Wednesday, January 15, 2014

15 Jan - Blogs I'm Following II

English: This is a picture of Syncrude's base ...English: This is a picture of Syncrude's base mine. The yellow structures are the bases of pyramids made of sulphur - it is not economical for Syncrude to sell the sulphur so it stockpiles it instead. Behind that is the tailings pond, held in by what is recognized as the largest dam in the world. The extraction plant is just to the right of this photograph and most of the mine is to the left. Deutsch: Tagebau der Syncrude Canada Ltd. zur Verarbeitung der Athabasca-Ölsande in Alberta (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Rights of Nature Summit and Tribunal in Ecuador this week

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 16 minutes ago
GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR THE EMERGENT “RIGHTS OF NATURE” MOVEMENT   TO HOLD ITS FIRST INTERNATIONAL SUMMIT   FOLLOWED BY A PUBLIC TRIBUNAL OF ACTUAL CASES  OTAVALO & QUITO, ECUADOR: JANUARY 13‐17, 2014  By Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature Censored News Tantoo Cardinal and Margot Kidder at the White House Keystone Tarsands Protest Before Being Arrested Photo: Milan Ilnyckyj Key leaders

Justin Amash Knows That The Most Extreme Right Members Of Congress Only Drink Cherry Coke

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 30 minutes ago
Above you see a new 6-figure Club for Growth ad for one of their threatened incumbents, Michigan Ayn Rand fanatic Justin Amish. They are attacking his Establishment opponent Brian Ellis who is backed by Karl Rove and "business interests" openly-- and by Boehner and Cantor surreptitiously. Ellis is Amash’s business-backed challenger and he is opting for a horseshoes strategy against the incumbent; he wants to hit Amash from both the left and the right. When it comes to defunding Obamacare and shutting down the government, Ellis will portray Amash as an uncompromising ideologue. O... more »

Imágenes muy bonitas de invierno mujeres y animales

José Luis Ávila Herrera at FOTOFRONTERA - 43 minutes ago
[image: pajaros] [image: Cabaña en el bosque] [image: Casas de lujo] [image: Conejos jugando] [image: Flores de primavera] [image: Paisaje de invierno] [image: hada gifs] [image: Hojas de maple] [image: Mujeres bonitas] [image: Niña con su mascota] [image: Paisaje fantástico]

Mohawk Nation News '1st False Flag'

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 hour ago
1ST FALSE FLAG Posted on January 16, 2014 MNN. Jan. 16, 2014. The American Revolutionary War was sold to the British colonial settlers on Great Turtle Island as an effort to break away from England so they could become free of indebted slavery.  Washington: “What! None of us an swim?” Cornwallis and Washington would meet every Thursday night in the Masonic Lodge to prearrange all the

This Is My Hiroshima

Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 1 hour ago
Initially, I was a bit hesitant to do this but spurred on by fellow blogger Theresa, and also because I haven't posted anything in forever and a day, I decided to take the plunge. If you are at all familiar with the latest ramblings of Neil Young you have a pretty good idea as to the motivation behind this post. Theresa raises an excellent point (which I don't think is emphasized enough) that often those critical of the oil sands fail to distinguish between the industry and the surrounding community. To lump Fort McMurray in with the oil patch is not only dishonest but unfair. An... more »

the quantum self

Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 2 hours ago

NEWSLETTER DONE

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 2 hours ago
We wrapped up the Global Network newsletter today and it is off to the print shop. You can see it online *here*. Our wonderful web master Dave Webb in England got it up on the web site in record time. Dave also chairs the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and serves as board convener of the Global Network. He is one busy guy but now that he has retired from teaching he somehow finds the time to fit it all together. I can't imagine how he did it all before he retired. There is extensive reporting in this issue about the US "pivot" into the Asia-Pacific and anti-drone campa... more »

Free Speech, Fetus Fetishist Style

noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 2 hours ago
A lot is at stake today in the US as its Supreme Court considers buffer zones around abortion clinics. Today, the Supreme Court of the United States will hear a challenge to a law that protects women seeking reproductive-health care in Massachusetts - including checkups, birth control, and abortion care - from enduring violence, and harassment by anti-choice protesters outside of reproductive-health clinics. Massachusetts has a 35-foot buffer zone (the distance of two parking spaces) that blocks anti-choice protesters from approaching women accessing health care. But anti-choice fo... more »

"A Look to the Heavens"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago
“Enigmatic spiral galaxy NGC 1097 shines in southern skies, about 45 million light-years away in the chemical constellation Fornax. Its blue spiral arms are mottled with pinkish star forming regions in this colorful galaxy portrait. They seem to have wrapped around a small companion galaxy below and left of center, about 40,000 light-years from the spiral's luminous core. *Click image for larger size.* That's not NGC 1097's most peculiar feature, though. The very deep exposure hints of faint, mysterious jets, most easily seen to extend well beyond the bluish arms toward the lower r... more »

The Making of Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae: A lecture by Bernard McGinn

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 2 hours ago
Related: *Bernard McGinn on Meister Eckhart (1260 -- 1327, C.E.)* and *Professor Bernard McGinn On Christian Mysticism*. Video Title: The Making of Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae: A lecture by Bernard McGinn May 23rd, 2012. Source: Lumen Christi. Date Published: February 20, 2013. Description: The Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas stands among the finest expressions of the Catholic "understanding of faith" (intellectus fidei). Over a thousand commentaries have been written on it. A leading historian of Medieval Christian thought, Bernard McGinn will explore Thomas's reason for ... more »

The Sandy Hook Hoax: Just Released Newtown Evidence Shows Shooting Was A FAKE!

Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 2 hours ago
As I have said before, I will bring forward to this blog any new evidence that shows that the Sandy Hook "shooting" of December 14th, 2012 was an operation where NOBODY died.....To me it is still shocking that over a year after this "operation" there are those out there that still believe this to have been a real "shooting"! Just the other day, I was sent the following video for my own assessment.... After watching it, I knew it belonged here at this blog for everyone to view for themselves.... It is entitled: "Just Released Newtown Evidence Shows Shooting Was Fake! Special Edition"... more »

The Daily "Near You?"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
Isleworth, Hounslow, United Kingdom. Thanks for stopping by.

