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A bang or a whimper
No sooner was The Big Questions getting into its stride under the masterful
chairpersonship of Nicky Campbell than the series ended. I’m not even
joking now.
Don’t let’s forget that not so long ago that programme was such a shambles
that watching it turned you into a voyeur, like when you stumble upon
Jeremy Vine and are momentarily transfixed.
However, it’s gone and now there’s Sunday Morning Live.
I don’t know why we lost Samira Ahmed, who was rather good, and got instead
Sian Williams who sports the roundest face ever to be televised.
Like TBQs SML has three topics and a panel,... more »
ISIS oh ISIS your a Mysterious Child
To summarize my past analyze of this group : Bullshit.
There are so many things wrong with this picture its hard to know where to
hang oneself. I just know in my heart the group that manufactured ISIS
where Bob Dylan fans.
They are throwing babies out of incubators, no not yet but soon I expect.
If they really want to make a Islamic superstate why not project their
message to the Islamic states instead of speaking English aimed at the
American people?
So the US will give a half billion dollars worth of the finest tech weapons
to moderate fighters. Is this like a weight class. Seri... more »
ANTHROPOLOGISTS WITHIN: Defining the problem!
*MONDAY, JUNE 30, 2014*
*Part 1—Balz on board:* With the death of his mentor, the late David
Broder, Dan Balz is sometimes considered the dean of the Washington press
corps.
In yesterday’s Washington Post, Balz affirmed the instant narrative his own
newspaper created last week. In the process, he raised a question which can
only be answered by the anthropologists who emerge, on the rare occasion,
from within his own corrupt guild.
What is that question? We’ll post it below. First, let’s review Balz’s
weekly column, which was quite significant this week.
As always, Balz’s column, T... more »
Hobby Lobby...
*you could knock me over with a feather about now. *
*HOBBY LOBBY WINS!*
Supreme Court rules *5-4* in favor of *religious liberty*.
and
SCOTUS Rules 5-4 Against Public Unions in Harris vs. Quinn Decision
Radio Host Banned for Saying Mohammed Married a 6-Year-Old: “You Can’t Call a Deity a Pedophile” | FrontPage Magazine
' "No one mention Mohammed" has become the new, "No one mention the
war".'
Read why here...
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/radio-host-banned-for-saying-mohammed-married-a-6-year-old-you-cant-call-a-deity-a-pedophile/#.U7F0jxzrvwQ.twitter
Hell Is Empty & All the Mercenaries Are Here
It's even worse than we imagined. A private mercenary force ostensibly
working for the US Government issued a direct death threat against a US
Government investigator, and then the US Government essentially turned tail
and ran away in abject fear, leaving the private mercenary force behind in
Iraq to kill at will.
As usual, the wrong people are in jail (namely, Iraq War whistle-blower
Chelsea Manning). And ironically enough, the reporter who broke this
blockbuster Blackwater death threat story is himself now facing jail time
for the crime of committing journalism and refusing to div... more »
Rolf Harris guilty of indecent assaults
The BBC report - http://m.bbc.com/news/uk-28094561- that 'Veteran
entertainer Rolf Harris has been found guilty of indecently assaulting four
girls.
The 84-year-old was convicted of 12 attacks between 1968 and 1986.'
Horrible story and to a man that I, figuratively, looked up to as a child.
Oh well as Rolf Harris songs are now no doubt verboten, here's
Splodgenessabounds with their version of Two Little Boys
http://youtu.be/zeYwTIC2-TI
A film question re Django Unchained
Why are the gang who are taking Django to the mine in Django Unchanged
Australian?
Just wondering...
ALEC Transparency - Ain't what it used to be
ALEC trans-par-ency
ain't what it used to be,
ain't what it used to be,
ain't what it used to be,
ALEC trans-par-ency
ain't what it used to be,
just a few years ago.
ALEC has learned to mislead the press very well when it comes to the issue
of transparency.
Unfortunately for the reader - the press writes what ALEC says - doesn't
check to see if it is true - so the press feeds the public lies.
*ALEC Distorts Transparency*
because of member concerns about transparency, Meierling said.
