Sunday, March 09, 2014

9 Mar - Blogs I'm Following

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A very determined BBC reporter v women farmers

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 1 hour ago
A new blog has been launched today called *The Conservative Woman *and it's hit the ground running with an amusing piece by Kathy Gyngell about BBC bias - specifically what she sees as *Farming Today*'s attempts at feminist agenda-pushing over the course of the past week: Saturday’s programme, it turned out, was the culmination of a week-long campaign by the Beeb’s gender warriors to track down the oppressed of the farming industry. No, they were not seeking out migrant labourers at the mercy of gangmasters or poor peasants drowning on the Somerset levels, but women farmers. A b... more »

The Hypocrisy of the U.S. against Russia going into Crimea is Astounding! WW3 - Not Bombs but bonds?

Sherrie Questioning All at Sherrie Questioning All - 1 hour ago
I am sincerely astounded at the hypocrisy of the U.S. and Western nations. They are so outraged that Russia would go into the Ukraine area of Crimea and try to calm the events that are happening there. We know that the U.S. was behind the revolution of Ukraine due to the recorded phone calls. We know that the sniper was a U.S. supported person. But I am astounded that the U.S. and how

Argentina: Unusual Object in Argentinean Air Force Display

Inexplicata (IHU) at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 1 hour ago
*Source: Planeta UFO and Vision OvniDate: March 4, 2014* *Argentina: Unusual Object in Argentinean Air Force Display* *Andrea Pérez Simondini writes*:"Several things happened on 11 August 2012, during the 100th celebration of the Argentinean Air Force at the Córdoba Air Base. The public was treated to a lovely display of aerial acrobatics, there was a brush between two aircraft without any consequence to the pilots and and incredible recording was obtained: a video taken by one of the participants. Here is a vidcap from the document. We will see what it's all about, but at first bl... more »

Teaching Students, Missionary Zeal, and the Cult of Personality

plthomasedd at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 hour ago
Teaching Students, Missionary Zeal, and the Cult of Personality. via Teaching Students, Missionary Zeal, and the Cult of Personality.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical

Mexico: Three "UFO Flaps" Documented in Yucatan

Inexplicata (IHU) at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 1 hour ago
*Source: Planeta UFO and SIPSE http://sipse.com/milenio/enigmas-yucatan-documentan-tres-oleadas-ovni-jorge-moreno-79059.html?Date: March 6, 2014* *Mexico: Three "UFO Flaps" Documented in Yucatan* *By Jorge Moreno, SIPSE* MERIDA, Yucatan - In UFO parlance, a "flap" means "frequent sightings of spacecraft (sic) in the same place and for several consecutive days. Throughout history, there have been UFO flaps in various European countries such as England, Italy, the Netherlands, German, while the Americas, the United States began having an increased quantity of cases until just the m... more »

Judge Joe Brown

Paul Coker at News Spike - 1 hour ago
Judge Brown Slams Memphis Over the King Case As recorded by Dick Russell *The following is a transcription of Judge Joe Brown’s remarks made on the 30th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King on April 3, 1998 at the Centenary Methodist Church in Memphis. The remarks were transcribed by author Dick Russell who will be writing an article for High Times this fall on this conference. Russell is also the author of the current book Black Genius which was published by Carroll and Graf earlier this year. Our thanks to Dick for letting us share this transcription with our ... more »

MLK - Truth in Lyrics

Paul Coker at News Spike - 1 hour ago
*The Assassination of Martin Luther King * April 4 of 67 Martin voiced opposition against the Vietnam War, He also planned to march on Washington addressing the struggles of the poor, Trying to inspire America to help citizens they generally ignore, One year later it inspired America to murder him, because America is evil to the core. America has had over 30 years to come clean, Now here’s the truth about who murdered* Martin Luther King.* *J. Edgar Hoover* tried to force Martin to commit suicide, By threatening him with pictures where his image was compromised, They sent audio ta... more »

Ukraine Distraction: LOOK OVER THERE!!!!!

D ... Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 2 hours ago
I sat down this evening to start working on a financially based article on the Ukraine debacle to go with the political media propaganda article that I put out this morning. I was just finishing up todays Transpicous News update when I found this excellent article by Alt-Market's Brandon Smith.... and over half of my work is already done for me!!! We've covered all of this information in previous articles about the banksters and their controllers over the past couple of years, but we are currently seeing a whole new wave of people who are just now discovering that they have been liv... more »

War Watch March 8 , 2014 - Iraq death dealing continues unabated , US Special Forces training Iraqi and Jordanian troops as well as Syrian rebel forces ...... Syria focus these days remains on the rebel vs rebel in-fighting , but the War between the Syria Government and Rebels rolls on , Syria chemical weapon destruction item of note ....... Another Afghan drone attack mifire - how widely will the implications of the deaths and serious injuries sustained on this occasion by Afghan National Army soldiers be felt remains to be seen ........ Iranian nuclear talks and international politics regarding same in focus.....