Why on earth would anyone pay any attention to Village hack Bob Gates? (Just 'cause he wrote some crummy book?)

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
*The thing to remember, looking at this portion of Wikipedia's table of U.S. SecDefs (click on it to enlarge), is whom Bob Gates replaced -- as if anyone could replace Donald Rumsfeld.* *by Ken* Like most of our readers, we spend a lot of time here at *DWT* criticizing President Obama. Goodness knows, there's plenty to criticize. What's so frustrating, though, is that nearly all the time the criticism that gains media traction comes from the ranks of professional liars and crackpots -- though a hat tip is certainly in order for the amateurs in both fields, who have worked tireless... more »

We’re (not so) free

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 3 hours ago
The United States continues to plunge down the Heritage Institute’s World Index of Economic Freedom, out today, while ironically New Zealand continues to ride high at number five. The 20th anniversary edition of the *Index of Economic Freedom* reveals that the United States has dropped out of the top 10 freest economies in the world. When President Obama took office, the U.S. was ranked 6th. Now it is 12th… Over the 20-year history of the Index, the U.S.’s economic freedom has fluctuated significantly. During the first 10 years, its score rose gradually, and it joined th... more »

"Fukushima Update, 1/15/14"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
*"Fukushima Update, 1/15/14"* by ENE *“Dr. Michael Parenti, Ph.D*.(Yale University) political scientist, historian, author, Jan. 13, 2014: President Obama has been as mute about the calamity looming at Fukushima as the Japanese government itself- and for the same reasons. First, the potential danger is stupendous and it is in the manner of leaders, when facing something that might develop into a super catastrophe, to keep the public’s mind off it. The last thing they want is to put the public into a fright and fury about their own survival. Should Obama broach the subject of Fukush... more »

Budget Just Passed Has Cuts For Everyone But Military (Surprised? Elated? Impoverished? Enriched?) We Have to Destroy Our Constitution to Save It!

If you were surprised at what today's budget deal contains, that just indicates that you've been asleep for the last six years. And in a coma for the eight years before then. With one relatively insignificant clause buried on Page 364 of a massive budget bill that will get voted on today, Congress told us everything we need to know about federal spending priorities, the empty rhetoric of “

WESTERN DELUSIONS AND ISRAELI DREAMS

This is a re-posting of a piece written in 2010. In light of the current ‘peace talks’ between Israel and the Palestinians, the negotiations going on between the P5+1 and Iran over Iran’s nuclear program, and the push for a bill in the US Senate that allows for Israel to trigger war against Iran that automatically pulls in the US, the article is as appropriate today as it was when first written in 2010 – if not more so. 14 April 2010 There are two things about the Middle East that the world should be absolutely clear about. First, Israel has no intention of ever allowing any kind ... more »

Gold news January 15 , 2014 - China remains the dominant force in physical gold demand while JP Morgan still holding the whip hand at Comex ( paper market )....

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 5 hours ago
Gata..... Another Chinese analyst says gold is crucial to his country's economic security Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2014-01-15 21:03. Section: Daily Dispatches 4p ET Wednesday, January 15, 2014 Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: Gold researcher and GATA consultant Koos Jansen reports today on another leading personage in China's financial markets, Zhang Bingnan, market analyst for China Central Television and vice president of the China Gold Association, who told a financial conference in Beijing last year that gold is essential to China's economic security: http://www.ingoldwetrust.c... more »

French First Girlfriend Hospitalized After Francois Hollande Affair With Actress Exposed ....... More troubles in paradise ?

Catharsis Ours - 5 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-12/french-first-girlfriend-hospitalized-after-francois-hollande-affair-actress-exposed French First Girlfriend Hospitalized After Francois Hollande Affair With Actress Exposed [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/12/2014 11:53 -0500 - Eliot Spitzer - France - Reuters <iframe allowtransparency="true" aria-hidden="true" frameborder="0" id="fb_xdm_frame_https" name="fb_xdm_frame_https" scrolling="no" src="https://s-static.ak.facebook.com/connect/xd_arbiter.php?version=28#channel=f29ef2d3dc&channel_path=%2Fn... more »

Lunch Surprise

Southern Man at Southern Man - 5 hours ago
So this is the week of meetings and meetings and more meetings but after one of the meetings most of the CS faculty decided to go out to lunch. And lo and behold one of our number (the redhead two girls to the right of Southern Man), who is retiring, paid for everyone. Thanks, Mary!

Assange and MK-Ultra

Paul Coker at News Spike - 5 hours ago
*"When Assange was eight, Claire left her husband and began seeing a musician, with whom she had another child, a boy. The relationship was tempestuous; the musician became abusive, she says, and they separated. A fight ensued over the custody of Assange’s half brother, and Claire felt threatened, fearing that the musician would take away her son. Assange recalled her saying, “Now we need to disappear,” and he lived on the run with her from the age of eleven to sixteen. * *When I asked him about the experience, he told me that there was evidence that the man belonged to a powerfu... more »

Bitcoin news January 12 , 2014 .....Wells Fargo, America's Largest Bank By Market Cap, Pushing To Offer Bitcoin Services ...... Overstock's First Day Of Bitcoin: $130,000 Sales, 840 Transactions, CEO "Stunned" ...... Colorado Marijuana Dispensary Uses Bitcoin to Evade Federal Laws ..... New York State Department of Financial Services Announces Bitcoin Hearings ...... ‘Deep cold storage’ vault created for virtual currency bitcoin ..... Singapore is providing some clear guidance on how merchants can manage taxation on Bitcoin transactions.

