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In Fear of Vaccines?
*Since there’s been much debate and misunderstanding about an alleged link
between vaccines and autism, I asked Linda from the fabulously rational **Autism
and Oughtisms** blog to write this Guest Post* *for any parents worried
about making a vaccination decision in the face of so many anti-vaccine
stories.*
[image: Girl and doctor with injection]Fear of the unknown drives people to
do crazy things. They’ll cling desperately to proposed answers -- however
poorly supported those answers are -- merely because they *are* answers;
any explanation is considered better than no explanati... more »
So, @theNation questions the “whiteness” of the Left, and…
… and brings up the recent Network for Public Education conference in
Austin, TX, many of whom in attendance I know and I consider friends. The
lede: At a panel titled “Grassroots Organizing” at the Network for Public
Education conference in Austin in March, an audience member asked the
all-white panel for its definition of […]
The Table of Contents to My Book
On April 27, 2014, I announced publication of my book, A Chronicle of
Echoes: Who’s Who in the Implosion of American Public Education. I realize
that the Amazon.com listing of my book currently lacks the interactive
component allowing shoppers the opportunity to “look inside” the book. So,
I have decided to offer some “peeks.” In my post entitled, Bush […]
Food Watch: Aren't you just dying to know what the World's Best Dumpling is?
*And the World's Best Dumpling is . . .* *Oh wait, we probably shouldn't
spoil the suspense. Hey, just keep yer pants on. (For the record, these
[REDACTED]s are made with crab paste, which apparently is okay but isn't
necessarily part of the [REDACTED].) *
*by Ken*
You'd be hard put to find someone who loves dumplings more than I do. I
always say that I've never met a dumpling I didn't like, though every time
I say it, I realize this is not -- as I often say -- the sort of thing you
really want to put in the form of a challenge. It doesn't take any time at
all to start thinking of... more »
Bilateral Climate Cooperation between China and the United States: What Should We Expect?
One of this weeks big news items in international relations was the
progress that China and the United States had made in their bilateral
climate talks (gated but free registration available). While it is too
early to say if the talks result in concrete action, this is the first time
since forever that the two
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Twenty-Five Ways To Suppress TruthThe Rules of Disinformation (Includes The 8 Traits of A Disinformationalist) by H. Michael Sweeney
*25 Rules of Disinformation: How to Fight Back*
*8 Traits of The Disinformationalist: *
*What to Look For*
*The Short Version: 25 Rules and 8 Traits*
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*Twenty-Five Ways To Suppress Truth: *
*The Rules of Disinformation*
(Includes The 8 Traits of A Disinformationalist)
by H. Michael Sweeney
copyright (c) 1997, 2000, 2001 All rights reserved (Edited June 2001)
Permission to reprint/distribute hereby granted for any non commercial use
provided information reproduced in its entirety and with author information
in tact. For more ... more »
This is What Political Science Looks Like
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Students of Political Science might care to look at how science is done in
the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, whose recently released
“scientific report” is filled with predictions of gloom and doom put there
by … whom? Read on to see how, and by whom, those all important “summaries
of the scientific consensus” are written. It might surprise you:
*Understanding The 97% Consensus*
It turns out that 97% of IPCC scientists are actually government officials.
* Prof Stavins, Harvard’s Professor of Business and Government, was
one of two ‘coordi... more »
NYSED, @EngageNY, and the Module Money Pit.
As part of its rushed implementation of the Common Core, the New York
State Education department contracted with three entities to create
scripted module lessons for schools across the Empire State at a cost of
$12.9 million. Some schools trusted their educators to create their own
lessons that would best suit their classrooms. Other schools, possibly out
of […]
QUOTE OF THE DAY, 2: On Redistribution
[image: -- "The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that
redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of income from the
richer to the poorer, as we imagined, than a redistribution of power from
the individual to the State" -- Bertrand de Jouvenel, economist,
philosopher and co-founder of the Mont Pelerin Society in 1947.]
*"The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that
redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of income from the
richer to the poorer, as we imagined, than a redistribution of power from
the individual to t... more »
Here We Go Again: Another Syria Chemical Weapons Tale
MORE WAR PORN TO PUSH FOR US ATTACK ON SYRIA
It is hard not to be completely distracted by the endless torrent of war
propaganda over Ukraine and getting Americans whipped up into a bloody
frenzy of hatred towards Russia and Vladimir Putin but there is another
lurid tale of Syrian gas attacks on civilians making the rounds this week.
While it is nowhere near as intense an effort to promote lies upon which to
base the long-desired apple of the neocon's eye that is regime change in
Damascus as we saw back last summer when Obama and his incredible shrinking
Secretary of State John Ker... more »
QUOTE OF THE DAY, 1: Still the most serious symptom of our times…
"Straightforwardness is a foolish old-fashioned habit, a custom we have
outgrown. 'We have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we
hid ourselves.' We repeat, this is the most serious symptom of our
times. The newspapers which have been speculating as to the disasters
which are to flow, after a thousand years, from England's future want
of coal, would do better to inquire into the far greater disasters which
threaten
at our door through England's present lack of supreme reverence for truth."
- John Ruskin, from
*Fors clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Gre... more »
Satire: “Sterling Says He’ll Miss Being Around People He Hates”
*“Sterling Says He’ll Miss Being Around People He Hates”*
by Andy Borowitz
LOS ANGELES (The Borowitz Report) — “After being banned by the N.B.A.
Tuesday afternoon, the Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling told
reporters that he would miss being around people he hates. “Sure, I’m
saddened by this,” Sterling said. “Sitting in the stands night after night,
a boiling cauldron of hatred bubbling inside me—it doesn’t get better than
that. Those were good times.Knowing that I’ll never be able to sit in that
arena again and look down on the people I despise—that hurts the most,” he
s... more »
"The Destructive Effects of Modern Technology As Seen by Thomas Merton"
Video Title: "The Destructive Effects of Modern Technology As Seen by
Thomas Merton." Source: Gethsemani3. Date Published: October 16, 2011.
Description:
"The Destructive Effects of Modern Technology On the Environment and
Society As Seen by Thomas Merton"... A talk by Father Ezekiel Lotz OSB...
Recorded at Gethsemani 3 a Buddhist / Catholic conference on the
environment.
Fr. Ezekiel Is a member of Mount Angel Abbey, Saint Benedict, Oregon. He
earned a D.Phil. degree from the Faculty of Theology at Oxford University
in 2005 and teaches at Mount Angel Seminary.
Saturated fat IS good for you, but how much polyunsaturated fat do you need?
Working on the "Real Food" AUT dietary guidelines submission it became
clear that neither the epidemiology of the lipid hypothesis nor the RCT
experiments testing it were designed to separate the supposed
artery-clogging effect of saturated fat from the purported heart-healthy
effect of polyunsaturated fat.
What we had was a series of comparisons of higher SFA and lower PUFA vs.
lower SFA and higher PUFA. There were no investigations of either higher
SFA in a diet with optimal PUFA, or of deficient PUFA in a diet also low in
SFA.
The former of these, higher SFA in a diet with optimal... more »
Has Steve Israel Found The Next Alex Sink?
Courtesy of Joel Cantor
*Joel Cantor’s mansion, built in 2010, was rented for four days in August
during the Republican National Convention for $25,000*
The DCCC and EMILY's List having massively screwed up her campaign, Alex
Sink will not subject herself to a rematch with now-Congressman David Jolly
in November. That leaves Rev. Manuel Sykes as the official Democrat
candidate. But if Steve Israel is going to lose again in Pinellas County,
Manuel Sykes is not the candidate he plans to waste millions on. The DCCC
has been beating the bushes looking for another deep-pocketed self-fund... more »
ECONOMICS FOR REAL PEOPLE: The Roger in Rogernomics
*Your chance this week at Auckland Uni Econ Group to question a former
politician whose economic programme of thirty years ago still casts a long
shadow over the political landscape today.*
Hi everyone,
Welcome back from the study break. We have some great speakers lined up for
the Economics Group starting this week.
This Thursday we are delighted to have join us a very significant figure
from New Zealand's economic history - Roger Douglas.
As Minister of Finance in the Labour government from 1984 to 1988 Roger
Douglas implemented a series of economic reforms often referred to as... more »
CITO
This is International CITO weekend for us geocachers. CITO stands for
"Cache In, Trash Out" (the idea being that while we're geocaching in public
areas we also pick up trash) and today Southern Man will join some fellow
'cachers from a semi-nearby city (as it turns out, the same semi-nearby
city in which Southern Daughter lives with her mother, which will become
relevant later in this post) to clean up an area park. It was a three-hour
drive (well, with one hour in reserve for geocaching) so Southern Man was
on the road before dawn...