Catharsis Ours - 2 hours ago
Iraq...... US Sends Special Forces Troops to Jordan for Iraq TrainingTroops Will Also Train Jordanian Forces by Jason Ditz, March 07, 2014 Print This | Share This The Pentagon has confirmed another deployment of “a small number” of special forces troops to Jordan to take part in ongoing counter-terrorism training for Iraqi and Jordanian forces. The US pledged the training operation after al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) seized much of the Anbar Province. The Iraqi military has continued to try to oust them, with very limited success. The training is expected to last through the end of April, t... more »

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 2 hours ago
*Green Army rallies at state capitol ~WDSU* *James Gill: Senator Robert Adley goes to bat for Big Oil* *Sea Change ~Saints Win * *Dr. John to get all-star concert salute May 3 in New Orleans ~ Randy Lewis, LA Times* *Second Lines Return with Keep-N-It-Real By the Bayou ~NOLA DEFENDER *

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sue at Is the BBC biased? - 2 hours ago
I don’t think the BBC has mentioned it, which is a pity because it’s right up their street, but the beautician who embarrassed herself with that Tweet was at least trying to engage with world affairs, rather than hair extensions or things related to her immediate surroundings. Have you seen “Goggle Box’? I know it’s not on the BBC, but some of the programmes the Gogglers had been told to watch are. The one with Evan Davis and Boris Johnson probably wasn’t one that many Gogglers would have chosen to watch had they not been instructed to do so, but there was mileage in the appear... more »

The Economics Of Coercion

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 3 hours ago
The British economic historian Avner Offer believes that the gap between our economic model and our economic reality is now similar to the gap between Karl Marx's Communism and Leonid Breshnev's Communism. Chris Hedges reports: Our current economic model, he said, will be of little use to us in an age of ecological deterioration and growing scarcities. Energy shortages, global warming, population increases and increasing scarcity of water and food create an urgent need for new models of distribution. “The state of current political economy in the West is similar to the state of ... more »

EPIC's epic National Energy Program

Alison at Creekside - 3 hours ago
After CBC reported that the RCMP had seized Bruce Carson's bank records as part of their investigation into his alleged illegal lobbying on behalf of the *Energy Policy Institute of Canada*, the policy think tank comprised of most of Canada's energy resource extraction corporations' website promptly went offline. It's still offline. This is not the first time poor old EPIC's website has melted away when struck by sunlight, only to reanimate a few days or weeks later with a member or two missing. EPIC's whole purpose is to formulate a national energy program and get it implemented.... more »

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jonjayray at Food &Health Skeptic - 3 hours ago
*Passive smoking 'dramatically increases' the risk of miscarriage, stillbirth and ectopic pregnancy* *The usual rubbish. Smoking is correlated with IQ. High IQ people are much less likely to smoke. And high IQ people have fewer health problems. We are looking at the effect of IQ here, not smoking. Dumb people tend both to smoke and have dumb families* Passive smoking increases the risk of miscarriage, stillbirth, and ectopic pregnancy, new research warned. And the more women are exposed to second hand smoke, the greater the risk, a study in the British Medical Journal reporte... more »

The phrase “spring forward, fall back” goes back decades.

James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 3 hours ago
One of the first uses was by the Heppner Gazette-Times in Oregon, which gave that advice to its readers in 1928.

Why GOP Administrations Do Not Create Jobs

Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 4 hours ago
*by Len Hart, the Existentialist Cowboy* What tycoons of old understood was that if wager earners earn more, they spend more. Jobs are created. Even more spending follows the additional jobs. That's the left/dem/progressive model. But the GOP method is just the opposite and so --too --the miserable results. The effects of the GOP model are confirmed with official stats from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the U.S. Commerce Dept and various studies. A GOP tax cut --from which only elites benefit --is invariably followed by a recession/depression, increased joblessness, higher pri... more »

Ukraine Updates March 8 , 2014 - Moscow and the West continue to trade jabs over the respective actions and legitimacy of said actions coming from Kiev and Crimea , China weighs in with its thoughts on the overall situation in Ukraine , its disagreement and opposition to " the easy use of sanctions in international relations , or using sanctions as a threat " and political means being the only solution , sanction talk from both the West and Russia bandied about -- neither side has much enthusiasm on actually imposing truly punitive measures at this time but expect changes in tone if the Crimea referendum does occur and Crimea votes to join the Russian Federation , IMF discusses its intial consultations with Ukraine ( handcuffs being fitted even as we speak for the Ukrainian people with pensions in the gunsights ) , inquiring minds wonder as to why Kiev is courting neo- fascist groups and Oligarchs in its new government of the people , Military movements / War games / Sanction tough talk - all par of the grand game being played out , but those Gazprom gas bills near 2 billion and are still unpaid .

Catharsis Ours - 5 hours ago
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The Liars of 9-11 - The Anti-Defamation League of the International Order of B'nai Brith (Armchair Division)

Paul Coker at News Spike - 5 hours ago
The Liars of 9-11 - The Anti-Defamation League of the International Order of B'nai Brith (Armchair Division) from Spike EP on Vimeo. *The Anti-Defamation League: Dope, Inc.'s Public Relations Firm* In 1979, only a few months after the publication of the first edition of Dope, Inc., a scurrilous attack on the book and its authors appeared in a local Philadelphia Jewish newspaper. The weekly charged that Dope, Inc.'s identification of the now deceased Meyer Lansky as the kingpin for the syndicate's dope operation in the United States, was an "anti-Semitic" attack on a great Jewish... more »

Five Lessons for Taiwan from the Ukraine Mess

Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 5 hours ago
*Almost to Donghe.* *1. The propaganda struggle* It's been exceedingly depressing to watch my feeds fill up with propaganda about the Ukraine, with reliable information hard to obtain. A number of my lefty friends seem to be forwarding Russian propaganda claims as fast as Moscow can put them out (there's a whole swath of the "anti-imperialist" left that will embrace any imperialism, as long as it is not western), while my right-wing friends and the US mainstream media have simply ignored US involvement in the pro-western protests. Lots of the lefty websites I frequent are overrun ... more »

