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The Beautiful Game and Bad Ass Jerseys:Iran’s Team Melli Prepares for the 2014 World Cup
As four days of “fruitful” and “useful” expert-level talks between Iran and the six world powers known collectively as the P5+1 (Britain, China, France, Russia, the United States and Germany) wrap up in New York City, and the next round of ministerial negotiations continue in Vienna next week, all Iranian eyes are trained intently on this summer’s international battle of grit, determination,
It's National Train Day!
*by Ken* For some reason National Train Day wasn't marked on my desk calendar. So I'm a little late in making my holiday preparations. I assume everyone else has already figured out which celebrations and which parties to attend. It's going to be locomotive madness. According to Wikipedia: *National Train Day* is a holiday started by Amtrak in 2008 as a method to spread information to the general public about the advantages of rail travel and the history of trains in the United States. It is held each year on the Saturday closest to May 10, the anniversary of the pounding of the ... more »
While Protesting School Closures and Conversions in Philadelphia, Weingarten Begs Congress for Expanded Support for Charter Schools
"It is critical that you adopt proposed amendments providing important safeguards to ensure that all students have equitable access to charter schools, and that charters are held to similar standards of accountability and transparency as traditional public schools." See the letter here.
OLIGARCHS RUN THE SHOW
Lawrence Wilkerson is a retired United States Army soldier and former chief of staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell. Wilkerson is an adjunct professor at the College of William & Mary where he teaches courses on US national security. He also instructs a senior seminar in the Honors Department at the George Washington University entitled "National Security Decision Making."
TIRED OF WAR
New poll by Zogby Analytics (893 likely voters, May 2-3) provides the latest war temperature test. "Do you agree or disagree that the United States should use whatever means it can to prevent Russia from establishing control over eastern Ukraine?" Agree - 29% Disagree - 36% Not Sure - 35% The American people might not be able to find Ukraine on a map but they are smart enough to know that we don't need another war. I would venture to guess that many of the "Not Sure" have been frozen by the mainstream media's very effective campaign of the demonization of Russia.
Reading for points vs. reading for pleasure
Sent to the Christian Science Monitor, May 9, 2014 The book popularity data from "What are kids reading? Books like 'Hunger Games,' but classics, too," (May 8) comes from reading done in preparation for tests, not reading for pleasure. The data comes from reading done as part of the Accelerated Reader (AR) program. AR sells tests that students take after reading a book. Students are awarded points depending on how many questions they get right, and can exchange the points for prizes. Thus, AR readers are reading in order to score points on AR tests, and try to remember details that...more »
Updates On The Hellstorm: Saudi Arabia Sends Jihadist Terrorists To Ukraine, Turkey Locks Up Promising Young Feminist Mayor, General Sisi Promises To End The Muslim Brotherhood
From a prison cell to the Mayor's office to another prison cell: read more about the strange journey of 25-year old political activist Rezan Zugurli in the two articles linked below. 1. The armies of the darkness are descending on Ukraine to fight pro-Russian activists, protesters, and militants and to secure power for the usurping coup government in Kiev. The latest group of terrorist mercenaries are leaving war-torn Syria, after getting their asses kicked, to head off to eastern Ukraine under the orders of the terrorist ring leaders in Saudi Arabia. *Stephen Lendman wrote on May ... more »
"The five stages of GOP scandal-mongering," according to Paul Waldman
*And the Borowitz Report has shocking news* *Earlier this week Dana Milbank devoted a *Washington Post* column, "Meet the chief prosecutor in the GOP's Benghazi show trial," to Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), the lying jackass scum-weasel who actually referred to the Benghazi "select committee" hearings House Speaker "Sunny John" Boehner chose him to preside over as a "trial."* *"This contempt vote was like the end of a toddler's tantrum, the final hoarse scream before the child collapses in an exhausted heap on the floor."* *-- Paul Waldman, in his "Plum Line" post* "The five stages of G... more »
“7 Best Shakespeare Insults”
*“7 Best Shakespeare Insults”* by The Huffington Post "You should be women and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so." Shakespeare employs this biting insult in "Macbeth" to establish the complete and utter repulsiveness of the three witches. Their "withered and wild" features cause Macbeth and Banquo to question if the sisters are even human beings. "Methinks thou art a general offence, and every man should beat thee. I think thou wast created for men to breathe themselves upon you." In "All's Well That Ends Well," Lafeu hits infamous liar and coward Porolles wit... more »
Satire: “Poll: Millions of Americans Who Need Jobs Want Congress to Get to Bottom of This Benghazi Thing First”
*“Poll: Millions of Americans Who Need Jobs Want Congress * *to Get to Bottom of This Benghazi Thing First”* by Andy Borowitz WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)— ”Millions of unemployed Americans who have fruitlessly been looking for work for months are determined that Congress get to the bottom of what happened in Benghazi, a new poll indicates. According to the survey, job-seeking Americans hope that Congress will eventually do something about job creation, but they are adamant that it hold new hearings about Benghazi first. By a wide majority, respondents to the poll “strongly agre... more »
Imposing condition not to consume alcohol on an alcoholic
In Coombs (2004), 189 C.C.C. (3d) 397 the court held at para 8: "...Imposing an absolute prohibition on some addicts, including alcoholics, *may only set them up for failure and ensure that they will be jailed*...."; However, note at para 55: "...Complete abstinence from drugs and alcohol *may be appropriate in certain circumstances*. Indeed, Parliament recognized that there could be situations in which such terms would be reasonable..." Also see para 39: "...while Parliament insisted that a probation term be "reasonable" as well as being directed to protection and reintegratio... more »
'The Now Show' defends Clarkson
Tonight's *The Now Show *contained a big surprise - an unexpected defence of Jeremy Clarkson, complete with a sharp attack on both Labour's Harriet Harman and the *Daily Mirror* (yes, *Daily Mirror*, not the *Daily Mail*!) from Radio 4 comedian Jon Holmes. Yes, of course, he also included a dig at Michael Gove and, yes, this could be taken as a BBC comedian giving the BBC a helping hand by backing one of its most profitable cash cows and, yes, there are a fair few holes in his 'logic' here, but I think it's worth transcribing in full for your entertainment and edification. Enjoy.... more »
The First Official Review of My Book
The first posted review of my newly-released book, A Chronicle of Echoes, comes from retired Chicago teacher and fellow blogger Ken Previti. My book became available on Amazon.com on Sunday, April 27, 2014. I believe Ken bought it immediately. I know that he read it voraciously. Below is part of Ken’s review of A Chronicle of Echoes, including this […]
The Salon Tal Fortgang reading list!