Did we mention that there would be geocaching a... more »
Easter Sunday
Easter Sunday this year was fairly laid back; church in the morning, and
much of the family gathered at the Ancestral Manor for lunch.
Southern Son and Southern Daughter. Unfortunately Southern Daughter chucked
her lovely Easter dress and revereted to t-shirt and shorts as soon as we
pulled up.
Southern Daughter and Adopted Southern Nephew.
My, what a big...gun you have there, Nephew!
And let us remember the reason we celebrate today...
As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe
sitting on the right side, and they were alarmed. "Don't be alarmed," h... more »
“Fukushima Equals 6,000 Hiroshima Bombs Today, More Tomorrow; There is No Place On Earth to Escape the Rad”
*“Fukushima Equals 6,000 Hiroshima Bombs Today, More Tomorrow;*
*There is No Place On Earth to Escape the Rad” *
by Bob Nichols, “Veterans Today”
“My opinion only, as requested by Alfred Webre, Dec 28, 2013, 1,024 Days
from Mar 11, 2011.
*First thing, grasp the difficult concept that this is an ELE or Extinction
Level Event. There is no escaping our fate, there are no solutions. *
We can extend our lives somewhat, though. These steps are personal. People
can do them or not. You will die quicker, or later, your choice.
1. Take off your shoes and outer ware (coats) when you enter your ... more »
"Fukushima Didn’t Just Suffer 3 Meltdowns, It Also Suffered Melt-THROUGHS and Melt-OUTS"
*"Fukushima Didn’t Just Suffer 3 Meltdowns, *
*It Also Suffered Melt-THROUGHS and Melt-OUTS"*
The Nuclear Core Has Finally Been Found…Scattered All Over Japan
by WashingtonsBlog
"We reported in May 2011 that authorities knew – within days or weeks –
that all 3 active Fukushima nuclear reactors had melted down, but covered
up that fact for months.
The next month, we reported that Fukushima’s reactors had actually suffered
something much worse: nuclear melt-*throughs*, where the nuclear fuel
melted through the containment vessels and into the ground. At the time,
this was described as... more »
John Kerry has "proof" that Russia is behind rebellion in Luhansk
Or so John Kerry claims? Or so the Telegraph is reporting John Kerry
claiming this?
And let's read the claim of proof.. Ukraine separatists push east as UN
intercepts Moscow orders
Please take note that this oh so explosive proof warrants just a few
sentences in this entire article.
John Kerry, the US secretary of state, revealed that American eavesdroppers
have overheard intelligence operatives being directed by Moscow.
"We know exactly who's giving those orders, we know where they are coming
from," he said, in remarks to a private meeting that were leaked on
Tuesday.
"Intel i... more »
Welcome to Tuscaloosa’s schools!
*TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 2014*
*Nobody cares about this:* Last week, we recommended the lengthy report in
The Atlantic about the Tuscaloosa City schools—more specifically, about the
“return of segregation” to those schools over the past fifteen years.
The lengthy report, “Segregation Now...,” was written by Nikole
Hannah-Jones of ProPublica. In our view, the report is fascinating in
various ways, though we don’t always mean that as a compliment.
As noted, Hannah-Jones’ report is quite lengthy. In our view, it seems to
cover some parts of this story well.
We’d say it covers other parts ... more »
#breaking BBC News
*Thanks to breaking news from the Gruadian, Twitter is ablaze tonight with
news about the latest changes at the BBC.*
*As Sue and myself have our ultra-trendy fingertips ever poised upon on the
racing pulse of modern social media, here are our latest twitterings on
who's in and who's out at the Beeeeeb...*
Oh good, Mark Mardell has been dropped as the BBC's North America editor, *#greatnews
*and *#ohdavidpreiser(usa)will be pleased. *
Oh no though, Mark Mardell is going to become the presenter of Radio 4's *The
World This Weekend *instead, *#morebiasontheway *and #
*thatstheworldth... more »
An Interview with Piketty
On NPR...and I chime in as well.
April 29: The TandT is a disgrace.....
...particularly on this day.
We are in the midst of the severest crisis most of us have ever faced. And
there's not a word of it in the paper. The banner headline is that the
Shediac campground is taking its next step. Well, yeah. There are lots of
steps to starting a major campground. So are we going to get that nothing
headline for the next month or more?
On A3, a Riverview business committee recommends that business be involved
in ALL decisions of city council. The council went wildly enthusiastic,
and had puppies on the spot.. Obviously, nobody on that council knows the
meani... more »
LOOKING FOR TROUBLE
The US airborne division, which is to take part in NATO exercise 'Spring
Storm' in May arrived in Estonia. Around 150 personnel arrived in the
military transport aircraft to the Amari airbase, according to the
country's defense ministry.
Estonia is on Russia's border.
These working class kids, with little other job prospects, sent into
another potential meat grinder...when will we ever learn. We don't seem to
care unless it is our kid. They are all our children - on all sides.
Enough of this war mongering!
A genius idea for a new angle on porn (pun intended) - Slightly NSFW
GoPro: Girl Running with a gopro (head mount)
*Thanks to Theo Spark *
Paul van Dyk - Crush
Exams and testing, I thought I was done with them a long time ago. And when
I got the new job, well, chances are I'd be setting them. But no.
All new academic staff at our place have to participate in the Post
Graduate Certificate in Higher Education programme. HE is a market and the
emboldened student/consumer demands fully trained teaching staff. I can see
the logic, as it happens. Anyway, no proper blogging tonight as I'm near
the end of my teaching portfolio. 7,200 words done so far, 10 out of 12
competencies covered. Therefore the pearls I leave you this evening are of
the mus... more »
Free Gaza Propaganda
*[Did I hear a certain someone talk about "the BBC’s habit of allowing a
litany of embellished falsehoods to be repeated on air, unchallenged",
recently? Hmm, yes I did, and talking of which....]*
Radio 4's *The Listening Project* is an attempt by the BBC and the British
Library "to build a unique picture of our lives today" by "asking people up
and down the country to share an intimate conversation with a close friend
or relative".
*Biased BBC*'s Alan had the misfortune to hear one of last Friday's
editions of the ongoing series, *Adie and Ruth - Adventure in the Blood*,
in wh... more »
CorpEd Profiteers and Privatizers on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown Over Test Refusal
NEWS
Washington Post
Malloy: CT could lose money if many students *opt out* of standardized
*tests*
The CT Mirror
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said Monday that federal law restricts students from
opting out of taking standardized *tests*, and if the state were to give
students ...
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Minneapolis Star Tribune (blog)
Superintendent responds on *test* opt-outs
Minneapolis Star Tribune (blog)
Superintendent responds on *test* opt-outs ... Tribune highlighted a
burgeoning *opt-out*movement that is exempting students from standar... more »
I will be documenting my trip to Mexico to go to the Dentist... from start to finish. $12,000 (U.S. prices) of dental work for $1500 in Mexico.
I am going to be going to Mexico for a dentist trip. I had written a
little about it the other day, wanting to get donations for another to go
with me to do a complete documentary it all. I took that post down after a
few hours, as I did not feel comfortable asking for donations. I am going
to the dentist and will be leaving May 11th. and will be in Merida Mexico
until the 18th. Merida
Do more lectures improve student performance?
Yes, finds a new experimental study, but the authors interpret the effects
as modest in size. One group of students in introductory
microeconomics got a lecture twice a week (what the authors call the
"traditional" format), and the other group of students got a lecture only
once a week. All the students had the same access to online resources and
the same wonderful textbook. (You can guess which one.) The results:
We find that students in the traditional format scored 2.3 percentage
points more on a 100-point scale on the combined midterm and final. There
were no differences betw... more »
Incrementalism: Admission of Futility?
Some time ago, I discovered the Wingnut Wedgie that divides fetus
fetishists into abolitionists and incrementalists.
It has never gone away as an issue among them, with some demanding nothing
less than absolute forced pregnancy for all and others, perhaps recognizing
the futility of their cause, willing to settle for any kind of law at all.
As a first step, note, to a complete ban.
Here we go again with our pal, astroturfer and dominionist Mike Schouten,
raising the question and seeming to invite discussion.
Here's a stunning admission. He acknowledges that defunding abortion -- t... more »
TRIM THEIR SAILS/SALES
*The Navy's new Zumwalt stealth destroyer being built at Bath Iron Works in
Maine*
*Trim Their Sails/Sales*
Word it getting around
Zumwalt running over
cost projections
was supposed to be $4 billion
some say will run up to
5-6-7 bill each
going to build three of them
The Navy didn't want
Zumwalt
Obama forced it down
their throat
his benefactors,
Crown family in Chicago,
largest stockholders
in General Dynamics
GD owns
Bath Iron Works
Obama owes Crown family
they helped make him prez
the palms are greased
just like on
The House of Cards
The Pentagon worried now
about sequestration
b... more »
Stitching your finger with your sewing machine not recommended, the myth of "catching up", and digital detoxing...