Catharsis Ours - 5 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-14/wells-fargo-americas-largest-bank-market-cap-pushing-offer-bitcoin-services Wells Fargo, America's Largest Bank By Market Cap, Pushing To Offer Bitcoin Services [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/14/2014 21:24 -0500 - Bitcoin - John Stumpf - Wells Fargo inShare Earlier we pointed out that mortgage origination at Wells Fargo - the bank's bread and butter - is crashing at an unprecedented pace, and as per the conference call, Q1 isn't looking any better. Naturally, it stood to reason that the b... more »

Kim DotCon takes another scalp

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 6 hours ago
It seems Kim DotCon is political kryptonite to anyone he touches: starting court cases, ending careers, embarrassing them in front of their friends. He may not be accident prone himself, but he is certainly prone to causing them to his erstwhile friends. Alistair Thompson, until yesterday the lynchpin of Scoop, was the latest to fall under his sway and have the inevitable happen -- resigning yesterday from the baby he began because Cameron Slater was able to reveal that, far from being an independent press gallery journalist reporting for an independent site, he had already assu... more »

Puerto Rico seen as likely to default on its debt ! With the Treasury Department on record as saying there would not be a US bailout for Puerto Rico , bond insurers MBIA , Assured , Ambac , Syncora and Financial Guarantee Insurance Co appear exposed at this time due to the amount of debt they've wrapped ( 15.7 out of the 70 billion in Puerto Rico debt .. )

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 6 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-15/puerto-rico-default-likely-ft-reports Puerto Rico Default "Likely", FT Reports [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/15/2014 14:36 -0500 - Bond - Creditors - default - Detroit - Illinois - Puerto Rico - Unemployment inShare3 The market just hit a fresh all time high today which means another major default must be just around the horizon. Sure enough, the FT reported moments ago that a Puerto Rico default "*appears increasingly likely*" and is why creditors are meeting with lawyers ... more »

Why Are Kids Shooting Each Other in School?

Kris Nielsen at @ THE CHALK FACE - 6 hours ago
Yesterday, another child, who was way too young to be in possession of a firearm, shot two classmates, who were way too young to be harmed by one. It was at Berrendo Middle School, in Roswell, New Mexico. Although every shooting shocks me and the rest of the country, this one was too close to […]

ACLU: US Border Patrol checkpoints in Arizona violate rights of residents

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 7 hours ago
Border Patrol checkpoints in southern Arizona violate the constitutional rights of border residents, ACLU of Arizona demands investigation Formal complaint to DHS officials describes abusive and unlawful behavior by U.S. Border Patrol officials at checkpoints By Steve Kilar, ACLU of Arizona (602) 492-8540 or skilar@acluaz.org Censored News TUCSON –U.S. Border Patrol agents at southern

The Poet: Mary Oliver, “Evidence”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago
*“Evidence”* “Where do I live? If I had no address, as many people do not, I could nevertheless say that I lived in the same town as the lilies of the field, and the still waters. Spring, and all through the neighborhood now there are strong men tending flowers. Beauty without purpose is beauty without virtue. But all beautiful things, inherently, have this function - to excite the viewers toward sublime thought. Glory to the world, that good teacher. Among the swans there is none called the least, or the greatest. I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especia... more »

Musical Interlude: George Harrison, “What Is Life?”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago
George Harrison, “What Is Life?” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XFfUt7HQWM

"How It Really Is"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago
LOL, of course not, don't be naive... - CP

Extreme Laughter Warning: Wanna Gummy bear?

D ... Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 7 hours ago
I am working on a research piece at the moment and when I took a break Nick and I found this on 9gag.....I had to post it. Everyone needs a giggle now and then.... WARNING: Go pee NOW before reading. If you have issues with incontinence, you may want to not sit on the couch. THIS is WHY you should NOT order Candy, online, with ingredients you cannot pronounce and you have never heard of before!!!! I mean.... it's not funny! Seriously, people could be terribly sickened from this stuff..... But..... well..... Just read the comments and you'll understand. ..... Anyone want a g... more »

Be Careful When You Give Political Contributions-- You May Be Making Some Crooks Very, Very Wealthy

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago
Early this morning, Anonymous Operative posted about the corruption inherent in our electoral system. It's no better on either side of the aisle and it has a tendency to keep quality people out of politics so that we wind out with criminal sociopaths like Steve Israel, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Michael Grimm, John Boehner, Rahm Emanuel, Tom DeLay, Steve Stockman, Eric Cantor and Joe Crowley. But its key to remember that to Beltway operatives winning or losing isn't always what's uppermost in minds fixed on self-enrichment, This morning *Roll Call* san a story about how people runn... more »

Bill & Emma: What Lies Beneath Them

Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 7 hours ago
*New York Times* columnist Bill Keller and his lovely wife Emma are being rightly castigated for their twin columns castigating a woman suffering from Stage 4 breast cancer. You can read all about it here, here, here and here.... or wherever good journalism is sold without a paywall. The gist is this: Bill and Emma, as members of the elite ruling class, are miffed that a mere blogger named Lisa Adams is horning in on the cancer discourse. When Angelina Jolie underwent a bilateral mastectomy and reconstructive surgery (as did Emma Gilbey-Keller) it was golden fodder for a *New York ... more »

Why Do People Buy Twitter Followers?