“The fundamental issue is people want to know,” Meierling said. “Critics of
the organization and s... more »
Charles Forsberg's views on Generation IV nuclear costs
*I am reposting this 2010 essay, because I believe that it makes important
points about the future of nuclear power that require repetition.. Charles
Forsberg has retired from ORNL, and currently directs nuclear fuel cycle
research at MIT.*
ORNL MSR development work focused almost exclusively on MSBRs, although Ed
Bettis's reactor design shop did design some deep burn MSR converters. The
AEC was interested in breeder reactors, so the ORNL focus was on the
development of a MSBR, rather than on possibly simpler converters. During
the 1960's the cost of Light Water Reactors (LWRs) was... more »
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*Poor, bright British children missing out on top universities: More than
2,000 are overtaken by less able pupils after getting lost in the
'secondary school maze'*
*The authors below seem unaware that IQ peaks earlier among low IQ
individuals -- and those who peak early often look relatively good at
early ages. That alone could explain the results below*
More than 2,000 bright children from poor homes are missing out on places
at top universities because they get lost in a ‘secondary school maze’,
according to new research.
These disadvantaged students are being overtaken by ... more »
“What You Signed Up For”
*“What You Signed Up For”*
by Karl Denninger
“I bet you thought Facebook tweaked your feed to provide you with
"relevant" information you might find useful. What if you found out that
instead they "tweaked" it in an attempt to determine whether they could
manipulate your emotional state?
Scientists at Facebook have published a paper showing that they manipulated
the content seen by more than 600,000 users in an attempt to determine
whether this would affect their emotional state. The paper, “Experimental
evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks,” was
p... more »
Stephen Harper's Legacy
http://greeceandworld.blogspot.ca/
Michael Harris has written a devastating indictment of the Harper regime.
The piece is a little long. After all, the man has done a lot of damage in
eight years. But, by far, most of the damage has been done since the prime
minister was given his majority:
It was revealing. Unlike his minority governments, where a murder of
political crows flapped overhead waiting for the fatal misstep, after 2011
there was no vote Harper could not win, and no cabal in the Opposition
ranks that could topple him... more »
Russia beginning to show its cards on Ukraine ( June 30 , 2014 ) -- Russia Reveals "Plan B": Gazprom Says Gas Transit Via Ukraine May Be Stopped Completely ..... Meanwhile Russia's trade with China set to soar !
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-06-30/russia-reveals-plan-b-gazprom-says-gas-transit-ukraine-may-be-stopped-completely
Russia Reveals "Plan B": Gazprom Says Gas Transit Via Ukraine May Be
Stopped Completely
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Submitted by Tyler Durdenon 06/30/2014 07:53 -0400
- B+
- Bank Run
- Bulgaria
- Eurozone
- fixed
- Hungary
- Natural Gas
- None
- Turkey
- Ukraine
inShare1
A few days ago, when we wrote our "explainer" on the need for Russia to
have an alternative pathway for its gas, one which bypasses Ukraine
ent... more »
Iraq Updates - June 30 , 2014 -- As the Iraq Government ( helped by Syria / Iran / Russia and the US ) mans the barricades to defend Baghdad / Samarra / Najaf / Karbala and to attempt to retake territory seized by various Sunni fighting Groups , just note the Kurds are moving quickly to establish Kurdistan in Iraq !
Tweets of note - FWIW !
*Mark* @markito0171 · 2h
#Iraq #ISIS/#IS take most parts of Camp Speicher in #Tikirt http://
wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=34.668935
Retweeted by Alexblx
*dado* @unaa2011 · 2h
There are reports the arrest of Maj. Gen. Ali Furaiji, commander of
operations in Salah al-Din Base Speicher #Iraq #Tikrit
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*Al-Monitor* @AlMonitor · 45m
Former #Iraq PM Ayad Allawi says a crescent of Russian influence forming in
Middle East - Week-in-Review http://almon.co/24f9
*Al-Monitor* @AlMonitor · 2h
#Russia is unlikely to do much more than provide arms to Baghdad - @
Th... more »
NFF
Sorry that I have been out of touch with regular blog readers. I have
moved to Nantucket for the summer, and the weather here has been too great
to spend much time in front of a keyboard. (The three best reasons to be a
professor: June, July, and August.)
The past few days I have been attending the Nantucket Film Festival. I
have had a chance to see some great movies before they are in general
release. Two are worth mentioning: *Arlo and Julie*, a small quirky
comedy/mystery that is a bit Woody Allen-esque. Also, *Happiness*, a
documentary about a boy and his family in Bhutan. ... more »
Justice is a terrible thing but injustice is worse
Peter Wimsey
America's Nazis in Kiev: "Russians are Subhuman"
*June 30, 2014* (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - Self-appointed prime minister of
Ukraine, Arseny Yatsenyuk of the "Fatherland Party," referred to Russians
as "subhuman," echoing the racist vitriol of Nazism Yatsenyuk and others in
his regime subscribe to. It was a violent, armed coup spearheaded by
Neo-Nazi militants that placed Yatsenyuk into power in the first place,
along with the Neo-Nazi political front Svoboda, and paved way for
fraudulent elections that predictably yielded a pro-US-EU client regime.