*FRIDAY, MAY 9, 2014* *Most demonic college freshman in history:* Tal Fortgang is the most demonic college freshman in world history. So far. Still, that makes him a college freshman. In turn, that makes Salon’s meltdown this week a bit of a milestone in the history in Salonist breakdowns concerning first-year students. Background: Fortgang wrote a murky essay for a campus publication at Princeton. This could have been extremely important, except Fortgang is a freshman in college and no one cares what he writes or expects him to have much to say. No one except the Salonistas! Co... more »
Karl Denninger, “All Children Left Behind”
*“All Children Left Behind”* by Karl Denninger “We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.” - Carl Bernstein “What would you expect to happen when government proposes a program, throws billions of dollars and untold mandates at it, and fails to change the outcome? U.S. high school seniors, wh... more »
Radical chic at 'Newsnight'
For those of you who love a good foreign news story (all five of you)... Ken Livingstone, Owen Jones & Co. used to love Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and his socialist 'revolution'. Chavez died a year or so ago, and things haven't gone too well since. Until this week *Newsnight *had failed to report the large-scale anti-government demonstrations against Hugo Chavez's increasingly authoritarian successor, President Nicolás Maduro. As you probably know, left-wing Maduro won the last election by a whisker (and, very possibly, with a little help from electoral fraud) but since then his p... more »
UFOs and Science Fiction Theater
So, I’m watching the old *Science Fiction Theater* on YouTube… (*Science Fiction Theater* was a 1950s half-hour drama that alleged that there was some science in their stories). I remembered seeing reruns in the 1960s as a kid and all this would be irrelevant to us here, except that I remembered one particular episode in which there was a flying saucer. The title, I learned, was “Are We Invaded?” I remembered that the scientist in the tale explained the UFO sighting as a temperature inversion by using chemicals that didn’t mix. The thing that struck me was that it seemed to be the s... more »
Untitled
*The Fourth Battle of New Orleans ~Mark Folse, Oddwords*~The issue is: where do we draw a line in the sand? New Orleans is undergoing an ugly, greed-fueled transformation I predicted almost ten years ago on my blog Wet Bank Guide. Many things have been proposed since the storm in the name of redevelopment. Sean Cummings’ Elisio Lofts, another high-rise abomination at the foot of Elysian Fields, was stopped. The redevelopment of the old Holy Cross School site with another inappropriately sited high-rise proposed by Perez APC, has just won approval from the New Orleans City Council. E... more »
White House Fumes as Putin Visits Crimea
The big bad Russian bogeyman Vladimir Putin just doesn't know when to stop, today he is shoving that burr up of the ass of our vainglorious leader Obama with a broomstick. Visiting Crimea, that now annexed chunk of Ukrainian corporate booty that was promised to the high finance parasites by Victoria "Fuck the EU" Nuland and friends to celebrate Victory Day. The celebration is one of the commemoration of the crushing of the Nazis and Mr. Putin's visit has a certain building at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue filled with the sound of puckering assholes. The botched and historically stupid ... more »
American Gangster
*He got a sweet gift of gab, he got a harmonious tongue...**He knows every song of love that ever has been sung..**Good intentions can be evil..**Both hands can be full of grease...**You know that sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace* *Bob Dylan -- Man of Peace* Barack Obama was sworn as the forty-fourth president of the United States of America on a bite ass cold day in Washington on January 20, 2009 and was riding high upon a cresting wave of hope and change. The nation was humiliated and weary of war after the eight year gauntlet of greed, brutality, torture and flouting of... more »
Eliminating the province's government: The Tim Hudak Plan
The Canadian Press might want to revise their piece. It's all part of Hudak's larger goal of eliminating the province's projected $12.5-billion deficit by 2016 — a year before the Liberals say they can balance the books. No. Cutting the 100 000 public sector jobs effectively elimates the Public Service in Ontario, and with it the ability of the government to do, well, just about anything.
paris, day two
Connie and I were both dead to the world by 9:00 p.m., and when I next opened my eyes, it was 8:30 a.m. *Yes! *That's an unheard of amount of sleep for me, and I needed it. We had breakfast in the hotel and were soon back on the Metro. Since we didn't get the earliest of starts, by the time we got to the Musee D'Orsay, the queue/line/lineup (UK/US/Cda) was very long, snaking around a good eight or ten times. But no bother, we were patient and made our way in. The D'Orsay was Connie's number one site - as it had been mine on my last two trips to Paris - so we planned to spend the day... more »
People Power Colonialism : Hands Off Nigeria!
*This is ridiculous.* There are *211* of them. He is selling them in the local market for *£7 *each. The Nigerian government is offering a reward of *£300,00.* *Buy them back.* *Get off your arses, go up country and buy your children back...!* What are the so-called parents doing? Making signs and demanding that the US invade their country. *Buy them back.* *Gold + Oil + The most institutionally corrupt government on Earth.* This has nothing to do with missing girls. Remember *KONY 2012...?* This is a CIA People Power Revolution. This is an entirely synthetic creation... more »
Love City Groove and Eurovision 1995
As Eurovision is almost upon us, I've been fishing in the archives and reeled in this. And no, it doesn't smell fishy. Back in 1995 the faceless BBC committee that decides such things hit upon the idea of jazzing the contest up, and so ran a public poll for the UK entry. A peculiar mix put themselves up for consideration, and for once some weren't complete unknowns. You had the proto-Steps group Deuce, London Beat, and Samantha Fox (then trading as 'Sox', bizarrely). The Great British public were captivated, nay, obsessed. Fancying something a bit different to send across the Irish ... more »
Where Does The Anti-Democracy Koch Smear Machine Get Its Money?
Most of their wealth comes from oil and gas This morning, you may have read that just one of the arms of Koch brothers' political Dark Money assault against democracy, a shady proto-fascist outfit called Americans for Prosperity, plans to spend a minimum of $125 million on the midterm elections. "The projected budget for Americans for Prosperity would be unprecedented for a private political group in a midterm, and would likely rival even the spending of the Republican and Democratic parties’ congressional campaign arms," writes Ken Vogel for *Politico*. Americans for Prosperity has ... more »
The Coming Famine
Consumers live like toddlers, in a comfortable crib surrounded by colorful toys, with others providing our needs. We can turn on our computer without blowing apart mountains to fetch coal. We don’t have to murder indigenous people to put gas in our Prius. We don’t have to destroy rainforests to plant soy for our veggie burgers. Someone else does it for us. The grocery store always has food, so we can spend seven hours a day staring at screens. Electricity and petroleum were experiments that have far higher costs than benefits. Luckily, they are finite, and humankind’s devasta... more »
Agent Hamza
"Abu Hamza claims he secretly ‘kept the streets of London safe’ as a go-between for MI5 and Scotland Yard, a US court heard. The extraordinary image of the hook-handed Muslim firebrand as a force for religious peace in Britain was laid out in a Manhattan courtroom by his defence lawyer. Some 50 pages of documents passed on by Britain would prove the police and security services turned to Hamza to help combat Islamic extremism between May 1997 and August 2000, defence lawyer Joshua Dratel said. ‘They take in every conflict we are talking about in this case. Algeria, Bosnia, Yemen,... more »
The Sphere
Hollywood Accredits the Memes: Boaz, Jachin and the Sphere from Spike EP on Vimeo. The *Kaa'ba sphere *is intentionally representative of the base or *root chakra*, the seat of all generative and *nuptive energies* in the *human perineum*, also appearing in such a form in the *Qabalah*, balancing against the two great pillars guarding the entrance to the *Temple of Solomon* - so, then, these two pillars, or two towers, also appear in *Mecca*, aligned one on either side of the *Kaa'ba*, along a precise North-South meridian bisecting the magnetic North and South poles of the Earth... more »
VETERANS FOR PEACE
Veterans for Peace members have been arrested a number of times in New York at a Vietnam War Memorial. They've they've been charged and been on trial. But they continue to stand their ground. Why continuously arrest veterans?