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 7 hours ago
Why do some people buy Twitter followers? Readers may recall one Oliver James, an unknown sometime blogger who crashed into the top 100 tweeting bloggers' list of 2013. His peculiar distinction was to have more Twitter followers than obvious household names like James Delingpole and Ellie Mae O'Hagan. Something smelled fishy and as I'd recently cleaned out the fridge, it couldn't be that. Ex-blogger Matt Wardman did a bit of digging and found the following. Brother James went from 13,294 followers on 8th September to 19,139 four days later. After they had fallen back to 15,129 a mo... more »

Boxcar Willie meets Maureen Dowd!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 8 hours ago
*WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2014* *A day in the life of the Times:* It’s very hard for people to see the New York Times as it is. A very strange culture exists at the Times. From today’s editions, we offer three more examples: *A correction concerning Fort Lee:* On Monday, the Times ran a 2800-word front page report which summarized, or pretended to summarize, the Fort Lee matter to date. Most weirdly, the front-page report failed to note a rather significant fact. In its opening paragraphs, the report quoted Mayor Sokolich changing his story as to whether he was asked to endorse Gove... more »

“No Escape from the IRS Audit Machine”

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago
*“No Escape from the IRS Audit Machine”* by James Bovard “The power to tax has long conferred the power to destroy one’s political opponents. When the latest IRS politicization scandal erupted in May, many commentators talked as if the abuses were a novelty in American history. But, as David Burnham noted in his masterful 1990 book, "A Law Unto Itself: The IRS and the Abuse of Power", “In almost every administration since the IRS’s inception the information and power of the tax agency have been mobilized for explicitly political purposes.” The IRS has a long history of trying to ru... more »

High turnover rates in high-poverty schools? Here’s the proof.

Angel Cintron Jr. at @ THE CHALK FACE - 9 hours ago
For the life of me, I don’t know why education “experts” ignore the role of working conditions at high-poverty DC public schools. According to the data, high-poverty DC public schools lose almost one-third of its teaching staff. How’s that a sustainable model? As a teacher who works within such a DC public school, I’ve offered four […]

FAILING ELITES?

Anon at aangirfan - 9 hours ago
nesaranews.blogspot.com. *The elites claim to be worried about the people's rage.* In the *Financial Times*, on 15 January 2014, *Martin Wolf *writes that *failing elites threaten our future*. *According to Martin Wolf:* *1.* The *elites* got us into the disastrous *World War I.* "This calamity launched three decades of savagery and stupidity, destroying most of what was good in the European civilisation of the beginning of the 20th century." 2. The elites in 1914 were ignorant and prejudiced because they wrongly believed that empires are good and that war is glorious. 3. As a r... more »

Australia FM: Don't call settlements illegal under international law

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 9 hours ago
Australia's Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has more balls than William Hague. More here http://www.timesofisrael.com/australia-fm-dont-call-settlements-illegal-under-international-law/

ALECs Existence Depends on Lack of Transparency

2old2care at Because I Can - 10 hours ago
Well,. well, well. Been waiting to see how this one came out in the wash before reporting it to you - and needless to say it's a doozy. *In December the Guardian* released documents from the *ALEC August 2013 Board meeting* and on page 29 of that leaked document was a listing showing how many members of each state legislature were ALEC members. The document showed that 100% of legislators from Iowa and South Dakota were members. Well - about South Dakota - *I have a previous entry *where one specific member of the South Dakota legislature stated that he was not a member - so eithe... more »

Conservative Party: Is the end near?

LeDaro at LeDaro - 10 hours ago
Stephen Harper and Rob Anders *……….as Tories take a dive in the polls and the chances of re-election in 2015 — especially with another majority — grow dimmer, the cracks are beginning to show. The latest comes in the form of a nomination challenge to Calgary MP Rob Anders by a group of more centrist Conservatives.* Read more here.

The Realist Report - Thomas Goodrich: German Genocide

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 10 hours ago
On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined once again by Thomas Goodrich, author of *Hellstorm: The Death of Nazi Germany, 1944-1947*. Tom and I will be discussing the systematic genocide of the German nation during and after WWII. You can download the mp3 for this program *here*, or visit *The Realist Report* on BlogTalkRadio to subscribe via iTunes and view past programs. Below are relevant links for this program: - *Hellstorm* *(book review) - The West's Darkest Hour* - *Operation Keelhaul*

Wilful blindness requires subjective suspicions

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 11 hours ago
R. v. Stanton, 2014 ONCA 29: [10] The authorities are clear that wilful blindness requires subjective suspicions. The trial judge seems to have adopted a statement from defence counsel's closing submissions to the effect that the respondent "was not wilfully blind because he did not know, *or ought he to have known *that he struck a cyclist" (emphasis added). However, given her acquittal of the respondent, any error of law in this respect did not affect the result: see *R. v. Rudge*, 2011 ONCA 791, 108 O.R. (3d) 161, leave to appeal to S.C.C. refused, [2012] S.C.C.A. No. 64, a... more »

So you think you can teach middle school?

Angel Cintron Jr. at @ THE CHALK FACE - 11 hours ago
Do you want to become a public middle school teacher? Do you think you have what it takes to educate the future minds of America? Do you think you can handle thirty rambunctious teenagers in a classroom? Before you sign up for this assignment, let me explain why each grade is very, very different. Let’s […]

Destroying National Services. Canada Post And The Grand Plan.

Grant G at The Straight Goods - 11 hours ago
Fascism and Contemporary Canada. Locating The Present Conservative Government Led By Stephen Harper. Part XI *Destroying National Services. Canada Post And The Grand Plan.* *Written by Robin Mathews* To begin, as the Canada Post union has pointed out, Canada Post has seriously misrepresented its present financial condition to suggest it is in much worse shape than it is ... in order to spark violent changes in operation. For the first time – in addition – Canada Post tried to levy a special $5.00 surcharge … on all parcels going to Fort McMurray, Alberta. Canada... more »

16 Democrats Ready To Join Republicans In Selling Out American National Interests

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago
Who's afraid of AIPAC? Apparently a shitload of craven Democrats in the U.S. Senate. So far 59 senators have signed on as co-sponsors of legislation that was ostensibly written by 2 non-Jewish AIPAC shills, Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and Mark Kirk (R-IL) but initiated by Joe Lieberman and Israel's far right Likud Party and clearly meant to torpedo the peace process. Senators of questionable loyalty to America in matters regarding Israel-- including 16 AIPAC-owned Democrats, particularly Menendez, Chuck Schumer, Kirsten Gillibrand, Cory Booker, Ben Cardin, Michael Bennet, Bob Casey, Mark... more »