Ukraine, art, Syria, cuts, Muslim women's football, armour, Islam & conservation, and gay vicars getting hitched

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 5 hours ago
I was thinking of giving up listening to *Sunday *for Lent but temptation has taken hold of me and, alas, I've fallen by the wayside. So here we go again... This week's *Sunday *began with *Ukraine*, and interviews with two people who take a negative view of Russia's involvement there. First came an interview between Edward Stourton and Protestant pastor Sergei Golovin about "what Russian control [of Crimea] might mean for different faith and ethnic communities." Though an ethnic Russian, the pastor thinks what Russia is doing is "illegal" and fears that Russian control would le... more »

Chinese Copper Financing - should the financial world fear the copper rather than black swan ? China credit market roiled as default of Chaori Solar puts paid to perceived PBOC put ! Default worries hit not just credit markets resulting in several debt offerings being pulled but extends to commodities as well !

Catharsis Ours - 6 hours ago
Keep those eyes on China.......Exports falling ups the pressure on the china copper financing schemes discussed below ! Chinese Exports Collapse Leading To 2nd Largest Trade Deficit On Record [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/07/2014 22:20 -0500 - BRICs - China - Copper - recovery - Shadow Banking - Trade Balance - Trade Deficit inShare4 Plenty of excuses out there for this evening's colossal miss in *Chinese exports (-18.1% YoY vs an expectation of a 7.5% rise)* mainly based on timing issues over the Lunar New Ye... more »

Ukraine Post Revolution Updates - Focus on Crime Re-Revolution -- As Crime moves toward its March 16 , 2014 Referendum concerning joining the Russian Federation , rallies in support of vote continue in Crimea and rallies in favor of Russian intervention occur in Eastern Ukraine ......... The new Ukrainian government continues to take actions to deter the vote occurring - the latest step being blocking the electronic system of Crimea's Treasury and freezing the Autonomy accounts ( state pensions not affected for now , Crimean Authorities respond by opening accounts with Russian Banks . ) ......... Austerity to be imposed on Kiev coup government ( to accompany planned pension cuts of up to fifty percent for working pensioners ) ........ Anti-fascist march activists were shot minutes after their protest finished in Kharkov, Ukraine, LifeNews and Glagol reported. A bus with ten people inside stopped and began shooting at the activists. The men then came closer and reportedly began beating the activists. Three people were injured, one of whom sustained a gunshot wound in his back ...... The EU and US still conferring ( by phone ) to come up with a strategy that will slow down the referendum tide in Crimea , Eastern European countries and the US support strong sanctions against Russia while Germany , France , Italy and UK adverse to imposing meaningful Russia sanctions.....

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 6 hours ago
Today's headlines...... http://rt.com/news/kiev-clashes-rioters-police-571/Sunday, March 9 08:59 GMT: Around 10,000 people have taken part in a rally in support of Ukraine in Maikop, in the Russian Republic of Adygea, local police report, as cited by Interfax. 08:54 GMT: Ukraine’s self-imposed authorities have blocked the electronic system of Crimea’s treasury and frozen the autonomy’s accounts, said Crimean Deputy PM Rustam Temirgaliyev. However, he says this will not affect state payments like pensions, Interfax reports. “*We are now quickly opening accounts in Russian banks, incl... more »

Tantoo Cardinal receives Agua Caliente Film Award during night of profound films

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 7 hours ago
Tantoo Cardinal after receiving her award tonight. Photo Brenda Norrell Tantoo Cardinal receives standing ovation, during night of immersion in profound films of natural world By Brenda Norrell Censored News Exclusive PALM SPRINGS, Calif. -- Indigenous actress Tantoo Cardinal was awarded the 2014 Richard M. Milanovich Award tonight for distinguished contributions to Indigenous Film. The

8 Unanswered Political Questions from the Oscars

Megan MacKenzie at Duck of Minerva - 7 hours ago
I know it has already been a week, but I’m still thinking about the Oscars. Not the fashion (boring!! predictable!!), or the hostess (boring!! predictable!!) or the winners (boring!! predictable!!), or the speeches (ok you get my point)- but rather a short list of questions I still need help with. Answers welcome. 1. Was bell Continue reading

SKYE McALPINE, LORD McALPINE AND MARGARET THATCHER

Anon at aangirfan - 7 hours ago
*The Thatchers with Skye McAlpine, daughter of Lord McAlpine, who was the Conservative Party Treasurer while MargaretThatcher was prime Minister.* Margaret Thatcher enjoyed the company of young Skye McAlpine, the daughter of Alistair McAlpine. Skye once played play hide-and-seek with Margaret Thatcher at the McAlpine estate at West Green. They didn't tell anyone what they were doing *http://www.dailymail* *West Green.* Skye spent many Christmases with the Thatchers, sometimes at Chequers, sometimes in London or Venice. *http://www.dailymail*. / THATCHER; LESBIAN MP; LESBIAN PAR... more »

What lies behind the paywall this morning?

