted to... more »
Jaws in 30 seconds, performed by cartoon bunnies
Sheer genius!
wmtc winter break goes low-tech
Every year I seem to break the holiest commandment of the holiday season: I'm not busy. I always hear how "everyone is so busy this time of year" and "this is such a crazy time of year, you can't get anything done," but that never reflects my experience. We don't travel to see family, we have no extra social events, and we don't do Christmas shopping. Many years ago, we used to send a huge pile of winter-holiday cards, but we've gone digital with that, and we don't do it every year. So Christmas is an extra day off, and here in the Commonwealth, we have Boxing Day, too. Two days o... more »
Genesis of Planetary Energetic Healing streams completes preparation phase of Gaia Ascension Vehicle
*Genesis of Planetary Energetic Healing streams completes preparation phase of Gaia Ascension Vehicle* by ÉirePort Genesis of Planetary Energetic Healing streams completes preparation phase of Gaia Ascension Vehicle. Planetary Energetic Healing streams are purposed to hu-being energetic correction as well as Hue-Being energetic upgrading. Birthing of what has been called "Nova Gaia" is now in process, and likely completes within the so-named "2014" period. Mastery classes are ongoing for all Hue-Beings, at Higher Levels of awareness. ÉirePort | December 25, 2013 at 19:47 URL: h... more »
Johnny Depp - Transcendance - full trailer
We've all seen The Lawnmower Man... ...actually, we haven't. Only I saw it, with a few of my pervy chrome-sex friends; one night at a teenage video+beer party. It looks like Johnny Depp has now remade that film, sorta ... calling it TRANSCENDANCE. Filed under: NUCLEAR WEAPONS because this is where the future lies, irradiated.
JFK, THE MAN IN THE MASK, SATANISM, STEPHEN WARD
*Stella Capes, aka Mariella Novotny. "Mariella was part Jewish, she was actually quiet proud of that and spoke Hebrew." *(NightHawk: The Czech Night Hawk) *Mariella Novotny* played a sex game, called 'nurse and patient', with *JFK.* She was suspected of being a Communist from Czechoslovakia and of being a tool of the British security services. She may have been used by some shadowy elite that involved agents of Mossad, the KGB, the CIA and MI6. According to fellow prostitute Christeen Keeler, Mariella was originally Stella Capes, but she changed her name to Mariella Novotny beca... more »
Edward Snowden's Christmas Message Video 2013
*December 25, 2013 * NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has delivered his 'Alternative Christmas Message' via a British TV channel. The whistleblower called for an end to mass spying by governments, stating that a child born today will have "no conception of privacy." READ MORE: http://on.rt.com/vkc7ab
Don't Be Foolish By Those In Authority In 2014
Washingtons Blog, 24 December 2013 Don’t Be Foolish Albert Einstein said: A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of the truth. Indeed, scientists have shown that people will go to *absurd lengths *- and engage in mental gymnastics – in order to cling to their belief in what those in authority have said. Part of the reason so many are so vulnerable to naive belief in authority is that we evolved in small tribes … and we assume that the super-elites are just like us. In reality, there are millions of psychopaths in the world … and they are largely *running* D.C. and on ... more »
Edward Snowden - Christmas Message - Asking is Always Cheaper than Spying.
So, it's 'all very nice' that whistleblowers like Edward Snowden have taken it up themselves to unsheet the spectre of surveillance that was haunting all our movements, transactions, ways of life. He was even kind enough to deliver a Christmas Day Message from his new home in Russia: But what is THE SECRET SERVICE really for? It's definitely NOT for 'our safety at home and abroad'. The Secret Service exists to maintain 'the security of corporate ownership' via patents pending where profit is won or lost on the random revelations behind some corporate non-disclosure agreement. Th... more »
Your moment of Zen
Frosted bluebonnets in Texas. [RC McKee photo]
Arnold Keyserling On Trance Consciousness And Dancing, Documentary on Origins of Trance Music, Ecstasy As A Treatment For PTSD, And Sufi Whirling Dervishes
*I. Arnold Keyserling On Trance Consciousness And Dancing.* *Wikipedia: * Count Arnold Alexander Keyserling (February 9, 1922 – September 7, 2005) was a German philosopher and theologian. He is the son of Hermann Graf Keyserling and great-grandson of Otto von Bismarck. Quote from the video below: *"One thing is common to all transformation rites, the so-called rites of passage. These assume that man has two levels of consciousness. The normal, everyday consciousness, and that of joy or ecstasy. Whilst, for Western psychiatry, trance is an extra-ordinary experience, religion views... more »
Thursday Morning Post X-Mas Linkage
Well, I hope you survived the crush of end of term and then the crush of family and holiday stuff, if you are in to that kind of thing. In the meantime, if you stepped away from the media, what did you miss? Well, South Sudan is on the brink while the Central African Republic Continue reading
"The Wolf Of Wall Street" Opened Today
It's another Scorsese-DiCaprio project-- there have been 5 so far-- so there has been plenty of fanfare. Based on the true story of Wall Street swindler Jordan Belfort, anyone who had hoped the movie-- or the discussion around it-- would serve as an opportunity to take a serious look at Wall Street corruption will be sorely disappointed. It's as if Scorsese made a conscious effort to avoid it, and left out-- like 100% left out-- the ties between the Republican Party and the breathtaking Belfort scandals. There was no Senator Alfonse D'Amato character in the movie taking bribes. An... more »
Thailand: Regime Police Fire Rubber Bullets at Protesters' Heads