Turkey- IHH, terror and tables being turned? Part 1

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 11 hours ago
This news caught my eye yesterday. In a very big way! It’s the kind of news that doesn’t register as significant to most, but, is important because of all the people and places that connect to the IHH. So think of the IHH as an octopus and let’s look what emanates/entangles or connects with that central body [image: http://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/celtic-octopus-bill-flowers.jpg]*The IHH Octopus and it's tangled tentacles* *Very briefly, the IHH is an NGO, alleged to be very tight with the Erdogan government. * *Reports of raids on the IHH office.* *1-* Turki... more »

Nixon was Right

Paul Coker at News Spike - 11 hours ago
“The guys from the best family are most likely to develop that arrogance that puts them above the law,” Nixon said. “They all are that way. All these Harvard people.” Later, he added, “Remember that any intellectual is tempted to put himself above the law. That’s the rule that I’ve known all my life. Any intellectual, particularly—watch what schools they’re from. If they’re from any Eastern schools or Berkeley, those are particularly the potential bad ones.” Ellsberg, Halperin and Gelb were all think tank intellectuals with Ivy League degrees, and Nixon privately referred... more »

Sovereignty 101:Installment 10 - Weapons of Mass Illusion

Sophia Love at AMERICAN KABUKI - 11 hours ago
In order for the system to change without the display of power and weaponry typically used, a complete alteration of power is necessary. Today the majority understands power as force, as might, as guns and the ability to use them. What is on our “side”, the “side” of peaceful revolution, is that *what is also held deeply as a universal principle is magic*. Magic is merely the manipulation of matter in atypical ways. This can be accomplished with a being who understands the art of the dream. It is intention and expectation. It demands clarity and purity – the very things... more »

Being 100% behind

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 11 hours ago
USA USA USA, you can rule, but you refuse to command. In today's world we must command. Today I speak of windows but you can extrapolate this to so many subjects. IMHO the people of this earth have had many cycles of technical supremacists. Obviously led by childish opportunists. They as our current Gods tread, just fucked it up so badly barely a trace remains of their wisdom. In our own recent history we can not fault the NAZI for making progress. Do not get me wrong, the British Empire and its American child have made this world we live in. Gratitude must be expressed no matter ... more »

Scientific theories need to be falsifiable

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 12 hours ago
*...but the adjective automatically includes "in principle"...* I have discussed several answers to the annual (and problematic) Edge.org question Which scientific ideas should be retired? but Sean Carroll's answer wasn't among them. Falsifiability needs to be retired (Carroll's answer at Edge.org) ------------------------------ What Scientific Ideas Are Ready for Retirement? (Carroll's blog) Sean Carroll mentioned his answer on his blog, *The Preposterous Universe*, and he got largely criticized, especially by commenters like Doc C, Bruce Caithness, Dan, John Duffield, Andy Odell, a... more »

Hockey Today

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 12 hours ago
Do you realize that to the majority of the population sport is as interesting as a noisy neighbor? Sport is the first past the post entertainment winner in a crowded field of candidates. How much land mass of the planet does the USA occupy? Less than 2%. Sport numbers I do not know. However logically they are somewhere in the thirties at best. Yet sport dominates the message from our media. The reason is obvious its as close a direct interface to our lizard brain we can get without actual mortal combat. Even pansy sports fire up the lizard transmitters and make us think about c... more »

Full Interview with Former Charter Teacher at Brooklyn Ascend, Part I

Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 12 hours ago
In the following interview, a teacher shares her story about working at Brooklyn Ascend, one of the total compliance, "no excuses" charter schools in Brooklyn. Emily Talmage (formerly Emily Kennedy), who now happily teaches third grade in a Lewiston, Maine public school, has given permission to post her entire interview, which was originally conducted with an assurance of her anonymity. Some of her emails regarding her experience at Brooklyn Ascend have been previously posted here, here, and here. This is the first of three posts based on Emily's interview. I will save my comment... more »

Bill Pascrell says the most accurate things!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 12 hours ago
*WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2014* *Denounces New Jersey’s weak Dems:* Yesterday afternoon, Rep. Bill Pascrell guested on the Ed Show. Pascrell, a New Jersey Dem, has served in the House since 1997. Before that, he was mayor of Paterson. At one point, Big Ed floated a big ball of fluff at Pascrell. Instead of reciting the memorized script, Pascrell told the truth about his state’s spineless party: SCHULTZ (1/14/14): Governor Christie said that he hasn’t spoken to David Wildstein “in a long time.” This picture from the Wall Street Journal that was published today really gives an impress... more »

Homemade Oreos

Debra Hawkins at Housewife Eclectic - 12 hours ago
There are few things in this world that I love more than Oreos, slathered in peanut butter, but these Homemade Oreos might be one of them. They are delicious, soft and totally addicting. I know better than to keep them around the house unless I am OK with eating the entire plate. They are easy to make, and the homemade frosting for the middle is absolutely perfect. You will need for the cookies: 2 Devil Food cake mixes 4 eggs 1 1/2 cup shortening You will need for the frosting: 1 8oz package of cream cheese 2 tsp. vanilla 4 c. powdered sugar 1/2 stick butter Mix the cookie dough tog... more »

Hey Apple take a bite of what I am Thinking Aboot

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 12 hours ago
First of all forgive my ignorance. I know less about I tunes than you have forgotten. What I would like to see. 1) Easy ways to burn my content to disc/copy to USB in a universal format, especially for Hi Resolution Audio tracks. I always save Apple loseless. I have made MP3 discs to play in my car but it was a nightmare. 2) Support for Hi Res Audio on the I phone. How about a DAC headphone amplifier you can attach to any IPhone? 3) Let me print my play list or copy it to a file. Thanks, jobs for you from Steve.