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 8 hours ago
Today's newspapers have a fair bit about the BBC in them, especially *The Sunday Times *(£)*.* They tell us, for example, that *James Naughtie* has been told off by an internal BBC inquiry for allowing a friend to plug a commercial company and give inaccurate information during an interview. Fraser Steel, head of editorial complaints, criticised the *Today *presenter's... ...failure to dispel the idea that BritainsDNA was not a business and his allowing Moffat to read out its website address, giving “undue prominence [to] a commercial organisation”. Naughty, naughty Jim! We then... more »

Well he was right

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 9 hours ago
Before the World Indoor Athletics Championships Richard Kilty said what he could achieve... 'Richard Kilty wants to show he deserves a place in the World Indoors 60m... the Teesside sprinter beat French duo Christophe Lemaitre and Jimmy Vicaut, and American Mike Rodgers last Saturday, all of whom have broken the 10-second barrier over 100 metres. "I think I can run sub 6.50. I was a little fatigued in Birmingham on Saturday having raced three hard rounds in the UK trials the weekend before. "There are little things to improve on technically in terms of being a little tense, and ... more »

(Normalizing Poverty: Making It OK) World’s Billionaires Saw Their Combined Wealth Soar More Than $1 Trillion Last Year As Median US Income Fell 6% After 2008 Bank Bail Out (Corporate Capitalism Digging Its Own Grave?)

The disparity between the fortunes of the super-rich and the struggles of the vast majority has become so stark and so wide that the corporate-controlled media and the corporate-controlled political parties cannot avoid discussing it. Obama and the Democrats are even seeking to raise the issue of economic inequality against their Republican opponents, albeit half-heartedly and without any

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JR at GREENIE WATCH - 9 hours ago
*ObamaCar Replacement Batteries Cost $34,000 According to GM Dealers* Here’s the good news about the ObamaCar known as the Chevy Volt: There haven’t been any reported fires connected with the ObamaCar since the company recalled 8,000 of the electric vehicles—that’s one in six vehicles. That is no fires, if you don’t count the people who’ve been “fired” from the Volt production line as sales continue to make Obama’s “one million” electric car promise just another broken dream in a crooked scheme. Obama promised that by the time he finished as president, he’d put a million electric ... more »

Vampire Banksters descend on the Ukraine and Putin does the Exorcism!

Papani at DeadBanksterSociety - 9 hours ago
*Interview by Cara St. Louis with F.William Engdhal on the Ukraine Catharsis and the vampirism activity of the IMF, NATO, EU and Zionist/Nazi subhumans.* Also mentioned is "Operation Paperclip" where Nazi's from a losing Germany were brought over to seed the US with their greater "intellectual prowess"; with the likes of V2 rocketeer Wernher Von Braun - who plastered London with 1000 V2 rockets - aka "Father of the Apollo Programme". This subsequently leads to ICBM's and the arms race.

Hookers and Blow in Fort Crack?

Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 10 hours ago
One thing I get asked about living here is the crime rate. It's not really something I like to talk about or really think about, not because I want to ignore or whitewash things but simply because I've found the stereotype annoying and removed from the reality of my everyday life. I'm not naive enough to think that we inhabit a perfect world or that this city isn't without its challenges. But for the most part, I tend to find out about illicit happenings here pretty much like everyone else in this country....by reading it in the news. In my 4 years year I can say I've never seen... more »

SUNDAY SONG

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 11 hours ago

Saturday Night w/ the Wise Old Man

John Friend at John Friend's Blog - 11 hours ago
Welcome to *Saturday Night w/ the Wise Old Man*! Zan Overall, also known as the Wise Old Man, is an activist, musician, and actor. Tonight, we will again hear two of the Wise Old Man's excellent songs, along with a review of his recent activism on the UCLA campus and at the 2014 Oscar Awards Ceremony last Sunday night in Hollywood, California. You can download the mp3 for this program *here*, or visit *The Realist Report* on BlogTalkRadio to subscribe via iTunes and view past programs. I'd like to thank everyone who has participated in and supported the *Spring 2014 fundraiser* ... more »

The wheels on the bus go round and round: Tips for a better Honduran bus experience

Jody Paterson at A Closer Look: Jody Paterson - 14 hours ago
Spend enough hours on a Honduran long-distance bus and you will end up boarding them with the seasoned eye of a veteran seat-assessor, able to take in the available options at a glance and make the best choice with barely a moment of additional anxiety to the passengers jamming in behind you. Having been up, down and around this country on all manner of public transportation, here are my recommendations for how it's done: 1.* Do I have control of the window? *Unless you're on a first-class, air-conditioned bus - in which case none of this matters, because you'll have an assigne... more »

Self Defence against the truth

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 16 hours ago
I have a scan of a pink flyod CD cover on one of my blogs. Yes I have heard several small species grooving in a pic with a cave. So were they fifty years to early or just tragically late to connect with History.

"According to a report in Kommersant-Ukraine, the finance ministry of Washington’s stooges in Kiev who are pretending to be a government has prepared an economic austerity plan that will cut Ukrainian pensions from $160 to $80 so that Western bankers who lent money to Ukraine can be repaid at the expense of Ukraine’s poor. It is Greece all over again."