Regime violence will only increase number, resolve of protesters - sham elections being disrupted. *December 26, 2013* (Tony Cartalucci) - Several protesters have been sent to the hospital as police began firing tear gas, rubber bullets, and using chemical laden water fired from water canons at the Thai-Japanese Stadium in Din Daeng, Bangkok. Reports and images from the clashes indicate that police have been firing rubber bullets at the heads of protesters, an illegal method that will only escalate tensions and attract more protesters - as was seen early December when protesters b... more »
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2012: The Year That "Idiocracy" Moments Broke the Scale, Part 1
*As our friend Bil pointed out in a comment on our colleague Noah's Sunday evening post "Need a last-minute Christmas gift suggestion?," Noah has not done one of his traditional blockbuster multipart end-of-year holiday series. I'm afraid plates have been rather full in the Noah household this holiday season, but I thought what we might do is to repeat last year's enormously popular series based on one of Noah's favorite films, Mike Judge's Idiocracy.* -- Ken *2012 was the year of the memorable "Idiocracy moment" when a Republican presidential candidate couldn't count to 3.* *b... more »
Christmas Eve in Holten, Netherlands
At 4:30pm on Christmas Eve, hundreds of Dutch schoolchildren set a candle before each of 1,394 burial plots marking the graves of Canadian soldiers who died liberating their town a few days before the end of the Second World War over 60 years ago. An unofficial remembrance ceremony marked every year by the people of Holten, Netherlands. I reckon if Steve were to attend, he would likely spontaneously burst into flames. .
South Sudan
*Salva Kiir Mayardit, the first President of South Sudan. * *His trademark hat was a gift from United States President George W. Bush.* "The oilfields in the South have kept the region's economy alive since 1999. South Sudan has the third-largest oil reserves in Sub-Saharan Africa. The economy of South Sudan is one of the world's most underdeveloped with South Sudan having little existing infrastructure and the highest maternal mortality and female illiteracy rates in the world as of 2011. South Sudan exports timber to the international market. The region also contains many ... more »
Merry Merry
DJ! has been kinda sleepy lately, for which we apologize. But we'd like to wish all our readers a safe and serene holiday, if you get/celebrate one. And to our Toronto friends and others hit by the ice storm and power outage, here's hoping you get through this crap as well as you can. ((((hugz))))
A Christmas Message from Edward Snowden
[image: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...] RuTube Edward Snowden’s alternative Christmas message demanding an end to mass surveillance was broadcast at 4:15 p.m. GMT. Original post follows below the video. British television’s Channel 4, known for broadcasting “unusual but relevant” figures’ holiday messages as opposed to the Queen of England’s annual speech, has chosen whistle-blower Edward Snowden to convey this year’s address. Snowden, who is responsible for opening our eyes to the omnipresence of the National Security Agency’s surveillance, was recorded by ... more »
Un-invented App Un App sin Inventar
Every a single person alive and dead has said the following words, "Remind me" Every one has said it and will say it.... The App that would be the most useful to the Mrs. and me would be a voice activated run in background just waiting for you to say those words "Remind me"...This app would then Via voice prompt ask you a few questions, such as, "Remind you what?" It would then take notes and say, "When? It would then use the calendar mode to remind you. This is the App we are waiting for.... More, Mas Cada persona viva y mueta han pronuciado estas palabras, "Recuerdame" Todos lo... more »
Leaving This Town
I followed Sam Youngman for only a short while on the twitter. I found him to be pretty much a pompous ass promoting bad policy. As the kids say, ain't nobody got time for that. So guess I missed his metamorphosis because I was surprised his longish goodbye note to DC was so self-aware. It's Politico, so be warned, but it's worth reading in full. Not even going to excerpt it, except this one line which captures the theme: In Washington, a divided America is good for business. And good for the insiders who run the place. Rare to find a insider that would say that out loud, but the... more »
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Rockerfeller's Bane - The Biggest Boondoggle of Them All
*"...Machiavelli notes '..there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things...' "* "Following the attacks, Silverstein filed TWO insurance claims for the maximum amount of the policy (*$7B*), based on the two -- in Silverstein's view -- separate attacks. The insurance company, *Swiss Re, paid Mr. Silverstein $4.6 Billion — a princely return on a relatively paltry investment of $124 million.* There’s more. You see, the World Trade Towers were not the re... more »
It's a Wonderful Life... : COMMUNIST INFILTRATION OF THE MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY
*To: The Director* *D.M. Ladd* *COMMUNIST INFILTRATION OF THE MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY* *(RUNNING MEMORANDUM)* There is submitted herewith the running memorandum concerning Communist infiltration of the motion picture industry which has been brought up to date as of May 26, 1947.... With regard to the picture "It's a Wonderful Life", [redacted] stated in substance that the film represented rather obvious attempts to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a "scrooge-type" so that he would be the most hated man in the picture. This, according to these sources, is a commo... more »
Vito Rizzuto, Canadian mobster, dies age 67
Montreal mobster Vito Rizzuto has died. He suffered heart failure yesterday at the age of 67. Rizzuto was the head of Canada's biggest crime syndicate. More info to come.