WATCHING STORY GROW: The darnedest things!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 12 hours ago
*WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2014* *Part 3—Maddow’s sleight of hand:* Journalists say the darnedest things when story starts to grow. Last night, near the end of Piers Morgan Live, the CNN import said this: MORGAN (1/14/14): Well, I suppose the obvious thing that struck me with all this, and I've always been a big fan of Chris Christie's, interviewed him several times and find him extremely impressive character in many ways… *What could be a bigger issue to the governor than to have the busiest bridge in the world brought to an absolute standstill for a whole week?*And yet in that week,... more »

An Easy, Do It Yourself Non Toxic Bleach Substitute

Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 13 hours ago
[image: Make Your Own Non-Toxic Bleach Alternative] Regular chlorine bleach is no picnic to use in the home. It’s pretty toxic stuff, and when combined with other common household items (like ammonia, certain soaps and some organic (natural) materials) it can form highly toxic (sometimes fatal) gases/substances. We haven’t used bleach in a long time. So what do we use for cleaning? How do we keep whites their whitest? We used to rely on store-bought, natural oxygen bleach, which is pretty effective but it can be pricey. Plus, it’s packaged in plastic bottles which aren’t refillab... more »

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Bill Robertson at GlobaLove Think Tank - 13 hours ago
In space, the powers of creation and destruction work differently than they do here on earth. Matter appears, dissolves and reappears just like here but in a much s l o w e r m a n n e r. Matter that makes up you and me. On earth we’re refreshed at such high rates of speed that the particles of matter disappear and reappear in essentially the same place ..making our position more or less predictable from one instant to the next. In space, however, it’s so cold that things take a little longer ..when measured in nano-seconds. So, instead of the *high-speed collisions*that w... more »

Paul Krassner : Predictions for 2014

Thorne Dreyer at The Rag Blog - 13 hours ago
The all-seeing and all-knowing one lifts the veil. Just a little. Enough for a peek. By Paul Krassner | The Rag Blog | January 15, 2014 Steve Jobs, the late founder and chief designer of the Apple Empire, will be … finish reading Paul Krassner : Predictions for 2014

Foreign affairs

sue at Is the BBC biased? - 13 hours ago
When I used to write for the Biased-BBC blog between 2009 and 2012, as David Vance frequently used to point out to his critics, the above the line contributors were volunteers, unpaid, working in our own time and at our own pace. Nevertheless, many people seemed to assume that we were sitting by our radios and televisions monitoring the output all hours of the day, seven days per week. In some ways, simply by presuming to write a blog about BBC bias, we were duty bound to do a certain amount of watching and listening, so there’s no use getting all indignant about it. These days I w... more »

let them stay week day 5: write a paper letter to chris alexander

laura k at wmtc - 13 hours ago
Today we go old school. Take out a pen, or turn on your printer, and send some paper mail to Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Chris Alexander. Tell him to stop deporting US war resisters in Canada, and to enact a provision to let them stay. Tell him why. Find an envelope, and send your letter to: The Honourable Chris Alexander House of Commons Justice Building – 306 284 Wellington Street Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A6 If you live in Canada, you don't even need a stamp.

GLADIO - The Kelly Thomas Provocation

Paul Coker at News Spike - 13 hours ago
This HAS to be a provocation - like Rodney King and Trayvon Martin and Mark Duggan, but for White America. No chance in hell they were acting alone. *"The third scenario for FEMA came with the Los Angeles riots after the Rodney King brutality verdict. Had the rioting spread to other cities, FEMA would have been empowered to step in. As it was, major rioting only occurred in the Los Angeles area, thus preventing a pretext for a FEMA response.* *On July 5, 1987, the Miami Herald published reports on FEMA's new goals. The goal was to suspend the Constitution in the event of a nati... more »

Ed Miliband thinks there's a difference between 250,000 and a quarter of a million...

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 13 hours ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3KCQkIGR_o&feature=youtube_gdata_player If a Conservative politician had made this gaffe, it'd be all over the BBC but as it's a Labour ally of the BBC, shhh not a word.

Golf Bicycle Trailer

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 13 hours ago
Pictured above is a fantastic idea. Combining Golf and riding a bike on a well groomed natural trail. For those who have never ridden trails its like comparing walking in the grass barefoot to wearing shoes. I am sure they have done their homework but it looks a little compromised to me. Instead of reinventing the wheel, design a golf bag trailer that can hold two standard sized golf bags and has a built in cooler. A solar panel would recharge the phone. Golfers can rent both the bike and the trailer. The cost of my product would be much less than the $1200 suggested for the dev... more »

Ethnosectarian Displacement Returns To Iraq

Joel Wing at MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 14 hours ago
The on going fighting in Iraq’s Anbar province has led to thousands of families fleeing their homes. The Iraqi Red Crescent claimedthat up to 13,000 families, roughly 78,000 people had left their residences so far. Once the situation becomes more secure however, many of these people are likely to return. What is much more worrisome is that ethnosectarian displacement appears to be returning to Iraq due to threats and attacks in not only the north and center of the country where the insurgency is based, but in the south as well. This is another sign that security is deteriorating ... more »

Fidlar: Trailer Park Boys with a punk Beatles Vibe

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 14 hours ago
H/T Warren Kinsella

Israel joins CERN

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 14 hours ago
For the first time since 1999, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has accepted a new (21st) full member. CERN press release, Jerusalem Post, Israel National News, Interactions.ORG Israel culturally belongs to Europe and the work of the Israeli physicists is actually very important so the expansion seems like a no-brainer even though Israel is currently the only full member from outside geographic Europe. Aside from the slight Asian "accent", Hatikvah sounds more or less "ours", especially to Czech ears that recognize the theme borrowed from Smetana's Moldau. ... more »

ZSRDF Commisons Offical Command Vehicle

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 14 hours ago
Its an Audi A8 factory modified armoured car. V12 powered and looking entirely stock. The head of alien intelligence would never suspect Major Jones Spaceman and other heroes of the ZSRDF were cruising the boulevards. A taxi picking up the fares of galactic defense. Me I am flying in my Taxi, taking tips getting stoned

TBS Cam Was Up Today

Majia's Blog - 14 hours ago
The TBS cam was back up today. I don't know if its running an old loop. For the sake of my sanity I'm going to presume that today's feed was from today. The good news is the DAIICHI plant does NOT appear to be burning or steaming any worse than it has in the past. The bad news is I witnessed quite a few camera glitches that might possibly have been flashes, followed by significantly increased pixilation. An hour later the pixilation was mostly gone, although heat waves could easily be seen coming up from the area of unit 3. Those heat waves are not new. They've been visible since... more »

It's Wednesday ...