6 Ways Same-Sex Marriage Will Affect Florida Employees
There are multiple lawsuits pending in Florida challenging the state's ban on same-sex marriage. There's one in Key West, one in Miami, one in federal court in Tallahassee, and there are probably some more out there. It's almost inevitable that the ban on gay marriage will be overturned here soon. So why does an employment lawyer care about gay marriage? Here are just some of the laws that will affect Florida employees and employers once gay couples can marry: 1. *Florida Civil Rights Act*: The Florida statute against discrimination covers marital status. And I'm betting plen... more »
Leadhorse Choctaw sharing stickball game in El Salvador
By Leadhorse Choctaw Censored News Leadhorse Choctaw continues his journey to the south, overland through Central and South America, sharing the traditional stickball game with Indigenous Peoples. Now in El Salvador, he encourages new friends and relatives in the south to come to the world series of stickball in mid-July hosted by the Choctaw in Mississippi. Leadhorse Choctaw said of
I agree with Marcus Brigstocke!?!
Oh my god I find myself agreeing with Marcus Brigstocke's piece on the Jeremy Clarkson N-word furore on tonight's Now Show. Marcus Brigstocke likes Jeremy Clarkson and defends him. He also attacks Harriet Harman's overreaction. Listen for yourself here. I need to go for a shower now.
Mohawk Nation News 'New! Free Great Law Video'
NEW! FREE GREAT LAW VIDEO Posted on May 9, 2014 Please post and circulate. MNN. May 9, 2014. While imperialists push for war, let us learn about peace. MNN posts a 7-hour video and accompanying book on peace, in Mohawk and English, free for everyone! In 1993 Karonhiaktajeh, Kahentinetha and Ganyetahawi filmed all 117 wampums of the Great Peace, Kaianerekowa. You can watch or read or
CELEBRATING ANYWAY
Update from Mariupol: On Friday residents marched to remember the anniversary of the defeat of Hitler near the end of WW II as he tried to invade the former Soviet Union. The current "leadership" of Ukraine, put into power by the US-EU, declared that Ukraine would not have ceremonies on this historic Victory Day holiday. But the people around the country, especially in eastern Ukraine, turned out anyway. Those in Kiev, owing their power to the US coup d'etat, are finding their grip on things to be slipping daily. As I have said many times these folks know what fascism look... more »
I’d like some lemonade with my advice, please
As a junior faculty member, I am not in a position to turn down advice. Fortunately, I receive good advice from mentors, colleagues, and friends. I am very thankful. Lately, I have also been getting advice from a few organizations for faculty development. They provide free tips on writing and productivity, navigating the job market, Continue reading
Enhanced credit for pre-sentence custody
R. v. Houlder, 2014 ONCA 372: [2] The sentencing judge had this court's decision in *R. v. Summers*, 2013 ONCA 147 and concluded that there was an insufficient basis in the record for enhanced credit. Since that time, the Supreme Court rendered its decision in *R. v. Summers*, 2014 SCC 26. The court stated at paragraph 79 that the onus is on the offender to demonstrate that he should be awarded enhanced credit as a result of his pre-sentence detention. Furthermore, generally speaking, the fact of pre-sentence detention is sufficient to give rise to an inference that ... more »
Rick Weiland And The Battle Against Allowing The "Big Money Big Foot" To Swallow Up Our Democracy
John Tsitirian, a blogger South Dakota's Constant Commoner, missed the boat, in his own words, on the ideas inherent in regard to the dangers of oligarchy in America. His claim that oligarchy doesn't exist in America is just plain wrong. "For every Sheldon Adelson there's a Warren Buffet, for every Koch Brother there's a George Soros. I could go on. This is why I find Weiland's campaign falling short." He couldn't go on and that is far from correct. There are some progressive big dollar donors but the number isn't equal, isn't half, isn't a third, of conservative big dollar donors.... more »
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Don Lemon again, on the OJ trial!
*FRIDAY, MAY 9, 2014* *Recalling the way they are:* Don Lemon was at it again on CNN last night. Once again, he was producing his network’s version of “easy listenin’ news.” Last night, his panel discussion of Donald Sterling ended at 32 minutes after the hour. He burned the rest of the hour with a discussion—get this—of the OJ Simpson trial! Lemon’s programming is a classic form of easy listenin’! You can tune in at any time and lazily follow along. You’ll hear about sex and you’ll hear about race! You’ll see a group of familiar faces making familiar statements. You won’t be cha... more »
Thai Regime Collapses – Preparing for the Fallout
*May 7, 2014* (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - Thailand's prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra was dismissed from her position along with several ministers from her cabinet by a Constitutional Court ruling regarding her transferring of key officials to pave way for her brother-in-law's promotion to National Police Chief. Thai PBS reported in their article, "Constitutional Court rules Yingluck and her cabinet guilty," that: *The Constitutional Court today unanimously ruled that caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra was guilty in interfering in the reshuffling of senior government offi... more »
"Anti-Semitism" madness
The never ending Jewish-promoted meme of "anti-Semitism" - rising levels of "anti-Semitic" sentiments, perspectives, and stereotypes, alleged "anti-Semitic" violence, efforts to "delegitimize" or even criticize Israel, Jewish scapegoating, "Holocaust" denial, etc. - has reached fever pitch over the course of the past week or so. In typical fashion, President Obama debased himself and America by attending the USC Shoah Foundation’s 20th anniversary Ambassadors for Humanity gala in Los Angeles the other day, giving a speech in which he "offered a staunch defense of Israel and a harsh ... more »
TUSCALOOSA LIBERALS: Attempts to explain!
