English: Fort Worth, Texas - The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Lightning II, built by Lockheed Martin takes off for its first flight to test the aircraft's initial capability at Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Omen of the Birds (1964) ...item 3.. Grandmother killed by horrific flesh-eating disease just five days after first complaining -- Cape Fear Valley Medical Center .. Fayetteville, North Carolina (24 September 2012) ... (Photo credit: marsmet451)
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Bulk Spying Is Not Effective Terrorism Prevention Tactic: Report
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An
in-depth analysis of 227 individuals recruited by al Qaida or
like-minded groups, and charged in the U.S. with an act of terrorism
since 9/11, shows the contribution of NSA's bulk surveillance programs
to these cases was minimal,
Red Reign highlights how this horror story is not only true, but a story that truly affects all of us in ways we cannot imagine.
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Red Reign
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Red
Reign is a gripping film that charts the life work of David Matas, a
Nobel Peace Prize nominated Canadian civil rights lawyer and his
uncovering of what many consider to be the crime of the century: the
brutal organ harvesting
OpenMedia.ca
Red Reign highlights how this horror story is not only true, but a story that truly affects all of us in ways we cannot imagine.
http://programs.naturalnews.com/Red_Reign__TV.htm
http://programs.naturalnews.com/Red_Reign__TV.htm
Red Reign
programs.naturalnews.com
Red
Reign is a gripping film that charts the life work of David Matas, a
Nobel Peace Prize nominated Canadian civil rights lawyer and his
uncovering of what many consider to be the crime of the century: the
brutal organ harvesting
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JUST
OUT: Wind Mobile will no longer be participating in tomorrow's auction
of wireless resources that are crucial to the future of cell phone
service in Canada.
If you own a mobile device, the spectrum auction affects you. Make your voice heard against Big Telecom's stranglehold at https://OpenMedia.ca/Gatekeepers
If you own a mobile device, the spectrum auction affects you. Make your voice heard against Big Telecom's stranglehold at https://OpenMedia.ca/Gatekeepers
CONFIRMED: The DEA Struck A Deal With Mexico's Most Notorious Drug Cartel ....... In what should outrage every American - noting this has occurred during the so called War Against Drugs and harsh federal drug sentencing guidelines - we now find out that an investigation by El Universal found that between the years 2000 and 2012, the U.S. government had an arrangement with Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel that allowed the organization to smuggle billions of dollars of drugs while Sinaloa provided information on rival cartels. ........ here is another head kicking nugget --- Zambada-Niebla's lawyer claimed to the court that in the late 1990s, Castro struck a deal with U.S. agents in which Sinaloa would provide information about rival drug trafficking organizations while the U.S. would dismiss its case against the Sinaloa lawyer and refrain from interfering with Sinaloa drug trafficking activities or actively prosecuting Sinaloa leadership. ...... And we have heard about this before , but still mid blowing ---- "The agents stated that this arrangement had been approved by high-ranking officials and federal prosecutors," Zambada-Niebla lawyer wrote. After being extradited to Chicago in February 2010, Zambada-Niebla argued that he was also "immune from arrest or prosecution" because he actively provided information to U.S. federal agents. ........ And was this what " Fast and Furious Operation " really was all about --- Zambada-Niebla also alleged that Operation Fast and Furious was part of an agreement to finance and arm the cartel in exchange for information used to take down its rivals. (If true, that re-raises the issue regarding what Attorney General Eric Holder knew about the gun-running arrangements.) ---
Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 6 minutes ago
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-government-and-the-sinaloa-cartel-2014-1
An investigation by El Universal found that between the years 2000 and
2012, the U.S. government had an arrangement with Mexico's Sinaloa drug
cartel that allowed the organization to smuggle billions of dollars of
drugs while Sinaloa provided information on rival cartels.
Sinaloa, led by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, supplies 80% of the drugs entering
the Chicago area and has a presence in cities across the U.S.