Adrienne at Adrienne's Corner - 14 hours ago
*what's going on - besides me hating that useless little "n" in Wednesday?* Angry White Dude: *Whither After Us?* Charles Hugh Smith: *Resolution #1: Let's Call Things What They Really Are in 2014* Always on Watch: *Caution: Children At Play* Diogenes Middle Finger: *Obama Daughters Listed as ‘Senior Staff’ In White House $424,000 Summer Africa Trip* The Blaze: *Governors Looking at Constitutional Convention to Reign in Federal Spending* The Other McCain: *The ‘Emerging Awareness’ Continues* *Lonely Conservative: Gee, What A Shock, Another Obamacare Deadline Delayed * S... more »

tin foil test

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 14 hours ago
cant seem to make a post, I blame Harper

Various and Sundry

thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 14 hours ago
Obnoxious young asswipe Justin Beiber is found to have cocaine in his home(after police arrived to investigate the stupid spoiled brat's pelting eggs at a neighbour's house). Seems that homeschooled, Christian Bieber hasn't absorbed enuff of the teachings of his Lord n' Saviour, Jeeziz Christ. Pompous, untalented, hypocritical. lazy fuckwad David Brooks, who is always going on about how non-white people have to learn to control their animalistic impulses, has decided that being a loud, cretinous, obese slob of a bully is a-okay if it's a white Republican. Hence his kind and tolerant ... more »

A Tale Of Two Countries

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 15 hours ago
When it comes to oil, Mitchell Anderson writes, Canada and Norway have written two different narratives: A recent news item showed that Norway's massive pot of petroleum of money, now totaling CA$909.364 billion, has made every citizen a millionaire in Norwegian kroner. That works out to about $178,000 for every man, woman and child in the country. By contrast, every Canadian lumbers under an individual debt of $17,000 as Ottawa is in hock to the tune of $600 billion. What accounts for the difference? It all comes down to taxes: Alberta has run consecutive budget deficits since ... more »

Exposé From A Longtime Beltway Operative

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago
I've known him for many years, through many campaigns and he would lose his job-- and his ability to *get* jobs-- if he were to use his real name. So this guest post, a message to grassroots candidates, is by "Anonymous Operative." I didn't change a word, although we've tackled this topic in the past. *It’s A Sad, Pathetic RacketBy Anonymous Operative* It’s a shame that so many Democratic donors are quick to contribute their hard earned money to the wrong cause. Cycle after cycle I hear donors tell strong progressive candidates “you sound like a great Democrat, but we just give ... more »

The Triumph of Conscience, Martin Luther King Jr.

plthomasedd at @ THE CHALK FACE - 15 hours ago
The Triumph of Conscience, Martin Luther King Jr.. via The Triumph of Conscience, Martin Luther King Jr.. via The Triumph of Conscience, Martin Luther King Jr..Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical

High Arctic Relocation

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 16 hours ago
In August 1953, seven or eight families from Inukjuak, northern Quebec (then known as Port Harrison) were transported to Grise Fiord on the southern tip of Ellesmere Island and to Resolute Bay on Cornwallis Island. Grise Fiord The families were promised better living and hunting opportunities in new communities in the High Arctic. They were joined by three families recruited from the more Northern community of Pond Inlet (in the then Northwest Territories, now part of Nunavut) whose purpose was to teach the Inukjuak Inuit skills for survival in the High Arctic. The Inuit reported t... more »

Appointment of Justice Nadon: Tempest in a Teapot

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 16 hours ago
*I just do not see what the fuss is about. * *Appointments to the Supreme Court are entirely within the power of the PMO anyway. The real challenge is to bring those appointments in line with other judicial offices and have proper search committees and recommendations as elsewhere. * *The idea that a Federal Court of Appeals judge doesn't qualify as a legitimate candidate for the Supreme Court strikes me as pettifogging:* OTTAWA -- A constitutional battle will be engaged today over whether the government is free to change the rules for the top court in the land. It didn't star... more »

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Peter at the original Blogger Tips and Tricks - 16 hours ago
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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 16 hours ago
*Live blog: Lawyers suing oil & gas industry to appear before Jindal's CPRA Koch Suckers ~Bob Marshall, The Lens* *~The Lens will live-blog what could be a wetlands’ version of “High Noon” at Wednesday’s meeting of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority. Attorneys for the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East say they have accepted an invitation from coastal chief Koch Sucker Garret Graves to present their client’s case for its controversial lawsuit against oil and gas companies for coastal land loss – which Graves strongly opposes.* *Dear Editilla,* *Oppos... more »

Tight squeeze!

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 17 hours ago

Canada Park

Alison at Creekside - 17 hours ago
When Stephen Harper visits Israel this month, he will likely make a stop at Canada Park, opened by John Diefenbaker in 1975 and completed in 1984. Twenty-two years ago, CBC's Fifth Estate aired the powerful program above on the origins of Canada Park, built on top of three Palestinian villages bulldozed by the Israeli army and paid for by 15 million dollars in Canadian donations to the Jewish National Fund who continue to maintain upkeep of the park. Harper announced his intention to visit Israel from the Jewish National Fund's annual Negev fundraiser in Toronto in December, where... more »

We want any car - driving me nuts

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 17 hours ago
We want any car.com have a series of film based advertisements currently running on TalkSport. One is based upon The Italian Job and features a poor, but recognisable, impression of Michael Caine. The one that is driving me nuts is the one based upon James Bond's Aston Martin DB5. This is a car most famously driven by Sean Connect, although also by Pierce Brosnan & Daniel Craig, so why is the impression of Roger Moore? It's a dreadful impression of Roger Moore as well but why not Sean Connery? Do facts not matter any more?