Yatsenyuk made his comments amid ongoing fighting in the east of Ukraine,
where Kie... more »
Small dog climbs stairs oddly
No reason other than it's cute!
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*Laughing Stock Met Office…2007 “Peer-Reviewed” Global Temperature Forecast
A Staggering Failure*
Frank Bosse at Die kalte Sonne here puts the spotlight on a global warming
forecast published by some British MetOffice scientists in 2007. It
appeared in Science here.
The peer-reviewed paper was authored by Doug M. Smith and colleagues under
the title: “Improved Surface Temperature Prediction for the Coming Decade
from a Global Climate Model“.
Using sophisticated methods, the target of the paper was to forecast the
temperature development from 2004 to 2014 while taking the internal ... more »
Carnivore Husbandry - The Lion and the Lamb
*Carnivore Husbandry.*
I want to note that an alternative approach to animal husbandry is shaping
up. Let me explain the reasons why. The actual balance of nature is grossly
inefficient in terms of prey carnivore balancing. What happens is that
predators focus on the young members of the prey species and go after
adults rather sparingly. This suppress the population unnaturally.
Simply hunting out the carnivores is not a good solution either since we
then must face the reality that we ourselves need to replace them. It is
about picking your poison.
Yet we are approaching an a... more »
The Global Financial Ponzi Scheme
What no one really grasps in all this is that the global currency and
credit system has literally gone its own way and has removed itself from
the direct control of any human agency whatsoever. Participants pretend
that their actions have influence, but it is really a charade.
This has become Adam Smith's invisible hand with a vengeance. Of course
those at the top of the credit bubble get to play king maker, but they are
also in no meaningful form of control beyond managing their own appetites.
Just how long such a group can sustain this remains to be seen and
unfortunately well... more »
Laser Therapy Can Recover damaged Teeth
This is very good news. It means that teeth that are simply damaged can be
induced to regrow outright. The protocol is not well defined yet, but the
principle is clear enough. The tooth is cleaned up and stimulated. It is
then likely temporarily protected as well and allowed to grow in with some
additional stimulation likely required.
Thus the next several years will see both this therapy and the actual
implanting of fresh buds to produce new teeth where lost. This means that a
full recovery of a mouth of teeth is becoming practical and way more
important, worth planning for. H... more »
Trouble With the Pineal Gland?
I am not sure if any of this helps, but all inputs like this may. I put
this into my list of associations and hope it pops up if it helps.
The pineal gland has attracted a lot of attention but even that is openly
disputed so that it merely informs as to the the real depth of our
ignorance.
What I do know for sure is that a few individuals become opened and can
with coaching and some discipline find ways to convert experience into
usable words. Lucid dreams may or may not be part of the story and those I
can confirm.
*Trouble With the Pineal Gland?*
*By June 6, 2014*
http://sore... more »
MORE ABOUT 'THE NEW AMERICAN CENTURY' BOOK
THE NEW AMERICAN CENTURY is a history of neoconservatism and its influence
on US Foreign Policy in the Middle East during the first decade of the
twenty-first century.
Written after years of extensive research, THE NEW AMERICAN CENTURY
contains over 550 pages, including more than 1200 footnotes and some 120
pages of bibliography. The book has been meticulously researched with every
aspect of the history fully supported with primary evidence, much of it
from the neoconservatives themselves.
The book is a must for all those interested in the history of
neoconservatism, the recent his... more »
Harry Targ : The intellectual impacts of historians Joyce and Gabriel Kolko
The ‘Limits of Power’ demonstrated that the United States was committed to
expanding its capitalist empire across the globe. By Harry Targ | The Rag
Blog | June 29, 2014 I have been teaching courses on United States foreign
policy … finish reading Harry Targ :
The intellectual impacts of historians Joyce and Gabriel Kolko
Free Download: Omar Khayyam, "The Rubaiyat"
"We are no other than a moving row
Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go
Round with the Sun-illumin'd Lantern
held In Midnight by the Master of the Show;
But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays
Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days;
Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays,
And one by one back in the Closet lays.