*I'll try to keep this brief (exactly when was an Italian woman ever
brief?)*
I endeavor to maintain a schedule of sorts. My weekly planner is home made
and based loosely on David Allen's Getting Things Done.
The top 1/3 of the page is for my weekly goals. The middle is for my
actual schedule based on what's in the top 1/3, and the bottom 1/3 is for
notes (green ink for garden stuff ), along with my few appointments (in red
ink.)
I decided a few weeks ago that putting everything, or what seemed like
everything, in the top 1/3 wasn't working very well. I did an Excel
spreadsheet... more »
The Economy: “Is Capitalism Doomed?”
*“Is Capitalism Doomed?”*
by Bill Bonner
Gualfin, Argentina. “The Dow went up 87 points yesterday. Gold went
nowhere. Our guess: Neither stocks nor gold knows where to go from here.
The economy is still weak, with mortgage lending at its lowest point in 14
years. But the Fed is still holding interest rates down... and feeding
plenty of QE money into the market. The Fed is expected to continue
tapering its QE program next month, taking another $10 billion off its
monthly allowance for buying bonds from the private sector. But for the
moment, economist Richard Duncan tells us that th... more »
CA-33: Dual Endorsement-- Ted Lieu And Marianne Williamson
Ted Lieu and Marianne Williamson-- every district should get this lucky!
Rarely does a district get even *one* candidate running for Congress as
stellar as either state Senator Ted Lieu or inspirational author Marianne
Williamson, let alone *two*. Why can't my district-- right next door-- have
someone good running for Congress? In fact, the very first time I spoke
with Marianne was to beg her to run against Blue Dog warmonger Adam Schiff.
At the time, her home was right on the boundary between the two districts.
It was almost as though she was a Waxman constituent in the living room a... more »
Civil Forfeiture
*Ontario (Attorney General) v. $10,000.00 in Canadian Currency (In Rem),*
2014 ONSC 944:
[7] “Unlawful activity” is defined in the Act as an act or
omission that is an offence under an act of Canada, Ontario or another
province or territory of Canada or even outside of Canada, if a similar act
or omission would be an offence in Ontario if committed here. The Attorney
General does not have to prove that the property in question is related to
any particular offence: Chatterjee v. Ontario (Attorney General), 2009 SCC
19 (CanLII), [2009] 1 S.C.R. 624, at para. 21. Howev... more »
The way our greatest newspaper “reasons!”
*TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 2014*
*In the end, this can lead to no good: *In this morning’s New York Times,
the editors beat on Donald Sterling.
That isn’t especially hard to do, especially if you’re willing to reason
like this:
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIAL (4/29/14): *It has been widely noted that Mr.
Sterling has a history of bigotry. In 2009, Elgin Baylor, the all-star and
former Clippers’ general manager, accused Mr. Sterling of racial
discrimination in an unsuccessful lawsuit.* That same year, Mr. Sterling,
who made much of his fortune in real estate, paid $2.725 million to settle
a hous... more »
Mike's Story Part 9 - Limbo
*By Jenna Orkin*
* Despite his growing recognition of what he'd lost by *burning his
bridges*, Mike's spirits must have risen when a reporter from an
influential US newspaper flew down with the idea of doing a feature on
him. But emotionally, the conversation itself seems to have been a
precursor of the movie, Collapse:*
*" [S]even hours with the [newspaper] reporter yesterday. I´m writing a
seperate [sic] email which you´ll get. It was in detail and he was serious.
[Mike had been burned by mainstream features before, as a colleague was
reminding him] but it went back through ... more »
EYES OFF THE PRIZE: Willie Geist knows script!
*TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 2014*
*Part 1—Bungling Magic Johnson:* It would be hard to find a more obvious
pseudo-discussion than the current pseudo-discussion, the enthralling
pseudo-discussion about the weird, incoherent and pitiful things Donald
Sterling apparently said.
All the pundits know what to say as they stage this pseudo-discussion. For
starters, all our national pundits admit to being brighter and more
upstanding than Sterling is!
To appearances, it isn’t hard to be brighter and more upstanding than
Sterling in the arena of race. Sterling seems to be almost as clueless as
Cli... more »
Defending the Indefensible in the Late Days of the Testing Orgy
The testing madness is underway this week in Tennessee, where a week of
TCAP counts 15-25 percent of a student's grade and 35-50 percent of a
teacher's evaluation for the other 195 days of the school year. Is that
reason enough for 3rd graders to be vomiting and having nosebleeds on their
test booklets this week?
But the insanity does not stop there. The State of Tennessee is funding
the use of SAT-10 in K-2 again this year, so that benchmarks can be set and
teachers evaluated based on standardized tests that some children cannot
read yet.
But wait, what is that deep rumbling I ... more »
A Very Shocking Video: Dr. Paul Craig Roberts Reveals A Bitter Truth - There Are NO Gold Bullion Reserves In America!
For the last few years, I have been stating a very shocking truth here at
this blog again and again... America has absolutely NO Gold Bullion
reserves at all, period.... Few people have ever believed it, and many have
still been promoting the lie that there is plenty of Gold "reserves" in
both Fort Knox, Kentucky, and in the New York Mercantile Bank in New York
City..... I have put up previous articles that state the fact on the
contrary that all of the Gold in the United States was taken away from that
nation decades ago.
But now comes a very interesting and very important video, t... more »
transmission
"So much of who I am is because of Dr. Seuss."
[courtesy of humansofnewyork]
Where Is Outrage for Systemic Racism?
Where Is Outrage for Systemic Racism?. via Where Is Outrage for Systemic
Racism?.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical
New Article From Whitewraithe: A Vomit Bomb Of Jewish Quotes Throughout The 20th Century
Whitewraithe is back... For those who have been unaware, my closest ally
was laid up over the last while suffering from a very bad case of sinus
infections as well as having some much needed dental surgery done... But
now she is back and putting up articles over at her Pragmatic Witness
website (www.whitewraithe.wordpress.com)....
I want to present for everyone here her latest work that I found to be
fabulous and yet very shocking... It is entitled: "A Vomit Bomb Of Jewish
Quotes Throughout The 20th Century", and indeed shows exactly how these
psychotic criminals truly think, and ho... more »
Iraq Holds Special Voting Despite Terrorist Attacks
Iraq held its special voting on April 28, 2014. The early balloting is
mostly for the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF). The Iraqi Election Commission
said there was over 90% participation. That was despite a wave of attacks
by the insurgency. That showed that the militants were not able to disrupt
the voting despite their best efforts.
The ISF, prisoners, and those in hospitals came out in high numbers on
April 28 to cast their ballots. The Iraqi Election Commission claimed there
was a 91% turnout in the special voting. In Anbar only 40% participated.
The on going fighting there and ... more »
Back To My Roots: Exposing The Fraud Of NASA's Project Apollo And The Moon Landing Hoax - Why Are Astronauts (Still) Lying?
I started my pursuit of the truth about our very sick world some 35 years
ago ( I still cannot believe it has been that long) when I was exposed to
the truth about NASA and its fraudulent "Project Apollo".... It was a shock
to me, being a man of science, at that time to realize that we have been
lied to and that man has never ever walked on the moon....
As time has gone by, more and more people are finally realizing as part of
their exposure to the truths about our history that NASA has indeed lied to
everyone about its "great achievements" in space travel, especially when it
comes ... more »
In Three Days I Bring the Hammer Down
Did that get your attention?
Did it?
DO I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION MOTHER-FUCKERS????
Okay. Great.
Actually, nothing's happening in three days that I know of. I should just
be out from under a pretty big pile of work and then I'll blog something
big.
Until then, please enjoy this example of high-culture:
President Zeman criticizes "solar madmen" and "green loons"
*Including the EU officials who want to increase the share of "renewable"
sources of energy*
Well, this excerpt from a speech that the current Czech president Miloš
Zeman gave on the today's Forum of Žofín (an island on the Moldau River in
Prague) is one of the clearest reasons explaining why your humble
correspondent didn't hesitate much before he endorsed the self-described
left-winger Zeman as the successor to Václav Klaus.
He would criticize the "solar madmen" and the "green loons".