David L Griscom at Cherchez la Verite - 16 hours ago
------------------------------ *The Looting Of Ukraine Has Begun* ------------------------------ March 6, 2014 | Original Here Go here to sign up to receive email notice of this news letter The Looting Of Ukraine Has Begun Paul Craig Roberts This supporter of the Ukraine joining the EU has received her reward: a 50% cut in her pension. According to a report in Kommersant-Ukraine, the finance ministry of Washington’s stooges in Kiev who are pretending to be a government has prepared an economic austerity plan that will c... more »

OSCE observers prevented from entering Crimea- Mercs in Ukraine & more

Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 17 hours ago
For the third time- warning shots fired this time. Can't say about the other two *Here's the news* Warning shots have been fired as a team of international military observers was turned back from entering Crimea. The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) said that no-one was hurt in the incident at Armyansk. It was the third time the OSCE has been prevented from entering Crimea, now in the control of pro-Russian forces. *I will be updating with a piece from Israel Shamir, thank you, very relevant, stay tuned. * And then something from brian .... The Ukrainian... more »

Challenger, KAL 007 and Oliver North

Paul Coker at News Spike - 17 hours ago
"If you can get hold of a book by Barry Schiff (he's an aviation writer) written a year before the incident, called *Flight 209 is Down*, it will explain to you, in part, in this novel form, the real scenario. What happened, according to Fletcher Prouty's work, Bob Cutler's work, other researchers, is that 007 stayed on course, never deviated. KAL 015 right behind it, saw it, on radar and visible, all the way through. It never left course, kept along R20." John Judge KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - A powerful electrical storm created an eerie tapestry of light in the skies near Space... more »

Of Polls and Public Engagement in International Relations

Josh Busby at Duck of Minerva - 17 hours ago
This is a guest post by Idean Salehyan. There has been a lot of hand-wringing and debate lately as to whether or not academics are engaged enough with important policy questions (See Nicholas Kristof’s article in the New York Times and just a few responses, here and here). As this conversation was circling around the blogosphere, there was an impressive initiative Continue reading

Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 17 hours ago
On a slightly personal note, I was reading the obituary in the *Telegraph *of the woman who served as Lancaster's MP for 27 years, Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman. When I went with school to the Houses of Parliament, it was Dame Elaine (a Conservative) who guided us round. Born and educated in God's (real) own country, Lancashire, she did her wartime service as a land girl. She went to university with Margaret Thatcher. Her first husband was killed in a car crash. She herself suffered head injuries and memory loss but, remarkably, she took over the job of running his 149-acre farm w... more »

Bad Bear's Photos: Makin' Fry Bread at Cal State Puvungna Powwow

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 17 hours ago
Thanks to Western Shoshone Carl Bad Bear Sampson for sharing photos today. Long Walkers Teri and Bad Bear at Teri Szynkowski's fry bread stand at California State University Long Beach.

On Free Will

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 18 hours ago
Sugar drinks may kill you faster than heroin, but the good news in both cases it was a free choice. Free choice is a brilliant, until it meats reality. We are all victims of goverment. But goverment is the only way to prevent us to be the victims of individuals. Now vote which is worse.

Most brilliant Framing

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 18 hours ago
Framing is a new name for what used to be argument. Now there is no need to argue just a need to decide you can frame the issue with a force that makes the other side abide. Its true on some heart and sole issues from both side when the invective right our wrong rings true like medieval kings they will surrender that issue and Armour up for the next conflict. There is no longer a sentiment that to some thing I must be true,

Kill the butterflies cause they are free

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 18 hours ago
we fly like butterfly's so innocent with nothing behind our wings except pollination so may families have dies just keeping our jungle alive no one we know no one we do not believe has not been bought out by the powers that believe If you say freedom all the sheeple will accept the fact that you deceive because it means you will be the last one to receive the blade of reality that just does not kill you but collects a lifetime of taxes and waits without priduce for your kin and kind to contribute above and beyond taxes in this freely elected mandate to forgive when we deceive,

The Two Hinkleys

Paul Coker at News Spike - 18 hours ago
TESTS SET FOR MAN CHARGED IN THREATBy JOSEPH B. TREASTERPublished: April 9, 1981 A Federal judge yesterday ordered a psychiatric examination for the 22-year-old unemployed man who was charged in Manhattan Tuesday with threatening to kill President Reagan. Other authorities said the man had indicated he was motivated to commit violence by a ''prophetic dream.'' The accused man, Edward M. Richardson of Drexel Hill, Pa., told of the dream in a letter that was delivered to Jodie Foster, the actress, at Yale University last Monday, Federal law enforcement officials said. In the lette... more »

Quebec as a country

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 18 hours ago
Amid all the shouting idots and regal progressions there is some willing desire of all people to fly the flag. Its so easy an appeal, these guys are making economic violence on your downtrodden lives. Its exactly the appeal that moved Germany into such a violent appeal for respect. How can respect a Quebecois, should I drop my pants and say there you go at length will not measure up to the manhood of the Quebec measure of dick length based upon the phase of stimulation.. Oh fuck I am a minority on a contient that has not got over slavery. Please tell me you are not shirly serious abo... more »

The EU's funding of the BBC

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 18 hours ago
Do you remember the "brief frisson of excitement" a week or so ago about an article in the *Spectator *that I myself, sharing in that frisson, describedas looking like "a questions-really-need-answering kind of scoop to me, and quite damning against the BBC"? The *Speccie *had used FoI requests to force a reluctant BBC to reveal that it had received some £4 million in EU funding between 2011 and 2013. So what happened next? Well, nothing really. The "brief frisson of excitement" subsided, and the BBC's world continues to spin on regardless. Aha!...but, via Christopher Booker at ... more »

"How to Spot Your Own Self-Delusion"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago
*"How to Spot Your Own Self-Delusion"* by Pamela Meyer "What if deception is in the eye of the beholder? And what if lies can help us tell the truth? Enter into the multimedia world of magician Marco Tempest and decide for yourself." "Marco is right: The biggest lies are the lies we tell ourselves. S.E. Hinton wrote in The Outsiders, "I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me." Maybe she was onto something. We've trained ourselves to accept certain truths about where we find fulfillment, where we find joy, and where we find success. But should we challenge that conventi... more »