The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes,
But Here or There as strikes the Player goes;
And He that toss'd you down into the Field,
He knows about it all- HE knows- HE knows!
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall ... more »
"Let the Chips Fall Where They May..."
“It’s only after you’ve lost everything that you’re free to do anything.
The things you own end up owning you. We are defined by the choices we
make. If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you
wake up as a different person? I say, never be complete. I say, stop being
perfect. I say, let’s evolve and let the chips fall where they may…"
- "Fight Club"
"The Road..."
"The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.
The Road goes ever on and on
Out from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
Let others follow it who can!
Let them a journey new begin,
But I at last with weary feet
Will turn towards the lighted inn,
My evening-rest and sleep to meet."
- J R R Tolkien
"My Purpose..."
“The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs; the deep
Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends,
’Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars...”
~ from “Ulysses,” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Musical Interlude: Vangelis, “Beautiful Planet Earth”
Vangelis, “Beautiful Planet Earth”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Akb1t37T4E&feature=related
What The Hell? Criminal Jews Have Forced The Shutdown Of Internet Traffic Originating From Iran (Prelude To War?)
I have read the reports over the last two days about how a criminal Jewish
scumbag lawyer in the United States has been able to convince a court in
the United States to have ALL internet traffic originating from the
innocent nation of Iran (all sites ending with ".ir") to be shut down...
The excuse from this scumbag in this lawsuit is that Iran is a "terrorist
nation" and is responsible (?) for the Israeli led attacks of 9-11! After
reading the official statement put forward by the scumbags behind this
atrocity, I honestly wanted to puke... I am shocked that they have had the
auda... more »
"A Look to the Heavens"
“Globular clusters once ruled the Milky Way. Back in the old days, back
when our Galaxy first formed, perhaps thousands of globular clusters roamed
our Galaxy. Today, there are less than 200 left. Many globular clusters
were destroyed over the eons by repeated fateful encounters with each other
or the Galactic center. Surviving relics are older than any Earth fossil,
older than any other structures in our Galaxy, and limit the universe
itself in raw age.
*Click image for larger size.*
There are few, if any, young globular clusters in our Milky Way Galaxy
because conditions are not ri... more »
The Poet: Rainer Maria Rilke, "Ninth Duino Elegy"
*"Ninth Duino Elegy"*
"Praise the world to the angel: leave the unsayable aside.
Your exalted feelings do not move him.
In the universe, where he feels feelings, you are a beginner.
Therefore show him what is ordinary, what has been
shaped from generation to generation, shaped by hand and eye.
Tell him of things. He will stand still in astonishment,
the way you stood by the ropemaker in Rome
or beside the potter on the Nile.
Show him how happy a thing can be, how innocent and ours,
how even a lament takes pure form,
serves as a thing, dies as a thing,
while the violin, blessing it, fades... more »
Psychology/Psychiatry: "Do You Have 'Oppositional Defiant Disorder'?"
*"Do You Have 'Oppositional Defiant Disorder'?"*
by Ethan A. Huff
"Psychiatrists have issued the fourth revision of the Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) and, in it, they hope to add a
whole slew of new psychiatric disorders. Unfortunately, many of these
disorders are merely differences in personality and behavior among people.
The new edition may include “disorders” like “oppositional defiant
disorder”, which includes people who have a pattern of “negativistic,
defiant, disobedient and hostile behavior toward authority figures.” Some
of the “symptoms” of ... more »
"Four Noble Buddha Quotes"
"Four Noble Buddha Quotes"
by Perry Garfinkel
"Isn't it - I can't decide whether to say "ironic" or "appropriate" - that
modern technology now brings us wisdom that would otherwise have been
considered oh so 2,500 years ago? I refer here to sharing timeless tips
from one Siddhartha Gautama, the prince who lived 500 years before the
Common Era, a.k.a. the Buddha. But sage as he was, as relevant today as
when he lived, quoting the Buddha is dangerous business. Nothing he said
was written down until some 300 years after his death; it was all passed
down orally. By the time it got to us... more »
Paulo Coelho, “The Well of Madness”
* “The Well of Madness”*
by Paulo Coelho
“A powerful wizard, who wanted to destroy an entire kingdom, placed a magic
potion in the well from which all the inhabitants drank. Whoever drank that
water would go mad. The following morning, the whole population drank from
the well and they all went mad, apart from the king and his family, who had
a well set aside for them alone, which the magician had not managed to
poison.