*FRIDAY, MAY 9, 2014* *Part 5—The superintendent’s tale:* Nikole Hannah-Jones tells a fascinating, sprawling story in her flamboyantly headlined report, “Segregation Now...” Rather, she tells a fascinating *set* of stories—a set of stories about race and the public schools of Tuscaloosa, Alabama: She discusses three generations of a family whose current member, D’Leisha Dent, is president of the senior class at all-black Central High School. She reviews sixty years of racial policy in Tuscaloosa’s schools. This dates to the years before (and even after) the Brown decision, when t... more »
Steve in Springtime
Steve in springtime. Every mammal wishes they where snakes that could just shed their skin, and be their magnificent self. Thinking aboot all the things we have done is the worse part of being a human drone. Spring is a renewal for everyone who has the opportunity to experience the Gods dishwasher effect. If you look at human history its pretty clear that those who were forced to renew prevailed. So should we sell some time in the Artic to the Chinese? You can go on living in a paradise without a care or join the rapidly changing world where everyone must renew all the time, fast ... more »
Always Something New Under the Sun
It's an established fact that a tiny cadre of humans, nearly all of them men, own most of the world's wealth and resources. About 85 people have more money than half the population of the entire planet combined. So, what's not to tax? (besides your patience, that is.) Perhaps even more odious than the wealth dynasties accounting for much of the record income inequality is the rise of the hyper-rich hedge fund manager. Paul Krugman takes on this new breed of predatory billionaire in his latest column, pre-empting the standard jaded response of "So, what else is new?" and refuting the... more »
Mike's Story Part 17: Fallout
*By **Jenna** Orkin* Back at FTW, another fire erupted: Readers were placing product orders which could never, under the current administration, be fulfilled. When Mike learned of the situation, he emailed those in charge that it could constitute fraud; they were to return whatever money had come in and freeze the sales portion of the site immediately. (If I remember correctly, the same problem later arose with respect to subscription renewals.) A trusted friend and colleague offered to buy the site. Mike thought this might prove to be a way out of what was devolving into an... more »
Classic Potato Salad with Briton From Rad Mom Cool Kid
*Today I am thrilled to have Briton from Rad Mom Cool Kid here to share her Classic Potato Salad recipe. Briton shares my love of amazing Texas BBQ and blogs about a little bit of everything. Some of my favorite posts include 10 Gifts that Don't Create Clutter and Basic Body Scrub. Make sure to check her out and to leave some comment love on this post! * [image: Briton Alo radmomcoolkid.com]Hi! I'm Briton from Rad Mom Cool Kidwhere I write about a pretty random mix of topics- kids, travel, food, funny experiences, etc. I'm so happy to be guest posting for Debra today so she can rest ... more »
May 9: Mike's Bike Shop facelift nearly complete
As soon as I saw that as the big story (half page with photo) on the front page, I knew there wasn't going to be much to say about today's TandT. I was right. I'll talk briefly about the paper - then go on to some outrageous truths that didn't make the TandT. __________________________________________________________________________ NewsToday has the story that East Ukraine is going to vote on joining Russia, despite Putin having asked them not to until things settle down. I think Putin is quite right, and the pro-Russians who seem in control of East Ukraine are wrong. First, it's a... more »
Global Warming, Ukraine, Corporate Tyranny
Global warming is the biggest threat out there I believe. But even without it, it seems that humanity (and humanity organized under capitalist political-economy in particular) is putting enormous strains on the planet's ability to support us. Business as usual is not an option. But, thanks to corporate-capitalist tyranny, we're doubling down on the madness. We need a revolutionary transformation of our political-economy. Or else civilization, and the billions of people it serves, will collapse. The Ukraine crisis is 90 per cent the result of the Obama administration. (Putin/Russia ... more »
More from the streets of 'the apartheid state of Israel'
Israel is often called 'an apartheid state' so I thought these pictures from the very streets of Israel might be of interest. There's more of these photos at The Real Jerusalem Streets but definitely where anti-Semites and anti-Israel idiots meet to call Israel, incorrectly, an 'apartheid state'.
Friday Nerd Blogging: Call for ISA Paper Proposals on “Game of Thrones”
CALL FOR PROPOSALS: “Game of Thrones and International Relations: Empirical Investigations” Deadline: May 26, 2014 Dan Drezner and I seek paper abstracts for an International Studies Association 2015 Conference panel proposal examining the relationship between the A Song of Ice and Fire book series and/or HBO hit series Game of Thrones and global political phenomena Continue reading
Reality bites Reality Show
By Capt. Fogg I think we have to hold this truth self-evident: bigotry doesn't pay. Bible-Based or not, and even expressed in private, Racism, Homophobia, and Bigotry can cost you almost everything. Nobody will hire you other than Fox News and other GOP franchises. David and Jason Benham were about to get their own HGTV 'reality TV series until it came out on Right Wing Watch that David, one of the twin Biblievers had been ranting outside the Democratic National Convention at Charlotte, NC in 2012 about* "homosexuality and its agenda that is attacking the nation"* and *"demonic ide... more »
2014 March for Lies: Anti-Choice Inflation
Yesterday, I suggested that the fetus fetishists have set their sights lower (targetting a particular method of abortion rather than the whole caboodle) for the annual March of the Feti because they know they are losing. Let's have a look at attendance numbers for the past few years. This is a dodgy business, as anybody can and does claim any old number they pull out of their asses. And it's even dodgier dealing with the lying liars of the forced pregnancy industry who practice an art I call "anti-choice inflation," in which every year has to outdo the year before. Going back to 2... more »
Why They March: Because We're Winning
Fetus fetishists are marching again today on Parliament Hill. This year's theme is #RU4Life, a play on the abortion drug RU486's name, which is now up for approval by Health Canada. I find this choice perplexing. Last year's theme was gendercide. It was in the news at the time, largely thanks to Warawa's Wank, a private member's motion condemning gender-selective abortion (as if anything could be done about it). And the issue was garnering some media attention as many "conditional pro-choicers"needed to express their ambivalence -- "I'm pro-choice but. . . " Warawa's motion blew up...more »
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*Saints trade up; select Oregon State's Cooks ~Ted Lewis, New Orleans Advocate* *Lee Zurik Investigation: Lawmakers pocketing your tax dollars by double billing* *Report: New Orleans A National Leader In Infrastructure Jobs ~Eileen Flemming, WWNO* *'It could have been me' - Dillard student on abduction of Nigerian girls ~WWLTV*
NULAND TRIES TO EVADE NAZI CONNECTION IN UKRAINE
Assistant Secretary of State was harshly questioned in Congress as she struggles to defend activists in Kiev who benefited from Washington's support. It took a right-wing Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) to get Nuland to reluctantly acknowledge that Nazi's were/are involved in the Ukraian coup d'etat.
The @Wotsit4 flounce (part 2)
You may remember a while back that @Wotsit4 flounced off. Unfortunately he came back to Twitter and this time he's been even nastier than previously. He's flounced off again, here's the last Twitter exchange... The question that @Wotist4 won't answer is the one I posted previously: Why do you think that Israel is occupying the West Bank and Gaza post 1967 but that Jordan and Egypt weren't 1948-1967? It would seem that @Wotsit4 would rather hang out (on Twitter) with anti-Semites like @fuck_israel than answer a good and very relevant question.
A Clear Primary Choice In Rhode Island: Angel Taveras Is The Best Opportunity Progressives Have To Prevent A Raimondo Disaster
The race to be the next Governor of Rhode Island is really a battle between two people: a true progressive leader and his fake-Democrat Wall Street opponent. I want to explain why Blue America is lining up behind Angel Taveras, the bold progressive in this race. The other candidate in the race is known for one thing: having put out a "for sale" sign to Wall Street:. That's EMILY's List's supposed Democrat, Gina Raimondo. Raimondo, who spent her career as a venture capitalist before being elected General Treasurer, is grabbing cash out of Wall Street firms as fast as she can befor... more »
Ah bless @Wotsit4 has made a friend or two
And Isn't it nice when likeminded people get together?