We all like life

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 19 hours ago
When the tiger strikes how will you deflect its g force blows that even a kung fu fighter would say will take me to kingdom come and thats what I say wake up do not be stupid we have lives a life that is slipping away there is no cure just adapat and we could do this with no magical cure It would mean giving up all the commercial crap Kim kardasion would no longer be the targert of our youths sexucal and intetllecutal tarp. We must draw a new horizen and if you look to history this land was tamed and maintained in a sustainbale way sure some perverts slept with their daugters but they... more »

Research Mission: The Politics of Species Survival

Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 19 hours ago
My research mission is to disclose political and environmental dangers to our well-being as a species. I study the politics of our vitality as a species and I've become increasingly interested in ionizing radiation's biological effects because they directly threaten species survival, a fact that has been known since the 1940s but has been deliberately denied for reasons of political power. Below find some data I've assembled about the reproductive and childhood effects of ionizing radiation. The data were assembled in response to a media inquiry about thyroid nodules & cancer among... more »

Lunch and Geocaching

Southern Man at Southern Man - 19 hours ago
Today was the monthly geocacher's lunch, which is always a great time. Forget geocaching - Little Gypsy came to sell cookies! Bonnie wasn't aware that the question was "who wants to host the next luncheon?" "Take this haunted Totem and recieve three free mushrooms!" Little Gypsy and Hate To Be Lost mug for the camera. After lunch Southern Man and Dr. Scissortail headed out to pick up a few caches... "Can't get in that way..." We were five feet from the cache, but had to trek to the other end of the tunnel and break out the flashlights to get to it. Good people and good tim... more »

Physical Therapy

Southern Man at Southern Man - 19 hours ago
So after numerous delays Southern Man finally gets his first appointment with the surgeon-recommended physical therapist to work on that ankle. But when Southern Man found out what it would cost ($200 per visit *with*insurance!) he decided that walking to distant geocaches would be both cheaper and more effective so he tackled one near the therapist called "Deer Trail" that was about a half-mile in to an undeveloped area. One of the deer didn't make it. So there will be no physical therapy this month, just lots of backwoods geocaching. Wait, isn't that how Southern Man broke his le... more »

"America's Glorious Empire of Debt, Part II"

noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago
*Editor's note:* America's economic recovery may seem like it is built on solid ground. But scratch the surface and a very different reality emerges. In their book, "The New Empire of Debt", Bill Bonner and co-author Addison Wiggin, reveal the faulty foundations on which the US economy rests. Through his widely followed e-letters and his bestselling books, Bill has made it his mission to warn readers about the dangers posed to them by America's debt-fueled and heavily manipulated economic model. He believes that the debt crisis of 2008 was just the first wave of a much bigger cris... more »

Ukraine, Quebec and the price of tea in China

Steve at Thinking Aboot - 20 hours ago
If John Wayne was an interplanetary cowboy sitting so high in his saddle he could see the earth like a big TV, what would he see? Violent death is part of the cowboy creed, and where that is happening you will find many gunslingers and a few Marshall who believe. The Duke would surely want to do the most good for the pilgrims of this planet. If that were the case he would be taking the reigns in hand in central Africa where the carnage is like worse than Gettysburg every week out of hand. Our maybe he would see the hundreds of gunshots death every day in the USA and think that's my... more »

Sandra - In the Heat of the Night

Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 20 hours ago
East confronts West. Idle talk of a new Cold War is in the air. For some, including me, the nostalgic pull has proven too difficult to resist - musically speaking. Thankfully, German skies in the 1980s weren't lit up by shell fire and the exhaust trails of tactical nukes. Instead, galloping basslines, hairspray and concrete-hard shoulder pads cavorted under the shadow of the bomb. To recall that apposite time, for your aural delectation here is a battle hymn from the front.

Ukraine and Gardening

theozarker at The Conflicted Doomer - 20 hours ago
March 8, 2014 Ukraine, 2014 Photo by Mstyslav Chernov Thank goodness for the blogosphere. Yes, you have to pick your sources wisely, but you can find news there that the corporate owned, mainstream media won’t touch. Such is the … Continue reading →

Hawaii Cuts Uninsured Population in Half

Kenneth Thomas at Middle Class Political Economist - 21 hours ago
In case you haven't seen Charles Gaba's great website ACAsignups.net, you really need to see it. It is the best source available for tracking Obamacare enrollments, covering all categories of signups, including Medicaid, the federal and state exchanges, off-exchange signups, and estimated under-26ers. One of the most notable achievements of Obamacare is in the President's birthplace, Hawaii, where the number of uninsured people has already fallen by more than half, despite having a horrible website for the state-run exchange. The biggest chunk of this is through Medicaid enrollments... more »

Navajos welcome Fukushima to Four Corners forum: High Power March 12 -- 13, 2014

brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 21 hours ago
Cameron Venue Change from Monument Valley to Kayenta: Screening of "High Power" with Former Nuclear Engineer and Filmmaker Pradeep IndulkarPanel Discussion on Uranium Mining Impacts to be Held in Cameron Kayenta Contact: Klee Benally indigenousaction@gmail.com FLAGSTAFF, AZ — Pradeep Indulkar, a filmmaker from India who is also a qualified engineer and worked in an Atomic