The king was worried and tried to control the population by issuing a
series of edicts governing security and public health. The policemen and
inspectors, however, ... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
Keauhou, Hawaii, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
"God Grant Me The Courage..."
“God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right,
even though I think it is hopeless.”
-Adm. Chester W. Nimitz
"There For All Of Us..."
"We are hurt; we are lonely; and we turn to music or words, and as
compensation beyond all price we are given glimpses of the world on the
other side of time and space. We all have glimpses of glory as children,
and as we grow up we forget them, or are taught to think we made them up;
they couldn't possibly have been real, because to most of us who are grown
up, reality is like radium, and can be borne only in very small quantities.
But we are meant to be real, and to see and recognize the real. We are all
more than we know, and that wondrous reality, that wholeness, holiness, is
t... more »
"Fight or Flight: Who Runs Your Life?"
"Fight or Flight: Who Runs Your Life?"
by Tony Schwartz
"Think, for a moment, about the life you're living. You skitter from
activity to activity. The consequence is that you don't do anything
particularly well. You're easily distracted and have difficulty paying
attention. You rarely read anything challenging, if you read much at all,
which is why so much of your knowledge is superficial. The same is true of
your relationships. How does that description strike you? Have I got it
pretty much right? My suspicion is I do, even if you are compelled to deny
it.
Okay, now take a moment ... more »
"It's All Written..."
"Its five in the morning, I can see the first rays of sun trying to
penetrate through this grey sky, trying to change its color to dark blue,
and declare the dawn, but it's strange, dawn and dusk both have the same
color, both have that same murky feel about them, but how different is
their nature. One exemplifies the end, while the other symbolizes a new
beginning... but is that end the end of hopes or end of sorrows... or is
that beginning the beginning of a new life or new difficulties which lie
ahead... we can't ever figure it out... it's all written and that's what
destiny is. ... more »
Musical Interlude: Irish Tavern Music, Gaelic Storm, "The Farmer's Frolic”
Irish Tavern Music, Gaelic Storm, "The Farmer's Frolic”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBATrLRWySg
FREE Download: "Words of Paradise- Selected Poems of Rumi"
"What in your life is calling you,
When all the noise is silenced,
The meetings adjourned...
The lists laid aside,
And the Wild Iris blooms
By itself in the dark forest...
What still pulls on your soul?"
- Rumi (1207 - 1273)
•
"Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi was a 13th century Afghan poet and philosopher
who heavily influenced both eastern and western poetry. His poetry is
divided into categories: the quatrains and odes of the "Divan," the six
books the "Masnavi," the discourses, the letters and the "Six Sermons."
Rumi's major poetic work is "Matnawiye Ma'nawi," a six-volume poem,
conside... more »
know your rights, rental edition, part two
Just about one year ago today - July 8, 2013, to be exact - our area was
hit with a massive flood that swamped homes, cars, highways, trains, and .
. . our basement. The basement had been Allan's office. The office in which
he was working to meet a publishing deadline. Stressful? You could say that.
It could have been much worse. We got an insurance settlement, and we moved
- not without some hassles, but we did it, moving in to our current rental
home in September.
Now, one year later, we mentioned to our current landlord that it's time to
renew our lease. He said he'd come over f... more »
things i heard at the library: an occasional series: #14
One of our regular Readers' Den customers approached me with her usual long
list of movies. She researches movies online, prints out lists, and comes
to the desk to see what we have in our collection. Anything we have, we
place on hold for her.
She's a great customer, in terms of library use. She has an intellectual
disability, and sometimes helping her can be a bit of a challenge.
This customer talks very fast, and a little too loudly. While you're
searching for one item, she's rattling off the next few, so after placing
each hold, you must ask her to repeat the next title. Becaus... more »
Texas Winds are Unreliable.
This is crazy.
[image: Graph of Texas (ERCOT) hourly wind generation, as explained in the
article text]
Louisiana “Annual Tests” Tied Up in the New Mexico Courts?
June 18, 2014, was an interesting day in Louisiana politics and education.
(I realize these two are now one and the same, but humor me.) One event of
June 18 was Governor Bobby Jindal’s decision to suspend Louisiana’s
involvement in PARCC because Louisiana State Superintendent John White, the
Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE), and the […]
Pitchforks and Inequality
This "memo" from Nick Hanauer to his fellow billionaires is an absolute
must-read. Couched in straight forward language, he's basically saying to
his class that not enough people have a stake in the system any more and
this *will* pose them an existential threat unless inequality is sorted
out. Here's a snippet:
Some inequality is intrinsic to any high-functioning capitalist economy.