Let me translate the 2-minute excerpt linked to at the top of this short
blog post:
Zeman... more »
36 Countries where the US has supported Fascists, Drug lords & Terrorists
And bankers... Salon fails to mention the enrichment of banksters, the
banking cartels and the benefit of big business. Whether it be big
agriculture, big oil or the weapons makers? This list is, of course,
grossly inadequate- It only mentions 35 countries, I added Ukraine. Each
nation listed below has more information at this link From Argentina to
Zaire
I am only excerpting from the Salon article:
*1. Afghanistan-* In the 1980s, the U.S. worked with Pakistan and Saudi
Arabia to overthrow Afghanistan’s socialist government. It funded, trained
and armed forces led by conservativ... more »
Mexico: Alleged UFO Recorded Before an Earthquake
*Source: Nuevo Diario Web (Santiago del Estero, Argentina)Date: 04.29.14*
*Mexico: Alleged UFO Recorded Before an Earthquake*
**** Video is making the rounds of social media, creating a heated debate
among Internet users ****
MEXICO - The alleged presence of a UFO moments before an earthquake has
given rise to suspicion and debates online. The video, recorded on April
18, has created two antagonistic lines of thought.
On one hand there are those who believe in the authenticity of the images
and who seek explanations that cause a relationship between both facts; on
the other, the... more »
Joanne Barkan’s Three Types of Criticism of Edu-Philanthropy
Diane Ravitch recently praised Joanne Barkan’s “How to Criticize ‘Big
Philanthropy’ Effectively.” Barkan’s excellent analysis was first presented
at the March 2014 Network for Public Education (NEP) Conference in Austin,
Texas. It is now published in Dissent Magazine. Barkan began with the
oft-repeated question, “You’re going after Bill Gates?” She frequently
hears the argument, “Leave […]
The Big Dog
It really is time to bury the notion that Stephen Harper is a brilliant
strategist. Andrew Coyne writes:
We are so heavily invested, we media types, in the notion of Harper as
master strategist, able to see around corners and think seven moves ahead
and what not, that we tend not to notice how many times he has been
screwing up of late. The sudden and more or less complete rewriting, on the
same day as the Supreme Court decision, of the colossally misjudged Fair
Elections Act, after weeks of waving off any and all criticism as
self-interested or partisan or both? Merely a prudent ... more »
Many New York Democrats Plan To Hold Their Noses When They Vote For Cuomo In November-- Or Will They?
On Sunday, Steve Kornacki took a little look at the expanding rift between
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and much of the Democratic base. It's worth
looking at the video above. Salon's Joan Walsh did a particularly excellent
job straightening out Beltway political entrepreneur Ann Lewis, who
actually defended Cuomo by quoting Ronald Reagan. I'm not going to get into
speculating about what the Working Families Party may or may not do, beyond
saying that with the union leadership telling them they;re on their own,
they probably won't do much. Still, good segment from Kornacki.
Wha... more »
Senate to Obama: Drone, Baby, Drone
Remember around this time last year when President Obama gave his big
ballyhooed Drone Speech, promising more transparency to the
citizen-consumers of America about who, when, where and why he obliterates
and maims with his flying missiles?
How time does fly, just like a Predator. Five years of Obama drone strikes,
at least 2,500 people in their graves. That's assuming they could find any
body parts to inter.
Meanwhile, buried deep in the cyberspace of Tuesday's online *New York
Times* (so as not to inordinately clash with another, bigger front page
bullshit story about Obama the ... more »
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*Tornadoes tear through South, add to US death toll ~WWLTV *
*Advertising in Louisiana’s U.S. Senate race: A look at the (very big)
numbers ~Stephanie Grace*
*Mayor Mitchmo Landrieu nominates new slate of water board members ~Andrew
Vanacore, New Orleans Advocate*
*Energy company with fracking plans eyes 60,000 acres in St. Tammany Parish
as St. Tammany residents, officials resist fracking ~Faimon A. Roberts III,
B.R. Advocate*
*St. Bernard Project Receives $3 Million for Disaster Recovery Lab
~Philanthropy News Digest*
*Bill to protect Louisiana’s Coastal Fund moves to House floo... more »
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*Summer School Is For Suckers*
*Take online classes instead*
Students looking for ways to get a cheaper, faster college degree will
inevitably run up against the suggestion that they enroll in summer school.
And until recently that wasn't terrible advice. Taking advantage of lower
off-season tuition offered by many schools or cheap classes at your
hometown community college was a perfectly good way to clear out some less
glamorous requirements and account for your summer without having to work
too hard.
With desperately low on-time graduation rates—only about 38 percent of
studen... more »
Chinese Cashew Chicken with Tayler from Our Fairy Tale
*Today
I am thrilled to have Tayler from Our Fairy Tale here to share her
Chinese Cashew Chicken. I love all of Tayler's recipes and my absolute
favorite part of her blog is her "Kids Write the Darndest Things" from
her
Junior High English class. Make sure to leave her some comment love and
check out her blog! *
Hi, Housewife Eclectic readers! My name is Tayler Morrell and I blog
over
at Our Fairy Tale.
I've been married for a year and half and we are expecting our first
childin July! My husband is finishing his last semester at Brigham Young
University and I teach Junior High Engli... more »
A Book Recommendation For Those Who Have Experienced Trauma
*Life is stressful, anxiety provoking, and frequently traumatic. The result
is that many of us are hurting, and often we are unaware of how deep our
pain runs. *
*These experiences aren't simply over and done with once they have passed.
They each leave their mark, etched deep into both the psyche and the body.
This affects how well we function from this point onwards. *
*The Revolutionary Trauma Release Process shows what stress, anxiety, and
trauma do to our mental wellbeing and physical health. Despite the uffering
we experience in life, Dr. Berceli argues that even the most da... more »
Iveta Bartošová (1966-2014): murdered by tabloid hyenas
*Once best Czech female singer a victim of greedy tabloid journalists*
I admit that this sad event fills me with much stronger emotions than the
death of Gerald Guralnik – who had an appropriate age to die.
*Buttons of Love, 1983*
Iveta Bartošová (CZ, YouTube search) – who was voted the best Czechoslovak
female singer (The Golden Nightingale) three times, in 1986, 1990, 1991 –
committed suicide after a decade in which it was hunted by scum journalists
from the tabloid media. She jumped under the train in Uhříněves (a village
on the Southeastern border of Prague) today.
She was bo... more »
Vegan Recipe - Minestrone Soup
*I love Minestrone Soup ... it's warm and comforting on a cool evening and
reminds me of my Italian Grandmother, who usually had a pot on the stove
when we arrived for a visit. Unfortunately, most recipes for this rustic
dish include ingredients like Pancetta, chicken broth, and Parmesan ...
items which don't fit into a vegan lifestyle.I recently tried a vegetarian
version at a restaurant. Sadly, it was very bland. So I turned to the
Internet for inspiration. I found recipes but, again, they lacked flavor.
So, I headed into the kitchen and, thinking about the bold flavors in my... more »
We are now in the midst of a season of greatly heightened Satanic ritual, so stay on guard.
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Signs of the Season
Posted: 28 Apr 2014 10:58 AM PDT
We are now in the midst of a season of greatly heightened Satanic ritual,
so stay on guard. The season of preparation has just past, where the
victims chosen for sacrifice have been abducted and prepared. The Grand
Climax extends from 4/26 to 5/1, and the rituals actually continue through
5/3. 4/30 is Walpurgisnacht, Roodmas Day or Beltane Eve, the greatest
Witches Sabbat. May 1 is May Day, Beltane or Walpurgis Day.
Tuesday the 29th, there will be an annul... more »
HELLO! Books Are Digitally Different
So what will be the next technology must have and what will drive its
adoption? Will media come second and merely follow new technology?
In the last decade we have seen the transition from fixed location desktop
PCs, through luggable laptops, the life and death of the notepad, the ‘air’
laptops and the explosion of the tablet. We have seen single functional
devices such as the eink ereaders come and almost go, the transition from
games only consoles to games anywhere, the death of the music only iPod and
Zune and those video movie players. Home entertainment devices and
interoper... more »
Flip Flopper John Kerry Strikes Again
John "Skull and Bones" Kerry's tour de force as Obama's Secretary of State
continues. Taking a break from his tirades against Russian leader Vladimir
Putin and the refusal of Eastern Ukraine to fall into line to support the
US installed, neo-Nazi infested puppet government in Kiev the esteemed Mr.