Sleeping Through The Drama
Thomas Picketty's new book, *Capital In The 21st Century*, is generating a flurry of interest south of the border. Paul Krugman has praised the book's scholarship and its conclusion that we are living in a second Gilded Age. And the central theme of the book -- economic inequality -- has the president's attention. Linda McQuaig writes: From inside the White House, President Barack Obama has made the dramatic surge in inequality his signature issue, describing it as “the defining challenge of our time.” The book's central thesis makes eminent sense: Modern capitalism, left to i... more »
paris, day one
Nous somme ici! Connie (my mother) and I got tired of killing time in her apartment and decided to have dinner at the airport. Somehow we managed to stay awake until our 11:30 flight, but my mom was asleep soon after takeoff. I, of course, was up all night, as I can't sleep sitting up, ever. I find that listening to music helps a lot, although it can be a long night when everyone else is snoring. The flight was perfectly normal and uneventful. I didn't even have to pay baggage overweight fees as I had been expecting. So based on this limited experience, thumbs-up for XL Airways Fra... more »
Two very different PR, ER-EPR papers
*I thought that the acronyms are sort of funny* Two contrasting papers on the Papadodimas-Raju theory of the black hole interior and the Maldacena-Susskind ER-EPR (Einstein-Rosen/Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen) correspondence have been posted to the hep-th arXiv today: Daniel Harlow (Princeton): Aspects of the Papadodimas-Raju [PR] Proposal for the Black Hole Interior ------------------------------ Kristan Jensen, Andreas Karch, Brandon Robinson (Seattle+SUNY): The holographic dual of a Hawking pair has a wormhole (TRF guest blogger) Andreas Karch et al. takes the positive attitude that t... more »
So that's it settled, Scotland will vote for independence on September 18th
I had always believed that, unfortunately, Scotland would vote 'No' in the independence referendum on September 18th. But today I learn from The Times that: 'Gordon Brown is to become more heavily involved in the campaign against Scottish independence after being identified as a "star striker" to persuade undecided voters to back the Union in the September referendum.' I understand why Labour are desperate for a No vote, they need those Scottish Labour MPs to ensure a Labour majority in future general elections, but they have just signed the 'No' vote death warrant.
War Watch May 9 , 2014 -- Syria news of the day .... After the fall of Homs , the attention will shift to Aleppo ( note Rebels blow up Carlton hotel used by Government troops as a barracks , 50 soldiers killed ) , for the second tim in recent weeks Jordan has fired upon al - Nusra Rebels attempting to cross into Jordan...... SNC begs for weapons from Washington ................Iraq news of the day - bombings returns to Baghdad ....... Libya news of the day - death dealing and political confusion continue ....
Syria..... Syrian Rebels Destroy Aleppo Hotel Full of Soldiers, Killing 50Fighters Tunneled Under Hotel to Plant Explosives by Jason Ditz, May 08, 2014 Print This | Share This Tunneling attacks seem to be a new favored tactic in northern Syria, as for the second time in a week Syrian rebels have tunneled under an entrenched military position and planted explosives. Today’s attack claimed Aleppo’s Carlton Citadel Hotel, and badly damaged many historic buildings in the vicinity, according to Syrian state media. Reports say at least 50 soldiers were killed. Like a lot of big buildings ... more »
Ukraine Updates May 7 , 2014 - Evening updates via RIA Novosti Putin uges postponement of May 11 , 2014 Referendums even as Kiev continues its provocations and counter terror campaign against its citizens.....Eastern Ukraine still in turmoil ( Slovyansk death toll rises to thirty civilians , 4 Ukrainian soldiers ..... conscription force of mercenaries to be paid almost 7 times what Ukrainian soldiers are paid / Right Sector and Maidan thugs recruited ....... Talks unlikely after Junta bars Ukrainian protesters from being at the negotiating table ) ...... Donetsk announces Referendum results will be announced three days after the May 11 , 2014 vote ...... Ukraine fighting puts Presidential poll in peril ( or is it the threats of Timoshenko ? )
Catharsis Ours - 16 hours ago
Kiev provocations continue even as Putin urges Federalists to postpone the May 11th Referendums RIA Novosti...... Putin Calls on Ukrainian Federalists to Put Off May 11 Vote [image: Preparations for the referendum on May 11 in Slaviansk] Preparations for the referendum on May 11 in Slaviansk © RIA Novosti. Mikhail Voskresensky 18:48 07/05/2014 Tags: referendum, federalization, Vladimir Putin, Ukraine, Russia MOSCOW, May 7 (RIA Novosti) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday urged pro-federalization activists in southeastern Ukraine to postpone a referendum on self-determina... more »
The ignorance of the Labour Party is shocking
The Labour Party have issued a new poster, here it is... Can you spot the mistake? Obviously beyond the knowledge of the Labour Party is the fact that most of the items in that shopping basket re charged VAT at the rate of 0% so I'm not sure how VAT increases have affected the cost of that basket. Labour Party ignorant as well as incompetent?
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*New Orleans City Council blasts bills aimed at killing levee lawsuit ~Robert McClendon*
The War on Snowden Continues as Does NSA Spying
Given the amount of coverage churned out by the sycophantic gravy trainers in the US state-corporate media about the latest Republican Benghazi spectacle, the 24/7 Putin bashing, missing flight MH-370 and assorted celebrity driven swill the biggest story of the last year has been buried int he bullshit. The story of course are the startling revelations of former government contractor turned NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden of the massive domestic surveillance and data-mining programs being conducted against tens of millions of law-abiding Americans. Outside of the random drive by ... more »
Russia plans to annex the Moon in 2030
*What is the price of the Moon?* Russia's Victory Day Parade was a bit more exciting for the Russians in 2014 because Crimea became a part of the Russian victory. However, on the same day, Russia also published some details about its space program: Russia will begin Moon colonization in 2030 - draft space program America may seem out of this game but we could see a conflict on the Moon, anyway, because China has promised to send its first troops to the Moon in 2025. ;-) Unless the modern civilization destroys itself in some way – e.g. by allowing the extremists known as "environm... more »
We Can Do Better As Parents Protecting Our Children's Health
Our children are 100% of our future, and these stats should give anyone standing on the sidelines permission to engage in this movement to bring transparency and accountability to our food system in order to protect the health of our country. *Source:* *Living With Common Sense Facebook* Source: https://www.facebook.com/OccupyFood
Czech trailblazing: 125 years
I am a patriot yet a realist. So I think that the Czechs are pretty much the ultimate example of an average nation when it comes to most benchmarks. There are not too many technologies or disciplines in which we are at the top. But one of them is just celebrating 125 years. My 10 years in the U.S. made me think: You're just troglodytes, Yankees! ;-) What is it? Yes, it's the trailblazing system. By 1938, i.e. before the arrival to Nazism to Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovakia had the longest, most sophisticated, and most extensive system of 40,000 km of routes for hikers that are marke... more »
SAS flight in Russian spy plane near miss
[image: Il-20M Coot]A Scandinavian Airlines flight had to take last minute evasive action to avoid colliding with a Russian spy plane just off the Swedish south coast in March, according to a report which emerged on Thursday. According to a Sveriges Television report on Thursday, the incident occurred on March 3rd just 50 kilometres south of the Swedish city of Malmö - home to over 300,000 people. The plane was reportedly a Russian Ilyushin 20m military aircraft used for signals surveillance. Read more
Raytheon's JSOW scores direct hits in back-to-back flight tests