The problem is that inequality is at historically high levels and getting
worse every day. Our country is rapidly becoming less a capitalist society
and more a feudal society. Unless our policies change... more »
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*The Populist Uprising Against Common Core Is Libertarian and It’s Winning*
*It recognizes that there is no one answer to fixing education in America*
When Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-La.) announced last week that he would pull his
state out of Common Core, he may have been sounding the death knell of the
national education standards. Though a confluence of pushy and powerful
interest groups have promised that they invented the solution to the
American education crisis, people just aren't buying that more top-down
standardization of America's education system is the answer.
The populist ... more »
US & Europe Push Confrontation with Russia towards War
My husband states today "It's as if the US wants war with Russia"
I reply "that is exactly what they want"
Every opportunity the US and their toadies in the EU could have taken to
bring this horrendous situation to a peaceful resolution has been instead
used to increase the odds of confrontation- We aren't the only ones
noticing.
*The so called ceasefire has been a ruse *
Claims by Ukraine of a ceasefire were mere perception management. A meme
planted so the blame could be cast on Russia for it's failure- The
Ukrainian thugs never stopped their killing.
*As evidenced by abundant repo... more »
Border patrol policy - Israel vs. America
A recent article appearing in *The Jewish Daily Forward* dealing with
Israeli border patrol policy offered a striking contrast to American border
patrol policy. *The Forward* reports:
More than 1,000 illegal African migrants have been camping out near the
border with Egypt to protest their treatment in Israel.
The migrants walked out of Israel’s Holot detention center on Friday, and
attempted to cross into Egypt, according to reports. The Israel Defense
Forces prevented them from crossing the border.
*The migrants*, mostly from Eritrea and Sudan, *live in the open detention
facilit... more »
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*Lake Ponchartrain Basin Foundation helps teach kids to fish ~Andrew
Canulette, The Advocate*
*Hidden in plain sight ~Fix the Pumps *
*Climate Scientist: Manhattan Will Need “Venice-Like Canals” to Stop
Flooding ~Claus Jacob, Next City*
*~Editilla Cotellas~**1NONewsladder2 * *• 6 minutes ago*
Mr. Jacobs, 80% of New Orleans flooded from 3 catastrophic engineering
failures: 17th Street Canal flood wall, London Ave Canal flood wall and the
Industrial Canal flood wall --NOT from hurricane Katrina storm surge. These
flood walls breached at below design spec, due to a number of bad calls ... more »
John Baird is either a liar or stupid ...
And,
no, you are not limited to one or the other when trying to decide.
I've said before that Harper and his incompetent thugs are nothing more
than hillbillies playing at governing with no coherent plan and no clear
concept of the world around them. No one epitomizes the intellectual
laziness of the Harper regime than his so-called Minister of Foreign
Affairs, John Baird. This is the guy
Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, June 29th, 2014
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Yes, it is Sunday again, and as usual I am presenting my weekly rant of
what I see is really happening in the world around us. It has been a very
interesting week indeed, so lets get down to it...
First, I am very happy that my son has finished High School here in Canada
and graduated with honors last Thursday.... He has not decided yet what to
do about his future and/or his future education, but he is definitely not
set on going to any University... He fully understands that a
University/College diploma is no longer a guarantee of employment, and
instead is ... more »
The Emperor of Ice Cream
It's the presidential summer of comfort food love.
In the cruel absence of any economic relief for struggling Americans, and
in the sordid presence of too much economic relief for the war profiteers
of the global battlefield, Barack Obama is doing what he does best. He's
out campaigning, mingling with the masses, and ... eating. Scarfing down
gallons of soft vanilla ice cream and all-American burgers for our
vicarious pleasure. To show that He Is One Of Us. To make us forget his
alter egos of Emperor of Drones, Friend of Wall Street, and
Deporter-in-Chief of thousands of refugee ch... more »
The Republican Guantanamo Bay Torture Camp Fetish
Strangely absent from the public view has been outgoing Republican House
Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, the fanatical authoritarian
who is stepping down from a safely gerrymandered Michigan congressional
seat for a career in right-wing talk radio. Rogers was a Sunday morning
fixture for months as he defended the NSA Stasi for unconstitutional mass
surveillance and data-mining as well as continued to pull out
unsubstantiated allegations that former government contractor turned
patriotic whistleblower Edward Snowden was a Russian spy. Well this Sunday
he has made his r... more »
Mike's Story Part 64 - Spellbound
*By **Jenna** Orkin*
* After we got back from Oregon, I was doing the shopping on Montague
Street when I saw that our videostore was going out of business. That was
too bad but the silver lining was the resulting sale. I snapped up some
bargains including Spellbound, a movie about - among other
things - psychoanalysis and repressed memories. Gregory Peck is the
troubled new director of a psychiatric institution in which Ingrid Bergman
practices.*
* "You can take that back," Mike said, "I've seen it." *
* "I haven't." *
* A week later he said again, "You can take that ... more »
Mike's Story Part 63 - Oregon
*By **Jenna** Orkin*
* I came across the complete account of the time Mike was bitten on the
testicle.*
* He and at least one other cop had been summoned by a sergeant, 6' 5''.