How to sign your post with graphic signature

Peter at the original Blogger Tips and Tricks - 17 hours ago
1. create your signature with a graphic editor 2. save that graphic signature in your computer 3. write a new post and upload your graphic signature 4. publish the post (you save it as draft later) 5. Edit the post in the Edit HTML mode and get the picture address (URL) as shown here: 6. copy the picture signature URL (the part highlighted in red below) then go to Dashboard > Settings > Posts and Comments and in the POSTS section and after POST TEMPLATE click ADD as shown in the screenshot below: [image: Blogger post template] 7. In the box for the post template, type this img tag to d... more »

Plans to redefine 1 ampere

Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 17 hours ago
I discussed this topic in April 2012 in Let's fix the value of Planck's constant. The SI system of units is based on 1 meter, 1 second, 1 kilogram, 1 kelvin, 1 ampere, 1 candela, and 1 mole. They have some definitions that are not really optimal yet. I claim that a theoretical physicist prefers units in which a maximum possible subset of the universal fundamental constants of Nature such as \(\hbar,c,\epsilon_0,e,k_B,N_A\) and perhaps even \(G\) have well-known values. In theory papers, we really want to put them equal to one but that requires one to use natural (e.g. Planck) uni... more »

JESUS AND JUNG

Anon at aangirfan - 20 hours ago
*Carl Jung and family* According to Carl Jung: "We all must do what Christ did. We must make our experiment. "We must make mistakes. We must live out our own version of life. "And there will be error. If you avoid error you do not live." The Psychotherapist & Self Acceptance. According to the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, there is a 'dark side' to all our personalities. Think of anger, greed, fear and lust. This 'dark side', or 'shadow', is usually hidden within our 'subconscious'. *The 'dark side' or 'shadow' should not be seen as necessarily always 'evil'.* For example, t... more »

BPEarthWatch - Comet Siding Spring to obliterate Mars' atmosphere in October 20th 2014

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET BLOG - 21 hours ago
Comet 20013 A1 (Siding Spring) to obliterate Mars' atmosphere in October 20th 2014. Youtuber BPEarthWatch's mission seems to be to pre-empt the End Times i.e. religious fever for DOOM. This urge motivates BPEarthWatch to look into all sorts of doomy news, weather and space events and ratchet up the paranoia and fear for THE END IS NIGH; you know BME or Biblical Magnitude Events. Plus, I really like his laid-back delivery in the face of his maker's potential for ultimate horror i.e. the universe we all live in. "Obliterate Mars' atmosphere, Mike?" yeah, this is an example of a) ho... more »

Five Reasons Why Geneva II Will Not Lead To A Negotiated Peace

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 21 hours ago
Next week, organizers of the Geneva II Middle East peace conference, led by world powers the United States and Russia, will hope to arrange a compromise between the Assad regime and the mainstream opposition that will put an end to the three-year long conflict and lead the country towards a new transitional government. The conference will be held in Montreux, Switzerland. Back in Augut, Lakhdar Brahimi, UN envoy to Syria, *said* that "there is no military solution." This week, Secretary of State John Kerry *said* there is a possibility of local ceasefires in Syria. Although optim... more »

Richard Berman’s Declared Union-bashing Strategy

deutsch29 at @ THE CHALK FACE - 23 hours ago
On January 13, 2014, I published a post about Richard Berman’s Center for Union Facts (CUF) attack on the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) via its five-story billboard in Times Square (and its similar, full-page New York Times ad in December 2013). I believe that this barrage of CUF ads is the direct result of recently-elected New York City Mayor Bill […]

Bill Meacham : Learning from Zarathustra

Thorne Dreyer at The Rag Blog - 23 hours ago
Zarathustra is appropriately called the First Prophet. He spoke of themes later to be found in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: a single universal God, the battle between good and evil, the devil, heaven and hell, and an eventual end to … finish reading Bill Meacham : Learning from Zarathustra

Government Of, By, and For The Rich? Remember When BlankGoldFein Said Goldman Sachs Had Been Doing God's Work? Still Paying Off Big Time! (Change In Payroll Jobs Vs Change In Employed Differs By Nearly 3 Million Since July)

If you believe that the Congresspeople who make the laws governing the 99% don't have much idea of how they (we) live, you would be correct. In a world of six-figure salaries . . . (they) inhabit a world exempt from parking tickets, where gym membership is free and health care is second-to-none, where you only have to work two, maybe three days a week, and get 32 fully-reimbursed road trips

Do You Believe In Extraterrestrials?

DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago
If the extraterrestrial agenda calls for the creation of a global electronic surveillance system meant to hide all true information about their presence here on earth as they enter into the “final phase” of their end plan for total assimilation and world rule, why do they allow the History Channel to keep broadcasting? When *Shahs of Sunset*, *The Amish Mafia* or *Princesses: Long Island* aren't on TV, I settle for one of the endlessly repeated History Channel exposés on aliens building the Pyramid, aliens setting up the Dogon people of Mali, aliens building everything in Mexico,... more »

Internet Party

Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day ago
Well, if in launching a political party your aim is to get everyone to talk about you, then the launch of Kim DotCon’s Internet Party has worked a treat. Although I imagine the publicity wasn’t supposed to be generated because Fartin’ Martyn Bradbury was stupid enough to leavea draft paper about the party’s plans and programme lying around for Cameron Slater to publish, or for it to be revealed therein that Martyn Bradbury was being paid to “consult” for Hone Harawira’s Mana Party while being paid $8000 to spruik DotCon’s Party Party to his friends and associates while also being... more »
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