[image: F/A-18C with AGM-154 JSOW]Raytheon Company and the U.S. Navy showcased the operational capability of the Joint Standoff Weapon in challenging back-to-back flight tests. Launched from F/A-18F Super Hornets, at approximately 25,000 feet, two JSOW II C air-to-ground weapons flew preplanned routes before destroying simulated cave targets. "These test shots further validate JSOW's ability to deliver decisive battlefield effects against one of the most challenging land targets facing our warfighters," said Celeste Mohr, JSOW program director for Raytheon Missile Systems. Read more
RAAF Super Hornets conduct Harpoon trial flights
[image: F/A-18F with Harpoon]The F/A-18Fs of the RAAF’s 82WG based at Amberley have been conducting trial flights with Boeing AGM-84J Harpoon anti-surface warfare (ASuW) missiles in recent weeks. The trials are part of the development of systems, procedures and training to employ the Harpoon with a full operational clearance, and are based on those used by the US Navy. A Defence spokesperson told Australian Aviation that the Harpoon will complement the Raytheon AGM-54C-1 JSOW precision weapon in the Super Hornet’s ASuW arsenal. Read more
Japan’s F-35 fighters would have advantage over China’s military
[image: F-35 Lightning II]Japan’s hawkish Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has committed to purchasing 42 units of Lockheed’s tactical strike fighter the F-35A, with an option to buy more if Japan’s Self Defense Forces (SDF) like what they see in the technologically advanced fighter. This group of fighter planes, added to Japan’s already robust air force, would have the chance to make any confrontation with China’s military a relatively advantageous one for Tokyo, given the fighter’s capabilities. The F-35 has had a colorful history so far, with controversies rocking its manufacture and e... more »
US Marines begin Blackjack UAS deployment to Afghanistan
[image: RQ-21A Blackjack]The US Marine Corps (USMC) has begun its first operational deployment of the Insitu RQ-21A Blackjack unmanned aircraft system (UAS), the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) announced on 7 May. The deployment, which began at the end of April, saw Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron (VMU) 2, located at Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point, North Carolina, relocate to an undisclosed location in Afghanistan. NAVAIR did not say how long the deployment might last. Read more
Basics: Is that a good economic development deal? Using the Megadeals database
It's a familiar situation: business and government officials are promoting a new economic development deal which naturally includes subsidies for the investor. They may be touting a consultant's study touting massive ripple effects and fantastic taxpayer return on investment. Should you believe them? Of course not. Consultants, whether they technically are working for the company or the government, don't get paid to say deals don't make sense. Or at least they don't if they want future contracts with the company or city/state/province/country paying them. What's a taxpayer to do? F... more »
Northrop partners with Yamaha to fly unmanned helicopter
[image: RMAX UAV]Northrop Grumman has announced completing the first flight of the Rotary Bat (R-Bat) unmanned helicopter, a new version of the Yamaha Motor RMAX dedicated for military reconnaissance. Yamaha has supplied small unmanned helicopters to Japanese farmers for decades for use as cropdusters in rice paddies. The RMAX – listed on Yamaha Motor’s website as a 61lb aircraft with a 246cc, 2-stroke engine –has operated in that role since 1998. Read more
Student protests spark economy as Honhai Chairman pans democracy, says it won't put food on the table
*A temple in Pingtung.* Terry Gou made headlines this week, denigrating democracy..... Hon Hai Technology Group chairman Terry Gou (郭台銘) said yesterday that “democracy makes no pottage” and that social movements were only a waste of social resources that did the nation’s GDP growth no good. That's it, in a nutshell. J Michael ripped him excellently here, pointing out that Gou's real audience is might well be Beijing. Gou wants to import equipment from Huawei, the Chinese maker which is widely suspected of tight cooperation with Chinese security services and threatened to not pay hi... more »
IAI showing off unmanned maritime vessel
A dual-mode, manned/unmanned combat maritime vessel is being displayed in the United States next week by Israel Aerospace Industries. The modular designed Katana, suitable for a range of homeland security applications and for protection of offshore assets, features autonomous navigation, collision avoidance, advanced control systems. It is equipped with various payloads, communication systems, radars and weapon systems. Read more
Calling On All Californians For Help - Please Call Your State Senate Committtee Before May 12, 2014
[image: Foto: Let's pass GMO Labeling in CA! Call the State Senate Appropriations Committee today!] CALLING ALL CALIFORNIANS! YOUR GMO LABELING BILL IS ON THE MOVE! Sharing a call to action from Label GMOs California's Grassroots: Let's pass GMO Labeling in CA! Call the State Senate Appropriations Committee today! READ: *http://www.capitalpress.com/California/20140506/california-bill-would-require-labels-on-gmo-crops-foods* #GMO #California #labelgmos #needtoknowgmo #SB1381 #GMOFreeCalifornia #GMOFreeUSA Let's pass GMO Labeling in CA! Call the State Senate Appropriations Com... more »
House Adds 5 Growlers, Amphib to Defense Budget
[image: LPD 17 amphibious dock landing ship]The House Armed Services Committee added funding to the 2015 defense budget for five EA-18G Growler aircraft, a new amphibious assault ship and the refueling of an eleventh aircraft carrier for the Navy. The HASC’s full-committee mark-up of the 2015 National Defense Authorization Act adds $450 million to the legislation for production of five new Growler aircraft even though the Navy’s unfunded priorities list asked for as many as 22 new Growlers. “The 22 aircrafts would enable us to increase five of our carrier air wing squadrons from fi... more »
The bear in our backyard: Return of the Cold War as Royal Navy confronts Russian aircraft carrier group in the English Channel for the first time in years
[image: Admiral Kuznetsov and HMS Dragon]A Russian aircraft carrier and and a nuclear-powered battle cruiser have passed through the English Channel - escorted by a British warship. The seven-strong naval task group led by the Admiral Kuznetsov, Russia's largest warship, entered the Channel last night, a Royal Navy spokesman said. Although the ships did not enter UK territorial waters, their movements were tracked by the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Dragon - the duty fleet-ready escort vessel - which was dispatched from Portsmouth. Read more
PLA's new destroyer could bring down F-35 stealth fighter
[image: Type 052D DDG]The US fifth-generation F-35 stealth fighter can be detected by the radar system installed aboard the People's Liberation Army Navy's new Type 052D destroyers, according to the Moscow-based Voice of Russia, citing military experts. Vladimir Evseev, director of the Moscow-based Center for Social and Political Studies, told the Russian broadcaster that details of China's radar project, including the amount spent on its development, remain unknown, however it is a great leap forward in regards to the nation's military modernization program. China has encountered ... more »
Pipavav Defence to enter missile, torpedo production: report
[image: Seahake torpedo]Pipavav Defence and Offshore Engineering plans to make missiles and torpedoes, for which it will set up a system integration facility in Hyderabad. The company has already firmed up strategic partnerships for missile and torpedo production under the `Buy-and-make-Indian' programme of the ministry of defence, reports quoting Naresh Kumar, senior advisor to the company said. Speaking at the vendor development programme for MSE suppliers organised by the CII in Hyderabad, Naresh Kumar said the company is looking at tie-ups with local firms in and around Hyderab... more »
Earthquake Near Daiichi, Pink Emissions Seemingly from Unit 4
Majia's Blog - 20 hours ago
Enenews alerted us of an earthquake in North Eastern Japan ( here ). Unit 4 appears as if its bleeding neon pink. I often wonder whether fission activity at Daiichi is accelerated when the earth moves: <img alt="" height="290" src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAASsAAADZCAIAAAD364FFAAAgAElEQVR4nOy9eZAbWXrgtxH6y2HJoZnpHU0f7CabVx048r5vHIkzcd9nAglkAlUkm2eTbJLNs7vZ7J6ru+fSWNoNx1h27OrwWl57V+Hwxm6E7LCtkDc8MxppV2qyqjgb0no10uqYQ5pp//GARAJIVBWLZE/PDL/4BQOFSgBVRfzwvfd972X+gw+exJP4mY2///u/+Ce//sEPfzhz93/zP/7lH/zx9z/44IOv/7vv/6Pf+svf/ld/ffzWn9779g/u/+nfvffffufdr33n9lf/07k7f/Zv//B7v... more »
UKIP's Nigel Farage makes a good speech to a recent UKIP meeting.