"A Hallelujah Christmas" by Cloverton...
A Hallelujah Christmas by Cloverton. www.clovertonmusic.com "Hallelujah" originally written by Leonard Cohen Video by Wooten Media Productions LYRICS I've heard about this baby boy Who's come to earth to bring us joy And I just want to sing this song to you It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth The minor fall, the major lift With every breath I'm singing Hallelujah Hallelujah A couple came to Bethlehem Expecting child, they searched the inn To find a place for You were coming soon There was no room for them to stay So in a manger filled with hay God's only Son was born, oh Halleluj... more »
Kaliningrad
Sweden's former prime minister Goran Person once described Kaliningrad this way: "It is heavily polluted. There are illnesses there like AIDS and tuberculosis. There is atomic waste. You find almost every imaginable problem in Kaliningrad."
Micah Ali: "How Can Children Learn If Their Parents Are Unemployed?"
Micah Ali talks with a father at drop-off time outside McKinley Elementary's preschool classroom Micah Ali is an old friend of mine who I met through People For the American Way's Young Elected Officials Network. Blue America has endorsed him in an election next year for a seat in the California state Assembly. But right now he's still the head of the Compton School Board. This week Deepa Fernandes of KPCC hailed him as Compton's foot soldier for universal pre-K. Born and raised in Compton, Ali has spent six years on the school board-- a job that pays $0-- because he says he wants ... more »
A Christmas Wish
*ancient's BIBLE* It is my Christmas Wish for people to recognize, understand and share the Spiritual TRUTH that religions and corruption have distorted. The GOLDEN RULE, by which ALL others shall fall into place. It is NOT; "Do unto others..." It IS; "LOVE Thy Neighbor as you LOVE GOD and LOVE thyself." LOVE your humble servant, Pope Vincent
North Korea: Jang Song-thaek's Aides Executed With Anti-aircraft Machine Guns: Report
North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un *Jang Song-thaek's Aides Executed With Antiaircraft Machine Guns: Report* The Huffington Post | By Alana Horowitz Posted: 12/24/2013 2:30 pm EST http://goo.gl/tlPznT Shocking new details have been revealed about the execution of Jang Song-thaek, Kim Jong Un's uncle. The New York Times reports that the Jang's death was the end result of a brutal gun battle between Jang supporters and those of the regime over who controlled key land. As the Times tells it, Kim's forces were ordered to take back control over important fishing grounds that Jang had prev... more »
The Winds of North Africa
Thought you might find this satellite image interesting. The bands of wind and rain coming out of Africa heading for Rome.... The weather forecasts say the winds are only 35mph here but we know that to be false, trees are down all over here, and winds are gusting up to 80mph and more.... *CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE...*
Happy holidays
If it's in keeping with your celebration...
Iraq Christians Celebrate Mass In Baghdad's Karrada
The following pictures are from Agence France Presse's Sabah Arar showing Christians in Baghdad's Karrada attending mass at the Virgin Mary Chaldean Church on Dec. 15, 2013.
Your house was paid for when you signed the note.
*We said this a year ago but its good to see the information is getting more mainstream... I learned something new here in Morocco that I didn't know before. In Morocco the car title stays with the car even when you rent one. Its the renter's obligation to carry the title with them at all times in case the rental car is stolen. I asked Heather why that was a requirement here but not in the USA. She told me that all USA car titles are owned by the World Bank, which they monetize, and even when you request your title after you pay off a loan it says on the back "this is not a car ... more »
How they made Gravity
Warning spoilers do not watch before you have seen the movie
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