There have long been allegations that Guzman, considered to be "the world’s
most powerful drug traf... more »
Why the Washington Post’s New Ties to the CIA Are So Ominous
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A tip-off is that the Washington Post refuses to face up to a conflict of interest involving Jeff Bezos -- who’s now the
Did
you take this week's FactCheck Quiz? The topics: Medicaid, Affordable
Care Act exchange enrollment and the U.S. poverty rate. http://ow.ly/sxRLU
War is Boring
Say It Ain't So! Joint Fighter Programs Don't Actually Save Money
A warplane built for everyone pleases no one
The Pentagon’s New Jet Fighter Costs Twice as Much as You’re Being Told
Don’t believe claims that the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter will cost $60 million a pop—or even $85 million
The Air Force Totally Lied to You About the Fiery Fate of Its Stealth Bomber
Swift cover-up as $2-billion warplane goes up in flames
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"Will Nature, Young People and Future Generations Forgive Us?"
opit said...
Do you notice how much of this information relies on James Hansen
and the IPCC ? Kindly note that, as the name states, it is an
intergovernmental panel. That means it deals with policy desired to be
promulgated internationally...and is a ( UN ) bureaucracy tasked with
showing a connection between man's consumption of fossil fuel and global
warming. Yet the models are innately unverifiable because they presume
to prophesy, so there is great confusion and a 'range of possibilities'
that does not conform to observed reality.
That by itself is not remarkable. A short timeline 'calculating' results of sparse readings on a short timeline of air temperatures on a water world subject to orbital variations and cycles, heated by its own nuclear furnace and cooled by evaporation into space has a complexity of unknown and unmeasured processes.
Such a view 'denies' only that 'science' has a verifiable handle on things. But the epithet is useful when alleging people believe only one thing or another.
That is false reporting which poisons the well to scientific methodology....contrast and compare. Contest ideas to see if they work. Anything else smacks of religion because there is no supporting argument.
Otherwise we would not see meteorologists needing to be smacked down and shut up.
Interesting thoughts. What is a 'global temperature ?' University of Guelph proposed that was an impossible calculation.
Species die off. As if mankinds' occupation of such a majority of the planetary surface and perverted unsustainable corporate 'agriculture' did not carry the seeds of its own destruction by reducing biodiversity.
One blog even acts as a site promoting concerns for ozone pollution as a stimulus for tree die off.
And there is the Nitrogen Cycle promoting dead zones in the oceans and lakes because of fertilizer stimulating algal growth.
I prefer to address things like lack of proper concern for drinking water preservation as risks to life.
The idea that adding more of a trace gas that stimulates plant growth to the air, combined with warming temperatures which should do the same, is a proposed existential threat borders on parody.
Iran Nuclear Threat Debunked; Why All Weapon Claims Are Baseless
Although it’s difficult for many in the West to get their heads around due to years of sensational headlines, the very concept of Iran building nuclear weapons is unfounded speculation, compounded by wild accusations and window-dressed intelligence by biased nations with ulterior motives. Why should Iran grant Western backed officials the right to gallivant around their country and snoop at military installations? Is Iran allowed to send officials to snoop around American military sites? Do the UN get to roll in to Israel’s illegal nuclear facilities?How exactly do we take an organization like the IAEA seriously, when it’s being pressured by a nuclear state that isn’t even a member of the Nuclear non-Proliferation treaty (Israel), and America, who has used nuclear weapons in the past and is involved militarily in hundreds of nations across the world [1]?
Iran is not a nation whose history is littered with covert operations, coup-d-tates, and illegal wars of aggression and mass murder.
Nor is it a country that obliterated hundreds of thousands of people and flattened an entire city like America did to Japan during WWII, or a Nation that has a policy to use nuclear weapons in the future like Israel and its Samson Option [2], a plan to go out all nukes blazing if significantly attacked itself.
Iraq: “Devastating” Dossier Alleging British War Crimes Lodged with the International Criminal...
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A “devastating” two hundred and fifty page document: "The Responsibility of UK Officials for War Crimes Involving
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/revealed-how-gangs-used-the-freemasons-to-corrupt-police-9054670.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/lockerbie-if-not-megrahi-then-who-9008961.html
http://wideshut.co.uk/soviet-afghan-war-cia-muslim-rebels/
"For
the last 40 years, the Arab-Israeli conflict has been my main research
interest, and I can honestly say that I have never come across a single
scintilla of evidence to support the notion of Sharon as a man of
peace," says Avi Shlaim, Emeritus Professor of International Relations
at Oxford University and author of “Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals,
Revisions, Refutations.”
In addition to our roundtable discussion, we air our interview with Ellen Siegel, a Jewish-American nurse who worked at a hospital at the Sabra camp at the time of the massacre.