When they arrived, they found him cornered by a small, wiry man holding a
35" T.V. above his head. The guy had a glazed look in his eye and a thin
sheen of perspiration all over, telltale signs of PCBs. The cops
wrestled him onto a gurney with Mike at the head. They managed to get
plastic handcuffs on him and canvas restraints on his legs. The guy broke
the restraints but not without consequence; his sh... more »
How is #teacherprep really different at Western Governor’s?
We keep hearing about these NCTQ teacher preparation rankings. There’s so
much critique out there of NCTQ as a legitimate research organization, of
their data and methods, I don’t even have to get into it. I’m hearing a lot
about Western Governors University. I was only vaguely aware of the
institution prior to the “rankings.” […]
Kevin Carey Plays His Fear Card about American Colleges: It's a Deuce
With ALEC far on in writing model legislation to put steerage of higher
education under the ham hands of the Tea Party and the Oligarchs (sounds
like the worst band ever, right?), and with the federal government too in
debt to the oligarchs to do anything about it, the only remaining stumbling
block is the need to convince the public that higher ed is going to hell in
a hand basket. Enter, Kevin Carey, to declare all rotten in higher ed.
His evidence? Another test, of course, this one designed by the same
international cabal that has turned the world PISA-centric with its
period... more »
Obama Wraps War Mongering in Phony Gay Rights Crusade
The American war machine is constantly working to sell perpetual war based
on such false pretenses as making the world safe for democracy, killing
those who hate us for our freedoms, stopping the global communist menace,
the war on terror, preemptively taking out the latest “new Hitler” and now
making the planet safe for gay rights. This is a masterpiece of bullshit
from the Obama regime and it will play very well with the ongoing cynical
manipulation of gay voters as the 2016 election campaign begins. Liberals
who have learned to love the wars that they at one time wanted George W... more »
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Mystery June 26 - 27 , 2014 -- INVESTIGATORS believe someone in the cockpit of MH370 turned on the plane’s autopilot before it disappeared, as Australian search chiefs announced a new phase in the hunt for the missing airliner ( Who do this ? ) .... Blamescaping ?? BUT WHO IS THE SOURCE & WHY ARE THE LEAKS MADE! Family, friends of MH370 pilot furious at 'prime suspect' report
Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://www.malaysia-chronicle.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=309802:mystery-deepens-who-turned-on-mh370s-autopilot?&Itemid=2#axzz35nLqFLFk
Friday,
27 June 2014 06:41
Map of new search area - h/t WSJ ....
Malaysia Chronicle.....
MYSTERY DEEPENS: Who turned on MH370's autopilot?
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Mass Killings
It is like capital punishment. If the state can kill you then to kill is
okay. The Vietnam war and Gulf One, Iraq war etc have told the people, its
okay to kill and make mistakes if your objective is worthy. In some ways
its like the drug war.
Fukushima Updates ( June 29 , 2014 ) -- Lead items - Japanese Gov advertises seawater of all of the crippled reactors even outside for worldwide ideas to remove molten fuel from 3 crippled reactors ....... Highest density of Tritium measured from of underground wall ......... Study: Fukushima plutonium in playground 60 km from nuclear plant — “Proves that indeed Plutonium has been emitted by the accident” — Some “in the form of fuel fragments”? — Up to 14 Billion Bq of Pu-239 and-240 released ! Additional items on contamination and human impacts to ponder.....
Fukushima Diary.....
Tepco to cover the 180,000 m2 of sea bed of Fukushima plant port with
concrete
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On 6/26/2014, Tepco announced that they are going to start covering the sea
bed of Fukushima plant port with concrete.
It’s 180,000 m2. Tepco states they will start the construction in the end
of this month and complete by the end of next March.