No Unnecessary Testing, Not No Testing

skrashen at Schools Matter - 21 hours ago
Submitted to the Indy Star, March 8, 2014 Tim Swarens writes that "Diane Ravitch’s opposition to accountability isn’t realistic," (March 7) because we need to "identify those who excel and those who lag behind." Agreed. But we don't need to test every child every year on every subject to find this out. The NAEP test, a zero-stakes standardized test, is given to samples of students every few years, and the results are extrapolated to get an accurate assessment of how districts, states and the country are doing. If we want to expand the NAEP to measure performance for individual scho... more »

TYSON REBOOTS SAGAN'S COSMOS

Allen L Roland, Ph.D at Allen L Roland's Weblog - 22 hours ago
*Neil deGrasse Tyson* *Finally, in this world of constant crisis, we have a reminder that we are part of something vast and magical that Carl Sagan introduced us to with his 1980's Cosmos series. Neil deGrasse Tyson channels the spirit of Sagan with his Cosmos: a spacetime Odyssey on March 9th and reinforces Sagan's observation that we are still the way for the cosmos to know itself: Allen L Roland * *When Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Journey aired on PBS in 1980, it went on to win an Emmy Award and become that network’s most-watched series... more »

Invite me next time Nigella, I like the sound of your dress code...

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 22 hours ago
The Mandrake column in today's Telegraph reports that Nigella Lawson's dinner parties are much more relaxed post her separation from Charles Saatchi. "... I realised there was nobody coming I would be uncomfortable in front of just wearing socks and leggings, and no make-up." Any time you want to invite me, I'll join you in wearing just socks and leggings, no make-up... The very thought!

The Lib Dems are unprincipled in pursuit of power? No shit Sherlock

Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 22 hours ago
The Telegraph reports that 'The Liberal Democrats are prepared to jettison any of their manifesto promises in order to get into power again, the party's policy chief indicated last night.' Is anyone in theI slightest bit surprised?

Examine the March 6 , 2014 President Obama Executive Order -- Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Ukraine - And then ask this question Is the US declaring economic warfare on China and Russia ( think Treasury bonds , FNM and FRE debt , Mortgage backed securities - owned by China's government directly , by state investment vehicles / sovereign wealth funds , by wealthy individuals in Russia and China ) ? A fair reading of this Executive Order seems to indicate yes.......

Fred Walton at Catharsis Ours - 23 hours ago
For Immediate Release March 06, 2014 Executive Order -- Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Ukraine EXECUTIVE ORDER - - - - - - - BLOCKING PROPERTY OF CERTAIN PERSONS CONTRIBUTING TO THE SITUATION IN UKRAINE By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 *et seq*.) (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 *et seq*.) (NEA), section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (8 U.S.C. 1182... more »

Ukraine Updates ( Late Friday as well as Friday morning March 7 , 2014 ) .....While Kiev , US and EU shriek loudly about the looming Crimea Referendum - with limp sanction - lite wrist slaps being imposed by the EU and US , both Crimea firmly stand their ground and intend to see the Referendum go forward....

Catharsis Ours - 23 hours ago
Late March 7 , 2014...... http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-07/russian-troops-storming-ukraine-air-force-base-crimea-time-reports-citing-crimea-tv Russian Troops Storm Ukraine Air Force Base In Crimea, Reuters Confirms [image: Tyler Durden's picture] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/07/2014 14:10 -0500 - Reuters - Ukraine inShare<span

Start the Week, shipmates!

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 23 hours ago
Time for a belated bouquet (especially after all these brickbats)... This Monday's *Start the Week* was exceptional. Its theme was 'The Vikings and Seafaring'. For starters, there was Historian *Michael Wood* (yes him) talking about the Vikings. He's always great value. Here's a sample of his contribution to the programme: There's a sort of swaggering self-confidence to them. Arab and Persian writers refer to their tattoos, their long hair and their personal bathing habit, and their swagger. They are almost like Johnny Depp. I remember there was an exhibition in London in 1980, t... more »

MALAYSIAN AIRLINES MH370 - STOLEN PASSPORTS

Anon at aangirfan - 23 hours ago
Are 'terrorists' behind Malaysian Airline crash? Fears grow after it emerges two passengers were using stolen passports. "A European official said he was surprised that it had been possible to check in with stolen passports at the Kuala Lumpur airport and that an alert should have popped up on the airline agent’s computer." *Passport Theft Adds to Mystery of Missing Malaysia Airlines* "Five passengers booked on the flight did not board." "The BBC has confirmed that a man falsely using an Italian passport and a man falsely using an Austrian passport purchased tickets at the same ti... more »

Train traveler says he didn’t “get” Hawking!

bob somerby at the daily howler - 23 hours ago
*SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 2014* *How often does that happen:* How often does *that* happen? This morning, in a local coffee joint, we guarded a younger fellow’s luggage as he used the men’s salon. In the long run, he seemed to be on his way to nearby Penn Station. Upon returning from the men’s room, he caught us perusing Stephen Hawking’s 1988 best-seller, A Brief History of Time. We’ve been reading our Hawking every morning in recent weeks. It’s an antidote to the infantilization involved in watching you-know-who tell her stories about scandal topics. This morning, a rare event occurr... more »

Teach For America and The Nonprofit Industrial Complex

Katie Osgood at @ THE CHALK FACE - 1 day ago
As the controversy around Teach For America grows, it is incredibly important to understand the role of venture philanthropy in education reform. This video provides powerful context in regards to how many nonprofits are used to maintain and exacerbate the injustices and inequalities in our world. Perhaps one of the most ad vanced mechanisms […]

Nova Scotia Newspaper in Hot Water Over Cartoon Comparing Harper to Nazis

LeDaro at LeDaro - 1 day ago
Harper is a horrible prime minister, he does not care about democracy or science. He has tarnished Canada's image on the world stage by promoting the tarsands and by supporting George W. Bush style militarism. Canada was denied a seat on the UN Security Council because of how Harper has damaged the country's international reputation. No longer peacekeepers. I have no use for Harper, he is a bully with authoritarian tendencies promoting destructive policies, but calling is Nazi is a little too much. The cartoon (pictured above) appeared in the Pictou Advocate - a weekly Nova Scot... more »

Multiple Aliases for the Adult 'Victims' of Sandy Hook. No birth records for child victims. Who are those children who sang at the Super Bowl? Look familiar?