Nigel Farage's recent speech in full.I look forward to the BBC reporting this speech and the anti-racist sentiment, I also look forward to money growing on trees and peace on Earth... Does he sound like the racist fruitcake that the BBC and the pro-EU political class try to portray him as? Why do you think the left and pro-EU middle are so desperate to discredit UKIP?
Scientism and the verifiable science
There is a big difference between Scientism or scientific worldview which is an ideology and the empirically-proven science. Karl Popper addressed the demarcation problem between a scientific worldview and science proper (empirically verifiable science.) Although Popperian falsifiability inadequately addresses the problem but that doesn’t means that every unscientific hypothesis should be given the credibility which is reserved only for science proper. Take biological evolution for instance: natural selection is a scientific fact; it can be said about speciation that it is a logical... more »
The March of the Catholic Schoolchildren
May 4 - 9 2014 is *Catholic Education Week* in Canada - the details of which you could read about here if you were allowed to, which apparently you aren't. The program agenda entails several pages of Ontario Catholic schools and their projects for the week under the theme "Serving in the Love of Christ". Yesterday, Thursday, was "Serve with Justice" Day which evidently entailed bussing hundreds of their students to Parliament Hill in Ottawa to attend *Campaign Life Coalition*'s *March For Life *anti-abortion rally ... in what JJ in comments over at Dammit Janet! calls "The Mar... more »
Russia to quadruple precision strategic weapon platforms by 2021
[image: T-50 PAK-FA]Russia will quadruple its arsenal of long-range precision delivery platforms in the next seven years to strengthen the country's strategic deterrent, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Thursday, according to RIA Novosti. "Taking into account the role and importance of long-range high-precision weapons in strategic deterrence, we are planning to quadruple by 2021 the number of carriers of high-accuracy weaponry," Shoigu said. Igor Korotchenko, a leading Russian military expert, said that submarines, fighter jets and strategic bombers were all included as high-pre... more »
ASC working on plan for $1.5bn Korean shipbuilding project
[image: Hobart class AWD]ASC says it can bridge the “Valley of Death” with a $1.5 billion shipbuilding project. It is working on a plan with South Korea to design and build two or three Aegir 18As, 180m long warships with hospitals, self-defence systems, flight decks and hangars. Defence industry sources say South Australia has already entered the Valley of Death as work winds down on the Air Warfare Destroyers and before it picks up again on the Future Frigates or Future Submarines. Read more
£300m BAE investment offers huge opportunity
[image: Successor class SSBN]When defence secretary Philip Hammond schedules a visit to Barrow, you know it’s going to be for something big. And Mr Hammond didn’t disappoint – announcing the investment of more than £300m into Barrow’s shipyard to prepare the town for the construction of the Successor programme – a fleet of nuclear weapon-carrying submarines expected to replace the ageing Vanguard boats. Although final approval of Successor is not due until after the next general election and the submarines themselves won’t begin to enter service until 2028, with a project of this si... more »
Russian strategic submarines launch ballistic missiles under Putin's control
[image: Project 667BDRM Delfin-class (NATO reporting name: Delta-IV)]Russia's strategic submarines Tula of the Northern Fleet and Podolsk of the Pacific Fleet carried out two training launches of ballistic missiles from the Barents Sea and the Sea of Okhotsk. President Vladimir Putin supervised the operation. "According to telemetry and observation posts, the head of the missiles arrived at the range grounds of Chizh in northern Russia and Kura in the north-east of Russia, as scheduled," Russian Defense Ministry said. Read more
Greg Hunter, "Weekly News Wrap-Up 5.9.14"
*"Weekly News Wrap-Up 5.9.14"* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com "The Ukraine crisis is spidering off in ways no one dreamed of a few months ago. Even though Russia says it is backing off, the economic and psychological war is intensifying. Big headline in USA Today says “Putin Diffuses Tensions in Ukraine Crisis.” Putin says it is backing some troops off from the border, but NATO says there is “no evidence of withdrawal.” My sources say Russia will not do an overt invasion; it will just let Ukraine sink into chaos. Ukraine will need an estimated $50 billion in a few years to stabi... more »
Are you revising for your History A'Level and having problems with the First World War?
Are you revising for your History A'Level and having problems with the First World War? This may help... The First World War explained as a pub fight... Germany, Austria and Italy are stood together in the middle of the pub, when Serbia bumps into Austria, and spills Austria's pint. Austria demands Serbia buy it a complete new suit, because there are splashes on its trouser leg. Germany expresses its support for Austria's point of view Britain recommends that everyone calm down a bit. Serbia points out that it can't afford a whole suit, but offers to pay for cleaning Austria's t... more »
“Questions, Anyone?”