Tepco also commented they measured 190,000 Bq/kg of Cs-134/137 from the
soil of the sea bed. The covering i... more »
Mike's Story Part 53 - Spellbound
*By **Jenna** Orkin*
* After we got back from Oregon, I was doing the shopping on Montague
Street when I saw that our videostore was going out of business. That was
too bad but the silver lining was the resulting sale. I snapped up some
bargains including Spellbound, a movie about - among other
things - psychoanalysis and repressed memories. Gregory Peck is the
troubled new director of a psychiatric institution in which Ingrid Bergman
practices.*
* "You can take that back," Mike said, "I've seen it." *
* "I haven't." *
* A week later he said again, "You can take that ba... more »
Is Japan joining the global unrest parade ? June 29 , 2014 --- Japanese man sets himself on fire in protest to reform of pacifist constitution
Japanese man sets himself on fire in protest to reform of pacifist
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A middle-aged man has set himself on fire in the center of the Japanese
capital in an apparent protest to government plans to change Japan’s
pacifist constitution. Authorities hosed the man down and immediately
rushed him to hospital.
In a dramatic act of protest, the protester scaled a pedestrian bridg... more »
Acne where did it come from?
I am looking at WW1 photos and hearing testimony of old people that acne
was never around for the most part. Now everyone has acne. In those days
they could barely take a photograph so do not tell me all those clear skin
faces where photoshoped.
Considering Acne amelioration is the biggest source of income on the planet
should someone not look into this? Something has changed from 1917 to now
in terms of our skin condition. Our current economic model is all appoint
treatment but no resource for the cause. Cause which for acne did not exist
100 years ago.
One might think all the re... more »
Zhang Visit Unravels
*A monkey inspects a vehicle on the 23 near Donghe.*
The visit of China's Taiwan Affairs Office head Zhangzhijun ended
ignominously as he fled the island in the face of relentless public
protests. WSJ scribes:
* China's top cross-strait negotiator, in Taiwan on a landmark visit,
canceled three public appearances at the last minute Saturday after
protests against his bridge-building trip turned violent.*
Zhang Zhijun, head of Beijing's Taiwan Affairs Office, is the first
ministerial-level Chinese official to set foot on Taiwanese soil after both
sides split 65 years ago. *Mr. Zhan... more »
UKRAINE: NATION OF OLIGARCHS
Seek truth from facts with intelligence expert William Engdahl; economist
Professor Michael Hudson; former US intelligence officer Scott Rickard; and
the prosecutor who put Yulia Timoshenko's partner behind bars, Martha
Boersch.
Hollywod Making More Money in China than America?
Teabagger you been played. The place where everything is pirated is the
best source of income. Maybe someone will win a Nobel prize in economics
explaining that. Or maybe they will die in the attempt?
Contempt And Criminal Justice
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Eddie Greenspon and Anthony Doob write that Stephen Harper's contempt for
all things institutional makes him a poor lawmaker:
Stephen Harper’s high-handed personal attack on the chief justice of Canada
is part of a pattern of contempt for legal institutions and the law itself.
Harper’s so-called “defeats” at the Supreme Court of Canada illustrate his
disrespect for principles of fairness and his complete lack of interest in
attempting to create coherent, sensible laws.
And the r... more »
Start of WW1
Least we forget
It was the stupidest war in History planned my milquetoasts and delivered
human slaughter that was new and more horrible than ever. The funny point
is that all the people who started the war lost except the British.
Unfortunately for humanity the British managed to entangle Americans in
the great game. Americans never wanted part of the big game, but WW1 was a
flesh wound that never healed. But it works both ways like Tony Blair.
Very sad for us all.
On the bright side it set Europe free, free of Royals, free of Barons, from
of a legal Hierarchy. This has been the ... more »
"When Your Beloved Pet Dies, "Until We Meet Again," "The Rainbow Bridge"
*"When Your Beloved Pet Dies,*
* "Until We Meet Again," "The Rainbow Bridge"*
A friend recently told me about her beloved dog, a loyal and loving
companion of many years, who is now nearing the end of her life. I hope
this might comfort you when you need it, as it has me. - CP
․
*"Until We Meet Again"*
Author Unknown
"I know what you're thinking. You think I'm dead. Because you cannot see me
with your human eye, cannot feel me with your hands or hold me in your
arms, you think I am gone forever. You recall how I looked when I left this
place, and you cannot remotely imagine that I ... more »
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