Sherrie Questioning All at Sherrie Questioning All - 1 day ago
I am so thankful for those on the internet who search for the Truth. Together we all uncover the LIES and Deception of Sandy Hook. We all do are different things regarding it. I have watched the information about the Aliases of Nancy Lanza and have done multiple searches regarding that too. The web of lies and many names she had is outrageous. It comes down to the fact that it appears Nancy

Pakistan’s Democratic Progression and the Impending Changes in Afghanistan

Vikash Yadav at Duck of Minerva - 1 day ago
This is guest post by Professor T.V. Paul* On March 5, 2014, the Nawaz Sharif government completed nine months in office, despite Pakistan’s continued economic crisis, chronic power shortages, and escalating sectarian violence. The military and the ISI are yet to show any inclination to wrest control of power from the civilians. In November, 2013 Continue reading

ARRIVED IN VEGAS

Bruce K. Gagnon at Organizing Notes - 1 day ago
I am in Las Vegas after a long flight yesterday from Portland-Newark-Vegas. You are hit with high-tech slot machines as soon as you come off the plane at the airport. The terminal is quite grand, but also quite unimaginative. In one massive rotunda they have four tall plastic palm trees standing there. Kind of a true symbol of the unreality of this place. I am staying in a $35 a night motel (who knew you could get a room in the US at that price anymore) sharing with Catholic Worker (CW) activist Dennis Apel who got me invited to speak to this west coast gathering of CW activi... more »

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New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago
*Lawsuit filed against oil and gas companies to face fierce opposition ~WWLTV * [image: http://gogreenarmy.com/] *~Editilla Conswellas~* Won't make it to'da Water Festival today, more for health reasons than lack of wanting to be there. I'll admit it, Ladderellos, Mardi Gras Kicked My Ass! It took a couple'a days to rise up but up it came like a viscous hurricane crup yesterday. But I hope all involved with this fine event know my anonymocity does not speak of ambivalence. I'm work in the undergrowth, beneath even the underground, beneath the grassroots. Some of you who've followed... more »

AUTHOR/ARTIST MIKE PHILBIN SELFIE Q&A:

Mike Philbin at FREE PLANET BLOG - 1 day ago
Q: So, you're working on two books at once, Mike? A: I am, one's called WATCHER, the other's called REAPER. I'm about 15,000 words into the WATCHER novel. I'm about 8,000 words into the REAPER novel. And they're both 'healthily' up in the air, even though I have 'last chapter' candidates for both novels. Q: What's it like writing two books at once, any bleedthrough? A: No, have you ever tried doing this? Q: Isn't it a lot like juggling a chainsaw and a shark at the same time? A: Not really, WATCHER is based in the TANDEM (g3 whistleblower) WAR WORLD of cities and espionage and ev... more »

Crimea: Media Propaganda Machine set to "HIGH"

D ... Breaking The Silence at Removing The Shackles - 1 day ago
This article is written especially for all those people that you know, that believe the main stream media and ONLY the main stream media's "NEWS". This article is for your family and friends and colleagues that believe that what the media is reporting on is the news as it really IS. For those who do not understand the political and financial controllers who tell the media what to report and more importantly, what NOT to report on. As I have been writing for the past few months, transparency IS coming out in the Main Stream Media (MSM). Usually the trick is being able to see/read b... more »

Alarm Bells Should Be Going Off

Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 1 day ago
The Harperites didn't consult Marc Mayrand when they drew up their election "reforms." And there was a reason they did everything they could to prevent him from testifying before the parliamentary committee looking into those reforms. But testify he did. And, Andrew Coyne writes, he shredded the bill: The chief electoral officer, in his quiet, workmanlike way, simply shredded it, almost line for line, proposing more than two dozen amendments that would effectively rewrite the bill. The provision banning “vouching” came in for particularly heavy fire: while the government insis... more »

Paper Tigers

Craig at Is the BBC biased? - 1 day ago
Following last week's post about the BBC's three paper tiger 'feedback' programmes (*Points of View, Feedback *and *Newswatch*), this week's *Newswatch *proved to be fairly typical of the species (though still the best). A very short bit on the question of BBC bias over Ukraine (a couple of bite-sized e-mails) was followed by much longer feature on that hardy perennial *Newswatch *topic: 'Why oh why, has Huw Edwards been sent to the Ukraine, wasting money, for no apparent reason?' [a good question, but as no one at the BBC *ever* takes the blindest bit of notice of it, it remains... more »

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jonjayray at Food &Health Skeptic - 1 day ago
*Progressive Mission Creep In Your Diet* Ever heard of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee before? Neither had I before it came up in a discussion with a friend last week. This group meets every five years, under the auspices of the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services, to update and set dietary guidelines for all Americans. Seems harmless enough, right? Well, much like every government entity that starts out with seemingly good intentions, progressives eventually discover a way for its influence and power to advance their agenda in ways n... more »
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