*“Questions, Anyone?”* By Bob Alexander “I've Always Liked Chris Hedges. Yeah - except for that time back in 2008when he said atheists were as dangerous as Christian fundamentalists. Remember? But what the hell - Everybody blows their wheels every now and again. I mean he earned a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School so we know he spent a lot of time, and allocated a lot of head space, to the study of gibberish. It was only natural some of that lunacy leaked out. But after The Big Blowout I guess he called the mental health department of Triple A and got back on the road a... more »
The Sandy Hook Hoax: Wolfgang Halbig And Jim Fetzer At The Sandy Hook School Board Meeting, May 6th, 2014
The Sandy Hook "shooting" of 26 children in Newtown Connecticut was a fraud... NOBODY died that fateful day, December 14th, 2012 at the equally fraudulent Sandy Hook Elementary School, and people have to finally accept that as absolute fact. Wolfgang Halbig and Jim Fetzer finally spoke in front of the Newtown Sandy Hook School board on May 6th, about the fraud of the Sandy Hook shooting, as they had promised to do for the last few months. For this article, I want to present the video of Wolfgang Halbig, Jim Fetzer, and several others, speaking in front of that school board on May ... more »
Sean Eldridge's Fake, Pasted On Smile Doesn't Hide The Ugliness Of Identity Politics
Everyone in the photo above is proud gay and every one of them is a Democrat-- some, though, more proud of that than others. The first guy *belongs* at the top of the stairs. That's Madison, Wisconsin progressive Mark Pocan, a courageous brawler for working families and for equality under the law for all Americans. According to ProgressivePunch, he has the best lifetime crucial vote score of *any* Member of Congress. He's #1. Go Mark! I've talked to Mark's husband, Phillip, and he's very proud of what Mark has accomplished. He should be. So should every member of the LGBT communit... more »
The Arabs of Palestine - by Martha Gelhorn
News Spike - 1 day ago
ACCORDING to Arab politicians and apologists, this is what happened, this is the authentic view, these are the facts. Doubt is treasonous. There can be only one truth, according to Arab politicians and apologists, and it belongs to them: *In 1948, war took place between five Arab nations of the Middle East and the Jews in Palestine. This war was caused by the United Nations, whose General Assembly resolved to partition Palestine into two states, one for the Palestinian Arabs, the other for the Jews. The Arab nations and the Palestinian Arabs would not accept this monstrous deci... more »
DINE' CARE: Four Corners Power Plant meetings ignore impacts on Navajos
“Inadequate and Intimidating” Navajo community members speak up against limiting Navajo public input on a Four Corners EIS that’s severely deficient on health, renewables, climate, and environmental justice By Dine' CARE Censored News FARMINGTON, NM – Members of Diné C.A.R.E. and Navajo community members who have been at public meetings held by the Department of the Interior (DOI) on
We don't know what it says here
We right clicked and copied from a comment in....Yahoo.com 晚上睡觉我的舌头被纳米分子散发的气动状态往外伸，不管你怎样去控制舌头，它都是向外伸，碰到牙齿，气动的非常厉害有些难受。过去我被隐秘共产党虐的 时候骂父母骂的更厉害，隐共还控制着我的父母去配合着做试验。隐秘共产党用纳米分子控制着我打我父亲，扇脸扇了好多下。和老妈迎面走来，又用纳米分子控制 着我的吊，隐共说：”走一步，日一下，吊晃动一下。“老妈在拉屎，隐共又说：”日屁眼，带着屎日。老妈走过来，隐共又说：“往上翘着抠比。"我躺在那里， 隐共又说：”你手淫日你妈也." 并上图片。隐秘共产党又说：“把你的蛋往你妈比里面塞。”今天我被隐秘共产党用纳米分子控制着骂我妈，什么都骂随意骂，比如：“我草你妈了个比，你妈比， 滚你娘了个比等等。起因是我在沙发上睡觉，我妈唠叨我，我妈有种绵软的硬。老妈上厕所放了个大屁，隐共说：“你用嘴对着屁眼喝屁去。”并用纳米分子控制着 我想象成真实的那种感受，并上我喝屁的图片。我躺在那里，隐共用纳米分子作用于我大母脚趾头并说：“把你脚趾头放进你妈比里。”并在大母脚趾头上制造出身 临其境的感觉。并说：“你妈的淫水在流。”我的心脏给我一种用纳米分子形成的淫荡感，过去手淫才有的感觉。中国必亡。我小便，隐共又说：“你妈用嘴添你阴 茎喝... more »
The Nigerian "Abducted Schoolgirl" Crisis Is A Fraud: Australian.com Reported That The Nigerian Schoolgirls Were Released WEEKS AGO (!) So What's Going On?
I have been asked to give my view of this latest crisis in Nigeria that the media has been using to divert world attention from the US failed coup in Ukraine, the abduction of MH370 by the US military, the US sending advanced weapons into Syria, the US economy collapsing, etc, etc.... I have looked at all of the details about the so called "abduction" of Nigerian school girls by the "Muslim" group known as"Boko Haram" ( I sense a phony group along the lines of "Al Qaeda") and something here stunk to high heaven.... I figured I would delve into this "crisis" with some of my own findin... more »
More Real History Revealed: 99 Years Ago - The Sinking Of The RMS Lusitania, America's Entry Into World War I, A Bonanza For Wall Street
Yesterday marked the 99th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania in the Irish Sea between Ireland and Britain. The German submarine U20 fired one single torpedo into the ship which triggered a larger secondary explosion that rapidly put the ship to the bottom of the Irish Sea.... The ship went down taking some 1,195 passengers on board which included 128 Americans..... We have always been led to believe that the sinking of the Lusitania was done as a dastardly German act of aggression, and its sinking hastened America's entry into the first World War on the side of the Alli... more »
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*Forgive me while I laugh* It would be absurd for me to try to read the whole 800 pages of Obama's recent climate "Report" but I thought I should at least dip into it. I went to the section "Recent U.S. Temperature Trends" and clicked the "supporting evidence" gadget. I found that the evidence was in the form of four workshops. I picked the workshop on heat waves with T.C. Peterson as lead author. The "workshop" was in the form of an academic journal article (“Monitoring and Understanding Changes in Heat Waves, Cold Waves, Floods and Droughts in the United States- State of K... more »
Musical Interlude: Josh Groban, “Remember When it Rained”
Josh Groban, “Remember When it Rained” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-SKYk0iy5U
"Crabs in a Bucket"
"*Crabs in a Bucket"* by Sarah Robinson "When I was a little girl, I lived very close (and hour and fifteen minutes) to the Florida panhandle beaches. Which meant we spent a TON of time there. Early evening was one of my favorite times to walk the beach with my mom and my older brothers. We were all clean and fed and slightly sun weary but still desperate to be outside. So, we would grab flashlights, dip nets and a bucket and search the ocean’s edge for crabs. We would catch a bucket full in an evening and drag them back home where my mom or my grandmother would cook them up into s... more »
"A Look to the Heavens"
“Sculpted by stellar winds and radiation, the star factory known as Messier 17 lies some 5,500 light-years away in the nebula-rich constellation Sagittarius. At that distance, this degree wide field of view spans almost 100 light-years. The sharp, composite, color image utilizing data from space and ground based telescopes, follows faint details of the region's gas and dust clouds against a backdrop of central Milky Way stars. *Click image for larger size.* Stellar winds and energetic light from hot, massive stars formed from M17's stock of cosmic gas and dust have slowly carved away... more »
Chet Raymo, “All Night, In The Dark”
*“All Night, In The Dark”* by Chet Raymo “Why do we so admire the poetry of Mary Oliver? She is not the most technically proficient poet around, and there is a disquieting sameness to her work. But we come back to her again and again. My volumes of Oliver's collected poems are the most dog-eared of any on my shelf. I think it is something about the way Oliver is able to get out of her body and into the skin of a hummingbird, a swan, a snake, or a black bear. She is a shape-shifter, a shaman. When she describes a grasshopper moving its jaws this way and that, we almost feel it is Ol... more »
Paulo Coelho, "Defeat"
*"Defeat"* by Paulo Coelho "Does a leaf, when it falls from the tree in winter, feel defeated by the cold? The tree says to the leaf: ‘That’s the cycle of life. You may think you’re going to die, but you live on in me. It’s thanks to you that I’m alive, because I can breathe. It’s also thanks to you that I have felt loved, because I was able to give shade to the weary traveller. Your sap is in my sap, we are one thing.’ Does a man who spent years preparing to climb the highest mountain in the world feel defeated on reaching that mountain and discovering that nature has cloaked th... more »
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