Kerry stumbled into dangerous territory for a US establishment figure. In a
speech at what has been described as a closed door meeting of The
Trilateral Commission in a Daily Beast exclusive, Kerry bemoaned the demise
of the latest round of Israel-Palestine peace talks and commented that ... more »
Ukraine Updates April 27 , 2014 --US failing to push economic sanctions against Russia through EU allies ...... Three members of Ukraine’s special anti-terrorist unit Aplha have been detained during a covert mission in Donetsk region, amid the buildup of Kiev’s military near the cities controlled by pro-federalization forces .......... (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama on Sunday said the United States and Europe must join forces to impose sanctions onRussia to stop it destabilizing Ukraine, where armed pro-Russian separatists were for a third day holding eight international observers prisoner. Washington and Brussels are expected, possibly as early as Monday, to name new people and firms close to Russian President Vladimir Putin who will be hit by punitive measures, but there is no consensus yet on wider economic sanctions ........ The combination of the polices of the government in Kiev and Washington blaming Russia for events is pushing the situation in Ukraine to a critical mass which threaten peace in Europe - Willie Wimmer, former Vice President of the OSCE explains his point of view in an interview.......... DONETSK, April 27, /ITAR-TASS/. The Novokramatorsk Machine Building Plant (NKMZ) has provided to the people’s militia of Kramatorsk military equipment “for clearance of minefields set by Ukrainian troops near the city during the so-called “antiterrorist operation,” a representative of the press service of the Donetsk People’s Republic told Itar-Tass with reference to NKMZ chairman of the board, deputy of the People’s Council of Kramatorsk Maksim Vlasov.
Catharsis Ours - 16 hours ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-27/quest-find-putins-billions
The Quest To Find "Putin's Billions"
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- Germany
- Google
- Layering
- Nationalism
- Natural Gas
- Private Jet
- Reality
- SPY
- The Economist
- Treasury Department
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- Vladimir Putin
inShare1
Just over a month ago, in the latest round of sanctions against Russia, and
specifically Putin's inner circle of advisors and lieutenants, one person
was sing... more »
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*A radical idea*
Whether or not man has caused global warming isn’t really the question.
The question that we’re asking now is to what extent the so-called climate
change models have predictive value, when in fact, 114 out of 117
predictions made in regards to global warming have proven wrong.
Warming forecasts have consistently overstated the amount of warming that’s
happening. They also missed the decade and a half long pause in global
warming that we’re currently experiencing.
Dr. Roy Spencer has estimated that as many as 95% of the global warming
models have just been flat out... more »
MiG21-LanceR military pilots haven't flown in long time how much they flew this period
[image: MiG-21 Lancer]National Defence Minister Mircea Dusa announced on
Friday, in Targu Mures (central Romania) that MiG 21 Lancer fighter jets
fly sorties every day and that Romanian military pilots haven't flown in a
long time how much they've flown in this period.
'Since the beginning of the crisis in Ukraine, measures have been taken by
NATO for the supervision of the airspace of NATO border countries and these
AWACS planes that are used for electronic surveillance, together with the
MApN aviation execute supervisory missions everyday and air-space policing
missions.
(...) S... more »
Russian shipyard lays keel of new class Replenishment Oiler "Academician Pashin” (project 23130)
[image: Project 23130 tanker]On April 26th, 2014, a keel-laying ceremony in
presence of Admiral Viktor Viktorovich Chirkov (Russian Navy's
Commander-in-Chief) took place at Nevsky Shipyard for a new generation of
Replenishment Oiler for the Russian Navy.
Described by the shipyard as "Medium-sized sea tanker Academician Pashin”
(Project 23130) the vessel is the first tanker to be built for the Russian
Navy since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The new class of vessel will bring much needed logistical and replenishment
at sea support to the Russian Navy fleet.
Read more
Inspirational E-Book: Seven Lessons Before I Was Able to Become Love by Roxana Jones
A new inspirational e-book with positive words that will open doors to new
outcomes in your life.
Roxana Jones shares once again what she has learned and introduces some of
the turning points she has experienced in the past few years, through this
new collection of *inspirational books *where she describes life lessons
that have been essential on her path of healing and personal
transformation. Use these words of *wisdom* as tools that can help you open
your heart. It is your heart that will understand these short books better
than your mind. Try it and experience it.
*Click o... more »
April 28, 2014 - About 48…
*About 48…*
First of all, I’m going to try to do better with getting articles up here
at Project Camelot. When Kerry offered the opportunity to write a column
and express my views and information I was both flattered and inspired.
Personal issues and a very nasty winter have conspired to dampen my
enthusiasm in addition to my inherent nature of being very mindful of
providing information before vetting it thoroughly. Yeah, I’m a nuts and
bolts kind of guy. Blame it on my background and life experience of
performing all kinds of investigations for over 30 years. In my field of
... more »
Gerald Guralnik (1936-2014)
Gerald
Guralnik, a senior physicist at Brown University, died on Saturday:
PBS. Along with Carl Hagen and Tom Kibble, he wrote one of the 1964
papersthat introduced the Englert-Brout-Higgs-Guralnik-Hagen-Kibble
mechanism, or the Higgs mechanism for short, into particle physics.
I was giving a talk at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island in
March
2002 (on the bus, it's 50 minutes from Boston, if I am not mistaken) and
I
believe that he came to the talk but it's a long time ago and I don't
remember for certain.
Guralnik wrote some other other well-known papers about QCD, hadro... more »
E-Book Inspiracional: Siete lecciones antes de poder convertirme en Amor por Roxana Jones
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E-Book Inspiracional: Siete lecciones antes de poder convertirme en Amor
Un nuevo e-book lleno de inspiración y palabras positivas que abrirá
puertas a nuevos resultados en tu vida.
Roxana Jones, comparte una vez más lo que ha aprendido, e introduce parte
del trabajo individual que ha realizado en los últimos años, a través de
esta nueva colección de *libros de inspiración*, donde describe lecciones
de vida que han sido esenciales en su camino de sanación y transformación
personal. Usa estas palabras de *sabi... more »
Obama in Manila and Air Force One
US President Barack Obama has already left Manila. He stayed for 24 hours
here, arrived yesterday 1:30pm, departed today around 1:30pm too.
Some of my friends in fb posted funny comments, others were angry at the
heavy traffic caused by road closures where Mr. Obama and his tight
security will pass by.
The photos, I got from fb too, which are generally funny. Like this one
below, Pres. Obama telling Pres. Aquino that the former does not want to
see the latter's showbiz sister.
Below are from *JB Baylon*. He gave me permission to post these fb status,
from yesterday until today. ... more »
Thales finalises delivery of maritime patrol aircraft to Turkey
[image: CN235]Thales announces the delivery of the final standard for the
maritime patrol aircraft to Turkey as part of the MELTEM II programme, for
which Thales is the prime contractor.
To this day, five of the six aircraft have been delivered to this standard,
with the sixth set for delivery before the summer.
This follows the three maritime surveillance aircraft which were sent to
the Turkish coastguards last year.
Read more
New U.S. Stealth Jet Can’t Hide From Russian Radar
[image: F-35C Lightning II]The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter—the jet that the
Pentagon is counting on to be the stealthy future of its tactical
aircraft—is having all sorts of shortcomings.
But the most serious may be that the JSF is not, in fact, stealthy in the
eyes of a growing number of Russian and Chinese radars. Nor is it
particularly good at jamming enemy radar.
Which means the Defense Department is committing hundreds of billions of
dollars to a fighter that will need the help of specialized jamming
aircraft that protect non-stealthy—“radar-shiny,” as some insiders call
them—... more »
Lockheed Martin Receives $611 Million Contract for Production of First PAC-3 MSE Missiles
[image: PAC-3 MSE]Lockheed Martin received a $611 million contract from the
U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command for the first production order of
the PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) following the Army’s successful
Milestone C decision earlier this year.
The contract includes the production of both PAC-3 MSE missiles and
Launcher Modifications Kits (LMKs).
The PAC-3 MSE’s revolutionary two-pulse solid rocket motor provides
increased performance in both altitude and range – while employing the same
proven hit-to-kill technology that the PAC-3 Missile uniquely brings to the ... more »
Iraqi helicopters strike Al Qaida ISIL convoy in Syrian territory
[image: AH-64D Apache]For the first time in decades, Iraq has attacked
neighboring Syria.
The government of Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki said the Iraq Army
attacked a convoy in eastern Syria.
Officials said Iraqi helicopters fired missiles toward vehicles sent by Al
Qaida’s Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
Read more
Putin gives green light to sale of S-400 missile system to China
[image: S-400 triumph]Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, has given a green
light to sell the country's newest S-400 air defense guided missile system
to China, which Russian media claim will give Beijing an edge in the
airspace of the Taiwan Strait and over islands in the East China Sea at the
center of a dispute with Japan, reports the military news website of
Huanqiu.com, the Chinese-language website of China's Global Times.
Beijing has been interested in acquiring the guided missile system since
2011.