In addition to our roundtable discussion, we air our interview with Ellen Siegel, a Jewish-American nurse who worked at a hospital at the Sabra camp at the time of the massacre.
Noam Chomsky: Sabra & Shatila Massacre That Forced Sharon’s Ouster Recalls Worst of Jewish Pogroms
democracynow.org
Democracy
Now! looks at one of the most shocking incidents in the career of the
late former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon: the Sabra and Shatila
massacre in 1982. Democracy Now! hosts a roundtable on Sharon's
political and military legacy with Noa
What should be done to end the conflict? Do you agree with the points raised by our guests?
Who is Behind the Terrorists in Syria? The "Geneva-2 Talks are an Exercise in Shadow Fake Diplomacy"
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Decisions
on the Syrian issue will be taken behind closed doors, and the main
question will be "Who is behind the terrorists," Michel Chossudovsky,
Director
Media Coverup of Impacts of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Testing on Native People in the Pacific
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"The bomb will not start a chain reaction in the water, converting it all to gas and letting all the ships on all the
Media Coverup of Impacts of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Testing on Native People in the Pacific
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"The bomb will not start a chain reaction in the water, converting it all to gas and letting all the ships on all the
China
has successfully tested its first hypersonic missile delivery vehicle
capable of penetrating US missile defense system and delivering nuclear
warheads with record breaking speeds.
We’d
like to see the power to create money transferred to a democratic,
accountable and transparent process, where everyone knows who has the
power to create money, how much money
they create, and how that money will be used. However this process is
set up – whether it’s the Bank of England or a new committee that
decides whether to create money, it must be accountable to Parliament
and protected from abuse by vested interests.
http://www.positivemoney.org/our-proposals/
"The
start of 2014 marks ten years since we began fretting about global
imbalances, and specifically about the chronic trade and current-account
imbalances of the United States and China. A decade later, we can
happily declare that the era of global imbalances is over."
"Four
of the world’s most important financial regulators recently asked the
world’s derivatives industry to change the way it does business. The
question now is whether the regulators can make that happen with a
request, as opposed to something more substantial. That will not be
easy."
(Photo credit: Alex Proimos/Wikimedia Commons)
CommonDreams.org and HuffPost Politics shared a link.
We’d
like to see the power to create money transferred to a democratic,
accountable and transparent process, where everyone knows who has the
power to create money, how much money
they create, and how that money will be used. However this process is
set up – whether it’s the Bank of England or a new committee that
decides whether to create money, it must be accountable to Parliament
and protected from abuse by vested interests.
http://www.positivemoney.org/our-proposals/
"The
start of 2014 marks ten years since we began fretting about global
imbalances, and specifically about the chronic trade and current-account
imbalances of the United States and China. A decade later, we can
happily declare that the era of global imbalances is over."
"Four
of the world’s most important financial regulators recently asked the
world’s derivatives industry to change the way it does business. The
question now is whether the regulators can make that happen with a
request, as opposed to something more substantial. That will not be
easy."
(Photo credit: Alex Proimos/Wikimedia Commons)
(Photo credit: Alex Proimos/Wikimedia Commons)
How the the top 1% of the top 1% are the financial gatekeepers of elections.
NOW
IS THE TIME. AVAILABLE ON I-TUNES, DVD, ON DEMAND. PLEASE SPREAD THE
WORD. THE ONLY WAY WE CAN CHANGE DIRECTION IS IF AMERICANS UNDERSTAND
WHAT'S HAPPENING AND WHY.
-- "A Must See Movie!" - The Huffington Post
-- "Engaging and Passionate" - Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal
-- "Smart, funny and articulate," - Kenneth Turan, The Los Angeles Times
-- "Inequality For All comes at a critical moment for America" - Katrina Vanden Heuvel, The Washington Post
-- "Does for income disparity what An Inconvenient Truth did for climate change" - Variety
-- "Unflinching, impassioned, informed and insistent" - Scott Bowles, USA Today
-- "93 percent," Rotten Tomatoes website.
-- "A Must See Movie!" - The Huffington Post
-- "Engaging and Passionate" - Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal
-- "Smart, funny and articulate," - Kenneth Turan, The Los Angeles Times
-- "Inequality For All comes at a critical moment for America" - Katrina Vanden Heuvel, The Washington Post
-- "Does for income disparity what An Inconvenient Truth did for climate change" - Variety
-- "Unflinching, impassioned, informed and insistent" - Scott Bowles, USA Today
-- "93 percent," Rotten Tomatoes website.