Two years ago, Russia talked with several countries interested in buying
the... more »
Conservatives vow to speed release of report on CF-18 replacement
[image: CF-18 Hornet]Ottawa is relenting to external pressure and now
promising to speed up the release of a “public report” on the fighter jets
pegged to replace Canada’s fleet of CF-18s.
The document, which has been put together for widespread release, lists the
risks and benefits of the four fighter jets that were involved in an
“options analysis” overseen by the Canadian Forces.
Last week, officials at Public Works and Government Services Canada told
The Globe and Mail that the report would only be released “once the
government has made a decision on a path forward.”
Read more
UK Deploys Four RAF Jets to Patrol Baltics
[image: Eurofighter Typhoon]Britain is deploying four Typhoon fighter-jets
to the Baltics as part of a Nato show of support against the backdrop of
the Ukraine crisis.
The defence secretary, Philip Hammond, said: "In the wake of recent events
in Ukraine, it is right that Nato takes steps to reaffirm very publicly its
commitment to the collective security of its members."
The events in the Ukraine have increased nervousness in the Baltic states,
formerly part of the Soviet Union. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are,
unlike Ukraine, members of Nato, and Russian action against any of the... more »
In Wake of Zumwalt Launch, Higher Costs Seen in DDG-1000 Program
[image: Zumwalt (DDG1000) class DDG]A couple of weeks ago, the world's most
advanced warship, the USS Zumwalt, formally hit the water at a christening
ceremony at Bath Iron Works.
The midcoast shipyard is due to build two more of the DDG-1000 destroyers
for the U.S. Navy over the next several years.
The program, however, has ended up being much more costly than originally
intended, in part because it was drastically cut back a few years ago from
32 ships to just three.
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BAE Systems to Maintain and Modernize U.S. Navy Ships in Hawaii
[image: USS Michael Murphy]BAE Systems has received a multi-ship,
multi-option (MSMO) contract from the U.S. Navy to repair, maintain, and
modernize nine destroyers and cruisers, either homeported in or visiting
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
The five-year contract, awarded by the Naval Sea Systems Command, includes
modernization, maintenance, and repair work for the USS Chafee, USS John
Paul Jones, USS Chung-Hoon, USS Hopper, USS Michael Murphy, USS O’Kane, USS
Halsey, USS Milius, and USS Preble.
This award marks a continuation of work BAE Systems has been performing on
the same type of s... more »
NZ Govt announces $100m boost for Defence
[image: HMNZS Te Kaha]The government plans to invest more than $500 million
in the Defence Force over the next four years, Defence Minister Jonathan
Coleman says.
The investment followed several years of budget cuts which were outlined in
a Defence white paper in 2010.
In the Budget next month, government would commit to $100.9m in operation
funding for 2014/15 and a total of $535.5m over the next four years.
Read more
Raytheon tests new guidance system for Tomahawk cruise missile
[image: BGM-109 Tomahawk]Raytheon Company successfully completed a passive
seeker test designed for a Tomahawk Block IV cruise missile using
company-funded independent research and development investment.
The captive flight test, using a modified Tomahawk Block IV missile nose
cone, demonstrated that Raytheon's advanced, next-generation;
multi-function processor can enable the cruise missile to navigate to and
track moving targets emitting radio frequency signals.
For the test, the nosecone of a Tomahawk Block IV missile was equipped with
passive antennas integrated with Raytheon'... more »
Mazagon Dock looks at next sub project
[image: Scorpene class SSK]Project 75 is one of India's most closely
guarded military projects, almost as inaccessible to outsiders as the
nuclear ballistic missile submarine, INS Arihant, nearing completion in
Visakhapatnam.
In a giant shed in the East Yard of Mazagon Dock Ltd, Mumbai (MDL), a
200-feet-long, cigar-shaped, metal cylinder is the first of six
conventionally powered Scorpene submarines that the Indian Navy contracted
to build with Franco-Spanish company, Armaris (since taken over by French
shipbuilding major, DCNS).
The boat (as submariners call their vessels) is obvi... more »
EB signs deal with Navy for 10 Virginia-class submarines
[image: Virginia class SSN]Navy officials have signed a $17.6 billion
contract with Electric Boat, committing the service to buy the next 10
Virginia-class submarines.
For the Groton shipyard, which has faced a cycle of layoffs and recalls in
recent years, the contract represents nearly a decade’s worth of work.
“This award has great significance for the U.S. Navy, our company and the
entire submarine industrial base,” Jeffrey S. Geiger, president of Electric
Boat, said in a statement. “By continuing to produce two ships per year,
the Navy and industry team retains the stability req... more »
Devon-built Samuel Beckett ship handed to Irish Naval Service
[image: Samuel Beckett]A 50m euros (£41m) vessel has been handed over to
the Irish Naval Service at a Devon shipyard.
The 295ft (90m) craft, called the Samuel Beckett, is the first completed
ship to be built at Appledore Shipyard, near Bideford, since 2002.
The Irish Navy ordered two vessels from the shipyard in October 2010 for
99m euros (£81m). The second, called the James Joyce is still being built.
Read more
The Daily "Near You?"
High Shoals, N. Carolina, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
"A Look to the Heavens"
“Big, beautiful, barred spiral galaxy NGC 1300 lies some 70 million
light-years away on the banks of the constellation Eridanus. This Hubble
Space Telescope composite view of the gorgeous island universe is one of
the largest Hubble images ever made of a complete galaxy. NGC 1300 spans
over 100,000 light-years and the Hubble image reveals striking details of
the galaxy's dominant central bar and majestic spiral arms.
*Click image for larger size.*
In fact, on close inspection the nucleus of this classic barred spiral
itself shows a remarkable region of spiral structure about 3,000
l... more »
West Hangs Syrian-Style War Over Egypt’s Future
*April 29, 2014* (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - Al-Akhbar English in an article
titled, “Egypt: Free Egyptian Army being formed in Libya,” reported that:
*Egyptian security forces continue to chase armed groups active in the
country. The confrontation does not seem it will come to end soon, with the
information unfolding daily to security agencies about plans by those group
to destabilize Egypt.*
*Security sources revealed to Al-Akhbar that “intelligence and security
agencies succeeded in monitoring the movements of terrorist groups and
arrested some of them inside the towns and village... more »
No Quixote!
Have I posted this before? Never mind. If I did, I just laughed like a
drain all over again.
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Rollo May, "The Courage To Create"
*"The Courage To Create"*
by Rollo May
"We are living at a time when one age is dying and the new age is not yet
born. We cannot doubt this as we look about us to see the radical changes
in sexual mores, in marriage styles, in family structures, in education, in
religion, technology, and almost every other aspect of modern life. And
behind it all is the threat of the atom bomb, which recedes into the
distance but never disappears. To live with sensitivity in this age of
limbo indeed requires courage.
A choice confronts us. Shall we, as we feel our foundations shaking,
withdraw in ... more »
Chet Raymo“Trying To Be Good”
*“Trying To Be Good”*
by Chet Raymo
“A few lines from Mary Oliver's poem "Wild Geese":
"You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves."
I've quoted these lines before, if not here, then elsewhere. When I first
read them back in the late 80s, they resonated with what I felt at the
time. I had spent part of my earliest adulthood walking on my knees, both
literally and metaphorically, seeking to tame what I took to be the animal
within. Saint Augus... more »
The Constitution, Treaties with First Nations, and the Media
Just a quick question here: How many people in the mainstream media,
praising the Supreme Court decision which defends the procedures of the
Constitution Act, 1982, have dismissed the sanctity of our treaties with
the First Nations Peoples?
VIDEO Moccasins on the Ground Red Shirt, Lakota homelands April 2014
.
'Water is sacred.'
By Unedited Media Published on Apr 28, 2014
Lakota and their allies gather to build solidarity, unity, and skills to
protect Sacred Water against the Keystone XL tarsands pipeline.
Watch this wonderful video of voices from all across the nation gathered
at Red Shirt, on Lakota lands at Pine Ridge, South Dakota, protecting
the Ogallala aquifer and water and land
Most Are, But Not Every Congressional Whore The Kochs Use To Sabotage Green Energy Is A Republican
It's very hard to trace the Koch cash sloshing around American politics;
it's meant to be hard. They funnel so much money into so many right-wing
groups that it would be a full time job to sort it all out. Perhaps it's
safe to assume, though, that the recipients of legalistic bribes from Koch
Industries directly are among those most devoted to the Koch war against
democracy. In the last cycle, Koch Industries alone doled out almost
$2,000,000 to candidates for Congress, all but $40,737 of it to
Republicans. Koch Industries knew exactly which corrupt Democrats from the
Republican w... more »
(Oh! Those Poor Poor Rich!!!) Bank of America Doesn't Check Its Math (To Its Decided Advantage) The Gilded Age Has Only Just Begun: Piketty’s Wealth Gap Wake Up Call Goes Out To the Masses
. . . the disparity in wealth is much greater than the disparity of income,
and that’s because of tax avoidance by the rich. BREAKING! Bank Of
America's Stock Plunges By 6% After $4B Capital Plan Blunder Bank of
America CEO Brian Moynihan runs a financial firm that has 263,000 employees
and $2.2 trillion of assets and investors on Monday appeared to wonder once
again whether anyone can manage
“What is a Photocopier?”
Come on, you’ve been in arguments like this, haven’t you.
Yes, it’s a true story. Indeed, it’s from a *transcript* of an Ohio Supreme
Court trial …
Sort of reminds you of another famous trial…
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Kate Braun : Celebrating Beltane lets you see beyond the veil
It is a fire festival and marks the return of vitality and passion to
Mother Earth. By Kate Braun | The Rag Blog | April 28, 2014 “Have you
walked around your parks and towns so knife-edged orderly? While the …
finish reading Kate Braun :
Celebrating Beltane lets you see beyond the veil
Conspiracy rumors become conspiracy fact ---- Suspicious Deaths Of Bankers Are Now Classified As "Trade Secrets" By Federal Regulator ........ Takeaway as ghoulish as it comes -- " It doesn’t get any more Orwellian than this: Wall Street mega banks crash the U.S. financial system in 2008. Hundreds of thousands of financial industry workers lose their jobs. Then, beginning late last year, a rash of suspicious deaths start to occur among current and former bank employees. Next we learn that four of the Wall Street mega banks likely hold over $680 billion face amount of life insurance on their workers, payable to the banks, not the families. We ask their Federal regulator for the details of this life insurance under a Freedom of Information Act request and we’re told the information constitutes “trade secrets.” "
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-28/guest-post-suspicious-deaths-bankers-are-now-classified-trade-secrets-federal-regula
Guest Post: Suspicious Deaths Of Bankers Are Now Classified As "Trade
Secrets" By Federal Regulator
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/28/2014 21:46 -0400
- Bank of America
- Bank of America
- Bloomberg News
- Citibank
- Citigroup
- Comptroller of the Currency
- Falcon
- fixed
- Freedom of Information Act
- Guest Post
- Hong Kong
- JPMorgan Chase
- Office of the Comptroller... more »
Bush and Rhee Endorse a Book– Fortunately, Not Mine
As I announced on April 27, 2014, my book on key individuals and
organizations exploiting public education is now published: A Chronicle of
Echoes: Who’s Who in the Implosion of American Public Education. Harvard
professor and senior fellow at the Hoover Institute Paul Peterson and two
others also have a book coming out; it entitled, Teachers versus the […]
How to Get Arrested in Britain, #67
You can now get arrested in Britain and face four years in jail for quoting
Churchill. True story. Paul Weston faces 2 years in jail for standing in a
town square and quoting this, from Churchill’s 1899 book *River War*, no
less:
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries!
Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia
in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. Improvident habits,
slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and
insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule o... more »
Ukraine Updates April 26 , 2014 -- Kiev attempts to one up the looming cut off of natural gas by cutting off water to Crimea ! Adding up the Kiev owes to Gazprom ( about 13.6 billion euros ) and the loan repayment Russia surely will demand to be repaid early ( 3 billion euros ) , that just about encompasses the so called IMF aid package ( none of which actually has been delivered to date . ) ..... And then there's another 20 billion euros of Ukraine debt ( including another 3 billion in chinese loans ) hanging out there ready to default...... Additional news of note from Eastern Ukraine - OSCE hostages , attempt to negotiate their release by a second OSCE Team ( calling Comedy Central to pick up new material ) ...... Flashpoint in Donetsk sees unknown and unidentifed gunman / helicopters land , checkpoint attacked ...... EU works on latest non biting sanctions ..... ...
Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-26/satellite-images-reveal-massing-15000-ukraine-troops-hundreds-tanks-around-slavyansk
Satellite Images Reveal Massing Of 15,000 Ukraine Troops, Hundreds Of Tanks
Around Slavyansk
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Yesterday, we jokingly noted that with separatists blockading Slavyansk
from a Ukraine special-forces invasion, and with the Ukraine army
blockading Slavyansk from said separatists (unclear exactly why), that the
east Ukraine city of Slavyansk is ea... more »
Diabetis, Cure?
This is an UN-finished post....
When done... nutritional supplemental resources will be given to help
restore the health and function of the stomach and liver....
What I know, What They won't tell you....
Hypothesis....
Diabetes is a Blood DIS-ORDER disease...When our body can no longer
balance, clean or filter properly the blood that is when Diabetes and other
blood related diseases DEVELOPS in us....
Question for you, What organ in our body is responsible for cleaning and
balancing the blood?
The Liver...
*The liver has over 500 different functions*
The liver has the following c... more »
Another Overwhelming Wave of ECFA Successes
*Putting in cables in Kaoshiung.*
The Taipei Times reports on the amazing increases decreases in Chinese
investment in Taiwan:
Chinese investment in Taiwan in the first quarter plummeted 90.83 percent
to US$12.75 million from a year earlier, and investments from other foreign
countries also fell in the first quarter by 33.82 percent to US$833.7
million, the Ministry of Economic Affairs’ Investment Commission said on
Monday. Meanwhile,* Taiwanese investment in China grew 28.97 percent in the
first quarter from a year ago to top US$2.8 billion, *the commission said.
Yes! Chinese inv... more »
The Wayfinders
Long, long ago, Teutonic storytellers told tales by the fire. Many of them
mention a deity who was a wisdom seeker, singer, poet, and warrior. Odin
had two ravens, Huginn and Muninn, who daily flew out over the world,
observed the events, and returned to report the news. The names of his
birds meant “thought” and “memory.” Odin cherished these ravens. He knew
that the loss of thought would be terrible, but that the loss of memory
would be far worse. Thought is clever and useful, but memory is essential
and indispensable. When thought is disconnected from memory, the result is... more »
“Epidemic Of Hunger: New Report Says 49 Million Americans Are Dealing With Food Insecurity”
*“Epidemic Of Hunger: *
*New Report Says 49 Million Americans Are Dealing With Food Insecurity”*
by Michael Snyder
“If the economy really is "getting better", then why are nearly 50 million
Americans dealing with food insecurity? In 1854, Henry David Thoreau
observed that "the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation". The same
could be said of our time. In America today, most people are quietly
scratching and clawing their way from month to month. Nine of the top ten
occupations in the U.S. pay an average wage of less than $35,000 a year,
but those that actually are working are ... more »
No fair! We the people demand perp-walk pix of "Mikey Suits" Grimm! (And where's Rudy Giuliani when we need him?)
*Hey, Mikey Suits! Your picture here?*
*"A perp walk is a common custom of American law enforcement, the practice
of taking an arrested suspect through a public place at some point after
the arrest, creating an opportunity for the media to take photographs and
video of the event. The defendant is typically handcuffed or otherwise
restrained, and is sometimes dressed in prison garb. . . . Law enforcement
agencies often coordinate with the media in scheduling and arranging them."*
-- *Wikipedia*
*" 'As a former FBI agent, Representative Grimm should understand the
motto: fidelity, br... more »
The Sow is Mine: The Exorcist and Mind War
The Sow is Mine: The Exorcist and Mind War from Spike EP on Vimeo.
"Marketing researcher and psychologist James Vicary tested subliminal ads
in a New Jersey movie theatre. "Hungry? Eat Popcorn" and "Drink Coca-Cola"
were flashed on the screen at 1/3000 of a second every five seconds during
the movie. Sales increased for popcorn and Coca-Cola. On December 8, 1972,
The New York Times reported that In-Flight Motion Pictures, Inc. would
begin selling subliminal commercials embedded in the movies they would
distribute to all the major airlines. Stores across thecountry are reducing
the... more »
Internet For the 1 Percent: New FCC Rules Strike Down Net Neutrality, Opening Fast Lanes for Fees | Democracy Now!
Internet For the 1 Percent: New FCC Rules Strike Down Net Neutrality,
Opening Fast Lanes for Fees | Democracy Now!
Show Me the Monetary Policy! [updated]
“I STAND UNASHAMEDLY FOR raising people’s wages,” said Labour’s David
Parker this morning, as he announced a policy to lower real wages.
Go figure.
[image: image]Like all New Labour’s policies in this New Age Under Cunliffe
(somewhat like the Age of Aquarius in that they’re all mostly dripping
wet), their new “monetary policy” – i.e., giving the Reserve Bank more
power to control the exchange rate by controlling people’s savings rate –
seems to have been thought up on the hoof and issued in haste, without any
pause for reflection along the rushed road to release.