Washington Post on #darkmoney:
"What do they fear from disclosure of their political investments? Are
they ashamed of their positions or their candidates, or of their role in
supporting them? Voters know that these donors are trying to hide
something, and that only creates more suspicion and cynicism."
Our collaboration with the Washington Post (http://bit.ly/1dtblwb) inspired this op-ed from the Post's editorial board.
Paul Krugman | Enemies of the Poor
Ted McLaughlin : Why Congress can’t understand your financial struggle
For the first time in this country’s history, more than half of the members of Congress are at least millionaires.
Chart by OpenSecrets.com. Image from jobsanger.
The #bridgegate story isn't the only issue plaguing Gov. Chris Christie today.
Now he's being investigated for his use of Sandy relief money: http://on.msnbc.com/1eP84JC
Do you think 2014 will turn out to be a good or bad year for Christie?
Now he's being investigated for his use of Sandy relief money: http://on.msnbc.com/1eP84JC
Do you think 2014 will turn out to be a good or bad year for Christie?
Hupacasath First Nation (Port Alberni). Our court challenge to FIPA is moving forward to the Court of Appeal and our argument will most likely be heard by late Spring.
It is so good to see that the Comox chapter of the Council of Canadians is going to raise awareness on the 31st. On behalf of Hupacasath, thank you for doing this important work. Should we win at Court of Appeal, it is our hope that the decision will set a precedent for the TPP and CETA that also affect our constitutional rights.
It is a critical time for people to assert their personal sovereignty and say "NO". If we don't then our rights will continue to be taken away from us. I encourage people to attend and let it be known that you oppose these International Agreements.
. " https://www.facebook.com/events/400481076753321/
It is so good to see that the Comox chapter of the Council of Canadians is going to raise awareness on the 31st. On behalf of Hupacasath, thank you for doing this important work. Should we win at Court of Appeal, it is our hope that the decision will set a precedent for the TPP and CETA that also affect our constitutional rights.
It is a critical time for people to assert their personal sovereignty and say "NO". If we don't then our rights will continue to be taken away from us. I encourage people to attend and let it be known that you oppose these International Agreements.
. " https://www.facebook.com/events/400481076753321/
Noam Chomsky: Trans-Pacific Partnership Is a 'Neoliberal Assault'
Over the Side With Old Scientific Tenets
JAN. 14. 2014Here are some concepts you might consider tossing out with the Christmas wrappings as you get started on the new year: human nature, cause and effect, the theory of everything, free will and evidence-based medicine.
Those are only a few of the shibboleths, pillars of modern thought or delusions — take your choice — that appear in a new compendium of essays by 166 (and counting) deep thinkers, scientists, writers, blowhards (again, take your choice) as answers to the question: What scientific idea is ready for retirement?
The discussion is posted at edge.org. Take a look. No matter who you are, you are bound to find something that will drive you crazy. ...
2
Georgetown University professors say, "The retraction of the Séralini
study is a black mark on medical publishing, a blow to science, and a
win for corporate bullies."
Four antipsychotic medications still prescribed even though found to be ineffective and dangerous: http://blogs.naturalnews.com/four-antipsychotic-medications-still-prescribed-even-though-found-to-be-ineffective-and-dangerous/
Four Antipsychotic Medications Still Prescribed Even Though Found to be Ineffective and...
blogs.naturalnews.com
A
new study from researchers at the University of California, San Diego
School of Medicine, Stanford University and the University of Iowa
funded by the
Hundreds reported seeing a fireball over New England yesterday at around 5:20 p.m. A viewer in South Portland sent us this photo taken at that exact time. There are differing opinions that what she shot was not the fireball, but an airplane. What do you think? For more info on the fireball observed by many, click here. http://rightweather.com/2014/01/hundreds-report-seeing-fireball-new-england/
SOTT.NET posted 2 updates.
Another
year has passed and fireballs are still raining down like never before,
with their rate apparently increasing exponentially.
Tigerfish
usually feed on other fish, crustaceans and insects. But this
"avivorous behavior" is the first confirmed report of a freshwater fish
preying on birds in flight, said the team of researchers.
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