Let’s be clear. ... more »
“Minecraft Is Shaping A Generation, And That Is A Good Thing”
Until recently, I thought Minecraft was an updated sort of Battleships for
the computer age. Until a friend’s kid showed me his Minecraft world.
Showed me briefly, ‘cos he hadn’t time to waste talking to an old fart like
me when had to get back to … whatever the hell it is you do on (in?)
Minecraft.
Made me realise it’s too easy to dismiss “this sort of thing” out of hand.
Minecraft and stuff like it might be shaping a generation, but as parent
Emily Willingham writes, that’s not necessarily a bad thing:
Thanks to Minecraft, my children not only have built entire worlds but also
... more »
FAST LANE - SLOW LANE ON INTERNET
Digital rights groups are mobilizing over rumors the Federal Communications
Commission may be about to abandon the principle of net neutrality.
Organizations are concerned the agency may release new rules allowing
companies to pay internet service providers to deliver their content faster
than the content of competitors. The agency attempted to implement
regulations ensuring net neutrality in the past, but a federal court struck
down the move. Executive vice president of the National Hispanic Media
Coalition Jessica Gonzalez speaks with RT's Ameera David to break down net
neutrali... more »
The Ugly American: Sarah Palin Jokes about Torture at NRA Convention
*“waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists”*
*-Sarah “the quitter” Palin*
In yet another of standard bits of shameful and anti-American behavior that
charlatans engage in, Sarah 'lock and load' Palin has emerged from
semi-obscurity as the long tapered end of a turd pokes through the water in
the toilet. I really and truly work very hard to ignore the celebrated by
national media figure of the piece of Wasilla white trash hit it big like
the Clampetts. I mean *why* encourage her because attention, mouse clicks
and liberal wails of outrage is what she feeds on but I just have to we... more »
Giveaway: Cancun Cafe in Utah
Utah Readers if you are looking for a local, authentic Mexican food
restaurant to visit you should consider visiting *Cancun Cafe*. The first
Cancun Cafe location opened in Utah in 1993 by the Mendez Family. Bringing
their traditional homemade dishes and authentic Mexican recipes from their hometown
of Merida, Mexico they began offering them in a family-style establishment
for Utah residents to enjoy. Currently Cancun Cafe has 3 locations in the
Salt Lake Valley. The newest location was opened earlier this month in
Downtown Salt Lake. They are hosting a Grand Opening celebration on ... more »
6 Ways to Pamper Mom for Mother's Day with Britney from The Princess and Her Cowboys
*Today I am thrilled to have Britney from The Princess and Her Cowboys to
share some fantastic Mother's Day ideas with you. I love Britney's blog
especially her DIY Chef Hats and her cute Magnet Photo Board. Be sure to
leave her some comment love and check out her blog! *
Hi! I'm Britney from The Princess & Her Cowboys where I love to share about
all things crafty, food as well as writing about anything under the sun.
I'm so grateful to Debra for letting me share here today!
[image: Brit]
Since Mother's Day is coming up, I have been trying to think of ideas to
get for my own mother ... more »
Ending Legal Highs Another Legal Low
The “legal high’ regime was always bound to fail, so it’s hard to mourn its
passing.
Over its short life, the regime made illegal the sale of a drug that *Lancet
*said is safer than alcohol and tobacco, while allowing the sale of drugs
of increasing harm.
This makes no sense.
The tragedy is that the end of this regime does nothing to bring the end of
drug consumption, so folk currently consuming these harmful legal highs
will be thrown on the mercies of gangsters and criminals selling illegal
drugs of dubious quality.
Why so? Because however much the War-On-Drugsters think other... more »
(Democracy Dies from Crime of Peaceful Protest) How Long Will We (US) Put Up With This Treatment from the .01%? (The First Trillionaire Will Be - 25 April 2014 Gold/Silver Charts - Madness, Ending Badly)
BREAKING! Search for Flight 370 to be Expanded, Privatized and Drawn Out to
8 Months at an “Estimated” Cost of $60 Million Remember how hundreds of
people were seen being arrested and loaded into vans during the Occupy
Police Riot? Did you think they'd be released due to lack of evidence
concerning real crimes? Do you remember with whom the courts were populated
during the Cheney/Bush Junta
NATO Intelligence and the OSCE
*"How can he be a prisoner of war, he's a spy!"*
*- Fletcher Prouty on PoW/MIAs*
*"I would say to Mr. Zannier, don’t go to Ukraine, rather you should
denounce the abuse and perversion of an OSCE vehicle in the name of the
OSCE by what is in fact NATO military intelligence, and if you’re caught
behind military lines with no uniform, that’s sometimes called espionage,
whether that’s the current situation or not, it’s not clear, but I would
urge everyone to stop referring to them as OSCE observers, they are NATO
military officers."*
http://www.nation.com.pk/international/28-Apr-201... more »
Leadhorse Choctaw sharing stickball game in Central and South America
Now
in Central America and headed south, Leadhorse Choctaw shares "Kabooca
Towa' stickball game, the game of peace
By Leadhorse Choctaw
Censored News
Leadhorse Choctaw is on a journey through Central and South America, now
headed for Honduras, sharing the traditional game of peace Kabocca Towa
(stickball game). "It is a game used to settle disputes between tribes
and people," Leadhorse
Lament for the Arcade
Nothing
makes me feel like a fossilized old nerd like modern video games. I
just can't play most of them. It's not that I don't want to, I just
don't have the time (or want to devote the time) required.
I grew up in the arcade era with Pac-Man, Q-Bert, Defender, Karateka,
etc. I owned and played on a Coleco Adam, Commodore 64 (then a 128), and
migrated to IBM PC games through the 386. One
Epolitics and Libertarianism
Politics is changing, suggests Douglas Carswell. The "internet thingy"
means the barriers to political entry, or, at least, political comment are
lower than they've ever been. Westminster, hidebound and wrapped in its own
importance is threatened with extinction unless it moves with the times.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is hardly fresh stuff. It would have been stale in
2004. Perhaps even as early as *1994* this looked like old jobs. Must have
been a quiet in the *Telegraph* office when it got commissioned. Yes,
blogging and social media have brought the costs of a public platform down ... more »
Ugly old fat Donald Sterling who wears a rat on his head is a racist?...
*and we care, why?*
I just had the unpleasant experience of listening to Sean Hannity display
very little outrage over the alleged anti-black comments of the Clippers
owner, Donald Sterling. Last week he was turning cartwheels over Cliven
Bundy who had the temerity to speak the truth.
Doesn't take long to figure this one out. Hannity was a supporter of
Bundy, but claims he didn't even know who Sterling was. Yeppers - no guilt
by association on Sterling so we can dial down the rhetoric. He did throw
out one "despicable" to solidify his anti-racist stance for the world.
Despic... more »
"3 Stupidest Right-Wing Reactions to Donald Sterling's Racist Rant"
*"3 Stupidest Right-Wing Reactions to Donald Sterling's Racist Rant"*
By Janet Allon
*"1. Bill Kristol thinks outrage at Sterling is just hysteria. *The
conservative pundit used his perch on Sunday morning’s “The Week” to tell
everyone to just calm down about L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s
abundantly and almost comically evident racism. Kristol allowed that
telling his girlfriend not to be photographed with black people or to bring
them to Sterling’s basketball games was kinda bigoted, but, "Deeds matter
more than speeches," he said, adding, "I don't think the LA Clippers are... more »
“Raising Up Compliant Children in the American Police State”
*“Raising Up Compliant Children in the American Police State”*
By John W. Whitehead
“The aim of public education is not to fill the young of the species with
knowledge and awaken their intelligence. Nothing could be further from the
truth. The aim is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the
same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down
dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States…”—Henry
Mencken, American Journalist (April 1924)
"How do you persuade a nation of relatively freedom-loving individuals to
march in lock step w... more »
Virginia Republicans Nominated A Congressional Candidate Beyond Execrable-- Meet Barbara Comstock
Barbara Comstock always pretends she's normal. She isn't
When I first started the DWT Book Store, David Brock's story about his
journey out of political darkness, *Blinded By The Right*, was one of the
very first selections. The 2002 bestseller exposed, first-hand, the
hypocrisy among the blue chip and craven Beltway wing nuts with whom he had
been associating. One such crackpot, Barbara Comstock, just won the GOP
nomination for the Congressional seat Frank Wolf is leaving, VA-10, a
Northern Virginia suburban swing district (PVI- R+2) that Obama won in 2008
(51-48%) and lost in 2012 ... more »
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